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Shadowing practice: Trump Attends NBA Finals, Cries Election Fraud in California & Storms Out of Interview

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  1. Hi, I'm Tony and I'm a home team.0:00
  2. Thanks for watching, thank you for joining us for our post game party in Hollywood on a big night of baskets and balls, you know.0:02
  3. I'm not sure if you've been following this, but I certainly have.0:13
  4. Tonight from Madison Square Garden, we had game three of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.0:19
  5. This was the first NBA Finals game in New York City in 27 years.0:26
  6. The fans are so excited.0:31
  7. There was a report, two people on the subway actually made eye contact with each other today.0:34
  8. Look at this celebration.0:39
  9. This is after game two.0:40
  10. This is a post game.0:41
  11. This is a halfway there party in New York.0:43
  12. They do know it's not best of three, right?0:47
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  1. It's they gotta win four games.0:49
  2. I have to, I've never seen a victory parade before the actual victory before.0:51
  3. What are they gonna do if they win the series?0:56
  4. Uproot the Statue of Liberty and carry it through Central Park.0:59
  5. It's crazy.1:02
  6. Things were not as cheery in San Antonio.1:03
  7. The Spurs had a rough run at home.1:06
  8. The Knicks beat them by a point in game two on Friday night.1:07
  9. The Knicks won 13 games in a row in the post season before tonight.1:10
  10. And tickets to game three were very hard to get.1:15
  11. Many New York celebrities were in attendance tonight, including our president, who was too busy with the war to go to his son's wedding, but had no problem carving out1:19
  12. time to swallow nachos at the Knicks game tonight.1:27
  13. Donald Trump is the first sitting president ever to completely disrupt an NBA finals game in person.1:31
  14. Because he decided to go, they had canceled the watch party outside the garden.1:39
  15. Fans had to get there two hours early to get through security.1:43
  16. And Trump didn't even get to sit courtside.1:46
  17. For safety reasons, they put him behind bulletproof glass.1:48
  18. And when we have him, there he is.1:51
  19. Now, people were bringing their children to meet the president, hoping to get a photograph.1:53
  20. And that's the same glass they used to separate him from Melania.2:00
  21. It was, oh, is that not Donald Trump?2:04
  22. Maya, I've been told that's a different orange animal.2:07
  23. I am so sorry.2:10
  24. It was pretty late for the president to be out.2:12
  25. Fortunately, he was able to squeeze in a nap during every one of his meetings today.2:14
  26. We are taping this show before the game, so we don't know what happened or who won.2:19
  27. All we know for sure is that Trump is about as popular in New York as pineapple on pizza.2:23
  28. He is...2:28
  29. When he was a young man, Donald Trump played basketball in the military academy his parents sent him to.2:29
  30. Somehow, he was able to overcome those debilitating bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam to play basketball.2:35
  31. As far as the Knicks go, Trump's been to a lot of games at the garden over the years.2:42
  32. Knicks games mean a lot to him.2:46
  33. You know, a Knicks game was the last place he saw Melania smiling.2:47
  34. Over the weekend, Trump was in Wisconsin for a roundtable with farmers.2:52
  35. Farmers are going through a lot right now, largely thanks to Trump's trade policies, fuel costs, fertilizer costs.2:57
  36. Farmers are struggling.3:03
  37. So to cheer them up, Trump pulled out all the exciting plans he has for the new fountains most of them will never get to see.3:04
  38. We had 22 fountains.3:11
  39. None of them worked.3:13
  40. Look at that.3:15
  41. That's before and after.3:17
  42. Look at that.3:18
  43. Look at that.3:20
  44. Can everyone see that?3:21
  45. Then we had the reflecting pond.3:22
  46. Look, so that's the pond.3:25
  47. If we're standing up, here's your...3:27
  48. Sears Tower, Empire State Building, World Trade Center.3:32
  49. Beautiful.3:37
  50. Look at how that reflects.3:37
  51. It's like a mirror.3:38
  52. It's like a mirror.3:40
  53. Looks like grandpa figured out how to print off his iPad.3:41
  54. I mean, does he understand that he is at a farmer's roundtable in Chippewa Falls more than a thousand miles away from Washington?3:45
  55. Gather around farmers.3:56
  56. Okay, so this is the Burge Khalifa.3:57
  57. How many of you have been to Dubai?3:59
  58. Not?4:01
  59. Trump did his best to address how to help farmers get out of the hole he put them in.4:02
  60. But more importantly, he let them know that if things don't work out in Wisconsin, it is safe to come visit him in Washington.4:06
  61. A very unsafe city.4:11
