A to Z Quick Chat 95 | Are you a night owl or an early riser?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, XOchitl and Jack discuss the following question: Are you a night owl or an early riser? Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of topics.00:00:23JackFrom grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease.00:00:36JackWelcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to answer a question and discuss the question. And the question is, are you a night owl or an early riser and social? Maybe you can.00:00:54JackJust help define our terms a little bit here what is a night owl?00:00:59XochitlA night owl is a term for someone who is more active at night because we see that owls, they're birds of prey and they tend to be more active in the nighttime hours. So and I know someone who is, like, groggy in the morning and not focused in the morning and then they feel really productive and they feel alert later into the evening.00:01:19XochitlAnd night.00:01:20XochitlHours, right?00:01:21JackRight. And what what's an early?00:01:24JackRiser then how would you describe an early riser?00:01:27XochitlEarly riser is the person is a morning person like a typical person who wakes up in the morning energized and ready to.00:01:34XochitlNo, but they usually start nodding off into the evening hours and they can't stay up and they can't stay alert right past, you know, maybe like 9:00 PM.00:01:47JackYeah, at 9:00 PM, you see their, their eyes are droopy and their their head starts falling forward.00:01:56JackOK, So what about you? Are you?00:01:57JackA night owl or an early rise?00:02:00XochitlYeah, I am a night owl for sure. I think when I was little when I was a little kid, I was famous in my family for being an early riser and I was like, insufferable, basically because I would go and wake up my parents and cry their eyes open and say that it was time to wake up.00:02:20XochitlBecause I could see the sun rising, which is like 5:30 AM.00:02:27XochitlAnd I was just so excited for the day to start. Isn't that so funny? Like, I would just. I was so excited I couldn't contain myself. And and and then.00:02:38XochitlWhen I got into my.00:02:39XochitlTeenage years, I definitely became a night owl, but my parents got some payback and they never let me sleep in, so I had really truncated sleep hours.00:02:47XochitlWhen I was a teenager, which was so bad for my mental and physical, and now I'm definitely a night owl, still I go through phases where I'll wake up early and.00:02:59XochitlLike go to.00:02:59XochitlSleep early but.00:03:01XochitlIf I'm left to my own devices and I don't have a routine, I just naturally tend to be in.00:03:05발표자Yeah, well.00:03:07XochitlHow about you, Jack?00:03:09JackI was a night I well, when I was younger. So in my 20s in my teens, I was 100% a night owl. I just.00:03:20JackIn English we say I.00:03:21JackI didn't want to give up the ghost.00:03:24JackAs we say.00:03:25JackRight. And so I just, I would just fight sleep, you know, like it was just a battle. So I would stay awake as late as I could and I would fall asleep with the TV on watching something at 1:00, two, three in the morning.00:03:41JackBut then.00:03:43JackI couldn't wake up. I did not want to wake up. I was always late for school. Always I would.00:03:51JackI would sell.00:03:51JackMy soul to the devil for an extra 5 minutes of sleep. Basically in the morning like I would do anything for 5 minutes more of sleep and.00:04:03JackWell, suddenly in my 30s, I don't know.00:04:05JackIt's just an age thing, I think.00:04:08JackIt just flipped.00:04:09JackAnd I started waking up early and earlier and earlier, and I would get up at six, six, you know, 530-6630, something like that. I would just kind of, we say, putter putter around the House, you know, everyone else is sleeping. My daughter's sleeping. My wife is sleeping. And I would just, you know.00:04:28JackKind of walk around with my coffee and in my bathrobe and and just, you know, watch a little bit of news, read the paper.00:04:37JackWhatever. And so I just turned into an old man, basically in my 30s, and now I'm. I'm kind of an early riser. So yeah, that's what I am.00:04:48XochitlDo you like those, like moments of silence early in the morning before your wife and daughter? Get up. I'm not saying you don't like to spend time with them, but I'm just saying, like those moments of, like, total alone time. Like, is that one of the reasons you like to get up early?00:05:03XochitlDo you?00:05:04JackI think so. I think that's I think that is like a.00:05:06JackBig a big added benefit. Maybe that's the whole reason that they do it. I think. I think I think it's very common for men to start to wake up early and and just kind of putter around the house and you feel like you're.00:05:22JackYeah, it's, it's, it's almost like a a flashback to when you were single or something to a time where you had less responsibility. You weren't, you weren't.00:05:33JackYou weren't responsible for.00:05:35JackThe safety and well-being of a family and so you, you kind of feel like, oh, this is what freedom felt like, you know, it's just just for a.00:05:39XochitlRight.00:05:44JackMoment and then.00:05:45JackYou have. Then you remember you're like, ohh, OK. I have a family. They start waking up you, everybody becomes active and they start making breakfast and stuff. But for those, that one.00:05:55JackHour where you just get up. Really.00:05:57JackEarly you do kind of feel like.00:05:59JackThe whole.00:06:00JackYou. It's your Kingdom.00:06:02JackThis is all.00:06:02XochitlRight.00:06:03JackMine for one hour. Yeah.00:06:04XochitlThat's nice. I think that's one of the reasons I used to stay up really late in college. I would step into like 4 in the morning or five in the morning and it's because like 4:00 AM was the perfect hour because 3:00 AM. It's like people are still partying 5:00 AM.00:06:21XochitlThose psychos who get up and like run.00:06:24XochitlLaps at 5:00.00:06:25XochitlIn the morning.00:06:27XochitlBut at 4:00 AM.00:06:28XochitlThere's no there's like the no one there. Like just the few people who had it in them to hang in there until. And so it's really quiet and really peaceful. And I remember I really enjoyed that because.00:06:41XochitlIn America, when we go to college, we stay on campus like in dorms usually. And because of that, you have like roommates, and there's a bunch of people living in your dorm building. So, like, you have a bunch of neighbors, kind of.00:06:57XochitlAnd it can get really noisy.00:06:58XochitlThing and stuff like that. So I felt like I had the same kind of peace and freedom that you feel waking up at like 5:00 AM, like 4 and staying up until 4:00.00:07:07JackYeah, yeah. And and and in my, you know, in my teens, in my, in my.00:07:12Jack20s I was the guy that would stay up till 4:00. You know, I I.00:07:16JackJust thought like.00:07:18JackSomething exciting is going to happen, so I better stay awake as if like.00:07:22XochitlRight.00:07:23JackYeah, it's a, it's a big.00:07:25JackLike FOMO kind of feeling. I I was a FOMO person. A fear of missing out.00:07:33JackSo I'm going to stay up all night in case something interesting happens, and I'm not going to miss it. And nothing interesting ever happened. Nothing good ever happens that nothing wholesome happens at 4:00 in the morning.00:07:45XochitlNo, usually not.00:07:47JackNo and and I never. You know, I didn't. I didn't miss anything and there was no reason for me to stay up that late. But it was just a, a kind of I've always been.00:07:57JackI've always had a fear of missing out, even when I was a kid, I wanted to know what are my parents doing in the living room? What are they watching on TV? Like why am I going to bed at 8:00 when there's still things happening and I it really drove me crazy. So I think in my teens in my 20s.00:08:15JackI wanted to get revenge.00:08:16JackYou know, for all the stuff.00:08:17JackI missed out on.00:08:19JackWhen I was a.00:08:19JackKid. And so I went the whole other direction, which was not a healthy choice either. So I think now it's much better. I get like 8 hours of sleep and I wake up at a a good hour and go to sleep at A at a.00:08:33JackThat hour.00:08:34JackAnd yeah, relatively healthy.00:08:38XochitlYeah. All right. 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