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Adults adopting adults.
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If that phrase gives you the ick, then you're not alone.
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While it sounds like a bizarre concept, there are legitimate reasons for adults to adopt other adults.
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Reasons like grown adults wanting to be adopted by their step parents,
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or their foster parents, or maybe they find their biological parents and then want to be adopted by them.
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Or less conventionally, flying out a 20 year old pregnant woman from Austria to adopt as your own.
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Well that's exactly what happened on A &E's hit new show, Adults Adopting Adults.
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This is one of those shows where A &E decided to
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give TLC a run for its money in the only way they know how.
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The worst way.
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Now, I actually found out about this show from a comment on one of my videos.
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Kayla told me that I had to look at A &E's Adults Adopting Adults.
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A few things on that.
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Kayla, I don't have to do anything, okay?
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But I did see A &E, and that gave me the ick feeling, so I thought it might be good content.
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And then just seeing the title of the show further expanded on said ick, so I figured I should at least check it out.
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As usual, later than everyone else on YouTube.
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That's my YouTube growth hack.
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Wait until everyone's exhausted a topic and it's lost all relevancy, then I swoop in for all the big views.
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Does it work?
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Pass.
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So while this show does feature a few separate families, we're just gonna be focusing on Danny and Christy because that's all that matters.
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You will see why.
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My name is Danny, this is my wife Christy, and we live in Chillicothe, Ohio.
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It's her and I, that's our entire family except for all of our...
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Critters.
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Right off the bat, we see a lot of Danny and Christy and they's pop up, and that is simply not accurate.
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This is very much a Danny venture, and Christy is so not on board.
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I haven't heard from Ileana since this morning.
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I'm assuming she only got internet on the plane for a little while.
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She said she had to buy more.
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My guess is she didn't buy more.
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Okay, got it.
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So we started communicating via text messages and just became acquainted.
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So much of the show is going to be uncomfortable, whether it be the interactions with Danny and Christy,
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Danny, Christy, and Ileana, or the way Danny says, became acquainted.
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We can't have children of our own.
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I'm an only child, and I realized that I had no one in my life to be my legacy.
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Christy, what's your motivation?
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You know they had to have added that in at the end of editing
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because that producer's line was coming off a MacBook webcam.
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It's love for our family, he and I being the family.
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Him and I and no one else.
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Did you ever think that we would someday be adopting a grown woman with a baby.
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I try not to think too far ahead.
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Maybe that was the problem.
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All I heard there was, well, I try not to think about it too much. Or like at all.
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Oh, fuck.
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There I go thinking about it again.
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So I assume by now you guys are all thinking this is a very weird and odd situation all around.
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Well, don't worry.
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This is only the second time Danny has ever tried to do this.
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Adult adoption came to my attention when a young 18 -year -old girl came and bought a puppy from us.
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Her father passed away years before, and I just felt a need to help her in some way.
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She was interested in adult adoption.
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You might now be wondering, what must have gone wrong before?
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Because I don't see an adopted adult anywhere.
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It's nothing bad, really.
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It's just Danny wanted to fuck the adult they were trying to adopt before
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that that's it unfortunately i could not pursue that
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that first young lady
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because i actually started having feelings for her she was a very beautiful young lady on top of
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that he he's been unfaithful in the past
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and it almost ended us it's unclear to me watching now
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if him being unfaithful in the past was with the adult
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they were trying to adopt before i hope to god not
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but it's annie and we know that they will go where TLC will not.
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And I was promised that was not going to ever happen again.
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Then Ileana came along and I thought, he's really doing this again.
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I have never felt more bad for someone in a reality TV show than I feel for Christy right now.
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Like, I cannot imagine why on earth she's still entertaining this ghoul.
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Maybe their house has paid off.
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I don't know.
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It could be anything.
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But regardless of their past, I trust that Danny will take what has happened between them or what he has done to Christie,
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and he will learn from it and become a better man.
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What do you want this thing to say?
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I don't know.
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What would you want it to say?
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If it was my poster, I'd want it to say, Welcome to Ohio, where's my blowie?
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What a fucking nightmare.
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You knew it.
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You knew what I was going to say.
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Why are you going to be such a freak show?
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Why are you always such a freak show?
