The Podcast Guy

20 American vs British English Nouns 

• 1. Windshield - Windscreen 
• 2. Faucet - Tap 
• 3. French Fries - Chips 
• 4. Elevator - Lift 
• 5. Sidewalk - Footpath 
• 6. Sneakers - Trainers 
• 7. Backhoe - Mechanical Digger 
• 8. TV - Tele 
• 9. Loft - Attic 
• 10. Turn Signal - Indicator 
• 11. Fall - Autumn 
• 12. Pants - Trousers 
• 13. Laundry - Laundromat 
• 14 Soccer - Football 
• 15 Jelly - Jam 
• 16. Crosswalk - Pedestrian Crossing 
• 17. Closet - Wardrobe 
• 18. Apartment - Flat
• 19. Potato Chips - Crisps 
• 20. Cellphone - Mobile Phone 

15 Popular English Phrasal Verbs 

1. Look Up = To Find with a view to meet. ( I will look you up when I am back in town ) 
2. Dress up = To dress in good clothes. ( I will dress up for the wedding ) 
3. Dress down = To put on old / casual clothes. (I dress down for the weekend when I am not 
4. working ) 
5. Held up = Delay ( The flight was held up due to fog ) 
6. Hold on = Wait. ( I had to hold on for the results of my COVID Test ) 
7. Get Along = To be compatible with someone. ( My wife and myself get along well ) 
8. Go Over = Review. ( I had to go over the minutes of the meeting ) 
9. Look After = Take Care ( I have to look after my job, I need the money ) 
10. Pull Up = Stop. ( The Police Officer told me to pull up at the next junction ) 
11. Take After = Resemble ( My son really takes after me. I like pizza, and so does he ) 
12. Let Down = Disappoint ( I felt let down when my friend refused to help me ) 
13. Flat Out = Extremely Busy ( I was working Flat Out all weekend, I had no time to relax ) 
14. Read Up = Review / Study ( I had to read up on the American Civil War for my history exam ) 
15. Fed Up = Tired ( I am fed up hearing about COVID it is on the news everyday ) 
16. Lap Up = Enjoy ( I lap up the Sun, I like to go to the beach on a summer’s day and lie in the 
17. Sun) 

15 Common English Idioms 

1. Using a Sledgehammer to crack a nut ( Using more force than is necessary ) 
2. You hit the nail on the head. ( You are exactly right ) 
3. Ballpark Figure. ( A rough guess / estimate ) 
4. The whole shooting match. ( Everything ) 
5. Turn a blind eye. ( Ignore to keep the status quo ) 
6. Spanner in the works. ( Something that causes a problem ) 
7. Go the whole 9 yards. ( Do more than is expected ) 
8. Walking on egg shells. ( Avoiding a subject in order to maintain the status quo ) 
9. A snowball’s chance in hell. ( Not very likely / impossible ) 

10.Keep an ear to the ground. ( Pay attention to a subject or situation ) 

11.Never look a gift here I the mouth. ( Accept free things without question ) 

12.Never judge a book by its cover. ( Don’t accept a person or thing by its appearance ) 

13.A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush. ( What you have is the only thing that you can rely on) 

14.He who pays the piper calls the tune. ( The person who pays makes the decisions ) 

15.Pushing an open door. ( Total agreement ) 

Is "Climate Change" bullshit? I think it is, and in this podcast I will tell you why. 
Well to be honest the global climate seems to be changing, and that seems to be a fact. But this change of climate is natural. It has happened for millions of years, and it will continue to happen until the Sun eventually burns itself out. 
We can change our behaviour in the hope of effecting this inevitable change, but no matter what we do it is going to happen. 

In this podcast I talk about the difference between a teacher and a tutor. I go a bit deeper into the subject of teaching English by giving examples of complexed sentences such as the one below. Enjoy the podcast.

Example 1
The candidate was running for election, and he was running a business at the same time. One day he was running late for a meeting because he had a run in with his political opponent. He ran his political opponent into the ground, but later he ran into heavy traffic on his way to the meeting, the meeting started without him, he had run out of time.

Example 2
Two parties went to two separate parties, both parties partied until they could not party anymore. In fact when both parties were over, both parties were partied out.

This is a podcast about the murder of Gabby Petito, and the subsequent disappearance of her fiance Brian Laundrie. This case has grabbed both national attention in the United States and international attention. Part of the reason for this is that Gabby was a Vlogger and was documenting her road trip with Brian in the run-up to her murder. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co7OeH3PY0o 
Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie Traffic Stop. 

This is another audio picture from the podcast guy. This is a walk around Central Bangkok and you'll hear the sounds of a vibrant and lively city. I take you on my journey as I take my daily 5 km walk through the back streets of this wonderful city of Bangkok. So I hope that you will enjoy this, and I do hope that you follow all my podcasts I have audio picture podcasts and I have general topic podcasts. I'm sure you'll find something to interest you, so I hope you enjoy this one

Dependent on The Internet!!!

I suppose it puts us in a precarious situation each time we become dependent on something. But few things can render us into a predicament like the internet. Websites crash, and leave us without any resource.

It was just one of these predicaments that I found myself in a few days ago, and that is what I will tell you about now in this PodCast.

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Rice

Rice is Rice or is it? That's what I used to say. I never ate rice before I came to South East Aisa but now I realise that it is the staple food of not only most east asian countries but also of many many countries around the world. I this podcast we discuss rice.