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[Assistant] I'm gonna be real with you, one night I was in the club, or not the club, I was in the studio with Rizzo and Sauce Walker. That's my dog. And they were trying to get some lean, and they couldn't get lean at the moment, they maybe had to wait a couple hours or something, and man, let me tell you, you see a different side of it right then, because they wanted that goddamn lean and they were not happy until they got it.


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[Assistant] So uhm, yeaah, wh-wh-what do you feel like have been, like, the biggest moments in your career outside of the-the Gangstaboo project? The fucking, for me personally, the-the sauce walk-up fucking freestyle.


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[Assistant] Let's go into detail about that a little bit. What's the Travis Scott thing? He just did some fake shit man.


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[Assistant] It was posted in a bunch of places, okay. So it's not like some project you dropped that there was no attention on.


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[Assistant] But was there ever a key DM from him to you that you did not respond to?


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[Assistant] Do you think it's possible that he put out that album and never at any point thought shit, already put out a project called Astroworld?


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[Assistant] But what would that call be like? If he hit you up and he was like, yo, I seen you on No Jumper, I just wanted to know. What if he said, like, I never honestly thought about that when I was making the project. Would you buy it? And be like, alright, let's squash it, it's cool?


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[Assistant] Sure. What do you think of him sort of overall as like a Houston ambassador to the world? Because he is bringing it back. He's did the Astro World, uh, festival there and everything. But I mean, it's always, it's like a tricky position to be in because on one hand,


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[Assistant] There was another one that you- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you were saying that Plaz stole something from you too?


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[Assistant] You had a song that had girls in handcuffs and then he took that same beat and did a video with girls in handcuffs? That's why I took off on Instagram.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was listening to a bunch of West Side Gun and Conway and shit, and that is like- It's slow beats. That's like their defining characteristic, is that they just have slow- it's like Mobb Deep, but they just- Yeah, but it's so slow, but they-


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[Assistant] Encyclopedia type thing going on are different flows and styles and shit.


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[Assistant] Do you think that's an overall problem of people sort of like taking excessive inspiration from underground artists, especially like bigger artists like using, uh, sort of like themes and ideas that they see from smaller artists and then just sort of running with it because they know that there's not that many people that are going to call them out for it?


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[Assistant] He's a legend out here, man. They keep saying that they ain't felt LA feel like this since Tupac died. And that's...


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[Assistant] How do you feel about the overall strength of the Texas music scene right now? It feels like all of a sudden there's a lot of artists coming out of there lately. It's a whole new generation. It's dope.


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[Assistant] Pretty convenient that he didn't have to leave LA, but you know, the hoods in LA are different than the fucking-


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[Assistant] In Texas and that way people feel like they don't have to leave. They can still get coverage. The shows are good enough. The local fan base is good enough. That's what will really blow Texas up. Not just a couple people who have a poppin' song and come up out of Texas and then they never see Texas again. That's not really gonna...


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[Assistant] That really is kind of the question is like what's the difference between Atlanta and Texas because they should be able to have similarly dope scenes but then it feels like Atlanta has like gotten it more.


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[Assistant] What do you have coming up that we need to know about and everything?


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[Assistant] The other day I followed, uhm, Logan Paul. He got 16 million followers. He had me on his podcast and I just like, I was like, well, he's not going to see on his own. So I actually messaged him and I feel, I, I, people always like follow back. I hate that. It's weird. I said to Logan Paul, I go, yo,


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[Assistant] Let's collab on a follow back. He said bet I got you. Boom.


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[Assistant] A lot of people act like it's crazy for you to treat like the phone call or the FaceTime or the in real life meeting with like reverence. Somebody said to me recently, they're like,


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[Assistant] Because everything happens online now, we reserve a special level of respect for the shit that happens in real life. And that's why it's important to pull up on somebody and have a meeting if you're gonna have an important meeting. If it's a bullshit ass conversation, fine, you can do it. Email, text, whatever. But if it's important,


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[Assistant] Let's, let's acknowledge the importance and do this in real life.


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[Assistant] Cold as hell. You can feel like nobody gives a fuck about you anymore. As a public figure, you do go through these things, and especially because you can feel it. Sometimes everybody's talking about you and then all of a sudden, you know, a couple months go by, all of a sudden there ain't too much chatter about you or whatever, but what will assure you that things are still cool is when you like go to a show,


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[Assistant] Instagram, psycho. I'd be like jumping in a fucking kiddie pool full of maple syrup for the views or something.


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[Assistant] For sure. Someone just said, is this DJ Carnage? S-M-H.


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[Assistant] You aspire to become someone in this society and have good quality life, you work for that. You don't get it free.


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[Assistant] We were being constantly beaten for not working hard or fast enough.


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[Assistant] We were brought in one by one. They would ask us questions.


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[Assistant] Who do we replant it with? Uh, what's the name? Uh, who else knows?


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[Assistant] And throughout the night, they would take in one of the smugglers and they would start beating them up so we could hear them screaming throughout the night.


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[Assistant] There were a lot of cargo containers and prisoners were kept in there.


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[Assistant] One day, uhm, someone was, kept banging, uhm, but the guards didn't listen, didn't go over to check.


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[Assistant] It was in the summer and it can get really hot in summer. So they kept banging to ask them to let them know, uh, but they completely ignored them because even we could hear them from inside.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, when they opened the door, someone had died in there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's actually two different spaces. So this space was filled with inmates and you could hear them screaming.


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[Assistant] They kept some inmates here. I remember there was one, uhm, Eritrean smuggler who had burnt skin who was held here. So they would let us out.


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[Assistant] Use the beach over here, uhm, to defecate or whatever for the morning and then we would go back to that spot right there.


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[Assistant] We were supposed to be military trained, officially anyway. So they took us to Sawa. But uhm, after...


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[Assistant] Two days in Sawa, they were gathering up women from everywhere.


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[Assistant] So I went to three or four different farms just working the fields.


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[Assistant] Throughout our work, uhm, our guards would make deals with other, uh, generals who had farms nearby. So they would take us there, do the work, uhm, and take the money, I guess.


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[Assistant] Throughout our stay in these different farms, there were many.


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[Assistant] We're either threatened or we're asked for sexual favors in exchange for cell phones, a phone call in exchange for water, in exchange for pads, menstrual pads, for anything. Some were desperate. All were desperate.


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[Assistant] And I guess when, in situations when you didn't have anything and you were kept half-starving.


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[Assistant] Everything is very, uh, sadistic. It's meant to put people down. It's meant to, uh, hurt people, not just physically, but psychologically as well. Uh, now, thinking about it calmly, uhm, I would say that the same guards that


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[Assistant] Made our lives miserable were miserable themselves. I think.


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[Assistant] The Eritrean people are the perpetrators and the victims themselves. It's the system itself. It's, it's, it's, it's the system.


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[Assistant] I knew him as the playful bother. I didn't know that serious side of him or that other political side of him that I have come to read and know about later on.


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[Assistant] The night before he got arrested, my mom was away, so I was sleeping with my dad. And when he woke up in the morning, he pulled my leg, so I woke up like, where are you going? Uhm, he said, I'll be right back. I'm like, you promise? Sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's the last I remember of him.


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[Assistant] He left the house, but the military caught him right outside our door. He disappeared. We just didn't hear from him anymore.


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[Assistant] We all went to the airport. We waited for her at the airport. We had flowers.


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[Assistant] And we waited for hours, uhm, we waited for two, three hours there.


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[Assistant] And the states and they're like, no, she made it to the plane. She, she left.


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[Assistant] And they told her, we saw her from afar, she's being kept by herself.


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[Assistant] When the peace deal was happening, a lot of my friends, Eritreans, we gathered and we talked and they're like, oh, finally peace is here. And I kept saying, no, let's wait and see what's happening.


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[Assistant] But now do you see what I was talking about? Prisoners are still prisoners.


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[Assistant] The new year started off with many heavy snowstorms and extreme cold weather. It's been a tough winter so far.


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[Assistant] But on the other hand, this is how a healthy winter looks like. It's cold, it's snowy, it's fully alive, and I love it.


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[Assistant] I thought I would give you a little look into what I've been doing this past month, except for shoaling snow. So, let's go back to the end of December, a few days before Christmas.


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[Assistant] I was preparing my car and my camera equipment for another road trip.


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[Assistant] I had waited a few weeks to do this journey, but the cloudy and heavy weather would just never let go.


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[Assistant] But at last I had to go anyway with or without good weather. I wanted to be home before Christmas so I had no more time to wait.


