AEE 2379: What's Your Daily Routine? Nighttime Edition
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2379. What's your daily routine? Nighttime edition. 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 hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

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Hey there, Michelle. How's it going today? Oh, pretty good, Lindsay. How are you? I'm doing well. Did you sleep well last night? I slept okay. I slept okay. I find that if everybody in my house is asleep...

earlier than usual, then everything goes better for me. What about you? Did you sleep well? I slept pretty well. I was under the covers. It's very cold in Denver right now. So I like to layer the covers on top of me and that's nice. So it was nice and warm in bed for sure. In bed by 10. Yes. Oh, in bed by 10. So is that more like 1030? I guess. Yeah. Okay. So what time do you typically go to sleep? Is that a typical night? Yeah, I think

10, I try to be upstairs and getting ready for bed by 10 and maybe in bed by 1030, something like that.

I'm just trying to get a little bit more sleep these days. Yes. Yeah. It's so hard. It's so hard when you just want to have some time to relax. But do you have a sleep routine? You were saying, oh, you're upstairs at 10, maybe in bed by 10.30. Yeah. I try to do some meditation, some sitting meditation for about 15 minutes. And then I brush my teeth, get ready, get into bed.

read my book a little bit. It's a whole thing. It is a routine, right? You kind of need that routine to tell your body to calm down and get ready for sleep. Yes.

Yeah, right. Exactly. Are you a nighttime shower or a morning shower? I kind of do both. Actually, if I work out, I'll shower before bed and then I'll wake up again and shower again in the morning. So that means dry skin. Yes. Okay. So today we are going to talk about a very common topic and this is actually part one of a two part series. So this is about bedtime and bedtime routines because I realized that this is just

an extremely common connection topic. It really is. I don't know. Maybe it's my age, but I find that I talk about this a lot with my friends. Oh, what time do you go to sleep? Everyone's excited.

Well, I just think there's a lot of research coming out on how important sleep is now, right? And people are consuming this research and reading about it and rethinking their routines. That's what people are doing. They're rethinking what they're consuming, how they're sleeping, how they're living. So I think it makes sense that it's a common topic, Michelle. Yeah. Would you say sometimes you talk about this with your friends? Yeah, absolutely. Because you also want to get a check on your life. Am I normal? Yeah.

I think that's what we're doing on a very, uh, like philosophical level as human beings. When we're asking other people about their routine, you want to know if what you're doing is normal. That's right. Yeah. I didn't think about that, but I guess that's true. You're just kind of checking. Okay. Everything I'm doing. Is that okay? Um,

Yeah. Um, so that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about how to share this information, how to connect over this topic in English, because it is very common. Yes. So I'm excited for today's episode. So let's talk about some expressions that you would use to either share information, um, or ask about someone's bedtime routine. So, um,

let's go for it. So, um, I think that this was actually inspired by me saying or hearing this expression that's past my bedtime, or you could also say that's way past my bedtime. What do you think of this? Well,

way past my bedtime. I like it. I like it. Yeah. So you're really emphasizing something is happening after you're going to be in bed. So you won't be able to attend whatever it is, right? Right. So for example, if somebody says to you, oh, could I give you a call at around 1030 tonight? You could say, oh, no, that's way past my bedtime. Let's talk tomorrow. Yeah. Oh, here's a question, Michelle. What are your thoughts on this? Hot takes.

takes um is it okay to text people after let's say 9 9 p.m local time because do you assume that they have their their phone silenced their text is it you know is it their responsibility or should you not text until the next day such a good question yes um something that I think I that I think about a lot actually because I realize I mean this happens a lot so what typically

This is bad, but I have a very hard time texting people during the day. I'm just busy.

I have a hard time responding to messages during the day because I'm running around and I try not to be. I mean, yeah, I look at my phone, but I want to give a text message the attention it deserves if I want to really respond to someone. So a lot of times what happens is I get into bed at night and I would just want to write back to some people. But then I always think, oh, is it too late? Right.

