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Bitch, are you bored?

Are you rotting too much?

Do you need a hobby?

Girl, I got you.

These are my most recent obsessions and hobbies, and if you've been writing on that phone too much or just have no idea what to do, I got you.

If you like weird nerdy shit, let me put you on.

Let me put you on.

Number one, starting off strong, is Vampire Night.

Now, this is a manga that was released in 2004 by Matsuri Hino.

Oh my god, it's so fucking nuts.

Okay, so let me explain.

If you don't read manga, I don't care read this.

This is the most angsty vampire story Pretty much ever to be honest.

It is a love triangle

and the art style It's the best eye candy in the world I most of the reason

that I love this series so much is just the way

that it looks don't get me wrong The story is amazing too, but oh my god the fucking art style It's so good.

Um, if you're into like spooky dark academia castle bats

blood vampire vibes fighting of the neck like sensual

but also like a great plot stuff like

that also weird as fuck this one's for you oh this

one's for you i'm genuinely fucking obsessed with vampire night um

i've even started taking it to the bathroom with me yes i poop

and read vampire night at the same time do you have fun silence from you i'm currently on volume six

and when i read it i'll play some like ambient like spooky castle music off of youtube

or something and it just really ties the whole experience together i've also been taking it to bed

and reading it before bed instead of doom scrolling

and frying my brain

so um wake up vampire night eat sleep repeat wake up

vampire night poop vampire night eat eat vampire night sleep vampire night okay yes

if you've been looking for a new series you want one that's kind of underground

so maybe a little bit older maybe a little bit angsty

maybe a little bit taboo this one's for you there also is an anime that's really good too

but personally i'd say watch it in the sub not the dub the anime is also amazing

so watch it read it do it next my next most

recent obsession has been a binder girl bring back the binder

mine literally just has lined paper in it with this little pouch full of like sticky notes

and bookmarks a notepad even though there's already fucking paper in

it anyway whatever instead of like writing on my phone

or something i just go in front of my binder

and then something in my mind will come out

and i'll start writing about it

and then i have all these awesome ideas like it feels like i'm in middle school again

and i'm really bored in a class period

and you don't have your phone so you're just writing on paper in your binder

and that's genuinely one of the best experiences ever i've even

been drawing like angsty anime eyes just like I used to back in school before they took binders away

and did mainly laptops which is what happened at my school I don't know

if that's what happened at yours but it's basically like having a notebook

but something about it being in a binder just makes it feel

so like just the way it opens and the way

that you can click the paper out like I just I don't know there's something about it that's really nostalgic and nice

and like it gives me a lot of create like induces

a lot of creativity for me somehow I don't really know yeah

so instead of like using a note my notes app

when I have like a thought to jot down i'll put it in here

or i'll just like draw in here i'm trying to fucking

detox off the off the fucking social media fucking short form content bullshit rotting in my brain all day

and this is one of the ways i've been doing that

and i've actually found it to be one of like the

best parts of my life this past week like instead of

picking up my phone i'll be like i'm just gonna go look in my binder

and then i'll just like start writing or drawing or thinking

or whatever you know bring back a binder get one

that you like get your favorite color put some paper in

that bad boy put some little things in a pouch like this is so much better than an iphone

not even kidding this is more stimulating than a phone not

joking okay get get stop rotting rotting rot inside your binder

inside your mind let your creativity flow let those ideas come

out you can also decorate it all cute i'm yet i'm yet to decorate mine

but you know this guy's the fucking limit over here okay what else

and also my list that i'm reading off of is inside this binder though my next obsession

or hobby is doing oracle readings specifically in this myths

and mermaids oracle of the water deck by jasmine beckett griffiths

i got it off amazon you can get it really anywhere

and i just the art style is genuinely gorgeous the messages

are really beautiful the cards are large large cards like look big big ass cards

so if you're into like tarot readings

or oracle readings this is a deck i really recommend obviously you could literally there's

so many fucking decks of oracle cards you can pick any

that you like but this is just my deck of choice at the moment i just

that i just really love and

if you don't know really what an oracle reading is you basically have this deck of cards

and each one is tied to a different

Message or meaning so you can have like a question

or maybe just want some like advice

or something You shuffle the deck until a card pops out

and then the card will have a number on it You flip to

that meaning in the little booklet And there'll be a nice message for you

And I always find this to be really helpful and accurate

and beautiful and wonderful and it just like really helps guide me Through certain situations in my life insightful beautiful spiritual Yeah,

so if you're into stuff like this and you don't have an oracle deck girl get an oracle deck

