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It's been a minute.
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Hi guys.
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How you doing?
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Hi.
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We're so sorry we've been gone.
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The last time you guys saw us, Bella just turned six months old. And now...
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In three days time, she's turning a year.
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No, she's not.
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She's turning 12 months.
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12 months.
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Yeah.
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We don't say...
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We're not a years kind of family.
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So get that year stuff out of it.
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She's not going to be measured in years until she's 10, okay? then she's 120 months.
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Yeah, we've been gone.
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We're really sorry about that.
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Things have just been kind of crazy.
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I know that's not an excuse, but it's no excuse at all.
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But yeah, we've been being completely honest.
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I've been in a bit of a weird place mentally and Monica's been incredible.
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I feel so selfish that I'm the one in the weird place mentally when you're the one that gave birth.
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And it's nothing to do with Bella.
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There's a lot of stuff that we also don't share
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that we've been through that really do take a toll on your mental health
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so yeah nothing with us or with bala as well
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family stuff work related distance all
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that kind of stuff we just want to let you guys know we're really sorry
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that we've been gone but we've been feeling good
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and we're excited to come back we probably won't be making videos probably every week
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but we are going to come back as much as we can
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because we know you guys have been asking us a ton where we've been to come back
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so yeah we do a a Q&A.
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So that's question number one is where have you been?
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There you go.
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Yeah the thing with
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YouTube that we don't experience with short form videos you know on TikTok
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and Instagram stuff is YouTube like we're traditionally vloggers
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so like we'll basically vlog throughout the day and stuff
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and the one thing that we agreed
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when we first started doing YouTube is we never want to present kind of like a fake personality
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or like present to be something we're not.
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I kind of found myself slipping and
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when we were vlogging I kind of noticed
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that I was kind of putting on a front
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and pretending to be happy you know the last few videos
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and stuff and it's really hard to do that
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when you're trying to be as authentic as you can be
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and it was also the point where it's like we're enjoying life with our daughter
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and every little thing that we're doing we're like oh my gosh wait we should have vlogged that
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and it was getting to a point where we were like
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we also just want to like live life sometimes like with a short form content those are like quick videos
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But with this when we were it was taking over everything we're like, oh my gosh, she's doing this we need to get the camera out Yeah, but we're like we just wanted to enjoy a lot more in the moment
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So we're making sure to prioritize that over anything, but we are still on everything else
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So make sure to go on like Instagram
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and we are take talking all that work We're posting pretty much every day over there.
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Let's just get into it.
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Let's do a little rant over here We go.
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What is your favorite part about having a daughter?
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Oh my gosh You know what my favorite part is about having a daughter what the fact
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that I went 30 years my life without realizing
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an entire type of love could exist i would literally do anything for her
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and it's a different type of love to like a partner isn't it like i love monica
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and bella the same amount
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but it's just in different ways yeah my favorite part it's
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like i can't even like pick one thing it's absolutely everything
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that i ever dreamed of
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and more i love having like a little like version of us like there's just
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so many things that she does where it's like oh my gosh that's so much like like Sam, they're like, oh my gosh, that reminds me of me.
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And we get new versions of that every single day, don't we?
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Like every day she'll do like something that she hasn't done before.
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I'm like, that's Monica.
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Yeah.
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It sounds kind of weird, but like, I feel very like needed.
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It's again, very different to like having like a husband or anything, but I feel so needed and it makes me feel really good.
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And I, like Sam said, would do anything in the world for her She is just my my heart.
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She literally just took my heart
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when she came out of my body She said let me just grab the heart and bring it with me.
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We're watching her on the screen right now This is why we're in the car by the way
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because she's napping in the car.
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Yeah, Monica went to pick up Starbucks And she passed out.
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What's your favorite TV series of all time?
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You know what?
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That's your favorite of all time?
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Yeah, it's a brilliant TV series Monica's like, Vampire Diaries, Summer I Turned Pretty.
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I think, I think, because I was like, Vampire Diaries, Off Campus, and Summer I Turned Pretty.
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Off Campus.
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But I think with those three, honestly, I think Summer I Turned Pretty is- Really?
