【已解决】求助英语高手！——这段视频前面主持人说的什么？

mathory@love

呃。。。貌似没我的事了。。

mathory@love

我知道了！！综合以上亲的答案，以及对原视频反复地减速（50%）回放，THE FINAL ANSWER IS：
“ I've told you before, this evening was going to contain a lot of wonderful surprises and I wasn't kidding -- like this next group for instance.
    In a rare piece of tape made at the very first audition in Destroit, you can already see that this was a group to be reckoned with（不可小觑的）.
    But nobody, no matter how good they are reckoning, ever reckonedthat they would become legends before they were out of poverty（摆脱贫穷）. ”
最后感谢所有回帖的亲，做好后会考虑发上来。