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all right welcome back to
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that channel where you improve your english you get an english exposure you learn
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and practice and get an opportunity to listen to realistic english
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and to practice imitating me and you don't die of boredom
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because what is up with those robotic boring teachers i don't know about you
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but i don't want none of that i don't want any of that that's the grammatically correct way.
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I don't want any of that.
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Get out of here.
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I didn't learn Spanish by watching boring robotic teachers.
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Okay.
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Welcome back to the channel where I just talk nonsense.
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I just talk nonsense.
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I just word vomit.
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It's a real expression.
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Okay.
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I didn't make that up.
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Word vomit all over the video and you just soak it up
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and your brain is soaking it up and it's happening and you're doing it.
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You're doing the damn thing and you're doing a good job at it.
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So keep doing it.
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We're back with another installment of what did my aunt tell me in a WhatsApp message that was 24 minutes long.
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If you haven't seen the first part, what are you doing?
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Watch my videos.
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What the hell, man?
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Go back and watch my videos.
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It was like two videos ago.
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Come on, catch up.
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Mustard.
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That was a joke.
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This is the part two of that video.
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So basically what I did is I took clips of my aunt's audio message to share with you.
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And then we're going to go through it.
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We're gonna break it down gonna break it down gonna talk about it we're gonna analyze it
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and you're gonna learn stuff all right sound good hell yeah let's go
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this is the first clip she's just talking to me about
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different family members she's just giving me the updates about what's
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going on in the family for context for context enjoy john is good nothing new really
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or different with his work he still wonders about
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when to retire on a daily basis
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it's like you know those decisions like it's it's a tough
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one to make though um like to be financially feeling financially secure
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but also knowing that you can't buy back time so like
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if you can do it do it and enjoy your life
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and i don't know he'll he'll figure it out
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but um natalie is good she's has the flexibility to be remote at times
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but she's supposed to be in the office a certain percentage of the time she seems to be remote more than not. But she's an adult.
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We're trying to stay out of it.
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God, that's freaking hard.
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But anyway, so otherwise she's fine.
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Ty was just here for a night.
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He's back at school and trying to finish up.
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He has credits to graduate early, so he's going to graduate in december and then head to dc
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and hopefully work on capitol hill for a bit um i know his long -term plan is law school
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so i don't know if
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but most i think most most people don't go directly to law school they do some type of experiential work
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that helps to make them a better candidate for law school
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i don't know anyway he's gonna he's hoping to work on capitol hill for a
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while all right welcome back how was
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that on a scale of one to ten tell me in the comments how easy
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or difficult 10 being the most difficult wait 10 yeah 10
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being the most difficult one being the easiest how was the
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first audio clip for you what i'm trying to show you is
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that it's pretty simple i mean the way
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that my aunt talks i mean standard american english
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when we're just relaxed and we're half asleep in bed and what even when we're not half asleep we're just relaxed.
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We're just chilling.
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We're just low anxiety, just living life, talking about stuff for a while.
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It's not that hard.
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You know, it's pretty simple.
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It's pretty basic.
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It's pretty easy to follow.
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And remember, I made these clips so much faster than they really were.
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I cut out a lot of silence.
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So in real life, she was actually speaking a lot slower.
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Okay.
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So let's analyze it.
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All right.
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John is good.
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She's talking about her husband, my uncle, John.
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John is good.
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Nothing and really new or different with his work.
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He still wonders about when to retire on a daily basis.
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This is a common phrase on a daily basis, on a daily basis.
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It's like, you know, regularly daily.
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It's like saying daily on a daily basis, daily, like basically every day.
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He wonders about this.
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He thinks about this, like, huh, I wonder when I should retire.
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I'm thinking about when I should retire.
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He thinks about that like every day on a daily basis.
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It's like, you know, one of those decisions like it's a tough one to make though like it's a tough decision
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it's a hard decision it's a tough one it's a tough one
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it's a tough decision to make be careful with
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that a lot of students say take a decision
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because they're translating from their native language looking at you spanish speakers
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it's not take it's make in english we say make a decision make
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it you need to like create it not take it create it like make it make the decision happen make it happen
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It's a tough decision to make when to retire.
