This is Our Lives on Holiday

Fresh off separate adventures—one in New York City, the other in Portugal—Norah and Dad reunite to swap stories that range from charming to mildly chaotic, with plenty of laughs along the way. Norah recounts her first solo travel experience navigating Manhattan, from museum hopping and jazz nights to biking through city traffic, while Dad shares tales of unexpected friendships, rooftop climbs, surf lessons (pending), and a surprisingly moving visit to a former political prison in Portugal. Alongside the travel highlights, they riff on everything from imaginary childhood weddings to bedbug paranoia to synchronized swimming, wrap up Norah’s college semester, and even squeeze in some pop culture takes.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey Nora.

SPEAKER_05 0:01

Hey Dad.

SPEAKER_00 0:03

What do you call a single Portuguese person?

SPEAKER_05 0:08

A single Portuguese person. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

A Portuguese.

SPEAKER_05 0:15

Oh. I like that. That one's really good.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

I'm talking about this week.

SPEAKER_05 0:22

We're gonna talk about our respective vacations.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Welcome back to the Nora and Dad Show. I am here with the freshly vacation Nora. It's been a little bit. It's been a few weeks. Yeah, I guess I'm I guess I'm freshly vacationed myself. You were in New York City and when I was in Portugal. So good times, good times for everyone before we jump into our vacations. What's new? What's happening? Anything exciting?

SPEAKER_05 1:06

Um this week's my last full week of class. Isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_00 1:11

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah. And so do you get ti do you get time off before exams?

SPEAKER_05 1:19

Like two days, three days. But like yeah, everything's wrapping up.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

And then Wow, and then when are you done?

SPEAKER_05 1:27

May well my last in-person exam is May 1st. At 7 30 p.m., that's a Friday. And then I was assuming I would pack that Saturday. Yeah, I would pack that Saturday, and then you guys could help me move out that Sunday. And then Okay. I'll have an exam on the 5th. Online exam, which I think that's a Wednesday. I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

And you can do that from home.

SPEAKER_05 1:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Do you have info yet on when you're gonna start working for the summer?

SPEAKER_05 2:03

I told them I could start May 11th.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

May 11th. Right on.

SPEAKER_05 2:10

I think is the date I gave them.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

I'll follow up, but so two weeks from now, you'll be home.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Wait, does that mean this is our last podcast of the of the of the season?

SPEAKER_05 2:23

I was thinking maybe we'd have one more one time.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Okay, we can do one more once I'm home. Once you're homebound?

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

So one more, and then after that, the next one will be in the fall in France. That's crazy. Mont Francais, does that mean enough to speak French? Can I just go ho ho ho and just do that for a half an hour?

SPEAKER_05 2:46

No, you may not.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

I may not. Okay. Okay. So let's talk, uh let's talk Manhattan. First of all, why would you Manhattan?

SPEAKER_05 2:57

Is that where I was? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Manhattan. New new So New York's Jesus. New York City has five boroughs, right?

SPEAKER_04 3:04

Yes, yes, I know that. I know that. We kind of we went to the city.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

That's the one where like Central Park and Times Square is.

SPEAKER_05 3:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Yeah. And there's Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

SPEAKER_05 3:15

Yeah. Did we go so you were in Brooklyn? I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

He's gonna listen to this and I was following your movements around New York City. So you're tracking. I'm not exactly sure what I what Barrows are. I was curious where you were. I want to make sure you're safe. I don't I don't know this boy, so I need to make sure you're safe.

SPEAKER_05 3:40

You could know him.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

If I see that you're like all of a sudden like in a landfill somewhere, I want to be able to call the police and be very smart if the phone in a landfill. Now she's and now she's in a landfill. And can you please, this is her location, can you go please go make sure there's not a body there? Um being a I'm being a concerned, responsible parent.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

I see that. Well, I made it back in one piece.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

You did. I can I can see that. Although these days I could be talking to AI. I really don't know. Oh, I'm real, I promise.

SPEAKER_05 4:15

Ask me a question, only Nora would know.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Might not exist at all.

SPEAKER_05 4:18

What's a question only Nora would know?

SPEAKER_00 4:21

What's a question only Nora would know? Who was your who was your imaginary boyfriend when you were like three years old?

SPEAKER_05 4:30

Peter Pan.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Okay, it must be you.

SPEAKER_05 4:34

Boom.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Did we ever um have we ever talked about that on the podcast? Would like would like the internet know that Peter Pan was your imaginary boyfriend?

