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thrown by the question. Should I should I not have asked you how your weekend was? No, it's just that it's Wednesday, and most people ask each other on Monday how their weekend was. They don't wait till Wednesday. It's like five days. I know, but I didn't see you on Monday, so I'm just asking you today. How was your weekend? Oh? No, it was good. So hold on. I'm sorry. So I take it from what you're saying. It's a crime if you know you asked someone how

their weekend was on a Wednesday. No exaggeration, of course, it's not a crime. It's just that if you wait until Wednesday asks some one how the weekend was, and it just may take some time for that person and recall everything they did. Well, I'm sorry, you're wrong. I just don't buy that. You know, the weekend was only two days ago or five five days you're counting from Friday. Yeah, it was only I mean, go ahead, go ahead, ask me how my weekend was. Okay, Ron, how is your skein?

It was great, Carolina, I had a great weekend. Thank you for asking. Okay, cool? What did you do? Um? What did I do? Well? Let's see, I uh, what did I do? I went to the place? Yes, I went to the place where you I food? So do you mean a restaurant? I did that? No? No, no, no, the place where the food is sold in the building, you know with the rose the rows of food. Grocery store. Yes, the grocery store. So so that was good. Did you do anything else? Just went to the grocery store? Um? No,

I did a lot of things. It was the weekend, Um, I oh, I know. I was Oh. I was rushed to that place where everyone goes. What's the place where everyone goes at all times of the day? Can it can be in the middle of the night as well. It's like an around the clock place and it's super busy in their doctors, and there's a lot of commotion and shouting. Okay, I think the emergency, yes, emergency. Yes, I went to the emergency room because it turns out I had been bitten repeatedly by a Oh come on, ron,

what are they called? Did you get a dog? No? Smaller than that? And they don't have for no, come on, help me out here. Um. No, they're long, they're long, and they don't have feathers. A sneak, Yes, that's it. Yes, yes, I had gone for a hike and I I sat on a on a rattlesnake when I when I came back to my car, I sat on a rattlesnake who was sunning himself in my car seat. And I I had to take some had to take some stuff. Oh, oh, for god's sake, what's the what's the medicine that stops

the rattlesnake poison from getting into your eyeballs? Venom? Yes, anti venom? And they injected it into my eyeball. Wait they okay, so they injected it into the ball because let me guess, the snake bit you in the eye over and over again, repeatedly. Yes, so we're on. You were taken to the emergency room because you sat on a rattlesnake who then repeatedly bait you in the face and eyeballs. And this was over this past weekend. Yes, exactly,

that was my weekend. You see, you're having trouble remembering this. It kind of proves my point. This is a life altering event. And even though it's only Wednesday, you're you're not remembering that. You're absolutely right, point taken. Huh So the bottom line is, if it is Wednesday or beyond, don't ask someone how their weekend was. I don't. Yeah, I get it. I get it now. Yeah, so Wednesday borderline. Don't ask Monday Tuesday, Fine, you're within the zone. How

was your weekend? Totally Wednesday maybe not, but by Thursday Friday, how was your weekend? It's crazy, it's crazy because you've already gone weight, you've shot way past. I would try how was your night last night? Because Thursday Friday, it's gonna get confusing because it's gonna be like, how how was your weekend? Like you mean my weekend coming up? You can always just say how are you? Mm hmm. That's so boring. Though, yeah, or you know, what are you up to today? Yeah? I guess. But what if

here's the problem. What if it's Thursday and I've seen this person Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and I just keep forgetting to ask them how their weekend was, and I legitimately wanted to know how their weekend was. Do I just I know what. I would sit them down and go, hey, I know it's Thursday, and I remembered you having a big weekend last weekend. I know it's four days since the weekend, but could you go back and just tell me how your weekend was. That's it, That's it. I

figured it out. Good, Thank you, Carolina. I mean, yeah, you're welcome. Mhm. Shakespeare, what Buckingham, Las, Tower of London, England, fish and chips, the English language? What do all these things have in common? That's right, they came from England, Is that what you said? Caroline? I find England and all things English to be utterly fascinating, and thus Lee I have chosen England as the topic of today's show.

