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For the next 50 hours, I'll be eating the diet of a cop and the diet of a convict.
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But there's a twist.
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You'll be eating the convict's diet.
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What?
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You didn't tell me that?
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And you'll be eating the cop's diet.
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About time, b*h.
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To see if they can survive each other's worlds.
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I'll see you last a day in there, brother.
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And who will break first?
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This is worse than being in person.
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I wouldn't even eat.
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Starting with breakfast, are you excited?
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Hell yeah.
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Oh, I'm thrilled.
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I just want to see how the other side lives.
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So what was the typical first meal in prison?
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What am I looking at here?
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All right, so realistically, eggs, oatmeal, coffee.
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So what's in the coffee?
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In that coffee, you should have never trusted other people to make coffee for you.
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I'm not going to tell you exactly what's in it.
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I think I saw a little bit of the process.
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There's two packets of coffee, a little bit of syrup, and a little something else.
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We are going to find out.
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But over here, what does the typical cop diet look like?
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What you have before you, stereotypical donuts, the average police officer eats in pretty much all media.
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This is consumed frequently.
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I'd say most cops are about to overdose on caffeine.
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So not coffee.
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Unless you're older.
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I mean, the older guys are typically, you know, out there slamming their coffees and whatnot.
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But the younger guys, man, you gotta have two at one time.
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Well, cheers to that, brother.
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Let's experience the other lifestyle.
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Wow, the flavor on that is just very plain.
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How's that one?
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Oh, that one's hitting.
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It's a bit of hair.
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So how long have you been a police officer for?
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A little over five years.
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And while Jake was becoming an officer, our convict Skyler went down the complete opposite path.
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Known as Brick Boy Dior and building a career in rap, he was surrounded by drugs,
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guns, and violence, eventually landing him in jail six times over five years, the last of which was the most serious,
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motivating him to turn his life around.
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Both 26 years old, but living polar opposite lifestyles.
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And did you always know you wanted to do that?
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Yeah, growing up, Dab was a police officer.
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Everybody in the family was a police officer.
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So it's kind of like second nature once you get older.
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When I got out of county, I had to do six months of the sober living and live in a basement with 60 dudes.
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Oh, imagine 60 dudes in one basement.
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The first time I get there, they transport me from the jail.
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They're like, all the rooms are downstairs, right?
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I'm like, okay.
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It's a little weird walk down the stairs and just look at a never ending hall with a light at the end.
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I'm like, bro, wait.
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There's light at the end of the tunnel.
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There's light at the end of the tunnel.
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The longer I eat this, the more I hate it.
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You're putting people in prison.
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You get to see what they get.
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Let's crack into the drinks.
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We got a prison latte that I shouldn't trust another man to make.
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It might be a little salty.
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What?
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Dig into that prison latte.
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Wow.
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Oh, they did not miss with this one.
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Potent and plain.
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So would a meal like this fill you up for a while?
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Oh no, no wake up at 530 in the morning to eat some bullshit just to go lay back
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So you have to eat at 530 bang on the door chow chow chow
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Yeah, that brings up a good question
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How hungry do you get when you're on ship man?
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I just depends because our schedule is so messed up
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that some days you get into work and you've been awake for 24 hours and ate
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Nothing and other days.
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It's like you could eat nothing and be completely fine
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And some days you do get to eat nothing because you're on a call and there's nothing you can do
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And then there's other days where you're doing nothing and you can eat wherever you want whenever you want
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So there's no consistency there one minute you you're free the next minute
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you're gonna be stuck in one location hunger is gonna
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Depend on that yeah, which I guess is the complete opposite of being in prison 530 in the morning
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Everything in the morning like 530 12 and then like what six or seven or some shit.
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So would you be hungry?
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I mean realistically my comments here was good the whole time
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So my dog is making sure I have money on my books
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and full commissary stack every single week I was eating like 10 ,000 calories a day in there.
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So you got fat in jail.
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Hell yeah If your comments are good, you're gonna get fat.
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So you were just bored.
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Yep.
