Welcome to the start of another new week. You're listening to Bonus episode number 23 of the

Kuleps English podcast. I'm Andrew and I'll be your host and your study buddy for today.

Thanks for pressing play and joining me for this English practice session.

We begin each new week here at Kuleps with a bonus episode where I share some stories

from my life catch you up about what's going on behind the scenes at Kuleps and

teach you a helpful English expression that I recommend adding to your

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I hope last week treated you well and that you're doing okay. If you listen to the last bonus episode,

you'll know that I'm participating in the sober, October challenge,

where I have to abstain from drinking, burn 500 calories through exercising, and do 100 pushups every day during the month of October. Well I'm right around the halfway point right now and the

challenge is going okay, it's going fine, I guess.

As I predicted last time, the push-ups and the abstinence

are easy and haven't really been causing me any problems at all. By the way, that word isn't too common. Have you heard it before?

Abstinence. It might be unfamiliar to some of you. Abstinence means to stop doing something that causes you pleasure. So to stop doing something that

causes you pleasure, so to stop doing something that you enjoy, really we call this

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