54: Mitch's Guide to Horror Films

11/12/24 • 25 min

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Whilst Isi is recovering from he illness, Mitch takes advantage to bring you his guide to horror films. This podcast is for both the horror lovers and horror haters, as Mitch poders what makes a great horror film. He lets you in on his favourite genre, how Arnold Schwarzenegger paved the way for his horror fascination and why a wardrobe is his Halloween costume of choice. He also gives his recommendations for people who love the things that go bump in the night, but also for people who prefer to sleep peacefully.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:00] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode number, tap, tap, tap, computing 54.

Mitch:
[0:12] I'm on my own. I've gone solo. I'm Sonny without Cher. I'm Jay-Z without Beyonce. I'm Will Smith without Jada, Barak without Michelle, etc, etc.

Mitch:
[0:30] Isi's ill, so she's spluttering in the background whilst I record the first ever Easy English solo podcast. But not to make it a negative, turn that frown upside down today. I'm going to take advantage of the fact that Isi's not with us to give you a podcast about one of my favourite hobbies. As a couple, it's nice to have shared hobbies, but it's also nice to have your own individual things and one of my individual things, which understandably, Isi doesn't want to partake in, is watching horror movies. I consider myself a horror movie aficionado. I'd like to think. There are some caveats to that, but today, I thought, I would try to make an inclusive podcast about horror movies, why you should be excited about horror movies, good horror movies to watch, horror movies to watch if you hate horror movies, if you're scared of horror movies. Okay, let's give it a go.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:00] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode number, tap, tap, tap, computing 54.

Mitch:
[0:12] I'm on my own. I've gone solo. I'm Sonny without Cher. I'm Jay-Z without Beyonce. I'm Will Smith without Jada, Barak without Michelle, etc, etc.

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Previous Episode

53: French Stereotypes

In a regular segment of Unhelpful Advice, Isi and Mitch give their unqualified opinion on rapping in English. They later talk about their presumptions and assumptions of the French people, culture and lifestyle after spending a few weeks in the south-west of France.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya!

Isi:
[0:23] Hello!

Mitch:
[0:24] Hello. Welcome to episode number...

Isi:
[0:27] 53.

Mitch:
[0:28] 53, well done.

Isi:
[0:30] Thank you.

Mitch:
[0:31] Of the Easy English Podcast. We are back in Brighton. Were we ever saying where we were before? When we made our Relationship Goals Podcast last time?

Isi:
[0:45] I'm not sure. Maybe we did. Maybe only in the Aftershow for the members. because our podcast always goes on a little bit for our members. If you want to join that and also listen to that and get a lot of other perks go to easyenglish.video/membership and join us that would be great but I think yeah we have only talked about it in the Aftershow so we have been to France.

Mitch:
[1:11] Yeah, and we thought today we could make an episode about our expectations and then the realities of France, from things we've heard, things we've kind of, presumed, and if we were right and wrong with our presumptions.

Isi:
[1:28] Okay, I have two things to say first. I say France and you say France.

Mitch:
[1:34] Oh, yeah.

Isi:
[1:34] What is right?

Mitch:
[1:36] You are doing a southern British English pronunciation of France.

Isi:
[1:44] France.

Mitch:
[1:45] Which sounds nice though.

Isi:
[1:46] It's more sophisticated.

Mitch:
[1:47] It does sound a lot smoother and a lot more, I don't know. It has a joie de vivre about it.

Isi:
[1:55] D'accord. God. And you say France, which is Northern English.

Mitch:
[2:02] France. And there's also, funnily enough, not funnily enough, by coincidence how American.

Isi:
[2:08] Northern British English, sorry.

Mitch:
[2:09] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:10] I said that.

Mitch:
[2:10] It's also how I think American English people would say it; France.

Isi:
[2:14] France.

Mitch:
[2:15] Not France.

