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If you ever get stuck and you don't know what to say when you're trying to talk to someone, this is the video for you.
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This is part two of our 100 small talk questions and answers and real spontaneous,
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not planned, not scripted native English conversation.
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I'm Gabby from Go Natural English and this is Mike, my wonderful boyfriend and we are back with our hat.
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It's questions and we're topics how to how to how to topics yes
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and then we make up the questions as we go our
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goal is to come up with 10 questions per topic
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and of course we'll be answering them as well
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so we're going to try to keep them kind of light small talk questions so
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that you can shadow along with us you can build your
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toolbox of english small talk questions for your next conversation and
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if you would like to download a free pdf with all of the questions
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that we're asking each other so
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that you can review them really easily you can do
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that at gonaturalenglish .com anyone because the point of today is how to talk with anyone
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because that's really fun right absolutely i mean most of the
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time actually i think we do good at it like
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when we're out getting coffee
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and stuff we just strike up conversation i was just gonna
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say this morning we took a really nice walk to a
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new cafe well new for you i've been there once before
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and we struck up conversations with multiple people along the way
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how did we strike up conversations with strangers how did we
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talk to anyone in the real world like what did we actually do i think some people talked to us
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because i have a very cute husky dog a siberian husky
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so a lot of people comments on my dog they say oh she's
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so cute or i love your dog can i pet your dog
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so that's a hack if you have a pet
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that you can bring with you
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or borrow someone else's pet do you remember anything else
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that we did i mean no you hit the ultimate hack
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having a cute dog in your life is the ultimate way to break the ice
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and talk to people for sure yes probably works
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if you have kids or babies too i would assume um
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so having a cute child might work yeah
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so should we jump right into it let's get into it
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all right just before we start again i highly encourage you
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to go to gonaturalenglish .com anyone to get your free download of all these questions
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so you can practice along with us and review afterwards it's totally free
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and it's like instant it'll show up in your inbox
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when you enter your name and your email on the page all right
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so who gets to start this time as always i always
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say ladies first ladies first I think you should be first, Gabby.
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Okay, I'm not looking, I'm not cheating.
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Okay, the topic is where someone lives or where they are from.
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Go for it.
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So, Gabby, where did you grow up?
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I grew up all over the place.
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So, I wasn't really born and raised in any one particular place.
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I was born in Minnesota, in the Midwest, in the United States.
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A lot of people always ask me, what country are you from?
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I am from the United States, born in Minnesota, but I lost most of my accent from the, from the, uh, from Minnesota.
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Most of it.
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Most of it.
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Uh, now I have more of a standard American accent, I would say, from all my years of teaching and traveling and living abroad.
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But when I was young, my family and I, my parents and I, we moved around a lot,
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and we ended up living in several different states we lived in minnesota hawaii indiana maine where we are now
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and then as an adult i lived all over the world normally i would ask how about you yes um
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but we're going we're going yeah we're going like new questions
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yes you guys you're gonna have to just wait to find out where mike is from where do you live
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so i live right here in south portland maine um this
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is yeah don't say your address yeah okay i'm not
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that new to the world a little wet behind my ears no
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so uh i live here in south portland maine um you know
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and to answer the question where i grew up i grew up here um i wasn't born here
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but i was born in new york city
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but um i grew up in south portland then i traveled around a lot
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and i've lived in new york city as an adult i
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lived in santa fe new mexico i lived in maui hawaii
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and then eventually found myself back here in maine
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so i am here yeah i think that's why we get along
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so well we've lived many different places
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and then we met here yes um okay what else could
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i ask you about well do you well where was your
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favorite place to live out of all the places i lived um i feel like again this is like just inviting
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comments
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but uh i'm gonna go with maui hawaii i mean it's
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hard to turn down paradise yes you know hawaii you know they talk about the aloha spirit
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and i found that to be true the the people there are just
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so kind so friendly and if you're respectful people will welcome you in
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and with open arms and open heart
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and of course it's a tropical paradise you can go snorkeling
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go hiking go swimming in waterfalls swimming in the ocean yeah it's just incredible yeah yeah
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if people haven't traveled to hawaii put it on your bucket
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highly recommended i mentioned also as a child i spent a couple years living in hawaii
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and it was magical so i agree um so gabby
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if you weren't living here in maine where do you think
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you might enjoy living well that's a great question i've enjoyed
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living in different countries in different cities in the u .s
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i think i would enjoy living you know i'd love to go back to japan we've talked about
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that a little bit i think that would be really fun i like places
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that um where i can like use another language
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so even in the u .s
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if it's somewhere where there's um a lot of maybe french speakers
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or spanish speakers that's really fun for me
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or hawaii there's a lot of japanese speakers um i recently
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this is an update since the last video you guys i
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recently moved from kansas city to back to portland maine
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so i'm very happy to get settled in here
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and i'm not quite ready to think about where else i would live
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but that's a good question um i have to say also
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this bird is very birds enjoy small talk too they don't
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even need anybody else to talk to they're just happy to talk to themselves
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if they could just let us talk
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so mike you're an expert in this area
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because okay you've lived here for several years sure
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so what do you think are the top three good things about living in the portland
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or south portland area of maine southern maine let's say southern main um all right
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so if i'm gonna go with what is really nice about here is i love the four seasons
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so you know here in maine you get summer winter spring
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and fall um i wish spring and fall would maybe a little longer
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and maybe the winter was a little shorter
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but it's really really cool to see the changing of the seasons
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and the leaves like right now it's you know mid -september
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so this is like my favorite favorite time of year like
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the weather is getting a little cooler like the leaves are
