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hello
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and welcome to another episode of the fluency first podcast i'm here in the beautiful quarry gardens near my house
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and i have a very special guest for you
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and it is none other than my best friend elliot would
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you like to say hi elliot hi elliot i mean hi
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so okay let's sit down um so as you know
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or maybe this is the first time you're watching
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but we start every episode with do you know what we
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started with small talk small talk right that's everyday easy conversations
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like the weather how you're doing what you have been up to lately
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so elliot um how has your week been so far uh
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so far my week's been pretty good uh it's been a bit of a different one um my wife
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and three -year -old son are staying down south with her family so i am at my house alone.
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I only have the dog and the cat to look after.
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So yeah, a little bit more relaxing than usual, I would say.
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So you don't have a toddler in the house?
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Nope.
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I am child -free this week.
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Completely home alone.
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Yep.
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Which also happens to be one of your favorite films.
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It does.
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You know, this actually reminds me of
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when I left to teach English in Korea in 2012
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and you did a video for me yeah do you remember
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that video i do you're starting to sound like i'm david's best friend
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and i like to go shopping i will show that to everyone
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hello my name is elliot i'm david's best friend my favorite
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food is pizza i like to go to the cinema
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and shopping with friends um okay next small talk question
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so have you had a chance to watch anything interesting lately like a film
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or a series uh yeah actually on sunday i watched a
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quite charming british comedy uh called the ballad of wallace island
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which was very gentle uh the ballad of wallace island yeah
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okay it was like a warm hug it was a quintessential british comedy film okay uh
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but i've also started watching daredevil the tv series which is pretty good
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cool so the next section is about friendship
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and like i said we have known each other for quite
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a long time since year four that's age eight to nine
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in the uk um it's a long time yeah nearly 30 years yeah yeah
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so my question is do you remember the first time we actually spoke in year four um i don't
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but you weren't my best friend then no no no i do that's really upsetting
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because i do remember the first time what did what was it i remember being in the playground
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and it was i'm not going to use last names
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but it was um you dan katie and ramsey
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and you were playing batman and you all chose characters
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and uh i didn't have a character i remember i think it was either you
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or dan or someone said oh you can just be penguin
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and i was so upset
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but at the same time i thought to myself well at
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least i'm playing with someone in the playground you know
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but that's my first memory of you okay well i have memories of
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that time i i'm sorry you're better than penguin oh thank you um yeah i remember
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and you know this because i said it in your speech um
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which i'm sure we'll get to we will talk about that yeah
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you said we were playing tig or chasing a game running around and you said that you had a stitch
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uh you i've got a stitch i need to sit down i had no idea what you were talking about
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so i learned that from you i still get stitch well i get stitches now um now
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that i'm a grown -up um and
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the other time and you know what i'm gonna say is
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when you came over to mine
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and i showed you how to play with toys no that's not you brought your beanie babies over
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and we played we played our beanie babies
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and i also remember making a tent like a den with you yeah i was fun i loved
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that yeah really good memories i actually remember we're going off script now but
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i remember going to a fancy gym with elliot and his family
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and it was called a sporter very posh gym
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and i remember them having um orange juice
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and it was like all you can drink orange juice free free
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and i just thought this is living you know this is
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the ultimate luxury i just couldn't at seven years old yeah
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i thought this is just amazing why isn't everyone just standing by this orange juice
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and drinking it anyway we should get to the other in
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the gym they're all working out no it was in the
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in the lounge i know okay the next question hopefully you can't hear the airplane in the background
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but it is um why do you think we stayed close even
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when i moved abroad and i'm i'm not talking about
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when i moved to france because i moved to france
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when i was 18 but in 2012 i moved to south korea to teach english
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so why do you think we stayed close um well first of all
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when you did move away
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that was devastating my best friend was leaving me um to go halfway around the world
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but i think we stayed close
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because we stayed in touch you know um we would video call fairly regularly um
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and every time you came back to the uk
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which was only once a year i would absolutely take every opportunity within the time
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that you were here to see you yeah i felt very privileged
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but i think moreover the reason we stayed close is
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because of our connection you know um i i think it's quite rare that um to
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certainly you know adults stay as close and connected when you live halfway across the world
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for a prolonged period of time i think that's quite rare yeah
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and particularly you know i wouldn't see dave for a year
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and then he would come back to the uk
