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Shadowing practice: Trump Brags About His Brain, Crowd Size & Pool, CBS Fires Scott Pelley & Don Jr's Honeymoon Video

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  1. Thank you for joining us on a big night of basketball.0:00
  2. The United States, the NBA finals have begun in Texas.0:08
  3. Welcome to those joining us after game one between the Knicks and Jalen Brunson and then the Spurs and Victor Wembonyama.0:14
  4. This guy, Wembonyama, is like something out of the Guinness Book of World Records.0:21
  5. He's a giant.0:26
  6. He's 22 years old.0:27
  7. He's from France.0:28
  8. He's seven years old.0:29
  9. He's 27 foot 4.0:29
  10. They measure it in France.0:31
  11. He is 27 croissants tall.0:33
  12. Huge, he's a huge person.0:36
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  1. The last time the Knicks and Spurs met in the finals was 1999 when we were also terrified the world was going to end.0:38
  2. But for a dumb reason then, this should be a fun series.0:44
  3. San Antonio, New York have been rivals ever since those Pace Picante sauce commercials in the 80s.0:47
  4. You remember those, Guillermo?0:53
  5. Yes.0:54
  6. New York City?0:55
  7. Yes.0:56
  8. Guillermo will have an exclusive report, by the way, with all the players from the NBA finals on Friday night following game three.0:56
  9. The Spurs are favored.1:05
  10. They have five NBA titles.1:08
  11. They've won every final series.1:09
  12. They've been an except for one.1:10
  13. But it has been a very long, dry spell for the Knicks.1:12
  14. 53 years since they were champions.1:16
  15. And so their fans, understandably, are looking for any kind of divine intervention they can get.1:18
  16. Pope Leo!1:23
  17. Pope Leo!1:25
  18. Go Knicks!1:26
  19. Pope Leo!1:26
  20. Pope Leo!1:27
  21. Go Knicks!1:28
  22. Pope Leo!1:29
  23. Yeah!1:30
  24. Except for one!1:31
  25. Oh, no.1:32
  26. It seems like the Pope would have to be rooting for Saint Antonio, right?1:32
  27. I mean...1:35
  28. And, you know, while for a lot of people shouting, Go Knicks, if the Pope might seem trivial or even disrespectful, the Pope is a soccer fan and a baseball1:36
  29. fan.1:44
  30. He famously roots for the White Sox and believes that sports can be a unifying force.1:45
  31. In times of war and extreme polarization, sport is one of the few things that bring us closer together.1:50
  32. Let us pray this June that sport may be an instrument of peace and counter and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that it may promote values such as respect,1:59
  33. solidarity, and personal growth.2:12
  34. The Pope is right, of course.2:14
  35. I mean, that's why Knicks fans are in this, for respect, solidarity, and personal growth.2:16
  36. What would you give up for the Knicks to win it all?2:23
  37. Bro, I would give up every f***ing thing.2:25
  38. My coworkers f***ing because they're all f***ing useless.2:28
  39. I would give up half my f***ing family.2:31
  40. I would give up almost everything in life for the Knicks to f***ing win it all!2:33
  41. Amen.2:40
  42. We do not have the results of Game 1 tonight because we're in California.2:44
  43. It takes us a few days to count all the baskets.2:47
  44. Although, I might be confusing that with ballots.2:50
  45. Oh, yeah, ballots.2:52
  46. It could take a while for Democrats here in Los Angeles to figure out which of their friends secretly voted for Spencer Pratt.2:53
  47. Barring a late -ballot buzzer beater appears that Mayor Karen Bass will advance to a runoff against the former reality show Villain.3:01
  48. 60 % of the vote has been counted.3:09
  49. If that holds, it means that in November, Los Angeles and Oss are going to have to choose between a woman named Karen and a man who is one.3:11
  50. Yeah.3:18
  51. This is insane.3:19
  52. This is...3:21
  53. We should be very embarrassed.3:22
  54. Spencer Pratt should not be a top -two finalist for Mayor.3:25
  55. He should be DJing the worst New Year's Eve party in Reno right now.3:28
  56. Now, he's unlikely to win.3:33
  57. And in fact, he's already filming a reality show about his run for Mayor, so he definitely has his priorities in order.3:35
  58. But I want to mention another sketchy pseudo -politician who...3:42
  59. remember George Santos?3:46
  60. This guy?3:47
  61. Okay.3:48
  62. The former congressman slash astronaut slash Jewish Olympic female volleyball champion?3:49
  63. A few years back, George Santos was convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.3:54
  64. He was serving 87 months in prison, and then Trump became president and commuted his sentence.4:00
  65. He got out in October, and now he might be headed back in.4:06
  66. The Justice Department is reported to be investigating Gorgias George for pulling some shenanigans on Kalshee.4:09
  67. Now, Kalshee, if you don't know, is a website where he can bet on all manner of random things, including, will George Santos attend the State of the Union, the4:15
  68. odds of which were impacted heavily when George Santos said this?4:24
  69. I'm going to be there for the State of the Union in the gallery, guys.4:29
  70. Just chill, trolls, chill, okay?4:33
  71. Okay, so that was back in February after he made that announcement, people started betting that he would be at the State of the Union, because he said he was.4:36
  72. But sources say that Santos is now being investigated for allegedly betting that he would not go to the State of the Union and winning tens of thousands of dollars4:43
  73. for staying home instead, and now as a result, we can bet on whether he's going to prison again.4:53
  74. George Santos is...5:00
  75. This...5:06
  76. George Santos is betting money that he would go to the State of the Union and intentionally not going to swindle others out of cash.5:06
  77. It's the most George Santouilless thing I think I've ever heard.5:13
  78. Though in his defense, lip fillers are very expensive and he doesn't like to work.5:16
  79. Can you imagine how stupid this guy is?5:22
  80. I mean, literally eight months ago, Trump let him out of prison.5:24
  81. He gave him a get out of jail free card.5:27
  82. And to make it even more Santorific, Santos worked, or I should say worked, they fired him today, as an influencer for Kalshi's main competitor, Polymarket.5:29
  83. He was working for Polymarket and betting on Kalshi.5:40
  84. Everything he does is shady.5:44
