Shawn and James talk about the energy it takes to run the universe and the energy it takes to learn a new language. 

James gives a loving soliloquy to energy. It really seems to mean everything to him.

Shawn recently returned from two weeks of fairly intense Spanish study; his brain hurts now. Spanish has far too many conjugations, but he's attempting to learn them anyway. And no, that is not a humblebrag!

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Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil

Wikipedia - Spanish conjugations

Hardest Language to Learn - article by The Economist

English verb conjugation chart

Spanish verb conjugation poster(!)