Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SqPoEVhjGnU Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support. Your support is appreciated! In this episode of Easy Stories in English, Ariel Goodbody, the host, discusses a recent controversy involving a blasphemous phrase in a podcast episode titled 'The Holy Cat,' leading to its removal after feedback from Muslim listeners. Ariel apologizes and reflects on the learning experience. Additionally, Ariel talks about experimenting with recording formats and locations for YouTube, changes to the availability of episode transcripts, and premium content adjustments. Ariel also shares personal updates, including a recent live stream, an Easter experience, a mindset shift in professional self-perception, pricing adjustments for teaching services, efforts to improve the YouTube channel, upcoming birthday plans, and a collaboration with Alistair from English Learning for Curious Minds. The episode concludes with a promotion for Ariel's English classes and an invitation to subscribe to the email newsletter for live stream notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's episode is a conversation about blasphemy and what I've been up to recently.
Get the transcript@easystoriesinenglish.com blasphemy b l a s p h e m y so as you can hear, my voice is a bit croaky today, so I'm going to keep it probably quite short and also relaxed energy.
I don't want to do too much.
I'm trying something new with today's episode.
For a conversational episode, I decided it makes sense to record it sitting at my desk, and then I can put the video on YouTube.
Normally when I record, I record in my bedroom where the sound is better, but it's a bit awkward for recording video.
If I do it here, the sound is a bit worse, but we have this nice background.
I can sit and talk to the camera and then I can put it on YouTube.
So as I'm saying this, I don't know whether the transcript will be on the website or whether you'll just go to the YouTube video and see the subtitles.
I haven't decided yet.
Before with the conversational episodes, I was doing the transcripts as bonus content and I decided to change that because it just seems like a very small thing to give away for people who are paying for easy stories in english premium.
So I'm experimenting with some other things for easy stories in english premium.
So don't worry, you will get some, some nice things if you're supporting me there.
And I'm going to give everyone the transcripts for the conversational episodes.
So that's exciting.
Last week, well, I guess when this episode comes out, it will be over a week ago.
So recently I did a live stream, and it was the first live stream I'd done for about two years.
So it was quite exciting.