This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1588, is youth wasted on the young.

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Today, learn a common English phrase that natives use when they give advice.

Plus, Lindsay and Michelle talk about the importance of mentors and getting clear words of wisdom

when you make a big decision in life.

Hey there, Michelle, what's going on? Hey, Lindsay, not too much. How are you?

Oh, feeling good, feeling good. Yeah, I'm here on the East Coast visiting family, so feeling good.

I like to smell the salt air and get that in my hair and just being by the ocean. I love it.

How close are you to the ocean?

Well, I'm looking at the harbor right now that my parents kind of live right on the harbor,

and the ocean is on the other side of the street. So it's not ocean that you would expect,

like fancy ocean, like beachy ocean, it's New England rough ocean, like, you know what I mean,

coastline. Yeah, yeah. I just went to the beach for the first. Well, actually, I've been twice

this year already. I haven't really, it's like been too cold to actually, like, you know,

lay out or anything, but we've walked in the beach with my son and like, let him play in the sand,

it's nice too. It is really nice. It's good for you. It's so good for the soul to be by the ocean,

I think. Definitely, definitely. So, Lindy, I mean, you though, you moved from the Boston,

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