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[Assistant] Right, I get what you're saying. I think it's because they don't want to get deep down into it. Like you see a lot of K-pop groups releasing a bunch of songs.


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[Assistant] If you really want to get deep and actually know every artist and their personality and their visions, it's all different. It's just because from the outside, it's just, oh, a bunch of songs. Yeah. And I don't think it's a good way to judge it.


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[Assistant] Respecting and loving the fandom and producing just good songs. Like if you're a singer, yeaah. Just doing what you're doing but respect the fans. Like very get deep down to the communication with them.


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[Assistant] So this is the, this is the thing that's different. Like, I feel like K-pop is very strong because we really


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[Assistant] We really communicate with our fans. We really...


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[Assistant] I'm not saying that the other artists, they don't care, but we really get really really deep down into it. We have like, fan signs, and we have like, a lot of fan events. Just, we meet them like, we usually meet them a lot.


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[Assistant] We really love them. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's all.


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[Assistant] I think it's just being me. Just being myself and the person that I am. And in Chinese, it's like...


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[Assistant] In Chinese, it's called 做人. It means being a good person. Yeaah, that's just, that's the standard. You know what? What was your question again? I forgot.


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[Assistant] I'm still on my way. I'm still on my way.


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[Assistant] Still working hard. I go full out. You know, in one year, I have six months working.


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[Assistant] Uh, as a, as a kpop, as a GOT7, and I have 6 months working on my solo stuff.


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[Assistant] So basically what, what I mean by that is I have to fit two year schedules into one year. And that's, by doing that you just gotta go non-stop.


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[Assistant] Just had one last week actually. What'd you do? The first ever. What'd you do? I went, I took all my team wang crew.


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[Assistant] To have a vacation in Hainan, like a city in, in, uh, China. Oh, sweet. Yeah. For like four days.


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[Assistant] I like it, but this is the thing, whenever I'm like, not working, I feel like I'm very insecure. I feel like I can't.


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[Assistant] I can't breathe. Like, everyone's working so hard. What am I doing? Like, I can't-


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[Assistant] I could just be like chilling and, and, and, and, and not work in a blink of an eye just 20 years past.


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[Assistant] Uh, not, I wouldn't say the out, uh, the outcome, uh, matters a lot. So if I put out a record, if it did like, if it's, if nobody actually liked it, then I would still be okay if, if I actually worked hard on it. Do you get what I mean?


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[Assistant] If the whole team, me and my whole team really worked so hard on it, and the outcome is...


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[Assistant] Nobody really liked it, and it did really bad. I'll still be okay with it. Like, cause we did what we could, and we went full out.


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[Assistant] The only, the only thing that I cared the most is I didn't, I didn't go 100%. Maybe not like 90%. Even though the, the, the, the song blows up, I will, I will still kind of regret. Yea, I will still kind of feel bad. Cause I didn't, I didn't go full out. Do you get that feeling?


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it's a corny thing to say, but I'm saying, like...


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[Assistant] Life is really too short, I just feel that. And I, I, I, I, I really wanna, you know, make some, make history, like before I disappear in this world.


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[Assistant] I have five goals in life, actually. Five, five, six goals in life. The first one is to get into the billboard.


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[Assistant] And the second one is to be like a wax figure in, in the wax figure museum, Madame Tussaud.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so, so, yeah, and then one is like, uhm, I wanna be able to perform in, uh, the, the, the stadium in China where they held, uh, Beijing Olympics 2008. The Bird Nest. I wanna be able to perform there.


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[Assistant] The last one is just I want my, my, my family and the whole Team Wang crew to have like a happy life, like stable life. Yeah. And Team Wang, the, the label itself, I want to maybe in the future,


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[Assistant] I'll, I'll retire and I'll, I'll, I'll be, I'll be in this company signing new artists, making, making, making collaborations with art brands.


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[Assistant] We're making collaborations. It's just to do a bunch of crazy stuff. Like, that's my life, actually, till this point. My goals.


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[Assistant] To the other side. And then when the China team rest, I go, I go, I go to Korea.


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[Assistant] I'll say In God 7, cause it's not really up to me.


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[Assistant] It's a discussion with the whole company and all, with the other members. We have to decide. So, so the process is not as, as short as you think. But, but whereas in on the, in Team Wang, I decide everything. So what goes wrong, I'm responsible for it. Right?


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[Assistant] It's just, I like the music. I like the music and I, uh,


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[Assistant] Rap, sing, sing, rap, yeaah, in the middle. All different languages? Mostly English.


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[Assistant] And I probably have one song that's Chinese.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course. When Dan agrees with me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the uhm, the collaboration, the, the, it's, it's something that Fendi and Team Wang came up with. It came really natural. We were just like, eating in Europe one day, in, in, uh, in the headquarter. And then, and then, why don't we just do a collaboration? And then, yeah, why not? And then that, that kinda started the whole thing. And then, I came up, I came up with this idea, cause,


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[Assistant] They never, they never, they've never done something with velvet yet. And I'm a big velvet fan. And yea, why not? We do this whole collection in velvet. And it'll be black, black velvet.


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[Assistant] Cuz, cuz team wang merchandise it's on in black.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's my color. And white, black and white. And then...


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[Assistant] Too much and too many colors. I don't feel like-


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[Assistant] People gonna wear it every day. 100%. Right, people, people wear it and then maybe the next day, their friends would be like, you're wearing that again? You know, so I, I wanna keep it like low key. Like, simple.


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[Assistant] But with good quality. Mmhm. Velvet quality.


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[Assistant] It's smooth like butter. It's smooth like butter. Yeaah. It was crazy. And the pattern on it, I don't know how you call it.


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[Assistant] But you get it. Yeaah, I know what you're talking about. It's like all over the jacket. Yeaah. It's beautiful. Right, but you can't see it from a certain distance. It only looks black. Right, right. And velvet looks really good under like different lights. Yeaah. Lighting. And so, it just went crazy and I'm very blessed that it got sold out like in seconds.


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[Assistant] If, if, if, if, would you wear a shirt that says, like, crazy print?


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[Assistant] Exactly. Yeah, so you can wear it everyday and no one actually notice.


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[Assistant] I don't even have it. I only have one, one, one piece. Of each one? Of each item? Of each one. That's it, only one piece. I don't even have it. My parents don't even, they don't even have it.


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[Assistant] They didn't even give me enough peace because it got sold out like pretty fast.


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[Assistant] I think we're, that's what we're talking about. Uh, we're thinking about doing the second collection. But I don't want to, the thing is, I told them that I don't want to do clothing anymore. If it's gonna be


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[Assistant] The second collection with Jackson, like Team Wang and Fendi has to be something more crazy. It can't be, I don't want to do like jackets and like clothes anymore.


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[Assistant] The song came first and... The song actually came before I signed with Fendi. I'm just a big Fendi fan.


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[Assistant] I'm very excited to show you like, some of the songs on my album right now. I wanna hear them.


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[Assistant] I'm releasing two singles, one end of September, it's called Bullet to the Heart, end of October, uh, all the other songs coming.


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[Assistant] It's just like, it feels, it feels right. No matter what I, what I do. Or, in the song.


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[Assistant] Yes, and actually, I'll just say it, you know what? The album concept is just 8 different songs, 8 different feelings. It's like 8 different mirrors.


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[Assistant] But pain, I break it, I break it down, let's break it down into like three different ways. Like pain, there are pain that you enjoy it, but it's still painful. There are pain that it just hurts.


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[Assistant] And they're like a bunch of different feelings in this album. Eight different feelings.


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[Assistant] That's going to be a part of the longer journey to the west.


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[Assistant] When I, when we were all like, when I was, actually we were, we were trainees.


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[Assistant] I was a trainee in this company called JYP. He's this trainee from Big Hit. And then we met in this through a friend. We met through a friend. And then that's when, you know, and he's the same year, same year with me. Year of the dog.


