Topic Talk | Celebrity Crush

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It's a lot of what you project on that person, and it's usually based on, like either appearance or small like personality traits that you've acquired through seeing them act or whatever, that you kind of imagined for this person. 00:00:44 발표자 Right. 00:00:50 Jack And so you you. 00:00:51 Jack You know, often like, like high school kids will. You'll have a crush on a girl in your class or a guy in your class, but you don't really know that person. You just. But. But it's like, almost like an intense feeling of love. Like it's not real. 00:00:59 발표자 MHM. 00:01:04 Jack Love. But it's just like it feels like you're you're your chest is being crushed because you're you're so you. Your feelings are so strong for this person. Like they're perfect, you know? Ohh the perfect person. But really in reality you don't know them at all. And they could be awful, you know, so. 00:01:24 발표자 Great. 00:01:25 Jack Yeah, that's. So we have a thing called celebrity crushes because there's, you know, we're we're surrounded by celebrities all the. 00:01:32 Jack Time and sometimes we will develop. You know that feeling of like, again, that crush feeling. It's like it's not love or it's not real love, but it's like attraction to a person who you feel like is your soul mate your perfect person, you know. 00:01:47 발표자 Right. 00:01:52 Jack Like Ohh that's that's my ideal, you know person. 00:01:57 Jack And so when you were like young, when you're a kid who were your celebrity crushes, like who, who were you, who did you crush on when you were? 00:02:10 Xochitl Oh boy. 00:02:12 Xochitl My biggest one was Justin. 00:02:16 Xochitl Sure. 00:02:17 Jack Ohh, I was gonna say Justin Timberlake. 00:02:20 Xochitl No, I I he was too old, I think for my. Yeah, cause. Yeah, Justin Bieber was like my he was a couple years older, like few years. He's a few years older than me, I think. Yeah. And so he was a big celebrity crush of mine when I was probably like, 14 or 30 when I was 13, he was like. 00:02:22 Jack Yeah, he's like a grandfather. 00:02:39 Xochitl 16 probably and uh. 00:02:41 Jack Can I ask you a question? So did you have Bieber fever? 00:02:42 Xochitl Yeah. 00:02:46 Xochitl God. Yeah, I did. Uh, I thought it was too good to have Beaver fever, but I wasn't. And I didn't like him at the same time that every, like everyone else, already liked him. And I was, like, holding out. And then I saw this interview where he was really nice to this little girl, and it was like I thought it was so cute. 00:03:04 Xochitl UM. 00:03:06 Jack And that was before all the facial tattoos and the like neck tattoos. 00:03:09 Xochitl Yeah, it was. We went kind of crazy and, you know, had a meltdown because he was like he was transitioning from child star to adult star. And I thought he was just so cute. And I had, like, a people bought me, like gifts for my birthday. Like, they bought me both of his. 00:03:12 Jack Yeah. 00:03:18 발표자 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:27 Xochitl Like CD's that he had at the time, a lunch box with his face on it. 00:03:32 Xochitl And I had a huge poster that my sister bought me on my bedroom wall. 00:03:37 Jack Nice. 00:03:39 Xochitl And so that was a big that was like one of my first big celebrity crushes. Jack, you go with one of yours and we'll just go back and forth here. How about? 00:03:49 Jack OK, again, my OK, I'm 47 years old, so you have to understand these all that my celebrity crushes all come from like the late 80s to early 90s. OK, when I was like 12 or 13 years old because I was born in 1977, so. 00:04:07 Jack Uh, my. My first uh, I don't know. I'm trying to think of, like, my celebrity crush. 00:04:15 Jack I think maybe one of the one of my first ones was the actress Elizabeth Shue. 00:04:22 Jack UM, and you probably don't know who she is, right? Elizabeth Shue was in a movie called The Karate Kid. 00:04:23 Xochitl I. 00:04:30 Jack And. 00:04:31 Xochitl Oh my God. She was Daniel's girlfriend. 00:04:33 Jack Daniel's girlfriend. Yes, yes, I thought she was so. 00:04:35 Xochitl I do know cause I saw that my mom made me watch. My mom's a Gen. Xer and she made us watch the karate. 00:04:40 Xochitl Kid, when we were kids, which I liked a lot, so yeah. 00:04:41 Jack Yeah, it's a classic. You gotta watch it. The Karate Kid is, uh, yeah, it's a classic movie. And Elizabeth Shue was the love interest in there. She had a Daniel had a crush on her. They she had an ex-boyfriend who was a bully. 00:04:57 Jack And, UM, yeah, it was. Uh, she she was, you know, absolutely, you know, the epitome of, like, the perfect high school girlfriend, you know, bubbly, charming, cute, you know. 00:05:12 Xochitl You're all next door style. 