Topic Talk | Celebrity Crush

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack share their teenage celebrity crushes!

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00:00:01

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a topic talk and we're talking about celebrity crushes that you had when you were a kid. OK and social, just for our audiences understanding what is a crush.

00:00:22

Jack

Again, if you have a crush on someone.

00:00:25

Xochitl

A crush is like when you really, really like someone. Kind of like an intense infatuation.

00:00:31

Xochitl

But it's not really based on anything real like like a real connection with that person. It's a lot of what you project on that person, and it's usually based on, like either appearance or small like personality traits that you've acquired through seeing them act or whatever, that you kind of imagined for this person.

00:00:44

발표자

Right.

00:00:50

Jack

And so you you.

00:00:51

Jack

You know, often like, like high school kids will. You'll have a crush on a girl in your class or a guy in your class, but you don't really know that person. You just. But. But it's like, almost like an intense feeling of love. Like it's not real.

00:00:59

발표자

MHM.

00:01:04

Jack

Love. But it's just like it feels like you're you're your chest is being crushed because you're you're so you. Your feelings are so strong for this person. Like they're perfect, you know? Ohh the perfect person. But really in reality you don't know them at all. And they could be awful, you know, so.

00:01:24

발표자

Great.

00:01:25

Jack

Yeah, that's. So we have a thing called celebrity crushes because there's, you know, we're we're surrounded by celebrities all the.

00:01:32

Jack

Time and sometimes we will develop. You know that feeling of like, again, that crush feeling. It's like it's not love or it's not real love, but it's like attraction to a person who you feel like is your soul mate your perfect person, you know.

00:01:47

발표자

Right.

00:01:52

Jack

Like Ohh that's that's my ideal, you know person.

00:01:57

Jack

And so when you were like young, when you're a kid who were your celebrity crushes, like who, who were you, who did you crush on when you were?

00:02:10

Xochitl

Oh boy.

00:02:12

Xochitl

My biggest one was Justin.

00:02:16

Xochitl

Sure.

00:02:17

Jack

Ohh, I was gonna say Justin Timberlake.

00:02:20

Xochitl

No, I I he was too old, I think for my. Yeah, cause. Yeah, Justin Bieber was like my he was a couple years older, like few years. He's a few years older than me, I think. Yeah. And so he was a big celebrity crush of mine when I was probably like, 14 or 30 when I was 13, he was like.

00:02:22

Jack

Yeah, he's like a grandfather.

00:02:39

Xochitl

16 probably and uh.

00:02:41

Jack

Can I ask you a question? So did you have Bieber fever?

00:02:42

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:02:46

Xochitl

God. Yeah, I did. Uh, I thought it was too good to have Beaver fever, but I wasn't. And I didn't like him at the same time that every, like everyone else, already liked him. And I was, like, holding out. And then I saw this interview where he was really nice to this little girl, and it was like I thought it was so cute.

00:03:04

Xochitl

UM.

00:03:06

Jack

And that was before all the facial tattoos and the like neck tattoos.

00:03:09

Xochitl

Yeah, it was. We went kind of crazy and, you know, had a meltdown because he was like he was transitioning from child star to adult star. And I thought he was just so cute. And I had, like, a people bought me, like gifts for my birthday. Like, they bought me both of his.

00:03:12

Jack

Yeah.

00:03:18

발표자

Yeah, yeah.

00:03:27

Xochitl

Like CD's that he had at the time, a lunch box with his face on it.

00:03:32

Xochitl

And I had a huge poster that my sister bought me on my bedroom wall.

00:03:37

Jack

Nice.

00:03:39

Xochitl

And so that was a big that was like one of my first big celebrity crushes. Jack, you go with one of yours and we'll just go back and forth here. How about?

00:03:49

Jack

OK, again, my OK, I'm 47 years old, so you have to understand these all that my celebrity crushes all come from like the late 80s to early 90s. OK, when I was like 12 or 13 years old because I was born in 1977, so.

00:04:07

Jack

Uh, my. My first uh, I don't know. I'm trying to think of, like, my celebrity crush.

00:04:15

Jack

I think maybe one of the one of my first ones was the actress Elizabeth Shue.

00:04:22

Jack

UM, and you probably don't know who she is, right? Elizabeth Shue was in a movie called The Karate Kid.

00:04:23

Xochitl

I.

00:04:30

Jack

And.

00:04:31

Xochitl

Oh my God. She was Daniel's girlfriend.

00:04:33

Jack

Daniel's girlfriend. Yes, yes, I thought she was so.

00:04:35

Xochitl

I do know cause I saw that my mom made me watch. My mom's a Gen. Xer and she made us watch the karate.

00:04:40

Xochitl

Kid, when we were kids, which I liked a lot, so yeah.

00:04:41

Jack

Yeah, it's a classic. You gotta watch it. The Karate Kid is, uh, yeah, it's a classic movie. And Elizabeth Shue was the love interest in there. She had a Daniel had a crush on her. They she had an ex-boyfriend who was a bully.

