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[Assistant] For example, we were waiting outside. It's an adverb. It stands alone. But it can also be a preposition.


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[Assistant] We were waiting outside his office. Goes with a noun. Another example. I kicked the ball around.


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[Assistant] Around is an adverb. In this case, it stands alone. But it can also be a preposition.


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[Assistant] I kicked the ball around the field. It goes with a noun.


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[Assistant] Okay, so an adverb stands alone. A preposition is followed by a noun.


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[Assistant] Now let's practice pronunciation. Please repeat after me. We were waiting outside.


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[Assistant] Very good, guys. Let's now move on to practice, shall we?


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[Assistant] Okay guys, let's do a bit of extra practice. I have a few example sentences for you to spot adverbs of place. First example.


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[Assistant] John looked around, but he couldn't find his wife. Now remember, adverbs of place answer the question, where? Can you spot the adverb here?


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[Assistant] Of course, it's the word around. Where did John look? He looked around. Second example.


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[Assistant] I searched everywhere I could think of. Now, where did I search? Everywhere. Everywhere is the adverb. Let's go back.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's practice pronunciation. Please repeat the sentences after me.


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[Assistant] John looked around, but he couldn't find his wife.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, you now know a lot more about adverbs of place. Now I know it's hard to learn about all these adverbs.


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[Assistant] But don't worry. You'll get there. You just need a bit of practice. Okay?


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[Assistant] Now I'm going to carry on talking about adverbs in my next videos. So make sure to watch them. Thank you for watching and see you next time.


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[Assistant] Click like. Subscribe to the channel. Put your comments below. Always nice. And share the video with your friends. See you!


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[Assistant] Our goal on this show is to make people laugh and feel good every day, so I got this letter from a viewer in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and I knew I wanted to talk to her.


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[Assistant] Incarceration has become the response to every social problem that we encounter.


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[Assistant] Incarceration has become the response to every social problem that we encounter. They're doing bad at school, lock them up. A problem in the home, lock them up.


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[Assistant] Incarceration has become the response.


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[Assistant] To every social problem that we, that we encounter. They're doing bad at school, lock them up.


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[Assistant] I'm really sad to say that the data plays out really clearly, that once a child is involved with us formally,


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[Assistant] When you hear those doors locked behind you and somebody has to start calling for keys and for numbers every time you move and somebody's watching you 24 hours a day, how do you help?


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[Assistant] But internalize that. Especially as a child. How do you help but internalize that this must be my natural habitat?


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[Assistant] Alright, so this was the text exchange between me and Mike. This is what I said. I said the first goal should just be making a roster. If he plays 10 minutes a game and scores 10 a game, that's going above expectations. I see his potential, but I'm cautiously optimistic. To me,


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[Assistant] I feel like there's an opportunity for him to get real playing time simply because even though he's immature.


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[Assistant] He's already, there's things that he can do that Isaac Okoro, Settie Osmond, Dean Wade, LMR Stevens just can't do.


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[Assistant] Hey Darrell, I got a question for you about the uh, Sky Judge. So there was a uh, uh, impact penalty called in that championship game with Michigan and Pittsburgh. The Sky Judge was able to step in and get the correct call. How, how far away is the NFL from adapting some of what you guys do in the USFL as far as Sky Judge and other things like that?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, uh, so, we get out there, you know, shout out to Greg Newsome, shout out to the entire, you know, event and things like that. Me, Martin Emerson Jr., David Njoku, Darius Garland that plays for the cast, we all got the same hair stylists, we all got the same locatition.


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[Assistant] You know, him about me, so we get to talking about our hair, and that broke the ice.


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[Assistant] Shout out to MJ Emerson Jr. Man was nothing short of amazing. Showed UCSS a lot of love. We were the only sports entity out there that had a player mic'd up. And I think it had a lot to do with the off the field connections and things like that. It was great.


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[Assistant] I got some feedback after the fact too. You know, she, she texts me. She said, you got a few minutes. She said, uh, he loved you. He loved your personality. Nice. You know, he had a lot of great things to say about the show. I'd say you guys are boys now.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean outside of when we did Cavs Media Day last year, this was like my second time, but uh.


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[Assistant] It's very easy. I had fun, learned a lot man. Shout out to my boy Mcnuggets man, gave me some pointers on how to interview.


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[Assistant] Uh, he gave me some pointers, I think, you know, before we left here during the week on how to shoot some video and things like that. Great. So just...


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[Assistant] You got it. But I had fun. I was ready for more. Good for you. Well done.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they got the picture, but she even posted a picture of me and him on her Instagram, so she had fun with it. Uh, David the joker was her favorite. It's her favorite client. Yeah, she tries a lot of different styles out on him. So anybody with locks.


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[Assistant] Like we really, really love our hair and we take who do our hair very serious. Sure, it's a big deal. This is not a cheap thing right here. It doesn't look cheap. It's costly.


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[Assistant] Can we get Chris Antonetti on the phone? Before y'all see this, get Chris Antonetti on the phone right now. You just talked about a first baseman, right? A serviceable first baseman. I say no contract extension for the Cavs for Donovan Mitchell. Sign him up for it.


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[Assistant] Okay, no, the cop told me he broke three cars. That was over the regular fence. He's hitting shots. Oh, he did break a car window? Yea, the cop said he broke three. Look at this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like, Mcnuggets left, I watched his final at bat, then I kinda snuck to the back to kinda get some, uh, uh, Donovan Mitchell interview, but he popped out his very last at bat.


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[Assistant] But, you know, Spider was very personable man, like between every inning, he was going to sign autographs for the fans. He spent a lot of time interacting with the fans and things like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, surprised nobody gave him a hard time because he had on Mets gloves, but whatever. But uh, I would say Spider first. Uh, shout out to MJ. I thought MJ was great defensively. He didn't do too much with the back.


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[Assistant] I definitely got that same vibe, uh, just, just watching the body language, watching the interaction.


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[Assistant] Just a cool, very cool dude, very humble, very respectful. Doesn't come off like, you know, he's bigger than the next man because he plays in the NFL. So that right there is uh.


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[Assistant] And what's bizarre is that we've actually taken money away from


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[Assistant] Health and Human Services, Family Services, Social Services.


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[Assistant] To fund an investment in incarceration.


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[Assistant] When we release people from prison, the risk of going back to prison is very, very high. Not because you're going to commit a new crime.


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[Assistant] But because we create these conditions for release that are very difficult to satisfy.


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[Assistant] You have to pay 30 or 40 or 50 dollars a month.


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[Assistant] You can't move. There are a whole host of things you cannot do. And lots of people who are struggling with reentry fail to do them.


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[Assistant] And you see these technical violations sending thousands of people back to jail or prison, sometimes for years, maybe even decades.


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[Assistant] We have now seen the national rate of incarceration finally slow.


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[Assistant] Uh, and get to the point where it hasn't increased in the way it has over the last 40 years. And I think the big question is whether we can sustain that. How you guys doing?


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[Assistant] I think our consciousness about what we've done is starting to grow.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we'll need a few years of steady decline before we can actually declare an end to an era.


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[Assistant] I think that one of the key issues is disclosure of placement agent fees.


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[Assistant] Well, the headline was that there were these abuses, uh, involving placement agents. $14 million had been paid to undisclose individuals for doing little or nothing. It was happening all over the country. Public funds pay hundreds of millions in placement agent fees.


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[Assistant] So it's a significant problem and it's a real waste of retirement savings.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome to this English course on adverbs.


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[Assistant] Now in English, they're usually placed before the adjective or adverb or verb that they modify.


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[Assistant] But obviously, as always, there are exceptions.


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[Assistant] There are very common adverbs of degree that I'm sure you use all the time. To, enough, very, extremely. But there are so many others.


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[Assistant] Let's have a look at a few examples of adverbs of degree, especially how they are used with adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.


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[Assistant] Now adverbs of degree are usually placed


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[Assistant] And before the main verb of the sentence. For example


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[Assistant] And the adverb, extremely, that modifies the adjective, cold. And as you can see,


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[Assistant] The adverb is placed before the adjective that it modifies. Second example. He just left.


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[Assistant] In this case, the adverb, just, comes before the verb, left, which is the main verb of the sentence. She is running very fast.


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[Assistant] Now in this case, we have two adverbs. The adverb fast and the adverb very that modifies the adverb fast. And as you can see, our adverb very


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[Assistant] Is placed before the adverb that it modifies.


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[Assistant] The adverb completely modifies the adjective exhausted and is therefore placed before it.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, let's practice pronunciation now. Please repeat after me. The water was extremely cold.


