Chatterbox #347 – Things I wish I knew earlier
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What’s one thing you wish you had known sooner? In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew sits down with Michael Lavers from the Level Up English Podcast for an honest conversation about regrets, missed chances, and the things we wish we had figured out earlier. They share stories about money mistakes, bad clothing buys, language learning, and the surprising lessons that come with getting older.
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🔑 Key expressions
Keep an ear out for these phrases during the episode:
- Tongue-in-cheek
- No shade
- Lackadaisical
- To take the words right out of someone’s mouth
- Building a house on sand
- A losing battle
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, how's it going? My name is Andrew and you are listening to Chatterbox by Culeps. |
| 0:05.9 | Chatterbox is our series for intermediate to advanced learners that is designed to help you build your English fluency by listening to really interesting conversations about current events or hot topics or science or the economy or technology, something really, |
| 0:23.6 | really fascinating. And yeah, usually on Chatterbox, I am joined by my co-host Anna. But for today's |
| 0:30.9 | episode, we have a really special guest. Just like Anna, he is from the UK, but he currently |
| 0:37.1 | resides in Thailand. His name is Michael Lavers, and he is from the UK, but he currently resides in Thailand. |
| 0:39.0 | His name is Michael Lavers, and he is the host of the Level Up English podcast. |
| 0:44.5 | Actually, Michael and I got together last month, and we recorded several episodes together. |
| 0:50.6 | Two of them were kind of Get to Know You interview style episodes, one that we released here on |
| 0:56.6 | Culeps last month, and then one where he interviewed me and we released that on his channel, |
| 1:03.1 | the Level Up English podcast. And so if you haven't heard those interviews before and you |
| 1:08.5 | want to check them out, then I'll put the link in the description |
| 1:11.3 | for this episode so you can easily do that. But we also recorded a third episode together. And |
| 1:17.6 | that's what we're going to share here with you today. It will go on the Culep's channel. It will |
| 1:22.4 | go on Michael's channel as well. And so it'll be cross-posted. And what we talked about in this episode, |
| 1:29.7 | I thought was really fascinating. We had a conversation about what we wish we knew earlier |
| 1:37.2 | in life. So we talked about some financial things that we wish we knew earlier. We talked about |
| 1:43.4 | some relationship things, some skill things, and even some things that we wish we knew earlier. We talked about some relationship things, |
| 1:44.9 | some skill things, and even some things that we possibly regret. So it was a really great |
| 1:50.6 | conversation. I have to tip my hat and say thanks to Michael for bringing it up because it was |
| 1:56.6 | his idea. And yeah, it turned out to be really great and fun to talk about so for this episode just |
| 2:03.7 | like every time we have a special guest on cul-lips the learning materials are completely free |
| 2:09.3 | for everyone doesn't matter if you're a member or a non-member guys you'll get the interactive |
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