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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is truly on a solo mission as he does a Quick Chat episode by himself! lol
The question he talks about is this:
Do you believe in the idea of haunted objects?
Transcript:
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Jack
You’re listening to the A-Z English podcast.
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Jack
The aid is English podcast. My name is Jack and I am one of the hosts of the podcast and today I’m doing a solo episode and this is truly a solo episode because it is just me talking to you.
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Jack
About a topic.
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Jack
And this will be.
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Jack
A quick chat episode. We haven’t done a.
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Jack
Quick chat in.
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Jack
A while and I want you to send me your.
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Jack
Comments about this topic because I’m curious to hear what you think about this topic and so the topic is.
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Jack
Or the question I should say is.
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Jack
Do you believe?
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Jack
In the idea of haunted objects.
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Jack
So do you believe in the idea of haunted objects?
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Jack
And what that?
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Jack
Means is that do you believe that objects can possess or can have?
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Jack
Evil spirits.
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Jack
So if you.
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Jack
Bring some kind of.
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Jack
Haunted object some kind of object into your house that has an evil spirit.
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Jack
It can bring bad luck and cause mischief.
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Jack
In your life, in your home.
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Jack
In your relationships.
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Jack
And the reason is this object. It has an evil spirit. It’s haunted.
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Jack
It could be a doll, it could be a piece of furniture.
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Jack
It could be a piece of jewelry, like a ring.
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Jack
Or a necklace.
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Jack
There are a number of horror movies that.
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Jack
Deal with this.
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Jack
Topic for example, I’m thinking of the.
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Jack
Movie Annabelle and Annabelle is a doll.
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Jack
But she is but the doll is possessed by an evil spirit.
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Jack
And the evil spirit can cause harm and.
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Jack
As I mentioned before, mischief and terror.
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Jack
For the people that.
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Jack
Are around the doll that that have the doll.
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Jack
And so.
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Jack
The question today.
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Jack
Is do you believe in the idea?
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Jack
Of haunted objects.
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Jack
And I’m going to. I’m not going to just.
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Jack
Throw away this question and.
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Jack
Say no, flat out.
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Jack
I’m gonna. I’m gonna really think about it and share with you my, my honest feelings about this topic.
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Jack
And there there’s before I start there’s there’s kind of an.
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Jack
Aspect of this that I want to share with you and that’s that I live in South Korea. I’m an English teacher.
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Jack
But I live in.
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Jack
In work in South Korea.
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Jack
And I’ve lived.
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Jack
In Asia, for about half my life.
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Jack
Since I was about 23.
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Jack
Years old, I have lived in an Asian country.
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Jack
Thailand and South Korea.
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Jack
And I know that definitely.
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Jack
There is a belief in Asia that.
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Jack
And this is.
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Jack
Not exactly held by everyone, I mean in maybe long, a long time ago, people believed this.
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Jack
UM that?
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Jack
Evil spirits do exist, and that we need to ward off and to ward off evil spirits means to to push them away, to keep them away, to ward off evil spirits. You would do certain things you could do. There were certain practices or.
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Jack
The way that.
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Jack
A building is designed. The architecture was meant to ward off evil spirits.
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Jack
I think that that idea is still.
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Jack
The idea of of objects having evil spirits does exist today because.
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Jack
Living in Korea I’ve I’ve got. I’ve found a lot of.
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Jack
How can I say this without sounding strange?
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Jack
The chair that I’m sitting on right now, the computer chair I have, I found it some outside. Somebody was throwing it away, and it’s a perfectly good computer chair.
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Jack
And in America, if somebody were to put this outside.
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Jack
An American would grab it in.
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Jack
5 seconds and take it home and use it.
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Jack
But in Korea I find a lot of.
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Jack
People don’t want to use.
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Jack
Don’t want used furniture?
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Jack
They, you know, they think it’s.
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Jack
And I think that it comes from the idea of they don’t want to bring something mysterious into the household, which could be a, an, an evil spirit, a bad spirit or bad luck.