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[Assistant] Some very common adverbs of degree in English are enough, very, and to. Let's look at a few examples. Is your coffee hot enough? So in this case, our adverb enough modifies the adjective hot. He didn't work hard enough.


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[Assistant] In that case, our adverb enough modifies another adverb, the adverb hard.


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[Assistant] Is usually placed after the adjective or adverb that it modifies.


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[Assistant] Another example is very. The girl was very beautiful.


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[Assistant] So the adverb, very, modifies our adjective, beautiful. He worked very quickly.


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[Assistant] So in this case, our adverb, very, modifies the adverb quickly.


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[Assistant] And as you can see, very is usually placed before the word that it modifies.


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[Assistant] In that case, to modifies the adverb, hard. And as you can see, to…


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[Assistant] Is usually placed before the word that it modifies. Okay? Hope you got it. Let's move on.


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[Assistant] Let's now focus on pronunciation. Please repeat after me. Is your coffee hot enough?


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[Assistant] Okay guys, let's do a little bit of extra practice with a few example sentences. He speaks very quickly. Can you spot the adverb of degree?


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[Assistant] It's very and it modifies the other adverb of the sentence quickly. He speaks too quickly.


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[Assistant] Be very careful. There's a difference between very and to. Very is a fact.


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[Assistant] To means there's a problem. Okay, he speaks so quickly that you cannot understand. He speaks too quickly.


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[Assistant] Another example. My teacher is terribly angry. Where is the adverb of the Greek?


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[Assistant] It's the adverb, terribly, that modifies the adjective, angry. They were almost finished. Can you spot the adverb?


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[Assistant] It's almost and it modifies the verb finished. Okay. So we're not finished yet. We're almost finished.


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[Assistant] The adverb of degree in this case is the adverb, enough. And it modifies our adjective, big. And remember, enough usually goes after the word that it modifies. Okay. I hope you get it, guys.


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[Assistant] Time for some pronunciation practice. Please repeat after me. He speaks very quickly.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, you now know a lot more about adverbs of degree. And I'm sure this video will help you improve your English. But keep practicing.


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[Assistant] And make sure you watch the other videos on adverbs. They're very useful as well. Thank you for watching and see you next time.


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[Assistant] Thank you guys for watching my video. If you like it, please show me your support. Click like. Subscribe to our channel. Put your comments below and share it with all your friends. See you!


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[Assistant] Keith at this point has been declared an absconder.


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[Assistant] Being declared an obsconer means that you are a fugitive. Uhm, it means that I will be turning his case over to our fugitive task force to locate him.


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[Assistant] In the first meeting with Keith, I really honestly felt that he was genuine. He was ready to change. He's been in and out of the system for 40 years. So I really thought he was ready. He had less than six months to be completely done with this.


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[Assistant] I attempted to call his cell phone, did a home visit.


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[Assistant] Worried, of course, you know, because he'd had medical problems.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jost, you did a charity event last year. What did you do?


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[Assistant] Guys, I want to ask about this. So, Che, you went on Instagram and wrote this post about Jost.


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[Assistant] The thing that burns me up the most about Colin is that deep down inside, I think he's a nice guy, but he hides behind this cool guy persona that makes him push me down and make fun of my hair and put dog food in my lunch.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So then somebody wrote to you, uh,


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[Assistant] I'm concerned first of all that what we're doing is illegal. I'm hoping that we can have


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[Assistant] Could you explain why we're not having a representative of the teachers to testify on this bill? Since they are the main people who are going to be affected by it?


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[Assistant] We're all scared, we're all furious, and we're all exhausted.


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[Assistant] A few people I knew were traveling from Berlin to Halle, a place I didn't even know exactly where it was, to celebrate Yom Kippur in a smaller community, and I was happy and curious.


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[Assistant] We had actually started reading from the Torah. A friend of mine was seated in front of me, and I remember hearing this, like, bang.


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[Assistant] The image Germany portrays to the outside is that Germany has learned its lesson from the Second World War. Germany is taking care of its people among those people, Jewish people.


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[Assistant] And it was just obvious. They have next to no knowledge of right-wing extremism online. They barely know anything about the whole movement. They barely know the chat rooms and switchboards and how like the actual language, the specific vocabulary. They barely know anything.


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[Assistant] Among my friends, uhm, and other Jewish activists, I do not know a single person who is doing okay at the moment. Nobody is okay.


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[Assistant] One person reported seeing somebody dressed in military combat fatigues.


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[Assistant] Like this clear neo-Nazi stuff with the text, yeah, we will cook your Jewish hats while you are alive.


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[Assistant] We're seeing normal people who don't have any problem in life, just normal lives, posting really, really extreme content. That is something which really concerns me.


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[Assistant] From time to time words are getting into actions and we will see this number growing. It will not stop at words.


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[Assistant] Es kommen immer mehr Personen in den Blick, die zum Beispiel aus den Sicherheitsbehörden sind, also aktive oder ehemalige Soldaten oder Polizisten, und heute sind es halt.


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[Assistant] Even though it's still too early for the sun to give any warmth, but it's still the light, you know. If you're really thirsty and you haven't had any water in a long time and suddenly you just have this first sip of the water, this is the same feeling almost.


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[Assistant] You just wanna take in every single sunray to hear the birds.


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[Assistant] So I just got some food for the deers because we have I think five deers in this village and since it's a really cold and hard winter, uhm, they struggle a lot to get food. So I thought I would give them a little help. I just read that


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[Assistant] During a really hard winter, about 40% of the deer population can die because they starve to death. And that is so terrible. Mmm, the smell of this is so good. So I have made...


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[Assistant] Five piles over there. And the rest I'm just gonna save here and, uh, put, uh, press sending.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna put a presentation over this so that I can go everyday and get some more out. When it's really cold outside, it's like your lips freeze and it becomes harder to uhm, talk in a way.


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[Assistant] Skiing a little bit, because it's pretty warm outside today, and it's snowing.


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[Assistant] It's really beautiful in the forest. And it's still so quiet.


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[Assistant] Hello, my loves. How are you doing today? Uhm, if I look very tired today.


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[Assistant] I really look forward to get some really good sleep tonight. So I hopefully will feel more energized tomorrow because tomorrow I gotta get some shit done. There's a...


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[Assistant] There's a lot of good things that's gonna happen now in the future. But yeah, it's been quite a messy time and I'm sure that...


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[Assistant] I don't really know how this vlog is gonna turn out either. I've just spent a few days now in my studio working a lot during the days with meetings and stuff and then I've just been painting to try to relax a little bit and that's been really nice and of course been out in nature as much as I can. But yeah, I thought that


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[Assistant] And the thing is that back then I had no idea because


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[Assistant] So thankful because it was such a beautiful instrument. I mean, uh, that's why we hanged it up in our living room because we want to play on it every day. But after I shared a scene with that instrument in my video,


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[Assistant] I got a email from the person who sent it to me and the person who actually made it. So his name is Michael and he lives in Ukraine and he does a lot of special and beautiful instruments by hand. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Artists and, you know, people doing their own crafts and selling them online, uh, and it's like from all over the world, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, which I do quite often. So yeaah, there's just a lot of questions regarding that subject of being alone by myself, uh, on a road trip and


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[Assistant] I just can't see any danger in going on a road trip all by myself. There's nothing strange about that in our country.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean that it's never a risk to go all by yourself. Uh, I mean, it's always more safe to be two people or more.


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[Assistant] Uh, unsecure, being all by themselves in a new place or something, which I totally understand. Uh, but since I don't feel that...


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[Assistant] And we don't really have the same problems with wild animals here in Sweden. I mean, we have a lot of wild animals. We have bears and wolves and moose and, you know, many different animals. But they are not a problem. Oh, my mom is calling. Sorry.


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[Assistant] For example, I know United States has with bears. We have a lot of bears here in Sweden, but they never see...


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[Assistant] The bears were a really big problem, because if you left any food in your car, they would break in, and yeah, there was just big problems with that.


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[Assistant] And I just go anywhere I want and stuff everywhere I want. And I don't think so much about if it's dangerous or not. I mean...


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[Assistant] Oleg and I are about to head over to Camp David to watch some Nightblade.


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[Assistant] Bad! Our own IP is attacking us and you're


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[Assistant] More than half a million Eritreans have fled their home country.


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[Assistant] They say they are escaping one of the most repressive and secretive dictatorships in the world.


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[Assistant] But for more than five years, we've been gathering secretly shot footage from inside the country and interviewing people who've escaped.


