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Are you ready to immerse yourself in English today?
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Today, I'm here with my husband, Dan.
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Hello.
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And you are invited to our American English kitchen where we're going to be prepping some food for a school function today.
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And we're going to be chatting about a topic that is slightly controversial, but is going to help expand your English,
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grow your vocabulary, and help you to enjoy the English learning process.
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So are you ready?
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I'm ready.
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Let's do it.
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet that you see here over Dan's face.
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It includes all of today's vocabulary that will appear on the screen that we are about to naturally use in this conversation.
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And it's going to include a special bonus.
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This is going to help you understand fast English conversations.
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It is the audio version of today's entire lesson.
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This is a great way to test your listening skills.
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Can you understand us without seeing us?
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Just listening to the audio as you're walking your dog, doing the dishes, whatever you're doing, that way you can really try to understand fast English.
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To get this PDF plus bonus listening version, all you need to do is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that,
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it will land in your email inbox.
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This is my gift, our gift to you.
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All right, Dan, are you ready to get chopping?
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I'm ready, I guess.
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Okay.
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So I want to let you know that this topic came up because I wanted to make this conversation with Dan.
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Yeah, I'm a little scared, honestly.
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And I said, how about we do it while we're preparing the fruit for the school function?
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And what did you say?
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I said, I don't know if I can do two things at once, talk and chop. Because?
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Because I'm a man.
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So enter our conversation topic for today while we are chopping and putting together these...
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Preparing, planning, talking, a conversation, the camera.
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I can't do these things.
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This is four things all at once.
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It's a good test.
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So our topic today is men versus women.
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Oh, versus.
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Yes.
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Who is better at certain things?
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We do have knives.
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We do have knives.
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It's good.
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But that's for the food.
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So while, before we talk about this topic, let's just, I need some skewers, because I'm gonna make some fruit skewers.
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We're making fruit skewers.
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I need a lot.
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Oh.
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Here's one skewer for you.
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I'm gonna need like a whole pile right here.
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Lots of skewers.
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Alright, I'm just gonna put stuff on them.
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Do you have any rhyme or reason to how you want it?
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Uh, well, I was gonna make half all fruits and half fruit and cheese.
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Okay teenagers by the way okay
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so um all right there's gonna be stuffing food in their
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mouth tons of grapes tons of cantaloupe yeah tons of pineapple
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i need to chop the strawberries still a bunch of strawberries everything's washed
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and i need to chop the cheese okay chop the cheese i'm gonna just do the fruit skewers first okay
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and it will be the easiest thing for me to do
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while i'm i'm going to cut the oranges
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which will be the easiest thing for you to do at the moment
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and i'm gonna have to really focus really focus our first thank god the pineapple is pre-cut
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okay i have four true or false statements about men
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or women and then we have a lightning round one two three four five things
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that we're gonna say who is better at blank
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and we're gonna say it As in men or women or you or me.
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Yes, men or women.
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This is all stereotypes.
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By the way, this is all averages. Who knows?
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We're just making this up off the cuff.
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Well, let us know in the comments.
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It's not scientific fact.
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If you agree or not.
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Okay.
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Statement number one.
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I'm going to try to do something at the same time as you're talking to me.
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Statement number one.
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Men are better at driving.
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Oh, yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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Why?
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I can contest this, but why do you think so?
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Well, okay.
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Most men are better at driving.
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Okay.
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Well, why?
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Because men on average have better spatial awareness.
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Oh.
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As far as like directions go.
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Okay.
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Also, men are like a little more like less likely to...
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Man, I'm actually struggling to cut this and think.
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That's our question number two.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, they're like less likely to panic under pressure.
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Oh, okay.
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So like, you know, you're driving, there's cars all around you.
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I think in general, a man is less likely to freak out in that situation.
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Okay.
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Certainly I'm a little biased because my dad was the driver in my house
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and I watched my mom drive and my mom was always like, just panicking all the time.
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Okay, well, it's all of these answers for us are based on our personal experience.
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Yeah.
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So please take it with a grain of salt, whatever we say.
