December 12, 2017 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms Represents fifteen minute morning show. People are texting in
questions knowing that we're recording our fifteen minute morning show podcast. Bethany,
did you give up trapeze lessons? Oh? You know what,
I'm going back to it. I had to give it up,
(00:24):
said in that time there was that accident, but I
miss it so much, so I actually I'm going back
to it. But tell Alvius what lessons you're taking now.
Ukuk lele lessons excellent? Because I got a ukulele for
my birthday per my request. I would I would love
to learn the uku lele. I would put the hoe
in don Hoe And if you know who don Hoe is,
he was a famous Hawaiian ukulele star le le. Are
(00:44):
we going to do a hip hop ukulele instead of
hip hop clarinet? Probably not. I don't think i'll be.
But it's apparently a pretty easy instrument to learn, so
I'm psyched about it. Okay. So in the world of
dementia and even to the world of Alzheimer's, there is
this theory. There was this theory that if you do
a lot of crossword puzzles, and and and things like that.
Mind games, it can help keep your mind and open
(01:06):
and going new. Research is say that isn't the case.
They're saying, you need to learn to do new things.
You need to learn how to do things you've never
known how to do before. That's what opens up the
lines in your brain that keep you from what could
slow down dementia in your later years. So learning to
play a uku lele something that is so far off
(01:27):
the chart of something most people would do, that is
that is part of that solution. Did you know that?
I didn't know that, And I'm really excited because I
didn't even know this was the thing I wanted to do.
But then when I was home for Thanksgiving, my niece
has this really old ratty fake ukuk lately with only
two strings or three stringer thing, and I had I think.
(01:48):
I played with that think for four hours, and so
my dad took the hint and bought me one for
my birthday, and I realized I love it. And so
it is sort of cool to think if you've ever
wanted to learn something, you can still learn that thing.
Stop in high they say a lot of people say,
especially learning a new language. They say, if you're younger.
It's easier to learn new languages. Children kids can learn
multiple language is so much easier than adults. For whatever reason.
(02:10):
I'm sure there was some explanation, but yeah, learning things,
learning new things. True that if you want to learn
a language, you put it the headphones on at night
and you play the language in your head. You'll remember
it work in Spanish class for me because I tried
it because I didn't want to learn in Spanish. I
didn't want to learn Spanish in high school, so I
tried the easy way out. I thought. I still failed Spanish.
(02:33):
Have you ever tried to learn a second language or
a third language? I mean it took lots of languages
in school, but you know, I remember taking Italian lessons
I had once a week, two hour session and with
this lady who was fantastic, still a friend today, and uh,
and I had the books, I had everything, and I
was struggling with it, but I remember it's so awesome.
(02:53):
I remember going through the book and doing a lesson
and it hit me. I figured it out. I've figured
out so much about I had this block, but at
that moment I had the epiphany, like, oh my god,
I get it. It was like the clouds left, the
blue sky, the sunshine. It was fantastic. So when you
(03:13):
learn something new and you figure out you're making progress,
it's the best feeling in the world. It really is.
When I was doing Italian in school, my problem was
the tensest past tense, present tense. It's so hard to
figure that all out. And they made us take four
languages we had each semester. For the four semesters, we
took French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin, and they gave us
(03:35):
Latin first because it's the root of so much. But
it was just crazy and as soon as I felt
like I was getting the hang of something, they took
it away and something else. This is great. Yeah, did
you ever try to take a second language? I did,
and uh, you know what, I was such a fool
in high school because in high school I sat there
and said, you know what do I need this for?
So I really like, I worked hard at not learning
(03:58):
a language, and I ended up doing over in summer school.
But now here we are in seen and I'm like this,
that was the dumbest move of my life because for instance,
like I took Spanish and I failed it twice in school.
I failed it in uh my my software year, and
I failed it in my junior year, and I had
to go to summer school to retake it to pass it.
(04:18):
And look at look at how important Spanish is today,
How stupid if I only knew then what I don't
allow a lot of people the same way. But you
know what, you've got to stop thinking about what you
didn't do then, and you can always do it now.
I think about doing the Rosetta Stone because I hear
about it all the time and people say how great
it is. You just you know, take this Rosetta stone
and bam, you're just you're you're talking in in Chinese
(04:40):
like tomorrow. I mean, is that really that? That's simple? Yeah?
Not for everyone, Yeah, it depends. I mean. Babel is
another one that's just an app you can use and
do a lingo as an app you can use it's
like ten minutes a day, but you have to be
consistent with it. That's the that's the thing you can't
You have to practice. You know. People always ask like,
what would be like if you could pick a super
superhero like I'm sorry, a superpower, Like what would you want?
