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Hey everybody, welcome to this
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Easy English podcast where you will be learning English through comprehensible input.
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In today's video, we will be reacting to the most controversial opinions on Reddit.
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It's important to define the word controversial before we get started.
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When something is controversial, we mean that it is something
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that people debate about or people argue about and people just generally have very different opinions about.
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So a controversial opinion would be an opinion
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that a lot of people probably wouldn't like and a lot of people would probably would get really mad about.
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So in this video, we'll be going through some of those controversial opinions
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that people have and we will decide whether we agree or disagree with those opinions.
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Let's get started.
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So the first
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Reddit opinion that I found was that hot coffee is better than iced coffee.
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Yeah, and that's one that I definitely cannot get behind.
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I completely disagree with whoever posted that.
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In my opinion, iced coffee is so much better than hot coffee.
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There's just like no comparison.
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I feel like ice just brings out the flavor in any drink.
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So much more than when that drink is hot.
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Like personally, I just think hot drinks don't have a ton of flavor.
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But what do you think?
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I 100 % agree.
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Although when it is cold, I for sure will prefer a hot coffee over a cold one.
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Only because I like to feel all cozy and I don't know, I just get cold fast.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that definitely makes sense because if it's cold outside and you're drinking a cold drink,
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it can kind of just make you even colder and that's probably one area where you and I disagree.
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You usually get a warm coffee if it's cold outside, but I still get an iced coffee if it's cold outside.
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I don't know.
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It's just like I can never get a warm or a hot coffee.
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I'm always getting an iced coffee.
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Yeah.
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I just find it so much better.
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I feel like a lot of people where where we live
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in the United States would agree with me on this issue
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because I know iced coffee is like super popular in the United States
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and I've heard it's not quite as popular in many other countries in the world.
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Oh, I know also too in certain countries like when we went to Italy, you couldn't find any like iced coffees because of ice, right?
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They don't really use ice on drinks.
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I think that's what it was, right?
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Yeah, I think they might use ice with like sodas and stuff.
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But with coffee, they would usually just drink like espresso or cappuccino or like a hot coffee.
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The next Reddit opinion that I found is that concerts are a total waste of money.
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What do you think about this? um i've never been to a concert
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but i will say it is because they tend to be overpriced
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and even the food there and drinks there will be super expensive
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and you're only going to be there for what not
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that long i don't know how long are concerts usually i'm not too sure like an hour
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or two maybe oh i think they're at least like three hours right or more i don't know i don't
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Yeah, I've never been to a concert either.
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So I don't know exactly how long they usually run
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But I definitely would never be interested in paying to go to a concert
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So maybe this is one of these opinions that we only agree with because we've never experienced it before
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So maybe if we went to a concert we would be like yeah, it was absolutely worth it
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But I just feel like right now there's no way
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I'm spending like over a hundred dollars to go listen to a band play music or for somebody to sing?
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I think at least once in your life you should just to kind of get the experience,
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you know, because you only live once and that'd be,
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I don't know, like at least cool to see your favorite artist perform at least one time.
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But I just feel like usually with the tickets that people purchase at a concert,
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they're not even that close to the artist like you're usually going to be in the seats
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that are kind of further away
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so you usually can't even really see the artist that's performing you can kind of just hear them singing
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and i feel like at that point you might as well just listen to their music on your phone
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Unless you like pay a lot of money to be front row, but yeah, I agree with that.
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I mean, you can see them on a big screen,
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but I mean, that's not really much of a difference from seeing it on a small screen.
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Yeah, true.
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So I guess if you have like a ton of money and you just don't know what to do with your money,
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then you could buy like front row tickets and you could be right there next to the person who's singing.
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And then maybe it would be worth it for that person.
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But for me, it's definitely not worth it.
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I feel like one of the reasons why people are willing to spend
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so much to go to a concert is because they want to post about it on social media.
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They want to kind of like show off a little bit by taking a video while they're in the concert,
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you know, showing that they're there and then posting it on social media.
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I think that's one of the big motivations for why people want to go to a concert.
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Yeah, that's definitely probably one of the reasons why people go, just to show off where they're at, especially if you're like an influencer who,
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I don't know, has like a good amount of following or at least cares what people are posting or what people think.
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You know what's even crazier than concerts is music festivals.
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Music festivals are like, they're kind of like a bunch of concerts
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that you go to in one place over a long period of time, right?
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Like a week or something.
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So there's one that's very famous here in California called Coachella.
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And it's like one of the most popular music festivals in the world.
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And Coachella gets really expensive, right?
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Yes.
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I believe the cheapest Coachella ticket you can find is around $800, if I'm not wrong.
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Wow.
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That's crazy to spend $1 ,000 or $800, almost $1 ,000 or more to go to a music festival.
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But I know a lot of people go to Coachella every single year whenever they have it.
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They're like, they love it.
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So I guess everyone has their own opinion on this one.
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I wouldn't do it.
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You probably wouldn't do it, right?
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Maybe once just to get the experience.
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Yeah.
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And see my favorite artists. But yeah.
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But let us know down in the comments if you agree or disagree with this controversial opinion.
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Do you think concerts are overpriced or do you think it is worth it?
