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[Assistant] They're gonna get there soon. I feel like it's gonna be a really clutch moment. Ooh, I like how it thins it. They like, ricochet off his bl- YES! It is one of them! Oh wait, oh it's because- Wait, that's how far away they are? Oh, she like, refilled? What the-


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[Assistant] She can kill all of them, bro. Oh no. Honest, she can't save everyone. WHOA!


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[Assistant] He told him, he told him more about it.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Wow. Wow! Oh man.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. He shares memories with someone.


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[Assistant] What is- she's using that as her neck? Oh my gosh. Oh, that is so gross. That is disgusting. Counting them.


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[Assistant] He was talking about? Ohhh. He warned her. I wonder why he mentioned her specifically, I mean, there's Tanjirou too.


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[Assistant] And as always, I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day as per usual and I'll catch you in the next one.


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[Assistant] These must be the wolves Master Dennett's wife warned us about.


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[Assistant] What were you thinking? Turning mages loose with no oversight. The veil is torn open.


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[Assistant] Templars, is this the order's response to our talks with the mages attacking blindly?


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[Assistant] Get out there and hit that force. Use everything you can. Major! You! You have sanction to engage them!


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[Assistant] The only thing that slowed them was the avatar.


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[Assistant] They'll load the trebuchets. Keep the elder ones' attention until we're above the tree line.


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[Assistant] If we are to have a chance, if you are to have a chance,


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[Assistant] And who put you in charge? We need a consensus so we have nothing!


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[Assistant] An army he'll bolster with a massive force of demons, or so the future tells us.


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[Assistant] Everything in the Empire complicates matters. It's the Orlesian National Pastime.


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[Assistant] And you found the Inquisitor and came to stop me. Shall we see how that goes?


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[Assistant] A good trebuchet will do major damage to those ancient walls. And thanks to our lady ambassador...


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[Assistant] Alright, Inquisitor. You have your way in. Best make use of it. We'll keep the main host of demons occupied for as long as we can. I'll be fine. Just keep the men safe. We'll do what we have to, Inquisitor. Warden Stroud will guard your back. Hawke is with our soldiers on the battlements. He's assisting them until you arrive.


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[Assistant] And yes, the ritual requires blood sacrifice. Hate me for that if you must, but do not hate the wardens for doing their duty!


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[Assistant] Not just Corytheus, but Tevinter, rightful ruler of every piece of ground you trod in your path.


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[Assistant] Then, the attack on the Empress will happen tonight.


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[Assistant] And your actions at Adamant denied Corypheus' army of pet demons. With all they support, our numbers match his. Corypheus' followers must be panicking.


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[Assistant] Perhaps. He spent so long trying to get into the temple, he probably couldn't have helped his forces by that point.


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[Assistant] Lord Theca? Creating a heretical movement.


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[Assistant] The Templars failed no one when they left the Chantry to purge the mages.


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[Assistant] If you came to appeal to the Chantry, you are too late.


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[Assistant] I will make the Templar order a power that stands alone against the void. We deserve recognition. Independence! You have shown me nothing. And the Inquisition, less than nothing. Templars!


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[Assistant] Valroyo is unworthy of our protection. We march!


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[Assistant] What Corypheus did with the Templars does not matter. I have seen the future.


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[Assistant] You will fall as a warning to those who oppose my divine will.


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[Assistant] Look at you, wearing slave markings on your face with pride. You are nothing!


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[Assistant] Yeah, we were talking about, um, in a recent podcast, actually like that people get off by physical deformity sometimes. So like I dated this guy. I used to call him felon bae, but.


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[Assistant] He was a felon. He did eight years, but he had a like scar on his cheek. And I used to like love just to like touch it and ask about the story about how it happened in jail. Like, and it just had a good story behind it, but it turned me on like a little scar on his cheek. So I just said someone would be turned on by your knee.


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[Assistant] Or is he a superhero? Aquaman? No, it wasn't that. It was another movie with like...


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[Assistant] So, it's what people do like when they go on to...


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[Assistant] There's too much like free dick to get locked up dick. I like having sex too much, so.


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[Assistant] But it's also, they have all of the control to know where that person is. They know that they now are getting attention from someone who just wants the attention from someone on the outside. So I think it's a huge insecurity thing too, like where you have the control of knowing where he's at at all times. So you're not worrying about who he's with when he's not with you. It's all that shit.


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[Assistant] Well, I had a podcast before that called Point Takeman. It was a sports podcast with Thousand and Lamar Woodley, who is a retired NFL player. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So we did a remote podcast, but it was just hard with all of our schedules. Stopped it.


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[Assistant] Wheezy, who's my co-host, came to me and was like, hey, if I know a girl who's a, you know, as big a ho as me and wants to fucking talk about sex, it's you. So let's get on the story. And it just so happened I had a condom stuck in my pussy while we were talking about planning for this fucking podcast.


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[Assistant] No, so the guy, we realized it was gone.


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[Assistant] This is literally our first time fucking. And I was like, oh Jesus Christ. Uhm. Let me ask you this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I feel like there's like two sides to me. So even when I was in school, I'm super into my books. I'm super, I think...


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[Assistant] I don't want to say intelligent, but yeaah, I'm book smart. So it was easy to talk to the teachers. I made straight A's. I graduated cum laude, like.


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[Assistant] That's the problem with dating right now. Like I just met this guy and he's like really nice and he's like, oh, so I started listening to your broadcast.


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[Assistant] And I'm just like, no, let me block your IP address because like literally things that are on my podcast were about 150 episodes in.


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[Assistant] I've talked about my abortion. I've talked about an MMF threesome. I've talked about, you know, having threesomes with my friends and fucking a lot of my friends. And so now it's just like, damn, so if we date, I don't know if you're going to be okay with me hanging with my friends since, you know, I fucked them too.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I like sex clubs, so I mean, I would need someone who's open to maybe the swinging lifestyle. So now it's just having those conversations about non-monogamy and what is it you're actually looking for because I don't, I know men can't be monogamous. In my mind.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's act- it's actors, it's athletes, it's rappers, it's the fucking guy who works at FedEx. It's, I mean, we all watch Mari, then they be with some regular niggas. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, you need to be honest, first off. Uhm, I wonder, like, have you ever asked her to have sex with a girl that you've already had sex with?


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[Assistant] That's a tough one, because like I could be hanging with you tonight and we go, I wanna go to the bar, then we go to the club, you pop bottles. We've already agreed we're gonna have sex, but now we're drunk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you're like, that's pretty much how you're classifying everyone.


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[Assistant] Well just know, if a woman fucks you and allows you to put on a magnum, she really likes you and really wants your dick because the shit stinks.


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[Assistant] So I'm normally tasting whatever condom he had on.


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[Assistant] So, but we're communicating when this is happening, so I know when he's gonna come, and he's like, I'm about to come, and I'm literally turning around while he's turning, pulling the condom off, and it just, it's, we have, we're in sync with it now, okay?


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[Assistant] If you guys listen to my episode of my wildest, kinkiest, nastiest night, I've had sex ten times, including in a sex club where he fucked two other girls. And I made him take the blue tube, but on top of finishing a bottle of tequila. So I don't know what it was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, he took it, I didn't take it, but yeah, like he did fuck me ten times and everyone's like, I had to ask him, so how many times did you come? And he said he did come.


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[Assistant] Just know, uhm, I don't know if you heard, so me and Lena were talking and hanging out yesterday, and was I not getting her prepared? I was like, listen, you're totally gonna be able to get into Adam's booty hole.


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[Assistant] Very soon. So I like gave her just the rundown on how to like ease you into it. However, she did say she fucked up because I guess you did let her stick a finger in there and she went too hard.


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[Assistant] But your G-spot is there, so you could essentially have an orgasm that you've never felt before in your life.


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[Assistant] But I'm like really dumb. I like being in control. It sounds really weird because I hate to use the word violate, but I like to kind of like feel like-


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[Assistant] No, that's kind of a white guy name. I haven't had pink dick ever in my life, so. Ever? Ever!


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[Assistant] I mean, so that's the thing I was telling her too, like I've been tricked, like in porn, it's just the picture of the dick and it's kind of brown skin and then I look and it's the fucking Italian and I was like, oh fuck, okay, I guess.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so I mean there are some guys I guess that have like, browned it.


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[Assistant] And sexually, we don't allow specifically a lot of black men to experience the things that they want to necessarily.


