I can't figure out why the certain things?

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svetlana14

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Does the caller say "I can't figure out why the certain things..."? (00:03) [
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Yeh, I can't figure out why there's certain things you can't figure out, like ...
 

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Yeh, I can't figure out why there's certain things you can't figure out, like ...
Is it correct to say "there's" instead of "there are"?
 

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Grammatically "there's" is incorrect, of course. But native speakers (including me) use it very frequently when strictly speaking we should use "there are".
 
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