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[Assistant] Yeah, I knew I had a voice, you feel me? So, my mom knew that shit too. Really? She used to try, like, do little shit, like, put me in music class, but it wasn't there, like, I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't...


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[Assistant] What else? Jodeci, R. Kelly, make it a fucking new edition. Everybody, like my mom listens to everybody, so like.


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[Assistant] Everybody, anybody coming up, Mary J. Blige, you feel me, like I fuck with her shit OD. Uhm, so I listen to everybody, bro.


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[Assistant] Nah, man, I ain't, I'ma keep it a hundred. When I came home, I was, my plans was to do music, you feel me? Like I was, I had songs that I had written and I was like, the people upstate, those, the guys upstate, like all the guys up gels and the gels that I was in, I was singing his songs and putting my raps out there to those guys and they was fucking with the OD.


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[Assistant] Beat around the bush, they gon' tell you, if this shit is ass, this shit is ass. And they was really like, yo, this shit is fire, and you better go home and do da-da-da-da-da-da-da, or we gon' be mad if we see you back in here, type shit. Right.


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[Assistant] So when I came home, I was, my focus was gonna be like on the music, like, but I ain't gonna lie, like I still didn't have like,


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[Assistant] Exactly, it's in Germantown, it's in Uptown, section of Philly, uh, Pastoria's in Baton, so you got PNB, you got PNB Rock, PNB Meme, PNB Shotty, it's a whole bunch of PNB.


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[Assistant] I was, I put two songs out on Soundcloud. They was buzzing and feeling, you feel me, like, people was fucking with it. And uh, Bam! Say No More, that's like, that's my other manager. He was the one who like,


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[Assistant] What the fuck did these niggas want? Like, what did they want? Like, what's up? So he was talking some shit like, yeah, we fucking with your music, uh, we trying, we trying, like, we wanna fuck with you. Like, we see you ain't got nobody fucking with you. I'm like, alright, we gonna see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I started putting a little sound, like every time I would record a song, like I would put like a little 15 second clip on the gram, like every song, like so I had this shit going crazy, like they was like, this shit's sounding fire, like what the fuck is, he got a whole different type of sound, like he come from Philly, so.


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[Assistant] When I put it out, I was selling them for $10 a CD. Bro, I sold fucking 200 CDs fast as shit and I was like, man, this shit really flying.


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[Assistant] You got a lot of eyes on Philly cause you got me, you got Uzi, you feel me. It's a lot of people like behind the scenes that's doing shit like writers, fucking producers. You an Uzi fan?


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[Assistant] You wouldn't even know that he was from Philly if you heard his music. You feel me? Like it's like Philly is coming up with different type of shit now. That's dope though. Dude's like you and him.


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[Assistant] I used to fuck with that shit OD though, like I used to listen to that shit, I used to know them niggas raps like that shit was mine. Like, I was a heavy Meek fan, heavy Georgia Head fan, Quillic Mills, like you feel me, like Reed Dollars, all of them, like all of them up and coming boys, like I was fucking with them shits heavy, like especially people from uptown, like Cheek Raw, you feel me? I listened to all of them.


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[Assistant] So a lot of shit going on in Philly at the time. People wouldn't expect your first hit to be, like, political. Yeaah, exactly, like, and that shit was different. It was like, this boy really making some real music.


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[Assistant] He talking about some shit and it's catchy, and like, my kids singing this shit, like, like, I'm a grown ass man, like, my kids singing this shit, like, they telling me to listen to this shit. So now it's starting to be like, now the kids is starting to fuck with it, like, that's when I started like,


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[Assistant] Like getting more of my, my fans started getting like, it started from me being just like the street rapper and having like all the street niggas fucking with me. Like now it's like kids fucking with my shit. Like and they starting to grow and spread the shit like way more.


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[Assistant] It was like a track, my engineer had like a track set to the side for me, where he'd do like


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[Assistant] It just cleaned me up. It wasn't no autotune. It was like some shit that he did where it just like cleaned my voice up.


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[Assistant] You could hear the change, like, when I started using auto-tune, like, I started using auto-tune, like, R&B 3.


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[Assistant] Like when I just started like making like different type of music I said fuck I'm gonna start using autotune.


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[Assistant] I like that shit, feel me, like I like the way autotune is, but.


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[Assistant] How does that happen? Bro, I was fucking in the cell when I wrote that shit. Really? Listen, when I wrote that hook, I was...


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[Assistant] Bout to get sentenced, you feel me? Whatever the judge was going to give me, that's what I was about to get, you feel me?


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[Assistant] That shit followed me everywhere I went, you feel me? It was like, everybody loved that shit bro, it was like,


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[Assistant] Like when you in the cell, when you hear that shit, like, damn, cause they going through that shit, you feel me, like, and they living that shit, and it's like, they really just be like.


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[Assistant] He really one of the people that been through that shit. It's not too many art, young up and coming artists like right now that I can say, that I know of, like that really been through some jail shit, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Really been in and out of prison since they was youth, you feel me, up until now. Yeah, how'd you meet Kodak? Uh, pretty much, he signed to Atlantic, you feel me, so my A&R, signed him. He signed me, A Boogie.


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[Assistant] He didn't even want to fuck with me, bro. I'ma keep it a hunny, bro. Like, he didn't even want to fuck with me. Like, it took for him to hear that hook.


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[Assistant] To wanna meet me, you feel me, like, like, he was in New York for a minute, like, like three days or something like that, and, and my A&R was trying to get it together, but, like,


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[Assistant] He one of them niggas like, he just don't give a fuck. That's just how he is, you feel me? I wasn't trippin' though, you feel me? Cause I don't know him, it's not like I'm losing a friend. So I just was like, cool. But when he heard the hook, I was in LA, you feel me? When he heard the hook, he was like, uh, he fucking with that shit. My A&R told me, I'm like, alright yeah, let's get it. I went to New York, I met him.


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[Assistant] Last year, the guy was homeless, fucked up, broke. So all the shit that I got now was like, I'll take that shit and I- and I-


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[Assistant] Yeah, we ain't going for that shit, you feel me? Like a lot of people might not think that I might, like, it's not even just about taking my chain, you feel me?


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[Assistant] I got a little bike rider that I just signed. Who? He's from Philly, his name Bike Life Rex. You should look him up. I will. Coldest. He do pedal bike shit. Yea, we had to do D-Blocks on the spot.


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[Assistant] He's like, I'm a fucking star out there, bro. Like, I ain't saying it like-


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[Assistant] It's five months ago, bro. Really? Yeah. And so was that like a big victory? Was that your first car ever? Or just your first nice car? No, it was mine.


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[Assistant] I ain't never know what type of car I wanted, you feel me? And when I had the money, like to finally get a car, and I had other bread, like I'm like, cause I wasn't gonna just get a car like and just fuck up all my money, you feel me? So I was just chilling like I had money for a minute.


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[Assistant] Once I got signed, I didn't really fuck up no money. Like I ain't, I wasn't one of those niggas that just went out and fucked up a check. I probably copped a couple lids.


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[Assistant] Little thousand dollars worth of shit, like every hair in there, you feel me? Just was spending it little by little, but-


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[Assistant] A burger shop? Yea, burger lane. Right in Philly? Yea. Wow, that's fucking crazy. Yea. That's dope. That's it. I'm just trying to get this money, bro.


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[Assistant] She must be a little celebrity bro, yeaah yeaah yeaah. Oh really? You only three man, she already know like who her dad is, like what she doing, like she already know that she gonna do something. Like, she real active, like she smart, she crazy man. Your relationship with the mother alright? Yeaah yeaah yeaah. Okay, well that's good to hear.


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[Assistant] We ain't together, you feel me? But it's like, we ain't beefing.


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[Assistant] Shit, I'm about to go to fucking Toronto, I think. Really? No, Ottawa, Canada. I don't know where the fuck, I don't know. But I know, I'll be everywhere though, bro. Like starting to be like, it's like now, like within the past like, I won't say two months, like I've been trying to have a lot.


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[Assistant] Everybody got their little singles and shit and it's politics, you feel me? Selfish came out how long, like a year ago? Nah, that shit came out, what, like seven months ago?


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[Assistant] I liked this song a lot, you feel me? So I knew, I kinda like knew it was different for me. And when that shit started doing what it was doing, I was like, this is the shit I need to be doing.


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[Assistant] It's crazy because like when I first like was doing this shit like and making songs and shit like I was really trying to structure my shit like to more be like more street and you feel me like and come out with more like street songs like and like sprinkle my shit with the girls in there so that I can't like can't lose the girls but like the


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[Assistant] The melody shit come to me way faster than I hear like some lyrics or some rap shit, you feel me? Like, that shit is just natural like, so it was like, why not? Like, every time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I got a lot of publishing deals coming crazy like they think a lot of people want to sign me like to a publishing deal. Really? Like, and lock me in, try to get me, but I'm waiting until I get like platinum.


