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I got a little bit bored and decided to stay at the most luxury animal hotel.
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Like this one, with real lions.
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We're gonna have to stay at three separate hotels, working off the food pyramid.
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From the Rhino Lodge, then the Wolf Lodge, and if we survive, the Lion Lodge.
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I'm not staying here.
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I'm going.
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I'm leaving.
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And throughout these experiences, we'll be testing out one-star reviews to see if they're legit or not.
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Starting with the Rhino Lodge, that looks like your grandma's old cottage, and supposedly there's real rhinos inside of it.
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Rhino!
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Oh my god, he just comes running out of the door.
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Joining me on this trip are my three idiot friends.
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Nadewe, Vlaza, and Juicy.
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With the three of them here, I can assure you that this video will turn into a disaster.
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Sadly, there were no rhinos on the inside, but instead we were shocked with one of the nicest multi-floor lodges we stayed in, which is unlike a lot of the one-star reviews we read,
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which said these places are dirty.
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Why is there so much wood?
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We can make a campfire!
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Yo, we have marshmallows.
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Oh my god, what's on the radio?
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Who's playing the radio?
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We have a radio!
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The whole bottom floor contained the living room, a secret room, a whole nother room, which had its own bathroom.
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What if a rhino like, uh, like peeks in on you?
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He likes what he sees.
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We made our way upstairs to show off probably the biggest room in the entire lodge, the master bedroom.
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Another bedroom!
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Oh my god, that's insane.
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Do it easy, is this?
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What is going on here?
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Where did this spawn from?
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Dude, this is another bar.
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Oh, an actual shower!
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Oh, that's so cool!
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That's a cool wooden toilet!
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I've never seen a wooden toilet, but that's cool.
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The master bedroom was for sure the best room in the entire lodge.
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And it's already looking like this one-star review is a sham.
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But we still have a lot of other hotel rooms to stay in.
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And we still have to explore the secret room on the bottom floor.
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Let's get one more room.
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Okay, let's go.
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It's pretty sick.
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It's gonna be nothing.
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It's gonna be one little shack.
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Is that what you asked?
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Yeah.
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I've been being with me with years.
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You think I would...
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Now open it!
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You don't think I would change it up?
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Open it!
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Okay, you ready now, Nick?
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I'm ready.
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This is a big moment.
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Get ready.
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What is that sound?
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What is this?
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Bro, what is that?
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Right, that's your plan.
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I am not staying in here!
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You put my suitcase in here too?
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Why didn't you put my suitcase in here?
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I'm not staying in here!
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Now we have all the rooms.
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That goes that way.
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I'm not staying in here!
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Now that everyone is situated into the rooms, The boys have no idea what is upcoming.
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It was time to face one of the most common one star review, which is not being able to see the animals.
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I mean, you can't call it a rhino lodge if you're not gonna see the rhinos.
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Ohhhh!
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Where did the rhinos go?
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They de-spawned!
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Oh, they ate all the leaves.
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And they just left.
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Oh, they ate all the leaves.
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There's that thing sleeping in the back, you see that?
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That's a rock.
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No, that's a rhino.
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Oh.
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What are those?
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Are those lions?
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I think they're all lions.
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I think they're deers.
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There's no way they put ryan's.
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Ryan's.
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Ryan's?
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Why is Ryan in a cage?
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I smell poop!
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EW!
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Ahhhh...
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The natural scent.
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Yo, you're weird, bro.
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Why are you guys not reacting to this?
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It's normal, what are you talking about?
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And of course, to our luck, no rhinos showed up.
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These reviews might just be true, but that's not gonna stop us from trying.
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We're gonna try to lure in the rhino in tonight.
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We have a special treat for you guys.
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We're gonna be roasting marshmallows.
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Oh my god, they're like those...
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Gooshy, mooshy, mooshy, mooshy...
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Yeah, this is like American marshmallows.
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Oh my god.
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The finest glasses of foam.
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Here you go sir.
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I love foam.
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Perfect rotation.
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Cooking all sides of the marshmallow at once.
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My marshmallow is on fire right now.
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What have you done?
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That just adds flavor.
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Look at that.
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What is that?
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That was perfectly cooked.
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This is cooked.
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Eat up.
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Oh my god, he's gonna crunch the sugar.
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It's not bad.
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Really?
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It's got a good crunch to it with the night wrapping up
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and you know no rhino showing up I think you're clickbaiting the viewers.
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I don't think there's real rhinos.
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Yeah
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This is a backyard We had our marshmallows
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and then you know we went for dinner But the boys
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and I were completely shocked to what we saw the next morning.
