On The Fiddle & other Musical Phrases / English Addict -205- live learning / Sunday 19th JUNE 2022

Mr Duncan, you are late. Where have you been?

I know I'm a little bit late today, for which I apologise,

but at least I'm here, as we always say in English.

Better late than never at all.

Here we go. Yes, it is another English addict.

Completely.

100% live.

If it wasn't live, trust me,

I would make a much better job of it.

It would be much more professional.

Let's just say coming to you live from the birthplace of the English language, which just happens to be.

Oh, my goodness, I can't believe it.

It's England.

Would you believe anybody who

Hi, everybody.

Yes, I am late.

I know.

Oh, this is Mr. Duncan in England.

How are you today? Are you okay?

I hope so.

Are you feeling happy today?

I hope there is a smile on your face.

I know things are not great in the world.

Planet Earth is going through a rather difficult phase at the moment.

Let's just say.

Well, I suppose not necessarily the planet, but certainly

the people living on the planet Earth.

Having some problems, I think it would be fair to say.

But even though things are not as good as they could

be, I hope there is still a smile on your face today.

We are back together.

And, yes, my name is Duncan.

It says it right there on the screen.

So it must be true

Sorry I'm late.

I've had a few things going on.

We have a very chaotic week this week.

There is going to be a lot of chaos

because we have some big changes here.

We have some things that are happening that will never happen.

Ever again.

A very big thing this week, which is going to happen

and I'm rather excited about.

It's only taken 15 and a half years to reach that point.

But I'm very excited by it.

Also, I'm still suffering from hay fever.

I have locked myself here in the studio.

Since yesterday afternoon, I haven't been anywhere.

I have a little bucket in the corner of the studio

for me to go poops and we ease in.

That's how bad things are.

So besides the fact that it's really hot

in the studio, it's also a little bit smelly as well.

I'm only joking, by the way, because sometimes

when you joke about things people think you are being serious.

And before you know what's happening, you are being cancelled.

100% It's almost become difficult these days

to make any jokes about anything

because, well, I suppose if you say something

and if you are talking to many people at the same time,

you might find that you will offend

someone somewhere in the universe.

I think it's almost unavoidable.

Anyway, I will try my best today not to offend too many people.

I really will try my best.

Honestly,

no guarantees.

Sir, my name is Duncan. I talk about English.

I love the English language.

You might say that I am one of those up there.

An English addict, and I have a feeling you might be one of those as well.

Here we go again.

Yes, we

have made it all the way to the end of another weekend,

and we are approaching the longest day

of the year here in the UK.

The longest day, the summer.

Is it the summer equinox?

I believe it is.

Or is it the summer solstice?

It's one of those anyway.

I think it's the one where all of those druids,

they go into the middle of a field and take all their clothes off.

Yes, it is Sunday did.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

Do do you

do do ha.

Here we are again.

I hope you are having a good day.

I hope everything is super duper where you are.

Oh, did you see me on Friday as well?

I was in the garden on Friday.

I couldn't resist going outside to do a live stream on Friday,

despite the fact that I was suffering from my annual

hay fever, my allergy that I guess

every June The strange thing is

and I was talking to mr steve about this yesterday

when we were walking around

and I was suffering and sneezing.

I was talking to Steve and I said that I,

i didn't suffer from hay fever when I was living in China.

Which I find quite unusual.

So I didn't actually get hay fever

whilst living in China.

And I was

living there for quite a long time and I never got hay fever.

However, when I returned to England

suddenly yes, of course I did

once more get hay fever every single year.

But it's, it's strange.

I don't know why, because the place I was living in in

China was very close to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia.

And we are talking thousands of acres of grass.

And it just so happens that grass pollen is the thing

that I am sensitive to.

But I didn't have it all the time.

I was in China. I did not have hay fever.

However, soon as I come back here, yes, I have hay fever.

In fact, as I'm talking to you now,

I can already feel a sneeze coming on Wait there a moment.

Here we go. This might be the first sneeze

of today's live stream.

Let's have a look, shall we?

Now, okay.

It's gone away. Good.

Please don't go away.

I only want my sneeze to go away.

Not you.

I need you because this week we have something very special happening.

Hopefully over the next 48 hours, we are going to hit

1 million subscribers over the next couple of days.

Hopefully.

We also have another thing happening this week.

Mr Steve's mother is coming to stay.

Everything is going on this week,

and I'm not feeling very well because of my hay fever.

I think this week is going to be so crazy,

chaotic maybe.

I'm sure there will be some fun as well

along the way and I hope we can have some fun today.

Please, can we have some smiles?

I want to see some some some smile. Can we have smiles

because everyone is so miserable at the moment.

Don't worry.

It is not illegal to be happy.

Not yet anyway.

We will see what happens.

Hello to the live chat.

Nice to see you all here as well.

Oh, we have the live chat.

I wonder who was first on today's live chat.

Let's have a look, shall we?

Now, I happen to know that Vitesse is not here today.

I received a lovely message from Vitesse saying

that he would not be here because he is entertaining one of his friends.

So that's what's happening with Vitesse.

So instead, we have a different champion mouse in Hello Mouse.

And guess what?

You are first on today's livestream

and also the live chat

congratulations, Mouse.

And you are first.

By the way, I'm very happy to report that the weather

has become much cooler over the past 24 hours.

On Friday, it was so hot.

30 degrees, 30 Celsius in my garden.

When I was outside talking to you.

And of course across Europe it's been as high as 40,

40 degrees now I don't know about you, but I don't remember

ever having such high temperatures

as high as 40 degrees across Europe.

Friends, apparently the Eiffel Tower

was was in danger of melting.

It was that hot.

That's how hot it actually was.

So today it's much cooler, very damp, very humid.

And also we've had a lot of rain as well,

which is keeping things nice and cool.

Hello Beatrice.

Nice to see you here.

Valentin is here as well.

And of course, Lewis Mendel

is here today.

Hello, Lewis.

Nice to see you back as well.

Paolo.

Florence, we also have Claudia.

Oh, by the way, a little bit later on, we will have our special feature what's cooking?

Claudia,

what have you got in your pocket?

We will do that a little bit later on.

Hello, Olga.

Oh, I will be saying hello to you in a moment.

Something special from Olga.

Hello, also Israel.

Hello.

Also to be tres gulu.

Hello, Gulu. Nice to see you.

Hello, fatty.

Hello. Also, Maria Jemmy is here as well.

It would appear we have a lot of people joining us today already.

It's nice to see you here.

Back where you belong.

Marsha is here as well.

You, Lena.

Hello, you, Lena, you Lena.

Philip Sack, who says hello, Mr.

Duncan and everyone around the world, greetings from Bristol.

Hello, Bristol in the UK.

Nice to see you here.

We you, Lena.

I hope I pronounce your name correctly.

I always try my best. Anyway,

even if I fail, I always try my best.

Hello.

We also have.

Who else is here?

Florence is back as well.

Senator Reno. Hello, Senator Reno.

Nice to see you here as well.

I am hoping to celebrate my 1,000,000th subscriber this week.

I will try to be with you live when it happens.

But of course, it depends when it happens.

It might be in the morning.

It might be in the afternoon.

It might be during the night when I'm sleeping in my bed.

So we will see what happens there.

But I really hope I can be with you live

when we pass our 1,000,000th subscriber.

At the moment, I think we are around 800

850 subscribers away

from 1 million.

Isn't it exciting?

I suppose the big question is, will I get a special prise from YouTube?

Is YouTube going to send me

a special prise because they've never done it.

They didn't send me anything when I reached 100,000.

Not, no, I didn't get my play button.

I didn't get anything and I don't think I'm going to get anything

for my million either.

I don't know why.

Please don't ask me why. I have no idea.

Maybe I have upset

YouTube for some reason.

I don't know.

Who knows?

In this crazy world that we're living in at the moment, money's also all we have.

Ma wah wah wah.

It's so nice to see marois here as well.

Many see.

Nice to see you back on the livestream.

Today, we are looking at musical instruments,

musical words, musical phrases.

I have something over there.

Would you like me to show it to you?

I'm going to show it to you now.

It's a big thing, and I might have to wave it around

to show you what it is.

So just a moment. I have something to show you.

Oh, Mr.

Duncan,

we are fascinated

Would you like to see

my lovely violin?

Look at that.

Isn't that nice? Look, a beautiful violin.

And I know what you're going to say.

You're going to say Mr.

Duncan,

Mr. Duncan,

can you play the violin?

My answer to that is no.

I can't play the violin. I will try.

Shall we have a go at playing the violin?

I've never played the violin, ever.

Before, ever in my life.

Here we go.

Oh, that sounded quite good.

Actually,

I might be the new Mozart or the new Nigel Kennedy.

Who remembers Nigel Kennedy?

He was a very good violinist.

Although you don't hear from him anymore.

I can't believe I just did that.

I played the violin for the first time ever in my life.

The strange thing is, I remember when I was at school,

I was always being encouraged

to play musical instruments because they said I had very long fingers.

Apparently,

apparently my fingers are very long.

And if you have long fingers,

apparently you are very good or you should be very good at playing

musical instruments like this.

Isn't that lovely?

I hope you enjoy that.

No, I am not a good violinist.

I realise that I already realise the error of my ways

from that particular thing.

Mr. Steve will be with us in a few moments.

Are you excited because we do have Mr.

Steve here as well telling us all about his exciting week

that he will be having as his mother comes to.

Stay with us.

All of that coming up a little bit later on.

By the way, last night

I couldn't resist going outside to do some filming

because we had the most glorious sunset last night.

We had some beautiful views from the house

and I could not resist filming them.

Would you like to have a look at them now?

Here they come now, some beautiful sunset scenery.

And all of this was filmed last night.

And then coming up in a few moments, we also have Mr.

Steve. He will be right here.

Don't go away.

The oh, there I was, splashing around in the middle,

trying my best to keep cool and before that, we had the cows.

And before that, we had the beautiful sunset

that happened last night outside my window.

And that was filmed last night.

Beautiful sunset.

We are having some very nice weather.

Well, we have it was very hot.

On Friday, talking of things that are hot and sticky.

Here he comes.

Mr. Steve is back

do you believe it?

Indeed.

Hello.

Hello, Mr.

Duncan. Hello, wonderful viewers.

Mr. Steve, use the Globe Mr. Steve is here.

So everyone, calm down.

I know I was late today.

You see, I was 10 minutes late.

And the reason is I wasn't going to mention this but the reason is because last night, Mr.

Steve made the most amazing meal,

the most amazing food imaginable.

Some beautiful lentil curry. But

it did have a very strange effect on my stomach.

