This is the Let's Master English Podcast, and I'm your host, Coach Shane.
Hello everybody, Coach Shane here.
Welcome to the Let's Master English Podcast number 122.
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Alright? yes we are a trendsetter we're making the English trend really popular and cool with this podcast that's the opening song it's trendsetter by Connor price and havaia mighty Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani celebrated his dog decoys second birthday by presenting him with a custom most valuable dog plaque.
He shared the event on social media and fans loved how he showed affection for his furry friend.
In Oklahoma City, 11 year old Mandy Eggleston is hailed as a hero after her quick thinking saved her family from a house fire caused by a lightning strike.
Her prompt actions ensured everyone's safety, demonstrating courage and presence of mind beyond her years.
And finally, on May 22nd, The Port of Galveston will commemorate National Maritime Day with a public event at Pier 21, marking the start of the port's bicentennial year.
The celebration will feature a ceremony with speakers, performances, vessel tours, and information booths highlighting maritime career opportunities.
So if you're in Galveston, Texas, lots of fun coming up on May 22nd.
All right, we'll get back to that story in a minute.
Let's go to the first story.
Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles, California, their professional baseball team.
Well, the the Dodgers, one of the teams in California, In a great team and one of their star players is Shohei Ohtani.
He's an amazing athlete and I don't know how many years he's been there.
I don't follow baseball much, but he's a really cool guy, very funny guy.
Actually he's very funny.
He's a baseball star and he has a dog.
And his dog's name is Decoy.
Interesting name. D -E -C -O -Y.
Decoy. And the dog recently celebrated its second birthday.
So my dog too celebrated his second birthday in, I think it was August or September, I don't even know.
He's two, he's a German Shepherd, he's huge, he's crazy.
We love him. But I did not give him a gift on his birthday.
Are you supposed to?
Shohei Ohtani did. Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani Celebrated his dog decoys second birthday by presenting him by giving him with a custom most valuable dog plaque You've heard of MVP most valuable player right if you're an athlete on a team maybe you've received the MVP award Even at your company Maybe you're a salesperson...
and you had the biggest sales of the month.
Then you would be the most valuable salesperson.
The MVS, I guess in that case.
Well he made his dog a plaque.
P -L -A -Q -U -E. Do you know what a plaque is?
It's just something that you hang on the wall.
It's usually wood or brass and it's an award. You know, congratulations, you are the most valuable dog...
in the world! something like that that's the idea so he gave his dog a custom custom means you know made especially for decoy a custom plaque oh that's so sweet and of course he shared the event the birthday on social media I don't know where was it tick tock or Facebook or X I have no idea where I don't follow Shohei Otani.
I'm sure it's easy to find him.
And fans loved how he showed affection.
How he showed love for his furry friend.
Ooh, I love that sentence.
Fans loved how he showed affection for his furry friend.
All those Fs and Vs. Fans f - loved v - how he showed affection f - F his furry a friend f good sentence if F's are a problem for you practice that Fans loved how he showed affection for his furry friend.
Yeah, I like that sentence Very nice story.
Once again, I have one dog.
His name is moose. He'll be three years old this August I believe Should I get him a gift?
Huh? I have three cats two of the cats will be three years old in August also The other cat, Minty, oh my goodness, her birthday is coming up.
Yeah, her birthday I think is gonna be in this month.
Oh my god. So, how old is she?
Minty. She's old. Minty is 13 years old.
I think she may be 14 years old.
I'll have to check her paperwork.
That's very old for a cat and she is old, yeah.
She's strong. Minty my cat hates everyone except me.
I'm serious, she hates everyone except me.
But, anyway, wow, I guess I should get Minty a gift, right, do I have to, really, do I have to give gifts to my pets?
They don't know it's their birthday?
Eh, anyway, the second story is amazing.
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City of course is in the State of Oklahoma, one of America's 50 States.
11 -year -old Mandy Eggleston.
She's 11 years old.
Is hailed, H -A -I -L -E -D, is considered.
Everyone calls her something.
What? Is hailed as a hero.
A hero, why? After her quick thinking saved her family from a house fire caused by a lightning strike.
Whoa, that is scary.
You know lightning, right?
Lightning, thunder, oh yeah.
Scary stuff, but lightning of course can cause fires, right?
Hit a tree, cause a forest fire.
In this case, it caused a house fire.
and Mandy who's only 11 she's like oh we got a fire I have to wake up mom and dad and I don't know who I I didn't read the full story but she got her old family and probably the dog and cat outside the house so that nobody was injured called the fire department 9 -1 -1 fire department coming family's going crazy Mandy is cool.
Mandy is calm. Eleven years old.
