Shadowing Practice: Ordering a Live Fish Return Pallet... What's Inside? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We just bought a truckload of live fish return mystery pallets for $563.
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We've got five massive boxes full of who knows what, and we're going to find out if we're going to make our money back
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or if this is going to be a big flop.
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They say there's a chance of some live fish in these boxes, so we'll be unloading and unboxing very carefully one box at a time.
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These fish could have been traveling for a long time, and we have no idea what kind of condition they're going to be in when we open it up, so we've got to be careful.
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Oh my God, this thing is so freaking heavy.
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Just picked up our pallet from the airport loading dock.
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They told us to bring a big ass truck
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So we were thinking you know what might as well not bring our truck They said make sure it's enclosed
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because of the weather so while the boys rented the u-haul again you haulers are here How's it going?
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Packages in the back.
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Keep her coming Jay Here we go
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Let's go We definitely could have used the truck
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but nothing better than an enclosed u-haul just in case it rains There's a lot here.
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I don't know how heavy this is going to be.
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Obviously, it was on a pallet, so they forklifted it on.
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We're going to see if we can actually get it off.
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Looks like there's about five boxes.
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There's really some live fish inside, though.
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You guys can see right here, live fish inside, so that's a good feeling.
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It says handle with care in the back, live fish on the back here as well.
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That is a good sign.
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Let's see if we can save some fish.
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I just pray they're alive, bro.
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You never know.
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So here's how we ended up with a truckload of fish mystery boxes just like this.
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Turns out when people order live fish and aquarium gear, there are a lot of returns.
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Some people change their minds, others can't take care of the fish, and sometimes the boxes just get lost or damaged in transit.
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Instead of throwing everything away, this online fish retailer has a unique way of clearing it all out.
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They auction off all the returns in these giant pallets.
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Now I know what you're thinking and what I'm thinking.
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How the heck are there going to be live fish in these return boxes?
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Why would anyone put live fish back in a box and send them back?
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Well, that's exactly what we're about to find out.
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These pallets can be filled with some perfectly healthy fish, or we might be in for a shocking, not-so-alive surprise.
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Either way, we're taking a gamble today.
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So we're going to find out if these fish are going to be alive, or are we about to unbox a whole lot of dead weight?
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So there's only one way to find out.
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Let's get these boxes in the warehouse and start unboxing one at a time.
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One, two, three.
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Oh my god!
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There can't be anything other than water in this.
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Okay.
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Oh.
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All right.
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My god.
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Okay.
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Okay, hang on.
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Watch the other one.
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I'm dying a little bit.
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Here, watch your fingers.
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This thing is so damn heavy.
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Get on the table.
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Careful.
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Is it on?
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Yeah.
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That's a guarantee at least between eight to ten spunters and a blackout.
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It's time to open the box.
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Right off rip, the top box definitely got neglected.
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A little bit of a deformation.
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Well, you can see it's protruding up there.
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Or it could just be that full.
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I don't know.
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Then it can't close it.
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Or you have to see.
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We're going to just start chopping away.
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Chopping wood.
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Let's go.
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I just love an incision there.
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At least we know it got here.
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Very well protected.
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It's actually pretty amazing how durable cellophane is.
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I know.
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You wrap this thing up, it's not going anywhere.
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Okay.
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Let's go.
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There you go.
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We're open.
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We're open.
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Let's go.
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We have, dude, five boxes.
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Five boxes full of who goes what.
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And we spent over 500 bucks on this.
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Now, the thing about these boxes, they can come with live fish, but they also can come with anything they want to return.
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So it can be literally anything.
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We can make profit.
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Do you think a lot of this stuff is going to be junk?
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Like, no, there actually could be like a nice, like aquarium in here.
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Nice fluable aquarium.
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250 bucks.
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One item can we can make half our money.
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100%.
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It's like Storage Wars, you know?
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Yeah, literally.
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You buy a storage and rip it open.
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You gotta find out what's inside.
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Holy crap, there they all are.
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Everything looks like a good...
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Ooh, we got water right here.
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Ooh, we got a soft box.
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We got a soft box.
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No. Water soft box.
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Not good, actually.
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The pallet's actually soaked.
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That's not good at all.
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The pallet's actually soaked.
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Should we do this one first?
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Yeah, get this one.
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Get this one.
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Hurry up.
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Okay, look at the damage over here, guys, before we unbox this.
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The whole pallet's wet.
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Look at this beating.
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Dude, we gotta get in here.
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We gotta get in here.
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We should just start cutting open.
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Let's get in there.
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Careful.
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If there's something in danger, we go with it.
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Oh my god, it's filled to the rim.
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It's filled to the rim, bro.
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Holy crap.
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Yo, boy!
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We already got some gas in here.
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Dude, we are wicked pissing down here.
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Bro, it kind of smells.
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Yeah, it does smell kind of bad.
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I think we forget about everything else in here and just get this bag out.
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That's why it stinks.
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Oh no!
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It's a big hole in the side.
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Oh, ooh!