That's all I'm saying.

I think it was excitement because you were coming on to the live stream.

That's what it was.

There was certainly a stream coming out of one part of my body.

Definitely

I'm definitely not going to be here next week.

Next Sunday. Next Sunday. I won't be here.

Yes, you'll be here probably I won't because I'm off to a rehearsal.

Oh, and all afternoon rehearsal because we've got

we've got a production coming up soon. OK,

which relates to something that you've been sharing.

Yes. Yes.

We are looking at musical instruments later or phrases

to do with music and musical instruments that coming up a little bit later on.

I'll mention it then.

But in the end, another thing that's happening next week, in fact,

the next seven days are going to be pretty hectic.

Yeah, to say the least.

We have your mum coming. Yes.

So maybe next Sunday instead of having Mr.

Steve here, we could have Mr.

Steve's mother co presenting.

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine what would happen? I can't imagine it.

Would you like to have Mr. Steve's mother here?

Next week co presenting?

I think it would be brilliant.

I think, I think you would.

It would take a lot of persuading to

see what I think.

This is my theory, not this is my theory.

I think Steve is threatened by it.

He is he is worried that if Mr.

Steve's mother comes on here,

she will be more liked and enjoyed than you.

So so she might be more popular.

So I think Steve is just saying that to stop his mother

from coming on here because he's worried that she will be more popular than him.

I think that's what it is.

I don't think there's anything you could do that could persuade my mother.

I think you would have to literally trick her

by putting a camera in front of her and just going to talk to her.

Yeah.

And she wouldn't know that she was actually being live at the time.

Maybe. Yeah, I could hide the camera.

I could hide it and then just say, oh, hello.

Hello. Steve's mum please come over here.

How do you pronounce this word? Let's have a chat

yes. She won't be keen on appearing.

She doesn't really understand any of this.

I don't think she understands any of this.

No one really understands what I do.

Can they say I wasn't going to mention this, but people,

all the people we know, they have no idea what this is.

They can't even understand what it is.

I do unless they've watched it.

It's very difficult for a lot of people.

I don't think that helps.

Who aren't familiar with the Internet and YouTube.

It's very difficult for them to understand unless they see it for themselves.

If people have never been on YouTube,

they don't really know what

is this whole world out there with people making videos about all sorts of different subjects?

Mr. Duncan's teaching English, of course,

but like, for example, my brother,

she doesn't just understand it, just know because she hasn't seen it.

Well, what I meant was more what I do

is in my job, I think that's what people get confused by.

Well, they think I work in a school and then they ask if I'm on the Internet, and then they ask,

Are you still sending your messages to your friends in China?

And none of those things are right.

So I don't think anyone really knows what I actually do.

Maybe. Maybe you don't know.

There are still people asking me, Mr.

Duncan, what what is this?

What are we watching at the moment?

Thank you to everybody for saying hello to me.

Sylvia says good morning.

Of course, it must be wherever you are, Sylvia. Hmm?

It must be early

very early on in the day.

Whereas here it's to well, it's 230.

Gone to 30 now. Yes.

So a reminder as if we need it.

The people are watching us all over the world in different time zones. Yes.

So, yes, people are watching us in the morning.

In the afternoon.

It's quite exciting reading it Christmas.

Maybe it might be Christmas where you are.

Happy Christmas if it is Christmas where you are watching at the moment.

It's cold in

Brazil in Porto Allegra, according to Sylvia.

Hello, Sylvia, who just said good morning.

Apparently it's cold there.

Whereas here, of course, you've probably mentioned the temperature this week.

It's been very hot.

On Friday, I was outside in the garden suffering for you.

I was outside and I was ill and I was unwell and I was standing there

getting loads of pollen up my nose, lots of pollen going into my body.

And I was suffering.

I was so ill because of you, you wanted me to go outside

into the sunshine, and that's what I did.

And it's still muggy, muggy.

So it mean that's humid

and it's a bit uncomfortable.

And of course, there's lots of pollen around.

And even I've been suffering with mild

hay fever, which is unusual, although I did get some last year,

there's never been so much pollen.

Apparently this year has it. It's crazy.

Experts are saying, well, I've been in bombs or something.

They're calling it thunder, thunder pollen, thunder pollen, fun.

The pollen apparently because after after it's been wet,

even more pollen is released into the air after a damp period.

Now, if you remember, the last time we were on,

we were talking about the queen of England and her jubilee.

Well, can you believe today is the anniversary of the change

of the name of the house

of the royal family that is now in existence?

So on this date, here it is on the screen now on this day

in 1917, the British royal family changes

its name from the Germanic sex Coburg Grosser

or Gotha to the more English sounding Windsor.

So Windsor

it sounds much more English doesn't it, than sex.

Coburg. Gotha.

I think so, yeah.

I suppose understandably.

They would wish to distance themselves from

certain regimes that were causing problems around the world at the time.

So that's probably a good idea at the time.

Although, I mean, the Queen was born here, so she is British. Yes.

Even though obviously she is of Germanic descent.

I think it is fair to say that during the the early 1900s there was a lot

of anti-German sentiment and that's the reason why they decided to change the name.

Also, I think Windsor just sounds more more eloquent.

I'm not criticising their original name, but I'm just saying it sounds.

Windsor.

Hello. Hello. I'm the Queen.

I'm Elizabeth Windsor.

It sounds so it does sound English.

Prince Philip, the queen's husband, now deceased, of course, was from Greece, I think, wasn't it?

Yes, Greek origin, Greek.

So in all of his sisters, married Nazis.

Interesting.

Yeah, but the probably at the time, you know, well, they didn't know what they were getting into.

I mean, you going to look at things in historical perspective.

But yes,

you can understand

particularly if you've got a monarch in this country wanting to distance themselves from

or not give the perception to

their subjects in the country,

that they are supporting in any way

Nazi regimes or et cetera.

So you can understand why they would want to do that. Hmm.

Not that you ever used to use Ella.

I mean, you never say you never called the queen, you know,

Elizabeth Windsor, you just call her the Queen Elizabeth.

But we always we always give a generic term, don't we, the House of Windsor.

So we have the Tudors, we have the Edwardian,

and we have the Windsors as well.

So I suppose that sounds more eloquent and more English

or British, I suppose, which they are, because, you know, the queen was born here.

So you know, and Prince Philip is, is, is from Greece.

So and all their children, you know,

are all born here.

So, you know, there aren't any German connexion.

We've all got we can all we can all go back in our history

and find that we've got relations from different countries.

I have a little bit of French in me.

I've had a French nucleus, I've got a French man in me.

Just a little bit. Not much.

It's 37 degrees in Poland, is it?

Thank you for telling us that.

Polite Parry.

I think it's quite read your name there.

So yes, very hot, in other words.

And of course we know that

European

continental countries get very hot because they don't have the sea breeze.

It gets very hot inland in Europe in the summer as it gets very cold in the winter.

We have something big happening this week.

We are going to hit 1 million.

Subscribe as it's only taken 15 and a half years.

By the way, if you

are thinking of having 1 million subscribers

on your YouTube channel, you might have to wait

for about 15 years for it to happen.

But trust me, it's worth the wait unless you're doing something that is incorrect.

Incredibly popular worldwide. Thanks.

Unless you're in America, you're more very likely to get there very quickly.

Oh, OK.

Well, that's that's my that's my ego.

Around my, around my ankles. That's cool.

Thanks, Steve.

I need to, you know, I'm just saying.

Yeah, OK.

I feel slightly depressed now that if you don't, yes,

you will only get good subscribers if you are good. Yeah.

What I'm saying is, you know, if you if you if you're a very attractive girl with large breasts

doing something,

you are likely to get a lot of subscribers I can always put that right.

You know, these days you could you could swap it all around if you want.

I might I might decide to have a little chop chop or a little bit of bleep

or if you're somebody who is, you know, and you like to sometimes watch these Mr.

Duncan people who are

making themselves overweight.

Yeah, well, eating a lot till I just say it's one of the biggest trends

at the moment on YouTube is to get fat and film yourself getting fat.

A lot of people now are trying it.

I maybe I will do that.

Maybe that is the thing that I have to do.

Maybe I have to eat lots of food

and get fat.

And then more people will watch me as I as I become larger and larger.

Is that a good idea?

Why don't you go the other way and just become slimmer?

Well, I can say that some people are doing that as well, becoming sort of anorexic.

Yes, well, both both ways.

Some people are are slimming themselves down until they are almost invisible

and others are eating so much food, they become giants, which ones are most interesting to watch.

I think they're both interesting to to to people.

But I mean, at least it must be more interesting, surely, to watch somebody

putting weight on because you can see them stuff in their face with food.

Whereas if you're watching somebody who's slimming, they're not doing anything, are they?

I will be honest.

I'm really not eating it.

Well, they could be throwing up in the corner.

The person could be doing that.

I'm not by the way, we're not making a joke of this.

It is a serious subject, but there are lots of people doing this

and there are millions of people who want to watch that actually happening.

So maybe these are things that we should try when we pass 1 million subscribers.

Maybe we should start being a little bit more outrageous, a little bit

more interesting with the things that we do.

Christina VII

is watching us lying

on the beach in Romagna, Italy.

Hello to the beach Romagna in itself.

How lovely it must be hot there, mate.

Yes, it probably is.

Is it hot, Christine, where you are on the beach?

I would imagine it is, but it sounds delightful.

Oh, by the way, don't get don't get sand in your iPhone

or in your tablet device because you don't want that

because it isn't very good for it.

And don't don't go into the sea

with your iPhone or your tablet device because it won't do it any good.

All that saltwater, it will damage it.

And if you want to lose weight, do not work

in a doctor's surgery,

certainly not in the UK because

patients give the staff and doctors

surgeries, lots of cakes and chocolates.

I was only reminded of that the other the other week

when I went to see a customer of mine, I went

and they were

now I went upstairs to see

practise manager and the take the table in the room she was in was

it was like a sort of, you know, room where they do have meeting room.

There were tins, a suite of chocolates, all sorts of things.

And while I was there, somebody brought another one.

It's always something else from a patient and they're all,

well, let's just say they find it very difficult to do what, but he's laughing it.

I find it very difficult to lose weight because patients are constantly

sharing their appreciation for the work that is done for them.

So maybe they're just, they're just trying not to eat the food themselves.

So they are taking it to the doctors

at the end of the month, of course, is I'm going to cough, by the way.

Excuse me,

yeah, that's better.

You did not want to get

into how you feel why didn't you cough at the same time as me?

Well, I thought that would just be rude.

