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1.what's up everyone in this video you will watch a long and natural conversation between my friend Luke and I Luke is another Canadian like me who has lived in Hanoi for quite a while and he's also a rapper so you can check out his music in the description below but anyway the conversation begins with us talking about uh how we feel to be on camera Cera like me right now and then we'll talk about many other things but it is completely natural I think you guys will learn a lot of useful phrases and useful words I hope you enjoy the video here it is I don't know about you but do you often get the feeling like when you're in front of the camera that you have to kind of perform yeah I guess that's only natural right like immediately it's uh becomes unnatural to do something that you've maybe done a 100 times like that's why acting is so hard but people don't people look at acting and like it doesn't look hard like oh he's just talking to this person I talk to people all day long but as soon as it's like lights camera action talk naturally exactly as soon as it's like being natural on command immediately makes it unnatural and it's so hard for people to do right right yeah oh interesting story um you know Goodwill Hunting the movie I've heard of it but I've never actually seen it same it's apparently it's like a classic that uh it's like a mustat but so the story behind that movie is Matt Damon and Ben Affleck apparently wrote the script and this was before they were super famous oh yeah yeah and they like wrote the script themselves cuz they weren't getting many chances to like have a big role and like they would audition but maybe it wouldn't work out and so they were like let's just make our own movie and do our own acting right and so they wrote this so they would be perfect for the role because they wrote it for themselves right right exactly and so they wrote it um apparently it got rejected a bunch of times but then it was eventually accepted by the infamous Harvey Weinstein oh yeah yeah so yeah he accepted it and I'm pretty sure that was like the breakout movie for those two actors oh yeah I didn't know that yeah so it's a it's an interesting story but you haven't seen it haven't seen it haven't seen it but heard about it heard heard it's good I think the story is pretty like inspiring yeah how those people can go from pretty much being unknown yeah and then writing their own movie that is good of course I guess it has to be good and then uh now we all know who they are yeah overnight success doesn't happen overnight right right from the outside success happens after years of trying to make the overnight success happen exactly exactly like people think um cuz that's all they see so it's like oh some sort of bias I forget what you call it like a survivorship bias or something yeah I guess some people get L luckier with it um you know some artists will break out after not being you know not trying to make it for so long some people try for 15 years and then finally they've made it as a successful musician or something some happens way sooner than that right but usually regardless it's like they've been trying for a long time it doesn't just like wasn't their first try like played made one song and like blew up or whatever right 100% usually the case it's great seeing people like 35 years old 40 years old that just kind of break through and you know that that's some dedication bro like yeah to be a rapper who's trying to make it for example for like your whole life yeah so many people would give up before they're 40 and then uh definitely finally break through like that's pretty awesome yeah I'm pretty sure another example of that is uh JK Rowling with her book Harry Potter I forget how old she was when she wrote the first Harry Potter I could be wrong about this but I'm pretty I'm pretty sure she was in her I guess 30s but nowadays 30 is kind of the new 20 like yeah it's not that old like we're like that old bro I know I know damn what have I been doing with my life man yeah well I think she was like in her in her mid-30s and when she wrote Harry Potter and it got rejected there's always those stories right yeah there's a big list of people of the people who have been rejected so many times and now they're super successful like Oprah yeah yeah yeah and other people right and then those fake stories where it's like he failed science in grade six he was told by his teachers he would never be anything yeah that man was Albert Ein like was it though was it really did they say that were you there yeah same thing like he was he was kicked off his school basketball team he was shorter than all the he twisted his ankle on a Tuesday in fourth grade doctors told him he would never walk again Michael Jordan yeah right so uh but yeah they're like it definitely I believe it it really is never too late for for sure do whatever I think it's just a mindset you know as soon as you give up it's too late exactly but like just just don't give up man right you haven't failed until you quit really like it just happens with so many things like a good analogy I thought of the other day is when it comes to film making um as a videographer we take many takes of the same thing and it never sometimes but it's almost never the perfect take on the first take right it's just how it is you do a take it's bad in a few different ways you adjust it you know take two take three take four and then maybe it's 10 