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Yes. Of course.
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I'm going to say, in general,
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men are better drivers, but there's a caveat because I know some stats about this.
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Oh, you can't bring in stats.
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Okay, so what I heard, now someone out there might contest this, but- Oh, these lives are not good.
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Yeah.
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Oh, fresh.
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So what I heard is that if we're going by car accident data,
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men get into more fatal car accidents because they're doing dumb stuff like driving too fast.
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Yeah.
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I wanted to take out like teenage men from this equation.
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We're talking about the whole spectrum here.
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So men get into more fatal car accidents, but women get into more fender benders because In general, the idea was that women,
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if women are, if it is true, and I think it is still, are the ones who are caretaking for children.
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Oh, you're blaming the kids, are you?
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Have you ever tried to drive with three kids in the car?
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Yes.
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And it's hard.
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There's always someone talking, look at this, I want this.
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What are you doing?
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Why are you hitting me?
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What's going on?
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There's so much distraction going on.
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Yeah, I have a superpower called ignore them.
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So for me to ignore the kids in the car is really hard.
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So I'm more likely to be distracted, I think.
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So that's why women get into little fender benders, in my opinion.
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But if it is just between me and you, you are the better driver.
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Oh, okay.
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Thank you.
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I think you have a good sense of being aware of what's going on around you on the road.
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despite what's going in your ears.
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I can't listen to music or a podcast or the kids or a conversation and be a really good driver.
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I can drive, but I can't be a really good driver because I'm like,
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my ears are busy listening, comprehending, taking it in.
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That's so beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Do you see these?
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Wow.
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And if given the choice, when we drive, you drive and I'm in the passenger seat.
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It's not a passive job to be in the passenger seat with kids.
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If you have kids, you know.
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Yeah.
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It actually drives me insane to be in the passenger seat while she's driving.
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Not because she's a bad driver, but because there might be an expression that you've heard of, I'm a backseat driver.
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Backseat driver?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Even though you're not in the backseat.
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And that just means that I'll notice things on the road and I'll have trouble not pointing it out to her.
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Watch out.
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Look over there.
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Oh, he's emerging.
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Give them some more space.
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I think every woman who has driven with a man has dealt with this situation before.
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Yeah.
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And it depends.
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I mean, on a long road trip, I'll tone it down a bit because I'll just be tired or need to take a nap or whatever.
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Yeah, but when you're in the passenger seat and there's kids in the back.
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But then there's no break.
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Yeah, when there's kids in the back.
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You're caring for the kids.
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You're passing them snacks.
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You're passing them a book.
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You're trying to help them.
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I'd much rather drive.
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Yeah, I think, yeah, in general, I think we probably agree on that.
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I also think men probably just like driving more on average.
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Yeah.
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Well, let us know in the comments if you agree.
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All right.
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Statement number two, true or false, women are better at- I'm just kidding.
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Women are better at- I'm okay. At multitasking.
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Oh yeah, definitely.
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All these stereotypes are going to be true, aren't they?
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Well, we'll see.
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All right, let me think.
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Multitasking, yeah, I mean, it's very stereotypical.
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Is it because you can't think of a job?
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See, now I got, yeah, I finished my...
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Same time.
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This is for a special tropical fruit punch.
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Oh.
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What was I thinking about again?
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Multitasking. Can you...
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No, well, I'm particularly not a very good multitasker.
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So that doesn't help my case.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I think, well, I've heard, I have not scientifically verified this,
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that women have a little more like cross communication in their brain.
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You ever heard of this?
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Okay, I have not.
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And they sense more on average?
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sense like like actual senses like smell yeah i've heard
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that i've heard
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that that's also why for example there's more going on like
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all the time in a woman's brain i get more over
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stimulated easily than you do my hands yes please wash your hands
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and i move from that spot yeah i get more over stimulated than you do
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and this might be like a personal preference difference thing
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but for example when there's music on like when i'm driving
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or just when there's music on it's hard for me to also have a conversation
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because there's like two auditory things happening maybe that's just me i'm the same though okay
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but when it comes to like child care there's a lot of multitasking
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that happens yeah what like that i think that's where the rubber meets the road, knowing like what every kid is doing at the moment, what I need to be doing,
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what needs to be done next.
