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Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week!https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-contentIn this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack talks about his love of recycling, reusing, and upcycling items that people have thrown away.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to The A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today I'm doing a solo episode and today's topic is I love garbage.00:00:15JackAnd you're probably thinking to yourself.00:00:19JackWhat are you talking about, Jack? Nobody loves garbage.00:00:24JackBut recently.00:00:27JackI'm really into.00:00:29JackRecycling.00:00:31JackAnd.00:00:32JackUpcycling.00:00:34JackAnd reusing.00:00:37JackObjects that people don't want anymore.00:00:41JackAnd.00:00:43JackFixing them and using them myself.00:00:47JackAnd fixing items, selling them to make a little bit of profit or.00:00:56JackYou know, giving items that I can't use anymore to.00:01:04JackFriends or family that might you know, people that might.00:01:06JackWant those items?00:01:08JackSo let me explain a little bit more of what I mean by I love garbage. It started about a year ago.00:01:18JackI I wanted to get into exercise and I used to exercise regularly, but during COVID coronavirus.00:01:30JackDuring that time I I stopped.00:01:33JackGoing to the gym, I stopped exercising. I started eating unhealthy food and I started to gain weight and I've never really been able to go back to how I was before COVID before that time started.00:01:54JackAnd so I was in my neighborhood and I saw an exercise bicycle in the garbage. Uh, not not in a garbage can, but, you know, in the ready for the recyclers to take it and take it away and.00:02:10JackI thought to myself, I think this is a a pretty nice exercise bike. Uh, this is not a uh, a regular bicycle. This is an exercise bicycle, so a stationary bike stationary means it doesn't move when you pedal, it just stays in the same place.00:02:30JackAnd lots of people have these in their houses, and I noticed that there was one problem with this stationary bike. The handlebars kept the handlebars are the the things you hold on to while you're pedaling and they kept they were loose. They kept falling forward.00:02:51JackAnd.00:02:53JackI thought to myself, I think I can fix this and so I brought it home.00:02:58JackI took out my tools and Long story short I fixed it and now it's a perfectly good.00:03:06JackExercise bicycle and I got it for free. You know, usually you have to pay $100 or hundreds of dollars for these kinds of exercise machines.00:03:19JackHowever.00:03:20JackI got mine for free.00:03:23JackAnd so I have an an extra room in in our building, there's a an extra room that we have. My wife and I have turned into a kind of a gym, a a home exercise center.00:03:38JackAnd so I put the bicycle in there.00:03:41JackAnd about a week later.00:03:43JackSure.00:03:44JackI saw a bench, an exercise bench where you can do sit-ups and a sit up is where you you go back, you're on your back and then you lift up and you use your stomach muscles, your abdominal muscles to pull yourself up. And it was perfectly good except it was missing.00:04:05JackOnce.00:04:06JackI went to the hardware store, I bought a screw for $1.00.00:04:11JackAnd I fixed that and I put that in my exercise room.00:04:15JackAnd then.00:04:17JackI found another piece of exercise equipment perfectly fine. Someone was throwing it away because they were. They were moving out of their apartment and I live in a neighborhood with a lot of apartments, a lot of small apartments. So when people don't want items, they just.00:04:36JackThrow them away instead of because they don't even want to take the time to give them away or to sell them. They just throw them away.00:04:44JackSo I took it, I took it home.00:04:46JackAnd I've I've now got this like little gym kind of set up. And my wife there's a a website in Korea where people give away items that they don't want. And someone was giving away a running machine. So we drove over to their apartment. We put the running machine.00:05:07JackIn our car, in our truck, and brought it back, put it in the exercise room. So now the gym has.00:05:14JackIt was a running machine, an exercise bike, a sit up bench, some weights and things like that. So it kind of started with like I I'm starting to see that like in Korea, I think it's because people live in apartments, they just don't often take the time to.00:05:35JackEven sell things, they just they just throw them away.00:05:38JackAnd the other day I was walking along the street and I saw a guitar. So in a case someone had just.00:05:47JackPut a guitar.00:05:48JackIn the garbage.00:05:50JackAnd I went and opened it up.00:05:52JackAnd it was a perfectly good guitar.00:05:55JackAnd I threw it in my truck and I brought it home.00:06:00JackAnd I looked at it, I didn't have to do any fixing of the guitar. It was perfectly good. And so I have an extra guitar cause I kind of collect guitars. I'm a guitar player and I love that hobby. And so I I brought it home and.00:06:21JackI just now I'm kind of in the mindset of like, why buy something new?00:06:27JackWhen?00:06:29JackPeople are giving away or throwing away.00:06:33JackOld things that are still could be good for for me. So we have an expression in English.00:06:40JackOne man's trash is another man's treasure.00:06:46JackAnd for me, it's more of an environmental.00:06:50JackRead there. It's more environmental for me to be honest, because a lot of these things, they just end up being thrown into a hole in the ground, like that exercise bike. Just the handlebars are were broken and they could be fixed, but no one is going to fix those.00:07:07JackThey're going to the the garbage men are going to take that. They're going to throw that thing in the ocean or in a big hole in the ground, and it's going to stay there for 1000 years.00:07:19JackAnd what is the purpose of making new things and buying new things when we have?00:07:27JackOlder things that can just be fixed and used, and they're perfectly fine and they don't end up in a hole in the ground. You know polluting our our land or floating in the ocean, polluting our oceans.00:07:43JackI just really don't understand, so I'm very much in the mindset of, like, not buying anything. If I need something, I try to find it online for free or I look around my neighborhood or and I fix something up and and use it. It might not be.00:08:00JackYou know, my bicycle is not beautiful. It's not the most beautiful stationary bike. It's not going to win a beauty contest, but it works perfectly fine. It's great for exercising the guitar. Yeah, it's not a.00:08:16JackA A Les Paul or a Gibson, but it's a it's a perfectly fine guitar and I'm not. I'm not terrible guitar player to be