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Oh, Maria, what a lovely outfit.
Oh, thank you.
I'm going out.
Perfect.
Let's talk about going out.
Going out, dear listener, yeah, is when you go out for fun.
You go to a restaurant, you go clubbing, you know you go to a bar.
Or just like go out for a walk, you know a nice, lovely walk.
How often do you go out?
Well, that depends on what you mean.
If you mean just leaving the house, then I think I'm out and about just about every day.
But if you mean going out to socialize, then not that often, unless going to the houses of my friends counts.
Where do you usually go?
Well, like I said, it's usually someone's home for a get-together.
I don't think I've ever been one for going to a bar or clubbing or anything like that.
But Even when I do go out, I really don't like it.
Have your going out habits changed?
Well, I certainly used to go out in town more often, but that was just because it was the done thing.
So it was more about giving in to peer pressure than any genuine desire to be out and about.
Nowadays, I'm much more into staying at home or visiting friends in their homes.
Do you always take your mobile phone with you when you go out?
Almost always, yeah.
It's good to have in case of an emergency or when you want to share something with friends.
Or, I'm almost afraid to admit, if you get bored and want some light entertainment, even when you're already at a party.
Do you ever bring food or snacks with you when going out?
To someone's home?
Absolutely.
It's a great way to thank someone for inviting you over or just asking you around to their place.
I always try to bring something for everyone like well, champagne or oh, and something for myself, like some kind of pre-mixed cocktail or something like that.
Food can be a bit hit and miss, since I'm no cook and you never can tell what people might be allergic to these days.
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Going out.
So Rory, tell us, what does it mean?
So go out.
What's the meaning of this?
I think it just means going out from your home to have a nice time.
Most people do that by going out to a different part of their town or city, or maybe another city, and partying there.
But for many people nowadays, going out can also mean going to someone else's house and having a nice time there.
We also have go out as a phrasal verb, which means to have a romantic relationship with somebody.
For example, we've been going out for five months.
So we've been boyfriend and girlfriend for five months.
But here going out, yeah, it's like just go somewhere for fun, dear listener.
It doesn't mean work or studies.
Usually we go to a restaurant, to a cafe, to visit somebody's house.
Okay, so that's all going out.
So pretty much you go out of your house to do something fun, pleasant.
All right?
Yeah.
And we can also say eat out, dine out.
When you have some food outside your home.
So, sometimes I eat out on the weekend.
So, you go to a restaurant outside your house to have some food.
But if you go to a park, if you go to, I don't know, a garden, a park, it's also going out.
I mean, it's just for a walk.
I'm out and about every day.
So, I go out my house, I walk somewhere, I come back.
So you can say like, yeah, I'm out and about just about every day.
So pretty much every day.
Well, it's a fact about you, Rory.
You are out and about.
Am I?
You never stay at home just all day long, you know, just at home?
I do.
I like staying at home.
Do you not like staying at home?
Oh, yeah, I love it.
You know, when the weather is dreadful, it's like it snows and it rains at the same time.
And it's just gray and dark.
I just stay in inside like for a week.
I just don't go out for a week because it's just horrible, it's the ideal.
It's so nasty and you just can't go out.
Yeah, so all the shopping?
You know, i order all the shopping so, but that's in winter, but then i'm out and about when it's sunny and spring, summer.
Yeah Right, dear listener, you can say that I usually go to my friends' houses.
So, Rory, what do I say if I go to my friends' houses?
How do I put it naturally?
I don't know.
I go and visit them in their homes or we have get-togethers there instead.
Can you say, like, I go to my friends' place?
Yeah.
Or my friends' places.
Maybe you want to have more than one friend.
Yeah, because go to someone's place means to visit there in their home.
And where do... Where do people usually go out?
Maria is now googling this.
Yeah, I'm googling.
So where do people usually go when they go out?
It's around the world.
So AI tells me that restaurants bars, coffee shops parks, but also entertainment venues, dear listener.
Maybe you go out to the theater, to the museum.
Not Rory, dear listener.
Because Rory just tells us boring stuff.
Oh, thanks.
Usually it's someone's get-together.
So a get-together is when you meet your friends and you just yay, let's go to someone's house for a get-together.
