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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.

This is part two of our 100 small talk questions and answers and real spontaneous,

not planned, not scripted native English conversation.

I'm Gabby from Go Natural English and this is Mike, my wonderful boyfriend and we are back with our hat.

It's questions and we're topics how to how to how to topics yes

and then we make up the questions as we go our

goal is to come up with 10 questions per topic

and of course we'll be answering them as well

so we're going to try to keep them kind of light small talk questions so

that you can shadow along with us you can build your

toolbox of english small talk questions for your next conversation and

if you would like to download a free pdf with all of the questions

that we're asking each other so

that you can review them really easily you can do

that at gonaturalenglish .com anyone because the point of today is how to talk with anyone

because that's really fun right absolutely i mean most of the

time actually i think we do good at it like

when we're out getting coffee

and stuff we just strike up conversation i was just gonna

say this morning we took a really nice walk to a

new cafe well new for you i've been there once before

and we struck up conversations with multiple people along the way

how did we strike up conversations with strangers how did we

talk to anyone in the real world like what did we actually do i think some people talked to us

because i have a very cute husky dog a siberian husky

so a lot of people comments on my dog they say oh she's

so cute or i love your dog can i pet your dog

so that's a hack if you have a pet

that you can bring with you

or borrow someone else's pet do you remember anything else

that we did i mean no you hit the ultimate hack

having a cute dog in your life is the ultimate way to break the ice

and talk to people for sure yes probably works

if you have kids or babies too i would assume um

so having a cute child might work yeah

so should we jump right into it let's get into it

all right just before we start again i highly encourage you

to go to gonaturalenglish .com anyone to get your free download of all these questions

so you can practice along with us and review afterwards it's totally free

and it's like instant it'll show up in your inbox

when you enter your name and your email on the page all right

so who gets to start this time as always i always

say ladies first ladies first I think you should be first, Gabby.

Okay, I'm not looking, I'm not cheating.

Okay, the topic is where someone lives or where they are from.

Go for it.

So, Gabby, where did you grow up?

I grew up all over the place.

So, I wasn't really born and raised in any one particular place.

I was born in Minnesota, in the Midwest, in the United States.

A lot of people always ask me, what country are you from?

I am from the United States, born in Minnesota, but I lost most of my accent from the, from the, uh, from Minnesota.

Most of it.

Uh, now I have more of a standard American accent, I would say, from all my years of teaching and traveling and living abroad.

But when I was young, my family and I, my parents and I, we moved around a lot,

and we ended up living in several different states we lived in minnesota hawaii indiana maine where we are now

and then as an adult i lived all over the world normally i would ask how about you yes um

but we're going we're going yeah we're going like new questions

yes you guys you're gonna have to just wait to find out where mike is from where do you live

so i live right here in south portland maine um this

is yeah don't say your address yeah okay i'm not

that new to the world a little wet behind my ears no

so uh i live here in south portland maine um you know

and to answer the question where i grew up i grew up here um i wasn't born here

but i was born in new york city

but um i grew up in south portland then i traveled around a lot

and i've lived in new york city as an adult i

lived in santa fe new mexico i lived in maui hawaii

and then eventually found myself back here in maine

so i am here yeah i think that's why we get along

so well we've lived many different places

and then we met here yes um okay what else could

i ask you about well do you well where was your

favorite place to live out of all the places i lived um i feel like again this is like just inviting

comments

but uh i'm gonna go with maui hawaii i mean it's

hard to turn down paradise yes you know hawaii you know they talk about the aloha spirit

and i found that to be true the the people there are just

so kind so friendly and if you're respectful people will welcome you in

and with open arms and open heart

and of course it's a tropical paradise you can go snorkeling

go hiking go swimming in waterfalls swimming in the ocean yeah it's just incredible yeah yeah

if people haven't traveled to hawaii put it on your bucket

highly recommended i mentioned also as a child i spent a couple years living in hawaii

and it was magical so i agree um so gabby

if you weren't living here in maine where do you think

you might enjoy living well that's a great question i've enjoyed

living in different countries in different cities in the u .s

i think i would enjoy living you know i'd love to go back to japan we've talked about

