Shadowing Practice: Why Would He Say That?! | Kids Say the Craziest Things - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oh no, what did you guys just tell me?
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We peed at the same time.
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You peed in the toilet at the same time, but I told you guys that you cannot pee at the same time.
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But Daddy and me do it all the time.
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I'm going to talk to Daddy offline, but boys are a little bit better.
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They probably can pee in the potty at the same time, but a girl and a boy cannot pee in the potty at the same time.
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We did it.
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How'd you do it?
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Mason peed on the side and I peed in the front.
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You sat on the potty and then Mason peed on the side.
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And you didn't pee on each other?
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Just a little bit.
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What does a cow say?
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What does a cat say?
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What does a dog say?
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What does a dinosaur say?
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No!
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Oh, what does Lucas say?
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Leep!
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Love taking that was my Pixie.
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Pixie, I love you so much.
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Pixie, it's okay if you come up on the carpet.
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What did you do?
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I like my Spider-Man.
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What is Ryan?
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Um, she's a kitty cat.
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And I appear with ghosts.
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Oh.
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When you get older, you can have a job.
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I'm not doing jobs.
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You're not doing jobs.
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I don't like jobs.
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Why?
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Because then I have to do all and I have to pay everything.
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And that makes me tired.
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I'm dead.
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I'm dead on the air.
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You're dead on the air?
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You're unalive.
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That's called unalive.
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You weren't born yet, buddy.
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You weren't born until you were unalive.
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You weren't dead.
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Who killed me?
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Nobody killed you, honey.
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We do not have a cat.
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Well, who made that mess?
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We don't have a cat.
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No, we don't, Kingston.
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I have a dog and a little boy.
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Two dogs.
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Now, who made the mess?
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Colton.
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Colton, did you make the mess?
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No, that was Kingston.
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Who's telling lies?
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Who's telling lies?
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It's okay.
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It's okay, Colton.
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Jesus is watching him.
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Jesus is watching Colton?
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He's watching you too.
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No. Yes, he is.
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Do you want this one?
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Isabella?
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No. Do you want to starve?
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Okay.
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I can't do this.
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What are you saying?
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I can't do this.
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Why?
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I can't do this.
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Really?
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I can't do this.
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Excuse me.
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I can't do this.
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Whose birthday is it on Christmas?
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Santa Claus.
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No, not Santa Claus's birthday.
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Whose birthday is it?
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We want to talk about it.
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You want to talk about it?
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It's Jesus's birthday.
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Jesus's birthday.
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Yeah.
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And where does Jesus live? In my heart.
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In your heart?
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Uh-huh.
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Aw.
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I love you.
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He does live in your heart.
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Mommy.
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What did you call sister?
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No, nothing.
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What did you call her?
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Nothing.
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No. What did you call her?
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I call her Buck Frackadine.
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Something's coming out of my butt.
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What's coming out of your butt?
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Something's coming out of my butt, Daddy.
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What's coming out of your butt?
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What's something?
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What's something?
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What's coming out?
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Daddy!
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Daddy!
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Tell Daddy what's coming out.
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What's not coming out of my bed, Daddy?
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I'm a little kid!
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I'm a little kid.
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What did you do?
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Go more.
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Go more.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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Big ol' kitty?
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Big ol' kitty.
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Big ol' kitty.
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Big ol' kitty.
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I seen it!
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I seen it!
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I seen it!
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I seen it!
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Hey, big ol' kitty!
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Big ol' kitty!
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Big ol' kitty!
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Big ol' kitty!
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Yeah!
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What does your mommy do?
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What does mommy do?
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Put me in time out.
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Huh?
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Put me in time out.
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Put you in time out.
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What does daddy do?
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Put me in time out too.
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Oh.
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Boys, girls, and grandma.
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We're starting our solar system, huh?
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so we've got what's this one do you remember jupiter okay do you remember what this one is
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no mercury mercury which is that one earth okay my uranus uranus uranus uranus
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no like it's called your anus not my anus uranus what did you do what were you doing
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Did you get in the diaper cream during quiet time?
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Look at me.
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Hey.
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Look at me.
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Say cheese.
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Say cheese.
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Can you tell me, what does the kitty cat say?
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Meow.
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Meow?
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Meow.
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Are you a grumpy kitty cat?
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Meow.
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Meow, yeah?
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Are we a grumpy kitty cat?
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Meow.
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I love you.
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Meow.
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Did you have fun at school today?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Did you play outside?
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Yeah.
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Did you play with toys inside?
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Yeah.
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Did you climb a mountain?
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Yeah.
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Did you go up in space in a rocket ship?
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Yeah.
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Did you ride a dinosaur?
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Yeah.
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Grace!
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Yeah, can I have my magazine back I was looking at?
