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I've bought a ticket on every type of bus seat there is.

You see, whenever I travel by bus, I always bring a gaming handheld with me, but I've only ever traveled in a basic bus seat, where normally the seat is always dirty and there's also hardly any legroom.

So I've bought a ticket in every type of bus there is, from this London bus all the way to this luxury private tour bus with its own private bedroom,

all to see which bus seat gives you the best gaming experience.

We'll rate the seats on four different categories, And we'll start with the cheapest seat, which is on our London bus.

This bus journey is going to take me an hour to get into the centre of London

and it only costs me the equivalent of $3.

So let's see if it's any good.

Okay guys, welcome to my basic seat.

It's actually pretty nice.

We get a little bit of leg room, a nice big window we got a usb port a stop button

and every seat also comes with a handle because there's no seat belts

but as we started our journey i wanted to test something out

that i'd seen online apparently bus seats have this pattern on them

because they're quite dirty

and they're trying to hide the dirt that's inside them what the fuck i'm gonna test

that now i've tested this fury out on a train before

and it turned out to be true but for this london bus it was actually pretty clean.

So I'm going to kickstart the rating of the seat by giving it a 2 for comfort.

Throughout this video we're actually going to be traveling across the entirety of Europe across a bunch of different buses

and for this long journey my game of choice is going to be Mario Kart.

I'm not that great at it

but I always used to play it on the bus as a kid

and one thing I've never been able to do on the game is come first place in every single course.

That's going to be my goal throughout this journey.

Now this first bus journey we're taking isn't that long.

Luckily the first map on Mario Kart is very easy

and it only took me like 15 minutes to finish every map on this course in first place.

So now that we've got our first trophy let's take a look at the tech inside the seat.

Now the tech in this seat is actually pretty interesting.

When you first walk onto the bus you don't actually need a ticket you can just scan your phone

which is pretty convenient.

There's a nice little screen that tells you where you're going but that's it.

There's no free wi -fi

and even though my switch was plugged into the charging output

for some reason the battery was still go down i'm not too sure the port is

that powerful so given

that i'm giving tech a two out of five guys the

london bus was actually pretty good there was no funny smells

i got a good amount of leg room it makes sense there was no bathroom on board

but i am gonna have to give it a zero for

that but you know what i managed to get my first trophy

and overall it was a pretty nice quick gaming experience so for

that i'm gonna give it a two i don't think it's

gonna be the best rated seat in this video of the six out of 20

but it was still a good seat anyway now we've got

to move on to our next seat we've upgraded guys to

a premium bus now online this seat is called the fun

and relaxed seat some say that's because there's a lot of fun

and relaxing that happens on it but we'll test

that out we're currently going from london all the way to

brussels this is going to be a long journey it only cost me 50 though so let's see if the seat's

any good welcome to the fun

and relaxed bus guys take a look at all the improvements

on this new seat we get a bunch more leg room

now as well as a little footrest to put our feet

on a nice pouch to store our things we now get

some premium leather armrests an actual seat belt this time that's

like that's an improvement we get ourselves our own little table a headrest

and our chair can even recline look at

that we're not in basic anymore folks we even get a

cup holder okay the cup holder does have some sticky stuff in it i'm not going to use

that there's a few people on this bus

so i'm uh trying to condense my voice a little bit down a bit because i want to be respectful

but yeah let's make it to brussels

currently an hour into our trip it's quite awkward in here

still uh we're all very close together i'm relaxing in the fun

and relaxed seat i'm getting to look at some of the

countryside side i'm having a good time well at least i

was until the person in front reclined their seat on me

there goes my extra leg room i was gonna give it a really high rating for comfort

but without any leg room it's getting a three out of five

okay so it's took me around about like an hour

and a half to finish the second map

but we eventually got there we're now two out of seven trophies down

so i think it's about time to review the tech in the seat now the main feature

that this seat has is a touchscreen tablet on the back

of the seat this thing has some games some movies a

interactive map for some reason mine keeps glitching out though

so i'm taking off a few fun points for that

but i've got my switch

so i'll be fine now one exciting thing this bus has is usb c ports yes we're living in 2026

