Shadowing Practice: CORTIS: The Puppy Interview - Learn English Speaking with Video
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yo, bro.
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Chill, bro.
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Chowdhunt.
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Yo, this is getting jammed.
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No, what the?
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Yo, bro.
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No, no, no. Yo, no. Oh no. P2, player one and player two.
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Yeah, everybody has to have their morning pee.
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I didn't have my morning pee.
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What's good?
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I'm Martin.
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This is Gonul.
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This is Sean.
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I'm Juhoon.
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James.
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And we are Cordis.
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And we're here with BuzzFeed to play with puppies.
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Yay!
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BuzzFeed!
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Puppies!
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We love puppies!
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We love puppies!
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Feeling good.
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Yeah.
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It's been a minute since I've seen puppies.
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Yeah, definitely.
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I miss the puppies.
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Bring in the puppies!
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Woo!
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Bring them in.
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Wow!
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Whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Yo!
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Baby!
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Oh!
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Oh my god!
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Baby!
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Whoa!
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Whoa!
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Oh my god!
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Whoa!
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What's good?
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Wow!
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Yo!
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Good morning, yo.
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Good morning.
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Y'all busy today.
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Yo.
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You're so small, I don't know how to handle you.
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Lanjim, touchy squat.
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Wow. So small.
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What's up?
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He's not feeling it.
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What about the butt?
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Woo.
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We gotta move.
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Oh, you're so warm.
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I like you. And nice.
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I'm sorry.
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Sorry, bro.
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You're so warm and nice.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Oh!
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You a little shy?
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Okay.
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Not feeling nice?
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Sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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Oh, you're right.
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Don't go!
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Wow.
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What's up, babies?
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What's up?
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You good?
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Yo, I'm kind of popular.
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Hey.
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Oh.
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This hurt is...
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I think they like your jeans. So fast.
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They like my buttons.
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I think they just like our pants.
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Don't pee on them please.
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I love puppies and I love money.
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Sweet like honey and we're with BuzzFeed.
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Yeah!
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Nice!
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Nice!
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Nice!
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Nice!
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Alright.
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There you go.
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Wow.
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Oh!
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Jumping!
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Are you nervous?
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I'm not jumping.
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He's not wagging his tail.
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Is there something wrong?
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Oh!
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Oh my god, you're nervous.
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Hey.
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He's about to do something.
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Oh, he's nervous.
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He's not moving.
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Oh.
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But he calm though.
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He calm.
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That guy's excited.
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Don't bite his shoes.
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Yeah, his tail's going crazy.
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Hey, hey, hey.
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He's Chihuahua and um...
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Yo.
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Yo.
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Yo.
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The camera.
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Yo.
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These guys.
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Oh, you like the camera?
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You a celebrity dog.
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How's Cookie though?
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Cookie dough.
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Cookie dough.
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Cookie dough.
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Now I'm not living with him because I'm in the dorm with these guys.
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He's bigger than these puppies. Is he?
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Yeah.
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No, what a...
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Ow, the house is great.
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I think these guys...
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I love these guys.
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I kind of fell in love with these guys.
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That's Jeff.
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This guy?
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Yeah, that's Jeff.
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You be...
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Oh.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Yo!
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No!
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Yo!
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Oh no!
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You were really excited. Who peed?
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That guy would be Mr. P.
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Mr. P.
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Mr. P.
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Oh no. P2.
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We're on a player two.
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It's time to pee.
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Let's go.
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I think it's time to pee.
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Yeah, everybody has to have their morning pee.
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I didn't have my morning pee.
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You are Minzu.
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Minzu.
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What's up?
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You have a name?
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Gangji.
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What?
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Gangaji.
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That's not a name.
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This is Minsoo.
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And you are Chersu.
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Chersu.
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Minsoo and Chersu.
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Minsoo and Chersu.
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I think he's Younghee.
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Okay.
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That looks like an older dog.
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Oh, David.
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Very exciting.
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Youngsook?
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Youngsook.
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Youngsook.
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100%.
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I'm an Italian Greyhound.
