(EP 19) Roundup of Season One! [roundup : "a summary of facts or events"] - No transcript, because I just take you down "memory lane" and with a review of the first season episodes. Contains music and a “personal tidbit”  to make sure you have some fun along with your listening practice! Season TWO is coming soon, so be sure to tell your friends to subscribe! ---> Spotify | GooglePodcasts | Apple Podcasts  --> INSTAGRAM: UnexpectedEnglish  - If you listen, follow on IG and I follow back! Have fun! Check out the episode song with lyrics: Turn! Turn! Turn!

(EP 18) Summer fun and summer drinks! [Transcript of the interview below!] OK so I was walking down the mall here and I noticed a place called “Masters of Bartending” and that kinda seemed interesting and then I saw the guy outside and I thought I would ask a few questions. So tell me what is Masters of Bartending? -- Masters of Bartending is a training facility for bartending. -- A training facility, you learn how to become a bartender. -- Yes. Well I think of it more as a as a cooking school, you learn how to create cocktails. -- I can come here and I can learn how to make cocktails, right?   -- Absolutely! -- And how many cocktails should I know how to make, more or less. to consider myself at least a beginning bartender? -- The must-knows. The must-knows, how many is that I don’t know, I never counted them. But it's... for...   -- The must-knows, he’s calling them the must-knows in case you didn’t understand that, he’s thinking, well, which ones, well in other words, which ones do people order the most, so you have to know how to make those. -- Yes absolutely -- Well, tell me this, that name some of the most popular cocktails. -- How about like a Cape Cod, a Kamikaze, a Margarita -- OK hold up right there. He said Cape Cod which is... vodka, cranberry with squeezed lime -- vodka and cranberry juice with squeezed limes, then he said a kamikaze which is... it's a shooter, a lime-flavored shooter with vodka, triple sec and lime juice. -- OK I get it, it’s a vodka-based thing, and the other one, the last one you said? -- A margarita -- Margarita, we all know a margarita, I know that one, that’s tequila, right? -- Yes that's where a margarita’s from. OK so somebody takes this uh, take a course, How long does it take them to become more or less proficient? -- Umm, our program is two weeks everybody has a different learning curve some take longer than two weeks, some can do it faster than two weeks. -- So in two weeks I can learn to make a couple dozen cocktails... ---You know what? How about a I bring you into the class and I'll let you podcast this whole thing for the next two weeks --  Whoa, how about that, that’s a challenge that's a challenge, I don’t know if I’m up to that challenge because --  It's not it's not about just, you know, bartending, it's about being able to create, uhh it’s like cooking, you cook your guests. you host a party. you cook food. Bartending, it's not just about bartending, it’s about being able to create a good craft cocktail that you can enjoy an experience with you and your friends. And the first week, at least the first week, I give you four days to come in here I'll let you podcast the whole thing and I think this will be a fun little thing that might help boost your podcast here, but I think for me to try to explain this in a nutshell, it's almost impossible because you just have to see if yourself. And everything that you learn inside of here, it's it's truly an educational program whether you choose to be a bartender or not, this is a skill that you’re gonna take with you for life. --  Wow, this is a skill. Well I'm halfway, there because I already have the skill of drinking the cocktails right? -- Yeah boy! -- OK thanks a lot for your time! Hey, well uh take me up on that offer and I'm always right here whenever you wanna come on and your jazzed audience wants to see it. -- OK. all right thanks a lot, and thanks for listening!

(EP 17) I do the interview, but my wife gets the gelato? Dang!

