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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Unnamed Podcast.
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I'm still thinking about two different names.
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You can tell me which one you like better.
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I'm thinking first one is The John Pang Show.
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Sounds kind of boring.
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Or the What'd You Say Bro?
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podcast.
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And if you don't know, What'd You Say Bro?
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is one of my many, many popular catchphrases.
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If you've seen my videos, you'll see I'll do this face a lot.
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If you're listening to audio, it's my constipated phase.
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So with that said, let's get into today's episode.
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So first and foremost, this is episode number two.
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Excuse me.
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This is episode number two, and I am just so appreciative and very excited about what's to come.
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So far, I have launched the first episode on video platforms everywhere.
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and the reception has been really good.
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I really appreciate all the comments I've gotten for everyone.
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Some of you are listening to learn English.
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Some of you, surprisingly, are watching, listening to fall asleep, which is weird that I will be in your dreams.
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And third, some people just enjoy learning more about my story, and I'm really excited about that.
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So that means that's good.
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People want more, so we're going to do that.
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Now, as you're listening right now, I am currently working on having the podcast on all places where podcasts are available.
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So look out for that.
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I will let you know.
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You can check out the video description to see where it is all available.
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And as we go forward, I would love for you, in every episode, I would also like to answer some of your questions.
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I would like to interact with you as well.
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So if you had any questions you want me to answer, if you had any funny stories,
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funny topics, if you had some gossip or drama you want me to talk about,
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please let me know in the comments and I will talk about them, all right?
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So I'm going to do my best to have a topic in each episode.
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I can't necessarily promise that I always follow the topic because I'm always so scatter brain.
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You know, my brain is always all over the place and sometimes I tend to ramble a lot.
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You I'll be talking about this and then this and then that, and then I forget where I'm at.
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But I will try to have a theme for each episode.
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And of course, if you just like listening to somebody just talk and talk and talk, I could definitely do that.
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And another piece of feedback we got as well is that people want longer, more.
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Goodness gracious.
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So a lot of people said, well, Mr. Peng, 10 minutes is not long enough.
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I need half an hour.
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Okay, so I will give you half an hour.
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So by the end of this episode, if I pass out or if I lose my voice, if I just sort of die,
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that's because I was talking straight for half an hour.
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But again, we're still working on this.
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You know, I'm still working on the background, the lighting, the audio.
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I think for right now, this mic, if you're listening right now,
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I'm just kind of using like a wireless mic kind of clipped onto my chest right now
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but I am looking into a very high -end mic and high -end camera as well, okay?
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But with that said, I want to talk to you today about just some recent stuff that's been happening to me
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and just some interesting thoughts about life and everything.
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So one of the things I kind of want to do is I just kind of want to, like, introduce myself to you because actually,
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like, a lot of people surprisingly...
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Hmm.
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Don't know who I am.
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Like, so again, I've been doing content for like 10 or 15 years now,
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and a lot of people kind of know me as like this weird,
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funny guy, or like this guy that makes these weird faces or dresses up as a waiter in public.
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Okay.
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But a lot of people actually don't know my background, and I wanna talk to you about my background today and where I come from,
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my story, where I'm at right now.
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So, first and foremost, everyone's like, John, what's the deal?
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Are you Chinese?
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Are you Filipino?
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I've gotten Mexican.
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Some people think I'm black.
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That's an interesting one.
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Even though I am quite tanned, I don't know why all the men in my family get super tanned.
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Am I American?
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Am I Chinese?
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What's my national, what's going on?
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So first and foremost, I guess I would consider myself Chinese American, American born Chinese.
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In other terms, that's called ABC.
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So I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.
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That means I'm American.
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But I'm actually mixed as well.
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So actually, my dad is Chinese.
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And my mom is half Vietnamese, half white or half Caucasian.
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I don't know what you would call it.
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So the white part, I don't know if it's my mom says
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Irish or Italian, but that could be so mixed up.
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So I just say white to make it easy.
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And until my white homies out there, I hope you don't mind me saying why.
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But that doesn't matter because I am white.
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Quarter white at least.
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okay so um that's why if you
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if you see what i look like it's hard to kind of get a grasp of my appearances
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but yeah so i grew up in california in los angeles
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and basically i spent my entire life there until um after college
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and then i moved to china and i've been in china for a long time now.
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I've been living in China full -time more than I live in the USA, which is a trip to think about.
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And I've been here, I believe, at first on and off since 2010 -ish.
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And yeah, and now I'm here in the year 2026.
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So let me tell you a bit about my story.