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I can't get it.
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I know you took it.
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I can't get it from me.
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I know you took it from me.
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Can I have it back, please?
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Oh no, no. Give me back.
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Did you steal it from Mama's hand?
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Miss!
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Grace, Gracie, can mommy please have the magazine back?
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No, I need my back.
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Mickey, don't.
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Oh, Jesus!
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No!
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Jesus!
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What is elbow grease?
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Elbow grease is when you hold this and squish.
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And then what happens?
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It squishes out.
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How did you break that?
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Accidents happen.
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Accidents happen, Mom.
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Accidents happen?
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Yeah.
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How did you break that glass?
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Because I did it, and I'm sorry.
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and Daddy and I'm sorry you broke it and Kitty's sorry I broke it too Kitty's sorry that you broke it
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and her love me and her love me so much Go!
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Go!
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Go to the nail This is not the point I'm not...
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Yeah, right there is good camera.
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I'm trying to go away.
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Okay.
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You stay there, you little lady!
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Go!
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Jump!
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Alright!
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That's where she goes poop.
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Ugh!
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Poop!
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Stink!
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Stink-a-pink!
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I got you.
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There's nothing to be afraid.
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There's nothing to be afraid.
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That you're so nice to your cat.
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You tell her there's nothing to be afraid?
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Nothing to be afraid.
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Aww.
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That's a book hole.
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That's a book hole.
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Can you say, Granny?
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Can you say, Teacher? Can you say, Cabin?
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What do you call this?
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It's a octopus.
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Octopus?
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It's a crocodile.
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It's an octopus.
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It's an octopus.
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It's a whale.
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Tell me what you found the other day.
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Cowapitter.
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A what?
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Cowapitter.
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What is a cowapitter?
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It's a cowapitter.
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What's a cowapitter?
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A cowapitter.
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What is a cowapitter?
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It's a hairy fairy.
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It's a string.
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Caterpillar.
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Caterpillar.
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Say it fast.
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Caterpillar.
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How old are you?
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You should say, um, old means people hurt, mommy.
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Oh, old means people hurt?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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What do you want to be when you grow up?
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A fish dinosaur.
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But you can't be a dinosaur when you grow up.
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You have to still be a person.
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I just want to be a dinosaur.
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You could be a dinosaur hunter.
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No. Animal.
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You want to say hi?
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Hi.
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Look at how tall that one is. Can you say hi?
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Hi, Liz.
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Hi, Rosie.
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Want to get up close and see him?
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No. What does a chicken say?
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What does a cow say?
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What's ice cream say?
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Look at her.
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Oh, you want to look at her?
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I need to look at her boobs.
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What?
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I may be look at her dress.
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Oh, you're gonna look at her dress?
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You want cheese pizza?
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No. What do you want?
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I want pepperoni pizza.
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Taking off the pepperoni.
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So cheese pizza.
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No!
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What do you want?
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Pepperoni pizza.
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Pepperoni!
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Neat!
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And you want mommy to take the pepperonis off the pizza?
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Uh huh.
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It's okay.
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What'd you do tonight?
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What?
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I said what did you do tonight?
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I'm telling you you hugged Papa.
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I hugged Papa.
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You hugged Papa?
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And what else?
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I hugged Papa.
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Watch the elephant, okay?
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Watch the elephant.
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Okay, I'll watch the elephant, girlfriend.
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No!
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You had fun tonight?
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Yes.
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I missed you.
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So talk, okay?
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When I turned seven, I turned, then I turned six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, then twelve,
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then fourteen, then fourteen, then fifteen, then sixteen, then seventeen, then eighteen, then nineteen, then twenty-one, then twenty-two,
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then twenty-three, then twenty-four, then 25, then I will die.
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What do you want to watch?
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What movie did you want to watch? On Dice Show.
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Why?
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Because I like Dice Show to eat the people.
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You want to see what happened?
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I want to see the people to die.
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You want to see the people to die?
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You want to see the dice to eat the people?
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Yeah.
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It said, you lips are crusty, you need chapsticks.
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That's what it says?
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Let me see it.
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Turn it around.
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What kind of chapstick is it?
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Wow, that looks like a good chapstick.
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What does a horse say?
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What does a kitty say?
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What does a duck say?
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What does a frog say?
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What does a squirrel say?
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What does an elephant say?
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What do you think you're going to do when you grow up, Carter?
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Um, be a dentist.
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A dentist?
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Where'd that come from?
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Because it's a six-finger job.
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A six-finger job?
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What do you mean, six-finger job?
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Six-finger.
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Six-figure?
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I always thought it was finger.
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Me nice. Be nice. Be nice right now. Be nice right now.
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What did you say?
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No, I said, mine is better.
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What's better?
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This picture of mine.