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Let us know down in the comments.
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Another Reddit user said that peanut butter is the best food
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that one's kind of crazy um it's difficult to get behind that one
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because saying something is the best food like better than any other food is really difficult to say um just
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because there's so many foods out there and there's so many really good foods out there
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i mean i love peanut butter but is it the best food i don't know about that i will say that there
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There are many benefits to peanut butter, so I can understand why somebody would think it's the best food.
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Like for example, peanut butter is very like versatile.
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When we say something is versatile, we mean that it can be used for lots of different things or in many different ways.
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So like peanut butter can be used in all sorts of different ways.
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You can like spread it on something, like you can spread it on a piece of bread.
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What else can you do with peanut butter?
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You can put peanut butter in desserts, which I find very delicious yeah yeah like a peanut butter cake
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or even like a lot of candy has peanut butter
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and those are some of like the most popular candies are candies
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that are made out of peanut butter right yeah peanut butter definitely adds flavor to whatever
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it is you're trying to put it on yeah another weird thing
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that i remember that we tried actually quite recently was um peanut butter pizza
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yes we did have a peanut butter pizza recently we were at a place
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that was um it was a buffet
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so it basically was a place where you could try lots of different foods
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and they had a ton of different types of pizza
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and they were all really delicious and then they had a peanut butter pizza
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that caught our attention because i've never heard anything like that
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and there's like peanut butter on the pizza
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but also like an actual nut on the pizza yeah there was an actual peanut on top of the pizza
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and i guess
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that just really shows how versatile peanut butter could be although the peanut butter pizza itself was not very good
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i'd say it wasn't horrible
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but you're you weren't getting pizza you're just getting peanut butter definitely it tasted like you were just eating.
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straight peanut butter, like from a jar, even though it looked like a pizza, it tasted just like completely like peanut butter.
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Um, and I'm surprised that you said, uh, that it's, it wasn't horrible because I thought it was totally horrible.
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Like I took one bite and I couldn't take another bite.
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It was like one of the worst foods I've ever tried in my life.
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Maybe it was just the thought of eating pizza with peanut butter
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that got to your head
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and you're just like yeah i think
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it was just too hard to wrap my mind around it's just too strange of a thing
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so i really did not enjoy that one but also people could argue
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that peanut butter is the best food because it's very delicious
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but it's also kind of healthy right yeah like i've heard whenever people are trying to gain weight
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they will recommend peanut butter
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because I think it's a healthy way of gaining weight because it's the stuff it has in it.
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Yeah, like it's very heavy.
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It has a lot of calories, so it will make you gain weight,
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but it's like a healthier way of gaining weight than just like eating a chocolate cake or something.
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I don't think it's like the most healthy food in the world, but it's at least fairly healthy if you're eating it in moderation,
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which just means you're not eating it too much.
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You're eating it in moderation.
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Right, yeah.
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The thing about peanut butter, though, is that a lot of people are allergic to it.
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Yeah, for sure.
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I think it's like the number one food that people are allergic to.
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So lots of people are allergic to peanut butter.
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They can't have any peanut butter at all, or it would be very, very bad for them.
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Recently, actually, we found out that Allison is allergic to peanut butter.
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She had a reaction to it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, if you guys have seen any of our videos before, we have a baby named Allison, and we did recently, yeah,
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just try to feed her peanut butter.
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Yeah, the doctors told us to give her some peanut butter to see if she is allergic to it.
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Yeah, like kind of to test it out a little bit.
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They said just give her a little bit, and we've tried two times, and both times she got a little bit of an allergic reaction,
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not a super bad allergic reaction
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so it seems like she's probably allergic to peanut butter
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or allergic to peanuts because the allergy is from the nut from the peanuts yeah
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so i think from that perspective
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that could also be an argument against peanut butter being the best food
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because so many people just can't enjoy peanut butter yeah i think that's so crazy to not have peanut butter,
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like to be able to like not have it.
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Yeah, true.
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Because I just feel like there's so many things with peanut butter, like our favorite candies and like the snacks that we like to eat.
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Yeah, it would definitely be tough to have a peanut allergy because peanut butter is a delicious food.
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But another food
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that I think I can say is a little bit better than peanut butter is just as
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or maybe even more versatile is chocolate.
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I think I have to put that slightly above peanut butter.
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Yeah, so most of the desserts with peanut butter have chocolate in them.
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Yeah, that's definitely true.
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So I feel like peanut butter kind of needs chocolate.
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Yeah.
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At least when we're talking about desserts.
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But chocolate doesn't really need peanut butter chocolate can kind of be on its own don't
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you think yes for sure yeah
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and i think dark chocolate right is it healthy supposedly for the brain
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if you have it every day or something like
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that yeah i think yeah dark chocolate
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that doesn't have as much sugar in it can be kind of healthy for your for your brain development um
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so they they do recommend that you have a little bit of dark chocolate every day, but like not a ton of it,
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just like a little bit.
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So they say you should eat it in moderation.
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So yeah, I guess chocolate can be healthy too in some instances.
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Let us know what you guys think down in the comments below to this opinion.
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Is peanut butter the best food or is there another food that is better?
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And let us know if you prefer any food over peanut butter, what that food is.
