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2023-10-30 ใƒป English Addict with Mr Duncan


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๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Memory Lane ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ - English Addict - Episode 266 / ๐Ÿ”ดLIVE STREAM - Sunday 29th October 2023

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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We are back together again.
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And it's so nice to see you here.
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I hope you're having a good day.
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We are back again live from the birthplace
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of the English language, which just happens to be England.
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Now. Doo doo doo doo
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doo doo doo
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wop. Well, hello.
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Hello. Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr. Duncan and also him over there.
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This guy, the most famous guy
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on YouTube after me.
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The pirate. That would be. That would be nice if.
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If I was the most famous guy on YouTube.
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Mr. Duncan would be earning lots of money.
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is that. Is that all you are? It is not.
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Well, I'm just saying that that would be the case.
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Yes, as well.
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There's more to life than money as I'm not a lot more anyway.
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Well, there is actually.
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The money is being is being alive.
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Well, being alive to enjoy being alive is very nice.
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I have to say, if I had a choice between having lots of money
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and not being alive, I think I'd like to be alive whether I have lots of money or not.
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Well, not a millionaire anyway.
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What if you are a vagrant just living on a park bench?
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Well, I could be lying in the gutter, but at least some of us would be looking at the stars.
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You'd be cold, wet, lonely people would abuse you.
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It's a beautiful poem, by the way.
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It's a little bit of a little bit of thought.
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You see a little bit of thought there. Hi, everybody.
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Here we go.
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It's an unusual one today because we have some flashbacks.
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We are going down memory lane today.
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We're taking a trip down memory lane.
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Sometimes
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it is nice to take a trip down memory lane.
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Is it your memory lane? We're going down, Mr. Dunn.
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Well, it can be everyone's.
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It can be yours, if you can remember that far back.
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I mean, I'm just wondering what you're going to put up.
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It's Steve has difficulty remembering what he had for breakfast
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this morning or what he did porridge yesterday.
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I thought you got me there, but I remembered it was Paul.
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Well, I think it's easy because you have porridge every day, and you were lucky that you got lucky.
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You have muesli and you have porridge out on the weekends.
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That's how observant you are.
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I have something called granola during the day, during the week, because it's cooking easy.
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Now I'm back at work. Porridge takes too long to make five years
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by. So it was a nice, like, dream alive.
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Dream Well, a dream
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in a big annoying.
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Today I'm in.
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I'm in a good mood actually I'm in a very good mood because we are celebrating
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not five years, not ten years, not even 15 years.
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We are celebrating seven teen years on YouTube.
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Can you believe it?
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Is that today or is it tomorrow?
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It's not technically today.
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It's Tuesday.
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Tuesday.
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But we couldn't do that together because you work now.
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So it wouldn't it wouldn't happen, you see.
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But you could go live on Tuesday.
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Yeah, but it's not the same if I'm just standing here on my own going Hello, Hello.
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I've been here for a long time.
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As I found out last week, doing livestreams every day.
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It's very exhausting.
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That's the reason why I had to get Mr.
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Lomax to come in on Friday to stand in,
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because I was just too tired.
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So I hope you didn't mind, Mr. Lomax.
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He stepped in.
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He doesn't know much about English. He can't even read.
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But then he is an ape.
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He's a chimpanzee.
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So you and he would be very clever.
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I know some.
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Some primates are able to communicate in various ways.
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Here is proof.
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So today
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we are going to celebrate my 17 years on YouTube.
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Does it feel like 17 years?
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I have to say it does.
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In fact, it feels like a lifetime.
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Is there anyone watching today who has been following Mr.
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Duncan for the full 17 year window?
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Is there anyone watching?
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Please let us know if you've been following Mr.
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Duncan for that full length of time.
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17 years.
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Is there anyone watching? Yes, you are.
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That's a good question.
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You deserve a medal, a medal or some kind of some kind of recognition by your government
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or a free psychiatric treatment for watching me for so long.
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Has Lewis been watching you for 17 years?
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I don't think.
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I think everyone has. Beatrice has v-8s.
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Everyone here today started watching me after I started my live streams.
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So there are many different chapters,
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I suppose different parts of my history here on YouTube.
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I'm just realised that the episode number is wrong.
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Yes. Battery no porridge is oatmeal.
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Yes, that's it.
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Oatmeal. It's.
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I find if I have a bowl of porridge for breakfast,
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then I don't feel hungry at all until lunchtime.
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It lasts about 4 hours at least.
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It will have some nuts with it.
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But then the granola does as well because that's got fat in it.
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I quite like that because it's quick and easy during the week, so
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not sure what Mr. King is doing.
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Something technical,
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just bang randomly on on, on key.