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Hell yeah I would stand in myself with my arms on
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the window just staring outside looking at all the cars drive by One day that's gonna be me.
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Hey Meals going down pretty pretty pretty smooth.
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I'm trying dude I do not want to touch that anymore.
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Like I'm that is miserable
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Yeah, you look like you're enjoying that meal a little too much.
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Yeah, bro.
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This looks like a regular bodybuilding meal, bro.
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We got oatmeal, we got eggs, and we got a little bit of coffee.
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I'm with it.
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That's actually f*ed up.
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I'm used to this.
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Throw me in the cell.
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I'll see you last a day in there, brother.
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And clearly, I didn't mind either meals, but I needed to know what they thought of each other's.
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It's like wet cat food.
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That's fire.
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This is nasty, too.
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And by the end of the video, the diet as a whole.
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So what would you rate this meal not knowing what's coming next?
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Four.
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That's not too bad.
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What do you rate the meal?
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Ten.
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Ten.
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A 10.
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Could never go wrong with donuts.
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One meal out of four is done.
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Do they get better than this?
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I guess you'll have to find out.
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Now I want to see how you actually made food.
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Today we are making what they call a brick.
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So first, we start with the ramen.
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What are we doing?
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Is that to your liking?
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I guess.
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What are the Doritos doing?
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So you open this up, right?
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I'm going to make this one real beefy for you.
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So now you got ramen, chips, crushed up, same bag.
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Now are we doing the whole packet, half a packet?
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Whole packet.
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We need some sodium.
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And then your protein.
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Realistically, since we don't have any cheese sauce, cheese is going in.
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That's, I guess, why you call it brick.
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Does it turn into a brick?
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Oh, it does.
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Here's what we do.
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And this comes from the sink?
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This comes from the water fountain.
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Okay.
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From the shower.
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Now, simply roll it up.
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Yeah, let that bitch cook.
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Let it cook.
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I guess you get pretty creative when you're in a cell for 24 hours a day.
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But the officer's meal couldn't have been more different.
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If I didn't know any better, I would think that this is my meal prep.
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What do we have in this?
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It's very complicated here.
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We got rice, ground beef, and vegetables.
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And this is like a normal on -shift lunch?
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Yeah, I mean, you never know when you're going to get the chance to eat.
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So you got to get all your nutrients at one go, sit down, eat it, and you're good to go.
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And would you say this is like somewhat of a typical meal?
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I mean, that's the go -to right there.
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Everybody's eating that where I'm working.
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Bone apple teeth, brother.
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Bone apple teeth, brother.
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Dink, dink.
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Gun him.
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Sorry, I'm training.
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You're just legitimately scared.
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That's pretty good.
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That right there is a reason why people get fat in jail.
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This seems like a really nutritious meal.
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Do most cops eat like this?
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And are they worried about nutrition at all?
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There are stereotypical older police officers who overweight.
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At least in my experience, you're tend to going to see that on day shift with a bunch of the old guys over there
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You know at that point in their career.
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They're like ah, whatever it is what it is Most of the young guys.
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I feel like that's a pretty stereotypical meal I mean, you're just getting rice protein and veggies.
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That's all you need slop bowl boy cable
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So do you think most prisoners are worried about nutrition at all?
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No, no Realistically like me being somebody who would work out
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my goal every single day was to do a thousand push -ups.
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Yeah, I lasted two days
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Yeah, why is that?
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I found out about the brick
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Dude, this life is so much better.
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Just shut out and lay down all day.
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And as weird as it is, I could actually see why this was a jailhouse favorite.
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The more I eat this, the more I'm liking it.
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But judging by Jake's face, I had a sneaking suspicion he didn't feel the same way.
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Could you eat that for lunch?
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Could I eat it?
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Yes.
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Do I want to eat it?
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No. Solid.
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You ever heard about shebangs?
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No. The chips?
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No. Best ones to make a brick with.
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They got shebang peanuts too.
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The seasoning from the shebangs.
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and it seemed like instead of PTSD, Brick Boy was having nostalgia.
