Shadowing Practice: I Investigated Chiropractors - Learn English Speaking with Video

The building behind me is a university that costs over $10 ,000 a year to attend.

Here, students learn the teachings of an 1800 scammer that has no scientific backing.

And on top of that, this practice is known to cause many fatalities every year.

So in this video, we are infiltrating this prestigious university to figure out what is going on.

And the craziest thing is, you've definitely heard of it.

Chiropractors.

Oh, that's some cracking news.

You ever been to one?

No, I have been to a manual physical therapist.

They also crack you, but more responsibly.

Let's Google how many people die from chiropractice every year.

No official or exact annual counts of death.

Okay.

Right.

It's very rare.

Roughly three deaths per one or 10 million neck manipulations.

So this is the very useful Google AI overview.

Yeah, that's real good.

Yeah, great.

Hey, let's look at what the f*ing sources are, shan't we?

Oh, it's all chiropractors' websites.

Thank you, Google AI overview.

Let's look at some actual literature, right?

This very comprehensive study from 2010 comes to a very comprehensive conclusion.

Numerous deaths have occurred after chiropractic manipulations.

The risk of this treatment by far outweighs its benefit.

Oh.

And these exact numbers are mentioned in another study.

The authors calculated that the frequency of irreversible complications is about one One per 850 patients undergoing a series of cervical manipulations,

a figure that is dramatically different from those usually proposed by chiropractors.

One in 850 is a lot of people.

One thing to highlight here is that the things that are being measured are quite a bit different.

Okay.

The first study was more about death.

Here it was more about irreversible complications.

Okay.

Right.

And I found that chiropractors' websites love to point towards the death rates, the verifiable death rate being significantly lower right do not really talk about well what

if you have a stroke yeah i would imagine there's a lot of complications

when you mishandle someone's neck here's another one the frequency of

serious adverse events varied between five strokes per 100 000 manipulations

to 1 .46 serious adverse events per 10 million manipulations

but it gets a bit confusing

because these numbers again are quite a bit lower there is no robust data concerning the incidence

or prevalence of adverse reactions after chiropractic further investigations are urgently

needed to assess definite conclusions regarding this issue this study is

from 2009 they were saying more research is highly necessary more research has not been done right

and this is in part because it is extremely difficult to get this data

because chiropractors are not screaming from the rooftops hey we killed 10 people this year why not great question

and on top of that dead people can't really point fingers also true

so it is extremely difficult but one thing that is for sure is

that it has led to many bad outcomes although i want to say growing growing up, I thought chiropractic was like just really cool and awesome.

Yeah, exactly.

It's a very normal and common thing to see a chiropractor, right?

We're going to get into why that is.

But first, you know who definitely died at the hands of a chiropractor?

No. The inventor of chiropractic.

Oh.

Here we have Mr. Palmer.

Diddy Palmer dropped out of school at 11 because he had enough or something.

Okay.

And then spent most of his time grifting.

Okay.

Selling snake oil, doing magnetic healing you know whatever to get by

and make some money okay yeah

and during one magnetic healing session he allegedly just kind of up someone's back

and that made something better for the patient

and bro was like oh my god i figured it out

uh -huh now even back then back in the early 1900s

he got like banished for practicing medicine without a license for doing chiropractic didn't even know that

that was a thing back in the day yeah sure enough

i'm impressed with 1900s usa like generally they weren't amazing i would say

but they kind of figured that one out right

and importantly the way he spread chiropractics was by starting schools to teach chiropractic that's really smart yeah

and then his son bj palmer wait it was dd

and bj yeah that's awesome his son uh bought his chiropractic schools

and then i don't know they got into a bunch of

drama tldr son drove into dad with a car dad died

sorry hold up what do you mean tldr also i want to say he didn't die of

chiropractics then it was a good segue okay let me have

this one now this is a very abridged version right i

can highly recommend the chapel video on this it goes is

way more in depth also don't feel too bad for him

because allegedly it was also just a an abusive all the cute dad

and son business alliance started these schools the palmer college of chiropractic

and it's a brilliant way of spreading a cult or a belief

or whatever right starting these schools

and having other people then practice a real school yeah and

so in this way it really caught on

and it's kind of how we ended up right now with chiropractors still being like just a thing

that everyone knows about

and accepts as being this you know totally legit thing right

again it is based on nothing it is based on a

guy with no scientific knowledge just doing whatever they have a ton of like weird little devices

that measure pressure points of course they claim they can cure

subluxation what's that a subluxation is a real medical term for a partial

or incomplete complete dislocation of a joint thank you google ai

overview sources chiropractor cape town chiropractor god damn it looking at

the actual information subluxation syndrome is a legitimate potentially testable theoretical construct for