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[Assistant] Tigray. Northern Ethiopia.


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[Assistant] Our investigation began here, in the winter of 2016.


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[Assistant] A group of refugees had just escaped neighbouring Eritrea.


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[Assistant] Thousands of them, unaccompanied children.


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[Assistant] And force conscription into the Eritrean military.


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[Assistant] Eritrea is often described as Africa's North Korea.


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[Assistant] It's been ruled by one man, Isais Afwerki, since 1991, when it won a war of independence from Ethiopia.


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[Assistant] The President imposed mandatory national service for all Eritreans.


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[Assistant] In a safe house in Ethiopia's capital, we met a man named Michael. He'd just escaped from Eritrea and smuggled out something remarkable.


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[Assistant] Michael told us he was arrested in 2011 for trying to avoid military service.


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[Assistant] Just outside the capital, Asmara, for more than four years.


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[Assistant] He said a sympathetic guard helped him smuggle in a small camera.


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[Assistant] The prisoners can be seen packed into large holding rooms. According to Michael they can be held like this for years without trial.


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[Assistant] Michael said many of his fellow inmates were there for avoiding conscription like him or attempting to escape the country or helping family members flee.


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[Assistant] Michael was one of more than 30 Eritrean refugees we interviewed over the course of our investigation. For their safety, we agreed to conceal many of their identities.


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[Assistant] We also reviewed and verified more than 10 hours of secretly shot footage from inside the country.


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[Assistant] The Eritrean government would not speak to us about what we'd found.


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[Assistant] Other than to say the allegations were astounding and that they'd seen many fabricated stories before.


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[Assistant] We made contact with a secret group of Eritrean activists. We met them in a cafe in the Ethiopian capital.


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[Assistant] Who could provide us with more undercover footage from inside the country. They said it was dangerous and would take time. We would have to wait.


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[Assistant] Human rights groups accuse Eritrea of running a national network of jails and detention facilities, like the one Michael filmed.


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[Assistant] For two years, a United Nations team tried to investigate this network.


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[Assistant] She had tried to flee Eritrea to avoid military service.


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[Assistant] Hannah said she was sent here to Sauer Military Training Base, where all Eritreans start their mandatory national service.


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[Assistant] In Eritrean propaganda, Sawa is depicted as a happy place, where citizens become good, patriotic soldiers.


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[Assistant] Hannah told us the reality for her was very different.


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[Assistant] Hannah's story mirrored the accounts of many other refugees we met in camps along the border with Ethiopia.


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[Assistant] Sarim told us he just recently escaped from Eritrea.


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[Assistant] In his first attempt to escape, Saram said he was shot in the arm and leg while trying to cross the border and taken straight to prison with untreated wounds.


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[Assistant] Saram told us he was held like this for two years and three months.


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[Assistant] In our interviews with refugees, one prison kept coming up.


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[Assistant] Where? Tesfaye said he was held at Weir as punishment for trying to flee military service.


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[Assistant] And Kyros, a soldier, were also detained in Weir prison camp.


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[Assistant] They say that they too were held in the underground cell known as the oven.


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[Assistant] Supporters of the Eritrean government staged a protest in Geneva, accusing the UN of bias.


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[Assistant] The UN report recommended Eritrea be referred to the International Criminal Court.


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[Assistant] For opponents of the regime, the UN report was a moment of hope.


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[Assistant] But for reasons that had never been explained publicly, senior UN authorities took no further action. They declined to speak to us about it.


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[Assistant] By now, it had been more than a year since we'd made contact with the activists trying to get undercover footage out of Eritrea. We'd received a few clips from them, nothing more. We were told two had been arrested.


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[Assistant] Some had sent messages back to us saying it was too dangerous to film. Others had broken off all contact.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, we continue to gather first-hand accounts from Eritreans who'd escaped.


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[Assistant] He told us he regularly treated inmates who had been tortured in Adyabeto prison, as well as another military prison, Mysirwa.


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[Assistant] We heard similar accounts of torture from Michael, the former inmate who filmed undercover in Adia Beto prison. He told us that prisoners were interrogated and tortured in a room here, just above the main courtyard. He said that when he was first imprisoned, he was subject to months of brutal interrogation.


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[Assistant] In Eritrea, Hannah told us, anyone can become a victim. Her father, Petra Solomon, was once one of the most powerful people in the country, the Minister of Defence.


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[Assistant] In 2001, Hannah's father wrote an open letter with 14 other officials.


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[Assistant] Criticizing the President's increasingly authoritarian rule.


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[Assistant] President Isaias accused Hannah's father and the others of trying to seize power and had 11 of them arrested.


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[Assistant] It's thought most of them were imprisoned here at a top security facility called EraIro.


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[Assistant] Specially built for high profile political prisoners.


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[Assistant] The president went on to shut down the free press and jail many journalists.


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[Assistant] Hannah's mother, Astor, was studying in the United States when her husband was locked up. She returned to Eritrea to seek his release.


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[Assistant] In our requests to the Eritrean government, we asked about Hannah's parents and other political prisoners, but they would not provide any details.


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[Assistant] Two years into our investigation, we'd heard nothing more from the undercover activists.


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[Assistant] But new footage had emerged on the internet of something almost unheard of in Eritrea. A public protest.


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[Assistant] We found two young men who said they were there that day. Aman and Redwan.


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[Assistant] They told us they were protesting of the Education Ministry.


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[Assistant] Because an Islamic school was being put under government control and a religious leader had been arrested.


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[Assistant] Eritrea's president and a new Ethiopian leader, Abiy Ahmed, announced a surprise peace deal.


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[Assistant] And families separated by years of hostilities between the two countries were at last reunited.


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[Assistant] In the months after the peace deal, the border closed again. And we started to hear reports that little had changed.


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[Assistant] Then, we were finally contacted by one of the activists working to smuggle out undercover footage.


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[Assistant] He was a prison guard who asked to be called Destah.


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[Assistant] Shortly after the peace deal, he started filming with a secret camera that we'd sent to him.


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[Assistant] He filmed New Arrivals. Some appear to be no more than teenagers.


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[Assistant] Desta confirmed what we'd heard from the former inmate Michael about the torture room.


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[Assistant] Desta then took his secret camera to one of the prison's main detention halls.


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[Assistant] In late 2020, we tried to return to the refugee camps in Tigray. But journalists were now barred from the region.


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[Assistant] Amid an armed conflict between Ethiopia and rebel forces.


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[Assistant] And we'd heard reports that the refugee camps had come under attack.


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[Assistant] In an audio interview with us, an eyewitness said he'd seen Eritrean soldiers sweep through Hitsat's refugee camp.


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[Assistant] The Eritrean government said in a statement that its troops never attacked the camps.


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[Assistant] But widely published satellite images show several buildings destroyed and burning at hitsats and other refugee camps.


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[Assistant] And the US State Department says it has received credible reports that Eritrean soldiers engaged in looting, sexual violence and assaults on refugees in the camps.


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[Assistant] The eyewitness told us he knows of several refugees who had taken back to Eritrea and locked up in Adia Beto prison.


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[Assistant] It's now almost five years since the UN Commission of Inquiry accused Eritrean officials of crimes against humanity.


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[Assistant] Hannah's parents have now been in prison for almost 20 years.


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[Assistant] But anything to do with facts and figures and, uh, actual statistics is very difficult to get in Eritrea. It all goes to the opaqueness of the system. There is no audit or real figure of the number of prisoners.


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[Assistant] Custody of people without any rule of law. It continues.


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[Assistant] There still is no constitution in the country. There's no free press. There is no independent judiciary.


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[Assistant] The human rights situation in Eritrea constitutes a threat to international peace and security as a pretext to send yet another African country to the International Criminal Court.


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[Assistant] The commission has not presented evidence to support its accusations. It fails to prove that the alleged crimes were indeed persistent, widespread and systematic.


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[Assistant] Salaam.


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[Assistant] So uhm,


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[Assistant] Okay.


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[Assistant] So uhm,


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[Assistant] Wow, a whole fire team, huh?


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[Assistant] Sarah Palmer. Commander, Sarah Palmer. I lead all the fire teams aboard Infinity.


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[Assistant] Captain Laski. You know I come up here for my peace and quiet.


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[Assistant] Crimson Team scored the first grab. Whatever it is, it's got the eggheads all tingly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because Requiem wasn't messed up enough.


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[Assistant] It's amusing to see you not have the answer to everything. For once.


