Shadowing Practice: ‘The Middle’ Clips to Watch While You Clean - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey.
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Did Mom say you could bring those in?
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Did Mom say you could eat that candy bar?
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I found it under the couch.
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Why do you even need those stupid curlers?
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They're broken anyway.
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I've had them since fourth grade.
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What, are you afraid you're going to hurt their feelings if you throw them out?
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What?
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I was kidding.
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Oh, my God!
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Sue thinks the curlers have feelings!
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No, I don't!
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Really?
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What if I did this?
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No, no!
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Aww...
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Stop it!
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Stop it!
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You're scaring it!
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Scaring it?
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Oh my god, this just gets better and better!
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No!
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No, Axel!
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Axel, give them that!
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Give them that!
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Stop!
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Stop!
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Stop!
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You can save one!
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Which one will it be, Sue?
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This one? Or this one?
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Please don't make me choose!
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Look, look, I know it's silly, but I used to put them in my hair in a different order each time
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so that none of them felt left out.
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Oh.
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I'm sorry, Sue.
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I didn't know you were out of your freaking mind.
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Hey, guys!
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Stop standing around.
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Come on, now.
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There's no time for talking.
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If we focus, we can finish by dinner.
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Guys, come on.
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I told you to take this stuff to the donation place hours ago.
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It's Sue's fault.
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She's been going back and forth on those curlers all day.
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She thinks they're alive.
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I didn't say they're alive.
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I said they have feelings.
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I know they don't.
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It's just I can't get rid of them because then they might feel bad.
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Which is ridiculous because they don't have feelings.
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I just don't want them to feel abandoned, you know?
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Well, Sue, don't think of it as abandoning them.
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You're donating them.
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And somewhere out there is a homeless man with straight hair who will use these to curl his locks, get a job, and change his life.
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Really?
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Okay.
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Quick, run these to the car before she changes her mind.
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My arm is killing me!
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Why couldn't we just tie this down?
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Wait for it!
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Ta-da!
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Automatic unload.
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Oh, no. Close!
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Now we're gonna have to load everything back up.
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No way, let's just dump and run.
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But the sign says, do not leave items after hours.
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There's no way we're carting all this crap back home.
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Stop listening out and help me.
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Do not leave items after hours.
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No!
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They're watching us.
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Chill, this is a recording.
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This is not just a recording.
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You, boy with the red tricycle, girl with the straight hair.
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It is illegal to leave items after hours per Indiana Penal Code 35-45, Section 3.
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I'm sorry.
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It's just.. we've come all this way and...
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Screw them!
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We're done!
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Let's blow!
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We're really good kids!
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I promise!
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Oh no!
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I was gonna leave a note for whoever got the curlers!
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You have to jiggle the plug!
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You have to jiggle the plug!
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Look at that.
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I gotta get somebody out there with a rake.
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Well, Axel's at football and Sue's at cross country.
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Oh, but I heard Molly Donnie, who has a little leaf raking business going.
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Why would I pay someone else's give when I got a perfectly good free one over there?
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There, sitting under our roof, eating our food, using our last name.
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Have you met Brick?
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He's not ready for leaf raking.
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He can't even blow his nose.
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No, you're sucking in.
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Out, out, blow up.
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Wait, close your mouth.
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Got to get some pressure going there.
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This is nuts.
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When I was eight, my dad had me driving a tractor, tarring a roof, trimming a tree with a chainsaw.
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And remember, we were going to try and do better.
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I'm just saying.
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Brick's been playing the baby card for a little too long.
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Chores are part of being a man.
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Rick, congratulations.
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You've been called up.
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You're going to the show.
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Because I don't know what that means, I'm going to assume it's some kind of sports expression.
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I got a job for you, son.
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I want you to go out there and rake all the leaves in the backyard.
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Oh, I don't think I'm ready for leaf raking.
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Thanks for your confidence.
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Confidence.
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Come on.
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Let's go.
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All right.
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Rake works better if you flip it around.
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There you go.
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He's got it.
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Rick, use the rake.
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The rake, Rick.
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That out there is a man in the making.
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Yeah?
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Well, your man in the making just climbed a new trash bag.
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Jeez.
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Rick!
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Come on, get out of there!
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Attaboy.
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He's out.
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And so Brick continued to rake the leaves day after day after day.
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He organized them by color.
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He made sure he got every one.
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It's almost ready!
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He did his job with extraordinary attention to detail.
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This one doesn't match any of our trees.
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I'll return to the neighbors.