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All right, everybody.
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I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Goodbye.
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome to another episode of this easy English podcast, where you will be learning English.
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through compre, sensible input.
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Let's get started.
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In today's video, we will be playing
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Would You Rather.
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Yeah, and Would You Rather is a very famous,
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famous game, and it's a game that I remember playing a lot and really enjoying when I was a child, and I still enjoy it today.
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If you don't know how to play
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Would You Rather, the rules are very simple.
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So one person will basically ask the question, would you rather?
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And then they'll give you two different options to choose from.
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And then the other person has to decide which one they would pick.
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So let's get started.
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I have chosen two different questions for you and you've chosen two different questions for me, right?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Should I start?
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I will start first.
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I'm going to ask you my first question.
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Okay.
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My first would you rather question is pretty simple.
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Would you rather have the ability to talk to animals
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or would you rather be able to fluently speak every single language in the world?
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Oh, that's tricky.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I think I'll choose the animal one only because
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it'd be interesting to see the mind of an animal
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and like what they think and just to know their thoughts would be interesting you know
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and like to see exactly what each animal is thinking
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and I'm sure they all think differently in their own ways yeah that's very true
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because when you're talking to a person obviously it's helpful to be able to speak their language
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but like their thoughts are still going to be the regular thoughts that you encounter with people.
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Right.
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But if you can speak to an animal, then you know more about animals than pretty much anybody has ever known about animals ever.
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Plus, another thing is I feel like with animals, if you can't talk to them, you're never going to be able to really communicate with them.
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While with a person, if you don't speak their language, you can still find a way to communicate with them.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Like you can use your phone.
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You can translate from language to language on your phone.
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Especially with technology nowadays.
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I think there's also like, right?
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Meta glasses where you can translate what people are saying, right?
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Yeah, like when you wear the glasses.
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I don't know how good it is, but I know that it can be like when somebody's talking to you,
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it'll translate into your ears what they're saying in your own language.
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So yeah, as technology gets better, it does become easier to communicate with people.
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But I'm curious what you guys think about this question, because obviously if you're watching this video,
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you're probably learning English and you probably think it would be really nice
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if I could just immediately become fluent in English and in every other language.
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So let us know down in the comments, which option you would choose between these two.
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All right.
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Do you have a would you rather question for me?
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Yes.
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Let me pull it up real quick.
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Because, OK, this one is a little like you think about it and you're like, ah, you know, it's just a question that you're just like,
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oh, gives you like bad like thoughts.
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OK, so it's would you rather get a paper cut every time you turn a page
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or bite your tongue every time you eat?
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oh yeah
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that one definitely does sound horrible yeah in the moment it's like oh you know like it's really bad
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and you're just like a little bit mad about it happening
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but yeah yeah if you guys don't know what a paper cut is a paper cut is like
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when you are turning a page of a book or something like
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that and the paper kind of like cuts your finger and people say that it hurts really, really bad.
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And then the other one is that I bite my tongue every time you eat, every time I eat something.
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Well, that one, this is actually easier than you might think,
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at least for me, because one of them is very easily avoidable.
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Like I just can stop reading books.
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And if I stop reading books, I'll never get a paper cut, but you can't stop eating food it's necessary to eat food
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so I don't want to bite my tongue every time I eat food you are right
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but also like if you're trying to sign something like important documents like signing a house
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or whatever you're gonna have to turn pages
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so there are some things you can't really avoid I feel like with turning pages
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because there are like there's definitely going to be moments where you need to turn a page yeah
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but I feel like I could at least get somebody else to turn the page for me like
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if I had to sign something on a piece of paper.
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I could just give it to you and I could ask you to turn to the page for me,
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but I can't have somebody eat food for me.
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So I'm still going to say
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that I would rather get a paper cut every time I turn a page
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because I just think it's more easily avoidable and I can just avoid turning pages for the rest of my life.
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Yeah, plus you can read books on your phone or have like Kindle. Is
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that what it's called, right? the device where you just it's just only for reading yeah for sure yeah
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you definitely can just replace books with your phone
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or with your computer and these days you can do
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so much reading online
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that i don't think it's a super big deal all right my next question for you is another one
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that is a little bit hard to think about the last one you uh asked was kind of um
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just two really bad scenarios
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but this one I would say is a little more disturbing
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it's a little more like creepy to kind of think about okay
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so here goes it would you rather have teeth teeth for hair
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so like instead of hair you have just a bunch of teeth yeah on your head
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or would you rather have instead of your teeth you have hair instead
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so basically would you rather have teeth for hair
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or hair for teeth okay that's weird
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that is really weird yeah about that'd be
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so freaky to have hair as your teeth
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because how would you eat that's like if like you'd get it probably smell you need to wash it.
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Yeah.
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I think your only way of eating if you had hair for teeth would be like how a baby eats.
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So you could only eat like really soft food because you wouldn't be able to chew your food.
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Okay.
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But also probably when you're eating food, you would be like tasting the hair in your mouth the entire time, which would be kind of nasty.
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Right.
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I think.
