Shadowing Practice: 713. Lucky Dip with Paul Taylor - Learn English Speaking with Video
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okay so let me just make sure i'm unprepared good i'm unprepared all right we can start
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so hello uh ladies and gentlemen today i'm joined again by paul taylor i don't know
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if i've already done a 15 minute introduction before this right
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anyway i think last time i just said don't do one
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and you didn't i think i won't
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and just don't just just straight into it
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and this is another situation this is almost the same as
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last time where uh we're in a different location uh we're
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in my studio this time as opposed to your place
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but we are recording your podcast yes which
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and then afterwards we're going to do my live
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which technically is in the future your youtube live
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which is in the future but for your listeners it will be in the past yes
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because by the time this episode comes out it'll be after my live yeah
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so we are trapped in some sort of weird time loop
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just like last time i remember we had a lot of fun with
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that it's like hold on so right now we're in the past
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because on my live i'll be saying to my people on the live i'll be like hey me
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and luke we just recorded the podcast in the past
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but it's coming out in the future but for
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that podcast we were recording it in the past
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but it's coming out in the future now i've just said
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that twice what's the grammar that we have to use here
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which tense so okay let me try and explain it
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so listeners obviously you are listening to this episode of my podcast joined once again by paul taylor
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and i'm videoing this
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so people hi youtube may be watching this on youtube as well hello um
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so but also after this we're going to record um one of paul's youtube lives
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so listeners you will have no we by the time you
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okay yeah by the time they listen to this you let
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them listening to this now they will have no we will have recorded your youtube live
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so they will already be up They will be able to, they are able to watch it now because Paul has put up,
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he's uploaded the video that we will have recorded by the time you are listening to this.
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There we go.
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That's like a past, future sentence.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Every tense included in one situation.
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Yeah, the present.
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You can go and watch the happy hour live.
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That we will have recorded that we will have recorded by the time
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that you are now listening to this because it is available to you now
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because Paul has uploaded it because we finished recording it
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in the future in real time now it's fucking too confusing it's just
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because mine is live and it stays up straight away and yours is edited
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and you put it out a couple of days or weeks afterwards yes, that's right That's the situation So we are in Paul's Do you call it a studio?
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I call it a studio I mean it's technically my stand -up producer's office
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But I call it the studio I just call it a studio Because it feels like it's not an office Yeah, it's a studio It's a place where you record You've got like lights and stuff Yeah,
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exactly There's professional kind of looking Professional looking Yeah, I mean They're very cheap Amazon lights
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That look professional Like those of you i mean those of you who are watching this video on youtube
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if i swing this light over into your face you'll see
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this blinded me this is one of the this is one
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of the lights that's lighting the the studio there's two others it's good it it it works
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and so i'm using my camera in paul's uh room
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so this might look a bit like an episode of happy hour with paul taylor
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but with a slightly different camera yeah now um i think
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that this episode paul is going to be almost exactly the
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the same as the last time you were on this podcast
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last time you were on the podcast i think it was
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called paul is on the podcast forward slash random questions with paul taylor yeah do you remember the concept of
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that no i had you asked your listeners pre before questions for me no um random questions no
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so basically i had um come up with a list of questions with different themes
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and you just called out numbers and then i asked you those questions okay
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and then there were different kind of questions um conversation points little challenges
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and things like that okay
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so it's going to be a repeat of uh the last time we did this not just
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because we're going to do an episode of happy hour with paul taylor after this
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but also because the concept is the same because
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it's part two of the future past podcast that's right it's
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the second part of it oh anyway let's not get bogged down in in all those things again um
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so last time yes i i came up with way too many questions
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that oh yeah you yeah i had 50 questions
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and another thing we need to deal with another thing that's the same is
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that amber is not here again this is true and um And it's the same problem again.
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Last time it was because of childcare.
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Yeah.
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And the schools have just closed in France, so it's the same problem again.
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That's right.
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Because we were supposed to go out for lunch tomorrow, I think, the three of us.
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Yes, that's right.
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We were going to see each other for a kind of a monthly Pod Pals meeting.
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Yeah.
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But that's been cancelled because, yeah, childcare has been taken out of the picture
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because of the new COVID confinement measures
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that have been introduced by the French government uh basically schools are closed
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and so amber suddenly has got children to to look after again
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and yeah she she only just got creche as well like
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uh nursery after a year of just being like oh i don't have nursery
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and she finally got nursery i think at the beginning of
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this year two months bang finished she got she got like some time to herself
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and then the government was like actually no here are your
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children again anyway last time we called amber on the phone do you remember
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and we found her answer phone message
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which was basically hi amber this is amber i can't get to the phone just don't leave me mess
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and don't no that's it what is it don't call me
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back don't i think it's like don't leave me i've forgotten
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it's just like don't leave me a text something like
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that maybe we should try
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and call amber at some point although she's probably trying to put children in bed
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and things like that okay so um here we go 50 questions
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and challenges on various topics in no particular order okay they're
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just conversation starters really he says reading from his notes tell me a number from one to 50
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and i'll ask you that question or set you
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that challenge here are the little challenges um guess the idiom yeah right
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and i've got here oh you've come prepared with the material
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rummaging through my bag i have the oxford idioms dictionary for
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learners of english oh i love it other idioms dictionaries are available by other publishers
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but um i happen to have the oxford one on me today uh
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so there's guess the idiom which is where i explain an idiom
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and you have to try and guess what it is and we'll see
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how you don't know any phrases or words in your own language
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um what else we've got random accent yeah i remember
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that you have to speak in a certain accent for a
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bit uh watch out there are two culturally inappropriate ones okay
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and last time we did a culturally inappropriate for us white people
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because i imagine for the people of those cultures yeah it's
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not culturally inappropriate they are allowed to speak in their own accent
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but it let's not get into the the all the politics of
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that but uh some accents are you know a little bit offensive
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if you if certain people do them arguably depends how well you do them as well yeah
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and the situation but anyway um you do need to tread carefully sometimes
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when copying different people's accents um i got didn't i get
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uh in trouble for doing a russian accent one time on
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your podcast um i don't think it was the accent
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so i think the very first time you were on my podcast you did do a russian impression
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but it wasn't the accent the accent People were quite happy to hear you doing a Russian accent.
