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[Assistant] It's the truth. Bluetooth.com. That being said, left cheek and right cheek, how are you guys doing?


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[Assistant] That's good. Do you guys always try to stand in order?


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[Assistant] I have to admit that when I met you guys, I did not know how much work you guys have actually been putting in. You have a ton of videos on YouTube. You guys have been in the game for a while doing your thing.


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[Assistant] And you guys just keep going viral whenever the stuff drops, right? You got a whole bunch of different music videos that got millions of views. Right.


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[Assistant] Definitely. So take me back to you guys when you were real young though. Did you guys want to be into entertainment from a real young age?


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[Assistant] Okay, so you guys always kind of knew that you wanted to do something with it. So did it kind of take a little bit for you to accept that you guys were going to be like a group doing this together? Or how did you guys start manifesting it? What were you like in high school?


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[Assistant] I was hyped when I saw you guys and then when someone said, no, their names are left cheek and right cheek, I was like, I'm sold. That's the best thing I ever heard. And then all of a sudden I was embarrassed that I didn't know about in advance because somebody else backstage was like, nah, like they're lit.


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[Assistant] Interesting. So let me ask you this though, like when you guys were real young, was it, was it weird? Did you guys get made fun of for the height thing? And, and, but, but did it, like you guys seem very, very confident now. Was that not always the case? So it was just like when you guys were real young girls.


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[Assistant] I mean, did it force you to become like super confident in a way that you might not have otherwise because you just sort of had to always be ready to tell somebody to fuck off if they tried to give you shit?


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[Assistant] I know, it's weird because we live in a world where all of a sudden it's like much less socially acceptable to make fun of somebody for being fat, but we haven't really got to that point with height so much that people still feel like it's like a good joke waiting to happen.


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[Assistant] Right. Constantly. Who's doing it constantly? Air him out.


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[Assistant] Good guy. Uhm, so is midget offensive in this day and age?


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[Assistant] Okay, so you guys started like going out and partying around like 17 or 18. How long, like how long did it take before you guys sort of started to like earn money or be able to do something with the notoriety that you're building up?


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[Assistant] But it's kind of crazy because let's be real, it's hard for women in general to get taken seriously in the entertainment business, especially music and shit, because let's be real, there are a lot of girls that are around.


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[Assistant] Basically just wanna take some dick, that's the only reason they're there. Uhm, so any girl that's in the music industry, it's like, you really gotta figure out what you wanna do, and you have to have a lot of, uh, strength of character, I guess I would say, in order to make it.


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[Assistant] I remember the first time that a super, super banging hot girl DM'd me. And for, you know, I had never had a super hot girl DM me about an interview before.


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[Assistant] I'm about to click on it and I'm just like, no way. And then it's like, I wanna do an interview and I'm like, oh, okay, that's right, I'm that guy now.


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[Assistant] So like when I posted you guys on Instagram, all of a sudden y'all started to have all kinds of random people swim up in there.


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[Assistant] For sure, uhm, okay, but so, was, was the TV show the first like major thing that you guys did outside, like in terms of entertainment? Was that the first big move?


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[Assistant] Okay, so that first thought would get you guys out there, but then doing reality tv is kinda like a bigger thing.


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[Assistant] So, was your impression of it that this was a cool idea because it was kind of normalizing and making, uh, you know, bringing little people to the forefront of the culture in a way? Or did you feel like it was kind of some weird freak show thing? Like, why are you treating my body type like I'm some fucking oddity?


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[Assistant] So it's like totally made up though. Just make it look like you said something totally nuts.


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[Assistant] But sometimes you watch reality TV and that's why it's so great. The idea that anyone would ever believe this.


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[Assistant] So okay, are you guys like the Claremont twins where it's hard to date a guy because the other one is sort of so demanding and like if a guy's gonna fuck with you, he has to also get approval from you and you have to be okay with her time being taken away from you for this guy.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. How did you guys meet? Are there support groups?


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[Assistant] Kevin Gates, it's so weird because Kevin Gates is such a respectable, serious guy, but then also, of what? Kevin Gates in your ass.


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[Assistant] Nah, but the cousin thing, the booty thing, when I've met Kevin Gates, and Jesus Christ, he has such a like, serious, intense, hardcore handshake, it's just like, woah.


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[Assistant] How the hell is this the same guy who was eating booty? Whatever. I don't know. Uhm, okay, so you guys do that show. Do you guys get way more famous from doing the show? What was that like?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Well sometimes it's like more image and shit. Right.


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[Assistant] Some people might be sort of more into like, oh, I like these girls.


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[Assistant] I almost said, I almost said Margaret Thrasher by accident, which is like Margaret Thatcher, but she skateboards. I don't know.


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[Assistant] We rolled different. Oh, that is cool. Look at you. So you guys are sponsored by them or what?


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[Assistant] Now we don't have a speaker, but you can hold the phone up to the microphone, and then we'll be able to hear it really good.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so, let me ask you this. What happened in the situation with Lil Bibby?


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[Assistant] So you think that basically, that sounds like-


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[Assistant] That's why I thought it was funny though that you guys were hyped to meet Juice WRLD at the show in Dallas because Juice WRLD is Lil Bivvy's artist.


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[Assistant] He wrote 33 gang. For a second I thought it said gang. Gang!


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[Assistant] Are you guys size queens? Is that why? That you're just so into giant dicks that you just couldn't fuck a white guy cause they're dicks?


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[Assistant] Damn. No, that's crazy because I mean, I mean, I like that you guys are being so real about it because


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[Assistant] I'm super attracted to black women, but if I were to sit here and say, no, I don't think black women are attractive, people would lose their fucking minds.


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[Assistant] Oh, what about Bushwick Bill? R.I.P. Were you into that before he passed?


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[Assistant] Uhm, wait, so you guys started going to parties when you were 17 or 18? Who was the young one that was just sneaking around?


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[Assistant] So you guys don't have jobs? You make all your money off of entertainment? Yeah. One way or another? That's fine.


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[Assistant] Right. Do you want to say like a scar on your knee? Do you have some kind of?


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[Assistant] Do you feel like when you deal with the average, like other little people, like when you're doing the show and stuff, are there personality traits that they tend to have? Like do they tend to be kind of insecure?


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[Assistant] Right, cause like some parents, they might treat it like it's the biggest fucking deal in the world. But they shelter them.


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[Assistant] Wow. So were your kids on purpose or were they accidents?


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[Assistant] So when you guys were pregnant though, were you like more or less like incapacitated? Like you can't barely get off the couch because it's so hard to walk and shit?


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[Assistant] You guys. Uhm, so what are you guys working towards, like right now, aside from just the music and stuff, like what are the things that you're kinda putting your creative energy towards?


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[Assistant] My girl is into the shroom microdosing. That's kind of her thing. She's having a little bit of a bad day. She'll just take a little bit of that.


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[Assistant] No, I could definitely see you doing that. If you got up on the table and kicked me in the teeth, that would be good content. Kick me in the teeth. Uh oh.


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[Assistant] You know, this is the first time I had a little person do something. Oh, there's my girlfriend.


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[Assistant] You know, I just remembered probably my best little person friend, Big Nick. You guys fan of him?


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[Assistant] Let me ask this. What is the most annoying thing that the average person wouldn't expect that you have to do? Like things that are just-


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[Assistant] It's like the normal like lines of what's appropriate. People feel like it's okay to just totally throw that away.


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[Assistant] Interview for us to be doing because I think it might make a lot of people sort of like reconsider the stupid things that they do without thinking about it.


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[Assistant] Because, okay, this is what I've always thought, is that if you're gonna try to hit on a girl, talk to a girl, whatever, the first thing you should think about is


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[Assistant] Oh my god, so uhm, yeah, what else is on the way? What are you working on?


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[Assistant] I was just watching this new music video that you guys have out with a couple other girls. Who are they?


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[Assistant] This will get pissed off when you start poking holes.


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[Assistant] Wow, you just shouted out every set, that's why. You gotta say I'm BD and GD. That way you can be good in Chicago too. I'm good everywhere I go too.


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[Assistant] How can you not? If no John Beck comes to town and left cheek and right cheek want to come.


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[Assistant] Whenever I think about Six Nights, that was my one funniest favorite thing that Six Nights did was when he, when he made fun of Juice WRLD and he was like, oh, I'm supposed to be scared of you. You scared of the shadows in your room or some shit. That was so fucking funny.