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Focus.
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Focus.
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I'm thinking about it though.
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I don't know much breed.
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This guy's exciting.
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Player three, P3.
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What are the other animals, though?
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James is an eagle.
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Yeah, eagle.
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I just hear the eagle.
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Caw!
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When I see him.
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I think Zhuhun is a turtle.
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Yeah.
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Zhuhun is a turtle.
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I'm kind of slow.
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Don't bite him.
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Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
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Yo, bro.
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Chill, bro, come on.
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Yo, what the hell?
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Where you going?
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They having a beef.
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Hey, what the hell?
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Yo, who's calm?
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I like you.
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I like you.
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Oh no!
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Oh no!
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That's Jeff.
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He's tall, they're young, he's chill.
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He looks like the...
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Oh yeah, the MLB player.
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The monkey never cramps guy.
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That was James' first impression.
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He's calm.
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Them are like hyper. Do we have swag?
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Wow.
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Do we have swag?
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I think the best thing is like we don't try to look cool when we perform.
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We just have as much fun as possible.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Luckily, people like it.
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Youngsook doesn't like Charizard.
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Riz?
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Charisma.
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Riz.
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Jeff, are you okay?
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Hey, Jeff.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Youngsook.
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Who has the most riz?
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No, but like that's like don't bother Young.
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He's viewing a lot.
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Yeah What's your good friend friends
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Again, thank a lot of water the first time for young I understand your player for I have to come with us.
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Cholsu?
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He's nice.
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He's my type of guy.
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I have them all in one syllable.
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So you're an, you're um, he's ju, and he's jami.
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Me, actually, I don't have some of our...
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I don't have num...
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Numbers?
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Numbers.
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You don't?
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We three are...
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Yo, you gotta calm down.
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Oh, Youngsook is wild.
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You're going wild.
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Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Oh my god, Youngsook.
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Youngsook, chill down.
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Chill down, Youngsook.
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You got to start Oh, stop fighting.
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Don't bite him.
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Don't bother him.
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He's the calm one, bro.
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You got a new one.
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Show them what you got.
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I don't know about this one.
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I'm still working on it.
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I'm trying to make a dolphin sound.
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It's like...
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I'm nervous.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm working on it though.
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Hey.
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You can do it, man.
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Oh, yup yup yup.
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That's the one.
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I sound like a dead fish.
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That's a horror movie.
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Ringski.
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Twishki.
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Broski.
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Placket.
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Period.
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Youngsook period.
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Youngsook period.
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Jeff period.
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Oh yo yo, you violent bro.
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Vocanially?
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What?
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It's located genuinely.
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Is it like swagonometry?
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No. Okay.
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This is a new one.
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We might use it someday.
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Okay.
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Locanually.
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How do you use it though?
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Like these dogs are locanually cute.
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Ahhh.
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This guy locanually violent.
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Most of the time, if we don't sleep and stay awake for very long, We do a lot of stuff where it's like, I regret it somehow.
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I think we're rarely in a pocket.
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Yeah.
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We're most of the time out of pocket.
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I told you, we don't have swag.
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Wow, that's a great one.
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I need Paul McCartney.
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If you're going that way, then Stevie Wonder.
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Dr. Dre.
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OK.
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Michael Jordan.
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Taemin Pahala.
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You going Michael Jordan?
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We going to sports?
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I think we need a basketball player.
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Then I'm going Michael Phelps.
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I'll go Prince.
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I'll go Youngsook.
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Oh, Prince is a really good one.
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Michael Jordan.
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Michael Jordan.
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Michael Phelps.
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Let's just make the whole team Michael.
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Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Michael B.
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Jordan.
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Hey, I don't know if they're fighting or they're...
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I think they're having a good time.
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I think they're having a good time, but this guy is just fighting.
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Yo, Youngsook.
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Yo, yo, yo.
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This guy is just violent.
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Youngsook.
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Is there any other Michael?
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Our English teacher used his name.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Shout out Michael.
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Yeah.
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Shout out Michael.
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Mine hurts my throat, but I like it somehow.
