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[Assistant] Dude, I was always, uh, getting in trouble. Just, you know, not behaving when I was supposed to. And, uh, yeaah, I hate school, hated school, still do hate school, but it just wasn't for me, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Oh, not at all. Not even till like two years ago or a year and a half ago. I was super just not knowing what the fuck I was gonna do at any point in life.


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[Assistant] I surfed growing up, a lot. Uhm, I used to be a competitive surfer, I was like 2 in the northeast when I was like 15.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, that ended before high school. It was either like go to school or don't go to school. I do homeschool and my mom wasn't for that.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is the thing, I'm sure it's the same with BMX and skating, like, we all think we're going to be pro, right? When we're young enough to think we're going to be pro. Then you get to like 14 and you're like, you get out into the world and you're like, damn, all the kids in California, Hawaii, like, you know what I'm saying? It's just a whole other level. I definitely realized that at that point and it's kind of why.


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[Assistant] The competitive factor of it took away the fun, you know what I mean? So I was just like, fuck it. I'm just going to serve when it's good and not revolve my life around it. Because these kids out here are killing it.


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[Assistant] It's like training camps, like, oh, it's like tutors for surfing, you know what I mean? There's like a hundred different people, trainers and it's like you're 13 and surfing. Surf is not supposed to be this.


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[Assistant] No, I started making music when I was 19. Just on some, literally like, my parents wouldn't want me smoking in the house.


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[Assistant] We had to find somewhere to smoke, you know what I'm saying? The studio? Yea, so I was like, listen, we see all these fucking rappers in the studio smoking weed, so we found a cheap ass studio in the South Bronx.


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[Assistant] It was just on some like, high as fuck, having a good time. Heard autotune for the first time and was like, wait a second.


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[Assistant] What's really good with that? You feel me? Cause it's like, I sound like shit.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Not having found a sounder that ever made music, but like that kind of sounds cool. And then one thing led to another, uh, another.


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[Assistant] Dying over here. Uhm, and uh, yea bro, we needed a place to smoke every night. And Maui got a good discount.


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[Assistant] Not at that point, at that point it was no one. And then I took it seriously, you feel me? Started actually, what I wanted to do, came out to California.


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[Assistant] And uh, yeaah, then it all started, you know, coming together. Who'd you meet on California that started to bring it all together? Well, I met, I met Makona in 2015 on some partying shit. Really?


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[Assistant] And he's like, listen, like, it's not bad, you know what I mean? Like he, right off, I thought, I didn't want to play it, but his, uh, his old manager homie, like Marcus was like, yo, just play it, bro. He doesn't care. It's Makonnen. I was like, all right, play it. I'm like sitting there shaking. He's like, I actually fuck with it. And I was like, really? All right, cool. So then I went, went back from that night and just kept making music, kept making music.


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[Assistant] And then later down the road I moved out to LA and Makona just happened to be like the first person I link with. So then we were living together with a couple homies and making music every day and like that's the point I found my sound.


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[Assistant] To where I thought was my sound, you feel me? But that's when I was taking it seriously.


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[Assistant] At the time it was just on some, it was like me studying everything. So I was just, it was a lot of sounding like other people, you know what I mean? And just like trying to figure out what sound was natural to me. So it's like, it was all over. It was from me trying to sound like Travis Scott to trying to sound like, you know what I mean? Like everything. And then it's just like throughout that bandwagon, I just like found,


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[Assistant] To where I felt was the pocket that I was comfortable in, you know? That seemed somewhat natural just to like what I grew up listening to. Were you just rapping when you were still in New York?


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[Assistant] I heard, I heard that it's not though. What? I heard that it's, he's like, he really, that was just like one of the country ones.


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[Assistant] Dude, I'm not even clued in like that to be honest with you. That found me like the first day. That song's hard to avoid right now. Yeaah. It's a fact.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so I met Pete, uhm, the first day they started, uh, recording the Pete McConaughey project out in L.A. Was the first time we met through McConaughey.


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[Assistant] I think they had met like previously, you know, but like never been locked in like that. It was, it was magic bro.


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[Assistant] It's like damn, that's really good. Damn, that's crazy. Yea, and Makonnen just doing Makonnen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not that initial, I mean it was like a three week, uh, four week period that we were in the same studio every night.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's crazy. And it was like, within the first two weeks, at random point, uhm, Peep had heard, he was like living at our crib at that point, uhm, and he just heard Nightmares, which is not out yet, and he really fucked with it. And was like, yo, I wanna hop on that. Was like, bet.


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[Assistant] Oh, it changed me forever. I literally owe so much for those three sessions just being around that. It helped me so much deeper than music, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Honestly, I'm like seeing two people just be so comfortable with themselves, you feel me? Just like knowing who they are. And it's like seeing that was coming just, it was, dude, like I say, it was magical, bro. It was like I couldn't even explain what it was.


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[Assistant] At that point I was like, had some songs out on Soundcloud. I had remixed Under the Bridge, and it hit like a million plays on Soundcloud in like two weeks. Really? Right? And then it got taken down, obviously. Uh huh. Which was kind of the goal of it, to just get Anthony to kind of hear it. Right. Which I heard later on in the road, he did hear it, and personally got it taken down.


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[Assistant] Before all that, yeaah, yeaah, long before. Wow. Yeaah, that was on some like random me just going to one of those studios and him having just been there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it must have been like five months. Okay. Some shit, four months. How'd you find out? Uh, my homie, one of my manager called me and uh, just told me what happened and I was like yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's Beyond Crush, you feel me? Just having been there, you know what I mean? And just like, he brought me out in New York on the Come Over Sober tour in New York on his birthday to perform Nightmares. And yeah, so I had just seen him, you know what I mean? So, it was awful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it was, it was looped, like I had, I had like FaceTime, you know, Fat Nick on the phone, like well, I have met him on FaceTime when people are on FaceTime one time type shit. And then, uh, we, we, we had met just speaking through, you know, after all that shit, just trying, going through it, you know? Like even though we haven't really met, like we're going, you know, this shit's hard for everybody, bro, so.


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[Assistant] I don't even really got music out, but I'll put some out on you. How was that experience overall? Dude, it was amazing. It was a good time. It's just Bexy and Nick on, on, for two months going across America, you know, you can't.


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm just going with the flow, bro. I'm just chilling, you know. Definitely drinking water.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Dude, I have, I can't even fly. I mean, now I, I, I...


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[Assistant] What was I supposed to say? I definitely fly with weed, you know what I'm saying? All the time now, especially with that new law that passed or some shit. In the States, it's nothing. Yeah, exactly. But it's like, I've had friends being like, Oh bro, I'm going to Indonesia for the weekend. And it's fucking like, I'm bringing a pound. It's like, what do you, what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's like a project, album, whatever it is. It's a good collection.


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[Assistant] So, so, it, it came naturally because basically,


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[Assistant] At some point, uh, Pete was on tour with Smoke, and I knew that Pete was super particular about who Smoke worked with, you know what I'm saying, because they really had their shit together. So, it was like, basically, Pete was like, yo, told Smoke I want you to work with Teddy. So at that point, he sent me a beat, and I got a Smokey Psych beat, and I was so happy. I was like, oh my god.


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[Assistant] And also, oh, also Jo- I would say producers on the shit. Jossu, my boy too, helped me produce a lot of stuff. Okay. And his boy Mason, yea. Aw, that's what's up.


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[Assistant] It doesn't even compare, to be honest. I mean, yeaah, of course it like, compares, but it's just, it's just genuinely, this is the first project I've felt, I genuinely found my sound. And it doesn't really sound like anything else, and I'm really proud of it. I pour my heart into it.


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[Assistant] And uh, yeaah, it's just, it's just me bro. It's literally self-titled. It's called Teddy. Okay. It's literally, it doesn't get more, it's me than it.


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[Assistant] It will all make sense soon. What, like additional visuals from the rest of it? Yeah, I mean, just, uh, my brother Gunnar Zubin and I like where I'm at. My homies we made, we've been making all the videos and it will all make sense. It definitely is deeper than people think.


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[Assistant] No, definitely not. Definitely not, but him, uh, he's a professional actor. His mother is an awesome person who's been super helpful throughout all this.


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[Assistant] And uh, he's actually a fucking star in my opinion. Really? Like bro, I've never seen a, like a five year old who just being so on point. He's five? Five. Wow. Yeah. Kindergarten. That is crazy. Loves the tats. He didn't even let his mom wash him off. Really? He kept mom for a week, went to baseball practice with them. Wow. He's a legend.


