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Gory, gory, what a hell

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of a way to die!

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Gory, gory, what a hell

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of a way to die!

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Gory, gory, what a hell

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of a way to die!

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He ain't gonna jump no

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more! Zoo, zoo, zoo! Hey

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everybody, welcome to another episode

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of what a hell of a

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way to dad! It's Francis and

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Nate! back at you once again

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it is the end of January

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and uh... months already over how

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are you doing today nade boy

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uh... wow so i have been

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struggling in the dad mines this

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week i mean not like any

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crisis huge crises but i guess

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if you want to call it

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that uh... my daughter got really

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sick on friday with what the

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doctor says they think is uh...

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gaster enteritis so something minor but

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at her age she could stop throwing

0:54

up even. water. So we had to

0:57

take her to, I mean, I say

0:59

the ER, but it's kind of like

1:01

urgent care, like pediatric urgent care, serendipity

1:04

that we couldn't get an appointment with

1:06

our pediatrician that day. And he actually

1:08

turned out to be the on-duty pediatrician

1:10

at the hospital that night. So she

1:13

saw him. So she saw him. So

1:15

that was great. There was a bit

1:17

of a surreal experience where we're trying

1:20

to find, because friends of ours had

1:22

said that lots and lots of kids

1:24

in Genevaa health. service we've used in

1:26

the past. So Cynthia did find one

1:29

in Zurich that offered English and the

1:31

doctor was an American and a fucking

1:33

asshole like it was like it was

1:35

like NHS. style doctor telling you you're

1:37

a malingering idiot shut up stop being

1:40

a baby but from a like you

1:42

know triathlete uber mention American doctor so

1:44

it was like the first time an

1:46

American doctor is working for the NHS

1:48

in Switzerland somehow but I mean what

1:51

he said was fucking completely wrong of course

1:53

and I'm glad we did take we did

1:55

take her to the ER because he tried

1:57

to actually try to scare I mean the

1:59

opening line was kids throw up you need

2:01

to get used to it that's life

2:03

and it's like cool do you think

2:05

I don't fucking know that dude I'm

2:07

glad I'm paying you I'm sorry to

2:09

interrupt your fucking your ultramarathon session or

2:11

whatever whatever you're doing my child has

2:13

thrown up twice in her life so

2:15

it's not of all the issues that

2:18

we have at least sickness has never

2:20

been an issue with her thanks like

2:22

a sheep just plows through drinking water

2:24

way too fast and then she just

2:26

throws up water and it's fine whatever.

2:28

The other time that she basically couldn't

2:30

stop throwing up was after she had

2:32

gotten noravirus from her daycare in London

2:34

and she had recovered mostly but at

2:36

night she was throwing up a lot

2:38

and and that was I mean when

2:40

I hear that hacking sound from her

2:42

her bedroom of like ah she's gonna

2:44

throw up it's like instant fucking reaction

2:46

trigger and that did happen on Friday

2:48

but basically with Noravirus it was that

2:50

apparently like when especially very young children

2:52

are recovering that sometimes it can take

2:54

a while for them to get back

2:57

to being able to digest lactose like

2:59

it's a normal thing it just takes

3:01

some time and so what we presume

3:03

was happening because there was no way

3:05

to see a doctor to check if

3:07

even if we'd wanted to was that

3:09

like at night lying in her back

3:11

after like evening feed before she went

3:13

to bed like her stomach and you

3:15

know formula and stuff maybe was causing

3:17

anyway she got over it eventually but

3:19

that was the only time other than

3:21

that she doesn't really. It's just that

3:23

there was this two week period where

3:25

it could happen any time and it

3:27

also happened every night. Right. And so

3:29

this was a little bit freaky. I

3:31

will say it's funny because even when

3:34

she was like could barely stand up

3:36

week and was throwing up still and

3:38

we were trying to like get her

3:40

soiled clothes and stuff into like the

3:42

stand-up shower so it could spray it

3:44

down before I put in the washing

3:46

machine. She was holding herself against the

3:48

cabinet door kind of like wanting to

3:50

you know very much. toddler I want

3:52

to help I want to see kind

3:54

of vibe and then she was like

3:56

oh it's a cabinet door and sort

3:58

of slamming it like infinity times and

4:00

I'm just like you're still you and

4:02

also the comic timing is perfect But

4:04

yeah, the doctor tried to scare us

4:06

off even taking her to the ER,

4:08

but I mean like, oh, they're going

4:10

to hit her with like a nasal

4:13

IV or like a vascular IV. And

4:15

I'm like, well, first of all, that's

4:17

not going to be their first. Right,

4:19

so the first thing is, hey, look

4:21

at this baby throwing up, let's jab

4:23

a needle and do her. Secondly, like,

4:25

if they decide that that's what she

4:27

needs, then I'm glad they're doing that.

4:29

And he basically, like, the reason I

4:31

even called in the first place was

4:33

because the pharmacy was like, there are

4:35

some things we can prescribe, but other

4:37

medications, we need a prescription from a

4:39

doctor, and he refused, because he's like,

4:41

whatever she's got, she needs to throw,

4:43

she needs to throw it, she needs

4:45

to throw it. and then the next

4:47

day she was fine the day after

4:50

that she got sick again but it's

4:52

actually been fine since Monday but that

4:54

obviously threw a lot of stuff off

4:56

and then I got I didn't get

4:58

really sick but I got a little

5:00

bit sick from it like in the

5:02

way that when you're an adult you

5:04

know these things like even if it

5:06

kind of knocks you on your on

5:08

your posterior it's I wasn't like food

5:10

poisoning nor a virus level sick it

5:12

was just was unwell on Monday but

5:14

I also am realizing that the guy

5:16

that I got basically referred to for

5:18

psychiatry to get my meds refill probably

5:20

shouldn't be practicing medicine because he's a

5:22

British psychiatrist in Switzerland who forgot how

5:24

to speak English, but the doctor referred

5:26

me to him because he's British and

5:29

she was like, oh, well, you can

5:31

speak English, he can't speak English anymore.

5:33

He's, he's, he's too old, he's forgotten

5:35

it. And I don't think he believes

5:37

ADHD is real. And I don't think

5:39

he believes ADHD is real. And I

5:41

don't think he believes ADHD is real.

5:43

And I don't think he believes ADHD

5:45

is real. And I don't think he

5:47

believes he's forgotten. And I don't. there

5:49

was no instruction. And also like the

5:51

dosage is even with titration up to

5:53

the dose is completely wrong. There were

5:55

no instructions at all. So I'm basically

5:57

doing a brute force meds shift right

5:59

now. And while I'm up to the

6:01

point now where I'm sort of at

6:03

the right dose of concerta, I kind

6:06

of wish I had known there would

6:08

be like this in that there's a

6:10

degree of tapering you're supposed to do

6:12

because. regardless of whether or not like

6:14

it's helping to mitigate some of the

6:16

things with the kind of anhedonia and

6:18

lack of energy and ADHD symptoms like

6:20

Elvis is an amphetamine and it when

6:22

you cut that off immediately after taking

6:24

it for two years like your body's

6:26

scheme like damn we're all those amphetamines

6:28

that I'm supposed to be having a

6:30

lot of drugs like I never took

6:32

the dose they told me to I

6:34

never took more I never went nuts

6:36

with it if anything there were times

6:38

it actually took less because I felt

6:40

like the side effects were just getting

6:42

to be too much and so switching

6:45

Like it's not as if I was

6:47

cutting cold turkey off like a meth

6:49

habit, but at the end of the

6:51

day, whatever withdrawal symptoms you'd experience from

6:53

methamphetamine are probably exaggerated versions of what

6:55

you would experience going cold turkey off

6:57

these meds because aside from some of

6:59

the things in them that make them

7:01

slower release, which I don't know if

7:03

that's even in the formulation or if

7:05

it's like just the way they're... in

7:07

case regardless it's very similar it's not

7:09

the exact same but it's very similar

7:11

molecule so yeah i i have been

7:13

and then unfortunately wednesday the day we

7:15

don't have child care my daughter was

7:17

on one as we have discussed in

7:19

the past something that just happens with

7:21

kids and she basically didn't nap well

7:24

she did but finally and then because

7:26

it's wednesday and little kids don't have

7:28

school the upstairs neighbors kids i guess

7:30

decided to have like a fucking wrestle

7:32

mania tournament and the thumps woke her

7:34

up and she didn't go back to

7:36

sleep. So she was cranky as hell.