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Yeah, that would be nasty it'd be like eating hair yeah
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so which one would you choose if you had to choose one
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i feel like with the teeth on your head you can kind of get more protection
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like more protection from like a weapon like a weapon or
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if you fall on your head you know fall backward
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or something that's true yeah i mean
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if you were like riding on a bike you probably wouldn't need to wear a helmet on your head
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because you would have like a whole helmet of teeth.
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Yeah.
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But I wonder how strong it would be, you know, a teeth are pretty strong.
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So it'd probably be pretty strong.
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So I guess there is sort of a positive side to it, maybe.
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But also you can wear wigs.
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Wigs are a thing.
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So you can just have a wig, cover it up.
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Yeah, you could put a wig just over all of the teeth.
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So I think I'm gonna go with the teeth one.
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Plus an added benefit is that you could make a lot of money from the tooth fairy.
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When the tooth fairy comes, you would have a ton of teeth and you would get a lot of money from the tooth fairy.
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I'm curious, in your guys' country, where you guys are from, is the tooth fairy a thing?
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In the United States, it's like this thing
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that we tell little kids where we say a tooth fairy is going to come
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and basically give them money whenever they lose a tooth.
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So if they lose one of their baby teeth, the tooth fairy will come and give them money for that tooth.
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All right, Allison is going to be joining us for the last part of this podcast.
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But let us know down in the comments which option you would choose from that would you rather question.
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All right, let's hear the final question
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that you have for me would you rather give up traveling
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or celebrating holidays um traveling completely
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so i can't travel even just like to another state in
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the u .s no traveling no traveling at all yes
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or all holidays i think i'd have to give up holidays
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because i feel like holidays are fun but you don't necessarily need them.
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And I would say one of the best things about holidays
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is the fact that you're able to spend time with friends and family, but you can do that on any regular day.
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But traveling, if you don't travel at all throughout your life, then I feel like you're definitely missing out on something,
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you know, and I'm somebody who likes to go new places and explore new places, not just in other countries in the world,
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but also just here in the United States.
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So I would definitely...
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really miss that if I wasn't able to do that.
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Yeah, I mean, giving up Christmas would definitely be difficult because I love Christmas, but I think I would have to let it go.
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But let us know down in the comments what option you would choose from that would you rather question.
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Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.
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If you're enjoying these English podcasts, then let us know down in the comments.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Goodbye.
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome to another episode of this easy English podcast where you will be learning English through comprehensible input.
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In today's video, we will be talking about the weirdest jobs in the world.
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Yeah, I think sometimes we forget how many jobs there actually are in the world.
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And we forget that some of those jobs are really, really unique and really weird.
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I was surprised while researching for this video, because some of these jobs are really, really weird.
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And you would never think that they would exist.
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So I have found a few jobs
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that I'm going to be telling you about and we are going to react to them together.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So first I will read out the name of the job
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and then I'm going to ask you to try to guess what you think this job is, what they do for a living,
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what they do on kind of a day to day basis.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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My first job that I found is called a snake milker.
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Snake milker?
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Have you ever heard of a snake milker?
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No, do snakes drink milk?
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Just kidding.
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They don't, right?
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I don't think snakes drink milk.
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Okay.
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Plus, if you were a snake milker.
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They don't make milk.
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No, no, obviously not.
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They don't have them.
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Yeah, I don't think snakes make milk.
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Okay, sorry, I'm already trying to guess what it is.
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So if snakes don't make milk, what do you think a snake milker is?
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Maybe someone who takes care of snakes?
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Sort of.
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Okay.
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They kind of take care of snakes, but they're a little bit different.
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So let me tell you about them.
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A snake milker is basically somebody that extracts.
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To extract means to like take out.
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So they extract venom from snakes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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That makes a lot more sense.
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So it's a very dangerous,
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dangerous job because you have to find these like very venomous snakes and you have to extract the venom from them.
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Yeah.
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What's the purpose of that job though?
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Just to like, what's the purpose of them getting the venom?
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Good question.
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Yeah.
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Cause you might think like, why would they want the venom of snakes?
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Wait, I think I know.
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Don't some people use snake venom for like medical purposes?
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I think so.
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And I think that's kind of the reason for this job is that basically by taking the venom out of the snakes,
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they can create better medicine to deal with that,
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to deal with those snake bites in the future um
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so i think they can make medicine with it
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but they also probably do it
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because then they can kind of like research the venom
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and figure out better ways to be able to treat
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that venom yeah in case somebody gets bit by one of those snakes
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because they are dead yeah yeah okay that makes okay
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but it's weird
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that it's called what milk venom a snake milker snake milker the job this called a snake milker
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so I guess the idea is is
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that you're taking venom out of a snake similarly to how somebody might milk a cow yeah
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but of course you're not actually taking milk out of the snake
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that's why it threw me off yeah I was like wait I've never heard snakes having milk
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but maybe there's I don't know yeah try your best real
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quick to guess how much do you think a snake milker
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makes on average per month per month how much money do you think
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they make per month okay since it is deadly i feel like they'd probably be making a lot of money
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because it's so dangerous yeah because they can get bit or
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if especially if they're the ones extracting the venom um yeah
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because sometimes dangerous jobs do pay a little bit better
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because nobody wants to do
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that yeah what do you think um like a month okay probably like 10 000 a month
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you are you went way too high okay on
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that one they do not make ten thousand dollars a month although i understand what you were thinking
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because it is obviously kind of a dangerous job
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but they actually make between two thousand oh wow to five thousand dollars a month okay
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so they don't make quite as much as ten thousand right okay all right my next job
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i think is even a little bit weirder than the last one okay okay
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and this one might even be a little bit harder to figure out what it is based on the name
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so this next job is called a morologist i think
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that's how you pronounce it although i might be pronouncing it incorrectly
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but i think it's a morologist okay okay morologist morologist what do you think a morologist is
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i was gonna say therapist but that's not like a type of therapist like a kind of therapist yeah
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that speaks about moral goods oh like somebody who speaks about morality morality
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if you don't know what morality is morality is like uh the things
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that we should do because they're good right versus evil
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so like if you have good morals you're somebody who does good things
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and believes in doing good things being kind stuff like that
455
but no it has nothing to do with morality yeah that's what i'm i just took the first letter of
456
that yeah this one's kind of impossible to figure out
457
so you were kind of right picking those first two letters
458
and trying to figure it out from there because it doesn't have to do with morality, but it does have to do with mourning.
