Shadowing Practice: I Tested Ridiculous Scams - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My goal today is to investigate jobs that people typically call scams, like fortune tellers, paranormal investigators slash ghost hunters, and even the scammers in Times Square.
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I want to ultimately try out all of these scam jobs
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so I can give you a first -hand account of whether or not I think they're real.
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Because honestly, the word scam is thrown around too much.
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So what is real, what is fake, we don't know, so that is why we're going to find out.
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So without further ado, we have a lot of jobs to investigate, so grab your popcorn and let's do this.
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The very first scam job we're going to investigate is a paranormal investigator, otherwise known as a ghost hunter.
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Guys, we made it to the Shanley Hotel in New York.
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This is one of the most haunted hotels in all of America.
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We're going to be meeting up with Scott, who is a medium and also a paranormal investigator, and we are going to go all throughout this hotel and hopefully find some ghosts.
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Some of the really amazing paranormal stuff that has happened in here due to some of the haunted objects, like our haunted morning dress.
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Yeah, it's really neat, right?
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We have haunted dolls that get dropped off here all of the time.
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So anyways, we do like actual seances in here.
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A lot of ghost hunting happens in here.
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People are able to rent the hotel for the night.
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Can you just stay in a room as well? like is
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this just a normal hotel operating yeah i mean not really
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like people will come here to hang out like you come here to look for ghosts yeah yeah
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and by the end of the night most people usually find something
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that show them some kind of proof or evidence
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that there's the paranormal happening okay kelly is here hi kelly
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this is the owner of the shanley hotel hi nice to
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meet you i'm sam sorry oh thank you for having us
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we appreciate it hey ghosts they're not paranormal investigators they're just checking this place out
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so don't scare them too much so we have a a box it's a radio
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and all it does is scroll endlessly through am
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or fm without stopping and the idea is that spirits can use
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that sound to manipulate words to give us answers
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so what we're going to do now is we're going to
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have sam he's going to shuffle this a little bit
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so he knows i'm not doing anything and just
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when you're ready pick any card you want don't tell anybody
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in the room what it is we're going to ask the spirits to tell us what it is
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so spirits here the shamley this is sam he is going to hold the card
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and we'd like to know if you can help us determine what
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that card is okay
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and you just heard i can't i can't okay can you
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tell us what color the card is please black is it
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a black card it's not it's not okay i got it wrong spirits all right is it a number card
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or a face card
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seems like should i show it
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or something like yeah why don't you show it over to the wall
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because i don't want to assume like you know they're magicians
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they can like you know like you put it yeah i'd be equally impressed it's just kind of okay
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so sam is showing the card again can you tell us i heard no yeah i heard
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that no i don't think they want to play they're like
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no we're not going to play why don't you diamonds diamond
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that was a diamond it was about it is diamonds okay
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that was clear as a man said thank you for saying diamond can you tell us the number Yeah, I feel like I heard that again.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's a three?
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Well, it is a three.
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It's a three of diamonds.
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Yeah.
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As soon as, yeah, I guess as soon as I kind of showed it at first.
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So it's funny, right?
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Like they have eyes.
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Like they need to see it, right?
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So that was really interesting to have that.
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Yeah.
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If you don't mind doing that, we can do that or we can go into the creepy basement.
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Let's see the creepy basement.
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Creepy basement it is.
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Let's go.
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That's the creepy basement.
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I like the sound of that.
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All right, going to the basement now.
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So we just played cards with some of the ghosts.
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They were super nice to kind of communicate with us and let me know what my card was, which they did get right They certainly got the three and then I think diamonds was picked up as well.
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Yeah, we're heading to the creepy basement now So let's do it Scott.
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This is the basement, right?
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And Basements are creepy enough But what if I told you
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that during the hotel's time operating that they stored dead bodies down here during the winter?
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So you're saying this is where they store the bodies in the winter and it was too cold to bury them, right?
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Yeah, so before they had tractors to dig up the ground did it by hand, right?
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Mm -hmm.
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So if somebody passed away in the winter
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when the ground is permafrost the hotel was nice enough to store your Relative
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or loved one in here until the spring came
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when you could inter them properly
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So what we're gonna do next is we're gonna use another piece of equipment a phone app, which not everybody likes not for everybody We're gonna use it We're gonna see what kind of results we get
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and we're gonna see if we can get any of the spirits down here to talk to us Okay, oddly enough we get a lot of children down here Sometimes the children talk back
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so we're gonna see if we can have any of that happen.