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[Assistant] I was on my way to the north again, and this time I was going very far.


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[Assistant] Even though I live in the northern part of Sweden, there is still about thousand kilometers more north to go.


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[Assistant] My goal was to reach Abisko, which is a little town among the mountains about 800 kilometers north from where I live. So I had a long driving ahead of me, but as always when I go on my road trips, I really enjoy driving. It's just as much as a journey as reaching my goal.


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[Assistant] So the car is fully packed with everything I need for these days. All my camera equipment and my little bed here, uh, cause I'm gonna sleep in the car.


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[Assistant] I just spent 30 minutes driving the wrong way, even if I have driven this way so many times before. Uh, but I was just watching the GPS, I guess. I have a, you know, a GPS in the car and


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[Assistant] I should have learned by now that you can't trust that one because it can choose really weird ways. And I don't know, I wasn't thinking, I was just, you know, driving and listening to an audiobook and just following the GPS.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but oh well, I'm on the right track now. And also it's super slippery outside. It's really, uhm, how do you say, a bit icy and it's a bit warm weather. It's like zero degrees, so.


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[Assistant] It's very slippery, so I'm gonna drive really, really slow. So this is gonna take much more time than I planned, but oh well, I will get there soon.


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[Assistant] It was gonna take me about 14 hours to get there. I took some short breaks now and then and continued driving the whole night.


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[Assistant] I am only 30 kilometers outside Abisko, so I found a good spot now to get some sleep. That's gonna be so nice. And it's really cozy here. I have a sleeping bag.


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[Assistant] It's up to minus five degrees, and it's actually minus four degrees outside now, so. I hope that it will be warm enough, but otherwise I have super warm, you know, polar parkas and stuff, so I'm sure I will keep warm in the car. Oh my god, I'm so tired. I'm so tired.


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[Assistant] Next morning I woke up to these beautiful, wild views. I had not been in Abisko for many years, so it was very nice to see it again.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's a very different energy here than in the mountains where I have my cabin. I don't feel at home here in the same way, but I feel very fascinated by the rawness of these surroundings. It's like being on another planet.


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[Assistant] The reason I came here was because I needed to record some footage for a film that I had been working on for a long time.


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[Assistant] It was actually from my previous video that you might have seen by now. If not, I will put a link in the description to this video.


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[Assistant] I needed to get some footage from the darkest place in Sweden, where there is the polar night in the winter when the sun never rises above the horizon.


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[Assistant] It isn't getting any lighter than this. It's like a sunrise color on the sky, but it's really cloudy, and I really wish I could just make them disappear for a while.


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[Assistant] This is one of my favorite views from Abisko. I recorded this scene a few years ago. It's called Lappporten. Translating that into English, I guess, would be The Gate to Laponia.


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[Assistant] But since it was so cloudy now when I was there, these mountains were hidden in the clouds, so I couldn't see them.


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[Assistant] This was definitely one of my least effective filmmaking road trips. Since it got dark so early in the day, I couldn't be out filming, so I just spent a lot of time in my car.


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[Assistant] But I was really lucky, because every night the sky got clear from clouds, and I could watch the beautiful northern lights and record some new time lapses.


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[Assistant] Sorry for the bad lightning right now. I'm outside and I'm so happy because


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[Assistant] It's a huge and beautiful northern lights on the sky right now and it just came out of nowhere because it's been so cloudy, so heavy clouds, you know.


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[Assistant] All day and all evening and suddenly the sky just opened up. So I have two cameras now that makes a time lapse. They're gonna do the work for me while I can just relax and watch the northern lights.


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[Assistant] After two days in Abisko, I decided to go more south again and continue with the rest of the work. And that was a really good decision, because the weather was a little bit better there.


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[Assistant] After a few days on the road, I was back home again, just in time for Christmas.


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[Assistant] And then a new year arrived with a lot of extreme cold and massive amounts of snow.


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[Assistant] We had two snowstorms in one week, and I've never experienced so much snow in such a short time. It was insane.


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[Assistant] I had to make roads in the snow for Nanook so that he could go out and pee. Otherwise he would get stuck in the snow.


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[Assistant] What I didn't know during the snowstorm was that one of the windows in my art studio had blew up by the strong winds.


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[Assistant] So when I got there the next day, it was like a winter landscape inside my studio.


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[Assistant] My painting is alright. It's not covered in snow.


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[Assistant] It was a big mess, but I was really thankful that my parents came and helped me to clean it up as fast as possible.


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[Assistant] And luckily the radiators wasn't on, so the snow had not really begun to melt too much. Otherwise I would have gotten a huge water damage in the room.


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[Assistant] We spent some hours making sure to clean up all the melting snow.


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[Assistant] And then we left a heater fan in the room for a week to help dry it up as much as possible.


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[Assistant] After the second snowstorm, the weather changed and it became very cold for a couple of weeks. Up to minus 31 Celsius degrees.


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[Assistant] Very cold weather makes it really hard to keep the house warm. It's like a full time job just to get the wood and keep the fires in the stoves.


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[Assistant] You always have to be careful with Nanook because he, he takes any opportunity he can to run away.


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[Assistant] So you can't let him go too far away from you, because then he will just run. Nanook!


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[Assistant] The floors and the walls had dried up really well. But unfortunately the walls that I recently painted with mineral paint was damaged and got some ugly water marks. But some damages on the walls is nothing compared to what could have happened. So I'm just glad it all went well.


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[Assistant] They just got out with a warning now that you should only go out if you really need to go out. Yeah, it was a really rough start on this January. I haven't even said happy new year to you yet, so happy new year!


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[Assistant] I just want to show you something that makes me very happy every time I see it. It's a drawing. It's Nanook and it's made


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[Assistant] The little fluffy meatball walking in the, in the pine forest. I think it's night because it's stars in the sky and then it's northern lights. And the funny thing is that Nanook's full name is actually Nanook of Northern Lights because


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[Assistant] I don't know if there was anything else I was supposed to say. Uhm, I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Nothing yet. Briggs and our contacts are isolating probable candidates.


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[Assistant] End counting. We're running analytics to find the target locations as we speak.


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[Assistant] Armory, infirmary, holding cell, every resource that you'd have on the ground.


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[Assistant] News and internet data mining, predictive analytics, photo and video forensics.


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[Assistant] Focus. Your best approach is through the bazaar here.


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[Assistant] So you turned yourself in for protection? Keep you idiots from killing me over Guam, yeah!


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[Assistant] He's strung out, pissed off, and a major pain in the ass. But I think he's got some intel we can use.


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[Assistant] By the way, Sam, let me know if you want me to upgrade the plane. There's a lot of room for improvements around here.


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[Assistant] Looks like the largest of the four camps we've found, heavily fortified.


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[Assistant] Agreed. His intel was supported by other sources.


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[Assistant] Charlie's following up. Charlie?


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[Assistant] The engineers knew the government would disavow the operation. That's why they recorded it.


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[Assistant] Majid Siddique, the man behind the engineers, will forward our analysis to your office.


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[Assistant] Don't pat yourself on the back, Charlie. We got lucky. We slapped together a mission based on hunches.


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[Assistant] Not a lot of time. Going on the offensive was a great idea, but there's a lot of records to go through.


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[Assistant] His estate is a fortress. Cutting-edge security, ex-military guard.


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[Assistant] And each other. It's a sleeper cell. Was. They've been activated.


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[Assistant] The president went public with it last night. The country's howling for blood.


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[Assistant] What the hell did we just do? We found documents. We didn't prove Iran was involved with the blacklist.


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[Assistant] Getting in isn't going to be the hard part. The could servers are air gapped. We have to physically pull the data? I'm sending the hardware specs to your workstation. We can't just- Less no, more go, Charlie.


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[Assistant] I know that an unauthorized drone strike was-


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[Assistant] I know your point. You think I made a bad call just like Briggs did in London, right? The decisions we're forced to make are not always black and white, Sam.


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[Assistant] We both know damn well you'd risk everything if fixlife had been on the line.


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[Assistant] You wanna thank me? Talk to Briggs. We need him if we're gonna pull through this one.


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[Assistant] I've been monitoring DCS interrogations coming out of Chicago. Sadiq has a trusted inner circle of commanders.


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[Assistant] The CIA just hauled Rezunuri into Guantanamo. Being questioned about Iran's role in the Blacklist attacks.


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[Assistant] Well now he's playing dress up in a prison jumpsuit exchanging intel for clemency.


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[Assistant] It's not that easy. You're gonna need paperwork, key card.


