A to Z Quick Tok 39 | Always Happy vs. Always Honest

In this Quick Tok episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is joined by May, Layla, Hendrick, and Salimeh. The five of them discuss the following Would you rather? question: Would you rather live in a world where everyone is always happy or always honest? Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of topics. 00:00:23 Jack From grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease. 00:00:33 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm one of the hosts of the podcast. However, I am without social today, but do not fret because I've got some wonderful friends with me. I've got selime from Iran. I've got Leila from Saudi Arabia may from Malaysia. 00:00:53 Jack And Hendrick, from Indonesia, guys. 00:00:55 Jack How you doing today? 00:00:59 Hendrick Good. Alright, I'm doing good. 00:01:02 Jack OK, I'm doing pretty well actually I'm doing. I'm doing good. Yeah. And what I've got for you today, we're going to do a would you rather episode? And so I'm going to read you a. Would you rather question and then we'll go in a circle and I'll let you guys answer however you want to. 00:01:02 Salimeh Thanks. What about you? 00:01:22 Jack And then I will share. 00:01:23 Jack My answer as well, so here is the. 00:01:26 Jack Would you rather question? 00:01:28 Jack Would you rather live in a world where everyone is always happy? 00:01:36 Jack In a world where everyone is always honest. 00:01:42 Jack There we go. So let's start with. Well, May is the one who came up with this one. So I'm going to give may the 1st crack at. 00:01:44 May This is. 00:01:52 May This is interesting. This is an interesting question for me. I will definitely go on. 00:02:05 May For me if. 00:02:08 May Everyone in this world is honest means. 00:02:14 May There is no lie, no unfaithful, no doubt so. 00:02:20 May If all this situation, everyone. 00:02:24 May I don't have to feel. 00:02:26 May Being cheated or being betrayed. So everyone will certainly live happily. 00:02:34 Jack Ohh so you think honesty will lead to happiness? 00:02:35 May Yeah, for all this. 00:02:37 Jack So maybe you're trying to have. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too, huh? You want to have it both ways, happiness and honesty. 00:02:38 May Yeah, because the. 00:02:46 Jack That's a very may answer. 00:02:50 Jack Alright, good. Good. I like it. I like it. OK, we'll go on a circle here. We'll go to Hendrick next. Hendrick, what do you think? World of happiness or world of honesty? 00:03:02 Hendrick So for me, I think I would rather to choose. 00:03:06 Hendrick To live in the. 00:03:07 Hendrick World, which is the people, are happy because. Yeah, I mean like what we are looking for in this life is that happiness, happiness is the number one. Yeah, I mean like. 00:03:22 Hendrick As as long as we are happy, I mean. 00:03:26 Hendrick Like that's good. 00:03:28 Jack OK. Even always happy though, even if something bad happens, you're happy. 00:03:34 Hendrick Exactly. That's the worst. 00:03:35 Jack All right, all right. He's sticking to it. He's sticking to his guns. All right. One for honesty, one for happiness. Let's jump over to selime. What do you think? Would you rather live in a world where everyone is always happy or everyone is always honest? 00:03:52 Salimeh And then I would like to live in a world where people are always honest, because as I mentioned, honesty is being honesty can bring happiness and our kind of, you know, realistic person. So if you still if now people. 00:04:10 Salimeh Honest with each other and I really appreciate this personality of all people. So unlike happiness too. But if something happened, bad thing