honest. So for me I don't need anything fancy or super expensive when it comes to those kinds of items. I can just enjoy.00:08:37JackHaving different guitars that make that have different sounds and enjoy those things. And so I guess what I'm saying is going back to the beginning of my talk today is that when I say.00:08:52JackI love garbage.00:08:54JackI love.00:08:55JackTaking objects that are going to end up in a hole in the ground or in the ocean, and I like fixing them and using them, and it's deeply satisfying. It's more satisfying than like buying the item and bringing it home. If I give more joy out of finding something and it doesn't cost me any money.00:09:16JackIt costs me a little bit of time and a little bit of energy.00:09:20JackBut it you know it, it saves money.00:09:23JackAnd and it's and it's. They're all things that are that are making my life better. They're making me healthier. The exercise bike is going to actually make me healthier, live longer. The guitar is going to give me joy because I I get joy from playing the guitar and making music. And so I just really.00:09:43JackWant to encourage?00:09:46JackYou listeners out there to.00:09:49JackLove garbage like me.00:09:52JackAnd see if it doesn't make you feel even more satisfied when you find some object that you're able to repurpose and reuse instead of buying it new.00:10:06JackAlright, so that's my talk today. Jack loves garbage.00:10:11JackPlease, if you talk to social, explain what the meaning is, because she's probably going to be surprised when she sees the title of this episode. I love garbage.00:10:22JackIf you want to leave.00:10:23JackA message for us go to.00:10:25JackSend us an e-mail AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com. You can also go to our website azenglishpodcast.com and you can leave a comment on the website. You can join our WhatsApp group or our WeChat group and you can leave a comment there. We'd love to see you in the A-Z English WhatsApp group or WeChat group.00:10:45JackAnd with that said.00:10:46JackI will see you next time. Thanks everybody.00:10:50JackBye bye.Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/topic-talk-i-love-garbage/Social Media:WeChat: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok: @atozenglish1Instagram: @atozenglish22Twitter: @atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week!https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-contentIn this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack answers a listener's problem about her boyfriend using his phone too much while they are at dinner.Dear Jack,I've been dating my boyfriend for about a year now, and overall, things have been going well. However, there's one issue that keeps coming up: his constant texting during our dates. Whenever we go out to dinner or spend time together, he's always glued to his phone, checking messages and responding to texts. It's starting to make me feel ignored and unimportant. I've tried bringing it up gently, but he always brushes it off, saying it's nothing important. How can I address this issue without causing a big argument?Sincerely,Feeling IgnoredPodcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/dear-jack-my-boyfriend-uses-his-phone-too-much-during-dinner/Social Media:WeChat: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok: @atozenglish1Instagram: @atozenglish22Twitter: @atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week!https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-contentIn this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack explains the meanings of two idioms:"As nutty as a fruitcake": This idiom means extremely eccentric, strange, or irrational. Fruitcakes are often considered bizarre due to their dense texture and mix of various fruits and nuts. Therefore, comparing someone or something to a fruitcake implies a high level of peculiarity."Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire": This idiom means to go from a bad situation to an even worse one. It suggests making a decision or taking action that initially seems to improve the situation but ends up causing more problems. The imagery evokes the idea of escaping danger only to find oneself in a more perilous situation.Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/idiom-academy-nuttier-than-a-fruitcake-and-jumping-out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-fire/Social Media:WeChat: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ARobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Exciting things are happening here at A to Z headquarters! We're going to be uploading our episodes to our You Tube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8AWe are also going to be offering an additional two to three episodes each week to exclusive subscribers who are able to donate $1.99 per month.The A to Z English Podcast is taking a break this week as we prepare for the BIG changes that are coming to the podcast. We hope you are as excited as Xochitl and Jack are! :)Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/big-announcement/Social Media:WeChat: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ADonate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/donationsRobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack teach you how to use the present simple tense correctly.Transcript:00:00:52JackLike, what's your daily routine?00:00:55XochitlYeah, I I think it's. I think it's interesting because we because we, well, I'll tell my daily routine and we can break it out from there, but let's say.00:01:06XochitlI wake up at 8:00 in the morning. I eat breakfast, I brush my teeth.00:01:15XochitlAnd then I get ready for work. Jack, what do you do in the morning?00:01:19JackI get up at 7:00 in the morning. I brush my teeth first.00:01:27JackI've I've gotten into that practice recently.00:01:30XochitlThat's interesting. There's like the debate, and we'll have to make that a topic.00:01:33XochitlAnother time, but I mean I mean.00:01:34JackYeah. Yeah. Do you brush your teeth before you eat breakfast, or do you brush your teeth after you?00:01:39JackFirst umm. So I brush my teeth, I wash my face. I I get dressed and then I go to work. I I teach at my university. I eat lunch. I teach a little bit more. I go home, I eat dinner. I watch Netflix with my wife and then I go to bed.00:01:59JackAnd so that's my daily routine. Now, I think where students get confused about what we're talking about here is we're not talking about today.00:02:09JackWe're talking about.00:02:11JackEverything. Yeah. Yeah. So things that we did in the past, things that we do now and things that we most likely will do in the future, like I don't see my routine changing anytime soon.00:02:11XochitlEvery day.00:02:28JackAnd so, because it's a habitual thing.00:02:33JackWe we would put that in, we