Great Things about Philadelphia┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go

Rachel: Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. 

I hope that by  listening to this podcast, you will increase  

your listening comprehension for Americans, and you will also speak better American English.  

If you would like a free transcript of this  podcast, please visit rachelsenglish.com/podcast,  

and look for this episode. In today’s episode, we're just going to be having conversation,  

and as we are speaking naturally about  things, we're going to try to identify  

all of the interesting idioms, phrasal verbs,  weird vocabulary words that we're using,  

and we'll stop and we'll define them. And the idea about doing this is that when we catch how  

we use these kids of phrases and words in  natural conversation, then we can start to  

better understand how they're used. It also just helps provide context for what you're hearing.  

Sometimes, when you hear an idiom in context, it's a lot easier to understand what it means  

than when you're just learning definitions. So, David and I have each put together a couple of  

questions that we're to ask each other to get this conversation going. David, I'll start.

David: Okay.

Rachel: So, my question for you is, 

what are some of the great things about living in Philadelphia?

David: Oh, yeah. Well, as you know,  

I've lived here for a long time, since 2001, and there's a couple things that I really love. It's  

an old city, and so, it's very dense. It's  walkable, meaning that in, uh, comparison to  

some other American cities where there's more sprawl and things are spread out and are a lot  

more car-dependent, in Philadelphia, it's really easy to walk to a lot of different things. So—

Rachel: Sprawl. That's a great vocabulary word.

David: That is a good one.

Rachel: Sprawl is,  

yeah, when things are spread out. Uh,  we talk about urban sprawl sometimes.

David: Yeah, and I use it specifically that way 

in terms of urban sprawl. That's a technical—not technical, but  

it's a specific term to indicate cities where, um, population has spread in not a very planful way.

Rachel: Yeah, and it's very wide, rather than being high. 

Like, New York City is really high. It's very dense  

and there are a lot of very tall buildings  where people live. So, in any given block,  

you might have thousands of people living.  Whereas in sprawl, I think of it as being,  

yes, unplanned, but also lower apartment  buildings or houses that just mean that there's,  

it's not physically possible to have  as many people in as dense of an area.

David: Right. Um, so yeah, so,  

I, I love that about Philadelphia. It also, it's,  um, what I think of as a gritty place. It's a blue  

collar, you know, historically working-class  place where, uh, there was a lot of industry,  

a lot of things were made here. And, um—

Rachel: So, blue collar. You basically just defined by talking about it. In, in, in English,  

we have certain jobs we'd call blue collar, and certain jobs that we'd call white collar. So,  

blue collar jobs would be, like you said,  industry, working, like the workers kind of idea.

David: Mm-hmm. Right.

Rachel: White collar  

would be more the bosses, the executives,  the managers, people who are running that.

David: Yeah,  

or office work versus work with your hands, could be a rough translation as well.

Rachel: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

David: And it literally comes from the color of one’s  

collar, right? Like, a lot of, um, a lot of blue  collar jobs, those uniforms tended to be blue.

Rachel: Yeah. That is probably where it comes from,  

I would imagine. I don't know that for sure,  but it seems like a very plausible explanation.

David: Yeah. So, what, what would you say?

Rachel: Oh. Well,  

I think, I, I love how Philly is sort  of cutting edge on the food scene.

David: Cutting edge.

Rachel: Yeah. I mean,  

it's one of the ones, one  of the cities in the world—

David: No, I wasn't questioning  

that. I was saying, that's an interesting phrase.

Rachel: Right.  

David: I totally agree that it's cutting edge.

Rachel: Yeah. So,  

what does cutting edge mean? Cutting edge means, um, innovating, at the forefront,  

uh, where a lot of excitement around  something is, is happening. A lot of  

interesting work and developments in a field are happening, where it's cutting edge.

David: It's at the edge where new growth is happening, you could say. 

Rachel: And so, I think there's,  

yeah, a lot of interesting, I think there are  a lot of interesting food options here. And  

a lot of great chefs working in the  city. It's definitely a foodie city.

David: Mm-hmm.

Rachel: So, I like that.

David: Yeah, and there's  

a unique thing here of BYOs. People might  see that in restaurant advertisements or  

listings. BYO meaning instead of having a wine and liquor license, or a wine cellar themselves,  

a lot of restaurants here encourage people  to bring their own wine. In other words,  

they're not licensed themselves to sell wine. And so, you're welcome to bring your own, BYO.