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[Assistant] I bet they keep you in something a lot smaller than a sandbox from now on, Catherine.


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[Assistant] Found him, Roland. Dr. Halsey too. Still alive?


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[Assistant] No, but it has to be done. And I don't trust anyone else to do it right.


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[Assistant] I mean- I know what you mean, Tom. And I won't see you court-martialed over that woman.


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[Assistant] Navy disagrees with Spartans on this one. They want you ready. Now.


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[Assistant] We have random fluctuations all over the ship, diner. Power's still completely out of ground zero. I'll get additional lighting set up ASAP.


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[Assistant] A science base, looking for the librarian AI that Master Chief encountered?


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[Assistant] You knew? This is impossible. I have no idea how the hell these memories got from Earth to here.


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[Assistant] Move us far enough away from Requiem that those things can't get on board. Controls aren't responding, Captain. Infinity's locked in position.


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[Assistant] She's only out here because of me. I mean, we're soldiers, not hitmen.


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[Assistant] I'm serious. We shouldn't have to execute a civilian.


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[Assistant] Majestic. I have a personal favorite ask. Dr. Halsey has been abducted.


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[Assistant] Sarah, how's it going on Requiem? It's getting awful warm out here.


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[Assistant] And Caden, he had to adjust with, uh, he had, when he first brought oxygen home or whatever, Caden asked when's he gonna get better, you know, when's he gonna be able to go out and play like we used to. And that's what we had to tell him, you know, it never will change, you know, it'd be the same.


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[Assistant] When people get the first stages of the disease, they require oxygen and then even the oxygen that you're adding to that person so that they can do more isn't enough.


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[Assistant] Something seemed to change where people were more heavily exposed to perhaps more toxic dust and were getting this very severe form of the disease that from my medical school training and from my past clinical practice was rare. Uh, we didn't see that many cases of PMF and it was something that we thought had been relegated to the trash heap of history.


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[Assistant] And then that, uhm, I call it the U-shaped curve of concern. The curve went down and hit the bottom and then started to go back up again, meaning that, uhm, something changed. We took our eye off the ball, something else happened, and the disease was recurring.


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[Assistant] Somewhere in the late 20th century, there has been a change in the composition of the dust.


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[Assistant] We're seeing more silica and silica is 20 times more toxic than coal. When you inhale silica, it's retained in the lung. These miners are inhaling their workplace and it stays with them forever.


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[Assistant] We sympathize with those individuals, with those families. If we could turn back the hands of time, we would do so to prevent this. But, you know, we can't. We're dealing with historic exposures. And from our perspective, what we need to be focused on today is, how do we prevent a reoccurrence of this?


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[Assistant] Well, I don't think it's entirely fair to say that the industry didn't recognize and didn't do anything. You know, for a long period of time, we've been pleading, and I'll use that word, we've been pleading with the agency to allow us to use


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna speculate on why they did or didn't do what they chose.


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[Assistant] You know, our focus here is forward-looking. How do we prevent this in the future? I can't answer for those what occurred in the past. Were we really focusing on the right thing? You know, EMTHA had a mantra, end black lung, and we support that.


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[Assistant] Cold dust might not have really been where the focus should have been at that time. It might have been silica rather than cold dust.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid we're gonna have to give you an IOU on that welcome home party. Tom Lasky. First Officer of the Infinity. Never thought I'd see you again.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's too soon to ask you for a favor, but... We're gonna run out of breathing from here real quick. I don't suppose you're any good at clearing LZs.


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[Assistant] We got locations up and running around installations 5 and 3, but lately they've run into some


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[Assistant] In case you'd already gone, I took the precaution of ordering a Pelican. Outfitted for full combat pursuit.


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[Assistant] Of course not, sir. At ease, chief. Feels kinda hard for you to call me sir.


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[Assistant] I grew up in New Harmony. Attended Corbulo Military Academy. Never saw Earth in person until I was an adult, but... I still think of Earth's home.


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[Assistant] Chief, I won't pretend to know how you feel. And I've lost people I care about, but...


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[Assistant] They say that, like, soldiers and humanity are two different things. And soldiers aren't machines.


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[Assistant] No. Could work to our advantage. No need to chase Nuri down if he backs himself into a corner.


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[Assistant] Bring them in the central office. Whoever left here did it in a hurry.


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[Assistant] A false Moran. Looks like Kud's Force.


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[Assistant] Negative. Could be our only chance to find their destination. Gonna put a tracker in their cargo.


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[Assistant] Send the location to my offset. I'll do the rest.


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[Assistant] Make sure the nukes are primed so you can detonate them remotely.


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[Assistant] Sadik sent me here to distract America. Make them, make them target Tehran.


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[Assistant] He wanted to hijack his ship and provided the men to operate it.


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[Assistant] Sam Fisher. Anna Krim's daughter. Isaac Briggs. Charlie Cole. Your team. Your plane. Fourth echelon. He knows. All of it! You want to find Sadiq? He's right behind you.


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[Assistant] Said you could know I talked. Death by his hand won't be quick. I have no more information. Just kill me.


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[Assistant] I received a call from an investor in Aspen who said he had heard that Bernie was arrested.


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[Assistant] Bernie Madoff in the early 90s.


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[Assistant] I don't know, uhm, every one of my clients knew.


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[Assistant] That was one of always Bernie's conditions of getting an account.


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[Assistant] Yes, but many funds and investors were very secretive. They didn't mention that they had money with Madoff. Uhm, it was something you didn't talk about.


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[Assistant] They were sent to us in the mail, uhm, and we never thought anything of it, but I get my confirmations when I trade tickets in the mail.


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[Assistant] Well, Bernie also, again, it was part of his


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[Assistant] Of course it bothered you. I mean everybody, you know, those are kind of things that it would bother you, but that was one of the conditions of doing business, that you accepted that. And part of that was his proprietary trading model, the black box that he used, that he wasn't going to disclose what was in it.


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[Assistant] He stopped buying AIJ and he stopped buying Citibank.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I called him and he said, I said, you know, it was really terrific that you avoided all these financials.


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[Assistant] He said that he thought that the investment bankers and the major banks were destroying the United States.


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[Assistant] Don't have much money and that, uh, I can really get you an investment that's going to do very well for you.


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[Assistant] And, uh, before long there were probably about 18 to 20 people that were involved with the Viennese.


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[Assistant] Michael Biannis said he had too many, uh, people that he helped invest.


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[Assistant] The SEC said he didn't have a license. So he was just going to stop doing this because it wasn't good. And we could go with Mayo.


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[Assistant] Now the thing is gonna get real. I need you to start laying down your stomach like doing pushups. Okay, let go.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh-huh. On and on and on. Uh, I said. And it's on and on and on.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey just told Walter, I've got this guy who's got really impressive returns.


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[Assistant] You know, come meet him, let's look into it, maybe there's a product we can develop. Once they created Fairfield Century to invest exclusively with Madoff, that's when things really started to accelerate.


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[Assistant] In WN, in Italian country and they wanted that sort of lifestyle. They wanted to be in society.


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[Assistant] I know that there was absolutely no due diligence done when I worked for them. Certainly no deep questions.


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[Assistant] Don't bore me with the details and they wouldn't have gotten it anyway.


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[Assistant] You know, the only way that you would get fired is so unless you did something, uhm, incredibly wrong.


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[Assistant] Since I was there, that anybody would ask questions about something in the, uh, in the firm. You just didn't do that? You just didn't do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of people knew about the Barron's article and people were, were, you know, having side conversations about it. But at the time, you know, he was a...


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[Assistant] Supposedly very respected person on Wall Street.


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[Assistant] My questions are, you have supposedly sophisticated investment fund managers who are investing into this. Uhm, what happened with them? Why didn't they see this?


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


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[Assistant] Are you really? Hey, that's fire. I don't understand how you got that off. That is a dream of mine. This is crazy.


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[Assistant] 1200 yards, 17 touchdowns. Kellen Winslow had over 1000 yards. He was at tight end. Uhm, and you look, I think on defense during that time, I think they had, uh,


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[Assistant] Was Sean Rogers on that defense? Was Big Baby on that defense?


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[Assistant] Josh Cribbs was taking kicks back to the crib in a lot.


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[Assistant] I think it was 10 and 7. Oh, no, 10 and 6. 10 and 6, sorry, yeah, 10 and 6. They went 10 and 6. Okay, but they missed the playoffs. Missed the playoffs, yep, yep. Correct.