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Yeah, like to be financially, feeling financially secure.
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My aunt and uncle are quite privileged.
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A lot of people don't even really even have the opportunity to retire because they don't have that financial security.
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So some people have to pretty much work until they die.
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And that's the unfortunate reality of the world.
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And it sucks and it's stupid.
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Yes, my aunt and uncle fortunately don't have to because of the position they're in.
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But they are people who are very concerned with financial security.
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And even though they could retire now and they'd be fine, they are used to or hoping for a certain standard of living.
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And they want to make sure that it's comfortable enough for them.
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You know, they're the type of people that they could have a lot of money, but they feel like it's not enough.
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You know, like I don't feel totally comfortable.
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It's kind of like never enough, you know, in the human mind.
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But so she's just talking about how John is thinking about how he wants to feel financially secure,
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but also keeping in mind the fact that you can't buy back time.
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All of these years that you're working, yeah, you want to be financially secure, but also you're not getting any younger.
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Money can buy a lot of things, a lot of things, but you can't buy back time.
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You can't buy your time to get it back.
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That's what it means, buy back time.
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It's like to buy your time to get it back.
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Can't buy it back.
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Buy it back.
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You can't buy time.
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I mean, once it's gone, it's gone.
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So that's an important thing to consider.
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This is more how I think.
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This is why I don't do a lot of work.
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A lot of people see me, oh, you're a YouTuber.
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Oh, you're influencer.
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Oh, you're a content creator.
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Oh, you must do a lot of work.
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I don't.
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Honestly, I don't.
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I do the minimum.
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That's why you see there's not a lot of complex editing in my videos.
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There's not a lot going on.
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I do the bare minimum
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that I need to for my job to work for it to happen so I can make money.
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But I really do not do that much intentionally because I don't like to work, which is normal.
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Most people don't, but I have such a strong aversion to work and I would rather make less money.
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I'd rather have more free time than work.
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My aunt and uncle are not really those kind of people.
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They would rather work than have less money.
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And I don't even know what they're going to do when they retire and have all this free time.
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Honestly, I don't even know what they're going to do anyway.
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So that's, that's what she's talking about here.
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So like, if you can do it, do it and enjoy your life.
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And I don't know, he'll figure it out.
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He'll figure it out when, when he's thinking about when he's going to retire, he doesn't know he'll figure it out.
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He'll figure it out.
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Don't worry about it.
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Um, Natalie is good.
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So talking about her daughter, Natalie, my cousin, Natalie, she has the flexibility to be remote at times
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so with her job you know
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she has the flexibility with her job to be to be remote to work remotely at times
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but she's supposed to be in the office a certain percentage of the time
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she seems to be remote more than not she seems to be remote more than not
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and my aunt said this in a kind of way like she seems like she's mostly working remotely
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and I think maybe she's supposed to work more in the office, but she's not going and doing it.
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My aunt doesn't know what's going on with that.
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She's a little suspicious.
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She's a little suspicious of Natalie, but I am like, Natalie, hell yeah.
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You work remote is just as much as you can get away with.
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Who wants to go into the office?
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The office, it's like, it's even, it's in a different city.
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Like it's in a different town.
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Like she's got to drive there.
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She's got to get all, you know, dressed for the day.
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She's got drive there, like just stay at home.
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So, but she's an adult.
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So this is my aunt kind of grappling with the idea, kind of like accepting the fact that now Natalie is an adult.
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And even though most of her life, she was a child and, you know, as her mother, my aunt Angela kind of,
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you know, it was her job to be like, you know, making sure she's doing the right thing.
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But now that Natalie is an adult, she's a young adult.
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She's only, she just graduated college.