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So So when I was a kid, and I'm wondering if for all of you here listening, you know, no matter where you're from,
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you can also let me know in the comments if you kind of resonate with the things I'm talking about.
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So growing up as like an Asian American in the States, there's really no need to speak Chinese.
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You know, I think a lot of you will kind of relate to this.
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If you are second born or third born generation and your parents emigrate to a different country,
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I think the problem is that even if the parents speak their mother language to you, for example, me, like Chinese,
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just because like where you go to school or the neighborhood you live in or where you live, there's no need to actually do it, right?
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So for me, actually, when I was a little kid, apparently I spoke
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Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese.
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I spoke English, obviously, but because I didn't really use it outside the home,
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I never really kind of mastered the language.
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I totally forgot it as well.
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And when I was a kid as well, remember I told him my mom is not Chinese.
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My parents got divorced.
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And so my dad was the Chinese speaker, but honestly as a kid he never really spoke Chinese to me.
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Now my grandma did but I just wasn't with her all the time.
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Now because they got divorced I spent most of my time with my mother
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and I would visit my dad on the weekends you know
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or maybe like for summertime I'd be with my dad for summer break
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and because of that obviously my mom didn't speak Chinese I didn't speak Chinese with her I just totally forgot it.
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So honestly, like as a kid, it's interesting because I never really viewed myself as Chinese at all.
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Not because like I'm not proud of who I am or my culture, my race or anything like that.
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I just kind of viewed myself as just a kid, you know?
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I didn't even see myself as an American, just a kid.
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And honestly, growing up as well, most of my classmates and friends were not Asian.
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In fact, I don't really, I didn't have any Asian friends until I was 17 or 16.
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And I'll explain, I'll explain you why in a second.
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Growing up, I mostly had like white friends, black friends, Mexican friends, and Middle Eastern friends.
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Now, when I became a bit older, like at age 17 or 16,
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I moved in with my dad.
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So I've been moving my mom before.
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I moved back in with my dad.
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Okay.
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Previously before that, I'd been living with my mom and my stepdad at the time.
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I moved back in with my dad.
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And when that happened, I had to change schools.
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So I went from a predominantly like mixed high school to a like super Asian high school, like lots of Asians.
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So if you know anything about California, and I think I have a lot of like Asian listeners, a lot of like Chinese listeners as well.
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There's a lot, a very huge Chinese population, Asian population in Los Angeles, California.
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And the area I moved to there, like it was like crazy for me because I've been used to like being surrounded by white dudes,
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like Mexican dudes, black dudes, like Persian dudes.
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And then I go to this school and switch to this Asian area.
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This is called, like, it's called the, like, the 626 area code of Los Angeles.
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And all of a sudden, I'm surrounded by Asians.
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I'm like, what's going on, man?
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Like.
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It was a little bit of like a culture shock in some ways, right?
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So it wasn't from there until I started making more Chinese friends, Indonesian friends, Filipino friends, Vietnamese friends,
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etc., etc. And to make a long story short, basically after school and everything like that,
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I never really grasped the Chinese language.
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And after I had a bit of a break, my dad basically asked me a simple question.
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He said, would you consider going to China for like a summer?
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You know, I was kind of doing like a summertime, just a part -time job.
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And I said, why?
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And he mentioned that at that time he had a friend working in China at a school.
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Shout out to East China Normal University or ECNU I apologize if I said that wrong
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By the way, I'm fluent in Chinese now
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But this is an English podcast
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So maybe I'll do a Chinese podcast sometime
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So anyways It was that time where I just said
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He mentioned to me, I think it was really interesting
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He said, you know
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You don't know anything about your culture
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You don't know anything about, you don't know the language.
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You don't know where you're from.
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I think you should give it a try.
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Okay, I said, okay, why not?
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You know, I wasn't really doing much anyways.
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It's kind of just messing around, right?
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So that began kind of the start of my China journey.
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And then what happened is that I went to school in China.
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I did a summertime program at ECNU East China University in Shanghai, China.
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Now, I have a lot of crazy stories that I will share with you about my early years in China.
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15 years ago, China, China 15 years ago was very different.
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A really interesting time compared to 2026.
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Very, very different.
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And I will share more with you about that next time.
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Some crazy, fun, exciting, scandalous stories.
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But not in this episode.
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I just want to kind of give you the rundown of me, okay?
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So basically, to make a long story short, I started sending Chinese there.
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And it was crazy.
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You know, the first time going to China as an American, in my mind, I'm like, dude, it's going to be like dirt roads,
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pagodas, like kung fu, like some dude wearing a straw hat with an ox.
