What's up guys!
Hey everybody!
So, it's Gavin here and Lauren!
And we're back with another vlog in English.
About a month ago I asked you all on my Facebook page, SmallAdvantages, to give me ideas for
20 facts about me.
But, Lauren's gonna answer them, okay?
So she's gonna answer them and see if she knows the 20 facts about me.
We've been married for how many years now?
I don't remember...
Oh my gosh!
About four and a half years now, and we've known each other for maybe eight years or
so.
So, she oughta know a lot of these things about me; let's get started!
Here's all the questions; I'll let Lauren just pick whatever one she wants.
Alright.
By the way, these are all in Portuguese, so like: "seu filme favorito," I'm gonna translate
into English for her.
I bet I know what that says.
What do you, what does that say?
What's your favorite movie!
Olha só - look at that!
What are my - actually, what are my three favorite movies Lauren?
Oh, okay: Stranger Than Fiction.
Yes.
Signs.
Yes.
And I actually don't know what the third...
Bridesmaids?
That is a really good one... but no.
I don't know what the third one is!
I forget what the third one is too!
It must be really one of your top favorites.
Oh, one of the best!
Lemme tell ya...
Can't even remember what it is!
Aw, yeah, I dunno.
Alright, next.
Okay.
How many siblings do I have, what is their age and my age, and are we gonna teach English
for our, to our children?
Teach English to our children?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Maybe they meant Portuguese...
Yeah.
Do you think we'll teach Portuguese to our kids?
Probably!
That means you're gonna hafta learn some.
Aw, yeah.
I know some.
I knew the last question!
Oh, she did!
How many siblings do I have?
One.
And then what is my age and my sibling's age?
You are 28.
Ding ding ding ding!
And she's 26.
That's right!
What's up sis!
Let's see.
Do you like basketball?
What's your team?
Oh man.
He does like basketball, although it's not his favorite sport, which is baseball, but
his favorite team would be the Cleveland Cavaliers, who won the championship last year for the
first time ever.
So exciting.
Lebron James.
He was very excited.
They used to have Anderson Varejão - great Brazilian.
It's a good team.
GO CLEVELAND!
Alright.
Do you have a goal for 2017?
And someone responded: maybe to teach Lauren how to speak Portuguese?
Well, mission accomplished on that one.
But do I have any other, like, goals for 2017?
I mean, fixing up the house, and a goal is probably to get back to Brazil at some point
in 2017.
Yeah!
You're pretty much right.
What else?
An English course...
I would like to develop an English course, I would like to write a book; I'd also like
to learn another language, right?
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
Of course.
And I talk about that in another place in, on the channel where I'm talking about learning
Czech.
What are your goals for 2017?
Kinda what you told me, huh?
Yeah, I'd say.
Let your goals be mine!
Yep.
Hm.
I love it.
Do you know the expression, "Happy Wife, Happy Life!"
That's how it goes.
Don't forget it!
Next.
Obaaa!
Okay, like, yayyyy, here we go!
This one might be hard, but I'm crazy to know what Lauren's gonna respond.
Gavin: why did your parents choose that name for you?
Ohhh!
Actually I do know this I think.
Really?
Isn't it Scottish?
Yeah!
It's Scottish, and they wanted a "G" name so that he could match the same initials as
his dad... no.
As my... as your grandpa!
That's right.
I was like "wait, that doesn't make sense."
Exactly.
So it was between Gavin and Grant.
Yes.
Grant.
Yeah, that was gonna be his other name, so.
Yeah.
My grandpa's name was George and my whole dad's side of the family is Scottish, so that's
it.
Do you know what Gavin means in Scottish Gaelic?
No.
White... white...
You do know!
You did tell me...
It means "white hawk."
Yeah.
I was gonna say white falcon.
That's a little intense.
Well, close enough.
Good job.
I'm super impressed.
I'd say I'm doing pretty well so far!
Yeah, you're doing pretty damn good.
What is your biggest obsession or like, guilty pleasure type thing.
And it could be anything.
And what's my biggest fear?
Oh God!
He's got a sweet tooth that cannot be tamed.
If it's around him he can't stop, so I think that's kind of an obsession.
And then I think his biggest fear is plants coming alive.
Oh my gosh!
That is my biggest fear.
That's kinda embarrassing.
I know, that's really embarrassing!
How did you get that scar on your wrist, and what's your height?
Oh wow!
His joint fluid built up and created a big bump and a cyst that was bothersome.
Yeah, I actually have one on this hand too.
How tall are you?
You know how tall I am!
Five...
Lauren!
Five eleven and a half.
(Six feet!)
I'm six feet tall.
I'm an even six feet tall!
I have no idea what that is in metric but every man like hopes to reach that six-foot
mark so I think, I think I'm there.
It says, Gavin, who are your favorite writers and why?
I'd say probably your favorite author is David Foster Wallace.
Yeah, it is David Foster Wallace.
Some of my favorite Brazilian authors are, I love Paulo Coelho of course, Jorge Amado,
Clarice Lispector, I love her too.
