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What the hell is this?

Hey, I got the whip from the slide I have no classes, what the freaking all my classes at?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey I'm gonna be Santa, come on, spinning your X and her.

Bro, I don't wanna get up.

What the hell is this?

Okay, that's much better.

But hey, what is up, you two?

It's currently 9 .31.

Bro, I woke up at like 8 .30.

I was actually dying.

Like, I was so tired.

So I went right the fuck back to sleep, bro.

Today, I just wanna take you out through my day, you know, show you like a normal day in the life of what Marcus is.

Bro, I've been a chud for the past like week.

It's so bad.

But today is actually my first day of online school, so I guess you would say today's my first day of school

But before we do anything like that we gotta get ready

If it's not your vibe, don't worry.

Keep scrolling.

Have a great day.

If it is your vibe.

No worries.

Keep scrolling.

Have a great day.

If it is your vibe.

But as you can tell, we fixed the hair, bro.

Hair on fleek.

Fuck is you talking about?

But now we just gotta go skincare.

I was listening to music the whole time I was fixing my hair.

I was having a freaking concert, bro.

You know what?

Fuck that.

I'm listening to one more song.

What are y 'all gonna do about it?

Alright, my bad.

But now we go to skate care routine.

Step numero uno, we get some ice.

Ay, ay, fuck ice, bro.

Fuck ice, bro.

Then, we ice our face.

I'm on my looks, Max, debloating this shit.

Bro, you can see I'm debloating, bro.

I'm ascending.

Okay, there we go.

Korean skincare.

Yo, I'm not gonna lie, bro I don't know nothing about skincare

When I used to make those like high -end videos I'm gonna keep this

I'm gonna keep this old book I was LARPing this skincare, bro I know nothing about skincare,

bro Hygiene, I know how to stay clean and all that I know how to smell good

But skincare, I don't know nothing about that shit, bro I don't give it a book

But I think my skin is pretty good right now

So you know what?

I'm not worried I thought that was gonna be way more satisfying than it actually was Then obviously, what the hell?

My door is smooth?

I have ghosts in here, bro But like I was saying, obviously this is optional to the Marcus morning routine

We go deodorant, trigger warning

And then we go some lotion

You know, we can't be actually around here

And boom Actually, no, last step, we go outside to get some vitamin E Or,

or C Or D, I don't know which vitamin it is But we're getting some type of vitamin right now

Yo, I left my freaking beads outside, bro Bro, someone could've stole them

Actually, who is stealing out here, bro?

It's the freaking forest, bro

Who's gonna steal my beads with a big bad wolf?

Yo, that was the worst joke I ever made, bro.

Just ignore that.

Yo, just act like that never happened.

That was actually the worst joke I ever made.

Yo, I'm gonna end the video right here, bro.

I'll catch y 'all on the next one.

As y 'all know, this is a catfish spot, bro.

We looking sexy as ever, bro.

Fuck is you talking about?

But now I need to go make some food because, yo, I'm hungry as shit, bro.

It is currently 11 .40.

What?

11 .2.

Oh, shit.

Yo, we gotta make some food, bro.

I woke up at like 9 .30, bro.

How is it already 11?

It's almost 12.

I wanna make a yogurt bowl.

A shout -out, Jay.

My friend makes yogurt bowls every day.

They look so freaking good, bro.

So, he inspired me to make one for myself.

I used to make yogurt bowls like every day a couple months ago, but I think I got tired of them.

And the yogurt low -key started to like gross me out.

But you know what?

We back on the grind.

Hey, yogurt bowl officially complete.

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Not so bad if I do say

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so myself a yogurt sponsor me I had to substitute with blueberries cuz all my freaking strawberries were moldy,

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bro I don't even like blueberries as y 'all can tell

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we are back in my room my my humble abode I'm still mad about my strawberries, bro, but you know what?

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It's okay cuz we got this body armor

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Yo, I love this drink, bro It's so good and it's homey deep bloats, but like I said today's my first day online school

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So let me see what I got to do I hope it's not a lot, bro.

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I got a lot of stuff planned today, okay?

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Wait, so technically that means it's my first day of school again.

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So I gotta put on a first day of school fit.

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One sec, y 'all.

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Hey, we coming dead fresh, bro.

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We trimmed.

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No, Marcus.

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What the fuck are you talking about?

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Bro, I was just checking my classes.

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There's nothing there.

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I'm so confused.

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I don't see it.

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There's no classes.

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I don't know if I can show you all this, bro.

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Fuck it, whatever.

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I have no classes.

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What the frick are my classes at?

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My mom told me to text my counselor, so I think that's what I'm gonna do.

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But I think that means no school.

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Let's go.

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We got a free day, bro.

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I think that's basically what that means, bro.

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What the frick are my classes at then?