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You guys excited for that?
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I hope so.
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I'm very excited.
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I don't know if anyone's sitting in there, but hello if so That's the way to be, Sam.
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I think Sam might have a future in this.
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Hello to all the spirits down here in the basement.
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How are you doing tonight?
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Can you tell us how many spirits are down here with us tonight?
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50. What did he say?
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It sounded like 50.
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That seems like a lot.
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Who is the predominant spirit down here with us right now?
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Emperor.
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Is your name Hadley?
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Amberson.
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Emperor?
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It's hard to say.
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I thought it said Amber.
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I heard Amber.
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Yeah, I heard Amber.
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Oh, Amber.
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Yeah, Amber sounds good flashlight just went on when i asked
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that oh so as you can see there's a bunch of toys over here
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so i just heard something about bright
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and i think they're talking about your life can we turn
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the lights down a little bit guys can you turn off that flashlight for us please if that was you
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thank you wow dude that's great that is crazy Thank you.
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Thank you for turning off the light.
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Amber, how old are you?
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Yep, they're videoing.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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They're warming up to you, man.
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Yeah.
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Or if we ask...
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Oh, there it is again.
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Flashback on.
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Thank you.
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That's like really rudimentary ghost hunting the flashlight, but they're really good at using it, so...
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Maybe because the flashlight during the era in which they existed was something that they could easily interact with.
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Pushing around.
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Pushing it around.
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It's easier for them to manipulate.
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Dude.
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They said pushing it around and then they're turning it off again all right
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So I'm about to go into the portal
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and I'm going to put on these noise canceling headphones I'm
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going to listen through the radio frequencies to try to pick up on any sounds
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or any sort of words I could pick up on
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because Scott is going to be prompting with different questions
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and stuff And I'm just gonna be hopefully saying the correct answers
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if it comes through here So this is the portal
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so this is where ghosts move freely in and out to the spirits
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that are here in the portal This is Sam and he'd like to know what's your name government?
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Do you work for the government?
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Able.
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So it sounds like they might have been able to, or they did.
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Can you tell me what you did for the government?
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Missouri?
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Democrat?
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A lot of political talk here.
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A lot of political talk.
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That's very interesting.
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Can you tell us what about the government or what about politics you want to talk about?
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Devil?
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Eyes?
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That's creepy.
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All right, here we go.
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Part two.
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These are official noise -canceling ones, and I mean, these are certain...
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Like, I couldn't hear anything before, but now I definitely won't be able to hear anything.
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We're going to start again with a different frequency.
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I'm telling you, he's a natural at this.
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He gets it
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so spirits in the portal we're looking to make communication with
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any of you i think you know me i'm scott
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and this is our new friend sam you're going i'm not
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going anywhere where do you want me to go i told you
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if you say the word leave we'll just leave anna that's
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one of the names of the spirits in the hotel does anna want sam to visit sam teen goofy
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if we bring sam upstairs does he have to pay you
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that was a lot of really good responses if you want it if you want it listening Sam is listening.
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Yeah, tell him upstairs.
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Shut it.
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Is there anybody else in here?
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Can you say your name?
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Communist.
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This is weird because that's another political reference and he's listening to a completely different machine.
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Can you tell us why there's so much government talk?
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Speak. Is he?
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Exactly.
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Sounds like people are talking back and forth and we're just listening.
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Come upstairs.
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That's what we were waiting for.
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So I think what we should do is, the time we have left is take Sam out of here and bring him upstairs where Anna is.
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See how much she likes them.
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All right.
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I mean, I was definitely hearing more with those is coming through pretty clearly
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So Anna is one of the ladies of the night She resides up in the Bordello
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and I repeatedly said if you she said your name by the way You said your own yeah, we're now heading up.
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What did the Bordello?
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Yeah We're gonna head up to the Bordello where the ladies
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of the night are ladies of the night Anna who I
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I guess I interacted with there She said come upstairs actually heard that through there.
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We're gonna go upstairs right now This is the Bordello.
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So we're about to head up right now.
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Yep.
