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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain when to use play, do, and run with activities related to exercise.Transcript:00:00:00JackHey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:49JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a vocabulary builder and social. We're going to talk about sports and activities today and I think there there are some verb differences that we use when we're talking about.00:01:08JackCertain sports and then certain kind of.00:01:10JackSport like activities.00:01:13JackAnd so, like, what would we use to to describe like, basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer? Which verb do we use with with those sports?00:01:28XochitlUh, I would say we use play with those, right, with those sports.00:01:32JackExactly. We say I play basketball. He plays basketball, they play basketball, I play soccer. Do you?00:01:41JackDo you play any sports?00:01:44XochitlUM.00:01:46XochitlI used to.00:01:49XochitlBut I don't anymore.00:01:51JackWhat? What did you used to? I bet you used to be on the soccer team, right?00:01:54XochitlYeah, I used to.00:01:55XochitlPlay soccer I I did used to play soccer, but I have another one and and I realize it conflicts with R2 but I used to run track.00:01:56JackYeah.00:02:05JackOhh, nice. Well, there's a third one we could throw in there. Yeah. Run. Run track. Yes.00:02:06XochitlPress.00:02:10XochitlI ran track or you can go. I ran cross cross country as well.00:02:15JackOhh I ran cross country one year but I was I finished last every time I was the slowest.00:02:20XochitlI also finished last every time so I don't feel bad. I live in two last places and now it's podcast. Ohh, that's funny. Running a podcast. You also kind of run a podcast.00:02:26JackYeah.00:02:32JackYeah, right. We run an English corner. We run an English business.00:02:34XochitlYou can run. Yeah. You run a business as well, that's just.00:02:38JackRight, yeah.00:02:40XochitlThing.00:02:41JackOK. Yeah. So I used to, I used to play play basketball in in high school and college. That was my, my, my big sport was was basketball. But after graduating from university, I I stopped playing basketball and I, but I continued to play tennis.00:03:01JackSo when?00:03:01JackWhen I go home to America, I play tennis with my brother. I play with my dad and I play with my mom. They they all play tennis and my dad is 75. My mom is 74, but they still play tennis almost every day, so they're very into fitness and and well and health.00:03:22JackMHM.00:03:23JackWhat about do what? What kind of so do is the second one and what what do we use? What activities do we use do for?00:03:33XochitlDo hmm.00:03:37XochitlI.00:03:41XochitlI do Taekwondo. I used to do Taekwondo.00:03:44JackOh, did you do a little around self-defense? Yeah.00:03:45XochitlI did like.00:03:48XochitlA little martial arts, yeah.00:03:49JackYeah, watch out or social's going to spin kick you around the chin.00:03:55XochitlYeah, I actually kicked my dad once. He asked me to. So it's it was not my fault. And I told him I wouldn't do it. And then he said I would be grounded if I didn't kick him. So then I did kick him. I was a kid. I was like 13. I think I did kick him. And then he said I was grounded cause I kicked him and my mom said no, she's not.00:04:13XochitlGrow up.00:04:15JackSo you your dad's like this is not going to hurt. And then it hurt really bad.00:04:20XochitlYeah. And then he was like, you're grounded. And my mom, like, you literally forced her hand her her foot. Basically. You forced her foot so you can't play now. It was funny.00:04:22JackGrounded.00:04:32JackThat's so.00:04:33JackYour dad is hilarious. That's great.00:04:35XochitlThat's like crazy.00:04:36JackYeah. So yeah, I was like martial arts, like, like, karate, Taekwondo, jujitsu. We generally say, like, we do, I do karate, I do Taekwondo. I do jujitsu.00:04:49발표자Do.00:04:50JackWe do not say I play those things and I guess I don't know, because maybe like martial arts is a little different. It's not necessarily like a game. It is a competition or it can be a competition.00:05:02JackBut I just we just tend not to use the verb play with those because it's just, uh, it's it's a different kind of activity maybe because, like team sports, we tend to use play, although tennis can be a, a, an individual sport and we use play for tennis. So maybe if.00:05:21JackIt has a ball.00:05:23JackWe use play. Is that a a rule we could use?00:05:26XochitlI play. I think it's just I think the play is just cause it's a game like tennis is a game.00:05:35XochitlBasketball is a game. Soccer is a game. Football is a game. So we play those and then sports like it's not really a game. Like you said, it can be a competition or like a like a.00:05:46XochitlUh, what do they call those? Not a skirmish, but a like a, not a duel. What do you call those when they fight against each other? A match or something. But yeah, it it can be a match or a competition of some sort. A spar. It can be a spar of some sort, but it's not. It's not a game. It's kind of a little bit more.00:05:47발표자Well.00:05:55JackOn match right.00:06:07XochitlSerious. Anyway, so I think that's. I think that's why we say do instead of play. I don't know. What do you think Jack?00:06:14JackYeah, that's a good way to look at it.00:06:16JackLike you could get hurt doing it, right?00:06:18XochitlOhh yeah, I mean you could get hurt playing.00:06:21XochitlPlaying.00:06:21JackAmerican football, of course. Yeah, that doesn't. That's not a good measure. Sorry.00:06:26XochitlBut I think it's fine. I think it's just more like it's a game like like Football is a game and martial arts, it's like it's not a game in the same way, I think it's just a. It's like an art. Literally. It's an art. So.00:06:40JackYeah. And we also use it for yoga too. Yoga and Pilates, we say do I do yoga? I do Pilates.00:06:47JackAnd those are those are not, because there's no, there's no competition there. It's just you're basically it's just a fitness type of thing. It's a a well-being thing, so.00:06:58XochitlYeah. It's like a Wellness thing, yeah.00:07:00JackYeah.00:07:02JackAll right. Well, I hope we.00:07:03JackCleared that up for everybody.00:07:05XochitlYeah, we may have made it more confusing. Let us know in the comments if we confused you more, but hopefully our examples you know practicing with the examples that we provided will be helpful.00:07:15XochitlWell, and yeah, let us know if you have any further questions or any comments, leave them in the comments section below at azspodcast.com, shoot us an e-mail at azspodcast@gmail.com and make sure to join the lead channel. WhatsApp groups too. Join Jack and I am a conversation. We're also having an English corner from Monday to Friday 1.00:07:35XochitlHour a day.00:07:37XochitlAnd it's really fun. We have a lot of people in the group now and they we have these really cool discussion questions and everyone talks is just like hanging out with friends for an hour. And it's really great. 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack ask each other funny questions.Transcript:00:00:00JackHey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:49JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my.00:00:52JackCo-host.00:00:53JackSocial and today we're going to do some funny quiz questions. And so I'm going to ask social some questions. She's going to ask me. They're kind of silly, but I think it's it'll be fun to, you know, see what our answers are.00:01:08JackAnd so, uh, so. So the first one is.00:01:12JackIf you could teach a dog your dog duende to do 1 human thing, what would it be?00:01:21XochitlYeah.00:01:22XochitlUh, Jack. That one's hard because initially I want to say I want to teach him to speak, but I think I would get annoyed like I love him to death, but he's like he's a little puppy and he has a lot of energy, so he just be talking my ear off, like how little kids do you know?00:01:39JackWhat's this? What's this? What's this? What's this you're like?00:01:43XochitlYeah, constantly. Like, so you know.00:01:47XochitlBut you know it's between.00:01:49XochitlTeaching them how to talk and this is kind of a cheating answer, but I'd like to teach him to be self-sufficient. That way I could just like go on trips without having to worry about him. I feel like he can feed himself and get himself water and take himself out for a walk or whatever if that was possible I would.00:01:58JackYeah.00:02:08XochitlThat would be great if you could just be self-sufficient and that.00:02:10XochitlJust.00:02:10XochitlKind of that involves is kind of cheating because it involves a lot of human things under one umbrella.00:02:16JackYou know, but I I just picture him sitting on the sofa like a human with, like, the remote control in his paw.00:02:23JackIt's just kind of slipping through the channels looking for anything with dogs on TV.00:02:24XochitlYeah, he would definitely.00:02:30XochitlYeah, because there's some shoes he actually likes to watch. I think I was watching, like Sophia and the guard the other day. That's a YouTuber. And he was really intently watching the show. So he's very, yeah, there's some things he really likes. I think he likes Sophia and.00:02:41JackWow, that's weird.00:02:49XochitlI don't know. There. Yeah. There's some things to seem to like more than others. I still haven't figured out the pattern yet with my other dog. He like to with Mouse, which is a dog. But my family had before I had went to. He liked The Walking.00:03:01XochitlEd.00:03:03발표자Ohh.00:03:05JackWhat? What does that mean?00:03:05발표자 2And.00:03:07XochitlI don't know. You seem to like The Walking Dead and he like to watch the the show with like a a dog in it too. He would watch that, like, whenever we watched it, he would sit down.00:03:18XochitlAnd watch it.00:03:18XochitlThe other shows and before him really quickly. So yeah, I think if if I could teach him to be self-sufficient, that's kind of.00:03:25XochitlWhat I would do?00:03:26JackYeah. Yeah. Ohh.00:03:27XochitlJack, how for your dog. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.00:03:30JackOh, no. Yeah, Michael.00:03:31JackI was going to say the same thing that you said. I was going to say, like I wanted to teach my dog to speak, but actually I don't want.00:03:37JackMy.00:03:37JackDog to to talk because.00:03:41JackYou know.00:03:44JackYeah.00:03:45JackShe might never stop talking. You know, it's like it could be like a blessing and then it turns into a curse. You know, like you be careful what you wish for.00:03:57JackI would teach I.00:03:58JackWould love her to UM.00:04:01JackBe able to use the toilet.00:04:03XochitlI knew you were gonna say that. I was like, I knew you were going to say that because she has that issue. Like she kind of poops and.00:04:09XochitlPees all over the house, right?00:04:10JackYeah, yeah, yeah. I would just love for her to just, like, go in the bathroom and jump up on the toilet, use use the bathroom flush.00:04:20JackAnd yeah, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. So huge convenience for us.00:04:30XochitlYeah, yeah, that'd be great. That. Yeah, Blendy kind of already does that since he, like, just goes in the bathroom if he can't get outside.00:04:40XochitlWhich just makes it really easy to pick up, so I don't really have to worry about them.00:04:44JackYeah, yeah.00:04:48JackLet's let's do it. I got another one here.00:04:52JackThis one is kind of interesting. Like what's your silliest selfie face, or do you do you have a selfie face?00:05:03XochitlUmm, I don't know if I have a selfie.00:05:05XochitlFace I think one time.00:05:08XochitlWhen I was like 14 like or something, the the uh.00:05:13XochitlWhat's it called?00:05:15XochitlThe UM.00:05:17XochitlDuck lips trend was uh trending and my sister and her friend, who were like two to three years older than me. They're like 16 or 17. Wanna take a picture?00:05:20JackYeah.00:05:30XochitlWith me, and we all did like the duck lips trend. And if people don't know, you would kind of purse your lips and make this like, duck face. Kind of.00:05:38JackYou. You they think it's the idea is that it makes your lips look bigger, right?00:05:43XochitlYou know, like it's like a parodying face. It was supposed to be cute, I guess, like back in the day, I don't. I think you were making fun of the trend when we did it. So we already knew it was silly, but some people did it unironically. Like some people really thought it made them look cuter.00:05:48JackYeah.00:05:59XochitlSo I don't know, but yeah, that's probably that probably is number one for me. How about you, Jack?00:06:06JackThis is really embarrassing. I'm disclosing too much information here, but.00:06:12JackUh, I I had a period of time where I used to make a mirror face. I had a mirror face.00:06:20JackUM, where? I did something weird with my mouth every time I looked in the mirror.00:06:26JackAnd and and and I I didn't. I didn't know that I had this habit, you know.00:06:32JackUM and I don't know what I I can't explain it but.00:06:39JackBut I I someone called me out on it at one point. It gave it. It was really embarrassing for me and I and I then I realized all the time that I that I was doing this like I would. I don't know. I'd push like my.00:06:55JackBottom lip out with my tongue a little bit to maybe make my face like a little bit more.00:07:01JackWhat I thought was more attractive, more handsome or something I I don't know. Like it was. It was a very strange habit and.00:07:09XochitlLike I would do that too actually with the. Also with the with the the tongue on the bottom lip, and then I would also lose. I didn't know how doing it either. I would raise my eyebrows up.00:07:21JackOh, OK. So yeah, there's different variations of this, uh and my my friend, but the friend that called me out on it, she's.00:07:28JackLike.00:07:29JackShe caught me to I I I remember walking into an office. I remember this vividly because it's. It was so humiliating and she was on the inside of the office and I was on the outside. But the the the glass was reflective.00:07:42JackFrom my perspective, uh, my point of view.00:07:46JackAnd so when I caught a glimpse of my face in the the the window I did the mirror face just reflexively.00:07:54JackUM. And she's like, oh, you have a mirror face, you know, or something like that or whatever. And I'm like, what? What are you talking about? I didn't do anything. I just denied it, you know, and. And then she's like, I, I do this totally weird face when I look in the mirror, she told me she does the same thing, but at least she does it in the privacy of her own.00:08:15JackI was doing it in public and and I I really had to.00:08:21JackLike tamp it down, you know, like, make a conscious effort to stop doing that. And what I've realized is that we to look, look good in pictures is all about your eyes. You smile with your eyes. You don't smile with our mouth.00:08:40JackI mean, obviously our mouth does turn upward, but.00:08:46JackIt's actually the eyes is what makes it a a good smile. And so when I, when I learned that I was, I make I I make a a real point to like really.00:08:59JackReally smile with my eyes. When I take a photo and it seems to help, like the photos are better when I smile with my eye, it looks more natural, you know, as opposed to this, like weird. Basically it's just a basically. I was doing the duck lips thing, you know, a different version of it.00:09:20JackAnd yeah, it was really embarrassing.00:09:24XochitlYeah, that's funny.00:09:25JackYeah.00:09:28JackLet's see here. What's another one we got? Let's do one more.00:09:35JackYeah, what's the?00:09:38JackLet's see here. Let me find a better one. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?00:09:43JackI I shouldn't ask you this right now because you have food poisoning as you mentioned earlier today.00:09:49XochitlRight, yeah.00:09:51XochitlThe weirdest thing I've ever eaten, though.00:09:55XochitlAh, that's a that's a really hard one. I I'm in. I'm an adventurous eater and anytime I travel to the country, I'll eat anything. So I remember when I went to China, uh, it was. It was a group of students because we were going through the Confucius Institute and whatever they would serve us, me and this other.00:10:16XochitlKid Adam, I think his name was would be the first to try.00:10:20XochitlAnything and the other students you know, they were kind of more picky, which annoyed me. I I'm I get I get kind of irritated by picky eaters. I'm like look you're.00:10:28JackThat's a pet peeve of mine as well. Like, I really hate that. It's like some people eat like children, you know? It's like you're gonna eat Mac and cheese every day for the rest of your life. I mean, come on.00:10:36XochitlYes.00:10:42XochitlYeah, it'll be, like, really rude about other cultures, food, which I don't get either. So.00:10:47발표자 2I don't. So I remember this.00:10:50XochitlOne that I tried.00:10:52XochitlWas like.00:10:54XochitlIt was Lotus Root, but it was also kind of presentation where it was cold.00:11:00XochitlAnd it tasted like it tasted like cold chapstick. I don't know if it was just the. I think it was just the the dish that I had. And the way it was prepared. I'm sure Lotus food is delicious, but it was. It was just really weird to me because it tasted it really the way that it was prepared in that specific.00:11:20XochitlPlates tasted like cold chapstick. It was very weird and.00:11:24XochitlAnd that was all.00:11:24JackOn the on the.00:11:25JackOn the positive side, your lips were.00:11:28JackSuper moist after that.00:11:30XochitlYeah, moisturize for sure. Right. So I think that would probably.00:11:36XochitlUh, kind of up there and then I guess #2 would probably be in in Mexico, lead insects, you know, some insects. So I've had things that I guess Americans would consider weird.00:11:44발표자 2Hmm.00:11:50XochitlLike uh.00:11:52XochitlWe use the worm on the McGee, which is a type of cactus used to produce alcohol. We use it to make salt like worm salt, and we eat that on orange wedges.00:12:00JackHmm, OK.00:12:05XochitlAs a, we eat that on orange wedges like kind of as a snack, I guess, or people do when they drink, like after they drink, they eat one of those. But when I was a kid, I would just my parents would order a drink and then I would just eat the orange wedges with the warm salt.00:12:18JackYeah, yeah.00:12:20XochitlYeah. And so those that was really tasty. I didn't. I had no idea that it was made with the worms at all. And it has a pretty red.00:12:27XochitlColor, which comes from the worms.00:12:30XochitlAnd then crickets, which we also eat here in Mexico. Uh, I'm not a fan of crickets. They have, like, a very herby flavor.00:12:38JackYeah.00:12:39XochitlWhich makes me not really like them, but I have eaten them multiple times because they're pretty popular to include in many dishes in the HOKA, and it's the last one I know we're just going to do one. But here I just cutting up is the chica thana mole more is is basically just a sauce and the base.00:12:59XochitlThis sauce and you can also use them in salsas or just fried.00:13:03XochitlUp. Is this these dying ants? They only come out during a certain season after like the first rains and and they kind of fall out. And I guess they're supposed to, like, hatch their eggs in the dirt or something. But some of them get lost and people harvest them up and you kind of toast them up and use them in salsas.00:13:10JackYes.00:13:25XochitlAnd the lids. And you can also just eat them with lime and salt. And I've had them in mole before and.00:13:31XochitlAgain, it's kind of a.00:13:33XochitlIt's an interesting flavor. It's very hard to explain. It's like a little earthy and a little flower and a little bit herbaceous.00:13:39JackYeah.00:13:41XochitlYeah.00:13:41JackThat's interesting because I like cricket fried crickets when I lived in Thailand that that was very common. Like they they they eat insects there in in the country.00:13:50JackUh.00:13:52JackThe Easan Province area and but they they they fry them in oil and then salt them. Is that how it's prepared and?00:14:04XochitlYeah, that's exactly how they're prepared here. If they're like, they look like bacon bins, they're really.00:14:06발표자 2Yes.00:14:08XochitlStart.00:14:09JackYeah, there's a great source of protein.00:14:12XochitlYeah, they're supposed to be really healthy. It's like the meat of the future or something. But I'm not a huge fan of them. They're a little bit herbies because they only eat like herbs, you know? So they they taste very herby. They only eat like glass and herbs. So they.00:14:24JackRight, right there. Cricket flower is a thing now. You can buy that. It's like a healthier protein flower.00:14:25XochitlHave.00:14:26XochitlFlavor strong.00:14:32XochitlYou need to use it to like.00:14:33XochitlMake pancakes and stuff I had.00:14:34JackRight.00:14:36JackYeah.00:14:36XochitlAnd worm worm flour or something too. You can use like make worm cake and worm pancakes and stuff.00:14:41XochitlWhich I haven't tried.00:14:41JackYeah, yeah. Silkworm is popular in Korea. It's called bandagi. And. Yeah, but but the smell, you know, I've never eaten it because it's just.00:14:47XochitlYes.00:14:55JackIt's not my. It's not my thing. You know, it's not my jam, but.00:15:00XochitlDoes your wife eat?00:15:01JackYeah, she loves Bandagi loves it. Yeah, but she doesn't eat it often. But if it if it, if it comes up, it's like, oh, what a surprise, you know?00:15:08JackLike if you're in a bar or something and there's a side dish and it might be bandagi and so.00:15:16JackYou can you can get that, it's.00:15:19XochitlDoes your daughter eat it?00:15:21JackMy daughter would is has such a phobia of insects that I think the idea of bandagi might just.00:15:30JackShe would need to. She would almost faint if I even brought up the idea of it to her.00:15:37XochitlThat's so crazy. I I think it's kind of easy to have a phobia of insects in Korea because when I was there, I never once saw an insect in my apartment.00:15:46발표자 2Oh.00:15:47XochitlOn the 17th floor. So I guess that's probably why.00:15:52XochitlBut I like never once saw an insect, and I saw a Roach like one time, and then there were spiders. They're really like big black spiders that were kind of scary, you know what I'm talking about, obviously.00:15:59JackYeah.00:16:02JackYeah, I think I don't know if it's like a brown recluse or they also have garden spiders that look absolutely terrifying, but they're quite innocent. They're they're not very, they're not dangerous.00:16:12발표자 2Yeah.00:16:13XochitlBlack spiders, and they only come out during a certain season and they all like flock to like the rooftop of different places like they're they were all over the 711 that was outside of my apartment building.00:16:24JackYeah, a funny, funny quick aside here. There a story.00:16:29JackUM, many times this has happened, but I'll I'll be in my office and then I hear a