Code Switch: A Field Guide to Embarrassing Your Kid at Drop-Off (Dispatch 11)
August 25, 2026 · 38 min
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A childhood spent across countries shaped one father's odd habits and the ache of letting go.
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In this episode
- How a mortifying kindergarten moment in Rio echoes decades later
- Why bad accents and subway pull-ups are a love language
- What bouncing between cultures does to a sense of belonging
- The quiet grief of dropping a daughter off at college
About this episode
Jeff has a field-tested method for embarrassing his daughters: impromptu pull-ups on subway scaffolding, a wake-up song called "School Days," and a rotating cast of accents that would make a dialect coach wince.
In this episode, Jeff traces the accents — a southern drawl for Matthew McConaughey, a Dutch bur for Wim Hof — back to a mortifying kindergarten memory in Rio de Janeiro, and connects a childhood spent bouncing between countries to the quieter ache of dropping his daughter Lolli off at UNC.
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