Rachel: Yeah. That stands for bring your own.

David: And part of what has happened, then, is that  

it makes it, um, it creates a good environment for people who are launching out on their own to start  

a small restaurant, to start in a small space, and to cook, yeah, cutting edge or avant-garde,  

new kinds of food without having the need to invest heavily in a liquor license and in, um—

Rachel: I guess they're really expensive in Philly?

David: They're really expensive.  

Rachel: And hard to get.

David: And hard to  

get. They're limited. And in addition, then, you know, stocking a wine cellar is an expensive part  

of a more traditional restaurant startup cost. So, it's just fostered this great environment where,  

you're right, there are lots of chefs  trying lots of different kinds of things.

Rachel: It's also great for us, because that means, you  

know, when we go out, if you can bring a bottle of wine, you pick it out at the liquor store or the  

wine store, and you know, it's obviously way less expensive to buy a bottle of wine at a wine store  

than it is at a restaurant. I mean, that's where a lot of restaurants make a lot of their money, is  

in the markup on alcohol. And so, it's absolutely great as a diner to pick out a favorite bottle  

of wine to take. And then, it saves you a lot of money on your meal. And, you know, I think it does  

allow the restaurant to just focus on what they're doing with the food, which is generally awesome.

David: Mm-hmm.

Rachel: So, I do love that about Philly,  

and that's one thing that is pretty uncommon. In New York City, I think there was only,  

there was only one restaurant I can think of that I knew was a BYO. And most other places, you know,  

they serve it and, if you want to bring your own bottle, they'll charge you a fee for that. But in  

Philly, it's, there's so many BYOs where you  can just bring your own bottle of something,  

and they don’t charge you to bring it in,  and you can just supplement your meal with  

it. It's awesome. Okay, so, that's one of  the things I love about it. I also love the  

classical music scene here. I'm a huge classical music nerd. Love it. There's a great symphony. 

There's a fairly good opera, although I got  spoiled living in New York with the Met. Though,  

I've been to some stuff here in  Philly that I've enjoyed. Um—

David: So, what's it  

mean to get spoiled? That's a, that's a food word.

Rachel: Yeah. Food would spoil if it's left out to go bad.  

Uh, someone gets spoiled when they get what they want. They're thought of as being spoiled. Like,  

if you spoil a child, then you're always  letting the child have what the child wants.  

If I'm saying, I'm spoiled by the music, I was spoiled by the Met, was what I said, which meant,  

at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, I was always hearing world-class opera. Just some of  

the very best that's happening on the planet. And so, that spoiled me. I lived really close to it,  

and that's what I had access to. So, now that I live in a city that doesn't have an opera house  

that's quite as cutting edge, you know, some of the productions, I'm like, ehh. That wasn't that  

good, because I got spoiled by the Met. The Met gave me everything I wanted. Thanks for  

catching that. It is so hard sometimes as you're speaking to notice these idioms or phrasal verbs  

that you're using, because they're just  such a natural part of the way we express  

ourselves. Okay, one last thing I love about  Philly is how close it is to New York City.

David: Ha. I'm not surprised that's one of yours.

Rachel: Oh, I love it. We can hop in our car—hop in.  

That's a phrasal verb. That just means, you know,  

quickly and with no effort. We can get into the car and drive up to our friends in Brooklyn,  

and be there in an hour forty-five, depending on traffic. And so, yeah, it's just, it's easy to get  

up there, and it also means that, you know, when I moved out of New York, I moved to Philadelphia  

because of David. And it meant that I didn't have to—my friendships didn't have to change that much,  

because I still get to see those friends quite a bit. And that's just been such an important  

part of my life, those friendships.  Okay, David. Did you think of a question?

David: All right. So,  

I want to ask you about, in our house,  what is your favorite room, and why?

Rachel: Oh, good question.  

David and I moved to our house about a year and a half ago, and I just love it. Don’t you love it?

David: It's a great house, yes.

Rachel: I'm so happy with it. 

The place where we were living before  was, I don't know. I just didn't like it at all.  

David had been there forever, and I just moved into it, and felt like I was moving into his  

own life without bringing much of myself. So, it  was really nice to pick something out together.

David: So, that's interesting.  

We say forever. So, to a, to a non-native speaker,  

that's maybe confusing. Why would you say forever? So, really, I lived there from 2006 to 2000—

Rachel: ’15.