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and you know we'd meet up
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and it was like i'd seen him yesterday it was wasn't it every single time always been like
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that yeah that's what i love about you know ultimately you
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were away for 13 years you know across different countries is it something like
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that well from 2012 it felt like a long time it was a long time
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but every single time that i saw you it was just like i seen you yesterday um
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and now sometimes thankfully it is
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that i've seen you yesterday i actually have seen you yesterday
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yeah i'm back in the uk for good um okay next question is were you ever surprised
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that we didn't drift apart
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um because i'm sure you know i've drifted apart with some friends
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and i'm sure you have too well that's what you know
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going back to what i just said i think it's it's rare
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that people don't yeah you know um i have friends
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that i was very close with in school
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that i'm not friends with anymore
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and that's not for any personal reasons it's just you know
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you grow up you move apart right it's strange they say
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um you need seven years um like of friendship with someone
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and then that's a lifelong friend i don't know
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if that's true i don't know if that's true
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but what i would say is um sometimes i look back
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and think i kind of can't believe
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that we have stayed as close as we are
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because we could have
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so easily not you know it would have been no problem at all to just not contact you
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when you lived in korea especially
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because of the time difference i think we both put the effort in
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and that's what's important um great next question what's one thing
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that stayed the same about us
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and one thing that's changed um i think one thing
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that stayed the same is our sense of humor i think
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when we meet up we have a laugh every single time
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yeah that's it's great i feel like a kid again in a way yeah it's you know
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when um your face hurts from laughing that's what i get every time me
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and dave hang out um
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and that's such a joke it's never gone away uh yeah yeah it's just dave tells jokes
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and i laugh and that's our relationship
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um one thing
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that has changed is though you know our lives um we have both grown up um you know both got
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or had full -time full -time jobs you know full -time
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jobs impact your life um relationships you know uh spouses i was gonna say like now it's not just you
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and me no it's you and me
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and our wives yeah i keep our wives
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and you my wife it's you and me and our wives
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and obviously your son theo
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and that's like different isn't it yeah absolutely i mean i think you know we've grown up together
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so the things that we are now interested in um and things that we aren't interested in has changed.
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right um you know i'm talking we don't go out into town
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and go clubbing like we did you know maybe 15 years ago right um
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and i don't want to no so that has changed
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but we've kind of changed together in that respect
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and you know as you said there's new dynamics with our wives joining us much of the time
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and my son
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and that's great it's really really great next question is what
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was it like having each other as best men you know
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i was the best man at your wedding you were the
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best man at my wedding um was there any pressure
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or was it just easy for you oh well first of all how cool is
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that that we can say that yeah um
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if it's okay with you i'll i'll show little snippets of both of our speeches.
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Yeah, it's cool.
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We became a lot closer friends in seventh grade school, despite our stark differences.
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He played video games, I played basketball.
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He was chatty, I was quiet.
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He was the funny one, I was the handsome one.
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Alright, so once again I'd like to say good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
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For those of you who don't know my name is Elliot
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and I've been lucky enough to be chosen as Dave's best man
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for my speech today the bride and groom have asked
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that I don't talk about any of Dave's mistakes mishaps or embarrassing moments uh so thanks everyone for listening
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well you were my best man first and you set the bar
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and dave gave a fantastic speech it was so funny
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so heartfelt so emotionally impactful um
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and you know he had the whole room in stitches
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and i think everybody appreciated what dave said i went next you know dave got married after me
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so he asked me to be his best man
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and there was big shoes to fill there was a lot
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of pressure some good phrases you know set the bar
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and big shoes to fill anyway but well yeah um you know
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so um when organizing a stag do i wanted to arrange something
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that was fun but
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that i knew dave would enjoy um you know uh what's a stag do well historically your last night of freedom
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or that's how they used to phrase it isn't it
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but it's when the groom and all of his closest friends get together
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and celebrate the fact that he's getting married before the wedding
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so for us um us two
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and a small group of your friends we went to dublin yeah
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and we had a couple of nights there
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and it was really good fun wasn't it it was great um
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and then the speech that's obviously the the thing with the
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um the the element with the biggest pressure um how do you think i did
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your speech it was great yeah i'm happy that you embarrassed me
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but not too much yeah you always it the right amount of embarrassment i think
