Shadowing Practice: I Built a SECRET 7-11 in My Room! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today, I'm building a secret 7 -Eleven in my room and hiding it from my twin brother.
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He says we don't look like twins anymore because of my recent weight gain.
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So he started a 90 -day fitness challenge to help me lose weight so that we can look like twins again.
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It's only been a week and I've been struggling with eating all these healthy foods.
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On top of that, Alan is always watching me and he won't let me cheat on my diet.
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Alex?
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Mmm, okay.
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I needed a way to eat all my favorite snacks without him finding out.
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That's why I'm building a secret 7 -eleven in our house.
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But first I need to find a perfect location
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Think I found it
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Oh my god check it out check it out
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This is perfect, but I need to make a bigger hole so I can fit in there
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If you're wondering why I'm not going about this more quietly
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Alan is actually at the gym right now
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He thinks I'm missing today's workout because I pretended to be sick this morning
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So we also have our friends joining us for the 90 -day body transformation challenge
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and we're going really hard today because whoever loses the most weight gets to have a cheat meal.
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Whoa, the house is happy to eat me!
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Meanwhile, back at home, I was making some real progress.
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Time for the grand entrance.
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Good thing I pretended to be sick today because I'm about to turn this into the best 7 -Eleven ever.
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I'd barely gotten started on my secret 7 -Eleven and Alan was already starting to get suspicious.
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So Alex mentioned that he's sick today and I don't believe him.
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So I sent
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Tanner home to spy on Alex just now to make sure he's not cheating on his diet
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So this room is gonna have everything that a 7 -eleven has every snack
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and drink you can think of slushy machines and even some banned stuff
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You can only find in special 7 -elevens.
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I just have to make sure I hide it all from Alan Alex Alex!
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Alex!
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Alex!
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Alex!
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Alex!
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Alex where you at dude?
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Alex?
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What are you doing?
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What is this?
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I thought you were supposed to be sick!
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Okay hear me out.
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I'm sick of this healthy diet crap.
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I'm doing this secret 7 -Eleven so I can eat whatever I want.
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Whatever I want.
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Whatever I want.
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Count me in.
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I'm tired of eating that healthy crap too.
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But if you're trying to build a secret room, a big hole in the wall isn't very secret.
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Well, it's not very secret yet.
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By the time we're done with it, no one will ever be able to tell there was a hole here.
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And now that we know where the secret 7 -Eleven was going to be built,
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it was time to go to real 7 -Eleven and get some ideas and supplies.
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We're outside of real 7 -Eleven.
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We're going to go inside and figure out how to build our 7 -Eleven.
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And eat some snacks.
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I haven't had junk food in a week, and there's so much food here.
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I'm sorry, but I don't feel a little bit of pain in that food.
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We're going to need a lot of junk food and snacks, obviously.
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We're also going to need some shelves to hold the snacks.
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We're definitely going to need a lot of drinks, ice cream, and refrigerators to store them in.
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This is about to cost a lot of money.
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You can't have a 7 -Eleven without this, or we can fill it up with spicy wings, too.
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We've got to have our own slushy machines, too.
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You know what?
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Maybe let's not do that.
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Tanner?
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After taking more notes and buying a lot of snacks, it was time to head home and start building.
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I think we're good.
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Meanwhile, Alan was taking his 90 -day fitness challenge a little too seriously.
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Come on, Alan, you got this.
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Go up, go up, one more, one more.
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Come on, one more, yeah, get going.
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You want to stop talking?
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Get going.
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Get going.
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Come on, one more.
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One more.
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All right.
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Hey, what are you doing?
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I said one more, not me!
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Keep talking!
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Stop!
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Alan's obsession with the fitness challenge gave us the time we needed to start customizing the 7 -Eleven.
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So we're finally back home and check out all the snaps we bought.
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And now it's finally time to transform this room into a 7 -Eleven.
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I'll start painting.
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Tanner, you go buy some more 7 -Eleven props. On it.
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So all 7 -Elevens have the unique red, green, and orange stripes.
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And right now, I'm going to paint that on all the walls.
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And I'm taking this seriously because I want this to look like the best 7 -Eleven in the world.
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Woo!
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This looks sick, guys.
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I honestly didn't know I was this good at painting.
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So far, things were looking good.
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And Alan was so into his workout that he seemed to have forgotten that
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Tanner never came back.
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Three, two, one.
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Keep going!
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That was a pound tire right there!
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Um, let's see how
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Tanner's shopping went.
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So I just got back from buying a bunch of stuff from a 7 -Eleven warehouse.
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This is gonna be perfect for our secret 7 -eleven room.
