#428 - How to Understand All the Jokes in ENGLISH (in Movies, TV, Conversations): Understand Humor, Sarcasm, etc in English Like a Native Speaker
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Have you ever been watching a movie in English with other people and suddenly a scene comes up and everyone is laughing and they're just pretending that you know you find it funny too but deep down you're just thinking like I don't get it.

That sucks, right? Well, that ends today because Xenia and I will help you finally be able to watch movies and series in English without missing the jokes. We reacted to some really hilarious clips and analyzed what makes them funny. And by the way, that's when your mind would be like, and you think, now I get it. And if you stick around until the end, you'll also be able to join us in a game we played that was a bit of a joke battle. So let's get into it.

Ah yeah, Real Life First Global citizens. This is Izzy from Real Life English, where it is our mission to guide you beyond the classroom to speak English confidently and naturally, to connect to the world and to actually use your English as a doorway to your greatest life. All right, Xenia. So I have a funny story to start our lesson today that actually the main character of the story is a panda.

Pandas are the cutest and the most funniest animals on earth. So here it is. A panda walks into a bar and he orders a simple meal, something really basic. So after finishing it, he takes out a shotgun and fires at the roof. So the bartender asks, what the hell are you doing? So as the panda walks out the bar, he says, I'm a panda. Look it up.

And then later the bartender looks it up and the definition reads, eats, shoots and leaves. He shoots and leaves. I don't know what shoots is, but yeah, it's a...

Because of panda eating that bamboo leaves or something? Bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots. And I guess leaves as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So shoot is the root, right? Oh, those like springs. Like, yeah. Yeah. You'll like gardening, so you know what I'm talking about. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when it's really young, the bamboo, we call those more specifically bamboo shoots. So he eats shoots and leaves. Yeah.

So, but in this little story, there's some interesting words, right? To look into. I just said this phrase over, but look into, which means like to analyze, but in the story, there's look it up, which is completely different or kind of different actually. But what does it mean in this context to look something up?

Yeah, it's just to check, in this case, on the dictionary, right? To look something up, it's to take a book or to go Google things, to look it up. It's synonymous with to Google, let me Google it, let me look it up.

Back in like older days, I could say, is to check on the phone list, right? You can look someone up. So you're seeing if you can find their contact information or if it's a word, you're looking at the dictionary. But yeah, shoots and then leaves, right? Like leaves is the plural of leaf. Those green things on a tree. Yeah, exactly. And leaves like goes away, right? Yeah.

This is nice because it shows how wordplay really matters for understanding jokes in English. That's oftentimes what prevents learners, non-natives from understanding jokes.

And I think it's the primary factor, you know, so we're going to dive into that. And if you're watching this on the real life app, all of these expressions, these advanced expressions, they get saved so you can practice them later. And the best thing also now that it's available on the app is that you can watch the lesson in chapters so you can watch and practice, watch and practice. You know, it's more dynamic. It's a lot more fun. I've tried it and I love it. So do it just like Ahmad Ghalib, one of our fans who I want to do a shout out today.

that he said that this is a great app for every English learner. When I started using it, I couldn't speak more than a sentence. But now I can have a conversation with an English speaker. It's really worth it. Thanks, RealLife English. And special thanks to Izzy, Ethan, and Xenia. Ah, yeah. He actually said, ah, yeah, in the message. Thank you so much.

Yeah, and actually, like you can, you wouldn't, I just wanted to bring this up very briefly that you wouldn't understand this joke if you didn't know the word shoot. Yeah, like, for example, I forgot that it is called like shoots, those young leaves or those young sprouts, let's say, right? So as long as you know the word, you understand the pun.

Yeah. And if you don't, use it as an opportunity to, you know, increase your vocabulary and then now you get it, you know. And look it up, right? Look it up. Exactly. Be curious. Look things up. That is actually one of the most important habits. But anyway, let's move into this first category of funny stuff in English. That is when it's funny because of wordplay.

So I have a clip for us to watch that illustrates that perfectly. It's a great way to get introduced to the universe of wordplay, which I'm a huge fan of. Now before we watch it, Xenia and everybody, this clip does contain some vulgar language, some words that could be considered slightly offensive, but in this context, it is not. I should tell you that this is part of fluency too, when you know the context of things and when you know things are not offensive or when they are. And he uses the word shit here.

