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[Assistant] Again, when there's a sense of samadarshanah, of equal vision between the genders, between the ashrams, between vocations, I could add to that, between gurus. This is another important principle in Krishna House, that we teach the students that


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[Assistant] Don't give so much focus to your guru. Put your focus on Prabhupada.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but we sort of turned it on its head. And now we say, my guru is so great, he even has me as a disciple. Look how great I am and I am making my guru great.


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[Assistant] Yes, we have our gurus, but it's not a big deal. It's not a public, uh, discussion. You know, that's the first question we always ask each other. Who's your guru? Right? That's our ISKCON standard.


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[Assistant] We are in process of doing that in two respects. First, one of our graduates has now taken over the leadership of Krishna House. I have retired.


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[Assistant] Uh, element is that these students who have graduated have gone to ISKCON communities all over the world, really.


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[Assistant] And they have this Krishna house experience in their heart.


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[Assistant] Now, I wanted to define Western at the outset of our conversation, but better now, better late than never.


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[Assistant] Practices that I'm describing, they certainly apply here. I don't know if they'll apply in other parts of the world. I've never preached in other parts of the world.


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[Assistant] It's not only a wealthier country which gives people more options and more attachments, but these countries are very homogenous in their ethnicity.


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[Assistant] America and Canada and Australia, Western Europe, very diverse ethnicity.


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[Assistant] Also the Western culture, at least in North America, much younger, more fluid society. It's uncommon for people to be very connected with their families multi-generationally. And people have much shallower roots.


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[Assistant] So will Krishna House be replicated? That's my hope now that I have retired when this pandemic is over. I hope to put my energy there.


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[Assistant] What I'm planning to do, yes, is, uh, wrap it up within the next two or three weeks and then just make it available as widely as possible as a free ebook download.


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[Assistant] You have a particular service for Krishna that is unique between you and Krishna. What that manifests as will show in time.


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[Assistant] So all you need to do in your self-realization is pursue what makes you happy under guidance from a guru.


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[Assistant] Your spiritual opportunities have no restriction based on your gender.


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[Assistant] For the Westerner, it's very important to remove these constructs. It says you must, based on your gender, serve in this way or that way.


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[Assistant] Now this is not to criticize how it might be done in other parts of the world.


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[Assistant] If you want to be a housewife, that's fine. If that's your nature and inclination, there's nothing wrong with that. If you're a woman and you want to be a business executive,


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[Assistant] That's fine, if that's your nature and inclination. There's no constraint. Uh, this is what works.


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[Assistant] This is one of the causes, and again, this is dating back to Prabhupada's time, where marriages would be arranged rather informally.


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[Assistant] So to help with the longevity of marriage, we, we encourage young men first to answer the question how you will support before you even think about who you want to marry. You know, first deserve, then desire.


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[Assistant] Very strict for men. Don't even think about if you want to be an ashramite. We will help you. We will give men some period of time where they can live in the ashram with no financial obligation and very little service obligation.


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[Assistant] So that they can pursue their, their vocational development.


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[Assistant] If they have been serving as brahmacharis or spent some time at Krishna house and learned and contributed will help them transition, will give them shelter for that period of their lives so that they can make that step.


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[Assistant] This is what I went through when I transitioned. Uhm, I was, you know, living in the ashram one day when I wanted to get married. I was more or less out on the street on my own after 10 years of service, you know.


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[Assistant] Who has not yet dealt with his vocational and economic responsibilities, then you will get what you deserve.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, premarital counseling, uh, restricted association. Again, if they're ashram residents, they can, they can meet and talk, but only in public places. And then they, they are


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[Assistant] To some extent. But, you know, it's, Shiva Prabhupada arranged these marriages, initially,


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[Assistant] And when he saw them breaking up, the first marriage that broke up in ISKCON, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] You can read the letters. There's so much emotion he's stunned that they would be breaking up their marriage. He just was incomprehensible to him. So I very much agree with what you're saying.


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[Assistant] I'd like to tell you a story after Prabhupada's departure, how things were done. In one big temple, in a big city, the policy was that


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[Assistant] If men or women decided they wanted to get married, they would go and tell the temple president. And then the temple president would suggest


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[Assistant] So you can talk this weekend and decide. Talk it over this weekend and decide. So they'd have two days to get acquainted. And then, uh,


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[Assistant] And it was very crowded so the, the park, there was nowhere to park the car so.


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[Assistant] The man said to the woman here, you stay here in the car. I'm gonna run in and see if they'll give me the license because you're here watching the car.


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[Assistant] And so I went in and asked at the counter and yes, yes, no problem. That happens all the time. What's your wife's name?


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[Assistant] What we try to do is build marriages on spiritual principles.


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[Assistant] I always encourage people, the first qualification to look for in a spouse is are they fixed up in Krishna consciousness? Are you going to marry someone who's going to give you good association throughout your life?


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[Assistant] We don't have that social history. This is a big weakness in India and America.


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[Assistant] That, that preserves the sanctity of marriage.


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[Assistant] Kali Yuga marriage will be only on the basis of mutual attraction.


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[Assistant] So we try to prevent that. Uh, I give them this example that if marriage is going from point A to point B,


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[Assistant] Going from point A to point B, then you're going to get out of your car when you get there. So,


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[Assistant] Do you need to have a Mercedes to get you from point A to point B, or will a Toyota do?


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[Assistant] If the purpose is getting you to this next stage of life, does it have to be the most, why are you so particular about which car it's going to be? You want to make sure that it runs. You want to make sure that it's reliable.


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[Assistant] But as far as all the, the bells and whistles and accoutrements, these are, is that really so important? So in this way, I try, you know, to encourage you.


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[Assistant] You could say the institution of marriage is like the journey, the transportation.


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[Assistant] So is it really so important you've got to have every little detail you want in this car? Because it's not going to last forever. If it will serve to get you to your next stage of life, then this is what's important.


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[Assistant] So I have godbrothers and god sisters who, mostly godbrothers, who have never married because they never found the perfect Radharani.


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[Assistant] But we don't have the advantage of parents or family as you have in India, which is a beautiful system.


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[Assistant] Prepare them with this kind of vocational requirement, restrained association, premarital counseling, and mentorship.


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[Assistant] Well, I've been married for 37 years and we were, my wife and I were advised when we were considering marriage, our charts were not very compatible.


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[Assistant] But then one of my godbrothers said, you know, serious devotees like this woman don't grow on trees.


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[Assistant] So, we have found, despite our different characteristics, there's tremendous compatibility in our shared interest in Krishna consciousness and practice of bhakti.


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[Assistant] The main compatibility is spiritual, uh, spiritual commitments.


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[Assistant] That's really what we're looking for in a good marriage. So we advise them in that way. Somebody who is as serious as you are, are more serious.


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[Assistant] I think we've covered a lot and the rest is in the book, so please go ahead.


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[Assistant] To bring the local population to Krishna consciousness, it can be done with these simple things.


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[Assistant] My parents died when I was four. I spent the rest of my time in an orphanage.


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[Assistant] Staying Alive was sort of my theme song. I wouldn't play it by the rules. So I was never out of trouble.


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[Assistant] Sharing everything. Bathroom, dormitory, the lot. That's why this is so important to me.


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[Assistant] Well, that didn't accomplish anything. Now you get to bury! God, no, I don't wanna, it's gonna eat me, so you get to bury!


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[Assistant] If you're gonna build a baseball player, from scratch, you'd go, just, forget the plants, him. Just make it him.


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[Assistant] Beer was in the clubhouse. Bottles of beer all over the place. So he'd have two or three just to replenish his fluids. Well, he's already got a buzz on. He said, well, I was drunk before I left the ballpark. Then I'd go out and have a couple of drinks and dinner. Now I'm really plastic.


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[Assistant] I've lived without a dad since I'm fifteen. Mickey was eighteen, so I know that feeling. I know that loss when you do something great, you want to pick up the phone and say, hey, you want to look in the stands and see him go.


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[Assistant] When you don't have it, it's a big hole and you either come to grips with it and value the good times or you remain this hurt little kid and do stuff to make it try to disappear. And that's what he tried to do.


