This is the eighth and final episode of this mini-series entitled “Your English Podcast” or “YEP” for short, and in this episode I am going to showcase more recordings sent to me by listeners as part of a big competition. I’ve launched to celebrate the 5th birthday and 200 episodes of LEP. All the details of this competition are in episode 200 so you might like to listen to that one first if you haven’t already. Also, before I play you this set of competition entries I’m going to give you some information, rules and guidelines about the voting process. Click here to read those rules and guidelines.
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>In episode 8 you’ll hear recordings from these LEPPERS:
Wilkson from Brazil
Yannick from Switzerland
Yaron from Israel
Yayang from Indonesia
Yuri from Brazil
Zdenek from Czech Republic (not competing)
Alex From Russia (too late!)
Voting in the competition is now closed.
I vote for Yayang from Indonesia.
I vote for Yayang from Indonesia.
Thank you Luke for these 8 episodes, thank you to those who participated to this great adventure of the competition. Obviously this is not yet finished but I finished to listen to all the records and the end of this episode was touching because of what you said Luke and because of all the nice words from the listeners. This is so nice! Now we should meet all together near a forest, sitting down in circle, eating ice cream and listening to Luke playing ukulele ;)
I vote for Yannick from Switzerland
It is Yaron from Israel and I just would like to share my thought:
I totally agree with Yannick. I really wish that instead of invest money on wars, it will be better if the money will spend in the ice cream industry (or any other stuff that actually gives joy to the people).
I didn’t mention the war/conflict situation in Israel on my 5 minutes, since I think that most of the world citizens hear about Israel only with this context. So, I decided just to talk about myself, in order to emphasis that there are normal/regular people who live in Israel and simply, as most of the world citizen, just want to live and let live.
Anyhow, if you would like to hear about how it is to be a citizen of the world, an Israeli and a Jewish guy (in this importance order), please vote for me.
Cheers,
Yaron from Israel
:)
Shalom Yaron, I like your recording hope you win in this competition :D good luck
I vote for Yannick from Switzerland
Yayang from Indonesia
I vote for Yannick from Switzerland
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Yuri from Brazil .
hey! i just found it exciting hearing my own podcast being posted :) as I used advanced grammar and squeezed in order to not exceed the time limit, im leaving my TRANSCRIPT. hope our friends can make the most out of it :)
PIRATE RADIO, by Yuri (BR)
Ladies and gentlemen! This is Yuri speaking, greeting you from south-eastern Brazil. Your previous transmission of Luke’s English Podcast has been interrupted. And this a pirate radio broadcast which has been brought to you by Brazuca Station, an independent broadcasting station.
Hey hey hey! I’m just kidding you guys. So you don’t worry because I’m not an outlaw and I’m not transmitting this to you illegally. In fact, I’m not even a pro. I’m talking to you now thanks to Luke who kindly provided us all some minutes of his well-succeeded podcast. So grateful thanks, Luke, for this support you are giving us.
Hum, to start with, I wanna say something about my name that I’d like to share with you guys. Intriguingly, if you spell my name in English, you get a whole sentence, see: “Y U R I”, which means “What is the reason that you are being me? Get out, I’m original!” Insn’t that fun?! I’ve always wanted to print my name on a T-shirt, like, “Y U R I, and not yourself?” Obviously, that’s not proper English, which should be “Why are you me?”.
Hum, well, I decided to record my opening in a radio-like transmission because I had taken myself thinking of a way to be appealing. Moreover, now I have a topic to talk about.
So, when I thought about how I would do this, I meant the listeners, or more precisely our LEPPer friends, to feel like they were close to a typical stereo, probably listening to their daily programs – or perhaps just being turned off, without much awareness, whatever-; and then the signal gets invaded by a pirate radio station, which is broadcasted from a homemade studio. Do you guys know what a pirate radio is? That is an unlicensed broadcast and which may cause other regular transmissions to fail.
I would also like to suggest a movie, which is called “The Boat that Rocked”. “Rocked”spells “R-O-C-K-E-D”. Some students, mainly those at a beginner level, might find this word problematic; as the past ED is pronounced here as a T – ROCK-T-. This is a very close sound to “rocket”, y’know, the space rocket, a kind of spacecraft. While the first one, rocked, is the past of a verb that means “to shake”. So I guess you are on a boat, you possibly don’t want it to rock, huh? Hum, eventually, I found out that there is an expression like “rock the boat”, which means “to do something that upsets a situation and causes problems; to stir up trouble”. There it goes an example: “I was told to keep my mouth shut and not rock the boat.” Also, to rock means that something is very good, like “Luke’s podcasts rooock”. Haha! Ok, so I guess we’ve had enough of this, it’s so many definitions for such a word, isn’t it?
Hum, ok, now let’s go back a bit. Before I was telling you about a movie. “The Boat that Rocked”, which is set in the 60s, and it is a fictitious comedy film that tells a story of a pirate radio station that sends out the signal from a ship, in high seas, after the British government banned the rock music! Can you believe that?! Seriously! Please, remember to check the audience level, you know, or you can have some scenes that would make you feel awkward, I don’t know..
Oh, wait.. What’s going on? Oh, no.. I think they got me. Someone is trying to recover the signal. They are going to shut me down. All right, my folks, thanks for listening to this. So this was Yuri, speaking to you from a fictitious Brazilian pirate radio. Farewell. Over and out!