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Like this is a lot of coordination.
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I think it's sequential things like that or organizational type stuff.
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This is person to person as well, I think.
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But you know, I'm a teacher and that's one thing that I struggle with.
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I'll forget some little details here or there about our schedule and I'll have to rely on my coworkers.
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But it seems like the women, there's a lot of women teachers out there they usually know
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that schedule like in more detail or they'll recall it okay easier okay
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so maybe i think well i have to like write it on a sticky note
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and put it on my glasses like right in front of my face is it a nature
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or nurture skill though to multitask well am i just better at multitasking because all my life
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I've been expected to juggle multiple things or like I don't think so
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personally okay thanks for cutting these you're welcome do they make
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them too small no I have some gigantic strawberries on there some kids gonna be really happy
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and then some little wait does this relate this multitasking relate to like finding stuff in a refrigerator
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or is that another question.
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No. Or is that directions?
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I did not add that because ...
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Well, that's a good question though.
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Let's add that at the end.
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Okay.
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Teaser.
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Okay.
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The next one is men are more competitive.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Okay.
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I agree.
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I think men are more competitive, but why do you think that is- I feel like that's one of the main differences.
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Okay.
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Why do you think men are more competitive?
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Because men compete with each other more often.
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Yeah, but they compete more often because they want to.
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Well, they want to compete.
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So what's the leg?
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They have to compete.
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The base.
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Because they got to impress the ladies, you know what I'm saying?
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Oh.
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So you got like all the male birds trying to ruffle their feathers and make the female birds look at them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Pretty much.
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Okay.
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But also like just by experience, you know, any game that I've ever played,
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in general, men are going a little bit harder.
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I'm thinking like board games, you know, or card games.
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I've found more men to care in those circumstances.
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I have an opinion about this.
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So I think that this is my personal experience.
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It might be different for other women,
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but I think I am always aware of how other people are feeling or like perceiving the event.
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I don't want to be, I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable.
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Now, I am competitive in some situations.
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I'm not the least competitive woman, but I think women want other people to stay happy
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and be happy and be comfortable and not be too controversial or calling out someone.
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We're more likely to agree with other people or agree with each other, pat each other on the back.
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I believe in psychology it's even called agreeable.
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agreeable yeah yeah i think in general women try to be more women maybe naturally are or
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nature nurture whatever it is are more agreeable yeah um
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that said i have met some very competitive women absolutely
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and also like uh you know students that i teach at a middle school
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well a elementary and middle school and some of those girls are very competitive Yeah, I think women can absolutely be...
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Wow, this is quite the pineapple piece.
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Women can definitely be competitive, but...
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It's also different things.
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I think as women post...
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Women as adults, I would say like...
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Oh, we're talking about adults.
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...pretty, I think are different than like teenagers and children as adults.
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Like we are women now.
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We're not like ...
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I feel like ...
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We are women.
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Yeah.
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That's what I always wanted my husband to say.
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But I feel like ...
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I could do that nowadays.
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I'm a woman.
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There, I said it.
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It's true.
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Wow.
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Well, thanks for coming clean.
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I feel like adult women are more agreeable than adult men.
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I think the ...
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What can you say?
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The litmus test- It's just the averages.
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The least agreeable people I've ever met have been men.
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That's, I think, the litmus test.
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If you're thinking about a room of 15 people,
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someone says something, who is the most likely person to disagree with that statement in a room of 15 people?
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A man.
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A woman probably has a lot of, or most likely has a lot of ideas, a lot of thoughts, a lot of opinions about it,
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but the first person to speak up about it and show some negativity is most likely to be a man, in my opinion.
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I think for me, one-on-one, I could be more less agreeable, approach someone, talk to someone.
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You're pretty nice.
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You're pretty nice, honey.
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She's very nice.
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Thank you.
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I think ...
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Well, we kind of got off topic.
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Competitive is not mean.