Yeah, but I turn I turn the microphone off.

It's it's hot.

It's pleasant, but it's it's on the beach, but it's windy

and light wind hot, but well, you want a light wind?

On the beach because it keeps you cool.

But at the same time, that can

maybe you'll be less willing to put on sunscreen because you think, oh,

I don't feel that hot, but the sun's rays are baking you

as you're lying there. I certainly are.

Skin is ageing.

It all being cooked have wrinkles will appear

in later life and you'll regret it now. Wendy.

Jack, would you like to see some photographs?

We have some lovely pictures sent in by our wonderful viewers.

Here is what we had this posted to us on Facebook.

Dear Mr.

Dunkirk, not only are your classes of English received by me and Mr.

Dung, Mr.

Steve, but also much more fortunately, I have got some

some Jaffa Cakes sent to me

by one of my friends in England as a gift.

So apparently it is roses cousin.

Hello, Rosa.

And did you enjoy your Jaffa Cakes?

There they are.

Yes. And it looks as if there's some chocolate there as well.

So I hope you enjoyed your Jaffa Cakes.

A lot of people think that we get sponsored

by the makers of Jaffa Cakes.

We should do.

We don't, but I think they should do. Here's another one.

Steve from Olga. Hello, Olga.

There is Olga watching us or watching me on Friday when I was outside.

And I love your socks.

I love the fact that your socks have little eyes.

So it looks as if your your socks or your feet are actually watching me on the television.

And also, I like your television. It's really big.

And also there is a selfie as well that Olga took with me.

Oh, look at that.

That's so, you know, you can see how big I am in real life.

I'm really huge. I'm like a giant.

So thank you, Olga, for sending those photographs.

And it's also nice to see you as well.

And if you want to send anything, you are more than welcome to do.

So I will give you the address.

Would you like the address? Yes.

Here it is. Very quickly,

if you want to send photographs.

Pictures. Thank you. Messages, anything you want.

As long as it's nice

please.

Nothing else, nothing too rude.

Thank you very much.

You can send all of those things to that particular address.

As I mentioned, we are talking about music in a few moments as well.

After 3:00.

However,

there are some people at the moment, Steve,

who are not very happy here in the UK.

And do you know why?

Well, I will tell you

some people who have to travel by train

and commutes around the country are not very happy

because this week the train drivers and all of the people connected

to running the trains, making sure they run smoothly and safely,

they are all going on strike,

they are going to take industrial action.

It's a great phrase, by the way, industrial action

so quite often it will be described as a strike.

So one group of people, normally a union will say that we want

maybe more money, more pay or maybe better working conditions

and then if they don't get that, they will actually stop working.

They will put down their tools or in this case,

they will stop driving the trains

and then there will be no trains driving.

So a lot of people are quite upset by that.

And I'm just wondering, what about in your country?

What about where you are do you have strikes?

Do you ever find that people stop working as a protest?

Because that's what it is.

It isn't. It we know well, from what we see.

We know it certainly happens a lot in France.

Yes, we do see, you know, a lot of strikes because the unions are very strong.

I think in France.

The unions, of course, in this country used to be much stronger.

But certain

conservative leaders,

notably Margaret Thatcher, tried to destroy the power of the unions.

And it's very controversial at the moment.

The rail strike is rail workers going on strike

because they have a lot of people.

Wages are not keeping up with inflation

and haven't done over over many years.

But the rail workers wages generally have kept pace.

So, I mean, they do get you know, it's very controversial

because people are saying, well, rail workers already get paid very well. Yes.

Now they're going on strike for more because they've got a very powerful union

and because they know that they're likely to get what they want

because they're effectively holding the country to ransom.

And they know that the government will probably give in to their demands rather than see a lot of unrest

around the country because people cannot get to work or they can't go to their destination.

I suppose the irony is we've just had like two years

of nothing really happening very much as everyone was in lockdown.

So it is strange that everyone who has been working at home

and they're enjoying that time and are complaining that they can't get to work.

And the other controversial thing is that the government bailed out the railways

during the pandemic to the tune of £92 billion.

That's a lot of money because if we they hadn't been given that money.

A lot of the a lot of the companies

that run the railways would have gone bankrupt.

I suppose

it's very similar to what happened to the banks in 2008

when many banks who were who were going to go out of business were also given money

they were bailed out of that particular thing.

But you know what this reminds me of the seventies,

the late 1970s, the late 1970s when everyone was on strike.

The people who take the refuse away,

the people who were working in the coal mines, the people driving the trucks,

they all decided to go on strike in the late 1970s and everything was quite chaotic.

I remember the scenes of, of all of the garbage, all of the rubbish

the stinky, smelly rubbish, all piling up in the streets everywhere and bodies weren't

being buried either as rather as a strike with people

to do with the burial of bodies this time as well.

So it was very unpleasant.

But of course what's happening at the moment is that we've got very tough economic conditions the

cost of

living is going up, inflation, cost of energy and that is

as the same thing happened in the 1970s it is forcing certain groups of people

who have leverage, who have, you know, it's a public service

and they know that if they go on strike they're probably going to get their demands met.

OK, and you know it starts to cause a big problem

because the economy is not doing very well anyway.

And then if the real strikers go on strike,

it's seen as quite selfish because that is having an impact on the economy

and it means that, you know, nurses who work very hard and teachers

will probably get less pay out.

But you know, because the train drivers, it's such a crucial

service.

Well it's a necessary thing isn't it?

That's why people need to get on trains apparently got to change goods.

Of course commodities all travel by by freight.

You never see that to use.

And usually you don't realise how much,

how many goods

travel on the railways because you never see goods trains.

Very rarely when you go to a train station, you just see the passenger train

because behind the background there's all this, all these, you know, coal

and probably not so much coal now, but lots of things being transported by rail.

Of course it will bring the whole economy to a standstill if it goes on for a long time.

Well, most of the most of the goods are transported at night, I think.

Yes, that's easy to say from from our eyes,

but I suppose what also happens is

if one group of people have a pay rise, then everyone else will also want it,

which then of course will mean inflation will rise things will become more expensive.

And it is a never ending cycle.

It is a never ending cycle.

And of course some people see it as unfair.

Don't they?

People working in hospitals, health care

during the pandemic had no choice and some of them were working for many, many hours.

But they are not having a pay rise.

So I suppose there's more than one way of looking at this situation.

If a group of people become angry

or upset by something, maybe they feel

as if they deserve more salary or better conditions

then I suppose if they are belonging

to a group of people who are willing to do it, they will take action.

Well, you've hit on a point there.

Nurses in particular had to work through the pandemic in appalling conditions,

and all they've had, I

think is a 1% pay rise this year

and yet they haven't gone on strike

and their pay is probably below that

of a train drawing that somebody is saving lives.

I mean, you can argue this point, but, you know,

a lot of people think it's very selfish

of of them to to

you know, to to use this advantage that they have

in being out being able to bring the country to a standstill.

Well, there reason there is more money for them.

So there is a health care union as well.

I suppose that's that's worth pointing out.

There is a nurses union as well.

It's just that I think in this situation, it seems a little unfair or a little

as you said earlier, some people see it as selfish

that you are asking for such a large pay rise during a situation

where the average person is is in a situation where they might be struggling.

So maybe, maybe there's more than one way of looking at it.

But it is amazing how and how we are all remembering

the strikes and the industrial action of the late 1970 when we had no electricity.

I know the electricity kept just going off

and we spent sometimes maybe two or three days with no electricity

but it was certain hours of the day and we had there was a four day week

where they shut down the factories for one day a week to save electricity.

They're actually contemplating that again.

Now apparently because of the,

you know, the

cost of gas and the lack of supply and health costs across Europe,

they're actually contemplating shutting businesses down. Yes.

Which of course will make the economy go down.

Then there's less money available, which means a living standard sort of can spiral down

if you're not very careful it's amazing how it gets out of control as well.

But the other thing that the last time it happened in the seventies, it was winter,

the winter time, which of course, was a pretty bad time of year to do that when you think about it.

And they called it the winter of discontent.

And if you are discontent it means you are unhappy.

You are unhappy about a certain situation.

So discontent, you are showing your anger.

However, now

they are trying to use

the term summer of discontent.

So here in the UK we are talking about the summer of discontent

and in the late seventies it was the winter of discontent.

You're discontented.

It means you're unhappy about a situation as if you are contented,

contented, it means you're happy with the way everything's going.

I'm contented with my life at the moment.

You could say but yes, yes.

Nystrom Thank you in this round how people remember.

Thank you very much.

I am a Shirley Bassey fan and nature is nothing to do

with what we're talking about, but I thought I'd mention it before it passes.

OK, what did I think of Shirley Bassey performance on the BAFTAs in March?

Yes, considering she's 85. Wonderful.

Yes, it was lovely.

We didn't expect to see that.

But thank you for remembering these little things.

Well, she did it live as well.

Unlike unlike many of the performers

who appeared during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations,

a lot of them were miming, including Diana Ross.

She wasn't singing live.

She was just stopped by pa pa, pa, pa, pa, pa.

Well, I think I think we have this conversation, conversation let's not do the conversation again.

They sing live, but they don't necessarily use the live.

Yeah, that's what.

No, but but Shirley Bassey often insists on singing live.

It's very rare that you will see it.

It's very rare that you will see Shirley Bassey mime

or sing to something that's already being recorded.

Can I also mentioned somebody who I think is a wonderful name,

but it's wonderful to us because it sounds very exotic.

And don't names of people from other countries

and different languages often sound quite exotic to you?

And hey, we've got Carmen Monteverdi, who.

Yes, I like that one. That sounds very exotic.

What Carmen, of course, conjures up that famous opera hmm.

And Monteverdi.

Yeah.

Did did students doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

doo doo doo doo re-edit Janiero de de de de

de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de.

I could do that all day.

Are you an opera singer, Carmen?

Uh, but yes, yes.

A very interesting and exotic sound.

Well, it sounds exotic to us, probably.

To you and other people in Brazil.

It doesn't, but it sounds very exotic.

So it would appear that a lot of people want to see Mr.

Steve's mother next Sunday presenting with me,

because Steve won't be here because he's doing is doing something else,

but it won't be as exciting as this.

So if we can get Mr.

Steve's mother on next week, even if I have to trick her by hiding the camera

and maybe we can just have a cup of tea together and she doesn't realise that,

and then we'll just do the show sitting on the on the sofa.

It's father's day in a lot of countries today.

Yeah, here. Including here. Yeah. Yes.

So happy.

Happy Father's Day to all the dads.

All of that is watching

yes. People are talking about

I have the leverage to bail out.

