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VIP LESSON 005 - TV Talk

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Charlie Harper is a carefree funloving bachelor . He has an overpaid jingle

writing job , a malibu beach house , and a very active dating life. He love's his

life until one day, his uptight and neurotic brother Alan goes through a messy

divorce and begs to move into Charlie's house along with his 10 year old son

Jake. Out of a sense of obligation, Charlie begrudgingly allows this because he

feels sorry for Alan. This hilarious sitcom is about the dynamic of these 3 trying

to live together.

Phrases and Vocabulary Used:

Carefree: This is a term that describes people who are free of trouble and worry.

They are optimistic and relaxed. They have little stress and don't worry about

little things. Children are often described as being "carefree".

Bachelor: A man who is single, (not married and no serious girlfriend). If you

are a bachelor with an active dating life it means that you casually date a lot of

different women.

Jingle writing job: Jingle's are the songs played on TV or radio commercials to

advertise products. Some successful people with this type of job can make quite

a lot of money doing it. Of course it helps to have good contacts and talent when

getting into the jingle writing business.

Malibu beach house: Malibu is a rich area in California. A beach house is

obviously a house on the beach. These are multi million dollar homes.

Uptight: If someone is uptight they are tense and nervous. They have a hard

time relaxing. They worry a lot. If people are often like this they can be

described as being "uptight". Sometimes people are only uptight about

something. Students might be really uptight before their upcoming final

examinations.

Neurotic: Emotionally unstable. People who are "neurotic" do strange things

like checking their cell phone or email every 5 minutes to see if they got a

message.

Messy divorce: A "messy" divorce is a divorce where the couple argues a lot

about who gets what after the divorce. Messy divorces can take a lot of time and

energy. During a messy divorce, the couple is often involved in long and

expensive courtroom battles.

Begrudgingly: To unwillingly do something. After a long fight, he begrudgingly

let his wife buy some expensive artwork.

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FULL PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:

Back in the VIP room lesson number five, already Add… doing a day time cast….

a lot of times we do the night ones…. supposed to do it last night. Didn't, that

was my fault… and then I promised Add I’d do it at 9 a.m. this morning, but he a

hard time dragging me out of bed…and then we got caught watching the

basketball game. Ah..right, but we’re doing it now at least, so I can't complain I

suppose… you can't complain Add…you’v got me here in the studio, but I love

doing this so I don’t even know what I'm talking about… today guys, since you’re

the VIP members… we’re deciding to share a great secret… another way

besides listening to this, how to study English and have fun at the same time.

Actually we do this, we don't really do it to study English, but it's fun… watch TV

Add…. modern TV…you get a lot of slang words… you get a lot of…you just

have a good time with it…and you really learn what people are talking

about…and the type of humor people really use nowadays…ah good wisdom

there Andy…I would say…and a lot of shows totally suck, but the one we’re

gonna say is a pretty good one. There are some corny jokes in it…but anyway

the show is called 2 1/2 men. I'm going to read a little blurb about it…then we’re

going to talk about it Add

Charlie Harper is a carefree funloving bachelor . He has an overpaid jingle

writing job , a malibu beach house , and a very active dating life. He love's his

life until one day, his uptight and neurotic brother Alan goes through a messy

divorce and begs to move into Charlie's house along with his 10 year old son

Jake. Out of a sense of obligation, Charlie begrudgingly allows this because he

feels sorry for Alan. This hilarious sitcom is about the dynamic of these 3 trying

to live together.