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just slightly starting to change the bugs are kind of going away
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so this is like my favorite a lot of people come
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here to see the changing leaves yes it's really beautiful i'm excited for
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that actually leaf peeping yes very cool um so i would say
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and that kind of brings me to another great thing about living in maine is the nature yes
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so here you know you have
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so many opportunities to get outside you can go hiking in
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so many different places you go kayaking sailing go to the beach
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um maine just has so many opportunities for outdoor adventure
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which is my big thing i'm a huge outdoor nature lover uh
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and then i would say
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that um finally it's just a really like safe place to
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live you know the people are friendly it's a safe place
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like you're not even gonna have natural disasters like earthquakes
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and hurricanes and stuff like that
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so it's just a very just cold just just cold in the winter that's probably the worst but yeah
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but it's just a calm safe enjoyable place to live yes yeah good trade -off mm -hmm okay
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so you said the activities this bird is driving me insane I cannot concentrate okay
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so now that I did my Ranger Mike thing
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and kindly asked our noisy bird neighbor to leave I wanted
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to ask you about I know you've lived in a lot
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of different countries what countries have you actually lived in before
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for more than like a couple weeks good question i've lived
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in japan for three years i lived in brazil for a
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couple years i lived in the dominican republic for about a year
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and besides that i have traveled a lot i wouldn't necessarily say i lived in other countries
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but i did stay for three months in vietnam
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and three months in thailand and a month in germany
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and then a few weeks in different countries along the way
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and of course i'm from the united states so i've lived here
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but that's about it
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that that's all that's a lot that's awesome i had a
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period of time for a couple years where i was like nomading around
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and really enjoying my freedom
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so i traveled a lot i know a lot of americans like to talk about where they're heritage
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or ancestors are from yeah
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so can i ask you where are your ancestors from yeah
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um i can pretty much trace all of my heritage back
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to ireland oh yeah uh in fact i have dual citizenship i have u .s
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and irish citizenship because my grandfather was born in ireland
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and i was able to get citizenship through him wow
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so that's super cool so yeah i'm very proud of my irish heritage heritage
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and um i've been able to travel to ireland a couple times
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and love anyone watching from ireland let us know absolutely um shout out to my irish people yes um
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so yeah um and i am gonna flip this one
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and say how about you like tell me about your background
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i also haven't been counting how many questions we've done for this
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so far we're probably getting close to 10 like eight okay
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so for me my ancestors
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or my great grandparents are from a variety of european countries like switzerland norway um wales
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and i'm probably forgetting a couple but those are oh poland yes
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or um uh belarus yes when you lived in new york city what neighborhood did you live in?
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So I lived a couple different places.
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I lived up in Inwood, which is very northern tip of Manhattan, right by Inwood Hill Park.
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And then I moved up to the Bronx, right by Dan Cortland Park.
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So I was always kind of like the northern part of New York City.
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Cool.
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Well, should we pick another topic?
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Sports, books, and music.
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Oh, this sounds like a Jeopardy topic.
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I was going to say this sounds like Trivial Pursuit.
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Like, let's get a piece of the green pie.
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Let's go.
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And sports, books and music all right so i picked the question
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so i ask yeah have you seen any new movies recently
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like did you see the odyssey ah i no i did
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not see the odyssey it's on my list of things to
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do um i've not gone to the movies a lot the
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last few years i don't know it kind of fell off for me
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but like well tomorrow's a rainy day
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so it might be a good movie day i would love to see
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that i've heard really good things
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if you have any movie recommendations for a rainy day please let us know in the comments that's
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but i will say i am a huge studio ghibli fan yes
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and so i've been watching a couple of ghibli movies
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that i've seen again like howl's moving castle yes we enjoy those we do um i know
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that you're athletic and that you like to do some half marathons
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and full marathons i try i do my best you dance
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and things like
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that i don't think i know like do you have a favorite sports team oh are there any sports
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that you actually follow you know i've always really enjoyed soccer um
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and or football in the rest of the world i don't really have a favorite team
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because i've lived in
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so many different places i feel like i can't just pick one i just i enjoy the sport
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because it's fast -paced and the fans are truly fanatics and
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that kind of energy
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and passion is just um it's uh uh what's the word
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i'm looking for it is intoxicating it is um no really
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what's the word though i can't think of it it is like
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when they pass it on to you it is contagious contagious thank you yes um
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so yeah so the energy is contagious and one of my favorite memories was
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when i lived in boston i went to see a brazil versus mexico soccer game
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that must have been awesome oh
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that was fun yes cool yes i think back actually my favorite you said you loved living in japan
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when i was visiting japan i got to go see a baseball game over there oh neat and
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if people don't know in japan they take baseball as seriously
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as most the rest of the world takes football soccer yes
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and they have songs and chants and they have uh women with kegs
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of beer strapped to there
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that bring you beer it's just amazing oh i'd love to go all right we'll put
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that on our japan to -do list japanese
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if anyone is watching from japan please uh let us know
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when we can come see a game with you please
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and thank you do you like live music in fact i
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do yeah i know i do like going to live music
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shows um i don't do it as much as probably lot of other people do
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but like i find like when i do actually go i really really enjoy it
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so like it's something i probably should be doing more
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because every time i go and do it i enjoy it um
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but i'm actually a huge reggae fan oh yeah that's one
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of the things about living here in maine that's not as
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great is like there's not as many big reggae names
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that come through i mean shout out to the main reggae
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scene not to put you down there's some good stuff going on here too
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but you know compared to new york or boston
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or one of those big cities this is a smaller population up here yeah yeah absolutely okay um all right
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so gabby have you read any good books lately i stopped reading, not entirely.