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Anyway, let's go to the next one.
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See, now I'm getting into other little details.
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How can I cut this thing in a in a different way.
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So the next one is women are more organized.
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Oh, we kind of talked about this a little bit.
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Yeah, I think so. On average.
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Well, it kind of goes back to the multitasking thing. But, I don't know.
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I feel like this one could be 50-50.
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Pretty easily.
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okay and i i don't
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and i'm just looking at my own personal life i have
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a lot of students you know there's a lot of odd students at my school odd i hope
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that they watch this and really love that you say that they're odd
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they'd appreciate being called odd most of them okay uh and there's some pretty disorganized
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gals i don't really think that one's gendered
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that well think about not 12 year olds okay think about a 30 year old woman
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and a 30 year old man yeah i guess usually it's
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more likely for a woman to be more organized overall i
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you just i don't know it could be social too like women tend to like organize the schedule
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and who's coming over when
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and life stuff like for me this is also personality i
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have to go to work to get in an organized mindset like
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when i'm at home i'm just like i'm at home
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and then i go to work and i'm like all right now i'm getting in my laser focus
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but this could just be me yeah well part of this thought for me was
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statistically males you check the statistics again well this i think
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this is a kind of a commonly known thing statistically males
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are more likely to have adhd than women oh is
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that right and interesting i felt like
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that was common knowledge maybe it's not okay maybe i'm wrong internet check me out check it out
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if it's right or not um but i think part of part of adhd is struggling with,
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what's it called when you're trying to be- Executive function.
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That's the word, executive function.
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I've never looked this up before in my life.
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People like Dan, who might or might not be- I've never been formally diagnosed.
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Diagnosed with ADHD.
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Excuse me.
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I feel like this, the organized element of it, women- I'm moving on to cheese.
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Okay, you're doing cheese.
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Is that ADHD?
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No, that's great.
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Okay.
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I feel like women are generally more organized.
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It could be 50-50, but my gut says.
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Certainly my experience.
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I've met more organized women than men.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So how is it that men are more likely to be the CEO of a company?
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Because you have to be really organized for that, right?
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Well, a lot of that is assertiveness, too, though.
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Oh, okay.
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So maybe it's competitiveness?
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Yeah, competitive.
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I mean, guys can be really organized.
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And like I said, I can even be organized if you put me in the right circumstance.
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I just have to...
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It's almost like I can be organized and focused on one thing.
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ADHD.
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But I'm more likely to miss the big picture or miss the other little details.
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Yeah.
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I think that's exactly what I was saying.
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You can be really organized with one focus thing and maybe that's- Cheers.
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Cue perfect timing.
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Oh, I just ...
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but I like the moment
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that you say something it's almost like I have this you
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know in the moment I say something is say anything me
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the moment you say anything personally you know how in the movie a beautiful mind
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or like in any kind of like uh criminal detective movie or tv show they have like a clear board.
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It's a meme at this point.
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All the math and all the things.
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Immediately, 30 things come to my mind.
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And I start organizing.
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We have to do this first and this second and this second.
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And I have to tone down that voice in my head and just like, okay, are we just chatting about this?
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Or is it serious?
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Because my brain already jumped to 30 steps ahead.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes that's good, but sometimes it's not.
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I think it can be helpful for like getting stuff done, but it's not- Well, that's why you marry people like me.
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Marry people like me.
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Married a person like me.
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Yeah.
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I think it's not helpful for reflection.
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So I'm trying to get better at reflection.
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Anyway, that's my personal stuff.
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It's not good for reflection, really?
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Yeah, because I don't spend time.
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I'm just organizing and doing and doing and organizing, and I'm not thinking.
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This is for cheese.
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That's for little cheese cubes.
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I organize those plates.
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I'm just going to throw the cheese on here for now.
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Okay.
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So now we have a little lightning round.
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Are you ready?
