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Send us a textThis "Between the Seasons", bonus episode was originally made available on my Patreon website on, 14 Mar 2024Studying this was quite an Eye Opener for Me this last week or so. My American friends will probably think how come you Brits do not know about this guy. Hope you find my Newbee perspective of some value.Blessings. JeremyNotes:Alexis De Tocqueville a prominent French political thinker, writer, and historian born into an aristocratic family in 1805.His main most notable work "Democracy in America" and its enduring influence on political thought and societal analysis.Segment 1: Biography of Alexis De TocquevilleDe Tocqueville's family background, including his aristocratic lineage and his father's involvement in French politics.His early career in law and politics, highlighting his advocacy for decentralization of government and abolition of slavery.Segment 2: Travels and ObservationsDe Tocqueville's travels to America in 1831 with Gustave de Beaumont, initially commissioned to study prisons but leading to broader observations on American society.His travels to England and Algeria, noting his critiques of colonization and his advocacy for cultural autonomy.His observations on Ireland before the Great Famine and his sympathy for Irish Catholics' struggle against aristocratic power.Segment 3: "Democracy in America": The BookA brief on overview of De Tocqueville's seminal work, "Democracy in America," published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840.His examination of American democracy, including its strengths and weaknesses, as compared to aristocratic societies.His insights on the role of the Christian religion, inheritance laws, jury service, freedom of the press, and the evolving status of women in American society.Conclusion:De Tocqueville's insights on democracy, society, and faith, emphasize his recognition of the importance of individual freedom and communal responsibility.His enduring relevance of his work for Christians navigating the complexities of modern democratic societies.Support the showJeremy McCandless is creating podcasts and devotional resources | PatreonHelp us continue making great content for listeners everywhere.https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com

An American listener, "Tim" from Michigan, quoted Carl Sagan: "Extinction is the rule, survival the exception". Tim has argued, in an email: "If we want to be exceptional we have to move the Overton Window a lot more than Tom Steyer can even imagine". My American friend was commenting on a recent "Climate Conversations" episode featuring a discussion between Steyer and Greg Dalton on "Climate One". The Australia Institute has what it describes as "Australia's Biggest Book Club" and recently the guest was Royce Kurmelovs who has just published "Slick: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil". "Shepparton winter weather 2024 wrap"; "‘It doesn't get much more significant': Victorians urged to hunker down amid cold front"; "Would you have surgery if it badly impacted Earth's carbon footprint?"; "Wondering how to get from Brisbane to Melbourne without wrecking the climate? Our transport choices make a huge difference"; "‘It's time to give up on normal': what winter's weird weather means for the warm months ahead"; "Without sanctions, making companies disclose their environmental and social impacts has limited effect"; "Olympic champion joins climate activists for Windsor protest"; "Activists link climate change, Gaza in a campaign targeting Citigroup"; "Virtual reality offers a glimpse of future climate impacts"; "Tree-planting project aims to identify climate-resilient trees"; "Leaders are cutting fossil fuel finance – next comes unlocking clean energy for all"; "‘Immoral and unacceptable': Tuvalu calls on Australia to set urgent deadline to end fossil fuels"; "Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn"; "‘Twisters': Hollywood's weird spin on tornadoes and climate change"; "Canadian city invites neighbors to tackle climate change together"; "As wildfires intensify, the taxpayer burden is growing"; "If EVs are stalling, accelerate with hybrids"; "Commonwealth Bank CEO labels Greens' tax policy ‘insidious populism' after firm's $9.8bn profit"; "Mali declares state of national disaster over flooding"; "Winter's unseasonal warmth and clear skies are glorious – but a forbidding sign of danger to come"; "At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, authorities say"; "We invite you on a Transformative Journey"; "How the Heat Is Changing Us"; "Alarm as Australia records ‘gobsmacking' hot August temperatures".

When I posted on my Instagram account that I was searching for women to highlight for Women's HERstory month, Chef Nina Curtis was the first to reply with the name Chef Karla Ortiz. Then, OMG! The additional "votes" for Karla kept rolling in, and then someone submitted a nomination form for her. After reading that, the piece about her in Forbes and on PBS's My American story, I was convinced. Karla Ortiz is the Chef/Owner of Bo.ka.do, a vegan restaurant in Puerto Rico, located inside La Plaza del Mercado (a farmer's market). Twenty-five years after leaving Puerto Rico, where she was born, she returned with $500 in her pocket, the need to feed her kids, a culinary degree, and a dream.  Her scratch kitchen restaurant uses the freshest of ingredients - those downstairs in the market - so that she can be as creative with food as possible, providing good food as well as educating people about mind, body, and soul. Join Tracy and Karla for a special edition of Eating at a Meeting LIVE for Women's HERstory month to talk about Karla's dream, how everyone ❤️s her food, and how she is using plant-based food to educate and empower others.  Connect with Tracy: facebook.com/groups/EatingataMeeting thrivemeetings.com

Check it out on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/33Z4VsE Check it out on Apple: https://apple.co/3AHc2DT How to Meet Anybody with Steve Buzogany Episode: https://apple.co/3zuud1y I am a retired international insurance executive that quit to pursue my dreams of traveling the country meeting people, hearing their stories.  I created and host The Jar Live a unique podcast that focuses on real people and real conversations. My American upbringing, then living in 5 countries, working in 15 over the last 20 years gives me a wide ranging view life, people, travel, business, food, culture. We can have a wide ranging conversation. Or focus in on something you wanna talk about. Dreams: See where the podcast and questions take him. Started a nonprofit around mental health that is paired with a podcast Raising a fund for mental health. Cover people's stories, industry innovation, fitness, and diet as a way to tackle mental health (Jar Academy). 250,000 to finish the Jar Live. Offer People a Foundation Chair for $25,000 and run a Kickstarter for smaller amounts of money. Introduce Them to: Meet somebody who can turn it into online training. Contact them at: https://www.thejar.live/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/timothy-douglas0/support

Check it out on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/33Z4VsE Check it out on Apple: https://apple.co/3AHc2DT How to Meet Anybody with Steve Buzogany Episode: https://apple.co/3zuud1y I am a retired international insurance executive that quit to pursue my dreams of traveling the country meeting people, hearing their stories.  I created and host The Jar Live a unique podcast that focuses on real people and real conversations. My American upbringing, then living in 5 countries, working in 15 over the last 20 years gives me a wide ranging view life, people, travel, business, food, culture. We can have a wide ranging conversation. Or focus in on something you wanna talk about. Dreams: See where the podcast and questions take him. Started a nonprofit around mental health that is paired with a podcast Raising a fund for mental health. Cover people's stories, industry innovation, fitness, and diet as a way to tackle mental health (Jar Academy). 250,000 to finish the Jar Live. Offer People a Foundation Chair for $25,000 and run a Kickstarter for smaller amounts of money. Introduce Them to: Meet somebody who can turn it into online training. Contact them at: https://www.thejar.live/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/timothy-douglas0/support

Hello Interactors,Happy 2023! Today we launch into a season on topics related to human behavior. So much of how we interact with people and place comes down to language. It shapes how we communicate with one another, but how much does language shape our behavior? And if one language dominates, how much does that domination shape our global society?  As interactors, you're special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You're also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let's go…DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?Last week I caught up with a friend of mine who left Microsoft soon after I did. He was a technology executive and is now pursuing a degree at Cambridge on ethics in artificial intelligence (AI). His coursework is very different from his engineering past and Taiwanese education. Fewer numbers, more words. He is reading multiple philosophy papers a week, sometimes 30 pages long. He must then write his own analytical essays. Predictably, these papers he is reading are written in English – his second language.It can be challenging enough to read philosophy in a native language. When he encounters a word, he doesn't understand, he often consults his Chinese dictionary to better understand the concept. But then when he compares that definition to the English dictionary definition, the meaning is sometimes different. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”For my bi-lingual friend for whom English is his second language, it seems the language is the battle against intelligence by means of the bewitchment of philosophy.This is an increasingly common phenomenon around the world as English is the dominant language of higher education. An estimated one in six people on this planet speak some form of English. While seemingly small, it is the largest population to speak a common language in the history of our species. Still, with over 7000 different languages spoken around the world language diversity dominates.In the United States 80% of households speak English only at home. Those homes are likely to remain monolinguistic. But as immigrant populations in America grow and Indigenous languages resurface the number of bilingual or multilingual households is expected to increase. When the first wave of immigrants came to America in the late 1800s, many children were encouraged to drop their native language in favor of English. My American born Italian father-in-law was discouraged to speak Italian and thus never learned it. Meanwhile, the cost of learning English was too great for his mother, so she was discouraged to learn English. They never shared a richly common language.Even though the United States has never declared English the official language, it is often assumed. As a result, there exists not only a monolingual bias, but an English bias. Given the last two global trotting colonizing superpowers have English as the dominant language, it follows the English language dominates. As a result, schools, including higher education replete with international bilingual diversity, is also dominated by the English language and all that comes with it. That includes the branches of the field of cognitive science intent on understanding how language affects how the brain works.It was my father-in-law's strict dad that insisted he speak English only. His attitude was ‘you're an American, so you're speaking English.' It was common for immigrant parents during these times to attempt to erase their past in hopes of appearing more ‘American'. But this attitude may have been buoyed by a long-held belief there exists a cognitive cost of switching between two or more languages. A belief that was surely substantiated by the high cost of learning a second language proficiently. It seems advantageous to just pick one and stick with it. And for many of those early immigrant children in America, that choice would have been English.But I'm reminded of another friend who grew up in Malaysia learning English and Malay while speaking her native cultural language and English at home. Malaysia's population is a blend of Malay, Chinese, and Indian descendants, and the informal language, Manglish, blends words from English, Chinese, and Tamil. She is so comfortable jumping between these languages that when she and her sister talk, they sometimes use words from multiple languages in a single sentence. For her, there is no cognitive cost in switching. In fact, she may even benefit from using many languages at once.YES, UH-HA, I AGREESome research in cognitive science points to a ‘bilingual advantage'. Multi-lingual speakers showed a greater “ability to plan, focus, and execute a wide array of tasks' compared to single language speakers and the effect was pronounced among older adults. As a result, replicated studies show performance varies greatly depending on the task, age, language experience, and frequency of switching languages. Still, as cognitive research increases in parts of the world where bilingualism is more common, more is sure to be learned.The bulk of knowledge in cognitive science comes from studying WEIRD people. They are predominantly White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The ‘E' could just as well stand for ‘English-speaking'. The discipline is dominated by English-speaking researchers, studying a sliver of the English-speaking population, writing papers in English, and in countries that that are culturally Anglocentric. This flaw has been recognized for nearly a decade. But increasingly more research uses diverse sample populations, in more diverse locations, and is conducted by less Anglocentric researchers who use English as a second language.In 2022, a group of scholars published a paper investigating how over-reliance on English may hinder cognitive science. It included a chart that illustrates a sampling of differences emerging from these more diverse studies. It shows how aspects of the written and spoken English language differ culturally, linguistically, and cognitively from certain other languages. For example, English speakers tend to frequently rely on words of gratitude to maintain healthy social relations. One study revealed English speakers were four times more likely to say ‘thank you' than other languages. A language in Ecuador, Cha'palaa, doesn't even have a word for ‘thank you'. Even ‘please' is avoided without conflict. Thirsty? ‘Give me water' is sufficient and considered polite.Conversely, languages other than English tend to use words more frequently that promote and sustain social cohesion. One of the more extreme versions of this is Japanese where attention to social behavior is more closely monitored by all members of society. During conversation, the person whose ‘turn' it is to speak is listening and looking for short affirmative confirmation, like ‘yes', ‘uh-huh', or head nods without losing their ‘turn'. Meanwhile the listener is listening and watching for breaks in phrasing to offer forms of affirmative confirmation. Linguists call this ‘back-channeling' and can be found in cultures rich in social cohesion. Perhaps the English language and the American egocentric culture isn't helping to heal our societal divisions.The ordering of words in Japanese versus English has cognitive implications too. All languages have a linguistic ‘head' that determines certain properties of a phrase. The Japanese language puts the head at the end of a phrase while English puts it at the beginning. This has implications for differences in working memory between Japanese and English speakers. When recalling a sequence of figures, like numbers, objects, plants, or animals, Japanese speakers have higher precision on the last item in the list and English speakers the first.Cognitive differences in ordering arrangements can extend beyond listed figures to spatial reasoning. For example, English speakers use their own relational viewpoint as a frame of reference when describing spatial locations, like ‘left' or ‘right'. In contrast, certain native languages in Australia and Namibia use cardinal directions like ‘west' or ‘east'. These differences in linguistic encoding are shown to influence learning of spatial configurations, search and find tasks, and tracking moving objects. Again, the apparent egocentrism of English speakers is seemingly creeping into even how we see ourselves in the world.  