00:05:14 Jack Girl next door. Yeah, she was. She was very. She was kind, you know, she wasn't stuck up. She. Yeah. Yeah, so. 00:05:22 Jack Elizabeth Shue was was one of my first celebrity crushes. 00:05:26 Xochitl Have you seen a Cobra Kai? 00:05:28 Jack Yeah, I've watched that. I saw a couple of seasons of that show. I enjoyed it. 00:05:33 Xochitl You much more because she shows back up. 00:05:35 Xochitl At some point. 00:05:36 Jack Yeah, she did show up in that one. Yeah. And that, you know, now she's 50, you know, something years old, 55 years old or whatever, but. 00:05:47 Jack Yeah. So you know, that was one of my celebrity crushes. I'm sure I'm, it's me and about a million other Gen. X, you know, men my age, maybe 10s of millions who would put her on the list. Yeah. Yeah. 00:06:04 Jack What's your #2? 00:06:04 Xochitl Right. 00:06:06 Xochitl My #2 High School Musical when everyone was crushing on Zac Efron, I was crushing on Corbin Bleu. 00:06:14 Jack Corporate blue. Who's that? Which one is that? 00:06:16 Xochitl That's his friend. Uh, I don't know, cause I only watched High School Musical one time, but. 00:06:23 Xochitl He's like I'm trying to find a picture of him to show you guys here. 00:06:27 Xochitl He was this guy. 00:06:29 Jack But Corbin Bleu is his real name. Or is that his the name of OK? 00:06:32 Xochitl Yeah, that's his real name. This is Corbin book. Can you see him here? There you go. 00:06:36 Jack Ohh yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. He's got like kind of. 00:06:38 Jack Yeah. 00:06:39 Jack Big hair, yeah. 00:06:40 Xochitl Curly hair and yeah, he was my I had he. I thought he was really cute and I did not understand the hype over Zach Efron. I felt like Zac Efron's eyes didn't match the rest of his face and he was orange looking and sorry that got Bron. 00:06:55 Xochitl Those were like my observations, and I thought Corbin Blue was just the cutest, so that was. 00:07:01 Xochitl Yeah. 00:07:02 Jack OK. OK, interesting. Alright. Alright, I'm. 00:07:05 Xochitl I almost always like never was like a huge fan of the main character. I always liked the second guy like in Harry Potter. 00:07:13 Jack You like the goof like goofy best friend. You know guy? Yeah. 00:07:16 Xochitl Yeah, like in Harry Potter. I always liked Ron Weasley over Harry. 00:07:20 Jack Ohh OK yeah, yeah. 00:07:21 Xochitl It's like that was just my thing. I. 00:07:23 Xochitl Don't know why. 00:07:24 Jack No. 00:07:25 Jack Well, Harry short, you know, in real life he's a pretty short guy. 00:07:28 Xochitl Isn't Rupert Grint also short, though? 00:07:31 Jack Probably, yeah. These might be taller than Harry though, yeah? 00:07:32 Xochitl Yeah, I think he's too. I just thought he was cuter than he. 00:07:35 Jack They're all tiny little yeah. 00:07:38 Xochitl They're all short people, yeah. 00:07:39 Jack Yeah, yeah. 00:07:42 Jack UM alright, my my second one is I used to watch this show again when I was like, you know, 12 or 13 called saved by the bell. It was a sitcom. 00:07:57 Jack And but it was like a. It was like a a kids sitcom. It was different. It would. It was on Saturday mornings instead of like, you know, Thursday evening saved by the bell. And it was it took place in the high school, and there was a again, this is like a a side character. 00:08:09 발표자 Hmm. 00:08:16 Jack UM named Lisa Turtle was her name, but her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress and I had a a huge crush on on her and she was like. 00:08:31 Jack The character. Do you have you ever heard? 00:08:33 Jack Of the character Screech. 00:08:35 Jack Screech the the nerd? No. OK, but you have no idea what I'm talking about right now. OK, so it doesn't matter. No, none of our students know what I'm talking about. Saved by the bell. Uh, Lisa, turtle. And that's her. Her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress. And so I had a huge. 00:08:40 Xochitl No, I'm 25. 00:08:54 Jack Crush on her. 00:08:55 Jack Yeah. 00:08:55 Xochitl Lark is a cool name for a woman. It's a real name Mark. 00:08:57 Jack That is a cool name, I know. 00:09:00 Jack Maybe the only way it would be cooler is to do like skylark. 00:09:05 Jack That's is that cooler? 00:09:06 Xochitl I've seen Skyler as a name, but I like lark better. I think. I think that's cooler. Like lark George. 00:09:11 Jack What about skylark? 