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[Assistant] Thanks. Let me know if Oli needs anything. Apart from some cosmetic damage, it looks like the plane is fine.


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[Assistant] The main systems are back online. She's flying, but we're flying blind.


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[Assistant] It's a communique we received right before the plane went dark. The White House activated continuity of government.


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[Assistant] You let it infect the system? That's how they found us in Mexico.


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[Assistant] Sorry Sam, still getting flooded with intel. Got it. Looks like Louisiana, Sabine Pass, a natural gas tanker.


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[Assistant] The engineers hit the facility with a computer virus right before the tanker hit. Security systems, fail safes, everything was disabled.


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[Assistant] No, we're not. You know what bothers me the most about you, Charlie? You're good at your job.


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[Assistant] The only thing standing between Sadiq and the world is this team. I can't afford to have Sam throwing you off this plinth.


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[Assistant] Look, I know you think you're special because you sip lattes with the POTUS, but I have a lot of friends on Capitol Hill.


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[Assistant] No. Get me the president if you ever want to work in DC again. Now I'm threatening you.


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[Assistant] President Caldwell, we believe the site F bunker under Denver airport is Sadiq's target.


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[Assistant] They're getting heavy snow. We'll use it for cover and spin in steep on approach. I'll need Charlie's help with countermeasures.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Thank you. Uh, who are you? CIA?


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[Assistant] Oya happened to Oya. He followed orders. Fine.


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[Assistant] Quite honestly, I'm not entirely sure what I've done.


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[Assistant] Captain, scans of the northern polar regions show some interesting covenant activity on the surface. There's some kind of structure down there. What do you think they're looking for?


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[Assistant] I like the view. It adds perspective to my work.


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[Assistant] I can be quite insistent too, Captain. I can take care of myself.


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[Assistant] It's all theories right now, and I'll know a lot more once I get down there.


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[Assistant] In the 30 seconds I had to examine the artifact? Yes. All it did was point at a second star system.


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[Assistant] Covenant Shield technology is susceptible to superheated plasma. Aren't we field testing some plasma-based rhinos?


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[Assistant] It may take some time to get the right power sense. I'll need to be on the ground to do that.


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[Assistant] If you don't mind, Sergeant, I'm trying to document this area for study.


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[Assistant] The overloaded FTL reactor will cause a chain reaction in the sun.


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[Assistant] Well, put simply, Captain. Our reactor will cause the sun to go supernova. Leaving nothing here but dust.


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[Assistant] I know it's been a tough call, Captain. But it's the right one.


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[Assistant] Captain, I would much rather stay awake to monitor this area.


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[Assistant] Children's minds are more easily accepting of indoctrination. Their bodies more adaptable to augmentation. The result was the ultimate soldier. And because of our success, when the Covenant invaded, we were ready.


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


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[Assistant] But you're, but you do it very intentionally. Is it something about every public appearance that you make usually where you have a hook?


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[Assistant] You've really kind of abused your DJ Vlad privilege. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You've sapped up all the clout you could possibly get out of that. But I feel like there's a whole new generation of rap fans who know who you are because of the white face thing. Because of all these things.


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[Assistant] You think, even though it was insanely obvious that this was just a black guy wearing white face paint, that people still were persuaded to feel that way?


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[Assistant] What percentage of DJ Vlad's audience do you think are Puppet Parkasets? All of them, really. 95%.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about the early days of daylight, because I'm interested in how this man was formed. Alright, uhm.


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[Assistant] People don't move around that much until you get to the level in your life that you're like downtown. And that nobody downtown is from downtown because there's no children in downtown.


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[Assistant] It's hilarious how that's the hierarchy of Los Angeles, is that you like are growing up in Watts, and then all of a sudden you like graduate to downtown. That's like pre-wealth. Yea, it's wild bro, it's wild. You can get away from a lot of the shit there.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's gotta be, there's probably a lot of pussy going on. Yea, it was all a type of shit.


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[Assistant] What was your perception of West Coast music at that time in 2007? What was really cracking off out here? Cause there was a lot of jerkin' music and shit at that time, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, looking at how you rap or how Crooked Eye raps, it's like there's not a lot of people on the west coast that have gotten big that you could really say fit into that kind of lyricism.


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[Assistant] But that took it to a totally different level. I was just having that conversation with Michael Rappaport.


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[Assistant] Kendrick is a very rare exception that is like mega lyrical, uncompromising production wise, still gigantic.


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[Assistant] But did you always think that you were smart? Because when you listen to you rap, it's kind of like, woah, this dude's got a lot going on upstairs.


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[Assistant] So would you consider yourself to have been deluded at that time in thinking that this was a good investment?


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[Assistant] And what was it about that that turned you off?


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[Assistant] And the west coast battle rap has always had like an identity struggle, wouldn't you say?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like this sub-genre that is up against like this massive, like gigantic specter of


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[Assistant] But it was always self-evident to you that you were just drawn towards that side of rap.


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[Assistant] That clip that I tweeted, uh, yesterday of this dude rapping and he uses the same pun- like the same words over and over and over and it sounds kinda ridiculous.


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[Assistant] What about, let me just throw this out there. Okay. What was, what is your relationship with disaster right now?


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[Assistant] You got me with that one thing. Did you watch the disaster interview and I asked him about how you said that he fucking s- just so the people out there that don't know what I'm talking about. You said that you were driving down the highway with him and that he-


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[Assistant] Got cut off by another car so that he got out of the sunroof and shot his gun at the person multiple times and then just got off the highway and acted like it was no big deal. Jesus, wow. No, I don't believe you that this happened. I asked him about it and he was like, obviously he was trolling. Alright.


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[Assistant] If it wasn't a real gun, you probably would know. Oh, it might have been blank. Well, I still think that's probably a big ol' crime. You still have to be pretty nuts to do that. He is a nuts.


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[Assistant] Cause I was watching a lot of old battles of him where people would be like, oh, you're Grape Street homies. Like people would be dissing him trying to say that he was relying on your connections.


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[Assistant] Your battle rap career, it seems like you have an insane number of videos on YouTube. Are you just the kind of guy who if you got offered a battle you would just be down?


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[Assistant] It didn't occur to you that you had a, that you could ask for more over time or did it slowly work its way up?


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[Assistant] How much work were you putting in at that time to prepare for a battle in comparison to now?


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[Assistant] What's the thought process? Say you were gonna battle me. Say that I am who I am right now but I'm also a rapper. And you've gotta think, I'm gonna fucking dissect this guy. I wanna win this so I have to expose him as being...


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[Assistant] Whatever, like you have, like what is the mentality of how to pick somebody apart?


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[Assistant] When I saw, I was just watching some random battles and I saw you, uh, battling this white guy in Canada, I believe, and you showed up dressed like a fucking slave and you had a guy with you that was supposed to be your master and you're like asking him for permission to rap and stuff.


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[Assistant] What, what fucking corridor of your brain did that come from? And what, was that a specific thing for this white guy that you were gonna battle? Like, I'm gonna just make this motherfucker feel good.


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[Assistant] But you usually, when you think of these ideas, you're thinking more about how to just show your own...


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[Assistant] creativity rather than actually tearing the other person down


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[Assistant] Because it's like you not even respecting them enough to base. It hurts. Because it makes it hard for them to figure out what you're gonna come with too.


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[Assistant] Did you ever, like, when did, I feel like now, when you battle, it feels like you always come with something elaborate. Is that true? Is it always something that has to be performance based?


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[Assistant] Right, I didn't remember his name. It don't matter. I just remember thinking that he was clearly working out too much. Yeah. I just don't want to see a yoked up rapper.


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[Assistant] And certainly like representing battle rap kinda like made the biggest impact on that era culturally.


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[Assistant] What's your, what's your battle rap career these days? Like what's it take to get you out there?


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[Assistant] When you go do a battle, how much do you think that they can, if they're smart make from it?


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[Assistant] But working on your own music where you like, you do all this ghost writing stuff and everything, right?


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[Assistant] So how does this work? How do you get content about this? Because, and what do you do with TD? Explain the nature of the relationship.


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[Assistant] But you have done stuff where more established drivers will fly you out. Didn't you say something about Drake?


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[Assistant] Uh, most definitely, I fucks with Drake. And what, you were part of the OVO sweatshop for a period of time or what?


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[Assistant] How does that feel that you can write big records for other people but you haven't really done it yourself so much?


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[Assistant] How do you, but do you feel like you have the star power to have a big solo career?


