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Unexpected English!
03/03/20
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(EP 43) Listen to real American English! Improve your listening skills with this Interview episode, complete with transcription to help you! Please support the podcast by telling your friends and sharing this link --> https://linktr.ee/unexpectedenglish
[Transcript] OK so I was walking down the street and I saw a United States Postal Service truck with a uhh uhh “postal carrier” inside. I that’s what we call, do we call “postal carrier” A “letter carrier,” yeah. Letter carrier -- it used to be mailman back in the day, but as you can tell from the voice I'm not talking to a mailman, I'm talking to uhhh.... uhhh... we don’t say “mail lady” that sounds funny! Yeah, no, a mail lady is about right, yeah, about right. OK mail man, mail lady, LETTER CARRIER, ok! So how long have you been a letter carrier? Since 2014. Since 2014 and ... how about walking, do have any idea how far you walk every day? It depends on the route. Um, I actually have a route over down the street from here. It's about 14 point something miles. Wait a minute, that's a long route... but you don't walk 14 miles. Well, no because, you know, you cover one side of the street and then you do the other side. So it's a good.. yeah it's a lot, it's a lot. Definitely more than 20,000 steps. So do you have a pedometer, I mean, do you ever check it out to see, it’s on your phone. Yeah, on the health app, on the iPhone. OK, and you said more than... It's definitely more than 20,000 steps. Right, so she does more than 20,000 steps uh, five days a week. Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. So, so OK that's why she know she's in shape because that’s 20,000 steps, five days a week delivering the mail. Umm, I'm thinking you must really hate Christmas time! Oh for sure, for sure! That's like, 12 hours plus every freaking day. For the whole season, it's so bad! And so can you tell people why, if they can't put two and two together, why a letter carrier would not like Christmas. Because of that, it's not only just packages but everything, always has to go out and that's like, every day. And it's ... it's a lot, it's a lot! It's just a lot of mail, a lotta Christmas cards, a lotta packages, a lotta presents, a lot of work! A lot of presents, for sure! OK, well that's about it, I guess I ran out of questions, but thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Yes of course, you’re welcome. Bye!
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Every 60 Seconds!
February 21, 2020
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(Ep 42) Another interview episode with a transcription to help you. I spoke too fast in this episode, I know, because I got agitated! That’s because "you know who" is still in the White House, and I'm sick of it! 🤮Please support the podcast by telling your friends and sharing this link --> https://linktr.ee/unexpectedenglish
[INTRO]
All right, so I was sitting at home and somebody rang my front doorbell, two young people. Can I say young people? Yes. OK, two young people. So tell me, young people, what is it that you're doing? We are protecting our oceans with Greenpeace. You're... wait a minute.. you're knocking on my door, I'm 7 miles from the ocean. I'm confused. Yeah, totally, so right now we're in the middle.... Yeah she's right, I'm totally confused! Yes you are! She got me! I’m totally confused No, no, c'mon, now seriously, you are representing... Yeah, Greenpeace. So a lot of people in the neighborhood support Greenpeace in our awesome campaigns. Today we're working on plastic pollution in the ocean. It's become a huge epidemic, I'm sure it's been on your radar lately. On my radar? On my radar? I mean, the oceans, at this point... What? What’s the problem with the ocean to this point? You don’t know? I do know! Oh, OK. That’s why we’re here. I was asking you! Oh, you don’t have to ask me, you don’t have to ask anybody, we all know. OK, good! We know. Yeah we definitely know. We all should be aware about the issues in the ocean. 🌊 So right now, every 60 seconds we’re seeing the equivalent of a garbage truck load of plastic enter our oceans. (music) Hear that again people? Every... could you said again slowly? Every 60 seconds we're seeing the equivalent of a dump truck load of plastic enter our oceans. A dump truck load of plastic into our oceans every 60 seconds. (music) Yep, it's horrible because then the whales eat it 🐳 and the turtles eat it and then they're not having a good time. It’s messed up! It's really messed up! But no need to fear, you know, Greenpeace is here! (laughter) All right, so what is... what is what is Greenpeace doing.... So we need to make Greenpeace a priority and the environment a priority. So how are we going to get that assh*le out of the White House? (YEAH, he's garbage!) That's our number one issue, isn’t it? Uh, so Greenpeace is non-partisan, we don't... Well, I’m partisan! I'm partisan! Aren’t you partisan? I’mm... working for Greenpeace Oh, he’s working for Greenpeace, so he can not say. Well there you go. I guess, uhh, that being the case, we can't uhhh get too political even though... well, no! Saving the planet, is that political?? No! I would say everybody should want to save the planet, everybody has a live on the planet.🌍 So what is wrong with the damn Republicans that they don't wanna save the planet? They just wanna keep on pollutin’ and pollutin’!!! 💀 Umm... "I can't say I’m working for Greenpeace." OK thanks we’ll cut it right there. Thanks everybody for listening, ciao ciao!
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From the Closet
March 22, 2020
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(EP 44) Your favorite English podcast here with a new episode from my closet! I try to sound positive. Does it work? [Transcript below]
Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of Unexpected English, your favorite English podcast! Yeah. Yeah this one is unexpected, maybe the most unexpected because, I dunno, I personally did not expect to be sitting in my closet ... sitting in my closet recording a podcast because I'm under quarantine. But I think you know all about it, right? Now, I mean, quarantine in Italy ... quarantine in Spain ... quarantine in France ... quarantine in New York and here in California.
So there it is. Now, what can I do to make your day a little happier? I don't know! I'm thinking, well people have more time for podcasts, that's for sure. But, at the same time, I .. I don't understand how people... some people apparently, can just, you know, go about their business, go about their theirtheir podcasting (and instagramming and facebooking) just like... oh, it's all good, life is good, huh? Because right, I know, it's not good for a lot of people. But... at the same time you don't want to hear about that right? You don't want I hear about that because you may be living that, right? So, who needs that! Um, I just wanted to explain anyway that well, obviously, for one thing, I won't be putting my phone in anybody's face anytime real soon for spontaneous interviews. And you know Unexpected English is always spontaneous!
So instead I thought I would sit here in my closet and see you what I would talk about. Although I can tell you I do have maybe two or three episodes ready and so when you hear those and they sound all so happy and you know, “Where is he?” and “How can you be out interviewing people?” They happened some time ago. Right? so I thought I would explain that. And I thought I would end a little solidarity out there to everybody who is ... uh.. living under... living under difficult conditions. Actually, and I can tell you here... I'm in California, and it's not bad here at all because we can go out. Everything is closed, and if you want to go shopping there’s, you know, there's no toilet paper! There's like a global panic on toilet paper I don't know. No toilet paper, but you can go and get groceries if you want to go out, you know. Personally we did some shopping here and hope to stay in for a few weeks and hope for the best. So that's our situation here, but I do go out every day and have a nice walk because I live in an area where I don't see very many people.
But again don't wanna talk about that don't want to talk about the quarantine. Anyway I guess I'm rambling at this point, so I'll just stop and say, well, I thought I should continue podcasting, even if, uh, I am only talking nonsense. At least you know I'm here and maybe it gives you something to listen to? And let me know how it's going and ...you can ... I'll catch you next time! All right, yeah. OK! See, I’m staying positive. That's what we need to do. So let's do that, all right? All right, we'll catch you next time. Ciao Ciao!
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