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which there is little experimental evidence weird sentence it's super super real

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but it's like not no so the distinction you need to make here is

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that it is a theoretical concept

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but there is little experimental evidence therefore an entire practice

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that is based on accepting this as complete truth

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and then doing actual medicine is crazy considering there is no

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real evidence it's insane i do think this phrasing is rough

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for most people it's part of the reason why chiropractics in my opinion is

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so widely considered to be a real thing because

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when you google it all of these chiropractors are great at seo yeah

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and they know how to write texts that are comprehensible to everyone yeah

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and all that text ends up at the top of google

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or in the ai results whereas the actual information is yeah written more complexly

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and more nuanced and subluxation and all of this is being taught in universities

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and stuff it is it is crazy well the first thing

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i want to do is for us to just hit up our local chiropractors

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and try and figure out if they actually still subscribe to this bull. So let's go.

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All right, Jesper, you hit up chiropractors in Amsterdam and Utrecht

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and I hit Groningen and my first observation is why is there many?

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Yeah, there's a lot of them and I've also noticed that they keep really strange opening hours.

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I don't know if you have the same, but like some of them are only open on mondays

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and tuesdays while they're in like super prime locations in the capital city

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so rent can't be cheap you know it is weird i

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mean they do love sublocate subluxation they love it most chiropractors do though

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so that's good yeah i mean it's the main theory of

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chiropractic and i mean yeah clearly they all subscribe to that idea and you can subscribe to this channel.

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Is that funny?

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I think that's funny.

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That's really funny.

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That's good.

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That's really funny, Quintanide.

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I also kind of pretend like I was like a chiropractic snob, like I was like really into it, right?

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So I was like, are you fully licensed?

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Where did you study?

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And they basically all said they studied in England or France.

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Yeah, I looked into this and it's like kind of fascinating because the term chiropractor is not protected here in the Netherlands.

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So if you wanted to right now Quinton Hyde you could say I'm a chiropractor

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and go like I'm a chiropractor crack people's backs

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and charge money for that right really that's actually not great do you know

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if the chiropractors are licensed yeah yeah sure yeah from 2004 2004 okay where did they study

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and in England yeah no I was just googling around

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and I saw the the French chiropractor uni and apparently

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that one is like super prestigious like that's that's like the one right yeah it costs like 10 000

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or 10 000 and a half

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or something euros per year they don't really share all

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that much about themselves and no one really knows what happens on the inside

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or what kind of classes they teach

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and everything that's kind of cool i guess

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and terrifying i would love to try and get in

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and actually see what's going on there also

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if you become a channel member you get really cool bonus content

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and we do monthly hangouts with channel members and it's really cool

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that being said i also think we should just go to paris now

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and try to sneak into that school wait let me rephrase

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that to sneaking into the uni so that makes it sound slightly less

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creepy all right we made it to paris that's in france

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and we're in front of the university very good quentin you're

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so good at geography sometimes sometimes like this is the university where most chiropractors in the netherlands

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and i think belgium

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and probably even germany as well probably a large part of europe at all

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so what we're gonna do is i'm gonna go in there

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and i'm gonna ask if i can get like a consultation here

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which is possible uh up until last year you could actually

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book it on the website they've now gotten rid of

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that feature but it's like a cheaper chiropractic consultation

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because it's done by students right um

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so mostly i want you to see what it is like in there well godspeed king thank you

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went on solemnly marching into the belly of the beast

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actually where's the entrance excuse me uh you know what where's

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the entrance it's cool it's just oh i'm looking for the

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the the clinic yeah somehow i didn't see it thank you

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merci how can i do a consultation for something i want to take your reservation a consultation

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if i can yeah it's your first time yes the consultation for today

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if today is still available that would be cool

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Quinton is in there I do see people going in

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and out of the building and it was really hard

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while researching this university to find anything about it because all of their like schedules,

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course information and stuff is behind a password which I guess you can obtain for 10 000 a year.

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Hi, sorry, do you guys study at the the chiropractic?