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You're not gonna lie.
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You wanna let me try a bite of that?
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You need my food, homie.
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This meal is hitting.
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I could eat this every single day.
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It's got everything you need.
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I mean, you can do different variations on it.
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One day you throw some fish in there, then remove the ground beef.
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Next day throw some chicken in there.
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Endless possibilities, they say.
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What'd you rate your meal?
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Solid eight.
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Eight?
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Yeah.
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It never goes wrong with beef and rice.
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Never.
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And even though I was still thoroughly enjoying my brick.
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This is hitting right now.
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That bitch swanging, ain't it?
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Uh -huh.
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I learned that word in jail. Did you?
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Jake, on the other hand, was struggling with his.
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Did you mix the seasoning up in here?
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Yeah, maybe not too good.
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Dude, it's like straight chicken broth and salt.
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Oh my God.
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It's hard to mix it in that bag.
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But if Jake was struggling with this, he was in for a much worse time later.
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I'm giving this a three.
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A three?
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Yeah.
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But underneath all the banter, I wanted to better understand the law enforcement lifestyle.
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You actually were heavier before you became a cop, right?
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Yep.
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So how does that work?
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Normally it's the opposite.
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I mean, I wasn't heavy for no reason.
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I used to be an offensive lineman and was playing football.
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And then I knew I was going to be doing a bunch of running when I went to the police academy.
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So I started running before I went and I lost all the weight.
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And I went from like 250 to 185, I think.
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Wow.
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That's impressive to
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because like i said normally people with the cop stereotype
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it's all they're sitting around all day they're not doing much it's starting to change
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because of social media there's a lot of people out there
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that are putting out content and videos and whatnot trying to like specifically
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if you're in like my algorithms all cop stuff you're starting to see people
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that are getting videos pushed to them about being healthier
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and how you can like have healthy habits in the job especially the younger cops are staying healthier
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that's actually good i mean there's still a quarter of this bag left to go keeps
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you busy i mean imagine sitting in a cell all day you'd rather be sitting eating
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i'm glad you're getting to experience it i'm glad how many people in this life will ever experience
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that that's why i wanted to do it you should you should do a crime bro
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you should just choose like a low like a low crime get locked up
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if this gets a million likes i'll go to jail hey guys like this please
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but we all finished our meals because we needed the energy for what we were about to do.
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And since there are no weights in jail, I want you to show me how you still work out.
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Welcome to the yard, brother.
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Let's do a circuit.
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10 pull -ups.
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Two, three.
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20 push -ups.
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One, two.
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10 dips.
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One, 10.
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Oh, shit.
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10 times.
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Sounds like a workout to me.
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You ready?
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Let's do it.
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I spend a lot of time in the gym, but I'm used to lifting weights, not doing calisthenics.
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So even though this started off easy, I began to realize I wasn't yet cut out for the convict conditioning,
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but I wasn't going to quit because what happens to quitters in jail?
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Well, I'll just let you fill in that blank.
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And if I was struggling this much, it made me wonder.
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You think a cop can do this?
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No. I'm too many damn donuts.
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Let's find out.
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All you have to do is 20 push -ups, 10 pull -ups, and 10 dips.
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Sounds good.
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Let's do it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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What Jake didn't realize is that I may have left out a little detail, which was probably for the best.
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Because after seeing him struggle by the end of the circuit, I'm getting hurt.
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No way.
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I had to break him the news.
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Now, all you got to do is do that nine more times.
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You're lying.
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Ten circuits.
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Ten of these?
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Yep.
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You're going to cut this from the video.
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Are you serious?
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And even though he was confident in his push -ups, the other exercises weren't in his wheelhouse.
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And it only got worse.
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I'll probably just go home and feel bad about myself.
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Until finally, after three rounds, he had enough.
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That's as much as you're getting out of me.
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Convict wins this one, huh?
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Go ahead.
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That would be 30 more of me.
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Because cops never know when they'll get a chance to eat, Jake normally grabs this when he's on the go. But first...