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[Assistant] This young kid inherits fear. He inherits, I'm next. He inherits a death sentence. I'm gonna die before I'm 40.


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[Assistant] That fear drove him to despair. It drove him to the bottle, it drove him to


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[Assistant] He always felt he didn't do well enough. An image of his father just looking down saying, you screwed up kid, you screwed up.


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[Assistant] He never could be what his father wanted for him or expected of him. It just wasn't good enough.


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[Assistant] In my mind, he's as strong and about as box and as sturdy of leg as he's ever been in his life.


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[Assistant] And he faced it with more strength and more courage than he may have even thought that he had himself.


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[Assistant] I felt that my childhood had finally ended, and I was in my forties.


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[Assistant] He just did the little things all the time and he just had this little smirk on his face.


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[Assistant] We were getting ready to go out and Mickey had just, uh, combed his hair and he looked at the mirror and he goes, Oh, you're handsome.


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[Assistant] You know, cause he knew I walked in the room and it was gonna get a laugh from me.


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[Assistant] Well, that's that. I hope everything turns out all right for you. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] So do I. You're marrying him because you're looking for the security you've never had.


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[Assistant] I walked up to Mickey Mail and introduced myself. I'm probably one of the first kids in this country named after you, born in 1953.


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[Assistant] You know what kid, you know how many kids in this country are named after Mickey Mouse? He said, go away, don't bother me.


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[Assistant] Pero bago siya mapunta sa Limelight, hindi naging madali ang pinagdaanan ni John.


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[Assistant] Nagwagi ang Isle of White England born boxer sa isang torneo na naging golden tiket nya para makasama sa British Army boxing team hanggang sa dumating ang pagkakataong makapagdala siya ng karangalan para sa Pilipinas.


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[Assistant] Let's grab the chance na matutunan mula sa 2017 Seagames Gold Medalist ang ilan sa basic punches. Tom's gonna teach me mga basic punch.


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[Assistant] Okay, now I'm gonna talk about events. And an event is just an occurrence of some action.


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[Assistant] This Microsoft Excel objects folder and then double click onto this workbook module. And when you do that and you change this dropdown to workbook, you'll have some code that automatically pops up and it automatically pops up because there are default events


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[Assistant] That are written for you. Uhm, you just have to write the code to do whatever you want to do when those events happen.


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[Assistant] So this event that, the default event that pops up is the workbook open event. So this is the event that you open the workbook. And where, you know, what is this drop down over here? This drop down contains other events that are related to the workbook. So when you open a workbook or when you, uh, activate a sheet in the workbook,


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[Assistant] Or do all these other things, like in the workbook when you, uh, activate the window or resize the window, you can write code.


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[Assistant] So, let's see some of this in action. Let's see an event in action.


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[Assistant] The workbook opens, let's just put a message box, message box, you open.


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[Assistant] And then that's all we want to do, just to show you what an event is.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to close the workbook now over here. I'm going to close it, click save. Now the workbook is closed and what's going to happen is that when I open the workbook again, the open event is triggered and that code I just wrote is going to be executed and we're going to see a message box. So there's the message box and that was, that, that happened because the, the, the opening event happened.


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[Assistant] So it's just an occurrence of something, and when I say something,


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[Assistant] Here's all the somethings, you know, the opening of the workbook or...


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[Assistant] You don't need to memorize any of this stuff, but they're available to you. This is all defaulted, this is all default code, so you don't have to write the code for these events. Uhm, like if, I don't know what this, oh, so before close, if I double click this, if you double click any of these events in the drop down, you get this code that pops up for you.


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[Assistant] And you can write code then, real simple. You know, you can write code to do stuff in here.


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[Assistant] Most likely you won't need to because a lot of them are...


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[Assistant] If I, if I change a sheet in a workbook, uh, you could use the sheet activate event. So here's


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[Assistant] Some code that popped up. Again, it's really cool because I don't have to worry about writing this code or which parameters or anything like that. So let's look at this, this uh, this uh, workbook underscore sheet activate. That's the name of the event.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this shouldn't look too odd to you.


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[Assistant] A sub here that looks like a subroutine, so it's just like a subroutine. This private means it can only be accessed within this module.


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[Assistant] That this subroutine can only be accessed within this module. This bival means


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[Assistant] You can't change the value of this parameter. So this is a parameter, SH. SH is a parameter. And what kind of parameter is it? It's a object parameter. We, we haven't talked about object parameters yet. Uh, but they, they are things like a range or a cell. You can, you can put those into variables and we'll talk about them in the future. But for right now, just know that,


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[Assistant] This object is gonna be a sheet object. Well, it's gonna contain a lot of things, and we'll see that in a second, but right now you just need to know that there's a parameter, it's name is sh, and it's data type is object.


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[Assistant] And this by val means you can't change the value of whatever's passed in. So how do we, how would we use this? Um, let's put a message box that says you change or your new sheet.


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[Assistant] Is, so there's my text and I put it in double quotes and then I put in ampersand and now I can access some things on this


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[Assistant] I can access the name of it by using this dot name and we'll see that in a, we'll see what that is in a second, but if I go here to my workbook and I just change a sheet, I get a message box that says your new sheet is sheet one.


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[Assistant] That's because I selected sheet 1. If I select sheet 4, I get a message box that says your new sheet is sheet 4.


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[Assistant] Uh, if I select this sheet name goodbye, I get a message box here. Our new sheet is goodbye. So that's all an event is. It's just, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's just an occurrence of some action and you know, we've seen an action could be opening the workbook or an action could be changing the worksheets or changing a worksheet. And we've seen that it could be all these other things too.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean you can look at them or Google them. There's tons of them. And,


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[Assistant] There are also events related to the individual worksheets as well.


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[Assistant] So if you write code here for, if you have events here,


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[Assistant] This is related to the workbook, but if you want to relate events only to a sheet, you can look at


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[Assistant] Look at that here. So if you go changes from general to worksheet, you get a worksheet underscore selection change.


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[Assistant] And this only applies to the sheet one, right? So this code, it, uh, it has to do with when you change a selection. So we can do something like this, uh, message box.


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[Assistant] So what this does is, you know, this, this event, again, it looks like a subroutine because it has sub and the private makes it only available within this module here.


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[Assistant] It's only going to be available within the module. This is the name of the event. Selection, I know worksheet underscore selection change.


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[Assistant] It has a parameter that takes, that is a range object. That's the data type. Uhm, the name of the parameter's target.


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[Assistant] The bival again means you cannot change the value of this target in this code. So you cannot.


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[Assistant] Try to change the value of target, but you can access things.


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[Assistant] Of that parameter, and one of the things you can access is the address of the new selection.


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[Assistant] So let's just see how this works and you'll, you'll, you'll understand this more in future videos, but here's a sneak peek. Uhm, when you go, and again, this only applies to sheet one. This event only applies to sheet one. So if I go to sheet one and I change from, okay, there's the, there's the, uh, message box that says I changed the sheet.


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[Assistant] But now on sheet one, if I change my selection over here,


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[Assistant] I get this message box that says your new selection is B22 and that's because I selected,


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[Assistant] B22. If I change it to, if I click okay and change it to B21, I get this message box that says your new selection is B21.


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[Assistant] But watch what happens, if I go to the goodbye sheet and I, and there's my message box for changing the sheet, I can change selections but I don't get message boxes. Because that code I wrote over here,


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[Assistant] You know, worksheet underscore selection change, it's in the sheet module.


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[Assistant] It's not in all the sheets, you know, it's not here in the goodbye sheet. It's only in this sheet one, right? So you can see that you have events and they're associated to the worksheet or they can be associated to the workbook, you know, and there's all these different types of events that you can


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[Assistant] Just double click these objects over here, whether you want your event to be associated with a worksheet, click on that, go to worksheet, and here's all the events associated with this worksheet.


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[Assistant] Uh, events associated with the workbook, like opening it or activating the sheet.


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[Assistant] You can select a drop down for workbook and then here's all your events associated with a workbook. But that's all events are. They're again, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] All I want to talk about now, and right now, you know what an event is, you know what...


