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So this 19 year old girl, she ends up robbing a bunch of celebrities.
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Now the girl, her name's Rachel.
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And Rachel lives a nice, comfortable, upper middle class life.
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But for some reason, this life is not enough for her.
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She wants more.
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And so one day, Rachel and her best friend, this guy, Nick.
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Nick's 18.
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Rachel and Nick, they decide, hey, let's cruise through some rich neighborhoods and break into some cars.
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So they do this and they get some decent stuff from it, but that's still not enough for Rachel.
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She still wants more.
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Now they live in the Los Angeles area in Calabasas, so they get this idea.
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They're like, hey, celebrities live around here.
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Why don't we rob some of their houses?
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They probably got some good stuff and we can look up where they live online.
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This is their plan.
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And so they go and they choose their first victim, Paris Hilton.
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Cash back.
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Like going out to eat and grocery shopping and filling up your tank with gas.
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It's easy let me show you.
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Open the Upside app and you tap search this area
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and bam look at All these places offer cash back when you make a purchase there.
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And I'm going to select a gas station and then select claim.
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And then I'm going to go to that gas station and fill up the tank.
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And look at this.
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According to this, I'll get 72 cents back on every gallon.
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And then you take a picture of your receipt and you upload it to the app.
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And then you wait about a day and then pow, the money I saved appears in my account.
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And I typically earn anywhere from 5% to 15% cash back at the restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores.
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And I earn up to 25 cents per gallon cash back at gas stations, which you just saw me do.
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And top earners on Upside are getting as much as $300 cash back every month.
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And yes, it's real cash back.
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No confusing rewards, points, or credits.
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Actual real money you can transfer straight into your bank account.
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In fact, people can earn three times more cash back with Upside than any other product, including loyalty programs and credit card rewards.
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A million dollars cash back is being earned by users every week.
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Now to find out how much cash back you could earn, click the link in the description to download Upside
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and use my promo code RWJ and get an extra 25 cents back on every gallon on your first tank of gas.
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Or just scan the QR code here to claim this offer.
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It's a good deal.
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And one night, Rachel and Nick, they make their way over to Paris Hilton's house.
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And they're kind of nervous because they have no idea what they're actually doing.
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And luckily, Paris isn't home.
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And when Rachel and Nick get to the door, they discover that breaking in is going to be really easy.
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Because Paris actually left a key underneath the doormat.
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But even so, they don't even really need that key because Paris also left the door unlocked.
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Anyway, so they enter into the house and they walk around
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and they go into her bedrooms and they go through all her things
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and they steal some designer bras and some bottles of Grey Goose and some cash from her safe, which Paris also left unlocked.
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And after that, they just leave and they get away.
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And the best part for Rachel and Nick is they don't get caught
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because either Paris didn't report that she was robbed or she just didn't notice.
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Either way, Rachel and Nick are like, hey, that was dope.
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We just got away with robbery and Rachel even puts like Paris's spare key
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that they found on her own key ring
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and later They actually used this key to rob Paris's house
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four more times over the next few months now Of course because Rachel and Nick are 18 and 19 years old.
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They can't keep this a secret from their friends They got a flex
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so they go around and they start yapping to some of their homies
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and now some of them want in on this action.
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And so some of their friends start joining in here and there.
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And by now, Rachel and Nick, they're doing these robberies as often as they can.
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Apparently stealing lots of like luxury items and designer clothes that they wear when they're like out with their friends.
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But here's the thing, these guys aren't career cat burglars.
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So it doesn't take long before they start to get sloppy.
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And one night, they rob Paris Hilton's house again for the fourth time.
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And one of the friends in Rachel's group, he steals almost two million dollars worth of jewelry from her.
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And of course, this time Paris eventually notices and she reports it to the police.
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And on another night, the group, they actually break into this reality TV star's place, Audrina Partridge, and they take $43,000 worth of stuff,
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a laptop and some jewelry and stuff like that.
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But Audrina Partridge catches them on security camera, and she posts that footage on her website,
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so that people will see the burglars and hopefully be able to identify them and turn them in.
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Once she posts this footage to her website, TMZ and the local news stations, they pick up this story.
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And they run the video for everyone to see.
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But lucky for Rachel, no one recognizes them and no one comes forward to turn her in.
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So the crew keeps going.
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And they rob Rachel Bilson's house like six different times over two months.
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And they take over $130,000 in things.
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They rob Orlando Bloom's house and they end up taking a half million dollars worth of art and Rolexes.
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So these guys are going strong and it seems like they might never get caught.
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Until.
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Until the gang decides they're gonna hit Lindsay Lohan's house.
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And this is where they screw up.
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Because while they're there at Lindsay Lohan's house stealing a ton of whatever Lindsay Lohan has in her house, security cameras catch them again.
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And I guess later, Lindsay Lohan notices all her sh is missing
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and she takes the security footage and she gives it to police.
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And police, they release that footage to the public.
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So now there are two videos of Rachel and her friends circulating around for everyone to see.
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And of course, this story makes the news again and at some point, the media starts referring to Rachel, Nick, and her friends as the bling ring,
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which is kind of a cool name.
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One of the crazy things about this story is
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when it hits the news and the public starts hearing about the bling ring, people are actually cheering them on.
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Like they're all rooting for them, the thieves, to succeed.
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Because during this time, celebrity hate feels like it's at an all-time high.
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Like people see Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan on TV and they just see them as like spoiled little train wrecks.
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Not as human beings who are having their privacy and their personal property violated.
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So it feels like the general public just has no sympathy for these people getting robbed.
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Anyway, once this second security video goes public, that's when people start recognizing them.
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And Rachel and Nick, they've bragged about these robberies at parties
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and in social settings so much that people start putting two
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and two together and the police they start getting tons of tips from people
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and police already had Suspicions about Rachel and Nick just
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because of all the rumors that had been flying around because they just couldn't keep their mouth shut about it So anyway, BAM police go and they arrest Nick.
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Here's his mugshot and he denies everything
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But eventually he gives in and he snitches on everyone else in their crew and BAM one by one one, they all get arrested.
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Here's Rachel's mugshot, and here are other mugshots from other members of the bling ring.
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And poor Rachel, she's sentenced to four years in prison, and Nick is sentenced to two years in prison, and another guy gets three years, and another woman gets 180 days in jail,
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and three others get sentenced to probation.
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So, shout out to keeping your door locked, I guess.