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[Assistant] They had, they had. That was a team. They had one. And yeaah was on the cover of Sports Illustrator. You can think about it. Think about how talented this is, right? So they had, and this is with Freddie Kitchens, right? Just throw that out there. Right. Freddie Kitchens. In 2019, Chubb had a thousand yards. Oh, then Beckham Jr. had a thousand yards. Jarvis Landry had a thousand yards.


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[Assistant] I can't think of another time where you had that many people getting a thousand yards.


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[Assistant] You know, we look at Baker what he is today, right? But sometimes in life, uhm, you could be a victim of circumstances.


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[Assistant] You could be, you could be the right person at the wrong time.


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[Assistant] If you go back and watch, you know, the way he played 2020, and I can understand, you gotta put yourself in the shoes of people who think a different way. To them, they say, well look,


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[Assistant] I saw what he could do 2020. I saw what the team was.


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[Assistant] And you come back the next year, I saw what he was doing the first few games of the year, cause the next, next year. He got hurt. They come back, they get a rematch with the Chiefs, right? Yep.


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[Assistant] So he gets injured, I believe the Cardinals game. Yep. And they say, listen, if he's, if they shut him down and say, nah, we're going to shut you down, dawg. You done.


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[Assistant] Because, I don't know. I try to study these things. It works the same way.


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[Assistant] A lot of, a lot of what sports is, is political in nature, right? Now, when you say politics, people think everything, y'all about to go to world peace and hunger. No, political politics happen like this.


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski is a coach, right? He run coach of the year.


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[Assistant] He feels like in the back of his pocket, he has to get an RGL free card. Because at the end of the day, any GM...


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[Assistant] And any coach has the right, we all believe, has the right to draft their quarterback. Sure. Or get what quarterback they want. Especially a guy who's known for working with quarterbacks. They inherited Baker Mayfield. So it's the same way if you're the president, right?


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[Assistant] You come in, and I'm the new president of this new regime, I get a chance and opportunity to pick my cabinet. I can pick the judges. Heck, I can put up Supreme Court justices. I can change, executive order is one of the strongest things. I'ma do this cause I said so.


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[Assistant] And so, there are going to be changes. That's why they say elections have consequences. Well, in the NFL, losing has consequences. So when you lose...


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[Assistant] You start looking around at who's the, who's the blame? Who is it? Now, cap casualties and casualties of regime changes happen to be?


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[Assistant] Now, when things get bad, you can go and say, uh, Joe, where's your pot of hair? Mike, you got it here too. Now, it's getting down to the nitty gritty, and it's now the only two people you can really look at is the quarterback who's facing the franchise and the coach. Now, he's going to go politically and say, well, look,


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[Assistant] You saw what I did. I'm coaching there. You know I can coach. You know I can get us to playoffs. I just need the right to pick my own people.


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[Assistant] Baker is saying, well look, I was injured. I'm telling you, you saw what I could do. It's hard to get a franchise quarterback. In this iteration of politics in the NFL, the coach went out over the player. Well, what's interesting though,


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[Assistant] We got factions. There's always factions. There's three, there's three groups. Somebody that's waiting on you to mess up. Somebody that's waiting for you to get it done. And the people that's going to support you just because they're the Browns and you're the quarterback, right? So a lot of people, I think what, what, and this is the truth. This is, y'all gonna go back and look at this. The major factions was,


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[Assistant] When the Browns got Odell Beckham Jr., you fell in two different pa- you fell in two different spots. You was either Team Baker or you was Team Odell.


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[Assistant] You either was a person that said Odell Beckham should be getting the ball as much as possible. And I think he's an asset to the team. And there was people that saying Baker Mayfield plays better.


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[Assistant] Went to a thing, like, when Odell got injured.


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[Assistant] It was like, it was four or five, he had that comeback. After that happened, it was over.


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[Assistant] Because then it was sitting there and the media said, okay, well, it's Baker. Baker gonna win this one out because look what he did and what he's able to do without OBJ. Now there's a faction of people being like, nah, we should be. So you had two people competing, two different groups. And I think what ended up happening is once Odell was gone,


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[Assistant] I think, I think, the timeline, see, it's always, it's funny because


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[Assistant] One of the things that people have told me from inside the locker room was they love them. So you got it.


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[Assistant] They love him. They, they just tell people to send him off to the, like they, when, when they said they were releasing him, there were people visibly upset, right? Like players, right? So what happens is when you got a person of that stature, right? And that person is let go.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just, it's human nature, right? There's also part of the timeline if you go back and look at it. Now here's the thing, right now we just getting historical stuff out.


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[Assistant] I, we ain't, we're not talking about whether you thought Odell or, we just get, we just put the timeline out here. So you already know, like I'm like, okay, well cool. I, I, I was an Odell guy, but at the end of the day, I'm just telling you, tell you what the timeline was. So after this happens and Baker plays well, right? The Baker people.


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[Assistant] They stepped up and said, look how well he's playing without Odell. Yeah, out of his shadow. Out of his shadow, right?


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[Assistant] And that took off. So the media was like, maybe you're right. Maybe you are right. He's playing. He's doing his thing. We can't hate on that right now, right?


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[Assistant] Odell gets injured. He doesn't have, he isn't there the rest of the season. So now the next season happens. Baker is, is riding high. The Browns got a lot of expectations. They make it moves. They go get clowning. Now it looks like Odell is going to be back in the game. And then it starts with, when does he got to play? He didn't play first game. He played second game.


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[Assistant] I think he came back and eventually played his first game sometime during that season. Uhm, after, I think it was his third or fourth game. And then there was obviously this disconnect because


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[Assistant] There was some times he was open. There was some times he wasn't open. Uhm, there was some times when Baker would try to force it to him. Sometimes he wasn't open and he throw the ball and it just wasn't. Sometimes he just missed him and didn't have it.


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[Assistant] So there's this thing, and I always believe. Hey, McNuggets, uh, you gotta read real quick before I get into this.


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[Assistant] Because, because we have not traditionally had really big name players, because we've traditionally not been a destination for free ages, because traditionally we haven't had much success, we almost aren't used to


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[Assistant] big city teams. We got to do it this way to do it this way. You got to be hardworking. You got to be, you know, intelligent. You got to be a hard nose. You got to be. I like you to hand the ball back to the referee. Those are just those are just just traits of


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[Assistant] Uh, conservative place, like it's not, it's not, not conservative in terms of politics, but conservative in terms of, um, you know, Bible belt, uh, you know, really homegrown family values. Hell, even in terms of politics.


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[Assistant] Just the same way. And it's so funny because the chickens always come home the roost, right? The pendulum always swings, right? So the pendulum swung way this way, but now the pendulum is back on this way. Now you have Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] And some of the same different things that we're talking about happen with Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] On that. So even when we watch this season in context of what we're seeing, how did you get here? What the thought process is? Always remember there is 25% of the people that you always got to prove it to every year. And if the second you don't, they're gonna let you know. They're waiting for you.


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[Assistant] By the way, it's so palpable, I just got chills just thinking about it. Think about that.


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[Assistant] You know what, so I played defensive line when you played D-line, and one of the things that I've noticed on


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[Assistant] And it ain't, but when you play on a bad team,


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[Assistant] And the quarterback can't hit the broadside of a barn. He done, he done threw three picks. Y'all got three turnovers, but he gave them right back to him. You lose a game where you only get three field goals. How do you, how do you stop it from splitting? Because the first thing that happens is you had that meeting and they'd be like,


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[Assistant] If you're pointing one person out, then you're going to have an issue because they're going to be like, come on bro, you put me aside on that, we're trying to win right now.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb is gonna have the best, best year of his career this year.


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[Assistant] Knee jerks. Hey, you just said, David, Njoka gonna have a thousand. Elijah Moore is all, all, uh, Northern Hemisphere. You, you loved what Mario Cooper is going. You said they gonna throw the ball. How is Nick Chubb gonna get that many yards? Well, I'm gonna break it down to you. You see, now,


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[Assistant] It's a numbers game. See, running the football is as easy as counting the 1 through 11.


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[Assistant] How many of those 11 people is in the line of scrimmage at the box, right?


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[Assistant] And before, we talked about the differences of quarterbacks. See, now you have multiple threats where defensive linemen and coordinators have to really figure out what you're gonna do. Cause there's always a threat of Deshaun Watson running.


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[Assistant] Guess what happens when you have to take a linebacker off the field and bring in a nickel guy. Guess what? Now that nickel guy is in the run game.


