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we're back at it again with some pizza do you want a piece of pizza

what is up daddy gang it is your single father alex cooper

just kidding what's up guys it's back at it again with the vlog

i told you guys i'm gonna get to la

and try to spew content out of my asshole

i went to bed at about 3 a .m a classic alex cooper time to go to bed

and then what ended up happening is that i woke up because my fire alarm battery

is dying it's dying a slow death we don't want a fire

and if a fire happens we don't want me to die in the fire

so if you may most people wouldn't really want that even

if you hate me and so as you guys know

when fire alarms are dying they just keep beeping

and your homegirl couldn't sleep so i went to bed at three

and i woke up at 5 30 in the morning i'm literally about to go into the CVS

so that I can get myself a battery.

Into the wild wild west we go.

If you guys were wondering what my outfit looks like, mind your business okay?

Uggs are making a comeback I promise you.

Batteries, batteries, batteries.

I can't find it.

What is it?

Those do not look the same.

We are not the same i am i'm gonna buy every single one of these

and i swear to god

if my fire alarm ever goes off i'll be stocked this says it lasts for five years

so i better not get one

one iota of noise is that the right word to use iota all right hopefully this is

see okay we're really hoping this is sturdy i should probably be like asking lauren to help me

but she's busy how is that even beeping if it's plugged unplugged we've now taken it off

is there something okay should you press down on that hold button down now i just made that up

how do i stop that how do i stop

that okay wait maybe i did it what happened maybe i did it

did you just plug it in yeah and it was going off at first in my face

winners win losers lose wow all right i guess it's as easy as that day

day number i don't even know what

and we haven't pulled trig on any outdoor furniture and lauren

and i are sitting out here we want to be tanning we want to be enjoying ourselves

and look at this i'm sitting on hard hard not comfy we're going to malibu we just decided after all

that we've been through target home good all of it home depot

it let's go to malibu there's this one place called i think

it's called oasis it's supposed to be it has super nice shit

so our whole thing like saving money lauren

and i are determined to get patty on first try today we just got here

and are seeing some major potential we want the thick ass cushions and this place looks like it's got it

thick oh my god this is exactly what we've been looking for this is literally

it oh my god there are

so many day beds

i can't help myself let's start looking come on honey take a seat how does it feel okay

but is it comfy like mckenzie q spa music these are huge mckenzie q day music vibes

this one this one

okay ready okay what

do you guys think happened what do you guys think happened at this place

we were gonna splurge we were down to buy but

when you're talking fourteen hundred dollars for chaise lounges you realize no we were super bummed about our goddamn failure

but this makes up for it i can't explain to you our zenness right now

alex what are you doing lauren what are you doing you know we woke up this morning

and we decided let's really make a comeback cleaning our entire house right

now we're doing laundry we're getting rid of anything that has a bunch of dust on it

And we're about to throw out all the bad snacks in our house because we want to become healthy.

And although every single time we try to become healthy, two minutes later, we're eating chips.

By throwing out the chips, I'll probably just order more.

Then I'll feel like shit about myself and then go work out.

I don't know if I'm in any sense.

I'm like fully Cloroxing.

Clorox, if you want to sponsor me, hit me up.

Child -friendly content here.

Vibrator.

Okay.

Lauren and I are sitting here because we read a comment online and everyone was like,

I would love to know whose body count is more, Alex's or Lauren's.

And we're currently making lists because I can't find my list that I've like written right now.

I found an old list.

You found an old list?

Yeah.

It's on, did you just type in sex on your, oh, I forgot him.

I feel like it's on baseball right now.

Baseball?

High school?

You had sex with him?

Baseball.

he was hot i feel like i'm forgetting wait

i have i have no there's another baseball there's two baseball lauren i thought i was the only one

that liked to fuck baseball players i'm so mad

because i had not only a list of guys

that i've had sex with

but then i'm the back of it literally since high school i had a piece of paper

that i would write every single guy's name and just put the base

that we went to even

if it was like a make out at a concert

i had like every single human down on a piece of paper

and i don't know where it is i think it's at my parents house mom

if you find it let me know also no judgment there right it got me to where i am today

and then there are the ones

that like you don't really count i have one dude

that i don't i cannot count in high school his penis was

so small no shade but it was literally so small line

that like i tried and like i couldn't even sit on it like it was

that small that it was shocking to when he was the hottest guy

and he took off his pants and i was like

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so then i just you can't count it i tried

