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"TRANSFORMA TU INGLÉS PROFESIONAL"

PODCAST BY DANIEL SMITH

PODCAST TRANSCRIPT
PODCAST NO: 05
TOPIC: Are you feeling under the weather?

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Welcome to episode 5 of Transforma Tu Inglés Profesional So what, the weather’s bad or…? So it's one of the phrases
podcast. I’m your host, Daniel Smith. Today I will be talking you just need to understand that it means not feeling too
with Alastair, an amazing coach from my team, all about why good, not a hundred percent, little bit ill, but not really bad.
I’m feeling under the weather, a few alternatives to So, like, you're able to do this podcast, thankfully. So you're
translating the word ganas, the many contexts within which not so bad you're in bed and they go to work, but you're just
you can use the word fancy and how to use the words mates not, not feeling a hundred percent, no?
and partner correctly. Daniel: Exactly, exactly. And that's why it's kind of a useful
This podcast is aimed at helping you push your business expression, right? Because you, you probably would still be
English communication skills to the next level so you can in the office or you'd still be there, right? So, it's not as if you
grow professionally and achieve your international career are really feeling absolutely terrible.
goals. So, without further ado, let’s get straight into it. Enjoy. Alastair: You’re not off work sick. You say I'm just feeling a
bit under the weather. Not too good. Or maybe you can feel
INTRO that you're going to be sick. Like when you just begin with
Daniel: Hi, Alistair, how are you today? the symptoms of a cold or a flu. So the first day where you're
Alastair: I'm fine, thanks. And you? not feeling too good, I think I'm getting…often you it say
Daniel: Well, actually, to be honest, I'm feeling a little bit with, I think I'm getting a cold or I think I'm getting a flu. So
under the weather and I was thinking that maybe we could you feel the beginning, no? The first symptoms are…a bit
actually explain that expression to our listeners. What do under the weather today.
you think? Daniel: That's right. Yeah. And it can be just be when you
Alastair: Yeah. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. What's wrong? feel a bit tired, you're not actually sure whether it's actually
Why are you feeling under the weather? going to develop into a full cold.
Daniel: Well, just not feeling quite right, got a bit of a runny Alastair: Maybe it’s nothing, no? It doesn't turn into
nose and just feeling not my normal self. anything. It's just one day. A bit tired as you say, perhaps.
Alastair: Not a hundred percent, bit of a cold, or something Daniel: Yeah. And it's kind of like links with that. There's this
like that? whole idea of like lots of clients ask me, how do you say
Daniel: That’s right. That’s right. So hopefully I'll get better tengo mocos, something like that. And it's kind of very
over the next few days, but at the moment I'm certainly difficult to give an English translation to that, right? I mean,
feeling a little bit under the weather and that, that is an like, if you know, what, what kind of symptoms do you
expression that I think is quite useful, right? But it's have? Well, tengo mocos, you know, and I, and I, and…
probably, if I, if I said that to many of my clients, they Alastair: A runny nose?
probably would be quite a little bit confused by it, to be Daniel: A runny nose. That's the only, that's the only one
honest. that I would potentially use in English.
Alastair: Yes. Well, literally, you know, under the weather, it Alastair: ‘Cause literally it’s ‘I have snots’, but you wouldn't
doesn't seem to make much sense. People are associated say that, well, I mean, sometimes kids, you might say he’s
with the weather. snotty, he’s got a snotty nose.

