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How Guam? You alright bruv? You wanna fight me fam? Come and get me. Let's fight innit?

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You get me fam?

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Shut up bruv. I'm listening to Zdenek's English podcast innit?

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You're listening to Zdenek's English podcast. By far the greatest English podcast on earth

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for English learners since sliced bread. My name is Zdenek and I'm your host.

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Hi listeners of Zdenek's English podcast. Welcome to another episode. I promised to you in the last

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one that I would publish the episode with Ben, Ben Gill from the To The Point English with Ben

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but it's not happening. There is another one that I have to do first and that's this one.

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It's not the most enjoyable one for me but I'll have to do it anyway. Just to give you a bit of

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context I'm actually walking towards the town center from my place from where I am based which

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is a village on the outskirts of the town called Podiebrady and the long-term listeners of Zdenek's

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English podcast might remember that I used to record a series with my cousin called Road to

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Civilization and in that series I would basically go with my cousin to the town center from that

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village and we would always talk about some animal sounds that we would hear on our way

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and there's a forest you have to go through so I'm doing exactly that. So I've got about 20 minutes

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to do this and there's a reason for it. There are a few things I would like to share with you.

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Where do I begin? Where do I start? Well I should start from the beginning right?

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Well basically guys yesterday wasn't the best day of my life. First of all I had to go to a

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dentist and the first well there you go there's a dog barking so it started with a dentist.

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I actually made a mistake and I went there too early but fortunately the person that was supposed

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to have an appointment at 8 a.m. didn't show up so I could go instead of them but my appointment was

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for 1 p.m. Can you believe it? I actually messed up the time difference because when I was making

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that appointment via a Skype call from Vietnam I didn't realize that the time difference

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was the thing. So yeah anyway it was fine. I mean it really wasn't because

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the previous my previous visits to a dentist were okay. Like you know my teeth have been all right

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for a long time. Well not anymore so apparently I had a few cavities. Small ones apart from those

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that I had on my teeth number eight. I don't know if it's how you say it in English but basically

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on your eighth teeth the further the further most teeth you have in your mouth and your jaw

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whatever you say yeah those teeth that are far far the furthest away from the front if that makes

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any sense or the further most I don't know how you say this you know what I mean those that

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are furthest in your mouth and those that sometimes are referred to as the wisdom teeth okay. So you

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know often people have problems with their wisdom teeth when they are sort of cutting through the

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gum because they hurt and they don't root in properly and often people have have to have these

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wisdom teeth pulled. Well that wasn't my case. My wisdom teeth had been okay well until yesterday

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when my dentist sent me to have an x-ray and found out that I've got cavities on two of them.

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So not one but two of them and one apparently is not pretty bad but it's you know there's a cavity

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there and the issue is that she can't get in there because it's too far away so she can't

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get in there with a drill she can't drill a hole there you see so instead of drilling a hole

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that wisdom tooth sorry I'm crossing the road here and just let me focus for a bit

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so I don't want to get run over by a car I should have to run a little bit here okay I've done it

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you see in Vietnam you should never do that you should never run in Vietnam when you're crossing

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the road but here in the Czech Republic is the other way around yeah anyway

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Hi I'm Helen I like the achievers chamber because it's a nice place where I can learn

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in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. For more information about the achievers chamber

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go to teachesdenek.com. Anyway going back to my tooth story so yeah I will have to have my

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tooth number eight pulled taken out removed from my mouth and I've never done that I think the last

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time someone pulled the tooth out of my mouth was ages ago it's probably when I was 10 but it was my

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do you say milk teeth in in Czech we say milk teeth the first teeth that grow and that always

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fall out quickly right when you're around nine or ten or something like that so that that might have

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happened then but since then my teeth have been all right you know so this is this is really annoying

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and disappointing and I'll have to have two teeth pulled out so I have been booked for an appointment

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with a surgeon and yeah so a few surgeries for me coming up soon which is a bit annoying it's not the

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only one I don't want to talk about the other one but it's nothing it shouldn't be anything serious

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yeah touch wood I don't actually have any wood here so if I were superstitious I would actually

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be a little bit afraid now but I am not superstitious so I don't care I can also touch my

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sort of head which obviously is full of wood not really but you know I say it as a joke yeah

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so as I'm walking towards the forest yeah I have to tell you that I'll have two of my

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teeth pulled I have to repeat that because it's so important for you as my listeners obviously

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this is the kind of information you have all been waiting for isn't it because someone said the other

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day on my website sorry on my youtube channel there was a comment saying that apparently you

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listeners like me to talk about my private life which I then

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which I then had to play down a little bit by saying oh my life is boring actually guys sorry

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for that short interruption somebody was there and they were looking at me so I got a bit

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self-conscious and also they greeted me so I waved my hand back I didn't want to speak Czech on this

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podcast so I wave my hand back can you imagine what wouldn't I do for you my listeners I don't

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want to confuse you speaking another language on this podcast so yes so my teeth yeah they've got