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[Assistant] Like, Fetty did. Fetty told me this. It's like, my man, he told me, man, like, I listened to Orlando. Orlando told me, don't sign no publishing deal until you got, like,


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[Assistant] So your shit go platinum release, you feel me? Really? They gave me six million for publishing, you feel me? I'm like, damn. That's really? Hell yea, like six million, like, just for publishing, you feel me? So it's like...


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he like, he pretty much like, he, he be, he turnt me like a lot of shit, like from, from the jump, like when he met me, he fucked it with me, and he the type of person like, he fuck with you.


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[Assistant] He going to want to steer you in the right direction, you feel me? And he definitely, like, put me on a lot of shit, like, from the rip, like, this is what you do, this is what you don't do type shit, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Like a lot of my shit, like if you hear me talking about some shit where I was in love, it would be about her.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I had a girl where as though like, she was like my rata da, feel me? I had a rata da. And that was probably for like, lasted for like two years, three years. Right.


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[Assistant] The other one was a long, like a longer relationship, probably like five, like all my shit was like, I only had like,


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[Assistant] Like be just from like all the bitches that I be fucking with. Like I'll make a song about a bitch that I just don't even really know.


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[Assistant] Three different girls, like, but I'm talking about it all at the same time. What kind of girls do you go for? I don't know, like, I like pretty girls. That's one thing that I can say, like, you don't gotta have a fat, super fat ass.


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[Assistant] You like, you just gotta be pretty. I like long hair, you feel me? I like sw- I like girls that's doing shit, like I don't like- I don't really like go for the-


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[Assistant] I feel like the white girls that I be interacting with, like they be more so like hip, like they be on some hip shit, like they be coming, they fuck with 21 Savage, go they black and see, feel me, so it's like, it's different.


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[Assistant] Crazy. That was the inspiration. You feel me? That was motivation. I was like, damn.


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[Assistant] That shit wasn't playing. Oh really? Shit just happened like that, you feel me? Playing no more, like that was, that was, I wasn't like,


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[Assistant] I wasn't a big fan of that song, you feel me, at first. That shit grew on me.


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[Assistant] Different people that was wanting me to write for them, like different people that just was like, it was all like A&R's and shit like.


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[Assistant] They was in there. They just was in love with this hook, bro. Like, in love with this shit. Like, when I was creating it, like, they just was like, like a fucking-


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[Assistant] Nah, I feel like I love this shit, you feel me? Like I love everything about that thing that I do, you feel me? All the shit that I come with, the shit that I do, I love it, you feel me?


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[Assistant] It depends, like, if I'm with somebody that's doing, like, I don't do no hardcore shit, like, I might fuck with the percs, feel me, like, I did Zans a few times, but that's not like really my choice, cause I did some crazy shit off of the Zans. What'd you do? I've done some crazy shit off the Zans. No, like, I did some real crazy shit, bro, like.


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[Assistant] I only did Zayn's like, twice, you feel me? And the one- the first time I did it I had just came home from placement.


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[Assistant] My man Kodak, he just came home too, so shout out to Kodak. Uh, he gave me two Xani bars, and it was like, I never did it before, I ain't never do no pills, like I used to just fuck with the weed. And he was like, take half of this jawn.


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[Assistant] Like, that shit didn't kick in for me, like, like, for, I felt like it was a long time, so I took, I took the other half. Wham.


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[Assistant] That shit kicked in. I was feeling it. I was feeling good too though. It was like a good, like, I was like, damn, I like this shit. Like, and I'm like, uh.


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[Assistant] My man, my man, it was my right hand man at the time, he was sitting at the head of the bed, like I was in his crib, like it was the track crib at the time, but it was like his crib, like he stayed on the top floor. So, the nigga just looking at me and shit, so I'm like, what's up, bruh?


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[Assistant] Damn, like gimme some of that shit back, bro. Like gimme like $20 to get the fuck on the bus or something. Like gimme $15 to get some grub. At least something, feel me?


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[Assistant] Depending on how much you lost. Wiped out. I got cleaned, I guess. You feel me? And he didn't give me no check, like he was, he might have been playing at the time, cause I was high as shit and he probably just wanted to be like, just go chill like somewhere, like I'ma give you some bread but just chill. But I wasn't going, like you feel me? And he had a pistol, and he said I took the pistol from under the drone, whipped it out on him,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I'm a free man now, like I'm done. I maxed out, you feel me? Like, that's fire. All my time, I paid him, everything that I owed him.


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[Assistant] Same thing, like the same- I ain't even gonna say that because it was different for me and A Boogie. Uhm, well the same person signed this, you feel me? But earlier on in the line, uhm, like when I first started getting a little buzz in New York, I had a book in the Bronx.


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[Assistant] And he was there, he had a book in there too. They was deep as shit in there, him and the Highbridge niggas. That's my gang, I fought with them heavy.


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[Assistant] So we went in there, this was prior to me knowing him though, we went in there, I did my thing, I performed, everybody was fucking with this shit OD, and he was performing after me and shit.


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[Assistant] So I told him like, yo, I'm fucking with this shit, you feel me? It was like a shake, I shook their hands, you feel me? And we dipped.


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[Assistant] So I put him on my snapchat, you feel me, like, showing love, like, put like, like, three or four songs on your shit. It's people just reaching out to me like, dang, like, dang, shout out.


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[Assistant] We appreciate the love, you feel me? Like you one of the first niggas that's like got a little bit of like buzz that's fucking with our shit, like showing us love and shit. I'm like no, always like, if a nigga hot, like I ain't one of them niggas that's gonna be hating. Like if I could put you on or even show you any type of shine or show you some type of love, you feel me? Bro.


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[Assistant] This nigga eight boogie, I put him on my page a couple times, eight boogie, he fire. And then later on in the line, you feel me like, uh,


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[Assistant] They reached out and we did a feature. It was that I don't know shit. Right. So we did the I don't know shit. Uh, it was a while ago, bro. A long ass time ago. It was way before it came out. Right.


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[Assistant] And we had that shit for a minute, and then he eventually got signed to the same person that signed me, like, he signed him. Yeah. So he, Orlando's killing it out there, huh? He's got a whole bunch of


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[Assistant] Going through the motions, like, and to me being, it's gonna be like rated R.


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[Assistant] A lot of shit changed, man, like, within a few months. And I still had songs that didn't make going through the motions.


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[Assistant] That's fire. I don't know if they're going to make it R-rated because like some of the shit that I got is like next level like different producers and it's like, uh, I don't know. It's going to be different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that shit is fire too, it's going crazy. South is just went gold, bro. Really? Four days ago. Holy shit, that's fucking crazy. And now with no promo or none of that shit, bro. That's crazy. It's like people fucking with it so much that they streaming it, buying it. The song went crazy.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, I don't set goals, you feel me, like, I'm not that type of person, like, you feel me, like, everything that I got


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[Assistant] Everything that I ever wanted to do, like that I thought I wanted to do, I done did that shit. You feel me? Like already. You feel me? Like, so it's like, I don't really set goals, I just, I just, I just.


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[Assistant] I'll just go and get it, bro. Like, I love it. You feel me? Like, I like the going, getting up. Like, I still, I don't give a fuck if I go to sleep at fucking.


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[Assistant] I don't know, there's nothing else that I want to do, you feel me, like I don't got no hobbies or none of that shit, like where is there, like I could say that I want to go do this and let's go do that. The fucking music is like what I want to do, you feel me?


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[Assistant] When I don't got nothing to do, I just want to go to the studio. That's where I'm cool with being. I don't need nobody there. I can be there by myself with the weed and some beats and I'm good.


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[Assistant] When you a rapper, they show you love bro, so that's why I fuck with everybody that fuck with. Like we, it's like community with this shit bro, like they understand, we understand each other, you feel me?


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[Assistant] I'm known a lot of places, but a lot of places I'm not known. I just was on tour, I did a promo tour with Shaq Wizzy.


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[Assistant] And like a lot of the places that we was in, like on the down south tip, didn't know who the fuck I was, bro. Like not even a clue. Bet they know the songs. No, bro. Like they was just really just getting introduced to me. Like it was like, that shit was weird as fuck. Like me performing for people that don't know who you is and like people just standing there and shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it was like, I've been there already, you feel me, and I know, like, the music is actually fire, so, and I know they gon', like, once they hear this shit, I'm not gon' give it, I don't give a fuck if a people just standing there, I'm still gon' turn up, I'm still gon' give them my all, you feel me, I'm still gon' be on that bitch lit, like, they fuckin' with this shit.


