Gen Z vs Cursive

Can a 20 year old read cursive? Dad and daughter find out!

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
I'm gonna be you see why Iintro the show. What are you talking
about? That was terrible? That'sbecause I didn't plan it. Take it
again. I am simply okay,But you know it's gonna ready and action.
What. No, I haven't hadtime to think about. You have
to read give me and this isthis is how they do it for you.
Well, nobody does it for me. Ago. No, you know

(00:21):
before you hit record that you're gonnabe talking first. I just decided just
now that you're gonna be talking first. Give me. We're talking about the
we're doing the cursive letter. You'regonna be reading letters in cursive action.
Why do I have to read lettersin cursive? This is Daughter Issues.

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Get every single episode, last video, and talk to us in the comments
and daughterpod dot com. A lotof our fans emailed mailed us stuff.
You're saying cursive like a lot ofletters in I don't know cursive. I

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know that's the point. We havea secret. We're gonna get to all
those, so sweet do the introto the show. Thank you, Welcome
back to Daughter Issues. We aregonna be I'm gonna be trying to read
cursive letters that you guys sent meand I appreciate everyone even sending a letter.

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That's very sweet. But I'm horrifiedby the amount of letters there are
with the amount of scribbles that areon them. So scribbles, that's what
they look like to me, isscribbles. That means I get to end
the podcast today. No, thatwas the deal. No, we didn't
make a deal right before you started. If you where's the contract? If
you rewind it right before we started, I said, go ahead, you

(01:47):
can start by starting you here,by I agree that I get in the
podcast today. That is not whatyou said. I mumbled it. You'll
get to hear you're gonna you're gonnacopy and paste that in because I knew
it was already there because I saidit just like it wasn't go back and
let's I'll have the original video.Okay, well you'll have sue you I

(02:08):
have a back injury. Don't makeme right. Yeah, if you don't
know, he stood up and coughed, and then well, when you're over
forty out, when you're over fortyyou can stand up and you can cough,
and you can turn your head,just not at the same time.
Something inside went. So there's athere's a catch spasm thing that's happening.

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But you know what I got whiskeyhelps. Yep, you ready for the
first letter. No, they didn'tteach me this, I know, so
they stopped teaching cursive. I usedcursive all through school. I graduated in

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ninety eight. Let me know inthe comments when you stopped, when you
graduated, what your year was.I want to know who was taught,
because I didn't. I'm I'm gonnastart with something very easy. I believe
this is from a teacher named Stacy. And the reason I'm starting with this
is because the handwriting. Now,I didn't only open three of them,

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Okay, one of them, oneof them looks like is from Thomas Jefferson.
I had to be like what andit took me a second, and
so it's gonna be it's gonna belevel three advanced cursives. So I'm gonna
work you up to that. Okay. Another one had perfectly fine handwriting that

(03:34):
I opened, and then this oneand the rest are unopened letters you just
get to explore. Okay, ButI'm gonna start with this one because it's
so well written, it's so likeher handwriting is beautiful I believe she's a
teacher. Okay, So I'm justgonna hand this to you. I can
get context clues, and I knowbasic shapes, okay, and this,
this writing is is pretty easy.So here you go. Here's your first
letter from from a viewer on TikTokNo, Okay, this is stressing me

(04:03):
out already. I'm just looking atit and I'm not having a fun time.
It's like a secret code we have. This is so fun. Do
they are they? Do they haveto be able to? Do you guys
have do they have to see it? I can take a picture of it
and put it where my face goes. Okay, so you go ahead,
miss telissas Molly. I can readthat one. Okay, dear Telissa,

(04:28):
my name. Oh and this isall separated. This isn't all connected.
I can read this. Wait,what do you mean by all connected?
This? This? I can readthis. What do you mean by all
connected? It's not all connected,It's not What do you mean by that?
There's spaces? Well, there's spacesin all cursive. I thought it
was all connected. Each word isconnected to itself, but each word has

(04:53):
spaces in between. Did you thinkyou think cursive everything is just connected.
The whole letter is connected to Lissa. They didn't teach me cursive. I
don't know no cursive. You onlyconnect it for that word and then you
pick up the pen and then theyall are going to have spaces. Yes,
oh the word. The letter justlooks like like regular. Yeah.

(05:15):
My name is Stacy, and Ivery much enjoy watching your daughter issues videos
on Instagram. You feel like youjust learned to read. Yeah, a
little bit. She is nineteen yearsold old on Let's just be clear about
something. She They skipped her.She skipped eleventh grade because her grades were

(05:38):
so high. Te Lissa is avery smart person. A lot of people
watch these videos and go, go, she's so dumb. She didn't grow
up in the nineties, you jackass. He's not dumb. There's some stuff
she didn't have exposure to. Somestuff she did. I'm sure each and
every person who makes that comment Icould bring on this show and show them
something they've never seen before. Soyou're not special. She's incredibly smart.
And they actually skipped Telissa skipped eleventhgrade. They came to her, they

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were like, you've already got enoughcredits. You were going to skip eleventh
grade, and a lot of peoplecould make the argument that your junior year
in high school is probably one ofthe hardest years of all twelve years that
you're ever going to take. Andshe skipped it because her grades were so
good. She literally went from tenthgrade to being a senior. So I
did graduated early at you just turnedseventeen? Or did you graduate at sixteen?

