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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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We have a
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lot of wind today, and I'm not talking about Mr.
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Stevens stomach.
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It is a windy day here in the birthplace of the English language,
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which I think you know where it is by now.
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Yes, of course it is England now
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we are back.
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Everyone is.
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I don't know why I feel really excited today.
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I have no idea why I feel so excited.
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But I do.
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And that is all that matters when you think about it.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr.
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Duncan in England. How are you today?
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Are you okay?
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I hope so.
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Are you happy?
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I hope you are feeling good today.
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We have a new month, everyone.
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April is here now.
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Here in England, we often have bad weather during April.
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We often refer to April showers at this time of year.
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So normally the weather at this time of year
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is a little unsettled and that is the reason
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why at the moment we are having lots of unsettled weather.
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We have lots of wind and lots of rain.
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We have had so much rain this year.
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Can I just say I hope we don't have too much rain in April
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because we have a lot of water everywhere at the moment.
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Today we are looking at some interesting subjects.
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We are looking at dating.
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going on a date,
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pursuing a date, maybe a person
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who you want to get to know better.
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Maybe.
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Perhaps there is someone in your life who you know and you would like to date them.
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Maybe you are looking for someone who would be who you would like
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to go on a date with.
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And there are many ways.
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Now, in the olden days I remember growing up,
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people used to leave small messages in the newspapers.
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We used to call it the Lonely Hearts column,
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which sounds a bit sad when you think about it.
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It is a little bit depressing, isn't it?
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The Lonely Hearts Club and people would always
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leave little messages at the back of the newspapers.
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Young man mid-forties,
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looking for attractive woman in mid twenties
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for meaningful relationship.
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Please apply to this box number.
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And then of course, later we had the lonely Hearts Club,
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which is where lots of people who were looking
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for a relationship would all group together.
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They would join together, but of course these days,
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because we are so highly sophisticated with our wonderful technology,
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we have dating apps, application
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ads on our phones and on our computers
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that we can use to find love.
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And it reminds me because this week we have been talking about dating
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apps here in England because, well,
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there have been some scandals taking place this week.
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But I was wondering if
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in your country, maybe
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you have a certain way of finding
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a partner or a relationship.
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So these days, especially here in the UK and I suppose in the United States,
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but I'm just I'm just curious to find out what happens where you are.
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Do you have some sort of method?
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Is there a sort of group?
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Is there some way of meeting other people
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who might share your feelings
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or maybe your opinions on things?
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So quite often, if you are looking for a person to fall in love with,
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I always say
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it is a good idea to have similar
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interests, have very similar outlooks on life.
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Not too similar because if two people have the same character,
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you might find that they will always fight and clash.
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So sometimes it is good to try and find another person
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who is slightly opposite to you.
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So we have
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applications, apps
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on our phones, many different ways of finding
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the love of your life. I suppose.
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So we are looking at that a little bit later on.
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Also, if you are thinking of making any plans for tomorrow,
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then my advice is not to
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because apparently tomorrow
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again,
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apparently
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the end of the world is coming tomorrow.
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Apparently it's Armageddon.
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Have you read about it?
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A lot of people on the Internet getting very excited about it,
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about all sorts of things that may or may not be happening.
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So there are many
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ways of talking about the end of the world.
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Some people describe it as Armageddon and apparently it's happening tomorrow
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because there is a big eclipse occurring and some people seem to think
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that it might signify
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the end of the world or some big change.
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Can you believe that?
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So we might be talking about
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that a little bit later on as well.
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Also, what else are we doing today?
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We are looking at words and phrases connected to up and down.
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You might say that life is full of ups
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and downs.
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There are many ways of using the word up and many ways of using the word down.
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We will also be looking at that.
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A lot of things to talk about today.
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Did you see the pictures talking of the end of the world?
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Did you see the pictures yesterday from Mount Etna,
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a volcano that is often
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simmering but not erupting?
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And yesterday it was sending those lovely
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little smoke circles up into the sky.
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Did you see that? Quite amazing.
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Lots of people were gathering to watch
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as these little smoke circles were coming out of the volcano.
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And I thought that was quite lovely, actually,
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to be honest with you.
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Hello to the live chat.
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we have the live chat here.
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Hello, live chat. Nice to see you.
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I wonder who was first on today's live
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stream.
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very interesting.
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Today we have Beatrice
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Guess what, Beatrice, you are first on today's
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live chat.
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Very interesting.
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And then we have Vitesse.
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Hello, Vitesse, You are second.
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We also have.
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sir, do you know who I'm talking about?
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It would not be the live stream without Lewis
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Mendez's is here today.
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Hello, Louis. Nice to see you back as well.
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We also have Alexandra.
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Do you and Lee is here as well, who is asking how I am?
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I have had a very strange few days
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now, as you may know, last week I mentioned Mr.
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Steve is actually off at the moment from work.
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He's having a holiday and we decided to go out by the way, can I just say that Mr.
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Steve will be coming up?
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Here is your alert, your Mr.
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Steve Alert, by the way, he will be with us in a roundabout
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10 minutes from now.
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So just to let you know that Steve is on his way.
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He is coming soon.
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And we decided to go for a lovely walk.
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Well, we actually took two very interesting walks.
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We had a nice, relaxing walk.
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And then the following day we went for another walk,
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but everything went wrong and I
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had an accident.
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Don't worry, I'm okay.
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I didn't break anything.
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But something very weird happened.
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Something that you only see in movies or comedy shows.
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But it happened to me.
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And that's all I'm saying.
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I will give you a clue.
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I got a little bit wet.
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Find out what that is all about as well.
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I have been busy preparing my new English Channel.
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A lot of people are asking for the name of the channel.
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I will not reveal it yet because it is not public.
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So even if I told you what it was, you wouldn't be able to see it
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because it isn't public yet.
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It would just come up with nothing, you see.
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But there are some new English lessons, also a new English channel,
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and I will be the person presenting on there.
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Excuse me a moment.
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I need some water.
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I've been so busy today I can't tell you how busy
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I've been.
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You know what I should do?
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I should actually put my water
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into my lovely English addict mug.
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Let me go.
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Look, I have a lovely mug I can drink from this cup.
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I always say that your drink will taste better
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if you take it from your English addict mug,
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which will be available soon on my YouTube channel.
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By the way, for those wondering.
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So lots of things happening this month.
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It is a very busy month.
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April is definitely going to be
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a busy time, I think so with my new channel.
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Also some merchandise.
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You can have one of these if you want.
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You can you can have one of these if you want.
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You can even have.
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Mr. Steve.
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I'm thinking of selling Mr. Steve,
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or at least hiring Mr.
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Steve out.
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So if you would like Mr.
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Steve to be with you for maybe a week
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or two weeks, I am thinking of actually putting Mr.
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Steve on my YouTube channel
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for sale as well.
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So here we are then we are back together again.
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And if you like this already, if you are liking this, you might say,
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I like this.
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Then please give me a lovely like as well.
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We might talk later on about my new YouTube channel
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because a lot of people are interested to find out about it
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all will be revealed very soon.
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Don't worry.
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I will not hide it from you.
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Hello, Claudia.
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Claudia is here today.
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It's nice to see you back with us.
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Thank you, Claudia, for joining us.
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Valentin is here as well.
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We also have who else is here?
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Inaki is here as well.
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A big wave to you all.
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So it is a busy one today.
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We have a lot to talk about. A lot.
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Very much.
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Many, many things to talk about today.
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We have the end of the world, apparently tomorrow.
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Tomorrow something really bad is going to happen.
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Lots of people on the Internet are talking about it.
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Hello to Santa Reno. Hello, Santa Reno.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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Hello to Char ra z o cha z.
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I pronounce that right.
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Hello to you as well.
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So many people joining.
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Also we have Viet Nam.
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Hello, Viet Nam.
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It's nice to see you here as well.
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By the way, my new lessons that will be coming on my new YouTube channel.
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We'll also have a lots of translations available,
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so not only will you be able to see me, you'll be able to hear me.
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You will also have lovely big
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English captions on the screen
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and you will have the chance
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on my new videos
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to have your own language at the bottom of the screen.
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So there will be many ways in which you can improve
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and learn and expand your English knowledge.
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So that is it. That is
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my new
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YouTube channel, which will be coming soon.
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Mr. Steve will be here.
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For those wondering, yes, Steve will be here in a few moments.
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I will put it on the screen again.
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Steve has had a wonderful time because he hasn't been working.
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And I think between you and me, I don't think Steve
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wants to go back to work.
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I think he likes staying off from work.
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Nit trim says Mr.
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Duncan has come up with some merchandise.
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I have maybe too much.
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So you can or you will be able to get your own English addict mug
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and of course, your English addict T-shirt as well.
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All of that coming up very soon
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as well, over the next couple of weeks. Mr.
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Duncan, you have two accounts on Facebook.
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No, I don't.
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I only have one.
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There is only one, Mr. Duncan, on Facebook.
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I will put my address on the screen.
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Now, for those who are wondering.
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Now, sometimes people will pretend to be another person.
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Now, I don't know why, but some people pretend to be me.
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I have no idea why
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anyone would want to pretend to be me.
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But apparently some people are doing that.
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I will put my
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Facebook address on the screen now.
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There it is.
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So that is my real.
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That is me. Genuine.
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My Facebook page.
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Facebook dot com.
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And as you can see, you must put it in capital letters.
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So you must type the address exactly like that.
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So that is my Facebook address for those who are wondering.
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And yes, I know that sometimes people
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do pretend to be other people, but I still don't know
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why anyone would want to pretend to be me.
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It still confuses me at this very moment in time.
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I still don't know why. So that is my
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Facebook page.
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And as I mentioned, there will be a new YouTube channel,
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basic English, English for those
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who want to improve or learn
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or maybe progress with their English learning
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and that will be announced very soon.
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Hello.
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Huong Pham, hello to you as well.
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Thank you very much for joining today on this.
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Very windy but also very sunny
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Sunday.
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Looking outside the window at the moment, there is the view right now.
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You can see we've had some rain,
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but it is also windy as well.
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And we've had some sunshine.
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It is a mixture of everything today.
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If I was honest with you,
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we've had all sorts of weather over the past 24 hours.
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We also had a big storm as well.
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A very big storm last night.
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Fortunately, there was no damage at all.
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NUTRIEN Will Mr.
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Steve be on cameo?
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Now, when you say cameo, do you mean that website
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where celebrities give messages to other people?