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[Assistant] A lot of music, a lot of videos, just, just more, more finding myself, you know what I mean? And just helping, uh, helping express that to the world.


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[Assistant] You ran for a half hour. I mean, if I'm running, eventually you'll start sweating. At some point, but like walking around on a hot day in LA with a jacket and a beanie, high as fuck, I'm not sweating.


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[Assistant] Just think about it like this, you think thug sweats when he's wearing his shit?


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[Assistant] No. Damn. Next time you gotta think about- It comes with that salt rub and I never put it on there. Yo, you gotta go to Benachi Bop Eap, some shit, the hibachi shit, it's so good bro. With the truck or the actual restaurant?


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[Assistant] But you must get harassed all day. Everywhere you are.


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[Assistant] If I, if I, if I was a year, if it was a year and a half or two years ago and I saw you on Melrose, I'd be like, yo, Adam, check out my music, bro.


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[Assistant] I'll go with her. No, no, uh, let me.


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[Assistant] I couldn't see anyone. Must've scared them off. Feel like I've run for miles.


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[Assistant] That's not how it was, Laura. They caught me while you were getting Sam. What the hell is this about?


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[Assistant] Once Reyes finishes the vote, we'll be back to civilization in no time. And what a tale we'll have to tell.


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[Assistant] Secretary of the Treasury Paulson and the Chairman of the Fed, uh, came in and kind of dropped a bomb, uh, on the meeting.


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[Assistant] In this video, I'm going to talk to you about adjective order.


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[Assistant] In a sentence using more than one adjective to modify a noun. Now this is a very important topic.


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[Assistant] Because if you use more than one adjective to modify a noun, you have to follow a specific order. So you need to keep watching. Let's get started.


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[Assistant] It looks like a lot at first, but you will learn very fast and practice will help. Let's have a look together. first


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[Assistant] We will use the adjectives describing quality or giving your opinion like delicious, beautiful or good. Then we will talk about size. Adjectives like tall, short, big. Then comes age. Like old, young, new, twenty-year-old. Then comes shape. Adjectives like round or square.


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[Assistant] Then colour, red, green, blue. Origin, like Korean, Mexican or American. Material, like glass, gold or wooden. And finally, purpose adjectives like sport or coffee. Remember my cup from the first video.


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[Assistant] Well, we could say it's a great big old round white Korean plastic cup. So a great, giving my opinion, big the size, old the age, round for the shape, white the color, Korean for the origins, plastic for the material.


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[Assistant] That's the adjective order. I cannot break it. I have to follow it.


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[Assistant] Don't worry guys, most of the time you will only use one, maybe two or three adjectives in one sentence. But still, you have to follow this order.


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[Assistant] Let's now look together at a few sentences with multiple adjectives. For example,


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[Assistant] First, how many adjectives do you see in that sentence? I see two adjectives. Beautiful and young. The order is beautiful, your opinion, and then young, her age. Second example.


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[Assistant] I have dirty old running shoes. How many adjectives can you see? There are three. Dirty, your opinion. Old, the age.


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[Assistant] And running, which is a purpose adjective.


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[Assistant] Then we have, that's a hot green Korean pepper. How many adjectives? There are three adjectives. Hot, your opinion. Green, the colour. Korean, the origins. And finally, Canada is a nice large country. Two adjectives. Nice, for your opinion.


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[Assistant] Let's now review the sentences together for pronunciation. Please repeat after me.


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[Assistant] These beautiful young girls went to school.


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[Assistant] I have dirty old running shoes.


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[Assistant] That's a hot green Korean pepper.


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[Assistant] That's a hot green Korean pepper.


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[Assistant] Very nice. And finally, Canada is a nice large country.


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[Assistant] Canada is a nice large country.


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[Assistant] Good job, guys. Let's now move on to more practice.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, you are experts now. Time to move on to some extra practice. I have sentences for you. Some of them are correct. Some of them are not. And it's up to you to tell me. Let's have a look.


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[Assistant] She is a tall British woman.


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[Assistant] Now how many adjectives can you see in this sentence? I see two adjectives. And is the order correct? Tall?


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[Assistant] So it is correct. Yes, size comes before origins. She is a tall British woman. I have a red big ball. How many adjectives? Two.


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[Assistant] And is the order correct? Red is the color and big is the size. Well no, it isn't.


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[Assistant] It should be, I have a big red ball. Size comes before color. I got a gold new watch.


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[Assistant] Again, I suppose you know two adjectives. Gold for the material and new for the age.


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[Assistant] And age comes before material, so it should be, I got a new gold watch.


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[Assistant] My mother has red long hair. We have two adjectives. Red for the colour and long for the size.


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[Assistant] And size comes before color. So it should be, my mother has long red hair. And finally,


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[Assistant] This is a cute little white puppy. Three adjectives. Is the order correct? What do you think?


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[Assistant] Okay, guys. Thank you for watching this video. I hope this helped you understand adjective order.


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[Assistant] This is not that difficult. My students learn this order very quickly and I'm sure you will too.


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[Assistant] That's it for this video. I hope to see you in the next one. Bye.


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[Assistant] Just an old hut, but it feels familiar.


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[Assistant] So it's your person in the cargo hold. I finally came to.


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[Assistant] We're going after Vader. And the Rebels.


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[Assistant] But what makes people upset is that, I mean what, you know, a lot of the people that are on the streets demonstrating Occupy Wall Street, uh, is that the economy hasn't recovered, but banks have.


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[Assistant] You'd prefer not to do that, because then you can finance more freely, you can take on more debt.


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[Assistant] And the credit default swap was insuring, uhm, JP Morgan against default by those 306 entities. That's correct. Many of them Fortune 500 companies or other.


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[Assistant] How much were these things making for the bankers that were selling them?


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[Assistant] We'll paint some picture of that and the kind of money that people were making.


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[Assistant] But if you write a credit default swap, you don't have to have that same amount of money on hand.


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[Assistant] No disclosure. So you're saying it's a kind of under the table insurance agreement that avoids regulation?


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[Assistant] Right, okay. But you insure it and the credit agency says, hey, that's a good idea. Yes. Yes.


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[Assistant] In other words, some big banks simply didn't know what they had in terms of risk.


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[Assistant] So how is that different than betting on the outcome of the Super Bowl?


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[Assistant] What did your fellow bankers say to you when you told them that you thought this stuff was toxic?


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[Assistant] So lemme get this straight, you were, you were first to the party. You developed this tranching of stuff.


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[Assistant] To stop. Why did so many others keep going, marching towards the cliff?


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[Assistant] Did you feel there was an obligation on your part to tell them that, look, wake up, the markets are going down, maybe you should stop buying this crap?


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[Assistant] And since they were young, mostly in their twenties, and since there was plenty of money floating around and they were full of high spirits, they did what any young bunch of kids would do, and they got drunk, they had parties, they threw each other in pools. Uhm, you know, this is the normal stuff that happens at conferences.


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[Assistant] They began to look for ways to enable financial institutions to pass risk between them.


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[Assistant] One way to do that was to sell loans. Another way though was to separate out the risk of a loan going bad from the loan itself. And out of that came this drive to develop credit default swaps.


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[Assistant] Bankers borrowed one set of ideas that had been developed in the commodities market and applied it to loans for the first time. This idea was essentially created under the banner of making the financial system safer.


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[Assistant] Everyone was high-fiving. It seemed to be brilliant. The combination of free markets, innovation,


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[Assistant] And globalization appeared to have delivered this incredibly heady cocktail of tremendous growth.


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[Assistant] Their original idea had been taken and it turned into a Frankenstein monster which they never dreamt would become so big and spin out of control to that degree.


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[Assistant] Hey Kobe. Yes. Uh, can you elaborate on why you came out and said there will be no sweeping changes with this roster knowing damn well that the majority of your team is soft? I'm a gym. I'm a gym.


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[Assistant] Believe in me. Alright, bye, uh, I'ma come back.


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[Assistant] This tournament is more than a chance for personal glory. We are fighting for the very survival of Earthrealm.


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[Assistant] I hope we meet again under different circumstances.


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[Assistant] When you have a high interest rate, then you have high points, then you have prepayment penalties, when you have balloon payments, when you have adjustable rate mortgages, and when you layer those bad practices on top of a high interest rate, it becomes predatory.


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[Assistant] The world is still living with a lot of big unresolved problems.


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[Assistant] The stock market is on the rise and economic statistics turn encouraging.


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[Assistant] We will talk later, when you are in more of a mind to listen.


