I'm still waiting for you. Hi everyone, thanks for listening to Shoes,
Boozing Tattoos. As always, I'm Jess, I'm your host. So today
I have another very special episode for you guys. I'm going to be talking
with Daniel Gamblin. He is the host of This Week in History podcast.
He runs a great show. The way he talks about history is from a
really passionate place. He was a history teacher before and then he went on
to start his show. If you're interested in history hearing about a lot of
these historical places and events with a British accent, go ahead and give it
a listen. Now, this episode, we're going to be talking about some
of the differences between England and the United States. Granted a lot of them
are coming from our own personal perspectives from where we live. I live in
the Midwest. I'm in northeast Ohio. He's around London. As far as
I know, he's pretty close to London. He talks about having a Cockney
accent, and we also go on to talk about a very wide variety of
subjects in this Now you're warning for this one, we do swear we briefly,
briefly touch on politics current events with the Black Lives Matter movement coming through.
We don't share our personal opinions. Really, we stay pretty neutral on
the subject. We address it, and then we move on. Now,
little bits through here. You might hear some banging. I tried to take
them out, but my husband was working on the deck as we were doing
this interview. London is about five hours ahead of us, so you might
hear a little bit of that here and there. I tried to edit it
out as much as possible, but sometimes stuff sneaks in or I can't get
to it because it would just screw up the entire sentence that I just said.
Now, I'm gonna let the interview go. It's not really an interview.
We just have a chat about the differences that we have. In differences,
we stumble upon things that we didn't even know we're different. I do
have some announcements, which I will do at the end of this. If
you're interested in those, stick around until after. They are kind of pertinent
to the show and where it's going. So if that's something you want to
know about, stick around till after the chat that Daniel and I have.
With all that out of the way, I hope you enjoy. There we
go, Hello for working. That sounds good, right, I just thought
for a kickoffs, if that's all right, that we'll start with a bit
of old school London slang. So now in this country it's it's called Cockney
rhyming slang. Now sounds a bit weird, but in it what we do
is it's two words. Nine times out of ten, it's two words.
The second word is the word that rhymes, and the first word doesn't rhyme.
Okay, but the first word is the word that you use. So
again i'll explain. So the first one that pretty it's pretty common in this
country is Adam and Eve. So if you were in a conversation, you'd
go, you won't adam it. You wouldn't say Adam and Eve. You'd
say, I don't you wouldn't. You wouldn't adam it. So that's it
sounds a bit weird, and that's how we hit does sound a real god,
but it basically Adam and Eve is believe. So do you get whether
right? Yeah? The rhyme is the second word. This is hard for
me to follow. Yeah, I think it will be for most Americans to
be fair. So what I thought i'd do is I'd give you a few
of them and see if you can guess what they actually mean in English.
So we say in English in American so oh right, very right. Yeah.
So I want to start some easy ones. So you've got apples and
pears, so it's apples and hairs? Can you use it in a sentence
going up? The apples and pairs? I have no idea. Really it
rhymes with pairs, right it doesn't? Yeah? Yeah, stairs, Yeah,
there we go. Yeah, did you do this? It's not as
common now, that's common now. Some of them are quite common. So,
like you know, there's there's some really weird one. So barnet fair
is probably one of the most common ones, and that is still used today.
So what you'd say is check out the barnet on that bloke hair.
Yeah there you go, Okay, okay, yeah, do you see what
I mean? It's that sort of they do make sense. Um. You
know, one I've used quite regularly is brown breads. So if I'm getting
an argument with someone, carry on, mate, you're gonna be brown breads.
Mm hmm, what do you reckon? Oh my goodness, I feel
like an idiot because I'm trying to think of things that write with bread that
fit into that context. Yeah, well, if you put in the context
of an argument, huh, so carry on, you're gonna be brown breads
like I'm gonna punch you in the head or something dead. You're gonna be
dead dead yeah dead, brown bread is dead. Okay, yeah, not
interesting. Yeah, not the nicest one to use, but it does work.
I said that one that one does get used to be fair and dog
and bone a very common one. Okay, dog and bone. Can you
use it in a sentence? It sounds like a spelling be Yeah, yes
it does. It does the answer the dog, pick up the dog,
dog and bone the dog's ringing phone. Yeah, yeah, dog and bone
is phone. It is. Yes, Oh, weird one. That is
a weird one. It's really hard to try to decipher it without any context,
I know. Yeah, that's why I keep asking you to use it
in a sentence. Yeah, that would makes sense, definitely. I can
do sentences with it. Um half inch So again this I This was around
a lot when I was younger. I've not really heard it used very much.
But if you go, oh, well, where'd you get that?
You know that game he got I offinched it from the shop, pinched it
like stole it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah,
that's why I said, I haven't used that one for a long time because
I'm a good boy and I don't Nick thinks. So we have some similar
little sayings, but they're not they're they're not like rhyming or clever or anything
like. For something like that, we would say it's a five finger discount.
Yeah, I've heard that one. I've heard that one before. Yeah,
So yeah, I mean it's it's more he's quite old Cockney slang goes
back to like over a hundred years, so a lot of this is it's
a way too talk back in the day, so people from outside of the
East End didn't know you what was saying. So it worked to an extent.
And like I said, that's why they cut off the second word.
So where'd you get that away after it from from the shop or if you're
listening by it and you go you mean with that, you wouldn't know,
do you know what I mean? So that's the point for it. It's
it was it was that sort of that sort of a thing towards it interesting.
Yeah, this one's one of my favorites, and I use this quite
a lot. It's Hampton Wick. So you carry, you're talking to someone
if they're being an idiot there, haven't you know, they think they're quite
a you know, a cocky person or whatever, and you go, mate,
you're being at Hampton Dick. Yeah, it rhins with prick, but
yeah, prick Dick. So, um, this one you probably heard Hank
Marvin. Have you ever heard Hank Marvin? No, no, this one
of my kids actually, um so, see it's weird. This is so
common to me, but yeah, to you guys, it's it's not.
But um you go, oh god, I haven't eaten all day on Ank
Marvin Starving. Yeah. Yeah, it's quite an easy one that Oh my
goodness. Yeah, but that like so that's really common like that. Even
my missus is from from the North, so when I say things like this,
she gets really annoyed because she doesn't sound like it because it's not obviously
they're they're normal way of speaking. So when I say stuff like Ank Marvin,
she'll be like, you're hungry. I'm like, yeah, same thing.
That is funny. Yeah. Um, so there's there's one that's I
mean this my kids use this, but I don't think they use it because
they know where it comes from. And it's called raspberry tart. Raspberry tart.
Yeah, so you might have heard of the saying ras instead of having
a fart, it's a raspberry You heard of that. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's where it comes from. Raspberry tart is a far that's funny.
Yeah, so we can work along that line. There's another one called ponium
trap. And if you can work imagine that what trap could rhyme with clap
centering around the toilet humor? Do you have a different word for it?
A crap? Okay, okay, yeah, not a whole lot of people
actually say I'm going to go take a crap anymore. No, we'll see
that's quite common. No, see, that's quite common. I think we're
just a little bit more fulgar than you, to be honest. It's like
certain words evolve in certain ways of saying things evolve. At least like up
here in northern Ohio, very few people say I'm gonna go take a crap.
Oh yeah, I don't think I'm gonna go take a ship. I'm
gonna hit the head. I'm gonna do something like military slang is more common
than words that are mockery for swear words, you know. Yeah, see,
I think it was just more. I'd say it's quite an old one.
