I have two Children.

我有兩個孩子。

They're older than your kids.

他們比你的孩子大。

My kids are, you know, sort of mid teen age years.

我的孩子們，你知道的，算是十幾歲的年紀。

Your kids are how old?

你的孩子多大了？

Uh, our daughter is just about to turn 11.

呃，我們的女兒剛滿11歲。

Andare son is five.

安達瑞的兒子五歲了。

OK, here's a question.

好吧，我有個問題。

I have my kids at 17 and 15.

我的孩子已經17歲和15歲了

Their schoolwork is way beyond my comprehension.

他們的功課已經超出了我的理解範圍。

Now, if its history, I can maybe help them out a little bit or English.

現在，如果它的歷史，我也許可以幫助他們一點點或英語。

But in math and sciences, I'm humiliated because, first of all, they would never go to me for help.

但在數學和理科方面，我很丟臉，因為，首先，他們絕不會去找我幫忙。

But in no way can I comprehend what they're studying.

但無論如何我都無法理解他們所研究的東西。

Is your daughter at that level yet?

你的女兒達到這個水準了嗎？

Oh, I e mean, she was at that level three years ago.

哦，我是說，她三年前就已經是這個水準了。

Um, does, um, I know that your daughter is she Does she like reading?

嗯，有沒有，嗯，我知道，你的女兒是她 她喜歡閱讀？

Is she a reader?

她是讀書人嗎？

No, she is not.

不，她不是。

Um, yeah, she's not a reader.

嗯，是的，她不是一個讀者。

And I remember having a conversation with her, and she was like, or and she's telling me e knew she didn't like to read, and I was explaining to her look, the only way to get better at reading is to read, and she fired back at me immediately.

我記得有一次和她的談話，她說，或者她告訴我，我知道她不喜歡讀書，我向她解釋說，要想更好地讀書，唯一的辦法就是讀書，她馬上回擊了我。

And she was like, Well, is that why you're so bad at guitar?

她說，這就是你吉他彈得這麼差的原因嗎？

Because you don't play it on.

因為你不玩上。

I said I played all the time.

我說我一直在玩。

It it really it stung me in a way.

它它真的它刺痛了我的方式。

Yeah, because she wasn't saying it to be a burn.

是啊，因為她說的不是燒傷。

It sounded like she was just being honest about your guitar playing in a way that she also was one of those, like, left hooks that you just don't see coming where you go.

聽起來她只是在誠實地對待你的吉他演奏，她也是那種，像，左勾拳，你只是沒有看到你去哪裡來。

Look, I'm trying to help you and guide you through this as a parent.

聽著，我是想幫助你，引導你度過這個問題，作為父母。

And she was like, Oh, yeah.

她說，哦，是的。

And the response was so natural and honest on dso biting and affected me emotionally and my ego in such a way.

而且反應是那麼自然，那麼坦誠地對dso咬，以這樣的方式影響著我的情緒和自我。

Um, it really it was a tough one for me to swallow because I'm just learning.

嗯，對我來說真的是很難接受，因為我才剛剛學會。

I started playing guitar like, two years ago.

我兩年前就開始彈吉他了。

You only two years if you started.

你只有兩年，如果你開始。

If you've only been doing it for two years, you can't be hard on yourself.

如果你只做了兩年，你就不能苛求自己。

I am.

我就是

I am.

我就是

I want to be good.

我想做個好人。

So bad.

太糟糕了

I don't know because you played quite a bit.

我不知道，因為你玩了不少。

I'm assuming that you're that you're in a position where you'll have to play.

我假設你是，你在一個位置，你將不得不玩。

I think I've seen you having to play where you're with, you know, slash or something.

我想我已經看到了你有玩 你在哪裡，你知道，斜線什麼的。

Yeah, I've had I've had the opportunity to play with people, uh, you know who really, uh, who do it for a living.

是的，我已經有了我已經有機會 玩的人，呃，你知道誰真的，呃，誰做它為生。

That's very humbling.

這是非常謙虛的。

Like, if I played the times I've played with, like, a Jack White or Ah back or, you know, um, you know Billy Gibbons or anyone like that, I decide to as much as possible.

就像，如果我玩的時候，我已經打了一樣，一個傑克-懷特或啊回，你知道，嗯，你知道比利-吉本斯或任何人這樣的，我決定儘可能多的。

Just stick with rhythm, just stick with rhythm, and every now and then, um, e get It's almost like I can feel my ego getting the better of me, and then I'll step out and I'll try a little bit of lead and quickly remember, I'm a comedian.

