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1. 0:00slow
2. 0:01English
3. 0:03podcast.
4. 0:05Today, I am in my living room.
5. 0:10As you can see, there are some lights
6. 0:13around me.
7. 0:15The TV in the background is playing one
8. 0:18of my
9. 0:19favorite YouTubers,
10. 0:22Best Ever Food Review Show. Let me know
11. 0:25in the comments, guys,
12. 0:27who is your favorite YouTuber? And you
13. 0:31don't have to say me. It's okay.
14. 0:35Behind me, you can see my living room.
15. 0:38This is my living room.
16. 0:41And right now, I'm going to sit down on
17. 0:44the sofa.
18. 0:46I am sitting down on the sofa. I told
19. 0:50you in a previous slow English podcast
20. 0:55that red
21. 0:57is my favorite color. And today, we have
22. 1:01a lot of red in our scene. I have my red
23. 1:06bracelet,
24. 1:07my red shorts.
25. 1:10These are shorts. My red bandana that I
26. 1:13got from China.
27. 1:15Make sure you check out that video.
28. 1:18And also, the cushions on the sofa are
29. 1:22red as well. And also, if you look at
30. 1:26the TV,
31. 1:27you can see he is also wearing a red
32. 1:31bandana. Was I inspired by him? No. Red
33. 1:35has always been my favorite color.
34. 1:39Anyway, I'm going to sit down here
35. 1:43on my
36. 1:44little bench.
37. 1:46And I'm going to cut this red
38. 1:48watermelon. I think the theme for today
39. 1:52is red.
40. 1:55So now, I will uh
41. 1:59cut my red watermelon. I have been
42. 2:02craving watermelon recently, so I went
43. 2:07to the store and bought a watermelon.
44. 2:10This is my water bottle, and I just took
45. 2:14a sip of water.
46. 2:16I'm going to take a sip of water.
47. 2:19I'm taking a sip of water.
48. 2:22And I took a sip of water. Now,
49. 2:27the watermelon is wrapped in this Saran
50. 2:31Wrap. That's just this clear wrap that
51. 2:35protects your food from
52. 2:38bugs, dust, and anything that can
53. 2:41contaminate
54. 2:43your food. I'll take the Saran Wrap off
55. 2:47and place my watermelon on my plate.
56. 2:50Now, I think we can start cutting.
57. 2:53This right here is a knife. This is a
58. 2:58knife.
59. 2:59The handle is turquoise blue, and the
60. 3:04blade is stainless steel. How should I
61. 3:07cut this?
62. 3:09How do you normally cut watermelon? Let
63. 3:12me know in the comments.
64. 3:14I was going to buy
65. 3:17a full watermelon,
66. 3:20but I wanted to get one that was ready
67. 3:22to eat. So, I just got this one because
68. 3:25I can see it looks ready to eat, and it
69. 3:29looks very delicious.
70. 3:31You can see there are black seeds in the
71. 3:35watermelon. Now, let me tell you a
72. 3:37little bit about my day so far.
73. 3:41I woke up in the middle of the night,
74. 3:44I think around
75. 3:463:00 or 4:00 a.m. because it was
76. 3:50storming out, and it was so loud. Did
77. 3:53you also wake up, Leon?
78. 3:57The storm.
79. 3:59And
80. 4:01Yeah, I woke up cuz it was very loud and
81. 4:03I was like, "What's going on?" And I
82. 4:05just heard it storming and pouring rain
83. 4:08outside. It was raining cats and dogs.
84. 4:12So, I just cut the watermelon in half.
85. 4:15Let me go place this half on the
86. 4:18counter. So, I'll just cut the one half.
87. 4:21Anyway, I woke up in the middle of the
88. 4:23night because it was raining a lot. You
89. 4:27can kind of see behind me, it is very
90. 4:29overcast. It has been raining a lot
91. 4:32recently. Then after that, my alarm went
92. 4:34off at 8:00 a.m. and I had a lot of
93. 4:36trouble getting up. I was very tired for
94. 4:40some reason. And I just hit snooze on my
95. 4:44alarm and kept sleeping until 8:45.
96. 4:49From then, I finally kind of woke up. I
97. 4:52checked the time again and I was like,
98. 4:55"It's been 45 minutes since my alarm
99. 4:58went off. I should get up now." So, I
100. 5:01didn't get up right away. I went on my
101. 5:04phone for a little bit and was scrolling
102. 5:07through different apps and social media.
