This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 2634. Are you an optimist vocabulary for wishful thinking?

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Hey, Aubrey, how are you?

I am great, Michelle.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

Excited to be recording with you guys.

Aubrey and I are going to have more time on the mic together

while Lindsay is out, but you will still be hearing her voice. Don't you worry and nothing is

changing at all ears English. So, but we're going to have some fun. So Aubrey, do you tend to,

are you a wisher? Do you tend to make a lot of wishes? That is a great question. Lindsay and I chatted about this on the podcast not that long ago, that you know how often in the States at least? I think in a lot of the world, you blow out candles on a cake and make a wish. Yeah. I never did. I don't know why I would like blow out the candles. I don't think I ever really made a wish,

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