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ready okay the statement is who is better at
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and i'm going to say the thing and then in three you are me
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or is it just men and women we're going to say men
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or women on three okay okay who is better at cutting
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the cheese who's better at saving money three two one women i don't i have no idea
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saving money yeah these are these ones are not so black and white
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so some of these are they're less stereotypical well stereotypically i feel like women are the one who spend the money
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yeah you're a you are a uniquely cheap person my dear
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well it's not just saving money though like memes about ladies shopping and stuff yes but i think in reality women
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because of the organization and the planning ahead, women have more, if we're thinking about like the 30-year-old woman,
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just as like in the middle of life, there's still a lot of life ahead.
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She has some experience, but not a lot of experience.
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Like that's why I'm just saying 30-year-old.
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I think the average 30-year-old woman is better than the average 30-year-old man at planning for the future financially
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and having a little nod of fear of like, oh, we need to save money.
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Oh, we need to have some security.
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Oh, I need to do this.
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That's my opinion.
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I could be very wrong.
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Stereotypically, you know, and it's a stereotype, but, you know, men make the budgets and then women spend it.
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I would say, okay, this is maybe based on like my friends.
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The women I know buy the necessary items and the occasional unnecessary items.
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but men splurge on like big things
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that could possibly waste a lot of money like that fancy car
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or the whatever i've certainly seen that yeah
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so i think in the in that way that's like how men
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and women spend differently like women make a lot of those smaller purchases out of necessity, maybe out of fun, go buy a shirt every now and then.
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But men might be more likely to waste big amounts of money.
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Yeah.
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Maybe.
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I mean, probably.
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I don't know.
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I'm on the internet saying this now.
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A man is more likely to buy a boat or a motorcycle or a car even.
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I know in our household, it's certainly true that I'm the spender.
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Yeah.
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Even so, you're not.
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But I'm not a big...
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You're not very spendy.
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Huge spender like some people.
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Yeah.
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I think you're...
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And I'm always looking for the deal and all that.
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Compared to me, you're a spender, but that's not hard.
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Vanessa is ultimate frugal.
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I'm pretty frugal.
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Okay.
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The next one.
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Who is better at expressing emotions?
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Three, two, one.
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Women.
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Women.
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Okay.
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So this one was kind of stereotypical.
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Why do you think it is that women are better at expressing emotions?
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Well, I think that women seek validation of their emotions more than men do.
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From other women?
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Women and their partner.
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Okay.
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But women as well.
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I'm pretty sure I even recently I looked this up because I had to teach something for middle school.
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and women way more go to each other and talk about their feelings.
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Men don't.
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We just, you know, go and hang out with the boys.
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Do you think that is a learned behavior?
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I mean, I'm sure it partly is, but I also feel like it's probably somewhat nature for a man to be more,
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suppressed with his emotions because you don't want to be too like evolutionarily
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if we're talking about like 50,000 years ago for humans you
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don't want to be too forthright about like all your feelings
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you don't want to look sensitive you know all this kind of stuff and
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that is certainly like around men like men don't want to
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look sensitive around each other a lot of times it's kind of changing nowadays
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but yeah I'd say that's probably the main tension nowadays is
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that women want men to know about how to validate their emotions how to express their emotions all of
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that like that's a value that women are seeking now in a man.
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And that's like a big evolutionary change, I think, or like cultural shift, I think. Who knows?
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A hundred years from now, it might be very different.
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Yeah.
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I kind of, you know, part of me does believe a little bit men don't have to as much as women think they do.
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But, you know, I've certainly gotten some benefit from, you know, going to therapy and letting stuff out and whatnot.
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Like that's a value.
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I just don't think like day to day, I don't think a man seeks it out or wants to or needs to.
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I have heard statistic here.
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It didn't just come from my brain.
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I read that after a breakup, statistically, it's harder for men because women,
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when they have something difficult going on in their lives, will reach out to friends and talk to friends and process it more.
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And men have to culturally, nature, nurture, I don't know, feel like they have to just be okay.
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I'm fine.
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I'm fine.
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But really, they're not fine.
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And there is something therapeutic in being sad with someone else or like getting it out a little bit, you know?
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Yeah.
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And the statistic...
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The guy usually has like one friend that he can talk to.
