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[Assistant] Smith's practices of magic and necromancy led him annually during a witchcraft holy day to the Hill Cumorah in New York specifically to seek encounters for the spirit being called Moroni.


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[Assistant] During this time, you would attempt to conjure up the spirit from the dead.


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[Assistant] There is strong evidence that in 1824 Joseph Smith actually had to dig up the body of his dead brother Alvin and bring part of that body with him to the Hill Cumorah in order to gain access to the gold plates on which were written the Book of Mormon.


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[Assistant] He said he wanted to cut its throat and make it walk in a circle three times around.


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[Assistant] After his death, Smith was found to be carrying a magic talisman on his person, sacred to Jupiter.


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[Assistant] Designed to bring in wealth, power, and success in seducing women.


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[Assistant] While Mormons call themselves Christians, they do not regard the prohibitions of God seriously or have respect for the Christian Bible, which they claim abounds in errors and mistranslation.


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[Assistant] This conclusion leads the Mormons to place Joseph Smith above God and beyond criticism. His biblically forbidden practices are devoutly and enthusiastically emulated by Temple Mormons.


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[Assistant] Remember that that is exactly what the Mormon brethren wish to hide.


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[Assistant] While Mormons claim to be Christian, many of their basic theologies are identical to Satanism.


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[Assistant] For years, we at Saints Alive have warned of the Luciferian roots of Mormonism and the satanic worship within its ranks.


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[Assistant] Now at last, the LDS Church has officially acknowledged that we were right.


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[Assistant] Recently, a secret internal report surfaced from Mormon Bishop Glenn Pace, a member of the presiding bishopric of the LDS Church.


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[Assistant] It alleged that widespread satanic ritual abuse across America, Mexico and elsewhere was being perpetrated by both members and leaders of the Mormon Church, bishops, temple workers and even tabernacle choir members.


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[Assistant] Acts of sexual or physical torture and murder were done in a religious or occult context and subjected children to molestation by parents and other adults.


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[Assistant] At least 45 of the scores of LDS victims' PACE interviews for this report claim they were forced to observe or participate in human sacrifice.


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[Assistant] Obviously there are some who would like to lay the blame on infiltrators or individual preferences.


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[Assistant] But the broader issue is that Joseph Smith was deeply involved in the occult.


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[Assistant] It is therefore quite natural to surmise that Smith's followers would be involved in the same practices that he advocated.


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[Assistant] The kind of impression Mormons want to be associated with is the epitome of all that is wholesome.


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[Assistant] Yet the happy family façade in Mormon-filled Utah is disintegrating rapidly according to recent national statistics. In a state monopolized by a religious group that advertises marital harmony, Utah's divorce rate is higher than the national average. 55,000 women are abused annually by their partners.


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[Assistant] Child abuse and neglect has increased 212% in the last decade.


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[Assistant] With over 10,000 new cases last year alone.


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[Assistant] Rape and sexual assault for adults has increased 93% during the same period.


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[Assistant] Because of an oddity in Utah law which accommodates sexual abuse by a Mormon relative.


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[Assistant] In 1987, Bill Claudin, a lifelong Mormon, began investigations into allegations of immoral practices among the Mormon leaders, specifically President Gordon B. Hinckley.


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[Assistant] Had similar allegations been made against a Christian leader or rabbi, it would have received worldwide publicity. But in this case, an extraordinary media blackout stopped the hottest story of the 80s concerning one of the top Mormons in the world.


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[Assistant] As any image-conscious corporation, the Mormon Church responds to public relations problems smoothly and quickly.


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[Assistant] It commands an efficient and polished communications team to market Mormonism to the world.


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[Assistant] The Mormon-controlled media conglomerate Bonneville International Corporation is one of the largest owners of radio and TV stations, bringing in more than a half a billion dollars in revenue each year. The power of the LDS church and media was confirmed during a 60 minutes news expose on Mormonism.


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[Assistant] After labeling the story as sloppy journalism, the Mormons forced a rare apology from 60 Minutes and the dismissal of the producer of the segment.


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[Assistant] Mormons in political office have been able to pressure Hollywood not to produce films that portray Mormonism in a negative way.


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[Assistant] Recently, a 20 million dollar miniseries based on the book The Mormon Murders was kept off the air because it would have revealed the conspiratorial power of the Mormon Church in the Hoffman murder case.


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[Assistant] The Mormon Empire's immense economic power not only aids Mormon control in the media, but in politics also, where they look to the day when they will have total command.


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[Assistant] World political takeover and the reinstatement of the free practice of polygamy and blood atonement are just some of the bizarre hopes of the Mormon's end times empire known as the Kingdom of God.


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[Assistant] The fanatical goal of world supremacy is openly denied but secretly plotted by the elite inner LDS leadership, the Brethren.


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[Assistant] Apostle Bruce R. McConkie said, through this church and kingdom a framework has been built through which the full government of God will eventually operate.


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[Assistant] They believe that they must establish a worldwide Mormon kingdom on earth in order for Christ to return and rule on earth.


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[Assistant] Recently a massive effort has been underwritten to mount an all-out recruiting drive with the deliberate intention of marketing Mormonism as a bastion of domestic strength and middle class respectability.


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[Assistant] In addition to the 44,000 full-time missionaries in the field, Mormon advertising saturates the pages of many best-selling publications, including TV Guide and Reader's Digest.


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[Assistant] In response, hundreds of thousands of free Mormon videos and their Holy Scripture, the Book of Mormon, are requested annually.


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[Assistant] The Mormon Church shrewdly purchased airtime following one Billy Graham TV special and promoted the Mormon 800 number, hoping to capture undiscerning audience inquiries. They are spending tens of millions of dollars annually on ad campaigns appealing specifically to the Christian market.


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[Assistant] They are joining Christian organizations and targeting Bible studies, Christian homeschool groups, and churches, particularly focusing in on local passions with friendship programs.


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[Assistant] Christians must realize that the Mormon hope of appearing Christian is not reflected in their teachings.


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[Assistant] Mormon still believe that all Christian pastors are part of the great whore of all the earth. They still have the hope of becoming gods and goddesses. The Mormon Jesus is still the brother of Lucifer. They still teach that our holy God was once a man and has a body. That Jesus was begotten through a sexual relationship between the father and Mary.


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[Assistant] That the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. That the Bible is missing many plain and precious parts. That the Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on earth. That plural marriage is a holy principle.


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[Assistant] They still follow the teachings of a false prophet. They still usurp the holy priesthood of Christ. They still baptize for the dead. They still wear occult underwear with


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[Assistant] God's Word is still reliable, and it doesn't vacillate, and Mormonism is still in direct violation of the Word of God.


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[Assistant] One cannot revise Mormonism enough. One has to repent of it.


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today I am here with YouTube icon, hip hop artist, etc. DDG, how you doing bro?


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[Assistant] Nice to have you in here. I think a lot of people have been really wanting to see this happen for a while.


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[Assistant] Well, you kind of click baited that at one time. Yeah. The first time we met. Yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what was it? We met up in the, uh, the APG studio and then the title was like DDG No Jumper Interview.


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[Assistant] Gotcha, bitch. I already made you click.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so, uh, you just got off tour, I was watching a lot of your vlogs last night.


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[Assistant] How long were you on tour before that? Before the tour ended. It was two days, LA and Phoenix. Nice.


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[Assistant] I hear that. Alright, so let's go back in time. Let's talk about where you're from and everything.


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[Assistant] That's crazy because actually when I was in kinder, uh, preschool, I got in a fight with this Asian kid and I bit him on the ass because he stepped on my homework and then he went on to become the valedictorian of my high school class.


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[Assistant] And then they went on to vlogging and it didn't really work out because they didn't really like their personality that much, but it seems like with you, you've been able to kind of transition between the vlogs, the skits, the pranks, all this kind of shit over time.


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[Assistant] And like, we'll be out and about and he'll see like a group of black kids that clearly do not ride BMX and they'll start freaking out over him. And I was like, how the fuck do those kids all know about you? And he's like,


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[Assistant] This track should, that was like, what was it like, maybe two years ago, like Ricegum I feel like was one of the people that really blew it up.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? You know, YouTube, you gotta go for it. Well, you were pretty small at that time too, right?


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[Assistant] Sometimes he'll do a feature with somebody and it doesn't really feel like he...


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[Assistant] Everybody go subscribe to the new one, they would all do it. It takes so much time and effort to get people to actually do it.


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[Assistant] It's easy to forget like that most kids don't have a lot going on, so getting a like from somebody that they fuck with is like a really, really big deal.


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[Assistant] You know, I think Drake followed me like six months ago and I don't think I got a like yet. I'm actually kinda pissed too. I need a like, come on Champagne Poppy, what the fuck.


