The A to Z English Podcast Topic Talk | My Dream House
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack describe their dream homes.
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00:00:56
Jack
Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, social. And today we are doing a topic talk and the topic is, what does your dream home look like? So social describe your dream home.
00:01:15
Xochitl
Well, I really like this one because I had my dream home picture for a while.
00:01:18
Xochitl
Now, but it would ideally be on a big plot of land, like a big land plot of land, because I don't really want to have any like close by neighbors or anything. So I do want to be on a big plot of land and it would be, I think there'd be two sections would be like 1 main home and then one like little home in the back.
00:01:28
Jack
Hmm.
00:01:39
Jack
Like a guest home.
00:01:39
Xochitl
But.
00:01:40
Xochitl
Yeah. The guest home. Yeah. The guest house. So the main home would be two floors. Uh, I really. I thought two floors with no basement. I never really thought about the basement aspect, but it would be. You would like, walk in. There would be a little place to, like, take your shoes off.
00:01:52
Jack
OK.
00:02:00
Xochitl
And then it'd be like the living room and the dining room. Then it'd be the kitchen, and then it'd be like stairs to the second floor. And then there'd be a guest room right here.
00:02:11
Xochitl
After that and then there'd be a big open space type room in the back where you could with like a whole panel of windows in the back. So you could like do art or music or anything back there.
00:02:23
Jack
Ohh, like a flex room like like whatever it you could make it whatever you want it to be.
00:02:29
Xochitl
Right. Yeah. It's just like a huge open space, like running the whole back length of the.
00:02:30
Jack
OK.
00:02:33
Xochitl
House.
00:02:36
Xochitl
And then upstairs it would be like a bedroom.
00:02:41
Xochitl
And the back bathroom upstairs. Ohh, the guest bedroom would also have bathroom downstairs and then it would be like a.
00:02:50
Xochitl
Up front balcony type of area with a small.
00:02:56
Xochitl
Like landing after the stairs and then two rooms between that front balcony and the UM bedroom bathroom situation. And I guess one of them would be like a spare room and the other one would be like a music room or Art Room or something like that. So.
00:03:12
Jack
OK. Is there a city approval in this House?
00:03:13
Xochitl
And.
00:03:16
Xochitl
The backroom has, like, uh, the back house I think would have like a little like a pond or something nice. And then like pond or something. And then.
00:03:24
Jack
Oh, OK.
00:03:27
Jack
Not swimming in there a koi pond. OK, it's more of a beauty. Looking beautiful being, you know, peaceful. Not not a, not a party house. This is like a peaceful house, OK.
00:03:29
Xochitl
No.
00:03:34
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:03:37
Xochitl
No.
00:03:38
Xochitl
Yes, a people house and then it would have like it would be a little.
00:03:43
Xochitl
Just like a little guest house, like a one story. Cottage looking guest house.
00:03:49
Jack
Yeah, we call this the mother-in-law suite sometimes.
00:03:52
Xochitl
Yes, that's really what it would be for actually. So that like if I get married and their parents want to stay or my parents.
00:03:58
Xochitl
Want to stay?
00:03:59
Xochitl
Or my my parents get sick or their parents get sick, they can stay back there.
00:04:03
Jack
Yeah.
00:04:04
Xochitl
Do like a small house.
00:04:06
Xochitl
Separate from the main house.
00:04:07
Jack
It's got like a little kitchen in it and it's got, you know, it's on the bathroom and it's on like.
00:04:11
Jack
Living room and but small.
00:04:12
Xochitl
And it's on bedroom. Yeah, but it's kind of a small. Yeah. Like a mother-in-law suite. That's exactly what it would be. And and I want it to be like.
00:04:18
Jack
OK.
00:04:22
Xochitl
Cake.
00:04:24
Xochitl
Colonial Mexican style like us.
00:04:26
Jack
I was going to ask you that is this modern? Is this like, uh, a ranch house? OK, so yeah.
00:04:30
Xochitl
It's an ocean, yeah.
00:04:34
Xochitl
We're going to send us at home, so it's kind of like.
00:04:35
발표자
For morning.
00:04:40
Xochitl
Inside the lot of the floors would be.