And if you do have an oracle deck

But you want to give more to your oracle deck You could get this oracle deck

Or actually you don't actually have to buy anything

But this one's just really beautiful

So I thought I'd share the art Also I'm not being

sponsored to say anything in this video There's no promotion in

this video I'm literally showing you what exactly what I'm actually

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genuinely Obsessed with at the moment Okay The next item

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that i actually just got in the mail off of etsy from this seller are these reusable produce bags

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so you know when you go to the grocery store

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and you put all of your fucking produce in plastic yeah

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so this is a kind of a way to prevent that

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and also not be so wasteful and also it's cute i've been cooking a lot

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so i've been buying so much produce

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so then i'm walking around the store with this basket produce

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and it's either in a plastic bag or

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if i don't want to use the plastic bags it's like touching the basket

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and that like kind of grosses me out

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so then i i got myself one of these i got

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mine off etsy there are these 100 cotton produce bags

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and also like i feel like it's just kind of like

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to walk around the grocery store like excuse me like i need apples

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and everyone's like oh my god like no i'm just kidding no one gives a fuck

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but yeah it's just romanticizing buying that produce

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whimsy magical lovely yep so cute my next obsession has been planting something

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and watching it grow so i planted these little green onion nubs

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and going outside

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and seeing how big they're getting every single day is like the most magical experience ever

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or my mom and i planted some basil

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and i can look at my window

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and look how much it's growing every single day

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and there's just like

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that dopamine hit of seeing a plant grow it's like no

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other it's like watching your baby grow up at the moment it's just been cute little simple things like

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that in a society that's deranged

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and disconnected from nature it feels really good to just look

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at a plant sometimes thank you mother earth thank you mother

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nature tying into using those green onions in the kitchen um

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my next obsession lately slash hobby has been cooking i can't

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get enough of it i can't get enough of it i

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listen to whimsical magical music sometimes i'll literally listen to skyrim music

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and all just like act like I voyaged through the forest for the ingredients

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that I'm cooking with and now I'm like chopping them up on my iron skillet

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and like you know stuff like

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that it's genuinely magical to romanticize cooking it's like the best

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thing in the world to just go in your own little

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zone chop up all these veggies follow all these instructions to a recipe

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and then you get to eat it and it tastes

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so good so that's been one of my favorite things recently I've made like lentil soup quinoa salad.

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I made this like sweet potato Beef bowl thing.

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I don't know.

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It's really good though cookies and muffins

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Chia seed pudding and overnight oats and like whatever like all these like little Recipes

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and stuff some are way more elaborate than others

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But it's just like it's

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so fun to just like work hard for your food to cook it

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and watch you come to life

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and have to Slave away at it for a couple hours and then you get to eat it Oh Oh, it's literally the most satisfying experience in the world.

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Bring back cooking, delete DoorDash off your phone, please.

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Like, yeah, anyway, that's me talking to myself because I have fallen victim to the DoorDash.

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The post, the post DoorDash clarity many times.

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Anyway, start cooking.

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It's awesome.

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My next obsession is Japanese Hyperpop.

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It's so good.

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It's so good.

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It's like ultimate stim music if you love a little bit of like

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Like like really stimulating fun music girl You'll love Japanese hyper pop

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if you don't already I'll put some of my favorite songs on the screen Obviously, I can't play any cuz copyright

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but it just like teleports me to a different reality It just makes me feel like everything is awesome.

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Everything's awesome and beautiful and playful and fun I love to just blast it in my headphones.

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It feels so good And I absolutely love listening to like vocaloids

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or people sing in Japanese just because of the way that it sounds.

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It's like, it's like, like it's so perfectly stimulating to my brain.

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And that leads me into my next hobby, which is working out to Japanese hyperpop.

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I cannot work out unless there's a fucking high-pitched vocaloid beat in my ear, blasting into my ear.

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Okay, look at this.

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Yeah, that's the hyperpop.

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that's the hyper pop right there left side not doing too well

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but for me okay for me that's crazy i've always i've

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never had any muscle on my arm in my whole life

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but i recently started working out like lifting weights

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and to jump these hyper pop of course

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and oh my god oh my god like i actually have a little bit of muscle going on

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which is just crazy that's been a really cool thing to like notice myself getting a little bit stronger

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because i've always been hella hella hella Hella hella hella hella weak, which is not fun.