00:04:57

Jack

And, UM, yeah, it was. Uh, she she was, you know, absolutely, you know, the epitome of, like, the perfect high school girlfriend, you know, bubbly, charming, cute, you know.

00:05:12

Xochitl

You're all next door style.

00:05:14

Jack

Girl next door. Yeah, she was. She was very. She was kind, you know, she wasn't stuck up. She. Yeah. Yeah, so.

00:05:22

Jack

Elizabeth Shue was was one of my first celebrity crushes.

00:05:26

Xochitl

Have you seen a Cobra Kai?

00:05:28

Jack

Yeah, I've watched that. I saw a couple of seasons of that show. I enjoyed it.

00:05:33

Xochitl

You much more because she shows back up.

00:05:35

Xochitl

At some point.

00:05:36

Jack

Yeah, she did show up in that one. Yeah. And that, you know, now she's 50, you know, something years old, 55 years old or whatever, but.

00:05:47

Jack

Yeah. So you know, that was one of my celebrity crushes. I'm sure I'm, it's me and about a million other Gen. X, you know, men my age, maybe 10s of millions who would put her on the list. Yeah. Yeah.

00:06:04

Jack

What's your #2?

00:06:04

Xochitl

Right.

00:06:06

Xochitl

My #2 High School Musical when everyone was crushing on Zac Efron, I was crushing on Corbin Bleu.

00:06:14

Jack

Corporate blue. Who's that? Which one is that?

00:06:16

Xochitl

That's his friend. Uh, I don't know, cause I only watched High School Musical one time, but.

00:06:23

Xochitl

He's like I'm trying to find a picture of him to show you guys here.

00:06:27

Xochitl

He was this guy.

00:06:29

Jack

But Corbin Bleu is his real name. Or is that his the name of OK?

00:06:32

Xochitl

Yeah, that's his real name. This is Corbin book. Can you see him here? There you go.

00:06:36

Jack

Ohh yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. He's got like kind of.

00:06:38

Jack

Yeah.

00:06:39

Jack

Big hair, yeah.

00:06:40

Xochitl

Curly hair and yeah, he was my I had he. I thought he was really cute and I did not understand the hype over Zach Efron. I felt like Zac Efron's eyes didn't match the rest of his face and he was orange looking and sorry that got Bron.

00:06:55

Xochitl

Those were like my observations, and I thought Corbin Blue was just the cutest, so that was.

00:07:01

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:07:02

Jack

OK. OK, interesting. Alright. Alright, I'm.

00:07:05

Xochitl

I almost always like never was like a huge fan of the main character. I always liked the second guy like in Harry Potter.

00:07:13

Jack

You like the goof like goofy best friend. You know guy? Yeah.

00:07:16

Xochitl

Yeah, like in Harry Potter. I always liked Ron Weasley over Harry.

00:07:20

Jack

Ohh OK yeah, yeah.

00:07:21

Xochitl

It's like that was just my thing. I.

00:07:23

Xochitl

Don't know why.

00:07:24

Jack

No.

00:07:25

Jack

Well, Harry short, you know, in real life he's a pretty short guy.

00:07:28

Xochitl

Isn't Rupert Grint also short, though?

00:07:31

Jack

Probably, yeah. These might be taller than Harry though, yeah?

00:07:32

Xochitl

Yeah, I think he's too. I just thought he was cuter than he.

00:07:35

Jack

They're all tiny little yeah.

00:07:38

Xochitl

They're all short people, yeah.

00:07:39

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:07:42

Jack

UM alright, my my second one is I used to watch this show again when I was like, you know, 12 or 13 called saved by the bell. It was a sitcom.

00:07:57

Jack

And but it was like a. It was like a a kids sitcom. It was different. It would. It was on Saturday mornings instead of like, you know, Thursday evening saved by the bell. And it was it took place in the high school, and there was a again, this is like a a side character.

00:08:09

발표자

Hmm.

00:08:16

Jack

UM named Lisa Turtle was her name, but her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress and I had a a huge crush on on her and she was like.

00:08:31

Jack

The character. Do you have you ever heard?

00:08:33

Jack

Of the character Screech.

00:08:35

Jack

Screech the the nerd? No. OK, but you have no idea what I'm talking about right now. OK, so it doesn't matter. No, none of our students know what I'm talking about. Saved by the bell. Uh, Lisa, turtle. And that's her. Her real name is Lark Voorhees, the actress. And so I had a huge.

00:08:40

Xochitl

No, I'm 25.

00:08:54

Jack

Crush on her.

00:08:55

Jack

Yeah.

00:08:55

Xochitl

Lark is a cool name for a woman. It's a real name Mark.

00:08:57

Jack

That is a cool name, I know.

00:09:00

Jack

Maybe the only way it would be cooler is to do like skylark.

00:09:05

Jack

That's is that cooler?

00:09:06

Xochitl

I've seen Skyler as a name, but I like lark better. I think. I think that's cooler. Like lark George.