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And now, obviously, everyone wants you to do it now.
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Hello, my name is Paul Taylor.
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I am from England.
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What, you're England?
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That's like the worst Russian spy ever.
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I am from England, honestly.
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I'm drinking beer with my friend Luke.
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What was it?
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I got in trouble for something now.
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You got in trouble for just the usual trotting out various stereotypes of Russia that everyone drinks vodka all the time, blah, blah, blah right yeah
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that was it somebody was like oh i i i'm very disappointed
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that uh paul thinks that everyone in you know it's not it's just
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when you do an accent that here's the thing
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when you imitate an accent you automatically go to the stereotypical things
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because that's what makes it funny if you if you're
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if you're making fun of an english accent right when
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when people make fun of uh british english accents yeah
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but it's annoying though isn't it oh fancy a cup of tea it's annoying
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but it's still like what else are they gonna say
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that obviously gonna be like oh hello would you like a
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cup of tea yes very posh yes hello i'm the queen
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yes they go for the like the stereotypical it's the same thing in french
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when you're like oh ha ha macron macron les onions
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like it's you just you have to do it's just part
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they go together you can't it's just imagine you can't imitate a french accent
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and talk about football it just doesn't you can't be like
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oh ha ha the player he puts the ball in the
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back of the net like it doesn't it's quite good it's not It's funny as if you go, oh, les cigarettes, le café.
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I don't know.
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I disagree.
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I think it's better when you do it, when you talk like a French person.
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You know, you're good at doing a French accent.
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Did I tell you?
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For me, it would be funnier if you did do that French character talking about almost anything else other than the stereotypes.
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You know what I've thought about doing?
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I've thought about doing a mini -series on TikTok.
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Tangent, tangent, tangent, tangent.
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Yeah.
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Go on.
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About if French presidents spoke Cockney.
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So, you know, like French presidents, they speak English sometimes at the UN or...
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Yeah, like Hollande. Be you.
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Do be what you want to do.
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Do be, we can be do what you want to do yeah
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so basically there's like clips of these different french presidents speaking english at different points
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and i was thinking of dubbing them over in cockney yeah
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but so the lips match yeah so it sounds like their actual voice
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and like recreating the whole soundscape and like all that kind of
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because you have to get rid of all of the audio in the thing
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and then i'd just be like you can't be do what we want to do yeah you know i mean
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and it's like you know
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if french president spoke in a cockney accent you should do it
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and like the same thing if if you know
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when boris johnson i think has spoken french a couple of times or
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when the queen speaks french i could i would just love
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to like find a video of the queen speaking french
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and just dubbing her over like in normal in like
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or in canadian french yeah with like a really strong parisian accent yeah it'd be amazing yes
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that would be good anyway that would be good tangent go on
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so i have to choose a number you were going through
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the different things okay i was going through the challenges we
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will get to this this thing in a moment i promise everybody um last time you had Brazilian Portuguese
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and I had a few comments oh yeah people were impressed by your ability to speak
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was I doing it in I wasn't speaking Portuguese I was
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doing it in I think you were trying to speak English with a Brazilian Portuguese accent
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and they liked it that's good listeners if you want to hear
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that you'll need to go back to the previous episode of
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you know I think I might call this Lucky Dip with
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Paul Taylor Lucky Dip I like it although it's the last one wasn't called Lucky Dip
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and it's the same thing
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but I think I'll call it Lucky Dip what was the
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last one called just like paul is on the podcast slash
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random questions with paul taylor it did well i mean the episode did well
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but lucky tip with lucky tip no lucky dip with paul taylor anyway lucky tit
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that's that would be another uh concept
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so let's have it uh there's also guess the punchline ah
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damn i forgot to bring a book i forgot to bring
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the joke book it's all right i'll think of something guess the punchline
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and in that one i'll tell you the setup to a joke
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and you have to guess the punchline i might give you
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some clues this probably won't be very funny yeah it never worked did it
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that one didn't work because it's just very difficult to uh maybe the number
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that i don't
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because i might not even choose one of these like you
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know the numbers i might choose might end up being yeah all of the other things
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and not that i might skip
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that we will play it by ear guess the idiom very
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good um citizenship test is another one yes i love it
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trying to answer to a random question from the British Citizenship Test
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and you do have to pronounce British Citizenship Test as well as part of the challenge.
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Okay.
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Okay, so some of the questions have been crossed out.
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Those are the ones you did last time.
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Let's carry on.
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So give me a number then, please.
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Okay.
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Between one and 50.
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I'm going to pick.
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I've forgotten his number now.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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My little brother's...
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By the way, we're drinking beer, listeners, because we're in the studio where Paul does this and he has a little fridge down there.
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I do.
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Containing beers, which is good. So cheers.
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Cheers, everybody, and cheers, Paul.
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Yeah, cheers.
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Hold on, let's get the cheers on the mic.
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There we go.
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28. Number 20.
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Because it's my little brother's number when he plays football.
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Where do you buy your tea?
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Where do I buy my tea?
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That's a great question.
