The A to Z English Podcast Jack McBain

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack share their teenage celebrity crushes!
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk and we're talking about celebrity crushes that you had when you were a kid. OK and social, just for our audiences understanding what is a crush.
00:00:22
Jack
Again, if you have a crush on someone.
00:00:25
Xochitl
A crush is like when you really, really like someone. Kind of like an intense infatuation.
00:00:31
Xochitl
But it's not really based on anything real like like a real connection with that person. 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 bedr

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the meaning of several phrasal verbs which use the word punch.
Punch in: To enter data or information by pressing keys on a keyboard or keypad, often used in the context of clocking in at work.
Example: "Don't forget to punch in when you arrive at the office."
Punch out: To exit a time clock or record one's departure from work by pressing a button or card.
Example: "I'll punch out at 5:00 and then we can grab dinner."
Punch up: To improve or enhance something, often by adding more energy, excitement, or impact.
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tests Jack's knowledge of common texting acronyms.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
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00:00:03
Jack
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00:00:23
Jack
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00:00:42
Jack
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00:00:44
Jack
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00:00:52
Jack
Now let's get on with the show.
00:00:55
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are under the vocabulary spotlight.
00:01:05
Jack
And social is going to test me on my knowledge of testing accurate and I'm sorry texting.
00:01:15
Xochitl
Excellent.
00:01:16
Jack
Acronyms like like.
00:01:17
Jack
Text.
00:01:18
Jack
Texting words or whatever I guess. Or texting language.
00:01:20
Xochitl
Yes, finally explaining in a way, it's like you just you don't use the whole phrase or the whole words. You just use like a few letters to represent the word. So that's like what it is.
00:01:32
Jack
Exactly, yeah.
00:01:35
Xochitl
And I have a six here so.
00:01:38
Xochitl
So let's get started. I'm ready to tear you up because you really got me with the Canadian one was that Aussie one wasn't a total failure, the Canadian one.
00:01:39
Xochitl
OK.
00:01:46
Jack
No, you did better on the Aussie one than you did with the Canadian slang, which is kind of surprising.
00:01:51
Xochitl
I know and.
00:01:52
Xochitl
Canadian and I've been to Canada and I don't even have any like Austin friends and I have Canadian friends as messy, but.
00:01:58
Jack
We share a border with Canada, you know.
00:02:01
Xochitl
And I have a a close Canadian friend or a couple maybe, and I don't have like any Aussie friends I can think of, but I just ruined. I just ruined the Canadian one.
00:02:10
Jack
Well, I'll give a I'll.
00:02:11
Jack
Give a shout out to teacher Paul Paul the the the grammar detective.
00:02:17
Jack
If you don't know his uh YouTube channel, check it out. For sure. The grammar detective best grammar teacher on the Internet. He sent me a message about that episode and said basically those Canadian terms are very like rural. You know, they're not. It's like.
00:02:35
Jack
OK.
00:02:37
Jack
And even most Canadian people don't use those terms. It's very much.
00:02:41
Jack
Like like hillbillies you know? Kind of like, yeah, people that live in the countryside might.
00:02:47
Xochitl
Without in the sticks as you say.
00:02:49
Jack
In the sticks, right? Yeah. Hillbillies is not a the right way to say that, but.
00:02:55
Xochitl
I think in sticks isn't either, but in the sticks are just a term we use for people who.
00:02:59
Xochitl
Live out in the country.
00:03:00
Jack
Yeah.
00:03:02
Jack
Country folk, you know, country people that are not, you know, maybe college educated, you know, high school educated only use those kinds of terms.
00:03:12
Jack
And it's it's not very they're not very common in in regular.
00:03:17
Jack
Right. But actually it's not actually.
00:03:17
Xochitl
Speech in Sydney.
00:03:19
Xochitl
Has to do with the level of education. I think it's more just like it's kind of like colloquial language, like it's a regional dialect kind of thing, right? Oh, yeah.
00:03:29
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very. You know, the central Canada, very rural farm farm