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But it's, it's not exactly rude, but it’s, maybe something you So, so that's a, it's a really important, differentiation there.
wouldn't say in certain company, no? In Spanish it sounds But what we also were kind of thinking about was the fact
fine, but it sounds a little, so, yeah, you'd probably just say I'm that that translation of looking forward to into Spanish can
a bit, got a bit of a cold, a bit congested, a blocked nose. be, obviously, in many cases we would say tener ganas,
Daniel: Yeah, a blocked nose, yeah, a blocked nose. right? But in that particular situation, often tener ganas is
Alastair: I suppose it's the opposite. A runny nose is it’s actually a bit of a wider expression, it can be actually used in
running. Blocked is it’s not running. Spanish in a sort of a variety of different situations, right? So,
Daniel: That’s right! That’s right. But it's, it's just one of those, we wanted to give our listeners sort of the other alternatives
kind of expressions that is so, so easy to say in Spanish, but they could use when they're thinking of that particular
then when you're asked for a translation… expression in their head, right?
Alastair: Well, you’re like, well I've got snots, no you wouldn't Alastair: Yeah. I think it depends what you're talking about.
really say that. Or mucus, I mean, literally is I have mucus, So when you say look forward to, which you could also
‘cause we have the word mucus, but nobody uses it, it's like a translate, as you say, it's not, there isn't exactly a phrase in
medical term. So a doctor in a hospital, they might say Spanish ‘look forward to’, so you have to get the nearest,
mucus, but normal people normally we don't use that word which could be ganas, but it's also like tener ilusión, maybe?
really. So it's when you're, when you're excited and emotional
Daniel: Yeah, that’s right, so yeah… thinking about something that you want to do in the future,
Alastair: Ah, well there’s a classic here, of course, you but you have it already planned. So I think the, so for
probably know I'm going to say. A classic mistake of, uh, example, if you haven't seen your, I dunno, your brother for
Spanish speakers, translating, is to say that they are long time, since before the pandemic. So a lot of people
constipated. haven't seen family and friends over the last two years, no?
Daniel: Oh yes, of course, yes! So imagine you're going to see your brother, who lives in
Alastair: Which always makes every English teacher ever…it's the UK, is flying to meet you, so you say, tengo ganas de ver
very difficult not to laugh when they say that. So why is that a mi hermano. So you say I'm really looking forward to
so funny, Daniel, when the student tells you they're seeing my brother, and then it translates fine, no? ‘Cause
constipated? you have this event in the future, or your holidays, so you
Daniel: Well, it's basically because they, obviously, they're have something planned in the future, like your holidays, or
translating directly there from constipado, right? When you the weekend, or seeing a person and then, yes, that's
say constipated in English, it means estreñido, right? looking forward to, but then you can also say ganas to say
Alastair: You're unable to go to the toilet. So it's quite tengo ganas de comer pizza, or salir este finde, or ir a un
different. So, when students say that, I always say, oh, I think restaurante, or jugar al fútbol, or…and then you wouldn’t say
that's too much information, and they…what? And then I have look forward to, because obviously that thing is not
to explain, so, I'm not sure I want to know that. planned, it’s not a planned event in the future.
Daniel: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, yeah. So there you go, all Daniel: Yeah. It is very much connected to that idea of
of that from that one expression of feeling a little bit under whether it's a plan, right? ‘Cause, like, if it's more, if it's
the weather, but thankfully, you know, I don't have a blocked specifically, you know, organized, then you, then you, you
nose and generally I sound sort of all right so I thought it know, I'm, looking forward to going to see that football
would be okay to continue with the podcast today. Anyway, match, right? Or I'm looking forward to going to the theatre
so, in the last episode, we were talking a little bit, right at the or to the cinema, right?
end about looking forward to, right? And the different ways Alastair: Yeah, because you have a ticket, so you have
that you can potentially use that in written form and also in written in your diary, in your phone, so you know, Saturday
verbal form. And, of course, we were talking about the you're going to the theatre and you're going to see a play,
gerund form, in terms of like, when you talking about to and you're really looking forward to seeing this play. You're
someone about what you're looking forward to, and then very excited about it. But if it's like something you, when it's
also when you put it at the end of an email, right? something you would like to do or like to eat.