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[Assistant] And every time I left a city, every time I left a state, my shit was going up. Followers like 500, 700. I'm like, then this shit bustin', you feel me? Like, it's working, you feel me? So I knew something was happening on the promo tour, but it was crazy because people didn't know who the fuck I was, bruh.


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[Assistant] Forgive me for calling upon you unannounced in this fashion, but I happen to be traveling in the neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Well, if I might beg Borden lodging for tonight. Tomorrow I have to be on my way back to Sussex again, I'm afraid.


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[Assistant] Well, you will both forgive me. I will go and see to my cob.


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[Assistant] In a way, the post-election fracas was helpful to me, because it sharpened my focus on positive ways to respond to right-wing diatribes. I began to ponder an ambitious writing project that would lay out my views about the need for self-reliance and social support systems in improving people's lives.


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[Assistant] I wanted to write a book about raising children in today's world and to galvanize people around the idea that, to quote an African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child.


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[Assistant] I had never written a book, but I soon made the acquaintance of people who had and they offered guidance.


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[Assistant] Bill and I had met Marianne Williamson, a bestselling author at one of our Renaissance weekends, and she had suggested we get together with a group of people outside the political world to discuss Bill's goals for the remaining two years of his term.


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[Assistant] That struck a chord with me and we invited her to convene a gathering at Camp David on December 30th and 31st.


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[Assistant] Williamson's guest list included Mary Catherine Bateson, a professor, author, anthropologist, and daughter of the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Bateson specializes in cultural anthropology and gender issues.


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[Assistant] I found myself engrossed in hours of conversation with Mary Catherine and Jean Houston, a writer and lecturer on women's history, indigenous cultures, and mythology.


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[Assistant] I had resisted the idea of exploiting the First Lady title, preferring to concentrate on specific policies and actions.


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[Assistant] I distrust the way symbols can be manipulated and misused.


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[Assistant] Mary Catherine and Jean helped me better understand that the role of First Lady is deeply symbolic and that I had better figure out how to make the best of it at home and on the world stage.


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[Assistant] Mary Catherine believed, for example, that merely by traveling to South Asia as First Lady with Chelsea, as I would do that March, would send a message about the importance of daughters. Visiting poor rural women would underscore their significance.


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[Assistant] My friendship with Jean came to light a year later in a book by Bob Woodward, The Choice, about the 1996 political campaign.


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[Assistant] Woodward referred melodramatically to Jean as my, quote, spiritual advisor and described some verbal exercises she had introduced to me and my staff to help us find new ways of thinking about our work.


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[Assistant] He was particularly keen to talk about the time Jean asked me to imagine a conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt. A passage from Woodward's book about the exercise was excerpted on the front page of the Washington Post as an expose.


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[Assistant] That night, Jim and Diane Blair were having supper with us on the Truman balcony. And Jim, deadpan, has always said, Well, Hill, after this Eleanor business, I guess you don't have to worry about Whitewater anymore.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? Well, he said, if they come after you now you can always bleed insanity.


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[Assistant] Laughing at myself was an essential survival tool and far preferable to the alternative of climbing back into the bunker.


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[Assistant] Bill and I knew that a Republican Congress would guarantee at least two more years of Whitewater investigations, and Kenneth Starr seemed to be invigorated by the election results. In late November, Webb Hubble fell into Starr's net.


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[Assistant] Webb had resigned from his job at the Justice Department the previous March to avoid any controversy, he said, while he fought allegations that he had cheated on his billing of clients at the Rose Law Firm.


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[Assistant] But on Thanksgiving Day in 1994, we were at Camp David when I heard a radio report that Webb Hubbell and Jim Guy Tucker, the Arkansas governor who succeeded Bill, were going to be indicted.


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[Assistant] Bill and I telephoned Webb at home where he was busy roasting turkey.


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[Assistant] After wishing Webb a Happy Thanksgiving, Bill handed the phone to me.


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[Assistant] I told Webb what I'd heard about the impending indictments. You've got to refute this right away, I said. You can't let this misinformation stay out there. It's terrible.


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[Assistant] That Thanksgiving phone call was the last time Bill and I spoke to Webb.


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[Assistant] In his own memoir, Friends in High Places, Webb admits that the charges against him were true, and that he had stolen from the law firm in a futile attempt to get out from under a crippling debt that he had hidden from his family and friends.


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[Assistant] Webb had been a trusted colleague and was widely admired as a civic leader in Arkansas.


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[Assistant] His plea bargain signaled a new escalation on the Whitewater battlefield, and it was hard to take.


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[Assistant] They're, they're making paisleys out of us, those little comma looking things.


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[Assistant] And let's see if I turn this off, but I could say you have a left hand now.


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[Assistant] I just thought I might make it left handed for a moment for everyone to see.


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[Assistant] That makes sense, that's what you're gonna do. Alright, let's see it.


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[Assistant] This is where it's neat where you, when you get these techniques and then you go out into the wilderness and you're like, Oh, that's a roundy bush. I should use the.


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[Assistant] And then that one's a more sticky bush, and I need to use this. And then, you're like, uuuh.


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[Assistant] Cause I think it just disappeared right off the, there we go. I want to do that a little better.


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[Assistant] Here's what it says, we've been married long enough that we can make our mistakes together.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, so the bowl flower and the rose.


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[Assistant] You could have it any way you like it, because you're in charge.


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[Assistant] This is a pretty good one. We got all the way through this.


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[Assistant] I wanted to learn about color mixing.


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[Assistant] Showing that an attack of rheumatism in some cases acts as a quickener to inventive genius.


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[Assistant] On the third, being able to sit up in his bedchamber, he dispatched his valet with a message to Mr Wardle and Mr Prundle, intimating that if they would take their wine there that evening, they would greatly oblige him. The invitation was most willingly accepted, and when they were seated over their wine,


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[Assistant] Who is the parish clerk of the little town and lived in a little house in the little high street within ten minutes walk of the little church.


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[Assistant] And who is to be found every day from nine till four teaching a little learning to the little boys.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Pipkin was a harmless, inoffensive, good-natured being, with a turned up nose, and rather turned in legs, a cast in his eye, and a halt in his gait.


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[Assistant] And he divided his time between the church and his school, verily believing that there existed not on the face of the earth so clever a man as the curate.


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[Assistant] So imposing an apartment is the vestry room or so well ordered a seminary as his own. Once and only once in his life


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[Assistant] This was a great event. A tremendous era in Nathaniel Pipkin's life.


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[Assistant] And it was the only one that had ever occurred to ruffle the smooth current of his quiet existence when...


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[Assistant] That any one of Mr. Nathaniel Pipkin's retiring disposition, nervous temperament, and most particularly diminutive income


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[Assistant] Old lobs, who, it was well known, on festive occasions garnished his board with a real silver teapot, cream ewer, and sugar basin, which he was won't, in the pride of his heart, to boast should be his daughter's property when she found a man to her mind.


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[Assistant] I repeat it to be matter of profound astonishment and intense wonder that Nathaniel Pipkin should have had the timidity to cast his eye in this direction. But love is blind and Nathaniel had a cast in his eye.


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[Assistant] And perhaps these two circumstances taken together prevented his seeing the matter in its proper light. Now.


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[Assistant] For he was a terrible old fellow with lobs when his pride was injured or his blood was up. Swear!


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[Assistant] Did Nathaniel Pipkin sit himself down at the front window, and while he feigned to be reading a book,


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[Assistant] And he hadn't sat there many days before the bright eyes appeared at an upper window. Apparently deeply engaged in reading too.


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[Assistant] But when Maria Lobs began to raise her eyes from her book,


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[Assistant] Instead of shutting the window and pulling down the blind, kissed hers to him and smiled.


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[Assistant] Upon which Nathaniel Pipkin determined that, come what may, he would develop the state of his feelings without further delay.


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[Assistant] That would have made its way to far less susceptible bosoms than that of Nathaniel Pipkin. And there was such a joyous sound in her merry laugh.


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[Assistant] Made a dead set upon the old man together, as to say the truth, they very often did.


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[Assistant] He could have refused them nothing, even had they asked for a portion of the countless and inexhaustible treasures which were hidden from the light in the iron safe.


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[Assistant] But though he had often thought then how briskly he would walk up to Maria Lobs and tell her of his passion if he could only meet her, he felt


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[Assistant] Now that she was unexpectedly before him, all the blood in his body mounted to his face, manifestly to the great detriment of his legs, which deprived of their usual portion, trembled beneath him.


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[Assistant] When they stopped to gather a hedge flower or listen to a bird, Nathaniel Pipkin stopped too.