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I stopped reading for a little bit because I've been just all consumed with moving and renovations.
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And, um, also we've started going to the gym again.
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And so I've gotten back into audio books.
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I mean, I don't know if that counts as reading, but kind of that's a great question.
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Audience poll.
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What do you think?
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How do audio books count as reading or is that listening um
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but i have a few books on hold at the library right now
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that i need to pick up on the topics of marathon running okay
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so tips especially for women preparing for a marathon i don't know
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if that's any different than men preparing for a marathon
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but it sounded interesting to me
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and another topic is i think i found some books about
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identifying plants like edible foraging for edible plants here in me
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because you really inspired me honestly because he knows every plant you guys
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because he's a ranger he's like look do you know what
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that is and i don't of course not
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but he knows all of the plants and he knows what you can eat
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and not eat
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so i'm trying to study up that's very kind of you i don't know all the plants
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but i know a few you know a lot i actually
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just saw some ghost pipe coming up on a walk with i don't even know what
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that is you could make that up monotropa uniflora ghost pipe a medicinal
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and cool cool plant if you say so i do okay
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so you know i just recently moved back to maine
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if i wanted to get to know maine again through sports books
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or music is there a recommendation you have for me okay
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so let's start with sports okay uh we do have a couple local sports teams
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so we got the portland sea dogs yes play baseball
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so they're like in the middle of their season
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so it would be really fun to go catch a game totally yeah
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and then coming up i mean you know as it gets
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the weather gets a little colder it makes me think of
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hockey season oh yeah we have the the main mariners hockey
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team that's right i'm i've gotten more into hockey the last couple years myself
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because i've been traveling a lot more through canada
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and had a chance to go to a couple nhl games
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and i get to watch a couple tv shows i watch are about hockey
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so i've been kind of like more into hockey
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so i'm actually really excited to go check out you know
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what i would like to check out in addition to that
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but i believe they're all sold out is the hearts of pine soccer games yeah
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that is like the hottest really popular
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yeah yeah it's hard to get a ticket to the hearts
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of pines yeah i met a couple who told me that they
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got to see the games because only because they joined the band
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that plays for the games oh cool and i asked them
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if i could join i said i can shake a tambourine
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i can play guitar i'm mean on the kazoo oh actually
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do you play any instruments oh great question um currently no
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in the past uh i've used to do a lot of percussion
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so like hand drums like congas bongos djembe uh different types of like shakers
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and rattles and stuff like that so
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when i was young again going back to being into reggae
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music like i used to play in some reggae bands here in portland wow
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so i used to play all different types of percussion
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so i have really good rhythm
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but like couldn't read a sheet of music to save my life okay um
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but i'm also i have like kind of like a bucket
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list goal of i want to build it's called a cigar box guitar it's basically like a three -string guitar
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that you make out a cigar box
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so that's on the horizon maybe i'll learn to do
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that very cool yeah
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and i'm going to flip this one around yeah what about
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you do you play any instruments I play guitar I learned to play
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when I was 12 or 13 and I never really took it very seriously
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but I learned how to play the basic chords
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and how to sing while I play
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and then I just kind of got into other things
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but I still have a guitar and that's about it I learned a little piano
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but yeah that's about it so
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if I build a cigar box guitar you can teach me like a couple basics I could maybe yeah yeah
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so I'm ask a question that goes slightly further than small talk okay
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because i like i like going a little deeper okay
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so um thinking about books is there a book
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that comes to your mind
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that maybe changed your life yeah actually there is uh yes
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there's a book called the obstacle is the way by um ryan holiday who is an author
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and actually owns a bookstore in texas
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and this is a book that's about stoicism
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so it taught me you know i don't want to i don't want to give up any um
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what are they called spoilers spoilers yes thank you i don't want to i don't want to spoil it
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if you want to read the book but let's just say it helps me reframe the way i think about things
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so i really like that book i can link to it below in
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the comments and the description
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so you can check it out cool uh what about you
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i yes um i've had several books throughout my life
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that have really kind of changed my life or
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that i've really gravitated towards i would say most recently um
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there's an author named richard roar who is a franciscan uh
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monk priest friar i'm not sure the exact title franciscan
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and uh he wrote a book called falling upward oh
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that sounds good
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and it's all about kind of like first half of your life versus the second half of your life
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and like to get to the second half of life you have to face challenges
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and what you do with those challenges kind of determines how you grow it's pretty deep
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and pretty in there
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and helped me a lot during a challenging time in my life would you say it's an easy read
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or like more advanced like
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if someone's learning English at the intermediate level would they enjoy
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it I would say it is more advanced more advanced okay
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but maybe a good challenge we were talking about audiobooks oh I think that's a great way to listen to
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that one because Richard Rohr actually narrates that one himself oh I like
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that and I actually got more out of listening to it than I did
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when I read it so I think that's the way to go yeah
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but it's funny you bring up like a more entry -level book
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that people might want to read another life -changing book of mine is uh the Tao of Pooh
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so it's um Pooh Bear Pooh Bear not yeah Yes.
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Winnie the Pooh.
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Winnie the Pooh.
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But it's basically like kind of explaining Daoism through the characters of Winnie the Pooh.
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That sounds like a great one.
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Like if you're looking for a recommendation, a lot of people ask me, you know, what books to read if they're learning English.
