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[Assistant] You know, that maybe he could have, uh, been ding free without the injuries, but that's life in the NFL. Greg, welcome to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. How you doing, man?


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[Assistant] So listen, we were talking in the last hour, uh, with De'Qual Jackson, of course a Pro Bowl linebacker with the Browns, uh, about a decade ago. And one of the things that came up just in the course of the conversation was, so if, if Baker Mayfield was to


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[Assistant] Show up at camp and something happens where Deshaun can't go and Baker's gotta play. Who would be the guy on the defensive side that would go to Baker and say, hey, look, man, you're on this team. We're wrapping our arms around you.


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[Assistant] What would the, what would the mood of the team be if if it came to a situation where


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[Assistant] Baker isn't traded and they've got this $18 million salary that has to be paid, at least right now by the Browns. If, if, if you were told by Kevin Stefanski that


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[Assistant] We've got a suspension we've got to deal with with Watson. Baker's going to be our guy for the first four, eight games. What would the reaction of the team be to that news?


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[Assistant] Greg, the guy you least enjoyed covering in your rookie season, who's the toughest cover for you so far?


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[Assistant] That clock ticks a lot faster when you got a guy like Miles coming out there.


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[Assistant] Hey, uhm, I know that you've probably checked it out and we, we've talked about it at length today, but did you go through the schedule and what are your initial thoughts? How would you characterize the Brown's 2022 schedule?


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[Assistant] Is there one game that you circled right away? I know everybody always looks at the first game, but as you look at all 17, which one got two circles around it for you?


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[Assistant] I know what the youngest for sure. He got it. Hold on, Greg. Greg, you ran track and field, didn't you? Oh, for sure, yea. You long jump, didn't you? Yep.


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[Assistant] Alright, my son is currently ranked 9th in the world. He jumps 27 feet. You wanna think about that real quick?


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[Assistant] So Greg, as you, uhm, as you look back on, on your rookie season, what was the biggest challenge from a team standpoint? Not individually, but you guys had some things going on.


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[Assistant] And from the outside, we always try to look in and figure out what the biggest challenge was. As you look at it in your rear view mirror now, what was that the biggest challenge internally as a team?


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[Assistant] What did you make of your boy Chubb's 675 squat effort that we saw rolling around on social earlier this week?


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[Assistant] Hey Greg, listen, thanks so much for taking time with us. Enjoy the rest of your offseason. We cannot wait to see you back on the field again. I know that jump from year one to year two is big for most players. I know it's going to be for you. Thanks for joining us and we'll talk soon. Thanks, Greg. Thanks, Greg. Well done, man. Well, well done.


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[Assistant] The opening line for week one is already out for the Browns. How the hell did they set an opening line? I don't even know what the quarterback is going to be. We'll talk about that when the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show continues.


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[Assistant] MVP vote. MLB.com once a month, at the end of every month, they ask managers and baseball execs to weigh in on who they would have as the MVP right now. In the American league, Mike Trout,


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[Assistant] Is the current pick for the MVPs, getting 61% of the vote. Jose Ramirez is second, getting 16% of the vote. Quick roundtable thoughts on that.


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[Assistant] It is stupid, but so is trying to pick 17 games when the schedule comes out, but that's what we do.


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[Assistant] He does make it look so effortless down there. The other night when they won in the extra innings game, the crazy game, he made a play at third base with the throw to first. That was a great pick by Naylor. That play was lost in the mix because of the grand slam and because, but if he doesn't make that play, game's over right there.


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[Assistant] One thing I'll say quickly. So, yes, Trout is having a great year. He was injured last year. And his team is winning. That's, we also have to take that into account. They've got 21 wins, 12 losses. Guardians are 15 and 15.


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[Assistant] Trout leads in home runs, JRAM leads in RBI, but here's why JRAM is the MVP.


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[Assistant] It's the most valuable player. Trout's paycheck is $37 million. JRAM this year is making $12 million.


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[Assistant] I know you don't, but you should. We're talking valuable. You're talking valuable. And here's the other thing. Trout's loaded with superstars on his team. Loaded with great players. And J Ram is looking around saying,


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[Assistant] Is this it? When is the Cowboy coming? Nice young guys, but he doesn't have Otani, he doesn't have Rendon, he doesn't have the kind of staff and clubhouse that Trout has. So, and besides, J. Ram, just in terms of


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[Assistant] The fun to watch breaks the meter. Trout does it all and does it in an effort where...


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[Assistant] Okay, now that's fair. WNBA has 12 teams. They're talking about expanding to 14. Why are we talking about this? Brad's hot on it. So you tell us why this matters and does Cleveland have a chance at getting a team?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I'm doing some reading on it, the two cities that are, feel like slam-dungs would be...


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[Assistant] Just the Bay Area in San Francisco, whether it's in Oakland or San Francisco, they feel like a team would work there very well. And also Nashville. Nashville has supported a hockey team. They knew nothing about hockey. They dropped a hockey team there now. They have the best fan base in the NHL.


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[Assistant] He does have the money. The question is, and it all comes down to TV dollars. If they had a huge TV contract, that's why the Bay Area is the fourth largest television market.


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[Assistant] That's what's pulling the freight on paying the salaries. Right. If they can ever bust out and be in some big TV markets and get good numbers, they would get a big contract and that would never be a problem because I agree with you.


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[Assistant] A first round draft pick should never get cut because they can't fit in under the salary cap. They're not getting cut for talent, they're getting cut for dollars. Well, for finance. So you're a victim of your own success.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's move to this now, because this is absurd, but we started the show on an absurd note. We all went around the table and said, oh, I've got the Browns with 11 wins if Deshaun plays, I've got them with 9 if he doesn't. It's an actual exercise in futility. It's a joke. It doesn't mean anything. We don't know who's gonna be what.


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[Assistant] What's fascinating is as we sit here in the second week of May,


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[Assistant] Who better to talk to about that than, uh, one of, uh, one of my dear friends, Maurice Claret. That happens on Tuesday's show. That's gonna do it for now. Have a great weekend. Thanks for spending time with us on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Have a great weekend. And Cleveland, you know this. We all love you. See you Monday.


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[Assistant] Since my first year on TV, it's like the black hair on the black shirt, it just doesn't work. But I do have my official elf gear. As it counts for anything. It does.


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[Assistant] Morning Cleveland and the Browns very lovingly sent us clothing because we had nothing and it was free so I wear it and Mike Tomlin goes to me, hey Aditi, you wear that free stuff.


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[Assistant] You know, Jay, it's so, it's so funny. And you know, you're an old friend. I believe that you are indeed old friends with Chris Rose. We talk about it. Is being born in Cleveland, uhm, a badge of honor? Or does that just set you up for a life of recognizing where we...


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[Assistant] That now athletes like this idea of cutting out the middleman. And it almost goes back to the players' tribune, even before athletes were taking control of their brands and their social media accounts.


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[Assistant] I appreciate that they want to get their message out on their own, but you're also losing a piece of the puzzle here.


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[Assistant] And that is that the media can indeed be valuable and you can indeed, the same way that a reporter is looking for a story, you can also use a reporter to help disseminate information that you want to disseminate, to share your piece of the story that isn't necessarily getting told, to tell.


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[Assistant] A piece of your story that isn't necessarily being told. And if you are the franchise quarterback


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[Assistant] In a new city that wants a new city to get to know you, then why are you cutting out a member of the media?


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[Assistant] That you haven't even necessarily really met yet, who's trying to meet you with open arms and an open mind and say, hey, I want to share your story. I want to share who you are. I want to tell more of who you are than what the outside, you know,


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[Assistant] Perspective may be a view that's not necessarily a full 360 degree view of you. So I don't love it. I really don't. Especially this early in the game. Now if this is somebody that has wronged you, that has not in fact met you with an open mind, okay that's fair. But you've just gotten to town. You haven't really interacted with anybody yet. Why? I don't get that.


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[Assistant] And unfortunately we've seen this, right? We saw Mary Kay Cabot, who has done a tremendous job covering the Browns for decades now, have that with Johnny Manziel. We saw Tony Grossi, who's covered the Browns for a very long time, have that with Baker Mayfield. This is where, Jay, I go back to.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm aging myself when I say this, but I got into this profession 20 years ago. My very first editor told me, tell the story and get out of the way. It's not about you. It's not about me. I'm not, if Antonio Brown is having a fight with me, it's not my


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[Assistant] I had multiple conversations with several teams leading up to the draft and I will tell you that uniformly every team I spoke to felt that Baker Mayfield was a better quarterback than any quarterback in the draft.


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[Assistant] And also the psychological piece of feeling like you're playing for a contract and, well, you and I have talked about this a lot. When you're playing for a contract.