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[Assistant] But a lot of the stuff that you've done, you could kinda describe as like clout chasing or whatever, like all these different things that you've done to go viral, but do you feel like, in a way, you should have been able to like transfer that through into, you know, your own music, or do you feel like this is all sort of like a long term building process towards that?


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[Assistant] And is that your goal to be just to be like a fucking big ass solo artist or is that kind of an oversimplification?


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[Assistant] I don't think the vegan thing is all that. The vegan thing is the worst. I don't like it.


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[Assistant] Were you ever on some, like, were you used to love riding around with your homies, just living that hip-hop lifestyle, bunch of fucking homies in the Subaru, just driving around backwards?


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[Assistant] Do you think it's your sort of like your internalized memories of your upbringing that reconnects you with that pain?


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[Assistant] Is it different than Melrose where you, this is probably, on Melrose is probably where you could get recognized and sort of soak up the attention more than anywhere else.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of your daylight and there's probably a lot of, you're that guy from Vlad.


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[Assistant] When did you really get into the whole trolling the media thing because you've just been doing this for a long time with Vlad. It seems like you've just taken that platform in particular. Actually, I really appreciate the fact that you don't seem like you're bullshitting about almost anything, although the disaster thing I think you're lying about and maybe.


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[Assistant] You know, I saw one clip where you said that 95% of people that grew up with you were dead.


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[Assistant] Being in that cycle, I do think it has value because at the end of the day, I'm just making more people know about me. I'm just trying to reach maximum saturation of just making everybody know about you because then in the future, they'll be receptive to whatever other additional messages you want to put out, whether it's a t-shirt or a video. It's like forming. You gotta get as many cows and sheep.


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[Assistant] It's kind of weird for us because we're both somewhat along that path. We're not at the maximum level of that path. Nobody ever really is. But when you look at somebody like Charlamagne, it's like, you know, he's kind of almost, he's reached peak.


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[Assistant] Saturation of the market. Everybody knows who he is. Everybody knows who the Breakfast Club is. I don't feel like I'm there. You look at somebody like J. Cole, Kendrick, everyone who wants to listen to them probably is already listening to them.


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[Assistant] No disrespect, but it's stigma. Stigma. You keep saying st- astigmatism, which is the thing you get on your eye. It is, cause they can't see. I just know that they're s- they're gonna say something about it. I just wanna throw that out there.


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[Assistant] And then it's weird that it took that long. It took til 1998 for somebody to come in the game that was really that dope as a white guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think- But in terms, and I realize that a big component of it is that you might be able to name a whole bunch of battle rappers that are super dope, maybe just as good lyrically, but they didn't make a real impact, or you know.


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[Assistant] Right. And was that, was that the biggest mistake you made in terms of trolling or was that good?


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[Assistant] Did you say that because Puffy is allegedly gay? Or did you say that just as like a funny troll?


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[Assistant] And I have no idea, allegedly. Yea, I'll break it down to you. I have no idea what Puffy's doing.


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[Assistant] The path to virality is always either going super positive or super negative. Exactly. You gotta figure out which ones best.


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[Assistant] Let's be real, like, I've met a lot of gang members where once they're around them for


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[Assistant] 6ix9ine didn't have anyone around him. Cause like, one of your biggest risks when you become a rap star, one of your biggest risks is that you're gonna get in bed with street dudes that are gonna extort you and fuck your life up. And he dove into it head first. I don't even know if he got to the point where he was really getting extorted or anything, but he was clearly on that path.


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[Assistant] Because he would have fit into a certain category, but when you are filming a video and you're on the street in Brooklyn and you got 20 dudes with you that are all wearing red rags, that's a big ol' statement. You can't understate how important that is in hip hop. People are basically watching like gang porn, a lot of people who watch rap videos.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, he was definitely with police security in, like off-duty cops. It's no big deal to get off-duty cop security right now, that's normal.


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[Assistant] But you gotta respect him as a troll. You and him were in many ways, he was the most successful at this art form that you knew about very early on.


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[Assistant] One of the mo- the biggest things to me was when I saw a photo that you could tell that it was an extension that he just had that shit taped in and that he would sorta just throw those in.


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[Assistant] Besides his own freedom. You know, sometimes when like a super loyal group of dudes gets busted all together, then they stand together.


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[Assistant] Right? But there's a lot of MS-13 dudes and shit that, at the end of the day, they don't look THAT different from him.


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[Assistant] You think we need drastic measures in order to make that shit not cool anymore? And in order just to acknowledge that glorifying that lifestyle is essentially the same as condoning it.


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[Assistant] You can't help but internalize the glorification of it.


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[Assistant] But isn't that just proof that people have guns to protect themselves and that they, in that moment, it's like I'd rather take a couple years in jail than go to jail for the rest of my life for killing this cop.


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[Assistant] It's weird that even as an adult, I can kind of fall for it because having a gun is the most regular ass shit for almost anyone in LA. It's regular ass shit. Selling crack is like how easy, you know, I could buy coke right now and sell coke all fucking day. It's the easiest thing in the world. It's like, I don't understand what is necessarily so sexy about it, but we still, those lines will still make us.


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[Assistant] But when he plays that at a music festival and everybody's singing along, all those fucking kids aren't thinking about what he's actually talking about. You get what I'm saying? You gotta have that going through your head. Is that your spoon feeding them little bits of the good shit surrounded by the- I got to bro, I got to bro.


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[Assistant] If you want your dog to take his heart medication, you gotta grind it up and you put it inside the food.


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[Assistant] When you look at where Drake is at, you feel like he uses his platform enough. I feel like all these big stars, they pick and choose their battles because they don't want to be the person who's constantly jamming politics down people's throats. And they know that if they just pick their spots.


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[Assistant] You think it's because like rap is so big and so much of the audience just wants to watch like gang porn again or violence porn?


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[Assistant] Don't you feel like people are just more comfortable talking about their depression now, whereas like people during prior eras were probably just as likely to deal with mental illness, they just didn't feel comfortable talking about it?


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[Assistant] I don't think that's the majority of these artists. I just think that those are, these rappers are in a constant struggle to differentiate themselves from everything else. So they end up with crazy hair, they end up with crazy face tattoos, they end up on some weird ass fashion shit.


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[Assistant] But don't you think we're better off? I feel like if hip hop wants to fully develop and grow, then rappers need to be able to take on different perspectives. And previously the main perspective of men in rap was like, I'm the man, I got hella bitches, I don't give a fuck about any of them.


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[Assistant] Juice WRLD might be like an overcorrection in that, you know, he's basically saying like, I'm really sad, you broke my heart, rah rah rah. That might not be like the- Is that a rap song?


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[Assistant] I think when Young Lean came out, it was like his crew was like the sad boys and it was kinda sad rap. It was like the cloud rap era.


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[Assistant] Right. I don't really think the Lil Nas X song is a country song, to be honest with you. It is.


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[Assistant] I mean, the beat's not country. If I, if I was more educated, more capable of sitting here and like breaking down the elements of what makes a song country. Like Juice WRLD, as much as we call him emo, it's still a little bit closer to hip hop, I think.


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[Assistant] There was the rock radio station and there was the rap radio station and then Eminem comes out and all of a sudden these fucking rock radio stations who


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[Assistant] What? I saw a link to a whole video of you talking about it. I read a bunch of tweets from you about it.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, I think it would have been tech 9.


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[Assistant] You know what my favorite, one of my favorite like gang related disses, uh, was when fuckin' YG of recent memory said about like 6ix9ine, super lowkey 6ix9ine diss when he was like, I don't like that pink hair blood, I don't like that only at the club blood. And that's so funny cause there's so many dudes that will only throw up gang signs with their drug and shit in the club.


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[Assistant] This is what we're gonna do. Let's take this as like one small example within hip hop. I think they'll kill everybody if we did that. I feel like we saw a huge surge and people talking about Zans and stuff and then I feel like people have witnessed enough death, at least in recent memory, that there's been a big pullback on people like glamorizing


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, I think it was after Mac. After Mac too, it was another big one. All of a sudden it seems a lot more problematic to be like, ooh Xanax is great, you know? Yea, like now it's like,


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[Assistant] I think that is true, because even at the time it might not have seemed like such a big deal, but the fact that we're still talking about it, and when you really look at who Mazzi is and what he represents.


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[Assistant] That's the weird thing about 6ix9ine is that he never really glamorized the drug thing, you know, that was never happening.