(06:24):
I think I originally gonna graduate atsixteen. It was going to graduate
six but then we went on theroad and then went I took you on
the road, So you're not graduatingat seventeen, but you could have graduated
sixteen if we just stayed home.Yeah, so that's the deal. She's
smart, she can read. Ipromise you her last what five years of
school was all online, so youhad to read your own lessons. You

(06:47):
had to I mean of the timeI was my own teacher. I had
to do a lot of that.But I will say guidance, but I
would say this, it skipping yourgrade. And I don't think would be
as like whoe, like crazy ifmore kids were doing online school. And
don't get me wrong, online schoolis it for everybody, but it is

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tremendously a lot less stressful than publicschool, So I feel like I was
able to even put my brain towardsthings that most kids aren't able to.
So when they think you skipped agrade and it's like, whoa, how
did you like, it's not Iwas. I didn't. I didn't have
to raise my hand to go pee, like you know what I mean.
So I feel like lucky in thoseways. But I skipped a grade,
yes, but you know, Ijust feel And to be clear, when

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we say she skipped a grade,what actually happened was you did so much
so fast in your tenth grade yearthat they gave you extra courses that were
also your eleventh grade credits, andso you still did the work. You
just kind of did everything in yourtenth grade year that you would have done

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in tenth and eleventh, so younever had to officially register as a junior.
I remember doing my jama tree andmy entire years of geometry and like
a month. Oh yeah, itwas easy. So when people comment,
god, she's so dumb, I'mlike, you have no idea the brain
in this strange little human. Allright, come on, knock it out.

(08:16):
But I'm really bad at math,Yeah, really bad. I would
have fourteen letters. So we're eightminutes already. I'm talking to my scrits.
You need to be patient with nopatience. Yes, it's going to
be a six hour podcast if wekeep going at this. Do you have
a leak? Do you have aleak? Because that's the only time you
should make that sound to your father, a leak. I was talking to

(08:43):
my friends. Yeah, are youleaking? What does that mean? Why
are you going? I don't getit, like a tire leaking air?
When do you think leak? Ithink liquid. I don't think you could
say leak for air. So aboutthat smart thing that's like, that's different.
You can have a leak in yourtire. Yes, that doesn't sound

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so we could leak air. Ithought leak was liquid. What would you
call it? If you had blownup a little kiddie pool for the dogs
to play in, and it hada pin hole in it, it was
going you say, there's a leakin the pool. No, I would
say the pool popped, but it'snot. It hasn't popped, It just
has a leak. Pop would beover. It's deflating. The pool is

(09:26):
deflating because because it's got a leak. In it. I don't know about
that one cheef all right, right. My name is Stacy, and I
very much enjoy watching your daughter's shoesvideos on Instagram. I I commend your

(09:50):
right father. That's an F.So you're kind of learning cursive by reading
this, So the harder one's gonnabe easier for you. Now, maybe
I should have started and harder,father, David, for exposing you to
so much history and banding your mindas a teacher with two daughters of my

(10:11):
own. Yeah, she is ateacher, ages twenty and seventeen. Hi,
my ages. I appreciate the challenges. Challenges a to two circles griubled
next to each other trying to illustratehelp Lucy, Lucy challenges. What can

(10:35):
I see it? I don't know. It's such a small word and I
just can't. I don't know.It's the word of Oh, that's the
same F. Yes, it's oF of the same F. Yeah.

(11:01):
Oh I read that earlier too.Oh oh, ob is what it looks
like? It's o F. Yeah, but it looks like OB. Okay,
daughters of mine? Okay, sowhen I okay, that's interesting because
whenever I use when I am ableto use the context clues. I can
just skim over it and say,of when I don't have as many context
clues and I have to look atit, I don't know what it is,
okay, trying to illustrate how muchsociety has changed since I was a

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teen. She's doing pretty good.Your father requested that people write to you
to present you with the challenge,and that is my purpose for writing to
you. You know, it's funny. I'm not checking this. She could
just be making this all up.My proposal is that you attempt to make
a recording of your favorite I likethe cute little arrow that she did.

(11:46):
I like that. That's pretty common. We used to do that. She's
kind of showing you how we wroteletters to each other. I know this
is how we communicated. I didarrows. Why did you just make that
face? That's a little crazy,because I did arrows to be like,
look at my artwork, but there'smore on the back. That's what I
did arrows for. Oh wait,no, that I was finishing a sentence,
don't interrupt me. Is that youattempt to make a recording of your

(12:09):
favorite song so that you can listento it anytime obviously, modern technology oh
allows, Okay, that sounds aboutright. Allow allows you to German Shepherd
fase dial up anything dial up anyis that right? Yeah, it's a

(12:35):
term to dial up. Anything youneed is to just like anything you like
on YouTube or Spotify. However,your father and I did not have these
options when we were young, iscorrect. What we had was a cassette
recorder, a live radio station,make an upside down f and the necessity

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of timing. Basically, we hadto time it just right in order to
record our songs on the radio.We had to do it through a cassette
player. Remember how you noticed theother day that the tape player had a
record button on it. Yeah,she wrote this obviously before that episode,
so she doesn't know that you nowhave access to one, But yeah,

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we can. We could try thatobviously. Also, changes are slim that
you have access to a cassette recorder, So you will I saw it coming.
You will frame frame this challenge,Frame this challenge with the corvette caveat.