459
So a morologist is a professional mourner.
460
Okay.
461
So if you guys don't know what mourning is, mourning is like when you, how would you describe it?
462
Maybe grieving someone's death, right?
463
Yeah, it's like when somebody dies or it could even be a pet dies, an animal dies.
464
Losing something that you love.
465
Yeah, or even just if something very bad happens.
466
It's like the act of kind of thinking about it, feeling sad about it.
467
That's what mourning is.
468
Yeah, it's just having some deep emotional, some deep emotions.
469
Yeah, so that's what a professional mourner does.
470
They basically get paid to go to a funeral, which is when you basically celebrate the life of someone who's died.
471
They go to a funeral and they like pretend to be very sad at this funeral, even though they never knew the person who died.
472
Okay. So, okay.
473
So it's just all acting.
474
It's all an act.
475
Yeah.
476
But why, I don't understand that.
477
Like, wouldn't there already be people who are mourning that?
478
I mean, mourning, you know, someone's death.
479
So why would they need somebody else to participate in that?
480
I'm not totally sure.
481
I guess it would depend on the person.
482
But maybe in some cases, someone has like a small family.
483
And the family is just very small.
484
So they didn't know a lot of people.
485
And maybe the family members feel like there should be more people at the funeral
486
so they're like let's pay to have professional mourners also yeah I don't that's
487
so weird that that's a thing because you would never think
488
that mourning over someone's death that they don't even know is
489
so weird to me like I just feel
490
so like out of place yeah
491
it would almost feel a little bit disrespectful yeah to be pretending like you're sad
492
and pretending like you're crying at someone's funeral that you just don't know.
493
Do you want to guess how much a morologist or a professional mourner makes every single event?
494
So every time they go to a funeral, how much money do you think they make?
495
I feel like it shouldn't be that high paying since it's like easy to do, you know, to act.
496
Yeah, that's true because it wouldn't be super difficult.
497
You would just have to go and basically sit in a funeral and pretend to cry.
498
So you're definitely right.
499
I wouldn't say it's crazy high paying.
500
Professional mourners make about $3 to $120 every single time they go to a funeral to mourn.
501
How often are you going to go?
502
Interestingly about this one as well, is that this idea of having professional mourners actually started a very,
503
very long time ago so in ancient egypt and in ancient china
504
and some other places as well in the ancient world
505
um this was a thing there were people who were paid to basically mourn for someone's death
506
so usually when somebody very rich or powerful died they would have professional mourners come
507
and they'd pay them to mourn okay yeah
508
so it's more like um showing how important
509
that person is you think yeah just to show other people
510
like oh wow like these people were greatly impacted by this person like i think
511
so i think it was like a way of kind of showing off how important somebody was okay
512
and also probably the powerful people who used this service
513
when they died were also probably people who nobody really liked
514
so like if you were a very bad ruler
515
and you were very bad to your people
516
and then you died that's probably when you would get professional mourners
517
because there probably wouldn't be a lot of people who would actually be very sad that you died.
518
Yeah.
519
All right.
520
Let's move on to the next weird job that I found.
521
All right.
522
The next weird job that I found has a very funny name.
523
It's called a sensory scientist.
524
Sensory scientist.
525
Okay.
526
A sensory scientist.
527
Maybe I kind of get an idea of what that is.
528
Okay.
529
What do you think?
530
maybe it's to help people who can't feel you know like some people can't like for some reason their nerves
531
or whatever aren't working correctly so maybe they teach them how
532
or like they study in that so that they can help people feel does
533
that make any sense right too yeah like somebody a a scientist
534
or doctor that basically helps people who don't have the ability to like feel things
535
They don't have the sense of touch.
536
Right.
537
So they help them to be able to feel things.
538
Right.
539
Yeah.
540
That's what I'm thinking about.
541
It's a good guess because, yes, you're right.
542
You're kind of on the right track with this one because it has the word sensory in it.
543
Right.
544
So since it has the word sensory, we can assume it has something to do with one of our senses.
545
Yeah.
546
So like hearing or touching.
547
Smell.
