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[Assistant] I said to him, I said, like, why are there not more popular female rappers? Do you think it's just that like women are not as good at rapping as men? Is that like the conclusion we're forced to have? And he said,


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[Assistant] No, it's not that. He goes, it's because, think about the roles that we've carved out for rappers for the most part. Like, he goes, think about 21 Savage.


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[Assistant] He's bragging about how much drugs he does. He's bragging about, you know, shooting people. Not bragging, but he's acknowledging that this may have happened. He's talking about how many women he slept with. He's like, think about every single one of those things and apply it to a woman and think about how it would be viewed. If it were at a girl who was like really into telling you how much drugs she did.


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[Assistant] Most people, I think, would take that and be like, oh, she's a junkie. Or like, oh, you fuck a ton of dudes. Oh, you're a fucking, you're disgusting. Whatever. Like, a lot of people would take it that way and...


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[Assistant] You know, oh, you're a girl and you shot somebody. Like, oh, maybe we should take your kids away. Maybe we should send you away. Like, you're crazy.


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[Assistant] And that kind of troubled me. I was like, man, that's fucked up because that's still to this day.


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[Assistant] There's not that many, like, acceptable spaces for rappers to fill, in a way. If what he's saying is true there.


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[Assistant] You as a woman, if you're like happy and content and you seem like you have like a good, good happy life, I thought like somehow that's not, that's, that's not appealing as a rapper.


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[Assistant] Like we don't want to hear it. As soon as the rapper hits that point where it's like, oh I got a nice family life, everything's going great, it's like all of a sudden people don't want to hear it anymore. Like you have to be in this state of commotion for people to accept you in a weird way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, once you're rich and showing, it becomes, well, once you're like mega famous, then it becomes like TMZ rap where it's like you have to, like, like Jay-Z knocked it out of park with that album. He basically made like a super like real hip hop album. That is probably the kind of shit that he actually vibes with. But then he also like threw in all this gossip that just like.


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[Assistant] Set the world on fire for a few days and it just worked perfectly. Like I, I never would in a million years would have expected that that album would get like the kind of...


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[Assistant] Reaction that it got from people where it seemed like people sort of universally loved it.


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[Assistant] What? Sorry, that was a weird tangent as one on there. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, so, oh yea, you know what I wanna ask about too is like, what, what is, uh, does ASAP ILS like help you with your career or anything? What's your relationship like with him? Because I see you guys hanging out a lot in the videos and stuff.


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[Assistant] So like, from a, like a musical perspective, is he a collaborator?


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[Assistant] Do you have anyone that you work with on music primarily, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Collaborators per se, or like producers that you feel like you have a really good relationship with.


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[Assistant] There's a producer named 16 year old that's really popping right now too. Really? I don't know if you know about that, but I think that's pretty funny cause there's like...


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[Assistant] It's, it's underground, but he's bubbling up, but I just think it's funny that his name is 16 year old because it's like there are a lot of like 16 year old producers out there. I think it's great.


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[Assistant] That's true. God, can you imagine how weird that would be if like Jay-Z put out an album and had like a 16 year old kid producing it? Maybe not him.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's generally credited for like breaking Just Blaze and J- and Kanye with their production. I don't know if he ever had like a really young producer though.


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[Assistant] Who's, who's your favorite woman rapper of all time?


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause we were having, I was having that conversation I think with Ben Baller about like, greatest female rapper of all time and I don't think she came up and I think that's really unfair. She didn't come up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is fucked up. I think we kinda went right into like a Foxy Brown Lil' Kim debate right away and I might have kinda lost in the shuffle there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. Uhm, so, music release wise, what do you got in the works?


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[Assistant] So uhm, new videos, new visuals, anything else?


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[Assistant] Nah, never. You're not gonna start a big beef to promote the next hit? Not as a bitch.


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[Assistant] I can't lie though, I would love, not with you, but I would love to be involved with that in general. If like somebody hit me up like, hey, we got this, this girl, she really wants to break her album. We were wondering if she could fake date you for a few weeks. I'd be like, oh yeah, sure. That's a great idea.


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[Assistant] Okay, but if, and I'm not doubting their love, but if you're Amber Rose and they hit you up and they're like, listen, 21's got an album coming out, we gotta check for you, all you gotta do is hang out with them for a couple weeks. I'm in there. If I'm Amber Rose, it sounds great. It sounds super fun.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying that it's a fake relationship, I'm just saying that if it was.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I refuse to accept that there's like such a wide variety of box that like one side of it is just somehow able to seduce every rapper. I don't know.


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[Assistant] She's, well no, she's cool, but it was, I wasn't, I didn't get lost in the sauce, I guess.


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[Assistant] I was a little too strong. Or she was a little too strong, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know, anything else you want the world to know? Any shoutouts or anything?


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[Assistant] You know, I got 60,000 retweets by screenshot.


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[Assistant] Yeah. God, that was my best meme moment possibly ever. You wanna know something else really amazing is that he's got an autobiography that's gonna be out in like a month and a half and they sent me an advanced copy.


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[Assistant] And it's fucking fantastic. It's so cool because if you love his mixtapes,


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[Assistant] Then it like gives you the, the history so that you know what kind of state of mind he was sort of in, in all, like, okay, uh, I think it's Trap House 3. I listened to it the other day.


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[Assistant] He's depressed on that tape. Like he's sad over fucking Keisha because she had decided to be done with him and stuff. And when you listen to it, he might not specifically be saying it over and over, but you could tell that he's sad about a girl. It's like, it never really would have made sense to me until I...


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[Assistant] I think I honestly have another copy that I can let you have. Because they sent me two copies.


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[Assistant] You know the thing about memes is it's not like getting into karate where it's like you'll always be able to look down at that belt and tell where you are. It's like as a meme enthusiast, I really, I don't know where I fall on the spectrum of meme making, you know?


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[Assistant] I try sometimes, I mean, she gets to see all the ones that don't make it onto Twitter, but I try.


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[Assistant] God, you know, I honestly, I definitely type like five tweets and then delete it, but for everyone that I post because I have such a fucking weird sense of humor that it's like, I think things are hilarious that then like people look at it and be like, you're like committing to a terrible crime there or something like that, you know.


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[Assistant] I have this app now called PixArt, and that to me is the best, the best meme making app I've ever used. Is it free though? Yea, of course.


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[Assistant] Shaina, thank you so much for coming on here and breaking our like 50 dude interview streak. Uh, appreciate it.


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[Assistant] And I hope I have that book. Really hope so. I'm gonna go look for it right now. Thank you so much. Appreciate you.


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[Assistant] Ten points to you if you can, uh, tell me what movie that's from.


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, he seems to be gently floating happily.


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[Assistant] I mean, really, how would you not? Okay. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now with the stabbies, yeah, that was a good one. Oof.


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[Assistant] If I can get onto his bones, like his bony wing parts, my stamina doesn't- isn't affected as much as the- the grassy parts.


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[Assistant] Okay. Could you slow it down, please? Yeah, try- oh! Okay. Okay. Okay. This is incredibly awkward and uncool!


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[Assistant] Yeah, do- oh, I mean, your wrist would break if this were real life.


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[Assistant] No, definitely not. Maybe if I just, uuuh.


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[Assistant] Aww, that's sad. Welp, the end!


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[Assistant] Oh, there you are. Well, he's always like nowhere to be found and then he's just like a foot away. He's like, yeah, asshole? I was here the whole time? Yeah. Literally been here since this game started.


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[Assistant] Oh, I love, I love shafts of light.


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[Assistant] Yes, it would. You are beginning to fade, answered Gandalf.


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[Assistant] You will soon hear all you wish to know, said Gandalf. We shall have a council as soon as you are well enough. At the moment I will only say that I was held captive.


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[Assistant] You don't know much even about them if you think old Barliman is stupid, said Gandalf. He is wise enough and is on ground.


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[Assistant] He thinks less than he talks, and slower, yet he can see through a brick wall in time, as they say in Bree.


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[Assistant] But there are a few left in Middle-earth like Aragorn, son of Arathorn.


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[Assistant] The race of kings from over the sea is nearly at an end.


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[Assistant] And maybe that this War of the Ring will be their last adventure.


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[Assistant] You will soon be sound again. Elrond has cured you. He has tended you for days, ever since you were brought in.


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[Assistant] Yes. Fortune of fate have helped you, said Gandalf.