(13:48):
Thank you, Stacy. I cantell you're smart. You're intentionally writing
challenging words for her to have tofigure out that that's an a let me
see it looks like c a.Oh, the pen, the pen,
the pen, the pen ran out. Wait a minute, let me let

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me go back, give me asecond. She's a teacher. She would
want me to figure it out withwait, no, hold on, hold
on recorders. So you will framethis challenge with the with the caveat that
one caveat? Did I say that? Right? Caveat that? You may
use your cell phone to make therecording. Otherwise, here are your parameters.

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She's giving you an assignment. Ohoh, oh, I see one.
Choose a song you would like torecord to tune it to a live
radio station that is likely to playthe song. Three, listen until you
hear the song. Four, recordthe song. Five try not to capture
a recording of the DJ talking overthe start or end of the song.

(14:56):
Good luck, sincerely, Stacy,Stacy, that's great. I gotta say,
oh, we had to do it. I gotta say, my comprehension
of understanding what I'm reading is verylow. I don't know what just happened.
So you said the words, butyou're exactly I said the words,
but I'm well, congratulations, youread ninety nine percent of that spot on,

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so you killed it. Yeah,I think I should have started with
the harder ones and then worked youtoward this in the end, maybe because
now that's going to teach you whatthe letter with some of the letters look
like. But what she's basically givingyou assignment. She wants you to take
a blank You know how I toldyou about blank CDs and blank DVDs.
Yeah, you can buy blank cassettetapes and put them in the tape recorder,

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turn the radio on to like yourfavorite hip hop station, and then
hit record and trying to get yourfavorite song recorded. And that's how you
would make that tape. And thenyou would use a dual cassette recorder.
God, I feel like I'm anythingstuff from the Stone Ages. You would

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then use a dual cassette recorder onceyou had the raw portion of that song.
The reason we use the you don'teven know what you're talking about anymore,
dual cassette. How can it recordif it's not that You notice that
the tape player you have in therehas two tape decks, deck A and
deck B. Yeah, so youwould which everyone has record on it?

(16:23):
I think it was deck A hasthe extra button. It's got record.
Remember there's a moment of you goingit can record. Yeah, yeah,
that moment was when you realize therewas a record button. So what you
do is you put a tape inthere, you turn the radio on.
You hit radio on the same boxor no, same bogs, Okay,

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you hit record and it listens.It listens and records what's coming through the
speakers onto the tape. That doesn'tmake any sense. It's recording on the
tape was already in there when youput it in the deck. The tape
was blank, had nothing on it. It's like a magic trick. It's
like put it in, it's gone, yep, here it is. It's
different now, No, it's that'sdoesn't make any sense. There's it's different.

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Now. That's the point. Thetape exists, but there's nothing on
it. There's no there's no datawritten on the tape. It's just what
rights the vinyl has a little right, So what does the tape have?
Okay, that's an engineering question.I don't think anybody knows that. I
don't know how it actually records itonto the physical tape. That's almost more

(17:33):
mind boggling to me than the technology. I know what technology is, absolutely
yeah, but for me, it'slike, okay, it's coding. It's
it's you know, ones and zeros. Right. The computers are easier to
understand as opposed to the analog tapebeing it's a magic trick. It gets
written onto a tape and then yourewind that ribbon. That's even a thing.
I don't understand. That's where you'relosing me completely. You're like,

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it just records, it listens,it is ai no, okay. So
then once you have that tape,once you have that song, the DJ
will be like all right up nextto as the music's playing right, and
then he would always stop talking rightwhen the beat dropped. So what you

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then have to do is take thatversion of it, put that in deck
B, hit play, and thentry to time it right to record right
when he stopped talking, so thatall you got was the beginning of the
song with the beat drop. Andthen that was a mixtape because you could
get a bunch of songs together thatwere just the songs that you wanted without

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the DJ talking, and then youhad a mixtape. It took months to
get it right. You read foryour next letter, yep, okay,
there's too much, too much toprocess. The next one, by the
way, thank you, Stacy,Thank you so much, Stacy. And

(18:59):
yes, we're gonna do that.We're gonna try to get to listen to
record on the tape player. I'mgonna try. The keyword is try and
tell your daughters. I said,hi, all right. Next up is
manual all the way from Burbank.You already looked at this one. Oh,
this is a thick paper. Whatwhat is that? What is this?

