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I'll tell you where we first met.
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Where did we first meet?
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At a GQ party.
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Fox, oh actually tell that story.
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Right, you said to me.
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You smell like weed.
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And I said, I am weed.
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And then, you vanished.
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Hi, I'm Megan Fox.
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Hi, I'm Colson Baker.
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Is that your real name?
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Sometimes.
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And this is the GQ Couples Quiz.
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OK.
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How many tattoos do I have?
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Name them out while it's best to go by.
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Your ankle, back of your neck, the Nietzsche, you have a back,
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you got ours, you got my nickname, and then the one I just gave you.
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And then the one right below the one I gave you, which is the yin-yang. That one doesn't count.
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No, that one doesn't count.
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My other rib cage is also tattooed.
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That's what I said.
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You only said Nietzsche and my back.
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Well, count the other rib cage too.
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That's nine, right?
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The bonus if you wanna redeem yourself is, what does my back tattoo say?
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The one on my shoulder.
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Butterflies have gilded wings.
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Close, you're in the Vicente, that's not correct, but do you know what it's from?
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Oscar Wilde.
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No, Shakespeare.
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Ah.
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Go for the butterflies, go for it.
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I know you can do it.
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Butterflies.
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No. There's a butterfly in there, but that's not how it turns.
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We.
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We. Will all.
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Laugh at the butterflies with gilded wings.
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So close, we will all laugh at Gilded Butterflies.
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It's from King Lear and by Shakespeare.
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What does the Nietzsche quote on my ribs say?
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We aren't doing AP literature class right now.
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That is for sure not happening.
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Okay, you get, because you were close on the number, I'll give you one half of a point for that, but that was rough.
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What's something on my bucket list?
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Be abducted by a UFO.
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I'll give you two points for that.
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Two points.
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What was my first acting role?
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Oh, Mary-Kate and Ashley.
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Oh, and the soap opera that you won't let me watch.
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If I swear to God if you play clips from that.
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Play clips!
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Correct, I'll give you a point for that.
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Okay, what is my biggest pet peeve?
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When I eat and I'm talking to you in your ear.
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I don't think that's to be related to you specifically, like just what's my biggest pet peeve.
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Yeah, but that's the sound of chewing.
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Yeah, yeah, there's a name for that, I have that.
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What was my favorite movie as a kid?
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It's really hard to decipher when we still watch kid movies all the time.
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Hook, you stand by.
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Okay, I'll give you a point for that.
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What's my favorite movie now?
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And if you don't know this, I'm gonna be very upset at you.
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What's my favorite movie now?
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I can't wait for it to get cold, and I'm gonna make a- Oh no, no, no, no, no, you don't have to go there.
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It's like an eight series piece.
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We're talking about Harry mother Potter.
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Don't think that I'm not tapping in.
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One is my favorite.
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Obviously, Prisoners of Azkaban.
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Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Yes, yes.
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That was the best book, too.
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Okay.
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Agreed.
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I'll give you three points for that.
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Okay.
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What film am I most proud of, EZ?
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Jennifer's Body.
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Yeah.
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It's eating boys left and right.
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Where is my favorite place to visit?
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I mean, any place that was around for thousands of years, any place that has history.
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Your answer is nebulous, but I will count it as mostly correct.
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A straight up answer would be the forest, a tree.
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Okay, fine, the forest.
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Period.
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Yeah, or anywhere without people or buildings or electricity.
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Yeah.
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Where did we first meet and what or when was our first date?
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Well, what was our first date?
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Our first date was epic.
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Our first date I picked you up in old school.
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That was our first like out of the house date, but.
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And I had roses.
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Thousands of roses.
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Thousands of roses bedded on a hill looking over Topanga Canyon.
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And we ate sushi.
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Sushi.
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We shared a kiss.
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And our first date, our first date we breathed each other.
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That was what we did.
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And then our second date.
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What did I want to be when I was a kid?
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You wanted to be an actress since you were two.
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Correct.
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I'm not keeping track of your points, but you're doing good.
