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Sweet Succor and Sour Suckers · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 109 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So I believe you have our word or phrase of this episode.
• 0:38
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 0:38
  I Hate Talking: I want to talk about the word and then the ideas around sucker.
• 0:43
  I Hate Talking: Like a lollipop?
• 0:45
  I Hate Talking: No, not a sucker, like a lollipop.
• 0:48
  I Hate Talking: S U C C O R.
• 0:52
  I Hate Talking: See, I think I would pronounce that, and I'm not certain of this succor or like a bit more emphasis on like a OR sound at the end, cause it has an OR at the end, right?
• 1:05
  I Hate Talking: It is, yes, succor -- U C C -- O R.
• 1:08
  I Hate Talking: I if that, we'll then play the Pronunciation from this robot that says sucker.
• 1:16
  I Hate Talking: What?
• 1:17
  I Hate Talking: I just wanna hear if there's a difference.
• 1:19
  I Hate Talking: If you want me to look up sucker like a lollipop, right?
• 1:23
  I Hate Talking: OK, and see if it sounds different than succor.
• 1:26
  I Hate Talking: All right, what did you find?
• 1:28
  I Hate Talking: OK, so this is Google's American pronunciation, we'll do the S U C C O R first, which I would Pronounced perhaps improperly as succor.
• 1:42
  I Hate Talking: So, according to Google, it says this sucker.
• 1:47
  I Hate Talking: And now if I use the same search engine, same voice for sucker, like the lollipop.
• 1:54
  I Hate Talking: It has this same voice, American pronunciation.
• 1:58
  I Hate Talking: S U C K E R.
• 2:01
  I Hate Talking: Sucker And it is exactly the same and interesting to note that the pronunciation guide.
• 2:08
  I Hate Talking: Both have sucer S U H.
• 2:12
  I Hate Talking: Dot KR.
• 2:14
  I Hate Talking: So the pronunciation is exactly the same.
• 2:18
  I Hate Talking: So, I really love doing this podcast with you because my entire life, people have told me I speak improperly and pronounce things wrong.
• 2:30
  I Hate Talking: But I'm starting to guess, second guess these people, because I'm often correct and um I'm corrected incorrectly.
• 2:41
  I Hate Talking: That is true.
• 2:43
  I Hate Talking: We are on the journey to understanding through talking, so.
• 2:46
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps I will learn something as well.
• 2:49
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, and I think I'm too quick to say I'm wrong often.
• 2:55
  I Hate Talking: If I think I'm right about something, I'll fight for it.
• 2:59
  I Hate Talking: But If I'm not convinced I'm right, I give in too quickly, and I think all this time I give in and you're like, that's not how you pronounce it.
• 3:07
  I Hate Talking: I'm like, oh, OK.
• 3:08
  I Hate Talking: And I accept it.
• 3:10
  I Hate Talking: Now I should start googling everyone's corrections.
• 3:14
  I Hate Talking: That's true, that's what I do.
• 3:16
  I Hate Talking: I did find some articles, particular responses to the pronunciation guides for sucker and apparently sucker, and that part of the issue may be an American pronunciation, because this is not how you spell the word sucker in Britain.
• 3:37
  I Hate Talking: And that's where the word came from.
• 3:39
  I Hate Talking: Correct.
• 3:40
  I Hate Talking: Well, I think so.
• 3:41
  I Hate Talking: We'll check that too.
• 3:42
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 3:43
  I Hate Talking: I don't know this for a fact.
• 3:44
  I Hate Talking: So it would be not.
• 3:46
  I Hate Talking: S U C C O R, but in Britain it would be S U C C O U R.
• 3:55
  I Hate Talking: the British U.
• 3:56
  I Hate Talking: I always like that O U R like honor, savior, I like it.
• 4:02
  I Hate Talking: And there you go.
• 4:03
  I Hate Talking: Honor would be actually what it would rhyme with.
• 4:05
  I Hate Talking: It would be sucker with a U R instead of an ER.
• 4:09
  I Hate Talking: And some of the particular comments around this pronunciation are stating that the sort of OR sound, succor would be to distinguish it from sucker, but most people conclude that the word that we're talking about, S U C C O R, is archaic and unused, and therefore, if you say the word sucker, it's basically the S U C K E R in nearly all contexts in the modern day.
• 4:39
  I Hate Talking: I agree.
• 4:40
  I Hate Talking: And did you look up what it means?
• 4:42
  I Hate Talking: No, I did not look up what it means.
• 4:45
  I Hate Talking: It's something that I've encountered in perhaps biblical texts or religious books, and I think it has something to do with like being nourished, perhaps, like you get fed or you receive sustenance of some kind.