103. 5:10After that, I got up
104. 5:12and I got ready to go to the gym.
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131. 6:29to the gym.
132. 6:30There is a gym in my building, so I just
133. 6:33went down to the floor that the gym is
134. 6:35on,
135. 6:36and I uh went to the gym. Today was leg
136. 6:40day,
137. 6:42and uh it was kind of hard because I was
138. 6:44tired. And if you want to learn gym
139. 6:47vocabulary, then make sure to check out
140. 6:50my gym video.
141. 6:52After the gym, I came back up. So, let
142. 6:56me just describe the scene for you guys.
143. 6:59I had my water bottle in my right hand,
144. 7:02my phone in my left hand.
145. 7:04I walked out of the gym, down the
146. 7:07hallway, towards the elevator.
147. 7:10I clicked the button to call the
148. 7:12elevator, or you can say I pressed the
149. 7:15button to call the elevator.
150. 7:17After a few moments, the elevator doors
151. 7:20opened, and I stepped into the elevator.
152. 7:23From there, I needed to tap my key card,
153. 7:26so I put my phone in my pocket, I took
154. 7:29my wallet out, and I took the key card
155. 7:32out that you need to use the elevator. I
156. 7:36tapped the key card, I pressed my floor
157. 7:39button, and I went up.
158. 7:42After that, I got out of the elevator, I
159. 7:45went towards my door, and I tapped the
160. 7:49keypad, and then put in my PIN. After
161. 7:53that, I just had a shower, washed my
162. 7:55body because I was sweaty, so I
163. 7:57shampooed my hair, and then I
164. 7:59conditioned my hair with conditioner,
165. 8:02and then I shaved. I shaved today.
166. 8:05After shaving, I got dressed, and then I
167. 8:08started to work, and I worked for a few
168. 8:11hours until I felt hungry, and that is
169. 8:14when I ordered food. Today, I had pho. I
170. 8:18had pho, and that was around 11 11:00
171. 8:22a.m. noon.
172. 8:24So, I had pho for lunch. And now we are
173. 8:27here, a few hours later.
174. 8:30I was hungry, so I decided to go to the
175. 8:33supermarket
176. 8:35and buy a watermelon. I also bought a
177. 8:38carton of milk because I enjoy milk, and
178. 8:42I haven't had it in a while. So, I
179. 8:44bought milk as well. Besides that, we
180. 8:47really don't have anything in our fridge
181. 8:50because we tend to just order food. I
182. 8:52would like to
183. 8:54cook more because it's easier to track
184. 8:58what you're eating if you cook it
185. 9:00yourself, but one, I don't really enjoy
186. 9:04cooking that much. I can see Leon
187. 9:06looking at me like "This guy is about to
188. 9:08lie." No, I really don't enjoy cooking
189. 9:11that much,
190. 9:12but I love eating.
191. 9:14And the reasons I don't enjoy cooking
192. 9:16are
193. 9:17it takes too much of my time because I'm
194. 9:20a slow cooker. I like to measure
195. 9:23everything out precisely and follow
196. 9:25every single step and do all this stuff.
197. 9:27If I could cook off the top of my head,
198. 9:31then I feel like I would enjoy it a lot
199. 9:33more, but I I don't like watching a
200. 9:37recipe video 20 times and still need to
201. 9:40watch it over and over again to
202. 9:42understand the next step. So, I'm just
203. 9:45not not a good cook and that can
204. 9:47obviously be fixed with a little bit of
205. 9:50practice, but I'm just pretty busy, so I
206. 9:53also don't have time. So, it takes a lot
207. 9:55of time because I'm slow. I don't have a
208. 9:58lot of time
209. 9:59and it's just a much more convenient to
210. 10:04order food in, which I know is not the
211. 10:06healthiest, although I can order healthy
212. 10:09options. But, I will admit
213. 10:12the majority of the food I order is not
214. 10:14healthy. Recently,
215. 10:16I would say
216. 10:18three or four out of the past 7 days,
217. 10:22I have ordered pizza.
218. 10:24I know. I know. Pizza. I should uh stop
219. 10:29ordering pizza, but
220. 10:31let me ask you a question. What do you
221. 10:33think I ordered today to eat?
222. 10:37What do you think I ordered today?
