March 18th Lia's self assessment

On the Way to School" Series, Season 3 Episode 14

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_03 0:07

What do you mean? Oh my god. This was carefully chosen. Can you move your window getting down? Yeah, yeah, I know that.

SPEAKER_04 0:41

Is that it?

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Oh that's also a time why it's cold. Yeah, can I get sunny for the cold? Anything exciting for today? Uh actually this is the worst day ever of the week, so not fine. Because every class is so boring. Which day the class is not boring? No, class is always boring, just today is like it goes by like a century.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Like you don't understand how boring my teachers are today.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

I'm also wondering about your school. How can your school collect the other teachers? Everyone is so boring.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

It's not that everyone is boring. Like my German teacher isn't boring, or my math teacher isn't boring. The rest just is I forget my earring.

SPEAKER_03 1:41

I will give you mine, but you don't have all no. I'd like to wear my earring in the without my earring, I feel like uh naked. Yeah, you look very naked. Yeah, I was kidding. But you know what I mean. Yeah, I guess some people get you to makeup. If they don't wear makeup, they also feel like uh don't worry, Tommy. I wear makeup purely for fun. I wear makeup only if it's necessary. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

The lower I go the worse the music is getting. And then there's like some really good ones.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Okay, how long is my playlist?

SPEAKER_03 2:42

I don't need this. Do you think I eat a lot? No. Okay. I think you eat a normal way.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Except on weekends where you don't eat lunch, that's weird.

SPEAKER_05 3:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

This weekend I need to go buy the hair time. I have a game. On Sunday. We have a game on Sunday. When?

SPEAKER_04 3:25

Um 8 30.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

Where? So I have to bring you there. No, that's what you mean. 8 30? 8 30. Oh my god. I can do that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

I told him I'd asked, he said no, I can do it.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

So I woke up way early and daddy.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

That's why I said I could ask you.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Dad is like, I'm gonna die. Let me do that for Luna. You attract people to help you. Oh nice girl. Gin face. Nice case, big Paj. Any interest to talk Chinese? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Let me recollect my thoughts, guys.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Good.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Hey, I'm just gonna answer an English guy. Yes. Yeah. I think um some positive factors are like my strengths, right? Yeah. My strengths are I'm slightly athletic. Um slightly what? Athletic? Yeah, that's why I couldn't say that I'm Chinese.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Athletic. Um can you tell me what athletic means? It's like, you know, like serious?

SPEAKER_02 5:49

What's athletic in Chinese? Mainland. Why can you not translate it to mainland if it was an option on my screen? I'm literally being waiting for it right now. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Okay, wait.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

Oh yung dong. Ah, I didn't like the guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Uh and I think I don't have a lot of difficulty learning new things, which is good. I know some people who have a lot of difficulty learning new things.

SPEAKER_03 6:34

Like cool. Like Nishta. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

And um I think some faults are maybe I can be a little passive aggressive at times. Not on purpose, just generally. And I get annoyed kind of very easily depending on the person.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

You're talking about your opportunity already, or your strength in. Yeah, also I'm not very social. You're introverted? Yeah. That's not uh opportunity, non-strenhs. That's just uh character. Yeah, but like the the bad part comes I don't like to talk to people, which means I don't make friends, I should say. I mean kind of I don't think you don't like to talk to people a lot. I don't I don't like to talk to strangers a lot. Also not. No, you're curious um but you think that means you're curious also on stranger. I don't like uh I think I think, but you can correct me if I'm wrong, is uh you you can engage in a deep and uh meaningful conversation which you feel deep and meaningful. But all these small characters blah blah blah. Oh yeah. Because why would it just awkward?

SPEAKER_02 7:55

I don't know what to say. Like like with my chica, I can say whatever and it's like funny and shit, but when I'm with a new person, what do I even say to them?

SPEAKER_05 8:03

Like ew.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

But the the things is uh you make friends, right? Oh my god. A new person, how can a new person become a close friend? Yeah, like sometimes you like click, you know? Yeah, it's like it's not always awkward, but mostly yeah, yeah, that's also true. I agree with you. I also uh there was a long, long, long time I think hey, I really don't like small talk, it means nothing, you know, it's blah blah blah, and it's looks so fake, etc. And one day I also watched a uh video and then this guy explains uh why small talk is necessary. He said uh because uh most of the time you are social with people who are not your close friends, and uh when you're not close friends, uh they don't have uh obligation to share with you deep about them. Because they don't know you, they don't trust you well enough, and then all of these uh like uh UK people like to talk weather, Chinese people like to talk food. This is just the things to bridge and to kill time and to make any conversation without uh expose yourself to people which you you're not so close to and yeah, something like that. But I think it makes sense as well. Don't get drink and keep contact. But when you described your strength, I thought there's other things like your strength, like your you thought, uh, your your emoji emotional inherent is really good. No, no, like for 15 year olds, it's like it's just good and also you're caring, you care about that, you care about uh dog and cat. It's not a good strength. That's just a personality straight. It's uh dog and cat are still most important things in your life. When were they ever the most important thing in your life? I went to your school one day. There was some post on the war and uh which uh uh that wasn't my most important thing. That was a thing I like. Like there were different categories, pets, friends, and sort of. I remember you wrote pets first, and then spots, and then family. Something.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