SPEAKER_05 4:42

I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

We have Did we ever talk about how you had an actual like wedding in in your grandparents' backyard where you got imaginarily married to yeah, you got imaginarily married to Peter Pan?

SPEAKER_05 4:56

Yeah, you guys really let me really de dive deep into that that play. It's good for social emotional.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

Kathleen was the I think I think Aunt Kathleen was the minister, if I remember correctly. Did she know?

SPEAKER_05 5:10

Wasn't it Uncle Mike's birthday too? It was someone's birthday, and I thought that the party was for my wedding, but that's not why we were all like grandma. There was another reason.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

Why? Because why why why wouldn't the party have been for your wedding?

SPEAKER_05 5:27

Well, so Eli and I went to the Museum of Moving Pictures, right? So and they had this whole History and Muppets exhibit, and I was so excited to see Elmo.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

I'm so jealous. Imo was my first my first crush. That you saw the Jim Henson exhibit. I really hope that comes to Cleveland. I'd be all over that, like a fly on hunting.

SPEAKER_05 5:51

It was really cool. It was really cool. And tickets weren't that, I think so. It was$12 a ticket. Just in terrible.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

So the puppets were just like like behind in like glass, like glass cage, like behind glass.

unknown 6:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:06

But then there was like stations where you could make your own. I don't there was like pictures and props and stuff, but not like actual sets.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:15

Now there is a station where you could make your own Muppet, and then there was a station where you could be a puppeteer. So me and you and I made a video together with our with our Muppets.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

And it wasn't just Sesame Story, it was like Muppets in general. So they had like Miss Picky and Fozzie Bear and then Kermit and then like Cookie Monster. And you said you said no Grover.

SPEAKER_05 6:35

No Grover. They were selling Grover in the gift shop, but no Grover that I saw.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Oh, so Grover's good enough to sell, but not enough to put on display. I see how it is. Grover was my favorite. I had a stuffed Grover when I was a little boy, and then I got head lice, and Grover, Grandma and Grandpa had to throw Grover out because they were afraid. I came home with the dreaded note from the nurse at school that your son has head lice. That's terrible.

SPEAKER_05 7:03

I never, me and Donovan never got that.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

So Grover, Grover had to meet an untimely demise.

SPEAKER_05 7:12

You guys made me do that in Portugal with my neck pillow, my travel pillow after the bed bugs.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Yeah, because you had bed, because you had bed bugs.

SPEAKER_05 7:22

I was really upset.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

I flipped the heck out of my bed in the Airbnb in Portugal to make sure I didn't have any bed bugs. There were no bed bugs.

SPEAKER_05 7:30

Yeah, I've been very cautious. Well, because now I just like now that I know it's a possibility, like I knew bed bugs were real, but I had never encountered them before. So I was like, oh, maybe it's like quicksands, like where you hear about it, but you never have to deal with it. But now every single time there's like a speck of something on my sheets, I have to make sure it's not a bug. And if I get itchy, I have to check and make sure there's not bugs on me. I'm very paranoid about it now.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Did you say quicksand?

SPEAKER_05 7:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

I just think of every like bad cartoon from like when I was a child when they would always like fall in quicksand, and it was very scary.

SPEAKER_05 8:05

And I've never experienced it, so I I assumed bed bugs would be the same, but you know what they have?

SPEAKER_00 8:10

They have quicksand in England on the beaches.

SPEAKER_05 8:13

Do they really?

SPEAKER_00 8:14

They do, and some beaches in England they have quicksand.

SPEAKER_05 8:16

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

We'll have to tell your brother to beware of quicksand. That would suck if we sent it. That'd be an awful call again. That would be terrible.

SPEAKER_06 8:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

We just we just we just found his flat cap on the beach. We think the quicksand got it.

SPEAKER_05 8:33

Oh, Donovan would rather die on English soil than American soil, though.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

He'd rather die on English soil than live in American live on American soil. That is that is no freaking joke.

SPEAKER_05 8:42

We don't have to worry about quicksand because Donovan doesn't like sand. He doesn't like beaches.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

No, he's getting better. He's working on it.

SPEAKER_05 8:48

Yeah, but he's not willingly gonna go to the he would go with us, but he's not gonna go by himself.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

He's not willingly gonna go. I met a guy in Portugal who's gonna teach us how to surf.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

I heard. Yeah, so why were why were you in Portugal? Did you want to share with the class?