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Let's do it.
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All right So here's Anna's room right here, right?
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That's her.
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Yeah, Anna, Rosie, Maddie.
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Those are the big three here.
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How old is Anna?
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27. 27, okay.
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So we're peers.
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Yeah, and she really likes gentlemen just like you.
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So you are like her target demographic.
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He's got a crush, you think?
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Yeah, big time.
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Basically, what we're going to do is same thing.
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We're going to let Sam sit here.
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Again, I'm going to speak lightly to the cameras, and hopefully you'll come up with some really cool responses for us.
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Okay.
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Okay, so Anna, you said your name, you said Sam's name, and you said come upstairs stairs.
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I've delivered this gentleman to you.
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Can you say hello to him?
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Thank you.
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You're very welcome.
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Would you like us to leave you alone with him?
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Please.
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Would you like to be friends with him?
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Yeah.
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That was an immediate response.
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Yes, again.
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I was going to say, do you want to be more than friends?
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Leave.
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Do you want me to leave?
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Alone.
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Oh, you want to be alone with Sam.
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Okay.
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Me.
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Is that what you want?
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You want to be alone with him?
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Just for the record, as this is happening, I feel like my chest is getting like pressed on, like as if a woman was being like, get out.
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I need private time.
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Leave again.
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What happens if we leave Sam in here alone?
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What will you do?
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Sam.
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Okay.
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Sam is here.
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We brought him for you.
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Do you have anything you want?
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That's him.
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It sounds like there's more people talking that he's listening to and they're all talking about it.
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I feel like I'm getting touched on my elbow.
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I got all tingles right here.
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Is there anything else you want to say, Hannah?
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You here now?
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Yeah.
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No. Okay.
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I heard that.
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Yeah, there's some strange clicking.
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I thought it was a jukebox.
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We're gonna end the session with Sam.
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Can you say goodbye?
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Anna?
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Get on the bed.
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You want me to get on the bed?
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All right, I'll sit down next to Sam real quick, but this is a weird thing.
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What else do you want us to do?
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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Thank you for talking with us.
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Obviously, I couldn't hear anything, but I feel like I was saying certain things that, at least in my narrative, I was building from that.
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Felt like directionally, there was something.
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Very cool experience.
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Thank you again, Scott.
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I appreciate it.
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This is awesome.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Sam, awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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All right, guys, not going to lie, that was a very fun experience.
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Scott is awesome, so shout out to Scott.
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He's a really cool ghost hunter.
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I mean, And overall, I'm not like a big believer in the ghost hunting and paranormal world.
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But with that being said, I did have a fun time.
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And honestly, I could be convinced that certain things were happening there.
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So I think at the very least, it's very entertaining to be a part of.
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I kind of viewed it more as entertainment.
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And would I do it again?
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Absolutely.
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Do I think it's legitimate?
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I mean, I don't know.
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I definitely need more experience in order for me to give a really full opinion.
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But at the Shanley Hotel, there's certainly some stuff going on.
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So definitely some creepy haunted vibes.
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And I think there's narratives to be formed there.
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So I had fun.
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Shout out to Scott.
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Not a scam.
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Let's do the next one.
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The next jobs we're going to investigate are in New York City, because we're going to Times Square and interacting with actual scammers, like the people who take pictures with you and then charge you money,
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the people who hopefully give out CDs or some sort of fake items trying to get you to buy them, and then even engaging in some of the fake products
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that are sold in Times Square that you're buying them thinking they're real and they end up being rip -offs.
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for the picture mini thank you as you can see i just took a picture with mini mouse
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and i think mickey mouse tried to get his way into the picture to actually i think scam
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because he would probably look for a five dollar tip as well
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but what i did like is
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that she did say donation in exchange for a picture
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so not as scammy as it used to be they used to just take the picture
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and then tell you that it was five dollars so
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so far so good let's try to find some more scammers oh look they're Trying to take a picture.
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Starting to inch close to me.
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Ah, nothing.
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I think they know if we got the camera.
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I don't think anybody else wants to take a picture of me.
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So let's move on to the next scammers.
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Statue of Liberty.
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I don't know if this is a scammer, but I see a statue of Liberty.
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So I don't know if they're selling something or what.