Leverage is an interesting phrase one might mention as another time.

Yes. To have leverage.

What does it mean?

It means you've got some advantage.

Yes. Yes. Do you have a bit of control? Yes.

Well, if you were trying to get something to move or something

to change, you normally have to use a certain amount of force.

So imagine trying to get a large stone out of the ground.

You want to move that thing, you might have to put something underneath it

and then lift a big like a lever you are using leverage.

So the thing you are using is actually applying

force to to move that thing.

So lever it, it means that if you got an advantage. Yes.

Somewhere you are using force to make something happen.

So people who are part of a union

will have leverage because they can all go on strike and force the government to give them what they want.

The leverage they have is the disruption that they will cause.

If the government don't give in to them.

It means they've got this power, you've got some extra power

or advantage in a situation that other people don't have,

and you can use that to your advantage.

That's what that means.

So the real strike is have leverage against the government,

because if the government don't give way, they can go on strike, which they are

causing all that disruption and they know they're going to cause that disruption,

which is going to feed back into the government, probably giving way.

And but that that compromise I'm sure.

But they'll end up with a bigger pay rise in the end than the average person.

OK, so they will use that

and it's that's using it in a negative way.

Well, leverage is rarely used positively.

It's interesting.

We often use leverage is something to do is forcing another person's

hand in a certain direction maybe business as well.

Business if one if one company wants to force another one

to to sell their shares, they can have some leverage.

Some force is used against them anyway.

That's people financial markets is an interesting one.

When you when you refer to leverage in financial markets and buying shares

and things, that means you borrow money

to which is a risky thing to do.

But yes, having some advantage or some power over

somebody else or another group of people

you know, you might think that you might be able to achieve something

because you've got something might be you might be going for a job.

You might have you might have some leverage when you go in for a job,

you might have higher qualifications than somebody else, for example,

or you might have more experience than the other candidates.

That gives you leverage an advantage.

So power I think we've pretty much covered the meaning of leverage this.

Right. Well, thank you for asking.

This is what this is all about. Of course,

apparently.

Will you be joining us for our Millions subscriber?

We have we are approaching 1 million subscribers.

The only problem is we don't know when it's going to happen.

So we'll be keeping a very close eye

on the subscriber count as it approaches.

Are you saying that you may well go live

if it's, for example, during the day?

Yes, if I'm asleep in bed, then then no, it won't happen.

But hopefully it will happen in the morning or during the day.

Of course, we all know it, won't we?

All know that the 1,000,000th subscriber will happen

in about 3:00 in the morning

or or maybe just as your mother arrives.

And we've picked a really good week for this, by the way.

This is going to be one of the busiest weeks that both of us have had.

It will be I've got a lot going on with work.

He's got a show, there's a schedule, and I've got to go to rehearsals for that because it's in next month.

So it's getting quite close now.

Exactly.

Oh, neat. True.

Asks Speaking of music, Mr.

Duncan, are you aware of the song that is now

number one in the British charts?

Yes, I know all about it.

To put it to bed.

Do, do, do do do do do do do.

We're running up that hill and we're running up that hill.

We're running up that hill.

And very soon I will be over that hill.

You mean over the hill? Yeah.

Thank you, Steve.

If you're over the hill, it means you.

You have passed usefulness.

So. Kate Bush. Yes.

Kate Bush, who had a big hit, I think it was in the late was it the 1980s?

Way back in the 1980s.

Who remembers the 1980s such a long time ago.

And it's back at the top of the charts again

because of that TV show that I've never seen as she rerecorded it.

Or is it the original recording that's as I understand as I understand

it, it's a version it's a different version, but I think it's a remix of the original song.

So basically I think it is the original song.

Is it an R&B version?

No. It is not because there is no rap taking place

that probably would make it go up.

Are there even charts still?

Do people still?

What is it?

What did you say? It's number one in the chart.

Well, yes, the music charts, if you actually look at anyone, actually pay any attention to the music charts.

Anymore. Yes. Do they?

Yes. Especially people who are in the charts

because even though it's still you don't never hear it referred to anymore, do you?

Because, well, we don't because we're old, but young people know

exactly who's where are the still programmes?

Yes. Top of the Pops for people.

Well, you know, see the charts on the radio.

They talk about the charts all the time.

They right there are shows, the chart shows which is basically full of

and of course music TV, they always talk about the music charts.

I mean MTV, it is not MTV,

but anything, anything to do with music is what I'm trying to say.

So the charts are important.

It's just that we're old farts and we don't care.

Now, when we were teenagers, you see it was very important to us

what music was around and where it was in the music charts.

But but we don't care anymore because we're old and we have more important things

to think about, like bills and.

Well, I don't think not dying used to be much more prominent, didn't it?

OK, you just going to music?

Well, it did used to be that because I think now they don't.

Yeah, I don't know.

But I get the impression now that because musicians

make very little money from selling recordings,

that it's just not really, you know, they make all their money from live performances now.

Yes, that's part of it. But they still exist.

There is still this there is still a music chart, there's still an album chart,

and there's still various different charts of different types of music.

It all still exists.

It's just that we don't care anymore because we have

we have the the adult things to think about now.

Music charts. Yes.

Florence just wants to know what the music charts are.

It just just, you know, who's number one.

Yes. In the hit parade. Well, the

oh, my God.

They don't call it the hit parade anymore.

It's just basically the best selling music.

Yeah. Music that sells the most during a period of time.

And and don't say hit parade

because no one's going to know what you mean.

Well, have you heard of the show Stranger Thing?

I have. That's what it's from.

All right.

Running at that hill is taken from the Netflix series.

It's probably the only successful thing that's on Netflix at the moment.

On this tram or any tram recommends that we watch it.

No breath of fresh air. It's boring.

I tried to watch the first season of strange

things, and I found it so boring.

It was just people talking and talking and talking.

And then the lights went off and then someone was shining a torch, and then it was just so boring.

I didn't like it.

Maybe it's not aimed at me.

I don't know why.

Watching teenage children running around with torches

is not that interesting to me, I'm afraid.

Well, sorry nature Duncan doesn't like.

Although having having said that, I do like Kate Bush because.

Because we remember Kate Bush.

We remember when Kate Bush first appeared out of after out of nowhere.

And we were all amazed because she was so unusual

with her Wuthering Heights, eccentric, Wuthering Heights, amazing

operatic operatic voice doing her her interesting dances.

Teacher is here after a long absence due to taking exams.

Oh, I hope your exams went well.

And yes, please tell us what those exams were.

Were they English exams or was it something else?

Uh, yeah. OK,

I always loved the moment where Steve runs out of steam.

I'm just running out of things to say.

I know, I know.

Well, that's what I mean.

I know it's not offensive.

I'm not criticising you, mr.

Steve, don't worry.

Yes, because it is correct to say police series or a crime series.

Yes, if you've got programmes,

you know, all the same people in it.

And the several, you know, many of them

probably more than I would say more than six.

You would call it a series you know.

So yeah, so that's show.

But when we talk about Stranger Things is a series, is it.

Yes, it's, I think it's in its fourth series now.

It made a series. This one follows another one. Yes.

Or a group of episodes that are together

so that there's four series now we see series,

but in the States they say seasons, but it's basically the same thing.

So it's season four or here we will say

series is for, but it's basically the same thing I don't like.

No, no, I'm sorry.

Although we don't have Netflix anymore, I got rid of it.

And to be honest, I don't miss it at all

because most of the stuff on there is rubbish.

And that's it really.

Teacher says, yes, English literature exams.

Oh, OK.

That's quite different from appendices, sir.

OK, this.

Hello, welcome.

Let's leave anything can happen better.

Certainly does anything certainly does happen.

English literature may be a bit of Shakespeare in there.

Who knows?

So yes,

you've got to be you've got to have a very good grasp

of the English language before you start taking English literature.

So you must be high up.

Yeah, on the understanding of English language scale.

So well done.

Or have you passed your exams?

A.D Well, Adie

used to listen to Kate Bourgeois skating. Yes.

I wonder why I think you can skate very nicely and gracefully

when you're listening to some of Kate Bush's songs.

Kate Bush, a lot of her music is sort of for real.

Is that so?

Would that be a good word?

It's like mist coming towards you.

It's like something is floating around and is everywhere.

I'm skating down that hill.

I'm skating down that hill I'm falling on my arm.

I'm falling on my arm.

Is that what you're saying? I slipped toe.

Uh, Bush was born in 1958.

Oh, yes. She's

three years older than me.

Yes, she's an old lady now.

Yeah, exactly.

But no, she's she's in the prime of her life.

Probably not as old as your mum.

No. Well, yes, exactly. Mm.

So what is the theme of today, Mr.

Douglas? I think I've mentioned three times.

Well, I think, you know, that pause gives you the opportunity to mention it again.

Here we go.

Today's subject is

excellent, Mr.

Duncan.

Well, you might have noticed, because I've talked to you

by the way, that is not something to be played around with.

Mr. Duncan. Ooh, I got a I got a note. Then I got a note.

I play the violin then.

Did you hear that?

I'm excited now. I want to learn how to play the violin.

People might.

Let's put this into context.

Do we have yes, viewers?

Can I do it?

You're in the show and this violin playing involved.

But Steve Miller's show. But Steve doesn't play the violin.

I've got to pretend to play a violin.

That's Orpheus in the Underworld is what it's called.

It's a it's a it's a musical.

It's a it's an operator, but often Bach. Yes.

And it's a it's a comedy about about Greek gods. Yes.

It's a comic opera about Greek gods.

And I'm playing Orpheus.

Are you one of the Greek gods? I'm Orpheus.

But in this comic opera, Orpheus

plays the violin, and I have to pretend to play it,

but somebody in the orchestra will be actually playing it. Yes.

And so that that doesn't make a noise.

I put a sock under the under the strings.

Oh, which is why it's not playing correctly.

Well, that's why I won't work.

Yeah, because I can't, you know, I've got to look as though I'm playing it,

but I don't want any sound to come out of it.

So I put a sock under the strings I'm so clever.

You should try it when you sing

put a sock in your mouth.

Yes. So, yes, if anyone looks up Orpheus in the underworld.

Actually, it's a very.

It's very interesting.

The Greek gods is it?

Yes. It's quite interesting to read about that, because they've all got their own

sort of little talents, haven't they? They have, yes.

I believe. I believe

Morpheus.

Morpheus was always sleeping.

He was. He was the god of sleep.

Well, this is this is

my mic.

He's my favourite, by the way.

This is a comic operetta, OK?