It's not. That's not one that I I've heard you for a long
long time. Yeah, there's one that you guys might like. It's a
septic tank. It doesn't sound very nice. That doesn't sound nice at all.
No, and you're probably not gonna like what it's described in either or
Good News. Oh did I get it? Is it like derogatory for a
woman? No? Not? Okay, No, then what what is it?
He's a yank? Oh? One of you lot? Septic tank is
a yank? Okay. So I was thinking about this, and I'm thinking
of words that rhyme with tank, and I thought skank. See that's really
not common over here. That I mean, I hear it used quite a
lot. Yeah, it's used a lot of American TV. That words skank.
It's not really used over here at all. See that's the first word
that popped into my head. And that's why I was like, oh,
oh my goodness. Yeah, we're not that septic tank. Yeah, we're
not that gross. Um. So another another easy one. I think is
a tea leaf. So basically along along the lines of always half inched it
you go one way to get a mate. Oh I half inched it.
You're a tea leaf thief. Yeah. Oh okay, yeah, so that's
you know, you can It does make it does make sense. A lot
of this does want to base a bit a bit out there for you guys
that probably don't have a clue what it means, right right, Yeah,
we don't get it at all. Yeah, I mean this one. Your
president has a wonderful one of these, and it's a syrup. So in
the full word, it's syrup of figs awake awake. Yeah, definitely has
a wonderful week than he. Oh goodness, just go bald gracefully? May
I think he's got to that point now he just just shave it off.
And see that photoshop picture floating around of him with a bald head and a
beard. No, because it looks like a badass, do you know,
I mean maybe a contrary to popular opinion, I don't think he's as bad
as the media portrays him. I think, Yeah, I'm not gonna go
into I don't hate going into politics because I have very different It's called us
to most people. But I don't think he's as bad as as the media
portrays him. I think the media makes him out a lot worse than what
he actually is. But he doesn't help himself with some of the things he
says. But I don't think, yes, yeah, but that I can
be. We can spend hours talking about Bonald Trump. I think, well,
I really don't have a lot to say on him. I'm pretty neutral
on it, and I'm neutral when it comes to American politics as well.
I don't really agree with either one completely, and I agree with both in
certain things, So yeah, I don't I don't mind talking about stuff like
that, but I'm not on either side. I have friends that are very
far left and very far right learning so I see the points of view,
and I'm just kind of wedged there in the middle. Yeah, I mean,
that's I think, especially in politics, if you don't have a view,
just sort of just stick down the middle, don't you stay, stay
out the way and ignore people, because you can cause so many problems with
it, right right right, right, back back to the matter. This
one, this is one of my favorite ones, which is a Dickey bird.
Dicky bird mhm. Is it a turd. No, it's not as
vulgar. Um. You should be like we're like, oh you go into
the theater, don't say a Dickey bird say, don't say a word.
Yeah, yeah, it's nice. He's one the one. I'll give you
one that you have heard before, um, which is Bristol City. You
told me this one and I don't agree it, do you know? Going
back to volgar it's a t not the nice What was the phrase again?
You h what was the phrase again? Bristol City. Bristol City is another
one phrase for a titty. Yeah. Oh so we're not the most classy
of people. Yeah, well you make it sound that way when you leave
off little bits. Yeah, it's not. It's not the nicest. There's
certain things on there that are aren't as nice. Um. Have you ever
heard of a barnie gonna have a barney rubble m? I know I've heard
it. I think it's a bit more common this one. Especially if you
watch British TV, you've probably definitely heard this. Yeah. I do like
a lot of British TV shows and movies and stuff like that, but it's
like all the slang just kind of flies over my head. A fair enough
a Barnie Barney rubble is trouble, Okay, it's gonna be there's gonna be
trouble, Okay. Yeah. I always just like, I'll try to think
of it in context, especially with like TV and stuff like that, what's
going on around them, and I can kind of figure it out. If
they're in an argument and they say that, I'm gonna think I'll fight.
Yes, I don't think of the rhyming word. No, well that makes
sense, I suppose, don't it? Um another one. I just I'll
finish with this one because they, like I said, I've got hundreds written
down here that I could go through, but I'll finish this one. And
that is a boat race. Boat race, So if you see a woman,
you guys, she's got a nice boat face. Yeah, oh yeah,
yeah, it's quite much sweeter than I was expecting. Yeah. Well,
you know, we're not all vulgar. You know, we're not all
we're not all evil. We do have some good ones and some bad ones,
I suppose. Yeah, But like I said, there's loads on here,
but I'm not gonna go to all of them. Could spend hours going
through just cock me slang. Oh my goodness, I know there's loads.
I mean, there's absolutely nods when you tend to find with with the English,
especially like we we tend to use some weird phrases that you probably won't
know, so like yeah, but they're ones that that you will you will
use, but you'll use them in slightly different way. Like the word ass.
You say ass that it's like, but an ass is you would say,
would you would you ever use an inner context of saying I'll stop being
an ass? Would you ever say that to someone I've stopped being an ass?
Yeah, so someone's being an idiot? You just got out you're being
an ass? Yeah? Yeah, we would say something like that. But
I mean if I was talking to somebody and I was being the ass,
I would just say sorry I was being an asshole or you know, yeah,
okay, yeah, so you use the same context as us, but
like with a slightly different word, right right, right right. Have you
ever heard of ass over tip? Yes? Um, But I don't think
we have the same kind of like it makes me think of like head over
heels or or um asked backwards or you know, little phrases like that that
mean something. But I don't know if it's the same context. Yeah,
it's um, it's in a context. Well, it's you basically when you're
drunk, So you go, you're so drunk. She went ass over tip,
she fell over back. Oh my goodness. We have a ton of
words in little phrases for being drunk, and that is not one of them.
Asked backwards. Was just like doing something wrong or off the wall wrong?
I see, I've not heard that one. Ass backwards. No,
I've not heard that. That's a new one for me. Funny enough.
I grew up with my mom. Instead of saying ass, she says ours.
Really. Yeah, Okay, it sounds weird coming out of an American
mouth, to be fair, really yeah, the word asks it doesn't sound
right, come out you're enough, because it's obviously it just I don't know,
it just doesn't sound right. That's funny. I don't know why she's
she says it like that, why she says ours, I don't know where
says it like that. But I mean our family is Welsh, Irish stuff
like that, so I don't know if they pronounced it a little funnier.
I don't know you're them than I am. I'm not clued up one hundred
percent on the Irish accent. Fair well, they can talk and I won't
have a clue what they're saying. But I love every minute of it.
Yeah, I must admit I am a big fan of the Irish accent,
you know, from my you know, from a personal point of view,
I do you really like the Irish accent? You and I were talking before,
though, and you like all accents. I like a lot of accents.
There are some accents, especially in this country. I really, I
really can't listen to for very long, but that there are I think that's
it's more to do with the fact that I don't understand it than the fact
that it's I don't like it. It's more so. For example, my
father in law is from Birmingham, so he has a Bromming accent and the
Birmingham accent I can't listen to for too long because I don't understand it.
But yet his accent isn't as strong as most people because he doesn't it doesn't
live there, hasn't lived there for a few years. It's sort of the
accents dropped a bit, so it's not as strong. I mean, but
I notice it with myself, you know, when I'm talking to my wife
and my kids and things like that. My accent, I mean, even
now, it's not as strong as it is when I go down to London
for a week, swend a week back in London and the proper London accent
comes out, and it's just I find it very strange. But yeah,
my voice changes depending on who I'm talking to, which is quite weird.