  85. It's unbelievable.5:46
  86. And he cannot stay out of trouble.5:46
  87. Somehow this guy got elected to Congress.5:48
  88. But the good news is, you know what the name of his podcast is?5:50
  89. This is not a joke.5:53
  90. It's called Doing Time.5:54
  91. So at least I guess he's gathering material for that.5:56
  92. I highly doubt Trump's going to bail him out a second time.6:00
  93. The president's approval rating is about as low as they go right now.6:03
  94. But the good news is, and I'm shocked.6:07
  95. I'm shocked that he hasn't mentioned this yet.6:11
  96. He usually likes to brag, but it turns out he did very well on his physical and cognitive tests.6:15
  97. I do physicals because I just want...6:21
  98. I think I have an obligation to do it, but I just came out with very, very good results and I took a test, a cognitive test, and I got6:23
  99. 100 % on it.6:30
  100. I got...6:31
  101. as the expression goes, I aced it.6:32
  102. And the doctors told me it's very, very few people can aced it.6:34
  103. It's actually a tough test.6:37
  104. No, it is not.6:39
  105. I took that test.6:42
  106. That is a test to find out if Grandpa needs somebody to wipe him, okay?6:44
  107. What does he think we are?6:50
  108. Democrats?6:51
  109. We can never forget what the Democrats and they are dumb.6:52
  110. What the Democrats...6:57
  111. and this is my name for them.6:58
  112. You change the U for the E, and nobody knows it dumb as me.6:59
  113. So you just put it...7:04
  114. But the Democrats, what they've done to this country, and you can never forget it.7:06
  115. Is it too soon to give him that cognitive test one more time?7:10
  116. I mean...7:14
  117. Who's going to need to know about the president's brain right now?7:16
  118. He had a thing at the Oval Office today where he signs a bunch of executive orders he hasn't read.7:20
  119. And he went on and on about how the size of his crowd, five years ago, was bigger than Martin Luther King's.7:24
  120. But it was amazing because that was my first glimpse into politics.7:33
  121. I made a speech and I had it.7:36
  122. More people, in other words, you put the picture side by side, which we have.7:38
  123. And they said, I had 25 ,000, he had a million, but I had more people.7:42
  124. My people were tighter.7:46
  125. Oh, wow, wow.7:48
  126. We've never heard that story before.7:49
  127. Thank you for...7:50
  128. But it's bigger than Martin Luther King.7:51
  129. How about...7:52
  130. That's so big.7:53
  131. You know what would be fun?7:54
  132. Show everybody how big your new pool is.7:55
  133. So those are compared to...7:57
  134. Those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chicago.8:00
  135. So if you lay it on that side, you'd take two or three of them to fill it in.8:12
  136. The width is very...8:16
  137. Almost 200 feet wide.8:18
  138. That pool, by the way, is the same size it was before he decided to paint it.8:21
  139. For $15 million.8:25
  140. But it's bigger than skyscrapers now.8:27
  141. I want to see him swim the length of that pool.8:30
  142. Or even just the width of the pool.8:32
  143. I want to see him stripped down to a pair of red, white, and blue speedos with those big, floppy nipple bags.8:34
  144. I don't care what you want.8:43
  145. I want to see it.8:44
  146. And take a long swim in his big, beautiful pool.8:46
  147. Last night, the Trump suck -ups at CBS fired a great and deeply respected journalist, Scott Pelley, from his job at 60 Minutes, because he stood up for truth and8:49
  148. integrity at a show that's been the gold standard for broadcast journalism for 57 years.9:00
  149. Pelley had had enough after the clowns who now run that show in the CBS News Division, fired reporter Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with the executive producer, Tanya9:06
  150. Simon, and replaced Tanya Simon with a guy who has no experience in TV news.9:15
  151. And that was it for Scott Pelley.9:20
  152. He said, the collapse of values at the top has become untenable, and he let him have it in a staff meeting, right to the new guy's face.9:23
  153. So last night they fired him.9:30
  154. 60 Minutes will be replaced by new episodes of Reporters Unleashed.9:32
  155. The president, of course, applauded this cowardly decision.9:37
  156. He said, Scott Pelley is part of a gang of crooked, stupid people, different from the gang of crooked, stupid people he's a part of.9:40
  157. And that should make for an interesting situation at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which is apparently back on.9:46
  158. Yesterday Trump announced, in a sign of strength and fortitude, it was just announced that the Correspondents' Dinner, which violently ended rather abruptly on April 25th, will be rescheduled to9:52
  159. July 24th.10:02
  160. This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling, said the lunatic who has changed our10:03
  161. way of life.10:13
  162. Well, maybe not on a scheduling, but in any event, he said it will be a hot ticket.10:15
  163. Interestingly, the location will be the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue, a building and ballroom that I built.10:20
  164. Hey, he already has a ballroom in Washington?10:28
  165. Why are we building a new one then?10:33
  166. Anyway, unlike his son's wedding, Trump does plan to go to the Correspondents' Dinner.10:36
  167. You know, on Memorial Day weekend, Don Jr., the fratigal son, married a woman named Bettina Anderson, and they made their blessed union Instagram official.10:40
  168. They posted a honeymoon video.10:49
  169. Now, this is something that regular people do all the time.10:51
  170. For a sitting president's son, I believe this is a first, and hopefully a last.10:53
  171. I'll make you so good, I'll make them turn their heads, every place we go, so won't you please be my little baby.11:13
  172. Oh, God!11:32
  173. I'm so sorry.11:50
  174. Gosh, I'm sorry.11:53
  175. Very sorry.11:54
  176. I don't know what...11:55
  177. I'm sorry, Guillermo.12:09
  178. It's okay, Jimmy.12:13
  179. I saw it when they started kissing.12:15
  180. I couldn't keep it in.12:17
  181. I apologize.12:22
  182. This is nothing like this has ever happened before.12:23
  183. We should take a break, probably.12:25
  184. We have a great show tonight from the Golden State Warriors.12:27
  185. Dremont Green is here.12:32
  186. We'll be right back with Kevin Hart.12:34