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Are you in first year, second year? fourth year wow five years wow yeah

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and do you learn about subluxation as well yeah yeah that's

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one of the big uh trends do you learn about the history of like dd palmer

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and bj palmer okay so

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that is you also have history classes incorporated interesting what is the schedule like for you guys We study all the week, but not the weekend.

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Okay, yeah.

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Saturday, Sunday, it's hot.

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But we have a lot of practice lessons.

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Yes, five hours in the week.

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So five hours of practical...

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Yes, yes.

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Oh, wow.

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And do you have exams?

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Yes.

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Is it like...

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Every month.

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Every month?

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Oh my god.

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Sounds really tough.

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Yes.

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But do you enjoy it?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Okay, okay are the teachers nice or are they yes yes oh quentin is back

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that was perfect timing my main takeaway from

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that is they learn the history of the palmer family

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which yeah that's something what's up king i have news in 30 minutes i'm gonna have my full first session and consult

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yes baby downside it takes two hours you know how he

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told me the price yo it's just students it's only 28 euros i'm like cool

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and he's like and then of course 20 i was like okay so 48 yeah

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what how was the inside of the building crazy

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so um there's two different entrances there's the clinic entrance

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and the uni entrance uni entrance that one clinic entrance

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that one does it feel like a place where students just march in

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and they don't need to bleep any cards i didn't have to bleep any cars i walked in

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because presumably you're gonna go to the clinic part yeah i could

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while you're there try and wander into the thing that's smart okay

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so quentin is going in with our camera lady um who

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is like you know the concerned girlfriend to hopefully get some more shots of what's actually happening

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and i'm gonna be out here waiting until it's my turn

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to do something sorry i'm a few minutes late an old lady fell down

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and we had to help her out okay

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so tell us about what brought you here it's mostly like my upper like shoulders

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or like back like back shoulders i'll call them

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that are like really tight everything we are doing we know

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that it's not it's it's safe for you for sure yeah

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so the this is just to tell you like right general

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condition you know i'll put it in translate i thought maybe with my high school french i can read about this.

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Okay, while Quinton is having his spine snapped into a million pieces, I've just been circling the building of the IFEC,

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and I've also been looking into their requirements for new students, and it's kind of weird.

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So for reference, most universities, like most programs, you need good grades or a specific thing you did in high school.

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Like for example, if you want to study chemistry in most universities, you need to at least have taken chemistry in high school

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and done well on it right it makes sense you need

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that base knowledge

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but in the case of the chiropractors you just need to

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be at least 17 you need to have a high school diploma doesn't matter what kind

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and you need to be able to speak english and

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if you don't then you might need to take a test

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those are literally all the requirements for the moment you can say like me

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and you do like me okay okay sorry maybe no it's it's fine it's fine okay uh

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so can you just uh take off oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah the pain is with the left arm

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or the right the right it was the left arm

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and on the right side okay and

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when you do with the right arm yes i'm back at the front entrance of the cairo uni

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and while pacing around i also noticed

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that they have their dorms like right next to i mean

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it's the same building honestly just attached to it this is

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part of the chiropractic university you're looking for the where you can go yeah yeah no i'm just wondering

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because are these the dorms dorms like where you sleep yeah

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oh gotcha gotcha the clinic is right here isn't all

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that weird for unis obviously it's a it's a campus

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but i can imagine how as a student here

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if you also live here it becomes your whole world i was also just informed

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that quentin had to do a whole questionnaire before starting his consultation

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which you know not to read into it too much but

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that is a classic cult thing you know think about the scientology personality tests

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and whatever else so what i'm gonna do now is i'm just gonna

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i guess pretend to be a student

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and march into the uni part of the ifeq have a little hidden cam see if I can gather some more info.

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It feels very closed.

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Also mirror blackout windows.

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Okay so the main doors are not working.

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Let's try this entrance.

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The only way that I got in was because someone held the door open for me.

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Okay so that's four levels to this.

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Oh my god.

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It's the palmer.

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Fascinating.

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Printing room.

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This area is f*ing bad.

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Just wandered into a class.

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Seems very casual.

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Okay, so it seems like the university part of this building is pretty small.