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[Assistant] A subroutine is and you know what a function is and those are, uh, the huge build blocks that now we can start moving, uh, quicker and we can start


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[Assistant] Getting into some deeper things, and that's what we'll do next.


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[Assistant] Well, not too bad, uhm, actually we started teaching the hybrid mode, so one day we are teaching all night, one day we are teaching, uh, face to face, but, uh, you know, we are, we are, we are getting used, getting used to this new world order, maybe I should say.


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[Assistant] So we are very happy to have Arshul Shaikh from MIT. We are very pleased to


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[Assistant] Hear his paper on monetary repulsive and opinionated markets. Uh, we have 90 minutes. Uh, we hackle.


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[Assistant] So I think, uh, there is this, there was this discussion a few years ago, whether the dotplot is


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[Assistant] Valuable for people to understand what the reaction function is.


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[Assistant] And there were a lot of people who were disagreeing with the fact that, oh, you know, you're looking at the dog plot, you're trying to infer something from it, but there's nothing to be inferred.


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[Assistant] And there were a few press conferences where Janet Yellen, I think, and at some point, Jerome Powell, at some point he said, and Janet Yellen said, you're attaching too much weight to the dog plot. And maybe you should not even take a look at it at all.


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[Assistant] They put the long rates into the loss function.


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[Assistant] And they, they asked whether if the Fed should be responding to the volatility in the loan rates.


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[Assistant] Actually, in addition to Reffetto's point, uhm, there's a paper on Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.


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[Assistant] About how forecasters disagree on perceived inflation persistence.


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[Assistant] And the way it is identified is basically through, uh, revisions.


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[Assistant] So, the paper looks at revisions and then looks at the persistence of revisions.


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[Assistant] The paper's point essentially is they agree on the persistence of an inflation shock. More like the persistence of the inflation itself, but persistence of inflation shock.


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[Assistant] The Fed was keeping the interest rate zero for a long time, but the market consistently thought that zero lower bound would be lifted in four to six quarters or something. And which lasted 10 years essentially, more or less.


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[Assistant] Right, so, so the markets were always more optimistic than the Fed.


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[Assistant] Another point could be, I mean, another reason would be that I think this paper is by somebody I don't remember, uhm, is basically agents have different


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[Assistant] They update their information sets at different times in the timeline.


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[Assistant] So they, not, not, not, not all of them may not have the same, I mean, they, they have a lot of resources, but it, it, it could be that, like the Call of the Faerie, the information sticking is actually plays an important role.


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[Assistant] The soldier and I agreed that it would not be wise to remain at my home.


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[Assistant] He felt that the best thing would be for him to continue to make his way toward London with the hope of joining his military unit.


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[Assistant] I, on the other hand, decided to go back to Leatherhead to get my wife and take her away from England.


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[Assistant] Was that there was a Martian pit between here and Leatherhead. The soldier convinced me


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[Assistant] That it would be better to travel together through the northern woods and then separate at Chobham Road.


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[Assistant] Where I would then head for the town of Epsom, which neighboring Leatherhead.


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[Assistant] Before going, we gathered as much food and drink as we could.


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[Assistant] Then we set out on the same road I had taken to return from Leatherhead.


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[Assistant] As we ran, most of the houses seem untouched in this area.


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[Assistant] Then we began to find many dead bodies along the road, along with broken carriages and scattered household items.


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[Assistant] We seem to be the only living beings in the area.


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[Assistant] Everyone else had either died or escaped as I earlier had.


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[Assistant] When we reached the woods, we found that most of its trees had fallen. Those left standing were burned black.


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[Assistant] And its branches stood either naked or dressed in browned leaves.


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[Assistant] The morning was strangely silent. Not a bird could be heard anywhere.


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[Assistant] Then, through the stillness, came the sound of horses hooves.


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[Assistant] Through the remaining trees, we saw three soldiers walking along a narrow road toward walking.


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[Assistant] We shouted to them, and they stopped to wait for us. One of the soldiers was a lieutenant, so my companion saluted him before speaking.


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[Assistant] We lost everyone, sir. I'm trying to get back to my unit now, sir.


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[Assistant] Well sir, there are huge, metal creatures that kill with guns that shoot fire, my companion explained. Oh, come on. You expect me to believe that? He's not lying, I said. If you keep walking, you'll find them less than a half a mile from here. Well, we're here to clear people out of their homes. You'd better report to General Marvin in Weybridge. You know where that is? Yes, I do, I answered.


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[Assistant] We then left them and moved on toward the town of Byfleet.


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[Assistant] When we came from out of the woods there, everything seemed calm and quiet. Only the sight of military men


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[Assistant] And the sounds of people gathering their household things onto wagons indicated that this day was different from others.


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[Assistant] In one of the fields we could see a small collection of soldiers waiting patiently with large guns pointed toward walking. These guys have no idea how useless those guns are.


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[Assistant] They've never seen that Martian fire gun, my companion said.


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[Assistant] You have no idea what's beyond those trees, do you?


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[Assistant] The man just looked at me his eyes wide with surprise. No one over there is alive. No one.


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[Assistant] And you'll be just as dead if you don't forget about these damned flowers of yours. I shouted, and then walked away.


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[Assistant] The town was full of people, wearing their nice Sunday clothing.


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[Assistant] Gathering their things unto wagons, with much excitement. It seemed almost entertaining to them, for many of them were smiling and laughing.


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[Assistant] The train stations were terribly crowded with people and boxes. As the day went on


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[Assistant] I am told that the situation became a bit violent with people pushing and fighting each other in order to get aboard.


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[Assistant] We stayed in Weybridge until mid-afternoon and ate the lunch we had gathered from my home and helped a few people to load their goods onto wagons. Then we walked down to the river, an area of town called Shepperton.


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[Assistant] Here, people were crowded together trying to get aboard a number of the boats that would carry them across the river to the other shore.


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[Assistant] I was surprised to see all of the household things people were trying to escape with.


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[Assistant] It was as if they thought the Martians would want to steal their things. Across the water, it looked much calmer.


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[Assistant] The hotel there seemed to be closed, and the ferry was just dropping off a load of people.


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[Assistant] Immediately, the sound of a distant explosion could be heard. One of the guns had been fired. It seemed that the fighting had begun. Many other guns fired soon after.


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[Assistant] No one could see the battle, for it was taking place on the other side of the forest.


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[Assistant] Everyone stood and listened, trying to determine what was happening.


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[Assistant] There was a huge explosion that sent both earth and water flying high up into the air. Everyone stood motionless and disbelieving. Oh my god! There they are! A voice cried out. And there they were, indeed.


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[Assistant] They were coming from the plains to the left of the forest that hid the military from our eyes. The people stood in shock.


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[Assistant] Then, everyone suddenly began to turn and run, not caring who or what might be in their way.


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[Assistant] I myself was knocked over by the end of a table one man carried on his back.


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[Assistant] Struggling to get to my feet, I could hear the sound of water splashing as people jumped from the side of the boats. Then I remembered the Martian's heat ray and got an idea.


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[Assistant] I began to shout for everyone to jump into the water.


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[Assistant] Then I jumped in and waded out to the middle of the river. The water was not very deep.


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[Assistant] I could still stand with my chest above the water.


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[Assistant] The sound of splashing water was so loud that I was completely surprised when I looked up.


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[Assistant] And saw that one of the Martians was preparing to shoot its heat ray into the trees where the military lay hidden.


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[Assistant] But as soon as it raised its arm, I could hear the sound of six guns firing at the same time.


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[Assistant] Then a fourth shell came racing directly in the face of the machine.


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[Assistant] Revealing the inside control area. From where I stood, I could see the destroyed body of the Martian which had been operating the metal machine.


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[Assistant] The huge weapon now walked about without a brain.


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[Assistant] One of its arms blindly destroyed the rooftop of the Sheperton Church.


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[Assistant] And then the metal monster came stumbling back down the river bank and fell face first into the water.


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[Assistant] The river rose up in waves and the water quickly heated to an almost painful temperature.


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[Assistant] People started running out of the river, but I was too happy at having seen the destruction of the monster to care about myself.


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[Assistant] Then, from behind, I heard a man scream a warning. Look out! I turned and saw the other Martians coming. I went underwater again.


