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Couple of days last week I took Manny to school on my motorcycle.

Griffin must think I'm pretty boss.

Yes, Jay.

It's all because of you.

Kids are looking for role models.

Why do you think Fonzie was so popular?

He told people that they were rich, but really took their money with his scheme?

Oh, that's a...

Yes.

Hola, Griffin.

How are you?

Oh, thirteen.

I'm fine.

So what do you boys have planned for today?

Well, it's kind of a surprise for Griffin, but let's just say it involves decoupage.

Oh, jeez.

Come on, let's go.

Goodbye.

Oh, no.

What?

You were right.

This boy is not here to see Manny.

I told you.

You see the way he looks at me?

No, Fonzie.

The way he looks at me.

He couldn't talk.

He kept staring.

He was just like my teachers back in school.

Gloria, you're very pretty.

But the kid idolizes me.

Really?

Griffin!

Manny!

Do you want to go with Jay to ride his motorcycle, or do you want to go with me to the supermarket and buy a couple of onions?

Motorcycle rides!

Onions sound good.

I'm really not getting that relationship.

Can't you just be happy that Manny's making new friends?

Yeah, because it doesn't add up.

So the connected speech we see here, can't you, it happens in the combination of letters T and U, so they make this new sound, can't you.

So can't you turns into can't you.

And this interesting phrase, it doesn't add up.

So Jay says, because it doesn't add up.

Ethan, can you define this?

Yeah, so if something doesn't add up, it means it doesn't make sense.

I believe it comes from mathematics, that if two things you're solving for X and the two things that add up, they're not coming out to the right formula, it probably has something to do with that.

Cool kids like Griffin and Cooper,

I don't hang out with kids like Manny.

Manny's very cool.

To hang out with is to just spend time with, right?

We usually hang out with our friends.

This is one of those really versatile phrasal verbs though, because someone could call you and ask you, say I call Ksenia, what are you doing?

She could say, oh, just hanging out, which means I'm not really doing anything.

She could be cleaning up, she could be watching a movie, but it's just a way to be vague with our language.

Did you notice here also Gloria's pronunciation of very?

Manny's very cool.

Yeah, she has this root, very pronounced root, yeah?

Like a R.

The top R, right?

Very.

Maybe those kids are finally catching up with you.

I get it.

That's an interesting use of the phrasal verb catch up.

To catch up with something, like imagine if you are running, or if you are riding a car, and if you catch up with another car, you make up the difference, so you become closer or on the same level.

But here it has another meaning.

In this context, what does it mean to catch up to someone?

Yeah, if you catch up to someone in this sense, it's saying, because she's saying that Manny is cool, like he's a trendsetter, and they're finally catching up, they're finally starting to be cool as well.

So he was cool in a different way, and the other kids are finally getting hip with his style.

Okay, so it's similar to the meaning of like catch up with something when you're running or riding, right?

There's another really nice way that we use this phrasal verb though.

If you and I haven't spoken in a long time,

I might say, well, let's have a call and catch up.

Meaning let's get up to date with what's been happening with you, what's been happening with me.

Like catching up with the news or catching up on the news.

Or catch up on a series, maybe, because you've been behind on the episodes.

Maybe with Netflix and so on, we don't use it so much nowadays, but when we used to have an episode coming out every single week, we might catch up because we missed a few weeks of the series.

Or if I'm taking a course, let's say, and I missed a couple of lessons, and now I have to catch up with my studies.

A couple of days last week,

I took Manny to school on my motorcycle.

Here a very common connected speech pattern, couple of days.

So the phrase couple of days, of is getting reduced totally.

We just hear a schwa sound here, couple of days.

Griffin must think I'm pretty boss.

Yeah, it's different.

That's a nice expression.

I'm pretty boss.

So he's not a boss, mafia boss or something.

Boss in this situation.

Boss is a slang meaning that someone is the best.

They're really cool.

They're really hip.

And it's funny because it's a more modern slang, and he's an old guy, so he's trying to be cool by using this modern slang, but it just doesn't fit at all with who he is and his age.

Just wanted to take a moment here to explain the word pretty.

So pretty, it's not in the sense of beautiful or handsome.

Pretty here is the sense of quite.

I'm quite a boss or I'm quite boss.

Notice the pronunciation as well.

That's not pretty.

That's pretty.

Kids are looking for role models.

Why do you think Fonzie was so popular?

