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[Assistant] Uhm, I do have a backup one from Shifty Chicken, uh, unless Don did you have one? That we did right last week?


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[Assistant] It is headline number one, and it says get to know Janet.


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[Assistant] It's so good. The beat in delete is good, but let me preach to you from the good book of just stream it for an hour and a half and delete it immediately on stream. Oh yes, that's all, oh, the on stream delete. The powerplay, the powerplay is just silently going down and delete it while you're still live.


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[Assistant] We are currently in the process of bringing our Xbox games to other platforms. These are titles which have been available to Xbox players for at least a year, including hidden gems that deserve to be experienced more widely. People are thinking that probably means Hi-Fi Rush and, uh, Pentament.


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[Assistant] They claim it will not have a fundamental change to their approach on exclusivity.


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[Assistant] And to be clear, because we were speculating last week, perhaps Game Pass will be coming to Steam and Playstation and Switch and everything. They were clear and they said Games Pass will not come to anything else. It will continue to only be available on Xbox platforms.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, Grubb is saying that, uh, Nintendo delayed their alleged direct that was supposed to happen somewhere mid-February because of this information and they were awaiting this announcement. So they, they...


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[Assistant] Verges Tom Warren talked about, uh, sources familiar with Microsoft plans tell me that the first two titles will be Hi-Fi Russian Pentament followed by Sea of Thieves and Grounded. All of that makes total sense to me. Uhm, yeaah. Thoughts?


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[Assistant] How much more valuable to Microsoft is an exclusive than a giant title on Game Pass? Cause I, you know, I assume an exclusive is...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, Domion, did you have anything else to add? Otherwise I'll get into the console stuff.


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[Assistant] Maybe Xbox will get into the Steam Deck type race. And that could be this holiday, maybe?


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[Assistant] Frame rate to me feels like the, the like HD or like that kind of a, it feels like the topic that'll eventually


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[Assistant] That sounds kinda fun actually. A lot of speedrunners will do French, I think, cause it's like faster. That's hilarious.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh shit, you've sold us on it seems like. Yea, really cool. You into it?


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[Assistant] Kinda? It's not missed, like, in the sense that it has a, like,


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[Assistant] I was driving a friend who I won't name, cause I'm about to put them on blast.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it was like the settings of the game when I loaded it up, like the volumes were all set to 30 out of 100, and like,


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[Assistant] The, like, I think it might have been something just wrong on my end, but I was like, it felt unfinished, or whatever, and I tried it again on launch day, and it was still doing that, so I was like, I don't know. But I think it might have been just my settings were being weird, but, it was kinda weird, the intro felt strange, and, dummy.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And like, I love that kind of stuff. Like I, I would like, especially in Talos Principle 1, I would-


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[Assistant] Review copy provided by PlayStation. Let's talk about Helldivers 2.


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[Assistant] Nothing will make humor in a game fall flatter than if the mechanics aren't also really solid. Like the funnier and more sarcastic your game is, the more solid the controls and the gameplay experience have to be, I feel like. Sorry.


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[Assistant] And obviously we haven't yet uttered the word Starship Troopers. Classic. Have you seen Starship Troopers? No. It's really good.


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[Assistant] My wife and I were not sure if we should go with queen of audacity or representative of audacity. We decided representative of audacity.


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[Assistant] What was I gonna say? Don't remember


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[Assistant] Versus Helldivers 1, right? Because before this game came out, we were all talking about like, oh my god, we're gonna friendly fire the hell out of each other. It's actually much less of a problem than I expected. I agree!


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[Assistant] The, the, the third dimension, you know.


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[Assistant] There's a whole other dimension to not shoot your friends in. Cause in Top Down 2D, it's just like, if you walk in front of me, I'm shooting you. But in this, it's like, I go up on a hill, and I'm just like over everyone else, you know?


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[Assistant] Uhm, sick, yeaah. Helldivers 2, shockingly good. I wanna play right now.


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[Assistant] For real. Come back. Come back like in two weeks. I'll be out of town next week. Seriously.


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[Assistant] We have an overhead camera, we can just park it there, and watch the-


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[Assistant] We need more- I miss the era of dumb peripherals. Dude, I love fucking Game Gear. Three ninjas or surf kids? Which one had the-


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[Assistant] My favorite now is just the unexpected, uh, cut to Reggie in the audience at Jeff Keighley stuff. Like, he'll just like, something else will be happening, they'll just cut to Reggie and he'll be like, ooh.


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[Assistant] But I mean talking about it right now in this podcast. Anything else to add? Okay, I guess we did move pretty thoroughly into UMDs.


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[Assistant] Uh, the one thing he did prepare for me, besides the skeleton, is he just wrote the word, layoffs, at the top of Also This Week. Which he had just, I texted him, I'm like, you wrote the word layoffs, but I'm not finding any like, huge layoff news this week, shocking me.


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[Assistant] MMI, I didn't write it down, I don't remember the name. Their logo is like an eye. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, they also claim that the restructuring is approaching the final stretch. Oh gosh. They had hoped to hit their, their like, projections by March, but who knows.


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[Assistant] Like, think about it at Easy Allies, right? There are six of us, and if I was just like, Hey, uh, in the next two months I'm gonna fire one of you. What would that do for morale? That's what they're doing!


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[Assistant] They're like a character in Fargo or something where it's like, they make all these crazy like gambles getting into all this crazy debt cause they have this harebrained scheme that they're just sure will pay off and then when it obviously doesn't, they're just fucked and they have to go to like plan Z. That's Embracer.


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[Assistant] Things would pretend money with projected money from a Saudi deal that could fall through. But it won't fall through. Why would that fall through?


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[Assistant] Continuing in the bummer news, uh, Yoshitaka Moriyama, the creator of Suikoden's series and Ayuden Chronicles, and the head of Rabbit and Bear Studios, the people making Ayuden Chronicles, passed away February 6th due to complications with an ongoing illness.


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[Assistant] Real bummer, like the studio put out a really heartfelt kind of statement about it, uhm, which you can read on their website.


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[Assistant] Just kind of a bummer because like that game is coming out fairly soon and he, you know, has always been like...


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[Assistant] This journey takes place in the Northern Islands, collectively known as Obelia Gulf in the Orobelia. In this harsh land, the young adventurer Adol Christen


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[Assistant] Who I think is the, whatever, uh, encounters the Normans, a seafaring tribe, and is quickly drawn into the conflict between them, the townsfolk of Obelia Golf, and the Grieger. G-R-I-E-G-R.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this latest title in the E-series takes us back to a younger Adol. Adol?


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[Assistant] I've always liked that company. Like I like, cause they've come here a couple of times and we've like met them and like they're really chill. So I don't know. I'm always just like, hell yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Dragon's Dog went to. Uhm, Diablo 4?


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[Assistant] But Huber, it does come with 1000 in-game currency coins, which amounts to about $10. Okay. So really, the five colors for portals is $20 for five colors of portals.


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[Assistant] They also apparently have a bundle for like a horse and some coins that cost more than the game itself.


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[Assistant] I imagine you have a team of people making cosmetic armor and gear and, you know, that's a 3D modeler and you have people who test it to make sure it's not clipping all weird and like the people who like put the color on it or whatever. Yeah, it's probably like a week or two. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Buyable stuff in games has long been very... The pricing variances are so wild.


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[Assistant] You can buy a prime warframe in warframe and it's like $40 for like a prime ver- I mean you get a bunch of other stuff. I got shredder. And I'm like shit yeah I'll do that. For 10 bucks.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, there is, there is the one, I can't remember how much it cost, there was one ship pack that was like every kind of ship and it was like, yeaah, like, I don't think it was six digits, but it was a lot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as reported by GamesRadar, uh, the subreddit for Hollow Knight was, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the subreddit is threatening to delete itself. And as I would say to any subreddit, please go for it.


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[Assistant] Like it has to be better than Hollow Knight. Or as good.


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[Assistant] Like, I almost, I almost think, like, don't, don't reinvent the wheel for Silksong. Make it, make it more of the same plus two. Just make her unique. Yea, she's a little different and that's it. That's enough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, and allegedly you had, you had said, I don't, I didn't know your source on this, but you had said 85 million on production, 40 on marketing, roughly.


