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Hello my special VIP, and welcome to the mini story for this month’s lesson. In this month’s mini story you just need to listen and answer the questions. Make it a game.

The questions are easy so try to answer them faster and faster each day that you listen to this mini story.

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There was a redneck named Rush.

What was Rush?

Rush was a Redneck.

What’s a redneck?

A redneck is a person who is uneducated, from the country, not from the city, from the countryside, a rural person. It’s kind of a slang term. It also has a more general meaning, which is someone who is sort of ignorant, an ignorant person. A redneck.

Rush was a redneck, he was an ignorant person. He was not super intelligent, he was not a nice guy. This is a very negative word. Rush was a redneck. Also, he had always been an angry, misogynistic asshole.

What had he always been?

An angry, misogynistic asshole.

You know angry, what is misogynistic mean?

Misogynistic means hating women, used for men who hate women. They really dislike women, they are mean to women. We say he is a misogynist, as a noun, it means he is a woman hater, a guy who hates women. The adjective is misogynistic.

What was he?

He was an angry, misogynistic asshole.

Who was an angry misogynistic asshole?

Rush the redneck was an angry, misogynistic asshole.

What’s an asshole?

An asshole is a very unfriendly, mean person. If redneck means uneducated and not intelligent, not sophisticated – that’s what redneck means – asshole means more like mean, unfriendly. You’re getting some good insults in this mini story.

What was Rush?

He was a redneck.

What kind of redneck was he?

An angry, misogynistic asshole redneck.

Who was an angry, misogynistic asshole?

Rush.

Was Rush intelligent and sophisticated?

No he wasn’t intelligent and sophisticated, he was a redneck.

Did he love women and treat them well?

No he did not love women and treat them well, he was a misogynistic asshole.

What kind of asshole was he?

A misogynistic asshole.

Who was a misogynistic asshole?

Rush. Rush the redneck was an angry, misogynistic asshole.

Did Rush recently become an angry misogynistic asshole? No, no, no, not recently, he had always been an angry, misogynistic asshole. He’d always been one. He was an angry misogynistic asshole five years ago, he was an angry misogynistic asshole 10 years ago and he was an angry misogynistic asshole even when he was young. He had always been an angry, misogynistic asshole.

When did this start? It started at the age of 15. What happened when he was 15?

When he was 15 his girlfriend broke up with him.

Who broke up with Rush?

His girlfriend.

What was his girlfriend’s name at that time? His girlfriends name at that time was Sally.

Sally was his girlfriend when?

At the age of 15. At the age of 15, Rush had a girlfriend named Sally.

What did Sally do to him?

She broke up with him.

She said, “Rush, I don’t like you, I don’t want to date you anymore.” How did Rush feel after the breakup? Well, he felt upset and angry.

What did he become at the age of 15?

A misogynist.

What is a misogynist?

A woman hater; a man who hates women.

Did Rush become a misogynist at the age of 12?

No he did not become a misogynist at the age of 12 he became a misogynist at the age of 15. He became a misogynist at the age of 15.

Why did he become a misogynist?

Because his girlfriend broke up with him.

Who was his girlfriend?

Sally. Sally was his girlfriend.

What did she do?

She broke up with him.

Who did she break up with?

Rush, Rush the redneck. Sally broke up with Rush the redneck.

He became what?

A misogynist.

At what age?

At the age of 15.

At the age of 15 Sally his girlfriend broke up with him. He became very angry and that’s when he became a misogynist. Then every day from that point he continued to hate women. In fact, every day from that point he ranted and raved about the evils of women.

Ranted and raved – to rant and to rave means to yell and to talk and talk and talk a lot about a subject. If you rant and rave about something you constantly talk about it and you won’t stop, you won’t even take a break, you just talk, and talk, and talk. You talk a lot with a lot of emotion, without pausing, without stopping, without listening.

When you talk like that we call that ranting or sometimes we use the whole phrase, to rant and rave. To rant and rave, means to talk non-stop about a topic usually in an angry way. Not 100%, but usually it means to talk nonstop about a topic, usually in an angry way.

What did Rush do from that point on?

He ranted and raved.

What did he rant and rave about?

The evils of women. He talked and talked and talked in an angry way about the evils of women.

Who ranted and raved constantly from the age of 15 onward?

Rush of course, Rush did.

What was Rush?

Rush was a redneck.

What kind of redneck?

An angry misogynistic asshole redneck.

What did he do every day?

He ranted and raved.

He ranted and raved about what?

The evils of women.

Who ranted and raved about the evils of women?

Rush did. Rush ranted and raved about the evils of women, he talked and talked and talked about it constantly, nonstop, angrily.

Why did he rant and rave about women all the time?

Because his heart was broken at the age of 15.

What did he do constantly?

Rant and rave. He talked constantly he ranted and raved about the evils of women.

How long did this continue? Years and years, it continued for years and years. In fact, when he was 30 something happened. What happened at the age of 30? Did he fall in love?