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There's a rhino in the backyard Boy, that's crazy It's right there.
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That's right We logged out right before we were about to leave and we saw a rhino at our lodge
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There's a weird dog in my backyard.
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What the boys don't know is
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that they now have to touch the rhino before they can move up the food pyramid to actual dangerous creatures.
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If we're gonna stay in a rhino lodge, okay, we gotta be able to interact with him.
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Oh, he's coming up.
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He's already, he's ready to say hello.
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What?
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Oh my god, you're touching his voice on?
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Oh, okay.
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If this hit me, this is like stone.
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Giant fingernail.
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Giant fingernail.
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Two giant fingernails.
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Oh my god, I can feel hair.
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It's like a lizard.
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That is crazy.
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Hi.
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He's got a mustache.
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So this thing charges at us.
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So far, we have lucked out.
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We have seen some animals and honestly gotten really clean rooms.
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But we're not here to only stay in three lodges.
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We're here to rate the entire safari park, which has so much to offer from the animals, the experience, and even the food.
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We decided to rent out buggies so we could explore the zoo to go find the animals.
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Oh, hi.
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Our seats are soaked.
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Good morning to you too.
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Another common one-star review is that these buggies are dangerous around kids.
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I'm sure the people driving the buggies are very responsible.
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Liza, press the gas.
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Life like this sure is great, isn't it?
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Sure is.
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Love score is good.
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Uh, watch this.
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Liza, you should break really hard, buddy.
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Okay.
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What is wrong with you?
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What are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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You brought us here.
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Stop it.
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Stop it.
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Go left!
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Why are you on the dirt?
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I am this shortcut, bro.
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You do not know shortcuts.
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What's up, guys?
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This entire zoo was absolutely stunning.
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It was unlike any other zoo I've seen before.
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From the scenery to the decorations, it was all so well put together.
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Hey, man. So beautiful.
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Beautiful.
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I could die here.
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And for the most part, it was quite empty.
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There was only a couple people at max, which is weird because we read a one-star review that overcrowding was an issue.
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Anyway, we decided to grab breakfast at a place called the Garden Room, which was absolutely stunning, but it was just filled with a bunch of old people.
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We had your usual English breakfast from bacon, eggs, pancakes, and even beans on toast.
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But overall, for the price being so high, I had definitely had better food.
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So this review just might be onto something, but we'll see what the other restaurants were gonna go to.
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After eating breakfast and preparing to go see some more animals, we somehow found a place where you could host weddings.
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Wee mee mee mee mee mee Oh we stand here on this beloved day On a good Tuesday morning
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Blazer and Nadewe Would you...
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What's the words?
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My...how did you find this guy?
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Would you be together till death?
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Yask you Oooooooo Ooooooo Hmmm I need a...
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Can I get help from a friend?
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Another common one star review is
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that you had to be an olympic athlete to explore this entire park
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Which is honestly one of the first one star reviews I have to agree with.
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But that's sort of the reason why they gave you these buggies in the first place.
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So exploring it was easy.
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And with the buggies, we decided to travel to animals at the same league as the wolves so we could prepare ourselves.
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Brown rare enclosure room.
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Oh, that's a big one, that's a big one.
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Oh my god.
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Wait, that's actually...
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You said they were small.
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No, I saw only the small ones over there.
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I haven't seen that one.
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That one is huge.
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Dude, do a roll!
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Sucks, it's coming for you.
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He's axi.
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A fence is separating between you and death.
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Isn't that crazy?
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No, I think if there was no fence there, we'd still be chill.
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They don't really eat meat.
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This thing, dude, look at their diet.
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Half their diet is meat.
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Oh, they're so cute.
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Hi!
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The hands are like humans.
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Yeah.
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They could read and write.
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Guys, I'm going to kiss a bear.
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I'm going to watch this.
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Eat him.
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Oh, no, I hate the bear.
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I hate him.
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No!
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The poor bear.
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I think I'm ready to raise babies.
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Not only were we getting a lot of time with these animals, we also realized it was still uncrowded.
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Usually these face-to-face encounters is with multiple people, but for the most part, it was just us.
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We might have just debunked another one-star review, but the trip is not over yet.
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We were now ready to face our second hotel room, actual predators from the wild.
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Welcome to the Wolf Lodge.
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The wolf lodge was a direct upgrade from the Rhino Lodge.
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Not only was the whole place bigger, but we had direct access to the wolves themselves, which was already getting us hyped.
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That's a full moon, baby.
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As soon as we stepped in, this multi-floor lodge was an obvious step up.