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[Assistant] You ever think about the fact that the strength of the overall hip hop community culture is


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[Assistant] The culmination of the individual careers of


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[Assistant] That removed like a big slice of the content that we were used to seeing for a while and that realistically it's like you could imagine a scenario in which let's just say that 10 years from now we don't have a Kendrick and we don't have a J. Cole and we don't have


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[Assistant] It's that skinny from the nine is basically famous within hip-hop without even any popular songs, but it's not because he's likable, it's because he's the opposite. People love to shit on this kid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he does have a son that has like 10 million plays on YouTube, but I guarantee you here, you're never gonna think about it again in your life. I don't know how the fuck he got 10 million plays.


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[Assistant] And that goes back to the earlier daylight career. But there's actually, there's just people in.


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[Assistant] The culture that people are like addicted to watching them sort of like suffer in public like everybody is so excited when skinny from the night gets jumped again or when there's another clip of him getting caught snitching comes out. The world star area. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] But the definition of a man or a woman is really based on genitalia more than anything.


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[Assistant] Well talk about that one, cause that's one that hasn't aged too well. It seems like a lot of people who were supporting that at the time even are able to acknowledge now that it doesn't seem like the most sincere.


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[Assistant] But I don't think there's anything really wrong with that. Delete him. Oh.


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[Assistant] I don't think that people living lifestyles outside of the mainstream consensus of, of how men and women are supposed to interact. It's not really having any impact on anyone besides themselves. Nah, that's impacted me. How so?


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[Assistant] I would have gone and got it. If this person was as intimidating as you make it sound. Hashtag get the strap.


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[Assistant] It would be like me, my name is Adam, but if I went around telling everybody that no, it's a damn. Like, how dare you call me Adam? It's a damn. It's like everyone has to, you have to accept that you're going against the grain of how people are going to behave.


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[Assistant] You don't know when the terrorist dude showed up at the Pulse Nightclub of Florida and killed 50 gay men? No. That happened.


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[Assistant] What happened? Uh, he was mad about their lifestyle I guess so he showed up and sprayed the fucking whole club up. And what'd they do to him?


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[Assistant] It shouldn't be mandatory that you move to the island. It should. It should be mandatory. Like, like, you get deported. See, I totally agree with the island. Like, when the white supremacists say that they want to create like a white ethno state, like they want to find a piece of land and have it be only white people. I think that is a great idea, as long as it's...


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[Assistant] Your decision to move there. But like, that's cool, but like,


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[Assistant] They can just chill. Like all the white supremacists could just be on an island. I think that's great. If they stop bothering, like, you know, the poor defenseless people that they're presumably terrorizing, then that's a great idea. They should definitely seclude themselves.


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[Assistant] He's fresh out of Bushwick, so he's totally not familiar with the gay lifestyle on this level, and I'm very new to smoking weed, and we're sitting there smoking a blunt.


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[Assistant] I see a dude walking down that fucking pier and he's swinging his arms and swinging his hips and we are just high as fuck. And I couldn't believe what I was looking at. And my friend Dada, like he had to leave. He got on his bike. He's like, bro, I just, I can't, I can't. He had to get out of there.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's even attention horror. I mean, you know, that's a weird thing that we've seen so much effort to take, to treat gay people like regular people that they've sort of lost this like culture that they had for a long time that was this like deviant world where if you were gay, it was like being gay was about being in the club doing hella coke and fucking.


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[Assistant] Now like they want to remove it from that so that it's just being gay is just exactly the same as everything else. There's no like deviant lifestyle component necessarily attached to it.


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[Assistant] She's probably done a lot to advance, uh, the homosexual agenda in our country because she's so likeable. Like if gay people were like her.


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[Assistant] Why? Not as a choice, one is just less obvious, right?


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[Assistant] Dude, you go around Skid Row and you see trans people, you see the gayest motherfuckers on the face of the planet. They- they're- they're doing- At least based on the mannerisms, they would appear to be homosexual.


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[Assistant] Because listen, how do you, how do you end up in Skid Row? Doing a shitload of meth. What are gay dudes doing at the club? A shitload of meth. You could easily see how they could transition from one world to another. You're right. Oh, my girlfriend. And Evelyn, how you doing?


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[Assistant] This is Daylight. Nice to meet y'all. He was just talking about how he wants to exterminate the trans community. Yea, most definitely.


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[Assistant] Right. So it got a little spicy basically is what I'm saying. That was real spicy.


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[Assistant] Let me answer this. If there was an island and it was like the black island, all the really, really woke black people from Twitter just kinda took over this island and it was just their thing, would you want to live there? Hell no, I should be fucking...


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[Assistant] It is weird though, like we look at like the Hasidic Jews and their communities that they farm and how they just stick all together. I mean, we're right here on Fairfax, there's a shitload of them. They don't wanna fuck with anybody. They ain't never talk to a black dude. They ain't never talk to anybody who looks like me. They are sticking together. But somehow,


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[Assistant] You see a cute one walking down the street and you're just like, damn, she would never talk to me in a trillion years. Yep, it's over.


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[Assistant] You know what, that's the difference, is that if you do it along religious lines, then it's okay, but if you do it along racial guidelines, then you're gonna run into problems.


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[Assistant] Where are we in? I met a girl a little while back. She's like, oh yeah, you know, she's from Australia. She's like, yeah, I just want to see what America's like. So we're, we're in New York city and we're doing Vegas. I'm like, wow, that is, you have no idea what America's like. Those are two pockets that are completely unlike any other part of America at all.


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[Assistant] It would be nice if there was a god so that he could come in and kind of save us because it seems like the environment is probably gonna like kill us on its own within like a couple hundred years. We're fucked.


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[Assistant] The planet might be so fried that there aren't any future generations.


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[Assistant] Well, they'll definitely be out of here before everybody else. Before, yeaah. Have you heard about simulation theory? Yeaah, like, like. What do you think about that? You think we're living in a simulation?


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[Assistant] I'm so good at basketball that it is impossible that this world that we're living in is real.


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[Assistant] I feel like I would have been more likely to be a basketball fan if I knew that it was the key to bending time and space.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but how many times have you felt like, oh, maybe I shouldn't go out. Something bad could happen and then you go out. Every time something bad happens.


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[Assistant] That's my favorite thing about watching When You're Battles is you hear how many terrible day puns they've always done. The way I bend Dave and Dave and Dave. I hate that.


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[Assistant] Threatening innocent people. You have no idea how to stop the Blacklist, do you? I will teach you how to deal with terrorists.


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[Assistant] Whatever, we gotta move. We need everybody on this one if we're gonna stop Sinister. That means you too.


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[Assistant] You have any idea how many bridges you burn with that Gitmo stunt? It was necessary.


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[Assistant] They start actually doing what they did in New York. They just pick up investors. People they met. An art dealer.


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[Assistant] Uh, friends that they picked up, doctors, you know, they would, they would get them involved in, in the investment scheme.


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[Assistant] One case in point in Fort Lauderdale is, uh, Michael Sullivan, who was a friend of Avelino's, um, and he basically took these pools of investors that they, and they routed them right into, uh, into Sullivan. He's moving it to Madoff.


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[Assistant] Abelino and Bienis kept their hands in the jar. The SEC action was simply a bump in the road. It was, it barely slowed them down.


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[Assistant] Correspondent A.C. Thompson investigates the long road to where we are today.


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[Assistant] With the Biden administration promising to crack down on domestic extremism.


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[Assistant] Now on Frontline, in collaboration with ProPublica and UC Berkeley's investigative reporting program, American Insurrection.


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[Assistant] The president has to be very clear about the unacceptability of


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[Assistant] Since we wrote that letter, we have been in verbal contact with the military that they're responding to our letter. We expect to have it soon, but we have not yet seen it.


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[Assistant] There's a real legitimate fear here, and I think that we've got to be vigilant about it.


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[Assistant] Is to shine a light on this. Cause when we get some light on it...


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[Assistant] Then somebody somewhere is going to say, okay, this needs to become a priority. And so that's what we're going to do.


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[Assistant] Nobody really knew his role. You know, I knew he was important because he would speak with Bernie often and, uh, essentially like whatever Frank wanted he would for the most part get.


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[Assistant] The fact that all of these statements were just sort of made out of thin air is pretty shocking.


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[Assistant] They were paid so much to look the other way. Those feeder funds were incentivized not to ask the questions. To be willfully blind, if you will. And not get too intrusive into the Madoff scheme.


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[Assistant] I've met very few people who have obsessed so much about something as I did with AI. Most people use click products to make basic platformers, or are happy to stick to simple, pre-scripted AI. But I wanted to go further.