David: ’15. So, nine years. So, you know—

Rachel: Wait. Oh, 2006, yeah.  

David: So, that's nine years.

Rachel: That's not forever.

David: Specifically. So,  

we use forever when something  is longer than average.

Rachel: Yeah. When something feels like a long time.   

It can even just be that it feels like a long time.

David: True, yeah.

Rachel: David had been  

in that apartment for a long time. The way  I said it was, David had been there forever.

David: Right.

Rachel: Yeah. Okay, so, yeah, we moved. My  

favorite room, and I know you're going to laugh. So, it's taken us a while to furnish these rooms.  

We moved from a one-bedroom to a three-bedroom, and just have slowly—we're not done by any  

stretch of the imagination. Another great idiom. We're still not done decorating the house. So,  

when you say, by any—we're not something by any stretch of the imagination, that means, even  

if you tried so hard to imagine it, it wouldn't  be true. We are not done decorating this house.

David: Right.

Rachel: Like, there's a lot of empty walls,  

floors that need rugs. Just in general. We have some very, like, basic furniture in some rooms,  

and then, it's just like—it almost looks like  a hotel. Our bedroom almost looks like a hotel,  

you know. There's not one thing on a wall.  There's not a carpet. It's just very kind of cold,  

which I don’t like at all. Yet, I will say, our  bedroom is my favorite room in the house? Why? So,  

we've, we've finally made a lovely  living room, and I love that, but still,  

like, if I'm relaxing, if I'm going  to read a book, I don’t know why,  

I would rather read it in bed than on a couch. It just is more comfy. It, it's a coziness feeling.

David: Yeah. Mm-hmm.  

Rachel: So, that's why I'm going to choose that. Um,  

it's funny. Like, for some reason, I, I just  love, it's like my home base. I like to eat  

nachos and watch movies in bed. It's like, why? It's not the best place to do that. But that's  

what I like to do. Guilty pleasure. Eating nachos and watching movies in bed. Guilty pleasure. So,  

that's something that you like but you  kind of feel like you shouldn't like.

David: That's a great phrase.

Rachel: Yeah. It's my guilty pleasure.  

Nachos in bed. Okay, David, what's your favorite room in the house, and why?

David: Definitely it's the  

kitchen. We have, um, an open layout on the first floor, and the kitchen and the dining room and are  

connected to each other. And so, I love when I'm cooking and people can hang out and, um,  

be close by. I do a lot of cooking, and  I love our kitchen, because it's, yeah,  

it's just, it's really, it's open and it  makes it easy to get around and cook in.

Rachel: Yeah. It's a social spot.

David: Mm-hmm. So, that makes it fun for me. I'm  

not tucked away in a back room doing the cooking when we have people over. I get to be in on the  

conversation and, you know, be participating even though I'm cooking and doing what I enjoy.

Rachel: Tucked away  

means put, put away. Sort of covered, hidden.

David: Mm-hmm.

Rachel: Yeah. So, when David is cooking,  

he doesn't feel tucked away because the kitchen is not separate from the rest of the house.

David: Yeah.  

Rachel: One thing I love  

about our kitchen is, there's sort of a deep  windowsill, um, for the kitchen window, and we  

have a couple of pots with succulents. Succulents, a succulent is a certain kind of plant. I don’t  

even know how you would define that. They're sort of thick. The stems and leaves are really thick.

David: Thick and glossy and—

Rachel: Yeah. Like a jade plant is a  

succulent. Anyway, we have a bunch of succulents in our windowsill that we got from my aunt who  

lives in California, and they're, California  is a great place to grow succulents. And so,  

I, yeah, I just love them. They're actually  doing really well there in the windowsill.

David: Yeah,  

they're doing right. It's  south-facing and they're happy.

Rachel: I love how that, that kitchen  

window looks. Okay, here's another question for you, David. When have you felt proud recently?

David: That's a good one. Um, so,  

I felt proud recently, um, when Stoney, our son, he, we take him to a play space pretty often. Um,  

it's great. Our friends actually started  it, and we love it. And so, we were there—

Rachel: Play space. What do you mean?

David: Oh, right. Uh,  

play space. So, you could say, uh, playground would be a more common, um, uh, term.

Rachel: Yeah. I think most people probably know that.

David: So, playground—yeah. Yeah, so, that's,  

those are usually outside and, um, you know, at places where kids play. So, a play space,  

uh, sort of implies that it's inside, and  I guess is a pretty similar word, really.

