Shadowing Practice: Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt Full Kelly Clarkson Interview - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That doesn't happen all the time, just so you know.
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That's...
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That's...
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That's...
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That's like the Kelly Closon crowd is amazing.
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I don't...
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I think it's you.
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It's the thing.
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Yeah, I think it's y'all.
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Yes, um, congratulations.
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I'm gonna get to the film.
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It's incredible.
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Thank you.
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I love when you two are in life.
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Thank you.
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Like, anytime I see you two now, like, ever since Jungle Cruise, I'm like, I'll watch it.
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Like, I love the chemistry of y'all, even though it's very different.
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But your kids are here, right?
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They are.
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Your kiddos are here as well?
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Yeah, they're the same age as mine.
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I forgot that our kids are literally the same age.
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So you have 11 and 9.
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Yeah.
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Boy, girl, two- Boy, girl.
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Yeah.
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It's like, I didn't realize that, though.
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My kids are out of school today, too.
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I know.
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So I dragged them here.
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They're mainly excited to see you and him.
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I think it's less about me.
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I think probably him, but that's all right, I'll take it.
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You took them, is it, to the U.S.
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Open?
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We went to the U.S.
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Open, yeah.
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Really into tennis?
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They love a tennis match.
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Okay.
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Patiently sat there.
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I mean, me and my little one were the only Alcaraz fans in the Italian box.
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That can be difficult.
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That were all cheering for Sinner, so we were doing surreptitious screams of joy for Alcaraz.
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Yeah.
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While the Italians were just, like, despairing about Sinner.
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She actually gave me some great advice, because, you know, the Jumbotron comes on you, so you've got to be ready.
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Yeah.
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And apparently with the right person.
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Yeah.
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And so at one point she like lent over because I was like checking my phone.
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She went, you need to get a smile on your face
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because that could come over and you're going to be like that.
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Enjoying the match.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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And they only catch you at that one moment. Of course.
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It's like, come on.
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The double chin moment.
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You're like, oh, come on.
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Like, I was watching.
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I was watching.
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I heard that you're, is your oldest into wrestling?
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She is a wrestler.
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Yeah.
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That's amazing.
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Yeah.
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She followed in my footsteps.
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There she is.
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That's an incredible thing.
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Yeah, it's Simone.
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Yes.
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Were you so proud?
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Well, she obviously grew up in wrestling.
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So that was something that she had fallen in love with.
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Extremely proud.
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But here's the thing.
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I was even more proud.
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And I love telling this story is that not one time when she told me, hey, I want to do what you do.
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I love wrestling.
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I see some wrestling fans out here, too.
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She's like, I love wrestling.
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But I never got the call.
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I never got the call from her.
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Hey, can you call WWE?
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She wanted to do it all on her own.
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I never got the call.
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I'm so proud of her because she's going great.
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Yeah.
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That's cool.
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It's also just cool when they're interested in something you've been a part of.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's really rad.
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You're like, oh, you can connect on that.
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Do your kids think you're a great singer and think you're cool or do they?
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They're still in the phase when they do think, I do sometimes feel like a superhero when I come.
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Like it's like the crowd will give you like the energy but sometimes yeah, I come off and like how my kids still look at me.
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I'm like, oh, this is not going to last.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So they're still in that stage where I impress them.
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Yes, I'm very excited.
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I'm sort of white-knuckling it, clinging on to that.
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Right, guys?
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Last time we were together, I mentioned it was Jungle Cruise, which I, look, it's one of those films my family we put on all the time.
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I just love your chemistry. So happy.
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And I love that y'all got together again to do this, but it's very different, which I love.
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Totally different landscape.
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This ended up happening because of Oppenheimer, right?
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You were on the set?
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Well, I know that DJ had spoken to Benny, like, three years prior.
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2019. You were inspired by the documentary.
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I was inspired by the documentary.
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He was, like, riveted by that.
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I watched Benny work.
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I knew Benny was the guy.
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Yes, talked to Benny, and then it went away.
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I'm gonna keep talking over you.
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Watch this, yes.
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Welcome to my life.
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I'm so sorry.
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Keep going.
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No, no, no, go ahead.
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Tell your story.
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No, go ahead.
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Tell your story.
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I know it began...
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No, I know it began a long time ago, because you were inspired by the story, right?
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By Mark Kerr, I was.
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Yes.
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And then Benny and I agreed to do it in 2019, and then COVID hit, and then it all went away and then cut to Oppenheimer's set.
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Yeah, but this is all about a sweater, I heard.
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Like, it's all about a sweater.
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So Benny and I are in the makeup trailer and he goes, you're friends with Dwayne, right?
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And I went, yeah.
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And he goes, did he get the sweater I sent him?
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Like as if he would know that information.