548
Right.
549
And you are right it does have to do with touching okay but the word scientist probably threw you off
550
because um i feel like it's a little weird to call these people scientists
551
some people just call this job face feelers okay face feelers so basically their job is to feel people's faces.
552
What the heck?
553
Yes.
554
Their job is to feel people's faces.
555
Why?
556
Why do you think, why do you think they would need to feel people's faces?
557
Maybe because someone wants someone to touch their face.
558
I don't know.
559
Not exactly.
560
They work with different companies, like different brands.
561
Okay.
562
Okay.
563
Basically how this works is a company will be testing a certain product
564
So if that company makes like lotion, like stuff that you put on your skin to make it very soft, they'll test that product on somebody.
565
And then they will hire a face feeler
566
or a sensory scientist to come and feel
567
that person's skin after they've put the lotion on to determine whether the lotion is good, whether it's effective.
568
that to me i don't know just sounds bizarre
569
because wouldn't you already know as soon as you touch your face
570
if it's soft or if you're breaking out or if it's like
571
or you can even see it too like if you know like
572
if it's causing redness or something like that like why i just feel like
573
that kind of job is a little bit pointless it feels pointless yeah i don't know
574
if most companies that create like lotion
575
and stuff really hire people to do this job
576
but there are some and apparently these face feelers
577
or these sensory scientists are very well trained
578
so they just by feeling someone's face they can easily tell
579
if the lotion is effective
580
if it's good they also use this for a variety of other reasons
581
so for example if there's a company that sells like razors for your skin, right?
582
So like if you have like a razor to shave your face, right?
583
After somebody uses the razor, they will have one of these sensory scientists feel
584
that person's face to see whether the razor is gonna like irritate their skin.
585
Yeah, whether it's gonna make their skin kind of like irritated.
586
Yeah.
587
Interesting.
588
So that is the job of a sensory scientist.
589
How much?
590
do you think sensory scientists get paid per hour well you get paid a lot
591
because i feel like it's probably a job where um
592
they're constantly being asked to go there to like feel someone's face
593
um so am i gonna try to guess monthly or like
594
which per hour oh per hour how much do you think they get paid per hour
595
so every hour that they're working um like $30 I'm gonna say.
596
It's very, very close.
597
I think that was your best guess yet.
598
So face feelers or sensory scientists make about $25 per hour.
599
So you were pretty close with that one.
600
Just a little bit high, but still closer then.
601
All right, those were three of the weirdest jobs I could find.
602
Although there are many more.
603
So if you like this video and you want to hear about some more weird jobs, let us know down in the comments.
604
I thought for some reason there is going to like what I had in mind going into this was like like
605
Japan, you know how some like you can rent a grandpa or like, I don't know.
606
You can basically rent anybody that you want.
607
Yeah.
608
Like a grandpa, mom, brother, whatever.
609
Yeah, I have seen those before like on videos where in Japan you can like rent a friend
610
and like basically like pay somebody to to act like your friend
611
or whatever you want them to be but I wonder
612
if people actually use that service there a lot or
613
or not I've seen a video
614
and they say yeah people use it people mainly with girlfriends like fake girlfriend oh okay okay for sure um
615
so let us know down in the comments what is the weirdest job that you can think of in your country?
616
Let us know.
617
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.
618
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619
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621
Hello, everybody, and welcome to English at Ease,
622
a podcast designed to help you learn English by listening to natural conversations between two native English speakers.
623
My name is Adam.
624
And my name is Desiree.
625
And in today's video, we are going to be talking about some things
626
that we believed when we were little kids that we realize now are completely untrue.
627
Yeah, I feel like kids tend to believe in things that don't make any sense.
628
And then as you get older, you realize like, why did I ever believe in that?
629
You're just so gullible to things.
630
Yeah, definitely.
631
I definitely was very, very gullible.
632
As a little kid, I basically believed everything that I was told.
633
And I even believed some things that I definitely was never told, Like nobody taught me them.
634
I just for some reason believed in them.
635
So you'll hear one of those in just a little bit.
636
But what's the first thing that you believed as a little kid that you now know is completely not true?
637
So as a kid, I was always told by my dad specifically that if I swallowed a seed, a plant will grow in my stomach.
638
So every time like I'd be eating like, let's say an example, a watermelon and he'd be like okay
639
if you swallow the seed a what you're gonna end up growing watermelons in your stomach
640
and that to me like I actually really believed
641
that for a very long time so the idea is
642
if you are eating like if you the seed
643
if you swallow it like a whole plant will grow yes inside of you yeah
644
that's a funny one that's not one I was told as a kid okay
645
but I imagine the purpose of
646
that was probably to convince you not to swallow seeds right yeah i believe i don't know i think
647
so i mean yeah probably like it's one of those one of those things
648
that a parent tells a kid to get them to not do something maybe
649
because of choking hazard reasons i don't know i was pretty young um
650
but yeah for a very long time i believed that and yeah I was traumatized from that.
651
Did you ever swallow a seed by accident and think to yourself like oh no I'm totally screwed.
652
Yes.
653
A plant is going to grow inside of me.
654
Yeah I actually did and I actually was so scared for my life I was like uh.
