Simplified Speech #249 – iPod Archeology
6/18/202634 min
What do you think is hiding on a 20-year-old iPod that someone forgot in a drawer? In this episode, Andrew and Indiana share three news stories and trends they came across recently. The first is about a woman who buys old iPods and shares the playlists she finds on them, like a small window into strangers’ lives. After that, they talk about a new idea for spending less time on your phone, and a surprising change in what makes food popular today.
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Stories mentioned in this episode:
Keep an ear out for these phrases during the episode:
- To come across someone’s desk
- Time capsule
- To have dirt on someone
- To hold something over someone
- In vogue
- To have hang-ups
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsAndrew· Host0:00
Hello, and welcome back to Simplified Speech, the Culips series that features clear, natural, and easy-to-understand conversations between native speakers. My name is Andrew, and in just a second, I'll be joined by my co-host, Indiana. And in this episode, we're gonna do something a little bit different. Over the last little while, Indiana and I have been keeping our eyes and ears open for some interesting trends and interesting news stories, and we're gonna share what we've seen and heard and learned with you all. We're gonna share them with you. So I picked a story and Indiana picked a couple as well. We're gonna introduce them and then chat about them together. So we'll get started with this fun conversation in just a second, but before we do, I wanna let you know that if you are serious about improving your English fluency, then becoming a Culips member is a great way to do that. For each and every Culips episode that we make, you will get some awesome study and learning resources to accompany it. So this includes a helpful study guide which breaks down and gives you examples and explanations of all the important vocabulary that you'll hear Indiana and hear me use today in our conversation. There's also an interactive transcript, so you can click on any word in the transcript and hear the audio from that point, which is just great if you need to listen to a certain