Shadowing Practice: Dude Perfect vs Mark Rober: Battle Bots - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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Dude Perfect has challenged Mark Rober to a BattleBots competition.
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In this 5 vs 1 showdown, each of the dudes has designed and built a bot to take on Mark's high -tech cyberbot.
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This battle will unfold over four rounds.
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If Mark's cyberbot is still standing at the end, he'll be crowned the winner.
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But if our boys manage to take him down, the victory is all ours.
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Before you see what wild surprise Cody has for us in round one...
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That's in the robot!
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Mark Rober to the office and show them our one of a kind battle arena.
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Yeah, we have an ass now.
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He's been just crazy.
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Gentlemen, can we stop the yapping please?
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I was promised a BattleBot fight today.
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Yeah!
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The dudes?
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First Marky Robots.
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Yeah!
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Okay.
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I want a clean fight.
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I want to abide by the rules.
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There are no rules.
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Exactly.
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Alright, well let's quit the app and let's battle some bots.
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What do you say?
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Let's get it on!
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Let's go!
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Gentlemen, may I formally introduce you to the Cybertank.
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You really took advantage of the size, no limitation.
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How'd I remind you?
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No rules, gentlemen.
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That was your first mistake.
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We are going to start by sending our best Person out first, Cody Jones!
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Oh!
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Yeah!
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You go ahead and start us off.
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Okay.
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I actually don't know a lot about robots.
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I do know a lot about Star Wars.
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Found a trash can in a bowl.
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Let's make magic!
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Do do do!
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Do do do do!
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My R2 D2 bot will have a water gun and a taser as the main weapons.
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Plus, I've got a special surprise pilot inside this hush puppy that Mark will surely love.
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Anyone like acorns?
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I think Cody's robot is the trash can.
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- Come on!
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May I present to you R2, D2!
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Wait, I think there's a height issue.
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Is that as much as the door opens up to our - I was not told that!
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Guys, this is a bad start.
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Alright, hold on!
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At NASA, that's what we refer to as a critical oversight.
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Yeah.
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The taser?
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What is that gonna do?
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The taser is kind of cool.
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You know what?
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I'm so unconcerned about this.
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Go ahead, Cody.
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Squirt 'em.
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Squirt 'em in the eyes.
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Right in the face!
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Wow!
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Go dump your water on his side.
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Back up, back up, back up!
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Unfortunately for you, I thought of this.
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The cyber tank's waterproof, but that mustache there?
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It's not just for decoration.
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Oh!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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Fire!
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I promise this will be quick and painless.
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Stop!
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Raming speed!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey!
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Mark!
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Hey Do we have the live feed?
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Oh!
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Yeah!
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You can't attack!
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You're playing nice games, baby!
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Yes!
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That's in the robot?
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Yeah!
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Yes!
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I know how I feel about squirrels!
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No rules!
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Well, but this isn't cool!
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What am I supposed to do?
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You're supposed to raise your white flag to put one of those in your robot.
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You can surrender right now if you want and not risk a squirrel's innocent life.
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Dump your water in your side.
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No!
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Ow!
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I'm sorry!
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I knew it then!
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You missed!
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Wait!
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Get away!
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Get away from the - There's no squirrel in there!
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I can see!
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No, maybe you can't - No, that is not a live thief!
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That is an empty trash can!
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He's onto us, he's onto us!
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Oh boy!
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And now the cyber tank is real angry!
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This is for the squirrels!
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I'm alive!
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I'm alive!
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I'm alive!
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I'm alive!
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I'm alive!
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I'm alive!
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I'm caught in half!
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He lights it!
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Oh!
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He's got my head!
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Oh, that is so graphic!
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Your mistake was involving the squirrels!
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That was a good effort.
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Who's next?
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Cody falls and Mark takes round one.
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Oh, this is a tough look.
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Cody, safe to say R2 -D2 got crunch -lapped, buddy.
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Word on the street is that Garrett has something massive in store to help him defeat the cyberbot.
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Where did that come from?
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But first, let's see what the twins can do in round two.
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What's up guys, twins checking into the chat.
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Individually, if you have seen us in Get Crafty, I realize that we're not the best.
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But if you combine us and we team up, I think we're not the best we could be a force to be reckoned with.
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Our plan is to build two robots and attack Mark's robot at the same time.
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We're going to use Traxxas cars as our base for maximum speed.
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My bot will have angle grinders for slicing and a drone to attack from the air.
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And my bot is equipped with harpoons and crossbows to attack from long range.
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There's no way you all built that.
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You're right.
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Justin and Ryan did.
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We paid him.
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Good work, boys.
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Am I the only one building my own robot around here?
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You did not build your trash can.
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Oh, my word.
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Your move, Mark.
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All right, Mark, Cody's was a warm up.
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Now it's time to have a real little competition.
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Twins, you feeling good?
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I feel way better than our team.
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Welcome to round two, Mark.
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Here we go, boys.
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Face yourselves.
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Two at once?
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I feel like this is against the rules somewhere.
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Remember Mark, look at the rules up on the wall.
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Ah right, no rules.
