Based on true events.
You know those nightmare situations where you go
“Oh my god, imagine if that happened,” and then, it actually does.
So I make videos about Japan on YouTube and I recently had a video that had some viral success.
There’s a popular spread in the UK called Marmite and it’s famous for people either loving it or hating it,
due to its strong acquired taste.
It looks like brown pva glue and tastes like liquid salt….appealing then.
But I decided it would be quite interesting to see how some Japanese friends would react to it.
So I gave them bread with some marmite on and their reactions certainly didn’t disappoint.
Sweet! Chocolate!
And when I woke up the next day, the video had featured everywhere from the Daily Mail website, to Reddit.
And it was pretty surreal.
But the interview I was most excited about was doing a phone interview on the BBC News 24 channel
which is a channel watched by millions around the world everyday.
And it just so happened that on that night I was volunteering at an Eikaiwa
- an English conversation class.
So I planned to go in and teach the class, leave halfway and do the phone interview
and then come back in and finish teaching.
I knew it would take 10 minutes or so, so I told everyone to watch the BBC News 24 channel at 7.30.
And this an expression which you can use everyday….so…
Takeshi you don’t have to write this down mate.
So I want you to make one example sentence using this phrase “It was like magic”
and I’ll be back in about 10 minutes.
So one sentence. 10 minutes.
So 7:15, I left the class
and went outside to this fairly grim carpark behind the building
and a few minutes later I got the phone call from the BBC.
And the guy told me he could hear me loud and clear,
we were good to go and that we would be going live in 5 minutes.
Very good.
Now if you could just turn on your camera please.
I thought it was just a phone interview - I didn’t know they wanted video on there as well.
All the rooms in the community centre were full and the only available room was a shitty kitchen with no chairs.
So I propped the phone up on a nearby toaster and sat on this kitchen floor,
trying to sit in a way that makes it look like I’m not sat on a kitchen floor.
So at this point I was fairly panicked, I knew with the phone using video conference mode,
best case I’d get through the interview just about, worst case it would cut out mid way.
Guys has anybody got a phone charger?
A phone charger? Phone charger.
You have a phone charger!?
Literally one minute before the interview was going to go live,
to my horror the phone had dropped to just 10 percent.
And then, the worst WORST case scenario happened.
And now we bring you an obscure YouTuber who’ll have his chance at fame and fortune.
Chris are you there?
Hello…Chris….
It seems we’ve lost him.
I’m sorry it seems we’ve experienced some technical difficulties.
I guess fame and fortune is not for everybody.
Instead why don't you enjoy these glorious cat videos.
Unbelievable. The phone died, along with my hopes of having free publicity in front of millions of people.
So I walked back into the room, slumped into a chair in front of everyone and just ate some nuts in silence.
Read me your examples.
- The rich man became a poor man. It was like magic..
The moral is, don’t dream….
Never dream.