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Speaker 1: In this episode, we'll journey through a frostbitten world where
Speaker 1: survival hinges not on conflict, but on an unexpected alliance
Speaker 1: forged in the aisles of an abandoned supermarket.
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Speaker 2: In the raw.
Speaker 4: Smerlat super marked dvald gen adem, vossifbar indic, develservint het
Speaker 4: vosvinter and either food ings middle often comes up overlaving
Speaker 4: the plank varabeyn a leech met slecksen ankle a black
Speaker 4: bone here and there bronze, hudeseen hoft hey had mere
Speaker 4: noder for saint roop zendachte, hinging out narsona, the hopelos
Speaker 4: touse of Medi say nevachte. She was swag and saht
Speaker 4: medi saynes snell noder, the haloud of u crackened ross, blackened, distilled,
Speaker 4: em brom forestaved hey took sen capuschen, dichtercht hey hard
Speaker 4: luchtard over and hooper the year round nursed Hafi loured
Speaker 4: on elko wuk and he mustvozichter sayn beet hung pot
Speaker 4: from the Meidi sayn stopped the hay needs alas was
Speaker 4: weg hazucht deeper than the stillest snail storm bowder, what
Speaker 4: nu hay cake onzif heina that roburst mur and o'wake
Speaker 4: the tailors and ton wardehe stemmer lach and rollant madre
Speaker 4: nabee hadwas kase and Saint roup Er was alted and
Speaker 4: responded the lads he waist to snrup and ivan bram
Speaker 4: concurrensy on spulakom snell out a haunt loper for all
Speaker 4: nuer zobe eynechas Broun clammed the seigne hunt on atmesse
Speaker 4: in senzak in plants fonte verte saw seen instinctim fortelde
Speaker 4: howl the hedeep adam and stop the henarfor kase bahon
Speaker 4: hay say stem for rosenfast the dunier alamal ons best
Speaker 4: on the overleafre kaise cakeop zen rasichth hal forbore on
Speaker 4: brundick a schall what will ye brohm an oplaw sing
Speaker 4: sam and their king yea and equated that our need
Speaker 4: fil over is unforte verte varm kneathdale yao mensen main
Speaker 4: mense the kuldn't at sam a better doom case was
Speaker 4: still then o huzukund narnspour from the drag mar blums
Speaker 4: Obrechteide strawled the helder in the dongleham Na along a
Speaker 4: minute knick, the case long sam dil di dachfre litten
Speaker 4: Broum and case swouder and showder the supermarked elkmet and
Speaker 4: handfuls ramol for Samo, the bernoder tide marmettis phil Vardfoller's
Speaker 4: hope hope open bayed the winter for Outzicht for ider
Speaker 4: rain blum foolded the cow kneat me ere so intense
Speaker 4: er was a sprunki armed insen heart a new besve
Speaker 4: that Sama week Son said best of is take on
Speaker 4: the head from the wild bout heat Wassen stopped at
Speaker 4: a niwotu coomst and that in Overlaif it's minder freight
Speaker 4: lake in the heart of inter Man.
Speaker 1: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 1: may have missed in.
Speaker 4: The Howesheimer from the flat super marked duval de broum
Speaker 4: door the couple to hum.
Speaker 1: In the gray twilight of an abandoned supermarket, brum wandered
Speaker 1: through the broken aisles.
Speaker 4: Zen adam vos sichbar in the cow de lucht Tevel's
Speaker 4: harpus snail wind Saint Bamacleurde.
Speaker 1: His breath was visible in the cold air as the
Speaker 1: sharp snow wind colored his cheeks.
Speaker 4: Hetlas winter and either fooding smiddle often comes up overlafing.
Speaker 1: It was winter and every bit of food offered a
Speaker 1: chance at survival. The plunk varabn les met slips an ankle,
Speaker 1: a black bone, a year end. There the shelves were
Speaker 1: almost empty, with only an occasional can of beans here
Speaker 1: and there.
Speaker 4: Brom sreu desen hooft hey halt mire noder for seen.
Speaker 1: Jop Brum shook his head. He needed more for his group.
Speaker 4: Zen roudorte finger out narson de hoopelo staus.
Speaker 1: Of Meidi se Nevarte. His thoughts went out to Shanna,
Speaker 1: who was hopelessly waiting at home for medicine.
Speaker 4: Servos svak and sahte Meidi synes snell Node.
Speaker 1: She was weak and needed the medicine quickly.
Speaker 4: The helloud de vankrack andross black and distilt em brom
Speaker 4: for staved.
Speaker 1: The sounds of cracking glass broke the silence, and Broum
Speaker 1: froze hey tok senka puschen dichtert. He pulled his head
Speaker 1: tighter around his hey hat the hoard off and hooper
Speaker 1: the ye old nursed. He had heard rumors of other
Speaker 1: groups nosing around here. Hahfai lord um el koug and
Speaker 1: hey mustforzich, saying danger lurked around every corner, and he
Speaker 1: had to be cautious be it hung But from the
Speaker 1: maidy sa stopt hey at the medicine aisle, he stopped
Speaker 1: neats nothing alas vas we everything was gone. Hezurt deeper
Speaker 1: than the stillest snail storm bout he sighed deeper than
Speaker 1: the silent snowstorm outside.
