today I'm hosting my own chat show I'm very very excited with my special guest
today we're going to help you to pick up some very typical British English
vocabulary and expressions so sit back relax because you're watching English
with real teachers real teachers so shall we meet our guest this guy is
really important in my life and he's touched many people in his time know so
I thought I would get him on the show Charlie come out here you what are you
saying about touching people just that you've you've really touched people's
lives oh lives yeah not physically you haven't touched anyone appropriately no
I haven't my lawyer told me that I should say that as well yeah I haven't
touched anybody physically yeah well welcome to the show thank you for
having me .. you're welcome you're welcome I thought I kind of had to do
this because you invited me on your show before yes yes that was in Greece it was
yeah summer yeah I was wearing a really nice shirt
yeah it was awful I really didn't like that one Oh
what am I doing here well we're going to play Dessert Island Discs so I want
you to choose between three and six songs okay that um are kind of the
soundtrack to your life I want to learn about the bands, the artists and the
music that's important in your life and what was going on in your life
when you were listening to those tracks okay before we go any further I'd like
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that benefits you but let's get back to the video so Charlie what is your first
song so my first song takes me back to a special memory of mine that only my
primary school classmates know about my sisters actually know about it because
they prepared me for this event it was called the pop mime in year 6 and it was
an annual gig or festival that we all put on and all of the students prepared
a mime to a pop song so miming the
pretending that we're singing right but creating a choreographed dance to go to
the song and mine of course was Shania Twain's very famous hit that don't
impress me much interesting choice yeah that I I love that song
I bought that on single tape why did you choose that tune to dance to that's an
interesting choice for a boy well my two older sisters had a big influence on me
when I was growing up you know for some reason I enjoyed impersonating a girl
once or twice when I was younger I was known as Charlotte back in the day right
and that's why I brought Charlotte real English with real teachers yeah who you
known as Charlotte boy mainly my sisters because they liked to dress me it was
mainly them that forced me into a skirt when I was a little boy and they wanted
to dress me up because they wanted a doll to play dolls with okay I was
they're dull yeah they broke they tried to put makeup on me and stuff and
because I was the only boy there's no other boy to tell me that's wrong I only
got positive like reactions and attention so I thought wow this is great
they're fussing over me I don't care about me so you kind of liked the
attention that you got I think so yeah that's pretty interesting so you were a
doll but did you ever end up on the doll Charlotte didn't end up on the doll okay
no I didn't either close to it I was close to being on the
dole but never have I ever actually signed up to the doll right so did you
enjoy being a girl how did you feel apart from like elated that you
all this attention was there any part of you that was embarrassed it was only
three years after doing this that I started to feel remorse or regret yeah
so it was in the second secondary school I realized gosh I used to dress up as a
girl you know this is not normal behavior for me how many people did you
do that dance in front of the whole primary school Wow get the piss right
down you after that weirdly no really no I think they kind
of respected how good the dance was because it was very good that donum go
Charlie well I'm fascinated to have heard about this this Charlotte stage of
your life being a doll yeah um but I think we're all ready for your next song
okay what what is next so the next one is going on to an adventure when I was a
child that took me halfway around the world to Australia so I went with my
family and we had this Caravan trip and we were all staying in this one Caravan
for a whole week going down the south of going down the east coast of Australia
from Ken's to Brisbane and it was a very intense holiday we learn a lot about
each other but I had these moments where I could break away and listen to my CD
player that I just got it was it was when it was a new technology and you
know when it would annoyingly skip in the car my mine had an anti skip thing
no geeking out with this and I put my headphones on and I had this new album
by a guy called Cisco and the album was called unleash the dragon hmm
but the song I really liked was the thong song yeah yeah well there yeah
it's a great great song yeah great you know I'd yeah yeah it's hard not to an
amazing song
maybe more but I think singing again she had why was that the standout song on
the album is that because your sisters used to make you wear a thong no no I
wasn't made now I think I liked it because it was easy to remember the
lyrics I would get very satisfied with myself when I could sing along to it oh
yeah and they actually all looked round like my parents looked back into the
caravan or camper van and I realized I was singing out loud when I was a ten
year old boy that sounded thunk thunk-thunk my mother was like what is
he listening to so I wasn't allowed to listen to it right was your mom like oh
my god he's been looking through the washing yeah I think it was actually
that year that my dad gave her a birthday present in front of all of us
and it was a skimpy outfit that had a thong
oh right was it like her now it was actually under way it was just underwear
right it was a film I'd never worn this before and she thought oh my god what
have you given me that's hilarious then she had to return it but you can't
