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we're going to teach you couple

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of expression that are about not

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noticing some things or

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not perceiving something either

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accidentally or on

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purpose

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teaching in this episode are

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the tone deaf

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and to turn a blind

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eye

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one of these expressions we used to describe

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people who are terrible at

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noticed seeing something maybe

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it's the vibe for the atmosphere

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of a situation the other

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one is used to people who

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can notice the reality

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of a situation hour notice

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what the facts are but

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they choose to ignore them

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on purpose

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with today's lesson we mentioned

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earlier today we're going to be learning

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to expressions about not

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noticing something the

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first expression that will be covering today

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is home death

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toll and you

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what did it mean to be tone

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deaf

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yeah let's break this expression

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down

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for everyone so they can understand

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exam

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what it means and i think we should

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define these two words on

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their own and then we can put them together

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and it will make perfect sense so

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torn is like sound

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right is just another way to say

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a sounds a few hits let's

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, on a piano and a musical

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sound comes out of the piano

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we can call that a tone tone

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to be das d

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a s das that

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to be unable to hear sounds

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it's a medical condition where your

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ears don't work and

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you can't hear any sounds

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so if you guys go to the dictionary

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you type in tone deaf what

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you will actually see is a medical

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condition that means to be on

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able to hear differences

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in musical notes okay

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cassie have you ever heard someone and

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they're really

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f t and it just sounds terrible

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because they're not in the same musical

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t as the song that they're trying

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to sing along to the out

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here in south korea where live

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going to the karaoke room

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the singing room is a really really

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popular pastime and i

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have definitely visited the singing

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room with some friends

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who are tone deaf they can't sing very

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well they have no musical sense at

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all

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yeah my my fiance is one

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of those i , going

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to the singing room with him but it's

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ah it's more of a laugh then

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are actual have enough

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musical performance

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that is the dictionary

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definition of tone deaf that means

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to to be unable to perceive

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differences in musical notes

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however

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there is an idiomatic version

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of this expression as well tone

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deaf it means to be unable

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to notice a situation

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okay you are deaf to the situation you

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can't pick up on it you can't

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censor you can't notices

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the let's say for example cassie i'm a diet

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and i'm trying to lose weight so

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i'm avoiding eating lots carbs

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and and food that is not

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diet friendly and then cassie maybe

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you came over to my house for a visit and

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you brought with you are a huge

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extra large pizza and you're like

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andrew let's eat this pizza together

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and happy in that situation

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you be kind of tone deaf i

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could sail cassie made as tone

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deaf decision to bring that pizza

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or over here you weren't

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fully aware of my diet

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situation and because of that you made

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a that actually put me into

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an awkward position because ah

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i was tempted to eat that pizza

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you know it looks so delicious but i'm on a

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diet what do i okay

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this is kind of what it means to be tone

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deaf the be unable

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to notice or the situation

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that other people

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luckily i can think

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of one really great example extension

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tone deaf as well you

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know andrew maybe as listeners

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know who have visited north america

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north americans americans loud

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in public and

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one time i was on a bus

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in korea with my friend and

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she had just arrived in

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korea like two

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months before and

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i knew that when we

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ride buses inquiry as is

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customary to be a

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fly yet everybody's

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on their phones are taking are nap

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for you know just minding

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their own business quietly my

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friend steve used to you know

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talking loudly

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in a public space doesn't

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but public or private and

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i could tell you know as we were

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riding the bus of they were people

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kinda looking at us ah

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and hearing the

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union or month i was not speaking

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loudly but my friend lives and she

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had no idea she

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was completely tone deaf to

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the situation

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that's a great example and i've

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been in a similar situation like that

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it's a little bit awkward and

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says i think yeah you could use

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tone desk in many different cultural

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, where cultures or maybe

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interacting with each other and there are

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some cultural four paws that are

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happening people just aren't aware of

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how to behave or how to act when visiting

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a different country or experiencing

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a different culture so that's so example

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of a kind of situation where we

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can use this expression tone

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deaf

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oh and i think you have enough

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information to help you understand

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this expression now and

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so we're gonna give you a couple of

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conversation examples with

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it and will take a listen

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to the first example right

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now

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did

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you see that video that going viral

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of all the singing john

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lennon's imagine

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good it was so

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friendly and tone das i

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couldn't believe they thought making that was

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a good idea

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i know right where were they thinking

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the obviously weren't thinking

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they're getting absolutely really stayed

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on social media over this

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like they tried to make people feel

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better but the end they only

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made people angry and resentful

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exactly

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the let's break down that conversation

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that we just heard and will explain

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it for you all

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though in that conversation to friends

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talking about viral

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video that's made

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the rounds on social media when

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the kobe pandemic first

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started and in that video

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many famous american

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celebrities sang and

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or capella version of the song

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imagine by the singer john lennon

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and

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the celebrities i think they meant well

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they wanted to try and encourage

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people to stay positive

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during the covered pandemic but

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in me and that video just

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came off as tone deaf

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and they ,

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criticised very very heavily for

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making that video because in a