would use the present simple tense to to describe that.00:02:39JackAnd I think it's the easiest. Like grammatically it's the easiest of the tenses because there's only really one rule that you have to remember. And that's when you use **, *** or it as the subject. What happens to the verb when you when you change it to like he or she.00:02:59XochitlYou add that S on the end because you're saying he brushes. She brushes they well. You you change it slightly for brushing teeth. You know, I brush my teeth versus ** *** brushes.00:03:13XochitlThey're here. I'm OK, Jack. I'm gonna let you take over because I'm getting.00:03:17JackNo, no, no. I know exactly what you're saying. So you like? Yeah. So if we use the subjects I, you, we, they you would say like I brush my teeth, we brush our teeth, it brushes its teeth. Although I don't know what that means.00:03:34XochitlThey brush their teeth.00:03:34JackOr they brush their teeth. But if you use he or she so he brushes his teeth, he gets up, you add an S there he washes his face, he goes to work. Yeah.00:03:46XochitlStop.00:03:50XochitlHe watches Netflix, he eats dinner.00:03:54XochitlShe.00:03:55XochitlTakes hour, so it just kind of changes a little bit.00:03:59JackYeah, we call that a inflection, A verb inflection where basically the verb changes a little bit and the inflection is just with an S or an ES. What about study? How would you change that to the present? Simple.00:04:19XochitlUMI study every day or ** *** studies every day. So you change the Y to IES.00:04:25JackRight. So.00:04:28JackThere you go. Yep, Y becomes IES. What about the verb have?00:04:35JackI have breakfast.00:04:37JackShe or he, what would you use there?00:04:37XochitlUh.00:04:39XochitlHas has she? He has breakfast.00:04:43JackA common mistake that some you know beginners will make is that they'll UM.00:04:47JackOver generalize the rule so they'll say haves like HAVES but we but that one's an irregular 1, so we have to use has and so they'll just be careful with the verb have when it's with using he or she we use has and.00:04:51XochitlYeah.00:05:07JackThat's that one. You just have to memorize. There's just a couple of of strange ones like that.00:05:14JackYeah.00:05:15XochitlYeah. All right, listeners, I think this one is a pretty simple one. Why don't you practice by writing your daily routines for us in the WeChat and WhatsApp groups, shooting us an e-mail at A-Z, englishpodcast@gmail.com or leaving a comment down below on our website at AZ englishpodcast.com and we'll see you guys next time.00:05:34XochitlBye.Podcast Website:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/grammar-zone-the-present-simple-tense/Social Media:WeChat: atozenglishpodcastFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/Tik Tok:@atozenglish1Instagram:@atozenglish22Twitter:@atozenglish22A to Z Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/theatozenglishpodcastCheck out our You Tube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCds7JR-5dbarBfas4Ve4h8ADonate to the show: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/donationsRobin and Jack started a new You Tube channel called English Word Master. You can check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aXaXaMY4P2VhVaEre5w7ABecome a member of Podchaser and leave a positive review!https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-4779670Join our Whatsapp group: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Intro/Outro Music: Daybird by Broke for Freehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Directionless_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Directionless_EP_-_03_Day_Bird/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcodeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack play a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill with three Disney princesses: Ariel, Snow White, and Cinderella.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk game Edition Kiss, Marry, Kill.00:00:16JackAnd so social the rules of this game are that you have to, I'm going to give you 3 choices and you have to decide which person you would kiss, which person you would kill, and which person you would marry. And so.00:00:34JackI've got 3 Disney princesses, Cinderella.00:00:40JackSnow White.00:00:42JackAnd Ariel, Ariel is obviously the mermaid from what's the movie called.00:00:50XochitlThe Little Mermaid.00:00:52JackThe Little Mermaid. OK. Sorry. I had a a brain malfunction there for a moment. OK.00:01:00JackAll right.00:01:02JackSo.00:01:03JackKiss Mary, kill Cinderella, Snow White or Ariel.00:01:08XochitlUM, OK, this one's actually going to be really.00:01:10XochitlEasy.00:01:10XochitlFor me, Cinderella, I would kill automatically because she's the most boring of the three choices to me.00:01:11발표자OK.00:01:18JackOh.00:01:20XochitlIf they're talking about the original story.00:01:21XochitlI like I like.00:01:23XochitlPretty much every like reproduction or adaptation in other cultures, but the original like Disney one was boring to me, so I've killed her Snow White. I would kiss on.00:01:32JackOK.00:01:37XochitlI like.00:01:37JackWell, because you gotta wake her, you.00:01:39JackHave to wake her up, you know.00:01:40XochitlOh well, sure.00:01:41XochitlYou do have to wake up. I also.00:01:42XochitlLike your whole.00:01:44XochitlLike.00:01:45XochitlI don't know. I I I thought it was really fun to watch baked pies and stuff when I was a kid and I like the little like culture that she's in because she gets to, like, interact with the dwarves and stuff. So I think that would be fun. I really liked that movie as a child too. And and The Little Mermaid was one of my favorites.00:02:01발표자Yeah.00:02:06XochitlAs a child, and I would definitely marry Ariel, I think Ariel gets a bad rap for being like whiny, spoiled, blah, blah. I don't think any of that is true. I think she had a really bad relationship with her father.00:02:20XochitlAnd.00:02:21XochitlAnd it doesn't get better until the end of the movie, and I think that's where all her issues come from because her father sucked. I'm. I stand by that and I would marry her because she has the most fascinating. She's literally part of another world. And so it would be so cool to get to talk to her about those.00:02:31JackYeah.00:02:37발표자Yeah.00:02:41XochitlExperiences Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever with their family would be so fun. And you know, ideally, you know, trading as a king and see maybe he can use his magical powers to make you guys like half.00:02:49JackYes.00:02:57XochitlMermaids have. Uh.00:03:01XochitlYeah, like in Luca, you have you seen that movie?00:03:04JackNo, no, I haven't seen Luca yet. I.00:03:07XochitlAnyway, you had to see that, but I think that that'd be really cool. And then it's just and she has the spirit of an adventurer, I think. And I think that that