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[Assistant] To mention courage, for your heart was not touched in only a short


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[Assistant] Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths.


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[Assistant] Evil things do not come into this valley, but all the same we should not name them. The Lord of the Rings is not Frodo, but the master of the Dark Tower of Mordor, whose power is again stretching out over the world. We are sitting in a fortress. Outside it is getting dark.


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[Assistant] Still, they are trusty. And that is much in these days. Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale. They are good folk, the Bardings. The grandson of Bard, the Bowman, rules them. Grandson of Bane, son of Bard.


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[Assistant] Here's a strong king and his realm now reaches far south and east of Asgroth.


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[Assistant] There is much to tell, good and bad, said Gloyne. Yet, it is mostly good.


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[Assistant] We have so far been fortunate, though we do not escape the shadow of these times. If you really wish to hear of us, I will kill you tidings gladly, or stop me when you are weary.


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[Assistant] But in metalwork we cannot rival our fathers. Many of whose secrets are lost. We make good armor and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came. Only in mining and building have we surpassed the old days. You should see the waterways of Dale, Frodo.


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[Assistant] Well, I almost wish we weren't having this supper tonight. Oh, goodness knows, I usually love it, but...


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[Assistant] You shoulda let Grandpa examine your head. Maybe there's something wrong inside.


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[Assistant] You know, I guess it's the first time in my life I haven't been hungry. Oh, yesterday we were home and everybody in the-


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[Assistant] All people will learn that and come to see that wars do not have to be. We'll make this the last war.


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[Assistant] Excellent show guys, wonderful. I'm amazed. Tell me, how do you come up with the name of the band?


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[Assistant] Okay, last, last thing fellas, I'm gonna get Chester to pull out. I need a plug for Pepper Scott.


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[Assistant] Patrizio Nisirio is a senior editor at ANSA, Italy's leading news agency. He says fake news is exploding across Europe.


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[Assistant] People didn't want to adjust their vision of the show. They loved the show that they'd seen, and they didn't want, and, and, and I think, in a way, for a short period, for a certain period of time, it's sullied the memory of, of Golden Girls being as good as it was.


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[Assistant] People, you know, people just remembered, God, this was funny. Some people were discovering it for the first time. It was a whole new generation. Certainly young people who came along had never seen it before.


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[Assistant] I'm overreacting. I assured them quickly. It's okay, I think. Hold on. I pulled out my cell phone and hit the speed dial. Edward answered on the first ring. Jacob and Renesmee listened intently to my side as I filled Edward in. Come bring Carlisle.


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[Assistant] I trilled so fast I wondered if Jacob could keep up.


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[Assistant] I saw Irina and she saw me, but then she saw Jacob and she got mad and ran away. I think. She hasn't shown up here yet anyway, but she looked pretty upset so maybe she will.


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[Assistant] If she doesn't, you and Carlile have to go after her and talk to her. I feel so bad. Jacob rumbled. We'll be there in half a minute, Edward assured me. And I could hear the whoosh of the wind his running made.


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[Assistant] As Jacob and I listened carefully for the sound of an approach we did not recognize. When the sound came though, it was very familiar. And then Edward was at my side, Carlisle a few seconds behind.


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[Assistant] I was surprised to hear the heavy pad of big paws following behind Carlisle. I supposed I shouldn't have been shocked. With Renesmee and even a hint of danger, of course, Jacob would call in reinforcements. She was up on that ridge, I told them at once, pointing out the spot. If Irina was fleeing, she already had quite a head start. Would she stop and listen to Carlisle? Her expression before made me think not.


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[Assistant] Perhaps Carlisle was measuring Edward's irritation with Irina against his helpfulness as a mind reader. Finally, Carlisle nodded.


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[Assistant] He must want Renesmee back at the safety of the house just in case. I agreed with him on that, and we hurried home with Seth and Leah running at our flanks. Renesmee was complacent in my arms, one hand still resting on my face. Since the hunting trip had been aborted, she would just have to make do with donated blood. Her thoughts were a little smug.


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[Assistant] Pan said, You must accept the truth. Your companion, Nico, he understands. Nico nodded slowly.


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[Assistant] He's dying. He should have died long ago. This, this is more like a memory. But gods can't die, Grover said. They can fade, Pan said.


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[Assistant] When everything they stood for is gone.


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[Assistant] When they cease to have power and their sacred places disappear, the wild, my dear Grover, is so small now, so shattered, that no god can save it. My realm is gone.


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[Assistant] That is why I need you to carry a message. You must go back to the council. You must tell the satyrs and the dryads and the other spirits of nature that the great god Pan is dead. Tell them of my passing.


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[Assistant] Because they must stop waiting for me to save them. I cannot.


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[Assistant] Didi, what are you doing? Pan demanded.


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[Assistant] Are you singing kumbaya again?


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[Assistant] Didi looked up innocently and blinked her yellow eyes. Pan sighed, Everyone's a cynic.


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[Assistant] Each of you must take up my calling. But nooooo. Grover whimpered. Be strong, Pan said. You have found me.


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[Assistant] And now you must release me. You must carry on my spirit.


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[Assistant] It can no longer be carried by a god.


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[Assistant] It must be taken up by all of you.


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[Assistant] The god said, I know what you have seen today. I know your doubts. But I give you this news.


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[Assistant] When the time comes you will not be ruled by fear. Daughter of Athena, your time is coming. You will play a great role.


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[Assistant] Though it may not be the rule you imagined. Then he looked at Tyson. Master Cyclops, do not despair.


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[Assistant] Heroes rarely live up to our expectations. But you, Tyson, your name shall live among the Cyclopes for generations. And Miss Rachel Dare. Rachel flinched when he said her name.


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[Assistant] She backed up like she was guilty of something, but Pan only smiled. He raised his hand in a blessing.


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[Assistant] I know you believe you cannot make amends.


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[Assistant] But you are just as important as your father. I...


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[Assistant] Rachel faltered. A tear traced her cheek.


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[Assistant] I know you don't believe this now.


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[Assistant] Will you carry my message?


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[Assistant] It's the Joan of Arc story, right? The youngster who can see the world clearly comes into a complicated adult conflict. The sense of scale could not be larger. I didn't realize it would be so hot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what I say and what it says get fed back into its learning algorithms. My understanding of the test procedures is that they make certain requests of GPT


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[Assistant] There's actually something interesting going on on the generated images, where there's a proposal from Adobe to, uh, water mushrooms.


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[Assistant] With steganography rather than, uh, uh, just having a something attached to the end.


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[Assistant] A security sensitive piece of software, a password manager, and uhm, I've been using ChatGPT to help me analyze for security vulnerabilities. And uhm, it's uhm, not as good as my friend in Denver, but it's always present, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, one of the, one of the, uh, sources of the vulnerabilities is often at the interface between components.


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[Assistant] And in particular, uh, concurrency bugs. I was just at a talk on snore signatures and apparently there was a, uhm, I don't know.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not arguing for perfection, but there are, there is code and there are protocols.


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[Assistant] As you know, if there was a viable attack against Bitcoin, we would have certainly seen it by now because there's so much money to be made from it. Well, how many attacks do you need?


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[Assistant] Actually, Visa was quite upfront about it. They had the threshold of fraud.


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[Assistant] That it's, uh, cheaper to accept that fraud than to prevent it. And it's the cost benefit analysis that wins. So certain, you know, they don't have to close all the vulnerabilities as long as the ones that exist don't cost them too much.


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[Assistant] So there's, there's going to be a session at DEF CON, a whole day or a whole week, I think, at DEF CON this summer, uh, where they've invited people to come in and do exactly that and feedback so they can make corrections and see how far they can go in solving that problem.


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[Assistant] Yes, and uh, and I think that perhaps we can use these generative AIs as a tool to do that.


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[Assistant] And then you, then you will be immunized, presumably. I don't know if there are any studies to show that that actually works.


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[Assistant] That there's a, my son and I have a, have a code word and I can ask him for the code word.


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[Assistant] That attack has succeeded many times without generative AI. And we should know how to defend against that.


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[Assistant] To do a two party verification. So when, when you get the call,


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[Assistant] You have a phone number that you have been given previously that you call to verify that the call was from the original source. And this is actually used in a particular protocol where if you want to know if my Twitter feed is connected to my webpage,


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[Assistant] Uhm, LinkedIn has a particularly bad, uhm, uh, thing on its pages. Uhm, I got an email about a problem from LinkedIn. I went to LinkedIn.


