Shadowing Practice: Uncle Roger Learn To Make Lobster Roll (ft. NICK DIGIOVANNI) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello Uncle Nick, how you doing?
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We are going to be making, because we're in Boston, a lobster roll This lobster is still alive, it's a bit scary, look how big it is, put my face next to it,
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see how big this Don't touch, Uncle Roger's scared Uncle Nick, you've won Uncle Taito before because you make amazing fur So today,
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let's see if you can keep your Uncle Taito at the end of this video I can lose my Uncle Taito?
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Yeah!
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You didn't tell me that when you came You have to show me your best lobster roll recipe
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Let's see how he do.
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Uncle Roger, growing up, I don't have money, so I never eat lobster before.
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We have lots of lobsters in Boston, so it's much cheaper here.
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This, when they're hard, these little pieces here, this is a boy, okay?
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This is a boy.
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So a lobster boy got two pears.
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Uncle Roger really envy lobster now.
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They got two thick.
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They got one spare.
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One thick don't work that night.
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You got another one.
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Second lobster right here, you look at those same little things.
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These are lighter, more like feathers.
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This is a female.
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Oh, female got dick also.
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When did anyone say this was a penis?
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Oh.
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Uncle Roger, just assume.
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This last one here is a boy or a girl.
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He don't want you to touch his penis.
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He's sexually assaulting this lobster.
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Uncle Nick, the Harvey Weinstein of shellfish.
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Is it a boy or a girl?
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Mmm.
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Try to touch it.
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No, it's just the thing.
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Hmm, okay, Uncle Roger guess it a girl, it a girl.
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It is a girl.
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Yeah, got it.
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Uncle Roger guessed that because this lobster acting crazy.
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That's why I know it a girl.
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How have you not gotten in trouble saying this kind of thing?
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All right, to begin cooking, I'm going to take off the bands.
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You have to be careful because if you put your finger in there, he will take your finger off.
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Ooh, she, she, yeah.
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Uncle Nick used the right pronoun.
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We have to ask them what pronoun they want.
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Maybe this lobster is date them.
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Don't just misgender them.
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This 2022, Uncle Nick, don't get canceled.
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I'm gonna show you what this would be like if this was your finger or something even worse potentially.
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Oh.
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You ready?
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Put that in there.
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Oh!
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Wow!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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This lobster, light vegetable.
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Uncle Roger losing respect for it.
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Oh!
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That's gone.
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Do you hear that?
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Watch me try to pull it out.
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I can't.
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Oh!
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My niece and nephew, this is gonna be my last video with 10 fingers.
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Alright, to begin, I always like to put a cloth under it
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because I like to kill the lobster before I go ahead and steam it.
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It's the more humane thing to do.
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Okay?
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But lobster don't have central nervous system.
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They don't feel pain.
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You kill them between the eyes, you put the knife in, and you crunch down.
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Bash it down and crunch through. Be careful.
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Lobster, Uncle Roger, sorry I have to do this to you.
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I feel bad.
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Uncle Roger going to hell.
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He's still moving, no?
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What are you doing to it?
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You have to be more confident when you hold the knife.
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The lovver got family.
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And you really want to crunch right through so that he's done.
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Okay?
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And now he's dead.
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Okay?
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No, he's still moving.
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That's the nerves.
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That's the nerves, but he's dead.
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Uncle Nick is killer.
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Uncle Roger a bit scared now.
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I'm filming with Jeffrey Dahmer Jr. At this point, it is finally time to steam and cook the lobster now that you've killed it.
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Even though I will say you killed it a little bit slower than I would have liked.
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The good thing is he's not gonna feel anything anymore.
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He in a better place now.
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He is a little bit too big.
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Your saucepan.
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I've been catching lobster since I was a little kid.
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I have a kayak.
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I row out there with my brothers.
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We pull all the traps up.
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I brought Manny out one day.
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My camera guy.
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It's this family bonding activity.
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Exactly.
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When you're younger, your dad bring you to kill lobster.
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That like family activity Let's drive a knife to animal head That why people in Boston all fucked up like this?
