Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

I am David Chan, joining me as usual.

He's Patrick Kleppick. Patrick.

How is your Memorial Day weekend?

It was delightful, simultaneously relaxing and exhausting.

He was like, oh, I'm hanging out with a bunch of people I like hanging out with.

Time to stay up late with them and then get up early with my children.

Need a vacation with my children.

Need a vacation from my vacation.

But it was delightful.

It was boats and beers and pools and good times with lots of family and friends.

So how about yourself?

I know it's not what is you should put up a sign that says like Hawk if you love Memorial Day.

Yeah, I also had a good Memorial Day or as we call it here in portugal monday uh but yeah there's no memorial day here i did go to the beach you know

patrick kleppick there's something on the beaches here that i hadn't seen in the united states

people have a little wind screen i don't know if you've seen this, but I've seen like beach umbrellas and towels

and stuff, but something that people do is they'll put up a little screen. Think about like,

like four to five, three to four panels, but just go into the sand. And the idea is that you

lie down next to it and the screen protects you from sand that blows in your face

because it is very windy on the beaches here. So I'm going to the beach and I see like all these

windscreens all over the place. It's a new site. I've been to like beaches in America a bunch and

not like that. No. I see you see tent like a lot of times like a beach tents that like are like very thin fabric. I've seen those before in America, but like not like just. No. You see tent, like a lot of times like, a little mini tents.

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