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Limited time. Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast.
My name is Jack and I am here today with my co -host Sochal.
And today we're going to do a topic talk game edition.
And this one, the game is, Sochal, this is really easy.
It's how well do you know your podcasting partner?
I'm sure I'm going to fail this one miserably because I have a very poor memory.
and Jack has a pretty good memory so I'm waiting to feel this one miserably you're also you're also very open you know what I mean like you share a 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 uh of of your your life story
um and I think I'm maybe more closed off or you know a colder more stonewall individual you know so um yeah i have i have picked up things throughout the time but it's usually quite i ask you and then you share so it's like sharing is caring all right here we go um the first one what's your what's my
last name social oh mcbane that's easy okay and your last name is muterspa yes that's right okay and you have two names actually it's now here's a bonus question what's your middle name so what's my middle name yeah jack what is your middle name daniel you're so close you're so close i'm really close
i'm actually close oh my god donald yes how did you know that i don't know you just you kind of seemed like a daniel and said it was close and i thought but i kind of like i don't know i just kind of came to me am i like amazing my middle name is donald i'm jack donald mcbain yeah wow that's really
cool i feel like a psychic now it's like you better watch out i have magical powers that was freaky that was freaky i'm gonna guess your middle name is emily but because you have two names you have social is your uh your uh ethnic mexican name or is it a mexican name you said it was actually like uh
aztec it is mexican indigenous yeah indigenous thank you that was the word i'm looking for is emily considered your middle name then it's kind of a trick question on me i'm actually emily sochel and not sochel emily but i go by my middle name okay so i got it i got it flipped around okay Emily Sochal
yeah I mean Sochal is such a cool name I totally get why you use that I was I just grew up being called Sochal always 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 U .S.
mostly they wanted like people like teachers and stuff to be able to say a name if they couldn't pronounce Sochal so um or couldn't wrap their brains around it so that was really why I had Emily um but I don't use it like ever pretty much and I and all school I use social too I didn't want to use Emily
um how many teachers were like in the first day of class were like chat chat chittle yeah no one didn't know at all they would just as soon as there was a long uncomfortable pause i knew it was my name and i would just pipe up you just 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 but um it's just hard to read a little bit when you yeah if you're not familiar with the phonetics um of aztec names then yeah it's definitely very hard it doesn't look like anything we have like and English phonetic so yeah yeah
yeah it does it does look challenging but it's actually really easy to pronounce um okay so I'm going to give you a point and I'm going to take one away from me so zero one um which U .S.
state did you grow up in I'm going to say you grew up in Iowa do you know where I grew up well I kind of grew up in Iowa well I'll give you a bonus point back oh I'm going to say sorry I'm going to say you grew up in Iowa and Kentucky yes yes you got it you got it yeah check okay 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 to get it wrong i want to say nebraska but i'm like that's not right it's not right it's like it's in the midwest though it's in the midwest it's in the midwest
and i know i'm Wait, give me a second, okay?
I know it's not Iowa, Illinois, Idaho, or Ohio, and it's in the Midwest, and it's not Nebraska.
One second. Let me, you know, just give me a couple more seconds.
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
I'm from Minnesota, and you are from kind of Kentucky, Iowa.
and uh for a bonus question which city and i think i'm cheating i know because i think you live in iowa city right now um but kentucky i'm gonna say lexington yes like the suburbs of lexington something like that no not the suburbs i used to live downtown Lexington oh you lived in downtown Lexington okay
okay I don't think you're gonna get my city I mean I'll give it to you I'll give you like the uh I'll be flexible what's the first letter w okay interesting uh winona oh that's a pretty good guess actually um i'm from white bear lake no that was my second guess i was gonna be like white bear no so close
i'm from white bear lake but white bear lake is a suburb of st paul so if you'd have said st paul i would have and the st paul was gonna be what i was gonna say originally but when you said w's i guess not saint paul i was gonna freaking no i was so close all right fine i'll give you the i'll give it
to you okay so you got uh two points and i'm gonna get it take it i don't deserve that one okay take that one all right all right i'll let our listeners can add up our points here tell us what we got um number three how many brothers if you want to play along you can also submit it in the whatsapp group
exactly your answers as they go along and then And at the end, you'll see how many points you got.
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
That's good. That's good.
Play along. See how well you know us.
How many brothers and sisters do you have?
You have one sister.
Yeah. And she is an older sister because you are the youngest.
Yeah, that's right, Jack.
Okay. What about me?
You have like four siblings, don't you?
