Hello, lovely. Today we have a very special episode because we have a very special guest on our podcast. He is my favorite person and I admire all his work. Luke Thompson from Luke's English podcast, ladies and jans. Hello, Luke. Hello. Wow. I'm your

favorite person. Yes, you are. I wonder how many people you know. I don't know. But anyway,

that's very nice of you. Hello, thanks for inviting me onto your podcast. Welcome to the podcast.

Did I pronounce your name correctly, Luke? Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, because normally it's luck or it's look. I've had rook before.

I've no idea what that is, rook. But no, Luke, yeah, you got it right.

Look, tell us, are you, do you call yourself a podcaster, a podcast master, an English teacher?

I wouldn't say I'm a master podcast, although I might jokingly refer to myself as that on my website as a Jedi podmaster, I think.

But no, I'm just, I'm a podcaster. I think the order is these days it's podcaster first,

then teacher, and then stand-up comedian. I think it's in that

order. So, yes, these days, since I do more podcasting than actual teaching now, I think that

comes first, yeah. But do you have any classes at the moment? Yeah, yeah, I teach some classes

at the British Council in Paris. And so it's a very weird time though because our school has

recently opened up its doors again. And so we've got students in classrooms, but people are

sort of like, you know, having to distance from each other. I'm wearing a mask while I'm teaching.

Some teachers are going around with big visors, plastic visors on.

It's like Darth Vader's walking around with a, you know, with like, you know, it's very weird time indeed for teaching.

It's like teaching meets Star Wars with a sort of zombie element thrown in there too.

But yeah, so I still teach normal classes as well as podcasting.

And how long have you been into podcasting?

Oh, I mean, as a general podcast enthusiast, oh, I don't know, since I first got like my first

computer and got online. And probably around 2004, I think is when I discovered it.

The Ricky Jervais podcast, I think was the first thing I listened to.

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