2023-08-18
9 分钟Welcome to the A to Z English podcast, where Jack and Sochil 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, from grammar and vocabulary to slang.
And culture, to help you navigate the.
English speaking world with ease.
Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack, and I am one of the hosts of this podcast.
Today I'm doing a solo episode, and I'm doing three amazing stories from around the world, and I will read a short paragraph for each one, and then I'll talk about it with you.
So let's start with our first story.
The first story is the phone booth in the middle of the desert.
For those of you that don't know what a phone booth is, a phone booth is like a large glass box where if you wanted to make a phone call, this is before smartphones.
So before everybody had a cell phone or a smartphone, we had to use a telephone booth.
And you go inside this glass box and you dial the number, or you put your coin in the slot, and then you dial your number, and then you can talk to somebody and you can communicate by phone that way.
But in the middle of the desert in California, in the United States of America, deep in the Mojave desert in California, stands an isolated phone booth known as the Mojave phone booth.
This phone booth, miles away from any civilization, became an unexpected cultural phenomenon.
In the late 1990s and early two thousands people would trek out to the desert just to answer calls from random strangers or to make calls to friends and family, creating an unplanned and unconventional means of human connection in an unlikely location.
The phone booth was eventually removed in 2000, but its memory lives on.
So that's pretty cool.
They put a phone booth, they probably put the phone booth out there in the middle of the desert, so that if people get lost in the desert, they can maybe find that phone booth and call for help.
That's my guess, is because the Mojave desert is very hot and dry, and it can be really dangerous if your car breaks down in the middle of the desert.