In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl presents Jack with a conundrum: Would you rather have your daughter or wife encounter a strange bear or a strange man while alone in the woods? Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:49 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have another topic talk for you and social you have kind of a I don't know what you would call like a situation or a conundrum. A conundrum is like a difficult decision or difficult situation. 00:01:09 Jack So what is your? What is the conundrum? 00:01:12 Xochitl Jack, this has become really popular in my medicines in the last, maybe even couple of months and it's very popular amongst American medicine. So I'm curious to hear what your answer is. So without any context, let's say that your wife and your daughter are in the woods. 00:01:32 Xochitl Lost and alone. And they have, you know, no Internet cell service. Whatever to call you or call anyone else. 00:01:39 Xochitl Would you rather they come across a strange man that no like you? You don't know? They don't know. Nobody knows him or his intentions or anything. Or would you rather they come across a bear? 00:01:50 발표자 Yeah. 00:01:51 Jack No. OK. So just to for our listeners there, in in, in case you didn't catch that you said social that my my wife and my daughter are in the woods just walking in the woods. They have no cell phone, no way to to contact anybody. 00:02:12 Jack And the question is, would I rather they come across a bear or a strange man that they don't know? 00:02:21 Xochitl Yes, correct. 00:02:23 Jack OK. 00:02:25 Jack This is, you know, this should be an easy question. I mean, if we lived in like a, like, a a reasonable world, you know, where we, you know. But I feel like I listen to a lot of, like, true crime podcasts. And so I just, I've listened to too much true crime to. 00:02:44 Jack To to answer this one easily, what kind of bear is it? Is it a grizzly bear? 00:02:50 Xochitl Don't know. We don't know what kind. 00:02:52 Xochitl Of bear it is. It's just. 00:02:52 Jack You don't know what kind of bear it is. It could be a brown bear. It could be a black bear. It could be a a grizzly bear. 00:02:57 Xochitl Come here. Just sit there. It's just like you don't know what kind of man it is. You. 00:03:03 Xochitl Also don't know. 00:03:04 Xochitl What kind? 00:03:04 Xochitl Of bear it is. Yeah, have. 00:03:06 Xochitl Some good choice there. 00:03:09 Jack Do I know the gender of the bear? 00:03:12 Xochitl Uh, no. 00:03:16 Jack All right. Because, you know, if it if it were, uh, if it were a female bear, I would be, I would. I would choose the man because, you know, if if the if the if a if a female bear is protecting her Cubs. If her Cubs are in the area. That's a very dangerous situation. So I would. 00:03:36 Jack I would just hope that the man is not a psychic, a psychotic killer. You know, a psycho. 00:03:44 Jack Right. 00:03:46 Jack If the if the bear were male I uh, it's probably gonna just leave them alone, you know? Like it just it it they. 00:03:54 Jack You know, they don't really necessarily see humans as prey, necessarily, unless they're starving, you know, they'll they'll pretty much just. They might play around with you or whatever, which is terrifying. You know, that could still kill you or injure you. But generally speaking, they'll they'll leave yo