a blood curdling scream come from the other room and.00:16:41XochitlHuh.00:16:42JackI thought, you know, intruder, you know, someones broken into our house is attacking my family. I run over. It's my daughter. It's like there's a bug, you know, like just a tiny.00:16:54JackLittle little bug.00:16:56JackAnd I have to kill it, you know, because I'm.00:16:59XochitlOhh so you kill it for her.00:17:01JackI kill her for her. Yeah, yeah.00:17:02XochitlThat's nice. My dad was always very mean. He'd be like, uh, toughen up, you know, do yourself. No sport. I wasn't spoiled at all. So I.00:17:08JackDidn't.00:17:13XochitlI'm still scared of bugs, but you know, I kind of have to.00:17:18XochitlHave to toughen up because uh.00:17:21XochitlMy you know.00:17:21JackMaybe your dad was right. Actually, he might have. You know, for me. I'm what? What's going to happen when my daughter has to kill her own bugs? That's going to be tough.00:17:30XochitlYou know, you'll get to it eventually. I think when I moved out because my mom would still kill some bugs for me. So, like, I would see what I could get away with. And my dad wasn't around me. My mom killed bugs. But, you know, when I moved away.00:17:41XochitlAnd when I moved to Mexico especially, and they were like centipedes and all these other like tons of insects, because the weather's like more tropical. And I eventually just learned to, you know, toughen up and kill them all. The one I have a really hard time with still or Rd.00:17:53XochitlI have a phobia of roaches, but when it kills them so yeah, he just he likes to flip them over on their back and then let them die that way.00:17:57JackOh really?00:18:04JackOh, nice. OK. Yeah. Roaches are the worst. I I hate roaches. I hate them. Yeah.00:18:05XochitlAnd then once we right up.00:18:07발표자 2Yeah.00:18:10XochitlThey're so creepy.00:18:11JackOh, they're awful. They're awful with those big long antennas.00:18:14XochitlOhh yeah, because they're like big. Ohh. And some of them fly in Mexico it's like.00:18:19XochitlWorse.00:18:20XochitlWhat? What is? What is the weird thing you've ever eaten, though? Now where you know you have bugs.00:18:24JackYeah, I don't know, I.00:18:26JackMean, I think the weirdest thing I've ever eaten is probably frog legs. You know, I have eaten alligator before too, but it was like deep fried alligator, which I think is cheating. I mean, you could deep fry anything and it would taste good, you know.00:18:33발표자Would you?00:18:40XochitlYeah, that's true. I have deep fried alligator too, and I really liked it. I even think of it because it was so tasty. I made it myself and it it just kind of tasted the mix between chicken and white fish.00:18:50JackYeah, exactly that. Ohh. Nice. I I I've always said chicken, but it's not exactly like chicken. It's.00:18:56JackLike, yeah, like, yes. Exactly, exactly.00:18:56XochitlIt speaks the way that Whitefish does.00:19:01XochitlLike cod or something, it's like a mix between chicken and cod.00:19:04JackYeah, the way it kind of kind of stacks on itself like it's there's like slices or something, it's hard for you.00:19:11XochitlYeah, it's flakes. It's like flaking. Like it's it's. Yeah, it flakes like, but it has a meteor bite like.00:19:13JackFlaky, right?00:19:18발표자 210.00:19:19JackYeah. I mean, frog legs are just like little tiny wings, you know? I mean, that's that's all it is really, because those are like chicken wings. So, like, little, little tiny chicken wings. You know, there's not a lot of meat on it. But I mean there it's you get a nice little, you know, the thigh is is pretty nice. It's like the tasty little snack.00:19:25발표자Or chicken wings.00:19:38JackUM, it's not something I.00:19:41JackWould seek out again, but at the time you know when in Rome, do as the Romans do. So I I I ate it and and I enjoyed it. It was. It was fine. Yeah.00:19:55XochitlThat's cool. I've noticed fog like I have had snail, which I wasn't a huge fan of. It was just kind of chewy and bland. Yeah.00:20:03JackYeah, yeah, I mean, that's why in France they just, you know, drench it in butter and garlic sauce. You know, it's like.00:20:12JackIt it's it's, it's not something you might eat.00:20:17JackYou know, just just by itself, but if you put in garlic butter, you know then then escargot is is pretty good. It's it's not that terrible. It's a little bit rich for me. I just I it's just too.00:20:29JackMuch the.00:20:30XochitlYeah, yeah, definitely it. It can be overwhelming. Yeah. Alright. Seems well. If you would like to answer any questions that we answer today, don't be shy. Leave us an e-mail at uh. Sorry. Leave us a comment@azenglishpodcast.com. Shoot us an e-mail at azspodcast@gmail.com and make sure you join the week channel. 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In this emotional episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about funerals and the loss of a loved one. Transcript: 00:00:00JackHey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:48JackWelcome to the Ages English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And I'm going to let social introduce today's topic. So social, what would you like to talk about today?00:01:02XochitlJack, I kind of want to talk about funeral traditions in different cultures. So I was going.00:01:08XochitlTo talk about, you know.00:01:10XochitlMexican traditions because I just went through that with my grandfather passing, I guess he passed.00:01:17XochitlLet's like a week ago now, maybe or a little less than a week ago, so.00:01:24XochitlYeah, I don't know. And I've been, uh, I guess I can just get into it.00:01:30XochitlSure.00:01:34XochitlI don't know how to kick this off actually.00:01:36JackOhh no, that's alright. Maybe start with the just just the process is in. In American culture there's a I guess there's kind of two, two aspects to it, right. There's the funeral and the.00:01:52JackWake.00:01:54XochitlHmm.00:01:55JackAnd the wake is more like a.00:01:59JackA gathering where people get together and there's maybe some. Sometimes there's food, I think is if I'm not mistaken, yeah.00:02:07XochitlYeah, that's true.00:02:09JackYeah. So and I think the interesting thing about that in American culture and maybe this is true in, in every culture.00:02:18JackIt seems odd to be eating at that time. You know what, I.00:02:22XochitlBut yeah.00:02:22JackMean like no one?00:02:23JackHas an appetite that people are grieving, they're upset. But I feel like maybe the food preparation is a distraction.00:02:36JackIt's it's, it's focusing on our executive function of our brain, the the part that is just very analytical and just doing things. And I think that is a distraction from the pain and the grief would.00:02:52JackYou agree with that?00:02:54XochitlI think so I I think.00:02:59XochitlThat also it's because a lot of people who aren't, like, super close family come and so they're like, you know, they're they're kind of there to help in certain in a certain way or just to, you know, for emotional support. But they're they're probably going to be hungry because I don't think they're mourning.00:03:21XochitlAnd really like the same way you know on, I mean they're they're sad, I'm sure, but it's like a little different. So I think it's like it's kind of a way for the family to say thank you in Mexican tradition that happened.00:03:22JackRight, right.00:03:34JackYeah.00:03:37XochitlThat happens too, but it's like a two day.00:03:40XochitlAffair where you have to be like awake all night.00:03:45XochitlYou're like, up for 48 hours straight basically because you can't leave the body alone.00:03:49JackOh, OK, OK. Because that's different than American culture, where the the body is.00:03:58JackIs is in the caskets.00:04:02JackBut you don't have to stay up all night with with the body.00:04:08JackHmm.00:04:09XochitlYeah, this the body was in the casket. But we do have to stay with the body because.00:04:15발표자It's.00:04:16XochitlIt's like I don't know. I guess it's to prevent bad spirits, like in old, in old mythology or whatever, to prevent bad spirits from like latching on to the soul of the body. So you have to stay there like 48 hours.00:04:33XochitlAnd it's really hard. My sister and I kind of were with my mom.00:04:36XochitlAnd shift. So I would like stay up.00:04:39XochitlThe whole time and then I would go to sleep.00:04:41XochitlThen she would stay up.00:04:42JackOK.00:04:43XochitlUhm, so we didn't have to do the whole 48 hours thing. I did have to stay up.00:04:50XochitlMore than my sister because she traveled.00:04:53XochitlPlus, she's in that school. So she was like sleeping for a lot large portion of it.00:04:58XochitlBut when she finally woke up, she was she stayed with the body and then I went to sleep and I woke up and so.00:05:08XochitlAnd with the his like sisters and nieces and nephews, they kind of did shifts as well. So like, one day, I think my aunt was my great aunt was there. And the other day my.00:05:23XochitlCousin, I guess was there and it's like their family just kind of did shifts, I guess.00:05:29JackBut it sounds like.00:05:30JackYou didn't get much sleep, though. You. You sound exhausted. Yeah.00:05:32XochitlNo. Yeah, it was very tiring and very hard because you're, like, dealing with a lot of grief. And on top of that, you're, like, serving people food and running around with serving people like.00:05:48XochitlDrinks, not alcoholic drinks, but just regular drinks. But you still you're you're running around serving people with soft drinks and food, and it's just only something like you have to make these two giant. You have to make.00:06:00XochitlLike.00:06:01XochitlWe had cinnamon tea and coffee and then.00:06:03XochitlSweet bread like.00:06:06XochitlUh, like pastries at night the first night, and then the next morning. We have, like, breakfast and we had.00:06:14XochitlLike we also had pastries, coffee and cinnamon tea, and then we had, like Morley, which is like a, it's a chocolate based like sauce, you know. And I've tried my.00:06:26JackYeah.00:06:28JackNo, but I I you've mentioned it before in the podcast, I think.00:06:32XochitlYes, I have. It's kind of different. One of the yeah, it's different because it's not. It's just like it's a completely different dish. I don't know why they share the same name, but more like the paste is like a different dish.00:06:44XochitlAnd there's a there's like seven different types of molis. This one is like a black mullet, which is kind of sweet, a little bit sweet and spicy, and is very thick.00:06:58XochitlIt has a bunch of ingredients like chocolate, chilies, charred tortilla, peanuts, I think, and different things like that. So and we ate that with rice and chicken, and then the next day after the funeral, we also or.00:07:13XochitlBefore the funeral, I think.00:07:15XochitlOr after I can't remember we served. No, it was after the funeral. We served eggs and salsa Verde and black beans. But it's like kind of crazy because you're, like, running on no sleep and making all these meals for people. So it's kind of like.00:07:34XochitlAnd it was kind of wild. And then, like the family, like my mom, I think was up like the whole 48 hours.00:07:41JackOhh wow.00:07:42XochitlI thought I sleep once and it was for like 15 minutes.00:07:45JackRight, right. Is she? And and you know, for her, this is both of her parents have passed in the within a very short period of time.00:07:56XochitlYeah. Within four months from each other because my grandmother passed at the end of February, my grandfather