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our whole universe was in a hot dance

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stage ah yeah big bang theory fan

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today we'll see sheldon and the gang

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picking on or bullying penny's boyfriend

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zack

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a bully is someone who says or does

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things to put down another person or in

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other words make them feel inferior

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now this is ironic because they grew up

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being bullied themselves of course we

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don't promote bullying but this will be

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a great opportunity for you to learn how

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to make jokes in english as you probably

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know this is one of the great things

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about learning english with different

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series movies music etc they give you

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all sorts of real-life situations that

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can be useful in gaining english fluency

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so are you ready for some fun let's jump

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you know i saw this great thing on the

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discovery channel turns out that if you

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kill a starfish it'll just come back to

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life

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was the starfish wearing boxer shorts

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because you might have been watching

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nickelodeon

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no

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i'm almost sure that it was the

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discovery channel

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it was a great show they also said

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dolphins might be smarter than people

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they might be smarter than some people

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well maybe we could do an experiment to

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find out that's easy enough we'd need a

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large tank of water a hoop to jump

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through and a bucket of whatever

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bite-sized treats you find tasty

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[Laughter]

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i don't get it

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a dolphin might

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oh i see you guys are inferring that i'm

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stupid that's not correct we were

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implying it

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you then inferred it

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let's go

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you know for a group of guys who claim

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they spent most of their lives being

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bullied you can be real jerks shame on

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all of you

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what the hell did i do

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you laughed

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you know i saw this great thing on the

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discovery channel turns out that if you

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kill a starfish it'll just come back to

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life

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a starfish is this sea animal

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zach says that he saw on tv that a

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starfish would come back to life if you

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killed it to express his discovery he

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uses the phrasal verb turn out you can

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use turn out when a piece of information

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you didn't know before is revealed or

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becomes apparent just like in this

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example where leonard reveals to penny

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that the guys can't meet them at the

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restaurant

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so are the rest of the guys meeting us

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here oh yeah no

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turns out the raj and howard had to work

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and sheldon

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had a colonoscopy and he hasn't quite

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bounced back yet

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now i saw this great thing on the

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discovery channel turns out that if you

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kill a starfish it'll just come back to

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was the starfish wearing boxer shorts

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because you might have been watching

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nickelodeon

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obviously if you kill a starfish it

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won't revive or come back to life

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he's confusing this with the fact that

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if a starfish loses a limb it can grow

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so to make fun of zack's mix-up sheldon

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jokes that the starfish he saw was not

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from a science show on the discovery

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channel but patrick from the nickelodeon

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cartoon spongebob

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to do that without being too direct he

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says you might have been watching

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nickelodeon

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might indicates a possibility something

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that's not certain

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as he's referring to a past possibility

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he adds the present perfect

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howard used the same structure in this

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example to talk about his mom's mood

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who can tell she yells everything

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she might have been upset

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she might have been hungry

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and here's another example of the

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perfect motto in a friend scene where

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joey doesn't want it to look obvious

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that he ate monica's lasagna

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they love my candy

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oh man i gotta call me more

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hey mark

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then i want to make some more lasagna

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too because something might have

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happened to a huge chunk of it

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so if you're here then you enjoy

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learning through tv shows right

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so you should totally get our free food

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with friends masterclass because it was

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created to help you to understand the

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jokes

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learn american pronunciation and

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increase your vocabulary that's right

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you'll learn english while having fun

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it was a great show they also said

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dolphins might be smarter than people

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they might be smarter than some people

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in this sentence dolphins and people are

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being compared with the quality smart

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when comparing the qualities of two

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situations things or people you can add

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hey i've got a girlfriend now oh please

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my sister's much hotter than your

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girlfriend and you know it

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well it doesn't matter now cause i love

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how things worked out

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me too and i think you're even more

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beautiful than this rose

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they might be smarter than some people

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this is another example of how the guys

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are picking on zack leonard is implying

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that dolphins are more intelligent than

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him notice how he emphasized the word

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sum to do that

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some people

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when speaking stressing the right words

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is really important to create meaning

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and communicate exactly what you intend

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to say and not something else this is

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check out this example andrea gave in

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our lesson is bad pronunciation killing

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your fluency on our reallife english

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jane spoke english yesterday

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jane spoke english yesterday jane spoke

