15: (What's the Story) Manuel Salmann?

Easy English: Learn English with everyday conversations

This week Mitch & Isi are joined by their first ever guest! The Easy German Podcast host Manuel! Mitch and Manuel share their mutual love for the iconic Britpop band Oasis. They talk about their passion in discovering and listening to Oasis, Manuel shares his experiences watching Oasis live, Mitch describes how Oasis inspired him to become a musician and Isi describes how she missed Oasis due to a Liam Gallagher altercation. Later, Mitch and Isi test Manuel's loyalty to the band as he takes on the 'Oasis; Would You Rather' quiz.

Interactive Transcript

Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

Transcript

Mitch:
[0:00] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode 15.

Isi:
[0:04] Yee-hoo! That's my hello, for today.

Mitch:
[0:10] We're having to... I'm currently doing a thing where I'm sort of doing, finger pointing, because we are doing an impromptu podcast, in Germany and we forgot to bring all of our gear, so we're using one microphone. And in order for the Interactive Transcript to work, we have to take... (turns) to...

Isi:
[0:31] Record.

Mitch:
[0:34] Individually.

Isi:
[0:36] Yes. Yeah, so today is a bit different. We will talk after each other, very natural. And... but, it's a special one because we will have our very first guest.

Mitch:
[0:51] Yes, our very first guest. You probably already know who they are, because our first guest is... as I will already mention when we speak to them, is the Inceptor. He was the Leonardo DiCaprio character in 'Inception' when it comes to the Easy Languages podcast franchise/universe/thing.

Isi:
[1:16] It is Manuel, who is the host, one of the two hosts of the Easy German Podcast, together with Carina, who is... yeah, the founder, kind of, the helper, founder, birth helper.

Mitch:
[1:29] Midwife.

Isi:
[1:32] Midwife, of all the Easy Languages podcasts, so also this podcast. He helped us set it up.

Mitch:
[1:38] He delivered the Easy English baby.

Isi:
[1:40] He did. And, a coffee lover, Berlin lover.

Mitch:
[1:46] Cycle enthusiast.

Isi:
[1:47] Cycle enthusiast. Organizing lover, and...

Mitch:
[1:52] Tech wizard.

Isi:
[1:53] Tech wizard. Yeah, and the most important fact, which is important for today, as Mitch, a big, big Oasis fan. That's what it's all about today.

Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership