Topic Talk | More Silly Questions

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack answer more silly questions.

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00:00:00

Jack

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Jack

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00:00:48

Jack

Welcome to the Ados English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have a fun topic talk.

00:00:57

Jack

And this one is. These are just silly questions, social and.

00:01:02

Jack

We're going to do three of them, and if you join our English corner through the WeChat group, you can also discuss these. We we discussed these questions last week, but we will discuss questions like this in the future as well. And #1 is what are your most random pet peeves?

00:01:22

Jack

We we talked.

00:01:22

Jack

About pet peeves before, but what's your like most random one? That probably no one else is annoyed by, but only you?

00:01:30

Xochitl

My most random pet peeve.

00:01:35

Xochitl

The leading the chair not pushing, as we discussed before.

00:01:39

발표자

Mm-hmm.

00:01:41

Xochitl

What's another one?

00:01:44

Xochitl

I'm trying to think I'm not too much of A picky person, so it's kind of hard for me. I hate this is kind of a like a weird one. It's not really my business, but I just hate seeing like.

00:01:57

Xochitl

Like useless men like this sounds weird, but it's kind of a pet peeve of mine when there's, like, a a woman with like like this just happened in the airport. There's a woman was literally the she she and her husband were at the airport and she had like, seven kids. And I think she's pregnant with another kid and.

00:02:17

Xochitl

He the man just like there's he was supposed to get like dinner for all the kids and the wife with his oldest son, and they just disappeared for like 2 hours and then came back with nothing.

00:02:30

Xochitl

And the kids were, like, running around and screaming, and the lady looked, like, devastated. And it was like, oh, my God, I just, you know what I mean? I hate seeing stuff like that every time I see a man, a useless partner. That's a huge piece. And it's funny because it's not really my business, but it just makes me angry.

00:02:48

Jack

Yeah, it's kind of I'm. I'm just, I think.

00:02:50

Jack

It's funny that you were.

00:02:51

Jack

Just watching that whole scenario play out and just seething, just so angry.

00:02:57

Xochitl

Yes, I was sitting across from the waiting and I was just like, oh, my God, this poor lady. And this, like, older lady sitting next to her was like, helped ended up helping her with distract her kids for a while, which was really nice. Of the older lady to step in. But it was just.

00:03:12

Xochitl

Crazy that the woman has a whole husband. That's like doing nothing.

00:03:17

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:17

Xochitl

Just absolutely insane.

00:03:19

Jack

I wonder, I wonder if my wife would have stories. And then I thought fortunately there might be some examples of me checking out for a moment, but I I try not to. I I try to, you know, we we try to divide and conquer. You know, the best that we can.

00:03:34

Xochitl

I don't think he would have been that useless like this guy was a a new level. You know what I mean? From what I've seen of you, I have a hard time believing you would have been that.

00:03:39

발표자

Yeah.

00:03:43

Xochitl

Bad.

00:03:43

Xochitl

You know, so that's a.

00:03:45

Xochitl

Big Tip team of mine and I think.

00:03:49

Xochitl

Those are those are two big ones, I.

00:03:53

Xochitl

I don't think that I have another one. I guess another, maybe third one is like noise makes me irritated really fast. So like.

00:04:04

Xochitl

I like things to be pretty quiet, but if I have to hear like a bunch of noise.

00:04:10

Xochitl

I can just get so angry quickly for no reason kind of. So that peeve is like just really noisy environments can really grate on my nerves if I'm not expecting it. You know, if I'm at like a concert or something, obviously I don't really care. You expect it to be loud, but it's.

00:04:25

Jack

Yeah, you can't really complain about the noise at a concert.

00:04:28

Xochitl

Yeah, but it's just like sudden loudness or something out of nowhere. Like it just kind of grates on my nerves.

00:04:36

Xochitl

Yeah. How about you, Jack? What are your pet peeves?

00:04:39

Jack

I've got a couple. Well, my the first one, I said this one was in another podcast too, but I it bothers me when people say, you know what I mean like that. It's like, yeah, because I'm. I'm always like, yeah, I I know exactly what you mean. You don't have to ask me. You know, I'm not stupid, but.