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[Assistant] Guess what? That ain't gonna work. Nick Chubb gonna be, there's lots of times Nick Chubb gonna be, have the ball and get 12, 13 yards and you wonder where is the safety at? Well the safety over the top which he better be. That is the great thing about offense. You're gonna have to pick something


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[Assistant] A great coordinator always makes you pick something. Either you gonna take away this or we gonna keep coming back to this every play until you stop it. And I think Nick Chubb is gonna have a lot of games where it's gonna be light work. He gonna get the ball and he gonna just be touching the rock and ain't nobody gonna be around because of the way the offense is gonna be able to set up and be open.


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[Assistant] That's what they're going to do. As defensive linemen, if they do that, they bailing us out. We love it. Boogie knows. You, you know how, you're sometimes, have you ever heard of the lineman scrimmage and they be, they throwing the ball good on you? Yeah.


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[Assistant] But as a D lineman, you not really worried about that as long as your guys is keeping anything in front of them? Absolutely. And take another snap, you feel good about it?


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[Assistant] And it gives you another opportunity. They throwing a lot. That means I can get to the quarterback. I think that's how I get paid.


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[Assistant] But when a team is lining up and they running the ball at you,


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[Assistant] Now, for me, I look at the receiving core.


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[Assistant] And I just keep looking at it and it's almost like a, it's almost like a presidential race, a race. You look at it and it's saying, okay,


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[Assistant] Some of these people gonna take votes away from somebody. Like, like if Mario Cooper has 1,000, 100, 160 yards last year. Well, listen, we all believe Elijah Moore is going to be well above 800 or if it was me, I would hope he would be around 800 or 900 to a thousand.


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[Assistant] Donovan Peoples-Jones had 800 last year. How many touches is he gonna get? David Njoku is another guy that could benefit from having a quarterback. Eventually you're stealing receptions and yards from one another. Eventually, even if you get to 1200, Nick Chum can get to 1200.


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[Assistant] At once, at once upon a time, Deshaun Watson was, was, was mentioned in the upper echelon of-


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[Assistant] He was, he was mentioned in the same breath as the great Patrick Mahomes. Now my thing is, you might not be Mahomes, but my expectation level is...


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[Assistant] My expectation level is you're gonna get back to where you need to go. And to do that, I'm not looking for a top.


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[Assistant] 15 quarterback. I'm looking for a top five. I'm looking for seven to five. And that would be 4,800 yards. That's 4,800.


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[Assistant] Brandon Cooks was a deep vertical threat. Uhm, I'm forgetting. Well, Marquis Goodwin is one of the fastest guys in the league. There you go. Uh, what's the, what's the guy from Notre Dame? Not Kenny Stills. The other one that, that retired.


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[Assistant] And they threw a lot of deep passes that year. I don't know if they have the particular


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[Assistant] We'll catch, we'll catch, we'll catch Jay. Now, if they win this year, will you be a little more optimistic going into the next year? Probably, cause I'm a Cleveland fan.


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[Assistant] That's a tough one. That's a tall task. You know, you pitch.


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[Assistant] Continue to throw the ball at that velocity and strike a lot of people out.


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[Assistant] Perfectly placed pitches. The guys don't have much to, you know, they're not getting the meat of the bat. Look, everything's away.


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[Assistant] Everything is just off the outside corner to play. You can't drive anything. And even if you do hit it, it's going to be weak grounder or a little pop fly. So, you know, that's his game. And if he can still consistently make sure he's hitting those locations.


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[Assistant] He could be Shane Bieber for a, for a little bit of time period to stretch. And I think doing that against the Astros, I think that, that literally moved his stock up a little bit, especially when you get nine K's and only three hits. That's something that you look at and I think that he can, he can match, he can match that


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[Assistant] Spot to spot. It is yet to be seen if he can do that for the entire rest of the season.


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[Assistant] I tell you what, man, I need to ask y'all a question because I know the people in the front office is looking at this. Hey, I need some answers on this. So I don't know what the correlation is. You know, I like to look at, you know, is this just a mirage or is this something that's real? Um, progressive fields are tenders is up.


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[Assistant] 35,000, the largest crowd of progressive this season.


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[Assistant] And the overall attendance has been up almost 28% over last year. Now I'm trying to figure this out.


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[Assistant] Uh, the average attendance, uh, for the Guardians is about 21,000. Okay, that is up, cause they've been in like the 17 range. So 35, you get 35,000 against a team, not named the Yankees, not named the Red Sox.


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[Assistant] So I'm like, okay, that's kind of crazy. I thought, man, is it interleague? No, it's, it's, you know, American league and American league. So they're the worlds here.


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[Assistant] And, and, and it's up 28% over last year. My question is...


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[Assistant] What, what is it, what is, why, last year they had a better record. We talk, we'll talk about that coming up. Last year they were putting more runs on the board.


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[Assistant] This year, there were, there were times where we talked about them being out of it. Seven, eight games out of 500. But for some reason, do you believe it's?


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[Assistant] The same way we too, we look at other teams and say yeaah, the pitching won't hold out. The way they look at the guardians is yeaah, this is a nice little run.


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[Assistant] But these sticks is not going to keep up with this pace. We know what they are. They do, they do have great pitching. They do got some young guys, but the prevailing thought process around the league is yes, they can get that off. But when it comes time for the nitty gritty and we talk about October baseball, we talk about September baseball is getting cold outside. Guess what?


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[Assistant] It may be something to this, maybe something to the thought process that the, the guardians are a warm weather team. It's cold. It just a, it's not a coincidence we had our best weather ever for like the last two weeks because it's been beautiful outside. We finally got rain today, but there is no coincidence. The fact that those sticks are lighting up right now.


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[Assistant] And teams are looking at them like, okay, that's cool. You could do that, you know, June.


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[Assistant] July cool, but when you come in October, traditionally, they have not been able to get enough run support.


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[Assistant] What if they say, what if they say it's a 12% chance that we make a deep run?


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[Assistant] Without Shane Beaver, with Shane Beaver, it's like 16%.


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[Assistant] That's a 4% chance. So y'all, so y'all would say that we, so y'all would say that you guys are for keeping Donovan Mitchell dead.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell's gone. I've already, you know.


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[Assistant] I just thought, I thought of it in my head, and there's probably no, first of all, it's two different sports, but the parallels and the contracts.


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[Assistant] And I'll give, I'll give, I'll give Beaver credit on this. A lot of times people give people, um, bad raps when they're athletes, right? The fact that pitching is one of the most mentally taxing, emotionally taxing positions and other, that and quarterback.


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[Assistant] For you to be playing not knowing your future is rough. I was just talking to my dad about this. I say, can you imagine he's going home every day knowing that the team he's pitching for, he's putting it all out there for, is it going to pay him?


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[Assistant] That feels, that feels crazy, Jay. Like, like if you are, uh,


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[Assistant] If you, we all, we all espouse to be great at what we do. Like we want to be great on this show. Can you imagine coming here and just doing everything you can just every single day and then knowing in the back of your mind


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[Assistant] You're producing and you're helping the team and be successful, but they're not going to, they're not going to reward you or they don't respect it. It ain't respect. It's a financial thing. Sure. It goes to the business nature of money.


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[Assistant] This is the grand experiment. Can you win?


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[Assistant] See, there's just a problem with it. Uhm, see this is, this is when it comes to roster building. When you above 6'9", and you still athletic.


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[Assistant] That's why they call it three and D. The D stands for defense. And when you got a guy like that, that has actually adds in length, he's always contesting shots and you got Jimmy Butler, who's a glorified six four.


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[Assistant] Like, that hurt, bro. Jimmy Butler, like, he's 6'3 and a half with gym shoes on. He can get shot hands all in his face. Yeah, it's just difficult. And Aaron, yeah, no, it's just, you know, they got waves of people. And that's also demoralizing when you got waves of dudes that just good. Aaron Gordon got 27 the other night.


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[Assistant] I would, uh, I would double team Jamal Murray. Uhm, I would, I would not help off Joker.


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[Assistant] And what I would do is I would employ the G-bush rope-a-dope style.


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[Assistant] Joker's gonna have to out, he's gonna have to out punch himself. He's gonna, he's gonna have to throw a lot of punches. I, I leave him open. I encourage him to shoot 60 times if you want. Joker can have 70.


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[Assistant] I'm not helping off. Like, ain't no help. Ain't no help. You just got beat. I'm not gonna let you, you can't stop two of them. See, that's how to, like, think about it. When you played LeBron and Kyrie, that's the blueprint.


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[Assistant] LeBron is going to have a crazy stat line.


