 Live on Facebook and YouTube, make sure you leave a comment to let us know you can hear us. And here comes the... Just kidding, I was messing with people. All right, I'm rolling the intro. Okay. Oh, whenever I see that intro and I see us sitting next to each other, I think these started with us together in the same space. And now here we are. I know. I've far apart been doing this for this way for so long. Which, and it's nice. It's nice. Yeah. I don't know what I was gonna say. I'm gonna say something very profound and important, but yeah, anyway, I will say hello. Thank you for joining us. And yeah, it is true. I think once we get some more vaccinations around or maybe when it's not the holidays anymore, we could probably do something outside. We could do something short. We could do something cold. Yeah. Someday we'll plan, we'll do something together outside with some plexiglass. I mean, we're both healthy, we're both vaccinated, but we're still just trying to practice good. Plexiglass would be funny though. Little boxes, little... Yeah, speaking of, okay, so I'm trying to open the comments so that I can see people. So I'm not ignoring you. I'm just, yeah, trying to see comments. We've got Sun who says hello from Cambodia. Anything on Facebook yet? Du Tao, which we again apologize for your names being mispronounced, says hello and so hello. Oh, and Jude says good evening. Okay, so Adam, I have a surprise for you. Oh, please. Okay, so once I get, I'll be right back. Okay, Liz is leaving the room right now or leaving the screen. I'm not sure what she's doing, but it is a surprise to me. This is not faked. I have no idea what she's doing. I love this, Adam. I usually have no idea what she's doing. So this is par for the course. Oh, did you love this? Well, I will be honest. I knew that, so in a few days, we will be celebrating Halloween. So I suspected there might be some kind of costume, but I did not expect, I'm gonna, this is a leopard or a cheetah, some kind of spotted cat. Well, okay, so technically the fabric looks like a leopard, but we're calling it a cheetah. Okay. I mean, I know if there are like big cat experts that they'll say that is a leopard and not a cheetah, but we're just going cheetah. It is very cute. I have to, and you made it, did you make it yourself? I made this. Yes, and actually I made a whole costume to go, this is, I made a whole costume to go with it. This is actually a costume for my daughter. Okay. She is very young. Yeah. But it fits, it fits my head. I stalled these ears on by hand. That is nice. So you have an adult-sized one? Like you have this for yourself, like you're going in the same costume? No, no I don't. I am not gonna dress up, but I just figured I would put this little hood on. That? To show everyone that this is Halloween. Halloween. I did, like I said, I made a full costume for my youngest daughter, but I also made a costume, well I'm making a costume for my older daughter as well. Of this same costume. And this is the most complicated thing I have ever made. Well it looks, like the ears look even and balanced. Thank you. Yeah, that's very nice. I even had to put a zipper in it for the first time. I think maybe we could start Liz wearing costumes every time and this would be a very different YouTube channel. Yes, it really would. But it would have a different audience, let's be honest. Oh now I have to fix my hair, there we go. Oh, Marita says just now I need some pleasant and cheerful, encouraging words. Well you've come to the right place. Here we try to be a place of cheer and encouragement. So wherever you find yourself today, we hope that today is a good day for you. And hang out with us for a few minutes and you'll have some fun. Yeah, I hope so too. Yeah, so we were talking a little bit about Halloween, which is of course next week and then in the States at least we're heading into a season of holidays. So Halloween isn't really like part of the holidays. If you hear someone refer to, oh it's the holidays. But for me, I feel like once it hits Halloween, the rest of the year is just a roller coaster straight down to the end. I think it's gotta be a little, like I feel like Halloween is like the precursor, which is just a fancy word for it comes before. The warmup. Yeah. So when people, Liz, when people say the holidays, what do they mean? If someone was coming to the United States and said, hey, come for the holidays. Right, so in the United States, we have, excuse me, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the third Thursday of every November. So that means it's not on the same day every year. It could be early in November or late in November. This year, what is it, on the 25th? 24th, 25th, yeah, somewhere in there. Yeah, it's around there somewhere, whatever that Thursday is. And so we'll celebrate that, and usually people have that Thursday off, and then Fridays, sometimes they have that off from work as well, and that's known as Black Friday. And there is a program on our website that is super popular about that day, about Black Friday called Buy Nothing Day. And I think that is really a program worth checking out if you are interested in learning more about the holidays, or shopping, or business, or the environment, or really that program touches on a lot of topics, and I would encourage you to check that out. The thing I love about that is things about personal choice. Yes, exactly, like what you can do for a community. But the, okay, so then we're Thanksgiving, and then that Friday is Black Friday, and then there's usually only about three or four weeks until Christmas. And of course, Christmas is, I would say it's probably the main holiday in the United States. I think a lot of people take off work around this