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[Assistant] You knew that Jewsworld couldn't even get mad about it because it was so funny. That's how funny 6ix9ine was. That's the problem. You wouldn't fuck 6ix9ine, right?


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[Assistant] No. Not even before the snitching? No. Good. Well, he's white-ish too. It's not black.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying. But my mom's side, all the dudes on her side are super tall. Because I accused my mom one time, I'm like, is that really my dad? She laughed in my face.


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[Assistant] So you're saying that the reason why I should break up with my girlfriend and date you is because you got hella money.


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[Assistant] So you're saying that if me and you had a tan and jig style fake relationship, because


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[Assistant] No, because I DM'd him the other day and reminded him that for the past two years, me and him have hung out on Halloween and he did Molly, which had nothing to do with me.


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[Assistant] I know some girls. They told me that he's a sensitive dude.


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[Assistant] People always do that, like SpiderLokes sat with his phone on Instagram Live for like two hours when we were doing it just so that he could prove if we edited anything out. It's like bro, I don't edit anything.


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[Assistant] So we can definitively say that. We can definitively say that you guys were not hookers. I'm gonna blame it on the white thing, not anything to do with my actual personality.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's alright. In my next life, I'll come through with hella melanin.


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[Assistant] Big facts for the culture. Get in touch, drop a comment, et cetera, et cetera.


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[Assistant] Well, you've heard a little bit about Claire's work. Now let's see how she works. And hard work it is. Plotting the equivalent of 120 movies a year.


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[Assistant] And we're not the only two cast members who are thankful for Claire Levine.


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[Assistant] Thank you very much to the editors of Soap Opera Digest, Lynn Leahy. Thank you to NBC Television, John Rorbeck, Orrin Littlefield, Susan Lee. Most of all,


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[Assistant] Uh, most of all though, to the, uh, the fans out there, the viewers,


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[Assistant] A cage went in search of a bird, but now the bird is gone. The bird has changed.


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[Assistant] Here are the three dastardly dudes up for outstanding villain.


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[Assistant] My family, my mother at home, and my brothers, I love you. And most of all, I'd like to thank my husband.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier and this past week has been one of the most incredible of my time.


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[Assistant] On YouTube. And it's gonna sound like a hell week when I describe it because pretty much every day was so densely packed and frantic that it'll sound horrible but just know that I've been happier than I've been in a long time. In all my time on YouTube and probably


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[Assistant] Too well. Like, scary well. We get along that well and it's just so good to have someone out here because Tyler pushes me.


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[Assistant] And I don't wanna sing praises of Tyler and inflate his ego here, but he has been such a good force in my life since he's come out here that I can't help but be so appreciative.


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[Assistant] Of him just taking the risk and coming out here. And Ethan as well, if some of you guys will go, man, like, who's this blue haired guy? That's Ethan, uh, his YouTube channel is CrankGamePlays and he's also here helping me make videos. And this past week,


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[Assistant] And it just spawned from this let's play that I did where I was like, hey, we should go out and we should dance with fans. And we did exactly that and it was so much fun.


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[Assistant] Like it was so incredibly fun, it was- it was just ridiculous how cool it was to go out and see you guys and be there with you and just be in the environment and be like, hey, let's have some fun today. Let's do something we never would have done.


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[Assistant] And see what the fuck happens. And it was amazing.


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[Assistant] This is amazing. Going out and being there with you guys.


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[Assistant] And doing these things with you guys, and just having fun, and going out and exploring new ideas, and we didn't do it in the best way, we know that, we didn't plan it very well, we didn't stack it up on days, and that's why there was only one video a week this week, and I'm sorry about that, that is gonna change, that is back in...


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[Assistant] Line and back on schedule, uh, but it was just so absolutely-


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[Assistant] Ah, fire building! It built th- like that spark that I always talk about, the spark of motivation, and the spark of like, oh, the spark of passion.


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[Assistant] I can't help but be excited about it because this week has drawn so much back into myself. And it's also made me realize my shortcomings. It's made me realize that I've grown not lazy, but complacent in what I've been doing. And I'm really sorry about that.


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[Assistant] And, and I owe you guys the apology, because it was an unseen thing. You know, I've talked about before how things aren't what they are, but they're starting on the road to become something.


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[Assistant] And I felt like I was walking down that path for a long time. And I was lost. Like I've been lost because I've been wandering without


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[Assistant] Wondering where I was and what I was doing and why I was doing it.


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[Assistant] This week, I-I can't help but gush to everybody that'll listen to me, and now it's you guys that are gonna have to listen to me, I can't help but gush about every single thing I'm excited about, and how fun this is, and how amazing it is to do it, and the response has been so good!


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[Assistant] I can't describe how much it's touched my heart to see people look at these videos that we've been making over the past week and go, My god. It reminds me of the old Markiplier.


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[Assistant] And that is just absolutely heartwarming to hear.


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[Assistant] And I'm so happy that people can see the passion that we put into this and see the energy that we put into this and see the joy that it brings to us and me.


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[Assistant] And I- I could- I could tell you the details this week. I could tell you that over the past three days I've recorded 18 videos. Not because I have to, but because I wanted to.


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[Assistant] And over the past week we went out and we recorded these videos with fans and we got hours and hours of footage and we were editing until midnight or later every single night and then getting up at 6am and going out and doing it all over again.


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[Assistant] It's that passion! God, it's that passion that I had back in the beginning of my channel!


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[Assistant] When I first started doing videos, I was doing them every single waking hour of the day, because I loved it!


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[Assistant] Because it felt like I had something that was my own. Because I felt like I could control something in my life.


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[Assistant] Like my life was kinda spiraling out of control, and it wasn't until I let go.


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[Assistant] Feelings of anger and hate. It wasn't until I let go of that which bothered me. And it wasn't until I let go.


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[Assistant] Of these lofty, unrealistic goals of who I should be. And I came back to who I was. And who I wanted to be.


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[Assistant] That's so, like, it's a feeling I can't describe in words, even though I'm shouting my words at you trying to describe it. Uh, but,


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[Assistant] I just wanted to let you guys know that there's so much behind the scenes footage, and uh, I-I-I-I came in on a great screenshot here, uh, it's just, there was a lot of footage that we just got in the car, and what I wanna do, uh, what I wanna do is, I wanna make Monday vlogs come back again. Markiplier Mondays, if you wanna call them that.


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[Assistant] I wanna bring these vlogs back again and I wanna recap and talk about everything that's happened over the week, all the cool people that we've met, the places we've gone, the things we've done, and the bloopers that we've recorded, all of it. There's one here, I wanna go do it right away because I was watching through this and it's just-


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[Assistant] Oh, this is uh, okay, this is during the uh, Deer Man, Deer, this is during Deer Man. It was such a beautiful day at this park. And what we did is we went there- Jesus, oh hey, oh god. Oh, that's me! Oh Jesus, that's me! I did not- I thought that was Tyler for a second there. Then I looked at the pants, I'm like, ah shit, of course that's me.


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[Assistant] Okay, I wanna talk about that moment real quick because, uh, that was Ellen, uh, and Ellen...


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[Assistant] I said, later, after we met in that park, uh, she wrote a Tumblr post. And in it,


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[Assistant] She was touched by the fact that I noticed her heterochroma eyes. And heterochroma means your eye has two different colors in it.


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[Assistant] And it was just, it was so heartwarming to see because that little detail meant so much to her and that never would have happened if we had not gone out to the park and tried to meet these people and dance with them for no other reason than just to dance with them. And that was so...


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[Assistant] It was so heartwarming because after that day it was so- I don't mean to freeze on this frame, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] It was the best experience that I could have possibly gotten out of that day. It was so heartwarming to see people come out of the woodwork, drive from like across town just to meet us in a park, and have an impromptu dance party.


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[Assistant] It was so heartwarming to see. And when we went back from that day, and we went back home, and we started editing immediately after that, and we started collaging things together, we didn't know how it was gonna turn out before we filmed it, but after we filmed it.


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[Assistant] We caught this spark that just could not be stopped. Nothing was gonna get in the way!


