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Curated speech datasets for TTS model training and evaluation.
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Maybe Thursday or Friday. That was a big deal being on Oprah's show, the last one. And I was like one of the last shows in that last, that final week. | |
Well, the concept, it was really like 2 different lives. You know, i had a. | |
A very wonderful life. But I wanted to do this. The apprentice was still going very strong. We had 12 seasons. | |
No, they had Arnold Schwarzenegger do it I was involved in that. And you. | |
I want, I had enough of it and we did great. It was doing great. But. | |
They wanted me to stay. They all came to see me. They said. | |
We're going to give you a contract. They wanted to extend my contract. Mark Burnett is a great guy. | |
Then they wanted to extend the contract. Mark said you're crazy. Don't run. Don't run no. | |
Three years, four years before that, they did a poll. They had Mitt Romney and somehow they put me in a poll. | |
And I blew everybody away. I blew him away, which isn't that hard, frankly. But I blew everybody away. And I said, that's interesting because I never really. | |
Gave it that much real thought. I thought about it but never real thought. But I saw these polls were very good. | |
And so I was thinking about doing it then, but I had a contract with the apprentice. Plus, I was building two big buildings at the time and I wanted to make sure they got finished up properly. And it's one of those things. The kids were just sort of getting involved. They're very capable kids, but they were getting involved early on. So I did that. I got them done. I had some very good successes and I came on. And then I thought about it for the next one after. | |
And I ran and I won against Hillary. | |
It was quite an experience, but it was a different life because you're right, the view. I was on the view many, many times. | |
Well, first of all, it was very surreal. | |
That should have been surreal. When I was laying on the ground, I knew exactly what was going on. I knew exactly where I was at they were saying you were hit. | |
When that happened, I really knew where I was I knew exactly what happened. I said I wasn't hit anywhere. I. | |
And we sold it to the Waldorf Historia. And it was a wonderful thing. But I'm driving down, I'm passing the hotel. | |
You've never seen so many motorcycles, police, military. | |
You know, it was a major thing I got off. | |
Really, the first time I used Air Force One landed. | |
And we're coming down. And there were, it was very I mean it was incredible. And we're going down Pennsylvania Avenue in the opposite direction. You know, normally you're used to going one way and you're all of a sudden you're going the other way. | |
And I wanted to wave to everybody, but that wasn't smart. And. | |
But I really felt I don't know. The love was so crazy. And so. | |
I did get out of the car for a brief, you know, just for a very short walk. I thought it was very important to do. And Melania got out with a beautiful dress on that became. | |
Sort of a staple. It was people loved it. And. | |
Amazing. We get to the White House and now it's a little bit a little bit before dark. Beautiful. | |
A president's quarters. They call them the presidential quarters. | |
In this beautiful hallway you know, it's funny, nobody ever talks about the White House as being beautiful inside. You know, you think it's going to be, everything's going to be all metal doors and stuff. It's not. | |
It's so beautiful. I made my money largely on luxury. | |
The hallway is like 25 feet wide. The ceiling heights are it's so beautiful. But I was standing there. | |
And I said to the guys, I want to see the Lincoln bedroom. I had never seen the Lincoln bedroom. I'd heard about the Lincoln bedroom. | |
And I was standing with my wife. | |
I said, do you believe it? This is the Lincoln bedroom. | |
It was, it was amazing because. | |
It's like if you love the country but here you are. | |
And the bed, you know, is very tall. He was six foot six, which then would be like. | |
Six foot six. He was very tall. Then on top of that, he worked. There it is. He wore that. Yeah, there it is. It's a long bed, elongated bed. | |
And because very, you know, people were shorter than you see. Some of the chairs are very, very low to the ground actually. But he had a long bed. | |
You had the Gettysburg address right on that, right under that. You can't see it here, but right there, the original version of the Gettysburg address. | |
Looking and I just looked around. I said, do you believe this? Because. | |
And they suffered from it. He was a very depressed guy and she was very depressed woman, more so than him. And. | |
And on top of that, they lost their son. | |
And it was just seeing it in the little pictures, a little tiny picture. I mean, you can't see the details. They're a little tiny. Everything at the way was a little tiny picture of Ted. | |
Of look, he was in a war. He was, he was, and he was having a hard time because he couldn't beat Robert Ely. Robert Ely won like 13 battles in a row. | |
And he was getting like a phobia, like a fighter. You know a lot about the fight stuff. But. | |
I went to a UFC fight and. | |
It was a champion who was 14 and won about a year ago. You would know the names. | |
Fourteen and one. And the only guy he lost to was this one guy. | |
Almost just an average fighter, lost numerous times, but he beat this one guy. | |
The point is that he lost. He wasn't nearly the fighters but. | |
People in the White House who really understand what was going on with, with the whole life of the White House. | |
These are great generals. These are tough guys. These are not woke guys. | |