would be very compatible with me.00:03:09JackOK.00:03:20JackOK. Yeah. So I'm I'm close to your answers, but I'm off a little bit. I think I would.00:03:22발표자Yeah.00:03:30JackI would. I would. Uh kiss Cinderella.00:03:34JackI don't know. There's something about Cinderella. She's just very charming, you know? And I know that's a weird word to use because she marries Prince Charming. But.00:03:46XochitlCinderella.00:03:47JackYeah. I just, I really, I I really like Cinderella. I I think she, you know she's she has such a a a tough life.00:03:57JackBut she's she's got that kind of, like, plucky spirit. Like she she really. She never gives up. She, you know, I I just, I I don't know. I I I love Cinderella. I love the her relationship with the little mice that she's even.00:04:03발표자So.00:04:15XochitlThat is.00:04:18JackShe's even kind to the mice, you know? Uhm and UM. So I'm going to, I'm going to kiss Cinderella.00:04:26JackI'm gonna. I'm gonna.00:04:27JackKill Snow White because Snow White is I found her boring and she's sleeping for half the movie anyway so.00:04:36JackSo I don't know. Yeah, I just. I don't know. I never. I never was. Never like a big Snow White fan.00:04:38XochitlInteresting. Interesting.00:04:47XochitlI love and my sister would only gifted stuff and I always get gifted Cinderella stuff and made me annoyed because I wanted the Snow White stuff because that was one of my favorites.00:04:58JackI know mine. I'm I'm. I'm more basic. Like I'm. I'm kind of going like for the cause. Cinderella is obviously more famous than Snow White. I I would say probably like more in.00:05:09XochitlLike it's probably it's.00:05:10XochitlOne of the most plastic tails that's also adapted to a lot of different cultures, and I like those. Have you ever seen ever after?00:05:17JackYes, I like that movie with Drew Barrymore. Yeah.00:05:20XochitlThat would be very more. That is a really good representation of Cinderella, and I would have to change my answers if we were doing.00:05:26XochitlIt based on that.00:05:27XochitlBut anyway your last.00:05:27발표자Ohh frickin.00:05:29XochitlYour last one is who you would marry you.00:05:33JackI would marry Ariel because I always thought Ariel was the the most beautiful, the the best of the Disney princesses.00:05:45XochitlHey. So we have two aerial lovers in the house. This is America's. Most people really hate her.00:05:50JackI love them. I guess it's it's part of it is because I just. I love the movie and I love the music in the movie and I love the story.00:05:58XochitlDrive. They do a little.00:06:00JackAnd she's got, like, wanderlust, you know, and which is similar to, like, my. You know what? What I have like I I want an adventure. You know. I'm I'm always curious about what's you know behind that door like.00:06:14XochitlYou want to be where the people are.00:06:16JackYeah, yeah, I wanna. I wanna get away from the fish and I wanna hang out with the people, you know. But yeah. So I always. I always had like a a a crush on on Ariel. And I thought she was the the best Disney Princess.00:06:33JackAnd uh, she's also got uh, I'm using this word. Plucky again. I I don't know if there's a better word for this. Funky. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. She's got, like, a ***** to her. She's she's she's a, you know, she's a heroine. She's a, you know, she's a hero.00:06:39XochitlOh, it's.00:06:40XochitlFunky.00:06:47XochitlYeah.00:06:48XochitlSpicy. She's strong. I like her.00:06:51XochitlYeah.00:06:54XochitlEnthusiasm. And I like that she never fit in in the mermaid world or the people world. But she just blunders through with confident enthusiasm. She's doing her own thing. She doesn't care if everyone else thinks she's weird, you know?00:07:10JackYeah. Yeah. And that I live in a kind of middle space, A liminal space in between 2 cultures. To be honest, you know, in Korea, I'm still American. But in in America, I've lived half my life in Korea. So.00:07:24JackYou know, for me, I kind of live in, in that in between space and she is also trapped between two worlds. Maybe there's something about that that I find attractive in the story.00:07:34XochitlYeah, I could agree.00:07:36XochitlBecause I'm also from 2 cultures, I was born and raised in two cultures. So I I think it's interesting and I.00:07:42JackMaybe that's something. Maybe that's why we're attracted to that story and.00:07:46JackAlso, she doesn't.00:07:47JackNeed a man? Necessarily. The man needs her. **, *** she saves him. But in Cinderella and Snow White, it's like, ohh the man. You know, the wood. The woodsman has to save her or the. Sorry. The king. The Prince. Sorry, Prince has to has to, you know, come in.00:08:02JackSwoop in and save the.00:08:03JackDay and in in aerial story, she actually the the the whole premise of the story begins with her saving the the Prince. So I I I like that she's a strong. She's a strong woman and I've attracted to strong woman. My wife is a strong woman.00:08:14XochitlYeah.00:08:24JackSo.00:08:26JackI I don't know. I I I would definitely marry Ariel. I would kiss Cinderella and kill Snow White. Although I think that kill is pretty harsh, but it's the only choice we have. So yeah.00:08:38XochitlYeah, right, listeners, let us know what you would pick. I find it interesting that Jack and on the page because so many aerial haters. So I want to know, do you hate Ariel or do you side with us? 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain what it means when Americans use the terms fine, good, and great.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are stepping into the vocabulary spotlight and we're going to focus on three adjectives. Fine, good and great and what they actually mean in.00:00:21JackThe context of a a meal or other situations so social do you want to explain what we're talking about here today?00:00:32XochitlYes. Umm. So I think that fine, good and great are kind of a uh.00:00:40XochitlHierarchy almost of of ratings and sign is.00:00:46XochitlYou know that's the lowest.00:00:48XochitlGood is the one in the middle.00:00:50XochitlAnd great is the highest.00:00:53XochitlIn terms of values, but I feel like in the US cultural context it it switches up a little bit because Jack.00:01:01XochitlIf I ask you how is the meal and you say it was fine, what does that say to you?00:01:07JackIf I say it was fine means it was acceptable but but not.00:01:13JackNothing special. You know, it was just like it was. OK, that's what it means. It was fine. It was. It wasn't. It wasn't below. It wasn't where it wasn't so bad that I would complain about it. Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it it wasn't it. It was average. It just means average.00:01:15XochitlYeah.00:01:25XochitlWasn't bad.00:01:33JackI would say.00:01:33발표자Yeah, it means.00:01:34XochitlAverage, which in the US cultural context means not really good enough anyway.00:01:41JackYeah. Like you go to a restaurant, you're like it was fine. I don't think you're gonna go back to that restaurant again, you know.00:01:48XochitlNo.00:01:50발표자Yeah.00:01:51XochitlYeah. And so then if I ask you, ohh, how was your meal and you say it was good? What?00:01:56XochitlWould that mean?00:01:58JackThat would mean it was better than fine. So it was it was above acceptable range. It was above average, but just barely, you know, just just slightly above average.00:02:12JackYou know good.00:02:12XochitlYeah, it was nothing, really too special. Even though you would normally think.00:02:19XochitlOhh it's a good meal. It's good but.00:02:22XochitlTypically when we use it in that context, it's shifts to mean you know it was an acceptable above average, but not being spectacular.00:02:33JackRight it in. I might go back again, but I might forget about that restaurant. You know, it's it it. It's not memorable, you know.00:02:43XochitlYeah.00:02:44XochitlAnd then if I say Jack, how was your?00:02:45XochitlMeal and you say oh it.00:02:46XochitlWas great. What does that mean?00:02:49JackThat means that I had a really good dining experience like you with the food was was right on point. Maybe the atmosphere was really nice in the restaurant and it was a great meal. And so it's a place that I would definitely.00:03:06JackRecommend to other people.00:03:09JackAnd I would probably go back again to that restaurant.00:03:15XochitlYeah. So I think it's a little different for us in the US because I know that even other English speaking countries like the UK sign good and great take on different meanings. And in the US, we're kind of.00:03:34XochitlWe're very uh.00:03:37XochitlExuberant by nature, which I guess means, you know, easily excitable and very over.00:03:44JackExaggerate, you know.00:03:46XochitlYes.00:03:47XochitlYeah, we do. So if a meal is fine in the US, it's like.00:03:52XochitlIt's not great. So I think that's just an interesting thing about our culture. What would you say?00:03:58XochitlAbout that, Jack.00:03:59JackYeah, it's, it's where Americans really have a hard time being negative. We try to put a positive spin on everything, but what happens when you do that is that basically words take on new meanings, right? You change the meaning of the words. So fine actually becomes just OK.00:04:19JackOr acceptable whereas.00:04:22JackIts original meaning was that fine was a very positive thing. You know, that was a fine meal, but now if you're using the word fine, it just means average, which you know, it just we just have a really hard time being honest in in American culture.00:04:43JackAnd so even when something is not good, we'll assign a positive adjective to it. But what happens overtime is that that adjective comes to mean something completely different than its original meaning.00:05:00JackAnd so it right. Exactly. Exactly. So now basically, fine has been demoted, you know, Lord to meaning average, which means then good gets brought down to a lower level, which means just a little bit better than average. And then we need to use.00:05:00XochitlYeah, it is.00:05:21JackVery exaggerated words like great, wonderful, amazing to actually mean something was very good, you know, like what? And.00:05:32JackSo I I think it's very interesting how it's just it's an insight into American culture how we're kind of always positive about everything even when things are not maybe so positive.00:05:46XochitlRight. And so it's kind of, uh, inflation of the value of words in a way.00:05:51JackYou're right, exactly. We we've inflated the meaning of of right of words that.00:05:59JackThat that originally had had kind of different meanings, and so I think in the dictionary, you know, fine still would be.00:06:08JackA positive thing, you know, but in just casual conversation, as if you really want to understand intimately American culture.00:06:21JackYou'd have. You have to understand that with if, if somebody if you. If you go to a restaurant and somebody says that was that was fine. They're really saying it was OK you know nothing special. And if they say it.00:06:32JackWas good. It was. It was.00:06:34JackYou know better than fine, but not great. And then anything above that great.00:06:40JackWonderful. Amazing. Then you can trust that that's a a restaurant you should visit.00:06:46XochitlYep, I agree. All right, well, listeners, if you have any questions about that or want to hear about similar subjects or want to tell us how it is in your culture?00:06:56XochitlMake sure to leave a comment down below at 8 is the English product or A to englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com and join our WeChat WhatsApp groups to join the conversation and we'll see you guys next time. 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss Daylight Savings Time in the United States.Transcript:00:00:02JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to do a topic talk and the topic is daylight savings time in America. So. So. So what is daylight savings time?00:00:23XochitlJack, my understanding is that not every country does daylight savings time. But here in America we do it and it's where every spring the time jumps forward an hour and every fall the time goes back an hour and it was intentionally meant to help conserve energy. It's been shown that it doesn't.00:00:44XochitlHelp conserve energy, but what it does simply is that.00:00:48발표자Right.00:00:50XochitlIt kind of makes the days shorter in the winter and the days even longer in the summer, and this is a natural trend anyway, but it just kind of exacerbates that. So here in the US around 4:30 or five in the Midwest in the winter, you'll see the sun going down.00:01:07JackYes.00:01:07XochitlAnd it's summer. Some may not go down until 9:00 PM, basically almost 9:00 PM so.00:01:15JackYeah, I mean I I think the my understanding of it was it's it's a very old practice and it was meant to give farmers a little extra.00:01:15XochitlThat's kind of.00:01:29JackLight, I suppose in the as they worked on the farm because we were mostly in agricultural country back then.00:01:39JackUM.00:01:41JackAnd so am I. Does that make sense to you? Is that is that something that it has to do with?00:01:48XochitlI think that it could definitely. I I do know that it was also.00:01:54XochitlRelated to energy conservation.00:01:56JackOK.00:01:57XochitlSo I think it's supposed to be like.00:02:01XochitlAnd it was, I think it was kind of supposed to encourage us to.00:02:07XochitlI don't know. I don't.00:02:08XochitlKnow how that aspect is supposed to work? I'll be real, but.00:02:11JackWell, it it it, it gives you more natural light so that you didn't need to burn oil.00:02:17JackIn the evenings, as as often as as much in the in the summer months or in the warmer months.00:02:25XochitlYeah, I kind of thought