Topic Talk | Why Xochitl Never Learned to Drive

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack asks Xochitl why she never learned to drive. Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to do a topic talk episode and the episode is why social never learned to drive so social, why didn't you ever learn to drive? 00:00:19 Xochitl Jack, this is actually a really interesting thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately because I still haven't learned to drive. Answer those who are not familiar with American culture, getting their license was a main staple of American culture up until. 00:00:34 Jack MHM. 00:00:35 Xochitl Around my generation. 00:00:39 Xochitl Right, so people who are like denzi, millennial cuspers or genzi or very, very young millennials, like still in their 20s can all kind of relate to this. There's a shift. There was a shift in the culture and everyone. 00:00:57 Xochitl It was so much less common to get your license. 00:01:01 Xochitl Versus it used to be that everyone got their license as soon as they could, because that kind of meant freedom. And I Jack, you can speak more to that than I can. 00:01:09 Jack Yeah, like your 16th birthday is a huge landmark in a young man's. Ohh. And and and and for young women too. In in, in my generation I'm 47 now. When I turned 16, I was like the next day I was at the the Department of Motor Vehicles. 00:01:30 Jack Taking my my drivers test, you know to get my license because. 00:01:35 Jack I wanted to borrow my dad's car and go places with my friends and it was like a whole world just opened up. 00:01:44 Jack For me. 00:01:46 Jack And yeah. 00:01:46 Xochitl Yeah, crazy. Go ahead. Go ahead, Jack. 00:01:48 Jack Yeah, that's it basically. I mean, you're, you're you, you, you, you, you know, you can only walk so far, ride a bike so far. 00:01:57 Jack And also it's embarrassing. It was kind of, we'll say, cringy to ride a bike after 16 in in America, which nowadays every people love their. 00:02:06 발표자 Right. 00:02:10 Jack You know, so that's that's that's changed too. But yeah, when you turned 16 in America, when you turn 16 in America, you are old enough to drive, which is crazy to me because we can't drink till you're 21 and you can join the military when you're 18. But. 00:02:30 Jack It's it's very strange. 00:02:31 Xochitl If that I like to think. 00:02:32 Jack Yeah, you can go fight and die in a war, but you can't have a a beer, you know, it's. 00:02:38 Xochitl You can even drive. 00:02:39 Xochitl At 14, in some states like Iowa. 00:02:41 Jack Yeah, there's, I guess some are really young. I mean, my daughter's 15. So she's old enough to get her learner's permit, which means she could drive if I'm in the car with her. 00:02:53 Xochitl Right, which is busy. 00:02:53 Jack Uh. 00:02:54 Jack But she lives near Miami in the South of Florida. I would never let her drive in a million years down there. It's a it's a hot mess down there. It's crazy. 00:03:01 발표자 Thanks. 00:03:05 Xochitl Yeah. Dallas. Yeah, I I think the reason the main reasons I didn't get my license was a couple things. One, I had to stay at home, Mom. 00:03:16 Xochitl Which meant she could kind of give me rides to school most. 00:03:20 Xochitl Or from school most days and I took the bus. Other than that, I think I mostly I took the bus to school so they do. You do? Consider it lame, I guess after a certain age to take the bus to school, but I really. 00:03:33 Xochitl Didn't. 00:03:33 Xochitl Care about that. So I would just think, yeah. 00:03:37 Jack Yeah. 00:03:38 Jack That, that, that separates you from the the fact that you don't. You didn't care is really cool. Actually, I find that that cool. You're like what? I don't care what people think about me. Like, whatever. You know, it's a mature attitude. 00:03:50 Xochitl Yeah, I lived there. 00:03:54 Xochitl Yeah. So, so that was one thing. So I would just take the bus. And two, we only had one car,