takes maybe it's 20 and you've got it yeah but in life if you take one take and then say Oh I can't I can't do this then you just give up it's like you just made yourself fail yeah you just keep adjusting until you get to where you want to go you know what I mean that is a a good analogy I think yeah it definitely applies to pretty much everything and as long as you can do something make the mistake acknowledge your mistake right yeah I feel like learning from it yeah you you you have to learn from it that definitely is important some people will kind of keep doing the same thing over and over keep failing over and over and blame like the universe and not yeah not not ask why not see how they can improve or adapt to the changing environment yeah yeah I guess I could even have my own story for that so I don't know if I ever sent you my YouTube videos where I tell a true story like of uh kind of like a dark story uh I vaguely remember I think you did I kind of remember something like that were they like crime yeah yeah okay yeah so um there was this channel called Mr Ballin that really inspired me to make those videos and I pretty much took his format and made it for learning English yeah so I made this channel where I told true stories that um I thought were really interesting and I could even still post them to my channel see if people like it but at first these these videos took me like 40 50 hours to make just through writing the script editing filming all that stuff I'm sure you know and then yeah I got like not many views and I did that three times and all three of them kind of failed and I assumed there just people just didn't want to watch those types of stories but I'm thinking I might re-upload them to my channel now that there's more of an a and see if they're interested in that yeah that's that's the thing I think if um if you find anything interesting or entertaining there are many people that also do right it just can be a challenge to get those people to see it right on the internet social media um so it can be discouraging if it doesn't get a lot of views but it doesn't mean it's bad yeah just means you haven't like cracked the code or it just it could could just be unlucky yeah but usually it just means you got to just keep going and that's why you got to be doing something that you like that you're not doing like for the views because as soon as it doesn't get views it's like oh well then why am I doing this at all yeah right yeah but if you do something you enjoy at its root and you're passionate about it that can give you the motivation to keep going until it does become successful or reach you know lots of people 100% 100% cuz making videos is is a lot of work oh yeah I feel like people don't really understand how much work goes into making videos oh yeah for sure lots of people don't understand that until you make one yeah it's like I I never knew how much work it took until I made the first one I'm sure the same for you exactly yeah you watch movies and you don't even think about it yeah a three-hour movie that has half a million dollar production yeah and you don't even think about it really work that goes into it yeah until until you do or until you have experience that shows you insight to how they actually did that and how many countless hours and how many people needed to pull that off right and uh I guess it's a it's a curse sometimes CU I can't fully immerse myself in a movie as often because I'm thinking about how it was filmed or oh that was good acting like or you know why did the director choose this angle or like you know what I mean something like I'm not I'm reminded that it is a movie and good movies are supposed to immerse you in the story not show you that they are a movie True um yeah yeah yeah no um yeah because some some comments on my channel will be like oh make a new video every day please my dude this is like yeah I I I would if I could yeah but like in order to make quality videos it takes time and it takes thought and sometimes the video I put out like you said that's literally the seventh time I filmed that video because the other few times I filmed it I didn't like it I didn't like the energy or I messed up on something that was hard to fix or the audio went wrong or whatever right this pointless things they don't see they see a three-minute video and think it it takes three minutes yeah yeah right exactly in the in the film making industry as well there's clients that are they just don't know we don't blame them but hey can you come and make a quick video for us we just need like a two-minute video so you come in film for like two minutes good to go yeah we're like no not good to go at all takes 30 minutes to set up the camera for one scene countless editing countless color grading hours sound design and yeah if you're doing something that you want to be proud of yeah you have a different criteria than your audience right yeah you you probably those seven videos that you didn't post if you did post them they probably wouldn't be complaining your audience probably wouldn't be complaining about the things that bothered you CU it's of you true um I think that's kind of human yeah to look at yourself in a different uh judgmental perspective we are our own worst critic is that the spotlight effect or is that something that with the spotlight effect where I guess it's kind of different the spotlight effect is you always think people are thinking about you more than they are like if you