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Um, it does not feel good And I hated working out

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because it just felt like this like big scary world that I didn't know anything about And um, that was just way too much for me Especially

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because i'm I was so weak

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that it was just like I don't want to fucking lift weights

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because I can't you know like that defeated like

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But then I started I started and I played And now I have a bicep!

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Kind of a little bit.

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That's been really rewarding.

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Highly recommend.

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I know the workout space can be a little bit intimidating

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if you've never done it before or don't really vibe with it.

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But dude, that dopamine hit.

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That serotonin rush after working out is unlike anything else.

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People really don't lie when you tell them that you're depressed and they're like, well, do you work out?

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Do you do physical exercise?

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And you're like, fuck you!

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But no, they're right.

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No, they were right.

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Yeah, they were right about that.

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Working out specifically to Japanese hyperpop, let me put you on.

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And when that beat is just going over, over, over, over, over with like the cute Japanese high pitched voice on top of it, girl, I'm unstoppable.

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I could do anything.

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I could do as many reps as I want.

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Okay, just trust me, okay?

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Just trust me on this one.

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Ow, fuck.

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Now we're gonna go into a different terrain.

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My next obsession has been dumb phones or flip phones.

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If you don't know what a dumb phone is, it's basically the opposite of a smartphone.

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So our smartphones are evil and they're demons and they suck you in

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and they keep you addicted and they make sure that you're never creative or have an original thought.

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So that's something I have been really realizing and have become really passionate about is fuck the fucking short form content.

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Fuck the fucking iPhone.

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Okay, that's like the rabbit hole that I've been down.

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My biggest obsession at the moment.

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I can't stop researching it and watching videos about it.

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So I've just become really obsessed with researching different kinds of dumb phones, which is basically a phone that can do things that you needed to do, like calling, texting.

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Some have GPS, like pictures.

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Some have the ability to download apps.

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Some don't.

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Weather, calculator, like, you know, the basics.

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Like back when phones were like tools that you could actually use.

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So I researched researched so many different dumb phones

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and I even bought one for myself

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But I don't I don't worry I'm making a completely separate video about this topic completely separate

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because i'm so passionate about it So that's gonna be in the works.

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I'll see you there.

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Okay, but um, yeah, so I have recently become Obsessed with the kiosita.

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What is it called?

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It's like the kiosita 902 Something something i'll put it on the screen.

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Okay.

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The name is a little too long for me I bought myself that phone it's in shipping right now

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And i'm literally switching from this to that.

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Um, I also just think they're really CUTE!

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Look at this phone.

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Look at this phone.

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Obviously i'm just gonna have to show you pictures

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because I don't have mine in real life yet

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But oh i'm like sus I'm really sus

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and I can't wait to get it working and use it as my main phone Which again, I have a whole video coming out about that very very very soon

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So if you've also been really sick of doom scrolling and

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or dire need of like getting rid of your phone addiction

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Like myself and like I know most people watching this relate to

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that video will be for you If any of

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that resonated with you and you're interested in any of

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that I Like for an obsession I highly recommend going down

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the dumb phone rabbit hole on the internet literally just look up like dumb phone on youtube There's

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so many good videos so many good creators who talk about it What dumb phones are

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which one they switch to how it changed their life things like that.

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Okay, so go ahead and go down that rabbit hole Okay

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Genuinely soon i'm gonna be hanging up calls like this Like okay, I just have to flex.

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I have to flex this to you.

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This is my screen time the past few weeks five hours You disgusting six hours

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and 40 minutes disgusting four hours and 54 minutes disgusting One hour

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and fifty seven minutes this week down 50 fucking percent try

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me ho try me ho try me do try me doomscroll try me you can't get to me Yeah, that's also another reason I've been like taking this to the

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bathroom instead of my phone reading this to bed instead of

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my phone using a binder instead of my phone you know stuff like

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that anyway he's got a little bit possessed

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but um dude it's been it's literally only been like a

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week of me being super conscious of my screen time

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and the way that i use my phone

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and i feel already it's only been one week okay i

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feel like a different person like my creative ideas are coming out really strong i have

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so many weird things i write about in this binder i'm obsessed with this series

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and i've already read six volumes you know like there's just way more room for your passions

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and your hobbies to exist

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when you aren't doom doom doom rotting scrolling dying on the internet

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that and just absorbing all this content

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that you don't even remember like why do we do

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that we scroll through like hundreds and hundreds of videos a day like

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and scroll through hundreds of comments a day

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and we don't even remember any of it what's the point of