We've all studied England in the history books, and much of it is embedded in our brains, and yet some facets of England are as mysterious as the secrets contained in the famous pagan structure known as Stone Hinged. Over the centuries, many groups of people have ruled over the island nation. Whether it was the Vikings, the Visigoths, the Romans, the Normans or Norman lear some one has always been knocking on England's door. Finally, King Arthur and the Knights

of the round Table said enough is enough. They kicked everyone out, gave Henry the Eighth the Turkey Leg, and the rest, as they say, a stray Wait, we didn't get that. What did you say? The rash aka? The rest is history. We got it. Now's a good time to go take a peep. We gotta take a commercial break today. We are so fortunate to be joined by two people who are actual subjects of the Commonwealth, so we can take a deeper dive into all things England.

We're gonna start with you if you don't mind, and would you please tell the listeners your name. Hello, my name is Adrian, and they keep heaving me well. Adrian, thank you for taking time to join us here on the rund Burgundy Podcast. This is Carolina, Hi nice. Let me let me start by asking you this. When you think of England, what comes to mind? You know, I think of I think of so many different things. I think of the birthplace of constitutional monarchy. I think of

industrial revolution, colonialism. Yes, one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen. And then the fall of that empire, England has made I mean astounding contributions to literature and music and technology and the rule of law. I mean, the list really is in list, it really is. It really is. Um. It's a fascinating place of fascinating culture. Um. Was was London home to you? No? I wish um.

When I was younger, you know, we were lucky enough to visit London and later I did go to university there. So I feel like I know it well. Interesting? So, um, so you didn't live in London. Where where did you grow up? Okay? And where is Auckland. It's in the North Island. Oh that's right, that's right. I knew that. I love the North Island. I mean, sorry, never mind, keep growing. I love it. I love the North Island. It's beautiful there, lovely. Yes. And let's see I've been there. Oh,

oh you have been. That's great. But yeah, I took the train. Took the train from London and it's beautiful countryside. It's just gorgeous. There's there's no train from London. Well, sure there is, yes, because I took it. I took it right into Auckland station. I took it from Paddington and about the ticket and I said, straight to Auckland. So oh you know the distance technically from from London to Auckland. Ess, Actually it's a living thousand miles. Eleventh, Wait,

what part of England are you from? Well, I'm not from any path of England, from New Zealand. You've got to be kidding me, Carolina. Sorry, this is actually I just found her in the hallway and she sounded really British. Well, I actually can't blame you at all. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry. We're just going to turn off your mic and then you can get out of here. Okay, okay, okay, um, now I'll turn my attention to you over here. What is your name and are you from England? My name

is b and yes I am from England. Okay, great, this is Carolina. Did you know the other woman who was in here? I've never seen that woman before. Okay, did you know she was not English. Absolutely, Really, you're not just saying that she sounded nothing like an English person. It's like how a deer knows that a dog is not a deer. I guess sounds crazy to me. What where do you live now? Do you still live in England or do you just visit? And I live in

Los Angeles, California. I get back to England probably every year. Stuck upon Yorkshire tea essential very good? And what part of England is that? Exactly? So Yorkshire is in the north of England and I'm from a city called Bradford City. Just celebrate Christmas in is it? It's extra Christmas Eve there? It's got to be. It's not known for festivities. Are you guys against Christmas? Is there a war on Christmas there in Bramford, Braford? Yeah? I guess it gets a

little festive. It's it's a mixing part of cultures, so we celebrate anything and everything, right, wonderful, wonderful. How would you describe the English accent? Well, I think there's about a hundred and fifty different English dialects. There can't be someone does a study for you, just making that up? But seriously, how many how many dialects. Well, let's let's say a hundred and sixty. Oh, well, you can't go up. I think on last check on Google it was a