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Thanks to a pretty well -known host of a podcast called Luke Thompson.
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He suggested that I get Marks and Spencer's Gold Blend.
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Is that what it's called?
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Yes.
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Because a couple of times when I was in the early days of the original Skypod.
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I don't know if that was the original Skypod.
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The one, the terrace.
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Yeah, the original Skypod.
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I don't know if you had a Skypod before that.
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I've been in other places recording the podcast before that, but that was the...
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It wasn't in the Sky.
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No, that was the original Skypod.
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Luke did give me cups of teas and I really enjoyed that.
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So I usually get them from Marks and Spencer unless I can't be bothered
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because there's not really one near me in which case I go for Tetley
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because it's the only one that's like readily available in French news yeah exactly your local supermarket there's that
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or there's what was the other one Twinings English Breakfast yeah
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they're not great to be honest neither of them the ones I have at the office currently are PG Tips Pyramids
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because I got them for you oh you did yeah you
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brought them last time they're yours yeah exactly that's true and the other ones are Taylors
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of Harrogates yes and I think I think Amber brought those.
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The Taylors of Harrogate, I think, are good.
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I think so.
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They're all right.
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They're not anywhere near as good as the Marksons Spent.
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Nothing has beaten that for me so far.
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And now all the other teas taste like shit.
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yeah that's the thing that if you get if you
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if you get used to good tea yeah
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and all other tea is just like unacceptable well then
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and then the problem is like sometimes i it's months before i go back to marks
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and spencer so then i end up getting like tetley
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and i deal with that and i get used to
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that again yeah and it makes it even better
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when i then go back to marks and spencer's
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and get the gold blend i'm like ah this is amazing yeah hits the spot yeah isn't it
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okay and all right so there's there isn't really a marks
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and spencer near you is there i think okay all right
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um very good very interesting let's shall we move on paul's
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looking for numbers like you don't know the numbers i am
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you don't even know them i'm gonna go for this beer runs out on 02022
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so there's lots of twos in there i'm gonna go with
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two just two just two do you ever speak in another accent
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that isn't yours like for example
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when you're alone in the house do you ever just like natter away to yourself in another accent
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which is not yours if so which one
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and tell us more um i will do yeah i'll do two uh
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if i'm talking to myself or
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if i'm banging onto myself in english i sometimes uh slip in to either irish like northern irish
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because my mum's Northern Irish Northern Irish fucking bastard so you are or Scottish
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depending on what I'm talking about there's not really a rule
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but sometimes yeah I'll slip into Northern Irish or Scottish okay
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if I'm doing English give a blast to the Scottish then
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let's say Scottish what were you doing you're just messing around trying to set up your recording stuff just yeah
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if I'm setting up it's more it's more
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it won't be like full sentences I'll be doing in those accents
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if I am It'll be like a burst of words or something You know, like if I don't know, if something's not working I'll just be like,
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you stupid bastard It's normally anger Yeah, it'll be a couple of words here and there Actually, there's a theme through this Yeah,
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it's anger When I slip into Irish, Scottish Or in French The other accent I do is Quebecois
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Where I'll swear in Quebecois Instead of French French Tabarnak Tabarnak de colis
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for me it sounds better than it does in French
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French swearing I don't find very funny it doesn't inspire Spanish I love
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Spanish swearing Spanish listeners Paul is about to
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break forth with some Spanish swearing be prepared Spanish swearing it's
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been a long time me cago en la pu me cago
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en tu puta madre joder joder tío lo que pasa es que estamos aquí
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Grabando un podcast Con Luke's English Podcast Muy bien, perfecto Me cago en tu puta madre It just sounds good Did you shit in the milk at any point there?
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No, I shit in your mother who's a whore
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Me cago is I shit En tu puta madre Is your mother who's a whore How do you physically do that?
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Shit inside my mother Oh, who by the way is a whore Yeah, so I thought about this The logistics about it I love
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the way it's tacked on i shit in your mother who
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oh addition in addition is a whore yeah thank you it's like your mother's a whore
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and i shit in her but i figured out logistically i mean if your mother is a whore
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then i can pay for her to
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so she gets money from this well she gets money uh
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because basically you you know i'd stop off at boulogne in in in paris
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which is renowned for where prostitutes hang out right
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and i would pay her i'd be like get in the van
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and uh some sexual stuff's gonna happen and
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when she's not expecting it i shit in her okay that's the only way
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that i can imagine being able because
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if i was just having tea around your mom's house it
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would be difficult for me to shit in her well it also added into the insult is the fact
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that she's a whore so that's already built into this scenario well yeah
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but the thing is if it was just me cago in tu madre
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if i shit in your mum i find
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that more of an of a difficult thing to do like i like props
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if you do that because i shit in your mother who's a whore you know if your
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if your sexual thing is to shit in people's mouths then
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you know some people like it i don't know why
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but anyway uh you know i have to say um we should move on you asked i have to say
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that we must move on you asked from talking about all right So Scottish, Irish, and Quebecois.
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Okay.
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Numbers.
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28. No, 26.
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You did that last time.
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I did it last time, didn't I?
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Sorry.
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All right.
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What about number nine?
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Number nine.
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Number nine.
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Okay.
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This one is random accent.
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Okay.
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And it says somewhere in Scotland, but you've done that.
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I've just done Scotland.
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Glasgow.
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Glasgow is just fucking rough.
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I can feel...
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What's that comedian coming through?
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Kevin Bridges.
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Yeah.
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Don't need your English bastard money.
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That's Michael McIntyre imitating Scotland.
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Let me roll through my mental roller deck of accents now and ask you to do something.
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Okay, let's see.