223. 10:39If your guess [clears throat] was
224. 10:40Hawaiian pizza, you are correct. I
225. 10:43ordered Hawaiian pizza. I I I know I
226. 10:46should start to eat healthier. I did eat
227. 10:50pho today for lunch though, which is
228. 10:53relatively healthy and now I'm going to
229. 10:56be eating some watermelon. And normally,
230. 10:58I only eat two meals a day or at least I
231. 11:01try to eat. And actually, something
232. 11:03interesting or at least it's interesting
233. 11:06to me, when I was in university in
234. 11:09Canada, that's where I grew up. When I
235. 11:11was in university,
236. 11:13I uh would fast
237. 11:16every single day
238. 11:18for the whole day. So, let me explain.
239. 11:21In my
240. 11:23second and fourth year, cuz those were
241. 11:26the only two years I was physically on
242. 11:28campus in Canada because my first year
243. 11:32was completely online because of
244. 11:35the pandemic. Let's not get into that
245. 11:37cuz
246. 11:38I hated that time. So, my first year of
247. 11:41uni completely online, I felt like I
248. 11:44missed out so much. Second year of uni
249. 11:46was in person on campus, although a
250. 11:49month of that was online because
251. 11:53pandemic again.
252. 11:55And then my third year of uni, I went to
253. 11:57South Korea for a year for exchange. And
254. 12:00my fourth year was back in Canada on
255. 12:02campus. So, really I only spent 2 years
256. 12:05in Canada on campus. And for both of
257. 12:08those years, I fasted
258. 12:11the whole day. So, I would wake up
259. 12:14around 7:00 a.m. I would get ready, have
260. 12:17a shower, and head to school or the
261. 12:20campus, sorry, by 8:00 a.m. And I would
262. 12:23get to campus, usually it would take
263. 12:25about half an hour or 30 minutes.
264. 12:29From there, I would go to my classes.
265. 12:32And when I didn't have classes, I would
266. 12:35just go to the library and study, study,
267. 12:36study. Let me tell you, all I did in uni
268. 12:40was just study. I studied so much.
269. 12:43Really, that's all I did, study and go
270. 12:46to the gym. That's all I did. And then
271. 12:49in my fourth year, I was part of a lot
272. 12:52more university clubs, business clubs.
273. 12:55And also, I was on a water polo team.
274. 12:58So, my fourth year, I was doing more
275. 13:00than just studying, but I was still
276. 13:02mainly studying. Let me drink some
277. 13:05water.
278. 13:09But for both of those years, I did not
279. 13:12eat anything on campus. One, the first
280. 13:15reason was I didn't bring food with me
281. 13:18because I didn't have time in the
282. 13:21morning to prepare a meal or to prepare
283. 13:24lunch or snacks or anything. The second
284. 13:27reason was I didn't buy anything on
285. 13:29campus because in my opinion
286. 13:32it's overpriced. I'm not going to pay
287. 13:34$15 to $20 every single lunch
288. 13:38just to eat. I feel like
289. 13:40and I was a student, too. So, I was
290. 13:42broke. I wasn't working
291. 13:44during uni. I only worked during the
292. 13:45summers.
293. 13:47So, I didn't want to spend all my money
294. 13:49on food when I had food at home. So, I
295. 13:52would just fast throughout the whole
296. 13:54day. So, 24 hours and I would eat
297. 13:59at the same time every night. 10:00 p.m.
298. 14:01I would head home
299. 14:03and I would arrive home,
300. 14:05cook, and eat by 11:00 p.m. And yeah, I
301. 14:09was fasting for
302. 14:112 years. Which
303. 14:13honestly, when I was doing it, it was so
304. 14:15easy. I was never hungry. I was never
305. 14:17like tired. I always had energy. It was
306. 14:20perfectly fine. Now, if I fast or not
307. 14:23even fast, now if I go without eating
308. 14:26food for like 8 hours, I'm like hungry,
309. 14:30low energy, and everything. So, I do
310. 14:32think once you get into the rhythm of
311. 14:34fasting, it is a lot easier, but it
312. 14:37takes some time to get into it. I would
313. 14:39like to get back into fasting because I
314. 14:42think it is very beneficial for your
315. 14:44health and also it's easier to lose
316. 14:46weight when you're fasting. But yeah,
317. 14:49anyway, you can see I sliced all the
318. 14:51watermelon. I'm debating whether I
319. 14:53should cut off the watermelon rind or
320. 14:57just leave it like this.