SPEAKER_00 9:03

No, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep it private. I just had to go take a quick solo trip to Portugal. Quick solo trip to Portugal. Yeah, quick, a quick solo trip for a long weekend in Portugal. More news to follow, if appropriate. But that that that information's that that inform that information's on a need-the-know basis. But I had to go take a nice, a little long weekend in Portugal. Yeah, and so my my new friend Nico, who owns the surf shop in Panish, offered to teach. I mean, he runs he runs a surf school, so he didn't offer like you offered in exchange for euro to teach me and your mom how to surf.

SPEAKER_05 9:38

Well, you met so many people in Panish. You met the police chief, you met I did meet the police.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Who else did you meet? That's the most notable one. That was that was really it. What what I learned was that Nico, the surf shop, he is the first in his family not to be a fisherman.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

That his that his grandfather and great-grandfather, when you go into a shop, his whole pictures of his family are hanging up on the wall. And then his grandfather and great-grandfather died on the same fishing boat in a fit in an accident. Yeah, isn't that crazy? And so his father forbade him from becoming a fisherman, so he became a surfer instead. He goes, When you live here, you either fish or you surf.

SPEAKER_05 10:24

I feel like being a surfer isn't much safer than being a fisherman. I feel like the opposite, actually.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

I I seems like it'd be more fun. I don't know. It'd be more fun.

SPEAKER_05 10:33

I don't know about I said more safe.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

So in exchange for handing him money, he agreed to teach your mom and me how to surf. And we're gonna do that next time we're there. We're gonna give it a try at least once. Although he said it might take up the 10 lessons to be.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

No, he's just saying not to get your cat.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Get up on the board and do it. He might be. He might be able to get it. I went swimming for the first time.

SPEAKER_05 10:56

He was super nice in a very long time.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

You went synchronized, you went synchronized swimming.

SPEAKER_05 11:02

I did. I did.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Did did you watch did you watch the Saturday Night Live skit I sent you?

SPEAKER_05 11:10

I did.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Was that the is wasn't that funny? Did it make me laugh?

SPEAKER_05 11:14

It was good. It didn't make me laugh. No, the event. So for for context with the listeners, one of the other sororities on campus, they do this event every year called Anchor Splash. All of the other frats and sororities compete in swimming events, and then um we do a choreographed dance and jump into the pool and do some swimming too. Some choreographed swimming dancing. And they needed one more person, and I was feeling, I don't know, bold. So I said, sure, I'll do it. And when I agreed to do it, the message, the message said dance. I didn't know that there was swimming involved with the dancing in the message. So I got to the first practice, and they're like, and then in this point we jump into the pool. And I went, but we're jumping into the pool. You guys didn't tell me that we were doing that. But yeah, jumped into the pool, almost died. Did you see me almost? Did you watch the video I sent you?

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Your your your dance moves. I I did watch the video. I did notice the moment where you I almost died, might be a mild exaggeration, but you did look like you were struggling for a second. No. No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Yeah, you haven't. I was waterboarded. That was scary. I get how people admit to terrible things. I would I would have folded very easily. I'll tell you anything you watch. I couldn't scream. There was water in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

What would you confess to me as you were waterboarding yourself?

SPEAKER_02 12:48

I wasn't waterboarding myself.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

What was wrong with my dance moves? Reminded me of when you were on stage with nothing. It just reminded me of when you were on stage at Roger Waters. It had a similar it had a similar vibe.

SPEAKER_05 13:00

It did to the Sabrina Carpenter song.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Yeah, in that maybe you were like a quarter step behind everybody else, trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

SPEAKER_05 13:09

Okay, well, also I didn't have my glasses on because I had to jump into the pool. I practiced with my glasses on. Wow, that was so beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

Maybe a quarter step behind is trying to figure out what I'm saying. You're not seeing it. What do I do with my leg? So so it so it very much reminded me. I'll I'm gonna upload the video in the show notes.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Which one?

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Of the the one you sent us, of the dancing in and I won't. We came in third place. You came in third place to get a trophy for that? A ribbon?

SPEAKER_01 13:51

No.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

A pat on the back?

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

A job well done. Do you get to stand on a podium?

SPEAKER_01 13:56

No. Oh, it was fun. I had fun.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Was this like was this like for charity? Were you raising money for charity?

SPEAKER_05 14:05

Yeah. I mean, I wasn't directly. I don't know exactly what the charity is, but their philanthropy focuses on I think vision.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Appropriate then that you weren't wearing your glasses.

unknown 14:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:23

Actually, let me let me figure out what their philanthropy is. The sorority is Delta Gamma. Let's see, let's see. Do they have information about that?