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[Assistant] For another quarterback, like let's say, for instance, the Carolina Panthers are already paying somebody else that money. And while you might be a general manager or a head coach who can kind of sit here and rationally think about it, you're always having to face ownership.


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[Assistant] Ownership might say, well this is a former first round pick, I want to get as much as I possibly can out of this player.


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[Assistant] Even if the market isn't necessarily there. So you're responding to a lot of different masters right there. I think the most important thing for Baker. So I think that from my conversations with the Browns, they're not feeling hard pressed that we need to move him right now because whatever the national narrative is,


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[Assistant] And Baker Mayfield is smart enough that if his best play is to show up to training camp, show that he is indeed a grown up, show that he is indeed out there competing and ready to play, and is not looking to create any sort of fiction in a locker room,


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[Assistant] Since I left my job. And so we have to give Baker Mayfield the opportunity, recognizing that much of the perception is a little bit overblown, is a little bit exaggerated. And I will tell you this, anybody who's interested in Baker Mayfield can call Kevin Stefanski and get the true story.


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski is not gonna sit here and sugarcoat anything and he's not gonna lie.


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[Assistant] I don't know what Deshaun is. I don't know what Deshaun is yet. And I also don't know what Deshaun's availability is. And to me, the single most important thing is availability. Okay?


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[Assistant] If you're sitting on the bench, you're useless to me. If you're sitting at home, you're useless to me. So...


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[Assistant] I love the Bills organization, I love the coaching there, and I completely trust Brian Dayball, and he has told me that I will love Mitch Trubisky, that Mitch Trubisky was never given a fair shake or a...


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[Assistant] Great opportunity in Chicago. I do, I can tell you this, that inside the Steelers locker room right now, guys love him. They are responding to him, that he is approaching the playbook in every way you want him to approach it. Uhm, but based on pure sheer talent,


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[Assistant] I don't know that he matches up with Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson. Yeah, that's fair.


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[Assistant] You move forward with that offense. And I think that with Baker, you do something different. So do you really want to do that? Do you really want to switch stream? I think you're better off


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[Assistant] Sticking with your offense and doing what you want to do and having the other 10 guys on the field do what you ultimately want to do, whether you have Deshaun out for four games or six games or whatever it is. And I just think it's better. It's just, it's a clean break. It's nice. Everybody leave on a high note. You know, Baker makes me move on and find a new


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[Assistant] I mean, I, I just, I am, this is where the bias comes in. You know, like we sit here and we talk about what kind of shirt are you wearing and this that or the other.


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[Assistant] I love Jarvis Landry. I think that everything that Jarvis Landry brings to a team beyond just his unbelievable toughness and his dependability and his reliability and the guy that you know you can always throw the ball to and he will catch it or he will make sure nobody else catches it.


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[Assistant] All of those things aside, I think that when you are a young team,


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[Assistant] You need certain personalities in your locker room to teach young players how to be pros, how to be, how to go about their job, what it means to be an NFL player. And to me, that carries so much value and that's who Jarvis Landry is.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I'll give you this. I had conversations with both members of the Ravens organization and the Steelers organization this past week. Are you bringing in Jarvis Landry? I love him in all caps. All caps. So, I mean, I would love, love, love, love, love to see him in a place


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[Assistant] That I would get to regularly see him, which means my backyard, I would hope. Uhm, I'd love to see him in a place where he is valued and where every single attribute he brings matters.


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[Assistant] I think that everybody at this moment, whether it's him, whether it's you Bull, whether it's me, we think about maximizing our value because we recognize we may not get to make money for the rest of our lives. And so Jarvis has to come to a spot where he decides


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[Assistant] What is he really comfortable with? And what is he willing to take? And again, to his point, the same with Baker Mayfield. I don't think he has to feel some urgency right now that he needs to sign in the next week.


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[Assistant] Well, there wasn't. See, my parents are vegetarians.


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[Assistant] I was in middle school and I read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair on Slaughterhouse.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, let me, Buche, really quickly, let me just make a really quick plug. Next Wednesday, Browns.com is going to do interviews with every single rookie. So if you want to get to know your new Browns better, Nathan Zegura is interviewing every single brand new Browns player. Wednesday night, 7pm on Browns.com.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, I would probably have to say Anthony Walker. Uhm, he's a guy from day one who was there for the team. Uhm, you know, he does things for the defense world. He'll have us, you know, all be together and do stuff like that. So I think Anthony Walker would definitely be the guy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. So, you know, my thoughts with the Deshaun Watson trade. Uhm, it was crazy. Uh, you know, he's one of the, you know, best quarterbacks in the league. Obviously hasn't been able to play in a long time, but you know, he's a great leader. Uhm, you know, he's a great player and you know, on the Baker situation, you know, I have no clue, honestly. Uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, I'm just wishing the best for him as well because I, you know, I love him as a person as well. So, you know, I'm, I'm wishing the best for him.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, at the end of the day, we got a plan. We got to win. Um, you know, we set our standard high. We set our goals high. Um, and you know, no matter who's back there behind, you know, at quarterback, uh, we're going to rally with them. Um, and we're going to do our best to win at the end of the day. Uh, so, you know, the team at the end of the day, we're going to have to go out there and win no matter who's


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I just, you know, I just feel like everyone's circumstance is different. Uhm, you know, obviously with him, he, he has a lot to deal with. Uhm, but it is hard to rationalize it, but at the end of the day, you know, like I said, everyone has different circumstances. Uhm, you know, everyone's story is different. So, you know, you kind of got to,


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[Assistant] You know, play the cards that you were dealt. So uhm, whether it's him having to sit out, whether that's him being on a new team, whether that's, you know, him taking snaps for the Browns, you know, that's something that him and his family have to decide on and, you know, have to be comfortable with.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm super excited. You know, the first season was...


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[Assistant] Didn't go the way that we wanted as a team. Uhm, you know, I think I played solid. I played all right, but no, I got a lot left in the tank. I mean, you know, going into year two, I kind of at least figured the league out a little bit more than obviously going in as a rookie. So I'm definitely excited for this team. I know we have very high goals going into this next season.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so uhm, the thing I learned from him the most, uhm, is what I say all the time, is like, you know, as a rookie I came in, obviously had some things to work on, had some things to fix, and I was trying to do it all at once.


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[Assistant] Um, but you know, he told me like you have to choose one thing every single day and just focus on that. And then as you keep doing that, then you'll, you know, end up getting better. So I see myself improving a lot, you know, during the last season just from him, you know, doing that, but welcome to the NFL moment.


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[Assistant] I think my whole entire OTA is in my rookie year. Like, I was playing well, but honestly, I was just like, dudes, like, I know they drafting me, but like, am I good? Like, am I good?


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[Assistant] I couldn't, I couldn't like, I don't know, I just couldn't like, I didn't have that confidence, you know, that I had going into the season.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So I mean, yeah, your mindset definitely changes. Um, you know, when you're playing in a slot, when you're playing inside, you, you tend to have more help. You know, you got your linebacker right there to the right. You also got the corner outside to the left and then you got a safety who normally is in the middle of the field. So you have, you tend to have a lot more help.


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[Assistant] I still talk to him to this day, text him pretty much every week, but.


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[Assistant] He was a guy like, as you see in practice, like I'm stretching, I'm always standing right next to him.


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[Assistant] Um, you know, he's always teaching me ways to watch film, do all that stuff. So, um, I, I don't think I would have been, you know, ahead of, ahead of the learning curve and playing as well as I did, um, without Troy Hill for sure. Um, definitely, it was definitely Troy Hill.


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[Assistant] It made my job so much easier. Uhm, you know, he gets to the quarterback in two seconds, so the ball has to come out. Uhm, and you know, obviously I've never.


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[Assistant] Not many corners can say they play with a guy like that. So for that to be my guy, the cornerstone guy on the team, my rookie year and going into the, you know, the rest of my career is just amazing. It makes my life.


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[Assistant] Ten times easier. Uhm, I appreciate him. I know he appreciates me too as well, but I definitely appreciate him up there.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be amazing. I was able to check it out a little bit. I didn't see too much of it, but uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, we're excited. Uhm, we got, I think Carolina first, New York is our home opener. So, uh, we'll definitely be ready to go. And I see we get the Steelers on a Thursday night. Uhm, we get the Bengals on a Monday, Monday game. So, uhm, that's going to be fun. We just, I just can't wait to get started.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think honestly is what you said, the injury piece.


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[Assistant] You know, we weren't able to gel all the way as a team because, you know, we didn't have that many reps together with each other. Uhm, you know, that backhand with me, Denzel, you know, it was Ronnie and John and Troy, like we weren't able to.


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[Assistant] Play all the games together. So we weren't able to really know each other as well as we could have, especially that was our first year of flams all together. So, um, you know, it was games where it was me and greedy start and it was games where it was.


