The A to Z English Podcast A to Z Quick Chat 95 | Are you a night owl or an early riser?
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, XOchitl and Jack discuss the following question: Are you a night owl or an early riser?
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
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00:00:23
Jack
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00:00:36
Jack
Welcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to answer a question and discuss the question. And the question is, are you a night owl or an early riser and social? Maybe you can.
00:00:54
Jack
Just help define our terms a little bit here what is a night owl?
00:00:59
Xochitl
A night owl is a term for someone who is more active at night because we see that owls, they're birds of prey and they tend to be more active in the nighttime hours. So and I know someone who is, like, groggy in the morning and not focused in the morning and then they feel really productive and they feel alert later into the evening.
00:01:19
Xochitl
And night.
00:01:20
Xochitl
Hours, right?
00:01:21
Jack
Right. And what what's an early?
00:01:24
Jack
Riser then how would you describe an early riser?
00:01:27
Xochitl
Early riser is the person is a morning person like a typical person who wakes up in the morning energized and ready to.
00:01:34
Xochitl
No, but they usually start nodding off into the evening hours and they can't stay up and they can't stay alert right past, you know, maybe like 9:00 PM.
00:01:47
Jack
Yeah, at 9:00 PM, you see their, their eyes are droopy and their their head starts falling forward.
00:01:56
Jack
OK, So what about you? Are you?
00:01:57
Jack
A night owl or an early rise?
00:02:00
Xochitl
Yeah, I am a night owl for sure. I think when I was little when I was a little kid, I was famous in my family for being an early riser and I was like, insufferable, basically because I would go and wake up my parents and cry their eyes open and say that it was time to wake up.
00:02:20
Xochitl
Because I could see the sun rising, which is like 5:30 AM.
00:02:27
Xochitl
And I was just so excited for the day to start. Isn't that so funny? Like, I would just. I was so excited I couldn't contain myself. And and and then.
00:02:38
Xochitl
When I got into my.
00:02:39
Xochitl
Teenage years, I definitely became a night owl, but my parents got some payback and they never let me sleep in, so I had really truncated sleep hours.
00:02:47
Xochitl
When I was a teenager, which was so bad for my mental and physical, and now I'm definitely a night owl, still I go through phases where I'll wake up early and.
00:02:59
Xochitl
Like go to.
00:02:59
Xochitl
Sleep early but.
00:03:01
Xochitl
If I'm left to my own devices and I don't have a routine, I just naturally tend to be in.
00:03:05
발표자
Yeah, well.
00:03:07
Xochitl
How about you, Jack?
00:03:09
Jack
I was a night I well, when I was younger. So in my 20s in my teens, I was 100% a night owl. I just.
00:03:20
Jack
In English we say I.
00:03:21
Jack
I didn't want to give up the ghost.
00:03:24
Jack
As we say.
00:03:25
Jack
Right. And so I just, I would just fight sleep, you know, like it was just a battle. So I would stay awake as late as I could and I would fall asleep with the TV on watching something at 1:00, two, three in the morning.
00:03:41
Jack
But then.
00:03:43
Jack
I couldn't wake up. I did not want to wake up. I was always late for school. Always I would.
00:03:51
Jack
I would sell.
00:03:51
Jack
My soul to the devil for an extra 5 minutes of sleep. Basically in the morning like I would do anything for 5 minutes more of sleep and.
00:04:03
Jack
Well, suddenly in my 30s, I don't know.
00:04:05
Jack
It's just an age thing, I think.
00:04:08
Jack
It just flipped.
00:04:09
Jack
And I started waking up early and earlier and earlier, and I would get up at six, six, you know, 530-6630, something like that. I would just kind of, we say, putter putter around the House, you know, everyone else is sleeping. My daughter's sleeping. My wife is sleeping. And I would just, you know.
00:04:28
Jack
Kind of walk around with my coffee and in my bathrobe and and just, you know, watch a little bit of news, read the paper.
00:04:37
Jack
Whatever. And so I just turned into an old man, basically in my 30s, and now I'm. I'm kind of an early riser. So yeah, that's what I am.
00:04:48
Xochitl
Do you like those, like moments of silence early in the morning before your wife and daughter? Get up. I'm not saying you don't like to spend time with them, but I'm just saying, like those moments of, like, total alone time. Like, is that one of the reasons you like to get up early?