• 5:01
  I Hate Talking: OK, I mean, at first I can see how you'd think that because it's almost like sucking the honey from the plant and stuff.
• 5:09
  I Hate Talking: Is that what you're thinking?
• 5:10
  I Hate Talking: Well, honey comes from bees, but Well, like, no, I was like, oh, like honeysuckle.
• 5:16
  I Hate Talking: OK, yes.
• 5:18
  I Hate Talking: Our kids love to find honeysuckle.
• 5:21
  I Hate Talking: Well, suckle is a different word altogether.
• 5:23
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 5:23
  I Hate Talking: All right, so let's go back to this word.
• 5:26
  I Hate Talking: It sucker, like the lollipop in slang, often if you call someone a sucker, that's not a good thing, that's right, they're a person that's easily duped or taken for a ride or something like that.
• 5:39
  I Hate Talking: And actually I think that's probably why growing up, lollipops were called lollipops.
• 5:44
  I Hate Talking: I don't Really, yeah, I don't really recall encountering the word sucker for a lollipop until much later in life.
• 5:52
  I Hate Talking: Because your family thought it was a mean term.
• 5:57
  I Hate Talking: I'm not sure if it was my family in particular, or maybe, again, sort of the Northeast that does not use that particular term for A hard candy on a stick.
• 6:07
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, no, it was always a sucker.
• 6:09
  I Hate Talking: -- There's also -- Tootsie Pop, I think -- Tootsie Rolls -- roll.
• 6:12
  I Hate Talking: No, but my point is that Tootsie Roll was in the Northeast and it's a Tootsie Pop, -- not a Tootsie -- sucker.
• 6:20
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, Tootsie Pop, a Tootsie roll.
• 6:22
  I Hate Talking: No, Tootsie roll, is that or is that something else?
• 6:24
  I Hate Talking: Tootsie Roll is inside the Tootsie Pop and the age-old question, how many licks does it take to get to the inside of a Tootsie Pop, but it's not a Tootsie sucker.
• 6:32
  I Hate Talking: Oh no, is that another one of those, um, Mandalorian effects.
• 6:35
  I Hate Talking: No, it's not a Mandalorian effect.
• 6:38
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I was, I was confused when you said that.
• 6:40
  I Hate Talking: I was like, yeah, no, that's a, that's Disney movie.
• 6:44
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, maybe we can start a new thing.
• 6:47
  I Hate Talking: We can have the Mandalorian effect.
• 6:49
  I Hate Talking: Lots of people I know are going to see the new Star Wars this week.
• 6:54
  I Hate Talking: Are you gonna see it?
• 6:55
  I Hate Talking: I would like to at some point, but I do not have specific plans at this point in time to actually go see it.
• 7:01
  I Hate Talking: The theater movie I'd want to see is The Devil Wears Prada 2.
• 7:05
  I Hate Talking: I still have not seen the space movie.
• 7:09
  I Hate Talking: Oh, I thought you were gonna say Devil's Wears Prada.
• 7:11
  I Hate Talking: You can watch it after this.
• 7:13
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 7:13
  I Hate Talking: What's the space movie with the guy that goes out and saves the world from the sun?
• 7:18
  I Hate Talking: Oh, from the book we talked about.
• 7:20
  I Hate Talking: Uh, I don't remember.
• 7:22
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 7:22
  I Hate Talking: Anyways, that's the movie that I would like to see that I don't even recall the name of, -- but it's -- probably gonna be on streaming soon at this point, -- probably a -- long time ago.
• 7:30
  I Hate Talking: All right, Zucker, S U C C O R.
• 7:34
  I Hate Talking: It comes from, and I'll read the definition.
• 7:37
  I Hate Talking: You were saying that you think that it gives you like nourishment or help in that way, right?
• 7:42
  I Hate Talking: Or sustenance, sustenance, OK, sustenance.
• 7:46
  I Hate Talking: -- Oh -- no, not subsistence.
• 7:49
  I Hate Talking: -- I didn't say -- subsistence.
• 7:51
  I Hate Talking: You had a B in there, I think.
• 7:52
  I Hate Talking: No, so it means to offer help, relief, or assistance, particularly to someone in distress or difficulty.
• 8:01
  I Hate Talking: Like a verb would be to aid someone in distress, he was succored by the passing stranger, or if it's a noun, charity provided succor to the refugees.
• 8:14
  I Hate Talking: So it seems like it's just general assistance and general help.
• 8:19
  I Hate Talking: It does not necessarily have to be food or nourishment per se.
• 8:24
  I Hate Talking: Am I thinking of like a religious context though, Perhaps with succor being used as a particular nourishment.