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when you go to some weddings people give speeches
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that make the audience feel awkward i would say i have
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seen a few where i was just like oh not sure about
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that and dave is a very sensitive soul so i had to be careful with
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what i said
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but i i think i pitched it well i think i
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judged it whereas i was pretty brutal was i brutal to you uh not really in your own way yeah
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which is not at all yeah fun one
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if you had to describe our friendship in a film title
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what would it be oh i know this one what dumb
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and dumber oh is well maybe
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but i was gonna say i love you man oh that's
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a good it is a good one yeah yeah yeah with um i'll be jason siegel jason siegel
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and paul rudd yeah i'll be paul rudd you'll be run
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the man who never ages that's true okay next one before we start walking is what do you think
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makes a friendship last through so many phases of life um i think making the effort
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obviously helps a friendship to last um being honest with each other
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i'm sure there have been times when we've rubbed each other up the wrong way
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oh yeah yeah um you know sharing the goods the highs
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and the lows i i yeah sharing the highs and lows is i think what's kept us
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is sort of emotionally close um i've been through you know difficult times in my life
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and i've always had you there to talk to
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and to vent my issues
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and to problem solve you know you're a very supportive friend um
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and hopefully you know it's reciprocated or you feel
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that it is i think it's important to share the highs
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and the lows be honest with each other make the effort
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and to have a good time yeah yeah you know that's the the point isn't it we're friends
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so we can have fun together right you want to be a good time
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but i agree about supporting each other i think you need to you know
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when you've got a good friend when you know something good happens to you
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and they are really excited for you next question ready do you think everyone needs a best friend
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or is that just a childhood idea we hang on to um i don't think everyone needs a best friend
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you know i think there are some people
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that are perfectly happy in their own company you know for
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the majority of the time yeah basically no one needs to
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feel the pressure i don't have a best friend oh no yeah
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but i also don't think it's a childhood idea
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that people hang on to i haven't sort of made any
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specific effort to call you my best friend you just are because of our relationship
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the effort has been into maintaining a friendship you know right um
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but i also take your point sort of i'll be your best friend
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if you play with me you know that's a very childish thing to say
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but you know i have good friends and then i have dave um
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and there's the difference dave is my best friend
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so well thank you that's a very lovely answer has
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your idea of friendship changed over the years um yeah yes i think
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so i think uh there are some people that
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see yeah i i think that there are some people
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that see friendship as these are the boys i go out drinking with
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and that's it yeah that's their friends but i think
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and there was definitely a time when you know we used to go out
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and that's what the majority of the you know that's
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but we would go out and talk for ages wouldn't we
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but you know we'd also drink a lot yeah
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but now it's kind of friends it's like a relationship isn't it you know it's not any one thing um
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so the next question is do you think we would have still become close
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if we met as adults oh
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that is a good question possibly um yeah i would think
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so because we've got the same sense of humor yeah
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and i think that that is what initially um can create a friendship
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so yes there's a very real chance
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that we would we wouldn't have our years of history obviously
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which has informed our friendship yeah um
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but you know maybe not i can already speak english
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and that's your job you're an english teacher
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so maybe we wouldn't have run into each other um also
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can i just say dave is on a hill we're the same height
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but he looks i'll stand here i'm i'm i am a
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bit taller than you no you're not i am look look
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let's stand yeah yeah now look look i'll stand where dave
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was now i look taller you are okay is there anything
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you have learned from our friendship specifically that's a bit of strange
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and specific question really um have a think yes uh i've learned that um you don't need
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to see your friends every single day um for them to be your friends you know to maintain
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that relationship as as we said you know i didn't see you for a year
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and i think there would probably be some people
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that might think what you haven't seen them for a year how are they your friends then yeah
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but you know that doesn't matter um it's you know as you said we even
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if we didn't speak for a month right it didn't matter right um yeah cool that's a good answer so
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next question do you think we've helped shape who each other became um yes and no i think
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if I'd shaped who you have become too much you never
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would have gone to South Korea I didn't want you to go initially
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so that's a no then you know but that's a good thing
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because you did and you you know you met your wife But yes, in the same sense of,
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you know, me and you talk and you make me think about how I act and, you know, how I behave,
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not in any particular circumstance or situation.
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But, you know, I think that when we talk and, you know, we share advice and whatnot,
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it definitely makes me reflect and try and be a good person, really, because you're a good person.
