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Okay well shall we promote this?
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This is Islander, it's a magazine.
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I've heard it's worth your time, I have not read it but it looks pretty good.
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Some nice artwork on there.
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Check it out.
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That's it, no more.
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All right so we need to talk about Gary Stevenson, Gary's economics.
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He's quit!
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rejoice everyone he's quit after getting bodied for his documentary he's quit
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or has he or has he
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or has he he hasn't oh oh yeah okay yeah i've
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spoiled i've spoiled it spoiled the end of my segment at
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the start he's not actually quit my disappointment is immeasurable
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and my day is ruined i don't care we thought we we thought we'd got rid of gal
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but he's come back Yeah, so this big quite interesting turn of events really.
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So yeah, so you said has he done a documentary?
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Yes, he did a documentary
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He did a documentary
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and it was one of the most embarrassing things He's probably ever done in his entire career
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and seemingly off the back of that.
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He has now just quit.
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What's the documentary about?
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Resent resentfulness jealousy tax the rich Leftist economics economic theory.
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Yeah, but I didn't watch it but what i gathered wasn't it
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that even other lefties were saying bro you don't you're all kinds of wrong is that where
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that clip of him talking about the wealth tax comes from i know he's always talking about wealth tax
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but yes that is part of it yeah
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and other leftoids were like what are you talking about mate he's getting bodied by even his own side
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so it's been very funny
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so i just i just want to go through it basically um
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so this was his goodbye video part of it anyway posted this on uh the uh the twitter sphere
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so we'll just play a little bit of this
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here we go so i just i want to point
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that out straight away i think he's put them there on camera right the biscuits
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because he's getting told there's numerous comments about the biscuits clearly just being part of a set right
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and i don't think i've ever seen him put biscuits on a plate before all right
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so i just thought i'd say that from the off because i thought that was quite funny But anyway, here's his shifty, crackhead visage.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is it.
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Last one ever.
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Yeah, it's not, though, is it, mate? Is it definitely not?
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No, it's definitely not.
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Okay, right.
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I think if there were comments about the biscuits, to really prove them wrong, he should have just...
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Chad moved on the entire video eating the biscuits with a mouth full of biscuits, like spitting them out at the camera as he's talking.
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Yeah.
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Can I say I think one of the lamest things you can do is threaten to walk out
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and leave the room and not.
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Well, we're going to get to that.
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I think that's so lame to do that.
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Yeah.
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I'd be ashamed to do that.
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If you're going to walk out and leave one way or another, do it, though.
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You're going to think he's very lame, then.
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Okay.
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From the end of this video, you're going to think he's very lame.
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So let's just watch a bit of this video from...
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Yeah, this should be a good starting point.
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And I knew I was knackered.
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And I remember going, I remember going onto Piers Morgan with my channel 4PR.
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So how'd you feel about it?
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And I was like, I feel like I'm going into the lion's den with two fucking broken legs.
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You know, because I knew, I knew they were just going to come for me.
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And, you know, the media has come for me a lot.
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And it's one thing, I went on Piers Morgan last year.
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If I can be honest, I think I can't fucking dance around him, to be honest.
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And I just went back in as like the world's knackidest man.