that a little bit i think that would be really fun i like places

that um where i can like use another language

so even in the u .s

if it's somewhere where there's um a lot of maybe french speakers

or spanish speakers that's really fun for me

or hawaii there's a lot of japanese speakers um i recently

this is an update since the last video you guys i

recently moved from kansas city to back to portland maine

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

476

and then uh probably gonna cook some dinner afterwards got some steak marinating

477

so i'm looking forward to that um

478

and then tomorrow uh i think i'm going to be helping you to paint i hope

479

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

481

if we don't do

482

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

484

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

487

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

495

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

497

to eat every day i would say yeah at the end

498

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

500

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

502

what are you looking forward to in the coming weeks

503

so in the coming weeks i am very much looking forward to getting out to nature

504

and doing some hikes

505

because like i said this is my favorite time of the year like the weather is just

506

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

510

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

513

so you know as we're sitting here there's lots of people riding bikes by uh do you ever go biking

514

or having plans yes i love biking yeah i actually have

515

plans i think it's this coming weekend to do the main lighthouse ride yeah okay

516

so uh maybe by the time i get this edited

517

and posted it will have already happened but i'm really excited for

518

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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the sun is yeah we only have how many wait you

545

taught me how to how to like judge the sunset half

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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

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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

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so for me right now it's two fingers each finger is about 15 minutes left of sunlight

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but the cool thing is like hurts my eyes

571

i have bigger fingers than gabby because i'm a bigger guy

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but my arms are also longer so it kind of works for all different people

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that is so interesting yeah i love that trick it's very helpful like

574

if you're out hiking

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or just even now yeah you're out recording a video yeah um all right

576

so observations did you see that big dragonfly

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that just flew by no that's my favorite type of insect

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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

596

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
hike существительное	/haɪk/	похо́д, экску́рсия
gabby прилагательное	/ˈɡæb.i/	болтливый, разгово́рчивый
rat существительное	/ɹæt/	кры́са, пасю́к
compliment существительное	/ˈkɑmpləmənt/	комплиме́нт, похвала́
reggae существительное	/ˈɹɛɡeɪ/	ре́гги, рэ́гги
marathon существительное	/ˈmæɹəθən/	марафо́н
thrift существительное	/ˈθɹɪft/	бережли́вость, эконо́мность
brewery существительное	/ˈbɹuːəɹi/	пивова́ренный заво́д, пивова́рня
recommendation существительное	/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/	рекоменда́ция
ancestor существительное	/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/	пре́док, прароди́тель
café существительное	/ˌkæˈfeɪ/	кафе́, кофе́йня
flannel существительное	/ˈflænəl/	флане́ль
horseback наречие	/ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/	верхо́м
husky прилагательное	/ˈhʌs.ki/	хри́плый, си́плый
finch существительное	/fɪnt͡ʃ/	зя́блик

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Слово	Значение
grow up глагол	расти́, выраста́ть
look forward to глагол	ждать с нетерпе́нием, не мочь дожда́ться
check out глагол	проверя́ть, прове́рить
go out глагол	выходи́ть, вы́йти
end up глагол	зака́нчиваться, зако́нчиться
go down глагол	спуска́ться, спусти́ться
bring up глагол	воспи́тывать, воспита́ть
come up глагол	поднима́ться, подня́ться

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

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.

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing — действие началось раньше и продолжается	haven't been counting · i've been watching · i've been traveling
Условные предложения if + предложение, will/would + глагол — условие и его результат	if you're respectful people will welcome
«Used to» used to + глагол — прошлая привычка или состояние, которых больше нет	used to play · used to be
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	i've been · i've lived · we've lived

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 284 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, you're, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, thrift /ˈθɹɪft/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, shout /ʃaʊt/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, percussion /pɚˈkʌʃən/, renovation /ɹɛnəˈveɪʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/, binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, renovation /ɹɛnəˈveɪʃən/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: watcher /ˈwɑ.t͡ʃɚ/, sweater /ˈswɛtɚ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: hike /haɪk/, horseback /ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/, husky /ˈhʌs.ki/, horizon /həˈɹaɪ.zən/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, forage /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как hike, gabby, rat.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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