But I looked up the story of Orpheus, and it's very sad

because I just very sort of touched me when I

when I read it, you know, it's all it's all myth, obviously.

It's not fact. Well, no, it's not.

There are no historical document.

Have we got anybody from Greece watching?

Yes. So Orpheus was was married to your residency they were very much in love.

I had that once. The doctor gave me some medicine for it.

Anyway, Eurydice, he was was kidnapped by Pluto and taken to the underworld.

To Mickey Mouse

and, you know, to hell, effectively,

and to Hades and Orpheus went to try and rescue his wife.

And Pluto said, Yes, you can have it back.

You must walk forward up from Hades.

Up towards back towards the surface of Earth again.

And if you manage to, you see, your wife

must follow you and you must walk back towards that earth.

And if you but if you look back at any point,

you will lose her forever.

And so what happened is that is

that Orpheus got all the way nearly to the top

and then he forgot and looked back.

The portal closed and he lost her forever.

And I thought that was very sad.

I just thought it was very sad.

So the moral of the story is don't look back and always keep your portholes open.

Exactly.

Yes. That's just a very sad story that, you know, it sort of made me very tearful.

You know, somebody that you love and you you nearly got them back a bit like the audience.

And then they've gone.

I think the audience will be very they're looking

OK. The portal was closed and he never saw her again.

You know, what a tragedy.

Yes, it certainly will be.

Oh, Hannah says I'm a witch now,

but now she's pretending she's an actress.

But we have a tradition on the 7th of July magic tradition.

Oh, right. OK, do you have a broomstick?

So Hannah says and actually says, I'm an actor, too.

Or an actress.

If you want to be old fashioned, I will play a witch.

We have a tradition on the 7th of July.

It is Ivana Kabbalah.

Some magic tradition.

Sounds interesting. Lots of people in the street.

I would imagine dancing and singing,

playing their musical instruments.

Did you see what I did?

They're very clever.

Very clever. Oh,

you Segways. You know what?

They should pay me to do this. They really should.

Yeah,

they really should pay me to do this because I'm such good value for money.

I've just. I've just borrowed.

But to stick you about in my face, I've just.

But this is just a prop.

It is an actual violin, but it's a prop that I'm using.

I've only got a small part in it. Yes.

So we've heard

of you even though it's the title

in the operetta, it's only a very small part in it, which is quite.

I was quite thankful for it, to be honest, but it's a bit of fun.

Anyway,

we'll take your word for that.

Right?

I will be.

I will be looking after your mother this time next week, and.

And I will try to get her on the show, even if I have to put something in her tea

and she will just be here unconscious next to me dribbling.

I will have I hear somehow anybody from Greece watching?

How about Greece? I think so. Anybody in Greece watching?

One of my friends has has recently been to Greece.

I think he's doing a tour of Europe.

And a few days ago he was in Corfu, but now he's I think he's in Slovenia now.

He seems to be going all over the place.

So. Yes, so there's at least one person

who we know who's been been near Greece.

Have we got anybody from Greece?

Watching us now? Hmm.

Maybe they could give us some insights into the Greek god.

Santa says, yes, we jump and we throw the fire.

We jingle the fire.

I would imagine there's a lot of flames and a lot of fire.

It sounds a bit like your your version of hail

from your show.

There's no there's no flames on the stage. Yes.

Well, people often think of witches and things that are

maybe evil, evil spirits.

Maybe a place where all of the spirits come from or go to if you are naughty.

So, yes, it can happen. I think so.

Anyway, we are looking at music today,

and I suppose now would be a good time to start doing it

because that's why we're here.

You see? That's why we're here to Misty. That's what we do.

We've got 34 minutes of people who are people who know what we do.

You know what's going to happen but for those who don't know what it is, then, yeah, we will explain.

Very briefly, we're going to take a look at some words, phrases

connected to a certain subject today.

It is all about music phrases,

so not necessarily words and phrases that are used in music.

But may be phrases and words that can be used

in other ways in the English language.

And that's one of the reasons why I love English so one of the reasons it's so

there are so many ways of expressing things

using different words, different phrases, different things

100 Dobbie says, I hope that Mr.

Duncan will become the next Paganini,

or as I always call him, Page nine.

He Andre his his the pocket.

Andre you is it or you're somebody quite popular who played the violin? Yes.

There's always somebody popular playing the violin.

Every every ten years, somebody new comes along.

We used to have Nigel Kennedy. Yes.

But then he got that big thing on his neck.

Because so many years of playing the violin, it may it made his apparently

he couldn't he couldn't get the violin from under his chin.

It's there permanently.

Now, his skin on his face is grown around the violin.

So when he walks around, is still got the violin all the time.

It's there all the time now, which is very useful, I suppose, because it means you can play the violin

at any moment.

Music phrases.

Right. Here we go.

Oh, I like this one.

So this is something you might recognise, Steve.

Do you recognise it?

If music be the food of love play on Ma.

Yes, yes. See that sounds an idiom.

Would you describe this is it's a phrase, it's just a phrase from literature.

If music be the food of love,

play on well, I'm sure there's a certain person on here

who's been taking their English literature exams. Yes.

May well be able to tell us where that comes from.

So here's a test you weren't expecting. Hmm.

Now, who was it? I can't remember.

Uh, but yes, please tell us.

We'd like to know what you think before we give the answer.

If music be the food of love,

play on what we are actually saying.

There is something that is attractive or something

that makes you feel good, or maybe something that gives you a lot of pleasure.

Normally, it is something that you don't want to end.

You want it to carry on.

So if music is the food of love,

please, please keep playing.

Don't stop. Teacher, teacher.

OK, you should know the answer to this.

If you've been taking English literature exams, don't start.

So please tell us. OK, Steve, don't stop the music.

I've got these things to do now, Steve. OK, yes.

We've got to move on.

Oh, here we go. So phrases now

bold as brass or brass?

Yes, brass.

We will say brass for now.

That's a musical term, is it?

It is. Bold is brass.

Well, it's a term that's using brass, which is a type of instrument quite often metallic.

Can you can you name some brass instruments trumpet?

Oh, yes, yes.

Trumpet. Yes, yes.

That's a bold instrument.

Isn't a tuba or a

what's that one

do trombone

I want to play the trumpet, actually.

Oh, I see.

Sounds like something else is going on, Mr.

Duncan.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm not very good at that.

So there it is.

Brass trombone. Yes, trombone.

Yes, that's the 10.

Oh, the horn.

The horn.

Yes, I get that.

You got the horn I use.

I used to get the horn quite often.

Maybe Gary asked, so. Yes, but then I lost it.

I suppose there sort of.

Is that where the phrase comes from then?

As bold as a brass instrument? Yeah.

It's something that well, I suppose something it's

very clear and very easy to see.

Bold as brass, which means to be shameless and without fear.

So you go straight up to your boss and you say,

I think this company is rubbish and you need to make some big improvements.

That's it.

You're somebody might say, Well, he's as bold as brass.

It's not, I've got the sack.

Yes, but he was very bold, courageous, courageous, you might say courageous.

A person who who has no shame or you do something without fear,

you do it as bold as brass or just bold.

You have to say as brass or brass.

And I would say, that's it.

But yes, bold. You're fearless.

That's it.

Bold is brass. So you think it's a great phrase

Here we go.

Oh, here's another one. Oh, this is quite good.

This this refers to the thing that I was waving around

earlier to be on the fiddle.

On the fiddle

if I wonder where

that phrase comes from, if you are on the fiddle

then of course we are looking at a certain musical instrument.

You are on the fiddle.

It means also that you are taking money or taking something secretly.

Quite often, if you are committing fraud,

if you are taking money from someone secretly

we can say that that person is on the fiddle.

Maybe, maybe you are in an organisation

and you are responsible for taking in the funds,

you know, the local bowls club for example,

and people are giving you their subscriptions, but you are not putting the money in the bank.

You are taking some of it for yourself.

Yes, you're on the fiddle. Yes.

So, so we often do use that when we are talking about money

being stolen, if there is some sort of fraud taking place.

Just going back to your very first raise, if music be that food of love play on

thank you, teacher.

She she's so clever. She's just done her exams.

It's an excerpt from Shakespeare's 12th Night, which is the Duke's opening line.

Yes. Yes. Thank you very much for that.

The opening line, if music be the food of love, play on.

Give me more of that wonderful music.

And I suppose you might say that to

some people, music is nourishment.

It is something that gives people pleasure and maybe

if they are feeling unhappy or down,

a piece of music can can nourish a person.

I think so. I think that's possible.

Very possible.

In fact, here's another one, Steve.

Oh, and drum up.

If you drum up, for example,

drum up support it means you are trying to get other people to do something.

You are encouraging people to do something.

You drum up support, you drum up enthusiasm.

You are trying to get people to, to, to do that particular thing.

So to encourage others, for example, to give help, you ask them

or you try to drum up support.

And of course it refers to the drum

the marching band drum, which normally leads the procession.

So you are encouraging people to do that particular thing.

Yes. You might want to set up a charity, you might want to

set up a support group.

It could be anything.

And you want to get you want others, you want to get other people involved.

And so you drum up support,

you go around, you might you might tell people about it,

you might advertise some

of the Internet, you or you might go on to

social media or something like that.

You're trying to get support for something it could be a charity

and you want people to recognise that charity and maybe give to that charity.

It could be could be anything.

It might be you might want to drum up support

for somebody who's leaving work.

Maybe they maybe they're retiring or something

and you want to drum up some support to give them a present before they leave.

Yeah, it just means that you've got to do something to get other people involved.

You have put some effort in, you've got to go into social media, you've got to talk about it, find people up

and you send other people out maybe to help you as well.

Drum up support is another way.

You could be a cause. Yes, you could be. You could be.

For example,

the the rail

workers might be trying

to drum up support for their strike.

I mean, good luck.

They probably won't get very much, but they might be asking other sections of society

or certain politicians to to, you know, be in that say in their favour.

But what often happens because we did mention this earlier when one group of people go on strike,

they will often try to get support

from some from other groups of people or the unions.

And that's the reason why what you find

when there is a lot of industrial action, it doesn't just affect one thing.

In fact it affects many things because lots of different areas

in manufacturing or the way things are transported,

they will all take their own form

of industrial action, they will all go on strike.

So yes, that is actually a good way of describing that.

Here's another one.

Stay, keep 100 dominoes admiring my shirt.

Good. Thank you.

Here we go.

So this is what I had earlier.

You may have

I'm not very good.

I'm afraid to blow your own trumpet.

To blow your own trumpet.

Nothing else.

To blow your own trumpet is to brag and boast.