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Now to be scammed, I feel like they have to come up to me in order for it to qualify.
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So if somebody comes up to me, we'll count it.
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Otherwise it doesn't count.
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There's a lot of vendors in New York City off the side that sell things like art, clothes, fake purses, et cetera and i see a labubu seller
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so i'm gonna go ahead and purchase a labubu and see whether
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or not it's real
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so labubus generally go for like 40 to 50 bucks depending on whether it's rare
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or not but the ones behind me are going for 15 bucks
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and there's some pretty rare ones there's a lot of fake labubus floating around
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so i want to see if this one's real
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so i'm gonna go ahead
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and purchase one can i get one labubu stitch yeah just grab whichever one you want
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which one you want let me get this one right here all right
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that one okay thank you got my labubu right here this is what the packaging looks like
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so a little bit damaged but we're gonna open it up
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and see if it's real I'm going to open it up and let's check it out.
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It looks pretty fake, honestly.
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Looks like a Chinese knockoff.
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I'm not an owner of a Labubu, so I can't say for sure whether it's real or not.
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This is the packaging it comes in.
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Please don't tell me I paid $15 for a Timu Labubu.
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Is my Labubu real?
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He doesn't even have the smile.
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Isn't he supposed to have that smile?
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Oh, I guess not.
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I genuinely don't know if this is real or not.
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It's inconclusive whether or not that person was a scammer because I don't actually have the details.
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Here, somebody who's a Labubu expert, let me know if this is real or fake.
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I scout a guy who's selling Apple products.
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I don't know if they're legitimate or not.
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I don't know if they're stolen.
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I'm not sure what's up with it, but I'm going to go ahead and purchase something.
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See ultimately if it's a real item or not.
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Oh, he shied away from the camera, which means that it might not be legitimate.
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We're going to go back.
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We'll circle back.
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So he has a black garbage bag and then he's pulling different Apple products out of it.
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So I ideally want to buy something from there.
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We'll see whether or not he's willing to talk to me because I have a camera.
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All right, guys.
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I mean, we tried our hearts to try to purchase some of these secondhand Apple products from these scammers.
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But once they saw the camera, they identified me by my pink hat and then they just ran away.
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They wouldn't go anywhere near me.
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Even when I dropped the camera, I tried to film with my Meta glasses, but they wouldn't have any of it.
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So unfortunately, I couldn't buy anything, but that almost confirms that they're scammers.
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I've never seen people run away so much as I did with these people.
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Literally, as I'm making this video though, luckily, Tyler Liviera, another YouTuber, actually made a video exposing New York City scammers and he interacted with these Apple people.
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I think it's actually the same exact person in his video as it is in my video.
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So I highly suggest looking at that
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so you get the full picture of what these people are all about But with that being said in new york, there's definitely some scams
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But I think some of them aren't really scammers next up
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I invited a fortune teller to come over to my house
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and she is going to perform on me some sort of
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fortune telling I suppose i've never had a fortune teller speak
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to me before i've never had somebody read my palms I am going in completely raw.
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I'm a virgin and novice of the psychic game So these are my palms.
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These are what my lines look like.
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This is my face I am an open book
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and I am excited to be read
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and we're meeting up with one of the best fortune tellers in new jersey Apparently
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and her name is gypsy so this should be a good time.
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So How would you like your palm read?
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There's different ways to do it.
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No, you just show me your hands.
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Oh well You cannot be suffocated.
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I can't be suffocated.
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What does that mean?
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That means that you need to be able to go places and move around a lot.
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Wow Because you can't because it would be toxic for you.
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Really?
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Yeah, you're very independent
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and you're very very creative you can do anything you really
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want to as long as you have the passion for it wow let me show my hands just
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so they also have see these hands these are creative hands
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independent hands i see you're gonna have a nice long life
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okay we have any predictions i would say i would i
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would say in the 90s maybe even more oh you think i could touch 100 Maybe, maybe, you know,
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with today's technology in five years now who knows i see
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a lot of traveling yeah that's right i do travel quite a lot i travel quite a lot
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and i see that you're going to be traveling till you can't travel no more probably yeah
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so now i'm going to say
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that we're going to go into a little bit of astrology okay
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so you had told me when we first walked in uh
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that you were a gemini because i asked you yep the gemini is ruled by the planet
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mercury which is all about knowledge so
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that really is important to you knowledge very yeah you like
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to share it as well as give it being a gemini you are a perfectionist for sure i'd say
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so yeah so you can do anything
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and it will look like you've been doing it for years the way you perform is very professional
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and that's the being perfectionist but you got to know that you're doing a great job no matter what you're doing.
