hello michelle how's it going today good good how are you lindsay good to see you yeah good
to see you too as always i'm excited to be on the mic today and are you feeling tired today how are
you feeling how's your energy level i feel like i'm always a little bit tired but um i'm feeling
okay i do it it's kind of cool because i feel like i can be tired and then i get on the mic
and then i kind of get this burst do you feel that 100 michelle 100 and our listeners feel
that too because we are known for our energy and it's because we love podcasting we love helping
our listeners you know i imagine our listeners in japan in brazil in europe and listening to
us and getting inspired so that's what gives me energy on this show yeah it's also fun we
really get into it we focus on the topics i think we've talked about before how it's kind of like
a meditative practice you know in a way yeah because we can't think of anything else we
really can't you know we can't be thinking what are we going to do after this what did we do last
night we are totally 100 percent present exactly but yeah i was a little tired before this i mean
what about you you feel tired well the last time i felt tired was on saturday when i had to ski a
bump run i went skiing in colorado and i ended up meeting up with some friends and they said
hey do you ski bumps i said uh kind of and you know bumps are moguls right in the trail
this guy just bombed his way down the trail and i had to stop and i my heart was beating out of
my chest i was exhausted michelle wow exhausted and i realized i'm actually kind of out of shape
oh um well wow that's kind of surprising because you seem very in shape to me not for those kinds
of runs i'm telling you because you're at altitude and then you're just going over these mountains
of snow uh and it takes a lot out of your muscles it's insane yeah yeah i bet i bet wow i can't even
imagine because i've never been skiing at all so oh really you've never been skiing ever okay yeah
you're like okay well i don't know no judgment judging judging oh michelle i just never did
yeah um so i mean lindsay so with this you mentioned the word exhausted what does that
mean this is a great way to make if you're you're not just a little bit tired you're extremely
tired you know this is guys we want you to speak and be able to emphasize your true feelings right
not just like kind of boring average feelings but extreme feelings exhausted is great for that yeah
exhausted is very it's just extra tired right extra tired yeah um and you can be tired from a
day right just for a day because of sleep or maybe you're like mentally exhausted um but you know you
don't today we're going to talk about different fun ways to talk about being tired guys where
don't fall asleep during this episode we promise it's only the words are about being tired
not the way we're going to talk about them exactly exactly don't worry we're not going to take a nap
on the episode um but it's good to have a variety of words to describe how you're feeling so we're
going to give you some of those now these are really good ones for talking about exhaustion
exhaustion and it's important to know that these are good for not just physical exhaustion
right michelle so i can imagine the situation where i go to a conference i'm not going to be
physically exhausted at the end of the day but i'm going to be totally mentally exhausted because of
all the stimuli right that's been coming at me all day talking to people going to sessions oh
that is exhausting yeah like i could go run a mile and i'd be okay but mentally i'm exhausted
right right yeah i definitely see what you mean those things can be exhausting
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fantastic all right so lindsay should you say the first one or should i because it's hilarious
all right you take that one away michelle give it all right i'm gonna take it away all
right the first one is pooped okay and we're not talking about going to the bathroom here
we're not talking about describing a feeling it's more of it's like a physical feeling it's uh it
just means tired it's a funny way to say tired i know is that weird i'm pooped i don't know where
that came from why do we say that how did that happen i really don't know why it must go back
to something but yeah i'm pooped i'm exhausted i remember saying this a lot you know as a kid right
i was or you know your parents say it to you are you pooped after all that running around outside
yeah yeah i mean this is pretty common right it's pretty common absolutely absolutely right
it's so funny it's just one of those things like where it's a funny word
it's a weird word it's not what it's about so yeah you could say for example i'm pooped lindsay
i'm gonna go to sleep okay you might have that after a big day of hiking or after an exam you
know i'm thinking of our listeners who are taking the ielts exam you guys are gonna be pooped after
the exam mentally exhausted right you are gonna you won't be able to do anything but go to bed
exactly oh man that's uh it's such a great feeling sometimes to get to the end of the day and when
you poop and just be like i did it yes you did it you did it all right so that's the first one now
this one michelle you're gonna teach me about this one because this is new for me you always come up
with words i don't know oh well happy happy to help lindsay so the next one is bushed you don't
hear that no i don't know this one i don't know i think i've been living under a rock or something
i don't know i think i missed a lot tell me tell us about those i mean i might have a very special
vocabulary or i might you know it might be very new york i don't know but i hear this one a lot
so guys you know listen out for this one if you don't hear it you know maybe you won't hear it in
certain parts of the country or who knows um but this one is bushed so this is similar to
to pooped yeah okay yeah you could say something like she's bushed from the drive she's already
in bed oh yeah for sure so someone shows up at the house and they ask where this person
is and you say she's bushed from that drive she's already in bed right she's done for the evening
perfect exactly what about the next one lindsay okay yeah this one i obviously know right
right and so also more about like a day you've had a big day right so i'm beat let's make it
an early night really common now which of these three michelle do you tend to use more i feel
like i might use pooped the most i do really that's so funny i don't know i feel like i might
because it's fun to say what about you probably honestly exhausted is the one that i use oh well
okay i wasn't counting exhausted yes exhausted i would say that that's like the the safe common
one yeah exactly exactly and then we have a couple of more fun ones right that are a little bit more
could be mental or emotional or physical i guess right right yeah what's the first one so running
on empty so it's the idea that your energy storage stores are like a gas tank and you're running on
empty this makes me think of at orange theory the uh the teacher our favorite teacher oh at the end
right before the last sprint of the day he says empty the tank right oh really empty the tank it
means this is the last thing you're going to do in this class so you better give it give it your
all you know and just get all your it's also the end of the day so it's basically that's it for you
and i find that inspiring yeah that is that's kind of a cool visual like to just you know
