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Thank you for finally inviting me back.
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Oh, stop it.
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I really appreciate it.
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I'm waiting 13 years.
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The last thing you said to me is, I'll see you in 13 years, and you are a man of your world.
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Now, is there a deal here?
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13 years?
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13 silly years?
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What happened?
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I don't know.
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What happened?
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Every time I came into town, they'd say, no, Dave is on vacation.
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Right.
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He's on vacation.
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I'd be in my hotel room, I'd click on him, there's Dave on television.
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Right, yeah.
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I was sorry, my feelings were...
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Uh -huh, and then you come to town, Yeah, no, Dave's had heart surgery.
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No, Dave's had heart surgery.
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Just one phony excuse after another.
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One thing after the other.
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We have the same accountant, Fred.
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Oh, yikes.
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That's right, Fred Nigro.
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Is he handling your money?
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Yeah, yeah, Fred.
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Are you satisfied with how Fred's handling your money?
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Very satisfied.
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You notice that he, Woody bought that house in Bermuda and a place in Switzerland. Who?
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You've been on Oprah, haven't you?
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I would like to be on Oprah just once before i'm
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done in show business i've been in show business 20 years
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i think you will be on oprah before really have you
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heard something how was your have you called oprah have you
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asked her no i don't i really i don't want to you know that's her i don't want to cross
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that line i want to i want to be i want to be a gentleman about this
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because i'm begging as it is
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but i still have my pride explain to me why we
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have this photo here you were talking about it during the break.
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I just saw it there behind.
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I haven't seen that shot.
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Yeah, but why?
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You're in there, right?
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Yeah.
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It's you, it's Penelope Cruz, and it's Siegfried and Roy.
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Am I right?
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Go ahead.
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And is this, you obviously went to see them in Las Vegas?
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We decided we went in for about 15 hours and went into Vegas, a bunch of friends.
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What is their show like when you see it?
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You know, I produce Mission Impossible movies, do all that stuff.
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I don't know how they make those animals disappear.
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Really?
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You sit there, it's just, it's pure Vegas and entertainment and we had a blast, and Penelope loves cats, and it was really a lot of fun.
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But now, maybe you can answer this one.
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I'm telling you, you sit there, there's an elephant there, then it's gone.
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You think, you know, how?
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Is it the original Siegfried and Roy, or did they replace one or the other of them? Is it...
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You know, this is my first time seeing the show.
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I haven't followed their careers.
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And because of your friendship with Penelope Cruz, right?
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Yeah.
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You're speaking Spanish, a little bit of Spanish.
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A little bit of Spanish.
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Been working on that.
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And is she giving you lessons?
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You have a tutor?
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No, she's been giving me...
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I've been studying some tapes and, you know... Are you...
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Buenos dias.
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Oh.
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Donde esta Ponelepe?
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You know, uh...
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Cruz, and it's not Cruz.
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They pronounce it Cruz, Castilian.
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He speaks Spanish?
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Yeah.
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This is...
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Tony Mendez is Cuban and he speaks...
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Can you talk to him?
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You speak Castilian Spanish?
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Because I only understand Castilian.
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No, yo hablo español cubano.
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Cubano, cubano, ah.
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Usted entiende bien?
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Okay.
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Tony, don't screw this up now.
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Just talk to the guy.
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Si, si, si.
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Usted entiende bien el español?
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Entiende?
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Now, hey, wait a minute.
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Tony, wait a minute.
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Wait a minute.
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What?
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What?
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What?
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Good Lord.
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What did you say to him?
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I don't know.
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I only understand Castilian.
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That was a moment of ugliness, wasn't it?
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You have, uh, you've done something to your teeth.
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Yeah, I've had a little, some braces, you know?
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Anyone have braces before, you know? So I...
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Yeah, but what was the problem?
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You got some braces out there?
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I couldn't close my mouth properly for years.
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So they finally said, you know, please shut your mouth.
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And so I, uh...
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What was the nature of it?
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It was a bite problem?
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A bite problem.
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Well, you know, the last time I saw you, not that I was paying much attention, but I would have guessed you had nearly perfect teeth.
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Is that right?
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, I just couldn't close my mouth, so...
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And so you went to a guy and what did the guy do?
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I was taking, yeah, I was doing kind of research on different things for our kids and everything.
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And he said, you know, he ended up, I left the dentist's office with braces, and of course they're fine.
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And you're absolutely sure you need them.
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Yeah, you know. And he convinced me.
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I thought, well, okay, these are good salesmen.
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And when do they come off?
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October, before I start shooting games.
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How long have you had them on?
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Since, I think since I last saw you.
