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On the Way to School" Series, Season 2 Episode 28

Join a working mom and her teenager for the real, unfiltered conversations that happen on the way to school. as they navigate everything from the big questions about life, friendships, and the future, to the daily chaos of homework, pop culture, Background music and constant disagreement . No experts, no scripts—just honest talks in the one place we're all a captive audience: the car. It's a podcast for parents and teens who know the morning drive is about more than just getting from point A to point B

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Oh no, I didn't say the ice cream because I can't believe that. The mango the mango no I cappuccino. Lots of you to take the one. Someone's gonna drive from there one day and just come through the crowd until you like them through how.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Yeah, I am for the code. No, I don't know if I described to you. There was uh one day last weekend I disconnected my phone completely. Yeah and uh that day actually turned out much better than I thought.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

Right.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

So I realized my brain worked very differently in that day versus the normal day. Right. So in that day I I draw something for myself to like uh I do things by block. I finish this thing, I finish this thing, I finish things, so everything is by block. And then when I have my phone, I always have this uh thing like uh I need to finish this thing because I want to go back to my phone. Right. So my objective of finishing the thing is to go back to the phone. This is not there anymore in that day, so my brain adjusts uh quickly to a different mode. But that only works when I disconnect from my phone for a long period of time. Right. For a short time period, it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Yeah, because then you just back to your phone. Yeah. Is that a boring topic? No, it's okay though. I feel like personally, I get what you mean. I'm not the most associated with my phone.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Um, but basically, what do you want to say is you're not uh addicted to the phone much as I am like no, what I was saying is that I am actually not as unaddicted to my phone as you are. So it's just not okay. Do you want to try maybe on Sunday, like 25 hours or without? Or maybe 12 hours with all two shirk.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

No, I don't. I lied, I don't want to try. But yeah. It's just like I'll try it later.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

I think one thing I noticed for myself is uh I'm the type of person is uh I need motivation. So as long as I tell myself I motivate myself to do something, I get it done. Whatever it is, doesn't matter. The trigger is important. Right. The trigger is super important.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

So I think no how did you motivate yourself without your phone?

SPEAKER_01 3:04

I I watched a TikTok uh uh short video that would describe uh that situation they said uh you can try to do that 24 hours and uh then I said yeah, let's keep a try.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

How do you motivate yourself to do stuff like boredom?

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Uh I think I just throw myself in the brain saying hey do it now. Something like that. I don't know. Physically that's all work like uh but I also tend to do that uh as late as possible. Right like in the morning, I go to bed uh nine o'clock. Yeah, I fall asleep before ten. So I normally wake up at four or five o'clock in the morning. If I wake up at four, I still have uh more than six hours sleep, right? Yeah, yeah. So then I will only get up at 10 past six. You work up at four though? Yeah, so I will play my Bob Bible or read my book until 10 past six I get up because that's how I calculate it back. I can leave the house at 7.30 and finish my spot.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Right. So I feel like you should definitely try to try to do that a little bit quicker, you know, with your phone playing. Because we're not leaving at 7 30 most.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah, but you know what I mean. Like I calculate back, I have to get up. Then at that moment I say get up because you need to finish your balls, and it's so that's kind of like uh hard for myself.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Yeah, okay, I get it. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Well, sometimes I'm not even myself like uh uh you feel better, like uh I draw on the blackboard. I said do that when you finish, you feel better. Yeah, it's kind of like you come to something or you complete something just making it, or I can do that.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

Okay, I always feel better when I draw something and it looks good. If it looks bad, I just feel worse.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Because I spend like two hours of my life drawing something that looks terrible. I seldom draw something bad because I don't create. I don't create either. I copy. I can't create Yeah, set your linker while you're halfway out of the line, would you? Yeah, I feel like oh yes, I copy. I most of them I copy. So if you copy, you can copy so long. I can I can't draw faces, but I'm so bad at proportions. It's so sad. My my grandma used to do the puppy, but you do that in the uh not a blank uh piece of paper, you do that in the game. I don't do I do that too, I'll do like a grid though.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

It's just like sometimes even if my eyes are the correct size, I can't get them to look like they do on the photo.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

That's a you and me. That's still the lower level of the jaw. The higher level is you practice so much then you do proportionally better nature. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

I did just learn about the um that guy that like discovered the oh um the Vinci was the one that did the portion, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I we did just learn that an hour today. Yeah. Because we're doing theory now. Yeah. Okay, make up your mind a little sooner now. But yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Should blink.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yes, blink. Blink, yeah. Yes. So Daventi, yes. Yes, he's the one that the gloves with that. And in it it told us like how long the different body parts should be depending on the head size. So I'm gonna try to use that next time I draw. The thing is, I don't normally draw bodies, I only draw the face with the head.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

But even the face, the how the eye, nose, and the mouse position is also relevant to the other part of the I can't make their chin look general skin.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

It's happened before, a part of that experience. Because I want to draw there's a there's a thing behind you. Go to the head.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Like just trying to follow the car in front of me. Always get nervous when ambulance uh behind me.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Especially if it's crowded. Remember in that mountain when you were driving down and then there was an ambulance driving up, but the roads were so tight that you couldn't go anywhere. No. So I just told you to go through. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

So what I was drawing that horse on the blackboard, and then for me to make sure the proportion is right is uh you have to look at the relatives between the head and neck. Right. And then neck and the body, body and the leg. So yeah, that's kind of like uh how it looks like I get you.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

I get you so hard. I get you so hard. You will not believe yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

I do like drawing fruit though. You don't really have to worry about the personal bathroom, I've got a bad. Oh, you like to draw uh fruit? Fruits, fruits, uh, and tomatoes.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Fruits is also one type of uh uh thinking like uh qing wu. Chinese is qing wu. Means something like just uh uh stand there, they are not uh they don't have life. Oh yeah, yeah. You draw animals, you draw human beings, then you have to also reflect somehow. Yes. Something like uh alive, this kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Because you're not drawing something dead or something that not have life, so which is different than you draw an apple or uh I don't glass of water or bottle or vase.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

I can.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Yeah, but I can't.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

It's hot there was one period uh of my life when I was in middle school, I like to draw the animation uh from Japanese uh yeah like this uh girl with super big eyes, a very uh skinny face, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Uh I think your friend's daughter does that um. Oh yes, yes, yes. Twin's daughter. Yes. Um I don't think there's not worth it.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

So who are you going to play?