ah yeah get ready to laugh in this
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ex-president in the united states
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so when you're at home can you like can
you run down to the kitchen in your
underpants in the middle of the night if
you're hungry
i mean i could i i don't you don't no is
there someone
in the kitchen at all times like if you
wanted a sandwich in the night
would you have to wake someone up yeah i
wouldn't wake somebody up to have a
sandwich you're allowed to go in the
refrigerator on your own
i am there there's there's a
refrigerator and and there's silverware
when was the last time you you actually
cooked uh now it's been a while since
it's been a while i i won't lie about
that you ever drive
i cannot drive i mean i i'm
i'm able to drive is gonna have a birth
certificate
in kenya we drive on the other side
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so when you're at home can you like can
you run down to the kitchen in your
underpants in the middle of the night if
you're hungry
jimmy is well aware that all these
questions he's asking barack obama are
quite silly
however the reason he's asking these
questions is probably because people
might often wonder to what extent
a president goes through the same
routine a normal person does in his or
her everyday life
does he actually ever make himself a
sandwich does he
drive himself somewhere when he needs to
does he cook his own food
so the first question is whether he goes
particularly at night
and in his underpants to the kitchen for
a sandwich when he's hungry
so underpants are these he says run down
to the kitchen
which is the same as go to the kitchen
let's see how people use this
in these other examples no it's fine
manny i can run down the store right now
and get a
stupid jeweler hi jay don't scream at
him it was an honest mistake
so you know in horror movies when the
girl's like oh my god
there's something in the basement let me
just run down there in my underwear and
see what's going on in the dark and
you're like what is your problem
call the police you're allowed to go in
the refrigerator on your own
i am there's there's a refrigerator and
and there's silverware
if you're allowed to do something you
have permission to do it
all right let's prepare for the day
tonight here's the things you're not
allowed to talk about
love poetry music or passion
again with presidents the question is
whether they must have official staff do
everything for them
as we're learning from obama he doesn't
he can get his food
on his own if he wants if you do
something on your own
you do it without any help listen to me
i need to do this on my own if i fail i
fail if i pass i pass
do you get it this is different from to
be on your own
which means that you're alone for god's
sake he's on his own for two days and he
joins a gang
silverware is a word that refers to
knives forks
spoons etc made of steel or other
materials
example can you put the silverware on
the table
when was the last time you you actually
cooked uh now it's been a while since
it's been a while a while is an
unspecified period of time
when we say it's been a while we mean
that a long time has passed since you
last did something
we usually follow this up with sense
it's been a while since i read an actual
newspaper
miss that sound this is also something
you can say
when you meet someone you haven't seen
in a long time
well hey sheldon it's been a while
uh now it's been a while since it's been
a while i
i won't lie about that i won't lie or
i'm not going to lie
is a phrase that we say when we want to
emphasize that we're being honest
example your cake was way better than
mine i'm not gonna lie
i won't lie the movie was better than i
expected
do you ever drive i cannot drive i mean
i
i'm i'm able to drive
when we say that we know how to do
something we often use the verb
can so if you say i can swim
you're saying that you're able to do it
as seen here it can be ambiguous at
times
in this clip this can mean different
things for example that he isn't allowed
to drive
or that he does not know how to drive
to avoid the misunderstanding he says
he's able to drive
meaning he has the ability to do so but
probably because of security reasons
as a president he was not permitted to
drive vehicles
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is that actually i don't have a birth
certificate
there used to be rumors that barack
obama was not born in the u.s
and therefore he could not be president
some allegations stated that he was born
in kenya
which is where his father is from in
just a few short weeks
donald trump's stance on where president
obama was born has
well evolved from this the reason i have
a little doubt just a little
just a little is because he grew up and
nobody knew him
to this i want him to show his worship
i'm saying it's a real possibility much
greater than i thought
two or three weeks ago then he has
pulled one of the great cons in the
history of politics
and beyond politics in those same three
weeks trump's poll numbers have gone
from this to this nearly doubling in
less than a month
i suspect that some of my critics back
home
are suggesting that i'm back here to
look for my birth certificate
that is not the case obama later
released a copy of his birth certificate
that showed he was born in hawaii
so in this clip they're joking about
this funny and ridiculous incident
we're now going to focus on some of the
connected speech in this clip
jimmy starts off this interview saying
when you're at home
can you distinctly hear at in that
utterance
can you say it without over pronouncing
it at
is a structure word and most times we