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So in some senses, yes, we do inform who we've become, but in others, you know,
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no. And that's a good thing because we're still independent people.
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Do you feel like it's harder or easier to make new friends now as an adult?
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Harder.
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Even for you, because Elliot's quite an extrovert, I would say.
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You're quite talkative and good with people.
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No? i think i've become more introverted in later life interesting you know definitely i think that
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well i don't know i've heard
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that the older um men get uh the harder they find
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it to make friends i mean by the age of 30 i would say even certainly 40 not
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that we are nearly 40
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but you you've kind of made all the friends you've been
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through all these sort of transformative periods in your life you've
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been to school you might have gone to higher education university
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for example um you've been through your first second third job you've made friends
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and hopefully maintained friendships throughout all of
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that it gets to a point where maybe it gets a
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bit weird to keep making new friends i don't that's how i feel yeah i'm quite self -conscious about
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that sort of thing what about making new friends well i
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i wouldn't want anyone thinking i was why is this weirdo
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talking to me oh why is he like walking around will you be friends with me yeah i don't say
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that um that is weird yeah
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but yeah i definitely think i definitely think it's harder also because
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when you're an adult you are in situations where you meet new people less frequently less regularly you know yeah
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and you have to choose who you spend time with yeah less free time so
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when i went to university as an example i was suddenly
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around hundreds of new people you know on my course who i lived with in the flat um you know
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that doesn't happen anymore right i have my own house
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and i go and i see the same work colleagues every day you meet less people um
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so you meet new people less often
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but i don't know i think my dad for example has gone out
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and met uh new people weird yeah no i'm only joking i'm only joking no that's
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that is good and i think you have to make a lot of effort
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so um you know i would have to go to some sort of club
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or something to meet new people clubbing now you know like uh like a you know hobby club um right
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which i don't know this is an example of me becoming more introverted too nervous to do something like
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that to join a club i think so interesting oh i just stick with you
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okay so the next topic is fatherhood
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because you know you're a first -time dad i'm not a father yet
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but i do hope to be in the future i'm the daddy yeah you're the daddy um
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so how was it at the start basically how was it being a father you know how was it
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or how is it how was it at the start um
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at the start i i didn't take to it very easily or very quickly um yeah i
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struggled to adjust i think because i mean what aspect what part did you struggle to adjust uh
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having a new family member that i am responsible for
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and my wife is responsible for and not just having each other i think
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and the pressure that comes with
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that i struggled um to adjust i mean it is one of the biggest adjustments
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that a person can make or a couple can make
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and I was so excited I read all the books
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and you know I was loving it and then our son was born and
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i found it very difficult i i found it difficult to it sounds awful
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but to form sort of an emotional connection with him initially um my wife absolutely loved him
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and he was her favorite
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thing in the world and i wasn't and that could sound like jealousy
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and even retrospectively to myself it sounds like it
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but it didn't feel like
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that i don't think that's what it was i just found
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all of the adjustment very very difficult i've never been a fan of change right
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and it was the biggest change um
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and you know don't get me wrong i still did everything
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that was expected of me i took care of my wife you know initially
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because she had a c -section um that was very tough for her
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but also obviously taking care of my son i just didn't
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enjoy it like i was supposed to at the start i still did it
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but it felt like i was missing
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that enjoyment don't get me wrong i have it now right
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i love it i wouldn't change it for the world and
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if anything i regret the fact that i felt like that
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and i certainly wasn't trying to feel like that i didn't do it on purpose
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um yeah i think it happens to a lot of people you know you're not alone it is is known
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and it is a thing um so what's something about fatherhood that um surprised you i guess that anything else
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yeah well i'm very very very happy and relieved to uh say
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that i'm not in that position anymore um
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but what surprised me it sounds so cliche to say it but the joy that you get just from seeing
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him have fun and him be happy um
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so i mentioned earlier my wife and and son are down south
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and she's sent me some pictures of what he's been doing today he went strawberry picking
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and the smile on his face that made me
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so happy would you be okay with me sharing
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that photo yeah that's fine he's a he's a sweetheart um
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and he also went on the swings with his uh grandma
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and grandpa um that's who took him today but the fact
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that he's had a good day um makes me so happy
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and it's it's a joy that you can't describe and
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that has surprised me i nearly got married there did you oh
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so did i actually we came
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and had a look at this venue why did you not choose this place to get married
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because it's right around the corner from my parents what's wrong with
