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Hello, this is A.J. Hello my special VIP member. I’m so happy to teach you. I love telling these crazy stories, but these stories have a purpose. When you listen to the mini story for example and answer the questions, you’re training your brain to understand and respond in English, and eventually to think in English.

I know the mini stories seem crazy and funny, and sometimes they might seem quite simple, but that’s on purpose. There’s a reason for that. If it’s too difficult, your brain can’t learn it automatically, you’ll be thinking about it too much.

It’s the same with these point of view stories. If they’re too difficult, too complex, then you have to think about it too much. You’ll be thinking about the grammar instead of learning it automatically, using it automatically, understanding it automatically.

We keep them simple and there’s a lot of repetition, and we tell the story from different points of view, different times, and that’s how you get a feeling for correct grammar. You don’t want to think about correct grammar, you want to feel it automatically.

All you need to do is listen to these stories every single day, that’s all. Listen to them and enjoy the crazy stories. Let’s go back to Marcie the monkey. First story, let’s tell this story as if it’s happening now, we are with Marcie and George Clooney as it’s happening.

There is a monkey named Marcie. Marcie is a super indecisive monkey. She’s super indecisive. She can never make decisions about anything. The worst thing is eating.

She’s really, really, really indecisive about eating.

Every time she begins to eat, she starts to hem and haw. She hems and haws, hems and haws; should I eat the broccoli? Oh no. Should I eat the banana? I don’t know, maybe broccoli. Yes, no – wait, I mean banana – she hems and haws, she hems and haws all the time before eating.

Because she’s always hemming and hawing, she doesn’t make decisions very often.

Because she’s so indecisive about food, she becomes super, super skinny. Very, very thin. It becomes so bad that she finally goes to see Dr. Phil for help.

She goes to see Dr. Phil and she says, “Dr. Phil, please help me. I’m so indecisive.” Is Dr. Phil gentle to her and nice and sweet? No, he’s an asshole, he’s a total asshole.

He yells at her. He says, “What’s your problem monkey girl? Just decide.” Dr. Phil is a very big asshole to Marcie. He’s a jerk to her; he’s not nice to her. He’s quite mean. Does Dr. Phil help her? No he doesn’t, he does not help her. In fact, after getting yelled at by Dr. Phil she becomes even more nervous and indecisive, especially about food.

This problem gets worse and so her husband – who’s her husband? George Clooney.

She is his secret wife, Marcie the monkey. George Clooney really likes monkeys, I just want to get these facts correct, and everybody knows this.

Anyway, I guess everybody doesn’t know this – its secret knowledge. Now you know; George Clooney is secretly married to Marcie the monkey.

Anyway he calls Dr. Laura and he says please help my wife Marcie, she’s indecisive and she won’t eat. Marcie goes to see Dr. Laura.

Dr. Laura is a total bitch. She yells at Marcie, she says, “You stupid idiotic monkey, what’s wrong with you?”

Dr. Laura is a total bitch to Marcie. Marcie cries, she cries and cries and she loses even more weight. She loses so much weight that she becomes anorexic, she totally stops eating. Marcie becomes anorexic.

Of course George Clooney gets very worried about this. He loves Marcie the monkey.

He calls his buddy Tony Robbins, our friend Tony Robbins, our buddy Tony Robbins –we love Tony.

George Clooney calls Tony and says, “Tony, please help my wife. She’s anorexic. She might die because she’s so indecisive about food.”

Marcie goes to see Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins is not an asshole. He’s a great guy, and he says, “Marcie, you can do it. I’ll teach you how to be decisive.” He’s very encouraging and empowering to Marcie.

He empowers her to make decisions. He empowers her to feel stronger and stronger.

Day by day she does become stronger and stronger. She makes more and more decisions, she becomes more decisive.

Soon she’s eating at every meal. Even later she makes great decisions every time, always choosing healthy wonderful food, she chooses very fast, she’s very decisive, and she starts eating immediately.

She gains weight and becomes very healthy and very happy. Of course George Clooney is very happy too.

Let’s go back and let’s begin our story with since she was a teenager. Teenager means 15 years old, 16, or 17.

Since she was a teenager, Marcie the monkey has been very indecisive. She has been super indecisive, starting when she was a teenager, until recently. Who has been very indecisive? Marcie has been very indecisive.

Since when? Since she was a teenager. Since she was a teenager, she has been very, very indecisive. Starting then in the past, continuing until recently. What has she been indecisive about?

She has been very indecisive about eating. Every time she has eaten, she has been indecisive. Since when has she been indecisive about eating? Since she was a teenager. Every time she has eaten, starting when she was a teenager until recently, she has been indecisive. She has not been able to decide.

In fact, she has hemmed and hawed, hemmed and hawed. She has hemmed and hawed every time before eating. Should I eat broccoli? Oh I don’t know. Should I eat spinach? Oh I don’t know, maybe I should eat a banana. I don’t know I’m not sure.

She has hemmed and hawed, hemmed and hawed, hemmed and hawed. Who has hemmed and hawed? Marcie has hemmed and hawed about eating. This started when she was a teenager and continued until recently.

She has become super skinny. She has become super, super skinny. During this time, starting when she was a teenager until recently, she has seen, she has visited a lot of psychologists. She has visited a lot of doctors, but none of them have helped her.