passed at the very.00:08:03XochitlEnd of June.00:08:05JackYeah.00:08:06JackYes.00:08:06XochitlSo yeah.00:08:10XochitlChoose up the whole night and serving people food and soft drinks and it just seemed like a really stressful night time for her and I feel really terrible for her because she's she's like in charge. She's also the executor of the world.00:08:26JackOK.00:08:27XochitlWhich means she has she has a lot of work to do.00:08:30JackRight. A lot of lot of documents that have to be signed and.00:08:35JackYeah. Yeah. A lot of responsibility in that in that respect, you know.00:08:40XochitlYeah. So that's very difficult. So, yeah, I think it's just interesting. I think, I think it's it's kind of cool and very interesting how people are up for like for there's always people at your house for the whole 48 hours and it's kind of interesting. But I I just felt so suffocated like I wished it was just us.00:09:01XochitlLike his closest family, so I could just pull an address out and sleep on the floor, close to the buddy. But I just. I just kind of like.00:09:06JackYeah, or or just cry, you know, like.00:09:11JackIf you feel a little bit, maybe and I'm I'm just making an assumption here, but do you feel like you, you're you let you, you can't be vulnerable when there are people who you don't know very closely around is it is.00:09:29XochitlYeah, it was definitely hard. But like when I first saw it, when like when I first got in there and saw like, yeah, I just wailed anyway because it was just so.00:09:36XochitlSo intense.00:09:38JackYeah.00:09:40XochitlIt was like it was different because with my grandmother, it's like I didn't really cry. I didn't. I I cried a little bit with my grandfather. I cried a little bit with my grandmother, but with this grandfather, I cried a lot more, I think.00:09:51XochitlIt's just like.00:09:53XochitlAll the compound of them all lying so close together and then.00:09:59XochitlIt was just.00:09:59XochitlSadder because I felt like we didn't really get to say goodbye, cause the Mexican hospital system is really a mess. Yeah, and uh, with my grand, with my paternal grand grandfather, he was UM.00:10:12XochitlHe had like dementia, so we kind of got to say slow goodbye.00:10:16XochitlTo him.00:10:16JackYeah.00:10:18XochitlSo it was different and then he passed. But it's like, you know, he was, he was really suffering. It was a it was a slow burn kind of goodbye. And so it kind of felt like he was ready to go.00:10:29XochitlYou know with my.00:10:31JackYeah, this one was more sudden. It was.00:10:34XochitlYeah. Well, like with my maternal grandmother who passed before my maternal grandfather.00:10:39XochitlI I was living.00:10:40XochitlWith her at the time. So I, like, saw her decline in real time.00:10:44JackYeah.00:10:45XochitlUM and I and we were there with her every step of the way. In the hospital we were. We also stayed at the ICU for like the whole week, basically. But we got to see her every single day and hear about, you know, what's going.00:10:59XochitlOn.00:11:00XochitlSo with this one it was just kind of a shock because.00:11:04XochitlLike, only one person could go in, I think per day and it would only be like 30 minutes for 30 minutes and.00:11:15XochitlIt was very restricted and they didn't really keep you updated on anything.00:11:20XochitlSo the last couple of days we thought he was stable and he was getting better, so.00:11:25XochitlI was like.00:11:27XochitlI was kind of slowly planning my way to get over there, if that makes sense.00:11:32JackYeah, makes perfect sense.00:11:33XochitlBut I was like he, he'll. He'll be fine. That's what we were understanding. So for me it was like ohh. Like I'm gonna. I'll. I'll plan my I'll just I have to get it together to plan with my aunt about when I'm going to Mexico City and when her and I are going to head to the US.00:11:52XochitlAnd and so we were. I was just looking at flights when I got the call. Uh, from my aunt that he had passed. And I was just like.00:12:00XochitlIt really shocked me, you know? And so I was like, I really wasn't expecting it. And my my mom and aunt didn't even get to say goodbye. He had already passed so.00:12:03JackYeah.00:12:11JackYeah.00:12:12XochitlIt's just, yeah, it's very hard. I think when there's less closure like that.00:12:19JackMHM.00:12:20XochitlAnd you think someones gonna get better and they don't. And it's just very like.00:12:25XochitlConfusing and.00:12:28XochitlVery hard on you. So yeah, with this one I I did cry. Even though there are people there, of course, I didn't feel like as comfortable.00:12:35XochitlUM, but I just broke down anyway. It's like I couldn't help it.00:12:40JackOh no. And people are are very sympathetic to to that. I'm I I think we.00:12:48JackIn in, in, in Mexican culture you you mentioned before in other podcasts that it's a kind of a masculine culture.00:13:00XochitlYes, be careful.00:13:01JackSo kind of suffocating, pushing down your feelings in in public, you know, trying to be stoic, you stoic means like, you know, trying to be strong. And. And I I feel like we that's also part of the United States culture when it comes to these things.00:13:21JackIs like, you know, don't breakdown and I wish we could be more vulnerable with each other. And in those situations and and just really let our true emotions come out. And it sounds like you. You did that and it probably was healthier to.00:13:36XochitlNow.00:13:39JackDad.00:13:40XochitlYeah, I pretty much was beyond giving a crap about whatever anyone around me thought. You know what I mean? So I I wrote down. So yeah, it was. It was very hard. And then, you know, we had the funeral procession kind of thing. And I carried the casket and.00:13:46JackYeah, yeah.00:13:57XochitlWe.00:13:58XochitlSit around watching him get lowered into the.00:14:01XochitlLike the brave and kind of different in Mexico, the Mexico City is huge. So there's like one small lot and it kind of looks like a house from outside, like a small house like A1 room house or.00:14:16XochitlOhh OK yeah, it has doors locked and like a window and like a roof and everything. And it's like kind of like a really tiny mausoleum. But like, a really tiny one. But not it doesn't look like a mausoleum. It just looks like a little tiny.00:14:25JackYeah.00:14:32XochitlHouse like A1 room house so.00:14:35XochitlWe opened it and then they like, pulled the concrete signs out and there's like 10.00:14:42XochitlIt's like a.00:14:44XochitlLike a 15 foot hole or a 12 foot hole like and it's like 10 slabs that you could bury different people and on both sides.00:14:52JackOK. Is this a family plot here then?00:14:55XochitlYeah, it's a family plot.00:14:56JackOK.00:14:58XochitlSo.00:14:58JackI I think that if I'm, you know, I'm I I don't mean to be.00:15:04JackTo diminish this or anything, but I I remember seeing a little house like that in the movie Coco.00:15:12XochitlOhh yeah.00:15:13JackAnd.00:15:14XochitlYes, that's kind of how it's like, yeah.00:15:16JackOK.00:15:17XochitlYeah. Yeah, it is like that. And UM, so we we, uh, lowered him down and then they put my grandmother's ashes with him actually in the same casket that was that was a, a, A. That was a moment of anger for all of us because his freaking sister, my grandfather's sister.00:15:29JackOh, that's sweet.00:15:37XochitlHe's been going on said. If we wanted to put the ashes in with him, we could put her.00:15:41XochitlAshes at his feet.00:15:43JackOh.00:15:44XochitlLike why would?00:15:45XochitlYou even say that you know what I mean? I wasn't there when you said that or I would have been so mad. But, you know, we just put them.00:15:47JackThen.00:15:53XochitlThey were like next to his arm, I guess.00:15:56JackYeah. You you want holding each other? Not. Yeah, yeah, you know.00:16:00XochitlYes.00:16:03XochitlNot one like beneath the other one. It's like, you know, but.00:16:07발표자Yeah.00:16:07발표자So then.00:16:08XochitlUnless you get lured in the slab and then they like bricked him in. Basically they have to brick people in because they don't want them like stealing the body or like stealing anything that can't. That the body was buried with.00:16:19JackLike grave, grave robbers kind of situation.00:16:21XochitlYeah, yeah. A great rubber situation. So they, like, break him in.00:16:26JackYeah.00:16:27XochitlTo his slab in the grave. So it was kind of a very interesting process. And and I I was getting very like light headed and nauseous and they everyone thought I was going to faint. And my great one of my other great aunts hold a lip lock bag and it had a white onion cut into quarters.00:16:47XochitlAnd she took the 1/4 of a white onion and sprayed it with rubbing alcohol that she had in a little spray bottle in her purse. And she handed it to me to, like, sniff. So that was supposed to help me not pass out. And it did help. Weirdly, I felt way better.00:17:04JackReally. OK. I was. I would have thought maybe the smell of onion would make it worse, but.00:17:10XochitlI definitely. It's like interesting because like, you don't really smell the onion that much because your face is like, right up against it and has rubbing alcohol in it.00:17:18XochitlSo the only thing that the onion does is like it gets the juices from the onion, make the rubbing alcohol more mild so they like, burn your nose when it comes up, they like react together somehow. So like you can still smell the strong smell like alcohol, but it doesn't like burn your nostrils.00:17:27JackOK.00:17:34JackYeah.00:17:35XochitlAnd so that was interesting. And my boyfriend and my sister said that the onion, like the smell of the onion, was kind of making them nauseous. But I didn't notice and they didn't tell me until after the.00:17:47XochitlNo, because I guess they were further away so that, like, smelled weird to them. Yeah. And then my aunt really made me laugh because she kind of right next to me and she, but she didn't see she look right.00:17:58XochitlKind.00:17:58XochitlOf in front of me. And so since she didn't see my onion she she was like, why does it smell guacamole?00:18:08XochitlAnd I'm like, huh?00:18:10JackThat's. That's funny. Yeah, that's.00:18:12XochitlYeah, that's a good moment of humor in all of it. So that really that.00:18:15JackRight, a little levity was probably what everyone needed in that.00:18:20발표자Thanks.00:18:21XochitlYeah. So you know, we had to laugh about that then it was. Yeah. There was some moments where definitely we had a couple laughs and then yeah, we went back home and and that was.00:18:31XochitlKind of it.00:18:32XochitlThere was some certain things you do with the body. Like I got to see his body and it was different because my grand, the way my grandmother passed her body.00:18:41XochitlLooked very different and then when my grandfather passed, when they put him in the casket, it just looked like he was sleeping.00:18:48XochitlAnd and they put like coins in his pocket for his passage and shoe. Special shoes. Like what? I took, just like on him, which are traditional shoes.00:18:58XochitlSo and different things and and my sister and I said we why didn't we didn't give any of this to.00:19:03XochitlMy grandmother and.00:19:06XochitlAnd so we just we gave him extra money to pay for our passage because we thought she might be waiting. Since no one gave her any money to pay for her passage.00:19:16JackYeah.00:19:18JackYou.00:19:19JackThat's interesting. It sounds like there's like a lot of little little things that you have to to