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that i'm only joking um we chose we didn't want to choose here because um we chose somewhere
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more in the middle between my family and ria's family
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so more equidistant and also i i grew up very close to here
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and came here a lot as a kid uh yeah same yeah yeah
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but you know it didn't feel unique in that regard right right right
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and i didn't want it to be more my thing than ria's than my wife's either yeah
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so you talked about having you know difficulties at the start
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um of being a father right difficulties into fatherhood um what helped you find your rhythm as a dad
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um time i think time as my son grew older
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and started reacting a little more and engaging i suddenly found
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that a lot easier um so when he was laughing at faces i was i was making suddenly
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kind of clicked into place a little bit
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and you know I didn't want to see I didn't want
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to be struggling with fatherhood right I wanted to kind of fix
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that you know I spoke to my wife about it a lot and yeah
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so as soon as I possibly could I was aiming it was time to be a good dad
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and effort right time an effort yeah
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so your son is called theo right with a th how does it feel hearing his english
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improve over time obviously he will be a native speaker
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but he had to learn as well didn't he
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so how does it feel hearing him improve over time
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and making funny mistakes oh do you know what it's
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so heartwarming and on a daily basis i'm impressed with him his his communication skills
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and his his english his language skills are really really impressive he can articulate and express himself so well.
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you know it really does yeah it wows me
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but some of the ways that his language has developed is funny
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and interesting so you can see him learning things so an example is
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his friend his friend at nursery she had her birthday the other day
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and he was trying to say to us she had cake
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and she had presents what he ended up saying was her had cake
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and her had presents
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so i can see in his mind he's trying to say the right thing
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but he's just getting she and her mixed up i mean he knows
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that it's a pronoun he's not thinking pronoun
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but he knows the funk yes but it's just the wrong slightly wrong function
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and i imagine when i was a child you know i made mistakes like
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that which i don't make now so how do you correct him
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or do you just what do you do um you know well i always listen to him
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because he says fascinating things her had cake wow
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but what i'll do is um i just say
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if he says her had cake i'll say oh did she
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have cake you know i'm not i'm just kind of yeah
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yeah what what's the word i'm repeating what he's saying but
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but using the right repeated feedback yeah yeah um
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but obviously he's he's just learning and he's learning by communicating with others
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and listening to others that's why he can talk yeah it's amazing are there any phrases
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that he says that um melt you like melt your heart right
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or crack you up um yeah
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so uh his favorite food for the longest time was pizza
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but recently his new favorite food is pasta
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and people i don't know what people think if he hears
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if if people hear um him asking for this i have no idea what they think
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because he asks for pastor michelle's pastor michelle's yeah what he's trying to say
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or he he just thinks they're called pastor michelle's
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but what they're actually called is pasta shells
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so yeah you know the little cupped pasta shapes he calls them pastor michelle oh that's
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so cute pastor michelle's pastor michelle's with sauce i love it
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um really interesting question for the last one what kind of relationship do you hope to have with him
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when he's older oh um well you know the typical phrase a father figure
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that you know i want him to ask me for advice
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um i want to be able to help him in every element
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that he needs helping with um be it his studies although i'm not very good at maths um
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but you know i turned to my dad
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when i first moved in to a new property i didn't
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know how to change a light bulb i asked my dad
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my your dad is always the go -to person i want to be
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that for theo
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but equally as important i want to be his friend i
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think as i've grown up my parents have gone from not just being my parents
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but to being my mates as well you know me
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and my dad go for a pint at pub
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and it's you know because he's my friend um
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and i want to have that with theo
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and i really um like playing video games
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so i hope he does as well
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because i'd love to play games with him i'm sure you
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will you will be playing a lot of video games together i can see
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that yeah i want to play mario kart yeah
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and i can yeah i can also see your wife tell
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you both to stop playing then she's gonna hate it yeah the next topic is aging aging yeah
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so my first question is do you um feel different in
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your 30s compared to your 20s definitely in a good way or not um
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as in in my body i feel i get tired more
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easily i've got more greys than ever before i had a shave today
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because if i grow my my beard
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or my stubble it's full of gray hairs i mean i
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have gray hair it's too i've got a lot um you don't like it i
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when i reached my 30s suddenly i started having back pain i had sciatica once
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that didn't happen in my 20s
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but uh you know physically there have been those changes
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and i think you have to fight more to kind of prevent them so i i run now and You know, I lift weights.