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[Assistant] And so they might have gone on until the darkness prevented them, if Kate had not looked slyly back.


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[Assistant] There was something in Kate's manner that was not to be resisted.


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[Assistant] And in moderate laughter on that of the wicked little cousin, Nathaniel Pipkin went down on his knees on the Dewey grass and declared his resolution to remain there forever unless he were permitted to rise the accepted lover of Maria Hobbs.


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[Assistant] Upon this, the merry laughter of Maria Lobbs rang through the calm evening air. Without seeming to disturb it, though, it had such a pleasant sound. And the wicked little cousin laughed more immoderately than before, and Nathaniel Pipkin blushed deeper than ever. At length,


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[Assistant] Maria Lobs, being more strenuously urged by the love-worn little man, turned away her head and whispered her cousin to say, or at all events Kate did say, that she felt much honored by Mr. Pipkin's addresses,


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[Assistant] And as Nathaniel Pipkin walked home with Maria Lobs and struggled for a kiss at parting, he went to bed a happy man.


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[Assistant] And dreamed all night long of softening old lobs, opening the strong box and marrying Maria. The next day,


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[Assistant] The object and meaning of which he could by no means understand


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[Assistant] The bony apprentice with the thin legs came over to say that his master wasn't coming home all night, and that the ladies expected Mr. Pipkin to tea at six o'clock precisely. How the lessons were got through that day


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[Assistant] Neither Nathaniel Pipkin nor his pupils knew any more than you do. But they were got through somehow.


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[Assistant] And after the boys had gone, Nathaniel Pipkin took till full six o'clock to dress himself to his satisfaction.


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[Assistant] Not that it took long to select the garments he should wear, inasmuch as he had no choice about the matter, but the putting of them on to the best advantage.


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[Assistant] And the touching of them up previously was a task of no inconsiderable difficulty or importance.


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[Assistant] And three or four rumping good-humoured rosy-cheeked girls.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Pitkin had ocular demonstration of the fact that the rumours of old lobs' treasures were not exaggerated.


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[Assistant] And real silver spoons to stir the tea with. And real china cups to drink it out of. And plates of the same to hold the cakes and toast in.


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[Assistant] The only I saw in the whole place was another cousin of Maria Lobbs's and a brother of Kate, whom Maria Lobbs called Henry, and who seemed to keep Maria Lobbs all to himself up in one corner of the table. It's a delightful thing to see affection in families.


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[Assistant] But it may be carried rather too far, and the Faniel Pipkin could not help thinking that Maria Lobs must be very particularly fond of her relations if she paid as much attention to all of them as to this individual cousin.


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[Assistant] And though the wicked little cousin and the other girls pinched him and pulled his hair and pushed chairs in his way and all sorts of things, Maria Lobs never seemed to come near him at all. And once, once,


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Pipkin could have sworn he heard the sound of a kiss.


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[Assistant] Followed by a faint remonstrance from Maria Lombs, and a half suppressed laugh from her female friends. All this was odd.


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[Assistant] Very odd. And there is no saying what Nathaniel Pipkin might or might not have done in consequence if his thoughts had not been suddenly directed into a new channel.


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[Assistant] The circumstances which directed his thoughts into a new channel was a loud knocking at the street door.


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[Assistant] The alarming intelligence was no sooner communicated by the bony apprentice with the thin legs than the girls tripped upstairs to Maria Lobbs' bedroom and the male cousin and Nathaniel Pipkin were thrust into a couple of closets in the sitting room for want of any better places of concealment.


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[Assistant] And when Maria Lobs and the wicked little cousin had stowed them away and put the room to rights, they opened the street door to old Lobs, who had never left off knocking since he first began.


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[Assistant] Some supper, which had been warming up, was placed on the table. And then old lobs fell too in regular style.


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[Assistant] For depending from a couple of hooks in the very closet in which he stood was a large brown stem silver bowed pipe.


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[Assistant] Which pipe he himself had seen in the mouth of old lobs regularly every afternoon and evening for the last five years. The two girls went downstairs for the pipe, and upstairs for the pipe, and everywhere but where they knew the pipe was,


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[Assistant] Old lobs gave it one tug and open it flew, disclosing Nathaniel Pipkin standing bolt upright inside and shaking with apprehension from head to foot. Bless us! What an appalling look old lobs gave him as he dragged him out by the collar and held him at arm's length. Why? What the devil do you want here? said old lobs in a fearful voice.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Pipkin could make no reply, so old lobs shook him backwards and forwards for two or three minutes by way of arranging his ideas for him.


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[Assistant] What do you want here, Lord Lobbs? I suppose you have come after my daughter now. Old Lobbs merely said this as a sneer.


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[Assistant] It is by no means improbable that old lobs would have carried this threat into execution in the excess of his rage if his arm had not been stayed by a very unexpected apparition. To wit, the male cousin, who, stepping out of his closet and walking up to old lobs, said,


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[Assistant] I cannot allow this harmless person, sir, who has been asked here in some girlish frolic to take upon himself in a very noble manner the fault, if fault it is, which I am guilty of and am ready to avow. I love your daughter, sir, and I am here for the purpose of meeting her. Old Lobs opened his eyes very wide at this, but not wider than Nathaniel Bipkin. You did? said Lobs, at last finding breath to speak.


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[Assistant] The old man cast down his eyes at this reproof and they met those of his daughter. I have hinted once or twice before.


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[Assistant] Presented as bewitching an expression of countenance, with a touch of shyness in it too, as any man old or young need look upon.


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[Assistant] And do what he would, old lobs couldn't help breaking out into a smile, while a tear stole down his cheek at the same time.


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[Assistant] And while the young people were making themselves perfectly happy, old lobs got down the pipe and smoked it.


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[Assistant] And it was a remarkable circumstance about that particular pipe of tobacco, that it was the most soothing and delightful one he ever smoked.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Pipkin thought it best to keep his own council.


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[Assistant] And by so doing gradually rose into high favour with old lobs, who taught him to smoke in time.


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[Assistant] As a witness to the marriage of Maria Lobs to her cousin. And it also appears by reference to other documents.


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[Assistant] That on the night of the wedding he was incarcerated in the village cage for having, in a state of extreme intoxication, committed sundry excesses in the streets, in all of which he was aided and abetted by the bony apprentice with the thin legs.


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[Assistant] The birds, who happily for their own peace of mind and personal comfort, were in blissful ignorance of the preparations which had been making to astonish them on the 1st of September,


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[Assistant] In plain commonplace matter of fact then, it was a fine morning.


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[Assistant] Hedges, fields and trees, hill and moorland, presented to the eye their ever varying shades of deep rich green.


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[Assistant] Scarcely a leaf had fallen. Scarce a sprinkle of yellow mingled with the hues of summer warned you that autumn had begun. The sky was cloudless. The sun shone out bright and warm.


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[Assistant] The songs of birds and hum of myriads of summer insects filled the air, and the cottage gardens, crowded with flowers of every rich and beautiful tint, sparkled in the heavy dew like beds of glittering jewels. Everything bore the stamp of summer.


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[Assistant] Such was the morning when an open carriage in which were three Pickwickians, Mr. Snodgrass having preferred to remain at home,


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[Assistant] Mr. Wardle and Mr. Trundle, with Sam Welland on the box beside the driver, pulled up by a gate at the roadside, before which stood a tall, raw-boned gamekeeper, and a half-booted, leather-legged boy, each bearing a bag of capacious dimensions, and accompanied by a brace of pointers.


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[Assistant] I say, whispered Mr. Winkle to Wardle as the man leapt down the steps,


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[Assistant] Fill them? It's claimed old war will bless you, yes. You shall fill one and I the other. And when we've done with them, the pockets of our shooting jackets will hold us much more.


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[Assistant] But he thought within himself that if the party remained in the open air until he had filled one of the bags, they stood a considerable chance of catching colds in their heads.


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[Assistant] My friends are not much in the way of this sort of thing yet, Martin. Said Wardle, noticing the look. Live and learn, you know. There'll be good shots one of these days. I beg my friend Winkor's pardon, though. He has had some practice.


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[Assistant] Mr. Winkle smiled feebly over his blue neckerchief in acknowledgement of the compliment, and got himself so mysteriously entangled with his gun in his modest confusion, that if the piece had been loaded, he must inevitably have shot himself dead upon the spot.


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[Assistant] You mustn't handle your piece in that airway when you can't have the charge in it, sir. Said the tall gamekeeper gruffly. Or I'm damned if you won't make cold meat of some of us.


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[Assistant] Mr. Winkle, thus admonished, abruptly altered its position, and in doing so contrived to bring the barrel into pretty sharp contact with Mr. Weller's head.


