In this mini episode, you will learn a joke about the days of the week. (This is the first joke on the podcast since August 2020!)
Episode 302 of the Everybody ESL podcast is a mini episode that teaches you a joke about the days of the week. (This is the first joke on the podcast since August 2020!) Send your questions about English and your suggestions to EverybodyESL@gmail.com! (And let me know if you’d like to record the introduction to a future episode.)
Intro
“Kia ora*. This is Ria from New Zealand. And you’re listening to Everybody ESL.”
(* “Kia ora” is a greeting in New Zealand.)
Welcome to episode 302 of Everybody ESL, the podcast for everybody who wants to improve their English, practice their English, or just learn more English. My name is Ben, and I have a mini episode for you today, where I am going to teach you about one English topic. You can subscribe to the Everybody ESL podcast at Apple podcasts, on the Stitcher app, and wherever you find your podcasts. If you like Everybody ESL, leave it a good review so other people can find out about it too. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for me, please send an email to EverybodyESL@gmail.com. Okay! Let’s get on with this mini episode.
The episode
In this episode, I am going to do something that I have not done since episode 180—and that was about two and a half years ago. In this episode, I am going to tell you a joke!
(Lots of applause)
That’s right. It’s another joke on Everybody ESL. If you have been listening to this podcast for a long time, you will be familiar with these jokes. They were not usually very funny, but I liked them because I thought they could show something interesting about English.
Here is this episode’s joke:
What are the strongest days of the week? What are the strongest days of the week? Imagine that days of the week are like people or animals, and see if you can tell me what are the strongest days of the week? Should I just tell you the answer now? Okay. I will tell you the answer.
What are the strongest days of the week? Saturday and Sunday. Because all the other days are weekdays!
(Just a little applause)
Do you get this joke? Do you understand the joke? Do you see why it is supposed to be a little bit funny? It’s because the word weak has two very different meanings. When we spell weak w-e-a-k, it means “not strong.” But if we spell week w-e-e-k, that refers to a period of time that is seven days long. Seven days equals one week.
Okay. So weak can have two different meanings, and we spell it two different ways.
The reason why this is a joke is because we call some days “weekdays.” W-e-e-k-d-a-y-s. Weekdays. These are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Those are the weekdays.
The other days, Saturday and Sunday, are called “the weekend” or “weekend days.”
Have you heard that before? Have you heard people refer to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as the weekdays? If you have not heard that before, it might be a little bit confusing because aren’t there actually seven weekdays? When we are referring to all of the seven days—Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—we call those “the days of the week.” We don’t call all of those weekdays. Only Monday through Friday are the weekdays.
So that’s why this joke is a joke: because weekdays has two different meanings. It can mean all of the days that are not Saturday and Sunday, or it could mean days that are weak, days that are not strong.
I hope you enjoyed this first joke on Everybody ESL since August 2020.
Outro
This is the end of episode 302 of Everybody ESL. Remember: if you have questions about English, or if you have comments for me, or if you are interested in private lessons, or if you would like to record an introduction that I can play at the beginning of future episodes—the same way Ria recorded the introduction you heard at the beginning of this episode—send an email to EverybodyESL@gmail.com. I’ll be back soon with a new episode, and until then, keep going, keep practicing, and keep learning. I’ll see you soon. Goodbye!