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So I think that would be a fun one.
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I'll link to these all in the description.
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Benjamin Hoff, I believe, is the author.
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Okay.
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I think.
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Okay.
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We'll double check and check the link.
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Awesome.
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That's a great recommendation.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I say it's time for the next topic let's do it pets
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and animals favorite topic yes right up there with food
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all right you picked it
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so i get to ask the first one yeah hey gabby
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do you have any pets i do i have a siberian
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husky dog her name is misha uh she is about nine years old
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and she's very fluffy
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and very cute has misha ever cameoed on any of your videos i don't think
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so not yet it's about it's about time i know maybe
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the next one you guys you got to like share subscribe comment do all the things
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and then yes if this how about this
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if this video gets more than 10 000 views then misha
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will be in the next one all right you heard it here folks that's a promise
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uh click that like and subscribe button yeah get me on camera um
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so you know obviously well i was gonna say you know obviously we're asking questions
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that maybe we already know the answer to like i knew you had a dog yeah um
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so yeah misha is the coolest dog i just want to
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say i'm glad you like her she loves you yeah she's amazing
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so do you have a dog i do have a dog uh his name is ranger
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and it's because so i used to be a park ranger
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but that's not why he's named ranger i thought why did
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you name him ranger i thought a cool name for a dog
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because i'm like uh speaking about books i'm a lord of the rings fan
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so i thought of the character aragorn and aragorn is known as a ranger
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so my dog was either going to be named ranger
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or strider because that's another one of his nicknames
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so ended up with ranger and it just
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so happens i was a park ranger too that's funny
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but he's a he's a cattle who limits he's crazy smart uh crazy stubborn
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and i love him to death he's my hiking buddy yeah
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he's a good boy um all right uh have you ever
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had any other pets besides misha yes i had a dog before misha
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so misha was the friend of my first dog okay
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and then that dog unfortunately passed away um but
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that is all really when i was very young uh five years old
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or so we had a dog
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but since then i hadn't had a pet okay yeah what
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about you i had lots of pets over the years especially
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as a kid as a kid i had well i had
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a dog growing up his name was drifter okay um
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and then growing up i also had a turtle named ted
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a box turtle i had an aquarium with a bunch of fish
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and some aquatic frogs my mom had some um finches what
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are finches oh birds right okay finches in the cage yes
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um my dad actually had like a small parrot for a
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while oh wow and then in my adult life i've actually had 14 pet rats believe it
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or not i just got goosebumps 15 pet rats um i
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will defend rats in my dying day rats are amazing creatures
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they're smart they're clean they make amazing pets they're wonderful little creatures
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and they have a really bad reputation
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so i'm gonna stand up for rats all day long shout out to any rat lovers out there i learned
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that there are wild rats which you don't want in your home and then there are pet rats which are domestic.
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I didn't know this before okay well I asked you a couple how about you questions
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so I feel like I should ask you another small talk question okay do you know
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if there is a dog park near here
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that I could take my dog to that's a great question um one of the things
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that I wish South Portland had was a dog park
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because there's none here which is a bummer there's a couple parks here in South Portland
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that you can take your dog off leash um
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but the closest dog parks I know of are across the bridge in portland sure
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so um you have a couple i forget the names of them right now
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but a couple dog parks over in portland
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that you can take to not too far away do you
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have any favorite wild animals do i have any favorite wild animals um i don't know
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if this is a small talk question but why not sure okay
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if you're a nerd like me you're a nature nerd you're like do you like hawks or owls
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okay okay i like horses i like wild horses i think
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they're very beautiful i i like all animals i mean as long as they're not chasing me
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or trying to eat me like a bear when i'm hiking
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or something but um yeah i i'll just say i like horses i have a beautiful um framed
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photograph it's it's very large you've probably seen it of of
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a beautiful horse that's running yeah i think yeah very cool
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so i think it's interesting that there's a lot of dog friendly restaurants
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and cafes here yeah there's a few yes what are some places
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that you think that we could bring our dogs
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or not bring our dogs because like this morning
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and i think this is interesting culturally so maybe you could tell us too
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if in your country
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or your city where you're living is it normal for people to bring their dogs
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or their pets to a cafe like this morning we went to a cafe