do.00:19:19XochitlAnd.00:19:25XochitlYeah, like a lot of little.00:19:26XochitlThings you have to remember.00:19:27JackYeah.00:19:29JackYeah.00:19:30XochitlBig things, yeah.00:19:31XochitlHow how are?00:19:32XochitlKorean funerals. Jack, I'm curious about that. I've never been to one. I've seen them in, like, catering those and movies. But I've never like.00:19:39XochitlBeen to one.00:19:40JackYeah. So the.00:19:42JackKorean funerals are interesting. They're they're very different. It's.00:19:46JackThe my my wife's grandmother passed. Probably going on. Oh gosh, 10 or or.00:19:55Jack12 years ago, something like that.00:19:58JackAnd what happens is there's there's kind of an extra wing of of a hospitals that are kind of set up for funerals.00:20:10JackAnd what happens is.00:20:13JackThe the body is is cremated for the most part in Korea. That's the the tradition. I think it probably comes down to the size of the country land is.00:20:28XochitlPopulation.00:20:30JackYeah, exactly. It's it's it's, it's it's rare to to bury a body.00:20:38JackAnd so the body is, is prepared and and cremated at the at that facility that is attached to the hospital I believe. And then in the hospital you get like a A room.00:20:54JackAnd it's it's a large room with an eating area, and then there's a a nice a very nice photograph of the deceased person.00:21:06JackAnd kind of like almost like a shrine kind of set up.00:21:11JackYou know, flowers and things like that.00:21:14JackAnd outside, when you when you enter this this large room.00:21:22JackThe.00:21:24JackLike your your the company you work for will always send flowers and it's the flower. Arrangements are always these kind of tall.00:21:34JackFlower arrangements with a big ribbon expressing condolences. And so I think the the more.00:21:45JackThe more influential you were, or the more people you know, you knew, the more flowers are sent. You know, so it it can it. It's very important, I think, to to have a lot of those outside, outside the door. When people enter, when you when you.00:22:05JackEnter the room, people. You will give some money. And so there was one family member that's sitting there collecting an envelope of of money.00:22:18JackThat goes to the family to pay for the fuel costs and whatever other things that need to be paid for.00:22:32JackMm-hmm.00:22:32JackAnd and then there's there's some food where you can you sit, they invite you to, to sit down and have a meal. And there is no, there is no like, formal kind of ceremony thing in in that in, in that at that time you but what what happens is you have this this room.00:22:52JackThis large room for three days.00:22:56JackSo and that's what's so interesting to me is that the family stays there for three days, so there's like a I believe there's a bathroom and a shower and. And, you know, you can you sleep there and and, you know, people will get up at different hours and people will arrive at all.00:23:16JackKinds of different hours.00:23:19JackAnd I think it goes back to maybe the older times during the.00:23:27JackThe the Joseon dynasty, the the one before the the last dynasty in Korea.00:23:35JackAnd at those times, you know, if you were to hear about the passing of a relative, you would you would start your trek.00:23:44JackTo that location. And so I think they three days is enough time for most people to make it there. Now. Nowadays it seems a little bit unnecessary or we could say antiquated, which just means like it's an older tradition that that no longer.00:24:06JackIs it still followed but it's it's not necessarily necessary because people can get there very quickly within, you know, a day you can get to the to the hospital and go to that special wing of the hospital where the.00:24:25JackI I guess the the.00:24:28JackThe.00:24:29JackPaying respects to the.00:24:31JackNormally occurs and then there's an urn. An urn is is a a container, kind of a beautiful, ornate container that has the ashes inside of it. And that's also, I believe, up there with the photograph and.00:24:51JackPeople will, you know, come and and, you know, give their condolences to the fans.00:24:56JackMe, but that three day waiting period was kind of interesting to me and not waiting period. But the three day period of time where the family is stays together in that one place.00:25:13JackKind of reminds me of what you were talking about of like staying awake with the body for of 48 hours.00:25:22JackUM.00:25:24JackThere's there's something about that, and I I know there's another in the Jewish tradition, there's something called Sitting Shiva and Shiva is where?00:25:34JackThe body is.00:25:36JackUM, sometimes it's in in a person's house and they sit with the body for.00:25:44JackI I don't remember exactly how many days, but people will come and they will sit down and they.00:25:51JackWill mourn with the family and then they will leave and other people will come and and come and go and it it's kind of interesting how some of these traditions seem to overlap.00:26:06JackA little bit like there's something about, maybe there's something.00:26:12JackImportant about just sitting in your grief.00:26:17JackWith your loved one who's past and.00:26:21JackAnd kind of getting a collective hug from all the people that knew that person and loved that person and you know, coming and sitting it with the family. I feel like in in American culture it's, you know, the the most we get is like.00:26:38JackYou know someone will come up at the wake or or the funeral and say I'm sorry for your loss and then that's that's kind of it. You know, there isn't like a a longer it's kind of like this is uncomfortable. I want this to be over as quickly as possible and it seems like in Mexican culture and.00:26:46JackMHM.00:26:56XochitlRight.00:26:58JackKorean culture and and Judaism.00:27:02JackJewish culture. There's something about.00:27:05JackFighting through that discomfort and getting to a much more honest place where you can act, cry together, mourn together, laugh together sometimes there you know it. It's not always mournful. Sometimes they're happy.00:27:25JackMemories and and share they share stories and things like that. And so I thought it was. It was really beautiful. And there's one other aspect of Korean.00:27:37JackFunerals that are that are interesting and and that is the.00:27:41JackClose friends and family will do almost a a performative kind of weeping.00:27:49JackAnd now sometimes it's it's genuine. I'm, I'm sure. But I did see this happen and the woman was wailing and and and crying and and, you know, and I I don't understand Korean very well, but I, you know, it sounded like she's saying no, how can this be this is, you know.00:28:10JackUnfair and.00:28:11JackAnd then after she was done weeping all of a sudden, her face changed right back to normal.00:28:18JackAnd so I realized ohh this is a performative thing out out of, you know, paying respect to the person who's passed that, you know, showing how how much.00:28:19XochitlThat's crazy.00:28:33JackYou've stirred up my emotions internally, but it was interesting how she she kind of came out of it really quickly. And so I was, I was. I was really intrigued by by that aspect of it as well.00:28:47XochitlYeah, I don't feel like a catharsis. I think as well, where, like, it's like, you get to let out all your mourning and wail as loudly as you want and everything. And then after it's over, you kind of just, like, empty, you know?00:28:59JackYeah. Yeah, that's probably that's exactly what it is. I think that's what it is, because I I know that.00:29:07JackSome people were were a little bit uncomfortable with it or or I I noticed that maybe they because I'm a I'm a foreigner. They they were like ohh this. You know maybe I I don't know. If they were embarrassed a little bit or something of of this.00:29:27JackHappening, but I was just, you know, I didn't know. My wife's grandmother very closely. So for me.00:29:38JackKind of being there was kind of an out of body experience. You know, I I felt like very much an observer kind of in a in a in a very foreign situation. And so almost like an anthropologist, I was kind of documenting all of this. The things that were occurring and kind of viewing it that way.00:29:57JackYeah.00:29:58XochitlHmm.00:29:58JackAnd yeah.00:30:00XochitlLike, just like it's it's funny, like. And they they come to our culture and they see, like, my mom was really shocked and cause actually in Mexican culture. Uh, I think it's normal to, you know, to cry like that to a little bit at least. And and American culture is really not we're kind of more cool than rigid. And so I remember when my mom.00:30:20XochitlCame to.00:30:24XochitlThe US and had to attend a funeral. She thought it was so weird. How, like even the closest family wasn't like breaking down?00:30:32발표자Yeah.00:30:33XochitlShe saw it as like very strange. And it's funny because they have like a completely opposite experience when they come to our culture as well. And for me, it was fun. It was like such a moment of being by cultural because, like, when at the funeral going the casket, I.00:30:52XochitlAnd I thought I was going to think.00:30:55XochitlUMI was talking about it on the way back in the car.00:30:59XochitlOn the way back to from Mexico City to Oaxaca, I met. So was my dad and my aunt and my mom there. And, you know, so driving back and.00:31:09XochitlI was like, oh, yeah, I I thought I was going to think, but I've never seen anyone pull out the like a bag of onions before, but it it really helped. And my mom said, yeah, it's a really common thing to take when you're bearing your body, at least in Mexico City, because it's like it's thought to help protect against people fainting.00:31:29JackYeah.00:31:30XochitlAnd my dad said, why would? Why would you faint like he asked me that?00:31:35XochitlAnd my mom rolled her eye.00:31:41XochitlShe looks so annoyed. It was very funny because it's kind of like I get.00:31:45JackThe answer is.00:31:45XochitlWhere what? He called me.00:31:47XochitlYeah, they're, like, totally different.00:31:48JackSorry, the answer is so obvious, it's just such a a funny question. You know it's like.00:31:56JackBe because you know my close, you know, relative has just passed. And of course, you know, that's why.00:32:04JackThe in American culture, the the idea of Stoicism is, is so strong, it's like we almost respect it right when they don't cry, because they'll, they'll, you know, in the car ride home, they'll say, oh, look how brave she was. Look how brave he was. Those are things I've heard.00:32:24JackYou know, my parents say before, after a funeral, and it's like, why do we need to be brave at this time? Shouldn't we be totally raw and vulnerable and just, you know, exposed to nerve?00:32:27XochitlRight.00:32:38JackAnd and and just. You know what it? Why does it have to be so clean and and and and and, dare I say cold? Yeah. Polished. Yeah.00:32:47발표자Polished.00:32:50XochitlIt's like a.00:32:50XochitlIt's a performance as well. Just how it's funny, like just how you know, we might see other cultures performing grief and and like a vulnerable outward fashion. They probably see us performing. Stoicism is very like bizarre behavior.00:33:09발표자Right.00:33:10JackRight when you because it's the because the actions don't match the gravity of the situation.00:33:16JackIt's like.00:33:17XochitlRight.00:33:18JackThe yeah, they're they're almost. It's almost like, uhm, you're accessing all this willpower to just not feel something.00:33:28XochitlThank you.00:33:30JackAnd and and then and then when people get home and then they're alone, they completely break down.00:33:38JackBecause they've been suppressing all of these emotions for the last couple days so.00:33:45JackI I don't know. I'm I I I really like the Korean funeral. If I if I got to choose, I would be OK with a a Korean funeral.00:33:58JackThat'd be OK with me.00:34:00XochitlHey I think I want a mix of both.00:34:01XochitlCultures. For me, I like.00:34:03XochitlI don't want people to have to, like, sit in the hospital and watch me suffer to death, you know? But you know, it ultimately the funerals for.00:34:10XochitlThe people who loved you during your life and If however they need to grieve, I think that's OK.00:34:17XochitlWith me, you know.00:34:18JackYeah, yeah, I absolutely, absolutely. And in the Korean funeral, there's, you know, there's soju, which is an alcoholic drink is served pretty.00:34:31JackShould I say liberally? Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. And I think that maybe helps suppress some of the emotions, but.00:34:32발표자No problem.00:34:45JackYeah. Ultimately I I, I I found it to be a beautiful experience, even though it was a a tragic one, but.00:34:54JackYeah. I I yeah, maybe maybe there's something we can take away from each culture and, you know, put all the good parts together and and and have do it that way. You know, so.00:35:11JackYeah.00:35:12XochitlYou still have to let us know what few traditions are like in your home country. I'm really curious because I know there are some other cultures that also have extended like lakes and yeah, I'm just really curious to know how you guys celebrate the life of those who passed on or how you mourn. So make sure we just comment.00:35:30XochitlAnd below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at English podcast.00:35:34XochitlAt gmail.com.00:35:36XochitlAnd make sure to join the we chat on.00:35:40XochitlWhatsApp groups.00:35:41XochitlRemember the Jack and I are also having an English corner. Now that we do Monday to Friday and that is for one hour in the morning for me and in the evening Jack's time. 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about whether or not they think it's ethical for people to eat meat.Transcript:00:00:00JackHey, A to Z English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:49JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social.00:00:54JackAnd today we're doing another topic talk and today's question is, should humans switch to a plant based diet to protect animal rights?00:01:06JackWhat do you think, social?00:01:08XochitlShould humans switch your plan beside? Well, I have been vegan in the past, Jack, and I've also been vegetarian in the.00:01:16XochitlSo I had.00:01:18XochitlThe even the plant based diet on multiple occasions, but I never judge anyone who didn't because it's a very hard switch because the world is kind of built around assuming that you have a normal diet and now vegan food is way more accessible. Back. When I was vegan in high school.00:01:36XochitlUh, it was very hard to be vegan. You couldn't go out to eat anywhere. You couldn't buy any like ready made vegan food at the store and there weren't any products like, there weren't any good veggie burgers or vegan.00:01:45JackYeah.00:01:49JackNo impossible burgers or anything like that.00:01:52XochitlNo. So it really sucked. And then?00:01:56XochitlI yeah. So I don't know. And then there.00:01:59XochitlAre there were there?00:02:00XochitlWas a phase where I would eat plant.00:02:01XochitlBased like uh?00:02:04XochitlTwo weeks out of the month and then the other two weeks, I just see normal, but that was more. That was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, it was kind of a whole thing, not in the ways you might you might expect but but.00:02:11JackFor health.00:02:22XochitlYeah, so, so I don't know, this is a tricky 1 because to me now I like me, I enjoy me and I enjoy having food freedom and getting to eat whatever I want and.00:02:37XochitlI think that as people, us being vegan is like far less or us consuming meat or choosing not to consume meat or choosing to eat plant based or not plant based whatever it may be is far less damaging to the environment or has far less of an impact overall than these giant greedy.00:02:57XochitlCorporations and industries that are.00:03:00XochitlChoosing practices that are they know, have been harmful for years, like the fracking industry and. And so I think ultimately, yes, it's just like our little drop in a bucket or drop in the ocean and we can choose to do it or not to do it. I don't think it really necessarily makes you better.00:03:20XochitlOr not, or neither do I I I just think it's so much more impactful for a corporation to.00:03:28XochitlAnd the government to put in regulations than it is for people to just go like Meatless Mondays or something.00:03:35JackYeah, my my problem with with eating meat and.00:03:41JackIt's the factory farming is I have a real problem with that because I know that there are definitely animal abuses that are happening. And yet, even though I know that intellect.00:03:51XochitlYeah.00:03:55JackReally, it's really hard for me to make the switch to vegan or vegetarian or be vegan or vegetarian, even though I know that it's probably morally the right thing to do until farming practices become more ethical.00:04:15JackAnd you know, because I think that like.00:04:18JackYou know the the way that they, you know, pack chickens into tiny little space.00:04:24JackIs.00:04:25XochitlRight. These, like tiny cages and they can't, can't walk or anything.00:04:29JackYeah. Yeah. And they, they Peck each other to death and they they all kinds of really horrible things happen. Same with like cows or sorry, the same with cows and same with pigs as well. And yet I just.00:04:45JackLove meat? That is funny. I really have no excuse. You know, it's just like and. And when I don't eat meat, I I kind of feel the color kind of drain out of my face, you know, like I I feel weak when I'm not eating protein. And and I know that you can get protein from other sources.00:05:07XochitlRight.00:05:08JackYou can, you know, it's not like vegans don't eat protein.00:05:12JackBut it's just so much cheaper and so much easier to just buy like a bag of chicken breasts and or some, you know, some pork or something like that.00:05:24XochitlWell, it's kind of tastier and it's like blade rip because like it, it's probably cheaper to buy like a big thing of tofu or a big thing of beans and cook it. Really. Hmm. But it's it is convenient. And it's like something that you're used to. Right. So it's like.00:05:33JackMHM.00:05:39XochitlIt's just hard to break that like it's tasty. Like I'll be real with you. I don't want to eat like a like a.00:05:39JackYeah.00:05:48XochitlI'd rather eat a plate of chicken wings than like a.00:05:51XochitlTofu and beans dish or something.00:05:54XochitlMost of the time.00:05:54JackYeah, you know.00:05:56XochitlIf I lived, if.00:05:57JackI lived in Mexico and I could get like a really nice plate of like beans with rice.00:06:03XochitlOh yeah.00:06:04JackI think I could actually. I I think in Mexico I could actually do it. You know it's.00:06:10발표자At least.00:06:11XochitlThey're like vegetarian, right? Yeah.00:06:14JackYeah, maybe not vegan. I might not be. I might still want to eat like eggs or something like that.00:06:20JackAnd maybe drink milk or something like that, cause I do. I do like milk in my coffee. But you know there there are other alternatives. You know, I could. I could drink oat milk or almond milk or something like that and.00:06:36XochitlI like oat milk more than I like regular milk, but it's like worse for you, so.00:06:40JackYeah, it's not right health wise, it's probably it's not better, it just might be better for the environment perhaps or or it might be.00:06:48JackBe more ethical to you know.00:06:53XochitlWell, one, one that interesting thing with like dealing with the ethics of it, Jack is like.00:06:59XochitlIt's not necessarily like, uh, you could just eat. I mean, it's more expensive, but you could eat organic meat that has ethical practices you.00:07:10JackThat's true. That's true. If you if you source the right the right product, you you, you can find stuff that's a little bit more ethically growing or whatever. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I guess, you know, for me.00:07:13XochitlCould.00:07:30JackIt just comes down to dollars and cents in. In many ways it's just I just like, I don't want to pay the extra money for it.00:07:39JackAnd so I I just, I just kind of push it to the back of my mind that like ohh it's probably not as bad as they say it is, you know, but I do, I think it is pretty bad actually this the factory farming situation and I I think it's you know it it'll be interesting to see like in the future.00:07:59JackWhat happens when they start growing lab? You know, lab grown.00:08:02JackEat.00:08:04XochitlYeah.00:08:04JackThat that'll be interesting because you know, there may may be a time when when they they don't need animals at all anymore, we we may not have to to deal with that at all. I don't know how people might be disgusted by it.00:08:18XochitlI definitely would be less disgusted by lab grown meat than I would be by like.00:08:23XochitlHow the practice is you know what I mean?00:08:26JackYeah, yeah, watching the animals torture each other into death in these tiny cages.00:08:32JackSeems less disgusting than than growing some meat in a lab, so.00:08:36XochitlEat lamb meat seems like it would be really sterile. And like with the conditions that they have in these factory farms, like a lot of the meat probably has like nasty infections and stuff like so they think.00:08:46JackAntibiotics. Yeah, all that sort of stuff, yeah.00:08:48XochitlYeah, like they have to have antibiotics to avoid infections and all that nasty. So I don't know. I. Yeah, I I honestly would would be more interested in love me because I would think it would. It would be so. I mean, I wouldn't want to like.00:09:02XochitlDie from some weird mutation, you know, stupid, but you know, I mean, I'm sure that would be unlikely, but.00:09:07JackYeah.00:09:09JackYeah. Yeah. Well, I'm thinking I I may. I may make. I may make another run at vegetarianism here in the in the near future, but I'm I. I've got to mentally prepare myself for it.00:09:10XochitlYeah, yeah.00:09:22XochitlYeah, you don't have to go all or nothing. You can. You can just like, slowly introduce more vegetarian meals into your diet.00:09:30JackYeah.00:09:31XochitlAnd you know, like, you know, maybe have a.00:09:36XochitlOr go like pescatarian or something which is so easy to do in Korea. I think there's a lot of good. Yeah, you could go like pescatarian and you could just slowly like phase.00:09:40JackYeah, that's true.00:09:45XochitlOut and.00:09:46XochitlThere's not that much dairy.00:09:50JackYeah. And for our listeners, pescatarian means seafood. So you could just go like fully seafood diet.00:09:57JackYeah.00:09:57XochitlYeah, you just go like a seafood diet pretty much. So, yeah. I mean, yeah, I don't know. I think that the. Yeah, I get it. I mean, most of the time here in Mexico.00:10:09XochitlSo.00:10:10XochitlIt's kind of more accessible to get like meat that's butchered locally and that you know the practices are good. Like, you know, you see the chickens running around and you know that they're healthy and happy.00:10:24JackYeah, before before its head got lopped off at.00:10:28JackLeast it had.00:10:28JackA good life, you know. Enjoy. Yeah, you know.00:10:30XochitlYeah, it's like.00:10:32XochitlIt was happy so.00:10:38XochitlYeah, yeah.00:10:41XochitlYeah, I don't know. It was kind of my thing, I think. I think it's really more up to corporations to to do things more ethically. I think what in what we can we should like just eating less meat and high quality meat that has more ethical practices overall. And I mean I think that's important. But at the same time, I think it's like up to corporations.00:10:41JackYeah.00:11:01XochitlTulip.00:11:03XochitlIt's that's the core.00:11:04JackYes.00:11:04XochitlYeah. To behave. It's up to the government to put, to make laws that guarantee corporations behaving in a in an ethical manner. But they won't do that. These corporations can make more money behaving unethically. So it's kind of a crapshoot. Yeah, you know what I'm interested to hear what our listeners.00:11:19JackRight, right.00:11:22JackYeah.00:11:25XochitlI have to say I know that many of our listeners, uh, come from vegetarian cultures and others come from meat dominant cultures. Many countries eat way less meat than the US does, so I'm just curious overall. You know what? What they have to say what they think.00:11:39XochitlAnd yeah, we just comment down below. 