7:38

She'd gotten the 30-minute nap and she

7:40

was already like really on one in

7:42

the sense of like you couldn't really

7:44

ever be left alone. Like I couldn't

7:46

let her play on her own. She

7:48

wouldn't accept that. I have read every

7:50

permutation of like the baby and toddler

7:52

versions of the gruffelow books so many

7:54

times. I have read, wears Cruz's shoe,

7:56

I have read, Good Night Moon, I

7:58

have read, Bedtime for Baby Bears, the

8:01

list goes on. I think the gruffelow

8:03

is due for an extinction level event.

8:05

I actually think that it's good that

8:07

there's no gruffelos among us anymore because

8:09

like the rats came off the Portuguese

8:11

ships and the... 1500s and there were

8:13

just too many big flocks of of

8:15

gruffelows and people were like, isn't it

8:17

hilarious? You can just. fire gun at

8:19

random and hit this many of them

8:21

and now there's no more. Let me

8:23

tell you, I discovered with my kid

8:25

when she was really young that they

8:27

don't really care what you're reading to

8:29

them so long as you are reading

8:31

and there's pictures. So if there's ever

8:33

any comic books that you want to

8:35

read, that works out for kids too.

8:37

You know, or graphic novels or anything

8:40

like that. If you are a dad

8:42

and you've got a young one, they

8:44

just really like the pretty pictures. Spider-Man

8:46

instead of Good Night Moon, you can

8:48

pull that off. And then once they're

8:50

young enough... or I'm sorry, once they're

8:52

old enough, they will maybe either get

8:54

into it or they'll like comic books

8:56

completely forever. So either way, you get

8:58

to read comic books. I sometimes read

9:00

the Blooey books to her in an

9:02

Australian accent, just to liven it up

9:04

a little bit. Just so that when

9:06

she watches the TV show, she's not

9:08

confused by your like, just so that

9:10

when she watches the TV show, she's

9:12

not confused by your like, She's been

9:14

saying stuff to me in French, I

9:17

don't know where. And she's sometimes a

9:19

few things here in English, but it's

9:21

because she hears French so much more

9:23

often, it doesn't surprise me that a

9:25

lot of her first kind of like

9:27

mini sentences are in French. But I

9:29

had been catching a few words here

9:31

and I had been catching a few

9:33

words here and there were like the

9:35

baby talks started to sound like you're

9:37

slurring anyway. So it's the baby, it's

9:39

a little difficult to see. Are these

9:41

words, are these sounds, maybe it's a

9:43

little bit of both? I mean, under

9:45

age two, it's a little bit of

9:47

both. Yeah, but this morning, I was

9:49

sitting on the couch with her and

9:51

she was bringing books and we were

9:53

reading them and I had a cup

9:56

of coffee and she pointed to the

9:58

coffee and said, are you drinking this?

10:00

little toy musical instruments and there's one

10:02

in particular that I would call the

10:04

Chaos Piano. It literally has Chaos Mode

10:06

on it. It's like it's such a

10:08

strange toy because it's so bad but

10:10

it's also not dumbed down in the

10:12

way that so many kids music toys

10:14

are but it's obviously not intended for

10:16

older kids and it's got a little

10:18

drum machine it's got a little like

10:20

a little pad you can you can

10:22

do drum sounds with, you can record

10:24

it. It's got a bunch of demo

10:26

songs. It's got a couple of different

10:28

voices. They all sound like shit, but

10:31

they're interesting. Like they're not, like the

10:33

trumpet sounds, it also doesn't sound like

10:35

a trumpet. It sounds just like a

10:37

weird bad synth, because that's what this

10:39

is, is a weird, you know, probably

10:41

FM synth. It's got all sorts of

10:44

just strange functions and weird gamer lights

10:46

and stuff on it, but also most

10:48

children's pianos. they're basically restricted in the

10:50

sense like most children's pianos for example

10:52

like they're pretty limited in the number

10:54

of notes they have you can't play

10:57

any of the black keys so any

10:59

of the flats and sharps you can't

11:01

play chords typically you can't play one

11:03

note at a time not the case

11:05

with this thing however it sounds it

11:08

sounds horrible but it's also like more

11:10

versatile than than any other children's music

11:12

toy I've ever used and as such

11:14

it can be fun but like some

11:16

musicians will understand this Cordon versions you

11:18

can play and it recognizes them as

11:21

cordon versions. So it just turns them

11:23

into this horrible honking sound as the

11:25

best way to describe it. But we'll

11:27

play with it and she absolutely loves

11:29

this game which was funny the first time but

11:32

less funny the thousandth time if I'm being honest

11:34

where she'll hand me the piano to play and

11:36

as soon as I start playing anything she mashes

11:38

the demo song button and then starts dancing to

11:40

it. And if the demo song runs out or

11:42

I stop it, she takes a piano and she

11:44

gives it back to me and she kind of

11:46

like yells at me if I don't play it.

11:48

And then as soon as I start playing, she

11:50

does it again. She matters playing like fucking terrible

11:52

synth, oh my darling, Clementine and stuff like that.

11:55

You know, and like I said, one time she

11:57

did this instead of matching the button, she would

11:59

just sit on. the piano while I was

12:01

trying to play it. So she knows what

12:03

she's doing. It's very, very funny. But yeah,

12:05

I wasn't really able to get much work

12:07

done at all. I didn't get anything done

12:10

at all yesterday. So I'm extraordinarily behind and

12:12

there were some things that I had met

12:14

to catch up on over the weekend that

12:16

obviously didn't happen either because of sick baby

12:19

and then me being sick on Monday. So

12:21

it's not that I regret or dislike or

12:23

I'm unhappy being a parent. It's just more

12:25

that sometimes this happens. It hit you with

12:28

every fucking hadouken fireball, Ninja Star, throwing dagger,

12:30

Donkey Kong barrel of problems, and what can

12:32

you do but react, you know? Well, let

12:34

me give you the other side of this

12:37

with my nine-year-old, almost ten-year-old, who has decided

12:39

now is the time to really start pushing

12:41

on the what can I get away with,

12:43

what lies can I get away with? And

12:45

like, every kid goes through this, like, I

12:48

wonder if I can lie to my parents

12:50

and get away with it. And the thing

12:52

is... She can't she's not when it comes

12:54

to screen time we can see like we

12:57

have an app on her all of her

12:59

devices that show us like What are you

13:01

looking at? What do you how long have

13:03

you been on it? Because you know you

13:06

need to monitor those things It can't be

13:08

like when I was a kid and my

13:10

parents were like we don't know anything like

13:12

I mean my dad was a computer person,

13:14

but like you know we didn't know the

13:17

long-term effects of being on screen too much

13:19

or like watching YouTube I found that one

13:21

of the YouTube series that she likes is

13:23

Mario characters but they're fat like oh they're

13:26

all they're all fat and okay right and

13:28

this is one of those things that like

13:30

I found this out and I was like

13:32

look I want to talk to you about

13:35

this and I don't want you to ever

13:37

feel like I'm judging you but the thing

13:39

is is that I know that Looking at

13:41

videos like that can lead to other videos.

13:44

Just because that's how algorithms work. Now she's

13:46

got her like safe search on and everything.

13:48

And I've watched some of these videos. They're

13:50

not like, you know, cake farts. So they're

13:52

not like, you know, they're not like. force-feeding

13:55

there's not like it doesn't seem like there's

13:57

a weird sexual thing behind it like it's

13:59

just sure what if Mario was fat and

14:01

tried to drive in and tried to go

14:04

down to flu might go something like this

14:06

but it is weird like you know she

14:08

finds weird stuff she's into Minecraft and she

14:10

likes these videos of like axilateral parties and

14:13

stuff and she like very excitedly shows me

14:15

this like oh you gotta watch this like

14:17

this axilateral wrap so the music doesn't get

14:19

better well actually hopefully you can guide your

14:22

child and a better direction than mine. but

14:24

it's just one of those things where I

14:26

find being perfectly honest I was kind of

14:28

banking on like a decent 60 to 90

14:30

minute nap yesterday and that did not happen

14:33

and it really threw me for the loop.