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He's Mr. Duncan and I'm sure it will fix itself.
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It looks like Mr.
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Duncan's keyboard has stopped working or whatever.
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This is useless.
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Does it work?
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Perhaps it needs a new battery.
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It might do.
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So. That's it.
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Livestreams over.
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Olga remembers the start of the live stream
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and somebody who's calling themselves the prodigal son has been around for 13 years.
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So who's the maximum then?
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Who has been around for 17 years or 16 years or 15 years?
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So we've got 13 years so far at the maximum 13.
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Who can beat that?
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Well, 13 is quite a long time, I suppose.
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Yes, I, I'm looking for some, but I did as I was saying, my my life,
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my life streams started much later in 2016, in July.
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And at first, even on the live streams, Mr.
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Steve wasn't with me.
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So it was quite a long time before Steve started joining in.
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In fact, it was Christmas, I think it was Christmas 2000,
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and it might have been 2006 when you started.
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Right.
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Joining in.
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I think it was Christmas.
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I might try and find that next week.
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Seven years ago. Yes.
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Seven. Yeah. You had to use your fingers for that.
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I was joking.
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I was I was so shy as I couldn't I couldn't really appear before.
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I couldn't shut you up.
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I do remember.
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I couldn't actually get you to stop talking.
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I do a bit like today really, when you think about it.
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So we are here.
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Normally we talk about the English language.
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We can still do that, by the way, but we do have a lot of other things as well
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that we can share with you, Vitus said.
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So I started 17 years, then took a break, then he came back.
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That's fine. Olga's been following me for 11 years.
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and Marius Stroker, who I think is from Poland.
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Hello.
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How are you?
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Am Marriott Stroker.
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Marriott?
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Yes. It's been since you start making the live stream.
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So yes, I think a lot of people, families ago I think a lot of people found me
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after I started doing my live streams because it was something that was unusual.
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I was one of the first people to start doing regular
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live streams as an English teacher before that, there weren't
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many people doing live streams because it still was new technology.
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Even in 2016, it was pretty new.
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So I was one of the first people to do that and I'm still doing it now.
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All those years later. However,
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it is also fair to say that way back in 2006
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and here is a brief introduction to what we're doing today,
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way back in 2006,
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I was
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doing lots of things and that is what we are going to show a little bit later on.
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So to give you an idea of the sort of things we are going to show later
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on, here is a quick excerpt of some of the things
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I've done over the years.
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Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan in England.
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How are you today? Are you okay?
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I hope so. Are you happy?
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Are I hope so.
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And we will have more of that later on.
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Lots of excerpts
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from my English lessons
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that I have been making for over, well, almost 17 years.
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On Tuesday, the anniversary.
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But we are here today celebrating.
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You may have noticed in that clip there, there was a very short video excerpt,
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an excerpt of me receiving my best Teacher in the World award.
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And here it is.
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This is the same thing that I used in that video.
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Many, many years ago.
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Although the actual award has disappeared off the front.
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But this is actually the same thing, the same prop that I used all those years ago.
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So I do have little bits and pieces
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that are used in my video lessons.
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When I started doing this and this is one of the things I'm sure
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a lot of people remember if you were watching my early videos.
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So I was receiving my best Teacher
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in the World award, even though I've never actually got one in real life.
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You awarded it to yourself?
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Well, it was just for fun. Really?
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Yes, that's true.
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Give me a like, by the way, if you like this,
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please show you care by sharing with a like Yes.
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So you can give me a lovely thumbs up to celebrate my 17 years.
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Quite nice, really.
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When you think about well, it doesn't matter you know some people have been watching for two years
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like Dorothy, some people like V test 17 years,
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others in between 13.
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We've had it doesn't matter, but it's just nice to know if somebody was watching Mr.
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Duncan all that time again, because, of course, you're all very well from whenever you start watching,
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even if it's one month ago, who's been watching you
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the least amount of time, There's another question.
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So we've got Vytas, who started 17 years ago, who probably when you first joined,
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that's going to be difficult to beat, but who has been watching for the shortest time?
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Yeah. So have you just been watching for a day?
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Is this your first time to watching any of Mr.
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Duncan's livestream?
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Maybe you've been watching for 20 minutes. Yes.
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So who's been on the least amount of time?
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And we're not talking about people who change their names and come back on to somebody else.
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That doesn't count
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before anybody gets clever.
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So yeah, you've got to be.
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Yeah.
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So who's been like a week a month, a year maybe?
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Yes, we've got two years.
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So we know that.
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Of course, all of these all these things can't be proved.
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So I'll just take your word for it.
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But I did start making my YouTube
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lessons way back in 2006
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whilst I was still living in China.
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So that's how far back it goes.
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And it wasn't me that actually created the YouTube channel originally.
