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Not directly related to C&E, but came across this article about "family" vloggers giving up their adopted kid. It contains this gem about the "family" vloggers and maybe what we have to look forward to: https://www.thecut.com/2024/06/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pocket_hits&utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-SPONSORED&FINANCEBUZZ-2024_06_12=&sponsored=0&position=3&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=fd3b41ab-3a11-49ba-b4fe-fd9479c78332&url=https://www.thecut.com/2024/06/youtube-myka-james-stauffer-huxley-adoption.html

I tend to disagree, we are not seeing Older Sheldon tell the story of Young Sheldon. I think they started off the show that way, but it deviated fairly quickly in the first season. There are too many scenes that occur that are not from Sheldon's point of view, and that he would not have been aware of. I would also say that as a viewer I think there have been many episodes that don't even include a narration, of if they have narration it's been so inconsequential to my viewing of the story that I don't remember it. I think we are seeing the Young Sheldon story as an observer, with occasional narration by Older Sheldon when he is either involved, or has some opinion about what happened. I think this is what explains the discrepancies.

I also liked season 1, but this one felt very cartoonish.

I think the "tricky" is the marketing and business development side of things. To user your phrasing, there are "rubes" from all over the country moving to Central Florida, and based on the Facebook post in my neighborhood, most of them don't have the skills to change the paper roll in the bathroom without hiring someone to do it. A challenge in Central Florida is that there are pockets of people that don't need a handyman to hang a curtain rod, and then there are places where people are willing to pay $150-$200 a window to hang a curtain rod. From the videos that I've watched since they moved to Florida it looks like they are in the Eustis area. The area they are in, and probably for about 30-40 minute drive around (especially to the north, east and west) mostly has people that are capable of doing a lot of things for themselves. If you go about hour south in the Dr. Phillips/Windemere area around Universal and Disney, or southeast over to the Lake Nona area you've got a crap ton of big city transplants that are challenged with changing the sprinkler head on their irrigation system and are constantly begging people to show up and do the most mundane of home maintenance tasks. Really, just showing up on time and attempting the job will get a five star review. As long as he does nothing that modified the structure of the house, he can do pretty much anything as a handyman in Florida. This especially plays to his strength building things (cabinets, shelves, beds, builtins,etc) and there is still a ton of demand for that. I see weekly post in my neighborhood looking for someone to do those kinds of things. I'm curious if he really "moved" Pain Construction though. It's been a couple of months, but when I was renewing my company's Florida state and local registrations I looked online for Paine Construction in the public registration databases maintained by the state and local counties and didn't find anything. I wonder if he moved down here and went to work for someone else.

I think what happened during the pandemic was school at home vs home schooling. I know our local districts here in Central Florida simply had the kids log in on a laptop and watch the teacher . Now, that is pretty much what the Webster's are doing (and I assume most of the other siblings). They get the ABECCA (?? spelling) DVD's that have basically filmed the teacher in front of a classroom and make the kids sit there and watch. There's really no big difference between that and sending your kid to a school, since they develop not at their pace, but at the pace of the class on the DVD.

Homeschooling does not mean you can't go to Ga. Tech. Public school doesn't mean you're going to get in to Ga. Tech either. I know people like to snark on the Bates here, but the level of ignorance about home schooling and bias towards public schools is frustrating to read. As a parent of a grown and successful child that was home schooled I've seen bad home schooling and a I've seen really successful home schooling. Growing up as an Army brat, I am the product of many public school systems across the county and a couple of DOD schools, and I've seen some good schools and some really bad public schools. It's anecdotal, but of four or five girls my daughter grew up with that wanted to be doctors or vets, the only two that made it (one to medical school and the other vet school) were home schooled. The public schooled kids hit college math and biology courses and were out for the count. I have numerous friends that teach in public schools, mostly at the elementary level, and they refer to the system as "an age based promotion system" in which ability or merit plays no part. From the one 9 week break we took from home schooling in the fourth grade I'd have to agree.

When I originally watched season 1 & 2, and then rewatched again while waiting for season 3, the way this show worked as fable telling vehicle reminded me of my favorite TV show of all time, the Andy Griffith show. If you've ever talked to an Andy fan you know the Black & White episodes are considered the finest. You watch them over and over again, can quote dialog and story lines. The Color episodes are OK, but you don't go out of your way to watch them again. Then there's Mayberry RFD that you may have watched once, but it's the spin off with all the supporting characters that still wanted to keep going when Andy quit. I think this show is pretty much the same. Seasons 1&2 are awesome, and you can rewatch and enjoy in a timeless manner. Season 3, most will have watched it at least once but it won't be on the must rewatch list to love and know Ted Lasso. And if there's a spin-of like Richmond - Keely PR, well, ...

I think what's wrong it is too 2 years to get here. I didn't watch seasons 1 and 2 when they came out since I didn't have apple so I was able to stream them for the first time in the middle of 2022. According to IMDB Season 1 ran Sept-Oct 2020, Season 2 ran Jul - Oct 2021 and then we waited until March of 2023 for season 3 to start. I think the delay in the timing of season 3 gave the creators and writers too much time to reflect on what they had produced and let the great press they were getting go to their heads. Instead of a show that was about a goofy but effective football turned soccer coach, they started writing for all the supporting stories that came out of that premise and lost the charm and cohesiveness of the original and sidelined the main story. As it is, I feel like I'm watching a different show in season 3.