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[Assistant] I feel you. Yeaah. So who do you feel like is the type of people that have like gravitated towards your career and everything?


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[Assistant] Just like your fans in terms of the videos or the music type stuff, like who do you feel like?


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[Assistant] Tends to be your, your fan base, like where, and where do you, where do you go that it's just like oppressive how many people know who you are and stuff?


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[Assistant] And I was thinking about that, I'm like, only young people really wear hats. So that kind of makes a lot of sense. Once you get past like 30 or something, your hat wearage goes down a lot.


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[Assistant] Is it the kind of thing where you have like a high end studio or you just sort of got the laptop and the little mic in the corner?


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[Assistant] Is it hard, like, lifestyle-wise to fit in, like, doing videos, trying to record, going on tour, all this stuff? It seems like you got shit load on your plate right now.


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[Assistant] On two different channels or the same channel? Same channel this time. That's what's up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, cause, I mean, I think about that a lot too, is like how sorta, it's hard to like,


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[Assistant] Switch back and forth between all the different roles that you have sort of established in your head like for me like to go from having a meeting with an advertiser


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[Assistant] When you are your own editor in your head, it's a lot easier to like record 15 minutes of footage and then put out a 13 minute video because you sort of know what to do. Whereas Chris over here will be editing, he'll film fucking 5 hours worth of shit from a rap show. That's why it takes me forever to edit it.


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[Assistant] For what their lifestyle could be like if they were to actually hustle and like get off their ass and do stuff.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, unless you're a fucking international kingpin, you're probably making more off YouTube than anybody's making selling drugs.


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[Assistant] It'd be pretty tough to beat YouTube money selling drugs. You'd have to be pretty high up there on the cartel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it could be hard to get that girl percentage up. I think my YouTube's on like 12% female.


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[Assistant] Mhm. That's kind of like the, the, the secret to rap stardom is A. Girls.


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[Assistant] Cause you can only have so many fans if you're only really appealing to like die hard hip hop fans who are guys.


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[Assistant] It's the girls, and then it's also the kids, because once you got the young ass fans, they sit around and they watch fuckin' Lil Pump videos on YouTube 8,000 times in a row, and that's why those videos get insane view counts and make fuckin' hella money off streamin' and shit is because it's just...


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[Assistant] I forgot about summertime. Yeah, summertime coming up quick. The wave is coming up, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and if you think about it, really the problem is just that vlogging is considered corny by people because of people like Jake Paul and stuff who like,


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[Assistant] Pointing the camera at yourself or making a video about your day or whatever doesn't have to be corny. It doesn't have to be weird. It could be anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, totally. Like, it lets you build an audience that's so much, uh, more...


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[Assistant] Connected to you. Like when I think about it now, I put quite a bit of effort into my Snapchat story and my Instagram story and stuff and really it's like that energy would probably be better spent, put it straight up into vlogging.


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[Assistant] But you know what's funny about it too is just that people, people like, when I started doing vlogs maybe like five years ago or whatever, it's like people just


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[Assistant] That's like the extra step, but it's really not that different from just posting on your snapchat or whatever.


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[Assistant] And you know what's funny too though is that people always talk about vlogging and shit like they think it's super easy, but I've seen so many people try to start vlogging channels and just, A, they don't have like the confidence to be good at it, they're not good on camera, or B, they just fucking are lazy and they'll do one or two videos and then they fall off. It's like no, that's...


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[Assistant] He's got a good point, kids should not be doing drugs. Stay away from drugs.


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[Assistant] You know what I think a lot of it is too, is that people just have boring, soft lives, and they wanna like, introduce an element of danger, or some shit. So they're basically like, oh my life is kinda like,


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[Assistant] Starting to feel like a loser, cause I've never been an alcoholic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do you, uh, how do you feel about like having an influence on your fans and like, do you feel the need to often like use that to sort of try to get them to like have a better, a better influence in their lives?


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[Assistant] That's good. That's definitely good. Uhm, shit, let me take a look at my list of questions here. Oh yea, I have a question. Have you ever faked a prank?


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[Assistant] Do you sometimes look at like the corny ass white people like Jake Paul, Logan Paul and like wonder how that affects-


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[Assistant] I just don't care for them that much. Actually I think Logan Paul seems a lot cooler than Jake Paul if I had to be honest.


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[Assistant] He's more grown up, but I mean, I've watched his videos and he's just... Wait, are you friends with him?


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[Assistant] You know what's crazy when you mention Cardi B though is that she's kinda like proof that you could be a social media star and then break through and actually be the hottest in your category.


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[Assistant] Because nobody's bringing up all the stupid shit that Cardi did when she was on Love & Hip Hop.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the videos that used to go around on Twitter of her back before she started rapping and stuff. Oh my God, you know, cause that would go crazy for a Hispanic woman who's stripping and has had, uh, ass surgery. That just does it for me.


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[Assistant] Lil Pump might only put out a song every couple months, but in between that he's on his Instagram story making you laugh and getting headlines from saying some shit.


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[Assistant] And like instead, like that stuff helps. I think that's a big thing that we've seen in like the current generation is that it's less project based and that kind of is something that like a YouTuber person gets is that it's more important to put out one song.


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[Assistant] The traditional thing they fuck up is they just put out a mixtape before they're really hot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's crazy too because a lot of, a lot of like artists don't understand how to actually like,


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[Assistant] Scenic footage of the highway and shit like that. I was like, nah, you need to actually talk to the people.


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[Assistant] Alright, what else do we need to know before we wrap this up? Anything that you got coming that you're excited about?


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[Assistant] Some songs, like specific songs on our YouTube, it'll be like 3% growths. I'm like, god damn, that's even worse, what the fuck.


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[Assistant] Everybody out there is gonna get it. Not everybody, but like by exposing yourself, sort of revealing some of your humanity, it makes it like easier for people to be like, oh damn, he's an actual human being. And like that connection is like what really like builds with people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. And that's actually the thing that I really don't like is when you're around a bunch of fans and they do start walking up to you, snapchatting you before they even say hi to you or some shit. It's kind of like, oh my god bro, like if you fuck with me, like treat me like a little bit of a human being, alright?


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[Assistant] You go hard on tour? Like, you go out at night or you just mostly hit the hotel and work and shit?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there probably a lot of them are hooked on Adderall and shit, but I don't know about that.


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[Assistant] Alright, DDG, this is fucking dope to finally get a real, real conversation with you and everything. I really appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Everybody check my guy out. The way to do it I think is just to search DDG and then you'll see like the multiple different channels and stuff, but you'll see more of the recent stuff so you can figure out what the recent, but the DDG, DDG family is the one that gets updated the most recently. And then type in DDG music video, boom, then you're in the music.


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[Assistant] Six million views. Six million. You better say something crazy right now.


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[Assistant] I went to the same type interviews that he did. The pressure was great to strive for worthiness to be perfect all the time. The only problem is Kip took it a little too seriously.


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[Assistant] I don't suppose you go with the flat? Nah, that's too much to hope for.


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[Assistant] You have a lovely clear voice like a bell. If I was married, you'd hear everything you said almost, but you wouldn't enjoy it. Besides, I'm already married.


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[Assistant] Me too. Anyway, I'd be too old for ya.


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[Assistant] Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. That's hard to say with false teeth.


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[Assistant] Say, if they're showing the apartment and you're still in it, you must be broke, eh? No, it doesn't matter. What did you say?


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[Assistant] You'll get over it. You'll get over being young too. Someday you'll wake up and find everything behind you. Gives you quite a turn. Makes you sorry for a few of the things you didn't do while you still could. Are you sorry? How much rent do you owe?


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[Assistant] I'm in the sausage business. Don't worry about me.


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[Assistant] This'll be a hot one on the wife. She's down there poking her snoot in everybody's business, and they're done by that varmin. How much do you need? Don't be silly. For 500 cover it.


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[Assistant] I say she's gone. She's gone to Florida. She's going to divorce me. You say she's gone?


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[Assistant] Good for her. A pretty girl like that can get anybody. Why hang around with a man that can't pay the rent? Look here, you old rat.


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[Assistant] Say she's gone and left you? That's right. How did she go? By train? That's right.


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[Assistant] I wash your preparatory to you receiving your anointings for on behalf of... Eliza Barrett.


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[Assistant] Your loins that you may be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth that you may have joy in your posterity.


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[Assistant] Your breath, that it may be the receptacle of pure and virtuous principles.


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[Assistant] Let me see your hands. Decide you walk with stupid hands.


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[Assistant] That is for you to decide. Watch him closely.


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[Assistant] See what a gringo would want down there.