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I remember when I did BBC News, no, yeah he's really tired isn't he really tight he's just
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the world's most tiredest person i'm tired i'm there i'm just i'm exhausted he must he's
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so tired this guy they're like do you want to do makeup
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and i said to be honest i want to look as
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knackered as i am i don't want oh weird things i
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want to look as tired as i am why are you
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so tired gary what's wrong with his what is his physicality
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what is it you know his jaw looks all wired like he's on coke
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or something recovering addict is the image the aesthetic
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that he gives yeah all right anyway we'll watch a little bit more
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because it's genuinely fascinating i've been pretending to not be knackered
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and um i went out
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and did the press campaign really really really we landed it um we've got a lot of use um
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but it's kind of been I've been looking I've been today I'm shooting this on 4th of July
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and I've been counting down the days I've known
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that this was going to be my last day shooting YouTube
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and I've been counting down the days to it for ages basically um
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and basically the long story short is I'm knackered
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and um I've given right
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so anyway this is a 48 minute video here's a quick summary of it all
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because no one wants to watch 48 minutes of this
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this genic telling you how tired he is
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and I did actually watch this it is one of the most boring videos I've ever seen
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so I am saving you a lot of time he starts out sort of chronicling his journey
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and persistently saying how much you know he's there for people, he's there for this he's there and you know, he just wants to tax people because that's his thing but anyway,
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so summary of the video uh gary's not quitting youtube forever
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okay all right he's not he's not um all he's doing is ending one weekly video
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so he's so tired because he's been doing one weekly video just just to throw
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that out there i'm gonna take more time away with his family yeah no yeah
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that is that is yeah He does want to take a long break, about nine months.
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He's got severe burnout, apparently, producing one video a week entirely on his own.
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It isn't on his own.
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He has a whole team, which we'll get to in a minute.
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Alongside a best-selling book campaign and a global press tour and TV documentary has left him very tired, apparently.
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He also has format fatigue.
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He feels the weekly format has gotten too scripted and rigid.
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He's sick of the Gary Stevenson show i mean it's literally
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called gary's economics okay okay oh he wants to shift to podcasts
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is this not a podcast i don't i don't i mean
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what what is the format what's the production like have you seen any of the other stuff
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because i it's the this i've not watched now it's this what what are the subjects that he normally talks about
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other than just being tired tax the rich that's it does
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he go into any greater depth about like here's how the rich are able to get away with tax scams
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and stuff like that no he just tells everyone how rich he is
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and he made his money betting on poor people and
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that they'd get poorer and he's amazing and he's an economist
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and we need to tax the rich that's it this is
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the format he just sits at this this is it this
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is what he's tired of sitting at sitting at a table being filmed looks really hard really hard work
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that does look i could see how that would be exhausting yeah yeah
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anyway so he wants to shift it's mental isn't it it's quite insane it is quite insane
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so he wants to shift to podcasts collaborative formats possibly a monthly video later on um
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yeah that's kind of it really and that's his thing anyways a little bit more of his tour
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explaining to people why he's quitting i am quitting yeah i am quitting quitting public conversation yeah i am yeah
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because i'm tired paddy i'm tired i've been doing this for
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years you know i'm tired of betting on people's living standards collapsing
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and trying to tell people every year and getting called a liar by liars
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and getting called an idiot by idiots it's tiring paddy you
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know i don't need to do this right i do this
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because i don't want this country to go down the toilet i see what's happening i want
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when i come in here i want people to understand this
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will get much worse this living standard collapse will get much worse i'm not just saying
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that i've been betting on it for 15 years i've made
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millions of pounds doing it you cannot allow a situation where the british
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and it's not just happening here it's happening across the western world where the working class
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and the middle class
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and the government all very rapidly lose all of their wealth to one percent of people
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because again so he is right in suggesting
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that living standards are going to get worse right like um
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if you want to watch uh a video on it dan
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dan of this channel uh has a brokonomics on it right like he he is right in suggesting
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that living standards are going to get worse he is right in suggesting
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that uh wealth inequality is going to get worse
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but his his his format for solving it is wrong his reason his identifying reason behind it is wrong
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but he's right in suggesting that it is going to get worse
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because it is going to get worse but again he's just a moron doesn't quite understand it
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uh but he's just tired and he's just super tired
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so it's not
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that tiring at all to make a little bit of content
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it's really not especially the amount he makes i mean our
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grind you me our grind is way more than this the
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content meal at lotus is way more than what he does way more it's not trust me it's not that time
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when you've done a real job a real nine to five eight till six real job yep it's not
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that tiring it really isn't and and if you're gonna leave just leave bro
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just leave you don't have to announce it you can you
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can just stop he's doing a pity party yeah yeah it's a pity tour