So if we talk a lot, you might start to like hold on to
those rs at the end of some words that I notice you kind of leave
off sometimes. No, I'm not. I mean, do you mean words
like path and things like that where I add an R in where it's not
actually that No, actually like proper that hard are sound at the end of
it. I noticed a lot of times, like when you and I have
a little chat or something like that here and there, you'll will leave that
off. Yes, as we're talking, a little bit of it will come
back here and there. It's not a hard R like I use, but
there's a little here. But the more we talk, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I know what you mean. I do know what you mean.
Yeah. With with my accent, I tend to drop drop letters and add
letters so that properly it would sound like I've taken the hour away and putt
an either. Yeah, even though it's not you, I mean, but
yeah, that's that's a sort of my accent tends to do that quite a
lot. Yeah, I have noticed that as you and I talk a bit
too. Yeah, yeah, it's not the it's it's all right. I
mean, like I say, it's understandable. It's not like I'm dropping loads
of stuff out. But yeah, I must admit my missus and I'll go
I'll run the kids a bath and she'll be like what I'll be like a
bath. It's like, do you mean a bath? And I'm like,
no, don't mean a We're in a bath, so there's no R in
bath. We have this arc and every time, but it's a yeah.
It just tends to add things and take things out and just go for a
bit of a laugh of that. See, it's funny listening to you and
not like seeing your mouth move because it makes sense you don't really hear there
are too much. It sounds like you're saying bath like b a f f
oh yeah to where like sometimes it sounds like bath be at h just with
a longer a sound. But when you say it and you shorten it.
It sounds like bath or both. It sounds like be aff instead of any
R being present. Yeah, but if I was looking at you and I
could actually see your mouth moving, I would see the R kind of placed
in there a little bit. Yes, yeah, absolutely. You mean you've
now ruined the illusion that we're not in the same room for this. You
know that. Well, I can't fly to England and you are not going
to fly to Ohio. Bfe. Ohio. It's a bit of a bit
of an out there place to go, isn't it. I suppose right there
are many places in the States I would like to visit. Ohio is probably
not on the top of my list. There's not much there well, especially
where I'm located too. I'm an our outside of Pittsburgh and Cleveland, but
I'm like ten minutes outside of Youngstown, and nobody wants to visit Youngstown,
do they not? Is it a bit of a we have a dodgy area?
Yeah, yeah, it's nobody goes to Youngstown unless they live there,
know somebody that lives there, or are passing through. So is it one
of those places right now that's probably seeing quite a lot of problems. Yes,
absolutely. Youngstown and Warren are two of the bigger cities by me.
They're both about ten maybe fifteen minutes away. One is a little bit north
and one's a little bit south, but both of them were starting to spill
into cities that are neighboring me. There's a little bit nerve wracking, but
overall it's calmed down quite a bit. Yeah. I mean again, you've
got to be careful with this sort of a situation. But I mean,
for me, totally understand. Yeah, I mean, I totally understand when
law and order breaks down. Why should the people respect law and order?
In the people in your country? You are there to make law and order,
don't respect it. So I mean that again, that's another another whole
episode. And for the people who are listening to this, who are into
my episode, who are my listeners, I will be covering something in the
next few weeks to do with race in America, going back to MLK and
sort of the introduction of the KKK and things like that, because I think
it's quite important to people who don't know what's going on, and you know,
you hear a lot of this stuff in the media and all over Facebook
about what's going on and people being negative and positive towards it. So I
think it'd be quite nice to get something out that people can understand where where
this actually comes from and where it you know, it's sort of been embedded
into a society that doesn't really need it. You know, it shouldn't have
it shouldn't be there, but it's sort of annoyingly. It's embedded into America
from sort of the sixteen hundreds. Yeah, it definitely is, and it's
like a long standing I think that people have been told by parents, who
have been told by parents, and it just gets passed down because yeah,
no kid looks at somebody says, oh you're different. Now I don't want
to talk to you. Yes, exactly, especially like little ones. They
don't care. Your friend is your friend and it doesn't matter. Yeah,
it's something that's instilled. Yes, definitely, it's institutionalized in America. But
I think it again, that's something that can go into can go they can
take this fine episode a completely long different wake on it. This one so
well. I actually I have a question for you, because I'm not really
familiar with your culture there. I guess do you have issues with racism there?
See it would be very naive for me to say no. The problem
is they do exist. There are issues in this country, but the problem
is in this country they tend to be not well publicized and the ones that
are well publicized. And there was a little kids, say a little kid,
a young man called Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered a good probably about
twenty years ago now, and that case went absolutely viral. It was a
gang of white youths and he was murdered and that that went absolutely mental.
The problem you have in this country is the high profile murders that have happened
in the last few years have actually been done by terrorists in this country.
So yeah, I mean, I mean it's all over the media, but
there's been a lot of terrorist attacks in this country, and I think I
think it's sort of we've sort of moved on a little bit with that,
but there is still there is still definitely racism in this country, one hundred
percent, you know, but not it's not just isolated to the blacks.
It's it's we it's a lot of people that you know, there's a lot
there's a group in England and in the UK who specifically don't like anyone who's
not white British. And the thing is, when these the terrorist attacks were
happening. Over the last few years, these groups have got more and more
influential because a lot of people have gone, you know, there's white people
dying here and no one seems to care. And that's all. So a
lot of people instead of jumping on the bandwagon of the people who are committing
these crimes are bad, they've jumped on the bandwagon of all people of this
nationality or all people of this color or this race are bad. So it's
gone. It has gone that way a little bit, but I mean we're
not We're not to that point. But again doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
You know, this this whole issue with George Floyd, the main reason this
is such a big issue in America is for the first time ever, I
think it's actually been recorded. The whole incident of what had happened has been
recorded. There is no way that the police or anyone. I'm not saying
the police do cover things up, because again that opens them I think there
is a possibility, But again that opens a can of what past, doesn't
it If you start saying, well, they definitely cover things up so well,
Like I can say for Americans in general, we all know through especially
those that listen to true crime or anything. We know the police fuck up
or the otationally sweep something under the rug a little bit because they don't want
to publicized or anything like that. We know what happens. That's about to
say that these people had the intention of doing that, but we know,
I mean, yeah, and that's what I mean. You know, there's
definitely definitely a cover up. And the thing is you tend to find I
find in this country we're very quick to cover things up if it doesn't support
the majority in this country. So there's been a case in the UK that
has been quite viral over the last couple of years, and that is a
grooming gangs in the UK that have been specifically targeting underage white girls that have
been seeing the age of like twelve and fifteen. And you're talking hundreds of
girls that have been abused in this situation, and it doesn't make the media
to an extent that it should do. Something like that to me is absolutely
vile. It's just as bad as what's happened to George Floyd. But yet
it gets sort of a media blackout, and that I think that's I think
in this country. I think we I think our government potentially has more control
over the media in this country than your government does. I think, yeah,
and I think that might be why you know, you find that.