get a haircut and you walk down the street you feel like oh wow I'm so different right now my haircut is like everybody could notice it but they don't at all they're all one they're all thinking about themselves right exactly um you get a new pair of shoes and you like feel different you're like oh yeah my like people are going to see my Shoes glowing right now yeah you feel different and you're so super conscious about that but nobody else is at all like they just see a dude right have no idea wearing shoes yeah exactly so same thing for if you make mistakes and stuff people AR like oh you made a mistake true true I mean sometimes they do sometimes and on the internet people do like to point out mistakes right um but I guess that was a a little tangent away from the point that I was trying to say originally which was that you have a higher standard for you have a high standard for what you want to put out and that's good right so it takes longer to achieve that than just press record and edit it and get it out there want your audience to be to know that you do care about the content that you're putting out you're not just churning out oh this video did well I need to make more more more more yeah you want to still make keep them good yeah 100% 100% like um yeah if I released everything that I ever made I feel like yeah well there would be more content but there would also be maybe maybe maybe it wouldn't be a difference maybe people would have still enjoyed it but I wouldn't have felt the same about it and I'm sure yeah it's the same for you like you you have to feel good about something you're putting out when it's got your name on it maybe your face on it and and um I yeah I think it's just natural as humans to some extent right to some extent because if you are so particular about what you do put out that you don't put out anything yeah then it's just hurting you and at that point you need to get it out that's kind of been my approach to making music um I like to not think at all about the music that I'm making and just let it happen and put it out and then later I kind of look back on it and go well how could I have made this better or did I like what I did in this song because I found myself getting in these periods of time where I really think about what I want to do with this song and I overthink it and I'm thinking oh people are going to like if I do this people are going to like if I do this I got to do that and I'm creating from a space of for them right like what's going to get people to look at this or listen to this most and then it just ends up not being a good song that I'm proud of in the end okay you know what I mean um if that makes sense it does totally make sense I feel like for artistic things it makes even more sense because like art like music for example is and art I'm pretty sure by definition is subjective all right and like be able to be inter red differently by different people so definitely for art yeah and I guess it's also the purpose that you're making it for because it can easily start to become it's like the reason you started and the reason you were so passionate about it is one thing right and then it can start to become more like a chore or like work yeah and it's like you don't enjoy it anymore because you're thinking only about what would people want as opposed to like what you want to make right and then there's the difficulty because well at the same time you want people to listen to it right exactly that's the struggle yeah so it's like how to find that line of what people want and what you want to make that is super diff exactly it's it's not so black and white um yeah bottom line is you you got to take action yeah do stuff yeah yeah be have your guidelines and your criteria make it better um don't release it and then make it better and then release it uh to some extent yeah I'd say like uh yeah and for many people whoever is listening to this and like if they are creating something I would say personally um create whatever you're doing doesn't need to be perfect but try every time you make something new try to improve it in just one way more than before like improve one thing about it that's why I think it's important to take the action or complete the video or song and get it out and then look back on it and like use that as the foundation to make the next one a little bit better like you said instead of like trying to make the first one perfect before you put it out that will hinder you because the more times you do it the just the better it'll get instead of trying to get it the best possible thing you've ever made on the first try just like make one and make one like that's just how it works for for many things I'm sure anybody in the creative space would agree like just just do the thing and learn from the thing and then do it more and do it better exactly exactly yeah I think it really applies for everything for even learning an instrument for sports for whatnot um and also like and I I had this issue with the kind of perfectionist mindset and it made it so when I had to film I would be anxious because now it's like to film can't make a single mistake right so I think it it's really important that yeah people people uh just enjoy the process enjoy the process exactly and honestly like I feel like your uh subconscious learns things too even if you don't consciously think about a mistake or think about improving something I feel like subconsciously we just get better at things by