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And just when Mike had about given up...
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I finished.
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Really?
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Yep.
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You did it!
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Took you 11 days to do a job that should take an hour, but you did it.
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All by yourself.
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Doesn't it feel good?
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It really does.
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You're growing up fast, Rick.
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Really fast.
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I know.
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Can you tie my shoe?
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Bob, when you say yards rushing, what does that mean?
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Well, football's a really fascinating game, Rick.
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It's hard to explain all the particular nuances.
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You don't know, do you?
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I just cheer when everyone else does.
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Dad, then can I ask you a question?
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Kind of wondering why you didn't.
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Okay.
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Where do the leaves go?
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You know, after the raking.
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You ask Bob about football and I get leaves?
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Well?
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Well, we'll take them down to the dump and they'll put them in the incinerator.
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What?
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You never said they were going to burn them.
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What did you think was going to happen?
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I thought maybe we'd take them into the forest and set them free.
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Will all of our city parents please report to the leave?
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Okay, let's break.
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I don't have time to talk to you about this now.
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They're calling the parents down onto the field.
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Hey, Bob, keep an eye on him until I get back.
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No problem, Mike.
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He's safe with me.
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I'm going for a corn dog.
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Save my seat.
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Just a short time, we'll begin the parade of the horse of...
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This is harder than I thought.
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I know.
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Want to have some fun, Rumi?
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How great was that last night, Rumi?
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We must have woken up Axel's baby ten times.
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What?
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Why does fun always have a price?
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Relax, this should be easy.
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All we have to do is pull out all the loose pieces before applying the spackle.
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Loose pieces.
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They're all loose pieces!
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Okay, I cut the holes for this piece of drywall I found in the garage.
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Now, if my measurements are correct, it should be perfect.
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No, I told you guys, I can't just drop everything and go to a movie anymore.
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I'm taking care of a baby.
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Man.
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Ah, this thing is ruining my life!
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Why do I have to do this?
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I get it, I get it.
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If a girl invites you into her bed, there'll be consequences.
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Don't I know it.
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Okay, I've got a screwdriver so we can reach the piece.
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Honey, because it's sticky, and an egg because Mom wants me to eat more protein.
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Great, give me the screwdriver.
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Oh, I think I feel it.
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Yeah, I think I...
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Oh, no. So, we have to get that back.
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Axel was using it. Can you see it?
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Uh-oh.
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Brick, are you kidding me?
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You dropped the egg.
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You dropped the screwdriver.
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Screwdrivers don't smell.
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They're going to find us out.
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It's a telltale egg.
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Oh, the egg's got to be here.
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It's gotta be in one of them!
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Sue, it's over.
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It can't be over.
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How did this whole thing go so wrong?
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I just wanted a roommate.
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I thought we were gonna have fun together.
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I had fun.
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Really?
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Really.
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Just by not sitting on my head, you're a way better roommate than Axel.
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Thanks, Brick.
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All right.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Oh!
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We did it!
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We did it!
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We did it!
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Now all we have to do is scratch a few holes and then we're home free!
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We still need to find a screwdriver.
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Oh, there it is.
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The callback audition has to be a new monologue.
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Do you think the crucible or grease would show off the jeans more?
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I was thinking I could do my hair off.
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I shrunk the magic jeans.
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Oh, no, God, take my jeans instead.
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You have an audition to worry about.
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You should go rest.
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But it's the middle of the day.
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Are you serious about this audition or not?
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There was no way around it.
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I was going to have to tell Sue the truth.
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That a burglar broke in and stole only her jeans.
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Hi, sweetie.
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Mom, look.
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I have the same jeans as Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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Yeah. About that.
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Sue, I have some bad news.
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You know that new dryer that we have that we found that's just so new and so good.
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It's really too good.
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What are you talking about honey the dryer shrunk your jeans what i'm so so sorry i just feel terrible
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that's okay it's not your fault i know but i just feel horrible don't feel horrible They were just genes.
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And the truth is, you were right before.
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It really is about what's inside that counts.
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I just have to let my inner light shine through.
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Okay, yeah, that's not what really happened.
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How could you do this to me?
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You just want to ruin my life!
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You knew how important they were to me, and you didn't keep them safe!
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You don't care about anyone but yourself!
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I hate you!
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Honey, you don't really feel that.
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A lot of that is just hormones talking.
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You're frustrated and disappointed.
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I'm just going to give you some space, and we'll talk about it more when you've calmed down.
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Okay, that didn't happen either.
