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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack ask each other funny questions. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, 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. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And 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. 00:00:49 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my. 00:00:52 Jack Co-host. 00:00:53 Jack Social 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. 00:01:08 Jack And so, uh, so. So the first one is. 00:01:12 Jack If you could teach a dog your dog duende to do 1 human thing, what would it be? 00:01:21 Xochitl Yeah. 00:01:22 Xochitl Uh, 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? 00:01:39 Jack What's this? What's this? What's this? What's this you're like? 00:01:43 Xochitl Yeah, constantly. Like, so you know. 00:01:47 Xochitl But you know it's between. 00:01:49 Xochitl Teaching 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. 00:01:58 Jack Yeah. 00:02:08 Xochitl That would be great if you could just be self-sufficient and that. 00:02:10 Xochitl Just. 00:02:10 Xochitl Kind of that involves is kind of cheating because it involves a lot of human things under one umbrella. 00:02:16 Jack You know, but I I just picture him sitting on the sofa like a human with, like, the remote control in his paw. 00:02:23 Jack It's just kind of slipping through the channels looking for anything with dogs on TV. 00:02:24 Xochitl Yeah, he would definitely. 00:02:30 Xochitl Yeah, 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. 00:02:41 Jack Wow, that's weird. 00:02:49 Xochitl I 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. 00:03:01 Xochitl Ed. 00:03:03 발표자 Ohh. 00:03:05 Jack What? What does that mean? 00:03:05 발표자 2 And. 00:03:07 Xochitl I 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. 00:03:18 Xochitl And watch it. 00:03:18 Xochitl The 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. 00:03:25 Xochitl What I would do? 00:03:26 Jack Yeah. Yeah. Ohh. 00:03:27 Xochitl Jack, how for your dog. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. 00:03:30 Jack Oh, no. Yeah, Michael. 00:03:31 Jack I 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. 00:03:37 Jack My. 00:03:37 Jack Dog to to talk because. 00:03:41 Jack You know. 00:03:44 Jack Yeah. 00:03:45 Jack She 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. 00:03:57 Jack I would teach I. 00:03:58 Jack Would love her to UM. 00:04:01 Jack Be able to use the toilet. 00:04:03 Xochitl I 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. 00:04:09 Xochitl Pees all over the house, right? 00:04:10 Jack Yeah, 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. 00:04:20 Jack And yeah, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. So huge convenience for us. 00:04:30 Xochitl Yeah, 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. 00:04:40 Xochitl Which just makes it really easy to pick up, so I don't really have to worry about them. 00:04:44 Jack Yeah, yeah. 00:04:48 Jack Let's let's do it. I got another one here. 00:04:52 Jack This one is kind of interesting. Like what's your silliest selfie face, or do you do you have a selfie face? 00:05:03 Xochitl Umm, I don't know if I have a selfie. 00:05:05 Xochitl Face I think one time. 00:05:08 Xochitl When I was like 14 like or something, the the uh. 00:05:13 Xochitl What's it called? 00:05:15 Xochitl The UM. 00:05:17 Xochitl Duck 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? 00:05:20 Jack Yeah. 00:05:30 Xochitl With 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. 00:05:38 Jack You. You they think it's the idea is that it makes your lips look bigger, right? 00:05:43 Xochitl You 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. 00:05:48 Jack Yeah. 00:05:59 Xochitl So I don't know, but yeah, that's probably that probably is number one for me. How about you, Jack? 00:06:06 Jack This is really embarrassing. I'm disclosing too much information here, but. 00:06:12 Jack Uh, I I had a period of time where I used to make a mirror face. I had a mirror face. 00:06:20 Jack UM, where? I did something weird with my mouth every time I looked in the mirror. 00:06:26 Jack And and and and I I didn't. I didn't know that I had this habit, you know. 00:06:32 Jack UM and I don't know what I I can't explain it but. 00:06:39 Jack But 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. 