• 8:33
  I Hate Talking: It's in the Bible, right?
• 8:34
  I Hate Talking: Where did you, why, why is this word relevant to you?
• 8:37
  I Hate Talking: I'll find out.
• 8:39
  I Hate Talking: Is that what you said?
• 8:40
  I Hate Talking: I don't think our listeners heard that.
• 8:44
  I Hate Talking: You backed up from the mic on that one.
• 8:46
  I Hate Talking: It is from French.
• 8:48
  I Hate Talking: I've sort of thought that.
• 8:50
  I Hate Talking: I didn't say that, but It is from French and then medieval Latin before that.
• 8:56
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 8:57
  I Hate Talking: So according to our favorite American Heritage dictionary, sucker, I'll pronounce it the American way, I suppose, comes from the Middle English succor, which just has the U, which comes from succors in Old French, succors.
• 9:17
  I Hate Talking: And then that came from medieval Latin succorus, and there's a whole bunch of different variations of the Latin that have different endings, but essentially that same thought there.
• 9:30
  I Hate Talking: And in the Latin, going back as far as you can, it means to run and help is like the literal translation.
• 9:39
  I Hate Talking: If you put it in terms of more of a formal definition, it means to run to the aid of in the Latin.
• 9:46
  I Hate Talking: All right, and it makes sense that you would think it's a Bible term, cause it is.
• 9:52
  I Hate Talking: And an example of several times in the Bible, in the KJV, which is what you would know better, 18 that says, for he himself, and that means Jesus, hath suffered being tempted.
• 10:10
  I Hate Talking: He, Jesus, is able to succor them that are tempted.
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  I Hate Talking: So because Jesus was tempted, he's able to help us and aid us who are tempted.
• 10:20
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 10:22
  I Hate Talking: There's a bunch of references to King David being suckered or needing succored.
• 10:28
  I Hate Talking: So yes, I've seen the word before.
• 10:31
  I Hate Talking: I didn't necessarily know what it meant, but ultimately you're asking why I wanted to talk about this word.
• 10:38
  I Hate Talking: It's because I have a topic I want to discuss even more so, so maybe we can get into that now.
• 10:44
  I Hate Talking: Are you ready for that, or do we need to talk more about this origins and all that?
• 10:49
  I Hate Talking: I don't, I'm sort of curious on the light pop thing.
• 10:53
  I Hate Talking: I don't know if we've put that to bed.
• 10:55
  I Hate Talking: What is it?
• 10:56
  I Hate Talking: Why is lollipop and sucker different, right?
• 11:00
  I Hate Talking: Is that a regional thing?
• 11:01
  I Hate Talking: Let's find out.
• 11:02
  I Hate Talking: Or is there even another word, right?
• 11:06
  I Hate Talking: Like you have pop and soda and I don't know.
• 11:09
  I Hate Talking: I thought there was a 3rd, 3rd word, but lollipop is more commonly used in British English.
• 11:15
  I Hate Talking: -- Sucker is often used in American -- English.
• 11:17
  I Hate Talking: In Britain, don't they call it a lolly?
• 11:19
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I've heard that before.
• 11:21
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 11:22
  I Hate Talking: So according to Luna Candy Company, so perhaps they are experts on candy, so they probably can have a say.
• 11:31
  I Hate Talking: They, on their website, state that the difference between a lollipop and a sucker is not technically different.
• 11:41
  I Hate Talking: It's basically hard candy on a stick.
• 11:43
  I Hate Talking: There's a whole bunch of like history.
• 11:46
  I Hate Talking: It's like we're reading one of those recipes, like, Well, if I was to tell you the difference in my head.
• 11:53
  I Hate Talking: What the difference between a lollipop and a sucker are.
• 11:56
  I Hate Talking: So if someone use them interchangeably, I wouldn't have an issue with it.
• 12:00
  I Hate Talking: But for me, when I'm describing it to somebody, like to my children, go get a lollipop.
• 12:07
  I Hate Talking: I'm thinking one of those really big.
• 12:10
  I Hate Talking: Kind of flat, circled.
• 12:13
  I Hate Talking: They're often like striped or multicolored.
• 12:17
  I Hate Talking: Do you know what I'm talking about?
• 12:18
  I Hate Talking: And it's on a stick and it's like huge and you can't ever eat it in one setting and then you put it down, and it gets sticky everywhere.
• 12:25
  I Hate Talking: So that's what I think about as a lollipop and then a sucker is like a small circle one that is just a couple, you know, in a couple of minutes it's gone.
