A to Z Quick Chat 06 (Re-upload) | Pets

In this re-uploaded episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Kevin and Jack talk about their pets. Transcript: 00:00:02 Jack You are listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:10 Kevin Welcome to an A-Z English quick chat. We're going to surprise each other with a topic for the day and see where the conversation goes. Check our site for a study guide with vocabulary notes and discussion questions, as well as links to our WhatsApp group or other social media so you can join in the conversion. 00:00:26 Kevin So Jack, as as you know, a big part of my life is my pet dog and I wanted to talk about pets today because I I love animals. Animals are fantastic. Sometimes more than people. And I'm just curious, like we we talked a little bit about animals last time, but that was more of a. 00:00:45 Kevin Phobia things you were scared of. 00:00:47 Jack Yeah, yeah. 00:00:48 발표자 What? What kind? 00:00:50 Kevin Of pets. Did you have growing up? What kind of pets do you have now? What? What are your favorite animals? 00:00:57 Kevin For a pet of. 00:00:59 Jack Sure. When I was growing up, we had a dog. He was a golden retriever and his name was buddy. Buddy is buddy. Means friend in English like my buddy, my friend. And it's a very common pet name. 00:01:08 Kevin Bye bye. 00:01:16 Jack Usually for for male dogs. And yeah buddy was. 00:01:20 Kevin So I'm kind of curious just to break. Sorry, I'm I'm curious to hear from our listeners really quick what are common pet names in your country? 00:01:27 Kevin Because buddy, like just friend, is a really common name for pet names there, but I've I've never heard of any, you know, like Korean pet names where it's like, hey, chingu like, I've never heard that as a pet name. But you're right, that is a very common American dog name anyway. 00:01:39 Jack Yeah, yeah. 00:01:42 Jack Yeah, amigo. Amiga. Yeah, that was. That's interesting. I wonder. 00:01:46 Kevin So tell tell me more about buddy. 00:01:48 Jack Yeah. So my parent, my sorry, my brother and I begged my parents to get us a dog, you know, like. 00:01:55 Kevin How old are? 00:01:55 Jack You, well, 12 years old. So I was 12. My brother was 9 and we really, really wanted a dog so badly. And my parents were. 00:01:57 Kevin OK, cool. 00:02:07 Jack Reluctant because they kind of felt like we weren't being honest when we said that we would clean up after the dog. Like, I promise I'll walk the dog. I'll clean up after the dog. I'll do all the all, all the the stuff. And then, of course, my dad ended up, you know, cleaning up after the dog and. 00:02:18 발표자 Every day. Oh. 00:02:27 Jack You know my brother and I just kind of played with our toys inside the house while my dad was cleaning. You know, the yard. 00:02:36 Jack But, but we did love buddy. He was a very sweet dog, very gentle dog. So he was big. He was about. Well, I could say he's probably like £75, which I'm not sure how much that is in kilo. Yeah, like 30 kilos? Yeah. He was a big boy and he had long hair. 00:02:47 Kevin Oh wow, it's like 30. 00:02:51 Kevin Something like that. 00:02:56 Jack So in the summer he would shed a lot which really bothered my mom because there was, you know, like, hair on the sofa, hair in the carpet, hair everywhere. And that got really annoying to my mom. 00:03:00 발표자 You know. 00:03:11 Jack But everybody loved buddy because he was so sweet and he loved everybody, so even strangers, he would, you know, come up to a stranger. And one of the things that he used to do that was really cute is that he would like. 00:03:29 Jack When he he was so excited he would, he would drop down on his shoulder. 00:03:34 Jack But he would never he would never fully roll over. 00:03:37 발표자 He would just. 00:03:37 Jack Keep his **** up in the air, stand on his hind legs and yeah, and just and and just just begging somebody to, you know, pet him, you know, and just to give him some attention. So he really loved people. He he was a great dog to have with childr