hey there aubrey how's everything going today i am great how are you good good have a question
for you today all right well have you ever had big plans and then they just didn't pan out oh
yes i have this really strong memory from when i was a kid we had this big summer trip planned
and then my mom threw out her back and she couldn't even get out of bed
we she i can't remember how they figured it out we had to get her to a doctor to kind she was in
so much pain and so i had all this guilt because i was so upset we were not going to be able to
go on the trip right but then i felt really bad because my mom was hurt and really what i was
upset about was missing the trip it's kind of a tragic memory but yeah that was the one i remember
like oh so looking forward to it and then it just didn't pan out you know that's the worst
when you're a kid too i think kids take this a lot harder than adults do you know when something
that's looking forward to something it's their whole world and then it just doesn't pan out for
them and yeah the world ends but for adults it's a little different we can roll with it and you know
i know sort of a skill that has to be developed to be able to have something not work out not
pan out and be okay with it and not be really extremely upset that kids have to learn that yeah
and i love this you know we've been talking about this phrasal verb so far in this episode guys pan
out i know phrasal verbs are a real challenge for our listeners right aubry yes and this comes from
a great question from a listener mustafa amadou so i'm going to go ahead and read this question
okay he said recently when i was reading news of the last escape of the corrections officer and
her inmate oh that's oh i remember that story that happened in the united states if you guys haven't
heard about that look it up this just happened yes you said i saw someone used the word pan
and this groped my attention okay so quick note we wouldn't say groped my attention we say grabbed my
attention but this would be a really interesting future episode right lindsay because i see this
mistake made and it's one you want to avoid yeah and i like that we mentioned that right
away so guys keep in mind that's the wrong use of that word and we're gonna come back to this
another day so hit follow on all airs english either on youtube subscribe or hit the follow
button wherever you listen to podcasts to make sure you don't miss that episode okay so let's
keep going yes okay so student said i know the famous meaning for this is a frying pan that we
use to prepare some of our meals well after a long search in textbooks dictionaries search engines
i realized that the only destination which might explain that you are the only destination nation
which might explain this mystery i am sure of that as i am your sincere fan of your podcast
since two years the phrase came as follows with bold font investigators are following up on tips
as aggressively as we can singleton told cnn on thursday some of them do look promising but it
takes a takes time to follow through on those things we're hoping that one of them will pan
out for us and we'll be able to locate them i love that we can be a resource here because it's
so frustrating when you search dictionaries and textbooks and online and don't find the answer you
need you're not seeing this used in the way you've heard in a news article so i'm really happy that
we can clear this up yeah and thank you to mustafa for being an amazing listener of all layers
english for two years i love that you know aubry i think a lot of our listeners listening today have
been listening for three years five years two years i love hearing that guys again hit follow
to make sure that you become a long time listener as well i love you yes yes and this is going to be
great because the reason this is tricky is that pan out is a phrasal verb we talk about phrasal
verbs a lot they are so tricky because you see the word pan you know it means this frying pan you
cook with but there's this other separate phrasal verb pan out which has a totally different meaning
yeah but guys you're ready for this you know this show is for you guys who are ready to become
native and natural in english you're at that intermediate to advanced level we did do a
fantastic episode with my friend alex bricker episode 1742 that's also over on youtube as
well as on the podcast where he talked about three different phrasal verbs that are quite tricky so
go over there he is the phrasal verbs guy he can help you with those uh so check out that episode
for sure guys awesome such a good resource so let's get into this this phrasal verb pan out
means for something to develop in a successful way yes right so for example you might say i hope
this trip pans out i've been looking forward to it for months like we used it in the beginning right
just saying like what's something that didn't pan out meaning it didn't turn out the way you wanted
it didn't turn out successfully yeah and it's interesting how i think we use this more in the
negative more often than in the positive would you agree with that yeah definitely i would more
likely ask about something that didn't pan out rather than saying you know what's happened for
you lately that panned out it's really not how you said that's a good point exactly because we have
other phrasal verbs that we could use like what's worked out well for you this week or you know what
has been a success there's another episode for another day again let's give a few more examples
her attempt to scale her business didn't pan out when she couldn't get funding i've been watching
shark tank a lot lately for some reason it's always on i love shark tank but i'm eating dinner
i put it on you learn a lot about business about funding about scaling and you know a lot of these
guys these entrepreneurs warning signs go up right red flags go up in you know mark cuban's mind when
he sees someone how are you going to use the money wrong answer right you're out right it's not going