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You're kissing.
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Oh, that's so sweet.
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Lovely. For me, it's Dan.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yup.
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Yup.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you can like put it with words.
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Yeah.
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Hell yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Recently the bassist of Reh Hot Chili Peppers in Flea, he put out a jazz album Ohhh that was so cute
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Which I really like There's this movie video of him dancing like I know It's like, yeah And playing the trumpet and stuff is crazy.
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So maybe if we are able to try some type of jazz.
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I want to try a symphony.
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Whole orchestra.
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He was a kumaja kukka.
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The balloon pants for me.
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I'm not a big fan of that.
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One cool thing recently is because the media is so all over the place nowadays.
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There's not really a main trend anymore.
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Everything is more like micro trend.
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I think everyone's like just wearing what they like.
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Yeah.
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I feel like everybody gotta respect each other's fits.
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He's sleeping now.
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They just went crazy and now they just went out.
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Now you're just tired?
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Tired.
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Already?
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We actually kind of spoiled a lot.
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The song, Asai, was actually a whole different beat before.
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Made by me and Sean.
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He had the chance to flute like that eagle guy.
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At the football stadium, I recorded the football kind of chant stuff.
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They made a beat and then it turned into acai.
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What's your favorite last night you ordered?
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When I go to Oakberry, granola, peanut butter, strawberry, banana, blueberries.
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These days I'm only eating the base.
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First, I'm kind of tired of using my spoon.
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So I just use the straw.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is this.
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Actually one of our staff told me that it's kind of over It's over
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but I still like the gray baby doing that like It's iconic A chair WWE chair,
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just a nice chair like a folding chair.
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Yeah, it's like To hit someone I mean like to hit other figures It's me.
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And maybe replaceable lips.
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Maybe someday you want plump lips.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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After playing with puppies, I think I'll need a puppy.
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In both of the hands.
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In both of the hands.
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Yeah.
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Like a puppy dad.
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Puppy papa.
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Puppy daddy.
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What?
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And replaceable hair.
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Different hairstyles, including bald.
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That would be cool.
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You don't know, maybe I'm bald in one day.
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Okay.
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Maybe you, vanilla latte.
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Oh yeah.
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I think yours would be your bag.
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Like all the glasses.
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You could have a turtle.
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Turtle?
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Two turtles.
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That would be cool.
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It's always hard to put it into words.
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Really big, some of the names.
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They're like living legends or something.
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They're really nice people too.
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When we kind of meet them face to face, they don't feel like crazy, like celebrity but older brothers,
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they're very kind to us.
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Great people.
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Jin-seon-bae-nim, soon as met us, he was like, come here, come here, let's get a selfie.
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Come here.
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They genuinely care about us.
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Gave us a lot of advice.
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Don't drink.
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Before we debut, we got to show our dance practice videos to J-Hope Summin.
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He literally gave us a lot of advice of how to perform and stuff,
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and him trying to match our level because of his height and stuff.
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So, shout out to J-Hope Summin.
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The whole team doesn't like mint chocolate.
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Except me.
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The whole team doesn't like Hawaiian pizza, except for me.
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I have a really hot cake.
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Pickles are overrated.
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We don't really like it.
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We don't really eat pickles.
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Really?
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I feel so left out of this.
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I love pickles.
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America loves pickles.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't know about that.
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Definitely.
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Maybe we are aliens.
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Maybe we were the reason that the dinosaurs died.
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Maybe we are the aliens that landed and interrupted the whole, we never know.
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I just think like maybe high intelligence society before us, This might be the Matrix.
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That built the pyramids and we came in.
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Yeah.
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I'm a big fan of Blade Runner, cyberpunk.
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Yeah, yeah, those type of like Matrix.
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Sci-fi stuff.
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What is your prophecy?
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What do you think is going to happen in the next hundred years?
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We won't be here.
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No, but I think we would.
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Technology.
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Yeah, technology and everything like people's lifespan.
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Are getting longer and longer.
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I think I'm gonna freeze my body.
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Oh Okay, okay.
