Topic Talk | I love garbage!

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week!https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-contentIn this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack talks about his love of recycling, reusing, and upcycling items that people have thrown away.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to The A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today I'm doing a solo episode and today's topic is I love garbage.00:00:15JackAnd you're probably thinking to yourself.00:00:19JackWhat are you talking about, Jack? Nobody loves garbage.00:00:24JackBut recently.00:00:27JackI'm really into.00:00:29JackRecycling.00:00:31JackAnd.00:00:32JackUpcycling.00:00:34JackAnd reusing.00:00:37JackObjects that people don't want anymore.00:00:41JackAnd.00:00:43JackFixing them and using them myself.00:00:47JackAnd fixing items, selling them to make a little bit of profit or.00:00:56JackYou know, giving items that I can't use anymore to.00:01:04JackFriends or family that might you know, people that might.00:01:06JackWant those items?00:01:08JackSo let me explain a little bit more of what I mean by I love garbage. It started about a year ago.00:01:18JackI I wanted to get into exercise and I used to exercise regularly, but during COVID coronavirus.00:01:30JackDuring that time I I stopped.00:01:33JackGoing to the gym, I stopped exercising. I started eating unhealthy food and I started to gain weight and I've never really been able to go back to how I was before COVID before that time started.00:01:54JackAnd so I was in my neighborhood and I saw an exercise bicycle in the garbage. Uh, not not in a garbage can, but, you know, in the ready for the recyclers to take it and take it away and.00:02:10JackI thought to myself, I think this is a a pretty nice exercise bike. Uh, this is not a uh, a regular bicycle. This is an exercise bicycle, so a stationary bike stationary means it doesn't move when you pedal, it just stays in the same place.00:02:30JackAnd lots of people have these in their houses, and I noticed that there was one problem with this stationary bike. The handlebars kept the handlebars are the the things you hold on to while you're pedaling and they kept they were loose. They kept falling forward.00:02:51JackAnd.00:02:53JackI thought to myself, I think I can fix this and so I brought it home.00:02:58JackI took out my tools and Long story short I fixed it and now it's a perfectly good.00:03:06JackExercise bicycle and I got it for free. You know, usually you have to pay $100 or hundreds of dollars for these kinds of exercise machines.00:03:19JackHowever.00:03:20JackI got mine for free.00:03:23JackAnd so I have an an extra room in in our building, there's a an extra room that we have. My wife and I have turned into a kind of a gym, a a home exercise center.00:03:38JackAnd so I put the bicycle in there.00:03:41JackAnd about a week later.00:03:43JackSure.00:03:44JackI saw a bench, an exercise bench where you can do sit-ups and a sit up is where you you go back, you're on your back and then you lift up and you use your stomach muscles, your abdominal muscles to pull yourself up. And it was perfectly good except it was missing.00:04:05JackOnce.00:04:06JackI went to the hardware store, I bought a screw for $1.00.00:04:11JackAnd I fixed that and I put that in my exercise room.00:04:15JackAnd then.00:04:17JackI found another piece of exercise equipment perfectly fine. Someone was throwing it away because they were. They were moving out of their apartment and I live in a neighborhood with a lot of apartments, a lot of small apartments. So when people don't want items, they just.00:04:36JackThrow them away instead of because they don't even want to take the time to give them away or to sell them. They just throw them away.00:04:44JackSo I took it, I took it home.00:04:46JackAnd I've I've now got this like little gym kind of set up. And my wife there's a a website in Korea where people give away items that they don't want. And someone was giving away a running machine. So we drove over to their apartment. We put the running machine.00:05:07JackIn our car, in our truck, and brought it back, put it in the exercise room. So now the gym has.00:05:14JackIt was a running machine, an exercise bike, a sit up bench, some weights and things like that. So it kind of started with like I I'm starting to see that like in Korea, I think it's because people live in apartments, they