00:04:49

Xochitl

Yes, I remember that.

00:04:59

Jack

But it's not, that's just me projecting because people.

00:05:03

Jack

Are they're not really asking me a question. They're just, it's just a filler, right? It's it's a.

00:05:09

Xochitl

Or they're worried that they don't make sense. Like when I ask people. Ohh, do you know what I mean? Like I'm. I'm asking because I think I don't make sense.

00:05:18

Jack

Yeah, you're being like you're being an active listener. You're you're actually really, genuinely trying to be understood and making sure the other person understands you. So yeah, that that pet peeve is is just it's it's actually it's it's on me. It's not. It's my fault. It's not other people being annoying. It's just me being annoying.

00:05:38

Jack

UM.

00:05:40

Jack

Another one is that I noticed that really bothers me is when, like people, when did people stop using headphones and just start listening to their stupid phones out loud like is there?

00:05:50

발표자

Oh my God, that has not happened.

00:05:53

Xochitl

To me, at the airport. Sorry, go ahead.

00:05:55

Jack

Oh, no, I yeah, I mean, but was it music or was it, uh, talking?

00:05:59

Xochitl

Just random stuff like videos and talking and music and like and phone calls and stuff. And I'm like, why are you listening to everything out loud? Like where are your heads?

00:06:10

Jack

Yeah.

00:06:10

Xochitl

And it's so funny, because just before that I was like seeing a video and like, oh, I don't want to listen to this cause I don't have headphones. And so I'm not going to listen to it and I'll just save it for later. And then there's person next to me. He's like blasting this video and like, it's so weird, you know? Yeah.

00:06:25

Jack

I know, I know what you mean. It's it happened to me yesterday. Guy in the elevator is listening.

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Jack

To.

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Jack

His stupid YouTube channel about baseball or something and everyone has to listen to it. Then another person in the elevator takes their phone out and starts listening to their thing, and none of them are putting any headphones in as if we all want to.

00:06:42

Jack

Listen to your garbage.

00:06:44

Jack

You know.

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Jack

It's like if if I wanted to listen to it, I would listen to it my myself. There's there's no is there, is there no respect anymore? What? What happened to to people? It's just.

00:06:55

Xochitl

It I just grew, actually. I grew up. You just sound like such a boomer when you said that. But it's kind of funny because my boomer dad would actually do that. We would be watching like soap operas like my mom and I would be watching soap opera. And my dad would come in listening to baseball on his iPad and just sit in the room listening to the baseball like.

00:07:15

Xochitl

In the middle of us watching soap opera and I'd be like, can you leave like or turn that off?

00:07:19

Xochitl

Off and he's like, I just want to spend time with you guys. I'm like, then put some headphones in or watch this with us or and watch that way or something. It was just so annoying because it's like we can't even hear the soap opera that we're watching cause he's too busy listening to the baseball game on full blast in the middle of the room. We were sitting in. So yeah, it's really annoying.

00:07:37

Jack

Yes, headphone headphone etiquette. Come on, people. What's the craziest thing you've ever done? I mean, this is a hard question because.

00:07:47

Jack

I've done too many crazy things, but.

00:07:50

Xochitl

Are you feeling something?

00:07:52

Xochitl

Well, maybe it's just like deciding I was gonna move to Korea. Like, I don't know where I just pulled that out of thin air. And I was like, yeah, what I could. Yeah, I'll move to Korea. That was kind of crazy, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It it ended up working out fine. Another really crazy one that I always remember is we went to Spain when I was a little kid, I was like.

00:08:12

Xochitl

9 or 10 years old and my dad.

00:08:19

Xochitl

We were like going to this castle and my dad decided to crawl up through the castle like there's there. Was this an old sewage hall hole in the castle wall and my dad decided to that we should, like, cut through.

00:08:37

Xochitl

And go through there instead of walking around the into the castle entrance like normal people.

00:08:45

Xochitl

My mom was not.

