Music, Marketing & Memories with Jez Booker π₯ [993]
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
2h 4m
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8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine and that you're looking forward to listening to this brand new episode of my podcast for learners of English all around the world. Let me give you a brief introduction to this one just to give you some context and also to... tell you some things that you can notice as you listen to the conversation. So as you know, on this podcast, I like to help you to get more English listening practice into your life. Sometimes that means listening to me talking on my own. Sometimes that means that I'm joined by guests in my episodes. With the guest conversations, my aim is to let you listen to English as it's naturally spoken.
I want you to hear real conversations, English so that you can get used to hearing English at a natural speed, you can get used to hearing English in slightly different accents, and you can get used to hearing the spoken version of English, which of course is quite different to the written version with its connected speech and its spontaneity. So with episodes like this you can notice the ways that English is actually spoken in the real world, you can notice the ways that conversations are develop and evolve in English. And of course, you can notice bits of English phrases, vocabulary, grammar being used, and then you can pick them up and use them yourself. And I try to present conversations with guests that you will find interesting.
That's the idea. How do I do that? Well, a lot of the time that means... talking to people who I have a personal connection with, just to get the right kind of friendly, relaxed atmosphere in the conversation. I find that makes for a more enjoyable listening experience. So that means talking to friends, talking to family, and my listeners seem to really enjoy these conversations. So then, this episode features a conversation with an old friend of mine who I only recently reconnected with after not being in touch with each other for over 25 years. We've recently got back in touch with each other and decided it would be fun to do a podcast episode together. So I'm talking to an old friend called Jez Booker.
I first met Jez when I was probably about 16 years old at Sixth Form College. We were both part of the same extended group of friends, an amazing bunch of people. So a bit of personal history here in this episode as we talk about a certain time in our lives when we were teenagers and then when we were in our 20s, before and after university, when we were together in a band in the Birmingham area. You will hear us refer to college and university. College, I want to just make sure that you know exactly what we're talking about there. The word college means something slightly different in Britain and in the United States. In the UK, college is what you do after you finish school at the age of 16. So at the age of 16, you finish school and you take exams called GCSEs.
And if you want, you can just stop your education at that point. But a lot of kids continue their education and they go on to study. Most of the time they go on to study A-levels, which is the next level of qualification, at a sixth form college. OK, so that's A-levels at a sixth form college, normally for about two years. And then after that, they go on to study at university, study a degree at university somewhere else in the country. So sixth form college is like a bridge between school and university. And students at sixth form tend to be treated a bit more like adults. There are fewer rules and you're given a bit more independence. In my case, I took that independence and I ran with it straight to the nearby park where I hung out with my friends, not going to class and not doing any work.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00β13:00
2
How did Jez and Luke reconnect after 25 years?
13:00β14:47
3
What were Jez and Luke's experiences in college?
14:47β30:24
4
What memories do Jez and Luke share about their band?
30:24β59:26
5
How did Jez's marketing approach evolve over the years?
59:26β1:00:07
6
What memorable marketing tactics did Jez use for Ute Club?
1:00:07β1:01:27
7
What inspired Jez to start his YouTube channel?
1:01:27β1:02:19
8
How does Jez connect his outdoor adventures with marketing?
1:02:19β2:04:07
Speakers
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