00:04:43
Xochitl
Like clay tile, red clay tile and like.
00:04:48
Xochitl
UM.
00:04:50
Xochitl
It have a lot of windows and have the arches that colonial thousand homes have and it be built.
00:04:56
Jack
I'm thinking a lot of like pastel colors or something like that.
00:05:00
Xochitl
No, no, actually it would be a lot of like uh jewel tones. So it'd be like kind of a clay kind of, uh, what's that color?
00:05:05
Jack
Oh, OK, yeah.
00:05:10
Jack
Mosaics, like mosaics kind of stuff.
00:05:12
Xochitl
Yeah, and how difficult you slipped again, it said orange terracotta.
00:05:18
Xochitl
Like terracotta color wars and then the bedroom would be like an emerald green and the bathroom would be kind of a jade green color. And then the guest bedroom would probably be like a pastel kind of lavender or lilac color. But other than that, the kitchen would be like yellow and it would have, like, mosaic.
00:05:18
Jack
That's your problem, yeah.
00:05:25
Jack
OK.
00:05:38
Xochitl
And.
00:05:39
Xochitl
Yeah, it'd be full of a lot of like jewel tone kind of colors.
00:05:44
Jack
Yeah, I kind of get the the feeling I can kind of understand what you're talking about because I watched a movie called Frieda about the Frida Kahlo the the an artist and they had like, this amazing house that they lived and painted in. And I'm kind of thinking like that those.
00:05:54
Xochitl
Ah.
00:05:56
발표자
Yes.
00:06:03
Jack
Colors. I think there it was a very bold kind of.
00:06:09
Jack
House with the home, but maybe yours is a little bit more subtle, like it's not quite as loud.
00:06:10
Xochitl
Home.
00:06:15
발표자
I think that would be.
00:06:16
Xochitl
A little traditional kind of like what food you grew up in in the movie, but the courtyard and stuff like that maybe. But yeah, it would have some bright kind of jewel tones, kind of like a a lot of vintage style.
00:06:21
Jack
Mm-hmm.
00:06:23
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:30
Xochitl
Well.
00:06:31
Xochitl
Hard to explain, but that would be my ideal home and it would be a relaxing home. No swimming pool. I think the biggest things I'd want is like a home theater type of situation.
00:06:41
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:42
Xochitl
I never use swimming pools or anything, but I would like a big bathtub because we have a swimming pool in the house I grew up in and like I barely ever, no one, barely.
00:06:50
Xochitl
Ever uses a pool, so like.
00:06:51
Jack
This is the. This is exactly what happens to everybody that.
00:06:55
Jack
Has a pool.
00:06:56
Jack
Is that you think you're going to use it every day and you use it like if if I add it up like all the time that I spent in that pool in my life, it was probably like 4 hours, you know?
00:07:08
Xochitl
Yeah. And then like when you're a kid, you use it probably more, but as soon as you grow into, like the teenage years, you don't use it as much and then everyone else wants to use your pool.
00:07:19
Xochitl
And there's always people like trying to use your pool. That's literally what it's like to have a house with the pool. It's like there's always other people asking if they can come over and use your pool.
00:07:20
Jack
Honey.
00:07:29
Jack
Here's a hint to our listeners out there if you have. If you get a pool, everybody's going to want to use your pool, and if you buy a truck, everybody's going to ask you to help them move. So don't buy a truck and don't get a pool. Just don't do it. It's not worth it.
00:07:41
Xochitl
Yes. Yeah.
00:07:47
Xochitl
He usually just never use a pool. I think a home theater is something I would use much more than like a pool.
00:07:52
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe a hot tub. Actually, I would use a hot tub. Yeah.
00:07:55
Xochitl
Yeah, like a Jacuzzi kind of situation. Or, like a hot tub or just a nice big bath. Like for me, like, the bathroom would be kind of jade tile colored like jade colored tile and the bathroom. The tub would be the same color and it'd be pretty big. So you could just really chill in a tub. Like it's a hot tub.
00:08:14
Xochitl
Something, but because I even I'm short and tiny and in the homes in the US.
00:08:16
Jack
Yeah.