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and there was a sign that said no pets only service animals
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so we did not bring my dog inside but i think there's restaurants
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or cafes where you can bring your dog
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or breweries right a lot of breweries yeah yeah it's really interesting like here it usually is breweries
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that kind of allow dogs most of the time i guess there's something about like beer
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and dogs just go together maybe because there's no food maybe
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and it's usually kind of an industrial building where you have
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a lot of outdoor space yeah outdoor space it might have
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to do yeah something with like the um you know the the codes the laws that
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if there's a certain level of food you can't have pets
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i don't know there's probably something legal about it some breweries might fit into
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that cool area are there any animals
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that you're afraid of oh good question um well like i said
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if there was a big bear
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and i was hiking i probably wouldn't want to get too close i'm very respectful of wildlife um especially
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if it could eat me you know sharks yes i think they're
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that is yours yeah i think they're amazing
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but do i want to go pet them no yeah no
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i i have a the closest thing i have to a phobia is sharks um
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and i don't know if it's fair to call it a phobia
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because it is a prehistoric cold bloody killing machine sure
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but i like sharks too i think they're cool like i i'm afraid of them
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and i think they're super cool amazing creatures
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that have a right to respect for them be in their home
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and it's us that are the visitors in the ocean
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so respect to sharks
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but they do scare me a little okay i have another question for you do you like
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or do you know how to do horseback riding ah I
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mean I wouldn't say I like an expert horseback okay
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but I've been you know five or six times in my life okay
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so I feel like I could get on a horse
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and know the basics of what to do
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and probably put the saddle on correctly if I had to
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and you know something yeah so I have definitely enjoy horseback riding
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but probably a better idea of like someone guides me sure
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is there yeah professional yeah yeah okay what are you doing this weekend mike ah
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so uh well it's saturday today
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so i'm making this video with you that's part of what i love it this weekend yes
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and then uh probably gonna cook some dinner afterwards got some steak marinating
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so i'm looking forward to that um
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and then tomorrow uh i think i'm going to be helping you to paint i hope
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so and then uh possibly might go down to boston for a little salsa festival latin dance festival we'll see
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that would be fun that would be fun yeah and
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if we don't do
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that then maybe we'll go catch some live music here yes
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more local there's festivals everywhere right now it's kind of the end of the summer
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we're in september but i feel like we're getting the last of the outdoor festivals and events
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so we have to make the most of them what did
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you do this past week oh this past week has been a blur honestly with renovations going on
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and then um just yeah just trying to stay on top
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of life admin my to -do list it has been such
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a blur um I'm trying to think of like I mean this week like
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I cannot even remember honestly like half the things
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that have gone on this past week that is a busy week
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so follow a question yes what do you like to do to relax after a long week like
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when you've had a really busy week what do you like to do to relax
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and and kind of just chill back out a bit i like to check out a festival maybe
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if there's live music or dancing i love to go out to eat um
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but for a special occasion i don't like to go out
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to eat every day i would say yeah at the end
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of the week you know what last week it was really fun going to
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that sound bath have you guys ever heard of a sound bath have you been to one
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that was very relaxing i enjoyed that but
501
that was actually last friday yes which is crazy to think about so this last week just flew by
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what are you looking forward to in the coming weeks
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so in the coming weeks i am very much looking forward to getting out to nature
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and doing some hikes
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because like i said this is my favorite time of the year like the weather is just
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so crisp and beautiful and it's not too hot and
507
and you know mosquitoes are getting less and the bugs are getting less
508
and Maine's getting a little less busy after a really busy summer with a lot of visitors
509
which we love the visitors but you know right to have the hiking trails back
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and yeah do all that so that's crowded I'm really excited to go out
511
and have some um outdoor adventures maybe even do some camping oh fun oh
512
that sounds great yeah
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so you know as we're sitting here there's lots of people riding bikes by uh do you ever go biking
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or having plans yes i love biking yeah i actually have
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plans i think it's this coming weekend to do the main lighthouse ride yeah okay
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so uh maybe by the time i get this edited
517
and posted it will have already happened but i'm really excited for
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that i haven't really been training that much okay i wanted to train
519
but we've been doing weight lifting i've been doing a little jogging
520
so i feel like i'm in decent condition for that
521
so um so now that it's fall and we're talking a lot about
522
that like what is your ideal fall weekend
523
if you could plan a perfect fall weekend what would include this is not a small talk question
524
so my ideal fall weekends would be it would involve things
525
that you enjoy like hiking camping maybe a sauna maybe like a jump in the lake
526
or the ocean um some good food maybe like a campfire and s'mores yeah that sounds awesome yeah and a cute sweater
527
let's make
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that happen let's do it i like it yeah okay deal
529