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It's kind of racist, right?
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Like very stereotypical.
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But, hey, I'm Chinese, bro.
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You can't, you can't, just like, I'm white and Chinese.
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I can say whatever I want, okay? And Vietnamese, too.
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So, I was expecting, like, this, like, you know, like, just, I don't even know what I was expecting.
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But when I arrived in Shanghai, my mind was blown.
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Like, you have to understand, like, the USA is modern, developed.
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It's amazing, okay?
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Now, obviously, there's a lot of issues where I wish the infrastructure was a lot better.
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A lot of stuff is run down as well.
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It could be better.
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You know, we'll talk about where my taxes are going in another episode, right?
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But I had never seen a megacity like
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Shanghai, a true metropolis, a concrete jungle.
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I remember getting off that plane.
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I remember a few things.
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Okay, don't get mad at me.
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The first thing I remember was the pollution.
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Don't get mad at me, okay?
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Okay, let's all be honest here, okay?
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Wish the air quality was better in China.
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No haters, okay?
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Just spitting the truth, no cap.
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Is that what the kid's saying?
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No cap, right?
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Does that mean the truth or whatever?
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Just speaking the truth, right?
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I remember the pollution.
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I was like, hey, it's a little hard to breathe.
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Everyone's smoking, you know?
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That doesn't help, right?
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But I remember literally, like, I was like, where are the pagodias?
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Where are the dirt roads? literally looking and seeing skyscrapers,
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tall buildings, neon lights, as far as the eye could see,
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an incredible infrastructure, the subway system, the cars, it was insane.
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I had never seen anything like this before.
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And the mass of people.
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So this is crazy to me.
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Seeing that Many people all at once.
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Yeah, remember like in Los Angeles, you know, the USA Is spread out a lot, you know, you have to drive everywhere.
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So living in Los Angeles, California at the time I'd be used to seeing like maybe like I
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Don't know like in the most crowded places in the mall maybe like in like 50 people 50 100 people
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And I'd be walking on the streets of Shanghai, China, and seeing like hundreds of people all at once in my eye span.
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And for me, this is kind of like visually was it was a lot.
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It was a lot.
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It was intense.
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It was so intense.
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I remember I had a classmate that I was studying Chinese with, and he literally couldn't take it.
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He came from a small town in the USA, I think in Chicago, in Illinois somewhere and he preferred more of like a smaller,
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like just slow pace of life.
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And he told me that it was just too much.
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You had to go.
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It was just too intense from, you know, visually, audibly, it was too stimulating.
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You know, there's something called noise pollution.
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And noise pollution basically means like what you hear, right?
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I'll be honest with you, you know, my parents' house in Los Angeles in certain neighborhoods
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I'll go to sleep at night I don't hear anything at night maybe I'll hear like birds
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or like you know crickets sometimes you know
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that's it you know in China you hear noise all the time
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you know all the time all right even in the nicest areas you're gonna hear noise people talking you know
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so noise pollution is an intense thing so anyways I went to school here
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and again lots of crazy funny embarrassing stories of partying studying work crazy stuff
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that happened to me next episode okay basically as I continue learning Chinese more
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and more I also started to get part -time jobs as well of course
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that was teaching English all right
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so I started teaching English to some of my classmates
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and at the same time also kind of like doing some certification
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you know learning how to be a better teacher things like
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that and i began working more in this industry
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so basically i started working in china and i would visit the states back and forth
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but i kind of grew to fall in love with the lifestyle of china's particularly shanghai especially shanghai
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and as it became as it as i started doing more and more different jobs, I started moving up, up, up in my industry.
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So I began teaching just like part -time.
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Then I began teaching in the classroom, English.
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And then I began doing my corporate training teaching as well.
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And what would happen is that in these companies, I started getting more involved with management,
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marketing, communications, events, operations in particular.
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I think operations and product management within these industries was my specialty at the time.
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And as that happened, I kind of realized that, well, this is a growing industry right here.
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I have a good salary.
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I have a good setup.
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I have great friends.
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I love living in the city.
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It's very convenient.
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There's lots of stuff to do.
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It's just vibrant, you know, whereas I felt like being back in Los Angeles is kind of like, kind of dead in a sense.
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I didn't really know what I'd be doing or or like what I could do.
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And I felt the lifestyle back in the States after living in China for so long was so slow paced.
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So again, I just began working, working more and more.
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And basically after living in Shanghai for about, I think five years at the time.
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And now, again, I might be in the timeline, but it's been a long time.