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[Assistant] See, I don't know if y'all know this, but it's, um, if y'all ever been in Chicago, it's called Harold's Chicken.


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[Assistant] He's a, he's a beast. Like it just shows you how freakish, you know, of a, of a guy he is. And I think he finished maybe second or third in Russian last year and didn't play every single game. So.


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[Assistant] You know, all of our running backs are freaks, but Chubb, I haven't seen a running back like him.


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[Assistant] You came out and you killed it. You were running back and forth in front of the crowd. That was the first time I was like, damn, Krez fucking can get the crowd lit. That was good.


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[Assistant] He came out bumping that, uh, that thunder man. Appreciate that. That was cool. Anyway, this is NoJumper.com, coolest podcast in the world, and here we are with, uh, Young Semi.


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[Assistant] 275, we in this thang. Yep, we in this thang. As well as, uh, his close 275 affiliate, Young Yogi. Who's got a lighter? Who's good? Also known as the singer of, uh, metal outfit, uh, volumes. And then we also have, uh, the one and only Don Krez.


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[Assistant] AKA Fat Nick's friend. What's going on guys, how y'all doing?


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[Assistant] Right. I think it says a lot about the podcast that we were able to get this notorious street dude in here to talk to us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wanna start off by talking about where you're from. What's, what's Opalaka like?


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[Assistant] They know. Because a lot of times they say you're not popping in your neighborhood until you're popping everywhere else.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but have they always been showing love or is it the fact that like now you're a world star, like when you were originally coming out did they not know because the shit was a little too underground, a little too internet?


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[Assistant] Nah. No? Are we allowed to know your real name? Is this public record?


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[Assistant] It just worked for you? Yeah, it just worked. Okay, so, so, were you doing the whole music thing before you met Perp, or how did you come in this game? This is what we're trying to figure out.


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[Assistant] Right. So when you would do five songs in a day though, would you say that like, they were usable, all of them? No.


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[Assistant] Right. How'd you two start hanging out? Cause he's a singer of a metal band and I'm assuming that you probably don't listen to that much heavy metal.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Was it hard to get into the, the Yung Sin Mi like inner circle? You seem, you said it was kinda, you know, you don't let a lot of people in.


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[Assistant] So all the Raider Clan fans out there, man, they want to know like exactly how you got noticed with Perp and what it was like when you started working with them and, and the, oh we can start there. People want to know what happened to Raider Clan too and what's going on with it, but they want to know how you first got involved with us.


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[Assistant] But is there, was there ever like a falling out between you and SGP or are you still cool with him?


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[Assistant] Well it's crazy too because it's 275 which is BRK on the phone, right?


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[Assistant] It's crazy to see how much talent came out of that whole movement because you got, you guys, such all the water boys, you got Puyin, everything that they're doing. It's like, do you think that there was just a, this scene just created like a lot of fucking really successful underground rappers?


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[Assistant] Right. Who are your early influences early on? Who made you want to rap and who could you look at and be like, yo, I kinda learned a bit from their style.


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[Assistant] Is it crazy? I was just watching the old, uh, Putin and Fat Nick show video the other day, cause I saw like an old interview where they were like, this is the origin of Bum Bum Bum, is when you were playing the character and just doing the Bum Bum Bum voice for everything.


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[Assistant] You smoke a blind when you wake up first thing in the morning? Me too. Hell yeaah. You too?


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[Assistant] Sometimes somebody tries to pass me a swisher or a fucking joint and I feel kinda intimidated because I'm so used to the backwards and I'm like, I don't know what that's gonna do to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a little bit more complicated than the whole like rolling procedure. Like when you're used to swishers and then you switch the woods, it's all of a sudden it's like a science experiment every time because anything could happen.


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[Assistant] You consider yourself on good terms with them now?


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[Assistant] Right. What's your favorite song of your own? Of mine? Yea.


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[Assistant] Really? Okay, so what's the favorite tape? Uhm, in terms of like a total project.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying. Are you listening to the beats like when you're driving around the car or whatever and just putting together what's gonna happen in your head like plotting it?


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[Assistant] Could you ever imagine having somebody write anything for you? Uhm, yeaah. That just don't work? Or you could see it. Yeaah. What, like a hook or an actual verse? Maybe a hook? Yeaah. Cause you know, I was interviewing Speak the other day and they told me that he got hired at one point to write hooks for Plaz. And that Plaz's manager hated them all and that it didn't last very long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Speaks wrote some of this shit. But it never came out because he hated it. Ply's hated it.


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[Assistant] That was the issue was that they were like, no, this isn't like violent enough or whatever. Right. Which is completely understandable. Yeah. Stop with plies, where's plies at?


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[Assistant] Okay, cause he gets hella love from the Mexico crowd, I think, cause he is a Mexican.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I feel like when you go to like- Yea, we got Mexican fans. A show around here? It's, or, probably in Florida, same shit. That's lit. All Mexican kids, yea.


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[Assistant] Well it's good to see that it's all love because I know that a lot of the questions were from kids who are trying to stir up beef and wondering if people don't like each other, etc, etc.


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[Assistant] So you like to avoid all that if possible? What you mean? Avoid like any kind of tension with other rappers or whatever?


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[Assistant] Where, where would your first, is this your first face tattoo? Yea man. But where are you thinking of going, like under the eye, on the forehead, or?


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[Assistant] There's a lot of good face stats out there, man. You see 21 Savage with a big ass cross on his forehead? That makes him look scary as fuck.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought it was a cross, okay. You got Fredo with the cross on his forehead too. Fredo's got a cross. Yeah, yeah, you're right.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, what the hell, what do we know? I was wondering, uh, what you're like as a texter, because I like that line, texting all the bitches where you at and it's all caps. I wanted to talk about texting in all caps.


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[Assistant] It's a very rapper thing to just not respond to texts for like days and weeks on end or just never.


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[Assistant] What about playing live in Miami? Like, do you end up playing like, warehouse venues like you play out here, or do you end up like, getting booked for club nights and shit like that?


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[Assistant] You're about to go on, you were just on tour for what, like two months?


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[Assistant] You know what song I wanted to get the behind the scenes scoop on? Like a true underground hit is uh, Threats. Is there anything in particular that comes to mind? Like how did the song come together?


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[Assistant] Nine million YouTube views or something, yeah. That's a hit. That's like, cause when I seen Krez DJ that show the other day, not the other day, a couple months ago, that's what he came out with. He played Xavier Thunderman, then he played Threts to get the crowd hype, and he was running back and forth like a fucking crazy person. And I was like, damn, Krez understands his DJ thing, he's got him going. Threts is a hit, man. Threts is crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I think. But the bigger the reaction they get, the more fun they are generally speaking, right? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Would you agree or disagree with me that the lean and the zans should be saved for after the show?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Oh, so you're a drinker.


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[Assistant] But I think that like metal promoters and stuff probably are not used to having to give bands that much, whereas like rap promoters are probably used to dealing with all kinds of divas.


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[Assistant] What's on the Young Semi Rider? What are you asking for at shows?


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[Assistant] Really? Hey, so how did you adapt to Europe in general? What did you think of the food? What did you think about the food?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That's what's up. It's very simple. How'd the girls treat you in Europe?


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[Assistant] What did you do? I actually fucked the hooker. You did? Yea. No, that's dope. I fucking, I went to Amsterdam when I was 19 and I didn't do it.


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[Assistant] It's legit. They got like a little wire on the wall I heard, so that if the guy starts raping her and trying to kill her or whatever, they just grab the little wire and the cops just come.


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[Assistant] It's making me feel like I kinda missed out on some parts of life by not having sex with a prostitute yet.


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[Assistant] But don't you think when you go to a different country that you kind of owe it to yourself to feel out the local culture a little bit? Like I was just in China and some guy was like, oh, like, you know, he said something about doing Chinese heroin and I was kind of like, I was kind of like


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[Assistant] Right. I've gotten good weed pretty- well I've gotten weed pretty much everywhere I go, and Japan and fucking China is a nightmare, dude.


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[Assistant] I have a question for Simi. Do you have things that you want to accomplish in your career or are you comfortable with where you're at in terms of being an underground icon?


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[Assistant] There's a certain smooth to us. I could see you rapping like a shampoo commercial or something. Is that sus?


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[Assistant] I'm trying man. There's a lot of dope music out there that I have never seen podcasts with those artists.


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[Assistant] It's like a Bible. So is it like the Bible or is it like just any old Bible?