But I mean as far as things like do the police intentionally, I mean,
I've watched I watch a program on Netflix which is called black Lightning,
and it's a brilliant program and if anyone's you know, interested, it is
really really good. And you're talking about a man who is the principal,
or in this country, would be the head teacher of a secondary school or
high school, and he gets pulled over by the police, dragged out the
car or handcuffed, and he's in a suit, he's in do you know
what I mean, He's well dressed, and you sort of just says,
he says to the police officer, you know what, why are you doing
this? And the police officers doesn't give him an answer, and you know
you're sitting there going you're putting him over for his black and and but the
problem you have, I think is as and I think a lot of Americans
would watch that and go, well, you know why, it's putting him
over, you know why? And I know it's a TV show, But
the problem is is how many people have sat there and watched that and go,
he's definitely doing that. It's definitely racist, But then they don't do
anything about it. You know, I watched a psychologist, a woman in
America. She did a show in America, and she actually turned around and
said to her audience, she said, how many of the white members of
my audience, I would like you to stand up, if you would be
happy to spend the rest of your life being treated the same as a black
person in this country. And not one of them stood up, And she
said, and that is the point. He said, that's the problem,
she said, because every single one of you know there's an issue here,
because none of you are standing up. You all know there's an issue,
but nobody's willing to speak out against it. So I do think there's more
of an issue there than there is here. But to say there's no issue
here, it would be very very naive. Okay. I was really curious
as to if you had that, because I wasn't sure how worked there,
because I know you have a very different kind of melting pot. Then we
do we're more tolerant. I think as as British we are much more tolerant
in the way that we deal with things. I do think in America you're
goes for every race in America. But I think this might be a stereotype.
But you mean, the British stereotype of an American is someone who's very
loud, very boisterous, very in your face. Someone who would you'd pour
petrol on a fire to put it out, you know what I mean?
That type of person, Oh well, you know, we just need a
bigger fire and then it will disappear. That to me is what an American
is. That's a stereotype and I think that that is very reflective in the
way Americans deal with certain issues. I do think that you have a tendency
to put fight fire with fire, do you know what I mean, rather
than fight fire with water. And I think in Britain we tend to so
go. We don't like that, we're gonna, We're gonna step away,
and to be honest, it doesn't always work. You know. The way
we deal with things isn't isn't always the best way personally. What's going on
in America. I think it's going to work. I really do. I
really do. Yeah, I really do think that it's going to change the
world, and I think it needs to. So as much as I don't
necessarily agree with the ones that I using this as an opportunity to take things,
I do want to understand agrees with it, no, no, but
I do understand the concept behind the movement, you know. Yeah, I
for anyone who is on my Facebook, you know, when it all came
out, I was one of the first. I've straight away put up the
Black Lives Matter page and things like that because I do, I do one
hundred percent agree with with it completely. You know, it's it's institutionalized and
someone needs to do something about it. And I think, I think maybe
maybe this is the the cherry on the cake that's going to actually sort this
out. I mean, Martin Luther King did a massive job, and would
he have believe that fifty sixty years later this was still going on. Probably
not, but it is, and now hopefully this is going to cause enough
of a rucus to actually end it once and for all, right, And
I do want to touch on a couple of things real quick. I love
that we're talking about this because it does need to be talked about. I
know, it's all over the news, it's all over social media. People
are probably tired of it by now. But yes, real quick, with
the stereotype of Americans, after talking with me pretty regularly, do you still
hold on to that stereotype? Do you still think Americans are like that?
I think there's definitely a sense of certain stereotypes that I do believe are true.
I definitely have warmed to this. The gun nut That was another one
that come out was that, you know, in this country, our gun
laws are very very strict. In America, they're a little bit more,
say a little bit more, they're bloody non existent in comparison. But um,
you know, I do, I do definitely think that that stereotype's still
there, you know, that sort of you know, we do we do
see you as a lot of you gun gun nuts. Um. You know,
you're talking about a country it's got more guns than people. So it's
very hard to to try and comprehend that, especially like it in this country.
It's very hard to comprehend that. Um But I do think a lot
of my opinions have sort of changed a little bit. Um But I don't
know, it's hard like so they've been on holiday and you see Americans in
when you're on holiday, and you know they're American because they're louder than everybody
else in the hotel put together, and you just go, you also want
to walk over and go, will you shut the fuck up? But that's
just you know, that's who they are. That's funny. That's funny.
But as a general rule, I think Americans are slightly louder than the British.
Okay, and I don't think i'd change that opinion. Do you want
to know our stereotype of you? I know you think we've got bad teeth,
and I don't know where that's come from. Yes, bad. Yeah,
I really don't get that dress to impress, always sip tea with your
pinkie out and everything, cross legs at the knee that are like like little
image. As soon as somebody says describe a British person to the average American,
that's what pops in our head. A big part of that is thanks
to American TV and especially like programs like I would I would have to say,
like Family Guy and stuff like that. A trail of British people is
bad teeth, bad too, very fair skin, dress very proper, speak
very proper, and drink a lot of tea. Well, I'm going to
debunk all of that because I definitely don't speak proper. I have a massive
beard. I can't stand tea. I'm a coffee drinker. I can't stand
tea. My mom does. My mum's a big tea drinker. When it
comes to pinky out, I think I have done it, but it's normally
when I drink wine, I tend to sort of hold the cold of wine
glass with two fingers, and then that's not I want to see that,
but it doesn't suit me. Yeah, as far as dressed smartly, I
mean when I when I used to teach teaching history, I would go to
work in a suit. Um, Now I live in boots and shorts,
so you know it's a I do think that. Yeah. And bad teeth,
I mean, I've really don't get that. I've seen that in pretty
much every American TV show, especially Family Guy, the way they do that
British, and you just go, we don't look like that. But then
I think I don't think we necessarily have an opinion on the American looks per
se you know, I think going back a few years ago, you would
have said everyone in America is either really really fat or really really thin.
That that tended to be a bit of a stereoidside because you'd see all all
we'd get on British TV from America would be like America's Next Top Model,
where every single one of them, I've got more fat in my little finger.
Yeah, and then it would be the one time Man and the next
show and you're like, really, this guy needs a crane to get to
his own funeral? Is that sort of and you sort of God, So
that sort of steroids. I mean, the media help with things like that,
but like I said, that, that has sort of dumb down a
little bit. Now you've got a lot more a lot more shows that show
a little bit more Yeah, real people, I suppose. I know,
I met somebody that was from Mexico. Their stereotype of us was all cowboys,
Like, yeah, western cowboys that spoke with a Southern twang. And
obviously most of us don't have that because you know, that's a Southern thing,
but we love to be a cowboy. It's so funny how these stereotypes
are so different and even when you talk about the different areas of the United
States, there's a stereoy even for us, like we have our own stereotypes
with different parts of our country. Really have accents all over the country that
are very different. Very few accents bother me. But I have to say
a lot of the Eastern, especially the Northeastern, like Boston accents. I
can't. I can't do it. I must admit that's from family guy as
well, the Rhode Islands, that sort of New England accent. I'm not
a huge fan of that personally, or New Jersey. I ain't got time
for that accent either. That is one. Sorry, one who's listening is
from Jersey. That is an accent. I can't play with that. One
doesn't bother me too bad. I mean it was on the person and how
they're talking. As long as you can have an an intelligent conversation, I
can get past the accent. I think that's the problem though, isn't it.
But with that, I don't remember if it's exactly a Boston accent,
but there's something where they drop the R and put a very high A in
there. The only thing ink car. It's like car, and I hate
that. I can't. I can't do it. That reminds me of the
film Ted when he says the Boston girl in Bedroom Going had had a Yes.
I think that always much with the Boston accent, that one that is
so funny, because that is the one and only accent that I just can't
for a long period of time. At least I get yeah, I start
tuning it out after a while. But pretty much every other accent I've heard
I haven't had an issue with. I can actually enjoy listening to, except
for that one, Hm Lan I must have met. I don't tend to
have any of that that I can't listen to. Um, you know.
