A to Z Quick Chat 101 | Do you practice good personal hygiene?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack, May, and Hendrick discuss personal hygiene.

Transcript:

00:00:00

Jack

You’re listening to the A-Z English podcast.

00:00:14

Jack

Welcome to the.

00:00:14

Jack

A-Z.

00:00:15

Jack

English podcast my name is Jack and I am back for another quick chat episode. However, I am not alone. I have two of my very good friends may from Malaysia and Hendrick from Indonesia.

00:00:31

Jack

And May actually brought this quick chat topic to me, and I’m going to read what she wrote here really quickly, she said. The topic was about hygiene habits, hygiene habits, what are some essential hygiene.

00:00:51

Jack

Habits you believe everyone should follow for their well-being.

00:00:58

Jack

And may I’m gonna even go one step farther. And I’m gonna say.

00:01:05

Jack

For other peoples well-being too right.

00:01:09

May

Yes, you’re right, Jack.

00:01:10

Jack

Yeah. OK. OK.

00:01:13

Jack

So let’s start.

00:01:15

Jack

With the big ones like May, what do you think? What’s?

00:01:17

Jack

Like a big one for you.

00:01:18

Jack

That people do or don’t do.

00:01:20

May

OK, sure. Yeah. But before that, with you mind to explain or describe the word hygiene.

00:01:29

Jack

Right, OK. Hygiene just means cleanliness, like the way that we clean ourselves, you know, clean our bodies.

00:01:38

Jack

For example, brushing your teeth, washing your hair, washing your body, taking a shower, all of those are what we would call practicing. We use the verb practice, so that would be practicing good hygiene and the opposite would be.

00:01:59

Jack

Practicing bad hygiene, which would be not brushing your teeth, not showering, not taking a bath, not washing your hair, et cetera. So I’ll let you since you brought this to me, may why don’t you start us off with some of the ones that are important to?

00:02:16

May

You OK?

00:02:19

May

Of meat. What I.

00:02:23

May

I’m practicing daily. The main one will be shower because OK for me, I shower about two to three times in a day and the most important time of I mean for me to.

00:02:41

May

Get a shower.

00:02:42

May

Is when I wake up early in the morning.

00:02:45

발표자

OK.

00:02:45

May

Because it it says that when we shower early in the morning, we can prevent ourselves from getting from getting many kind of sickness like those things like flu, flu, cough.

00:03:02

May

There were, and actually many other sickness. So when we shower every morning we can, like, reduce our chances to get that kind of things. So that is what the the main thing I practice in fact because we have a humid weather here in Russia we.

00:03:22

May

At least we need to shower twice a day, even though we didn’t.

00:03:26

May

Leave the house.

00:03:28

Jack

Branch, right?

00:03:28

May

So so morning is compulsory, and then sometimes when I go out in the afternoon, come back and I will take a shower again and night time.

00:03:39

May

For sure one one more round.

00:03:42

Jack

That’s so funny, because when I lived in Thailand’s, I was on about two to three showers a day, which is pretty. That’s a lot from considering where I’m from in America. We don’t shower two to three times a day, you know.

00:03:56

May

Yeah, I think.

00:03:59

May

I feel reject, but if you are living here in.

00:04:04

May

I mean Asian country especially.

00:04:08

May

You would have to do this because if not, you won’t feel.

00:04:11

May

So. So that’s the main thing I practice here and then I.

00:04:12

발표자

Right.

00:04:20

May

Can’t tolerate people who have bad body order, so body order so that is my main concern. When you don’t shower you will you will collect those kind of bad body order which I cannot tolerate. I’m sensitive.

00:04:36

Jack

Right.

00:04:40

Jack

You’re sensitive to smell, right?

00:04:43

May

Yes, you are right.

00:04:46

Jack

OK, well, let’s, let’s.

00:04:46

May

So that is the main.

00:04:47

May

Thing I practice.

00:04:48

Jack

Yeah. Let’s stay on the shower topic and body odor topic for a second. I want to ask Kendrick Kendrick. Like, what about you? How many showers are you on during a day? How many a day?

00:05:02

Hendrick

Ohh for me at this stage the time in a day. Yeah, the time and day. Just in the morning and then, you know, usually I have class at the afternoon and then just when I arrive the maturity you know. And then I just take a shower. Yeah.

00:05:18

Jack

OK. So you take a shower in the morning and then you kind of run your day.