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[Assistant] And so I clicked on the link, I made the contact that they said to make on that link, and it was a scam.


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[Assistant] Without any indication that it's not LinkedIn information.


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[Assistant] That they didn't differentiate from information provided by LinkedIn and information provided by the merchants.


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[Assistant] Doing that was a manual process, so it didn't scale.


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[Assistant] And it's not just explicit context. We have a lot of implicit context when we do.


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[Assistant] And heaven help all those that have been against me.


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[Assistant] There were no casualties, sir. Peppered, eh? Yes, peppered. Rummy. Devilish rummy, the whole thing. It's not rummy at all, it's perfectly clear.


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[Assistant] We're losing chips faster than we can build them. Well, we've got to build chips faster, unload chips faster. Yes, and then we'll learn to eat less, and wear less, and generally learn to go without. It's your job to tell the public there. You can do it all right. The Chief's very pleased with those Norwegian articles. Listen, didn't I always say there was the making of a journalist in him? No, you didn't. All right, I'll do it.


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[Assistant] I'm very glad to see you, Metcalfe. How do you do, sir? I read those Norwegian articles of yours, very good. Oh, thank you, sir. A little wise after the event, perhaps, but still, very good. He looks remarkably fit, doesn't he, sir? Yes, he does. And no near relatives, you know? That's capital. I wish you'd tell me what all this is about. Well, you're a journalist? Yes. Then you know the U-boat situation in the Atlantic. Well, I'm working on it now. Well, perhaps we can help each other.


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[Assistant] Thank you. And his daughter, Carrie, how's she? We do not speak of her. Why not? She's brought disgrace on us all. By promising to marry a so-called Norwegian. Police Inspector Gunter. After the invasion, he became rich and powerful. Carrie saw a chance, and she took it. Carrie? It's incredible. So are many things. It's incredible that I should have to beg bread for John.


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[Assistant] Won't do you any good, you know. To kill just a few. Because there are millions more like them. Fishermen and bakers and grocers and school masters. Ordinary people. You can't kill them all. And the day will come. Maybe sooner than you expect. When they'll all rise up against you and be free again. And then God help you.


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[Assistant] Current message just coming, sir. Norway XLZ. Thanks.


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[Assistant] I know how the new order doesn't seem to catch on.


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[Assistant] I had in mind, young sir, the days before Mr. Wesley went to America. Never have I seen a man so set upon his purpose.


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[Assistant] Here you are, Master Wesley. Here's your front page. How does it please you?


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[Assistant] This is what I found. They know neither law, school, nor church.


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[Assistant] Having once set my eyes on such a scene, could I run away and keep the great message to myself?


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[Assistant] At my first speaking, some dozens came together. Curious, suspicious.


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[Assistant] But what of the master? Did he not teach by the wayside, in the highways? This work is as pressing as could anywhere be found.


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[Assistant] So what we're going to do in this video is we're going to state precisely what is our goal when we're doing robot operations. What is the form that we want to put our system into


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[Assistant] Again, I'm gonna have a whole bunch of zeros. Gonna go zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, and then finally hit a one. But I don't care if the one is exactly in this next spot. I could have it sort of skip one or two. Maybe this is where the next one is.


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[Assistant] And the, the big idea here is that I'm gonna have this sort of staircase.


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[Assistant] The, the leading ones, that's what I'm referring to when I, when I look at these guys. The one there, the one there, the one there. All of those leading ones have to be to the right of the ones that are above it. And then it's all zeros beneath it. Those are my three different conditions.


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[Assistant] Now, I can go a little bit further and look into what it means to be reduced row echelon form. It's row echelon form, everything I've said here, but I also want to have zeros above the ones. So in this scenario, what I would do here is I'd say, look, okay, there's a one there, there's a one there,


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[Assistant] And there's a one there, so I'm gonna come here and I'm gonna put in for just those few specific ones, a zero, a zero, and a zero.


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[Assistant] Note, by the way, that there's a little bit of an asymmetry here. The idea with the zeros beneath it is that I've got my whole staircase, and everywhere beneath the staircase is gonna be zeros.


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[Assistant] And the idea is that for the first three properties, I'm gonna get to ReF, and then for all four properties, I'm gonna get to reduced row echelon form, or ReF.


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[Assistant] So, our task for the future is, I'm given a linear system, you use your three different elementary row operations, and you put it into this kind of form.


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[Assistant] Now, it turns out that reduced row echelon form has a really interesting property. Namely, it is unique. So this is a theorem.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter. At the end of it, there is only one reduced row echelon form.


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[Assistant] It can never be the same again. You've changed what's happened to you.


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[Assistant] I couldn't be one of those smug, impractical people who made the best of things and went over to the new order. I couldn't live in a world without hope or idealism.


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[Assistant] Yes. A remarkable man, this commando captain.


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[Assistant] The door was ajar. They entered. John?


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[Assistant] There was silence. Then, with a click, the bathroom door opened and, very pale, the savage emerged.


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[Assistant] I say, Holmholtz exclaimed solicitously, you do look ill, John.


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[Assistant] Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded.


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[Assistant] Do you mean to say that you were doing it on purpose? asked Bernard.


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[Assistant] That's how the Indians always purify themselves.


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[Assistant] He sat down and, sighing, passed his hand across his forehead.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm not surprised, said Helmont.


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[Assistant] Yes, we're off tomorrow, said Bernard, on whose face the savage remarked a new expression of determined resignation. And by the way, John,


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[Assistant] He continued, leaning forward in his chair and laying a hand on the savage's knee.


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[Assistant] I want to say how sorry I am about everything that happened yesterday. He blushed.


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[Assistant] How ashamed he went on in spite of the unsteadiness of his voice. How really-


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[Assistant] The savage cut him short, and taking his hand, affectionately pressed it.


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[Assistant] Helmholtz was wonderful to me, Bernard resumed after a little pause. If it hadn't been for him, I should... Now, now, Helmholtz protested. There was silence.


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[Assistant] In spite of their sadness, because of it even, for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another, the three young men were happy.


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[Assistant] Asked Holmholtz eagerly. The savage shook his head.


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[Assistant] From Guildford, the downline followed the Way Valley to Coldarming, then over Milford and Whitley, proceeded to Hazelmere and on through Petersfield towards Portsmouth.


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[Assistant] Roughly parallel to it, the upline passed over Warplestoun, Tongham, Putnam, Elstead and Greyshot. Between the Hogsback and Hindhead, there were points where the two lines were not more than six or seven kilometres apart.


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[Assistant] The distance was too small for careless fliers, particularly at night, and when they had taken half a gram too much, there had been accidents. Serious ones.


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[Assistant] It had been decided to deflect the upline a few kilometres to the west.


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[Assistant] Between Grayshot and Tongham, four abandoned air lighthouses marked the course of the old Portsmouth to London road.


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[Assistant] The skies above them were silent and deserted.


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[Assistant] The building was one of ferro concrete and in excellent condition.


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[Assistant] He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline. Purifications the more complete and thorough.


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[Assistant] His first night in the Hermitage was deliberately a sleepless one.


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[Assistant] He spent the hours on his knees praying. Now to that heaven from which the guilty Claudius had begged forgiveness. Now in Zuni to Awanawelona. Now to Jesus and Pooh Kong. Now to his own guardian animal, the eagle.


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[Assistant] From time to time he stretched out his arms as though he were on the cross and held them thus through long minutes of an ache that gradually increased till it became a tremulous and excruciating agony.


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[Assistant] Held then in voluntary crucifixion while he repeated through clenched teeth, the sweat meanwhile pouring down his face.


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[Assistant] All he deserved to live in was some filthy stye, some blind hole in the ground.


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[Assistant] Stiff and still aching after his long night of pain, but for that very reason inwardly reassured, he climbed up to the platform of his tower.


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[Assistant] He looked out over the bright sunrise world which he had regained the right to inhabit.


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[Assistant] From behind whose eastern extremity rose the towers of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guildford.


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[Assistant] Seeing them, the savage made a grimace. But he was to become reconciled to them in course of time, for at night,


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[Assistant] They twined gaily with geometrical constellations, or else floodlighted, pointed their luminous fingers, with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the savage now understood, solemnly towards the plumless mysteries of heaven.


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[Assistant] In the valley which separated the hogs back from the sandy hill on which the lighthouse stood, Putnam was a modest little village, nine stories high, with silos, a poultry farm, a small vitamin D factory. On the other side of the lighthouse, towards the south, the ground fell away in long slopes of heather to a chain of ponds.


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[Assistant] Beyond them, above the intervening woods, rose the fourteen story tower of Elstead. Dim in the hazy English air, Heinted and Selborne invited the eye into a blue romantic distance. But it was not alone the distance that had attracted the savage to his lighthouse. The near was as seductive as the far.


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[Assistant] The woods, the open stretches of heather and yellow gorse, the clumps of scotch firs, the shining ponds with their overhanging birch trees, their water lilies, their beds of rushes, these were beautiful and to an eye accustomed to the aridities of the American desert, astonishing.


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[Assistant] And then the solitude. Whole days passed during which he never saw a human being.


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[Assistant] The lighthouse was only a quarter of an hour's flight from the Charing Tea Tower, but the hills of Malpace were hardly more deserted than this Surrey Heath.


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[Assistant] The crowds that daily left London left it only to play electromagnetic golf or tennis. Putnam possessed no links. The nearest Ryman surfaces were at Guildford. Flowers and a ladscape were the only attractions here. And so, as there were no good reasons for coming, nobody came.


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[Assistant] During the first days, the Savage lived alone and undisturbed.


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[Assistant] Of the money, which on his first arrival John had received for his personal expenses, most had been spent on his equipment.


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[Assistant] No, not synthetic starch and cotton waste flour substitute, he had insisted, even though it is more nourishing.


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[Assistant] But when it came to pan glandular biscuits and vitamized beef surrogate, he had not been able to resist the shopman's persuasion.


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[Assistant] Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness. Loathsome civilized stuff.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, there would always be game. He had seen plenty of rabbits, and there were waterfowl in the ponds. He set to work at once to make a bow and arrows.


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[Assistant] He began by felling a young ash, cut out six foot of unbranched stem, stripped off the bark, and, pairing by pairing, shaved away the whitewood, as old Mitzima had taught him, until he had a stave of his own height, stiff at the thickened center, lively and quick at the slender tips.


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[Assistant] Half an hour later, three Delta Minus land workers from one of the Putnam Bukanofsky groups happened to be driving to Elstead and, at the top of the hill, were astonished to see a young man standing outside the abandoned lighthouse, stripped to the waist and hitting himself with a whip of knotted cords.


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[Assistant] The driver of the lorry pulled up at the side of the road and with his two companions stared open mouthed at the extraordinary spectacle.


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[Assistant] One, two, three, they counted the strokes. After the eighth, the young man interrupted his self-punishment to run to the woods edge and there be violently sick.


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[Assistant] Dried and hardened over a slow fire of green wood, the bow was ready. The savage was busy on his arrows. Thirty hazel sticks had been whittled and dried, tipped with sharp nails, carefully knocked.


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[Assistant] He had made a raid one night on the Putnam poultry farm and now had feathers enough to equip a whole armory.


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[Assistant] It was at work upon the feathering of his shafts that the first of the reporters found him. Noiseless on his pneumatic shoes, the man came up behind him.


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[Assistant] Well, of course our readers would be profoundly interested.


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[Assistant] Pulled down a pair of receivers over his ears, pressed a switch on the left side of the hat, and from within came a faint waspy buzzing. Turned a knob on the right and the buzzing was interrupted by a stethoscopic wheeze and cackle, by hiccups and sudden squeaks.


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[Assistant] Hello! He said to the microphone. Hello, hello! A bell suddenly rang inside his hat.


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[Assistant] The savage obeyed with a disconcerting literalness. Five words, he uttered, and no more. Five words. The same those he had said to Bernard about the arch-community songster of Canterbury.


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[Assistant] And, seizing the reporter by the shoulder, he spun him round. The young man revealed himself invitingly well covered. Aimed, and with all the force and accuracy of a champion foot-and-mouth baller, delivered a most prodigious kick.


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[Assistant] Eight minutes later, a new edition of The Hourly Radio was on sale in the streets of London.


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[Assistant] Hourly radio reporter has coccyx kicked by mystery savage, ran the headlines on the front page. Sensation in Surrey. Sensation even in London, thought the reporter when on his return he read the words. And a very painful sensation, what was more, he sat down gingerly to his luncheon.


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[Assistant] Undeterred by that cautionary bruise on their colleagues' coccyx, four other reporters, representing the New York Times, the Frankfurt Four Dimensional Continuum, the Fordian Science Monitor, and the Delta Mirror, called that afternoon at the lighthouse and met with receptions of progressively increasing violence.


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[Assistant] A few helicopters came and hollered inquisitively round the tower. He shot an arrow into the importunately nearest of them. It pierced the aluminium floor of the cabin. There was a shrill yell and the machine went rocketing up into the air with all the acceleration that its supercharger could give it.


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[Assistant] After a time, the vermin evidently became bored and flew away. For hours at a stretch, the sky above his head was empty, and, but for the larks, silent.


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[Assistant] At the end of the heath stood a clump of hoary juniper bushes. He flung himself against them. He embraced not the smooth body of his desires, but an armful of green spikes, sharp with a thousand points they pricked him.


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[Assistant] Even through the stab and sting of the juniper needles, his wincing flesh was aware of her


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[Assistant] He shouted at every blow, as though it were Lenina, and how frantically, without knowing it, he wished it were white, warm, scented, infamous Lenina that he was dogging thus STRUMPERED. And then, in a voice of despair,


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[Assistant] He had spent three days sitting inside the bowl of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand.


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[Assistant] 72 hours of profound discomfort. But now, the great moment had come. The greatest. Darwin Bonaparte had time to reflect as he moved among his instruments. The greatest since his taking of the famous, all-howling stereoscopic feely of the Gorilla's Wedding.


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[Assistant] Splendid. He said to himself as the savage started his astonishing performance. Splendid.


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[Assistant] Switched over for half a minute to slow motion, an exquisitely comical effect he promised himself.


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[Assistant] He said to himself when it was all over, Really grand. He mopped his face.


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[Assistant] When they had put in the feely effects at the studio, it would be a wonderful film. Almost as good, thought Derwin Boneapart, as The Sperm Whale's Love Life. And that, by Ford, was saying a good deal.


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[Assistant] Twelve days later, the savage of Surrey had been released and could be seen, heard, and felt in every first-class feely palace in Western Europe.


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[Assistant] The effect of Darwin Bonaparte's film was immediate and enormous.


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[Assistant] And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.


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[Assistant] Why had she been allowed to become gradually less than human? And at last, he shuddered. A good kissing carrion.


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[Assistant] He planted his foot on his spade and stamped it fiercely into the tough ground.


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[Assistant] Words that proclaim themselves true, truer somehow than truth itself. And yet that same Gloucester had called them ever-gentle gods.


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[Assistant] Besides, thy best of rest is sleep, and that thou oft provokest yet grossly fiercest thy death, which is no more. No more than sleep. Sleep, a chance to dream.


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[Assistant] His spade struck against a stone. He stooped to pick it up.


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[Assistant] Our humming overhead had become a roar, and suddenly he was in shadow.


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[Assistant] There was something between the sun and him. He looked up, startled from his digging, from his thoughts, looked up in a dazzled bewilderment, his mind still wandering in that other world of truer than truth, still focused on the immensities of death and deity, looked up and saw, close above him, the swarm of hovering machines.


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[Assistant] And every moment, for across the Hogsback the stream of traffic now flowed unceasingly, their numbers increased.


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[Assistant] From this stupor he was aroused to a more immediate sense of reality by the impact on his cheek of a well aimed packet of chewing gum.


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[Assistant] Acting on the word suggestion, he seized a bunch of knotted cords from its nail behind the door and shookered at his tormentors. There was a yell of ironical applause.


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[Assistant] Why don't you leave me alone? There was an almost plaintive note in his anger. Have a few magnesium-salted almonds, said the man, who, if the savage were to advance, would be the first to be attacked. He held out a packet. They're really very good, you know, he added, with a rather nervous smile of propitation. Then the magnesium salts will help keep you young. The savage ignored his offer.


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[Assistant] The whip! Answered a hundred voices confusedly.


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[Assistant] Yet another helicopter had arrived from across the Hogsback, hung poised above the crowd, then dropped within a few yards of where the Savage was standing, in the open space between the line of sightseers and the lighthouse.


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[Assistant] The roar of the air screws momentarily drowned out the shouting. Then, as the machine touched the ground and the engines were turned off,


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[Assistant] Broke out again in the same loud, insistent monotone.