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[Assistant] It was a true holy grail of mine to make AI that wasn't just a challenge, but that could also react to situations that it hadn't even been programmed for.


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[Assistant] It features a friendly ship since I found most shoot'em up games to be a little bit lonely. Check the description for the download.


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[Assistant] I will not be upset if this video doesn't interest you, but for the 10 or so of you who are keen on making your own AI in games that you make on Fusion, this video could save you hundreds of hours.


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[Assistant] I will cover my attempts at making convincing artificial intelligence in my games, the problems I faced and the shortcuts I used. There are hints to this obsession in a lot of my earlier games.


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[Assistant] In the 2003 version of Dirac and Eremine, just after the first mission, you'll see Louise who can move in any direction while facing any other while looking wherever she pleases. She was inspired by early videos of Half-Life 2 where Alyx would seemingly observe the world around her. I wanted Louise to accompany you through the levels, spotting important details and helping you to solve problems. But I never did it. I was also inspired by a level in SvenKoop.


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[Assistant] You could spawn NPCs in a pit and they'd fight against each other. If you've tried the later version of the Ragnarimine you might have seen Bane and Yo-Yo Man. Bane is a gung-ho, all guns blazing kind of fighter, while Yo-Yo Man relies on stealth and precision. I would get them to fight each other in my tests. I always wanted Yo-Yo Man to win.


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[Assistant] It's sad that in the version that you play, Yoyoman only follows a path while Bane LITERALLY runs towards enemies firing hundreds of bullets, because in most other versions of Duragnaramon that I made they used a complex mixture of scripted and spontaneous actions. Perhaps it's because of that that I never got around to making the game itself.


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[Assistant] But be warned! Don't just make a game because you want to have the best AI ever. I find that the reason for wanting to make a game majorly determines whether you'll finish it or not. The projects where I've been thinking about a tiny, very specific gameplay mechanic tend to be the games that I don't complete. I went through obsessions with guns, lighting and breakable objects.


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[Assistant] But my biggest downfall was AI. I was convinced that if I could make the AI good and hard enough then the game would be a success. With my earliest, EARLIEST games I would use scripted scenes. If you shoot an enemy in one area then they'll run to another and then will start firing shots at you. Stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I'd make a level or two in this format before realising that I'd have to hand-code every event in the entire game, and that I just couldn't be bothered.


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[Assistant] So I switched to bouncy ball movement. An EXCELLENT decision and one that I still use. The idea behind it is that the characters will bounce about the screen. They don't have to avoid walls, they just deflect off them. But to make it interesting they also had to look as though they were thinking about their actions.


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[Assistant] When they collided with a character it would make them perform a random action, like stopping, starting or changing direction.


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[Assistant] Just like the bouncy ball movement, although it's simple it works surprisingly well. However, invisible bouncy objects use up a lot of processing power and can potentially miss certain people if you don't use the correct number of objects.


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[Assistant] So I switched to random numbers, where every second it would choose a random number between 1 and 10. If it's 1, they stop. If it's 2, they go. And if it's 3, they change direction.


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[Assistant] It's a less intuitive way of doing things since it's easier to imagine invisible stop objects bouncing about the screen, but this new method is without a doubt much better. But it still doesn't lead to good gameplay.


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[Assistant] With Dragon Eremine I began experimenting with sight. How can you tell if an enemy can see your person? I made enemies shoot out invisible sight objects towards you. If they hit something solid like a wall, the sight object would be destroyed.


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[Assistant] It has no memory of who fired it in the first place. This wasn't something that I solved with Deragon Eremine, so you'll find that if one guard can see you, everybody in the entire level will suddenly wallhack and shoot towards you. It's a bit annoying but you'll notice that it hardly matters in the grand scale of things. Perhaps my greatest achievement with AI was Deragon Eremine 2, a game that I never completed.


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[Assistant] I kept going until I had AI good enough to do anything that I wanted it to do. Instead of shooting sight objects towards you, they would instead fire in any direction in front of the guard. This meant that they didn't have tunnel vision.


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[Assistant] It meant that they were even capable, in theory, of shooting explosive pipes that were close enough to the player. It opened up a lot of opportunities that I never got around to implementing.


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[Assistant] Firing invisible sight objects is an inelegant solution. It would be far better just to test the line of sight directly, but this was something I was never happy with. My friend Tom managed to discover a way of doing this and sure enough it was more efficient and yet I never liked using it since I didn't fully visualise how it was working in my head.


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[Assistant] Going back to the invisible things bouncing about the screen earlier, they were silly but anybody who could see it in motion knew exactly how it worked.


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[Assistant] With line of sight tests, they struggle to tell which guard sees what and it's harder to have peripheral vision since they won't test the vision between themselves and, say, dead bodies and exploding pipes. I don't doubt that it's possible but I never considered it worth the weeks of suffering implementing a system like that would cause me. In my opinion, invisible sight objects are an example of, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.


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[Assistant] In Dragonair on mine 1, the moment the guards can't see you anymore they'll run about as though they've forgotten they had ever seen you. In the second game I made at place a last known location object every time they spotted you.


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[Assistant] Even if they couldn't see YOU, they would instead rush towards this object, which gave the impression that they remembered where they saw you last and were scouting out that location. There were many small tricks that I used in Dragonair and mine too that I still use to this day.


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[Assistant] I might have wasted years of game development time, but I amassed an advanced knowledge of tricks and shortcuts which would aid me in later games so that I could boldly go where other developers simply couldn't. How did I avoid the wall hacking guards from Duragnaromine?


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[Assistant] Every guard was assigned a unique number, and any site objects created by them would also have the same one. This meant that, once the site object hit the player, the game knew which guard it had come from. It took me years to get the system working since the game makers struggled to tell the difference between specific and general events. For example, if I made the event


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[Assistant] If I were to give guards a random number, it would only give one of them the number. Or it would give them all the same number. Or it would repeatedly change one guard's random number and not give the other ones a value. To get around this problem I had to make the event say


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[Assistant] One of the guards who hasn't already had a value assigned to them and give them a random number.


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[Assistant] Let's give you some more horrible examples of how AI can go WRONG. If you give them all a random number, there's a chance that 2 could have the same value, just by chance. There are always ways around these problems but you have to decide whether it's worth the hassle, like using random spread values or simply assigning values one higher than the one before.


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[Assistant] I never bothered since I seemed to get off on the slight chance of things going horribly wrong.


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[Assistant] In fact, I intentionally began coding horrible things in later games. In my game, Scrumppy Ninja, there's a 1 in a thousand chance of a terrifying homing window spawning and chasing your character until it got them.


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[Assistant] I've never had it happen to me but I await the day that somebody claims it's happened to them and everybody else dismisses them as an attention seeker. I have problems.


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[Assistant] The biggest challenge for me was always pathfinding, because in my mind I could see ways of getting it to work but it never did.


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[Assistant] At the start of a level, they'd see which others they could see and would build a web of information.


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[Assistant] If enemies were near node 1 but wanted to get to node 3, how could I tell them that they had to go through node 2 first? I could design that by hand, which is what I did with Doom of the World 3 where invisible nodes in the level would tell them which way to head if they were attacking or defending, but my main goal was always to get them to figure it out themselves.


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[Assistant] You know how sometimes you struggle to do something and after a night's sleep you try again and can do it easily? I find that age does the same thing.


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[Assistant] I can try for MONTHS to make something fail, only to come back a year or so later and find it easy. Time and time again I have done this with AI.


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[Assistant] Earlier this year I came back to the pathfinding challenge and beat it by using a large table that pre-calculated the fastest route between each node before the level even loaded. It wasn't a tidy solution but was one that never even occurred to me back in the days when I was struggling with AI. I didn't even make it for a game- it was just to conclude a challenge that had beaten me for over a decade. I'm sure that I'll find a use for that knowledge at some point.


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[Assistant] It's funny, but also kind of sad that I spent more time working on AI than I did with anything else in game design. And yet it's the one thing that hasn't been included in any of my finished games. The best has got to be in Deathgiver 2, a game that I'll be covering in the next video in this series. But you'll struggle to find anything clever in that game.


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[Assistant] I wonder if I'll always be able to wait until later and find things easier, or if there comes a point where it starts getting harder again. I'm in my mid 20s now and it hasn't happened yet.


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[Assistant] For all of you out there struggling to make your dream project, try sleeping on it. And failing that, do something else for a couple of years.


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[Assistant] The young, a woman governor from, you know who I'm talking about, from Michigan.


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[Assistant] When I first served on the Intelligence Committee, there were leaders in the FBI under the Obama administration who very arrogantly and self-righteously talked about how they were going to defend our country against these terrorist attacks.


