Quick Chat 017: What are your favorite holidays?

In this episode, Kevin and Jack talk about their favorite holidays, and what makes them so special. Share your answers to the discussion questions in our WhatsApp group chat! https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7 Download a study guide here: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/what-are-your-favorite-holidays/ With listener mail from episode 14: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/technology-from-the-80s-and-90s/ If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here: https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8 We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/ Jack You are listening to the A-Z English podcast.  Kevin Welcome to an A-Z English quick chat. We're going to surprise each other with the topic for the day and see where the conversation goes.  Kevin Remember to check our website for steady guy with vocabulary notes and discussion questions as well as linked to our WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media pages so you can join in the conversation as well.  Kevin But Jack what?  Kevin Do you want to talk about today?  Kevin What's this topic?  Jack Today I want to talk about favorite holidays so well.  Kevin And cool.  Jack I know that you're a big fan of of the holidays, the holiday season, and I am 2, but everybody got their like favorite.  Jack One you know.  Jack And so I've kind of.  Jack I would like to use it to share with our listeners what your favorite.  Jack American Holiday is and why?  Kevin Yeah for holidays, that's interesting.  Kevin I'm it depends on the holiday for me because actually some holidays like Christmas.  Kevin I don't really like very much, but that's the and that was not I I Grinch or as screwed.  Jack Are you a Grinch or Scrooge?  Kevin It's just when I was in university, I worked a couple of retail jobs at just like big stores.  Kevin And they just always played Christmas music all day, every day for two months the same the same CD repeated.  Jack Right, the same 7 songs.  Jack Over and over again, right.  Kevin Again and again and again.  Kevin And I just got really sick of it.  Kevin It's just like no more Christmas, but around that same time of year is the American Thanksgiving.  Kevin And that holiday is probably the holiday that I probably the holiday that I miss the most not living in America these days.  Kevin I'll talk about it a.  Kevin Little bit, but what's?  Kevin What's yours first?  Jack So mine is a little bit strange because it I don't know if it's technically a holiday, but I'm getting.  Kevin Things well, that's what you got.  Jack I'll tell you what it is.  Jack OK, so I when I was a kid, I loved Halloween.  Kevin OK, right.  Jack And I still do.  Jack I I, I still love Halloween.  Jack I love all the.  Jack The icons, you know, like the Jack O Lantern and the witch and the ghosts and Dracula and vampires and zombies and all that sort of stuff.  Kevin Right.  Jack I love zombie movies and vampire movies.  Kevin Right. We talked about that.  Jack Movies, so I love horror.  Jack Uhm, so for me, I just always loved Halloween.  Jack Now, in America, Halloween is not a day off from work.  Jack So you still have to go to work on Halloween.  Kevin Right.  Jack So it's not technically a holiday, but.  Kevin The best.  Jack It's something that we celebrate.  Kevin I think account.  Jack And it kind of, it is kind of like the first holiday of the holiday season which would be Thanksgiving, is in November and Christmas is in December and Halloween starts on.  Jack October 31st.  Kevin Right.  Kevin That is pretty much where, yeah that that holiday season because, it's the three holidays basically in two months, you know end of October.  Kevin End of November.  Kevin end of December.  Kevin Just bumping film all altogether.  K