• 12:34
  I Hate Talking: That actually is, if you read all the way down to the bottom of Luna Candy's website, they do say that in general nowadays, lollipops tend to be the larger sort of flattened disk type candies, that's, whereas suckers are the smaller, more compact, spherical shaped.
• 12:54
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, that's, well, there you go.
• 12:56
  I Hate Talking: I know my candy.
• 12:57
  I Hate Talking: Yes, but they still maintain that that's not actually where it came from, and This, in terms of the history of lollipop, is that the machine that was invented, so according to their history section here on the website, is that The machine that was invented in order to produce said candy was called the lollipop machine, invented in 2008 by George Smith.
• 13:25
  I Hate Talking: So lollipop was Perhaps a little bit more of the official term at the start of the invention of said candy, and then it seems like sucker became more of a Euphemism Of how the candy was eaten, that people started using and that term.
• 13:46
  I Hate Talking: Stuck.
• 13:48
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 13:48
  I Hate Talking: I mean, it's a better definition of what you're doing.
• 13:52
  I Hate Talking: A lollipop is cute, just too long of a name.
• 13:55
  I Hate Talking: Well, I think sucker can have a lot of different meanings, right?
• 13:58
  I Hate Talking: Like we talked about, it could be this other word completely that means running to the assistance of or aiding people, or it can be the person that is easily duped.
• 14:09
  I Hate Talking: I don't think there is any other.
• 14:11
  I Hate Talking: Particular word usage for lollipop, like a lollipop is a lollipop.
• 14:16
  I Hate Talking: Yes, lollipop is a type of sugar candy, hard candy usually mounted on a stick.
• 14:22
  I Hate Talking: So I'm going to continue to use the term lollipop for a particular hard candy on a stick.
• 14:29
  I Hate Talking: All candies?
• 14:30
  I Hate Talking: No, a particular hard candy on a stick flat.
• 14:33
  I Hate Talking: No, all, no, hard, hard candy on a stick.
• 14:36
  I Hate Talking: A dum dumb is a lollipop.
• 14:38
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I actually met a guy that was born and raised in the town that invented Dum Dums.
• 14:43
  I Hate Talking: Oh.
• 14:44
  I Hate Talking: Huh Interesting.
• 14:47
  I Hate Talking: That was like his one claim to fame, so, or his talent's claim to fame rather.
• 14:53
  I Hate Talking: Well, good for him.
• 14:55
  I Hate Talking: Does he like Dum Dums?
• 14:56
  I Hate Talking: Do they, does he eat them?
• 14:57
  I Hate Talking: I did not ask.
• 14:58
  I Hate Talking: That'd be cool if we lived in that town.
• 15:02
  I Hate Talking: I'd give everyone Dum Dums who came to visit us.
• 15:04
  I Hate Talking: I'd get a bag of Dum Dums as a welcome gift.
• 15:07
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 15:08
  I Hate Talking: Well, they would be suckered by the sucker because they would be aided by the candy on a stick, I suppose.
• 15:15
  I Hate Talking: All right, so now we'll get into why you wanted to talk about this word to begin with, -- I -- suppose.
• 15:22
  I Hate Talking: OK, let's pivot now.
• 15:23
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, so I wanna talk.
• 15:26
  I Hate Talking: Because, um, you know, we moved this past year, and so we've had a lot of work done on our old home, a lot of work done on our new home.
• 15:37
  I Hate Talking: And Partially because of our phase of life, a lot of it because of time constraints, we've had to hire help to do a lot of house stuff like painting, fixing things, etc.
• 15:53
  I Hate Talking: that we would normally have in the past done ourselves.
• 15:56
  I Hate Talking: You and I are big DIYs, but this move kind of took us by surprise and Just things have happened this year's been crazy, so we hired out help, and I've always been jealous of, I mean, jealous is a harsh word, but people that hire say painters.
• 16:14
  I Hate Talking: I've always been like, oh, that must be nice, because I grew up, my family was very big with DIY.
• 16:21
  I Hate Talking: we had to paint everything, we had to do everything ourselves, and you and I do that, especially in the beginning of out of necessity.
• 16:31
  I Hate Talking: And then cause we enjoy it and because we're kind of cheap, and so we do it, and I've always kind of just been like, oh, that'd be so nice.
• 16:38
  I Hate Talking: Seeing the work.
• 16:41
  I Hate Talking: That professionals do, a lot of it, I mean, some I can't do, and I'm thankful.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: I'm thankful for all of it.
• 16:48
  I Hate Talking: Some of it I could not do, period.
• 16:50
  I Hate Talking: A lot of it, I look and go, I could have done a better job.
• 16:54
  I Hate Talking: Well, that is true.