That's incredible. Her prompt actions, her quick actions ensured everyone's safety.
Because of her and her quick thinking, everyone is safe.
And it shows, it demonstrates, courage.
She was so brave, right?
brave for an 11 year old, but not only brave, and presence of mind.
Presence p r e s e n c e.
Presence of mind. What that means is she was calm and thinking clearly in an emergency situation.
Can you do that? Do you do that?
So I have a couple instances at my house where I was able to have presence of mind and avoid disaster, a serious problem And my wife and my children at the time were not as focused We had a fire actually started in my office And we saw this, because my office door was closed.
And we saw a light.
The dog was barking.
Right, so Moose was barking.
And it was strange for him to bark.
And I saw through the curtain of my office window, there was a light that was bright and then not bright.
Bright and then not bright.
I'm like, what the heck?
I opened my office door, there was a fire that had just started.
and the fire was on a chair and it was just getting to a curtain and if it had gotten to that curtain completely oh my god it would have been a disaster but fortunately I had presence of mind and I immediately got a fire extinguisher and poof put out the fire yeah that was very scary that was two years ago I think fires just any any serious incident is scary so I hope that you never experience anything but if you know you do see something that requires presence of mind and courage I hope you are the hero you're my hero so an 11 year old girl incredible outstanding beautiful story I And then finally
Galveston the Port of Galveston.
So Texas is one of America's 50 states and Galveston is a city in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
Is it Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America?
By the way I know I have listeners in Central America, Mexico and other countries in that area.
Obviously Gulf of Mexico is what we grew up with it's what we know and now Trump wants to change it to Gulf of America.
So I'm wondering does that anger you?
Is that okay for you?
I understand, you know, when Trump says America, he's probably just thinking the USA, but geographically all the countries in the Gulf of Mexico or bordering the Gulf of Mexico are part of America, right?
North America, Central America, South America.
So it is the Gulf of America.
But again, Mexico has so much property on it, right?
So I'm just curious, especially people in Mexico.
What do you think about that?
I know it's a controversial issue.
For me, I still say Gulf of Mexico.
It's in my like Pluto is a planet Now science says Pluto is not a planet Whatever.
I still think of it as a planet the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico to me even though Trump says no No, it's the Gulf of America.
Okay, whatever it's Gulf of Mexico Even on the internet when I when I search something on chat CPT, I Google it even though I'm not using Google I Google it Am I dumb?
Anyway, Galveston, Texas, it's on the Gulf of Mexico.
On May 22nd the city, the city of Galveston, will commemorate National Maritime Day, so May 22nd is National Maritime Day, which means it's shipping day, sea business day, shipping, fishing, you know I guess military, navy, National Maritime Day.
That is May 22nd with a public event at Pier 21.
So Pier 21 is a specific location marking the start of the port's bicentennial year ahh bicentennial 200th birthday congratulations So Galveston, Texas their port P .O .R .T, where ships go is celebrating its 200th birthday on May 22nd.
And it's also National Maritime Day.
So they're having a celebration.
The celebration will feature a ceremony of speakers.
That sounds boring.
Performances, that could be cool.
Vessel tours. Ooh, that sounds fun.
Vessel, v -e -s -s -e -l, tours.
You know, t -o -u -r -s.
Ooh, that means you get to go on ships.
That sounds cool, maybe military ships, and shipping ships, and fishing ships, maybe they have some ship shipping ships, shipping ships that you can see?
What? And not only that, information booths highlighting maritime career opportunities.
Would you like to work at sea?
I know some of you do.
I have DDM VIP members that are seafarers.
seafarers They work on boats on big ships traveling the world.
How cool is that? Would you like to do that?
Yeah, well if you would and you're in America head on down to Galveston on May 22nd and see what kind of job Opportunities there are my understanding is the pay is very good So there you go All right to celebrate this we've got some cool songs And it they're all kind of going back to the dog and even the daughter, you know, the dog decoy This is love if you love your pet you really love your pet Mandy Eggleston the hero of her family Can you imagine how much they love her?
Yeah, so I got a couple love songs.
They're kind of cool actually, they're new too Ella Langley's you look like you love me and It's a country song but it's actually pretty funny and if you're a member you can listen to the song and you You can also get the video with the lyrics, so check that out.
And also, Nicki, the name of the singer, featuring Phil Collins.
Do you know Phil Collins?
Oh, he's my generation.
And she's got a song, You'll Be In My Heart.
That's coming up, but first...
The news, one more time.
Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani celebrated his dog Decoy's second birthday by presenting him with a custom most valuable dog plaque.
He shared the event on social media, and fans loved how he showed affection for his furry friend.