00:05:19

Hendrick

So you are good.

00:05:22

Jack

And then you, you, you know, sweat and all that. And then in the night in the evening, you take another shower.

00:05:29

Hendrick

Exactly. Yeah, that’s only two.

00:05:30

Jack

OK.

00:05:32

Hendrick

Times in a day, yeah.

00:05:34

Jack

That’s fine. That’s good. I may. Would you consider that’s still good hygiene, right?

00:05:39

May

It’s OK because like usually when I just.

00:05:46

May

Stay at home and not go in there.

00:05:51

Jack

Yeah, when you’re not, when you’re not going out or when you’re staying at home.

00:05:53

May

I just take twice. I mean before. Yeah, I mean, I on a working day as well before I leave the house, I shower and then in the evening I come back and then I take one more time shower only that I mean two is considered OK.

00:06:14

May

Something compulsory you do here.

00:06:16

Jack

Yeah, now I usually.

00:06:18

Jack

Shower on Sundays. Is that weird?

00:06:22

Jack

Uh, no, I’m just kidding. I’m joking.

00:06:25

Hendrick

Jack, that’s that’s not clear.

00:06:28

Hendrick

But that’s very interesting, you know.

00:06:28

Jack

By Sunday shower.

00:06:32

May

Don’t you tell me, Jake. You only shower once a week. You save me now, Jack.

00:06:36

Jack

You could smell. You could probably smell me right through the computer. The.

00:06:41

May

This can be.

00:06:42

Jack

I I take a shower once uh day UM and but it because it’s getting cold here so it’s it’s like it’s like 5 degrees right now, you know outside 5-6 degrees. Yeah. So I I don’t really sweat that much. So what I usually do is I take a shower.

00:06:48

May

OK, that sounds better.

00:06:54

May

Yeah, I understand. I feel that I can really.

00:07:03

Jack

At night.

00:07:04

Jack

And then and then I sleep and.

00:07:07

Jack

Then I just.

00:07:08

Jack

Wake up and wash my face and just kind of like splash water in my face. But I don’t take a a full shower in the morning.

00:07:16

Jack

Some people you know, have to.

00:07:18

Jack

Take a shower to wake up.

00:07:21

Jack

For me, I just rub water in my eyes and I just splash water on my face. And you know, I don’t have any hair.

00:07:29

Jack

So I don’t have to worry about my hair being messy in the morning. You know, some people have to worry about that, but I don’t. I just washed my head. I just wash my whole head with water and it’s kind of like almost like taking a shower anyway. So.

00:07:35

Hendrick

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, you’re wrong.

00:07:47

Jack

Yeah, I take one shower a day.

00:07:51

May

Try head. Taking a shower in the morning. Jack, you will feel the freshness. It’s like.

00:07:57

May

Everything you feel like a new, fresh you’ll be. You’ll have more energy.

00:08:05

Jack

I agree with that. I I agree with that by only the only disagreement is that I, like I would rather I would trade 10 more minutes of sleep.

00:08:16

Jack

For a shower.

00:08:22

Jack

If I could sleep 10 minutes more and not.

00:08:24

Jack

Shower. I’ll do that.

00:08:27

Jack

Two more minutes and not brush.

00:08:28

Jack

My teeth? No problem. No, I’m just kidding.

00:08:32

Jack

Yeah, I’m not that bad.

00:08:35

Jack

I’m disgusting, I guess compared to you.

00:08:37

Jack

Guys, I’m not that disgusting.

00:08:40

Jack

OK. So Hendricks on 2 Maison 3, I’m on one, the average is 2 showers a day, but you guys live near the equator. You’re in the tropics. I’m in a more temperate climate, so it’s maybe excusable for me to take one shower a day.

00:08:57

May

Yeah, I can relate to you about that actually.

00:09:01

Jack

Yeah. Yeah. What’s in body order is a big one for me too. Like I I use deodorant now. Do people use deodorant in Malaysia and Indonesia?

00:09:14

May

Of course, not only children. We have all kinds of bodies, spray body, deodorant, everything. I don’t know him, but I guess he does that as well. I’m not right hand.

00:09:28

Hendrick

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, I have it. You know, like I usually after finish, you know, shower and then I just use my bedroom. Yeah, because that’s very important and also.

00:09:39

Hendrick

You feel very bad apart from him, yeah.