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[Assistant] I'm like, my personality is just, I goof, I, I goof off often. And I, and I'm, I just, I joke around. Like, you know, I'm, I'm more aggressive. And RM is, he's,


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[Assistant] And he, he doesn't talk too much, but whatever he say, it's very, it just feels right. You know, and it just feels right and, and, I don't know, he's like the conclusion to me.


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[Assistant] So when I run into problems, I'll just be like, yo, I'm blablabla for an hour, and then he'll tell me,


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[Assistant] He'll sum up everything and give me like a good conclusion. You know what you should do? You should do this, this, this. And I'm like, RM! I don't call him RM. I call him Namjoon. His Korean name is Namjoon. And I call him like, Namjoon-ah.


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[Assistant] Is it wild to see the success of BTS? No I-


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[Assistant] First of all, I would say they're really hardworking. And RM is really, really hardworking.


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[Assistant] And he has a lot of pressure because he's like the leader of the group. And...


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[Assistant] And he's, since he, because of his personality, I feel like...


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[Assistant] Everything that he does, or they do, BTS, it just feels right. Yeaah. It's just...


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[Assistant] I would say they're very, they're very talented, and they're very, they, they think, they think ahead.


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[Assistant] A step ahead. And, and uhm, very good strategy. And, like, on everything.


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[Assistant] You know, you sold out your birthday party in like 98 seconds. Have you ever? Which is wild, bro.


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[Assistant] Is the fact that you know that there's so many people on the other side caring?


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[Assistant] Have you, have you ever asked yourself why you?


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[Assistant] Did you do that before music or after Got7?


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[Assistant] Do you feel validated as an artist when they start recognizing your solo work?


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[Assistant] Were you always telling yourself that you have another story to tell that's bigger than GOT7? That's different than-


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[Assistant] By the way, very cool way to think about it and to really break it down.


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[Assistant] Because it, and I think that's one of the many things that makes a K-pop group very special is that there are very distinct colors. And everybody really shines in every record that they put out because of how distinct and unique


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[Assistant] Dude, your records are great, and you write records on your own.


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[Assistant] How does it start? When you're writing a song, just you.


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[Assistant] Do you, are you in the room totally alone? Do you write down ideas and then bring it to somebody? Like what is the process really like?


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[Assistant] Did you see it as art from the very beginning of this process?


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[Assistant] Because it's really easy to, when you get caught up in it, to lose sight of the fact that it is art and it's a business, right? Because you've been on the journey for a little bit now, but...


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[Assistant] Is that a- I don't wanna say learn, but like, I wanna talk about oxygen though. Oxygen like-


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[Assistant] When you bring the ideas for this record to Boy Toy, how do you guys collaborate? Because he's been a constant in your music. Right. From the beginning of your solo project.


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[Assistant] And it's somebody who understands you and gets to know you and, I mean, you have years working with him. Uh, Papillon, that was a record that came out in 2017, one of the lyrics, money and fame don't define me. What defines you today?


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[Assistant] Has it been hard keeping that vision or keeping the definition of yourself pure?


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[Assistant] Another, that's written by you and you collaborated with somebody on that one. There's a few producers on it, right?


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[Assistant] But I think this is cool, and please do not, do not let Dan sway the fact that you're gonna choose the art of an action CD.


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[Assistant] When, it's pretty cool to be able to have a diary in the form of an actual physical record.


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[Assistant] When you look back at everything right now and you look at the 25 songs, like, I wanna-


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[Assistant] What part of this is the most special to you? Is it the fact that you get to write your story in music? Is it the fact that you get to design and create these elaborate and incredible freaking cases for people to buy and to treasure? Right? Cause that's what they become?


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[Assistant] Is it a little wild to think about? And I'm just gonna say from the outside perspective.


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[Assistant] People look at K-pop, right? And people will say, maybe manufactured. A lot of records that are kinda just handed to artists. What I'm witnessing in front of me is the complete and total opposite of that stereotype.


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[Assistant] Dude, I think a lot of it has to do with how the world sees an idol, right? And the idol is...


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[Assistant] Everybody has their own definition of idol, by the way. But I think it's maybe the general, general publics of perfection. Like this idea that perfection doesn't come from one's own thoughts, but they come from a factory, almost. You get what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] But it goes back to what you're saying about colors. You know, I'm telling you, in K-pop groups, and more than any group in my opinion, the colors are super bold. Like, you feel the personalities in the records that are out there.


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[Assistant] The community is real and I think it's also expressed through the lyrics too. Like a lot of the lyrics, I mean there's a diverse, you have a ton of different songs out there, but they're also very clear and very straight to the point. Do you get what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Do you feel like you have a responsibility beyond music to connect with people? Or is music your, your main vessel to connect?


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what facet of life, whether it's music or, uh, you're yourself, you said that too. So whether it's music or politics or social or funny stuff or TV, you're just going to be yourself no matter what it is.


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[Assistant] What is the most fulfilling part of this entire creative process for you?


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[Assistant] The whole thing, I mean, from business to creative, the whole music process, what part fulfills you the most?


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[Assistant] Where does that come from? You seem like a competitive guy, but also like a guy who motivates himself, and pushes himself.


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[Assistant] What is history to you? What is making history?


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[Assistant] There's still this like, glamour that an American artist has, even though you are literally a global superstar.


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[Assistant] Because it's your own velvet, dude. You have your own type of velvet. Think about that.


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[Assistant] Literally seconds, and you have your own fanny pack. Yes. I've become a fanny pack guy, so.


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[Assistant] You'd love his collection. It's beautiful.


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[Assistant] Okay, we have a lot of records coming up. And all of them are connected. They tell the entire story from the beginning of your solo journey.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, so that's, and then that's going to be a part of the longer, the longer.


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[Assistant] Hey, beautiful human, thanks for watching our full interview, but I get it, like, uh, full interviews a lot, so we got a clips channel.


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[Assistant] We don't expect you to watch the full thing anymore, so we just gave you the highlights. Please, subscribe, and uh, notifications, and all that stuff. Okay, cool. I love you.


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[Assistant] It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.


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[Assistant] It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.


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[Assistant] Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.


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[Assistant] Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.


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[Assistant] Some people think that there's a TED Talk formula. Give a talk on a round red rug. Share a childhood story. Divulge a personal secret. End with an inspiring call to action. No.


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[Assistant] That's not how to think of a TED Talk. In fact, if you overuse those devices, you're just going to come across as cliched or emotionally manipulative.


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[Assistant] There is one thing that all great TED Talks have in common, and I would like to share that thing with you. Because over the past 12 years, I've had a ringside seat listening to many hundreds of amazing TED speakers like these.


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[Assistant] Your number one task as a speaker is to transfer into your listener's minds an extraordinary gift.


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[Assistant] A strange and beautiful object that we call an idea.


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[Assistant] There are billions of interconnected neurons in an impossible tangle.


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[Assistant] But look, here, right here, a few million of them are linked to each other in a way which represents a single idea. And incredibly, this exact pattern is being recreated in real time inside the minds of everyone listening.


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[Assistant] That's right. In just a few minutes, a pattern involving millions of neurons is being teleported into 1200 minds just by people listening to a voice and watching a face. But wait.


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[Assistant] Well, you can think of it as a pattern of information that helps you understand and navigate the world. Ideas come in all shapes and sizes from the complex and analytical to the simple and aesthetic. Here are just a few examples shared from the TED stage.


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[Assistant] Chimamanda Adichie, people are more than a single identity.


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[Assistant] Your mind is teeming with ideas, and not just randomly. They're carefully linked together.


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[Assistant] Collectively they form an amazingly complex structure that is your personal world view.


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[Assistant] It's your brain's operating system. It's how you navigate the world.


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[Assistant] And it is built up out of millions of individual ideas. So for example, if one little component of your world view is the idea that kittens are adorable, then when you see this,


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[Assistant] You'll react like this. But if another component of your worldview is the idea that leopards are dangerous, then when you see this, you'll react a little bit differently.


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[Assistant] So, it's pretty obvious why the ideas that make up your worldview are crucial. You need them to be as reliable as possible a guide to the scary but wonderful real world out there.