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so come come and pity me please um
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and yeah you're right you know doing the kind of work
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which we do yeah it's not actually
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that tiring to be honest you know it has its own trials
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and tribulations don't get me wrong but it's not tiring compared scheme of things particularly
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if he used to work in um whatever i can't remember
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what he did do trading trading city bank trade now
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that is i can understand that if you did
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that into your 40s or something you could claim burnout maybe
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if you carried a hod around you lugged bricks around for a living yeah okay real burnout yeah
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but making a few videos no no i don't i don't
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buy it oh he's tired mate okay all right he's sick
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of it he's tired he doesn't need to do he's made his millions super super tired yeah um um anyway
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so i thought what we'd do is just take a look at sort of the state of play
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that gary has crafted for himself as he leaves right
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so this was one year ago um i think we've got
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the exact date here as well sorry it was oh i had it up it basically uh just click on
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that just click on the description the actual date will show
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up it says one year ago there's one year ago click on it 29th of december 29th december 2024
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so i want to i want to just play this because he's he's he's a crafty little bugger
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he's gary's economics so remember he said it's all him he's just doing it all by himself We contradicts himself numerous times, so this was in December.
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If we are going to be politically powerful, we need staff and I need staff.
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I just don't think there's any way
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that I can cope with making it significantly bigger than it is without any full-time staff, basically.
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And that means we are going to need funding and that means that we are going to open a Patreon.
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I spoke about it just before I went away.
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We're going to open a Patreon and we're going to see what we get
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and you know i don't know whether we'll get a lot i don't know whether we'll get a little but
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if we want to be politically powerful down the line we we're going to need staff
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and if we need stuff
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if we need stuff we're going to need funding just help support me
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and help us to to get a little bit more ambitious and
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and diverse with the creativity of what we do help us
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to work with different creatives help us to get different people on the channel
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so it's not just like me every week in my no face ID.
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So okay Patreon that's fine you know make your bread like
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I've got no qualms about people getting Patreons setting it all up the terms of what she outlined
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you know for the purposes of the Patreon was to improve the content wasn't it
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Shall we have a look how that's gone?
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Look at that pitch oh my god!
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Shall we have a look at how that how
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that has gone okay
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so yeah yeah not not not a lot oh not a
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lot has changed he did go on some some holidays day signing off that was a year ago
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yeah you're saying there's no obvious change in the quality of
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the oh no he's didn't no he's done nothing all right
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okay he's done absolutely nothing at all literally nothing look at it
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just to see oh we're back oh he's back oh because he took another break by the way
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because he keeps taking breaks just as an fyi keeps taking breaks keeps coming back
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but so this was that year ago here's what we're going to do
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and he's going to open a patreon
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and literally i mean less than a year out he took another break
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and was like oh i'm back goodbye for now
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right okay cool interesting
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but remember he wanted he wanted your money to um improve
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content didn't he wanted he wanted your money to uh to get people on get a team
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so one it's not just himself he definitely has a team
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which we know he does anyway because he's admitted to having a team before
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so him saying he's tired of sitting down and being filmed is a bit of an odd one anyway
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gary's taking a break what's next for patreon well what is
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next for patreon what is next for patreon hi oscar here oh
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so he's not alone then there's someone at least called oscar working with him uh
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and oh is gary's gonna send you a message he's probably
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not it's gonna be oscar i would presume what we're what we're gonna do
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while gary's away oh so gary's literally just swanning off
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just doing nothing right okay brilliant we're gonna start doing live
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patron q a's again brilliant right your donations will keep the youtube channel publishing new content
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oh right
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so he's not quit he's not quit actually at all he's
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just again he has just quit doing a weekly video
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which he's tired of um oh we got funding from a big donor
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amazing brilliant 16 new animated videos explaining gary's ideas of
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dysgenic resentfulness brilliant can't wait to be lectured in animated format on rich being rich
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and apparently there being a finite amount of wealth in the
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world gary's ideas of a misplaced first year undergrad student politic pinko social champagne socialism can't wait for that
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yeah 16 animated videos of that yeah wait yeah so in
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that year by the way in
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that year uh it was it was 2024 wasn't it right um
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so he's been earning quite a good cross from patreon um at bare minimum at bare minimum
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and that's if every single one of his 2000 plus members
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were paying the lowest tier of his patreon he is earning just shy of 13 grand a month
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i mean it's good man
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if you can get it it's not too shabby yeah doing
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one video a week good luck to him well he's tired
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of it guys i'd say good luck to him you know
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if you can get your money i'm i'm happy for people
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to i'm not i'm not the one crying out for a wealth tax he is right He's already rich,
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so if you could make an excuse for yourself to take nine months off so that you could go to, like, I don't know, the Costa Rica or something.