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[Assistant] Hello, said Sam, picking up his hat, which had been knocked off and rubbing his temple. Hello, sir. If you come to it this way, you'll fill one of them bags and something to spare at one fire.


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[Assistant] Here, the leatherlegging boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, where that Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.


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[Assistant] Where did you tell the boy to meet us with the snack, Martin? Inquired Wardle. Side of Wooden Tree Hill at 12 o'clock, sir. That's not Sir Geoffrey's land, is it?


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[Assistant] No sir, but it's close by, it's Captain Boldwigsland. But there'll be nobody to interrupt us, and there's a very fine bit of turf there.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pickwick was particularly desirous to view the sport, the more especially as he was rather anxious in respect of Mr. Winkle's life and limbs.


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[Assistant] It was therefore with a very rueful air that he replied, Why, I suppose I must.


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[Assistant] Aren't the gentlemen a shot, sir? Inquired the long gamekeeper? No, replied Wardle, and his name besides.


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[Assistant] I should very much like to go, said Mr. Pickwick, very much. There was a short pause of commiseration.


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[Assistant] There's a barrow to the side the hedge, said the boy. If the gentleman's servant would wean along the paths he could keep nighers, and we could lift it over the stiles and that thing. The weary thing, said Mr Weller.


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[Assistant] The weary thing. Well said, small cheek. I'll have it out in a minute. But here a difficulty arose.


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[Assistant] The long gamekeeper resolutely protested against the introduction into a shooting party of a gentleman in a barrow as a gross violation of all established rules and precedents. It was a great objection, but not an insurmountable one. The gamekeeper having been coaxed and feed,


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[Assistant] And having more over eased his mind by punching the head of the inventive youth who had first suggested the use of the machine, Mr. Pickwick was placed in it and off the party set.


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[Assistant] Wardle and the long gamekeeper leading the way, and Mr. Pickwick in the barrow propelled by Sam, bringing up the rear.


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[Assistant] Stop Sam, said Mr. Pickwick, when they had got half across the first field. What's the matter now, said Wardle?


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[Assistant] I won't suffer this battle to be moved another step, said Mr. Pickwick resolutely, unless Winkle carries that gun of his in a different manner.


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[Assistant] How am I to carry it? said the wretched Winkle.


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[Assistant] Carry it with the muzzle to the ground, replied Mr. Pickwick.


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[Assistant] Well, well, I don't mind, said poor Winkle, turning his gun stock uppermost. There. Anything for a quiet life, said Mr Weller. And on they went again. Stop, said Mr Pickwick, after they had gone a few yards farther.


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[Assistant] What now? Said Wardle. That gun of Tupman's is not safe. I know it isn't. Said Mr. Pickwick. Eh? What? Not safe? Said Mr. Tupman, in a tone of great alarm. Not as you are carrying it. Said Mr. Pickwick. I am very sorry to make any further objection, but I cannot consent to go on unless you carry it as Winkle does his.


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[Assistant] I think you'd better, sir, said the long gamekeeper, or you're quite as likely to lodge the charge in yourself as in anything else.


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[Assistant] Mr. Tupman, with the most obliging haste, placed his piece in the position required and the party moved on again.


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[Assistant] The two amateurs marching with reversed arms like a couple of privates at a royal funeral. The dog suddenly came to a dead stop.


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[Assistant] And the party, advancing stealthily at single pace, stopped too.


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[Assistant] Making a point, said Mr. Winkle, staring about him, as if he expected to discover some particular beauty in the landscape, which the sagacious animals were calling special attention to. Making a point, what are they pointing at? Keep your eyes open, said Wardle, not heeding the question and the excitement of the moment. Now then!


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[Assistant] No, no, I mean the others, said the bewildered Winkle. Far enough off by this time, replied Wardle, coolly reloading his gun.


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[Assistant] If the gentleman begins to fire now, perhaps you'll just get the shot out of the barrel by the time they rise. Ho ho ho, roared Mr Weller. Sam, said Mr Pickwick.


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[Assistant] Compassionating his followers' confusion and embarrassment? Sir? Don't laugh. Certainly not, sir.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, replied Mr. Tupman with conscious pride. I'd let it off. Well done. You'll hit something next time if you look sharp. Very easy, ain't it? Yes, it's very easy, said Mr. Tupman. How it hurts one's shoulders, though. It nearly knocked me backwards.


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[Assistant] Ah, said the old gentleman smiling. You'll get used to it in time. Now then, all ready?


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[Assistant] Alright with the barrow there. Alright sir, replied Mr Weller. Come along then. Hold on sir, said Sam, raising the barrow. Aye aye, replied Mr Pickwick. And on they went as briskly as need be.


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[Assistant] Keep that barrel back now, cried Wardle, when it had been hoisted over a stile into another field and Mr. Pickwick had been deposited in it once more. All right, sir, replied Mr. Weller, pausing.


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[Assistant] It'll do that for long, sir. Observe the tall man in a low prophetic voice.


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[Assistant] What do you mean by that observation sir? Inquired Mr. Winkle angrily.


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[Assistant] Nobody, however, volunteered to obey the command. And Mr. Winkle, after darting a rebellious glance at Mr. Pickwick, reloaded his gun and proceeded onwards with the rest.


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[Assistant] We are bound, on the authority of Mr Pickwick, to state that Mr Tuckman's mode of proceeding evinced far more of prudence and deliberation than that adopted by Mr Winkle.


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[Assistant] Still, this by no means detracts from the great authority of the laser gentleman on all matters connected with the field.


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[Assistant] Mr. Topman's process, like many of our most sublime discoveries, was extremely simple.


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[Assistant] On one occasion after performing this feat, Mr. Tupman, on opening his eyes, beheld a plump partridge in the act of falling wounded to the ground.


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[Assistant] He was on the point of congratulating Mr. Wardle on his invariable success when that gentleman advanced towards him and grasped him warmly by the hand. Tupman, said the old gentleman, you singled out that particular bird.


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[Assistant] It is not the only reputation that has been acquired as easily, nor are such fortunate circumstances confined to partridge shooting.


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[Assistant] As an exhibition of firing with any precise object, it was upon the whole perhaps a failure.


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[Assistant] It is an established axiom that every bullet has its billet. If it apply in an equal degree to shot,


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[Assistant] Those of Mr. Winkle were unfortunate foundlings, deprived of their natural rights, cast loose upon the world, and billeted nowhere.


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[Assistant] Well, said Wardle, walking up to the side of the barrow and wiping the streams of perspiration from his jolly red face. Smoking day, isn't it? It is indeed, replied Mr. Pickwick. The sun is tremendously hot, even to me. I don't know how you must feel it. Why, said the old gentleman, pretty hot.


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[Assistant] It's past 12, though. You see that green hill there? Certainly.


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[Assistant] So he is, said Mr. Pickwick, brightening up. Good boy that. I'll give him a shilling presently. Now then, Sam, wheel away.


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[Assistant] Oh, don't ya, said Mr. Weller, invigorated with the prospect of refreshments, out of her very young letters.


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[Assistant] Said Mr Weller, soliloquising as he arranged the eatables on the grass. Very good thing he's wheel pie when you know the lady has made it. And he's quite sure it ain't kittens.


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[Assistant] And after all though, where's the odds when they're so light wheeled that they're already pining themselves? Don't know the difference. Don't they, Sam?


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[Assistant] Said Mr. Pickwick, not Aisha, replied Mr. Weller, touching his hat.


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[Assistant] I lodged in the same house with a pie man once, uh, and a very nice man he was. Regular clever chap, too. Make pies out anything he could.


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[Assistant] What a number of cats you keep, Mr. Brooks, says I, when I got intimate with him. Ah, says he, I do a good many, says he. You must be very fond of cats, says I. Other people is, says he, a-winking at me.


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[Assistant] They ain't in season till the winter though, says he. Not in season, says I. No, says he. Fruits is in, cats is out. Why, what do you mean, says I? Mean, says he.


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[Assistant] There'll never be a party to the combination of the butchers to keep up the prices of meat, says he.


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[Assistant] And more than that, says he, I can make a wheel of beefsteak, or a beefsteak of kidney, or any one of them mutton at the moment's notice, just as the market changes and appetite's wary.


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[Assistant] You must have been a very ingenious young man, that son, said Mr. Pickwick, with a slight shudder. Just was, sir, replied Mr. Weller, continuing his occupation of emptying the basket, and the pies was beautiful. Tongue! Well, that's a very good thing when it aren't a woman's. Bread, knuckle of ham, regular picture. Cold beef in slices, very good. What's your name, Stone jars, young touch and go?


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[Assistant] And a very good notion of a lunch it is, take it all together, said Mr Weller, surveying his arrangement of the past with great satisfaction.