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[Assistant] Whatever your answer, there are millions of people out there who would react very differently. So that's why ideas really matter.


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[Assistant] If communicated properly, they're capable of changing forever how someone thinks about the world and shaping their actions both now and well into the future.


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[Assistant] Ideas are the most powerful force shaping human culture. So if you accept that your number one task as a speaker is to build an idea inside the minds of your audience,


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[Assistant] Here are four guidelines for how you should go about that task. One, limit your talk to just one major idea.


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[Assistant] Ideas are complex things. You need to slash back your content so that you can focus on the single idea you're most passionate about.


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[Assistant] Before you can start building things inside the minds of your audience, you have to get their permission to welcome you in. And the main tool to achieve that? Curiosity.


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[Assistant] Stir your audience's curiosity. Use intriguing, provocative questions to identify why something doesn't make sense and needs explaining.


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[Assistant] If you can reveal a disconnection in someone's worldview, they'll feel the need to bridge that knowledge gap.


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[Assistant] Build your idea, piece by piece, out of concepts that your audience already understands. You use the power of language to weave together concepts that already exist in your listener's minds.


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[Assistant] Not your language, their language. You start where they are. But speakers often forget that many of the terms and concepts they live with are completely unfamiliar to their audiences.


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[Assistant] Metaphors can play a crucial role in showing how the pieces fit together because they reveal the desired shape of the pattern based on an idea that the listener already understands.


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[Assistant] For example, when Jennifer Kahn wanted to explain the incredible new biotechnology called CRISPR, she said, it's as if for the first time you had a word processor to edit DNA. CRISPR allows you to cut and paste genetic information really easily.


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[Assistant] Now, a vivid explanation like that delivers a satisfying aha moment as it snaps into place in our minds. It's important, therefore, to test your talk on trusted friends and find out which parts they get confused by. Four. Here's the final tip. Make your idea worth sharing.


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[Assistant] By that I mean ask yourself the question, who does this idea benefit? And I need you to be honest with the answer.


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[Assistant] If the idea only serves you or your organisation, then I'm sorry to say it's probably not worth sharing.


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[Assistant] The audience will see right through you. But if you believe that the idea has the potential to brighten up someone else's day or change someone else's perspective for the better or inspire someone to do something differently, then you have the core ingredient to a truly great talk. One that can be a gift to them and to all of us.


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[Assistant] We have the integral of d, gamma, m, v, and outside there is also factor of v.


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[Assistant] For this term, as a common trick in spatial relativity, you can multiply gamma and divide gamma. Divide gamma means, uh, multiplying this factor, so it will become 1 minus V squared over C squared without square root. And then you also multiply gamma.


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[Assistant] This term equals to this term, and this looks complicated, but happily this one and this one cancels.


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[Assistant] Let me summarize that the relativistic kinetic energy equals to gamma minus one mc squared. And at this point, let me make three remarks. The remark number one is


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[Assistant] To see that, we can take the limit where the speed is very small compared to C, and what do we get?


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[Assistant] At this point we don't know, because we can always add or subtract a constant in an indefinite integral, so we cannot individually make a conclusion at the integration limit zero.


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[Assistant] Thanor, the monster slayer! Thanks to the gods and all the heavens who've come. I am in desperate need of a great hero. Could you be the one? Please, tell me of your exploits.


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[Assistant] You must be Thanos' bard, Alexandra, whose songs have magical powers.


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[Assistant] It sounds like you are exactly the heroes I need. My name is King Tabor.


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[Assistant] The age of monsters has come upon my kingdom. Horrible creatures stalk the streets. My people live in constant fear. But there's hope.


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[Assistant] An ancient prophecy describes three mysterious gems known as soul jewels that can save us all. I need you to go search the kingdom, survive whatever's out there and bring me back those jewels. Do you understand?


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[Assistant] Good. Then you must go. Now. My people are counting on you.


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[Assistant] Despite what you may believe, you do not know everything. You think what? I laid myself off?


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[Assistant] I've known Jed a very, very long time. And, uh, Miss Chen? Alex?


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[Assistant] Some allowances must of course be made given your injuries and result in confusion.


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[Assistant] We'll be arriving at our destination in 20 minutes.


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[Assistant] We'll be arriving at our destination in 20 minutes.


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[Assistant] Oh. I guess I'll call back another time.


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[Assistant] Oh. I guess I'll call back another time.


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[Assistant] We have plenty in stock right now. Come this way.


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[Assistant] We have plenty in stock right now. Come this way.


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[Assistant] Look at the size of this coke. It's huge.


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[Assistant] Look at the size of this coke. It's huge.


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[Assistant] Okay. In the meantime, help me lay her down.


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[Assistant] Okay. In the meantime, help me lay her down.


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[Assistant] Time flies when you're having fun, but I have to go.


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[Assistant] Time flies when you're having fun, but I have to go.


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[Assistant] You can upgrade to a large for an extra 70 cents.


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[Assistant] You can upgrade to a large for an extra 70 cents.


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[Assistant] Thanks for giving me the opportunity to interview for the position.


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[Assistant] Thanks for giving me the opportunity to interview for the position.


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[Assistant] I'll need your ID and please fill out your insurance information.


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[Assistant] I'll need your ID and please fill out your insurance information.


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[Assistant] Not too good. Still looking for a job.


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[Assistant] Not too good. Still looking for a job.


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[Assistant] We have vegetable pasta, New York strip and Parmesan chicken.


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[Assistant] We have vegetable pasta, New York strip and Parmesan chicken.


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[Assistant] They have the best rates and charge the lowest commissions.


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[Assistant] They have the best rates and charge the lowest commissions.


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[Assistant] 20 minutes have passed since we ordered dessert. Where is it?


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[Assistant] 20 minutes have passed since we ordered dessert. Where is it?


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[Assistant] Thanks for swinging by, I'll see you at the festival.


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[Assistant] Nobody, but only because we didn't give you the opportunity.


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[Assistant] So, I started Dustin Daylight while you were at work. You're kidding! I already got to-


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[Assistant] So, lots of people are dead, Alex. Most people.


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[Assistant] Okay, here's what I do know. You are 10. I am 14. A mother is sick. So is our father. But it's a different kind of sickness.


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[Assistant] Is that how it went? You don't think you missed anything?


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[Assistant] You know, I've been in the industry a really long time. Since I was a kid.


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[Assistant] You might see me as the little girl with big dreams, or a pop princess, or the more grounded woman I am today. But as the sun, for the first time in my career, I've gotten to show that I'm all of those things and more.


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[Assistant] After one of the most emotional performances of my lifetime last round, I've chosen a song that means even more to me because it's a tribute to the person who has loved me through some of my toughest times.


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[Assistant] He's always encouraged me to fly, and our bond is a testament that love really does conquer all. And I hope that love shines through my performance tonight.


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[Assistant] Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast number 33, Eating Breakfast.


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[Assistant] This is English as a Second Language Podcast, Episode 33.


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[Assistant] I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillen, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development.


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[Assistant] In beautiful Los Angeles, California. In this episode, we're going to see Lucy make and eat her breakfast. Let's get started.


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[Assistant] Thanks to our fantastic scriptwriter, Dr. Lucy Say, for her hard work. And thanks to you for listening. From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.


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[Assistant] Come back and listen to us again here on ESL Podcast.


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[Assistant] Here I come! Ready or not!


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[Assistant] He buys a ring, she buys a dress. They go shopping for all sorts of things. She takes him to Arthur Murray for ballroom dancing lessons.


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[Assistant] And the big day comes and they'll stand before God and family and some guy her dad once did business with and they'll vow that nothing


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[Assistant] Not abject poverty, not life threatening illness, not complete and utter misery will ever put the tiniest damper on their eternal love and devotion.


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[Assistant] And then they'll get stupid drunk and smash cake in each other's faces and do the Macarena and we'll be there showering them with towels and toasters and drinking their free booze and throwing birdseed at them every single time.


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[Assistant] I mean, look, it doesn't take a double-blind placebo-controlled study to figure out what makes a marriage not work, right? Disrespect. Boredom.