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Is that a good idea?
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I want to see what happens in thousand years.
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It went deep My mom is a huge fan of Park Bo-Gam's son.
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I actually met him behind the stage in like the restroom And he's like James.
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I'm like, how do you know my name?
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It's a huge honor and my mom loves you He's my mom.
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Nick Kosher also.
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Nick Kosher?
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The newscaster.
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Ohhhh.
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Nick Kosher.
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He cool.
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Yeah, dude.
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Nice.
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Yeah, he's lit.
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A lot of underground rap.
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Slayer's new album is sick.
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Pretty fun.
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Lucy Bedro.
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Diamond and Teasus.
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There's these two duos that I really love.
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We got to...
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Oh, sorry.
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Sorry, sorry.
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Oh, or do you like Diamond too?
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I won't sleep.
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Oh, okay.
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Living with a lot of puppies.
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Yeah.
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That's one.
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Being a whole business.
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Being a whole brand.
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I think in the far future, Cordis could be a creative household, a collective, a brand with every type of art.
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Drawings, dramas, TV, movies, photos, fashion, food, art also.
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Refrigerator.
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Refrigerators, cars.
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I want to do a food truck once.
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Sofa.
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We got so much to investigate.
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I don't want to be too loud.
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I don't want to be too loud.
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I know I shouldn't step you.
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Oh, sorry.
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Sorry.
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They didn't like it.
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They stayed quiet.
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They weren't having it.
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Rollercoaster.
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They're like sleeping.
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Then it's like...
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They just look like us.
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That's what happens to us too.
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Hiccup.
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What was that?
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Hiccup.
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You good?
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Maybe hold your breath for a minute.
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Thank you BuzzFeed.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Red Red is out right now.
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Make sure to check it out.
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Check it out.
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If you want to give these puppies a home, visit Positive Beginnings LA.
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I might visit.
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He's like me, bro.
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He opens his eyes while he's sitting.
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He's getting into REM sleep.
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This is good.
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Youngsook.
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Youngsook.
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This is the best thing.
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He just can't calm down.
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Buzzfeed!
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Buzzfeed was so...
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AHHHHH!
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Come on!
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I love you!
About This Lesson
In this engaging lesson, you will practice speaking and pronunciation by shadowing a lively conversation from the "CORTIS: The Puppy Interview." The dynamic interaction among the speakers, filled with excitement and humor, provides an excellent opportunity to enhance your English skills. As you imitate their speech patterns, intonations, and conversational flow, you'll improve your fluency and gain confidence in using everyday English expressions. This lesson is especially beneficial for those preparing for IELTS speaking practice and seeking to refine their shadow speech abilities.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Chill - To relax or calm down.
- Bring in - To introduce or present something, in this case, puppies.
- What's good? - A casual way of asking what's happening or how someone is doing.
- Busy - Having a lot of activities or tasks to do.
- Morning pee - A humorous reference to the natural need to use the bathroom after waking up.
- Whoa! - An exclamation showing surprise or excitement.
- Touchy squat - A playful expression that may describe a cuddly or affectionate way of interacting.
Practice Tips
To effectively use shadowing techniques with this video, consider the following tips:
- Use a Shadowing App: A dedicated shadowing app can help you listen closely and repeat the phrases seamlessly. Focus on capturing the intonation and rhythm of the speakers.
- Repeat and Imitate: Play short segments of the video and pause after each line. Try to mimic the speakers immediately after hearing them. This real-time practice aligns well with the fast-paced nature of the conversation.
- Focus on Context: Understand the emotions and excitement in their speech. Incorporating feelings into your shadow speech will help you sound more natural and engaged.
- Record Yourself: Use your phone to record your shadowing practice. Listening to your recordings can give you insights into areas for improvement.
- Interact with the Content: Imagine you are also part of the conversation with the puppies. This mental engagement will help you practice speaking in a lively manner, similar to the original video.
With these strategies, you will refine your English skills while enjoying the playful context of puppies in the "CORTIS: The Puppy Interview." Happy shadowing!
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.