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Naked girls.
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My husband has crazy outlandish thoughts and ideas,
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and we've had a lot of friends and family that are just very perplexed.
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Oh, okay.
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I was under the impression that he was a normal guy outside of all of this.
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We then get to see what it's like to discuss literally anything with Danny
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and how he's able to get away with all of his shenanigans with careful and strategic wordplay.
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Ileana and I have just hit it off and I.. think she's going to be a wonderful addition to our family.
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But if you don't bond with her, then so be it.
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Oh, come on.
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Where's my milkshake?
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You just got to make sure you bond with her.
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Oh, come on.
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Really?
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Milkshake?
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What?
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No. Are you going to respond to me?
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All right.
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Jesus.
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Fine.
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Now, one of the ways they plan to mitigate the tension between everybody once Ileana gets
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there is to move her into a camper outside the house.
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Our marriage is not strong enough to have someone else moving into our house.
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So I went ahead and made sure that we had other accommodations for Ileana
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and her baby and bought a camper and set it up right outside the house.
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That Christy has bought and paid for and don't worry, she bought her a pillow.
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Do you have a pillow for her?
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I have one, brand new.
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While we're doing this, think about some ground rules so we don't have any miscommunications between us.
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How are you going to be with us spending time together alone.
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Obviously I've got to be appropriate.
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That's, that'd be great.
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I most certainly am very, very concerned that I may become physically attracted to Ileana.
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This is a delicate subject, but so far I have not thought of her as a beautiful woman.
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She is.
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This man is all over the place in the worst ways possible.
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He can't even fool anyone with his gaslighting anymore.
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He just contradicts himself every time.
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Okay, we're gonna have to set some ground rules here because for whatever reason, you don't feel comfortable with her and I being alone.
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I don't get it.
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Also, I am genuinely concerned I'm going to become attracted to her.
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Not that I think she's beautiful or anything, but if I had to think about it, I would say she's beautiful without a doubt.
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What?
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Can you hand me my milkshake?
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Christy, tell me what your friends are telling you when you're explaining this adult adoption process.
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You're able to censor bleep stuff, right?
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No, sorry, we don't know how.
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One of the comments I've heard most is, what the f* is wrong with your husband?
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And we're gonna kill him.
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They want to just literally kill him, and I've not said that to him out loud.
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I stopped caring a long time ago about what people thought about me.
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No, no, no, we can tell, but I think it's time for you to start caring.
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I'm happy with who I am, and you know, you don't like it, move on.
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He is unintentionally giving Christy the best advice in the world right now, and neither of them know it.
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She hasn't checked in.
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Oh my gosh, so she has about an hour.
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Now it's time for them to pick Ileana up for the airport, and for a second, it's kind of sweet.
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Oh, that's her.
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Yep, it is.
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Christy, for the first time that we've seen on the show yet, seems like she's actually kind of happy to see Liana,
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which I would not blame her if she wasn't.
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Hi.
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We are so happy you're here.
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But then Danny realized he hasn't said anything fucking weird in a while.
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She traveled halfway across this world and I can't...
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She.. she.. she wants to be with me.
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He even took a few pauses and had some time to think about it, and still said that.
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I'm very concerned, but Danny wanted this more than I've ever seen him want anything ever.
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You hear Christy say that a lot throughout all of this.
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Her holding onto hope because she's never seen Danny want anything more than this, when that should in fact be a ginormous red flag.
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It'd be like Chris Hansen sitting down with a pedophile on To Catch a Predator and being like,
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I just let him go with his pizza because to be honest, I've never seen him want anything more than this.
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So I figured he was in the right.
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The next day rolls around and Danny decides to cook breakfast for Ileana and his wife.
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As soon as she wakes up, we will be ready to make her her first breakfast.
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But not without some normal family banter.
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At the end of the day, Ileana, I want you to stay right here because I like hugging on you and you're,
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you know, you're awful sweet.
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Okay, was it that weird?
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Really?
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Whose dad doesn't talk to them like that?
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Okay, mine doesn't.
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Okay, it's fucking weird.
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It's at this point in the show where it finally gets uncomfortable because it was not before.
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Danny decides it's best for Christy to be put on the spot
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and explain to Ileana all of their marital issues because why should he?