I find sometimes the Scottish accent can be very difficult to understand. My sisters
from Scotland, well, now that's a lie. My sisters actually English,
but she moved to Scotland when she was about nine and now she sounds like
she's never lived outside of Scotland. She's got a very very strong Scottish accent.
But yeah, her accent I can deal with. But I find with
a lot of men the Scottish accent, they sound like they're very angry all
the time, and I find that to be quite not. I don't dislike
the accent. I do quite like the accent, but I do find sometimes
that's quite a hard one to understand. I love, absolutely love the Scottish
accent. If anybody else you're listening is Scottish, and it doesn't matter if
you're a man or a woman, you should start reading bedtime stories for people
like us Americans, we will listen to whatever you want to say. We
don't care if we understand you. We just love the British. We love
the Scottish and the Irish accents. There's something about those accents that we absolutely
love and we'll listen to. You do tend to over yeah, I must
have met Americans did tend to have a bit more of a love for our
accent than we do for Theirs. I would say, I mean me personally
are Yeah. So that's what it isn't it. You know, all our
TV, like I said, I'm on about the last four TV shows that
I watched on Netflix all the way through, I've all been American, you
know. And it's not because I don't like British TV. It's just because
Americans make more than we do. You make more TV than we do,
So you know, my ability to listen to American accents is you know,
it's very common. I mean I even hear my kids and our kids.
You not my kids are upstairs and that they're both talking in American accent because
they watch stuff on YouTube and they sat there talking in American accent, and
I had to shout out, shout stairs, Ago, you're fucking English.
What are you doing? It's like, you know, it's just one of
them things to tell him, can you English stop talking to American? They
go, oh, sorry, that's right, you will be, you know,
but it's just that that's not just you either. My daughter has done
that I don't know how many times with either a British or Australian accent.
Okay, so it's just a kid thing. Do you tell her you have
a guy stop it your Americans? Stop doing it? All starts doing it
outside of her room. Like if she's talking to me and she just starts
doing it, I'm like, what the hell are you doing? Yeah?
How about that? Yeah, it's kine. It's quite fun. Other than
that, I just let her do her little thing. Who knows, maybe
one time, one day she will actually move to England or New Zealand or
Australia. That'll come in handy. I must admit I had I had a
point in my life where I wanted to move to the States, but yeah,
that's gone. Now that's gone. Now I've heard about how you deal
with your healthcare and things like that. I am interested, right, you
and I have talked about that quite a bit. Oh yeah, that's something
that might have a reform at some point in the near future. I'm not
gonna say whether or not I support what, but I'm tired of paying six
hundred dollars a month for health coverage and then having to pay out a pocket
for everything they decide they don't want to cover. Obviously, I don't understand
that. See, I mean, you're talking six hundred dollars a month that
I pay National Insurance. So I have my work is thirty thousand pound a
year and I pay twenty four pound a week National insurance and that's for the
NHS. So that's one hundred pounds a month for NHS and we get everything.
The only thing, I mean, what are you're waiting times like in
A and E any Is that ambulance an emergency? No, it's accident,
an emergency. Oh, if you if you cut your finger, where'd you
go the emergency room? But it kind of depends on what hospital you go
to. You could be waiting anywhere between twenty minutes to twelve hours. It
depends on how many people are in there, the severity of your injury,
how many people like have more serious injuries. If somebody comes in with heart
issues or has been in a car accident, you get pushed back. So
it really depends makes sense. But usually if you're going in there your fingers
cut, you just need stitches, you're not going to be in there any
more than six to eight hours maximum. Usually you're waiting times roughly the same
as ours. So that's one thing I always thought was, you know,
are waiting times I think on average is about four hours on average, so
you sort of tend I always thought that, you know, the reason we
had shit waiting times was because we didn't have as much money going into our
NHS as obviously America probably does, and that's why you're waiting. Signs would
better. But if you're waiting times are the same, then that's based off
of like a busy hospital like there, to say the waiting room is half
full. You might wait since to eight hours, depending on how many doctors
are on duty and the hospital and everything. There's a little tiny like emergency
care center up the street from me, maybe five minutes away. If you
go in there, you're usually taken back, seen by the doctor, diagnosed,
and out there, out of there within an hour to where if I
go to a bigger hospital that's either in Youngstown or Warren, I'm probably going
to be there at least four hours. Do you have GPS? Is a
GPA thing in your country, like a general practitioner, like a regular doctor.
Yes, we do. Yeah, yeah, so you don't always Squid's
Hospital. No, no, no, But if you go to the hospital,
you don't have to pay for it right, No for us if you
have private insurance, like if you're not under the poverty line and qualify for
government assistance for medical Usually the normal cost for an emergency room visit is anywhere
from one hundred and twenty five to five hundred dollars just to be seen.
And you're charged for every bandage. You're charged for every alcohol wipe, every
tissue, everything, you're charge for everything. Yes, having a baby,
if you are just normal healthy, have a normal delivery, nothing out of
the ordinary, no medication. It's about ten thousand dollars. Holy crap.
You have to pay to have kids. Yes, you have to pay to
have kids. And that's for like a very basic insurance plan. Wow,
because a lot of times you have to meet a certain deductible of qualified,
qualified things that they will cover. That's mental. Yeah, that's absolutely mental.
Well, I was talking to I just had an issue where I found
a lump in my breast, which, oh well, was caused for concern
because breast cancer grounds in my family. I went to go have it checked
out for them to build the insurance, and then the built come to us.
It would have been twenty two hundred dollars that we would have gotten because
my insurance did not cover a mammogram and an ultrasound because of my age because
I'm only thirty. They don't cover it until you get to be forty five,
So you have to pay the two and two and off grunts. Well,
we talked to the doctor's office to pay cals. It's a lot cheaper.
You pay the same day. I ended up paying about three hundred dollars
for both. Yes, flood the oo that would literally that won't cost a
penny. Yeah, well here it's very different. It ended up coming back
to be just assist. I had to have it aspirated, so I have
to pay for that, and then I also have to pay for the testing
they do on the fluid that they removed, and I have yet to get
that bill. But that was built through our insurance. It was four hundred
dollars for them to do five minutes of work to put a needle in and
to extract it, and then it was done. It was four hundred bucks.
Oh my god, I thought, you can't even that's not going through
insurance. Insurance, right, If it had gone through insurance, it could
have been three times as much, four times as much. And that's because
your insurance don't cover it up. No, my insurance would not cover any
of it. Why do you have insurance? This is what I don't understand.
This is the thing I've always thought, like, if you have insurance,
we have we have to have insurance for the dogs. So if we
for example, a dog needs no surgery and it's going to cost five hundred
quids, let's let's say five hundre quisinal example, Let's say it's two grands.
Yeah for the surgery. Okay, we'll go into the vets the veto
have you got insurance? Would go yeah, and they go out. Okay.
What they would do is they would contact the insurance company. The insurance
company would pay them the two grands, and then my insurance company will contact
me and say you have to pay the excess of five hundred quid. So
we then pay the insurance company the five hundred quid. That's how it works.
Oh my goodness, that is how our insurance for people works. Do
you have insurance for pets? It's a available, but it's very expensive,
Like you're gonna pay just as much for your pet as you would a person.