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the question: Is cheating in a relationship ever justified? Transcript:00:00:00JackHey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:49JackWelcome to the Ados English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have a topic talk and social. Today's topic is a little scandalous. The question is, can cheating in a romantic relationship ever be justified?00:01:07JackShould the couple try to work through it, or is the trust permanently broken?00:01:15XochitlUh, I really don't think it's ever justified. I personally have never cheated, so I don't understand.00:01:24XochitlIt's a decision, too, I hate when people say that it's a mistake. I don't think it's a mistake. It's a choice that people actively made and you have to live with the consequences of that choice. And I think, like, if you do want to try to work through it, then the person who cheated needs to be willing to really put in the majority of the work.00:01:31JackRight.00:01:45XochitlAnd.00:01:47XochitlNeeds to be willing.00:01:48XochitlTo see that there are going to be pretty big consequences like the that person is not going to trust you. Like for a good long while. And I I think that's perfectly acceptable and absolutely normal. It'd be kind of weird if they suddenly did trust you, you know.00:02:05JackYeah, I.00:02:06XochitlAgain, you've been good.00:02:09JackOh, sorry, I I I really hate it. When. When?00:02:13JackLike cheaters, say something like UM.00:02:16JackWell, you weren't paying attention to me or you weren't being attentive as a as a partner. And so I started looking in, you know, other places to get my needs met or whatever and that sort of kind of nonsense, you know, it's like I I think this is one of those.00:02:19XochitlAh.00:02:36JackRare occasions where it's like 100 zero, you know, like it's yeah, it's it's 100% the cheaters fault and they they have to take full.00:02:49JackResponsibility for their actions. I I don't think there can be any Hemming and hawing about it. It's it's, you know, I I think it's such a it's such a red flag when when a cheater starts trying to push the blame onto.00:03:10JackHis or her partner for you know, making.00:03:13JackMe do that it. It reminds me of, like, domestic violence, right where the domestic abuser tries to blame the, you know, you know, I I don't. I didn't want to hit you. But you make me so angry, you know, and and that that's that's that's just nonsense.00:03:18XochitlMa'am.00:03:30XochitlRight, yeah.00:03:34JackLike, that's just garbage logic and so.00:03:38JackYeah, I I just, I just don't. Yeah.00:03:40XochitlYeah, I think I I'll go. I'll go a step further here and say that cheating is definitely a form of abuse because you have to be lying to cheat. And lying is emotional abuse by definition.00:03:55XochitlSo yeah, in some ways you're gaslighting your partner. You're, uh, hiding information from them. You're lying to them. You're invalidating them constantly because you're trying to make them think that they're crazy when you're cheating so that they don't hold you accountable for your actions, and you're blaming them and and shaming them. And it just.00:04:17XochitlIt's toxic and it is abusive in in the context. And I yeah, I just really, really am against cheating.00:04:27JackYeah, I like he said. That's a form of emotional abuse for sure.00:04:32XochitlYeah.00:04:33JackAnd also I think that like.00:04:36JackCommitment requires again I I there. There are a few times in life where I think it's like a 0 sum 0 sum, meaning like it's 100% zero.00:04:47JackYou know, either you're committed to your partner or or you're not, you know, and if you're, if you're always, if you're with your partner, but you've always got, like, one eye kind of looking around for something better, something. It's I I I just really hate that.00:05:04XochitlI know.00:05:07JackThat kind of behavior, it reminds me of like, UM, it happens in friendships as well, where it.00:05:15JackLike you, you know, Jack, you're good enough to hang out with at this party, but I'm going to keep my eye open looking around the the room for maybe somebody a little bit more interesting, a little bit cooler that I can go talk to. So you're good enough in the moment.00:05:35JackBut you're not. You're you're not really good enough. And that's a real self esteem killer, I I think.00:05:45XochitlYeah, he is a self esteem killer. And then ultimately though like like dealing with cheaters and talking to them, I don't think it's anything about their partner not being. Obviously it's not about the partner not not being good enough, but I don't even think it's about them thinking their partners and good enough. It's like they just have this black hole in their heart and mind.00:06:06XochitlAnd they need like constant validation and attention from other people.00:06:09XochitlPeople and most of the times they can't handle like critique. Like if something starts going wrong in a relationship instead of facing up to their responsibility and whatever is going on or talking it out with their partner. If they can't face criticism or face.00:06:10JackYes.00:06:27XochitlIssues when things get real, so they would rather just find a way to like escape in a sense and source their validation from someone else.00:06:37JackIt's almost like they're they're willing to if they don't get what they want completely, they're going to blow it. They're going to blow the whole thing up.00:06:45JackYou know, and that is like the most childish kind of toddler behavior. Like, it's the ultimate. I'm taking my ball and going home kind of behavior, right? Yeah.00:06:52XochitlYeah.00:06:59JackAnd it's so immature. So, you know, I think ultimately I the second part of that question was should the couple try to work through it?00:07:09JackYou know, I honestly don't think I don't. I just think it's. I don't think you can come back from that, to be honest. So at least I know that I personally cannot come back from that. Cheating is A is a a deal breaker in in my for me. So if if I were in a.00:07:29JackYou know, just hypothetically, I mean I'm. I'm married. I've been married for 17 years, happily married. But if I'm. I'm just thinking hypothetically in like a dating situation or something. If if that happened to me, I I would just cut my losses.00:07:47JackAnd and and and find find a new partner like that's. That's ultimately where I kind of land. And it. What what about you?00:07:56XochitlI think that I that.00:08:02XochitlI how do? How do I say this?00:08:05XochitlI think that.00:08:08XochitlPeople who stay and try to work through it like a lot, a lot of times they get almost worse judgment than the cheater. Like people calling them stupid and stuff. And I think that's so mean because they're already like a victim of this horrible situation and they like, they're really, I don't know, forgiving people, I think. But at the same time, I I.00:08:28XochitlI do think you can't come back for men even if you choose to try to work things out and try to come back from it or whatever, I personally think.00:08:37XochitlUM.00:08:38XochitlIt's like you can't, like you will always remember.00:08:44XochitlWhen they cheated on you and it will always affect yourself esteem and you're always going to be wondering like where they are and what they're doing and you're going to start behaving like a person that you don't recognize sometimes I think.00:08:58JackYeah, you're gonna turn into somebody you don't want to be like the that.00:08:58XochitlAs.00:09:01JackThe kind of paranoid looking under every every rock for some kind of evidence and it it it just consumes your your life and you're you're not really living at that point. You're you're you're more consumed with this this relationship, and nobody deserves to.00:09:22JackTo have to live like that.00:09:23XochitlNo, no one should have to live like that. So you.00:09:27XochitlYeah, I think, yeah. I mean, I think it's cool to cut your losses. It's something that it's like cheating is very common in Mexican culture, like men, especially cheating on women. I think there's a I think there's also a whole sexist level to cheating where, like in marriages, it's more common for men to cheat.00:09:47XochitlThe way that society is and to get away with it or like for.00:09:51XochitlIt to be acceptable anyway.00:09:54XochitlTo some.00:09:54JackThis is like the the boys will be boys kind of mentality.00:09:57XochitlYes, and men will be mankind equality. But I think that's.00:09:59JackI need that you.00:10:01XochitlI feel like that's true in at least every culture that I'm familiar with. To some extent, you know, and I don't. I definitely understand why people, especially people who already have kids or who are like, have been married for a long time, why they would like, want and try to work through it.00:10:07JackHmm.00:10:21XochitlLike I definitely understand.00:10:23JackYeah, that's true.00:10:26XochitlYeah, but at the same time, like I if anyone is ever in that situation, I would say don't like, just don't just cut your losses. You'll you'll always regret investing more time in fixing things than just moving on to a new relationship where you could have all the trust and respect that.00:10:46XochitlYou should have had from the start and deserved in someone else that will respect you and care about you and.00:10:57XochitlBe a reliable person that you can actually trust.00:11:00JackYeah, and. And and cheating when you have kids is really a a new, just a deeper. Yeah. Like a new low. Like, that's about as low as you can go. Because I mean you.00:11:07XochitlLow.00:11:14JackThe the psychic damage that you can that it that infidelity causes children is it has a ripple effect that that will go will last throughout their lives as well. So your selfish act is actually.00:11:34JackAffecting your children's lives and their happiness and and their future relationships. So even from that, from that point of view, it's almost just inexcusable.00:11:47XochitlYeah. And it also it's traumatic to be cheated on. Like, I know that a lot of people might be like, oh, that's an overreaction or whatever, but