00:08:45

Jack

I think your dad the craziest thing. Your.

00:08:47

Jack

Dad's ever done.

00:08:48

Xochitl

Yes, we were little kids, but I unfortunately with Dragon and I was like, no, I don't want to do this. And then my sister and my dad were, like, getting angry at me because I was like on the verge.

00:08:57

Xochitl

Of tears because.

00:08:58

Xochitl

I was like, we're gonna get in trouble and we didn't get in trouble. By the way, somehow we did. We did that and then jumped over this like police orange mesh.

00:09:08

Xochitl

Us and just acted like we were there the whole time.

00:09:12

Jack

Wow, you guys got away with it. Nice.

00:09:13

Xochitl

Egg.

00:09:15

Xochitl

Yeah, it's. It was very weird. My dad is an insane person. So. So yeah, that was definitely a crazy thing. And I do remember it still vividly, because something that I didn't want to do and was still doing. So yeah. How about you, Jack? Crazy thing you've done.

00:09:33

Jack

That's funny. I mean, I I think probably the craziest thing I've ever done is.

00:09:39

Jack

Yeah, I I would say move to to Asia. I mean just kind of on a whim, just like I'm going to go to Thailand.

00:09:47

Jack

And teach English without any teaching experience or anything. I just I just went and.

00:09:54

Jack

Yeah, I didn't even know where Thailand was on a map. I think I could have been going to Taiwan like it didn't. I didn't even know. I I put so little thought into it.

00:10:05

Jack

I just got on a plane and and landed and hoped for the best, you know? And yeah, 20 some years later it worked out great, but it was just. It was one. It was a crazy thing because it it changed the entire.

00:10:11

Xochitl

Hmm.

00:10:22

Jack

Outcome of my life like it just said, the direction it changed the entire direction of my life, and so it took me. It took me to places that I've I never dreamed I would ever go to.

00:10:34

Jack

Or had never even heard of before. When I was a kid. So yeah, I think, yeah, travel doing doing what we did is is pretty crazy.

00:10:44

Jack

That definitely qualifies.

00:10:44

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:10:46

Xochitl

Most people never do that.

00:10:49

Jack

Yeah, I think I don't have people think about it, but they they they rarely pull the trigger and do it.

00:10:55

Jack

And.

00:10:55

Xochitl

I think the the like hardest part though from the athletes is like uh, sorry Jack, did I interrupt.

00:11:00

Xochitl

You. No, no.

00:11:01

Xochitl

OK. I was just thinking, I think the weirdest part for me is like when you get to Korea and you meet a bunch of other people who were just as crazy as you and then, like, some of them are actually crazy people because you know what I mean? There's, like, a lot of really weird expats.

00:11:11

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:11:15

Xochitl

Because.

00:11:19

Xochitl

There's a lot of weird ex. That's because it takes a certain level of audacity and craziness to do to to do that to, like, uproot your life and move somewhere else. And so there's other people who are also crazy for different reasons, though. You know what I mean? Or am I not?

00:11:37

발표자

I.

00:11:37

Jack

I have a theory about this actually because no, I know exactly what you mean.

00:11:41

Jack

There's kind of 222 groups, you know, there's like, normal. There's normal people that want an adventure and they they, they kind of do something crazy because they're like, cause it is kind of crazy to move to a country where you don't speak.

00:11:49

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:11:55

Jack

The language you don't know the culture.

00:11:58

Jack

And you're going to live there indefinitely.

00:12:01

Jack

And that's crazy. But there are also kind of crazy people that just don't fit into society back home.

00:12:10

Jack

And so they they go to another place where they can, where the local population, the local people, can't distinguish between crazy people and normal people. So there's normal people who are adventurous and then crazy people. And we all get lumped in together as foreigners.

00:12:10

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:12:30

Jack

And I always want to feel like that person over there is crazy. That person does not represent me.

00:12:37

Jack

I'm not.

00:12:38

Xochitl

Right.

00:12:39

Jack

That person, that person, is weird. That person is weird in America. That person is weird in Canada.

