Topic Talk | Game Edition

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack play a game to see how well they know each other. Keep score as you listen because we lost track during the early portion of the game. lol!Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am here today with my co-host social. And today we're going to do a topic talk game edition and this one the game is social. This is really easy. It's how well do you know your podcasting partner so?00:00:20XochitlI'm sure I'm going to feel this one miserably because like I, I have a very poor memory.00:00:28XochitlAnd Jack has a pretty good memory, so I'm waiting to feel this one miserably.00:00:33JackYou're also. You're also very open. You know what?00:00:36JackI mean like you share.00:00:37JackA lot of personal anecdotes and stories and things like that. So along the way I'm able to, you know, pick up little pieces of of of your your life.00:00:47JackSorry and I think I'm maybe more closed off or you know, a a colder, more Stonewall individual, you know, so.00:00:57XochitlMaybe yeah, I have. I have picked up things throughout the time, but usually question that I ask you and then you share, so it's.00:01:06XochitlLike I.00:01:07JackYeah, it's not just.00:01:08발표자Think you know?00:01:10JackYeah, sharing is caring.00:01:13JackAlright, here we go.00:01:13발표자You know.00:01:16JackThe first one, what's your? What's my?00:01:18JackLast name social.00:01:19XochitlOh, McBain, that's easy.00:01:21JackOK. And your last name is muterspaw. OK and you have two names actually it says now here's the bonus question. What's your middle name?00:01:24XochitlYes, that's right.00:01:33JackSo what's my middle name?00:01:36XochitlWhat is your real name, Daniel?00:01:40JackYou're so close. You're so close.00:01:42XochitlI'm really close, I'm actually close.00:01:43XochitlOh my God, Donald.00:01:45발표자Yes. How did you know that?00:01:47XochitlI don't know you just you kind of seemed like a Daniel and he said.00:01:50XochitlIt was close and I.00:01:51XochitlThought, but it kind of like, I don't know. I just kind of.00:01:54XochitlCame to me. Am I psychic?00:01:55JackThat's amazing. My middle name is Donald. I'm Jack. Donald McBain? Yeah.00:02:00XochitlWow, that's really cool. I feel like a psychic now. It's like you better watch out. I have magical powers.00:02:03JackThat that was.00:02:05JackThat was freaky. That was.00:02:08JackI'm going to guess your middle name is Emily, but because you have two names, you have social as your your ethnic Mexican name. Or is it a Mexican name? You said it was actually like.00:02:24XochitlIs masters and it's indigenous, yeah.00:02:24JackAztecs. Yeah. Indigenous. Thank you. That was the word I'm looking for. Is Emily considered your middle name then?00:02:32XochitlIt's kind of a trick question on me. I'm actually Emily social and not social Emily, but I.00:02:38XochitlGo by my middle name.00:02:40JackOK.00:02:41JackOK, so I got it. I got it flipped around. OK. Emily. Social. Yeah, I mean, social is such a cool name. I totally get why you use that.00:02:50XochitlI was. I just grew up being called social onlys at home. The only reason that Emily was my first name or is my first name is because my parents, since I grew up in the US, mostly they wanted, like, be like teachers and stuff to be able to say a name if they couldn't pronounce social. So.00:03:10XochitlUmm. Or couldn't wrap their brains around it, so that was really why I had Emily. But I don't use it, like, ever pretty and I and I also use school. I used social too. I didn't want to use Emily.00:03:23JackHow many teachers were like in the first day of class were?00:03:26JackLike Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, chital.00:03:29XochitlYeah, no one could. They didn't know at all. They would just as soon as there was a long, uncomfortable pause. I knew it was.00:03:29JackYou know something like that, like.00:03:35XochitlMy name and I would just pipe up.00:03:36JackYou just you say it. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it's really actually, once you say your name, it's so easy to say, you know, like, so chill. It's just super simple.00:03:46JackBut it's just hard to read a.00:03:48JackLittle bit, when you when you don't know.00:03:49XochitlYeah, but if you're not familiar with the fanatics of.00:03:54XochitlAztec names, then. Yeah, it's definitely very hard. It doesn't look like anything we have, like in English phonetics. So.00:04:01JackYeah, yeah, yeah, it does it. It does look challenging, but it's actually really easy to to pronounce. OK, so I'm going to give you a point, and I'm going to take one away from me. So 01, which US state did you grow up in? I'm going to say you grew up in Iowa. Do you know where I go?00:04:20XochitlWell, I kind of grew up in Iowa well.00:04:22발표자I'll give you a.00:04:23XochitlBonus point back if you know the 2nd state.00:04:24JackOh, I'm going to say sorry. I'm going to say you.00:04:26JackGrew up in Iowa and Kentucky.00:04:28XochitlYes, you got it. You got.00:04:30발표자It yeah. Check.00:04:32XochitlOK I I am pretty sure I'm wrong but I don't know why. I want to say this but it's like no, no, Jack. You told you talked about where you grew up so many times and yet I'm about.00:04:43XochitlTo get it.00:04:44XochitlWrong. I want to say Nebraska, but I'm like that's not right.00:04:47발표자That's not right.00:04:48발표자It's like it's it's.00:04:48JackIt is in the Midwest, though. It's in.00:04:50JackThe Midwest.00:04:50XochitlIt's really fast. It's in the Midwest and I know I'm wait. Give me a second. OK? I know it's not Iowa, Illinois, Idaho or Ohio.00:05:00XochitlAnd it's in the Midwest and it's not Nebraska.00:05:06XochitlOne second.00:05:08XochitlLet me you know, just give me a.00:05:10XochitlCouple more seconds I.00:05:11JackYeah, and.00:05:12JackFor our listeners out.00:05:12XochitlOhh Minnesota, it's Minnesota. It's Minnesota, Minnesota.00:05:12JackThere, I know that she's looking. She's looking at.00:05:15JackThat. Yeah, that's right.00:05:16JackThat's right. I was. I'm from Minnesota. And you are from kind of Kentucky, Iowa. And for a bonus question, which city?00:05:18발표자Thank you.00:05:28XochitlI think I actually.00:05:29JackSeating, you know, because I think you live in Iowa City right now, but.00:05:36JackKentucky, I'm gonna say.00:05:42JackLike the suburbs of Lexington? Something like that.00:05:45XochitlNo, not the suburbs I used.00:05:46XochitlTo live downtown Lexington.00:05:48JackOh, you lived in downtown Lexington. OK, OK.00:05:51JackI don't think you're gonna get my city. I mean, I'll. I'll give it to you. I'll. I'll give you like the uh, I'll, I'll be flexible.00:05:58XochitlWhat's the 1st letter?00:06:04XochitlOK. Interesting.00:06:16JackThat's a pretty good guess, actually. I'm from.00:06:18JackWhite Bear Lake.00:06:20XochitlNo, that was my second guess. So it's gonna be.00:06:22XochitlLike right there? No.00:06:25발표자So close.00:06:27JackI'm from White Bear Lake.00:06:28JackBut White Bear Lake is a suburb of Saint Paul, so if you'd have said.00:06:31JackSaint Paul, I would have.00:06:32XochitlDang. And Saint Paul is.00:06:32JackI would have given you that.00:06:33XochitlGoing to be what I was going to.00:06:34XochitlSay originally, but when?00:06:35XochitlYou said W like it's not Saint Paul. I was gonna.00:06:37XochitlFreaking so cool. Alright, fine. Take my plate.00:06:40JackI'll give you the I'll give it to you, OK?00:06:41JackSo you got two points and I'm gonna give my.00:06:44XochitlNo, no. Take it. Take.00:06:45XochitlIt I don't deserve that one. Take that.00:06:46JackOK, OK.00:06:48JackOne. Alright, alright.00:06:49JackI'll, I'll let our listeners can add up our points.00:06:51JackHere, tell us what we got.00:06:54Jack#3 how many brothers and sisters?00:06:55XochitlThat listeners, if you want to play along, you can also submit.00:06:58XochitlIt in the WhatsApp group like.00:07:00XochitlYour answers does it go along and then at the end you'll see how.00:07:03JackMany points you got. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's good.00:07:06JackThat's good. Play along.00:07:09JackSee how well you know us. How?00:07:11JackMany brothers and sisters, do you have I you have one sister?00:07:15JackAnd she is an older.00:07:17JackSister, because you are the youngest.00:07:20XochitlYeah, that's right, Jack.00:07:21발표자OK.00:07:23발표자The value.00:07:23XochitlJack, you have.00:07:25XochitlLike four siblings, don't you?00:07:29XochitlWrong again. No, I know you have.00:07:32XochitlAn older brother.00:07:35XochitlAnd a younger brother.00:07:39XochitlJack does scream middle child.00:07:41XochitlSyndrome, kind of.00:07:44XochitlNo, Jack, I don't know. I thought it was 4, but it's not