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It gets me every time. How to say what makes you emotional in English.
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Hey, Michelle, how's it going today?
Hey, Lindsay, a little wonky here, a little over on the technology side.
What about you? Definitely wonky.
We've got a lot of tech things going on.
But Michelle, I have a good question to start off today's episode.
You ready? All right. Yes, let's hear it.
Is there something in your life that always makes you feel a strong emotion?
You know, some emotion, anything?
Yes, many, many, many things in my life do.
Yeah, for sure. Okay, I'll give an example.
You, I, for our listeners, who have been listening for a long time, you might remember my favorite movie, It's Father of the Bride.
And it gets me every time when the, it's a scene close to the end.
And the father and the daughter are playing basketball the night before her wedding and just talking about growing up.
Do you remember that? Of course, I remember that scene.
Of course. Yeah. It's very sweet.
Yeah, here's a question.
Do you cry? So is it weddings or that movie?
Is like the concept of a wedding, especially like the daughter being married and the father?
Or is it that movie or both?
It's emotional. It's the, well, no, it's both because I've been watching this movie since I was a little girl.
And I think I didn't think of, I remember, because I watch it in different stages of life.
So when I was younger, I was just watching it as a kid and I wasn't thinking too much about it.
Yeah. It made me cry when I watched it before I got married.
And it made me cry again now watching it as a parent because, you know, then I start to identify with the parents more and seeing their child grow up.
And so in general, for me, it's a coming of age issue because I'm not good with.
Yeah. Full circle. Full circle.
Yeah. So I just watch it from different perspectives.
So I think it just gets me every time because of that.
It gets me every time. It gets me every time.
It's definitely like you ever time.
I think definitely what makes me emotional, any emotion, maybe watching my dog play with another dog is just really fun.
But it does, it's not, that's just fun.
Like it's joy. Like last night we were out on the porch having some food with some friends and a friend brought over her dog.
It was a tiny little dog, tiny, tiny little thing.
And Kiefer was just having the best time playing with this dog.
And he kind of, he, what's the word?
He kind of prances around because his legs are so long, long legs and he kind of like, um, frolics.
That's the word. He kind of frolics and he plays and he's just, I've never, there's so much joy there.
So that makes me feel every time it gets me every time Michelle and it makes me feel like, just joy.
I love it. Yeah. That's so sweet.
But actually, like you were example better.
I like you're like better.
It gets me every time. So that's what we're getting into today.
Right. Yes, because we have a great listener question that we, that is going to be really, really useful for you guys to really connect with people.
This is a huge connection expression.
But before we read the question, head on over.
We did a Saturday episode recently.
How to talk to someone, talk with someone about their new baby.
So definitely something on the maybe more emotional side.
A baby, maybe the baby laughter gets you every time.
I don't know. But go ahead and listen to that episode.
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Right. Yes. Yes. Go ahead.
Yes. All right. So Lindsay, could you read the question for us?
Yes. So we love listener questions.
And this one is from At To Code 54434.
Here we go. Hi, I'm Lindsay.
I'm Michelle. My name is Arbor.
I'm a big fan of your podcast from Uzbekistan.
Wow. There's a phrase that is used a lot in conversations.
And that phrase might be your next topic in your next episode.
It is something gets me or something gets me every time.
For example, I'm upstairs listening to my Will Smith CD gets me every time.
By the way, this line is from Eminem's rap song Forget About Dre.
Yeah. Interesting. OK.
Good to all. Love the pop culture references.
Yes. Love it. Yes. To be honest, I actually don't know that line from the song.
So I don't know completely the context.
I just realized. Right.
But we're going to be talking mostly about just what in general this means.
Not necessarily related to the song, but I have a feeling it means the.
Yeah. Yeah. I feel the same way.
We don't know exactly what Eminem was trying to say in that song.
But we do know what this phrase means.
Right. And we're going to broaden it out to just natural English.
OK. Exactly. Exactly. OK.
So we're going to go over one main meaning today.
We could do a follow up another time.
But we're going to talk about, yeah, this expression to somebody, something gets you.
So in this context to say something gets you every time, it means that it makes you react in a certain strong way.
Right. Let's say. Well, and that's exactly why at the top of the episode, I said that I like your example better, because I think probably the emotion evoked from watching that scene, because it is pretty powerful.
Like crying is a stronger emotion that just watching my dog play with joy, like the joy at evokes.
I think this tends to be used more often with maybe crying or feeling emotional in that way, sentimentality, that feeling.
Right. It could be that.
But at the same time, Lindsay, I think yours is a good example as well.
The reaction to me, sometimes it could be about being sentimental, but it could also be laughing.
So yeah, yeah, I agree. So what we're going to do a bunch of examples about this for a couple different emotions and how this might be.
So let's go for it. So here we go.
Chandler's facial expression in that scene gets me every time.
And so we have to know the context here, right?
Is it the episode where he proposes to Monica and it makes you cry?
