This is an all ears English podcast episode 1597 textbooks teach you get, but natives use what?

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Your textbooks and classroom teachers might teach you to use the word get, but there is a far

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Hey Michelle, how's everything going? What's shaking?

Hey Lindsay, everything is good. Everything is good. The sun is shining. Things are good.

Oh my gosh. Yes, I'm still in the deep south here. Arkansas. I don't know if you'd call

the deep south, but it's pretty southern down here. I'm hearing the accents. I'm soaking up the

culture. I am eating barbecue down here. Yeah, I was going to ask about that. Yeah, you know what?

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