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[Assistant] Maybe also you're trying to find out something too, eh?


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[Assistant] We might pay you a few pesos for it. A few pesos? Ha!


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[Assistant] But Vernon Howell did do what God asked him to do.


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[Assistant] So that this would be a literal example of what God is going to do to anyone putting man in the place of God.


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[Assistant] I believe Vernon Howell, the one who played the part, will be resurrected, raised from the dead.


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[Assistant] They say those favored by the gods die young. I didn't exactly come here to talk about that, sir.


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[Assistant] Investigate who? Our competitors? Yes, yes, if they seem guilty. Oh, I know all of our competitors. They're decent.


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[Assistant] Of course, it's kind of hard for an old man like me to admit it, but you're usually right. Thank you, sir. How about a cup of coffee, Frank?


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[Assistant] I didn't expect heartburn, I'd expect something worse and that'd be awful. Just cheerful coffee. What are you drinking it for? Well, the girls pour it and I can't waste it. You own the place, why don't you pour them? I own it all right, but they weren't. Ah, don't let it get you down, Pop. Check the rig, will you? Might need some oil. Sure.


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[Assistant] I'm not complaining. My stomach's fine. If it wasn't, how could I eat a pile of moat for breakfast?


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[Assistant] And let that jinx know I'm afraid of it. Not me, honey. Let's change the subject matter. Accidents give me the worries. You said it, pops. Would, uh, madam care to see me to my limousine?


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[Assistant] In a couple of months I'll have enough for a down payment. Honey, just the other day I saw the sweetest 20 ton rig over in Bakersfield you ever saw. It's a fire engine red and the guy said I could...


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[Assistant] Why not? They're always talking about Mr. Norris being a self-made man and how he rose from behind a truck wheel to be president.


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[Assistant] And it's all right with me if he rose from number four on the polo team to a soft job in the trucking industry. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Had I come up from the ranks, I probably would know your name, but unfortunately... Wilson. Hank Wilson.


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[Assistant] If you'll just use the phone, I can pick up my check and my walking papers on the way out. Just a minute, aren't you the man that found my wife? I'm sorry, Mr. Denton.


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[Assistant] I guess everybody thinks nobody else has any troubles but his own. Oh, don't apologize. Is there anything I can do? Yes, there is.


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[Assistant] Find out. Frankly, it looked like just another accident to me. But I get what you're driving at.


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[Assistant] I'm beginning to think that this isn't just one of those ordinary run-of-the-mill jinxes. For one thing, its batting average is too high. For another, it consistently favors the same territory. Do any of the other men have the same idea? I'm no mind reader. Do they talk about it? Yes, but nothing definite.


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[Assistant] Well, now that we've got that all settled, how about something to eat? George, will you help? Whatever you say, Darryl.


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[Assistant] Pops, I want you to meet George Montgomery. George, this is Pops Lazy, Doris' uncle. Hiya, Pops. Hi, George. George will be working his own rig in a week or two, so give him a break. Why, sure. You check the rig, everything okay? She's okay. Did you have an accident? Cheerful. Yeah, Pops, it's a nice, bright, happy playboy.


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[Assistant] I've narrowed it down to a place in Fairview, 25 miles out of town, Clover Cafe. I know the place, a man named Lacey. Runs the garage, too. What else do you know? Company has him on a retainer to check our outgoing trucks. He belonged to a Midwest gang in the 20s. You know that? No. What can you prove by a man's past? I can't prove anything, but it's a good lead. Anything else? Uh-huh. I hit on a pretty good motive.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't like to cast curses on nobody. But since you asked me, it's no more of my duty to tell you. And you can't remember his name, huh? Seems to me his name was George.


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[Assistant] I've got to people like the guy, haven't I? She knows how he pays me to change his trucks. I've got to act like I want to help.


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[Assistant] But I tell you what's the truth. Ask Mac, he can tell you. I couldn't have been gone from that warehouse more than five minutes.


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[Assistant] And what's more, I know I set the break and left it in gear. I always do. It's a habit with me. Now son, take it easy. Take it easy?


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[Assistant] How else could you explain it, Wilson? The poor devil was obviously checking a load when your truck rolled back and crushed him. Oh no, it's not as simple as that. My truck would never have rolled back if the brake hadn't been released.


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[Assistant] You know, honey, the more I know about you, the more terrific you get.


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[Assistant] They'd like to have a little talk with you in town. Why? What gives? Suspicion of homicide. Better come along. You bet I will. The sooner this gets straightened out, the better.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, darling, but it was my truck and I was the last man to see him alive. Until I find out who did it, I... I guess I'm it.


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[Assistant] It was no accident. Somebody released my handbrake. Here's a man who wants to talk to you, Wilson.


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[Assistant] But I don't like it. Did uhm, Montgomery's report give you any leads?


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[Assistant] The day I checked in, I kinda thought that Hadley dame was making a play for me.


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[Assistant] But right now I've got a load of mining machinery in the back that has to be in Bishop by tomorrow morning. I'll be back tomorrow night.


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[Assistant] Oh, good evening, Mr. Denton. Hi, Mack. Oh, Wilson. What's that? If I think hard enough, it's supposed to spin. Just by thinking about it? That's what the book says. But you've got to concentrate. Concentrate, huh? Can you do it? No. My mind's too weak. You can say that again. Here's a receipt for that mining machinery. See if you can make it file itself. You drivers are all alike. No imagination.


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[Assistant] No wonder it won't work. Yous too dope and thinking wrong purposes at me. We're going this way, see?


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[Assistant] I get it. You're mad because I didn't come right out here as soon as I got out of jail.


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[Assistant] But I phoned you and told you I was busy, then they sent me on a run up north.


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[Assistant] Ah, no use, boys. I guess I'm not in the mood today. Holy mackerel, look at that clop.


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[Assistant] Oh, so that's it. Has Sam been talking?


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[Assistant] I tell you, it was very important for me to see her. It, it's strictly business.


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[Assistant] Well, it's kind of peculiar. He was the first to find that woman who was killed at Beaufort. And he was there when that private dig got his. Seems like hangs always Johnny on the spot.


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[Assistant] Maybe I shouldn't have busted up with him so quick. If anybody could find out what Hank Wilson's up to, it would be you, wouldn't it? You made her cry. I ain't done nothin'. Stop pickin' on me all the time.


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[Assistant] I tell you, there's nothing to that Hadley angle. All it's doing is messing up my life. The way I've been hanging around, she naturally thinks I'm in love with her. Is that so bad? No, but my gal's got the same idea, and that is bad. I tell you, Miss Hadley doesn't know a thing about it.


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[Assistant] You mean Pop's place? Oh no, you're way off the track.


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[Assistant] As it turned out, she was only making a pass, but I had to stick around. You can see that, can't you?


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[Assistant] We said we weren't gonna lie to each other anymore, and first thing off, I catch you in one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he drove a car. He drove the getaway car for the West Side Gang. And what's more, he's still mixed up with them.


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[Assistant] Only he's not driving anymore, he's fixing the cars for the poor suckers who work in my outfit.


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[Assistant] Right now I'm trying to give you a break. The sooner you talk, the easier it's gonna be for you.


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[Assistant] Don't tell me you don't know what's been going on in Pop's garage.


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[Assistant] I had my doubts about you until I heard that phone call. Who's Mary? Mary Hadley? What I can't understand is why you did it. Why did you do it, Pop? Never mind about that. It's you and me. I think it'll be a lot easier for you if you tell the cops. My truck's down the road.


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[Assistant] My name's Killer, I'm an attorney for the insurance company carrying most of that Norris load.


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[Assistant] I might have at that if you'll go for our proposition. Thank you. I'll be as brief as I can. I know you're not in any rush, but I am. So here's the pitch.


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[Assistant] You're in the clink here on suspicion of having murdered George Montgomery, a private detective. That's a lie and you know it.


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[Assistant] No thanks. Sure I know it. Montgomery got in touch with us as soon as he took the case. His report puts you in the clear. So we're working on the assumption that you really are.


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[Assistant] We'll even get your old job back for you. Special recommendation from old man Norris himself.


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[Assistant] If I can prove murder, maybe I can prove that these accidents were criminally arranged and not the fault of the equipment or the drivers.


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[Assistant] If I can do that, I can save my company about a half a million. Is that big enough?


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[Assistant] The ghillie party will figure that you've been reinstated for the reasons you have been reinstated. So they'll be wanting to know what we know. So they'll be coming around to you sooner or later to ask questions.


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[Assistant] Yes, but it'll work better if you don't know them. We have definite proof against a party outside of the company. What we'd like to do is get the motive behind all of this destruction.


