Shadowing Practice: THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 2: Candy Carrier Chaos! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome to the amazing digital circus!

Yes!

Tommy?

No, no, no!

Kate!

Somebody help me!

Please!

No!

Ha ha!

Looks like our new friend's already abstracted.

Oh, well, I guess we're not all cut out for it.

I don't even remember her name, honestly.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH A doozy.

Oh, and don't worry about the whole abandoning me for the exit thing.

It's perfectly understandable what you were going through at the time, and there's no hard feelings.

You're all good.

Huh?

Uh, well, let's forget about all that.

Kane's got a new adventure today, and judging by what he's been teasing, it seems like it's gonna be a fun one.

Today's adventure is...

Candy Carrier Chaos!

That's right!

The Candy Canyon Kingdom's been robbed of their most valuable resource!

Maple syrup!

It's up to you to bring the rotten bandits who stole it to sweet buttery justice!

An entire kingdom of candy?

Sounds sticky!

Very sticky indeed!

Sounds...

Bubble, you can't say that.

Mmm.. no. Zulva -wait!

I'm testing out a new AI in this one!

It should be 57 times more immersive!

Ooh, a new AI!

You don't wanna mess with the new AI, Zuby?

Uh, yeah.. no. Well, sounds fun!

What do you think, Pomni?

So.. our entire existence here is just...

LARPing?

Well...

Why are you all just standing there?

The Canyon...

Candy Canyon Kingdom needs you now!

No thanks, I'm trying to quit.

Wow, Kinger, check out this castle.

It's amazing.

They've even got little candy bugs here.

It's so beautiful.

Yeah, this place is great.

It's the princess!

Ah, you must have.

Must be the brave knight sent to us by God to help us with our recent catastrophe.

That's us, ma 'am.

Your kingdom's awesome, by the way.

Love the vibe.

I like you already.

Look, Palmy, we're already friends with the princess.

I'm not a child.

You don't have to hype me up.

I assume you've been informed of your mission.

The bandits that robbed us use a modded syrup tanker, so we figured the best way to go head -to -head

with them is to give you a war rig of your own.

Ooh, violence What time period is this supposed to be again?

Here's the key back into the kingdom for

when you've secured the goods I trust you not to let it fall into the wrong hands

You can count on me, your highness Oh, please, call me Lou Will do, Lou.

I call shotgun.

Oh, God, is that the horn? That sucks.

Gangle, you drive.

Farewell, good knights.

I have every faith in you.

Do you think your mom's gonna pull through if we get all this back to the village?

I'm sure she will.

This much syrup would save hundreds of people.

We won't know for sure until we get back to the village.

She's a fighter, though.

She taught me everything I know.

Oi!

Don't get too comfy, lads.

Looks like they've sent someone after us.

All right, Gangle.

When we catch up to him, I'll jump over, crawl inside, and shoot him repeatedly until they're unrecognizable.

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I feel like that violates some kind of convention.

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You're violating my ears with your clapback.

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Get driving, driver!

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So, Pomni, I'm sure there's some way you could help out here.

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Maybe when we catch up to them, we could...

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Better be assertive.

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Like this!

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Hey!

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Jax!

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Ah, that's perfect!

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Just hold that pose, I gotta get something.

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You know, I swear there was some kind of bazooka back here, but I'm having such trouble finding it.

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Pomni, take this!

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Here it is.

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Alright, Pomni, you just stay like that and I'll cross over.

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Are you kidding me?

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Nice going, Pomni.

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Now I have no bridge.

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Aha!

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Gotcha!

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My arms aren't broken up.

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Whoa!

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This lot's trouble.

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Let's see how their rig does on those rocks around there.

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My arms aren't short enough to shift the gear.

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Oh, now we're cooking.

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Hey, Ribbons, up and at him.

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I don't think we...

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Aren't you supposed to be submissive and agreeable?

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Move it!

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Oh, these fellas just don't know when to quit, do they?

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Hey, quit mucking about and get back up here!

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Oh yeah, run.

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Everyone all right?

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Can you repeat the question?

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I couldn't hear you over the knives.

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Hey, Gangle, you should ram into him.

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What?

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You should not ram them!

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Tommy's still on board!

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Do it, it'll be epic!

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Why are there so many knives back here?

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Do it, or I'll tell Ragatha about the figurine thing.

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Oh!

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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Are you guys trying to make Kelvin?

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These guys are watch -ups!

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Let's give him some of this!

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Oh, no more ramming.

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Guess I have to tell Ragatha about the thing now.

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Mike!

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Oh, you're still up here?

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Guys!

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Bondi, take this!

