AEE: Should You Say “Gotcha” on April Fool’s Day?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-ears English podcast. Should you say gotcha on April Fool's Day.
0:07.1	Welcome to the all-ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling
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0:23.7	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English
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0:48.4	What's the difference between saying gotcha, I got you, and understood?
0:53.3	Today, find out, plus learn how a shared global day plays out around the world.
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1:20.1	restaurants only. Hey, Aubrey, how are you today? I'm great, Lindsay. I have a fun question for you.
1:25.9	Okay. Do you ever play April Fool's jokes on anyone? Oh my gosh,
1:30.8	not lately, but when I was a kid, of course, you know, a lot of kids were playing jokes, right?
1:35.1	I think I got my car toilet papered ones, but I don't know what the joke is with that, though.
1:39.0	I'm not really sure what the joke is. Like there's toilet paper all over your car with April fools your car's with the paper
1:45.2	yeah I did a lot when I was a kid I remember we pranked my dad really well once we took a wet
1:52.4	towel and put it just outside a bathroom and we went and found him and told them the bathroom
1:56.6	was flooded and he needed to take care of it he was so upset and he went and opened the door and we were like,
2:01.6	April Falls. That's so funny. It really sounds like a kid's joke, right? It's really good. It's really
2:08.1	good. Yeah, this was interesting. We got a question in our community about this. Caroline, who's from France,
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