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What?
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What the hell is this?
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What am I looking at?
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You are now about to eat something that they call the Nutri -Loaf.
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This doesn't even look like food.
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You've been a bad, bad boy.
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So pretty much what we got here, you got beans, tomato paste, spinach, powdered milk, chopped up bread, cheese, and the little purple things, you know?
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Yeah.
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Things they call raisins.
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We got all that in here.
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You got all your nutrients that you need.
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For one day, right here.
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But jails can't legally malnourish inmates, So they use Nutriloaf as a disciplinary tool for inmates who misbehave, throw food, or misuse utensils.
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And different states make it with different ingredients.
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So, I'm not gonna lie, I have no idea how nutritious this is, so I put it into Macrofactor,
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All I had to do was input each item by scanning the barcode or searching the database.
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And let me tell you, there were a lot of items.
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So I can log a recipe this complicated in seconds and get back to literally anything else.
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This came directly from the State Department, so I know the exact measurements for everything.
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And for half of this loaf, that comes out to 1 ,158 calories, 56 grams of protein, 31 grams of fat, and 174 grams of carbs.
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But now I believe it's time for you to tell me what you have right here.
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That's the greatest grab -and -go meal there is.
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Yeah, let me do a spicy chicken meal.
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Fries is fine.
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Yeah, and then a Diet Coke with that and some ranch and buffalo.
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I am not looking forward to this.
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You might be, though.
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Because I got the spicy chicken sandwich and then you got the fries.
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That's all you need.
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That's a nutritious meal right there.
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If you squint hard enough, it may look like a Chick -fil -A spicy chicken sandwich.
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Squint?
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No. Oh, you don't even want to touch it.
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Oh, no. This is so good.
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This is so bad.
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The flavors in this don't even make any sense.
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Dude, this is really hard to eat.
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This is why you don't come across.
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This is worse than being in person.
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I wouldn't even eat.
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It tastes like I'm getting all my nutrients in for the day.
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You're getting everything that you need, bro.
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Protein.
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I love it.
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That's all I even know.
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I don't really know what else you need in a day besides protein, but you're getting it all.
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In the universe in which I end up in prison, I can promise you I'll be a good boy because I'm not getting this meal.
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You'll be a good boy.
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Oh yeah.
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The goodest of boys.
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What's the hardest part about eating this way while working?
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Honestly, is every time we're eating in the car, we're trying to be left alone.
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Like we don't want anybody to come speak to us because it's the one minute of downtime that we have.
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We will like find a police officer in the corner of a parking lot
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or something or tucked away and then the hardest part is you're sitting there
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and you start seeing someone walking up to your car midway through your meal
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and you're just like can i get a second of peace please it's like
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when somebody interrupts you watching youtube while you're eating
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if you're watching this video while you eat comment down below i got you
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which reminds me I said if I hit a million subscribers by the end of the year, I'll shave my head.
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Since it came to my attention that a lot of you don't like my haircut.
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If you want to see that happen, make sure to click subscribe.
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What was the hardest part about eating this way in prison?
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Just try to stay mentally sane, realistically.
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Which is exactly how
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Jake felt eating this straight up slob.
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This is what I get after a workout.
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You normally want your post -workout meal to be delicious.
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You just work so hard.
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And after getting a taste of jail inside an ultra luxury SUV, I needed to know something.
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We're sitting here in a Maybach and you're seeing this food.
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How has success changed your perspective on everything?
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You know, I feel like the people who end up in jail is
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because they feel like they have nothing going for them in life.
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Like they don't care if they lose everything because they have nothing going.
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I didn't give a f* about what happened today, tomorrow, the next day.
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I didn't care because I literally had nothing to do.
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You didn't feel like there was a future.
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Bro, if I went to jail, I didn't lose anything.
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I didn't lose a job.
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I didn't lose a car.
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I lived in my mom's house, so I didn't lose my house.
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I didn't have any animals.
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I literally had nothing to lose.
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You feel like you're worth nothing.
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It tends to bring people to drugs and alcohol.