(19:36):
Let me see, I'll explain it. Yeah, it's a. It's
a. It's the alphabet. Ifeel like this should be in a museum.
Hello, Telissa, I saw theseshort videos you posted where your father

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asked people to handwrite incursive a startstart letter. What is that? Probably
short? No, that's not aletter, A short letter that wait,

(20:22):
yeah, incursive a short letter.But what is that? What the hell
is that? Let me see?That's not let me see it. It
looks like the word or no it'snot it's the word, or oh,
or that's or that. Look Iwould I would be trying to get it

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off the page or post rear end. What is that? At least say
it? Give me the paper.I can't see it from as I saw
the short video you posted where yourfather asked people to handwrite in cursive a

(21:08):
short letter or postcard card. Sohere's my version. You need glasses,
Yeah, I need to make itunscribbly. This is a This is more
of one of the more scribble.I'm also I'm not fully diagnosed, but

(21:29):
pretty sure as a little bit ofdyslexia in there. So this curl cursive
thing is is a lot for meto look at because when I look at
this page, I just see likea bunch of lines in a bunch of
circles, and it is so overwheling. It's cool looking. It's cool looking
like the uh Declaration of Independence.Know, this looks like it should be
in a museum with dust on it, and it should be coffee. He

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probably going to explain the attachment,by the way, oh short letter,
post hard short let or over there. No, it's not postcard. So
here is my version. Did heokay? You may have noticed that the

(22:12):
ink gets Oh did he write this? Did he write this? I was
going to ask ask this. Theink is very inconsistent. The ink gets
lighter in color. That's to say, or she's learning how to read ancient

(22:33):
or ieroglyphs from the gen X boomerphrase, or I write, then this
is devolving suddenly darkens again. Idon't think you got all those words right,
No, I got it. Ithink you missed some stuff. Lice
is because this this, this isbecause I am using am and and why

(23:08):
what is that? And ink?It took so long for are I was
waiting. I was waiting for acomplicated or some long ass word. It
was ink. Do you know thatmeme where it's like a bunch of math

(23:29):
happening in division. You know howmany times I've looked for that to overlay
over your face in these clips.I can't find the overlay you. I've
tried to find it. That's meevery day. Okay, hold on in,
hold on, I can use it. Oh ink? Well wow,

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wait a minute. This is becauseI am using an ink well and dip
pen. He's literally being the pininto ink like they do for tattoos and
writing on it. That is socool. I've never even read a letter
like that. That's why the paperis thicker. Yeah, hold the ink.
That makes sense. It was theway people used to write for centuries

(24:15):
before pins were designed to have prefilled tubes. And you know there's no
backspace something ink in them like no, no, no, no, no
no no pre filled what pre filledtubes with of ink and them? Oh

(24:37):
of hey you recognized of Yeah,well people write their f's differently, we
did, we do? Yeah,absolutely, well that's why, like my
hand writer looks different from my people's, so I guess curse that makes it
difficult. Like a ballpoint pen,the ink well is respectably what is that

(25:07):
is actually a small gin pen.That's not a pe. Let me see,
let me see just hit when youhitting back to me, give me
my space back because you're gonna losemy spot. It was the way people

(25:30):
used to write for centuries. Youdidn't say that before pins were designed to
have pre filled tubes of ink inthem, like a ballpoint pin. The
ink will is actually yes, no, I continue, actually oh it actually

(25:51):
a small jar filled with ink jarthe jar usually I can read the secret
code. It doesn't bother me.But yeah, are that's what I was
pointing at. That looked like pento me, but I was like,
that's not that's not doesn't cheap littlesmall Look at the R very closely,
yeah, and then look at theoar at the top o R. Yeah.

(26:12):
Do you see how the R looksat the end. You need to
get used to seeing that. Thelittle the little. It's an R.
It's a lowercase R filled with thejar is usually being made of glass and
something clay or ceramic. Okay.And the tip of the pen the nib,

(26:47):
the nib, the nib, nibthe nib, the nib nibbles.
I promise that's what it says.Let me see it. I want to
see if it says nib nibbles thenib nibbles. Give me the entheses he's
trying to tell us it does.Oh wait, hold on. Oh And

(27:07):
the tip of the pen the nib, yeah, n I B and then
he put it in caps n IB is then dipped into the well.
Okay, maybe it's called he doesn't. It doesn't say nib nibbles. It
says nib is. The nib isdipped, nibbles, The nib is dipped,

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then then off. Then this wasa great idea. Then thank you
so much for sending this dipped intothe well. We collect a small bit
of ink. When when will lastwhat of a slat? Hold on?