*TRANSCRIPT*

So I was walking down the street and I noticed a place called "Gelato Vero" which to me sounds like “real gelato” right? So I thought I would walk in and ask them a few questions. — Hi, umm do you work here? — Yes I do — And could you tell me what flavors we have of gelato here? — Umm right now we have strawberry, cookies and cream, pistachio dark chocolate, espresso, vanilla, mocha almond crunch and gianduia, which is our chocolate hazelnut, spumoni and umm banana. — And what makes this gelato different than normal ice cream? — Ummm it’s prepared differently. it's it's made with little to no air, so it's more dense. — And who makes the gelato? —His name is Michael and he's been making it since 1984 since we opened. — Since 1984 in this location? — yes in this very location — and, but he's not here. — Not right now. he usually works at night actually. — So tell me, since he's not here, is the gelato really good? — It's very good actually. most people say it's the most authentic thing they've tasted here in the United States — Wow! So that means I should taste some, right? — You should definitely taste some! — Well then I guess I'm gonna end the podcast right here so that I can just taste some gelato. Thanks for listening!

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 So here I am with my lovely bride who is enjoying the gelato that we just got — MMM, it is so delicious! — I wouldn't know because she's eating it all and I'm not getting any! What's up with that? — Well, you don't like cherries and the flavor that I chose has cherries in it. — What flavor is that? —Spumoni — Spumoni with cherries yeah hmm ok, not my favorite. Why did you get something that I don't like? — Because you said you didn't want any. — Didn't you know I was lying? I'm like Donald Trump, I lie all the time! — Well, that's true. You do lie quite a bit, but I thought you were serious because you had such a big, fat, rich burrito with guacamole and sour cream and cheddar cheese on it — Wait a minute, wait a minute, that's a different podcast! Don't talk about Mexican food when the podcast is about gelato, c’mon, it's. like. confusing the issue. — Well I'm just telling you, and everyone, why you didn't want to have any of the best gelato that we've had in a long time, maybe the best in San Diego — OK well folks you see how I get treated around here. But I'll tell you what, I'm gonna, I'm gonna like, press the stop button right now Oh, dang! it's too late! She ate all of it!! Nothing left for me at all! OK well, there you have it: another true story, another real life story from the... OK thanks for listening. Dang!  Bye!

EP.15) Not an "episode," — just a monologue asking for your help and hoping for better days ahead!

ROUGH TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of Unexpected English, your favorite English podcast! Haha it never gets old — I love that — but, but in fact there is no episode today! This is just a heads up! Heads up, good phrase! A heads up means when you tell someone in advance — when you inform them in advance of something that will happen or won't happen. And I thought I’d give a heads up because people ask me “When’s the next episode? I can't wait! I love your podcast, and I need another episode!”

Well, great — but here's the deal: not very many people out there are listening. I mean, they say there are podcasts with thousands of listeners right? Now I don't ... I don't expect thousands — I don't even expect hundreds! But, you know, c’mon people — *some* listeners! That would be nice! 

So I decided — I WILL. DO. A NEW. EPISODE. -- every time the last episode gets 40 listeners. That's all! That's not too much to ask!  40 listeners, that's all I'm asking! if I get 0 listeners I'll do a new episode for you, OK? So what do you need to do? Spread the word. help me out here! You know you have friends learning English:  tell them about the podcast. say “Hey, Unexpected English, it's my favorite English podcast!” You can put it on your Facebook, you could put it on your Instagram you can put it on your social — or not I don't know, — do I sound desperate? — I'm not.  ;)  I'm just saying: if you want more episodes, I need 40 listens,  OK? I get 40 listeners and you get a new episode! That's the way it works, all right?

And other than that, all I can say is Happy Fourth of July! It is July, it is the Fourth of July America's Independence Day! And, I'm thinking, so many of us are just waiting for that freedom to come (I need! I need!) in 2020 when we will no longer have... well you know what. I won't mention his name! So I will leave it at that, thanks for listening and remember! I'm counting on you to spread the word, to let people know about the podcast, and as soon as we get more listeners, we get more podcasts and, if not.. I'll probably do the podcast anyway! Don't worry about it just have a good time! OK thanks for listening, ciao. 

BETTER DAYS AHEAD! (Gil-Scott Heron)