SPEAKER_00 14:37

I I don't know. I'm anxiously awaiting the I know I am too. This better this better be a really good charity now that we're waiting.

SPEAKER_05 14:44

Give me a second.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

I need to I'm I need to play more.

SPEAKER_05 14:47

I mean, no, it is it is sight. Okay. I just didn't know if there was a better record for it. But yeah, I guess the vision vision stiff.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

Okay. Okay. Alright, so so you went and saw the Jim Henson exhibit at the Museum of Motion Pictures. What else what what else fun did you do in New York City?

SPEAKER_05 15:05

I traveled all by myself for the first time. That was exciting. Yeah, I went from Columbus. I had to take the shuttle bus from the parking lot to the airport. I didn't bring cash. I didn't realize that you were supposed to tip the shuttle bus drivers. I felt really bad. Everyone else was giving them money.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Did he like help you with your bag?

SPEAKER_05 15:29

He tried to.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Oh, I think I don't think you have I don't think they expect a tip unless they like carry your bag for you.

SPEAKER_05 15:35

I felt bad because I don't I don't carry cash around me.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Um who carries who carries cash?

SPEAKER_05 15:40

I learned I should have. There were some places in New York that did not accept card.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Really?

SPEAKER_05 15:45

Yeah, so he graciously paid for my my dollar fifty hot dog. I think.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Did you get uh did you get like real New York City pizza?

SPEAKER_05 15:54

I did. I did.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Yeah, was it was it amazing? I love it.

SPEAKER_05 15:57

It was good, it was good. I liked the place that we went. I think it was just called Slice. That was tiny. You got them for lunch. Um did you get brunch?

SPEAKER_00 16:07

I feel like brunch is a thing people do in people do in New York City.

SPEAKER_05 16:11

We did brunch for dinner.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

Yeah, that we went to a 24-hour diner and I got French toast and eggs for dinner.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

That is also a very New York City thing to do, the 24-hour dinner.

SPEAKER_05 16:22

It was really fun. I had a great time. Um went to Central Park, went to the Central Park Zoo, and I got to watch the sea lion show. Which I like sea lions.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 16:35

Lots of walking, lots of riding things, any other museums. For museums. We just did a lot of walking, really.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

A lot of people saw some jazz.

SPEAKER_05 16:46

I did see some jazz. We were going to on Saturday too. Because but we only ended up seeing a show on Sunday. Because the show at Saturday didn't start till 1 a.m. And I was like, I I don't think I can make it. Like if you want to like hang out afterwards, like if you wanted to watch a movie or something, that's not gonna happen. So we could choose if you want to see the show or if we want to go watch a movie instead. Oh, we watched we watched a movie in a theater. We went to we went and saw a French movie.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Oh which was really cool. Do you have the translator were there or were there? There were captions.

SPEAKER_05 17:18

Well, Eli also took French in high school. Um, but that was really cool. We had like yeah, like five hours to spare. We were waiting in between like the zoo and then the show that we had planned on seeing that Saturday. But it was like 80 degrees in the morning, but then by the time the sun went down, it was like 50, and I was really cold, and I did not want to be outside anymore. So the Met has like this indie international theater, and they just happened to be screening a French film. That was very good.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Oh, the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

unknown 17:54

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:56

I was like, did you walk around?

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Did you walk around and see the art? Did you did you accidentally sit on a couch and have alarms go off?

SPEAKER_05 18:01

I did not.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 18:03

Um and what else, what else? Yeah, I'm gonna write a little reflection on the movie for extra credit in my French class.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Oh, look at you, suck up. Good for you.

SPEAKER_05 18:17

Because I can't do the extra credit that she offers for the whole class because I work when that happens. So I asked if there was anything else I could do.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

And you said I happen to see this this French film, and can I No I told her about it in class.

SPEAKER_05 18:29

I was excited to share.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

It was a long movie.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

And it was does that hurt your brain like watching a movie that long in a foreign language? Or do you are you do you know enough French that you can like figure out what's going on without it?

SPEAKER_05 18:44

I was able to figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Taxing your brain. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

I mean, the the honestly, the frustrating part was like the captions not being in French. Which that would have been frustrating for you know, the non-French speakers in the audience. But I was trying really hard to like figure out how much of it I actually knew, but then if I didn't know something, my brain just read the captions.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Got it.

unknown 19:07

Got it.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

Have you ever read The Stranger?

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Albert Camus?

SPEAKER_05 19:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Yeah, I did in high school.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

Yeah, it was an adaptation of L'Etranger.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

I read it in French.

unknown 19:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I think in I think in AP French in high school I read it.