(05:02):
I would want me to speak Spanish, speak Spanish, to
speak my WiFi. I'm Spanish making speaking. Man, it would
you didn't do it, you should do it. So uh.
My favorite thing to do is when I traveled to
it late because it was my favorite country away from
the US. You still gonna be there. You have to
just you have to just be out and walking around
town and just ordering lunch, simple things. That's why I
(05:24):
can order off any menu in a town. But if
I you know, but if I have if I'm having
a heart attack, I wouldn't know what to say or
who to call. But I can order, you know, dinner.
They say immersion is really the actually took high school Spanish,
excelled in it. I crushed it. But then that was
all mechanical. When it came time for me to go
(05:46):
to a place and use it and apply it, I
couldn't do it very well. So I never because I
didn't use it, wasn't immersed in it. And you know,
I'm still trying to perfect English. It's not I'm not
doing I'm trying to straighten. You're so busy today, Let's
take some time out from the podcast to see what
our senior executive producer straight natives. So I wanted to
(06:07):
chime in on that language thing. Uh, there's this there's
this meme uh with Christiano Ronaldo and he has a
fan asking him a question, and you see that this
fan is trying to ask him in Portuguese, which is
Christiano Ronaldo's native language. And the audience starts laughing because
this kid's not a speaker of Portuguese, but he's learning
(06:29):
to try and ask Chrishianna Ronaldo a question. And Christiano
Ronaldo goes, hey, hey, why are you laughing. He's actually trying.
He's doing his best. He really laugh at someone because
you can't speak the language I've never heard of someone
because he's not speaking it well, right, And so Christiano
Ronaldo goes, you should be applauding this kid for trying.
He goes, he's doing a really good job. You're doing
a really good jobs, hotter than ever, and he does
(06:52):
have perfect eyebrows. What's the thing, you know? Think about it.
You're walking through New York City and someone comes up
to you and they're speaking let's say, with a Spanish accent,
and they don't speak English, and but they're trying their best.
Do you sit there and laugh at them. They're trying
to ask you how to get to the empire state,
don't you never do? So that's why when we travel overseas,
we should never be afraid to ask anyone anything and
(07:13):
do our best. And except for that guy who got
laughed at, which I think is not the what usually happened.
One of my favorite things is when somebody doesn't speak
English but needs information. It is such a fun challenge
to try to get information from them and to them,
and somehow you figure it out, even if it's like
you start drawing pictures and you can laugh and have
(07:34):
fun doing Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really really The best
is when someone doesn't understand English and scary yells louder
at them. Yeah, like they're deaf, I said, I'm looking
for I do purpose, They're a child. Listen to me.
Do you not understand if I slow up a little bit,
then they'll maybe I'm slowing up is one thing, but
(07:55):
increasing volume is another. But yeah, most people who are
trying are struggling to speak your language. Their number one
complaint is we speak too quickly. And if you just
slow down and help them figure it out, that they
can figure it out. I know I can, you know,
but if you go too fast, But I don't know.
Did you take a language in high school? No? Just English? Barely? No?
(08:20):
I No, I never did. I never did. But growing
up in Texas, a lot of friends who were from
Mexico's families were from Mexico, so I spoke Spanish a
lot back then because you just had to. You just
never even thought about it. But in going to Italy
so much so, there were so many years there. I
was going twice a year, and I was great at it.
But I haven't been in a while. If I go
to Italy today, I'm gonna struggle with it. And it's
(08:41):
not something you retain that. I don't retain that well.
But I think it does come back. I think that,
like if you're in Italy for a while, it will
come back quicker than you learned it the first time.
Let let's let's try. Scary'll help you with your Italian.
He speaks Brooklyn Italian. He'll help you. Not even the
same as for pursuit, they're not going to goal. My
(09:07):
favorite stories are like all these Italian Americans living in
Brooklyn going, oh, yeah, you're done, let's all go to Italy.
Let's go see the home come through Yo, and they
get over there and they're on the next plane back
to the United States because yeah, because they go over there,
I need some chicken bomb and then they look at
you like, we don't have chicken palm really got meats.
(09:28):
Several years ago I went and I couldn't believe it.
I went to uh where the Amalfi Coast, and I
went to Rome and Naples and beautiful areas to Rento
and it's not, it's not, it's not nothing like what
did you think you were getting. I thought it would
be a lot more Americanized, but aren't you glad it was.