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Let's start unloading it.
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Alex, check it out.
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Tanner's back!
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I got that situation you were talking about.
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Oh my god!
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And a 7 -eleven sign.
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Turning it on in 3, 2, 1.
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Wow!
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Dude!
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Dude!
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I honestly can't believe all the progress we made on this secret room.
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It's really starting to look like a 7 -eleven.
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And even though we were having a lot of success with our 7 -Eleven, we were about to run into a huge problem.
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So I just sent Sean home to check up on both Alex and Tanner, because I haven't seen either of them all day.
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When we started his fitness challenge, Alan mounted a security camera in my room to keep an eye on me,
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because he knows I hide snacks in there.
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So I put a picture of an empty room in front of the camera to hide my secret 7 -Eleven.
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Oh, that's perfect.
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Alex, check it out.
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Look at all these boxes I got from the 7 -Eleven warehouse.
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You were able to find snacks from Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia?
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That's right.
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Tanner got snacks from 7 -Elevens all around the world to add to our secret room.
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Let's check out someone at 7 -Elevens' snacks from Mexico.
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Oh, damn!
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Dude, these snacks are so unique!
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That's sick!
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We got Mexican...
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Wait, wait, wait, hold on.
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It's got a ring notification.
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It said someone's at the door.
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Wait.
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Sean?
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I'm gonna hide all this stuff!
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Alex?
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Why do you think of my phone call?
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Wait, we gotta barricade the door!
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Alex!
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I know you're up to no good, Alex.
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Where you at?
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Whatever you do, don't let them in!
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Guys?
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What's all this?
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Sean, Sean, listen to me.
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It's not what it looks like.
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Oh, hell no, y 'all.
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You're cheating on your diet?
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I'm out here buzzing my ass off?
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Sean.
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Of course it's YouTube.
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Look, Sean, we already spent $15 ,000.
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Please don't tell Alan.
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Please.
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Okay, fine, but after this, you guys have to not cheat on your diet anymore.
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It's for your own good.
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Okay.
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I'll cover it for you guys.
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Alex, we're not actually doing that, are we?
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Hell no!
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And after persuading Sean not to tell Alan...
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Alan's got Tanner sick too!
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It was finally time to resume building our 7 -eleven
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I did with
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Alan Tanner ended up finding literally everything we could have possibly needed for a 7 -eleven
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but not without eating some of it first
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, damn, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop.
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Not yet.
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And of course, more snacks stocked with some drinks as well.
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And lastly, a Slurpee machine section.
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Honestly, I can't believe how good of a job we're doing.
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What is it?
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We actually do have a big problem.
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We need to find something to cover up that giant hole, because if someone else comes home, we're screwed.
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I know just the thing.
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You do?
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Follow me.
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While we headed off to find a secret entrance for a 7 -Eleven,
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Alan's 90 day fitness challenge was starting to get borderline violence correction literally violence
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what was that What's happening?
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Who keeps turning the lights?
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I have been waiting for this my whole life!
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Is that all you got?
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It's Brian Powell!
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Well, at least Hannah and I were actually being productive.
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So we have this giant painting here, and this is going to be the perfect thing to use as a secret entrance.
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Oh!
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What the hell happened?
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Unfortunately, someone broke into our secret room.
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But luckily, we already set up security cameras, so we checked the footage to see what happened.
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Uh, that's not me. So we forced
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Buck to clean everything up, but he kept getting distracted.
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What?
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I'm just helping.
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I had to hide
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Tanner's chair, but luckily, Bok was able to get the job done.
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Now it was finally time for us to install our secret door.
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Honestly, this is the perfect painting to use because if Alan sees this, I'll just tell him it's a motivational poster for when we're in shape,
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and I don't think he's gonna question it.
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Now we had to hurry and mount this quick because it was getting late, and Alan could get here any minute.
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Okay, that was the last screw.
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Let's see if it works.
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Oh, it's holding it off.
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Let's go.
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Wait.
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Oh, look at Tanner!
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Oh my gosh!
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Oh my gosh!
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Now, we still have a lot more stuff to bring in and a lot of stuff to unpack.
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So, let's go do that before I give you guys a full room tour.
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It's not a 7 -Eleven without the famous food warmers.
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Look at that.
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Doesn't that look amazing?
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Take this out.
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It's so good!
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Oh, brain freeze.
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Oh, God.
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Our 7 -Eleven was really coming together, but I was starting to worry that
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Tanner would eat all the snacks without me.
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Speaking of snacks, let's check in on the other boys.
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What the hell is even that?