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I just poured it on the filter.
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Okay, that's where all the water came from.
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We have a swimming pool in the bottom of this box.
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Look at this!
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It's a pond on the floor of the warehouse!
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It's a wicked, wicked.
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This is, I would say, about seven goldfish.
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We gotta pour one out for them.
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I agree, I agree, I agree.
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Good, good.
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Pour one out for the boys.
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RIP.
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Honestly, we bought this thing to try to save these fish.
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These guys didn't make it.
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What a terrible start.
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What a terrible start.
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We gotta see if we got anything else inside of this box here.
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See if we got survivors.
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We got another bag of fish.
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Dude, we got another bag of fish.
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We got another bag of fish.
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Another bag of fish?
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Tell me this is alive.
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Somebody is alive.
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Dude!
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That's a move!
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Let's go!
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What?
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That's a naso?
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That is a naso tank.
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How many more?
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That's a naso tank.
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This, dude, we might have a whole box full of fish.
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Like, every box could have a hundred fish in here.
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That's a freaking naso tank.
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Look at this thing.
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Good size.
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Let me just check if there's any more fish in here.
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I do see a suspicious bag.
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Everything in here is ruined.
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No. I think that's it for fish.
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That is it for fish.
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But we do have some good items in here.
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I thought maybe a fish would be in this.
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Sand, a giant filter, and another filter.
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Here's everything we got inside the first box, including this Naso Tang.
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Let's pour him in to see how good he looks.
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The Naso Tang right here, he is pretty big.
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I'd say this thing is about a $200 fish.
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And he looks honestly really good.
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His colors are great.
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He doesn't have too many spots.
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He doesn't have any spots on them.
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And he doesn't look very stressed, to be honest with you.
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He's not breathing that hard.
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He looks beautiful.
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His colors look great, and he's a moose.
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I think he's going to be perfect in one of our saltwater ponds.
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Now, let me tell you something cool about these fish.
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They can live up to 30 years and get up to 18 inches long.
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This guy's probably about six inches long, so three times the size.
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So he's going to be a great fit for our predator pond right here because he's going to get nice and big.
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This naso tang is beautiful.
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If you look super close, looks like the fish has lipstick on.
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He is really beautiful.
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Now, the total of all this for box number one, including the fish, is about $345 bucks.
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So we're already almost to the break even point, man.
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I'm actually super pumped up with this guy right here.
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What a surprise to see him coming in looking so insanely healthy.
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I cannot wait to see how he looks in the pond.
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I think he's going to be a great addition.
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Let's get him inside.
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Guys, this is a $200 fish.
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That is freaking crazy.
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Let's go.
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Speed demon.
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Let's go, dude.
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Perfect size fits right in with the crew.
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Queen Elizabeth, Steve.
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And now we need a name for this guy.
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He He looks so insanely good inside of here.
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I can't wait to see what the rest of the box has inside.
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Now we have made an extremely good start and that was only box number one.
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That means if the boxes are like the first one, we're gonna have thousands of dollars of fish in the rest of these boxes.
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We've already found something super unexpected
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so we got to get into box number two this one's
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a bigger in this one this one is was the one
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we were worried off right off rip let's get the deformed one out of the way early
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because this one's a smashed this is a smash it's a
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smashed burger yeah holy cow what let's go we're gonna make our money back in more dude yeah
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but this one looks like it caught on fire look at this This thing, Fluoable FX6, that's retail for $350.
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Let's go.
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But that's, yeah, no, this is quite unusable.
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Rusted screws.
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Quite rusty.
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I think you know what to do with it.
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We got that out of the way early.
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Just smashed something early.
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Interesting smell.
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The amount of fish that just came out of that box.
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Interesting smell coming from that.
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That was definitely, had some water in it too.
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Now because the first box had some dead fish inside, We quickly unboxed it to find some survivors.
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Okay, hold on, we got something here.
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We got something here with water.
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These are crabs.
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Crabs.
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Somebody returned emerald crabs.
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I love these guys.
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Dude, I know, I was just thinking the same thing.
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We gotta feed one of these to the grouper.
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Now let's see if Bluey, our grouper, wants to eat one of these guys.
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Oh my God, he looks really interested.
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He is super fired up.
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Oh, Brooke.
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Oh, we missed it.
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The sailman tank.
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And we threw one crab in and Bluey seemed interested at first, but he decided to turn away and let the crab live another day.
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So the crab scurried to the rocks to find a hiding place.
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And because they're not gonna be eaten, we get to throw all these guys in the pond to now have some crabs.
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Box number two was kind of a flop.
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We got a broken filter and all this miscellaneous stuff.
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I'd say it adds up to about 20 bucks.
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We're two boxes down with a total of $365.
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We have three more boxes to go.
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Let's see if we can break even.
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This one's heavy.
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I love me a heavy box.