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I'd like to try and do New Zealand, which is difficult.
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New Zealand's really difficult It's funny I just watched an interview Yes Of
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Jacinda I don't know her last name The Prime Minister of
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New Zealand
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Interviewing Jimmy Carr Oh yeah Literally about an hour Before you
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arrived Jimmy Carr the comedian Jimmy Carr the comedian From England
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And so I've got the I've got the accent In my head
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But I just can't reproduce it Do you know what I mean?
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It's difficult You see if you try For me if I try
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and do Kiwi It becomes Australian If I try
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and do Australian It becomes It's the same thing yeah like
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if I was so this beer is called Brewdog Punk IPA
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and the thing says united we stand for better beer fiercely defiant and independent okay now
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I'm trying to do it myself in my head go on
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I can't do it I just if I was because again I slip into
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Australian Brewdog Punk IPA that's Australian united we stand no I can't do it it's United
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it's Paul imagine you're watching all of the DVD extras from
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the Lord of the Rings Lord of the Rings trilogy with Peter Peter Jixon oh that's good Peter Jixon
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and all of the people the good people at the Witter Workshop
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Witter not Wetter Wetter Workshop
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but they they call it the Witter Workshop I can't do
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it yeah you're better than me though still cold drink fresh Imagine you're watching an interview with Taika Waititi.
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I don't know who that is.
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You don't know who that is?
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Is that a rugby player?
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No, he's a director. Is he?
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He directed some of the Marvel films and Flight of the Conchords.
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Oh, okay.
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Fiercely defiant and independent.
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I can't do it.
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It's just Australian.
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Okay, you slipped almost into South African there, which is weird.
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We've talked about this before.
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It's because those three sound very...
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Something similar.
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I can do South African better.
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I can do Australian
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and South African New Zealand I can't do like South Africa
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would be like Brew Dug Punk IPA United with Stend for better beer fiercely defied and independent
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that's ish yeah it's better than my non -existent New Zealand
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I have to say it takes work getting the accents right
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and like me putting you on the spot is a little tricky
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but if you
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if I gave you you know a couple of hours to
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just watch loads of videos of yeah I would be able to do it You'd come back
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and you'd have nailed it Because you are good at those accents Yeah, what was I going to say?
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Oh shit, there was something I was going to say You were going to say a number, that's what you were going to say Maybe, yeah, there was something about accents Oh yeah, what's interesting is that For us,
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they sound different But for a lot of people who aren't English speakers They won't know the difference
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And I found this out when I did One of my happy hours with Nathaniel Drew Who's a YouTuber,
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he's American Yes, I know of him
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and we i did uh we did the somebody in the comments
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while we were live said can you imitate each other's accent like can
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so i pretend i pretended to be nathaniel
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and he pretended to be me uh
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and he's got like a really exaggerated english dick van dyke uh type of oh my bicycle yeah anyway uh
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and in the comments a lot of french people like i can't hear the difference between both of their things
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and it's so like it's a big difference but disappointing
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when people say that to me yeah
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but it's just the same as like in france you know
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it's difficult for us to tell the difference whether you're from alsace
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or you're from you know the north of france
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or whatever like the south is pretty easy for me to understand but the belgium switzerland
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alsace or i can't i can't distinguish the same thing as
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if like people in china obviously got different accents i could
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i couldn't tell you for me they would just sound to me chinese yeah
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because it's a language i don't understand it's interesting that
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that uh you know when you're listening to a foreign language
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that you're familiar with even it seems
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that we i guess we must focus on different things we're
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just like it's almost like um the uh what do you call it like the rainbow
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or all of the different colors what do you call
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that i can't remember like you know the spectrum spectrum exactly
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that uh in your native language for once yeah i have a word
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that you don't on this podcast yeah i don't think that's
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ever happened it's snoring me going what's the word in english how do you say
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that and i like spectrum of course
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but not this time there's a first time for everything
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so anyway in the in the same way that some people are able to see the entire spectrum of colors right tonight.
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hmm where am i going with this that um like
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if you're a native speaker of the language you're able to to hear the entire spectrum of of accents
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and everything uh for learners of english it's sort of like
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certain certain things are just not available to you like you
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can't pick up on uh things like little subtle changes in accent
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which for us are really significant you say that though
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but it's not only native i for me
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because there's a lot of americans
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that don't hear the difference between english australian new zealand and south african and that like it's
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the amount of times i've been to the u .s
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and i've been to a starbucks or something and somebody asks me
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if i'm australian yeah and then i go no
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and then they say are you south african i'm like no you know why
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because they because they're hearing english that isn't like jason staphon
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or it isn't the queen it's either you know for the americans we are either jason staph
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and charming yeah or we are hello yeah it's guy ritchie films yeah
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or or it's the royal family
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or the crown downton abbey the crown exactly see the guy ritchie
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or the crown or downton abbey up the apples
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and pears fucking hell do you know what i mean like
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basically hello hello yes either one of those two things whereas
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if you are anything else then they like uh are you
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australian are you where are you from are you from south africa yeah that's a good point actually but yeah
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so it's not it's not to do with being for me it's not to do with being native
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or not it's to do with the amount yeah it's to do with the spectrum
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that you grow up in
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and british people we grew up in a in a in a country where uh the spectrum is
461
so wide on such a small island on tv you hear
462
the different accents like you're we get brought up in the
463
mix with the scottish the northern irish the welsh the different parts of england whereas in the us
464
if you grow up in north carolina you're exposed to mostly on tv the standard american accent
465
and like the the the new york boston accent
466
but you don't get british tv over there
467
that much apart from james bond the crown guy ritchie it's just
468
that thing about in america where you know sometimes you hear
469
american people talking about the world all over the world
470
and they mean America you know like some American people think the world is America like America is the world
471
and oh yeah there are some other places too yeah
472
that speak other languages it's kind of a bit like that that's
473
you know yeah they don't necessarily get the same exposure to different types of English
474
that we do in England where we get all
475
so much American TV and films and things and
476
so we are a lot more familiar with I feel like we're a lot more familiar with their culture
477
and accents than they are with us yeah Although I also think that, you know, there's a lot that I don't know about American accents and things, too.