00:05:03
Xochitl
Do you?
00:05:04
Jack
I think so. I think that's I think that is like a.
00:05:06
Jack
Big a big added benefit. Maybe that's the whole reason that they do it. I think. I think I think it's very common for men to start to wake up early and and just kind of putter around the house and you feel like you're.
00:05:22
Jack
Yeah, it's, it's, it's almost like a a flashback to when you were single or something to a time where you had less responsibility. You weren't, you weren't.
00:05:33
Jack
You weren't responsible for.
00:05:35
Jack
The safety and well-being of a family and so you, you kind of feel like, oh, this is what freedom felt like, you know, it's just just for a.
00:05:39
Xochitl
Right.
00:05:44
Jack
Moment and then.
00:05:45
Jack
You have. Then you remember you're like, ohh, OK. I have a family. They start waking up you, everybody becomes active and they start making breakfast and stuff. But for those, that one.
00:05:55
Jack
Hour where you just get up. Really.
00:05:57
Jack
Early you do kind of feel like.
00:05:59
Jack
The whole.
00:06:00
Jack
You. It's your Kingdom.
00:06:02
Jack
This is all.
00:06:02
Xochitl
Right.
00:06:03
Jack
Mine for one hour. Yeah.
00:06:04
Xochitl
That's nice. I think that's one of the reasons I used to stay up really late in college. I would step into like 4 in the morning or five in the morning and it's because like 4:00 AM was the perfect hour because 3:00 AM. It's like people are still partying 5:00 AM.
00:06:21
Xochitl
Those psychos who get up and like run.
00:06:24
Xochitl
Laps at 5:00.
00:06:25
Xochitl
In the morning.
00:06:27
Xochitl
But at 4:00 AM.
00:06:28
Xochitl
There's no there's like the no one there. Like just the few people who had it in them to hang in there until. And so it's really quiet and really peaceful. And I remember I really enjoyed that because.
00:06:41
Xochitl
In America, when we go to college, we stay on campus like in dorms usually. And because of that, you have like roommates, and there's a bunch of people living in your dorm building. So, like, you have a bunch of neighbors, kind of.
00:06:57
Xochitl
And it can get really noisy.
00:06:58
Xochitl
Thing and stuff like that. So I felt like I had the same kind of peace and freedom that you feel waking up at like 5:00 AM, like 4 and staying up until 4:00.
00:07:07
Jack
Yeah, yeah. And and and in my, you know, in my teens, in my, in my.
00:07:12
Jack
20s I was the guy that would stay up till 4:00. You know, I I.
00:07:16
Jack
Just thought like.
00:07:18
Jack
Something exciting is going to happen, so I better stay awake as if like.
00:07:22
Xochitl
Right.
00:07:23
Jack
Yeah, it's a, it's a big.
00:07:25
Jack
Like FOMO kind of feeling. I I was a FOMO person. A fear of missing out.
00:07:33
Jack
So I'm going to stay up all night in case something interesting happens, and I'm not going to miss it. And nothing interesting ever happened. Nothing good ever happens that nothing wholesome happens at 4:00 in the morning.
00:07:45
Xochitl
No, usually not.
00:07:47
Jack
No and and I never. You know, I didn't. I didn't miss anything and there was no reason for me to stay up that late. But it was just a, a kind of I've always been.
00:07:57
Jack
I've always had a fear of missing out, even when I was a kid, I wanted to know what are my parents doing in the living room? What are they watching on TV? Like why am I going to bed at 8:00 when there's still things happening and I it really drove me crazy. So I think in my teens in my 20s.
00:08:15
Jack
I wanted to get revenge.
00:08:16
Jack
You know, for all the stuff.
00:08:17
Jack
I missed out on.
00:08:19
Jack
When I was a.
00:08:19
Jack
Kid. And so I went the whole other direction, which was not a healthy choice either. So I think now it's much better. I get like 8 hours of sleep and I wake up at a a good hour and go to sleep at A at a.
00:08:33
Jack
That hour.
00:08:34
Jack
And yeah, relatively healthy.
00:08:38
Xochitl
Yeah. All right. So if you're a night owl or a morning person, an early bird, let us know in a comment on A-Z, englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our WhatsApp group and we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.
00:08:55
발표자
Bye bye.
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