say it in its weak form
so we don't say act we say uh let's take
a look at some examples
are you mad at me no i'm not mad at you
i just
yeah well at least i didn't suck at
customer relations
then he says i i won't lie about that
here the t gets reduced to the point it
almost loses
all its presence so this sounds like i
won't
the rest sounds like why about that this
t because it's before a th sound isn't
pronounced
let's listen to these two sentences
again and take the chance to mimic how
they say it
when you're at home
so when you're at home i i won't lie
about that
i i i won't lie about that
i i won't lie about that
actually the last time i drove uh a
former staffer came by and and he comes
through the the south lawn
and he's got uh one of these uh new
electric cars at the time they were new
yeah and and he was very excited about
it i said well
yeah let's try it out so i
i just grab his keys and we just go out
it's parked right in front
and i start circling the south lawn
and the secret service there
no matter what you do do not let him out
and they
uh they they they were pretty upset they
so they call you renegade right is that
there yeah yeah
because you're tooling around in an
electric car
topping speeds of 30 miles an hour yeah
i
i think i think we have 35. yeah if you
have to go
to the dentist does do you go to the
dentist comes to me dennis comes to you
you have the chair and the tools you've
got the hole in the chair everything is
all there
everything is there in the basement i
didn't know
i showed up i said you know i think uh
you know i've got uh
a cap that's loose sir here we are do
you reset the clocks
with daylight saving time happens
somebody else does that
somebody does that for you will you
get rid of daylight saving time or at
least
get rid of the part where we have to
wake up earlier you can leave the other
one
well see this is a california thing
because you guys are always getting sun
yeah in the east coast you don't mind
losing that hour because that's a signal
that spring is here
we only care about ourselves
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actually the last time i drove a former
staffer came by and he comes through the
the south lawn
a staffer is a member of a staff he's
referring to the white house staff
which is the group of people who work in
this institution
look look i talked to corporate about
protecting the sales staff and they said
they couldn't guarantee it if there's
downsizing okay
but there's no downsizing so just don't
bottom line
do i need to be worried maybe
now he says former staffer because this
person
doesn't work in the white house anymore
at the moment of this interview
barack obama was the president of the
united states nowadays we could say that
he's the former president
and that the current president is donald
trump a lawn is a common part of
american house
it is the area of grass in front of
one's house for example
the chore of cutting this grass is
called mowing the lawn
so the south lawn refers to the area of
land to the south of the white house
by the way did you notice how he starts
telling this story in the past
a former staffer came by however then he
switches to the present tense even
though he's talking about a past event
and and he comes through the the south
along have you ever wondered
why a native might do this well we
explained this in our recent lesson with
finding nemo
you can watch that and learn how to tell
a story in english after you finish
this lesson and he was very excited
about it i said well
yeah let's try it out if you're excited
about something
you're very enthusiastic and eager we
say excited about something and excited
to do something
let's check out these examples with each
what's going on
we're just really excited about this
charity event that we have to go
er what are you doing here your hair is
sweating
that's cause i'm excited to see my
friends let's go buddy
to try something out means to try use or
consider something
in order to make a decision or form an
opinion about it and
the secret service no matter what you do
do not let him out
the united states secret service is the
body of law enforcement tasked with
protecting the nation's leaders
and their families we use no matter what
to say that you will definitely do
something
or not do something as is the case here
i support her decision that's what good
detectives do they have each other's
back
no matter what hey would you like to
learn
more with ex-president obama well we
have a hilarious lesson that you're
going to love
with him and president trump that you
can watch after you finish
this video by clicking up here or down
in the description below
they they were pretty upset they so they
call you renegade right
is that their yeah yeah because you're
tooling around in an electric car
if someone is upset they are unhappy
disappointed or worried because of
something
oh god i know i'm pathetic i'm a loser
honey you're not pathetic you're just
you're sad yeah i mean people do stupid
things when they're upset
my god if i had a nickel for every guy i
wish i hadn't
in this case a renegade is someone who
is rebellious and acts unconventionally
as you may know obama is famous for not
doing things traditionally thought of as
typical behavior for a president
we can see this just by the fact that he
participated in a comedy program like
jimmy kimmel live
or roasting trump in this other lesson
we did with him
because you're tooling around in an
electric car
the phrasal verb to tool around means to
drive around in a casual or fun manner
rather than to arrive at some
destination
stopping speeds of 30 miles an hour i i
think i think we have 35.