I went to Italy for a state to Staten Island,
(09:53):
and it was all I knew at the time, with
spaghetti and meatballs. That's from the mirror. They was seriously,
it was seriously breathtaking. It was such a beautiful country,
especially the city. You actually got to know your your
family's background a lot better there than you than you
thought you you should have. I don't know, and it's
(10:14):
the same. I have a really dear friend who Uh.
He and his family figured out what part of Africa
they are from, and they were so excited so excited
about traveling to Africa and to to meet some people
who they do believe are they're still really they are
related to the concerned, I mean confirmed. But they said,
(10:37):
Mom and Dad, for Christmas, this is your gift. We're
taking you back to our family's heritage. They went back
and they learned, they love the culture, everything. But Mom
and Dad were like, no, we're going back, We're going
back home. I mean it's the same, you know, it's
not what you think it is. It's better, it really is,
go back to your home. But it is amazing how
(10:57):
much of your own culture you create over here. I
mean I would have said, I would say the Italian
American culture is so unique to itself versus being an
extension of it just Italian culture. But the problem is
also television. I remember going to Italy at the height
of Jersey Shore, and everyone thought that Americans were what
(11:18):
the Jersey Shore TV show wore. Right. Well. I even
went to college St. John University in Jamaica, Queens, and
I came from the Bronx. And when I talked to
people and said, yeah, I come from the Bronx, do
you have a gun? You carried a gun. I can't
even tell you how many people when I first met
the mask if I had a gun. I when I
first learned you were from the Bronx, I thought you're
gonna steal my hubcast. You still think that, but you
(11:41):
know what, Look, Yeah, when you were born and raised
in New York in this area. All my friends from
here typically know what town in Europe their family is from.
Some some can tell you Bethany, some can tell you
the streets their great grandparents lived on. But where I'm
where I'm from in tech says, we kind of know
(12:01):
maybe Scotland and England Ish. That's as close as we get.
And I feel like we're really missing out on being
connected to our heritage. I really truly think that. Yeah,
in my family, we know that we're from Norway. Uh,
we know what the family name translates to, but it's
a direction and we don't know if it's like on
(12:23):
that side of the country or on that side of
the village that we were in, Like, we have no
idea Watson. But Garrett, you're Irish, right, Irish and German?
Do you know where any of your family members are from,
what towns they're from in Germany or Ireland. No, and
it's always to know that. I would love to you.
That's why that what is it? Twenty three? And me? I,
I really want to invest in it because every year
(12:45):
my family, whether my grandmother and mom whatever, they get
to the point where they start doing the research and
then they just go, oh, we'll do it later. So yeah,
I think I'll take it upon myself now to go
get that and spitting the cup and send it away.
So you know, these friends I'm talking about who know
exactly what villages and what towns they're from in Italy,
let's say, and I when I tell them I don't
know where my family is from, they look at me
(13:06):
as if oh really, how unusual you don't know where
you're from? And I feel like, oh my god, I'm
lost such an important thing, I think. And it's interesting.
I would imagine that if you meet people that you
think you might be related to, you start to look
for similarities, and you start to look for like, how
do we look the same? How do we act the same?
(13:27):
Can you tell that we might be related somehow? I'm
always curious, like when you meet someone with the same
last name but they're not like physically related, How far
apart are they Like, So when you meet two people
with the last name Smith, they're not related by blood
or whatever, but somewhere down the line they're connected somewhere, right,
you gotta think you gotta think that we had missing
(13:49):
jobs was a Blacksmith. I got hit up on Instagram
last week by a girl from Ireland who wanted to
know if we might be related. Her name was Brody.
We are not My family is not from Ireland. We
have no relations. I'm we're not Irish. But she said
she's desperate to meet people with the same less name
who she might be related to, and she knows her
family went to America, so she's hitting up every broody
(14:11):
she can find. My family is from Poland, but I
don't think I'm Polish. Yes you are, okay? Can you
try to explain this? I don't feel Polish? Okay, So
how does that feel? I don't know. I just don't
feel like I'm European, like I don't feel it like
I just I feel like I'm I'm New Jersey the past,
(14:33):
but I don't feel right. It's weird. I don't know. Well,
you know, all the more reason why you need to
do a little little homework, find out where your family
is from, and go to Poland and try to try
to figure it out. I think, I think, of of
all people that need to do that, you need to
do that. How about we send you there tomorrow. I
wouldn't know anything about Poland the right Maybe you just
(14:54):
start looking in there, aren't you? A little curious minute
Morning show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms Represents fifteen minute morning show. People are texting in
questions knowing that we're recording our fifteen minute morning show podcast. Bethany,
did you give up trapeze lessons? Oh? You know what,
I'm going back to it. I had to give it up,
(00:24):
said in that time there was that accident, but I
miss it so much, so I actually I'm going back
to it. But tell Alvius what lessons you're taking now.