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[Assistant] Xbox and Microsoft Flight Simulator unveiled the Dune expansion, we saw more of that, the gameplay, it's looking really good, and there's a special edition!


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[Assistant] Like, Xbox caddy, I guess? It's like an Xbox stand that you can slide your Xbox into.


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[Assistant] And it looks like a ornithopter or whatever. And then it has, it has a special dune controller that floats magnetically on a stand. It has a little stand that floats above a base of like the surface of Arrakis. Cool.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Lionsgate, this one is completely not even really games, but I just put it in here because I thought Huber would like it. Okay. What?


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[Assistant] The John Wick Experience will span approximately 12,000 square feet in a space that blends immersive theater with highly themed cinematic environments


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[Assistant] Guests will complete missions with characters, mythology, and iconography from the WIC universe. They might find help or hindrances along the way, as continental staff, assassins, and crime bosses will also be nearby to offer up secrets and perhaps a few clues.


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[Assistant] Alright, hang on. Tell us what you love about John Wick. For a second.


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[Assistant] Alright. Donnie Yen. He did a great job. It's time for love and respect.


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[Assistant] Rufus. I don't know if that's what he was actually called or if that's just what we called. What's it say on his hat?


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[Assistant] Someone sent us Rufus initially, I think. Or maybe Kyle just had it. I feel like we have no more.


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[Assistant] No, but someone did, a patron did send us back up Rufus' cause for like parts and cause ours, one of them was like getting crapped out. How the?


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[Assistant] He probably does, yea. Anyways, uhm, bit of a sad one here from Brandon K. Gann.


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[Assistant] Uh, hello everyone, today I write with a heavy heart because a good friend of mine and fellow EZA fan, Brian Jackson,


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[Assistant] Uh, passed away at the beginning of this month after losing his fight with cancer.


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[Assistant] In its infancy by way of easy update, a tradition that lasted to his final days as he wanted to keep things going.


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[Assistant] Once, uh, one of the last things he asked me, uh, was he wondered how Ben Moore was doing since his departure from EZA. That's one of Brian's most defining features, thinking of others and wishing well for them regardless of his own circ- of his circumstance.


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[Assistant] Uh, since this is a love and respect submission, I'll get- I guess I'll ask, What is a game or game franchise that will forever connect you with a friend or loved one where you can't help but think about them whenever they- whenever said game comes up?


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[Assistant] Stay easy, fellow allies, and if I could be so bold as to ask for a favor, please tell a friend how much they mean to you because you never know what will be the last thing you ever say to them.


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[Assistant] Have a great day. So, uh, do you have a game or franchise that is forever linked with


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean I, I always think of my dad when I'm playing Myst. Uh, you know, cause I've always, we, I played it with him first. No doubt.


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[Assistant] I have another, a bunch of other ones, like Silent Hill 2, I think of my friend Evan, cause he would come over and watch me play Silent Hill as kids, you know, that kind of stuff. Do you have any?


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[Assistant] You're right, that puzzle's- Now I see what you see. Yeah, you kind of just intrinsically feel what you're supposed to do. I forgot, my friend Brandon and I put TVs next to each other and played all of Final Fantasy X and X-2 in a row for like a week and a half. Capri Sun's everywhere on the floor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, next up, from Onyx the Great, you had one, right? You just had one already? Yea, yea. From Onyx the Great, oh yea, that's right, that's right. Sorry. Uhm, Onyx the Great, I'm actually going to do this out of order how you wrote it, because I think it'll flow maybe.


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[Assistant] Related fact to what we're going to talk about. Apparently there's something called the American Lean, which is this thing that people- Guns by the Pool?


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[Assistant] The thing that people in other countries pick up on when Americans are visiting, apparently Americans are known for leaning on things when they stand still. This is a habit that the CIA even trains Americans to unlearn when training to be a spy.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, we can still stand on our own two feet. Uh, and that's related to their question. A quick question.


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[Assistant] What is your idle animation? What pose or gesture do you gravitate toward after standing or sitting idly for a couple of minutes?


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[Assistant] No. You don't have to have one, that's fine. We're already at two and a half hours.


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[Assistant] Somehow, it's still the game I loved, uh, in 2007, uh, but the Jagex team, or Jagex, has continued to improve it since Old School's revival, meaning there's always new content and seasonal events.


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[Assistant] Uh, to be looking forward to. Another aspect that wrote me back in was the YouTube community surrounding the game.


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[Assistant] Trying to no hit a full playthrough of a game tomorrow. What would it be? And how long do you think it would take you to get a successful attempt? Are there any other challenge runs you could think of? What would be the most fun to attempt? Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


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[Assistant] I, I mean I always see people do like Bloodborne or whatever with stuff like this and like I respect it so much and like,


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[Assistant] It, at a certain point it is, you have to just learn it like a speed run, where you have to just learn exactly where to be and stuff, so I, I, like, It's a hell of a skill. I'm more, I'm more tempted to, to think about things like,


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[Assistant] Portal or Talos principle where it's like, it wouldn't be a no hit run, but it would be like...


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[Assistant] A speedrun, I guess, but like, can I do this from memory, like, and not spend more than 10 minutes on any puzzle or more than 3 minutes on any puzzle or something like that? Like that maybe would be a fun challenge?


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[Assistant] Damiani, what would you start?


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[Assistant] Somehow shattered memories. I could do a no hit run of that, probably, if I remember the routes.


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[Assistant] The first to say, the full English title gets a point. They are all games that have recently been discussed on Taiwan's top gaming news site, Bahamut. Happy Year of the Dragon, Ian aka AlexanderArts.


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[Assistant] Alright, starting off with an easy one. Dragon Doctrine 2. Dragon Song 2? Correct.


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[Assistant] That's along the right lines, this one had a lot of marketing, uh, and it's sort of like that kind of a vibe.


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[Assistant] Ready for it? Yeah. Shantae Advance, Risky Revolution.


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[Assistant] Those are both real words! Uh, metaphorical fantasy.


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[Assistant] That would, that's a good call. That's not right, but that would have been, that would have made sense. That would have made any amount of sense. This one's the thaumaturge.


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[Assistant] Love and respect questions in our Patreon exclusive section.


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[Assistant] How many will it have right before we shoot on February 22nd?


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[Assistant] Uh, Janet is a guest. You will pick someone, uh, to bestow your point upon if you win. Uhm, you can do that at the end if you want. I'll let you hear everyone's bets first, I guess.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, you'll find out after I didn't check the thing, so...


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[Assistant] How, no, I'm trying to look up, uh, what the most expensive thing in skull and bones is. Cause that was the question. But, um, ba ba ba ba.


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[Assistant] Yes we do. So, Hubert, stealthy centipede, uh, what did you say?


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[Assistant] So you think it'll peak and then it'll get cooled off by then? I think that's solid. Uh, Domiani, pop is cock or spaniel?


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[Assistant] Alright. Don, can you look this up or chat or somebody? Uh, cause I forgot to check this. Uhm, Skull and Bones is out. This was last week's bet. Skull and Bones is out, and last week, Bloodworth asked how much the most expensive item in the shop, in the game's shop would be.


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[Assistant] Uh, it just has to be a single line item that you can spend real money on in the shop.


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[Assistant] I said 149.95, Don said 125, Gabby said 99.99, and Blood said 79.99, which I guess makes Blood the closest? Because that's closer than 25, right?


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[Assistant] You can include suggestions for the wrong question. Get in there! We need those. Cause blood got rid of corrections and I miss them, but I like the wrong question too, it's fun. Uh, you can be in our Discord!


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[Assistant] Which, uh, does a monthly top 10, which I really love, which we read out on this podcast and then berate our beautiful, lovely patrons, uh, because we think they're crazy.


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[Assistant] You can get in on that for five dollars. At ten dollars, you can join our contributor tier and submit to our community showcase and stream team. Community showcase, uh, will still be once a month, but it will be about an hour after each group stream, but you get everybody. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna s- I'm gonna go shout out, and then you go shout out, and then he'll go shout out. You know, it's like a cascade. Sure. I warned you about it this time.


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[Assistant] Okay, this week's shoutouts go to Jabba Wabs, Elphanis, Greg the Dark Knight Kettering, and Raymond Wheeler the Third. Shoutouts!


