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7174
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every language communicates with pitch to varying degrees whether it's mandarin chinese where a shift in melodic inflection gives the same phonetic syllable an entirely different meaning to a language like english where a raised pitch at the end of a sentence
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humorous
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speaking style
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7176
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i'm going to start today with nature but before we do that let's quickly listen to this snippet of an opera singer warming up
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serious
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speaking style
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7177
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let's listen to the full speed recording
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serious
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speaking style
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7178
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why i mean if i'm a good i've got to believe there's a reason for that
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humorous
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speaking style
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7179
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he said what scientists do when a paradigm fails is guess what they carry on as if nothing had happened
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humorous
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speaking style
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7181
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and if you've got a scientific problem like that you can't solve it by holding a head count and saying more of us say yes than say no
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humorous
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speaking style
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7182
|
it would be very nice for me if it happened soon
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humorous
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speaking style
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7183
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but you know that makes me feel good because richard dawkins has told us how to treat a priesthood
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humorous
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speaking style
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7184
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and they seem anxious to skirt around it and step over it and to talk about something else
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serious
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speaking style
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7185
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the ancestor of the apes stayed in the trees our ancestors went out onto the plain
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serious
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speaking style
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7186
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and they weren't savanna species
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serious
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speaking style
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7187
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so we're left with a situation where we know that our earliest ancestors were moving around on four legs in the trees before the savanna ecosystem even came into existence
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serious
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speaking style
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7188
|
we've got to go back to square one and start again
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serious
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speaking style
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7189
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you've been constructing fanciful things on top of it relying on it to be as solid as a rock
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serious
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speaking style
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7190
|
i don't think for instance that you will one day consult a supercomputer to learn whether you should have a second child or whether we should bomb iran's nuclear facilities or whether you can deduct the full cost of ted as a business expense
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humorous
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speaking style
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7192
|
people will send you donations when you're in that condition
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7194
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so we appear to have a genuine difference of opinion about how to profitably use one's time
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humorous
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speaking style
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7195
|
the other half will tell you they don't like the question
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7196
|
i'm not a fan
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humorous
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speaking style
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7201
|
even if you get your values from religion even if you think that good and evil ultimately relate to conditions after death either to an eternity of happiness with god or an eternity of suffering in hell you are still concerned about consciousness and its changes
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serious
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speaking style
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7203
|
but if we're going to talk about human well being we are of necessity talking about the human brain
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serious
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speaking style
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7204
|
and we can therefore visualize a space of possible changes in the experience of these beings
|
serious
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speaking style
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7205
|
there is clearly a range of materials that constitute healthy food
|
serious
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speaking style
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7207
|
now this brings us to the sorts of moves that people are apt to make in the moral sphere
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serious
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speaking style
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7208
|
but now let's look at the case for optimism
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humorous
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speaking style
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7209
|
this disease is called sudden wealth syndrome
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humorous
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speaking style
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7210
|
al gore made presentations in the house and the senate as an expert witness
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humorous
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speaking style
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7212
|
tourists in glass bottomed boats would be viewing the drowned towers of miami through feet of tropical water
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serious
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speaking style
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7213
|
and if it will be it's the right thing to do and if not rethink it
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serious
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speaking style
|
7222
|
they came to me and said well what can we do to freshen this thing up and do you think kids you know surfers rock climbers would use these things and i said well not in that interior
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7223
|
what i discovered in these interiors is that there was a disconnect between the exterior shell and the interior architecture of the pieces
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7224
|
no dad you've only told me times and twice it wasn't my fault
|
humorous
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speaking style
|
7225
|
statisticians we call that being within the percent confidence interval
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humorous
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speaking style
|
7226
|
we can average the two and see what that means
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7227
|
so now as a statistician what's my response show me the data dude you're talking chances i do chances all day long tell me all about chances
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7229
|
and then i said and i really don't think my due date is accurate
|
humorous
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speaking style
|
7230
|
yeah that's a story you want to tell at your kid's wedding reception
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7235
|
and he said you can't breath out of your nose no but he can breath out of his mouth