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[Assistant] Well, let's not tell her anything about it, huh? No use worrying her any more than we have to.


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[Assistant] All I know is it's something to work on. Maybe she likes you. Maybe she's just curious. How do I know? It's nice work and you can get it.


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[Assistant] Alright, forget it. I have a better angle anyway. You say your girl is Doris Lacey?


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[Assistant] Do you know that George Montgomery's report is strongly suspicious of a clover garage on Highway 13?


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[Assistant] Well Hank, looks like you'll have a nice little reward out of this.


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[Assistant] I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. You!


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[Assistant] Well, let me start with this show on its own as the start of my career. It was Jon Stewart that gave me my first break when I was 18 or 19 years old and put me on television.


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[Assistant] And, and the first time I did magic to John,


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[Assistant] I see, I was, I grew up with an opposite because, you know, my godfather, you know, he, he's, he's, you know, African American. Right. The whole thing. The whole thing.


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[Assistant] Now, one time, the early idea for the TV show, which was called Street Magic, I was walking through this, and I was doing a one-handed shuffle. I was in like, uh, in Times Square, but when it was like a dangerous area. Right. It still is.


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[Assistant] And these four guys saw me doing a one-handed shuffle and just started like screaming over a one-handed shuffle and came over and I started doing magic to them and the reactions were incredible so that was like what drove me but I started to realize that in order to get really good reactions you have to do things.


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[Assistant] That provoke people. Because like right now if I did something to your reaction in this environment would be very muted. Right.


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[Assistant] Do you want to see the, uhm, think of a four digit number that's important to you, or do you want to see the ice pick?


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[Assistant] Be hard to not react too much to, but will you just check it and make sure it's actually real?


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[Assistant] I also brought with me some alcohol and this is to make sure that my hand doesn't just explode or blow up or anything weird.


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[Assistant] Today's sentence means Ramirez could die in the gas chamber for his crimes, but it carries an automatic appeal.


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[Assistant] Remember now, if you don't feel so hot dropping at the hospital, have yourself looked at.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to the Corporate Casket, a bi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. I'm the Illuminati and today we're going to be talking about Synanon.


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[Assistant] So this script came heavily requested to me by one person in particular, which is Allie, who's my main researcher.


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[Assistant] You guys remember the Alon school, the places that encourage this type of like weird group therapy where you just straight up crap on the other person that they're there for help supposedly and make them hate themselves enough to change? Well, Synanon basically invented that.


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[Assistant] They are the granddaddy of these types of places. When we saw this sentence on their Wikipedia page, we knew it was episode time.


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[Assistant] The name was chosen when a member blurred the word symposium and seminar together. I've got no idea how that ends up as synonym, but the name is the least of our concerns.


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[Assistant] Now, Charles himself has a pretty interesting history.


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[Assistant] According to one source, Dietrich was born in Ohio in 1913. At age four, when his father died in an auto crash, his mother, an accomplished pianist, made him the family male figure and her favorite.


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[Assistant] At age eight, his youngest brother died of influenza and Diedrich felt guilty and responsible. He would never bond with kids again, including his own until they became adults.


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[Assistant] At age 12, his mother remarried and Dietrich went on a jealous rage, turning to drinking and rebel rousing. He flunked out of Notre Dame for lack of effort and worked for the Mellon family.


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[Assistant] Dietrich became an AA favorite speaker and went to an AA meeting every day. During a bout of paranoia where he could not leave his room, he read Emerson's self-reliance and using it as a Bible, he quit his job to devote full time to cleaning up other alcoholics.


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[Assistant] He studied on his own in a library and his AA speeches changed from typical religious overtones to a psychological slash philosophy slam.


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[Assistant] He gathered his own following in AA and after a time of meetings at apartments, they rented a small store in Sidi Venice. The original name was The Tender Loving Care Club. They played the game in which anyone was allowed to say anything, true or not, to someone to cause an effect.


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[Assistant] Only the threat of violence was prohibited. It was a game because one being gamed could turn the game on another. They survived by begging for stale food from catering trucks, hookers doing tricks, and donations. For a shower, a hose ran through a window.


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[Assistant] This tender, loving care club became, of course, synonym.


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[Assistant] Now, you guys know how I feel about qualifications here. I do get really upset when I hear about former MLMers founding a supplement company when they've got no experience as a dietitian, nutritionist, none of that. Easily one of my pet peeves here. If you're not qualified to speak on a certain subject, don't teach it to others.


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[Assistant] If you want to share a personal anecdote or offer advice, I suppose that's fine, but I think that, at the very least, an actual professional, whether a therapist or a trained counselor, should have been there. I'm not saying Chuck was wrong for wanting to help these people, but already I feel like this game could do more harm than good.


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[Assistant] Plus it's already been said that Chuck didn't like himself very much. He didn't seem to have high self-esteem. So I feel like this could very easily have gone into him projecting and that sort of territory. That's absolutely just my opinion though. Moving on.


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[Assistant] In 1959, Synanon moved from the TLC club in Ocean Park to an old National Guard armory in Santa Monica and holy hell did they start to grow.


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[Assistant] During this time, Synanon's program was established and started to get a good reputation. Diedrich preached act as if, which meant do not try to reason as to what Synanon asked they do as thinking got them there. Just trust what they were told and act as if it is right.


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[Assistant] This source also states, in 1962, Diedrich moved to an empty National Guard building on the beach in Santa Monica. Neighbors complained fearing Sinanon could unleash non-recovered addicts into Santa Monica who came from other areas.


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[Assistant] The point I want to make here is that they were growing. However, it seemed that officials also agreed with me here about having a professional on board for things like these because Dietrich was arrested for operating in Santa Monica without a health license and out of zone. Convicted, rather than move as condition of probation, he chose to go to jail.


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[Assistant] One source reads, this made him a public hero and governor Edmund Brown senior signed a save synanon bill, giving synanon an exception from health licensing laws.


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[Assistant] Sinanon was allowed to have members kick addiction cold turkey without drugs. The medical board was to establish rules for Sinanon, but never did. The imprisonment made Diedrich a public martyr.


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[Assistant] Life Magazine did a 14 page photo spread, which a congressman called The Miracle on the Beach and Columbia Pictures made a movie, Synanon, starring Edmund O'Brien, Chuck Connors, and Stella Stevens.


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[Assistant] With its new wealth, they started building its first city in Marin County.


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[Assistant] Professionals, even those without drug addictions, were eagerly invited to join, provided they transferred their assets to the organization.


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[Assistant] And please know that I am quoting here, I do know the term that we now use is sex workers, not hookers, but that is the quote.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you unfortunately heard that all right. So from pretty early on, Synanon was getting noticed and gaining power. There's records of Edgar Hoover himself saying that he believes Synanon was a lot like Alcoholics Anonymous, dated November 20th, 1964.


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[Assistant] Everyone who has heard of them, heard of Synanon, was most impressed with their sincerity and determination. However, before extending out unqualified sanction and support, we would appreciate having some information on Synanon rather than what is announced in their news releases and public speeches. We are in great sympathy with their efforts as described to us by them.


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[Assistant] Surely they knew that Synanon started as an operation without a license, and you'd think they'd be a little bit more concerned instead of just saying, hey, we'd appreciate some info on the place. Other sources speculate that it really was the Hollywood scene, the boom of Santa Monica itself, and the visits from the governor of California that propelled Synanon into popularity.


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[Assistant] Dietrich insisted recovery rates were anywhere from 80 to 100%, even though those numbers weren't confirmed.


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[Assistant] By 1965, Sinanon started buying up land in Marin County until it had three sites in the county, comprising of just over 3,300 acres, making it the largest private property owner in the county at that time.


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[Assistant] And that same year, as mentioned earlier, Synanon got its own movie. How wild is that? A movie about a rehab facility. And the trailer is just something else. An actor named Edmund O'Brien starred as Dedric, and I swear, this movie is everything you could expect from a typical 60s movie.


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[Assistant] And I mean, look, old movies, they're fantastic, sure, I've got a soft spot in my heart for them, but, you know, this one just isn't gonna be one of them. I mean, if Sinanon was really trying to heal people, why portray them as screaming hysterical criminals? Disclaimer here, though, maybe this trailer doesn't do the movie justice. I could be completely wrong.


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[Assistant] And let's just take a quick moment to thank today's sponsor, Daily Harvest. Because honestly, some days, we all know it's really hard to find the motivation to cook and, you know, unless you're not depressed or an anxious noodle like I am, you may not relate to that, but I feel


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[Assistant] Most of you can. And when you are a depressed, anxious noodle or you're having a bad day or whatever, even if you're having a good day, nothing really does taste better than fresh ingredients down your stomach. I know fast food, chicken nuggets, all those things, those are delicious too, but they can leave you feeling groggy or just unmotivated afterwards.


