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Today I want to say hi to Tetsuo.

Hello, Tetsuo. Thank you very much for watching.

Tetsuo is one of our youngest listeners. Tetsuo, how old are you? I remember Tetsuo is one of our youngest listeners. So Tetsuo, I'm waiting for your age.

I'm teasing. Tetsuo is actually, uh, he could be my father. Yep. And, uh, he's over there in Japan enjoying this podcast. So thank you very much, Tetsu, and to everybody who is listening to today's

podcast. Today's podcast is in a rut. I am in a rut. In, I N, the preposition,

A, the letter A, we, the actual pronunciation of the letter A, the article A is A, but 98.79% of the time we say a. So in a rut,

R-U-T. So first of all, what is a rut? Well, I'll give you an easy image. Imagine it's raining outside and the, there is no sidewalk, there is no road,

it's just dirt, okay? So when you walk on the dirt in the rain, it leaves your footprint, right? You can see your shoe, right? Well, imagine you are

riding a bicycle. Well, then you're going to see a long line where your bicycle was riding,

correct? Okay, so now you've got a bicycle and you're riding and it's a little bit deep, right?

It goes down because the bicycle's heavy.

Now, three days later, it's dry, but there's still that path of your bicycle.

That is a rut.

So imagine if there's a rut, a dried rut, like a place where your bicycle tire was, and you ride your bicycle on the same path, your tires might fall into the

rut, and then you are restricted.

It's very difficult to turn to the left and turn to the right.

Do you understand what I mean?

You have to go down the exact same path.

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