(27:53):
Period? Nope, when will lastof a slat? That's not a thing.
When Yeah, it's hard to findmy place again because it just goes
yep. I feel like I'm lookingat a bunch of zebra's running right now.
You can see that. Okay,collect a small bit of ink which

(28:14):
will last for a short period.Here we go, Which will last that
period depends on the size of thenib and how then a sord bent the
pages. I'm impressed, Then thesoup Stacy ink wells. Then time out

(28:47):
flag on the play think it saysstay. Then then the period depends on
the size of the nib, thenthe and how absorbent the page is?
I said that already, this guy. No, Then it says there are

(29:12):
many styles of inkuells, many ofwhich are quite beautiful. What are you
talking, soup Stacy? Then thewait what you back? Hold on,
I'm trying to figure out. Yougotta give me a second to figure out
where I was. Then the soups, the stoop, the soups staples right

(29:40):
there? Then the what Telissa pointto this? Where where I sup staples?
Then the soup state staples. Thereare many styles. Maybe where is

(30:03):
soup? You said? Then thatis there are many styles the staples You
think that's the that's a r E. That's ur There are many styles.

(30:26):
Well, it's scripply, so itlooked like I thought I saw it maybe
or many styles. There are manystyles of of ink wells. She was
excited. She got many, many, many of which are quite beautiful.
I remember you said that. Idid just do a Google Google search to

(30:51):
see them. Do you guys noticewhen she reads cursive her nostrils flair like
this? Do I am I flaringthem? Am I fling? Yeah?
It's helping you to these these madeit in the eighteen hundreds are the prettiest
in my opinion, As you cansee, where are one makes a mistake

(31:11):
with this? Where? Not?Where are? Where? Where one makes
a mistake with this kind of pen? You either deer, probably not dear.
You either draw draw a like linelike oh, draw a line,

(31:45):
thought it through? I almost gotthat one. That one was good.
Draw line through it? Oh yeah, missage, draw line through it,
or get another piece of paper andstart over again. Okay, I hope

(32:07):
that you made it through this letterI purposely wrote, purposely, wrote it
quickly and not in my probably besthandwriting, best Pennsylvania pensmanship. He didn't
write it in his best Pennsylvania andhis best. Pensmanship means handwriting in my

(32:32):
best Tlisa Telosa, hold on,Calssa, wait a minute up here,
I oh, I try to read. Okay, hold on, Melissa,
just look at your friend best.Hey, sweetheart, Hey, there's no
m in there. He deal thatpensmanship means handwriting. No, I didn't.

(32:52):
Okay, pensmanship just means how goodyour handwriting is. Okay, I
have horrible pensmanship. You too,My pensmanship is not good, right,
best pensmanship. That doesn't say that. I'm just saying, you know,
I see yep. Pensmanship No,no, yep. It definitely does to

(33:15):
make it a bit more challenging foryou. Taken't take a breather for the
next paragraph. I hear that youand your father enjoy the paint out,
I decide, I did of ahardware store groceries. Nope, that's not

(33:43):
what that says. I hear thatyou and your father enjoy the paint shake
the paper paint out. I did. It's just the second paragraph. I
hope that you and your father enjoythe print out. Oh I did.

(34:07):
Okay, Okay, it's my turn. I did of That's why I have
to do that one. He saidanother. Oh, oh, that's the
print out. I see. Thecomprehension is really to get to this eventually.
Did of a hardware store, Ohwow, this is cool. Graces

(34:34):
from eighteen seventy two, hardware storegraces, he said, this is from
eighteen seventy two. I think so, oh, eighteen seventy two to eighteen
seventy six, the graces the Melissatry again, freaking no, man,

(34:55):
enjoy the print out. Okay,that makes sense, unt I did of
a hardware store graces. I don'tthink that's what it says. Faces.

(35:15):
Give me the bapaces, give methe paper. You're saying hard Okay.
I hope that you and your fatherenjoyed the print out I did of a
hardware store. I don't know whatthat word is. Hardware store, grocer,

(35:38):
Oh, groceries. Yeah, hardwarestore slash grocer from eighteen seventy two
to eighteen seventy slash in there.I thought that was yeah, no,
the slashes between store and grocer.Oh, so it's it's kind of like
the market where they kind of sellsome stuff. Oh, we said eighteen
seventy two. She's yawning. Yep, The original page is what I sent

(36:02):
you, showing that someone in thestore used it as a lesson for how
to write both clipper and lower Oh, upper and lower case. I see
that was purely context clused. Yeah. If I just keep going, I

(36:23):
can. I'll figure it out bothupper and lower case letters as well.
As you're doing really well. Numbers, Yeah, the numbers even look different.
Numbers says numbers. Take God,this is so cool. Care of

(36:44):
you, Oh, take care ofyour dad. It seems like you two
have a good relationship, which alot of people don't have with them their
parents until everyone is much older.Signed manual, manual. Yeah, Manuel

(37:08):
J. Thank you for writing.Wow, it took twenty minutes to reach
O. We got through it.You did good. I'm actually surprised.
I'm trying. There's the print outfrom the hardware store. This is real
handwriting. Yes, I mean it'sa copy obviously, but look how cool

(37:30):
that is. Those are capital lettersin cursive. Their letters are bigger.
Well, it is because everybody wasold back they wrote everybody was not old
back then. To Liza, theyjust wrote them large for practice. Oh
oh yeah, you're right, Iwrote large for practice. Yeah old?
Is that an E. Let mesee, so that's a D and that's