Ukuk lele lessons excellent? Because I got a ukulele for
my birthday per my request. I would I would love
to learn the uku lele. I would put the hoe
in don Hoe And if you know who don Hoe is,
he was a famous Hawaiian ukulele star le le. Are
(00:44):
we going to do a hip hop ukulele instead of
hip hop clarinet? Probably not. I don't think i'll be.
But it's apparently a pretty easy instrument to learn, so
I'm psyched about it. Okay. So in the world of
dementia and even to the world of Alzheimer's, there is
this theory. There was this theory that if you do
a lot of crossword puzzles, and and and things like that.
Mind games, it can help keep your mind and open
(01:06):
and going new. Research is say that isn't the case.
They're saying, you need to learn to do new things.
You need to learn how to do things you've never
known how to do before. That's what opens up the
lines in your brain that keep you from what could
slow down dementia in your later years. So learning to
play a uku lele something that is so far off
(01:27):
the chart of something most people would do, that is
that is part of that solution. Did you know that?
I didn't know that, And I'm really excited because I
didn't even know this was the thing I wanted to do.
But then when I was home for Thanksgiving, my niece
has this really old ratty fake ukuk lately with only
two strings or three stringer thing, and I had I think.
(01:48):
I played with that think for four hours, and so
my dad took the hint and bought me one for
my birthday, and I realized I love it. And so
it is sort of cool to think if you've ever
wanted to learn something, you can still learn that thing.
Stop in high they say a lot of people say,
especially learning a new language. They say, if you're younger.
It's easier to learn new languages. Children kids can learn
multiple language is so much easier than adults. For whatever reason.
(02:10):
I'm sure there was some explanation, but yeah, learning things,
learning new things. True that if you want to learn
a language, you put it the headphones on at night
and you play the language in your head. You'll remember
it work in Spanish class for me because I tried
it because I didn't want to learn in Spanish. I
didn't want to learn Spanish in high school, so I
tried the easy way out. I thought. I still failed Spanish.
(02:33):
Have you ever tried to learn a second language or
a third language? I mean it took lots of languages
in school, but you know, I remember taking Italian lessons
I had once a week, two hour session and with
this lady who was fantastic, still a friend today, and uh,
and I had the books, I had everything, and I
was struggling with it, but I remember it's so awesome.
(02:53):
I remember going through the book and doing a lesson
and it hit me. I figured it out. I've figured
out so much about I had this block, but at
that moment I had the epiphany, like, oh my god,
I get it. It was like the clouds left, the
blue sky, the sunshine. It was fantastic. So when you
(03:13):
learn something new and you figure out you're making progress,
it's the best feeling in the world. It really is.
When I was doing Italian in school, my problem was
the tensest past tense, present tense. It's so hard to
figure that all out. And they made us take four
languages we had each semester. For the four semesters, we
took French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin, and they gave us
(03:35):
Latin first because it's the root of so much. But
it was just crazy and as soon as I felt
like I was getting the hang of something, they took
it away and something else. This is great. Yeah, did
you ever try to take a second language? I did,
and uh, you know what, I was such a fool
in high school because in high school I sat there
and said, you know what do I need this for?
So I really like, I worked hard at not learning
(03:58):
a language, and I ended up doing over in summer school.
But now here we are in seen and I'm like this,
that was the dumbest move of my life because for instance,
like I took Spanish and I failed it twice in school.
I failed it in uh my my software year, and
I failed it in my junior year, and I had
to go to summer school to retake it to pass it.
(04:18):
And look at look at how important Spanish is today,
How stupid if I only knew then what I don't
allow a lot of people the same way. But you
know what, you've got to stop thinking about what you
didn't do then, and you can always do it now.
I think about doing the Rosetta Stone because I hear
about it all the time and people say how great
it is. You just you know, take this Rosetta stone
and bam, you're just you're you're talking in in Chinese
(04:40):
like tomorrow. I mean, is that really that? That's simple? Yeah?
Not for everyone, Yeah, it depends. I mean. Babel is
another one that's just an app you can use and
do a lingo as an app you can use it's
like ten minutes a day, but you have to be
consistent with it. That's the that's the thing you can't
You have to practice. You know. People always ask like,
what would be like if you could pick a super
superhero like I'm sorry, a superpower, Like what would you want?