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english yesterday

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jane spoke english yesterday

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maybe we could do an experiment to find

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out that's easy enough we'd need a large

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tank of water a hoop to jump through and

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so this is a hula hoop a common test to

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through it the trainers often offer a

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small treat to reward the animal when

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it's usually something high in sugar and

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don't understand someone in english we

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zack didn't realize sheldon was making

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possible that a dolphin could understand

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the joke proving they are smarter than

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now did you notice how zach pronounced i

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the secret of its connected speech is in

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the pronunciation of the letter t

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the t in don't is a stop t

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stupid that's not correct we were

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indirectly whereas infer is to conclude

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something based on evidence

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with gift giving there's an implied

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with a present and she doesn't have one

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for me she'll feel terrible

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explain to me an organizational system

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where a tray of flatware on a couch is

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couch because the evidence suggests the

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coffee table's having a tiny garage sale

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you know for a group of guys who claim

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they spent most of their lives being

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bullied you can be real jerks

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when you claim something it means that

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i fear penny is being unfaithful to

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leonard what

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she claimed to be alone when there was

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if someone is a jerk it means they are

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i mean just because most the men i've

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known in my life happen to be jerks

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doesn't mean i should just assume

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leonard and sheldon are

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to blame the guys for making fun of zack

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penny says shame on all of you shame on

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you is used to make another person feel

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well i've been dreaming about spending

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valentine's day with a girl since i was

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shame on you

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that's no dream for a scientist

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so every single week we make lessons

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with movies like harry potter series

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like friends and interviews with

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celebrities like taylor swift for

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example so that you can understand fast

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speaking natives without getting lost

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without missing the jokes and without

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subtitles and we're super eager to join

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what yeah we came to talk to zach hey

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zack

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what do you want

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listen uh the stuff we were saying

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before we were just kidding around no

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you weren't you were making fun of me

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come on it's what we do we give each

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other a hard time

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hey sheldon you look like a praying

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mantis

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that's very hurtful steve

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i don't know still wasn't very nice

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milk dude

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oh i love milk duds

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okay we're cool

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you guys want to come in and have a beer

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uh we're on our way to the comic book

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store so leonard's buying

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really i haven't been to a comic book

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store in literally a million years

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literally

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literally a million years

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don't

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you want to go with them no okay see you

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later what

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you're ditching me to go look at comic

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books are you mad at me

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i'm not happy

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milton

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what do you want

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listen uh the stuff we were saying

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before we were just kidding around no

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you weren't you were making fun of me

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here we have a great opportunity to

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learn the subtle difference between two

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similar expressions

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first to get around or kid with someone

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means that you are joking and are not

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serious about what you're saying

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on the other hand to make fun of someone

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means to tease them that is to make a

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joke at their expense

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whereas kidding with someone includes

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them and is playful making fun of

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someone is usually done to hurt them

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leonard then uses this expression we

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give each other a hard time

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what does that mean

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make someone wait a long time to be your

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friend

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tease someone especially to make other

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people laugh annoy and make things

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difficult for a person

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you know the rules new guy scrubs the

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toilet

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if you do a good job next day we'll give

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you a brush

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funny we're always giving each other a

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hard time up here it's kind of like

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being in a frat you know joking kidding

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around hurting feelings

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hey sheldon you look like a praying

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mantis

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that's very hurtful see

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if something is hurtful it causes

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emotional pain

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sheldon says that because leonard

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compares him with this long and skinny

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insect because he's tall and thin

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oh are you here to see leonard no dr

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cooper

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dr sheldon cooper

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we're having dinner

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sheldon cooper

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tall thin looks a little like a giant

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praying mantis

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he's cute isn't he

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i don't know still wasn't very nice

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milk dud

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oh i love milk duds

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okay we're cool

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milk duds is a popular american

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chocolate caramel candy

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earlier in the episode sheldon said they

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are the best candy to offer someone when

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you want them to accept your apologies

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or cool or good instead when you forgive

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what someone did to you

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that sounds fun but i promised penny i'd

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come by and help her study oh well

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i was probably being too hard on her we

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talked we're good oh great i'm happy for

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you guys uh we're on our way to the

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comic book store so leonard's buying

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really when you say someone is buying it

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means that they are going to pay for