Or is it just anything Chandler funny?
It could be really anything, just a strong emotion, right?
Yeah, 100%. For me, I went to see Juan de Saics recently here in Denver.
Have you seen her perform before?
Not live or anything, but I know.
She was on curb your enthusiasm.
Just in general, I think she's hilarious.
Yes, she's so funny. And her comedy gets me every time.
It's just good because she's a little older.
So she has a broad perspective of life.
And it's just funny stuff.
It gets me every time, Michelle.
That's cool. That's good.
Yeah. Lindsay, what's another example?
Here's one. Oh no, I'm going to cry.
I swear this song gets me every time.
Yeah, so songs. I mean, that's half the reason people love music, because they can see their lives in the lyrics.
Right? Right. Yep, the lyrics are even a strong musical moment.
Do you ever get the chills from a song?
Sure. I mean, I'm not, you're more of a music person and an artist of music.
You know how hard certain chords might be to do, right?
But there are certain famous parts of songs, like Starway to Heaven, Starway to Heaven.
Isn't that kind of a really famous song in terms of the work?
Yeah, absolutely. And the guitar song, so low.
And, right? Oh, Whitney Houston.
She gets me every time. Oh, I know.
Yes, you love Whitney Houston.
When she goes high, and I was just watching the documentary over the weekend about Celine Dion, which the documentary was interesting.
Yeah, I mean, I think her voice is amazing.
Celine Dion as a singer is unbelievable.
I mean, her voice is another one that gets me every time.
Yeah. So, yeah, so I didn't watch the documentary, but I watched an interview with her about the documentary.
OK. And I really want to watch it.
She's been through a lot.
She's also very quirky.
Like, she's very quirky.
She's funny. She's interesting.
She's a very unique character.
But I think the best thing is just her saying.
They do a lot of flashbacks to moments of her on stage.
And you remember, like, do you remember when the song came out of, that was in the Titanic, my heart will go on?
Of course, of course. Just that song.
It gets me every time. Every time.
Yes. That's a good one. I actually sang, remember her song?
That's the way it is. Sure.
I sang that in my middle school talent show.
Oh. Yeah. OK, so that's a good one for her.
It gets me every time. Now, here's a slightly different one.
I always fall for his practical jokes.
Seriously, he gets me every time.
So that's interesting.
Yeah. Going over one slightly different one.
Yeah, it's interesting because really here, you're saying he gets me in the sense that like he folds me.
Yeah, he pulls off the joke every time.
So it's a slightly different meaning here, right?
Yes. This one is a little different.
So I want to just throw in a slightly different one to show you.
That this is a very versatile expression.
We're using it mostly in the other way.
But just wanted to give you a taste of another way it could be is.
It's true. And then weddings, of course.
Oh my gosh, Rochelle, I feel the same way.
Honestly, I think I went to my first wedding not until high school.
And I didn't know that I was going to cry at every wedding.
At least tear up a little.
You feel the need to cry.
Yeah. Most weddings. Yeah.
So weddings get you every time.
Even if I don't necessarily feel that sentimental about that couple, something is just evoked from the music, from the flowers, from everyone being there.
It's just the moment comes together and you're like, I'm crying now.
It does it. Well, yeah, for me, it's whenever anybody does Canon and D.
That's what I walked down the aisle to is Canon and D.
And that song, because I did it because of Father of the Bride.
Is that the traditional wedding walk song?
I mean, I have to look at that.
I think it's in Father of the Bride when she, during a certain part of it.
But yeah, she, yeah, I'm pretty sure.
And that song gets me every time.
I think, yeah, I agree. It has something to do with the music.
I remember I was at a wedding and they did the Father of the Bride dance.
Woo. And I was listening to the lyrics and I just was sobbing.
I didn't even know the bride that well.
It was one of Dan's friends.
I didn't know them that well.
Yeah. It was just something about that moment.
That's what I'm saying.
Like with weddings, you don't necessarily need to know the couple that well.
Right. And sometimes I wonder, is that, have we been brainwashed to start to cry at that moment because there's so much in the media and the commercialized market about weddings?
Right. Or is it just the combination?
Is a very human response to beautiful music, a momentous moment?
It's kind of interesting when you think about that.
What is it that causes you to be, to be captured in that way?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
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Okay, Michelle, where to now?
I think we've given our listeners a lot of good examples.
Okay. Great. Yeah. Let's just talk about this for a second.
Is there a difference between something gets me and something gets me every time?
That's a good question.
Well, I know the concept that we'll do another episode another day where we talk about that person gets me, which is completely different.
Aha. That's what that one made me think of.
But what do you think? Is there a difference there?
Yeah, to me, adding every time makes the meeting a little bit more clear.
Otherwise, it could meet something else.
Yeah. So, yeah. And it also, it's useful to emphasize that this is a repeated emotion or action that happens due to something else.
So, adding that every time, it just makes it a little stronger.
It shows I've watched Father of the Bride a million times.