SPEAKER_05 19:20

That would make sense.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:22

So yeah, I had never read it before. So I went in completely blind.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah, it's it's a good book.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

Yeah, it was a good movie.

SPEAKER_00 19:29

And I might have read it. I think I read it again in college in a philosophy class, but in in English.

SPEAKER_05 19:37

What did you philosophize from it?

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Camus is a big like existential philosopher.

SPEAKER_05 19:44

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Yeah. So anyway, so yeah. So it was so long ago I really can't, I really can't remember.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Well, my French teacher, the international theater in Columbus, that she's gonna go see it with her husband. So I told her she should, said it was good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

Kept me warm for two hours. We got free popcorn afterwards because it was the last show of the night. And they had to get rid of their popcorn from the Yeah, so we got to eat popcorn on the subway, which was nice.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

That's like if you hang out around the bakeries like before they close, you might get free pastry because it yeah, like it's either you or the homeless people outside.

SPEAKER_05 20:18

So I rode a bike for the first time in four years. Okay, which was scary. Well, I said I said I want a bike, and I assumed we'd be biking in Central Park, but then we were biking on the roads, and that was scary.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

In Manhattan, that is scary.

SPEAKER_05 20:33

That was scary.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

With like the cars whizzing past you.

SPEAKER_05 20:36

Yeah, that's a little crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

I made it though, it was a little wobbly. It was a little scary.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

I'm see I'm seeing you, so obviously you know.

SPEAKER_05 20:43

That was a little scary. Well, and Eli's legs are much longer than mine. So he was far ahead of me. And I was like, you have to wait up for me. I can't pedal that fast.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Sounds like a fun weekend.

SPEAKER_05 20:55

I had so much fun. I would like to go back.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

I brought you, I brought you a souvenir back from Portugal.

SPEAKER_05 21:01

A souvenir for me?

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah. Well, I brought one back for everyone.

SPEAKER_05 21:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Do you want to wait till you get home or do you want to go to the back?

SPEAKER_05 21:07

Yeah, I won't wait till I get home.

unknown 21:09

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

I um I don't have any souvenirs from Delaware, Ohio for you.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

No, that's okay. I went to the uh the Museum of Resistance and Freedom, which is in the the fort.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

Oh yeah, you made a threads post about that. I think I saw it.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

It was a political prison from like the 1930s to 1974 when Portugal was fascist. That's where they put like all of their political prisoners. It was brutal. At least according to the museum, it was brutal. Like 23 hours a day of solitary confinement, beatings, you know, you only get fed like one meal a week.

SPEAKER_05 21:52

Yeah, but this was they kept saying, like, we didn't torture people, and then they would describe ways that they tortured people.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Yeah. But this was in like the 20th century. This wasn't like up until 1974.

SPEAKER_05 22:05

Yikes.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Is when the is when they had the the the revolution.

SPEAKER_05 22:09

So I mean that's still happening in places.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

It was very the woman in the gift shop told me that lots of Americans come out in tears.

SPEAKER_05 22:18

Really?

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Yeah. That are very moved by what's going on vis-a-vis, like what's going on some other countries around the world, and that you can see the the lines are not very difficult to see. So it was very, it was a very uh pretty, it was really, really well done. Like the museum was really well done. It was free with my Portuguese tax ID number. It was so I got in for free.

SPEAKER_05 22:42

If you don't know, you have a free Portuguese, but when did you get a Portuguese tax number?

SPEAKER_00 22:46

A while ago. What? Yeah, so so the museum was so the museum was free. Yeah, so that was cool. It saved me, it saved me 10 euro. So that was I appreciated the benefits of the benefits of the state.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