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So if you want to have I don't know, for example,
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if you want to have Tom Cruise wishing you a happy birthday, you can go on
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to a certain website and pay some money and then Tom Cruise will record a message.
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Well, in fact, it isn't the real Tom Cruise.
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There is a guy who is very famous on the Internet
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and he's well-known for pretending to be Tom Cruise.
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But I've never done it.
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I've never done anything on cameo.
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I've never sent personal messages.
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Maybe I should.
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Maybe there is a market out there for people
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who can pay me to send their messages on Cameo or even Mr.
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Steve.
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I think that might work, especially Mr.
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Steve, because he does have a very big fan club.
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Hello to Col.
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Hello, Col.
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It's nice to see you here.
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Hello.
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Also to who else is here today?
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I don't want to miss anyone out.
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Hello to Idris.
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Hello, Idris Watching in Morocco.
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I started following you in 2012.
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Thank you very much for staying with me.
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12 years you've been watching me.
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Thank you very much.
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I. I learnt using your
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like and dislike video.
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I see.
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So you learnt from that particular video.
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So there was a video that I made all about liking things
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and disliking things.
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Thank you very much, Idris.
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It's always nice to get some sort of feedback when we talk about feedback.
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We are talking about the response to something, especially these days.
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So a lot of people go onto the Internet these days to find
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content, but
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also to look at the replies as well.
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So I always think these days the replies
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to a post or a message or a video
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can be just as entertaining
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as anything else on the Internet as well.
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Irene is here.
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Come on, Irene, it's nice to see you.
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Here We have Mr.
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Steve coming in a moment.
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Of course he will be with us.
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Steve is here
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in around about 3 minutes from now.
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But first of all, we'll take a quick break.
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Whilst Mr. Steve sits down
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and makes himself comfortable and then we will be right back.
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Please don't go away.
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We have a lot to talk about today.
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A lot of people love the cows.
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They really, really do.
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Talking of animals that aren't very bright.
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Here he comes.
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I just noticed that.
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I don't know why Mr.
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Steve looks very small today on the camera.
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I don't know why I might.
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I might have to make some adjustments.
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So what happens during the week?
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Sometimes I think sometimes I knock or touch the camera
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and maybe things change ever so slightly.
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So I didn't realise that Steve was looking so small.
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Anyway, here he is.
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He is back
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by popular demand from his parole board.
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It is the one they only miss.
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Steve.
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Hello.
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Hello, everyone.
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Hello, Mr. Duncan.
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Do I look a bit shrunken today?
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Looks like it looks like the camera's too far away, though.
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I'm going to.
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I don't normally do this, but I don't know why you seem so tiny.
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It's like.
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It's like you are far fetched.
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Anyway, I'm going to say hello to our wonderful viewers from across the globe.
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Across the universe, the known universe.
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Mr. Duncan, here we are once again.
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And you, of course, have been here on Wednesday.
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I'm with you on Sunday to try and help
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people learn a bit of English.
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So that's what I am.
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I'm your sidekick, your assistant,
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your partner in crime, whatever you want to call me.
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And I love to read the live chat, of course.
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So I will be looking carefully at the live chat
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for any questions that people want answered, any comments and so for people
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that haven't been on this live stream before, they will know what to expect.
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I think that looks better now.
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You look better, do a bit bigger.
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You look a bit larger now. good.
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I don't know what was going on there.
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I might have to I might have to do it again in a second. So.
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So let's join together on the screen
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right now.
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It's so romantic.
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Yes. You look small again.
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Let me just see if I can work out why this is the case.
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It's very strange.
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maybe I've.
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Maybe I've shrunk in the week. Mr. Doom? Yes.
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Have you been washing your self again too often?
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Maybe. I haven't been eating enough protein.
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Hello, Idris.
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L l a madeley a Sorry
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if I pronounce your name incorrectly, but I noticed a comment earlier.
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Who's in Morocco, which sounds very exotic to us
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when we talk about Morocco In the UK, it sounds like a very exotic place
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for British people to visit, and I'm sure it is.
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But he made a comment earlier about having followed your live streams
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for a long time and and particularly started
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using the like and dislike video.
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Yeah, I did a video all about that particular subject,
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liking things and disliking things as well.
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I think somebody I think the moderators need to act fast.
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I don't know who that is.
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They don't seem to like me if you notice that.
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So yeah, I don't mind.
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It doesn't bother me too much.
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I, I've been doing this for 17 years and if there is one thing
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I've learnt over the years, it's sometimes people might not like you very much.
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That's true.
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You can't please everybody, can you, Mr. Duncan?
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And while we don't mind, you know, we don't mind
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a bit of hate to the.
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Steve, Steve, don't.
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Don't ask people to hate us.
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So I don't want to be loved by everybody.
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No, but you know, you never encourage people to hate you
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don't ever say, well, I don't mind being hated. TV.
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You know what I like?
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I like being punched in the face as well.
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If you want to sit, don't encourage people to do that.
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I, I wouldn't rather that happened if I was honest with you.
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Anyway, he doesn't like me.
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I get the feeling he might not like me.
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I also have a feeling I know who it is.
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The blue city of Morocco.
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I won't even attempt to pronounce that, but it sounds very exotic.
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And maybe one day we'll be able to visit him.
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But there you go.
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So what are we talking about today, Mr. Duncan?
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God, I hate it when you say that,
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but I've already told you about some of the things we're talking about.
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But you weren't watching your say, so I'm going to tell you
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I was in the garden working hard, Mr. Duncan.
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Anyway, no one cares about that.
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I was just telling viewers what we're doing today,
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which is what I'm going to tell you now.
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32:37
Here we go.
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We're talking about big subjects.
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Apparently the world
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is going to end.
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did you see that?
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my goodness.
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What was that? What was that? Mr. Duncan?
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I think it may have been something heading towards the Earth.
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Did you see that? No, No.
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my God. There it is. dear.
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Mr. Duncan.
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What was that? Mr.
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Duncan, I'm scared. I'm scared.
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33:05
What's going to happen? Are you scared? Are you?
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Don't be scared, Mr.
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Steve. It's only on the Internet.
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It's not real.
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But apparently a lot of people believe
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that tomorrow the world is going to come to an end.
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33:19
So if you made any plans for tomorrow, I would.
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I would just stay in bed because apparently the world
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is coming to an end tomorrow.
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33:27
There is an eclipse taking place.
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I'm sure you've heard about it.
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I have.
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I don't think we can see it here, can we, Mr. Duncan?
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No, not here.
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It's over the United States.
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And of course, as you know, everyone in the US is slightly crazy.
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And a lot of people now think that tomorrow
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something bad is going to happen because there is a a solar eclipse.
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So the sun will vanish for a few moments and then come back.
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And apparently during that time, something really horrible is going to happen.
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According people on Twitter.
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And yes, I do call it Twitter because that's what it's called.
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You see, it's called Twitter, as far as I'm concerned, Twitter
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is Twitter, not X, it's Twitter.
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So I will still call it Twitter, even though it isn't anymore.
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So there are some crazy people now on Twitter.
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Let's face it, most people on Twitter off are completely crazy.
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I nearly saw them.
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I think they said something naughty, though.
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Wouldn't that be amazing?
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You wouldn't be the first today.
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And apparently, apparently the world is coming to an end.
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So do you have any plans for tomorrow, Mr. Steve?
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As as the end of the world comes, I'm working tomorrow.
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So yes, if if my
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time comes, I shall be out on the road seeing customers.
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But apparently it's going to be everyone's time.
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That's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.
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Yes. The moon is coming between the earth and the sun.
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Yeah.
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And it's going to completely block out the sun in America.
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And is it certain latitude? Latitude?
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Or is it just in the back? Well, it always is.
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So the eclipse is not always fully visible in every part of the world.
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It just depends where you are at that certain time so that the path,
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the path of the eclipse will go over the United States.
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And of course, everyone at the moment is coming up with their own
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conspiracy theories, as they often do on the Internet.
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You know, my feelings about the Internet, it's a wonderful thing.
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But also it's full of crazy people as well.
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So a lot of people do believe that tomorrow the world is coming to an end.
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It isn't, by the way, I think this time next week
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we will still be here talking to you about the English language
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and getting excited about all sorts of things.
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Idris says the end of times.
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Now, of course, I think in many religions, Steve,
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we have we have this this premonition
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or this this sort of looking forward in time
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and saying that one day the Earth will come
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to an end in some dramatic way.
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But apparently it's happening tomorrow.
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I don't know what time exactly.
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It's just an eclipse.
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There's an eclipse somewhere every week, somewhere around the world, isn't there?
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Apparently.
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But not a full eclipse.
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To get a full eclipse is quite is quite rare.
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Yes. In fact, I don't think we to be last.
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We've never had one in the UK.
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I don't remember ever having a full eclipse.
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I filmed one once.
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Did you?
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When I filmed one, was that a partial eclipse?
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I think it was a partial eclipse.
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Not full, but it is weird when it happens because everything it all goes dark.
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It's like.
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It's like night time.
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Orion is for a few moments.
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And I always remember when it happened here
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because all the streetlights came on outside.
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It was very weird.
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And then when the sun returned, of course, the streetlights went off.
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But it was very strange indeed.
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So tomorrow, the end of the world.
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Even though over the years now I remember Steve growing up, they used to be
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all people walking around with with signs saying that the end is near.
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Like like that guy there on the screen, you see.
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So he is telling us all that the end is near.
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I don't think it is, though.
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I think we'll be alright.
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That's alright.
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We'll be okay.
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Don't worry about it. Alexandra.
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Alison, Sandra asks, How do you pronounce that word?
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It's Greenwich.
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Greenwich?
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Yeah, it looks like green.
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Which.
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It's a place near London, isn't it?
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It is the place where.
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Where the meridian crosses.
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That's it from yesterday to today.
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So that that transition from one day to the next.
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The meridian line runs right through
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Greenwich Zero Longitude.
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Greenwich Mean Time.
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Yes.
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So, yeah, it's pronounced Greenwich. Yeah.
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And you can say it as well, Mr. Duncan.
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Well, at the moment we have British Summertime
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and then there is Greenwich Mean Time.
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But it's interesting how that particular part of the world that that little spot
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in London is the place where today and tomorrow occur.
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Isn't it weird?
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Yes, it's strange because that word there,
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you you don't pronounce the two E's.
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You only
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pronounce one day and you the W is silent.
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What are you talking about? Greenwich.