time, a lot of people travel, Thanksgiving as well, people travel, but Christmas is a big time where a lot of people get together for many different groups of family, yeah. Right, and so we celebrate that on December 25 every year, and then of course a week later is the new year, January 1st, so it is really, then it's the new year, and then you go back to school, and back to work, and then you slog through until the end. But yeah, so Halloween really is, once it's Halloween, the rest of the year is real fast. But we have to, we gotta get some shout outs to some people, but Liz, I have to tell people, and I tell them this, every year that you are not a huge fan of Halloween, are you? Even though you made a wonderful costume, there are certain aspects of Halloween you don't like. That is true, I make, well, I made this costume purely out of love, and not because I enjoy Halloween. Right. So, yeah, and so you don't like spiders? Somebody said the screen is frozen, so I hope that is not for everybody. She says it's not okay. Okay, good. So yeah, and then actually for members, there is a great video, well I say great, I made it, but there is a video about why I hate Halloween, and I will give a little hint as to why people decorate for Halloween, and they use a lot of spiders. Yes. A lot. Which I do not. And giant spiders, not just like actual sized spiders. Even thinking about it is real bad. Yeah, I love Halloween, and I don't mind spiders, or skeletons, or scary things. Yeah, I love Halloween, I like dressing up, I like seeing kids walk around, knock on their neighbor's door. I mean, most of the time, if you knock on your neighbor's door, people would be like, open the door, and they'd be like, what do you want? What are you trying to sell me? But now they open the door, and they give you candy. Well, you have to give other people candy. I did hear that in the United States, of all the candy that's sold, like half of it is sold in the three weeks leading up to Halloween. And a quarter of it is eaten by me, after all. Exactly, candy. So a lot of people who come to the United States say that our desserts and our candy is extremely sweet, extremely sugary, which is probably true. Yeah, it is true. Adam, before we go on, I did want to tell about a really cool thing that is new in YouTube for members. And that is if you are a member of our channel, and there's different levels of membership, you can get a special benefit if you have been a member for longer than a month, and then every month after that, in our live chats right now, you can get a chat that stays at the top for free. So we would love to see that. So it's a highlighted chat, that's what it's called. And if you are a member, please take advantage of that. We would love to see your comments and respond to them. And for anyone else, right at the little bottom of the chat window, not the video, but the chat window, you can see a little dollar sign if you want to send us a special message that we will respond to, and that we will say in this chat, you can click on that little money sign and pay for a little highlighted chat of your own. So, and that money really helps us stay as a channel, it helps us spread our message, it helps us make more programs and research things. So it really does help us out. Yeah, and another thing that we just, if you've never been to our website, spotlightenglish.com, check that out, because you can now, Liz, let me ask you a question. If you were a spotlight member and you said, you know what, I want to get emails of programs and scripts every week. You'd probably think, no, that's gonna be too expensive. That's gonna be like $50 a week. It's not, not even $25 a week. What do you think a good price would be about per week? I don't know. We put a lot of time. We do, we do, we do. However, there's people all around the world who want to get these scripts via email. So we made it about a dollar a week. Yeah. You can get, or $5 a month, however you want to do it. And we'll send you a PDF that's yours to keep and you'll be able to follow along with the program. And again, it's just a small way we're trying to create sustainability for ourselves and to be able to do more stuff for you. So check that out. It's for help people. We have people asking all the time, can I get this script? Like maybe if they see it on YouTube or whatever. And there are ways to get those PDF scripts and I hope that is helpful. I do want to address one comment on Facebook from Nyata says, you hate spiders, but do you like Spider-Man, Liz? Now I have to say, I do, people who have been watching this program and our conversations for a long time, Adam, will know that I am really into like nerd stuff. So like science fiction, the Avengers, that sort of stuff. And I don't really like the old Spider-Man movies, but I do love some Tom Holland. Who doesn't? Okay, yeah. That guy is great. Yeah. And I love that Spider-Man into the Spider-Man. Into the Spider-Verse. Into the Spider-Verse movie. You're just, you're starting to love spiders. No, I'm not. I do have to like cringe and look away in the part where they get bit by the spider. That is giving me shivers right now. But yeah, so I guess that is a fair, that is a fair question. That's a fair question. And Tan Nhi Pham says, do you know the Lunar New Year? Yes. We don't usually celebrate that in the United States. I mean, there are some people who do, but I don't think it's very common, but I am aware of it. Isn't, I think, okay, this is where I'm gonna be, all of our Vietnamese listeners are going to yell at me. Please do, please do. That is what Tet is a celebration of, right? So there's the celebration, and then Tet is the celebration of the Lunar New Year. And I wanna say it's late