00:08:21
Xochitl
Like I still most of my body sticks out of the tub when I'm taking a, you know?
00:08:25
Xochitl
What I mean like it's?
00:08:25
Jack
I I'm 6 foot eight. I'm 2 meters tall. I haven't taken a bath in since I was a child. You know? It's it's not a thing, you know? Yeah, it's pointless. Yeah.
00:08:28
발표자
Yeah.
00:08:34
Xochitl
Right.
00:08:37
Xochitl
Violent.
00:08:38
Xochitl
All right, Jack, what would your dream home look like? I'm curious.
00:08:43
Jack
OK, well mine is more in like a modern kind of like modern styles, you know, new architecture, modern.
00:08:51
Jack
UM, uh. But it's still it's still, you know, nothing crazy but like, uh, I'm thinking like a like a two-story house. I like that.
00:09:04
Jack
I do. After you know, we just talked about hating pools. I want a pool with a hot tub attached to it in the backyard.
00:09:10
발표자
Cool.
00:09:13
Xochitl
Back, Oh my gosh. The amount of upkeep that my dad is always doing on the pool too. It's such a pain.
00:09:19
Jack
I just figure like if I can buy my dream home, I can pay someone to to deal with my pool.
00:09:20
발표자
Say.
00:09:25
Jack
I'll just be a cool guy.
00:09:25
Xochitl
OK. I'll be real with you. Like you like Gen. X and boomers. Like you'd rather just do it yourself than pay like in the reality of it, you're like, oh, I can do that.
00:09:26
Jack
Yeah, he can come.
00:09:38
Jack
The chemicals and all that sort of stuff. I'm like, you know, you got to get it just right. Like it if it's wrong, you can burn your, you know, your eyes with the chlorine in the pool. It can, you know, can cause problems.
00:09:49
Xochitl
Yeah. Or you could get with your headache spill muriatic acid on yourself and burn your like limb off so.
00:09:55
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta be really careful. So I think I would just pay. This is this, by the way. This is like in Florida. So this is like you.
00:10:03
Jack
A warm climate. So. So we're in Florida. It's kind of like a modern style house. It's not not like a colonial or a, you know, traditional home or anything. It's just a, a kind of modern style and.
00:10:04
발표자
Ah.
00:10:23
Jack
Yeah, it's got two stories. There's a pool in the back with, like, a a cage. What? They call it a cage in Florida, but it's actually like a net that covers the whole back area. So no bugs can.
00:10:32
발표자
Hmm.
00:10:35
Jack
And then.
00:10:36
Jack
And there's a barbecue and a bar and a hot tub. And like tiki torches. And, you know, like, it's got the whole, like, you know, hanging out in the back by the pool vibe. You can hang out at night or you can have a pool party during the day.
00:10:36
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:10:57
Jack
And so maybe there's like, a a pool table out there because it's kind of like indoor outdoor. So it's covered, but it's not covered.
00:11:07
Xochitl
Hmm.
00:11:08
Jack
I know this is the most Gen. X description of that.
00:11:11
Xochitl
You know, it's just crazy to me because it's like you actually are thinking of a luxury home. And I realized how simple minds sounded. And it's just funny because between our generations, there's a huge gap where, like my generation, doesn't even own property. So for me, like, thinking like, that's like a luxury home. Like what I thought of. And then what you're talking about is, like, a real luxury home.
00:11:30
Xochitl
That didn't even cross my mind.
00:11:32
Jack
I know this is like a my dream home is like is is like a a real home. Like they sell these homes, you know it's it's not even I'm not even using my imagination.
00:11:38
Xochitl
Right.
00:11:43
Jack
You know, I don't really care about like the I. I guess what we what I want is like high uh high ceilings with arches inside. So definitely in like Spanish style. I love Spanish tile like it's Spanish tile. Roof is really cool in that like you terracotta.
00:12:02
Jack
Color that you're talking about. I like that. And I like big arches because I'm really tall. So when I, you know, go through my house, I don't want to be, like, ducking my head down.
00:12:14
Xochitl
Right. You want like high ceilings and stuff.
00:12:16
Jack
Yeah, I want really high ceilings. I've actually, I don't even care about the 2nd floor. I'm OK with like, a a ranch style home where it's just like a one story.