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[Assistant] But listen, I'm not about to let Kyrie get 40 either. Right. That's not gonna happen. Like, LeBron gonna have to get 40, 20, and 12, or whatever. Well, what was the stat when Murray and...


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[Assistant] There's nothing more frustrating than going to the sidelines and you playing sports and you sit down and the coach says, guys, you gotta play harder. And you look at him and be like,


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[Assistant] Listen coach, it ain't always about playing harder. It ain't all about wanting. We all want it out here. We're obviously getting smoked. We gotta play smoking. On these X's and O's. What's the adjustment? You can't go into World War III or Vietnam War and be like, guys, we need to have more truth.


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[Assistant] They figured out real quick. It ain't about troops all the time. It's about what's your strategy. What is the overall collective idea of what we're going to do and how to go do it. And right now,


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[Assistant] When you talk about the cast, they don't got that. They ain't got that. But what I will say to me now is do you think this game would have been diff, series different? I think it'll be different if Ola Depot and Tyler Hero are playing. I think this series is much closer. I don't.


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[Assistant] This is the result of fraud or a rigged election, particularly if the president is saying so. We'll take more aggressive action along the lines of what we saw earlier this year in


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[Assistant] Under this presidency, the far right, unlawful militias have felt much more licensed to


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[Assistant] Approval. And they're using that. And that's partly why we're seeing them more and more and more on the streets. Not, you know, not just in one or two areas of the country but across the country.


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[Assistant] A lot of it will depend on what he's continuing to say once he leaves office, if he does leave office. If he continues to say that the election was stolen from him, again, that will give these groups something to coalesce around.


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[Assistant] We gotta get rid of ALS. I don't know why we can't get rid of ALS. They've been trying to find a cure for years. Let's go!


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[Assistant] If we get more scientists on this, seriously, I'm not joking around. Obviously, I've been involved with the, was involved with the ALS Society here, a bunch of events here at Progressive Field, and it's just, it's awful. But anyway.


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[Assistant] There you go. Uh, on a much, much lighter note, lots to get through today, guys. How you both doing?


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[Assistant] Um, you know, the middle of July and then get back to the five days a week, but it's still weird. I feel like I haven't been here in a while. I don't know. I felt the same way pulling in. I felt like it had been forever since I've been here. Lots to get to. Lots to get to. We'll get to the Guardians. I got to talk about, I know you guys mentioned briefly that my Little League team was there on Friday. We had a great time. We stayed to the end. It's a big weekend for the Guardians. We'll go to Gilbert Arenas.


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[Assistant] He's joining us at 12.30. We all know the guy was a great player. Then the whole incident in the locker room where he took out a gun. Supposedly he and another teammate were pointing guns at each other. It was on plane. I thought it was in the locker room.


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[Assistant] We'll get him to clear it up, but I know he recently in his podcast spoke about John Moran, so we'll talk to him about that. We'll talk to him about the NBA champion, Denver Nuggets. Congratulations to them. It was a great final game, not a great series because it ended in five, but it was a great game last night. So we'll get to that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, man, Jokic's brothers, those guys are scary looking, huh?


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[Assistant] It was like a, for those who have been to a Bar Mitzvah or a Jewish wedding, it's like, have you ever been to a Jewish wedding? Uh, no. Or Bar Mitzvah. I wasn't invited. Well you've been, Jason.


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[Assistant] No, you're wrong, it's not Greek. Let's get it together here. Anyway, that's what it was like. They were picking on Malone like he was in a chair going up and down, up and down. Anyway, so we'll get to all that.


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[Assistant] Anyway, lots to get to. By the way, I just kind of randomly threw out this question. I was busting Earl's balls because he walked in with a brown jersey and for a second I thought he was wearing a Bengal sweatshirt.


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[Assistant] And I said, Earl, did you finally switch allegiances? You know? And he's like, hell no. I was like, well, I said, but you trade rosters in a second. And he said, no.


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[Assistant] So ESPN yesterday, I think it was Seth Walder, was that who it was? Correct. Seth Walder of ESPN wrote a column and he picked the core for each team, a core of five players. In other words, he picked the five best players, or at least who he sees as the five best players on each team.


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[Assistant] Uh, obviously age of your best players factors in and whatever else. He gave a little write up on each one. So let's see, uh, we see where the Browns were and then we'll see the whole list, right?


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[Assistant] Do you mind if we comment on this for a second before we move on to the next thing? Is there an argument for anybody else right now?


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[Assistant] I would seriously consider putting Cooper over Ward and not Petonio, but I get where you're coming from because of position. In the end, I think that list is good. It's a good list and they're all good players.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of them are great players and some of them have the, you know, potential to be great and hopefully Deshaun Watson will get back to being great this year. Uh, Mikey, go ahead, give us the full list now.


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[Assistant] I remember reading this, even though Murray is going to miss most of the season, he actually included him on the list.


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[Assistant] I actually think the list is very well done. If Deshaun Watson, he go, in his analysis of the Browns, it says if Deshaun Watson plays like Houston Deshaun Watson, the Browns will fly up the list. I was looking at it, I thought if Deshaun Watson, if we put in the assumption, which is unfair, but if you put in the assumption that Deshaun Watson plays Houston level


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[Assistant] I would have them fourth, actually, behind only Kansas City, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. I'd have the Browns up to four if Watson plays at that level. Miami felt really high. Where's Miami? Six? Were they six?


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[Assistant] It comes down to what do you think of Tua? Some people, obviously Seth Walder is one of them.


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[Assistant] Like to a lot, think he's really good. Are we sure he can survive a season? Well, we're not.


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[Assistant] They have a standout offensive, defensive lineman, a standout offensive lineman, a standout corner, and a standout wide receiver.


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[Assistant] The question is Aaron Rodgers. Again, it's all, it's all his, I think the list overall is pretty good. I actually would have Baltimore a little, I might, I think I'd have San Fran 9, the Browns 10, and Baltimore 11.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a pretty big difference. Now again, maybe he's not factoring in injuries because anybody can get hurt.


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[Assistant] I would put Buffalo, I would put Buffalo ahead of him. I think, I think...


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[Assistant] But to me the gap, ultimately the biggest, the biggest factor is the quarterback to me.


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[Assistant] When you're doing a core. And so Josh Allen to me is a lot better than Tua. And that's ultimately why, yes, I agree with you. I'd rather, but Stephon Diggs is just as good as the Dolphins do receive. Dolphins have a better, they don't have a number two. They don't have a number two guy.


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[Assistant] The Niners is loaded, bro. I just think the Niners, if you did this exercise and didn't include quarterbacks, the Niners to me would be one.


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[Assistant] You know, I was just going to say that. Brock Purdy played very well. Now, the assumption is that because he was a seventh round pick and because it's the Niners,


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[Assistant] Jimmy Garoppolo is the only quarterback that's played well in San Francisco before birdie. Birdie. Before Shadohan. Yea.


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[Assistant] And Jimmy Garoppolo was clearly a game manager. He wasn't putting up big stats. He won games. Kudos to him. This kid Purdy put up huge numbers.


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[Assistant] Who's to say he's not the next, every once in a while, I'm not saying he's going to be Brady. Let me make that clear. Obviously. But every once in a while, there's a quarterback drafted late that becomes a good NFL player. It happened with Brady. It's happened to, not to the Brady level, but to some degree with Kirk Cousins. Tony was the seventh round pick. Tony Romo. Tony Romo. Brock Purdy does it again this year.


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[Assistant] Alright. Well, that's not bad. 12th. That ain't bad at all. It does create some, it does make you look at PFF and say,


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[Assistant] No, he was way better than any of us realistically thought he would be. Very sneaky, very sneaky.


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[Assistant] I did a Baker tweet for the first time in months yesterday and two people got so mad at me.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ronnie Stanley's a great offensive lineman. And then Roquan Smith had a huge impact. Their defense was way better. I'd leave the Ravens above the Browns right now. I said the Browns should be higher, but again.


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[Assistant] It's all about Deshaun Watson. If Deshaun plays like Houston Deshaun, the Browns are top five, top five core. If they don't. That scared her away.


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[Assistant] Well, a lot of the closers in the Hall of Fame pitched more than one in it back in the day.


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[Assistant] By the way, we were at this game, a bunch of us, and I had a good time. It was fun. We did have a good time. It was beautiful weather. We got, we sat in the shade and, uh, so Jason's sitting in front of me with his son and his son's friend. And I sit, I sit down.