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I mean, one friend is great.
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I remember one particular time in my life, though, I had no friends.
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Aww. That sounds really pitiful.
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Yeah.
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I had just moved to a new city, and we broke up, and that was terrible.
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So you didn't even have me when we were dating?
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Yeah.
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Well, yeah, that's a long story.
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Yes.
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Years ago.
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Saga.
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Decades ago.
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Well, also, I think the clearest statistic is that the adult topic here,
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the suicide rate is highest for men.
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And maybe that's similar.
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I don't know if this is just me hypothesizing, but men don't have that outlet when they're going through hard times.
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they might not have that like vulnerability with other men to be able to decompress and like
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even say I'm having a hard time like to be able to not be a man
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and I'm fine like if you can
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I think that can be vulnerable with someone
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but I also think men are more likely to do like
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a drastic thing well maybe that's the competitive part like the risk-taking okay well anyways let's go to the next one.
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This video is getting a little longer than I thought.
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Okay.
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The next one is who is better at fixing things?
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Fixing things?
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Physical things.
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Physical things.
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The faucet's broken.
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A man.
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I agree.
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So I think women can do it.
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That's a stereotype for a reason.
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Yeah.
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I think women can do it. Can they? Can they?
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I haven't seen you try.
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Not very often.
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So I think certain things, stereotypically, women fix.
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I think women fix problems all the time very well.
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They certainly try to fix people, don't they?
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Daniel.
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But when it comes to like the faucet or something, if there's a man available to fix it, like if you're married to somebody,
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you're going to hope or want him to fix it.
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Woman wants the man to fix it.
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But let's be real.
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I know plenty of single women who do everything and fix everything.
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So I feel like women's skill is rising to the occasion.
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You gave birth.
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You got a baby.
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You're healing.
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You got to feed that baby.
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You do it.
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Like you're going to push through ultimate difficulty and do it.
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And I think if you weren't here, yeah, I'd fix the faucet.
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Like I would do those things.
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But I like delegating to you and having you do those things.
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Okay.
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I don't want to doubt you.
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Don't doubt.
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I finished all my skewers.
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But wait, I didn't give my opinion there.
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Oh, really? go ahead men okay uh but i think there's as far as like differences between men and women
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a lot of this has to do with interest as well this is a good pointer
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um one big divergence is the interest in people versus things
566
and men tend to be interested in things yeah devices yeah
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uh stuff yeah commodities economics more than women on average on
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that and that i've certainly seen that with fixing stuff or being into the minutia of speakers for example
569
music speakers uh i don't know it's like there's a whole subculture of men doing these things and
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And it's not that a woman can't be there, but she's got to like know her stuff to be like, oh This girl knows her stuff.
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I feel like a woman might have to they almost have
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to prove themselves more exactly would feel like she has to prove Herself in that man's sphere
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Just as much as like you in the teaching sphere might
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feel like you have to prove yourself as a man Like there's not many men teachers if I was teaching kindergarten.
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Yeah.
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Yeah Well, you were teaching elementary school last year.
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It's true.
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Like, that's considered a more typically female job.
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Yeah.
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But I feel like you kind of straddle the line pretty well.
581
I think sometimes it's the same with sports as well.
582
I do remember I played hockey.