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Yeah.
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Just thinking about it now, I was like- No. I really think so.
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I thought you were going to say Vampire Diaries, like the OG, you know?
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There's just, it just tickles my brain.
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I love it so much.
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It tickles more than your brain.
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This is a family channel.
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Is this allowed on YouTube?
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He's been reading through any of my books.
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This was actually our most asked question.
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Why do we not show Bella's face on the internet?
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Cause we used to when she was first born.
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We did.
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However, after just seeing a lot of like information out there on, you know, what people are doing with photos and AI,
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what they're doing with like certain things, it creeped us out.
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And then also seeing people like commenting pictures of her face and stuff like that.
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Yeah, people, I got messages and I'm sure that they were coming from a good place, but I got a message once that really shook me and the person was like,
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I love this picture of Bella so much, I saved it, and now it's my background on my phone.
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And to me, again, they were probably being sweet, but to me that really made me uncomfortable and then the thought of,
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yeah, people were commenting photos as a GIF of her face, and then in my head I'm like, people are saving her photo to their phone to do that.
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And to us, we were just like, I don't like it.
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Looking at other creators and stuff
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and seeing like the amount of saves on their videos when their kids faces show up in it and stuff like that.
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I'm like, okay, it just feels weird.
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Yeah, we're really sorry that we don't show her, but again, it's just for her safety.
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What is Monica's top three British foods and what is Sam's top three American foods?
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Oh, that's a really good question.
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You want to go first, Monica?
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Cornish pasties on there.
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Yes.
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Roast dinner.
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Does that count as like a British food?
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Absolutely.
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Roast dinner and Greg's steak bake.
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Okay, my top three American foods.
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You're a sucker for barbecue.
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I am a sucker for barbecue.
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I do really like barbecue.
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I got it yesterday.
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Good deli sandwich and a bacon egg and cheese bagel.
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Nice.
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All New York stuff.
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Pretty much.
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How do you keep such a healthy marriage?
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We're just completely honest with each other at all times.
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Yeah, we're very very communicative.
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Like, we- if one of us is upset over something or just like feeling down about something, I don't know.
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We always communicate.
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Like, we are very good listeners with each other.
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We'll never judge.
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I feel like the person that's feeling down isn't always the best communicator
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But it's I think it's because we've been together almost 11 years now I can sense
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when something's even one percent wrong with Monica
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and vice versa I think we're persistent in the way that it's like I know something is wrong.
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Tell me what's wrong and we can work through it together Yeah, it's not like that.
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All right.
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I'm gonna keep asking.
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It's like come on spit it out
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And we're not afraid to have tough conversations like
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that was one of the things
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that I think long distance really sets us up for is the fact
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that we had to get really serious really quick and have those awkward conversations about where do you want to live, how many kids you want to have, what are your goals in life, like all that kind of stuff.
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And I think
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that kind of sets us up to be able to continue
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having the kind of tough conversations with each other instead of going to bed sad and letting resentment build up.
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And now can I just shamelessly plug my amazing gorgeous beautiful
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husband right here created an app literally he has a team
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of developers making this app fight us again we've posted about it on our other social media.
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It launched at the start of august.
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This app is the coolest thing in the entire world
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and I'm not being biased because I'm the wifey okay this because fight us they know that's the logo right?
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I'm not pointing to a snippy.
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Become the person your partner brags about.
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Yeah, become the person your partner brags about.
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It has gift ideas for certain events, so it's like your anniversary day, you met whatever you want to put in.
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It has these things called daily wins, which are very small, easy ways to make your partner's day.
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So like literally the other day, I opened the book that I was reading, and there was a handwritten note from Sam because it's daily win.
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It knows everything about you, like it learns everything about you, so it knows I love books.
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When you first sign up, you input like what's your partner's favorite coffee order, favorite store, favorite TV show, everything.
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Everything, love language, everything.
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It's amazing.
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And then it also has like a weekly date idea where it gives you like such personalized, like it's not just like a generic like, oh, go to dinner and a movie.
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Like it will literally be like your wife loves scary movies.
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There's a new scary movie coming out.
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Take her to that.