14:35

Yeah it's been painful for my wife because

14:37

during all of this you know I'm gonna

14:39

see how much I can get away with

14:42

lying there's a lot of you know she's

14:44

not she's not sleeping. And this happens all

14:46

the time either when she goes through gersperts

14:48

either she doesn't sleep or she sleeps too

14:51

much It's one of the other and it

14:53

has been a lot of going to you

14:55

know not falling asleep till 1030 at night

14:57

and then waking up at 530 in the

14:59

morning Which is like generally my sleep pattern,

15:02

but I'm a 41 year old man. That's

15:04

that's normal for me. It's not normal for

15:06

a nine year old who's still developing so

15:08

we've been having a come to Jesus moment

15:11

with my wife and myself with my wife

15:13

and myself because like we're very like I

15:15

just do everything and that's just that's that's

15:17

what I do I come into the house

15:20

I cook I clean not saying that my

15:22

wife doesn't do these things but you know

15:24

like I try to maintain and I always

15:26

try to be doing something when I'm not

15:29

at work I'm not recording doing something to

15:31

improve the household, something along those lines. So

15:33

because I'm always the one who's just like,

15:35

no, I'll do the dishes, I'll unload the

15:37

dishwasher, I'll make the food, I'll do these

15:40

things, I'm not forcing my daughter to do

15:42

these things. And that is spoiling her and

15:44

that is bad and I need to not

15:46

do that. So we, you know, so look,

15:49

our first kid, we're still learning that we

15:51

have probably spoiled her because she is, God

15:53

bless her man, but she's like the winiest

15:55

child I've ever seen. You know, I know

15:58

part of that is probably being on the

16:00

spectrum a little bit, but I'm sure also

16:02

a big part of it is we've got

16:04

to force her into doing things that make

16:06

her uncomfortable. And you know, not like, not

16:09

uncomfortable in a bad way, but like, if

16:11

you're doing dance practice, you're going to sweat

16:13

and your feet might hurt. And that's just

16:15

life. That's dance practice. You know, you and

16:18

I were uncomfortable in the army. It's not,

16:20

you know, necessarily bad thing. on us, we're

16:22

starting to realize that maybe we need to

16:24

push her. She likes helping out around the

16:27

house. I just need to stop because I

16:29

get caught up in like, okay, I'm walking

16:31

in, dishwasher needs to be unloaded, this needs

16:33

to be done, that needs to be done,

16:36

that needs to be done, I categorize everything,

16:38

that needs to be done, that needs to

16:40

be done, I categorize everything to do, I

16:42

categorize everything to do, that needs to be

16:44

done, I categorize everything to use, that, to

16:47

be done, that, that needs to be done,

16:49

I've, I've been able to be done, I've,

16:51

I've been able to be able to be

16:53

able to be able to be done, I've,

16:56

to be able to be able to be

16:58

done, I've, I've, to be able to be

17:00

able to be able to be done, to

17:02

be done, to be done, to be done,

17:05

to be done, to be done, to be

17:07

done, to be done, I've, I've, that kind

17:09

of stuff in terms of safety I think

17:11

typically like with supervision yeah yeah yeah but

17:14

I think they typically they wouldn't I'm not

17:16

gonna leave her I'm not leaving it oh

17:18

of course no I know that but I

17:20

just think I mean I I made some

17:22

I did some dangerous stuff left alone but

17:25

also things were different I did some dangerous

17:27

stuff left alone but also things were different

17:29

back then my mom went back to work

17:31

just because like I think for me one

17:34

thing that was interesting was sometimes elementary school

17:36

in our school district didn't have school in

17:38

days that middle school did, so my brother

17:40

would go to school. would be alone all

17:43

day and it was horrible like at that

17:45

age like you're just really lonely and bored

17:47

even when you have stuff to do we

17:49

didn't have video game systems or like wasn't

17:51

anything to do there wasn't anywhere to go

17:54

you know what I mean like because we

17:56

lived in the middle of the subdivision but

17:58

in the middle of the desert and so

18:00

yeah I think about that like I think

18:03

that age there's a big generational shift in

18:05

terms of I mean I know on a

18:07

military basis like you know kids under 13

18:09

I think weren't allowed to allow to babysit

18:12

to babysit and they're like to do like

18:14

the babysitting class for teens that the military

18:16

put on. But a lot of people who

18:18

weren't in the military don't realize how much

18:21

of like sort of domestic life is regulated

18:23

if you live on base. And I mean,

18:25

the benefits and the strange kind of counter

18:27

your sort of byproducts of that, the benefits

18:29

like the byproducts of that, the benefits like

18:32

the sort of byproducts of that, the benefits

18:34

like the lending closet, like you're waiting on

18:36

your household goods, you can go to this

18:38

thing, or kind of thing. Top by some.

18:41

one who thinks they're a sergeant major in

18:43

steam cleaning. To be fair though, like probably

18:45

a lot of people need classes on some

18:47

of that stuff. Otherwise you got me asking

18:50

the born teenager who knows how to do

18:52

it and he's like, I don't know. I

18:54

don't know. I mean, I recently had to

18:56

do some DIY using a big, you know,

18:58

like I had to, I think I talked

19:01

about our previous episode about ripping a board

19:03

to build a kind of console stand in

19:05

our kitchen. to use the space that was

19:07

otherwise occupied by the standalone freezer that the

19:10

previous tenants sold us when they left because

19:12

the freezer in our freezer is tiny, tiny,

19:14

tiny, tiny. It's like, you could fit like

19:16

one or two little food storage stubs in

19:19

it, but it's very small. It's an old-fashioned

19:21

one. Is it like the mini fridge where

19:23

it's just like a cordoned-off section of the

19:25

full fridge? Yeah, there's a little, there's a

19:28

little, well, there's a door, there's a little

19:30

compartment, there's a little compartment, there's a little

19:32

compartment, there's a little compartment, there's a, there's

19:34

a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's

19:36

a, there's a, the standalone freezer, the standalone

19:39

freezer, the standalone freezer, the standalone freezer, the

19:41

standalone freezer, decently deep because it had gotten

19:43

full of frozen and I had to go

19:45

on fucking earnest shackleton on that shit with

19:48

a you know like a scraper but we

19:50

I had to build this thing and put

19:52

it together and it was interesting because you

19:54

know just take up that space I basically

19:57

built a shell on four legs using scaffold

19:59

clamps like pipe clamps for the legs and

20:01

for the feet and for the the supports

20:03

on the board itself and I did that

20:06

just because I'd use those before they can

20:08

be a little bit forgiving if things aren't

20:10

perfectly even, but also there was a company

20:12

here in Switzerland where you could buy them

20:14

and they you could specify millimeter length of

20:17

each cut and it would be precise and

20:19

so when I ordered them I just had

20:21

them cut the legs and they were completely

20:23

even and it was like it was like

20:26

not quite next day delivery but like two

20:28

day delivery. I was shocked at how fast

20:30

it was. Swiss clamp dot CH, go for it

20:32

and I'm telling you. And I bought because the

20:34

hardware store actually had for like they were spruce

20:37

boards, plain all around boards for like... the equivalent

20:39

of like 27 bucks each for a was 80

20:41

by 60 80 centimeters by 60 centimeters I can't

20:43

really do the math in my head but well

20:45

it's it's almost three feet by two feet and

20:47

I got two of them and then realize that

20:50

obviously the second shelf if it was that deep

20:52

was gonna you know like bump yourself it would

20:54

it would jut out from the kitchen counters so

20:56

I needed to rip the board to you know

20:58

bring it into the same depth as the

21:01

kitchen cabinets you know because it goes

21:03

sort of like imagine it as extension

21:05

of countertop space and then and then

21:07

and I have the pipes and realize

21:09

I bought enough to do two tiers

21:11

with four legs on each, but I

21:13

realize actually if I angle bracketed each

21:15

tier of the shelves into the wall,

21:17

I could get away with just having

21:19

one set of, basically, a set of

21:21

legs at the back and leaving this

21:23

open, and leaving this open space in

21:25

the front. And I mean, I'm not

21:27

going to say you want to do

21:29

like body ups off it, but it doesn't

21:31

wobble if, like, for example, you put a

21:33

cutting board on it and you start using.