321. 14:59I feel like
322. 15:01I should just leave it. One, because it
323. 15:02takes a lot of time to do that. And two,
324. 15:05at least you have something to hold on
325. 15:07to because there isn't very much rind,
326. 15:10you know? Let me know in the comments,
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357. 16:38you while in uni? Did you go to uni? Did
358. 16:41you enjoy it?
359. 16:42Where did you go to uni? You can also
360. 16:45let me know in the comments. That was
361. 16:48one thing I did during university. It
362. 16:50was because I was too lazy to cook,
363. 16:54and uh
364. 16:55it saved money, and it was just so
365. 16:58convenient. And I had friends that
366. 17:00thought I was crazy. They were like,
367. 17:02"How can you go the whole day, the whole
368. 17:06day without eating anything?" Now, if I
369. 17:09saw someone do that, I would ask them
370. 17:12the same thing. How do you do that? Even
371. 17:14though I had
372. 17:15also done it
373. 17:17in the past. But when I went to Korea,
374. 17:20it was the complete opposite. I ate so
375. 17:23much Korean food. I I ate
376. 17:27two to three meals meals a day, and on
377. 17:31top of that, I would go to the
378. 17:32convenience store and get food
379. 17:35too.
380. 17:36But I didn't gain weight
381. 17:39or I didn't gain a lot of weight.
382. 17:41Actually, I lost weight while I was in
383. 17:43Korea. And that's just because I was
384. 17:46very active. I was going to the gym. I
385. 17:49was going and exploring new places,
386. 17:51walking around, hanging out with
387. 17:52friends. So I was eating a lot, but also
388. 17:56burning a lot of calories.
389. 17:59And uh yeah, I I I actually remember
390. 18:01when I first landed in Korea,
391. 18:04I didn't know where to eat or what to
392. 18:08eat. And the area I was staying in was
393. 18:10near Sinchon because I went to Yonsei
394. 18:12University.
395. 18:14And
396. 18:15a lot of the restaurants I went into on
397. 18:18the first day, you needed to be at least
398. 18:20two people, and I didn't know anyone
399. 18:23yet.
400. 18:24So
401. 18:25for the first few days until I started
402. 18:27to meet more people, I was kind of like
403. 18:30uh how do people eat here if they just
404. 18:32want to go out by themselves to eat? But
405. 18:35I guess they just order in.
406. 18:38I can't order food in Korea or at least
407. 18:41at that time I couldn't because I didn't
408. 18:43have a Korean bank account and I didn't
409. 18:46set up any food delivery apps. So it was
410. 18:48like
411. 18:49kind of impossible for me to order food.
412. 18:51So I had to go out to eat.
413. 18:55And uh yeah, that was a little
414. 18:57interesting, but eventually I met a lot
415. 18:59more people.
416. 19:00I made a lot of friends. We would go out
417. 19:02to eat. And then I found restaurants you
418. 19:05could just go by yourself, and I tried a
419. 19:07lot of Korean food. My favorite Korean
420. 19:10foods are Jimdak, Andong Jimdak number
421. 19:15one.
422. 19:16That's my favorite.
423. 19:17Number two, dak galbi.
424. 19:20That is very good. Number three, ooh,
425. 19:23this is hard. Kimchi jjigae
426. 19:25or
427. 19:27jokbal.
428. 19:29One of those two.
429. 19:30I know
430. 19:32there is KBBQ that my brother said and
431. 19:36Korean fried chicken, but I didn't go
432. 19:38with those because they're just like
433. 19:40they're so mainstream and so popular
434. 19:42that
435. 19:43obviously they're going to be in the top
436. 19:45two. So, excluding those cuz clearly
437. 19:47those are
438. 19:49in the top two.
439. 19:50I gave you my top three excluding those.
440. 19:53Let me know in the comments what is your
441. 19:56favorite cuisine. Do you like Japanese
442. 20:00food, Korean food, French food,
443. 20:03Spanish food,
444. 20:05German food, American food?
445. 20:08Let me know and also let me know what
446. 20:10your favorite meal is in the comments.
447. 20:14And also one thing I haven't done in a
448. 20:16while is ask you where you're from. So,
449. 20:19let me know in the comments
450. 20:21where are you from?
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