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[Assistant] How do you feel about Puyo dissing you on that, uh, the Suicide Boys one where he was like, oh, you learned something from Krez? That's, that's crazy. Krez don't have nothing to teach nobody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you guys are always play fighting on there, huh? Oh, boys. Let me see. I'm still looking for a question. I'm only like an hour back in my fucking Twitter messages. This shit is way too crazy right now. Shout out to Ethan Courier and the whole common crew because they're all big, uh, young semi fans. How do you feel about having so many BMXers and skate dudes feeling your music?


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[Assistant] There's been a lot of big videos on YouTube and shit where they happen to use your songs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, shout out to them. Oh, here's a good question, uh, who would you like to, uh, collaborate with in the future? Both on the realistic side and on the people that probably wouldn't happen that you just respect as musicians.


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[Assistant] You should, uh, you should do something with gunplay like Denzel did. Fuck with gunplay.


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[Assistant] That was big. She's probably like the most well known chef in Miami. For that.


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[Assistant] Chef D? Chef D, that's what he calls her, I'm pretty sure.


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[Assistant] Who's the up and coming dudes out of Miami that you think people should check for? Or just up and coming dudes in general?


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[Assistant] You want to hear the weirdest place that I ever heard your music and this is something I totally forgot about until this moment is one time I was with this girl and we were sitting in Denny's. This is maybe like six months ago and


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[Assistant] That's awesome. Yo, some sus ass fan asked, uh, about your porn habits. They're like, what kind of porn does Young Simu watch?


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[Assistant] Engineers out here, I'm mad as hell. Thank you for the pointer, we out here. Somebody said, what's good with him and Floyd Mayweather? What the fuck does that mean?


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[Assistant] That's what's weird too, is that like, you could do, you know, you have music videos with millions of views. This interview will probably do like a hundred thousand views. So, are you an underground rapper? If you've got millions of views on YouTube and, you know, people care enough about your interviews.


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[Assistant] Ay, ay, ay. I don't know, it's a weird, uh, to be called an underground rapper in 2015 is kind of a vague thing to say.


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[Assistant] What about, like, remaking the same song, like, taking the same song and just sort of doing another version of it on your next tape? Like, how did you get into the practice of doing that? What did you say? Say it again.


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[Assistant] Like the way that you did lean with a sprite multiple times, like on multiple different tapes.


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[Assistant] It's kinda like an old school hip hop tradition, cause you know, like Mobb Deep, Shook Ones, and then they did Shook Ones Part 2, and Part 2 was actually the classic. Nobody remembers Shook Ones Part 1, the regular one, so much. I mean, it's like...


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[Assistant] Makes sense. If you find a hook that works, or a concept that works for a song, you know, why not?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Lean with the Sprite 1 and 2, it kinda shows the progression too because like the sound quality is better, the beat is better, the fuckin', it just sounds like a more advanced artist sorta. This might be the mid talking about.


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[Assistant] Makes sense. I think we're, uh, winding this down, but can we talk about the fact that, uh, Tyga got caught today for DMing a 14 year old?


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[Assistant] It's real out here. Well, he got caught today. Tyler is suggesting that he banged her, I think.


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[Assistant] What about you, Yogi? You can get that juice, you know? You might have the labels checking for you after that, you know?


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[Assistant] Your experience in the, in the hardcore, or in the metal game? Is it like almost impossible to make money?


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[Assistant] As a rapper, it's a lot easier because you don't have to pay for shit besides your fucking flight and your hotel and, you know, it's just you.


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[Assistant] After the show. Simi, what can we look forward to from you and your mans here in 2016?


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[Assistant] Give me like four bars though that really stand out in your head, or even just like two words.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, cause I remember drunk as shit riding around in the fucking Uber playing that and did a Snapchat looking out the window and I woke up to like literally a hundred messages asking what it was.


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[Assistant] Hey, thank you for making the streets happy because they wanted to, they wanted to find out more about Simi. You haven't done too many interviews over the years. This was a challenge. I had to hit up Krez like 18 times to get this popping. Or excuse me, you hit up Yogi.


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[Assistant] That's what this podcast is about is getting the dudes that are impossible to get anywhere like Antoine Dixon where he had to literally catch, almost catch a body in the process of doing this. He got arrested the first time he came to do it because he pulled a knife on some fool.


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[Assistant] Oh, other way around. They named the place after me. Oh, really? Biggest liar in the world. Tell her a lie, Waco. Oh, oh, oh, well now let me see. Uh, oh, I never will forget the time we all slept in one bed. Hiya, Linda Belle.


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[Assistant] Molly, I'm an old man. And I like you. But I know Duke. And I know women. All kinds. I know your kind.


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[Assistant] My wife and I joined ISKCON in Melbourne in 1978.


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[Assistant] We joined, Balaram was the temple president, uhm, and Korma was the head Pujari and kind of the kitchen in charge. And, uhm, we were trained under their, uh, guidance and supervision. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Until 1990 I became the temple president and so have been the temple president this year will be 32 years. That's remarkable.


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[Assistant] We had a very, a very strong Deity Worship program. Uhm, Melbourne is unique in that it's a, it's a proper ditha.


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[Assistant] And so uhm, we've just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the installation of our little Radha and Krishna. And uhm,


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[Assistant] Installed by Sura Prabhupada and next year, uh, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the installation of Radhabalabha.


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[Assistant] We're, we're fortunate in that we have


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[Assistant] Beedi is established by Srila Prabhupada. Jagannatha Balaramsa to Bhadra. Prabhupada went on their Ratha Yatra. Prabhupada attended their Ratha Yatra's. And uhm, yeaah, so.


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[Assistant] 30 years, we've expanded our congregation. So, you know, we have...


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[Assistant] Uh, the WhatsApp group has 120 or 130 people on it. So uhm,


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[Assistant] We've got a very active and vibrant community and, uhm, five bhakti shastri courses running at the moment, streams, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's, there's also the farm, we've got a farm community, well farm retreat facility basically. We've got a herd of 26 cows, uhm, we're milking at the moment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, a lot going on. Three restaurants.


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[Assistant] Srila Prabhupada said, yeah, Prabhupada said, let every hungry man of Melbourne eat. And, you know, if you want a successful temple, then have sumptuous prasadam for people, certainly at meal times. And, you know, we have seven offerings a day. So,


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[Assistant] And they'll always give you donations. They'll give you support, so.


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[Assistant] It's, as I say, there's 120, uh, you know, we have about three or four devotees who are supported by the temple.


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[Assistant] And so they're, you know, like a full-time employee. They've got 40, 50 hours of engagement in a week.


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[Assistant] But then there's another 115 or so that are volunteers. And so.


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[Assistant] You know, there's cutting up, there's cleaning, there's pot washing, there's, uh, the, you know, the distribution of the prasadam. Uh, we've got a big roster on, on, on the, uh, temple veranda.


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[Assistant] There's a pillar on the veranda and on it, it's got a pinup board and on the pinup board is the temple roster.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's interesting. People often come and visit the temple and you catch them. They stand in front of the roster and they'll stand there, they'll sit there for five minutes going through the whole list. And I guess.


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[Assistant] There's, uhm, program management, there's, uhm, the restaurants that we're cooking for plus the temple. And, uh, then there's project or, you know, events management where we have festivals and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a team, you know, sometimes a team of 20 devotees will come and cook. You know, at the moment it's Lord Nisringa Day's appearance day.


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[Assistant] Devotees working on their decorations, there's the, the, the festival, the, the, the feast cooking team, they're already coordinating what they're going to cook, organising how much boga, how many people they're cooking for.


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[Assistant] There's a couple, there's a couple of youth groups that are working on plays to be presented on the occasion. So, you know, once an event kicks in,


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[Assistant] And, and, you know, that's, it wasn't like that originally. This was a working class area. Uhm, uh, Port Melbourne.


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[Assistant] South Melbourne, Albert Park, Middle Park. This was where the stevedores used to live. So that was, that was pretty much, you know, in the 50s and the 60s.


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[Assistant] This was, and 70s, this was pretty much labourer class. But because it's such a, because it's so close to the city centre,


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[Assistant] It's an inner, inner, uh, inner urban, um, location. Then, you know, from the nineties, two thousands onward, it's become very gentrified. So now it's judges, lawyers, you know, merchant bankers, um, uh,


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[Assistant] And although, I have to say, the devotees have moved here, you know, there's, when I, when we first came here, uhm, there were, there were not that many devotees.


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[Assistant] But, uh, you know, on the whole, we're living in a fairly affluent area. But, uh, having said that, we're listed with the local council, the local government, um,


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[Assistant] We are known and recognised also for the fact that we do provide meals for people in our area who are in need, you know, for whatever reason.


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[Assistant] But uhm, and you know, predominantly we get uhm, our congregation is 90, 95% Indian families. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And we have a special, uhm, class and kirtan. Not in the temple room, but in the theatre.


