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16 years, well, 15 years until the end of civilization as we know it.
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All right, Danielle.
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Listen, that tracks.
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All right, you guys ready?
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Ready.
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You ready for the boxo questions? So festive.
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Okay, this question was for Skiri, but I think everybody here should answer.
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If you had to be the face of one product, what would it be?
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Wow.
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Now, should we be a little more cerebral about it? and think about the kind of, you know, what is it that I consume every day?
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It's up to you.
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I'm going to let you answer this question in any way.
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Can you skip me for the moment?
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A product, right?
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A product.
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Something you use all the time.
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Hey, it's Skiri Jones for a product.
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Scotty B?
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Well, I mean, I would love to have my own cereal.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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Oh, yeah.
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What would you call it?
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I don't know.
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I would have to.
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That's something I've got to think about.
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I mean, there would definitely be some chocolate in there, some marshmallows.
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I got it.
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Scotty B's and it's honey because get it B Marshmallows in there.
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I'll take it.
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Yeah, okay.
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Okay.
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I like that.
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Okay.
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Oh damn.
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What would you be?
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Gosh, let me think here If it was a procedure I would say LASIK eye surgery
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because I still say that's the best money I ever spent on anything in my life Yeah, but a product Oh, boy.
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Could it be, instead of a product, could it be an organization? That could work, yeah.
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Okay.
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Product, organization, some sort of device.
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Okay.
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A cream, lotion, a Garrett.
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Theragun.
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Oh, yeah.
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Theragun's pretty good.
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I would do that.
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Just for the commercial alone, it would be hilarious.
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Hey, hey, hey, hey.
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Hi, how are you doing?
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I think I'd pick some type of conservation organization, like a Save the Oceans.
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I like that one.
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There's that plastic.
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Have you been following that plastic?
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Do you guys follow that?
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What is it on Instagram?
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It's like the plastic cleanup or something like that.
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Where they've gotten like seven tons already or some massive amount.
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They're cleaning up.
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I love that for them.
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They show this net and they are bringing in a barge full of plastic that's just floating out in the ocean.
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Wow.
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It's so disgusting.
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It's so sad.
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Humans are the worst.
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Humans and beavers are the only things that leave debris behind.
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And beavers only leave trash because we put it out there for them to pick up and make trash out of them.
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Oh, tangent on this note.
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Yeah.
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I was reading the other day.
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We have, let me look at the 16 years, well, 15 years until the end of civilization as we know it.
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All right, Danielle.
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Listen, that tracks.
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Wow.
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It's not going well for us.
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Wow, wow, wow.
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I think I would like maybe a haunted house, like the face of haunted houses or like at that time of the year, you know, or some kind of a shoe.
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You'd like to be the face of a shoe.
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Of a shoe, a shoe brand.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Like rep a shoe brand.
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Oh, yeah.
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That would be kind of cool.
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I'm really kind of shocked.
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You've been talking about shoes for 30 years.
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We almost did.
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Nobody has come to you and said that.
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No, I almost did.
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I almost came out with a shoe for charity, actually.
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But what happened was is that the amount that they had to make right out of the bat, we were worried that we weren't going to be able to sell that many.
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And so we were like, then how much money does the charity get?
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Is it going to work?
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It just was a lot, you know.
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So that's the reason why.
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I mean, I'm always open to it.
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And you know what?
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Bobbi Brown, she's always telling me we need to do something with the shoe brand.
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But we haven't done it yet.
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I mean, if Huck Tua girl can get her own cryptocurrency.
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That didn't go well.
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That didn't turn out well.
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She's going to get screwed over.
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Yeah.
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As she screwed everybody else over.
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Yeah, I don't think it's going to go well.
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They're saying that she might go to jail now.
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Is that true?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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I finally found mine.
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I thought about this long and hard.
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Scary Jones for the Big Apple bus tours of New York City.
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Because I feel that, you know those double-decker buses, the tour buses?
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That product or something similar, that service, when people come here, I would take them to other places.
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I mean, yeah, I would see the sights, check out Statue of Liberty, stop by the vessel.
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But I would drive into the outer boroughs
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and I would go to all the places where you get the best slice of pizza or the best burgers over here.
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Not first quarter.
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What?
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You can't do it during first quarter because you can't eat all that stuff.
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No, of course not.
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Maybe he should only do it during first quarter.
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True.
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Save himself.
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There could be that.
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But yeah, I could see myself because I love nothing more than
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when a guest comes to town to give them advice on where to go.
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You know I spent hours.
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You're good about that.
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I give them my phone number.
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I'm like, let's go.
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Text me if you need anything because I also try and get them reservations places.
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But I want people to see New York through my lens
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because I grew up here and I care about it so much.
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He's actually sounding pretty good as a commercial right now.
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I love that.
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Can I work for you?
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I'll work for you.
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You should totally do like a scary Jones gastro tour But it's gonna go beyond that sightseeing shopping
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You know the Christmas lights that are up in Brooklyn
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that one street that has like the lights Diker lights is there a tour that you can do about you just yes, the buses that go there like crazy That would be awesome.
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In fact, you know, fun fact, I grew up three blocks from there.
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I used to walk through that.
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It's so cool.
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And by then, back then, nobody was there except the neighborhood.
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It was awesome.
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And it was kept on now.
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Oh, now I'm forgetting.
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The world shows up at our doorstep.
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When we host Christmas, I live, again, three, four blocks down the street.
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The cars are lined up past my block for blocks just to crawl up.
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It's the same exact street, 84th Street.
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Wow.
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That's the street.
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Wow.
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But a few blocks up.
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Crazy.
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Wild.
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Wait, Nate, what did you say your product was?
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Did I say a product?
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I said a procedure.
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You said LASIK.
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I said LASIK, but I'm still thinking.
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I don't know if this question was okay.
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Oh, my God.
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How long has it been?
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Do we need another question?
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Is anybody going to do topdoglord.com?
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They have a face, man.
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They have a face, and they're raking it in right now.
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And a voice.
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Okay.
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Did we hit the magic mark?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Scotty said we did.
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Oh, last quick question.
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If you had to create a Gandhi method for surviving the apocalypse, what's your first rule?
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Um, don't have Skiri, because he'll eat all the food.
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Sure.
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He'll lose a dead weight immediately.
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That's a gentleman we're clear, though.
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Thank you, everybody.
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Bye!
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Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | Have you been following · You've been talking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | they've gotten · has come · haven't done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was kept · are lined |
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