that. But in the winter, it really makes everything like more depressing.00:02:30JackYeah, I know, I know.00:02:33XochitlThat's why it's summer. It's like you don't have any daylight. You get, like the sun doesn't start coming out. I guess it it comes up, but you're like in school or doing whatever and it's like barely out and you're in school or at work all day. And when you get off, this one's already gone.00:02:53XochitlBasically, so Midwest is anyway.00:02:54JackRight.00:02:57JackYeah. I what? What are your feelings about my feelings of daylight savings time? Daylight savings time is that it's just it's an old practice that doesn't really belong anymore. What it does is really just confuses people. People are just late for work or early for work accidentally the day.00:03:09XochitlYes.00:03:17JackAfter because they.00:03:19XochitlYeah, my to have my aunt. She was early.00:03:21JackYeah, you show up an hour early and you're like, where is everybody? And then you go like, ohh daylight savings time. It's only 8:00. It's not 9:00. Ohh. OK.00:03:31JackOK. Or you're late an hour because you're like ohh I I thought it was 9:00, but it's actually 10:00 now.00:03:32XochitlYeah. And then close.00:03:39XochitlYeah. For my generation, it doesn't happen so much because our technology, which is what we use to tell time, automatically switches.00:03:47발표자That's true.00:03:47XochitlBut so I don't even know. Like I don't even notice, especially I don't. I'm still I'm. I work as a freelancer, so I don't even really notice anymore. But with my aunt, it definitely affected her. And then it's like Gen. X and boomers and like, slightly older generations that still use.00:04:04XochitlUse like alarm clocks and you know, go by the actual digit or not digital. The actual manual clocks like on the kitchen or like in.00:04:13XochitlTheir car and stuff.00:04:15XochitlUM, that's definitely that definitely usually affects them I.00:04:18JackOh, that's for sure. My generation. Like I remember, you know, when I was in high school, they would, they would, you know, remind us. And the news would always remind people. Don't forget to set your clocks one hour forward and and then you have to.00:04:36JackYou know, set your clock one hour forward so that your alarm goes off at the right time. Otherwise you're going to be late for school.00:04:42JackCool.00:04:44XochitlRight.00:04:45XochitlI believe Mexico does daylight savings still, but like in a different kind of hour or like different time and only certain areas of Mexico do it like rural areas do not follow daylight saving time. So it makes it even more confusing.00:05:00XochitlUM, yeah, I think we should just abolish it because I don't think it's.00:05:06XochitlReally helpful anymore and most countries don't follow it right. It doesn't happen in Korea. Am I correct in saying that?00:05:12JackNo, it doesn't happen in Korea. We don't have to deal with this at all. In in South Korea.00:05:19JackI I think the the purpose I'm just going to read here, what I've what I've found online. It says the primary goal of daylight savings time is to make better use of data.00:05:29JackThe light during the longer days of summer, thereby reducing the need for artificial lighting in the evenings, which is exactly what you said.00:05:39JackIt is believed to save energy and promote outdoor activities during the extended daylight hours, so it's mostly to benefit you in the summer the the, the, the summer times and and the spring.00:05:53JackThing and in the winter, no one. No one cares, because it's already it's already getting dark early anyway, so.00:06:02XochitlWait, everyone's indoors? People aren't like outside playing or whatever.00:06:05JackYeah, yeah. I just remember growing up in Minnesota because it's quite far north. I would go to school and when I got out of school at 3330 or whatever, and then, you know, the sun was going down like it was.00:06:21발표자Yeah.00:06:22JackIt was so strange because it's almost you spent the whole all of the light.00:06:28JackWas while you were sitting in the school building. And then as soon as you go outside the the the sun is going down already. So it's it's basically time to go sit inside your house. I think we'd be better off just abolishing it like you said. And there's still plenty of light in the summer time. And there's so much artificial lighting.00:06:48JackNow anyway, and it's so much cheaper now because light bulbs are are energy efficient. I don't think it really saves that much energy to be honest.00:07:01XochitlYeah. I also don't think it does either, because I think in the summer.00:07:08XochitlWe're already.00:07:09XochitlWe're we're just going to use as much energy as we use like people are going to be up on Netflix or whatever it's we don't really live in a world that that operates on outside time any longer. You know, we kind of go by our own time because technology is still available to you all hours of the day. So we don't really.00:07:30XochitlWe don't use outdoors as much as we did before. I don't think so. It's not really like a.00:07:36XochitlYeah, I don't know. It's not very necessary.00:07:39JackYeah, our daily habits. Exactly. I'll, I'll. I'll read the controversy here. Daylight savings Time is a topic of debate with proponents. So people that agree with it argue that it saves energy, reduces traffic accidents and promotes outdoor activities. However, critics argue that the benefits are.00:08:00JackMinimal, very small or nonexistent, they don't exist at all, and that daylight savings transitions can disrupt sleep patterns.00:08:10JackAnd have negative effects on health and productivity, which that's where I tend to mean. I I agree with that. The second part of that.00:08:19XochitlI agree with it too. Yeah, alright. Listeners will let us know. What do you think about daylight savings? Is it something that you use in your country? I'm very unfamiliar about which country use it and which countries.00:08:31XochitlDon't, so I'm curious to know, and do you think it's a good idea? Why or why not shoot us a message at it? 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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the difference between the active voice and the passive voice.