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One of the first guys I slept with was your best friend.
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I feel like I don't fit in as a gay person.
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He said, I'm taking a shot.
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One day that body is gonna be old and you're gonna wish you had a photo about when you looked hot, tight, and young.
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And I'll tell you, honey, I do.
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Welcome to Truth or Drink.
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These friends will ask each other three rounds of wild questions.
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They can either answer honestly or take a shot to get out of it.
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At the end of each round, there's a red card which makes them reveal a secret.
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tell us a secret you've been keeping from us.
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Things are about to get juicy.
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Let's begin.
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You're about to play truth or drink.
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Oh yeah.
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Are you excited?
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Oh yeah.
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We're three coworkers.
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We all work at the same bar.
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We're just the good time guys.
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To truth and to friendship.
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Okay.
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We'll start with the oldest.
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you guys.
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Who here's your better friend?
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Nick, we're gonna start with you.
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Well obviously it's you.
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Sorry, well, it's obvious.
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You know, I'm just gonna leave my room.
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Hey, he's emergency contacts Yeah, do I have to answer this question too?
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Yeah, you do who do you like more me or Nick?
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This is very tough I'm sorry.
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I love you, but Steven What wait, how is that even real even never became best friends with my ex-boyfriend?
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Well, Steven also never slept with my boyfriend during me dating him Next question I like this game.
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When did we do the alcohol?
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Yeah, when did we start drinking?
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Ricard says just all do a drink.
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Who here would you hook up with if you had to, and what would your concern be?
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I mean, I feel like it's no secret that I find JoJo super attractive.
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It's no secret because he runs around screaming at you.
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Like, at this point, I ask him to his face, and JoJo is just not interested.
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I'm very much like a relationship person.
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I'm not just like a hookup.
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So you call me a slut?
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Yes.
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Well, yes.
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If the size seven pump fits.
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What's something you've never told us because you were scared it might change our friendship?
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I thought of one, but there's no absolute way in hell.
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I'm saying this out loud.
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Who's it about?
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You!
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Oh Jojo, what's something that we get wrong about you?
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I think something that everyone gets wrong about me is that I'm like a huge whore,
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slut, like just easy, because I'm definitely like far from that.
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Why'd you look at me when you said that?
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What the hell is this?
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What the hell is this, America?
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I don't want you to take it personally.
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Like I don't just sleep with anybody.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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It's a red card.
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Okay, Nick.
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Hang out.
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Time to reveal a secret.
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This is mine.
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I prepared for this.
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Oh God, I'm scared.
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One of the first guys I slept with was your best friend.
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And then I slept with him and his roommate in the same two days.
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Oh so Gil means nothing to you?
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I mean like yeah, we won't use his name.
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Just say it.
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We'll bleep it out but you need to tell.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, if you'll bleep it, say the name.
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Yeah, I did definitely nine years ago.
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Well, I mean, who hasn't?
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I'm not surprised because my ex is very popular.
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How was?
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And honestly sex with him was pretty bad
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and I really didn't enjoy it So honestly anybody who wants it from here on out, good luck.
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Are you guys ready for the next round?
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Feeling good?
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Yeah, I'm feeling good.
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Cheers to dissing Jojo's ex on camera.
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Oh my god.
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All right, we're going on to round two.
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Questions are gonna get a little more intense here.
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Have you ever lied about your body count?
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What's the real number and why the lie?
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Let's start with Steven.
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Um, yes, and because...
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You can't count that high.
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Yeah, I can't count that high.
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Got time figured.
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Yeah, no, I've totally lied about my number.
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I mean, I think everybody does.
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I've never lied about my number.
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We all have our secrets.
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Do you know your number?
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It's like in the 20s.
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It's not that high, honestly.
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Some of us are hotter than others.
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I think that's the icebreaker.
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I like to have sex with them first.
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Yeah, try it before you buy it, right?
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Free sample, free sample.