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[Assistant] So called Muslim attacks. But when it comes to white supremacists, the FBI is too silent. It has to change.


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[Assistant] It has to change. Much more work needs to be done.


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[Assistant] And we in the building, man. We great, feeling good, energized. G. Bush, a.k.a. G. Baby, the people's champion of building. Hallelujah, holla back.


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[Assistant] Let me think about this, Bull. They're gonna do, let's be clear, they're gonna do, we go get to the best rosters, right? Top 5, right? Now if you look at the Bengals, you look at the Browns.


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[Assistant] At a top five, y'all only got two out of three. Browns got the other three.


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[Assistant] You could theoretically swap with Martin Cooper for Denzel Ward. I thought Cooper for Betonio.


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[Assistant] But if you, if you take a look at the Browns roster and look who they had, Nick Chubb is rated the third best running back courted PFF. Miles Garrett is rated the number one edge rusher PFF. Joe Boltonio is the number two interior lineman.


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[Assistant] Right? Right. If you swap out Denzel Ward, who is 88th overall in terms of score,


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[Assistant] And you put in Amari Cooper, who is 15?


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, you got Brown's players at the top. Right, but Deshaun Watson was what? But, but Deshaun Watson, he probably, to me, I would give him an N.A. Uh, what's that Mike?


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[Assistant] I would pick, what's the names of the dolphin skill players over the Bills. I'll take the skill players.


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[Assistant] The Cowboys, automatically. They're outta here.


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[Assistant] Like the Cowboys that high on that list and they got Dak Prescott who's done nothing. Nothing! What are you talking about? No!


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[Assistant] I got a trivia question. There's a quarterback out here where you would never expect to do this, but when you look at the PFF grades last year, this quarterback,


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[Assistant] Uhm, had a better passer rating than Tua, Gino Smith, Kirk Cousins, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert, Purdy we just talked about, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] PFF Grey, eh, Dak Prescott. Who?


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[Assistant] It's your boy, my man or your man, Jacoby Resett.


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[Assistant] Do you know he finished last year with the 6th highest PFF grade?


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[Assistant] But Baker's overall grade was a, uh, 50. You can't run. And, uh, Deshaun was with 55, so. So real quick, so we.


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[Assistant] I'd trade a first round pick for him. Oh, for sure. Yes. First round first. Yes. First for Justin Tucker.


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[Assistant] Random guards and tackles. We drafted two linemen.


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[Assistant] I think Matt Stover was the only leftover player.


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[Assistant] That won a championship in 2001, I think, uh, the kicker for the Browns. I think he was the only overhaul, but yeah, he, Tucker's been here all the time. I mean, no, I didn't, I didn't remember what year he was.


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[Assistant] If it's late in the game, there's two people I fear. Tom Brady and Justin Tucker.


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[Assistant] I don't know why I thought this was true. I thought you said, uh, after the game, they drank a 40.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, you got, uh, you did what you needed to do before that, but just take it with a grain of salt and say look.


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[Assistant] You got an opportunity, uh, to, to really lock in now.


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[Assistant] And hopefully, you know, this is a wake up call, then even if nothing really happened or you didn't get charged, it gives you opportunity to reevaluate what you're doing. You know what I'm saying? Really lock in and understand like, okay,


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[Assistant] I got, you know, I'm not gonna say I gotta get out of jail free card, but he, you know, he did what he needed to do according to the law and according to the courts.


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[Assistant] You gotta realize you got an opportunity here to do something great and to feed your family and your kids and take care of your family. And so you don't gotta go back to those situations where you came from. So at the end of the day, lock in bro. Take it, like don't squander the opportunity. Lock in. They brought in 97 details.


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[Assistant] See that's the thing, he put himself behind the 8 ball, now he gotta play over his ability to now be like, counter to him. We got no patience for him.


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[Assistant] You know what that, you know what that shows? I've been preaching it forever. Finally, maybe y'all will come around. I've been telling y'all there are seasons where people don't actually be trying to win. Last year was a gentleman's punt. You, how, like the indictment is you went out there with Schwartz,


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[Assistant] So now your job's on the line. That's right. Now look at, listen, keep that same energy. Now you did an overhaul, the D line, all of a sudden David Bell went from somebody from Purdue. We thought we could really, now all of a sudden they talk about him getting cut. That just goes to show you last year when Deshaun Watson got 11 games, they said, uh,


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[Assistant] Gentlemen's punt, we decided nobody, we gonna roll all this over and do whatever it takes. And now, okay, some people can say that you should do that because you weren't gonna win anyway. However.


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[Assistant] When you lose a year, it puts you behind eight ball bull. Now, now, you got six, seven games, and it's kinda, it's,


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[Assistant] No, I like the one and if we're playing tic-tac-toe, I like the one in the top left hand corner. Top left. One in the bottom right hand corner. Top left and bottom. The bottom right is the one that.


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[Assistant] First of all, I got to do a read. This UCSS read is brought to you by the Illuminati. Go ahead. There you go. Hidden secrets. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] His nose and mouth with the dots is kind of like an American flag, black and white.


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[Assistant] I totally agree with you. I totally agree with you. In the words of the wire, the game is the game, always.


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[Assistant] If you a sucker, if you don't even, if you don't even come to him, he'll be like, I got you. Don't even worry about it. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, give him something worthwhile, bro.


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[Assistant] I need to talk to the Browns. First of all, you guys get destroyed for a lot of things, right? Uhm, the Browns, I want to thank you.


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[Assistant] For bringing the fans in on this and creating a super sweet dope logo. I like it because


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[Assistant] For a lot of years, like, y'all, y'all, the baby boomers, all y'all old people, y'all, I like the traditional, ain't nobody checking for that.


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[Assistant] You lost all them traditional, all these kids, y'all lost half the kids losing games. So at least you can give them something nice to look at. The Browns were the only team without a logo, cheerleaders, a band, a fight song, nothing. We just had that orange helmet. At least we got this. Now, listen, you did that, guess what? I want them to take a step further.


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[Assistant] You don't understand every time I step in these streets as the people's champ, they say, gee, Bush, when is we getting alternate?


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[Assistant] When is the alternance coming? I said, I don't know when the alternance is coming. Give these people some alternance. I watched the Cincinnati Bengals in the White Tiger Power Rangers uniform. I'd be sick to my stomach.


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[Assistant] This wasn't a monologue, girl, it was a buy or sell. I'm gonna buy. You're doing so crazy, I'll buy it because I don't even think that last 15 is that hot.


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[Assistant] I'm going to come with this, but I'm going to let me preface this. This frown is for your glove work, your glove work. Oh my gosh. You'd be out here losing, um, Naylor. His toss game to first base. This guy, he misses a lot of routine plays, but guess what?


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[Assistant] I don't care nothing about that. You play first base in D.H. Who cares if you have errors? No one cares about your fielding powers. Continue to stroke the ball and continue to not runs in. I like it. He on pace for a decent year. He's on pace. 48 RBI leads the team, right? I believe so.


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[Assistant] By the way, the people don't get it. The panic in your life when someone hits a fly ball and you can't know, you don't know where it's going.


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[Assistant] On a tear in Colorado. Here's what I'm going to say. I like Will Brennan. I like him. Uhm, I think that 408.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and those two home runs, RBIs, here's what I'ma say.


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[Assistant] I think this shows me that he could be somebody. What I want you to do in the all season, I need him to hit these weights tough.


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[Assistant] I need him to get stronger because I feel like I can stretch him. I feel like at one time, I'ma give him that Brady Anderson game, allegedly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think he can hit 30 home runs. I think he got a frame that he can put a little weight on. He can get a little stronger. I like his swing. He doesn't strike out a ton. I like him in right field. And I think he could be a sneaky development type guy for a power hitter. So I like Will Brendan. Keep doing your thing, bro. And, uh, get, eat these sandwiches. Creatine sandwiches.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a rap. Brendan's not going nowhere. If Tito touches your shoulders in the dugout and massages you up like this, ahh, I'm playing around with you. I like Will Brendan. He's not going nowhere.


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[Assistant] Ah, see, man, I'm sorry, man. I'm gonna have to keep calling you out, Jose.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you keep hitting the baseball after I call you out. Listen, I'm like, what happened to Jose? What is his swing looking trash right now? He's actually bowling.