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What is my hidden talent?
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No, Buddha, don't you dare.
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Don't you dare.
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Okay.
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Only PG rated answers.
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Okay, God, well one, your IQ is, if you were my Jeopardy partner, you would honestly win every single category.
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I've never, you are an almanac and encyclopedia and dictionary all in one.
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Okay, so my hidden talent is that I'm not stupid.
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I appreciate you, that's five points.
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I love you.
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I mean, if he doesn't, there's no way he doesn't know this.
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What is my astrological sign?
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Yeah, I mean, I don't even know the answer to this question.
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How old was I when I started modeling?
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Let's both guess.
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On the count of three, one, two, three, 12.
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11. Okay, let's find out.
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What's my favorite way to decompress after a long day?
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Do you want to tell them what the doctor said?
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We cannot say that on camera.
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How do you even know what it is? Because she...
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Okay, look, what the doctor said was...
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You are insane.
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We cannot say that on camera.
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That's your favorite way for me to decompress after a stressful day.
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What's my favorite way to decompress after a stressful day?
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That would be tea and a foot massage and reading a book and watching a show together.
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Probably crying a few tears.
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Definitely crying for sure.
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Like, she loves a good cry.
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Yeah, I guess that's all of those things were correct.
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That's like an eight point question.
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Who is my best friend?
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Me.
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Beyond you.
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Oh, Mindy.
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Oh.
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Ouch.
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Well, you're not allowed to say you.
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Oh, are you not?
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No. Clearly you're the best friend.
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Obviously you're the best friend.
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Who are my other friends?
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Okay, because I'm just going off of nights of you just looking at me repeatedly saying you're my best friend.
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It's obviously hard to. But you know.
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I know.
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What was my character's name in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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If you don't know that, I can't help you in life if you don't know that.
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Who was I in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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I got it.
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She wears a yellow jacket.
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I got it.
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My favorite picture of you is the one where you have the ankle weights on.
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Can we not?
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Because then you're going to show a stupid picture.
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I want them to.
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And she's outside working out and she's just working out
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and she has low top dunks on or It's the cutest picture I've ever seen in my life.
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And I send her it often and she hates me for it.
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Buddha, you get zero.
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April O'Neil.
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April.
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Oh.
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Okay, you definitely know this one.
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I had a role on the show New Girl.
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What was my character's name?
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Reagan.
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You killed that role, by the way.
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Great job.
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I love you on that show. So good.
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Buddha, that was very good.
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You did very well.
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This is how many you got right.
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It's a lot.
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Your turn.
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Okay, my love.
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What's my actual name?
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Colson Baker.
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What are my nicknames?
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MGK, Machine Gun Kelly, Kells.
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What are your nicknames for me?
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Oh, is that what that means?
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Buddha, Lambie, you haven't gotten that one in a long while, but you gotta earn that one back.
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Cookie, Blonde Angel Baby.
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Am I missing any?
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You have Endless.
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There's so many.
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Those are the main ones.
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Those are the most used.
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Okay.
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Yeah, great.
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That was good.
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You don't have a middle name, Colson?
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Can I guess what your middle name will be?
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Yeah, guess what my middle name will be when I leave the exchange.
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Blade.
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That's what I want.
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Sword.
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Katana.
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No, Blade.
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Blade is good.
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Chaos.
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Blade is what I...
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Pectic.
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Violence.
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Yeah, I like Blade...
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Neville.
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Neville?
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Like long bottom?
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No, like...
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No, but do you remember what house he was in?
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Yeah, Gryffindor. Was he?
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What's my shoe size?
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Okay, so you used to think it was a 13 and then you thought it was a 12, but we've settled on an 11, but I actually think that's impossible because you are 20 feet tall.
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Show the people your feet.
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It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
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His shoes weigh 15 pounds.
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We don't know my shoe size.
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Yeah, how many tattoos do I have?
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It's literally impossible to calculate.
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Well, you know what?
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It was impossible to calculate a Shakespeare quote.
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You've tattooed on top of your tattoos.