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She's only like 22 my aunt has to accept that
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and give her space and like accept
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that like she's gonna do what she's gonna do
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and it's not really your place anymore to like tell her
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what to do like this is on her now you know she's an adult
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so we're trying to stay out of it we're trying to stay out of it trying not to get involved
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but god that's freaking hard god
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that's freaking hard uh freaking is just like a nice way of saying fucking oh that's fucking hard
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but you know freaking is like the um you know more uh friendly version not not vanity you know
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but god that's freaking hard so Angela's just saying you know she's an adult now
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and so I gotta stay out of it
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but god that's hard you know she wants to get involved
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and be like Natalie you gotta go to the office um but anyway way
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So otherwise, she's fine.
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So otherwise, you know, in general, regardless, despite all that, whatever, she's fine.
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Ty was just here for a night.
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So Ty is Natalie's boyfriend.
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Ty was just here for a night.
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He's back at school and trying to finish up.
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He has credits to graduate early.
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So he's going to graduate in December.
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So you get credits for the classes that you take in college, in university.
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He has enough credits to graduate early.
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So he's going to graduate in December instead of like May or whenever the year ends.
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So he's going to graduate after this semester and then head to D .C.
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I think his family lives in D .C and in the capital of the country.
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I think that's why and hopefully work on Capitol Hill for a bit.
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So Capitol Hill is like a government.
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No, what is it?
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It's a neighborhood.
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It's a neighborhood, I think, that has some governmental buildings in it.
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I don't know.
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I really don't know.
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And I don't care.
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But yeah, it's just some prominent neighborhood in D .C.
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It's a famous neighborhood in D .C.
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that I don't really know about.
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But yeah, so he's going to hopefully work there.
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I don't know.
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I guess he has family there.
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I don't know how he's going to work there.
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I really don't know anything about Ty.
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I've never even met him.
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I don't live in the United States and I come back to visit very rarely and I've never met Ty.
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So I don't really know about this, but I think he maybe has some connections there.
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I know his long -term plan is law school.
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Okay, his long -term plan is law school.
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He wants to be a lawyer, I guess.
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So I don't know if, and then she trails off.
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She trails off.
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It's like she starts talking and then she stops talking and then she starts a new thing.
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And then, you know, but most, I think most, most people don't, you know, she's trying to find the words.
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Most, I think most, most people don't go directly to law school.
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They do some type of experiential work.
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Experiential, I guess.
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Yeah.
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I'm a little confused because there's also the word experimental, but this is different.
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Experiential work.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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I've never used this word in my life, but you know, just to gain more experience, work to gain experience.
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They do some kind of experiential work that helps to make them a better candidate for law school, you know, to apply.
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So if you if you get some work experience before you apply to law school, you're more likely to get accepted.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, he's gonna he's hoping to work on Capitol Hill for a while.
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Yeah, I don't really know why it's work on Capitol Hill and not in if it's a neighborhood.
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I don't really know.
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I don't really understand this part, like because i don't know about this place um
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but it doesn't matter you know native speakers we don't understand like everything
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because we don't always know what people are talking about you know what i mean
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but that's okay it's normal
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but it doesn't matter it's like i get the general idea
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it's gonna go work in dc whatever yeah
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i guess he's gonna have a bit of a long distance relationship with natalie my cousin
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i guess she goes to visit him a bunch and she can work remotely most of the time remember
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So I guess they're going to make it work.
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But yeah, so that was the first audio message.
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And let's listen now to the second one.
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Let's see.
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That's Natalie.
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Lindsay.
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Lindsay is okay right now.
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She's been struggling big time with just a bunch of things.
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Her anxiety levels are kind of ramped up right now.
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I think it's just the whole thing about, I may have already told you this sorry if I have
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but I think just um just that realization
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that at the moment like this is her life right now
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that she's working Monday through Friday she's working long days
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you know there's no long
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there's no like end to the internship at the end of
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the summer where she goes back to school to see friends
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and have a looser schedule and blah blah blah I think that coming to grips with Her reality has been a challenge,
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but then you kind of superimpose her anxiety issues on that.
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And she's been struggling a bit, but she'll get there.
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And I told her, you know, sometimes working like this is a means to an end, though.
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Like, you need to get some experience, you need to earn some money,
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you need to be able to fund things that you want to be able to do.
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And maybe that means I think she'd like to own her own business one day.
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I don't know what that would be or whatever, but you need to walk before you run.