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Uh, I actually thought we were gonna make it through a whole video without Sean doing something sus.
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Anyways, Tanner and I are just putting the finishing touches on our secret 7 -Eleven.
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Three, two, one.
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Woo!
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That was the last of the show.
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Time to give you guys a proper 7 -Eleven room tour.
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Let's go!
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Welcome to my secret 7 -Eleven.
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Right over here, we have the fridges where we have a ton of drinks.
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And moving on, this section I'm excited for.
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We have our very own ice cream machine.
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For the next section, we have two different Slurpee machines.
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Right over here, we have the cold fountain drink machine.
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And if you scoot over to this section, we have the hot dog rollers right here.
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I know Sean would love this if he was here.
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The hot dogs.
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We also have a food warmer full of my favorite healthy snacks.
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Now to the next section.
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We have some international 7 -Eleven snacks that we're going to get to right after the tour.
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And over this section, if you don't eat all the food, we have chips, two liter sodas, and we have more chips.
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And then we have the gondola show.
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Each side, we have snacks, every kind of candy you can imagine.
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Hershey's, Butterfingers, Kit Kats, Twix, Reese's.
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Little bit healthier on this side.
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You know, we can't be eating all junk food.
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Hell no!
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Nah, I mean, we can't, we can't.
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It's not healthy to eat all junk food.
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Pistachios, pistachios, Tanner.
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Beef jerky, beef jerky canner, come on, dude.
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Get the out of your canner.
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It's so crazy to me that this was once a room that no one knew existed.
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And now it's a secret 7 -Eleven that still no one knows exists.
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Except for us.
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Let's hope it stays that way.
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But that was gonna be hard because alan kept sending people home i'm honestly
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so sore from all the workouts
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so i just sent caleb home to grab the massage gun
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and some smoothies
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so we can keep going
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now it's finally time to try out some of the international 7 -eleven snacks on my side i have mexico
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and on my side i have japanese snacks
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so i got the some pound cake and i got the strawberry roll cake what's so good
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Wait, that looks good too.
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Please let me get a sniff.
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Okay What are you - what the hell?
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Oh my god that tastes so good!
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Pound cake time.
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Pound cake.
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Wow.
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Holy crap.
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This is actually so good.
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Yeah, oh my god.
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I'm so glad we're not eating that healthy diet crap.
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I think I like the roll cake better than the pound cake.
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Really?
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I like the Mexican pound cake a lot more.
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Alex, Tanner.
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Who was that?
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Alex. Where are you guys?
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Are you guys freaking hiding from me?
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Alex.
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Where the heck are you guys?
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Alex.
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Stop.
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I'm breaking the door.
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Alright, I'm going down to make some smoothies.
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And if you don't come out by then, I'm calling Alex.
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Let's just go out there and pretend it works out.
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Oh, there you guys are.
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Oh, Caleb?
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What's up, dude?
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What is that painting?
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Oh, that?
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Uh, little motivational painting for when me and Alan are in shape.
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All right.
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We'll have to get back to that, you know?
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I brought you guys some smoothies.
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Do you want them?
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Nah, we're good.
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We had some slussies earlier.
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All right.
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All right.
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Well, I got to get back and work out, so I'll see you guys in about two hours.
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Okay.
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Alright, try to catch up to us, Caleb.
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Yeah, man.
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We're burning them calories.
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Good luck.
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Dude, that was so close.
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Why would we want that?
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And we got those slushies.
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And now that we know exactly how long
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Alan was going to be at the gym for.
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About two hours.
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It was time to have some fun.
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Wow.
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Oh, yeah.
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We'll remember this day forever, Tanner.
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Oh, yeah.
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Did you just sniff my fart?
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No. Why didn't you sniff my fart?
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Did you just sniff my fart?
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Sniff your fart, dude.
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Come on.
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Give some other good pictures.
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Oh, my God.
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This looks so hidden.
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No one would ever be able to tell.
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And to test just how hidden the secret room is, we're gonna invite a subscriber over to see if they can find us.
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With the subscriber on the way, Tanner and I changed into our 7 -Eleven outfits and waited.
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They don't look anything like that.
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Oh, she's right there. Should we scare her?
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Ow!
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Come on.
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Oh my God, is this a 7 -Eleven?
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Yeah, we spent all day building our own 7 -Eleven.
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And because you're a subscriber, we'll give you one minute to buy whatever you want for free.
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Starting now.
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Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
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What the heck?
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There's so many things.
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Come on, come on, come on, grab it.
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I've never let you eat ice cream.
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Get all of them.
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Yeah.
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Come on, get all the soda you want.
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Ooh, Gatorade.