(05:02):
I would want me to speak Spanish, speak Spanish, to
speak my WiFi. I'm Spanish making speaking. Man, it would
you didn't do it, you should do it. So uh.
My favorite thing to do is when I traveled to
it late because it was my favorite country away from
the US. You still gonna be there. You have to
just you have to just be out and walking around
town and just ordering lunch, simple things. That's why I
(05:24):
can order off any menu in a town. But if
I you know, but if I have if I'm having
a heart attack, I wouldn't know what to say or
who to call. But I can order, you know, dinner.
They say immersion is really the actually took high school Spanish,
excelled in it. I crushed it. But then that was
all mechanical. When it came time for me to go
(05:46):
to a place and use it and apply it, I
couldn't do it very well. So I never because I
didn't use it, wasn't immersed in it. And you know,
I'm still trying to perfect English. It's not I'm not
doing I'm trying to straighten. You're so busy today, Let's
take some time out from the podcast to see what
our senior executive producer straight natives. So I wanted to
(06:07):
chime in on that language thing. Uh, there's this there's
this meme uh with Christiano Ronaldo and he has a
fan asking him a question, and you see that this
fan is trying to ask him in Portuguese, which is
Christiano Ronaldo's native language. And the audience starts laughing because
this kid's not a speaker of Portuguese, but he's learning
(06:29):
to try and ask Chrishianna Ronaldo a question. And Christiano
Ronaldo goes, hey, hey, why are you laughing. He's actually trying.
He's doing his best. He really laugh at someone because
you can't speak the language I've never heard of someone
because he's not speaking it well, right, And so Christiano
Ronaldo goes, you should be applauding this kid for trying.
He goes, he's doing a really good job. You're doing
a really good jobs, hotter than ever, and he does
(06:52):
have perfect eyebrows. What's the thing, you know? Think about it.
You're walking through New York City and someone comes up
to you and they're speaking let's say, with a Spanish accent,
and they don't speak English, and but they're trying their best.
Do you sit there and laugh at them. They're trying
to ask you how to get to the empire state,
don't you never do? So that's why when we travel overseas,
we should never be afraid to ask anyone anything and
(07:13):
do our best. And except for that guy who got
laughed at, which I think is not the what usually happened.
One of my favorite things is when somebody doesn't speak
English but needs information. It is such a fun challenge
to try to get information from them and to them,
and somehow you figure it out, even if it's like
you start drawing pictures and you can laugh and have
(07:34):
fun doing Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really really The best
is when someone doesn't understand English and scary yells louder
at them. Yeah, like they're deaf, I said, I'm looking
for I do purpose, They're a child. Listen to me.
Do you not understand if I slow up a little bit,
then they'll maybe I'm slowing up is one thing, but
(07:55):
increasing volume is another. But yeah, most people who are
trying are struggling to speak your language. Their number one
complaint is we speak too quickly. And if you just
slow down and help them figure it out, that they
can figure it out. I know I can, you know,
but if you go too fast, But I don't know.
Did you take a language in high school? No? Just English? Barely? No?
(08:20):
I No, I never did. I never did. But growing
up in Texas, a lot of friends who were from
Mexico's families were from Mexico, so I spoke Spanish a
lot back then because you just had to. You just
never even thought about it. But in going to Italy
so much so, there were so many years there. I
was going twice a year, and I was great at it.
But I haven't been in a while. If I go
to Italy today, I'm gonna struggle with it. And it's
(08:41):
not something you retain that. I don't retain that well.
But I think it does come back. I think that,
like if you're in Italy for a while, it will
come back quicker than you learned it the first time.
Let let's let's try. Scary'll help you with your Italian.
He speaks Brooklyn Italian. He'll help you. Not even the
same as for pursuit, they're not going to goal. My
(09:07):
favorite stories are like all these Italian Americans living in
Brooklyn going, oh, yeah, you're done, let's all go to Italy.
Let's go see the home come through Yo, and they
get over there and they're on the next plane back
to the United States because yeah, because they go over there,
I need some chicken bomb and then they look at
you like, we don't have chicken palm really got meats.
(09:28):
Several years ago I went and I couldn't believe it.
I went to uh where the Amalfi Coast, and I
went to Rome and Naples and beautiful areas to Rento
and it's not, it's not, it's not nothing like what
did you think you were getting. I thought it would
be a lot more Americanized, but aren't you glad it was.