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[Assistant] I could just barely see the three Martians, only 200 meters away, standing there their fallen comrade. One seemed to be trying to repair the machine.


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[Assistant] While the other two were protecting it by standing on either side of it, firing their heat rays in all directions.


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[Assistant] All around me the sound of total destruction pounded upon my ears.


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[Assistant] Those that had not yet been touched seemed to calmly wait for their certain death.


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[Assistant] The people who had followed me into the river were all now trying to escape from it.


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[Assistant] As the ray approached, it brought with it a huge wave of boiling water.


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[Assistant] I swam as quickly as I could, but the wave came crashing down upon me, and I screamed in terrible pain.


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[Assistant] I remember the foot of one of the machines coming within a few meters of stepping on my head. It then raised its foot and with its huge stride stepped onward with its companions. I watched, amazed to still be alive.


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[Assistant] As the three machines carried their fallen comrade off into the distance, far down the river.


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[Assistant] Boys, this is the first time boys been out here on uh, on Halloween and it's the whole gang, like the whole gang is out here. We got like, Luckaline and Karma, you know what I'm saying, Marsha and May, everybody.


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[Assistant] Because we used to like, you know what I'm saying, as a, as a young age, at a young age,


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[Assistant] We were like, man, shit, I knew this nigga. I liked to rap myself. I started rapping when I was just like in 4th grade. Cause I was a good poet and what not. And this man...


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[Assistant] He was a skateboard, and I was like, man, I'm a skateboard. Like, I met him after he came to my school.


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[Assistant] And then he was like, shit, uhm, you wanna make skate videos? And I was like, yea bro, we can do that. I don't know how this skate like talking about. And then he-


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[Assistant] Came out one day and he had a, a, a guitar hero microphone. And I was like bruh, we can make a lil rap song and put that shit out. We gon' blow up like that, like that day and then...


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[Assistant] From there on we kept on making more songs and more songs and more people started to be like, yo, what are y'all doing? Y'all making these little fake songs and then we came out with like three songs on a mix tape and five songs and then more people got on it and then...


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[Assistant] Like we became this, this group called Terrorist Posse and it was, it consisted of like eight people and then...


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[Assistant] From there on, it, it kept going up and everybody kept going up and then more people were like, well, I don't have time for this. I don't have time for this. And we got older, got out of high school. I got a, I had a kid and shit like that. So this man, he took off to LA and he was just like, man,


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[Assistant] Bruh, I'm bout to, I'm bout to make a real, a real group. Bruh. Do you want to be a part of it, man? Like, I'ma, I'ma become the head of this group. I'ma let you become second head of this group. We gon' just like keep on boomin' and shit. And I was just like...


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[Assistant] We can do this, there's no problem. We just, we do what we wanna do at the same time. This is what we wanna do. And we gonna do what people...


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[Assistant] Yeah, when, alright, when we came up, this man, you know that song that was like, uh, what is it? That Rax on Rax on Rax? Yeah, yeah. Future and, uh, everybody was like, whose song was it? Yeah, yeah. My future wrote it.


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[Assistant] Why'd you make this song? This is a very stunning song. I don't know why you didn't write it first. I mean, of course people know why he didn't write it first, but I was just like, yo, if you can think of some cool shit like that to switch it up like that, man, we can go as far as possible. Hell yea. Cause we had hits from...


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[Assistant] High school, like real good songs, we just don't have those.


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[Assistant] Dressed like a fucking fashionista, right? It was so crazy, like, we would go to like...


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[Assistant] Basketball games or something like that, and at my high school...


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[Assistant] The basketball, like the whole court is a big ass, it's a basketball court. We would come in that bitch and it would be like, everybody would look at us like,


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[Assistant] Damn. What are those black guys doing with skinny jeans on in vans? And that's like, like you said, it was right before people started doing that. And we were like, man, we really ain't doing, it's just a different style. We figured out, like, we don't have to be like,


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[Assistant] We, we stretch that sling out to make it like, you can say Rude Boy in Jamaican, but the way they gonna say Rude Boy, you know, you're not gonna really understand it unless you, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] If you smoke that East Coast loud, that's shit. It's dirty. You just go to bed. If you smoke that East Coast mid.


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[Assistant] You're gonna get real high, get real lazy, and you'll be like nah, I don't want to do nothing. But it's enjoyable, so I understand where she was coming from.


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[Assistant] You don't be thinking about what that shit doing to your body, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Everybody in the golf, look at their body as temples. If your mind don't move right, and your heart don't move right, you not gonna move right. That's the main focus.


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[Assistant] It's not a big deal to me, you know what I'm saying, but I've been seeing, like lately, I don't know where it came from, anybody could have made it, I mean we not the first people to make anything up, but I know recently


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[Assistant] Okay, we just know that video is gonna drop soon, very soon too, so. Yea, that's your heart. You gotta look out for that, cause that y'all crazy.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, yeaah. I think that's one of the songs that actually helped everybody, like, get on, cause, like, I don't know, we did, we made that song, and then we were like, man, we're gonna shoot this video right now. We made it, edited.


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[Assistant] That was helping us shout out Joey, you know what I'm saying? He was like, man, we about to make this young go up. We shot a little 30 second snippet.


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[Assistant] Some shit of retweets, some shit of likes, you know what I'm saying? Right. And then, I don't know how, we put that out like, like two days later. Yea, two days later. That shit, like, we were popping wet, we weren't popping like that, and then that was our, that video went to like 7,000. Right.


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[Assistant] After the election, an alleged cabal of senior FBI people organized to disrupt the Trump presidency from within the government.


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[Assistant] A whole number of follow up questions to people. Uhm, I will confess that I've been fairly busy lately and have not yet gotten the results of those.


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[Assistant] Especially from the league level, because normally it's pretty tight-lipped. You know, we don't really hear a lot normally what the NFL's thinking in advance of decisions like this. So I'm just a little bit surprised by that.


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[Assistant] And Deshawn's cam for the most part has been pretty buttoned up. And they really haven't said a whole lot.


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[Assistant] Uh, since this whole thing started. So I'm at the point now, I, I know we have to parcel this out, we have to dissect everything, but I was on the other day and said, I'm just ready for this to be over. And I'm, I stand by like, I'm reserving judgment at this point as much as possible until we get to the finish line and see how this goes. We've said everything we can say on it.


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[Assistant] And at this point we just need a ruling. And I know they're still going through the process and they're still working that process.


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[Assistant] And if you just look at the fact that, I mean, how many days did Deshawn meet with the NFL for, there's a lot to cover here, right? Like we, that's pretty evident. Even if you are parsing this down to just the five cases, there's a lot of information that they have to wade through. And I think you're seeing that play out now in real time with just how long it's taken to work through this.


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[Assistant] That was different because it's the NBA and one player has so much more. Makes a huge difference. I tend to lean with bowl on this one.


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[Assistant] Only because it's so hard to win a Super Bowl in the NFL, and you gotta have a quarterback to do it. So they pushed all their chips in on the guy that was available. And I've said before, the last time a quarterback in his stature became available in a trade, in the prime of his career, was Fran Tarkin 60 years ago.


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[Assistant] These guys don't become available. Right. And so you have to do whatever it takes to go get them when they do. And the Browns did that and they held their nose the whole time and it's disgusted the rest of the league with the contract that he's got and the picks that they gave up. I got it.


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[Assistant] But they're in the game now. They got a chip in the chair at the final table.


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[Assistant] Because of the quarterback that they have running the offense. But I can't sit here and say for a franchise that has never won a Super Bowl, never even played for a Super Bowl, well they gotta win one or this trade's a disaster. I disagree with that.


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[Assistant] If he doesn't play, I think it's an absolute disaster. If he's out for the year, I think this is a disaster because of the picks that they gave up. Now, suddenly that pick that they gave up could be, you know, at the time of the trade, you're making the trade. You're thinking, well, alright, that pick's going to be, I don't know, 25, 26, 27.


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[Assistant] Here's a big reason why the Browns felt they needed to move on. I looked this up late in the year and I don't have Deshawn's numbers because I wrote this obviously well before the trade.