21:36

pads for the for pneumatic jackstands for a

21:38

car that were the they were basically big

21:40

rubber disks with a like a like a

21:42

m6 screw thread in them but they were

21:45

meant to be flush mount like that and

21:47

they were like maybe two millimeters wider than

21:49

the base plates of each foot so they're

21:51

perfect and when I put those underneath each

21:54

foot it you know it stops sliding it

21:56

stopped being wobbly at all and now it's

21:58

like it's like with one or two millimeters

22:00

of exactly the same height as the kitchen

22:03

counter, so it's almost imperceptible. So it's actually

22:05

working, I'm really happy with it. I have

22:07

to at some point. take it all down

22:09

and stain it and protect it because it's

22:11

spruce otherwise you know it's going to get

22:13

eaten up but for the time being it's

22:15

it's fine but I bring this up because

22:17

I've never been so thorough in all my

22:19

life and it's not meds it's not age

22:21

it's not a I think it's probably experience

22:23

and nothing else but I knew with the

22:25

circular saw for one there's a safety element

22:27

because I got a big one you know

22:29

it's a 18-volt battery-powered power circular saw that

22:31

can cut up to 60 60 millimeters so

22:34

60 millimeters so that's so that's like that's

22:36

like two and a quarter inch thick wood.

22:38

People online had been like, you can rip

22:40

plywood with it, like it's, you can, you

22:42

can rip two by fours with it, like

22:44

it's genuinely, obviously not on the four inch

22:46

side, but you know what I mean, like

22:48

it's, it's very powerful. But I was like,

22:50

I don't want to mess this up both

22:52

for safety reasons and also, then it's all

22:54

this planning that I've done, and now I

22:56

have this worthless piece of wood I can't

22:58

use, you know what I mean, you know

23:00

what I mean, you know what I mean,

23:02

you know what I mean, you know what

23:05

I mean. So I mean, you know what

23:07

I mean, you know what I mean, you

23:09

know what I mean, you know what I

23:11

mean, you know what I mean, you know

23:13

what I mean, you know what I mean,

23:15

you know what I mean, you know what

23:17

I mean, you know what I mean, you

23:19

know what I mean, you know what I

23:21

mean, I mean, you know and hilariously the

23:23

one thing I didn't plan for was I

23:25

didn't have saw saw horses so when it

23:27

fell like kind of it kind of tore

23:29

a little at the end but it's not

23:31

really noticeable I should have I wish I

23:33

had something to catch it but it just

23:36

didn't but what I actually wound up doing

23:38

was taking the first level with the four

23:40

legs out onto the balcony, setting it up

23:42

and then clamping both the the board I

23:44

was ripping and the guide track for the

23:46

saw onto it and cutting it that way

23:48

and cutting it that way and it was

23:50

it was it was strange experience experience of

23:52

a that much planning and forethought for a

23:54

process that took like maybe 60 seconds. But

23:56

I guess it's experienced. I have yet to

23:58

use a circular saw and cut a straight

24:00

line myself so I can I can understand

24:02

you know I will measure it and draw

24:04

the lines and everything. One of the things

24:06

that has always kept me from getting into

24:09

woodworking is I cannot like I will measure

24:11

something seven times and still fuck it up.

24:13

I'll be honest with you dude the thing

24:15

that made the difference for me. My dad

24:17

has he given me a couple of tools

24:19

over the years over the years that I'd

24:21

never really had any use for until now,

24:23

but those specifically were builder squares, like the

24:25

cast iron. right angles and if you use

24:27

a long straight edge and those and you

24:29

clamp you take the builder square and you

24:31

mount it onto like the edge of basically

24:33

what you're gonna measure the straight line off

24:35

of like perpendicular to and you get it

24:37

lined up and then you clamp that and

24:40

you clamp the straight edge it's annoying but

24:42

you will get the straight line and similarly

24:44

some people are geniuses and you know savants

24:46

with circular saws and cutting by hand I

24:48

haven't done it enough to be anywhere close

24:50

to good at it. So I just bought

24:52

a guide rail, like the Bosch guide rail

24:54

that works. Yeah, that would be a smart

24:56

thing. You literally put the saw, it mounts

24:58

into the groove onto the guide rail and

25:00

you clamp the guide rail on either side.

25:02

And you've got a little kind of like,

25:04

there's a word for this that I can't

25:06

really quite, it's got a little bomb. You've

25:08

got a site, yeah, you've basically got a

25:11

little a little viewport that kind of shows

25:13

you where the blade is going to go.

25:15

And so if you've drawn your line and

25:17

it's pretty obvious, you can line it up

25:19

and make sure the blade's where it needs

25:21

to be. I mean, that circular saw whips

25:23

ass. The only thing about it, really with

25:25

the blade, is where it needs to be.

25:27

I mean, that circular saw whips ass, the

25:29

only thing about it, that really, that really

25:31

with a, really, really with the guide, whips

25:33

ass. The only thing about it, that, whips

25:35

ass, that, that, whips ass, that, that, whips

25:37

ass, that, whips ass, that, whips ass, that,

25:39

whips ass, that, whips ass, that, whips, whips,

25:42

whips, really, whips, whips, whips, whips, really, whips,

25:44

whips, really, whips, whips, whips, whips, have some

25:46

other projects and so that's not really a

25:48

thing that my daughter is going to be

25:50

able to help me with for a long

25:52

time but when I'm doing things like this

25:54

what I have learned is sometimes as long

25:56

as it's not going to be so loud

25:58

that it might be a problem I'll put

26:00

her in her high chair and she can

26:02

watch and that's that's helped. Do you put

26:04

her in her high chair and she can

26:06

watch and that's that's helped. Do you put

26:08

little eye protections on her too? She really,

26:10

I don't know if she's being fussy or

26:12

if she's just a tidy child, but she

26:15

really does like, instead of picking stuff up

26:17

and putting it in her. If she sees

26:19

anything on the floor, she picks it up

26:21

and she brings it over, like you lost

26:23

this, you forgot this. And oftentimes it's a

26:25

little ripped up pieces of toilet paper that

26:27

she herself has ripped up and thrown. But

26:29

then she finds them and she's like, here's

26:31

this, you should take this now. When we

26:33

change her diaper in the morning, we use

26:35

these kind of like, they're meant for babies,

26:37

but it's the same concept as like a

26:39

dog poo bag, you know, that has like

26:41

the... whatever kind of like deodorizing powder. Yeah,

26:43

well, baby wagbag. Well, yeah, because if you,

26:46

you know, you tie those up and you

26:48

throw them in the trash can, that way

26:50

you don't have to empty the trash every

26:52

single night, because otherwise, like for us, emptying

26:54

the trash involves taking it out, tying it

26:56

up, getting in the elevator, going down to

26:58

the sub-basement, to the sub-basement, to the sub-basement,

27:00

going down, to the sub-tying it, toying it

27:02

up, going in the elevator, going in the

27:04

elevator, going down to the sub-to the sub-to

27:06

the sub-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-basement, to-basement, to-basement, to-to-to-basement, to-to-to-basement, to-basement, to-basement,