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[Assistant] And that's part of the reason why we only did one video a day, because we literally just sprinted forward and we're like, we're gonna fuckin' do this, I don't care what it takes, we wanna do it. So the next thing we did was we had this idea and we had this turkey costume that was gonna be like, hey, we wanted to do this.


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[Assistant] I kinda like things saying, Hey, Thanksgiving, it's room! It's not Christmas yet, it's not December! Or at least wait til AFTER Thanksgiving. And then, it was just, oh man, it turned out so well, and it was just, we found this rhythm with the musical intros, and it was just so


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[Assistant] God, I loved it! I loved every part of it! I kept gushing to absolutely everybody that would listen to me about how much I loved it, and I'm still doing it! Ugh!


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[Assistant] I really do, and I'm sorry about that. Because it's, it's not numbers that define me.


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[Assistant] It's not numbers that define this channel and it's not numbers that define the community. I'm very fortunate and I am eternally grateful that 15 million people thought my videos were worth subscribing.


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[Assistant] And I'm always going to be grateful for that, but I fear...


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[Assistant] That I was growing complacent in those numbers. I was looking at those numbers and I was going, that's good enough. I've done enough. I can rest. This is okay. But that's not true at all. I grew lazy. In my confidence of what I had.


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[Assistant] That I allowed myself to lose sight of the final goal.


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[Assistant] And the final goal is to be the best YouTuber that I can be.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'll never be the best YouTuber ever.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't keep trying.


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[Assistant] Every single day, as hard as I can. To be better, not only for my own sake, but for you guys as well. Because you guys are everything.


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[Assistant] To this channel. You guys are absolutely everything to who we as YouTubers are. And who I define myself as a person.


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[Assistant] I really mean that honestly and truly, like, I define myself by the community that I've built. And if I let my community go to stray, go astray, then I have failed.


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[Assistant] So, there's so much other footage here that we could go through from this past week. And this was just one week.


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[Assistant] Like in one week we've managed to create so many memories, have so many laughs, meet so many of you guys. And that was just one week.


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[Assistant] I can't describe how great it is to feel that fire.


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[Assistant] Burning in my heart again and to have that passion back for making videos and surprising you every day with cool new interesting things and I can only thank my friends and my family and most of all you guys for never losing hope in me.


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[Assistant] I don't know what I did to deserve so many people that steadfastly believe in what I do.


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[Assistant] So, like I said, we'll be back on normal schedule very soon, 8 and 12 every day. 8 AM's will be long plays, and 12 AM's, ugh, 12 PM's.


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[Assistant] Noon, also known as, will be something special.


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[Assistant] I think you're gonna like it. So thank you everybody so much for watching, and as always, I will see you in the next video. Buh-bye!


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[Assistant] I am very excited to continue watching. Hope you guys aren't as well. Today we're gonna be watching season three, episode seven, silencer, which I can kind of assume is probably someone's like, uh, I don't like you talking. Silence you. Like, look at the little mute button. Um, I don't know who it will be. Um, I can, I can see it being Chloe.


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[Assistant] But I doubt it. She's already been like akumatized. I know we have seen some other people get re-akumatized. Uh, the baby Andrew or whatever. And, uh, Laila. So, it's possible, but.


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[Assistant] Disney Plus or Netflix depending on where you're at in your country. And if you want to support the channel, you can check out the Patreon page linked in the description below to get access to hours and hours and hours of my reactions over there uncut down. But without further ado, let's get started.


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[Assistant] Why was she looking like that? Oh no.


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[Assistant] I'll be honest, I don't love the fact that he like talks with his hands.


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[Assistant] I think I kind of would have preferred if like his mask just had like a different LED color that comes over it. The hand thing is a little awkward.


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[Assistant] Nope, okay, I thought she might try to suck up the voices, but that doesn't make sense, huh?


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[Assistant] Look, Luca is amazing. I don't care about your shipping. I don't care. I don't care, okay? I don't care. Objectively. Objectively.


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[Assistant] He's such a smooth talker. He like, defended her against this, you know, like,


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[Assistant] Corporate, you know, producer. He didn't even care about the music. He was like, those are your costumes, Marinette. Like, they stole your costumes. And Marinette's like, yeah, but like, your music. And he's like, no, your costumes. Like, ugh.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, like, Marinette needs to like, open her peepers and understand he's so sweet.


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[Assistant] So, so sweet and he plays music. He's in a band. He got that blue hair.


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[Assistant] You know, little, little punk boy, like, mmmmm. So tempting, you know?


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[Assistant] Have we, do we know if he skates yet, little skater boy? I know he ice skates, but does he skate forward? Little skater boy?


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[Assistant] Nothing could learn. Get the skeeter ham.


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[Assistant] I'm glad that this episode had a positive outcome and it wasn't just like a...


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[Assistant] Like, like the Lila episode where Adrian's like, as long as we know, what does it matter if everyone else doesn't know the truth?


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[Assistant] I kinda got scared that maybe this episode might end like that where it's like, we know this is our music and we'll just make something better, blah blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] And that basically they're able to get the record deal and like, you know, do things.


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[Assistant] I'm very thankful for that. I didn't want like a bad message to be like, oh yeah, it's fine if people just steal your work.


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[Assistant] I was gonna be really, really sad if Luca didn't actually get to like, have his love confession, that it was like,


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[Assistant] You know, and someone else's voice confessing to her, that would have been really awkward, so I'm glad that Lucas said it again.


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[Assistant] Uh, it made my, my heart go all woooooo the first time, like actually getting to hear him say it was like woooooo, okay.


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[Assistant] Like girl, girl, get your boy! He's there. All you gotta do is just say yes, girlfriend. You just gotta say yes and he's yours. Boy is madly in love with you. Adores you. Just say yes, Marinette. It's just that easy.


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[Assistant] But, I know she likes Adrian, I get it, I get it, but like, he's got like, Kagami.


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[Assistant] And like, Chloe, and Lila, like, it's not worth the drama. It's just not. Like, go get Luka. He's literally everything and more. Okay? Maybe not the money.


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[Assistant] But I don't think that matters to you. And plus, oh my god, your dad would love Luka. Oh!


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[Assistant] Luca would be so good to you. Your papa would approve of Luca in like a heartbeat. Maybe not the band thing, but dad would probably be like, come learn how to make pastries. And Luca would be like, I would love to. And it would be adorable. Ugh, I'm just sad.


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[Assistant] I know, I know Luca and Marinette are never gonna get together. They're not going to, like...


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[Assistant] Marinette, love, love, looove this. Infatuated with Adrian.


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[Assistant] But it will be nice. He's such a good boy. He doesn't deserve to be hurt. I just feel like Marinette's gonna hurt him.


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[Assistant] Like she had the decency to tell Cat Noir off and be like, I'm in love with someone else.


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[Assistant] Like, can she give that to Luca? That would be nice, cause at this point I feel like she's gonna hurt Luca, and that's not fair.


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[Assistant] We'll see. I don't know. I don't know if that's the case. I'm just speculating. It's just a theory. A game theory.


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[Assistant] I know that it was harder to visualize later on when they had the multiple voices going, but I kinda wish, and I think the design would have been cooler if they had just an LED mask.


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[Assistant] I think I would have liked it more than just like, what do you think Mr. Piggy? Oh, I think we should go to here. It's like, yes, Mr. Piggy, good idea. Like, I didn't care for it. That could have been its own like concept and villain. I didn't feel like Luca needed that goofy one.


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[Assistant] But uhm, it's fine, it's fine. It didn't kill it for me, I just kinda wish.


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[Assistant] I wish it could have been like the LED mask type of thing. I think I would have preferred that.


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[Assistant] Oh well. Yeah, overall, I thought this was a really solid episode. It was very interesting. Y'all know I love Luca to the moon and back. So anytime we get to see Luca is a good day for mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


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[Assistant] I'm glad though, Luca was like in the background of one episode.


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[Assistant] And I feel like we've gotten a lot more of Kagami. She was in the, uh, Animastro? Anim- Animastro? Whatever one.


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[Assistant] So it was nice to get a little, little, little peekaboo at, uh, Luca. Cause you know, my boy Annie, like, basically declared his love to, so like, what an episode, so.


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[Assistant] I'll be interested to kind of see what happens moving forward. Maybe we might get some more luka. Maybe, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I've been covering the prison at Guantanamo Bay throughout the Obama years.