i just lifted up something

and they actually have a full power outlet in here as

well we've got two air vents up here all for me

and we've got some reading lights as well hey look at

that we finally got free wi -fi that deserves an applause

that does apparently there's also a coffee machine downstairs

so i went to go check it out

and passed this vending machine i don't think i've ever seen one of them on a bus before

so i got myself a drink it didn't taste great

but that's fine there's actually a lot of tech on this bus and for

that i'm gonna give it a four out of five things

are actually looking up for this bus why have we been

stopped by police oh dear i'm just kidding we're at border control

because well we're about to go underwater there's no roads going from the uk to france

so to be able to get there this bus has got

to go inside like a really really hollowed out train

which is going to go underneath the english channel and bring us into france

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this is a very uh interesting experience everything's gone dark all the power on the bus is shut off

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but we are actually allowed to leave and explore the train so um i don't know train tour

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let's just have a walk around this big empty train then this is going to be a really quick tour

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because yeah this figure is literally just a big empty train it does have a toilet on it though

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so that's good it didn't seem the cleanest however

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so i went to go use the one on the bus

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but turns out that doesn't work

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so i think we're going to give the toilet a one

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out of five well whilst i'm stuck in here i might as well grind some mario kart

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after 45 minutes of being stuck in the dark we finally made it into france

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wow doesn't it look beautiful it looks really nice and

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and french looking i don't know anyways bit of good news

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i've now got four trophies on mario kart yes i have

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been grinding whilst being on the train whilst being off the

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train though i actually built myself a nice little gaming setup

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look at this we got the dual monitors we got a mario kart wheel controller

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which i honestly bought with me

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because i thought it would make me better at the game

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it didn't as soon as i got this thing out i

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lost every single race for about an hour straight it gave

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me some good immersion though okay guys bad news my switch just died on me

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and the usb port is not working i had it plugged in earlier

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and i was wondering why the charge wasn't going up

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so i guess i'm just going to stay out the window until we get to brussels

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wow guys look at this we're in sunny brussels

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the joke is that it's

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that it's raining right now i'm getting soaked either way i had a very fun

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and relaxed time on the fun and relaxed seat my gaming experience was pretty good

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so i'm gonna to give it a four i honestly would have give it a five

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if the charging ports had just worked throughout the entire journey

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but you know what 12 out of 20 is not a bad score

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but we've got to now move on to our next bus this one is called twilight

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and it is a night bus

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that goes from brussels to switzerland this one is quite expensive it cost me 150 dollars a lot of money

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but this is basically the equivalent of a business class plane seat

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but on a bus anyways let's go check it out guys welcome to the sleep bus

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to be really quiet because there's a little sleeping in front of me

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but i'm gonna let voice over down take this one as

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you can see this is clearly the most comfortable seat we've had so

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and it comes with a big old bag of goodies the

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first thing i get is a free bag to throw up

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in in case i'm sick hopefully you won't be needing that

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but i appreciate the gesture we also get a big comfy blanket

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and oh some free water don't mind

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if i do why is this one half drank already This is not a bit by the way, this is actually what I found in my bag above us

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we've got some usbc some air vents some lights hold up a minute is

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that more usbc charges in the seat don't mind if i do

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and right next to that we have a few buttons that

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when pressed will turn this chair into a bed guys you

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will not believe this the woman who reclined her seat on

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me in the previous bus is sitting right next to me

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how's it going amy rock what blazer i said how's it

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going i'm good my beautiful fiance emily is filming this video

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i mean it's kind of hard to talk to each other

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because we have to you have to whisper you have to be

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so quiet guys let's make sure we spam w emily in

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the comments without her there's no way i could get cool

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cinematic shots of me walking onto the bus anyway did someone mention it was mario kart time

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no they didn't because you know what time it actually is midnight

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and because it's midnight i'm not actually playing the best at mario kart right now

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so i thought i'd very quietly explore more of this bus okay

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so i'm in the bathroom right now as it is um

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a little bit too quiet up there for me to speak loudly

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so far it's really good trip i'm gonna give comfort a four just

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because i mean it's a bed on a bus don't get to see

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that very often it was quite strange they gave me a used water bottle i don't know why i got

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that the tech is pretty standard there's some lights

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and a sea vent and a few usb ports

