This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 948.

How to find out what makes someone tick in English.

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Hey there Michelle, how you doing?

Hey Lindsay, I'm good, I'm good, how are you?

I am feeling excellent. I'm feeling excellent.

And so what did you do over the weekend?

Well, over the weekend I met up with a few different friends on Friday night and on Saturday who I hadn't seen in a while.

So it was really nice to catch up with them and yeah I had a really good time and then what else did I do?

Oh I went to Manhattan I was in Manhattan on Sunday on the Upper West side and it was a lot of fun. How about you? What did I do? I walked all over

the city of Boston on Saturday. It was so fun and on Saturday night I actually went to a benefit

event for kids soccer volunteers. I don't play soccer but I know some people who do some

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