January, early February? Yeah, I think so. So Vietnamese listeners, or anyone who celebrates the Lunar New Year, please. Let me know. Correct me. I am happy to learn more. I love learning. I mean, everyone on this chat loves learning, right? Otherwise, why would you be here? Yeah, why are you watching this? If you're happy, the way you are, and you know everything you need to know about the world, you have my permission to leave this, leave it, leave it right now. Patricia De Los Sabeas says, how can I pay for the scripts? I'm really interested. So there's two ways. If you become a YouTube member, you can get some benefits like exclusive member videos or your name in every program and things like that. But if you just want the scripts that come out every week with the program, go to our website. And Adam, is there a button or is it on the left hand, or the right hand? If you scroll down to about the middle of the homepage, you'll be able to find it. It will take you to another site and you'll just have to sign up. You can use PayPal or whatever. Let us know if you have any trouble signing up depending on what country you're in. Yeah, contact. Yeah, contact at spotlightenglish.com is an email directly to me. I answer those. And so if you have any troubles, please email me at contact at spotlightenglish.com and I will point you in the right direction. And Yatta says, I also love Spider-Man and all heroes in Marvel Liz. Yeah. That's great. I gotta say, I think my favorite is Captain Marvel for obvious reasons. That movie was amazing. And you love a strong female protagonist? I do, I do. And that movie did make me cry. You know, she just keeps getting up. Okay, now I'm gonna get like all into Marvel. I do, I can talk about this for a long time. Maybe we need to have a special Marvel-based chat. Yes, a Marvel-based chat. Lynn in YouTube says in Asia, we don't have Halloween. So that's interesting. Very sad about that. If you do want to learn about Halloween, we have some great programs about Halloween. We have one called All About Halloween. We have one, if you are a person who loves scary stories, we have a program called Telling Scary Stories, which I did help make, but really creeps me out. There is a story about an island, which is the island of the dolls. There's a story in there about a Japanese spirit. And there's one more story. Oh, it's about a very famous story, Frankenstein. Oh yeah. If you enjoy those things, check out those programs. And there's also this week's program, Adam. Do you remember what it is? Oh, this week's is, I don't remember right now. Why am I blanking? It's about urban legends. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Urban legends. Yeah, that's one of my favorite things about Halloween are those stories that are like, could be true, but there's enough about them. You're like, probably not, but they could be true. You can't really tell. Yeah, I do not enjoy those stories. We do have a member here, Alberto Santos. Liz and Adam, thank you for all the programs you made, God bless you. You too, thank you so much for your message and thank you for your support. We love it when members participate. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, there's tons of, and we're always looking for more. And, oh, I have to say one more. From Villian Santana says, hello, I always listen to you on the podcast, but I didn't know your faces, so welcome. Here are our faces. Though I do not usually have a beard, that is a temporary, but check out the program, Beard Makes a Man. Oh yeah, that's true. Does a beard make a man. Does a beard make a man. I'm being, I'm being, Adam, it's not a statement. I'm being deliberately provocative so that people go and- So why is the beard? Is it for November or something? Every time I grow a beard, it's because I don't shave and then I get lazy and then it just is like, well, it's there. And then when I shave it off, I'm like, eh, it's time. I feel old, so I have a lot of white. Yeah, it is true. Although, I feel like- I'm gonna dye it all black, I think. For men, the white in a beard is distinguished. Yes, that's what we've convinced the world. We've convinced everybody. For women, it's not the same. If women get gray hair, then people just think, oh, you're old and that is totally not cool. No, no, Liz, I don't know if you know this, but in several ways, you've found, you've actually found one of them. It's a little harder to be a woman than it is to be a man. Do you think so? Oh, I'm coming to think that. I'm thinking that I'm discovering that. Oh, son says, Adam, your face is younger than your voice. Oh, well, I guess that's a compliment. I'm gonna take it as a compliment. I think it is. Maybe it means you have an older, distinguished voice. You know, there are times I'm talking to my children and I'll talk in one voice, but we do, Liz and I are both very experienced at using our voice in ways to make it sound a certain way. Thank you. I'll take it as a compliment. Okay, so I did wanna encourage people. If you have any questions about us or a program or English or, I don't know, whatever else, Marvel movies, feel free to write in the comments and we would love to chat with you about that. I do have a question from Christian on Facebook. Talking about Halloween, what is your favorite horror movie? So I'll go first if you wanna add. Okay, you have a favorite. My favorite horror movie is no horror movie because I will not watch horror movies. That's too scary. Sometimes even like a thriller I can't even handle because I get too involved in the emotions and the stuff of it. I think that the most horror-filled thing that I have watched is like a Doctor Who episode. Oh, Weeping Angels. Yeah, Doctor Who is an English television