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On top of your tattoos, so I couldn't say.
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How many tattoos have I gotten since I've known you?
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What's my favorite tattoo?
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The one I did on you, I tattooed you.
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The one on your hip with my initials.
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and then the other one.
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Probably that one, right?
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Yeah, that one hurts my heart.
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How do I like my coffee?
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Mostly black and bitter, but I've convinced you to take it with oat milk and a little bit of sugar
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to sweeten you up in the morning.
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You say that every time you offer me sugar.
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You go, don't you just want a little bit of sugar to sweeten you up?
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Yeah, it's like Ayurvedic.
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You need a little bit of a sweet flavor in your body instead of putting the bitter in.
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You're already there.
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We don't need any more.
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What's my favorite comic series or comic book?
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What's my favorite comic book character?
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Of all time?
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You know this.
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Lucifer?
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100%.
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Yeah.
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Followed by Sandman.
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What's my favorite comic series?
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Ice cream man, or whatever it's called.
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I love that one.
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What was my first ever job?
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I don't know how we want to characterize your first job.
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Weren't you selling your own CDs and stuff?
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That makes it sound like I was a prostitute or something like that.
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No, but you were selling your own CDs and stuff when you were 13.
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What was my first job that I had to have a W for?
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No. There was something before that?
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Mm-hmm.
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I worked at a grocery store.
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Oh, you did tell me that, but I didn't know in the timeline if that fell before or after the airbrushing.
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I was 14.
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I worked at Dave's supermarket.
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Oh, God.
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What's our favorite show to watch together?
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No. You're going to butcher this answer.
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Don't preface it.
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Don't preface it.
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Don't preface it.
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Oh, it's what I know.
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It's what you think.
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Oh, it's what I know.
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It is what you think.
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Okay, I'll just name a few of them.
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Okay.
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Big Little Lies.
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Okay.
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The second show is Nine Perfect Strangers.
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Ubercap.
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You can't wait to see how that unfolds.
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Maybe Ubercap.
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And then you also loved, the thread line is Nicole Kidman because you also loved The Undoing
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and that show was fire and I dare you to tell me that it wasn't.
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You could not wait to watch that show.
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You could not wait, you could not wait.
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But he always comes home acting like he doesn't want to see it, like I make him watch it.
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But if I'm like, okay, let's not watch it, let's do something else, then he like finds ways to circle back and make sure
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that I end up putting it on because he can't stand to not know what's happening.
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Someone give me their hat so I can show this cat.
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I can't believe that you don't recognize I'm only being a supportive TV.
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And knowing that you like watching the shows and I'm like, let's watch what you like.
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So what is the right answer?
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You watch South Park and stuff like that, but that's not what you want to watch when you come home after work with me.
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Let's be real, be honest.
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And then we like to talk about what the characters are doing And why, yes we do, yes we do.
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I'm done, I'm done.
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And why we get into their psychological motivations.
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Nah, I'm super done now.
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What do I never leave the house without?
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Something to smoke, usually a lighter, although you lose those and steal everyone else's.
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Way too much cash, totally unnecessary.
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Backpack, you have to take that with you everywhere you go, or hide it even when it's in our own home when no one could ever get in.
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Nah, you're nailing it.
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This is hilarious because I just know where you're going to go with this.
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What does my perfect day off look like?
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I mean there is no day off is the point.
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She thinks that I work all the time.
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When's the last time you had a day off?
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We went to Bora Bora in January.
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Almost a year ago.
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If I did have a day off, what would it look like?
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What did we do in Bora Bora that day?
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How long did we walk on that gravel road?
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An eternity because we ate mushrooms.
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Those mushrooms were very strong.
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So your day off would be us wandering around on mushrooms?
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Yes, and then what did we see at night? as soon as the system of a down song.
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UFO, for real.
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I know, I was there.
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How many albums do I have?
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Five.
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Working on the Six, about to be released.
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What's the name of the sixth album?
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Born With Horns.
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Is it good?
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It's very good.