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[Assistant] Baker is 41st and 4th quarters throughout his career. So, so let's dismiss, and that's why I said we made such a big deal about the shoulder injury. I was so sick of talking, I was as sick about talking about the shoulder injury as I am talking about the Sean Watson right now. We made so big of a deal about it. Yes, he was playing hurt. Quarterbacks play hurt all the time.


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[Assistant] Mayfield was 41st in fourth quarters throughout his career, wedged between Jameis Winston and Josh Rosen. His 18 career interceptions in fourth quarters are the second most in the NFL since 2018.


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[Assistant] Like they were looking at, they were watching film of Deshaun and there was a series his last year there where the Texans had the ball, and I'm paraphrasing here, the Texans had the ball on like the 30-35 yard line. They were down right before the half and Deshaun went boom, boom, boom, touchdown in like 30 seconds score. Baker's in fourth quarter spots. Baker was not doing that.


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[Assistant] And the reason you had to do that is because of what I just said. It's been 60 years since a quarterback of his caliber has become available in the prime of his career. They don't become available. This is the price you have to pay.


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[Assistant] If they're gonna say that they have, if they're gonna say they've done this exhaustive investigation into the whole thing, then that's part of it. That's part of it.


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[Assistant] Where do you begin? I have 11 minutes. Not even, because we haven't even gotten to the Guardians yet. Okay, let's unpack this as quick as we can. Don't dismiss the currency of the draft picks, and I know you're going to say that. Agreed! Listen.


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[Assistant] When Boston traded Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn, everyone said, oh my god, what a home run trade for Brooklyn. They did. It was a disaster for Brooklyn. I talked to NBA people who said, Danny Ainge knocked that out of the park. And they turned their head into Jason Tatum.


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[Assistant] And look where the Celtics are today because of that trade. You can give the opposite example too. But listen, it's a 20-25 and a 20-27 unprotected pick. When we were texting last night, I didn't realize those picks were unprotected. Complete unprotection is incredibly dangerous in the NBA. And you can say, okay, well that's down the road.


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[Assistant] This Atlanta regime is under immense pressure to win right now. I heard that from a bunch of different people over the last 24 hours. And they stood Pat, kind of what Bull was saying. They did stand Pat last year. They said we got Trey Young, we got this young team. Went backwards. They did go backwards. And they took a step back. And now all of a sudden, it is pedal to the metal.


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[Assistant] To an unprotected pick in 25, an unprotected pick in 27, and basically an unprotected pick in 26, cause there's swap rights, that's made by a GM who doesn't think he's going to be here. Yeaah. Seriously. No it is. In 25, 26, and 27. I wanna win now. So screw it, we gotta go right now. Yeaah. The Cavs feel right or wrong, and you can disagree with this.


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[Assistant] And I've said the thing that is so good about where they are right now is their best piece is their youngest piece. It's not like...


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[Assistant] Zion, where he's already coming up on a max, and what do we do with him? Evan Mobley is their number one. He's going to be their number one on a championship type run, and he's coming off his rookie deal. They have, I'm not saying don't ever make a trade like this.


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[Assistant] I'm saying I don't know if this was the right guy to make it on. I think he makes them better. Immensely better. But it has to be the difference maker. But you also have to sort of keep your powder dry for the right guy.


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[Assistant] And I think that they can. I mean, they got Kevin Love on expiring. I roll my eyes at the expiring all the time. Because the idea of trading them for a bad contract and assets back in the day when they were doing that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Now they can try to win two or three or become dynastic. And I've actually used the Rams in the Master Baker debate of... Whoa. Master? I'm sorry? Hard K. Okay, got it. Okay.


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[Assistant] Had a guy take them to the Super Bowl. Yeaah. And they said, he's not good enough. We have to do better. And they went all in on Matthew Stafford and it worked. It paid off and they won the Super Bowl. Yep. Are you willing to say De'Jonte Murray is the piece that is going to win us a championship? I wasn't. If you're willing to say that, make this deal.


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[Assistant] But if you're not willing to say that, you have to sort of keep your powder dry for when that time comes.


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[Assistant] But, I do think Evan Mobley can be a number one on the championship team. He can be the pillar of a championship organization. Darius is a great number two. And the Cavs think that too. And the Cavs, I think they think that too. And Jarrett can be a number, like they have, I've said this for months, they have organically built


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[Assistant] There is, but I will also argue that you can find value in the NBA now much different places than you could 10 to 15 years ago. Everyone wanted a top 5 pick. Look what Miami did. Look what Toronto has done. They're finding undrafted guys and they're developing them. It is possible to do that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I mean Castillo possibly. He's not elite. He's probably the best that's available right now. And I've already talked at length about the imbalance of the 40 man and they're gonna have to do something. So they are gonna be proactive. In terms of Bieber, what's different? Well, the sticky stuff went away and the shoulder injury last year. That's where you gotta put the money on. It's one of those. We made him stop cheating.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I've, I've had conversations with them about sort of his, his legs and his delivery and trying to tweak some things. Listen, it's not working. The, the, the metrics beyond.


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[Assistant] Alright, real quick. My, my final take today is you gotta have a guy. I got a guy. I'm so thankful for my guy, my guy, Mike. Everybody needs a guy, Mike. Uh, he can do anything in the house. He can fix his own.


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[Assistant] I mean all the problems we could have avoided if I'd have known a six dollar tube of glue would have fixed both fenders on my car that were flapping around. So now my son is driving around a car with a nice little hybrid, good on gas.


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[Assistant] I have been in like a good mood the whole tour. I'm in like, I'd say probably the best like, headspace I've been in in a while. Let me tell you.


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[Assistant] I sprained both ankles on this tour, right?


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[Assistant] A boot and a brace. This one right before the tour. This one like four days ago. I've been sick the whole tour. I have a sinus infection.


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[Assistant] How bad this shit can be? And I think that probably if my mom wasn't there with me, if my dad wasn't around me, if my brother wasn't near me, like...


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[Assistant] I'm trying to impress myself. I'm like doing things to impress me.


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[Assistant] And if I'm impressed, then I'm like, happy about it. I don't really care about what anybody else says at the moment. I'm kinda like, I'm gonna do this, and if I feel good about it, then, done. If there was only one thing I could have an impact on, it would be, like, to change the world.


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[Assistant] It has become clear to me that not everyone will completely agree with my story.


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[Assistant] There are many questions about why and how the Martians died so quickly.


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[Assistant] I however am not an expert in the area of biological science, so I am happy with the popular reports.


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[Assistant] It has not yet been made clear what exactly the Martian's black gas consisted of.


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[Assistant] Scientists found an unknown substance among the contents, but they have yet to understand it completely, nor are its effects on the human body very clear.


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[Assistant] Of course, because so few people actually saw the Martians themselves, people have taken great interest in the Martian body that has been preserved and put on display at the Museum of Natural History in London.


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[Assistant] Very few of these were remaining due to the number of wild dogs that had seized upon them just after death. This one is almost in perfect condition.


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[Assistant] Surprisingly, one subject which is not very often discussed is the possibility of another Martian attack.


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[Assistant] Personally, I am quite concerned, for it seems very likely to happen someday.


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[Assistant] I feel that we should be keeping a close eye on Mars especially the area where the gun was seen shooting the cylinders to our planet. Earth should always be ready for a second attack.


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[Assistant] I think that the Martian's failure has given humans a hint as to how to defend themselves should history repeat itself.


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[Assistant] For example, we now know that the Martians are powerless when they first land.


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[Assistant] For they have to wait for their cylinder to cool, or they will burn themselves.


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[Assistant] We could simply destroy the cylinder during this early period. If no bombs are available at the time


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[Assistant] Guns could be set upon the Martians as they first come out of their cylinder.


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[Assistant] In other words, I do not think that the Martians will have as easy a time if they attacked us in the same manner. But then again,


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[Assistant] They may be aware of this themselves and could already have started planning a new method of attack.


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[Assistant] In any case, the attack on Earth has benefited man in some ways.


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[Assistant] First of all, it has made us more aware of the idea that perhaps we are not the highest form of life in the universe.