27:08

to-basement, to-basement, to-basement, to-basement, to-bas and toddle all

27:10

the way into the kitchen to where she

27:12

knows the trash can is, and then get

27:14

really mad. You can't open the door because

27:17

there's a child lock on it, but she

27:19

wants to throw it away. But at least

27:21

bring it to be helpful. And like, I

27:23

mean, she understands, so today, I, this was

27:25

so funny. When she pointed to the coffee,

27:27

and she said, jubois, like, you're drinking some

27:29

progress in French. And so I was getting

27:31

ready. I just gotten up. I now that

27:33

we have the kind of automatic coffee making

27:35

thing, I just did that. And then I

27:37

was like, well, I'm getting up now. Let

27:39

me go actually put like at least some,

27:41

I just had boxers on so let me

27:43

go put some sweatpants and some socks in

27:45

my slippers on. And I went into the

27:48

bedroom and she got mad. She was sort

27:50

of yelling kind of like. where you're going,

27:52

just in sort of in-cohere baby talk. And

27:54

I said, you know, in French I said,

27:56

now me, I'm revian, I'm revian, I'm revian,

27:58

I've, I've, I've, I'm trying to say de

28:00

choisette, but I said as I'm coming back,

28:02

I'm coming back, I'm coming back, I just,

28:04

I'm gonna go grab some, my pants and,

28:06

and I should have, I should have, I'm

28:08

going back, I just, I'm gonna go grab

28:10

some, I'm going to go grab some, I'm

28:12

going to go grab some, I'm, I'm going

28:14

to go grab some, I'm, I'm going to

28:16

go grab some, I'm, I'm going to go

28:18

grab some, I'm going back, I'm going to

28:21

go grab some, I'm, I'm going to go

28:23

grab some, I'm going to go grab some,

28:25

I'm going to go grab some, I'm, I'm,

28:27

I'm, I'm, I French. Anyway, she understood that.

28:29

She understood me saying, to be sure, monsieur,

28:31

and so she walked over to the closet.

28:33

where we keep the shoes and stood in

28:35

front of it little excitedly because she thought

28:37

that meant we're putting our shoes on and

28:39

we're going outside. And I was like, oh

28:41

my God, you understand so much more now

28:43

than I realize. And obviously like she does

28:45

understand it in English too, but I think

28:47

she understands it better in French right now.

28:49

And so like earlier, like there was, I

28:52

was kind of frustrated and she there's this.

28:54

book that she likes to read, it's like

28:56

the Little Mermaid, sort of Instagram Illustrator edition

28:58

in French. It kind of mixes up some

29:00

of the personages of, oh fuck me. The

29:02

characters of The Little Mermaid, and then also

29:04

Aladdin for some reason, there's a Prince Ali

29:06

in there. Well, and all of that makes

29:08

sense being French. I think, you know, there

29:10

was a French chef in in Little Mermaid

29:12

and there was. Maybe Aladdin is technically Moroccan.

29:14

speaking part of Africa. In English or in

29:16

French? In English you just call it, you

29:18

just call it, you just call it North

29:20

Africa, but sometimes you'll say the Maghreb, but

29:23

like in French, Lumaireb is basically where Maribam

29:25

means like French speaking North African region, yeah.

29:27

But, yeah, and Morocco. I don't see. he

29:29

was meant to be Moroccan. I think it

29:31

was sort of like mishmash stereotypes of the

29:33

Middle East, but it felt like there was

29:35

a little bit of like, you know, the

29:37

Indian, the, what was it, like the Mugh

29:39

halls? Like, it felt a little bit like

29:41

Muslim India in there, it felt a little

29:43

bit like the Arabian Peninsula. I mean, like,

29:45

the Sultan at one point conjures the name

29:47

Allah. Is just like, Allah help us. know

29:49

like kind of that same you know replacing

29:51

the word but I say Morocco because in

29:54

Epcot when you go around they have a

29:56

Morocco area and it's very it's very heavily

29:58

influenced with Aladdin but I don't you're you

30:00

are correct because in the 90s it was

30:02

just a mishmash of like who's a mishmash

30:04

like are they Arabic but there's they live

30:06

in a huge desert like a sandy desert

30:08

like the Sahara so it's not really you

30:10

know, there, it's, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't

30:12

make sense. It's a different, different desert vibe,

30:14

yeah, Sahara and the Hijaz and the Arabian

30:16

Peninsula are not in the Sahara. It's an

30:18

American. In Morocco, they speak, in Morocco, the

30:20

dialect of Arabic, they speak, is so incomprehensible

30:22

to any other Arabic dialect or standard Arabic

30:24

that like, good, fucking luck, even if you,

30:27

like, you have to learn, But I actually

30:29

got by there speaking French with almost everyone.

30:31

Like almost everyone spoke French well enough that

30:33

I could communicate. And the people who didn't

30:35

like in a restaurant one time, like I

30:37

do remember enough Arabic, if they gave me

30:39

the numbers in Arabic, I could get them

30:41

to pay the bill. But like, no, that's

30:43

funny. I was just thinking about bringing it

30:45

back to the to the mermaid thing, man.

30:47

So the problem is that this book is

30:49

written for older kids, and it's in French,

30:51

and I'll read it to her, but she

30:53

gets bored. because there's so many. She's expecting

30:55

like, who's that hiding behind the log pile?

30:58

Is that the gruffle? No, that's Snake. And

31:00

so she'll want to like turn the pages.

31:02

And it's be like, after the third time

31:04

that happens, and finally I just said, I

31:06

was like, no, we're not reading that book.

31:08

We've read it already. You should get another

31:10

book. And she looked at me. She should

31:12

get another book. We've read it already. She

31:14

should get another book. You should get another

31:16

book. You should get another book. You should

31:18

get another book. You should get another book.

31:20

You should get another book. And she looked.

31:22

And she looked. And she looked. And she

31:24

looked. And she looked. And she looked. And

31:26

she looked. And she looked. And she looked.

31:29

And she looked. And she looked. She was

31:31

just such. She looked. She was just such.

31:33

She was just such. She's just such. She's.

31:35

She's. She's. She's. She's. One day is going

31:37

to happen, Nate, because I didn't expect it

31:39

to happen to me when my daughter finally

31:41

pulled the book out of my hand and

31:43

was just like, no, I can read this.

31:45

And then there is a good like three

31:47

weeks of her reading to me and now

31:49

she just reads on her own. Although, we

31:51

have gotten back to you at her reading

31:53

to me and now she just reads on

31:55

her own. Although, we have gotten back to

31:57

you at night. We got through the first

32:00

Red Wall book and she was just kind

32:02

of done with it after that. So I

32:04

have definitely learned how to do the. liaison

32:06

in French to say, you let it un

32:08

foie, because once upon a time. But the

32:10

thing about it is, the French heads out

32:12

there will know this, if a children's book

32:14

is using literary past, like pastesant, then like

32:16

it's meant for older kids. Like there's a

32:18

way. in French when you're in, it's typically

32:20

in, I mean I don't think anyone ever

32:22

would use it in spoken, but like it's,

32:24

I very rarely even see it in anything

32:26

that's not like a book or like, you

32:28

know, a formal writing thing. There's basically a

32:31

past participle of like, there's basically

32:33

a past participle of like something

32:35

that's fully been completed and you

32:37

have to, but it's more, it's

32:39

not like. for people who are

32:41

doing basic introductory French, like that's

32:44

a little bit of a step

32:46

up. But children's books, when they're

32:48

at the level of like kids,

32:50

you know, who are probably going

32:52

to be able to read this

32:54

on their own, the goal is

32:56

for them to be able to

32:58

read it on their own. The goal

33:01

is for them to be able to

33:03

read it on their own with pictures.

33:05

Like they need to learn it, they're

33:07

going to learn it, they're going to

33:09

learn it, they're going to learn it,

33:11

and they're going to read. tear the

33:13

reindeer's head straight off. You can't give

33:16

a kid that age something to grip

33:18

on to you because they will, they

33:20

have two, it's either grip it and

33:22

put it in your mouth or grip

33:24

it and rip it up. It's two

33:26

options. Rip it up, yeah, yeah, yeah,

33:28

yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well,

33:30

I didn't like that book anyway, it was

33:33

annoying. I will say though that, yeah, my

33:35

French, my French has improved for a variety

33:37

of reasons of having, in college and stuff.

33:39

Like once you get to a certain level

33:41

in French, like you're not really sitting in

33:44

class reading aloud. You know what I mean?

