Shadowing Practice: VERITY MONSTERS vs Most Secure Minecraft House! - Learn English Speaking with Video

Breaking news, we're getting reports of three vicious monsters taking over the villages nearby.

They're eating villagers, swatting at people who get near them, and destroying everything.

We currently have police reinforcements coming in.

We advise everybody to stay safe, and we will take care of this.

If you get eaten, please contact the number down below.

Police are now taking care of the monsters, so we should be safe within a few hours.

Until then, just make sure- Oh god, no, the helicopter just got hit.

Uh-oh, we're bringing more reinforcements soon.

Stay safe, everybody.

Okay, I don't even know what I just watched, but that looks terrifying.

Who are those guys?

Yeah, what are those big scary monsters doing in that village?

I don't like them at all.

I saw them eating villagers.

Did you see him pick one up?

Yeah, he demolished them.

Oh my goodness.

Bro, you haven't heard about those monsters yet?

Well, no. Dude, they're Verity monsters, bro.

Why are they attacking us?

Bro, they're evil.

And they're probably coming to Square City next, bro.

I saw that helicopter.

He swatted it out of the sky.

I don't even think the police could help us at this point.

Oh, gosh.

What are we gonna do?

Those Verities eat us.

That's not how I want to go out.

I think we're too young to die.

Well, in moments like this, guys, you know what we gotta do.

Defend ourselves?

We gotta defend ourselves.

Yeah, I'm on the same page.

I am not trusting the police to take care of this.

They are not strong enough.

Definitely not.

And I don't think we could stay at our houses.

Those would get destroyed within like five seconds.

Yeah, but where should we go?

Yeah, you see your legs down there?

Yeah.

They would get swept and your house would collapse.

Hmm.

Well, either way, I think I need a new house.

One that's a lot safer from those monsters.

Hopefully, they're not nearby.

All right, let's find an area to build.

Guys, I think this area is open enough for us.

We could build something super strong here.

Oh, for sure.

But why are you holding wood?

We shouldn't use that.

It's the best block.

What?

Because it's easy to get and we can build it with a lot of it.

Well, I don't want the base to be made out of wood.

What are you gonna make the base out of?

I feel like we should make it out of something strong.

Like diamonds.

Yeah, or maybe even something stronger.

I bet you I could find a ton of netherite.

Netherite?

Yeah, I think I'm just gonna settle with diamonds.

I feel like diamonds is a good middle ground.

Yeah.

Yeah, netherite's gonna take way too long to get.

Wood's gonna be just fine for us, right, Zoe?

Yeah, let's keep on using wood.

Okay, you guys can build your house out of wood, but I'm gonna build separately.

I feel like my tower would probably be a lot stronger.

Yeah, we'll see, bro.

Shady's diamond is pretty good, but I think I have a better idea.

All right, well, I'm gonna go build my tower over here.

My friend said that netherite was hard to get.

Then why do I have six stacks of it right here and even more in my inventory?

I told you guys this is gonna be the strongest one, but hopefully they build towers that are also strong I could also probably use obsidian for this,

but I don't think that's strong enough netherite is literally built to withstand anything and everything.

Oh, but I forgot to get a pickaxe How am I gonna make an entrance now?

I'll deal with it later.

Let's just keep building the walls up like this Okay, well i'm basically out of netherite I built a pretty big tower so far,

but I feel like it needs to be even taller Which means i'm gonna have to get some more.

Oh, wait a second.

How do I get down from here?

Oh, geez

Okay, and this should be perfect boom the roof is now fully done

and the rest of my tower is also done

Or at least the frame of it I don't have many weapons put in here yet

But I do have one thing that I think would be the most useful

and that's this button I gotta make sure I don't press it though I also have an elevator

that I can call up just by pressing this button I

should be able to call the elevator up like this There we go

and this is gonna make it a lot easier to get up and down.

Hello, mr. Elevator.

I want to go downwards.