ADVERSITY TO DIVERSITYThe 'left-right' bias shows up not only in space, but also time. English speakers typically think of a timeline as going from left to right. This ‘left-to-right' bias can be attributed to many factors, including the ordering of words in a sentence or a math equation. Solving a math problem or writing a sentence in English involves ‘starting' on the left and over time ‘ending' up on the right. Those taught to read and write or do math in English or similar languages thus have a linguistic coding in the brain that associates the past with the ‘left' and the future with the ‘right'. But those who have not been exposed to these encodings have no such associations. And given there are 7000 languages spoken in the world, that accounts for a lot of humans. As more humans gain access to the internet, more and more of these languages and cultures will be exposed to the 1.2 billion internet users speaking English. The fastest growing languages online are Chinese (0.9 billion), Spanish (0.4 billion), and Arabic (0.2 billion). More people in America speak Spanish than all of Spain.Given this growing linguistic diversity, these researchers conclude cognitive science is not doing nearly enough “to live up to its original mission of developing an interdisciplinary exploration of ‘the mind'”. They say English language dominance may be the field's “original sin” and call for a commitment “to research that seeks to systematically explore, generalize, and falsify our models of human cognition by exploring non-English-speaking peoples and societies.”As we enter a new year, English speaking students, like my continuing adult education friend, will be returning to classes and campuses dominated by the English language. Others will be drawing that timeline planning the next quarter. Many spent this holiday season exchanging in culturally supported niceties perpetuated by language. Santa only delivered the presents if the child had been saying ‘please' and ‘thank you' all year. We will spend the next year looking to do the same as we all struggle to keep those new year's resolutions.The words ‘spent' and ‘spend' bring up another peculiarity of English – tenses. It turns out those living in countries using languages that don't have an obligatory future tense like English may be better at keeping their resolutions. They tend to smoke less, practice safer sex, and are less obese. And, hey, tax time is also just around the corner in the United States. It turns out those not obliged to use future tense in their language also save more.But these researchers admit these studies deserve scrutiny. There is much debate about how culture and history shape language and how language shapes culture and history. Teasing out language from cognition and culture will continue to confound scholars, researchers, and practitioners. However, advances in neuroscience and brain imaging together with increased diversity of research subjects, locations, and researchers are sure to yield more practicable results. These tools didn't exist at the onset of the study of language.In 1863, the linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, and brother of the more famous naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, wrote three volumes on comparative linguistics after studying the Kawi language of Java. He noted then there “resides in every language a characteristic worldview.” One day we may be able to discern just what elements of worldview cognition are common to all human brains – and the brains of other animals – regardless of language and culture.Until then, this is all that is left to write for today. In English. While my sentences have flowed from left to right, the beginning is at the top and the end is here at the bottom. I wish to ‘thank you' for reading or listening and invite you to ‘please' click ‘like' or leave a nice comment. If you feel so obliged. It's been my ‘turn' to speak, now it's yours. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week I welcome Paige from Texas! My American doppelganger.

My American friend Bill and I discuss some grammar and idiom differences between British and American English. Las notas del episodio y más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles están en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/   Shownotes and more podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  

Cheese pizza dreams And Sullivan Kings Don't know what it means But at least im sleeping Clutching these things Bouncing on mattress springs My American dream Is just not to see evil So I stopped speaking out I started keeping secrets I might start drinking Just collecting regrets My relapse; this recession No spots in reception A sugar addiction One nation, under delusions Do what the television tells you; If politicians are your only friend, Besides your intuition My American dream Is gluten free My American dream Is Victoria's Secret My American dream Isn't easy street It's just easier than living on it

00:00 Intro - Do your own research todd00:30 theme song - We've got to do something01:30 - Beards make the man? - Malta, we love you05:00 What did y'all think of dan and Jeffrey? - My American muscle - advancements and technologies in our cars - let's imagine electric car advancements to come. another update? retrofitting 28:00 backfilling our opinion - Do your own research Todd29:00 voting rights - who gets to vote, how t we deserve to vote - who is voting for who. sabotaging your own thin margins - 29:47 Insertion point of explanation - It's not free rain for anyone. but voting is offered to those that have earned it32:00 the scatter shot democrat process - Sustained anger starting at the top - Summing up on voter rights36:00 The

This week YOUR SISTER'S GOING OUT... WITH DEAN! We are talking 1998's Trey Parker and Matt Stone's comedy Sports film BASEketball. The boys are learning what happened the the Oakland Raiders, Reel Big Fish's back catalogue and Dean treats the boys to a mini game of 'Are You A Dead'. Dean is the host of That Fking show: Part Gameshow, part chat show, all entertaining...that sounds like a decent elevator pitch. ThatFkingShow is another podcast looking to get some of that Spotify money. Join hosts former man-baby and recovering sh*tlord Boo Lemont, Art goth Nik Nak munching creeper magnet Yorkshire lass Abbie Stabby, and Fierce female pro-wrestling Amazon warrior queen Ayesha Raymond, as they talk about life, love and well... pretty much whatever task master producer ThatFKingGuy has made a trivia quiz about that week. Play along while listening to them compete in games such as "Are you a Dead?", "La La Land" and "Tuckers Luck" The only podcast gameshow dedicated to Chris Tucker. --- BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy film co-written and directed by David Zucker and starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine, and Dian Bachar. The film follows the history of the sport of the same name (created by Zucker years earlier), from its invention by the lead characters as a game they could win against more athletic types, to its development as a nationwide league sport and a target of corporate sponsorship. This is the only work involving Parker and Stone that was neither written, directed, nor produced by them, although Zucker himself has stated that Parker and Stone contributed innumerable suggestions for the film, most of which were used.  --- Join us on the Socials: Twitter Instagram Facebook Support the show (Buy me a Coffee)  --- Transcription I guys an Nesho we're looking at an horn, machos fawn bog named McCarthy bleef stone in Park, Lookin N N N T it years, basketball, hello, everyone and welcome to this week's episode of one hundred things. We learned from film I'm one of your hosts and I'm a little bitch and I'm the other horse and I'm a beggar batch the bites back. I markes jump John. How are you I'm all right, ready, I'm, okay and I'm off for a week this week, so I'm just planning on drinking lots of bus. That's pretty much gonna be my way playing dead space and watching the Yujun bond that nats my plans. Okay! Well, you live in the life of Riley Leven Leven, the dream living the reader want to got a lover Pol, but I don't think on me got to be honest. Who knows you know you can always call in for a cup of low low sugar, I and brew on your way back exactly some o MIS and rules and sources for that. We that we, a greasy spin beside this he's, got very Carmilhan it. But yes, let's sit! Let's, let's stop our nonsense, because we're not alone this week we're being watched and joined and carried on with Lala by a certain Mr Dean Dean Hi. How are you doing all right pig focus? No only only my closest friends can call me pick. Fucker swain sway her. So I can call Dean is the host of a very, very funny, if not extremely not safe, for work podcast that F King Show Dean? Do you want to tell us a little bit about your you, your program and all of that nonsense? All right. I have a pitch for this at some point, but I've lost it part. Education, part, conversational, part, entertainment. I guess you could call it or some people call it in the Sayemon all bollocks. We generally, I generally pink up a quiz and presented to the other hosts or the other guests or contributors, and we lost one yeah. You Lot one of the battle, the podcast episodes. Definitely gonna Start doing some of them when we get to season free of the show want to have you to back on there against the film floggers or you be good to come back on when I'm not two bottles of wine in the way. So this is how that show ended. You can find this over at Tall Codino. That's where I, the links off of the social media and stuff, like that. This is the show subscribe like it. Try It. You might like it a smash that, like in US game, as I see, do, do it because ye it's a regular. For me, I kind of got about four and a half minutes into this week's podcast. Before I got a very long, meanderin phone call, one was in the car the other day, so I still haven't gotten around to it to the full story on that one. But it sounds like you with a psychotic. Yes, yes, like we did e end very good, cliff anger for season free, so we are going on hites for a little bit. So if you currently, it has forty episodes, you can get through fill your boots, HMM YEAH! Please do it's great and that's not just the episodes that me and John M Iturea was a fantastic Friday night. I love that John. What are we talking about this week? So that's were gone for one thousand nine hunded and ney eight basketball, okay, which I've not seen in the way, but when I watch that thought Jos, is it just to quite funny timeless, except for some of the gay panic, jokes timeless yeah, so dean? Thank you so much for bringing this one to was ninety eight John we've been to night. Yet before I'm certain of we having the so of anybody wants to see what phones were going in on thousand nine hundred and ninety eight have a lesson near a wedding singer, podcast with it all and Kayasthas of a ease music in that in that one that was a that was a lot of that. Yeah is good as good. You know the rules by now listeners unless you've never listened before. Then you know fucking clue what we're doing. We've all sat and watched the film we've all made a list of things that we wanted to learn a little bit more about. Do some research we're going to walk through the film he I'm going to walk to the film and these two a M to jump in whenever they want. We will have some bits and pieces facts informationbehind the scenes or just random thoughts that have come up. Are You, gentlemen? Both ready to start your remotes as it well read: Yeah Scotland Right, Elodie's? Okay, so we open in Yankee Stadium, Reggie Jackson, this Guy Reggie Jackson, who look I've got a level with you before before we get properly started. I don't know a lot too much about American sports right. My American sport is Hannibal. I mean sorry, football is American football. If I e work any of them yeah and a yes, that's the one and I I'm a Miami Dolphins Fan, which means that I, for about a week at the start of the season and very positive, I'm certainly going to win the Super Bowl. No for the rest of the season. I just shake my head and a disappointed. John. You don't like sports generally you're, not really a sportsman anyway. I not been brought in Policastro Ney. It was nothing. It was death thing an what's your association with the Murican Sports American sports. I tried getting into ice hockey for a bit a couple years back. I like the idea of isole know it's only port where fighting is part, the game as a trying to weed that out, but it is like you look at the history of it's like it's quite violent is quite fun. You know didn't really get very far with that, because you can't really watch it anywhere and the same thing having coupees, but I try I get into the baseball because I was in Japan for a couple of weeks and one night we was come back from the somewhere had a couple of drinks, but on TV and Japan's playing career in baseball really got into it. It s really enjoyable to watch and it's very slow, very pays you at a couple of drinks in you. It's great I've currently wearing my Hiroshima Cap, baseball, Jo wow. I did wonder what that was so yeah hey some of the best things I bought out there yeah I try and support them, but the same thing. You can't really watch over here that easily, if you, if you are interested in getting into ice socket, I do recommend going to a game because it is just as exciting when you're there I used to go and watch not an panthers when lived in the Midlands. So like we have a London team, don't we yeah, I couldn't couldn't tell you what they called anymore or all in all. I know is that not good panthers of there Nottingham G, MB, Panthers Bat back talking about unionizing again, John always with the unionized. We Open Up Reggie Jackson, batting for