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but it would it would it like it didn't even so

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that i just left i wish you could see her face right now

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that's true disgust so we don't count those wait

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so you only found two more guys on the list

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that you just found yeah i feel like i have to have i don't know who baseball is

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because i also on this list have baseball someone different so you have two baseball guys yeah i'm trying to think

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we'll be back oh my god okay

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so finally i just got my extensions taken out which i'm

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so happy about um covid safe

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and i didn't think i was gonna be able to get home in time for lauren's date

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and i just got out early like it was way faster than expected

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and lauren is currently on her way

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this is her second date with this dude we are fully trying to fuck on this date

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and when i say we i mean we i'm going to no i'm just kidding

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and we're gonna help this bitch yet again figure out what

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the fuck to wear lauren was just trying to find underwear

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and i'm like you just need like a little strappy thing we just went through all of lauren's underwear

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and guess where we are come on sweetie let's get

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you some of alex's underwear okay here's a couple options something like this oh

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or i have a plain like red thing

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i need some new underwear too i'm laying out the red one you sent to london

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i need a bra too okay perfect like a like like

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lacy thing lace little oh yeah do this where it just covers your nipples

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it depends what shirt i'm wearing what shirt am i wearing too

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this is like a lot that's too much i'm making the black that's my go -to

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and then we figure out what shirt you're wearing boom

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we're just talking about a couple things we decided we were like what do we do?

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Do we have her fully shave her vag or do we just do a little landing strip?

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She's in a bra and underwear.

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Let's just leave her alone.

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And we concluded that we'd do a little landing strip because we don't want this motherfucker to like think for God.

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I think you do jeans.

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Anyway, so we have her ready to go.

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She's got my bra.

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She's got my underwear.

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I trimmed her vagina for her.

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So I think this is going to be successful.

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And the guy offered to get her a lift, but I said absolutely not, sir.

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I'll be driving a ride to your house.

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Nowadays, I need to know exactly where this boy lives.

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Not only just so I can make sure that my friend doesn't die, but we got to scout it out.

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Where does this motherfucker live?

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What kind of apartment?

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Does he have a nice car?

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Does he have a nice place?

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Does he have a big dick?

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This could be it.

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You look good in them.

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Fuck, man.

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I mean, I would.

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You look cute.

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Oh my God.

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What if you did that?

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Your butt looks good.

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What if you did that in an off the shoulder sweater?

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Oh, I'm looking cute for this date.

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I don't have like too much motion

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but i can sit okay

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i look like a weirdo just don't pay attention to this lauren is bringing a full charcuterie board

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because on my hinge profile i have

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that my greatest strength is making a charcuterie board he was like oh let's let's make a charcuterie board

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and then this amazing woman was like i do charcuterie boards

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i'm like i'll just bring less working more playing oh oh oh oh we're ready for the day

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if anyone comments about this outfit i don't want to fucking hear it all right

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i'm just the driver for the night it doesn't matter what i look like

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i am back lauren is at her date he looks very cute

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he was also very respectful i feel like a mom just checking the surroundings kids

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i'm like lauren you have your tracking device on right sweetie

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i now am a little as they would say hi in the clouds

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and i have lauren just texted me lauren's on her date

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and she can't tell if there's she can't tell

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if there's a vibe of sex is gonna happen he's making

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them watch a movie fuck the movie oh what i was saying is i have some wine

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and i just ordered some fro yo dude i just ordered this frozen yogurt

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and usually when i order from frozen yogurt places they put the sides

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that you order in like little baby containers

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so usually i'll just go like extra ham on the containers

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and decide what i want to put on

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when i get it i didn't bring separate containers this entire all filled with

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so many different fucking treats i have cinnamon toast crunch frosted animal crackers yogurt chips

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i have chocolate chips i have butterfinger i have kitkat

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i have oreo i have caramel sauce i have captain fucking crunch

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i can't good morning everyone lauren had her date it was successful she definitely

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you know it went well i feel conflicted i talked about it on my last episode basically the guy

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that i'm seeing mr sexy zoom man as i call him on the podcast told me

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that he's in love with me

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which is amazing i love how i'm like fuck no

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it's amazing i think i'm just feeling the stress of like i think i feel

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that too i'm afraid that i'm going to somehow fuck it up i don't know

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if i really ever have had a really healthy relationship in my life with a guy i'm just like nervous

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because he is exactly what i've ever wanted what