只要堅持節奏，只要堅持節奏，時不時的，嗯，我就會感覺到我的自尊心越來越強，然後我就會走出來，我會嘗試一點點的引導，並很快記住，我是一個喜劇演員。

This'd is not what I should be doing.

這不是我應該做的。

So yeah, I, um, rhythm Just just stay in the pocket, do rhythm and, uh, and and try not to.

所以，是的，我，嗯，節奏 只是停留在口袋裡，做節奏和，呃，並嘗試不。

I try not to expose myself as this hack amateur, you know?

我儘量不暴露自己是這個黑客外行，你知道嗎？

Yeah.

是啊。

I'll tell you a horrible story.

我給你講一個可怕的故事。

I My daughter is friendly with Tom Morella's child.

我的女兒和湯姆-莫雷拉的孩子很友好。

Wow.

哇哦

And they go to school together.

而且他們一起上學。

And I'm sure you know, Tom, he is one of the all time coolest human beings on earth.

我相信你知道，湯姆，他是地球上最酷的人之一。

Great guy and an insane guitarist.

偉大的傢伙和一個瘋狂的吉他手。

Yeah, and then also one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

是啊，然後也是有史以來最偉大的吉他手之一。

So, you know, our kids were playing together and they're always in, like, some sort of sport.

所以，你知道，我們的孩子在一起玩 他們總是在，喜歡，某種運動。

You were on the sidelines watching, and I just see him quite a bit.

你在一旁看著，我就經常看到他。

Um, and my relationship with him predates me learning how to play guitar.

嗯，我和他的關係早於我學習彈吉他。

And so I picked it up on the show, and as soon as I started really getting into it, I really got into it and I was so excited.

於是我就在節目中拿起了它，當我開始真正進入它的時候，我真的很投入，我很興奮。

And it's seen Tom a couple of times, and all of a sudden, internally, my relationship to him changed.

而且還見過湯姆幾次，突然間，在內心深處，我和他的關係發生了變化。

And, um, I started looking at him in a much different way, so envious and aware that the connection that we had was not a real one.

而且，嗯，我開始用一種很不一樣的方式看他，很羨慕，意識到我們之間的聯繫並不是真正的聯繫。

Anyway, I'm sitting with him one day, and I have made a note to myself mentally never to bring up that I play guitar or that I'm just starting to learn and we're sitting there were talking.

總之，有一天我和他坐在一起，我在心裡給自己做了個記號，永遠不要提起我彈吉他的事，也不要提起我剛開始學吉他的事，我們坐在那裡哈拉。

We sort of run out of conversation.

我們有點聊不下去了。

There's not anything left.

什麼都沒有了。

And, you know, clearly we're still gonna be standing there and in a really moment of weakness, I said, uh, well, Tom, you're never gonna believe this, but and it just can't.

而且，你知道，很明顯，我們還是要去 站在那裡，在一個真正的時刻 弱點，我說，嗯，湯姆，你永遠不會 相信這一點，但它只是不能。

But I just started playing guitar.

但我剛開始彈吉他。

Yeah, and as soon as as soon as I said, I knew it was a mistake.

是啊，我一說，就知道是個錯誤。

Yeah, you're like, I'm a bit of ah, just you know, you're not the only guitar.

是啊，你喜歡，我有點啊，只是你知道，你不是唯一的吉他。

You're not the only guitarist in the room.

你不是房間裡唯一的吉他手。

I play a little is Well, yeah, it was so bad, so bad, and I could heat and I He was so nice about it.

我玩一點是 嗯，是的，它是如此糟糕，如此糟糕， 我可以熱和我 他是那麼好。

But it also was devastating.

但也是毀滅性的。

And then I you know, I was like, I felt bad for the rest of the day.

然後，我... ...你知道，我很喜歡， 我覺得不好的一天的休息。

I was beating my really beating myself up.

我在打我的真的在打我自己。

And then much later, I'd say, I don't know, a month or so later, I see him outside the school, and he's sort of walking.

然後很久以後，我會說，我不知道， 一個月左右的時間，我看到他在學校外面， 他有點走。

We're passing each other, and in this moment of greeting, he sort of goes, Hey, man has the guitar.

我們互相經過，在這個打招呼的時刻，他有點說，嘿，人有吉他。