the Yankees. Now. What I do know about baseball is the Yankee Song Right. We have to hate the Yankees, because it's The New York team. I assume- and I think they've bought their way to a lot of titles, of something I don't know, but we don't like the Yankees. That's that's it. Even though our podcast baseball team is a Yankees of Filia. Isn't it John that really is a riders, the double a affiliate of the Yankees, which I wish I'd known before we picked them, but what ll get out eleven land, you leven yeah, absolutely she's a witch. The main thing about the men oponent a bit less a tag line yet line of the new of ow James Bomb Film. We've got a couple of facts. Last of at our start, I ca. If a sort, Yuyan kees were alleged and originally named the New York Hilanders, but the name was changed back in one thousand nine hundred and thirteen because Ne do is using Hal Anders. I don't know why Reggie Jackson's nickname was Mr October m yeah we'll get a bit about that late. Rest Yeah! I don't know much about Regie Jackson, because as soon as I went and looked him up, I actually looked up a basket Wolmar by mistake at likes. My regato you're, going to tell us about Reginald Jackson. This leave that ten, this shore, that one is they all look the same, don't hi, I lading in yea, they are going to ball involved of some subject is that's how much I do not like spots. Actually, the only sport I won't grow up grew up watching Robinia, no, not nero, because because it was my dad was always hung over and then they like noise, so cause its lacing play. We just watching the G, that's a that's! A look into the s and eight really, as that we expected. Isn't it and Tel become national sports is like darts snow up, Yep anything quiet, yea, Joe Blam, Baron Billard billiards. That kind of thing. I can tell you a little bit about this Reggie Jackson, John Thankful likes, please. He played for Oakland Baltimore, the Yankees, the California angels. It's fourteen all star titles, which I think is another smash mouth song will come to that later on at five world series championships, three most valuable players to term. I really don't like the idea of somebody being of a value he's for home, run leaders, Yankees, retired number, forty four, because of him, and for good reason, unlike Birmingham City, who recently retired a shirt for a lad that had played a handful of games for them because Birmingham city or a joke of a football club, it was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in one thousand nine hundred and ninety three, now I'm going to read you this story, the Batum as I as it was reported because this this is just the wording of this, the writing of this. At the time. It's so early S, so Jackson was a victim of an attempted shooting in the early morning, hours of June, the first one thousand nine hundred and eighteen a few hours after hitting the game, winning elevent inning home runner to a home game against the Toronto. Blue, Jays Jackson drove his vehicle to the singles bar he frequented in a push neighborhood of swinging pubs and night spots amid high rise apartments, man hands of the east side, while searching for a parking spot. He asked the driver of a vehicle that was blocking the way to move and a passenger in the vehicle began. Yelling absentes and racial slurs at Jackson before throwing a broken bottle. Its car after other passer, is recognized Jackson and began joking with him about apprehending them. One of the men in the car twenty five year old Manhattan resident Angel Viera, allegedly returned with a point. Thirty eight caliber revolver fired three shots at Jackson, each which missed the era was criminally charged. Attempted murder in legal possession of deadly weapon. News on the incident was the third ever story broadcast on CNN, which had its inaugeratin later. That day I mean that's too much going on. Then you know if that was to happen to a sports start day. I mean that like you'd, never hear the end of that, would you it's three shots is: will we get the Guy Washes with three shots at the hand, Canon so he's firing. These these home runs he's done to already goes for a third one and these kids, these coupon Rima kids, who I think, look just like the adult coop and Rebathe d. Some really good unreal, yeah they're cute enough kids, says yeah. Give us it give us a give us a third home run is no not no. Third, one he's already hit to coop. He hits it. Coop catches the ball some day, I'm going to become a big spot. Star says K, which is. This is something that I that I was tweeted about earlier one of the week now. We then have this this chap this narrator talking about the the rates. Actually Stephen Machat Y, all right WHO's, an insanely prolific, character, actor. The last fifty years he's started in TV shows from like star Skin Hush Kojak Mimi, Vice Beautin, the beast, both the original Ron, perman series and the newer one, which I didn't even know they did. It was like a couple years back SEINFELD GON to Le La Law, the XL DET space. Nine will be Texas ranger in the strain it's been in a ton of film star, ranging from Theodor Rex, the woe gobots dinosaur, buddy cop. Maybe I remember that sad lives, Cup free, three hundred watchman history of violence and the mother film has another exclamation a yeah. If you want to, for a podcast suggest this guy's career, because he's got two hundred and fifteen credits and in DB wow yeah, you know the worst. The worst thing of this is Davis. Now I have an idea for a podcast and my wife hates you, because I cannot do a third podcast suster one of my favorite horror, films, which I mentioned on. One of our shows recently were doing our top five horror films, and this was like one of the ones that always made it ponty pool and it's based in a radio station, a DJ yeah was yeah. That was a lot of fun yeah. I like one of the things I didn't know he was doing the narration on this until this podcast and I was doing with the facts for- and I realized- Oh Stephen Matty Kayano was a slow bunner, but it really I enjoyed that thing. I went. I didn't think it went because I was an fast pipes, action, zome movies, but that was proper slot bun and joy em, every minute, yeah and if you can't find it online anywhere to watch or can't find a DVD to buy, you can get the audio drama of the film on Youtube, which I was a it wasfilmed and recorded at the same time. I believe- and it was our long audio play and the long lines of awesome Wales broadcast o good God really yeah. That's that's right on my street. Okay I'll, be I'll. Add that to the to the mimory AD of things that I'll be listening to in the car next week. So this whole thing is about how sport is on its ass in America and surely you would think nothing is kind of is more prescient now than that. So it basically says that all they want to do is spend more time celebrating than they do the actual game. These American football players are doing a river doubt celebration which at the time would have been. You know very kind of Oh yeah. You know by the rive at the time was ye, but now of course, less so river dance, premed on the ninth of February thousand nine hundred and ninety five at the point theater Dublin was the Interval Act at one thousand, nine hundred and ninety four. Your revision show it has been seen by over twenty five million people- big Jesus Jesus- He a God, flatly made his money and he ah he, but he was only in it for like a yeah yeah, but his anchors gave it or something the is. Is a looks at you, your fatly. Looking you lie, you should be fat but you're, not not gonna go with Michael Fatally Joke Michael Battely, oh ileal, he'th loads, going on they're talking about. Does this the stadiums with awful names, so the color change names ones like the preparation, h, stadium and nice pad back the maxie tampon stadium at the rim. Think you know how much its gross to world wide. I dread to think more than a billion dollars, jeest seven point six million or were at that point: wow diculous amount. Monetary is its like it's crazy yeah. I think jay logs ass was less, you know, wasn't it it was con a million. I no more passes e t h the whole thing about river dances. Who is that for because i mean john yo, you've got the celtic connection. Of course you know being a scotsman yeah for you, i stuff a non it was. I don't even know who that was for it's a massive thing at a time and it's not like lane danson mars a freeze, but everybody could do it. You had to be really fast, so it was a really yeah. It was, i don't know who's directed that selling end. Do you think? That's why colin farrel so good at line dancing that is famously colin farel is a great line. Dancer is because he's irish right i go bein an is because he grew up in dublin and not on a fucking farm. The line from in bruce, which is something we have got to cover on. There really did as is going at some stadiums. I looked up. Philadelphia is the wells fargo center home with the philadelphia flyers philadelphia. I was going to say sixty nine, as that would be much better at the seventy sixes and the philadelphia wings. Nashville is the nis and micro state. A certain of the nissan stadium in his a microstation would be good, though, wouldn't it home of the tennessee titans of the nfl and the tennessee state tigers of tennessee state to university. Just where shack made all these millions charlotte is the bank of america, stadium they've also got the jerry richardson stadium and the trust field stadium, as well as the american legion memorial stadium was fucking poppies everywhere, but the yeah i mean i was astounded by how every stadium every single stadium is named after something, whereas of course in the uk, you've got a few. Stadiums have taken the opportunity to do that, but example down the road we've got. We've got carliles brunton park, which you wouldn't sponsor, i'm considering sponsor it for the podcast things probably going to cost ten quid. You know you've got celtic and rangers. Who will never do that and yes go, you know, but then you've got you've got things. You know like rother room play it some. You know some stupidly named stadium and you know people are accreton stanley who you can't afford not to, but if you did that with chelsea or spurs or man united, it would just be. You know it's sacristan, isn't it really almostt because of those big clubs? Although that doesn't stop man city with the ts leading i mean they do it arsenal as well. Wasn't it at type of course, nals the emerich yeah yeah, i mean as a forest fan. I know listeners it's a it's a sham. So as a far as fan, i don't think i've ever specifically purchased anything that sponsors forest, since it was le bat laga in the s and i used to drink a lot of the bats longer, but only because the the beer that sponsored them before no longer exists of, i guess neither does love back preparation. H, gentlemen: it's an american brand of medication made by our good friends at fizer. That's the twice on the truck. We've talked about fier in a jump yeh, that's a one! I go a we're in the dornaus old, her tea, all right. Okay, we're all you be e! 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Tan was what i put on mine when i got mine on manafacter years ago, yeah, because it was the thing that you were told today, yeah, so there's this football player can't remember who we signed, for he thinks he's that miami is at minnesota. He's played here there and everywhere, which, as we would call it in the uk's a journeyman pro, i think, is the term that they use and then they're talking about all the teams that have moved the jazz moved to salt lake city, where they don't allow music as a dig at the mormons it. If you have not seen the the fantastic orgasmo listeners, a recommend, you go and watch that, what's what's the two a book, a mormon, musical correct the buck, mormon of the we saw a few years ago in some london was fantastic. Sa daly cassite we're sitting either way that that's the one yeah yeah, it's something something like no worries. Isn't it it's like the lion, king or something yeah yeah, the raiders, moved from la and then moved to la and then back to oakland. No one in la noticed now. Here's why that's so precent, because the raiders have moved again because he did they did the la thing and it didn't work and they've moved again. They are now the lost vegas raiders jesus, but don't worry because in twenty years time they'll be the space raiders. I was going to see that you're going to move on as this tin british crisp chat, great yeah, so basically they've decided. You know. The whole story is that we need a sport that people can get involved in. You know that that sport truly is in the hearts and minds of people who love sport and that one day will kind of get back to that. We now meet adult coop and adult rema and adult keeps saying bein mind earlier on. He said some day, i'm going to be a big sport star. What's he saying now there on a big sports bar i'm going to own a big spot, but which is a dream of a lot of people? It's not something i'm particularly into because i think the probablys dead fo ones, but should we want to own a big sports bar gentleman? I did a little bit of looking into this. If we want to own one in the eu, which i think we technically still can we can kind of do it, but we have to jump through some hoops now i don't know what's happening in bala medinas in spain right, but i can tell you they are giving sports bows away. I assume it's something to do with a pandemic and brexit right: fifteen thousand europe for a sports bar at six thousand nine hundred and fifty euro for a non sports bar. I mean that's just fucking pennies yeah. If we want to sports bar in tor fan in gwent north wales, which looks like the phoenix club i found it on there, it's too probably is an a workingman's club, two hundred and ninety five thousand pounds for that. A london cocktail bar somewhere in north landon, five hundred and seventy five thousand pounds. Meanwhile, in the us, if you want one, the presumptuously named fantastic sports bar and lounge in westchester new new york state is a hundred ninety five thousand dollars. An irish pub and grill in midtown manhattan will run you one point: one five million dollar reduce london. One! Isn't that bad? Considering north london, i told be pier yeah, you would- and i was looking at- that the the turnover was huge as well yeah. We have a cooperi watering, the plants aptly. You can use your in dort blunts, but not rash body waste like in the movie, so your in his rich in things that been used for a generation health plot to grow. Occasionally they will include dna from bacteria which includes genes for antibiotic resistance. Oh, so, if you piss on crops, you could get crops that give you antipatica resistance, which is a considered a greater frit humanity than the climate crisis. All right. This bacteria will die out pretty quickly. However, so you got to actually store it for a bit before using our plants or there's certain systems you can use to third lie plants. The moment where household is quite ego friendly, we're getting cat litter from a company called natter sam, which essentially gives us a delivery litter every month and every month they pick up the waste from the cat. So, every time the cat poop piece everywhere, we put it into a bag and we send it back to me in the month