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[Assistant] Now gentlemen, fall on, as the English said to the French when they fixed bag in it.


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[Assistant] And a rich prospect of arable and meadowland intersected with luxuriant hedges and richly ornamented with wood lay spread out below them. This is delightful.


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[Assistant] Thoroughly delightful, said Mr. Pickwick, the skin of whose expressive countenance was rapidly peeling off with exposure to the sun.


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[Assistant] So it is, so it is, old feller, replied Wardle. Come, a glass of punch. With great pleasure, said Mr. Pickwick.


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[Assistant] I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of the post and practice at it, beginning at a short distance and lengthening it by degrees. I understand it's capital practice.


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[Assistant] Have the goodness to reserve your anecdotes till they're called for. Certainly sir.


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[Assistant] Tubman, my dear friend, a glass of punch, with the greatest delight, replied Mr. Tubman, and having drank that glass, Mr. Pickwick took another.


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[Assistant] And finding that there was not, Mr. Pickwick took another glass to the health of their absent friend.


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[Assistant] Rendered more so by the heat, Mr Pickwick expressed a strong desire to recollect a song which he had heard in his infancy. And the attempt, proving abortive, sought to stimulate his memory with more glasses of punch, which appeared to have quite a contrary effect.


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[Assistant] And finally, after rising to his legs to address the company in an eloquent speech, he fell into the barrel and fast asleep. Simultaneously. The basket having been repacked.


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[Assistant] To whom? The gardener's not the stick. Captain Bouldwig gave his orders with all due grandeur and ferocity.


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[Assistant] And the captain's house was a villa. And his land's grounds. And it was all very high and mighty and great. Mr. Pickwick had not been asleep half an hour.


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[Assistant] And drew a long breath and looked at the prospect as if he thought the prospect ought to be highly gratified at having him to take notice of it.


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[Assistant] I beg your pardon, sir, said the other man, advancing with his hand to his hat. Well, Wilkins, what's the matter with you? said Captain Boldwing.


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[Assistant] I beg your pardon sir, but I think there have been trespassers here today. Ha! said the captain, scowling around him. Yes sir, they've been dining here I think sir.


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[Assistant] I wish I had the vagabond shell, said the captain, wrathfully. Beg your pardon, sir, said Wilkins, but, but what, hey, roared the captain. And following the timid glance of Wilkins,


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[Assistant] His eyes encountered the wheelbarrow and Mr. Pickwick.


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[Assistant] Who are you, you rascal, said the captain, administering several pokes to Mr. Pickwick's body with a thick stick. What's your name? Cold Punch.


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[Assistant] Inexpressible was the astonishment of the little party when they returned to find that Mr. Pickwick had disappeared and taken the wheelbarrow with him.


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[Assistant] Would have been most extraordinary. But when it came to his wheeling a heavy barrow before him by way of amusement, it grew positively miraculous.


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[Assistant] They searched every nook and corner round, together and separately. They shouted, whistled, laughed, called.


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[Assistant] And all with the same result. Mr. Pickwick was not to be found.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Mr. Pickwick had been wheeled to the pound and safely deposited therein, fast asleep in the wheelbarrow.


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[Assistant] To the immeasurable delight and satisfaction not only of all the boys in the village, but three-fourths of the whole population who had gathered round in expectation of his waking.


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[Assistant] A general shout was of course the signal of his having woke up, and his involuntary inquiry of what's the matter occasioned another louder than the first if possible. Here's a game! roared the populace. Where am I?


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[Assistant] Exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, in the pound, replied the mob. How came I here? What was I doing? Where was I brought from? Boldwig, Captain Boldwig, was the only reply. Let me out, cried Mr. Pickwick. Where's my servant? Where are my friends? You have got no friends. Hurrah! Then there came a turnip, then a potato, and then an egg.


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[Assistant] The former of whom, in far less time than it takes to write it if not to read it, had made his way to Mr. Pickwick's side and placed him in the vehicle, just as the latter had concluded the third and last round of a single combat with the town beadle.


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[Assistant] I'll give directions for the commencement of an action of false imprisonment against this Captain Bolwig. Directly I'd get to London, said Mr. Pickwick as soon as the carriage turned out of the town. We were trespassing, it seems, said Mr. Wardle. I don't care, said Mr. Pickwick. I'll bring the action. No, you won't, said Wardle. I will, but... But as there was a humorous expression in Wardle's face, Mr. Pickwick checked himself and said, why not?


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[Assistant] So, to keep up their good humor, they stopped at the first roadside tavern they came to, and ordered a glass of brandy and water all round, with a magnum of extra strength for Mr. Samuel Weller.


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[Assistant] Dear Emma has been to call on Mrs. and Miss Bates, Mr. Knightley. She's always so attentive to them.


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[Assistant] I do not like it Emma when people go away. I know they must do sometimes, but I do not like it.


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[Assistant] What are you thinking of, Emma? No, I do not think this is a good idea at all. Well think of poor Isabella. Think of poor Miss Taylor.


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[Assistant] Yes, that may very well be, but you'd much better not get married. I mean, what would I do if you went from Hartfield?


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[Assistant] But we see him every day as it is. Why can we not go on as we did before?


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[Assistant] And here we are, setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, going in dismal weather to return probably in worse actually snowing at this moment and more to come.


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[Assistant] A spirited beginning for your winter engagements, Mr. Woodhouse.


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[Assistant] You did very well to manage that journey all on your own, Catherine. You always used to be such a scatterbrained little creature. I'm quite proud of you.


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[Assistant] Any friends of our children are welcome here. Shall we agree to say no more about it?


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[Assistant] Where's Lucy? I'm sure Catherine will be happy to show you Mr. Tilney.


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[Assistant] Look at her house, slave built, slave runnin', run down ever since.


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[Assistant] I graduated, then I took three years training as a nurse.


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[Assistant] When you get back up yonder. Nursing is my profession. In certain places, a nurse is treated with respect.


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[Assistant] There's an old colored woman who can't read or write. A washerwoman, people around here call Aunt Dicey. There's the basket she carries her clothes in. There's the ironing board she uses. And those are the heavy irons she heats on that old wood stove.


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[Assistant] Year in and year out, she's washed and ironed and carried her clean clothes to people's back doors through rain and cold in the heat of summer.


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[Assistant] And she saved her money and lived on the scraps white people gave her. Why? For me. So she could send me off to school. So I could learn to be a nurse.


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[Assistant] She can't stay long, this is her afternoon to take the washing to town.


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[Assistant] I should back out now. I'd be letting Miss Em down. I can't do that. I can't let her down. I can't let myself down.


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[Assistant] Miss Sam was proud of that. Martha Washington is supposed to have done the embroidery.


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[Assistant] But you said yesterday there'd be no Pinky Johnson after we were married. How can I be myself if there's no Pinky Johnson?


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[Assistant] She didn't want me to go. She didn't want me to pretend. We talked about it.


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[Assistant] Sorry, Tom. I'll never forget you or what you tried to do.


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[Assistant] Well, here's the rain, I don't know, but it sure spelled trouble for somebody. If I was you, Miss Pinky, I'd stick close to the house for a while.


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[Assistant] As the next single review. So this isn't like the next review like overall, it could be, but I do want to let you guys vote on the next single that you want me to review. So out of those three racers, which one do you want to see first?


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[Assistant] So I can fulfill your guys' wishes. So let's just get right into the review here of Terry. So he is in, I don't know, the exact case leather, but I'll put the contents in the description below. I believe it's basically case L.


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[Assistant] While inside by a new generation of piston cut racers, Lightning McQueen finds himself suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back on top, he will need the help of a young race technician, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and guidance from a few old friends along the way.


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[Assistant] Now before I open Terry up here, I just want to say that the case that he is in is probably the best


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[Assistant] I've seen in a very long time just because of all the new cars, like the majority, like 85% of the cars are brand new, never released before.


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[Assistant] And then you just have a couple McQueen and Mater cars in there, and that's it. But they are also considered technically new because


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[Assistant] They have collector cards, so I will try and find those. I do not have those, but I want to to get the cards. So I guess it's also kind of enticing you to buy more, but I don't really see it that way just because you're getting new cards for the most part with the new accessories. So I'll be right back with Terry All Opened Up.


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[Assistant] So, just a background racer, he doesn't speak. Eventually at some point in the movie he's replaced by the next generation triple down racer named Cam Spinner.


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[Assistant] But there is kind of like a nice bio picture of him from this website that was created over the summer where you can basically put some information about yourself and your interests and preferences and then they'll tell you what kind of racer you are so you either got like


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[Assistant] And I have some pictures of Cam Spinner on the screen as well because he obviously is pretty important and hopefully they release him in the near future.