But the way he uses it is just for having fun and not offending anybody. So keep that in mind. That matters. Please don't be offended by it. Let's check it out. There are so many difficult words and I think the hardest word in America has been the word "shit". I thought it's easy. I know what shit means. But it turns out I didn't know shit. I think it's the most complicated word. Like how can it be if something is bad, it's shit. If something is really good, it's the shit.

I would have never guessed that. I had to study that shit. That's so funny that at the beginning he starts with, like, I didn't know shit. Like, I didn't know anything.

And at the end of the clip, he says like, I should study this shit or that shit. It means like I should study that thing. Exactly. So it's like the word shit here can be replaced by other words, but in different applications. Like I didn't know shit. It's like I didn't know anything. Like you don't know shit. You don't know anything about this. Right. Yeah. But what happens when you include the article, the shit? Do you remember what he said?

Yeah, yeah. It means like it's like super cool. Something is real, like really cool. Yeah, like this movie is the shit. It's the shit, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there's more. Check this out. If I give shit to you, that means that I'm telling you off. But if I give a shit, then I care. And if I take shit, if I take shit, then I accept that you are bullying me.

But if I take a shit, I take a shit. Yeah, these are phrases like nice phrases at the beginning. I don't give a shit or I give a shit. Yeah, which is like to care. I don't care at all. Or there's a I give a damn or I don't give a damn, which is the same as damn is also maybe slightly vulgar. Yeah, so this illustrates perfectly

what we were talking about with wordplay. And this is easy to understand, right? Because I think, as I said, it's the introduction to wordplay. But what else do you got? Do you have any stories or any examples of good wordplay that could be funny? Yeah, maybe they won't be as funny as

playing with the word shit, right? But because I went to the cinema this last weekend, I took my daughter to see Paddington in Peru. Unfortunately, they don't run movies in English here, so I saw it dubbed. But once we came back home, I really, that's a thing of mine. I go there then and watch some interviews about the movie. So, and there is like this main character who plays the father of the family.

the family who takes in Paddington. And he was asked, like, does it happen to you that kids come up to you in the street asking, where's Paddington now? Like the kids who really believe that Paddington exists in real life. And he says that, yeah, usually I answer that. He's like busy now making jam or something. And then they play this joke with a co-star.

And she says, yeah, maybe you say like he's, you're giving him some money or he's earning some money. And then they both realize that they can make a joke, a word play here saying that, yeah, he's on bare minimum. And the joke here is that Paddington is a bear. And there is this phrase, a bare minimum, which is spelled differently, right? Which means like the basic, like a minimum wage, right?

Yeah, bear is a great word for wordplay, exactly because of that. So these are the most common situations when it cannot be translated. You know, it's just because of the word in English and how it can be. It's the same word. I have one example here. This is a classic one. Maybe you've heard it, but I just find it hilarious. So why did the scarecrow win an award? This is a pun. Why did the scarecrow win an award?

Okay, scarecrow. They scare crows in the fields, right? Scarecrow. I don't know. Maybe because he's best at it. I don't know. Because he was outstanding in his field. Okay, outstanding. Like it stands in the field, but outstanding is like really impressive, right? Yeah. He was outstanding in his field. And field is like your area of profession. But literally, it's the field where he stands. Ah.

Yeah, that's another word. The field as well. Like the area in this. So my dad once, he was at a restaurant and he said to the waiter, do you have anything cheap? Because I'm not that hungry. And the waiter responded, well, maybe the chicken strips for $6. And then my dad said, well, maybe it does, but that doesn't help my hunger. Okay. Doesn't help my hunger. Okay.

Chicken strips? Okay. What was after that? Why didn't you... The waiter said, well, maybe the chicken strips for $6. Okay, now I got it. That's like a dance, cheap dance or something. What?

in that direction. Yeah, just to take their clothes off, right? Maybe the chicken can take their clothes off for six bucks. Yeah, it reminded me of another joke related to restaurants. It's when a person is finishing his meal and the waiter comes up and asking, okay, how did you find the steak? And the

He responds, oh, it was easy. It was right next to potato. There you go. So how could you ever translate that, right? Find and find in your language. Like find in the sense of what do you think of it? Or find as in locate is different words in your native language. So learn the meaning of words. That's important. And actually, that's what I was going to say. The key, if you want to start getting it more, the key...