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to go and I've got a couple of surgeries lined up it's not pleasant right it's some of it is

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happening this month the teeth will be happening next month and it's not everything the day didn't

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go very well for me yesterday it all went from from bad to worse listeners so what happened well

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I've got a problem with my host with pot bean and I will have to deal with it in one way or another

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basically my other podcast Denk of czech podcast the next czech podcast is doing quite well actually

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I would say that in terms of popularity it has surpassed Zdeněk's English podcast it is what it

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is and I wonder why it is it's probably because there is more competition when it comes to English

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podcasts out there almost every English teacher has a has an English podcast but when it comes

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to podcasts for Czech learners or learners of the Czech language well that's that's a different story

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because I think there's still not enough of good podcasts and that's why my podcast has been

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one of the popular ones let's say out there for Czech learners so I have currently got 40 patrons

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40 people that support my podcast and they get an extra episode every week but unfortunately

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pot bean my my host or the the hosting platform that I've been using for both my Czech and this

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English podcast they have recently sent me an email which I read yesterday properly because

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I didn't have time before and in that email they are pretty much threatening me to to end my plan

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the current plan which I have had with them since 2017 and that plan was relatively cheap

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it's like I pay 10 dollars or something every month but I have to do it for for each podcast so

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so it's 20 in total or something like that I may not be saying it precisely the point is

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the point is they're threatened to end this program to end this plan unless I upgrade to a

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higher tier plan because I think the plan that I'm on currently is no longer offered by them yeah so

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basically they are forcing me to upgrade and I think they tried the same with me a few years ago

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I think it was back in the covid time and I basically negotiated with them since I don't

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really have this podcast monetized and the Czech podcast was relatively small back then I managed

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to negotiate with them to keep to keep the the current plan right the plan that I had from from

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the big that I've had since the beginning but unfortunately now it turns out that I really have

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to upgrade if if I want to keep having my patrons they have already suspended the ability or they

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suspended that plan for me so I cannot publish any more mini lessons for my Czech learners which is

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annoying so by the way I have to speak a little bit quieter here because I'm entering an area where

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there's some people working and you know I don't want to scare them off too much and as you know

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I get self-conscious when I'm around people speaking English because I feel like I'm being

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watched and listened to and listening listening on is the is the phrase of our pride when somebody

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is listening in on you basically eavesdropping is another verb to eavesdrop yeah you may hear some

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interesting sounds of different machines here currently so I'm give me a few more seconds

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and I'll be out I'll be out here yeah so um yeah I'm talking about the the problems I have with

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Podbean right now and it actually pissed me off I have to yeah that it really made me angry because

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yeah you kind of you kind of don't want to deal with stuff like that because the plan they're

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asking me to upgrade to is basically three times as expensive as the current one and imagine if I

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have to do it for both podcasts for each of my podcasts then that gets quite expensive doesn't it

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so considering there is another podcast that I am planning to start soon I don't know if I've

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mentioned it I think I did right yeah I'm planning to start a podcast about football because

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you know I love football and currently I teach four people from the Czech football sort of let's say

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industry right I teach three journalists and one manager one football manager from the Czech league

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so he asked me not to name him so I would love to say his name because I think he's well known

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but I'm not gonna because he asked me not to do that you see you see how how much integrity I have

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now you have to you have to it's the right thing to do I think right so yeah it's it's it's a

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logical next step for me to start a new podcast so I'm already in the process of making my own logo

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which by the way you guys can help me vote on because I have I have given you the option

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giving you the option to help me choose my logo which I have this time designed myself it's it's

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a placeholder logo it can be changed in the future if someone comes up with something better

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basically this time there will be my face there the podcast will be called the foot glitch podcast

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improve your english with football something like that right so the foot glitch podcast foot

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as in football glitch as in english you see very clever right yeah I came up with this actually

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myself can you believe it I did ask ggpt to help me with some tag lines for the podcast

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something like the foot glitch podcast where football meets english stuff like that right

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so a few tag lines which I can use for my voiceover and I have been in communication with

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someone from the UK who will make a jingle for me because I don't want to I don't want to make

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an AI jingle I actually want to pay for my jingle this time because I want to do things properly you

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see and we will see we will see guys it's the point is yeah just bringing all this back to

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the pod bean issues now I'm going to have three podcasts right I still have this podcast as well

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which yeah it doesn't have any patrons but it's all voluntary like patrons don't get anything

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extra right now so no wonder what I could do is I could come up with something but at the moment

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the best thing you can get from me is to become an achievers chamber member which you know everything

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about because I've been promoting it on this podcast many times and you can find everything

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about how to become an achievers chamber member on my website teachersdenek.com but what to do now so

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I can never imagine I cannot imagine paying 100 dollars a month for three podcasts which would be

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what I what I have to do because this is the is the lower lowest tier plan that you have to go for

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when you're with pod bean it's just way too expensive for me so I've been looking for some

