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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 691: Dangerous Freeway Driving.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 691. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Dangerous Freeway (or Highway) Driving.” Let’s get started.

I do a lot of driving in my job. You would think that driving several hours each way would get old really fast, but I have ways of making an interminable drive seem much more exciting.

I like to drive fast on the freeways. I usually pass all of the slower cars by staying in the passing lane. When there’s a slow-moving car in the passing