No, I used my student discount in New York. There was a couple places. I mean, most of them were like for New York students only, but some of them had like an overarching student discount.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Yeah, so I was hanging out with my new friends Burkhard and Sabina in Panish. And we were gonna listen. I don't know. I I don't think I told him I had a podcast, so I don't know. No, you should have. But but we were hanging out, sitting outside a cafe, having our gin and tonics, and Mario, the police chief, walked by who they know. And so we started talking to him. And for a while we talked, and then we finished our drinks, and he's like, Let me buy you another drink. And I'm like, we're like, No, no, no, it's okay. He's like, No, no, no, I insist, let me get you a drink. So we go inside, and inside was a birthday party for like one of his good friends who was having a birthday party, and so inside was his birthday party, so now we're in this birthday party inside this, inside this bar. But and the only people in the bar was the birthday party. So it was like a private party that we're now in of people that I don't know, but they were very, but they insisted like they brought out they had like trays of food are like, no, you have to eat, so I don't, so now I'm eating their food for these people I don't know. And then they brought over the tray of the tray of shrimp, but the shrimp over there, it's not like shrimp over here. There's when you get a shrimp over there, it's got the head and everything on it. So I was so I was taught how to rip off the head and eat out the insides of the head, which by the way was delicious to eat the sh eat the shrimp brains. I was pleasantly surprised by how good I thought it was gonna be repulsive, but it was really, really good. They had a corn dog, it's like really like kind of soupy and soupy and briny and salty. It kind of tastes like the ocean. It was really good. Yeah, really, really good. So more than one shrimp brain.

SPEAKER_05 24:57

I had a corndog and pizza and more pizza and lots of carbs in New York City.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

I was thinking of you because I I did have my I I did I did have my octopus for dinner while I was there.

SPEAKER_05 25:13

Oh, I love octopus.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

It was divine, divine, it had all the time.

SPEAKER_05 25:22

While I was there as well and eat good food.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

Yeah, we'll feed you well.

SPEAKER_05 25:27

Please. What's the what?

SPEAKER_00 25:34

What's the what what's the food situation in France? Do they have like a dining hall or do you have to cook for yourself?

SPEAKER_05 25:39

No, I'll be cooking for myself.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

Like what's the do you know kitchen? So there's no there's no like dining hall where you can go and get food?

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Nope.

unknown 25:47

Cool.

SPEAKER_05 25:48

I'll be you'll be funding for the floor.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

And you're living in dorms or in an apartment?

SPEAKER_05 25:51

A dorm.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Dorm. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 25:55

I mean, maybe they're I don't mean I've heard no information about a dining hall. I think that's a very American thing. I don't know. I mean, I imagine they have like play close to campus for like very classes, but I imagine those are probably just like local restaurants and or whatnot, or like local shops.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

When when we were in London looking at universities, St. Mary's in Twickenham had a dining hall. They had they had a meal. Thank you. Let me know. I want to make sure that you're well fed while you're there. I'm sure it's not difficult to be well fed in France. Just cheese and wine for four months.

SPEAKER_05 26:37

Yeah, I'm gonna be having so much wine. Me and my my friend go out to the clerb.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Yeah, please, please make sure you go to class while you're there too.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

I will that's that's the reason I'm going. But I can have fun as well.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

Classes are mandatory, wine is wine is optional. You you I you should have fun. You should do, you should travel, you should pick the three or four countries you want to go to while you're there. Three or four.

SPEAKER_05 27:03

Julia's gone to like a new country every weekend. She's been staying like the hostels. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Yeah, or do that. Yeah, I mean, it's easy. The hostels are cheap. You get a you get a Euro pass for the semester and you travel for free. Once you get the pass, it's really easy. Or cheap flights on Ryanair is really easy. You get like a$20 flight to wherever. You just see where the cheap flights are and go and stay in a hostel.

SPEAKER_05 27:27

I want to go to Germany. I want to visit Sarah. I want to go to Spain. Never been to Spain. How far away is Curly? Go to Portugal France.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Even though you so jealous. Everything is relative, right? It's not, it's I mean, it's not like it's a it's not like it's around the corner, but it's not super far. It's probably like a 10-hour train ride.

SPEAKER_05 27:57

I would like to go to Greece. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Go to go to Ukraine.

SPEAKER_05 28:04

Nah, not right now.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Not right now. Not right now.

SPEAKER_05 28:11

Moscow.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I hear Moscow's nice.

SPEAKER_05 28:12

My goodness, 20.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

To where? Croatia?

SPEAKER_05 28:16

Yeah. There's no direct.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Oh. You can probably get a f you probably could probably get a cheap flight.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

So, like I said, do do all do all the traveling while you're there.

SPEAKER_05 28:32

That's the plan, because when will I be back? You never know.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

That would be my advice. The other fun thing I did in Portugal. Well, the other fun thing I did in Portugal was I climbed on I climbed up the roof of a building.

SPEAKER_05 28:45

Why?