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Get her her favorite snack, M&Ms.
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Like it literally is so personal.
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And it has your location as well.
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So like my weekly date idea this week, it told me to go to the nearest state park.
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And it like named the state park and it said what we can do there.
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And then it said like oh this restaurants nearby go to
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this restaurant I'll have it in the description below make sure to download it guys It is
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if you're in a relationship it is the best thing
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and it's free it is free There is a premium version as well that just has more goodies.
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I guess yeah has more features you can regenerate stuff There's
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a couples mode where you can link with your partner coming in the next few weeks like stuff like that Yeah, but I wanted to make it so that the free version was really usable
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and actually like you actually wanted to use it So go download it.
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Go download it.
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What book are you reading and would you recommend it?
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I'm reading Reckless right now and you are reading, she's reading like five books at a time.
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I just finished a book literally last night.
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I forgot to tell you, I finished my book.
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You did?
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It's called A Long Time Coming.
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That was with Megan Quinn.
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That was very cute.
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I've never read her before.
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That was a cutie one and now I'm reading
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When the Moon Hatched which is a fantasy one that my friend has been begging me to read.
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So I'm reading that right now and then I'm also reading Just Friends.
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I'm reading like multiple books at once right now.
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And yes, I would recommend every single book I'm reading.
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And Monica has a book club now.
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She goes to a book club every first Monday of the month.
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She's got her little book buddies.
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I'm in a book club.
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It's so cute.
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She makes little buffalo chicken dip or some Yorkshire puddings with filling and stuff like that.
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And she'll be like, I'm going to my book club.
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I feel like a little grandma.
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Just like a bunch of local people that all hang out around a random kitchen, eat food, and talk about a book they read over the past night.
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And our book boyfriends.
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But no, it's adorable.
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She's hosted book club at our house a couple of times.
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And it's so cute hearing her being like, oh, I love this part and I love that part and stuff like that.
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Now we're embarrassed.
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No, I love it.
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I really love it.
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When you guys have another baby, what gender do you want?
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Boy or girl?
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I don't want to say because I don't want our future kids to look at this.
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Yeah, and like, I'm torn.
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I would be happy with either.
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I would love to have a boy.
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Like, I definitely want a boy.
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But if I had another girl, I wouldn't be mad because she gets a sister and I love having a girl.
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So honestly, I have no preference.
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I definitely want another girl, but at some point, I also definitely want a boy.
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Yeah.
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So we've agreed on having three children, haven't we?
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She finally convinced me.
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Do you guys, if you have been here for a while, you know he was always stuck on two kids.
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We got him up.
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We got him up, guys.
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We did it.
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We shook on it.
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Thank you, Bella.
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Is she super?
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Bella was the inspiration for that.
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She's the most perfect little baby ever.
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She's just perfect.
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And yeah, I just, I want three now.
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Back to books.
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Best book that you have ever read?
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There's tons of different categories though.
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I would say there's like good books in each different category.
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See A Court of Mist and Fury is the first thing
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that came to my mind because I just remember reading that and like my entire world just was shaped differently.
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Like I just that book I don't I don't know what it was about
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that book but that book really like that made me really really love reading.
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That's what I've got on her finest profile as her favorite book so I'm glad you said that.
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I don't know.
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I have a few top books yeah i keep thinking of fantasy ones like i love quicksilver
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that i gave that one a five as well i don't know that's i can't answer
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that i'm really into like finance and investing and stuff like
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that four hour work week always stands out that's what i have on your finest as well yeah
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because it's helped to shape my life so much
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and then in terms of fiction honestly i would say alcatraz
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because that's what yeah because
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that like that's what kind of got me into reading your book
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that was the first book of yours that i read
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and i started reading monica's books to kind of feel closer to her
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and have something else to talk about and stuff like that
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and i really enjoyed it that makes me
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so happy during your long distance relationship how did you spend
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time with each other i'd go to visit him for like a
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while and then we'd have some months apart
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and then he'd come visit me and then the time we spent apart
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and the time we spent together basically depended on work schedules
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and visas yeah and kind of what we had going on you know like
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if it's your birthday you probably want to be in new york for your birthday and like stuff like that.
