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hello welcome to easy english so today i

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want to find out what superpowers the

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people of brighton wish they had and

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what they do of them let's go

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out vinnie i'd like to be able to fly

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i'd love to fly

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flying yeah i'd love to fly what

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superpower if you could have one would

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you have

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uh so my superpower would be to

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travel

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anywhere at any time which is probably a

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bit of a classic one but i feel like

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especially in covid

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and the ability to

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travel and go anywhere with all the

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current restrictions and everything um

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would be a real privilege what

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superpower if you had one would you have

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i never really wanted one but if i could

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use one right now it would be managing

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without sleep

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what superpower if you could choose one

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would you have you think well i think

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teleportation would be the uh

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the best one around because

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cut down on those travel costs

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if i could have any superpower it would

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probably be to be invisible because

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i'd like to see sort of like what goes

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on in other situations that maybe like

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i've not been invited to or you know

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going to like private meetings with the

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government and things like that and find

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out a bit more about top secret things

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invisibility ah

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okay

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uh when we

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did this interview people said that we

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should pick you because of your tattoo

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so there's no no

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web sling it no i mean i love reading

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spider-man but if i had my own power

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it'd be invisibility what superpower

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would you have

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i think invisibility yeah yeah okay just

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be able to nose at people

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so tell me what superpower if you could

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have one would you have invisibility

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okay and

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firstly what would you do with your

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newly found power

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um i would go into supermarkets right

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and probably take quite a lot of stuff

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what stuff are you stealing

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random food

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so you're going to asda yeah that's the

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first first actually no it wouldn't be

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food i'd probably go and have a look at

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all their candles

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really yeah hold on you wake up and you

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find you're invisible and the first

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thing you're doing is downstairs to

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steal some candles it wouldn't be asda i

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think i'd go to london

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go down oxford street okay okay

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i'd like to just say

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i don't normally go around stealing

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stuff

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it's just probably one of those kind of

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things

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that i would like to do

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if i had the nerve and being invisible

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would give me the nerve i love it this

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is so funny can you tell me why why

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flying

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just a quicker while getting everywhere

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isn't it

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no traffic on the roads

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okay so

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uh where where where are you going

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well anywhere really it'd be nice to fly

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over to france for the day wouldn't it

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okay i thought when you first said i i

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thought you were just using it as a

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convenience site to get to like the

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shops

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now i can walk to the shops no

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further distances i think yeah and maybe

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fly up to london

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i'd go up really high like like the

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birds do

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and you know go across to france and

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come back and uh you know

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maybe go in the worldwide flight like a

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like an albatross

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yeah yeah and how about you where would

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you go or what would you do with your

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power

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i probably do the same i'd go in this

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guy

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i'm just drifting on the the coast it's

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like a bird ah okay

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you're like catching the yeah and now

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now i i've

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chilled and

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just relaxed and enjoying life nice so

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you're not necessarily going anywhere

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you're just no i'm just chilling but

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yeah i'd be able to teleport anywhere in

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the world okay so you're just like from

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this moment

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yeah but i can clip my fingers i'm in

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new zealand or vietnam i was gonna say

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where where are you going with it where

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am i going i feel like you know every

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evening might spend you know

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um have dinner different country uh well

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you know my my life would uh be easier

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with that at the moment but just think

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how many things you could actually do

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yes you didn't need that much sleep

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there are a lot of hours in the day if

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you weren't spending eight to ten of

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them asleep then you could get

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everything ticked off your to-do list

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you could learn a language um you know

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you could probably train up you're

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another super power so

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it'd be like getting an extra life

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pranking people literally all day so

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you'd just be a complete nuisance with

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it yeah i'd run the like the gray line

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between you know good and bad and just

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continuously play pranks on people

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i think that'd be my day job as well

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you've got sorry i've been my day job as

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a really like sort of like hero straight

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freelance just pranking people

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and what people like your family members

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or oh anybody literally anybody yeah if

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they're going to the uh buckingham

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palace see the korean

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yank

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perfect but would you not at one point

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have a moral conundrum that you have

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these powers and what you're using with

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it is to pull down the queens i mean if

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i had to save people i could yeah i'd

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use it to save people get people out of

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like hostage situations and stuff like

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that but in the meantime when there's

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nothing going on just prank people why

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not

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i like that it's like a hobby slash job

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and then would you not then hit some

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sort of you know they had this is always

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this line that in all these superhero

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films or with great power comes great

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responsibility would you not feel

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there's like a moral conundrum of i

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should actually

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do more with my power than just

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oh what else could i do with an

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invisibility coke

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i'm not really quite sure what else i

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could do with being invisible

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for good i mean or for bad

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i can only think of things for bad

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okay but could you do something on like

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a a worldwide scale as opposed to just

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stealing like

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household items what like um

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infiltrating um

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drug gangs ah okay yeah okay i could do

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that

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infiltrate drug gangs

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and

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confiscate all their drugs without them

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knowing as i walk out the door with them

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under my invisibility cloak

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great

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so you'd be some sort of like federal

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invisible agent yeah okay yeah i'm going

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with that i love it i like by day she

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steals candles and by night she steals

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drugs

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okay so you're using it for your own

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benefit to snoop on your friends

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yes

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for what reason to hear what they say

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about you or to see what they're up to

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to see what they get up to my friend

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yeah my friends are quite mischievous so

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yeah and see what they get up to i think

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but what's the benefit then you just

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know fun for fun for fun okay aside from

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using it for your own personal benefit

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would you use it for

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like a good cause at all

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happy too what do you have in mind

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uh helping to rescue people

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yeah you've got a lot of migrants so

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basically you know you could alert the

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the life life lifeguards and the uh rna

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liars as well as any

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uh asylum seekers that might be out in

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the in a channel in distress i see

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you're like some sort of aerial coast

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guard

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there's always this moral conundrum of i

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should be doing more with it yep

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if you start getting these feelings

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would you start thinking of how you can

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use it to better other people's lives

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other than yourself yeah i'll take some

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of the crap off the streets

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what like pick up rubbish no i'd be like

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superman getting rid of the troubles

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that's what i'd do you're like a taxi

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driver yeah

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yeah

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get rid of the scum off the streets yeah

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that's what would do what would you be

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doing with your extra spare time in the

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middle of the night then oh well um i

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think there's um a lot of activism out

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there it's absolutely fascinating now

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social media is a great way to to kind

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of find the um the people out there with

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and their lived experience so you can

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find what needs

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help what needs support use your voice

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there's so many things you can do that

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you can actually do within the confines

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of your own life you don't need to just

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lie to achieve it

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outside of just being nosy would you use

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it to actually use it for like for goods

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yeah to make make things better yeah

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yeah in what way

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i think we know what you can do other

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than exposing people

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no

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no you're right

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i think it probably mostly for nosiness

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though

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yeah

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let's see what the rest of the world are

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up to outside mine i'd have to get the

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police involved i think in my but then i

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don't really want the police to know

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that i've got this invisibility cloak

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where i go around shoplifting during the

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day they'd come over like madam why is

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that an entirely what else are you doing

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with this invisibility cloak

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because then they'd take it off me and

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then i wouldn't be invisible anymore so

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yeah

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i've got a conundrum now

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how do i do good and evil all at the

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same time

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brilliant thanks for watching this

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week's episode let us know in the

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comments below what superpower you'd

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have and you could use it for the powers

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of good or for evil and we'll see you

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next week

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bye

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most people say that i've got a

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superpower that i don't get hangovers

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and i only use that for evil so

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well you're blessed of two amazing