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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 399: A Bachelor Party.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 399. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

Our website is eslpod.com. On it, you can find a Learning Guide for this episode to help you improve your English even faster.

This episode is called “A Bachelor Party.” A “bachelor party” is a party for a man who is about to be married. Usually it is a party that is organized by his friends. Let’s get started.

My best friend, Saul, is getting married. As the best man, it was up to me to plan a bachelor party he’d never forget. All of the groomsmen were chipping in, so we went all out.

I invited everybody over to my apartment. Instead of going to a strip club, we hired a stripper. Before the stripper arrived, we played some drinking games and we gave Saul some gag gifts. We all started to get pretty