it's not literally like.00:11:56XochitlIt's it's traumatizing, and someone that you're supposed to love and trust and all this and the person that you're supposed to believe the most in, like when you're in a committed relationship, just throws all of that trust and belief in the trash and sacrifices your self esteem and your self worth and.00:12:17XochitlEverything that you've poured into the relationship just to cheat on you, it is very traumatizing and so.00:12:27XochitlIt's like someone can be so selfish that they don't even.00:12:34XochitlDon't even think about how it's gonna affect others like, but rather than just breaking up or going their separate ways or something, they'd rather put you in such a painful situation is just a selfish.00:12:48XochitlTurd.00:12:53XochitlYeah, it's like, what a, what? A turd man. It's just that bad, you know? So it's like, I don't know. I. So I think for me, yeah. I mean, sure you can get past it and all this, but it's really low. I remember there.00:12:56JackYeah.00:13:07XochitlWas it? I don't know if you have you ever seen the try, guys? They're like the YouTube group of four different.00:13:12JackOhh yeah I'm I'm.00:13:13JackFamiliar with that YouTube channel? Yeah.00:13:15XochitlWell, there was a.00:13:16XochitlGuy named Ned in it and.00:13:19JackOhh yeah, this scandal. Couple years ago I remember this one.00:13:23XochitlHe would only talk about his wife like he loved his wife and he would always talk about his wife all the time on the show and he was known as the wife Guy of the Try Guys and I really liked Ned and Ariel's relationship and I was like, Oh well, I hope I find someone who who loves me that much someday and who I love that.00:13:43XochitlThat's interest.00:13:44XochitlSo much and I was like, they seem like really happy and everything. And then he was cheating on Ariel with a coworker and she has like, two kids by him. And he publicly cheated on her, like, the way that she found out was like, some fan saw him with this other girl, like dancing at a club and posted pictures of it on Reddit.00:14:04JackYeah.00:14:06XochitlAnd like, that's how she found out. And like the level of horribleness and like selfishness and everything.00:14:13XochitlLike how low can you be?00:14:16JackYeah, yeah, just a a worm. You know, just a belly crawl.00:14:21XochitlYeah.00:14:22JackYou know.00:14:23XochitlAnd then like they are, they stayed together anyway. I believe in and trying to work it out.00:14:29XochitlAnd I just like.00:14:30XochitlI feel bad for Ariel because I mean it. Ultimately it's her choice, so I shouldn't say ohh I feel bad for her. But like what it mean is like when you're cheated on in such a public context and then and you have the kids and everything and.00:14:43XochitlI just feel like she can do so much better than this worthless worm of a man, you know, like, yeah.00:14:48JackYeah, yeah, yeah. Someone that's willing to just to to just blow the foundations out from under your your marriage. Your relation.00:14:57JackChip, what? Whatever compels a person to do that is there's a it's pathological, you know? It's it's it, it it's it defies logic. I I just can't wrap my mind around it almost. You know, what would? What would compel someone to just.00:15:15XochitlYeah.00:15:20JackI guess maybe and and the fact that what made it worse is that he, you know, he was the the marriage guy. You know, so.00:15:26발표자Oh.00:15:27XochitlI know only talking about his wife, John Mulaney, who's a famous comedian, also did like something very similar, apparently.00:15:35XochitlIt's just trash like, you know, thinking about these men that are, like, always parading around about their wives and everything and the whole time they're just like these worm cheaters. Like it really. It really took me when I found out that news, I was like, what a nasty turd.00:15:53JackYeah, and. And a lot of a lot of.00:15:55JackTimes the.00:15:56JackIs the the reason they give is because I can.00:16:02JackWhich that that is so dark to me. That kind of thinking, you know, is is.00:16:08XochitlBro like I could kill him right now. Sorry. That's that's a little much for the podcast. I could be. I could, like, push someone off a Cliff if figuratively. If I wanted to. But like, you don't do it because you're a human being and you like you don't. Why would you do something like that? It's so dark to think like there's no limit.00:16:29XochitlOK, this this is one thing that that one of the reasons that I think you shouldn't stay with the cheater like one of the big thing.00:16:35XochitlIs that I watch a lot of true crime and almost every man who's murdered his like pregnant wife or wife or whatever was a cheater. First they cheated first and they were cheating. They had, like, there's either lots of instances of cheating in their relationship, like Lacey Peterson with Scott Peterson, like Scott Peterson cheated on her multiple times before he killed her.00:16:43JackYeah, yeah.00:16:56JackChris Watts, yeah.00:16:58XochitlWatts was cheating all these like family Annihilators, and it's just nasty. Like they were cheaters also. And that really makes you think about it. Like when you said it gets dark like cause I can. It's like, yeah.00:16:59JackYeah.00:17:14XochitlBecause they can like.00:17:18XochitlYeah, yeah. There's no limit to how far they'll go. Like, sometimes it's a slippery slope, and someone who's willing to cheat on you. And like, why do you betray you in that way and put your health at risk? In many instances, that physical health and emotional health.00:17:35XochitlHow far are they really, truly willing to go? You have no idea.00:17:39JackSometimes they're willing to go so far to cover up their their indiscretions that they'll commit murder. You know, now this is obviously that's a the a very small percentage, but.00:17:46XochitlYeah.00:17:48XochitlSleep and but.00:17:51JackYeah, it's, yeah.00:17:52XochitlBut still pretty much all these family Annihilators were cheaters. So think about that. Alright, listeners. Well, let us know what you think about cheating in the comments. I'm definitely curious to know. Do you think that cheating's ever justifiable?00:17:56JackYeah, yeah.00:17:59JackYeah. Well, there we go.00:18:10XochitlA. Do you have a a dark black and white thinking like Jack and I have about? 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about "a" and "an."Transcript:00:00:00JackHey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase.00:00:17JackAnd if you.00:00:18JackJoin the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to.00:00:22JackTalk with social.00:00:23JackAnd we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app.00:00:50JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are in the grammar zone and we're going to talk about ohh and on.00:01:02JackIn social, what is the difference between those two articles? Why do we?00:01:07JackWhy do we separate those? We have two different words for them.00:01:12XochitlUM.00:01:13XochitlBecause they have to agree with the next word. So if.00:01:20XochitlThe next word starts with a the vowel. Then it has to be a N.00:01:26XochitlSo, for example, an elephant an A A.00:01:33JackAn igloo.00:01:34XochitlOn apple.00:01:35JackYeah.00:01:36XochitlYeah, an English an apple. And if it's a, it's because the next the following thing that you're referring to. Uh. Noun that you're referring to, I guess, usually starts with a a consonant and not a vowel. So it'd be like a pie, a cake.00:01:56XochitlA A car.00:01:59XochitlAnd etcetera, etcetera. Just anything that starts with the continent and then on and.00:02:04JackA podcast.00:02:06XochitlYeah, podcast.00:02:07JackMHM.00:02:09XochitlAnd an is for anything that starts with.00:02:11XochitlA vowel, I think.00:02:12XochitlIt's because it it does sound. It does make it sound smoother, like think about saying a elephant or a elephant instead of an an elephant. It just avoids your vowel noises all mushing together.00:02:21JackYes.00:02:27JackRight. It's very awkward in English to have two vowel sounds together. You we can't do that, right? They need to be interrupted by a consonant sound like uh.00:02:39JackUh, like a a egg is is 2 two vowel sounds together, right?00:02:45JackSo yeah, we can't. It's just a, it's a a phonetic rule in English that you just.00:02:45발표자Yeah.00:02:52JackIt's much easier if you break it up with the with the consonant. So we say on an egg, an apple. Any glue like that.00:03:02XochitlWell, thanks.00:03:03JackYeah.00:03:05XochitlYeah, I think that's pretty much it. It just keep in mind.00:03:09XochitlIf it's going to start with a consonant, make sure that you are using A and then if it's going to start with the vowel, the next following we're just going to start with the vowel. Make sure that you're doing AN on and yeah, that's.00:03:21JackRight.00:03:22JackWhat about? What about a an hour?00:03:25JackAnd that's an H.00:03:26XochitlUh.00:03:27JackSo we should say our.00:03:28XochitlYeah, that's true.00:03:30XochitlYeah, but you don't you say an hour. Ha. There are some exceptions to this rule, and I think it comes down to if that consonant is silent and our age is silent. So you're still making two vowel sounds. So you would do an AM hour instead.00:03:42발표자Right.00:03:49JackWhat about source? Yeah.00:03:49XochitlOf an hour.00:03:52XochitlBut see, that's not.00:03:54JackIt's not horse. Yeah, we say on horse.00:03:56XochitlYeah, I don't know why is it like that. Jake. Jack.00:04:01JackMy my name is Jack by.00:04:02JackThe way no, no, no, you're you. You are. You're exactly right. It it doesn't. The rule is not. It's not a spelling rule.00:04:12JackIt's a. It's a. It's a phonetic rule. It's a sound rule, so if it sounds like a vowel, we use on and so our is a silent H so we say an hour.00:04:26JackBut horse, we actually pronounce the H sound, so we say a horse.00:04:31JackSo so it's it's doesn't come down to spelling a lot, a lot of teachers teach it as a spelling rule in in school in grammar school, but it's not. And this is where a very strange word that a very strange example emerges here with historic.00:04:52JackI hear it all the time on the news N historic event.00:04:58JackAnd there's no reason to say. And historic if you're saying, if you're pronouncing the H, it would be all historic, not N historic. Have you?00:05:09JackHeard that before.00:05:09XochitlYeah, I I have heard that mistake. A historic. But yeah, it is a historic event. But Jack, I'm confused because when you do.00:05:20XochitlOh yeah, that's true.00:05:22XochitlA horse? A historic event.00:05:26JackYeah.00:05:26XochitlAnd you wouldn't say umm horse because it's again you're pronouncing the.00:05:33JackYeah. When people say unhistoric, they're they're being, they think they're being super smart, but they're actually being too clever that they're actually wrong. It's like, yes, exactly. It's kind of a it's a it's a weird, like academia thing. I've heard it so many times, and it used to drive my.00:05:33XochitlAh.00:05:43XochitlThey're overthinking.00:05:53JackMy my teacher in my university crazy.00:05:57JackWhen when she would hear that. And so I kind of learned from my teacher. It was like, oh, no, you gotta follow the rules, right? All historic. But if you say historic and you don't say the H, you could say N historic event. But historic is not really a word we use, right. We say historic with an H.00:06:17JackSo a historic event we have stuff.00:06:22XochitlCrazy. 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