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So maybe you really, you really want to eat pizza this Or you have a friend who's…it's very British as well. I'm not
weekend or go out to an Italian restaurant. So you don't have sure Americans say, use fancy in that way.
anything already pre-booked or the pizza obviously doesn't Daniel: True. True. They would certainly understand you, I
exist in the future as an event. It's something you want to eat. think.
So in that sense of tener ganas, you couldn't say you're Alastair: Yeah, they would understand it, but I'm not sure
looking forward to it, no? It’s not something that's already they would use fancy, because there are other meanings of
existing in the future. fancy, which we could go into in another podcast.
Daniel: That’s right, that’s right, yeah. Daniel: In another episode, yeah. That’s right.
Alastair: So what would you say, I don’t know, when you Alastair: Well, we could say now, you can also fancy a
really feel, when you really want or really, you'd really like to person. What would that mean? Daniel? If you fancy? Do
do something? you have a Hollywood film star that you fancy?
Daniel: Yeah. I mean, I think we were talking about this, Daniel: Well, not, not particularly, but I mean, yeah,
obviously, before the Pod…before the episode, right? But, basically it's kind of that you're attracted to that particular
there could be two different options really there, it’d be I feel person. Yeah and so, yeah, that's an important, second
like, or potentially I fancy, and those would kind of work both meaning of the word, of the word fancy, right? And it's
very, very nicely in that sort of situation. And I think that it’s important to know that, but it's definitely in the context of,
exactly what you mentioned, right? It's the idea that you're sort of, a business environment, then clearly…
kind of making that decision at that particular moment, right? Alastair: Then you wouldn’t use that…
Or you're kind of at least expressing it. You're kind of saying, Daniel: Well, you know, you might, you might, you might
oh, I fancy a beer, you know, or whatever, but that is because potentially, but…
it's kind of popped into your head at that particular moment, Alastair: But not in a business sense, obviously, ‘cause it’s
it’s certainly nothing has been planned in the, in the, in the quite colloquial.
past, you know, so… Daniel: Yes, yes, yes, But that is kind of like a, a definitely a
Alastair: I really feel, I feel like going out this weekend, or I good one. And certainly like, if you are showing somebody
feel like going away for the weekend, or feel like eating pizza, around, like, obviously, you know, you and I, we live in
so yeah, it's something you would like to do or want to do, but Madrid, but if you, if you, if you were, like, saying to your
it's not a planned event. Like you've already arranged to meet clients that you wanted to show them the city you could, it's
somebody who's coming to visit you or, a holiday next week, a good way, for example, potentially to say, what do you
or going to a football match, or the theatre, because you have fancy doing this evening? For example. You can say like as
a ticket already. So you couldn't translate it with look forward well, you know, that's fine, but you know, both of those are
to, so it depends, so you fancy you fancy doing something, really good options in terms of, you know, potentially…
it's also followed by the gerund, the same, so you fancy doing Alastair: I think British people use it a lot, fancy, in various
something, or you feel like doing something. I feel like going meanings, but you'd say, yeah, do you fancy going for a
walking in the mountains this weekend, or eating a particular beer? What do you fancy doing this evening? What do you
dish. fancy eating? Do you fancy Italian or sushi? So that
Daniel: Yeah. And I think, I think most of our listeners will meaning of what would you like to do or what do you want
probably know that expression ‘I feel like’ right? That, that is is very common with, with fancy, no?
something, but the second one ‘I fancy’ is a one that is, I Daniel: It’s a great one. It is a great one. Certainly, certainly,
would say, a little bit more advanced, I would say, you know, I certainly, you know, shows a higher level of English, that's
mean, I, if, a client of mine said, ‘oh, I fancy doing this’, then without a doubt. I mean, somebody who would use that
I’d be quite impressed. type of expression for me would be, you know, you almost
Alastair: You’d be quite surprised. Yeah, impressed. Do you say, wow! Okay, you know, they're getting up to sort of
fancy going, do you fancy meeting for a beer? Do you fancy much more advanced level and, you know, it's those sorts
going for a beer? I wouldn't expect one of my clients to say of details that are so, you know, differentiate different levels
that. You’d think have you lived in the UK? Or something? of English, don’t you think?