655
But then probably you realized.
656
You eventually yeah you come to a realization that
657
it's not true yeah that's an interesting one i've never heard
658
that one before i have one
659
that i think is even a little bit weirder than the one
660
that you mentioned um
661
and i honestly don't know why i believed this one nobody told me
662
this as far as i remember this wasn't like something my parents told me
663
but you know like those little signs that you'll see in stores or restaurants whenever the floor is wet.
664
Oh, okay.
665
They're called wet floor signs.
666
So it's basically like telling you, it's warning you that the floor is wet.
667
So you don't want to walk on it.
668
You want to avoid it. Be cautious.
669
Yeah, be cautious as you're walking over like the wet area.
670
So at least in the United States, those wet floor signs usually have like a picture of a person on them.
671
And that person is usually like a stick figure.
672
Like it's a really simple drawing of a person, right?
673
Like a stick figure.
674
And it usually shows the person falling over, right?
675
To tell you, hey, be careful.
676
For some reason, when I was a little kid, I was totally convinced that if you slipped,
677
if you fell over a puddle of water, you would become the person in the sign.
678
What?
679
I thought that you would become the stick figure that's on the sign you just immediately become
680
that yeah like you slip and then somehow as you're slipping you get like
681
pulled into the sign and you become the person in the sign
682
and nobody told you about that like that that's
683
that will happen it's just something you just came up with on your own
684
I think I just came up with it on my own
685
because I feel like it'd be really weird if my parents told me
686
that that would happen to me although maybe my parents told me
687
or maybe one of my older siblings told me like as a joke
688
because they were trying to trick me yeah they wanted me to believe
689
that but for whatever reason I completely believed that
690
so did you ever come into realization like did you ever slip
691
and you're like oh wait I'm not no I don't think
692
so I don't think it ever happened because I was way too scared.
693
So I, if I saw a wet floor sign, I would go like the other direction.
694
I just would completely avoid the area because I was really scared that if I slipped,
695
I would get pulled into the sign and become a stick figure.
696
Maybe it was just your brain, like you're just, your brain was protecting you and making you think that.
697
So yeah, you don't Fawn slip.
698
I think so.
699
I think so.
700
So whenever I saw one of those wet floor signs, I always felt a little bit bad.
701
Like I felt a little sad
702
because I thought the stick figure on the sign was a person at one point who had slipped
703
and now he was trapped.
704
He was stuck in the sign.
705
Maybe you just needed to see someone slip or you slip yourself.
706
Yeah.
707
And then I would have realize that it wasn't true.
708
So the next one is definitely a myth I feel like amongst like Hispanic people.
709
I'm Hispanic so I have family members who've said this
710
or like I've known people who are Hispanic that have said this too.
711
And it's that if you wet your hair and you don't let it dry quickly you're gonna get sick.
712
Oh okay yeah I've heard you say that one.
713
Yeah so yeah
714
so I remember as a kid like going to the pool
715
my mom would always tell us like you have to immediately get a towel
716
and wrap it around your hair or else you're gonna get sick
717
okay so the idea is if your if your hair stays wet after it's after it's been wet
718
you need to immediately make sure it becomes dry yeah
719
you can't have it air dried by the air
720
it has to be dried completely by something to I don't know like a towel yeah something
721
that you could put on your head to dry it.
722
Otherwise you'll get sick.
723
Yeah.
724
Yeah.
725
Even some adults still believe that, you know, I figured out that it wasn't true
726
because I've gone outside multiple times with my hair wet and I didn't get sick.
727
So it's not true.
728
Yeah.
729
So you kind of learn from practical experience, just going outside with your hair wet, nothing, nothing bad happens.
730
My next thing that I believed when I was a little kid is one
731
that probably a lot of people can relate to from their own childhood.
732
At least in the United States and probably in some other countries as well.
733
So the thing that I believed as a little kid was that
734
Santa Claus was real.
735
I imagine you guys probably know who
736
Santa Claus is, but in case you don't,
737
Santa is like this sort of.. magical character who is supposed to be really fat
738
and he has a really big white beard.
739
He's got this like big white beard.
740
He's an old man and he basically flies around on a sleigh on Christmas and he basically brings presents to people.
741
He gives everybody presents on Christmas.
742
If you're a good person because there's like the whole naughty and yes you know yes you're naughty you get anything.
743
Yeah if you've been good for the year then you'll get presents
744
but if you've been like a really bad person he either doesn't give you presents or he gives you coal.
745
People say that he'll basically give you a bunch of coal.
746
I don't know that.
747
Oh you've never heard that before?
748
Yeah like people will have like their stocking
749
and he either will give you presents in your stocking or
750
if you're a bad person he'll put coal in your stocking
751
i'm curious to hear in your guys's country are little kids told
752
that santa claus is real i know in a lot of countries
753
christmas isn't a very big holiday um in some countries they don't really have a santa claus
754
but i know from experience in the united states santa claus is like a really really big deal
755
And actually, I would say maybe the majority of kids in the United States are told by their parents that
756
Santa is real.
757
So kids in the United States really do believe that
758
Santa is real when they're younger.
759
And I believed
760
Santa was real for a very long time.