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Oh, yeah?
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Well, you are no picnic to live with either.
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You think I don't do anything for you?
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Let me tell you something, Missy.
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All I do are things for you.
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And right now, I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Then leave me alone!
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You don't have to ask me twice.
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Ah!
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Oh, my God!
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Yep, the crying, the mood swings, the unpredictable behavior.
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It's a tough time.
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Do you think you're laying around all summer?
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You got another thing coming, getting a job.
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My mom said the exact same thing, which is kind of why I came over here.
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I thought you were gonna lifeguard at the pool again.
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Dude, that job sucked.
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My boss was always on me.
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That chair's not for sleeping.
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Stop hitting on girls and save that kid.
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Pfft.
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My boss sucked too.
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Stop eating all the bologna samples.
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Don't make boobs with the produce.
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Yeah, mine was all, thanks for your great work.
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We need a photo for your employee of the month plaque.
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Hey, I got an idea.
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This summer, why don't we ditch our bosses and just start our own business?
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But who would be the boss?
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I vote all of us.
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Nice!
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Three-way co-bosses!
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Boo!
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Jobs.
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I'm not kidding.
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Good afternoon!
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We're the bosses of BossCo, and we're here to inform you we've recently begun services in your area.
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Okay.
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What do you do?
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Well, let me ask you a question.
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What do you need done?
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We'll do that.
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That's actually our motto.
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With BossCo, you don't get any employees, just bosses, bringing the savings to you, the customer.
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I'll give you $100 to remove that stump.
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I'm sorry.
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I thought you said $100.
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I did.
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All right.
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Let's grip it, rip it, and launch it.
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Ha!
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Oh!
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Okay, wait, I got it.
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Boss train!
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I get behind Darren.
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Sean, you get behind me on three, we pull!
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One, two, three!
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Come on, boss train!
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We can do it!
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I think it moved!
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No, that was my shoulder popping out!
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Oh.
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Okay, on three, push Darren's shoulder back in.
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One, two, three!
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
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Oh, oh, oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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More, little more, little more.
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Ah, just dump the whole thing.
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We're down 20 bucks for shovels, 60 bucks for axes, and 30 bucks in gas and burn cream.
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We gotta get this thing out just to break even.
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Don't forget the 15 bucks for t-shirts, which was Sean's stupid idea.
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Better than your stupid frisbee idea.
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The frisbees are whimsical and will get our message out to the college community.
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Dudes!
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Listen to us!
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We're turning into the very bosses we hate!
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Axel's right.
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Sorry, Darren.
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It's all bringing in for a boss hug.
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If I got you your light bulb, then can I go to the party?
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Dammit, Brick, I don't have time for this.
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People are going to be here any second.
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Hi.
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Am I early?
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Wow, your wallpaper's sagging.
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Poor Axe.
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Frankie, stop.
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We're out of time.
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Let's go, let's go, let's go.
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It's fine.
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Everything is fine.
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Oh, hey, honey.
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How was school?
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What's going on?
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What is this?
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Oh, I'm taking back my house.
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I thought that was just yesterday.
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No, no. I have tripped over my last tennis ball.
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I have sat on my last joystick.
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You guys are going to start keeping all your crap in your room.
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So dig in this pile for what's yours, because anything that's left is going in the trash.
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Oh, my God.
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What did you do to the family room?
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What did you do to the family room?
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You like it?
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I've always wanted it this way.
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No, I don't like it.
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It's like you're trying to pretend you never had us.
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Dad, look what you did to the family room.
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Oh, hey.
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Looks great.
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I know, right?
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We actually have a pretty nice family room.
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I'm not embarrassed to have people over anymore.
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Don't worry.
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We're not having people over.
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Can one of you take me to the library?
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Brick, do you not even notice what they did?
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Oh, weird.
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So, can one of you take me to the library?
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I feel like reading about Peru.
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No, Brick, sorry, can't.
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Actually, won't.
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I just got home from work, and I am going to eat my pizza for once while it's still hot. That is really annoying.
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If you're really dying to find out about Peru, look it up online.
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But I like books.
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I like the feel of paper in my hands.
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Well, I like the feel of pizza in my hand, so nobody's taking me anywhere right now.
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God, if you don't want to do anything for us, why'd you even have kids?
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Guys, babies are cute.
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If you'd have come out teenagers, we might have had to rethink.
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Great, you guys got the wrong pizza.
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It has yellow things all over.
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What is this?
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Pineapple pizza?
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Oh, my.
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Still good, huh?