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[Assistant] The door of the helicopter opened and outstepped first a fair and ruddy-faced young man, then in green velveteen shorts, white shirt and jockey cap, a young woman.


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[Assistant] At the sight of the young woman, the savage started, recoiled, turned pale.


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[Assistant] The young woman stood, smiling at him. An uncertain, imploring, almost abject smile. The seconds passed.


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[Assistant] Her blue eyes seemed to grow larger, brighter, and suddenly two tears rolled down her cheeks. Inaudibly, she spoke again. Then, with a quick impassioned gesture, stretched out her arms towards the savage, stepped forward. We want the whip! We want the whip! And all of the sudden, they had what they wanted.


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[Assistant] With a whoop of delighted excitement, the line broke. There was a convergent stampede towards the magnetic center of attraction. Pain was a fascinating horror.


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[Assistant] Frenzy the savage slashed again. Hungrily they gathered round, pushing and scrambling like swine about the trough.


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[Assistant] And in a moment, they had all caught up the refrain, and singing had begun to dance. Orgy porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time. Orgy porgy.


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[Assistant] It was after midnight when the last of the helicopters took its flight.


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[Assistant] Stupefied by Soma and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality, the savage lay sleeping in the heather. The sun was already high when he woke.


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[Assistant] He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light, then suddenly remembered everything. Oh my god, my god. He covered his eyes with his hand.


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[Assistant] The description of last night's orgy of atonement had been in all the papers.


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[Assistant] Through an archway on the further side of the room, they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors.


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[Assistant] Just under the crown of the arch, dangled a pair of feet.


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[Assistant] And after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South, southwest. South. Southeast, east.


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[Assistant] You have been listening to Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley and read by Steve Parker.


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[Assistant] George Muller is a student at the university here in Hallehm, and he's training for the ministry, I believe.


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[Assistant] Messages that we continue our Bible studies from last week and turn to 1 John 4. And I will read from verse 7 on and if somebody else then could, could continue from verse 13.


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[Assistant] Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us.


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[Assistant] Ah, that was going up! Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. OOOH!


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[Assistant] So maybe Christmas pudding. Do Americans have Christmas pudding though? Is that a British thing?


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[Assistant] The easiest name to pronounce, Josh Rozelskis.


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[Assistant] Do people still listen to what Vince Russo has to say? Is that a commonly held opinion on people? I don't know.


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[Assistant] And previously, while we've seen how to deal with what happens if there's just a unique solution, we're gonna do these row operations and try to turn that into its upper triangular form, I'm gonna show you in this video how we deal with the other cases when there's infinitely many solutions or when there's no solutions. So let's do the one on the left first.


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[Assistant] As in two variables and two different equations. And they're mostly ones, but possibly just one zero. And you're gonna see that it's really sensitive. Small little differences, like one one turns into a zero, can make all the difference between zero, one, or infinitely many solutions.


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[Assistant] So, remember our first goal is to try to put a zero here. We have this sort of leading one on the top, and we want to put a zero underneath it. That's our ideal form. So, I'm gonna continue in that vein.


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[Assistant] Put in place of it the second row minus the first row.


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[Assistant] The first row from the second row, I go 1 minus 1 is 0, 1 minus 1 is 0, and 0 minus 1 is minus 1.


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[Assistant] Rho here, what this tells me is that 0x1 plus 0x2 is equal to minus 1. In other words, it's telling me that 0 is equal to minus 1. This cannot be. There is no x1 and x2 that has the property that this linear combination of them is going to be equal to minus 1.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna do the same thing, I'm gonna take my second row, and in its place, I'm gonna take the second row minus the first row.


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[Assistant] And again, that does not change the first row, but now I go 1 minus 1 is 0, 1 minus 1 is 0, and 1 minus 1. One last time is 1 more 0.


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[Assistant] There's something sort of interesting to note here. If I look at this bottom equation in this scenario, right, so if I look at the bottom row,


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[Assistant] Is I'm not putting any constraint on the variables x1 or x2. In a sense I have a little bit of


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[Assistant] And then you figure out what the other variables can be in terms of that free parameter s.


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[Assistant] x1 plus 1 is equal to 1, or in other words, x1 is equal to 0.


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[Assistant] So the key difference between these three examples is that after I do my row operations, so put it in that ideal upper triangular form, the bottom rows look very different.


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[Assistant] And then in the final one, it was all zeros, but there was that one non-zero coefficient and the non-zero constant. And that gave us a unique solution.


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[Assistant] Some drinks. Oh no, I'm okay. Let me put some music on for us.


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[Assistant] King of the moment. In life, we're all either kings or pawns. I move by your effort to save your captain's life, Dontess.


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[Assistant] Loyal friends are rare indeed. In fact, it's upon such a matter I wish to speak.


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[Assistant] We are here to plead the case of Edmund Dantès. What now? Dantès.


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[Assistant] You knew. Edmund, also. Like a son.


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[Assistant] Who knows? Must have been Thor, the man who had Edmund arrested, left for Paris soon after to take up the post of chief prosecutor. Of course, the shock of his father's violent murder may also have spurred his departure. They were strange times.


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[Assistant] You seem to have fallen on difficult times yourself, sir. After Edmund's death, I reluctantly took on a partner.


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[Assistant] Yes. A month after poor Edmund was arrested, Mercedes wed his best friend.


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[Assistant] The weekend has served us well. MPs went back to their constituencies and talked to their wives by the look of things. And of course the wives don't like the look of her one little bit. Calm.


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[Assistant] Isn't it? You can't very well marry her if she won't be married.


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[Assistant] Hey bud, the director wants to see you. Is Brooklyn across the river here too?


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[Assistant] Believe me, but you sure act sore about it.


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[Assistant] You haven't improved any, have you? You always did talk your head off all the time you were dancing.


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[Assistant] I don't know whether those two laps spotted me moving and staring or whether I came to my senses, I don't know. When I looked again, it wasn't there. Yet I think I caught a glimpse with the tail of my eye, as the saying is, something dark shooting under the shadow of the bank.


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[Assistant] I couldn't see no more eyes, though. I sat to myself, dreaming against Sam Genji, I said. And I said no more just then. But I'd been thinking since, and now I'm not so sure. What do you make of it, Mr. Frodo?


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[Assistant] I saw them way back north before we reached Lahoyan.


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[Assistant] I admire James first. I like his intellect and his inquiring mind. He was somebody who was very curious about life, a man who was trying to make sense of the world.


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[Assistant] He was a very brave, headstrong figure. Very good soldier, very good admiral. But unfortunately, being so pig-headedly Roman Catholic was the undoing of him.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Parliament wasn't prepared to give enough or to tax enough in their own way.


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[Assistant] Vilnius was obviously fantastically physically attractive. This is written about by ambassadors at the time. They were absolutely struck dumb by his physical beauty. And it was something that he was very aware of. And of course, you know, James I, uh,


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[Assistant] In this one man, Buckingham, his rise through the aristocracy.


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[Assistant] The way that the favour from the royal crown cascaded through his wider family.


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[Assistant] It must have been incredibly difficult for the older aristocracy to look at this man arrive from almost nothing.


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[Assistant] And become, by some distance, the most powerful man in the kingdom.


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[Assistant] I think for the British living across the sea from the Thirty Years' War, it must have been a very frightening spectator sport, especially with the propaganda coming back from both sides. It resonated very much over here, that this sort of


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[Assistant] Absolute catastrophe could happen here through religious bigotry. I think it was, uh, something that the English looked at, askance, and thought we just cannot have that here.


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[Assistant] Through history, we think Charles I lost his head, having lost a civil war. But we forget the years when he was seen as the luckiest monarch in Europe.


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[Assistant] Henrietta Moriah got married on the understanding with Pope Urban that she would try and do her best to bring England back to the true faith of Roman Catholicism.


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[Assistant] And also the sort of, uhm, understanding that she would do her best to influence the royal family itself, uh, the children that she would produce.


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[Assistant] The real problem was, she was very zealously Catholic, so she flaunted her Catholicism, even to the extent that she refused to take part in the coronation because she would not.


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[Assistant] Have the proceedings overseen by a Protestant. It was something that was anathema to her.


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[Assistant] So you have really strong religious prejudices on the side of Queen Henrietta Mariah.