You are showing off about a certain achievement

maybe something you have, maybe something you've just bought.

Maybe you've been somewhere very lovely and expensive.

And now you want to show off to your friends so they know all about it.

You blow your own trumpet or maybe your own achievements.

You talk about the things you've done.

Oh, I'm so good.

I'm such a brilliant person.

I'm very, very good. Yes.

So you're not relying on other people to talk

about your achievements or your abilities.

You're doing it yourself. You're showing off

bragging, boasting

oh, I'm I'm such a brilliant violinist.

Oh, yes.

I've played all the music halls.

Everybody loves me.

You know, you do something like that.

Oh, I performed for the Queen.

Yes. You're talking you're talking about yourself since you know,

whereas, you know, the the nice way to do it is to let other people do it.

But of course, you know, if you don't if you don't brag

and boast about yourself, quite often, nobody else is going to do it.

That's it.

And sometimes you do need to blow your own trumpet.

Yes. We're not saying that.

You don't need to.

Sometimes people need to know what your abilities are.

And if nobody else, you can't often rely on other people to tell

to, you know, tell your boss how good you are at something.

You've got to tell them you've got to let them.

That's how a lot of people get on in life.

It's it is easy to be too modest and hide all of your talent.

So so sometimes it is good it is good to blow your own. Yes.

I think you could say blow your own horn.

You could say that as well. Yes.

But could drag us. Yes.

You could blow your own horn as well, which, again, is a,

you know, a loud brass instrument.

So, you know, that was the idea.

You know, everyone can hear what you're saying.

That's it.

Here we go.

Another one, Steve got somebody new to the charts.

Daria

is new to the chart.

So, yes, I'm reading it.

Welcome, Darius. Need sealer.

Hello to you.

Nice to see you here today. Welcome.

And please feel free to make any comment you like.

As long as it's, you know, complimentary, you can say whatever you want.

You can say whatever you want.

I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean people will see it,

but you can say whatever you want and never miss a beat.

Mr. Steve, as we have more phrases, never miss a beat. Yes.

If you never miss a beat, it means you put on up her perfect performance.

You did not make any mistakes.

You didn't miss a beat.

You didn't make any mistakes.

There were no faults. It was perfect.

A person who always does things well they never miss a beat.

Yes, you could be making a speech and you don't.

You do it very eloquently.

You don't fluff any words or any lines.

It doesn't have to be.

You have to be singing or playing an instrument.

It could be you giving a talk at work or something like that,

or a sales presentation or whatever it is.

And you did it very well flawlessly.

You didn't hesitate at all.

That's a good one.

Never miss a beat. Here we go.

Because that's very kind. Beat you.

Never miss a beat with this live learning of live streamed.

Well, I hope I hope we don't as we are

approaching 1 million subscribers.

I only wish they only wish and my only thought is that 1 million

people watched our live streams

that would be very nice.

The other thing is, is is it true, Mr.

Duncan, to encourage more people to watch your videos?

It's you need to obviously

of us have forgotten the word subscribe.

Subscribe. That's it.

There we are.

Just missed a beat, then. Yes, I just missed a beat.

So we're not flawless that they need to need to click on the Bell icon as well.

Done. That's it. Yes. To be notified. Yes. Yes.

So when you subscribe don't just subscribe you you have to also make sure

that you will receive the messages

when when we are on or when we are doing something.

So quite often I will put my my live stream on before it begins.

And of course, another thing that we like is your

your lovely happy thumbs underneath this video.

So there is a place where you can click like and there it is.

So please give us a lovely like as well

because you might not realise just how valuable one of these is.

Very valuable things that send that, that tells YouTube that Mr.

Duncan is popular and sends Mr.

Duncan out to more people. Yes.

Which helps this channel and yes, I never understood

that if you don't click on the bell icon, you can subscribe.

But if you don't click on the bell icon, you never find out.

You don't get notified of new videos. Yes.

And so so sometimes it can be a problem if people don't know

when you are actually going to be on or when you are on.

Whereabouts is it? Is it.

Well, it's under there if

you subscribe and there's normally a bell next to it as well.

So when you subscribe you can also activate the notifications so you will never miss anything,

although I think a lot of people don't realise it because says

that you need you deserve a billion.

So maybe in 15 years time, 15 years, I think a billion.

I don't think, I don't think mankind will exist anymore.

I think it will be just insects and maybe the occasional aardvark.

Is anyone got a billion subscribers?

Yes, not, not billions.

Subscribers, but they certainly have billions of views.

Can you imagine that?

I think I have about 7078 million

views on my YouTube channel in total.

78 million, which sounds a lot, but these days it isn't

as I said the other day, people say, Oh, a million subscribers.

It's nothing nowadays, unfortunately, because most big YouTubers have five,

six or even 7 million subscribers.

That's the next eight.

Mr. Jenkins, we're not stopping at one, we're going for two.

And instead of 15 years, we want to in five years, I think I will be dead.

Maybe two years I will be dead before we get to 2 million.

But if everybody always clicks on the like button, then that will happen faster.

So maybe everybody watching.

Now, if you click on the like button, please do it then.

You know, Mr.

Duncan might get more subscribers quicker and then we might reach a million.

I'm not I'm not getting any younger.

I am getting older and older.

So so when I'm when I'm sort of

drawing my last breath, maybe, maybe we will get to 2 million.

Just helps Mr.

Jenkins channel to to reach more people and for you, Mr.

Jenkins, to be able to put more content on the desk like that and hopefully make some money as well.

So I can actually buy some new shoes.

I don't have to keep, you know, no save

celebration of the party.

Well, we have got a bottle of champagne

that somebody gave us years ago and we will open that.

Yes, maybe like unless of course, it's 3:00 in the morning, in which case it won't happen.

Well, I will be fast asleep in that, but we can at least then report it the next day.

OK, and you know where we are running out of time.

15 minutes to go to hop on about something.

Musical phrases to hop on.

If you hop on about something, it means you keep talking about something incessantly

maybe the same thing or the same subject.

Like Mr.

Steve with his insurance this week.

He kept talking about it all the time.

And I said, Mr.

Steve, please give it a rest. Yes.

You just keep talking about the same subject, maybe repeating what you said

and it just gets a bit boring.

And people will say to you, Will you stop harping on

about that incident you had on the road?

You know, maybe somebody upset you and it was probably a minor thing.

How would you stop harping on about the fat girl at work that insulted you?

OK, or, you know, would you stop harping on about about

how wonderfully you made that me or the other night yes.

Or something? Yes.

It just means subject something you just keep talking about and you won't stop talking about it.

And it's getting very boring for the person that uses that phrase, like Mr.

Steve when he talks about finance.

Well, that's a you know, I like to harp on

about Ford Mustang.

Well, no, not really.

Not anymore.

I can't remember the last time you mentioned using it.

Well, all right. I like to harp on about Shirley Bassey.

Oh, that's I like to harp on about cars.

It means I like to talk about it a lot.

And some people might not find that interesting.

Here's another one.

We've got to get through these now.

We've only got about another 30 to go.

Many a good.

Oh, this is for us.

Oh, just the owner says his harp harp on similar to moan no it's not moaning. Hmm.

You might be moaning about something, but it's not necessarily moaning.

It just means you you could be moaning about something

but it's just you're talking about something a lot less incessant.

You are talking about something over and over and it's becoming tedious.

And boring.

If I just talk about cars all the time, then that is

I'm not moaning about cars I'm talking about,

but I could be going on about something I could be moaning about the state of the economy.

And I knew myself harping on about the so I could be moaning OK,

but it's not necessarily so fairly have to move on. Steve my wife is harping on about a new dress

that says because I harp on about your lessons, it's lovely when people give examples.

So yes.

So now I so that means are talking too much about it and talking about your lessons.

The first negative.

Negative is good example.

It's a negative to be fed up with someone's chatting

I'm sick of hearing you talk about Mr.

Duncan.

I mean, yes, that is cheap, tedious, becoming tedious anyway.

Steve.

Well, it's lovely when people keep it fun.

It is many a good tune.

This is first, by the way.

Many a good tune can be played on an old fiddle.

I think this really does apply to us

scientists.

So even though something is old, even though something is worn out,

maybe something good can still come from it or be done with it.

Many a good tune can be played on an old fiddle.

So if you were elderly,

that phrase would indicate that you still got something to give.

You know, you may just doesn't necessarily mean you get to play an instrument.

It's a matter for words that you could be.

So an elderly person with a lot of experience might be able to give a lot of advice

or might still be able to do something they used to do very well and better than somebody that's younger.

So you can just because you're old doesn't mean you can't do something still.

You know, some people don't let you bother trying to

to learn an instrument your age, learn how to play an instrument.

Well, that's probably not a good example as the word that

maybe

maybe if you are if you're looking for a new partner. Yes.

And you are maybe getting on you are old

and you know, they're saying, oh, no, I don't think you will find a partner.

No, I don't think you will find a lovely woman now because you're quite old.

And then that person might say, hey, wait a minute, many

a good tune can be played on an old fiddle,

which means there is still lots of life left in me.

I still have a lot to offer.

Many a good tune can be played on an old fiddle.

Maybe not as good as when you were younger, but you can still, you know.

Yeah, still.

And literally, literally it could be it could be literally applied to music as well

because there are many performers, you know, like Shirley Bassey, you know,

she can still sing, not as well as she used to, but she can still, you know, sing.

Who is?

So in that case, that is literally. Yes, but that's.

Well, it's still figurative, though, isn't it?

Right. That's where it is.

That is figurative, yes.

I've never seen Shirley Bassey play a fiddle.

Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yes.

Maybe she has fiddled

which is a completely different thing altogether.

Many good tune can be played on an old.

Yes. Fiddle. Yes. As Igor.

Doesn't mean it doesn't it's not used to describe somebody playing on an old instrument.

It's a metaphor for something else.

It just means when you're elderly, when you're old,

you're I'm the old fiddle say.

But maybe I could still do a lot of the things I could do when I was younger.

Maybe not quite as well, but it would still be recognised as something that's good.

Some of the and some of those things might take a bit longer to do.

Yeah.

Moving along

so somebody if

somebody is watching who's, you know, senior year

and somebody criticising or laughs at them when they want to do something new,

you can say you can use that phrase maybe an old fiddle,

many, many, many a tune

good tune can be played on an old fiddle

unless

here's another one, Steve, to have another string to your bow

now this is often mistaken for a musical expression, but it isn't.

It has nothing to do with playing a musical instrument because quite often

you will use one of these, you see.

So this is the reason why I have this with me.

So this is called a bow.

It's huge.

It's much larger than you realise and it goes right across the screen.