00:06:55 Jack Bottom lip out with my tongue a little bit to maybe make my face like a little bit more. 00:07:01 Jack What I thought was more attractive, more handsome or something I I don't know. Like it was. It was a very strange habit and. 00:07:09 Xochitl Like 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. 00:07:21 Jack Oh, 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. 00:07:28 Jack Like. 00:07:29 Jack She 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. 00:07:42 Jack From my perspective, uh, my point of view. 00:07:46 Jack And so when I caught a glimpse of my face in the the the window I did the mirror face just reflexively. 00:07:54 Jack UM. 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. 00:08:15 Jack I was doing it in public and and I I really had to. 00:08:21 Jack Like 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. 00:08:40 Jack I mean, obviously our mouth does turn upward, but. 00:08:46 Jack It'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. 00:08:59 Jack Really 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. 00:09:20 Jack And yeah, it was really embarrassing. 00:09:24 Xochitl Yeah, that's funny. 00:09:25 Jack Yeah. 00:09:28 Jack Let's see here. What's another one we got? Let's do one more. 00:09:35 Jack Yeah, what's the? 00:09:38 Jack Let's see here. Let me find a better one. What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? 00:09:43 Jack I I shouldn't ask you this right now because you have food poisoning as you mentioned earlier today. 00:09:49 Xochitl Right, yeah. 00:09:51 Xochitl The weirdest thing I've ever eaten, though. 00:09:55 Xochitl Ah, 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. 00:10:16 Xochitl Kid Adam, I think his name was would be the first to try. 00:10:20 Xochitl Anything 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. 00:10:28 Jack That'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. 00:10:36 Xochitl Yes. 00:10:42 Xochitl Yeah, it'll be, like, really rude about other cultures, food, which I don't get either. So. 00:10:47 발표자 2 I don't. So I remember this. 00:10:50 Xochitl One that I tried. 00:10:52 Xochitl Was like. 00:10:54 Xochitl It was Lotus Root, but it was also kind of presentation where it was cold. 00:11:00 Xochitl And 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. 00:11:20 Xochitl Plates tasted like cold chapstick. It was very weird and. 00:11:24 Xochitl And that was all. 00:11:24 Jack On the on the. 00:11:25 Jack On the positive side, your lips were. 00:11:28 Jack Super moist after that. 00:11:30 Xochitl Yeah, moisturize for sure. Right. So I think that would probably. 00:11:36 Xochitl Uh, 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. 00:11:44 발표자 2 Hmm. 00:11:50 Xochitl Like uh. 00:11:52 Xochitl We 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. 00:12:00 Jack Hmm, OK. 00:12:05 Xochitl As 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. 00:12:18 Jack Yeah, yeah. 00:12:20 Xochitl Yeah. 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. 00:12:27 Xochitl Color, which comes from the worms. 00:12:30 Xochitl And then crickets, which we also eat here in Mexico. Uh, I'm not a fan of crickets. They have, like, a very herby flavor. 00:12:38 Jack Yeah. 00:12:39 Xochitl Which 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. 00:12:59 Xochitl This sauce and you can also use them in salsas or just fried. 00:13:03 Xochitl Up. 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. 00:13:10 Jack Yes. 00:13:25 Xochitl And the lids. And you can also just eat them with lime and salt. And I've had them in mole before and. 00:13:31 Xochitl Again, it's kind of a. 00:13:33 Xochitl It'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. 00:13:39 Jack Yeah. 00:13:41 Xochitl Yeah. 00:13:41 Jack That'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. 00:13:50 Jack Uh. 00:13:52 Jack The Easan Province area and but they they they fry them in oil and then salt them. Is that how it's prepared and? 00:14:04 Xochitl Yeah, that's exactly how they're prepared here. If they're like, they look like bacon bins, they're really. 00:14:06 발표자 2 Yes. 00:14:08 Xochitl Start. 00:14:09 Jack Yeah, there's a great source of protein. 00:14:12 Xochitl Yeah, 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. 00:14:24 Jack Right, right there. Cricket flower is a thing now. You can buy that. It's like a healthier protein flower. 00:14:25 Xochitl Have. 00:14:26 Xochitl Flavor strong. 00:14:32 Xochitl You need to use it to like. 00:14:33 Xochitl Make pancakes and stuff I had. 00:14:34 Jack Right. 