You just meet your friends at somebody's house.
Or sometimes I go to a bar.
I sometimes go clubbing.
Or, you can say, I go to the gym sometimes.
I go to a shopping mall.
I go to, I don't know, a museum.
I go to the beach.
So that's all going out.
Zoos.
Maybe you go to a zoo every week.
I don't know.
And then, like, theguardian.com has an article.
Meet generation stay at home.
Hey, it's us.
So, yeah, like, why bother?
Like stay at home people.
You don't need to go out, just stay at home.
What do you call people who enjoy staying at home rory, normal people?
What do you call people like me?
I call them, like myself, home bodies.
Yeah, home bodies.
Yeah, you can say that my going out habits haven't changed over the years.
Or i've changed my going out habits.
I used to go out the center, but now I don't right.
Or I used to go clubbing a lot.
I used to go out every Friday night and it was a night out, so I would come back at 4 am in the morning, something like this, you know, but not anymore.
Now I prefer staying at home.
Rory, what did you mean when you said it was the done thing?
Oh, the done thing is just like the thing that everybody does, or the thing that is expected.
And, dear listener, if you partied all night, so you went partying all night long, perhaps your friends made you do it.
So you gave in to peer pressure.
Because everybody went out partying all night.
Maybe...
You felt this pressure from your friends and you had to do it just because of them, not because you wanted to right.
You gave in to peer pressure.
It wasn't my genuine desire, genuine like real desire, my wish.
It wasn't my genuine desire, but I did it because of peer pressure.
And you can say that today I'm much more into staying at home, i'm much more into visiting friends in their homes.
Visit friends in their homes.
So i prefer visiting friends in their homes, or i'm more into visiting friends in their homes.
So rory, like when was the last time you went where you went out like to a bar or clubbing?
Maybe like till 2 am?
I can tell you the answer to that exactly i went out to a bar about Three weeks ago.
And it was the worst experience I've ever had.
So it just confirmed everything I am doing normally is right.
Really?
So you stayed till what?
I stayed for about five minutes.
It was so bad.
We went out for, to give context, it was my friend's birthday.
So we went out to a restaurant and that was nice.
I had a good time.
And then people said, oh, let's go to this bar.
Now, again, for context, this is a bar that we went to when we were teenagers.
It's like a really, really old bar.
It's not the best bar in town.
And they were like, oh, it'll be fun.
It'll be like old times.
And I was thinking old times were about.
20 years ago.
Why do we want to repeat this?
So i was already not thrilled about it.
And then we went there and there were people singing karaoke really badly and the place smelled of bleach.
I went to the bathroom and i regretted that also because that was.
That was just terrible.
And then I asked for a drink of.
They asked me for what I wanted to drink at the bar and I asked if they had any bourbon and they said no.
And I was like, oh yeah, that's about right.
So yes, it wasn't a great time.
I wish I'd never gone.
It seemed like a huge waste of money.
You see, the listener Rory gave in to peer pressure.
He didn't want to go, but still.
Well, even when I did go...
I made my thoughts clear even as I was carried along by the peer pressure.
I have my mobile phone with me in case of an emergency.
An emergency, dear listener.
Or in case of an emergency.
It's just something... A situation.
A dangerous, serious situation.
An accident.
An accident.
Oh, but in case of emergency is a collocation.
But in case of is a good way of talking about conditionals without using if.
Yeah, for example.
So I do take my phone in case I'm bored or in case of emergency or in case I need to call my mother.
I don't know.
Maybe not when I go out.
I don't feel the need to call my mom when I go out.
In case of, like if I'm bored, I take my mobile phone if I'm bored or in case I'm bored.
Excellent. we can bring some food or snacks when you go out especially when you visit someone in their home and it's a great way to thank somebody for inviting you over so people invite you over to their place or people invite you over round to their place right and you bring some something usually a bottle of wine or a bottle of champagne Rory brings a bottle of nice champagne and Rory brings a pre-mixed cocktail so you kind of you mix a cocktail and you bring it in a bottle in a special glass or like how does it work oh yeah it's um yeah it's like pre-mixed like usually you make the cocktails by putting in everything when you're there but if it's um pre-mixed then it's made before that I should say these things are usually filled with sugar and are not very good for you.