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So this doesn't mean that this is the job you're going to be in for the rest of your life.
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Life is too short to hate what you're doing.
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I don't know if she hates it.
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I don't think that's the issue so much as
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just grasping the reality of I got to get up every morning and go to work.
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All right.
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So this one is all about my other cousin, Lindsay.
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So Angela, my aunt Angela has twin daughters, Natalie and Lindsay.
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So this is about the other twin, Lindsay, who has a different life.
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Let's see.
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That's Natalie.
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Lindsay, Lindsay is okay right now.
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So okay is like, it's not really good.
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It's not really bad.
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It's like, eh, she's okay.
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She's all right.
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She's okay.
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But eh, you know, in the middle.
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She's been struggling big time.
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This is a great expression.
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This is great.
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I love that she said this.
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This reminds me of my family.
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This reminds me of my grandma.
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My mom big time is like a lot.
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It's just, it's just a way of saying a lot.
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And it's something that I heard mostly from my fam, my mother's family.
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I don't know how common it is in the United States.
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Like there must be a lot of people that say it somewhere.
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I really don't know how common it is because it's something
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that I've rarely heard in movies and shows and YouTube videos and social media.
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Like I've rarely heard this outside of my mom's family, but I know they, they didn't make it up.
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So it must exist.
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But anyway, big time, it just, it's just a way of saying a lot.
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So she's been struggling big time.
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She's been struggling a lot, a lot.
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If you don't know the word struggle, you need to know this verb.
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It's like to, it's hard to explain, but it's like to be going through a hard time, to be having a hard time with something.
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Like, oh, I'm struggling with life.
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I'm having a hard time doing stuff, doing everything that I want to do.
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There's a lot, you know, weighing me down.
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There's a lot going on.
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I'm overwhelmed or whatever.
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Struggling.
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But you could use it in any case, basically, when you would use having a hard time.
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That's also another expression, to have a hard time with something.
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So many students, because they're translating from Spanish or Portuguese, they go, I'm having difficulty.
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Or sometimes they even say it wrong and they say, I'm having difficult.
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And I have to explain to them that having difficulty with something like it exists, but it's not as common as other phrases,
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but it's definitely wrong to say have difficult.
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So many Brazilians say that I'm having, I have difficult.
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Difficult is not difficulty.
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There's separate words.
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You got to learn the difference there.
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But anyways, it's much more common to say that I'm having a hard time with something.
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Something is hard for me.
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Something is difficult for me.
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I'm having a hard time.
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I'm struggling.
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That's way more common.
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So she's been struggling big time with just a bunch of things.
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So just a lot, a lot of things, a bunch of things.
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Her anxiety levels are kind of ramped up right now, ramped up.
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So you see how, even if you don't understand ramped up, you can kind of get it based on the context.
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Like you can kind of understand the point
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there her anxiety levels are kind of ramped up ramped up right
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now I think it's just the whole thing about
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and I may have already told you this may have already told you this says
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I might have I might have already told you this I
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may have I may have already told you this sorry
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if I have but I think just um just the realization
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that at the moment like this is her life right now
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that she's working Monday through Friday she's working long days you know there's no long, there's no like end to the internship,
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internship, sorry, in the internship at the end of the summer.
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So the job that she has right now, she had an internship for a couple years, I think, or at least one year,
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I don't know where she worked.
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I don't know if it was the same job, but it was like the same building, same kind of work environment thing.
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She had that as like a summer internship when she was in college.
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So between her semesters in college, like on summer break, she had this internship and it was okay because it was short term.
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And she knew at the end of the summer, she'd go back to school.
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The internship would end and she'd go back to college and her life would go back to the way it was.
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But now she accepted this job and there is no more college.
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She already graduated.
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So there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
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There's no end to the internship there's no end to the summer well there's an end to the summer
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but not to the job at the end of the summer
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so this is just gonna it's just gonna keep going it's it's not ending
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so she's coming to the realization
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that oh I'm an adult now I have a I have an adult job
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I work all year Monday through Friday all day long
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it's not gonna end holy shit I had this realization even before I graduated college
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which is why I didn't graduate and I basically ran away
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and I I went to go live in the Amazon because I was like, I could see this.
