Shadowing Practice: Louis Ck Live Comedy THREE 2021 | Uncensored - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I thought I had COVID about three times.
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I'm one of those idiots.
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I was like, I think I have it.
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Can you feel?
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I'm bad with pain, too.
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Like, the other day, I hit my elbow right on that spot where if I had a gun, I'd be dead now.
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You know, that's...
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I can't do pain.
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That's why I could never be a cop.
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I couldn't walk around with a gun right here.
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There's 50 things a day where I'd be like, fuck that, that ain't worth...
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That's my main problem, by the way, with the whole defund the police idea.
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What about people that want to commit suicide by cop?
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What about them?
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Anyway, we'll put a pin in that, but...
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We had a lot of protests in New York, and now we have protestors that just live here.
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They're not at a protest, they're just here.
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I saw a protester in Washington Square Park.
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She had green hair and dirty legs.
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and she's holding a little piece of cardboard and it's with a sharpie it said abolish billionaires she's standing there
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and I thought I don't think it's gonna do it it doesn't feel like that's gonna result and Jeff Bezos what's happening
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Sadly, it's going to be okay for him.
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I thought it was good how young people got out there and they expressed themselves.
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They went out there to solve a lot of problems.
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Not all problems, but some of them.
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They went out there to stop discrimination.
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Not all discrimination, just some of it, which is a weird form of discrimination.
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There are groups.
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there are groups that are discriminated against who don't have any protesters
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or any people working for them and we all discriminate against these people like ugly people, everybody discriminates against ugly people they do
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and it's awful I'd rather be discriminated against for my race than for being ugly
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you might not lose a job or a promotion but nobody kisses you on the lips your whole fucking life, try that
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this is what we say to ugly people we don't like your face we just don't like it
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so no one's going to fall in love with you
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and it's unanimous sorry
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and we just expect ugly people would be like oh no
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I understand I mean sure it's my head shape it's no good for you
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so I'll with well go without the things
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that matter in life also overweight people overweight people deal with things
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that none of us deal with because I'm not overweight
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there's people who are discriminated against
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because of their weight I read a story once about a woman who's 600 pounds
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and she couldn't get medical care
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because everything she goes to the doctor he just says it's
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because she's fat everything she's like my knees hurt he's like
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yeah my knees hurt just looking at you what do you
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think was gonna happen she's like i have chest pains he says yeah
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because your organs are over capacity
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so they're hurting she's like i got shot in the head he's like yeah
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because you're fat somebody shot you in the head because you're fat
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it's a terrible story here's the worst part of the story
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and this is true this is true she needed an MRI
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because she had something serious she's 600 pounds
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she doesn't fit in the machine
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you know what they did they sent her to the zoo I'm not kidding they sent her to the fucking zoo
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that's what we do for fat people we need an MRI hey here's your prescription go to the zoo
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yeah that's where you should go you should go to the zoo
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by the way you know how many fat people
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we have in this country about 600 trillion billion thousands of them
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you know how many trans people there are about 38 but
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if you're trans and you need a restroom
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and it's awkward we'll change every restroom but if you're fat
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and need an MRI you go to the zoo you fat bitch just
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Let's go to the zoo.
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You go experience that today.
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What happens when she gets to the zoo?
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What actually fucking happens when she arrives at the zoo?
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Hi.
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Are you here to see the monkeys?
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No, I'm here for an MRI.
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oh shit all right yeah uh -huh okay just stand in the straw over here
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yeah you're after the walrus who has lymphoma
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By the way, why is there an MRI machine at the fucking zoo?
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Who was developing that instead of a fat human being MRI?
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Who's paying for this shit?
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You don't give an elephant a fucking magnetic resonance image test.
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What are you fucking high?
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That's obscene.
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If an elephant is sick, you just listen.
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You do this thing.
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I'm saying this out of respect for elephants, by the way, because we're supposed to respect how they live.
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They don't fucking cure their diseases.
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This is not their culture.
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This is our weird.
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Let's fix it.
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Oh, he's sick.
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That's not how elephants live.
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An elephant in the Serengeti isn't like, I have a lump.
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I have to see my oncologist.
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When an elephant gets cancer, he falls over and he takes his fucking turn and becomes food.
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You don't put an elephant in a state -of -the -art .
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What if you find cancer?
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What, are you going to give him chemotherapy?
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Skinny elephant with a pink baseball hat?
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Each day is a gift.
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I love animals.
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I do.
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I do.
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We have a weird relationship to animals.
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We name them, and we play with them, and we kill them, and we eat them, and we stuff them, and we draw them.
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I have a dog.
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I love my dog, but I don't know my dog.
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We've never had a conversation, not one time.
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I talk, and she just hears...
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She looks at me and I'm like, yes.
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She's like, what, you don't know what the fuck I'm thinking.
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Fuck you.
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I don't know this bitch.
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I have no idea what she's thinking.
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I really wish I did.
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I wish I knew what she was thinking.
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It's my biggest wish maybe in life is that I knew, because I know she has thoughts.
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I know she does.
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There's no way she's just like, dog.
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There's stuff going on in here.
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I've seen it.