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[Assistant] Too much time on Facebook. Having sex with other people. But you can have the exact opposite of all of those things. Respect. Excitement.


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[Assistant] A broken internet connection. Mind numbing monogamy. And the thing still can go to hell in a handbasket. So what's going on when it doesn't?


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[Assistant] In other words, men, you might want to pick it up a notch in the domestic department. Here's an interesting one.


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[Assistant] One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.


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[Assistant] So, what else can you do to safeguard your marriage?


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[Assistant] Do not win an Oscar for Best Actress.


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[Assistant] Right, when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75%. Now, I have to say I don't get this one at all.


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[Assistant] My husband and I have watched quite a few friends divide their assets.


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[Assistant] And single in an age of sexting and Viagra and eHarmony and I'm thinking they've done more for my marriage than a lifetime of therapy ever could.


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[Assistant] Well, the US federal government counts more than a thousand legal benefits to being someone's spouse.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money.


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[Assistant] We're healthier physically and emotionally.


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[Assistant] We have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends, believe it or not.


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[Assistant] For instance, in my marriage, I'd say I'm doing okay. On the one hand,


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[Assistant] Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 10. Relaxing, reading the mail, and the trash.


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[Assistant] This is English as a Second Language Podcast, episode number ten. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan.


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[Assistant] Coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. In this episode,


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[Assistant] The ninth of our 10 part special series on daily English. I'll talk about relaxing, reading the mail and taking out the trash. Let's get started.


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[Assistant] With the dinner dishes done, my wife and I each sit down on the couch to chill out and watch the national news, which comes on at 6.30. During the newscast, I sort through the day's mail.


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[Assistant] Most of it is junk mail and bills.


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[Assistant] There are also several flyers for houses for sale in the area.


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[Assistant] I check the front stoop and see that there are no packages.


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[Assistant] I like to watch TV and my wife likes to watch reality shows.


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[Assistant] One thing I hate is having to watch all of the commercials.


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[Assistant] So I turn the sound down when they come on.


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[Assistant] After the show is over, I thumb through the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly.


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[Assistant] While my wife reads a novel by her favorite mystery writer.


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[Assistant] At around nine, I remember that tomorrow is trash day.


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[Assistant] So I take the kitchen garbage out.


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[Assistant] And dump the recycling bins as well.


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[Assistant] I roll the trash container out to the street.


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[Assistant] Ready for the garbage trucks, which come by early in the morning.


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[Assistant] We begin with the sentence with the dinner dishes done.


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[Assistant] The dinner dishes are the dishes we use to eat our dinner. And when I say they are done, I mean that they are washed and dried.


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[Assistant] So with the dinner dishes washed and dried, my wife and I sit down on the couch to chill out.


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[Assistant] Sometimes we use this expression as of a command. If someone is very excited, you may say, hey, chill out, means relax, don't be so excited. You will also hear just the word chill. Hey, chill.


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[Assistant] That's informal for, relax, don't be so excited.


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[Assistant] You will also hear people say, I'm just chilling. I am just chilling means I'm just relaxing. Again, that's very informal. Well, my wife and I are chilling.


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[Assistant] And we're watching the national news the national news is the news broadcast on television.


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[Assistant] And in Los Angeles, this is at 6.30 in the evening. It comes on at 6.30. When we say a television show comes on, we mean that that is when it begins. That is when you can watch it.


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[Assistant] The national news can also be called a newscast.


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[Assistant] N-E-W-S-C-A-S-T. A newscast is a news program. You could have a local newscast with just news about Los Angeles, for me, or a national newscast.


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[Assistant] Well during the newscast, I sort through the day's mail.


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[Assistant] To sort S-O-R-T through means that I am looking at today's mail and usually I am separating it.


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[Assistant] So that I separate the different kinds of mail, the different kinds of letters that I got that day.


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[Assistant] Most of my mail, and this is true, is either junk mail or bills.


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[Assistant] Junk, J-U-N-K, mail, is mail that you get that you don't want. Usually it is advertisements, people trying to get you to buy something. We call that junk mail.


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[Assistant] Most of my mail is either junk mail or it's bills and a bill is a.


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[Assistant] Well, you should pay your bills. Maybe you don't.


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[Assistant] There are also several flyers for houses for sale in the area.


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[Assistant] A flyer, F-L-I-E-R, the plural is flyers with an S, is an advertisement. It's an announcement or an advertisement. Usually it's one or two pages, one or two pieces of paper.


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[Assistant] Sometimes the advertisements or the flyers are folded up.


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[Assistant] And it's very popular for people who are selling houses to use flyers that they mail you or they put on your house outside of your house.


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[Assistant] These flyers are for houses that people are selling, houses for sale in the area.


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[Assistant] I checked the front stoop and see that there are no packages.


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[Assistant] I check, I look out at the front stoop.


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[Assistant] Often this word is used when we are talking about large buildings, apartment buildings, or condominium buildings in New York or Boston, some of the cities on the eastern coast of the United States. People talk about sitting on the stoop.


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[Assistant] That means you're sitting on your stairs. But you can also use the word to talk about your own stairs in front of your house. The top of those stairs is where you might find packages. A package, P-A-C-K-A-G-E,


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[Assistant] Is usually a box or something that is bigger than just a regular letter that you receive in the mail.


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[Assistant] Well, I look at my stoop and I see there are no packages. No one loves me. No one sent me a package.


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[Assistant] I then talk about how I like to watch television and so does my wife.


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[Assistant] My wife likes to watch reality shows.


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[Assistant] Is a type of television show where they have a competition or a contest.


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[Assistant] Big Brother and American Idol are two examples of popular reality shows. They take people, average people, they say, and they have a competition or a contest.


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[Assistant] One thing I hate about watching television, something I don't like, is having to watch all the commercials. A commercial


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[Assistant] Is the same as an advertisement on television or radio.


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[Assistant] It's an announcement from a company that wants you to buy what they are selling. Well I don't like watching the commercials, so I turn the sound down.


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[Assistant] To turn the sound down means to lower the volume. To make it so that it is less loud. It is quieter.


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[Assistant] I turn the sound down when the commercials come on.


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[Assistant] Again, that verb to come on means that they are on the television, that they start.


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[Assistant] After the show is over, after the show is done, finished, I thumb through the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The Atlantic Monthly is a monthly magazine in the United States. To thumb through something,


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[Assistant] THUMB, through, two words, means to look through something, but usually not to be paying too much attention. You're sort of looking, but you're not necessarily reading very carefully.


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[Assistant] We use that expression, that verb when we are talking about magazines in particular.


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[Assistant] You're looking at them perhaps waiting in a doctor's office, in the waiting room of a doctor's office, you thumb through the magazines. Well, I'm thumbing through the Atlantic Monthly.


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[Assistant] And my wife is reading a novel. A novel, N-O-V-E-L, is a fictional book. A book that is not a true story.


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[Assistant] The initial state is at rest. It is not moving. However, it has a rest energy. And that rest energy equals to capital M.


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[Assistant] At this point, let me make two remarks. The number one remark is C.


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[Assistant] That's why in Newton's mechanics, we didn't realize there is such a huge energy.


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[Assistant] And that's not all. Listen to this. Hello!


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[Assistant] It does sound like that, doesn't it? But there isn't anybody down there.


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[Assistant] What you're hearing is actually just my voice.


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[Assistant] Maybe even as far as the clouds.


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[Assistant] Speaking of far away things, we still have a long journey home. We should set off before it starts getting dark.


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[Assistant] So, shall we keep going to the flowery field now?


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[Assistant] And is at the forefront of exciting new developments in this field.


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[Assistant] Its mission to change the way consumers get and send information is, I believe,


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[Assistant] Where the biggest areas of growth are in the industry.


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[Assistant] Based on the company's financials and its general performance in the past year,


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[Assistant] Lottado is poised to take over as one of the top suppliers of online service in the world.


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[Assistant] I have read about the company's many future projects.


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[Assistant] That are designed to move the company forward toward achieving its mission.