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[Assistant] Following you still. I know where you're going.


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[Assistant] I am ordered to prevent you from going there. And why is that? I do not question the Emperor's commands. Kitana, please turn back.


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[Assistant] I failed you Kitana. Now I will make amends.


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[Assistant] Now then, your highness, let us see how quickly we can remove these bonds. Jade, I... I am too.


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[Assistant] I am more of a sister to Kitana than you. I must find Raiden.


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[Assistant] Where is she? Held captive in the tower of Shalkhan's fortress.


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[Assistant] Methamphetamine, the most addictive illegal drug in America.


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[Assistant] Since Frontline first looked at meth back in 2005, new laws have been passed to control the key ingredients in the drug, which are also found in popular cold medicines.


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[Assistant] But now, the meth cooks have found a way around the laws, and the pharmaceutical industry is fighting to stop new controls.


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[Assistant] Tonight, Frontline, in association with the Oregonian, looks again at the meth epidemic to investigate a potential new cure and the battle raging over it.


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[Assistant] This is the story of an epidemic that has swept across America. An epidemic of methamphetamine abuse.


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[Assistant] It begins in Oregon, one of the places hit hardest by the epidemic.


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[Assistant] In 2006, inspired in part by the reporting aired in this front line,


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[Assistant] Most states limited consumers to just three boxes per purchase.


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[Assistant] But now, meth cooks are using a new recipe that requires as little as one box of cold medicine. They call the recipe Shake and Bake.


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[Assistant] When Frontline filmed here back in 2005, more than half of the inmates in Portland jails were meth users. Deputy Brett King's job was to book them.


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[Assistant] Shocked at the effect of meth on addicts who were being arrested over and over, King started collecting their booking photos.


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[Assistant] The Oregonian's editors decided to go after the story behind the story.


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[Assistant] How and why did the meth epidemic get so out of control?


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[Assistant] Reporter Steve Suo was assigned to the investigation.


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[Assistant] The number of addicts west of the Mississippi had risen dramatically. And by 2003, meth was starting to reach the east.


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[Assistant] Portland cop Travis Fields spends his days on the lookout for meth addicts because they commit 85% of the property crime in the state.


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[Assistant] This garage sale is part of a meth crime wave. It's run by a meth dealer.


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[Assistant] That role belongs to the children and spouses of meth addicts.


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[Assistant] In 2005, 50% of the children in foster care in Oregon were there because of meth.


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[Assistant] Many of them were sent to see pediatrician Carol Chervonek.


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[Assistant] With families and communities across the state being devastated by meth.


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[Assistant] Oregon began the nation's most innovative treatment program. But does treatment work for meth addicts?


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[Assistant] Reporter Steve Suo tried to find an answer by comparing Oregon's program with those of other states.


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[Assistant] But what the numbers revealed was something quite different.


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[Assistant] And so unexpected that Suoh thought he'd made a mistake. In every state,


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[Assistant] The number of people entering rehab rose and fell in unison, even though the states had radically different programs.


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[Assistant] Then Suoh compared the number of arrests and emergency room admissions in those states, and he found the same pattern.


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[Assistant] Over the years, there had been huge simultaneous spikes in Matthews, and then huge fall-offs.


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[Assistant] Sewell became obsessed with figuring out why.


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[Assistant] The answers lay in the very chemistry of the brain of a meth addict.


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[Assistant] SUO learned about the neuroscience of meth from Dr. Richard Rosson of UCLA.


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[Assistant] The research showing that meth might be the most addictive drug there is suggested to Steve Suo that one of the few things that might explain the eerily consistent rise and fall in the number of addicts was if the meth itself were changing.


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[Assistant] For instance, what if the purity of the meth on the nation's streets had been rising and falling?


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[Assistant] To find out if he was on to something, Suo gathered data on the purity of the meth seized by the government in various states over the years. Remarkably,


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[Assistant] The purity of the meth sold on American streets formed the pattern of the mountains.


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[Assistant] Suho's groundbreaking discovery was that it was the change in the purity of the meth that addicts were using that had caused the rise and fall in the severity of the epidemic over the years.


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[Assistant] But the solution of one mystery only produced an even greater one.


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[Assistant] What powerful forces could account for such dramatic changes in the purity of meth?


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[Assistant] Uncovering the answer would require a journey back in time through the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of the pharmaceutical industry, and the meth labs of the drug cartels, and the biker gangs of the 60s.


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[Assistant] With music heralding the birth of a wild new counterculture, a generation began experimenting with drugs, and amphetamine, or speed, became a favorite of truckers, bikers, and college students.


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[Assistant] But in the 80s, a new kind of supercharged speed came on the scene, demethamphetamine, better known as crystal meth.


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[Assistant] Unlike other hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.


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[Assistant] Crystal meth can be made from household products. The only essential ingredient is ephedrine, or its cousin pseudoephedrine, found in many cold medicines.


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[Assistant] Amateur cooks began mixing up batches of this highly addictive drug in kitchens across the west. But a kitchen cook can only produce a small amount of meth.


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[Assistant] So some in drug enforcement were convinced there was a chance to stop the spread of meth before it became an epidemic.


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[Assistant] In fact, there was a man in Washington DC who had a plan for putting the meth cooks out of business. His name was Gene Hayslip.


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[Assistant] And in 1986, he was the number three man at the DEA.


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[Assistant] Hayslip's strategy for beating the meth cooks was inspired by his recent victory over another drug. Quaaludes.


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[Assistant] In the early 80s, Hayslip discovered that Quaaludes were made from a powder so chemically sophisticated that the Colombian cartels selling Quaaludes couldn't make it themselves, but had to buy it from legally operated factories.


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[Assistant] And so, Hayslip traveled around the world, convincing the government of every country with a factory that made the chemical in Quaaludes to shut it down.


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[Assistant] Just like Queludes, the key ingredients in meth are so chemically sophisticated, they can only be made by a few large manufacturers.


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[Assistant] And so Hayslip was confident that with a new chemical control law for ammunition, he could regulate those chemicals and beat meth.


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[Assistant] Republican Senator Bob Dole introduced a bill to require distributors of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to check the identities of their customers and to make their sales records available to the DEA. But the bill immediately ran into trouble.


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[Assistant] For while nobody had been making much money selling prescription Quaaludes, the pharmaceutical industry was making billions of dollars selling cold medicine over the counter. To industry executives like Alan Rexinger, Hayslip and the DEA were out of control.


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[Assistant] Hayslip was summoned to a meeting of Reagan administration officials and industry lobbyists at the old executive office building next door to the White House.


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[Assistant] And the White House made it clear that it expected him to work out a deal.


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[Assistant] Kslip decided he had no choice but to agree to the loophole.


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[Assistant] Beating meth was not going to be as easy as Jean Hayslip had hoped. Industry was opposed to regulation. Congress was far more worried about cocaine. And worst of all,


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[Assistant] The meth cooks were about to dramatically increase production.


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[Assistant] Bob Pennell was in charge of the Fresno Meth Task Force. One of his jobs was to check out remote locations in California's Central Valley to see if they might be home to meth super labs.


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[Assistant] On this day, he spots an abandoned barn with a mobile home beside it. An ideal location for a lab. And he decides to take a closer look.


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[Assistant] Using night vision goggles and infrared spotlights.


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[Assistant] Pennell and his agents plan to sneak up undetected to the barn and see if there's any sign that it's being used to cook meth.


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[Assistant] Stealth is essential to penal, because super lab cooks can slip into an abandoned barn, whip up a batch of meth in under 48 hours, and then vanish.


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[Assistant] And if they suspect that Pennell has his eye on one of their favorite sites, they'll use a different barn for their next cook.


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[Assistant] Pennell and his men secretly plant hidden cameras at prime sites like this one.


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[Assistant] Penel's cameras captured this super lab cook on film.


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[Assistant] The containers are full of ephedrine being cooked into meth.


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[Assistant] Beginning in 1989, four out of every five hits of meth consumed in the U.S. were cooked in super labs in the Central Valley.


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[Assistant] The drug kingpins who turned meth into big business were the Amescua brothers of Mexico.


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[Assistant] But no supermarket in the world could sell the Mezcua as the tons of ephedrine their operation required. So where were they getting it?


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[Assistant] There was enough raw material to make 10 million hits of meth.


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[Assistant] Krabs was one of just nine factories that manufactured almost all of the world's ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.


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[Assistant] But while the US government was spending billions trying to control heroin and cocaine, meth was such a low priority.