to pan out it's so true right i i know often it'll be a ceo but they have a full-time job on the side
so you can see all these investors saying this is not your priority this is not going to pan out oh
gosh we could talk about shark tank another day too i love that i love that show it's actually
really funny um so i am curious though lindsay what about you is there something you've always
wanted to do that hasn't panned out yet yeah it is kind of a pandemic casualty right so you know
right before the pandemics struck in april of 2020 we were planning to go to egypt and that
would have been an incredible trip to see ancient egypt and it is on my to-do list my bucket list
for my life and then i've seen movies since then that take you back to those famous towns
and watching them makes me cringe because it just didn't pan out i just couldn't go but we've all
had you know these suggestions especially with covet i've noticed this recently this is actually
a place where you can build on commonalities because almost everyone has something that
clovid ruined some plan that didn't pan out because covet hit and we were all affected
so that's an interesting thing to ask people out to share stories what's something that didn't pan
out because of covid yeah that would be actually a great use case for today's you know vocabulary
guys you can connect over that for sure for sure yes definitely and it's interesting to
think about things that are happening in the news and yeah and wondering how it's going to
pan out right what's going to happen like for example you know elon musk purchasing twitter
do you think that how's that going to pan out for him lindsay what do you think the question more
is how is it going to pin out for the world to me that's my bigger question i don't care about
elon musk's finances right he's already really really rich i don't care if it gets richer but
it's more how is it going to pan out honestly for a freedom of speech or for democracy for
fringe groups that may express things fake news how is it all going to pan out what do you think
right i did overhear a conversation with um some friends at volleyball who are very
conservative and they were super excited because they've always sort of had this feeling that
twitter is censoring everyone and they should be able to say what they want so they were stoked
yeah i'm i'm on par with you lindsay where i worry a little bit like what inflammatory things
could be said or or fake news that people will believe and get behind that could be problematic
yeah it's so hard because our country is built on freedom of speech right but when we come to a
point in the world where fake news is everywhere how and it's swaying elections oh god big topic
important topic so we try not to be too political on this show but this is a great example of how
you if you do want to start that political conversation guys about twitter pan out is
a fantastic phrasal verb for it yes if you want to ask about something you've seen in the news
lately you just kind of share the article and say how do you think that's going to pan out
is a very native interesting way instead of saying what do you think is going to happen how do you
think it's going to go i love that because then you know that native speaker is actually really
going to want to talk to you because they're not going to feel like they're about to talk with a
textbook right they're about to talk with someone who's going to share similar uh slang words and
expressions and you're going to see each other eye to eye okay yes exactly all right let's share just
a couple other ways you might see the word pan because i it's interesting you know this student
knew about frying pan but you might see the word pan a few other ways and sort of like oh wait i
don't know what this means so first of all we have pan for gold yeah which people still actually do
i just was talking to someone who found a little nugget in the stream they were panning for gold
cool back when the 49ers were doing this in california it was big but this is still a thing
people are still finding gold in the west in the united states oh for sure when i first moved out
here i noticed there's tons of around the area where i live in colorado there's tons of old
mines that are shut down but you can do tours and you can pan for gold yourself you can go out there
we did it it's very nerdy but fun it's so dirty you just have sort of like a little um sifter yeah
the dirt and the sand kind of comes down you just shake it and then any gold should stay at the top
yeah exactly whereas i guess in the old days right during the gold rush they had actual pans
which probably weren't as effective right right so you have to like slosh the water and yeah all the
sediment would fall to the bottom yeah so it's kind of useful when we think about where these
phrasal verbs actually came from clearly this came from the gold rush no question right but
there's a really interested related idiom where if someone really found a lot of gold they would
say they struck gold when they're planning for gold and we use this all the time if something
really good happens and we feel you know fortunate would say oh i struck gold like for example if you
meet someone and you're dating someone really exciting you might say to a friend oh i really
struck gold with this one yes and just a bonus one we're giving too many too many phrasal verbs today
too many expressions for you guys i'll just give you one more quick one on the same note uh to be
sitting on a gold mine right to be sitting on a gold mine if you have something that you own
like a fancy car that you don't know is an antique car and is worth a lot of money someone might say
to you oh my gosh you're sitting on a gold mine go and sell that car at an old car show right
yes do you ever watch antique roadshow lindsay i actually know someone who made that show who used
to perform on it like used to be in the production company but i've never watched it before i love it
it's a kind of strange show but it's always fascinating someone will bring just something