Right. Oh my gosh. Yes. Good question. So we have no answer though. So sometimes you can see if somebody's notifications are silent, right? And then I'm very happy I can do it.

sometimes I'll write to them. I hope I'm not waking you or sometimes I'll wait till the next day, but then it usually doesn't happen. Right. That's the problem. You might forget about it. I, I've definitely been known to do that. I also am the same way. I don't like to text back. I'm busy. Then I'll see the text and then I'll open it. So I won't have the little dot that says unread. And sometimes I'll forget to get back to people entirely. It's so bad. It

It's so bad. Lindsay, we're so similar. Really, it's terrible. Anyway, but that is a good question. So here's another one. I'm in bed by blank, but I usually fall asleep at blank. So interesting. So in bed and falling asleep are different, right, Lindsay? Absolutely. In bed by 1030, usually falling asleep at 1100.

And again, a very standard, common, everyday sentence. But we do share this stuff. We do talk about this, right? How fast do you fall asleep typically? That's different for everyone. I like the next one. Night owl, morning person. We've talked about this, Michelle. I think you're a night owl. Is that right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a morning person. I'm much more of a morning person. I'm up by...

These days I'm trying to sleep until seven, but then I'll take my dog out and I want to be outdoors early in the morning. I just want to go outside, you know? Yes. Yes. So yeah. And then you can ask somebody just if you want to open up the conversation, what time do you usually go to sleep? Perfect. Or if we want to say something happened when you were asleep, a more creative way to say it, a more natural native way is to say I was out.

Mm hmm. Isn't that fun? That's a fun one. Yeah, I was out. Or you could also say I was passed out. I was passed out. Now, this doesn't mean you fainted. Right. It means you were asleep at that time.

Yep. Yeah, exactly. So you could say, oh, I passed out or I was passed out. I did not hear your text message, right? Yes, exactly. So Michelle, what about you? What time do you usually go to sleep? Well, I'm usually... It's gotten later and later, but I've been trying...

I mean, honestly, more like one in the morning. Whoa, that's way past my bedtime. Oh my gosh. Way past your bedtime. Yeah. I don't know. So what I usually, so I'm in bed by 12, but I usually put down my book and I usually kind of fall asleep at about one. But yeah, I'm a night

That's, that's the truth. I mean, Lindsay, what about you? So you were saying about 10. Yeah, I'm definitely a morning person. So I want to be upstairs and getting ready for bed by 10 and then in bed by 1030 and then hopefully lights out by 11. Uh,

But yeah, it doesn't always work. Sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep, which is normal, you know? Yeah. Like what's, how long does it usually take you or do you ever have to get up and do something else or? No, I usually don't have to get up and do like, sometimes it could be 10 minutes. Sometimes it could be half an hour, something like that. But, you know, trying to do the right things. Like I know I've been reading a lot lately where they say you shouldn't eat too late or

So but I work out late. I work out at 645 until until about 745. So then I eat dinner after that. So I'm eating at 839 and showering and then in bed at 10. So it's like changing that routine is not easy, Michelle.

Yeah, yeah, definitely. That is tricky. But yeah, I mean, I the issue is in the morning when I wake up, like I I'm really out in the morning. Right. I am passed out early. Even my my daughter comes into my room and she has to watch Daniel Tiger and start singing songs. And I'm just out.

You are out. I love how you said that. That is so native and natural. I am just out. Yes. What time do you actually get out of bed then in the morning typically? Oh, it really depends. I mean, she was in our room today at I think 5.15. That's not easy when you're going to bed at 1.00.

Yes, that's a problem. That's why I'm not that smart. I should be going to sleep earlier. But I would say that I usually I'm out of bed between like 630. And then if Dan is with them, sometimes I can sleep. I mean, today, like a little after eight.

But that's too late. That's too late. And then I'm always rushing. That sounds luxurious to me to sleep until eight on a weekday morning. But sleeping until eight, that's also with that

you know, in between visit from my daughter. Yeah. And then, yeah. So this is, and so I just want to let our listeners know how natural this conversation was that we've just been having. So we've been trying to throw in a couple of the expressions we taught you guys, but this is the conversation you're likely to have with a native speaker friend. A hundred percent. Oh yeah. Absolutely. So hopefully you're taking notes, right? Please. Yes. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back.