Speaker 4: Vot nu what now hey keik unze hen the jubars
Speaker 4: demur and doorway to Taals.
Speaker 1: He looked around at the cracked walls and soaked tiles and.
Speaker 4: Jordehe stemmer Lach Andralan Mardreabe.
Speaker 1: And then he heard voices low and lingering but threateningly close.
Speaker 4: Het vosquies and zeen hoop. It was case in his
Speaker 4: group ervos alted.
Speaker 1: And Rospona de la sievest t slu hoop and defenbm.
Speaker 1: There had always been a tense relationship between their group
Speaker 1: and brahmsse concurensi on spull com snell out of haunt
Speaker 1: lope Forbnejos. Competition for supplies could quickly get out of hand,
Speaker 1: especially now that there was so little left.
Speaker 4: Bloom clem de Sehn hunt or macmess in Sinzak.
Speaker 1: Brahm gripped the knife in his pocket in.
Speaker 4: Plats Fonte Ferte saw sin instinct him for tell thee
Speaker 4: how the hey deep Adam.
Speaker 1: And stop the hay. Instead of fighting, as his instinct
Speaker 1: told him to, he took a deep breath and stepped
Speaker 1: forward case bauhonree jaying stim ferosent fast the doun yer
Speaker 1: a la mal ounds best unto Caese. He began, his voice,
Speaker 1: surprisingly steady. We're all doing our best to survive here.
Speaker 4: Kaise cake op desil forborg umbrundikchell.
Speaker 1: Kish looked up, his face half hidden under a thick scarf.
Speaker 1: Vat villieer brom. What do you want Brahm an oplau
Speaker 1: singh an answer, Sam and vere king.
Speaker 4: Cooperation yea niguated Delta need feel over is uf.
Speaker 1: You and I both know there's not much left to
Speaker 1: fight for. Var Del not share yeo Menson man mens
Speaker 1: the kunnnat Sam a better doom Your people, my people.
Speaker 1: We can do better together, case was still saying o
Speaker 1: huzukund naranspour from budor Kesh was silent, his eyes searching
Speaker 1: for a hint of deceit mar blums obrechtete strawl the
Speaker 1: helder in the dongham, but Brahmas sincerity shone brightly in
Speaker 1: the dark. Aisle naw a long a minute kneak the
Speaker 1: case lung sam. After a long minute, case nodded slowly, deal.
Speaker 4: Deal di dach friliten Brum and case sowder and showder
Speaker 4: the supermarked elk meten huntfuls ramel for sammele de bernod
Speaker 4: tide mar medids phil var Deval's hope.
Speaker 1: That day Brahmin cash, shoulder to shoulder left the supermarket,
Speaker 1: each with a handful of scantily gathered supplies, but with
Speaker 1: something much more valuable. Hope, Hope open bea the winter
Speaker 1: forautzicht for iderain, Hope for a better winter outlook for everyone.
Speaker 1: Blum fooled the cow neet mere so intense. Brum didn't
Speaker 1: feel the cold as intensely anymore. Her Vossen's plunk you
Speaker 1: arm to ease en heart the new bussef do sam
Speaker 1: wrk Sun said bestavap is tea on the height from
Speaker 1: the veield bout. There was a spark of warmth in
Speaker 1: his heart, a new realization that cooperation is sometimes the
Speaker 1: best weapon against the hostility of the world outside.
Speaker 4: Head Larsen stop nar and new two kmst and varin
Speaker 4: o forlay it's minder freight lake in the heart of
Speaker 4: inter Man.
Speaker 1: It was a step toward a new future, one in
Speaker 1: which surviving seemed a bit less cruel during the harsh
Speaker 1: winter months.
Speaker 2: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 2: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch than in English.
Speaker 4: Seamer, sheamer, seamer, twilight for Latin for Latin for lat abandoned, duvalde, duvalde, duvald, wondered,
Speaker 4: zief bar ziefbar, ziftbar visible, overlaving, overlaving, overlaving, survival, enkele, ankle, eenkele, occasional, hopelos, hopelos, hopelous, hopelessly, crackend, crackened, crackned.
Speaker 1: Cracking, lurid, lurid de louri, de lurking, forzichter forzicht forzicht.
Speaker 4: Cautious, humpots, humpot, hum pots, aisle door, wakete door, waked
Speaker 4: doorwaket soaked, the lolands, the loland, the Laolands, lingering, delehend, delehend,
Speaker 4: de regend threateningly, russponna, russponden russepauna tense, concurrency, concurrency, concurrency, competition, Schammel, schammel, samol, scantily, sprunchieux,
Speaker 4: sprunk sprung here, spark.
Speaker 1: Fay on the height, fay on the height, fay on
Speaker 1: the head, hostility, the weappen, the happen weapon for roadshift
Speaker 1: four roadshift for outsift, outlook besif besif besif realization, clem,
Speaker 1: the clem de clem, the crypt deceit, oprichtate, opritate, oprichtit,
Speaker 1: sincerity for staved, for staved, for staved, frozen, fluchten, fluchtenchte, rumors,
Speaker 1: salmon their king, salmon, their king, salmon, their king, co operation,
Speaker 1: stop stop stop step forzamalde forzamalde, forzamulde gathered.
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