doing it just by doing it for sure absolutely yeah I hope the uh cat doesn't uh pull out any cords here he see he's rubbing he just might rip the whole camera down come here come here buddy come get in the camera people probably want to see you come here God you are just so cute come here yes oh he's going to take his time I think no I'd rather scratch the couch Yeah scratch the couch and then walk in the opposite direction thanks D so um so yeah Luke you're you're moving right I'm moving yeah it's so far away it's like not far away at all um where are you it's actually the closest distance I have ever moved from the from A to B from A to B yeah um literally one alley over Nice Like H how did you find that new apartment um a friend of ours is a real estate oh the one I met Jess's friend yeah she was at the World trip of media launch party that that's where you met her she's a real estate agent she knows that we've been kind of looking for a new place not really in a rush to move just kind of keeping our eyes open for some options and um that one's a two-bedroom which I've always wanted to make I've always wanted a two bedrooms so that I have a one room to dedicate to making music as a studio right now I just have a one bedroom and um anyway so she found this option sent us some pictures me and my wife said oh that looks pretty good let's go see it and then you said it's oh it's right near your house you can just walk I'm like okay and then as soon as I walked out of my gate and you know few steps down the lane and I turn left and there she has she's like hey it's it's right here walk a few more steps into the next Lane and it's right there so nice I think it'd be funny if I rented a truck to pick me up and pack all the stuff in there and drive like five feet like thank you unload the stuff there we're here now yeah so yeah you're still in the area that you're familiar with yeah you still know you know and now you got an extra bedroom well this one will have a living room and two bedrooms right yeah so one bedroom you will use to to sleep and the other one yeah sleep the sleeping room will be like your uh your studio recording room yeah do you just plan how do you plan to like cuz right now you record in a closet right yeah I'll probably it's an up I'll probably still actually record in the closet in the studio we'll see how how it works it is hard to beat a closet in terms of like sound isolation yeah exactly yeah um then I can kind of keep the mic there um ready to be used but right I guess the the the main thing I'm excited about is just the space to um put the desk and maybe a couple chairs so much room for activities um have my guitar and stuff there so I can actually use them they're available like ready to be played you know yes I'm not like stuck away in my closet yes till I eventually take them out once a year that is a big deal um cuz currently I the mic is in the closet which is fine but my bedroom is pretty small so there's just when I'm facing the closet and recording like this the bed is right behind me so I put my chair on the bed and put my laptop on the chair to kind of yell into my closet like a weirdo but it's nice to just have like a a dedicated space where everything is set up and ready 100% you have to move things around cuz that's like any uh resistance I'm sure you've experienced this in filming oh what like you have your filming room where you have tape on the floor where you're going to put your chair exactly you got you know where your camera's going you know your lights going and most of the time it just stays there so there's it's friction a frictionless experience like I want to film oh now I got to set up the camera for the 100th time before I can film exctly right or it's just I got to film I want to film all I have to do is sit in this chair and it's all set up I can go ahead and film right yeah no 100% actually last night I was watching a video for how to create a desk setup and um do you know like think media with Omar L I forget the guy's name yeah but they have some interesting videos on how to how to set up um basically um YouTube setups because for for filming for filming yeah because yeah setting up the camera setting up the light getting it right time after time it is annoying and sometimes it can like kill the energy that you had I find like I'm in the mood to film but then I start to set everything up something goes wrong I get annoyed and then like my my mood is like not as good as it was before yeah whereas if they have these setups where it's like the camera's there the lights there and they literally flick a switch and then the setup is good to go yeah and maybe the only thing would be um taking the camera off of the quick Mount and then putting it somewhere else but if I had a setup where all I had to do was take the camera put it on the thing and press record then that would be such yeah a smooth setup yeah then you just get right into your into your creation your idea is fresh and yeah just makes sense right don't have to move stuff around yeah so I guess um the last thing we'll talk about today is uh uh the trip we got coming up we're going to B bavi I always say bavi but it's bavi bavi yeah bavi three because huh right three because those would those those two words separately have those meanings in some context right B 3 V because yeah yeah we're going to the three because area uh to a nice little home stay enjoy some nature but it's going to be hot there's a heat wave right now