Geez, My insurance for my dogs is four pound a week. Ours
is more like twenty to fifty for one. Yes, yeah, I think
I was about two pounds something for each dog. Yeah. Oh wait,
there's nothing. See ours is much much more. We're not required to have
any kind of insurance for our pets. A thing for us like um,
certain counties that you're in will decide that you need to have a license for
your dog and you have to have your dog registered. But other than that,
there's no real restrictions or requirements for you to have pets. Wow,
we as a just chips we have in this country. You have to you
have to have a chip in the dog, micro chip just to show who
is where they frump. But that's that's it. That's the only law.
That's not a law here. When you have dog pounds as well, didn't
you actually have people to go out and catch see? Now that's something I
never understood because I see it on TV. You see it on films like
Lady in the Tramp. That always brings to mind that you got the dog
catch or Lady in the Tramp that goes around China cats and dogs, and
you watch it and you go, how many stray dogs do you have in
America? We literally have none in this country. There are no stray dogs
ever. Really, really, they do not. I'm nearly thirty years old
of twenty nine. I've never seen a stray dog in my life. Oh
my goodness, it just don't exist. This is something you and I never
talked about. I didn't know this was a difference because here stray cats and
straight dogs. Oh my goodness. In the summer, especially if there's stray
dogs or stray cats out and they're not fixed. They will have kittens and
puppies and continue to have them, and then there will just be more stray
dogs, more stray cats. A lot of people do try to take them
in, but it's very hard to home a feral animal, an animal that
has never been in a home. Yeah, yeah, and we do have
a lot of those. I mean, and there's people here. I have
seen people in apartments that I've lived in where they'll just let the animal go
when they don't want it anymore. They had a big drive in this country
around the eighties. They had a big thing that went round and it was
a dog is not just for Christmas, And you'd see it on the back
of everyone's car. There would always say a dog is not for Christmas,
and not dog is not just for Christmas. And that was a massive thing.
Now this is prior to me being born. I saw a few in
the nineties. But oh so I was at born in the eighties, so
I don't know prior to the nineties whether straight dogs were a thing. But
I said, now just just don't exist. You get the odd stray cat,
maybe maybe one or two, but not enough to to you know.
Right over about it. It's not a big deal. It's yeah. I
mean, feral cats are a normal They're kind of like a normal thing you
see all the time. You see outdoor cats, and you see stray cats
that you know have not been in a home, and you see stray dogs,
especially in rural areas, you'll see them quite a lot. But I
think that might have an effect on why we have so many more than you
do, because you don't have as much rural area as we do, do
you No, we don't have as much space. You know, we were
talking before, you know, like saying most of your houses are single houses.
You've got front garden, a back garden, you've got down the side
of each house. And majority of houses in this country are what we call
terraced houses. So you'd have maybe six or seven houses in a row.
And that's that's the majority of houses. That's not like every now and again
you'd see it. You're talking majority of houses in this country are our terrace
I mean, I I deliver for a living. That's my job now.
And you know I've gone down streets where you're talking maybe two or three hundred
houses row to row end to end. The entire length of the street,
and it's just not something you see over there. Everyone will have a back
garden. Don't get me wrong, it won't be a very big back garden.
It'll be the width of the house. But you know, I mean,
that's another thing. I mean, my back garden and my front garden,
of both the width of my house. They're not bigger, whereas you
tend to find in America, your gardens are a lot bigger, right Or
you call them a yard, don't you. Yes, we call them the
yard, the freight yard, the backyard, side whatever. For us,
we live in this teenytown. You and I have talked about it before.
Our population is super small. Are graduating classes here? For the schools in
the town I live in are like seventy some people. It's very small,
but I still have names, are kind of clothes. You and I will
have to do a video chat later so I can show you what our yard
is like. And then my neighbor has another plot to ore. His yard
is huge. It's so much bigger. That's weirds. But like I say,
that's we're just so used to everyone having the same size, you know
what I mean, That's how it is in this country. Everyone you know
everyone down one street, I mean, and the estate I live on.
You do have estates? Know what a state is for us? In a
state is just a realty property and a state can be any size. Really
no in the state in this country is an area. So I live in
Grimsby. Grimsby has maybe ten estates, So there are different sections of Grimsby
that world have a lot of houses. So on my estate there's maybe three
about four hundred houses, maybe maybe more. Every single house is more or
less the same. There maybe slight differences, but they're roughly all built exactly
the same. Okay, So I think I know what you're talking about.
We have something similar. Like a lot of times here will have something that
says like Belmont estates or something like that. They're not super common, like
they're not scattered all over the place, but there are homes that are all
manufactured in a little neighborhood that are all very very similar or even exactly the
same. Sometimes there will be a single house. Most times though it's a
duplex, so they'll be connected by a garage or something. We'd call that
semi detached. But yeah, yeah, the ease, he's like, it's
almost like, yeah, well, a house on its own is a detached,
and if there's two together, it's semi detached. Okay, See it
varies around here because we also have duplexes that are like there's garage house,
the other house and then another garage too, because that's a duplex for us
to where the houses are touching. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense to
where a lot of times the ones that you say are semi detached, like
if the garage is just touching, that's kind of more considered like a condo
or a single home. Even. Yeah, see we don't get we don't
really get stuff like that. We have it's maybe just detached semi detached them
and said terrace houses and lights. So we also get um like flats,
so you don't have you do have flats, but do you call them apartment
block so we call them flats, right, yeah, the same thing.
Um, so we do. We don't have that on that basis. We're
quite similar with with that. You tend to go into bigger city centers or
more densely populated areas than they are absolutely rife with high rise flats. Oh
yeah, yeah, the bigger populated areas do have a lot of that,
and even where we live, Like if I look out my back window,
there's something we call four plexes, because there's four apartments in each building.
Two upstairs, two downstairs. Yea, and those are everywhere. Call the
floor of those. Huh. If you've got like you said, you've got
two upstairs, two downstairs, what floor is the bottom floor? The one
you walk in on is the ground floor, first floor, and and the
one upstairs, the next one up is the second floor. Yeah. See
to us, the bottom floor is exactly the same. It's ground floor.
There's no for the second floor up. That's the first floor. Third floor
up, that's the second floor. So we almost get rid of it's just
ground floors. It's bottom. Let's say the bottom floor is not the first
floor. The first floor is actually the second one up. Okay. So
if you go to a hotel or something like that, you have ground floor
and then first and four y up one yeah okay. See for us,
a lot of times you'll push the buttons on the on the elevator and you'll
see g slash one. Yeah, and then second floor is the next one
up? Yes, first floor. Yeah. We also call them left okay,
not elevators. Oh boy, yeah, because they funny little differences.
Yeah, there is. There's definitely some weird, weird ones. The one
that always got me with weird words was eggplant. See I've never understood that,
and I know it's completely off topic, but egg You have an eggplant
and zucchini and those two. Really, when I'm listening, I'm like,
what the hell is an eggplant? But over here we call it an aubergine
aubergine aubergine, and a zucchini is a courgette. And you also have something
over there called yams. Yeah, yeah, they're sweet potatoes. Well we
kind of use those energy okay, yeah, see, we don't use yams
at all. But I found myself actually saying it once and I was like,
I went into shop, but I picked it up and I went,
oh my god, it's ae yam, missus about yam. I see yam,
she's a sweet potato. And I went, do you know what,
I've never seen a sweet potato in my life. All I've seen is from
TV shows, American TV shows where they use these things and they call them
yams. So my mind went straight to it's called yambe no one in this
country calls them yams. So I was like, I felt a bit stupid
then. But see, it really depends here who you're talking to. Certain
people will say that they're yams. Certain people will say that they're sweet potatoes.