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[Assistant] So I just like to make people really comfortable and try everything. Like I brought a guy to a sex club before, that was the first time for them. Like I do, I like to be the first for a lot of things cause then I know that that guy will remember me for the rest of his life.


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[Assistant] No, what's crazy is that, well, you're not gay if you're getting pegged.


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[Assistant] No, but even, even Lana yesterday was just like, oh bitch, I'm more vanilla than you. And I'm just like, you, you're on Pornhub and you're more vanilla than me the fuck? Come the fuck on.


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[Assistant] No, like now I don't have sex just to have sex. Like, like I said, this one night stand was like the first one that I've had all year. I'm very, I'm into vetting who I'm having sex with now. So if I don't feel like we're on the same page,


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[Assistant] Then I won't have sex with you. Like I have sex now to please me. So we can decide, you know, what you're into. I'll let you know what I'm into. If we can compromise to us both experiencing these things, but I'm about my pleasure. So if you're just like, Oh, I want to take it down. Okay. Well.


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[Assistant] I'll pass. And then I also don't want someone who fucks one round and then goes to sleep. So if you can't go rounds, I don't want to fuck you. So like, I like, I vet all of this shit.


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[Assistant] I told him when we met, I said, just so you know, if you get locked up again, I'm not putting money on your books and I'm gonna fuck whoever when you're in there.


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[Assistant] First off, your house is lit. I was like, ooh, the wealth. Y'all are fucking rich.


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[Assistant] No, I'm here for condoms, so I like to know that my period is coming every month. And when I go and get tested, I don't want to be like, okay.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, girl, an app is not gonna tell you when you can and cannot get pregnant. Go the fuck, like, I don't believe that shit. So she tracks like, oh, well this app said I can get pregnant only during this time of the month. And I'm like, you're really basing getting pregnant on an app?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, so please tell them to fucking wrap it up because that's why everyone has all of these fucking STDs and why all of these women are posting their sonograms and not their niggas.


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[Assistant] I believe in having control over your body. So of course I'm, I'm pro choice. I am pro condoms because I feel like there's a lot of men who feel like we made the baby ourselves and that's not how the fuck it happened. So you guys get to go on and live your fucking lives while now I have to have a two bedroom because I have to fucking have a baby to provide for it. My bills are more and then y'all come and act like


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[Assistant] Child support isn't being used right because I have a new fucking outfit. Get the fuck outta here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they are thinking that child support is not going to the baby, it's going to the woman.


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[Assistant] Like guys really be paying like $400 a month thinking they doing something.


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[Assistant] He's paying a lot of fucking money a month, it's fucking crazy.


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[Assistant] Is that not insane? Okay, now that's a little much, but apparently like they break it down and because of what he makes per month, like it's really only like maybe a thousand sixty dollars a month for someone making a comparable, like a hundred thousand.


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[Assistant] But I mean, we're also in the era of like, woke people now. So like, that's why Big Sean still has his following. J. Cole has his following. Kendrick has his. So, and they have really die hard, culty, like, followings.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause who wants, like, we're in an era where divorce rates are higher than marriage rates. Who wants to hear about your fucking happy wife, happy life?


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[Assistant] Right, I mean, that's even if you listen to our shit or listen to you, it's like people also just don't know how to accept.


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[Assistant] I love, no, I love rap, so I like J. Cole, I love Kevin Gates, I like DaBaby, Young Thug, uhm, yeaah, those are like my kind of bops.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like he just impregnates all of them and like, just treats them kinda bad. He's like a verbal abuser, just from what I've seen online. I don't know him personally. Really? And then I did see him live for the Purple Rain tour and I was just like, okay.


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[Assistant] No, it wasn't. But J. Cole like wears basketball shorts and he's still really good fucking live. So it's not even about like the theatrics. I just, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was super good. I taught Lena how to get in his butt. So I'm super excited to maybe hear how that goes down.


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[Assistant] Make her have mercy. It's over. Open the gates.


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[Assistant] So the blackout happened, Dave, what day was the blackout? Saturday. So uhm, so Dave and I, we live in the same building and he came from South Africa with me to come work on the Daily Show.


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[Assistant] And so, it's blackout. Our building is gone. Everything is shut down. Someone's trapped in the elevator. Uhm, and we're all chilling together in Dave's apartment. He's the only person who had candles. I've never thought of candles.


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[Assistant] And so our other friend who's staying in the building visiting comes down. So now you've got these three black people from South Africa hanging out together. And we're just chilling, we're having a good time. And what happens is, cause we're doing nothing now in the blackout.


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[Assistant] And so, we needed to move a TV from one apartment to another apartment, right? Which I know is a weird thing, but like, long story short,


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[Assistant] And so there we are, like in the hallway. This is like, it's a pretty big TV. It's like a 60 inch TV, you know, like carrying the thing and then like walking in the hallway. And as we walk into the hallway, the lights come on.


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[Assistant] Is that red lyrium growing from your body? How?


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[Assistant] You failed, Alexius. How forgiving is your elder one?


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[Assistant] You know how many were involved. Luck put me at the center.


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[Assistant] The only thing yelling gets us is a headache. Another headache.


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[Assistant] Mother Giselle, I just don't see how what I believe matters. Lies or not, Corypheus is a real physical threat. We can't match that with hope alone.


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[Assistant] He came for this and now it's useless to him so he wants me dead. That's it.


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[Assistant] I don't, and neither do you. That's part of life.


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[Assistant] You're very serious about this. Is more death the answer?


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[Assistant] We doubt when we're safe. When blight is not at our throat. I can't judge a warden, Sir Ruth. No one has that right.


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[Assistant] I've learned anything, Your Grace. It is to put my trust in no one.


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[Assistant] I have seen a few signs to that effect.


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[Assistant] Leleona and Cassandra would have to make that decision for themselves.


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[Assistant] There is worth and weight in every judgement, no matter how unusual.


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[Assistant] Oh. Grand Duchess Florianne de Chalon.


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[Assistant] On aching branch do blossoms grow, the wind a hallowed breath.


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[Assistant] Not merely housed in flesh, but brought to life. Shall we read another?


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[Assistant] They show me respect, Morrigan. No one mistakes me for the Maker.


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[Assistant] I'm not doing that for nobody's sake. I'm not doing that. Roaches? Yes, my nigga. Nigga, we used to have roaches by us, and we didn't want them now. I'm not doing it on- So you killed roaches, you had the raid on deck? Oh my g- Nah, we didn't even have no raid. That's the point I'm trying to tell you. We had a specific house shoe we used to use. In the house. I promise you, we used to have this one house shoe in the house. And we go get them. Would you do it?


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[Assistant] Horrible. I like Billy Ray Cyrus but I don't like that song.


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[Assistant] What or who is gathering? There's a gathering of everyone because everybody's fighting now. Unless there's a triplet. If there's a third then I'm Don dude. You jealous of Tengen? I get it.


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[Assistant] Damn. I like how his is flashy, like a flashy headband compared to his brother's.


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[Assistant] Daaamn! The soundtrack's awesome!


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[Assistant] This is the sound design you can hear like blood in the back. Makes you anxious.


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[Assistant] No, they're gonna like turn or something. He's not anticipating anything. Yeah, why?


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[Assistant] As always, I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day as per usual and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace, peace.


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[Assistant] We knew there was an individual that was responsible for all the logistical movement of marijuana and then cocaine, but we weren't sure who he was.


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[Assistant] He knew virtually every corner of the border. Where was the most highly patrolled area? Where were desolate areas?


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[Assistant] Where was the most valuable part of it in terms of cocaine trafficking?


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[Assistant] Do you want fire? The first task is always fire. It's fire, isn't it? Here's how it comes.


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[Assistant] Tonight on Frontline, an iconic American company. Firestone's intent was to make money. A vicious civil war.


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[Assistant] Frontline and ProPublica investigate the deal.


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[Assistant] This is a story about business and war.


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[Assistant] It's a story about a small group of Americans and the choices they made many years ago.


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[Assistant] A story about the cost of operating in a volatile and remote country.


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[Assistant] It's setting as a rubber plantation in Africa. Owned and operated by the tire giant Firestone.


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[Assistant] A multi-million dollar investment stretching over 220 square miles.


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[Assistant] The two dozen expat managers who lived there along with their families were in their own world.