and they transfer that into first lizer. I have written that down because that sounds like something we need to do with the sea. All the eco friendly people at there with cats that just and codo ok, the fasti there you go not not sponsor in the podcast, but should probably sponsor the so yeah. That is not something i expected to learn, but that's what this podcast about. So i love it so they're at britney s house they walk in it's like a docker's commercial. In here everybody i've just written everybody's, a was per soul. Really i didn't think you'd show up. Well, look. We wouldn't miss this! No! No! I didn't you show, because i didn't invite you this place sucks at what o, what do you everyone's kind of doing all sorts of different things? What are you doing? You still sitting at home playing playing nintendo? Well, no, i'm in the first year of medical school. What are you doing? Still i'm playing intendo cuck does w. It's also advertisement for cosbi. Oh i i, the absolutely was yet and there's a little bit later on, where a guy's handing out cos beers in the in the stadium. So there was sponsors of the c y work. Life podcast, cosbi, yeah, jack j will be delighted. I give me some of that mountain man, beer in company with casern company founded in thousand eight hundred and seventy three okays, a hundred and forty eight years and they've, yet to still figure out to make a beer point no shape as a man. That's not drinking beer at the minute dan you could. You could have as money cause as you want just fucking. What was the line now used? Piss was rite, which kate says to me. All. The time was just part in o o an advertisement for chinos, because nell everybody was real, the chines and that that's that's the docket thing to it took me away because that i thought chines and khakis, but the same because it mentoit look up at this haly any difference. Apart from the thickness in the material, all right, obviously in kakis ave got pockets, but i was thinking, oh my god. For the years i thought i was ren chinos that to her khakis, i had no idea what i was wearing. She, no wine. I got colerne to it's. Just i think we is looking at to it. The majority was saying is more about the technic that we ever the actual things in the material so yeah, the more i or the more like. I assume what what you'd wear to know in the armed forces or to go adventuring. Perhaps i do the kaki yeah a skilled myself on the difference between chines and kakis. Here, okay- and we all now know that's great. Yes, they go to bricks. That's got britany room, they got the room, sniffins pants sniff in a pane and re logesi. Look at brit's vibrator. I am so jealous of you lintea. What are you doing in my mom's room? He's kind, the pats, a huge, no real bellarme kind of joke they had outside and they start shooting shooting basketball. You know, yeah we're really good at basketball. As long we have to run or dribble or anything like that, so you've got so so they bet these jokes. These jokes, like yeah, well, bet you two twenty dollar reimers like make it fifty do o got fifty dollar we've got twenty dollars, but he says we won't do what you guys do. You know this kind of the hood we're going to do the hood game that we know and it's baseball rules. So baseball rules is, you know, you've got a place that you shoot from and it's a single is a more difficult shot. The further away you go is that when i mentioned tors is that where horse comes, you mentions a hole yeah so horse. The only the only thing i know of horse right, i didn't know it was a thing. So if you miss a shot, you get a letter and if you get the forward horse, then that's when you that's, when you're out as it is, the only in is from those tony hawks games. You know the tony hawks pro skater games and you did you i was talking about you. There was a there was a bit of that where you had to do a various you to do a better trick than the person you're playing, and if i didn't, if you didn't get more points in thirty seconds on the first before due or hit the trick, you would get a letter, and that was horse. That's the only thing i knew it from right. Yeah re reference in two thousand and nine: it has the nba actually sanctioned a hall school petition. Okay, it was similar to the film, and that was renamed because of a sponsor, says sort of horse. It was called the nba all star, gyka competition, and you had to get ge. I co alright of ho. I see yo yehoi lasted two years because it's boring, i'm guessing stupid, yeah, so free froze. Ah it's like you're seven hand. Seven by in it, you need to get seventy one or ekart's by like having a toname with the affair, is to pinales out yeah, no sex, yeah you're all right, so they based this. This school they school these guys that coop spits beer at one of them is like. You can't do that. I said no, it's allowed it's a siout and they win, but the jokes get the girls is. What do we get, that it's the jobs? First, you get the jobs, then you get the khakis and then you get the cher an i'm like yeah nice that solace reference to it's a day later and they're playing in the driveway. The psycho in this case is steve. Perry, steve perry, that's go. Why is that boys? Why is the lead singer of journey a psycho? I could quite figure that out. Do any of us know anything about steve perry. That is he such a dig that no enough to sake anybody unattractive or what i don't an because he sings one of the songs. Lier one doesn't, i think, he's just the tone of his voice. He's kind of right. I have no idea. I know me and my friends used to play paul and we use to do psychos as well and the kinds of thing was. I just saying steve perry. That's like the shot. I always at everyone off well, we stay fire lit about journey in our in our current episode of everything we learned from the simpsons were man, tom were talking about the episode of vever ned flanders, which you can get elsewhere, just lit a good episode, so we learned a little bit about that. I used to use journeys, don't be be good to yourself. So as my interests music in wrestling, oh did you really really big uplifting song, and every time i hear i was like yeah, i'm gonna do me. Do you mentions now like yeah? I, like that great my question. My question to you is dean our journey crap rock or was rock? Oh man, the deftly l, the cheese scale, yeah very igh up on that because of everyone loves, don't stop believing, which is oh yeah. It was good, it's just it's well over played. Now it really is absolutely yeah. Well, i know someone who had it as their when they were getting married when they were coming down the aisle they played that so so, john, my jesus, so you did know them. You don't anymore yushan yourself from that a man well put it this way. It was part of the tv show, don't tell the bright, oh really right. If you ever watch that there was a show where they did the wrestling wedding m, and it was that wedding, i don't think they played. I because obviously coperate, but it was a way on. I think the wedding lasted about nine months. Jesus we well did this stop believing they told them not to stop believing that to parti didn't know who i so so that they're shooting and this this guy turns up this. This squeak right as to shut off the gaps right and this little tiny, scrawny actor gets mauled by the dog. I loved this character and i thought this character, as is basically just the butt of all the shitty things that happen to anybody. Yeah yeah the trip park arima on at de fate to get him a leading part. They only wanted to leads and the comedy and obviously gave him ham an exta all right. It would be the fort to get him an actual part in the movie he's brilliant. As sholde boy in orgasmo that guy i do that, have you seen it john yeah, a a bauta hamster style anymore. I knew you wouldn't as anymore, can't believe it's taken till now for you to tell us the story of how you don't want to do have stand. I do want to get the special edition. Dvid acts. Apparently they do a commentary matin tray and they do it completely drunk all right. Wow o, like im slagging, the movie off kind of jokingly, okay pop pot, the podcast before podcast yeah, a podcast for a thing yeah. I absolutely love these guys by the way, i can't believe i haven't had the opportunity to say it. I think they were robbed of best song for the south park. Blane, canada, yeah, absolutely brilliant. It's a great it's a great film. The music is exceptional. The writing is brilliant. It's i don't really watch south bark any more. I can't really watch the early stuff, because it's it's not great, but i can't watch any of the new stuff because i i don't know what's going on was what is going on with the new stuff. The last time i watched it, it was trump, possibly crooked, hillary yeah you, you do need to know what's going on in the current world. I i don't know half the things i talking about. Sometimes it's last time i watched it shif, wasn't it you're, ignorant you're, ignorant rage, train ride, train, that's still my utter favorite favorite episode that and you've been to you've been to japan dean. As you said, early run so you're a big fan of whale and dolphin. We and of an fukee yeah, i think about fuck, you wal fuck, you dolphin weekly and i haven't seen the episode in so long, but i think about that all the time i mean it makes sense. So this this character is shooting off the gas, isn't get more by the dog and they say, look take a shot and if you get the shot, then we'll let you shut off, shut off the gas. It takes the short and he misses. Of course, three months later, it's gained a crowd and it's basically this this kind of neighborhood game. That's people sat kind of on the garden and in the yard, watching them play it. Squeaks part of the team and one of the one of the lines is my absolute favorite of the syces. I hear your sister's going out with squeak. I go out with his sister now we're going to say, fucked up stuff to make a me shop wawes. We got out this sister fucked up. What's what's your favorite of the psychos boys, because it's plenty coming, i just i just i was a sucker for the nepean all right. Okay, i, like the one with the place, pinning small people, i'm so glad. You said that because that's like the last eva psycho, isn't it and it's really good. Just that the the mind one the mind one's creepy yeah. I like, of course i like there swear, he's, got his finger up and he cuts his finger off. It is yeah. It's like a fucking, forty movie. I really like that. All this as one way it makes their faces, where we all these retentis coming up to say i yeah that's a they're, all good they're, all good. To an extent that a d and squeak putting on all the masks in one of the montages, and only when he takes the mask off and they see, is real famous in a scare squeak, gets sacked and then move him in with them. Is it you guys rip on me? Thirty now forteen more times and i'm out of here we skipped to the final, it's being watched by there's a big crowd, there's local tv news and they win the world championship of basketball, which is like two neighborhoods: isn't it yeah? I got the shirts and skin steam, which is a tradicion method of denoting teams and school games yeah. This practice, not too short its promoted these days with, like girls and boys teams and and teachers being nance teachers are all manses. What do you? What did you leave tonight? Now, i'm going to get out stairs? I go. What did you learn tonight? Teachers are all not on yea a a suspicion. So let's say you got this, i know is an extra in this scene. I because i've seen this film so any time, but it's i've been watching it. So much s last couple of weeks and going back and watching bits here and they get notes. There's a scene where coo's about to shoot in the extra just behind him looks like he doesn't know how to clap. Oh right in he got make sound in on like extras and background and actors and he's got like a clear three inches of air between his hand. He's like doing this and at some point he looks, stops, looks down at his hands and starts doing it again. It's all these things are like a really awkward. I'm not going to go on see that now he's like second to the right second left of yeah taking the letter, the guy, when he's shooting and also you got the commentators in this game, one of them. The guy o, announces that the shirts, when the game is kato kalin right, i don't know if you know that is no, i don't anyone who's in to true crime will have. There is break up of that name. He is the most famous lodgin hollywood history, as he was living with o j simpson in his poor house with oj totally didn't, kill, nicol round simpson wow s. He was a prosecution star witness and his testimony win against o j's completely and he actually went out for burgers with oj right before he didn't do the thing he totally did. Do we his ain with the zuka previous firms of j simpson? I e linked in some sort of way, because that was on as before yeah i mean that that's great fact, but not only that it's it's super kind of like twisty. Isn't it you know, that's really come yeah. Maybe the gloves were him his, maybe that's why the glove didn't fit and that's why they had to acquit a is that the second week on the trut we've mentioned that o j simpson case is well john. She an that that episode isn't live, so you couldn't have known that we were talking about that now, yeah, that's always on people's minds. Oh no! It's absolutely people and again now. I said this last week and i'm not sorry to echo myself. Go away and watch that show the oj the people versus o j simpson. I think it's still on netflix ten. If you haven't seen it watch it. I know john hasn't seen it because he's got a week off so he's going to watch it this week at john, an it wants. Yet, as david swimmer go, that's who who's in it again david! So nathan, when i was a god's sake, is a was looking this up actually, so this isn't the face more a rumor, but apparently liam neeson has been approached by semantan were about reprising. The naked gun franchise o get out is so this year. Actually i to thousand and twenty one lea nesenus frank, drabbing yeah, i mean he's gone like full circle of his career, where he went like serious actor to random action star to like overplayed action. Stare he's like bruce willis at this point, where he he's doing any old crap with action in it, so him becoming a comedy actor. I, by there's a d of this, that i no t o from comin down to one of the first things: a shy. How we talk about spirits all the time on why it's not been an eye with peter o tool is a yeah is a great great funny is a funny steve, guttenberg film. I said it fine, i said it. Okay. Did you just see that? Yes, i said it's a steve, go funny, steve guttenberg film, and that first place comes to me movies. Great. I don't care who knows it. I bit about mission to moscow. Miami beach is pretty shit, but that's good to know. That's good, that we're in the same place jesus. What even is this a that we're not would not even we're not even in the fucking movie we're not even in the like today he sleep on sweet sic for the week yeah well, i could could well be the shirts when the skins do not. Here comes ted denslow, you love ted, denslow john, who is it yeah ogus, it's cabby canbys, giving new york in a it's. Do this see of jesus lay and gentlemen, the anti semitic podcast that you've always