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Not a lot of people know this.
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You see, it was actually my friend at that time in China
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and he suggested YouTube to me.
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So he showed me the page and he helped me
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to create my my YouTube channel.
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And I always remember that the first name of my channel was Duncan in China.
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So that was what most people knew me as
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with my YouTube channel.
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Then of course, many years later I changed the name to speak English with Mr.
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Duncan.
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And then later I changed it to English Addict
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because I wanted it to fit with our live streams.
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So over 17 years,
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and I have to say that is a long time to do something, isn't it really?
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When you think about it?
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It's a very long time, isn't it, Steve?
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It is. It, yes.
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It feels like an evolve. Yes.
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I mean, some people haven't been alive for 17 years.
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Who's watching who, who, who's what.
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So we want to know.
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We find out who's been watching the longest, which is VHS.
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We want to know who's been watching for the shortest time.
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We also want to know who is the youngest person watching.
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Is there anybody watching who is, say, six years old, who wasn't even alive when Mr.
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Duncan first started putting his videos on to make me make me feel old?
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Please. Yeah.
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If there's anybody under 17 a watching, let us know.
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They're not really supposed to technically, they're not supposed to be watching this.
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You see if that under 17 or 16.
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But but I know lots of younger people do watch.
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And of course, we mustn't forget the other end of the spectrum,
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the old people as well.
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I mean, I wasn't saying doing that at the same time
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as saying old people, I wasn't meaning anything there.
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But if you are an old person.
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Yes, by the way, you look
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much better than back then and your voice sounds not so high pitched anymore.
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I look according to I.
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According to yes, a prodigal son, Not the prodigal son,
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I say, who was, by the way, first in the live chat.
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So I know you want us to recognise you, which we will do.
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Okay.
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So congratulations for that, whoever you are.
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I mean, we've no idea of like there's no clues, but I think
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we'd.
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I think we know anyway.
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Right on. But the live stream.
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So yes, Memory lane.
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We're going to explain what memory lane is.
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We will be going down memory lane in a few moments.
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We're going to remember all of those lovely things that happened in the past,
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all those lovely moments of
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time, all of the things that
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I did on my YouTube channel
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when I was much younger, much more handsome,
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and maybe
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not so wise.
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I think I'm wiser now than I was in the past.
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Definitely.
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Well, some people like Giovanni
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Olivetti, I'm trying to roll my eyes, which I find very difficult, too.
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You can do that? Yes. It's better than I can.
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Says that.
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Well, you were that the first online teacher
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to take you watch.
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So, you know, if you weren't learning English before, then obviously you can't be on 17 years.
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But Mr.
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Duncan was the first person that you you learnt English from online. Yes.
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So I think that's, you know, a very long time ago.
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We are going to look at some really old clips in a few moments,
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clips, video excerpts
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from a long time ago from a long,
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long time ago, 17 years to be exact.
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Can you believe it?
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So what are your memories of watching my video lessons now?
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I haven't seen Have you seen Claudia today?
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Not today, no, I haven't noticed.
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Claudia, I know she's busy at the moment taking care of her father, who is not very well.
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But that's a shame.
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I hope we will see Claudia in a few moments.
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That would be lovely.
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Hello. Also older.
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Nice to see you here as well, Mr.
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Duncan.
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I'm very surprised to find out how tall you are.
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That's what happened in Paris, wasn't it?
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When we met up in Paris, everyone was surprised how tall I actually am now.
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Here, you see, it looks as if, Mr. Steve.
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It looks as if Mr.
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Steve is the same height as me.
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But he is. And
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I won't tell you why.
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Now I am standing in a hole.
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So what have I done?
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What I've done is I've dug a hole
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where I stand and I then get into the hole.
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So now I am shorter than Mr.
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Steve or Robert around about the same size, aren't I know.
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Well, justice yes.
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You want is at the same height for this live stream.
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This is what you need.
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Mr. Duncan.
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I watched your videos in 2010, but not on YouTube.
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I didn't use the internet at that time,
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so I got your videos from a friend and then watched them.
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This is another thing that I was going to mention later.
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Thank you. Your shit for watching.
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Since 2010, a lot of people
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download my lessons
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and in Russia you might not believe this, but it is true.
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In Russia there is a black market
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of Mr.
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Duncan DVDs going around Russia
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being sold in their thousands.
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I don't get any money for that, by the way.
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But some people are.
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I know this, by the way, because I've actually found the site that is selling them.
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So it's all of my lessons and they've burnt them onto DVD
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and they're selling them in Russia.
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Well, maybe.
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Maybe an oligarch is making a lot of money from your videos by selling them.
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And he would like to to donate, you know, to the channel
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for your 17 years I doubt is watching at the moment.