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, before we get to our winner who's not here, so we'll just split it up, uhm, I'm gonna promote a video. We had the honor of being sponsored by Square Enix to do Square Enix.


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[Assistant] I just forget. Squeenix. Uh, to do a beautiful, wonderful video about Final Fantasy VII. We talked about the road to rebirth. Uh, I really loved it. It was a really fun conversation. We were just talking about our hype and our love for VII and how


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, it hit us, like, right at the right time in our lives, and we played it right when it came out, more or less. Or, actually, I played it right when it came out.


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[Assistant] And yeah, and our reaction to the remake and how that kind of...


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[Assistant] And if you haven't had a chance yet to check it out, please do so. Uhm, and also the more views that gets, the more cool sponsorship stuff we get to do in the future probably. Uhm, Janet, where can people find you?


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Blood would get the shout out, but he ain't here. So, we're gonna give everyone else chances to do the things. Uh, so, one person gets to shout out anything that's on your mind this week.


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[Assistant] Uh, one person gets the final word and one person gets to sign off with their trademark sign off. Uhm, Janet, Huber and Damiani, do you want to split those up? Sure. What do you want?


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[Assistant] Indeed. Alright, Hubert. Trademark sign off us.


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[Assistant] I think you're, one of your first big, uh, musicals, uh, that were at the, not Falsettos, not Book of Mormon, but with the great Josh Gad. I always give him props for that. But you were in, uh, Karate Kid Musical? Okay, well, let's clarify.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like I would mostly work at like restaurants or bars for like one night and then I just wouldn't go back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, called Eastern Athletic. And I worked the morning shift so I had to open it at like 5 a.m. And I would go and people would be like waiting in line to go work out at the gym. And one day I was just like not feeling well. And I...


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[Assistant] You're pumpy, aren't you? You don't remember me, do you? Yes, sir. You, Mr. John. That's right. Although I couldn't blame you if you didn't.


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[Assistant] That was Paul. Remember, he was ten then. A spitting image. Pompey, this is Mrs. Raiden, the lady I married.


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[Assistant] Goodbye, Pompey. We'll see you again before we go back to New York.


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[Assistant] Walking around, outside, all by myself. I like that, Dr. Ben. I like walking around outside by myself. Feels good. I don't have to go back to that room anymore, do I, Dr. Ben?


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[Assistant] There were a lot of flowers. But I didn't like the flowers. I wanted to throw them all away.


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[Assistant] They were on a grave. That's where they were. They were on my father's grave. Steady, Paul.


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[Assistant] Pompey lied to me. He told me they didn't bury him next to her. I wanted to make sure.


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[Assistant] Yes, when I heard her screaming like that, I had to get her.


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[Assistant] So I asked Pompey to fix my supper. And I, I sneaked up behind him and took my fingers.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I just wanted to frighten him, see, so he would let me out. So I, I took my fingers.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry if I frightened you, but I'm looking for my brother John. I'm Paul.


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[Assistant] Don't you know about me? You're John's wife. Where is John?


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[Assistant] I'm very glad to see you, Paul. John, I've been trying to find you.


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[Assistant] You're a grown up man now, John. I must be too. Why didn't you answer my letters? You could have helped me. I'm sorry. I never got them. Let me try and make it up to you. We have many things to talk over. Let's sit down.


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[Assistant] Thank you. I only came to find out when you're going to open up the mills. The mills? I'm planning to do it very soon. Why? A friend of mine is going to work there. I'm going to work with her. Oh, that's fine. What friend is that? Oh, you wouldn't know her.


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[Assistant] I must go and tell her now. Wait. Don't go yet. But I want her to know. Oh!


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[Assistant] Stay here with us. You'll have a nice place to live. But I have a nice place to live. I like it there. That's fine. Where is it? I'll come and see you there. No. I will come and see you. But if you'll stay here, we'll see that you have everything that you want. But I have everything that I want. I'm with nice people. I'm going to work with them every day. Please, Paul. Dr. Saunders and I want to help you.


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[Assistant] It has such a nice perfume.


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[Assistant] I was. You can't go away like that.


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[Assistant] The curious aspect of the murder is that the victim was found with her hands pressed tightly against her ears.


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[Assistant] I'm not so sure your motors are entirely unselfish. I think you're just trying to save your own neck.


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[Assistant] No. You stay here. And please don't leave the hotel until we know Paul has been found.


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[Assistant] Miss Bennet, Elizabeth, I cannot fight something even though I have tried.


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[Assistant] I am not strong enough. You must please allow me to tell you that I admire and love you.


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[Assistant] Miss Bennet, I have tried to stop feeling this way about you.


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[Assistant] I have been raised since I was young to believe that I must marry someone of my own position and will.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you know that I am a proud man, Miss Bennet.


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[Assistant] But I cannot do this. And now it seems I have been made to return to you. Miss Bennet, please say you will marry me.


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[Assistant] I simply wish to tell you truthfully about my own feelings.


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[Assistant] It's true that I have done all I can to separate my friend from Miss Jane Bennet, but I wish to save him from an unhappy marriage.


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[Assistant] Wickham, you are too interested in that gentleman's concerns.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, his troubles have been very great indeed.


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[Assistant] I thank you for explaining your thoughts so fully.


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[Assistant] You have said quite enough for now, madam. I understand perfectly your feelings.


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[Assistant] And now I have only to be ashamed of what my own feelings have been.


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[Assistant] I understand how you feel, man. Colton was a fine boy.


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[Assistant] Must be demonstrated to Mr. Radchik, as it has been to others who have had the same idea, that the murder of an FBI man inevitably leads to very disagreeable consequences. Radchik.


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[Assistant] To hold it any later time is almost certain to arouse brawn suspicions. That's right.


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[Assistant] It will do away with even the slightest risk of having you or one of our other agents recognized by anybody in the laundry. How about it? Of course I'll take it on. Good.


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[Assistant] But I find myself doing a lot of work with, uhm, universities and Hindu youth.


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[Assistant] And we even started some youth clubs, uh, summer camps and other initiatives specifically geared to young people who were thoughtful and who were being trained in the scientific background.


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[Assistant] Now I had a scientific training myself, uhm, and, uh, it was always of interest to me, so I kind of was


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[Assistant] Although I didn't specialise, I was kind of well versed in, across the board. And in the 1970s, uhm, got to kind of meet some of the members of the Bacta Vidanti Institute, which had just been formed.


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[Assistant] But it's been particularly, um, my focus in the last say 15 years when I felt that some of the, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Some of the, uh, targets and some of the objectives of the Bhaktivedanta Institute had not been so well fulfilled in latter decades. Uhm, and I was just very eager to see a kind of renaissance


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[Assistant] Because this is the aspect that everyone knows exists. And actually it is the big Achilles heel. It is the big stumbling block and defect.


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[Assistant] Challenges, any concept that we can explain this world simply through our physics and the rest of, uhm, applied science.


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[Assistant] I was involved with the Temple of Aedic Planetarium and all these, I've always enjoyed them and it's, but I suppose that in recent years I've had much more opportunity to develop


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[Assistant] In how we come to digest that knowledge and understand its relevance and its application. And that needs discussion with other devotees.


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[Assistant] And until you understand what consciousness is, one cannot actually understand what we mean by life.


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[Assistant] Which are not mystic, not magical, not spiritual, but which are the metaphysics which underpin the reality of modern physics.


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[Assistant] And by understanding consciousness and how matter actually works, then


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[Assistant] But evidence has to be understood and interpreted in terms of what it actually tells us. And that is, enters into the philosophy of science.


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[Assistant] So unless and unfortunately the West has forgotten how to do philosophy. And that is our contribution.


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[Assistant] It is to remind science that actually it can only explore the topics, particularly the topics that go beyond what can be scientifically explored, i.e. by the science method. And anything to do with origins, the nature of consciousness, what is life,


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[Assistant] Bad philosopher. Give you a simple example is any time that


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[Assistant] Because you cannot prove through the scientific method that something happens by chance.


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[Assistant] By definition, science is meant to look at cause and effect.


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[Assistant] Because even in philosophy we would logically assume that there should be a cause for things to happen. And we need to be able to keep that door open.


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[Assistant] How consciousness appears from the brain. I cannot say, oh, it just happens by chance.