• 16:55
  I Hate Talking: That's one of the reasons that I do prefer DIY and you left that out of your list is that I'm fairly particular when it comes to the results of a particular project.
• 17:05
  I Hate Talking: So oftentimes I do prefer to do something myself because I will do it in a way that is The outcome is satisfactory to my liking.
• 17:16
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, we had, uh, did have one issue with some professionals and I had to call up their, you know, call it back like, hey, this wasn't done appropriately or safely.
• 17:27
  I Hate Talking: I mean, it wasn't a safe thing they did.
• 17:29
  I Hate Talking: So I had to call and we had followed up about it.
• 17:32
  I Hate Talking: The person, the owner was like, Should I come back out?
• 17:35
  I Hate Talking: And I was like, honestly, my husband can just do it himself.
• 17:38
  I Hate Talking: Because at that point you were like, I don't trust them to, it was our kids' beds they were making, and we weren't happy with the quality that they did.
• 17:47
  I Hate Talking: And so the hardware was not installed properly.
• 17:50
  I Hate Talking: It was loose.
• 17:51
  I Hate Talking: Some of it was OK, like bolts were tightened too.
• 17:55
  I Hate Talking: Unnecessary tightness, but many of them were completely loose and the structure was not secure.
• 18:04
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, and they're bunk beds.
• 18:05
  I Hate Talking: So if the top bunk falls, underneath its squished or who knows, you know, like this is not something we want to mess with safety wise.
• 18:13
  I Hate Talking: And that's why when I was like, he'll just do it himself.
• 18:16
  I Hate Talking: And she was like, oh yeah, I understand.
• 18:18
  I Hate Talking: My husband would do the same.
• 18:19
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 18:20
  I Hate Talking: And these aren't like cheap.
• 18:22
  I Hate Talking: Metal death trap bunk beds, but they're wooden structure that are assembled and have a variety of supports and everything like that.
• 18:33
  I Hate Talking: So you built them and you did a great job building them, and then somebody else took them apart and somebody else rebuilt them here.
• 18:42
  I Hate Talking: So they did not have the plans.
• 18:44
  I Hate Talking: I was at least impressed by that, that like the hardware was used in the correct spots.
• 18:49
  I Hate Talking: I did not have to change any of the hardware.
• 18:52
  I Hate Talking: In terms of where it was utilized, but it did, it was just, it was not, yeah, it was not, not secure.
• 18:58
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, so anyways, I think that, and then the same thing like with painting, I just look and I'm just kind of like, oh, like, I thought in my head, like, you know, if we hired painters, the ceiling, you know, the edging would just be crisp and great, and it's not.
• 19:16
  I Hate Talking: And I, I feel really bad saying that, and I don't want to sound unthankful or anything like that, so please don't think that at all.
• 19:24
  I Hate Talking: I think that's what I want to talk about is like, I think I've learned from this process that like, I don't mind being a DIYer because I like saving money, first of all, and I think I'm more proud, like I can look at that and go, hey, look, I did that.
• 19:38
  I Hate Talking: And in the grand scheme of things, this has given me a better self-confidence in my skills.
• 19:44
  I Hate Talking: I'm like, oh.
• 19:45
  I Hate Talking: I could do that or better.
• 19:47
  I Hate Talking: So like.
• 19:48
  I Hate Talking: Good job, me.
• 19:50
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 19:51
  I Hate Talking: So I feel more self-confident in my abilities now.
• 19:54
  I Hate Talking: Indeed.
• 19:55
  I Hate Talking: So, yeah, I will tackle painting and Hardware projects, drywalling and things like that, plumbing to a degree, like, I'll do the Fixtures and pipes.
• 20:07
  I Hate Talking: Like I'm not going to probably take apart walls to get the plumbing per se.
• 20:12
  I Hate Talking: No, but like installing dishwashers.
• 20:14
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I've done dishwashers.
• 20:17
  I Hate Talking: The only thing that I do particularly stay away from is electrical work.
• 20:22
  I Hate Talking: The only thing that I feel comfortable doing for my own personal safety and not necessarily the fact of doing it in a certain way or doing it in a way that is cheaper than a professional, but strictly for my own safety is I only do things at the junction boxes.
• 20:40
  I Hate Talking: I won't ever do anything upstream.
• 20:42
  I Hate Talking: So, I can take the particular precautions of making sure the service panel is switched off so that there's no electricity.
• 20:52
  I Hate Talking: I have the tools with like a multimeter to check if there's any current remaining in the system and things like that, but I'll just swap out things at the junction boxes with like Swapping a switch or an outlet or installing a ceiling fan or something like that, but in terms of like rewiring or messing with anything that I'm not 100% sure is not a live circuit, then I don't do that.