deal done all right what's your favorite day of the week ah what is my favorite day of the week
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today i like
531
that um you know it's hard to beat sunday that's true
532
it's hard to beat sunday i feel like people are like
533
they're chill they've had a day to relax yeah um you know
534
if you work a normal nine to five mother through friday like a lot of people do
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so like the weekend is like there's a lot going on yeah um
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but you know it's it's a chill fun relaxing day to go out
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and like have fun
538
and there's a lot of events going on i think especially
539
here it's sunday is still seen as a day of rest
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and fun and family time and that's not true everywhere
541
but here it is i agree i like
542
that yeah my turn all right oh my gosh we only
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have two left we can do this as the sun is
544
the sun is yeah we only have how many wait you
545
taught me how to how to like judge the sunset half
546
an hour okay we better hurry up all right uh shared situations
547
or observations this is a bonus topic actually
548
but this is a really good small talk topic so um
549
so maybe explain this to me oh yeah
550
so it's just looking around okay so you're in person with someone
551
that you're talking to got it um or you don't have to be actually
552
but we're in person of course like we're not ai this is a real
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person i'm a real person do some cool effects where i just like dissolve
554
and like my mic is gone no no okay uh
555
but yeah we're gonna be asking questions or observing our environments
556
so i guess if you were talking to someone on facetime
557
or zoom or something it would be a little different
558
but you could still do this yeah so we actually just did
559
that we were looking at the sun going down
560
and i asked you about you know how much time do we have judging from the sun okay
561
so we were actually doing this topic before i even picked
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it cool it's amazing can i teach you people at home real quick
563
that trick of course all right so
564
if you want to know how much sunlight you have left
565
here's a cool trick you look at the sun not directly it'll hurt your eyes
566
but you know look at the sun you want to hold out your hand
567
and put your pointer finger just below the rim of the sun
568
and then count how many fingers it takes to get down to the horizon
569
so for me right now it's two fingers each finger is about 15 minutes left of sunlight
570
but the cool thing is like hurts my eyes
571
i have bigger fingers than gabby because i'm a bigger guy
572
but my arms are also longer so it kind of works for all different people
573
that is so interesting yeah i love that trick it's very helpful like
574
if you're out hiking
575
or just even now yeah you're out recording a video yeah um all right
576
so observations did you see that big dragonfly
577
that just flew by no that's my favorite type of insect
578
oh really yeah do you have a favorite insect by any
579
uh favorite insects well i mean butterflies they're really beautiful yeah right yeah um
580
so it's getting a little cooler do you like this weather more
581
or do you miss the hotter weather uh no this is
582
my perfect weather this is like a little bit cool like
583
i feel like i'm more of like a flannel kind of
584
sweater kind yes you look nice in your flannel thank you yes appreciate
585
that yes um so yeah you know like
586
when it gets to be fleece season flannel season sweater season that's my time to shine i like
587
that weather yes you know because like you really go hike hard yes
588
and not be a sweaty mess yes you know yes
589
so true okay this is kind of observational or question small talk
590
so they're talking about getting rid of daylight savings time here like what do you think about
591
that you know i would like that
592
because i always get confused about time zones and time changes
593
and i would just like one less thing to worry about
594
when i lived in hawaii why doesn't recognize day last time
595
it was awesome i loved it oh yeah worry about
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when are we changing
597
and what i think it's kind of a relic from times gone by like
598
when everyone was a farmer yeah
599
and now we're not farming anymore i mean some people do
600
but like not everyone not everyone right yeah yeah i don't
601
see any leaves changing color yet are you looking forward to doing some leaf peeping in the coming months
602
or two month
603
or two absolutely that's one of those things i think about
604
living in maine in the northeast never gets old like every year it's almost like a tradition
605
that you got to go out and like check out the leaves
606
but for me like i'm red green colorblind actually
607
so for me sometimes the trees and stuff
608
that stands out to me might be a little bit more boring to other people interesting
609
or vice versa some some people like look at
610
that beautiful amazing like red purple tree you're like what
611
which one oh but it's fun though yeah yeah okay you still enjoy it yeah oh
612
so again you know just the sun's going down on us
613
here we're losing a little light have you ever seen the green flash
614
what's the green flash ah so like
615
if you are watching the sunset like over the ocean where have a clear view sometimes
616
if you're lucky
617
if the conditions are just right as the sun is setting
618
down below the horizon at the very end it goes like
619
this little green flash of light really yeah the weather's been really great lately i'm wondering
620
because you know it's gonna change it's gonna get colder we're
621
gonna have rain all day tomorrow is there anything you're really looking forward to doing before not necessarily before tomorrow
622
but like before it gets colder like before winter comes like
623
yeah before the first snow okay um yeah uh i you know
624
when you live in maine i think you learn to just
625
soak up the warmer weather yeah you gotta get out
626
while it's good you gotta get while the getting's good yes um
627
so i'm looking forward to just spending a lot of time
628
outdoors yeah a lot of hiking like there's still yeah there's still like a good month
629
or two left of good kayak weather you know what i
630
want to do i actually want to go swimming before it
631
gets colder i know the ocean is really cold up here but i have a i have a long sleeve swimsuit
632
and i think it'll be not too cold i might regret it later
633
but i'm looking forward to
634
that well actually i think like in september beginning september the ocean still warm
635
because like kind of warmed up most of the summer yeah exactly
636
so the water kind of holds heat yes a little bit a little bit longer
637
so this might be a good time to go swimming yeah yeah okay cool do you have a favorite car
638
that you've ever owned oh favorite car um
639
that i've ever owned well my first car has a special
640
place in my heart it was a toyota what was it it was a station wagon of some kind
641
but it was nothing special but my first car it was special
642
because it gave me that freedom to get out of my parents house
643
and just go out on my own so that was really exciting
644
and i think i still have that feeling about cars
645
and camper vans which we've been looking at
646
that idea of um being on the road it's just exciting
647
like you could go anywhere i'm a big fan of road trips
648
so yeah um follow -up question yes i'm interested yeah
649
so you having lived in many many different countries
650
and visited many countries do you feel like road trips are like a quintessentially american thing
651
or do you think it happens in other countries too well i think it happens in other countries of course
652
but and because the u .s is
653
so big i mean we have a lot of different cities to visit
654
and a lot of different regions a lot of different like topography and geography
655
and all you know the different um even different cultures in
656
the u .s to to check out um it is a really quintessential thing to go road tripping yeah
657
and you know what else it is it's
658
because most cities you need a car to get around
659
so a lot of americans have to have cars so then
660
that ends up being what we do for fun is driving around
661
or driving to another city
662
so there's very few cities in the u .s where you
663
don't really need a car yeah it's true like new england
664
cities um washington dc where else i think really that's like
665
you know new york boston dc it's hard it's hard to
666
live there maybe yeah i've never lived there i haven't either
667
so did you see the ducks in the river back there yes absolutely
668
so i'm a little bit of a bird watcher ah probably no shock there
669
so yeah it's just always cool to see different waterfowl
670
and actually as the seasons change as the winter comes like
671
that's one of the the cool types of birds go looking for is different types of waterfowl
672
so yeah we got some mallard ducks
673
that were in the stream right over here
674
which is always cool to see the mallards and american black ducks sometimes
675
and some other cool stuff okay i love it um are you like into wildlife watching at all