33:46

Like that's kind of not the point anymore.

33:48

And so it's been good for me, I

33:50

think, to just force myself to practice. But

33:52

it's interesting the degree to wish. Like I

33:55

realize that there's going to come, there's going

33:57

to be some advancements of her wanting where

33:59

she understands. more and when she's talking

34:01

and then eventually like you said it's

34:03

gonna be like no dad I can

34:05

read it on my own also your

34:07

French sounds stupid which I'm sure I

34:09

got to actually use my conversational Spanish

34:12

not too long ago I've been I've

34:14

been learning Spanish on duo lingo and

34:16

it's been I'm surprised that I'm it's

34:18

actually it's actually useful if you are

34:20

a duo head and you're not doing

34:22

at least 15 minutes a day you're

34:24

not really gonna get anything out of

34:26

it but you know I'm I'm I'm

34:28

struggling through Spanish because I live around

34:31

a lot of a lot of Spanish

34:33

speaking. I live around a lot of

34:35

different languages and Spanish is just going

34:37

to be the easiest one. Like I'm

34:39

not going to try to learn Pashto

34:41

through this. I have no idea why.

34:43

I have three Hispanic barber shops all

34:45

like within the same block of each

34:47

other all right next to each other.

34:49

So very heavy Spanish speaking area that

34:52

I'm in. We have a bodega. We've

34:54

got a lot of Spanish Hispanic restaurants

34:56

and everything. And so out on one

34:58

of the corners there's this house that

35:00

has the family owns three And two

35:02

of those dogs always get out. There's

35:04

this kind of husky looking dog and

35:06

then there's this tiny little like, it's

35:08

not really a weener dog, but it's

35:11

a small, like this dog is smaller

35:13

than both of my cats. And so

35:15

this dog, the two dogs, like, I

35:17

don't know what's wrong with the fence,

35:19

but they've gotten out a few times.

35:21

Now, I am the guy who in

35:23

the neighborhood, I see a loose dog,

35:25

I have an extra leash, I go

35:27

and is on an adventure. somewhere. So,

35:30

you know, I knew where the dogs

35:32

were. The dogs weren't coming to me.

35:34

So I knew I'm knocked on the

35:36

door and lady opened it up and

35:38

she spoke very little English, but it

35:40

was like, uh, you know, uh, you

35:42

know, uh, two spadows, dunde. S dunde.

35:44

And she's like, oh, you know, two

35:46

sparrows dunde. And she's like, oh, you

35:49

know, so sparrowos, pokino, dunde. And she's

35:51

like, oh, she's laughing, you know, kind

35:53

of laughing at my, my. white-bred-ass English.

35:55

You'd want to say, you'd want to

35:57

say don't de esta, but yeah, that's

35:59

pretty good though. I would say I

36:01

was laughing when you mentioned dogs. I

36:03

was like, oh great. Your first time

36:05

having to speak conversational Spanish and you

36:07

have to do a rolled R, you

36:10

say pero. And it's just like, I

36:12

can do that. Don de esta sos

36:14

peros. Yeah, I practice that one, lagera,

36:16

that kind of thing. But like when

36:18

I lost my front tooth, it's fucking

36:20

impossible. It's, it's fucking impossible. It's fucking

36:22

impossible. It's fucking impossible. It's fucking impossible.

36:24

It's fucking impossible. you know because my

36:26

I'm very I'm still I mean it's

36:29

she understood what I was asking yeah

36:31

and that's what was important so and

36:33

I recently picked up a Marvel comic

36:35

book that's in Spanish so that's part

36:37

of my I'm actually like I I

36:39

really half-assed it throughout my entire high

36:41

school career you've got Alexander Gringizimo but

36:43

so do I so I mean I

36:45

can do a slightly better Spanish accent

36:48

but I haven't spoken Spanish in so

36:50

long and I've actually found that switching

36:52

between romance languages can be a real

36:54

mind game to not use more swear

36:56

words. I have found that is so

36:58

challenging to not mix up vocabulary when

37:00

you're jumping between the two and the

37:02

problem is that there are some big

37:04

differences in words that are similar between

37:07

French and Spanish, like the Spanish language

37:09

version of a Cyprus Hills, how I

37:11

could just kill a man, how I

37:13

can just kill a man. Entendé, how

37:15

I can just kill a man. Entendéres

37:17

understand, but entente in French means here.

37:19

Like, so, like, Jeanton is like, I

37:21

hear it as to Lonten, l'oule, like,

37:23

do you hear that noise? But it's

37:25

so easy to mix those up. And

37:28

I find that if I have to

37:30

speak Spanish. I really struggle to go

37:32

back and forth and there are actually

37:34

a lot of Latin Americans here but

37:36

also there were a lot in London

37:38

and I remember one time our COVID

37:40

checks went to our old apartment and

37:42

the family got in touch with us

37:44

by finding Cynthia on Facebook and the

37:47

lady was just like can I do

37:49

you have any idea just because like

37:51

this is checks and I want to

37:53

make sure and I was able to

37:55

say Spanish I'm like sorry I don't

37:57

actually have on me but I can

37:59

show you a photo of my British

38:01

passport and it has the same name

38:03

and everything. to give me the stuff,

38:06

but I was just like, I can

38:08

do that kind of thing in Spanish,

38:10

but like. I'll be honest with you,

38:12

one time a guy, there was something

38:14

wrong with an order, like a delivery

38:16

order, and he only spoke Spanish, and

38:18

I was like, whoa, I do not

38:20

remember how to speak Spanish very well

38:22

anymore. Right. Like, it's a matter of,

38:25

like, I could get back to it.

38:27

I mean, I used to be able

38:29

to read books in Spanish, I could

38:31

get back to it. I mean, I

38:33

used to be able to read books

38:35

in Spanish, I could be, I used

38:37

to my wife. do French and I

38:39

listen to the jouqui, you do, you

38:41

know, every, the French language sounds like

38:43

you're, yeah, it sounds like you're underwater

38:46

while you're talking, and that is, you,

38:48

to, to honor, to, to honor, to,

38:50

to, to, to honor, to, to, to,

38:52

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

38:54

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

38:56

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

38:58

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

39:00

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

39:02

to, to, to, to, to, to, to,

39:05

to, to, to, to, in French, if

39:07

you want to speak French correctly, you

39:09

have to make your lips assume the

39:11

shape of a chicken's asshole. I'm not

39:13

joking. A cruel pulley. A dead serious

39:15

because there's like the curling kind of

39:17

pursing your lips and stuff you have

39:19

to do. I don't find it that

39:21

difficult. I've never looked at a clowaker

39:24

of a chicken or the assal. I've

39:26

never looked at a clowaker of the

39:28

assal. I've never looked at a clowaker.

39:30

Like, was it the sewer? Was like,

39:32

oh, well, we used this, we'll use

39:34

the word for sewer to use that

39:36

for the medical term for the orifice

39:38

that both waste products come out of.

39:40

Or when you're like, hey, what are

39:43

we gonna call this pipe full of

39:45

shit and piss? I don't know, chicken's

39:47

actual. There is something very, very funny.

39:49

So there is something very, very funny

39:51

about that. So there is something very,

39:53

very funny about that. There is something.

39:55

the case. Because in New Mexico, it

39:57

was like either you grew up speaking

39:59

Spanish because you were Hispanic or you

40:01

were white and you didn't speak Spanish.

40:04

But there was never, I never found

40:06

myself as a kid in school or

40:08

anywhere in a situation where we needed

40:10

to speak it. And then my parents

40:12

were obviously, they were aware that New

40:14

Mexico is a state in the situation

40:16

where we needed to speak it. And

40:18

my parents were obviously, they were aware

40:20

that New Mexico is a state in

40:23

the United States. Like that's the obvious.