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Make it sound a lot worse than it is
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When I growing up what I do with my dad we just go cycling Uncle Nick go on killing spree
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Oh for your cookbook Every YouTube chef got cookbook now Yeah What?
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Why empty?
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Why it just cover?
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It's a- the whole thing is a colouring book
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at least coloring book at least yeah you draw pictures of
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food this is for people to write their own recipe in
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it ah genius genius i couldn't think of any on my own
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so i just left them all blank uncle roger like this
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you know how to make brown butter no butter you just
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buy from shop you're not amish don't need to make your
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own butter first things first we're going to open up this butter
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and go ahead and put it right in there the whole thing i'm going to go ahead
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and take some of my MSG.
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MSG with my face on it?
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Fweeew!
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This is nice Uncle Roger like.
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You know I'm coming, so you do this?
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No, I've had this for a couple years.
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I've had this since before I knew you.
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Okay, so go ahead and we'll take a little bit of the MSG and sprinkle it into the butter, okay?
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That not enough.
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That not enough.
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Oh, there's a little spout.
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Do the dial.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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What?
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Just putting MSG in there, what you mean?
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We sprinkle on the lobster.
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Enjoy.
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Before you die, eat some MSG.
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This terrible design.
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Look at this.
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How you close it?
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How you stop this?
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How...
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No, it's spilling too much now.
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Oh no, it's still...
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Shit.
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So much white powder.
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What is this?
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Don't waste all the MSG.
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Oh no, sorry.
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Oh!
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Who designed this shit?
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Hiya, look at this.
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Look at this camera.
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Look at this.
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So much white powder.
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This reminds me of my Saturday.
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You know what I mean?
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And I have a little extra secret for once the butter is there.
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This is milk powder.
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Okay.
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Milk powder?
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I go ahead, I add a little bit of milk powder in there.
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Now I wait until it gets nice and toasty and light brown and then we pour it off into a bowl.
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Can you get me another bowl?
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Nice. Where?
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Right the cabinet right there.
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How you open this cabinet?
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Uncle Nick why your cabinet cannot...
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Ah.
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So how you open this?
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You just hit it.
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Ah.
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This is what Uncle Roger like about cooking.
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Wildens.
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That is perfect, perfect brown butter.
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So the next step, we have hot dog buns.
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I like to go ahead and trim off both sides of the hot dog bun.
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And then I go in with some oil.
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You just built whole studio kitchen.
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And then you forgot to put stove on your island.
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Hiya.
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Why the stove there?
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You cooking, YouTubers.
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Stove should be here.
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I did think Uncle Roger would be happy to know that I have a nice wok.
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It's very well seasoned.
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And I have a setup for my wok right here.
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Nice, nice.
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But still, this thing should be over there.
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Nick, your design is fucked up.
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If Uncle Roger goes on a date, comes back with a nice lady, and wakes up in the morning, do you make a nice breakfast?
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No. I tighten up like how I tighten lobster.
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Since my ex-wife left, Uncle Roger don't focus on women now.
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I hate to break it to you, but you're definitely gonna burn this, Uncle Roger.
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Shit.
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You keep distracting Uncle Roger if you're talking.
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Oh no. We do another one.
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Is this what you make when you bring woman back?
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Lobster roll for breakfast?
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If they're lucky.
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Okay.
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Don't let your girlfriend find out.
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Oh.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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I thought you- You put way too much MSG.
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No such thing as too much MSG.
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Oh, it just right?
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There's one more thing you can do with a lobster.
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You can hypnotize it or put it to sleep.
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How?
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Okay, so this guy is alive.
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You just let them watch one of your video.
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That's how they sleep.
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Emotional damage!
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That's good.
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You flip him down and put him on his face.
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And then he's.. see how he's still moving?
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Yeah.
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We're gonna brush him between his eyes for a little bit.
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Right between his head.
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And then he'll slowly relax.
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Okay.
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He's asleep.
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Fuyo.
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Nice.
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Well now watch.
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Ready?
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Okay.
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When you put him back down, he's alive again.
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Ah!
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Isn't that crazy?
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This lobster is so stupid.