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Alastair: Yes. Yeah, I think so. Well, a lot of Spanish speakers, Often, they kind of just trying to say that they want to get
would, taking it to another meaning, they know the dressed, you know, that's, that's what they're trying to say.
expression fancy dress. So there’s an interesting one. And so in many cases, the, the, the idea of dress up is, is
Daniel: Ah, yes, yeah, fancy dress, yes, yes, yes… really, just get rid of that ‘up’ because in the end, you
Alastair: Disfraz, so you dress up in a fancy-dress costume know, you need to get dressed rather than dress up, or
for Halloween or Carnival. We've just had carnival recently, dress yourself.
no? And we've been talking, I've been talking about this with Alastair: Well, yes, I suppose the ‘up’, if you think about.
people. ‘How do you say disfraz?’ No? You say oh, fancy ‘Up’ is like dressing up to the next level. So putting on
dress. And that’s obviously a different meaning. Fancy can something special, elegant, more formal. So if you're
also mean, if you talk about a fancy, I'm going to go out to a going to a fancy restaurant, a Michelin star restaurant, or
fancy restaurant, stay in a fancy hotel. expensive, in the Ritz hotel in Madrid. So if you go into a
Daniel: That’s true, yes, there’s so many meanings to this fancy restaurant, you need to dress up. Meaning put on
word, it’s crazy! your best dress or your best clothes. So a man perhaps
Alastair: Yeah, it’s a complicated, well, I said save to it for wearing a suit and tie and a woman, an elegant evening, a
another podcast, but we may as well talk about it now, as it’s cocktail dress. So that's dressing up. So it's not dressing,
come up. So yeah, if you say a fancy restaurant, it means it's not, like, wearing your normal clothes that you wear
elegant, special, posh, there’s another word, so a fancy every day to go to work. So this idea of fancy has that sort
restaurant is a, well, a Michelin star, or I don't know, quite of sense of something different, unusual, special, elegant.
elegant expensive. So I suppose fancy dress comes from So there is a connection there and also dressing up in the
that, if you think about it. So fancy dress is not the kind of sense of fancy dress, which is not elegant because you
things you wear every day, because it's for a special dressed as Spiderman or whatever, as Dracula. But it's not
occasion, for Halloween or carnival, so it's unusual, it's usual, it's not your normal, everyday clothes. You don't
different. So going to a special restaurant for a special dress as Frankenstein to go to the office. It's still got that
occasion. It's not the typical, you know, McDonald's that you sense of different, unusual, not the habitual, no?
would go to normally, or…you'd say, oh, let's go to, it's a Daniel: Yes, that's right. Exactly. Yeah. So yeah, fantastic. I
special occasion, let's go to a really fancy restaurant. So it is mean, all of, all of that is just for one particular word that
sort of connected the idea of the fancy dress is not your we covered there, which was fancy, but, but yeah, so what
normal way of dressing, it's a very special occasion for a we were also thinking about doing was talking very, very
fancy dress party, and going to a fancy hotel or a fancy quickly about the idea of what we might be looking
restaurant. So yeah, it's an interesting word, no? Various forward to, especially now maybe the, the pandemic has
meanings. subsided, right?
Daniel: Yeah, it’s kind of interesting because that kind of Alastair: Ah yes. Finally, it seems, I hope. Fingers crossed.
connects with the idea of the fact that many Spanish Daniel: And you were telling me the other day that you
speakers say often to dress up, they, they don't want to say were looking forward to seeing your mates. And we
they don't really mean that, they mean, ‘cause to dress up thought that we, we, should kind of maybe explain that
often, well actually has two meanings, doesn't it? To dress type of…the whole idea of mates and, and why it's an
up as actually has two meanings. So you can actually… important word, especially in the UK, right?
(which are?). Well, to, to dress up, obviously, you can like, is, Alastair: Yeah, and Australia. Maybe even more than
where you kind of make, you wear something formal, right? Britain. Australians love the word mate and they use it all
So you could dress up for an occasion, right? But also, I think the time for everybody is their mate. So yeah, when I said I
that it also has a connection to the old idea of disfrazarse, was looking forward to seeing, or meeting my mates for a
you know, to dress up for a fancy dress, I don't know, party, beer in Madrid, because we haven't seen each other, all of
you know, so it's quite confusing, right? And that, that can us together at least, since before the pandemic. Two years
be, and so most of the time that whole idea of dress up, most more or less. So, so we really fancied getting together to
Spanish speakers would probably avoid that, because it's have a beer .
not what they're trying to say, right? Daniel: Using both expressions, there, well done!