yeah this is like mid July temps and yeah and it's what month is it it's still April right yeah yeah yeah I think it's uh there there's a heatwave um I read about the Heatwave it's killed a few PE people in Thailand oh damn CU in Bangkok and stuff it's even hotter yeah it would be it's very sad for the people who uh you know don't have uh I guess what we have in terms of air conditioning shelter and stuff you know this heat is insane yeah not being able to get out of the heat for any extended period of time would be brutal for sure right at least we can complain about it while we're driving and then when we get home we can turn on the air conditioning yeah yeah see people in Hano here working in construction in the middle of this heat like wow even when I was filming the other day outside I was I was crouched and I had my sun shirt on and an umbrella over top of me and I was filming some fashion video and every time I stood up I like almost passed out really just I guess just cuz it was so hot um yeah and that wasn't even for very long and that wasn't that intensive of a task really right but yeah just the Heat is so brutal yeah the heat is um and it's not the heat it's the humidity that very true in it is true though it is true and uh there is that joke that that's the uh you know things dad say things dad say yeah yeah the humidity here is no joke it is indeed what gets you it it is what gets you yeah so uh stay hydrated stay cooli sweat do you drink that I do sometimes yeah it's pretty good I just I remember seeing that for the first time I thought it was the weirdest thing ever that it's sweat it was called sweat in English it's very weird to see something that you drink called sweat like I want to drink Sweat Right just but it actually tastes good it does the drink not actual sweat yeah not not quite as salty as sweat yeah but imagine it's just produced in a factory with a bunch of dudes just running on treadmills all the sweat just dripping down funneling into the large vat yeah just has the parari sweat name on it Pari well and like sweat is salty and I wonder that and they and they say when when we sweat I I hope I don't sound really stupid here but when when we sweat we lose electrolytes right yeah and they're like oh it's important to replenish those electrolytes so if you just drink sweat your sweat right I wonder if that be healthy or not I wonder like if a bit of sweat drips down my lip or something touches my tongue is I'm like is this beneficial is this rehydrating or not you know what I mean I think we're going to have to Google that when this is done yeah oh dude I need a a Jamie yeah pull that up Jamie Jamie can you look that up pleas Google that for us right now for anyone who doesn't know what that means should I Google it right now sure do you use chat GPT app on on your phone I don't have a chat GPT on my phone dude K watch this you have to see this chat g chat GPT is better than Google okay look i' I already got it open right I'm going to go to the mic should we drink sweat our own sweat does it replenish our electrolytes boom it knows exactly what I said and chat GPT says drinking your own sweat isn't recommended all forward that it's the answer we didn't want to hear although sweat does contain some electrolytes it also includes significant amounts of waste products that your body has expelled such as Uria oh that UA got to get that out I'm pretty sure that is what what is UA it's in your PE we're going to go in a rabbit hole right now aren't we I think so I guess that's kind of like the same thing as urine right they say if you're stranded and dying of rehydration or of dehydration and you drink your pee it has so much bad stuff in it anyways right yeah I think is I can't actually remember the end verdict like if you're about to die is drinking your pee good I think they say you can drink it once oh yeah I I think I remember hearing you drink it again then it's like drinking your PE PE yeah like ption yes too much bad stuff in there yeah it's like P Squared and it's just like exponentially worse for you so moreover remember that kids only drink your pee once yeah once okay um moreover sweat is mostly water so when you sweat you're losing fluid drinking it would be counterproductive because it's already depleted of the necessary amounts of electrolytes for proper hydration that makes sense so the next logical question is can we drink our pee can you drink your pee if you're stranded in the desert and you don't have any water you never know when you'll need this information right like imagine on our trip to bav we get lost in the mountains good thing we looked it up never know drinking urine in a survival situation like being stranded in a desert is not advisable initially urine can be relatively sterile and mostly water but as you become more dehydrated it becomes highly concentrated with waste products and toxins that your body has expelled consuming it can increase the burden on your kidneys and potentially lead to faster dehydration and additional Health complications dang so imagine drinking your pee and it doesn't even help you oh yeah it just makes you more sick terrible experience all around right so I guess the the moral is don't just bring water with you if you go out yeah don't get and don't go off the trail yeah stay sometimes it pays to just not be adventurous yeah there's a lot of stories again from Mr Ballin stories of people who uh literally just wanted to try something out oh let's just