Ah good piece there Andy….and we especially liked this show because it kind of

relates to our life right now….it does relate to our life in a lot of ways

Add….because we’re brothers Add, we’re bachelors…and we’re living together,

and it just relates a lot to us…there’s a lot of hilarious kind of things that go on,

and even though neither of us are really like either of those two guys exactly in

the show we can laugh and notice a lot of characteristics and a lot of similarities

that one of us had…. even the bad qualities you know…and you can laugh at

yourself really… right, I think we share characteristics of both characters and it's

a pretty hilarious show so we really like it…yeah so if you watch the show you’ll

get an insight kind of into how our lives might be… to some extent…I mean

obviously not exactly are they Add…no..but we may throw in a few anecdotes to

give you an idea…yeah…alright, first word here Add…carefree, and this is a way

to describe people…. and they’re free of trouble and worries…so in the show

Charlie is carefree… he's optimistic, he's relaxed. He doesn't have a lot of

stress…you know people handle stress very differently… the same situation can

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affect two people in totally different ways…his younger brother Allen gets totally

stressed out in one situation…the same situation Charlie seems to be able to

laugh about it. Look on the bright side and not really worry about it, and that's

kind of a good…. good way to describe someone who's carefree… and they’re

fun to be around..right…I think it’s easy for Charlie on the show because he

seems to not really do much and just have a lot of money…yeah, his life seems

to come quite easily to him…and he’s a fun loving Batchelor…that’s the next

one..and a bachelor is a man who is single, so he's not married and he also has

no serious girlfriend…. he might be dating but he doesn't have a serious girlfriend

or wife, which is…or fiancé…wife which is even more serious I suppose Add…I

think that's the most serious isn’t it? It’s supposed to be…So we talk about

Charlie in the show having a very active dating life….so he’s this kind of

bachelor… and if you have an active dating life, it's pretty obvious what that

means…you date a lot of different people, you have a lot of dates to go on. and

because he's such a carefree nice guy. And he’s a rich guy in the show… right

he has a lot of time for dating… and he’s not a bad looking. I think either on the

show…yeah…he’s supposed to be a good-looking guy…gets a lot of women…so

he’s having fun..you know…he has an active dating life. He's a bachelor..and he

has an overpaid jingle writing job..this isn’t that important of a term, but if you

watch the show which you really should…a jingle writing job is just..you’re kind of

writing… I guess these little songs really for commercials. And they sound pretty

stupid, but if you're good at them, you can get quite a bit of money for it, so it’s

somewhat realistic for people who have this type of job…right, on the show he

likes to drink a lot, and then just play the piano once in a while…and then write

down a few notes and that's all he does…yeah, he seems to wake-up, drink

some tequila, which we generally don't do…but, you know he does this kind of

thing and then works maybe an hour or two a day, and then he’s good to

go…Right, so it seems something to strive for anyway…so he’s got what they

call an overpaid jingle writing job…a Malibu beach house… Malibu is a very rich

area in California, and a beach house is obviously a house on the beach…these

are multimillion dollar homes. So if you have one of these, you're looking pretty

good Add. Exactly, and Charlie is looking good, but unfortunately, he his

younger brother there now. Yes, so his younger brother comes in on the very

first show of season one, and we call him uptight and neurotic…these are both

really good terms…Uptight, if someone’s uptight, they’re very tense and nervous.

It's kind of like the opposite of carefree, and they have a hard time relaxing, they

worry a lot. So some person can be described as being uptight…. he's very

uptight or she's very uptight, or you could say, this person is uptight about

something… right. He is uptight about his upcoming final examinations…so he’s

kind of of overly stressed and worried… he's uptight about this particular thing.

Maybe not generally an uptight guy….so you can use it in both ways…. you can

describe someone being uptight about something, or just the person generally

being uptight… exactly, yeah but Charlie's brother on the show is uptight in

general unfortunately…yeah he’s always uptight. Just…. it almost doesn't matter

what, he's got a pretty negative attitude and it doesn’t help him…right and you

can just see in his look and how he talks to everyone….that he’s nervous all the

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time basically…yeah, how he handles things, how he looks at life. It's…he’s an

uptight guy and to go along with that, probably the best word here inn this lesson