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I still don't get it.
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Why are you doing this?
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What is this about?
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You trying to teach us some kind of lesson?
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Axel, you really think we have nothing better to do than sit around thinking up lessons to teach you?
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This isn't about you.
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Your mom and I love this pizza and we never get it.
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Now we're getting it.
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But we don't like this pizza.
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You'll eat what we provide.
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In the wild, when the lion brings back the zebra he just killed, the cubs don't get to say, we don't like zebra.
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We wanted wildebeest.
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When the lion brings back zebra, everybody eats zebra.
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But I don't like zebra.
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I want wildebeest.
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Well, all we've got is zebra.
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But the zebra has pineapple on it.
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Wait, who's the lion in this story?
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I'm the lion.
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I'm the lion in all the stories.
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So the day of the social worker visit had arrived, and we all pulled together to make a good impression.
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Come on, look.
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Take that off!
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Damn it, Axel!
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Take it off!
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Ha-ha.
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Don't hit me.
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Not funny, Axel.
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Not funny.
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Hey!
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Why are you crying?
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I'm just so scared.
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Honey, I'm going to give you a piece of advice that my dad gave me once.
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He said, son, stuff those feelings down.
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Stuff them down and eventually they'll go away.
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And I have not cried since.
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Okay, what do you think?
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Shades open or closed?
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No, closed looks like we're hiding something.
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Open.
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Open.
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Oh, my God, the raccoons tore into the garbage.
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They never got picked up.
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Sue, get out there and clean that up.
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OK, where is the Bible?
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I want to put it on the coffee table.
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You know, we don't have a real book anywhere, just People magazine.
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Mike, quick, turn all the TVs to PBS.
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What channel is that?
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I don't know.
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She's here.
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Oh!
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Oh!
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You see?
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It's clean!
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That's why I never wash the windows!
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Are you okay?
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Listen, you can't get a welt on your head.
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Not now!
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Don't swell up, Sue.
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Don't swell.
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What are we gonna do?
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It's very nice to meet you.
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It's very nice to meet you, too.
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Her head gets cold.
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It's just nice to have you here.
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It really is.
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Can I get you something to drink?
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No, I'd love some herbal tea.
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Oh, no. I don't have herbal tea.
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I mean, I know it's good for you, but I just don't like it.
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I'm so sorry.
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I'm so, so sorry I don't have herbal tea.
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Oh, honestly, it's okay.
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Look, don't worry.
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It's better if everyone just stays relaxed, okay?
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So I'm going to need to speak with each member of the family individually.
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Great.
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That sounds great.
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We're not nervous.
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So, how many hours a day would you say that you spend together as a family?
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Just about every chance we get.
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We love spending time together.
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We're together all the time.
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Two.
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I don't know.
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What's the right answer?
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So what are foster families like?
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Are there any with, like, in-ground pools, or...?
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Would you say that you drink alcohol on a regular basis?
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No!
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No, not at all.
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Hardly ever.
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Three times a week?
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More, if the Colts are losing?
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I just love my family so much.
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Are there any foster families available with cute teenage girls?
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Because they wouldn't be considered my sisters, right?
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Does your wife ever get angry?
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Uh...
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Uh...
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Uh...
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Uh...
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And what do you do as a family for fun?
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Oh, biking, canoeing, visiting ancient Native American historical sites and looking for arrowheads.
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Watch TV.
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Watch TV.
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Watch TV?
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I don't know.
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Is that the right answer?
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I just love my family so much.
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Okay, Brick is up next.
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Yep, our future was in his hands.
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Brick, would you like to show me to your room?
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Okay.
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Let me show you the room that I share with my brother.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 532 sentences and 3178 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:42. The speaker talks at a steady 134 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| jeans noun | /d͡ʒiːnz/ | A pair of trousers made from denim cotton. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| lion noun | /ˈlaɪən/ | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| dump verb | /dʌmp/ | To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
| audition noun | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| foster verb | /ˈfɒstə/ | To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child. |
| ruin noun | /ˈɹuː.ɪn/ | The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bring back verb | /ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/ | To fetch something. |
| get behind verb | To come to believe or support something. | |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| call up verb | To retrieve from personal or computer memory. | |
| calm down verb | To become less excited, intense, or angry. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. |
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 | we've come · You've been called · you've calmed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | You've been called · be considered |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | thing, which is · shirts, which was |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | Stop standing · Stop listening · Stop hitting |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 142 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: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, automatic /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/
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 pizza, jeans, honey.
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.