16: The Verified Recap

Mitch And Isi celebrate hitting 100,000 subscribers on YouTube with a recap of the past weeks. They debate bodily mishaps, Rammstein stereotypes and Edgar Allen Poe's Eurovision cameo. They then answer one of your questions on teaching and learning English in their online pub in this episode's Unhelpful Advice section.

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• British vs American English: 20 BRITISH vs AMERICAN English Words (youtu.be/oJcI5FzrEE0) (Easy English 158)

Transcript

Mitch:

[0:24] We have got 100,000 subs and we would like 100,000 more. Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Hopefully by now we have the blue tick of confirmation. What does it mean, the blue tick? Do you know? Is there like a meaning behind it?

Isi:

[0:51] You are now considered (Responsible.) I mean, we didn't do anything. We didn't send them like a passport or so, to give us like an official thing. But I guess you're considered a bigger creator. (Wow.) I don't know.

Mitch:

[1:05] We did it.

Isi:

[1:08] We should know that. I Google it.

Mitch:

[1:09] We did it. And we wouldn't have done it without the help of our listeners and viewers and members, all of which are amazing people, who have helped us get to this milestone. And we would like to celebrate that in a few ways. I think one, we will do a video podcast, which you'll be able to listen and watch, and we'll put it on our YouTube. (Yep.) But also we will do a special YouTube episode, which will be the next one that comes out that you'll see. Yeah, we'll show you a bit of a behind the scenes thing / Brighton, why we love Brighton, and show you some people of Brighton, why they love Brighton, show you some of our favourite hangouts, but not all of them.

Isi:

[1:51] And an ode to Brighton.

Mitch:

[1:52] Yeah, an ode. Or an ode. (Ode.) An ode to Brighton. (Oh, God.) Is that German; ode?

Isi:

[1:59] Ode.

Mitch:

[2:00] Ode.

Isi:

[2:01] Eine Ode.

Mitch:

[2:01] An ode, ode.

Isi:

[2:04] Ode could have been right. (Could have been right.) Okay, I'm very sorry.

Mitch:

[2:07] It's not English anyway, it sounds too nice to be English. We wanted to start off by saying thank you to everyone, because we didn't invent those 100,000 subscribers. They are you. You are the 100,000.

Isi:

[2:22] Maybe they're not. Maybe they just listen to the podcast and they don't even... have ever seen a video of us.

Mitch:

[2:27] Oh my God.

Isi:

[2:27] So if you haven't, we have a YouTube channel, by the way.

Mitch:

[2:30] What are you doing?

Isi:

[2:31] No, but thank you so much. It is incredible. It seems a bit unreal, so I cannot really... it's like, not that you really think like, oh, we got 100,000. A bit unreal, isn't it?

Mitch:

[2:43] Yeah. And yeah, we're still working on things like, just because we have 100,000 doesn't mean that we're a set channel, like we're quite far from it. (Yeah.) Like, you know, we still have quite big ambitions of Easy English. You know, it's a lot of people do like a full-time job and then they're YouTube from the side, but Easy English is quite a demanding beast and does require a lot of... (A lovely beast.) It's a lovely beast that we enjoy doing, but yeah, it's something we'd like to do, both of us, full-time in the future. So this is what we're going to be building towards, and having 100,000 subscribers is definitely a big milestone for us, in getting there.

Isi:

[3:22] Yeah.

Mitch:

[3:22] We're still beginning, that's how it feels like. But this is confirmation that we've achieved our first big goal.

Isi:

[3:29] And we couldn't and can't do it without your support. So we want to thank the ones that that are already a member of Easy English, thank you for supporting us. And if we can once ask for support, it would be great, if you enjoy our content, our podcasts, our videos, if you would consider supporting us, so that we can keep doing this, that we can keep producing regularly, podcasts and videos. We obviously offer even more if you become a member. We've got worksheets for our videos, transcripts for our videos, vocab lists for our videos. We got, an interactive transcript for our podcast, where you can basically translate the transcript while listening into lots of different languages. And what else, Mitch?

Mitch:

[4:19] We also have a conversation membership where we host people in our online pub and we just get to talk about day-to-day English to help you improve your speaking and listening skills. And finally, we have our donor membership, which is for people who want to really help support us and have a little private Zoom with myself and Isi, right?

Isi:

[4:40] Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, first of all, thank you, if you support us already, and it would be really, really, really great to see more of you in our community. If you want to become part of it, go to easyenglish.video/membership. And, to show you a bit what we are offering and to say thank you for your support, for listening, for sending us questions and ideas and everything. We want to give you all our perks.

Mitch:

[5:09] A free giveaway, for this podcast and for our episode that came out on the 24th of May. We'll be giving links in this podcast, on the website, in our show notes. We'll also be posting it on our YouTube, on our community section and on our Instagram and on our Facebook. So, it should be quite easy to find. We'll probably have it in bold, caps lock, underlined, exclamation marked, there'll be a free giveaway link to not only our video perks which is our transcript, our vocabulary list, our worksheets and all of our audio and video downloads, but also for our podcast membership, which is our interactive transcript for the podcast and also the extra bit the aftershow. You'll be able to download all of those bits in our free giveaway to say thank you for helping us reach the 100,000 subscriber milestone. So if you didn't get that before, go to easyenglish.video/membership to get all of those goodies for free.

Isi:

[6:18] Okay, now to the real topics.

Topic of the Week

Mitch:

[6:32] Recap!

Isi:

[6:32] Okay, let's start with the coronation.

Mitch:

[6:34] Katy Perry was there.

Isi:

[6:37] But not how you said it would happen.

Mitch:

[6:40] She didn't sing at Westminster Abbey, no. That's what I thought was happening. But she did sing the day after.

Isi:

[6:46] And did she actually, I didn't see that. Did she actually perform the songs that I thought?

Mitch:

[6:50] Didn't her tit fall out or something? (What?) Something happened though. There was like controversy with her. I think like her tit fell out, or something happened when she was...

Isi:

[7:00] She couldn't find her place, or, in the church?

Mitch:

[7:02] Oh, that happened. Oh yeah, she had a massive hat on and couldn't find her seat.

Isi:

[7:06] It's not Britney Spears. That was a tit.

Mitch:

[7:08] No, Janet Jackson was the tit.

Isi:

[7:09] Oh, wait. That was like...

Mitch:

[7:11] She kissed Madonna and Janet Jackson's tit fell out.

Isi:

[7:14] So the coronation, we watched it. Not all of it.

Mitch:

[7:18] We watched it with your family.

Isi:

[7:20] With my family. (In the living room.) But no one... actually, none of them watched all of it. We all went in and out, the TV was just on.

Mitch:

[7:27] It went on for ages.

Isi:

[7:28] Yeah, it went on for ages, and it was …