Topic Talk | Which chores do you hate and which ones don’t you mind?

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about which chores they hate and which ones they don’t mind.

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00:00:00

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Jack

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00:00:52

Jack

Welcome to the agency English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host, social. And today we have a topic talk episode and social. Today’s topic is what household chores?

00:01:03

Jack

Do you usually help?

00:01:04

Jack

With and which ones do you enjoy and which ones?

00:01:07

Jack

Do you hate?

00:01:10

Xochitl

Ohh well Jack, I live alone.

00:01:13

Jack

So you do.

00:01:14

Xochitl

I.

00:01:15

Xochitl

Yeah, I mean, I did and find out what. Yeah, now that I live in Mexico, I pay someone to come do some of them. And I do some of them. So that kind of works out pretty well for me. But lately, the person that I was paying to come do household chores, unfortunately.

00:01:16

Jack

Swear none of them. I don’t know. It depends on.

00:01:18

Jack

How you live, yeah.

00:01:24

Jack

Yeah.

00:01:34

Xochitl

Her father got ill and I totally get that. So I’ve been handling them on my own.

00:01:40

Jack

MHM.

00:01:40

Xochitl

And and.

00:01:43

Xochitl

I like cooking. Uh, if there’s other people around like I hate cooking just myself.

00:01:50

Jack

Yeah, me too. I hate like it’s still. There’s nothing lonelier than frying. Like one egg, you know?

00:01:56

Jack

What I mean, it’s just like what’s?

00:01:57

Xochitl

Oh my God. Wow. We’re like.

00:01:58

Jack

What’s wrong with my life? You.

00:02:00

Jack

Know when you yeah.

00:02:00

Xochitl

I know it’s just and we have no one to eat with and it’s like just different thing. So if I’m alone, a lot of the times, they’ll just end up ordering food like Uber eats or whatever. And but if there’s even just one other person with me, I’m happy to cook.

00:02:04

Jack

Yeah.

00:02:12

Jack

Oh, nice, yeah.

00:02:19

Xochitl

Other chores that I do like wash the dishes, do my laundry.

00:02:25

Xochitl

Ah, sweep mop.

00:02:29

Jack

Is is there one that like, really irks you? That just drives you crazy, that you really hate.

00:02:29

Xochitl

I don’t.

00:02:34

Xochitl

OK, I don’t like sleeping and mopping because it makes my back hurt, which is like weird, but I don’t know why, but my back really hurts. Whenever I like sweep and mop, so I don’t like that. I don’t like getting.

00:02:39

Jack

Ah.

00:02:46

Xochitl

Even though I don’t mind sleeping in mopping, it’s just the fact that my back always hurts. It like really annoys me and I don’t like. Yeah, I don’t like.

00:02:53

Jack

It’s yeah.

00:02:56

Xochitl

Doing the dishes I used to really like doing the dishes when I was a kid, and now I hate doing the dishes because it’s like.

00:03:03

Xochitl

Just the nasty food on it. Or like other people’s mouths. It not it, grosses me.

00:03:09

Jack

It reminds me of the like Reddit thread like kids are.

00:03:13

Jack

Freaking stupid, you know, like a kid like kid kids are like, oh, man, I wish I were old enough to mature enough to wash the dishes, you know? And they kind of trick you into doing it, you know? Yeah.

00:03:23

Xochitl

Alright.

00:03:27

Xochitl

I know. And you think it’s fun and then you’re like, you become an adult and you have to do the dishes every day. And the kitchen is never clean. And every time you cook something, the kitchen is dirty again. And then it just makes me want to eat out all the time because then I don’t have to do dishes. I don’t have to clean my kitchen. I just, like, eat out of container.

00:03:42

Jack

Yeah, and and eating out is not not expensive in in Mexico, in Oaxaca, right? Yeah.

00:03:47

Xochitl

No, it it’s not too expensive. You can get a full meal for like.

00:03:52

Xochitl

Three to four bucks probably like you. You can get what they call, which is like the big meal today, and you get, like, a a fresh water that, like, has a fruit flavor usually and a whole meal. And then sometimes they give you, like, dessert and you get, like, the main.

00:03:55

Jack

Wow.

00:04:12

Xochitl

Fish and two side dishes. And that’s like 3 or $4.00. So at that point, it’s like, I don’t really want to.

00:04:18

Xochitl

Cook so.

00:04:19

Jack

So $3 in Korea will buy you like.

00:04:23

Xochitl

They won’t even buy you.

00:04:24

Xochitl

Coffee man like I remember.

00:04:25

Jack

You won’t even buy you a coffee. I mean, maybe you could. Maybe you could get the cup, but there won’t be anything in it, you know, for the three dollars. Yeah.

00:04:27

Xochitl

No, I never heard.