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[Assistant] There was a sort of intense friendship which I think started on both sides from a mutual regard of how powerful the other one was. You know, Buckingham because of his royal favour, which he certainly didn't want to lose with the change of, uh, ruler. And Charles because he wanted to be loved by his father and what better way of being loved than to show favour for his favourite.


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[Assistant] There was a sort of element of intelligence on both parts that...


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[Assistant] Diplomatically, they should make the most of each other, because it was going to further their own interest.


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[Assistant] But after James's death, Buckingham maintained this extraordinary hold over the throne for the remaining three years of Buckingham's life.


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[Assistant] Blade of an assassin was, was something that took a lot of coming to terms with.


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[Assistant] I think one of the tragedies for the stewards is that they never had enough money.


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[Assistant] And Parliament wasn't prepared to give enough or to tax enough in their own way.


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[Assistant] Charles I was very keen to get round this problem and to use whatever device he could come up with.


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[Assistant] Anything that connected to the crown to raise money, he would look at. And ship money was the first really big...


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[Assistant] Disaster in terms of confrontation with people who were not prepared to put up with what they saw as an abuse of kingly power.


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[Assistant] In fairness, was building up the Navy in a very dramatic way, which was good for the nation.


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[Assistant] But to impose a tax on internal counties of England for the growing of the Navy was a really


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[Assistant] Difficult concept for people who are being asked to pay it.


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[Assistant] Just the first major step of Charles being seen as an absolutist monarch in an unacceptable, very un-British way.


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[Assistant] I see the civil war coming from a shifting of tectonic plates to do with politics, society and religion. There were very, very


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[Assistant] Who believe that they should be representing the interests of the country versus the court.


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[Assistant] And, uh, equally vehemently you have Charles the first and before him James the first believing


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[Assistant] So there's a sort of religious conflict and a philosophical one about who's actually in charge of this country and what is it about.


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[Assistant] I think the energy of the Royalists was quite impressive.


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[Assistant] There was this king who was a charming man, had lots of good qualities, religious, thoughtful, very good family man. But a terrible king. And one who had...


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[Assistant] I've taken very poor advice at a lot of key junctures.


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[Assistant] Uh, the problem with Charles was he was just so weak.


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[Assistant] And it used to drive Henrietta Mariah mad. You see her letters to him from...


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[Assistant] The safety of the continent saying, you agreed to do this, but you did that yet again. What are you doing?


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[Assistant] And he couldn't help himself. He just was easily swayable. And this was not a decade.


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[Assistant] There was a strong element of Parliament who were not in favour of the King being


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[Assistant] Even though he had been defeated in battle repeatedly, even though he was reneging on agreements, he was still the king.


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[Assistant] And to a lot of loyalist members of parliament, they could understand a way forward where the king might be persuaded to be a more acceptable form of himself.


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[Assistant] The colonels of the New Model Army were the dominant force really in the trial of Charles I. They'd seen too much bloodshed and they could then


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[Assistant] Only see, Charles, is this famous phrase, this man of blood.


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[Assistant] He was no longer Charles, King of England on a pedestal. He was just another man who had caused this appalling bloodshed.


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[Assistant] And I think it's always worth remembering that the English Civil Wars.


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[Assistant] So I think that with all that in mind, people thought those who hated the king by this stage or who suddenly loathed the bloodshed that went with the king's cause, I think they thought that if we could just


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[Assistant] Lock the head off. Literally. The crown.


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[Assistant] People always say, oh gosh, Charles, he was so relaxed, you know, just interested in a luxurious life. But there was one part of him that was unforgiving.


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[Assistant] They became royal prey. They were pursued out of the country. Henrietta Mariah fled in a ship from the southwest to France under gunfire from Parliament. The future James Second as a young boy managed to escape from Sion House in Middlesex, dressed as a girl, and was spirited away to the Netherlands.


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[Assistant] And uhm, there was a little Princess Elizabeth who sadly...


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[Assistant] sort of faded away and died in Carrersbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight.


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[Assistant] Between 1646 and 51, the future Charles II endures a really humiliating exile. The story is that nobody dared tell Charles II that his father had been executed and they didn't know what to do, so one of the senior courtiers


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[Assistant] Went in to see Charles II, instead of saying, Your Royal Highness, which would have been his title as Prince, bowed and said, Your Majesty.


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[Assistant] Meaning you are now the king. And Charles took a moment to understand it, but when he did, it was, uh, an absolute body blow.


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[Assistant] Of course, Charles doesn't actually win back the throne. It's Parliament and the Commonwealth that lose it. They haven't got somebody to succeed, Oliver Cromwell, who has the substance or the respect of both Parliament and the army to take his place. So it's really because of Oliver Cromwell's death and the inability of anyone following him to grab that power.


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[Assistant] That eventually the English resort to defaults and think, well, we'll have a king back then.


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[Assistant] And his advisors, they were convinced that if there were conditions, they were going to be very onerous. And they'd be probably close to what Charles I had turned down before his trial and execution.


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[Assistant] But actually, the English parliament had turned around on its head in just two months in early 1660.


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[Assistant] And that's the 59 men who signed the death warrant. And another 20 or so who were either legal officers in the court case or on the scaffold at the execution. And Charles'


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[Assistant] And there was also an underlying point too that if he had been soft with them, what would it have said about him as a, as a, as a monarch?


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[Assistant] So I think that there was a cold part of Charles II and it was absolutely focused on those who had killed his father.


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[Assistant] The disasters that befell Charles, the hammer blow of the plague, the fire, the wars with the Dutch.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, the people of England were predominantly in favor of the Dutch, so he was out of


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[Assistant] Kilter with the political feeling of, of, of his, uh, of his parliament for a lot of his reign. These were terrible things because the mentality of the time was somehow that the monarch was responsible for life, for everyday life.


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[Assistant] There were still a lot of political tensions and the constant question of


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[Assistant] If Charles couldn't produce a legitimate heir with Catherine of Paganza, who was going to succeed? And then the realization that his brother, James, Duke of York, was a Roman Catholic.


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[Assistant] And part of that was driven by a wish to make sure that James could not become, uh, the future King of England.


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[Assistant] So all in all, I think, uhm, Charles II would have preferred a much quieter time than he was handed.


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[Assistant] Very, very quickly, and suddenly had a massive seizure.


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[Assistant] And then poor man, he was handed over to the combined ignorance of the royal physicians who did not know what to do.


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[Assistant] And they took a view that the best thing they could do was stimulate him and get his whole energy pulsing through him, I suppose.


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[Assistant] So they shaved off his hair and applied...


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[Assistant] White hot glass to his scalp. They put a sort of acid in his nostrils. They pumped him full of laxatives and enemas.


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[Assistant] And they gave him tonics of ground up man's skull and put poultices of pigeon droppings on his feet.


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[Assistant] Although occasionally, bizarrely, he seemed to be getting better, the general flow was towards death. And one of his mistresses, Louise de Kerouet,


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[Assistant] Took James, Duke of York, the King's brother, aside and said, look, please don't tell anyone I've said this. But his one wish has always been that he dies a Catholic.


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[Assistant] Who had helped Charles survive during his six weeks on the run after the Battle of Worcester.


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[Assistant] And James utters the immortal line of


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[Assistant] And takes him through the various processes to bring him to Catholicism.


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[Assistant] Uh, including what I'd imagine was rather a long confession by Charles. And he dies the following day having...


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[Assistant] Just reconnected briefly with the six weeks in his life of which he was most proud when he had shown himself to be brave and resilient.


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[Assistant] I think history is very tough on James II. He was a very brave, headstrong figure, a very good soldier, a very good admiral, but unfortunately, being so pig-headedly Roman Catholic.


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[Assistant] James II just thought he was going to do his bit as a Catholic King. And it went spectacularly wrong.


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[Assistant] Well I think history is very tough on James the second. We tend to forget all about him except the disaster of his three years as a king. He was a very brave


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[Assistant] Headstrong figure. He was a very good soldier, very good admiral.


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[Assistant] And had fought bravely and he, he had a lot of qualities.


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[Assistant] But unfortunately, being so pig-headedly Roman Catholic was the undoing of him.


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[Assistant] The marrying of, of William of Orange, who was of royal British blood, and therefore had a potential claim to James's elder daughter.


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[Assistant] Gave a, a potential focus now for those who were just not prepared to tolerate a Catholic king.


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[Assistant] I think he believed it was his duty as a Catholic prince.


