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[Greg]

I'm deep into the transcripts. Slowly and laboriously cleaning up all the mistakes the automated transcription service made. When I first went down this path, I was think the transcription was operating at about 80% accuracy. I'm going to have to lower that figure to 40 or 50%. It's ugly. It's taking forever.

And it doesn't help that some of the interviews are terrible. When I did the interview I transcribed yesterday, I had a good feeling about the interview. Full of juicy bit. But after going through the transcript and cleaning it up,  I don't know why I was so positive about this interview. This person couldn't string a coherent narrative together if their life depended on it. It was maddening. They would be talking about a really good description of Michael and then would veer wildly into the grass and never finish the thought about Michael. And the whole thing was punctuated by 'You know' and 'and'.  Arg.

Which is why today's transcript is better. A delightful palate cleanser. I am highlighting almost everything to use in the film later. Thank god for Vinnie Bradford. ( See, Michael was cutting a dead limb off a tree but had the ladder on the wrong side of the branch. So, when he finished the cut, the ladder fell to the ground)

Okay. Back to eating the elephant.