(37:58):
E E E E. Those areall capital e's. It was like threes,
that's that'd be backwards. Those arethree. We need to listen.
We'll take her to a doctor.I did online school. I can type
my letters. Okay, all right, this episode's getting along, Daniel,

(38:22):
Birth of Judgment. I don't thinkany of those are right. You know
what we may end up doing,guys, we may end up just like
reading one of these per episode forthe next few episodes, because there are
so many. I want to pickone on more. Hold on. These

(38:44):
guys out on the street are doinga lot of motorcycle sounds, and I'm
wondering if our people I can hearit. Maybe, but I don't think
they mind as much. Can Ipick one? I had another one set
aside. I don't know where youhad another one? Yeah, I picked
one. I like reading these lettersfrom you, guys. It's actually cool.

(39:23):
I mean, like I said,the comprehension rate is a little slow.
You're actually getting it. You're doinggreat. I feel like there's gonna
be a couple of funny moments thatI get to clip out of you being
like, what the hell. Butfor the most part you're crushing it well.
And I feel like though for me, even in that, I'm still
taking it from a perspective of moreof just how it looks visually versus actually

(39:46):
going, Okay, this is thatletter? What all right? I haven't
opened this one? This is holdon. So this is actually how a
lot of people communicate. They wouldliterally male letters to one another. And
you used to have you used tohave to pay for the letter when you

(40:06):
received it. And so the inventor, the postman for what they would show
up with a letter and be like, you need you need to pay for
this. This person mailed this toyou from South Korea. And you'd be
like, I don't have a nickel, and they're like, let her stays
with me, nicol whatever it was, Yeah, penny, probably three cents

(40:29):
to give to the postman for himto put in his pocket, yep,
and if well, to give ultimatelyback to the post office. But if
you didn't have it, you justdidn't get your letter that tax eventually,
can I get to it? Soeventual to someone I forget who it was
right now. Someone saw this happen. They saw a woman I think her
husband was overseas and at war andwrote her a letter. At least this

(40:51):
is the folklore I heard wrote hera letter, sent it to her.
She was so excited to get it, but she didn't have the like three
pennies to pay for it. Sothe postman took it back and he was
like, never again, I'm goingto create stamps so that the person who
sends the letter pays for it,so that the person who receives it never
has to pay. Well, thatwould that doesn't make sense. You don't
have it right, And the personwho invented that was obviously brilliant and a

(41:14):
wonderful person. Well the person whoput the other one in place doesn't seem
too bright. Okay, So anyway, why because that that just sounds like
a way to rip people for theirmoney. Like if I send you a
thousand letters from different people and orderfor you to yeah, like what,
that's crazy? Well, I mean, listen, if you're the kind of

(41:35):
asshole it's going to just sit thereand pay for one thousand letters, I'd
be like, give me two andI'll I'll read those and get the gista.
All right, So can you openthat in camera? I want to
see people I want people to seeyou deal with this. Why is this
so hard to ok I've never hadto deal with how this glue is like

(41:58):
cakey Jesus. The revving outside isjust are they fix some stuff? Probably?
No? No, Maybe I betterrip this envelope in half. Well,
don't destroy anything on the inside.Who's it from? Doesn't say?

(42:23):
Okay? Enjoy? Oh isn't itfun? It's like a little Christmas.
This is like a Christmas hmm.You gotta read the letter to find out

(42:46):
what it is. No, becauseI before I before I get into it,
I've been doing a lot of researchon coin specifically, and I've been
checking because we do laundry at alaundry mat and we get quarters back,
and I check every single before weuse it, just to make sure it's
not like from you know, somewhereyou know, or have like a crazy
mistake on it. So it's crazythat these came up because I've been that's

(43:07):
so cool. I've been. Youknow, my dad gave me a lot
of buffalo nickels, like Indian headbuffalo nikels, and I saved them forever,
like it was a part of mylife for thirty five forty years.
And I just went looking for themand I can't find them. I don't
know what the hell happened to themor how they got lost in translation upon
moving. That's a problem. They'rejust gone. Will you stop snorting into

(43:30):
the microphone with science infection? AndI can't get up the way, I'd
be like, I know, butI got to edit that out otherwise people
are gonna be gross down. Wouldyou have me stand up and walk away?
Yeah? Really? Yeah? Don'tyou have to edit that out anyway?
Yeah? Okay, just read theday all right? And this one's

(43:50):
roughly short. I must admit y'allare one of my absolute favorite, No,
you're my favorite. Every time thatyou pop up on my feed,
I have to watch. The technologygap between our generation and the younger is

(44:16):
so vast. The thought of tryingto back so fast, back so fast,
The thought of trying to raise kidstoday can be mid numbering luckily no

(44:40):
no, no, no back backup one can be what today can be
a say overwhelming no be why isthere even a dot there that's not an
eye? Hold on? Can Isee it? Might be an I I
don't know, Oh, this isactually pretty clean. I know it's gonna

(45:07):
be a bit. Oh what,there's a dot? There is an eye
there as an I. Yeah,what do you think the first letter R?
There's an R in there? Whatdo you think the first letter is?
I don't know. I don't knowif he was just putting a fancy
spin on it or if that wasa letter. Can be a bit unnerving.