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are stepping into the grammar zone and we're going to talk about the active voice versus the passive voice. And so social when we use the active voice, that's.00:00:20JackTends to be our typical like subject, verb, object, sentences, right?00:00:25XochitlYes.00:00:26JackYeah, like the cat chased the mouse. The cat is the subject. Chased is the verb and then the object of the of the cat's interest. What the cat is chasing is the mouse.00:00:43JackWhat if we?00:00:44JackPut that into the passive voice. Uhm, where we kind of basically the subject and the object are inverted. Uh, kind of reversed.00:00:56JackSo for example, the mouse was chased by the cat. Can you think of like a reason why we might use that kind of construction, a passive voice?00:01:10XochitlThe mouse was chased by the cat.00:01:13JackYeah.00:01:14JackI was thinking.00:01:15JackLike we want to emphasize the the mouse instead of the cat, right?00:01:19JackWe're kind of emphasizing that, yeah, because it's like technically it's the object of the of the sentence in the active, you know, the cat chased the mouse. But if we want to emphasize the mouse, we can flip it around and use the passive voice. The mouse was chased by the cat.00:01:19XochitlYeah, I was going to say.00:01:21XochitlToo again.00:01:39JackAnd I wanted to throw one more thing at you here. Like there's another reason sometimes we use the passive voice and and it's when the subject is unknown.00:01:51JackSo.00:01:52XochitlOhh.00:01:53JackCan you think I I was thinking of an example like imagine you're, uh, you wake up in the morning, you go. I know you don't drive, but this is a hypothetical situation. You go out, you you grab your keys, you go out to your your front front yard and your car's gone.00:02:13발표자MHM.00:02:13JackSo we could use, you know, the active voice and we could say someone stole Social's car, but we often don't use the pronoun someone instead of instead you would come back in the house and say, oh, my gosh, my car was stolen.00:02:33XochitlYep, Yep.00:02:33발표자That's.00:02:34JackYeah.00:02:36발표자Yeah.00:02:37JackAnd in the full sentence would be my car was stolen by somebody. But in this case we.00:02:43JackJust the the.00:02:44JackSubject is unknown. We don't know who it is.00:02:46XochitlI think sometimes we do. We might come in and be like someone.00:02:49XochitlStole my car though.00:02:50JackYes, yes, we will say that. Yep.00:02:54XochitlYeah. So I think that's where that would come.00:02:55XochitlInto play.00:02:56JackYes, yes, I and and again this this is the the whole point of like active and passive voice is that you get to choose the style that you and tone that you want to use I think.00:03:08JackThis is. That's why I'm not like a a huge fan of teaching this kind of grammar to my students who are beginners because they it just confuses them. But for students that are like a little bit higher level and want to make their writing a little bit more interesting, I think the passive voice.00:03:17발표자So.00:03:29JackCan be a useful a useful tool, but but it's definitely not necessary. Definitely not necessary. You could just say someone stole my car, yeah.00:03:40XochitlYes.00:03:41JackYeah.00:03:43JackAnd umm, I'm also thinking like in the newspaper. Uh, this is very common in like headlines.00:03:51JackAm I wrong about that? I'm thinking like.00:03:55XochitlLike.00:03:58XochitlLike, yeah, like yes, because you would say an office building was burned down by 27 year old male instead of a 27 year old male burned in an office building or something.00:04:06JackYes, exactly.00:04:10JackRight, right. Or you just might say like an office building, but an office building was burned down yesterday.00:04:17JackYou know, and we they don't know who the perpetrator is. The person that did it. And so you, you again unknown subject. We can just use the passive voice. An office building was burned down and elderly woman was murdered last night in the park. You know something like that.00:04:17XochitlYes.00:04:38JackSorry for these dark examples everybody but.00:04:43JackIt it tends to be like in crime, you know, crime pages like that, those kinds of headlines, I think.00:04:48XochitlRight, yes.00:04:50JackYeah.00:04:51JackOK. Well, I think we've we've pretty much dug ourselves.00:04:56JackWell, we we put ourselves in a grammar hole, but I think we dug ourselves out mostly in this. Yeah.00:05:01XochitlMostly yes. Alright, listeners, if you have any further questions, any grammar questions that you want to shoot our way, make sure to leave a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com. Shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our WeChat WhatsApp groups to join the conversation. 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In this episode of the A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack look at three words which were added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the Adas English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going back to Webster's dictionary and looking at some words that have recently been added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023.00:00:19JackAnd so so the first one, I have no idea what this means here. Uh finsta finsta.00:00:28XochitlOhh a Finn star. You you don't know what this.00:00:32JackIt sounds like some kind of.00:00:33JackTax thing that I have to file or something.00:00:36XochitlNo, no, it's a it's a an insta but for like friends, it's like a private insta which sounds kind of weird.00:00:47XochitlLike friend in store or something, but it's a private insta.00:00:52XochitlCause a lot of people have per public Instagrams now and finsta just has more private content and it's less geared towards like it's not really a, it's a social media page in the same way that your personal Facebook would be a social media page and less in the way that a typical.00:01:11XochitlInstagram is run, which is kind of for like likes and clout and stuff you.00:01:15JackOhh so like on Facebook I because I'm so old. I use Facebook. Uh. Mostly. Uhm I can.00:01:23JackI can make my page public or private, right? I can.00:01:26발표자 3MM.00:01:27JackSo only my friends can see it. But like other strangers out there in the world, cannot. If they if they go to my page, there's no information.00:01:35JackAction there. This is basically like a second Instagram account, but it's it's just for your friends. Like any just for the people that you want to see it, not promoting your I don't know what the promoting yourself image or promoting your whatever you're selling or whatever that would be your public Instagram.00:01:36XochitlYes.00:01:56JackYour regular Instagram.00:01:58XochitlYes.00:01:59JackOK, alright. OK, fenced. Uh, it says here that it stands for fake.00:02:00발표자 3Yeah.00:02:04JackThe.00:02:05JackLike fake and Insta finsta.00:02:07XochitlInstagram, huh?00:02:08JackBut maybe you're you said friend Insta. I think that makes more sense to me. Finsta like friend and Insta Finsta.00:02:17XochitlNow I'm gonna Google it cause.00:02:20XochitlWhat is fenced, which I'm sure our fans will be happy to hear? Yeah, fake Instagram account made so user can post images, interact with other accounts in a more private way.00:02:30JackYeah, I mean, that's exactly what you said.00:02:30발표자 3Usually.00:02:31XochitlFrom the accounts followers to close friends. Yeah. So that's what I thought, friend. Instant. Not fake