• 21:16
  I Hate Talking: Is that because you're afraid to get electrocuted or you're afraid to start a fire?
• 21:20
  I Hate Talking: My own personal safety, electrocution.
• 21:22
  I Hate Talking: Now, in America, it's 110 volts.
• 21:25
  I Hate Talking: It's not gonna probably kill you, it can.
• 21:28
  I Hate Talking: It's not like other regions of the world where they're working with 220 and things like that.
• 21:32
  I Hate Talking: I don't know what any of that means, but I believe you.
• 21:35
  I Hate Talking: Well, and it's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amperage anyway, so there you go.
• 21:38
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I agree.
• 21:41
  I Hate Talking: I think you are very handy, and I mean, now YouTube and all that is so helpful because we can just look stuff up.
• 21:48
  I Hate Talking: It's a bit of a pet peeve for me.
• 21:49
  I Hate Talking: I hate YouTube, how to.
• 21:52
  I Hate Talking: I'd rather read it.
• 21:53
  I Hate Talking: Oh no.
• 21:54
  I Hate Talking: I have to watch this 5 minute video to find like the 32nd clip of the thing that I need, whereas I could skim the equivalent information in a written format in said 30 seconds and find the exact paragraph that I need for what I need to do.
• 22:10
  I Hate Talking: You're an excellent skimmer.
• 22:11
  I Hate Talking: Like you can read really quickly, so that's, I can understand you thinking that.
• 22:16
  I Hate Talking: I like watching someone do it and if you search YouTube properly, and nowadays it will um give you the whole video, but it sends it straight to that little section, -- that 30 -- seconds.
• 22:29
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it's still, I still find it annoying.
• 22:31
  I Hate Talking: I was actually watching a video on social media and it was a thing about how like you can speed read and it was like, we'll start at 200 words per minute or something like that, and it was like scrolling each word.
• 22:44
  I Hate Talking: And then it was like, now we'll go to 300.
• 22:47
  I Hate Talking: I was like, this is really slow.
• 22:48
  I Hate Talking: Let me put this on double speed.
• 22:50
  I Hate Talking: And I was like, now we're at 500, you're at like so fast.
• 22:53
  I Hate Talking: And I was reading this at 1000 speed.
• 22:54
  I Hate Talking: So and you could read it at 1000 words per minute.
• 22:58
  I Hate Talking: I was not catching every word, but maybe like every 9 out of 10 words, yeah.
• 23:03
  I Hate Talking: I, I want you to do it for me.
• 23:05
  I Hate Talking: I wanna see how fast I can read.
• 23:07
  I Hate Talking: OK, we'll find out and you can see if you can read it 200 words per minute or cause I was, I, I found it slow.
• 23:15
  I Hate Talking: And so I was like, I'll put this on double speed and then I was still able to keep up, but.
• 23:20
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, it was a strange experience.
• 23:23
  I Hate Talking: And you can regurgitate what you read.
• 23:26
  I Hate Talking: I don't remember it I can read quick, but then I have a hard time retaining the information.
• 23:35
  I Hate Talking: I actually find it easier to retain information when you're reading it quickly because you're not reading every word, you're taking concepts and thoughts.
• 23:44
  I Hate Talking: So it's not good for like if you wanted to like proofread something.
• 23:49
  I Hate Talking: You can't speed read.
• 23:51
  I Hate Talking: But if you are just getting like general concepts, and really the concept of skimming something is you're not necessarily going to get every single detail.
• 24:01
  I Hate Talking: So if there is a need to read like a contract or something, I'm not going to read at that speed, but I'm just generally getting an idea of something.
• 24:11
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I can interpret and retain that, and actually, in most cases, retain that better.
• 24:19
  I Hate Talking: Then if I was reading.
• 24:21
  I Hate Talking: At a slower pace for specific details.
• 24:24
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 24:25
  I Hate Talking: Hm.
• 24:26
  I Hate Talking: Sometimes I read things backwards.
• 24:28
  I Hate Talking: That's a great way to proofread things.
• 24:30
  I Hate Talking: Like the word backwards, like sucker would be.
• 24:34
  I Hate Talking: No, no, no, you just, no, you read the, the words backwards.
• 24:38
  I Hate Talking: Backwards you would read the words.
• 24:40
  I Hate Talking: Oh, very Yoda of you, like the Mandalorian.
• 24:44
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 24:45
  I Hate Talking: We've come circle full.
• 24:46
  I Hate Talking: But yeah, I think the other thing, uh, you're talking about what you like doing and don't like doing.
• 24:52
  I Hate Talking: I have found a love, and I don't think you appreciate this love necessarily, but I love our stud finder.