(45:28):
How is that a B? Whereis there a B? I didn't
say what? Oh and bit?Yeah? Yeah, B? I looks
like L and then all, yeah, so the L is like this,
and the B is exactly like anL with a little scoop on it.
I thought THEE was a part ofthe middle piece, which was the R.
Nope, that's an eye that sticksoff and eyes and ours look a

(45:49):
lot alike in lowercase when they comeoff of B. I see why they
stopped teaching it. Yeah, Iget that, I do too. Okay,
today can be a bit would yousay it was unnerving? Unnerving?
Luckily, the words that you guysused on purpose of you have shown every
way back up. Luckily, thetwo of you have shown everyone how fun

(46:19):
and entertaining it can be to teachthe younger generations. Sorry about everything being
too crooked. Oh my god,No, you're fine. That's not my
biggest challenge right now. I haven'thad wouldn't even noticed I promise to bay
lined paper in years. I don'tthink that's what it says. Can we

(46:44):
can we brun that back. Ihaven't had to lay fine lay lined paper,
and I haven't had to something something. Uh sure, I'm entertaining you

(47:05):
can be to teach the younger generationstory about everything being so crooked. Why
are you laughing? Just tell meI haven't had to buy No, it's
not it's literally not had to buylined paper in years. Okay, he's

(47:30):
explaining why there are no lines onthe paper. I haven't had to buy
lined paper in years. So hewrote it on a regular printer sheet.
Sincerely, shop monkey, shop monkey? Is that? I think that's what
I said. I might say that. Let me see it. It says
shot monkey, it says Jonathan.No, it doesn't shop monkey. Okay,

(47:58):
don't give it to me. Okay, I want to see the quarters.
Okay, quarters tokens of the past, the big one, big ones
actually from Santa Maria, not Sacramento. Wow, okay, so these are
mine? Right, sure? Iwant these send them to you. I'm

(48:21):
gonna take this one with me.Hold on, let me let me see
that. I want to see thecoins. Actually really cool that nineteen forty
three penny. It is really cool. I love coins like that. I
love old coins. Thirty three fortythree. This is forty three. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah, let mesee. Wow, that is really cool.

(48:42):
Thank you shop monkey. Um yeah, forty three. All right,
I'll let you pick one more.Guys. First of all, I want
to tell everybody thank you so muchfor sending them in. We got so
many it's impossible to read them allin one episode, but we will be
reading these on on future episodes,one at a time. So tune in

(49:06):
to have your letter read. Andshe's gonna be getting better at reading cursive
as this goes to listen. Okay, you get to pick which one you
want. Just don't don't don't showthe addresses to the don't look because I
don't want people to see the don'tlook. Are you gonna slowly go through

(49:29):
each one? No, I'm gonnasee which one's vibes I'm gonna grab.
Although I like all these vibes,but I think I'm gonna go hold on.
This one isn't even is this justa regular letter. What do you
mean they're all regular letters? Whatare you talking about? No? Hold

(49:52):
on, you know what. I'mgonna do this one just because it's it's
yellow and seems out of place rightnow. The the other ones we will
we will do. They're all goingto be read on the show. So
if you didn't hear yours today,yours will be coming on a future episode
because I'll randomly pull these out andhave to Lissa read them. We've got

(50:16):
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve. More So be watching for those
on future episodes of Daughter Issues.Who was the winner? Who's the what's
the name of the person that you'reabout to read this from? I thought
it was No, it's not onthe front. No it doesn't. I
think it does. It doesn't.I'm pretty sure it does. It doesn't.

(50:42):
It's up the top that you justripped. No, it's not where
are they from? Or no?No, no, their name williams.
Okay, I'll get to the bottomof that. Just don't show the front
of that to the camera. Youdon't show the front of it. I
don't have to blur out someone's addressor something, can I? Yeah,

(51:05):
go ahead. Oh you're right,it just says Williams. Yeah, see
from Columbus, Ohio. I skippedeleventh green. Oh my gosh, this
just gave me like a horrible flashback, because oh my god, I don't
know why she gave me a horriblefla flashback. These types of papers and

(51:27):
exactly this amount and cursive, ifyou remember, they would send me home
with notes. Sometimes my teachers theywould look exactly like this. They'd be
this size, we're bad in school, yeah, or would need like extra
tutoring, and I'd be like,like, for math, it was normal
math normally. What they said wasMelissa spent most of her time drawing dolphins
and puppies, and she wrote lotsof she had lots of beautiful stars,

(51:51):
but she only did one math problemout of the forties. So if you
could have her do this and justbring it back in the morning, Math
would appreciate it. Math was abig ish and I'd be like Melissa,
but this is what they would looklike they'd made they try to make it
look pretty with flowers and be likecursive. It'd be like Celosa is doing
horrible and like you can't do that, and the same thing. All right,
So you're like, this is sketchy. What am I in trouble before