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この動画で英語学習する理由

日常的な会話スタイルで話されるこの動画は、英語シャドーイングに最適です。事件の進行を語る流れの中で、「end up robbing」「decide to」「discover that」など、実用的なフレーズが自然に使われています。セレブの家を狙う若者の心理や行動を説明する場面は、物語を伝える際の語彙や文法の使い方を学ぶのに役立ち、リアルな会話力向上につながります。

文脈の中の文法と表現

  • 「ends up robbing」:「最終的に~する」という意味で、予期しない結果を表します。「end up + 動名詞」の構造は、物語の展開を説明する時によく使われます。
  • 「Why don't we rob...?」:提案をする際の柔らかい表現で、「~しませんか?」という意味です。日常会話で相手と意見を合わせる時に便利です。
  • 「they discover that breaking in is easy」:「discover that + 節」は「~であることを発見する」という構造で、新しい事実を伝える時に使います。動名詞句「breaking in」が主語になっているのもポイントです。

発音の注意点

英語の発音を良くするためには、以下の単語の発音に注意が必要です。
「celebrities」:/səˈlebrətiz/ と発音し、「セレブリティーズ」ではなく「セレブリティズ」と軽く発音します。
「convenience」:/kənˈviːniəns/ で、「コンヴィニエンス」ではなく「コンヴィニアンス」となります。
「receipt」:/rɪˈsiːt/ で、「レシート」と発音しますが、末尾の「t」は軽く打ちます。
これらの単語を正しく発音することで、shadow speech(シャドースピーチ)の精度が上がり、自然な発音が身につきます。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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