• 25:03
  I Hate Talking: In previous homes, I just kind of would willy-nilly, if it was a heavy thing specifically or important thing, I'd wait for you and you would hang it up.
• 25:12
  I Hate Talking: And then when we left a couple of homes ago, we had so many nail holes that you were like, never again are we using a nail and hammer.
• 25:21
  I Hate Talking: Only 3 M's that come off easy.
• 25:24
  I Hate Talking: So that's what we did in our previous home.
• 25:27
  I Hate Talking: Well, it comes to eight year old 3M.
• 25:30
  I Hate Talking: Strips, those little like ones that aren't supposed to leave any marks on your wall.
• 25:35
  I Hate Talking: After 8 years, they take the paint off.
• 25:38
  I Hate Talking: They, uh, do not last.
• 25:42
  I Hate Talking: That law or they, so we found that out this past move.
• 25:47
  I Hate Talking: And so then I was like, well, I'm gonna might as well do a hole.
• 25:50
  I Hate Talking: I think it's probably easier to patch a hole in the hole.
• 25:52
  I Hate Talking: 3M strip that got ripped off.
• 25:55
  I Hate Talking: So I've been going around our house using.
• 25:59
  I Hate Talking: A nail and hammer often now, and I'm having so much fun finding all the studs in our house.
• 26:06
  I Hate Talking: It's so rewarding.
• 26:08
  I Hate Talking: Well, stud finding technology has advanced quite significantly over the years.
• 26:12
  I Hate Talking: So, like the one that you're using is like.
• 26:15
  I Hate Talking: Very specific.
• 26:17
  I Hate Talking: Like you can find the edge of the stud and the center of the stud, and you can change it for different material depths and things like that.
• 26:26
  I Hate Talking: So if you're looking at just drywall or if you're doing like something that's perhaps more concrete, like -- concrete -- iron, it shows where the metal is and iron and yes, it can even detect like wires and things like that, which There have been electrical.
• 26:45
  I Hate Talking: Style stud finders for a while now, I guess, where at least you can find the stud and it will beep when you're near it or in the middle.
• 26:54
  I Hate Talking: But I remember using my dad's stud finder and it was a magnet.
• 26:59
  I Hate Talking: And not only did you have to, you, you didn't have to find the stud, you had to find the nail in the drywall attached to the stud, and then like hang a plumb bob to the where that mark was so that you could go down.
• 27:18
  I Hate Talking: And then he had to make sure that the stud was like.
• 27:21
  I Hate Talking: Actually level or straight.
• 27:23
  I Hate Talking: So you had to sort of assume that so you could perhaps do two nails and draw a line between the two to see if the stud was, it was lined up, yes.
• 27:33
  I Hate Talking: And that was a lot of work.
• 27:35
  I Hate Talking: That sounds ridiculous, but that probably costs about the same amount of money as the common stud finders now too, huh?
• 27:44
  I Hate Talking: They're not, right?
• 27:47
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I would say so.
• 27:48
  I Hate Talking: But, uh, the one that we have now, it is again, so rewarding, because like you were talking about, it tells you where the beginning of it is in the middle and the end.
• 27:58
  I Hate Talking: And it flashes and beeps, and I sort of feel like I've won a contest or, you know, like, um, you're in Vegas with the slot machines or something as I'm finding this stud and then it's like.
• 28:10
  I Hate Talking: I'm like, yes, I found it.
• 28:13
  I Hate Talking: And it, I, I get so excited.
• 28:15
  I Hate Talking: So that's what I've been doing the last couple of days is walking around with my.
• 28:18
  I Hate Talking: Screwdriver and.
• 28:21
  I Hate Talking: Putting screws and nails everywhere.
• 28:24
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 28:26
  I Hate Talking: But I think it looks nice, right?
• 28:29
  I Hate Talking: It's not cluttered or overcrowded.
• 28:32
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it looks good down till we take everything down and we'll have to patch all the holes and repaint everything, and then the paint doesn't match.
• 28:38
  I Hate Talking: So then we have to repaint everything.
• 28:40
  I Hate Talking: And then we get paint on the carpet, and then we have to replace the carpet, and then so on and so forth.
• 28:45
  I Hate Talking: So, which that's what happened to the previous, previous owners that sold the house and they hired professionals and the paint was all over the carpet, so much so that they had to pay to replace the carpet.
• 28:56
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, we got.
• 28:57
  I Hate Talking: Should have DIY'ed it.
• 28:59
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, maybe, yeah, we lucked out of that.
• 29:02
  I Hate Talking: It was the previous owners and we got some new flooring because of it.
