This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 2116.

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Hey Lindsay, how are you?

Hey Michelle, I'm doing great. How are you? How's everything? I'm good. everything yeah everything's good so um question okay how

much coffee have you had today oh I'm just getting started but I will have a

lot how many how, we've talked about this all the time,

but right there, yeah.

How much do you have a day?

Oh my gosh, two or two and a half large cups. So that might be like six cups,

literally six measurement cups of coffee, potentially. A lot, Michelle. I have a lot of coffee. But

sometimes I find the research that says it doesn't matter as long as you're not drinking like 25 cups you're okay. I think I'm still okay.

25 that would be a lot. Yeah. I have been drinking more than usual. I used to just drink one in the morning, that was fine, but my daughter is getting up at 4.30 in the morning sometimes and there's it's she is in the other room right now and

like she is waking up too early so that happens but so I've been drinking more than usual and

drinking coffee more than usual. Making sure that's clear.

Yeah you'll just have a little sound clip. A little sound clip of me. Right, right, watch out like that's clipped out of episodes, right.

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