676
or i know you're not really a bird watcher i like people watching okay that's
677
that can be kind of like wildlife yeah uh i am
678
curious about learning more about wildlife bird watching learning more about uh foraging for edible plants
679
so you are inspiring me to learn more about the natural world around us
680
but to be honest i have never really learned about it yeah
681
so i've always been more interested in learning about people
682
and culture languages
683
that kind of thing yeah what do you really like about
684
people watching well i think human behavior in psychology is fascinating
685
like why do we do the things we do why do we say the things we say um
686
so i like to observe people and sometimes i can learn from them
687
and you know improve my own uh uh way of doing things
688
and sometimes i like to watch people because they're funny they make me laugh
689
but always entertaining i suppose awesome all right well the sun
690
is starting to go down i think we have one piece
691
of paper left okay let's do it we can do it
692
oh i like this one it's a bonus one oh let's
693
see compliments compliments we can nail this we got this does it have to be a question
694
or no just i think it's just saying a compliment
695
because you can start a conversation with anyone with a compliment
696
and you could ask a question okay
697
so for example i'm gonna i'm gonna add a question to mine please do okay
698
so i love your shirts thank you where did you get
699
it you know i do a lot of my shopping actually at thrift shops oh i love
700
that reuse and recycle yeah yeah um so this is a thrift shop find
701
and it's l l bean classic shirt
702
but i got it for a really good thrift price
703
and i just like the color on me it is a
704
nice thank you combination of colors yes it's good to hear
705
that because i'm red green colorblind and i never know there's a lot of red
706
and green in your shirt cool yeah the more you know
707
and you know i actually really do love your shirt too thank you um where did you get
708
that i feel like it's a it's a fall shirt it
709
has like fall colors um i actually thrifted this year i think i got it at a consignment store
710
or a thrift store many years ago yeah but it's it's one
711
that i pull out around this time of year around september
712
because it feels very fall inspired autumn inspired love your enthusiasm
713
for bird watching thank you yeah uh how did you get into
714
that um i'll give you the short version okay so uh
715
when i became a park ranger in new york city um at
716
that point i wasn't really a bird watcher
717
and i got stationed up in the bronx okay
718
and all the other bronx rangers were pretty much like hardcore bird watchers
719
so when we went on patrol in the parks we always brought our binoculars
720
or they always brought their binoculars so i learned pretty quickly
721
that if i didn't get into bird watching i was gonna have a very boring time on patrol
722
so i started learning
723
and i ended up loving it i remember the first bird
724
i ever identified on my own with like the field guide was a dark -eyed junco
725
that was the first bird where i was like oh that's what
726
that is and like that kind of was like a spark moment for me
727
so i love how professional you are with your youtube channel
728
and like you just seem so natural in front the camera
729
and you know like how long did it take you to
730
get to the point where you felt this comfortable a long
731
time it took about a hundred videos to feel comfortable for sure yeah
732
if you go back and you look at my videos from the oldest
733
and you look at the first few videos i feel very awkward like i'm embarrassed to have you watch them
734
but i leave them up there
735
because i think it's good to see where i started
736
and where we are now like
737
when i talk in the first few videos my voice is
738
very quiet i sound really shy i look i think i look shy um
739
and the more you just do it the better you get
740
so that's my advice if you're thinking about starting your own channel
741
or making more videos is don't overthink it just do it
742
just start doing it i was about to say i think
743
that is awesome advice for people learning english yeah oh totally like like
744
if you're learning another language you're gonna feel awkward at first
745
you're gonna feel shy about it you're gonna feel like you don't know what you're doing
746
and you're gonna be self -conscious
747
but the more you do it the more you practice then
748
it just becomes more natural just do it don't wait for
749
perfection yeah you have to just start using the language
750
and you could do that right now by repeating after us the questions
751
that we're asking the answers that we're saying that's called shadowing like
752
when you hear English and you say it right away
753
or you could pause the video
754
and you know take your time to repeat after us
755
but that's how you start using it right now
756
and then choose one or two questions from our spontaneous conversation
757
that you're gonna use in your next conversation or you could
758
if you don't have anyone to talk to because I'm always getting emails
759
and comments that say I don't have anyone to speak English with
760
so you could start by journaling the answers you could start
761
by writing out your own dialogue you know scripting a little conversation on paper
762
or on your phone or wherever you like to write
763
and you could even start speaking to yourself
764
or like record yourself on your phone there's a lot of ways
765
that you can practice
766
and just start you don't have to wait until you have someone to talk to
767
or the perfect situation there really is never a perfect situation right you just have to start talking
768
and even if you make a mistake
769
or ask a silly question it's okay at least you are
770
getting out there putting yourself out there yes yeah all right
771
so the topic's compliments yeah is it my turn well it might be
772
but i'm gonna jump on this anyway okay
773
so i think as one teacher to another because i've taught about nature
774
and stuff for
775
so long i think you're an incredible teacher i think like you're really good at what you do
776
and i think that you're just a natural at like encouraging people
777
and things like that thank you are there any um like tv shows
778
or other things like that that you recommend that people can watch
779
if you're an adult learning english i don't recommend children's shows
780
unless maybe you have an interest in like elementary education
781
or you have a child yourself
782
and you're watching the shows together i think the best thing you can do is find a tv show
783
or movie or book about something that you're interested in
784
so whatever your passion is find something in english
785
that you can do that interests you or read about or watch although i am a fan of
786
watching reality tv shows on netflix all right for learning english
787
because i feel like the conversations are more realistic
788
because they're reality shows my advice is just find something
789
that you're interested in and then you can learn english through that
790
cool i really admire how you start a conversation with anyone anywhere um do you think about
791
that do you think about like how am i going to talk with new people today
792
or does it just kind of flow naturally like yeah like do you
793
because i think sometimes when you're learning another language
794
and you want to talk with people in
795
that language you think about it a lot like i think about it like
796
if i'm in japan
797
and i want to speak japanese i'm really like you know what can i say
798
or like in spanish i think about well what can i say to start a conversation in spanish
799
because it's not as automatic or natural as it is in your first language
800
so like i don't know do you think about it
801
or does you just feel automatic i would say even in my native language even in english it's a skill
802
that i had to learn yeah you know like growing up
803
i was more of a shy kid i'm an only i'm an only child me too
804
so i did mention my brother in the previous video i
805
don't want you to think i'm a liar i quickly i met my brother later in life
806
so i grew up as an only child
807
and then we connected after we were
808
that same experience i have an older sister
809
that met later in life yes so that's cool
810
but we grew up as only children
811
so we were just like in our own worlds talking to ourselves
812
so yeah for me it was a skill
813
that i had to learn it was a skill i had to acquire uh through practice
814
and being able to talk to people um and i still don't think i'm
815
it's nice for you to give me a compliment and say
816
that you think i'm good at it
817
because like sometimes i still feel like i'm awkward or that i'm not uh you know i think we always think
818
that we're more awkward than we actually are right yeah we're always like maybe our own worst critics oh
819
so that's that reminds me of some advice i got on
820
that topic like for anyone who wants to be more outgoing
821
and talk with anyone is like don't worry
822
so much about what other people think about you
823
because people are all just thinking about themselves we're all just thinking oh my gosh i'm
824
so awkward i'm you know so weird or whatever everyone's thinking
825
that so the best thing you can do is just show interest in other people, like ask questions like we're doing in this video, right?