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Jack
The the fact that I’m sitting on.
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Jack
A used piece of furniture tells you that, obviously.
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Jack
I don’t believe in.
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Jack
Haunted objects. I don’t believe that objects can possess evil spirits because I have two computer chairs.
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Jack
In my office here.
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Jack
And they’re both.
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Jack
And as we say in English, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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Jack
And so there are two perfectly good perfectly clean.
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Jack
Computer chairs.
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Jack
The desk chairs and.
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Jack
I found them outside and somebody was going to throw them away and to me.
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Jack
The idea of throwing away a good chair so it can just go into.
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Jack
A landfill, a pile of garbage.
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Jack
And sit there.
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Jack
For 1000 years, why not use it? You know, recycle.
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Jack
I believe in recycling, so I have.
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Jack
A computer.
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Jack
2 computer desk chairs that are recycled.
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Jack
And I’ve got something else too.
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Jack
I’m trying to think of what there’s something else that I’m I’m forgetting that I I found.
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Jack
Ohh I have a an.
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Jack
Exercise machine. Somebody threw away a perfectly good stationary bicycle and it’s a.
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Jack
Bicycle that you?
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Jack
You don’t go anywhere. It’s not a real bicycle.
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Jack
It’s a stationary stationary means not moving.
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Jack
And it’s a stationary bicycle and you ride it for exercise. So I can watch TV and ride my stationary bicycle and exercise and burn calories.
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Jack
And someone threw away a perfectly good one.
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Jack
Probably because it was they were not using it. It was in their apartment and it was taking up space. And so they put it outside. I saw it, I brought it home. I cleaned it up. I fixed a couple things on it and now it’s works perfectly well.
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Jack
I have these used.
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Jack
Objects that I brought into my house.
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Jack
You know, some Korean people would think I’m crazy, they would think.
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Jack
How could you take a risk?
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Jack
And bring in.
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Jack
Some kind of bad spirit.
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Jack
We’re unlucky, spirit.
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Jack
And I just don’t think I don’t believe in that. I believe objects are just objects, they’re just made of atoms.
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Jack
And they they don’t possess any sort of spirit or essence. They’re just things.
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Jack
And they cannot.
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Jack
Hurt you by themselves? I mean, someone could pick up the chair and they could hit me with the chair and that would hurt me. But really, that’s the person doing it, not the chair. The chair is just a tool. It’s just an object. Same with the stationary.
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Jack
Like so. Yeah. So so my answer and this is I’m giving you the long answer here is that I think.
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Jack
I think that idea of haunted objects is actually kind of a bad thing, because it stops us from using from recycling. You know, there are a lot of lot of times people throw away good stuff and it just goes into a landfill and it just pollutes the planet.
00:09:28
Jack
Whereas another person could use that object and so I really, you know, part of part of me.
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Jack
Enjoys recycling because it’s free, right? I get a free chair or two free chairs and a free stationary bike.
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Jack
Those are.
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Jack
Can be expensive objects.
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Jack
I got it for.
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Jack
Free. So that makes me happy. I saved money.
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Jack
But the other half of me is happy because these objects are not.
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Jack
In the ground somewhere.
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Jack
Just polluting the earth with plastic and garbage.
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Jack
And they’re actually being used and I’m using them here.
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Jack
In my house at my desk, I’m sitting on this chair.
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Jack
And it’s very comfortable.
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Jack
And so.
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Jack
I I think that actually the idea of haunted objects has a kind of negative impact on society.
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Jack
But I would love to hear what you guys think. Am I crazy for?
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Jack
Liking used objects that could be haunted.
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Jack
If you believe.
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Jack
In that thing, that sort of thing.
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Jack
And I would love to know.
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Jack
What you think so?
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Jack
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Jack
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00:11:00
Jack
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00:11:18
Jack
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00:11:40
Jack
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Jack
So thanks everybody. I will see you next time. Bye bye.
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