just don't often take the time to.00:05:35JackEven sell things, they just they just throw them away.00:05:38JackAnd the other day I was walking along the street and I saw a guitar. So in a case someone had just.00:05:47JackPut a guitar.00:05:48JackIn the garbage.00:05:50JackAnd I went and opened it up.00:05:52JackAnd it was a perfectly good guitar.00:05:55JackAnd I threw it in my truck and I brought it home.00:06:00JackAnd I looked at it, I didn't have to do any fixing of the guitar. It was perfectly good. And so I have an extra guitar cause I kind of collect guitars. I'm a guitar player and I love that hobby. And so I I brought it home and.00:06:21JackI just now I'm kind of in the mindset of like, why buy something new?00:06:27JackWhen?00:06:29JackPeople are giving away or throwing away.00:06:33JackOld things that are still could be good for for me. So we have an expression in English.00:06:40JackOne man's trash is another man's treasure.00:06:46JackAnd for me, it's more of an environmental.00:06:50JackRead there. It's more environmental for me to be honest, because a lot of these things, they just end up being thrown into a hole in the ground, like that exercise bike. Just the handlebars are were broken and they could be fixed, but no one is going to fix those.00:07:07JackThey're going to the the garbage men are going to take that. They're going to throw that thing in the ocean or in a big hole in the ground, and it's going to stay there for 1000 years.00:07:19JackAnd what is the purpose of making new things and buying new things when we have?00:07:27JackOlder things that can just be fixed and used, and they're perfectly fine and they don't end up in a hole in the ground. You know polluting our our land or floating in the ocean, polluting our oceans.00:07:43JackI just really don't understand, so I'm very much in the mindset of, like, not buying anything. If I need something, I try to find it online for free or I look around my neighborhood or and I fix something up and and use it. It might not be.00:08:00JackYou know, my bicycle is not beautiful. It's not the most beautiful stationary bike. It's not going to win a beauty contest, but it works perfectly fine. It's great for exercising the guitar. Yeah, it's not a.00:08:16JackA A Les Paul or a Gibson, but it's a it's a perfectly fine guitar and I'm not. I'm not terrible guitar player to be honest. So for me I don't need anything fancy or super expensive when it comes to those kinds of items. I can just enjoy.00:08:37JackHaving different guitars that make that have different sounds and enjoy those things. And so I guess what I'm saying is going back to the beginning of my talk today is that when I say.00:08:52JackI love garbage.00:08:54JackI love.00:08:55JackTaking objects that are going to end up in a hole in the ground or in the ocean, and I like fixing them and using them, and it's deeply satisfying. It's more satisfying than like buying the item and bringing it home. If I give more joy out of finding something and it doesn't cost me any money.00:09:16JackIt costs me a little bit of time and a little bit of energy.00:09:20JackBut it you know it, it saves money.00:09:23JackAnd and it's and it's. They're all things that are that are making my life better. They're making me healthier. The exercise bike is going to actually make me healthier, live longer. The guitar is going to give me joy because I I get joy from playing the guitar and making music. And so I just really.00:09:43JackWant to encourage?00:09:46JackYou listeners out there to.00:09:49JackLove garbage like me.00:09:52JackAnd see if it doesn't make you feel even more satisfied when you find some object that you're able to repurpose and reuse instead of buying it new.00:10:06JackAlright, so that's my talk today. Jack loves garbage.00:10:11JackPlease, if you talk to social, explain what the meaning is, because she's probably going to be surprised when she sees the title of this episode. I love garbage.00:10:22JackIf you want to leave.00:10:23JackA message for us go to.00:10:25JackSend us an e-mail AZ [email protected]. You can also go to our website azenglishpodcast.com and you can leave a comment on the website. You can join our WhatsApp group or our WeChat group and you can leave a comment there. We'd love to see you in the A-Z English WhatsApp group or WeChat group.00:10:45JackAnd with that said.00:10:46JackI will see you next time. 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