Nancy Lopez - "Grandma, Can You See Well?" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook.

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

Did you speak uh Spanish uh at home? Your your did your parents speak Spanish at home or was it always English with you?

Nancy Lopez 0:22

Uh my mom and dad spoke Spanish to me, but I answered in English. Okay. Uh never could really conjugate verbs and stuff like that. Um I understood it. I understood it when I read it. But if I tried to translate from English to Spanish, I couldn't do it. Um so you know, I do understand Spanish and mostly every word. And when I was on the LPJ tour, the Spanish-speaking players, they would they would be in the locker room speaking Spanish, and then they'd see me and they'd kind of look at me and I'm like, I understand you, so don't talk about me. And they'd all kind of laugh.

Mike Gonzalez 0:59

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it kind of skipped my generation in our household. Um my my father's family was from Spain, and uh and of course we always heard it from my grandparents, but never at home because my mother didn't speak it. But I was just curious as to whether you grew up with that or not.

Nancy Lopez 1:16

Well, I I tried to speak Spanish every once in a while, and um I remember my my grandmother, my dad's mom, and which would have been my real mom's mom too, uh, we traveled to California to see her and her eyesight wasn't very good. And so um, and you'll you'll you'll know this, Mike. So I asked my dad how I could ask grandma if she could see well. And um he said you can ask her, Midas vien. You know, that means can you s you know look good? Can you see good? And um so I went into the house and I went to my grandmother and I said, Mierdas vien which means do you peep well?

Intro Music 2:03

Yeah.

Nancy Lopez 2:05

My grandmother started laughing. She started laughing. I'm like, why is she laughing? You know, because she did not understand English at all. And so I went and told my dad, and my grandma told my dad what I said, and so it was a big, big laugh for everybody.

Mike Gonzalez 2:23

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Intro Music 2:46

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay. Yes, it went straight down the middle.