program. Again, it's in the sci-fi range. Yeah, yeah. And there are some very horror-like episodes. But as a movie, I just probably wouldn't watch that. I think the last horror movie I watched was maybe like 12 years ago, maybe 15 years ago. Yeah. Well, I will say one that has stuck with me is a, from probably 25 years ago now. Ooh, can I guess it? Oh, how about I'll tell you who's in it and that will, if you can guess it from then. Okay. So it stars Denzel Washington. Oh, that's not who I expected. No, it's a movie called Fallen. So the premise of this movie is there's a bad angel who possesses people, some kind of demon, who a fallen angel. And when someone gets killed or died, they float up in the air and they go to, it came out of a serial killer or something who was killed. And it passes from person to person but they always sing this song. Time, it's on my side. So every, so like, there's like a little kid who sings it and then it moves to an old person. And then, so the detective character is trying to figure out who this person is. And it's- The detective's gotta be Denzel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can't go wrong with Denzel. No, no, no. We have gotten lots of questions. What? Yes. Okay, so should we start a, should we start a, yeah, I hope that is, I feel like that's a movie that I maybe could watch. No, don't watch it. But maybe not. You'd be so creeped out. Too scary, yeah. All right, so some, Silvio says, about your advanced conversation program, would it be possible to make any free class as kind of experience or test? That's a great idea. Well, we are thinking about that. We are working on some very low cost options. We could, we will probably run some specials that will be free to just, we want people to test it. And so we'll let you know about that, for sure. Okay, so, and I love this idea from Alberto. Says, could you talk about some movies, like a movie club? That sounds amazing. Yeah. Yeah, let's write that down as an idea. Yeah. Man, wouldn't that be so fun? We could do Comedy Week. We could do. We have like the Spotlight Movie Club. Yes. We could take some suggestions. Talk about clips. That'd be so fun. First, every Marvel movie in order. No. Lena says, Friends is my favorite show. You what? Lena says, Friends, the show Friends is my favorite show. And I, we are a big, I'm a big fan of Friends. We actually have them on DVD. Now, I know everybody's streaming everything, but yeah, I'm old. So we don't watch them that way, but we still have them on DVD. That's true. Yeah, I have never, I have seen an episode or two of Friends, but I never watched it. It wasn't your thing. No. It was, yeah, I don't know. I will be honest, there are things about that show that here's a English phrase you can learn. It does not hold up, so or hold up well, which means. Yeah. As time goes by, some of the jokes or some of the stories seem a little inappropriate. Yeah, that is true. Trin says, What time is it in your country? Because it's almost midnight in Vietnam and I still keep on watching your live stream. Well, I don't know what time you need to wake up in the morning Trin, but hopefully, well, we usually keep this live stream to about half an hour. So we've got about five more minutes left. Yeah, and then you can go to bed. We should tuck you in. We'll make sure we say good night to all of you. Yeah, we're like a little lullaby. Yeah. Like, you know, you sing, you know, your kids to sleep or whatever. Yeah, maybe we could do that. And Asa has a great question. A movie club, what does that mean? So a movie club, a movie and a film, they're kind of like the same thing. I feel like film you use when something is like more important, like an independent film or like a documentary. It tells a story about a troubled man who wanders the earth and it's got some message about it. Yeah. And a movie is more like an entertainment, like, you know, a Marvel movie or something. But I don't think those are definite classifications. No. That's just what I feel those words mean, the connotations or the meanings of those words. So a movie club would be like a small group of people who maybe all watch the same movie. Like maybe we would all watch Spider-Man Homecoming. Yeah, we could even do like, don't certain platforms, you could do a, like we could all watch it at the same time. Yeah, they do. So you watch the movie. Watch Party, that's what they're called. A spotlight watch party. Yeah, and then you get together and you just talk about the movie. So you might talk about, you know, the plot and what you liked about it or what the movie was missing or whatever. So it's just a conversation, a group that meets together to have a conversation about a film or movie. That would be fun. Yeah, and I do love watching movies. So. We could just like live chat our watch party. Talk to each other while we watch it. Yes. Oh my goodness, that would be very fun. That would be fun. Yeah, I love this one from Fatima who says, hello, I want to tell you that your channel was very useful for me to get six banned in IELTS exam. Well, congratulations on that. That's great. Great job. And I'm so glad that we could be a part of that with you. Yeah, and if you're new to this channel, if you just happened to stumble upon us, we would say, hey, welcome. Do all the things you know you're supposed to do. Like, subscribe, blah, blah, blah. But also just know that you belong here, that maybe you don't understand what every word we're saying, maybe you do. But there's definitely, as you get into these programs, you're gonna find a way to learn and to practice your English. So welcome when we're glad to have you. Yeah, it looks like our time is almost done. 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