American Surrogate
Rough Translation
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4.8 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Gregory Warner here just to say this is our fourth episode of Ref Translation and |
| 0:05.8 | your response has already been just amazing. |
| 0:08.8 | All of your comments on the show, your story ideas, your reviews, keep them coming, we're |
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| 0:16.0 | going. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks, here's the show. |
| 0:19.0 | We're in a little house on a hill in northwestern Oregon on a comfy couch with throw pillows, |
| 0:28.0 | a little dog named Muffin running around. |
| 0:29.7 | Okay, so I'll feel buzz on my phone. |
| 0:33.0 | Jackie pulls out her phone, she's got a message on WeChat. |
| 0:36.6 | And it will have her picture. |
| 0:39.3 | It comes first in Chinese characters. |
| 0:41.6 | She's showing all this to reporter Mary Ann McEun. |
| 0:44.3 | Like this one is a red panda dancing between two eights. |
| 0:50.5 | I had no idea what that means. |
| 0:52.5 | And she says eight in Chinese pronunciation is similar to the word by. |
| 0:56.8 | The two eights signify by by. |
| 0:59.6 | And you say, I hope we can talk again soon, have a good night. |
| 1:04.7 | And then I sent the little red panda dancing between two eights. |
| 1:10.0 | So that's how you communicate with the woman who's baby you're having. |
| 1:13.1 | You're most of the time, yeah. |
| 1:20.5 | This is Ref Translation. |
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