826
That's the best thing you can do is show curiosity
827
and interest in other people
828
and have some of these questions in your back pocket to be ready
829
when you see someone that you might want to talk to.
830
And the other thing is like, I just try to talk with a lot of different people without an agenda right
831
because sometimes like for example when you're like single
832
and you're like oh i really want to talk to
833
that attractive person then you get all nervous about it
834
and you're like oh what do i say and you overthink it right
835
but if you just talk to most people it's like it strengthens
836
that muscle of how to talk to anyone yes
837
so yes confidence of just saying i have no agenda yeah
838
that gives you confidence we're just talking yeah yeah totally i want to get to know something about
839
that person yeah exactly awesome well this seems like a great
840
segue to to end to wrap up to wrap up yes also
841
because the sun's going down we have to empty our hat
842
is empty we have to ride off into the sunset
843
and go make some dinner thank you for watching
844
if you enjoyed this make sure to subscribe
845
and get your free pdf download of all the questions
846
that we asked in this video at gonaturalenglish .com anyone also
847
don't forget to watch part one where we had all different topics all different questions and answers
848
and i think it was a pretty fun video it was
849
about an hour of spontaneous english conversation really great for you
850
you're building your um it's strengthening your muscles to be able to talk to anyone anywhere anytime
851
and we have some good laughs we had some good laughs
852
too it was a fun time yeah all right well thanks for watching bye
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Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “How to Talk with Anyone: Master English Small Talk Conversation”. Este vídeo tem 852 frases e 9907 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 53:51. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 184 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 83% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| hike substantivo | /haɪk/ | caminhada, passeio |
| rat substantivo | /ɹæt/ | ratazana, rato |
| compliment substantivo | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | elogio |
| reggae substantivo | /ˈɹɛɡeɪ/ | reggae |
| marathon substantivo | /ˈmæɹəθən/ | maratona |
| thrift substantivo | /ˈθɹɪft/ | frugalidade, economia |
| brewery substantivo | /ˈbɹuːəɹi/ | cervejaria |
| recommendation substantivo | /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/ | recomendação |
| ancestor substantivo | /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ | ancestral, antepassado |
| café substantivo | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | café, cafeteria |
| flannel substantivo | /ˈflænəl/ | flanela |
| horseback advérbio | /ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/ | a cavalo |
| husky adjetivo | /ˈhʌs.ki/ | enrouquecido, rouco |
| finch substantivo | /fɪnt͡ʃ/ | fringilídeo |
| cigar substantivo | /sɪˈɡɑɹ/ | charuto |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crescer |
| look forward to verbo | ansiar por, estar ansioso para |
| check out verbo | verificar, sacar só |
| go out verbo | sair |
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar |
| go down verbo | descer |
| get out verbo | sair |
| bring up verbo | criar |
Frases que vale a pena repetir
Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:
- A lot of people always ask me, what country are you from?
- What do you think?
- I'll link to these all in the description.
- We'll double check and check the link.
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — uma ação que começou antes e continua | haven't been counting · i've been watching · i've been traveling |
| Frases condicionais if + oração, will/would + verbo — uma condição e seu resultado | if you're respectful people will welcome |
| “Used to” used to + verbo — um hábito ou estado do passado que não é mais verdade | used to play · used to be |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | i've been · i've lived · we've lived |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 284 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, thrift /ˈθɹɪft/
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, percussion /pɚˈkʌʃən/, renovation /ɹɛnəˈveɪʃən/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, renovation /ɹɛnəˈveɪʃən/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: hike /haɪk/, rat /ɹæt/, compliment /ˈkɑmpləmənt/, thrift /ˈθɹɪft/, horseback /ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: flannel /ˈflænəl/, edible /ˈɛdəbəl/, chill /tʃɪl/, patrol /pəˈtɹoʊl/
- /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hike /haɪk/, horseback /ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/, husky /ˈhʌs.ki/, horizon /həˈɹaɪ.zən/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como hike, rat, compliment.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.