Boom.

Okay, but real quick, I'm actually going to drop onto this floor because I think some better reinforcements are needed here.

Luckily, I brought this pickaxe with me so that I can break out a little entrance for myself.

I wish netherite was faster to break, but maybe it's a good thing that it doesn't break so easily.

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This looks like a pretty good window size.

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Now, I'm just going to build some small little platforms here.

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Let's place a shulker box in the middle, and this is going to have a sniper with a bunch of ammo inside, and I'm going to put that on all four sides here.

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Here's the second one.

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Here's the third one, and now finally, we need the last one.

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Boom.

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There we go.

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All four sides are done, and luckily, I brought a parachute with me as well, so I can just jump off here, and I'm fine.

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My tower is now complete, and it's very dangerous.

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Nobody's going to be able to get through this, not even those huge monsters, but it looks like my friends are pretty much done with their towers too.

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I think Shady built that diamond castle and then Nico and Zoe built that wooden tower.

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I wonder what they're up to.

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There's no way this is gonna work.

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Nico, Zoe, are you guys done with your tower over here?

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Yeah, we're done.

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It's all finished.

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I like the spikes.

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That's definitely dangerous, but are you sure this is gonna work?

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It's made out of wood.

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Yes, it's gonna work.

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And don't worry because we have a secret defense.

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A secret defense?

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Guys, spikes is not very secretive.

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That's not the secret part.

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You think we'd put the defense in the front?

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Well, yes.

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Obviously, it's a defense.

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All right, come inside.

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Let me show you what's up.

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Okay.

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Yeah, go over there.

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Barrels, this is your secret?

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Really, guys?

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Well, no, this is our storage room.

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Oh, I guess that makes sense.

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Yeah, this is just our stuff.

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But everything's empty.

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You don't even have weapons in here or anything?

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Well, don't worry.

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Our weapons are upstairs.

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Mm, okay.

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Yeah, trust the process.

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So far, I'm not seeing any cool defenses.

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These are our bedrooms.

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Oh, that's smart.

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You know, my base has like nine beds.

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And we have windows here in case any verities come.

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Oh, so this is your form of security.

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Uh, yeah.

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Okay, what is this thing?

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It's making noise.

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Uh, that's a generator.

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Oh, for power?

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Yeah.

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Dang, I should have thought of that.

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Okay, fine.

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That was smart, but I'm still not seeing any cool defenses.

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We'll check up here.

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All right, we'll come up.

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Mm, what's up here?

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Here is our secret defense.

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Wait, what?

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Hey, how's it going?

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Is that a villager with a basketball?

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Yeah, it is.

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Yeah.

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He can throw the basketball at the Verity monster and kill it.

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What?

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Yeah, I sure can.

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I used to play basketball a lot, so they called up a shooter.

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That's me.

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Well, no offense, mr. Villager, but aren't your arms like connected?

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How do you even dribble that thing?

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Oh, yeah, I just dribble it like this man.

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It's not that hard.

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Wait, what so you can actually play basketball?

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I could cross you.

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Oh, yeah.

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Whoa.

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Whoa.

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Hey Yeah, I'm out of practice.

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Okay, I know how to play basketball.

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Listen, they just hired a shooter So I don't really know what i'm here for

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but I guess i'll find out here to defend this base Come on, dude when you hire a shooter that usually means somebody with like a gun, you know, not a basketball Oh, well, don't worry.

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We have these bows here for backup bows.

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Yeah, you might have to use those So you set up defending the base.

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I thought I was just a shooter, you know basketball Yeah, it gets the giant verity monster.

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That was the job application.

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Wait, what the ones on the tv?

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Yeah.

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Yeah Oh my god.

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Okay.

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Well, I don't really know if I signed up for that But I think I could do it.

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I'm a shooter.

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I'm a shooter in other categories There's no way I like that confidence.

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Let's go Well, okay.

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It looks like you guys have a basketball villager as your one defense We're good over here.