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[Assistant] This is a good thing because man had become quite arrogant and abused his powers over less powerful creatures like animals and plants.


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[Assistant] Maybe now man will be kinder to the animals on this planet.


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[Assistant] The second benefit is the technology that has been passed on to us.


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[Assistant] I believe that over the next 100 years, man may make incredible scientific leaps forward.


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[Assistant] Who knows, maybe one day we will be visiting other planets ourselves.


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[Assistant] I have to say that I am not as comfortable with my life on earth as I was before the war.


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[Assistant] Every day I look out the window of my study and I see the slowly recovering landscape once again on fire. I see the milkman pass my home and the children running to school and I remember all of those frightened faces as people ran from woking that terrible Saturday.


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[Assistant] I visit London and I see all of the business in the streets, the fruit sellers and the pub owners, and I remember all of those horribly burned bodies that filled the streets.


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[Assistant] I pass the still motionless metal fighting machine that today stands in the center of town as a reminder of the war.


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[Assistant] And a terrible cold feeling runs through my body as I recall that stormy night


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[Assistant] When that first giant fighting machine walked over me as I lay helpless in the mud. I am always thinking about these events.


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[Assistant] But the thing that affects me the most and always brings me to tears is when I look at my wife and think that she and I once thought the other was dead.


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[Assistant] I hope that the people of the future will never experience such terrible things. However, I am afraid that future people of the earth will experience more war and death.


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[Assistant] Not because of more Martian attacks, but because men will continue to fight with each other. It is my hope


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[Assistant] That of all the things that we learned from the Martians is we learned the need for peace on earth, for that is the best way for the human race to survive.


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[Assistant] Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Written by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD. Read by Sen Naomi Kier Schultz. We are on Chapter 3. This changes everything.


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[Assistant] In Christianity, the definition of sin is anything that disconnects you from God and takes you off your path.


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[Assistant] Burdens disconnect self from parts and give them extreme impulses.


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[Assistant] Burdened parts either don't experience self at all or don't listen to self. So when parts are unburdened


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[Assistant] It's not only that they immediately transform, but they also now have much more connection to and trust for self, which is the second goal of IFS.


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[Assistant] When I began understanding that, I saw parallels between the inner world and the outer world.


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[Assistant] Just as people walk around feeling disconnected from each other, and from whatever they call God, what I will refer to as self, due to the burdens or sin they carry,


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[Assistant] Parts also wander around feeling disconnected from each other and from us.


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[Assistant] Their unburdening not only allows for that reconnection inside, but it also fosters more connection between yourself and whatever you want to call the big self.


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[Assistant] As we do this kind of healing, we're not only helping ourselves not have symptoms and feel better, but we are also connecting the dots.


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[Assistant] It's as if there is a peace of God for lack of a better word in all of us and as it turns out, in all of our parts.


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[Assistant] Having done IFS with people diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, I've often found myself talking directly to one of their parts across multiple sessions.


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[Assistant] As I did that, the part would start talking about its parts.


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[Assistant] And I eventually learned that the part had a self as well. At first, this was mind-blowing. Parts having parts? But after I calmed down,


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[Assistant] It made a kind of aesthetic or spiritual sense that we would have parallel, or isomorphic, same form, systems at every level.


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[Assistant] It's like those Russian stacking dolls, similar systems embedded within bigger systems. Another analogy would be fractals.


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[Assistant] While it was disconcerting at first, there's something beautiful about this nested parallel systems phenomenon for me. Although I don't know how far it goes. I've actually worked with sub-parts of a part and come to find that it had parts too.


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[Assistant] As I said before, I've come to see parts as sacred beings. They contain their own self and they're worthy of the love and compassion of yourself. Back to Christianity.


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[Assistant] This seems parallel to the idea that people are created in God's image and are worthy of God's love.


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[Assistant] Transform into their true nature and feel reconnected to something larger. Why wouldn't it be the same for parts?


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[Assistant] For several years, we did IFS trainings for the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, and all the students were evangelical Christians.


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[Assistant] I knew I'd be telling them that people were basically good and so I expected them to argue that people were basically bad. And indeed, we had that debate. I asked


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[Assistant] Doesn't it say in the Bible that man is created in the image of God?


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[Assistant] They replied, yes, that's true, but it's just this little seed in there and it's covered over by all of this original sin.


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[Assistant] And I said, well, if we can translate original sin as burdens, we're talking the same language. Their professor, Bill Richardson, summed it up nicely. You know, he said,


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[Assistant] I kind of know what you're trying to do here. You're asking us to do inside ourselves what Jesus did in the outside world.


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[Assistant] That is, Jesus went with compassion and curiosity and care to the exiles in the outside world, and healed them. The lepers, the poor, the outcasts.


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[Assistant] Getting back to connecting the dots, what if each of us and each of our parts contains a piece of self that longs to reconnect with itself?


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[Assistant] What if, by helping parts unburden and trust ourself so that we feel our connectedness to other people, to the planet and to self, we are serving this larger project of divine reconnection?


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[Assistant] I think this is what IFS offers spiritual seekers. Our enlightenment is much brighter and more sustained if all of us is involved, and we don't treat the ego as this bad part we have to leave behind in the dust on the way to attaining that enlightenment.


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[Assistant] Our parts long for connection to ourself.


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[Assistant] They all come to the same conclusion that this essential self is who we really are.


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[Assistant] I think that what's often called awakening or enlightenment is the embodied realization of that fact. And that shift from identifying with your parts and their burdens to identifying as yourself has profound implications.


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[Assistant] What we're talking about transcends any particular religion and doesn't even require that you believe in something spiritual, just that you...


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[Assistant] Come to accept that there is this beautiful essence in you and everyone else and that it can be accessed simply by opening space inside.


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[Assistant] Some meditations do this by emptying the mind, but in IFS instead of wrestling with parts that don't want to be emptied, we lovingly ask them to


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[Assistant] Open space inside for a few minutes and then find that self emerges immediately and spontaneously.


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[Assistant] Again, this is all a lot of talk until you actually experience it for yourself, so. So let's shift now to some exercises that are designed to help you get to know your parts better and bring more self to them. Exercise. Dilemma Meditation.


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[Assistant] Once again, I invite you to get comfortable and take some deep breaths.


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[Assistant] Now, think of a dilemma in your life. Either one that you are currently facing or one that you faced in the past.


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[Assistant] Pick an issue that you've experienced a lot of conflict around.


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[Assistant] And as you focus on this dilemma, notice the parts on each side of it and notice how they battle with each other.


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[Assistant] And then notice how you feel toward that battle or toward each part in the battle. Now, let's get to know each of those parts. One at a time.


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[Assistant] To do that, you're going to ask one of them to go into a kind of... waiting room.


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[Assistant] That will create a bit of a boundary that will allow the one you're currently working with to relax a little bit. So


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[Assistant] Get to know the one who's not in the waiting room first. And again, notice what you're feeling toward it.


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[Assistant] If you're feeling anything negative, we're going to ask the parts associated with those negative feelings to just let you get to know it for a few minutes. We're not going to give the attended to part


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[Assistant] The one you have in the waiting room, or any of its allies who are making themselves known.


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[Assistant] ...needs to pull its energy out of you. You can reassure it, that is, the one in the waiting room, that it'll have a time with you too. So maybe that will help it be a little more patient.


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[Assistant] If you can get to a point of at least being curious about the one who's not in the waiting room, go ahead and follow your curiosity and ask it what it wants you to know about its position. Why does it take such a strong position on this issue?


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[Assistant] What is it afraid would happen if the other one took over and won the battle?


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[Assistant] As you listen to it, you don't have to agree or disagree.


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[Assistant] Just let the part know that you respect it. You care about it, you're there with it, and you hear it. See how it reacts.


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[Assistant] In the next minute or so I want you to ask the part you've been speaking with to go into a separate waiting room. Then let the other one out so you can get to know it in the same way. And again,


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[Assistant] You're trying to have an open heart and open mind as you listen to its side. You don't have to agree.


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[Assistant] You just kind of want to get where it's coming from, why it's so charged up about this, what it's afraid would happen if the other side won, and so on.