00:09:43

Jack

This is funny because I just had this conversation with my wife yesterday and she told me Korean people believe they don’t have body odor.

00:09:44

Hendrick

You know.

00:09:53

Jack

They don’t use deodorant. So 2020 years ago when I moved to Korea, I went to the store to buy deodorant. I couldn’t find it. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I had to go to the black market and buy deodorant.

00:10:03

May

OK.

00:10:09

Jack

And it and it is true. Korean people did. Most Korean people don’t.

00:10:14

Jack

Have body odor.

00:10:15

Jack

It’s really strange. I don’t know what the why? What the you know the the chemist. Like the chemical reason or the.

00:10:24

Jack

You know, I don’t know the reason why. Yeah, I I.

00:10:27

May

Feed the environment.

00:10:27

Jack

Think it’s just.

00:10:28

Jack

Genetics. I think it’s genetics, but one out of every sixty Korean people does have body odour and they don’t think they do, but they smell, you know, so.

00:10:42

Jack

That’s bad when you’re sitting next to that person on the subway and they have Bo, we call it Bo body odor. Yeah, yeah.

00:10:51

May

But how how? How?

00:10:55

May

Is it possible by where everyone almost everyone there?

00:10:59

May

Doesn’t have any smell. How is it possible?

00:11:03

Jack

No, it’s really strange. I swear I’m not even joking with you. It’s like they don’t. They run around all day in the summer, they sweat and everything and.

00:11:13

Jack

Then they don’t smell.

00:11:15

Jack

They smell like a they smell like a basket of.

00:11:17

Jack

Flowers at the end.

00:11:18

Jack

Of the day I.

00:11:18

May

Wow, this is.

00:11:20

Jack

I look like a homeless person. You know what I mean? I look like I slept under a railroad track or something. They look, my wife looks as fresh as a Daisy when she comes home from work and I look like.

00:11:35

Jack

You know a garbage man that’s been working.

00:11:37

Jack

All day so.

00:11:40

Jack

I don’t understand. You know, it’s just something about the, you know, it’s a genetic thing. So she, you know, doesn’t have to use deodorant. But I always use deodorant. I’m terrified that I’m going to be the smelly person. I don’t want to be the smelly person at work, you know?

00:12:00

May

Is it because the food they eat from the day they are born to the world, something like that?

00:12:06

Jack

Maybe right. It’s probably kimchi. It’s probably the kimchi that doesn’t make them smell.

00:12:11

May

I don’t know.

00:12:12

Jack

Kimchi smells, but, but they don’t. So.

00:12:17

Jack

I don’t know.

00:12:17

May

Strange this this is something new that I just know today.

00:12:22

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:12:23

Jack

So yeah, so I use deodorant. You guys use deodorant. You guys showered several times a day. I in the summer, I shower multiple times a day. I have to shower more than once a day in the summer in Korea. It’s too humid. Yeah, right. But it doesn’t matter. Because sometimes.

00:12:42

Jack

I’m sweating as soon as I walk out of the shower. I.

00:12:45

Jack

Start sweating again.

00:12:46

Jack

Because it’s still humid.

00:12:47

May

Yeah, that, that’s that is the exact situation happened in Asian countries like with you when you just take a shower, you leave for the bathroom in less than one minute, you’ll be sweating.

00:12:59

Jack

I know it’s the worst.

00:13:00

May

That’s the situation.

00:13:02

Jack

OK, it’s terrible. It’s terrible.

00:13:05

Jack

All right.

00:13:05

May

So you tell me, how can a person not take any shower in the day here?

00:13:10

Jack

I don’t know. I mean you you have to work in a garbage dump and you know, I mean, I don’t know where else you could work and get away with that. Yeah. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe if you work at a durian stand.

00:13:13

May

Something’s wrong.

00:13:31

Jack

You sell durian. You don’t need to take a shower every day.

00:13:34

May

Like durian smells good. Yeah, it smells good.

00:13:36

Hendrick

I’m looking missing.

00:13:40

May

Smells good, Jack. And it’s delicious.

00:13:40

Jack

OK. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t. I shouldn’t talk badly about.

00:13:46

Jack

From the nation person.

00:13:51

Jack

I know you guys, you guys are teaming up against me with your during and love. What? What’s another one, mate? What about what about, you know, brushing teeth like bad breaths. How? How do you feel about that one?

00:14:05

May

Uh this uh?