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You know, January, December.
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Now, have you ever had braces?
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Oh, come on, you gotta be kidding.
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Yeah, I've had braces.
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Give me that guy's number.
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But now, but now I'm wondering, and they don't hurt or nothing?
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No, no, it's no problem.
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And when you're done the...
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So when everyone complains about braces and everything, you know, I.. doesn't hurt
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so maybe I should have it done yeah you know it's quick it's quick
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that you know I'm gonna have it on till October you
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should get it you should look into it all right I will look
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and you and you believe
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when you're finished everything will be fine that's what I believe
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yes now as a as a guy who's like a big star
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and makes movies and stuff
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and has to look fantastic have you ever had like your teeth knocked out
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or something oh yeah yeah actually you know the only time
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I got injured I dislocated my finger on mission two but my real How did you do that?
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Well, I was, do you want to hear about the teeth of the...
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Well, I'm intrigued about it.
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You dislocated a finger.
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What was...
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Well, I missed, I was doing a stunt and I had to jump down about 10 feet or something, grab this bar and I missed the bar and my finger snapped back.
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I see.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't pretty.
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But actually, I was playing ogre with my son and his friend and, you know, ogre, where you chase a guy, you know, and say, I'm going to eat you, you know, and then you grab one of them
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and then they turn into ogre
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and they start chasing you around well he was turned around to chase me
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and i went up this slide there was a steel bar across there
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and i was running from him like this
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and i turned knocked my teeth out ouch yeah that's happened
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to me a few times actually knocked him out how many
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came out uh half of uh the front this front one came all the way out
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and half of the other one and chipped these this lower tooth
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but i chipped this a couple of times before
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when i mean i've knocked this out about five times is this a deal where there's like blood and yeah There's blood, you know, pick your tooth up.
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You know, you don't want to scare the kids or anything.
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So you're saying, it's okay, you know, don't worry, I'm fine.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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So you go to the guy and what does he do?
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He plugs him back in?
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No, he had to, you know, kind of, I don't know, just mix something up and stick it in there because I had to shoot the next day.
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I didn't mention it to anyone because they would freak out
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if I got my teeth knocked out and we had to shoot.
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Well, that's amazing.
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I never even considered.
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That's what they could do with teeth now, I'm telling you.
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You should look into it.
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Maybe I'll make a call.
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Tell me a little bit about your airplane flying activities.
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What kind of things do you do?
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Do you ever just fly for fun, or are you just constantly trying to increase hours?
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What are you doing?
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All that.
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I mean, all that.
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I do mostly training every time I fly.
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I actually got my instrument rating over in Italy, and I did my...
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It's always interesting when you get your instrument rating, and my instructor was standing on the side and I was at Luca and 00, do you all know what 00?
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No. It means 00, it's just no visibility.
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Oh, you can't see anything.
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It was a low -level fog, so I took off.
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My first solo instrument flight was in 00 conditions.
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What kind of airplane?
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It was a Marchetti.
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Terrific, it's a...
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Military trainer.
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Really?
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A little military trainer.
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And so you go up and it's just soup.
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You can't see a thing.
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Yeah, it's beautiful.
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Well, actually, yeah, that was soup.
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That was low -level fog.
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You gotta really stay on your instruments.
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Then you take off out and you're fine.
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But he was terrified thinking that I was taking off my first instrument zero.
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Well, yeah, I'm terrified just hearing about it now.
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It's very safe though.
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And what's like the biggest plane you could fly?
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I could fly King Airs.
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I've landed a G4 before.
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Is that right?
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Yeah, in Australia I landed a G4.
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Wow, that's pretty good.
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The Gulf Stream came in.
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I enjoy mostly aerobatic flight.
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That's what I enjoy the most.
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That's the stuff where the thing actually goes up and it stalls and tumbles and spins.
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Yeah, you can go and tumble and spin and do all this.
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And how do you keep from being disoriented when you're doing that?
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Well, you just, you don't, you know?
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You gotta get used to it.
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You get used to it.
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You get used to it.
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The first couple of times, you know, I went up, I really had to build up my G -tolerance because you fly for about 45 minutes, you're exhausted and you wanna throw up.
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So you gotta stop.
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Have you ever blacked out in the cockpit when riding in one of those with somebody?
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No. Could you imagine?
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It just even meant that my insurance would go through the roof.
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But I don't mean as the pilot.
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No, I've actually, when I was doing Top Gun, I blacked out.
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I mean, you go, because you're pulling, you know, we pulled about eight and a half cheese.
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And I was actually, at that time, I was leaning over into a bag throwing up.
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It was my first flight when I did Top Gun, and it was very uncomfortable.