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[Assistant] He got a nice glove too. Oh, he's terrific. We don't be talking about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, listen, I'ma just keep, listen, what way it works here is I'ma just keep hating until you start hitting the ball, like, and get really big time numbers. I'ma say no, I think you can do it. Uhm, that one home run, I need to see that up. I need, cause the Guardians are counting on him.


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[Assistant] He has a massive deal, like he has to be every bit as good as Francisco Lindor was. Do you not believe that? Yeaah. So when we talk about him,


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[Assistant] As an all-star, he has to be of that ilk, where it's like, oh, he needs to get to where Jose Ramirez is, where we don't even question whether or not he's good or not.


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[Assistant] And you get the ball all the time and a lot. This sounds like one of those. There's more to the story than yeah.


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[Assistant] I really don't care. I hope the timing is off. I hope all those things happen. I hope you're not on the same page. Every time you get out there, you slip and fall on a banana peel. All that. I need all the bad things to happen to AFC North teams or AFC any teams. Cause we need all the help we can get.


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[Assistant] Right, right. Now that, don't that kind of make you sick? Yea. Like, can you imagine being up at night being like, you know what, I'm better than all of these.


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[Assistant] Hey bro, the only reason he's not kicking ass and taking names is the kindness of his heart. There's nothing them kids can do with him.


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[Assistant] Hey, listen. Hey, McNuggets, hey, he got- Who's tolling, me or Jason?


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[Assistant] Jaycee, Jaycee, you got about, oh, six months. AJ gonna be waking up. What you mean you ain't giving me allowance like that? What you got on my 40?


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[Assistant] Size five, six. Your dad's not big. He's not tall at all.


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[Assistant] No, I don't understand how, how, like how did that ever go down? Yeah. You trusted somebody to bring you open pasteurized milk and put it in your, in your little milk door. Listen, maybe that is when they talked about making America great, where you could trust somebody who would not drug you in your milk. Like that's never happened again. I ain't eat that. All right.


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[Assistant] Uh, right. So he's like, yeaah, he's like, I didn't, I never expected to be in an NBA.


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[Assistant] He's like, I was at Marquette and I'm like, I don't even know how I'm here.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, so I didn't even like, I wasn't even a guy who I even thought was gonna be a factor. So now that I'm here, I got here, he said it finally just, it dawned on me one day when he was in Chicago, like playing against Derrick Rose, cause he used to say, I used to watch Derrick Rose.


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[Assistant] And be in awe and be like, how is that guy this good? And then he started competing and competing doing his thing. But Jimmy Butler, to Jason's point, I don't think, he's played over his.


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[Assistant] I think talent level, he's willed them to some games, but I've never put him in that level where Jimmy Butler is a Kobe or even a Dwayne Wade or a LeBron that could just like, I'm like, this is what we gonna do. But it was a great game. I mean,


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[Assistant] After the game? I did not. In the Cavs, it was trending after the game because people was like,


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[Assistant] We gotta get this roster together. We, we don't got that. Like, we don't like, like, just for the simple fact when you look at both of those rosters, I'm not even gonna go. Don't you think the Cavs roster is wasted?


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[Assistant] They don't have the same attention to detail. They don't have the same physicality. They don't have the same set adjustments.


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[Assistant] Listen, I don't pay to sit here and watch college guys.


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[Assistant] Tom Izzo and what he's done. Just shut up. Listen, there's no athlete. You sit there taking charge of why you got 75 assistants fighting each other to put the little stools out. Hold on. Get it. Hey. Put the stool off. Put the stool.


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[Assistant] I would ask y'all this, uhm, two players, uhm, usually after the, you know, cause I'm Duke of New York, and uhm, I do set my Duke of New York reactions and rankings way too early. So I always adjust, right? So you look at two players, Murray and Joker, after the series,


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[Assistant] As we reshuffle the deck, where are they at?


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[Assistant] Is Joker the best, is he now, now, I'm the best player in the league, it's undisputable. I don't even, I don't even.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Well we're gonna be, well we're gonna ask Jason.


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[Assistant] Look at his face. Pause, pause. Yes, yes, yes. By the way, shout out to his cute little kid. His kid had the same expression the whole time as they showed his wife and kid. His kid was just like, I'm so not excited about this.


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[Assistant] So, so when you say go home, like is he talking about Serbia? Serbia. Okay. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, Greg, you know, you're coming out of Northwestern and now you've been in the league, you know, going on three years now.


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[Assistant] The, the, the media and fan base in Cleveland is a really, I would get, I would say they're very...


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[Assistant] Overzealous. They're excited. They give you a bunch of attention. Every move you make is just boom. Like they there. Have you found, have you found that like,


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[Assistant] You know, you, when you got here, you're like, man, I didn't think the Cleveland, I didn't think Cleveland's fans was that passionate and all over everything that we do. Have you kind of found it like a whirlwind, like in the off season about, about a bunch of other things going on and how you kind of actually been in the spotlight a lot for better or worse during the off season?


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[Assistant] Let me, let me piggyback on that. Like I think a lot of, uh, some of the viewers, you know, Tyvis Powell is a defensive back and


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[Assistant] What he was explaining was when you are in certain schemes, when you are a nickel and you're playing in a slot.


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[Assistant] You have heavy responsibilities in some scheme for run fits. You have a heavy responsibility in terms of blitzing and blocking and where you fit in the run game. Uhm, so in last year, was that the case and Joe was defensive was a really more of a, you know, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] A run style corner where you, you had to really be involved putting your body out there a lot. Is that a difference between this, this, this scheme with, uhm, Schwartz and, and what Joe was from last year?


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[Assistant] You know, I'll just say this, you know, coming, you know, from just being an African American and just being a black young dude at one point in time, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, I listen to hip hop music all the time, man. Like, you know, some of my, you know, the guys I look up to, the pop smokes of the world, uhm, you know what I'm saying? Just guys that, it's so many people that are big killed, you know what I'm saying? Even talk about, you know, Chicago's real rappers, it's like,


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[Assistant] A lot of times you don't understand it and it takes time to get to that point where you, there's a realization where it's like, man, I'm not normal no more. Like I'm not, I can't, I'm not me, I can't move. And it's crazy because...


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people in this world that can move that way, and it's like a realization that, wow, even, and I'm nowhere near, even myself, like sometimes I'm like, you know, people come up to me and say, hey, what's going on? And you don't even expect to talk to nobody.


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[Assistant] I couldn't imagine what it is to be a young, affluent dude, you know, who, who, you're popular, you got, they know what you got, that you got the bag, all the ladies like you.


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[Assistant] Man, it's a lot of dudes out here that be envious, man. It's a lot of dudes out here that don't want to see you prosper and do nothing. So I just want y'all young brothers to be like, look man,


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[Assistant] We gotta take care of each other. We're gonna move smarter. We're gonna keep these circles tight.


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[Assistant] Everybody ain't gonna have my number. Everybody ain't gonna get the text, right? I can't do certain things, but I'm just glad that you weren't harmed.


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[Assistant] And, and Perion wasn't harmed because at the end of the day, I don't want to keep seeing these young black dudes out here dying when they got their whole life in front of them. And all you, all you trying to do is just, is just take care of you and your family. So I, I, I salute you and, uh, hopefully we can get that thing wrapped up, man.


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[Assistant] And by the way, Greg, I gotta get to this. This is the most important thing. Nobody cares about who the best receiver is. Let me ask you whack questions. That was a whack question? That was a terrible question. We talking about last time you came on here. You showed me your shoe collection. I'm gonna tell you what.


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[Assistant] I mean, have you been laid off? I mean, have you been really stepping your game up in the off season? What's the latest ones you done got? The hottest cakes you got last two months.


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[Assistant] I'm a big fan of the internet, right? Because you could teach somebody a lesson on the internet real quick by just showing them other people, like yo.


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[Assistant] Like, you gotta think about it, you could be riding around and you thought the gun was on safety, you hit a bump, boom, you might get killed.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So, so, so therefore, my dad used to always say, there's two people that'll teach you right. That's either the man upstairs gonna take care of you, Uncle Sam gonna take care of you,


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[Assistant] Or the police will take care of you. Like at some point in time.


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[Assistant] You know, you could be doing something, and you could be like, man, I'm cool, I'm straight, I'm uh, and then you get that hit, that smack, like, you talk about Steven Jackson.


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[Assistant] Stephen Jackson talked about the reality check he got when Stern hit him with the, with the malice in the palace.


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[Assistant] He said he had to reach out to catch. He said he had, he had Isaiah Thomas reaching out talking to Stern because he was going to be out of here. He thought his career was over. He was like, they had us on the, they wanted to give us the indefinite suspension.