Welcome to Bonus episode number 22 of the Kuleps English podcast. How is it going? I hope you're doing well and that you had a great weekend. My name is Andrew and I want to thank you for joining me today for this English study session.

There's a totally free transcript that accompanies this episode and it's available on our website QLips.com or you can get it by

clicking the link that is in the description for this episode. Every Monday morning we start the week here at

Kuleps with a bonus episode where I share some stories from my life or update you

about what's going on behind the scenes at

Kuleps and I also teach you a useful vocabulary expression. Now don't forget

that in addition to this episode we also have hundreds of audio

lessons for intermediate and advanced level English learners that are totally

free to listen to on our website.

And if you're a Culeps member, then you can get study guides,

transcripts, quizzes, speaking and writing questions,

and much, much more for all of those lessons as well.

So as you all are well aware it is October now and for the last few years each October I've participated in a

monthly challenge which is called sober October that's a fun rhyme, right? Sober October. Anyways, sober describes someone who doesn't

drink alcohol. So the challenge for sober October then is not to drink any alcohol during the entire month of October.

Now this challenge was originally started by a podcaster from the USA who's named Joe Rogin.

And if you haven't heard of him, he's a very important pop culture figure these days.

He's very, very famous and you should at least be aware

of who he is. His podcast is really popular and millions of people tune into his

episodes which feature long-form

interviews with a variety of guests. Sometimes there are movie stars or

celebrities, there could be comedians athletes

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