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Yeah, if your sexual chemistry is not happening, then your relationship's not gonna happen.
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That's not gonna happen.
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Who here has the worst taste in partners, and why is it Nick?
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I mean.
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Oh, don't even get me started.
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I mean mine are worse, honestly.
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It's me, like.
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You think so?
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Yeah, the dudes I date are .
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No, I'll admit it's me.
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Everyone knows I'm kind of a serial dater.
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You just go for like, boys I wouldn't pick, and boys with like, braces.
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Like, broke, loser, and.
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You're the one attracted to homeless people.
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I am not.
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Have you ever hooked up with a homeless person?
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No!
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Have you ever thought about it?
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No!
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I did once.
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Drink!
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Drink!
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This is not that game!
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You're a 30 year old and you want to sleep with homeless people, drink!
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28, you don't want to sleep with homeless people!
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Here's the thing, if someone is homeless and you give them a home, are they still homeless?
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You would know the time you're ex.
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You would know.
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The last one of your exes.
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So you know what?
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Maybe they'll be homeless.
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No, I actually have given all of my exes usually home.
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So you date homeless men then?
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No, I date foreign men.
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Oh, okay.
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He does.
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If there's a language barrier, he's in.
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Yeah.
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I'm like, if you're like seven feet tall and your eyes are too far apart, like you're looking both ways when you cross the street, my type.
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And if you have a lisp?
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Girl.
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A lisp? So hot.
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That's what I'm saying. So hot.
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No, but we can't say he has the worst relationships because he's never in one.
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Because I'm single.
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Hit me up, boys.
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He's been single since he's been 30.
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you.
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It's only 10 years down, bro.
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All right, are you ready?
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What's something you struggle with privately that you don't mind sharing with the group?
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Something that I struggle with privately, I am a very lonely person actually.
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The reason why I feel like I feel so lonely is
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because I feel like I don't fit in as a gay person.
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I do feel like you being straight passable puts you in- What?
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Straight passable is crazy.
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Well, I mean, you're gay as hell.
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I'm gayer than that if you can believe it.
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I was about to say, what?
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But like, no, I feel like you're pretty transient in, could be in the straight world like image wise.
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And I feel like for a lot of gay people, that's really hard for them to digest.
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Cause you know, like I could put on exactly what you're wearing
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but I'm still gonna look as gay as I can when I walk in.
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I struggle with this everyday.
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Promoting, whether it's modeling, whether it's whatever I'm doing, I know that it has a timeline of about 40.
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It's like you don't really get a plan after that.
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You have to be a party, fun boy, f* boy for you know, for so long.
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It's only so long you can do that.
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And so long that it's appropriate to do that.
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Who here has done something truly messed up at work?
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What was it?
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The third day that I was working at the bar that we all work at, I was getting ready at a friend's house who had just had dinner, and they went upstairs to go and shower and get ready,
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so I helped myself to some food, and there was a dessert tray, and I ended up accidentally eating an entire bar of shroom chocolates.
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Oh my god.
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And then I showed up, and it was fine at first, and then about an hour in, some mushrooms started growing out of my friend's eyebrows, and I locked myself in the bathroom.
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Yeah, that's when we carried you to my place, right?
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Yep.
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Jojo, tell us the secret you've been keeping from us.
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You know how at our job, you know we're on the mic and we MC?
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Sometimes you get a little too drunk, and I'll turn your mic all the way down so you can't hear it.
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And you're usually so drunk that you don't even realize, so you just keep MCing.
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I thought the battery died this whole goddamn time.
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I shut the volume all the way down.
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Because I thought this bitch is drunk.
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I think you're holding back a secret.
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I think that you slept with my boyfriend and you know who, while we were sleeping together.
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I did not f* with him once.
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Really?
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Oh my god, everyone told me you did.
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Bitch, everybody loves to make s* up about me.
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I'm everyone's favorite topic, what do you want from me?
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We need to take a shot.
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Pour this shot.