It wasn't in order.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

Mom, yeah, this conversation is giving me really bad iche.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Okay, we can't finish. Yes, please, like, you're annoying me for life goals, guys.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

I come from scientists and atheists and white men who kill God. They make technology high quality, complex, physiological experiments and sacrilege in the name of public good. They taught me everything, just like a daddy should. And you were beautiful and vulnerable and power and success, but damn I felt for you. You were playing the words, your tunnels, and your tech. I studied close.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

Oh, okay. Nah, truth. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Well, given uh we'll push your father. We should replay, we should. I lost my train of thought. What the fuck? Don't do that. Don't do that. Pictures of the stars.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

If you could only be what you pretend you are. So please we're supposed to be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

But you sound really fit. Okay, mom. Okay, stop the conversation topics you pick are just so shitty. Like, why is this? Because you're pissing me off. We're gonna still oh my god, ew.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Philip.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

What?

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Ew.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

Sorry, Carl, you don't like? No, the guy beside us, I don't like. He did something bad to you? Yeah, he's annoying.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Oh, okay. He likes you, that's why.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

No, he's just really annoying.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

So fuck your tunnels, fuck your cars, fuck your rockets, fuck your cars again. You promised to be Tesla, but you're just another example. So Tesla broke the pot, and all you ever broke were hearts. I can't believe our humanity fart with the very same machines that could have been our brand new start. And the worst part is I loved you, I loved you, I loved you. Okay, I gotta change the song.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

This is a very old song, so Yo, a range over who even drives that these days.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

I am watching the pear, just not every day. The what? The peace. The peanut I don't know. It's a hospital shop. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. It's one Chinese episode not very popular in China, it's on Netflix uh uh the same time. And uh there's a girl there, she's um she's uh maybe as tall as you and uh she has a baby face and uh she's like uh the waist is like me. The weight? Weight, oh okay, and she can carry a pig. What? Complete pig. She's so powerful and she looks so skinny. Oh crazy. Because in this episode, it's uh a Chinese episode and we're talking about the pastime like the one year blah blah blah. And uh she she played a role is uh what do you call that in English? Somebody who raised and killed pigs and sells meat. A virtue? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she are they real pigs? Are they real? Yeah. What do you mean are they real? Does she lift real pigs? Yes, yes, yes. She is it's not like she plays a role like that. In reality, she's oh, she's a butcher. Oh no, no, no. Not in reality, she's a butcher. In reality, she's very powerful. She plays a butcher, yes. But sometimes you know, you can play a character. I give example, you can play a character like the the character knows how to how to ride a horse, but the person doesn't know. Then you have to fake it because somebody who holds a force in front of pretend you're riding a horse, something like that. And uh, but uh this girl is uh in real life she also can carry a pig. It's not a fit. That's impressive. Yeah, that's very impressive. Wow. I don't want to carry a pig, but if I if I did it, that'd be very impressive. And because she has a baby face, so it's like a oh mama returning. Yes, yes, that's actually very impressive. Well, how come you can't live to pig? I cannot. It's so weird. I don't have baby face.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

So even more reason that you should live to pig. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

Oh I'm so fucking tired of being here right now. Okay. Oh the flowers coming out. Oh nice. Yes, that one trees meet.

SPEAKER_05 17:06

I don't want another standing to drive one.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

I still don't understand the white bit.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Oh, I don't know what's the parking lot.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

Well need to think here. No. I thought too athletic.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Athletic doesn't mean I like walking.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Smart ass. Now you can't grab one. Now I talk about what? Yeah, that's like some smartest one though.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Oh my god, what is the stupid child?

SPEAKER_02 17:57

So sorry. But like why doesn't he go to the other parking lot? It just don't make sense. I don't wear short sleeves in seven degrees weather.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Oh Samu could go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Yeah, that's not cool.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

I can go.

SPEAKER_04 18:24

Oh I don't know if I think I thought it was now to go.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Now I have to go to class.

unknown 18:36

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

No, that's a bad no, we don't have a good day. Bye bye, my car locks like