00:12:27
발표자
Hmm.
00:12:28
Jack
As long as there's like, you know, a master bedroom with a with its own bathroom and then access to the pool outside and then like a nice big open kitchen with like, a Big Island, we call the island is like a a big kitchen table type thing.
00:12:46
Jack
Like it's not a table, but do you know what I?
00:12:48
Jack
Mean like uh?
00:12:49
Xochitl
Yeah, we have one in my home and in Kentucky, while my parents home, it's like in the middle of the kitchen and it's like a table, kind of. But it's like part of the.
00:13:01
Jack
You don't really eat there at the island. You can. I mean, you could put, like stools and eat at the island, but it's not a dining room, you guys.
00:13:01
Xochitl
Can't move it.
00:13:06
Xochitl
We do eat. We. Yeah, we used to eat at the island. Like it was a dining room because it.
00:13:12
Xochitl
Was just the most.
00:13:12
Xochitl
Convenient. So it's like high schools on it and we would just all eat at the island.
00:13:13
Jack
Yeah, that's true.
00:13:18
Jack
That's what we have to we have an iron and we put high stools in there. We eat there like a kitchen table. So I guess it is actually.
00:13:25
Xochitl
Like people do, you have too high on?
00:13:28
Jack
And now that I think about it, yeah, I I do the same thing.
00:13:34
Jack
That and I.
00:13:35
Jack
Would I like a nice big living room with a huge TV like a big, you know, projector TV or something like that? Where?
00:13:41
Xochitl
Yes, I want a big TV.
00:13:43
Jack
Yeah, I would like a movie theater, but I don't need it. I don't need, like, a proper movie theater. You know, some people build, like, a movie theater in their house with, like, theater chairs. Yeah.
00:13:51
Xochitl
That's ridiculous to me. Well.
00:13:54
Jack
That's just like a it's it's a.
00:13:58
Jack
Godly rich person thing, you know.
00:13:58
Xochitl
Too much?
00:14:00
발표자
Yeah.
00:14:01
Xochitl
Please say.
00:14:03
Jack
Yeah, but I I. But I I want like, a Big L sofa. Like a really big one. So that like.
00:14:09
Xochitl
Ohh yeah, those comfortable ones. Sorry, go ahead.
00:14:12
Jack
Yeah, big fluffy ones where I can, like, lie down on one and my wife can lie down on the other and we don't have to. Like, over intersect. You know, like we.
00:14:22
Xochitl
Hey.
00:14:23
Jack
Yeah.
00:14:24
Xochitl
They're both like comfortable.
00:14:25
Jack
Yeah. Yeah. So we're, you know, you're sitting at.
00:14:27
Xochitl
Both like sleep on this cell sofa, yeah.
00:14:29
Jack
Exactly. So as we watch Netflix, we just drift off and fall asleep because we're getting old.
00:14:37
Xochitl
And like the couch, she's just as comfortable as the bed. Yeah, that that's not.
00:14:40
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, half the time you sleep on the couch anyway, like you don't you just spend half the time there.
00:14:47
Xochitl
Right.
00:14:49
Jack
Uh, yeah. So, you know my my, that's my dream home. You know, I would love to.
00:14:55
Jack
To just have a big, comfortable, nice house where lots of people can come over and we can enjoy our time together, barbecue and the by the pool, maybe play a game of billiards in my billiards table. That's kind of in the outside. Like the the pool area is kind of like has is covered with the roof.
00:15:11
Xochitl
MHM.
00:15:15
Jack
So it's like indoor outdoor. It's kind of like.
00:15:18
Jack
Between.
00:15:19
Xochitl
Ah, OK.
00:15:20
Jack
Yeah, yeah. And then there's like a little bar there, but I don't drink. But, you know, my friends do. So I can, like, mix cocktails.
00:15:27
Xochitl
You have cocktails too, and you can have mocktails for yourself.
00:15:30
Jack
Yeah, yeah, I could have mocktails. Yeah, I can. Just juice and, you know, soda and spritzer and all that stuff. Yeah. So that that's my that's my dream home.