  62. Your child would go to see the Jefferson Memorial or the Washington or the Lincoln or any of them, and would often time not come back.4:13
  63. It was a horrible place.4:23
  64. It was horrible while it was happening.4:24
  65. That's right.4:25
  66. It was just like the movie Weapons.4:26
  67. They'd hold bus loads of kids.4:27
  68. Just vanished.4:30
  69. Never to be seen again.4:31
  70. Is it possible he's confusing Washington with the Bermuda Triangle?4:32
  71. And of course, no appearance by our president would be complete without a rendition of his latest and maybe greatest new routine.4:36
  72. Here it is, Donald Trump's The Democrats.4:43
  73. I call him The Democrats, D -U -M.4:46
  74. You take out the B.4:49
  75. A lot of people don't know dumb as a B.4:50
  76. You take out the B and you change the E.4:52
  77. You put the U and you have a Democrat.4:55
  78. That is his I Have a Dream speech now.4:57
  79. That's the one we're going to remember.4:59
  80. Thank you.5:02
  81. Can we just please get him a hat with all that written on it so he doesn't have to repeat it at every event now?5:05
  82. Trump's especially mad at The Democrats in our state, California, because it would appear that his excellent choice for mayor of L .A., Spencer Pratt from the Hills, is about5:11
  83. to be headed for them.5:21
  84. Yesterday, L .A.5:22
  85. City Council member, Nithya Raman, moved ahead of Spencer Pratt and is now the life of Karen Bass, the incumbent in the November runoff.5:24
  86. I guess those crystals didn't work after all.5:34
  87. Most people in L .A.5:36
  88. vote by mail is what we do, and a lot of us waited until the last minute to send in our ballots because we're trying to figure out which candidate5:38
  89. disappointed us the least.5:44
  90. That meant Spencer Pratt got out of the gate in second place because they counted all the in -person votes first, but as the mail -in votes came in, he5:46
  91. dropped a third and only the top two candidates advanced.5:54
  92. And of course, because of this, the mad hatter is screaming fraud again.5:57
  93. He wrote, The Democrats, that's with no B, by the way.6:01
  94. Most people do not know there's a B.6:04
  95. They are at it again.6:07
  96. They are trying to steal the governor of California primary and the mayor of L .A.6:08
  97. primary away from two great Republican candidates.6:12
  98. Here we go with the very late and massive numbers of mail -in ballots.6:15
  99. All right, let me get this straight.6:19
  100. The Democrats rigged the election, and they rigged it by having Republicans take the lead at first?6:21
  101. I mean, for a bunch of Democrats, they sure are smart about stealing every election.6:27
  102. It's these tirades.6:33
  103. Disney, you're going to be hearing a lot about this over the coming months.6:36
  104. And it spilled over into an interview he did with Meet the Press where Kristen Welker called him on this nonsense and challenged him to give us any evidence that6:40
  105. proves this vote is cooked.6:48
  106. Local officials acknowledge they are slow.6:49
  107. They're urging the votes to be counted.6:52
  108. That's how they voted California.6:55
  109. Crooked, just like your crooked, your presses crooked.6:56
  110. Meet the presses crooked.6:59
  111. To be fair, I'm not crooked, but let's continue.7:00
  112. Really?7:02
  113. When you play right into their hands then?7:02
  114. Let's continue.7:04
  115. You're either crooked or you're stupid.7:04
  116. This is why he mostly dated women who don't speak English.7:09
  117. This interview, first of all, was interrupted several times by Rain, and I don't know if he was worried about the cotton candy on his head getting wet or he7:15
  118. just didn't like the fact that he was being taken to task by a woman.7:25
  119. Either way, their talk ended in a full -blown Trump or tantrum.7:29
  120. Your crooked and Meet the Press's crooked.7:32
  121. But Mr.7:35
  122. President...7:35
  123. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN.7:35
  124. But Mr.7:39
  125. President...7:39
  126. Your one -sided crooked network.7:39
  127. So let's call it quits because I've had a...7:41
  128. Traveled all the way to Wisconsin.7:43
  129. For the quits.7:45
  130. Wow!7:47
  131. Wow!7:48
  132. You are chicken nuggets.7:49
  133. You know what?7:52
  134. When that dinner bell rings, he's gone.7:53
  135. Can you imagine any other president in the history of any other place doing that?7:57
  136. That was a hissy fit.8:03
  137. All right, now back to the other bouncing orange ball that we have to follow.8:05
  138. The NBA finals.8:09
  139. Every year we travel to the host city to have some fun with a fan during the game by doing everything we can to keep that fan from going back8:10
  140. to his seat.8:17
  141. So we sent our team to San Antonio and we grabbed hold of one unlucky guy for an annual tradition we call Clock Blockers.8:18
  142. What's your name?8:31