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[Assistant] And then we have a smaller program, but you know, 50 or 60 people, which is geared towards catering for the Australian


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[Assistant] Your Anglo Aussies and, and, uh, whatever. And that's quite, and then, uh, uh, after the Aarti, there's a kirtan in the temple room and that's very popular with everybody.


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[Assistant] And you know what's happening now is with that cultivation of the Australian audience, those devotees are now popping up doing volunteering also. So uhm,


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[Assistant] And you know, I've always encouraged a bit of blending, you know, okay, we, we know there's cultural differences and that presents challenges. But in my mind, it's better to have.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the local population, you know, with their...


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[Assistant] Their enthusiasm for chanting Hare Krishna and also their enthusiasm just to do things for Krishna. They like to do, you know, and of course the Indian community also has that as well, but uhm,


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[Assistant] It's different. It's not that anything in particular is


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[Assistant] But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what my first, my experience was, I started, you know, I started working with the Indian community because


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[Assistant] In, in the middle eighties, I was selling four sets of books. And what I discovered was that the Indians.


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[Assistant] Five years or so. Still, when somebody told me they came from Bangalore, I didn't know where the hell Bangalore was.


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[Assistant] I didn't know, I didn't know what Karnataka was. I didn't know what Kannada was. Right? But now I have so many friends in India.


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[Assistant] I did a wedding, and you know, a lot of the weddings I'm doing at the moment, it's, it's with an Aussie, one spouse, one, one of the couple is Aussie, and another of the couple is Indian. Very often. Right?


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[Assistant] And Indians dressing half like Aussies. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] And, uhm, and here's an example. One of the girls is Chinese, from, uhm, Shenzhen, I think, and, uh, uhm, the other girl,


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[Assistant] And the, the, the father was a Jew, a Polish Jew. And this is, this is a religious background, right? And the mother is a Catholic. Right. But she's.


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[Assistant] Uhm, often there's quite a mix, you know, mix, a mixture of culture. But anyway, one of the girls was asking me, she said, you know, I just love coming to the temple.


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[Assistant] Because we are, you know, bhakti in many respects is an emotional experience, right? Uhm, not just, not just an intellectual or...


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[Assistant] And it, it's something that she's just picked up. And of course we all picked that up. I remember, you know, going out on Saint-Gautard and then after a long day of, uh, doing a collection or selling books,


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[Assistant] It was a relief just to drive in the back gate of the temple and park the car and then you, you felt like you were in, you're in Vaikuntha.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's a good question. And...


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[Assistant] Those girls were asking me, you know, can we enroll in a Bhakti Shastri course? What do you have to do? So.


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[Assistant] But whereas the Indian community, whilst we do have young single men and women, uh,


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[Assistant] Most of them are married, you know, they, they, they, they, they go to college once they've got their degrees.


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[Assistant] Then the parents generally put quite a bit of pressure on them to get married. You know, and unless, and the majority of them, unless they're naturally inclined brahmacharis.


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[Assistant] Um, and so that's a particular group that we can cater for and cultivate. Um, whereas the Australian audience, we might have separate.


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[Assistant] Training for them, even though it might be a Buckley South Street, just because of the, you know, the slightly different, uhm, what do you call it? Setting that they live in.


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[Assistant] Or, uh, and the temple could support them, but as the, the household and community grew, then


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[Assistant] The family responsibilities expanded and then the temple wasn't able to support all of those devotees to the level that they needed to.


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[Assistant] For me, it was a focus on community development within the Indian community. And every week I'd be doing one or two or three home programs in a night.


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[Assistant] I've been doing home programs, uh, for a year and nobody was...


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[Assistant] Jabhat Thakur Maharaj used to visit at least two times a year in those, in those days. So he was encouraging, you know, congregational development, uhm, and, uh,


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[Assistant] We were building our congregation, so 90s was congregational development.


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[Assistant] From the 80s actually we had a mailing list and so we were collecting names and addresses and what we discovered was within our newsletter went out uhm, the more people it went out to


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[Assistant] The more people came to our festivals, and of course the more people that came to the festivals, or to the programs, more donations went into hundi, right?


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[Assistant] We built on that, but we also then introduced educational programs, our Bhakti Shastri, Bhakti Vaibhav, uhm, later on. And so,


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[Assistant] Uh, there was a lot of training also of the devotees, at least philosophically. So uhm, that training


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[Assistant] Consolidated the existing devotees. So you could say nineties congregational development and then the twenties was educational training, training, training and education, establishing that we, we have a board of education.


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[Assistant] And they have to have done the disciple course before they get recommended for initiation. So keeping track of all of that. So, you know, 20s was.


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[Assistant] The devotional activities of the community.


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[Assistant] At the same time, in the 90s, we were doing catering. We started doing, uh, catering at big festivals. Big music festivals. So that started bringing in, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] That helped us connect with people but plus also brought in an income. So that way we sort of changed from a, you know, from a


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[Assistant] Sanketan, if you like, what we used to call Sanketan, uhm, uhm.


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[Assistant] Focused effort, which was basically fundraising by the temple devotees. We broadened the community so that the funds came from our members and from our prasadam distribution.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and now, and we've supplemented that. So, you know, in the 20s also,


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[Assistant] Uh, and certainly in, in the teens, the 20s, I guess you could call them.


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[Assistant] We've done things like, we do a lot of weddings and that, that brings in income. Uh, we've opened up another restaurant and restaurants are really good for hard work, but when you get the formula and the right people, uh, very profitable and of course influential. You know,


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[Assistant] It's arguable, you know, uh, about five years ago, 2015 I think it was, a bit longer, six or seven years ago, the state


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[Assistant] Government gave us $500,000 to renovate our kitchen and


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[Assistant] And that's in good part because of the prashadam that we've distributed over the years at our


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[Assistant] Restaurant in the city, which is a cheap meal for students and unemployed and pensioners. Uhm, uh, uhm, and you know, prasadam from the temple.


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[Assistant] Prabhupada told us to do, that's what Prabhupada wanted us to do. This is not new. Prabhupada was encouraging Mrs. Agarwal


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[Assistant] You know, after he'd been in Buffalo in the years after Prabhupada was writing letters to her and saying, you know, open up a restaurant. I'll give you the recipes. People will come. So, you know, prasadam distribution and restaurants was not something


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[Assistant] We in ISKCON don't, don't pursue enough. But anyway, sorry I interrupted you.


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[Assistant] Fabric, you know, the weave of the multicultural fabric in the country. Right?


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[Assistant] That the religious leaders and the religious leadership is important to the community because people were.


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[Assistant] Under so much stress, right? That's one of the reasons why they were happy to give us funding.


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[Assistant] You know, because they appreciated and valued our contribution to the multicultural, uh, community, if you like, then they were happy to give us funds. And even though the restaurant


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[Assistant] Then there's just an understanding that's what the Hare Krishnas do. In fact, I've, I've had


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[Assistant] I've had devotees complain to me, you know, they've gone to a country in the world, you know, or a city in the world.


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[Assistant] They think, you know, because there's been Hare Krishna restaurants in all of the capital cities of Australia, they think when they go to, you know,


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[Assistant] The food restaurant has said where he lives.


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[Assistant] As a representative of the Hindu faith. In fact, here's something interesting. When the Hindu community has a gathering, right, for whatever the occasion might be, they get bhakti to speak because


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[Assistant] Philosophy, you know, of the, of Vedic tradition, right? So we, we, uh,


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[Assistant] And I could, I could sense that he was Muslim. I didn't know why, but different, different reasons. Just that his demeanor and how he looked. And uhm,


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[Assistant] And you know, just one of those people, I don't know if you have this experience, but I've had this experience often where,


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[Assistant] You know, I think, and even Prabhupada said, we are Hindus. Right?


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[Assistant] And of course you have to understand the context in which Prabhupada was presenting either not a Hindu or yes we are Hindus, right? And of course context tells you everything.


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[Assistant] Prabhupada was, you know, in the context of we're not Hindus, you know, uh, God's not a Christian, a Hindu or a Buddhist. You know, He's purely on the spiritual platform and when we're...


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[Assistant] Not only do we have a consistent theology, which is


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[Assistant] Which is logical. It has its own internal logic and so it's fully, you know, it's fully, uh, recognizable.


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[Assistant] Understanding the broad application of some of these principles.


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[Assistant] And then knowing when to apply it and not blindly or, or, you know, robotically.


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[Assistant] Or in a way that's going to alienate people. But you see, Prabhupada didn't do that. Prabhupada was strong in his convictions.


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[Assistant] Thoroughly articulate in being in, in his presentation and, uh, you know, could convince almost anybody of anything, almost, right?


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[Assistant] But you had to apply, that was pro, you know, propites, you know, there's that saying that propite.