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So I'm probably just gonna email my counselor and watch some anime while I eat.

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But I'm gonna watch Black Clover.

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Bro, this show is so freaking good.

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I'm on, like, episode 15.

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Dude, it's so long, though, bro.

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Why I check the seasons?

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Why are all the seasons, like, 70 episodes, bro?

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What the fuck?

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No one's got time for that.

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Actually, I got time for that.

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I'm gonna chat.

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I don't got shit going on on a lighter note.

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Look at this shit, though, bro But like I was saying I'm gonna watch some anime eat and just chill for about like an hour

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Yeah, I'll catch up to that

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Okay, y 'all is crying like an hour later as you can tell my hair is finally dry

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Oh, oh, bro.

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It's just looking to get his fog around now.

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I don't know if I told y 'all this I'm pretty sure I didn't but I had this like driving like training.

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I don't freaking know what it's called But I have been like an hour

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It's like the thing where you like go in the car with like a teacher

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and like drive around even though i'm not in school I still have to do it.

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Yo, i'm low -key scared though, but I haven't drove for like two weeks I used to drive a lot with my mom,

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but I don't know what happened I kind of stopped

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i'm gonna keep it a buck though I don't know any of the rules I would just drive

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and if I was doing something wrong, my mom would just tell me so yo i'm low -key kind of scared

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But right now I actually need to package some depot orders

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But yo, I got this new like label printer from the tiktok shop, but I don't know how to work it, bro This is so confusing.

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I think I threw away the manual I got it like a month ago, but I just never touched it.

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But now I actually want to use it, bro.

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But I don't know what the freak to do.

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Hold up.

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Let me ask ChatGPT.

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Oh, yes, sir.

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See right there?

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That was actually a joke.

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If you're watching Casanet, I want to get in a streaming university.

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So no AI.

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We're not using ChatGPT, okay?

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That was just a little...

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That was a little bit of dark humor, okay?

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I hope you understand, Mr. Casey3000.

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Turn on the printer and connect it to your Wi -Fi network using its control panel.

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What the fuck are you talking about, bro?

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Oh, you gotta download the app.

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Why did I think of that, bro?

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I'm an idiot.

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I boom let me download this bitch, bro.

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Look I ship out all my depot orders, bro If you want to call from the depot link below

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Okay, so I thought someone was behind me.

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I thought it was But as you can tell we're on the phone is part like a couple hours later.

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Hold on wait I look sexy as fuck right now.

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Wait, I gotta film a thirst shot really quick

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okay sorry to get

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that out of the way bro look at this pretty ass guy bro

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this is some 2021 shit right here imagine i have like a water bottle right here

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okay what the fuck am i doing i was going on a walk

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i think it's time to go home i was coming like 7 30 i really just got home from

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that drive we can't film like mad tiktoks bro i made like five tiktoks bro i was

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so locked in bro i guess you could say

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i answered flow state okay Y 'all can like barely see me right now,

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but like I was saying i'm gonna go home work out take a shower

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Then go in the kitchen chef it up get some eats then.

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I don't know watch tv, bro I love online school because I don't got

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but I don't got no bedtime I can wake up whenever we got want

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But I don't know if my phone got that but I was talking and some dude said uh -huh

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What the fuck?

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We out this shit.

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We out this shit.

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What the fuck was that?

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Yo, this might be my last video ever bro.

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What the fuck was that?

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Yo, I'm freaking scared, bro.

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If you're trying to run up on me, bro, I got, bro, I got pulled.

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Fuck, are you talking about it?

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You're going to run up on me too.

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This forest got dark so quick, bro.

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What the fuck?

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All right, so we're back in my room.

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I put the bonnet on because, yo, my hair was so fried, bro.

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It was horrible.

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I was supposed to be out there longer, bro, but I did not know it got dark so early.

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What the fuck?

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Bro, I wasn't even ate yet, and I was about to get killed by some freaking serial killer, bro.

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I'm not one of those people in the horror movie, bro.

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What was that?

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Now we got to go investigate.

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Investigate my ass, bro.

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I was out of there.

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But right now I'm gonna work out for a little bit probably just get some steps in I got

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this like walk -in pad off tiktok shop, bro.

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It was so helpful.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey, bro

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Do not put this in the orange card tiktok shop ad, bro.

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I'm not free promo I just be walking on here for like an hour just scrolling on tiktok, bro It's so easy to burn calories, bro.

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I love it.

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So I'm just gonna be doing this shit

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Then I'm gonna go hop in the shower then we're gonna go upstairs and make some food, bro I'm so hungry, bro.

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So hey, I'll catch y 'all then

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Okay, as y 'all can tell, I just got showered, but my stomach is freaking rumbling, bro.

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I need some food right now.

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I'm actually so hungry, but y 'all do not understand.

