Shadowing Practice: Brooke and Jubal Second Date Update - EP#73 First date Background Checks! - Learn English Speaking with Video

It is always a good sign when you continually ask somebody out and they constantly say, I'm busy.

That's not a good sign.

And then never try to make an effort to go out with you.

That's always a plus.

Yeah, that's good.

That's good, Jubal.

That's what's happening to David, who wants to call a girl today for a second date update.

They met on Match, had a good time.

and then doesn't go like I'm busy but We could do this.

It's just, I'm busy.

I hate that.

That's what you're getting, right, David?

That's right.

Yeah, David, you're not one to read signs or take hints very well, are you?

You know, every once in a while.

Tell us a little bit about the girl you want us to call first.

Well, her name's Alicia, and we met on .com.

Okay.

You know, she was really cool.

She was funny.

She was cute, all that stuff.

So we ended up meeting up and going out for drinks for a happy hour, and we had a good time, you know.

Remember, was the conversation good?

Everything normal?

Did anything strange happen?

On your date?

No, not at all.

It was actually a really good time.

You know, we were just sitting around drinking and got on the topic of liking to try new things.

And we both like to do that and started ordering each other drinks that we never had before.

And, of course, that, you know, that went well.

Nobody got sick or anything like that.

How much alcohol was consumed?

It was only like three drinks apiece.

Okay, that's not too bad.

You know, I had like our initial drink and then she got me something like a blue Hawaiian drink.

and an Alabama slammer and I got her a Midori Sour and she'd never done an Irish car bomb so...

- Yeah, you guys kept it classy on your date, didn't you?

- Is that all that you did was go to happy hour and do the like, "Hey, try this drink thing?" Well, you know, you do that pretty quick in an hour.

Yeah.

We got pretty drunk pretty quick.

Yeah.

And realized it was probably a good idea to slow down there.

Yeah.

Maybe order some food, too.

At the end of your hour of drinking.

What did you guys do?

Did you go get something to eat or?

Well, you know, you can't always do drinks and dinner on a first date.

Maybe a good idea to combine the both.

I'm thinking you needed something to sop up the alcohol.

That second date idea, I can't do that on first.

I don't have a lot of ideas.

First date drink, second date.

Dinner and drink well, it's not like you were slamming down bottles

and bottles you bitch had like three or four drinks each You weren't completely hammered right?

Everyone's a raging alcoholic like you three or four drinks.

You probably still be okay Yeah, I felt good David can I ask?

When you made plans with her the first time, was it hard?

Was she always, quote, quote, busy?

Or did she have a lot of free time?

No, she was really open for it.

And did she did she give you any indication on her date

that she has like a really busy schedule or crazy job or anything like that?

You know, not really.

Um, You know, it seems like she's, I'm going to be honest, I don't, we really didn't talk about what each other, what we both do for work.

How did the date end with her?

Did you guys make out?

No, we didn't make out.

I was a pretty smooth operator.

I got a kiss on the cheek.

That's not smooth, David That's a friend peck, dude No, no, no, that was a gentleman peck It was a nice hug,

it wasn't a side hug Regular, good, linger and hug and that it from the tree did i'm just gonna say

Throw it out there.

Anytime I've ever told a guy or even a friend that I'm busy, it's because I don't want to hang out with them.

If I'm busy and I make plans, like alternate plans, then it means, yeah, go for it.

Well, she still responds, like, if I text her or send her a message on Facebook or anything, you know, she's still responding.

She's not, like, completely boring me off.

Yeah.

So that's why I'm confused as to, you know, I've been in that position where I've said I'm busy, and then I just don't respond to text.

Yeah, but some people don't do that.

Like, I know for me, if I tell somebody I'm busy and they keep doing it, like, eventually I'll break down and still respond to them, and then they'll be like, okay, so let's go out.

And you're like, no, I'm still busy.

Yeah.

I don't want to see you, but you just keep bugging me, so I will answer.

If you like a guy, you make time.

That's all I'm saying.

- I or girl.

you know i mean like if you pull me off i would like to know the reason why Okay.

To me, we had a really great time.

Okay.

Well, we'll play a song, come back, call her, and get your second date update, okay?

Cool.

If we're not too busy.

Hang on, all right?

All right.

Yep.

We were going to do your second date update, but honestly, something just came up.

Can we make the phone call for you like next week or something?

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I promise we'll get around to it.

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If you're just tuning into the second date update, I'm telling David that because the girl

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that he wants us to get a hold of keeps giving him the I'm busy treatment.

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Not I'm busy.

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We could maybe try next Thursday when I'm not busy.

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Just...

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I'm busy, which usually means I don't want to see you.

