Matt's Lasik Eye Surgery | You Can Sit With Us Ep. 169

I didn't know people rode so hard for mustard. Truly shocking.

I worked at a grocery store for YEARS and lots of parents with strollers would use their stroller to shop instead of the shopping carts. When you have a baby that small, if someone is going to give you a hard time for trying to make your life easier that seems like a them problem. Trust me, we can tell who is shoplifting and who is going to end up paying, so do whatever is easiest for you, Becky!!

matt: speaks italian becky and rainie: 🤭🥵 queen shit

"Pepita Talks Twice" is a great children's book about why it is good to be bilingual and has a mildly surprising ending

You guys should do you can sit with us @ the dinner table with Matt. And have him teach and make one easy traditional Italian meal!! He should teach everyone how to say the ingredients in Italian!! I would really enjoy that :) please like so they can see this!!!

NGL when Matt introduced the podcast, I fully expected him to go "I'm one of your hosts Becky" because I'm just so used to hearing that 😂

As someone who works for an optometrist, I adore the factual understanding that Matt is showing and teaching with! Everyone should go to the eye doctor once a year if able, just to check your eye health!

Matt thinking 60 degrees Celsius is 300 farenheight is so funny to me 😂

They wash them and that’s why store bought eggs are refrigerated since there is no protective coating on the outside of the shells.

I'm a former glasses maker. Well, specifically I'd make the lenses for the frames sent to us and fit them inside. The lenses start off as big hockey puck chunks of plastic and you slowly cut and smooth them down to match the prescription. I was hired from a craigslist ad-- I remember being so surprised that anyone could be trained to make them. I've worn glasses since Kindergarten and my prescription is around -10 with an astigmatism. I got to make my own glasses :]

Eggs are sanitized in the US to help avoid salmonella! So not pasteurization, but it's still a cleaning process done in the US. The coating of the egg that helps keep it fresh also gets washed off, so you need to refrigerate your eggs in the US so they don't spoil.

I have chickens and also lived in europe for a while! Eggs have a protective coating on them called the bloom. They wash the outside of the eggs in the grocery store in the US so they lose this coating and therefore they have to be refrigerated. If you get your eggs from chickens or quails (like matt) they can sit on the counter for 2 weeks cause they still have the bloom! In Europe (germany at least) the grocery store eggs aren't washed so they sit in the store unrefrigerated and also sit in your home on the counter. Most people just give them a rinse before cracking them

For the children’s book question I gotta say Le Petite Prince is so endearing and can even be enjoyed by adults. It has a much deeper meaning, it’s very philosophical, and is well written. (Although, I’ve only read it in French)

Fun fact: some people can get cataracts earlier than others because some medications make you more likely to develop them earlier. Also, you can have more than one type of cataract at a time. My mom had 3 on one eye and 2 on another when she had hers removed.

60 C is 140 F. Boiling is 100 C and 212 F.

I was born with a cataract in my left eye. As such I developed glaucoma in that eye at 15. By age 65, 90% of people will develop cataracts (it's a natural build up of proteins on the lens), but only about 17% get cataract surgery. Babies are also born with a protective coating (vernix), just like eggs are. 🥚 are washed in the US which removes the protective coating, which is why we must refrigerate them.

I worked for a lab that studies cataract surgery. What happens with the old lens: They stick a couple instruments under your cornea to chop up the old lens and suck it away with (basically) a tiny vacuum. They do a little more vacuuming to clean out the remaining gunk. Finally, they insert a tube containing the new lens, which comes out and unfolds, and they spin it around to make sure it's properly placed.

Italian fan here! Loving hearing Matt speaking italian 🥰

The classic fairy tales seem pretty violent to many, but children are learning to handle their emotions and stories can make feelings safe (The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Betelheim). When Max was done feeling wild, he came back to his own room where someone loved him best, and his food "was still warm".

If Try LLC makes a podcast one thing will be true. The hosts will find a way to talk about Eggs. 😂😂😂😂😂 Hahahahaha