I went to Italy for a state to Staten Island,
(09:53):
and it was all I knew at the time, with
spaghetti and meatballs. That's from the mirror. They was seriously,
it was seriously breathtaking. It was such a beautiful country,
especially the city. You actually got to know your your
family's background a lot better there than you than you
thought you you should have. I don't know, and it's
(10:14):
the same. I have a really dear friend who Uh.
He and his family figured out what part of Africa
they are from, and they were so excited so excited
about traveling to Africa and to to meet some people
who they do believe are they're still really they are
related to the concerned, I mean confirmed. But they said,
(10:37):
Mom and Dad, for Christmas, this is your gift. We're
taking you back to our family's heritage. They went back
and they learned, they love the culture, everything. But Mom
and Dad were like, no, we're going back, We're going
back home. I mean it's the same, you know, it's
not what you think it is. It's better, it really is,
go back to your home. But it is amazing how
(10:57):
much of your own culture you create over here. I
mean I would have said, I would say the Italian
American culture is so unique to itself versus being an
extension of it just Italian culture. But the problem is
also television. I remember going to Italy at the height
of Jersey Shore, and everyone thought that Americans were what
(11:18):
the Jersey Shore TV show wore. Right. Well. I even
went to college St. John University in Jamaica, Queens, and
I came from the Bronx. And when I talked to
people and said, yeah, I come from the Bronx, do
you have a gun? You carried a gun. I can't
even tell you how many people when I first met
the mask if I had a gun. I when I
first learned you were from the Bronx, I thought you're
gonna steal my hubcast. You still think that, but you
(11:41):
know what, Look, Yeah, when you were born and raised
in New York in this area. All my friends from
here typically know what town in Europe their family is from.
Some some can tell you Bethany, some can tell you
the streets their great grandparents lived on. But where I'm
where I'm from in tech says, we kind of know
(12:01):
maybe Scotland and England Ish. That's as close as we get.
And I feel like we're really missing out on being
connected to our heritage. I really truly think that. Yeah,
in my family, we know that we're from Norway. Uh,
we know what the family name translates to, but it's
a direction and we don't know if it's like on
(12:23):
that side of the country or on that side of
the village that we were in, Like, we have no
idea Watson. But Garrett, you're Irish, right, Irish and German?
Do you know where any of your family members are from,
what towns they're from in Germany or Ireland. No, and
it's always to know that. I would love to you.
That's why that what is it? Twenty three? And me? I,
I really want to invest in it because every year
(12:45):
my family, whether my grandmother and mom whatever, they get
to the point where they start doing the research and
then they just go, oh, we'll do it later. So yeah,
I think I'll take it upon myself now to go
get that and spitting the cup and send it away.
So you know, these friends I'm talking about who know
exactly what villages and what towns they're from in Italy,
let's say, and I when I tell them I don't
know where my family is from, they look at me
(13:06):
as if oh really, how unusual you don't know where
you're from? And I feel like, oh my god, I'm
lost such an important thing, I think. And it's interesting.
I would imagine that if you meet people that you
think you might be related to, you start to look
for similarities, and you start to look for like, how
do we look the same? How do we act the same?
(13:27):
Can you tell that we might be related somehow? I'm
always curious, like when you meet someone with the same
last name but they're not like physically related, How far
apart are they Like, So when you meet two people
with the last name Smith, they're not related by blood
or whatever, but somewhere down the line they're connected somewhere, right,
you gotta think you gotta think that we had missing
(13:49):
jobs was a Blacksmith. I got hit up on Instagram
last week by a girl from Ireland who wanted to
know if we might be related. Her name was Brody.
We are not My family is not from Ireland. We
have no relations. I'm we're not Irish. But she said
she's desperate to meet people with the same less name
who she might be related to, and she knows her
family went to America, so she's hitting up every broody
(14:11):
she can find. My family is from Poland, but I
don't think I'm Polish. Yes you are, okay? Can you
try to explain this? I don't feel Polish? Okay, So
how does that feel? I don't know. I just don't
feel like I'm European, like I don't feel it like
I just I feel like I'm I'm New Jersey the past,
(14:33):
but I don't feel right. It's weird. I don't know. Well,
you know, all the more reason why you need to
do a little little homework, find out where your family
is from, and go to Poland and try to try
to figure it out. I think, I think, of of
all people that need to do that, you need to
do that. How about we send you there tomorrow. I
wouldn't know anything about Poland the right Maybe you just
(14:54):
start looking in there, aren't you? A little curious minute
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