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Okay.
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Well, when he burns this disk off, rips this one off the YouTube
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and burns it and sells it to somebody, maybe you just think of Mr.
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Duncan and all his hard work over all these years and just give him a little something
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towards his live stream,
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which will help him to buy new equipment. Yes.
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So some Russian criminal organisation
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is using my my video lessons to make money. Yes.
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Isn't that great?
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I like although I know I'm watched everywhere
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in very unusual places, even prison as well
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in France, French prisons,
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French jails are actually
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showing my video lessons to their inmates.
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I think it's as punishment.
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So if they misbehave or break the rules,
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if they locked them inside a large cell with a huge TV screen
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and they play my my English lessons to them
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for hours and hours without stopping, they don't even allow them to go to sleep.
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Christina says, Hello, Christine, are you on your bike?
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That's what we want to know.
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It doesn't sound like it today.
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I think you have told us you have made great strides
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from the technical perspective or technical point of view.
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I mean, you wouldn't think so some weeks, but it still seems to be working today.
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Everything seems to be working.
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I was having some slight technical problems, but it would appear that everything is working okay.
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Ooh, well, yes, because we had the man rammed and he fixed the internet.
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Turned out all those problems we were having week after week after
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week was because we had loose wires.
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that reminds me, talking of the internet,
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I wasn't going to mention this,
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but early next year, something incredible is happening here.
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Right here where we live, we are going to get
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I'm very excited about this.
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We are going to get
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giga Internet,
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which means a thousand megabyte connection
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and also around about 60,
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60 megabytes upload speed, which means that we will be able
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to broadcast our live streams in even
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better quality than we are now.
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So I'm really looking forward to that.
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They're still putting the cables into the village and it might take a while, but apparently
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we've been told early next year, spring 2024,
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we are going to get ultra fast broadband right here.
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Cable in our tiny little village.
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Yes, it's interesting.
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People might find this interesting. They might not,
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because obviously the signal goes has been there.
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The traditional way is the old copper wires under the ground or over the top,
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and they're going to replace all that.
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You can only get to a certain speed, can't you, with copper wires.
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It's not. It's not very reliable either.
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And it's all being replaced with cable, fibre optic cable.
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I've forgotten the point, but I was going to say now is the.
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yeah.
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And, but they're doing it over the whole of the country
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gradually, but they are giving priority.
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That's what I was going to say. sorry.
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That's what I was going to say.
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Yeah, they're doing little villages first
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because it's easier to put it into a village because they can just put poles up.
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They can't do that in the town centres.
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They've got to dig up the streets to put it in. Apparently.
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And it's much easier to do the, you know, like for example,
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I don't know,
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Wolverhampton has it done a long time ago, didn't it, yet?
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But we are getting Ultra fast giga internet,
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which means it's over or around 1000, but did I say 1000?
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So what am I getting at them?
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You did say 1000. So what are we getting at the moment?
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But at the moment we get about 20 or 30 and yes, and the uploads speed,
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which is the important thing for me because I'm doing a live stream.
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So it has to be going out at a very fast speed
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as well as coming from here to the Internet and then off to everybody else who's watching them.
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The upload, then that's it. And no, no upload.
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Yes, upload is me broadcasting sending.
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Yeah. And download is coming back.
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So most people worry about the download speed.
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That to them is the most important.
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But for me doing a live stream, the upload is important and at the moment we only get six
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six. What,
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six megabytes right of upload speed which is.
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Yeah.
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Yes. Well yes.
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What per hour.
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No. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well most people know that this, that it's six again
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from six to what
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again.
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From 6 to 6. Are you.
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So is that ten times the speed. Yes.
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Well it will be about ten times the speed so it's pretty good.
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But but giga 900 megabytes
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to two around one giga.
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That's that's that's incredible.
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I'm so excited.
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I can't begin to tell you how excited he is.
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Getting excited.
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I'm sure you're not getting excited, but it is exciting to Mr.
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Duncan.
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Anything technical like this?
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Fast speeds, but it is where we broadcasting in.
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It'll be so
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the the livestream will be so clear.
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You'll be able to see every pimple, every spot in our faces.
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We'll have to go and have some kind of make up on Mr.
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Duncan. Otherwise people will think that damn. Good grief.
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Now let's look at the state of his skin.
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We've never noticed that before.
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No, Tom.
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Tom rocks?
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No, we don't have 5G here either.
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We are.
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We all really in a very small village
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that has very little around us.
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So that's the reason why we're having these superfast broadband put here first.
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So we have been put high on the list because we are
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so in need of fast broadband.
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Yes, that's a really no. Yes.
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If you put the cables onto poles, has the problem of being blown down by strong winds.