He told people that they were rich, but really took their money with his scheme.

Oh, that's a yes.

I think he didn't want to explain too much to Gloria, so he just said yes, because there's a funny situation happening.

So Gloria confuses Fonzie and Ponzi.

Ethan, do you want to explain that to our viewers?

So Fonzie was a character,

I believe the series was called Happy Days, and he was this really cool guy who everyone looked up to.

We used that expression earlier.

That's exactly what Jay is talking about as a role model.

A role model is someone who you look up to, someone who you admire.

He just says yes, because he's not wanting to have to explain the confusion that she made, because a Ponzi scheme, which is what Gloria is defining there, is basically that it's like a pyramid scheme.

Hola Griffin, how are you?

Oh, 13.

I'm fine.

So what do you boys have planned for today?

Well, it's kind of a surprise for Griffin, but let's just say it involves decoupage.

Come on, let's go.

So here's an interesting connected speech pattern.

We drop the D sound in the word kind, and link this to off, but off changes the F to V, because it is followed by the vowel.

Kind of a.

So we link all three words together.

Kind of a.

Kind of a surprise.

Cassandra, I wanted to comment just on some of the context too here, because both of us were laughing that she asked him, how are you?

And he is aghast.

He's without words.

And then finally he says 13.

So he completely wasn't listening to the question.

He understood how old are you?

Because he's staring at Gloria, since she's wearing a very revealing outfit.

And the other funny thing here is Jay is wearing this leather jacket.

So he's probably trying to look cool like Fonzie.

And he's wearing his motorcycle jacket.

I have to be blatantly honest.

I don't know what a decoupage is.

Is it like paper mache or something?

Yeah.

It's just like you decorate a certain object or you want to reproduce a shape of some object.

And you use like strips of paper.

Like you need a lot of strips of paper.

And you glue several layers of paper on this object.

Jay says OGs after that, because it's this cool kid that he's wanting Manny to impress.

And he's doing something that's very artsy, not so cool by traditional terms.

Goodbye.

Oh, no.

What?

You were right.

This boy is not here to see Manny.

I told you.

You see the way he looks at me?

No, Fonzie.

The way he looks at me.

I told you.

The combination of letters D plus Y gives a new sound, J.

I told you becomes I told you.

No, Fonzie.

The way he looks at me.

He couldn't talk.

He kept staring.

He couldn't talk.

He kept staring.

He was just like my teachers back in school.

Gloria, you're very pretty.

But the kid idolizes you.

Really?

And she says that the boy was staring at her.

Staring is just to look closely, very attentively, without sometimes even blinking, right?

Kids might have a staring contest.

We did this when we were young.

Like you stare at each other to see who is the first one to blink.

Yeah, yeah.

And whoever blinks first loses.

So, idolizing someone is to really admire someone.

Usually it happens like with pop stars.

So, teenage girls usually idolize some pop stars.

And here is also interesting connected speech, right?

The kid idolizes me.

So, he links all these words together.

Kid idolizes me.

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Great, should we watch scene B?

Yeah, let's watch it.

You know, you're basically agreeing to a date with a 13-year-old boy.

Jay, we use this to get us tables at restaurants.

Why can't we use this to get Manny a friend?

Because he's not really getting a friend.

Oh, but when you thought that he was trying to ride your motorcycle, it was okay.

Maybe now I don't like what he's trying to ride.

Manny likes Griffin.

Maybe someday they spend enough time together,

Griffin will like Manny.

What? Griffin doesn't like me?

No, no, no, Papi, he loves you.

But you just said someday Griffin will like me.

That means he doesn't like me now.

You know what, kid?

We think that Griffin might be hanging out with you because he's got a little crush on your mother and me.

On you?

Wow, I can't believe it.

Listen, it's fine. You're going to be fine.

I'm sorry.

Are you kidding? It's fantastic.

How is it fantastic?

I'm only hanging out with him because I have the hots for his sister, Chloe.

You've met Griffin, the kid's a doorknob.

So, you're just using him?

Yeah, and I felt really guilty about it until now.

Now it's a win-win.

Not for me.

Just suck it up, Mom.

I've done a lot for you over the years.

Jay, you too.

This girl could be the one, then I'm out of your hair forever.

Pool party, Mom. Dress accordingly.

Thank you, Arias.

Ah, thank you.

Hey, Mom, guess what?

Griffin invited us all over to his house for a pool party and barbecue tonight.