from their basement you find out it's worth all this money and they were sitting on a gold mine
just like you said and they might not actually be able to sell it for what it's worth but it's
just fascinating to know the value of something could be so high yeah it makes me think i was
just reading in the paper the other night a woman in i want to say it was i'm not sure
where somewhere in the west was at a goodwill and she found an old italian like uh a head like of
the statues like the men you know the the like the david kind of not the david obviously but
a guy just a dude yeah boss yeah that's the word and she wasn't able to she figured out
that it was worth all this money but she couldn't sell it because there are certain laws with the
italian government and oh it was complicated but really interesting so that's because it
like belonged in a museum yeah exactly it had been stolen and oh my gosh complicated stuff
i had several busts when i was young because i really did piano performance and the award would
often be a bust of mozart or beethoven or sure just have these big statue heads like i don't
know what to do with these and your friends would come over and be like cool interesting
decorations i love it guys well there's a lot of fun we can have around the topic of
gold and striking gold panning for gold and panning out but let's get back to it aubry
and come into a role play for today yeah yes let's do it okay so lindsay and i are college friends in
this role play discussing my new job all right here we go so how's your new job going aubry
oh that job didn't pan out oh shoot oh i'm sorry to hear it so what happened
well they never called me back but i interviewed somewhere else and really struck gold sweet what
do you love about it well the ceo has a really deadpan sense of humor which i actually love
oh yeah do you love that type of humor yes jermaine clement is my favorite comedian
and he's super deadpan this is another little bonus here with the word pan deadpan meaning
not like dad jokes not like you're actually going to laugh out loud just sort of a serious sense of
humor right it's almost like they deliver the joke in kind of a very like low voice sort of
i think it's almost like they're hedging that they may not get laughs so they can just move on
they get laughs right yes some comedians will like laugh at their own joke and they're very jovial
and then some comedians are deadpan where they're not laughing at all right they're presenting in
sort of a serious way and yeah it can actually be so funny and even stand-up comedians have this
style yeah style of humor sometimes right yes yes this jimmy clement has a really funny you
can find this on youtube where he's he's doing like impromptu singing and he's like freestyle
i'm freestyling sometimes when i freestyle i lose confidence yeah that sounds very funny
yeah exactly yeah i love it i love it so if you like that style go and find who's the guy
what's the name again jermaine clement he's from new zealand he's so funny okay jermaine
clement i love it i love it so this has been fantastic let's just go back and see where we
used these phrases for our listeners today opera yes so first i said that job didn't pan out
meaning i didn't get it it didn't work out it wasn't successful for me right yeah
and then oh okay you said but i interviewed somewhere else and i really struck gold
interest so this would just mean like oh i found a good one i'm excited about my job right yeah
it's a nice cliffhanger too because you're not saying i got a great job like oh i struck gold
now i'm gonna ask you the question i'm curious now because you've just said that yes exactly right so
much more native and fun instead of saying yeah i interviewed somewhere else and got a job that
i really love that's so boring yeah i use this instead this fun idiom and i struck gold that
could be a great episode for another day is how to create curiosity by saying certain things without
actually saying the thing right right yeah it's true i love that because then you're just like you
said it makes you curious and interested you're definitely going to further the conversation
because now you want to know ooh what do i like about that job what's exciting exactly i love it
and then you said aubry what'd you say next about the ceo i said he had a deadpan sense of humor
right so it's not just comedians they're certainly deadpan comedians but lots of other people too
the way they deliver jokes is really deadpan and serious and yeah and then at the very end i said
he's super deadpan yeah i love it i love it so where do we want to go for the takeaway for our
listeners today how should we finish today's episode what should our listeners think about
yeah i'd love for you guys to think about what is a risk in your life that you're hoping will
pan out right we don't necessarily need to focus on the things that didn't pan out because of covid
let's move on let's move forward think about your goals where are you being a little bit risky think
about something that you're hoping will pan out come and leave us a comment and tell us about it
yeah exactly and what are some things you can do to kind of make it more likely to pan out
right what are some things you can prepare who can you meet who can you talk to to make sure it
pans out i'm hoping to take a trip to argentina in the fall i want to go to patagonia patagonia
and lindsay what do you need to do to make sure this trip to egypt pans out oh my gosh yeah i
need to reschedule the trip to egypt aubry there are so many places i need to go i missed two years
of travel i'm sure our listeners feel that way totally right it feels like a lost opportunity
but all we can do is move forward get excited about the new plans we're making that we hope
will pan out yeah and connect with native speakers on these topics guys share what you want to do
and how you're going to make sure you make it happen all right yes definitely stop on lindsay
thanks this is a fun episode yeah good stuff i'll talk to you soon aubry have a good one bye
you