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You ever watch your dog make a decision?
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you ever watch your dog just walk in the room and look around like
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yeah i'm gonna go over here why please tell me why
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i think my dog thinks i'm insane
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because i look at my life through her through her eyes like I'll watch TV for four hours
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and from my dog's point of view, I'm just sitting there
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What the fuck is he laughing what happened
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my dog is my life now
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because my kids are growing up my kids are in college
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and they're all you know I'm an empty nester that's what you call it
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when your kids are gone because they grew up not
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if they're dead it's not used that way my daughter died of leukemia hey you're an empty nester
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I miss it.
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I miss having little kids.
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I think about it all the time.
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I think about it maybe adopting, you know.
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I could adopt a baby from a third world country.
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That's a good thing to do because you can just leave them outside.
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You don't have to.
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You know, it's interesting.
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We've been adopting babies from other countries in America for a long time.
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You know, other countries do it too, but I live here, so I'll talk about that.
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It's an interesting thing.
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It's not a biological imperative to go get a baby from thousands of miles away,
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but we've been doing that in large numbers here for a long time.
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And not always for the same reasons.
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There's been different reasons why we've done it.
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In the early, like in the 70s,
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when I grew up, sometimes you meet a couple who had an African baby that they brought because they're those kind of,
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you know, these kinds of people, you know, the kind of couples that hold hands
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when they announce things you know those kind of people they gather their friends and they're like We've decided.
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You know those?
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They have a farm table with a clay pot of honey on it.
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And their apple juice is cloudy.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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Those are the kind of people that make a trip to Zimbabwe
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and get a baby and name them Kevin and send them to Boston College or whatever.
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That was like the 70s and 80s.
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Then in the 90s, it became very popular with gay couples started to adopt babies from China
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because they want to have a baby, but they both have dicks.
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I don't know if you know that.
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Did you know that?
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Gay couples have two dicks.
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So they can't make a baby.
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You can try.
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Just really fucking...
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You can try to come into one dick with the other.
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Like, if you line up the dick holes, and you can come, and the sperm goes up this dick and down that one.
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and then the sperm gets to the balls and he's and they're like wait what the fuck
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did we turn around because we're in the balls again
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whose balls are these these aren't even his balls
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oh he's gay fuck all right okay all right well let's just swim around till
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we're dead it's the way
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it is you're not gonna know a baby will never come out of a penis
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it's good it's a good thing
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because hard for women imagine pushing a whole baby out of
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your penis dick hole even just a hand yeah anyway so that's why gay couples adopt.
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That's why.
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And often from China, because they make a lot of stuff there. So that was that.
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The gay couples were adopting Chinese babies because they couldn't have babies.
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And then a lot of other couples started doing it more around the turn of the century.
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I used to live in Hollywood, which is a pretty awful place.
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And everybody there gets Chinese babies.
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It's very popular.
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And it's not because they can't have babies, and it's not because they're trying to help somebody from far away.
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It's because they're just busy.
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They're busy.
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They want to have a baby, but they don't want to have a baby.
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You know what I mean?
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That thing where you can't have your baby and eat it, too, or whatever.
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I don't know how that works.
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They don't want to get pregnant is the point, so they go to China.
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They don't even go to China.
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They go to the airport, and somebody from China meets them, gives them a baby.
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It's true.
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They just take it home, and then they get a Jamaican nanny to watch their Chinese baby.
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And they go to cocktail parties.
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We have a Chinese baby.
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It's amazing.
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And meanwhile, the Chinese baby and the Jamaican nanny are just alone looking at each other like, what are we doing?
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What is this?
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Why can't either of us see our families?
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Why?
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What the fuck is the point of this?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Louis Ck Live Comedy THREE 2021”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: baby, zoo, elephant, fat, dog. This video has 200 sentences and 1899 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:19. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| elephant noun | /ˈɛlɪfənt/ | A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia. |
| adopt verb | /əˈdɑpt/ | To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. |
| ugly adjective | /ˈʌɡli/ | Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. |
| discriminate verb | /dɪˈskɹɪm.əˌneɪt/ | To make distinctions. |
| discrimination noun | /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/ | Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with the intent to understand rightly and… |
| overweight adjective | /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/ | Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. |
| awful adjective | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | Very bad. |
| protest noun | /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/ | A formal objection, especially one by a group. |
| translation noun | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | The conversion of text from one language to another. |
| knee noun | /ni/ | In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. |
| pound noun | /ˈpaʊ̯nd/ | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. |
| meanwhile adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| promotion noun | /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/ | An advancement in rank or position. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| fall over verb | To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| line up verb | /laɪnˈʌp/ | To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you here to see the monkeys?
- What if you find cancer?
- What, are you going to give him chemotherapy?
- You know what I'm talking about?
- Why can't either of us see our families?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | We've been adopting · we've been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've never had · I've seen · There's been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are discriminated · be discriminated |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are · Hollywood, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 82 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, chemotherapy /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: discrimination /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/, abolish /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: discriminate /dɪˈskɹɪm.əˌneɪt/, discrimination /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, unanimous /juˈnænəməs/, imperative /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like elephant, adopt, ugly.
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.