00:09:15 Xochitl I think it's like trying too hard. I think Laura Voorhees sounds like you're like a cool like in a punk rock band or so, you know, like a drunk band. You know what I mean? I like it. Yeah. Alright. My third one was when I was like a little bit older. So it's like, so I'm a little embarrassed, but I think I was like 18 or 19. So I was still a. 00:09:20 Jack Yeah. Yeah, OK. OK. OK, yeah, that's good. 00:09:25 발표자 Like. 00:09:32 Xochitl Teenager so in Guk. 00:09:36 Jack Ohh. 00:09:37 Xochitl The Korean uh actor and singer. 00:09:42 Xochitl And I saw him in a music video by K will called. Please don't. And he was really cute. Like I just thought, Oh my God, he's so cute. And I started, like, looking up what other stuff he was in besides his music video. And he was in some K drama. 00:09:57 Xochitl And. 00:09:58 Xochitl But he had his own music and stuff, and so I would like, listen to his music videos. He has a really nice voice. 00:10:04 Jack Is that why you came to Korea? Because you got into, like population. 00:10:06 Xochitl No, no, no, no, no, no, I was not. No, that's so embarrassing. No, I wasn't a huge K pop person. I like solo artists like like IU selling the. 00:10:08 Jack You didn't come to meet him in person. 00:10:20 Jack Or rain something like that. B yeah. 00:10:23 Xochitl I don't really know rain or be that might have been like a little before my, but sawing OK will IU. I was a huge fan of them. 00:10:33 Xochitl And the whole reason I really got into Korea was actually a YouTuber called Tonon Mukadam. I was looking up how. 00:10:39 Xochitl To. 00:10:40 Xochitl Teach abroad in uh. Just teaching abroad in general, I think, and her channel came up about teaching abroad in Korea. And then like the benefits are so. 00:10:50 Xochitl Much. 00:10:51 Xochitl Better and easier, I feel like than a lot of other English. 00:10:54 Xochitl Yes, all countries. So that's how I. 00:10:55 Jack Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:10:58 Xochitl Yeah, but selling Google was a huge celebrity crush of mine. So what's your last one, Jack? 00:11:03 Jack OK, OK. 00:11:05 Jack My last one is, uh, the singer. This one was she was very popular when I was in high school, maybe. 00:11:13 Jack 10th grade or 9th grade or something? Uh. Jewel. 00:11:18 Jack Do you know jewel? 00:11:19 Xochitl No. 00:11:20 Jack You've never heard of. 00:11:22 Xochitl I've never heard of her. I really have never heard of. 00:11:24 Jack Her. So I'm so old. All right, Jewel, is she? She she's a guitarist, singer-songwriter. She her first single. Who will save your soul. 00:11:41 Jack Is, you know, has probably 20 million downloads on on uh, YouTube. 00:11:48 Jack She's just a very, very talented singer and I think it's just her beauty and her talent was, you know, just, you know, I've had a crush on her because I think there's something about that combination of like. 00:12:08 Jack Umm. 00:12:09 Jack Attractive beauty and also talent and ability to sing and write music. It was to me like, you know, he's perfect, you know, like Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't just about physical, you know, appearance. It was like ohh man. You know she's smart. 00:12:18 Xochitl Like, Oh my gosh, yeah. 00:12:20 Xochitl Right, like a triple Emmys thing. 00:12:29 Jack Beautiful. And she can write music and sing and perform and has a great voice. 00:12:33 Jack So you know, I mean, I'm sure that like lots of my parents, generations had crushes on like Joni Mitchell or, you know, Emmy Lou Harris or other, you know, you know Diana Ross or whatever. But yeah, for my generation, it was jewel and. 00:12:45 발표자 Hmm. 00:12:54 Jack You you have no idea what I'm talking about. 00:12:56 Xochitl I'm going to have to look up after this, I'll send you send me like a YouTube. 00:12:58 Jack Yes. 00:13:00 Xochitl Tube of one of her songs of dual songs. 00:13:03 Jack You should go down to jewel. You should go down to jewel rabbit hole. You might actually like her cause you're you're like the singer guitar player guitar writer. You know, singer-songwriter yourself. Yeah, you would. Yeah. 00:13:06 Xochitl I will. I will. 00:13:10 Xochitl Yeah, I think it's probably like, yeah. And I'll send you like a song, good song, and then we can trade, yeah. 00:13:19 Jack OK. Yeah. Then we'll compare notes next week. Yeah, OK. 00:13:22 Xochitl Yeah, sounds good. 00:13:24 Xochitl All right, listeners, well, you have to let us know who your celebrity crushes were. I'd love to hear about celebrity crushes from around the world. I'll leave us a comment down below at A-Z. Englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at [email protected] and make sure to join our community of students in our WhatsApp and WeChat groups. 00:13:43 Xochitl And we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye. 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