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I foresaw this.
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I predicted my life being like this, just getting some job and then just being like, oh my God, this is my life now.
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And just working in an office and just every day forever.
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And it's not necessarily forever.
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You can always change jobs or whatever.
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But it's just kind of this realization that, yep, this is like...
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my adult life now and there's no there's no end to it
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because when you're a kid it's always like okay there's the end to the school year
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and then you go to the next level and the next level
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and you're always looking forward to graduation and then you go to college
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and you're looking forward to graduation and there's you know
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and there's also much more of a social life
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when you're in school you have this constant social life you know you're all with your friends
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and whatever you're with a bunch of people your age
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and stuff and it feels like i don't know we're in this group together.
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But then when you have an adult job
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and you're all on your own and you're just kind of doing the independent adult thing, it's like a big shock.
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It's like a big lifestyle shock compared to what you had before.
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And so that's what Lindsay is dealing with right now.
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And that's a perfectly normal thing that a lot of people deal with.
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And some people, they look deeper into that and they realize like, you know what, this is like not how I want to live my life.
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This is not how life is meant to be lived and they go do something totally different and crazy like I did.
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Some people just kind of suck it up and just just do it.
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You know, they do what they need to do to just cope with it.
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And they're just like, this is life.
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Some people just really don't have a choice.
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I mean, they just feel like I what else am I going to do?
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I have no options.
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You know, I got to make money.
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My situation is difficult.
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Situation is difficult in my country or whatever.
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Like people deal with this feeling in different ways.
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But I think a lot of people go through this just like,
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fuck this is what i'm going to be slaving away at for the next multiple decades several decades like yikes
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and basically what i responded to her with what i told
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angela in my response in my message to her was like i totally get
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this feeling i totally understand exactly like what she's going through
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and i think a lot of people do too and yeah there's a big problem with human society in the,
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you know, the system, the way that jobs are, the work -life balance is horrible.
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The balance between like personal life and work is just, it's all out of whack.
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But in general, human beings, I firmly believe that, you know, human beings, obviously we have to do a certain level of work.
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I mean, if we all grew our own food on farms and we would have to do work,
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but it's not supposed to be so monotonous and so constant and so much really,
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you know, and I've lived on a farm and I've grown food and I know what that's like.
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And I still believe this.
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I still believe that the nine to five Monday through Friday sitting in an office, it's not like, you know, we have to work.
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We have to do something.
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We can't just like do absolutely nothing to, you know survive on this planet but it definitely doesn't have to be
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so soul killing as it is the way the system is the way a lot of jobs are nowadays
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it does not have to be
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that soul killing it could be a million times better
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and we could still get everything done
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that we need to get done we could still have comfortable lives
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but it would basically take a lot of restructuring of society.
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And then also just just basic like workers rights that are not even basically in existence in the United States.
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But anyways, this is a complex topic.
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This is a lot.
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But I'm getting into like I'm taking this to a deeper place right now.
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But what I'm trying to say is just that it's not that people waking up to this don't want to work.
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It's not even that we don't want to work hard.
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It's just that so many jobs that we have now are just so like anti -human.
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It's like they were designed for machines, basically, not for human beings.
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And the same thing with the school system.
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And anyways, that's a whole rabbit hole.
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I didn't know I was going to go down, but I mean, I didn't even really go down it.
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I just kind of talked about it in a very brief way.
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But anyways, these are kind of the thoughts that come up when I think about this stuff.
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So continuing with what my aunt was saying, there's no end to the internship at the end of the
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summer where she goes back to school to see friends
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and have a looser schedule yeah that's the thing that's what I love about my job is
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that I create my schedule and the same thing
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when I lived on a farm is that I could choose
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when I wanted to do farm work
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and that's that's one of one of the things
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that I'm talking about when I say like these jobs are
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so anti -human nowadays it's
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because well not just nowadays I mean it's been like this for a
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while but I think human beings when we can kind of choose
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when we want to do the work
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or we can kind of have more flexibility or it's not always the same every day.