hundred and sixty. I'm very interested in this kind of thing because my dialects quite unusual. You might, I think it just sounds a little bit confusing. That's because you know, when you're from England, you could live like a mile away from someone and sound completely different. Right. Well, and do do you often get mistaken for being from New Zealand? Yes? I get mistaken for New Zealand Australian, South African. I've been asked if English is my first language, and it

is absolutely being from England. Yes, right, kind of invented it. We get it, Carolina, What were you going to say? Oh? I actually was going to ask if English was your first language, and it's always been your first language always? Have you do know any other languages? Do you know New Zealand? I haven't studied New Zealand. It's not a language, it's just a dialect because they speak English in New Zealand.

Our first guess really really through me. And I'm sorry for not being professional, but thank you for hanging in there with us today. Let me ask you this, why is English food so bad? I mean, I happen to like it, but for a lot of people they say, you've heard the old saying. I'm sure if you're going to visit England packed two suitcases, one filled with your clothes and one filled with sandwiches, why why is English food so bad? I think English food is very practical.

So England is kind of just like this cold, rocky island in the middle of the sea. So the food is really about it being kind of studgy, keeping you warm, keeping you full, rather than like a culinary experience. Studgy. Yes, I like that word because we don't have that word over here. I'm just gonna get that down. Write down that word Carolina stodgy, and I'll use it in my speech tomorrow at the community Center. I didn't know, but you're okay. It's in my book, it's in the calendar, okay. Um.

Do you ever drink mead or ale both regularly? When I turned toty, I decided I was going to get into stout. Oh stout that now, that's the heavier of the beers, right, call him, I'm sorry, are you bullying me? Right? Now I haven't drunk any stout today. Very professional. Now, mead meat is a a alcoholic beverage. It is considered a beer, or is it. It's considered to be a regularly drunk of a horn. And there's chunks of flesh in it. No flesh, just so it's not like a

soupy broth. No, okay, no, nothing like a broth. Actually, um, I know Harry Potter is a movie, right, that's a given. Yes, we got that. It's in fact, it's a wonderful movie. One of the reviews I read said it was stodgy, that's how good it is. I can't believe you read those reviews, Carolina. You know I read all the movie reviews. I know. I just feel like Harry Potter. It's like reading the book review for Harry Potter. Anyway. Um so,

Harry Potter, it's a movie. But some of the magic has to be real, you know, it had just has to be I mean, what do you think do do do most people carry wands in England in case of an emergency? No? English people are very sensible. Doesn't really no magic. I definitely didn't think people carry ones, right, although our passports, do you have unicorns on them, so there is that. Well, those are conflicting because because the unicorn is a magical creature. Exactly do do you go?

I know in the English countryside there are the old fox and hound, the fox runs where you hunt for foxes. Um do they ever hunt for unicorns? Is that why it's on the passport? There's no unicorn hunt to my knowledge, and I think they streak sticked vaicely to fox hunting because the first thing I do when I visit London is I order it unicorn steak and get a big flagon of mead Ron just read the Harry Potter books and loved them as we all loved them. I loved

I know, but hogwarts. Um, there is a word that the English use. How do I get into this? Just dive in Ron. It starts with a sea and rhymes with punt. Going to ask this, okay, sorry, is it okay for Americans to use it? Promise me you will never use that word. I'm just asking because you go, you know, you walk around the streets of London and it's you hear it every five seconds. It does get used liberally, but it's okayful Lindon, because they have the accent,

so why can't we use it here? Not that I want to use it. I'm just more of a sociological linguistic study. I think the official answer would just be like it isn't anyone else is to take It's a very specific RN. You called me that yesterday when I was late. No, but I said, let's imagine we're in England, right and you were late I know, so therefore it was legal in a way. I shouldn't have called you that. I'm sorry. The movie American Werewolf in London was quite

a hit. Um did it cause mass hysteria in the streets of London? I think even there it was a movie. People could tell a difference. So no hysteria and no no reported sightings of wewelves in London, is Isle swhere in England. Oh so there was not that the werewolf sightings didn't increase, because that's the research I had done. No, one time in my hometown there was a rat that was as big as a dog. Maybe that was confused.