to learn here is learn vocabulary. And again, this podcast is great for that. And if you do it consistently, you start getting more jokes. And if you watch these lessons in practice with the vocabulary, as I already said, if you do that on the app,

It's so much more convenient, so much more effective and even easier because maybe you only have 10 minutes. The app allows you to actually go through chapters and learn little by little. But if you haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel, if you're watching us on YouTube or if you're not following us on Spotify, if you're listening there or Apple podcast, do it now and also ring the bell if you're on YouTube so you don't miss any of our new lessons because being consistent is really important. Okay, Xenia. So next,

Category of why things are funny in English could be cultural context. Also, maybe you're missing jokes because...

you need the context, you need to understand the culture. Maybe something happened in that country, in the United States, and everybody there gets it, but you don't get it, so you need to be aware of that as well. Now, I have a great example here with a clip that maybe you guys remember from a previous lesson we watched Trevor Noah in his show. So in this clip, Trevor tells us the story of his first time flying to the United States.

And being from South Africa, he always wanted to experience the African American culture in person. So this is from the same show, but a different part of it that's really funny. And it has some jokes that you need to understand the culture in order to get it. Check it out. I took the first opportunity I could. Bought myself a plane ticket from South Africa and I said, I'm going out to America. I'm going there and I'm going to be black.

And I got on that plane, it was an 18-hour flight, 18 hours of non-stop flying, and I sat there in my chair and I spent every moment practicing being black, just practicing. I was like, "I'm not gonna mess up this black-a-tunity." I just sat there, just working through everything. I was watching every black movie and TV show, just going through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Yeah.

Yeah, King Kong ain't got shit on me. Yeah, what you talking about, Willis? I was just grinding it. You laugh, but 18 hours of flying and I landed in JFK and I was fluent in my black American.

for shizzle my nizzle i was just all right so there were a few things there i don't know if you caught it like uh that last one uh what you're talking about willis do you know what that is i i heard it right it was an hour older podcast i'm not sure where it is but it's just like uh a boy saying that yeah so it is from an american show from the 70s or the 80s i believe but

But that's it. And you can only get it if you know where that comes from. And also, I just wanted to mention there is some connected speech there. It's really nice. What you're talking about, what you're talking about.

right what you instead of what you or what are you anyway but he said other things too uh the other movie quote like king kong ain't got shit on me king kong ain't got shit on me the phrase is from denzel washington the the actor in his movie training day

Oh, no. You see, I haven't watched it. And this show by Trevor Noah, by the way, is really funny. And he's addressing all of that. You know, this African-American coolness. He is exposing it in a way that's really fun. You know, that is showing why things are cool. In order to get it, if you want to have fun watching this show, which I believe is... I don't know if it's on Netflix, but there are several clips on YouTube. It's on his own channel. So, yeah. What else? He said he landed in JFK, the airport. Yeah.

JFK is the person, right? Kennedy, what is his full name? But what was the joke here? Okay, he landed at JFK, the airport. So JFK stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, which is the American president, but also the name of the airport. But I'm just saying, if you hear that, so I landed in JFK. If you don't know what that is, maybe you'd get distracted there and you'd lose, you'd miss what he would say next.

Yeah, but another one, like, and actually what you were saying at the very beginning, like jokes that are related with culture, this is like a huge part what learners see as an obstacle to getting those jokes because they're not just immersed in that culture.

And that's why it's so interesting and so helpful, alongside learning some vocabulary learning, like just grammar in English, to learn some cultural stuff as well, to watch things, like you said, to watch movies or to watch some shows, or just to be interested in history. For example, you know this Rushmore Mountain, right? With the presidents carved on it. There is another joke, like before...

Four presidents were carved on this Rushmore Mountain. The nature there was just unprecedented. Again, play of words, right? Like there are four presidents, but unprecedented. We know that in English, prefix unprecedented.

It means something is not, but the word itself, unprecedented, means like it had no... It had never been seen. It had never been seen before. It had no precedence. That's a made-up word, like unprecedented. But that's interesting because it's both wordplay and cultural. So it's like two levels.

So you need to have even more understanding. And I would even say this is fluency, right? We already talked about this. You need this. So when we're talking about wordplay, we mentioned the importance of being curious about the vocabulary you see. Now this points to being curious about the culture you see. If you identify something that it's not just the word, it's the depth. It's the story behind it.