00:14:07

May

Be usually be brushed twice a day and then if you have bad breath, you come you only I mean brushing teeth itself doesn’t help. If you really had a bad smell in your mouth, so you need something like maybe a listen.

00:14:29

May

Mouthwash. Something like that.

00:14:32

Jack

Or mints just like pop mint mints all the time. Altoids.

00:14:32

May

Ohh that.

00:14:37

May

I think in Malaysia we have a brand called, it’s something like a mouthwash, peppermint and some other.

00:14:47

May

Stuff inside. We are not too sure about that, but that is our mouth wash purpose. It’s like to clean all our gum our teeth.

00:14:51

Jack

OK.

00:14:54

May

I work on everything you said the most.

00:14:57

Jack

OK. And what about you? How many times do?

00:14:59

Jack

You brush your teeth in a day.

00:15:01

Hendrick

Ohh wow, I think for me, you know, usually I in the morning, you know, in the morning before I go to the to my class. And then after before I go to sleep and usually you know after I eat something you know, because I learned this heavy when I was in Bali.

00:15:21

Hendrick

When I was working at salesman at the bank and I learned from the, you know, like the people that they work at the bank.

00:15:29

Hendrick

Especially when they have to face with the customer everyday. You know like they always brush their teeth after.

00:15:35

Hendrick

They eat you.

00:15:36

Hendrick

Know because yeah, that’s very important and and also.

00:15:39

Jack

This is a Korean thing, yeah.

00:15:42

Hendrick

Yeah. And when it’s very important for you, you know like to have like bubble gums when to make you know you must smell, you smell really good.

00:15:54

Hendrick

When you, because you know when you have the conversation with people, you know you you have to.

00:16:00

Hendrick

Make sure that.

00:16:01

Hendrick

Your mouth is, you know, like it’s smells good. Yeah.

00:16:05

Jack

Right. Right now in Korea, Korean people brush their teeth three times a day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yeah, yeah.

00:16:06

May

You’re right, Zach.

00:16:11

May

Ah, OK yeah.

00:16:15

Jack

Always at work. Now I started doing it for a while, but here’s my problem. I think I have bad breath I and I’m. I’ll tell you why I think I have an excuse why I’m teaching all the time, right? So I’m talking all morning and my breath and my mouth gets so dry.

00:16:33

Jack

And it’s a big problem because when you have dry mouth, then your mouth smells bad, right? Because it’s not right.

00:16:41

Hendrick

You’re though.

00:16:43

Hendrick

Yeah, it’s better to consume, you know.

00:16:45

Hendrick

Like water, it also has.

00:16:46

Jack

Yeah. And I don’t drink enough water. I don’t really drink water. I drink coffee, which actually makes it dehydrates me.

00:16:51

Hendrick

Now I’ll do that.

00:16:53

Jack

More so, yeah.

00:16:54

May

You’re right, Jack. Coffee doesn’t help. You did, like, just plain water.

00:17:00

Hendrick

No water. It’s very helpful.

00:17:02

Jack

Yeah. So I’m kind of worried, you know, students come up to me and then, like, teach her. I have a question and then I go, how can I help you? And then they like.

00:17:10

Jack

Look like they’re going to die, you know, like.

00:17:14

Jack

Jack almost killed me.

00:17:16

Jack

It’s because I’ve been. I have very dry mouth and then I’m drinking coffee on top of that. I should be drinking water to try to, you know, stop that. So I think I have no problem. I think I have bad hygiene. Yeah.

00:17:32

Jack

OK.

00:17:32

May

Could could be improved. Jack, no worries.

00:17:35

Jack

I mean, I do brush my teeth like 2 times a day. I brush in the morning and in the evening and sometimes I brush it three times.

00:17:41

Jack

A day. But I brush three times a day, but well, is there anything else? What else are we missing here? So we’ve got teeth. We’ve got body. Body odor. What else are we missing?

00:17:55

Hendrick

Are you doing better anymore?

00:17:58

Jack

Clean bedroom.

00:18:02

Hendrick

Because you know all this here, you know I live before that. I live in my my roommates, you know, in the same room. And I think they have the bad heads, which is, you know, like they just throw the garbage.

00:18:17

Hendrick

This in the room.

00:18:19

Hendrick

In the bedroom, you know, like Oh my God. This bedroom is really amazing. So I just moved from this bedroom and then I moved to my another friend’s bedroom. So right now, in the new bedroom. Yeah.