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Okay, this is kind of tricky to track both.
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I want to introduce you guys to something I like to call MC Hammer.
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Oh no no no no no need.
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No need.
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Stay away from the hammer.
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I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
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He can't reach you me?
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Yeah!
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Distract him!
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3, 2, 1, fire!
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No!
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I gotta run!
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Get over here!
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Horry, game of the day!
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That was close, that was close.
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What is that?
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It's a glitter bomb, Mark, made me a part of it!
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Drop it, drop it!
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Oh!
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Luckily for me, I've gotta play it for this.
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Oh!
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Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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Watch out, come on!
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No!
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How was he prepared for that?
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That's right!
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This is bad.
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This is really bad.
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Hey, you gotta try.
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I gotta get in a better position.
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Oh, no!
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You shot his cover!
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Drive it around, drive it around.
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Oh, it's the ref!
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I don't think it's doing anything, Kobe.
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He's dragging me!
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He's dragging me!
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Oh no!
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Charge!
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He's stuck!
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Cora, you gotta grind the arm.
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Saw it!
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No!
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I saw it off!
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No!
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Tell me!
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I'm sorry!
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I'm sorry!
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Yes!
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Yes!
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Yes!
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- I was gonna save this later, but I have no choice.
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- Oh.
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- Is that you?
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- Oh, he's fart spraying!
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- You gotta hit him with the fart spray, it's bad.
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- Yo, no, no, stay in the fight!
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You're never out of the fight, stay in it!
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- I gotta go, that's dirty, Mark!
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That's a dirty move!
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- Okay, I'm unstuck!
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I can smell the fart spray from here, this is rough.
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Let's just get this guy right here.
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This guy into place here.
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It's hammer time.
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Yeah!
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That's right!
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You are the wrath of the cyber tank!
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Yeah!
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Let's see you drive out of this!
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I'm exhausted.
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Oh yeah, get it, get it.
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Okay, okay, go go!
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No!
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Who's next?
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I think I'm gonna go next.
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Hey, Sparky, we gotta clean up on aisle five!
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And in here!
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Oh my!
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This is a double TKO, a total twin knockout.
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Yeah, a lot of carnage.
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Hey, if you need another trash can, you can go get Cody's robot.
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That's funny.
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That actually looks pretty good.
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Yeah, checking into the game.
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I bought a decommissioned BattleBot as my starting point.
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Just gotta not mess this thing up.
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Oh boy.
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My main weapons would be a nail gun and a flamethrower.
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The bigger than nail guns can pop Mark's tires and a flamethrower?
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Well, who doesn't like flamethrowers?
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I do have a special surprise.
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Can't tell you a lot.
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Involves a heavy object, ceiling, button.
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Just don't let whatever you're dropping fall on you.
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Uh, that's a good point.
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All right, Gary, you ready?
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Yeah, I'm ready.
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Let me see what you got, Gary!
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Bring it out!
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Baby!
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That's kind of adorable.
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Yes!
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Oh!
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What?
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Blame him there!
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Come on.
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Yes!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Yeah!
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Blame him!
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Let him cook!
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Let him cook!
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More fire, James!
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He's not doing anything.
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Blame him again.
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Blame him again.
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Oh!
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He's done!
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You're melting his tires!
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Let's go!
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He's his mustache!
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I don't think so buddy!
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Light him up G!
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Light him up G!
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Let's see the fire!
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No!
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Did you have a fire extinguisher?
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How did you know I was bringing fire?
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You're gonna have to watch my video to find out!
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He knew!
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In keeping with the spirit of no rules, the week prior I placed a drone in a servo actuated box, then I had a fake delivery driver deliver the fake package to Dude Perfect Headquarters.
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Aerial recon work made anticipating their plans and designing effective countermeasures like anti -drone tassels powered by 424 -volt leaf blowers.
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Fairly straight form.
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He knew everything!
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He's the sneakiest guy on the internet, I tell you.
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Let's go, dude.
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Go, hoser!
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Let's go!
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Break his hammer off.
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That was good.
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Yes!
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Yes!
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No!
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Dude!
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I'm not giving up!
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Oh yeah!
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Oh you lost another nail gun.
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What do I do?
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No!
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Not that!
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Hey, it's time.
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It's time.
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Mark, here's the deal.
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I'm not gonna lie to ya.
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I don't really have a lot left.
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You got no flame, you got no nail guns.
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You got me.
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Heh.
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I did kill your arms though.
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I admit defeat.
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Really?
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Hey, here's the deal.
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I have programmed the self -destruct button.
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Will you do me the honors of pressing it?
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Show me the truth me the button.
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That's actually the coolest thing about your robot so far.
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Why didn't you do other stuff like that?
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This definitely goes against my better judgment but I'm nothing if not a very curious individual.
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I'm just gonna hit it.
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Self -destruct secrets initiated.
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Yeah!
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Where did that come from?
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I can't wait to push it but I can!
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It didn't do anything.
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But you do have a pool table on you now.
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That's funny.
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That's funny.
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That's home court advantage.
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You know you can plant things in the ceiling and have them drop out.