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I see.
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So it's really the phonetic way would be g r e n
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i c h Greenwich.
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Yeah.
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It's not green.
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It looks like it's green. Which, Yeah, it's.
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But of course it isn't.
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It's just one of those funny things.
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39:17
There's no rules there.
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You just have to know it.
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There's no, there's no English rule I don't think, is there Mr.
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Duncan.
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It's, it's like Lester
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the town Lester
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that, that is also spelt in a very strange way, but.
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But you don't pronounce it, so at least, Sister, it looks like.
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Or life sister But in fact it's Lester.
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39:41
So there are many places in the UK
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39:44
that that are pronounced differently
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to how they're written and it can be very
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confusing.
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Suffolk is another one.
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Suffolk, a District of London as well.
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And quite often people
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will say such walk, so walk
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because that is how it's spelt,
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but it's not pronounced like that Suffolk.
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So yes, it can be confusing.
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It can be very, very, very confusing.
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We had a very interesting week, didn't we, Steve,
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because we went for a lovely walk.
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Yes, it was an eventful walk. Yes.
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But we had a nice walk and then the following day
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we had a walk somewhere else and I had a little accident.
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I managed Don't ask me how because it's a long story,
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but I managed to fall into a stream.
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I fell.
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And the reason why I fell is because when we went to this particular place,
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it was very windy and there were lots of people there, weren't there?
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Steve
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Yes, there were lots of people there.
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And of course, don't forget you've hurt your back.
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It's still very painful and yes, I wasn't there.
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I had Mr.
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Duncan was filming at some point, not at that particular moment.
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And I walked off ahead because I was bored
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and I walked ahead to that.
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41:16
And then I thought, Where is Mr. Duncan?
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Where is Mr. Duncan?
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He's been a long time.
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He can't have been filming for this long.
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41:23
So I looked back and there I could see this figure
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staggering, literally staggering towards me.
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About a hundred yards away, 100 metres away.
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Well, you made it.
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Well, you know, it's a hundred metres.
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I was not. No, not 100 metres. Yeah.
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Anyway.
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Yes, yeah. About a hundred metres away and
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looking very forlorn.
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Forlorn.
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There's a good word for you.
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Is there a short version of this. A forlorn.
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If somebody is forlorn, they look
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upset visibly, physically they look upset.
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And I ran towards Mr.
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Duncan.
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Ran. I know that you're right.
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I walked at a fast pace.
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You just walked towards me and asked me what was wrong.
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And you said you that you just fallen over into a stream.
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I fell into the stream because it was windy.
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And as I was walking along, there was a woman with a baby and she was
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she was carrying some of its clothes.
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One item of clothing was a small coat.
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So imagine a small coat for a baby and it was windy.
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And the wind.
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This is so strange how it happened.
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The wind caught the coat
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and it flew towards me.
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It gave me a surprise.
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I tried to catch it because it was coming towards me.
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So it was just the reaction.
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And I stepped back and I stumbled
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and then I fell into the stream.
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There was a very deep edge that went into the stream.
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And when I talk about stream, I mean flowing river or a flowing,
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flowing water.
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So not not this stream that you're watching now, a very different story.
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But I fell in and I hurt slightly.
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Not too bad.
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I was a bit worried though, because my back is still bad,
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but I didn't injure my back.
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If anything, I think I may have repaired it slightly.
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And this woman came over and she was say, are you are you okay down there?
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Are you all right? And she helped me out.
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It was very windy. So when I found Mr.
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Duncan, he'd injured his hand
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and he was wet all on one side.
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So, yes,
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Thank you.
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V tests.
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Okay. Okay, Steve, stay with us.
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So you were.
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You were. Yes, you were.
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But luckily no injuries.
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No, you hadn't been injured.
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You could have broken your hand.
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You scratched your ring.
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yes. I have to say, it was very painful.
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you mean this ring? Yes.
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I got a little scratch now on my ring where I caught it on the rocks as I fell.
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So it wasn't very nice.
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Anyway, I fell into the stream.
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I got wet, one of my legs was wet, and I had to walk along.
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Mr. Steve was.
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Was He just walked off and left me.
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So there I was, lying in the stream, getting wet,
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slightly injured, and Steve was just.
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Just walking off. He was just walking.
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He he didn't even notice any of that happened.
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So it was rather a strange situation, to say the least.
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Anyway, I'm all right. You survived.
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I know.
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Bones broken, nothing bruised.
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All I have is a scratched ring, so my ring is a little bit scratched.
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Thank you again.
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The tests.
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We all know why.
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And we all have.
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We run out without going on.
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But thank you very much, Steve. That's good.
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Whatever you want to about.
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I don't know what you're talking about, by the way.
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Well, you can read it later and find out.
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Okay, then. That's great.
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This is good for this current moment.
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Anyway, today, Steve, we are looking at up and down words,
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phrases that can be used to describe up and down.
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And there are many idioms, many phrases, many express ones
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that can be used in English.
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Now, we were talking earlier about celebrities
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who give messages to people, send messages.
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Have you seen these sites, Steve?
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The one of them is called Cameo.
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And apparently there are celebrities film stars and they will give
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or they will record a message, especially for you.
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But all you have to do is pay them.
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And apparently some of these
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messages are so expensive, maybe hundreds of dollars.
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46:08
If the person is very famous, then you have to pay a lot of money.
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And I was thinking maybe we could get in on that action somehow.
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Maybe we could go into cameo and we could
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we could give our own personal messages
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46:23
to people if it's their birthday, for example.
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So maybe you could do it for some people and maybe I could do it for others.
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Of course mine would be more expensive.
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Of course,
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46:35
you know,
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probably the same price as Jean-Claude
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46:40
Van Damme or Steven Seagal, something like that.
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46:44
That sort level of fame.
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Maybe we can impersonate somebody famous
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and then pretend that
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we're somebody famous and then, you know, offer to give messages anyway.
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Yes. No, I don't think we'll be on there.
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47:00
Mr. Juncker, we're not famous enough.
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Well, we might be.
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That said, you said we might be.
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We might not even realise it.
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There might be a whole thing that we've not discovered yet
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47:11
that we could be a part of who Who knows?
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47:14
Who knows?
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47:16
I mean, we have merchandise now.
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47:19
Look at that.
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Do you like that, Mr. Steve? Do you like my big mug?
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That looks beautiful, Mr.
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47:25
Duncan. It is.
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47:26
I bet you wish you had one of those, Steve.
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47:28
I do, actually.
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47:30
Have you got anything interesting in that mug, Mr.
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47:34
Duncan, I.
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47:34
You drinking anything interesting?
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47:37
Anything alcoholic?
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47:38
No, it's water. It's just water.
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47:40
Just water to keep my poor dry throat
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47:45
going for as long as possible.
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47:48
Thank you very much for joining us today.
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47:50
By the way, I never say it's enough that you are giving some of your time
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47:54
to listen to us chatting away,
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47:58
Idris says We're famous in Morocco.
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48:03
and talking of Morocco
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48:05
guess who's going to Morocco in June?
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48:08
I don't know.
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48:10
well, yes, we have.
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We have a fan who is off to,
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to that country that I just mentioned
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in June.
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The country you just mentioned.
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Which country is that?
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The live stream is going a bit weird at the moment.
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48:28
right.
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Well, Francesca, he's visiting Romania
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in June, as I said, Morocco there.
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48:37
I'm getting all mixed up, Mr. Duncan.
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I'm getting all mixed up.
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Maybe my blood sugar has gone low.
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Yes, that's it. Yes, exactly.
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So forget everything I said.
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Delete the last 30 seconds and start again.
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48:50
I think I might delete delete the past half an hour,
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48:52
but Francesca is going to Morocco.
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So in June.
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When are you going in June?
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48:57
Because, you know, we've got plans in June.
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49:01
Please let us know when you're going to June.
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49:04
And Steve, we don't have any plans in June,
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49:07
but maybe we should start thinking about having some plans in June or else
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49:13
we won't be able to make any plans in June because everywhere will be full.
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When are you going, Francesca?
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Let us know because we might have to plan things around you.
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Apparently there's somebody
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49:26
on Facebook pretending to be me.
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49:29
Well, you must be famous then.
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If someone's pretending to be you.
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49:32
Why, though?
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49:33
Why anyone pretend to be me?
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49:38
Catarina says, Can we find your mug on Amazon?
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49:41
Not yet.
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49:42
It isn't available on Amazon.
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49:44
In fact, this mug is not available anywhere yet,
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49:48
but it will soon be available on my YouTube channel.
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49:51
There will be a little shop underneath
835
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49:55
my videos and you will be able to get your own Mr.
836
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49:58
Duncan mug.
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49:58
And of course, Steve, not only that, but also you will be able
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50:03
to have your own English addict t shirt and I am.
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50:08
I'm hoping Mr.
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Steve will buy one as well.
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50:12
So we can we can both have You would hope I get a free run, wouldn't it?
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50:15
Working. Working for you for free.
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50:18
no, I don't get paid for this.
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50:19
You have to pay for it like everyone else. Great.
845
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50:23
Another interesting thing we're talking about
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50:25
today, in a few moments is dating.
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50:31
And I remember growing up, Steve, a lot of people used to.
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50:34
I suppose if you're looking for a relation ship or if you're looking for love,
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50:39
I suppose there are many ways of doing it, aren't there?
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50:43
I suppose there are many ways of doing it.
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50:45
You can maybe you meet someone by chance,
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50:49
maybe in the office or the workplace.
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50:51
You might meet someone and then fall in love.
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50:54
But of course it's not easy to do.
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50:57
It's not easy to to find a person to spend your whole life with,
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51:02
because sometimes people can be a little bit
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51:04
weird and strange or horrible.
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51:08
Yeah. So lonely.
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51:09
Are you looking for somebody special in your life?
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51:12
And your parents aren't going to provide anybody for you.
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51:16
You've got to do it yourself. Because.
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51:18
Because in some cultures, parents will well, well, find somebody for you.
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51:24
Maybe you'll love them, maybe you won't.
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51:27
But if you are looking for somebody, Yes.
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51:31
What do you do in your country?
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51:33
What do we do in this country?
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51:34
Yes. We're going to talk about that, Mr. Duncan.
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51:36
But it is strange that these days, the ways
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51:40
in which people find their partner
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51:44
or look for love has changed from when we were younger
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51:49
because people used to put advertisements in the newspapers, didn't they?