761
I didn't only because my parents didn't believe in us believing in you know
762
Santa Claus so we were told like oh these are just gifts you know
763
that you're gonna receive this day I mean I knew of Santa Claus
764
but I didn't you know think he was real I just saw him as like a character yeah
765
and you knew that some kids believed in Santa
766
but you were never told no it was real yeah so it does kind of differ between households.
767
Yes, for sure.
768
Some parents tell their kids that
769
Santa is real.
770
Some parents tell their kids, hey, Santa is not real.
771
But I was one of those kids who was told
772
Santa was real.
773
And I think I believed in Santa a little bit longer than most kids.
774
Okay.
775
I think I kind of just had like a big imagination.
776
And I really wanted to believe he was real.
777
So I think I believed in Santa until I was about maybe nine or ten years old.
778
And I think most kids stop believing in Santa when they're a little bit younger than that.
779
Right, yeah.
780
So nobody ever told you like...
781
That Santa wasn't real?
782
Yeah.
783
They just wanted you to keep believing, huh?
784
No, actually my brother, who's older than me, when he realized
785
Santa wasn't real, he tried to convince me for like two years
786
that santa wasn't real yeah he kind of tried to ruin the fun for me
787
but i didn't believe him i was so sure
788
that santa was real yeah but then eventually
789
when i got a little bit older he was able to convince me
790
that santa wasn't real
791
so yeah i guess i would say my brother is the one who basically told me that santa isn't real at all
792
But there's also like other characters that kids are told about and many kids really believe in, at least here in the United States.
793
So there's Santa, of course, and Santa is associated with Christmas.
794
So he's supposed to come on Christmas.
795
But there's other characters for other holidays.
796
So for example, there's like the Easter bunny, which is associated with Easter.
797
Yeah.
798
And on Easter, people say that the Easter bunny comes out and he's like this big bunny, I guess.
799
And he like leaves eggs everywhere for kids to basically collect.
800
Yes.
801
I don't remember if I believed in the Easter bunny as a kid.
802
I think I didn't believe in the Easter bunny as a kid.
803
I didn't.
804
I think my parents never told me that the Easter bunny was real.
805
One that I did believe in, though, that's not holiday -related is the leprechaun.
806
At the end of the rainbow, if you go, you're going to find gold.
807
Oh, you believed?
808
I did.
809
You believed in leprechauns?
810
I did.
811
That's interesting.
812
I guess it kind of is.
813
What is it called?
814
St. Patrick's Day.
815
Yeah, St. Patrick's Day.
816
I think the leprechaun is like an Irish tradition and it is associated with St. Patrick's Day.
817
which we do celebrate here in the United States a little bit.
818
I mean, it's not a huge holiday here, but people do kind of celebrate it.
819
Yeah.
820
But that's interesting that you believed that the leprechaun was real because I don't think most people here in the U .S.
821
believe that the leprechaun is real when they're kids.
822
Yeah.
823
Yeah, for a very long time I thought that.
824
And, like, it'd always be, like, a dream of mine to go to the end of the rainbow to get the gold.
825
Right, because you're supposed to be able to find the leprechaun at the very end of a rainbow, right?
826
Like if you follow a rainbow, he's supposed to be at the end, right?
827
I believe so, yeah.
828
And doesn't he have like a treasure chest full of gold?
829
And a cauldron, right?
830
I think.
831
I don't know, maybe.
832
Something like that.
833
That's how I pictured it.
834
That's interesting.
835
But anyways, let us know down in the comments,
836
what are some weird things that you believed as a little kid that you no longer believe are true?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “1 Hour of Natural English Conversation Practice”. This video has 839 sentences and 9010 words to shadow. The speech runs for 56:22. The speaker talks at a natural 160 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| peanut noun | /ˈpiˌnʌt/ | A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America. |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| snake noun | /sneɪk/ | Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues. |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| sensory adjective | /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ | Of the physical senses or sensation. |
| venom noun | /ˈvɛnəm/ | An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey. |
| slip verb | /ˈslɪp/ | To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction. |
| allergic adjective | /əˈlɝ.d͡ʒɪk/ | Of or pertaining to allergy. |
| funeral noun | /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/ | A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased. |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| tooth noun | /tuθ/ | A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food. |
| scientist noun | /ˈsaɪəntəst/ | One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research… |
| mourning noun | /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/ | The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation. |
| input noun | /ˈɪnpʊt/ | The act or process of putting in; infusion. |
| bite verb | /baɪt/ | To cut into something by clamping the teeth. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| show off verb | To exhibit the best attributes of something. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| fall over verb | To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position. |
| get behind verb | To come to believe or support something. |
| break out verb | To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. |
| bring out verb | To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm always getting an iced coffee.
- What do you think about this?
- What else can you do with peanut butter?
- Have you ever heard of a snake milker?
- How often are you going to go?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if I stop reading books, I'll never · if you had hair for teeth would be · if you're a bad person he'll put |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've heard · i've never been · we've never experienced |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be overpriced · are overpriced · are made |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | somebody who likes · someone who takes · somebody who speaks |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 256 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: tooth /tuθ/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, myth /mɪθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, cautious /ˈkɔːʃəs/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like peanut, butter, snake.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.