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[Assistant] I have led a number of innovative projects along the same lines as the current direction of this company.


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[Assistant] By doing this, I was able to help my current company get a foothold in the market.


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[Assistant] I'm confident that I can bring my proven skills in management, development, and technology to succeed in your organization.


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[Assistant] Consumers get and send information is, I believe, where the biggest areas of growth are in the industry.


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[Assistant] Based on the company's financials and its general performance in the past year,


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[Assistant] Laudado is poised to take over as one of the top suppliers of online service in the world.


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[Assistant] I've read about the company's many future projects that are designed to move the company forward toward achieving its mission.


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[Assistant] I want to be part of this company because I believe I can be part of that growth.


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[Assistant] In the past several years, I have led a number of innovative projects along the same lines as the current direction of this company.


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[Assistant] By doing this, I was able to help my current company get a foothold in the market.


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[Assistant] I'm confident that I can bring my proven skills in management, development, and technology to succeed in your organization.


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[Assistant] Hear me, foolish one. The spirit of death hangs low over your head. I can see it. You must beware. And that's all that I can tell you.


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[Assistant] My special feather. Touch your nose, little nut brown hair.


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[Assistant] I promise. Now you have to hop to that tree and back.


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[Assistant] This one up round here's special feather can fly. And it can float. And it can draw. Oh. And it can tickle. It sounds like a very special feather.


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[Assistant] Well, there were quite a lot of feathers up there. Yes. Including yours. Yes.


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[Assistant] It's for her and her family. I don't need it back.


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[Assistant] My goal is that in five years, I will be working in a managerial position in this company.


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[Assistant] Is that this is a large company with a lot of opportunities for advancement.


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[Assistant] If I continue working in the department where this position is,


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[Assistant] Such as the changing priorities of the market.


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[Assistant] The expertise I will have gained at the end of the five years and the changing needs of the company.


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[Assistant] I have worn different hats in the company I'm working for now.


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[Assistant] And my flexibility has allowed me to fill the needs of that company.


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[Assistant] I hope to have even more opportunities to learn and advance here at Lottado and to contribute to its future growth.


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[Assistant] My goal is that in five years, I will be working in a managerial position in this company.


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[Assistant] Is that this is a large company with a lot of opportunities for advancement.


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[Assistant] If I continue working in the department where this position is, I hope to be a senior manager with a hand in shaping the strategic plans for development in this area of technology.


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[Assistant] Another possibility in five years is to transfer to one of the regional offices where I would oversee local operations. Ultimately,


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[Assistant] The direction I would take in this company depends on many factors, such as the changing priorities of the market,


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[Assistant] The expertise I will have gained at the end of the five years and the changing needs of the company. I've worn different hats in the company I'm working for now.


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[Assistant] And my flexibility has allowed me to fill the needs of that company.


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[Assistant] I hope to have even more opportunities to learn in advance here at Laudado and to contribute to its future growth.


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[Assistant] Dynamics of Special Relativity.


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[Assistant] We will mention later in the next part of modern physics that special relativity is not consistent with Newton's gravity.


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[Assistant] I arrive at the conference room right before the meeting starts and sit down in a chair around the large conference table.


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[Assistant] Our manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda with some announcements and goes over some bullet points regarding old and new business.


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[Assistant] He asks each person to give a status report on his or her projects.


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[Assistant] Each of us takes turns giving a quick rundown while everyone else listens.


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[Assistant] Of course, not everyone is paying attention, since they're thinking about their own reports and what they plan to say.


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[Assistant] Sometimes our manager will make some comments or give us some feedback, but usually there's very little discussion.


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[Assistant] Our manager gives a short summary of how our department is doing and a little pep talk to get us motivated.


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[Assistant] Now it's back to our desks to do some work.


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[Assistant] I arrive at the conference room right before the meeting starts and sit down in a chair around the large conference table. Our manager passes out a handout of the meeting agenda with some announcements and goes over some bullet points regarding old and new business.


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[Assistant] Then he asks each person to give a status report on his or her projects.


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[Assistant] Each of us takes turns giving a quick rundown while everyone else listens.


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[Assistant] Sometimes our manager will make some comments or give us some feedback, but usually there's very little discussion.


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[Assistant] The meeting always ends the same way. Our manager gives a short summary of how our department is doing and a little pep talk to get us motivated. Now it's back to our desks to do some work.


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[Assistant] But you brighten every day, even the dull ones.


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[Assistant] Uh, today we're going to be discussing more irregular plurals. So this is the irregular plural part two, the tuning.


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[Assistant] Because we really want to focus on this N particle. I'll explain in a minute. So, previously we discussed the idea that there's, you know, one regular plural.


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[Assistant] And then there are a couple of different kinds of irregular plurals.


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[Assistant] Like I said, English is not a predictable language. Few languages are. When we think of English as one solid block of wood, what we're actually seeing is this lashed together raft made of spit, hope, and history. Uh, so it's your job as a writer and a speaker of English to make of this crooked timber something straight. To borrow a phrase and then mangle it.


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[Assistant] So the question is, what is the deal, right? Uh, and the answer is that it has to do with English language history and heritage. English comes to us from Old English.


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[Assistant] Which if you look at it now, it kinda looks like German, because English is a Germanic language. That's the term linguists use.


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[Assistant] So in Old English, there were a bunch of different ways to make something plural. You know, some, some, some nouns would become plural by adding an en, some you could add an s, some you would add an r,


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[Assistant] And part of this depended on what part of England you lived in at the time. Uh, there were a bunch of different regional variations.


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[Assistant] And even those, these are really rare. I bet you don't even know what I'm talking about. The plural of brother, originally, was bretheren. The plural of sister is sistren or sustren.


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[Assistant] These are so rare and brothers and sisters is so common that we don't even need to consider them. So, really, the only, the only weird en plurals that are gonna be in common usage are children and oxen.


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[Assistant] And unless, you know, your family raises musk oxen, or you're an ox driver, you're probably not gonna be using the word ox very often, and if oxen are a big part of your life, you probably knew how to pluralize them already, just from hearing people talk about them your entire childhood. So I'm gonna cross that off too. The only thing you need to worry about is the en in children. Child becomes children.


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[Assistant] Now you're probably wondering, David, you know, if, if there's the word ox and ox becomes oxen.


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[Assistant] What about box? Why is the plural of box boxes and not boxen?


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[Assistant] To borrow a gag from Brian Regan. Uhm, the simple truth is that it has to do with this word's origin. Ox is a native old English word. Box comes to us originally from Greek. And then Latin and then French. That's how it came to English.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry if that's not a very satisfying answer, but that's how English works. English is this language that is composed of a bunch of different puzzle pieces, all mashed together by time, history, and repeated invasions, which are totally metal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, I'm getting away from myself. The important thing to remember is that for this irregular plural, this EN ending, really, unless you work with oxen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or unless you are leading some sort of old timey folk revival, where you have to refer to Brethren and Sisters,


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[Assistant] Child to children is really the only change you need to concern yourself with. All this can be summed up, boop, just like that. You can learn anything. David out.


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[Assistant] Now, if you're still with me, I would like to relate a humorous historical anecdote that comes to us from the 15th century English printer, William Caxton.


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[Assistant] Now this story comes to us from about the year 1490 and I just want to use this story to illustrate


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[Assistant] Just how different, how dependent on what part of the country you were living in was on the language that you spoke. Because before mass transit, uh, and mass communication media, which William Caxton was a part of because he was one of the first English language printers, before any of this technology allowed us all to communicate with each other,


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[Assistant] Basically just had letters, and most people were illiterate, and talking to each other. And since it wasn't really easy to get from place to place to place before the advent of cars, most people didn't really go very far.


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[Assistant] So here is the story, which I will translate for you from Middle English. It goes like this. So these merchants were traveling from the Thames River, which flows through London, and they're trying to get to Zeeland here, which is in the modern day Netherlands. This is incidentally, this is, uh, this is England.


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[Assistant] This is the southern, southeast coast of England. They're trying to get to Zealand, and this is a distance of about 160 miles. Give or take.