00:12:45

Xochitl

Yes, yes.

00:12:45

발표자

That person is.

00:12:46

Jack

A weirdo, you know, like you you. Yeah.

00:12:50

Xochitl

I had that experience with few different times. I had, like I had a lot of kind of bad experiences with other expats in Korea because you find out there's a lot of people that are there for a reason.

00:13:00

Xochitl

That is not the reason that you're there. No, they're like escaping all the bridges that you burn back in their home country, like different weird things. I I had one person that I knew that was extremely weird, like.

00:13:14

Xochitl

He was really friendly at first and then became like, really hostile and it was like super weird. And I just stopped talking like she totally misinterpreted a situation that we had. And I was like, huh, maybe I actually came off like a jerk. I feel terrible. I'm so sorry.

00:13:34

Xochitl

And she was like, no, you definitely did that on purpose. You're a horrible person. And I was like, Ohh Dang, maybe I am a horrible person. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean, you know, to do that. And then that person had the same exact problem with everyone else that we knew mutually. And I was like, oh, OK, it wasn't you.

00:13:50

Jack

And every person that she knows back home, she's had that problem.

00:13:52

Jack

With.

00:13:53

Xochitl

Yes, that's exactly what happened. And then?

00:13:57

Xochitl

What's another crazy one that happened? I had this one I had, like. It happened to me like a few different times, with different people and On the contrary, I have friends that I'm people that I met, that I'm still friends with, you know that I still stayed.

00:14:09

Xochitl

In.

00:14:09

Xochitl

Touch with, but there there was another like, there's a couple that was like super racist and I was like, Oh my God. Like they just started saying racist stuff in front of me, thinking I'd be cool.

00:14:21

Xochitl

With that, and I was like, what the heck, you know what?

00:14:24

Xochitl

I mean like.

00:14:25

Jack

No.

00:14:25

Xochitl

It was so.

00:14:26

Xochitl

Weird. And also to know like expat to like go to Korea and are racist like towards Asian people and I'm like why are you here?

00:14:35

Jack

Yeah, yeah, I that is. That is bizarre behavior. I mean, because they're, you know, they're no one. No one will take them anywhere. They they don't. They don't fit in anywhere. And it's it's like they have to, you have to fix yourself it. It's it's you can't just if you're broken in America and then you come to Korea and you.

00:14:53

Jack

Think you're going to be fixed?

00:14:54

발표자

It's.

00:14:55

Jack

It's not, it's not. It doesn't work that way. You know, you gotta fix yourself wherever you are. And but I. But I feel like they can blend in a little bit more here in, in an odd way or get away with their behavior a little bit more because people are just just chalk it up as.

00:15:14

Jack

Well, that person's a foreigner, so they don't understand, but it's like, no, it's not. Has nothing to do with them being a foreigner. They're just.

00:15:23

Jack

A weird person. They're just strange, and they behave strangely, and so they deserve they. You should avoid that person, you know, that's what.

00:15:32

Jack

I want to tell people.

00:15:32

Xochitl

Yes, I know I I've had that happen so many times. So ultimately, yeah, it's it's an interesting experience.

00:15:44

Xochitl

So I don't know listeners, let us know what the craziest thing you've ever done was. Have you ever lived in another country and also do you know about the phenomenon that Jack and I are talking about? I'm curious if you guys know what we're talking about. Leave a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ [e-mail] and make sure to join the WeChat and also.

00:16:04

Xochitl

To talk to Jack and I directly.

00:16:06

Xochitl

Anne, Jack and I did start an English corner, as I'm sure you've heard, it's Monday through Friday for an hour a day and we have a lot of Members now. It's really cool. We get to discuss different topics just like the ones we discussed today, and everyone gets to chime in with their opinion and it's a really great time and environment to be able to practice your English.

00:16:26

Xochitl

So if you want to join us, make sure to send a message to Jack on WeChat or WhatsApp, or shoot us an e-mail at [e-mail] and we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.

00:16:36

Jack

Bye.

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