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Let's put it outside down, he falls asleep.
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Hiya!
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Sometime Uncle Roger got insomnia.
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Cannot sleep at night.
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I wish I was lobster.
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I just...
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Then I fall asleep like this.
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I'm gonna lift her out.
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Oh, wow.
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Fuyo.
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And into the ice bath we go.
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And the lobster's so big that I can't even fit it in the ice bath.
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Where you get this lobster from?
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I have a guy that gives me seafood.
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So if I ask him for big lobster or small lobster, he gets whatever we need.
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Or I can ask him for all girls or I can ask him for all boys.
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So he like the human trafficker for lobster.
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And then what is this room?
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This is the guest bedroom.
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Why you got bedroom in your studio?
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Is this where you film your OnlyFans?
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Haiyaa.
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I don't have an OnlyFans.
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Really?
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No. This perfect for it.
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The lighting good also.
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What?
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My favorite movie in the world, Ratatouille, and this is my motto, anyone can cook.
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Are you sure anyone can cook?
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Have you seen Jamie Oliver?
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He's the exception to this statement, haiya.
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You should put accept Jamie Oliver under there.
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More neon text under there.
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Oh, speaking of which, I actually, because you came to Boston, I have a gift for you.
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I kept it hidden in the drawer so that Uncle Roger wouldn't see it.
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What is that?
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You ready?
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Yeah.
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Oh no. Jamie's 15-minute meals.
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What is this shit?
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Haiyaa.
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Oh, and there's stuff inside Jamie Oliver.
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His cookbook should be empty.
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Haiyaa.
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Thank you, Uncle Nick, but Uncle Roger is not gonna bring this back with me.
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At this point, we need to take out all the meat.
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First things first, crack off a cloth, okay?
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Crack it, and then go ahead and crack it open and pull that off.
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Fuiyoh!
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That's lots of lobster meat right there.
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Okay, that right there is the whole lobster cloth from inside.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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Oh, why it's so hard to prick?
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I struck, oh, oh shit.
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Oh, there we go.
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Twist.
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Okay, now flip it over, do the other side.
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Good, twist.
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Good, now you can break it by hand.
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Oh, squirting.
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Fuiyoh!
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Uncle Rich, I never seen this before.
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If I can't make woman squirt, make lobster squirt.
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Put that in a nice second place.
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It's not perfect, but it's okay.
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First time cooking lobster.
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Not bad at all.
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All right, and the last thing I wanna show you is how to take off the tail, okay?
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Open it up, twist.
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Again.
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What that green thing?
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That's just part of the, that's the poop.
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Ooh, that's a lot of poop.
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That's a lot of shit.
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Yeah.
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You got me a few, full of shit?
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Now you can see I've slightly undercooked the meat on purpose, so I can control the finishing of it, okay?
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Oh, someone taught Uncle Roger knife work, huh?
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Why you think I can't cook?
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Why you look down on me like that?
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Just because I don't compete in MasterChef don't mean I cannot cook, I...
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I might be the one that's about to lose my title.
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Do you wanna try a piece?
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I'll feed you.
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What are you doing?
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Why are you closing your eyes like that?
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Mmm.
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The texture could, many people overcook lobster and then it become very rubbery.
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I'm gonna go ahead and take my brown butter that we made earlier and put that into the pan.
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Once that's lightly hot, I'm gonna go ahead, toss in my lobster meat, but we don't wanna overcook this.
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These are nephew, this is not non-stick, so you can use metal in it, don't worry.
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This is how we finish the lobster, okay?
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In with some mayonnaise.
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Good American continent.
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It's actually not in my cookbook, but I do this, this is a little trick outside.
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I like to go ahead and just put some celery, just for texture.
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Why not in your cookbook?
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I just forgot to put it in there.
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See, you need some nephew, that's what you get.
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Empty cookbook with mistake in them.
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I, where's my microplane?
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You know what a microplane is?
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Shretting, shretting cheese thing.
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You know so much more than I thought you did.
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What?
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Who you think I am?
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Jamie Oliver.
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Hi, so I'm gonna go in with a little bit of this lemon zest.