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51:53
So, man mid-forties,
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51:57
searching for love with younger woman,
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52:02
for mutual
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52:05
interests, something like that.
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52:08
And sometimes they might put their interests underneath.
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52:12
Maybe they like walking or movies or anything,
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52:18
really anything that the other person might have in common.
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52:23
So sometimes when two people have something in common,
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it means they have things that they can share together.
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52:31
But sometimes I think, Steve, sometimes it can be a bad thing
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52:36
if two people are very similar.
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52:39
I don't think relationships can actually survive.
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52:42
If two people are very similar to each other.
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52:45
What do you think?
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52:47
Yes, they often say opposites
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2008
52:49
attract is a phrase that you hear, don't you?
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52:52
Opposites attract because I think I wouldn't like to to
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52:58
be in a relationship with somebody that was like me.
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53:02
Maybe if I was the sort of person that was in love
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53:04
with myself, which I'm not.
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53:08
And I've known people that are like that
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53:12
very narcissist think they're in love with themselves.
894
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53:17
You can always tell these people because when you go and visit them
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53:20
in their homes, they've got pictures of themselves everywhere
896
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53:24
and it's a little unnerving and they're always looking at themselves
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53:27
in the mirror.
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53:28
Yes, Maybe those sort of people will find it hard to find anybody
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53:34
because they basically want to marry themselves
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53:38
because they're in love with themselves.
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53:40
But for everybody else, then, yeah, I think I think in a relationship
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53:46
you want somebody that compliments your abilities
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53:50
you don't want somebody with because nobody has.
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53:53
Or very few people
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53:56
are good at everything and really good relationship.
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53:59
The ones that really work well are ones that complement each other.
907
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54:03
So one partner has certain abilities and the other partner
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54:09
has abilities that the other one doesn't have and vice versa.
909
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54:13
So they can work as a team and they can be very successful
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4803
54:18
in that relationship and in what they do in their lives.
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54:23
I think that is
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54:25
the ideal partnership where two people have
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54:29
a lot of separate talents and abilities
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54:32
and they come together and they use those and find a way
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54:35
of using them to make the relationship and their lives successful. Yes.
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54:40
So you're talking about two people who who complement each other.
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54:45
They sort of go together.
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54:48
They go together because, you know, if you go have a relationship with
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54:52
somebody who has all the same abilities and attributes as you, well,
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54:58
that might be difficult to
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55:01
for that relationship to move forward
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55:04
and to be successful.
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55:06
Because you see, you always say you always hate this other phrase, don't you?
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55:09
For every successful man there is a successful there is a
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55:13
there is a wonderful or a successful wife, forgotten the exact phrase.
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55:17
Now, okay, behind every successful man is a woman or something like that.
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55:22
Yeah, they would say that. Yes, that's it.
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55:26
I think the idea is if you have two people who are very similar,
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55:30
they will always clash because they want exactly the same things.
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55:34
And sometimes it is better if there is a slight variation
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55:39
and then and then those two things will go together
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55:44
easier.
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55:45
They will get along or they will
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55:47
they will enjoy each other's company.
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55:50
They complement each other.
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55:51
Yes, you can share interests,
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55:54
but you can't be exactly the same.
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55:57
I don't think it can actually work.
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55:59
No, to be honest, I don't think there's a relationship.
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56:02
It depends. Every relationship is different.
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56:05
And we we've got
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different abilities and different things that we can do.
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56:11
I mean, with this life,
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you know, it just I think that's what sustains a relationship.
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56:17
I mean, quite often people will meet initially
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56:20
based on maybe physical attraction, but if that relationship
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56:25
is to last a long time, there's got to be more to it than that,
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56:31
because otherwise,
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56:33
I mean, I often say that the good relationships, the people are
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56:38
friends, aren't they?
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56:39
That they are best friends.
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56:40
The wonderful word that I love or the phrase that I love
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56:45
is, is soul mate.
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56:48
Your soul mate.
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56:50
So rather than the the physical attraction,
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56:55
maybe, maybe what lies beneath
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56:58
in the person's character
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57:02
and I know it's a bit of a cliche and lots of people talk about this
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57:06
all the time when they're looking for love.
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57:08
So you were looking for your soul mate.
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57:10
But I think that is a real thing.
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I do believe that there is such a thing as a soul mate,
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57:16
a person who you just
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57:19
get along with.
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57:20
So it might be a good friend.
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57:22
So I would say that a good friend can also be your soul mate, just a person.
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57:27
You get along with.
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57:29
Yes, but I think eventually, if you fall in love,
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57:32
that person will also be your soul mate
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57:35
because you will share things together.
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57:38
You will tell each other your secrets.
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57:42
You know, the things that you feel, your inner
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57:46
thoughts, your fears.
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57:48
And I think that builds the relationship over time.
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57:52
As long as you can stand each other
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for the first four or five years,
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57:58
then you might then grow to understand each other.
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58:02
So it is relationships are quite, quite difficult
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58:07
to find a good relationship or a loving
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58:10
relationship might be hard to find.
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58:13
And of course, as you said, Steve, sometimes they are arranged as well.
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So in some cases in some cultures there are arranged relationships as well.
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Yeah. Which which can work.
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58:29
It just it's just different cultures, isn't it?
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I mean, they can work very well sometimes because it depends.
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58:35
You see in, in our sort of Western culture,
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58:40
love is seen as the is the goal of a relationship.
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58:45
It's you meet somebody and the idea is that you fall in love
989
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58:51
and then everything else of that relationship then will fall out of that.
990
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58:57
Yeah, but in other cultures, love isn't the main aim of the relationship.
991
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59:01
It's just two people who will get on.
992
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59:05
I mean, they may fall in love, but they might not have to.
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59:08
You don't have to be in love with somebody to have a successful relationship.
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59:12
And I think it depends on your culture for that.
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I think so.
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59:21
What I was going to say then as well
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is, is that the ways in the past ways in the past that people
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59:28
tried to find the love of their life or a person to have a relationship with.
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59:33
And also talking of arranged relationships, I was surprised
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to find out how common it is in China when I was living there.
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59:41
So quite often families will arrange the relationship
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59:46
or the marriage between two people
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59:49
not forced, but certainly
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59:52
the family will have a lot of or make a lot of decisions.
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59:58
But when we are talking about two people having a relationship,
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60:02
especially if you have a son who isn't dating anyone,
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60:07
they will often try to find someone for the son.
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60:11
They will try desperately to find someone
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60:15
for him to date.
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60:16
But there are many ways, I suppose in the past we often
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60:19
think of the The Lonely Hearts column,
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60:22
or maybe a group of people you could get together with,
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60:26
and you can talk about your interests and maybe will happen, maybe not.
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60:31
But of course these days we have the internet.
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60:36
It is a place where people can can meet
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60:41
and find love, can find that magic relationship.
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60:46
And there are many, many apps now there.
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60:49
Steve So there are we have we have them here, don't we?
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Yes, we do.
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60:55
There's there's lots of
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yes, there's I mean, it's always been there's always been dating agencies.
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61:00
We've watched a carry on film
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61:01
the other the other week which is probably made in the 1960s.
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61:05
I mean there were always there's always been organisations around
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61:09
that will help people find love because that's essentially what
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61:16
in most cultures, what people
1027
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61:17
don't know about most culture has been in a lot of cultures.
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61:20
People are are looking for love
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61:23
and although as I've said, it's
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61:26
not necessarily a requirement for a successful relationship
1031
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61:30
at all, but it's that's generally in the western world
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61:36
of a lot of countries, that's what we we look for.
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61:39
I'm talking about nowadays what we do.
1034
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61:41
So here we have dating apps applications on your phone, you put your details in
1035
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61:47
and hopefully the other person or someone will find you and go,
1036
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61:51
well I quite like the look of of him.
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61:53
He only Yeah.
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61:56
who is not very old either.
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61:57
Is not is not, is not 90.
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61:59
That's good.
1041
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62:00
That's always a good a good sign.
1042
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62:03
But does he have a car.
1043
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62:04
he does. He has a car.
1044
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62:07
well there you go.
1045
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62:09
Quite often. Yes.
1046
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62:10
And that is
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62:12
a I was asking about what is an arranged marriage.
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62:18
What we mean by an arranged marriage is that
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62:21
usually the parents
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62:23
of the two people that come,
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62:26
you know, the parents have got son or daughter and they might know
1052
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62:31
other parents and they arrange
1053
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62:34
for the two people to meet.
1054
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62:37
And if they get on, they may get married.
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62:40
And that is common in a lot of cultures.
1056
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62:43
And it works
1057
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62:46
or has worked for hundreds or thousands of years.
1058
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62:49
I don't know all the details, but often that and quite often
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62:53
a dowry is given, isn't it? Mr.
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Duncan Yes.
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62:56
So sums of money are exchanged.
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62:59
Well, I think that between the families, yes, that
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63:01
that's that's something that does definitely happen.
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63:04
And in some cultures with
1065
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63:07
with some sort of arrangement, it's almost almost in some some cultures,
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63:11
I think it's almost a business arrangement.
1067
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63:14
It's very similar to what used to happen with royalty as well.
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63:18
With royalty, quite often the son or daughter would
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63:23
it would be arranged for two
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63:27
children, not not related, of course,
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63:30
but but from different countries to actually get married later in life.
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63:35
Even if there were children.
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63:36
Sometimes it was arranged that those those children,
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63:39
as they grew up, would eventually marry each other.
1075
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63:42
And it was a form of bonding or bringing countries together.
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63:47
And it was it was a very strange time when that used to happen.
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63:51
But it does happen.
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63:53
And sometimes love can just arrive on your doorstep
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63:58
as if by magic is if as if it's somehow faked as well.
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64:03
Yes. And Christina says, I married the person I chose and it went wrong.
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64:08
So arranged or not, you never know.
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64:10
That's true.
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You just it. Yeah. If.
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64:14
Yeah, that said it depends.
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64:16
Yeah.
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64:16
You find somebody yourself and I mean the divorce
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64:19
rate is, is very high in this country
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64:22
as it is in a lot of countries where you are allowed to get divorced.
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I think it's something like I can't remember how many marriages survived.
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I don't think even half of them survive now.
1091
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64:35
Well, I don't know what the figures are. No.
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64:37
So that's obvious.
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64:38
But I think it's it might even be
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64:42
more than half marriages don't survive.
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64:45
Okay.
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64:45
And of course, it's very expensive to get married.