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[Assistant] I think he thought his powers as a monarch were greater than they were. He hadn't taken on board the lessons of the civil wars. The fact that the Stuarts weren't able to just behave as they wished.


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[Assistant] When James the Second's second wife, Mary of Modena, had a son.


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[Assistant] Even that wasn't enough. I mean clearly that boy should have been king in the law of succession. But the protestant establishment managed to...


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[Assistant] In William and Mary and their line.


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[Assistant] Now the contender was William, who saw England as a very, very useful ally, particularly its wealth and its navy, in his perpetual battle against Louis XIV's France.


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[Assistant] So that's why he was prepared to do it. It wasn't out of any great pride or whatever. It was purely practical. He wanted to have...


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[Assistant] James' real problem lies in the fact that he's relying on certain loyalties that are no longer intact. His own children, the two daughters Mary and Anne.


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[Assistant] Have been persuaded to put their Protestantism above their duties as daughters.


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[Assistant] And also some of his finest generals have made it clear that they will fight against the king rather than for him.


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[Assistant] I'm including John Churchill, who becomes the first Duke of Marlborough, who had been really the instrument who had defeated.


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[Assistant] Monmouth at the Battle of Sedgemoor three years earlier. Maybe it was because he was a Protestant and he couldn't bear to help a Catholic.


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[Assistant] But James was correct to say that he had taken him from an obscure page boy, given him a commission and helped him on his way. And now this young, brilliant commander was fighting against him.


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[Assistant] To have your daughters side against you in a matter really of life and death and of your dynasty's future.


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[Assistant] And to have those who you've made from nothing into people of great substance, it must have been devastating on a personal level.


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[Assistant] But there was always the thought during his remaining years that


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[Assistant] Well look, what happened to Charles II? Here come back against the odds. So, we know it never happened, but I, there were a lot of people in England who were playing a double game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, communicating with James in secret, just in case he did come back, because they didn't want to end up being, uhm, beheaded.


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[Assistant] I always view 1688 and James II's exile as the defining moment of the change that started with the outbreak of Civil War in 1642, where really the, the status of the Crown is subjugated to that of Parliament. And it's James, because of his three years of intensely unintelligent, prejudiced rule, he brings it to a head finally.


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[Assistant] I don't think James II was a natural quitter. It was because of the overwhelming evidence that it was over. He just misjudged the central tenet of the Protestant establishment in England. Particularly when they looked overseas to France and saw what Louis XIV was doing to the Protestants.


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[Assistant] Treating them as savagery, uhm, people being broken on the wheel. Literally broken on a...


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[Assistant] It was so close geographically and the thought that it might come across the channel to England.


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[Assistant] Catholic absolutism could be tolerated by James' people.


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[Assistant] Katherine Allen? What? What shall I call you? Katherine? Katie?


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[Assistant] You know, you owe a lot to me. What? From the look on that fella's face after you kissed him. He wasn't gonna let you go. And I don't blame him.


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[Assistant] You can't learn much about life from an Aunt Clara in Kansas City. Come to my town, Sopopa. I'll show you more life there in five minutes than you'll see in Kansas City in ten years.


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[Assistant] My horse died under me and I figured... Figured what? Figured I'd carried this saddle far enough.


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[Assistant] Well, Mr. Gardner, does he stay or does he go? I think the young lady would feel happier if he stayed.


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[Assistant] You know, I was arguing that out with Morris just before he died.


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[Assistant] Well, then I'd go back around Subulpa and punch cattle again, or...


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[Assistant] Somebody sure is. Judging from this lunchbox. Anybody mind? No, go right ahead. You folks pick up right where you left off. That's one thing about these big hats.


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[Assistant] Don't be afraid to take a chance. You've gotta play for high stakes.


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[Assistant] Before we struck oil in my town, it was a dust-covered prairie, with a handful of farmers trying to squeeze a living out of the ground, when all the while there was a fortune right under their feet.


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[Assistant] Here we are, boys. Home. Well, they'll be switching my car off here. So if you folks are going on to Kansas City, better move on up ahead.


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[Assistant] There's nothing so risky as a pretty girl trying to look out for herself.


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[Assistant] Just don't worry. There'll be another train to Kansas City in a few days.


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[Assistant] Hi, uh, Desperado. I ain't seen you since we turned that stagecoach over. Where you been keeping yourself? Well, Cuba and the Philippines. Hey, uh, what's going on around here?


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[Assistant] Regular Lollapaloozer. Yep, sure, got all his buttons on. Desperate! Straight to my oil field, and use the whip!


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[Assistant] Remember that wild Pinot I was chasing for a couple of years? Yep, but you got him. Sore all I'm after this time.


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[Assistant] You didn't lose it because you ran out of money. You lost it because you haven't got guts enough for the oil game. I'd have sucked it out before I let anyone take it away from me.


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[Assistant] You really didn't want to catch that little fella, did you? I oughta break his neck.


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[Assistant] And yours too. Now just a minute, I got no steady side in this fight.


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[Assistant] When he had a gun and you didn't, that was taking unfair advantage. So what? So when you took out after him was 75 pounds, which he ain't got, that was taking a little advantage too. You're asking for this? I'm gonna break your thick skull.


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[Assistant] I wish you'd make up your mind. A little while ago you wanted me to stay and now you want me to go.


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[Assistant] Well I was never one for walking. Besides, I owe you my life.


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[Assistant] Hey, she ain't so... You'd be surprised how modern she is. She's three jumps ahead of your favorite author.


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[Assistant] Desperate you're a burglar. I'll add 200 to it and make it an even thousand. For a Class A introduction. Yeah, boy!


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[Assistant] I'm going to leave Miss Allen in your hands for a while. Take good care of her, won't you? Oh, sure.


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[Assistant] Very pretty. Thanks. The stairs always liked it. You know, you made a big mistake today, cowboy.


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[Assistant] Take them off, clothes. You hear me? Just a minute, I'm looking at the flickers. Come on, I don't like my clothes on you. Don't you think they'll be coming? No, they're too big for you. You figured you owed me $200. I thought I was giving you a bargain. Are you gonna take them off or does Cherokee take over? You mean here?


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[Assistant] Cherokee, you're fired. I overestimated you. I didn't say I wanted his job. Well, do ya? These dads go with it?


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[Assistant] If you didn't work out alright, so long as I don't have to watch your back. Start in by throwing him out. You heard the boss.


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[Assistant] Say, uh, it's been rumored that you're getting soft-hearted. Yeah, who started that? Well, you could do me a real charitable act. Yeah?


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[Assistant] We will sign papers with you. Oh no, I don't want the deal. I ain't in the oil business. You bet you're not. Not even on the ragged edge. This doesn't settle a thing, Big Tree. I'm gonna work the oil on this land even if I have to go to Washington.


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[Assistant] We'll go spinning past the window of our private car. Chicago, New York, London, Paris.


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[Assistant] I was hoping you would. We both look kinda lonesome the way we was.


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[Assistant] That ain't my oil, Lance. I know how you folks feel, and I'd like to please you.


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[Assistant] But still and all, I guess I gotta sleep on this proposition for a while.


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[Assistant] Just how Mr. Summers expects to make good with no experience and a handful of grassroot farmers is something I can't answer. Perhaps he can. Would you like to try to answer that, Sergeant?


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[Assistant] But these are the men that came in with a land rush and stuck through the dust and the drought. Most of them ain't oil men, but they'll make a go of things, I figure, because this is their chance to take a chance, to have something for themselves. And about that fifty percent.


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[Assistant] I was raised around the Indians and I've seen them pushed and squeezed enough as it is.


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[Assistant] And if my offering him half of what already belongs to him is fantastic,


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[Assistant] Well, then that's what I am, whatever it is. I don't suppose you have any personal interest in this, Mr. Summers. Of course I have. I ain't doing this for nothing. I'm a one percent stockholder in this deal. Sergeant, how long do you think it will take you to sink a well if you keep pushing? Our head driller says about four months.


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[Assistant] Sergeant, I'm going to give you your chance. Thank you, sir. You have four months to make good.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? Yes, sir. I've been over every inch of this reservation. With my nose scraping the ground like a hound dog. Well, here's hoping. You looking for somebody, Cherokee? Look for you. Want job. Sorry, we're fresh out of bodyguarding jobs around here. Try your old boss. There's an opening there. His side, not my side. You work for Indy. I work for you. You're really serious about that work? Sure. Me strong.


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[Assistant] Let's see how strong you are unloading them wagons, and we'll talk. Sure, boss.