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[Assistant] And Daily Harvest changes the game with that because they deliver fresh food and I'm talking like smoothies, flatbreads, harvest bowls and soups. It goes right to your door and it's built on organic fruits and vegetables.


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[Assistant] And it's ready when you are. Everything stays fresh in your freezer until you're ready to enjoy it. So you're wasting less food as well. And they don't use any preservatives, added sugars, or artificial anything.


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[Assistant] Again, that's promo code casket for $25 off your first box at dailyharvest.com. Again, that's dailyharvest.com.


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[Assistant] After just a few years, however, things changed a bit. As opposed to being public, well-known, popular enough for a movie, Sinanon just sort of began to retreat into itself.


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[Assistant] The beginnings of the cult began and they just called it the Lifestyler.


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[Assistant] The members of this group were allowed to have jobs outside of Sinanon and live outside of the Sinanon community provided they gave most of their income to the organization. This new kind of member allowed Sinanon to fill its coffers with outside money that it had otherwise been reluctant to receive.


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[Assistant] After all, the organization was leaving a lot of cash on the table by declining government funded grants. Why?


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[Assistant] Those grants stipulated that there be some kind of independent examination and verification of success rates through drug tests and the like. These were flatly rejected.


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[Assistant] This experiment with Lifestylers wouldn't last long, however, as this type of member was often accused of not being committed enough to the cause. Most Lifestylers washed out of the program, though some joined the ranks fully, leaving their homes behind as a show of true commitment.


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[Assistant] By 1968, the group was becoming even more isolationist, with Dedrick declaring that it would no longer graduate any of their members. This meant that no addict who kicked their addiction would be allowed to graduate to a life outside of Synanon.


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[Assistant] What little pretense the group had about helping addicts rejoin the outside world had been dropped.


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[Assistant] And look, I've never gone through a rehab facility program for alcohol or drugs, but


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[Assistant] Isn't the point to get you ready to build your life again? This whole attitude of once you're sober, you're part of the community forever is a little bit worrying. But Synanon with its fantastic reputation was probably trusted by these vulnerable groups just trying to get clean and move on.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit more than problematic that Synanon took the moving on part away and growing out of the habit part. The thing is, I want to believe that Chuck started off with fantastic intentions. Misguided, sure, but well-intentioned.


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[Assistant] More than 200 couples complied. When he prohibited any more children, four women had abortions and nearly 200 men had vasectomies, all under Diedrich's instructions.


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[Assistant] Large-scale defections followed, as did press reports on the strange turn Sinanon had taken. Its long-standing ban on violence was reversed. Recruits were mustered for the Imperial Marines and given intense training in Sinodou, a version of karate.


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[Assistant] There were rumors of an arms cash worth $300,000 of an enemies list of beatings and death threats. The words getting around, Diedrich said at one point, don't fuck with Sinanon.


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[Assistant] The thing is, when you become a cult, people tend to take notice. And, I mean, sometimes they do. Not so much with Heaven's Gate, but they flew under the radar for some time. Synanon, on the other hand, had a recognizable name in the area, so for them to suddenly change policies, their stance on violence, all of that, yeah, it was a little suspicious to say the least.


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[Assistant] And now horrifically, children were also being involved.


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[Assistant] This is an experiment giving public knowledge today not likely to ever be tried again except in cults where children are desired to be kept away in order to lower costs and less interfere with the adult service and bonding to the community.


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[Assistant] Starting in 2000, former member Susan Richardson, as a requirement of obtaining her bachelor's degree in humanities, wrote a paper called Growing Up in Synanon.


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[Assistant] Any success Synanon had and there was some success, it is submitted here, was based upon each member's decision to reform upon entry and the friendships, community jobs, mates provided,


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[Assistant] All establishing self-esteem, training, and meeting social needs.


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[Assistant] And just to clarify, I'm not saying like adoption or swinging or any of that is automatically cult-like behavior. That's not what this was. These kids weren't like being given different parents. They weren't being parented at all.


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[Assistant] Synanon stopped allowing contact with outsiders and Diedrich as all of this was getting worse and worse was abusing LSD.


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[Assistant] I swear, what is it with cult leaders and turning to drugs at some point? Even Jim Jones had good intentions when he started the People's Temple. It wasn't until it became Jonestown that he was abusing drugs and things took very dark and tragic turns.


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[Assistant] As for one of the heroes in front of the scenes and in front of the cameras, we have to talk about Paul Morantz. Paul, if you're watching this, and I doubt he is, he's 75 and probably has other things to do, thank you.


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[Assistant] Paul Marantz, you see, is an investigative journalist and an attorney who specializes in cults, brainwashing groups, and sexual misconduct by psychotherapists. He's considered an expert in these subjects and Synanon certainly qualifies for two of them.


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[Assistant] I can't speak for the third, but I definitely say it's a brainwashing cult, at least in my opinion. One of my biggest sources for this topic has absolutely been Paul's website because he breaks everything down piece by piece, year by year. I highly recommend it if you want to read even more on Synanon. But this is how Paul got involved.


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[Assistant] In 1977 in Santa Monica, Sinanon took in a woman with a pre-psychotic break and would not return her to her husband and transferred her to Tomales Bay.


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[Assistant] The husband hired attorney Paul Morantz, who had recently finished a case against persons who had kidnapped Skid Row alcoholics and kept them on Thorazine in nursing homes in order to build a state. Morantz and Sinanon locked horns for eight years.


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[Assistant] A grand jury in Marin County, pushed by Paul Morantz, issued a scathing report in March of 1978 attacking Synanon for its child abuse and for profits that flowed to Diedrich. Weapons, threats, and also attacking authorities for their lack of oversight.


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[Assistant] Remarkably, the authorities refused to intercede. Though local newspapers and broadcast media covered the case, they were largely silenced by lawsuits from Sinanon lawyers charging libel.


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[Assistant] I'm not at all surprised to hear Synanon threaten the press. There's not really many articles about Synanon from that time. At least, there's very few from what I've found, and I'm guessing this probably explains why. But you'd think, though, that with this ammunition, Synanon would be shut down, right? I mean, a grand jury accused them of child abuse, so that has to count for something, right?


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[Assistant] No, it doesn't. And I'm not saying, I guess like, it doesn't, but this corruption ran deep.


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[Assistant] Mitchell found the report rejection was led by Sheriff Lou Montanos, who turned out to have been nominated for Sheriff with Synod on Help, and who had given gun permits to Dedrick and second-in-command Dan Garrett. Mitchell developed a deep throat in the sheriff department. Art Diserheft.


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[Assistant] Fun aside here, this little weekly newspaper later earned a Pulitzer Prize for this.


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[Assistant] Sinanon members were instructed in writing to physically harm others, take responsibility for it, and never reveal Sinanon's involvement. Those who went to jail for Sinanon were treated as heroes. Diedrich officially declared it a holy war.


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[Assistant] It took a lot of civil lawsuits, many represented by Paul, for this to finally come to an end.


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[Assistant] A man named Dr. Cole sought $5 million in damages because they operated without a license, conducted unwarranted beatings, and caused him severe emotional distress.


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[Assistant] He said he was made to have a vasectomy he didn't desire and though he was there to end a drug dependency problem, the brainwashing made him stay for 11 years. He said he was a personal servant to Dedric and his late wife during that time.


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[Assistant] One Mrs. Wynn asserted she had been held captive for nine days until her husband had to go and beg Synanon to release her after she'd just gone into the family planning center to calm her nerves.


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[Assistant] Apparently that's where she once obtained birth control. A superior court judge in 1978 ordered that Synanon surrendered tape recordings of conversations of members at Synanon as evidence.


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[Assistant] If that isn't a threat, I don't know what is. Horribly, he wasn't kidding either, and we're about to get into that section on their violence. This is the part where it's gonna get a little gross for a little bit.


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[Assistant] In one of the worst attacks on an outsider, Sinanon members viciously beat a trucker in Badger, California on November 11th, 1977, after a benign road rage incident, where the trucker supposedly cut off a car full of Sinites as they were on the highway.


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[Assistant] Diedrich reportedly shamed the four Sinanon men involved for not physically attacking the trucker in retaliation. They remedied the situation by roaming the town with guns looking for the man who turned out to be a guy named Rod Adeson.


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[Assistant] Once they found Aitzen, the group pistol whipped him to a pulp in his own front yard, screaming that they were going to kill him.