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack describe their dream homes.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
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00:00:03
Jack
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00:00:23
Jack
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00:00:42
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00:00:44
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00:00:52
Jack
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00:00:56
Jack
Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, social. And today we are doing a topic talk and the topic is, what does your dream home look like? So social describe your dream home.
00:01:15
Xochitl
Well, I really like this one because I had my dream home picture for a while.
00:01:18
Xochitl
Now, but it would ideally be on a big plot of land, like a big land plot of land, because I don't really want to have any like close by neighbors or anything. So I do want to be on a big plot of land and it would be, I think there'd be two sections would be like 1 main home and then one like little home in the back.
00:01:28
Jack
Hmm.
00:01:39
Jack
Like a guest home.
00:01:39
Xochitl
But.
00:01:40
Xochitl
Yeah. The guest home. Yeah. The guest house. So the main home would be two floors. Uh, I really. I thought two floors with no basement. I never really thought about the basement aspect, but it would be. You would like, walk in. There would be a little place to, like, take your shoes off.
00:01:52
Jack
OK.
00:02:00
Xochitl
And then it'd be like the living room and the dining room. Then it'd be the kitchen, and then it'd be like stairs to the second floor. And then there'd be a guest room right here.
00:02:11
Xochitl
After that and then there'd be a big open space type room in the back where you could with like a whole panel of windows in the back. So you could like do art or music or anything back there.
00:02:23
Jack
Ohh, like a flex room like like whatever it you could make it whatever you want it to be.
00:02:29
Xochitl
Right. Yeah. It's just like a huge open space, like running the whole back length of the.
00:02:30
Jack
OK.
00:02:33
Xochitl
House.
00:02:36
Xochitl
And then upstairs it would be like a bedroom.
00:02:41
Xochitl
And the back bathroom upstairs. Ohh, the guest bedroom would also have bathroom downstairs and then it would be like a.
00:02:50
Xochitl
Up front balcony type of area with a small.
00:02:56
Xochitl
Like landing after the stairs and then two rooms between that front balcony and the UM bedroom bathroom situation. And I guess one of them would be like a spare room and the other one would be like a music room or Art Room or something like that. So.
00:03:12
Jack
OK. Is there a city approval in this House?
00:03:13
Xochitl
And.
00:03:16
Xochitl
The backroom has, like, uh, the back house I think would have like a little like a pond or something nice. And then like pond or something. And then.
00:03:24
Jack
Oh, OK.
00:03:27
Jack
Not swimming in there a koi pond. OK, it's more of a beauty. Looking beautiful being, you know, peaceful. Not not a, not a party house. This is like a peaceful house, OK.
00:03:29
Xochitl
No.
00:03:34
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:03:37
Xochitl
No.
00:03:38
Xochitl
Yes, a people house and then it would have like it would be a little.
00:03:43
Xochitl
Just like a little guest house, like a one story. Cottage looking

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack give you a list of dos and don'ts when meeting your significant other's parents for the first time.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
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00:00:03
Jack
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00:00:23
Jack
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00:00:42
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00:00:44
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00:00:52
Jack
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00:00:55
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today we are and I'm with my co-host social of course. And we are in the culture corner and we're talking about what do you do when you meet the parents of your, of your boyfriend or girlfriend for the first time, you know?
00:01:14
Jack
What's the what kind of etiquette do you like behavior? Should you display? What? What should you do? What shouldn't you do so social? Do you have like a list of dos and don'ts?
00:01:24
Jack
For for our our listeners out there who may be like meeting their significant others parents for the first time.
00:01:33
Xochitl
Yeah, I know. I we just had an episode talking about how you can dress like a slob anywhere in America, but a first date and also meeting a parent. Parents are two occasions where I would.
00:01:39
Jack
Yes.
00:01:44
Xochitl
Never do that.
00:01:46
Xochitl
So you want to go and kind of business casual attire, which means a nice dress shirt usually, or a polo. Or it could be a crisp, a clean looking solid color, no logos, no designs well fitted T-shirt and then neutral.
00:01:54
Jack
Yes.
00:02:06
Xochitl
Done.
00:02:07
Xochitl
And a pair of either nice clean, no tears, jeans or a pair of slacks. Kind of casual khaki, black, neutral tone slacks. And you can wear, you know, a pair of clean, crisp white sneakers or some casual dress shoes. Don't.
00:02:19
Jack
Yeah.
00:02:26
Xochitl
Go in as a man wearing like rocks or like sandals. And and if you're a woman, just go in a nice.
00:02:37
Xochitl
Kind of also neutral toned or it can be.
00:02:42
Xochitl
Pattern and it doesn't really have to be a neutral tone, but just kind of a tasteful dress. Nothing too crazy, nothing too extravagant.
00:02:51
Xochitl
Might wear something neutral, might wear something in a light pink or blue or something like that, but just a simple casual floral dress with a little cardigan is and your footwear is also more relaxed. You can wear a pair of clean tennis shoes like white, crisp tennis shoes, a pair of.
00:03:01
Jack
Yeah.
00:03:11
Xochitl
Little sandals if it's hot anything, but just make sure you look presentable.
00:03:18
Xochitl
And that's a big one for.
00:03:21
Xochitl
Looks duos.
00:03:23
Jack
And I'm going to say most of the time we we have an expression. Don't don't judge a book by its cover, but in this situation your, the, your boyfriend or girlfriend's parents are definitely.
00:03:38
Jack
Judging the book by its cover, so make your cover look good.
00:03:40
Xochitl
Yes.
00:03:44
Xochitl
Yeah, want to look.
00:03:44
Jack
Because you are being judged.
00:03:47
Xochitl
Yeah, you want to look presentable. You want to look clean. Clean cut is the phrase we use really often in the US, which means somebody who is, they're, well, shaved, their hair grew.
00:03:57
발표자 3
No.
00:03:57
Jack
Look like me right now