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if i go for it and i had this amazing guy

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and then i do something stupid

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or self -sabotage it i don't know i just am

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so fucking stressed out and

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so i'm asked my therapist to get on the phone with me

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i want this more than anything i've probably wanted in

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so long and that's probably why i'm scared like i want it

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so much that i'm so scared and

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so instead of going for it i would rather almost not have it

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so that i don't fuck it up

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and get mad at myself goes back to a lot of things

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i'm working on in therapy everyone's got their shit in relationships

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but i don't know okay can you tell my mood has fully changed

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i have now spoken to my mom my therapist lauren

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i've sat by myself i went to the gyno they gave me a sticker

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because i don't have an std i'm gonna go through all on the episode

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this has nothing to do with him he is the most perfect man

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and everyone that's like oh like you would know

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if you know i know and i

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so am in i'm just not well in the head for myself

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and so i just wanted to make sure like i'm not gonna hurt this person

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because i care so much about this person and now

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that i'm like wow like really going through it like why the fuck don't i just take a chance

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and like fucking go for something that is so right

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so perfect you love him i love him my mother loves him

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and i think i could totally see myself being there

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so he's gonna come home and like sorry to be sappy

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but like i'm so happy and i'm so excited to tell him this

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because we haven't been talking about this while he's in london

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so he's gonna come home and i'm like lauren like i want to do something

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so fucking cute for him to basically be like i'm all in i'm gonna pick him up from the airport

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and then i'm gonna bring him we are picking him up for the airport i was like are you sure

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that you want me coming oh absolutely you have to be there lauren

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i'm like we're like i'll be there we are going to go pick him up from the airport

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and i want him to come home

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and like be like kind of wondering like what's alex's vibe like what's the deal

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and i'm going to basically have him come home to a

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full house themed party with just the three of us but

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but it literally be like we have a baby

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or like it's a girl like i'm gonna surprise him with like a pregnancy like

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if people are gonna think i'm so weird

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but this is like my way of being like i'm all

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in this is gonna make no sense to anyone like

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so you're throwing him like a pregnancy party to tell him

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that you want to be his girlfriend that is just my humor

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and that he knows i'm weird

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so he will love it okay just we're going to the party store

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i know this may not make sense to you

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but it makes sense to me and it's a cute way for me

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that I think is going to tell him it's a girl we're pregnant just kidding

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but okay quick change of events we are still going to the party store

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but we are hung over I just realized Laren has never had in

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and out I personally don't like it as much as shake shack

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but i do think it's important for this little diggity dong to try it

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so we're going in and out we can't play the music we want to play

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because it will get copy written on youtube

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so we're gonna play our favorite song

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and then mackenzie's gonna play rave music dude

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that is to get in this is the line all the way down the block oh my god this is

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so psychotic people are literally behind us back there

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and the line is all the way around the street before you can't even see the in

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and out yet okay we're going here we go oh yeah here

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we go here we go again spotted daddy gang she's like staring back at lauren

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and i we're like we can just tell this bitch is

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daddy gang she's in the little bmw herself daddy gang we see you

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that smells so good thank you have a great day

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holy shit whoa holy shit lauren it's all on you to take this first bite

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and really give us your initial reaction i personally think

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it's fine it's not bad it kind of reminds me of just like fast food

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but it's not anywhere near close to shake shack like the shake shack shack sauce and stuff how is it

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see these animal style fries like

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wait that's like nasty good morning vlog outdoor dining just opened up tonight in los angeles california and lauren

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and i were like oh my god we have to get a reservation for the first time in

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so long lauren and i are about to put on actual clothes

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and strut our little ass heels heels

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and we're about to go have a dinner in like cute little outfits i'm

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so excited lauren and i made two reservations

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so we're at this one place and then

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when this reservation ends we have another they kick us out in 90 minutes

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we're being covid safe we had our masks on the whole time

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we're getting after it we're eating some sushi here

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and then we have an italian restaurant coming up next beware

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be excited first bite boom lauren tear on the v -log my mom called me today she's

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She's like, Lauren, Laren, I heard you on the V -log.

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Were you safe?

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Did you wear a condom?

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She's like, the V -log is so entertaining.

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We're like, Kara, it's actually called a vlog.

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The V -log is popping.

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Oh my gosh, that's the back of my earring.

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Got it, mate.

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Got it.

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Thank you.

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Holy shit.