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[Assistant] The same car was later spotted driving near Pacific Palisades, and when police noticed the plate number, they pulled them over. Inside were Sinanon members and Imperial Marines Joe Musico and Lance Kenton, and they were held on suspicion of involvement in the rattlesnake attack.


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[Assistant] It was no secret that Charles Diedrich wanted to at least hurt Paul Marantz if not kill him. So Lance Kenton and Joe Musico thought up this plan and they went and found a rattlesnake. Thankfully, Paul survived the attack, but he was hospitalized for six days.


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[Assistant] And three things here. First of all, what badass paramedics fighting a snake? I wish they could have saved it, but sometimes that's just not the way it works out, especially when your fear is totally engaged. Second of all, we have some amazing neighbors in this story, from those that saved Paul's life to the guy helping kids escape.


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[Assistant] Third, I guess we can add animal abuse to Synanon's list of crimes because I really doubt they humanely remove that snake's rattles. And, you know, I guess I don't know how you do that, but it probably wasn't done in a humane way.


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[Assistant] But what it does show was this was an intentional, thought-out attempt to take Paul's life. Before Paul discovered the snake, though, Dietrich fled to Europe like the coward he is, and don't worry, we will get back to him. This isn't all, though. Their violence wasn't limited to two people.


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[Assistant] Remember Gam Bonini, the one who was helping the children escape? They beat him for that. They also tied a former member, Tom Cardenu, to a post and severely beat him for being an alleged spy. To add insult to injury, it was during his honeymoon that they did this.


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[Assistant] Many young teenagers who got too close to Synanon property were beaten brutally by Synanon mobs. Teeth were knocked out, believed trespassers were taken into the basements of Santa Monica Del Mar building, and worked over on directions of Dr. Robson. Synanon evicted by tossing people and belongings out of apartments, even off a roof.


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[Assistant] On September 21st, 1978, ex-member Phil Ritter was severely beaten by two members, causing him to fall into coma for a week. Fluid leaked into his spine, causing a near-fatal case of spinal meningitis. Former Sinanon president Jack Hur spoke out against Sinanon and found his home door open and his dog hung.


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[Assistant] If I hated Sinanon before, I loathe them now. This is why Sinanon has been labeled so dangerous. As horrible as so many cults are, what I think makes Sinanon especially scummy is how they were several cults in one. A church, a rehab center, they bonded around violence and controlled people's lives, it's really sick.


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[Assistant] One branch of Sinanon that was founded in Germany is actually still in operation to this very day. So I'm not sure what the hell Germany is doing with Sinanon or if maybe things have changed over there, but their impact is undeniable.


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[Assistant] Former Sinanon attorney Philip Burdette insists it was the latter.


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[Assistant] Most of what Synanon did in 1977, at least what I knew about, I approved of because as I pointed out before over and over again, I'm one hell of a good executive and not too much ever went on in an organization that I ran that I didn't approve of. I don't know everything that went on, of course.


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[Assistant] And Lubell, who ordered Musico and Lance Keaton, the son of jazz musician Stan Keaton, to travel to Los Angeles and plant the rattlesnake in Marantz's mailbox.


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[Assistant] To arrest Diedrich on the charge of conspiracy to commit murder. They found him, according to Watson, in a stupor, staring straight ahead, an empty bottle of Sheevas regal in front of him.


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[Assistant] What an appropriate ending for Chuck, honestly. Still, even then, Sinanon was massive, and so it took a massive force to take them down.


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[Assistant] It took some time, but with all these lawsuits and charges stacking up, the government finally stepped in. In the 80s, the government revoked their tax-free status, essentially ending Synanon altogether.


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[Assistant] Their once positive reputation was destroyed and former members began to speak out too.


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[Assistant] According to the New York Times, By the middle of the 1980s, when the organization declared itself a religion, was condemned by the government for a corporate policy of terror and violence, and was stripped of its tax exempt status, Synanon was declining in influence and prestige.


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[Assistant] Without their founder, Chuck, as he was ordered not to take part in Synanon anymore and facing a $17 million charge from the IRS, Synanon floundered.


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[Assistant] Seriously, what the hell is going on with that German branch? And I know, this seems like this is where the episode should end. After all, what more is there to say about Sinanon?


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[Assistant] Well, this is why Ali wanted me to talk about Sinanon and look into it, because not only because it was one of the worst ones out there, but because of what it inspired. As one source puts it,


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[Assistant] Amity in Tucson, Phoenix House in New York City, and Daytop Village in Queens, New York.


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[Assistant] In turn, graduates of those programs would go on to start their own facilities, carrying with them traces of the Synanon approach.


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[Assistant] And this is what is so, so important about Synanon and cults like it. Synanon was obviously dangerous and yet I'd never even really


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[Assistant] I haven't heard of them until starting to do research for this episode. Plus, when compared to other organizations or facilities I've talked about, they seem relatively short-lived. But the damage they did is incredible. They put the tough love idea out there without any counselors or medical professionals backing their methods.


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[Assistant] Former members established their own facilities based on it, a facility that once towed the fine line between tough love and abuse, only to leap overboard and become one of the most violent cults I've had to cover.


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[Assistant] Tomb S seemed to have closed after financial troubles. Phoenix House, on the other hand, has some other issues. One 2015 Reuters report states, in November last year, OASAS suspended admissions to Belterre and four other Phoenix houses of New York facilities.


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[Assistant] An OASAS site report on the five facilities went into graphic detail.


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[Assistant] The regulator's findings at some or all facilities included use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying these issues are absolutely because this home was founded by someone who went to Sinanon. Can't know that for sure. But this tough love mindset was popularized by them without a doubt.


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[Assistant] The abuse at the Alon school, the Judge Rottenberg Center, and so many other places we've talked about all stem from this.


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[Assistant] And yes, I know it's the Judge Rotenberg Center, but it's always gonna be the Rotenberg Center to me.


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[Assistant] In fact, this notion is widespread among the hundreds of emotional growth boating schools, wilderness camps, and tough love anti-drug programs that make up the billion dollar teen residential treatment industry. This harsh approach to helping troubled teens has a long and disturbing history.


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[Assistant] No fewer than 50 programs, though not the Rotenberg Center, can trace their treatment philosophy directly or indirectly to the anti-drug cult called Synanon.


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[Assistant] In 1971, the federal government gave a grant to Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanon's method to teenagers, even those only suspected of trying drugs.


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[Assistant] Straight Incorporated was founded by Mel Sembler, a Bush family friend who would become the GOP's 2000 Finance Chair and who heads Lewis Scooter Libby's Legal Defense Fund.


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[Assistant] By the mid eighties, Straight was operating in seven states. First Lady Nancy Reagan declared it her favorite anti-drug program. As with the seed, abuse was omnipresent, including beatings and kidnappings of adult participants.


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[Assistant] Facing seven-figure legal judgments, it closed in 1993. But loopholes in state laws and lack of federal oversight allowed shuttered programs to simply change their names and reopen, often with the same staff in the same state, even in the same building.


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[Assistant] Straight spinoffs like Pathway Family Center are still in business.


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[Assistant] At least three dozen teens have died from these military style tough love boot camps. And again, I can't blame Synanon for all of it, but they inarguably fueled this fire.


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[Assistant] They normalized tough love, which to them was just straight up abuse. The idea that there's so many programs stemming from Chuck's philosophy, Chuck, who put a rattlesnake in the mailbox of a lawyer who represented his victims, is mind-blowing to me.


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[Assistant] The tough love approach is a pretty garbage approach in the first place. For many, it sends them deeper into their fears, anxieties, and makes people lash out all the more. Some sources say it can lead to relapse. Others say you should seek out a professional when staging interventions and using any tough love methods.


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[Assistant] Keep in mind, I'm not trying to say that it's not okay to set up boundaries, or that with friends or family members that may be struggling with an addiction.


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[Assistant] But what I am saying is downright insults, holding someone hostage, demanding they quit cold turkey, and those aspects of tough love that Sinanon promoted can do far more harm than good. Again, I'm not at all a professional.


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[Assistant] I'm just reading a kind of generalized overview from all of my sources here. Don't take this as legitimate professional advice. Seek that out if you need it. I'm just a pyramid that really just doesn't want to see anyone suffer because of a rehab facility that really mess things up.


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[Assistant] Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Corporate Casket, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!


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[Assistant] So they brought him on as the recast, as a Franco recast. And honestly, it kind of worked, even though when you look at the Mad World storyline and who Franco is now, that's kind of really tough, uhm, to the 82, I would say.


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[Assistant] Differentiate to understanding Frank Gold's history. If he was a serial killer, to go into a family man, it's...