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so i'm gonna give it a free this bathroom though is

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beautiful it honestly feels like a mini hotel bathroom it's lovely

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we got running water we got soap we got towels look

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at this light this mirror is heated on a bus

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so the bathroom is getting the first five out of five for this video

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but when i left turns out there was even more to see

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now in a changing room

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because this bus has one of them as well i gotta

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say this is unlike any bus journey i've ever been on it's um it's really unique

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and i love it anyway i'm gonna get back to my

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seat i went upstairs to go finish some more mario kart courses

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but i gotta admit

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when i got up there i was really tired i just

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thought it might be a good time to get some sleep

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and play some mario kart in the morning this is like the third bus i've been on today

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and plus i needed to see how comfortable this thing was while sleeping

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As I woke up, we were actually on the border of Switzerland, which would have been a great time to take in all the scenic views, but, you know, I've got other stuff to do.

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Even though I have this stupid device around my neck to

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help me record first -person shots I was pretty locked in in this moment

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but i've got to get back now to play my switch two

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which is actually quite low on battery right now so i gotta I gotta find some other stuff to do.

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Morning.

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Good morning.

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What have you got to say about Toy Diner?

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Um, yeah it's pretty good.

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Yeah it's pretty good.

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Good nap?

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Yeah.

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I think I need a bit more to be fair.

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Sorry for waking you up.

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This might sound a bit weird but whenever I'm on a bus I always feel like playing some Mario Kart.

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I actually discovered what Mario Kart was on a school bus.

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There was this really cool feature on a DS where even if you didn't have the game, as long as your friend had it, your DS would download the game and you could play it together nearly every memory

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that i have of being on a bus is just playing mario kart with my friends

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and i feel like it'd be really cool to try

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and relive that experience again but we are pulling in to our destination so

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that was the twilight bus quite a unique experience now even

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though this was the longest bus journey i only got to

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do about an hour of gaming i'm gonna give it a two

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which gives the sleeper bus a score of 14 out of 20

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that is going to be pretty hard to beat however we have got to go now onto our final bus

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which is uh let's say it's going to be a bit of an improvement over this so let's head on it

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all right guys we're on our final bus this is the private tour bus

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So big bands and artists can hire these things out for about a thousand dollars a day

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and they come with things like bedrooms,

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Starlink Wi -Fi, Playstations, kitchens and I've hired it all for myself to play Mario Kart. Should be pretty fun.

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We're going on our own custom route throughout the UK and I'm really excited to jump on this thing.

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So let's head on.

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oh my word as you can see by this huge map

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i've just put on the screen there are five different sections to this bus

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so let's review the first one

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so this is the living room right here we've got three

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seats on this side three seats on this side a clock a tv

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and if we don't like the view outside we've got window blinds anyway let's move on to our next section

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which is the kitchen

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and dining room area we got a big table here we got hand sanitizer

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and even a cup holder that holds playing cards nice

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so this is the kitchen it has a bunch of amenities

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we got a microwave we got a kettle we got a

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toaster we got a really nice coffee machine i don't drink coffee

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but i know a nice coffee machine

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when i see one we got a fridge filled with any beverage

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or snack you may want on a moving bus

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and we also have running water oh that's hot wait that's instantly boiling

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wait what look at

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that wait that's instantly boiling water wait whoa whoa that's that's cool there is a toilet right here

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but i'm going to check out this later as we've got to go upstairs now now upstairs is section three

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which is the sleeping pod area up here we have 12

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different sleeping pods each one of these beds comes with a bag of amenities like an eye mask earplugs

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are they working i think they're working

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and we also get all these items as well emily looks like it's going to be me

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and you making the most out of these gift baskets

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because there's 12 of these i'm not joking this bed sheet and pillow are

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so comfy this is literally just like sleeping in a single

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bed each one comes with its own little light we've got our own plug outlet

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and lastly i have privacy i'm just realizing now it would have been

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so good to invite people on here

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and play like mario kart just like the old days

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but like were all in sleeper fights doing a big road trip across the country now

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if we walk down the aisle of beds down here there's

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actually another room i think this room is supposed to be

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just another living room however you get a nice big view of the road here

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which i honestly think

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if you didn't have windows on this bus you'd forget you were on the road

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but we still have one more room to go

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this is the master bedroom

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it genuinely blows me away that we've got all this all to ourselves

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and this is on a bus a bus we're moving we're

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on the road right now this is definitely the most insane room on the bus

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so let's do a room tour first of all we got

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a big comfy bed we got another sofa a huge tv a bowl of snacks, a box of snacks, an amp.