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Yeah, that is an issue, but it's much cheaper and faster.
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Put it in, which is why they're doing it.
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If you've got to dig up the streets everywhere, it would cost ten times the cost to put it in.
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It's much easier just to put them on telephone poles.
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But the telephone poles don't blow over very often.
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The only time that that might be a problem is if a tree falls
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and breaks the cable, in which case it's easy to fix because they don't have to dig up the streets to do it.
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That's it.
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So I am very excited to announce this that early next year.
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We are getting faster, high speed Internet very fast, in fact.
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So we're looking forward to doing that.
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Claudio Demie cellists.
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Claudio Demi Chariots.
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I don't recognise that name.
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Do you recognise? No, I don't.
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well, hello, Claudio.
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How long have you been watching Mr.
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Duncan's livestreams?
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What is the next step of your channel voice chat?
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What is the next step
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for me is just to survive, to be honest. So.
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So at the moment, because because of the strange way in which YouTube operates,
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for some people it's it's very difficult, very difficult to to survive or keep going.
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So I am a person I would call myself a survivor,
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definitely, because I hang on.
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I hang on by the skin of my teeth.
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Well, Giovanni's got one gigabyte and 200 upload.
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That's okay.
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That's that's.
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Aren't you seething with envy now?
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No, no, I'm not.
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I'm not seething with over 200 uploads.
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Sounds very fast to me. Yes, Well.
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Well, most people in the UK have superfast broadband anyway.
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They have cable going to their house.
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But because we're in the countryside, we don't.
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You see, we have really, really nothing.
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I'm amazed that I'm not leaning out of the window with flags
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doing semaphore.
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Yes. So yeah.
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So Giovanni's already got that, which is great.
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So that. Yeah.
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Anyway right. I would say most people have it.
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We are the unusual ones because we live in a place far away from civilisation.
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Talked about 10 minutes about internet speed.
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Well, is this exciting?
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Because it's going exciting for you?
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Well, that's the next stage of my channel.
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The next stage will be improving everything, including technical
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talking of which we are now going to go back in time.
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Steve, are you ready to go back to 2006?
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I'm not sure if I can stand it.
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Mr. Duncan The excitement we are now going back to 2006.
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We have a few moments.
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Well, in fact, 9 minutes of memories, things from the past,
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clips from my video lessons and you will see a very young Mr.
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Duncan.
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All you ready for it?
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Are you ready for us?
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Go on.
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Here we are high.
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I think one of the most common questions I'm asked
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during my time here in China
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by my students is how can I improve my English?
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Well It's not an easy question to answer just with one sentence.
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There are many ways of learning English.
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For example, reading is an important part of learning English.
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Of course you need to learn by reading.
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Hi. Welcome back to Mr.
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Duncan's Chinese takeaway.
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Well, it's been another busy week and of course, as usual,
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I've been in the school teaching English.
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That's my job.
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Welcome back to my Chinese takeaway.
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Learning English is not an easy thing to do here in China.
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Many students have common problems when it comes
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to learning and mastering this language.
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Hi. Welcome back to my Chinese takeaway.
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Hi, Mr. Tinker. Yes.
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Did you have a good week?
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I did, actually. I'm glad you asked me that question.
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can you tell us about your week? Yes.
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I can't tell you about my week.
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Last week I gave exams in the school to all of my students.
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That went very well.
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It's amazing how some of them have made really good progress over the last year,
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while others have made no progress whatsoever.
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that's very interesting, Mr. Duncan.
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Tell me more.
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Okay, I will tell you more because you want to know more.
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Hello.
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Welcome.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan here in China.
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On Christmas Day, it's now 9:00 in the evening,
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on Christmas Day, the 25th of December, 2006.
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I have just returned from the big Christmas party here in Porto.
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Every year, the government here in Bartow gives a very special party
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for all the foreign workers who are here working hard.
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So tonight I went there and we had a good time.
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They asked me to sing the song as usual.
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They always asked Mr. Duncan, can you sing the song?
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My name, by the way, is Duncan.
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I come from England,
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from the UK
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and the EU when I'm in the EU.
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So I show time can only go forwards.
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Time cannot be slowed down
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in today's news.
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Famous actress Gives Birth After sneezing.
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Martyn leaves, misses his bus and is 20 minutes late for work online.
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English.
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Mr. Duncan buys himself a new pair of socks.
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We had exclusive pictures, all those stories, plus Bored With Trevor
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has done much, much more right here on Dear News.
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Don't go away.
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Humans are mortal.
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We only have a certain amount of time in this world.
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The word mortal comes from the Latin word mortals,
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which literally means to die.
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You see this word used in mortuary?
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A place where dead bodies are kept.
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Mortality.