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[Assistant] This guy is the soap villain of them all. Even soap opera die just said he's the greatest soap opera villain of all time. Even after his portrayer died, his character still came back from the dead. That's how good it was. So guess who it is on the number one spot? Can you guess? The one and only Stefano


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[Assistant] Now as we both know, the phoenix can never die. Until he did. Take a look.


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[Assistant] And as gruesome as that scene was, even when the portrayer himself, Joseph Moskalo, also passed, that wasn't the end of it. Because why? He came back. Again.


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[Assistant] Cause this man, through Dr. Rolfe, has been able to bring so many people back from the dead. Let's count the waves himself. I think at one point in time, Jack Devereaux, Will Horton, uh, Dillion Alamein,


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[Assistant] Anyways guys, those are like my top 5 soul villains of all time. Tell me, what are some of yours? And, I'm kinda curious as to what is DC up to right about now. Why don't we go and take a look?


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[Assistant] What will happen in the next video? Will we find out what happened to DC? Find out in the next Soap Sanctuary. This has been Soap Sanctuary.


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[Assistant] What our neighbors are doing is simply unacceptable. God will not admit this. He won't forgive them.


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[Assistant] Go and see our neighbours and ask them to stop banging like this. Tell them your father's been working all day and that he deserves his sleep.


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[Assistant] Hurry up, son, I think they've decided to destroy our house. Hurry up, Yaseen.


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[Assistant] Is this what your parents taught you? But where's his dad and his mum? I think they're still at work. They'll be back shortly.


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[Assistant] Would you be happy if their parents came home to find their children with the police? No, I can't do that. We're, we're neighbours.


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[Assistant] I'll go and sleep in my study, it's far away from this racket.


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[Assistant] What are you waiting for? Come on, we must quickly take him to hospital.


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[Assistant] Thank God his bleeding has stopped. He's much better.


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[Assistant] We're neighbors, Sammy. And our dear prophet, salaam alaahu wa alihi wa salaam, said one day,


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[Assistant] The angel Gabriel kept recommending the treatment of neighbors with kindness until I thought he would assign a share of inheritance.


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[Assistant] Like the Prophet Muhammad, salā'u alāhu alihi wa-salām.


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[Assistant] We must respect our neighbors. Do you now understand my child?


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[Assistant] Even if your neighbour isn't Muslim, you must respect his rights.


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[Assistant] If you see him, greet him with a sincere smile. If he's sick, pay him a visit. If he loses a family member, give him your condolences. If he makes a mistake, forgive him. Don't spy on him. Respect his family. Don't disturb him. And watch over his property in his absence.


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[Assistant] Kareem insisted on speaking to before going home.


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[Assistant] Hey man, listen, he did everything he was supposed to do, man. He finally actually came out there, and I like the fact that, and we'll probably talk about this, we, all of the things that we wanted to see,


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[Assistant] Magically, they have just did these little things where they don't do it for a while, then you come back to it. I saw Kareem Hunt in the backfield.


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[Assistant] Multiple times. I saw him back there with Nick Chubb multiple times. I thought he was very intentional about the way he ran the football. Uhm, and we'll probably get into that later on as well. But I like the way that they had a game plan on defense too.


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[Assistant] When they are aggressive, I can point out four or five games where I love the movement up front. I like the fact that they're moving clowning around and moved, uh, they moved, uh, uh, miles geared around. And I, and I think what you see is sometimes when, when you are desperate and your back's against the wall,


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[Assistant] You put people in a game like Taki Taki who are emotional. The guy, he's not gonna be spectacular for you. He doesn't have the range that J.L.K. has, but one thing he does have...


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[Assistant] I have to keep playing like one of the best corners that the Browns have right now.


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[Assistant] And that's over Denzel Wood. And a lot of people looked at me like I was crazy, but I like what they did. He's playing well. Overall, I love the game plan. I love the, I love the fact that they took three points. I love the fact that they took three points before the half. That 11 point lead was very key.


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[Assistant] See, but here's the problem. See, I, you know. Not so fast, my friend, in my little Corso voice.


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[Assistant] You see, it's not just about how many carriers or whatever the situation is. You gotta look at it at the way you're intentional about running the game. See, it's a mindset, right? And people miss the emotional part of the game. When you're on defense,


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[Assistant] When he is moving and when you make an emphasis to say they're going to get him involved, what it does, it gives you...


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[Assistant] That energy, that synergy of saying, okay guys, we gotta get this dude the ball back. Hey guys, we got, hey look, we running chub today, they can't stop me. He coming off to the sideline after we break a couple little runs. It gives you that leverage, you're like, dude, we gotta go out and do our part.


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[Assistant] You know, Chubb is running. The coaches is giving the ball to one of our best players. Now we running.


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[Assistant] That gives it. Gee, the point is, he's had much bigger games this year in the first three quarters than he did yesterday. But here's the thing, it's not about the yardage, it's not about he has bigger quarters this way or that way. They committed to it. Not only did they not commit, not only did they commit to Nick Chubb,


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[Assistant] They committed to Kareem Hunt. You saw Kareem Hunt getting touches. Now they're like, oh, this is, it's about the identity, who you are. I don't got a problem if you come out there and you run the ball and they stop you because the Bengals did a good job to me in stopping them. But my thing is if you're going to be about that life,


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[Assistant] If you're a run team and they stop your run, clap it up for me.


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[Assistant] But you can't stop it. And if you're a D lineman, I've been in that situation. It's the most demoralizing, emasculating situation ever that you got all these grown men on the other side.


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[Assistant] And by the way, I thought he was, he was very calculated because they was up eight. They went for the two. I said, okay, he's not playing. I like the fact that it only came.


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[Assistant] When it got up eight, it felt big. Because it felt, it felt like this is going to be meaningful because the Bengals couldn't move the ball the first couple of plays. I was like, oh, this is


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[Assistant] You know, like, if Miles Garrett wears a cape and a Dracula fangs every week, his ass can still get blocked. Like, that don't got nothing to do with me putting hands on you. You can get blocked, you can be terrible, or you can go play well. So, but I think, I like the fact that I saw two or three people with that level of emotion. My problem with the Cleveland Browns is


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[Assistant] That type of energy, you need it. You need somebody to be like, this is not, this is unacceptable. We gotta get this thing done. And some people lead by example. So I think when he was talking, he put the pressure on himself. Cause he knows, he knows what everybody else is gonna say if he did perform. But he did what he's supposed to do. He put the pressure on himself.


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[Assistant] And when he plays with emotion, if he gonna get Taki Taki to play like that?


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[Assistant] Which team, and you can always tell this, whenever you watch TV, watching a football game, you can always know which team came to play, and which team got that little, like, I'm up for this game. You know it within the first quarter. And you saw the Browns playing, and I looked at the Bengals and was like,


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[Assistant] If you don't, if you get out of the minutiae, it's like, listen, when you have your best player,


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[Assistant] You want him to have the ball as many times as you can. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You have to game plan for certain things. So when the Browns come out and they run the ball, they run zone, they run off tackle, they run, they run gap blocking. They run everything up front. They can do everything with the offensive line.


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[Assistant] So when you come out and Nick Chubb gets the ball 20 times, there's a variation of plays that you automatically have to have to figure out. And the thing about having Chubb and Hunt in the backfield at the same time is now there was a mismatch somewhere because first of all, both of them never go down after the first person hits him. So now you got


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[Assistant] Defensive backs and now you got linebackers that are in a mismatch with these two guys. It's not about how many necessarily, oh, and this place should have ran on this. It's about being committed and making the other team understand. You have to come and you gotta stop me on this one so that those other


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[Assistant] And, and, and he has a strong arm. Uh, some of them plays, he throws the ball in tight windows. It's a better arm than I thought. That I thought early in the year.


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[Assistant] You know, people were, a lot of people were down on the Browns. I was down on them. And you'll be surprised how much a win like this helps. Because now you can start thinking about it. You can start envisioning. Now I can say, okay, well, I got Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Can I imagine Deshaun Watson with some of this stuff? Yeah, I can imagine it. Because Jacoby Brissetta is executing this stuff. I'm saying, well, what happens when you get a guy with an arm, mobility, accuracy, all of that stuff mixed with the two, two running backs that we got?


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[Assistant] And that's why I thought this game was so pivotal. Yep. Because it gives fans hope of saying, all right,


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[Assistant] You know, but I will say this. But you never know. You never know. If you play this style of football that they playing with defense and running the ball.


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[Assistant] I guarantee no doubt. Somebody on this set. Listen, somebody on this set. All depends on how forceful they are. If tub gets 28 carries, I'm all.


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[Assistant] He's playing great. And those receivers, those receivers are like the track team.


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[Assistant] Not only is, for me, it's not that, you know, Kareem Hunt's gonna be back or guaranteed. I just want them to understand and to see how it would work or how it would look.