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It's better than what?
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It's better than that.
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It's better than scribble.
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Scribbles are not drying.
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There's no food in there.
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Come on dinosaur.
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When your son thinks he's leaving tomorrow.
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You kicked my dinosaur.
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You kicked my lawns!
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Ha ha ha!
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Bye, Mom.
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Where are you going?
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Going on your butt.
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What did you do?
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I ripped the pants.
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You ripped your pants?
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I ripped the pants.
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How?
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You did it!
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You did it!
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Daddy, give me!
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I want it!
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What'd you say?
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Put it back on.
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You want your candle back on?
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Oh no. You want your candle back on?
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What did you do?
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Do you like baths?
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Do you like showers?
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Yeah.
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What'd you do?
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Whoa!
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This is silly!
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Did you put makeup on?
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Yeah, I put makeup on.
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Why'd you do that?
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I sure do love plants, especially this palm tree.
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It's really cool looking.
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Huh?
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I'm beautiful, Mommy.
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Yes, you are, sweetie.
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What did you find?
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Show me what you found.
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Oh, this is Paula's Chewbacca.
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Oh, Chewbacca, no way!
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Zachy, Zachy, what did you find?
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Paula's Chewbacca.
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You mean...
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I'm giving that hamster away now.
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Why?
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Right now.
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How come?
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I just want one pet.
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That's a wizard.
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Mom!
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How come?
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I get a different pet that doesn't have teeth like me.
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What kind of pet?
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It has to be purple.
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It doesn't have any teeth.
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It's got to be a cat.
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What?
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The burnum one. On.
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What do you have on?
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Pink lipstick.
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And it is good.
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Are you supposed to wear lipstick to bed, though?
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It's nighttime lipstick. And it's not funny. Who did that?
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I didn't do that.
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You did do that?
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I didn't.
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Why are you lying?
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I didn't do that.
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Who did it?
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My first day was the kitty.
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The kitty did that?
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Yes.
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How did the kitty do that?
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He jumped in the fridge and he put it down.
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The cat jumped in the fridge, got the eggs, and put them down?
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Yes, and he smashed them.
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All of these?
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Yes.
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The kitties don't know how to open the fridge.
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Yes, they do.
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They do.
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And then they get it out, and then they smash.
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What would you like to eat?
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Would you like to eat some cheese?
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Yes.
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Some cheese?
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Some apple?
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No. An orange?
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No. Some dog food?
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No. Some cat food?
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Yeah.
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That's what you want?
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Yeah.
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Oh, football!
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Come on, bro!
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You gave my water in the water?
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You gave my water in the water.
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What is it you want me to do?
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Go to Walmart.
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Go to the Hot Wheels section,
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look on the left, and if you see a green vehicle that has a boom and a claw on the end,
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that's the tree cutter that I want.
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So buy it, come home,
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then I'll be happy and I'll give everything Remy needs while you're gone if he wakes up.
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So you want me to do this during nap time?
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Yes!
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Do you know what that is?
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What?
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What?
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Do you know what that's a picture of?
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What?
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What do you think?
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A monster?
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A monster?
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No. You're going to be a big sister again.
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How do you know that?
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Because mommy has a baby in her tummy.
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It's not exciting What?
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This is a dinosaur tail A what?
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A dinosaur tail A dinosaur tail Yeah
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Tell him what you did to Ken
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Tell me Tell him what you did to Ken I gave him a potty hat Did you give him a swirly?
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Yes.
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Can you say I gave him a swirly?
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Uh-huh.
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Say it.
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I'm done.
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I'm going to make it swirly.
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He gave me swirly.
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There's Ken.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 479 sentences and 2192 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:59. The speaker talks at a steady 110 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 79% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| kitty noun | /ˈkɪti/ | A young cat; a kitten. |
| dinosaur noun | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. |
| daddy noun | /ˈdædi/ | Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| butt noun | /bʌt/ | Body; self. |
| pee noun | /ˈpiː/ | Urine. |
| hug verb | /hʌɡ/ | To cling closely together. |
| elephant noun | /ˈɛlɪfənt/ | A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
| tail noun | /ˈteɪ̯l/ | An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something. |
| rip verb | /ɹɪp/ | To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence. |
| lipstick noun | /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/ | Makeup for the lips. |
| smash verb | /smæʃ/ | To break (something brittle) violently. |
| mercury noun | /ˈmɜɹkjəɹi/ | A silvery-coloured, metallic chemical element with the atomic number 80; it is liquid at room temperature, and toxic. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| take off verb | To remove. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
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 | weren't born |
| Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things | better than |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were you doing · was looking |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm not doing · You're not doing · is watching |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 57 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: pepperoni /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/, caterpillar /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like kitty, dinosaur, daddy.
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.