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After I'd kind of, you know, worked in the director position, you know, the senior manager positions, all those like positions basically,
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I decided that I kind of wanted to do something more.
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And, you know, by doing a few things, you know, by doing like some more freelance work, doing my own, you know,
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speaking workshops, I was very involved with Toastmasters at the time.
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Toastmasters is like a public speaking club basically
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and I did very well in that club
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if you don't know Toastmasters basically it's like a worldwide public speaking organization where like there's clubs in each city
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and basically they have like international competitions
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and I had won a district competition in for like a
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Shanghai division in China where I was first place in a speech evaluation contest what that means is basically like critiquing people,
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giving them tips on how to improve themselves and how to become better speakers.
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And I got second place in an impromptu speech contest as well as just a regular speech giving contest.
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And what I realized is that by doing that, basically what happens in these clubs, you go to different clubs,
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you speak, you get invited to give workshops, I started to gain kind of a bit of an audience.
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People really look forward to hearing me speak, learning from me, or hearing tips on how to improve their speaking abilities.
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So, as that happened, I started doing more freelance work.
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And people were like, you know, you should, I wish more people would know about what you're doing.
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You know, you shouldn't be working for other companies.
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You can make so much more money doing this yourself.
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So eventually that's when I decided to become a freelancer.
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I started my own company doing training, you know, speaking, speaking training, public speaking, presentation skills, business English,
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any kind of English really.
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And from there, at the same time, I had also decided, well, I think I should also try to make some videos.
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At the time, a lot of the social media platforms you use right now did not exist, or they were just kind of beginning.
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And I originally made these videos just to promote my business.
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And if you really want to watch some cringe videos, you can kind of go to like my,
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you can scroll down to like my earliest videos when I first began, when I didn't know what the heck I was doing.
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So as I started making these videos for, excuse me, for public speaking and presentation skills for corporate training,
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luckily I would get a lot of business this way.
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People would see my video, they would contact me and it was a great sales funnel.
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But I realized something and that was you know public speaking
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and presentation skills is really like
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that is the top form the highest level of speaking you know it's not not everyone can do it
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and and even if you're you're fluent in English
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or you are a native English speaker the ability to stand
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in front of a crowd of people to present to communicate
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to give a workshop to give a TED talk to give a speech, whatever it is, is very, very, very, very difficult.
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And actually the funny thing is for most people, that's like the, I believe is like the top 10 fears in life.
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Like I think right after death itself, you know?
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So I've been doing this for so long, giving these workshops and doing this content.
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But again, it's hard for the average person to get into.
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So that's why I decided what I do is I would
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also do some English teaching videos as well to make it more accessible for everybody.
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Okay.
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So that was about, man, like 10 years ago or something like a long time ago.
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And basically from there, I started doing that.
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I started doing English teaching videos.
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I started live streaming, you know selling my courses.
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I had joined an MCN before
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It's just a company and MCN basically is a company that
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Works with creators and influencers.
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I had a great team there
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Worked with the guy there that was a at one point was a good mentor
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and taught me a lot and I appreciate him and I want to say thank you to him and
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basically from there within that period of time, just to make a long story short, everything really blew up.
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Particularly for me personally, within the last two to three years is where I've really seen my strongest growth.
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So I think right now on every platform that you could think of, both international and in China,
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I'm at a million followers or a million plus on each website.
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I think in total I'm at, I think, 10 or 12 million followers right now.
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And, you know, content, video content has its ups and downs.
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You can't always be viral, but the key is consistency.
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And I think for me, what I'm very proud of is that I've been consistently performing and, you know, pumping out content,
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you know, now entering into this new venture doing a podcast like this.
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So again, to kind of fast forward a bit, after working with that MCN,
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that's when I started a new team, a new company.
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And now I've been on my own for basically the last three years, basically.
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And it's been a very exciting time.
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Right now, I am based in Shenzhen, China and I go back to LA quite often as well
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but I'm here full -time and where does
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that leave me right now you know what's next for me
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you know I'm still always working in my main account
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which is my English teaching account that for me that's the most fun
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but you know a lot of people said too they like to get to know me a bit more
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and kind of like I've always thought about how can I mean do more long for content
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I've always worked in a podcast and everything like that
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and now this is kind of like my next journey here
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as well to be more like a you know just I guess a podcast you'd say but yeah
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Um, I am not, I'm not middle -aged yet, but I'm, uh, I'm, I'm not, I'm not a young guy.
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I'm not an old guy, but I think, you know,
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for me right now, I've never been more clear in my life about what I want to do,
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what the strategy is and I'm very lucky and blessed to have your support, to have a great support system, my friends and my family,
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and to have the ability to make your day better, okay?