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[Assistant] That no one was bothering to monitor who was shopping at the nine factories that make the key ingredients in meth.


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[Assistant] During one 18-month period in the early 1990s.


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[Assistant] The Amezcua brothers purchased 170 tons of ephedrine from the nine factories and shipped it into the United States.


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[Assistant] Where it was turned into two billion hits of meth.


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[Assistant] The meth on America's streets was suddenly cheap, plentiful, and most important, remarkably pure.


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[Assistant] And soon the addiction rate skyrocketed, creating the first great spike of American meth abuse.


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[Assistant] With the cooperation of companies like Krebs, the DEA put an end to the Amazco brothers' Indian connection.


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[Assistant] Soon the superlabs in California's Central Valley began running out of ephedrine, and the purity of the meth on America's streets began to plunge.


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[Assistant] The impact of that decline can be measured not just in statistics, but in lives.


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[Assistant] When the purity of the meth on the street falls, not only do fewer first-time users become addicted,


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[Assistant] But those who are addicted find it easier to get clean.


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[Assistant] And that gives places like On Track and its director Rita Sullivan a chance.


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[Assistant] In early 1996, meth purity was the lowest it had been in years. The Indian connection was broken.


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[Assistant] And Congress had finally given the DEA the power to regulate the ephedrine in cold medicine. But there was a catch.


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[Assistant] The pharmaceutical industry was willing to compromise on ephedrine, as long as Congress didn't regulate pseudoephedrine.


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[Assistant] The drug from which it was making by far the most money.


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[Assistant] When it comes to math, the two chemicals are interchangeable.


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[Assistant] With Superlab cooks turning pseudoephedrine pills into meth around the clock.


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[Assistant] The purity of the meth on American streets began rising dramatically once more, creating the second mountain of meth abuse.


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[Assistant] The number of states where Matthews was reaching epidemic proportions was increasing. The epidemic had begun to spread from west to east.


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[Assistant] But it still hadn't reached across the Mississippi, and most politicians remained ignorant of the threat.


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[Assistant] Congress's attitude made controlling pseudoephedrine difficult.


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[Assistant] In 1996, when Gene Hayslip pushed through a regulation requiring a license to sell pseudoephedrine pills,


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[Assistant] Congress suspended the rule at the urging of the pharmaceutical industry.


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[Assistant] Companies licensed by the government were making millions selling pseudoephedrine to the superlabs.


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[Assistant] The DEA effort to track down the bogus companies was halting and underfunded. But by the time the agency shut down the last of them, the purity of the meth on the streets had plunged.


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[Assistant] Once again, the meth cooks in the Central Valley began to grow desperate.


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[Assistant] Then, Bob Pennell noticed something very unusual.


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[Assistant] It was two years before the DEA discovered that the mystery pills were being smuggled into the country from Quebec.


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[Assistant] The DEA and the Canadian government uncovered the Canadian connection and shut it down.


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[Assistant] Smurfing, an act of desperation for the superlabs, had long been the main source of pseudoephedrine for kitchen meth cooks. To put an end to it,


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[Assistant] Legislators in Oregon in 2003 resurrected the ideas similar to what Hayslip had proposed nearly 20 years before.


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[Assistant] Requiring buyers of products with pseudoephedrine to register at the store counter.


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[Assistant] But the pharmaceutical industry continued to oppose such steps.


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[Assistant] Steve Robbins is an executive at Pfizer, the makers of Sudafed.


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[Assistant] Rob Bovet was a leading supporter of the Oregon legislation to put cold medicines behind the counter.


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[Assistant] Finally, in 2004, Oklahoma passed a law moving pseudoephedrine behind the counter.


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[Assistant] Then Oregon followed suit and some national chains took the same step voluntarily.


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[Assistant] But the Mexican drug cartels had by then found a far better source of pseudoephedrine close to home.


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[Assistant] Mexican pharmaceutical companies legally imported 224 tons of pseudoephedrine. Twice as much as they were using to make cold medicine.


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[Assistant] The cartels cooked the extra 100 tons of pseudoephedrine into meth.


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[Assistant] Then smuggled it like other drugs across the border into the US. As a result,


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[Assistant] The meth on American streets was suddenly as pure as it had ever been.


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[Assistant] For the Mexican drug cartels, making meth in Mexico had an added bonus.


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[Assistant] They could use their traditional smuggling routes to bring meth to a huge new market. The Eastern United States.


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[Assistant] The first to be affected were small towns throughout the southeast.


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[Assistant] Congress in 2006 passed the Combat Meth Act.


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[Assistant] Which mandated that pseudoephedrine be put behind the counter nationwide and that buyers register at the store counter.


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[Assistant] In addition, the United States government, motivated in part by Steve Sewell's reporting, convinced countries around the world to limit their imports of pseudoephedrine to just the amount they needed to make cold medicine.


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[Assistant] Now, five years later, the positive impact of that action is clear, especially in Mexico.


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[Assistant] With the Mexican cartels unable to get their hands on pseudoephedrine, the potency of the meth being smuggled into the US has plunged dramatically.


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[Assistant] But just as they always have before, the meth cooks have found a new way to get pseudoephedrine.


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[Assistant] Today, former cook Robert Lucier is clean after spending time in jail.


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[Assistant] But not long ago, he was running a gang of super smurfers.


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[Assistant] Meth cooks like Lucier then use the shake and bake method to turn the pseudoephedrine acquired from super smurfing into extraordinarily pure meth.


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[Assistant] For nearly 30 years, the United States has been caught in a cycle of new laws, followed by new strategies by the cooks to get around them.


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[Assistant] Some of those who experienced the worst of the epidemic say they've finally found the cure. To make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug.


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[Assistant] In 2004, before the change in the law, sheriff's deputies uncovered 64 meth labs in Multnomah County, Oregon. In 2010, after the change, they found one.


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[Assistant] To Deputy Brett King, who showed us these faces of meth years ago, what matters most is the number of lives saved.


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[Assistant] But with other states now considering adopting Oregon's approach, the pharmaceutical industry is spending millions of dollars lobbying against it.


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[Assistant] They favor an improved system of tracking purchases.


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[Assistant] The industry's fight against regulation emphasizes the cost to consumers. But for proponents of the Oregon model, the costs of inaction are greater.


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[Assistant] No one knows better what those stakes are than those who have been addicted to meth.


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[Assistant] Ill-mates. Less ugly when they burn.


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[Assistant] They experience it as an inability to experience pleasure. Everything feels kind of gray and hopeless and nothing feels good.


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[Assistant] And so in their mind, the only way they're going to feel better is to take more methamphetamine, and hence you have relapse and people going back to using. So wonder any meth users ever get better.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Andy. Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel so you can see more awesome videos. Like videos of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things. Like ball peen hammer. And also some videos of Ellen and other celebrities. If you're into that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, is that what you call it? Yes. The turnip. Is that a wig or is that you just cut it down?


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[Assistant] The end of last year. That was it. For the whole thing or just for your part of it?


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[Assistant] You finished it, winter was coming too, winter never came.


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[Assistant] Does anybody, is there a particular actor who really screws around at the table read? You! You're the-


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[Assistant] Queen Cersei, rap, that's a series rap. What happens at that moment?


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[Assistant] Did you behave weird when you were a teenager living in that house?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's about Paige who was WWE wrestler.


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[Assistant] Well, it's great to see you. Will you please tell those guys, David and Dan, to hurry up with the show? Yes. I mean, I can't wait till April.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Jimmy Kimmel. I hope you enjoyed that video. Hit subscribe and all your dreams will come true, assuming your dreams are to watch more YouTube videos.


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[Assistant] We Britons lived in peace under the rule of the old Roman chieftain. But this new chieftain Commodus, son of your king, is evil. He deserves the fate that he is suffering.


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[Assistant] Chieftain Commodus was traded to the Horned King in the Northern Lands.


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[Assistant] You will find your chieftain in darkness beyond the wall.


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[Assistant] Horned men from ancient times roamed this land, and of those who venture there, few return.


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[Assistant] Highness Commodus, all we ask is that my people are treated with fairness. Treated as equals.


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[Assistant] So that all may live in peace. So that we all


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[Assistant] He won't get a chance to. See around here, we exterminate rats.


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[Assistant] So if you can do some things for us, you know, go out, burn some equipment.


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[Assistant] Short out some radios. Mess with some cameras. You do that. Then you got yourself a deal.


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[Assistant] Hey Annie, I just got a distress signal from Angel. Uh, you made it back. Don't sound so surprised.


