You're listening to ESL Podcast, English Cafe, episode 2.32.

I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

On this cafe, we're going to talk about a very well-known American movie called The Godfather.

We're also going to talk about perhaps one of the most famous musicians of the 20th century from the U.S., Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll.

We'll also specifically talk about a large mansion, a house where he used to live called Graceland.

And as always, we'll answer a few of your questions.

Let's get started.

This cafe begins with a discussion of a movie called The Godfather.

Actually, there were three movies related to the Godfather.

For Christians, especially for Catholics, a godfather and godmother, we could call them Godparents, is someone who promises to help raise a child with

Christian values if the parents are not able to do so.

Normally, the child, the baby, is brought to the church to be baptized, to participate in a ceremony where the child's parents and the godparents that the parents select for the child,

promised to raise the child in the Christian faith.

Parents usually pick two godparents, a godfather and a godmother, that would help them if, for some

reason, they couldn't raise the child themselves.

Often the godparents are relatives, aunts, uncles, cousins.

I was the youngest in my family, as you may know, number 11.

So by the time they got to me, we had run out of aunts, uncles, and cousins.

There were no more left.

All of my older brothers and sisters had them as godparents.

So my godparents were our neighbors next door, in the house next door to us,

next to where we lived.

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