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that anyway okay okay okay i'm literally i'm literally spoiling the video

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that i'm gonna be posting aside from this that's completely about this topic

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so let me just shut that up

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but yeah anyway that's been my most recent obsession next my hummingbird feeder

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or just a bird feeder in general mine's just a hummingbird feeder i put one outside my window

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and so far i've already seen two hummingbirds come visit it

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and it's the most magical experience i'll be chilling in my room i look up

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and there's a hummingbird i can't even explain it's insane no

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fucking social media bullshit can top seeing a hummingbird at your hummingbird feeder Anyway

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that the last topic is seeping into this one as you can tell i'm really passionate about it Yeah, you just get a little hummingbird feeder um fill it with some like sugar water

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and They come they flock to you and you get to look at them

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and it's magical You can also just get a regular bird feeder.

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Those are also magical It's one of the biggest highlights of my day is looking at the bird feeder.

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I'm like Oh my god, there's a fancy navy bird

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And then I have to like go tell everyone in my house There was

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And they're like did you get a picture of it like can we see it?

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I'm like, no, it was just there.

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Like, it was just there and it was, you know, like, shit my pants over it.

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But, which also leads me into another obsession, which is the Merlin Bird ID app, which is kind of like Pokemon Go for birds in real life.

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Again, nothing I'm saying in this video is sponsored.

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I genuinely just like this app.

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You get to mark every bird that you see.

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These are the birds I've seen.

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So it's like, when I see it, I come in here, I find the bird that I saw through their huge catalog of birds.

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That's easy to sort through because it shows you, like, which ones would be likely in your area

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and what they sound like

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so many pictures of what they could look like it's really easy to identify what your bird is

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but sometimes it's not which makes it really fun it's like a challenge like

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which one was it i have to see it again whatever you know what i mean

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and then you can add it to your catalog of birds

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so it's like literally collecting pokemon

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but they're real see i have my hummingbird oh yes where's

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my quail what's my quail i have a quail the fuck i put a quail in here

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and now it's not in here the fuck yeah

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and then you can also convince your friends to download it like my brother has it too

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so we'll like brag about which birds we found to each other i'll text him like

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when i saw the hummingbird i texted him frantically being like i saw a fucking hummingbird

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and i gotta put it in my list You know, so it's like a really fun like social activity with your family

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or your friends And it's also just like really fun

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and rewarding and it makes you actually look around at nature

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and be interested in Try and see birds and not be like this

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when you can look around at all these beautiful birds

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And then there's like this indicator of all the ones that you saw that you can like collect You know,

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so a bird feeder slash this bird app have also been one of my recent hobbies bird watching

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It's way more fun than it sounds.

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It's fucking awesome Actually, like this one's a little more sick

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and rare in my area and like I have it So it's like yeah, I have the fucking what is this called california quail do you?

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Kind of yeah, anyway Yeah,

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oh you got a magpie same Morning dev Rookie you can pin the exact location you saw the bird to

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and then label the location So it's like my location here is like home or like my brother's house

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Or the park like whatever you can like label it whatever the fuck you want where you saw the bird

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So that's also really nice.

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Anyway, again, not fucking sponsored.

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I am not sponsored to say any of this I'm, not getting a fucking dime for recommending any of this.

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I am Dead ass about that app next vision boards Okay, so if you're kind of like a crafty person

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or you believe in like manifestation

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Or just like visualizing what you want for your future and like stuff like that a vision board is so fun Um, I made one literally with sharpie

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and then now i'm making a more detailed one with my best friend with like cute paper

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and pens and tape and stuff

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but you can literally just do it with a marker

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and a piece of paper and you basically just like write down stuff

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that you're either wanting to achieve like your manifestations

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and like what you desire or like things

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that you really truly believe in or like quotes

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that are really meaningful to you whatever comes out comes out onto the vision board okay

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that was really fun my mom actually recommended doing it

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and i was like what and then i sat down

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and did it and i was like this is awesome

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so yeah shoot for the stars like on mine i wrote

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1 million subscribers in the middle of it like something crazy you want to achieve

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that might seem super unrealistic write it down anyway kind of

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thing you know what i mean that's been a pretty fun that's been a pretty fun activity

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and you can also

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if you want to be extra you can like put a bunch of stickers

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and like print out cute pictures

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and also it doesn't even have to be a vended board

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for like what you want manifestations it can be like a miku a miku themed Like scrapbook board, you know, like just just shit like that.

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Give me whatever you want, babe It can be whatever you want whatever Fulfills you in your heart.