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[Assistant] Where I feel is the prime contribution that particularly Vedanta philosophy can, uhm, give to the world.


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[Assistant] Because it's not a choice between those two things.


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[Assistant] Science cannot deal with God. God cannot be explored. And there's a lot of other aspects that science cannot deal with.


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[Assistant] Science is a methodology. It is not a body of knowledge. It's a methodology which has actually sacrificed its scope.


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[Assistant] And philosophers have known this and have tried to stress this, but they have been silenced by many people because of their own motivations in trying to demean anything which might open the door to spirituality.


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[Assistant] Descartes had a really brilliant insight in his second meditation. He recognized that, what can I know for certain? He says, I know my senses.


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[Assistant] Give me information about the world, but sometimes they make mistakes. I see something that is a distance, I think it's close by and big, but actually it's far away and small.


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[Assistant] And he understood that difference between the mind and the body and its senses. So he actually understood those three elements, but he made the big mistake that the whole of Western philosophy is based on, which is conflation. They conflate consciousness and mind together.


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[Assistant] The mind and its thoughts and its emotions, uhm, and its sensory impressions, these are things that I experience, but consciousness is not those things. Those are the things that consciousness is aware of.


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[Assistant] So it makes that distinction, and that is a crucial distinction which is not there in this analysis of consciousness in the Western world.


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[Assistant] So that is the first major contribution that we have to make.


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[Assistant] The actual experience, our conscious experience cannot be reduced to that which is in the brain. So everyone knows there is a distinction between the nature of mental content and


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[Assistant] So what we say is that you have to recognize the elementary functions that exist. Consciousness, mind, the physicality of the brain.


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[Assistant] But we would turn around and say, tell me what matter is made of. Can you tell me what matter is made of? As a physicist?


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[Assistant] Physics does not know what matter is made of. It only describes


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[Assistant] Constituent parts like quarks and electrons in terms of what


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[Assistant] So physics only tells us what matter is like and what it does. It never tells us what it is.


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[Assistant] And that link is information, and consciousness is the observer of information. That is why we are able to interact with the material world, even though we are not part of the physicality of it.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Science models our experience of the world. It doesn't tell us what the actuality of the world is.


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[Assistant] Usually trying to deny that consciousness exists. Yes.


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[Assistant] Now the interesting thing is, Gannett is now being rejected by a lot of people. And in fact, another philosopher, Galen Strawson, uhm, comes out and his view is, what is the silliest idea ever?


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[Assistant] People like Dawkins and others are saying.


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[Assistant] And we have to admit that at present we cannot explain them in terms of the brain and physics. So he, even he is admitting all of that. But he says, maybe in the future,


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[Assistant] If your physics is as limited as it is now, it's not going to explain anything. But if you expand your physics to include aspects of subliminal forms of matter,


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[Assistant] Such as we would explain the tan mattress and even the subtle elements.


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[Assistant] The, of needing the help of the Vedanta, Sankhya and also the yoga schools.


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[Assistant] And it also contains Vaishnav's Sankhya, which is the Sankhya philosophy as understood within Vedanta, you know, and consistent with Vedanta.


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[Assistant] So Vedanta, Sankhya and Yoga can go together and together they really are very powerful insights.


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[Assistant] Let's examine this from first principles. Let's go right back to what we agree about consciousness. And let's build on that.


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[Assistant] And I personally feel that we can actually just use, from first principles of philosophy,


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[Assistant] Of the relationship of consciousness and the material energy.


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[Assistant] Now the only way we're able to do that is of course because we have already studied the insights of Vedanta in Sankhya. So we actually have been given the clue how it all works.


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[Assistant] You're absolutely right that we are presenting this as a bottom-up process, which of course is attractive to the rationalist and the scientist and so on.


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[Assistant] But what we are saying and what we know in our hearts is that the only way we're able to construct a bottom-up picture is because we have been given the higher picture by the Bhagavatam and the Shastras. But we're not saying believe in them because


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[Assistant] I think initially it's important to indicate and to work on the fact that we're dealing with elementary functions and properties and, uhm, to explore that. Uhm, but you're quite right, at a certain point we need to understand the ontology. But the problem is you cannot,


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[Assistant] The assumed ontology of physics, because physics actually doesn't have an ontology.


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[Assistant] You need to do it from an ontology that actually connects consciousness and matter. And that is the Sankhya process. The wonderful, see, put it in a simpler way, when you look at physics and you break things down, you cannot find consciousness. You just cannot find it anywhere in that.


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[Assistant] We have said that this thing called an electron exists and we said it has charge because if it has, if it has charge and we can, we say, well, that works according to, you know, the electromagnetic kind of effects. So therefore we can say it's got some charge. We say it's got some mass. We don't know what mass is.


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[Assistant] But there's no ontology and then we cannot find consciousness through that. Whereas Sankhya looks at matter and it models


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[Assistant] Consciousness in terms of our experience of it.


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[Assistant] So everything, every way that Sankhya looks at the nature of this world and what manifested at the subliminal level relates back.


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[Assistant] To properties that can be experienced by consciousness.


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[Assistant] So that is the ontology to use to explore consciousness and precreting, which is the kind of general term for physical matter, our material stuff, both in its subtle and kind of gross manifestation.


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[Assistant] And that is that matter is influenced and manipulated over time. Time affects both physical and subliminal matter.


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[Assistant] Consciousness is not affected by time, and we know that. Because, you know, moments pass in front of us.


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[Assistant] The observer. I am not changing in my ontological state because of the passage of time.


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[Assistant] So that is the key difference between that which is conscious and that which is precretive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's a very simple, it's a simple and a simplified model of what Vedanta is saying, but it is a very useful one.


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[Assistant] Uh, psychologists and people in the West that we say, look, even if you don't want to accept the nature of the entity of consciousness, the Atma, and you don't want to give it any special status, still, it is a better model


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[Assistant] For you to analyze how people experience the world to assume that there is the conscious self


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[Assistant] Is a kind of secondary psychology. Primary psychology is the psychology of the atma.


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[Assistant] Secondary psychology is that of what is being processed within this overall thing we'll call mind. The mind in the Western terminology is very


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[Assistant] Use it there and then the third level that affects what we experience and how we experience that is of course the neurology.


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[Assistant] In terms of what we're experiencing, we can look and see, is it something to do with our senses?


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[Assistant] Mind, consciousness, you know, experience, emotions, personality, it's just brain.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of the concepts that is used in Western philosophy, although it's not properly understood, is the idea of the theatre of consciousness.


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[Assistant] And that's a good analogy actually, I think that's helpful for us, because if I am watching some kind of film on the screen,


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[Assistant] I start to identify with the characters. I start to worry about them.


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[Assistant] It goes through experiences because of identification of what the mind is presenting to us. Now we can get very technical and explain that that actual


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[Assistant] The process of identification with what the mind has actually happens within the sheathing of a hum car. Because in the material world we are not an


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[Assistant] An atma, you know, free and complete in itself. We are the atma encased in the ahamkara.


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[Assistant] And that covering means that what we identify with is practically wholly and solely the experience that the hankara is gathering from the mind.


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[Assistant] We would say that the atma is the source of will. Vedanta explains that the atma is hetu, which means it's causal. It generates will.


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[Assistant] Will is simply that I wish to change the experiences that I'm having.


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[Assistant] Right? It's simply the aspiration to change my experiences. And that becomes encoded.


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[Assistant] Kind of will becomes encoded within the ahankara and then within the buddhi.


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[Assistant] Can be something that either is trying to interpret our will.


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[Assistant] Or it can be something that may be conditioned by the way the mind processes stuff.


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[Assistant] Input from ourselves. The mind can be making up all sorts of ideas. I think you should go and find something to eat, you know?


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[Assistant] So even though most of our activities may be conditioned or may be inspired by conditioning,


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[Assistant] There still is the opportunity for the Atma to interact with the activities of the mind and to interject with some aspect of will or won't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I think the, I start with trying to analyse the content of our experience.


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[Assistant] And the way that's explored from the western point of view is to understand this concept of what are called qualia. I'm sure you're familiar with qualia.


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[Assistant] And it all goes back to the same point, and I remember talking, uh, Sataputta describing this to me way back in the 80s. And it hit me then.