00:04:32

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:04:34

Xochitl

Yeah, but, Jack, what are the ones that you hate to do? And what which ones do you do in general and which is?

00:04:40

Jack

Yeah. So I’m basically, I’m like I I dust I’m I vacuum and I mop. That’s all. My wife asked me to do. She does the, you know, the big stuff, right, like she.

00:04:50

Jack

She’s kind of on her hands and knees cleaning the bathrooms once a week, and she does all the dusting of everywhere. I just have to dust my this little room right here, this man cave, my podcasting room, and I hate it because you know, when you’re dusting.

00:05:09

Jack

Like books and stuff, there’s all the you know.

00:05:11

Jack

There’s so so.

00:05:12

Jack

Many little nooks and crannies and little, you know, spaces that you have to try to get into.

00:05:18

Jack

And so, you know, sometimes I’m I do a good job. Sometimes I’m a little lazy with that vacuuming. I don’t mind doing it that that much. I think vacuuming is is is OK, although I have been trying to, you know, pitch the idea to my wife that we should get.

00:05:38

Jack

A Roomba, you know, like a like a. Yeah, like a like a a robot vacuum cleaner. But she’s not. She’s. She’s skeptical because of her plants. She doesn’t want it to, like, knock over her plants. You know, while it’s cruising around. Whatever.

00:05:40

Xochitl

Ohh that’s the good idea.

00:05:57

Jack

So.

00:05:58

Jack

So I’m stuck doing that. The one that I hate the most is taking out the trash.

00:06:05

Jack

I hate it.

00:06:07

Jack

So I’ll let it pile up like to a ridiculous level, where it’s like it’s like a, it’s like a mountain of of like, boxes, kind of teetering. And then finally I’ll be like, alright, I it’s time to go. And the reason I don’t like it is because we live on the third, third floor of a walk up and then I have to walk over to the recycling.

00:06:28

Jack

Garbage area which is like.

00:06:29

Jack

Maybe. Uh oh, I don’t know.

00:06:36

Jack

I don’t know 100 meters, you know, away from my my front door and.

00:06:43

Jack

I just like in the winter. It’s freezing cold in the summer. It’s hot, you know? So I just. I just don’t like it. I just really hate that. So, you know.

00:06:46

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:06:52

Xochitl

Also, for listeners who don’t know, separating trash in Korea is like very difficult. So.

00:06:59

Jack

They recycle everything, you know, even food, food, garbage. It’s crazy.

00:06:59

Xochitl

I it’s like, yeah. And yeah, yeah.

00:07:05

Xochitl

Yeah, the food garbage goes to like pigs or something, I believe, right?

00:07:08

Jack

Yeah, they make some kind of.

00:07:12

Jack

Yeah, some some kind.

00:07:13

Jack

Of food like the dry food after they dry it out and stuff they they feed.

00:07:17

Jack

It to pigs, yeah.

00:07:17

Xochitl

Oh, they like dehydrating it. Oh.

00:07:20

Jack

Yeah, they dehydrate it. Yeah, yeah.

00:07:22

Xochitl

Oh cool so.

00:07:23

Jack

Yeah.

00:07:25

Xochitl

Huh. Well, anyway it so there’s certain things you can’t put in your food. Trash like bones, egg shells, things like that, because obviously that could hurt the pigs, so.

00:07:37

Xochitl

Yeah, it is a pain, but.

00:07:39

Jack

I put everything in there that I shouldn’t.

00:07:43

Xochitl

That you did. Did you not know about this?

00:07:45

Jack

I didn’t know about that. I I put egg cells and coffee grounds and everything in there. Yeah, yeah.

00:07:46

Xochitl

No, no, I think I think coffee grounds might be OK. You have to look into it, but you’re not supposed to put. You’re like.

00:07:53

Xochitl

That you’re just now hearing. Yeah, yeah.

00:07:56

Jack

I thought pigs could eat egg shells. No problem. I mean, just like.

00:07:59

Xochitl

I think it’s because they dehydrate it. That probably like become sharp or something. I don’t know. I think you’re not supposed to put egg shells. Check. Check. You’re also not supposed to put bones in there. So.

00:08:10

Xochitl

Just double check though you’ve been living there long to me, so you know, double check. But I remember when I got there that people told me I wasn’t supposed to do that.

00:08:18

Xochitl

So then I didn’t, but it was a pain. It I would. I would kind of just not do the food trash. I would kind of just put my food trash in the normal trash and just throw it away.

00:08:26

Jack

Yeah, yeah, you just you.

00:08:29

Jack

If they make it too complicated and it’s too, it’s too much trouble. People just won’t do it. So.

00:08:34

Xochitl

I know. Yeah, it’s a lot, yeah.

00:08:36

Xochitl

What is 1 chore that you really like doing?