Rachel: Yeah.  

David: Similar meaning.

Rachel: Yeah. It's a place  

where children can play. They have an indoor play space, which is great for Philly in the winters,  

where they've built, like, a tower  and a toy house, and there's, like,  

all these tables where you can put together a toy train set and this kind of thing.

David: Yeah.

Rachel: So, that's, they have a play space.

David: Right. So, what happened was,  

and we've, you know, we sing the ABC song a lot to Stoney, and he really likes letters and words,  

and, and there was a moment where, um, one part of the play space, on one of the walls,  

there's a magnetic board with some magnetic letters and you can stick the letters on  

the board and move them around, and, and, um, you know, just play with the letters. And so,  

we were way far away from that part of the play space, on the other side of the room, but on the  

ground, he found one of these magnetic letters, and he picked it up off the ground and immediately  

started trotting right over to the board, and  stuck it back up on the board with the other  

letters. That was just so cool that, you know, he could have just thought that it was a random  

thing laying on the ground, but instead he knew that it was a letter. He knew that it went with  

the other letters. He remembered where to go, and he just went, trot, trot, trot, right over there.

Rachel: Yeah. You  

used the word trotting. He  went trotting right over.

David: Oh, yeah.

Rachel: So, trotting  

is faster than a walk. Not quite a jog. Yeah.

David: It's a, that's a phrase from horse riding.

Rachel: Yeah. I would imagine. 

He went trotting right  over. It sort of implies that he had  

a mission. He had something he was in  mind that he really wanted to go do.  

David: Yeah. Yeah, that's  

a good way to put it. So, that's, uh, a time  when I was proud recently. What would you say?

Rachel: Well, there's something extremely exciting  

happening, and by the time this podcast gets edited and posted, it will have already happened.  

But I'm feeling really proud about my YouTube channel right now, because I think this week,  

David, I think within the next seven days,  I'm going to reach one million subscribers.

David: Yeah.

Rachel: I mean, that is so cool.

David: That is really cool.

Rachel: I'm not supposed to  

say that kind of thing about myself, but I feel very proud of it. Um, just very lucky. I've been  

making videos. I posted my first video on YouTube in October of 2008. So, almost nine years ago.

David: Yeah.

Rachel: And it's taken a long time to get here,  

and, um, you know, I just, I think it's awesome that so many people are coming along for the ride.

David: Coming along for the ride.

Rachel: Yeah. What  

does that mean? Uh, they are joining me on this adventure that is Rachel's English.

David: Yeah.

Rachel: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, that's something  

that I'm feeling really proud of and really  excited about, and very, very thankful for.  

David: Mm-hmm. Okay, Rach. I have  

a question. So, take your mind back 10 years. So, so, imagine where you were, what you were doing.

Rachel: 2007.

David: Yes.

Rachel: Okay. I was traveling in Indonesia and Thailand,  

and living in New York City. What were you doing?

David: I was  

living in Philadelphia, in that  apartment where I lived forever.

Rachel: Yeah,  

okay. Okay, so, that's what we were doing  10 years ago. Okay. What's the question?

David: So, my question is,

what is something that has changed about your personality since then?

Rachel: Well,  

okay. Let me try to remember myself. Okay, yeah. I'm remembering myself. Got it. I guess I would  

say I think that since then, in the past 10 years, I think I've developed a little bit more interest  

in being still and calm and just watchful. Moments where, I don't know, I'm, I'm aware of letting my  

mind just kind of settle down. I don’t think  I really did that. I don’t think I even knew  

that was an option. I think I just thought, you know, my mind goes all the time, and that's that.  

I don’t think I ever thought, oh, but what  if I just watched my mind go? How would that  

change my relationship to all of the crap that my mind is saying? And that's been interesting.

David: Yeah. That's a good one.

Rachel: Gaining insight there.

David: Mm-hmm. That's a profound change.

Rachel: Yeah,  

it is. It does make a big difference, I think, in enjoying life. What about you? So, you're living  

in the apartment.  

David: I was living there, and I think  something that's changed is that,  

if I go back to that point in my life and think about it, I was in a really intense, um, time  

of growth and introspection and learning about myself. And really, you know, sort of focused on  

me in a way that I think was good and growth-ful and positive, but it was really, I don't know,  

in, inward focused. And, I would compare that to now, where I feel much more focused on our family,  

on Stoney, and really, um, a little bit more  outwardly focused on putting our family’s  

needs as, as the priority versus, versus being introspective and having my own needs to be first.