you. You're.00:07:48XochitlOne of four. So you have three siblings.00:07:52JackAll right. I have one younger brother. That's it.00:07:52발표자I'm wrong?00:07:57XochitlWait, wait, no.00:07:57XochitlJack, that's not real. That can't be real. You only have one younger brother.00:08:01JackI have only young one younger brother, just two of us. Yeah. I grew up with a younger brother and uh mom and dad. Yeah, that's it. Jack and Jay and Mom and Dad.00:08:12XochitlThat's weird. I could have sworn you had like four siblings or you were.00:08:16XochitlOne of four.00:08:17JackMaybe I wonder if I just have that energy or something like a big family energy, but no.00:08:23XochitlYeah, because I.00:08:24발표자We're we're pretty small.00:08:25XochitlYeah, you kind of do have big family. You also have middle Childs energy. You don't really have oldest brother energy.00:08:32JackYeah, I've.00:08:33발표자I've just been.00:08:33XochitlI say that kindly.00:08:33JackMuch worse, yeah.00:08:35XochitlMy mom is a is a middle child, you know? And so yeah, you don't have that weird, like, competitive. My sister's an older child. You don't have that weird like older sibling. And so I.00:08:46XochitlThought you know.00:08:46JackYeah, I know what you're talking about too. Like, I'm I'm kind of a negotiator too, like, naturally, like, I want everyone to be happy. I'm. I'm.00:08:54JackA people closer.00:08:55JackWhich is a middle child kind of quality.00:08:57XochitlYeah. And you're not, like, very boastful or very like, like, eccentric or very like.00:09:06XochitlEgocentric either. So I kind of thought, you know, middle child, sort of.00:09:09JackYeah. Yeah, well, that's OK, that's good. I'm. I'm glad I have the middle child vibes in the older, older brother, but I used to be a tyrant. Like I'll, I'll admit it. Like I I melt about big time, you know. But in high school, ask my little brother if I was pleasant to be around. He would not agree.00:09:32JackName your sibling. OK so.00:09:37JackSocial I have no idea.00:09:40JackWhat your sister's name is.00:09:43XochitlI know what yours is because you said Jay.00:09:45JackRight, right. Right. That's right, Jay.00:09:48JackWhat is? What could your social.00:09:53JackI see. I don't even know. Like, does. I wonder if your sister has an.00:09:56JackAztec name as well. She probably does she.00:09:58발표자She doesn't.00:10:00JackIf she doesn't. Ohh Emily and Erica.00:10:09발표자OK.00:10:09XochitlIt's not a, it's it. It is a.00:10:11XochitlName in the.00:10:12XochitlEnglish language but.00:10:13XochitlIt's very uncommon and it's it's a little more common in Hispanic and black communities.00:10:23XochitlI don't think you're even going to.00:10:24XochitlTry at this point.00:10:24JackNo, no. Yeah. Now, now I'm in now.00:10:27JackI mean dangerous territory. So let's shift the.00:10:30JackYeah, just tell me.00:10:33JackYolanda. Yeah, that makes sense, right?00:10:38JackOK, OK.00:10:41JackEmily and Yolanda, that's interesting because, you know, sometimes parents will try to match. You know what I mean? Like Emily and Emma. Erica.00:10:49XochitlWell, our party did cause no one calls me Emily. They call me social. So it's like social and Yolanda and it's X&Y. Actually, they're alpha. They come next to each other.00:11:00XochitlIn alphabet.00:11:01JackNo, that's that's what it is.00:11:02발표자I don't think.00:11:02XochitlMy parents knew my parents did not realize this, but it's.00:11:05XochitlJust what happened?00:11:06JackOh, OK.00:11:06XochitlAnd my sister.00:11:07XochitlNamed after my grandmother on my mom's side.00:11:12JackOK, OK.00:11:12JackYeah, cool. Alright. Yeah, that is, that is like a a common in the African American community. But also it has a Spanish kind of rude to it. Yeah. Interesting. OK cool. Alright.00:11:28JackWe'll do 2.00:11:29JackMore questions and then we'll save the the last five for next episode.00:11:33JackBecause it's otherwise, this episode is going to be half an hour long.00:11:38JackWhat's your university, major?00:11:41XochitlI know yours.00:11:43JackOh, you. You're an English major, right?00:11:45XochitlUh, yeah, your communications major.00:11:47JackYeah, OK, we got it. We got.00:11:49JackIt name the university.00:11:54JackYou went to a, you went to.00:11:55JackA liberal arts school, but I I know, I know it's a good school, but it is a a small school.00:12:04JackUM, am I right?00:12:07XochitlYes, it