VOA常速英语:Parade of Lights

This bike has 5000 leds on it and it has 36 inch tires
这辆自行车上有5000个发光二极管，还有36英寸的轮胎。
this is big red this is the parade bike and it is a beast
这是大红色，这是一辆游行自行车，它超酷。
So in 2014 I moved to Los Angeles I had a girlfriend who was a makeup artist in Kansas city
所以在2014年，我搬到了洛杉矶，我有一个女朋友，她是堪萨斯城的化妆师。
and she wanted to come out here and get into the movie industry
她想出来进入电影业
you know doing like special effects makeup and she did.
你知道，就像特效化妆一样，她也是这样做的。
I will put these in and do a little quick little check to see if we have power and we do we have power.
我会把这些放进去，做个简短的检查，看看我们是否有电，我们有电。
Like six months of being here in Los Angeles she realized that she didnt want to be here anymore
在洛杉矶呆了六个月，她意识到她不想再待在这里了
so she went back to Kansas city which is where were from Kansas city Missouri.
所以她回到了堪萨斯城，也就是我们从密苏里州堪萨斯城来的地方。
She moved back and I stayed I would hang out at the beach during the day just trying to figure things out.
她搬回去了，我留下来了，白天我会在海滩上闲逛，只是想想事情。
I was just like amazed at all the bicycles with the wheel lights and I asked somebody I stopped and asked him
看到有车轮灯的自行车我很惊奇，我问一个人。
I said hey what is this all about where do you get the lights from they said its a guy named Sebastian.
我说，嘿，这是怎么回事？你从哪里弄来的灯？他们说是一个叫塞巴斯蒂安的人。
Sebastian the light man. About 2014 Marcus come along
塞巴斯蒂安，做车灯的人。2014年马库斯来了
he said now he really he he overdid his bike he made it a spectacular,
他把他的自行车做得太棒了，
and then he said man lets get a ride I mean lets get a bicycle ride every sunday.
然后他说，伙计，让我们去兜风，我们每个星期天都骑自行车。
Im the pied piper of Venice Sunday to sunset.
我是威尼斯周日日落的风笛手。
World Famous Venice Electric Light Parade.
世界著名的威尼斯车灯游行。
I would ride around at sunset pulling a speaker playing music and I was kind of like the pied piper.
我会在日落时骑着，拉着一个扬声器演奏音乐，我有点像吹笛的人。
People would just fall in behind me.
人们就会落在我后面。
I needed a specific day and I said what the best day is sunday
我需要一个特定的日子，我说什么是最好的一天是星期天。
so then I coined it sundays at sunset Venice Electric Light Parade.
于是，我创造了它在周日日落的威尼斯电灯游行。
Here we are now today you know started off with like two three people four people
我们现在在这里，一开始有两个人，三个人，四个人
the largest ride that weve had so far was like close to almost 400 people.
到目前为止，我们最多的一次是近400人。
I wanted to do something big and better I drew it on paper all my friends thought it was crazy for two years.
我想做更大更好的事情，我把它画在纸上，我所有的朋友都认为这两年是疯狂的。
I took it to my buddy I built Harleys with because he knows the metal and welding and we did it one weekend,
我把它交给了我的兄弟，我和他一起造了哈雷，因为他知道金属和焊接，我们一个周末做了，
and it works which is amazing because every tire turns off the back tire and I wanted the illusion that it touches.
它的工作原理很棒，因为每个轮胎都会成为后胎，而我想要的是它接触到的错觉。
Venice is like Bohemian capital of the United States Everybody is artistic.
威尼斯就像美国的波希米亚首都，每个人都是做艺术的。
Theres no right and theres no wrong in Venice you can either be barefoot
威尼斯没有对也没有错，你要么赤脚
and homeless or you can be upper Echelon and live in a six million dollar house as everybody coincides together,
无家可归，或者你可以是上流社会，住在六百万美元的房子里，因为每个人都在一起，
and we all mesh and we all mix and its magical.
我们都是网状的，我们都混在一起，这很神奇。
Actually I came here on a trip about two years ago and I stayed right in venice basically
实际上，我是两年前来这里旅行的，我基本上就住在威尼斯。
and I saw it go by and I was like one day I want to live here and I want to do that and now I do it its crazy.
我看着它过去，我就像有一天，我想住在这里，我想这样做，现在我这么做，这太疯狂了。
Weve got shoes, pants, jacket, glasses, this thing and just some more lights some gloves
我们有鞋子，裤子，夹克，眼镜，还有更多的灯，还有手套
we literally my goal is to like cover every inch of myself in leds.
我的目标是喜欢用LED覆盖我身上的每一寸。