Isi:
[2:16] France. And the second thing I wanted to say is it hasn't been our first time in in France we both have been... in the past years we've been, five times I think. Before that I have been a few times maybe but you have been a lot of times for holidays right?

Mitch:
[2:37] I've been very often but mostly was a holiday and was camping and it was not really feeling like you're settled into French life because those camping places are a bit, a culture mix and they're kind of, I don't think they represent French life, but this time we were in French towns, French villages.

Isi:
[2:58] And yeah, your parents live there, we have to say.

Mitch:
[3:00] And my parents are now living there.

Isi:
[3:02] It's more integrating in French lifestyle.

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55: Buying Gifts

This week, with Christmas on the horizon, Mitch and Isi discuss gifts. They talk about the joy of giving gifts, Isi's thoughtful gifing vs Mitch's practical gifting. Mitch reveals the worst gift that Isi ever got him and are surprise gifts better than expected gifts for Isi? Even if it's a splintery, handmade spoon?

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Intro

Isi:
[0:22] Hello. Oh God. Hi.

Mitch:
[0:28] All of our podcasts always begin with you like hello oh god.

Isi:
[0:31] Oh god.

Mitch:
[0:32] My voice is gone. Illness update.

Isi:
[0:36] I'm back.

Mitch:
[0:38] I'm back. Oh yeah!

Isi:
[0:39] From the ill bed

Mitch:
[0:41] Did you hear the last podcast we... I recorded?

Isi:
[0:44] I didn't actually. Oh my god people will hate medidn't record uh didn't listen to it yet, no. But I want to listen to what you talked about. Oh god, yeah I didn't. I didn't have the headspace in my two-week illness to listen to it.

Mitch:
[0:58] Some could say I took one for the team. Some could say I took advantage of the fact you weren't here.

Isi:
[1:04] eah I'm back, had a nasty virus. Still am a bit... my voice is still not coming yeah it's kind of back now. Still have a bit of a, in the back.

Mitch:
[1:18] We're back in our usual position.

Isi:
[1:19] And it's not the morning, it's Sunday evening. (It is.) It is, I think the first time that we are having a little drinky. (We are, yeah.) With our podcast, since I don't know a year? We always did a morning podcast.

Mitch:
[1:37] And we're joined by a guest; Bert.

Isi:
[1:40] Yeah storm Bert.

Mitch:
[1:43] Storm Bert in the background just whistling away.

Isi:
[1:45] So we're two weeks, just home, two weekends two weeks and two weekends , just home, doing nothing. And now I was like, the weekend, I'm back.

Mitch:
[1:56] The last weekend before we go to visit our parents for Christmas.

Isi:
[2:01] Back to the mainland of Europe. So I was like, we do everything, we go to all the places, all the pubs, we meet friends.

Mitch:
[2:09] And what did we do?

Isi:
[2:10] We did not... well we did nearly nothing, because um, storm Bert came and... it's actually really really stormy and people... well, it was kind of like a weather warning to not leave too much and we obviously went for walks, because we got Nola, and it did feel not so good to do long drives, or go anywhere with a bus or so, because it's really stormy.

Mitch:
[2:38] Yeah, it's like the Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' music video out there.

Isi:
[2:41] So here we are, Sunday night episode, because tomorrow, actually, we will do an early, end of the workday. Because storm Bert will disappear tonight, they say. And then we will do, tomorrow afternoon, our Sunday. So hopefully a lot of Christmas deco, a nice Christmassy, pre-Christmassy dinner.

Mitch:
[3:03] We're in that early Christmas spirit, because, yeah, why the hell not?

Isi:
[3:09] Christmas is already full-on.

Mitch:
[3:10] And as I look at you, you are sort of engulfed in Christmas presents. They're on the table where we usually put the microphone. It's just a stash, a stack.

Isi:
[3:23] It's a lot of gifts, yeah. We have every gift we wanted for our families. We are absolutely ready for Christmas. And that's our topic today, gifts and gifting.

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