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[Assistant] But they can't make it there because of bad winds. They stop here at Foreland, uh, to refresh.


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[Assistant] They're stores. They stop for groceries, basically. And then they realize that they're London English and the English of the place where they are, which is maaaybe 60 miles out of London, maybe, uh, is mutually incomprehensible. A man goes into a house, asks the woman of the house for eggs. She doesn't understand the word eggs because the word she uses for eggs is eren. The word egg


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[Assistant] is Norse, and he says, I would like some egges, and she says, I don't have any egges, I don't speak French, and he gets angry because he's like, I don't speak French either, I'm English. He says, do you have any eggs? She says, I don't know what that is, and finally someone says, I think he means eren, do you have any eren? And she says, oh, eren, of course, here, buy some.


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[Assistant] And it just goes to show you that before the advent of mass communication, we could have had variations from as Caxton put it,


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[Assistant] Shire to Shire to Shire. Each little town had its own variant of language and it wasn't until everything was united by this technology that Caxton worked with, the printing press, that people started to become literate and converge toward what we would consider a more unified standard of English.


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[Assistant] Alright, that was just a little bonus, silly video. You can learn anything, David out.


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[Assistant] Your honor will be pleased enough to observe that my client is a widow, a poor chap with one post-mortem son.


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[Assistant] So the misty arguments of my learned friend will not hold water.


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[Assistant] Chapter 2 Do The Boys Haul


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[Assistant] Nicholas's heart was filled with pity for these poor children who suffered such cruel treatment.


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[Assistant] Chapter 3 Fanny Squares When did he ask you to marry him?


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[Assistant] Why do you pretend to dislike me so much?


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[Assistant] Chapter 6 Nicholas Fights Back


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[Assistant] Nicholas' anger was greater than his pain, and he threw himself at Sir Mulberry.


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[Assistant] Chapter seven. A change of luck. But I am looking for work. Nicholas replied. What? The old man said with surprise.


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[Assistant] As Smike was crossing the corner of a side street, he felt a hand on his collar.


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[Assistant] Chapter 9. Love and War. But I have a secret that will interest you. Tell the world about it. I don't care.


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[Assistant] Chapter 10 Madeline Bray


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[Assistant] Nicholas left the room and went down the stairs, his heart filled with happiness. He had found his love at last.


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[Assistant] Chapter 11 An Evil Marriage


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[Assistant] Chapter 13 Ralph's Final Defeat What good was all his money now? He had murdered his own child.


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[Assistant] Chapter 14 Happiness at Last Nicholas's happiness was complete. He was with all the people that he loved. All his enemies had been defeated.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sure they weren't being mean, little nut-brown hair. You laughed at me when I fell over, but you weren't being mean.


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[Assistant] I fell over a lot when I first started skating. But after I practiced for a while, I got better. I could help you if you like.


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[Assistant] Sure, everybody's different. And we get there with a bit of practice.


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[Assistant] Do you want to try it on your own?


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[Assistant] The Aurora is just magical. I can't actually explain it, but you just can't stop watching it.


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[Assistant] This is our new color, auroral camera, that's going out for a test tonight. It's got a...


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[Assistant] You have access to information that we don't have just from the local perspective, and that's why we do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I tend to forget that by looking at the data. It looks like it's going to brighten up running right across the sky, almost horizon to horizon.


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[Assistant] That's essentially what it is. It's the sun's outer atmosphere is continually expanding out into interstellar space.


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[Assistant] This is the first night, one of only two nights in the history of the project, where it was clear across Canada.


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[Assistant] Those are very, very dynamic arcs. Those bands that we see across the whole sky.


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[Assistant] They will ins- sometimes run all the way across the country. Wow. Wow.


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[Assistant] The satellites in orbit are measuring the space environment and the particles that are in...


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[Assistant] In space and at the same time we're imaging the aurora and that we can make that direct connection and talk about the physics that drives the aurora.


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[Assistant] We have very good ideas about the large scale aurora, things like that, the stuff that's really driven by the solar wind, but a lot of mysteries remain.


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[Assistant] But I'm too light. But why? So we can go for a ride! Yay! I'll help!


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[Assistant] I think our sticks brought us to a really nice place.


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[Assistant] You're not the first one I've trapped here. Junior told Inman. I get five dollars for every deserter I catch.


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[Assistant] We had a talk and decided that you animals are just wasting our time.


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[Assistant] From the top of the vine, Teague said.


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[Assistant] We're looking for a group of outliers living in a cave. They've been robbing farms.


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[Assistant] I don't exactly know, Stobrod said.


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[Assistant] What we really don't understand is the really big picture. We have an enormous amount still to learn.


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[Assistant] Conditions tonight look really good. We've got nice clear skies, we've got low winds, even the high altitude winds have calmed down a bit.


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[Assistant] The best aurora I've ever seen. I remember coming home one Christmas and driving up from Colorado up to Calgary. I started to see a little bit of green and it just exploded in front of me.


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[Assistant] The Aurora has a lot of different appearances depending on where you're standing in relation to the Aurora. Most of the time what's gonna happen is that you'll see the Aurora off on the horizon.


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[Assistant] When you see it like that, it looks like a big shimmering ribbon of light. We typically describe those as, as curtains. On the other hand though, if you're standing directly underneath that, then you get a very different experience of it.


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[Assistant] Because you see maybe one curtain that from your perspective goes off that way, another curtain that goes off that way, and they all kind of converge down towards you, and that's what we call the corona. A crown of light that's kind of going out in all sorts of different directions.


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[Assistant] The balloons go down to the parachute and then the box hangs under the parachute.


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[Assistant] There is. I'm pretty nervous right now. There's a lot that can go wrong in the next six hours. You know, we could lose the tracking data and the balloon could just keep flying out to Hudson Bay or wherever it goes to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm extremely worried right now. So we had an anomaly last night, uh, that, that depleted most of our battery, which means that our main tracking actually switched off the middle of the night.


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[Assistant] It's around 430, that's when the, when the pulsating aurora showed up.


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[Assistant] Okay, well what you see with the x-ray are very brief little bursts of x-ray activity.


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[Assistant] That's, that's exactly right, yeaah. So I, I haven't completed the analysis yet, but that's certainly what I'm hoping. Uhm, that we can show that these are really coming from the same root physical mechanism, which is, which is chorus.


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[Assistant] With every balloon that goes up, every rocket, every satellite, we're slowly pushing out the boundaries of what we understand about the aurora and about the bigger space system.


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[Assistant] Some people say that by explaining the aurora, then they somehow lose their magic, but I don't believe that for a second.


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[Assistant] To me, the beauty in the explanation just adds to it.


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[Assistant] Stay up, go to bed, make up your own mind.


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[Assistant] Some twos! And we're both here to say...


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[Assistant] I have to be square with you. They made me. What did they make you?


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[Assistant] You're listening to eslpod.com's Using English at Work. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development.


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[Assistant] In our last lesson, our eighth lesson in using English at work, we learned vocabulary related to having a meeting with the boss. In this ninth lesson, we're going to talk about leaving work at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] We'll get started by listening to the story read at a slow speed.


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[Assistant] When our story begins, I look at the clock and I see that it's already 5.30. It's quitting time. Quitting time is the end of the workday.


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[Assistant] The time when people are supposed to leave the office and go home.


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[Assistant] In reality, a lot of people work past the traditional quitting time.


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[Assistant] But in this story, I'm able to leave at 5.30.


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[Assistant] I say I still need to put the finishing touches on my report. A finishing touch is a small change, detail, or perhaps addition that needs to be made in order to finish something.


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[Assistant] When you're cooking, for example, a finishing touch might be to add some salt and pepper right at the end of the cooking process.


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[Assistant] When your wife is getting dressed in the morning, a finishing touch may be a piece of jewelry, the last thing that she puts on.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about putting the finishing touches on my report.


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[Assistant] Which might be writing a little more text or perhaps formatting the document differently.


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[Assistant] I say that I can put those finishing touches on the report on Monday morning before I submit it to my boss.