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I want to go check out shady's base because he built

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that diamond castle and he's probably got way better Defenses you guys want to come with me.

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I guess we'll check it out with you.

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Let's go these lasers looks like they would slice you in probably two Seconds.

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I'm staying away from that.

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Oh gosh Super super powerful.

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That's scary.

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Hey shady.

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Can we come into your base or are we gonna get trapped by something?

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Wait, is he sleeping?

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I think he is.

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Hey, yo, why are you sleeping up here?

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Oh, hey guys, what's up?

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Dude, what if the monsters attack?

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You can't be sleeping like that.

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Oh, that's what the cannons are for and the lasers.

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Cannons?

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Yeah.

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Oh, I didn't even realize you had these things.

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah, they'll auto shoot the, uh, the bad guys.

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So I just left them there.

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Oh, wait, you built your whole base out of diamonds and you couldn't even save enough for the cannons.

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You had to build those out of gold.

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Oh, come on.

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Everybody knows that yellow is the best.

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Okay.

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So I did, I did gold.

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Yeah, but gold is weaker, but, uh, you know what?

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It doesn't even matter.

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How do we know these actually work, huh?

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You'll see, bro.

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It'll demonstrate itself when the monsters arrive.

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Can I do a test shot?

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I kind of want to use it.

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Sure, if you want to.

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Okay, I'm gonna aim it this way.

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Help!

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Whoa!

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Oh!

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Oh, yeah.

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It actually works.

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Okay, maybe that's a little bit stronger than my basketball.

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Yeah, but you want to know what's even stronger than basketballs and cannons?

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What?

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What?

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Come over to my base, guys.

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You're gonna love this.

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Yo, what? Is

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that on your base make sure you guys do not touch

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the spikes they will kill you instantly bro has moving spikes That's crazy.

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Wow.

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That's kind of a safety hazard not gonna lie.

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Yeah Well, it'll kill the verities at least now make sure you time it correctly shady.

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Don't just run through oh I'm gonna go okay.

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I guess you can just run through Wow, Zoe, are you sure you could do this?

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What?

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I don't know how you survived that.

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Oh my gosh, so we barely made it watch this Ah, there we go.

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I think that cut my hair.

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And now we just need to bring the elevator up.

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Um, so this thing?

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Let's set this to the top layer.

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Yep, boom.

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Oh, you got an elevator.

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Oh my gosh.

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And check this out guys.

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Whoa.

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This is bougie.

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It goes all the way up to the top.

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I even have a floor with beds, a floor with sniper rifles.

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Oh, I saw that.

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And the top floor, nobody press this red button, please.

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Okay.

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Ooh, what happens if I press this red button?

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Uh, I really want to press it.

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Don't press it.

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It's for the last defense.

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It'll mess up everything I have planned.

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Ooh.

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Wow, this place is tall.

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Only I'm allowed to press it.

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And yeah, it's tall.

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But real quick, do you guys want to get the sniper rifles I set up?

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Yeah, sure.

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Oh, yeah.

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Acting like I don't already have my own in my pocket, though.

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Oh, well, I didn't realize.

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Nico and Zoe, at least you guys can get some of these.

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It's okay.

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Oh!

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They missed the jump.

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Oh, we were supposed to jump, bro?

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What?

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You want to let us know next time?

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Yo, my bad.

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Hopefully, these are strong enough to kill the Verity monsters.

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Yeah, I should have definitely added some stops to those elevators.

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But anyways, your weapons are inside the shulker boxes.

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Yeah, this place is overkill.

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Ooh.

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Ooh, vibes.

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It's not overkill.

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It's definitely gonna work.

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Now, let me use my parachute to jump back down.

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Sorry, you guys should have brought some too.

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Aw, what?

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A parachute?

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Hey!

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I got everything prepared.

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Come on.

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I'll use the elevator.

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Wait a second.

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Uh-oh.