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[Assistant] But outside the plantation's perimeter, a rebellion was brewing.


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[Assistant] Liberia's president Samuel Doe was losing his grip.


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[Assistant] Doe had cracked down, jailing opponents, eliminating rivals. It all came to a head on Christmas Eve.


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[Assistant] The man behind the revolt was a little known American educated, smooth talking charmer, Charles Taylor.


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[Assistant] At the time of the uprising Taylor was running from the law.


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[Assistant] ...accused of embezzling nearly one million dollars from the Liberian government. To pull together his guerilla force, he had cozied up to several dictators in Africa, including Muammar Gaddafi.


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[Assistant] Newly trained, Taylor launched his offensive from the north.


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[Assistant] With a small, ragtag army with little to no combat experience.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth Blunt, the BBC's correspondent for West Africa.


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[Assistant] Made a trip to Firestone to find out if the managers were concerned.


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[Assistant] For the expats, life on the plantation was enjoyable.


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[Assistant] For Taylor, it also had the makings of a perfect base. The plantation center was in Harbell.


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[Assistant] named after the company's founder Harvey Firestone and his wife Ida Bell. It was strategically located only 45 minutes away from the capital of Monrovia and right next to a key regional airport, Roberts International.


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[Assistant] The story of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio begins in 1900. By the roaring twenties, the company was a household name.


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[Assistant] And Harvey Firestone had become one of the top industrialists of that gilded age.


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[Assistant] With its auto industry booming, the United States was consuming around 70% of the world's rubber.


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[Assistant] Most of it imported from British colonies in the Far East.


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[Assistant] Harvey Firestone was determined to find his very own source of rubber.


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[Assistant] Liberia was ideal. The country was an ally of the United States. It had a large, untapped labor pool.


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[Assistant] And miles and miles of land for planting rubber trees.


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[Assistant] Liberia offered Firestone a chance to develop up to a million acres of land at six cents an acre.


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[Assistant] The deal was controversial from the start, but for the Liberian government,


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[Assistant] Firestone eagerly courted Liberia's elites, holding parties like this one, where management invited Nina Simone to sing.


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[Assistant] That's Harvey Firestone's son, Harvey Jr., on the right, next to the guest of honor,


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[Assistant] Liberia's long ruling president, William Tubman.


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[Assistant] President Tubman was an America Liberian, a member of Liberia's ruling class.


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[Assistant] Which excluded from power local ethnic tribes like the Pele, the Basa, the Kru.


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[Assistant] The plantation had over 8,000 workers, most of them tappers.


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[Assistant] Collecting sap was grueling work, sometimes done by entire families for a few dollars a day.


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[Assistant] But in one of the poorest countries in the world, Firestone offered its workers generous benefits.


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[Assistant] Doe gradually filled government posts with members of his Kron tribe.


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[Assistant] Who had recently returned from Boston, where he had received a degree in economics from Bentley College.


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[Assistant] Taylor used the position to gain influence with Doe's staff. He bought new cars for the cabinet and surprised Doe with a stretch limousine. But as head of procurement, there were other opportunities.


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[Assistant] Doe accused Taylor of embezzlement, demanding his extradition. Taylor was arrested and locked up, but not for long.


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[Assistant] Day one, Tuesday, June 5th, 1990. Last evening, 8pm, reported rebels crossing river towards factory area.


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[Assistant] Donald Ansminger was the head of the Firestone Plantation when Taylor's rebels stormed in and seized control.


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[Assistant] Much of what we know about what happened comes from Ensminger's diary and a phone interview. He declined to appear on camera.


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[Assistant] In his diary, Ansminger notes that eight to ten Rebels burst into the golf club demanding vehicles.


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[Assistant] Later on, they took fuel, bags of rice, handheld radios, and petty cash, including $40 to the rebel leader Peter, a hothead and drunk.


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[Assistant] Ken Gerhart was stationed down the road from the plantation at the Coca-Cola bottling plant, a property of Firestone. He was in constant communication with Ensminger.


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[Assistant] President those forces, the AFL, were mainly cron.


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[Assistant] Doe gave the order to push Taylor off the plantation.


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[Assistant] The U.S. Embassy had advised U.S. citizens to evacuate, but the managers stayed put. On June 7th, Day 3, thousands of Firestone workers fled their homes. Steve Ramo took these photos.


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[Assistant] Firestone workers continued to seek refuge at the main house.


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[Assistant] But Ensminger says he had no other choice but to turn them away.


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[Assistant] Another entry in the diary says that the workers were fed rice and told to leave.


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[Assistant] We can't offer them protection from either soldiers or FF. FF, freedom fighters, a reference to Taylor's forces.


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[Assistant] Heavy fighting erupted between Taylor's Rebels and Doe's Army.


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[Assistant] Like many workers on the plantation, Mary Poley had no place to go.


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[Assistant] She recalls the day those forces barged into her house looking for tailor rebels.


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[Assistant] After ten days, Ansminger ended his diary with these words.


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[Assistant] But for the Firestone employees on the plantation, the ordeal was just beginning.


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[Assistant] Justin Knuckles awoke to find a note from management on his door.


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[Assistant] Over the course of the next several months, the killing continued.


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[Assistant] Gerhart's employees at the Coca-Cola bottling plant were not spared.


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[Assistant] It was a civil war marked by atrocities on all sides.


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[Assistant] After months of bloodletting, Taylor and his NPFL gained the upper hand.


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[Assistant] By the fall of 1990, Taylor had seized most of Liberia, with the exception of Monrovia.


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[Assistant] In the late 80s, 40% of the latex used in America came from firestone's plantation in Liberia.


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[Assistant] Firestone's product was considered some of the highest quality latex in the world.


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[Assistant] At company headquarters, top managers were under pressure to get the library operation back up and running.


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[Assistant] Firestone had been bought by the Japanese conglomerate Bridgestone in 1988, and the corporation had been losing money.


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[Assistant] One of the first things management did was hire a Liberian attorney based in the U.S.


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[Assistant] And hundreds of State Department cables obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.


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[Assistant] One of the earliest documents we found was a letter signed by Donald Ensminger on October 3rd, 1990. It's addressed to Commander in Chief Charles Taylor requesting a meeting.


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[Assistant] All sides need to recognize that Firestone continues to incur major losses as a result of hostilities.


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[Assistant] Then, three months later, one of Taylor's aides sent a letter back to Akram.


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[Assistant] President Taylor has directed us to inform you that your team should come to Harbell to make the necessary assessment of the plantation.


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[Assistant] A few weeks later, a small group of firestone managers headed back to Monrovia.


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[Assistant] The managers had been away from Liberia for eight months. They were shocked by the country they found.


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[Assistant] The managers found it hard to get to the plantation. Taylor was making life difficult for them.


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[Assistant] So they waited. In Monrovia there was an uneasy peace. The city was in the hands of an interim government, but the interim president was president in name only.


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[Assistant] The task of keeping law and order was delegated to a West African peacekeeping force that went by the acronym ECOMOB.


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[Assistant] Posing for pictures without a foothold in Monrovia.


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[Assistant] Taylor set up a parallel government in what he called Greater Liberia, with a new capital in the town of Bangka.


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[Assistant] As Taylor's ambition for money and territory grew, he expanded his reach to neighboring Sierra Leone. He recruited thousands of new fighters, many of them children.


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[Assistant] For his own presidential guard, Taylor created a special division of young boys.


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[Assistant] Two-thirds of the Kron, Do's tribe, fled the country.


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[Assistant] But Donald Ensminger told us Firestone was getting reports about the atrocities being committed.


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[Assistant] Human Rights Watch had warned publicly that the Kron tribe was at risk of genocide.


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[Assistant] And in reports, even the State Department had said Taylor's NPFL forces had been killing civilians, primarily based on ethnic considerations.


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[Assistant] ProPublica tallied the numbers for the first year of the invasion. 6424 killings, 820 kidnappings, and 631 rapes.


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[Assistant] The US did not recognize Taylor's self-declared government. But US diplomats had tried to engage with him.


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[Assistant] Add in earlier months made a trip behind Rebel lines to meet with Taylor.


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[Assistant] Around that time, the US was embroiled in the Gulf War. Military intervention here was not an option.


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[Assistant] After months of waiting, the Firestone managers were growing restless. They were holed up in a compound in Monrovia, unable to work on a plantation.