Usually from what I noticed since I'm in the Midwest, Yeah, kind
of like the northeastern corner of the Midwest. My grandma refers to like the
Thanksgiving dish that we have where it has like the sweet potatoes with brown sugar
butter and like marshmallows, those she calls yams. To where if I just
go to the store and get these sweet potatoes, she calls them sweet potatoes.
So it's like she refers to them as a dish, not necessarily a
planned so that could be part of it. But like here, if you
go to the store and you get canned sweet potatoes or canned yams, that's
another one I find strange with you guys. Did you call that a can?
Did you get a cannon? Yeah, we call it tin. So
like baked beans, would you call them canned beans? Yeah? Or I'm
gonna go get some canned food, you know, the stock up the pantry
or whatever, so I'll get a can of baked beans. Yeah. See
that's a tin. To us, a can is fit beer comes in a
can, comes in a can. We still call that a can. Yeah,
so they but they're completely separate things, you know what I mean,
look completely different. Yeah, it's it's more a reference to what they're in.
It's still a metal container for whatever we're using, and that's what we
just say can for that. And you use the wrong word for the metal
that you have as well. We pronounce it right, okay, sure about
it. It's aluminium, but it's um. It's due to the fact that
I always thought to be honest every time I heard it, and I always
I used to scream at the TV and you hear someone on an American TV
and they go an aluminum can, and I shoul scream, he's aluminium,
And you used to get really angry about it. And I've actually since realized
that you actually spell it differently, because I always went, how can they
be so stupid to say something and miss a letter? Not just miss a
letter I really important? Why are you missing the EU? You should re
really annoy me and really bug me. But yeah, like I say,
you know, you guys spell it differently, But I found that you actually
dropped the letters and it's the same with things like color. The word color,
you dropped the U in color. And I found out why. It's
because when the printed press started in America, you actually used to spell things
exactly the same as we did. But the printed press in America started charging
per letter, not per word, and therefore Americans, to save money would
drop certain letters out of words that weren't necessary. So you know, I
say color, you say color. I put you in it, you don't,
But there's no difference in the pronunciation, so you've not actually lost anything,
and people putting it in the paper would save money. So that's why
it changed your How do you spell aluminum? Then a L U M I
N I M So you don't, Okay, we took out the I at
the end, yeah, I um yeah, we just have um yeah aluminum.
Yeah, which is why when I used to sit there and scream at
the TV go and you're spurning it wrong. You're spurning it wrong, or
you're saying it wrong. Sorry, you're actually not saying it wrong, you're
saying it how it spelled. Well, you spell it different to how we
do. So that was the confusion. See, And it's funny because that
makes me think of like the how we refer to aluminum, especially like the
kitchen kind of aluminum, like tinfoil, aluminum foil. Yeah, that is
different. All over the US, I might say aluminum foil to where somebody
in the South especial especially might say like tin foul, like the io L
sound is just ol. Oh, that's weird. We call it tinfoil.
See, if you listen to like hillbilly horror stories, you'll see you'll hear
Tracy say certain things like that. It's just all oh, well, that
would irritate me, I think. But then a Southern thing. Yeah,
but then I must admit when I when I watched TV, I do really
like the Southern accent my dad's. My dad's actually got friends who are from
Tennessee, and yeah, their accent. I love their accent. You could
listen to them all day. Yeah, it's definitely got a got a good
vibe to it. I like that. Have you have you ever listened to
Graveyard Tales? No? No, I must admit I'm quite I'm quite weird
with my podcast I listened to. There's literally maybe two or three that I
actually listened to. Might love it. I might have to give that a
listen. Ones from Tennessee and the others from Texas. Awesome. So they
have that that Southern accent. But they do really good research and they cover
a lot of the paranormal stuff. So if you're into that, you'll love
it. Yeah, but those accents, you get to hear how they pronounce
certain words and different little, different little phrases they use. That's because like
with me being in the West Midwest, some of the things they'll say are
totally like, I have no idea what they're talking about. Yeah, different,
how you pronounced it right, It's not even just pronunciation, it's little
phrases they use that I'm just like, what the fund does that mean of
awesome? Wait? Can I swear? Yeah? I've been swearing. Okay,
that just popped into my head. As soon as I said that,
I was like, you swear all the time and you'll podcast that need permission?
I absolutely do. But I didn't know, like if you wanted to
kind of keep your family friends, no good for it. Speaking of swear
words, go, you have a word that you guys say very liberally,
there's a big no no here. We do you do? We do?
Yeah? I don't even say it unless I'm like angry. That would be
what you guys inavertently called the C bomb. Yes, yeah, very common
words, very easily used, even to the point that like stupid things like
I mean, you'd probably you'd probably kill your husband before it. But it's
simple things like if I if I get out of shower top and I'll go
to missus, get us a towel and should be like, why get it
yourself? If I get me? Fucking how you come that? Sorry to
anybody who doesn't like that word, but that is and she'd just like,
oh, for god, say she's gonna do it. But it's not necessarily
I mean, it is a horrible word, but I don't think we It
depends how it's used. I think in this country, if you if I
screamed it at somebody, they'd know it's aggressive. But you can use it
as a term of endearment to an extent. It's like our word bitch.
Like it like hey bitch, and yeah, not necessarily always bad, yeah,
but it can be. Yeah. Yeah. So but I mean you'll
find a lot of a lot of people hate it, and a lot I
mean, my mum will be cringing now that she's just certainly say that because
mom hates the word, and a lot of people do still hate the word.
But yeah, we're just I think we're we're really we're really laid back
in this country when it comes to things like that, you know, even
things like you know, like I was saying in my last episode, drinking
and smoking. You know, I drink not a lot, but I was
saying the last episode, I sat there and did did a whole episode with
a bottle of wine. And it's that sort of in the US, it's
not as you know, you don't tend to drink casually as much as we
do, you know, going into shops and buying fags, it's not necessarily
a big you know, it's a big no note out there. You know,
you sort of get looked at a bit funny buying cigarettes and things like
that, whereas in this country it's just really common. It's just everyone.
I mean, it's that sort of were quite liberal with things like that.
And going on to another political fee. But like gay marriage was no one
cared in this country when they passed it. You go the odd handful of
people that are like, oh no, that's wrong. But I would say
ninety nine percent of this country just went yeah, fair enough about bloody time.
It's that whereas America it was like fifty fifty split. You know,
half of you were like, yeah, it's great, and half of you
were like, no, Gods, do you know what I mean? It's
that sort of yeah, And I think where I think again, I do
believe it comes down to religion a lot in this country. This country is
really not religious at all. You know, handful handful of religious people in
this country in comparison to the US. You know, you're talking what eight
your population is Christian? Um no? Not um no? If you and
I only know this because of another show, like the Show's Small Town Murder.
They actually go through like all these different small towns and say, what,
like the national average is for religious people, and it's about fifty to
sixty percent are religious. It just depends. Most of them are like,
yeah, I'm Christian, but I don't really you know, care what other
people do. I'm gonna mind my own business. To where some people are
more what we call Bible humpers, to where they force that on other people.
We do have quite a lot of those, yeah, I mean we
do as well, but and I think because we have such a large population,
there's more of them. Yeah, I mean we do have. Like
let I said, it's just I think in this country we tend to sort
of we've stepped away from religion a little bit. I mean we do.
A lot of people are still religious, but I think they're they're more tolerant
religion, if that makes sense. Do you know what I mean? I
can't force that. Yeah, we don't tend to have very many of those
that go around and you will convert to Christianity. Jesus will save you.