Maybe people thought the giant rat was a werewolf exactly. No, I want you to be honest with me, is this is this a good British accent, and I can take criticism and just be as brutally honest as you need to be. I'm just shining of a shade im and I live in foggy London town. That is not truth for accent, you don't know what you're talking about. Maybe saying more because that one was we couldn't even pick that up. Really well, I'm a shine of a shade I am, and I live in folly landon down Yeah.

You would not get into Downton a be with that kind of By the way, we'll keep working on it. Downton Abbey. Ah, why did they end it? It could have gone on forever as far as I was concerned, there's going to be a movie? Really yeah? I think so? Will they have wands? I don't think there's a magical element to Downton Abbey. It's very serious, it's very accurate.

I found it so fascinating, and I think we'll always be interested in how the other half lives, right, meaning like downstairs, Yes, between the rich people and the working class. I mean they pull their pants on one leg at a time, just as everyone else does. Right. Yeah, No, that's beautiful. I live in down gen Aby, I do next stop Downey. That was better. I think I'm getting better. I think it needs work. Mhmm. Here's a political question.

Are you happy that England let America go? I mean, I think given the distance between England and America, they were already quite separate. Yeah, but there is a part of every British subject who ruses the day when comes around, they're like, oh gosh, and we're just we're just we're eating corn on the cub and lighting fireworks that the Brits aren't like, we let that one get away. We have our own firework day on the fifth of November. Well,

it's not a competition. Were kind of over it. You don't have to yell at me or those your real teeth. These are my real teeth. Now you have wonderful teeth. These are actually my baby teeth. I don't know if it's a British thing, but I've only ever had one set of teeth. They could fall out any minute. Ron, that's so crazy. Ron only has his baby. I only have my baby teeth. Well, maybe you have British Maybe these are wow wow, m what are you doing after

the show? I'm sorry, let's just keep going. They referred to Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister, as the Iron Lady. But she the Iron Lady was just a that was just a title she got from her her strong leadership. There's there's no part of her that's made of iron, Like she didn't have like an iron implant putting her leg or anything like that. That's a good question. No, I don't think there was any part that was made of metal, more like she had metal. But you said

that's a good question. So we don't know for sure. I haven't seen an X ray of micro facher should we? But is that something people are talking about in England to give her a full body skin to make sure she doesn't have parts of iron in her body. I haven't seen that being discussed. But you do raise an interesting question. Until now, it hasn't been discussed, hasn't been discussed. Well, it's called good journalism, that's what it's called. Yeah, um,

thank you so much. This was just a simply fascinating discussion. And I think I think you've answered almost all the questions I had. Caroline, did you have any anything you know what? The girl from New Zealand needs a write home Tinny Zealand. Oh no, no, no, think I don't unless there's a bridge that goes there. It's eleven thousand miles. Come on, she just seems right to look awake, got it,

no problem, practically the same anyway. Be amazing, Thank you, thank you for your time, Thank you for having me. We'll be right back after this important announcement. Well, Carolina, that was a fascinating show. Let's uh, let's do our fact check. How do we do? Okay? Um, stonehenge right, stonehenged? Stonehenge is actually how it's pronounced. And what did I say, stonehenge unhinged? Stone hinged? That's not the way you say exactly,

okay um. And then I just we've poked some holes in the rattlesnake story, so we just want to get okay. I think we covered it very good, as my mother would say, all in all, not bad. This is Ron Burgundy reminding you that only you can prevent forest fires unless there is lightning that strikes a remote part of the wilderness, and then it's all the animal's fault for failing to be vigilant until next time. So long, everybody, stay tuned for scenes from the next episode of the

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