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I know.
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I mean, you would.
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Come on.
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I mean, if I could earn that money per month I would but I also wouldn't be crying about wealth tax.
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Maybe you should start making economics videos.
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I should shouldn't I yeah.
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Don't tax the rich.
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Give me all your money.
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Don't eat the rich.
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Oh literally upwards of three hundred thousand pound a year he's earning basically.
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If you're taking it all into account like the sort of
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well the video made it sound as though he's using the
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patreon money to pay his staff members no no like he
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said it's all by himself though like oscar here he might
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be on 13 grand a month you never know he might
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be the only staff member might all be going to him i mean maybe in
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which case gary are you are you taking applications for new
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assistants well no there's an animator like alex check check here all right that's still about six
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and a half grand a month so you know sequo split between two people maybe
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but remember he said it's just all himself in it unless oscar
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and alex are different personalities maybe maybe how do we know
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how many are living up there maybe it's all gary it's
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all gary you're gary i'm not gary anyway i'm gary and so is my wife So why did he actually quit?
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Well, he quit because of stuff like this.
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And remember, he's quit a lot.
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He's quit many times.
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But why did he quit?
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He quit because of this.
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Sorry, I know it was a long clip, but I had to play it.
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Because that is part of his documentary. And he's getting...
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And that's someone on side.
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That's someone that is actually on his side.
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I was going to ask who this bald guy is.
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Because also, like, everybody says that Gary Economics looks a bit weird.
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This guy also has an incredibly off-putting face. and mannerisms
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but he seems like a twat as well frankly it's a
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really really simple thing i mean sort of a gcse
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or a level thing in economics of uh the flight of investment
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if you overtax people it's it's really really sort of 101
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stuff we've already seen it now the figures have come out to say
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that like we've got some of the lowest millionaires we've ever had in this country now they're all just gone
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if you've got a lot a lot of money to invest in something
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and you can do it anywhere in the world yeah why
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would you do it somewhere where they're going to tax you you just simply don't pick
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that place yeah it's it's very very straightforward stuff
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but i mean gary doesn't seem to it really is the
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politics of resentment isn't it it really really is the politics
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of you were told at some point in your formative years
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that it's just simply not fair
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that there are ultra rich people in the world the wealth is a finite thing
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and the more that's in their pocket is the less that's in the pocket of poor people
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and you just never questioned that profoundly you never changed your view on
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that and that you must simply steal from the rich to give to the poor
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and well it's just not how the world really works how
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the world goes round it's not really how the distribution of wealth works
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but okay okay gary's got his 1.6 million
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and uh 13 grand a month on patreon well what can
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you say good luck to him there's a lot of stupid
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stupid people in the world he's not actually quit okay that's
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the take home from this he's not actually quit it's just got burnout this is all performative nonsense
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well i mean one of my issues with uh what gary
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economics was talking about what gary was talking about in in
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that there with the whole wealth tax thing was
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that yeah i mean for one the
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that dan guy um the other weirdo uh just saying like oh you can't do this tax
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because it'll take a
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while to do isn't that's not really an argument the much stronger argument was the one on foreign investment
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but i've i noticed when you were looking through his uh youtube page that he's spoken to an economist called Hajoon Chang,
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who I've read some of his work and it's actually quite interesting because Hajoon Chang is a progressive, but he's also kind of like a realist as well.