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Hey, Kinger, is that loop attached to anything?

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Uh, I don't know.

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Let me check.

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I blame you for this.

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No!

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What?

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What?

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Anyone?

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Anyone?

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Thank you.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Huh? Where are we?

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What's all this?

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I don't know.

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We're somewhere under the map, I think.

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Map?

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Why aren't you or any of your crew up here?

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I'm not sure.

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Because we're not...

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NPCs?

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NPCs, what are you on about?

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What are you, people?

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What am I?

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Where's mum?

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You have a mum?

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Shouldn't she be here with everyone else?

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I can't even remember her face.

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Did she ever have a face?

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Was anything ever real?

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Okay, wait, wait, wait.

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Don't think about that.

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I...

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I think there must be a way to launch ourselves back up, right?

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I want you to tell me exactly what I am. Is everybody okay?

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No. Oh, man.

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Poor Pomny.

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I hope she's all right.

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Poor Pomny?

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How about poor us?

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We're one tanker away from being Augustus Gloop.

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What's that?

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Do my eyes deceive me?

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A delicious gift from within the kingdom gates?

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Don't mind if I do.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy!

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You're not food, we're not candy, we're none of that!

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You don't want to eat us!

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Oh, you're not candy?

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How am I expected to eat something that's not made of candy?

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I'm sorry.

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Part of me always seems to miss the big gloopy monsters.

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Who are you, anyway?

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I am the Fudge.

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I used to live within the Kingdom walls,

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but I was banished by that rotten princess after I ate too many of the delicious town folk.

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Oh, they were so delicious.

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Sometimes I can hear them calling to me.

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Oh, God.

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That just sounds like murder.

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Is it really murder if it's delicious?

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Answer me that.

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You make a great point.

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Uh, no!

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Bad point!

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Why don't you leave this to me before I start thinking your hair looks like licorice.

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Jax!

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Oh, wow.

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It kind of does.

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Stop!

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Well, Mr. Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with real noble goals.

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Oh, I'm not.

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If you knew what I did in my free time, or you'd be second.

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As I was saying, I happen to know a way into the kingdom walls.

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If you'd be willing to help us out in return.

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Hey, when did you...

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Shut up, licorice hair.

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Here, hop it with this.

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Oh, you must be some kind of master of unlocking things.

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Come to free me from my outdoor prison.

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That's me.

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All we need you to do is help us bring some dirty bandits to justice.

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I saw the Raper wink at me.

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Wait, what just happened?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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You wanna try helping out at all? Are you still...

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Hey, you okay?

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No. You want to talk about it?

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What is there to talk about?

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I don't just want to leave you here.

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Why not?

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I don't matter in the slightest.

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I'm nothing.

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My life, my memories, my friends.

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It's all fake.

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This may seem weird, but I think I know the feeling.

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Well, maybe not the exact feeling, but feeling like you're nothing is kind of normal.

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I mean, people even feel like that in the world I came from. But...

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You still care about your buddies up there, don't you?

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I'm sure they still care about you.

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What does it matter?

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What do we have when you people leave?

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We're just obstacles.

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Created to be defeated and forgotten.

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Well.

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You don't have to be.

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The circus...

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The place I'm from?

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Well, I'm originally from somewhere else.

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But if it has to be my home, maybe it can be yours too.

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The people there are interesting, at the very least.

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Maybe you could be somebody real there.

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Why are you trying to cheer me up?

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How does this benefit you at all?

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I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing.

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I don't want anybody to feel like that.

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But I'm not even a real person.

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Would I even belong?

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I'm sure you wouldn't belong any less than me.

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And I could use a friend.

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A friend.

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You're a strange little character.

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Suppose I could give it a try.

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All I ask is that we don't tell the lads about this.

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They're a couple of bright -eyed yobbos.

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And I don't want to drag them down with me.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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What's your name, by the way?

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Gummy Goo.

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Wow, that's just about as dumb as my name.

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What do you have in mind in terms of getting us out of here?

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I don't know.

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Maybe some kind of glitch with the truck's collisions.

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I'm not really sure how we could...

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Alright, I'm just throwing stuff at the wall here.

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If this doesn't work, we can try something else.

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You're the expert here.

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I'm really not.

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But let's see how it goes.

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I just realized this might be a little violent.

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The End

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I've got to say, this is a lot more anticlimactic than I was hoping it'd be.

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What were you hoping for?

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You know, like one big final battle, bloodshed, death, chaos, whatever.

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Are you sure they disappeared?

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It wasn't that they fell off or something?

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I can't say for sure, but yes, definitely.

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It's not like the boss to vanish with a clown.