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[Assistant] Angel said there's a computer recording of the attacks on the civilians over at the police station. It's from all the security cameras.


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[Assistant] Mhm, but first we gotta get to Angel. She thinks they found out her position.


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[Assistant] Alright, Angel's on the second floor by the pool of a hotel in Central City. You go to the police station to handle that, and then you meet us there. Got that?


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[Assistant] You alright, Nick? You alright? Come on, Annie. We gotta get the angel. I'll keep you safe.


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[Assistant] Justice isn't gonna bring Angel back. It's not gonna bring any of us back. Sometimes I don't even know why we bother fighting.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm sorry for the attitude earlier. It's just really hard to know who you can trust. I'm gonna go meet with my contacts. I'm gonna go get that fuel for you, but I need you to do me a favor. Meet me at the tower in a couple of hours, okay? And then I'll hook you up with the fuel, and then we'll all get out of this hellhole, together. Alright?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go look for Annie and the others. Let's meet up at the karaoke bar in Sunset Hills later, okay? Where's the fuel? It's at Central Storage down on the freeway, under the bridge. Parked just inside. You can't miss it.


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[Assistant] Alright now, we cannot sacrifice everyone else, okay? Alright? So be ready when I get back.


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[Assistant] One of the family, huh? No. Family of one, Nick. Just like you.


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[Assistant] Everybody got some shit. Everybody gets shit. I wanted it to be my time! We read about one thing.


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[Assistant] The information from the cameras. You have it? All of it?


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[Assistant] Why don't you?


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, I just, I saw what it was doing you, the pressure to keep me unregistered and to find zombricks all the time. It wrecks people, that drug. I didn't want to burden you anymore.


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[Assistant] Our goal is to stop illegal pseudo-ephedrine sales while maintaining the over-the-counter access for legitimate customers.


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[Assistant] Maintaining access to non-prescription pseudoephedrine is important because for many consumers it is the ingredient that works best for them.


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[Assistant] A prescription mandate would be more expensive for consumers.


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[Assistant] Can't kick, Richie. If things don't go your way, you always just resort to blackmail.


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[Assistant] They have effectively rated pension funds. The pension was used basically as a piggy bank.


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[Assistant] Your state pensions to cover the budget shortfall. It's hard to just do it the one time.


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[Assistant] I've been writing for 20 years now about the state's pension system and it's been, you know, sort of a slow motion car crash.


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[Assistant] They realize nobody's paying attention. I think they get a little bolder about it. And they realize, no one's looking, I can do this.


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[Assistant] Arahawk was one of the first sort of alternative investments as we call it, where we had these third-party middlemen.


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[Assistant] It would come to Kentucky Retirement Systems and introduce KRS to these, uh, alternative investments.


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[Assistant] They came to KRS and said, you should be putting your money in these funds.


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[Assistant] Apparently unbeknownst to us, the placement agents were being paid fees, so they were compensated very generously for us giving our business to these funds.


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[Assistant] The lead placement agent for Aerohawk was a fellow from New York named Glenn Surgeon.


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[Assistant] Governor Bevin is doing what no governor has done for at least 15, 16 years, which is fully fund the arc again. And that's no small achievement. And it really is starving much of the rest of the state budget.


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[Assistant] That isn't what's controversial. What's controversial is he's saying we can't really afford to keep pensions going, so teachers, from this point forward, teachers won't get pensions in Kentucky anymore.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Democrats hadn't had a chance to read it, the Teachers Association, the public, the press, nobody else knew what was in there, and this thing's about to become law.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so a lot of people in my family have been locked up. My big brother been locked up. My daddy. My uncles been to prison. Yeaah, my daddy. And my granny.


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[Assistant] My momma was locked up. My daddy, my cousins, or my momma and my daddy's had most of them been locked up. I got uncles, brothers, everybody.


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[Assistant] I got 11 charges. Who gets 11 charges at the age of 14?


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[Assistant] I just got a short temper. It's like my anger be taking over. I'm not on that.


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[Assistant] When people get on butt with me, I just can't let nobody talk crazy to me. Like I feel like I gotta say something back.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ms. Collins, can I please go to my mama's grave site on Sunday for her birthday?


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[Assistant] I wrote a prayer. It's my prayer to God.


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[Assistant] I pray to you God. Just please help me. I don't know who I am anymore. I need your help.


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[Assistant] I am ready to die. I want to do it myself. That's why I need you. So I know where I belong.


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[Assistant] I'm a lying, evil, crazy, pathetic problem child.


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[Assistant] And I'm so ready to go and if I should go to hell, then that's where I was meant to be.


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[Assistant] It's confusing. You get chained up. Like I'm a criminal. I'm in here with people for robbery and other stuff.


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[Assistant] I just got locked up. I left the group home, but the police found me and beat the tires.


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[Assistant] I was heartbroken when I got put in here because I felt like I was getting torn apart.


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[Assistant] They have effectively raided pension funds.


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[Assistant] And by raiding, it means they just simply have not made the payments that they are morally required to make to fund the retirement promises that they've made.


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[Assistant] So instead of making those payments, they've used that money for roads, schools, things that are important, but that other tax revenues are not funding. And the thing is is that the bill will come due. The bill will come due.


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[Assistant] The world of pensions is a world of money. And if you really want to dig around the heart of power, of economic power in the United States, that's where much of the money on Wall Street is from.


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[Assistant] The public doesn't necessarily view pensions as giant pools of money.


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[Assistant] Retirees, I think rightfully, don't want to accept cuts to benefits that they were promised.


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[Assistant] To pay out benefits to people who have been promised those benefits.


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[Assistant] 100% real beef is a fact. Here at Cargill, we produce all of the beef patties from McDonald's Canada. There are no additives, no fillers, just Canadian beef.


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[Assistant] We are talking about the retirement of 350,000 plus individuals and we're also talking about a matter which quite frankly could bankrupt the state. There is so much that we don't know. I'm trying to find out.


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[Assistant] Look, if they're proud of what they do and their business model and how they do it, well then stand up and tell the world about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, with the threat of some jail time and a small donation to keep Trina off the streets fund, she couldn't give Richie up fast enough.


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[Assistant] Hey, I've been trying to come up with a reason not to kill Richie.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well the guy who hit Zack and let me take the fall, who does that sound like to you?


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[Assistant] You know, little bits and pieces of Richie all across America and Zack Slater behind bars. I would pay to see that.


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[Assistant] In 2013, pensions had moved to the forefront. I think people started to realize we let this debt get out of control.


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[Assistant] That's not a fact! She's very good at what she does. Okay, strange woman, why did Florida declare a state of emergency?


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[Assistant] If you didn't want tourists, why did you spend 5 million dollars on tourism ads? Miami did that. Not Miami Beach. Are they not the same thing? Oh god no.


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[Assistant] I know there are a lot of rumblings about taking on all of these refugees, but for what it's worth, I do think it was a good thing.


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[Assistant] 22 marines were killed in the assault. There's not enough resources to care for all of our wounded.


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


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[Assistant] Frontline's Prison State is available on DVD. To order, visit ShopPBS.org or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS.


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[Assistant] These people would be gathered, transported, and then they would be killed. The idea would be to kill them.


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[Assistant] There were people within that group, according to at least one witness, who thought that that moment of the collapse of the public order might be a good opportunity to get rid of some political enemies.


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[Assistant] There was a kind of pivotal meeting at a highway truck stop where a handful of people


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[Assistant] Including Marco, the police sniper, a couple of reservists,


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[Assistant] The lawyer and the other police officer in particular were mentioning, uh, or were asking questions of the reservists who had access to military


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[Assistant] Uhm, transport it and then they would be killed. The idea would be to kill them.


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[Assistant] And after many hours of interrogation, they let him go, but they fingerprinted him. They realized...


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[Assistant] These fingerprints weren't registered to a military officer, they were registered to a Syrian refugee. At which point, they really did get concerned. And the intelligence service got involved, and, uh, the prosecutors, the federal prosecutors got involved.


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[Assistant] They believe that he had created this fake refugee identity in order to commit an attack.


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[Assistant] That would then be blamed on a refugee and trigger some kind of crisis that would be big enough certainly to affect government policy on migration and possibly affect the stability of the state, bring down, bring down the republic.


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[Assistant] The most compelling evidence is a kind of audio diary of his thoughts, if you will.


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[Assistant] A voice memo from the 3rd of July 2015. Hitler is above all things. Above all things. Hitler is a creator of honest work. Anything that makes Hitler bad is a lie.