wanted i've written a board naniele i rat board name but sini translated. I borsten double oscar winner, of course, earlis borgnine, what you probably don't know about to, and actually we can't talk too much about him because we know he lived. He lived quite as old as he did because he liked wankin as we learned in the scannest, but he had a video documentary film about driving a called earnest borgnine on the bus. I get all the birds on my basket. Yehoi anis bore on on the bushes, where he drove a bus across the united states to meet his fans. You can get it it's on the internet somewhere. I couldn't find it for free, but i assume i'd be able to find it somewhere on the internet year. Forty five minutes in me, you find an panopeus me, a dish. Porlacu you give me a lift to to the station. You get darling. Look like a bus driver o. You look like a happy yeah on a helicopter pilot. One of the things on our show is we do. Are you a dead m yep? It's again will be sort of. I give some information about actor and we want to say when they died and how they died. So on a little mini game. When did his ball? Nine die, which yeah go you putting me on the spa, fucking podcast e went those born die two thousand and ten seven tis an incorrect, thud and entee is incorrect, is two thousand and twelve all right and how did you die got habeo cocteau, so i did elde failed miserably at the triple jump in the olympics in london. I assume you just died of old age, kidney failure right, okay, his kidneys died of old age, yeah yeah. So if he got a transplant, thou we'd have been pissing like a champion, find out later on. He in a movie which we will eventually get to. So we scored nothing there. Dan is what you're saying so we didn't add anything. Not anything. Co school draw, that's a ship. If ever there was a thing, so he says i i want to make basketball and actual will think he said you. He said the problem. Is you kids, with your dan fogelberg, you zima, and your pack, man, video games? You've got attention spans that are measured in miller seconds rather than minutes. Of course, you know me. I like to learn a little bit about whatever nonsense is just just mentioned in it. In a thing, zemer is a drink, zima, clear, molt, clear lightly, carbonated alcoholic beverage made en distributed by. Would you believe the cues viacom deal that phase in it yeah due one thousan, nine hundred and ninety three market is an alternative to be an example of what is now often referred to as a cooler, steve queen's a big fan. Four point: seven to five point: four percent algol by volume producing the united states ceased in october, two thousand and eight, but it's still marketed in japan and zima means winter in a number of slavic languages. They do like a cooler in japan. Actually do they really right? Okay, yeah, i think strong zeros are cool, is and apparently they're the ones that people drink it doesn't taste like alcohol is a like ten percent in and like giant can so you just will hammer them back and they absolutely kill people right. Okay thinks some term they use for as a guy jin killer, all right, okay, something like that. But yeah. Essentially people go over there drink them and they don't realize they have drunk. They are until they drunk out three or four of them, and i just staging around the place. I mean i'll, be honest with you. I like it. I like a strong beer like an pa or or something like that, i'm drinking a form bridge hook. Imperio. I pear at the moment seven point: four percent i'll know when i've drunk that i will sit ye. You just will know when i'm d pack, man, god. I can't believe we're talking about pack manners if three men of our rage and ours or just just general demean or don't know everything that there is to know about that fucking little yellow bastard, but listen, developed and owned by bandai. Namco, formerly an come midway of created them, a tari. Of course we know was the probably the big one mass mejor rink. The first entry was released. No kid in one thousand nine hundred and eighty packman is one of the longest running best selling and highest grossing video game franchises in history. Just behind dizzy. I assume no o, god yea a chuck egg, its willie h, horosho skin. It's regular releases over the last forty years, so many forty eight million copies across all platforms and as grossed fourteen billion dollars, most of which was from the original video game. Recently i played, i think it was packman infinite or something no packman, one thousand nine hundred nine on the switch, which was free, which was basically tetris, ninety nine, but with you doing pack man and when you got killed, you were out and if you didn't get killed you and not yet people get killed before you. You fuck off. Oh yeah. I've seen that and on lane thing, yeah, i'm teches. Ninety nine i'm one hundred percent behind it's brilliant yeah, because once i finished fourth fucking loser, i am packman of originally called puck. Man. Yes well do, but they change your name because of the graffiti nist. That's things we learned from scott pilgrim, the film yeah yeah, the future episode which i'm specifically laying off watching again. I've got a steel book blue rays somewhere on the shelf, but i'm specifically not watching it again until we do an episode, because i just i want to come into it- cleans yeah yeah what yo start hating the movie, because you've had to watch it so much. Well, i say yeah if you, if you want to look back through our back catalog every film that we've watched safer, probably airplane, i hate, because i've seen airplane or to link back to this movie so same director. Of course, i've seen air playing the same number of times, if not more than years. I've been on this earth, so i've seen airplane, probably forty five fifty times, and i'm only for two years old. So there you go that's and care mab dolge bar, which we all come to point eventually tonight. He wants it to be like the old days. No moving teams, no teams moving cities. He wants everyone to be paid the same just like when i was a kid and i want them all to be treated like indentured servants. I gin wow, so they agree they do it and five years later we're in this little statum. I think these stadium sets are really kind of the cute little sets that it looks really good. It's got like this. This, this baseball kind of diamond on the ground, yeah and they've all got this garage with this garage kind of a sad. What looks like a facade anyway, as we learned later on when coop goes flying a this loess. I thought t was quite funny. I like that at the house bands did anybody spot the house band for the beers, a real big fish, real big fish. I have seen real big fish, probably more times than i've seen any of the band. I have seen real big fish, maybe five or six times and i've got. To be honest, i have never seen the same line up twice at now. I think there's only one of them left i m by about them, but i'm guessing you know all about them anyway. Well, i they o listeners, don't so go for it. So there's a big scar, punk revival in the mid s, so they got pretty big off that they lacked the winston i lead to so they didn't they go. I got a son kind of popular, but not really big, because i need like a big front person charismatic or you know really good, looking to step over being scarp on to popular culture. Their albums actually tell a story as they go through them from the first one was everything sucks, which is a self release debut to turn the radio off. They were telling a story: the band trying to make it for me to style a pop, the culture, the biggest hit off, that album is called sell out, which they consider they actually did to get to the album release itself and the label contract. Then they had. Why do they rock so hard? This is the alban they released when the in the film. This is about how they made it during the tor on the album two members of the band leave, one of them after committing battery on a security yard at the venal. Oh you'll hate him specifically, then now we deserve it. He re, then they hit the area where they fed up with what they're doing and released cheer up, which was a contractual release and they made which they had to make and then follow that we we're not happy until you're happy, which is the bitter and angry album which they released. After being, let go from the label themselves so yeah they tell a story for other albums, but it's all bounty scarf funk anyway. Yeah no and i own each and every one of those albums on cd, because you know the s and w and yeah real a few episodes of that mostly featuring covers, which they do one in this film, which is a great cover. That's a funk ton there's only one original remaining member, and that is front man, aaron barret m yeah he's eating all the rest of them. I think, is a works. Yeah the it was weird because they always had kind of like there's, always a big offish job. It's weird, because there's there's two front men: isn't it you know they always kind of had you know the two from men depended on the song, but yeah you got me thinking about cheer up, which is a t he's a really fucking awful, like doldrum kind of album that ends with a wow. I just want to go. Listen real, big fishing in which it is a is a saturday night, and i am only forty two years old so on an they've. Also got these these fantastic and look. I've goin to love with it. They've got these absolutely superb cheer leaders these overly sexualized shibuya. So it's hard to believe that the commentation, a sense art believe five years ago. This was only played in driveways and it's hard to believe that five years ago those girls were in grade school. You just like a lamb, because the eldest, the oldest you can be in grade school. Gentlemen, he's fourteen years old that we're back to nuns teachers is a thanks. Not ten ounces, yeah, absolutely well yeah, there's plenty of them not just on the bbc wish. I was on the bbc gravy train anyway. Coop hits a home run and it's down to squeak to hit one so squeaks watching watching everything, even though it's this tiny little car and they do this on, but he's watching on this hand held tv and the one thing i thought about this, and i know dean you're a bit of a retro gamer as it were. All i could think was. Does anybody remember the game gear tv, which was the thing that you plugged in the top of your game? Gas? My so started game gear thing that you pulled in the top of your game, get which had a little dial on it where you strolled through to get your tv channel, and it also had a massive aerial that you put it like: a fucking police scanner, a antal tv anyway shock all right. Okay, that cause you yahmni. What was your model of handel tv job? It was all it was as alba old bo jessica, yeah like that, could have been that actually, you that are the usual technics techniques- ce right, okay, the model of tv he's watching the tv, the bright, yellow one is a v tg action, sport vision with a three point: two inch screen three point: two inches man, deponent of your pleasure, o like your pleasure right there. I did recently put the batteries in my in my game, boy color. So i could play monkey puncher after feature in on what the fuck do you want, because they were talking about monkey puncher in an episode, i've got a copy of monkey put jane. I put the batteries in, and i lasted probably about twenty minutes, for i have to give up with a headache. Yeah that screen is just far too small to small is far too small. Wasn't the back lit one either? No, no wit. No, it was the yeah just that just the standard one which i remember playing in the back of the car on the way home from a visit to family and when it gets dark. You know you can only play it when you know five. Second, two second intervals when you go past the street like yeah, so this is the denslow cup which is named after an this organized character. It's like the f, a cup final, of course, or the world series. Coops got the final shot dennis lo at the guy sykes him out by saying that looks like your boy: denzil is about to buy the farm he's choking on this hot dog, coop sies falls drops over, they lose he's like. I can't believe what you lose, do the happy dance and that and it just bought everything to swimming back the amount of times. I would say to myself and those pissed off tou the habitants to in the habitants. Do the song as well don't have to do this song. Do the sung during the happy dance haco tries to help denslow, but it's a dozen egg night, because that's what we do in american sports. We have stupid things to do so. We can't get to denslow because he's being he's been hit. Wele the slow motion looks like a kind of a thing out of an you know like an american war. Movie is been hit by all these these eggs and and he can't get to him now. I couldn't help but look up all of the stupid fucking ideas that american sports teams do to get people through right. So i came up with a couple. The seattle mariners apparently had a compost night right. Where, if you arrived for the game, they would send you home with a bag of compossible material. Now the composite material was a cigarette but a broken down hot dogs and all that shit yeah. That was underneath the bleachers. So let me do very well this one's brilliant, the charleston vever dogs, the nobody night. Apparently they thought it ud be a great idea and get the teams and headlines if they had an official attendance of zero for one of their games, which is why they called it. The nobody night fans would already paid for their ticket were locked out of the game and no one was allowed to enter the stadium until the fifth inning jesus, because that's when the games declared official and the attendance is recorded, they they lost five. Two and all of the runs were seen in the first five innings, the first four indins i mean fuck off american sports, just go home, you've drunk twenty cars and you can still probably drive, or even if you can't, you probably will, because america he gets to denslow denslow, is basically dying and he's like what is it at least he's waving the the hot dog bun. He paid love to get you one, but they stop serving them after the upto the seven days and in the you i look to it o. Is it true all right? Okay, so so, if you wanted, a hot dog lad, the the ball game, three dollars at yankee stadium at seven dollars, twenty five at the washington nationals, national park, jesus and six dollars. Seventy five, a it t park, which is home of san francisco dear dear dear, for got in bread in it, just basically be playing some baseball ik, because it's only fifty peop for a hot we're talking. So totanen was kate vine in london that it was the otto has like a little arena of the side of it. Was it round the back of the o tos that when he just put a couple of blokes in a cage in an alley this, the the indigo that was it so ben you on the side of it? I've seen cementeth to his spoken? More word? Oh a yeah! I was a lot like s, terrible acoustics in there. So him it was quite bad for the cage. Finding was quite good, but thou for one beer was eight pounds. Fifty for a pinted, belck, betes red shapes. Well, no you've been looking. It was red stroike to bog or something o fucking heats red sheep mine. I love red strike. No, it's not it's not gig! Unless it's red stripe, we hanekin, but all right. Okay, it's decent book! We went to