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[Assistant] After you've worked with that second part for awhile, ask if it would be willing to talk to the other one directly.


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[Assistant] Reassure it that you are there to mediate and to make sure they stay respectful toward each other. It's okay if the part's not willing to do that.


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[Assistant] If that happens, you won't take the next steps, but if it is willing, then invite the other one to come and sit down with the two of you. Now,


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[Assistant] You're going to kind of be their therapist as they talk to each other about this issue.


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[Assistant] And again, your job isn't to take a side, it's just to help them get to know each other.


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[Assistant] In a different way, and make sure they respect each other when they talk.


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[Assistant] Remind them that they're both a part of you, so they have that in common.


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[Assistant] Then just see how they react as they get to know each other in this different way. Notice what happens to the dilemma.


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[Assistant] At some point, pause their discussion. Let them both know that you can meet with them more regularly in this way and ask them if they would be willing to give you their input on dilemmas in the future. But then trust you to make the final decision.


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[Assistant] They would act more like advisors for you rather than having the responsibility of making bigger decisions like this one on their own. See how they react to that idea.


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[Assistant] As before, it can help to remind them of who you are, age-wise, etc., and who you are not. In the next minute or two,


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[Assistant] Thank them both for however much they did and be sure to remind them that you're going to try to return. Then, begin to shift your focus back to the outside world.


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[Assistant] If your parts cooperated, it's likely you found that they really didn't know each other.


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[Assistant] This is because they've been in polarized roles with each other and had extreme visions of who the other one was.


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[Assistant] We see the same thing play out in international conflicts as well as within countries, companies, families, and couples.


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[Assistant] The more extreme one side gets the more the other side has to get extreme in the other direction.


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[Assistant] This process happens at all levels of human systems, particularly when there isn't good leadership. And it's no less true with inner systems.


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[Assistant] Most of us have neglected our inner worlds and we've left it to these inner children to try and make these big decisions and hash it out as we've been busy out here.


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[Assistant] Because the stakes feel so high for each part, and the idea of totally relaxing is anathema to them. But at least they feel a little more connected to you and to each other.


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[Assistant] This is the kind of new leadership that I'm inviting you to try out. Inside.


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[Assistant] Really, it's the same approach I use when working with a couple. I listen to one, then listen to the other.


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[Assistant] And in so doing, I make a connection, so they both trust me.


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[Assistant] Then I bring them together, make sure they're respectful, and have them talk in this different way.


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[Assistant] By now, I've led you through four different exercises designed to help you either get to know your parts or have them get to know you.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't be uncommon at all if you couldn't do one or all of the exercises or you were only able to do pieces of them.


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[Assistant] It doesn't mean you're failing, it simply means that it will take more time to build up their trust in you, and to help them get to know you better.


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[Assistant] For whatever reason your parts have a certain amount of trust in you already and they're willing to open space.


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[Assistant] That's not true for all of us. Unfortunately, some of us have had plenty of terrible experiences in our lives, but that just means that it might take a little more time for our parts to trust that this type of dialogue will be useful. At this point,


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[Assistant] You may also find yourself having strange experiences during the exercises.


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[Assistant] Maybe you become unusually sleepy, find yourself thinking about other things you have to do, or get a headache. None of that is uncommon.


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[Assistant] When protectors aren't ready, they feel like they've got to distract you or take you out in some way that makes it more difficult for you to do the exercise. Don't fight them on it.


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[Assistant] My advice is to just get to know the resisting ones from this curious place.


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[Assistant] Find out what they're afraid of, and honor their fears.


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[Assistant] Exercise. Working with a challenging protector.


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[Assistant] This exercise can prove challenging, especially if you're new to IFS work.


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[Assistant] If that's the case for you, just do your best to get to know the parts that aren't so ready.


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[Assistant] A second and get comfortable setting up like you would if you were going to meditate.


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[Assistant] Think of a part of you that really bothers you or gets in your way.


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[Assistant] One that you have a lot of shame about or one you might be afraid of. Take a second to think of one.


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[Assistant] What you're looking for is more of a protective part than a real vulnerable one. Some people immediately focus on their inner critics for this exercise, so...


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[Assistant] If you're having trouble finding one, that usually does the job.


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[Assistant] As you focus on the part, notice where you find it in your body or around your body. And while you focus on that place, notice how you feel towards this part. Because of what you're looking for.


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[Assistant] You're probably going to have some strained feelings toward it.


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[Assistant] Place this part of you in a contained room in there.


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[Assistant] That will help other parts of you to drop their weapons and feel a little safer.


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[Assistant] Make it a comfortable room, but one that it can't get out of and that you can see through a window. And let all these other parts that have issues with it know that, for the duration of the exercise, it's going to stay contained.


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[Assistant] So ask them to relax just a little bit so you can get to a point of curiosity toward the one in the room. See if they are willing to do that.


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[Assistant] You can spend the rest of the time just getting to know them and their fears of this other part, or what issues they have with it.


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[Assistant] If you can get to a point of curiosity or any kind of openness toward the part that's in the room, then let it know that and see what it wants you to know while it stays contained. See if you can communicate with it through the window. What does it want you to know about itself?


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[Assistant] What's it afraid would happen if it stepped out of its role?


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[Assistant] If it answered that question, then see if it's possible to extend some appreciation to it for at least trying to protect you and see how old it thinks you are.


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[Assistant] If it thinks you're a different age than you actually are, then go ahead and update it. See how it reacts.


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[Assistant] After it answers that question, ask what it needs from you in the future. Then check with your other parts before we stop.


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[Assistant] Just see how they're reacting as they witness this conversation you had with the protector part.


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[Assistant] I invite you to finish up in there, thanking your parts for anything they let happen, letting them know this isn't your last visit.


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[Assistant] Taking deep breaths again, if that helps, shift your focus back outside.


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[Assistant] What would it be like if we did that with our inner enemies too? Unquote.


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[Assistant] That's what this exercise is all about, to help you go to your inner enemies.


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[Assistant] Having compassion for them might be difficult at first, but ideally we start out with an open mind and really try to get to know them.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this happened for you, but if you stay with it,


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[Assistant] If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.


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[Assistant] We go to an inner enemy and listen to their secret histories and inevitably it does dissolve all the hostility in other parts of you that didn't like it. That's really great for inner enemies.


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[Assistant] They are all good parts, forced into roles they don't like, they don't deserve, and they are eager to leave, but they just don't think it's safe enough to do that.


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[Assistant] Part of why they don't think it's safe is because they don't trust you as the leader. Your coming to them this way is helping to build that trust.


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[Assistant] You might find as you do this work that things start to shift, both in your inner life and in your outer life. As you adopt this different paradigm, it's hard to look at people the same way, which means that you begin to relate to them in a different way.


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[Assistant] This has been No Bad Parts, Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Written by Richard C. Schwartz. Read by Sen Naomi Kirschultz. This was Chapter 3, This Changes Everything. Thanks for reading along with me.


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[Assistant] You get off the floor the way Archie did, then knock out Darrell. It was something to behold.


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[Assistant] Particularly appealing. He was a counter mover, a counter puncher.


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[Assistant] It seems that somebody really struck out in here.


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[Assistant] If you could. Photographers would follow him and they'd find him after a game playing stickball in the streets of Harlem with teenagers.


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[Assistant] That old man wouldn't go but four rounds at me. Archie didn't have it anymore. Archie couldn't keep up. I mean, in fact, you couldn't see the punches. Muhammad was, bip, bip, jab, move over, bang with the right hand. And he got him out of there gracefully.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he wanted to do more in terms of our relationship. You know, the great demands on his time. I don't know how that works. Those are tough choices. Between a son and a, and a, you know, a world.


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[Assistant] Uh, new bar games are right from Dorchester. Bring them round, shall I? Fine day.


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[Assistant] Four days through the canyon. Four days of struggle. Four days of torrential water.


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[Assistant] It is one of the longest existing ways to school. And definitely one of the most dangerous ones.


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[Assistant] Which is exactly the problem the 650 people living here face.


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[Assistant] Because their village lies in the midst of the Himalayan mountains, which are up to 8,000 meters high.


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[Assistant] They are isolated from the outside world in an almost never-ending winter.


