Once You Get It, You Got It!

Aubrey Carter (0:00)

This is an All Ears English Podcast. Once you get it, you got it.

Lindsay McMahon (0:06)

Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com/subscribe.

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Aubrey Carter (1:49)

Hello, Lindsay. How are you?

Lindsay McMahon (1:50)

Hello, Aubrey. Doing great today. How's everything for you?

Aubrey Carter (1:54)

Excellent. Yeah, I had a good weekend. I'm excited to be here recording with you today.

Lindsay McMahon (1:58)

All right. Good. I have a question for you to start off today's episode. You ready?

Aubrey Carter (2:01)

Okay. Yes.

Lindsay McMahon (2:03)

Has someone ever explained something complicated to you and you still just didn't get it as this ever happened to you?

Aubrey Carter (2:10)

Just this weekend, actually.

We got this game called Bang and originally, it's an Italian game. So all of the instructions are in Italian and then translated into English. And it's complicated. Yeah. So it was being explained. I'm like, I'm just going to need to look at the rules myself. But then, however they were translated, it wasn't very clear. I'm like, I feel like I need to speak Italian to be able to understand these instructions. So I didn't get it. We struggled to understand this game.

Lindsay McMahon (2:40)

Were you able to actually play or did you have to pick out another game?

Aubrey Carter (2:43)

We ended up being able to play, but it did take a while to figure out. It would say, if this happens, else something, something, I'm like, okay, I understand what's meant there. But it is a fun game. It's a little bit like the game Mafia, if you've heard of that word, and you have a secret role, that you're trying to figure out who's on your team. But it's based on the American West. So you have guns and bullets, and you can shoot someone and they dodge it or not.

Lindsay McMahon (3:11)

Okay, wow, it's really fun though.

I don't know if the Westerns are popular. The Western Wild West movies are popular around the world. I'm not really sure if they are, but maybe they are based on this game, the fact that they made this game in Italy, right?

Aubrey Carter (3:26)

Right, maybe, right? There's gotta be some people out there who love the West, and I'm curious if all those Clint Eastwood movies, The Outlaw, Josie Whale, I remember my grandpa and my dad loving that movie. But yeah, I don't know how popular that is around the world.

Lindsay McMahon (3:41)

Yeah. So what are we getting into in the episode? We have a question from a listener. What are we talking about today?

Aubrey Carter (3:47)

Yeah, you had said, you were asking me if there was something that I just didn't get, meaning didn't understand, right? We got a really good question from a listener about get it, got it, how we use these phrases. Do you want to read the question for us?

Lindsay McMahon (3:59)

This question is from YouTube from CJ Jackson. Guys, don't forget that we have an amazing YouTube channel. Go ahead and find All Ears English and hit subscribe to make sure you don't miss anything.

Here's the question. Hello, Lindsay, Aubrey and Michelle. My name is Rose. Thank you so much for your podcast. I've been listening for several months now and it's become part of my daily routine. I've learned so many natural expressions from you, and you've helped me become more confident speaking English. I really appreciate all the work you put into each episode. Keep up the amazing work and I have a question about get it and got it. I sometimes get confused about when to use each one. For example, if someone asks me, did you get it, should I answer, I get it or I got it? I feel like I use got it all the time. Could you explain the difference in when native speakers would use each one?