Gosh, wrong again? no i know you have an older brother and a younger brother jack does scream at old child syndrome kind of um no jack i don't know i thought it was four but it's not you you're one of four so you have three siblings all right i'm wrong i have one younger brother that's it wait wait
no jack that's not real that can't be real you only have one younger brother i have only one younger brother it's 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 uh mom and dad that's it weird i could have sworn you had like four siblings or you
were 104 maybe i wonder if i just have that energy or something like a big family energy but uh no we're pretty small yeah you kind of do have big family you also have middle child energy you don't really have oldest brother energy yeah i used to be that kindly my mom is a is a middle child you know
and so yeah you don't have that weird like competitive my sister is an older child you don't have that weird like older sibling energy so i thought yeah i know what you're talking about too like i'm kind of a negotiator too like naturally like i want everyone to be happy i'm a people pleaser which is a middle child
kind of quality yeah and you're not like very boastful or very like like eccentric or very like um egocentric either so i kind of thought you know middle child sort of yeah yeah well Well, that's OK.
That's good. I'm glad I have the middle child vibes in a older older.
But I used to be a tyrant.
Like, I'll admit it.
Like, I melded out big time, you know, but in high school, ask my little brother if I was pleasant to be around.
He would not agree.
Name your sibling. Okay, so Sochal, I have no idea what your sister's name is.
I know what yours is because you said Jay.
Right, right, right.
That's right. Jay. What is social?
See, I don't even know.
I wonder if your sister has an Aztec name as well.
She probably does. She doesn't.
She doesn't? No. Emily and erica no oh okay it's not a it's it it is a name in the english language but it's very uncommon and it's it's when you get the planet fitness black card you can bring a friend anytime you work out and now through march 13th get your first month free when you join you heard that right conquer
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A little more common in Hispanic and Black communities.
I don't think you're even going to try at this point.
No, no. Now I'm in dangerous territory, so let's just, yeah.
Just tell me. Yolanda Yolanda yeah that makes sense right okay okay Emily and Yolanda that's interesting because you know sometimes parents will try to match you know what I mean like Emily and Emma no one calls me Emily they call me social so it's like social and Yolanda and it's x and y actually they're
alpha they come next to each other in alphabet oh that's my parents knew my parents did not realize this but it's just what it happens named after um my grandmother on my mom's side okay okay cool all right yeah that is that is like a a common in the african -american community but also it has a spanish uh
kind of root to it.
Yeah. Interesting. Okay, cool.
All right. We'll do two more questions and then we'll save the last five for a next episode because otherwise this episode is going to be half an hour long.
What's your university major?
I know yours. Oh, you're an English major, right?
Yeah. You're a communications major.
Yeah. Okay. We got it.
We got it. Name the university dang you went to you went to a liberal arts school but i i know i know it's a good school but it is uh a small school um am i right yes it is a small school and it's also academically prestigious yeah yeah the thing is i just i i think you went to school in kentucky if i'm
not mistaken right no oh no it wasn't in kentucky oh okay i have i'm sorry i have no idea it's okay i don't know if i ever talked about it it's grinnell college in grinnell iowa so g -r -i -n -n -e -l -l oh yeah okay yeah you have talked about that yeah actually i'm not familiar with it but i know that there's
lots of really good little uh like liberal arts schools that in uh like for example there's one um uh what is it what's it called i'm totally blanking sorry in minnesota there's there's a couple of pretty prestigious small um liberal arts colleges and uh mine it was northwestern but not i was gonna guess
it not 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 saint paul minnesota called northwestern college now it's called northwestern university but it had so on my degree it looks like i went to northwestern but no one really
thinks you know about the difference that there's another northwestern that's not the one in in illinois right yeah so it's kind of kind of nice when i tell people i went to grinnell people think i say cornell which is a really famous college and i'm like right no that's not where i'm going it is prestigious
but not that prestigious right right i was gonna guess yours but i was still gonna guess wrong i was gonna say metropolitan state university in st paul minnesota oh okay no no yeah i went to i did go to mcallister is in st paul minnesota mccallister is a famous yeah micallister is a very uh very famous
uh a prestigious school they they were in our basketball conference actually so we used to play basketball at mccallister i believe i got accepted to mccallister as well but i didn't go wow that's you i would never have gotten accepted to mccallister yeah i got i did get accepted to mccallister i got
i now that i remember i got accepted everywhere I applied except for I got waitlisted at Oberlin I believe okay okay yeah everywhere else I got accepted including Macalester fantastic yeah that's a great school Peter Berg movie director went to went to that school um okay let's see here we've got one
more okay last question what is your go -to comfort food is it sweet salty or savory Jack I think yours is savory oh I would say I'm I'm more of a sweet I go I go to no I failed once more your sweet tooth oh no 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 know oh that's that's like a weird gender thing it's like i can't even have a sweet tooth she's like it's not it's not very manly to have a sweet tooth