is a small school and it's also academically prestigious.00:12:11JackYeah, yeah.00:12:14JackThe thing is, I just I I think he went to school in Kentucky if I'm.00:12:18JackNot mistaken, right?00:12:20JackOhh no, it wasn't in Kentucky. Ohh OK.00:12:25JackI have. I'm sorry, I have no idea.00:12:27XochitlIt's OK. I don't know if I ever talk.00:12:30XochitlAbout it, it's Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA, so GRINN.00:12:34XochitlELL.00:12:35발표자Oh yeah, OK, yeah.00:12:37JackYou have talked about that. Yeah, actually, I'm not familiar with it, but I know that there's lots of really good little like liberal arts schools that in like, for example, there's one.00:12:51JackWhat is it? What's it called? I'm, I'm totally blanking. Sorry. In Minnesota, there's there's a couple of of pretty prestigious small liberal arts colleges, and mine is Northwestern, but not the north.00:13:06XochitlNo, I was not going to guess it.00:13:08JackNot the northwestern that you thought that you're thinking of right now, not that one. Uh, I went to a small liberal arts College in St. Paul, MN called Northwestern College. Now it's called Northwestern University, but it had so on my degree it looks like I went to Northwestern. But.00:13:28JackNo one really thinks you know about the difference that there's another northwestern that's not the one in in Illinois. And so yeah.00:13:37XochitlRight.00:13:39JackSo it's kind of kind of nice, yeah.00:13:39XochitlSame when I.00:13:40XochitlWhen I tell people I went to Grinnell, people think I say Cornell, which is a really famous college and I'm like.00:13:47XochitlNo, that's not where I'm going. It is procedures.00:13:49XochitlBut not that.00:13:50XochitlProcedure. I was gonna guess you were, but.00:13:50발표자Right, right, right.00:13:51발표자And I'm like.00:13:53XochitlI'm still gonna guess wrong. I was gonna say Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul.00:13:58JackOhh. OK. No, no. Yeah, I went to I.00:14:00JackDid go to school?00:14:00XochitlOhh Nick Alistair is in St. Paul, MN. McAllister is a famous liberal.00:14:05JackYet McAllister is a very, very famous, prestigious school, and they they were in our basketball conference actually. So we used to play basketball at McAllister every year.00:14:15XochitlI believe I got accepted to McAllister as well, but I didn't go.00:14:18JackWow, that's you. I would never have gotten accepted into McAllister.00:14:24XochitlYeah, I got. I did get accepted into Mets Michael, so I got I. Now that I remember. I got accepted everywhere I applied except for I got waitlisted that.00:14:32XochitlDylan, I believe.00:14:34JackOK. OK. Yeah, that's that's.00:14:35XochitlBut everywhere else I got accepted, including McAllister.00:14:39JackFantastic. Yeah. That's a great school. Peter Berg, movie director went, went to that school.00:14:47JackOK, let's see here. We've got one more, OK.00:14:52JackLast question, what is your go to comfort food? Is it sweet, salty or savory?00:15:04XochitlJack, I think yours is savory.00:15:08JackOh, I would say I'm.00:15:10JackI'm more of a sweet I go. I go to this.00:15:13XochitlNo, I failed once more of.00:15:16XochitlYour sweet tooth. Ohh, no, no.00:15:17JackYeah, I have a sweet tooth. A bad sweet tooth. Yeah. Yeah. Which my wife finds, like, kind of, you know, odd for a man. A man like in Korean men don't really eat sweets. You.00:15:26XochitlAnd then.00:15:28XochitlOh, that's. That's like a weird genre thing. It's like.00:15:32XochitlI can't even have a sweet.00:15:33XochitlTooth I, you know.00:15:34JackShe's like, it's not. It's not very manly to have a.00:15:36JackSweet tooth and like, yeah.00:15:37XochitlOhh OK of all the countries because when I was in Korea, one thing that I found really wild was.00:15:42XochitlThat people would.00:15:43XochitlOnly tell me.00:15:44XochitlLike their boyfriend or whoever they were with was like, you don't want to get on a roller coaster with them. Scared of getting on a roller coaster. And I was like, I never met a man like in the US or in Mexico that would admit that they were scared to go on a roller.00:15:57XochitlYes, Sir. But in Korea, that's normal.00:15:58JackOh yeah.00:16:00XochitlSo I'm like the gender is is like it's totally different. You know what I mean? So it's funny how sweet tooth thing.00:16:05XochitlIs like.00:16:06XochitlIs a weird. It's not.00:16:07JackI