- I’m here with .. er.. Betsy .. erm.. who’s from America. Hello Betsy, welcome to Mansion Ingls.

- Hi! Thank you very much. A - ? - pleasure measure treasure to be here.

- Thank you. I’d like to ask you about.. erm.. your business plans for opening a business in Ann Arbor.
Erm.. why did you decide to do that? And can you tell us.. erm… what your plans were?

- I had come back to Michigan to found a non-profit - ? - deforestation train station organisation called Locomotion to raise awareness about links between environmental toxins and things like cancer. And I did that for three years. And what people really wanted wasn’t so much the science, they wanted immediate strategies to reduce toxins in there - ? - wife life knife .

- And what sort of toxins are we speaking about here?

- Hmm…airborne, from all the manufacturing around Detroit, or waterborne, you know whatever seeps into the water table. Things in consumer - ? - air ducts ducks products . Erm..so I thought if I open a store and provided a variety of paints, for example, with no volatile - ? - organic arsenic armored compounds, or adhesives, or mattresses that didn’t off gas, flame retardants, that they - ? - would love it would buy it would laugh at it .

- And are people a..aware of these dangers in..in society by these products, or is it something - ? - comparatively relatively fairly new?

- Well… I think it’s kind of not so new but not everybody’s aware of it, which is why, having spent three - ? - beers tears years pounding everybody on the head about it.. erm.. they were more or less ready. I thought.

- So, where do you go from here, w..what are your plans f…for the future? As far as this is concerned. Are you just - ? - gonna wanna gotta drop it?

- I’m - ? - gonna wanna gotta put it on the shelf and wait until I meet the right person or people with the same interests, and who would be capable of giving me financial - ? - spanking banking backing .

- Okay well good luck for the future.

- Thank you so much.

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to found = fundar, establecer
aware (adj.) = enterado, consciente de algo
to raise awareness = hacer que se den cuenta de algo
links = enlaces, conexines
to seep = filtrarse
store = tienda (en ingls britnico – shop)
a compound = un compuesto
flame retardants = a prueba de fuego (flame = llama)
pounding everybody on the head = (to pound = golpear, machacar, martillar)
to drop it = dejarlo, abandonarlo
financial backing = respaldo financiero

Informal Spoken English
gonna = going to
wanna = want to
gotta = got to