63.England and the U.S.

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. You reach me Shoes Boosing Tattoos Facebook and instagram spt pod on Twitter can send me an email Shoes Boosing Tattoos at gmail dot com. Thank you all so

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.