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If I was an animal, what animal would I be?
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Ho!
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got tricked into reading that question.
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And do you remember how you wanted them to show the photo of me as April O'Neil on the trampoline?
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Let's cut to this photo.
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You're gonna do a split screen.
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You're gonna do a split screen.
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No, no, check me out.
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You can literally Google any Machine Gun Kelly photo, and then if you also Google any meerkat photo,
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and you split screen those, Oh, I hate you.
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You cannot tell the difference.
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Do that right now.
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No one's ever looked more like an animal.
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What animal does my personality remind you of?
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Sometimes like a bunny rabbit, because you're sensitive and also frightened and fragile.
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And then other times like...
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Dragon.
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You say dragon, but it's mythological, but I feel like that's not who comes out in the streets.
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That's not a dragon.
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Because dragons are very regal and would be in control of their wise.
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What's that person that comes out?
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Something like the Hulk, yeah.
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Yeah, the Hulk.
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Yeah.
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What's my sun sign?
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Your sun is Taurus, your moon is Pisces, your rising is Gemini, you have a stellium of planets in Pisces,
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your sun is in the 12th house, which is the house that's ruled by Neptune, which is the ruler of Pisces.
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You're very Piscean and you're very Gemini.
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Very morose and the moods are very intense, but I know the whole chart.
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Okay, well obviously you win this game, but we're gonna finish this out just for the people.
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What's my favorite place to visit?
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Travis's studio.
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You've never been on a vacation.
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Your first vacation was with me.
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What's my favorite show I've ever played?
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I don't know.
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I bet Red Rocks is one of them. For sure.
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One of your favorite venues. For sure.
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But I don't know like specific shows.
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There's been thousands.
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Yeah, I mean obviously Cleveland hometown stuff is a go-to for me.
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But yeah, I mean the Red Rocks, like the last time I did Red Rocks, it was Juice WRLD opening and us closing.
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And I felt when I went on stage, I could feel my aunt's energy come down.
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And she was with me on that.
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She always dreamed that she could see me play there, but she passed before she could.
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So that was cool, like feeling her there that night.
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And that's the last question.
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Did I any up?
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I feel like I got them all.
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All right, I wouldn't give yourself that.
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I feel like I got 99%.
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Yeah, you got 99.
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Is it a tie?
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Yeah, I feel like I got 99 as well.
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How many points did I get?
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Baby, you get these many points.
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I gave you so many bonus points.
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I gave you a lot of bonus points as well. Did you?
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Yeah, I did.
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I appreciate you.
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Thank you.
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Well, that was it everyone.
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Clearly he's completely exhausted from the experience.
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Thank you for watching.
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I hope you had fun.
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Me too.
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Do you want to tell the people what the doctor said?
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Look.
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The doctor said...
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Every day, Megan has to...
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No, no, no. No, no.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 406 sentences and 2874 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:42. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
tattoo noun/tæˈtuː/An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
butterfly noun/ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
comic noun/ˈkɑmɪk/A comedian.
dragon noun/ˈdɹæɡən/In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a…
bonus noun/ˈbəʊ.nəs/Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
dare verb/dɛ(ə)ɹ/To have enough courage (to do something).
shoe noun/ˈʃu/A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
nickname noun/ˈnɪkneɪm/A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
mushroom noun/ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
vacation noun/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
weed noun/wiːd/Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
clip noun/klɪp/Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
bitter adjective/ˈbɪ.tɚ/Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
cage noun/keɪd͡ʒ/An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
ankle noun/ˈæŋ.kəl/The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
work out verb/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/To calculate.
come down verbTo descend, fall down, collapse.
come out verb/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/To be discovered; to be revealed.
come out in verbto be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)
end up verbTo bring to a conclusion.
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.
look over verbTo check quickly; to make a brief or cursory visual inspection of.

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowhave gilded · I've ever seen · haven't gotten
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itis also tattooed · Be abducted · be released

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 94 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, sixth /sɪksθ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, mythological /ˌmɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

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  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like tattoo, butterfly, comic.

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