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The three of us, we're just going to be a family.
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We're going to share things.
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So, So, Christy, if you're willing to share our marital problems, this would be a perfect place for you to do it.
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No. Do you want me to ask him to shut the camera down?
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Nope.
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Okay.
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Sure.
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I need a minute.
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This is so annoying to watch because Danny is such a manipulative fuck in the most annoying way possible you
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Sorry about her.
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Basically what happened, and this is hilarious, you're gonna think it's so funny.
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We were in this situation before.
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We were gonna adopt a woman just like you, not pregnant, and the funniest thing happened, I wanted to fuck her.
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Something like that.
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You're supposed to laugh.
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I am disgusted by the person I was.
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However, I did apologize to my wife, and I continue to pay that price every day.
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Are you paying it though?
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Because it seems like the opposite of paying the price is her forgiving you
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and then letting you do it all over again on TV.
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She doesn't want me to share.
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That's fine, because this is something private and this is something between you two.
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You know he had to have been so fucking relieved that she interrupted him and just said, no, you don't need to tell me that,
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it's between you and her, so that he didn't have to tell her the truth.
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Something that she should probably know.
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You said that you were thinking about getting a tattoo of your baby's foot.
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Yeah.
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I'm actually thinking of my arm because I like tattoos a lot.
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Yeah, Christy doesn't have any.
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I have, what, three, honey?
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I don't know how many you have.
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I think you have more than three, but I could be wrong.
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I do have an obsession for guys who have tattoos.
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Dad bods and tattoos.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like, there's no way she would have said that if she had known what had happened.
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Nor would she even be here at all, I imagine.
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Then we see Christy go to lunch with a friend of hers who,
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we find out, is just as weirded out by all this as we are.
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Trying to have some kind of a normal existence with a 20 -year -old pregnant stranger in my house. That blows my mind.
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It's just tough.
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Most women would not put up with that.
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And aside from that, we don't see much more.
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There is an argument between Dani and Christy, but of course.
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I went to meet up with my friend
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Sue, and part of the conversation was how stressful this is for me.
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Well, I disagree with that.
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And then the rest of what we see is coming up clips because this is the last episode that aired.
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A &E canceled the show after three episodes.
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There are a lot of theories as to why the show was canceled, some citing Danny's racist TikTok.
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Racism is alive and well in this country.
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Unfortunately, it comes from the blacks.
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Or maybe because Danny is just a creepy fuck and all signs point to him doing this with the worst of intentions.
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Whatever the reason may be, leave it to A &E for having the brittle backbone
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that they have and canceling this show only after they got shit for it.
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So guys, I hope you did enjoy today's video.
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I know it was a little bit more of a what -the -fuck topic, but I, and Kayla, wanted to cover it.
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With that being said, leave a like rating if you enjoyed, comment, subscribe if you're new here.
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Thank you guys again for watching, and I will see you next time.
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Goodbye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Adults Adopting Adults Is Disgusting”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Christy, Danny, adult, Ileana. This video has 190 sentences and 2420 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:31. The speaker talks fast, about 193 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| adopt verb | /əˈdɑpt/ | To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. |
| tattoo noun | /tæˈtuː/ | An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle. |
| cancel verb | /ˈkæn.sl̩/ | To cross out something with lines etc. |
| adoption noun | /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ | The act of adopting. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| uncomfortable adjective | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | Not comfortable; causing discomfort. |
| pillow noun | /ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞] | A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. |
| marital adjective | /ˈmæɹɪtəl/ | Pertaining to marriage. |
| regardless adverb | /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/ | Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences. |
| naked adjective | /ˈneɪkɪd/ | Bare, not covered by clothing. |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| strategic adjective | /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/ | Of or pertaining to strategy. |
| racist noun | /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/ | A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come along verb | To accompany. | |
| come off verb | To become detached. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get away with verb | To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| pass away verb | To die. | |
| pay off verb | To bribe, especially to deter oversight. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you want this thing to say?
- What would you want it to say?
- Why are you always there?
- Are you going to respond to me?
- Do you have a pillow for her?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If it was my poster, I'd want |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't heard · has ever tried · he's been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be adopted · was promised · be put |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 59 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like adopt, tattoo, cancel.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.