Very poetic.
I try to read anywhere between 20 and 50 books a year I would say.
Fewer this year because it's such a crazy time with the house and all that.
What are your singers or bands from the US that I most enjoy?
He listens to so much music that...
Yeah.
It's not like... neither of us are like gung-ho for a single band, right?
One single band, yeah.
So I dunno.
Just name some that I like, 'cuz honestly I don't have a favorite.
Well we went and saw Portugal The Man this past year.
Portugal The Man's good.
TV on the Radio we saw a concert with them.
Cake.
Cat Stevens, although he's British but amazing lyrics; he's more from the 70s and 80s.
Yeah.
I like a lot of stuff from the 60s and 70s actually.
Alright.
Okay, we can both answer this one: what is your favorite food from Brazil, and what can
a Brazilian not miss when they come to the United States.
Like, what do they have to try.
Pão de queijo - did you like that?
Yeah.
I did.
That was one of my favorites.
That was his probably favorite.
Yeah.
I think Lauren really like all the fresh fruits and vegetables that you get at Brazil, in
Brazil.
And you never really, like, see a lot of these things here in the United States.
Do you remember the name of that yellow fruit that I liked that had, like, alien seeds in
it?
Maracujá!
Yeah!
She got it.
You heard me!
I did.
I love so much about Brazilian cuisine too.
Like, you know, feijoada, the rice and beans and all that.
It was all so good.
What was the street food we got that was very good?
Pastel?
Yeah.
We got pastel; she tried tapioca - you had that in the little shell and all that.
Brigadeiro.
Brigadeiro é vida!
Let's go back!
So good.
I know.
What can they not miss when they come here?Peanut butter!
Yeah, that's.. that's almost her favorite food maybe.
Peanut butter anything.
She eats peanut butter every morning with bananas.
She loves it in ice cream.
She loves it just as a snack, just out of the jar.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is my favorite meal.
We made it for everyone when we went to Brazil.
Like, our friends and stuff.
Such a great..
I actually taught on the channel how to make it too.
Oh yeah, that's right.
And then my favorite of all time is Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
Aw, I should have mentioned that for you!
Yeah.
When you went to Brazil you adapted a little bit to the culture here just like any person
who goes to a foreign country.
What was the thing that took the longest for you to get used to, and, or maybe that was
the hardest, and what was that for you?
I mean I think the biggest thing for me to get used to is..
I mean, here neighborhoods don't have gates anywhere, and like people's homes aren't gated
all the way around: it's just a different lifestyle.
Yeah.
I think for me it was really hard to get around in Brazil a lot.
I'm not used to using public transportation.
In the US, like, everyone drives cars.
I try to bike a lot too in our city here.
And it was just harder in Brazil, you know?
You always have to like take the bus, or like, I was living in São Paulo for two months
so my vision is a little skewed.
But you know, it was definitely just a lot of buses and logistics and all that.
But, I mean, after I got used to them, no problem.
Honestly, the long-distance buses in Brazil were..
Really nice! ..like, nicer than the US.
For sure.
So.
But it was just that logistical thing, kinda getting used to that.
What was the reaction of your parents and Lauren when you decided to leave your professional
career to dedicate yourself to YouTube?
I mean I kinda saw it coming for a while so I didn't have like a seriously big reaction
to it.
But it took some time to get used to and for him to kinda prove to me that this is something
he could do for a living.
I mean, he's just so passionate about it and, you know, creating videos and content for
all of you that it's hard to say no!
Aw, babe!
She's been unbelievably supportive.
Yeah.
For my parents, you know, obviously the internet didn't exist when they were young so it was
just a little harder for them to really understand what I'm doing here with all of you.
But I think they get it now, and yeah!
It's wonderful.
How long have you and Lauren been together?
How was the very first meeting?
We've actually been together for nine years, about.
Right?
Yeah.
We started dating like..
Fall of 2008?
Actually.. eight and a half.
Yeah.
I remember the first I ever saw her.
Yeah.
She remembers the first time she ever saw me.
Kinda the first meeting with us...
We had the same summer job.
What was Lauren wearing the first time you met?
Oh my gosh!
I wanna see if you can remember!
I do remember!
I don't remember, like, our first date that we had, I don't remember.
The first time I ever saw her, it was when she was at college, and she was wearing a
black shirt, like a t-shirt kinda, and she had her blonde hair, but at the time she used
to have it wavy.
And so it was like, you know.. what would you call that?
Crimped?
Scrunched?
Why did you decide to study atmospheric science?
You said that you came to USP; did it have anything to do with your doctorate?
I have to answer that?
Yeah - this is.. that's the whole point of the video, remember?!
Ever since he was a kid he was fascinated by the weather and he always wanted to be
a weatherman, or a mailman.
But that didn't really pan out.
I could still be both!
Yeah, you could.
Maybe someday I'll be a mailman too.
I love mail!
Yeah, I know you do!
Yeah, and then when I came to USP, it did have something to do with atmospheric science.