So I would definitely not recommend them for like a regular thing.
But maybe once every couple of months is okay.
And you can say that food can be a bit hit and miss.
Hit and miss means that you never know what food people enjoy.
So it's kind of a bit dangerous, risky to bring food.
So if something is hit and miss, you can't depend on it to be of good quality or like.
It may be not accurate.
So you can say I don't usually bring food because it can be a bit hit and miss.
So I usually take a bottle of wine.
People might be allergic to food that I bring.
So to be allergic to something.
Allergies.
Allergies.
And you never know what people might be allergic to.
No, you don't.
You could kill someone.
Right, because some people are really allergic to nuts.
And if you make a cake using nuts and then you don't know that they're allergic to nuts, yeah.
And then you're a murderer.
And how are you going to feel then?
Yeah, that's true.
Horrible.
We have an idiom they listen about going out.
Paint the town red.
Oh, we used that before, though.
Yeah, but do people use it?
It's kind of like a cliche.
It's old, old-fashioned.
Well, I was using it sarcastically there, because I am very much not the kind of person who paints the town red.
I'm the kind of person who doesn't maybe paint the town transparent.
Yeah, and if you say like, paint the town red, that means go out, enjoy yourself by drinking alcohol dancing, laughing with friends.
So that's pretty much what you usually do when you're, like, 21 years old, 22 years old.
You just, yeah, all night long, you know.
Yeah, party, clubs, buzz, alcohol, lots of friends.
So paint the town red, an idiom, informal.
So, when I was young, I... What?
I like to paint the town red.
Yeah, but if you don't, dear listener, then you can say I'm getting on a bit.
So, Rory, what does it mean?
I'm getting on a bit.
I'm getting older.
I'm getting older.
And going out is not my thing.
Painting the town red is not my thing.
And you can say partying all night seems a bit...
Oh, Rory, why are you using such strange words?
Uncouth, what's that?
What's this?
What's wrong with uncouth?
It means that you don't have grace or good manners.
Oh.
Or refinement.
And I am very refined.
Everyone that knows me knows that I'm refined.
Uncouth, dear listener, behaving in a rude, unpleasant way.
So I prefer...
A quieter life.
So a calmer life.
I prefer peace and quiet.
Sweet.
And now we're ready for a joke about going out.
Are you ready, dear listener?
The joke is amazing.
Well, I think the joke is my social life.
Ha ha ha ha.
So, dear listener.
Rory, you keep silent.
Okay?
Oh, okay.
That was very uncouth.
Why didn't the skeleton go out on the town?
Because he had nobody to go with.
Rory, could you explain the joke?
Well, nobody means like no people.
But if you're a skeleton, you have no body.
You just have bones.
Oh, wow.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you very much for listening.
We'll get back to you in our next episode.
Okay, dear listener?
Bye.
Bye.
That was horrific.
How often do you go out?
Well, that depends on what you mean.
If you mean just leaving the house, then I think I'm out and about just about every day.
But if you mean going out to socialize, then...
Not that often, unless going to the houses of my friends counts.
Where do you usually go?
Well, like I said, it's usually someone's home for a get-together.
I don't think I've ever been one for going to a bar or clubbing or anything like that.
Even when I do go out, I really don't like it.
Have your going out habits changed?
Well, I certainly used to go out in town more often, but that was just because it was the done thing.
So it was more about giving in to peer pressure than any genuine desire to be out and about.
Nowadays, I'm much more into staying at home or visiting friends in their homes.
Do you always take your mobile phone with you when you go out?
Almost always, yeah.
It's good to have in case of an emergency or when you want to share something with friends.
Or, I'm almost afraid to admit, if you get bored and want some light entertainment, even when you're already at a party.
Do you ever bring food or snacks with you when going out?
To someone's home?
Absolutely.
It's a great way to thank someone for inviting you over or just asking you around to their place.
I always try to bring something for everyone like well, champagne or oh, and something for myself, like some kind of pre-mixed cocktail or something like that.
Food can be a bit hit and miss, since I'm no cook and you never can tell what people might be allergic to these days.