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regular people so many people

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were going through really hard economic

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times may be losing their job

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or are getting sick and having

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loved ones pass away all of these

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terrible things things in

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this video you see a bunch of absolutely

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rich people rich had

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no economic hardship whatsoever

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singing a song at

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to try and make people feel it just came

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off as tone deaf or

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kind of patronizing almost like

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they're communicating to children or something

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and as that example conversation

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says cassie they got

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absolutely roasted

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on social media is is what

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does that mean does it mean if you get roasted

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on social media

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that when it's not

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just the internet troll making bad

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comments towards you everybody's

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saying wow saying can't believe you did

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that little horrible video usurped

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like that

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it you get really really heavily

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criticised by everyone online

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that has been roasted

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alright cassie with that being said why

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don't we take a listen to the second

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conversation example with tone

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deaf

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what did you think of the mayor his announcement

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yesterday

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i couldn't believe my ears he

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actually thinks that building more high

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price luxury condos is a good

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idea

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oh tone deaf can you be

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we need affordable housing

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that regular people can live in not

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expensive housing that only the rich

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can afford

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i can't wait for election

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day so we can vote this guy out of office

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the do

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the right in this example conversation

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we have the fan talking

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about

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the

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mayors latest announcement

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and his announcement the mayor says

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he has a plan build

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more high priced luxury

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condos and the friends

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are saying read pitiless

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this idea sounds how whom

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there

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the mayor it

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days you know housing

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prices are sky rocketing

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people com

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cleaning every day that big

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the find affordable housing and

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this mayor goes and ignores

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all those complaints decides

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to build even more high

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price luxury condos

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exactly so the mayor

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here's can't really sense would just a

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regular people want right what the

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average joe the regular citizen

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once instead he is just catering

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to the small percentage

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of people who are in the upper

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class so this is why he

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is tone deaf and

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i like how the speaker in that conversation

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used the expression the said

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how tone deaf can you be how

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tone deaf can you be and kind

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of structure is what

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we can use when we wanna really

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emphasize something right

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as somebody is really stupid because

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it's so stupid you be or

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her her somebody is really

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slow like for slow can you be

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when we want to criticize i think

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we mostly use this for negative for

14:12

and realizing as i'm saying this week we

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wouldn't say like as if you're a genius

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we wouldn't say so smart can you be

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know that doesn't work like that is only for

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negative expressions ah

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but when we really wanna focus

14:26

on the fact that somebody has this negative

14:29

quality we can use that structure

14:31

how stupid can you be slow can

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you be held tone deaf and you

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be

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point and you and i agree

14:39

i feel like a lot of negative

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expressions can be used as a question

14:43

to emphasize it can you believe

14:45

this guy anything that

14:48

you just can't believe how

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horrible it is and you say it as a quick

14:52

the didn't emphasize

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absolutely

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well i think we should now

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transition to our second key

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expression for this episode

15:04

guys like we said to

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being tone deaf but slightly

15:09

different so please pay close

15:11

attention to our explanation here

15:14

so that you can perceive

15:16

as , differences between the two

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of them now t expression

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number two is

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pay it is turn

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a blind eye to something

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case were using it as a verb turn

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to turn a blind eye

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and we can sometimes say it

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just like that to turn a blind eye

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and then sometimes we turn

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a blind eye to something

15:43

so if you wanna talk about the fact

15:46

or the situation that is being

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ignored then we can use it

15:50

with the preposition to and

15:53

you'll hear some examples of us using

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it in that way in just a moment

15:58

but let's break down

15:59

meaning so to turn

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a blind eye

16:04

means to be able to notice

16:06

a situation

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that

16:09

you choose to ignore it okay

16:11

so maybe cassie we could go back to that

16:14

example we just heard about the mare building

16:17

the high priced luxury condos

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in the example the two

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friends who are criticizing him they