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64:49
So if you are expecting certain things from your partner
1098
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64:52
when you get married and those things don't happen,
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64:55
that partner doesn't turn out to be that way, then,
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64:59
you know,
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64:59
you might get divorced because people get divorced for all sorts of reasons.
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65:02
We're not really talking about divorce, but no.
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65:06
Yeah, it's and you spoke about dating apps.
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65:10
Yeah, people use dating apps quite commonly.
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65:15
And but those apps, they're not necessarily always for just
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65:19
a long term relationship.
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65:21
Of course, a lot of those apps are typically designed well just for maybe
1108
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65:27
meeting for one night and having having a night of passion or something like that.
1109
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65:32
So so dating apps and that is really what I was trying
1110
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65:35
to get to the point of about 5 minutes ago.
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65:38
These days, there are many ways of meeting people
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65:42
very quickly and certain types of dating app.
1113
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65:45
We often think here in this country
1114
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65:47
I suppose the most popular one here in this country is one called Tinder,
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65:52
and that is
1116
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65:53
where you can literally go through hundreds and hundreds of people.
1117
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65:56
So I've heard.
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65:59
So I've heard.
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I hope you've just heard Mr. Duncan.
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People have told me this.
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66:05
I don't know from experience, but apparently you can just go through
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66:09
and I think you swipe
1123
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66:12
you swipe right if you like them.
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66:16
And I think you swipe left.
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66:18
If you don't, I'm not sure how it works because I've never used it.
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66:22
You see, I don't need to know about a lot about swiping left and right,
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66:26
but I don't know which you've which though I don't know if,
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66:29
if swiping left is rejecting or swiping right, I'm
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66:33
not going to even know anything about that. Mr.
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66:35
Lane Well, I don't either, but you know about the swiping bit.
1131
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66:39
Well, everyone swipes.
1132
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66:42
Some people spend all day swiping on their computer.
1133
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66:44
Sometimes people swipe their partners don't like.
1134
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66:47
Yeah, Christina says makes a point.
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66:49
Hey, the kings and queens would often marry by arrangement.
1136
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66:53
Yes, of course they would. Yes, they would.
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66:56
Because
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66:59
sometimes it's more about
1139
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67:02
just the individuals.
1140
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67:03
It's about the families.
1141
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67:05
Yes. The priority is is the family. Yes.
1142
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67:08
And in those situations with royalty, it was often the bloodline as well.
1143
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67:13
So the bloodline, you can go in a certain direction.
1144
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67:18
And I think it did happen in the past where people who were
1145
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67:23
I wouldn't say they were closely related,
1146
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67:25
but they were certainly related in certain ways,
1147
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67:30
would actually get married in royal circles or royal situation.
1148
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67:37
And that's the reason why some some members of the royal family,
1149
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67:43
maybe in this country, I'm not sure why they look a bit strange.
1150
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67:48
So, yeah, you see, left is rejection, I think according to Christina.
1151
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67:53
So left that way is rejection.
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And if you go that way, it means, Ooh,
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Well, we'd like to know more about your experiences.
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Christina Yeah, because it's a very, it's a very
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sort of new concept of involvement in you.
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But I mean, I've got lots of friends.
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And Nick Trump says, Well, of course you wouldn't know anything about Tinder.
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What about the other one?
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I think I know which one you're talking about.
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I know what you're too. Are you talking about Grinder?
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I think you probably are if you you know what?
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I'm. I could get very offended by that.
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I could get very offended and walk out of the studio
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and go somewhere and have a cry.
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But I'm not going to. But I know what you mean, though. Yes.
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Yes, there are.
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There are there are dating apps for everyone.
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Yes, whatever.
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But, you know, everybody seems to be going on these.
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I mean, even MVP's.
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I mean, you might have read in the news this week that
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I think at least two MPs
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have been Well, they were they were sort of okay.
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You know, it's just one was just what is it?
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Just one?
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One MP was going on to a certain website and you know what happens?
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You get very carried away.
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Sometimes you get very excited because you think the other person likes you and.
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Then you start doing things that you probably shouldn't,
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like sending photographs of yourself.
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So sometimes in, in certain positions
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and, and then that person realises that you are well known,
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or maybe you are a member of parliament and then they, they try to blackmail you.
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So this one man decides to do that,
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and then the other person decided to start blackmailing him with information
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about other members of Parliament in this country.
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So this has been a big scandal, hasn't it, this, this week?
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Yes, it's been on the news
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and MPs are getting themselves into trouble, one in particular.
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But of course, we're all human.
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At the end of the day.
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And it was they were sort of what I mean, what people do in their private lives
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is their own affair, really, isn't it, As long as it doesn't interfere
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if that if people are public figures like MP is,
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you know what people are doing that
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as long as it's not affecting their job and their judgement.
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Yes, but of course we love a sex scandal in this country. Yes.
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And any sort of scandal, especially if it's it even involves
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sort of something a little ooh, a little a little naughty maybe, But of course,
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there is a serious side to that as well,
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because it's about security.
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And this is why I remember I remember watching a very interesting documentary
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about the the Cold War and when spies were tempted.
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But by maybe a beautiful woman
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or a sexy lady and they would call that a honey trap,
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which I always thought was was a great yes, a honey.
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That's a good expression, a great expression.
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So something that is attractive and it's almost like it's
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almost like imagine flies or bees
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as bees going around a pot of honey.
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It's that same sort of thing, something attractive.
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But of course, it can work both ways.
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Maybe a man could be attracted to a woman
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and she could then blackmail him.
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Of course, a man could also be attracted to a man,
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and he would would have even more power over that person.
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Because not only is he having a secret relationship, he's having a relationship
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with someone of the same gender, which is still
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something that people like to talk about,
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because it was interesting that
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they were very keen to point out,
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and there's this MP is gay
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and he was honey
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trapped, as we described on this
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dating app called Grinder, but which, by the way.
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No I haven't a Francesca, I haven't ever used a dating app.
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I met Mr.
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Duncan, the old fashioned way at sex face to face
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in a sweaty room
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in a nightclub.
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But yeah, but what was I talking about?
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Yes, but they are the press.
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Instead of just saying it was a dating app,
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they have to describe it as a gay dating app.
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Well, that adds to the story.
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So because that makes it makes it
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seem more dirty somehow.
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well, it's.
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It's more.
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It's more provocative. It's more provocative.
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So in a way, it's it's actually a bit offensive
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and a bit discriminatory because they wouldn't have said
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if it would have been a straight man, heterosexual, anyone,
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they wouldn't
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have said that he'd been on a straight dating site.
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They would have just said he'd been on a dating site.
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Yeah, but because he's gay, they have to add this.
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A gay dating site.
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Yeah. And, yeah, there's no need to do that.
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It's done deliberately to make people think that somehow
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he's more,
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you know, that somehow
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that MP That must be because it's a gay dating app. Yes.
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The implication is that he's somehow more immoral.
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That's it then if if he was a straight person going on a date
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and let's face it, that's the impression that gets Steve Let's face it,
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everyone is interested in those sorts of stories.
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Everyone even.
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Yes, even even a little old lady sitting at home doing her knitting.
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Even she will be interested in that sort of story.
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Because it is it is it it's scandal.
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People like scandals, They they love it very, very much.
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I mean, our perception of Europe, this is our perception.
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The reception we get and don't know how true it is
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that if if it was a French
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MP or an Italian MP,
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somehow people don't seem to be so concerned.
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The general population don't seem to be as concerned
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or as interested as we are
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if their politicians are involved or having affairs or getting ever.
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I don't know how true that is. Please tell us. So.
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You know, I think I think you'll find it's just as bad.
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Yes, but yes, but I mean, over in
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England, it literally it can end careers.
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I mean, but I mean, it is having affairs.
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We're kind of drifting away from all of the point of this
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is the fact that it isn't it isn't him that's causing the scandal.
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The scandal is other people
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are being contacted anonymously because that one guy
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gave them all of this information about other members of parliament.
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So the real story is the fact that lots of people now are being
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well it's it's a it's all about safety, isn't it?
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In security, you have to be very careful these days
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if you are a prominent politician
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or a well-known person or a public figure,
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then you have to be careful because there are a lot of
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75:38
crazy people out there, a lot of crazy people,
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particularly about events that are going on at the moment.
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And safety, of course, even even for us,
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even for the average person
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who is a nobody like us.
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I mean, you have to be very careful who you are meeting.
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If you are meeting a person, you don't you don't tell them where you live
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and invite them around you.
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You meet somewhere else because because you have to make sure you're safe.
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So this is the problem.
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Dating apps are a great idea and.
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I do believe they can work.
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But also you have to be careful what you do when you are on them
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because you might get into all sorts of trouble.
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I think so,
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yes. So, yes, I have.
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We as I said, we don't really have any experience of dating apps.
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We were very lucky.
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I mean, I mean, they worked really well.
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You didn't have mobile phones when we first met,
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but as I said earlier, it was in the newspapers.
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Yes, newspapers.
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you would just meet somebody at work
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or you would just, maybe
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you had a hobby and you were in a club and you met somebody that way.
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Yeah. Or you went, I'm talking to if you're looking.
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No, but I'm on about if you're looking for love.
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Not not fate or chance, I suppose.
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I think if you are looking for love and there were many ways.
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Lonely Hearts club.
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So people would go along to a certain where lots of people were looking for love
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and maybe they will find the right person there.
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But it is interesting, isn't it?
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And of course it all came us.
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It all came after we met. Yes.
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We weren't smartphone.
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I mean, I you know, it would be interesting to know if people us today
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use dating apps and and have found
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77:35
the love of their life in a dating app.
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I have we got any nice happy stories of people meeting meeting
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the love of their life I would say dating app I would say that it's rare Steve
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I think it might be rare because of the transient nature.
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That's a good word, by the way.
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Transient if something is transit end, it means it's fleeting.
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It comes and it goes, as it were.
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I probably could have
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used a better phrase to describe that person that you carry.
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It's out there now.
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Yes. Patrick.
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Hello, Patrick.
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Yeah, there used to be computers
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that would yes,
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it would be dating agencies where they had computers
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78:25
and they would you put all your details in and then there'd be all the audio.
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You know what you liked doing,
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78:34
what sort of person
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you were looking for, and the computer would, would match people together.
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And the agency would say, Well, we've gone through all our list of people
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and this person has come up as somebody you might like to meet.
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Yes, it was literally called computer dating, but
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but you were not on the computer doing it.