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Yeah, well, because these people I met, they're they're they they bought a five-story building that's under construction, and they wanted me to see the roof where the penthouse is going to be. So I went up to the fourth floor, we climbed out of a window onto scaffolding, and then up a ladder onto the roof. Yeah. I'm not great with heights. I was a little freaked out. I don't do heights really well. So I was a little freaked out.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

You do them well enough to climb onto it.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Well, yeah. I mean, I didn't want to insult them. They were really excited to show me the roof. And a nice view, like a panoramic view of the of everything. It's like the tallest building there, so you get a really nice, like, panoramic view of everything. So it was cool to be up there, but not, yeah. It was a bit dicey climbing out the window, and there's a gap between where the scaffolding is that just goes straight down and then onto the scaffolding and then up this ladder and then onto the roof. It was it was something else.

SPEAKER_05 29:38

I walked under some scaffolding.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

Well, you do do that in New York. They do scaffold a lot for the construction.

SPEAKER_05 29:44

I didn't see a single Vishla. I I normally when I travel, I see at least one Vishla. I do not see a single one.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:56

You know who what I did see? I saw about I think I told I told you this or mom, or maybe both. I saw about five dogs that looked exactly like Archie. I saw so many Archie dogs in New York.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 30:10

So you ever not any more than London. Actually less than London.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

Oh, okay. Did we see did we see homeless people in London?

SPEAKER_05 30:21

We did. Around the tube stations.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

I don't remember seeing homeless people in the middle of the day.

SPEAKER_05 30:26

I mean, I see homeless people in Delaware, like pretty frequently.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

Oh. I'm going to Philly tomorrow. I'm gonna see lots of homeless people in downtown Philly.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

I'll tell Grandma and Grandpa say hi.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

I will. I'll be at the conference. I'll see them briefly tomorrow and then I'm at the beer. I'm at the beer conference the rest of the time. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 30:45

I'll be in class.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Yep, yep. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

Although I'm done with my placements.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

So I will see I will see your grandparents. I will oh so last week of class. Well, have a good last week.

SPEAKER_05 30:58

Thanks. Everything's wrapping up.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

I have my to-do list of everything.

SPEAKER_05 31:05

We'll figure out what.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

We'll figure out when mom and I'll come down to help you move out. It'll either be that Sunday or I'll come Monday just myself, one or the other.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

Yay.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

And then we'll get you home. Are you bringing you bringing a lot of your stuff home with you?

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Instead of putting it in storage? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Right. Makes sense. Makes sense. Did you get your your housing situated for next year when you come back?

SPEAKER_05 31:29

Yeah, it's been situated.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Oh, sorry. Are you in the the what do they call it? The multi-religion house? Interfaith house. Okay. And your faith is Agnostic. Agnostic. And that's that counts?

SPEAKER_05 31:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:47

Why why wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_00 31:49

I I don't know. I I don't I I I don't know. I mean it's not I guess it's a faith of not having a faith.

SPEAKER_03 31:57

Yeah. No, but that was Yeah, that was that was my time in New York. It was good.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

I had a good time. Awesome.

SPEAKER_05 32:07

I'll probably be going back at some point to get my visa.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Are you gonna do New York instead of Chicago?

SPEAKER_05 32:13

I'm gonna go wherever I can get an appointment.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Okay. Makes sense. So makes sense to me. We need to at some point this week, we need to figure out when you're doing that versus when we're gonna go back to Portugal this summer so we can coordinate all that. So we don't we don't screw you over with when you need to get your visa.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

So I'd appreciate that.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

Yeah, we'll we'll we'll sort it out this week.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

All right. I I am going to wish you a good last week of class.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

And we will see everyone back here in, I don't know, two or three weeks. We'll do Nora says we're gonna do one more.

SPEAKER_05 32:50

We'll do a finale.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

We'll do a season.

SPEAKER_05 32:53

A season finale. Speaking of season finale, spoiler alert, spoiler alert. What did you think of the pit? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Oh yeah. So all right, so here's the thing. If you're watching The Pit and have not yet watched it, you need to watch the pit. You need to watch the pit. Now would be the time to turn off the podcast, and we'll just say we'll see you next time. But if you do watch The Pit, then I'm gonna pause for like a second to give you a chance to click off. And now Nora and I are gonna talk about the finale of The Pit, which I freaking loved.

SPEAKER_05 33:28

It was so good. Me and Lily watched it together on the TV.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I thought it was really well written, really well acted. I thought they did a really good job tying up a lot of the loose storylines while leaving kind of enough in play for next year. I thought the conversation between Dr. Robbie and Dr. Abbott, I thought was so well written and acted. I thought Dr. Robbie with the baby was just gonna say that that was my favorite. Heartbreaking. And then the the best part though was the end credit scene. Yep. Yeah. And can I can I just say as I've now watched that? I watched that like when I watched the show, and then I've watched it back on YouTube as well. Her performance was so to stay in character. Mel. Santos.