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[Assistant] So that's what he said about Hitler, which sounds very damning. He said it was all ingest and just a joke. When I was listening to the audio, I wasn't entirely convinced that it was just a joke.


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[Assistant] We are driving through the mountains and then we're gonna go for a druid, an old shaman place where they've been working down in a cave and we're gonna do a drum travel down to Mother Earth from there. Uuuh, very nice.


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[Assistant] He has a right-wing mindset. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] And so if a soldier like this with his, uh, military education holds this amount of ammunition and also two kilos of like highly explosive material from the army, that is raising alarm bells.


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[Assistant] What we all think why he hit this was, and that is what these guys talked about in their chat groups, was, you know, some sort of private cache if something happens here, if we want to or if we need to take control of the streets or whatever.


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[Assistant] So the possible, the danger is immense.


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[Assistant] His military leaders, they came as witnesses in the court.


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[Assistant] They said he was the role model of a good soldier. He was like one of the best of us. I mean, it's quite shocking, especially when you think about these witnesses knew what he did. I think at least, I mean, it gave me the shivers, but


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, is this a counter-terrorist operation or a Saint's Flow shoot? I'm shy. I'll show you how to come. Follow me.


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[Assistant] My tech guy bought us a ten minute window. If we move fast, we'll only need to worry about the guards on foot.


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[Assistant] I keep failing. Over and over. I keep failing at my job. It doesn't matter if it's evil you or a 50 foot soda can. When the fate of the world rests on your shoulders, you can't afford failure. And that, that is my hell.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone. So, where do I begin? This month has been a lot of everything. Happiness, sorrow, hard work, inner peace.


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[Assistant] If you have been following me for some time, you might know that Sinak is my parents' dog, and he has been like a brother to Nanook. They grew up together in this village.


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[Assistant] It's been feeling so empty without him. You can really sense that a soul is missing here in this village. I miss hearing him bark in the evenings and I miss him meeting me with a shoe in his mouth every time I go visit my parents.


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[Assistant] My coworker Adrian was going to help me with this whole project, since he have a lot of knowledge when it comes to van conversions. I didn't even know that as he started working with me in November, so this was like a huge bonus.


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[Assistant] So when we're gonna do stuff that needs to be in level, like the bed, we need to drive to the main road. And I'm gonna, you know, stop the car in the middle of the main road and hope that no, not the car will come.


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[Assistant] It was really nice to spend my days at home again and continue with the van build. I was going to make some doors for all the cupboards in the van. Something that was a lot harder than I thought. But wow, I've learned so much when it comes to working with wood during these weeks.


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[Assistant] The doors are far away from perfect, but I did the best I could and I think they look really nice.


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[Assistant] Then it was time to start painting. I wanted to keep the beautiful wooden look inside. So I chose white paint that I mixed with a lot of water to make it really thin. In that way I could keep the light fresh wooden look inside and prevent the wood from turning dark yellow.


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[Assistant] During these days as I was working with Van, the summer really came alive. And so did the mosquitoes.


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[Assistant] Hello my sweethearts! So uhm, it's Friday evening, it's 10.15 in the, in the night or in the evening and the sun is still up. Which is wonderful.


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[Assistant] Me and Nanook just went out in the forest a little bit. I just took the van.


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[Assistant] So this bed, eh, you know, is a couch in the day, and it's also enough for me alone to sleep.


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[Assistant] Under the bed I just have a lot of storage because that's really needed. I always bring a lot of stuff with me when I go on road trips and it's good to be able to keep the van as clean as possible. And up here I'm gonna have chargers for my camera. Hey Nanook, you're so cute.


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[Assistant] So this is perfect because then I can still, you know, have the doors open in the night or in the evenings.


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[Assistant] And still there won't be any mosquitoes that come in, or I don't hope so at least. So, I hope you like the van.


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[Assistant] Teaching. It's not an easy job, unless you're a gym teacher. Because then you're allowed to hit the kids.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, they call it dodgeable, but we all know the truth. Anyway, too often, educators in America are not compensated fairly, which is why this happens.


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[Assistant] Teachers in the nation's second largest school district are striking. So if you're in L.A., expect to hear some grammatically correct chants. What do we want? More pay. From whom do we s- once said pay? One at a time, please. Raise your hands.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie. It's hard not to be on the teacher's side in this dispute. Firstly, because I don't think teachers ever get paid enough. And secondly, they're also asking for more school counselors and one nurse per school. That's like the most reasonable list of demands I've ever heard.


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[Assistant] Moving on, some news on Instagram. It's where anyone can be a model. You know, all you need is an ass and a dream. And now, there's a new Insta-Star.


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[Assistant] So, congratulations, Egg. You are the new champion of social media. I hope you enjoy your time at the top because soon you will find out that Instagram fame is over easy.


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[Assistant] Moving on to some news from China. They've not been having a good time recently, right? Their economy is in trouble, their infrastructure is crumbling, and their generals haven't invented a new chicken recipe in like 50 years. But over the weekend, they got some good news that sent them over the moon.


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[Assistant] That's right, China just became the first nation to land on the dark side of the moon. And this is a big deal, because this is a side of the moon that we never get to see. Unless you give it a few drinks and bring up its ex-wife, then the moon gets dark real quick.


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[Assistant] And I know, I know it may be a difficult concept to grasp, but basically, right, because of the way the moon rotates as it circles the planet, there's a whole side of the moon that we've never seen from Earth. It's like the left side of Mariah Carey's face. Yeah? It's never facing us. We don't know what's on the other side. So the question, the question now is,


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[Assistant] All right, and finally, big news from the world of sports. The Saints, the Rams, the Chiefs, and the Patriots are all moving on to the conference championships. And while these teams are moving on, Chicago is stuck in the past.


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[Assistant] Behind you! Johnny! Help! Ooh! Ha ha ha ha! Ow! Johnny! Help! Uh, you wanna? Come here!


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[Assistant] Armand, I'm guessing this is the image that you're referring to. It's an image that often gets associated with McDonald's, and it's a question that we get a lot. We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our chicken McNuggets. But I want you to see for yourself. So that's why we're here today at Cargill, Canada, to see how our chicken McNuggets are made.


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[Assistant] You think America can't find you? No need General.


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[Assistant] I know why you're here. Believe it or not, I once walked in your shoes before.


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[Assistant] Want you to go home. I want all your troops to go home.


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[Assistant] I was raised to believe that one man could change the future. Do you believe that?


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[Assistant] Don't give me problems, give me solutions. Give me an update on the hostages.


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[Assistant] Just relax, relax. It's not your decision to make. The only thing you have to choose is how much it hurts before you do what you're asked.


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[Assistant] What is wrong with you? He's gonna bleed to death! Pass me that tunic, eh?


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[Assistant] Or, he will take those fingers. He will take your toes.


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[Assistant] Careful. There are snipers out there just waiting for you to make a stupid mistake.


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[Assistant] The best thing is, you can control everything from right here or from your opsat when you're on the ground.


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[Assistant] He's a monster, he's a fucking ghoul, okay? And he doesn't leave loose ends. Yikes.


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[Assistant] I pulled the NCTC data on all major US cities to scope out any hits in the no-fly list.


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[Assistant] I ran the passenger names of incoming flights against the missing no-fly list manually. Six names pop. Now check this out.


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[Assistant] Security cam feed from O'Hare airport. Those six guys left together.


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[Assistant] You hacked Walter Reed? Wow, it's only hacking if you have to try. Charlie. Right, the news. That's good stuff.


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[Assistant] He's doing better. Even opened his eyes for a couple of minutes. I thought you'd want to know.


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[Assistant] It was executed when we gutted the tablets and picked up a mirror.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, uh, they won't take our call. They what? Look, hang on. I got the president's aid.


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[Assistant] A client contacted me, he wanted, uh, small arms, a fucking missile launcher, you name it. He was willing to pay top dollar, too. It was a good deal, it was too good.


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[Assistant] The rest is human. Indeed. But the artifact is reaching out to them.


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[Assistant] You came here to study the planet, instead.


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[Assistant] Something on the planet is studying you.


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[Assistant] There were many reasons behind the choices we had to make. Psychological and physiological.


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[Assistant] And does it help you, help your grief, being here on Requiem, shooting at, what do they call them, Prometheans?


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[Assistant] Stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. I'm simply curious what gifts, if any, the Promethean life forms have to offer.


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[Assistant] Oh my. Doctor. A moment please.


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[Assistant] That is not ancient. That is the attack on Earth from six months ago.


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[Assistant] And offer data that might advance our research by years. This is a research mission, after all. Even if you treat it like a live fire war game.