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[Assistant] Triple Dent, his sponsor, was actually introduced in Inside Out, which was a Pixar movie in 2015, I believe I think fall of 2015, or maybe it was summer.


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[Assistant] I think it was actually summer, I may be mistaken. I saw that movie, it was pretty good, not my favorite Pixar movie, but in that movie they did talk about, not really talk about, but triple dent the gum flavor was introduced like this. You saw it on screen, I don't know, in someone's hand, I don't quite remember exactly, but


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[Assistant] And then like, it was awesome seeing then this in Cars 3. A bunch of people are freaked out because obviously remembering this from Inside Out, it's like, wow, that really connects everything. That's a great Easter egg. And obviously, Disney and Pixar have done stuff like this before, so it's great to see it happen.


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[Assistant] Again, where you have like connections between the movies. So I found that pretty cool. And it makes Terry Cargas a little bit, I don't know, more desirable or more fun to get than just like another stock car. Are you serious? Come on, stand up. Please, please, please.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's good enough. But like other stock cars, for example, spare mint, where nothing really special is about him, right? You guys know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] As for the collector card itself, really nicely done like I already prefaced. You can see this nice blue design with all the curls and curves. Some white dots in the top left corner and bottom right corner.


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[Assistant] Of course, triple dent, spearmint flavor dent filler, so obviously it's a gum, healthy for you, and it tastes like spearmint, unless maybe they're going to do some more flavors in the future. You have two leaves right there.


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[Assistant] Now the only problem I feel like with doing this easter egg is that it's so similar to Sparement, which obviously I just referenced. Who's this guy right here? Another blue eraser.


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[Assistant] Release earlier in the year, and obviously he's really cool. He was from Cars 1, Ernie Gerson, and if you'd like to see my review of him, the link will be in the description below, but they both seem pretty similar. I mean, it even says Spearmint, I mean it says Spearmint, but it's basically like the same thing.


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[Assistant] Which is great. It's a perfect display piece. And now let's move on to Terry himself. So unfortunately Mattel messed up his model because he really should be the brick yardley model. As you guys saw there, I'll put the screenshot again on the screen.


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[Assistant] He definitely is Brick Yardley's model, but they give him the curvy, more rounded off model that Cal Weathers is, and everyone calls it Cal's model because he was the first one, but really it should be Brick Yardley's. At least in my opinion, let me know what you guys think in the comments below, but disregarding that,


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[Assistant] Since he is this now, he has the same model as the following racers here. We have Darren Ledfoot.


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[Assistant] I actually think Terry has his own unique expression never seen before.


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[Assistant] Of course, Ralph is basically the same as Darren. Sputtersdot is very different.


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[Assistant] And lastly, we have Punchy Wipeout who is the same as those three. So Terry here has a unique expression because his eyes, although determined like Darren Ralph,


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[Assistant] Mattel, no Mattel, Disney and Pixar play them up to be the bad guys, I guess, because they're replacing everyone.


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[Assistant] Anyway, on the hood here you can see the Triple Dent logo that is on the collector card. I like how there's a white shine, a glow behind it, blue hood there, you have this white stripe that goes around, then you have this light, kind of like sky blue or baby blue turquoise color.


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[Assistant] Of course 31 below the right headlight there. He has some vents which is interesting. I don't know of any other stock car that has vents. As you can see, nope. Nope.


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[Assistant] Nope. Yeah, so it's kind of cool to see him with vents. I do like his grill there.


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[Assistant] He has white rims with black light-year tires and it does say light-year there in the black text. This white stripe comes up and kind of combines with that one almost and then they diminish.


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[Assistant] His contingency sponsors are the Piston Cup, Violin Revolting, RPM, Nitroate, Octane Gaining, Clutch Aid. We almost have all those stock cars. Clutch Aid is being released in early 2018 and then we'll have them all completed.


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[Assistant] On the bottom here you have this yellow line which indicates to the pit crew where to lift him up at to do work on the base here, or the undercarriage.


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[Assistant] And there is the base if you were interested. 31, here is his side there. It's not 3D, but when we do get cam spinner you'll see the 3D decals. This is just pretty flat on the paint there, or on the body I guess I should say.


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[Assistant] Here's the Triple Dent logo. Once again, I do like that he has a slogan, of course, or a description, experiment flavored dent filler, and that is written on him at least, yea, like five times. That does not have the leaves though.


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[Assistant] If you guys did not know, I mean, I kinda already hinted at this. This guy was not in Cars 1. There was not a triple dent racer in Cars 1 because triple dent was not a thing.


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[Assistant] It was created for Inside Out, and then they decided to make that easter egg for Cars 3, even though it's very similar to Sparement, like I already said. So, yeaah, he's one of the new sponsors, like, Synergy.


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[Assistant] And intersection. So let me know in the comment section below. These are the three new sponsors that we've gotten as stock cards so far. Let me know in the comments, which is your favorite? I think my favorite is intersection, Jimmy Cable's because he's just so cool. I love


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[Assistant] Fortunately though, there's no apparent damage, but I am just so clumsy. It's ridiculous how clumsy I am. But thankfully, lane's okay. And actually, my stores have plenty of lane, although it would be a $20.


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[Assistant] Faults because I have to replace them. But anyway, thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this video on Terry Cargas I can't believe I didn't have to make any cuts in this video besides opening him up Usually I screw up my words and I have to make a cut but I think this was a pretty smooth


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[Assistant] I think it would be fun not doing it on New Year's Eve though because I'm gonna be busy and I know you guys are gonna be pretty busy as well so I think it would make more sense to do it on like the 29th.


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[Assistant] Or the 30th, something like that. So hopefully, I'll do that soon. So I'll see you guys tomorrow, bye now!


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[Assistant] There were three of them. I saw them. You saw them? Why didn't you say so? Who were they? It was dark. I couldn't tell. You couldn't tell.


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[Assistant] So when we say the syllables are imperishable,


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[Assistant] What does it exactly mean? At one level we know that there are, there is the spiritual wisdom that is there, that is eternal, but


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[Assistant] Then there is the phonetics, the way we articulate those.


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[Assistant] And then there is the underlying concept. So the concept, the uh, the verbal article, the audio articulation and then the written article, written description of that.


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[Assistant] Specifically to sounds related with Krishna, isn't it? That's what we often say differentiates between ordinary syllables or ordinary sound and sounds related, the holy name.


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[Assistant] There is, at some level, like a, there is an intrinsic divinity to sound, but there is also, we could say something like a contextual manifestation of that divinity, depending on who is speaking and what consciousness. So the holy name at one level is non-different from Krishna.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, depending on who is chanting the holy name,


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[Assistant] That non-difference will be perceived to different degrees based on the consciousness. Like Krishna says, yeyatha mam prapadyante.


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[Assistant] So depending on our consciousness, Krishna reveals himself.


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[Assistant] So can we put it that way then? That means akshara, so at one level the syllables are all


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[Assistant] At one level, sound itself as you said is a transcendental energy, so the syllables that convey sound, they are also transcendental.


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[Assistant] But another level, depending on how they are used and for what purpose they are used, the transcendence will be manifested.


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[Assistant] Now you are mentioning this in connection with the oral tradition. So what you are saying is that the oral tradition's importance is universal because


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[Assistant] The oral tradition is the medium by which that divine sound is transmitted from speaker to the audience. Was that the connection broadly?


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[Assistant] People's consciousness was more evolved and in Kali Yuga we have the understanding of the degradation of, of human capacities. So, so writing was considered to be


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[Assistant] At one level not only unnecessary but also in one sense you said.


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[Assistant] Undesirable in the sense that inferior because now we will talk about Shruti Dhara.


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[Assistant] Is it that everybody was Shruti there or the Brahmanas were Shruti there? Of course, we have the reading in the Bhagavad Gita and Satyuga, almost everybody was of a Brahminical kind of disposition, even if they were not in Brahminical occupations. But, uh, is it in that sense that it was considered inferior?


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[Assistant] The, the precision of that replication is, is amazing in one sense.


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[Assistant] So with respect to this, I had read about something which is a slight difference between Shruti and Smriti.


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[Assistant] That this preservation of the sound vibrations was especially done for the Shrutis, for the Rig Veda and other such Vedic literature primarily and the Shrutis because there were recollections


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[Assistant] There is of course a tradition of memorizing Ramayan, not so much the Sanskrit Ramayan but as more of the local renditions of the Ramayan, vernacular ones.


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[Assistant] But the Shrutis seem to, because there is a greater level of unchangeability associated with them, so the sound of Shrutis is considered to be, we could say, more essential to preserve.