• 29:05
  I Hate Talking: That would have bummed me out if you hire professionals and then they screw up and then we had extra payments.
• 29:13
  I Hate Talking: Because any of the stuff that the, well they, they went after the painters.
• 29:18
  I Hate Talking: Oh, they did.
• 29:19
  I Hate Talking: I'm not 100% certain, but I've heard rumors from, from the realty people.
• 29:25
  I Hate Talking: Uh, yeah, so I think that was the whole thing was like.
• 29:30
  I Hate Talking: The question about sucker and like getting help or aid with something versus just doing it yourself.
• 29:36
  I Hate Talking: So that's what I wanted to talk about because I, my takeaway now is I'm so thankful that we were able to hire out people.
• 29:46
  I Hate Talking: First of all, that's a huge blessing.
• 29:49
  I Hate Talking: But my takeaway is I am so much more confident in my abilities, and I think I do a pretty good job now actually.
• 29:59
  I Hate Talking: You do better, I will say for sure you are much more meticulous.
• 30:04
  I Hate Talking: And say we're painting, I won't usually go straight up to the ceiling because I don't have a steady hand.
• 30:11
  I Hate Talking: So I'll paint all of it except for that line, and then you'll come in.
• 30:15
  I Hate Talking: And do the line, but as a team, we do that.
• 30:19
  I Hate Talking: Versus a professional who seems to do as good of a job as I would do with blue paint tape and all.
• 30:26
  I Hate Talking: -- There you -- go.
• 30:27
  I Hate Talking: I suppose my takeaway is that I'm realizing how much perhaps of my childhood lexicon is.
• 30:33
  I Hate Talking: Informed by British.
• 30:37
  I Hate Talking: Instead of German.
• 30:40
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I, with the pronunciations, yes, Saker.
• 30:45
  I Hate Talking: Versus sucker, that's the British pronunciation, archaic, of course, and, and sort of the Lollipop versus the the sucker.
• 30:58
  I Hate Talking: Both are American, but it seems like lollipop is preferred by the British as well.
• 31:03
  I Hate Talking: There you go, yeah, I agree.
• 31:05
  I Hate Talking: So if you enjoyed this episode and want to aid a friend in perhaps understanding Any of these words or?
• 31:16
  I Hate Talking: The discussion on doing it yourself versus hiring a professional, you can always Sucker them To this episode.
• 31:25
  I Hate Talking: Well, I don't, I mean, I guess it could be open for interpretation.
• 31:29
  I Hate Talking: Are you running to their aid and sharing this episode so that they can learn, or are you suckering them in to listen to this and take them and dupe them?
• 31:39
  I Hate Talking: -- If -- you're a kid especially listening, man, I would have used this when I was a kid if I knew this word, because say you wanna diss your sibling.
• 31:49
  I Hate Talking: You're such a sucker.
• 31:50
  I Hate Talking: My mom would yell at me, right?
• 31:52
  I Hate Talking: Like, not yell, but like, hey.
• 31:54
  I Hate Talking: We don't say that word.
• 31:55
  I Hate Talking: I like I'm saying he's so helpful.
• 31:57
  I Hate Talking: Thank you for being such a helpful sibling.
• 32:00
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, I would have 100% said that.
• 32:03
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I don't know if it works as a noun.
• 32:06
  I Hate Talking: You could use it as a verb, like, you suckered me, and that would be like, No, in the definition, it's a noun and the verb sucker.
• 32:15
  I Hate Talking: I read it in the beginning.
• 32:17
  I Hate Talking: It's now, yes, OK.
• 32:19
  I Hate Talking: You're such a I suppose so.
• 32:22
  I Hate Talking: So a person can be a sucker.
• 32:25
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, but I would have totally tried to.
• 32:29
  I Hate Talking: -- It's -- a I would have tried to insult my sibling and then try to turn it around as a positive.
• 32:35
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, the noun does not refer to a person, though.
• 32:38
  I Hate Talking: Oh no, it is one that affords assistant relief.
• 32:41
  I Hate Talking: Oh, OK.
• 32:42
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 32:43
  I Hate Talking: You're such a sucker.
• 32:44
  I Hate Talking: So there you go, if you want to.
• 32:47
  I Hate Talking: If someone And then if you get called out, you can flip it quickly and actually try to encourage them and be positive.
• 32:56
  I Hate Talking: It works out really well.
• 32:58
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 33:00
  I Hate Talking: Or you could just use the word lollipop and then aid, and then no one will be confused.
• 33:06
  I Hate Talking: That's what I will do.
• 33:08
  I Hate Talking: I believe you.
• 33:09
  I Hate Talking: So, from your friends at I Hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.