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we just got to our second location it's not the vibe it's a really chill there's no music

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there's old people here which we love like i love you mom

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but like not exactly the vibe of like we're not gonna rage i want a fist pump

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okay so the situation is not what we planned

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so we're reconnecting we're reconfiguring

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and we're just gonna try to like the sun is up look look okay this is the situation sadly are

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so hung over that our mental state is literally so awful

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so we decided instead of being instead of going into a hole

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and like being full losers in a hole like watching tv

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all day like we did last time another vlog another hangover lauren just comes in

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and we're both so hungover we're having a full couch day

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and lauren's like i'm gonna go get something to help my hangover

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full ice on the top of her head

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we're gonna try to go to the beach we're gonna get some food we brought a blanket

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and i'm really kind of like in my feels right now

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because i really fucked up last night with mr sexy zoo man

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i fucked up last night i fell into a bush shattered my phone

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and cut my hand on it the hangover is starting to hit

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we need food oxygen okay we just got to the beach it's literally

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so freaking cute we have all of our foods we got like sushi salsa cheese

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screenshots okay now we've moved on from sadness and we're recapping our night

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we have okay aside from us to completely fucking up my life laura

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and i got so fucked up we woke on the couch

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and we were literally like i wonder if like we took any video

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because we were meaning to vlog we look at my phone and mckenzie you're in the mountain footage

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the sun is up look look I don't know.

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dude i'm not being an asshole but look at lauren like

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did you just watch that when i tell you

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that i have no idea do you see lauren starts to

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all of a sudden she's like the sun is up it's 11 o 'clock at night and then she starts

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teetering off and just goes right into a rock it was worth it though it was

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so fun but then when we woke up we're like no it wasn't worth it

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because i ruined my life and you fucked up your phone

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but the fact that we had the video footage just makes it

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so much better i hope you all enjoyed

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that cheers we just spotted daddy gang daddy gang oh my god look oh my god it's

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so nice to meet you guys just sprinting dude daddy gang

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we're vlogging we've been like vlogging over there i am obsessed

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with all of you i want everyone to be getting a lady titty right

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now dude i want daddy to have a full party

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when life opens back up we need to have a full fucking rager on the beach together they were just

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so fucking cute i love you all if you didn't know

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that how many times a day i'm like i'm

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so obsessed with you guys

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that was really fucking cute the bad thing about the vlog is

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if we vlog turn the music off who gives a fuck

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i'm not making money off hey YouTube I make zero dollars off of any of these videos

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because I'm unable to one either put good

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Non -copy written chicken or my contents to fucking sexual and it gets demonetized I've never made a dollar home of YouTube.

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So don't ever so we can rage.

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We can rage

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Like a moderate rave let me think it's a little more deep house rave.

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Oh you take your Molly already

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Good Oh, my God. Are you ready?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I HAVE A BOYFRIEND..”. This video has 339 sentences and 3814 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:26. The speaker talks at a natural 170 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
daddy noun	/ˈdædi/	Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.
underwear noun	/ˈʌndɚˌwɛɹ/	Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
vibe noun	/vaɪb/	An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
chip noun	/t͡ʃɪp/	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
shake verb	/ˈʃeɪk/	To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
alarm noun	/əˈlɑɹm/	A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
outfit noun	/ˈaʊtfɪt/	A set of clothing (with accessories).
rage noun	/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/	Violent uncontrolled anger.
container noun	/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/	An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
reservation noun	/ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/	The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
yogurt noun	/ˈjɒɡ.ət/	A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
rave verb	/ɹeɪv/	To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
hangover noun	/ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/	Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.
thick adjective	/θɪk/	Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
throw out verb	/ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/	To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I don't know if I'm in any sense.
You found an old list?
I feel like it's on baseball right now.
What if you did that?
Did you wear a condom?

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	we've been looking · haven't been talking
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you may most people wouldn't really
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've now taken · haven't pulled · we've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be stocked · are hung

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 180 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/
Long words — get the stress right: reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, hangover /ˈhæŋoʊ̯vɚ/ ~ /ˈhæŋɔʊ̯vɚ/, charcuterie /ʃɑɹˈkutəɹi/, demonetize /diˈmɑnətaɪz/, gynecomastia /ˌɡaɪ.nɪ.koʊˈmæs.tiə/

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 daddy, underwear, vibe.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

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What is the Shadowing Technique?

HANG OUT WITH ME summer days 🍉🫐☀️

I Filled my ENTIRE House with Snow don’t try this