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[Assistant] He may also have taken offense to the tone in Ensminger's letters. They were not fawning. They were all business. They didn't even address him as president.


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[Assistant] Looking for a breakthrough, Ansminger decided to visit Taylor in Banga. He asked Ken Gerhardt to come along.


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[Assistant] We would recommend that firestone wait until the plantation area comes under ECOMOG control.


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[Assistant] Other diplomats accepted Firestone's attempts to talk with Taylor.


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[Assistant] At least one ambassador, Peter John DeVos, encouraged Firestone to work with Taylor. And even secured a meeting in Banga.


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[Assistant] Which included a delegation of diplomats and a surprise guest. Fourth in line was Donald Ensminger.


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[Assistant] America works for Firestone. Taylor was blunt, accusing Firestone of negligence.


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[Assistant] An official at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia wrote back to state.


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[Assistant] The cable notes that Ensminger was scolded by Taylor in front of the entire press corps. After that meeting, Taylor refused to deal with Ensminger.


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[Assistant] Firestone sent Ensminger's boss in Akram, John Shrimp, to get things back on track.


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[Assistant] Besides those demands, Taylor made one more ultimatum. Ensminger had to go.


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[Assistant] Soon after, Ansminger was dismissed. In an email to ProPublica and Frontline.


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[Assistant] Ensminger wrote that he disagreed with Firestone's direction.


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[Assistant] Saying, I felt then as I do now that their approach pushed to the very limits, legality and morality.


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[Assistant] It had been a year and a half since Taylor took over the plantation.


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[Assistant] And it was worried about reports that the plantation was being ransacked.


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[Assistant] The board of directors sat down to discuss its options.


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[Assistant] On December 17th, 1991, the board agreed to make a deal with Taylor.


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[Assistant] By offering security for the managers at the plantation.


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[Assistant] The documents also show that the deal would ultimately include, quote, tax payments.


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[Assistant] In careful columns and rows, internal company records show a schedule of tax payments, including income taxes, Social Security payments, and rent, equipment, and rice, valued at $2.3 million.


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[Assistant] We presented the documents to the current president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.


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[Assistant] The deal between Taylor and Firestone was sealed and made official in a memorandum of understanding. It was a significant victory for Taylor.


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[Assistant] The agreement was neatly laid out on Taylor's stationery with its Telltale Scorpion emblem.


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[Assistant] In the end, we had no viable choice but to accede to the precondition set by the NPRAG for our return to the plantation.


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[Assistant] Our choices were stark. Either generate some income or abandon our employees and mothball the plantation.


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[Assistant] Firestone agreed to pay its Liberian workers in American dollars.


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[Assistant] And it would study the possibility of providing power and safe drinking water to workers' homes.


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[Assistant] Firestone would also make all arrangements necessary for settlement of present and future financial obligations to Taylor's government.


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[Assistant] On the 17th day of January, 1992.


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[Assistant] A small group of expats was finally allowed to restart operations at the plantation.


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[Assistant] They understood that the plantation effectively had a new boss.


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[Assistant] The Firestone managers worked hard to get along with Taylor.


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[Assistant] The change was brought about by Donald Ansminger's replacement, Don Weahey.


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[Assistant] Wei He was a genial, hands-on manager with experience. He had run the plantation in the 80s.


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[Assistant] Under Wehi, Firestone brought in food, hired back workers, and began rebuilding the plantation. Despite the improving conditions, the workers were still wary of management.


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[Assistant] Court documents show that Firestone spent 35.3 million dollars on the plantation and its employees.


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[Assistant] Between June 1990 and February 1993.


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[Assistant] After six months, the operation was back up and running.


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[Assistant] Ambassador DeVos' replacement, William Twedell, asked Wehi if he could get a tour of the new facilities.


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[Assistant] Taylor later acknowledged that the deal with Firestone had been particularly important during the early years of his revolt.


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[Assistant] Despite accounts of Taylor's forces being out in the open on the plantation,


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[Assistant] While the managers focused on the plantation, Taylor was arming for the next phase in the war.


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[Assistant] Firestone's money was one source of revenue. Taylor had branched into other lucrative businesses.


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[Assistant] Trafficking in iron ore, gold, timber, and diamonds.


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[Assistant] Then, one night in mid-October, 1992, Taylor made his move. An all-out assault on Monrovia. Operation Octopus.


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[Assistant] The sound of shelling startled the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy.


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[Assistant] Scores of Taylor's young boys died crossing the swamps leading into the city.


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[Assistant] After a week of heavy fighting, Taylor's offensive stalled in Monrovia's suburbs.


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[Assistant] Echo Mog set out to destroy Taylor's stronghold on the plantation.


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[Assistant] And then, just as a group of workers and children had gathered to play a game of soccer, Echo Mob jets appeared in the sky.


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[Assistant] After witnessing the scene, Wehi agreed to a televised interview.


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[Assistant] Akron sent a message. It was time to go yet again.


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[Assistant] But as he prepared to leave, way he wrote a final letter to Taylor.


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[Assistant] I wish to personally thank you for your kind understanding.


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[Assistant] I look forward to being able to quickly return to restart our operations.


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[Assistant] An official at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia cabled to Washington describing Wehi's last meeting with the warlord.


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[Assistant] Taylor said that he was sorry to see where he'd go.


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[Assistant] That the plantation had been the lifeblood of greater Liberia.


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[Assistant] As it turned out, Taylor would never manage to capture Monrovia. But after four more bloody years of war, Taylor would run for president and win.


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[Assistant] But under Taylor, Liberia descended back into civil war.


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[Assistant] Taylor's ambitions to establish a greater Liberia expanded to neighboring countries.


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[Assistant] And in Sierra Leone, continued to finance and arm rebels known for raping and dismembering civilians.


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[Assistant] His pursuit of timber and diamonds fueled the conflict. 300,000 died.


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[Assistant] Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission took three years to interview thousands of victims. But no one was prosecuted.


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[Assistant] He has never been charged with any crimes related to the war.


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[Assistant] Investigators estimate that during his presidency,


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[Assistant] Taylor siphoned off anywhere from 280 million to 3 billion dollars.


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[Assistant] Eventually he would be arrested and tried at the Hague, but not for crimes committed in Liberia, but for his role in the war in Sierra Leone.


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[Assistant] Taylor said that Firestone gave him economic and political capital at a critical juncture in the war.


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[Assistant] Firestone says it was powerless to prevent Taylor from occupying the plantation.


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[Assistant] And that at no time did the company have a collaborative relationship with him.


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[Assistant] Taylor is currently serving a 50-year sentence at Franklin Prison in the north of England.


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[Assistant] They resumed operations at the plantation in 1996.


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[Assistant] In the years since, the company has invested more than 146 million dollars to improve the conditions on the plantation.


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[Assistant] The company remains the largest private employer in Liberia.


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[Assistant] Firestone and its parent company Bridgestone sent Frontline and ProPublica response to our questions, saying,


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[Assistant] Firestone's decision to remain in Liberia was very costly for the company.


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[Assistant] Firestone was able to preserve an important economic asset for Liberia. And we are proud of that.


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[Assistant] You would have rebels advancing with their AKs held above their heads, just firing randomly down the road. Uh, there wasn't a lot of marksmanship.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of firing in the air. There was a lot of running away.


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[Assistant] Broadcast live on Liberian television sent a pretty clear message that this was his country, uh, to control.


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[Assistant] Charles Taylor makes a rather dramatic prison break.


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[Assistant] Uh, from a jail in Massachusetts along with several other inmates. All of those inmates are eventually captured. Taylor is not.


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[Assistant] That it was the CIA who helped break him out of that prison because he was destined to lead the rebellion to bring down Samuel Doe.


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[Assistant] The only thing he's interested in is absolute power, and he has it nearly out in the areas he controls. Not only by the land mass, but because that's where Liberia's riches are. That's where the rubber is, that's where the timber is, that's where the diamonds are. Why come to Monrovia? There's nothing there to exploit.


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[Assistant] People in Monrovia know that Charles Taylor is exporting raw materials. They know he's making money on timber. They know he's making money on diamonds. What is he making? What is he spending that money on? Weapons.


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[Assistant] You want a nigga just to say, peel me nigga and not keep rappin', or you want to go to the white girl's house and say, peel me girl, cause I'm a freak.


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[Assistant] The Willow Flycatcher is this small, plain bird.