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It was just your details.
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There were there were many ways.
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But these days, I think maybe maybe it's
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too easy to meet other people these days.
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Steve.
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Maybe all of the fun has gone out of dating or trying to find someone.
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Maybe that's one of the bad sides.
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But one of the bad things about, it is the fact that maybe it's
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too easy to find another person, perhaps.
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So it's it's certainly, I think, very, very
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if you just want casual sex, it's very easy to meet somebody.
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so I've heard I mean, I've got I've got friends
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that, you know, do, do.
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Okay.
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One friend at the moment who's always on a
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79:38
call is a dating app, but it's just a, you know.
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Yes. Anyway, Steve,
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this person is probably watching and they're probably going to come round.
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I mean, I'm not saying who they are.
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I think. I guess
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because there are risks associated with that.
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79:53
Of course you might end up at a genital urinary clinic fairly quickly.
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79:59
Well, but the thing is, I mean dating apps
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now are being used by people of all ages.
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We imagine
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that dating apps are just being used by young people, but they're not.
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Now it's the opposite.
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They're being used very much by maybe people who have been
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80:17
in a relationship with a long time and now they've got divorced
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80:21
and then they want to find somebody new.
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So I think I would I would say that
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most people that are using dating apps or those apps are over
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a certain age, maybe over 30 or over 35 plus
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because young people don't need to try and find someone on a dating app
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because you're young, you're you're virile
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80:43
or you're vibrant, you are attractive.
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80:46
So I think there's less need
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80:49
or less necessity to that.
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80:53
But certainly as you get older and you start to look like this, you see,
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if I was single now, Steve, no one would want this.
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I would have to go on a dating app unless of course, you've got
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lots of money, in which case people would be interested.
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81:09
That's a whole different story.
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A whole different story altogether.
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But I think it's an interesting topic anyway.
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Yes, Mr.
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Steve, we are talking about something else in a moment.
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So are we.
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Yes, we have today's subject.
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Well, I think I've told you already.
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Well, it's connected to up and down.
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There are many we will go through them very quickly in a few moments.
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81:29
And there are many ways of describing up and down.
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81:34
You might say also that in life, well,
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maybe there are lots of ups and downs that we can experience as well.
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81:43
So I suppose we can look at those things
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81:46
and we will look at the ways in which
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up and down can be used used
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81:59
here.
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There he was, Mr.
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Steve doing his lovely low.
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83:02
It is an interesting day today.
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83:04
We've had a lot of wind over the past 24 hours and it has nothing to do with Mr.
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Steve's stomach.
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I can safely say.
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By the way, Mr.
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Steve is here for those who are worried.
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83:17
Yes, he is still with us in the studio
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83:21
as we talk about another subject connected to the English language,
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because that is the reason why we are here.
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When you think about it, Steve,
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I hear to talk about the English language with myself, Mr.
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Duncan, and also my lovely special
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guest who is Mr.
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83:41
Owns me
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and he is
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how lovely.
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The live chat, by the way, was was quite busy today.
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It was while we were talking about, you know, relationships. So.
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Yeah, exactly. Yes.
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A nick Trump says what a seamless transition from
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from casual sex to ups and downs. Yes.
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As it were they
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Well, everything has its ups and downs
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and sometimes it has its ups down, up, down, up, downs.
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by the way, we are talking about that right now.
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Look, there it is now on the screen, up, down
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words, phrases, ways of looking
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at those particular words and phrases as well.
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We'll go through these quite quickly because we only have half an hour
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before we go. It's incredible.
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I can't believe how fast today's live stream has gone, but it has gone fast.
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First of all, if we talk about up Mr.
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Steve, talk about raise you raise something.
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The direction of something is up.
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So normally when we raise something.
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It only goes in one direction, doesn't it?
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It goes upwards.
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You raise something, you heighten
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something, you erect something.
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Also, when we're talking about direction, Steve,
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you might go up to someone,
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you might go up the road.
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So quite often we can use up in more than one way
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when we are talking about direction or maybe the position of something
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or when something is going upward, it is going up.
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Also increase as well.
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If something is increasing, it means the quantity
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or the amount is going up as well.
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Raise upward.
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You go up, you increase, you progress.
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Now, I think that last one, Steve, is very interesting, the word progress,
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because how would that relates to up how how would you see that?
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Steve Progress
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yes.
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If you're progressing in life, it means you, you're,
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you're getting better. You might be getting a better job,
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you might be going up the ladder of success,
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but which is often a phrase that is used.
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Yes.
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If you are going up that if you're going up in the world.
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you're going up in the world.
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Might refer to somebody who's just got a shiny new car.
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You might you might,
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you know, come home in a nice new Mercedes
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that is much better than your previous model.
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And your neighbour might say, you're going up in the world.
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So we often see, well, I'm trying to look at progress of all as a single word.
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Progress is often seen as as positive, a positive word,
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even though the word itself doesn't seem to be connected to anything positive.
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So when we talk about progress or progress,
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it means it is moving forward all up.
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And of course, the opposite is regress.
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If you regress, it means you go backwards, you drop, you fall.
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So something that's going the opposite way.
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So it is interesting to see that some words that might not appear
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to be related to the direction of up are actually used.
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I suppose.
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Also we need to mention the prepositions of up
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the position of something it can be up.
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So when we talk about prepositions, we are looking
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at the position of something where it actually is
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so the word up can also be used as a preposition.
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For example, it's up in the loft.
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We are showing direction.
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We are, we are showing where something is
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as an adverb.
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Mr. Steve We can say view or view the action.
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You climb up, you stand up.
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So we are showing that something is happening
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and how it is happening visually,
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also as an adjective to view something.
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Maybe you seeing something, viewing something
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as it occurs, maybe
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the up elevator, maybe an elevator
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that only goes in one direction, it goes up.
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So that is what that thing is used for.
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An adjective is the quality of something.
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Or maybe the train train that goes up town.
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Yes. Goes in one place.
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That's interesting because up it doesn't necessarily to mean
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going up in elevation.
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It can it can mean a direction as well.
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The direction of travel.
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That's not necessarily doesn't mean that the train is going uphill
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or the bus is going up the street.
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Up the street.
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It doesn't necessarily refer
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doesn't always refer to the fact that it's literally going,
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elevating or the street is on a hill.
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It just means a particular direction.
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Sometimes it can refer to north as well.
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So up can be north because when when you
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yes, it's a funny it's
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concept sometimes it doesn't necessarily always mean
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going upwards
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if going up a street, it can mean
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the street is going in a particular direction towards town.
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For Example Yes.
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So if you're going uptown,
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it doesn't mean that you're going the town is on a hill.
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It just means that you're going towards the town.
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So up can sometimes give you an indication of a direction of travel.
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Yes, it will.
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It can also signify north and south as well.
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So the town is north.
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So you would go up to town or if you were travelling in a southern
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direction, you would go down to the town or down
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to a certain part of the country.
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Here's another one. Yeah.
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So if you live I mean, I have to move on.
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Steve I was just going to say sometime we used to say that a lot, you know,
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let's, let's go to town, let's go uptown.
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Does it mean that the town is on a hill?
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It just means you're going in the direction of the town. Yes.
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So as an adjective, the view,
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maybe an informed person,
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a person who is knowledgeable about current events, we can say
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that they are up with the trends or up with what is fashionable.
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So you can be up as a person who is up to date.
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You know what is happening around you.
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You are a person who is knowledgeable about current things or current
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developments, especially news items and things like that.
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We also have some the phrases, Mr.
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Steve and you might recognise of these
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to be up on your look.
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You can be up on your left.
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You Yes, or you can be down on you look,
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but yes, you could be up when you look.
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Yes, yes.
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Christina says up north. Yes.
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Because if you think of the globe where you are on the globe,
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North is is going like you're going up, isn't it.
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I mean
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it north,
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the North Pole from where we are, seems like it is going up.
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So that's why that expression is often used.
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Obviously it isn't.
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It isn't going up that because there's no such thing
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really as up or down on a global planetary scale.
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But if you if you were to look at a globe,
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you've got a globe somewhere, you could see where England is north.
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It looks like it looks like you're climbing up to the up to the North Pole.
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But of course, in reality you're not.
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But it seems like it is.
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Well, north is up.
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Yes, but it's not really, is it?
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Because you're not having
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to physically go uphill to get to the North Pole? No.
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But the direction in relation to the other thing is, is upward
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it's upwards, which of course I don't get was because that's how we
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we look at the world.
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We think the South Pole is going down to it.
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But of course we're not ready because the gravity is holding us all equally own.
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But it seems like that just from the point of view of looking at maps and globes.
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But if you you know what is up and down in the universe, where is it?
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Where is up, really?
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I mean, just in relation to where we are, we we think north is up
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because that's the only way we can get our bearings.
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Yeah, but of course, if you were to think of the solar system
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and the and the universe,
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there is really no up or down.
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A thing is up in the air.
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Something that is undecided.
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Maybe you haven't come to a decision yet or a conclusion about something.
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An undecided thing.
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So are you laughing, Mr. Duncan?
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Since the kids are seeing something funny?
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No, it really isn't.
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It isn't anything I've seen.
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So says something that's up in the air.
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What might that be then?
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Can you give me an example, Steve?
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it has nothing to do with the globe or the universe.
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It's up in the air.
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yes.
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A decision to, to.
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I don't know.
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Two companies
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are deciding to merge together and somebody says, Is it going to happen?
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And the reply might be, it's up in the air.
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So it's undecided.
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So it's a good expression to use.
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It's up in the air.
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It is
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our, our is Bill and Joan.
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Are they going to get married then I it's up in the air.
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It's undecided.
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Nobody knows. Only they know.
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No one knows at the moment.
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We're going to have to wait and see.
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Is Mr.
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Duncan going to get to 2 million subscribers by Christmas?
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It's up in the air. No, I already know the answer.
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We don't know.
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Is Mr.
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Duncan going to become a millionaire on YouTube?
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and buy me an Audi A8?
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No, no, the answer to that is no.
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Definitely.
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That may not be quite so much up in the air.
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well, it is. It is decided.
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Nah, we going to go to another country and meet some of our YouTube fans in June.
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Yeah.
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Which is why I was asking Francesca when she was going.
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It's a little up in the air.
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Yeah, I think it is.
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And in fact, it's very up in the air because we've made no plans whatsoever.
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So you might say that a thing that is undecided
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is up in the air to look up to someone.