In Oklahoma City, 11 -year -old Mandy Eggleston is hailed as a hero after her quick thinking saved her family from a house fire caused by a lightning strike.
Her prompt actions ensured everyone's safety, demonstrating courage and presence of mind beyond her years.
And finally, on May 22nd, the Port of Galveston will commemorate National Maritime Day with a public event at Pier 21 marking the start of the Port's bicentennial year.
The celebration will feature a ceremony with speakers, performances, vessel tours, and information booths highlighting maritime career opportunities.
Where education and entertainment come together.
Let's master English do it How you doing everybody this is Country Shane, and I'm bringing you the facts Hey, hey hey Country Shane here talking about lightning Oh boy Globally in the world lightning strikes about eight million times per day That's over 100 strikes of lightning per second.
That's crazy. And do you know the expression, the saying, lightning never strikes the same place twice?
Well that's not true.
In fact, the Empire State Building in New York City is struck 20 -25 times per year.
So be careful Thank You Country Shane wow a hundred strikes per second that Sounds crazy.
That's a lot of lightning every second but 100 strikes right now another hundred strikes another hundred strikes another That's crazy.
Oh by the way I found this out too.
I was talking with country Shane and he's so smart He said it's not the rubber That saves you when you're in your car during a lightning storm, right?
you've heard that if you're if there's a lightning storm outside Just stay in your car, right?
It's safer in your car and everybody thinks it's because of the the rubber tires, right?
But it's not the rubber.
It's the metal shell.
It's the metal car.
That's what protects you So when you're in your car, don't be touching the car frame.
Don't be touching the metal Okay, that's what's saving your life.
So you don't want to touch it.
Now we're talking about lightning, of course lightning strikes thunder is heard and Well, I'm sorry.
We got to go to ACDC Thunderstruck Simple tips for mastering English today We're gonna talk about the word get G E T and like I say when it comes to daily English get is one of those verbs that you really need to focus on.
And, if you're in DDMVIP, that's exactly what we do.
Get is so universally used.
But today, I'm gonna show you four usages of the word get, and these are very common. So, get can mean obtain.
O -B -T -A -I -N. Get can also mean become.
GET can mean understand.
GET can mean arrive.
So I'll give you some sentences.
So GET meaning obtain.
I need to get a new phone.
I don't. BECOME it's getting cold outside.
It's true for me. Last couple days have been very warm.
Twenty -five, twenty -six degrees Celsius.
But today thirteen.
Tomorrow Eight it's very cold.
It's getting cold outside Understand I didn't get the joke.
I didn't understand the joke and Arrive what time did you get home?
What time did you arrive home?
You guys I really want you to practice using get in different situations in different sentences It will help you and pay attention to when Americans use the word get stop for a second and try and understand exactly what does get mean because it can have a lot of possible meanings I'll give you one more to get away to get away it's a phrasal verb it means escape and I've got an escape song for you fast -ball the way on the let's master English podcast this week's weekly speaking challenge last week we had a time I helped someone let's listen to Eva once I joined a group of children looking for ball
in high class I felt very pleased when I saw joy in their eyes when I found it That's really sweet, helping children looking for a ball in high grass and she found it and the kids are so happy.
That's cool. I love that.
What about you? Did you help someone?
What did you do? How did it make you feel?
That was the challenge and we're going to listen to Hajime too.
Hajime found a prepaid golf card at the golf range and he turned it in because he's a good guy.
Hajime, take it away.
I found a prepaid card for renting golf balls and someone left behind it.
So, I honestly turned it in and later the dealer came up to me and said, thank you, and I said it's nothing.
And now we became good friends, golf buddy.
It's good. Thanks to everybody who sent in their recordings.
I loved them all. This week's theme, my favorite meal.
We can always talk about food.
I want you to share a short story about your favorite meal.
Not a story, three sentences.
Number one, what is the meal?
Why do you like it and is there a special memory associated with it?
Sometimes our foods have a clear memory like, mom used to make this in the summer or when I was sick, grandmother used to make this.
You know, something like that.
So, three sentences, keep it short, 10 seconds to 20 seconds is enough.
What is the meal? Your favorite meal.
Why do you like it?
And is there a special memory associated with it?
So for me, I'll just make an example.
Let's see. My favorite meal is sushi.
I love the fresh taste and the variety.
It reminds me of my trips to Japan.
That's all it takes.
If you're a member record your answer and post it in our school community.
Let's share our delicious stories I should have said chicken not sushi because we got a couple songs coming up the trash men Surfin bird and right on time That so Tatsu ro yamashita, I guess so.
Yeah, I should have said Japanese chicken that would have been perfect.