He took a war that should have been over and. | |
Number of months before I won. I probably I. | |
I guess if you figured max it out, it would be. | |
A year, something like that. So, I had never run for office. | |
And I did well. I mean, I went into debates. We had 18 people, including me. And then slowly but surely, they started to disappear. We had debates, good debates. | |
That wears off with time. It becomes, you know, your place where you stay. And I was doing a lot of, I was, I had two things that I really focused on governing the country and survival. | |
Because from the moment I won. | |
All of a sudden I mean they came down. I mean nobody has ever been treated that way. | |
And and you see that, I mean, you see we're in The Washington Post very early on. They said, well, now the impeachment stuff starts. And it did. I mean, it literally started from the beginning. So I had survival and run the nation. I had a combination. Most people don't have the survival. They get in a. | |
And I never stayed over, according to the press, which I think is probably right. Over the years, I was only there 17 times. I never stayed over. | |
This place is gorgeous, but you know, I don't know anybody. It's like you, you know, you go to certain areas and other areas they may be great. Washington was great. Washington's. | |
Not so great right now. They're going to, we got to fix it. We're going to make it better very dangerous place. Very. | |
Badly maintained place. We're going to make it. | |
I wasn't a Washington guy. I was a New York guy. | |
I could get you the exact. | |
It doesn't work because even if you do great, you're not going to get Congress. In other words, you need now to say OK, now I'll get half of Congress that never going to vote for you. So even if you got there, which is very hard. | |
So it was, it was really somebody that not only was new to Washington but was new to politics. | |
Politicians and eight percent were generals. General Eisenhower, General Washington, right? General George Washington. You had generals. So it's eight percent no admirals, eight percent generals. | |
And 92 percent politicians, you know, they're politicians and they go on. So they never had a business guy or they never had a guy that wasn't elected to an office. | |
they were all like Ronald Reagan was really. He was a movie actor and then but he became the governor of California for. | |
Rand so you'd never had a thing like this. But I, you know, in terms of me and some. | |
And I don't like having excuses actually, but I use it as an excuse I had to rely on people. | |
I respected or liked but that I didn't know that well because I didn't know them that well Some of those people I campaigned against because you know when you have 18 people we had mostly politicians running. | |
And I rely on them and I'd rely on other people. So all of a sudden people would come in. I'd like to recommend so and so to be secretary of state. | |
And I have three or four people recommend. One thing I can tell you is everybody wants the position. Of course. No, no. But sometimes I'll hear. | |
A lot of people don't want to work with Trump because Trump is tough to work with, et cetera. Let me tell you, everybody wants to be any one of these positions. They die for it. Of course. Now they don't want to be known. I mean, there's a particular guy. | |
New York, primarily very big, very big, very successful, very very strong, very political, although he's not a politician. But. | |
He'd give anything to be secretary of state. But if they ask him, no, I don't think I would do it. But in the meantime. | |
And I needed a license on something. And he was very important in getting the license. But it was a little bit controversial. The license that this particular thing that was being licensed. But I was close to this guy. | |
And he said let me take a look at it. I said, oh, that's not too good. And. | |
It was sort of the luck of the draw. But. | |
It always comes back to the same answer. | |
The biggest mistake I made was I pick some I pick some great people, you know. | |
Shouldn't have picked. I picked a few people. | |
And Phil Ruffin is, is very, very wise kind of a guy. And. | |
And very one of the richest people around and has had great success and understands people. So. | |
It was in that I was picking Bolton or I picked Bolton. He called up, he said, don't pick him. I. | |
Why he's a bad guy now he wasn't in politics at all. He's in. | |
Bad with that guy. I said I wish you told me this two weeks ago. I already hired him. You know, he's here. And. | |
When they saw this whack job. | |
Standing behind me, they said, oh man. | |
Trump's going to go to war with us. He was with Bush when they went stupidly into the Middle East. They should have never done it. I used to say it as a civilian so I always got more publicity than other people. | |
And I didn't, it wasn't like I was trying. | |
I'm for having countries pay us billions and billions and trillions even dollars. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. Nobody took in 10 cents, not one of the president I do things that make it. I mean that. | |
Don't necessarily make me so popular. I just do what's right. And when you do that, you know you're more. Look at, look at Iran we would have never had the attack on Israel at all. | |
Iran was broke. I told China, if you buy, you can't do business in the United States under any circuit. I was going to. | |
Some people think that would have been a good idea anyway. But if you buy any oil, one barrel of oil from them, you're not doing business. I said that to many countries. Iran was broke. They had no money for Hezbollah. They had no money for Hamas. They had no but. |