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[Assistant] And it has remained the key question because this is the essence of what is called the Hard Problem of Consciousness. It was ignored, it was, it was known about for, you know, a couple of centuries. It was the mid 18th, 19th century when the word qualia was coined actually.


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[Assistant] That we call qualia, such as colours and forms. How do we explain these?


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[Assistant] Now, people say, well, it's all to do with, say, colours, it's to do with light.


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[Assistant] Okay, a wavelength comes into our eye. It sets off, uh, one of the three types of cones that we have depending on a particular wavelength. That sends a digital bleep to the brain. Where's the colour?


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[Assistant] The wavelength is simply just because of its nature as a wavelength, not because of its colour, because of its wavelength, it has activated a photoreceptor.


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[Assistant] That photoreceptor is now just converted whatever was out there into this bleep. It fired.


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[Assistant] An ion jumps from that neuron to the next neuron. And from that neuron to the next. And that's basically all that goes on all the way up to the brain. Where is the colour? Neurons don't have colour. Electricity does not have colour. But we experience that as a colour. So what is the process that is taking the data


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[Assistant] Establish the reality of qualia and the fact that qualia are irreducible to physical biological processes.


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[Assistant] Right? So we have made that separation of mind and brain.


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[Assistant] Now, through the meditation processes, particularly of the yoga systems, we can do exercises which separate ourselves as the conscious entity


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[Assistant] From that which we are conscious of, i.e. the pictures, the impressions, the thoughts in our mind. We can recognize that these are the vrittis, according to the Yoga Sutras, that are passing in front of us. But I am the observer of that. So that's


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[Assistant] And once you've kind of got that process then you start, things start to fall into place. You start to be able to understand.


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[Assistant] How this weird, wonderful thing about consciousness and how we experience the world actually works.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't be able to experience anything practically. It's shocking.


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[Assistant] So uhm, there's some good fun in some of those lectures that, uh, help to explain that point. Yes, Bill.


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[Assistant] That can be understood and appreciated and even enjoyed by something which is not itself.


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[Assistant] So we would then describe the mind simply as that interface screen between the hardware of the brain and the observer, you know, as I am now with this screen. So,


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[Assistant] And it forms these rainbow colours. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, right?


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[Assistant] Because if you're red light and blue light and you put them together, you get magenta. But you have to ask yourself in physics, not just in kindergarten language, you have to analyze the physics and ask yourself how, where is the mixing happening of those two wavelengths.


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[Assistant] So two different photoreceptors are now sending independent bleeps.


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[Assistant] You have an experience of it, but you have no actual knowledge of the actuality of the outside world.


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[Assistant] So colour cannot be considered to be a property of light. It's a property of quality of the mind. Curie date.


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[Assistant] And that's true for all the other sensory perceptions. Colour, um, forms, uh, sounds, same thing. Tastes.


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[Assistant] Because each one of them, whether it's uhm, somebody put some food in your mouth, that sets up some receptors which send bleep, bleep, bleep to the brain. There's no difference between that bleep coming...


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[Assistant] But you see, we take all of this for granted because we've been experiencing since we were born and we are completely fooled as to what is happening and we don't understand


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[Assistant] And our consciousness is simply the receptor and observer of all of that wonder.


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[Assistant] Yes, thank you for giving me an opportunity also to talk about the Apna paradigm as a series. It's something I've been working on for about 15 years. Uhm, and it was my attempt just to try and provide a framework


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[Assistant] A philosophical framework that reaches from consciousness all the way through analysis of what we mean by matter and reality. What we mean by life and all the aspects of how biology works. And once you understand the role of consciousness as primary,


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[Assistant] This aspect you mentioned of intentionality, causation, will actually


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[Assistant] We understand then how the Bhagavatam is teaching us how consciousness, how the desires of consciousness feed through into the reality that we experience, how they generate the forms of this world, how they generate the species that we will then


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[Assistant] Take as our body to enjoy with in different ways. Everything actually comes from consciousness originally.


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[Assistant] It is driving. And then once we explore life, then you can start to talk about the universe. We take things in a different order.


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[Assistant] You know, somehow or other, some chemicals get together and produce life and then in somehow or other,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's a set of total of 32 talks.


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[Assistant] We have just completed the first eight on consciousness and a lot of that


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[Assistant] We're about to start next week, uhm, on matter and reality. So we're going to have a little bit of a recap.


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[Assistant] Uhm, show where we've got so far and then explore the nature of matter from the Sankhya perspective.


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[Assistant] And that's exactly the description of the material world. How the consciousnesses of the aggregate consciousness of all the Atmas is taken and facilitated.


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[Assistant] In how the material world manifests, develops, and ultimately is wound up.


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[Assistant] The overall picture of the, what we call the Atma paradigm together. And we're building this into a complete


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[Assistant] Uhm, incorporation of all science from a consciousness based perspective. That's the whole point.


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[Assistant] Science shouldn't be under the sway of any particular philosophy. Science is meant to be free.


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[Assistant] You might as well do it in one that actually makes sense of the science, which is consistent with the science.


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[Assistant] And which is also consistent and supportive of what we would say is the theological proposition. We haven't discussed in the Atma paradigm, and the scientific method can never reach God. Even philosophy cannot really help to, uhm, reveal God. Krishna can only reveal himself, you know.


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[Assistant] And the Atma paradigm is trying to show you that you can have a philosophical, rational, intellectual view of the science that we have built up.


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[Assistant] With the processes of bhakti which will then open up the bits that are still left to discover. The important bits. Krishna and the spiritual world.


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[Assistant] Uhm, etymological kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Because in the West, people are confused what they mean by soul. Just as they're confused about mind, spirit, God. These are actually hopeless terms, I'm afraid.


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[Assistant] So we say, instead of talking about the soul as being the source of consciousness, because as soon as you wear these souls, they've got a wrong conception.


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[Assistant] Feeling I have, you know, passion I have about the world. No, but what we're trying to say is that we need to define this source of consciousness.


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[Assistant] That when we're talking about consciousness, we're not talking about what we are conscious of. We're not talking about


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[Assistant] Yes. About what's in our mind and what state we're in. So it's the ability to have experiences or more accurately the phenomenon of being able to have that ability.


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[Assistant] And really we want to get it further because we want to tie it down a little ontologically. It is that entity.


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[Assistant] Which is composed of and possesses that ability, a phenomenon of consciousness. So consciousness is not something we have, consciousness is something we are.


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[Assistant] Alright, now we can understand how that entity interacts with all these other aspects that are to do with conscious experience or state of mind or whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, thank you very much for your interview. Really enjoyed it and best wishes in your own work and outreach. Thank you. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hand stitched, hand embroidered. Irish linen, never been laundered.


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[Assistant] So, grandmother told you it's time to grow up.


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[Assistant] Actually, I can understand grandmother's objections. You're supposed to be on my side.


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[Assistant] Doesn't have to be that way. But even if it was, isn't it about time that you thought


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[Assistant] Sometimes I think women desire marriage so badly that they will put up with men's inconsistencies just to have the security and protection that comes with it. I'd rather be single.


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[Assistant] Caroline, we don't live in a perfect world. We have to marry if we want any chance of independence.


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[Assistant] That to pursuing your dreams or that to running your own household.


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[Assistant] I know what you want. You want that knight in shining armor who will sweep you off your feet.


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[Assistant] Sounds like Mr. Charles Gregory. What? Mr. Gregory?


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[Assistant] Yes, that handsome, charming,


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[Assistant] And, might I add, somewhat rich, Mr. Charles Gregory?


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[Assistant] Well, he has reserved two dances with you at the upcoming ball.


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[Assistant] Now, don't get upset. Grandmother's throwing the ball, and after all


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[Assistant] You need all the help you can get. What? Am I that hopeless? Well...


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[Assistant] Ah, good evening, Mr. Gregory. Let me guess, you're here to claim your dance.


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[Assistant] Dear me, I expected to find a man cooing your praise in your ear.


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[Assistant] Tonight wasn't so bad, was it? No.


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[Assistant] I never said he was. He had a fancy to be introduced to you, and I promised him a dance on your behalf.


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[Assistant] Mr. Fauci has a very well-to-do soul to man and very well respected in society. I can only wonder why he is still unmarried.