Be interested in the story. I love Wikipedia. I've mentioned this on this podcast too. Check it out, just one minute and then you'll be aware of it. You just mentioned Wikipedia and learning things with websites and maybe TV shows. I'm a huge fan of documentaries.

But there is one documentary which is like a parody on documentaries, like Sittai documentaries. I mentioned it to you, like Kunk on Earth and Kunk on Life. This is a fictional character, Philomena Kunk, who interviews real experts in different areas of science.

And she uses such a deadpan humor. She asks ridiculous questions. And experts, they try... I think they were warned beforehand that she will be asking those ridiculous questions, but they kind of try to answer seriously to her. Explain the pyramids. It's obviously just...

One of the recent episodes I watched, the joke's a little bit vulgar, but she was talking about that character, historical character, Arthur of Camelot. You know this, like the knight, the 12 knights. And so she was talking to a historian and she's telling him,

I heard King Arthur came a lot. And the historian says, like, I think you mean like, of Camelot. No, no, no, I heard that he actually came a lot. Is that true? And something like that. And, you know, the joke here lies in the slang meaning of the word to come, which has sexual meaning yet to have orgasm. So...

Not all her jokes are that vulgar, but it's hilarious. It's hilarious. But yeah, there's all like, I guess it was important for us to at least include one of these kinds of jokes here because these exist. And see, there's wordplay and culture in all of these too, in many of them. Yeah.

It's also known as double entendres. Oh, yeah, that's nice. French word. Entendre. I think it's like double entendre. Yeah, double entendres. You know, you said that like humor is very subjective and not every person perceives humor like equally funny or not funny or sees that humor. And I believe not many people love sarcasm.

Which is like another type of humor, which is sometimes not so kind, right? But again, it's like, it makes it funny for TV shows, for example. Remember Chandler, the king of sarcasm? I don't know. Is there anything in your life when like any situation where you are being sarcastic? Yeah, I think it's usually more like when I'm upset and I just want to poke someone.

Somebody is saying something. But that doesn't happen so often. I think I'm usually nice, you know. But some people use it not just in these situations, you know, like when they're upset, but they use it...

different moments when they're simply just want to have fun. Or they are annoyed. For example, I'm really getting annoyed with my phone, especially when I want to take a picture. Because sometimes, and pretty often actually, I don't know why, it glitches.

when I want to take a picture and it just works so slow. And I always say like, but you know, you know, my phone is just like, it's so quick. It's so quick. This is sarcasm, right? Because actually that's the opposite of what it is. It's super slow. And I say, oh, you know, it's super quick. So funny you mentioned sarcasm because I did actually...

prepare a clip for us to watch here all about sarcasm that shows it really well and it's one of my favorite styles of humor simply because you don't need to you know it's more international you could say like any culture may get it but there's a particular tone I'd say even in American English that you hear a lot and that just makes it extra funny

I was at a wine store here in New York. I was getting a bottle of wine for a dinner function. Couldn't read the label very well. So out of complete curiosity, I said, "Excuse me, ma'am, what year is this?" And she said, "The wine." "No, ma'am, I am a time traveler. I am only here to beg you. Don't break up with your boyfriend, or I'll never be born."

That's a great example of a situation where the person is asked a stupid question. I hate stupid questions. And he just played beautifully, right? Like, of course he was asking about the year of the wine, right? Yeah, the wine. She asked, right? And then he's like, no, ma'am. I don't like explaining jokes so much. I think it kills the fun. But just so it's clear.

Let's explain it. So he said, I'm a time traveler because the question he asked was, what year is this? Yeah, like with the bottle. And it's like, what year is this that we're living? Anyway, amazing. So the thing about sarcasm is that in order for you to get it, you need to be aware of whether or not it's sarcasm. It's that simple. That's why in that TV series, Big Bang Theory,

One of the characters doesn't get sarcasm so much. So they invented a solution for that. Yeah. His friends. I didn't remember that. They would show a sign like a sarcasm.