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I think I want to make some pasta salad, but y 'all already seen me make this before, yo.

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It's so freaking good, bro.

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I'm telling y 'all, I'm not over -exaggerating.

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This shit is so good.

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Hey, so welcome back to cooking with Marcus.

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We got to boil some water first.

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Okay, boom.

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Yo, damn, this shit dark as fuck.

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Hold on, let me turn on some lights, bro.

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What the hell?

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That's better.

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But I'm gonna have a little snack while we wait.

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Hey, chill, bro.

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It's a walk -around snack, bro.

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Dude's gonna walk -around snack for anything.

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Hey, do I look like Duke Dennis?

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Hey, look, though.

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You always gonna fool, man.

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What the hell are you even talking about, bro?

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Okay, we got a lot of options here.

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I don't know what this is, but it looks cool, so we're gonna use this one.

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Cavatappi.

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Okay, okay, okay.

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I speak a little bit of Italiano.

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Oh, I think that's way too much.

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You know what?

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I'm hungry, bro.

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I'll eat it.

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Okay, so now I'm gonna cut this up in 3, 2, 1.

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Boom.

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I don't know how to snap so just act like I did it.

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Let me go in with some dressing.

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Hold on.

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It looks like shit right now, but just wait, alright. And boom.

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Okay, well, hold on.

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We got the E.

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It's a taste test.

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Oh, that's buzzing.

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That's buzzing, buzzing.

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Holy shit.

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Why did I ever start making this?

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It's just so good.

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Yo, I see how people get fat, bro.

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My fast metabolism saves me so good.

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But it's currently almost 12.

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That's crazy, bro.

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It feels like the day flew.

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Bye, I'm not gonna lie.

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Ooh, that rhymed, yo.

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I should be a rapper.

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But for the rest of the night, I'm probably just gonna eat this and, like, watch some anime.

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Bro, I need y 'all's help, okay?

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I've just been watching the same animes over and over and over again, bro.

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I just keep re -watching the same ones.

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I re -watched JJK two times.

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I re -watched Kogias three times.

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I re -watched Naruto and I started re -watching

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Attack on Titan.

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But I got this old, like, phase for about, like, a month where I did not watch, like, any anime.

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Not even anime.

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Just any shows, like, in general.

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It was strictly just YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.

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Like, every meal, strictly a YouTube video, bro.

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So obviously I didn't finish attack on time then after that phase, you know kind of ended I've been watching black clover and

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that show is actually really good I think I talked about the beginning of the video

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when I was just cooking I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist and it's bro

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Now I want to be watching Fullmetal Alchemist.

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I can't win

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So can y 'all give me some good anime recommendations down in the comments

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But I don't want no like popular stuff or that everyone knows

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that I already know you know I'm saying just trust me

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I already have a list of a lot of animes I need to watch

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but can you give me some like underground underrated like unknown animes?

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Hey, I'll watch anything as long as it's not

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One Piece, alright?

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But, hey, y 'all, that is the end of the video.

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I really hope I enjoyed this video.

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I know it's kind of, like, all over the place, but, bro, I always say this.

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That's always how my videos are.

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But trust me, trust me, I got some good videos planned.

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I got - I'm cooking up mad ideas in his head, alright?

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It's not big as hell for no reason, bro.

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Trust me, I'm putting this shit to work.

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But, hey, like I said, again, I hope I enjoyed this video.

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I'll catch y 'all later, man.

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Marcus out.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I love being unemployed”. This video has 315 sentences and 2739 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:37. The speaker talks fast, about 217 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
anime noun	/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/	An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
yogurt noun	/ˈjɒɡ.ət/	A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
boom verb	/bum/	To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
steal verb	/stiːl/	To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
scare verb	/skɛɚ/	To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
buzz noun	/bʌz/	A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
vitamin noun	/ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/	Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function. They are found…
depot noun	/ˈdiːpoʊ/	A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
vibe noun	/vaɪb/	An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
scroll noun	/skɹoʊl/	A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
sexy adjective	/ˈsɛksi/	Having sex appeal; attractive.
routine noun	/ɹuˈtin/	A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
investigate verb	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
run up on verb		To approach with speed or forceful intensity
walk around verb		To walk with no planned destination; to meander.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
go in with verb		To commit to something with; to partner with.
hold up verb		To wait or delay.
throw away verb		To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Who's gonna steal my beads with a big bad wolf?
What the frick are my classes at?
What the frick are my classes at then?
Why I check the seasons?
Why did I think of that, bro?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to make · used to drive
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've just been watching · I've been watching
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've been · have been
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was actually dying · was listening · was having

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 128 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smooth /smuːð/, thirst /θɝst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/, optional /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/, catfish /ˈkætfɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, metabolism /məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.əm/, underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/

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 anime, yogurt, boom.

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.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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