00:14:36 Jack Yeah. 00:14:36 Xochitl And worm worm flour or something too. You can use like make worm cake and worm pancakes and stuff. 00:14:41 Xochitl Which I haven't tried. 00:14:41 Jack Yeah, 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. 00:14:47 Xochitl Yes. 00:14:55 Jack It's not my. It's not my thing. You know, it's not my jam, but. 00:15:00 Xochitl Does your wife eat? 00:15:01 Jack Yeah, 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? 00:15:08 Jack Like if you're in a bar or something and there's a side dish and it might be bandagi and so. 00:15:16 Jack You can you can get that, it's. 00:15:19 Xochitl Does your daughter eat it? 00:15:21 Jack My daughter would is has such a phobia of insects that I think the idea of bandagi might just. 00:15:30 Jack She would need to. She would almost faint if I even brought up the idea of it to her. 00:15:37 Xochitl That'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. 00:15:46 발표자 2 Oh. 00:15:47 Xochitl On the 17th floor. So I guess that's probably why. 00:15:52 Xochitl But 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. 00:15:59 Jack Yeah. 00:16:02 Jack Yeah, 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. 00:16:12 발표자 2 Yeah. 00:16:13 Xochitl Black 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. 00:16:24 Jack Yeah, a funny, funny quick aside here. There a story. 00:16:29 Jack UM, 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. 00:16:41 Xochitl Huh. 00:16:42 Jack I 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. 00:16:54 Jack Little little bug. 00:16:56 Jack And I have to kill it, you know, because I'm. 00:16:59 Xochitl Ohh so you kill it for her. 00:17:01 Jack I kill her for her. Yeah, yeah. 00:17:02 Xochitl That'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. 00:17:08 Jack Didn't. 00:17:13 Xochitl I'm still scared of bugs, but you know, I kind of have to. 00:17:18 Xochitl Have to toughen up because uh. 00:17:21 Xochitl My you know. 00:17:21 Jack Maybe 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. 00:17:30 Xochitl You 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. 00:17:41 Xochitl And 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. 00:17:53 Xochitl I 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. 00:17:57 Jack Oh really? 00:18:04 Jack Oh, nice. OK. Yeah. Roaches are the worst. I I hate roaches. I hate them. Yeah. 00:18:05 Xochitl And then once we right up. 00:18:07 발표자 2 Yeah. 00:18:10 Xochitl They're so creepy. 00:18:11 Jack Oh, they're awful. They're awful with those big long antennas. 00:18:14 Xochitl Ohh yeah, because they're like big. Ohh. And some of them fly in Mexico it's like. 00:18:19 Xochitl Worse. 00:18:20 Xochitl What? What is? What is the weird thing you've ever eaten, though? Now where you know you have bugs. 00:18:24 Jack Yeah, I don't know, I. 00:18:26 Jack Mean, 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. 00:18:33 발표자 Would you? 00:18:40 Xochitl Yeah, 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. 00:18:50 Jack Yeah, exactly that. Ohh. Nice. I I I've always said chicken, but it's not exactly like chicken. It's. 00:18:56 Jack Like, yeah, like, yes. Exactly, exactly. 00:18:56 Xochitl It speaks the way that Whitefish does. 00:19:01 Xochitl Like cod or something, it's like a mix between chicken and cod. 00:19:04 Jack Yeah, the way it kind of kind of stacks on itself like it's there's like slices or something, it's hard for you. 00:19:11 Xochitl Yeah, it's flakes. It's like flaking. Like it's it's. Yeah, it flakes like, but it has a meteor bite like. 00:19:13 Jack Flaky, right? 00:19:18 발표자 2 10. 00:19:19 Jack Yeah. 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. 00:19:25 발표자 Or chicken wings. 00:19:38 Jack UM, it's not something I. 00:19:41 Jack Would 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. 00:19:55 Xochitl That'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. 00:20:03 Jack Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's why in France they just, you know, drench it in butter and garlic sauce. You know, it's like. 00:20:12 Jack It it's it's, it's not something you might eat. 00:20:17 Jack You 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. 00:20:29 Jack Much the. 00:20:30 Xochitl Yeah, 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 [email protected]. Shoot us an e-mail at [email protected] and make sure you join the week channel. 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