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The only rule, no rules, right Mark?
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He's smoking!
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Look!
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Hey, open the door, let Ty out!
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Let me out!
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Let me at him!
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Gentlemen, welcome to the final round.
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Oh, baby.
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I figured we're not going to outsmart Mark, so we needed to use some resources from maybe a former battle
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My bot's main weapon is the spinning saw at the front.
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I've also added a sledgehammer as a tail.
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This should be fun.
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Oh!
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Eat him!
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Oh, this is hard to watch.
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Dude, are we about to win this?
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Yes, yes, we're about to win.
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Do you have a self -destruct button I should hit?
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No!
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Oh, a wheel!
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Oh!
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Oh, another wheel!
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Oh, this is devastating!
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Got the googly eyes!
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Oh, it's off!
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It's off!
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He's done!
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Yeah!
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We defeated him!
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Why is there two minutes left on this video?
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You lost to a bunch of bottle flippers.
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How do you feel?
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It's disappointing.
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You guys actually thought I wouldn't have engineered a backup plan.
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No. Lights!
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Soundtrack!
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Trap door!
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No. What?
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Oh, look at it lifting!
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Gentlemen, may I introduce you to...
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No, no, you may not!
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There's a bot in the butt?
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What?
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Let's go!
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I feel kind of sick to my stomach.
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Hey, Gareth!
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Hey, you stop that!
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Oh, this is bad!
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Hey, wait, wait, stop!
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Hey!
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Don't attack yet!
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We gotta reset!
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Sparky, clear the arena!
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I hate this!
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Final attack!
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Bring it, Rober!
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You shouldn't have shot that computer!
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I'm gonna destroy you bring it Use your axe!
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I'm trying!
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That's for the confetti!
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I'm fine!
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That was sick!
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I'm fine!
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You're not fine!
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Oh my god!
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Hey guys!
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I think we lost!
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This is our white flag!
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We throw it!
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Next time, save the confetti!
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Yeah.
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That thing is insane!
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Are you okay over there?
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You put all of the drywall!
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Wow!
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It's over!
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That's a TKO.
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Mark, we're over!
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Yay!
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Well done!
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You earned it!
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Thank you.
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I think, uh, no one thing left.
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Boys better get to work.
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We still gotta do that?
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What are you guys waiting for?
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What are we doing?
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Uh...
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I just feel like we had him.
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This is taking way longer than I thought.
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You're welcome, Mark!
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Mark, that was not easy to do.
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We are going to start signing some robot pieces.
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And if you want to win some of these, go ahead, Corey.
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You want a little stig right there.
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All you got to do, subscribe to Dude Perfect, send us a DM on Instagram.
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Go ahead, slide in those DMs.
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And more importantly, we have a big announcement.
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Mark Rober videos are now on the Dude Perfect Day! That means glitter!
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You're getting elephant toothpaste.
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That's right.
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Download the Dude Perfect app on your TV or phone and some Mark Rober videos will be there waiting for you.
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See you there.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Dude Perfect vs Mark Rober: Battle Bots”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Mark, robot, dude, rule. This video has 685 sentences and 2451 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:42. The speaker talks at a steady 139 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| robot noun | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. |
| gentleman noun | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/ | Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man. |
| squirrel noun | /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/ | Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae. |
| hammer noun | /ˈhæmɚ/ | A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. |
| nail noun | /neɪl/ | The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human). |
| destruct verb | /dɪˈstɹʌkt/ | To invoke the destructor of. |
| flamethrower noun | /ˈfleɪmˌθɹoʊ.ɚ/ | A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool. |
| taser noun | /ˈteɪ.zɚ/ | A Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to immobilize another by delivering an electric shock. |
| cyber adjective | /ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/ | Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-. |
| drone noun | /dɹoʊn/ | A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen. |
| spray noun | /spɹeɪ/ | A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. |
| confetti noun | /kənˈfɛ.ti/ | Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc.) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at… |
| moustache noun | /ˈmʌstæʃ/ | A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip. |
| squirt verb | /skwɝt/ | To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. |
| glitter verb | /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/ | To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| drop out verb | To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get away verb | To move away (from). | |
| get over verb | To overcome. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| team up verb | To join into a team, or into teams. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Gentlemen, can we stop the yapping please?
- How'd I remind you?
- What am I supposed to do?
- He can't reach you me?
- Why didn't you do other stuff like that?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has challenged · has designed · have seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be crowned · was promised · was not told |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the sneakiest · the coolest |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · should hit · shouldn't have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 82 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gotta, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: flamethrower /ˈfleɪmˌθɹoʊ.ɚ/, toothpaste /ˈtuθpeɪst/, wrath /ɹæθ/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: moustache /ˈmʌstæʃ/, countermeasure /ˈkaʊ̯ntəmɛʒə/, decommission /diːkəˈmɪʃən/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/, showdown /ˈʃoʊˌdaʊn/
- Long words — get the stress right: countermeasure /ˈkaʊ̯ntəmɛʒə/, decommission /diːkəˈmɪʃən/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like robot, gentleman, squirrel.
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.