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Alastair: Using both expressions. So my mates are my or many, you say workmate or perhaps co-worker, that's
friends, so my oldest mates in Madrid is a group of English quite a fashionable term in recent years to say co-worker.
guys who we met, I think in the first week or two weeks Daniel: Co-worker is nice, yeah.
when I first came to Madrid, almost 25 years ago, ’97. So Alastair: Instead of workmate. I think that’s it really.
we’re old mates, they’remy best mates, so my friends, no? Daniel: Yeah. Generally. Yes. Yes. I think it's, those two are
My best friends. So, mate, in that sense, just means a friend, definitely very useful to remember, workmate and co-
un amigo, tu mejor amigo is your best mate. However, worker, it makes it extremely clear, right? And that's always
Daniel, we can use mate, in another sense, to do with work very, very, important, because there can be other types of
environment, no? Or business. confusion. I suppose maybe also while we're talking about
Daniel: We can. Yes. Yes. We can, I mean, it's kind of like, it's, mates is also kind of important to highlight that when you
for example, as a workmate, for example, which is kind of are in the UK mate can mean many different things, right.
very useful, a specific word, partly because other Although we are seeing, you know, the whole idea, if you, if
alternatives are a bit tricky, right? And the other alternative you heard the expression, oh, he's my best mate. Then
in this particular case is the idea of the word colleague, definitely it would be your best friend, right? But, but the
right? Now, colleague for, for the two of us is kind of quite people in the UK, they kind of use it for all different types of
easy to pronounce, but in terms of our experience with expressions and they, and they, and it doesn't always mean
Spanish speakers, right, it's so often then just changed or that that person is absolutely your best friend. It might be
adapted or just pronounced maybe slightly incorrectly, and just you've literally met them two seconds ago, right? Lots of
it kind of goes very easily to college, right? I assume it's people could use that expression even for, you know,
partly because, it's like most people have seen the word and somebody they've just seen, right?
they just kind of maybe pronounce it as they, as they would Alastair: Exactly. So, yeah, it doesn't actually mean friend
see it. Or it's kind of like, it's interesting to think where that many times, just a way to refer to a person, usually a man,
particular mistake might come from, but it often reoccurs, you could use it for a woman perhaps, but people just call
right? And so, this whole idea of workmate can be very you ‘hey mate!’ So somebody in the street you've never met
useful to avoid that mistake, right? before they can come up to you to, ‘cause they just want to
Alastair: Yeah, because all my students, or most of my speak to you about something, maybe you've, I don't know,
students, or clients, have a, have a problem with that word. maybe you blocked them in with your car, you’ve double
So they, to say colleague, they, they end up saying, it parked, ‘Hey mate. Is that your car?’ ‘Yeah’. ‘Could you
sounds like colegio, no? College. And I say, no, college is, is move it, please?’ ‘Yeah, all right, mate, all right, mate, don't
a school, like going to college, or university, it can be. So, get angry’. So you're referring to this man you've just met in
yeah, you can avoid that word. If you have problems the street or maybe he's angry with you so you can use it in
pronouncing it, which many people do, Spanish speakers, a negative. ‘Hey, what do you think you're doing mate?’ So
to say your workmate. So mate, in that sense, means in fact they're not your friend.
compañero, no? compañero de trabajo, which extends to Daniel: The exact opposite almost!
flatmate, compañero de piso, classmate, so at university or Alastair: So it loses its meaning. It's just a way to refer to a
school you have classmates. And then it doesn't mean person you don't know, I suppose in Spanish it’s like saying,
friend, it means compañero. So you have to distinguish ‘Hey, tío!’ in Spanish in Spain, at least, in other Spanish
those two things, ‘cause your work mates are not speaking countries I don't know, probably it's different. But
necessarily your mates. here in Spain is very, to call a man tío and a woman tía,
Daniel: That's right. They could be both, yeah. which sounds strange when I first heard that, I was like,
Alastair: They could be both. They could be your workmate, what your uncle?
at work, and then out of work, you socialize together and Daniel: Yes. Yeah. That is kind of interesting one, you know,
they could also be your mate. So, you know, you have to be and that's totally, I've totally sort of got used to that idea. No,
careful, but yes, instead of saying colleague, which is I don't about think it, either, but it's kind of like…
difficult to pronounce for some people,