Rachel: So, introspective,  

meaning looking inside yourself, really  paying attention to yourself and your being.

David: Mm-hmm.

Rachel: Also, the word focus. You know, we,  

we use this with, like, a camera. Is this picture in focus? But then, we also use it with, where do  

we put our attention? You can focus inward, like you said you were doing more of 10 years ago,  

where again, you're introspective. You're  looking at yourself, thinking about yourself,  

your life. Or you can focus outward, where  you're paying more attention to the people  

and the environment around you. What's your focus, everybody out there? Take a second,  

think about it. You can also focus on a specific project, for example. I could say, well, today,  

I really want to focus on getting these  podcasts recorded, or something like that.

David: Yeah, you're right.  

We really use that in a lot of different ways.

Rachel: It's a great word.

David: All right. So, let me ask you something. So, and  

I guess this is, this includes a phrase that we'll need to define, probably. But, here's my question.

Rachel: Okay.

David: What is one of your pet peeves?  

Rachel: Oh, yeah. Let's define  

pet peeve. So, a pet peeve is something that bothers you. Or you could say, I can't stand  

that. If you can't stand something, that means it really annoys you, really aggravates you.

David: And it's a small  

thing. It's a, it's a, something small that,  yeah, is aggravating or gets under your skin.

Rachel: Right. It's not like  

a major, major issue. It's just something  small that bothers you, that annoys you.

David: Yeah.

Rachel: Okay. What's one  

of my pet peeves? Well, I'm an introvert, as  we have already discussed in another podcast,  

and one of my pet peeves is when I'm in a  public space like on an airplane, for example,  

and someone tries to make this conversation with me. This big conversation. I just, I don’t, I do  

not feel like talking to people. And so, one  of my pet peeves is people making conversation  

just for the sake of conversation. You know, we don’t need to pass any information on. So, I,  

that's why I would rather not to talk to you.  I only want to talk to people I don’t know  

for transactional kinds of things, like your  total is $31. Great. Here's my credit card.  

That kind of thing. If, if there's not a need  for conversation, I would rather not have it.

David: Yeah. You're having,  

you're enjoying your time and  space and sort of relaxing and—

Rachel: Yeah,  

especially now. You know, now, if I'm like,  not on duty being Stoney’s mom and I'm  

somewhere, like an airplane where I could  potentially watch a movie or read a book,  

I really want to do that. So, that's one  of my pet peeves. What about you, David?

David: Um, let's see. 

One of my pet peeves, this has come up  a couple times recently is, um, there are these  

automated phone answering systems now for almost everything. So, the example was that I had to call  

my credit card company. There was a mix up, and, um, you know, I just wanted to speak to a human  

being. My problem only needed, it, it was like a 15-second explanation. I could have taken care of  

the actual business of the call so quickly,  but instead this thing picks up and it's,  

it's this automated system, and press one  for. Or, please listen to the following  

options as our options have recently changed. Everybody’s options have recently changed.  

Rachel: I know. That's like the standard thing they say.

David: What's the deal? It's  

not true. No, they haven’t.  Anyway, so, I get really worked up.

Rachel: Yeah,  

because it takes so much time to execute  your one task that you have to do.

David: Right, yeah.

Rachel: David,  

you said one thing, an example  that's come up recently. So,  

the phrase to come up means to happen, to be at the surface of something. Like, this comes  

up every Friday. This problem comes up every time we try to take a road trip. Or whatever.

David: Yeah. It means happens.

Rachel: Happens,  

yeah. Phrasal verb. To come up. Or, it can  also mean to be mentioned, right? Like,  

I could say, oh, this came up the last  time we were talking about whatever.

David: Came up in conversation.

Rachel: Yeah.

David: Yeah. It happened.

Rachel: It happened—yeah, you're right.

David: It was, it was spoken. Yeah.

Rachel: You could still  

say that's the definition. It happened. Okay,  a question, David, for you. I think this will  

probably be the last question of the podcast. So, get ready to come up with a really good  

answer for it. Okay, where have you never  traveled to but feel that you must visit  

in the future?

David: Oh, that's a great one to think about. That's fun. Well, first of all, there are lots of  

places. This would be a long list, but near the top would be Brazil. I would love to go to Brazil.