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Does it work?

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I don't think this works.

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Oh it's a it's a fridge and it comes with stuff.

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It also obviously comes with interchangeable RGB lighting.

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Oh that's sick!

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This is definitely a gaming bus but I bet I didn't tell you

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that this bus actually has a secret room yeah i know

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i know it's under the stairs oh whoa whoa there actually

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is a bed in here i've got a fan place to

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put my stuff hey there's a phone there quite a bit of room in here honestly this is quite cozy

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but we still got one more room to check out bathroom time then.

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Whoa.

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Well, it smells less of it it's a little bit smaller

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than the last one we went into however still is very nice what's this

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oh we sprayed the area we got a sink soap toilet

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baby wipes i've had bad experiences with buses in this video

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so if this toilet just even works i'll give it a four the toilet does indeed work

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so the route that we're going on is actually going through my hometown

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so i called up some of my friends to see

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if they wanted to join me on this gaming tour bus and they said

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maybe so whilst we drive to my hometown let's explore the last room of this bus

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hey patrick it's all right to sit in this seat here

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amazing in the driver's seat it's pretty cool in here patrick

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you played mario kart before i think you'd like it what's that

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what never heard of that things were a little awkward

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because me and patrick had only just met

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but luckily i was going to smoothen things out with a bit of small talk

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your seat's got a really cool suspension i don't know what else to say i just saw the seat wobbling

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patrick was an absolute g for putting up with my terrible conversations

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so i said goodbye to him thanks for letting me play here man see you in a bit

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and got ready to play some mario kart before i met

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my friends okay here's the deal i am picking up my friends in exactly one hour i have

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that amount of time to complete this last track

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and once i do that i'm gonna unlock the final course

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which has rainbow road on it the iconic mario kart track which i want to play with my friends

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as you can see our gaming setup is now way better we have a big tv a pro controller

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and it made this second -to -last challenge very easy i was just shooting through the rounds in first place

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and it took like 15 minutes to finish it come on

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every single cup now has got a gold star on it Well, all of them, apart from this one.

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Oh, thank you all for coming.

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Oh my goodness.

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Everyone's seen that little shock that I had a 13 -bed private sleeper bus all to myself.

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Whoa, hold on.

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Oh, wow.

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The master bedroom.

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But nevertheless, we were ready to play some games.

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It is so interesting to me that I started filming this video

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because of my love for playing Mario Kart on buses with my friends when I was a kid.

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And now I'm doing that exact same thing, but on a huge private tour bus with a giant TV whilst moving on the road.

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turns out none of us were actually good enough to complete the last course in first place

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so i guess it'll be up to me later

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that doesn't matter right now though

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because at our next stop i had a surprise for everyone yo is

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that the most followed magician in the world dan rhodes no

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it's not was he ready to be coming oh get on bro oh whoa look at this damn

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How much is this to rent this?

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Too much.

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Too much.

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I'm really not sure how we got a man with 37 million combined followers to perform magic for us.

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But hey, anything's possible when you go to a private tour bus.

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Right, gentlemen, you grab a card for me.

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And you take one as well, brother.

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I'll open that one.

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You take one as well, Dan.

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Okay, we've all picked a card.

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Let's see how good this guy is.

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We've got three cards that we're going to shuffle in amongst the others.

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For the first one, I'm trying to find yours, right?

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What?

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Was that your card?

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Yeah, that's mine.

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For your card, watch the five.

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Whoa! Is that you?

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It is.

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For your card, Dan, just hold out your hands together.

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All right, yeah.

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Yeah, whenever you feel the urge, just call the word stop.

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Stop.

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one lands in the middle okay have a look

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how do you actually do

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that i'm not too sure it just sort of happens here

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to be honest i'm actually also a bit of a hypnotist then yeah

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so don't freak out yeah okay it's all gonna be higher

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the game okay on the count of three i'm gonna snap Yeah.