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[Assistant] Is there any similar differentiation that is there within our tradition? I know Jeeva Goswami says that for us the Bhagavatam is also like a Shruti.


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[Assistant] So sometimes that's why in say Chakravarthi Padhani's commentary says in some version this verse is like this, in some version this verse is like this. But overall the meaning remains the same.


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[Assistant] So I was just, are there any correlates to these three ideas of say Akshara, Matra and Swara in English?


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[Assistant] So we of course have pronunciation. Now in English there are rhymes and there are poems which are written and there are songs which are sung.


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[Assistant] Sometimes poems can be read as text, sometimes they can be sung as songs.


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[Assistant] Overall I noticed that the level of sophistication


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[Assistant] With respect to rules of grammar as well as rules of articulation,


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[Assistant] The and D. When the E is sometimes louder, sometimes it is less emphasis or would that come in swara?


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[Assistant] That, uh, there is a Tadwag visargo janataag viplavo.


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[Assistant] Everybody, like some devotees were spaced out, but everybody had to start focusing because reciting those verses was not that easy for them.


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[Assistant] In the sense that say if we consider say the Gopi Gita, if we recite the Sanskrit,


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[Assistant] In contrast if we read or recite the English translation, no matter how beautiful the translation may be,


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[Assistant] It is still, there is, there is some.


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[Assistant] We emphasize the meaning, but that doesn't mean we completely downplay or dismiss the


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[Assistant] We could say the, the means or the, the,


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[Assistant] The literal aspect of the pronunciation and the words. So, there is, there is.


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[Assistant] Now by ritual specialization I mean the proper pronunciation of mantras and other things. So we don't want to over emphasize it, but at the same time we can't completely dismiss it also. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] So the oral tradition at one level it says like Prabhupada had the recitation of the verses as a part of the Bhagavatam class. But simultaneously there is also additionally there is the class and I mean if you want to speak something more on the


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[Assistant] So the technicalities of the Sanskrit language and that aspect of the, that aspect of the oral tradition, you could continue that. Or can we shift to the, to the, like the message being conveyed to the oral tradition?


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[Assistant] If, say, if we consider from the recent historical perspective, at least from as far as modern historical memory goes,


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[Assistant] So there has been an increase in writing and reading and publishing that way, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] There are several researches which seem to indicate that there is a


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[Assistant] Sometimes parents tell stories, but if there are some classic books, whether it is India and it's Ramayan or other books are in the west, there might be western classics, fairytales or whatever, but parents would read out the stories to their children.


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[Assistant] Audio books have also become very big in recent times.


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[Assistant] So at one level, although the written text is being propagated and is widely available, but still many people naturally default towards the


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[Assistant] So broadly I think there are three factors. One is with respect to the audio, there is a connect with the person.


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[Assistant] Like say, say a mother reading out a story to a child.


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[Assistant] There is a personal connection that comes when there is being read aloud and it is being heard.


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[Assistant] Second is the accessibility is much more.


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[Assistant] In the sense that if you have to sit and read a book, it takes more effort, but having an audio book means we can hear while doing other things also. But apart from that, in general, for most people,


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[Assistant] It's not the accessibility in terms of being able to do it at other times, but also


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[Assistant] So we can say some extent that hearing audio books is not exactly the same as the traditional oral tradition, as the past oral tradition, but there are similar trends which we see in today's world also.


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[Assistant] Oral and aural, you thought of it just now or it was very striking. It's a oral, the oral tradition received orally.


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[Assistant] That's, that's striking. So what it overall means is that, uh,


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[Assistant] So I thought of this, you know, now if we consider the modern history of uh, language,


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[Assistant] And we could say, at least in today's world, when we have the cognitive capacities that we currently have, that


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[Assistant] It requires a sustained application of thought and usually when a person is writing a book also, they put in much more effort in writing than in speaking.


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[Assistant] So, there can be a much deeper understanding when we study the books, but at the same time we need both breadth and depth.


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[Assistant] Probably a larger number of people would be open to the audio aspect.


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[Assistant] Because nowadays with say YouTube and podcasts like we are having, a lot of people are hearing


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[Assistant] A systematic study where one reads a book and reflects on the thoughts in the book that has its own, uh, own place which cannot be denied.


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[Assistant] As devotees appreciating or accessing the oral tradition more, now


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[Assistant] Devotees also being able to assemble at one place for a class.


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[Assistant] Earlier you talked about something like the intrinsic potency and then there is a contextual manifestation of the potency. So if it is possible,


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[Assistant] Coming for a physical class where there is, it's oral tradition, but a physical class, if it is possible, it is always better.


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[Assistant] So in the, in the academic, ordinary academic sense also, uh,


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[Assistant] There is some concern about how say children, if they are learning virtually, how much do they actually learn and how much they get distracted while that learning.


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[Assistant] So now that is at one level an ordinary, at an ordinary or mundane level there is a concern.


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[Assistant] But what about spiritual sound and its manifestation in the, say, with respect to the oral tradition?


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[Assistant] In, if you consider the Dhyayatavishaya and Pumsa verse also Krishna says, Smruti brahmashad buddhinasho. So in one sense,


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[Assistant] So our intelligence can't really function.


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[Assistant] Now if, like you said, if it is complemented with something else.


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[Assistant] Then, that is, that is stimulating, that is rejuvenating.


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[Assistant] With respect to, even in ordinary sense, when children remember, memorize the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or the tables, the idea of speaking aloud and repeating, it has a special potency.


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[Assistant] So we could say that memory is not the sole sign of intelligence, but it is a vital resource for intelligence.


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[Assistant] If there is memorization in the early, in the childhood or early times, then that is not just,


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[Assistant] It creates impressions, like you said, it manifests from within eventually, it blossoms.


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[Assistant] There are Samskaras that are also created by the effort for, effort of memorization.


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[Assistant] Then what may seem difficult also becomes exciting and, uh,


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[Assistant] I found that, like when you are quoting that verse, Pushtakeshcha Vidya, Yachaya Vidya.


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[Assistant] Memorized verses or memorized, uh, we could say thoughts, they become very accessible to us.


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[Assistant] If we have crystallized it in the form of a verse, which, and that verse is memorized,


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[Assistant] Then say contemplate, if you want to remember Krishna's form, if we have a verse and we can recite the verse and then meditating on Krishna's form becomes much easier.


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[Assistant] Otherwise to spontaneously simply close our eyes and try to visualize Krishna's form is not that easy.


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[Assistant] So, both from a childhood perspective of creating impressions as well as an adult perspective of cultivating devotional absorption.


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[Assistant] But there are other stories also which teach some uplifting values.


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[Assistant] In our tradition there is Shruti Pratyakshayatiya, Anumanayi Shruchatushrayam.


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[Assistant] The itihas is also, there he uses it in the sense of not necessarily the itihas of Rama and Mahabharata, but the general historical tradition. So, we humans broadly are


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[Assistant] You can say story telling or story hearing creatures. That's what captivates the mind much more than say simply raw data or


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[Assistant] Uh, information we could say is more concrete, concepts are a little more abstract.


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[Assistant] And both are important, but information and concepts if they are woven together in a narrative,


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[Assistant] Then the capacity for, for assimilation, for reception, for


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[Assistant] Would this be the same as Loka Pramana what he talks, what he talks about in, uh, yeah,


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[Assistant] When you're talking about, say, creative licenses that are there.


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[Assistant] To some extent they are essential for making any art form. So at one level,


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[Assistant] There is, there is, there is literature in terms of, there are scriptures. They are, we could say a kind of, a type of literature.


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[Assistant] But then there are art forms, whether it is a drama or there is dance or even there is a narrative form of story. So things have to be made


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[Assistant] Not just attractive, but they have to be proper according to dramatic perspective also.


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[Assistant] For example, if you are going to do any pastime of Krishna, if you do a drama, it's very difficult to stick only to the dialogues that are there in scripture and make the full drama.


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[Assistant] There has to be, if you want to have some more of elucidation of character, then we will have to fill in some, okay, this character said this character said that.


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[Assistant] So the oral tradition in one sense has a greater amount of vitality to it.


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[Assistant] Because when people speak, when we write, there is a little more formality in the language.


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[Assistant] There's a little more informality and greater connectivity.


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[Assistant] If we consider the vernacular renditions of the epics, like you mentioned about the Ramlila,


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[Assistant] There have been vernacular renditions of the Ramayana in various parts of India.


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[Assistant] And even I would say South, Southeast Asia at large.


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[Assistant] So, and they have kept the Ramayan alive.


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[Assistant] At the same time, there is, there are concerns that come up that in the regional retellings.


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[Assistant] There are some things which are there in the epic, some things which are not, some things which are in the original source, some things not in the original source. So, are there some