16:24

said that he was tone deaf because

16:27

he couldn't sense that the citizens

16:29

wanted affordable housing and

16:31

instead he chose to build luxury

16:33

housing we

16:36

don't know all the details maybe he tone

16:38

deaf maybe he actually knew that

16:40

the citizens wanted affordable

16:43

housing but he

16:45

chose to ignore that facts and

16:47

instead he just decided to build

16:50

luxury housing in that kind

16:52

of situation he wouldn't be

16:54

tone deaf you would be

16:56

earning a blind eye right

16:58

because he is aware of all the facts

17:00

he knows everything

17:02

he chooses to ignore the facts

17:05

so he he notices the situation

17:07

completely and chooses

17:09

to ignore it or if we're to talk

17:11

about your friends on the bus ride

17:13

that was visiting you here in korea if

17:16

you told that friends like you're actually

17:19

ah when we're riding the bus in country

17:21

it's good if you keep your voice down and maybe

17:23

tried to be quiet if you hold

17:26

her that but then she just ignored

17:28

that and wanted to speak loudly

17:31

in public anyways even though

17:33

that's against the kind of cultural custom

17:36

than she would be turning a blind

17:38

eye to that situation

17:40

and to that cultural costs

17:42

exactly the distinction

17:44

between these two is important

17:47

because if your tone deaf my

17:50

purpose for you're just kind of ignorant

17:52

about something like

17:55

andrew says if you're turning a blind

17:57

eye it means you're doing

17:59

it

17:59

the

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fewer when you hear being

18:04

torn death you think ah

18:06

come on they should know better

18:08

why are they so ignorance

18:10

but when you hear of someone turning

18:12

a blind eye towards something

18:15

bad than you think

18:17

really negative thoughts about that person

18:19

like wow they knew

18:21

that something bad was happening and they

18:24

ignored it they didn't care turning

18:28

a blind eye is much more the

18:30

beer and purpose them

18:32

to be tone deaf

18:34

right if your tone deaf

18:36

just like you said yeah see your ignorance

18:39

and ah maybe

18:42

you are not educated about

18:44

something like maybe after learn

18:46

more about a situation because

18:48

you're kind of out of your element

18:51

and you're talking about something that you don't really

18:53

understand very well but you

18:55

turn a blind eye as like evil

18:58

almost could be evil in some

19:00

situations because because know

19:02

the truth by you purposely

19:05

avoid the truth ads yes

19:08

it is a much

19:10

more serious expression i completely

19:12

agree with you

19:14

though i think maybe the best thing to do now

19:16

to actually listen to a couple of

19:18

example conversations and

19:21

why don't we get started with the first one

19:23

right now

19:24

that matter

19:28

oh i watched a documentary last

19:30

night about bullying in school

19:33

i saw that one too

19:35

it's so horrible was happening

19:37

and so often school administrators

19:40

turn a blind eye and ignore the problem

19:43

matches so frustrating

19:46

i can't imagine what it's like to be a student

19:48

these days

19:50

absolutely not only do

19:52

they have to worry about getting high grades

19:54

and getting into a good college but

19:56

they also have to deal with bullying

19:59

cyberbullies your social

20:01

media

20:02

when we didn't have to deal with that when

20:04

we were students

20:07

oh in this example we hear to friends

20:10

about a documentary that they just

20:12

watched and it was

20:14

about bullying in

20:16

schools

20:17

and i guess some of the content that was

20:20

covered in that documentary was

20:22

about how the problem

20:24

of bullying is being ignored

20:27

by school administrators had

20:30

school administrators are turning

20:32

a blind eye to

20:35

solving this problem of bullying

20:37

so what that means is that the school

20:39

administrators know bullying

20:42

is happening and they know

20:44

it is a problem for many students

20:47

they don't do anything to solve

20:50

the problem so that

20:52

is exactly what turning what blind

20:54

eye is all about

20:56

the repeated a lot in high

20:58

school drama is t

21:00

v shows movies the administration

21:03

is always turning a blind eye to

21:05

them problems going on in the student

21:07

body

21:08

exactly yeah we

21:11

, this expression used a

21:13

lot when talking about schools

21:15

and a fun when

21:17

talking about government great because the government

21:20

knows that there are a lot of

21:22

problems out there in the world world

21:24

but sometimes fixing them is

21:27

more difficult than ignoring them so

21:29

they can choose to ignore them turn a blind

21:31

eye and may and

21:34

just move on to dealing with other

21:36

issues so yeah definitely when about

21:39

politics and the government's we

21:41

use this expressen all

21:44

the time

21:45

the water we listened to that second

21:47

conversation example or final

21:49

one for this episode right

21:51

now

21:52

rock

21:56

have you noticed that jerry hasn't doing is

21:58

dishes for a few days

22:00

starting to pile up in the sink

22:02

i notice all right how

22:04

could i know

22:05

think we should talk to about it

22:08

turning a blind eyes and gonna make this problem

22:10

go away

22:12

yeah you're right okay i'll

22:14

take the now and let him know that we're gonna have

22:16

a roommate later tonight

22:18

good idea

22:21

right in if example a conversation

22:23

we have two roommates talking about

22:25

their fellow dirty

22:28

roommate okay this room

22:30

mate has leaving dishes

22:32

in the sink to pile up for

22:34

several days and

22:38

friends and no longer turn a blind

22:41

eye to this issue they

22:43

that if they continue to ignore this

22:45

problem their friend is never

22:47

going to change he's gonna leave dirty

22:49

dishes in the thing

22:50

forever

22:52

later side that they're have

22:54

a roommate mean tonight you

22:57

talk to this roommate and solve this problem

23:00

exactly yeah turning a blind

23:02

eye ignoring the problem isn't

23:04

going to solve it right so they

23:07

decide hey let's together and

23:09

talk it out and see if we can't fix

23:12

this problem and get our roommates

23:14

you clean up those dirty dishes

23:17

hands this example

23:19

maybe inspired some of my

23:21

past roommates experiences cassie

23:24

experiences think there's a grain of truth

23:26

in one that least for me that

23:28

rings true

23:29

in memory they're coming back the

23:31

sound of this conversation andrew

23:34

something like that yes

23:46

well everyone that

23:47

the to the end of this episode

23:50

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