I knew at the time (this was last year, in 2016) that I loved Portuguese and all that,
and I wanted to find a way to join atmospheric science and Portuguese.
And so that opportunity at USP was phenomenal for that.
I was a translator there for a little bit and I just enjoyed being in the department
for those two months.
So yeah, it did have something to do with it.
Besides learning Portuguese, what do you most like to do in your free time, as entertainment?
Do you like to watch any teams, sports teams?
Or like, go to the movies, or parks?
In his free time I'd say he likes to.. he's a runner; he likes to go running.
Reading books.
We like to travel a lot, as much as we can.
We live so close to the Rocky Mountains.
We do a lot of weekend trips, two- or three-night trips - we're leaving on one this weekend
actually - into the mountains.
Typically, when she's working I'll work.
So she works twelve hours a day as a nurse.
She's an emergency room nurse.
We should do a 20 things..
20 questions about Lauren!
Yeah!
Maybe that'll be version two..
Yeah!
Yeah, normally when she's working, I'll work twelve-hour days on the channel too.
Maybe record two videos instead of just one.
And then on the days that she's home, like the days she's not working, we try to spend
a lot of time together.
It's nice to have a flexible schedule.
What was the first time that someone recognized you on the street for being a YouTuber, and
how was it?
Wasn't it by a bank or something?
Or was it..
That wasn't the first time.
Then I don't know.
The first time was, I was just washing my hands in a restroom at USP and the guy washing
his hands next to me just started laughing.
And he said something in Portuguese and it was too fast, so I didn't hear it.
And so I asked him to repeat it, to say it again.
He said, "I know you from YouTube - you're Gavin, right?!"
I was like, oh my God!
Like, it's just the type of thing.. we always say this to people, like..
It's weird.
It is weird, but it's awesome!
Like, I'm a normal guy.
I'm not a celebrity like Brad Pitt or like Gisele Bündchen or like, you know, someone
like that.
And so it was a really cool experience to be able connect with someone.
But it's weird because they know a lot about you, but you don't know a lot about them.
So that's an interesting thing.
Hey Gavin!
Are you there?
Yes...
Have you already dreamed speaking only in Portuguese, and...
I guess you can start with that one.
Yes.
And I'm trying to remember, because I think you sleeptalked in Portuguese too and I can't
remember what it was.
So yeah, I have dreamt in Portuguese.
Mostly it's just me, like, trying to speak, like, or like forgetting things and making
mistakes and all that..
Sometimes though, apparently I sleeptalk too, and one time Lauren told me the next day,
"Gavin, you said something in your sleep last night!" and I was like, "Oh, what was it?"
And she was like, "Well it was in Portuguese.." and I was like "Oh, please tell me you know
what it was!"
Did I remember?
You did!
I already forget.
That was a while ago.
She's gonna remember as soon as I tell her: Tudo bem?
Oh, yeah.
So apparently I just woke up speaking, and I said "Tudo bem!"
Ah, see I did teach her a little Portuguese in 2017 - in my sleep even!
And then were you ever so focused on the Portuguese language that when you went to resp.. like,
answer someone in an English conversation that you got confused and accidentally responded
in Portuguese?
Yeah, I think he has done it a few times.
Like accidentally?
Or, you can kinda find words in Portuguese that fit the situation better.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wouldn't say I've ever done it accidentally.
Like, my mind's able to switch back quick enough.
But yeah, that's exactly right.
Like, there are s..
I've made videos about it.
There are some words that are just so much better in Portuguese, and I'll like explain
it to her, like: I wish this word existed in English!
Final question: how is it for you being just a YouTuber right now.
And because I never heard you never say anything about it: why did you choose Brazilian Portuguese
versus Portugal Portuguese?
So how is it for me being a YouTuber?
He absolutely loves it.
He's so motivated to get, you know, more videos out, and to like keep getting ideas from you
guys commenting on videos, and..
I asked him once, I was like, how do you..
do you feel like you're gonna have content for long enough?
And he said oh my gosh, I have so much content I don't even..
I can't even fathom how many videos I could make about it.
Literally.
Oh my God.
Like, every single video I make, it's like, I get ten more ideas for videos.
It's awesome to interact with you guys.
Yeah.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you ended up wanting to learn Portuguese and then when
we were planning on making a trip to Brazil for the World Cup, I assume you just decided
to do Brazilian Portuguese.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
And because Brazil has such a larger population, there were more resources, more radio stations,
music, movies, all that.
And then of course it helped that we were going to the World Cup.
Sure did!
I would say you get an A... minus.
Plus!
Okay.
I'll give her an A-plus (on the American grading scale).
Yes!
And next time, in another vlog, we'll have to do 20 questions about Lauren.
But I'm gonna try to get both Lauren, and then some of our other friends more involved
in videos in the future.
It's super fun to have you guys here.
And, thank you to everyone who asked questions!
I hope that people are still watching this video 'cuz I know it's gonna be super long,
but yeah.
It was awesome.
And do you remember how to say "goodbye"?
Tchau!
That's it!
See you guys later.
Bye!
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