(52:12):
this time? Yeah? But thisis a pretty pretty paper. Dear Telissa,
I enjoy almost at windows that saysvideos. Okay, dear dear Telissa,
I enjoy the videos you and yourdad posted. TikTok. You are
almost an ouch. You are sucha good reader, good sport, such

(52:42):
a good apricot to put up withhis it's probably sport. You're probably such
a good sport apricot. I couldsee that sport to put up with his
shenanigans. How can I read shenanigans? I'm not sports. I think you
would navigate life very well. Ifyou were transported. Wow, that took

(53:22):
me a minute. That took me, and that took me a second.
If you were transported back in timeto where your dad was about your age.
Keep up the good work. Sincerely, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa Lisa
Williams l I s A you tellme those are the right letters? I

(53:44):
don't know. Yeah, okay,Oh wait, pretty handwriting, by the
way, Oh so pretty. Itlooks like someone printed this out on a
computer. Well, that's why itgave me that like that, that traumas.
Looks like teach your handwriting too gorgeous. Oh, this is such a
fun exercise. Is that really fun? It's so sweet. It's actually really

(54:05):
cool to me. It's so muchbetter to actually open a real letter that
someone put their hands on and physicallywrote out than just like seeing a comment
on TikTok or whatever when they alreadyhad their phone in their in And it's
also just so much work to sitdown write the date. This was from
August nineteenth, twenty twenty three.Wow, we asked for this way back
in August and we're just now gettingto it at the end of September.

(54:29):
So I apologize for the delay.But yeah, that August ninth was written.
Men doing math right now? It'sonly one month? Oh yeah,
you said we said back in August. Made it well, because it's well,
it's almost the end of September andthis was written in August nineteenth.
I'm saying back in August instead ofit wasn't written this month? Where is
it from? Like? What?While? Oh is it? Does?

(54:52):
It take a long time to gethere from a few days? Oh usually
three to five days? Oh okay, Well, I mean we've been filming
so much content, and there's sometimesit's out of order, but we're getting
to them and I think, likewhat you said, will probably just read
one or two of them in anepisode or yeah, that sounds like fun.
And if you have anything you wantto send, if you want to

(55:13):
write a letter, or if youwant to send us things for to lista
to explore. Some people have talkedabout sending in ancient artifacts from your past,
meaning our childhood or even beyond,even older than that stuff I haven't
seen. We want to see itand we want to explore it together and
I want to show it to Telista. So if you have stuff that you
want to send us, you couldsend us to this address. The address

(55:37):
is you can address it to DaughterIssues, Daughter Podcast or David C.
Smalley or Telissa Smalley. The peopleat the peel Box they know. They
also subscribe and watch these videos andthey're wonderful people and they actually even come
to the comedy shows, so theyget it. So whatever you put on
there, they know who we are. The address is two six ninety nine

(56:00):
and a half. That's important.Twenty six ninety nine and a half Beachwood
Drive, number one forty eight wonderhow many letters we actually got Hollywood,
oh California, nine zero zero sixeight, one more time. It's twenty
six ninety nine and a half BeachwoodDrive, number one forty eight, Hollywood,

(56:23):
California, nine zero zero six eight. That is the location of our
It's not really a peel box.They do it to where it's a mailbox
so we don't have to put pobox in front of it. It's kind
of cool, but it's the sameconcept as a peelbox. So send it
there and I get an email wheneversomething arrives, and then I drive over

(56:43):
and pick them all up. Sothank you so much for sending this stuff.
It's so fun. If you wantto send more stuff, do it.
We would love to continue this conversationwith you. It's going to be
a blast. So this I'm reallyimpressed. You did pretty good. Thank
you. You did pretty good.There were some funny moments of stuff you
didn't get, but for the mostpart, you and your context clues got
it. And you know what,I think you're only going to get better

(57:04):
as these go. You're gonna bethese open and just flying through them with
their print. But you're gonna beone of the few people your age.
That can recursive true, And I'llsay that's another like I think brain thing
where if I continue reading, itgets easier. My brain just goes,
Okay, this is the filter thatwe're reading through. And then when you
take it for a second and Icome back, I'm like, I gotta
like readjust like lighting almost, youknow how like lights you kind of have

(57:28):
to like adjust to the lights withyour eyes. It's like when I'm reading
it, it can it will beeasy, and then I'll get to a
stopping point be like I don't knowwhat that is, but like giving it
to you. Then coming back,I'm like, what is even life anymore?
And then I have to like read. You know, it's hard,
but I think I will get betterabout that hopefully. But I mean I'm
down to learn. And if anything, it's good for your brain, it's

(57:49):
good. Sure, it's a goodbrain juice. And if there was an
entire society collapse and there's an apocalypseand somebody finds an old map the ancient
at times like nineteen eighty six,you'll have the skill set. I might
be able to decode it. You'llbe able to decode it. Hold on,
guys, that's an f that saysof says it says of and chinanigans.

(58:15):
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(58:58):
this one, No, you started, so I get to add it to
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