go this way what could go wrong right things went very wrong and it like didn't end well but um yeah I mean uh that's pretty much uh yeah I guess we'll cut right there as for the audience as for those of you who are still watching this if you could understand most of what we were saying then your English is pretty good I'd say so yeah because this is how we would talk if we were just sitting out right I was half trying to be a little bit slower but I don't think I was speaking very slowly I was going to tell you like slow it down just a little bit but then I kept forgetting yeah but I it's hard to be natural and think about how you're talking yeah right yeah but I think it's a good challenge it's a good challenge because eventually you guys will have to listen to full speed English right and it's funny because I was talking a little bit slower and then you were talking more at a normal speed um and so it's good like practice it's like okay listen to me all right now listening to Luke hard mode engaged hard mode and uh of course there's going to be subtitles down below so um but yeah this is just how to improve your listening you got to go through the trenches through the mud got to do it yep got to listen to stuff you don't understand yeah as hard as that can be sometimes that's what I'm doing with Vietnamese oh yeah slowly understanding more and more of the words but in the beginning it is hard to listen to something that means nothing to you right just sounds like noise but uh slowly and surely it reinforces all the vocabulary that you're learning in real real life scenarios yeah got to do it some people um I got some emails some people told me like uh oh don't put um Vietnamese subs or speak faster and I'm like and I'm thinking well the Vietnamese Subs you don't have to read them if you don't understand you can read them they're there to be convenient right and there to be like okay I didn't I understood each word in this sentence but I didn't understand the meaning of the sentence and so when that happens you can look at the subtitles right to get the Nuance of the word I'm sure that Happ that happens to me many times I know all of these Vietnamese words what does this mean what's the message of this sentence yeah exactly I think most people would say that because it's hard to see words on the screen and not read them that is true um but most people probably appreciate the subtitles I know I would um so they can probably just put tape over the screen or something they can deal with it in some way Simple Solution Simple Solution yeah adapt and provide overcome yeah um yeah there there are always ways um are you listening to any channels in particular for Vietnamese right now um I have been watching Andrew babang yeah uh just because he you recommended him and I don't really know many other channels so I've been watching some of his Vlogs to uh get used to that natural speech at a normal speed yep um for when I want that type of of input but U it's really helpful to just be in Vietnam where people are speaking Vietnamese all the time and in situations where I used to kind of ignore all the all the sound all the sound of people talking I would just ignore it as noise yeah don't understand it anyways now I try to just pay attention and use that as a listening exercise and slowly picking up more and more words using it uh the cat is in the bag oh yeah he loves bags using um yeah using like the real life situations to learn and it helps a lot because especially if it's people that I'm with that are talking Vietnamese most of the time I can pick out the contexts in in their conversation like what are they talking about yeah usually I can pick that out based on what's happening around us and yeah uh it's really helpful to reinforce what you know when it's in real life situations happening to you yeah yeah yeah it is and and I think our brains our brains need that context and uh extra information to really form good connections and really learn things um yeah the one thing Vlogs are good I really like when people talk to the camera but the one thing that's missing is kind of the context right because they are just sitting there and talking right right and nothing really changes and I mean unless it's a vlog where they go around and they're literally talking about what they're doing yeah then that definitely helps but for the videos where they stand kind of like this and just talk and you don't have visual cues visual context then it could make it a bit harder but e but nonetheless it's still yeah extremely extremely important and the main thing is is just uh don't give up but I just wish Vietnam had some like breaking bads or some better call Saws some really good TV shows make so much easier to learn that would be good yeah in a Northern accent ideally for us being in hooi right yeah there there are a lot of there are a lot of shows but um most of the most famous ones right are in southern like uh right all of the all of the movies on Netflix are basically Southern right but um yeah I think we'll uh we'll wrap up this conversation here so yeah guys that will be our that is going to wrap up our conversation for today I hope you enjoyed it I hope you um were able to pick up on a few words a few phrases and um Luke is there anything you want to you want to say before we finish it's the humidity that gets you all right guys so um that'll be it for the day for this video um hope you have a good one and we'll see you in the next video peace