So you get it. So you just need to know that it's sarcasm. So have that option in your mind. Like, is this sarcasm? If it is, you know, just roll with it and you'll start having a lot more fun with it because of all the absurdity. Because sarcasm tends to be more absurd, right? Like ridiculous. And sometimes you just don't realize exactly if that was sarcasm or not. What I would hear from movies, for example, is that a person would ask,

Are you being sarcastic? Or do you mean it? Right? Yeah, exactly that. Do you know, have you heard any Chuck Norris joke lately? Only from you guys. I don't know them, but no. These are older, right? I guess they're from the internet. They are part of the internet culture, you could say. And they tend to be slightly sarcastic, you know, to poke fun at something that was said. And as many jokes as puns, it has a setup.

and a punchline. These are interesting words, by the way, to learn. So set up, in the case of a joke, is like you're setting up so it's funny, right? You're building up. You're preparing. You're building up. Exactly. And set up, the phrasal verb, means the same in other situations. Now, the punchline is, in this case, it's more exclusively something about a joke, right? Something that is said at the end that will resolve the situation, that will solve it and actually make it funny. Yeah. So...

Usually jokes have punchlines. The shorter ones are even the longer ones because the joke is usually that very last sentence. Anyway, so I have a Chuck Norris joke here that goes like this. So why does Chuck Norris never flush his toilet? I think I heard something like that. Let me try it. I think I heard it. Because it scares the crap out of it. Yeah, it scares the crap out of it. There's a lot in there. There's sort of sarcasm. I mean, it's not exactly sarcasm, but like you need to...

You need to get that it's like responding to the question in a poking fun at the question. There is culture because you need to get like who Chuck Norris is. So he's this movie star, right? From 70s, 80s, he'd make lots of movies. And people used to worship him for his badassness. You know, he was really like being really cool in the way he would walk, in the way he would shoot, you know, in the movies and all and talk.

his whole persona. And so there's culture and there's wordplay. Finally, the wordplay in it is really funny because why does he never flush his toilet? Because it scares the crap out of it. To scare the crap out of someone is to scare them intensely, right? To make them seriously scared. But it's also to scare, in this case, to scare the shit. We've been using this word on this podcast. The crap, the poo. It's another word for shit, right? Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. Scared to poo out of the toilet. Anyway, so we have these three categories that we just went through. Wordplay, cultural context, and sarcasm. You want to get these? Get exposed to these. Learn more vocabulary, learn more culture, and be more aware of sarcasm by experiencing sarcasm. Xenia mentioned Chandler from Friends. If you watch Friends, you get a lot of that. So you'll be able to notice when you see it. Now, I want to play a game with you, Xenia, that will...

challenge us to tell jokes you know and practice what we what we preach here so this game is called you laugh you lose and you're gonna tell some puns you're gonna give us some puns and i'll give you some puns but a pun by the way it's exactly that like when you have wordplay and it's usually this two line joke right the setup and the punchline and uh we're not going to be explaining them initially we'll just be

giving these to each other and if you laugh, you lose. And if I laugh, I lose. I mean, I lose a point, you could say. And also we can challenge you guys to see how many of these you get. That's going to be a nice way to gauge, you know, to measure how much you're getting and also you can learn with them. So let's see. And then later we'll see which ones need more explanation. So are you ready to start? Yeah. Do you want me to start? Yeah, please.

Okay, I'll go with the lighter one, not to make you laugh. With great power comes great electricity bill. You laughed. Yeah, no, it's because I'm, yeah. You just paid your bills. It was relatable. Yesterday. Why are elevator jokes so good? Why? They work on so many levels. Yeah, that was a good one.

Okay, I don't know about this one, maybe that's an old one, so I'm sorry guys if that was a really old one, but I loved it. Spiders are the only web designers that enjoy finding bugs. You were supposed not to laugh. No, no, yeah, no, I was just like, when you get it, you're like, oh, whatever. So let's be serious, now we're not laughing, okay? So I'm prepared. Okay.

So, did you hear about the superhero with a lisp who worked out too much? I don't think so. He's Thor. He's Thor? What's that? He's Thor? He's Thor. The superhero with a lisp is Thor. Okay. I thought about Thor. But I almost, you see, I almost didn't laugh.

I tried to organize the hide and seek championship, but good players are hard to find. All right. Don't laugh. Yeah, no. Serious face. Okay. What do you call a fish with no eyes? Oh. It's a fish. With no eyes. What do you call a pig with three eyes? It's a bonus one for you. Pig. Pig.

pig okay let me find one i'm sorry and i apologize mean the same thing except when you're at a funeral that was a little dark humor here yeah not so so funny but dark it was a fine one okay i'm trying to play it seriously now where do you weigh a pie where do you weigh a pie where

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high Nice one, that's on connected speech, joke on the connected speech. Yeah, I have one more. The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons and morons. My girlfriend always compares me to Ryan Gosling. She says you're nothing like Ryan Gosling. I'm sorry.