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And we would FaceTime and obviously do all that stuff as well.
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I remember like one Halloween we were pumpkin carving like together through the phone.
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I remember that.
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I remember that.
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Valentine's dates like on the phone.
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And by the way, I'm gonna shamelessly plug one more time.
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Fidus does have a long distance mode as well.
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So if you are in a long distance relationship the app works for you too.
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I'm just saying.
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Who does Bella resemble more, you or Sam?
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When I look at her I think more Monica but when she smiles more me.
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Her smile is literally Sam Her smile is literally Sam Like young Sam, yeah like when I was a baby Like
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when she laughs it's like she's got my mouth
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But she changes every day She does It's so funny to think
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that like we said in the beginning we posted her a few times
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That is not even the same baby If you saw that baby on the street We don't know who that is
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We wouldn't recognize that baby It's like certain facial expressions
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and certain things she does
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That I'm like oh that's Monica's daughter Like the way she
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sleeps like I'll like see them sleeping next to each other
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in the exact same position with the exact same facial expression I'm like
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that is my daughter
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and my wife they are the same person would you eventually move to the UK no I don't think
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so I think I would if we I do love it there though
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if we ever achieved every single one of our goals
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and lived our absolute dream life I would love to have a house there
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but I wouldn't want to spend the whole year that I would love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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How are Peter and Sunny?
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They're wonderful.
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They're doing so good.
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They're besties now.
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They are such good baby boys.
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They are and Bella is 100% their boss now.
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Yeah they are
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so good with her like we cannot have imagined it any
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better like they just love her especially Sunny Sunny loves her so much.
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Peter's so good with her too but Peter's more of just like hey girl.
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Yeah.
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It's like Sunny's like this is my baby guys.
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They're so cute together but yeah.
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Thank you guys so much for sending in your questions and for being so patient with us as we navigate
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everything in life right now um we're really happy to be back
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and we definitely definitely definitely want to do youtube videos much
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more often like we're in much better places now i feel
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like we're settled into parenthood a lot more yeah settled into
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the house yeah get ready for much more i was gonna say often videos again
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but that doesn't make sense frequents yeah much more frequent videos again thank you guys
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so much and we'll see you in the next one peace
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本節課學習重點
通過本節練習，你將模仿一段自然的英語口語對話，練習日常交流中的語氣、節奏和情感表達。內容圍繞博主分享消失原因展開，涵蓋家庭生活、心理健康等真實場景，適合提升英語口語練習的實用性和真實性，也可作為雅思口語練習的生活化素材。
核心詞彙與短語
- It's been a minute：表示“有段時間沒見了”，用於口語開場寒暄。
- take a toll on：意為“對……造成損害”，可用於描述壓力、情緒對身心的影響。
- put on a front：指“裝樣子，故作姿態”，貼合對話中“假裝開心”的語境。
- vlog：影片部落格，動詞形式表示“拍攝影片部落格”，是當下流行的網路用語。
- authentic：真實的，可用於形容表達或內容的可信度，如“authentic personality”（真實性格）。
影子跟讀練習技巧
影子跟讀（shadow speech）是提升口語流暢度的高效方法。本段對話語速適中，語氣親切自然，適合作為shadow speak練習素材。練習時需注意：
- 先聽整段對話，抓住情感基調——博主道歉時的真誠與迴歸時的輕鬆。跟讀時模仿這種情緒變化，尤其是“we're really sorry”“we're excited to come back”等句子的語調。
- 關注連讀和弱讀，如“it's been a minute”中“it's”與“been”的連讀，“kind of”中“of”的弱讀。通過重複模仿，提升口語的自然度。
- 對話中多次出現口語化的停頓和修正（如“12 months. Yeah. We don't say...”），跟讀時不要跳過這些細節，它們能幫助你掌握真實交流中的節奏。
堅持每天練習5-10分鐘，逐漸縮短與原音的間隔時間，你的口語表達將更貼近 native speaker 的水平。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | we've been being · have been asking · He's been reading |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | It's been · we've been · have just been |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | be measured · being biased · was shaped |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | wins, which are · Hatched which is |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。