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And he's got some arguments against things like foreign investment, where he's saying that, you know, if you have foreign investment,
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most of the time it's going to take the platform of like transnational corporation coming into your country, potentially siphoning itself away from all of the rest of the economy.
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So it's mainly just taking up land and labor
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and the rest of the money that they're making isn't going back into the rest of it.
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It can take away opportunities from local business owners or just drive them out.
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There are actually some interesting and effective arguments against it, but Hajoon Chang keeps like running up against the idea of protectionism.
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And essentially the logic of it ends up with, well, you need to be a protectionist country in that case
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and have strong tariffs to be able to protect against foreign encroachment into the economy.
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Like Gary Economics and even Chang himself, they're not actually going to push for that
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because ultimately they are still a form of globalist progressive type
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and if you have protectionism then you can't justify massive flows of people between countries as well
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because ultimately the logic that they're pushing is contradictory internally
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so that's that's one of that's one of my issues is just
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that like if you're gonna
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if you're gonna make those arguments just go all the way
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just be like yeah the the UK should close its borders physically
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and economically and we should take another 50 years to be able to build ourselves back as a self-sustaining nation.
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But he won't do that.
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No. No.
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Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Gary’s Economics Has Quit…or Has He?”. Este vídeo tiene 328 frases y 3964 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 21:34. El hablante habla rápido, unas 184 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| biscuit sustantivo | /ˈbɪs.kɪt/ | galleta, bísquet |
| tire verbo | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | cansar, cansarse |
| burnout sustantivo | /ˈbɜː(ɹ)naʊt/ | surmenage, agotamiento |
| animate adjetivo | /ˈæn.ə.mət/ | animado |
| spoil sustantivo | /spɔɪl/ | botín, expolio |
| pity sustantivo | /ˈpɪt.i/ | piedad, lástima |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| protectionism sustantivo | /pɹəˈtɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zəm/ | proteccionismo |
| paddy sustantivo | /ˈpædi/ | arroz con cáscara, arroz en cáscara |
| finite adjetivo | /ˈfaɪ.naɪt/ | limitado, finito |
| exhaust verbo | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | agotar |
| economist sustantivo | /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ | economista |
| grind verbo | /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ | moler, triturar |
| liar sustantivo | /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ | mentiroso, mentirosa |
| politically adverbio | políticamente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| get away with verbo | irse de rositas, salir impune / inulto (de) | |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse | |
| go out verbo | salir | |
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| live up verbo | estar a la altura (de), dar la talla | |
| sign off verbo | firmar, aprobar | |
| sit down verbo | sentarse | |
| take away verbo | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | quitar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I think that's so lame to do that.
- I'd be ashamed to do that.
- You're going to think he's very lame, then.
- So how'd you feel about it?
- Shall we have a look how that's gone?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | i've been pretending · I've been looking · I've been counting |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've heard · i've spoiled · has now just quit |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is ruined · was knackered · be knackered |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 138 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: protectionism /pɹəˈtɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zəm/, immeasurable /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/, shabby /ˈʃæbi/, shifty /ˈʃɪfti/, tribulation /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: protectionism /pɹəˈtɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zəm/, economist /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, contradictory /ˌkɑntɹəˈdɪktəɹi/, immeasurable /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spoil /spɔɪl/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/, swan /swɑn/, spit /spɪt/, sphere /sfɪɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: formative /ˈfɔːmətɪv/, overtax /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtæks/, visage /ˈvɪz.ɪd͡ʒ/, collaborative /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: protectionism /pɹəˈtɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zəm/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, mannerism /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/, resent /ɹiˈzɛnt/, visage /ˈvɪz.ɪd͡ʒ/
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 biscuit, tire, burnout.
¿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.