Shadowing Practice: Rhett & Link Answer The Internet's Best Questions - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I'm Rhett.
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And I'm Link.
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And you know what we're gonna do?
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We're gonna do the complete interview.
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Not auto, just complete.
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This is from Death to Humans.
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Why is it Rhett and Link and not
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Link and Rhett?
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Good question, this is the best question.
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What a coincidence.
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We are pleased to announce that it is becoming
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Link and Rhett for the rest of our career.
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And what did that just make you think? is that a man named Lincoln Rhett.
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That's the reason.
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Rhett's always told me that that was the reason, but the byproduct is he got to be first.
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So I'm like, Lincoln Rhett?
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Yeah, it does kind of sound like a person.
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It's also alphabetical, reverse alphabetical.
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What are your assumptions about Rhett and Link?
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Fan assumption.
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And then Cancerous Tattoo replied, Rhett knows Link's birthday off the top of his head that
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Link does not have Rhett's birthday memorized.
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Okay, what's my birthday?
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The year included?
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It's the day you were born.
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It's a great day.
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What is the year?
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What year?
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October 11th, 1977, come on.
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Oh wow, okay, that was quick.
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I had doubts about the year, because we have a different year.
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What was my birthday?
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June 1st, 1978.
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But the thing is, is that we're basically the same age,
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and I thought maybe you would just forget that the year was different because of how years work.
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Well, that is also an assumption.
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So they were wrong.
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I know.
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What do you mean how years work?
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I don't know how your brain works.
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They work sequentially.
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Boy -o, 9 ,000.
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What do Rhett and Link think about fans approaching them in public?
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There's a reason why I'm wearing a hat and sunglasses and a bandana.
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I wear a bandana.
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Yeah, I looked at you.
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I'm talking about in the airport.
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Yeah, he's like the Lone Ranger up in the...
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And then everybody's trying to get pictures with the Long Ranger.
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The Long Ranger.
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Is that what I just said?
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You did.
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I said the Long Ranger.
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You did.
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That's my name.
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That's good.
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That's my airport name.
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No, I think it's really cool to be recognized by people.
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The thing I love about what we do is that everybody who recognizes us is happy to see us.
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A lot of people can't say that.
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Okay.
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Look, it's fine by me.
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I don't dress up like the Lawn Ranger.
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This is from...
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Just some Henderson.
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Just some Henderson?
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Has Link addressed how crazy viral this picture is?
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I have not addressed the when the fajitas come out sizzling.
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We were reading all the things you needed to put in a dance in order to attract someone.
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I don't believe that fajitas had anything to do with that moment in time.
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No. Of course, that's my old haircut.
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Now, in this picture, Rhett, who is not pictured, of the millions and millions of views that this meme got,
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where I am featured, there's no Rhett to be seen.
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But I am directing you.
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But Rhett is directing me.
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I am directing you.
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He is off camera.
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He is here.
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He is in your position.
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I'm telling you what to do.
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Well, you didn't say, come on, you know, when the fajitas come out sizzling.
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You didn't say that.
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Now, you may know more than I do, but it seems to me that the picture itself got traction,
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and then it was attached to the fajitas come out sizzling.
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I don't even know what the fajitas coming out sizzling part is about.
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Oh, you know how they come out with the steam.
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I know it makes you want to dance.
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It makes you feel good.
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I know that, but like...
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Not to burst that bubble, but they just squirt some stuff on it.
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They just...
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Water.
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They just squirt a little water on there.
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They do.
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It's not even really that big of a deal.
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In fact, it's probably worse because of that.
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They're watering down your fajitas just so they come out sizzling.
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Yeah.
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No underscore woodpecker 4977 asks, Rhett and Link's dogs are exactly what I expected.
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Every time our dogs appear on the show, whether it's Sean or Barbara, how much I look like my dogs.
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Yeah.
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I think they're just like a man who has a lot of hair on his face, must be a dog, must look like a dog.
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I can't look like both of those dogs.
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Don't sell yourself short.
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You look exactly like Sean.
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Sean?
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I can't make my...
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Please put up a split screen with him and Sean.
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I cannot look at two.
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My visual field does not have the degree of separation that Sean does.
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His two eyeballs are like, it's like, have you ever watched two different televisions at once?
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That's his life.
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I wish.
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Next question.
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What's our critical lore?
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Most online communities, there is a specific bit of lore that once you learn about it,
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you are officially in too deep and you can no longer reverse the massive psychic damage you have inflicted on yourself.
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In this corner of online, it's knowing about...
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Some more recent lore includes Rhett hates community college and I have a pregnancy fetish.
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Okay, which one of those things is not true?
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Neither one of those is true.
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I'm telling you.
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Community college is very respectable.
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I made one comment about poking.. the satisfying feeling of poking a pregnant woman's belly.
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I think that's all we needed to hear to know that there's something wrong.
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It got turned into something that was just creepy.
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I don't understand what happened.
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No, it didn't get turned into something creepy.
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I've seen you interact with pregnant women.
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Why did I bring this up? And it's...
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There is no fetish.
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I've never seen him poke without asking, but I've seen him ask a lot.
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But you're not doing it anymore.
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I don't do it anymore.
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One of the things that's been happening at Mythical, because we've had this company for a while,
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and we've had people working for us for a while, is that we have a...
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A lot of people are getting pregnant.
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A lot of pregnant people.
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Recently, we had a baby that was born to two people who met at Mythical, and I believe that baby has to work for us,
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and I believe it's okay for that child to work for us.
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I think the child labor laws allow for a child to work for you
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if it was born from two of your employees.
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Next question.
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Desai, 533, have Rhett and Link ever guessed the pet name correctly on Ready Pet Go?