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I'm sure in life we all have someone we look up to,
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a person we admire and respect.
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So maybe there is a person in your life, Steve, or even your life out there
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who who you look up to.
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Maybe a parent, maybe a relative
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or friend or maybe a famous person.
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You might look up to that person you admire,
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you respect that person.
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Who do you look up to? Do?
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Look up to Mr.
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Duncan as as a as an English teacher.
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Hopefully you would
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you certainly don't have to look up to me.
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But yes, people that you admire, people that you respect, people
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that you want to learn from, or maybe people that you want to aspire
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96:30
to being yourself, you look up to them.
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I mean,
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typically you you know, you'd probably look up to a doctor, wouldn't you?
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You would see a doctor as a very learned person or a professor,
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and you would look up to them as somebody to respect somebody
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that you wish to be like them. Maybe.
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Or if the doctor is a gynaecologist, he might look up to you.
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that sounds like a joke.
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That that that test might tell
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you might be on the up. Mr.
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Steve, If You are on the up,
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which I'm not, by the way.
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I am definitely not on the You're on Mr.
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Duncan you are on the up
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people want be associated with people who are on the up.
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So we have to say that you are because we want people to associate with you Mr.
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Duncan even though not he's on the up, she's on the up.
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You say that about somebody, it means their life is moving
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forward, they're maybe getting promotions at work,
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maybe getting a big pay rise, they're going to get a nice position
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on the board as a director or something like that.
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So one's fortune is growing.
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So when we talk about fortune, we don't just mean money.
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We mean their their outlook on life.
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Maybe things are getting better in their life.
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They are slowly improving their situation in life.
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One's fortune is you're on the up.
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Lots of people like you.
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You've done a good job at work, you've got respect
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and the bosses want to promote you
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and or you people might say, Well, that person's going far as well.
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It's similar sort of expression to be on your uppers now.
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That's me.
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That's definitely me.
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If I had to use a phrase that that describes me, that's the one to be on.
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Your appears to be in a situation
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where are broke or penniless or you don't have much money,
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but you are on your uppers.
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So imagine someone lying on their back with, their their legs in the air,
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or maybe an animal lying on its back with its legs
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sticking up.
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You are on your uppers, you are flat
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broke, you are completely ruined.
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You are on your uppers.
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It doesn't mean it's necessarily the end.
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No, it can mean that it could be temporary.
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Yes. Tatiana saying, What's wrong, Mr.
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Duncan saying you've got a naughty mind.
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I don't know what that was referring to, but never mind to be on Europe is. Yes.
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To be broke, penniless.
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you're not on the up,
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as in the previous expression.
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Here's another one, Steve, if you want to maybe run a car.
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So is right up your street.
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Steve, you have to upkeep that particular thing, the upkeep.
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So the upkeep can be how much it costs or how much money
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you need to keep something in good repair
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or to keep it in a good state or condition.
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The cost, the expense, and also the maintenance.
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So the upkeep is looking after a particular thing especially.
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Well, I suppose cars are a very good example of that, aren't they.
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Yes. Upkeep.
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it just means just keeping something to date, maintaining it.
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yes.
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The upkeep of a car, the upkeep of a garden.
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yes.
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It just refers to, as you say, maintaining something or a house or a house.
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upkeep of the house just means that you are keeping it clean,
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keeping it tidy, maybe keeping it up to date.
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Up to date would be another thing as well.
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Yes, I Reverse the things that need regular maintenance. Yes.
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And quite often there is some sort of cost involved as well.
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So quite often when there is upkeep,
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you quite often have to pay for it as well.
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Put up with something. this is a good one.
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I'm sure Steve has something to say about this particular phrase.
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If you put up with something or someone
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you tolerate
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better or withstand
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something, you put up with it.
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For example, Mr.
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Steve I put up with Mr. Duncan.
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No, it's if you put up with someone, if you're referring just
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to a person, you put up with them, it means that you, you tolerate them.
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They might annoy you in some way,
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but you decide to put up with them.
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Maybe because you're married to them and you've got no choice.
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Or maybe because sometimes they're not always
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annoying.
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I, I, but that's an expression
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that you can use to say that, you know, I've put up with them for two.
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You can put up with somebody for too long.
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It means you put up with that.
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They, you know, they've been badly behaved.
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Yeah.
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So they've treated you badly for a long time.
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I've put up with that person for long enough and I'm leaving them divorced.
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It can be something is irritating as well.
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You have to put it with something like noise.
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Maybe your neighbour has a noisy dog that keeps barking all the time.
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Yes, have to. You have to put up with it.
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But sometimes you don't want to.
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You don't want to put up with it.
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You feel if you want to say something. But.
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But unfortunately in this world you have to sometimes
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put up with things
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that are very annoying. Yes.
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By the way, Christine is giving you a lovely donation.
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Christina, thank you very much for your lovely donation.
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A lot of people don't realise that you can leave
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a small donation right here on the on the live chat.
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I think a lot of people don't even realise.
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But you can.
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So if you want to help me with this
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and of course I will be working twice as hard over the next few weeks
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because I have my second channel which will be launched soon.
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By the way, for those who think that I will be making a lot of money
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out of that second channel, I can tell you now I won't,
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because it is not a part in the channel.
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It is nothing.
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So it has nothing connected to it.
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So we will see what happens there.
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But Francesca's used that phrase very well.
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I put up with my colleagues.
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Yes, because you are in a place of work
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that you have to work with other colleagues to get your job done
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unless you leave.
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The only alternative is to leave if you don't like what they do,
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the way they behave, the things they say
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you have to put up with your colleagues because
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they're there.
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Yeah, they're there. You all have to work together.
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so, yeah, thank you for that.
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It's a good use of that word. No,
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thank you.
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Once again, Christina, for your lovely soup chat.
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Thank you very much.
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That's very kind.
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Here's another one, Steve.
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To be a pity.
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A person who is a pity is a person who is snobbish,
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fussy, fastidious.
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that's a good word.
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Fastidious Or maybe a stubborn person who won't change their ways
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can also be referred to as uppity.
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It's a great, great phrase that we all know someone who is like
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that, don't we?
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We all know a person who is a little bit uppity.
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Yeah. Somebody that.
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Somebody that thinks they're better than else snobbish person
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who maybe they don't necessarily think they're better than everybody else,
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but they don't like the way other people behave.
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And they might comment about,
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did you see the way that
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Judy was dressed in that meeting?
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what disgrace.
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And a hair was a mess.
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A lot of people who live around here, Steve, are a little bit uppity,
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aren't they?
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But yes, they're little snooty snobbish.
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Yes, I think exactly.
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It is another one to upend
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something, to upend something.
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This is quite an easy one to explain, to overturn
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something has been toppled,
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to topple or to tip over.
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It has been upended to upend something.
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So imagine something being pushed over or maybe something
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that has capsized or turned over.
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It has upended it.
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So I think that's quite a good one.
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Here's another one, Steve, and then will we look at some down
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phrases to upload something?
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we all do this, don't we?
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Especially these days We all like to upload
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our pictures to the Internet or maybe to our dating site,
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but enough about that
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to upload something to transfer something out
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or send something.
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So these days we often think of upload
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as transferring something from
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your self.
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So upload you put something on to the internet
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to you, upload something to YouTube for example.
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And then of course we have down
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to drop lower, reduce, decline,
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sink and descend.
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We often think of down as a negative word
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and I suppose in most cases
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it is true, but there are one or two phrases that don't necessarily
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relate to negative things,
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and then we have the downward direction.
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And you mentioned this earlier, didn't you, Steve?
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You talked about things going up.
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You can have you can have up, but also things can also go down
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as well as the opposite, a downward direction
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to decrease to fall.
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Can you think of any good examples of that?
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Steve, of of direct of, of what?
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Mr. Duncan Downward direction of falling or dropping as a direction,
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something that's falling, going down,
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water to fall Salary.
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salary. Right. Okay.
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Earnings, profit.
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So maybe a company might, might see that their profit or their,
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their earnings going down something, of course might have both.
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Mr. Steve Something has its ups and downs.
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If something has its ups and downs, like everything in life,
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it can have its good moments and its bad moments.
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So I'm sure we can think of both of those things going.
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Yes, relationships have their ups and downs.
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They have their good moments, their bad moments.
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Hopefully life has its ups and downs.
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Hopefully it all evens out
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and at least is neutral, if not more positive.
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Overall, you have to measure ups and downs over a long period of time.
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It's like the stock markets the same thing.
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The stock market goes up and down, up and down.
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But you're hoping that the trend is generally upwards
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over a long period of time, measured in probably three years.
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And it's the same with a job,
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a relationship, and that's when we tend to change things in life.
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If there are more downs than ups,
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then it's maybe time to change something
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because otherwise you're going to get sad and depressed. Yes.
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So life is full of and downs.
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Learning English is very similar.
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If you are learning English, there will be days when things are difficult.
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Maybe something that you don't understand, and then other days suddenly
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it becomes clear and you feel up again.
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So anything in life, any expert orient you are having,
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all these things have their ups and downs.
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An unstable thing might be up one moment and then down the next.
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And you just mention that Steve Stocks shares in a company
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one day it's going up, the next day it's going down.
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Or maybe it is just staying level.
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So all of these things, especially unpredictable
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things, can have their ups and downs.
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And let's face it, when you think about life,
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nothing is
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more unpredictable than than that.
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Here we go.
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We have some phrases very quickly before we go
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to be down on your luck
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and I think this is one you mentioned earlier, Steve.
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So if you can be up,
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things can be going up, but of course things can be going down as well.
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You can be down on your luck suffering
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a streak of misfortune.
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Have you noticed that that sometimes in life
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things seem to go well and then suddenly things
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just seem to go wrong for quite a long period of time.
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You can have lots of misfortune.
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So you might find yourself down on your luck. Yes.
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The assumption is that
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the inference from that phrase
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is that you're getting through life on luck.
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Of course,
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most people get through life not unlucky, but on their own, on hard work.
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And that, of course, you need a little bit of luck,
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or the phrase is often said of what they used to say to me at work
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when I first started in sales is as you make your own luck.
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In other words, you make your own opportunities by working hard
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and by constantly doing what you're supposed to do.
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Yes, you will get lucky eventually.
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But yes, if you're down on your luck, it means that
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you're not doing so well at the moment.
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But the implication is that things will get better if you keep going
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because you got the other phrase people often use is two steps forward,
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one step back, because you can't always be going up and successful all the time.