American Accent Training on a Fast NBA Finals Monologue

This clip is the opening monologue from Jimmy Kimmel Live, an American late night interview show, where the host works through the NBA finals: the Knicks and Spurs, a joke about Victor Wembanyama's height, and a real Vatican clip of Pope Leo talking about sport as a unifying force. It's rated B2 and runs at 189 words per minute, faster than half the clips in this catalogue, so it rewards english speaking practice once the vocabulary is already familiar.

The delivery switches registers fast: crowd banter with the sidekick Guillermo, a rapid string of one line jokes about croissants and giants, then a straight cut to the Pope's own voice reading a prepared statement. Shadow this line by line and you practise both the host's punchy comic rhythm and the Pope's slower, formal English in the same clip.

The Language in Kimmel's Knicks and Spurs Monologue

A few lines carry real texture worth slowing down for. Quote them out loud before you try the full pace, since the whole point of shadowing this scene is to hear how the words actually get compressed together, not just what they mean.

  • "The last time the Knicks and Spurs met in the finals was 1999 when we were also terrified the world was going to end." A long single sentence with a dry aside tucked at the end, the joke lands only if the pitch drops on terrified and picks back up on end.
  • "He famously roots for the White Sox and believes that sports can be a unifying force." Straightforward news register, useful for practising a calmer, evenly stressed pace against the monologue's faster lines, and for hearing how to pronounce english words without the comic exaggeration.
  • "Guillermo will have an exclusive report, by the way, with all the players from the NBA finals on Friday night following game three." A run on sentence with by the way dropped in mid clause, a colloquial habit worth copying if you want to sound less scripted.

A Line by Line Order for This Clip

Work the clip in this order rather than top to bottom. It matches how the difficulty actually shifts across the transcript, not a generic routine.

  • Start on line 13, "The last time the Knicks and Spurs met in the finals was 1999 when we were also terrified the world was going to end," at a slower pace than the host uses, then bring it back up to his speed.
  • Move to the "Pope Leo" crowd chant around lines 26 to 34, and repeat the rhythm of the chant itself before adding the host's reaction lines around it.
  • Take line 42, "He famously roots for the White Sox and believes that sports can be a unifying force," and shadow it against the Pope's own delivery in line 43 to compare a scripted line with unscripted spoken English, good english listening practice on its own.
  • Finish on line 20, "Guillermo will have an exclusive report, by the way, with all the players from the NBA finals on Friday night following game three," and say it in one breath without pausing at by the way.
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