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So where am I at right now?
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Again, I've been a full -time content creator for a long time.
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Now we're entering this new venture right here and we're gonna keep going.
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My hope is that this podcast I'm doing right now, we're gonna have video format, we're gonna have audio format.
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And I'm going to try to really improve everything.
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You know, I want to get a new mic.
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It's being delivered right now as we speak.
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You know, right now, you can tell me what you think about the quad.
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I'm actually on iPhone right now.
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Personally, I think actually iPhone is pretty good, honestly, for what you're seeing right now.
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We can do a bit better right now.
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We can do a bit better, though.
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I'm working on a camera as well.
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And I'd like to have guests on as well.
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You know, I'd like to do, like, you know, in -person interviews.
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I'd like to do online interviews as well.
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I think having a conversation with TV, I think that's where I'm my funniest.
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I don't think I'm that funny, but I'm a chill guy, I'm okay.
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If we met in person, we'd have a good time, that's all I'm saying.
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But yeah, so that's where we are today.
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And again, I'm very happy and blessed to be able to do this for a living and to,
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you know, when your job is your passion, it doesn't feel like you're working at all, okay?
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So with that said, ladies and gentlemen, we're ending the end of another podcast episode here.
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I'd like you to help me out, okay?
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So first of all, first and foremost, this is very important.
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Please, because we're just beginning, like, comment, and share, okay?
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Now, the most important thing is that your comments, okay?
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You know, I don't want to do like my podcast where like I'm just like saying random stuff all the time
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and just my mind is going all over the place.
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You know what I mean?
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Like I would love that to have my podcast of segments where I could answer some of your questions.
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You know, how do you do this?
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Tell me about this.
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Q &A, very important.
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But also like funny stuff as well.
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If you have funny videos, funny articles, some drama, some gossip, I would love to talk about that as well.
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All right?
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And again, everybody, this podcast will be available on all video sites.
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And also, hopefully by the time you hear this, it will be available on all podcasting sites as well, okay?
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You can just search for my name, Jonathan Peng Yuying, okay?
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Or you can search for John Peng English, or you can search for What You Say Bro?
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And hopefully you will find my podcast, okay?
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Okay, so everybody just yapped for a good 20 plus minutes and I can still keep yapping, but not for this episode.
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We're gonna save that for the next one, okay?
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Thanks everybody and I will see you next time.
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Thank you for your support.
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Love you, peace, bye -bye.

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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Please allow me to introduce myself @JonPengEnglish」を教材にしています。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が400文、単語が4632語あります。 音声の長さは28:16です。 話す速さは1分あたり約164語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の85%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
podcast 名詞/ˈpɑdˌkæst/ポッドキャスト
pollution 名詞/pəˈluʃən/汚染
intense 形容詞/ɪnˈtɛns/激しい
workshop 名詞/ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/作業場, アトリエ
topic 名詞/ˈtɑpɪk/話題, テーマ
audio 形容詞/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/オーディオ
presentation 名詞/ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/贈呈
format 名詞/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/書式, フォーマット
infrastructure 名詞/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/インフラストラクチャ, インフラ
pace 名詞/peɪs/歩幅
divorce 名詞/dɪˈvɔːs/離婚
lifestyle 名詞/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ライフスタイル, 生活様式
dirt 名詞/dɝt/泥, 土
creator 名詞/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/造物主, 作り主
surprisingly 副詞/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/驚くほど, 意外に

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
grow up 動詞成長する, 大人に成る
blow up 動詞爆破する, 爆発する
check out 動詞試験する, 検査する
dress up 動詞着飾る
get off 動詞降りる
look forward to 動詞楽しみにする

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • I'm still thinking about two different names.
  • What's my national, what's going on?
  • I'm like, what's going on, man?
  • You know what I mean?
  • You know, how do you do this?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作that's been happening · I've been doing · I've been living
条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果if you don't know, What'd You · If you've seen my videos, you'll see
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているyou've seen · have launched · has been
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるwas born · being surrounded · is called

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, I'veなど、短縮形や弱形を151回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: shanghai /ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, shock /ʃɔk/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, freelance /ˈfɹiˌlæns/, follower /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, salary /ˈsæləɹi/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/, venture /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, evaluation /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃn̩/, convenient /kənˈviː.niənt/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: foremost /ˈfɔː.məʊst/, format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, lifestyle /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/, freelance /ˈfɹiˌlæns/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。podcast, pollution, intenseなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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