were to new wore a couple of months ago in manchester in heaton park and the only beer i mean i was driving to a number beer any way, but the only beer on offer was, i think, seven quite a pint and it was pints of karlsburg. It was a pint can of karlsburg. They put they basically empty. A pint can into a plastic glass to set you on your way for seven quid, because you're a fucking cat go, go, don't do gangs better, they did yeah she'll, do the fucking ar so de denslow buys the farm, as is the line and they're interviewing the interviewing cooper at the end. In the thing, and it's a thing in a me in america, they're always wearing these like hats and tshirts, and things that save winner super bowl winner and all these kind things. But what they've done in this movie they've, given them their branded gear, but it says loser egret. This is a good time with that and the guys interview in him- and he says you know- is how are you doing this is yeah. I don't think i should be on my own tonightand, the guy. The guy turns away from him, and he just says it seems to be really raining shit on joe cooper tonight, they're in the car park, and he is so yasmin belief. I haven't thought about. Yasmin bleeds first for the i decades right, she's had some she's had some issues that girl she's had some many some problems, because she can't just run around in a red swimsuit, all the time yeah the these are gone. She wants celebrity jeopardy by the way ten ten sandolas to ten sandolas to bres canser jerry, let's disapear like post he playboy, because i in my head was like everyone from bay. What she's done play with, but he's never done it. No matter how far i looked, i could not find her naked sorry, it's folly, because i didn't struggle to find playmate of the year victoria self stead yeah en mcafee, obviously yeah. Absolutely i make to the year yeah, certainly better than seeing a cousin. It is which i discovered. I absolutely no idea her cousin is the actor musima lisele, no idea, i just don't know he married donny walberg as well. It was a new one, yeah and she's a fucking anti vaco, so fuck her. So you old rather see melis mock arfe than jenny mc coffee. These days yeah, i e donny walburg he's not the he's, not the one that hates asian people. That's his brother right, he's brothers, the one these brothers, the one that bad an asian guy because of vietnam was something fucking sees what our so people are still paying money to see. Marky mark films a mark anyway, i'm sure that's. We just keep reference in the same fucking things in series to very much nice series, one and so jesmin brief works for this dream. Come true foundation right yeah the dream come true foundation. Isn't a real thing, but the maker wish foundation is created in one thousand nine hundred and eighty. They do what it says on the tin and the celebrity that made the most wishes come true. Are there any guesses as tony that might be jesus? Well, he certainly made some nightmare come through jenny da. I know this is how do you now? You can't see me john seno, you can't see him, but you can still see him. Do six hundred and fifty making wish his co what s this john sena making come true. I just meeting him. I mean he's he's like a suber, really s a kiss e h. I s. He looks like a thong as well, but i know i've seen i seen him wrestle. I want some when i used to it for sky. I want some tickets for one of the wwf rest we for christ to mew rest wrestling things and i'm not in the w at all, but i went to see it with my ex. She has on the tickets at work and went see. Do what had a fantastic time. You know it was all done on a tv. It was in glasgow, john, at the at the ice hockey, the drina yeah, when e wan a fantastic time and it's i would rather go and watch it, i'm not massively into it, but i do like a smaller wrestling show which obviously donal appreciate, but we at a great time- and i kind of got back on w we for maybe six months till i realized it- was just all fucking putting money in the pockets of the worst human being alive, not donald trump, but one of his big supports. Yeah. I mean people. Look at johnsy, jose like the big suber and people look up to him. You think years ago, people looking up the whole cogan, hmm yeah yeah. Can i learn o coan, i learned the other day is a revisionist of history. He came out the other day to say that andrew the giant died two weeks after he power bombed him. We first of all, i do think hall co could ever power bombed and doing the giant to? I think they fought in like wrestle to right, which is something like seven years died in three there you can. Okay, yeah i mean revision is my free yeah. That was like a couple of years. I mean you died. Ninety two. So with me a free in track, the one recoes, a massive race, yeah he's awful yeah. Here you go, he loves. I ate one o cocolamus too much fuck too much of you not see that video google, that that's that's some shit right, okay, so contract. So i is signing autographs for them. Remer arrives and says it says. Oh, i know i love kids yeah and he says: hey kid. Heads up throws a ball at him. Hit him directly in the face and knocks him out. Travis is blind explains why i wasn't very good with his hands now this news report- and i think i probably mentioned this during the escape from new york episode. In fact, i know for a fact. I did because i wouldn't miss the opportunity, the guys talking about denslow. He says in a periods of time finally ran out for the old cock sucker, which i say it at the time, a lot of the time when somebody dies, especially if someone i don't like a lot of the time, a bit of audio, for that sounds so word because he's obviously a dr yes, when, yes, he said i've, no idea. Why, though, and if you try and look up online, if there's like any reason for it you to do old, cock ocker, it's worrying olthat, one yeah les before you got the rights when they start and winning the game. Can you tell me which sporting event in one tuan, nine hundred n? No nine is the first modern day right after a sporting event, which two teams are involved with it. They go will give you a bit of a clue which two teams evolved in the first ever sports, right, wolverhampton, wanderers yeah and i etonians ridges, so tic all right, jo rof course. It fucking was like an a v in it. Yeah o nine scottish cut fine. Also tic and ranges went to two or draw instead of going to an extra time the crowd invaded the pitch and the match was called off with a hundred people injured. O ousel abuse was up three hundred percent that day, as always, with a fucking old, firm game. That's a give the bloody are. This restaurant is round up pies the other line that he says is theodore denslow d, h, n. Eighty two, his hair piece was twenty four is now he's got this video will, which is really weird. So what i discovered from this was densil was an actor like he was a like a western movie actor right because he's talking throughout about about- and these are the chaps that i wore on rooting- toton some o god, so a yeah yeah and he says- and here's the poncho that saved me from the rain in such and such it's all kind of going on in the background. While everyone else is having a conversation, because i've watched it twice already, i was kind o what the fuck is dense saying in this scene. I do nothing, no vet and baxter as sat together, he's commiserating her. We all know she's going to be given the team there's this there's. This niece gets given a plate commemorating the pope's visit to dodger stadium, and i was like surely that never happened. Apparently, the pope visit dodger stadium in one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven, our old friend, pope j, p, doss, of course, so films don't always like it as it's the largest crowd in stadium history, at sixty three thousand and at the at the time at least. Now it's a hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and one for a preseason friendly between the red socks and the dodges, a fucking preseason friendly. He leaves the team to coop, but only if they win the denslow cup this year and then, if they don't, if that will get the team, if that, of course, is his geny mccarthy, as e semi disgusted now coopid like to talk to you alone and nobody leaves the room like he gives them like seconds. Nobody leaves the room they all carry on. You remember that time. You had crabs and the only thing that would help was that lotion k now yeah. I well find another thing for it: us rubbin it into his body and singing i'm too sexy, which i mean i would like to say, really dates the film, but that sounds like seven years old at this point: yeah yeah, i'm too sexty by rights at fred. I sorry, if you got mtesa fred, do no no i've as got a fuck this guy on tunie hundred n ninety one w record number one in australia, austria, new zealand, holland, canada, the us and second in the uk, probably behind joe donty, should up be your face because that's always like number one over other things. Isn't it oh yeah, yes, number one over van correct to o vienna. It is platinum in australia and the us the fucks buy in that, even in ninety one, a lot of old shit, physical media yeah. Well i mean you know: welwet existed at the time, so why not? Oh janet jenna gets season tickets for the kids, which seems like a really like. Surely he could just do that even if he wasn't dead, you know. Why would you have to give those in his will and then that's only for like this season. I don't know there was just something about that. Just didn't didn't really make a lot of sense to me anyway. Yeah it's a bit easy like a millionaire, yeah yeah, i could have given it a lot more nolte or just created a box for the kids yeah exactly back to talking to a vet. You know look this isn't necessarily over for you maybe come over at some point and we can lay some carpets. I haven't mentioned that it's robert vaughan, robert bawn, is another one of these actors who seems to be very gain for all this kind of stuff like he, like borg, nine he's in on it. Isn't he he under one hundred percent, is in on the fun that they says and later on, we'll get to another zuckers kind of i wo

My American and international friends always ask the same question is it really that bad in San Francisco? Denial is not just a river in Egypt my dears.

Get ready for adventure as the KPL Podcast takes a look at YA Fantasy. Our special guest is debut novelist Namina Forna! We chat about her awesome book "The Gilded Ones." Also, Jigisha and Ryan have some great fantasy suggestions you'll want to check out from the library. This and more on an escapade filled KPL Podcast.  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at podcast@kirkwoodpubliclibrary.orgRecommendations:1. The Black Kids by Christina Hammond Reed2. A Song of Wraiths and Ruins by Roseanne Brown3. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko4. Wings of Ebony by J. Elle5. This is My American by Kim Johnson6. Source of the River by Lana Axe7. Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron8. Wicked Fox by Kat Cho9. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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Annie and Elyse love a great assortment of cookies, but they also love a great assortment of French movies, which is what we bring you on today's episode! One of our listeners asked a thought-provoking question: what French movies portrait France well? And while we were thinking about that, several people pipped in with the name of their favorite French movies. The thing is, a French person's idea of a great French movie is not the same as what English speakers consider good French movies. The most popular movies in France are mostly silly. French people love nothing more than a good slap-stick comedy! My American friends love movies like The Hundred-Foot Journey. A feel-good movie that takes place in a mythical version of France. I went to Saint Antonin Noble Val to see where the movie was shot. I recognized nothing that looks like the movie at all. Having said that, Saint Antonin is still a nice place to visit. Email | Annie's VoiceMap Paris Tour | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Twitter #joinusinfrance #frenchmovies #frenchculture #travel #podcast The Assortment of French Movies Discussed in this Episode We don't present the movies and TV series in any particular order, we just followed our train of thought :-) Le Père Noël est une ordure Les Bronzés L'aile ou la cuisse La Chèvre Le dîner de cons Les Visiteurs La vérité si je mens 100 foot journey Midnight in Paris Amélie Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis Les Intouchables Asterix and Obelix A Good Year Breathless (A bout de souffle) The Passion of Joan of Arc A Trip to the Moon (???) The Grand Illusion Chocolat Ratatouille Les Revenants (TV Series) The Chorus A Very Secret Service (Au service de la France TV Series) Versailles (TV) A French Village (TV) Les Aventures de Rabi Jacob Jean de Florette Manon des Sources Camille Claudel Cyrano de Bergerac Le Chateau de Ma Mère La Gloire de Mon Père

Hello and welcome to Ganja around the world in 420Today I will be telling you more about what being toking traveler isToking represents two meanings. The first is toking, like smoking weed and inhaling. Then there is a TOKEN, which is the concept of being the only POC in a social, academic, and work settings. Often time you are expected to be the voice of explanation for your entire race or all POC.In my formative years, academically and socially, I was tokenized as one of the handfuls of black students in the honors or gifted programs, my social circles also began to reflect these surroundings. I was seen as one of the exceptions to the rules because, on top of that, my parents were from Haiti and spoke French. White people, in some cases that made use more civilized and closer in proximity to Whiteness that African Americans did not have.Let's look at things now, and I have taken on another form of tokenism through toking. My American passport allows me access to travel around the world and explore the cannabis (toking) cultures. It also allows me to gain entry into cannabis societies that would not be as open to me. Like when I arrived in Spain. I joined the cannabis club in my town. The first thing I noticed was there were no people of color, not even a Moroccan (those are the most common people of color you will find here, especially in the south of Spain).I became a token as an American and also a Person of color. I haven't faced any discrimination and do not entirely believe that the lack of POC's at this club is due to racism but more so a fear of the unknown from both sides.So bringing the concept of toking as the cannabis part and token as part of the privileged role of being able to travel as a Haitian American woman. I want to educate you (and by you, I mean WOC and nonWoC) on this privilege to travel as well as cannabis. I want to explore various ways to consume as well as where in the world, it is easiest to access and how the culture is. I also want to talk about social issues and take on our health.With that, I am going to wrap up this week's episode of Ganja Around the World in 420. I am working on getting some new content like Ebooks and Q&A's, so leave a comment with a review to let me know. You can also find me on IG @toking_traveler_ and go to my website linked below.