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7237
|
you'll see that the temperature is not random
|
serious
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speaking style
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7239
|
that's why you see those pregnant women just sweating and hot because their temperatures are high
|
serious
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speaking style
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7240
|
so if there was a fertility issue or some problem i had data to show look we got pregnant our temperature shifted we somehow lost this baby
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7241
|
or if it gets too hot your thermostat registers turn the a
|
serious
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speaking style
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7245
|
and so had we had some information about our heart health to share with him maybe we would have gotten a better diagnosis the first time
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7246
|
so over the course of that year and a half donald's eating changed and our exercise regimen changed and his heart rate responded his blood pressure responded to that change that he made in his body
|
serious
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speaking style
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7249
|
but like with humans sometimes it's six months in before you realize that the person that you love has some issues
|
humorous
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speaking style
|
7250
|
in other animals we have
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7251
|
so after they were taken away the sanctuary staff worried that he would fall into a depression and so to avoid that they gave him another rabbit friend
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7252
|
so then the choice becomes how do you well or do you poorly and poorly is all too common
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7254
|
and i spent the last seven years actually looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7255
|
before the early century physicians often diagnosed emotional distress in their patients just by observation
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serious
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speaking style
|
7256
|
so they won't go for a walk they won't hang out with their friends they won't eat
|
serious
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speaking style
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7257
|
and if you just sort of happened upon this scene you might think that ting ting is just playing with a stick but ting ting does this all day and if you pay close attention and if i showed you guys the full half hour of this clip you'd see that he does the exact same thing in the exact same order and he spins the stick in the exact same way every time
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7259
|
canine veterans of conflicts of iraq and afghanistan are coming back with what's considered canine and they're having a hard time reentering civilian life when they come back from deployments
|
serious
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speaking style
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7272
|
you could dowse for all sorts of things but this particular one was built to dowse for marijuana in students' lockers
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7273
|
i'll show you
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7274
|
it'll go this way for sure
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7281
|
for intelligent design it's the end of the chain
|
serious
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speaking style
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7282
|
so he wrote that he had seen i have observed that the furthest planet has three bodies
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serious
|
speaking style
|
7284
|
we went down and investigated
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7285
|
it's just a spring clean for the may queen
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7289
|
it's grown ups that get really upset
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7291
|
that was not a controlled descent
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7292
|
rb oh
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7293
|
yeah
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7294
|
now see if you can put it back together
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7295
|
and it's got a little bit of an emotional response here
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7296
|
you're such a cute little robot
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7298
|
no
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humorous
|
speaking style
|
7299
|
no
|
humorous
|
speaking style
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7301
|
i almost lost it this week
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7303
|
they are pretty common
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7304
|
but nevertheless those sorts of things are out there
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7305
|
at the bottom right is one that i built in my lab about years ago and we finally turned that into a product
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7306
|
battlefield companions are helping to reduce the combat risks
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7307
|
the worst thing that's happened in the cave so far was one of the robots fell down ten meters
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7309
|
and we've been trying to put that into our lab robots because we think this is how you're going to want to interact with robots in the future
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7310
|
and it weights those together into an attention window and it looks for the highest scoring place the stuff where the most interesting stuff is happening and that is what its eyes then segue to
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7313
|
here we asked them to get the robot's attention and indicate when they have the robot's attention
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serious
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speaking style
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7314
|
you don't see a description of how you know molecule a you know comes up and docks with this other molecule
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7315
|
years ago we had to give up the idea that we are the center of the universe when the earth started to go around the sun years ago with darwin we had to give up the idea we were different from animals
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7324
|
no they're not the same
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7328
|
what actually happens is if i compare this to the average real project average real successful project the family actually end up in south sulawesi at a cost of pounds whilst leaving two of the children behind
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7329
|
this was a group of eminent economists apologizing to the queen of england when she asked the question why did no one tell us that the crisis was coming i'll never get my knighthood
|
humorous
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speaking style
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7332
|
so if this is now and that's the past and we start thinking about change you know all governments are seeking change you're here seeking change everybody's after change it's really cool
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7333
|
is that okay it's a tap
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7335
|
so that's what i spend my time doing
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7338
|
we have the vision
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serious
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speaking style
|
7340
|
there are charts which show all these movements of information
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7341
|
and then add to that every time you tweet over a third of your followers follow from a country which is not your own
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7345
|
and then something weird happens
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7346
|
christopher isherwood used the phrase the yellow leaf to describe a man at only one century after lord byron used it to describe himself at
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7347
|
there are patterns to life and they are shared
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7350
|
yeah
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humorous
|
speaking style
|
7351
|
and the first rule of the game is pretty simple
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7352
|
we create them and then we send them either north or south
|
humorous
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speaking style
|
7353
|
i had to become more reasonable because i thought people would listen to somebody who was rational but i remain radically rational whatever that is
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7354
|
i think i have my wife knows
|
humorous
|
speaking style
|
7355
|
well let me first begin by saying how deeply grateful i am for this opportunity to share my story with people who do care
|
serious
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speaking style
|
7356
|
and so on many occasions i've been asked by people you know you're suffering why don't you move back they don't understand
|
serious
|
speaking style
|
7357
|
ok but these are the kinds of issues that people don't understand
|
serious
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speaking style
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