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Drugs and alcohol tend to bring you to jail.
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So what was that flip, that switch?
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God.
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Real.
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Jesus will save you.
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Ask God for one more chance.
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Like, please forgive me for my past.
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One more chance of this life.
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And somehow in 365 days.
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I'm not sure this was any answered prayer for me.
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Definitely was not.
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But we're here, we're living, we're breathing and I'm eating my, I'm getting my nutrients in.
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So that matters.
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But what really mattered was whether we could actually get this food down.
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I actually don't know if I can do this.
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I'm not going to make you finish.
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Pause.
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You said you wanted to experience what it's like on the other side.
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No, I don't recall saying that at all, actually.
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Play the clip back.
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I'm thrilled.
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I just want to see how the other side lives.
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Except you didn't tell me this is what we were going to be doing.
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And at this point, I believe we were both eating our work.
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I'm having a great time so far.
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The jail pool hitting.
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Dude, I can't eat that.
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You eat dog shit, brother.
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Dude, I literally almost gagged.
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It's just a crunchy brownie.
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Oh.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Crunchy brownie.
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I love crunchy brownie.
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Why did I think of that sooner?
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What do you rate that meal?
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11. 11 out of 10.
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Could never go wrong with Chick -fil -A.
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Does the scale go lower than zero?
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Sure.
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I'm giving this a negative 10 out of 10.
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So it's in hell.
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I legitimately, if I was in prison, I just wouldn't eat.
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I think if you take a couple big bites.
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You've got to do it one go.
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I mean, this is legitimately so god -awful.
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No, I can't.
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I can't.
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But neither of us wanted to give up, so we manned up.
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I've got to do it.
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And did what we had to do.
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Yes.
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Oh, I am so impressed.
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Let's go.
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That's an officer on duty right there, baby.
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Please tell me it gets better than this.
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Please?
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But as Jake grabbed his last meal from the gas station rollers on the way home from shift,
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Brick Boy made a meal I can't say I've ever seen before.
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What am I looking at?
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What is this?
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Probably the best thing you're going to ever eat in your life.
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How did you make this?
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What is it called?
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Simply the best thing you're ever going to eat in your life.
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But what's the name?
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That's just cake.
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Commissary cake.
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And how do we make it?
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Commissary cake, exactly.
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And how do we make it?
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All right, so what you do is you take the Oreos, scoop out the whatever the...
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What's
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that shit called? the stuff oreo nut take the oreos put
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them in a bag remember how we did the ramen you're gonna put a little water in
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that bag form
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that form the cake base you take a little bit of peanut butter okay
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you're gonna put the topping the oreo oreo stuff the oreo
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that stuff stuff put it in there mix it up okay onto the cake ms this is
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so creative people fight over this they went under the stairs to the back room and they was bumping over that cake.
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And guess who ended up eating the cake?
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Me.
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Compared to the slop that you fed me today, this actually looks fairly decent.
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I mean, you're probably using all of your commissary money on it, but you get a cake in prison.
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What do you have for me right here?
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That's the 3AM special.
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You have a cheesy pepper jack taquito right there.
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And that is what I affectionately call the buffalo chicken cylinder.
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Now that you're off your shifts, you gotta wind down.
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What is this?
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That right there is bourbon, my friend.
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I don't drink.
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You're going to have to drink it.
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What are you doing?
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I don't drink, brother.
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Chocolate, peanut butter, M &M goodness.
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Yeah, that's inspired, right?
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Like a king.
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I got to wash it down with a chicken cylinder.
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Whatever cop decided to stop and eat this, this shit is hot ass.
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You don't like it.
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Fuck no. It looks good.
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Whose idea was it to put corn inside of a fuck?
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What even is this?
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And after having so much fun with two guys who seemingly had nothing in common,
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it was time to ask.. them something a little bit more serious.
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So I have a question.
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How has your perception on police officers of convicts changed over time?
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Oh, I respect them. Do you?
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100%.
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Not everyone's a bad person.