Enjoy It is May 19th, the 139th day of the year.
There are 226 days left in 2025.
Upcoming dates that we need to remember, at least in America, May 25th is Memorial Day.
That's it for May. It's coming up pretty soon.
This week's national days and fun observances, May 19th today is World Baking Day.
Do you like to bake?
What do you like to bake?
You know, the other day I had some baked chicken.
Oh, so good. I haven't had baked chicken in a long time.
I was really, really good.
May 20th is World Bee Day.
Bee, BEE. The honey makers.
Do you like honey? Do you like bees?
I love bees. I do not like wasps, W -A -S -P -S.
I do not like hornets, H -O -R -N -E -T -S.
They are not bees. They can be confused of being bees, but they're not bees.
Bees are lovely, bees are our honey makers.
They love flowers. those other ones are nasty.
May 21st is World Meditation Day.
Ohhhhhhhh Wish I could meditate May 22nd is Bitcoin pizza day.
Yeah the first official Officially recognized purchase using Bitcoin somebody bought pizza.
I don't know how much it was but Compared to the Bitcoin prices today.
I'm sure they overpaid May 23rd is do you have Bitcoin?
I have like a tiny bit of Bitcoin.
I bought it a long time ago I still have it.
So yeah, I'm happy.
I will. It's not much. But I mean, I spent like $50.
And now, I don't know, it's like $600, something like that.
So yeah, I'm happy about that.
May 23rd is World Turtle Day.
Nice, nice, Turtles, T -U -R -T -L -E.
May 24th is National Brother's Day.
Do you have a brother?
Well, send him a message.
Yeah, say, hey brother.
How you doing? You know, you owe me money!
I have a brother -in -law.
Do I have to call my brother -in -law?
No, no. It's just brothers.
Brothers. And May 25th is National Wine Day.
Do you like wine? I'm not much of a wine drinker.
I can drink it, but I'm not much of a wine drinker.
If you drink wine you get a little crazy.
That's my experience.
And speaking of crazy, we got a pretty funny song.
It's 303 with Don't Trust Me.
Is it your birthday anniversary?
Something else special happening?
Let us know, let us know.
Especially if you're a member, it's really easy to let me know.
Just go to the Let's Master English podcast in the classroom, and there's a message where you can put your information.
May 19th today Pete Townsend musician of the who big nose guy he's 80 years old happy birthday Pete tomorrow Cher the singer actress 79 years old actor mr. T is 73 on May 21st supermodel Naomi Campbell is 55 years old on May 22nd Comedian and TV host, Drew Carey.
I love this guy. Aw man, there was a show that he was on.
I can't remember. This was a sitcom.
It's great, really funny guy, fat guy.
He's 67 years old, on May 23rd. Bob Dylan, singer -songwriter.
84 years old, on May 24th, same age as my dad.
Incredible. Wait, no, no, no, is that right?
My dad was born in 42 so my dad is no no he's a year older than my dad a year older than my dad Uh and and May 20th May 25th Mike Myers the actor not the character.
Austin Powers. You might know Austin Powers.
Yeah Mike Myers is 62 years old.
So we've got Mr. T.
right? Do you guys know Mr. T?
If you're an 80s or a 90s kid, you should know Mr. T from the A -team all -star wrestling.
Mr. T was great. He's still great Mr. T is an actor and Mike Myers is an actor But did you know both of these men?
sing oh Well, you're gonna find out if you're a member you're gonna find out cuz we got mr T with treat your mother, right be nice to your mother and Mike Myers aka Dr. Evil with just the two of us if you're not a member what's your problem send us an email contact at Let's Master English calm and say I want to be a Let's Master English podcast member and we'll help you out enjoy I feel like today's podcast was pretty quick was it was it kind of shorter than usual I don't know I hope you enjoyed it I sincerely really hope you enjoy it I and make it for you.
I want you to have fun with English.
That's the whole goal.
So yeah. If you're serious about studying English, try my lessons for free.
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So do that. We have some amazing deals, some great opportunities for you to join us and study with us and we do our best to help you master English that's our goal that's what we do that's what I've been doing for almost 40 years can you believe it since December of 1986 I've been helping adults master English Wow that makes me feel old you know what's really cool about my job though is I get to meet people like you and the people I meet are very high quality people you know they're very educated, very smart, they're successful, they're success -oriented, they're very positive, they work hard and that gives
me energy, that's an incredible thing.
It makes me feel like we're kind of a magnet M -A -G -N -E -T we attract each other and And that's a really important thing.
And our closing song is Magnet Part Two by a singer called Able Hearts, and full of positive energy.
So enjoy the song, and together, let's master English.
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