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Alastair: But when you hear it for the first time you say, Hey, So you want a word that makes your relationships seem,
tío! You go, uncle? He's your uncle? But obviously in sound more serious, more permanent. So you say my
English, I suppose it’s similar, mate, you go, yeah, but he's partner. It's a good word. So sometimes Spanish speakers
not my friend, so you use the word in a neutral way or a refer to their colleagues, or their co-worker, or their
different meaning, no? And as I said, we talked about workmates as my partner. It's very common. They say my
Australians. Well, Australians love the word mate, so partner.
everyone is their mate. So they say ‘hey mate!’ They refer to Daniel: It’s true. They do. Yes. Yes. Yes.
almost everybody as mate, whether they really are your Alastair: This sounds a bit strange because it sounds more
mate or not. like your romantic partner, like you're in a relationship with
Daniel: Yeah. I think the Australians take it to a whole new that person, out of work. You could work with your partner.
level. So if you both work in the same office you are literally
Alastair: Take it to another level. But, you know, British working with your partner. It's a different meaning. It's
people also, we like this word, no? unlikely. It does happen, actually, some people meet their
Daniel: We do. We do. Yeah, absolutely. partner at work. They begin as a colleague and they
Alastair: Like cheers. Do you remember? We talked about become your partner. But that's outside work, obviously. So
cheers. So when you’re getting on the bus you say ‘cheers what would partner mean? You can use it in a business
mate!’ to the bus driver. He's not your mate. You’ve never sense or a work sense, but it would have a different
met him before. meaning.
Daniel: That's right. Exactly. Exactly. Great. Yeah. Fantastic. Daniel: Yes. Yes. I mean, I think, if you wanted to be specific
Is that, so I think that's a very good explanation of the whole about, maybe more like a business context, then you could
idea of the word, mate. It's certainly true that, in terms of potentially say something like a business partner, right?
clients that I've had in the past, those that have been to the Now that can have different meanings as well, so it’s a bit
UK, or maybe even Australia, they've often come back and tricky in that way, because business partner might be that
they use that, they use that expression, you know, they you've set up the business with that particular person, right?
might come into the session with me or get online with me It's like a 50/50 share, right? My business partner and I have
and they say, ‘how are you doing mate?’ And so that's kind created a new limited company or something like that,
of, like, immediately I know that most of the time that means right?
that that person has had some sort of experience in, in the Alastair: So, it's a legal term that you are business partners,
UK or Australia or somewhere specifically. you’ve formed a partnership, which is a business, a legal it's
Alastair: They've either got a partner who's British or a contract, you know, it's a business relationship. So, you
Australian, or they've lived there or yeah, they must've had, open a restaurant together and you go 50/50 on the
or they've been watching a lot of British TV or, because investment and you both sign a contract that you have a
otherwise, there's very, it's very unusual for a Spanish business relationship. So, you are now business partners,
speaker to know that word in that way. And talking of you have a partnership.
partner, so I said partner, meaning your, so when you live Daniel: And that, yeah. And that was so that, that is, that
with someone, well, when you have a serious relationship makes it very, obvious, right? Because you, you're not
with somebody, maybe you live together, but you're not saying my partner and then, you know, there's a whole
married. Obviously, you can't say you're my wife or my range of confusion there, potentially, certainly if you're in a
husband, well you can, some people do, but technically business environment. So, if you do put business partner,
they're not, legally speaking. They're not your wife or then it becomes a little bit clearer.
husband. So if you say my girlfriend, boyfriend, it sounds Alastair: It clarifies the meaning.
less serious, no? Daniel: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. So that's,
Daniel: It sounds more like a teenager thing, right? that's good. That's good. So yeah, so much stuff there it’s
Alastair: Or you just see each other at weekends, no? To go incredible. I mean, one thing that we just wanted to finish
out together, but you don't live together. with, right, was the idea that often,

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Spanish speakers also say ‘my couple’. And I think that we


will cover this in the next episode, but it, it is just one of
those also mistakes where it's kind of the other way round,
right?
Where, where, where people say they want to talk about
their romantic partner and they say ‘my couple’, right?
Alastair: Yeah, that’s a good one. That’s a classic.
Daniel: That is, that is so common. So, so common. But, I
think we should definitely leave that because that, that is
definitely a whole new episode.
Alastair: should leave that for another day, come back to
that. It’s opening another can of worms. And there's another
expression! One day we have to come back to some of the
expressions we’ve used in the podcast. I think I said, in our
estreno, I used the expression every cloud has a silver lining,
but we never explained it. So, some of these, I think we need
to come back to and explain them.
Daniel: Absolutely. Absolutely. So, thank you very much
Alastair for your time. Really amazing. I really enjoyed it, so…
Alastair: Thank you. And I hope you're feeling better, that
you're not feeling under the weather next week, for the next
podcast.
Daniel: Hopefully, hopefully. All right. Great. So, thanks a lot.
And we'll speak again next week. All right?
Alastair: Okay, bye!
Daniel: See you then, bye!

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