Rachel: Lots of Brazilian fans of Rachel's English. So, maybe that’ll be a possibility.

David: All right. Well, we have to go.

Rachel: Go visit them.

David: But, I would love to go to Brazil. 

Um, I've been to a couple other countries in South America,  

but never Brazil. And of course, you know, Brazil just, it's soccer and the samba soccer and the,  

you know, the focus on the beautiful game,  the art of the way that they play football,  

they would say. I would just, I would love to go to Brazil and go to a bunch of soccer matches.  

And then, it just, it has this huge coastline  with lots of cities and all kinds of beach, um,  

beach towns, big and small. So, it would  just be so fun to explore that country.

Rachel: It's too bad we didn't go to the World Cup  

when it was recently in Brazil.

David: It's really too bad.

Rachel: Why didn't we do that?

David: I don't know.

Rachel: Okay. Next time  

the World Cup is in Brazil,  I promise I will take you.

David: Sounds good.

Rachel: World Cup.  

For those of you who don’t know, it's a  tournament every four years, right David?

David: Mm-hmm.  

Rachel: Mm-hmm. Like, the world soccer tournament.

David: That's right.

Rachel: Who won last time?

David: Germany, right?

Rachel: I don't know.

David: Um—

Rachel: What year was the last World Cup?

David: Uh,  

last one was 2014. I'm pretty sure it was  Germany. I can actually see the final goal.

Rachel: Champion, Germany National Football Team.

David: Yeah. The final goal was beautiful.

Rachel: Well, congratulations, Germany.

David: Congrats, Germany.

Rachel: Congrats is just another way  

to say congratulations. A little more casual. It's just a little shortening of the word. Oh,  

congrats. You can say that. It's a friendly  thing to say when someone does something awesome.

David: Yep. Okay, so, that's my, my must-visit  

spot. What about you? What would you say?

Rachel: Oh, gosh. Well, just like you, it's very hard. There are so many places I would like to go,  

but definitely my answer is Viet Nam.  David, what was the year when we were,  

when we went on our first major road  trip across America? That was 20—

David: ’13, I think.

Rachel: ’13 or ’14. Um,  

and we were deciding. We had—David was working in the school system, so he had seven weeks off,  

and we were like, let's take a huge trip. And we were deciding between Viet Nam or a massive U.S.  

road trip. And we ended up choosing the massive U.S. road trip, and I wouldn't say I regret  

that choice, but I, I want to make absolutely sure I get to go to Viet Nam sometime soon.

David: So, what, what are some of the reasons why?

Rachel: Well, because I've  

been to Southeast Asia before and just loved it. I was in Thailand and Indonesia. So, I definitely  

want to go back and explore that general area of the world more. Also, I love Vietnamese food.

David: Mm-hmm.

Rachel: And I've just heard good  

things about it. In my mind, there's some very positive associations, and I'm not even sure why.

David: I think as Americans,  

too, I mean, I would love to go as well  for all those reasons. Then, in addition,  

the U.S. has a really complicated relationship with Viet Nam in terms of the war in the ‘60s and,  

um, just, you know, for the reason, too, it would be part of learning our own history as well.

Rachel: Yeah, totally. I  

also have a good friend who’s Vietnamese. Haquen. She's been in some of my videos, and also,  

it doesn't hurt that quite a large percentage of the people who watch my YouTube videos that are  

fans of Rachel's English are in Viet Nam. So, I think it would also be a great place to go  

meet some people who use my videos and study with me in the Academy, and, you know, meet  

them in person. That's always fun. So, it sounds like we have some world traveling to do, David.  

David: Looking forward to it.

Rachel: Me, too.  

Just really hard to do that kind of  a trip with Stoney. I'm afraid we're  

going to have to wait a couple years  before something like that is possible.

David: Yeah, you're probably right.

Rachel: Okay, guys. That's it for this episode,  

this conversational episode. Have you learned any new phrasal verbs, idioms, or vocabulary words? I  

hope you have. I hope it's been an interesting way for you to learn some of those things, and also,  

a little bit about America culture as we talk  about various things. If you would like a copy of  

the transcript for this podcast, it is absolutely free. Visit rachelsenglish.com/podcast. Thanks,  

everyone, for being here. Thanks,  David, for helping me record this.

David: You're quite welcome.

Rachel: We'll see you guys  

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