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Only cost us a pack of smokes per man.

I made my usual 20% of course.

So this big shot lawyer calls me long distance from Texas.

He says, yeah?

He says, uh, sorry to inform you,

but your brother just died.

Oh, damn, Byron, I'm sorry to hear that.

I'm not, he was an asshole.

Ten half years ago, figuring from dead anyway.

So anyway, this lawyer fella says to me,

your brother died a rich man, oil wells and shit.

Goes to a million bucks.

A million bucks?

Yeah, fucking incredible how lucky some assholes get.

Jeez Louise, you gonna see any of that?

35,000.

That's what he left me.

Dollars?

Yep.

Holy shit, that's great.

That's like one in the sweepstakes.

Isn't it?

Some shit.

What do you think the government's gonna do to me?

Take a big wet bite out of my ass is what?

More batteries?

There's a fucking luck, huh?

You cry shame.

Some people really got it off.

Man, you nuts.

keep your eyes on your mouth man well alright you're gonna pay some taxes

but you'll still end up oh yeah yeah maybe enough to buy a new car

and then what I gotta pay tax on the car.

Repair, maintenance, goddamn kids, Esther,

need to take them for a ride all the time.

Then at the end of the year,

you figure the tax wrong,

you gotta pay them out of your own pocket.

I tell you, Uncle Sam,

he puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple.

The man man gets up and break that.

What are you doing?

He said...

Rich kid himself, John.

Some brother.

Shit.

Hey!

Mr. Hadley, do you trust your wife?

Oh, that's funny.

You're gonna look funny or suckin' my dick with no teeth.

What I mean is, do you think she'd go behind your back,

try to hamstring you?

That's it.

Step aside and write, this fucker's having himself an accident.

He'll push him off the roof.

Because if you do trust her,

there's no reason you can't keep that 35,000!

What did you say?

35,000.

All of it.

All of it?

Every penny.

You better start making sense.

If you want to keep all that money,

give it to your wife.

The IRS allows a one-term only gift to your spouse for up to $60,000.

Oh, shit.

Tax-free?

Tax-free.

IRS can't touch one cent.

You're that smart banker would kill his wife, aren't you?

Why should I believe a smart banker like you,

so I can end up in here with you?

It's perfectly legal.

Go ask the IRS.

They'll say the same thing.

Actually, I feel stupid telling you this.

I'm sure you would have been best to get them out of your shell.

Yeah, fucking A.

I don't need no smart wife-killing banker to tell me where the bear's sitting at Buckwheat.

Of course not.

But you do need someone to set up the tax-free gift for you,

and it'll cost you.

A lawyer, for example.

Bunch of ball-washing bastards.

Right.

I suppose I could set it up for you.

That would save you some money.

If you get the forms,

I'll prepare them for you.

Nearly free of charge.

I'd only ask three beers apiece for each of my co-workers.

Co-workers?

Get him.

That's rich, ain't it?

I think a man working outdoors feels more like a man if you can have a bottle of suds.

That's only my opinion.

Sir.

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What are you Jimmy staring at?

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Back to work!

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Oh, what?

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And that's how it came to pass that on the second to last day of the job,

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the convict crew

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that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of 49

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wound up sitting in a row at 10 o'clock in the

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morning drinking icy cold bohemian style beer courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison

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pick up while it's cold ladies the colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous we sat

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and drank with the Sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.

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Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses.

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We were the lords of all creation.

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As for Andy, he spent that break haunted in the shade,

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a strange little smile on his face,

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watching this drink his beer.

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Hey.

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Want a cold one, Andy?

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No thanks.

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Can't go drink it.

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You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards.

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Or maybe make a few friends among us cons.

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Me?

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I think he did it just to feel normal again.

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If only for a short while.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 120 frases y 785 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:33. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 172 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
banker sustantivo	/ˈbæŋkəː/	banquero, banquera
worker sustantivo	/ˈwɝ.kɚ/	trabajador, obrero
buck sustantivo	/ˈbʌk/	buco, gamo
tar sustantivo	/tɑɹ/	alquitrán, chapopote bituminoso
pocket sustantivo	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	bolsillo, bolsa
argue verbo	/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/	argüir, argumentar
wash verbo	/wɑʃ/	lavar
repair verbo	/ˈɹiːpɛɚ/	reparar
shell sustantivo	/ʃɛl/	concha, caparazón
purple sustantivo	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	morado, púrpura
bite verbo	/baɪt/	morder, tarascar
con verbo	/kɑn/	engañar, estafar
outdoor adjetivo	/aʊtˈdɔː/	al aire libre, al fresco
shade sustantivo	/ʃeɪd/	sombra
inform verbo	/ɪnˈfɔɹm/	informar, enterar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
end up verbo		terminar, ir a parar
get up verbo		levantarse
pick up verbo		coger, asir
wind up verbo	/waɪnd ˈʌp/	dar cuerda

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como gonna, can't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: wash /wɑʃ/, shell /ʃɛl/, shade /ʃeɪd/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: bohemian /boʊˈhimi.ən/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/

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 banker, worker, buck.

¿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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