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I think you're in the best shape of your life, aren't you?
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Well...
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Nearly yeah but i mean i really enjoy it
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but you know i i know that it's healthy to do
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that so i'm sort of health conscious in that regard um
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but also you know the positives of growing older
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and being in my 30s is i've is i've advanced in my career more you know through experience
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and time absolutely um that's great uh
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so i'm more sort of financially stable than i was in
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my 20s um i have a family now i have a wife
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and child so i've got my own little unit um oh yeah so
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it's harder because you're older um but you know it's also great you're growing old
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and maturing yeah i'm wiser than ever before i definitely feel like i've learned a lot i just wish
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that i could go back to my 20s now with everything
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that i've learned really i do yeah what would you do anything differently
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or just yeah i would oh wow yeah like what i'd
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say no a lot i'd stop worrying about what people think about me well
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when you master
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that tell me how yeah um i mean you know that's how i was able to start this youtube channel
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because i stopped caring about what other people thought of me
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yeah like like genuinely that's i mean yeah prior to this you asked me
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if i would be in a podcasts and um i was excited
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and then as the day got closer and closer i've become more
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and more nervous today i said to my wife on the
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phone i don't want to do it anymore really yeah i get too nervous people sort of seeing me
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or what if i sound like an idiot yeah
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but you know we'll always have
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that negative voice on our heads it's just about not listening
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to it isn't it that's what i've realized okay anyway we need to keep moving on
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because i've got challenge questions for you okay okay next question
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has um becoming a dad changed how you see yourself physically
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or emotionally uh yeah i have to be more responsible now in my choices um you know in
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so many elements some financial choices um
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because i it's not just looking after myself anymore um you
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know how i spend my time my weekends i can't just stay in bed
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or play on my playstation all day we have to do things
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that you know are child friendly and help him to thrive
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and experience new things
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and actually just going back to what i was saying we
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took him to um a museum in sheffield oh yeah um uh recently
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and he was amazed at these things he was oh i'd love to share that video
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it was and you know that was so good for me as a father
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but also good for him you know he was experiencing these new things
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that amazed him and he was learning um uh
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but also you know going back to i like to sort of stay in shape
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and keep fit
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because i want to be around for as long as possible
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yeah i want to see him grow up um you know so all right last question for this section
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if you could freeze one version of yourself which would it be
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so you can think about you know age mindset lifestyle you can answer however you like um
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ah can i freeze too i would freeze maybe when i first first went to university
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because that was just you know my life was very different to now it was all about me
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and it was all about having fun um
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but then the other version would be now um i thought
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that too when i wrote this down everyone i have a a notebook with all the questions
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that i wrote down he's cheating um well not cheating i wrote these down
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but i actually said you know what i think i would
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also freeze right now yeah yeah although maybe in a few
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years for me yeah well i mean my son is full of childlike wonder um you know he thinks
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that we are the voice of reason um
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and we're just making it up as we go along um
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but it's great he's such good fun
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and you know my life is very i have a happy life you know
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and i wouldn't change anything about it um yeah it would
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be now forget my first answer that's your sort of obvious typical answer oh
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when i was at university life was life was at its best
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but now you freeze it now yeah yeah that's great that's
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great who knows though ask me again in 10 years okay
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now we have come to the last section of this podcast the challenge questions
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so the first challenge question is a future wish if you could see 20 years into theo's future your son's future.
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What would you hope to see?
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That he is happy, healthy and successful.
