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Speaker 1: What would you talk about on your on your podcast

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Speaker 1: Firms Represents fifteen minute morning show. People are texting in

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Speaker 1: questions knowing that we're recording our fifteen minute morning show podcast. Bethany,

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Speaker 1: did you give up trapeze lessons? Oh? You know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm going back to it. I had to give it up,

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Speaker 1: said in that time there was that accident, but I

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Speaker 1: miss it so much, so I actually I'm going back

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Speaker 1: to it. But tell Alvius what lessons you're taking now.

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Speaker 1: Ukuk lele lessons excellent? Because I got a ukulele for

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Speaker 1: my birthday per my request. I would I would love

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Speaker 1: to learn the uku lele. I would put the hoe

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Speaker 1: in don Hoe And if you know who don Hoe is,

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Speaker 1: he was a famous Hawaiian ukulele star le le. Are

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Speaker 1: we going to do a hip hop ukulele instead of

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Speaker 1: hip hop clarinet? Probably not. I don't think i'll be.

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Speaker 1: But it's apparently a pretty easy instrument to learn, so

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Speaker 1: I'm psyched about it. Okay. So in the world of

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Speaker 1: dementia and even to the world of Alzheimer's, there is

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Speaker 1: this theory. There was this theory that if you do

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Speaker 1: a lot of crossword puzzles, and and and things like that.

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Speaker 1: Mind games, it can help keep your mind and open

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Speaker 1: and going new. Research is say that isn't the case.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, you need to learn to do new things.

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Speaker 1: You need to learn how to do things you've never

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Speaker 1: known how to do before. That's what opens up the

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Speaker 1: lines in your brain that keep you from what could

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Speaker 1: slow down dementia in your later years. So learning to

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Speaker 1: play a uku lele something that is so far off

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Speaker 1: the chart of something most people would do, that is

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Speaker 1: that is part of that solution. Did you know that?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, And I'm really excited because I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know this was the thing I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: But then when I was home for Thanksgiving, my niece

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Speaker 1: has this really old ratty fake ukuk lately with only

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Speaker 1: two strings or three stringer thing, and I had I think.

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Speaker 1: I played with that think for four hours, and so

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Speaker 1: my dad took the hint and bought me one for

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Speaker 1: my birthday, and I realized I love it. And so

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Speaker 1: it is sort of cool to think if you've ever

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Speaker 1: wanted to learn something, you can still learn that thing.

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Speaker 1: Stop in high they say a lot of people say,

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Speaker 1: especially learning a new language. They say, if you're younger.

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Speaker 1: It's easier to learn new languages. Children kids can learn

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Speaker 1: multiple language is so much easier than adults. For whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there was some explanation, but yeah, learning things,

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Speaker 1: learning new things. True that if you want to learn

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Speaker 1: a language, you put it the headphones on at night

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Speaker 1: and you play the language in your head. You'll remember

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Speaker 1: it work in Spanish class for me because I tried

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Speaker 1: it because I didn't want to learn in Spanish. I

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Speaker 1: tried the easy way out. I thought. I still failed Spanish.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to learn a second language or

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Speaker 1: a third language? I mean it took lots of languages

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Speaker 1: in school, but you know, I remember taking Italian lessons

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Speaker 1: and I had the books, I had everything, and I

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Speaker 1: blue sky, the sunshine. It was fantastic. So when you

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Speaker 1: When I was doing Italian in school, my problem was

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Speaker 1: took French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin, and they gave us

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Speaker 1: Latin first because it's the root of so much. But

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Speaker 1: it away and something else. This is great. Yeah, did

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Speaker 1: you ever try to take a second language? I did,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know what, I was such a fool

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Speaker 1: But now here we are in seen and I'm like this,

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Speaker 1: that was the dumbest move of my life because for instance,

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Speaker 1: How stupid if I only knew then what I don't

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Speaker 1: allow a lot of people the same way. But you

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Speaker 1: know what, you've got to stop thinking about what you

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Speaker 1: I think about doing the Rosetta Stone because I hear

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Speaker 1: Not for everyone, Yeah, it depends. I mean. Babel is

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Speaker 1: another one that's just an app you can use and

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Speaker 1: like ten minutes a day, but you have to be

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Speaker 1: You have to practice. You know. People always ask like,

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Speaker 1: what would be like if you could pick a super

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Speaker 1: I would want me to speak Spanish, speak Spanish, to

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Speaker 1: speak my WiFi. I'm Spanish making speaking. Man, it would

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Speaker 1: you didn't do it, you should do it. So uh.

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Speaker 1: My favorite thing to do is when I traveled to

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Speaker 1: just you have to just be out and walking around

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Speaker 1: who to call. But I can order, you know, dinner.

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Speaker 1: They say immersion is really the actually took high school Spanish,

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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to perfect English. It's not I'm not

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Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo's native language. And the audience starts laughing because

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Speaker 1: Ronaldo goes, hey, hey, why are you laughing. He's actually trying.

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Speaker 1: He's doing his best. He really laugh at someone because

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Speaker 1: have perfect eyebrows. What's the thing, you know? Think about it.

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Speaker 1: You're walking through New York City and someone comes up

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Speaker 1: to you and they're speaking let's say, with a Spanish accent,

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Speaker 1: we should never be afraid to ask anyone anything and

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Speaker 1: He speaks Brooklyn Italian. He'll help you. Not even the

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Speaker 1: Several years ago I went and I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: especially the city. You actually got to know your your

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