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[Assistant] Here means to turn something into someone, to give something to someone.


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[Assistant] Usually for them to look at and review.


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[Assistant] You can submit a job application if you are trying to get a job.


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[Assistant] Or you can submit a drawing in a drawing or art contest to win a prize.


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[Assistant] Once my report is finished on Monday, I'll need to submit or give it to my boss so that he can read it. Some weeks I have to take work home.


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[Assistant] To take work home means to do work at home.


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[Assistant] Either at night or on the weekends because you didn't have time to complete it at the office.


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[Assistant] I have to burn the midnight oil.


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[Assistant] To burn the midnight oil means to work or study very late at night when everyone else is asleep. Most people are sleeping by midnight.


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[Assistant] When lamps had oil in them and you would light that, the oil would burn so that you would have light.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, this week I don't have to take home work and burn the midnight oil.


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[Assistant] I have everything under control. The phrase under control means that something is manageable or that you can handle or control it.


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[Assistant] The opposite would be to say that things are out of control, meaning that you can't handle or manage the situation.


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[Assistant] When things are out of control, I have to take work home and burn the midnight oil.


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[Assistant] But this week, I have everything under control, so I don't need to work over the weekend.


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[Assistant] In order to get ready to go home, I pack up my briefcase.


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[Assistant] To pack up means to put something inside a briefcase or a suitcase or perhaps a box so that you can take it with you when you leave a place.


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[Assistant] If you move to a new apartment or house, you have to pack up everything so that you can move it to the new place.


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[Assistant] A briefcase is a rectangular box, usually with hard sides and a handle that business people traditionally use to carry their work papers.


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[Assistant] These days a lot of briefcases also have a place for your laptop computer.


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[Assistant] We can still call these briefcases, or some people prefer to call them computer bags.


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[Assistant] When I pack up my briefcase, I am putting papers and other things into this small container, this case that I can use to carry things to and from work.


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[Assistant] The next thing I do is shut down my computer. To shut down.


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[Assistant] A computer means to turn off a computer.


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[Assistant] Or to turn off some other large device or machine. We use the same expression to shut down.


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[Assistant] Some offices shut down the copy machine at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] After I shut down my computer, I put some important papers back into their folder.


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[Assistant] And leave the folder in my desk drawer for safekeeping.


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[Assistant] A desk drawer is the part of your desk that is a box with a handle on the front, so you can pull it open, put things inside, and then close it again.


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[Assistant] My desk drawers are full of pens, pencils, paper, files, perhaps some paper clips. I need to clean out my desk drawers, is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Safekeeping means safety, security, or storage in a place where things won't get lost, stolen, or damaged.


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[Assistant] For example, I may take my...


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[Assistant] Wedding ring off when I'm going swimming and I will put it in my drawer for safe keeping so that it doesn't get lost or stolen.


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[Assistant] We put our money in the bank for safekeeping.


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[Assistant] And you probably keep important documents in some place in your house or business for safekeeping. We often put them in a safe, which is a box, usually a metal box, that is locked.


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[Assistant] Next, I take the paper and files from my outbox and put them in my co-workers inbox.


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[Assistant] An outbox is a small rectangular container made of metal, plastic, or perhaps wood that sits on the top of your desk and holds papers that need to be given to other people.


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[Assistant] During the day, as I finish working on papers, I put them in my outbox and then at the end of the day, I take those papers and I put them


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[Assistant] In the inbox of the people who need to see them.


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[Assistant] In the story, after I do that, I get back to my desk and see that another coworker has emptied her outbox and put some new things into my inbox.


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[Assistant] The inbox is where you put things that you need to work on.


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[Assistant] It's where other people put things that you need to work on.


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[Assistant] This of course means that I now have more work waiting for me when I come back the following work day.


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[Assistant] I like to clear my desk as much as possible at the end of the week. To clear something means to organize and remove objects that are on the table.


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[Assistant] Parents may ask their children to clear their toys from the floor or to clear their books from the table.


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[Assistant] Clearing my desk at the end of the week helps me avoid clutter.


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[Assistant] Clutter, C-L-U-T-T-E-R, means many small things that are unorganized, not being used, or not where they're supposed to be.


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[Assistant] The bedroom of a teenager is often full of clutter.


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[Assistant] I don't like my desk being full of clutter, and that's why I cleared it off, or cleared it.


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[Assistant] But when I came back, there were more papers in my inbox, so I guess everyone else likes to clear their desks to avoid clutter also.


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[Assistant] Finally, I look at my desk one last time to make sure that I haven't left anything behind.


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[Assistant] I may accidentally leave my jacket behind.


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[Assistant] And then I don't have anything warm to wear on my walk back to work the next day when it's cold in the morning.


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[Assistant] It's always a good idea to look around and make sure that you haven't left anything behind when you leave a place. This happens to me when I go to a hotel. I always forget something because I don't look around to make sure I haven't left anything behind.


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[Assistant] In our story, I don't see anything that I've forgotten, so I'm ready to head home.


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[Assistant] To head home means to leave a place and start to go home.


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[Assistant] You may head home at 5.30 and on a day when there isn't much traffic, you may arrive home or get home at 6 o'clock.


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[Assistant] Assuming you don't have a long commute or drive, a long bus ride or train ride home,


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[Assistant] If you live in Los Angeles, you can expect to get home another hour and a half later.


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[Assistant] The verb to head here means to go in that direction, to move in that direction. To head east means to go in an easterly direction.


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[Assistant] To head to the beach means to start driving or walking or taking a bus toward the beach.


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[Assistant] As I'm leaving my office, I think, weekend, here I come.


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[Assistant] The phrase, here I come, is used to show that you are excited to do something or to go somewhere in the near future.


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[Assistant] In this case, I'm excited to begin the weekend.


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[Assistant] You might say, California, here I come. When you're excited about visiting or moving to California. In fact, there was a famous song, California. Here I come was one of the lines or sentences in the song.


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[Assistant] Now that we've talked about the new vocabulary,


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[Assistant] Let's listen to the story again, this time at a normal speed.


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[Assistant] Oh, fine. You know how it is.


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[Assistant] Pretty good. I found a new job at an international company.


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[Assistant] Not too good. Still looking for a job.


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[Assistant] Same old thing. I'm pretty busy with schoolwork.


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[Assistant] Hello, Mike. I'm Kelly. George has told me all about you.


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[Assistant] Hi, Mr. Brown. It's about time we met.


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[Assistant] It's an honor for me to meet you, Mr. Smith. I'm Kelly Wang.


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[Assistant] Likewise. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.


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[Assistant] Oh, you are Steven. Nice to meet you.


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[Assistant] Jeff? Jeff Lesson? Is that you?


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[Assistant] Yes, that's right. And you are Jane?


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[Assistant] Yes, that's right. Have we met?


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[Assistant] Oh, Jane? I can't believe it's you.


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[Assistant] It's me alright. How have you been?


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[Assistant] What a pleasant surprise. How are you? It's been a while.


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[Assistant] That's right. Wow, time flies.


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[Assistant] Really? I can't believe it's been five years.


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[Assistant] Nothing much. Still working in the same place.


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[Assistant] How are your folks? Are they doing okay?


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[Assistant] How old is Nathan now? 10? 11?


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[Assistant] I am so happy to see you too. Let's do this again soon.


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[Assistant] Hohoho. Looks like a charged creeper was here.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about Minecraft.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is pretty high up.


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[Assistant] Your order number is on the receipt. Will call your number when your order is up.


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[Assistant] Your order number is on the receipt. Will call your number when your order is up.


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[Assistant] When people don't know what to do, they go to temples and draw lots.


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[Assistant] When people don't know what to do, they go to temples and draw lots.


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[Assistant] I am Jennifer Ross, the new salesperson at the company.


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[Assistant] I am Jennifer Ross, the new salesperson at the company.


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[Assistant] I think that our future is determined by ourselves.


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[Assistant] I think that our future is determined by ourselves.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of insects here. Do you have any insect repellent?