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Yeah.

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So we're about to call her and find out why.

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They met on match, went out for happy hour, had some drinks, maybe too many drinks, I don't know.

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And he said everything went well, so he doesn't understand why she would say that she's busy and doesn't want to see him again.

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But she is responding immediately.

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To like all of his texts and everything.

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Yeah, to be nice, maybe.

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Maybe, yeah.

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David, I mean, you got a kiss on the cheek when you left.

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Was there any talk then of seeing each other?

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I don't remember.

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I'm gonna go with no. Alright, you ready to give her a call?

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Here we go.

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Beep.

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Phone ringing.

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Hello?

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Hi, can I speak to Alyssa, please?

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Yeah, this is Alyssa.

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Hey, how are you?

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This is Jubal from Brook and Jubal in the Morning.

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I'm moving 92 .5.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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What's going on?

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um...

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This is really weird.

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Do you listen to our show?

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I catch it once in a while.

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In the morning, I kind of have to focus on hard news stuff just so I'm ready for work.

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I like to think of us as hard news.

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We report on the hard -hitting things.

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No, I mean, like solid news, like nothing but news.

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I would so much rather have some good music in the morning, but it doesn't really work for a few.

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Well, yeah, you want good music.

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You're not coming to the right place by listening to us.

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We do have music.

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I mean, whatever.

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All right, Alyssa, listen, I'm calling you because you recently went out with someone else

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our show and they wanted us to get a hold of you.

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So this is like a social call?

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yeah I like that name it is social call can do a social call

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or a second date update as we like to call it it's where if you go out with someone

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and you end up blowing them off, they email us to call and ask why.

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David, who's a friend of the show, feels like you've been giving him the runaround just telling him that you're busy.

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Are you really busy or do you actually want to see David again?

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Uh...

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Yeah, that's a really interesting question.

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It's not that interesting.

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You're just trying to be nice.

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Yeah.

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You don't want to see David again, do you?

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Um, No, I mean, I guess he told you?

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What did he tell you?

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He said you guys went out for a happy hour, started talking about things you haven't tried before, and then were suggesting drinks to each other and had a few drinks.

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And he said he got a kiss on the cheek from you.

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That's a big deal, right?

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He said we had a few drinks.

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We had a lot of drinks.

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Okay.

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He said you had...

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It was like a lot of drinking.

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It was like I was feeling really buzzed.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So you were pretty drunk on the date.

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Yeah, I mean, I'm guessing that he was, too.

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I don't know.

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Did he do something weird then, or did he.. you know, try to make a move on you or...

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No, I mean, it was fun.

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We were like talking and laughing and trying these drinks.

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And then like, you know, we were just talking about...

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stuff from the past and like, I mean, it was kind of awkward because he, said that a long time ago he got in trouble with the law in another state,

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which is like kind of a strange thing to say.

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Did he tell you what he did?

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No, he like, there must have been a weird look on my face

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because I think he like kind of caught himself

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and he just like tried to like play it off like it was no big deal, you know, like...

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Oh, he just, you know, he said something like, oh, I was kind of wild when I was younger.

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Okay.

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Like, that really stuck with me, what he said, and I just...

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But you don't even know what he did, though, because he never told you what he did.

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That's exactly, and that's why I didn't know what to make of it.

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So I was talking to my friends about it, and they're worried about safety and stuff.

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So they're like, look, you know, you should really do a background check just to be safe.

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Like, anyone can go online and, like, put up a profile.

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You don't know who this guy is.

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So did you do a background check?

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Yeah.

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You actually paid to have a background check done on him.

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Oh.

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Yeah, I mean, it's not that exciting.

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Expensive.

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I just, I was really surprised by what I found out, and that's why I haven't said yes to a second date.

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What did you find out?

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Well...

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He was basically like a serial arsonist.

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What?

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He was flying things on fire?

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A serial arsonist?

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Whoa!

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Like how bad?

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What?

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Well, I don't know all the details.

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Like, you don't get every single everything.

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But when the information came back, it just was like he...

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things on fire like more than once wow that's intense like

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how many counts of setting things on fire did he have uh this mentioned

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Four and there were there were allegations about a fifth.

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I guess

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that wasn't proven now Alyssa We did this phone call for him to find out why you weren't calling him back now.

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I'm scared if things don't go well He's gonna burn my house down or something.

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Seriously?

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I'm worried for her!

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Yeah, I'm sorry for that.

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Alyssa, I know you probably never want to talk to David again.

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Yeah.

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But I should tell you that he's actually been on the other line this whole time listening to everything you said.

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Hey.

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Okay, this is really awkward.

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I don't even know what to say now.