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[Assistant] And it flies around and catches flies, because that's the type of insect it eats the most.


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[Assistant] Knowing their vocalizations is key to doing the research because otherwise you'd rarely see them if you didn't.


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[Assistant] They say what the fly catchers do is, is fit spew.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't even call it a song, really. I mean it's okay. It doesn't sound bad.


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[Assistant] I love it when I hear it because it means there's a willow flycatcher nearby, so definitely.


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[Assistant] I've lived here in the Kern River Valley since the winter of 1990.


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[Assistant] When I first started working here, there were more willow fly catchers. And now it's, it's down to about, as far as we know, at this point in time, one individual.


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[Assistant] Basically, I view the Willow Flycatcher as a canary in a coal mine. It's not doing well, so why is it not doing well here?


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[Assistant] And if you can solve that for the Willow Flycatcher, it's probably going to prevent other bird species from having the same problems later on.


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[Assistant] My specific role in the Bird Genoscape project is collecting genetic samples of willow fly catchers throughout their wintering range and then also the breeding grounds as well. My role is the fun stuff, I think.


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[Assistant] I have a speaker and I'm going to use it to do some playback of the willow flycatcher vocalizations in order to lure it into the net.


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[Assistant] I use a long cord so I'm a good distance away from the net and I won't scare them.


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[Assistant] So this is a willow flycatcher. And he's not happy. He's a very feisty guy.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is one of the most important things is to have the genetic samples. So I'm going to pluck the, uh, tail feather first.


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[Assistant] When the southwestern willow flycatcher was listed as endangered, we had no idea.


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[Assistant] Where this particular subspecies winter, did it go throughout that whole range or just a portion of the range? We had no idea.


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[Assistant] If the southwestern willow flycatcher went extinct, I think a lot of people...


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[Assistant] They've shrugged their shoulders and say, well, that doesn't, you know, matter a whole lot, but I think the decline of the southwestern willow flycatcher is, is kind of an alarm call and, and if it disappears, it's, it's a huge warning that, that there's something wrong.


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[Assistant] Si, sacar pájaros de la red es una de mis cosas favoritas porque se puede tener mucha información con el pajarito ya en la mano.


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[Assistant] De estar creo que en este mundo y estar vivo es parte de nosotros.


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[Assistant] It took the, uh, the human genome project to really develop the tools.


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[Assistant] To enable us to begin to link populations.


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[Assistant] Right now we have, just for the neotropical migrants, about 200,000 feathers.


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[Assistant] So that represents roughly around a hundred or so species.


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[Assistant] The collaboration is growing. If we go back to the really 90s, it was myself and my graduate students in my labs. And now, you know, we have


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[Assistant] A franchise, if you will, of different universities, different research groups, all coming together to, to solve these mysteries of migratory birds. That's my hope.


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[Assistant] I think one of the great outcomes of the project is connecting the people.


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[Assistant] Who are working on the same birds, but in different parts.


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[Assistant] of the world at different seasons in a way that couldn't happen before because we didn't know where the birds were going. That makes me really happy.


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[Assistant] This ain't good. Damn. How far did he fall? Two kilometers. Easy. Stay sharp.


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[Assistant] Corporal, make it quick. Sorry, sir. Your armor's still in partial lockdown.


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[Assistant] Your arrival at court is like a cool wind on a summer's day.


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[Assistant] As soon as Gaspar is out of the way. But we have taken enough of your time.


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[Assistant] Orlé must stand as a bastion. A bulwark behind which all Fiddas may take shelter. So has it stood for a thousand years.


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[Assistant] So shall it ever stand. This would not have been possible without the efforts of many. Dear cousin, please step forward.


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[Assistant] We will not bequeath a world of interplots against our nation.


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[Assistant] For the safety of the Empire, I will have answers.


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[Assistant] For this service to the Empire, Brialla, your previous treachery will be pardoned. But you will have to live in exile.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Inquisitor, for all your efforts tonight. I owe you my life, and Orlé owes you its future.


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[Assistant] Now, we can move forward to healing and restoration.


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[Assistant] In our hour of need, the Inquisition has faced these dangers beside us.


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[Assistant] On Halo, you tried to kill Cortana. You tried to kill me.


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[Assistant] The meetings actually took place in Akron in 1990 at the old big firestone headquarters, the big building there in Akron. The discussions, uh, focused on what to do next.


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[Assistant] Would you have to deal with Charles Taylor? Could you do that?


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[Assistant] There was tremendous worry about the safety.


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[Assistant] Soul searching and really tough, tough decision making that had to be done.


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[Assistant] The concern I had was that there was an interim government without any constitutional basis. There was Charles Taylor who by force of arms had taken most of the country. And these two different governments from a legal or constitutional aspect, uh, had no legitimacy, if you will.


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[Assistant] You know, there have been fighting, there have been killing, and there have been some ethnic reprisal killings.


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[Assistant] Uh, but at that time, from the information available to me, and I think to Firestone, uh, Taylor did not...


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[Assistant] And indeed the United States government had not discouraged Firestone from contacting Taylor and seeing what could be done.


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[Assistant] Charles Taylor insisted on a number of conditions. Among them would be that, uh, the Firestone would recognize that he had an


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[Assistant] Uh, a de facto government and that if Firestone came back it would treat his


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[Assistant] Yes, absolutely. It was clear that without that, you would not be able to put a management team on the ground.


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[Assistant] The easy answer for Firestone, in my opinion, would have been to just say, we're out of here. It's risky. It's scary. Uh, economically it doesn't make any sense. So we're just going to shut it down and walk away.


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[Assistant] To the workers, people you'd work with for years, it had no other choice. The decision was to stay.


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[Assistant] For Feinstein it was either you don't go back or you have to acquiesce and pay, uh, taxes to the, uh, to the government in control of that area.


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[Assistant] They did the right thing. They did not exploit the country. They did not seek to...


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[Assistant] Extract resources on some special deal that they do not pay off.


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[Assistant] Anyone who dealt with Liberia in the period from 1980 to 2003 must have regrets that


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[Assistant] It was a small group of people, young men, not particularly religious.


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[Assistant] European legislators have rejected passenger name record. Why? Because they see it as a violation of liberties.


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[Assistant] So at one point, it's evident that people will be able to attack us.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I would have preferred it if it were what it looks like. The Empress led me to believe I would be rewarded for betraying the Grand Duke. This was not what I hoped for.


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[Assistant] I beg you, don't tell Gaspard. The Empress beguiled me into giving her information about plans for troop movements in the palace tonight. She knows everything. Everything.


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[Assistant] Don't breathe a word about this. I can promise that. I have no intention of dying, Inquisitor. If Gaspar didn't kill me for this, Selene would.


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[Assistant] I have determined that it is in our vital national interest.


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[Assistant] Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.


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[Assistant] We saw Bacon's chopper nearby. He's never down this far south and I wanted to know why. Lucky for you, we were in the area when we got Darpan's text.


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[Assistant] Welcome to Banupur. Home of the Golden Path.


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[Assistant] He didn't make it. This is Ajay Gali. Mohan's son.


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[Assistant] We're talking about soldiers we can use. Remember what you said about DARPA?


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[Assistant] He also said the opium at the old tea factory was ready to ship.


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[Assistant] These are images from high up on Everest, the path to the peak clogged with climbers, as many as 200, gambling with their very lives.


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[Assistant] I was just thinking that we should work together, you and me.


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[Assistant] And now Providence has provided the means.


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[Assistant] And it is appointed unto men once to die. But after this, the judgment.


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[Assistant] Welcome, my brother. You've come to a place of peace, where the demons of modern life cannot reach you. You are safe here.


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[Assistant] I apologize for that, my daughter. You were here on time and I was not ready. No disrespect intended.


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[Assistant] Our problem in this industry is that you have these little contractors that may


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[Assistant] Set off in their pickup truck, uh, you know, driving miles across the countryside and may never have any contact, uh, face-to-face contact with, with their, uh, contractors.


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[Assistant] It's very restrictive in terms of the legal requirements. Generally, it's only useful when you actually have somebody at the site that actually, uh, is witnessing, uhm, and has some control over the actual working conditions at the site.


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[Assistant] It says to me that we don't have the legal ability to do that. Legally there's no way we can really get to that company.