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like it's just um three levels of classrooms the class

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that i walked into seemed super chill like the teacher was just hanging out with the students

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and then i think the main part of this whole complex is just the actual like clinic someone coming in there

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okay i've wandered out of there um yeah you can only

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get in there with like a key card shout out to

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the person who held the door open for me no questions

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asked i stood outside one of the lectures for a little bit

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and just kind of listened to what was being discussed

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and then i also googled it to see if it was like bullshit

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or legit stuff and

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that was mostly just you know legit uh physics essentially just talking about how x -rays work

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and i think that's the hard thing right like you do learn a lot of useful stuff i'm sure but

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that bust of palmer boy you know that's kind of crazy

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that's kind of crazy to be like yeah the snake oil slinging bro is our hero

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and just wandering through there like i said i think most

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of it is geared towards making money off of students paying 10 500 a year

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and making money other people going for consultations like quentin is

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right now yes yes the chiropractic is yes the chiropractic is

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the try to help the body to adapt the best way

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to the environment we use a lot of techniques to do

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that um that there is like soft tissues technique like kind of massage right

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and there is also uh we call it adjustment it's the

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crack thing maybe i will not have to do this okay

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but sometimes i use it as i'm like walking around this super imposing building

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and reflecting on what i saw on the inside i realized

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the top layers don't seem to be part of the university

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at all the classrooms go up to the fourth floor

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which you know is up to there

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and then actually on there you can barely see it

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but that's like um this is for sale

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and for rent posters on top of that the fact

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that all of their windows are reflective and you just cannot look inside

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and you need a key card to be able to get

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inside yeah it gives it a pretty closed off feel whereas

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with most universities you can just wander in right like it's a pretty open space days

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which i think is good you know

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when you're doing science you don't want it to be um

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behind reflective windows you you want to be transparent about

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that then again they're doing imo for the most part pseudoscience

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so yeah so you do this okay with my hands yeah you push your head with your finger

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uh 10 uh times 10 times yeah like i said earlier you i'm checking all the body

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because you you your middle of your back can't work without

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no true fair fair fair that's maybe that's a little disturbing

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but that's uh no i got it this one i mean

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it's a bit sensitive okay yeah no that's I'm not sure if it's sensitive.

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First, please.

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Oh my god.

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You study here?

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Yes.

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At the chiropractic?

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Ah, sick.

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Do you know Mark?

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Because I'm waiting for my friend Mark.

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I don't know who he is from Mark.

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Actually, what year are you in?

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I'm in the first year.

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Oh, okay.

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I think it's the second year, but yeah.

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But in the school, I have a training.

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A different chiropractic training?

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or yeah yes I'm running it oh nice well have fun

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enjoy you too hey you guys speak English yeah sure sick

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what do you do you would like to maybe study have

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a program in English here yes oh cool there are a lot of many Belgian people yeah

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and people to a Cheryl I'll take a free tour you

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got like a whole cool spacer yeah that's awesome okay the accommodation was unfortunately not

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that interesting just a bunch of bros playing table tennis

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and yeah rooms you survived congrats yes

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so okay allow me to run you through it yeah tell

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me what happened we go in we're trying to sneak nat in right

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so we want to do the whole can my girlfriend come

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in spiel this was an immediate acceptance we walk in can

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come in absolutely they're like okay it's time to go in

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and they're asking me what's wrong with you now i was like what

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if i just become completely honest

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and i tell them my like top of my back like

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my shoulders are completely stuck all the time it hurts first

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we sit down we do a questionnaire do you smoke do you drink how long has this been hurtful

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if you do this does it hurt you know all

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that kind of stuff yeah it takes a long time there's

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two two people by the way both wildly attractive okay

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so then they were like we're gonna now go away talk to the teachers about you know what our plan

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and if it's right because we don't want to just do

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that on you they go away they're gone pretty long i think they said

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that they wanted to treat you now as well yeah you caught

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that right they come back they're like okay we're now gonna

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do physical diagnostics they you know they turned me on my

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belly they're on my back i have to take off my shirt didn't love

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that at a certain point they're like okay we have a plan to treat you

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so we're gonna go to the teachers

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so they went away again um they gave me a terms

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of condition in french they were like yeah you can translate it with your phone

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and then they told us they don't always do the cracking stuff

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that is like a only if it's needed last resort type of thing right

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and most of the time it's something else now what i

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found fascinating is a lot of it was like pressure point

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stuff like at a certain point i had to hold my hand like this

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and he was like okay you do this

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and like i was like laying there like this

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and then he would move my leg and he was like does that hurt and i was like yeah

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and then he would do something and then he would do it again

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and it's like does it hurt still like no