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[Assistant] There are a lot of insects here. Do you have any insect repellent?


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[Assistant] It's an honor for me to meet you, Mr. Smith. I'm Kelly Wang.


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[Assistant] It's an honor for me to meet you, Mr. Smith. I'm Kelly Wang.


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[Assistant] My English club is participating in a contest on those days.


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[Assistant] My English club is participating in a contest on those days.


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[Assistant] Fresh, dried, or canned meat and meat byproducts are prohibited.


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[Assistant] Fresh, dried, or canned meat and meat byproducts are prohibited.


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[Assistant] It's past my bedtime. I should be going home.


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[Assistant] It's past my bedtime. I should be going home.


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[Assistant] My sister is getting married, and we have to travel to the wedding.


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[Assistant] My sister is getting married, and we have to travel to the wedding.


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[Assistant] While we were having breakfast, John was talking on the telephone.


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[Assistant] While we were having breakfast, John was talking on the telephone.


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[Assistant] Even if no disaster comes, listening to predictions is a safeguard after all.


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[Assistant] Even if no disaster comes, listening to predictions is a safeguard after all.


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[Assistant] There will be about a 15 minute wait, I'm afraid.


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[Assistant] There will be about a 15 minute wait, I'm afraid.


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[Assistant] Yes, I know the rules. But I'm careful. I only do things when it's me and Chris. Nobody sees us.


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[Assistant] Hi everyone, today I want to start a new lesson.


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[Assistant] What we did yesterday. I want you to write the date. So today, the date is Friday.


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[Assistant] Okay? Write your comment in the comment section and I will check all of your grammar. So I'll see you next time. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] When you think about the Roman Empire and the complexity of the system that failed, it's incredibly frightening.


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[Assistant] The system that could create the best army in the world that could unite the entire Mediterranean region. The idea that a system like that can fragment and break apart.


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[Assistant] It was a particular genius of the burgeoning Islamic state to use that gold.


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[Assistant] To fund a massive army that was able to push beyond the Arabian Peninsula to create a new kind of empire, a distinctly Islamic empire.


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[Assistant] On the eve of the Crusades, Jerusalem under Muslim rule was actually a hotbed of creativity and inter-religious dialogue.


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[Assistant] There were Jews, there were Christians, there were Muslims. For the most part, they lived in relative harmony.


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[Assistant] The language that is popularly called Pakwa for purposes of organizing their lives, uh, internally and using English for international communication. But I think it's a mindset, an Anglo-Saxon mindset in which English is the official language of Britain and the U.S. and it's also an international language, but that's an aspect of history.


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[Assistant] And you're stuck and trapped inside this city. You start running out of options very quick.


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[Assistant] You can't run. You can't hide. You can't defeat this force.


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[Assistant] It's amazing when you go to Jerusalem, if you just stop for a second, you'll see that these people actually have more in common than they have that are differences.


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[Assistant] If I have a belief system that literally says, God tells me that I must slaughter anyone who wants to stop me from being here.


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[Assistant] brutal things on a battlefield. But I think when it gets quieter, when the images come back into the mind,


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[Assistant] Say the chant with me now, let's say the chant.


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[Assistant] Red. His t-shirt is red. The t-shirt is red. Where's the cat?


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[Assistant] Take a ruler to school, that's the rule. Where are my books? They're on the bookcase. Oh yes.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's my family.


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[Assistant] I should have swiped left on these cake pops. Alright, trying to work on another one here.


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[Assistant] It is a little short, but you know what? I'm kind of more of a quality over quantity kind of guy, you know? I think more quality wouldn't have been better either.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Alexis Kepler, and I am from Tustin, California. I am a very big Disney fan. Very, very big Disney fan. But when it comes to cooking desserts, I am definitely more of a villain than a princess. I am here to show that I can't bake desserts. They may not look the greatest, but I always deserve A for effort.


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[Assistant] Trying to make the top hat with the marshmallows. Gonna dye it, spray it black. See if it works.


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[Assistant] Had some of the Manhattan and kinda just face planted down the subway tunnel.


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[Assistant] I don't know how to use the mixers just yet. The big ol' mixing stands. So, start low, go up high.


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[Assistant] Okay, that looks good. Amanda is filling it with a spoon. The hole going to be a little bit bigger, but it won't.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Tony's cake is really coming round on top and flowing in the oven, but she can always cut the top and make it even again.


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[Assistant] Amanda, you do. How can I help you? What can I do? Tell me.


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[Assistant] Tony, your cake is light, a nice vanilla flavor, fluffy. So, congratulations. You did a good cake.


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[Assistant] I find the cake relatively crumbly. I mean, it's definitely lacking the eggs.


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[Assistant] It might not look so much like a castle, but it definitely tastes like.


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[Assistant] The urge to create, indeed the urge to glorify, no matter where we are in the world, no matter what our resources are.


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[Assistant] No matter even what tools are available, that urge is universe.


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[Assistant] If you think about it, virtually all of the great monuments of the past were built for a spiritual purpose, as if


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[Assistant] Satisfying the human need to reach out to the afterlife. And Easter Island reveals the urge to celebrate, to commemorate.


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[Assistant] Epic monuments that are still impressive thousands of years later and will be thousands of years from now.


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[Assistant] The crusades were as bad as it gets. Remember that these guys embrace the same God.


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[Assistant] Many of the same beliefs, same prophets, and yet the streets ran deep.


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[Assistant] With their blood and that of their brothers. It shows the extraordinary power of ideas to take hold of people's minds and drive them to commit acts of great sacrifice and love on the one hand, but also acts of tremendous barbarity and hatred on the other.


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[Assistant] Of course, they're not really different shapes, are they? It's the same shape, one going up and one going across.


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[Assistant] Every big ship is made up of lots of little ones.


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[Assistant] Why didn't you use chocolates? I tried melting the chocolate. No, you don't melt it, you put hot cream in it. Oh, now I know.


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[Assistant] Yes, I did. Oh, you did? It was a layer of uh, uh, oxygen.


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[Assistant] What else do I need to know about dance? Honestly, I wouldn't even know where to begin.


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[Assistant] And one of our expert judges will come to the rescue for three minutes. And Amanda, you had such an awful time in round one that we're gonna give you a little extra help. Oh great. You get the freezer burn button. At any point you can hit the blue freezer burn button.


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[Assistant] So okay, I knew that you could spray a pan, but I didn't know you could spray your hands.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Very nice, Amanda. Alright, Kevin, let's get into this. Ooh. This is hard. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Kevin, your cake is a little chewy.


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[Assistant] Now it's time to announce the winner of $10,000 and the Nailed It trophy!


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[Assistant] Hello, grammarians. Welcome to the last and strangest part of the irregular verb, the truly irregular. Yes, friends, here I have compiled all the weirdest, all the wooliest, all the eeriest and spookiest forms of verbs that don't otherwise fall into other categories.


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[Assistant] So we can't say that they end with a changed ED.


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[Assistant] We can't say that they end with an en, uh, and we can't say that there's a vowel shift. We've already covered those. This is the time for the weird stuff.


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[Assistant] First up, U-G-H-T. Oh, what a strange collection of letters that is to be found in English. So we take a word like teach, and in the past tense, it's taught.


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[Assistant] It's also pretty weird and pretty rare for there to be a vowel shift from the present to the past and also a duh sound. So for example, we take the word flee, which means to run away and in the past it's fled. Likewise, in the present we say say and in the past we say


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[Assistant] Said. So that A becomes eh, and that E becomes eh. And it's this weird vowel shift that's also followed up by a duh sound.


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[Assistant] These are verbs for whom the present tense is the same as the past tense. Prepare to have your mind blown. The past tense of bet is bet. The past tense of set is set. The past tense of hurt is hurt. Yeah, it's weird.


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[Assistant] Finally, there are some helper verbs or auxiliary verbs called modals that are super weird and have these properties that aren't repeated anywhere else in English.


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[Assistant] So present tense can becomes past tense could.


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[Assistant] I can stand on my head, or I could stand on my head when I was five. May becomes might in the past.