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The event of death or death on a large scale.
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The mortality rate.
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The flood is 20,000.
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One of the most confusing parts of expressing numbers
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is when we are mentioning a date that includes
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a day of the week, month and year.
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In written English, we tend to put an emphasis on the day, followed by the month.
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For example, the 12th of August occurring
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this year would be written like this.
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All like this.
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It would be spoken as the 12th of August 2010.
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We can also write it like this.
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The day.
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Then the month. Then the year.
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12th of the eighth.
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2010.
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In some other countries, the order is different.
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The month comes first, then the day and finally the year.
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So it would read like this.
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There is a phrase in English.
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A walk down memory lane.
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This phrase means that you are spending some time
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thinking or talking about past events.
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We spent the whole afternoon down
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memory lane talking about our school days.
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You might invite a person to take a stroll down memory lane.
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This means that you want to talk to them about their past.
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Sometimes it is nice to take a walk down memory lane.
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The action of fondly
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remembering past events can be described as being nostalgia.
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Pick a nostalgic moment.
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You are being nostalgic about something you long for.
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That's time to return the way something was done in the past,
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or an attitude towards something which no longer exists.
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You reflect over days gone by.
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Nostalgia is the noun that names this action
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items that you bought or were given to you many years ago.
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Can help you remember a past event,
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a souvenir you bought during a past holiday or a present
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given to you on your wedding day can help to keep that time fresh in the memory.
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We can describe these items as memorabilia.
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It would be fair to say
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that we all go through times when things seem bad.
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People can sometimes let you down.
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They have the ability to say things that make you unhappy.
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Events and circumstances may come along and destroy your plans for the future.
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As the poet Stephen Spender once wrote,
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You must live through the time when everything hurts.
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Life comes with no guarantees or promises.
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The sunny days of contentment can only be truly appreciated
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through the dark, gloomy nights of despair.
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For without sadness, we would never really know what it is
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like to be truly happy.
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I do hope you enjoyed that.
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A little trip down memory lane there
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with lots of old video clips
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going right back to 2006.
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Can you believe it?
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I can't believe I've been doing that for such a long time now.
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So many memories and so many more.
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So many more memories that I could have showed as well.
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I have to say, I was getting a little bit emotional there.
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He was there anyway. Who was that young person?
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you saying it was you?
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You've got.
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I left the way I looked.
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Way back in 2006.
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So those those clips you saw at the very beginning were
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were the first things that I ever recorded
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when when I started playing around with my camera.
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So the camera back then was a very basic camera.
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It was very good at taking photographs, but the video quality was awful.
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I think it was around 17 frames per second
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and the actual resolution was really, really low.
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I think it was about 240 PPI.
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And when you think nowadays
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the average resolution is 2160 PPI,
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that is an amazing difference.
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That's like going a postage stamp
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to a huge Billboard poster.
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So it is amazing.
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That's why when you say things, you say that I say things that people stop watching.
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Well, this is relevant, you say, because it relates to how things have changed over the years.
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I love I love looking at old YouTube videos because it's amazing.
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Look at how different everything was.
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The picture was square.
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The resolution was awful.
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You only had 10 minutes to actually make your video in.
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So So there were lots of different rules and regulations.
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Very different.
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By the way, YouTube was so different in 2006.
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Some people might say it was better back then.
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Some people say that it's better now.
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I suppose it depends how old you are.
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But it is amazing that there are people who don't even remember.
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And this is the thing that always shocks me. Steve.
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There are people who don't remember.
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YouTube in its early days.
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It's like a it's like something they just hear about.
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Yes. Christina says, Do you miss those years or
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are you happy with the present?
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well, I certainly enjoyed my time in China and I enjoyed
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finding out that there are new ways of sharing my interest in English.
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So I suppose those two things did come together.
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And it is interesting how they both also created what we're doing now.
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So from that point in time to this right now,
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it's all been a slow progression.
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Sometimes go up,
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it quite often go down as well.
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But there you go.
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That as they say, is life.
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You see, that is what it is all about.
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But of course, Mr.
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Steve did start joining in with my video lessons as well.
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So you did make some brief appearances, didn't you?
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Yes, I came on a few of them.
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And yeah, body language.
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That was the one I was. Remember that one?
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That was quite good.
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We're not showing that, by the way, because I've showed it so many times.
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I've worn it out.
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However, there are some moments that Mr.
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Steve and myself often share, and we we have a little bit of fun that way, I think.
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I think so, anyway.
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What do you think? Do you think we've had some good times on here?
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A few, Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. I've. I've enjoyed some of it.
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You don't seem to be so.
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Yeah, well, yes, I mean, I'm here, so.
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But I didn't want to be here.
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I'd be in the living room.