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Yeah.
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But that's what those guys like to do.
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They like to get you in that plane and take you up
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and see how long it is before you're going for the bag and then they like to see him nodding off.
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This pilot, his name was Bozo and I actually, I bent down.
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Aha!
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His name was Bozo.
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So I bent down, so I had to do three flights in one day.
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So I bent down, I had the plastic bag at the end and it came up, we were doing pretty heavy air combat maneuvers, so I bent over to throw up in his bag quickly, as quickly as I could to get it over with, because we were filming.
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And at that time when I bent over, he did, you know, pitched up, high G.
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So my head, my helmet was touching the floor
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as I got the bag in here and I'm trying to press on the thing to say, Bozo, Bozo!
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You know?
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He's always killed me back there.
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He said, you know, well, they don't call me Bozo for nothing.
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I said.
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Has anything like that ever happened to you?
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Have you ever had been woozy at altitude?
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No, but I, you know, I fly.
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I'm a pilot and I was, One time we were flying to Colorado and I was flying this airplane
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that we had to go on oxygen
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and the winds were better at a higher altitude
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so we climbed up and I realized that we couldn't stay at
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that altitude if on oxygen I had to descend because I didn't have enough oxygen.
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So I had a passenger in the back so we figured out, you know, me and the co -pilot that
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if we turned the oxygen off in the back guy that we could make it at this altitude.
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Wow.
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So we, you know, it wasn't dangerous or anything, you know.
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So what happened when you turned his oxygen off?
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He felt, he was very quiet.
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He felt, he fell asleep.
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He fell asleep.
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He fell asleep.
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He slept the whole way.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, but, you know, You know, he's the kind of guy you wanted to have him sleep the whole way.
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You know, I was like, just.
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But honestly, looking at it from another direction, isn't that a, isn't that attempted manslaughter?
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You just turn a guy's oxygen off?
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You're lucky you're not doing time for the love of God.
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He woke up.
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He did wake up, yeah.
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You know, when we were landing on the set, he went.
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He said, my hands are...
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He said, my...
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He said, my...
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Jeez, my hands are...
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My hands are...
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Your all his hands are tingling.
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He said, my hands are tingling.
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I said, no, it must have been the way I was laying.
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I said, yes, it must have been the way I was laying.
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Oh my God.
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Wasn't getting enough oxygen to his brain.
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Oh my God.
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I know.
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Well, it's funny now.
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Oh, no. It's funny now.
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Yow.
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No, it wasn't such a high altitude that it would have, you know, caused death or anything.
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That's just the occasional numbness of extremities.
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Extremities.
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Oh, do you have a Kleenex in my eyes?
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Yeah, I will get you.
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All right, cheers.
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Just playing there.
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Good for you, but I, you know, if I didn't know, I wouldn't know.
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This is you.
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How old are you here?
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I was 16.
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16 years old.
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Yeah, knocked my tooth out.
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Mm -hmm.
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Actually chipped my tooth in this wrestling match.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And you were, well, you've won this match.
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Yeah, I won that.
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Were you a good wrestler?
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I was okay.
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Yeah.
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I was okay.
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Wrestling is, I mean, did you like wrestling?
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I don't know if it's something you really like.
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Yeah.
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It's challenging, it's brutal.
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It really is challenging.
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It's just awful.
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Challenging sport.
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Yeah, and what little of it I did in high school, so there's always a guy sitting on your head.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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All right, that's it.
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All right, get him off.
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Exactly.
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Not pleasant at all.
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Now, here's a great picture.
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I mean, this is just fantastic.
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Look at that.
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This is you, Paul Newman, and this is, uh...
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Days of Thunder era, kind of?
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Is that when that was taken?
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Yes.
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A little before that.
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Yeah, he, uh, I raced for his team, and he taught me how to race cars, I think so that he could beat me.
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You know, he did things like that.
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Encourage you so that he could beat you.
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He was a, uh, a great ambassador for many things.
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Acting, of course, and -and racing.
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Never a greater fan and a supporter of the sport of racing, and quite a good race driver himself.
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Uh, and -and, uh, what a tremendous...
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Yeah, what...
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Yeah, tremendous role model, uh, and very quiet, and just the way people are supposed to be.
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I know.
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Yeah.
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Uh, did you...
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You guys must have gotten along great, I would think.
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Yeah, I loved him.
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Okay, this one is...
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Santa.
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There you go.
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Me, last Christmas.
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It's...
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Kind of looks like you, Dave.
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I was just looking at that one.
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Just in the eyes right there, the glasses.
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I know. And, uh...
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Now, uh...