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other options and it turns out that I'm in luck because actually it looks like there are some

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there are some reasonable possibilities I can go for one of them is Captivate. Captivate offers

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basically for one under one account you can have three you can have as many podcasts as you want so

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that's exactly what I need so I started talking to Captivate which is this hosting platform right for

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every podcast needs one I used to be on Podomatic first then I went to audio boom and now I'm with

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Podbean so I started talking to Captivate and I send them an email and they communicate with me

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via automized messages and AI so there's not an actual person talking to me which has put me off

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it has actually put me off and I got upset you might think Zenec don't you get upset too easily

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right shouldn't you calm down a bit shouldn't you take a chill pill yeah probably but you know what

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I mean when things make you angry I think the best reaction to it is just let off some steam

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you know just be authentic just experience our emotions right that's the way to do it so

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yeah I basically realized that I don't want to work with Captivate because if this is how they

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want to talk to me via a robot then I might as well go for someone else by the way there's someone

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on their phone you're gonna hear them because they're quite loud so don't get scared it's

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happening that person has just ended their phone call fortunately so I can carry on recording this

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podcast it did sound scary because she was also angry why is everybody angry here these days

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including myself something in the air right so it's not gonna be Captivate I found another one

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which is cheaper than Captivate and which seems reasonable and they actually talk to me as human

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beings yes they sent me an email can you believe it it's definitely an upgrade compared to Captivate

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so this podcasting host is rss.com which is great because now I will never forget

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I will never forget this RSS which I sometimes do which is the feed that you use

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if you want to have your podcast so basically I will be I will use their service I will pay for

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their service which is much cheaper actually than what I would have to go for with this

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plan with Potbean that they are forcing me into this one will only cost 200 200 no 20 sorry 20

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euros or 20 dollars monthly and I can have as many podcasts as I as I want to so that's that's

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perfect right so I can start my new football podcast the footglitch podcast and continue with

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my zenex english podcast which is this podcast let's not confuse anyone here yeah if you are

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already confused about the number of podcasts I have you're not the only one I'm struggling myself

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and imagine if you also have to code switch if you have to record podcasts your your podcasts in

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different languages don't worry the the football podcast will not be in Vietnamese because I can't

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speak that language it will be in English so two podcasts in English one podcast in Czech

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in case you're learning Czech wow so the only issue is so the biggest issue the biggest sort of

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the the the biggest loss of all this is that I will lose all my patrons of the Czech podcast

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and it does take time to build up that sort of that sort of group of people who who support you

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and when you sort of restart it only the the most faithful ones and only those that listen

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to every single episode every single week will become patrons so I may have like five patrons

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to start with right after I restarted with on rss.com and yeah so that that's that's annoying

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but it is what it is I'm gonna be using hero hero which is a Czech Czech um service for it's like a

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place where you can have your patrons basically right patreon.com is the most famous one I think

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so it's like imagine patreon.com but there is a Czech service like that so I'll be I'm gonna be

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using hero hero for that because that's what most content creators in the Czech Republic seem to

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go for these days it's it's very popular here in my country so yeah I just have to get over the

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fact that I will make less money these days because of that uh let's say hiccup it's it's a little

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sort of bump in the road yeah but I'll get over it and we will continue as we used to so yeah

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about that English about that new English podcast Footglitch obviously I'm gonna ask you for your

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support um it will be about football as you could have guessed probably probably I will be talking

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about the Premier League now the Euros the international football I think since I have

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three clients three students who are from the Czech football sort of industry I think it's it's

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it's logical that I will also speak about Czech football a little bit right from the point of view

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of a Czech fan but I'm planning it to make it international as well so I will be interviewing

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different football fans from different countries for the Euros so if you happen to be from countries

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that have a team in the Euros and you would like to feature on my new podcast as a fan we could

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record an interview get get in touch with me send me an email at teachersdenek at gmail.com

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and we will take it from there all right especially if you are from a country which is

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something like like a smaller country you know or a country that doesn't have so many inhabitants

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right I can imagine Georgia might be one of those countries it's your first time at the Euros I would

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love to talk to you especially because Czech Republic Czechia are also playing against Georgia

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in their group in their group stage so yeah get in touch with me hopefully I will also record

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episodes with other podcasters I will obviously invite some people that I used to do the the

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football show with you know the good old learn English with football then later I will be

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bold and later I renamed it into what was it the English corner I can't remember the premier corner

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the premier corner yeah so that's that and that's all I wanted to tell you today guys

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just a little update about my life and what I have to do now and I'm in the town center now

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and the road is getting a little bit louder here so I think it's high time I wrap this up thank

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you very much for listening this is also getting uploaded on my youtube channel however

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there will be no video because I don't have a camera with me so it's all just audio

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thank you very much for listening guys and take care bye bye

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bye bye thanks a lot for listening for more information visit my new website

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teachersdenek.com where you can find out about my speaking group for high level English learners

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called the achievers chamber and download my free course unlocking your English potential

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