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Like we can kind of switch it up.
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We can change it up.
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I feel like that's much more of a human way to approach work, you know, than the nine to five Monday through Friday,
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you know, it's like, that's so robotic.
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So that's one of the reasons, you know, she preferred to be in college because the schedule is looser.
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The classes are more like at random times.
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You have big breaks in between it's just
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Yeah, college is a nice, relaxed, looser schedule, but you're still being productive.
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Like you're still getting work done.
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You're still learning things, studying, whatever, but in a better schedule.
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You know what I mean?
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And it's just more interesting because you got classes about different topics and stuff.
457
I'm sure her current job is not that interesting compared to that.
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It's probably about the same thing like all the time, basically.
459
And my aunt says to see friends and have a looser schedule and blah, blah, blah.
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I think that coming to grips with her reality, coming to grips, like realizing it, facing it, confronting it, it's been a challenge.
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But then you kind of superimpose her anxiety issues.
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OK, so it doesn't matter if you don't know superimpose, but you can kind of understand based on the context that,
463
OK, so she's struggling with coming to grips with the reality of her work life.
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And then you superimpose her anxiety level.
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So you put that on top of it or you add that to the mix and then, you know, that's a lot.
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It's a lot.
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Anxiety plus to come into grips with reality.
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She's been struggling a bit, but she'll get there.
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Angela says she'll get there.
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She'll be all right.
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She'll get used to it or she'll figure it out or whatever.
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And I told her, you know, sometimes working like this is a means to an end.
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So this is an expression that my aunt loves.
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My aunt always uses this expression.
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It's a means to an end.
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It's like a way to get to the end when Lindsay didn't like school and when I didn't like school,
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she said, oh, it's a means to an end.
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She told me this when I told her I'm going to drop out of college
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when I was in college and I said, I'm going to leave.
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I'm not going to graduate.
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She said, well, it's a means to an end.
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And now she's telling Lindsay this with her job.
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It's a means to an end.
484
In this case, I don't think Angela means it's a means to an end, like it's a means to retirement and dying.
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I don't think she means like it's a it's a way to get to retirement
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I think she means well she's going to explain it
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but it's just like a way to get some experience basically
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but I don't always agree with Angela using
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this like I I don't really agree with like yes
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you you kind of have to try things out first to give it a chance try
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it out maybe get some experience you know figure out everything is a learning experience in life
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but if you if you always stay in things
493
that you don't like by thinking like oh
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it's just a means to an end it's just like it's just a way to get to the next point
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so stick it out
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so stay with it i don't think that's really a good mentality to have i think
497
if something in you is telling
498
you to get the hell out of there i think
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you should you know what i mean like i think
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there's a reason why i guess it all depends on the situation you know
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but yeah she says you need to get some experience
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you need to earn some money it's true you need to be able to fund things
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that you want to be able to do.
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So fund, like pay for, need to be able to pay for things that you want to be able to do.
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And maybe that means I think she'd like to own her own business one day.
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So she thinks Lindsay would like to own her own business.
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I don't know what that would be or whatever, but you need to walk before you run.
508
You need to walk before you run.
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Yeah.
510
I mean, is it good to get some more life experience before going on to next level things.
511
Yeah, sure.
512
Also, she's super young.
513
She's 22 years old.
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You know what I mean?
515
There's so, so much time to, I mean, people change their lives and reinvent themselves when they're 50.
516
People start new businesses that become successful when they're 50.
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Like, you know, there's no rush.
518
Like she's like, she's a baby, you know, she's just getting some experience.
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And I see that from one perspective, it's not that deep.
520
But on the other hand, if you're waking up every day, hating your life.
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For me personally, that's not sustainable.
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I got to get the hell out of there.
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That's me.
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That's me.
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And people have different limits, I guess, where they, something in them just clicks, switches, and they're like, hell no,
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I got to get out of here.
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I have a low tolerance.
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It's true.
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I have a low tolerance for things that I don't want to do, things that piss me off.
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I hate to be like trapped in things.
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I hate commitments that I don't really want.