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[Assistant] He just, he's catching the ball with his hands. He's not really letting the ball get into his body.


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[Assistant] He, every catch he's made has been contested. He hasn't had very many gimmies over the middle where these are little slant routes and you just catch them and fall down. He has guys over his back. He's going down low to catch the football. He's been great. I couldn't expect more from him. And overall, if you look at those numbers,


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[Assistant] Mark Cooper's on track for almost a career year, right? He's over on track for almost 12, 1300 yards.


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[Assistant] The most athletic quarterbacks that like to run, they usually lead the team, lead the league in rushing because those guys hold certain people. Now think about this in the running game.


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[Assistant] If you, a defensive lineman, and you, you have to guard.


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. And you runnin' the stretch, right? Guess what? You gotta stay home now, backside!


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[Assistant] Because Deshaun Watson might just take that and walk in the end zone. So he holds backside linebackers, he's holding backside linebackers and defensive ends, and so now you have one less defender in the box to go chase these two


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[Assistant] Monsters and tackle them. Yeah, it's so much stuff is wide open. We've never seen RPOs here. Guess what? You'll see them. Oh, yeah, you'll see a lot of design stuff like that. And so that's why it opens everything up.


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[Assistant] Jake tell him, we can do this all day. Who was the worst quarterback that you saw that you thought was actually going to be good?


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[Assistant] I think they drafted Cam Erving and Danny Shelton.


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[Assistant] Hell no, I'm not trading for two reasons. One reason is you sell into your locker room that we do, willing to do whatever it takes to win this year.


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[Assistant] And if you got an opportunity with, with Kareem Hunt to continue to play with Deshaun Watson, to continue to work and to get any victories that you can.


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[Assistant] You gotta sell that to your team, because they're going out preaching it. They're telling them, hey guys. What's the good point? Total line. Total line. Are we doing everything we can? And if you get rid of Kareem Hunt, they're looking at you like, are we really trying to win? Because you traded him for a fourth round pick. We cut fourth rounders around here.


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[Assistant] That's not a selling point because here's the thing. Last year when they traded OBJ, everybody in the locker room was like, why'd you do that?


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[Assistant] They got Martin Emerson in the third round. So hold on, hold on. But you gotta start putting names to these third rounds. You say, okay, well who's in the third round? So you traded Kareem Hunt for Jordan Elliott.


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[Assistant] You got a little, best case, worst case. Best case is you do a third round pick, you get somebody that's a contributor, you move everybody up, D Ernest Johnson and forward.


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[Assistant] But guess what? The worst case scenario in which you could lose a whole locker room is Kareem Hunt gets in- or excuse me, Nick Chubb gets injured.


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[Assistant] He's gone. You just traded Kareem Hunt to a contender and now you have D'Ernest Johnson as your running back and people are looking at you like you're a fool.


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[Assistant] Does he give you, it comes down to it, does he give you a better chance of you making a playoffs with him on the roster? Yes, I think so.


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[Assistant] I just think when you look at the Bengals, they're like a man with no country, so to speak.


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[Assistant] They have the capabilities of playing like the Bills, right? We just gonna throw the ball. We don't care what you say. Right. Uh, but they also have a guy who, they went to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] It's, that's, that's the highest level because like you said, teams are like, dude, they didn't have to board a whole damn quarter.


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[Assistant] It's hard, because, and I will say, that's when Kevin Sufisi sequences things, right? When he's sequencing, like, okay, let's run a play action here, and then he gets six yards. Now, it's second to four.


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[Assistant] You can't stop that. They take the whole damn game away and that's the highest level of


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[Assistant] You know, Didi, uhm, we, we argue all the time. Now I think it's to the point where we're arguing about semantics.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where, where do you come off on the, uh, you know, the Nick Chubb over 20 carries, under 20 carries? Do you believe that there is a certain amount of carries that he should get, or is it just a feel thing, or do you think giving balls just as much as possible? And let me just give you the context.


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[Assistant] Hey, listen, Erla, understand, where I come from, you can't trick or treat. Yeaah. Ain't no such thing as trick or treat. You go to the school and they have something. You can't get to go door to door because bad things happen when you're after 6 o'clock going door to door. That sucks.


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[Assistant] And culture, hip hop culture is so huge in the black community and everything is a hip hop culture. At some point it's trickled through our whole society. But one of the craziest things, one of those dangerous jobs in America is being a rapper, man.


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[Assistant] Okay, man, Earl, it just like seemed like we just all get emails, you know, uhm, you might not know who the Migos are, but you know, they're a really big hip hop group, uhm, and they're rea- they really kind of the way they rapped, they really changed the sound of hip hop music for about,


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[Assistant] You know, I would say for the last 10 years or so, uhm, and one of their members takeoff died in a gambling.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's just, it's crazy. It's like, you know, if it's, you know, we've all been through instances and situations where we talked about it a couple years ago with police brutality.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but even with that, it's almost like as a black male in America, you can't win. Like you, you know, if you're not, you're trying to duck that. But being around your own people comes with a level of...


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[Assistant] It's a level of danger in that too. You know, you don't want to be a person that says, okay, there's more than ten black people here, or there's ten people from the inner city, now I gotta be scared something gonna happen. But it's crazy that, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, when we talk about things like Black Lives Matters and stuff and different things like that.


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[Assistant] You know, one of the things that, that we ourselves are giving ammunition to other people is to say, do you really believe what you're saying?


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[Assistant] Because we doing the most against our own people.


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[Assistant] You know, I've heard people robberies and dice games and just, you know, from, from pop smoke to nifty hustle to PMB Rock. Guys get robbed for jewelry. It's crazy. It's like you are a target wherever you go. You can't be safe around your own hood.


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[Assistant] You can't be safe driving your car. Who knows which way you gonna go.


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[Assistant] To me it's just really sad because I believe that black males are an endangered species and it's so tough.


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[Assistant] To see successful people that could change the way we look at things that can.


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[Assistant] You know, get programs started to stop people from going down violence. Those, those just happen to be rappers. And in our community, those are success stories. They're not lawyers. They're not doctors. We don't know no CEOs. There ain't no owners in no teams that does African-American.


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[Assistant] But some had to give, right? Because we can't complain about stuff happening when people don't look at us as real individuals if we not saying the same thing about our own people.


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[Assistant] It's historically incorrect. And that's why I tell people it's so important that yes, our history in this world


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[Assistant] It is the past, but I think you should definitely know your history and I think the school systems have to do a good job of teaching everybody what the past is so we don't make these same type, same mistakes. All of it. There is, you know, it happened. It was one of the biggest stains on humanity.


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[Assistant] And you have to understand, you just tweeting something bro. You giving misinformation.


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[Assistant] Oh, I know, honey, but fix it back the way it was. Do you... How's your brother?


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Annie. Frank's just a dope, I guess. But he means well. Sure, I know. I'll drop in to see you. Bye now.


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[Assistant] Oh Kate, I'll have your hat finished by tomorrow. Just some trimming left to do.


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[Assistant] So let's focus for a moment just on the squares and rectangles because we know that there's a relationship between those two. In particular, all squares are going to have to be rectangles.


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[Assistant] If x is a square, then I get that x is gonna be a rectangle. So this is writing it explicitly as a conditional statement.


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[Assistant] Now the fact that we're talking about squares and rectangles here, this is just a specific example for this video, but the general logical structure we have is if some initial property, x is a square, but I'm gonna call that a of x, then some final property b of x, in this case x being a rectangle. And the way I want to think about this is that if I'm given the first thing,


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[Assistant] However, I don't have to have it being a square in order to get a rectangle. It could be something else, but might still be a rectangle.


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[Assistant] So that's why I refer to it as being it is a sufficient property. But next we're gonna have to turn to the idea of what is a necessary property. That's gonna deal with the other way around.


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[Assistant] So let's go back to our picture with our square, our rectangle, and our quadrilateral. And again, we're trying to conclude the middle one. We're trying to conclude the rectangle. But here I want to focus just on the rectangle and the quadrilateral.


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[Assistant] Now, we can have a relationship, as we've seen before. In particular, we can say, if it's a rectangle, then we get it be a quadrilateral. And it's not true the other way around. There are shapes that are four-sided, that are quadrilaterals, that are not rectangles. So this, again, only works in the one direction.


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[Assistant] Then, quadrilateral, which is a new thing, I'm gonna put it, then c of x. So again, it's another conditional, another implication. However, I wanna do something a little bit tricky. I want to write this statement,


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[Assistant] In its contrapositive form. And the way that a contrapositive worked is that you took the rectangle and the quadrilateral, and then you switched their order.