478
Yeah.
479
Okay, so that was number two.
480
Okay.
481
Yes.
482
Do number 40.
483
Number 40 coming up.
484
So, okay, as a comedian, someone who's got sort of online presence and all that stuff,
485
do you ever worry about getting cancelled?
486
That's a good question.
487
Maybe we should just explain what being cancelled or getting cancelled means.
488
Yeah, getting cancelled or cancel culture is this thing that's popped up in the past few years
489
because of the rise of social media,
490
etc. is where somebody will say something and it's a controversial thing that they've said and because of that,
491
then the Twitter takes them down.
492
Like, somebody on Twitter will be like, oh, look, I found this tweet from 10 years ago where somebody said a homophobic joke
493
And now he needs to not we need to cancel this person
494
Which means basically don't watch any of their shows take them
495
off Netflix take them like lose all their sponsorship deals It's not only for comedians, but like youtubers You know there's certain youtubers who?
496
Something's come up in there in in their videos
497
or in their careers or something and then they get cancelled They lose all their monetization.
498
It's like this very knee -jerk response I like the term knee jerk I don't even know where
499
that comes from When you jerk your knee
500
When you tap a certain part of your knee Your leg
501
jerks I thought it was like a knee jerk I think it's more like just a response
502
That people have without thinking That makes sense
503
It's like this automatic thing now As soon as somebody gets accused Now of anything
504
And it's still not proven They lose all of their things It'd be like this person's in this film franchise
505
and they're accused of sexual harassment bang they lose everything yeah
506
and it's they lose their job they lose their career they
507
lose all their opportunities yeah they lose their place in the industry and even
508
if it hasn't actually been proven that's the kind of scary
509
thing it's sort of like um vigilantism of sorts i mean
510
i think in some cases there's probably justification for it
511
but who knows we don't know there's no due process that's the that's yeah i Bye.
512
I'm not worried about it because I've done nothing wrong in the sense that, like, if, you know, if some sexual harassment had have happened in my,
513
you know, outside of comedy.
514
Because the thing is, is like, there's a comedian recently that went through it called Chris D 'Elia,
515
who, he got, it wasn't even accused because it was,
516
well, basically, a bunch of women came out saying that he had contacted them when they were underage.
517
in like a sexual way you know like people he like
518
he's good -looking young girls would come to his shows they would instagram him
519
and he would uh then reply to the messages
520
and be like oh like let's hang out whatever let's go whatever whatever the thing was
521
and so this came out like screenshots of these conversations came out and um
522
and he kind of got cancelled he for like a few months he's now back doing his youtube uh podcast
523
and stuff um but that's actually someone that's done something wrong
524
if you've done it
525
if you've it's not doing a joke about something wrong is not the same as doing the wrong thing yes
526
so someone like bill burr who's a comedian um in the
527
u .s he's he he his topics of jokes are very
528
controversial he is like uh he's very misogynistic in his jokes he's very
529
but it's it's on purpose you know like i don't think
530
he's not actually misogynistic like he doesn't beat his wife his
531
wife is a is an accomplished writer like they get on well together
532
And this is through having listened to his podcasts for years and seen, like, I don't know him personally, but you can kind of get a vibe for who he is.
533
And he's not, it's not just about beating people.
534
It's also about sort of the way you treat, the way he treats his wife.
535
And we know that he's totally reasonable with her and all those things.
536
Well, and there was a whole thing about him the other day because it was like Bill Burr is uncancellable.
537
Yeah.
538
Because he hosted the Grammy Awards.
539
I saw that.
540
And I can't remember the joke that he said, but it was something along the lines of,
541
you just wait until all these white women start complaining about the fact
542
that there's a white cis male presenting all these Latin American awards.
543
And so obviously all the white women on Twitter went crazy being like, thing is, he hasn't raped anyone.
544
He hasn't sexually harassed anyone
545
that we know of yet like it maybe it'll come out in like 10 years
546
but what i mean is is like you can't be cancelled
547
if you're just saying stuff about
548
and you're a comedian i don't think anyone's ever i don't think there's been a comedian that's been cancelled
549
because they've said a joke and well having said
550
that kevin hart lost his job at the oscars
551
because he made a homophobic joke 10 years ago years before um yeah
552
so but basically you don't worry about being no i don't worry about being cancelled
553
because i don't i mean maybe one day i'll make a joke
554
but if i make here's the thing if i make an inappropriate joke
555
and it doesn't go down well i'll just be like all right cool the joke didn't work
556
but it was a joke like i'm not i'm not seriously saying
557
that whatever the joke is do you know i mean i did think i do think about it though
558
because i did a video recently with uh uh the french kind of media company
559
that have a big online presence that a friend of ours works with
560
and i did a video about becoming a dad
561
and i was rinsing i was just like yeah it's shit whatever yeah i don't like it whatever
562
and then uh the guy asked like is there some funny parts to it though
563
and i was like actually it's funny you should ask
564
that there's a a video um a thing
565
that happened the other day where i showed a picture to
566
my baby of a friend of mine called adam uh who's one of my best friends in paris he's gay
567
and i showed the picture of him to louise
568
and I said Louise who's this what's his name and she took out a dummy and she went a gay gay
569
and yeah I'll play I'll play it I'll play the audio of it and
570
so I was telling by coincidence just by complete coincidence kids
571
say just sometimes they just say no she can't mean she can't speak properly yet so
572
that it's not like you've been going to Louise look him
573
gay gay okay gay gay gay you haven't been like teaching her no exactly uh
574
and so uh I sent the video to him he found it hilarious
575
and so it was it was kind of this thing
576
but i remember when i was telling the video i was telling
577
when i was telling the story whatever afterwards i was like oh
578
and then i watched the video back online i was like oh like people there could be some backlash against
579
that being like oh paul's homophobic he's teaching his daughter how to
580
or or even just just uh the fact
581
that your daughter pointed at a a guy and said gay gay
582
and this is a joke that the fact that we are
583
that the fact that your friend is gay is the point of the joke
584
which is what some people will take it as even though it's fine
585
because Adam himself finds this funny and it was just a coincidence yeah well and that's the thing like if he
586
He would not find it funny. Who wouldn't?
