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is it hard for you to understand English when people speak fast I'm Connor from the listening Time Podcast and my goal is to help you understand English better that's why I created listening time a podcast designed to help English Learners improve their listening naturally in each episode I talk slowly and clearly about a different topic like travel or us culture and I give you the transcript that shows every word that I say listening time is the perfect tool to help you understand English better the listening Time Podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts starting a business means wearing many hats designs of businesses with tools to build beautiful stores create content and Market with Ace from inventory to shipping everything runs smoothly if you're ready to sell you're ready for Shopify sign up for your one Euro trial today at Shopify dot NL that shopify.com I will tell you about some quite dramatic changes that are coming to the podcast as always the transcript and PDF are available at easy stories in English dot calm and you can find the link in the description so yes it's true I can't keep going on making episodes like this but before I reveal the shocking truth I need to tell you the meaning of some words so if you simply can't wait just skip to the next chapter binge b i n g e means to consume a lot of one thing at one time in one sitting traditionally it refers to binge drinking which is when you drink lots of alcohol in one go it's quite common in the UK especially at universities but these days binging often refers to watching TV shows or eating lots of food for example your favorite TV show might drop its new season all in one go and you might binge all the episodes at once this was a very popular form of releasing TV episodes years ago before covid for example when Orange is the New Black came out people would binge the whole season personally I'm not much of a Binger myself but I can play video games for hours if I'm not careful a leap of faith is when you make a really big decision that could go really well or really badly you're essentially leaping jumping into the unknown moving to China was a big leap of faith for me but fortunately it is going very well watching paint dry isn't really an activity people do that's the point it's a phrase we use to talk about something hypothetical that is so so boring for example you might say that studying English from a textbook is like watching paint dry and I would agree with you because I think textbooks are a very boring way to learn when you have a project on the back burner it means you are not actively working on it if you think about a hob in a kitchen you have four burners and you might put saucepan on the back burner simmering a sauce for like 40 minutes while you cook some onions on the front burner so the idea is often that we leave something on the back burner and come back to it later I have a lot of things on the back burner in my creative life right now but I'll get to that later when we say that something sucks we mean that it's really bad and this is very colloquial language it's specifically quite American for example I think that public transport in the UK sucks at least outside of London but the quality of dairy products so milk and yogurt in China also sucks so sucking is universal fortnite means two weeks it literally comes from 14 knights we use this in British English but they don't use it in American English so when they would say Buy weekly or once every two weeks we would say fortnightly call once a fortnight when something kicks in usually a medicine it starts being effective for example many painkillers many medicines that reduce the level of pain take about 30 minutes to kick in we can also talk about an emotion kicking in for example in today's episode I'm talking about fear kicking in when suddenly fear rushes through your body a bit like a medicine taking effect Anodyne a n o d y n e which by the way is one of my favorite wordsmeans boring specifically in a way where something has been designed to be as Innovative and Bland as possible these days it feels like most media is made to either be really inflammatory to offend as many people as possible or to be completely Anodyne to be uninteresting and friendly to everyone a lot of bad pop music is bad precisely because it's Anodyne and now with AI anyone can pump out endless Anodyne songs stories images because I literally just takes the soup of everything that exists and mix it all together and creates very average is a story from real life anecdotes usually quite sure it's usually the observing a situation we also talked about anecdotal evidence which is when you don't have a scientific studies about something but lots of people talk about experiencing the same thing and usually anecdotal evidence is what inspires scientists to study something in the first place finally a preview is when you get to see a bit of something before it's released later on I'll be giving you a preview of an upcoming episode so look forward to that all right let's get into the episode so I've been doing the podcasting thing for a while now almost eight years when I started I was just a newbie teacher taking my first steps of attendance out in the world I loved podcasts I binge them for hours every day and I was looking for a creative outlet to a way to share my writing and so easy stories in English came together I'm no longer that same shy 25 year old I've been through covid as we all have had a rather complicated health and gender journey and last year I moved halfway across the world to China I'm not the only one who's changed the podcast Market or content landscape as people like to call it is completely different now in 2026 than it was in 2019 I talked about binging your favorite shows before but this is becoming less and less common worldwide increasingly rather than diving deep into one creative content people are watching what the algorithm serves them and the algorithm offers a buffet of endless variety never before have more people been competing for your ears production standards have changed to I originally started a podcast because it required less effort than video but these days podcasts are expected to have video to and not just any video but tightly edited well-shot Feast for the eyes well I don't know you decide whether I fit that bill finally tastes of changed I remember the days when a 10-minute YouTube video was considered home now I'll happily sit down to watch a 5-hour documentary about the history of North Korean pop culture not in one sitting although if you do want to watch that video I'll link it in the description it's fascinating but I digress these days I come home from work sit down on the sofa and hungry wait for videos from my favorite YouTubers videos arrive I eat them up contrapoints is one such example a brilliant YouTuber who releases videos about once again not just any videos that will research the beautiful beautiful a My little show well first of all I've never really been like the other English learning podcasts hello everyone and welcome to the BBC boring British club where you can learn English by listening to the most tedious doll conversations possible did you know that tedious and synonyms of boring if you have a shot yourself from boredom yet congratulations you just raise your eyes level by not one today we talking about boring things in the past tense soundtrack can you do on the weekends well Ariel on the weekend I watched paint dry I counted the number of fridges in my house I have just one fridge and I thought about rabbits thinking about rabbits do you have any pets soundtrack on the weekends soundtrack no I didn't but I thought about it anywhere full stop that was very interesting but I was part of a show called boring British club which had only the Dulles and most tedious conversations and it was a bit too interesting so I got into trouble did your