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No, that's why we stopped doing that segment.
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So fans will submit pictures of their pets and we would guess the name.
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Very confident.
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Turns out it's impossible.
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Turns out you can't guess a pet's name without being given the pet's name at a time.
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I mean, because what we didn't think about was just how many pets' names that the pet isn't.
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There are no rules for naming pets.
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This is one of the reasons I named my pets Sean and Barbara, because I was like, we don't need to get into animal names.
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Because at that point, it just feels like there are no standards.
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Like, my dogs could apply to vote, maybe get a license.
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And so could yours.
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Jasper, that's a real name.
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Jasper, yeah.
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Jade, that's a real name.
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Like, Honeydew, that dog's never gonna drive.
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This is just posted on the subreddit.
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They have deleted their username.
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Oh, okay.
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So they're ashamed of this.
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After watching Rhett and Link for over seven years, did I just miss something?
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Oh, this says I love butt drugs.
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Well, yeah, you did miss something because butt drugs was a pharmacy in Corden, Indiana.
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We made a commercial for butt drugs back when that was something that we did make commercials for small businesses.
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Buh -buh -buh -butt drugs!
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Butt drugs.
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Butt drugs.
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Butt drugs.
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That's the jingle.
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Pretty catchy.
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And I love butt drugs is the bumper sticker that they sold, and we put it up in our office.
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It's actually my garage.
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Free parking in the rear.
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That was their joke.
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They embraced their name.
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Yeah.
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And then we made a commercial for them, and then they went out of business.
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And those things are not related.
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Nope.
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Quist 799.
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Why is Link called Link?
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Come on now, you don't know that?
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Post -college, I went into a niche field of chain making.
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And as with everyone who goes into the chain assembly profession, or more of a hobby for me,
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you need to have a nickname.
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And can you believe it?
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Link wasn't taken.
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Yeah, it's weird.
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Yeah.
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And it's weird how they called you that when you were a kid as well.
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Yeah.
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My name is Charles Lincoln Neal III.
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My granddad went by Lincoln.
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My dad goes by Charles, but we could all have gone by any of the names, because we have them all.
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411 Conor, favorite times where Rhett and or Link are laughing the hardest.
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I laugh really hard when I hit you in the face with that bag of dog poo, but you didn't laugh at all.
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It wasn't funny.
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Anyone know the signification of Link's tattoo?
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That means you're special in Elvish from Lord of the Rings.
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Because I am, I think.
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And he has that same tattoo.
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His daughter, Lily, has the same tattoo.
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First tattoo for both of you.
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Mm, second.
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Other than your wife's name on your ass, which, yes.
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Really KHJ says, Do they eat the food on the show fully?
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Well, I give out everything I got, yeah.
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He does, yes.
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I do not.
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I never eat anything fully.
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You think we're, like, spitting it out or something?
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What do you mean?
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No, like, I'm not even, like...
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I can't eat every single thing that's put in front of me.
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I mean, you've watched the show.
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But he does.
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We don't eat like a whole pie when they put a pie in front of us.
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But sometimes he does.
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We do that when the cameras are off.
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Beans 129.
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Why do Rhett and Link always say, not a sponsor?
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Is it a running joke or a requirement?
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It is not a requirement, but we do want to thank our sponsor for today's episode, WIRED.
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Oh, that's nice.
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Who isn't paying us to be here.
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So not a sponsor.
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Not a sponsor.
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I mean, we have enough sponsors that if we aren't getting paid, I want you to know it.
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So we made that up.
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Honestly, that's exactly why.
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The first episode of Good Mythical Morning, if you go back and watch it, we have a sponsor who paid us $300.
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I think they got their money's worth.
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Yeah, I think they did too.
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This is how we're ending.
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Put that away.
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Those were, like, the best questions I've ever heard.
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Maybe one of the best questions on the internet.
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Yeah, I mean, I've heard really good questions IRL, but, like, that was...
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I mean, that was something for me.
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I hope it was something for you.
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Thanks for having us for the complete interview.
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And thank you for making us a part of your daily routine on YouTube and now on Netflix.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Rhett & Link Answer The Internet's Best Questions”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Rhett, Link, butt, drugs, dog. This video has 245 sentences and 1898 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:24. The speaker talks fast, about 182 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| butt noun | /bʌt/ | Body; self. |
| sponsor noun | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or… |
| tattoo noun | /tæˈtuː/ | An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle. |
| pet noun | /pɛt/ | An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use. |
| assumption noun | /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/ | The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting. |
| poke verb | /poʊk/ | To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. |
| lore noun | /loɹ/ | All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. |
| reverse noun | /ɹɪˈvɝs/ | The opposite of something. |
| requirement noun | /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/ | A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom… |
| creepy adjective | /ˈkɹipi/ | Moving by creeping along. |
| fetish noun | /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/ | Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. |
| jasper noun | /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/ | An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. |
| routine noun | /ɹuˈtin/ | A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. |
| pregnancy noun | /ˈpɹɛɡnənsi/ | The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this. |
| submit verb | /səbˈmɪt/ | To yield or give way to another. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. | |
| come out with verb | To say (something) unexpectedly. | |
| dress up verb | To put on special or fancy clothes. | |
| give out verb | To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| put up verb | To place in a high location. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What do you mean how years work?
- Is that what I just said?
- What's our critical lore?
- Come on now, you don't know that?
- You think we're, like, spitting it out or something?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have not addressed · have inflicted · I've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were born · be recognized · is not pictured |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | man who has · people who met · everyone who goes |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 54 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, fetish /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, sequentially /səˈkwɛntʃəli/
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 butt, sponsor, tattoo.
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.