00:18:35

Jack

Yeah, you don’t.

00:18:36

Jack

Want to live with a pig? Yeah, living with pigs is is terrible because there’s bugs everywhere. It’s gross.

00:18:45

May

And I think one more thing, I believe we should practice thing we should practice this changing clothes every day.

00:18:54

May

Thank you.

00:18:56

May

I don’t know how how.

00:18:57

May

Some people can wear the same clothes for like 3 to 4 days.

00:19:00

Jack

Oh my God man, I wear I’ve.

00:19:02

Jack

Been wearing the same.

00:19:03

Jack

Pants for the last four days.

00:19:09

May

Disgusting, Jack. Sorry.

00:19:13

Hendrick

Yeah, he also had the same thing. Like when I don’t want to go out, you know.

00:19:19

Hendrick

Stay in the same in in my bathroom. You know, I change my clothes. Me. Yeah. You know, I just.

00:19:28

Hendrick

I don’t. I don’t have a lot of activities outside, you know. So yeah, I mean like because.

00:19:34

Hendrick

It smells good, yeah.

00:19:34

May

But you guys are here.

00:19:36

May

Don’t wait. You are still wearing the clothes. You’re you are still sweating no matter what the what your, your body still will produce smells.

00:19:50

May

So you will.

00:19:50

Jack

I smell like a flower. You know? I’ve never.

00:19:53

Hendrick

Yeah, I.

00:19:55

Hendrick

I I.

00:19:58

Hendrick

I did this. You know? I just, uh, save my time to, you know, like, do my laundry because here, you know, we we do laundry by ourselves or if you have a lot of money, you can, you know, just pay for the people to do your laundry. So I just want to manage my I would because here I just do my laundry like one time.

00:20:18

Hendrick

In a week.

00:20:18

Hendrick

So yeah, that’s, you know.

00:20:21

Jack

I just believe.

00:20:23

Jack

I I just like to I like to. OK, so if I so I only only pants, I mean of course like undergarments.

00:20:29

Jack

I change every day, right? Of course.

00:20:32

Jack

You know I’m.

00:20:32

Jack

Not wearing the same T-shirt or the same sweater every day, but just pants.

00:20:37

Jack

Because once I, once I wear a pair of pants, I don’t want to wash them after one time, but I don’t want to take out new pants and then sit, put the old pants on a chair, and then I have 5 pairs of pants just sitting on a chair. So I just wear the same pants until they’re like three or four times and then I wash them, but I wear them.

00:20:57

Jack

Every day, so my students probably think I only have.

00:21:01

Jack

One pair of pants.

00:21:05

Jack

Neck so poor he can’t.

00:21:07

Jack

Afford another pair of pants.

00:21:10

May

For me, Jack, even though I’m just saying.

00:21:12

May

At home I will change my house food everyday.

00:21:20

Jack

No, not me.

00:21:20

May

I I do laundry 3.

00:21:23

May

To four times in a week.

00:21:25

Jack

Wow, OK, you’re you win the hygiene game today.

00:21:30

Jack

Yeah, if this is.

00:21:31

Jack

A game may wins the hygiene game I lose.

00:21:34

May

Because I cannot tolerate smell. That’s.

00:21:37

Jack

Yeah, Hendrick is in second place, but you’re closer to me than you are to me. I’m clearly I’m disgusting. That’s the the take away from today’s episode of the podcast.

00:21:53

May

Let’s our listener what?

00:21:54

May

Do they practice in their daily routine?

00:21:58

May

It’s a it’s a hygiene.

00:21:59

Jack

Yeah. OK.

00:22:01

Jack

I’ll I’ll throw.

00:22:01

May

To take care for the hygiene.

00:22:03

Jack

Let’s throw it out to the listeners, listeners.

00:22:05

Jack

Go to the, go to our website A-Z englishpodcast.com and tell me how disgusting I am on a scale of 1 to 10. We know May is, you know, practice is the best hygiene. Hendrick is up there. He’s amazing. I’m clearly I have problems. How deep are my problems?

00:22:25

Jack

Please let me know send me an e-mail at OZ englishpodcast@gmail.com or go into the WhatsApp group and tell everybody how disgusting Jack is and we’ll catch you next time. Thanks everybody.

00:22:42

Jack

Bye bye.

00:22:45

Hendrick

Bye bye.

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