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120: Luis Benitez: Professional Mountain Guide has balanced his life between two countries, Ecuador and the United States, and between mountaineering and being of service to military veterans. Luis Benitez  Host Mark Pattison sums up his new guest Luis Benitez with the quote: “The only thing that isn’t ok is to quit trying.” Luis Benitez grew up in Ecuador and the United States with asthma. But that breathing complication didn’t prevent him from going up the famous Cotopaxi mountain, the second highest summit in Ecuador, which reaches a height of over 19,000 feet: “Spending time in altitude really helps your lungs get stronger. The air is thinner, cleaner, and it forces you to breathe hard.”   On this episode of Finding Your Summit Podcast, we talk with Luis Benitez, Professional Mountain Guide in Colorado, who takes his role in mountaineering seriously: “You got to put in the work. The thing I love about mountaineering is that it doesn’t matter how big of a check you write to work with a guide in some remote corner of the world, if you are not prepared, and if you haven’t put in the work, it is going to be the biggest waste of money you have ever put on the table. I think one of the things that is so rewarding about mountaineering is, you can’t fake it.”   What You Will Learn:   The love of the great outdoors and mountaineering itself began at a young age. It was also connected to his fight against the restrictions of asthma: “The higher we would go, the calmer it would make me. Because those were the things that really kept my breathing in check and kept me calm during an asthma attack as a kid...When I really started getting into mountaineering, it think it was like any other professional athlete that really finds that passion at a young age. It is all consuming. You sleep it, eat it, drink it, live it.”    Luis Benitez lives up to his own quote: “Challenge yourself and change your world.” But what was it in his life that was the driver behind this message? Luis discusses the importance of human evolution, the need to challenge ourselves to exceed our perceived limitations. “The more advanced we are from a technology standpoint, the more complacent we are with stepping out of our mental and physical comfort zones. It is one of those unique things where technology has brought us so much and has helped so much. But then there is still this thing of human vs. nature.”   Luis talks about examples of going beyond his limits by talking about his first time on Mount Everest, a mountain he has now been on seven times, with the first blind man to climb it, Erik Weihenmayer. “It was the experience of a lifetime for sure. Thank God for all of us. We said a quiet prayer everyday that, Erik was and is an incredibly capable teammate. So he is not somebody who showed up and expected to be dragged somewhere. He was a very competent and safe climber. Which, we never would have been able to get it done without his level skill.”    Luis Benitez gets into what it has been like becoming a professional mountain guide who was a part of Adventure Consultants, founded by Rob Hall Into Thin Air who passed away on the top of Mount. Everest. Luis met the successor of the company, Guy Cotter, as well. Into Thin Air is the 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer that covers the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers were killed on an expedition led by guide Rob Hall.   Luis Benitez has done the seven summits 32 times. What was the most challenging mountain out of all of them? Find out when he shares it along with picking his hardest trip. He also talks about how no one summited in 2010. “What can makes a mountain challenging varies. The terrain can be great but the team can be awful, and vice-versa.”    Consulting and Green Space   Learn about how the consulting side of mountaineering has been like for Luis Benitez, along with his interest in politics and economic development:  “I have been lucky enough to grow up within the outdoor industry. I was an outward bound instructor starting when I was 19. My American grandfather owed a sporting goods store. I got into mountaineering in high school, and later on in life, which became my professional career. As you know when you are a guide, you have to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, priest, rabbi, politician all rolled into one.”  Find out how green space can impact are health and daily lives: “Green space does something to your chemical makeup. In your brain and in your body. There is actually direct causality and health benefits to spending time outside. To the point where doctors now in four countries and in three states are legally allowed to prescribe time outside instead of prescribing a course of medication.”     Warriors to Summits    Luis Benitez talks about starting his non profit organization Warriors to Summits: “We wanted to help create an organization that not only gave back to the veteran community, but do it in our own way. This wasn’t just about sitting under a tree and trying to reconnect with nature and heal a little. This was about going out and stepping out of your comfort zone.” Don’t miss a moment of mountaineering passion with this episode of the Finding Your Summit Podcast with guest Luis Benitez. Links to Additional Resources: Luis Benitez: LuisBenitez.info Luis Benitez: Twitter Step by Step Journey: stepbystepjourney.com Laird Superfood – Code: Markp20 [Sponsor] Cascade Mountain Tech [Sponsor] E-Learning Course Be sure to check out Mark’s new e-learning course here. Mark has a free PDF that gets you started. He’s also got an assessment tool designed to help you achieve your goals. Free 10 Question Assessment: https://www.findingyoursummit.net/assessment/test?id=1

  Understanding and Buying Holiday Travel Insurance   Learn the nuances of buying travel insurance so you're actually covered for unforeseen accidents, delays, sickness, theft and more.  Many claims are denied because people don't understand their policy. Don't make that mistake and learn what to buy.   Why Buy Travel Insurance? You buy holiday insurance to help mitigate some of the lossesyou face when your holiday doesn’t go as planned, especially through no fault of your own.  Without insurance, you can be out a significant amount of cash for bookings you are no longer able to use. Americans now spend close to $3 billion a year on travel insurance, and that’s up almost 20%!  I buy holiday travel insurance for every trip I take. To me, it’s a small price to pay for piece of mind in case something goes wrong, plus I have 24 hour assistancewhen something does go wrong.  It's super important to UNDERSTAND what travel insurance is and the types of things it can cover.  It doesn't cover 'stupid' or negligence like being under the influence.  And it's only to try to make you 'whole' not compensate you for your loss.  So in an approved claim, you in effect, get back the money it cost you had the unfortunate event not taken place.  In this podcast episode, I get to better understand travel insurance in my interview with Phil Sylvester of World Nomads.   Links Mentioned:  Active Travel Adventures podcast   World Nomads Insurance quote  Costa Rica podcast episode Tanzania safari podcast(Mickey faceplant!)   The Best Travel insurance can cover things: Before your trip: You or an immediate family member gets sick or dies Your tour or cruise gets cancelled (in fact this just happened to me after I already bought my expensive plane tickets and some non-refundable Airbnb’s before and after my tour) Your flight gets delayed   During Your trip: Your bags get lost, damaged or stolen You miss your connections due to other delays Something you booked gets cancelled You get sick or injured (or worse) Your destination experiences a natural disaster or terrorist attack   HOW TO FILE A TRAVEL INSURANCE CLAIM Before you go: Put in the cloud a copy of your travel insurance policy.  Make sure you know the 24 hour Assistance Contact number and your policy number. READ YOUR POLICYduring the grace periodto make sure that it will cover the risks you don't want to assume.  Please don't ignore this! Something happened...What Do I Do? You will need to call the Assistance Hotline and have this information available: Your current contact phone number Your policy number Be able to describe the problem Be able to tell them your location   World Nomads is my 'Go To' insurance company when I travel for an adventure because they "GET" adventure!  Virtually every adventure I cover on our companion Active Travel Adventures podcast is automatically included in their standard policy - unlike many travel insurance policies!  If you use my links you'll be helping to support the show - at NO additional cost to you -Thanks!  Kit   Not all companies cover all problems that can happen before and after your trip.   Before purchasing any travel insurance policy, you should understand how the policy will help you if these events occur:   MEDICAL NEEDS   What if I get sick or hurt BEFORE my trip?  If you or an immediate family member gets seriously sick or dies and you need to cancel or delay your trip, your travel insurance can kick in.  Note that if these same loved ones get sick or dies while you’re traveling, you are also usually covered to get back home where you are needed. For you, you would need a doctor’s certification that you are unfit to travel or you, your travel buddy or immediate family member be hospitalized , or God forbid, dies. What about dental?  If you have sudden dental emergencies, like an infection or an accident that breaks your jaw, these are the kinds of things most policies will cover.  But they will deny getting that crown you wanted. It covers sudden changes to what were healthy teeth for things that can’t wait until you get home.   What if I get sick or hurt ON my trip?  Travel insurance is NOT health insurance, so most policies do not cover pre-existing conditions.  If you have a pre-existing condition, then be doubly sure to read your policy. Some policies will allow for pre-existing conditions if purchased far enough in advance.  But if you get hit by a tuk tuk in Bangkok or get Dengue Fever in Brazil, this is when you’ll be glad to have travel medical coverage. This kind of coverage takes care of in and out patient medical care, prescriptions, ambulances, etc.  It won’t however cover you for stupidity like getting drunk and passing out on the street to then get hit by said tuk tuk. It will get you healthy enough to travel so that you can either finish your trip or get back home to where your regular medical insurance will kick in. Also super important:  make sure that the activities that you are planning to do are covered under your policy. Many travel insurance policies do not cover adventures.  That is one reason I recommend my affiliate partner World Nomads.  They understand adventure and virtually everything I cover on the Active Travel Adventures podcast is automatically included with their policies.   If you get sick or hurt and are in such bad shape that you need to get home NOW, then you will be glad you have:   Emergency Medical Repatriation  If you get so sick or injured that you cannot continue with your trip, you may require emergency medical evacuation, which can cost over $300,000 -- Ouch!  But if you’re in a country that doesn’t have shall we say, the most advanced medical care and hospital system, you want to buy travel insurance from a company that will get you out of there and into the hands of quality doctors and facilities pronto.  You want a company whose medical team can decide whether to help rearrange your trip to accommodate fixing your problem or figure out the best way to get you out of there, whether by ground ambulance, air ambulance, sea level aircraft, helicopter evacuation, flight changes and upgrades with medical staff if need be.  But what happens in a truly worst case scenario: What if I die on my trip?   Look over your policy to see if it will cover bringing your body home.  Some will pay for the local burial or cremation. Some will pay for the cremains to come home, some with some without a loved one as escort.  Choose your policy based on what you want covered here. Note also that suicide or deaths caused by alcohol or drug abuse will not be covered.  Most policies will also exclude pre-existing conditions. If one of your immediate family members dies while you’re on your trip, this is usually covered.    PERSONAL BELONGINGS   What about my stuff?  How does travel insurance cover my belongings?    Baggage:    Delays:  Most policies cover getting some necessary items if your bags are delayed for a certain period of time.  This will include things like necessary toiletries, perhaps a jacket. Lost:  The carrier has lost your bags.  Most policies cover a specific amount of loss.  If you have fancy electronics, jewelry or cameras, you may need a special rider.  Also check with your homeowner’s insurance policy as you may have coverage there already.  Likewise, some credit cards are now offering some travel insurance that can cover several of the items we are talking about today.  Review your credit cards to see which offers the most comprehensive plan and then consider booking your trip with that card. Damaged by carrier.  If the airline, for example, busts your bag roughly throwing it onto the carousel, this is usually covered. Stolen.  Assuming you weren’t careless and forgot to get your bag off the bus, or you didn’t go to the restroom and leave your bag in the lounge, if your bags get stolen and you’ve taken reasonable precautions, stolen bags are usually covered.  You must file a police report to file a claim. And before you buy a policy, make sure that the country you are living in AND the country you are traveling to are covered under your policy. I see that some do not cover Brazil, for example.   OTHER PERSONAL BELONGINGS: Note also that most prescription drugsare covered if stolen. Stolen Passportsare often NOT covered, so check with your policy.  