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everyone else it's usually used when

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people go to a bar and someone buys all

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the drinks

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here they use it to talk about comic

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books which makes it even funnier

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i haven't been to a comic book store in

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literally a million years

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literally

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literally a million years

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so sheldon is outraged and almost makes

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fun of zach again because he misused the

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word literally another mistake often

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made by native english speakers

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literally is similar to exactly however

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it's common for native speakers to use

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this colloquially meaning the opposite

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in order to exaggerate or emphasize what

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they are saying in this case it would be

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impossible for zak to have spent a

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million years without going to the store

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now sheldon is not the only one that

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doesn't like this popular use of the

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word check out ted's explanation in this

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scene

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i literally want to rip your head off

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you mean figuratively no i literally

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mean

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literally

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literally literally right i never

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noticed it before and now it's literally

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driving me crazy figuratively

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okay maybe so but it's no worse than you

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using the word literally in every other

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sentence

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don't

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you want to go with him no okay see you

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later

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zach doesn't fully pronounce the word

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them here

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instead he says um

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you want to go with him this is a very

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common reduction in spoken english

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check out this explanation rachel did

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especially for our channel

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one of the ways americans pronounce this

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is with no th we change the vowel as

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well so

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then becomes um

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low in pitch said quickly it actually

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sounds just like the hymn reduction

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let's listen to some sentences

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yeah we can help them but we can't do it

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for him

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help him help him

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try that

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you're ditching me to go look at comic

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books ditch someone means to leave them

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alone so you can do something else more

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interesting to you

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you guys just got back together you

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might not want to ditch her on her

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birthday

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hey so i hope that you're enjoying this

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lesson as much as i'm having fun

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teaching it

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so be sure to share with us down in the

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comments below your favorite tv series

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and scene and it might just be the next

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lesson

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[Music]

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you know i saw this great thing on the

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discovery channel turns out that if you

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kill a starfish it'll just come back to

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life

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was the starfish wearing boxer shorts

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because you might have been watching

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nickelodeon

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no

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i'm almost sure that it was the

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discovery channel

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it was a great show they also said

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dolphins might be smarter than people

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they might be smarter than some people

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well maybe we can do an experiment to

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find out that's easy enough we'd need a

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large tank of water a hoop to jump

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through and a bucket of whatever

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bite-sized treats you find tasty

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which picture represents a bite-sized

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treat

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[Laughter]

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i don't get it

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a dolphin might

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oh i see you guys are inferring that i'm

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stupid that's not correct

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we were implying it

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you then inferred it

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let's go

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you know for a group of guys who claim

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they spent most of their lives being

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bullied you can be real jerks shame on

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all of you

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what the hell did i do

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listen to how raj pronounced did i what

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the hell did i do this sound is an

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example of a stop d

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flap d glottal t

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you laughed

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what yeah we came to talk to zach hey

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zack

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what do you want

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listen uh the stuff we were saying

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before we were just kidding around no

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you weren't you were making fun of me

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come on it's what we do we give each

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other a hard time

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hey sheldon you look like a praying

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mantis

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that's very hurtful see

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don't know still wasn't very nice

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milk dud

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oh i love milk duds

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okay we're cool

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you guys want to come in have a beer uh

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we're on our way to the comic book store

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so leonard's buying

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leonard's buying this means he'll

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go shopping pay for everyone go to the

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supermarket

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really i haven't been to a comic book

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store in literally a million years

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literally

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literally a million years

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don't

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you want to go with him no okay see you

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later wait wait wait wait wait wait

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you're ditching me to go look at comic

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books are you mad at me

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i'm not happy

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want to see how good your english is

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the next challenge yourself and see how

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you compare to other learners with this

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fun test for your listening check it out

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they don't even know why they started

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the habit in the first place they don't

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know what their goal actually is or

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maybe they've forgotten so for example

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um as i mentioned with going to the gym

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so you know people feel like okay i want

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to get fit but they don't know why they

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don't understand why they want to

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get fit is it because you want to you

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know

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run a marathon is it because you want to

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fit into a pair of skinny jeans i don't

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know what is what is it that you

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actually want and even then once you

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once you know why you want to run a

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marathon i'm sure there's a deeper

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reason why you want to run the marathon

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so it really helps to understand why