empty the tank like that's it you're going for it i like that it is kind of cool i like that i mean
there's so much about gas we compare our bodies to a gas tank yeah it's true that's true um so what's
an example how might you use that so all right so coming back to the original phrase guys is running
on empty you could say i'm running on empty it may be time to reevaluate this relationship
interesting so here i'm not exactly talking about my physical energy i'm talking about my energy for
this relationship and this person right right so you could use it in a deeper way as well right so
you could use it on at orange theory right oh i'm running out of empty this is going to be my last
yeah two minutes this is um yeah yeah but or you could use it in a more serious deep kind of way
yeah this is smart for our high level listeners guys this is why you listen to all this english
we show you phrases like this very interesting phrases good ways to describe how you're feeling
emotionally or physically so good exactly exactly and then we got one more uh is drained yeah this
could be also mental emotional you know physical whatever it is um but you could say something like
i'm mentally and physically drained but i will have my break in a few weeks so yeah drain just
like everything is sucked out basically exactly exactly to be drained i mean a lot of things
could drain you right in some ways if you're in a difficult work environment with colleagues
that are kind of toxic that could really drain you right have you ever been in that situation
where your colleagues you know the people around you at the office just kind of drain you michelle
um i'm trying to think um maybe not yes i have i have been in in negative situations before and
uh yeah it's it's definitely something where you could use that word yeah about you not really
actually i've been lucky i've been lucky knock on wood um i've been lucky so far not really i mean
the people i work with i like and enjoy and yeah i just feel fortunate for that so it's all good
not too too much i it's not like i i've never been in a situation where the whole job was you know
draining and everything was draining about it but you know i there there have been situations that
have been that have been tough you know what can actually be kind of draining honestly in
an office environment is having nothing to do not knowing what to do or having nothing to do
i remember i had an internship the summer after my graduate program in mass and i didn't really
have much to do and i sat there in front of my computer and i was constantly worrying should
i be doing something am i supposed to invent a project and all day nine to five the days felt so
long oh my god and i said to myself i'm not gonna work for anyone ever again this is it i'm done
yeah i i i remember i mean i don't think that makes me think of i i think i we never did an
episode on temping did we i've talked about my experiences but i'd love to do that well yeah next
time michelle i'm gonna plant i'm gonna plant that one but yeah like when i did temping and um a lot
of the tasks are like very tedious and there was a lot of um like data entry and honestly i remember
sitting there with tears in my eyes and it goes it was so like draining in that kind of way like not
using my strengths not you know so yes i feel fortunate that i was able to get out of that
i mean that is something to think about right that's why in our business course we interviewed
alyssa the expert in strengthsfinder and we've done strengthsfinder as a team we've identified
all of our strengths our top four top five because if you're not working in your strengths you do
actually get drained don't you michelle oh yeah for sure for sure so yeah for like this like when
we i you know i was saying that i get on and i you know maybe i feel drained before but then
i feel an energy exactly doing this whereas exactly you know some something else that's
not using my strength is very draining right and someone else who's just not like a natural
presenter performer like we are they may not they may be more drained being on the podcast right so
that's true because it certainly requires a lot of energy but it looks like a natural thing to
you that's a strength then yeah it's interesting somebody might find oh entering information into
tables and things is like takes less energy is less tiring it just everybody has their different
things yeah it's really interesting but guys check out our business course to look at that you know
get it you'll be able to watch that interview that i did with alyssa and
and you can get some resources on how to actually take strengthsfinder yourself
so go over to allersenglish.com to check that out so good so good all right all right well let's try
this out in a role play okay so here oh of course my favorite put you on a red eye
oh michelle how do you know me so well by this point i don't know yeah i put you on it i just
look like lindsay's getting on a red eye and and i might be planning another one soon actually
oh every time every well flight prices have gone up so much michelle at this point i don't have
a choice you know to get back to the east coast it's crazy it's crazy yeah you gotta do what you
gotta do gotta do what you gotta all right so i'm arriving i just arrived on a red eye here we go
uh how was your trip you must be bushed oh i am definitely pooped
yeah i'd be beat after that long trip too well i've been running on empty since tax season
started i'm so drained well hopefully now you can relax a bit nice nice do you find well actually
let's go back and then i'll ask you that question real quick what did we say here for our listeners
i said you must be bushed bushed yeah and then i said i am definitely pooped right
other ways to say you're exhausted these are fun guys okay yeah and then i said yeah i'd be
beat after that long trip too yeah or and then i said i've been running on empty so now this is
talking more about how i've been feeling in the last few months right so this is good to tell
what's been up in your life right right and then you said i'm so drained yeah good
and i think this episode's really useful because i find not so much in in our world you know
podcasting remotely but in other jobs i've had a very very common topic of conversation has been
how tired people are do you do you ever notice that that people are always like how are you
tired i think i'm guilty of that yeah yeah yeah but people do at work at just your typical like
nine to five job people are gonna have these conversations i think uh yeah in different
places if you work in retail you're probably gonna hear that a lot i when i go to the grocery
store i overhear people working there talking to each other the main topic of conversation
often sadly is how tired they are okay guys so that means this is very useful vocabulary
right yes oh yes absolutely good connection topic i'm so tired i'm so tired too i'm pooped
it is and it's an epidemic right there's and that we could get into that another day like
why are we so tired um as americans in american culture what are we doing wrong but the point
is you want to be able to connect and this is how you do it guys by engaging in those conversations
if someone says you're they're tired ask them more questions be able to say if you're tired too right
yeah right right right exactly misery loves company that's right all right good stuff
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michelle i'm exhausted i'm going to go take a nap now all right i'm pooped bye bye michelle