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Okay, and then my last hobby or obsession

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that actually isn't recent is a very common occurring thing Especially on my channel is thrifting.

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I love a good thrift I love going to the thrift store.

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Sometimes when I don't know what to do I just I go to the thrift store.

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Sometimes I don't even find anything.

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I just go I'm, oh, I just want to look through all this junk Basically, I just want to look through all of it and see if I could find a gem Um, like the other day I went

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and the only thing I found was this like little kitty charm That's the only thing I found

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and it was worth it It's like going and scavenging

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and sometimes you come out with something and sometimes you don't just like picking through Everything and also just not being wasteful.

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Like if it's like

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when you're about to like order something on amazon ask yourself

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Can I thrift this most of the time the answer is yes First of all good for you

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because you save money and second of all good for the planet

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because we already have way too much shit like girl have

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you seen the landfills have you seen the ocean like like we're just a fucking parasite on this fucking earth

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but at least you can feel like you're kind of doing something

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and it's also just really fun to go to the thrift store

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and look through everything and come out with a one-of-a-kind item

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that wasn't mass-produced and sold in bulk at least not at the moment

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that you found it that probably was what happened like five

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or ten years before it was put in the thrift Store but yeah, you know what I mean?

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And I just love my room being filled with things

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that I thrifted because I know that that they came out of my little hunts My little scavenges at the store.

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Yes.

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These are all the things I found like a little crow

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And you never you never know what you're gonna come out

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with like sometimes I go in Sometimes I go in to find a pj t-shirt

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and then I come out with a cute little kitty cat Charm like I showed you

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or you come across a whole bag of like your favorite collector's item in the whole world

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and it's $3.99 instead of fucking $200 on eBay kind of thing.

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You know what I mean?

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There's just, there's so many little pockets of joy to find at the thrift store.

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Yeah.

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So yes, that completes my list of my most recent obsessions and hobbies.

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And I really hope one of them stuck out to you

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and you're going to kind of incorporate them into your life

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and what you're doing and my just my main suggestion

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because almost all of these have come from getting off my phone like i'm sick of

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that thing i'm sick of

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that thing like don't get me wrong i absolutely love creating

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content i love social media i love making youtube videos obviously it's my job

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but i just mean like the kind of content like tiktok and instagram reels

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that keep you like a zombie to your phone like I'm sick of

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that shit I'm sick of that shit I'm sick of

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that shit I'm sick of that shit I'm so sick of

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that shit who's with me who's with me fuck our fucking iphone our smartphones

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or whatever fuck fuck it anyway yeah that just keeps

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that just keeps wanting to come out

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but like I said a whole video will come out on

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that in a couple days anyways get creative embrace your interests Do shit that makes you happy fuck everything else.

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Okay.

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Love you.

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See you next time Bye

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This video is a goldmine for english speaking practice—you’ll pick up how to talk about hobbies with energy and personality, use casual phrases like “let me put you on” (meaning “let me introduce you to”), and describe obsessions in a relatable, conversational way. It’s perfect for learning to sound natural when sharing personal interests, a key skill for everyday conversations.

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The speaker uses lots of connected speech that native English speakers rely on. Notice how “got you” becomes “gotcha” in fast talk, and how “I don’t care” links into “I don’t care read this” with a quick, almost silent “and” between. Reductions like “it’s so fucking nuts” (where “fucking” is shortened to “f’kin” in casual speech) are also common—this is how people really talk, not just how it’s written. These sounds are essential for shadowspeak (mimicking native speech patterns) and mastering real-world English.

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To mirror the speaker’s rhythm, focus on stressing the words that add emotion: “so fucking nuts,” “best eye candy,” “genuinely obsessed.” She also uses pauses to build excitement—try pausing before big reveals like “Number one, starting off strong, is Vampire Night.” This is where the shadowing technique shines: repeat her lines out loud, copying her speed, pauses, and emphasis. It’ll help you sound less scripted and more like someone sharing a fun secret. Plus, practicing with videos like this is a great way to learn english with youtube—you’re not just studying, you’re absorbing how people actually communicate.

Whether you’re into manga, binders, or just want to chat about your own obsessions, this video gives you the tools to do it in English like a pro. Grab a notebook (or a binder!) and start shadowing—your conversational skills will thank you.

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

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Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	you've been writing · i've also been taking · you've been looking
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've even started · has been · has lined
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	laptops which is · hobby, which is · weak, which is
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was released · is sponsored · was put

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