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[Assistant] You know, in the 70s, he was the only adult in the movement. Even though most everybody was over 18, Prabhupada was the only adult. So, yeah, it's very interesting because


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[Assistant] Vaisnavas were ascetics and renunciates and retreated pretty much from, you know, traditionally retreated


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what Prabhupada, that was Bhaktivinoda Thakur's vision. I'd say that it really started with Bhaktivinoda Thakur.


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[Assistant] And then Bhakti Siddhartha Sasvalitaka really put that in action. Bhakti Siddhartha launched missions to Europe.


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[Assistant] Because his vision was global, right, or even universal, but certainly let's start off with global. That didn't, that didn't fructify in the way that he envisaged.


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[Assistant] And, and you know, there's that famous conversation where he told Prabhupada, you know, whenever you get money, print books. And you know, he was a little.


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[Assistant] And he said to Prabhupada, you know, better to take the marble off the walls.


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[Assistant] So, so, so, you know, that, that vision is quite a mature vision. And then how to apply that, you know, and maintain the spiritual principles.


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[Assistant] And that requires a lot of maturity of understanding the essence, the core, and then applying it, you know, to, to affect others realistically.


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[Assistant] Eventually what happens is we influence people and very often, you know, not just by what we say, but also by what we do. And, and that's, that comes with maturity.


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[Assistant] Secular education is slaughterhouse education, right? And Prabhupada did say that, right? But there are other statements where Prabhupada values secular education, psychology, philosophy, uh, you know, physics, and, you know, says we can use these things, right? So, yeaah. To get the balance requires


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[Assistant] You know, if we're anything, okay, we are Gaudiyas and Gaudiya Vaishnavas, which means we embrace Lord Chaitanya's mission. We're followers of Lord Chaitanya. And what was his mission? It was Sankirtan, you know.


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[Assistant] And Sanketan for us means book distribution and harinam.


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[Assistant] And, and also festivals with prasadam distribution. You know, this is what Prabhupada promoted. And, um, so, um,


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[Assistant] We, we want to, the focus of our educational programs is to make people familiar with our basic philosophy, you know, with the Bhagavad Gita, with the Isha Panchayat.


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[Assistant] With the nectar of instruction, with the nectar of devotion, you know, that's your basic bhakti shastri, right? And, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, in the, in the, in the Narayan Kuvarcha, in the sixth chapter of the Bhagavatam, uhm,


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[Assistant] The, the, in the prayers, uh, that are offered.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it mentions that one prays to Narada Muni to be relieved from offences for Diddy worship.


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[Assistant] Very interesting. But Narada Muni is also famous for Bhajaya, you know, Radhika Ramana Namane, right?


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[Assistant] Right, he's the patron saint of Deedee worship, but he's also a, uh, he travels throughout the whole of the creation, material and spiritual world.


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[Assistant] We want to train devotees in these aspects of spiritual life, but also we need them to go out.


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[Assistant] And do Hari Naam because that's what Lord Caitanya wanted and Prabhupada wanted to broaden


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[Assistant] And this is what makes us different from the other Hindu traditions is we are proselytizers and that's what's scary in one sense about


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[Assistant] It's gone and Hare Krishna is, you know, it means, oh no, I've got to be, I've got to go out and chant Hare Krishna.


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[Assistant] We, if we understand Prabhupada, that's what we should be committed to. If we understand Bhakti Siddhanta Satsang and Bhakti Siddhanta Satsang.


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[Assistant] And of course also our behavior, you know, the way that we interact within the community is super important so that, you know,


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[Assistant] We, you know, when people meet the Hare Krishnas, they, they get, they get something. They may not get, they feel something, like that girl that I was talking to the other day.


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[Assistant] She got, she comes to the temple and she got something. She might, at that point she's not able to articulate it, but, you know, when people meet the devotees, we want them


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[Assistant] Either through our philosophy or through our behaviour or through the prasadam.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the, the influence is almost invisible. It's there, it's, it's, it's, it's, um, palpable, but not quite, you know, you can't put your finger on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, don't, don't criticize others too. You know, Prabhupada could do it. Uhm, he was much older and, you know, obviously just so much more potent. But uhm, our influence,


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[Assistant] There's a gentleman who was the premier of the state, you know, that's the top, it's like the chief minister of, of Victoria, our state. And, and, um, he often comes to Jnmastami and gives a, gives a presentation and then encourages everybody to chant Hare Krishna.


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[Assistant] And he knows the, he knows the full mantra, you know, he gets people to chant and, and people cheer him and appreciate his presence. And he's a, uh, uh, uh, um, uh,


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[Assistant] If the, if the white Caucasian, Anglo, Aussies are the original, of course the original Australians are actually the, the original Indigenous people, but that's anyway, that's another thing. But uhm,


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[Assistant] We've had numerous conversations and, and he's told us, he said, you guys have changed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. Madhyam, you know, an advanced Madhyamadikari is strict with himself, right, but is quite flexible and


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[Assistant] But then he used to, when he was building a Ruth card, he used to assemble an, uh, you know, he'd have a, he'd have a monkey army, uh, helping him, you know, build a Ruth card.


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[Assistant] Being patient. Being patient. And also, you know, there are certain levels of association that we don't tolerate and can't, you know, live with. So it's not that, you know, we're foolish about our association, we're not.


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[Assistant] We encourage anybody to participate and we know that because we're so tightly bunched together, and Prabhupada gives the example of the sticks, one little stick can be easily broken, bunch of sticks, impossible. So,


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[Assistant] Long as we stay tightly bunched up together, that's our morning program, our evening programs, our acceptance of prashadam, you know, our sun, if you like.


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[Assistant] It's a group of devotees that come together to chant Hare Krishna, to hear the philosophy, to worship the deity, to share our sadhana. Right, our Krishna consciousness basically. And we do that, that's a closed environment, we don't let just any old


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, coming to that environment, but that's where we build, that's where we nourish our Krishna consciousness.


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[Assistant] Buy ourselves a little stick, quite easily broken, but put a bunch of sticks together.


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[Assistant] Deity worship, Channing Japa, worship of the spiritual master, living in a, well, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and looking after people too, really looking after them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think you can definitely train people, but at the same time also it is by association.


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[Assistant] Uh, we generally train the devotees how to cook and how to serve a lot of it by association. Uhm, but also, uhm, in our training,


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[Assistant] If we were really, really, really, you know, highly developed, we


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[Assistant] And that's where we want to go, but we're not quite there yet. We would have courses on these. Oh, okay. Yeah, identifying. Here's one thing you can do.


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[Assistant] Pushadam distribution, but of course I think that's ISKCON, that's what ISKCON, that's what we, you know, that's what a temple is for. What's the end result of a, of a, of a,


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[Assistant] Or of the morning program, what's the end result after you've done an RT and everything's washed up and cleaned up, what have you got?


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[Assistant] We dress the deities, we, we, well, we, we do offerings and then you've got Mahapashadam.


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[Assistant] Right, and so there's hot worries for those people, and there's already, there's already subgy in the pot that's been kept warm, right?


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[Assistant] They go down to the kitchen just to see what's being offered because that's what they're interested in.


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[Assistant] I wonder what's, well, I wonder what's being offered to Krishna today. When, when you're thinking, what am I going to eat today? But that'll, that advances, that, that rock, that mood, a devotee will advance.


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[Assistant] Having training programs that teach people these things systematically is a very good idea. We don't have it at the moment. We have basic training for


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[Assistant] You know, kitchen hands and cooks and the like, and that's part of it, but it's certainly, um, should be part of, you know, your Vice Navy ticket training.


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[Assistant] I'm not doing it for myself. That's considered to be pure hearted and, and, uhm, offering


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[Assistant] We stop thinking about that and we distribute it to others knowing how purifying it is. And uhm.


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[Assistant] Of course the other prasadam is book, books, you know, book distribution. That's kind of an essential element. Hari Nam is also prasadam. Uhm, just prasadam.


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[Assistant] You know, prasadam in a sense, it's creeper or mercy, right? And uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, distributing book, you know, writing and publishing and distributing. And the same goes with the Hari Naam.


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[Assistant] Or a family person then, you know, you can't give up looking after your children and just run off and do book distribution. That's irresponsible.


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[Assistant] It's not something that, probably says we're not, um, chair philosophers.


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[Assistant] Then that also is, we're in a unique situation where we establish our relationship with Lord Chaitanya, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] have our relationship with Radha and Krishna revealed. This is what Prabhupada taught. And so, you know,


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[Assistant] Offering of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is we connect with Krishna in his manifestation as the Panchatattva.


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[Assistant] And developing our understanding of our relationship with Radha and Krishna. That's pretty amazing when you think about it, that we get that connection simultaneously. So we serve the Guru.