00:09:11

Jack

What about skylark?

00:09:15

Xochitl

I think it's like trying too hard. I think Laura Voorhees sounds like you're like a cool like in a punk rock band or so, you know, like a drunk band. You know what I mean? I like it. Yeah. Alright. My third one was when I was like a little bit older. So it's like, so I'm a little embarrassed, but I think I was like 18 or 19. So I was still a.

00:09:20

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, OK. OK. OK, yeah, that's good.

00:09:25

발표자

Like.

00:09:32

Xochitl

Teenager so in Guk.

00:09:36

Jack

Ohh.

00:09:37

Xochitl

The Korean uh actor and singer.

00:09:42

Xochitl

And I saw him in a music video by K will called. Please don't. And he was really cute. Like I just thought, Oh my God, he's so cute. And I started, like, looking up what other stuff he was in besides his music video. And he was in some K drama.

00:09:57

Xochitl

And.

00:09:58

Xochitl

But he had his own music and stuff, and so I would like, listen to his music videos. He has a really nice voice.

00:10:04

Jack

Is that why you came to Korea? Because you got into, like population.

00:10:06

Xochitl

No, no, no, no, no, no, I was not. No, that's so embarrassing. No, I wasn't a huge K pop person. I like solo artists like like IU selling the.

00:10:08

Jack

You didn't come to meet him in person.

00:10:20

Jack

Or rain something like that. B yeah.

00:10:23

Xochitl

I don't really know rain or be that might have been like a little before my, but sawing OK will IU. I was a huge fan of them.

00:10:33

Xochitl

And the whole reason I really got into Korea was actually a YouTuber called Tonon Mukadam. I was looking up how.

00:10:39

Xochitl

To.

00:10:40

Xochitl

Teach abroad in uh. Just teaching abroad in general, I think, and her channel came up about teaching abroad in Korea. And then like the benefits are so.

00:10:50

Xochitl

Much.

00:10:51

Xochitl

Better and easier, I feel like than a lot of other English.

00:10:54

Xochitl

Yes, all countries. So that's how I.

00:10:55

Jack

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:58

Xochitl

Yeah, but selling Google was a huge celebrity crush of mine. So what's your last one, Jack?

00:11:03

Jack

OK, OK.

00:11:05

Jack

My last one is, uh, the singer. This one was she was very popular when I was in high school, maybe.

00:11:13

Jack

10th grade or 9th grade or something? Uh. Jewel.

00:11:18

Jack

Do you know jewel?

00:11:19

Xochitl

No.

00:11:20

Jack

You've never heard of.

00:11:22

Xochitl

I've never heard of her. I really have never heard of.

00:11:24

Jack

Her. So I'm so old. All right, Jewel, is she? She she's a guitarist, singer-songwriter. She her first single. Who will save your soul.

00:11:41

Jack

Is, you know, has probably 20 million downloads on on uh, YouTube.

00:11:48

Jack

She's just a very, very talented singer and I think it's just her beauty and her talent was, you know, just, you know, I've had a crush on her because I think there's something about that combination of like.

00:12:08

Jack

Umm.

00:12:09

Jack

Attractive beauty and also talent and ability to sing and write music. It was to me like, you know, he's perfect, you know, like Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't just about physical, you know, appearance. It was like ohh man. You know she's smart.

00:12:18

Xochitl

Like, Oh my gosh, yeah.

00:12:20

Xochitl

Right, like a triple Emmys thing.

00:12:29

Jack

Beautiful. And she can write music and sing and perform and has a great voice.

00:12:33

Jack

So you know, I mean, I'm sure that like lots of my parents, generations had crushes on like Joni Mitchell or, you know, Emmy Lou Harris or other, you know, you know Diana Ross or whatever. But yeah, for my generation, it was jewel and.

00:12:45

발표자

Hmm.

00:12:54

Jack

You you have no idea what I'm talking about.

00:12:56

Xochitl

I'm going to have to look up after this, I'll send you send me like a YouTube.

00:12:58

Jack

Yes.

00:13:00

Xochitl

Tube of one of her songs of dual songs.

00:13:03

Jack

You should go down to jewel. You should go down to jewel rabbit hole. You might actually like her cause you're you're like the singer guitar player guitar writer. You know, singer-songwriter yourself. Yeah, you would. Yeah.

00:13:06

Xochitl

I will. I will.

00:13:10

Xochitl

Yeah, I think it's probably like, yeah. And I'll send you like a song, good song, and then we can trade, yeah.

00:13:19

Jack

OK. Yeah. Then we'll compare notes next week. Yeah, OK.

00:13:22

Xochitl

Yeah, sounds good.

00:13:24

Xochitl

All right, listeners, well, you have to let us know who your celebrity crushes were. I'd love to hear about celebrity crushes from around the world. I'll leave us a comment down below at A-Z. Englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at at [e-mail] and make sure to join our community of students in our WhatsApp and WeChat groups.

00:13:43

Xochitl

And we'll see you guys next time. Bye bye.

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