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[Assistant] So, and I've, I've met him before, but I hadn't seen, it's been a couple of months. Super Bowl, Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's crazy. And I just met him eight months ago and I didn't even recognize him. And then once he turned around, I was like, Oh yeah, okay. I see the face, but he was so big that I thought it was Jason's with your other son's like 20, 21.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's freaking crazy. AJ. They're the same age. Same age.


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[Assistant] His friends like, I mean maybe his friend is small for his age.


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[Assistant] For years I had one opinion on this, and a few years ago I changed my mind. I've been saying this consistently since the John Watson.


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[Assistant] To me, if the guy's allowed to play, he's allowed to play, I separate the player from the person. I can think of players as scumbag and still root for him to win.


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[Assistant] You could decide not to do that, you do whatever the hell you want. Now, I don't know enough about this case to know what really happened, but if he can play, then okay, the Browns don't have to cut, they're not cutting him or anything, but I will say this, Perriann Winfrey into Sean Watson.


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[Assistant] Perry Allen Winfrey is just a guy. And if he doesn't get his shit together soon, his ass is going to be kicked in the curb.


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[Assistant] If you're any defensive lineman on this roster that was here before this year besides Miles Garrett, your job's on the line.


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[Assistant] And you gotta think of it that way. And if you don't play like, if you don't play in mini camp and training camp and preseason like your job's on the line, well you're gonna lose your job.


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[Assistant] Andrew Berry has, a lot of people have complained, myself included, that he has


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[Assistant] But it's possible that two guys from last year's draft.


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[Assistant] Perry on Winfrey and David Bell could both be cut.


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[Assistant] People are like, what a great job giving that money back. And if a guy tries to keep it for money, people get mad at them.


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[Assistant] Give me a million dollars. How much did that ball go before? No, I don't even remember. I don't even remember. I can't even remember what the ball was, but I remember seeing the story again recently.


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[Assistant] Elf's a big wuss. Alright, let's switch gears, talk some baseball. Go ahead, McNuggets.


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[Assistant] By the way, the guardies need to trade for another hitter. I don't care how hot they are for the last few weeks, and I love that they're hitting now. They need to trade for another hitter. If you're on Twitter or our message chat saying, oh, the hitting's fine now, you're a loser and you're wrong. No offense.


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[Assistant] That's his first loser in a long time. Long time. I don't mean to call you a loser. You're not a loser. You're a winner for watching this show, but it's a, it's a bad take outside.


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[Assistant] Again, this is not a perfect system because nobody's gonna stay as hot, like, as these guys. Well, I don't love the way you put it, Mike, to be honest. I think you dropped the ball a little bit on this one.


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[Assistant] Honor game. I expect Josh Bell. I thought he'd have a good year. Uh, he's always been a bad starter.


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[Assistant] You know, the beginning of the year, April's always been it's worst month.


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[Assistant] I expect him to finish, maybe not with the home runs we expected, but with, you know, I don't think he'll be as bad as he was the first six weeks of the season the rest of the way. So I'm gonna buy.


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[Assistant] By the way, if 791 is your best OBS, that's not good. Like that's above average. That's good. You know, that's fine, but it's not.


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[Assistant] It shouldn't be your number one. 791 OPS is pretty good, but not great.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, I think Josh Naylor is what he is. He's a good major league player who can't hit lefties and that prevents him from being potentially an all-star caliber player.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think we know what Josh Naylor is. Yea, we know what he is. He puts up pretty consistent numbers. Yea. Year after year. That's what, you know, he is what he is. Which is pretty good. Go ahead, Mikey.


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[Assistant] We talked about this yesterday. Yea, well we talked about it at the field, but our audience doesn't know this. All time dumb move.


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[Assistant] All time dumb move by Dusty Baker, not walking Will Brennan in the 14th with David Fry on deck. David Fry should not be on a major league roster, I think we all know that. I don't know why he's on this roster, I have no idea. Just, well, he's on the roster because


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[Assistant] How about that? How about we DFA two of these three catchers and goal up O'Naylor?


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[Assistant] But, why Dusty Baker did not walk Will Brennan with a runner, with nobody on first, and David Fry who just grounded and double played the at bat before, doesn't have a single RBI, I have no idea. So clutched by Will Brennan, I like Will Brennan, but he's got a lot more to prove. I, you know.


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[Assistant] I would, I would, I like Will Brennan, I hate to say this, but he may need to be part of a trade to get a hitter. You know, and I'm fine with that. Uhm, there you go. We get Nolan Jones back by the way.


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[Assistant] And Tito loves him. When every center fielder plays a good center fielder, almost everyone. It's a position you don't play in.


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[Assistant] He's not going nowhere. If I have to trade him to get the guy I want, I'll trade him. For sure. Go ahead, Mikey.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, Jose has the best OPS over Enablers.


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[Assistant] Hot streak for Jose Ramirez. He's an MVP candidate.


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[Assistant] I'm buying as long as he's healthy. I'm worried about this. The Guardians have a long hit recent history.


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[Assistant] Of saying guys that are out for precautionary reasons and then the missing six weeks.


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[Assistant] I call that the Mackenzie effect. Yeah, I don't know, but if he's healthy, I think he's going to be really good the rest of the season.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I can expect him to be that good, but at least like all-star, he's gotta at the very least be a borderline all-star every year. That's what I'm expecting.


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[Assistant] By the, by the way, 15 days, it should be higher than that. By the way, uhm.


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[Assistant] So, I know you guys mentioned briefly, uh, kudos to my, to my team, my Little League team. We, we were...


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[Assistant] The boys were unbelievable. They all stayed to the end of the game. Then we stayed for fireworks after.


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[Assistant] They were starting all these chants. Andrew Siciliano of the NFL Network put out a tweet referencing my team.


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[Assistant] Because they, they started chanting, you are cheaters at the Astros. And then a lot of adults in the immediate area of where we were sitting started picking up on those chants. They were leading the energy train.


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[Assistant] They were on fire. I mean, I think they were a big part of the reason that the Guardians won the game.


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[Assistant] It was just unbelievable. I think of, of the great regular season games I've gone to, I went, I was at a, a no-hitter Cole Hamill for the Phillies at Wrigley Field. I saw Tom Seabrook's 300th win in person at Yankee Stadium.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was at Wrigley once. The Cubs were playing the Diamondbacks. The game went six, the Cubs lost. Diamondbacks won 16 innings. There'd been a rain delay. We were there from like noon to nine at night. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] That was wild, but this game was at, at, oh another great regular season game. I was at the game.


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[Assistant] What was the year that the Guardians lost to the Rays in the wild card? 2012? 2013?


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[Assistant] No, no, no. Might not have been a walk-off homer. I think it was a homer to give him the lead in the bottom of the eighth. I don't think it was walk-off.


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[Assistant] But I was there at that game and everybody went bananas. Everybody was having so much fun. So I've been to some great regular season games, but that one Friday night was, the crowd was awesome. Huge crowd. No, the attendance was officially, I think it was 35,000. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, there were some Astro fans of course, but it was, the fans were full of energy, they were crazy. So real quick though, Friday night was Dollar Dog night.


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[Assistant] And we had the whole team. So at one point I go out to buy dogs for the whole team. So I'm walking back.


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[Assistant] I had a bag with twelve hot dogs. I had four hot pretzels. A bunch of bottles of water.


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[Assistant] Uh, a nachos, and then I got myself something from the, uh, what do you call it? Ohio City burrito. I got myself something. And I'm carrying all this food somehow, and this woman walks by me, and you know, listen, I'm fat, I know. This woman walks by me and she's like, oh my god. And I was like, lady, I'm not eating at all.


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[Assistant] They won a series against Houston. That was a nice series win. Go ahead, Mikey.


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[Assistant] One, it's surprising that he's not there. And two, it's even more surprising that McDermott would say he's very concerned about it.


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[Assistant] Saquon Barkley is not in, not going to mandatory mini camp for the Giants.


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[Assistant] What is he unhappy? If he's made 24 million, he's gotta be one of the highest paid, if not the highest paid wire receiver. They just restructured in March?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, good, good for, good to see some Bills. Bills Mafia. Dysfunction, however.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, it'll probably be settled. We got a long way to go before it would actually really matter. But Stefan Diggs has been, you know, unhappy before, right? He won it out of Minnesota. That's how he ended up in Buffalo.


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[Assistant] He's according. That don't sound bad. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I get it. If I'm him, I want to be number one too. But he's not the best receiver in the league though.


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[Assistant] Jefferson is eligible for an extension right now and then Chase will be next year. Good.


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[Assistant] That's not big. He's not tall at all. All three of you, you and your two brothers are all huge.