That was funny one. Why do eggs joke? Like why don't eggs joke? Because they crack each other up or crack up each other. I have one more which is a nice one. Someone among us is an owl. Owl? Yeah, someone among us is an owl. Among us is an owl. I'm waiting for a response. Someone among us is an owl. Why?

How? Okay, so you're not giving me. You should say who. And then if you say who, I would just narrow my eye at you like a suspiciously. Because you'd say who. All right. Anyway, so some of our jokes there, some of our puns had some interesting vocabulary that could just briefly explore here before we finish.

Like the expressions to, like, for example, that jokes with the eggs, like they crack each other up. Yeah. So to crack jokes, that's the phrase first. And when the joke there is that it is so funny that they like burst or something, right? Like crack. Yeah. Get cracked. Exactly. Like, why don't eggs tell jokes? Right.

So that's the joke. Yeah. If they do, they're going to laugh a lot, meaning they're going to crack each other up. A lisp. For me, that was my favorite. You like Thor, right? You like the movie? It was very relatable to you?

It's just, you know, class is just fine. You know, like, did you hear about the superhero with a lisp? So a lisp is this condition of not being able to speak, to say, to pronounce the letter S, the sound, the S sound. It's like lisp. You'd say lisp.

So for example, Mike Tyson, the famous boxer, he has a lisp. If you watch any interviews, you'll see that he speaks like this. When I think of a lisp, I just remember the cute guy from the Stranger Things with a lisp, the curly one, curly haired one. Oh, yeah.

So there's people who are famous and notorious for their lisp. And the joke is that the superhero with a lisp who worked out too much, he went to the gym too much. Now he's sore. Or as a person with a lisp would say, he's sore. What else? There was one with connected speech that you mentioned. I thought that was a nice observation there. Do you remember that? It was like, where do you weigh a pie?

Yeah, where do you way up high? That was an interesting one. Again, from the linguistic point of view, connective speech. Yeah. Somewhere over the rainbow. Way up high. Way up high. That's a collocation. Like, you know, to be at a height that's really high. Right? Altitude, maybe. If you're talking about like an airplane or mountain. And height.

That's it. Weigh up high sounds like weigh a pie, just to measure how heavy it is. Yeah, exactly. I like this one about hide and seek. First of all, that's a play, right? Kids playing hide and seek. And like the punchline there, because the players are so hard to find.

It's so hard to find. Exactly. They're so good at it, that hiding, they're hard to find. That's very, it's really clever. All right. Anyway, that's all the ones I think that were more advanced. So nice. Thank you Xena for preparing for this because I didn't know you'd really bring it. I think I lost that game.

You can see on screen. But it was very difficult to play the game. All of them, especially you brought some funny ones. Like, it's just difficult. And I think it's our, like, natural reaction of human to laugh at jokes. It's really difficult not to laugh. Even, like, when you're just maintaining conversation.

Just, I don't know. Always just like when you find it really witty, you go, ah, yeah, you at least smile. So it's really hard to play exactly like that Philomena Conk, like deadpan, this word, like when you're with a serious face, speak about something really funny. Yeah. It's a skill not to do that. Like naturally you would laugh, you know, if it remains serious, you have to be skilled at it. So the word witty, that's

really good word here because something that's witty like a witty joke it's clever it's like smart in a way that it was constructed right in a way that it was expressed so a lot of characters in movies and series they're really witty British humor is usually witty in that sense anyway so again thank you so much and let's do this some other time we can do a part two if you guys if you're watching us on YouTube you can leave a comment down below

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Totally. And also you get chapters. You get the lesson divided in chapters, which is so much more convenient for learning with these. And again, all the vocabulary, the more advanced vocabulary saved as flashcards so you can practice these. So we went through several expressions today on the app.

You can learn and remember these forever. So you can add these to your active vocabulary. You can imagine speaking like Sandy and I do here. We're non-natives. We learned like this, right? We gained fluency with jokes and we get jokes now because we've learned all these words. So join us on the app. Come on.

We had a great time with you together, Izzy. And I hope our listeners, our viewers also had some fun today. That's a great... Jokes are a great way to unite people, right? And as we always say in this podcast, no matter what divides us, that which unites us, like great humor, great jokes, is much greater. One, two, three. Yeah.