Bonus Episode #176 – Take Me Out
6/14/202631 min
Have you ever loved something your partner just won’t try? For years, Andrew’s wife said no to baseball. In this bonus episode, he finally gets her to the ballpark and finds out what she really thinks. Listen along to learn some vocabulary that will help make your English more natural and to improve your listening fluency.
Study resources:
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- Get the interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary here:
Glossary expressions:
- To brush something off
- To prod
- To level with someone
- To put yourself in someone’s shoes
- To come around
- To look the part
- To pay through the nose
- A who’s who
- Nosebleed seats
- To be priced out
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsAndrew· Host0:00
Hello everyone, and welcome to bonus episode number 176 of the Culips English Podcast. How's it going? It's been a couple of weeks since our last bonus episode. I hope you're doing well. What's new with you? Let me know in the comments. I always love to hear from listeners. So guys, if you're new to our bonus episode series, let me quickly tell you what it's all about. My name's Andrew. I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and in this series, I help you improve your English fluency by telling you some stories about my everyday life. And today I've got a story about baseball. Yeah, baseball, America's pastime. So we'll get into that story in just a sec, but before we do, let me tell you that there is an interactive transcript and a vocabulary glossary available for this episode for everyone. You don't have to be a Culips member. It's free for everyone, and it's a great resource. You can check that out by clicking the link in the description. But if you are a Culips member, then you'll also get a comprehension quiz, and that's just the way that we say thank you to our members is by throwing in that comprehension quiz. And if you're interested in learning more about Culips membership, then you can visit our website, Culips.com, and find out all of the details about the benefits and bonuses that you get when you are a member, and there are too many of them to mention right now. There are a lot of great benefits and bonuses that we give to our members. So check out our website, Culips.com, sign up and become