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And you'll find yourself on a London bus.

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Wait.

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Three.

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What?

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No, wait, wait.

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Two.

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No, bro.

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Don't fight him, bro.

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One.

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What the heck?

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Where's Dan gone?

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Who's going to pay for the bus?

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Well, I'll bring him back, don't worry.

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I know you're missing.

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He's going to land somewhere here.

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Don't freak out.

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Don't do that again, man.

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I want to be on the nice bus.

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Dan is a scarily good magician, so I'll leave his channel below.

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But as we approached closer to midnight, it was time to test out the comfort of this bus.

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Well, this has been a crazy journey.

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I'll see you all in the morning.

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i slept for a whole eight hours

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and 16 minutes on a moving bus honestly apart from the little bit of shaking every now

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and again i would not be able to tell i'm on

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a bus do i really need to say what the comfort

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is gonna be yeah it's a five i've actually just realized we haven't rated what tech is yet

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so i'm gonna ask the boys what they think it should

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be all right boys what would What can we say for tech?

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I need another five.

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Another five.

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It's gone for his five.

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Two TVs.

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I counted 36 total possible places to charge your phones.

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We were coming close to the end of our road trip, but I still needed that final trophy.

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So I loaded up Mario Kart

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and used all of my experience from the past few days of playing to get a couple of first places.

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And before I knew it, I was on rainbow load.

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The final course of the final map.

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If I get first place on this, I've officially done every single race in first place.

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Okay, neck and neck right now.

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What?

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Oh, no, I'm second.

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This is bad.

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Oh, my.

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Oh, my word.

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This is the last lap, and I'm second.

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Oh, there's the finish line.

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Oh, no, no, this is bad.

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This is bad.

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All your training has come to this.

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You've been playing in bus seats this entire week.

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Not to finish second, but to finish first.

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if i get hit i'm done there's the finish line i'm

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good i think i'm good i think i'm good come on no one hit me now please please

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and just like that i had beat every cup in mario kart in first place

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i'm sure little dan here would have been very proud of me

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and yes that is what i used to look like I had an amazing experience on the private bus

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and as we come to the end of our journey I've

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got to rate the gaming experience as a five meaning the private bus wins

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and I hoped it would have won with how much I paid for it

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but you know what you could win a Nintendo Switch remember

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thanks again to what not for sponsoring this huge giveaway remember you can scan the QR code

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or click the link in the description to take part make sure you're following my profile as well

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purchase anywhere on the app as well use it on pokemon cards candy

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or even a copy of mario kart also there's a video here about gaming in every train seat

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so maybe watch this one next you might like it

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried "Gaming" In EVERY Bus Seat”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bus, seat, kart, mario. This video has 446 sentences and 4925 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:03. The speaker talks at a natural 176 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
toilet verb	/ˈtɔɪ.lət/	To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
trophy noun	/ˈtɹoʊfi/	An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
comfort noun	/ˈkʌm.fət/	Contentment, ease.
whilst adverb	/waɪlst/	Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.
bedroom noun	/ˈbɛdˌɹum/	A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
rat noun	/ɹæt/	Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than…
explore verb	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	To examine or investigate something systematically.
midnight noun	/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/	The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
candy noun	/ˈkæn.di/	Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
holder noun	/ˈhoʊɫdɚ/	A thing that holds.
plug noun	/plʌɡ/	A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
scan verb	/skæn/	To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
sponsor noun	/ˈspɒn.səː/	A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
turn out verb	To end up; to result.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
get off verb	To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
call up verb	To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
close together adjective	Near each other in time or space.
get back verb	Return to where one came from.
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
get up verb	To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.

Sentences worth repeating

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

That's going to be my goal throughout this journey.
I don't think this works.
Let's see how good this guy is.
Was that your card?
Who's going to pay for the bus?

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 this toilet just even works i'll give
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to play · used to look
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've bought · I've only ever traveled · i've tested
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was plugged · is called · is shut

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 188 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thirty /ˈθɝti/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: auction /ˈɔkʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, sheet /ʃit/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Long words — get the stress right: amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/

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 whoa, relax, toilet.

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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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