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[Assistant] It's something we, we could do. Again, it's a lot of work to try to trace things up, uh, to the ultimate owner. Uhm, but it's, it would probably not be a bad idea for us to do that.


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[Assistant] Well, the subcontractor may not know who the ultimate owner is. The subcontractor may know the general contractor that they're working on. The general contractor then may know who, and again, we're talking about sometimes multiple levels here.


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[Assistant] It really is difficult to overstate how important this story is and how much it matters.


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[Assistant] Jay Powell is not messing around. And that is when the market kind of reacts and says, oh my god, things are going to change.


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[Assistant] You see this complete reversal and what a lot of investors and economists saw as a capitulation to financial markets. Financial markets don't like this, so the Fed's gonna reverse course.


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[Assistant] And that has defined Cher Powell ever since then.


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[Assistant] As a corporation, you realize all that matters is the stock price. So what do we have to do to increase the stock price? And more often that is buying back the stock.


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[Assistant] So it used to be the Fed would lower interest rates. Businesses would then take on more debt. They would use that debt to hire more workers, build more machines and more factories. Now what happens is the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. Businesses use that to go out and borrow more money, but they use that money to buy back stock.


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[Assistant] And invest in technology that will eliminate workers and reduce employee headcounts. They use that money to give the CEO and other corporate officers big bonuses


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[Assistant] And then eventually issue more debt and buy back more stock.


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[Assistant] So it's this endless cycle of things that are designed to increase the stock price rather than improve the actual company.


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[Assistant] So this was huge. This was the Fed stepping in on an unprecedented scale and saying to the market, we will do whatever it takes.


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[Assistant] All these brokerage platforms saw the largest growth of new users they'd ever seen. Because people said, now's my opportunity, I'm gonna invest my money in the stock market.


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[Assistant] I may not understand what the Fed's doing, or how it works, or what exactly is going on.


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[Assistant] But I understand the Fed takes action, stock prices go up, these people get rich.


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[Assistant] And it became a very clear mandate for people. If I want to get in on this economic recovery we're having, I've got to buy stocks.


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[Assistant] So they're online, they're trading stocks, they're buying and selling and putting money into these stock accounts. They started creating their own community.


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[Assistant] People just have so much money, and there's not really places to put it.


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[Assistant] Things like Bitcoin, because they're just seeing ridiculous rates of return. It doesn't really matter what the underlying value of the thing is, just like it doesn't matter what the underlying value of a company is. Right? As long as the stock price goes up, you want to buy because the stock is going to keep going up and then you'll sell.


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[Assistant] There really just was all this money being pushed out in the economy. At the same time, you've got the Federal Reserve, they're pushing out another four or five trillion dollars into the economy, and so prices rose.


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[Assistant] This goes back to your economics 101 textbook, right? When there's too much money chasing too few goods, prices go up, and that drives inflation higher.


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[Assistant] The Fed doesn't ever want to say this out loud, but their goal is quite literally to make businesses not want to hire people or to get businesses actually to lay people off. Uh, the Fed has estimated that the unemployment rate under their very rosy projections, uh, by the end of this year would rise to four and a half percent.


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[Assistant] There is no real way for unemployment to get from 3.5% to 4.5% without millions of people losing their jobs.


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[Assistant] Housing prices have started actually coming down for the first time in a very long time. Mortgage applications have decreased. The crypto market, you've seen a number of companies wiped out.


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[Assistant] I was thinking this is the craziest market I've seen in 40 years.


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[Assistant] The Fed blinked and the Fed reversed course when the market was down sort of 20% and went from tightening policy to easing policy. And it became very clear to the market that saving the stock market was now one of the Fed mandates. And I think that had really ominous ramifications for the future.


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[Assistant] It just became this orgy of speculation by the first half of 2021. Anyone who wanted to raise money for anything could do so. You know, the amount of fraud we saw being floated on top of legitimate companies was really concerning, particularly in places like the crypto space, which was sort of


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[Assistant] Not being regulated. People were creating new coins or NFTs and selling them to the public who was eager to get in on the latest fad. And that, that bothered me.


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[Assistant] The accused has been found responsible for acts of terrorism, murder, rape, sexual


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[Assistant] That's when he filled out the application, came back out, said he had a job, and they gave him a $600 check.


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[Assistant] And had a plane ticket for him to leave like the next day.


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[Assistant] Even in the wintertime, they, there was ice on the towers and he would tell me he would have to literally beat ice off of the pegs to climb up the towers, which I did not find that very safe.


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[Assistant] Jay's dad called me, and that's when he told me that he had fallen off a tower.


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[Assistant] They can't afford their safety. They can't afford their insurance. They can't afford their Work Grants Comp.


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[Assistant] I've seen as low as 40 to 50 dollars and been paid 40 to 50 dollars to install that same item.


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[Assistant] This day and age, everybody's faced with the money versus safety. Whether they'll admit it or not, everybody's had to cut back on something.


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[Assistant] We would love to replace every year, every two years, new harnesses and new safety gear for all our guys. It's not in the budget, but this is stuff they have to wear every day in order to live through the day.


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[Assistant] It's older than we allow in the field, but it's my personal harness. I wouldn't do it with any of my guys.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have a bad year as an industry because they're gonna go in a big push and


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[Assistant] Your ten dollar an hour pizza guys that are now climbing for you because you can't afford otherwise are gonna start skipping steps.


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[Assistant] Intention of the Fed was to stimulate aggregate demand?


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[Assistant] The main thing I was concerned about was that the way they were trying to revive the economy was a kind of trickle-down economics. The way quantitative easing works is that it's a lowering of the interest rates that leads stocks to go up. And so, who owns the stocks?


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[Assistant] It's the people in the top. Not just the top ten percent, one percent, one tenth of one percent. And so it increases enormously wealth inequality. We had had increasing inequality


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[Assistant] Our mandate is to do what we can to increase employment, to use the tools that we have, and that's what we're doing.


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[Assistant] Most of those cases came from different villages or different areas in the city of Gekedu.


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[Assistant] That's a very bad sign because it means that you don't have just one cluster or one family or one village that is hit. It means that it's already spread out.


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[Assistant] And I remember my headquarters asked me like, what do you think? Is it five villages or ten villages or fifteen villages or more? And I remember I said, if I have to choose between those three options, I do believe it's fifteen or more.


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[Assistant] Chief! Woohoo! You've been out for a while. Where are we? We're still adrift on the dawn.


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[Assistant] It's the largest, I always say the most massive, but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country.


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[Assistant] It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Congratulations.


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[Assistant] Remember that these blue thieves haven't stolen eggs only in the Magic Crafter world. Don't worry, I'll take care of them.


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[Assistant] The percentage of GDP that goes to finance has gone from three and a half to eight and a half.


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[Assistant] In a way, we're like a giant blood sucker, and we have more than doubled in size, and sucking more than twice the blood out of the rest of the economy. And, uh,


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[Assistant] We fulfill a completely necessary service. But what we have done is created layers upon layers of more and more convoluted, expensive financial instruments. And that's what makes all the profits for the financial industry.


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[Assistant] And it's taken a lot of ingenuity and salesmanship to make this happen. And a lot of lobbying in Congress, et cetera, et cetera. And we have imposed


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[Assistant] On the rest of the economy, the idea that banking and finance are utterly


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[Assistant] Over the years we've been trained to believe that the Fed is on our side. What the Fed


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[Assistant] They will bend every effort and every dollar they can get their hands on one way or another to bail us out. This is asymmetry of the most splendid kind.


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[Assistant] It's the burst of euphoria that typically brings these things to an end.


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[Assistant] The housing market, the stock market, and the bond market all overpriced at the same time. And if the Fed knew what it was doing,


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[Assistant] It would not allow bubbles of this magnitude.


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[Assistant] Pebble Mine is a huge project, but it's not just on any river. It's two of the most productive salmon rivers in the world.


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[Assistant] Wild fish are important because they're beautiful. It's a beautiful species and they're a miracle of nature. But they're important because they're also the food source for everything from bears to cataslytes to eagles to killer whales.


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[Assistant] And this what feeds the food webs in the North Pacific, a wild salmon protein, pumped out of the ocean up into the rivers, delivered almost perfectly to every corner of the watershed.


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[Assistant] Now now, we can resolve this without recourse to violence, can't we? Get him, Youku!


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[Assistant] No, Richard! Not your day, is it Victor?


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[Assistant] There, safe and sound, and only slightly delayed. And now, to the palace.


