This is an all ears English podcast episode 1480. This episode isn't going to listen to itself.

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Pause this podcast and search IELT's energy in your podcast app and hit follow. So. How are you? Everything's good over here. Yes, my mom's birthday was yesterday, December 1st, so that's exciting.

Oh, happy birthday, happy birthday. Yeah, birthdays are always fun. What else is going on in your world, Michelle?

Nothing.

I am here visiting my parents, so I'm in a different location again.

And it's always nice to you know be with family and get some help with the

little one so that's very important. That's awesome I love that I love that and you

live near kind of near Washington DC like where in the middle of the whole mess.

My parents, yeah well I'm from, I actually was born in Washington DC.

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