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[Assistant] Like one of the romantic heroes from your books? Precisely.


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[Assistant] Hello Krishna Prabhu. Thank you once again for joining today. So we will continue our discussion on


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[Assistant] So I will give a quick summary if you want to add something and then we will continue after that.


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[Assistant] From work is a punishment for fallen humanity.


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[Assistant] To work in the industrialized context is dehumanizing as, as communism thought. Then we talked about the Gita's conception where it discussed about four directions. So work is meant to for remuneration, for sustenance, then contribution to society. So these two are extrinsic results of work.


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[Assistant] Satisfaction and then work is meant for connection with, with the divine, with Krishna.


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[Assistant] And then the guitar talks about detachment from the fruits of war.


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[Assistant] Open ourselves to the bigger riches that can come in our consciousness. And then you mentioned about a miser is one who holds the wealth and doesn't get anything bigger out of it.


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[Assistant] So the social contribution that we make through work is more important than some whatever praying or inner growth that we might have.


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[Assistant] Well, not necessarily. You could have valid concerns.


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[Assistant] About a particular way of attacking terror, but that doesn't mean we are supporting terror. So are the two really opposite things?


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[Assistant] So the two can go together and if you look at the Bhagavad Gita's spirituality,


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[Assistant] It does talk about Maamalusmara Yudhyacha.


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[Assistant] You have not understood what is devotion. He says the two greatest devotees in the two greatest epics. Arjuna and Hanuman. They were both dynamically engaged. They were so engaged that they even fought a war.


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[Assistant] And such people are basically escapists and they are not


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[Assistant] They are not the recommended way in which people should live. And as far as people who are in the renounced order, at least if you look at Srila Prabhupada's example, he worked harder than most people who were half of his age, what to speak of his age. So Srila Prabhupada created a tradition, a vibrant tradition.


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[Assistant] Sharing wisdom and through creating resources for all round well being of society.


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[Assistant] So both can go together, that would be my first point of response.


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[Assistant] And it is an artificial polarity created just to manipulate people emotionally. You have any thoughts?


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[Assistant] And the word yajna, it's a very important verse in this one. So yajna, normally we translate it as sacrifice or even as fire sacrifice specifically.


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[Assistant] And we need to play our part by contributing within that cosmic cycle of continuity.


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[Assistant] So if you stick to dharma amid difficulty, people will stick to it. If you give up dharma amid difficulty, others will give it up.


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[Assistant] So in that case, what is my contribution is not in it at all. How much can I fleece the patient for money? That kind of selfish work.


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[Assistant] Now, is destructive for society.


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[Assistant] And from a karma, from a perspective of karma, it is destructive for the performer also.


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[Assistant] I thought about it two different ways. One is that Gunakarma Vibhaga, Shri Krishna says.


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[Assistant] Character, sorry, competence and comfort.


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[Assistant] Our inner harmonization and karma refers to our outer contribution.


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[Assistant] So if we look back at our own life and see


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[Assistant] What are the things we are competent at and what are the things that we feel comfortable doing?


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[Assistant] What is the small part of the big world where we can make our contribution?


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[Assistant] While at one level they are available for people, but many of them may become more and more


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[Assistant] Mechanized or done through automatons or robots or something like that.


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[Assistant] So more people will have to look inward and come up, uhm, manifest their individuality. Okay, what is it that I can contribute?


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[Assistant] Global socio-economic changes that may come across the world in the future.


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[Assistant] The universe is an arena for service and there is higher help available for us when we strive to serve.


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[Assistant] To try to find our place and our purpose in the overall scheme of things.


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[Assistant] When it talks about, as we discussed, Mamanusmarayudh Gacha or work for me.


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[Assistant] What the Gita recommends is spiritual activism. That means lazy, intelligent. They are active, but they are


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[Assistant] So they are working and if they are well directed, they can be very effective, but they may not always be effective themselves. Then we have the, the lazy fools and the active fools.


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[Assistant] Some people who use religion as an excuse for avoiding their responsibilities. We could place them in this category.


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[Assistant] They are, they are thinking they are religious but all that they are doing is running away from their responsibilities.


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[Assistant] Then, if their hands are also not working.


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[Assistant] We might well end up in that category where we are, where people are active fools and in many ways the biggest problems in the world


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[Assistant] Are not caused by people who are praying. You might say that they are part of a problem, that they are not doing anything productive for society.


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[Assistant] And if we are not spiritually, if we are not directed by wisdom, which often comes through a spiritual connection, then our actions can end up creating far more trouble than what we start. Started of thinking will solve. The Bhagavatam says, dukkha ushadham tadappi dukkham. The cure is worse than the disease. So any thoughts on this four fold classification?


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[Assistant] That's a very beautiful way of looking at it. One contemporary example could be that if you have a big company like Intel or Google.


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[Assistant] Did more to end the war than all the, all the millions of soldiers who were actually fighting.


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[Assistant] Like a person in goodness and a person in ignorance. Look very similar. Externally. Both may be passive.


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[Assistant] So it is, it is very powerful and empowering in terms of


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[Assistant] The work is, worship is often used to say that one doesn't have to do any worship at all. Just work and that itself is your worship.


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[Assistant] And how much should be the withdrawal from the world so that they can directly connect with trans-Indians.


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[Assistant] I sometimes talk about this as inclusive spirituality and reclusive spirituality.


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[Assistant] Uh, to take to reclusive spirituality, that means maybe visit a temple, study scripture, meditate, pray.


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[Assistant] Uh, companies like Google and uh, Salesforce and others. They have seminars on mindfulness and uh, work-life balance.


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[Assistant] And although for them the bottom line is what matters. They recognize that if our employees are burnt out, they are stressed and they are deceased.


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[Assistant] And that is where a spiritual vision of work


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[Assistant] It's like even if, say, a cricketer is playing a cricket match, and in the final over, and has to bat very well to win, now the cricketer has to care.


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[Assistant] So spirituality helps us expand our consciousness beyond the immediate and with that expanded consciousness


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[Assistant] There is a word that is used, I believe in mindfulness circles, it is, it is detached focus. Detached focus. So not detached in the sense that I don't care, but detached is that I am not threatened. And focus of course is I am involved, I am concerned. So spiritualists could help bring that kind of culture into the mainstream and that will be


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[Assistant] Or a work to do in today's changing economic landscape. So I talked about comfort and competence, guna karma, by which we can find out what we can do. And then, uh, toward the end, we mentioned about how today, how one's spirituality can be both inclusive and reclusive.


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[Assistant] That we don't just go away from the world but we do a fraction here in the world and then you raise the question about should we try to influence the culture today?


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[Assistant] We should spiritually start to influence the culture, yes. That we can work hard but work sustainably. That can happen if we can see work as worship, not work is worship.


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[Assistant] That means we see that my work is a service to the Divine.


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[Assistant] Okay, I take case. This is a tough proposition, Charlie. Murder at a seance. Unexplainable things happen at seances.


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[Assistant] What are you planning on? He? Brown? You've been involved in three murder cases.


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[Assistant] Anyway, this case is ended without any of your fancy detecting. Case ended? Sure. Mrs. Barnard killed her husband. And then when she found that I, uh, we were getting too close, she committed suicide.


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[Assistant] Charlie, if Shardow or Hamlin was holding hands at the seance, how did he shoot Bonner?


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[Assistant] I remember distinctly Messier coming through the elevator and shaking his hand. He kinda looked in our eyes and we were just, you know, a bunch of fans, kids mostly, and Messier actually apologized to us. And you did see it in his eyes and you saw it in his face. He was just...


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[Assistant] Very unhappy and things were going to change the following year.


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[Assistant] Mike Keenan got two players from Chicago who he knows very well in Stefan Matto, a big left winger, and


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[Assistant] And don't underestimate the acquisition of 35 year old Craig McTavish, an excellent center man, and right now the Rangers need some depth at center.


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[Assistant] Trouble, trouble, and more troubles. Where is my vitamin? Let me get some of my vitamin.


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[Assistant] Nothing to worry about. They've been burning coles on the rains a long time now. Here, put this on.


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[Assistant] Take time. Your father skinned me good if you catch pneumonia again.


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[Assistant] We just learned how to evaluate and analyze information by making a statement with operators.