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I love how we're just taking shots.
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We're not even like...
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I know.
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I feel bad.
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This game is really fun.
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I promise.
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Alright, we got truth or fear.
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Truth or fear?
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What's fear?
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I hope you're ready because some of your exes are here.
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You're alive.
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Wait, what?
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I'm kidding.
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Oh my god!
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Wait, stop!
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I was about to leave.
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Your choice is you can either answer a question or opt out of it by doing a dare.
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Okay.
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Ooh, dare!
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What's the wildest thing you've done sexually that literally no one at the table knows about?
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So honestly, I'm not gonna answer this question, so I'm gonna take one of these down.
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Ah, it's gotta be good then.
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Okay, unlock your phone and hand it over to the group.
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They get five full minutes to do anything.
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Go through photos, Tinder, profile, text, cross.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me.
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Sure, I don't do anything.
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I'll find it.
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Just go to photos, type in the word dick and see what comes up.
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There's, I don't take nudes.
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There's no nudes, there's nothing on there.
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There's nothing under your hidden album?
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Whoa!
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I don't do that sh!
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No, there's no nudes in here.
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No, you're not gonna find sh in there, I promise.
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One day that body is gonna be old, wrinkled, and dragged to the ground, and you're gonna wish you had a photo about when you looked hot, tight, and young, and I'll tell ya, honey, I do.
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Go to text and search words.
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Search your own name.
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Oh!
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No. No way.
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That's crazy.
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Search your name.
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I did, I just did.
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Oh!
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Is someone replacing you tonight, or is it just Nick Moss tonight, Nick Moss talking sh about me tonight, he's wasted?
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What is that?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, no!
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Oh, he's the ex?
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Talking shit about today, he's wasting, he's stumbling on the streets right now, everyone insane tonight, maybe I'm just sober.
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Well, to be fair, you probably part of it.
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Yeah, whoa!
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Yeah, he's the worst, insane, but literally, you talking shit about me, whole minute.
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Oh, that was my boyfriend, bitch.
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It's all love, I love you.
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I mean, no, I don't mind people talking shit about me, because if you didn't talk shit about me, that means you didn't care about me.
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Okay, who here is the most manipulative and how have they twisted things to get their way?
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I was gonna answer this, but it's honestly pretty boring.
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I choose fear because I'm not afraid of anything, so this can be nothing.
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Go ahead and read it.
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Strip dice!
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Roll a die.
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Whatever number it lands on, take off that many items of clothing.
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Your socks do not count.
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It's probably exactly what you get in Mario Party.
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One.
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Okay, that was six.
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Six!
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It was a six!
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It was a six!
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I'm not wearing six articles of clothing!
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Take them all!
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Oh, don't fall. Am I drunk?
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Yes, definitely.
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Maybe a little bit.
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Maybe a little bit.
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It's a thong, bitch.
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It's a thong!
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He's wearing some women's underwear.
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I'm wearing underwear!
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These are designer pants!
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I was joking the whole time, this bitch is actually in a thong.
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You know what, I'm already in my underwear, I'm doing a shot anyway.
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I don't care what the rules of this game.
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Honestly, I'm just, I'm having a great time.
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One's bigger than the other.
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Which one are you talking about?
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That's the next question. Be honest.
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Have you ever rooted for one of us to fail?
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And also why are you a terrible person?
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Wait no, is that really the second part?
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Oh.
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Oh.
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I do, I do, on occasion every week.
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On occasion every week is f*ing wild.
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I hope you fail at your night sometimes because...
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Because you're the next night!
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Yes, exactly!
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Have you ever done something illegal at work?
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I'll read it.
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I'll do both.
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Alright, do the shot and the dare.
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I'm going to apologize.
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Oh my god, this is worse!
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This is worse!
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Call your parents and tell them you're having a baby.
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Honey, I come from Catholic conservative family.
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No!
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No!
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No!
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Guys, this is so f*ed up.