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[Assistant] I have a question about the prompt engineering part of the model actually, but like it's not like only to you but like for everyone, but I guess like one of the


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[Assistant] Or they also mentioned that they tried using an ensemble of some prompts, but like this is definitely like if, for example, this prompt is not


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[Assistant] Which I guess isn't, then like we cannot expect to get good features out of like those like simple prompts that would lead to like correct classifications when we do the softmax overall of them. So like, do you think that like some, some improvements can be done there?


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[Assistant] To generate like some prompts that are more like the prompts that are given in the training set, like that are more like the text descriptions in the, in the dataset for those images.


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[Assistant] My great grandfather was a Confederate soldier and I was proud of that because my opinion of his fight was for his rights. I don't know what his rights were, I wasn't there. He was dead alone before I came along.


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[Assistant] Everybody looked surprised. It was late. Past eleven o'clock. Mr. Tupman laughed in his sleeve. They were loitering somewhere talking about him. Ha ha. Capital notion that. Funny.


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[Assistant] Never mind, said Wardle, after a short pause. They'll turn up presently, I dare say. I never wait sub over anybody. Excellent rule that, said Mr. Pickwick. Admirable. Praise it down, said the host. Certainly, said Mr. Pickwick, and down they sat.


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[Assistant] And Mr. Pickwick was supplied with a plentiful portion of it. He had raised his fork to his lips.


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[Assistant] And was on the very point of opening his mouth for the reception of a piece of beef when the hum of many voices suddenly arose in the kitchen. He paused and laid down his fork.


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[Assistant] Mr. Wardle paused too and insensibly released his hold of the carving knife, which remained inserted in the beef. He looked at Mr. Pickwick. Mr. Pickwick looked at him. Heavy footsteps were heard in the passage.


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[Assistant] The kitchen chimney had a fire in it, Emma. Then inquired the old lady. Lord, Grandma, no. Screamed both the young ladies. What's the matter? Roared the master of the house. The man gasped for breath and faintly ejaculated. They had gone, master. Gone right clean, officer.


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[Assistant] At this juncture, Mr. Tupman was observed to lay down his knife and fork and to turn very pale.


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[Assistant] Lord Preservus ejaculated Mr. Pickwick, eyeing the extraordinary gestures of his friend with terrified surprise. He's gone mad! What shall we do?


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[Assistant] Thus restraining the impetuosity of his passion, while the fat boy was scratched and pulled and pushed from the room by all the females congregated therein.


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[Assistant] He had no sooner released his hold than the man entered to announce that the gig was ready.


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[Assistant] Give it a head, Tom, cried the host, and away they went, down the narrow lanes, jolting in and out of the cart ruts, and bumping up against the hedges on either side, as if they would go to pieces every moment.


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[Assistant] How much are they ahead? shouted Waddle as they drove up to the door of the blue lion, round which a little crowd had collected, late as it was.


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[Assistant] Not above three quarters of an hour, was everybody's reply. Change and four directly out, and put the gig afterwards.


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[Assistant] The lanterns glimmered as the men ran to and fro, the horses' hoofs scattered on the uneven paving of the yard, the chaise rumbled as it was drawn out of the coach-house, and all was noise and bustle. Now then, is that chaise coming out tonight? cried Waddle. Coming down the yard now, sir, replied the osler.


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[Assistant] Out came the shays, in went the horses, on sprung the boys, in got the travellers. Mind!


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[Assistant] The boys applied whip and spur, the waiters shouted, the ostlers cheered, and away they went fast and furiously. Pretty situation, thought Mr. Pickwick when he'd had a moment's time for reflection. Pretty situation for the General Chairman of the Pickwick Club.


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[Assistant] Inquired Mr. Pickwick, I guess it will. Replied his friend dryly.


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[Assistant] He was roused by a loud shouting of the post boy on the leader.


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[Assistant] And amidst the yo-yoing of the hole four, the chaise stopped. What's the matter? Inquired Mr. Pickwick.


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[Assistant] Well, I shouldn't wonder if it was, returned the old man doubtfully. Drive on, boys, cried the testy old gentleman. Don't waste any more time with that old idiot. Idiot!


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[Assistant] Exclaimed the old man with a grin as he stood in the middle of the road with the gate half closed watching the shades which rapidly diminished in the increasing distance. No, not much of that either.


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[Assistant] You've lost ten minutes here and gone away as wise as you came, after all. If every man on the line is as a guinea, give him a run it off as well, you won't catch to the shade, his side mickle must hold short in fact.


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[Assistant] And with another prolonged grin the old man closed the gate, re-entered his house, and bolted the door after him.


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[Assistant] The wind too, which was directly against them, swept in furious gusts down the narrow road, and howled dismally through the trees which skirted the pathway.


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[Assistant] From which she was only awakened by the stopping of the vehicle, the sound of the Osler's bell, and a loud cry of, Horses on directly! But here another delay occurred.


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[Assistant] The boys were sleeping with such mysterious soundness that it took five minutes apiece to wake them.


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[Assistant] Tapping a buckle here and taking in a link there, that the Shays was ready in a much shorter time than could reasonably have been expected under so many difficulties. They resumed their journey.


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[Assistant] And certainly the prospect before them was by no means encouraging. The stage was 15 miles long.


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[Assistant] It was hard upon one o'clock already, and nearly two hours were consumed in getting to the end of the stage.


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[Assistant] Here, however, an object presented itself which rekindled their hopes and reanimated their drooping spirits.


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[Assistant] Would have been here before, said the hostler, but they broke a trace. It-


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[Assistant] But Mr. Jingle only answered with a contemptuous smile and replied to his menaces by a shout of triumph as his horses, answering the increased application of whip and spur, broke into a faster gallop and left the pursuers behind.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pickwick had just drawn in his head, and Mr. Wardle, exhausted with shouting, had done the same, when a tremendous joke threw them forward against the front of the vehicle. There was a sudden bump, a loud crash, a way rolled a wheel, and over went the chaise.


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[Assistant] And as soon as he had gained his feet, extricated his head from the skirts of his greatcoat which materially impeded the usefulness of his spectacles. The full disaster of the case met his view.


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[Assistant] Old Mr. Wardle, without a hat, and his clothes torn in several places, stood by his side, and the fragments of the shades lay scattered at their feet.


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[Assistant] The post boys, who had succeeded in cutting the traces, were standing disfigured with mud and disordered by hard riding by the horse's heads.


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[Assistant] About a hundred yards in advance was the other Shays, which had pulled up on hearing the crash.


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[Assistant] The postillions, each with a broad grin convulsing his countenance, while viewing the adverse party from their saddles,


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[Assistant] The day was just breaking, and the whole scene was rendered perfectly visible by the grey light of the morning.


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[Assistant] Hello, shouted the shameless jingle. Anybody damaged? Elderly gentlemen, no lightweights. Dangerous work, very.


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[Assistant] You're a rascal! roared Wardle. Ha ha! replied Jingle. And then he added, with a knowing wink and a jerk of the thumb, towards the interior of the chaise. I say, she's very well, desires her compliments, begs you won't trouble yourself. Love to Tuppy! Won't you get up behind, drive on boys.


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[Assistant] Nothing in the whole adventure, not even the upset, had disturbed the calm and equable current of Mr. Pickwick's temper.


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[Assistant] The villainy, however, which could first borrow money of his faithful follower and then abbreviate his name to Tuppy, was more than he could patiently bear. He drew his breath hard and coloured up to the very tips of his spectacles, as he said, slowly and emphatically.


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[Assistant] Interrupted Wardle. That's all very well. But why are we statin' talking here? They'll get their license and be married in London. Mr. Pickwick paused, bottled up his vengeance, and caulked it down. How far is it to the next stage? Inquired Mr. Wardle of one of the boys. Six mile, ain't it Tom? Raider better. Raider better nor six mile, sir. Can't be helped, said Wardle. We must walk it, Pickwick. No help for it.


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[Assistant] So, sending forward one of the boys on horseback to procure a fresh chaise in horses.


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[Assistant] And leaving the other behind to take care of the broken one, Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Wardle set manfully forward on the walk.


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[Assistant] First, tying their shawls round their necks and slouching down their hats to escape as much as possible from the deluge of rain, which, after a slight cessation, had again begun to pour heavily down.


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[Assistant] But today, we're gonna take everything down and store it away. So, let's get started.


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[Assistant] Aww, look at little Bella. As I'm clearing things off of the shelves, I realize I glued some things down, so...


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[Assistant] For the most part, the room is all white. We did have some things that just wouldn't come off the wall. And we noticed that we have a few holes in the floor from stuff falling off of the shelves. The wall on the side here has bowed a little.