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[Assistant] Ugh. I couldn't sneak through a sewer in these threads. Much less a ball.


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[Assistant] Well, when you don't invite me to your parties, everyone suffers.


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[Assistant] You alright, monsieur? Too much of the king's champagne.


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[Assistant] Listen, I'm sure your little cult is a delightful bunch. But I'm not interested. The only thing I care about is finding Elise. Are you planning on doing that from in here?


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[Assistant] He wasn't the man you thought he was. Neither of our fathers were.


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[Assistant] I'm tired of running from my failures. Monsieur de La Serre, my father.


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[Assistant] The truce was with Grand Master de la Serre.


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[Assistant] We might have learned more had we not allowed Sivir to escape. Sivir was there? I know your heart is set on keeping the peace.


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[Assistant] You mean a dagger in broad daylight as I'm cut down where I stand? He sends a powerful message. I'll do it my way. Whatever you think best, assassin.


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[Assistant] This raises troubling questions. What have you learned?


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[Assistant] He was working with a man called Le Roi des Thunes. The king of beggars? Are you sure? You know him. Of him. The beggars pay him tribute.


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[Assistant] I can find him. Sivir met with one of his lieutenants.


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[Assistant] I meant no disrespect, mentor. I'm only concerned. Forget me, Arlo. Weep.


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[Assistant] The King of Beggars and Sivere were only pawns in a larger game. Someone sent them after Monsieur de la Serre.


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[Assistant] The only lead I have is the instrument that killed de Lassay. A pin fashioned by a silversmith named Germain. But how he's involved I can't yet say.


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[Assistant] No need to do anything foolish. Let the silversmith go. Stay back!


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[Assistant] I want to know why.


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[Assistant] And now I know where to find you, Grandmaster.


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[Assistant] Germain made that pin, and others like it, for a man named Lafrenière. Sure. Certain.


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[Assistant] Find Monsieur Lafreniere. I have done so already, Monsieur. He is no threat. What are you saying, Pisspawn? I had a lead on Lafreniere. I followed it, and I killed him.


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[Assistant] A club in the Marais, not one of our safe houses. What do you make of this? I cannot say. I would like to investigate further. I don't like this. The boy is a gifted assassin. But I fear he's obsessed with a private vendetta. Let another follow this lead. We don't have time. Whatever La Freniere was planning, it happens tonight.


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[Assistant] The same one who helped you over the wall into that dog-infested orchard.


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[Assistant] Of course not. But I have to report this to the council immediately. They'll know what to do.


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[Assistant] Templar poison. Templar pin. It looks damning.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping I can pick up a trail and follow it back to the source.


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[Assistant] And I'm to slip in and find them first. And quickly, the Swiss Guard are badly outnumbered. It's likely they'll be overwhelmed before nightfall.


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[Assistant] Bedlam. Just the sort of thing Germain seems to thrive on.


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[Assistant] Next time, I plan the escape route.


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[Assistant] Can, can things ever go back to the way they were before, do you think?


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[Assistant] So that's it then. The course of history forever altered. Never again to return.


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[Assistant] You have to- You were told to leave that investigation to others. Yes, but listen!


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[Assistant] I knew this would happen. I told Mirabeau that you were too obsessed with your personal vendettas.


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[Assistant] You cannot be serious. Listen, I know what Germain is doing, I can stop him!


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[Assistant] You. Where's your boss? Oh shit! No. Get back here!


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[Assistant] You made it fairly clear you no longer required my services.


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[Assistant] What do you expect me to say, Elise? Forgive me for not letting you die? I'm sorry that I care more about you than about killing Germain.


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[Assistant] I can't bear the fact that my carelessness got your father killed. Everything I've done since then has been to fix that mistake and to prevent it from happening again.


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[Assistant] You must have come here with something in mind. What was it?


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[Assistant] Not anymore. Where's Germain? Elise!


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[Assistant] The creed of the assassin brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once I thought that meant we were free to do as we would, to pursue our ideals no matter the cost.


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[Assistant] I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The creed is a warning.


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[Assistant] Ideals too easily give way to dogma. Dogma becomes fanaticism.


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[Assistant] We believe ourselves redeemers, avengers, saviors.


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[Assistant] We make war on those who oppose us, and they in turn make war on us. We dream of leaving our stamp upon the world.


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[Assistant] Even as we give our lives in a conflict that will be recorded in no history book.


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[Assistant] All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.


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[Assistant] Some years later, the work of Prick and Watson demolished this theory in favor of the double helix. Today, we know the double helix to be indisputably the basis of all life. So why did the triple helix theory gain so much traction?


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[Assistant] Why did Rosalind Franklin's x-rays seem to confirm it?


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[Assistant] It turns out that their initial samples have been taken from small traces of precursor DNA, the rare genes of an ancient race embedded in our own. We now know that triple helix DNA is the foundation of the precursor genome. It is the genetic Rosetta stone of our age.


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[Assistant] If we can crack it open, if we can sequence the full precursor genome, there is no limit to the knowledge we will gain. Using Animus technology,


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[Assistant] Ancient languages will be unlocked and ancient technology will be ours for the taking.


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[Assistant] Such discoveries would surpass 100-fold the splitting of the atoms.


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[Assistant] Last year, we located a rich sample of precursor DNA in a donor.


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[Assistant] You know, that's over 2,500 feet of .7% copper equivalent. That's, it's just unheard of and it's amazing. It's a huge system and as a geologist, it's just an absolute dream.


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[Assistant] It was only a matter of time I knew that much. This is far too soon.


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[Assistant] The people have gone now without four or five or six or seven paychecks and it's starting to catch up. They need food, it's the most basic thing.


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[Assistant] Latouche, old friend. You do get about, don't you?


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[Assistant] What are you up to there?


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[Assistant] If pebble goes through, it will change everything.


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[Assistant] Having that influx of outsiders coming in, affecting the way we live, that would...


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[Assistant] All hat. How's it going, Malta? Stand by. They're latched. Check your targets, watch the crossfire.


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[Assistant] You done with my boy here, Master Guns? I don't see any training wheels.


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[Assistant] Well, he's in a particularly fine mood. Maybe Lord Hood didn't give him an invitation.


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[Assistant] When I shipped out for basic, the orbital defense grid was all theory and politics. Now look.


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[Assistant] The Cairo is just one of 300 geosync platforms.


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[Assistant] That Mac gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital ship.


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[Assistant] Coordinated fire from the Athens and the Malta. Nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece.


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[Assistant] So smile, would ya? Well we still got something to smile about.


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[Assistant] We're operational ma'am, barely. Our pilots didn't make it.


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[Assistant] Shake it off, Marines! Clear the crash site! Go, go, go!


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[Assistant] We've all run the simulations. They're tough, but they ain't invincible. Stay with the Master Chief. He'll know what to do.


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[Assistant] Mackenzie, Perez, how's our exit? You hear me, Marines? Well, you got trouble.


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[Assistant] Please. Don't shake the lightbulb.


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[Assistant] That explosion came from inside the atmosphere. Same as the Malta. The Covenant must have brought something with them. A bomb.


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[Assistant] Yes, sir, Sergeant. Thanks for the tank. He never gets me anything.


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[Assistant] Good. Still no word about it, Amberclad, on the Covenant Battle Net.


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[Assistant] Ah, now I see. There's a submerged section that connects these towers to the outlying structures.


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[Assistant] Looks like we're going down. Unless you'd prefer to swim.


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[Assistant] I've intercepted a secure transmission from Regret's carrier to something called High Charity.


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[Assistant] Regrets Carrier just received a response from High Charity. A very well-encrypted message from the Prophet of Truth.


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[Assistant] Listen to this, your haste has jeopardized the fulfillment of our covenant, threatened our grand design. That you shall be spared a public display of our contempt is thanks only to Mercy and his wise counsel. Truth, Mercy, Regret. Three prophet hierarchs. Healing Regret should shake up the covenant leadership, but frankly it sounds like you might be doing Truth a favor.


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[Assistant] The faster you can kill those brutes, the better.


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[Assistant] I've got a fix on truth just outside this tower, Chief. There's an exit nearby, hurry!


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[Assistant] Not to worry, it's pretty sloppy stuff. I guess they never expected a hostile intelligence to penetrate their network from the inside. The Covenant just destroyed two of their own ships, and I'm hearing reports of small arms fires throughout their fleet.


