John Siracusa

But that's not working on you.

Or not have a car at all and ride your bike everywhere, which will make you live longer too if you don't get hit by a car.

Well, she just feels the burden of being the frugal one to save money for the family, maybe.

Try this move.

Try saying, hey, honey, I've decided I don't actually need a new car, but we should spend this money on something fun.

What do you want to do with it?

So now it's not her worrying about spending additional money, but simply getting the money that you already think is going to spend and see what she says.

And then you have to say, no, I was just kidding.

I'm kidding.

All right.

You can say that I was trying to save you all the money and give it to Erin so she can do whatever she wants with it.

You got to bring her on the test drive and hope that she falls in love with it.

Yeah, what happened?

Yeah, I saw your picture of your driveway.

You've got barely enough to cover the ground.

We need a moratorium on unit conversions, especially since you can't do them in your head and then you're always just guessing.

If people are interested in doing the unit conversion, lots of ways that is possible after the fact.

But I feel like what we should instead be doing is slowly acclimating people to our weird units.

They do, but they're our units, and we talk about them, and that's, you know, by listening to the show, people will become familiar with them.

You went out and you shoveled half your driveway.