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[Assistant] Let's make it a shelving unit. I measured my foam board to 8 inches, cut on the lines drawn, then hot glue it


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[Assistant] On to the side. Cut and glue on a floor extension. I'm gonna add another piece of foam board underneath the whole room.


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[Assistant] For a little extra support. Let's cover the floor with a nice dark wood scrapbook paper.


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[Assistant] I'm using a glue stick. The floor is down now and I like it. It creates a really nice contrast between the floor and the walls. Now we need to cover all of that. Maybe we can use this distressed brick.


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[Assistant] I have to glue it on, working around the shelves. I got a few creases in there, but we're just gonna say it adds to the texture. I'm running out of paper, so I'm having to


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[Assistant] Think of it like a throw. That's gonna add some texture to this space. We can still reach the drawers underneath. We made a few new pillows. I picked this faux fur up at Halloween.


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[Assistant] And it has the coolest little design. For a tiny splash of color, I'm gonna add some light blue pillows. I'm gonna recover the stool with more white faux fur. Double the fluff! Now it's even softer.


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[Assistant] Another camera that I got on a trip as a souvenir, my picture of Bella, and a few of our printable books.


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[Assistant] Cut popsicle sticks at an angle, take one, turn it around, and glue it


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[Assistant] Glue it to the top to make a hanger. So we can hang up some of our clothes. Place our shoes in the bottom of the closet. Store small fashion accessories on the top shelf in the closet to complete our little makeover.


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[Assistant] I ordered an extra wig for our doll. This is a long black wig. I really like having options.


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[Assistant] The wig has a fabric wig cap, a little part at the top. This is really nice hair.


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[Assistant] Didn't order one last time, this time I feel like I just kinda had to. This was 5,500 yen. Today, right now, that is about $50. Which is kind of a lot for a doll shirt. Most of the smart doll apparel is kind of pricey, so...


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[Assistant] So you might want to read over that. It goes over a few things like avoid prolonged periods and strong light. Keep the joints dry. Whatever you do, don't feed them after midnight. Funny. Use stain prevention measures if using dark clothing. So once again, we have to worry about staining with our very expensive dolls.


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[Assistant] Here is the doll. Wrapped in bubble wrap. These dolls are 24 inches long. These are very large dolls. They arrive dressed in undergarments. And now I would like to introduce our newest smart doll, Genesis.


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[Assistant] Her eyes are a lot smaller. The nose is more pronounced.


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[Assistant] Which means it is possible to scratch her, so we need to be careful when handling. She is fully articulated. The head can move all kinds of ways. If you love articulation, then smart dolls are like,


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[Assistant] A dream. She has a wide range of motion at the chest, she bends from side to side, and actually stays there. Cause you know she has like a spine. Have you ever watched the Smart Doll videos? They have spines. They move at the shoulders, the elbow,


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[Assistant] The wrist, we have full rotation there. The hip, and the knee, as well as the ankle. The stand fits into the back.


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[Assistant] Now let's get this girl some clothes. The t-shirt is very easy to get on and it looks great.


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[Assistant] Pair it with a pair of smart doll pants and she's good to go. Now let's make her something quick to expand her wardrobe. I'm gonna use this light teal t-shirt I picked up at the dollar store. Some leftover pink and white.


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[Assistant] This is going to be a loose fit top, so we have some allowance here. Connect the shoulder to under the arm.


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[Assistant] I'm doing this at a straight angle. Then go down to the leg. I folded the paper in half right down the center of the body so we get the sides even. Trace the length of the arm to make a pattern for the sleeve. Cut the sleeve out, place it next to the pattern for the body,


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[Assistant] And let's make some minor adjustments. I traced the body pattern again and made the neckline a little lower for the front. Place the patterns on the fold of the fabric. Cut it out. Remove the collar from the shirt. Repeat for the sleeves. I did one in white.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna line up the raw edges, starting in the back.


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[Assistant] And sew it on using a zigzag stitch. When you get all the way around, allow it to overlap just a little.


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[Assistant] Open it up so the good side is facing up, take the leftover shirt collar, line it up at the bottom edge, sew a zigzag line along the edge, pulling the collar slightly as you go.


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[Assistant] Creating a slight gather. Line up the edges for the other side and sew from one sleeve all the way to the bottom. Turn it inside out. Iron it flat to make a long sleeve t-shirt dress perfect for chillin' in her new room.


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[Assistant] Now let's check out some of the hands. Their hands are a soft vinyl and they're pretty easy to remove. Then you just put the new hand on. And she's ready to take the most adorable selfies.


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[Assistant] Anne knew at once that something was wrong. Matthew looked much older than before.


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[Assistant] What's the matter with him? Anne asked Marilla.


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[Assistant] He's had some heart trouble this year, replied Marilla. He really isn't well. I'm worried about him. And you're not looking well, Marilla, said Anne.


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[Assistant] Now you must rest while I do the housework. Marilla smiled tiredly at Anne. It's not the work. It's my head.


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[Assistant] It often hurts behind my eyes. I must see the doctor about it soon. But another thing, Anne.


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[Assistant] Have you heard anything about the church bank? I heard it was having a difficult time. All our money is in that bank. I know Matthew's worried about it.


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[Assistant] The next morning, a letter came for Matthew.


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[Assistant] Marilla saw his grey face and cried, What's the matter, Matthew?


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[Assistant] Anne, who was bringing an armful of flowers into the kitchen, saw his face too. Suddenly, Matthew fell to the ground.


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[Assistant] Anne dropped her flowers and ran to help Marilla. Together they tried everything, but it was too late. Matthew was dead.


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[Assistant] It was his heart, said the doctor, who arrived a little later. Did he have any bad news, suddenly? The letter, cried Anne. Shall I see what's in it? Oh, Marilla, look. The church bank has had to close down. Your money and Matthew's has all gone.


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[Assistant] Everybody in Avonlea was sorry to hear that Matthew was dead. For the first time in his life, Matthew Cuthbert was an important person. At first, Anne couldn't cry.


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[Assistant] But then she remembered Matthew's smiling face when she told him about the Avery Prize. Suddenly, she started crying and couldn't stop.


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[Assistant] Marilla held her in her arms and they sobbed together. Crying, can't bring him back, whispered Marilla. We'll have to learn to live without him, Anne.


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[Assistant] In the next few weeks, Anne and Marilla.


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[Assistant] Worked hard together, on the farm and in the house.


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[Assistant] Everybody in Avonlea was very kind to them, but it was a sad time.


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[Assistant] Nah man, not even bro, I just was trying to participate. I just got off tour, so I just wanted to go to Miami and just go on some type of vacay and the second day in I just fucked it up.


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[Assistant] So pretty much, uh, I met Bieber through Floyd Mayweather. Jesus Christ.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Floyd's daughter, I think she messed with my music and shit, like she was a fan and I guess she put them on. So, he reached out to me on Twitter, we was talking on Twitter for a minute, then he introduced me to John Shahibi, which is Justin Bieber's business partner.


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[Assistant] And I've just been fucking with them for a minute, you feel me? Just building business relationships, you feel me? And last night, it was like my first time being Bieber. Right. We was, we was, uh, we went to Catch, uhm, then we went to One Oak.


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[Assistant] Bro, this shit just, it's all starting to happen for me now, so uhm, I would say like, I've been doing music for like two, three years now. That's it? Yea, uhm, I got signed last year.


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[Assistant] My mom had five boys and shit, and she was a single parent. You were the youngest one, or where were you at? I was like in the middle. I got two older, two younger. One of my brothers is autistic though, so it was like, he was like kinda younger than all of us. We had to take care of him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, just, just fucked up. Like, family wasn't really rocking with us like that, like. So growing up, like, we was moving around a lot. Like, I moved, I probably lived in like...


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[Assistant] Fuckin' everywhere, bro. I lived in Virginia, I lived in New York. A lot of places in PA, Philly.


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[Assistant] This shit was rough, bro, like, you feel me, like, we didn't really have, like, all the up-to-date clothes that everybody wanted, like, I wanted to be fly, you feel me, I had the swag and all that shit, but I just didn't have the clothes or the money, you feel me, like, my uncle used to take care of us, but he got killed and shit, so that shit, boy, you had me, like, everything went down the drain.


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[Assistant] Crying like six or seven kids. Right. With another female.


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[Assistant] They tried to hash it out, but you feel me, like she eventually stabbed him, killed him, in the middle of the street, in front of their family and all this, in front of their kids, all of this.


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[Assistant] Hell yea, bruh, I got one, I got a daughter. She's three. She's crazy, so.


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[Assistant] Like I kept catching little ass cases, like little weed cases, little shit in a way, and I stopped pro- like reporting to my probation officer. They kept giving me chances, like letting me out.


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[Assistant] You feel me? Put me in drug and alcohol programming shit and I stopped going to that shit.