on this surely you can't return a thong yeah don't think she wore it
no well maybe she tried it once you know I don't want to know I don't want to put
the image of your mum wearing a thong in your head but unfortunately already
there I imagine out of politeness to your dad
she probably at least tried it on and wore it for a night I wonder what was
going for your dad's mind when he bought the thong thinking he'd like to see that
okay or do you think he he was quite a fan of this song as well and that you
got the idea Francisco yeah yeah we had some moments
where we shared the lyrics yeah the thong thong song you don't respect
that yeah should get mum one yeah but actually we were in Australia and it
means a different thing out there so I was very in my rights to to sing that
song without if insulting anyone that's true though it would be those thongs
thongs thongs thongs doesn't have the same ring to it and it wouldn't be as
risque with it no for a rapper to be rapping about a flip flop on your foot
no no it's not cool were you wearing fong fong fong fong so
there I mean the flip flop just to thum thum
i was wearing a thong and another I was wearing one pair of thongs a pair of
thongs yeah a pair of thongs okay right small phones I'm at you reckon that song
is popular in Australia did you think it was popular I think I brought it to
Austria I made it big in Rio yeah okay before they weren't really understanding
why people were rapping about their shoes but I made it very sexual out
there for them I think Cisco's got a lot to thank you for I
Unleashed his dragon yeah yeah I think
anyway let's not talk about penises or thongs for any longer no I'd like to
hear about your third song okay so you've been traveling you've been
dressed up as a girl these have obviously changed you massively I
imagine yeah what's next in your life well me Baxter
the the next song that I I would take us on to and takes us further down the path
of my life my journey of my life and I get to the point where I start
to show an interest in drums in drumming so I bought myself or my mother very
kindly bought me a drum kit and how I was 15 yeah and it took me a year to get
ready for this moment where I was introduced to this song but this was the
song that I practiced practiced to with my fellow band members and we performed
this live this was the first song I performed live as a gig oh wow yeah
that's your first gig there's my first gig oh my god
and it was smells like teen spirit by Nirvana that's that's a great tune yeah
that's a great trap okay really good tracks yeah but good to learn English as
well fucking that don't impress me much that the grammar in that song doesn't
impress me much
it's got really nice drumming yeah it's a good level for an intermediate yeah
okay is that what level would you say you you were no more than that that I
ain't no more than that if you if your drumming level was an English level what
would it be probably a B b2 b1 b1 between b1 b2 okay
so you probably be going for the pet exam or FC FC yeah but I don't see being
about six it was five five not bad not bad
no I get into university yeah that's not bad
what was your band called the band that I eventually formed after that first gig
was known as Lizzy and the walking boys
so there's nothing he's so good yeah where did you get that from was it
because your mum's called Elizabeth no it's because the singer that we had was
Lizzy her name was Lizzie and you guys just loved walking well I was a drummer
so I didn't actually do much walking on the stage no I was lazy standing up yeah
I should have called us Lizzie and the two walking boys followed by the sitting
drummer yeah yeah all the shit drummer my walking boys I
don't know we thought of the moment this is great yeah yeah Lizzie Lizzie Lizzie
what Lizzie and the Lizzie and the walking boys what we're doing we've
always win we're walking we're walking straight to the top of the chart just
walking slowly you'll get there slow and steady keep on walking yeah
slow and steady wins the race it does and when did your race end did
it come to an end did you break up like Nirvana yeah we did yeah I must have
been hard it was hard Wow so we just didn't really want to
walk anymore and Lizzy actually walked she walked
oh she walked yeah okay so she left us when you just walking yeah so we we went
our separate ways really okay but one of them is actually one of my best friends
al and he's now a professional guitar player and banned it in a band and he's
even got um I think he's maybe signing some sort of record label now and what
happened to Lizzie where did she walk off to where she
actually continued with her musical career for a good couple of years really
I think she held onto the dream a bit too long really and now she's probably
got a normal 9 to 5 regular office job so guys sounds like Lizzie was a bit up
herself yeah what about person in the music
industry did you encounter any people that were trying to take advantage of
you you know did you have a hard time did the success go to your head quite a
few questions there choose whichever one I didn't have to sleep around to get
head that's what yeah head forget a head
so those are my songs I hope you enjoyed them they were great charlie thank you
very much you're welcome if you've got any more questions for
Charlie about these songs then drop a comment below and also how about telling
us about the the soundtrack of your life mmm that'd be a good way to practice
their English wouldn't that be great yeah tell us your song and what it
connects to in your life using any of the phrases that you might have heard
along the way in this video yeah that's my show but you know thank you for
joining me on the Harry Giles chat show which I'm calling chats with hazel see
you in the next one and
Chifa joy to me Charlie Baxter thank you very much you can go now okay yeah bye
guys spinner pleasure Yeah right
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