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[Assistant] If else and else, if, which is a combination of the two. So we're just going to go along and write a really simple program that takes in a score and then gives it like a grade rating based on what percentage that score is. We're going to start by just creating a score here. And this is what we can change to run through the different logic we're going to create.


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[Assistant] Just in case we don't update it, we can see, oh, our logic didn't update. And now here we're going to start with our if statement and it's really easy. It is the if keyword.


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[Assistant] And then we're just going to add a print at the end and we're just going to print. Great. Sweet. And if we run this, we can see that our score of 70 goes through that if check, it is above 50. So it passes. Now, if we do less than 50.


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[Assistant] Nothing happens because we haven't told it. We haven't created logic to say anything below 50 is a fail. And this is where we can use an else statement. We can say else grade equals.


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[Assistant] I'm just going to go back to else here because it's a nice little catch for anything that we might miss in our if logic. Now let's say we want to upgrade this to just going from a pass to a fail to maybe assigning a letter to it, like ABCD or F. So what I'm going to do here is I'm now going to say.


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[Assistant] If the score is above or equal to 90, it's going to be an A and then I'm just going to chain some of them together. So above.


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[Assistant] There's something going on here with our D here, because if it's below 40, it's going to be correct and be an F, but anything above 40 is going to be reported as a D. And this is because of how the IF works. Each of these IFs here is its own independent check.


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[Assistant] Let's say that score is equal to 90. We make this check. Score is above 75, so it's equal to A.


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[Assistant] But it's also above 65 because this again checks independently. So it's a B and then it's also above 50. So then it updates it to C and it also is above 40. So it updates it to a D and that is the last check that we make with that. So the final result is that it's D. This is where our friend Elsif comes along. If we just simply write Elsif there, it is going to magically


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[Assistant] Fix everything. So what's going on here? Well, an else if is just an else and an if kind of put together. And so all of these checks are no longer completely independent. You can kind of think of an elif as if any of the checks above were true, then you can ignore this. So let's say it's 70 and we run it, we're going to get a B. So.


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[Assistant] The score is 70. Is it above 75? No. Okay. So the else here is going to run the code that's inside of it. And inside of that is another if. So if the score is above 65, it is. So the grade is B. And so this else is not going to run because this if was true, which means that all the other checks in here won't


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[Assistant] Elves, which by the way is exactly the same code. It's just a lot neater way to write it all.


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[Assistant] Wire that up if you haven't done so already. And then we have this constant here that we're going to use to map the ADC to go from 0 to 100 very nicely.


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[Assistant] Now here we're creating a string which you can either put an A or a B inside of. We have our main wild true loop here and we've also got another one.


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[Assistant] I suppose you're more interested in listening to the Mokey's mouth.


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[Assistant] That's what I say, Charlie. That's what I say. You want to try working Dodgers for a change like me? Don't talk to me of honest work. Add some.


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[Assistant] Months I've been looking for work, till I got tired of being pushed around. Then I got wise. You mean you got six months. So what? I got six months. Look at me now. Sitting pretty. I've been in quad, you know. I'm a jailbird. Six months I got, for half an inch and out of a gas meter. And who was waiting for me when I came out to clink? Ask me. Probation officer. Wanted to reform me.


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[Assistant] So he got me a job, 12 hours a day, 30 bob a week, cleaning out a public convenience. You know the kind of job. All ed work and tips. Ha! Aye. And you know what I told him he could do with it?


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[Assistant] I got wise, started working dodges, and now I'm with Sam Grundy, and the only time I take my coat off is when I play a game of pills. Yeah, and another thing, because I've been in clink, they won't have me in the army when there's another war. That's the kind of mug I am.


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[Assistant] I want nothing out of you, Sal. Honest. Help me.


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[Assistant] Oh, I never knew anywhere could be so lovely.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's all this laddie. Makes me feel sort of sad. Why?


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[Assistant] I think he knew how I was fixed, because when I got all bothered, he smiled. You know the way he smiles, Ma.


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[Assistant] There's no need for us to be standing about back alleys. Not if you don't want.


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[Assistant] Now listen to me, Larry Meath, there's something hurting you. What is it?


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[Assistant] There's one for our Addy there too. Tell him to take it to manager of bus company.


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[Assistant] Don discovered the pigeon. He saw you send the message. I'm sure know that he had an American agent.


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[Assistant] He was muttering something about shortwave, as if he had to listen for something.


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[Assistant] Why'd you do that? He wanted to kill me. I lost my head. I'm all confused. I don't know anymore what I'm doing.


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[Assistant] Mine darling, I know it isn't polite to barge in on you like this when, when you haven't been invited.


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[Assistant] I wanted to come back before. And yet, well it's like, like when you remember a place you used to love and where you had fun. You want to go back and yet, yet you're afraid to. Because things might have changed.


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[Assistant] I'm not worried about my father. Somehow you're all boss Cameron now. Maybe I should have stayed with Aunt Harriet. But you don't mind my being here, do you? Do you?


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[Assistant] If you're trying to flatter me, I like it.


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[Assistant] You've done all right, too. I get a... bow brummel.


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[Assistant] But they don't have to break them down. Look, a kiss against a...


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[Assistant] A new sable. I'll not only get him out of the house, but send him back to Spring Valley.


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[Assistant] Now you just relax and watch a second generation camera and go to work.


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[Assistant] Uh, I only wanted to make you detour.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, you're just what I expected.


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[Assistant] Yes, he, he's always falling off those polar ponies of his. It is sweet of you to take me out for him tonight.


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[Assistant] Dear father isn't home. My blind date must be sublime. I guess you can't even see the house. Well, I guess that leaves me a damsel in distress.


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[Assistant] You are starting out the hard way. Well, that's the last word.


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[Assistant] That's my escort. My father has them follow me everywhere I go. Loads of fun.


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[Assistant] So I guessed. Bad news not only travels fast, it nearly knocked me down at the elevator.


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[Assistant] My father looks well this morning. How is boss Cameron?


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[Assistant] They have to go south for the winter. I wouldn't want to stay here and freeze in my tenement mink.


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[Assistant] Well, Mr. Hollister is rather nice. If you like the milky way.


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[Assistant] Lynn told me about Johnny last night. I know you'll still try and help him no matter how busy you are. Because my favorite father is like that.


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[Assistant] Nice, Dizzy. Whoo! Round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows.


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[Assistant] Say, if a couple of night owls flew by, we could have a game of bridge. At least we're alone up here.


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[Assistant] Shake the fist at each other in this city. Yes, I- I'd like Spring Valley.


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[Assistant] Gosh, this fella's so slow fixing things it'd take him a month to wind an eight-day clock. It's a bit chilly, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Nested breakfast. I don't see much of my favorite father these days.


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[Assistant] I give up. How's about a kiss on election day?


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[Assistant] Why did you look so funny when I said, by hook or crook?


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[Assistant] Darling, why all this sudden excitement about going to the polls?


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll go to the soup kitchens. Thank you to see how well father feeds those poor men.


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[Assistant] Well, you won again. And you won because you should. Because the people wanted you. Oh darling, I'm so proud of you. Come on, how's about a smile?


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[Assistant] Just now. Imagine that stupid hick blaming you for Johnny. Couldn't know anything about it, could you?


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[Assistant] Yes, but there were so many people everywhere. All I brought home was a red checkered tablecloth.


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[Assistant] Soaky. And me with a nice fire going up in smoke. I waited dinner for you.


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[Assistant] Apologies accepted. I thought you might be hungry, so I made an omelet for you like mother used to. Probably not as good, but then I never spend as much time in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Don't you care? Boss Cameron is dead. Long live my father.


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[Assistant] I guess I've known a lot of things for a long time. Tried to kid myself. Being away from you so much. School and traveling with Aunt Harriet. Your friends.


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[Assistant] Look, darling, there's a boat sailing for South America tonight. Let's take a trip and then go somewhere and start all over.


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[Assistant] I won't let anyone say the things he did about you and I couldn't. Why, why we'd even talked about Spring Valley.


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[Assistant] Imagine me being dopey enough to marry a jackleg lawyer and live in a dull little town where river boats shake hands. Not Sabra.