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[Assistant] I returned just before Obama left office, as he and Donald Trump fought over the future of this place and the men detained here.


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[Assistant] Gitmo still houses notorious terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9-11 attacks.


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[Assistant] This time, I was here to report on Obama's final push to empty out the prison.


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[Assistant] In his last year, he released 52 detainees. Nearly half of them had been held without charges and were once considered too dangerous to let go.


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[Assistant] But military and intelligence officials finally deemed the men safe to set free.


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[Assistant] I wanted to know more about these decisions and what happened to the detainees once they got out.


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[Assistant] The detainees have been scattered around the globe, taken in under secret deals.


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[Assistant] None of the officials involved in these deals will discuss the details, but most of the detainees were sent to Arab countries.


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[Assistant] Some were sent to rehab centers in places like Oman.


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[Assistant] Others were reunited with their families in Saudi Arabia.


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[Assistant] Every transfer was reviewed and approved by the Department of Defense.


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[Assistant] In terms of the facts about former detainees, what did Americans make of their danger, their status?


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[Assistant] Few of the ex-detainees have been heard from since their release.


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[Assistant] Their lawyers say that the ones sent to Arab countries seem to be adjusting. But I've heard others are having problems. A handful of men who are taken to non-Arab countries with little support.


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[Assistant] One of them, among the last to leave Kitmo is willing to talk.


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[Assistant] Mansoor Al-Dhaifi, prisoner number 441 from Yemen.


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[Assistant] He was never charged, but for most of his 14 years at Gitmo he was considered too dangerous to release.


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[Assistant] In 2015, a review board convened by President Obama determined he was no longer a threat.


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[Assistant] Yemeni detainees are barred from going home because of political instability there.


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[Assistant] So last summer, he and another detainee were transferred to Serbia.


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[Assistant] Mansoor's pro bono lawyer in New York says he's unhappy in Serbia and wants to live in an Arab country. Was he given any choice in where he was going to go?


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[Assistant] And what kind of rehabilitation has been provided for him in Serbia so far?


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[Assistant] She says Mansour has gone on a hunger strike protesting his situation.


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[Assistant] You have represented other Guantanamo detainees. In terms of Mansoor's resettlement and reintegrating, is Mansoor a unique case?


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[Assistant] As I set off to meet Mansoor in Belgrade, Serbia, here's what I knew about him.


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[Assistant] He'd spent time at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan before being captured when he was in his early twenties.


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[Assistant] Much of his case file remains classified, but leaked documents show that at first, the U.S. government claimed he was an al-Qaeda commander.


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[Assistant] His final review, however, came to a very different conclusion. At worst, it says he was a low-level fighter, possibly not even a member of Al-Qaeda at all.


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[Assistant] Mansoor was known to exaggerate and change his story. In 2006, he claimed he was a committed jihadi and praised the 9-11 attacks.


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[Assistant] Still, Serbia seemed a surprising place to send a man once labeled a Muslim terrorist.


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[Assistant] In the 1990s, Serbian troops slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslim men, women, and children.


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[Assistant] NATO bombed Belgrade to stop the years of carnage.


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[Assistant] The other detainee has refused to talk at all, and Mansour has kept a low profile, avoiding publicity while his lawyer has been telling officials about his unhappiness and his hunger strike. Now he wants to go public in hopes of being moved.


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[Assistant] The Serbian government agreed to keep Mansour for two years. He can't leave the country. They give him a small stipend and an apartment. That's where we found him.


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[Assistant] Mansoor's detention may have been prolonged by what he told a review board in 2006. After nearly five years at Gitmo, he declared himself an enemy of the United States.


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[Assistant] Mansoor learned English at Gitmo, mostly from the guards, he says, and he wanted to study at an English language university here, but was rejected.


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[Assistant] He says it's because of his background, but the university told me he failed his entrance exam.


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[Assistant] He rarely leaves the house, especially now that he's on a hunger strike.


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[Assistant] For most of the detainees at Gitmo, refusing to eat was a common form of protest.


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[Assistant] Mansoor says he did it many times, and at one point was force-fed over the course of two years.


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[Assistant] Now he's using the tactic to pressure the US to get him out of Serbia.


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[Assistant] Every night, Mansoor works on a memoir about his time at Guantanamo. He shared a draft with me.


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[Assistant] When we left him, we planned to come back the next morning and continue our interview.


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[Assistant] The next morning, before heading to Monsoors, he sent a text to frontline producer James Jacoby.


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[Assistant] Mansoor went silent and so began an unexpected journey. We went to his apartment and called him repeatedly.


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[Assistant] We spoke to his lawyer in New York, but she didn't know where he was either.


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[Assistant] In his texts, Mansoor said the government had come, but he didn't say who or why. All we knew was that he had a Serbian government minder, but we didn't know where to find him.


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[Assistant] When I arrived, I was referred to his interior minister, who's in charge of domestic security.


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[Assistant] For two days, we looked all over Belgrade for Mansour. And the U.S. Embassy couldn't offer much help.


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[Assistant] Is the State Department responsible for these guys' well-being here?


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[Assistant] While waiting on word from Mansour one night, I went into downtown Belgrade, where more than a thousand refugees from predominantly Muslim countries had set up a makeshift camp.


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[Assistant] The Serbian government has been trying to provide relief, but it's hard to keep up.


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[Assistant] That night, we finally heard from Mansoor. He was at the one place we didn't expect.


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[Assistant] Several Serbian men barged into his apartment and told him to stop talking to us.


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[Assistant] Considering his past, it wasn't surprising the Serbians would keep tabs on him. And it was hard to tell how badly he was being treated.


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[Assistant] We pointed out that at Gitmo, he was known to exaggerate.


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[Assistant] It was late, and Mansour wanted to talk to his lawyer in New York about staying overnight at the hotel.


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[Assistant] But one neighbor said he thought the secret police were renting Mansour's apartment.


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[Assistant] Back inside, Mansoor said he was worried the Serbs would return.


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[Assistant] We kept trying, but the government never would agree to an interview or respond to questions about Mansour and his allegations.


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[Assistant] The next day, our last in Serbia, I reread Mansoor's memoir.


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[Assistant] During our time here, Mansoor would say very little about his past. But before leaving, I pressed him again about it, and what he'd written about how Gitmo changed him.


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[Assistant] According to his case file, Mansour was turned over to the US by an Afghan warlord, who is reported to be on a CIA payroll.


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[Assistant] You write about Guantanamo had the difficulty of being in a place where you don't trust anybody and no one trusts you.


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[Assistant] And you talk about the situation here in Serbia where there are people who, you know, say that you're a liar or like say that you, you know, might be making things up.


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[Assistant] We went back to the US, leaving Mansoor much as we had found him. Bitter, isolated, determined to carry on with his hunger strike.


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[Assistant] So, on the 40th day of Mansoor's hunger strike, I went to see the person who had struck the deal to send him to Serbia, Ambassador Lee Woloski, the special envoy for Guantanamo closure under President Obama.


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[Assistant] Woloski was pressed for time. There were 20 detainees he was still trying to find countries for in the remaining weeks of the Obama administration.


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[Assistant] I asked him about Mansour's troubles in Serbia and his hunger strike.


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[Assistant] We spent some time with a former detainee who has been resettled in Serbia. He was sent there last July. He seems like he is in a very desperate situation. And he's gotten to the point that he's gone on a hunger strike to protest that.


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[Assistant] Is there any additional responsibility from the U.S. government to the detainees after they've been released and resettled?


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[Assistant] Weeks later, I'd heard that Mansoor started eating again when his mother in Yemen threatened to start her own hunger strike if he didn't stop his.


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[Assistant] Then, when I was home on a Saturday afternoon, he called.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later, a group of men came in. Mansour turned the camera on them and kept talking to me.


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[Assistant] Mansoor told me they took his phone and laptop, and when he got them back he says all of his data had been wiped clean.


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[Assistant] I called Serbian officials again for comment, but they wouldn't respond.


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[Assistant] I returned to Guantanamo just before President Trump took office. There are still 41 detainees being held.


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[Assistant] Five of them are accused of planning the 9-11 terror attacks.


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[Assistant] Their trial is expected to take place here in the coming years.


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[Assistant] Outside, as I took another tour of the camp, something unusual happened. A detainee yelled out to me from the rec yard.