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is that that's a boring answer
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but what you don't realize is he might actually be watching
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this video in 20 years time well he probably will be watching this video in 20 years time
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um i yeah i mean obviously the most important thing is
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that i hope he's happy and healthy you know as i said
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when he i see him enjoying himself that makes me happy um
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and i want him have that for the rest of his life
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but also good health and success because why not you know
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that will make his life better whatever that means whatever
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that means exactly in any terms yeah great uh next question is the magic change question i call it um
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if you could magically feel completely confident in one area of life what would you pick
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oh it's an interesting question
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if i could feel um well i sometimes i've i'm quite
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self -conscious about the way i look i've broken my nose sort of like four times i've been to hospital
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and had it re -broken multiple times um yeah i'm quite self -conscious about
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that if that would just could go away and i was super confident
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so you basically want to look like voldemort no nose yeah that's it um
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that would be great it would make me my life
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so much easier um
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but that's very sort of shallow self -centered one um what
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there's a wasp that's a wasp what about uh yeah having
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confidence in the workplace would be great um you know in
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a meeting i would there's no worse place to say the wrong thing um
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or forget a fact or or you know misspeak um especially around senior management
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so if i could just have confidence there that would
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that would be great okay the next question is the classic dinner guest question
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and it's if you could have dinner with a film director actor
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or even a fictional character right so a character
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that isn't real um who would it be
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and why oh that's a good one um i thought you might like this question
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because you like movies david fincher is my favorite director his meticulous style uh
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and attention to detail yeah um
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that would be yeah good a good actor he's not my favorite actor
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but tom cruise would be an interesting dinner guest
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because of all the crazy stunts
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that he does it would be fun to quiz him on those
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and to other than entertaining the audience as he says the
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rationale behind why he makes some of these crazy decisions um
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a fictional character oh you only had to choose one yeah
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i know i'm just i'm thinking it out okay uh homer
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simpson would be good yeah why homer simpson well he's a
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classic buffoon character he's been around for my entire life almost
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but okay i'm gonna go with tom cruise okay that's your final answer yeah sure it's a good answer yeah um
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and okay the second to last question this is the one rule um question
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and it is
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if you could make one rule for your future self to
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follow what would it be take your time with this one
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don't feel pressured to answer too quickly um it would
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be to do not always prioritize what i want
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you know it's really important to take into consideration what other people want um
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and their feelings and their desires uh what i mean by
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that is um you know there are things
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that my wife wants to do that i don't really want to do
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but she does things that i'm interested in
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that she doesn't care about you know she does that for me
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so the one rule would be to be consistent with that
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and prioritize others yeah prioritize others
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and the same with theo i mean going to a soft
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play isn't the most thrilling thing for what soft play a
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soft play is uh usually an indoor center for children where
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there's the walls are spongy all soft yeah everything's soft
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and there's slides and things like that
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and it's not the most thrilling thing for an adult
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but he loves it so prioritizing what he wants
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and same with you um you're always asking me to go for a walk with you
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and now we've done it well i wouldn't consider this a walk we're walking
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yeah the last question is the advice question it's a special one for you
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and it is if you could go back to the early days of fatherhood
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and whisper something to yourself what would you say
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i would say um try and get over this disconnect
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that you're feeling uh you love theo as much as anything
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you know you love him as much as all of your family members he's fantastic
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and it's going to be great it's the greatest thing ever
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that's what i'd say to myself to make me snap out of it right right okay elliot thank you
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so much for carving the time out to meet up like
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this my pleasure i appreciate it i think it's time to
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have a drink at the pub let's go for a pint Yeah.
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Thank you for watching everyone.
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Remember to get the free PDF and possibly other materials to help you follow along with this episode.
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Bye everyone.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 608 frasi e 7170 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 46:19. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 155 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| friendship sostantivo | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | amicizia |
| pastor sostantivo | /ˈpæs.tɚ/ | pastore |
| freeze verbo | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gelare, ghiacciare |
| stitch sostantivo | /stɪt͡ʃ/ | punto |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| conscious aggettivo | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | cosciente, conscio |
| juice sostantivo | /d͡ʒuːs/ | succo |
| adjust verbo | /əˈd͡ʒʌst/ | adattare, adeguare |
| pasta sostantivo | /ˈpɑ.stə/ | pasta, impasto |
| topic sostantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, categoria |
| element sostantivo | /ˈɛləmənt/ | elemento |
| gray aggettivo | /ɡɹeɪ/ | grigio |
| pizza sostantivo | /ˈpi.tsə/ | pizza |
| daddy sostantivo | /ˈdædi/ | babbo, papà |
| regard sostantivo | /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ | riguardo, considerazione |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crescere |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene |
| sit down verbo | sedersi, accomodarsi |
| drift apart verbo | perdersi di vista |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| get over verbo | superare, vincere |
| go off verbo | esplodere |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 214 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thrill /θɹɪl/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, thrive /θɹajv/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, shell /ʃɛl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come friendship, pastor, freeze.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if it's okay with you i'll i · if he says her had cake i'll say |
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to phrase · used to go |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have been · week's been · have you had |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was called · be chosen · be run |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.