587
Adam.
588
What?
589
At no point was I like, oh, should I send it to him?
590
Because he might get offended by it, whatever.
591
I was just like, he's definitely going to find this funny.
592
So he would not not find it funny.
593
Yeah.
594
He would find it funny.
595
Because there's no malicious stuff behind it.
596
It's not like, do you know what I mean?
597
Let me play it.
598
It's just funny because little Louise.
599
I know.
600
Here's the...
601
What's his name?
602
It's like Adam found that yeah it's just and
603
and like we kept on asking her she kept on saying a gay a gay gay
604
and it's just it was just super funny anyway so I tell
605
that story on on this video and I was like I wonder
606
if I'm I wonder if I if I get any
607
if I'll get any backlash from it
608
or whatever um I didn't although maybe in the comments I did I don't know but
609
because it hasn't it didn't reach me do you know I
610
mean it's like a thing of this is a long conversation about the the cancel thing
611
but it's interesting I think like at what stage does do
612
you care what's being said about you on social media
613
and at what stage does it change actually what's going on
614
do you know I mean like for somebody I think for
615
also I'm not famous enough to be cancelled that's the other thing
616
and I think a lot of comedians aren't famous enough to
617
be cancelled most comedians are not famous enough to be cancelled there's maybe 10 comedians
618
that if they do something you're like oh you know um
619
so yeah but they're always you're always gonna it once you get
620
that famous you then have a fan base that do follow you
621
and kind of no matter what you do you might lose some of them
622
because of a of a joke that you've made or whatever
623
but the the majority of them as long as you're being
624
honest to yourself like they're still going to be you know they'll still support you
625
and still you know yeah watch your comedy as a comedian
626
you're always going to get a certain amount of negative reaction from people
627
and including you know there's always going to be some dislike in comment sections
628
and stuff like that but uh so when does that actually turn into
629
um the majority of people being you know finding something
630
that you've done unacceptable to the point where suddenly you are
631
not uh bankable as a as a performer in some way again yeah exactly
632
but um yeah but it's not something you need to worry about as you've said
633
because um yeah well
634
because right now like i'm i'm pretty independent like i'm doing my stuff on youtube
635
and my stuff on stage i've got my producer yeah
636
but she doesn't like if i
637
if she stopped working with me like i'd still be able
638
to book you know she just helps me do the job like i'd still be able to do it
639
so it's not it's not like i've got a multi -million dollar contract with disney
640
that all of a sudden would come to an end
641
if i said something outrageous yes okay well i'm glad we we've um dealt with that
642
do you worry about getting cancelled on your podcast no i don't think so no
643
i mean obviously i worry about sort of saying something that's without intending to be offensive
644
but then later realizing oh that
645
that could have been taken wrong you know obviously yeah i worry about those things
646
and there was that do you remember the time i'm gonna get dragged drag myself back into this
647
but i'll i'm not because i'm gonna handle it with with um deft
648
and and and care and attention there was that time
649
when i was talking about um some kind of funny toilet somewhere in the world
650
and it was in taiwan okay i don't remember the details of the thing the toilet
651
but it was like a toilet that played music or something
652
and it's like in taiwan
653
and i said oh it's gonna happen again i'm i'm gonna open the can of worms right here
654
and now but i will say if you feel motivated
655
if you feel moved to get in touch with me about
656
this to tell me to straighten me out on this subject don't okay
657
so the thing is i said taiwan was in china oh okay yeah
658
that it was part of china yeah
659
and then i was told no it's not part of china yeah
660
and then i apologized and said oh i said it was part of china
661
and it's not and then somebody
662
and then someone else said no it fucking is part of china
663
and then like you know and then i was like all right okay
664
and i still to this day get people writing to me going well i think
665
taiwan is
666
or is not part of china even now someone is going
667
i must inform him yeah of what's the i mean keep
668
it to yourselves yeah no i understand it's complicated we i know
669
because you know we've we've got Northern Ireland in our country yeah political stuff is a nightmare it's like Catalan,
670
Catalonia and Spain and if you're from Taiwan from China, wherever and you're dealing with your political stuff you won't give a shit about what's going on in Spain.
671
Do you know what I mean?
672
But, I mean, it's not that I don't give a shit.
673
It's more just that I don't have a...
674
It's nothing to do with me.
675
Yeah, it's not that you don't care.
676
It's just that we don't...
677
There's so much else going on that you can't keep up with everything everywhere in the world.