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[Assistant] Communication between detainees and journalists is usually forbidden. They made us stop filming.


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[Assistant] But I was able to continue talking to him off camera for several minutes. He said he was detainee number 242.


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[Assistant] That he'd had four reviews but is being held indefinitely without charges. He said he's worried he'll be here forever.


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[Assistant] Later, I texted Mansoor about the exchange.


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[Assistant] But, he says uhm, sorry, can't talk about this issue anymore. It brings only pain.


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[Assistant] Today, there are 26 detainees, like the one who called out to me, being held here indefinitely without charges. And there are five men who had been cleared for release like Mansoor, but didn't get out of Guantanamo before Donald Trump took office.


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[Assistant] Bodyguard for Osama bin Laden is now free after being held for 14 years.


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today I'm in here with the beloved, respected, phenomenal, ridiculously talented Rhapsody.


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[Assistant] Well, DJ Khaled did it with energy drinks. We're gonna do it with fast food.


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[Assistant] No, I totally respect it because I feel like if you do it the right way, it could be a really fun, creative, not gross expression of your brand. And then when it's like, you know, like a Walmart thing or something, sometimes it ends up just feeling kind of yucky.


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[Assistant] That's crazy because the only people who sell CDs at this point are like the people who are able to just somehow appeal to that tiny percentage of the country who still buy CDs.


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[Assistant] You've got nuanced customers that know what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Well, this was the year that vinyl first outsold CDs since the 70s, or since like CDs came out, I guess in the 80s.


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[Assistant] Which is kinda troubling. I've thought about becoming a record guy. Having a record collection.


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[Assistant] Because I have no physical connection with the music that I love, you know, and I find that kind of disturbing to think that


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[Assistant] You know, there might be a, a mixtape that I listen to 30 times on my fucking, in my car. I love it. I have such a close relationship with it for that period of time. But then when I'm done with it and I move on to the next album that I'm listening to, there's, there's nothing that remains. It's like, I don't like back, that would have that exact same experience with CDs when I was a kid. But then that CD is sitting on the shelf and you see that CD once in a while and you,


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[Assistant] Get that mental reminder, like that really meant something to me. And a lot of, a lot of kids who listen to music and myself have kind of fallen into this. You just have nothing physical that connects you to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for me it's like I want that, I'm like craving that. And in general, it's weird too because now everybody makes merch, so like merch can't be the solution.


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[Assistant] To like creating that connection, because I feel like the merch thing has just become so sort of blown out. I know merch is like super important to artists and everything, but sometimes it just seems like that has gotten taken to this absurd level.


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[Assistant] It's like we've reached the limits of...


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[Assistant] Technology and its ability to connect us. I feel like to a certain extent as a society we're sort of done with being just mystified with technology and thinking oh this is so great and we're gonna just use this and this is gonna replace everything in our lives. It feels like a lot of people


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[Assistant] Whether they've really, tangibly said it in their head or not, they've sort of come to that realization that it's like,


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[Assistant] Gatherings are really important. Being around people is really important. Like, you know, even the FaceTime call versus the text is really important, you know?


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[Assistant] All the most insecure guys I know are the ones who give the girl their Instagram immediately.


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[Assistant] That's real. Talk to me about your early rap fandom, because it just feels like when you listen to you, like you must have been such a rabid hip-hop fan, and like you probably had like a ridiculously intense love affair with it from early on. I did, I did.


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[Assistant] Isn't it funny that they have Dave East on the Wu-Tang show playing Method Man? Because he's like the stereotypical good looking rapper guy.


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[Assistant] I showed my girlfriend Dave East and she was just silent and I just look at her and I go, you can say it's hot.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I just thought it was goofy as fuck that she thought I was gonna care. But I guess I heard her say, cause if it was like, my homie, then I maybe wouldn't want to hear it.


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[Assistant] You know? Maybe in a context where it's relevant. It's not relevant all that time. All that often.


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[Assistant] We're so open though, she knows I don't want anything. She knows I don't have any mental space for, like, actually liking other girls.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think I'm, I don't think she's that worried about it. Okay, but yeah, so MC Lyte, Method Man, anything else in particular that stands out that help form your pedigree?


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I tried that one too. I'm pretty sure my parents just reprimanded me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that was what it was to be a rap fan at that time, you go to the CD store, for me it was to go to the CD store, and it's like you're gambling, because it's like, you know that you like, you know, I like bought like multiple like Ice Cube CDs that ended up being like not an Ice Cube CD, you wanted like some weird


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[Assistant] Because you were, you were exploring, and it was very much a, a system that rewarded people that were explorative.


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[Assistant] And that we're down to try new things, whereas like now to be a rap fan when I think about it is such a strange thing where they have these perfectly curated playlists that are just like, this is the kind of person you are, this is what you need. And it's just so manufactured and it's such a strange way and kids will never know how strange it is.


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[Assistant] To a certain extent, these people know, and we kinda know, that the playlists, they're the product of artificial intelligence basically, so they're actually better at predicting what you might like than what you currently know that you like.


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[Assistant] Which is scary. I think they're better at knowing what I want them, what I know that I want.


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[Assistant] I like tremendously respect people who have eclectic tastes, especially in this age, like people who like will throw on some dope shit from the 70s.


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[Assistant] But it's funny cause like, you're also an artist assigned to a label so you know that that's totally part of being an artist is that they're strategically working these connections to get you on all these playlists. Like if you land a rap caviar, it's like you just fucking hit the lottery.


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[Assistant] That check, just, it was, it's like the Spotify lottery.


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[Assistant] Specifically in North Carolina though, was there any sort of like local rap scene that you were a part of? Or when did you tap in with it? I'm sure there was, but it probably took a little while for you to discover it.


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[Assistant] Wow. That's the kind of thing, do you feel like when you look back on it, did you take it for granted? Because to have like a truly vibrant scene like that is a rare thing. To have that many young people just all around each other that excited about music.


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[Assistant] Do you feel, were you aware of how special that was at that time? Because sometimes when you start working in the world and stuff, you start to kind of lose your zeal for that excitement.


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[Assistant] Like, right outside Boston. Ooh, bro. New Hampshire. It's kinda legendary for snow.


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[Assistant] Leaves have always, they look the same, they've always been doing that my whole life. I never really thought about it, but yea, I guess they are kind of beautiful.


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[Assistant] So when you start rapping, how quickly do you take to it? Were you tight at first?


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[Assistant] Whenever I'm at the poetry lines, I'm always thinking about the poets as rappers. I'm like sitting there being this like vulture ass A&R, just thinking like, could he be a rapper? Cause it's such a different thing.


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[Assistant] And it was like, and everyone in the crowd was, ohhh, and everyone just went with it. And I was just like, man, that's crazy, because if that's not her bed, and it's just a picture of a random bed, and everyone just believed it, because why the fuck would you have a photo of a random ass person's bed? I'm like, that is genius.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it would be such a gift. If somebody whacked this, you would be just the biggest gift. Not even whacked, just somebody in general.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's weird that we live in this world though where nobody really talks shit on each other because everybody wants to keep the peace because they know that someone will write a song about them and they'll be on TMZ everyday.


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[Assistant] I just think about how it's just a war of just egos up there on stage and just trying to just smash the other person. Like the best, most devastating battles are the ones where the dude's actually like crying.


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[Assistant] So you, you had been a little too scared to mention that to him directly beforehand, you just ended up saying it to the manager?


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[Assistant] Uhuh. That's crazy. Yeah. And did you, was it a scenario where you were sort of like rushing to get stuff out or was it a scenario where you wanted to like be incubated for a long time and just really try to build up your skill set before you revealed yourself to the world?


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[Assistant] I feel like you're like the last generation that might have grown up with that sort of mind state.


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[Assistant] Is how I try, that's what I want to try to explain to like young artists when I'm talking to them is like my advice for you is don't make three songs and put them on SoundCloud and then just start pushing them and acting like you're a real rapper right now. It's like you should make 30 songs and you should be able to look at the first one and then look at the last one and see


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[Assistant] I hate that that's how you're supposed to say that word. To me it seems like it should be demonstratable, but whatever.


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[Assistant] Your sound and like really like make you have something that would be better, you know, and even just learning to actually rap, like the physical act of rapping is something that you're just, you're not gonna be in peak form on your first song.