You get the odd one or two, but not to the extent that you
have over there. So I think that's that's something that is a bit different.
See for us, it's normal to have churches that have missionaries to where
they'll send groups of people to their countries to convert people. And that's a
very normal thing. A lot of churches do that. They'll fund like a
trip to Taiwan or you know, some places where they think are in need
of Christianization. Yeah, we're gradually getting away from that, but then it's
it's like a flip flop. Little things pull us back in and then we
work our way out a little bit to where we're realizing, well, if
one group can have this dominance, everyone should have the right to. Yeah,
and I do like that we're moving more in that direction. It is
taking some time, yeah, but I think we'll eventually get there to where
we're pretty even killed and realized that we can't force stuff on other people.
No. No, that's the best way to be, isn't it right?
But I it's just I mean, there's slight differences between the countries, and
you know, I think we've we've covered a few of them, aren't we.
Definitely we have covered a few. There is one that I really wanted
to touch on because this is something that if somebody comes to America from England
or goes to England from America, it might it might screw you up a
little bit. And that's the way you write the date. Yes, date
months year. Yeah, day month year is how you do it. We
do month, day year. So if it's in under twelve, if it's
in the first dozen, yes, you might get a little screwed up in
your legal documents won't be accurate. Yeah. Like I said, my birthday
is the ninth in November, so over here, my birthday is nine eleven
right, well to where if you wrote that over here, that would be
September eleventh exactly, which is a different date entirely. Yeah, and it's
with my birthday too. I'm January eighth, so I'm one eight ninety where
if I was over there, I would have to write eight one nine.
Yeah, they have a difference, which would be yeah, it is,
because that would be August here, Yes it would. Yeah, it's weird,
but I say, it's just certain things that we have slightly different in
cultures, and you know, maybe you'll catch up with us one day and
I don't realize we're right. Oh no, there's another one you do that
I thought was so funny. Just cram one more. In crosswalks, it's
a pavement. Oh no, you're about zebra zebra crossing, aren't here?
Yeah, yeah, it's called zebra crossing. It's got black and white stripes
across, which these pedestrians have right away to a cross. So it's zebra
crossing because it's black and white stripes. Do you actually paint the black on
it? No, it's just a blacktop. It's no, it's the tarmac.
And then it's white white cross white lines paint across. Not all of
ours have that. Wow, a lot of our streets, like I've gone
on streets that still have brick roads. But we don't have the blacktop on
all of our No, we don't on all of them, but you know
where the white is that so it covers that. Yeah, we just have
crosswalks, and we have them in larger cities as well, and it's just
a crosswalk like in Youngstown for example. You'll just have two lines going from
one side of the road to the other, and that's the little area you
walk in to get from one side of the street to the other. I
am going to have to wrap it up there before my dogs decide to kick
off in a minute, because it's just coming to the time where people are
going to come through the house. That is fine, This was so much
fun. We'll have to do another one soon. Yes, because you had
a big list of things that we didn't even touch on. No, we'll
have to do that definitely, So another episode will be coming very soon.
Brilliant. Well, thank you for listening. Now. Obviously, as you
heard from that, there are so many things that we plan to touch on
that we kind of noticed were different, but we really didn't have time.
There's definitely going to be another part to this at some point in the future,
so I do hope you enjoyed this. Let me know what you thought.
I'll get to social media and stuff and how you can contact me.
After the announcement. I wanted to let you guys know that Shoes, Boos
and Tattoos is going to be going through a little bit of a revamp.
I had this idea a while back, and I talked to my Patreon peeps.
They're in full support. I also talked with a few other people like
Jerry from Hillbilly Horror Stories, and he's fully on board for the idea.
He thinks it's a great idea. Downside is I would have to take a
little break to get this started. Shoes, Booze and Tattoos is not going
anywhere, but there's gonna be a little bit of a change to it.
Instead of putting out episodes every two weeks or when I get the chance,
like it's been so far, I'm going to do seasons the seasons I want
to do. There wouldn't really be much of a break in between the seasons,
you know, but I wanted to take this this show that I do
where I talk about all these different genres and have it makes some sort of
sense, like have some kind of rhyme or reason. So so far,
my plan is to do seasons. I'm not quite sure how many episodes I'm
going to do in each season. However, there will be one common theme
in that season. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to let you know
right away what the theme is for the season, or if I'm going to
let you kind of see for yourself. That being said, I'm still going
to cover witchcraft, I'm still going to cover the paranormal, true crime,
all of those things. I'm going to cover all of them, but they
will all have something in common for that season. I still have a few
more episodes I want to put out before I do this, So over the
next few weeks there will be more updates. If you're on Patreon, I'm
going to keep that up. I'm just going to skip months so that you
don't have to pay for it while I'm on this break. People that are
on Patreon, you will not be charged at all, and I will post
updates in there as to how the season is going. We give you some
sneak peaks as to what's to come, but you will not be charged at
all until I start uploading the season, and then I will give you plenty
of notice to let you know if you want to cancel it, that's completely
fine. But over the next couple of months, I am going to take
a little bit of a break at some point after the next few episodes,
because I have one sneak peak for next week. I needed a little extra
time for that because I fell down a rabbit hole. Man. It started
with researching Tommy Knockers and then it led me to Arizona and down one rabbit
hole after another after another, and it's such a great story. I wanted
to try to include as much as possible, and it's difficult to do because
the information for this one isn't really written down. It's more of a verbal
history, kind of something that's passed down through the people. So that will
be coming very very soon. That's my next big, big episode. I
will have more updates on the seasons and when exactly that break is coming.
Then I'm also going to be doing an episode with Leslie Fear. She is
the author of a bunch of different books. I had the privilege of reading
one of her books and I binge the entire thing in one day. She
does the Fear of the Week on Hilbily Horror Stories. She's an awesome,
amazing, so sweet woman, and she had a great idea for an episode.
I'm super excited about it, you guys. I'll have to wait and
see for that one, but I'm going to be having her on with me
at some point, very very soon, and Noah won't be for the season.
But I did want to keep you guys updated as to what's going to
be happening, because if you're a listener, and especially if you've listened this
far, you actually kind of care. If it's somebody that's just listening to
hear the topic, they're not gonna have made it this far. With all
that being said, again, Patreon people will not be charged, but you'll
have sneak peaks and updates. I will continue to post videos, I will
continue to post updates, little episodes, sneak peaks of what's to come,
things like that, but you won't be charged until the first full month of
episodes, and I will make that very very clear there. And also we'll
have updates and let you know when things are coming out and when that charge
is going to start. I'm betting September October, That's what I'm kind of
betting on, just for the preparation, because I do have to write,
record, edit and set everything to start uploading before the season actually uploads,
you know, before the season actually starts to be available for all of you.
So it is going to take a little bit of time to prepare.
But this is something I'm very very excited about. I hope you are too.
You can let me know what you think. If you think this is
a good idea, if you think that it should just stay the same way
it is. I mean, that's we can talk about it. I won't
get upset either way, of course, but it's something that I think will
help the show. You know, definitely let me know what you think.
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much for listening and for being so amazing. I'll see you all later.
Bye. I'll drink you off the ground after you've fallen down. And Dad,
I'm bed time around. It's not all You're not stand out of space.
I'm waiting in this place to catch your racing. It's not over.
I'll make you walk down. I'll tell you balling time. Dad. I'm
been time. Don't run. It's not and I know it's not.