There it is. And you can see it.

And there are lots of little pieces of hair I'm not sure what this is.

Is it horsehair?

I think it's yes.

Or is it catgut?

Hmm. Oh, I think so.

I think it's yes. I think it's yes.

I don't want to think of this is the inside of a cat

now the strings, I think the strings on a violin are made from Catgut, aren't they.

Yes, on the bow.

But I think that sort of supposed to be sort of traditionally some kind of hair.

Yes. Yeah.

So, so it has nothing to do with this particular thing.

In fact, it is to do with the thing that you fire

like that a bow and arrow.

So the bow in this particular case is actually the bow that you

turn as in a bow and arrow. Yes.

So that's confusing things, putting that bow up.

Well, no, I was just saying it's nothing.

No, because I've just said it's nothing to do with this.

Right.

So the confusion is anyway,

so this is not the bow that we're talking about.

It is the bow that you use to fire an arrow instead.

So that's what we actually use it as if you have an extra string,

it means you will never have a broken bow because sometimes your string might break.

So you have another another string to add to your bow.

So you will always have the ability to fire your arrows.

Yes. So that means you've got an extra skill or an own ability.

That's it. So for example, I

say you're not very good at computers.

You might go on a course to learn all about

how to do Excel, for example, spreadsheets you don't do.

You don't know anything about spreadsheets and so you can add that to your CV

and you can say, well, that's another string to my bow, another skill that you've added.

So maybe you're not very good at public speaking or

giving speeches and you go on a course to tell you all about that.

Maybe you maybe you aren't very good at learning English,

but you go on a course to learn how to speak English and you can get jobs.

Then why you need to speak English, you can say, Well, that's an extra string to my bow.

I can I now have that extra skill that I can put on my CV to talk about, by the way, yet.

So that's how that's how that's used is there.

Olga says, is there a difference between a fiddle and a violin? Aha.

It's a very good question. That is a very good question.

I think it's all to do with the size, and I think it's also

the number of strings, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm not sure yes.

Well, I'm just saying I think that is the difference.

There is the difference in the size, but I'm sure it has something to do with the strings as well.

But a fiddle is like a sort of a slang word for a violin.

Yes, but it's, you know, it is a specific type of instrument as well.

Yes. Quite often Irish music they use a fiddle

in Irish music.

So I think there are,

as you say, technical differences between a fiddle and a violin may be

but often fiddle is used as as a sort

of slang word for a violin.

Because because I know somebody that plays, you know, if you play a violin, in a

in an orchestra, they often have referred to it as a fiddle.

But as you say, the fiddle, I think technically there is a difference.

But in essence, they're the same thing

to have another strings.

Your bow is the one we just looked at.

Here's another one, Steve. Oh, oh, sorry.

Sylvia says in Portuguese, we say

old pots can be used to make good food.

Yeah, that's a similar.

That's it. Thank you.

Violin is a little bigger.

Says I mean. Yes, I think that's.

Yeah, I think you're right there.

Yes. Yes.

Old pots can be used to make good food.

So, yeah, just because something is old doesn't mean you can't get something useful.

And traditions just because we're old, it doesn't mean we're not we're not useful anymore.

We have our uses.

Well, there aren't many but we still have our uses.

Here we go, Steve. To tinkle the ivories.

Oh, right.

Oh, now, this is an expression that is used

when we are talking about playing the piano.

So if you tickle the ivories, what we are actually saying is you are playing the piano.

You did

a little, a little bit, a little bit, a little

to tinkle the ivories.

And there you can see a piano.

This one is very small.

You can't play this one unless you are tiny to tinkle.

The ivories is to play the piano.

And the reason why they say that or why the expression is used

is because the white keys on the keyboard

traditionally were made from ivory.

That's not very nice, is it? Yes.

So so when you see these lovely old pianos,

these ancient grand pianos like this,

don't forget when you're touching those keys, you are touching

the lovely ivory

from those lovely animals that have been killed over the years.

So you might say that pianos

are not very kind

to the animal kingdom when you think about it.

I think these days they don't use ivory.

I think they use plastic, you know, something that's imitates.

But if you see old pianos like an old Steinway,

there is a

good chance that the white keys are actually made of ivory.

Oh, not very nice.

But we used to have

handles of knives and forks. Yes.

Expensive knives and forks are often made of ivory.

And of course, ivory is also quite often referred to teeth as well.

You can show if you can show your ivories

like this, if you are smiling.

And of course, there was a famous song as well, wasn't there?

A famous song by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney had

and he and I very moved.

Two girls were in perfect harmony

side by side on my piano keyboard.

Oh, well, I can't.

We we.

Dorothee says the hair on a bow is is made of

of Pony's tails.

Hair. Yes.

Just so that we clear that one up so horses hair or a ponytail

it because it's nice and long. Yes.

Do you know how much a piano costs if you wanted to buy one of these, Steve?

Now a grand piano. A new one.

Can you believe how much they cost?

I was quite shocked.

Well, somebody I know who's got a grand piano

wanted to have it refurbished, OK?

And it was going to cost them something like £20,000 just to have it referred they should.

Well, if you wanted to buy one of these now from a shop, you were talking between 15 and £20,000.

Well for a piano

but one that looks like this.

So this particular one is a grand piano.

You can get small pianos which are called upright.

So an upright piano is the much smaller one,

but this one a grand piano.

And I think there is also a baby grand as well.

There is a baby grand piano which is slightly smaller than a grand piano,

but they are incredibly expensive in a big room.

You never want to drop them down the stairs either.

Never drop your piano down the stairs like Laurel and Hardy.

So to tinkle the ivories is to play the piano.

Here's another one, Steve.

If you tinkle something. Yes.

I mean, just sort of like lightly doing it.

Aren't you something that's done lightly? Yes.

Deep tinkle, something tinkles.

It just makes a sort of a light sort of sound.

When I was a child, I used to go for a tinkle at the toilet.

You have a little tinkle.

It means having a wee wee.

The sound is the sound of

tinkle.

It's got a certain sound. Hmm.

Well, when you when you have a wee

to pull out all the stops, this is what we do every week on English Addict.

We like to pull out

pull out all the stops.

It means you give all of your effort.

You put everything like Mr Steve has today.

Mr Steve has put all of this, his effort

and his enthusiasm.

You can tell. You can tell.

You can almost feel if you put your hand on your your monitor,

you will be able to feel the heat coming from

Mr steve, the energy coming from him.

All the stops of course referred to this is we're talking about the instrument is an organ

oh I used to play the organ when I was a child, a big church organ

with all the stops and the more you more the stops you pull out, the louder it gets.

My uncle had a big organ

so yes.

Pull out all the stops, give it all your effort the organ.

Get louder and louder. Yes.

And yeah.

My Uncle Peter, my uncle Peter had an organ.

It was a it was in one of his rooms in the house.

And we used to go round sometimes and listen to him and watch him play his organ.

But what you're thinking about there is those traditional big church organs

with all those white stops you pull out.

And the more the more you put out there, the more sound it makes like that.

So there they are.

They pulled out all the stops.

My job interview.

Yeah, they are so lovely pulling out the stops.

And quite often the stops will also allow you to make different sounds as well.

Different sounds will be produced by the organ. Very.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So yeah, that's you could say I went for the job interview.

How did you do I pulled out all the stops.

So you, you gave them everything about yourself.

You tell them that you made all every effort.

You didn't hold anything back.

No, it doesn't have to be, you know, a performance on a stage.

It could be just, you know, it could be anything that you do presentation at work.

Anything. Mm hmm.

Yeah.

So to pull out all the stops, do you want to see a big organ?

Here it is.

Here's wants to is.

It is.

In a few years since I saw one look at the size of that.

Now, that is I think that is the biggest organ I've seen in a while.

That's bigger than my Uncle Peter's organ.

His organ wasn't very big, but.

But he used to be able to get quite

cross, try to not fit I'm not I'm not joking.

By the way, we did have an Uncle Peter, and he did have an organ.

And sometimes I would have

private performances if anyone doesn't realise it. Mr.

Duncan is being signed.

I'm not, I'm not.

We actually did have an Uncle Peter who can have a yo yo.

I'm not, you know. Yes, you are.

You know what you're doing Mr don't, you're being rude.

You know what you're doing?

You're being rude, you're rude.

You're rude, man.

Yes. I'm going to tell your mother when she comes how rude you are.

I pull out all the stops.

Is Vittoria to remember as much as I can about what you teach us?

Yes, that's good.

One 100 dub says.

What about this musical expression? Run the show?

Yes, but I suppose if you run the show, it means that person who is in charge

or the person who is arranging or organising everything. So.

So you might say that one person is running the show.

That means that person is maybe organising or controlling or managing

what is happening in any situation. Yes.

We're not referring to an actual show no.

As in a musical or something.

You could be running the show at work.

Yeah. The boss is away.

I'm running the show this week.

So you're organising all the other employees? Yes.

You might also say steering the ship.

Yeah. Here's another one.

Oh, if you have something Mr.

Steve, that has all the bells and whistles,

something that has all the bells and all the whistles,

it means you have something that has everything with it that is available.

All of the things that come with it or go with it are all there.

So quite often when you buy something, maybe maybe if you're buying a car,

buying a car and you tick all the options.

Yes, I want the sunroof, I want the air conditioning, I want the satnav

the leather seats,

everything.

So I bought that car with all the bells and whistles on it.

So it had every available option.

So all the things that are available that you can have

with it, you've actually included.

So everything is there.

You have all the bells and whistles, everything is there.

Again, referring to an orchestra

a person.

This might refer to Mr.

Steve, or maybe you mean a person who talks

like a broken record

a record is something you play a piece of vinyl, a disk

that you put a small needle on, and then it produces a sound,

a person who talks like a broken record,

and it is a person who keeps saying the same things.

But that's similar to the phrase we had earlier, isn't it? Hmm.

What was the phrase we had earlier, which is similar to this?

That's it. To harp on. To harp on about something.

So, yes, the record keeps saying the same thing because

it's broken keeps going saying the same thing. Yeah.

So you just keep repeating it.

So maybe a bit different.

If you're harping on about something, you might be talking about a particular subject

a lot, but different aspects of it.

Whereas if you're talking like a broken record,

you just repeating the same thing about a particular subject.

That's it.

So you repeat it.

You might keep talking about the weather or you might say the same thing every day.

You might you might look out the window and comment on the same thing every day.

Almost like when a record

is broken. Yes.

And the same part of the record, right?

