Ep. 3323 - TBT: English Language Game Throws Down Amazon Gauntlet
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week's “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from an English teacher who turns his passion for verbs into online income.
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Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | English language game throws down the Amazon Gauntlet. |
| 0:09.5 | Hey friends, what's up? |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome back to Side Hustle School. |
| 0:12.3 | Chris Gillibow, your host here in this week's Throwback Thursday segment. |
| 0:16.1 | We're going to hear from an English language teacher who turns his passion for verbs into online income. |
| 0:22.7 | This is a fun one. |
| 0:23.8 | Of course, in Throwback Thursday, we get this update from somebody we first featured on the podcast |
| 0:27.8 | a long ago. |
| 0:29.0 | In this case, we first heard from Alex Bricker, the English teacher, way back episode |
| 0:35.1 | 499. |
| 0:36.8 | That was our first time. |
| 0:37.7 | So that was what year two of the podcast, |
| 0:39.4 | we're now in year 10. |
| 0:41.2 | So a lot of things went well since we did the original episode |
| 0:45.1 | and then this update, but of course not everything. |
| 0:48.0 | Alex is going to tell us a story of a pretty significant misstep |
| 0:51.0 | in addition to some successes. |
| 0:53.4 | And Alex's game is all about |
| 0:54.6 | phrasal verbs, by the way. Frazal verbs are like a combination of a verb plus a |
| 0:59.9 | particle preposition or adverb that create a meaning different from the verb alone. So some examples |
| 1:06.7 | are to look up, which is to like search for information. I'm going to look up some information. |
| 1:11.7 | Or figure out, which is like solve or understand. I'm going to figure out this problem. |
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