{"podcast":{"title":"Happy English Podcast","slug":"happy-english-podcast-739863","podcast_index_feed_id":739863,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/HappyEnglishPodcast","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/happy-english-podcast_1","image_url":"http://www.myhappyenglish.com/x9walos9f/uploads/2016/02/happy-english-podcast-3000.jpg","author":"Michael DiGiacomo Happy English (happyenglishny@gmail.com)","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Learn English with the Happy English Podcast. Fun, practical, and useful English lessons for students of all levels and ages. Learn American English idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, confusing vocabulary, grammar and more! Get Happy, Get English. Happy English! Visit myhappyenglish.com to hear all of the episodes.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T18:20:48.384344+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863"},"episode":{"title":"1072 - How to Use “That Works” Naturally","slug":"1072-how-to-use-that-works-naturally","published_at":"2026-07-03T10:05:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863/1072-how-to-use-that-works-naturally","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1072-how-to-use-that-works-naturally--72802489","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72802489/1072_how_to_use_that_works_naturally.mp3","summary":"That works. Works for me. Does that work? That doesn’t work for my schedule. Did you notice, these expressions all use the verb work, but they’re not about having a job. In everyday American English, we often use work to talk about whether a time, a plan, an idea, or a solution is acceptable, convenient, or possible. So if someone says, “Friday works for me,” they don’t mean Friday has a job. They mean Friday is good for their schedule. And that’s what we’re going to look at today. The Happy English Podcast Helping people speak English better since 2014 Over 1,000 episodes • 8 million downloads 📘 Get free weekly English lessons plus instant access to my FREE Vocabulary Workshop.: https://learn.myhappyenglish.com/free-english-lessons 🎥 Watch video versions of the Happy English Podcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@HappyEnglishNY/podcasts 🌐 Learn more about my English lessons and courses https://www.myhappyenglish.com","meta_description":"That works. Works for me. Does that work? That doesn’t work for my schedule. Did you notice, these expressions all use the verb work, but they’re not abou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":579,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-739863/episodes/1072-how-to-use-that-works-naturally/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863/1072-how-to-use-that-works-naturally.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}