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And pat yourself on the back once in a while.
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Yes, because sometimes, you know, you can be hard on yourself.
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Right.
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And there's no need for that, because you're perfect.
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Thank you.
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That's very sweet, thank you.
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And I also worked for Donald Trump.
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Oh, that's cool, wow.
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Got you a president.
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Yeah, yeah, well, that's before he became president.
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But that was really fun, because he hired me several times.
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Mm -hmm one at his Benminster golf course and Did you predict he was gonna be president?
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Could you read that from like oh?
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He wouldn't go no no. He didn't come near me.
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Oh, he was okay He just pointed at me and said ah, but I was doing all his guests Okay, you have any questions?
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No, I mean obviously conscious of time
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and stuff I think it'd be great to take a look at this crystal ball
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and you kind of showcase what this is about and what we do here Well, Crystal Ball, really, I have to inspire me.
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And when I look into it, I could actually see that in a couple of years, you're going to be, there's going to be major changes for you.
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Oh, you've already, you're seeing that right now?
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Oh, wow.
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Okay.
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So you're already making a reading.
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So in a couple of years, there's going to be major changes for me?
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Yeah.
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Like, are we talking upwards?
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We're talking up.
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Oh, good.
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Okay.
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So right now, I think I'm at 10 .5 million subscribers on YouTube.
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If you had to make a prediction of, let's say, two years from now, where do you see me at?
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I'm going to say a lot.
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A double.
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Double.
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So we'll be at 20.
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That would be a double clip rate.
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That would be crazy.
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But you're saying right here, 20 million August of 2027.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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And then you're going to really be busy.
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Then I'll be incredibly busy, yeah.
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Well, thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Thank you again to Gypsy.
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Thank you so much.
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Appreciate the reading and you just coming through
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and showing us the side of fortune telling and palm reading
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and just everything else we kind of went into all right
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so gypsy was awesome I had a lot of fun with
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her over those 30 minutes of doing my fortune telling session do I think it's a complete realistic thing in
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which she's reading my future and telling me what's going on with me
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and knows everything about me no I think there's a lot of horoscopic astrology things
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that are happening and she's making a lot of good predictions
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but I don't necessarily think that the crystal ball
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and the whole palm reading thing is necessarily true but
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if you're just viewing it at face value
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and you're not taking it seriously as a science it is a lot of fun to engage with
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And so for that reason, I'm gonna call it a semi -scam.
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I think Gypsy is very well -read and she knows a lot about the practice of fortune -telling, but for me, it wasn't necessarily the craziest thing I've experienced.
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So take with that what you will, but we have way more jobs to investigate.
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The next job that people call a scam that we're gonna be looking into is chiropractors.
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So if you've never heard of chiropractors, they practice chiropractic, which is basically alternative medicine in which you manipulate the musculoskeletal system to ultimately relieve people of pain, namely in their spine.
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So if you've ever seen videos of people adjusting spines and getting all those cracks and kinks out of their back, that's usually a chiropractor performing that and they get a lot of pushback
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because the pseudoscience associated with it a lot of people don't consider this to be real medicine
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but lucky me a couple of months ago
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when i was at this biohack facility in fort lauderdale for another video
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that i did i got to speak to two renowned chiropractors
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who really wanted to do something to me i let them
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and this is what happened
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so we're going to do an examination sam has some neck pain
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and we want to see where that's coming from he's kind of pointed to his trapezius muscles
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but we're going to really do some palpation and examination
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and really figure out what the deal is where it's really coming from all right
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so we're going to assess my pain now
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so i'm going to lay down okay close your eyes okay
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and without open eyes look on the top of your head this is mobilization of your occipital
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and c1 c0 you feel more flexible i'm not gonna lie it was very uncomfortable to be in the room
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because despite them being husband and wife
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and both being doctors they actually had opposing views on things
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which led to a lot of weird moments no solar plexus
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is a nerve plexus here what is it timers it's not
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timeless anymore no no no no nonetheless though i tried to
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be a pleasant patient i was going through with everything they were saying
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but a lot of it just didn't really make sense to me.