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There's not much you can say to that room or in the garden, which is what I've been today.
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And blocking gutters caused by next.
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Those trees believes that come off the trees.
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Well, the weather has been crazy.
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Apparently, it's going to get very cold next week.
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I've already made a prediction, haven't I, Steve?
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I think we are going to have
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a very harsh winter.
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Harsh? It's a great word.
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Harsh is something is harsh.
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It means it is difficult, painful, unbearable.
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Something that comes down brutally.
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So you might say that winter can be very harsh.
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So I think we might have a really bad winter this year.
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I think that's why I'm looking at getting some winter tires.
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Mr. Duncan Because now I'm out and about
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every day.
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I have no choice. I have to go out.
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There may be times when I have to go out or I've gone somewhere.
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Then it snows and I've got to get back home and my car is rear wheel drive
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and it will not cope very well with summer tires.
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This is true, I put it that way.
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So I'm thinking of getting some winter tires.
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In fact, I'm definitely going to get some all season tires I'm going to get so
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I can any time of the year imagine about,
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I'm going to be able to get home and not get stuck
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because that's not because I could be out there.
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Mr. Duncan. Working hard. Yeah.
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Bringing home the bacon.
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Yes. As you keep reminding me about, you know, and
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and therefore, I need to be able to get home.
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I want to be stuck somewhere
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with my
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wheels spinning, which happened last year, actually.
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But I was very lucky because I've managed to get back.
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But I don't want that to happen this year. I've got no risks.
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So I'm buying some Chinese tires, by the way. Mr.
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Chinese tires. Chinese tires, Yes.
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Because they're the only ones of a size that will fit the bizarre size of the rear tires on my car.
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Okay.
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And you say that the way I talk about boring things.
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There we go. Yes. So yeah.
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So this is for the record. Now,
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I think we are going to have a very harsh and difficult winter.
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I think we're going to get very cold weather
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and I think we're going to get a lot of snow.
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I wouldn't be surprised, which of course is good for us
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because it means we can just get locked in the house and we can't go out.
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And then Mr.
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Steve will have to stay with me all the time.
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That's why I'm getting the old season tires so that I can go out,
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because the trouble is they don't sell the roads near here. No.
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So even though the main roads might be clear,
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I've still got to get onto the main road and up a hill.
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So I'm going to need some tires that are going to assist me in that and not not be dangerous.
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Yes, I think so.
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But we will see what happens anyway.
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But we haven't had a lot of snow for a while.
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The winter's over the past two or three years
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have been fairly mild, but I think this year and of course we can do
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lots of live streams as well, So maybe we could go outside in the snow.
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In the snow. We did it before.
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Do You remember, I've done live streams outside with my mobile phone in the snow.
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It's incredibly unpleasant
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and cold and wet, but it's also a lot of fun as well.
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I might even make a snow angel.
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Does that sound like a good idea?
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Yes. You've done that before.
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Nostalgia, down memory lane. Yes.
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You could recreate the snow Angel.
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I think so.
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I remember doing that a few years ago.
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Anyway, we're going in a moment.
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I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream.
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Something a little bit different.
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I just wanted to set the scene,
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set the mood for this anniversary, which will be on Tuesday.
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So it is Tuesday.
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The 31st of October
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is when the anniversary actually will.
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And are you planning to be live on that day?
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I am going to be on tomorrow and also on Tuesday as well.
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So I have been doing livestreams every day,
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which has made me quite tired.
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Beatrice says Maybe I will bake some delicious games.
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Yes, because if trapped in the house with snow, there's nothing,
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nothing more satisfying than doing some baking to cheer yourself up.
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Well, actually, I probably won't cook some scones because the ones that we have at the tea shop
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in Much Wenlock are probably about as good as you could possibly get.
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And you missed.
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Mr. Duncan yesterday had pancakes with bacon.
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And what was it?
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Some kind of maple syrup? Yeah.
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Which was a new treat for Mr.
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Duncan. Yes.
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So we went to our favourite place to eat.
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And they now do pancakes.
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American style with the pieces of bacon.
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So you have some bacon and then you pour maple syrup and you have them all together.
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Now, you wouldn't think that maple syrup
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and bacon would go together, but I can tell you now it really does.
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You have savoury, you have sweet, and then you have the pancake as well.
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And it's absolutely delicious.
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I, I did enjoy it.
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I will be honest.
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Well, Giovanni says if it snows, then
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we want to see is supposed to see us
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sitting in front of the fireplace reading amazing winter stories.
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So yes, maybe we could recreate that. This winter.
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Maybe I could do a bit of reading of some winter stories if you want it.
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Yeah, as long as you're.
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You're nearby to do Christmas Day.