None of the normal doctors have helped her; none of the normal psychologists have helped her. One day she went to see Dr. Phil. One day she went to see Dr. Phil, the famous TV psychologist who is not really a psychologist.

She went to see Dr. Phil, and Dr. Phil yelled at her. He was an asshole. He yelled at her and said, “What’s your problem monkey girl, just decide!” He was a total asshole and so she became even more nervous and even more indecisive. It was really sad. She became more indecisive and so her husband George Clooney got very worried.

He got so worried that he called Dr. Laura the radio psychologist and said, “Dr. Laura, please see my wife Marcie and help her.”

Marcie went to see Dr. Laura, and Dr. Laura was a total bitch to her. She yelled at her.

She said, “You stupid idiotic monkey, what’s wrong with you?” Marcie cried and cried and cried, and she lost more weight, and she became anorexic.

George Clooney was so worried that he called his (and our) buddy Tony Robbins. He called our friend Tony Robbins and he said, “Tony, you must help her, I’m afraid she’s going to die.”

She went to see Tony Robbins, and Tony Robbins was not an asshole. He was very nice. He said, “You can do it Marcie, I’ll teach you how to be decisive.” He was very encouraging and very empowering. He empowered her to make decisions.

He taught her how to make decisions and she did it. Day by day she became more decisive, especially about eating. She chose great wonderful healthy foods and she ate more and more and she gained weight until she became very healthy and very happy.

Of course George Clooney was also very happy.

Alright, you notice that the grammar changed a little bit there when we talk about since, there’s a time range. We use one kind of grammar when we’re talking about specific things; we change of course to another kind.

Don’t think about the rules, you already know the rules, just listen to the story. That’s all you need to do. You’ll begin to feel the grammar. You already know the grammar in your head, you need to feel it to use it automatically and easily and quickly and correctly.

Let’s go to the future, our last version. We can imagine this will happen in the future; we’re just dreaming it or imagining it.

In the future there will be a monkey named Marcie. This is going to be George Clooney’s secret wife. George Clooney is going to get married to a monkey named Marcie.

Marcie the monkey is going to be super indecisive. She’ll be super indecisive. She’ll especially be very indecisive about eating. She’s going to be super, super indecisive about eating. She’s going to be super indecisive about eating.

She’ll hem and haw and hem and haw before every meal. Should I eat broccoli? Should I eat bananas? Should I eat spinach? I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. She’ll hem and haw, hem and haw, hem and haw, all the time before eating, never saying anything directly and never making a strong decision.

Because of this she’s going to get super skinny. She’s going to get so skinny that she’ll need help, and so she’ll go to see the famous Dr. Phil. Unfortunately Dr. Phil is going to be an asshole when he sees her.

He’s going to yell at her. He’s going to say, “What’s your problem monkey girl? Just decide!”

He’s going to be a jerk he’s going to be an asshole. She’ll become even more nervous and indecisive because of this.

George Clooney is going to get worried, he’s going to get concerned and worried about his wife. He’ll call Dr. Laura, the radio counselor.

Marcie will go to see Dr. Laura. Dr. Laura is going to be a total bitch. She’ll yell at poor Marcie, she’ll say, “You stupid idiotic monkey, what’s wrong with you?” Of course Marcie is going to be so upset. She’s going to cry and cry and cry, and she’ll lose even more weight. She’ll become anorexic. Poor Marcie will become anorexic, so thin that she might even die.

Of course George Clooney, her husband, is really going to get worried. He’s going to call our friend Tony Robbins. He’ll call my buddy Tony Robbins and he’ll say, “Tony please help my wife.”

Tony will say, “Okay.”

Marcie will go to see Tony Robbins. He won’t be an asshole. Luckily, he won’t be an asshole. He will not be an asshole. He won’t be a jerk. In fact, he’ll be the opposite. He’ll be very encouraging and very empowering.

He’ll say, “You can do it Marcie. I’ll teach you how to be decisive.” He is going to do that, he will. He’ll teach her how to be strong and decisive. Each day she’ll get better and better. She’ll feel stronger and stronger. She’ll become more and more decisive, especially about food.

She’ll choose healthy foods at every meal quickly and easily. Because of this of course she’s going to gain weight, she’s going to get a nice healthy weight, and she’s going to be very healthy and very happy. Of course her husband, George Clooney, is also going to be very, very happy.

That’s the end of our point of view stories. Just enjoy them, don’t think too much. The grammar is actually not too difficult, but this is the most common grammar. These three stories give you the most common verb tenses for example, the ones we use constantly, every single day, in probably every conversation.

You need to know them but you don’t need to know them in your head, not memorize the rules, you already know that. I know that. You already know it in your head, but you don’t feel it in your gut. You don’t feel it in your heart it’s not part of you.

When I speak English I don’t think about grammar rules. No American, no British person, no Canadian and no Australian thinks about grammar when they speak, and you should not think about it either.

You don’t need to think about grammar, you need to feel the correct grammar. To do that, repeat these stories again and again. Repeat it every day and you will begin to feel the grammar. After you feel it deeply you’ll begin to use it correctly, quickly and automatically, no thinking at all.

All right, have a great day. You are my special VIP, I love teaching you.

Okay, I’ll see you next time, bye-bye.