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[Assistant] That's why the children who want to attend the good schools in town


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[Assistant] Two years ago he won a scholarship for the school. Since then,


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[Assistant] His and his family's lives have changed a lot.


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[Assistant] For which Motob's parents, Latak and Chosdon, prepare meticulously.


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[Assistant] Latak will accompany his son on the way across the frozen river.


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[Assistant] Every packing mistake can become life threatening on their journey.


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[Assistant] The heavy load is carried on the self-built sleigh most of the way. The chada, as the way on the ice is called, makes many demands of fathers and sons.


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[Assistant] The children living in the up to 4,000 meter high-lying mountain valleys of northwestern India.


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[Assistant] Because none of her four children live at home on a permanent basis. All of them attend school far away from the village.


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[Assistant] Her mother, Yang Dol, wants her children to attend good schools.


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[Assistant] That's why both she and her children accept the separation.


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[Assistant] Shortly before departure, Watuk, who is in the fifth grade, and his father take another close look at the river.


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[Assistant] And whether they will make it at all solely depends on the condition of the river's ice.


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[Assistant] The way to his dream? Dangerous and far.


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[Assistant] About 100 kilometers on foot, through melting ice, lie ahead of the 10-year-old boy. The Chadar has many facets, and even among the local experts, it is considered to be entirely unpredictable.


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[Assistant] Not only in the neighboring Tibet, but also in the Indian Ladakh, the Dalai Lama is the most worshipped and admired person.


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[Assistant] With good reason, parents and children cross the river always in small groups.


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[Assistant] That way, they can help each other in an emergency and profit from the other's experience.


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[Assistant] Motup and his father meet Dolka down at the river. She will join them.


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[Assistant] The six of them plan to make the 100 kilometers in three to four days, if nothing goes wrong.


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[Assistant] Motop and the other children use hiking sticks for better support. The adults carry the sticks for a different reason.


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[Assistant] At the beginning, the path is wide, the ice strong and thick. The children are making good progress on the fresh snow.


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[Assistant] In spite of the sunshine, temperatures lie at minus 10 degrees Celsius. In the shade, it is far colder.


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[Assistant] The first three hours of the way that will last for days lies now behind the children. They're tired and have decided to ride on the sleighs.


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[Assistant] It's time for the first break, right next to the river on the ice.


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[Assistant] Thinly nights the kerosene stove. That dark pitch is water. From the river of course.


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[Assistant] Then temperatures could quickly drop below minus 30 degrees Celsius.


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[Assistant] Motup's mother, Chos Don, is visiting a stupa in Sangla.


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[Assistant] At the Buddhist monument, she will pray for a safe passage for Murtuk and Latak.


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[Assistant] During the winter months, the Chardar is the only way to leave the high mountain valley sanskar.


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[Assistant] In this uppermost northwestern part of India, there is practically no infrastructure.


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[Assistant] For many Ladakis, the Chadar is an adventure they never want to experience.


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[Assistant] But still, school children regularly make the long journey.


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[Assistant] Their first night out in this unforgiving wilderness lies before them.


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[Assistant] Latak and Thinley now need shelter as quickly as possible for the night.


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[Assistant] Finding a safe shelter by the river is an adventure in itself.


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[Assistant] At nightfall, temperatures decrease to minus 30 degrees Celsius.


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[Assistant] On the Chadha, there are no pajamas or extra clothing. One sleeps in the clothes one is already wearing.


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[Assistant] From now on, things get very serious. The most difficult passages of the way to school are imminent.


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[Assistant] The speed in which the river flows increases dramatically. And there is less and less ice along its banks. From now on, this way to school is seriously dangerous.


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[Assistant] Two kilometers further down, they reach the first really difficult passage.


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[Assistant] The ice at the edge of the rock is so narrow and thin, it seems they are stuck for the moment.


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[Assistant] With all his experience, Atak checks whether the ice is strong enough to support them.


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[Assistant] Passages like this one, a foretaste of the difficulties which experience has shown, will be awaiting them in the course of this journey.


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[Assistant] Latak and Thinley take no risks. Their responsibility for the children is too great. This time, everything works out fine.


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[Assistant] But the next problem is just around the corner. The river levels have risen during the night. Water has run across the ice cover, and another ice layer has formed. A treacherous one indeed.


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[Assistant] Moving forward on the river becomes ever more difficult.


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[Assistant] As the group advances towards the valley, the warmer it gets. The ice on the rocks gets thinner and thinner.


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[Assistant] The danger of breaking through and slipping into the water is too great.


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[Assistant] If they can't continue on the ice, they must avoid it by moving across the rocks.


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[Assistant] At all costs, Latak wants to avoid a dangerous climb, and takes another close look at the narrow parts.


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[Assistant] No chance at all. They have to climb over the rocks.


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[Assistant] The men have to investigate whether the rock is passable at all here.


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[Assistant] It seems possible. Moreover, they don't really have a choice.


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[Assistant] It's a balancing act. And a very dangerous one too.


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[Assistant] Thinly fights his way up the rock, inch by inch, in his rubber boots.


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[Assistant] The higher he climbs, the more difficult the passage gets. The rock ledge is the crux.


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[Assistant] Far more narrow, steep, and difficult. The descent to the river.


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[Assistant] Thinly gropes his way down without safety ropes. One false step, and he falls over together with his backpack.


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[Assistant] Now, the first really great challenge on their way to school lies ahead of them.


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[Assistant] Done. The next passage is easier, especially on the sleigh. From time to time the clear ice surfaces. The right moment to catch a breath.


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[Assistant] Like this, the way to school is fun, and time flies for the next few kilometers.


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[Assistant] The next day, day three, the weather has suddenly changed. The fathers had been expecting this already yesterday. It's snowing. Fresh snow means rising temperatures and therefore rising water levels. Here in the narrowest and steepest part of the canyon, this could have serious consequences.


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[Assistant] It quickly becomes obvious that again he and the children will not get away from the high water.


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[Assistant] In fact, the condition of the ice coverage is ominous. Menacing, worrisome, threatening.


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[Assistant] Latak dares to go on to this passage together with the two boys and Seshma. The rubber boots are impermeable, but not lined.


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[Assistant] After 200 meters, he is absolutely exhausted and needs to be carried.


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[Assistant] Water has seeped into his boots at these icy temperatures.


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[Assistant] Thinly didn't pack extra dry socks for himself though.


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[Assistant] And so the old ones in the wet rubber boots will have to do.


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[Assistant] For a Dolka, one piggyback ride is already enough.


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[Assistant] The destination seems within reach. Only a few minor tricky passages lie ahead of them now.


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[Assistant] On the one hand, they are simply tired out after 90 kilometers of marching. And on the other hand, the rising temperatures are melting the ice more and more.


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[Assistant] Here, a few kilometers away from the road leading to Leh, it once again gets really dangerous.


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[Assistant] The edges of the ice on both sides of the river are very thin.


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[Assistant] The current and the warmth have almost cleared the river of ice. Again, the rocks are the only way out.


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[Assistant] Going up seems to be less tiring this time. But going down...


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[Assistant] This detour, so shortly before the end, is very hard for the students.


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[Assistant] After about 100 kilometers on the river, a steep path forks off towards the street. The last real obstacle on the way to school in Lee.


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[Assistant] At the end of the school holidays, share taxis are waiting for fathers and children who have to return to school, up here in the middle of nowhere.


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[Assistant] After a four-day expedition, the boys arrive at the school gate. The girls attend a different, bigger school. They have to drive on.


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[Assistant] Two of the boys have already arrived. They come from remote valleys.


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[Assistant] Their way to school is much shorter, so their parents can visit them from time to time, in marked contrast to Motoko.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later it's time to go. The fathers must quickly return due to the rising temperatures.


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[Assistant] After only half an hour, they say goodbye to their sons without further ado.


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[Assistant] Latak and Thinley quickly set out because of the unpredictable conditions on the river. They don't know how long the ice will last and do not want to waste time.


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[Assistant] Dorcas school lies at the upper end of town. Here too, everyone prays.


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[Assistant] Then the headmaster holds an introductory speech for the new school year.