You might start repeating, you might, for example, at work,

you might say, you know, your boss might say, I might sound like a broken record,

but if we're going to sell more products, this company,

you know, everyone's got to work harder

so it's sometimes it is useful.

Yeah.

If you want to repeat something that's important and you might actually.

Yeah, offer up that explanation, I might sound like a broken record, but, you know,

if we don't get this wedding booked now, we're going to lose the chance

of when, you know, when we want to have it,

you know, somebody. Yeah.

So that's how you might use that phrase to keep repeating or saying the same thing.

Is another one.

100 of the show must go on. It must.

And I suppose this is not really musical.

No, but I suppose you can't have a musical show.

But this is more about performance.

But yes, the show must go on.

Whatever happens, whatever difficulties come our way, we must still carry on yes.

Because if you are actually in a show, if something goes wrong, you have to keep going.

Because the audience is and they've paid.

But something might go wrong at work or at home.

But you just keep going anyway because you have to do that.

But. So, yeah. Yes, here we go. Another one

that's a very popular phrase to use, actually.

Something is music to your ears.

Something pleasant,

something pleasing, an enjoyable thing.

But we're not talking about music.

No. Well, all of these are phrases.

Yes. And phrases making it clear. That's it.

So music to you?

We're not talking about music at all or tunes.

No, it's a it's a it's a phrase concert to it's a musical phrase.

This is what we call figurative.

It is something that is expressing one thing by using something else.

So something is music to your ears.

Imagine music that is beautiful and soft going into your ear.

Now, imagine something that you hear or something that is pleasing.

Maybe you have some good news.

Maybe a person has given you some good news,

maybe something they are excited about.

And then you are pleased because of the news.

You might say, Oh, thank you.

That is music to my ears.

Yes, it's something very pleasant and enjoyable,

or maybe something good that you've heard. Yes.

You might have, you know, ordered something and it's been delayed.

And then you find

the company and say, you know, when when's my new car arriving?

And they say, well, it's coming in two weeks time on the 16th of February or something.

They say, Well, that's music to my ears.

It's something, you know, that is very pleasant. Hmm.

Anything.

Anything that sounds music to my you can say that's music.

That's music to my ears.

Good news, good news, positive news, something you find out?

Yeah, yeah. Your best friend's getting married.

Well, that's music to my ears because very pleased

that your two friends are tying the knot here's another one.

Oh, this is something we often do.

People often do this when when they have a certain opinion

and maybe afterwards they they change their opinion.

They change their opinion to something else

to change one's tune.

So when we think of a tune, we think of something that is done or performed in a certain way.

But maybe if you change that

tune, you you make changes to it

or you alter that thing, then it is different.

So that's the reason why we say to change one's tune.

And that means to alter a person's opinion.

Your opinion or your thoughts or feelings change.

You change your tune so maybe you hear a person, Steve, talking about

maybe they don't like the thought of two men getting married,

but then later they change their mind and they say, No, I was wrong about that.

It's it sounds like a good thing.

Go on going.

Do it, get married.

You might you might be somebody.

So we can say that that person has changed their tune. Yes.

And you can say to somebody, oh, you've changed your tune.

No, about something.

So maybe, for example, you weren't somebody that was particularly

into the royal family or monarchy.

You didn't like the royal family, but then you watched all the celebrations of the queen's

platinum jubilee.

And then

you started saying Oh, isn't that nice?

Oh, I liked what the queen said about that.

And some of you might say, Oh, I didn't think you like the royal family.

You've changed your tune. Mm.

Because some new information has come into your mind

that altered your opinion on something.

Politicians often change their tune about something

because they or you might change a tune about somebody at work,

somebody you might not like them at all, but then suddenly they do something

or you get into a conversation with them and think, Oh, that all right?

And then you suddenly start saying, Oh, John.

Oh, he's quite nice chap.

Isn't is that you've changed your tune?

I didn't think you liked him. Mm.

Yeah.

You've changed your opinion about something.

A person has changed that you've got much longer to gain, Mr.

Duncan. My legs are ageing.

I've been standing here for 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Well, yeah, but you're used to it. I'm not.

I'm not a cup of tea, Mr.

Jenkins. Mr.. Mr. Steele wants to go.

I have a feeling we do have a busy week, to be honest.

Yes, I've got a lot to do to prepare for my mother coming.

That said, I have to completely destroy my studio.

I have to tear my studio to pieces so that we can fit a bed in. So.

So Mr. Steed's mother will be here.

So if if I'm here on Wednesday and you can hear some snoring, it's not me.

It's Mr.

Steve's mother.

She's probably having a nap in the corner of the room,

but I'm hoping also we will be here live

when we reach 1 million subscribers.

We are approaching that point, Mr.

Steve, are you excited I am mildly

mildly.

It will never happen again.

It's a bit like the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

It might do. You might get to a million.

Then you could do some adjustment and take them off yet.

100 off. Yeah. And then you go back again.

Oh, I say, yeah, I do.

Do that. Please, please don't say that.

You might get another.

That is, that is one of my worst nightmares.

But yes, yes, it is a big thing.

Seriously, seriously.

For a moment it is a big moment because it's taken 15

and a half years to get to 1 million subscribers.

So I have put a lot of time and effort into,

into those, those million subscribers. Yes.

Christina uses the phrase changing your tune in a different way.

You can say that you you have not changed your tune.

You know something? Yes.

So it doesn't it doesn't always refer to something when somebody changes their opinion.

Maybe you've kept the same opinion.

And for example, down the road works,

for example, I could I could

you know, I might say I don't agree with what they've been saying.

And then somebody might say, well, yeah, you haven't changed your tune, have you?

Or yeah.

To indicate that you have still got the same opinion about something maybe over a long period of time,

despite evidence to the contrary,

you might not change your opinion about something.

And someone will say sarcastically, Well, you haven't changed tune, have you?

So you've got the same attitudes that you had before.

Years ago about something.

I'm trying not to sneeze.

Yes, I have.

I have some sneezes building up in my story.

Pleased, pleasant and pleasing

are pronounced differently. Hmm.

Yeah.

This disease mother can make a lemon cake.

How did you know about my mother's lemon cake?

We have mentioned your mother.

We have mentioned your mother's lemon drizzle.

Well, my mother has a I goes to the hairdresser's every week,

and she occasionally makes them a lemon drizzle cake.

And she made them. They love it.

And when she takes a free cake into them, she gets a free haircut.

I That's good. Yes.

She just has to pay for something of a baby.

She needs any hair cutting off.

I do it for free because she brings them a lovely lemon OK.

So there's a good tip.

If you want to get anything for free, always give someone a piece of cake,

and then you will get free things.

I will try that next week. OK, Steve.

Steve was complaining because he wants to go, so I think we will.

So you, Mr. Duncan, you can stay on a bit longer.

I can. I can stay here forever.

I can. I can stay here.

I might stay here for another 4 hours.

I will stay here live

until we reach 1 million subscribers.

The grief is not good, so I'll have to.

How will you go to the toilet?

Well, I'll just stand here and just let it run down my legs.

Yes, Sylvia.

Yes? We used to present the live show sitting down, and I'd like to go back to that, to be honest,

because my legs ache a lot, so I think it's very good for me.

But yes. By Maria.

Thank you

for attending that.

We are going now.

Did you have many levels of those phrases?

Just just about four or five or six or maybe about about seven.

Or eight, really?

Well, maybe ten.

There were quite a few. It's OK, don't worry.

By the way, very quickly, the difference between these two

instruments, this one,

because we were talking about this, if it doesn't work,

this is a this is actually I had to look and spiel

a glockenspiel with a metal

And this one has the little metallic things that you hit.

So there are little metal plates and each one of them produces a different sound.

And this particular thing is called a glockenspiel.

Not to be confused with

a xylophone.

So this is a xylophone, normally much larger.

And the things that you strike are actually made of wood.

So that is the slight difference between those two instruments.

Have you?

Well, it's interesting, because I was think, well, I had other things I was going to do.

Oh, I see. Right. Okay.

I've jumped ahead to this.

You see there is a piece missing from.

I thought there might be this. Yeah.

We could talk for another 20 minutes, you see, but you want to go.

So that's it. It's over. It's finished.

Could you share the recipe?

Well, I. Rosa, I will ask my mother for the recipe.

Yeah, because I've never baked, I've never baked this cake.

My mother bakes. Maybe we can make one next week life.

Maybe we can go into the kitchen with Mr Steve's mother

and she can show us how to make a lemon drizzle.

I think it's a fairly basic recipe.

It's just like a sponge. Yes.

And then after it's cooked, you just.

You just pour on it, put some holes in the top,

and then you pour on some a mixture of.

Of sugar and lemon juice.

Sounds nice. I'm hungry.

Right, Mr Jenkins.

I'm going to put the kettle on.

Yeah. See you all. It won't be next week.

No, mr steve will not be here.

We might have mr steve's mother standing right here next week.

Oh, and not the week after.

Because I got rehearsals for two Sundays.

In a row.

OK, so I shall very sadly

only see you maybe in three weeks time.

OK. Mr.

Duncan, of course, will be here maybe with my mother.

So stay tuned.

Just in case he managed to persuade

them to say something rude then.

Right. See you all soon.

Bye bye.

Mr. Steve, this is so funny.

This this is the reason why everyone likes mr.

Steve being he say, because he's so funny.

See you in July.

I And yes, there

it was, the fiddle playing there right

then.

That's it.

It's time to say goodbye.

It's time to go.

I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream.

We had a lot of things today. I will be honest with you.

Quite a lot of stuff to do today.

I hope you've enjoyed this live stream.

And I hope everything has gone very well.

Even though I was late, I've noticed, even though I was late today,

despite the fact that I was late we've still

done it longer than we needed.

About one hour and 10 minutes or 2 hours

2 hours and 10 minutes.

I've been with you.

See you on Wednesday.

I will be with you on Wednesday, by the way.

Wednesday I am back I don't know how or what

I will be doing at the moment because things are changing here.

Whilst Mr Steve's mum comes to stay.

But I will be with you and hopefully also

I will be with you for the historic moment

when I reach 1 million subscribers who will be

my 1,000,000th subscriber.

Find out hopefully before Wednesday.

This is Mr.

Duncan, in the birthplace of English, saying Thanks for watching.

I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream.

I hope it's been interesting.

I will leave you with some lovely sights

and some lovely musical sounds as well.

And I will see you if not before.

I will see you on Wednesday at 2 p.m.

UK time.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

And enjoy the rest of all of this.

And of course, until the next time we meet here.

You know what's coming next.

Take care of yourself.

And don't forget to smile

be happy.

Don't forget there is no law against it.

Ta ta for now.