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[Assistant] Roll in, tell the guards outside that Captain Alasky has requested my presence in his ready room. And block all further communications.


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[Assistant] And patch this terminal into the com systems infiltrated by the artifact.


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[Assistant] That was before I knew my compatriots were a hit squad, not a rescue team. Not that I fared much better in your care.


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[Assistant] The UNSC just tried to execute me.


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[Assistant] So you'll need to offer something other than idle threats if you want me to help you.


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[Assistant] You guys are getting all the cool stuff.


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[Assistant] Ahhhh. What's this?


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[Assistant] It would take me hours to say all of their names.


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[Assistant] If you enjoyed this video, make sure you like, comment, and share. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook by clicking these buttons. And remember, more subscribes, more buzz, so make sure you subscribe.


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[Assistant] Such a frail thing. You would hardly think them a threat.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I think most people do it out of like, hey look at me, I most definitely have a motive every time I do something.


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[Assistant] And then when I did it as an actual quote unquote like white man, people was like, yo I rock with this dude now. Really? I was like, wait, so y'all like the white me and not the black me?


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[Assistant] We in an era where like, maybe some people didn't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think people are like taking every drug in the world. Like things don't look as clear to some people.


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[Assistant] I'm Gray Street affiliated. Okay. Uhm, my family's from Gray Street.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I was born and raised. You feel me? Like I was born and, well, I was raised in, in Jordan. So, like, I'm affiliated by...


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[Assistant] That's where I was raised. When you in LA, people don't ask you where you from, they ask you where you live. Right.


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[Assistant] And if you live over there, you from over there, like it ain't no way around it.


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[Assistant] And that nobody downtown is from downtown. Because there's no children in downtown. Yeaah, you just out the mix. But when you in the mix, people go, where you from? You be like, I don't bang. You be like, where you live?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, like, so before I get into like, a lot of like, who I've become now, like, I want to give a big shout out to my brother from another mother, Mickey Fats. Oh, really? Are you familiar with Mickey Fats? I am, but I didn't know you had anything to do with him. Yeaah, we're like, super tight. Okay. But uhm, Mickey Fats is actually the birth.


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[Assistant] Of trolling daylight. Really? Is the birth of it. He put you on.


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[Assistant] He didn't necessarily put me on, he probably created something that he didn't try to create.


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[Assistant] Battle rap, like if you haven't seen this, if you want to watch like pre troll daylight, like pre comedy daylight, you have to watch my very first battle back to the battle rap scene, which was daylight versus Philly Swing.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, and that's when I was like, I didn't know what trolling was, so I was-


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[Assistant] Like, right, like a lot of people see happy daylight, like, oh daylight is a clown, you know, but like- But this is something you've grown into. This is before that, so-


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[Assistant] After I battled Philly Swain, you know, and this is when I'm like trying to move up my rank in battle rap. So, I get in all the little battle rap forums and shit like that, and I'm like, yo, I kill anybody, like whoever want it.


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[Assistant] I see this guy named Mickey Fats. There was a prior, I didn't really know who he was, but I'm like, and Mickey Fats like, you're whack.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, what do you mean I'm whack? So alright.


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[Assistant] You said this or you said this online? No, I said this online. Okay. So he's like, you're wack, bruh. Twitter was the platform at the time? No, it was on Facebook. Okay. Wow. Yeah, so like a group inside of Facebook, like a battle rap group inside of Facebook.


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[Assistant] I wasn't. You weren't irrelevant. I wasn't. I was relevant in the battle rap scene, but like I wasn't. Like shit had groans, like shit, it was all URL, it was all type of shit popping up. You weren't just a brain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm like, what are you talking about? So Mickey start, he started finding wack battle rappers and saying they were better than me. Like he would purposely find Johnny, Johnny Bravo, the battle rapper.


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[Assistant] Two views in Kansas and be like, he's better than you.


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[Assistant] So Miggy's trolling me for like years, right? Years, and for years I'm just like...


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[Assistant] Is it about talent or is it about views? Like what, what is it really about?


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[Assistant] And he told me like, bro, if you don't got the views, nobody cares. I was like, oh, it's about views, about clicks. Okay.


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[Assistant] Cause it was a little early on. Now everyone knows that. This was early. This was like 2007ish. You feel me? This was early. Okay. So I'm like...


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[Assistant] What are y'all talk, like, so then I start seeing what's happening and everybody's like, then you get people that'll walk up to you like, I don't care if you better than me, I got, I got a hundred million views, like, and I'm like, what the fuck are y'all talking about, like, I don't,


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[Assistant] So uhm, like I said, a lot of people don't know this, Crooked Eye and my older brother, like, they grew up rapping together. Really? Yeah, so I've, like, if I had to say that I followed somebody, and that y'all are familiar with, other than my older brother,


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[Assistant] And Crooked Eye tell you my older brother is extremely lyrical. Crooked Eye is a f-


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[Assistant] But him and my, him and my brother grew up rapping together like that. Okay. So if I, if I had... Weird, cause I interviewed him last night. Yeah, if I had to point at somebody that I, I can say that, that y'all know, I would say I went down the crooked-eyed path. Like I was like, that, that's what impressed me coming up. Like I wasn't, coming up, I wasn't a fan of West Coast music.


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[Assistant] I was an early, early Ice Cube fan. Like early when he was like message rapping, you feel me?


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[Assistant] I was a DJ Quik fan. I think DJ Quik is an extremely lyrical west coast artist that didn't really get the credit. Uhm, but like as west coast rap grew, it just didn't impress me anymore. Like, you know, like I skipped past the whole jerk movement, the ratchet movement, the dougie move. I was out, bro.


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[Assistant] He's the only one that beat the, the, the West Coast stereotype. You know what I mean? Like, he's the only one that made it into the lyrical category, like, of the mainstream rappers.


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[Assistant] Even with Kendrick, like, I think, like, he sacrificed a lot for where he's become now. Like, he did kinda what I'm doing now, which is, like, he set out that whole wave.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, I know Kendrick from back. Like, you know, I know Kate. I watch a lot of, you know what I mean? Like, he's been in the same circles as us.


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[Assistant] He didn't try to do what was hot at the moment. You feel me? He didn't jump on none of the trends or none of the duggies or jerks. He didn't jump on none of that.


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[Assistant] He keeps comparing you to these wack rappers. So he keeps comparing me to wack rappers and he's like, yo, you know, if you don't have the views, like, it don't matter, bro, like, I don't care what you say. Reminder, I don't know you. So I'm like, bro, why do you, then it got to the point to where he started commenting on all of my posts. Like it, it came a kind of like abusive, like it was like internet bullying, right?


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[Assistant] It, it kinda turned into internet bullying, like, like I can post something about


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[Assistant] You know, my mom in the hospital making fans be like, you whack. Whoa.


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[Assistant] You don't got views. That's harsh. It got bad bro, and I'm like...


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[Assistant] So where does your brain go? Does your brain go, I want to beat the shit out of you? Or you're like, I want to best you. No, no, no. I'm one of the few people who take constructive criticism. So before, like, I grew up a very, very angry child. Like very, very angry. I took anger management, all type of shit. So.


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[Assistant] As I got older, like, you know, that be the things come to my head, you know, before you explode, think about all the scenarios. So now I'm like, all right, what is he really trying to say?


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[Assistant] Do he really like me? Is he really saying I'm dope? Is this his way of saying you're dope, but I don't want to really tell you? What is he trying to say? Or is he telling me the truth? So there's a lot of ways I was thinking it. So I said, okay, it's about the fucking views, huh?


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[Assistant] Alright, so I click on YouTube and I go most viewed videos on YouTube and then I see a stupid shit like, man licks his cat. 8 million views. You feel me? Like it's just a bunch of stupid shit. 30, Gangnam Style, fucking 100 billion, like what the? Okay. Gotta be a fucking clown.


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[Assistant] I need some element of fucking something, right? So my very first video I did, it was a song called As Naked with a Shotgun.


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[Assistant] So I'm sitting on my porch, on my front porch, literally asshole naked, with a fucking 12 gauge shotgun. And I put the video out.


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[Assistant] You felt like you got fucked up. I fucked up. I thought I fucked up. Cause the comments were horrible. You feel me? This is like, oh what the fuck are you doing? The hip hop is over. Like, you know, I'm just like...


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[Assistant] So then somebody hit me like, yo, what the fuck you doing? Like you're stupid. Put the shit back up, bro.