40:25

he died in 2003 before any of

40:27

his work was popular in the English

40:29

language and so you know less so

40:31

now because he's dead he's not writing

40:33

any more stuff but there was a

40:35

period of time when like a good

40:37

third half to third of his work

40:39

was just unavailable in English and so

40:42

I wanted to read it so I

40:44

learned Spanish and when I was in

40:46

Honduras I just read a lot of

40:48

I mean I had practice obviously but

40:50

I also read a lot of stuff

40:52

or I read like some of his

40:54

poetry was in bilingual versions so like

40:56

that was really like some of his

40:58

poetry was in bilingual versions so like

41:01

that was really helpful as well I

41:03

once I cared I really wanted to

41:05

learn it but I don't know Spanish

41:07

the reason I'm telling you translate stuff

41:09

from Spanish into English, it's often like,

41:11

it's not, you don't have to do

41:13

it in like a roundabout way, like

41:15

written stuff. A lot of it, not

41:17

only is a lot of it very,

41:19

very like. almost exactly the same word

41:22

order but sometimes even like idiomatic expressions

41:24

are basically the same in English like

41:26

it's so close whereas German a language

41:28

that's actually closer to English in terms

41:30

of like roots is both way I

41:32

mean it's a higher class of difficulty

41:34

according to like the defense department when

41:36

they teach people foreign languages French and

41:38

Spanish they consider like the same level

41:41

and German is one up also German

41:43

like it's it's not easy and I

41:45

don't know I find that again you're

41:47

making mouth shapes that you don't really

41:49

make because I listen to my what

41:51

my daughter doing German and she'll sometimes

41:53

talk to it you know just be

41:55

like oh she'll say something in German

41:57

and like that means this in German

42:00

so she's again having the three of

42:02

us learn three different languages at one

42:04

at some point in time we'll be

42:06

to go to Europe and get passing

42:08

with it. I do like Spanish. I'm

42:10

getting frustrated because we're getting, it's getting

42:12

more into articles and it's just one

42:14

of those like humps that I have

42:16

to get over to like get used

42:19

to sue and sue Sinostas and Estamos

42:21

and things like that. But the thing

42:23

I love about Spanish is that every

42:25

time I get frustrated with like, I'm

42:27

just not, I'm not understanding this. I

42:29

remember that like English is a much

42:31

harder language because English has so many

42:33

unnecessary words. Hermana. Very simple. You've got

42:35

the brother, you've got the sister. We

42:37

have the same word. We put an

42:40

oh or an odd to let you

42:42

know if it's male or female. Done.

42:44

Easy. We've got brother and sister. Why

42:46

do we have two words? that mean,

42:48

that have no relation to each other

42:50

in any way. And the, but that's

42:52

just what we have. So like, the

42:54

reason is is because it's in German

42:56

it's Bouda and Shvesta, like that's right.

42:59

So there's, there's, there's, there's an argument,

43:01

I think somebody with etymological research and

43:03

linguistics research that the hundred most used

43:05

words in English Germanic. We have so

43:07

many. I mean granted, okay, we have

43:09

a ton of words, but also like

43:11

a lot of them are specialties, like

43:13

specialist words, like medical words, things like

43:15

that. But in terms of the words

43:18

we use the most, like the thing

43:20

I just said, the words we use

43:22

the most, the only word in that

43:24

sentence that is not Germanic is use

43:26

hilariously. because usually, usually, usually in French,

43:28

although, usually does not mean use in

43:30

French, or utilize means use in French,

43:32

but the word vote that we use,

43:34

that's the up in Nutsen, the most,

43:37

de Meiste, de Meiste, de Meisten, I

43:39

can't remember what it fucking is, like

43:41

so much of our day-to-day stuff in

43:43

English is German, but then the Normans

43:45

invaded and conquered England and said, this

43:47

language sounds awful. we're going to make

43:49

it sound better and they change the

43:51

pronunciation and that's why you have the

43:53

word tough the word through the word

43:55

though and the word bow all basically

43:58

have o u g h endings and

44:00

are all pronounced differently because because fuck

44:02

you That's why. Because Norman, fancy Norman

44:04

Knight was like, I'm not saying connect,

44:06

we're saying night. Yeah, we're doing it,

44:08

we're doing it our way. That's the

44:10

beauty about being the conquering heroes as

44:12

you get to make everybody. Yeah, when

44:14

you win, when you, yeah, they didn't

44:17

call him William the guy who lost

44:19

the battle. They called him William the

44:21

Conqueror. When you win the Battle of

44:23

Hastings, you get to redefine the language

44:25

and that's just what happened. Exactly. given

44:27

a fuck about football in general. I

44:29

don't know if you ever were a

44:31

Colts fan as an Indiana boy or

44:33

if you ever... Yeah, I mean, not

44:36

really, but in the era, like the

44:38

sort of Peyton Manning and his prime

44:40

era to the point like when they

44:42

did win the Super Bowl, yes, but

44:44

I was much more a basketball fan

44:46

growing up. And I wasn't a huge

44:48

sports fan to begin with, but I

44:50

did care way more about... about basketball

44:52

and also when you're you know in

44:55

your sort of like late preteen early

44:57

teen years and you care about sports

44:59

and sort of like burns into your

45:01

brain is the golden age of sports you

45:03

always go back to it for me it

45:05

was you know the run where where Reggie

45:08

Miller was the captain of the Pacers and

45:10

you had that team with you know Rick

45:12

Smith's and Antonio Davis and like it's just

45:14

to me that was awesome you know 98

45:17

to 2000 so I cared more about then

45:19

also unfortunately being a cults fan in the

45:21

mid-2000s meant that you knew that inevitably they

45:24

would rediscover the concept of snow while playing

45:26

the New England Patriots. And then a Peyton

45:28

Manning would choke, the defense would fail, and

45:30

Peyton Manning would have to run, which he

45:32

cannot do. It was always heartbreaking. And then

45:34

the one year that I've refused to watch

45:36

the game, because I know they're just going

45:39

to destroy some ruin our hopes, we won,

45:41

and then we won the Super Bowl. Nice.

45:43

Yeah, I was a big baseball fan. I

45:45

was at the game where McGuire broke the

45:47

home run record. So that was wow that

45:49

I mean that that's my biggest like baseball

45:51

claim my my mother. He like hoisted his

45:53

12-year-old son up in celebration. The kid must

45:55

wait at least a hundred pounds. You know

45:57

that man's was terrible. Oh God. He was

45:59

he's He was a big man, but he

46:01

could hit some dingers. I'll tell you what.

46:04

And that's. What do we want in baseball

46:06

other than hitting some dingers? Oh, I got

46:08

fundamentals. I can, I can steal a base.

46:10

Fuck off, hit a dinger. I was hoping

46:12

you were gonna say I was at the

46:15

game when they hit John Rock with a

46:17

pattern. See, I would have rather been at

46:19

the one where the, uh, the pitcher exploded

46:21

a bird by accident. You know, hindsight look,

46:23

I, I go. baseball because it's a chance

46:26

to hang out and drink beer with people

46:28

like and then and there's a game happening

46:30

we I don't go to Cardinals games because

46:32

they're too expensive it's also like kind of

46:34

a nerd game too in the sense that

46:37

like you can be you can be like

46:39

I want to hit some dingers and you

46:41

also can be like I'm the stats guy

46:43

on the yeah it's such a stats game

46:45

baseball there there are so many people who

46:48

just have that stat brain because like you'll

46:50

see you'll be watching baseball and somebody like

46:52

oh this guy you know he hit he

46:54

hit he hit a trip Look at that.

46:56

And then suddenly this this stat will pop

46:59

up like three seconds later is like the

47:01

last time a member of the Cardinals hit

47:03

a triple inside of Kaminsky Park was blah

47:05

blah or not Kaminsky that's American League. And

47:07

then they blew up a whiskey park and

47:10

then they blew up a fucking stack of

47:12

disco records and everyone. Whoops. Yeah, but there's

47:14

always an immediate stat that pops up that

47:16

somebody's just like no the last time that

47:18

a triple was hit here by a cardinal

47:21

was in you know the 1982. Actually, this

47:23

is, this is, this is, mathematically speaking, this

47:25

shouldn't happen because somebody with this few runs

47:27

batted in and a team with this few

47:29

runs batted in shouldn't be able to hit

47:32

triple. So actually, I'm Nate Silver and it's

47:34

not gonna happen than it does. Well, I

47:36

don't, I don't think we actually got to

47:38

the question here. So what do you bring

47:40

into the Super Bowl party? Me? I can

47:43

make, I have a recipe for chicken wings

47:45

that has always been a real big hit.