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Some people are just genuinely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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But there are people out there that deserve what they get when it comes to the punishment that they face.
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Because realistically, they are there to help, you know, and I was generally a menace to society and needed to be stopped and was stopped.
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And once I was stopped, look how much my life has changed.
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You know what I mean?
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There's a way to use your discretion to know
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when someone needs the punishment that they're about to receive versus this person is just having a bad day or whatever.
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And they're down on their luck and like, yeah.
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I think that's important for people to realize more so because you're a person with emotions.
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You understand.
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Sometimes you have, it's your job.
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No, we're all robots, man.
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Right.
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I'm so happy I got arrested that day.
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I'm so happy I sat in jail.
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I am generally so happy to have been incarcerated because it changed my life for the better.
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That's deep.
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That's deep.
529
That really is.
530
Now that I say that out loud, think about it, that's actually kind of crazy.
531
Thank God for the system.
532
I wouldn't have expected you to say that.
533
I also wasn't expecting what
534
Jake said next.
535
So what are you rating that?
536
I mean, you know what, compared to the crap that I beat for the rest of the day, probably 8 .5.
537
Whoa!
538
What are you rating that?
539
Four.
540
But I still had one more question for the both of them.
541
You finished the cop's diet all day.
542
How long do you think you could eat it for before you go crazy?
543
Take the brick out of there.
544
I could probably do about two weeks.
545
Two weeks?
546
Most people aren't in there for two weeks.
547
No, they're in there for 24 hours.
548
What?
549
Nobody stays in jail, man.
550
I'd get fat for sure.
551
Yeah.
552
I understand why they say that like cops are fat now.
553
They're always on the clock.
554
So it's like quick shit.
555
You feel me?
556
Like donuts, quick.
557
Chick -fil -A, quick.
558
Like racetrack to end the day?
559
No. Can't do no racetrack for dinner.
560
I guess you kind of just play the cards you're dealt, right?
561
You get creative.
562
You eat what you got to eat in order to get the job done, right?
563
Another day is another day to get paid.
564
Wake up, count your blessings, and thank God that you're breathing and not six feet on there.
565
And it's pretty clear that we all have more in common than we think.
566
Because if I was able to sit across the table from a cop
567
and a convict for 50 hours and and have an equally good time with both?
568
Who says they couldn't do the same?
569
Because remember - I'm not special.
570
I'm just consistent.
571
If I drank that, guess where I am.
572
Not where we wanna be.
573
Right back in jail.
574
It's facts.
575
That's a crazy ending to the video.
576
Roll, right?
577
Yo, sorry guys, we can't finish the video.
578
He just rusted.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Cop vs. Convict Diet Swap”. This video has 577 sentences and 4646 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:46. The speaker talks fast, about 204 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 96 of its 577 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| brick noun | /ˈbɹɪk/ | A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. |
| cop noun | /kɑp/ | A police officer or prison guard. |
| convict verb | /ˈkɑnvɪkt/ | To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense. |
| nutrient noun | /ˈnuː.tɹi.ənt/ | A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue. |
| circuit noun | /ˈsɝ.kɪt/ | The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution |
| beef noun | /bif/ | The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults. |
| nutrition noun | /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/ | The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance. |
| workout noun | /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/ | An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. |
| spicy adjective | /ˈspaɪsi/ | Of, pertaining to, or containing spice. |
| packet noun | /ˈpæk.ɪt/ | A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel |
| gram noun | /ˈɡɹæm/ | A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g. |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| complicated adjective | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | Difficult or convoluted. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| come across verb | To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You didn't tell me that?
- Starting with breakfast, are you excited?
- What am I looking at here?
- How hungry do you get when you're on ship man?
- What'd you rate your meal?
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 this gets a million likes i'll go |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is consumed · was surrounded · be stuck |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have you been · you've been · has allowed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | somebody who would · detail, which was · people who end |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 170 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, thrill /θɹɪl/, smooth /smuːð/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, punishment /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, disciplinary /ˌdɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/
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 meal, brick, cop.
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.