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Yeah, as if I'm sort of privy to gift giving.
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His wardrobe.
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Yeah, his wardrobe.
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I said, what do you mean?
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What sweater?
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And then he told me about the smashing machine, told me they were going to do it.
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And this was a very famous sweater that Mark Kerr wore in the documentary.
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It's a yellow Nautica sweater.
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and Benny had, during COVID, really wanted to still implore DJ, like, I still want to do this movie with you.
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He found a sweater.
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He found the Nautica sweater online, sent it to Dwayne with an impassioned note, and he never got the sweater.
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So Benny thought he was being ghosted.
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He thought that Benny had never reached out, so they really had this breakup, and it was sad, and so I got them to date again.
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Look, you're like, Jesus, bringing people together.
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I really am.
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Look at that.
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I mean, I wouldn't want to say it, but you're right.
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You're right.
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You nailed it, actually.
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Now, if you look at their roof, then the smashing machine.
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In it, they play a couple dealing with relationship issues and addiction, all wrapped up in the world of mixed martial arts fighting.
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And that scene kind of is a really good kind of depiction of the show.
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It's these really intense moments that are beautiful, but, like, tragic.
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Like, you know, even the, like, tear, like, wire.
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But I want you to explain to everybody kind of the...
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You saw the documentary, right?
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I saw the documentary based on Mark Kerr, and I thought it was...
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It's a really compelling story.
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He's...
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Mark Kerr was one of the founding godfathers of MMA.
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and he wound up having, there he is right there, he had this incredible career, he was undefeated at one time.
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He was the greatest fighter on the planet.
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And like a lot of these fighters, you learn it's not about the wins or the losses, it's about the pressure and the pressure that they have to go through and what happens when sometimes they stumble.
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And in Mark's case, he stumbled, he had a hard time with addiction, he overdosed twice, he was lucky to be alive.
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He was with the love of his life and they have a beautiful kid together, They're divorced now, but they also had an incredibly challenging relationship, too, as well.
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And, of course, Emily...
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No sh.
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No sh.
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It's wild.
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I was watching, and I was like, oh, my God.
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Those fights they have that we have are crazy.
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They're like volcanic fights that they had.
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It was wild.
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Yeah.
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Emily asked if you were scared when you started filming, right?
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And what happened with that question?
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So this role for me was the biggest challenge of my career, and I knew it going into it.
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So it was a scary thing.
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But us, for me, and for a lot of men, it's not the thing we always want to admit, that we're scared to do something.
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So she, on our first day of shooting, she goes, hey, are you scared?
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And I said, I'm good.
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And then she goes, but that's not what I asked you.
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I said, are you scared?
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And I said, I am.
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Yeah, so she's like, that's good.
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It means it matters.
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It matters, yes.
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Yeah, you've got to be scared.
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It's good to be scared.
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Yeah, I, yeah, but I, it's just incredible transformation as well.
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And like what you have to do with your body to prepare for it.
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I was just like, oh no. 30 pounds.
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No. I was like, it just looks so hard, all of it.
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Yes.
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Physically, emotionally, I was like, you are a different human.
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You filmed to Japan, which I love Japan.
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It's incredible.
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I heard that you went to, whenever I went, I didn't go.
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You went to an immersive art museum in Tokyo?
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It was the best.
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I know.
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So we went to it like an after hours and I sent some pictures of us.
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Yeah.
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Oh look at that.
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There it is.
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Yeah.
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That's Benny our director.
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Yeah.
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Isn't that wild?
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Is it true Benny Hedge all listen to 90s music?
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Oh the best playlist.
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Love 90s.
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Yeah.
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The best from Sublime to yeah.
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A lot of Springsteen.
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The eight minute song The Jungle Land which is in a movie that's in there.
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I mean the Billy Swann cover of Don't Be Cruel in the film.
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Insane.
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No I'm obsessed with that.
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I'm totally ripping off the idea and doing it as a Kelly I was like, is this?
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Me and my manager were like, is this Don't Be Cruel?
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I was like, what's happening?
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It's so gorgeous, that song.
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It's the coolest version.
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Honestly, whoever did the music and the film just nailed it.
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Like, you know what I'm saying?
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It just really elevated.
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Well, Benny did everything.
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Like, that's all Benny's vision.
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God, it's so cool.
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Yeah, he really did.
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It really does, like...
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Really, you feel like you're in that time.
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You do.
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And he sent us the list when we were rehearsing, when we were building these characters.
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Like, that was the soundtrack of this movie.
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We played it in the trailer.
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It was so evocative and cool.
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Yeah, John Cicada was...
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It was so cool.
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What do you hope people, like, the overall takeaway, because I think people might have the, you know, you see Smash Machine, you think, oh, it's going to be about fighting, right?
