Topic Talk | Man or Bear?
Description
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl presents Jack with a conundrum:
Would you rather have your daughter or wife encounter a strange bear or a strange man while alone in the woods?
Transcript:
Jack
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Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have another topic talk for you and social you have kind of a I don't know what you would call like a situation or a conundrum. A conundrum is like a difficult decision or difficult situation.
Jack
So what is your? What is the conundrum?
Xochitl
Jack, this has become really popular in my medicines in the last, maybe even couple of months and it's very popular amongst American medicine. So I'm curious to hear what your answer is. So without any context, let's say that your wife and your daughter are in the woods.
Xochitl
Lost and alone. And they have, you know, no Internet cell service. Whatever to call you or call anyone else.
Xochitl
Would you rather they come across a strange man that no like you? You don't know? They don't know. Nobody knows him or his intentions or anything. Or would you rather they come across a bear?
발표자
Yeah.
Jack
No. OK. So just to for our listeners there, in in, in case you didn't catch that you said social that my my wife and my daughter are in the woods just walking in the woods. They have no cell phone, no way to to contact anybody.
Jack
And the question is, would I rather they come across a bear or a strange man that they don't know?
Xochitl
Yes, correct.
Jack
OK.
Jack
This is, you know, this should be an easy question. I mean, if we lived in like a, like, a a reasonable world, you know, where we, you know. But I feel like I listen to a lot of, like, true crime podcasts. And so I just, I've listened to too much true crime to.
Jack
To to answer this one easily, what kind of bear is it? Is it a grizzly bear?
Xochitl
Don't know. We don't know what kind.
Xochitl
Of bear it is. It's just.
Jack
You don't know what kind of bear it is. It could be a brown bear. It could be a black bear. It could be a a grizzly bear.
Xochitl
Come here. Just sit there. It's just like you don't know what kind of man it is. You.
Xochitl
Also don't know.
Xochitl
What kind?
Xochitl
Of bear it is. Yeah, have.
Xochitl
Some good choice there.
Jack
Do I know the gender of the bear?
Xochitl
Uh, no.
Jack
All right. Because, you know, if it if it were, uh, if it were a female bear, I would be, I would. I would choose the man because, you know, if if the if the if a if a female bear is protecting her Cubs. If her Cubs are in the area. That's a very dangerous situation. So I would.
Jack
I would just hope that the man is not a psychic, a psychotic killer. You know, a psycho.
Jack
Right.
Jack
If the if the bear were male I uh, it's probably gonna just leave them alone, you know? Like it just it it they.
Jack
You know, they don't really necessarily see humans as prey, necessarily, unless they're starving, you know, they'll they'll pretty much just. They might play around with you or whatever, which is terrifying. You know, that could still kill you or injure you. But generally speaking, they'll they'll leave you alone.
Jack
If it's a if it's a male Baron, it's starving. It'll it'll eat you. So that in that case, I mean, there's just too many. I guess there are too many variables when it comes to the bear.
Xochitl
You can't overcomplicate Jack. You don't know because also you could also think you know black bears like 100% of the time, pretty much like 99.9% of the time a black bear will run away if.
Xochitl
It sees a human like it'll just take.
Jack
Right, right. Exactly, exactly. They're they're they're not interested in humans. Really. You know, they might be curious.
Xochitl
They're scared. Blackberries are scared of humans. Actually a little bit like if they see one, I run into them. When I was camping in national parks, I we did like two week backpacking in national.
Xochitl
Like and they they like, run away, cause there's kind of scared of people, black bears, and they're pretty. They're kind of they're a lot smaller than grizzly bears, actually.
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
Xochitl
They're not that big.
Jack
The problem is just the. The problem is that bears are just too unreliable right now for me to like if my wife and my daughter came across the bear. They're just too you just, you just never know what's going to happen.
Jack
Like it's just.
Xochitl
Well, what about men? So men are are men reliable to you?
Jack
Well, I think a bear is going to do what a bear is going to do, right? Like like they're they weigh 500 lbs. They're going.
Xochitl
OK.
Jack
Them.
Jack
You know, if they decide that they want to, you know, bite you and mess you up, they'll do it. And it's really kind of like, it's very much like a a coin toss.
Jack
Now the man, on the other hand.
Jack
What percentage of of men are are psycho killers?
Jack
I mean like it's it's got to be.
Jack
It's got to be minuscule, right? It's got to be like small, small percentage.
Xochitl
That kind of bad Jack, because I was like, I realize that you're a good guy. And that's like, you don't think of this but like, think about it this way. How many men are psycho killers? Yeah. How many men are actually good people when they come across a woman alone in the woods?
Jack
I've been, I'm going to say still a large a majority.
Jack
A large majority are good, are good people, but there are there is a percentage of of of very bad people that are gonna that are going to be like a crime of we call this we we would call this a crime of opportunity right. It's like they're not necessarily they're not necessarily going to do.
Xochitl
OK, that's all.
Xochitl
Yes.
Jack
Anything in society, but when when society is not looking?
Jack
You know, and they feel like they can, you know, sneak their their hand into the cookie jar and get away with it. How many men, you know, what are they going to do?
Jack
This is this is like the Darkest podcast we've ever done. When I think about it.
Xochitl
Yeah, but I want to ask you something that might make it a little lighthearted and dark. Dark in a way. What would you have answered? How, what would you say if I said, would you rather that your wife and daughter come across a woman in the woods? A strange woman in the.
Jack
Yeah.
Xochitl
Woods or a bear in the woods?
Jack
Ohh woman yeah, 100 zero. Yeah, I wouldn't hesitate in.
Xochitl
Yeah, it's.
Jack
A for a SEC.
Jack
In.
Xochitl
And then like you see how bad it is that like we have to, we we've sat here having quite a long conversation debating whether a man or a bear is a is a worst threat. And when we think about a woman we're like, Oh yeah, that's fine because.
Jack
Yeah, a woman is is not a threat, just like a.
Xochitl
No, but also it just speaks about how poorly men behave in society and how many men are criminals and or just crappy people that.
Jack
Yeah, I mean it is, it is really, uh it it is really.
Jack
It it is, it is bad I-11. I remember a few months ago, my daughter was.
Jack
Coming home and she got harassed by some guy.
Jack
You know, she's 16 years old and yeah, I was. I was. I ran outside. I was like.
발표자
Oh.
Jack
Where? Where is he? I'm going to kill.
Jack
Him, you know.
Xochitl
What?
Jack
But it's just like you know, it's what women have to deal with in society, you know, g
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