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So it's interesting that the chakra system corresponds to nerve plexuses.
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There's one in the throat and there's one in the center of the chest, the heart chakra and the throat chakra.
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At one point they wanted to inject me with something into my neck
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but ultimately I told them no. I gave them the justification
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that I couldn't do it because I couldn't get it on camera
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but really I just didn't want it to be done to me.
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I mean I came in for an adjustment
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and all of a sudden there's a needle that's about to go into my neck.
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The blue it's a throat chakra the nerve plexus it's green
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yellow it's epigastric all right i'm gonna let this process continue
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i'm not i don't have to keep my hands they're gonna balance on their own
495
but i didn't expect to go in this direction
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but that's where you know that's where my palpation took me this conversation was honestly going everywhere
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and i didn't understand anything that was happening
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and i certainly didn't feel any sort of relief by any of the tension points
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that they were touching but there was just a lot of nonsense going on
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so with that being said is chiropractic a scam i mean what I experienced, I would actually say yes.
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Overall, who knows?
502
But I haven't heard good things, and when I actually tried it in practice, it wasn't very good either.
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So I'm going to go ahead and call it a scam from my experience.
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I'm sure people have had pleasant experiences and relieved them of back pain, but from what I had, because I also had really bad neck pain going into that, they didn't relieve anything at all,
505
and if anything, it was probably one of the worst experiences medically that I had.
506
Everyone else at that biohack facility was awesome, and I appreciate all the different treatments, but that one in particular just wasn't it.
507
The next scam job that we're going to investigate is life coaches.
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So a life coach is somebody who basically kind of acts like a quasi therapist
509
and they basically get you through certain parts of your life.
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So if you want to get your money up, if you want to improve your relationships, whatever it may be, life coaches are apparently the one stop shop to fix everything.
511
We're going to see if that's true though, because I have Luke Mendez, who on Fiverr has five stars on 21 reviews.
512
He is one of the highest rated life coaches I could find.
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He's board certified and everything seems to have ample experience, looks like a nice professional guy.
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Also, by the way, it's like 1 .15 a .m right now.
515
And for whatever reason, he answered and he's able to accommodate my call.
516
So shout out for that.
517
But we're going to hop on a call with him right now
518
and we're going to decide whether or not life coaches are a scam.
519
Not going to lie, I am not too optimistic about this.
520
I personally have a bias going in that I think life coaches are going to be a complete scam.
521
So let's see what happens.
522
Hi, how are you?
523
Hi, thank you for hopping on the call.
524
Excuse me about my outfit oh no worries yeah no no
525
sorry for my outfit too it's late for us i'm sure
526
no it's okay it's okay the idea of life coaching is like to map out where are you
527
and where do you want to be what's on your mind
528
now i'd say on my mind um work for sure i want to get more money that's important
529
and i ideally want to just continue growing in my career trajectory what is blocking you from
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or preventing you from doing
531
that you know it's hard to really pinpoint i think maybe it's I get too distracted
532
and I like doing other things sometimes
533
so I can't stay focused on what I want to do
534
let's say how do you describe this um lack of focus
535
right I think it's jumping from one ship to another
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so I'll have a couple of days where I really like to focus
537
and do well and then three days in I'll just start focusing on something else
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because I don't know it's just more attractive
539
so I'm like oh let me now focus on that
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and then I side rail myself and I lose the direction and the path that I was on.
541
It's quite a lot because most of the people tend to say, no, no, I cannot focus for an hour.
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Do you need more than three days?
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I'd like to be locked in for like a month at a time.
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I'd love to have longer term lock -ins.
545
Yeah.
546
Okay.
547
Have you achieved that sometime in the past?
548
Maybe once in a while.
549
Yeah, sometimes.
550
What happened during that month that the last time you achieved that?
551
So I was picking up a lot of extra shifts at my job
552
and And I just remembered I was in like a flow state where I was like waking up.
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I was going on walks.
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I would go for, I'd go to my job, I'd come back and I'd be just feeling great.
555
Which was the trigger that made you, that motivates you?
556
I think it's when I recognize that I've fallen so far.