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The only difference is that we felt watched the entire time.
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Oh, it's so pretty.
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It is different.
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Oh my god, they're right there.
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Oh my god, they are.
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They're looking at us.
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We could go outside.
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Yo, they know we're here.
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Yo, this is a movie theater.
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You're not kidding.
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Wait, there's actually a whole movie theater?
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Yo, there is!
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Oh my god.
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This is awesome.
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Not only was there a movie theater, there was a whole living room that was then connected to another room.
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What is that room?
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Oh, that's locked.
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Oh, it's not.
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What's up?
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Oh, that's nice.
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The bathroom was nice too, which is completely destroying this one star review of these places being called dirty.
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Yeah, I can check that out myself in here.
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Which already got us hyped for the master bedroom because that has been by far the best rooms of these lodges.
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What's in here?
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This is the master bedroom.
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Very nice.
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What a beautiful view.
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The master bedroom did not let us down.
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It was absolutely massive and it even had a walk-in shower.
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We have another wooden toilet.
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Hooray.
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Ah, oh whoa, what?
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Dude, this is so fuzz.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god.
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Move, move.
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Give me some room.
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Oh my god.
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Oh, this is nice.
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Yo, I can actually just sleep here.
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I can sleep on this.
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On top of that, even from the top floor, you could feel the wolves eyes just preying on you.
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They knew where you were in the hotel.
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Hello, my children.
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Awoo!
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We'll be right with you guys.
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Even with all this, Nadway had no idea that we were gonna make him face these wolves by himself.
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So make sure to subscribe to wish him luck because one subscriber we're gonna send space one day.
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Ooh, and then ooh, now we have a little patio garden.
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Wait, that looks like a deer.
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Look up.
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That tree looks like a deer.
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That's a tree, you see.
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It's a deer.
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You don't see that?
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What are you talking about?
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You see it?
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Yo!
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What?
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Yo!
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What did he find?
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Yo!
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What's in there?
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Absolutely nothing, that's crazy.
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What does this say?
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Caution, no more than four persons of the time, please not lean anywhere else.
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Let's all go in here, all six of us.
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Let's all six of us go in here.
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Windows?
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Where are they?
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They're all the way over there.
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I see you!
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I see you in the distance.
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Where is he going?
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I think we need to get closer.
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Good thing we have a giant playground gym that gets closer.
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Yay, pregame!
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Hey, no more than four persons at a time!
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Get out!
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Well, technically he counts at three people because of his kilo weight.
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Okay.
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As we made our way into the treehouse, Nadewe had no idea that we were gonna stay up here and watch him face the wolves down below.
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We can see the rhinos from here too.
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That's kind of an upgrade.
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Hollow, what's me, ready?
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Ready?
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Oh!
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It's nearly feeding time.
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Oh wait, are they feeding them?
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Wait, isn't it our time?
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Do we have to go?
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Yeah.
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Let's be honest.
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We're gonna stay here and we're gonna watch you feed the wolves inside the cage.
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Me?
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Yeah.
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Alone?
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Yeah.
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What's good?
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What's good, my boy?
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While we were in the safety of the treehouse, I had Nadway sign his life away.
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That way he couldn't sue if, you know, anything bad happened.
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Why didn't you sign me up for the only thing that you need to sign for?
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Probably a good time to mention, if you're sensitive to dead animals, I recommend skipping right here.
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But if you're okay, just don't do this unless you're around trained professionals.
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Oh my god, I do not want to touch that.
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They're growling already.
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They're after the food.
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They're organizing who's having what, basically.
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Yo, I feel bad.
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Hey!
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Okay.
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Oh my god, he caught it.
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It's so wet.
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Look at them.
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If you want a little doggie, I'mma name you Doggy.
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Do you know what?
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Do they even eat the bones?
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There you go.
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Yep, they do indeed.
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Do they even eat the bones?
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Oh, look.
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Let's eat the bones right now.
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Oh my god, he jumped over him.
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Ah!
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Nom nom nom nom nom nom.
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Those wolves are lucky that Fence was there to hold Nadway back.
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Nadway would have torn them apart.
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Look at them.
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They're all fed.
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After feeding them and wrapping up our day, We were hoping the wolves would join us in the cabin later that day, but they sort of just disappeared in the woods Nowhere to be found we were hoping
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that we could find them in the tree house, but they were completely Camouflaged in the forest.
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We didn't see them once we ended up wrapping up for the night
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and enjoying the movie theater to the fullest We had to watch Harry Potter
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because we were in the United Kingdom after all we successfully survived the wolf lodge But it's not over yet.