Showed up here thinking this would be a major topic of conversation. Got a page long discourse on dog breeds and behavior. Guess I'm just too simple, because the "I took Spanish at community college" line made me pause the stream so I could laugh and enjoy it. I really never looked at the dang dog.

How much narrating did Adult Sheldon do in this last episode? I'm not going to re-watch, but I can't remember a single time the I heard from Adult Sheldon. In the beginning I don't think we had shows that didn't include a lot of Adult Sheldon talking about what happened. I really don't understand why people can't get over the bolded. I know based on my life experience, this is a very reasonable explanation. I grew up with one side of my family heavily influenced by anti-drinking religions, and drinking any amount == alcoholic. They often labeled members of the other side of my family as alcoholics and womanizers. If you had asked me to characterize some of these relatives in my late 20's, early 30's I would have used some of these labels to sum them up, because that's what I'd heard. In most cases it would be wrong. If you tell me Sheldon had a religious mother, and she and the dad broke up, and the dad drank, I have no problem believing that she would regularly describe him as an alcoholic. It might even work as part of her coping mechanism as she makes a life without George in the future. I can easily see Sheldon adopting that explanation and excuse, especially if he feels the results of these future events impact him negatively in some way. It's an easy way to label something that was a problem, blame someone and move on. Even further, since in this show we are seeing what Sheldon didn't see (things like MeeMaw running the "arcade" and Georgie having conversations with Mandy, Misty and Billy talking in front of the school, etc) we are experiencing The Coopers, not Sheldon's biography. And that's what I'm enjoying seeing, not a lot of scripts that just show me Kid Sheldon doing things that Adult Sheldon said on BBT.

Doesn't this pretty much describe adult Sheldon for most of the BBT.

I agree with @SilverStormm's ranking of the other versions. I liked the host of the UK the best, and the US the least. I liked the contestants of AUS the best and the US the least. I think AUS was the only one where there never seemed to be any screaming and shouting at breakfast or the round table. I also thought that the AUS players seemed to put the most time into trying to figure out how a traitor was acting. Once they latched onto the swimming for the shield contest, they pretty much had all the original traitors. I also liked the AUS version having the pile of silver bars in the middle of the round table each episode. I think the UK version seemed to show more explanations of how the game was being played given to the players. For instance I think it was in the first episode that the host said that the traitors would be able to recruit. I also think it was the UK version where one of the Traitors summed up their feelings about "lying" to the others by saying it was no different than sitting around playing poker with these others and bluffing. It's the game and how you play it. I watched the non-US version spoiled, and it really didn't impact my enjoyment of the show. In fact when and episode started I'd head to the Wikipedia page to see what was going to happen and watch for it. In reading the Wikipedia, I ended up linking to the Netherlands version. It seems they've had 3 seasons (Netherlands Traitors). I like how they did the end game: I think the game is really tilted towards the Traitor winning it all, so I think I like either of these end games better than the ones shows in the AUS/UK/US versions of the show.

Much the same way her older brother was in an earlier season when he found Missy and Sheldon at a high school party when they shouldn't have been. I'd say it goes to how they were raised by Mary and George that leads to that behavior.

I've been ambivalent about the database story line to date, since they need to give Sheldon something to do other than be a smart ass in class, but this episode finally put me over the edge. Even in the early 90's there wasn't a need for a mainframe to accomplish what the university was trying to do, and having a standard household plug on the VAX was just the last straw. From 90 - 94 I worked for an airport authority that was always trying to get grant money for projects. We bought an electronic copy of all available Federal grants (each grant document was an ASCII file) from the US Government Publishing office. I think the first year it came on a large number of 3.5in floppies and at some point during that time frame transitioned to a CD. We would put all the files on the hard drive of a plain ol PC computer that was used the Government Affairs department and run a commercial program called Xyindex on them. They had one guy whose sole job was to search those files for grants the airport would be eligible to receive. Once the files were indexed the key word searching was remarkably quick.

I really enjoyed the show. I think this would have been better with either an all "normals" group, or an all "reality stars" group. I think mixing them up caused a number of the "normals" to be overshadowed, maybe intimidated. In my opinion the "competitive" reality stars played a better game that the "drama' reality stars. They seemed to understand that they needed to work the group, not bully their opinions onto the group. I found it funny that Cirie and Cody were complaining in the talking heads about how talkative Christian was, but it was Cody that got busted first by running his mouth. I have to say, one thing I loved about Christian was how he showed up the Traitor meetings enthusiastic and ready to off the next faithful. Cody was crying in his beer about how he had to vote people off, and Cirie was just keeping her masterful poker face. Christians reactions in the big group were cringy, but I did love the Traitor meetings, he understood why he was there. Cirie played the game masterfully. I'm not sure I see a way to play this game as a faithful and win, as there seems nothing in the gameplay to reveal the traitors. It sort of comes down to trying to read everyone's mind and that's what seemed to happen here. X is acting different that I would so they must be a traitor. That seems like a weak thing to make the banishment decisions on.