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That's the only thing lemon good for.
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You ever try to eat whole lemon?
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It tastes like shit, but lemon zest tastes amazing.
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Dill, then we can go in with some lobster meat.
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Go ahead and pick all the good ones, right?
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And the rest, you choke them out, feed them to everybody else that's helping us film.
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Yeah, like you're a cameraman.
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Look at this shit, look at this shit.
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Leave comment below who you think put it off better, Uncle Roger or Nephew Manny.
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The most important ingredient in my lobster roll, some of this brown butter.
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A bunch of this brown butter right into there, okay?
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Those are all the flavorful milk solid bits.
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Now we layer it all into the lobster roll, and then to finish things off, I like to add a little bit of these fennel fronds.
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Okay.
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Fui-oh, Uncle Nick, this looks so good.
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Hmm, I'm nervous.
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Hmm, the bread, crunchy and sweet, two texture.
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The lobster and the butter, salty, nice.
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Hmm.
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Hmm, that is good.
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Amazing.
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Uncle Nick, can't stop eating this.
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This tastes so good, Uncle Roger decide You get to keep the Uncle Taito Fuiyoh Congratulations Uncle Nick To commemorate this,
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Uncle Roger got a special gift for you T-shirt with Uncle Taito Fuiyoh
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I'm gonna hang this up in my studio Put next to all your world record over there
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And you can put it there until you lose it again
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Because I know you're gonna fuck up soon I have a good feeling Niece and nephew, go subscribe to Uncle Nick See you next time, bye bye
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Oh we're actually in the process of filming another video
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but we're gonna pretend this new video you know The magic
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of YouTube nobody showed the behind the scene This one's the largest dumpling video correct?
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Yep Yeah I hope it turned out good Otherwise Uncle Roger come here for nothing
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Uncle Nick the Harvey Weinstein of lobster He's probably gonna keep it So big that it might not work What's he doing?
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He coughing.
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Have you heard of COVID?
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It's quite a big thing.
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Here's how you finish the lobster roll, okay?
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Okay.
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You have poop on your arm.
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Ugh!
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We caught that, right?
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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You have to get over your fear.
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I'm scaring myself.
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Come come, we take selfie with the lobster.
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Okay.
Why Practice Speaking with This Video?
This engaging video featuring Uncle Roger and Nick DiGiovanni offers a fantastic opportunity to improve English pronunciation while learning about a popular American dish—the lobster roll. By watching and actively participating in the conversation, learners can experience authentic dialogue that captures the nuances of everyday English. The humor and friendly exchanges between the speakers help create a relaxed environment, perfect for practicing speaking skills through shadow speech, where you mimic the speakers' pronunciation and intonation. Utilizing this approach not only enhances comprehension but also builds confidence, making it easier to express yourself naturally in conversations.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
Uncle Roger's playful language includes several key phrases that highlight spoken English grammar structures. Understanding these will be beneficial for learners:
- “I never eat lobster before.” – This sentence showcases the present perfect tense, which is commonly used to discuss experiences up to the present.
- “Is it a boy or a girl?” – This rhetorical question illustrates how English speakers often use open-ended questions to encourage conversation.
- “You have to be careful...” – The use of modal verbs like "have to" provides essential information about obligation or necessity, a frequent structure in English communication.
By practicing these expressions, learners can enhance their speaking fluency, making their language more relatable and conversational.
Common Pronunciation Traps
While engaging with the dialogue in the video, there are specific pronunciation traps that may pose challenges for English learners. Some tricky words and accents include:
- Lobster – The 'r' in 'lobster' can be difficult for non-native speakers, especially if their native language does not emphasize the 'r' sound.
- Pear – Learners might mispronounce this word by not fully articulating the 'r' sound, which can change its meaning in context.
- Gender pronouns – The way Uncle Roger playfully refers to the lobster with various pronouns provides a practical example of everyday English usage that can often be misrepresented in formal studies.
Utilizing a shadowing app while watching this video can effectively help you master these tricky pronunciations, making it an excellent resource for IELTS speaking practice as well.
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.