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You're gonna use my father for entertainment?
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Well, my old hookup wouldn't even answer, so...
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What's going on?
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Hey!
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What's up, Dad?
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What are you bodyin'?
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Dad, I need to tell you something very important, and it might come as a shock to you.
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Dad, I'm pregnant.
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Yeah, okay.
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I'm having a kid, we hired a surrogate, and I am having a baby out of wedlock.
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Oh yeah?
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Oh yeah?
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I am.
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You're gonna be a grandpa.
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Is it a boy or a girl?
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I don't know.
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I just put the bun in the oven.
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Say them.
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I think you'll own Walt Disney World.
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I do!
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I will own Walt Disney World because the first man to have a baby owns Walt Disney World.
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Look it up, America.
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It's there, it's on Google.
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He said it before you got frozen.
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Congratulations, Steven.
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Steven, what do you notice on the top?
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Oh, it's a red card.
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Steven, do you have a secret you'd like to share?
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I think you two should do a shot before I tell you my secret.
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Cheers.
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OK, so it's not so much of a secret as much as it is something I've been thinking about lately.
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I feel like you've kind of pulled away from the friend group kind of recently, and I wasn't sure if something happened.
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I went through a pretty bad, rough breakup that changed me as a human being, and I'm trying to become a new person from that,
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so this way it doesn't happen again.
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So I definitely think lately I've been a lot more reserved into myself and kind of minding my business.
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But me and Steven just talked about this.
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There's two forms of JoJo that go out.
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There's ones that's sheltered, and then the ones that's out there at the night, on top of the bar, twerking.
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Like like being like and coming up to you at like 10 when you get there.
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I'm already up man In LA I feel
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so much loneliness I don't know why it's hard for me to make connections with people It's hard making
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and it's like it actually affects me it more often than you would think how could we help though with that?
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Honestly like you guys already do great
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if you guys like would randomly hit me up lately Both
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of you have been reaching out to me like a lot more I need to do better
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And I actually noticed that Every part of my being wants to make a joke here
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But like I genuinely sincerely feel like you guys have been
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great friends to me since I moved here Do you wanna hold hands?
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Can we just not Oh my god I didn't wanna give you the wrong opinion Kumbaya my lord No,
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kumbaya Kumbaya Damn America, this was a great time I had fun Don't ever invite me to this shit ever again.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Best Friends Get Wild on Truth or Drink!”. This video has 363 sentences and 2766 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:32. The speaker talks fast, about 190 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. 69 of its 363 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| kumbaya noun | /ˌkum.baɪˈjɑ/ | Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song. |
| thong noun | /θɔŋ/ | A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects. |
| underwear noun | /ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/ | Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing. |
| nude adjective | /n(j)uːd/ | Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh. |
| bleep noun | /ˈbliːp/ | A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. |
| hookup noun | /ˈhʊkʌp/ | A connection. |
| lisp verb | /lɪsp/ | To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children. |
| passable adjective | /ˈpæsəbəl/ | That may be passed or traversed. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| privately adverb | /ˈpɹaɪvɪtli/ | In a private manner. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
| cheers | /t͡ʃɪəz/ | A common toast used when drinking in company. |
| eyebrow noun | /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊ/ | The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket. |
| icebreaker noun | /ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ/ | A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas. |
| stumble verb | /ˈstʌmbəl/ | To trip or fall; to walk clumsily. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| come up to verb | To approach. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| grow out of verb | To emerge from (something); to take a particular shape as a result of (something); to come to exist from (an origin). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Who here's your better friend?
- When did we do the alcohol?
- Why'd you look at me when you said that?
- There's nothing under your hidden album?
- You're gonna use my father for entertainment?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been keeping · I've been thinking · have been reaching |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you had to, and what would your · if you guys like would randomly |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've never told · Have you ever hooked · Have you ever thought |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | card which makes · anybody who wants |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 136 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: transient /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
- Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
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 kumbaya, thong, underwear.
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.