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and i will admit the more he did it the less

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it hurt yeah like a massage yeah i think a lot of it was

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that i think a lot of it was either shallow to deep tissue massage they ended up giving me

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three pressure points in my body that i should massage

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but i do want to say since i've had actual physical

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therapy for a long time in the past certain like exercises they gave me

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or made me do are renowned the phrase um your your next best position

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while sitting is the next one is also like a well -known thing

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but the connection between that and what they were doing was never made super clear yeah

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but it like it was all accepted to science i came

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to roughly the exact same conclusion really let me run you

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through what i did yeah what happened at first i walked around the building

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and i noticed the dorms are attached to the building

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so most students live

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and study in like a square hundred meters really then I

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wanted to enter through the door where you told me to enter

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that was not enterable so then I went around to a back door

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that was also keycard locked but a very kind student just held it over to me

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so then I went in and I entered

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and scouted out the entire university class area okay a lot

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of it was very back room see like like liminal spaces

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scouted all four floors there isn't a lot of university space

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and it appears that the top levels of this imposing building aren't being used at all

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and then i started speaking to students

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and same thing as you said they were all

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so delightful all of them were kind of telling me about their student life yeah

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and it seems extremely intense i asked them about um like okay

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so do you learn a lot about the palmers

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and they were basically like yeah

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and within this university you can choose to either go more the philosophical route

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so go more into the history the shady ass history of this

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or be more practical about it i also uh kind of

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listened in on a class happening next to the door okay

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and this was uh from as far as i could tell

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just a pretty fine explanation of x -rays it also led me to the conclusion

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that you surely learn a lot of legit useful stuff here yeah

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but then the i could tell from the from what they

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were talking about yeah the starting point is very not legit yeah

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and the entire underlying like the base yeah not i was

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talking to these two guys being like oh yeah i'm just waiting for my friend to get out of class

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and i was asking like yeah i looked into the palmer story

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and they seem a bit weird

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and they were like yeah fair enough they're a bit weird

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but it's really good here you learn a of good stuff

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and i'm like i believe you yeah but when you fail to see

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that the underlying idea of everything that this is about

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that you pay 50 000 euros for is it's kind of

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like how the best lies have a tinge of truth

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and it feels so grifty on the part of these universities

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because you can learn all of the useful stuff in regular universities

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that are only like 3 000 a year i guess it's

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one of those things where the end is a lot more nuanced

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and neutral like most interesting stories

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so i i guess i'd love to hear what you think honestly after seeing

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and hearing all of this let there's no wrong answer well there is there's one wrong hook

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and the video you see on your screen right now is one

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that youtube thinks you're really gonna like so let's click it find out whether

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or not they're right can I hit your spine now yeah real hard real hard

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Investigated Chiropractors”. This video has 370 sentences and 4606 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:12. The speaker talks at a natural 169 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 76 of its 370 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
entrance noun	/ˈɛn.tɹəns/	The action of entering, or going in.
consultation noun	/ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/	The act of consulting.
clinic noun	/ˈklɪn.ɪk/	A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
crack noun	/kɹæk/	A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
legit adjective	/lɪˈd͡ʒɪt/	Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
manipulation noun	/məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/	The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
wander verb	/ˈwɑndɚ/	To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
conclusion noun	/kənˈkluːʒən/	The end, finish, close or last part of something.
massage noun	/məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/	The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
dorm verb	/doɹm/	To reside in a dorm.
overview noun	/ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/	A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
euro noun	/ˈjʊɹoʊ/	The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
adverse adjective	/ˈæd.və(ɹ)s/	Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an…
practical adjective	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go away verb	To depart or leave a place.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
hit up verb	To visit with or contact someone, especially with a definite purpose.
take off verb	To remove.
walk around verb	To walk with no planned destination; to meander.
close off verb	To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
come back verb	To return to a place.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Hey, let's look at what the sources are, shan't we?
Do you know if the chiropractors are licenced?
How can I do a consultation for something?
Sorry, do you guys study at the chiropractic?
What is the schedule like for you guys?

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 just been circling · I've also been looking
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if today is still available that would be
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is known · are mentioned · being measured
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've definitely heard · have been · have occurred

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 92 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/
Long words — get the stress right: consultation /ˌkɑnsəlˈteɪʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, comprehensive /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/, experimental /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/

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 entrance, consultation, clinic.

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Sentences worth repeating

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How to practise with this video

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