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Guys, I think the monsters are starting to come in.

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Oh, gosh.

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Okay, uh, what now?

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Uh, we need to run to a base.

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Quickly!

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No!

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Okay, my base!

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Let's go!

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You guys better have gotten some good defenses.

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Oh, trust me, we do.

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Oh, my goodness.

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Your guys' entrance is booty.

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Okay, sorry.

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It's a wooded base.

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Why did I come up here with you guys?

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We should have got a bigger door.

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There's no way this basketball player is gonna save us.

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All right Are those the things I gotta shoot at?

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Jeff, are you locks in?

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Yo, yeah, look at this one.

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Yeah, I think so.

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Oh, all right.

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Oh my god.

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There's one behind our base.

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Yo, shoot the basketball at him.

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What are you doing?

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Okay.

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Oh, that's not doing anything to him.

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Yes.

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Come on, you're missing.

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You're missing every shot.

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What is bro doing?

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Oh my goodness.

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That thing's gonna reach in here if you don't lock in, villager.

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Oh my.

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I'm trying.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm a little nervous.

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I didn't know I was gonna be shooting at this thing.

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Oh my goodness.

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I told you that was the job.

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Yo, those basketballs are not heavy enough to do any damage.

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Yo, he's laughing.

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He's just playing with his food at this point.

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You know what?

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Yeah, look.

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Do you not have anything stronger?

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Yeah, one second.

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He's just smiling at us creepily.

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Nico.

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Oh no. I told you guys this was not smart.

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Wait, how did you just get that big of a basketball?

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Why is it huge?

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Whoa.

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You know what?

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Where's this thing at now?

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That might actually work.

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Oh!

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You did it!

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Oh my god.

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It hit him down!

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Oh my god, I did it!

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You killed Verity!

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Oh my god!

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Uh-oh. But guys...

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Oh, we still got two more left to deal with.

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Oh, there's two more.

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Oh, you made them mad.

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They're kind of breaking into the base guys.

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Ah!

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Ah!

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Oh, gosh.

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What do we do?

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Oh, wait a second.

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Yo.

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Oh, God.

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Oh!

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Ow!

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Oh, gosh.

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Okay.

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Did he just destroy the base?

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I think we did.

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Where am I?

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I'm in the rubble.

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Oh, my goodness.

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He just destroyed everything.

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Ah!

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We're gonna have to run.

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He's looking at us.

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Go to Shady's base.

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We need to use those cannons.

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Get out of the pit.

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I have a bunch of blocks.

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Just try and follow me.

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Okay.

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Yo, Shady.

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The monsters are coming in.

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He better not be asleep.

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Yo, it's chasing us.

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Let us in.

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He's sleeping up there.

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Is he sleeping?

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No way he's sleeping.

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Oh my gosh.

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Shady.

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Yo, dude.

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Wake up.

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They're here.

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What?

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What?

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The monster.

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Get up, dude.

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He's kind of right there.

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Oh my gosh.

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I'm gonna have to use these cannons.

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Everyone get in a cannon and fire.

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Get away from us.

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Wait, these cannons, they don't do any damage.

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Let him get up.

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Let him get up.

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What do you mean let him get up?

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It's not working.

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We all gotta shoot at it.

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Just wait.

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Okay, everyone shoot cannons.

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It's not working.

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Shady, did you really test these?

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Um, yes, I did.

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He just got rid of our cannons.

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Uh-oh.

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They're not destroying anything.

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Do you have anything better?

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All right, you know what, dude?

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I do got something better.

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Watch this.

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Wait, what?

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Since when did you get this huge cannon?

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Where did that come from?

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Ayo, buddy, take this.

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Boom.

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Uh-oh.

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Oh!

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Oh my gosh, the blue one's down.

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Yeah.

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The cannon worked.

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Oh yeah.

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I can't believe it.

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Wait, I don't think the red one's very happy about that.

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Uh-oh.