557
I'm good at identifying the bottom and then I'm able to pull back up.
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So it's like, let's say I eat a lot of food over two weeks and I gain five pounds.
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As soon as I gain that five pounds, I like correct.
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And I'm like, okay, let's like lose the five pounds, but I'll never gain more than five pounds.
561
But I get there a lot, but I never go past it.
562
You have a bottle line and you can set a limit, right?
563
Yep.
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Maybe not, not only in weight, but in everything.
565
Will that work for you?
566
Yeah, that's it.
567
I mean, like if I think of work, I have a minimum amount of money that I have to make every month.
568
And if I, as long as I'm making that, it's fine
569
but the moment where I'm trending to go a little bit
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below then I'm like okay let's snap back into it I have to go to work more okay
571
and that work for you so like
572
that may be a key like to to have a have
573
it clear maybe I don't know post it on there on the wall somehow
574
so you can clearly see where you are now
575
so yeah I like the idea of kind of writing down and visualize
576
so all the different aspects of my life establishing the system of like what are the minimum limits
577
that I need to achieve in order to feel productive at each of these parts of my life
578
so let's say it's financial like i said like weight wise
579
or activity level or something and i'll go through all the different ones
580
and then i can okay ensure
581
that none of those parts ever dip below everything will go up
582
if i'm ensuring that i'm never dipping below at any point in my life
583
because then it's like oh okay we're we're starting to manage things correctly in the system now
584
so that's how do you feel this is great i feel
585
like within just a 20 minute session i was able to learn a bit about certain systems
586
and how to think about the things that i'm going through
587
so i mean i really appreciate this first session
588
and i'd love to follow up with you have a nice day thank you i really appreciate it thank you
589
so much all right i just finished my session i'm not gonna lie i feel really great after
590
that i think luke mendez did an absolutely great job of kind of working with what he had
591
which was nothing i was just kind of like saying random
592
stuff i wasn't gonna give him like the full synopsis
593
that i'm a youtuber
594
but he did a really great job honestly shout out to
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luke mendez i went into this thinking life coaches were a complete scam i'm going out of it thinking
596
that there are some really good life coaches he did a
597
good job of not like overstepping with certain questions he didn't
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even ask where i worked mind you he was just like hey let's develop some systems
599
so then you can achieve what you want to achieve i am very pleased with
600
that life coaches is a big surprise here i'm gonna go ahead
601
and say not a scam based on my experience at least luke did a great job
602
so shout out to him i really thought
603
that there was going to be a massive scam stamp right here after life coach but I guess I'm pleasantly surprised.
604
All right, guys, that was a lot of fun going through a bunch of these different scam jobs.
605
A lot of them ended up being pretty legitimate.
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Some of them, not so much.
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But with that being said, thank you guys so much for watching.
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If you wanna see more content, make sure to click here, click here.
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Otherwise, subscribe, I'm really out and I'll see you next time.
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Peace.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 610 sentences and 6206 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:35. The speaker talks fast, about 233 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| scam noun | /ˈskæm/ | A fraudulent or dishonest deal. A swindle. |
| ghost noun | /ɡoʊst/ | A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death. |
| fortune noun | /ˈfɔːtjuːn/ | Destiny, especially favorable. |
| basement noun | /ˈbeɪsmənt/ | A floor of a building below ground level. |
| creepy adjective | /ˈkɹipi/ | Moving by creeping along. |
| diamond noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. |
| upstairs adverb | /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ | Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level. |
| investigate verb | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information. |
| palm noun | /pɑm/ | The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand or other primate hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. |
| shout verb | /ʃaʊt/ | To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc. |
| haunt verb | /hɔnt/ | To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). |
| luke adjective | /l(j)uːk/ | lukewarm |
| legitimate adjective | /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/ | In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements. |
| portal noun | /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/ | An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. |
| investigator noun | /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/ | One who investigates. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come up to verb | To approach. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| head up verb | To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| pick up on verb | To notice, observe, learn, or understand, especially something otherwise overlooked. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you say the word leave we'll just · if somebody comes up to me, we'll count |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has happened · have haunted · have left |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is thrown · was picked · being said |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who take · people who hopefully · camera, which means |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 243 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/, investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/
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 scam, ghost, fortune.
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.