47:47

Somebody asked for a recipe. So we're gonna

47:49

have to. Yeah, so it's really easy. I

47:51

mean, it's just I used to use Gee

47:54

as part of it, but you don't have

47:56

to be some kind of oil, but basically

47:58

use a blender to. to mince up onions

48:00

and garlic, and if you want some jalapenias

48:02

as well, be really generous with kosher salt

48:05

or some kind of coarse salt, as well

48:07

as you wanna have like, you know, basically

48:09

enough oil that you could churn this thing

48:11

up and like they would be evenly coated

48:13

in oil, however many wings you're gonna put

48:16

in, put that in on top of the

48:18

seasonings. And so yeah, it's just onions and

48:20

garlic, salt, pepper, and jalapenias if you want

48:22

it. And then lime juice. for like, you

48:25

know, two dozen wings, but you could... I

48:27

remember much more you want. Yeah, and then

48:29

basically you stir it up and I would

48:31

let it sit overnight and then I would

48:33

bring bottled sauces of whatever people wanted because

48:36

everyone's got their own favorite. and grill them,

48:38

yeah, grill them or bake them in the

48:40

oven and then just basically serve them more

48:42

or less like unsauced and people can just

48:44

take them out with like get tongs and

48:47

individual serving bowls and people can mix whatever

48:49

sauce they want in them and then have

48:51

some like you said some ranch and some

48:53

salary. I did that for Hale and farewells

48:55

for my battalion when I was lieutenant and

48:58

like that was the one thing I just

49:00

did not have any leftovers when they, because

49:02

it just you know like punished for the

49:04

lieutenant, like make food. for organized the food

49:06

plan for everyone and so I did and

49:09

one of the things I did was I

49:11

made this and then whoever was cooking I

49:13

just gave them these checking into Tupperware containers

49:15

full of wings and they cooked them. Never

49:17

had any leftovers. Folks loved them. So that's

49:20

that's that's mine. What about you? I have

49:22

always been really good at making a very

49:24

good but very basic guacamole dip where it

49:26

is avocados, tomatoes, rough chopped onions, salts. I

49:28

use lemon juice inside of mine because I

49:31

always have lemon juice in the house because

49:33

I drink I drink like kind of carbonated

49:35

water machine and and then a dash of

49:37

lemon juice and that I'll drink like four

49:39

of those a day. I have one too

49:42

now, it's hilarious. We'll talk about it later,

49:44

but no. on Soda Stream more or less

49:46

like, like, what if Soda Stream but not

49:48

ethically compromised? And it's just amazing how much

49:50

fewer bags of plastic bottle recycling you've taken

49:53

down now. I have, look, I have, I

49:55

do have a Soda Stream, but I got

49:57

it secondhand. So nobody got any, you know,

49:59

the only people that got money from me

50:01

were savers and I got it for $14.

50:04

It was a $90 soda stream. Buying Michael

50:06

Jackson records off discogs, you know what I

50:08

mean? I think you'd normally, they're normally pretty

50:10

hardcore on lime juice for guacamole, but you're

50:12

saying lemon juice. I'm saying lemon juice. I

50:15

like the little bit more lemon tang to

50:17

it, and I also use a very kind

50:19

of, as you were saying, the coarse salt,

50:21

I have that, but I also, when we

50:23

went to Hawaii, I picked up a Hawaiian

50:26

salt water out there, and unfortunately I've already,

50:28

you know, gone through half of it. It's

50:30

a really great. Hawaiian blend of salt and

50:32

it's very like I said it's very basic

50:35

there's not a lot of fanciness to it

50:37

but that's what a lot of people like

50:39

because it is a base guacamole that you

50:41

can dip anything in so guacamole has always

50:43

been my thing I like making it I

50:46

like making it I like making dips I

50:48

like dips I like to dip things I

50:50

like to take a chip and and adjust

50:52

the flavor by immershing it in different other

50:54

flavors. Twitter published a book of Burmese recipes

50:57

and I couldn't get the right ingredients for

50:59

the sum of it and I could just

51:01

never make the dishes work the way they

51:03

were supposed to because there's a certain kind

51:05

of flavor profile that I just couldn't get.

51:08

However, one of them had a salsa recipe

51:10

on the side and she proposed basically you

51:12

buy get the tomatoes, get the onions, get

51:14

green and red peppers in or and then

51:16

put them on the broiling tray and roast

51:19

them till the skin charmed and then, you

51:21

know, save some of the burned bits and

51:23

stuff and what you can do is actually

51:25

make like a like a roasted chili version

51:27

and then the parts that's not charred if

51:30

you want you can separate them out I

51:32

started doing that for making salsa and then

51:34

sometimes mixing that into guacamole with the leftovers

51:36

It's fucking phenomenal. Obviously a little lime juice

51:38

and cilantro as well. But yeah, that little

51:41

step up things, just like you've got a

51:43

broiling tray, if you've got a tray that

51:45

you used to, like a flat tray, a

51:47

baking sheet, whatever, literally broil the tomatoes and

51:49

the peppers and the garlic. and then put

51:52

them into your salsa or your guacamole and

51:54

you'll get that roastiness. Yeah, that's so good.

51:56

I'll have to try that. I'll have to

51:58

try roasting my tomatoes next time. I never

52:00

really, I always just chop them up really

52:03

big, but I like that. I always just

52:05

chop them up really big, but I like

52:07

that when you roast, I like, I like

52:09

that when you roast something though, it gets,

52:11

I always just chop them up really big,

52:14

but I like, I like, I like, I

52:16

like, I like, I like them, I like

52:18

them, I like them, I like them, I

52:20

like them, I like, I like, I like,

52:22

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:25

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:27

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:29

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:31

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:33

I like, I like, I like, I like,

52:36

roasted garlic. You want the fresh garlic flavor.

52:38

You can also do it because onions typically

52:40

like if you leave the skin on the

52:42

onion, it's not really gonna like caramelize or

52:44

burn it. It might get a little bit

52:47

of a cooked flavor, but mellow it a

52:49

little, but you know, pick and choose. If

52:51

you want to just do with peppers, you

52:53

can. I didn't really. But that's, you know,

52:56

pick and choose. If you want to just

52:58

do with peppers, you can. But that's, I

53:00

didn't, but that's, but that's, if you know,

53:02

if you know, if you want to just

53:04

do, just do, do, do, do, do, do,

53:07

do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,

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do, do, do, do, do, do, just do,

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do, do, do, if you know. If you

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know. If you know. If you know. If

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you know, do, do, do, do, do, just

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do, do, do, I think we've got to,

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I hope everybody enjoyed. I'm going to have

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to get my wife to listen to this

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one since there's so much French for her

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to parse out. Yeah, let us know what

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languages are you learning? Are you struggling through?

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Because I know I'm struggling through. Because I

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finally have a direction to go with Spanish.

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When I was a younger man, I didn't

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give a shit about learning Spanish. Then you

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being in a place where it's like you

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need to learn like four different languages to

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get by. three really but you're right there's

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four official languages here it's just one of

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them is a it's a strange mountain language

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that very few people speak but it is

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a official language yeah I mean and if

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you have any questions hit me up hit

53:57

me up on blue sky send us an

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email you know wherever you encounter our content

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post a comment happy to answer your questions

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about about learning French or learning languages. I've

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both done it because I wanted to and

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I was done it because I had to

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a lot in my life. And for the

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Franco fun, seeing you on a day of

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culture, I'm part of the French, I guess

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really, but I've read a book of defer

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for me, a report, and I'm many, a

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report, I've, I'm many, a Francis, because you

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say that I'm, I'm pronouncing, I've, I've, I've,

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I've probably, very many, very many.

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Gijeur. And part of

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me? Adios, Samigos.