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You can see Siri is not quite sure about this.
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You know, when we did it, she...
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I showed up and...
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Kate actually made the outfit for me.
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And I crawled through ice and snow, almost killed myself getting through the door.
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You could see Kate and Sirius looking at me like, no, dada, no, you know?
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How often does Katie want you to put on the Santa suit?
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Wow.
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I see, Tom, you have here.
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Looks like something I ought to be doing.
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This is a top 10 list.
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Is that yours?
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Yeah, no, I've always wanted to do this.
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They said I could do this.
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Yeah, I hope you do.
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What is this?
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You know, there's many things...
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You know...
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I have done a lot of things in my life, and definitely this -this was, uh, this is on the bucket list, so...
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Okay.
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W -Why?
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What's wrong?
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What's going on?
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Are you all right?
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Oh, no, no. No. You never know.
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Yeah, that's true.
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You never do know.
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Uh, what's the category?
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Now, do you know the format?
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You just announced...
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Oh, first, you gotta open the thing.
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Excuse me.
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I -I know what I'm doing.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Okay, tonight's...
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I'll go out and get a sandwich.
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Yeah, fine.
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Here we go.
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Okay.
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Category.
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Category.
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Let me start.
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No, from the home office in Wahoo, Nebraska.
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Tonight's top ten.
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Okay.
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This is...
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The topic is...
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the craziest things people say about Tom Cruise on the Internet.
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Oh.
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That's a good...
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That's a good category.
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That's a...
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Okay.
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That's perfect.
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Because they have this thing called the Internet.
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Yeah.
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And people have what they call blogs.
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and they can say anything they want.
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You might have heard about this.
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Craziest things they say about...
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Okay, number ten.
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I sleep upside down, suspended, and a special bat -like harness.
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I've heard that.
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Number nine.
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During the filming of Days of Thunder, on a dare, I ate a tire.
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Number eight.
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I still wear those underpants from Risky Business.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Number seven.
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My real...
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Number seven and my real name is Tom Blagojevich.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Number six, I once...
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What's this?
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Heimlich.
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Yes, I once Heimlich to koala.
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Number five, once a month I take the Universal tour naked.
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Number four, I believe all emotional and psychological disorders can be cured with Vicks Vaporub.
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There you go.
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Okay, number three.
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I'm a power -mad egomaniac who's completely insulated from reality.
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Oh wait, that's, that's Letterman.
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Number two.
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After jumping on her couch, Oprah hammer -locked me till I cough blood.
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Really?
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Hammer lock you.
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That's awful.
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And the number one craziest thing people say about me on the Internet is, number one, I keep a cell phone in my pants so I can tell friends,
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call my ass.
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If you can count backward, you can get a show.
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That last one...
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Yeah, call my ass.
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That last one was true.
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Yeah, well, that one's true.
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You want to run down some of these, do you mind?
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Whatever you want.
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Days of Thunder.
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Speaking of stuff that must have been fun...
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Oh, by the way, we got another picture here.
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Oh, my golly, look at there.
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There's your.. driving the Red Bull Formula One car.
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That was amazing.
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Uh, yes.
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That was very fun. That was great.
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How did you get to do that?
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I don't know.
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I don't know how.
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They called me up and asked, invited me to come drive it and fly in their helicopter.
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I've always wanted to fly in the helicopter.
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It was amazing.
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I had David Cothard trained me.
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He was an amazing driver.
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Formula One driver from Scotland.
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Formula One driver from Scotland, awesome.
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And they just let me do some laps in that and took me through some training, and it was amazing.
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The most amazing piece of machinery I've ever driven.
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You get more interesting calls than I get. Do you?
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Yeah.
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Do you have a team?
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I was always wondering, why don't they let you...
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Why don't they let you drive the car that you have?
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I get that kind of calls, hey, when are you gonna return the lawnmower?
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That's what I get.
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Uh, anyway, Days of Thunder, um, that was about NASCAR racing.
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That must have been fun, right?
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That was amazing.
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I mean, I remember there's a shot when you just show up in the movie on your motorcycle, riding through the pits, and I thought.. right there
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that would be fun right there that was cool tell me
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and i think you talked about this before
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but your relationship with paul newman he kind of helped you
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into competitive car driving yes i raced for his team
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and uh he was amazing i always wanted to beat him on the racetrack
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and beat him in pool he was yeah was he a better driver or a better pool player
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you know he was a hustler newman he always played everything
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down everything was like oh i want to let's play some pool you know i haven't played in a
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while my elbow's hurting you know you get the beers out
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and the stories start going
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and the next thing you know i'm getting cream yeah it
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was the same on a racetrack i thought i remember i
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was out we are on a track racing together i thought i finally i passed him on the inside
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and went down and i thought this is it he's gonna have to concede finally
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and he just ripped past me on the runway and gave me the finger as he across the finish line.
