AEE 1904: This New English Vocabulary Is Not a Buzzkill

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Business, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1904. This new English vocabulary is not a buzzkill.
0:09.9	Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast. Downloaded more than 200 million times,
0:16.7	are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:24.2	on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:31.0	adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York
0:38.2	City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allhearsenglish.com,
0:47.8	forward slash subscribe. In today's episode, we'll highlight a fun phrase that even Obama used on
0:58.4	TV recently. Get new English slang to talk about how well you integrate with other people for better
1:05.3	connection. Hey there, Michelle. Good to see you on video. How's it going?
1:12.8	Hey, Lindsay. I am good. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm happy to be here. What are we
1:17.7	getting into in today's episode? Well, today we are talking about a very really useful, I think,
1:24.3	a slang word, and that word is buzzkill. I know, Michelle. I went to a party over the weekend,
1:29.9	and someone was just talking about their work problems the whole time. It was a total buzzkill.
1:36.4	Oh, how? You know, it's funny, guys, before we started this episode, Lindsay and I were talking
1:43.3	about what we're going to discuss on this episode. And I told her, I said, oh, it's because I heard
1:49.1	Obama use this word buzzkill. And Lindsay said, oh, I heard that too. Yeah, we listened to the same
1:54.7	media, clearly. Obama was interviewed on a podcast that I like to listen to called Ponce of America.
2:01.8	You guys can check it out. It's actually hosted by the guys who used to be his speech writers
2:06.8	when he was in office. So he knows them, which is kind of cool. So they had a nice rapport going
2:11.2	on, but he was saying that the left shouldn't be such a buzzkill, right? And it was fun hearing him use
2:16.8	that. Why is that kind of fun hearing Obama use that phrase, Michelle? Because it's slang. And also,
2:23.5	I think because it's quite direct, like Obama has done this before where he kind of like, you know,
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