SPEAKER_06 34:21

To be a Mel.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Like kind of no, the other one. Yeah. To be like, because her character's kind of neurodivergent. Her like the character she plays seems like she's a little bit on the spectrum. And the way she was able to kind of stay, it was such good physical acting, the way she was able to stay in character while she was performing the song. I thought it was I thought it was a I thought it was.

SPEAKER_05 34:40

Well, and then did you know that Santos is actor? Like she's like a Broadway musician. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_00 34:47

Yeah. And also I think really I did, but you tell me as a as a singer, how it's hard to sing bad. It's hard to sing bad. To not sing, to not sing perfectly. It came through her voice came through a couple times where you could say, Oh, this girl can really sing. I heard you can hear her a couple times. But I've seen videos of her, like, she can really sing.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

No, she's a great singer.

unknown 35:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

She's great. I I thought the finale of the pit, your your mom got some PTSD with the biggest.

SPEAKER_05 35:13

I was wondering if that's why she had texted me because I was like, oh my gosh, this is exactly what happened. I was watching it. I was like, Lily, that's how I was born.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

Yeah, you well, not quite. Like your mom did the C's and almost die.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Well, well, she did almost die.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

Had it gone, your mom was a couple hours away from that being your mom. Because her pre-eclampsia was undiagnosed. So I think you were like in another couple of hours, like that would have been your mom. That's why they rushed her in for an emergency C section at three o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

Well, they would have rushed that woman in sooner, but she didn't want medical treatment.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

She did not. I love how they I I mean, the show definitely has a political agenda, but I a very liberal, progressive political agenda. But I like how they like lecture the like the the Maha people as they come through the as they come through the emergency department. Where she's like, people have been giving birth for thousands of years without med without doctors or medicines or hospitals. And he's like, Yeah, with a 30% mortality rate.

unknown 36:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

I I don't understand why you would I I just don't understand why you would like not.

SPEAKER_05 36:21

I don't either. But I mean, you know, different streets to different folks.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

Doesn't make any sense to me at all.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

I know. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, but she lived, not a tragedy. Yeah, I loved the finale of the pit. I'm really good. I watched back the first like six episodes or seven episodes of season one on the airplane. Oh, I watched Sinners also. Did you like it? Loved it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

I knew you would.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

It's so really really, really, really good movie. Again, really, really well acted, really well written. I wasn't sure. I knew nothing about it, other than I knew it was supposedly a horror movie, but I didn't know into what genre. I wasn't expecting again, spoiler alert, but I wasn't expecting vampires. Oh, so cool. The Michael, I was expecting more like the Michael B. Jordan character to be like some like incarnation of like the devil, or that that's the way in my in my brain, like that's the way the movie was gonna play out. I didn't expect the vampires. It was great. I thought it was great.

SPEAKER_05 37:18

Yeah, it it should have done better at awards. I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

I saw the other one too. One One Battle After Another was also a really good movie. I watched that one coming back from England on the other.

SPEAKER_05 37:31

I don't think I don't think Sinners won music awards, and it should have.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

No, but he won Best Actor, Michael B. Jordan. He was really good.

SPEAKER_05 37:40

Yeah, he was great. I've watched that movie like three times.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Yeah. Yeah. So our our our We're gonna do a movie and TV podcast next time.

SPEAKER_05 37:53

Well oh, I'm watching, I'm watching Big Brother right now.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

I could never figure Big Brother out. It's way too complicated. It's way too complicated for me.

SPEAKER_05 38:01

It's background noise.

SPEAKER_00 38:03

Yeah, that's what Law and Order SVU is for me.

SPEAKER_05 38:05

I'm gonna go back and see what else I'm watching when all the pit's over. That's that's pretty disappointing. I've been watching Abbott Elementary, I think has a couple episodes left for this season. And yeah. I like their their their season follows the school year. I think that's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Right.

SPEAKER_05 38:25

So like when they've if they have like a a week or like a long weekend, they won't have an episode that day. I think it's cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Oh, that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_05 38:34

Yeah, it's really smart.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Alright. Spoiler alerts are over. I'm gonna I will I will see you in in real life in a couple weeks. Very exciting.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

I know. Crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

And and and the listeners will hear us back in like two or three.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Yes.

unknown 38:53

All right.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Have a great week. Good luck, good luck on your last week class. I'll talk to you during the week.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Alright. Love you, kiddo.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

Love you.