Let's go.

Welcome to this.

We've got a special guest today, Emily Kaplan, not the sports reporter.

The other one.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well. How about you'm yeah i'm just i was looking for

firewood this morning because uh it finally got below 80 degrees in austin and i like having a fire at my

house um but it's been 90 most of the time so there's no firewood around around. I just have to go chop some down, I guess. Where are you at today? I'm in Boston. Boston. Is that where you're from? It's where I'm from. Originally, huh? Wow. And you, that's, let's get into it then. What was that like growing up in Boston? Or what part of the city, I guess? What's separate? Well, I'm like in the western suburbs. I went to high school in Cambridge, so I was in the city for high school. But it's changed a lot. So I'm not sure that what it represented as a kid is exactly the sort of craziness that we have going on here now.

But it was great. I mean, I think like I grew up in a pretty intellectual family where, you know,

learning about all kinds of different things was really important. My dad was an engineer and a scientist and still has a huge lab in our house and started a lot of

companies, really brought all of the kids into all of the business decisions.

So I think I was pretty lucky to grow up.

Sort of place where learning was really encouraged and critical thinking was essential and we were exposed to a lot of different things.

Like what?

What were we exposed to?

I don't know, like specifically throughout my whole childhood. I would say like all kinds of how do you solve problems, right?

So like my dad would present like an electrical

engineering problem to us and he'd try to get us to figure out how to take things apart put them

back together when my husband and I started dating his mom couldn't believe that I would like

heard a running toilet in the other room and like was like why don't you fix that and then like oh the

plumber can't be here for like a week I was like you, you guys don't know how to fix toilets? So just like, I mean, random stuff like that through my dad. But my dad was, I mean, on the military side, he was Naval Special Warfare before there was, before the seals were around. Yeah. That was also a big part of sort of like work hard, that ethos was definitely part of childhood.

My mom is an incredibly brilliant woman and taught us all to debate.

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