  143. Darius Formica.8:32
  144. Darius, your big NBA fan?8:33
  145. Yes, sir, yes.8:35
  146. How much you pay for a ticket?8:35
  147. $700.8:37
  148. Yeah.8:38
  149. I want to get you back in there.8:38
  150. You don't miss anything.8:39
  151. Okay.8:40
  152. So here's the thing.8:41
  153. We're unveiling the new NBA mascot tonight.8:42
  154. He's the mascot of the entire league.8:44
  155. Fans, though.8:46
  156. Wow.8:47
  157. So it's the whole league.8:47
  158. It's not just one team.8:48
  159. Yeah, yeah.8:49
  160. I think we give it to a fan.8:50
  161. I think we give it to an actual fan.8:51
  162. You're a real fan?8:53
  163. Yeah, of course.8:54
  164. Of the game, not just as first.8:55
  165. Hold NBA.8:57
  166. I can tell you all the players, everyone on the team.8:58
  167. Michael Jordan, Nicole B.9:01
  168. Fry.9:02
  169. Can you do a lot of cartoony life like hey, hey.9:03
  170. Oh, pretty good.9:07
  171. How about a high voice?9:08
  172. Hey, hey, a fan zone.9:09
  173. Hey, hey, it's fan zone.9:11
  174. Oh, that's good.9:13
  175. Let's just see if this two fits.9:14
  176. I think it's gonna...9:15
  177. Okay, great.9:17
  178. We'll get this on you really quick.9:18
  179. Get you back in there.9:19
  180. There he is.9:20
  181. Don't miss this game.9:22
  182. Dominic.9:23
  183. Oh, Dominic.9:24
  184. Dominic.9:25
  185. Oh, there's one more in his crotch, inside the crotch.9:25
  186. Oh, that's perfect.9:29
  187. Perfect.9:30
  188. All right.9:31
  189. Get the belly on him.9:32
  190. He's got to get the clipper on his taint.9:33
  191. Okay, let's get the hat on you.9:36
  192. Oh, my goodness.9:38
  193. Okay, look right in there and say, I'm a regular NBA fan, but when I watch the NBA, I turn into fan zone.9:40
  194. But through fan zone with a big fan zone.9:53
  195. Okay.9:56
  196. I'm a regular NBA fan, but when I turn into the NBA, I turn into fan zone.9:56
  197. Uh -huh.10:02
  198. That a big laugh?10:03
  199. It's fan zone from the NBA.10:05
  200. Oh, my God.10:08
  201. Wemby.10:09
  202. Talk about it again.10:11
  203. The crowd was so loud over Wemby's amazing shot.10:12
  204. Hey, hey, ho -ho.10:15
  205. From the NBA, it's fan zone.10:17
  206. Big laugh?10:19
  207. Wow.10:21
  208. Oh, I like that.10:22
  209. Fan zone has a magical fanny pack.10:23
  210. Let's go ahead and put that on you.10:25
  211. It's time to guess what's next in fan zone fanny pack.10:26
  212. Hold up one finger for hot dogs, two for nachos, three for pizza, or four for hamburgers.10:31
  213. Everyone's holding up their fingers.10:38
  214. Okay.10:39
  215. What's in fan zone fanny pack?10:39
  216. If you picked hot dog, you're a winner.10:42
  217. Oh, one point game.10:46
  218. Okay, fanny pack.10:48
  219. That has a bunch of different stuff that you're going to see this year.10:48
  220. Just read that one for me.10:50
  221. The NBA takes human trafficking seriously.10:51
  222. If you see someone being held against their will, say something and enjoy the game.10:54
  223. Ho -ho -ho.10:58
  224. It's fan zone.10:59
  225. Ha -ha -ha.11:00
  226. So listen, fan zone, you represent the whole league.11:01
  227. So let's start with the Atlanta Hawks.11:04
  228. Okay.11:07
  229. And you just read their thing.11:07
  230. Hey, it's fan zone.11:08
  231. The Hawks will rock your cracks off.11:10
  232. That's great.11:12
  233. Okay.11:12
  234. The Boston Celtics.11:13
  235. Hey, it's fan zone.11:15
  236. So Boston Bakes beans and cooks up championships.11:16
  237. That's great.11:19
  238. Next up is the Brooklyn Nets.11:20
  239. The Nets, right above that.11:22
  240. LaRinix subway stop, servicing the two, three, four, five trains.11:24
  241. The BDNQRW.11:28
  242. It was at this precise moment that Darius realized he had made a dreadful mistake.11:29
  243. There were 30 teams in the NBA.11:35
  244. You have the pistol.11:38
  245. 30 teams.11:39
  246. And a little over a minute left in the game.11:41
  247. Oh, man, a minute and 11 left in two points.11:44
  248. Okay, here we go.11:45
  249. Okay, it's fan zone.11:46
  250. Detroit's oldest neighborhood is...11:48
  251. And so it was that fan zone crawled through 30 minutes of bulls*** and came out the other side completely discombobulated.11:49
  252. Toronto Raptors, it's fan zone.11:58
  253. We wanted to dice our name.11:59
  254. Why not Toronto Soruses?12:01
  255. It makes more sense than that.12:02
  256. Like Toronto Soruses.12:04
  257. Where's everyone going?12:05
  258. Oh, man, it's over, buddy.12:07
  259. Many sad, spurious fans left the arena that night.12:09
  260. But none sadder than poor Darius.12:12
  261. For the History Channel, I'm Ryan Seacrest.12:16
  262. Seacrest out.12:23
  263. We let Darius keep the costume, so...12:26
  264. We had a great show for the night.12:30
  265. Eric Andre is with us at Wulgar App, at the Tom H.12:32
  266. Thank you.12:42