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But as I get older
533
and I look back would I have dropped out of college the way
534
that I did I don't know I don't know
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if I would have if I could go back
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and do it with what I know now but I think
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if I could go back
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and do it with what I know
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now I would have chosen something totally different anyway I think
540
I would have gone to a different school
541
I would have had a different major I would you know like everything would have been different
542
so it's useless to play that game of what would you do
543
if you could go back knowing what you know
544
now the reality is you're just you're living things for the first time in the moment
545
and you just got to go with your gut feeling
546
and that's all I've ever done is just go with my gut feeling with what I feel in my gut
547
you know in my my intestines so yeah that's what I've always done
548
and um it well it turned out good for me
549
but it's true Angela has a point you need to walk before you run I don't know this doesn't mean
550
that this is going to be the job this is the job
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that you're going to be and for the rest of your life.
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Yeah.
553
And that's important to remember.
554
She needs to know that she's not stuck there forever.
555
Life is too short to hate what you're doing.
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Yeah.
557
Personally, I would say also life is too short to even not like what you're doing, even if you don't hate it,
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but you don't like it.
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I don't know.
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Life is too short for that too, but I don't know.
561
I speak from a privileged place also.
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It's a lot of people just, they don't have so many options of enjoyable jobs.
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I don't know if she hates it, she says.
564
I don't think that's the issue
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so much as just grasping the reality of I got to get up every morning and go to work.
566
All right.
567
So that's what Angela said about Lindsay.
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This turned into longer than I thought.
569
I only got two audio clips because I just talked a lot about that one, that last one. So whatever.
570
No problem.
571
I got like four more of those audio clips.
572
So I'm going to have to make more videos where we go through this, where we analyze my aunt's audio messages.
573
You guys seem to love it.
574
I love it too. So great.
575
And you know what?
576
My aunt just sent me another one.
577
She just sent me a 20 minute audio message, but I'm not going to do this forever.
578
I'm not going to make these videos with my aunt's audio message forever.
579
So I'll probably do a couple more using the messages from this current one
580
that we're working on this current message that was 24 minutes.
581
I'll probably make a couple more videos about that and then we'll switch to another.
582
We'll do a different topic or I'll make a different kind of video or whatever.
583
I like to switch it up.
584
I don't want all my videos to be always about the same thing.
585
My aunt did say, go ahead, use my audio messages as much as you want.
586
I got no problem with that, but I like to keep it interesting on the channel and switch it up.
587
So that's that.
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Thanks for being here with me.
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Thanks for watching until the end.
590
You guys are the best ones.
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The best viewers are those who watch until the end or listen.
592
You don't have to watch.
593
You can listen, but yeah.
594
Love ya.
595
All right.
596
Take care.
597
Bye now.
598
Bye now.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Listen to a REAL Native Speaker Message”. This video has 598 sentences and 6269 words to shadow. The speech runs for 31:53. The speaker talks fast, about 197 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| aunt noun | /ɑːnt/ | The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. |
| internship noun | /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/ | A job taken by a student in order to learn a profession or trade. |
| audio adjective | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight. |
| retire verb | /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/ | To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. |
| anxiety noun | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| remote adjective | /ɹəˈməʊt̞/ | At a distance; disconnected. |
| clip noun | /klɪp/ | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| capitol noun | /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/ | Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets. |
| financially adverb | In terms of finance or money. | |
| loose adjective | /lus/ | Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. |
| grip noun | /ˈɡɹɪp/ | A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. |
| realization noun | /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | An act of figuring out or becoming aware. |
| uncle noun | /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ | The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. |
| anyways adverb | /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/ | Anyway, anyhow, in any case. |
| flexibility noun | /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/ | The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| buy back verb | To purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away). |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| finish up verb | To complete the last details of a task. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I don't want any of that.
- I didn't make that up.
- If you haven't seen the first part, what are you doing?
- We're trying to stay out of it.
- You know what I mean?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | She's been struggling |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't seen · I've never even met · I've never met |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are · work, which is · those who watch |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is meant · were designed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 229 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: internship /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
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 aunt, internship, audio.
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.