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[Assistant] What's the matter? Why are you going? We haven't much time. George can pack for you.


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[Assistant] I'm alright, just a couple of scratches. Burns me up as losing that load of machinery. What are you doing here?


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[Assistant] Can't see a thing. Go ask Ruth to bring a flashlight from the car.


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[Assistant] Uh huh, just as I thought. They're checking up on their booby trap. I want to catch at least one of them alive. Now look, here's what we'll do.


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[Assistant] No, no, one of the outlaws, I got him this morning. I hope we can get some information out of him.


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[Assistant] The paratron's down there. They've done a good job of hiding it. Get those boards over there. I'm going down to take a look.


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[Assistant] Well, boys, I told you, you can expect nothing else until you start thinking for yourselves. You've got to wait a long time. They've gotten out to think with. Well, I still say you can't do without capital. Well, we don't want to do without capital. All I'm saying is that it shouldn't be used only as a means of making profit. Hey, that's a lot of rock. If we don't make profit, place it closed down. Without money, you're sunk. Do you know what money is? Of course I know what money is.


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[Assistant] Well, they ought to know that they're spending it on things they want. Ah, that's the point. So therefore you don't work for money, but for the things you want, don't you?


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[Assistant] If there was nothing to buy, it wouldn't be any use. If there weren't, no, but, but there is. Ah, that's true, but remember, that's because people like you and I, the working people, make the things. Ah, well, they can't do without capital.


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[Assistant] What we've got to remember is that human conditions are not beyond human control. I said that man has made these conditions. Well, he can remake them. Ah, and rebuild a new and better world.


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[Assistant] We've got enough of this hot air, let's get down to cases. We all know what should have been done and what we'd like to have done. You had a chance for that in the last general election. But what you decided then has made these conditions. You're all living in a democracy. You're the people who made this means test law. And now you're behaving like a pack of children just because it doesn't suit you.


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[Assistant] If you think I'm going to encourage you to follow this horrid maniac, you're mistaken. Now I'll tell you what's been arranged. The mayor has agreed to receive a deputation of six. The protest procession can be held as long as we keep off the main roads.


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[Assistant] Now the procession leaders know what route to be taken. And remember, the police have got their jobs to do just the same as we've got ours.


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[Assistant] I need that hole in one again, and it's not where it was that time I got a hole in one.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth's excitement was very high as she watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods. Finally they turned toward the house.


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[Assistant] The park was very large and had a great variety of trees and plants. They entered it at one of its lowest points and drove for some time through a beautiful wood.


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[Assistant] Slowly, about half a mile, they were at the top of a hill.


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[Assistant] The woods stopped here, and their eyes were instantly caught by Pemberley House. It was located on the opposite side of a valley.


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[Assistant] It was a large, handsome stone building that stood on high ground and was backed by high woody hills.


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[Assistant] A river ran in front of it with trees lined on its banks. Elizabeth was delighted.


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[Assistant] At that moment she thought what it would be like to be the mistress of Pemberley.


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[Assistant] She thought it would indeed be something to be proud of. They came down the hill and drove to the door.


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[Assistant] When they asked to see the place they were let into the hall. The housekeeper came.


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[Assistant] She was a respectable looking elderly lady who was more polite than Elizabeth had expected. They followed her into the dining room. It was a large room with handsome furniture.


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[Assistant] From its windows the hill, upon which were many trees, was very beautiful. All the rooms in the house had high ceilings. This added to the beauty of the house.


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[Assistant] The furniture and decorations had great style and from every window there were beauties to be seen.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth really wanted to ask the housekeeper whether the master was really absent, but she was not brave enough.


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[Assistant] Finally, her uncle asked her if the master was present.


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[Assistant] The servant, Mrs. Reynolds, replied that he was not, but then added,


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[Assistant] But we expect him tomorrow with a party of friends.


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[Assistant] Mr. Gardiner asked, Not so much as I could wish, sir. If he were to marry, you might see more of him, suggested Mrs. Gardiner.


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[Assistant] He is the best landlord and the best master that ever lived.


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[Assistant] Here, there were many paintings of the family, and Elizabeth stopped in front of a particular painting.


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[Assistant] It was a painting that looked like Mr. Wickham and it was hung among several other pictures.


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[Assistant] Instead, it was the picture of a young gentleman who had been brought up by her late master.


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[Assistant] The late master had used his own money in raising the child. That man is now in the army, she added.


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[Assistant] But I am afraid that his character has turned out to be very wild.


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[Assistant] She stopped in front of a painting that looked like Mr. Darcy. She stood looking at it for many minutes


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[Assistant] And then she returned to it again before they left the gallery.


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[Assistant] Having seen all parts of the house that were open to the public, they thanked the housekeeper and said goodbye.


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[Assistant] Then the gardener met them to show them the grounds around the house. As they walked through the garden towards the river, Elizabeth turned to look back.


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[Assistant] She saw Mr. Darcy approaching from another road that led to where the horses were kept.


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[Assistant] His appearance was so sudden that it was impossible to miss him.


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[Assistant] Their eyes instantly met and both of their cheeks became deep red. He stood, not moving from surprise.


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[Assistant] Then he came forward and spoke to Elizabeth calmly and politely.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth, who was surprised and confused, could hardly lift her eyes to look at his face.


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[Assistant] She was hardly able to answer all the questions which she asked about her family.


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[Assistant] Finally, after standing a few moments without saying a word, he bowed to her and said goodbye.


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[Assistant] Her aunt and uncle then joined her and told her they greatly admired his appearance. But Elizabeth herself could not hear a word. She felt both ashamed and worried.


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[Assistant] She thought he would consider her most strange as if she had come to Pemberley on purpose. Oh why did she come? she asked herself.


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[Assistant] Or, why had he come back a day before he was expected and his behavior and manner was so different than before? What could it mean?


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[Assistant] She was amazed that he had even decided to speak to her. But to speak with such politeness, to ask after her family, never had she heard him speak with such gentleness as on this unexpected meeting.


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[Assistant] Then they entered a beautiful walk by the side of the river. Soon they were again surprised by the sight of Mr. Darcy approaching.


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[Assistant] He asked Elizabeth if she would introduce him to her friends. He stated that it would be his honor.


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[Assistant] He began a conversation with Mr. Gardner and started to accompany them back to the house. Elizabeth felt quite pleased.


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[Assistant] She wanted Darcy to know that she had some relations which were not as embarrassing as her mother and younger sisters.


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[Assistant] She felt pride every time her uncle showed his intelligence and good manners.


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[Assistant] The party stopped to look at some unusual water plants and Mrs. Gardner took her husband's arm.


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[Assistant] Mr. Darcy then took his place beside Elizabeth, and they walked on together.


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[Assistant] After a short silence, Elizabeth told him that she had been told that he would not be there when they came to Pemberley.


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[Assistant] He explained that business had brought him ahead of the party that was arriving the next day.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth was very surprised at his request. She felt he was quite generous


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[Assistant] When they reached their carriage, Darcy politely asked them to come inside the house for some tea.


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[Assistant] However, they did not accept this offer because they wished to reach Lambton before dark. They left Mr. Darcy with much politeness.


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[Assistant] Her uncle and aunt began to speak about the good feelings they had toward Mr. Darcy.


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[Assistant] They felt that he was a man of good manners and attentiveness.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth herself felt that she liked him better than ever before.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth had arranged with Darcy that he would bring his sister to visit her the day after the party reached Pemberley.


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[Assistant] But instead, these visitors arrived the very next morning.


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[Assistant] When the introduction took place, Elizabeth saw to her surprise that Miss Darcy was almost as embarrassed as she was.


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[Assistant] She had heard from Wickham that Miss Darcy was very proud. Instead, she found that Miss Darcy was extremely shy.


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[Assistant] She was taller than Elizabeth and less handsome than her brother, but her face was full of good humor and her manners were gentle.


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[Assistant] They had not been together very long before Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming to join them. Soon they heard footsteps on the stair, and Bingley entered the room.


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[Assistant] And she was once again surprised by his friendliness.


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[Assistant] He asked her about her family and looked and spoke with the same good humor that he had always done.


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[Assistant] She could not be fooled by his behavior toward Miss Darcy.


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[Assistant] There was nothing between them that showed they had any special feelings for each other.