insta.00:02:36XochitlYeah.00:02:39JackYeah. Well, we're we're quibbling over the portmanteau, but ultimately it doesn't matter. The meaning is exactly the same. Yeah, since OK.00:02:44XochitlBut the meaning is the same. The meaning is.00:02:48XochitlYes.00:02:51JackAll right, so #2, the second one is grammable.00:02:59XochitlUh grammable means able to post on Instagram.00:03:05JackOK.00:03:06XochitlLike if you're if you get some a plate of food and it's just glad that's not grammable, but if you get a a served like a plate of sushi and it's beautiful colors and really neat looking, then that's grammable. You can post it on the gram Instagram.00:03:23JackOK.00:03:25JackSo I should I ask my wife, honey?00:03:30JackAm I grammable? Is my face grammable? Yeah, I don't. I probably don't want to know the answer right to that.00:03:36XochitlYou probably, I think you'd probably be used more for like your outfit. Like if you dressed up like an outfit and a certain outfit and you're like, is this outfit grammable like I think it's it's less about like a person's attractiveness, learning more about like.00:03:48JackYeah, yeah, yeah. It's less about attractiveness. It's more about just like the the situation or whatever the the, you know, the, the, the outfit or the the way the the food is played.00:04:00JackDid the way the sun is hitting the mountaintop or whatever? Yeah.00:04:01XochitlYes.00:04:05XochitlYes, I think it means picture picturesque, you know, picturesque. Like is it picturesque basically.00:04:08JackPicturesque, yeah.00:04:12JackGrammable. Yeah, that's funny. I've just. I've never heard this before, grammable. But it it makes a lot of sense.00:04:19XochitlI haven't really.00:04:21XochitlI hadn't really heard anyone use it. I'll be real, but I just know I know what it means because people say put it on the gram kind of as a joke or do it for the gram. It's kind of ironic, but it's not usually used in a in a literal like people aren't. People are using it in in an ironic way, so I kind of knew to them.00:04:41XochitlFor what it means, but honestly, I've never heard anyone kind of say.00:04:43XochitlIt in real.00:04:44XochitlLife so.00:04:45발표자 4I could the way.00:04:46JackI could see it used to be like a group of friends are sitting around and then the the waiter brings all the food or waitress.00:04:52JackThe food server brings the food and then somebody goes like grammable like kind of as a question, and then everyone goes. Yeah. And then they pull out their cameras and they your phone is.00:05:02XochitlRight, that that could work. Or like Dang, this played a very grammable or something. Then people without their phones or whatever. Yeah, I think so.00:05:03JackInspected.00:05:10발표자 3OK.00:05:12JackOK, awesome. Alright, so that was our our second one that was related to to social media and the last one this one is not but this one is I think kind of.00:05:27JackI think it's it's kind of applicable to like these days, like how people are feeling rage quit.00:05:35XochitlOhh yeah that one is it's. It's usually used in the context of video games where something dumb happens when you're playing a video game and it makes you rage quit like it's like yes into the thing and break it. It's like let's say your video game is lagging and it keeps kind of.00:05:47JackYou throw the remote control.00:05:55XochitlLagging and being slow and taking a long time to load screens or switch screens and so at that point you just get set up and you rage quit because.00:06:04XochitlYou were in a very high, like.00:06:08XochitlIt's got to work out kind of mindset, you know, so I think.00:06:10JackA fit of anger or frustration. Something like that.00:06:13XochitlYes, yes. So I think for I think it can be used now like with anything like you could say. Ohh I rage quit my job yesterday cause we had a line of of 50 customers and I was the only person working.00:06:29JackYeah.00:06:29JackYeah. You, you, you, you push the like the I I forget what you call those the the cash register you just threw it on the ground and walked out of the the you know took your badge off threw it on the floor and walked out and never went back to that job again that would be rage quitting.00:06:29XochitlI am.00:06:50JackRight.00:06:51XochitlYes.00:06:52JackYeah.00:06:53발표자 4Yeah. Have you ever rage quit anything before?00:06:57XochitlI I don't think I've ever rage quit. I'm more of a do it, like, put your head down. Do it. Even though you don't want to, and then quit later.00:07:01JackMm-hmm.00:07:08발표자 4Yeah, I'm a I'm a I'm a quiet quitter. I think there's another. Yeah.00:07:12XochitlI'm quite quitter too, Jack. That's a. That's another one. Our our uh listeners may not know quiet quitting is. Is something used nowadays? Refer to someone who starts doing the bare minimum or under the bare minimum of responsibility at a job in order to.00:07:31XochitlBasically.00:07:33XochitlKind of quit or get fired without having to quit.00:07:38JackYeah, it's a very passive aggressive, but but it's, but it's much easier than like facing the boss and telling them, you know, I hate this job. You know, it's it's when I worked in like.00:07:48JackA lot of.00:07:49JackLike customer service jobs, when I was young, you know, when I was in high school and college and you know, I would quite quit.00:07:58JackYou know, basically like mentally I'm. I'm done working.00:08:03JackSix months before I actually stopped working the job. So you know, I wasn't even doing any of the work anymore or just to just to barely enough to not get fired, you know?00:08:16XochitlYeah, I was quiet. I was quite quitting at the law firm I worked at when I first got out of college and my first job at college was at that law firm. I hated that job and definitely quite, but especially when I worked out how much I was making an hour.00:08:16JackJust enough to not get fired.00:08:32JackRight.00:08:34XochitlNo. No way was I gonna be sitting there working my **** off. It was just a no brainer. I quite quit immediately.00:08:42JackYeah, you gotta you gotta pay me the the the lowest amount legally possible. You're gonna get that level of effort from me. That that's it. Like how hard I try.00:08:51발표자 3Yes.00:08:54JackIs very much. Compares very much to how much you pay me. You know you wanna pay me 50 bucks an hour? I'll work my **** off, you know? So it's just capitalism folks, but yeah.00:09:01발표자 3Yep.00:09:10JackOK.00:09:11XochitlReally.00:09:12JackYeah, that. That's our last one for today.00:09:15XochitlOh great all.00:09:16XochitlRight. Well, if you guys have any questions about these or you have any?00:09:19XochitlQuestions about other new.00:09:20XochitlWords that you would like us to define for you, make sure to leave us a comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our WeChat WhatsApp groups to join the conversation. 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