Is this pronounced with a double s sound at the beginning rather than “eks…”
He says “esce” or “ezce” it’s not very clear. But he doesn’t pronounce the “k”. If you want to be clearer you can say “eksce”, which is the correct Spanish pronunciation, but when talking faster people usually skip the k or the s. (He speaks with Spanish accent so when I write “z” or “c” with a vowel it’s pronounced like the English “th” in “thing”)