This is an all-ears English podcast episode 2480. Feel like English expressions can be frustrating?

I'll give you that.

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Hey there, Aubrey. How's everything going? What's going on? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay?

Good, good. What have we been up to lately? Oh, I've been spending a lot of time outdoors, as usual. Being outdoors is the best summer activity.

Well, not in Arizona. It's too hot here right now. I'll give you that. Yeah,

winter is when it's nice for you outside, right? Yes, exactly, right? Oh, this is interesting.

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