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[Assistant] And that's why it's frustrating that some people do have big hits off their first song, but that is a freak accident.


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[Assistant] It's interesting because you came out at sort of, sort of like a weird time where the music industry was in a real state of flux, where the albums were over, albums weren't really selling the way that they used to, there was like the mixtape scene was kind of doing something for a period of time and then there was sort of like


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[Assistant] Has that been odd for you to sort of navigate? Because you came into the music game at a time when there was like very little of a established blueprint for how you were going to be a successful rapper.


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[Assistant] Definitely. As a fan, was it crazy watching J. Cole's rise and see him get as big as he's gotten? Just as a North Carolina person?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was so wild. Well, you know, the first time I think I ever became aware of you was when you did that video with Mac Miller.


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[Assistant] Damn. So, I mean, it's kind of fast forward ahead in your whole thing, but did you guys stay in touch and like up through his life and what was your relationship with him when he passed?


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[Assistant] That's crazy. Did you ever get to a point in your life where you were partying too hard or anything like that? Because I feel like,


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[Assistant] When I think about the Mac Miller situation, it makes me feel, I feel like that about plenty of my friends. I feel like they party too hard, and I'm not being the loyal, attentive friend that I could potentially be. You know, everybody's so busy, but it's like sometimes you see people who, maybe it feels like I should reach out more often.


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[Assistant] That's just the shit that happens when people take drugs that they think are one thing and they aren't. You know? Because you could just accidentally fucking overdose and it's like that with all these fake pills and shit, that kind of shit is becoming like crazy normal.


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[Assistant] I feel like a lot of people don't understand how much we get smoked in an average like rap studio session. And it's not just like the rappers either. It's like you'll go in there and you'll see the engineers just got full blown backward habits. Like the engineers just been corrupted by the rappers as well and everyone's just smoking so much.


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[Assistant] That's a good point, yeaah. You must have inhaled an insane amount of weed just from sitting next to people in the studio.


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[Assistant] Was like the, one of the most well received white rappers of all time. Like what was different about him?


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[Assistant] I guess maybe people tried to smear him here and there over the years, but nothing stuck. Like he always just, kinda was just this purely beloved figure.


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[Assistant] That's about as good as it gets. Talk to me about your new album and where you're at in terms of like your recording process. I just ended up really curious what


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[Assistant] The process of you actually putting this record together is like, because it feels like you are so just like rapping, just rapping your ass off. Like it just feels kind of simple in a way, but then at the same time, the, the, not simple in the lyrics, but like it just feels like very pure. But then at the same time it is conceptual and it's like, it's clear you wanted to get a larger idea across.


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[Assistant] So you kind of start with the inspiration, like that's your muse for the song.


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[Assistant] Damn, that's really interesting. Uhm, does it, does it come to mind? Like, are you incapable of making that kind of content without also thinking about how you fit into the sort of overall spectrum of these powerful black women that inspired you? Like, you have to be sort of thinking to a certain extent, like, who am I and how do I fit into all this?


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[Assistant] You being interested in learning and then sort of coming to the music afterwards and manifesting it through that. Does that feel like that's how it plays off? Or plays out sometimes?


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[Assistant] Cause I got hit by that a few different times listening to the album where I was like, damn.


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[Assistant] That made me want to read more about that person and refresh myself and a lot of times it might be a name where I know I read some article like 10 years ago about this person but I haven't really thought about it in a long time and I feel like that's kind of like best case scenario with music that can make you more inquisitive.


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[Assistant] See, that's one thing about your music is that I feel like you're sort of weirdly, uh, upfront about the fact that you are


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[Assistant] I'm aware of the fact that a lot of your content might go over people's heads, that sometimes the audience doesn't want to be, uh, you know, educated, that they just want some stupid party music or whatever, like you're, you're living that out through your lyrics. I'm like, you know, am I too much of this? Am I too much of that?


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[Assistant] And it's like, it's refreshing, cause a lot of people are insecure, but they would never think to express it in a song. It doesn't read as insecure though, it just reads as like self-reflective and honest.


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[Assistant] Right, because it's like the more you consume yourself with-


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[Assistant] Your public opinion or what people think of you, etc. I mean, it's very, very easy to get sucked into that as a rapper.


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[Assistant] It's easy to forget that a lot of the people you're talking to on Twitter, like, they just ain't done shit. They ain't seen shit. It's like, you're, you're world, but you've been on tour, you've been living this whole life for all these years. You just seen a lot of shit. You have like, like a lot of people that are really like just on the couch, basically like quarterback and other people's lives on Twitter, you know?


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[Assistant] And I just like, I'll just see the kids, and like, like the kids, like I was, I did a vlog where we like went to this dude's neighborhood in Long Beach, and I seen a bunch of kids just like standing on the corner, and they like, a bunch of them had guns on them and shit, they're like 16. And I was just like, I, my cameraman actually, I think it was, I said to him, he's like, so what do you want to do with your life? And the kid just straight up was just like, be with the homies on the block. And I was just like, god damn, like,


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[Assistant] I just totally take it for granted because I don't see that shit straight up like in my face anymore. I'm like how real that felt hearing him say that and just really realizing how hopeless his life feels and just realizing that moment like.


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[Assistant] Like, no art could ever express that as real as me just hearing the kids say that.


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[Assistant] I'm really jealous when I see rappers who are still around their homies that they kind of grew up around and they still have such a close relationship that those dudes are on tour with them and stuff. I'm like, I always am just thinking like, bro, hold on to that. Because that's like, you're so lucky to still have that.


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[Assistant] Cause you know, it's like at a certain point as a rapper it's totally understandable that you're just gonna have a team of executives around you.


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[Assistant] But that was for eating the apple, it wasn't for, uh, they didn't make a baby, did they?


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[Assistant] He had that song. Boom shakalaka. Right? Am I thinking of him? It's gotta be him. Boom shakalaka.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna find it right now, because this is the song. But it's, it's definitely, it can't be Big Crick, cause I just searched.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, that's a great song right there, that sample.


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[Assistant] That's a hard song though. Chip the Ripper. Everybody go listen to him. Run his Spotify plays up so that he knows that we talked about him.


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[Assistant] Rhapsody, No Jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. Like, comment, subscribe, NoJumper.com if you want to support and go get her album. It's out on streaming services. There's probably a record available somewhere.


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[Assistant] I'm ballin' like an athlete but got no jumper. Ay, ay, ay, it's your boy Hakeem and we finna go ask some people some questions. Let's fuckin' go. Ay, ay, y'all wanna ask some questions? What's your name, brother? My name's David. Where you from, David? Uh, from upstate New York. Okay, East Coast. I'm from East Coast, I'm from Jersey.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Meek Mill disabled his Instagram because he's tired of people capping. You think people would cap less if the likes and follows didn't show up on Instagram?


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[Assistant] What's your name? Andrew. Andrew, where are you from? LA. Born and raised? What do you mean? Born and raised. Where were you born?


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[Assistant] All of that in there. What's going on with it? Boston guys, you're the only black guy I've seen from Boston. That's cool, I'll take that. I'll take that.


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[Assistant] Meek Mill disabled his Instagram account because he's tired of people capping. You think people would lie less about their social media shit if the likes and follows didn't show up?


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[Assistant] Alright, so I got some questions here for you today. Meek Mill disabled his Instagram because he's tired of people capping. You think people would cap less if the likes and follows didn't show up?


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[Assistant] Just move over to the side. Too much garbage on Melrose. Save the fucking planet, bro. SAVE


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[Assistant] Alright, so Meek Mill disabled his Instagram, cause he's tired of people capping. You think people will cap less if the likes and follows didn't show?


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[Assistant] You feel me? Shout out to nojumper though. Shout out Adam. I miss you bro, I ain't seen you in like a year. Yes sir, we got some ice dunes. In the tub right now.


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today I'm incredibly honored to have the one and only Young M.A. in here. How you doing?


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[Assistant] I'm just excited to have you in here, man. This is a very momentous occasion. Uhm, I was watching the later stuff, the latest stuff, that big video. That song is ridiculous. That song is huge.


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[Assistant] It just all happened. It just happened. Were you getting approximately like no heat before that video popped off or did you have like a little wave going?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so uhm, yeaah, but talk about that, like that, you felt like you kind of became the enemy of the labels by not signing because they're basically trying to like fill the role that you're then sort of inhabiting with their own artists?