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First of all, that is really weird that you would do a background check on me.

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I can't believe that people actually do that.

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Don't deflect.

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How can you have a complaint that I did a background check?

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There was something to find.

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That seems to be more of an issue.

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Yeah.

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You could have asked me.

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Well, I did ask you after you mentioned that you got in trouble with the law and you blew off the question.

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You kind of just shut down and obviously didn't want to answer it.

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So I did try that.

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I don't really care about you talking to each other right now.

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All I want to know is, David...

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Are you really a serial arsonist?

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Serial arsonist is a really strong way to label it.

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I set a couple old cars on fire and like a shed.

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In the wood.

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Why would you do that?

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We were just kids goofing off.

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It's not like someone lived in the shed.

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It's not like it was like a car in someone's driveway.

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There's just some old stuff out in the field and we set it on fire.

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I don't know that I feel better about that, David.

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I...

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Sadly, I can see where David's coming from.

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Sometimes you just want to light things on fire.

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At least it wasn't like houses or anything like that.

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Animals.

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Yeah.

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It's not like we did it because I was crazy.

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We did it because we were bored and it happened to belong to somebody, which we didn't know, and then, uh...

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I got to go to the car.

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Buildings usually do belong to someone, David. And cars.

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How much time did you serve?

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I just finished high school, I was like 18, I was supposed to serve two years, but I was out in like six months.

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Nice.

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Not nice.

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That's all you get for burning down a couple cars.

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So you served two years in jail for arson.

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I was supposed to serve two years.

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I was done in six months.

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You were done in six months.

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So Alyssa, he's not that hardened of a criminal.

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He was only in jail for six months.

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Silver lining, good behavior.

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Does that make it any better, Alyssa?

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Okay.

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I'm really, really uncomfortable.

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I don't blame you at all.

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Yeah.

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Well, Alyssa, it was i was just hanging out with some bad people and made a super mistake

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and I learned from it, and I moved away from there.

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I'm in a new state.

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I started a new life.

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You know, I haven't had any other problems with the cops, not even a speeding ticket.

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You know?

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I think people can change here.

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How old are you, David?

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28. And no problems in the last like 10 years.

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Come on, you guys.

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Yeah, it was 10 years ago.

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Everybody makes dumb mistakes when they're young.

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Four times?

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It doesn't matter how long ago it was.

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I don't want to date someone who was in jail.

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I think that that's an okay standard to have.

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I don't think so.

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I really do.

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You got to try a felon at least one time in your life.

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That's what I always say.

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That's what my grandma told me and I listened.

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So listen, we can't convince you to go out on a second date with David.

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We will pay for it.

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I'm just - I'm not the right girl.

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David, I'm sorry you did not get your second date.

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But at least you know why Alyssa's been telling you that she's busy.

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Yeah, that's a plus.

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She doesn't want her property burned down.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Brooke and Jubal Second Date Update - EP First date Background Checks!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: busy, drink, date, David. Este vídeo tiene 304 frases y 2615 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:19. El hablante habla rápido, unas 196 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 52 de sus 304 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
arsonist sustantivo	/ˈɑɹsənəst/	incendiario, incendiaria
serial adjetivo	/ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/	en serie, serial
cheek sustantivo	/t͡ʃiːk/	descoco, papo
peck verbo	/pɛk/	picotear
bore verbo	/boɹ/	aburrir
awkward adjetivo	/ˈɔk.wɚd/	torpe, desmañado
apiece adverbio	/əˈpis/	cada uno
deflect verbo	/dɪˈflɛkt/	desviar, rebatir
excite verbo	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	emocionar
linger verbo	/ˈlɪŋɡɚ/	permanecer, demorar
runaround sustantivo		dar largas
allegation sustantivo	/ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/	alegato m alegación
harden verbo	/ˈhɑɹdn̩/	endurecer, indurarse
driveway sustantivo	/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/	entrada (para coches), vado
classy adjetivo	/ˈklɑːsi/	clasicista, clasiquero

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
find out verbo		averiguar, anoticiarse
burn down verbo		incendiar, arrasar
end up verbo		terminar, ir a parar
make out verbo	/meɪk aʊt/	librar
break down verbo		descomponerse, averiarse
come up verbo		salir a relucir
go out verbo		salir
put up verbo		colgar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

What did you guys do?
Did you go get something to eat or?
Did you guys make out?
Alright, you ready to give her a call?
Do you listen to our show?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	I've ever told · I've been · haven't tried
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	was consumed · wasn't proven · was done
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	were just sitting · were slamming · were suggesting
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing	started ordering · keep bugging · keeps giving

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 102 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como arsonist, serial, cheek.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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