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Everything you try can't always be successful.
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Yeah, but you've got to try lots
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of different things for to make progress.
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If you never try anything, then nothing's ever going to work.
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Here's another one to be down in the dumps to feel sad or depressed so.
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Maybe if you are having a bad time in your life,
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maybe something is going wrong.
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You might also feel down in the dumps.
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Yes, you might wake up in the morning.
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I feel down in the dumps.
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yeah.
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You just feeling a bit sorry for yourself?
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Maybe a bit sad a bit depressed.
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Might be.
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People use the word depressed a lot, but of course, that's a medical term,
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which is very different to just
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being in a low mood.
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Yeah, there's another one we've got.
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We've only got about 4 minutes to be down and out.
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If you are down and out, it means you are homeless.
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You have nowhere to live, nowhere to lie down at night to call your own.
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You are homeless.
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You are just astute, which is a great word.
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It's not a great thing to be,
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but it is an interesting word.
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So if you are down and out, you are homeless,
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destitute, like a tramp may be down and out.
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You've lost a job, your relationship is broken up.
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Lots of bad things have happened to you.
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You've literally got nothing.
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Your relationships
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ended, you've lost your job, you've lost your home.
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You're down and out.
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Yes, out on the streets.
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Lewis is off Lewis's.
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He's got an up afternoon.
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He's got some friends that have come round.
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So have you.
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Have a nice time with your friends, Lewis
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Christian It's as I sometimes feel down in the dumps.
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That's a good expression. Yeah, it is.
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It's one that we, we tend to use quite a lot
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if you're feeling kind of low mood.
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Here's another one.
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If your earnings are down,
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it means you are making less money In business.
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Quite often we will use up and down if you are making money
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or having a profit, or if your profit or your earnings are dropping,
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they are going down, you are making less money.
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Here's another one.
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So a lot of a lot of these particular sentences do seem to relate
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to mood quite often negative moods.
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So if you are on a downer,
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it means your mood is in a negative phase.
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You are feeling more and more gloomy, or maybe you are feeling
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a sense of hopelessness.
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Maybe, maybe you are becoming a little bit more gloomy,
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a bit like being down in the dumps in a way.
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Yeah, it's interesting how that's very similar.
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I'm a downer.
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It's just I mean, it can
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of course refer to coming off drugs, but we don't mean that in that respect.
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Hey, you do something on the down low
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this, this has this.
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I was surprised to find out that this can mean something very interesting,
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which I'm not even going to mention because it might get us taken off.
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Do something on the down low means a thing that is done in secret
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without other people knowing and that's all I'm saying about that.
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That's probably more an American phrase, isn't it?
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We don't tend to use it in this country.
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I don't think
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so much.
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But yes, to do something on the down low, it means something else.
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But I can't say what it is.
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If I did, then
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I think it would be, well, not good it wouldn't
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end well, let's put it that way to put someone down.
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Human beings often do this in social situations, don't they, Steve?
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Yeah, One person will put another person down.
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Yes, don't put me down.
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Somebody might say if if you have been criticising them over
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something their work may be maybe their work isn't good enough and your,
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your manager who's not a very nice person is, is telling you that
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you didn't do that very well or nit picking or criticising,
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you have a small insignificant things which really don't matter.
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But this is, well, this is more generally yes.
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So this is not specific, this is genuinely criticising someone
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or you put someone down, especially when that person is not around.
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We all do it.
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We all talk behind another person's back.
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When they're not around, you put them down.
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You say critical things about that person or of course
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you criticise them directly to their face.
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It it can happen.
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It is a good one from Valentine,
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which is related that too to let someone down.
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To let someone down.
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If you let somebody down, it means you. You,
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you don't, you don't support them.
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You stop supporting them.
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You just appoint someone. Pardon.
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To feel disappointed.
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You've disappointed somebody. You've let somebody down.
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Maybe you, a friend, asked you to pick them up from the airport
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or pick them up from a party and you didn't go and didn't do that.
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And they were left there and they would phone up and say, Would you let me down?
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You said you'd come and pick me up and you didn't.
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Yeah, no, normally it's disappointment so if something is disappointing,
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you feel like the parent might say that to their child
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who has misbehaved at school or misbehaved in some way.
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And the parent might say, You've let me down.
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It's because they've done something
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that, has put them in a bad light.
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So this one here,
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Steve, to put down an animal.
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dear.
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So this is not criticising your dog.
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This is actually euthanizing or euthanizing or destroying an animal.
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So maybe an animal that is or unwell
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you, if you put it down to put down an animal
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is to end the suffering of an animal's life.
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You put the animal down, euthanize or destroy an animal.
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Not a very nice thing, but spit happens quite often, doesn't it, Steve?
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You know, if your dog, you've had your dog for many years
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and it's not well, you don't want it to suffer anymore.
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You might have your dog or your pet put down.
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Yeah.
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It is a sad fact of life to put them out of their misery.
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They're suffering.
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Yes. Well, I sometimes wish for that
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to be down in the mouth.
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Another negative one.
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A nice, cheerful way to end today.
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To be down in the mouth is to feel or appear unhappy.
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And finally, because we
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we love to end on a positive note,
2059
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to be in a downward spiral,
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to decline, to slowly worsen.
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So something is bad and it's slowly getting worse.
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A person might be in a downward
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spiral, maybe with their way of thinking,
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or maybe their health might be in a downward spiral.
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The health is is a good way of describing that.
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Yes.
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And a company might be in a downward spiral. Yes.
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Because
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of whatever reason, bad practice is
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or hasn't come out with any new products for a while.
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Nobody wants their products anymore.
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Yes, it's in a downward spiral.
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And the implication is it's going to be very difficult to reverse that.
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Yeah, that's quite a quite a very negative if you're in a downward
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spiral.
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It's the energy and the effort required to bring things back up again.
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The implication is that you will need a lot of energy
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to bring it back up to where it was. Yes, that's it.
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So a dying with downward spiral, a steady decline,
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everything is going down with their health was on a downward spiral
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and that that on that positive note,
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I've had a few few questions which I haven't been able to answer so far.
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Alessandra asks, What is the meaning of
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hold up the line?
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If you hold up the line, do you mean a telephone line?
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Well, I think it means hold up as in if people are moving along in a car.
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Yes.
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And someone is talking or maybe they're not moving, you might hold up the line.
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It means you are causing the line to stop moving a blockage.
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So a queue of people waiting for something
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and maybe you are at the front of the queue talking
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for a long time.
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We can say that you hold up the line
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it means that that the line is not moving.
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The rest of the people aren't moving
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because somebody is or yes, they might be taking too long.
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There might be a line of everyone's waiting to have some food
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and you're all queuing up and somebody is taking ages at the front
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to decide and somebody might shout out, Hurry up, you're holding up the line. Yes.
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So that's what that means.
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And somebody else asked me and other questions as well,
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but I can't remember what that was now.
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Okay. yes.
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Christina says, I get confused with
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into and onto the computer.
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Yes.
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There's some things.
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Yeah.
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Going into something means you're going inside something.
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That's it.
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Whereas onto means on the surface, on the top.
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Yeah.
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Well in that sense you see onto is being used as a phrasal verb.
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You are going onto the internet. right.
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What's going on the computer.
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You are going onto the computer.
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But if you go into your computer,
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then you might be searching for for a particular file in the computer.
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You go in to the computer,
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not physically, but just browsing the memory of the computer.
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So quite often those two things are different.
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And of course, if you go into your computer, you might actually open
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the box and have a look inside to try and fix something.
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So generally speaking, you go onto the Internet,
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you go on the Internet, you go on your computer,
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and in quite often is
2127
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when you are searching for something in particular,
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quite often in your memory
2129
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of the computer or a certain file, something like that.
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It is a bit confusing.
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Christine So I hope that's explained a bit more.
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Anyway.
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Guess what, Steve We have overrun by eight minute. Wow.
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So it's been a busy one.
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I hope people all enjoyed it.
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It's been a busy one to tell you.
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It's been nice to be here, but I'm now hungry and Mr.
2138
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Duncan wants a cup of tea, so I should go into the kitchen
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and prepare that and look forward to seeing you all again next week.
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Yes, I'll be here next week. Mr. Duncan.
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I can confirm that as long as the Earth, as long as the world doesn't end tomorrow,
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we will be back with you next Sunday.
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Please let us know when you're going to Romania.
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Francesca, because that might help us in our plans.
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It sounds good to me.
2146
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I saw that.
2147
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Thank you very much, Mr.
2148
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Steele, for joining us. We'll see you next week.
2149
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Have a good one.
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And of course, Mr.
2151
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Steve will be going back to work tomorrow.
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You're back to work.
2153
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You've had a lovely time resting.
2154
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124:18
You've had you've had some downtime time, and that's what I mentioned earlier.
2155
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So the word down is not always negative.
2156
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So if you have downtime, it means you are resting.
2157
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Yes, you are relaxing.
2158
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So the word down can be used positively
2159
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if you are having downtime,
2160
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it means you are resting, you are taking it easy.
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So I hope your week at work, Mr.
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Steve, your your return to work will go well.
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I might.
2164
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I might be on a bit of a downer tomorrow going back to work.
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All right then. Lovely to see you all.
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And see you all again next Sunday.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Steve.
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He's coming now
2169
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because that's it.
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It's it's, it's. It's time for Mr.
2171
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Steve to say goodbye because he has to go into the kitchen
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and make me a cup of tea, which is what he's doing now.
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Thank you, Steve. That's lovely.
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Very nice. I've enjoyed this.
2175
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I would say today it's around about eight out of ten
2176
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for today's live stream, about eight.
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So this hasn't been the best live stream ever.
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But it's yeah, I think it's about eight out of ten.
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Definitely.
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Thank you very much for your company.
2181
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I will be back with you on Wednesday.
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Wednesday I'm here on my own
2183
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and I hope you will join me for that and we will do it again.
2184
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Shorter It's a short one on Wednesday.
2185
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I will tell you now.
2186
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It is always a little bit shorter on Wednesday.
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So that is it.
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Thank you for watching.
2189
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Thank you very much for your company today.
2190
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It's been good.
2191
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It's been a very busy 2 hours and 10 minutes.
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Incredible.
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Back on Wednesday.
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And I will see you then, hopefully live from 2 p.m.
2195
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UK Time is when I'm back with you.
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And of course until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next.
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Yes you do...
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ta ta for now.
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