is neurotic… and if you're neurotic….you’re kind of crazy, you're emotionally

unstable. And if people…. people who are neurotic do strange things for

example, they check their e-mail or cell phone every five minutes, or even every

one minute to see if they got a message…so it’s being compulsive as well…we

talked about that in another show… but just doing anything that doesn't really

make any sense almost…Right, or brush your teeth like 10 times a day or just

really focus on things that aren’t very important and are unnecessary to think

about all the time…yeah..just overly thinking things…not being able to control

what he's thinking about is. He's neurotic, you know…some little thing goes

wrong and he makes a big deal about it. Charlie's the opposite of neurotic…

Allen is a smart guy in a way on the show, but he's neurotic and this kind of stuff

brings his life quality, way down… he goes through a messy divorce…this is

another good one Add…to use this term messy, to describe a divorce.. what is

that?… a messy divorce just means you had a lot of things together when you're

married, like having a kid, having a house, having a car…so it’s difficult to split

these after you get divorced… right, so it's hard to know who gets what a lot of

times… lawyers are involved, and the people are bitter about it… and it goes

along with a bitter… or divorce… the people usually… they hate each other. You

know, It is a very emotional thing, obviously, to go through a divorce… and if you

have a messy divorce…it means you’re kind of fighting with the person, you're

arguing about things…it’s very emotional, so Allen’s going through this. And we

talked about this on another lesson… he's… a lot of the shows so far in the VIP

section have been sort of about this show… I sit there in front of the TV with a

notepad…. I consider it working I suppose… watching the show and jotting down

some good words… and so…. Alan anyway is paying alimony…he’s paying child

support…. and he can barely even afford to live anymore even though he’s got a

decent job normally…so he has to move in with his brother Charlie… and after

this messy divorce….Right, and it's pretty funny too because Charlie has such an

easy lifestyle and doesn't have to work. Allan has to go to work everyday full-

time and has no money. So it’s kind of funny this way…right, and it seems like

Charlie's life should be bad, the way Alan would look at things, he's not working

very hard, he's drinking too much. But somehow Charlie's happy, making more

money, and doing better in pretty much every area of life. So Alan's quite jealous

of this and then has to beg his older brother to move in…so it’s pretty funny…

right… exactly, like Alan is the kind of guy that thought he was doing everything

right and is wondering why the world is..you know, giving him this difficult time…

right, and Charlie according to a lot of people and society is supposed to be

doing everything wrong, but somehow his life is turning out well….anyway, so out

of a sense of obligation, Charlie begrudgingly allows this…so of course Charlie

does not want his brother Alan, moving into his house. because Alan has to bring

his 10-year-old son Jake and he’s moving in…it’s just gonna cause a lot of

unnecessary stress really in Charlie's life….Charlie’s enjoying the life…but he

feels obligated cause he’s family and he begrudgingly allows this…so if you

begrudgingly do something, it means you do it….but you’re kind of unwilling

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almost to do it, but finally you say, ok..i’ll do it…right, you have a sense of

obligation as you mentioned, you realize you have to do it, but it's something that

you don't want to do…for example, you could say, after a long fight, he

begrudgingly let his wife buy some expensive artwork…right, so men are often

begrudgingly allowing their wives to do things and vice versa…. women of course

are begrudgingly allowing their husbands to do things…so they’re not really

willing…they’re not that into the idea, but…they just kind of allow it to happen

anyway… they begrudgingly allow this…right, it’s usually some kind of a

compromise, isn’t it?… so Add we've got a great show here today in the VIP

section, a couple more…. We’re not going to spoil the surprise, in the

pipeline….meaning, what's coming up soon…and besides, just listening to

this…really check out this show, 2 1/2 men, you can download it on a lot of

different places, I guess it depends on which country you're from… or, I don’t

know…buy it…or watch it somewhere…it's pretty, pretty much…if you know how

to use the Internet… right, if you guys signed up for the VIP section I'm sure

you'll be able to figure it out… figure it out… watch the show… and comment…

let us know what you think….thanks a lot for the support… and we will see you

very soon at triple WdotChina232.com in the VIP room.

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