00:08:39

Jack

A. A tool that I like doing well. That’s a good question. I’m not sure there is one. I think you know vacuuming is because I still, I can put my my hair, put my my earbuds in and and usually I listen to our our podcast episodes while I’m vacuuming. So I’ll just listen to a podcast and vacuum. You know, it’s just like a.

00:08:59

Jack

You know, sometimes I’ll do, like, uh, you know, I Love Lucy. You know, I’ll dance a little bit with the vacuum cleaner and, you know, kind of like that, like a like, it’s a dancing partner or something if no one’s home, you know, if if my wife’s home, I won’t do that. But yeah, make it fun. You know, if if I.

00:09:16

Jack

Then. But yeah, vacuuming is no big deal. That’s it’s easy.

00:09:21

Xochitl

Yeah, I I like vacuuming as well.

00:09:25

Xochitl

And trying to think, I think that’s probably the one that I like the most. I kind of like scrubbing floors. I I find it satisfying.

00:09:34

Jack

Ohh you do when the when the like white line and the when the the.

00:09:38

Jack

Route changes like dark to to light or something.

00:09:39

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:09:42

Xochitl

Yeah, you’re like in there with elbow grease. Really. Scrubbing. I got your floors. I actually like doing that. I I find it satisfying. I I I see what sweeping and mopping. I don’t see that much of an immediate difference. So I don’t like it that much, but I really like, like scrubbing things. Kind of. I find it like satisfying. So.

00:10:01

Jack

Are you are you an 80% or a?

00:10:03

Jack

100 Percenter and what I mean by that is like.

00:10:06

Jack

Some people clean to like about 80%, you know.

00:10:09

Jack

Feel like it’s.

00:10:10

Jack

Good enough like this. This is fine. You know? Like if the company came over, they wouldn’t be like, oh, you’re such a pig, you know. But then there are other people that are like, 100%. And so I think the problem that that my wife and my wife is 100 percenter and I’m an 80 percenter. And so there’s like, that’s a point of contention for us.

00:10:25

Xochitl

Right.

00:10:29

Jack

Where I’m like I did it already. So like do it again the right way. You know, that kind of stuff. So yeah.

00:10:35

Xochitl

Right. I kind of.

00:10:40

Xochitl

I’m not 100% sure, but I I don’t clean all the time, but when it gets dirty, if if I’m gonna clean it, I want it to be sparkling you.

00:10:48

Xochitl

Know what I mean?

00:10:48

Jack

So you’re like you’re. You’re like, I can. I can let it go. But then one day you just roll up your sleeves and you’re like.

00:10:55

Jack

It’s time to go to work. It’s like like an Avenger or something, you know? Yeah. OK.

00:10:56

Xochitl

Yes. And then?

00:11:00

Xochitl

Yeah. And then, yeah, I I definitely am kind of like that. And I don’t like it. It’s like if someone else cleans and it’s still dirty. And I myself that drives me crazy too. That really does.

00:11:08

Jack

Ohh that drives my wife crazy.

00:11:13

Xochitl

I hate it, like when the floor is like no one really scrubbed them, they just kind of swept and mopped a little bit and it’s still like you walk across barefoot and your feet are like Gray after that piece that it makes me very angry. So I went with sure that I scrub. I just I’d rather scrub it.

00:11:22

Jack

Yep.

00:11:31

Xochitl

And then mopped it several times. But.

00:11:34

Xochitl

I just it has to be clean, you know, with the clean. It has to be clean. It has to be clean enough for you to eat off of, basically.

00:11:37

Jack

Yeah.

00:11:41

Jack

What? Well, when people clean your your house, they’re going to do it half heartedly, you know? That’s a good expression there. Half heartedly means like small, low effort, you know, because it’s not theirs, you know. So yeah.

00:11:46

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:11:51

Xochitl

Yes.

00:11:53

Xochitl

And love their house. So who cared? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, tell sisters, what is your least favorite chore and your favorite chore. If you like any chores. And what are you usually responsible for in your home? I’m really curious to know. So send us an e-mail at AZ with podcast at Gmail dot.

00:12:11

Xochitl

One, leave a comment down below at AZ with podcast.com and join the we channel WhatsApp groups to talk to Jack and I directly and we will be discussing things like this in the English corner as well. So if you guys are interested in joining the English corner again, that’s 20 lessons for $10 a month.

00:12:21

Jack

Yes.

00:12:29

Jack

But the 1st 10 are free.

00:12:30

Xochitl

The 1st 10 lessons are free, so if you feel like support supporting us and you’re able to support us, you get a lot of bang for your buck. As we would say in the US, so we look forward to seeing you in that Ave. as well and we’ll see you.

00:12:39

발표자

Yes.

00:12:44

Xochitl

Guys, next time. Bye bye.

00:12:45

Jack

Bye bye.

00:12:46

발표자

Bye.

 

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