583
And as long as, like, a girl doesn't have, like, a chip on her shoulder about it, and they're just like, yeah, I'm playing the game as best I can, and they, like, know something,
584
guys are usually going to be like yeah come on in here let's do it you know
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because they just don't want they don't want like drama they don't want extra drama
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but men amongst each other this is my experience okay well
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well we might get some we accept women as long as
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they don't bring their in the man-dominated spheres like you know like
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because i was on a hockey team mm-hmm it didn't explicitly say a woman can't be there
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but no women joined there was a woman though right yeah no i'm saying
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that there was and
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that nobody said anything about it first of all i think this person was transgender
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so they didn't explicitly say this
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but you know she didn't make a fuss about being a woman there like you guys aren't respecting me enough
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because i'm a woman like she just was playing the game
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right just like there to do the thing it's not about gender it's doing her best doing anything okay um
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and she was good enough to hang
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that helps you know you don't want to be like i can't touch this person
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yeah bump them yeah like they have to be able to play on the same with the same rules
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and the same things if you're playing same with men
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when they're certainly women it helps
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that it was it wasn't a it was a no checking
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league you know we weren't actually checking means hitting each other
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and stuff okay so we were talking about fixing things
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and we got a little off track which is fine
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but um i have i chopped a new skewered that's what it turned into but we didn't put any of the
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cheese on the skewers i didn't i was just skewering okay i have two more
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and we're going to keep them really fast
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because this lesson is getting very long okay who is better
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at oh wait you have these two good there's more to
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be made who is better at keeping things clean three two one
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uh i want to say my opinion about this first i think women are better at keeping things clean
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because women are really good at noticing details like everybody who is married has experienced this I guarantee it 100%
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that a woman can walk into a room and a man can walk into a room and they will notice different things.
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Like the counter is a mess.
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I will clock that.
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I'll notice that.
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But Dan might not notice it.
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But once you know like, oh, Vanessa really cares about the counter being clean, then, you know, you'll clean it and take care of it and whatnot.
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But I notice things and I think women notice stuff like the focus,
621
the multitasking of things and like what's going on is really strong for women.
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And I feel like for me, when our house is clean, I feel so good.
623
There's like something deep within my soul that feels good, cleansed, like relieved relieved.
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There's a weight that's off of my shoulders.
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Anyway, that's how I feel.
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Why do you think women are better at keeping things clean?
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Why do I think they are?
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Yeah.
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Oh man, I don't know.
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Big question.
631
I just agree with you.
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In this case, you know, there might have something to do with,
633
you know, women caring more about their home environments like having a more holistic scale
634
or a sense about it okay maybe can i have some
635
more pineapple i'm done um okay well let's do the last
636
one are you ready the last one what piece of cheese
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oh you got cheese on there good for you okay the last one is slightly more controversial uh-oh okay Okay.
638
Who is better at handling stress?
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Three, two, one.
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Men.
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Women?
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Okay.
643
I feel like I'm not sure about this.
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Well, it depends on the stress.
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I think that's the answer.
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Yeah.
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Why do you think men?
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Like, what's the situation where you- Well, I already mentioned the car situation.
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Yeah.
650
Yeah.
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High stress environments, men tend to work in those like his job.
652
So in the workplace?
653
Climbing, especially like physical risk.
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I think a man is much more likely to disregard the danger in front of them.
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You know, like climbing radio towers or whatever, fixing light bulbs and stuff like that.
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Plumbers, getting down dirty in the muck, in the mud, in the mire.
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All that stuff.
658
Which is a form of stress.
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Mm-hmm. And I don't know.
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I feel like women get stressed more in general.
661
They at least emote their stress more.
662
I think that's it.
663
I think that the stress, I mean, obviously by what I said about the suicide rate, men are going to keep it in, which is not good.
664
Don't do that.
665
Don't forget the cheese.
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Cheese.
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One piece of cheese.
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You're going to set the cheese right in front of you.
669
Okay.
670
You want to put it right there?
671
I'll put this.
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But I think that there are certain things that me and my mom friends,
673
for example, were like, our dudes would never be able to handle this.
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And it's a lot of...
675
A lot to die home and child care and peopling like dealing with
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uh it's the multitasking really of like okay we got a
677
birthday party on saturday i need to get a present for
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that kid i need to make sure
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that everyone is ready by blah blah blah time
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so like i'm like gaming it out in my head you know
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so like that that helps me deal with stress by being organized
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and like i guess this is a more individualistic thing than a gendered thing
683
dealing with stress yeah well i don't know i think i made my case pretty well
684
men i we're talking about different things here i think we are talking about different things
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because for example i have a plus like i don't like ladies come home
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and like they said they might have dealt with the thing better.
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They still come home stressed, right?
688
Yeah.
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I mean, maybe- They're still like, I just did 5,000 things today.