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[Assistant] Hold it. Let's christen this well right.


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[Assistant] Well, you never see a rainbow unless the storm's over and the fair weather's ahead. And if you follow a rainbow, you sometimes find a pot of gold.


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[Assistant] I've seen him roar in and tear the whole derrick up at the roots. How soon?


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[Assistant] Ah, I remember. Cherokee was fooling around the boiler when we was washing up. There was no accident out there. It was dynamited.


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[Assistant] You're more attractive than ever. Get out of the way.


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[Assistant] Wilkins was killed and that's gonna be paid for if I have to tear you and the whole town apart. Beginning with your pet rattlesnake.


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[Assistant] Now all I want from you is that portable oil rig. Why don't you come out and get it? I'm going to. I'll tell the sheriff why I killed him. What are you gonna tell him?


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[Assistant] Self-defense. The same thing I'm going to tell them about you if I find you on my property.


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[Assistant] You didn't think I'd be coming here alone. No, not exactly.


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[Assistant] You gotta dig up everything on wheels that'll carry oil. Uh, we ain't got a chance. There ain't a half a dozen of them old tankers around here fit to use. No, but there's lumber and there's tar. There's tonight.


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[Assistant] You bring in those tankers, I'll fill it. Well, you'll be filling before morning.


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[Assistant] All mere technicality. Get your hat. Oh, I'd like to, Mr. Gardner, but I've got to stay here till six. You can't have a drink with me, though, can't you?


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[Assistant] Come on, let's get going. I'm sorry, Mr. Gardner. Not till six o'clock. That's right, Charlie. Stick to your principles. You know, I have plans. They might include you. Yeah?


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[Assistant] We're beginning to catch on, and that's only a starter. We can go a long ways together, Charlie. Yeaah. There, that ought to clear your conscience. Come on, let's lock up and paint the town.


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[Assistant] The fight is over. The cowboy was licked before he started. We both know that. I'm talking about us.


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[Assistant] We've wasted a lot of time, kid. Let's get back on the train.


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[Assistant] You can't bring that oil in with those hay burners every day. But I've got a pipeline. And I've got a proposition to take up with you in my office. When I get one. Why not in here? Never let pleasure interfere with business. Sure. Excuse us.


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[Assistant] Here you are, Rich. You kept your word. Well, come on. We ain't on the wagons now.


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[Assistant] Well, I ain't never had a granny. That is at least wise that I can remember. You see, she was only, uh, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] The Desire of Ages, Chapter 66, Controversy.


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[Assistant] The priests and rulers had listened in silence to Christ's pointed rebukes. They could not refute his charges, but they were only the more determined to entrap him.


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[Assistant] And with this object they sent to him spies, which should feign themselves just men that they might take hold of his words, so that they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.


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[Assistant] They did not send the old Pharisees whom Jesus had often met, but young men who were ardent and zealous and whom they thought Christ did not know.


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[Assistant] These were accompanied by certain of the Herodians who were to hear Christ's words that they might testify against him at his trial.


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[Assistant] The payment of tribute they held to be contrary to the law of God. Now they saw opportunity to lay a snare for Jesus. The spies came to him and with apparent sincerity, as though desiring to know their duty, said,


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[Assistant] We know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly.


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[Assistant] Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar or no? The words we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, had they been sincere, would have been a wonderful admission.


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[Assistant] But they were spoken to deceive. Nevertheless, their testimony was true.


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[Assistant] The Pharisees did know that Christ said and taught rightly, and by their own testimony will they be judged.


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[Assistant] render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God


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[Assistant] Now they felt themselves baffled and defeated. Their plans were disarranged. The summary manner in which their question had been settled left them nothing further to say. Christ's reply was no evasion, but a candid answer to the question.


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[Assistant] He declared that since they were living under the protection of the Roman power, they should render to that power the support it claimed.


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[Assistant] So long as this did not conflict with a higher duty.


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[Assistant] Render unto God the things that are God's were a severe rebuke to the intriguing Jews.


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[Assistant] Had they faithfully fulfilled their obligations to God, they would not have become a broken nation, subject to a foreign power.


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[Assistant] No Roman ensign would have waved over Jerusalem. No Roman senator would have stood at her gates.


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[Assistant] No Roman governor would have ruled within her walls.


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[Assistant] When the Pharisees heard Christ's answer, they marvelled and left him and went their way.


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[Assistant] And in doing this, he had stated a great principle.


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[Assistant] In many minds, a vexed question had been settled, ever after they held to the right principle. And although many went away dissatisfied, they saw that the principle underlying the question had been clearly set forth.


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[Assistant] No sooner were the Pharisees' silence than the Sadducees came forward with their artful questions. The two parties stood in bitter opposition to each other.


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[Assistant] The Pharisees were rigid adherents to tradition. They were exact in outward ceremonies.


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[Assistant] diligent in washings, fastings, and long prayers, and ostentatious in almsgiving.


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[Assistant] Who accepted Christ's teachings and became his disciples.


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[Assistant] The Sadducees rejected the traditions of the Pharisees. They professed to believe the greater portion of the scriptures and to regard them as the rule of action.


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[Assistant] The Sadducees denied the existence of angels, the resurrection of the dead, and the doctrine of a future life.


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[Assistant] Between the two parties, the resurrection was especially a subject of controversy.


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[Assistant] The inability to meet the arguments of the Sadducees gave rise to continual irritation.


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[Assistant] The discussions between the two parties usually resulted in angry disputes, leaving them farther apart than before.


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[Assistant] In numbers, the Sadducees fell far below their opponents, and they had not so strong a hold upon the common people. But many of them were wealthy, and they had the influence which wealth imparts.


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[Assistant] On account of the numbers and popularity of the Pharisees, it was necessary for the Sadducees to concede outwardly to their doctrines when holding any priestly office.


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[Assistant] But the very fact that they were eligible to such office gave influence to their errors. The Sadducees rejected the teaching of Jesus.


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[Assistant] And his teaching in regard to God and the future life contradicted their theories.


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[Assistant] That by rigorous and austere exactions, his life could be purified.


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[Assistant] Their ideas of God molded their own character. As in their view, he had no interest in man, so they had little regard for one another. There was little union among them.


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[Assistant] And of their strict adherence to the requirements of the law.


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[Assistant] But of the true spirit of the law and the faith and benevolence of Abraham, they were destitute.


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[Assistant] To God as a father of the children of men, ever watchful of their true interests.


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[Assistant] God moves upon the heart by the Holy Spirit.


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[Assistant] He showed the error of trust into human power for that transformation of character which can be wrought only by the Spirit of God.


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[Assistant] In seeking a controversy with Jesus, they felt confident of bringing him into disrepute, even if they could not secure his condemnation.


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[Assistant] The resurrection was the subject on which they chose to question him. Should he agree with them?


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[Assistant] In that case, they concluded that earthly relationships would be resumed, husband and wife would be reunited, marriages consummated, and all things go on the same as before death. The frailties and passions of this life being perpetuated in the life beyond.


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[Assistant] He did not charge them as he had charged the Pharisees with hypocrisy, but with error of belief.


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[Assistant] Christ called upon them to open their minds to those sacred truths that would broaden and strengthen the understanding. Thousands became infidels. Thousands become infidels because their finite minds cannot comprehend the mysteries of God.


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[Assistant] They cannot explain the wonderful exhibition of divine power in his providences.


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[Assistant] The only key to the mysteries that surround us is to acknowledge in them all the presence and power of God.


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[Assistant] The scriptures which they profess to believe would be of no avail. He said, but as touching the resurrection of the dead.


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[Assistant] Have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.


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[Assistant] He sees the end from the beginning and beholds the result of his work as though it were now accomplished.


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[Assistant] The precious dead from Adam down to the last saint who dies will hear the voice of the Son of God.


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[Assistant] He beholds as if it were already existing. The dead live unto him.


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[Assistant] By the words of Christ the Sadducees were put to silence. They could not answer him.


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[Assistant] They prevailed upon a certain learned scribe to question Jesus as to which of the ten precepts of the law was of the greatest importance.


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[Assistant] The Pharisees had exalted the first four commandments, which point out the duty of man to his maker as a far greater consequence than the other six, which define man's duty to his fellow man.


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[Assistant] As the result, they greatly failed of practical godliness. Jesus had shown the people their great deficiency and had taught the necessity of good works, declaring that the tree is known by its fruits.