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It's actually not about fighting, I feel like.
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So what do you hope people take away from it?
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I mean, I guess I hope that people feel somewhat soothed by how much they relate to him,
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that no one can relate to the guy who's the heavyweight champ of the world, but we all relate to struggle.
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And I think if you can walk away understanding the idea that don't let your need to succeed,
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your need to win eclipse your need to be okay.
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And I would say to add to that is when you watch these fighters, whether you're a big fan of MMA, UFC, and you watch these women and men fight,
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the thing to remember too is they sacrifice everything when they go in the cage.
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Literally, they put their lives on the line.
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They're not the only ones.
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It's the wives at home, the husbands at home, the kids.
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So much sacrifice.
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So much sacrifice goes on that you never see.
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Yeah.
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It just must hurt a little bit now that he knows, like, how much these people are paid.
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And it's like, man, I paved the way, you know?
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And they weren't paid that amount.
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And it's like, oh.
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But I think actually when we premiered in Venice and, you know, the cards that come up at the end
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and it says his name was Mark Kerr and it really is this, like, embrace of who he is.
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The crowd went insane.
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And Mark just cried and cried because I think the recognition
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that he's he's had a life worth living rather than a life that he...
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Was ashamed about.
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Was ashamed about, like, what he did and his addiction.
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He owns it beautifully, but I think it was, like, in that moment, I saw this, like, reclamation of his imprint on the world, and it was so beautiful.
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Well, there's so many lessons in tragedy.
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Like, that's...
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Completely.
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That's what I think is beautiful about that.
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Completely, yeah.
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Welcome back.
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Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson are here, and we all have...
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That's gone!
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This is super cool.
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Their new movie is called The Smashing Machine.
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In honor of that movie, it is time for our producers to make a fool of us in a game called...
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I mean, that was pretty hot.
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I like that.
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Okay, God and the Machine, a little help.
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Oh, wow.
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Thank you.
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Yes, it is I, Kelly.
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I am here to help.
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And what's up, Emily?
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What's up, Dwayne?
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How you doing?
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What's up?
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Today, we've got a game where all the answers are machines or have to do with machines.
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If you know the answer, you're going to smash the button.
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See what I did there with the boxing gloves that you're wearing.
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If you answer and you're wrong, the other two can still have a chance.
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Here's question number one.
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Okay.
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In the Smashing Machine movie, some of you may be familiar with that, Emily's character makes a snack for DJ's character by mashing
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and combining a bunch of ingredients in a machine with blades in the bottom.
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Oh, DJ.
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Blender.
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You got it.
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That's one point on the board for Dwayne.
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Very hard.
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This is very hard.
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That's how you do it.
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All right, here we go.
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Shaking things up.
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Here's your next machine.
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Okay.
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In school, you would put your number twos in this machine and grind them down to...
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Dwayne.
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Show off.
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Sorry, go.
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No, no. You got it.
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I missed it.
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I know you didn't.
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You made it.
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No, you got it.
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Were the number twos in this machine?
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Yes.
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No, not that kind of number two.
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Not what you think.
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It's not what you think.
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No, no. I'm so...
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No, no, Emily.
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No, no. Wait a second.
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Oh, boy.
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I was like, what school did you guys go to?
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Oh, my God.
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You know it.
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You were like, oh my God, that was, best part of the game.
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Go ahead.
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Unbelievable, sharpener, pencil sharpener.
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You got it, it's a pencil sharpener.
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That's two points.
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And Dwayne, you are in the lead.
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That was a bad point today.
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Pencil sharpener.
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Oh my God.
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What machine was named because it was originally used to literally grind mill and grains by having people, oh, Kelly.
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Oh, no, oh, I might be a coffee grinder?
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I don't know, I don't know.
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It is not a coffee grinder, so now.
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I said grind, I don't know.
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I will finish the question.
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Oh, Emily.
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Like a mill?
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It does have mill in the word, you are close.
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Sawmill?
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I don't know.
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I'm gonna continue with the question.
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Yeah.
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That'd be great.
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People could literally grind mill and grains by having people walk or tread on belts for hours as punishment.
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Oh, a- Treadmill.
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There you go.
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All right.
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I'm gonna give it to you.
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I'm gonna give it to you, Dwayne.
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How badly we're getting beat is, like, sad.
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I'm getting sad.
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Destroyed.
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Well, Dwayne is just crushing it.
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Come on, Kelly and Emily.
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Let's get it together.
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Come on.
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Smacking it.
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Oh.
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Here is your next machine.
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Okay.
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What party machine is found in a private room and allows you to sing Sam Cooke's...
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I better have gotten Milton.
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Karaoke!
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Karaoke.
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That's right.