Yeah. So, yeah, I could, if I'm watching, let's say I'm watching it with you and I could say, oh, the scene, I could say the scene always gets me, right?
I could say that's another variation.
If I say, oh, the scene really, the scene gets me.
To me, it's like, no. A little missing something.
And also, by adding always, it's very similar to adding every time.
So that would be another way you could do it.
Yeah. It always gets me.
This always gets me this very moment in the movie.
Right? Right, right, right.
Yeah. When I hear something gets me without that every time, it can mean that other thing, the other meaning you were talking about understands me.
It understands me. And we'll talk about that another day.
We can do that another day.
Yeah, because that's a totally different thing.
But very common, right, Michelle?
So we need to know that. So, guys, hit the follow button for more real English, right?
That's the thing. This is a very real phrases.
I mean, what else do we need to know?
Just before we move on to our role play, just one other way.
If you want to have a little variation, you could say something always makes me blank.
That always makes me laugh.
Always makes me happy, right?
Yeah. That you could express a similar idea.
Yeah. And here you just have to be specific about the emotion.
What is that emotion? Whereas it gets me every time you're not saying what the emotion is.
That's true. It's not or you could figure it out in the conversation, right?
But here you need to say, you know, it always makes me laugh.
Or something like that.
Yeah. Right, right, right.
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So that's right. That's right.
And today in this role play, we're watching a movie.
Okay. Here we go. Okay. I can't believe you've never seen this before, Michelle.
I know. Oh, shh. Watch this part.
This face, it gets me every time.
Uh-oh. Here come the water works.
Oh, sorry, sorry. That's okay.
These types of movies always make me cry too.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's embarrassing sometimes when I cry in movies, even at home, I try to hide it sometimes or I don't know.
I just feel a little vulnerable, I guess I could say.
Yeah. When I cry. Yeah. When I watch dog, goodwill hunting with Dan.
Did I have that? Yeah. And like, because you know, I won't give it away, but remember the ending.
It's like, it's a very, it's a very emotional, deep ending.
Yeah. I felt my water works.
I thought that's a way, that's a good bonus for today.
The water works. That's what they were crying.
I felt it coming on and Dan saw me start to cry.
This is years ago. And he started, he said, why are you crying?
And he messed up my whole cry because sometimes that cry feels really good.
And I was just about to really let loose with my crying and enjoy my moment.
And he ruined it for me. And we still talk about.
It's like, you're energy.
It's just energy moving through the body.
It's a good thing. Yeah.
It's a good thing. Anyway.
Interesting. Alright, well, just let Dan just back off, you know, if there's a way back off, let me cry.
Back off. Alright. Alright, I mean, it sounds like you and I would be good at watching movies together.
We were just sitting there crying.
It's true. Alright. So here I said, oh, shh, watch this part.
See his face. It gets me every time.
Right. So we can tell you've watched this movie repeatedly, right?
It's I've never seen it before.
And so you're, you're really, I mean, yeah, if you said, oh, see his face, it gets me.
It just doesn't. It's not complete.
Now, you got to either have to say it always gets me or gets or always makes me feel something or gets me every time.
It needs to be that full delivery of that, that vocabulary phrase.
Okay. Yes. And then I said, that's okay.
These types of movies always make me cry too, right?
So I didn't say always make me sad, right?
So you could say always make me and then the emotion or always makes me laugh or always make me sad.
Right? So you can, you can experiment with that a little bit or you could just say always makes me emotional, right?
That's another way to say it too, right?
You could do that too. I think the takeaway here is that it's, this is another one of those episodes where we can say a lot about ourselves by just saying one thing.
And you know, I know if that moment in Father the bride always gets you, which I know that you're an emotional person and that you're sentimental and that you care about your family right, life's like phases and things like that, right?
Yes. Right. Right. Absolutely.
Yeah. You can tell or if something makes you laugh, you can tell a lot about somebody's sense of humor.
So I just think this is a really great connection topic because Lindsey, I feel as if we could keep this conversation going because once you talk about something that makes you feel emotional, maybe the other person wants to share or you know, it's, it's just a huge connection skill.
And it's fun to share because a lot of times if something really gives you that strong emotion, it means you have an overall strong feeling for the whole thing and you're ready to talk about it.
Yeah. Like, remember on the show one time, we realized that we both started sobbing after into the wild.
Yes. I wasn't going to bring it up, but of course I was thinking of that.
Yes. Yeah. And so we realize that until that's a connection moment right there between you and me because we realize some kind of values are on the same plane and that's something you could explore more through more conversation.
You can get closer to someone that way.
So guys, always from our last night.
Yeah. I know. I'm like, it was just us.
I think it's also the Eddie Vetter music that didn't help.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, you guys could go back to the 700 to listen to that one.
So we got to get off the mic for today, Michelle.
All right. This was fun.
And hope that you guys will watch your favorite movies soon.
All right. Talk to you soon.
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