just think.00:16:08JackIt's like we're all human. Like I'm like, I just. I have a sweet tooth. Like, it's terrible. It's really dangerous. I think yours is savory. You told me that your your grandfather, you're on your mother's side. Used to make a very.00:16:24JackTraditional Stew is a very savory Stew, and that was one of your favorite comfort food.00:16:30XochitlYeah, that is my favorite food of all time.00:16:32XochitlYeah, I am.00:16:33XochitlA favorite girl and you know another thing.00:16:35XochitlThat I will just eat.00:16:36XochitlA tiny not I'm not just like eating huge spoonful of it, but I'll blend and paste right out of the container.00:16:43JackYeah, yeah, I know.00:16:45JackWhat you're talking is it you, Sam Chung or Dwayne Chung?00:16:47JackLike Gwen Chung.00:16:49JackWow, that's super salty. Yeah.00:16:51XochitlI only like a little tiny tiny tiny.00:16:54XochitlLittle lick of it.00:16:56XochitlBut like, I'll put like a tiny bit on.00:16:57XochitlA butter knife and just like.00:16:59XochitlOr like I'll put some on as.00:17:01XochitlA piece of seaweed and.00:17:02XochitlRead it.00:17:03JackWell, our listeners out there like the what social is describing is a bean paste, but it's it's it's seasoned very, very deep, heavily with like salt and stuff like that. So.00:17:14XochitlYes, the fermented soybean paste and it's extremely faulty.00:17:16JackRight.00:17:18XochitlBut it's so tasty.00:17:20JackIt is. I I'm. I'm with you too. I'm actually. You know, I I'm. I'm not like against savory. I just think like when I'm craving some something I'm feeling down, you know depressed or whatever. And I just want to eat my.00:17:33JackWings. I'll go to the suites. You know, just go to a sugar.00:17:39XochitlI'll get so sick of sugar, like kind of fast like I do, like sweet stuff, But I'll probably could only eat like two or three cookies in a binge. But I could down like a whole bag of hot Cheetos, like a bunch of fried mozzarella sticks. I could just keep going, you know?00:17:54XochitlWhat I mean like?00:17:56XochitlI can't get to.00:17:57XochitlIn in Spanish is.00:17:58XochitlA word called EMPA Lagar, which means like you ate too much sweet stuff and it's like giving you a sickly sweet feeling in your mouth and.00:18:05XochitlYou're like sick of it.00:18:05JackOhh yeah, they call it.00:18:07JackPalate fatigue is the name of that.00:18:10발표자Oh, hello.00:18:12JackYeah, palate fatigue is actually it's an evolutionary protection, you know, for so we don't eat too much of one thing because, you know in nature you could, you know, you could don't eat all the berries because they might be poisonous or whatever. So we we we do get sick of eating. You know if you eat too much.00:18:27XochitlYeah, yeah.00:18:31JackIce cream. You'll start to get sick of it. It's just like sickly. Kind of.00:18:35JackSweet, you know.00:18:35XochitlYeah. Interesting. I get palate fatigue from sweet things, but I won't really get it from savory because it's more diversity and savory food, in my opinion. Different. Yeah, so.00:18:43JackThat's exactly right, yes.00:18:46JackBut I could eat a whole sleeve of.00:18:47JackOreos, no problem.00:18:49XochitlMy God, that's so funny. I don't really like Oreos. Also, like in a milkshake or something. Then I.00:18:54XochitlCould do that but.00:18:55JackYeah. Yeah. No, I could just. I could just tear into a sleeve of Oreos and they'll be gone.00:19:00JackIn five seconds.00:19:03XochitlYeah. All right, listeners. Oh, no, no, you're fine.00:19:03JackYeah, I know that it's.00:19:06JackSorry, go ahead.00:19:08XochitlLet us know.00:19:09XochitlHow you did on this test? Because I feel pretty badly I'm.00:19:13XochitlNot. I'm not going to.00:19:15XochitlLie I we.00:19:15JackI think we tied like it.00:19:17JackWas it was pretty close.00:19:17XochitlWe probably tied in the end. I my short term.00:19:23XochitlAnd long term memory, it is really crappy.00:19:25XochitlSo I retained things poorly, so I was like, I don't know about this. I'm swimming in the dark. But, you know, I think it did alright. I think we did alright and the listeners let us know how you did and shoot us a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ [email protected] and join our WhatsApp and WeChat groups to join in on the fun.00:19:46XochitlAnd you'll see that next time. 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