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I think we should try to do these a lot faster
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if there's any fish in here they could almost be dead
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and based off the last two boxes it looks like every
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single box is gonna have some live fish let's go let's
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go keep it moving keep it moving ooh long extension cord
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where's this going this is always fun big pump wow wow
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what's with the used products bro ew we're looking for the
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fish here nothing in this brother some nice sand come on
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what else we got in here oh is he alive he's
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alive let's go this little guy was not on our radar
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and we don't exactly have a place set up for him
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so we headed to our local pet supermarket of course in the u-haul
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because this is gonna be a big tank to grab a
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home for him only real men by betas in uh u-hauls
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my beta tanks in u-hauls i think this is a good
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size for him might be a little too small we also got gravel
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and plants to make sure he feels comfortable got the best
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tank at the store had to bring the u-haul for there she is
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and we hurried back to the warehouse and set up his tank
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that way we can get right back in the unboxing to
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find some more survivors be sure to drop your best name
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ideas down in the comments for this little dude box number
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three had 65 dollars worth of stuff in it including this little beta right here
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that brings our total to 430 dollars let's see
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if box number four is going to throw us a curveball
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box four coming right up we do have a couple hundred more dollars to go though
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so let's hope we can at least make our money back god there's a lot of people we gotta see
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if there's any more survivors in here be careful with it no that's There's nothing.
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There's so many pebbles!
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What is this?
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Sand!
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That's a good five bucks.
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You know what to do.
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Leave it to you.
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Careful!
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Careful!
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There's only one way to do it. And fish!
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Yes, careful!
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I mean, just a ridiculous amount of pea pebbles in that box.
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That is seriously absurd.
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We got an aquarium, though!
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We got an aquarium.
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Oh, there it is.
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There it is.
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There it is.
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Inside of it.
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What is that?
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TORFISH!
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Let's go!
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What is that?
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Chocolate chip?
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The survivor!
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Number four survivor.
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That right there is a chocolate chip star with all the pee pebbles in the entire country have been inside this box.
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Oh my god.
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This is going to be a nightmare to create.
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Dude, that's fire.
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Box number four has about $80 worth of stuff in it.
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This pallet has been awesome so far.
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If you guys want us to order another one, let's get 10,000 likes on this video and we'll go ahead and order another pallet.
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That brings our total up to $510.
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We're almost at that break even point.
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Let's get this chocolate chip star into the pond.
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Chocolate chip star is a great starfish for the pond.
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They move around like crazy.
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And as you can see in the back, he's got tentacles popping in and out.
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So this guy is very active.
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Let's see if Buddy wants to hang out right along the glass.
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His tentacles are already out.
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Let's give him a chance to find his footing, get along that glass.
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Oh, there we go.
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Already right along the side of the window here.
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The pond is looking great.
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That's our first starfish added to the pond.
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He already looks super cool right along the glass.
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Hey, look, he's dark.
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Patrick.
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I love him.
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Well, we've made it to our final box.
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Let's see if box number five is going to push us over the edge and we can make it all worth it.
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We have made quite the mess in the warehouse today.
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But that's why we got the warehouse, so we can just go crazy.
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No rolls!
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Let's get box five.
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Come on.
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It's so light.
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It's light?
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It's so light.
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That's devastating.
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What do you mean, bro?
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Never judge a box by its cover or its weight.
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Never judge a box by its cover or weight.
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What the heck is this in this one?
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This one's literally empty.
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How much more money do we have to go?
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We need $55.
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$55 to break even?
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Ooh, I don't know, bro.
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Pellets?
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10 15 15 15 40 more dollars to go in a plan two dollars My god,
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I hate that they did as a two dollar things now the math is gonna be a problem
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That brings us up to $28 Wow Wow 28 bucks come on talk to me talk to me talk to me whoa
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$7 Jack oh those could be good
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Come on baby fish is this gonna bring us over the edge is the dinner alive Pajama Cardinal!
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That's like 20 bucks! Is it?
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It's alive.
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It looks upright.
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It counts.
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Suspect water.
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Suspect water.
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Let's go!
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Did we do it?
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What are we at?
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$5.82!
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$5.82!
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We are so much math.
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We're like $20 in the green right now.
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Let's go!
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Go, we made it all back.
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That's if we- I know.
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Like, imagine if the stuff that was returned because it's obviously broken was countable.
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We had a filter.
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We were huge.
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In the green.
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$20 in the green and we got ourselves a nice little cardinal fish.
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I think we order another one, bro.
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Smash the like button, 10,000 likes.
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We're gonna order another one.
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It's up to the people.
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Maybe we'll order two.
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We do what the people ask for.
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Now, you guys may have seen a giant, terrifying shark swimming around in the background of this video.
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You guys should click right here to see how we got that shark into this pond.
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It was one of the most crazy videos we've ever filmed.
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
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Make sure to drop a like if you wanna see another pilot.
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We'll see you in the next one.
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Peace.
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I'm going to go to the next video.
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About This Lesson
You're practicing English with "Ordering a Live Fish Return Pallet... What's Inside?" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.
Focus on sounding like the speaker — not just repeating words. With 15–30 minutes of daily practice, you'll build real-world speaking confidence.
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.