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[Assistant] If he does, I'll detonate in Amberclad's reactor just like we did the autumns. The blast will destroy this city and the ring. It's not a very original plan, but we know it'll work. No, I don't want a chance at remote detonation. I need to stay here.


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[Assistant] I'll disable this lift once you reach the top. That'll slow them down. I hope.


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[Assistant] I knew the Covenant was good at repurposing Forerunner technology, but this is amazing. They've been using the Forerunner ship's engines as an energy source for the city.


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[Assistant] Every day, my key team, we get an email with the number of people that come through. Yesterday was 1,007 households. And it's not people, it's households coming through.


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[Assistant] They just don't have any other choice. We're hearing that their budget is, you know, is being eaten up by all the impacts of inflation and it's either that or they don't have food for their children.


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[Assistant] It was the end of February this year, 2022. We saw a slight uptick. Didn't know if it was real, but it kept climbing. And it's climbed all through summer. We thought that was a plateau. And then at the end of summer it's continued to climb. And here we are today with a thousand households coming through.


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[Assistant] Year over year and the number of people coming to us for help. From two thousand twenty one to twenty two? Yes. And of that, eighteen percent of the people are first time people coming to the food bank. Is what you're seeing now actually worse than what you saw during the height of the pandemic?


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[Assistant] It is worse now. And it's worse because the food was more available during the pandemic. We're seeing food availability going down.


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[Assistant] What was once predictable doesn't appear to be predictable anymore. And it's probably going to get worse before it's going to get better, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] But I have to tell you, I go to the store and I am just shocked. I'm keeping my nose above the waves right now, but I feel like that wave is a lot bigger than I thought. And it's behind me and it's coming.


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[Assistant] When it was an opportunity to wipe out a community, they took it.


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[Assistant] It's wonderful what's happening is an extraordinary scientific breakthrough.


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[Assistant] It, yeaah, no, it'll be, it'll be a boom for the restructuring business, but I just don't think it's avoidable at this point. I think we're just, you know, the, the, the bill has come due. Uhm, and it, it's gonna have to be paid.


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[Assistant] Just about as, uhm, levered as they were, uhm, heading into the f- 2008.


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[Assistant] Uh, into the 2008 financial crisis, whether it's student loans or mortgage loans or car loans or personal loans or credit card loans.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we've borrowed a lot of money as a people.


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[Assistant] And so the Fed is absolutely right to try and get it under control by raising interest rates and slowing economic activity. But the most highly levered, uh, players in our economy, uh, are, are gonna, are gonna come under real stress, uh, whether that's households or businesses or governments as interest costs rise.


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[Assistant] There's been letters exchanged from the state attorney general and so on and we've replied to that. That's a matter of public record, uh, we believe we do have.


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[Assistant] Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna order a pizza, and we're gonna go set up, and then I'm gonna bring the pizza to Pink Dolphin.


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[Assistant] Uh, flew her out. And, uh, yeaah. You got a fly out from Brittany Renner.


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[Assistant] How long have you guys been friends now? Like how long ago was the book mention and like the you guys getting together?


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[Assistant] I love seeing you guys together on social media. I think I saw you guys like one that first probably maybe a year ago when you like posted a video mentioning her or something and I was like, I love this because it's like two hot girls. You guys look similar. People probably compare you a lot, but instead of letting that be the thing.


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[Assistant] Like people pinning you guys against each other. You guys are just, you join forces and you just love each other and you know, build each other up. And I think that that's really cool to see. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Both sides, both demographics, you know? Oh yeaah. Cause if I was a girl in college and you were coming to my town at a club, I'd be like, I'ma go see her, see those lips in person.


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[Assistant] You have, when you date now, you have to pick really wisely because you wrote this book where you kind of like shed light on all your mistakes in dating and now you feel like since you put that all out there, do you feel like you have to be really, really careful in how you move in the dating scene? You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Do you only, would you only date a dude with a blue check mark now that you're, you know? That'd be kind of shallow. That'd be kind of limiting my options, I feel like. It is shallow, but like, do you think like a random dude could just DM you or whatever, get in contact with you and you'd


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[Assistant] That's why I feel like it's like you meet people on social media and usually they're verified or whatever because it's like.


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[Assistant] Sometimes if you're a public figure, you might have to date a public figure so that they can understand your life and you have similarities. Cause it would be hard to date a dude who managed a Starbucks, right? Or like managed at, you know, maybe not Starbucks, but like.


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[Assistant] I didn't say it was a bad job, I just meant like okay, maybe, maybe not a more Starbucks manager, but maybe something else.


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[Assistant] Told you, I'm only through Seth, who reminds me of you, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I think I got reminded of him because of the, like, you tried to do the threesome thing in your relationship and we do a ton of it. It's very successful with us though because what Seth did with you, it seems like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but how long do you think you guys stayed together after you should have known or knew that it was, like, over?


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[Assistant] Do you think that that period got shorter and shorter with each dude? Like, did you recognize and leave in a shorter amount of time because you knew, like, better, you were better able at telling?


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[Assistant] You were constantly shocked that I wasn't trying to get you to like, skip out on work to hang out with me, you know, like stuff like that, you were in the beginning, you were weirded out about, but I found the card he wrote me for my birthday, like the first year we were together, and it says the first thing, I tried not to like you. It's like the first line of the thing. But, but then I got it.


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[Assistant] And I can like change in front of her, but it's weird that she like helps me with anything that's related to sex. It's too weird for me.


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[Assistant] You know what, my, my, I was thinking this because my sister and I were just thinking about this story about the stupidest thing we ever got in trouble for us kids was my mom found paint thinner in my sister's bedroom and thought we were huffing paint in high school.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that doesn't seem very productive.


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[Assistant] Because if I was mad at you, I would never think of ways that I could hurt you. How can I solve this issue that we seem to have?


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[Assistant] I got offered a really good rate, but I'm like, I can't fucking dance and I don't want someone touching my ass, so.


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[Assistant] Like some photographer said something super creepy to me the other day and I like really was put off by it. Like could you imagine if someone says something creepy to me in person while I'm naked and my job is to engage? Like. Your job is a stripper.


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[Assistant] If a club wanted to book me and do a meet and greet at a strip club, I would totally do it. If you're out there listening, I would do a meet and greet and like sign posters, whatever. I can't fucking dance. Me either.


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[Assistant] I, I certainly have not forgotten how to stream on YouTube. That's not what happened. I swear.


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[Assistant] Nobody saw or heard anything that happened there, alright? I certainly haven't been talking to the Abyss for the last nine minutes. Forgetting that, uhm.


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[Assistant] I yeaah. Okay, well if you know, I've been streaming on YouTube a bit. Not the last two weeks, but I've been streaming for a bit. Ooh, Nightbot, Nightbot, no.


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[Assistant] Don't freak me out, I'm gonna pull up my own stream and we're gonna get this figured out.


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[Assistant] Like a minute delay between us all, so it's fine.


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[Assistant] Yes, yams! Let's go! I love seeing the yams! Yes! Yes, family! Yes, yams! Yams!


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[Assistant] What is today? Like I don't need like a long setup time. I just gotta switch over to YouTube. You remember how to stream on YouTube? It's been like a year, but you like got this girl. And then talk to the void for like nine minutes and I was like, really seems like nobody is talking back to me. Super weird. And you know, I forgot.


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[Assistant] And then you hit go live on YouTube. So I completely forgot about the second step.


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[Assistant] Oh, you thought I'd do Vaya? Nah, this is all me, baby B. Vaya's doing- Vaya's gonna be streaming, uh,


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[Assistant] Harvest Stella in the new Pokemon game, which I'll make sure I let you guys know when I'm streaming Pokemon so you can be over there. Want the cam bigger? We can do that.


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[Assistant] We'll figure it out. If it's getting in the way of the game, we'll move it somewhere else. Yeah, right? Doesn't this look so mobile game-y?


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[Assistant] Y'all, I'm an adult with disposable income. I can waste the money on this. Some of y'all cannot. So I am here to do what some of you may not be able to do. Alright? Was I a theater kid?


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[Assistant] Right in the center, right? This is what you wanted, right? Right in the center? Right, right in the center, right? Right, right here?


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[Assistant] Like I said, if this is intrusive here, we'll move it somewhere else, but... Yea, Nightbot's a little crazy.