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Oh gosh.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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Does this cannon work against him?

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Boom!

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Oh, no, it doesn't.

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Guys, the cannon's not working on the red one.

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This guy's definitely stronger.

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Okay.

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I think that's cruelty.

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He just destroyed the cannon.

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We gotta retreat.

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Okay, I'm going out this way.

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We gotta go.

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Please, lasers, don't kill me.

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Oh, I went right through him.

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Oh, ow, ow, ow.

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I don't got a parachute.

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He's kind of destroying the diamond base.

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Can we sneak around to mine?

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Yeah, we gotta get out of here.

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Run, run.

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Guys, come on.

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We're going.

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Quickly, we gotta get in.

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Make sure you call the elevator.

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All right, let's go.

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Let's head up up to the top floor.

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You guys have your sniper rifles locked and loaded Okay, I gotta make a pit stop.

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Sorry guys.

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What?

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Oh my goodness I don't have my sniper.

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Oh forgot his sniper rifle.

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Okay.

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Hey buddy.

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We're over here.

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Let's see if this works Boom.

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Oh, oh Boom.

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All right.

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I got my sniper.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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Is it working?

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I don't think the sniper rifles are working what well we

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just shot like a million bullets at him He's not dying What in the world is going on?

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Oh, this very tough.

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Hey, listen, Mr. Cruelty, sir I don't want to have to use the red button, but I might have to we are definitely gonna have to use the red button, bro He is about to knock this tower completely down.

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Oh geez.

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Okay.

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Well if we press it, we're gonna have to get out of here immediately Okay, well, all right.

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Well, I think we need to be prepared with parachutes.

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You got some for us now, right?

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Yeah I have three just put that on.

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Oh, all right.

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Okay.

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You know what?

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I'm gonna get a head start on flying off shady.

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You press the button.

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Sorry.

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All right I'm pressing it dude.

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I'm flying out of here.

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I'm out of here, too I really hope that button worked.

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I think I'm hearing explosions though.

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You guys think it's working I think

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so the meteors should be falling on him right now I really hope he died wait wait wait a second guys.

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I'm going back and I'm not seeing him yo yo He's dead like he died to the meteors.

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No way.

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Yeah, wait shady.

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You stayed up there.

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Yeah, I'm not gonna lie I was safe.

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Oh, we parachuted away for no reason.

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Does that mean all three verities are gone?

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I think they are we did it we did it guys let's go and my tower was left without a scratch

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Kill all the box stars.

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No dude.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 535 sentences and 3329 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:38. The speaker talks fast, about 227 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% 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
cannon noun	/ˈkæn.ən/	A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar…
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
diamond noun	/ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/	A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
boom verb	/bum/	To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
elevator noun	/ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/	Anything that raises or uplifts.
sniper noun	/ˈsnaɪ.pɚ/	A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
shady adjective	/ˈʃeɪdi/	Abounding in shades.
goodness noun	/ˈɡʊdnəs/	The state or characteristic of being good.
shooter noun	/ˈʃuːtəː/	Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
parachute noun	/ˈpæɹəʃut/	A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float…
rifle noun	/ˈɹaɪfəl/	A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
defend verb	/dɪˈfɪnd/	To ward off attacks against (something or someone).
spike noun	/spaɪk/	A sort of very large nail.
entrance noun	/ˈɛn.tɹəns/	The action of entering, or going in.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
call up verb		To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.
make out of verb		To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
run through verb		To summarise briefly.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 148 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: withstand /wɪðˈstænd/, netherite /ˈnɛðəraɪt/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shady /ˈʃeɪdi/, shooter /ˈʃuːtəː/, parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/
Long words — get the stress right: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, reinforcement /ˌɹiːɪnˈfɔːsmənt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cannon, gosh, diamond.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be made · is also done · are needed
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't heard · have planned · have gotten
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who get · taller Which means
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should be · should we go · shouldn't use

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.

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What is the Shadowing Technique?