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[Assistant] Effect go down, because it is true that your numbers are still crazy, your fanbase still seems super rabid.


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[Assistant] Thing like where it was slowing up, where you started to really just doubt everything and you just weren't sure if anything was for certain anymore. Have you ever gotten to that point where you were really doubting that things were gonna work out? Or has it always been enough support from the fans and everything that you never really got to that point?


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[Assistant] Is it weird though, because it's like you're working on your music habitually, every night you're in the studio, you're on tour, you're doing all this stuff, you're shooting dope ass videos, but then you could almost get more people talking about you from basically just another rapper using you as a punchline, not even really like,


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[Assistant] Am I not controversial enough? Am I not shocking enough? Is that ever the kind of thing you start doubting?


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[Assistant] You know, somebody who, who carries themself with sort of a, an aura of like not being so bothered by certain things. I think about that a lot of times with different rappers is that, you know, when you don't respond to the stuff that people say about you and you don't


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, it's actually, cause like when it comes to the diss song thing, it's like, I think everybody agrees that we would rather it be music.


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[Assistant] As long as we're on the Brooklyn thing, it's kind of astounding you managed to escape the whole Trayway vibe. You never thought about tapping in with that?


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[Assistant] What was your perspective on it though when you're watching all this insanity just taking place and this is sort of becoming the image of Brooklyn to a certain extent?


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[Assistant] Do you think that when Bobby comes home that it's going to be a huge moment in New York? Are you excited for that anyway? I hope so.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's gonna be crazy too, just because, you know, guys who get locked up and...


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[Assistant] Alchemist and all that stuff. It's a little bit more of a classic style. Uh, are you drawn towards that at all or like how do you end up settling on what style of beat you're most attracted to?


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[Assistant] You never thought about going full, like, Caribbean Latino wave, cause that shit's so popular now? Absolutely. Have you done anything to sound like that at all?


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[Assistant] It's such a weird thing for me now that when I go to listen to somebody I'm about to interview's music that they have the new album but then the album's not actually out. There's just a couple songs. This is such a new thing over the last couple years.


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[Assistant] But that's, why have you been waiting so long to make this official statement? Because it feels like


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[Assistant] That's always supposed to be the hard thing when you talk about your first album is your entire life up till that album and then your second album is that album to the time that you put out the second album. Exactly. And by that time you're usually famous or rich or more rich and famous than you were before. Everything's different. Nobody really wants to hear an album from somebody who's just got it made.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm excited for it. I think it's gonna be, it's gonna be crazy. Uhm, I noticed that you mentioned Fashion Nova in a couple of your recent songs. Is that, what is your relationship to the brand?


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[Assistant] I too am endorsed by Fashion Nova, I gotta admit, so.


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[Assistant] You can keep it low price. It's all good. You don't need that. You don't need to like, because there's nothing worse than seeing somebody who's wearing like a Gucci shirt and you know that they spent every last dollar they have on that shirt. Every last dollar and they really not.


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[Assistant] Definitely. What, uhm, you have a freestyle that's going insanely viral right now, like everybody's just talking about this. What's your mentality when you go in to do something like that?


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[Assistant] Do you walk around with bars on deck in your brain at all times?


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[Assistant] You know, I just realized I gotta ask you about this, cause you did that freestyle with Funkflex. Did you see Tyler, the creator, when he went on Funkflex? Yea. How great was that?


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[Assistant] I don't know if Flex has ever had a conversation about LGBTQ issues before that. Like I feel like that might have been the most he ever even thought about it.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like, do you feel annoyed because it feels like everybody always wants to put you into the box of the identity groups that you fall into and it feels like you


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[Assistant] So what makes you the happiest in an average week, you know, when you're not rapping or talking about rapping? When are you actually enjoying yourself the most?


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause sometimes I'll look at my Instagram story and there's like nothing on it and then I'll realize like, dude, I did so many things today that I could have put on there.


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[Assistant] You could motivate the people out there by like letting them know that you ate a $80 salad. It means that maybe they too could one day get a $80 salad.


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[Assistant] That's why your fanbase sticks around. The cool factor is just, you can't deny it.


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[Assistant] I'm actually glad your efforts are going towards something more positive.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Uh, Young M.A., album on the way. Very exciting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thank you so much. It was an honor. Uh, Young and Main, Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. Like, comment, and subscribe. Nojumper.com if you want to support. Peace!


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[Assistant] No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world and today I'm in here, back. With the coolest rappers in the world. The coolest rappers in the world, the L.A. Geekers. How you guys doing? Yes, sir. Cooling in the building. Shoreline in the building. That is us. First thing that comes to mind.


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[Assistant] I was watching that old interview last night. The one that we did, yeaah. I was high as hell.


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[Assistant] Because you wanna know the craziest shit is I was talking to y'all like y'all like, like, didn't really have big numbers on YouTube yet. Cause I was like, you know, you guys, your shit is so dope. The fans are going crazy, but the numbers are not really there yet. Like how do you feel about type shit? Which is so crazy cause now your shit on YouTube is retarded.


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[Assistant] I'll take credit for it for sure, yea. I'll take 100% credit. Shout out to Nojumper. Man, I appreciate it. Uhm, we see you guys moving around a little bit less deep. Has that been like a learning process that you just can't take the whole time with you? Something like that.


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[Assistant] Charges? Yeah, like fees. Oh, okay, it's just the money situation, cause when you go on tour and stuff, it's like you want to bring everyone with you.


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[Assistant] So is it, is the mentality like, now you guys just try to keep things a little bit more all business because too much shit comes with it?


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[Assistant] Hmm. Little bit of a learning process there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's good. Alright, so real quick before we continue on with this interview, I do want to send a big, big shout out to our sponsor, Eagle Energy.


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[Assistant] You're probably wondering, Adam, you don't vape. What are you doing? Haven't you heard in the news that the vape thing is very dangerous, that scientists have no idea what's going on with the chemicals inside of those pens? Well, I got good news for you. Eagle Energy Caffeine Pens.


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[Assistant] You don't have to worry about any of that stuff. It's a caffeine inhaler vape pen. The main ingredients are iguana


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[Assistant] Vitamin B12 and ginseng. Uhm, you've heard about all this news about vaping, everything like that, all the nicotine, the harmful chemicals. Well, this is a safe alternative. It has all natural plant-based active ingredients. You know me. You know that over the years, you've seen me with a coffee in hand, with an energy drink in hand.


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[Assistant] Well, increasingly more and more, I'll just go reach for an Eagle Energy, uh, caffeine inhaler if I need a quick burst of energy before I get into the podcast. Uh, there's no jitters, no crash.


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[Assistant] Consistent, clean caffeine buzz. You can do it anywhere. You don't have to worry about walking around holding a big hot jug of crap. So anyway, if you want to get yourself one of these Eagle Energy pens, which by the way, when I did an advertisement for this last time,


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[Assistant] I don't know if I should say, but I had some very big name rappers hit me up saying like, yo, are those pens for real? So if you're sitting there feeling a little bit intrigued,


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[Assistant] That's understandable, because other people as well, people more famous, richer than you, they're interested as well. Go on over to myeagle.energy and if you use the promo code NOJUMPER22 then you will get 22% off. That's right, myeagle.energy. 22% off, NOJUMPER22.


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[Assistant] Uh, 10 to 20 hits of this is equivalent to a cup of coffee, so I guess I gotta hit it a few more times. Let's get back into the Charlotte Mafia interview. BANG! So this new party pack shit is out.


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[Assistant] All platforms, go get that. What made you decide that you wanted to do the first single all by yourself? I think people were a little bit surprised.


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[Assistant] It's like kind of a big change for you guys because when we did that first interview you guys were kind of like always together and shit and now we see different little things like we see OG just off doing a club hosting in Texas or some shit by himself and I'm looking at the flyer like damn, they're all grown up.


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[Assistant] So you guys both have kids now, what ages are we looking at?


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[Assistant] Six months. About to throw a six month party. That's what's up. And you're a proud dad. I seen you walking with a baby stroller down Melrose. Yea, my son going up.


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[Assistant] But okay, so let's talk about being a dad though, because it's like you guys have images as, you know, gangster-ass rappers and shit, but then you guys are out here doing the dad stuff, like how deep do you get into the actual parenting?