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It's not on Sunday, is it. 25th.
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Yeah, but what. When is that.
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What day of the week is. 2015.
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I think this year.
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I'm sure it's over the weekend.
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I might be wrong.
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I'm sure it's Saturday or Sunday this year.
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Christmas Day.
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But we also have rhubarb.
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Hello, Rhubarb.
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I'm nostalgic about the live streams you made
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when you were sitting at your desk with lots of things behind you.
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yes. Well,
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you know, December is coming
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after November, We have November 1st and then we have December.
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I might actually be doing something special.
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So don't don't miss out on that.
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By the way, in December, I might be doing something very similar to what you just said.
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So when I first started doing my live streams, I used to sit at a desk
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with lots of lovely, funny things behind me.
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And yes, you are right, it was three dimensional, it was real.
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And I was sitting in the corner
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in a excuse me, in a chair.
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And it was a lot more comfortable, I can tell you, than standing up
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for this hour.
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Palmira says that she saw a Ford Mustang yesterday.
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did you hear the rumble of its V8 engine
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or was it a poor, pathetic
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two litre four cylinder one which you can buy?
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Did they have the full fat V8
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power made it?
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Could you hear the rumble in the engine?
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You do get very excited when you hear high performance engine.
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I whine my window down to listen out
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for the look for the low rumble.
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Apparently Christmas day is on the Monday, the Monday.
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So the 25th will be Monday.
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Of course, you will be off because you have holiday time coming up
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and I will be with you as well on Christmas Day, I think.
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I think we will do something, I'm sure,
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unless we get invited somewhere else.
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We are going now.
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It's time to say goodbye.
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I hope you enjoy today's live stream.
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I'm going to leave you with the short clip that I showed you earlier,
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and I hope you will enjoy the next 17 years of this.
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Although in 17 years from now.
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my God, I've just realised how low
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50. I don't even want to think about it.
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I will be in my early seventies.
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I'm nearly 80.
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In fact, I'll be in my mid-seventies.
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It's quite scary.
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I will be, I think, 75.
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So in 17 years I will be 75.
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That is really, really
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depressing.
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I'll be honest with you.
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I'm Mr. Steve. Well,
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it is.
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I'll be pushing Mr.
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Steve around, I think in his wheelchair.
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Yes. Giovanni, please send some pictures of a show.
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A mustang show?
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in. In. In his village? Yes.
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Send him to Mr.
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Duncan's and to Mr.
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Duncan's email address.
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yes. Giovanni, please.
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Yes, I will forward them to Mr. Steve.
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Have we got wood this winter?
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Says Justine, that it's been a long time since I've had wood. Yes.
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Out of a burning on the fire.
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Yes, we have got some. Probably not enough, but
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we haven't really haven't been cold enough to light the fire.
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We've got enough a thing to last as long as we've got enough to last us through into the new year.
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We haven't actually lit the fire yet.
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No, because it hasn't been cold enough.
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No, but next week it might be getting very cold.
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So next week we might be lighting the fire.
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Just been burning the oil.
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Yes, because we don't have gas here.
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We don't have gas pipes. Thank you, Beatrice.
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Thank you.
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Also to My name is not Amanda.
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I subscribe. 17 years ago.
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Good grief.
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So who are you?
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Yeah, who are you?
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What's your name? Isn't Amanda.
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Who are you?
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It could be anything. Then.
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In that case, it could be. Is it? Are you?
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No, we won't.
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We won't speculate.
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No, we don't.
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We speculate.
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Then you are sort of guessing, aren't you?
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Yes, if you like. You're saying. Well, I wonder if it's this.
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I wonder if it's that. Yes.
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What you're searching for.
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But to speculate is to search around.
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You are hoping that you will get the right answer.
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Time to go.
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See you tomorrow.
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I'm going to pop up on your Internet
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screens tomorrow from 2 p.m.
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UK time.
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Thanks for sharing some of those lovely memories today.
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We had some some nice moments walking down
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memory lane from the early days.
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I'm going to eat some, some freshly baked bread
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which I baked this morning and a cup of tea.
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Cup of tea and I might have some yoghurt as well.
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It sounds good.
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You didn't need to know that.
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But anyway, it was lovely to be here and see you all again.
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From my point of view, from May East, you'll see me next week.
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You'll see Mr.
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Duncan tomorrow.
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Yes. And that is what is going to be happening.
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Catch you later on behalf of everyone here at Hat for predictions.
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That means me and Mr. Steve.
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Are you?
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mainly me.
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Because I do everything here.
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Thanks for watching. See you tomorrow.
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And of course, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do.
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Are you ready? Yes.
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Thanks for watching me.
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For the past 17 years and
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ta ta for now.
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See you tomorrow.
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