00:15:42
Jack
I feel like as we describe this, we we need to provide blueprints, you know, in the description.
00:15:47
Xochitl
I know next episode we'll like, do a little drawing or like I can take a I can make one in The Sims and take a screenshot of it. I was like, yeah. So yeah, I get you a lot of my.
00:15:56
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:15:58
Jack
That's a good idea.
00:16:02
Xochitl
Rooms like the rooms I'm thinking of would be taken up by like.
00:16:05
Xochitl
Of these, like, I'd have a sewing room, an Art Room, a music room and like, maybe a gym, so I wouldn't have to go to the gym. I could just do it in my home.
00:16:13
Jack
Ohh yeah and I.
00:16:14
Jack
Totally forgot my man cave, one of the rooms.
00:16:19
Jack
Yeah.
00:16:19
Xochitl
You did very good.
00:16:21
Jack
I know because I'm such a I'm such a Gen. Exer I need a I need a podcasting room, you know? So it's like it's got my desk and my all my computer and all my stuff so I can do recording.
00:16:24
Xochitl
That's.
00:16:25
Xochitl
Jerk.
00:16:33
Jack
And play music and my guitars. And you know, all the stuff that my wife hates, I can put it all in one room and then you know that that's like my secret, you know, spot where I I can go and, you know, just play play my guitar, record podcasts.
00:16:53
Jack
Do all that all that kind of work.
00:16:55
Jack
That I love.
00:16:55
Jack
To do so, I got to have my man cave. We call it, and for our listeners out there, Man Cave is kind of like a a a joke. It's like a bear cave, you know, like a cave where a bear.
00:17:07
Jack
Lives, we call it a man cave, which is basically like a room where it has all the men, things that men would love, you know? But I think it's a little bit.
00:17:19
Jack
Sexist to to call it a man cave because I think women enjoy playing music and having their own space. You know, I I but but that's the name.
00:17:28
Xochitl
Right.
00:17:31
Xochitl
These are hobby where there's like a better name for it.
00:17:33
Jack
Yeah, Hobby Room is a much more politically correct name to use. I like that one.
00:17:38
Xochitl
Yeah, but a man cave is something that people used to say it. It was kind of back in the days. It was kind of like a like a.
00:17:46
Xochitl
Jerky kind of thing because it was like you have your beer in there and you're like tacky stuff that your wife doesn't let you have in the main area and like, so it's kind of like in a place only for the guys to hang out and whatnot.
00:17:55
Jack
Yeah.
00:18:01
Jack
Watch football, drink beer and play darts and do that kind of.
00:18:05
Jack
Stuff I I think.
00:18:07
Jack
You know a long time ago they used to call it a den.
00:18:11
Jack
But a den was much more sophisticated, right? Like a den.
00:18:15
Xochitl
Space where it's kind of like a living room but more private, like a living room like people will come visit you and they can sit in your living room and your den was like more where you had your TV and your like space and stuff.
00:18:27
Xochitl
But it was like a fan.
00:18:28
Jack
You know.
00:18:28
Xochitl
Like room, sort of.
00:18:31
Jack
Yeah. Yeah. Or even, like, a father's den. Even way back in the 50s was like, where your, like, your dad's off?
00:18:37
발표자
This.
00:18:38
Jack
Is like like my father's den, you know? And it's like the you. You don't go there, you just. It's got the leather, the sofa, chair and cigar smoking cigars and, you know, reading books and stuff like that or smoking a pipe or whatever. But.
00:18:38
Xochitl
Alright.
00:18:54
Xochitl
I would definitely have an office still.
00:18:56
Jack
Yeah, I think in office that's probably the best way to call it, just just call it an office or a hobby room. I think those are.
00:19:03
Jack
Best descriptors, yeah.
00:19:06
Xochitl
Alright, listener as well if you liked and enjoyed this episode, make sure you leave a comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us a message or an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our we chat WhatsApp groups to talk to Jack and I directly. We would love to hear what your dream home would look like and maybe next week.
00:19:25
Xochitl
We will show you guys a little blueprint of what our dream homes look like. See you guys next time. Bye bye.
00:19:31
Jack
Bye bye.
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