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[Assistant] I put the shit back up, it goes to like maybe 200,000 again. Boom, boom, boom. And I'm like, holy shit. But it's all hate.


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[Assistant] But I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, but if I put, so right after that, maybe like a week later, I dropped like a regular video, like a real song. Hey people, let's stick together. Power to unity. All people must stick together. It doesn't matter. That's the music you wanted to make at that time. This is real music. This is real music. No matter what, like it's not about race. It's nothing like let's all stick together as a people.


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[Assistant] 10 views, 100 views, you know, you get a two comment, yo, this is real hip hop right here. I'm like, holy shit. Alright.


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[Assistant] All the people on this video, so I'm comparing comments, all the people on this video are saying how much hip hop is dying and how much rappers like this is wack, but they didn't see this.


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[Assistant] How the fuck could I make them see both and I realize you can't. You can't. You can't.


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[Assistant] If you not, if you not being pumped by a major or any major outlet, they will never see it.


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[Assistant] Never. So I'm like, alright, well I gotta get the attention somehow. So from then, once I've seen the numbers and then...


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[Assistant] Also in the battle rap community, in every form of hip hop, it stopped going from talent. People want to book you based on clicks, numbers. It started going to numbers. So when I was asking to get booked in certain places, it was like, how many views you got? And then views became like,


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[Assistant] How many views you got? So I'm like, okay, I gotta rack up my fucking views.


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[Assistant] Well, they like everything you work so hard up to build, which was your aggressive reputation. That's what's setting you back. You gotta be a fucking internet person plugging the game.


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[Assistant] Like everybody would tell you like growing up, bro, like I didn't even know how to smile. Like I didn't even know what happiness was. I grew up in, in nothing, bro.


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[Assistant] You get what I'm saying? Like, it's traumatizing. Like, I get PTSD from a lot of that shit. So it's like, it's memories that I took. You feel me? Like, I just lost, within the last, maybe like year or so, we just lost maybe like 10, 15 different homies. You feel me? So it's like, if you're familiar with wide shooting, you know what's happening. Like, it's real. So,


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[Assistant] Like, I took that, so you know, throughout my whole, growing up in Watts, like, there's something you gotta live by. Whether you from the hood or not, you still gotta hold your chest up high. You can't be no bitch, you can't be no mark, whatever, whatever, right? Right. It's just a stereotype in the hood.


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[Assistant] So I had that stigmatism. Everybody that, that know me will tell you, like, they like was always me mug frowned up coming up, like.


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[Assistant] You feel me? The facial expressions he made, he looked like he was just always ready for some type of problems.


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[Assistant] I always knew a lot, like coming up, uhm, I'll give you a little background where it started, where I started The Question of Reality. Uhm, when I was younger, my dad took me to the movies to see a movie called They Live. Your dad, you had a real good relationship with him? Yeah, we were actually really tight.


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[Assistant] When I was younger, my dad, I watched a movie called They Live. I don't know if you're familiar with the movie, but it's with the wrestler Roddy Roddy Piper. Ooh, love Roddy Roddy Piper. Yea, and it's a movie called They Live, and I was young when the movie came out. I think I was maybe like 2 or 3 or some shit, like whatever.


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[Assistant] And uhm, that movie changed the way I seen the world. Like, even from a kid, like, I was like,


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[Assistant] I always had the question, cause the movie is about like what if people not really people. You know what I mean? Like some people not really people and like everything is not what it is until you like really look at certain stuff.


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[Assistant] And I grew up with that mentality. Like, you know what I mean? I used to look at some of my homies like, what if these are like not, you know what I mean? I used to just think like that growing up. So that kind of shifted me from the rest of the lot of people that I grew up with. Like I always had that type of thought.


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[Assistant] A couple hundred grand for a piece of paper, I'm not. It's a couple hundred grand? Yeah, it's up there. Holy fuck. Um, but I'm not paying them that for a piece of paper. But, uh- So were you-


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[Assistant] You know, when you, when you grow up in the hood, you don't really know too much. You just know, go to school, go to college, and after college, you made it. Right? So I did that. You know, went to school.


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[Assistant] I went to college, you know, financial aid to pay for all the extra shit, and then I got to the other shit, you know, the loans and all the extra, you know, the college shit.


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[Assistant] And, you know, walking across the stage. You know, and I'm like, business administration? Fuck yea, when I get out, I'm gonna have a business.


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[Assistant] I got out and I was like, alright, here's your piece of paper and you owe us this money and you don't have money to start a business with. Oh, I'm fucked.


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[Assistant] I was like super fucked, so it was like a good four or five years.


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[Assistant] The grind time era of Battle Rap was, it wasn't built for the street style characters.


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[Assistant] Grind time wasn't built for that. Like, it was more like...


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[Assistant] Nerdy. It was nerdy. Like, you know, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to say it like that because then it turns into what is nerdy. Are you saying it's white? Right. You might only want to go down that path, but it was more not for our type of style.


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[Assistant] Yeah, commercial rap. Like West Coast had to be this, you had to have low riders in your shit. Then on top of that, when you go West Coast, then you got, you put the Bay and Los Angeles in the same bubble when we, we damage like two different states. Different planets, you know. Yeah, like the Bay and LA is...


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[Assistant] Two whole different worlds, you know what I mean? So it's like, it was a lot going on in battle rap at that time, so I just kinda fell back. I'm like, you know what, I'ma figure some shit out. Like I went to school, I tried to play ball, you know, I did like a couple things trying to figure out life.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, most definitely, most definitely. Like, like with me, it's something about like,


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[Assistant] Uh, it's always been something with words with me. Like I, it's something I never admitted on camera, but I'll admit it now and give you some exclusive shit. Like, when I grew up, I was in special ed and all that shit.


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[Assistant] Really? Like, uh, I had a problem, like I was dyslexic, dyslexic. So I always seen, I always seen shit backwards, like, and I couldn't write words, like, the right way for shit. Like, even if you, like, if you tell me to trace a number four, like, I'll still write it backwards.


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[Assistant] I can literally dissect a word to his, like,


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[Assistant] It's wild, like, the way I see things. So it's kinda like the Rain Man effect, you know, like, although Rain Man was, like, disabled, but, like, his ability was, like, how he can read, and you get what I'm saying? So-


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[Assistant] I never really dove deep into it until I actually studied the documentary and I was like, oh shit, this guy is like...


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[Assistant] Amazing. You know what I mean? He's an amazing person at what he can do. You get what I'm saying? What he knows. And then that led me to Stephen Hawkins. Then it led me to like the word savant. And then I started, you know what I mean? It just led me down the road.


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[Assistant] It made perfect sense. Everything made perfect sense. So it's like on top of like everything my father, like, and also when I was growing up, like, I just realized like,


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[Assistant] I don't think I was like, like, retarded. I'm not saying that's bad. But do you think they put you in that box? I think they put me in that box to make me feel bad for what I was able to do. Like when I was younger, like to this day I write with both hands. You know what I'm saying? Like stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And they used to be like, you can't do that. Like it was just a lot of things they told me you can't do. Like even when I was playing basketball in high school, like coaches, like you can't play with both hands. You either got to go right or like, and I'm like, why?


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[Assistant] But they always made me feel bad for that. They always like, you know, you're wrong. Like this is not normal. Take these pills or go to this class or you not. And I was just like, growing up, I feel bad for that. You feel me? But then as I got older, I'm like,


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[Assistant] They were trying to hide my, my power from me. Yeaah. Like it was like, that was just suppressing. They were trying. They had you medicated? No, no, no. Like I, I was. They tried to? They most definitely tried to. Like, and that's what led to anger. You feel me? Like, why are y'all doing this shit? And then when you get angry, they really think something wrong with you. Now he's resisting.


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[Assistant] Me and Disaster have like, one of the best and worst relationships ever. Do you talk anymore? Not really. But like, I don't think we have to. Has there ever been really overt beef?


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[Assistant] I don't think we never had beef, like, like we never had like no type of like...


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[Assistant] I think the problems that we both have is small term stuff. Like, we in a sport where everybody wants to be a number one.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So if we're friends, but we're both chasing the same goal, then there's always going to be like a little form of, you get what I'm saying? Like if we, if you're my best friend, but we're playing in a championship game, like bro, I don't want to lose. I mean, we're friends, but I don't want to lose. You get what I'm saying? So I think that's kind of what it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we used to be a lot closer. We were kids.


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[Assistant] It's like, like Diz didn't grow up with us. You know what I mean? Like he, he grew up, I don't, I'm not exactly what part of the world he grew up in, but like,