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

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Jack

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Jack

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Jack

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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.

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Jack

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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 reall