No, he did not fall in love at the age of 30. Did he change his mind? No, what happened at the age of 30? He got a radio show. At the age of 30 he got a professional radio show, his own radio show.

Who got a radio show?

Rush the redneck.

When did he get a radio show?

At the age of 30.

What did he get at the age of 30?

His own radio show.

What kind of show did he get?

A radio show.

What did he do on his radio show? You know the answer, he ranted and raved about the evils of women. That’s right. He got a radio show and he used his show to rant and rave about the evils of women.

What did he talk about on his show?

The evils of women.

Did he talk calmly about the evils of women?

No he did not; he ranted and raved. He talked angrily, non-stop, about the evils of women.

Where did he do that?

On his radio show. On his radio show he ranted and raved constantly about the evils of women.

Did a lot of people listen to his show? Oh yes, yes, a lot of people listened to his show. What kind of people listened to his show? Did a lot of women listen to his show?

No, of course, not. They didn’t want to hear that, so what kind of people listened to his show? Men of course, but what kind of men listened to his radio show?

Misogynistic men listened to his show, other men who hated women too.

Did a lot of misogynistic men listen to Rush’s show?

Yes they did, a lot of misogynistic men listened to Rush’s show.

What kind of show was it, a TV show?

No, it was a radio show. A lot of misogynistic men listened to his radio show.

What did he do on his radio show every day?

He ranted and raved, ranted and raved, about what? About the evils of women.

However, Rush had a problem – obviously. Deep down inside though, he had a problem. What was his problem? You know. He felt very, very lonely. Deep down inside, Rush felt very, very lonely.

Why did he feel lonely? Because no women would date him, no woman would date him. Not a single woman would date him. Why not? Obviously, because he was a misogynistic jerk, a misogynistic asshole. A jerk is the same, a mean or rude person.

Who was a misogynistic jerk?

Rush.

Why would women not date him?

Because he was a misogynistic jerk. No woman wanted to date a man who hated women. They definitely hated him.

Who hated Rush?

Women, any women he met quickly hated him.

Why did they hate him?

Because he was a misogynistic jerk.

How did Rush feel deep inside?

He felt lonely deep inside.

Why did he feel lonely?

Because no women would date him.

What happened to Rush next? It’s obvious, that’s right, obviously he became a heroin addict. Rush became a heroin addict. Of course heroin is a drug that you use a needle to put into your body.

What kind of addict did Rush become?

A heroine addict. Rush became a heroin addict.

Did he become a cocaine addict?

No he didn’t, he didn’t become a cocaine addict.

What kind of addict did he become?

A heroine addict. Rush became a heroin addict.

Why did he become a heroine addict?

To forget his loneliness Rush became a heroin addict to forget about his loneliness.

Wow. Did Rush have a good life? Obviously not. What kind of life did he have? He had a sad, angry, desperate life.

Did he have a happy life?

No, he didn’t.

What kind of life did he have?

A sad and desperate life.

He was very, very unhappy until one day. One day he woke up, and we don’t know why, but for some reason he decided to reimagine his entire life.

What did he do with his life?

He reimagined it.

Did he think about his life in a totally different and new way?

That’s right, yes he did, he reimagined it. He decided to totally reimagine his life.

Who decided to reimagine his life?

Rush did. Rush decided to reimagine his life.

He thought about every part of his life and how he wanted to change it. He wanted to become totally completely different. He decided to completely reimagine his life.

What was the first thing he did? Well the first thing he did is that he quit heroin, he totally quit heroin. Was he still an addict? No, he quit heroin completely. Next he got healthy and into good physical shape.

Did he get into good shape? Did he become healthy?

Yes he did, he got very healthy. He became very healthy.

Finally and most importantly he did something on his radio show. What did he do? He apologized to all the women in the world.

Who did he apologize to?

All the women in the world.

Why did he apologize?

Because he had been a misogynistic jerk on the radio for many years.

What had he been until that moment?

He had been a misogynistic jerk.

Did he continue to be a misogynistic jerk after that moment? No, after that moment he became a true gentleman.

Before that moment what had he been?

Before that moment he had been a misogynist.

Had he been nice to women before that moment on his radio show?

No he had not; he had not been nice to women before that moment.

Was he nice to women after that moment, after the apology?

Yes he was. He was very, very kind and nice to women after that moment, after the apology.

He had been a misogynist, and then he totally changed and he apologized to all women on his show.

After that moment what was he?

After that moment he was a true gentleman, and he felt peaceful, calm and happy.

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That is the end of our mini story for this month. As always listen to the story every single day. After you listen to it and you know it well start answering the questions every time.

You can use your pause button if necessary.

After several more days listening to it you should get faster and faster, so then make it a game. Try to answer the questions without using the pause button. Try to shout them out very quickly.

In this way you’ll teach your brain to answer automatically in English very quickly, without thinking about it. It’s very important that you do that.

Alright I will see you again, have a great day. Talk to you later