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I mean, there's a lot of people that, that will basically like make a fucking baby and then just be totally cool just running off and just doing their own thing and forget about it. It's like, I'm sure you guys all know dudes who've done that. I know, I know dudes. It's like, I don't, but I don't really know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you guys wanna put your baby mamas in the crazy category?


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[Assistant] Right. So did that change your mentality though, just having like a seat in this world? Does that change like how you wake up in the morning? In the sense that you're thinking about like, I need to go get some money. Yeah, for sure, for sure.


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[Assistant] Right, see that's the thing. Especially in the rap game. Yea, I know a lot of them. I know a lot of people who balance that shit pretty well, but at the same time it's like, you know, you're not operating at your full capacity if you're, if you're- Everybody they own.


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[Assistant] But do you ever like run into fans and you're like, damn, this dude's fucking doing too much and he might have been a little inspired by some of the shit I said on records.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do you subscribe to the idea that you're promoting, selling it, not doing it? Yeah.


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[Assistant] But it was just crazy when I was watching that old interview though, because I was like, man, these, like, you guys clearly had not really had to deal with any of the bullshit, like the shit with the news had just happened. You guys were just speaking so freely, just like, just not really giving a fuck. It's crazy how much you could kind of grow up in the course of a couple of years.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeaah, cause it's crazy with you guys, like you guys can go in the studio, you can make five songs a night, no problem. But, I mean, I think that everybody kinda recognizes that Shoreline, just in terms of the wave that you guys have with the youth and the people in the city right now.


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[Assistant] Have you guys, uh, are you guys still recording your verses in one go or have you sort of transitioned? I heard like a song one time with Kenny Beats and he was like, I got Phoenix to punch in on this.


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[Assistant] Right. You switched it up at all, GZ, or now you still got the same method?


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[Assistant] Okay. Cause you guys will be, like I seen you guys in the studio just sort of like hovering over your phone.


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[Assistant] But I mean, you guys, like in the studio, it's easy to get bored with the writing process because there's usually so many other extracurricular activities going on. There's just straight people pulling up left and right, all kinds of deals are being made, all kinds of wild shit.


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[Assistant] Do you guys, like, in terms of your creative process though, are you guys still booking a lot of those studio sessions like that, or are you more just like, likely to just sort of fuck around and make stuff?


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[Assistant] Right. Definitely. Uhm, can we talk about Draco's case?


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[Assistant] He was going crazy on Twitter the other day basically saying that he feels like people ain't paid enough attention to what he has going on and everything. Do you think that's true?


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[Assistant] Really, such a shame. I went to listen to Drake the other day and just seeing that he had a project out on album music since 2017, that hurts. Yea, that's so crazy. Been in a drought, no new shit. I would love to like know what he was bringing to the table right now, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. What about Mac P-Dog? How did you guys decide that you wanted to kinda push him out into the forefront?


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[Assistant] Bari is the only dude who was able to do a chorus on a huge song and then still have people not count him as a rapper. That's crazy. Because it was so simple and good.


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[Assistant] Because he, that was a crazy, that's a crazy story behind that because we were doing his interview in London. I said, who's like the one rapper that you would fuck with out of the US or whatever that you'd want to work with? He said, Charlamagne Mafia. I was like, let me hit him up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's wild to see the level you guys got to just because it's like, I've been seeing you play big shows in LA for a while, but now it's like, I've seen you playing festivals and shows in other places and those shits are selling really big crowds, big numbers, but then the number of people you had in LA where you did back to back nights at the Shrine, that's like 10,000 people a night, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's probably a good, uh, a good idea. Who else out of LA do you guys fuck with? Cause I feel like you guys are really like kinda leading the charge in terms of like the underground wave of LA street artists coming out. But there's a lot of other artists who I feel like are kinda influenced by you guys or associated with you guys, etc.


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[Assistant] A lot of you guys, a lot of artists, like, in your position would maybe be stingy with doing features with people you really fuck with and stuff, but a lot of you guys' biggest songs, like, uh, the one with Lonnie and shit that you guys got, like, you guys-


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[Assistant] I feel like that's what a lot of people love you guys for too, is just the fact that y'all really like genuinely fuck with all of this crazy ass street music from the Bay, from, you know, the hoods in LA and shit that a lot of people are maybe not into. It's so obvious that you guys have like a real level of fandom.


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[Assistant] Mmhm. Facts. Uhm, so, how'd you end up working with currency?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, for the album and shit, like there's a Rob Vicious verse on the tape and stuff, but does it feel like you guys have sort of whittled down to like you guys being the primary crew or do you still consider that? No, not really.


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[Assistant] But yea, so you feel like that shit, like, is just too many money making opportunities for everybody, for everybody to be on the same page to always stay together on tour.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so it means I'll probably watch enough of it in my life, but it's like, you know, I'll be watching like any kind of underground rap video and right afterwards it's like, nope, short line next.


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[Assistant] You got YouTube on your side. Uhm, how do you deal with fans trying to give you guys drugs?


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[Assistant] I've done it where I flew to Europe and I'm all barred out and I gotta fucking switch flights, go get my luggage, go through customs all over again and then get on another flight. Find the gate and get on the flight.


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask y'all about this fucking tweet that caught my eye from Tyler, the creator. As LA, uh, veteran citizens, he wrote, I want to publicly thank my mom for not moving to Moreno Valley or the IE in 2004 like a lot of people from Los Angeles did because man, I would have sucked. Thank you.


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[Assistant] That shit had me tripping out, like what? This guy barely ever tweets. He barely even promoted his own album and he out here taking shots at the IE. I fuck with the IE. Yeaah. But I guess I understand what he's saying is that a lot of people who like lived in the heart of LA, they moved to save money or whatever.


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[Assistant] Oh, for real? That like, organic shit. They got some new shit out there. They got bang, they got rain. I ain't tried any of them, to be honest.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. You been smoking heavy? You guys off the Nile Jumper Kush or what?


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[Assistant] I couldn't afford the good stuff until recently. Good, no jumper weed. Just like that.


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[Assistant] People still got good plugs and shit, but they're gonna keep trying to get rid of the plugs so it's gonna be harder and harder to be on the streets with you.


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[Assistant] Imagine you got pulled over by the cops and you got in trouble because you had some bootleg weed, like you had street weed on you and they're like, you didn't get this from the clinic. You're gone. What? Officer, I swear it's mid.


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[Assistant] That is funny as fuck. Uhm, yeaah. Do you guys still roast fans on Twitter or is that wave over?


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[Assistant] I like it about you guys that you'll just do songs with all these different up and coming dudes cause I feel like that in the long run is what is gonna actually really make the culture love you and appreciate you.


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[Assistant] Craig, Julie. I mean, is it kind of flattering to think that Atlantic knows the power of what you guys got and they want to make sure that it's perfect?


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[Assistant] And Drake. Is it true that y'all ever linked with Amigos?


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[Assistant] Can I, can I ask a question? I heard that Quavo said to you, is Quali really your favorite pour?


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[Assistant] That is so fucking funny, bro. Cause I feel like not many people would say quality is their favorite, right?


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[Assistant] You see that dude, Drippy, who signed with SauceWalker? He got Pikachu his whole face.


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[Assistant] This year. Yo, strong man for you. Appreciate y'all coming in. Check in.


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[Assistant] Well, so the thing to remember about dinosaurs, right, is that although they're maybe the most spectacular productions that life has made on the earth, they still sit in this vast tree that connects all living things, right? So the origin of dinosaurs, the origin of birds within dinosaurs, these are both


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[Assistant] Transformations and transitions that, that, that are part of the story of evolution on Earth. And that means that they have a context.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and we can study them the way we study any other evolutionary transition. In fact, Ryan mentioned, for instance, that there are


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[Assistant] Uh, living dinosaurs. In fact, there are more living dinosaurs today than probably there have been dinosaurs ever in the past, right? Birds. And then we've also got crocodiles and alligators, which are the sister group.


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[Assistant] And because of that, we can study to learn about the progression of changes that led to the thing that is a dinosaur, the thing that is a bird. We can study the development of the embryos of the living dinosaurs and the relatives to be able to comprehend


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[Assistant] Ways in which genes are acting on the, the, each individual embryo as it develops, right, to create these transformations. Because you have to remember that generation of form is twofold.