This is an all ears English podcast episode 2446. Why you shouldn't be a one-upper.

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Hey, Aubrey. How are you? I'm great. How are you, Michelle? I'm good. Thanks. I'm so glad to be talking with you today. And do you have a question for me,

Aubrey? Sure. I am curious if you know anyone who is a one-upper. Not anybody that comes to mind

specifically. I guess everybody has their moments. But how about you? Yeah, that's a good point, right? We all find ourselves

doing this every now and then maybe accidentally, but every now and then you meet someone who really

is a one-upper. I met someone a couple weeks ago. I took a neighbor to dinner that I didn't know well,

and she was a one-upper, the epitome of a one-upper more than anyone I've ever met.

And she would even sort of announce she was going to do it with these phrases.

She'd say, you know, I can top that and she'd share mostly about her grandkids because

she was proud of them.

She wanted to share about them.

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