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I would've been really sad if I had missed that one. That one.
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You got it, Kelly.
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Around here, we call it kellyokey.
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Yeah, we do, guys.
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Don't never go out and do karaoke with Kelly.
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She will sing your ass out the room.
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She will crush every time.
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Unless I've been drinking.
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Okay, here's the next machine.
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What warm, bubbly machine was turned into a time machine in a movie starring Craig Robinson and...
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Hot Tub Machine.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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You got it, Blaine.
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Yeah.
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Boom!
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Hot Tub Time Machine.
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I'm so incredible.
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It's so good.
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It's so boring.
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It's boring winning, right?
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Love that hot tub time machine.
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He wants a challenge.
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He needs new players.
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All right, come on, y'all.
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We're not good.
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Come on, y'all.
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Here we go.
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Come on, Emily, we're gonna get you on the board yet.
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I know.
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I feel good things for you.
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All right, I'm pulling for you.
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Here we go.
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This machine really sucks.
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But that's good, because then it gets all those...
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Kelly.
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Like a vacuum?
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It's a vacuum.
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Boom.
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It's a vacuum.
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You got it.
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And that's what I'm talking about here.
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Okay, here we go.
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Here's the next question.
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All right.
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What machine commonly used for cutting down trees was also famously used in film, Kelly?
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Chainsaw, a saw.
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Chainsaw.
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Chainsaw, yep.
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But you know what?
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Nope.
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Chainsaw.
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But because Emily also said Chainsaw Massacre, which was the title of the movie, I'm gonna give you a point, Emily.
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What?
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Hold on a second.
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Wait a second.
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Hey, hey.
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Morgan Freeman, that's .
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How dare you.
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For legal reasons, I am not Morgan Freeman.
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Okay, I'm gonna make things very interesting because that sound is not the end of the game, but it does mean we have time for a single sudden death round.
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So whoever gets this wins it all because I'm God in the makeup room.
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Can you imagine?
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Here we go.
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Dwayne doesn't have much use for this machine, but some people spend hours using it to get blowouts.
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What is it?
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Emily.
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And you have just won it all.
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How about that?
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The winner by knockout is Emily Blunt.
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She won.
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What a major upset.
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Congratulations.
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That was amazing.
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Yeah, that was amazing.
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The last one.
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Thank you, voice of God.
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Give it up one more time for Emily Blunt and Gwen Johnson.
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I'm so sorry.
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Why This Clip Is Perfect for Speaking Practice
Conversations like the one in this video—casual, energetic, and full of real-life interactions—are gold for English learners. The back-and-forth between Kelly Clarkson, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt sounds natural, with pauses, laughter, and quick exchanges that mirror how people talk daily. This makes it ideal for shadowspeak (or shadow speak), a technique where you repeat phrases immediately after hearing them to mimic rhythm and tone. Plus, the topics—kids, sports, and casual banter—are relatable, so you’ll pick up practical vocabulary for everyday chats.
Breaking Down Natural Speech: 3 Key Phrases
Let’s look at what makes the dialogue sound so authentic:
- “That doesn’t happen all the time. Just so you know.” The short, conversational “Just so you know” softens the statement, making it feel less formal. Notice how the pause after “time” creates a natural flow—this is how native speakers connect ideas without sounding robotic.
- “They’re mainly excited to see you and him. I think it’s less about me, but.” The phrase “less about me, but” leaves the thought unfinished, which is common in casual speech. It shows humility and keeps the focus on the other person, a useful social skill for IELTS speaking practice.
- “You need to get a smile on your face ’cause that could come over and you’re gonna be like that.” Contractions like “’cause” and “gonna” make the speech sound relaxed. The structure “you need to… ’cause…” is a common way to give friendly advice, perfect for improving your ability to sound natural in daily talks.
A Simple Shadowing Routine to Try
Use the shadowing technique with this video to boost your pronunciation and fluency. Here’s how:
- Watch the clip once to get the gist. Notice the speakers’ facial expressions and tone—they emphasize emotions like excitement or humor.
- Play a 5-second segment, pause, and repeat it out loud, trying to match the speed, pitch, and stress. Focus on copying the “uhs” and “ums” too—they make speech sound human.
- Record yourself. Compare it to the original: Did you catch the rising intonation in questions? Did you stress the right words (like “amazing” or “incredible”)?
- Do this daily for 10 minutes. Over time, you’ll notice your English pronunciation becoming clearer and your ability to hold natural conversations improving.
This routine works because it trains your mouth and brain to work together, helping you speak more like a native. Give it a try—you might be surprised how quickly you progress!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were inspired · was inspired · being ghosted |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've been · have gotten · would've been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Land which is · Massacre, which was |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were doing · was watching · was being |
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.