678
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
679
Unfortunately, it would be great to be able to know everything about everywhere
680
and know all of the political things about everywhere and not make a misstep about Israel, Palestine, about Taiwan, China,
681
about hong kong china about northern ireland catalonia about only like
682
it would be it would be amazing to not be able to misstep
683
but you you can only do
684
so much you know exactly this is fun isn't it folks as long as it's not ill -intentioned
685
and clearly you're not an ill -intentioned person no no exactly exactly
686
so if you you know
687
if you want to tell me about uh a country go
688
ahead anyway as far as i'm concerned we're all citizens of
689
lepland oh i love it lepland sorted it out at the end is
690
that kind of like a teletubby land it's a bit like
691
teletubby land except without the slightly dark weird post -apocalyptic vibe
692
that you get from teletubbies yeah it's weird isn't it yeah
693
do you know what we've only just started watching it
694
because uh now louise is is is is on cartoons yes
695
and so we're just watching whatever is on netflix or amazon and
696
so she just points to the screen i'm like what do
697
you want to watch she pointed to teletubbies one time now she loves it
698
but i'd forgotten there was like real stuff in there as in like it's all like teletubbies teletubbies
699
and then it goes it cuts away to like a video
700
thing of like real life it's not in the car I don't remember
701
that I mean I was too old for Teletubbies back then anyway
702
but not by a long way by a few years I
703
used to watch it at a university with my friends did you?
704
Teletubbies that must have been amazing watching that drunk
705
or high it was a very very weird show but not
706
because of the condition that we were in
707
because the show is objectively really really weird with a baby's face in the sun
708
that comes up and then at the end of the day these speakers come up
709
and say time for Tubby bye -bye and they all have to go underground
710
I have not we've not watched it to the end we
711
don't get to the end of anything it's like some Orwellian dystopian future where I don't know anyway
712
pick a number and hopefully it'll be guess the idiom so
713
that I didn't cart this book all the way here for no reason this extremely heavy book it's not really 18
714
18 18 guess the idiom Oh, come on!
715
Actually, it was guess the punchline, but we're not doing that.
716
We're going to guess the idiom instead.
717
Okay, okay.
718
As I just sort of flick through some pages in the idiom dictionary, let's see what we find.
719
Okay.
720
Okay.
721
When you want something to be done quickly, you might say this.
722
Like, get me another beer and...
723
And step on it.
724
That's good, but it's not right.
725
Step on it like you're in a car.
726
Vroom, vroom, vroom step on it
727
and get on with it no it's not really for me
728
it's it's it's connected to on the double on the double is good think of crocodiles get me another beer and
729
snap imagine this you said get me a crocodile and and make it
730
make it snappy there you go oh make it snappy okay ever heard
731
that joke get me a crocodile and make it snappy no
732
okay well there's a first time for everything as we've already established.
733
Do you want another one?
734
Yeah, go on.
735
Okay, this one is when you want someone to be quiet, stop talking or to stop making noise.
736
Shut up.
737
It's good, but it's not right.
738
It refers to an item of clothing that you might wear on your foot.
739
Think of the things that you put on your feet.
740
Socks.
741
Socks.
742
Sandals.
743
Socks.
744
Put a sock in it.
745
Put a sock in it.
746
Yes.
747
It's good, isn't it, that?
748
I like it put a sock in it yeah
749
because it's very visual it's like literally put a sock in your mouth
750
and that will stop you from talking and I think in films they do
751
that and they put tape over the top of it
752
right in films they do sticks like the bad guys stick a sock
753
or some piece of cloth in your mouth and stick a tape over it oh
754
awful
755
but apparently the origin of this expression may refer to early
756
gramophones you know those old record players yeah where you'd put the needle on
757
and there was like a big speaker yeah
758
and the sound would come out of the metal cone for anyone watching this episode
759
that was a very funny moment where Luke tried to do he's holding a book in one hand the idioms book,
760
he's holding a microphone in the other hand and at some point he tried to use a third hand to explain something,
761
realised he didn't have three hands and then put the book and the microphone it probably sounded weird as well anyway, go watch the video I don't know.
762
So those old gramophones, they didn't have volume controls on them because it was very simple.
763
There was no electricity either.
764
Of course, yeah.
765
It was just a needle and then the vibration
766
that was the sound would be amplified through the cone shape of the gramophone.
767
Exactly.
768
And so to turn the volume down, what would you do?
769
You'd put a sock in it.
770
Put a sock in it.
771
No way.
772
Literally put a sock inside the cone of the gramophone and that would mute the sound.
773
Interesting.
774
Put a sock in it.
775
Put a sock in it.
776
Yeah, I guess they do that for like trumpets and brass, you know, like they put a sock, but like a rubber thing in the end.
777
Well, I think like a muffler.
778
I think also it would refer to trumpets as well, that you could mute or, you know, deaden the sound of a trumpet by putting a sock in it.
779
So there you go.
780
So I think, Paul, maybe we should put a sock in it now.
781
Oh, look at the transition.
782
Yeah.
783
Okay.
784
Well, listeners, I hope you enjoyed that.