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We still have to face the top of the food pyramid the lions themselves In order to prepare ourselves for this encounter,
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we decided to go face to face with other animals at that caliber.
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I decided to send out Plaza and Adwe to become one with the monkeys.
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Well, Juicy and I, we're gonna have to face a leopard.
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These things scare me, man.
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Look at them, they look so intelligent.
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Look at them.
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Eat up!
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Are they strong?
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Yes, they're a lot stronger than we are.
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Really?
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They're so tiny.
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And they do have a reputation of aggression.
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Do they lift weights?
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No. Oh wow, there is right there.
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Hi little guy.
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He would rip me apart in pieces.
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Hey, you'll remember not to murder me tonight, right?
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Yeah!
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Wow, he's so fuzzy though.
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Which one is like the leader, the alpha, the most alpha?
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So at the moment we don't have a dominant male.
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The position is open.
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This one's chill.
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He's chilling.
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At this point of the trip, I don't know if not seeing enough animals can even be said said because that's all we have been seeing, animals.
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So at this point I think this one-star review is a complete sham.
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Though I don't know if seeing all these animals will prepare us to see the top of the food chain, the king of the jungle, a lion.
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Yo!
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Yo!
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Yo!
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They look AI generated.
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Yo, he looks at me like I'm his next meal.
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What are they looking at?
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Dude, I'm his next meal.
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If you guys want us to get eaten, make sure to subscribe.
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With the lions already stalking us down, eyeing every single movement we make, we started heading towards the biggest and most expensive lodge we were staying at.
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But the lions, they were not having any of it.
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Are you afraid of them or something?
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They're just friendly, they're fuzzy and wuzzy.
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You need to get down.
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That's what you need to do.
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There is this little bit of metal between you and that tiger.
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You know what's funny?
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There's actually no metal in that shack over there.
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What?
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It's just that one inch.
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He's drooling, he's drooling bro, we want to.
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The property we were staying on was absolutely massive.
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From a giant mansion to an even bigger backyard that was just filled with a bunch of different decoration pieces.
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We got where you guys are sleeping tonight, this is the first part of the house.
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Dude, this actually would be cool.
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Right?
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Is it warm in here at least?
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A little shack?
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Is it warm?
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Oh yeah, it's nice.
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Where is that for?
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Why is that here?
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And so you're outside but you're also inside.
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Just go inside.
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These two brothers were called Atlas lions
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and they're completely extinct in the wild before you complain and say keeping them in a zoo is bad Well, most of the money we put down for this hotel is
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all for the lions well-being They have infinite food free health care Multiple acres to stay around in
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and that sounds a lot better to me than being poached in the wild There's a bathtub.
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Oh, yeah, ignore him.
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Yeah, it's a whole bathtub.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, and all the water.
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Yo!
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Yeah, ignore all the marks on the glass.
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Oh, that's fine.
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Oh, it's warm, Joe.
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I want to do it.
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Oh, my God, yo.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, my God.
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That gave me a heart attack.
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Yo.
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Jesus Christ.
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Dude, the whole shackle shape.
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These lines are lucky that glass was there, because Nadway would just tear them apart.
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Oh look, they're digging.
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He's trying to dig under.
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Yeah, he's trying to dig a tunnel, come on, man.
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These lions supposedly sleep 21 hours a day.
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That is an absolute lie.
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You will see, as we tried to experience this lodge to the fullest, they were trying to eat us the entire time.
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I told you about it.
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You know, eat us the same thing cats do on the door, you know, when they try to get in.
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But now, it was time to explore the best part, which was this giant mansion that allowed you to sleep next to these lions.
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Yo, this is right.
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I said it's a mega mansion.
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It's a mega mansion.
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It's sick.
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We're staying in this house, but you got you got two kitty cats right outside, which is kind of funny.
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This is better be bulletproof.
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I'm checking.
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Oh, no, it's not.
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It's not.
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Ow.
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That hurts so much.
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We have the master bedroom.
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It's all lions, bro.
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They really want us to look at the lions.
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Imagine waking up and you just see a pair of eyes looking at you.
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On top of the master bedroom being a giant room being able to see the lions, There was an even bigger living room looking straight out of
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a modern billionaire mansion There was even a second floor that wasn't much we can sleep in separate beds,
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but we can hold hands at the same time And had a cool view of down below over here.
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We got the bathroom.
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It's so big to be honest You can we can fit an entire family in here No,
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we're taking don't let me out the best part of this place was the open shower
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that really just topped it all off The one weird thing is probably this giant glass window in the bathroom
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because it's kind of weird when you have so many guests
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Hopefully no one goes outside and looks at me while I'm using the bathroom.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, you're all good.