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Ooh, I love these.
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So she only has 30 seconds left, but we're constantly flying out subscribers from all around the world.
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And if you want to be in a video just like her, then all you have to do is subscribe.
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All right, you got 10 seconds.
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10, be quick.
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Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
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Three, two, one.
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All right, put it down, put it down.
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That's a lot of stuff you got there.
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Oh, we're going to have to help her.
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It'll last be a long time.
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Be careful, it's heavy.
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Thank you.
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I had a lot of fun.
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Y 'all can too if you subscribe.
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Unfortunately, we lost track of time and forgot
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Alan would be home soon.
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All right, guys, we're going to be going home for the last workout.
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Hey, how are you getting home?
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We're running home for the last workout.
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Let's go!
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Wait, but that's gonna take us 30 minutes!
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I gotta warn Alex.
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It's finally time to try the rest of the international snacks.
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Let's do it!
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Someone's calling.
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Hello?
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Hey, Alex, Alex, we're running back out to the house right now.
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We're like a few minutes away.
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Okay, bye!
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Oh no, Alex, we're done!
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Dude, we're gonna get caught!
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Come on, dude!
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Can't.
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Can't.
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Almost there!
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I was almost there!
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Why did I agree to this?
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I'm gonna start stressing you again, dude.
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We get 300 again.
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Okay, take that out of your mouth.
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Guys, we're literally almost home.
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I can see the house from here.
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So far, the secret room has passed every task.
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Let me show you the game plan.
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All right, we'll be fine.
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When Alan gets here, first thing we do, shut the painting behind us.
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We can be doing push -ups, whatever we want, working out, and then whenever we want to,
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we can just come right back inside and you'll never be able to tell.
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I don't think I can look
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Alan in the eye and lie to him.
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What was that?
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She's here.
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Alex!
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I'm back!
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, we gotta change back.
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We gotta change back into our shirt.
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Where are you?
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Hey, Alex!
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Alex!
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Oh, you guys are working out?
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Yes, sir.
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Dude, what is this picture?
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This is motivation, because by this summertime, we're gonna look like this.
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Oh, I brought you salad.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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You don't want it?
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You gotta get healthy, remember?
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Haven't eaten all day.
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Tanner, why don't you have some salad too?
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Oh, no, I can't.
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I got a crumb put in at the dentist.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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What's your dentist's name?
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Crensist.
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All right, well, I'm glad you guys are feeling better.
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We gotta flush this down.
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I like that.
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What the hell was the f*ing Krentice thing?
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I didn't know what to say.
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I told you.
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Just don't say anything.
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Hey, can you guys come downstairs for the weigh -in?
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Guys?
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Alex?
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Tanner?
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Where'd you guys go?
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Guys, wait.
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Wait.
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What do we do?
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Alex.
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Stop.
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What do you got?
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What do you got?
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What do you got?
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What do you got?
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What do you got?
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What is all this?
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What's going on?
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Alex, you can't expect us to eat salad all day.
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I'm not a rabbit.
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You know what?
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Save it.
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You'll always be my brother, but you'll never be my twin.
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Unless I eat some of this yummy snacks and gain some weight!
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Woo!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Built a SECRET 7-11 in My Room!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eleven, Alex, snack, secret, alan. This video has 460 sentences and 3139 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:34. The speaker talks at a natural 153 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 75 of its 460 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| eleven noun | /əˈlɛv.ən/ | A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. |
| snack noun | /snæk/ | A light meal. |
| pound noun | /ˈpaʊ̯nd/ | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. |
| fitness noun | /ˈfɪt.nəs/ | The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate. |
| cheat verb | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. |
| workout noun | /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/ | An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. |
| twin noun | /twɪn/ | Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. |
| junk noun | /d͡ʒʌŋk/ | Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items. |
| subscriber noun | /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/ | A person who subscribes to a publication or a service. |
| entrance noun | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | The action of entering, or going in. |
| pretend verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| meanwhile adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. |
| mount verb | /maʊnt/ | To get upon; to ascend; to climb. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| check in on verb | To pay a visit in order to monitor the health, security or safety of (someone or something). | |
| check up on verb | To examine or inspect something in order to determine its condition; to check out. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Alex where you at dude?
- You want to stop talking?
- Alex, we're not actually doing that, are we?
- Why didn't you sniff my fart?
- Tanner, why don't you have some salad too?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been struggling · have been waiting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | It's only been · haven't had · haven't seen |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was making · was already starting · was taking |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | stop talking · Keep talking · start customizing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 123 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
- Long words — get the stress right: motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like eleven, snack, pound.
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.