785
we veered into quite serious territory we did
786
but we came out of it we did we survived do
787
you feel like we survived maybe we'll get cancelled we're going
788
to get cancelled now maybe in two weeks I'll receive a
789
bunch of tweets I'll be like oh no what happened there'll
790
be news all over French news Paul Taylor said something outrageous on Luke's English podcast
791
but none of us understood it so he's not cancelled
792
there's the Russians who are going to complain about your accent
793
the Taiwanese who are going to go mental the people of
794
New Zealand are going to be very offended yeah south africans
795
as well south africans taiwanese scottish people northern ireland yeah spain
796
and catalonia god my mum don't forget the the terrible things we said about my mum oh yeah yeah
797
that'll be the thing most people i can't believe the things
798
you said about luke thompson's mum yeah that's uh there's a
799
lot of people to be mad at us at this episode and it's only 47 minutes long
800
yes right here's what we're going to do now first of all we're going to tell them
801
that they can they will be able to watch now
802
Paul Taylor's Happy Hour Live which is on Paul Taylor's YouTube channel
803
which is called Paul Taylor it's called Paul Taylor's Happy Hour Live yeah I created a new YouTube channel
804
so there's Paul Taylor on YouTube and there's Paul Taylor's Happy Hour Live on YouTube go there and you'll find probably
805
oh that was that's the one hour oh we've got one hour until we go live
806
so you'll find it anyway also i'll put on the the page for this episode on my website
807
and also you'll find the link to that video in the description for this
808
if you want to see more of us talking crap together
809
although you're going to be the host for this one
810
and uh i will be uh subject to your for the happy hour live yeah well
811
and the cool thing is is uh happy hour live not
812
that again i what we said this i think last time is
813
that uh it's the audience asks us questions
814
and i'm like the moderator of the questions um but sometimes not
815
but the thing is i would say watch it live
816
because then you can ask luke something live
817
but you won't be able to watch it live
818
because even though it's happening in the future for us it happened in the past for you yeah
819
but you can still watch it later you can watch it after the live yeah
820
so definitely watch it anyway check the links
821
and stuff you'll find the video there and also
822
if you want to you know page the page page for
823
this episode on my website you'll find it there as well
824
um uh i think that's it i think the other thing
825
is we need to order some food we do what you
826
want to get um uh any ideas i there's two things
827
that why you sound excited about something
828
that i was going to suggest i was going to suggest something go on i was going to suggest
829
that we get a bibimbap a bibimbap i don't know what
830
that is but it sounds amazing it's is it like um burgers
831
but uh asian uh asian yes uh is
832
that the name of the restaurant or is
833
that a type of food type of food
834
so i want to shout give a shout out to all
835
the korean lebsters in the house how do you spell it bibim so search for bibim house b -i -b
836
B -I -B -M B -I -B -M B -I hold on B -I -B -I -M B -A -P
837
no no just B sorry Bibim and then the word house
838
Bibim House is the restaurant
839
and they don't deliver to here we couldn't find anything for Bibim House it's
840
because it's too far away from where you
841
opening Bibim Baps opening later Bibim
842
but bibimbap is a korean food it's a type of korean food okay
843
so i want to give a shout out to my korean list you know well
844
because the other thing i was going to suggest was korean fried chicken oh well fine
845
because i korean because a korean fried chicken place yeah uh
846
which is amazing but we can i'm up for bibimbap
847
because i always have korean fried chicken um okay
848
so shout out for to shout out to the shout out to the korean koreans thank you for inventing korean food
849
including bibimbap and anything else that comes from uh korea
850
so thank you very much for that
851
so the only people who will be happy uh the only nation
852
or culture uh
853
that will not want to cancel us will be the koreans unless we somehow pronounced bibimbap wrong
854
and then there'll be unhappy yeah we the way you pronounced it means your mother's a whore who's
855
and now you've just insulted everyone in korea's mums all right
856
well anyway we're gonna chow down on some nice korean food
857
uh thank you very much for listening to this episode
858
and for watching the video if indeed you have been watching it and
859
if you made it all the way to the end of
860
this video then well done you are brilliant thank you
861
so much because you know youtube metrics suggest
862
that you stopped watching this about 40 minutes ago so
863
if you're still watching then you are you're one of the good ones you're not one of those
864
but you know what that you know what the reason is is
865
because they watch it and then they hit pause
866
and then they go and make a coffee and they come back
867
and you're like some bibimbap and go
868
and eat some bibimbap go on to twitter
869
and go you need to cancel luke and paul then come back to it
870
and then okay all right well in any case have a lovely day morning afternoon evening
871
or night and i will speak to you soon ladies
872
and gentlemen of luke's podcast thank you for having me thanks for listening to me again this is always a pleasure
873
yes indeed okay well bye -bye everyone you want to say
874
bye -bye yeah i i normally you do the bye bye -bye
875
or have you stopped doing that no i know i keep doing you keep doing
876
that i'll get cancelled if i stop doing
877
that thank you very much everyone speak to you again on the podcast soon
878
but for now it's time to say goodbye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 878 sentences and 9816 words to shadow. The speech runs for 51:36. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| cancel verb | /ˈkæn.sl̩/ | To cross out something with lines etc. |
| 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… |
| sock noun | /sɑk/ | A knitted or woven covering for the foot. |
| comedian noun | /kəˈmiː.di.ən/ | An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes. |
| luke adjective | /l(j)uːk/ | lukewarm |
| listener noun | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. |
| spectrum noun | /ˈspɛktɹəm/ | A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes. |
| amber noun | /ˈæm.bəː/ | A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and… |
| shout verb | /ʃaʊt/ | To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc. |
| knee noun | /ni/ | In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. |
| slip verb | /ˈslɪp/ | To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction. |
| cheers | /t͡ʃɪəz/ | A common toast used when drinking in company. |
| inappropriate adjective | /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/ | Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place. |
| refer verb | /ɹɪˈfɜː/ | To direct the attention of (someone toward something). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come out in verb | to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body) | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
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 am It'll be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've already done · i've just said · have recorded |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are trapped · is edited · been cancelled |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | idiom which is · beers, which is · Zealand, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 327 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, backlash /ˈbækˌlæʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, homophobic /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊ.bɪk/
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 accent, cancel, podcast.
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.