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Yeah, yeah We're just chilling Hey, what's up?
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Oh
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What the f- What the guys don't know is
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that the next day they're gonna have to go face to face with these lions
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But for now we're just gonna explore this lodge to the fullest from even using the bath
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and even going next to the lions I'm hoping this glass
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is like bulletproof because- Dude the whole fear is shaking I'm not staying here, I'm going, I'm leaving You don't want a hot bath with me?
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I'm leaving Okay, I'll do it myself Hi You know, me and Mr. Fuzzy, we just,
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we be chilling in the bathtub.
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You know.
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Uh oh.
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He's digging under.
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He's gonna dig me out.
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What is going on?
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He just wants to join me.
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Dude, he loves you so much.
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He just wants to join me.
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You have your time, I promise you.
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I'm gonna have to go to bed with this guy trying to eat me all night, okay?
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Like, he wants me.
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Now that the day was slowly ending
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and we were preparing to sleep next to the lions We ended up putting up a campfire
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and we continued watching Harry Potter But I guess the lions weren't a big fan
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because they ended up doing this It's pooping in front of us Awww Big dookie in front of us bro,
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I'm gonna sleep here Now you think because it's dark outside the lions would be sleeping But the exact opposite happened
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To be honest, they put the glass here so you could see the lions, but it really felt like the lions were just watching us.
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We tried to get the best sleep we could, but that's still not going to prepare us that we're going to have to go face to face with these lions.
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Good morning.
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I think we had a somewhat shaky sleep.
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These lions don't actually sleep, okay?
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I got twice my lions, a little ring in my ear.
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He's awake.
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They don't sleep.
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They awake all night.
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Before we face off with these lions, I have to say this place was a lot more positive than negative, and it makes sense.
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I mean, most of the reviews are positive.
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I mean, it is a luxury animal hotel, and it seems like the negative stuff really just happens if you just had an unlucky day.
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But we'll see how lucky my friends are
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when they have to go touch the lion when I watch safely from a distance.
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If that fence wasn't there, we would be goners.
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Oh yeah, they would just kill us.
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They would just kill us instantly.
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They're getting into the cage.
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Look how tall he is.
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He's taller than me.
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Oh my god.
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I'm gonna keep my distance.
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Here comes the airplane.
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Open up.
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I can feel his breath.
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I can feel it.
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Oh my god.
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These lions are just lucky the fence is there, because Nadway would have torn them apart.
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Oh, he's sitting.
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I give it like a six out of 10 low.
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And with that, we have successfully survived the entire food pyramid.
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If you want to see us survive even more weird hotels, click right here.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Overnight in the most Luxury Animal Hotel”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lion, rhino, lodge. This video has 553 sentences and 4117 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:43. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 87 of its 553 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| lion noun | /ˈlaɪən/ | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
| rhino noun | /ˈɹaɪ.noʊ/ | A rhinoceros. |
| lodge verb | /lɑd͡ʒ/ | To be firmly fixed in a specified position. |
| marshmallow noun | /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/ | Marsh mallow, a species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain. |
| explore verb | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | To examine or investigate something systematically. |
| buggy noun | /ˈbʌ.ɡi/ | A small horse-drawn cart. |
| mansion noun | /ˈmæn.ʃən/ | A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy. |
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| fence noun | /fɛns/ | A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc. |
| pyramid noun | /ˈpɪɹ.ə.mɪd/ | An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as… |
| backyard noun | /bækˈjɑːd/ | A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. |
| bathtub noun | /ˈbæθtʌb/ | A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath). |
| fingernail noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌneɪl/ | The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation. |
| mushy adjective | /ˈmʌ.ʃi/ | Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. |
| shack noun | /ʃæk/ | A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| eat up verb | To consume completely. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| wrap up verb | To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| get down verb | /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/ | To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down. |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| log out verb | To exit a user account in a computer system, so that one is not recognized until signing in again. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Is that what you asked?
- You don't think I would change it up?
- Why didn't you put my suitcase in here?
- It's normal, what are you talking about?
- Wait, isn't it our time?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been being · have been seeing |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if there was no fence there, we'd still · If that fence wasn't there, we would be |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is situated · is cooked · are soaked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | review, which is · park, which has · max, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 130 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bathtub /ˈbæθtʌb/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/, mushy /ˈmʌ.ʃi/, shack /ʃæk/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/
- Long words — get the stress right: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like lion, rhino, lodge.
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.