boss tell you offin this story it's not a story soundtrack it's real and yes my boss told me off and I almost lost my job well then I suppose I should tell you about the other thing I did on the weekend on the weekend I looked for a new job I wish they would like that unfortunately they're more like 5 it's for walking down the stairs you know not my thing my thing is a bit more of my own style for a long time now I've been wanting to work on deeper projects longer stories with music and sound effects and just a general higher quality of production value I've done some of these episodes in the past few years the juniper tree hamburger the city of water and doing evil what are the three episodes that come to mind but these took me a long time to make the first two I did while I was working full time on the podcast and I started writing the juniper tree in October 2022 which means it took me almost 3 years to go from start to finish and I work full time now so if I started that episode now I don't even know how long it would take I've fallen into this pattern where I have these big juicy projects on the back burner but because I'm always rushing to get the next episode out on schedule I can never finish them all for example when I'm going on a holiday I don't want to be working so I'm in this mad rush to watch a bunch of episodes before I go away and I just never take those things off the back burner the juniper tree is not an exception I have many projects both episodes and other things related to the podcast that I've been trying to do for years it's not an exaggeration the last straw for me the thing that made me say okay enough is enough was the Cambodia episode because the Cambodia episode sucked like I'm sorry it just sucked it was bad I only talked about Cambodia for half of the episode and I didn't even go into the actually interesting stuff because I didn't want to cry honestly it was emotionally intellectually and artistically lazy so here's the deal I need more time to work on episodes that's it that's the big what's a faith I've been building up to this whole time because here's the thing in 2019 it made sense to do one episode a week because it was the era of quantity over quality when I came back from my Hiatus in 2022 it made sense to switch to once a fortnight for my own mental health but now I really need to do something that I feel creatively proud of and that actually fits the content landscape and that is bigger juicier episodes but fewer episodes really the only reason I didn't do this before is I was scared the longer you do one project online the movie theater kicks in because you have an audience now and audiences have expectations you've got to always come up with new I'm better contacts every year there's more competition and finally the Geniuses that YouTube and Spotify could just roll out of bed one day change the algorithm and make you disappear like that I would also be lying if I said money wasn't a factor in this decision when I was self-employed working on the podcast I was terrified of making any changes that might affect my income but now I have a full-time teaching job that leaves me very comfortable so I have no reason not to experiment because I have big plans at the start I thought I was just a teacher and just a writer but over time I began to realize you know what I'm not half bad at this voice acting thing and now I'm like let's go for it music sound effects epic stories so much content online is lazy Anodyne simplistic I want to make art I want to make deep real art that shakes the mind and stirs theand I want you to learn English at the same time so yes easy stories in English is changing there won't be a regular schedule anymore just saying that terrifies me but don't worry I'm not going to leave you waiting 8 months between episodes I'll find little ways to fill in the gaps actually that's why I think the unscripted content the little anecdote the shortest stories will be perfect and I'll also be giving you previews of those big juicy stories that are to come speaking of which he is a preview of what time working on at the moments when the 10 Sons Rose it was like a fireworks display going off in Hawaii's face it took all his strength not to turn away you nine sons who have joined the sky oh you cried I come to ask you why are people suffer are rivers dry don't you leave and let us be three of the sun's circled around towards Hawaii as if curious about his message but they remained silent he could not tell if they understood so he spoke again son who have joined the sky holy cried I come to ask you why are people suffer a river another three of the sons came forward but these three did not stay quiet the moment he is words came out the laughter boomed it's funded in Hawaii's ears and made the back of his eyes itch but still the young man did not give up you leave and let us be the next three sons came and these three did not find Howie's Words and Music in fact they began to Boiling in color until they were as red as are lobsters tail and before he knew what was happening one of the sons was shooting towards him how he left for his bow and arrow he ready the arrow and fired striking the sun mere meters from his face the sun let out an animal screaming his face but no sooner had the first song gone then the second one through itself in fire the battle continued in this way one by one the sun's rained down on him and he shot so fast he thought his fingers might break three four five 67 he soon lost count the ground around him was transformed to magma covered with the remains of the once powerful Sons finally one son remained on the horizon shining like a fresh bruise he raised his boat ready to fire when works he almost fell over behind him stood a Taoist monk his blue rose flapping in the wind young man that is all original song if you shoot it down you will throw the world into darkness as an artist you always have to change or so I don't know if you've noticed that the world is changing quite a lot right now we need powerful stories more than ever I kind of hate saying that like oh three years are going to change the world but it's kind of true it's it's like when you learn a language and you say oh I'm learning English for travel or for work but really the biggest change that comes from learning a language is the Deep connections you form because you were able to speak it and that is something we simply cannot predict so before we finish let's just recap all the new words I've taught you this episode if you're new to the show me this has inspired you to go back and binge all the previous episodes and if you're a long time listener please support me in this leap of faith you will have to wait more than a fortnight for the next episode hopefully it won't feel like what watching paint dry but if the loneliness starts to kick in you can always follow me on social media where I'll be posting previews of upcoming episodes finally if this idea sucks if these bigger juicier episodes end up being uninspired and Anodyne I guess I can always go back to telling little anecdotes from my everyday life the only word I haven't used is on the back burner which is fitting because things left on the back burner often gets ignored so comment and let me know what is one Leap of Faith you've been considering but have been too scared to make who knows maybe I can help give you a little push thanks for listening and may you learn English happily ever after bye starting a business means wearing many hats designer marketer manager whilechasing your vision Shopify Powers millions of businesses with tools to build beautiful stores create content and Market with ease from inventory to shipping everything runs smoothly if you're ready to sell you're ready for Shopify sign up for your one Euro trial today at Shopify dot NL that Shopify Dot and L starting a business means wearing many hats designs of businesses with tools to 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