English Speaking Practice with a Fast American Monologue on Trump at the NBA Finals

This Jimmy Kimmel Live segment opens as a rapid recap of game three of the NBA Finals, then pivots into a Trump story, so one speaker holds the floor through several topic changes without a scene partner to slow him down. At 212 words per minute and a B2 level, it is a fast clip for english speaking practice, and the narrator keeps moving line to line: "The fans are so excited" sits two sentences before he is talking about the Statue of Liberty and Central Park.

What actually happens in the opening: a New York celebration for the Knicks, a joke about a victory parade before any actual victory, then Trump arriving at the game behind bulletproof glass because of security concerns. The topics turn fast but each sentence stays short and news style, which is why a B2 speaker can keep pace if the clip is shadowed one line at a time rather than in long stretches. This is american accent training in a broadcast register: clear diction, level volume, built for a teleprompter, not for casual chat.

The Reductions and Sarcasm to Shadow in This Kimmel Clip

Three lines carry most of the interesting speech to practise english speaking with in this opening. Two use the reduced forms that show up in fast American talk, and one line lands its joke entirely on timing.

  • "It's they gotta win four games" packs the reduced form gotta into one fast, low beat; slow it down first, then bring it back up to speed.
  • "What are they gonna do if they win the series?" is a real question read like a joke, the pitch rises on "gonna" and falls flat on "series", so match the shape, not just the words.
  • "Maya, I've been told that's a different orange animal" needs the pause before "different" to land, the whole joke is in that half second of hesitation, not in any single word.

How to Practise English Speaking Through This Clip, Line by Line

Work the opening in order rather than jumping around; the topic shifts fast but the sentence patterns repeat, so each pass gets easier.

  • Start with line 6, "The fans are so excited", a short flat sentence at normal news pace, before the clip speeds up.
  • Move to line 13, "It's they gotta win four games", and say only that line five times before moving on.
  • Take line 15, "What are they gonna do if they win the series?", and shadow the rising question tone before the falling punchline in line 16.
  • Chain lines 23 and 24 together, "including our president, who was too busy with the war to go to his son's wedding" into "time to swallow nachos at the Knicks game tonight", since Kimmel treats them as one breath.
  • Finish with line 34, "Maya, I've been told that's a different orange animal", and try to speak english fluently through the pause instead of rushing past it.
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