73 You can have your cake and eat it too
The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary
Exploring the expression 'you can have your cake and eat it too'
Exploring the meaning behind the expression 'you can have your cake and eat it too' and the concept of guilt-free enjoyment. Also, discussing the challenges of preserving industry funding in research and the potential delusion in seeking solutions to social problems.
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Audiogram version of the podcast: https://youtu.be/_-jIEBIOj6o
Vocab Man Website: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/73-you-can-have-your-cake-and-it-it-too/
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Next time you're making chocolate cake. I hope you'll consider some of these sweet tips so you can have your cake and eat it too.
I was wondering, do you have a favorite expression in English?
I do. I think my favorite expression is the phrase. "You can have your cake and eat it too", meaning that you can enjoy whatever it is that you're enjoying and you don't have to feel guilty for it. You don't have to feel bad about enjoying it. You can simply have essentially the best of both worlds.
Yeah, I love that one. That is cool.
The question was, um, if you take industry out of research, there'll be less research done. What do we do about that? So the money blinds proposal that I put up on the slide is intended to preserve the industry funding, right? And to just separate off the negative effects. So that's trying to have your cake and eat it.
My argument about the, trying to have your cake and eat it is even if you can get that to work. All right. Even if you can get that to work, even if you want to preserve industry funding in that way, we are deluding ourselves, right? Just as you would accuse me of deluding myself to say, government money will appear magically to replace industry money.
We are also deluding ourselves. We are engaged in mass delusion that we are looking fully and broadly at the solutions to important social problems. Right. With a system we currently have. So there are different kinds of delusion. And what I would say is I take your point. If you take our industry money, where's the rest going to come from?
What I would say is you could initiate the money blind solution, but you shouldn't pretend that's a solution completely .
Let's say I started a mutual fund for my neighborhood and all the neighbors had stock. Okay. And, and so they heal the environment and their stock went up in value. So instead of getting drained financially, they're making money, they're making money from things that make their kids safer and, and prevent the planet from dying.
So you kind of have your cake and eat it too, instead of working all way to make money and then coming home and trying to save the planet on the weekends, you can spend Monday through Friday making money, saving the planet and then, you know, go to the beach.
02:28 Outro
So actually with this podcast, you can have a lot of fun and along the way, you can learn English. So stick with me, the vocab man, and by doing so you can have your cake and eat it too. And if the podcast is too fast for you, then the transcript might help you out. Right? So because sometimes I make these audiogram.
I mean, you'll see the subtitles. And at the same time you can listen to the podcast. So I have also a YouTube channel, just search for my fluent podcast or the VOCAB man. Then you will find it. So the vocab man is sponsored by my fluent podcast. And just so you know, This idiom suggested Doug , who I interviewed on episode 99 of my fluent podcast.
So if you are into language learning with the help of hypnosis. This might be of interest, check it out. And here's the trailer.
03:29 Trailer of episode 99 of My Fluent Podcast (Learn languages with hypnosis)
Well, my name is Doug Sands and I am a hypnotist. I help people primarily with weights and anxiety, but I also see it, some clients for things like confidence and, language learning and language retention, both things that can really help us to practice that language and really help to, cement that in our neural networks hypnosis and language learning, they go hand in hand hypnosis works with that part of our brain that really stores the ability to speak a new language and to speak it fluently. And so hypnosis is, is kind of a way to fast track language learning.
Link to the full interview with Doug, the hypnotist:
https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/99-hypnosis-to-learn-a-language-interview-with-doug-sands/
Vocab Man Website: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/73-you-can-have-your-cake-and-it-it-too/
What is your favorite expression? For more info see the link below!
https://www.videoask.com/fwegskglw
Full transcript:
Next time you're making chocolate cake. I hope you'll consider some of these sweet tips so you can have your cake and eat it too.
I was wondering, do you have a favorite expression in English?
I do. I think my favorite expression is the phrase. "You can have your cake and eat it too", meaning that you can enjoy whatever it is that you're enjoying and you don't have to feel guilty for it. You don't have to feel bad about enjoying it. You can simply have essentially the best of both worlds.
Yeah, I love that one. That is cool.
The question was, um, if you take industry out of research, there'll be less research done. What do we do about that? So the money blinds proposal that I put up on the slide is intended to preserve the industry funding, right? And to just separate off the negative effects. So that's trying to have your cake and eat it.
My argument about the, trying to have your cake and eat it is even if you can get that to work. All right. Even if you can get that to work, even if you want to preserve industry funding in that way, we are deluding ourselves, right? Just as you would accuse me of deluding myself to say, government money will appear magically to replace industry money.
We are also deluding ourselves. We are engaged in mass delusion that we are looking fully and broadly at the solutions to important social problems. Right. With a system we currently have. So there are different kinds of delusion. And what I would say is I take your point. If you take our industry money, where's the rest going to come from?
What I would say is you could initiate the money blind solution, but you shouldn't pretend that's a solution completely .
Let's say I started a mutual fund for my neighborhood and all the neighbors had stock. Okay. And, and so they heal the environment and their stock went up in value. So instead of getting drained financially, they're making money, they're making money from things that make their kids safer and, and prevent the planet from dying.
So you kind of have your cake and eat it too, instead of working all way to make money and then coming home and trying to save the planet on the weekends, you can spend Monday through Friday making money, saving the planet and then, you know, go to the beach.
02:28 Outro
So actually with this podcast, you can have a lot of fun and along the way, you can learn English. So stick with me, the vocab man, and by doing so you can have your cake and eat it too. And if the podcast is too fast for you, then the transcript might help you out. Right? So because sometimes I make these audiogram.
I mean, you'll see the subtitles. And at the same time you can listen to the podcast. So I have also a YouTube channel, just search for my fluent podcast or the VOCAB man. Then you will find it. So the vocab man is sponsored by my fluent podcast. And just so you know, This idiom suggested Doug , who I interviewed on episode 99 of my fluent podcast.
So if you are into language learning with the help of hypnosis. This might be of interest, check it out. And here's the trailer.
03:29 Trailer of episode 99 of My Fluent Podcast (Learn languages with hypnosis)
Well, my name is Doug Sands and I am a hypnotist. I help people primarily with weights and anxiety, but I also see it, some clients for things like confidence and, language learning and language retention, both things that can really help us to practice that language and really help to, cement that in our neural networks hypnosis and language learning, they go hand in hand hypnosis works with that part of our brain that really stores the ability to speak a new language and to speak it fluently. And so hypnosis is, is kind of a way to fast track language learning.
Link to the full interview with Doug, the hypnotist:
https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/99-hypnosis-to-learn-a-language-interview-with-doug-sands/
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