This is an all ears English podcast episode 2541, real raw English for connection.

Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you

feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing

on connection, not perfection, with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English

adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York

City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered

by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Did you know that there are more

ways to use the word raw in English than just talking about

uncooked fish?

Today, get at least four ways we use it to talk about human emotions, physical states, and more.

Hey, Michelle, how are you today?

Good, Lindsay, how are you?

Good, Michelle, have you seen the movie Wicked?

I know there's a new one that just came out.

Yes, yes, Wicked for Good.

I just saw it, actually.

And I did not expect to get so emotional.

My emotions were like really raw, and I cried at the end and wow. Yeah. And then it was

funny because my son was sitting behind me and I said and I told him that I had been crying and he's like,

oh yeah, I was crying during that part too. And I'm like, what? And he's seven. I'm like, real? and then he's like, oh, but it's just because the, the light was shining too much in my eyes. So I'm like, what? I don't know what. What that was about? But yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah. So, um, it was very, it was very good. Um, so I, I, I, I, I, but it's funny, you know, we've talked about this before, Lindsay, when you're

watching a movie.

And it's almost, you don't expect to cry.

...