as a verb to top means to reach a
maximum limit
so if a car tops the speed of 30 miles
per hour
it means that the maximum speed that a
car can reach is 30 miles per hour
what they mean here is that obama
probably didn't drive over 30 miles per
hour
as he was just driving around the
property of the white house
which is actually quite responsible of
him despite what the secret service
thought
he jokes that he thinks they actually
hit 35
meaning they achieved 35 miles per hour
oh speaking of good news somebody
just hit 100 twitter followers
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you got the whole chair everything is
all there everything is there in the
basement
i didn't know setup is a very common
phrasal verb that means to arrange
organize or prepare example we need to
set up a meeting
we also say that something is set up
meaning it is prepared or ready to be
used
obama is saying that the white house has
a dentist chair set up in its basement
the basement is the room or area in a
building that is under the level of the
ground
do you reset the clocks with daylight
saving
time the phrasal verb we've just seen
set up derives from the verb set which
is even
wider in uses and meanings one of such
uses is to say the phrase to set a clock
meaning to change or adjust the time in
a clock
reset means to set again let's explore
some different uses of this verb
man i've never seen you work this hard
at anything ever it's because i care so
much
i set an alarm for 5 00 am
every time i wanted food i rebooted my
sister are you ready to reboot
when i feel a food craving i would dunk
my head into ice water
and reset my brain watch me
will you get rid of daylight saving time
if you get rid of something you throw it
away or don't use it anymore
well i just can't believe that she and i
are about to get rid of all of her stuff
her whole life is down there no i
wouldn't think i'd like that we really
need to get rid of this stuff so do you
want this crap or not
daylight savings time is the practice of
advancing clocks during warmer months
so that darkness falls later each day
according to the clock
so when you're at home can you like can
you run down to the kitchen in your
underpants in the middle of the night if
you're hungry
i mean i could i i don't you don't no is
there someone in the kitchen
at all times like if you wanted a
sandwich in the night
would you have to wake someone up yeah i
wouldn't wake somebody up to have a
sandwich
you're allowed to go in the refrigerator
on your own
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i am there's there's a refrigerator and
and there's silverware
when was the last time you you actually
cooked uh now
it's been a while since it's been a
while i i won't lie about that
[Music]
you ever drive i cannot drive i mean i
i'm
i'm able to drive actually certificate
in kenya we drive on the other side
uh actually the last time i drove uh
a former staffer came by and and he
comes through the the south lawn
and he's got uh one of these
new electric cars at the time they were
new yeah and
and he was very excited
[Music]
well yeah let's try it out so i
i just grab his keys and we just go out
it's parked right in front
and i start circling the south lawn
and the secret service there
no matter what you do do not let him out
and they uh
they they they were pretty upset so they
call you renegade right is that there
because you're tooling around in an
electric car
topping speeds of 30 miles an hour yeah
i i think i think we have 35.
yeah if you have to go to the dentist
does do you go to the dentist
dennis comes to you do you have the
chair the tools and you've got the whole
chair
everything is all there everything is
there in the basement i didn't know
i showed up i said you know i think uh
you know i've got
a cap that's loose sir here we are do
you reset the clocks
with daylight saving time happens
somebody else does that
somebody does that for you will you
get rid of daylight saving time or at
least
get rid of the part where we have to
wake up earlier you can leave the other
one
well see this is a california thing
because you guys are always getting sun
yeah in the east coast you don't mind
losing that hour because that's a signal
that spring is here
we only care about ourselves
ladies and gentlemen this is incredible
we actually got a hold
of the audio from several phone calls
phone calls between president obama and
president-elect trump and i think it's
my duty
to share these with you
hello barack it's trump you know those
gold medals you give out
presidential medals of honor yeah can i
give them
any what i want