This clip is from Episode 46 of The Adam Buxton Podcast, a great podcast if you want to practise listening to natural conversation.
…so I was just like, “this is a disaster!”…
The phrase I was like, he was like, she was like etc is a common and useful way of introducing direct speech (a quote). In informal conversation, this is often more natural than using reported speech, e.g. I said it was a disaster.
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