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Very unusual.

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Well, that's concerning.

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Well, if worst comes to worst, we could always ask

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Cain to find her.

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I'm more worried she's having another horrible experience.

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She still seems really upset about what happened yesterday.

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I don't think she really likes me that much.

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It's a lot for anybody to go through.

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Don't take it too personally.

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I remember how long it took for you to adjust.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm surprised you remember that.

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Remember what?

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Do you guys have a second truck that flies?

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Yeah.

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Uh, wait.

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No, we don't.

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No, not at all.

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Oh, oh, how'd I go?

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Couldn't keep it in, couldn't you?

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Uh, what's all this stuff?

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Mommy!

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Are you okay?

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Well, what happened?

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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I, uh, I made a new friend.

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Boss, where have you been?

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We got fudged.

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You don't want to know.

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Good to see you, lads.

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Why are there two bad guy trucks?

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This one's full of syrup, too.

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Oh, yeah.

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Suppose it is.

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Well, you don't suppose my mates here could take this one back to the village, could they?

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I guess.

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Since there's two of them, there'd be no real harm.

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I'm so unbelievably disappointed right now.

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Well, maybe there will be blood death and violence in the next adventure.

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Hahaha, how wholesome.

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Uh -oh, yeah.

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Uh, this is Gumigoo.

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He's gonna come back to the circus with us.

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Oh, uh, is that allowed?

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His reality was kind of completely shattered.

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I feel like it was the least I could offer him, opposed to just leaving him behind.

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Hey, that's good of you, punk.

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Let's take this

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Dom truck to the Dom kingdom, I guess.

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Thanks to you brave knights, our kingdom will once again thrive.

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I'm sure it was no easy task.

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You have no idea.

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Farewell, brave knights.

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Have fun executing that bandit fella.

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Yes, that is what we're doing.

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Oh, hey!

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Maybe I didn't leave the gate unlocked for nothing after all.

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Uh, what?

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I thought he was dead!

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You still did that?

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Okay, wait.

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You did what now?

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Well, love to help you again sometime.

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Bye!

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Welcome back, my little hard -shelled hamburgers!

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So this is the circus, huh?

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Not gonna get used to this.

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Oh, looks like one of these guys made it through!

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Wait, what?

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Uh - Wait, what?

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I know you guys love your NPCs, but if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows what could happen.

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Welp, I'm gonna go drink water!

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It's been a while since I've done that.

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Jeez, I thought he'd never leave.

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I'm really sorry about that, Pomni.

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At least you tried.

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You know, he might be back in a future adventure.

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I know Kane sometimes likes to reuse NPCs.

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Got everything ready.

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Hey, you at least want to join us for Kofmo's funeral?

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We like to have a little funeral service to remember the people who abstract.

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This one just got pushed around a bit with your arrival and everything.

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It's the least we can do to honor their memory.

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Oh, man.

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I always think I'm prepared for these things.

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But then you set up the picture and, well, I'm already breaking.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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Bye.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 2: Candy Carrier Chaos!”. This video has 343 sentences and 2312 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:08. The speaker talks slowly, about 92 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 89 of its 343 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
candy noun	/ˈkæn.di/	Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
adventure noun	/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/	A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
knight noun	/ˈnaɪ̯t/	An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
circus noun	/ˈsɜːkəs/	A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
lads noun	/lædz/	A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
syrup noun	/ˈsɪɹ.əp/	Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
brave adjective	/bɹeɪv/	Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
gate noun	/ˈɡeɪ̯t/	A doorlike structure outside a house.
knife noun	/ˈnaɪ̯f/	A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
buddy	/ˈbʌdi/	A person far removed from the conversation.
belong verb	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	To have its proper place.
funeral noun	/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/	A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
rob verb	/ɹɑb/	To steal from, especially using force or violence.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
back up verb	To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
fall off verb	To become detached or to drop from.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
help out verb	To provide assistance.
pull through verb	To come through pain and trouble through perseverance.
push around verb	To treat contemptuously and unfairly; to bully

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Why aren't you or any of your crew up here?
What are you on about?
Do my eyes deceive me?
How am I expected to eat something that's not made of candy?
What's your name, by the way?

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	Kingdom's been robbed · you've been informed · you've secured
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	been robbed · you've been informed · aren't broken
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	were going · was saying · was hoping
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should ram · should not ram · Shouldn't she be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 119 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, shell /ʃɛl/, collision /kəˈlɪʒn̩/, shotgun /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
Long words — get the stress right: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, repeatedly /ɹɪˈpiːtɪdli/, catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/, unrecognizable /ʌnˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like candy, whoa, adventure.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?