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That's Newman.
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Interview with the vampire.
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Brad, you were in that with Brad Pitt.
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How'd that go?
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Yeah, well.
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Are you buddies with Brad Pitt?
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Yeah, he's a talented, terrific guy.
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Don't you think he must be miserable at home?
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Have you had the talk with your son about girls?
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Of course, he's 17, for God's sakes.
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This is, he, he, I have a, He's like, please don't talk about me.
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Oh, he doesn't like you talking about him at all.
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He's like, please, like, a little bit, but certain things, then his friends go, what was that talk like?
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Okay.
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Yeah, okay.
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What were the details like?
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Okay, all right.
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I mean, what's Harry like?
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Do his friends, like, say, hey, your dad was talking about you?
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It's interesting, because it's getting to the age now where his friends, his buddies, are under the impression that Harry's father, me, is Ed Sullivan. Is he?
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yeah yeah all the kids are like look dad we love you
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but like don't say that stuff right okay you know certain things like maybe
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that conversation okay here's what we'll do let's just say you have a buddy yeah let's do
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that and your buddy has a teenage son yeah yeah absolutely
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and a long time now been interested in girls how do you how do you break
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that what do you tell your friend to tell What would you say hypothetically?
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Well, I think I've...
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Did you have that conversation already?
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See, I think I'm late.
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I think I already should have had it.
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But the people at school say, no, fourth grade, fourth grade.
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But I think I'm behind the curve.
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I think it should have been this year for sure or last year even.
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Is he talking to you about it or is he...
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Well, you know, it's interesting.
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We had a conversation about dirty words.
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Yeah.
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And I said, Harry, do you know dirty words?
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And he says, well, I know the S word.
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And he says, I know the B word, and I know the F word.
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And so you hang on, and you're like, okay, what is the S word?
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He said, stupid.
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Yeah.
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That's good.
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I said, and what about the B word?
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And he said, bad.
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And he said...
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Get out, everybody!
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Someone's got the plug and they're pulling it.
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Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| oxygen zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑksɪd͡ʒən/ | zuurstof |
| bend werkwoord | /bɛnd/ | buigen, plooien |
| instrument zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/ | instrument, meetinstrument |
| tooth zelfstandig naamwoord | /tuθ/ | tand |
| ogre zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈoʊ.ɡɚ/ | oger, boeman |
| airplane zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ | vliegtuig |
| chip zelfstandig naamwoord | /t͡ʃɪp/ | fiche |
| dislocate werkwoord | /dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/ | ontwrichten |
| extremity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ | uiterste, extremiteit |
| racetrack zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹeɪsˌtɹæk/ | renbaan, racebaan |
| tingle werkwoord | /ˈtɪŋɡəl/ | tintelen, kriebelen |
| tumble werkwoord | /ˈtʌmbl̩/ | tuimelen |
| terrific bijvoeglijk naamwoord | geweldig, verschrikkelijk | |
| satisfy werkwoord | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | voldoen, voldoende zijn |
| tremendous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/ | ontzagwekkend |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| take off werkwoord | uittrekken, afzetten | |
| wake up werkwoord | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | wakker worden, ontwaken |
| build up werkwoord | opstapelen | |
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen | |
| get along werkwoord | opschieten, overeenkomen | |
| go down werkwoord | afdalen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Is he handling your money?
- What is their show like when you see it?
- You think, you know, how?
- You just turn a guy's oxygen off?
- Don't you think he must be miserable at home?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | she's been giving · I've been studying |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | You've been · i've been · haven't seen |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was turned · being disoriented · was taken |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig was | were talking · was paying · was taking |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 110 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: machinery /məˈʃiːnəɹi/, occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, aerobatic /ˌɛɚ.əˈbæ.tɪk/, disorient /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/, egomaniac /iɡoʊˈmeɪniæk/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: altitude /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, bend /bɛnd/, plug /plʌɡ/, concede /kənˈsid/, intrigue /ˈɪntɹiːɡ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: altitude /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, racetrack /ˈɹeɪsˌtɹæk/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/, hammer /ˈhæmɚ/, rat /ɹæt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: ogre /ˈoʊ.ɡɚ/, tingle /ˈtɪŋɡəl/, plug /plʌɡ/, egomaniac /iɡoʊˈmeɪniæk/, intrigue /ˈɪntɹiːɡ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als oxygen, bend, instrument.
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