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about the cartoons they used to watch on television as children.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
Hey A-Z listeners, this is Jack here.
00:00:03
Jack
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00:00:23
Jack
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00:00:42
Jack
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00:00:44
Jack
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00:00:52
Jack
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00:00:55
Jack
Welcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my Co social. And today we are talking about what cartoons did you watch when you were a kid. And we'll try to keep it at like 3. I think 3 each if we can. And so I grew up. I was a kid in the 80s and in the 80s.
00:01:10
Xochitl
Yes.
00:01:16
Jack
There was this thing called Saturday morning cartoons and every kid.
00:01:23
Jack
Couldn't wait to wake up on Saturday morning and watch Saturday morning cartoons. This is because this is before the Internet, right? I mean, we're talking 5 channels on the television and the whole Saturday morning is just for you. Yeah, just cartoons.
00:01:41
Xochitl
Cartoons.
00:01:44
Jack
So.
00:01:45
Jack
The ones that I watched the first one that I watched was, uh, Transformers. I loved Transformers. Yeah, and now you can watch those movies, those ridiculous.
00:01:54
Xochitl
Interesting.
00:01:58
Xochitl
Those came out like when I was a kid. Ish. Those transformed? Yeah, I.
00:02:01
Jack
Yeah, right. And I I remember having the toys in the 80s and watching the original cartoon in the 80s, and it was great. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and all the all the main characters. But that was that was a.
00:02:21
Jack
A A definite staple when I.
00:02:24
Jack
As a kid, uh, another one that I watched was GI Joe. My brother and I loved GI Joe. And GI Joe is now a famous movie series as well because they take all these 80s cartoons and they turn them into, you know, big blockbuster movies.
00:02:42
Xochitl
Movies, real action, live action things. Yeah. So now I understand that live action isn't new because I I was like, why are they turning all these Disney classics that I watched when I was a kid into live action? And now I see that life actions that I saw when I was.
00:02:56
Xochitl
Growing up were things that were cartoons when you were a kid, so it's not a new thing.
00:02:59
Jack
Yeah, right. You you're saying the copy of the copy of the copy? You know what I mean? Like you're.
00:03:04
Xochitl
Right, yeah.
00:03:06
Jack
Yeah, because all the all the directors and the writers were were kids that were my age. Watching these these Saturday morning cartoons going, these would make great movies. I can't wait to grow up and make this into a movie, which is funny because people that are watching those movies have no idea that those used to be cartoons.
00:03:27
Xochitl
Right, it's weird.
00:03:28
Jack
Yeah, it's, it's weird.
00:03:30
Jack
Uh #3. I used to watch uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
00:03:35
Jack
Which is yeah.
00:03:35
Xochitl
Ohh, let's let's.
00:03:37
Xochitl
Do a thing. When I was a kid.
00:03:38
Jack
Yeah.
00:03:40
Jack
And you know, I was choosing. I was trying to decide between that and dungeons and Dragons because I love the Dungeons and Dragons.
00:03:47
Xochitl
No dungeons and Dragons was a cartoon.
00:03:49
Jack
Yeah. Yeah