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All right, Michelle. So why is this good for connection? I mean, I know it comes up a lot among friends. What else? Yeah, well, I mean, sharing routines can be fun and can also lead to sharing more information about yourself, right? So I ended up sharing one thing and...

You end up telling a story. Oh, this is what happened today. This is what happened to me over the weekend. So you can show other parts of your life and your personality from something that seems as something so basic as when do you go to sleep? It can just expand really endlessly. And again, like Lindsay said, you're kind of checking to see what's normal or, you know, if you connect with someone, you do something totally the same or totally different.

that can just really bring up lots of things. There's a really nice moment of connection that we feel. It's almost like a dopamine hit when we realize that we have someone in our life who has a similar pattern, who sees life the same way. It's really cool. And we shouldn't underestimate that. And that's the beauty of learning a new language. That's why we're here. That's why this show exists.

It's connection. It's the connection moment and how that feels on our hearts and our minds, right? So when we, the more we share, the more likely we are to find that moment. It is so true. I even have a friend that we, we both, we both bite our nails and the other day, and sometimes we just connect on it and we'll say, Oh, when do you typically do it? Has this ever happened to

you. And I don't know, I felt so much more connected to her. Yeah. Even something, something as silly as that. That is so cool. That is the cool thing about being human. It's being able to connect with words in this way. I love it. Exactly. So let's do a role play, Michelle, to a real role play to supplement what we've done before earlier in the episode. Here we go. All right. So here we are friends in exercise class. All right. Oh man, I'm tired today.

Oh, really? Late night? Yeah, I stayed up until 2 a.m. Wow, that is way past my bedtime. Oh, really? What time do you usually go to sleep? I'm in bed by 10, but I usually stay up reading and fall asleep at 11. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I was out by 2 a.m. Oh, that's good. I'm a night owl. I'm a morning person. I usually pass out by 9.

I wish. Okay. It's like we did a role reversal. We did a role reversal here. I was surprised to see it, but I like it. So we use that way. To keep you on your toes. Keep me on my toes. I love it. I love it. So the first thing you said, I stayed up until 2 a.m. And you said, wow, that's way past my bedtime. And there's a lot of fun we can have with that way, right? That emphatic way. Yep. Yep.

And then you picked this up as a connection moment to expand on this. I said, oh, really? What time do you usually go to sleep?

Yeah. And you said, I'm in bed by 10, but I usually stay up reading and fall asleep at 11. So it is a connection moment. We've pivoted into another conversation here, right? About our daily routines, nightly routines. And then I said, yeah, so I was out by 2 a.m. So that's just a more slangy way to say, oh, I was slacking.

sleeping deeply by 2 a.m. Yeah, very important saying to know, right? You'll hear that. And if you hear that, you don't know that it means you were asleep. You'd think, what do you mean you were out? You were going out. You were confusing. Going to a club at 2 a.m. You just said you were sleeping. Yeah, so it can be confusing. Exactly. And I said, that's good. I'm a night owl.

Okay. And then I said, I'm a morning person. I usually pass out by nine. And again, we don't mean faint here or fall on the ground. No, it does mean that in a different context. Of course, if you donate blood, you might pass out, right? You might faint. But in this case, it means I usually go to sleep. It's actually fall asleep, right? It's not really go to bed. It's fall asleep. Yeah.

Right. Exactly. Exactly. So guys, we are so excited because we are going to do a part two, but it's not going to be on the All News English podcast. Guys, head on over to the Business English podcast where we are going to talk about how to share your mornings with someone, how to connect over morning. So especially weekday mornings when things are kind of crazy. And so this is if

if you are not looking for help with business English, you still want to look for this episode because business English is human English, right? We don't just talk about things that are only for the office. We talk about lots of different things in there that you can use in your regular life as well. So this will be definitely helpful for you. So go on over, hit follow on the business English podcast, and that episode will be coming to you pretty soon.

Yes. I'm super excited to listen to that episode and create that episode for our listeners. So guys go over and hit follow on business English and we will see you again very soon back here on this show. All right. All right. Very good. Talk soon, Michelle. Have a good day. All right. Bye.

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