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Yeah, but then they're still going to make dinner and still going to blah, blah, blah, and still going to pick up the kids from soccer
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and do all those things and push through instead of checking out.
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I'm not saying they're strong.
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I think the stereotype is that men would check out and be like, I'm just going to sit on my phone.
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I've had too much going on.
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I need a break.
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That could be possible.
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And women are like, I got like, I'm coordinating all the things still.
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And I still worked all day.
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And I did all this stuff.
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And like, maybe that's multitasking.
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I don't know.
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These topics overlap.
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Okay, I'm going to finish this skewer.
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And then I think before we go, we need a am I overdoing the skewer?
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A handshake.
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We need a handshake.
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We need a handshake.
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A men and women coming together for the better, greater good of humanity.
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Wow.
710
Are you ready?
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Yeah.
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Good job.
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Good job, men.
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You are woman and you are good.
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Thank you.
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I believe in you.
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I believe in you.
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Good.
719
Okay.
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Goodbye.
721
We are still friends.
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After all this.
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After all this.
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In fact, I married you.
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Congratulations.
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Because you're a woman.
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Well, thank you.
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One of the reasons anyways.
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Woman, yes, I'll marry you.
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Anyway, thank you so much for watching today's conversation lesson.
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This is something that AI can never give you.
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Real life conversations about topics.
733
If you enjoyed today's somewhat controversial topic, let me know in the comments and please share your opinion, men, women, organized, driving?
734
Cheese and fruit or no cheese?
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Oh, do you like cheese and fruit together?
736
I mean, we made a pretty good tray here.
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Yeah.
738
There's going to be some happy middle schoolers.
739
And don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet with all of today's vocabulary that you saw pop up on the screen.
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And there's going to be the bonus audio so that you can practice understanding fast English conversations.
741
It's great to test your ears.
742
See if you can just listen and understand.
743
That's the next level.
744
So how can you get this free PDF worksheet, vocabulary, and the audio version?
745
All you need to do is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that, it will land in your email inbox.
746
It is our gift to you.
747
Well, thanks so much for learning English with us, and thanks, Dan, for joining me today.
748
You're welcome.
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Representing men. And cheese. And cheese.
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And thank you so much for learning English with me.
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I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will see Dan and I have another wonderful English conversation about childhood.
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I hope to see you there.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Real English Conversation: Advanced Listening Lesson”. This video has 756 sentences and 6565 words to shadow. The speech runs for 43:08. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| multitasking noun | The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven operating system. | |
| skewer noun | /ˈskjuː.ɚ/ | A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking. |
| chop verb | /t͡ʃɑp/ | To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. |
| agreeable adjective | /əˈɡɹiəbəl/ | Able to agree; possible to be agreed. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| stereotype noun | /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ | A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people). |
| organize verb | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | To arrange in working order. |
| fixing noun | /ˈfɪksɪŋ/ | The act of subverting (fixing) a vote. |
| pineapple noun | /ˈpaɪnəpəl/ | A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem. |
| vocabulary noun | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning. |
| handshake noun | /ˈhæn(d)ˌʃeɪk/ | The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. |
| nurture noun | /ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/ | The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care |
| spender noun | /ˈspɛndɚ/ | A person who spends money. |
| stereotypical adjective | /ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/ | Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional. |
| stereotypically adverb | In a stereotypical manner or way. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| push through verb | To force (legislation or a plan) to be passed or agreed to or a decision to be reached. | |
| break up verb | To break or separate into pieces. | |
| call out verb | To specify, especially in detail. | |
| come on in verb | Synonym of come in (“to enter”). | |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| get down verb | /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/ | To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can you understand us without seeing us?
- Why are you hitting me?
- Is it because you can't think of a job?
- What was I thinking about again?
- You ever heard of this?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have created · Have you ever tried · you've heard |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are invited · are based · be distracted |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | ones who are · woman who has · one who spend |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 230 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: feather /ˈfɛðə/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, handshake /ˈhæn(d)ˌʃeɪk/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, spatial /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, stereotypical /ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, statistical /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/
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 multitasking, skewer, chop.
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.