I think it’s a good idea to take a photo of your passport and visa, and then email it to yourself and a loved one.  I also keep a photocopy in my purse and suitcase. I’ve never had need to use them, but I’m sure if I do, I’ll be grateful for this foresite.  If someone uses my passport fraudulently, my travel insurance company can also help me here. Credit Cards.  If your credit card gets stolen, it’s not usually covered by your travel insurance policy, but your company’s hotline may be of some assistance.  They MAY cover getting the new card to you. On the copy of your passport, write the last four digits of your credit card number and the toll free international or national number to reach customer service if you need their help.  This is what you take a picture of and email to yourself. If your credit card gets stolen and you then don’t have another to continue your trip, this is not considered a trip interruption because you can devise a backup plan. There are limits for the total claim and for an individual item. Say $1000 total and maximum $500 for an item.  So if only my $750 camera got stolen, I could only claim the $500. If you’ve got fancy stuff, consider getting a rider unless you are willing to absorb the excess loss.   Motor Vehicle Accidents Your travel insurance policy probably WON'T cover the damage to your vehicle so MAKE SURE if you rent or drive a vehicle that either your normal auto insurance policy covers you WHERE you will be driving. Otherwise, you will need to purchase the very expensive optional insurance that the lender will offer.  CHECK BEFORE YOU LEAVE SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO! So the bottom line is, your travel insurance should cover the medical costs of the accident, but not the physical damage to the car.  CAVEAT:  You MUST be driving with a valid license for that country (which may mean an international license) AND not be under the influence or otherwise breaking any laws.   COUNTRY ISSUES What if there’s a natural disaster?   In April 2015, there was a massive earthquake in Nepal, killing over 9000 people.  Most travel insurance policies will kick in to get you home after a disaster, but you need to examine your policy before you buy it, or during the free cancellation grace period afterwards.   If you get hurt in the disaster, then the medical issues we already discussed kick in. If the airports or other transportation systems are shut down, or your accommodations get destroyed or your tour company cancels, this is where you’ll be glad that you have travel insurance coverage.  A natural disaster is likely to kick in several components of your travel insurance policy from trip interruptions, delays and cancellations, to possibly some of the medical coverages. A good travel insurance company will have a 24 Hour Hotline to assist you in making arrangements to help solve your crisis. Note that if a major typhoon is forecasted to hit the Phillipines next week, and you decide to book a trip there during this time, that clause would be excluded because the natural disaster was a known entity.  However, if you booked your trip three months earlier, they could not forecast that particular typhoon. Your policy will usually cover you if you follow the advice of authorities. So that could mean cancel the trip if they are advising evacuation, but no insurance kick in if they do not.  Also, if the authorities advise evacuating , but you decide to watch the storm and then get hurt, you’re going to get denied.  In a similar vein, let’s talk about terrorism.   Terrorism There are limits to the terrorism clauses, but if the even is unforeseen, as most terrorist attacks are, then whatever medical or interruption clauses that might be triggered provided you did not book your trip AFTER the terrorist event.   You can’t utilize this clause if you simply get nervous about traveling some place and want to back out of the trip.  Authorities would have to recommend that people no longer advise visiting a place for the trip cancellation or interruption to kick in.  I had assumed, wrongfully, that when I purchased my travel insurance for my upcoming Middle East trip, that if the terrorist threat increased, that my insurance would kick in.  NOT! There would have to be a serious incident in the places that I am going for me to utilize this clause.   Bottom line is you need to really READ YOUR POLICY during the grace period.   Bottom line is you need to really READ YOUR POLICY during the grace period.   Lots of claims get deniedbecause people are not following the policy guidelines or terms.  For example, again on my Mid East trip, my trip expanded from my original tour. My policy requires me to be covered from door to door from my house.  So the first policy I paid for is null and void because I am now traveling both before and after. So I learned my lesson. Completely plan my trip BEFORE i buy a policy.     Certain companies have guidelines as to WHEN a policy must be purchasedrelative to the date of the first deposit.  If you have an expensive trip in mind, it doesn’t hurt to poke around the insurance website ahead of time to see what the purchasing time windows are.   Then one you’ve planned your trip, add up the NON-REFUNDABLE PORTIONS.  Some things like many hotel rooms you can cancel, right? So don’t include those.  Tally up how much you would be out of pocket if you have to cancel your trip. That’s how much to get the quote for.   Travel Insurance companies calculate rates based on the following: Total cost of the non-refundable parts of the trip Your country of home residence Your destination or destinations.  If you are going several places, generally they want you to list the furthest, but double check so that you are following the rules.  It is worth the call to find out. On my upcoming trip, even though I will be spending the most time in the US, the furthest country is Jordan, so I was instructed to input Jordan.  I noticed my rate quote was the same, however, I didn’t want them to have any loophole to squiggle out of if I have a claim. Your age.  The older you are the higher the cost. Your pre-existing conditions, especially if you want to cover them.  If you have pre-existing conditions, it pays to shop around. Some will allow coverage if bought far enough in advance. How comprehensive you want your policy to be.  Are you adding pre-existing conditions, a jewelry or electronics rider?  If you are going on an adventure, is your activity covered or do you need a special rider?   What about other insurances? Credit Cards.  As mentioned, some offer a skeleton coverage of certain items listed above.  It doesn’t hurt to use a credit card that offers some travel insurance, but I don’t think it’s a good substitute for a comprehensive policy. Travel Agent or Airline coverage:  When you check out, often you’ll be asked to get travel insurance to cover your purchase.  This will only cover the ticket you just purchased. If I am traveling domestically and think that it will be pricey if I have to go home unexpectedly because of Mom, I might buy it, but I usually still prefer the comprehensive policy. Also keep in mind that some agents will sell you a cruise cancellation policy.  This technically is NOT an insurance policy. I still say, stick with a comprehensive policy.   How to Choose Which Travel Insurance and Get a Travel Insurance Quote I recommend World Nomadsbecause they understand adventure and they have a real person review all claims, instead of a machine.  Their policy basically, as it should, requires that you use common sense and don’t be stupid or do stupid things.  And if you’re head is on straight, they are there to help you out when something goes wrong. Your goal is not to make a profit off of your claim, just to not be out of pocket.  I find them affordable and are usually my go to. They do have policy limits that mean I can’t always use them (like my really long and expensive Mid-East trip), but they are my general ‘go to’ insurance company.  If you use my link, you can get a quick travel insurance quote and at no additional cost to you, you’ll be helping to support the show.  If I can’t use them, then I use: InsureMyTrip.com  I like this website because I can easily compare travel insurance policies and then pick the right policy for a particular trip and my risk tolerance for that trip.  They also have a third person advocate, so if you get denied a claim you feel should have been honored, they can step in and take a look and possibly help. Whichever method you use, I find it easiest to buy my travel insurance online.     CAUTIONS: Cheap travel insurance may not be good travel insurance.  READ THE POLICY. You get a grace period for several days up to two weeks.  During that time, you can review the policy to see if it is the right fit for you.  If you see that you missed something, you can cancel and get your money back so you can find a better policy. You are most likely going to have to upfront a lot of the expensesand then get reimbursed.  I would recommend bringing a credit card with a high limit in case of an emergency.  Otherwise come up with a back up plan (ie, a family friend or relative that may be able to front you some cash). Complete Transcript Note: This is a machine trasncript bound to be full of boo boo's. I provide it (unedited) so that those taht prefer to read rather than listen to the show have the means to do so.  I apologize for any errors:)   Kit: (00:00) Okay. Kit: (00:02) Six months before my husband passed away. Kit: (00:06) Okay. Kit: (00:06) We were sitting in our office and our desperate right next to each other and bill was in remission and somebody had called me to ask me do something. This is in November, asked me if I wanted to do something the following June. And I said, no, I couldn't really plan cause I didn't know what bill's health had been like because his cancer had come back twice already. And so I was just kind of keeping things in limbo. When I hung up, he said, listen kid, I'm feeling good right now. Why don't you go take a trip? All I'm feeling good. And after a couple of years of medical and the stress of bills, cancer and just all the drama and the rentals weren't doing that well. And so anyway, I said, that sounds really sweet. I said, I have always wanted to go to Africa. I knew that would be some place but with never want to go. Kit: (00:47) He said, well go if you can find somebody to go with you. So I emailed my girlfriend Mickey. I said, Hey Mickey, do you want to go to Africa and go to safari within 15 minutes? She emails back. Yeah, let's go. So here we are November and we decided we're going to go on a safari in January. So we ended up driving to Washington d C to get our visa because we didn't trust mailing our passport there and getting it back in time in case there's a snafu because at the time was so short, had another story for another day about the Snafu that happened on the way to the DC. But anyway, so we finally, we go off on our adventure. We head to Turkey for a few days to kind of recoup a little bit of the jet lag before we head into Tanzania. We land at like two o'clock in the morning as all the flights seem to, or picked up by a tour company who takes us to this nice little eco lodge that we're supposed to sleep for a couple of hours, get up, have breakfast and go out in the safari. Kit: (01:38) Everything's great. We've got this cute little room. It's got the mosquito netting. It's kind of cute. Nothing fancy, but it's nice. We sleep maybe two or three hours, get cleaned up. We're walking down this dirt path on the way to where the restaurant area was in the lodge and single file path and all of a sudden I hear Mickey Stumble and I turn around and she does a face plant and just smooshes her face in. So we are in this backwoods area and she's just bleeding and her nose is smooshed and we can't even use the water from the faucet cause it's not sterile enough. So we had to use bottled water, try to clean it and the people at the lodge couldn't have been any nicer, but we just, they just didn't have the, the medical facilities there. Finally we get the doctor and the doctor actually recommended that she be flown to Kenya for treatment and she's like, no, no, no. Kit: (02:32) I just want the stitches and the doctor does it. Everything's fine, no infection. But he doesn't let her go out into the Bush on the safari because of the risk of infection. She'd be too far away from medical care. So she ends up having to spend the entire five day safari time at that lodge, which in hindsight turned out to be a good thing for her because a, she ends up making friends and family members out of everybody she meets and she still keeps up with all those folks this many years later. But B, turns out also that she gets car sick and 70 something years old needs to use the restroom a lot. Not a good combination when you're in a jeep and a safari bumbling around on, on rocky rutted roads. So anyway, end up being a blessing and thank God that she bought the travel insurance even though it took a while to get all the paperwork and all that. Eventually she was reimbursed for the expenses. So today we're going to be talking about travel insurance and I've got an expert on travel insurance and travel safety with us from world nomads and we're going to learn all the ins and outs of travel insurance, what to look out for, what you should be looking for. And without further ado, let's get started. Kit: (03:43) Welcome to the adventure travel show podcast. I'm your host kid parks. Today we're chatting with Phil Sir Vester from world nomads, the company I now buy my travel insurance from. And in full disclosure is also an affiliate of active travel adventures and the adventure travel show. So Phil is a travel safety expert for world nomads out of Australia and he's here today to answer all of our questions about travel insurance. Bill, welcome to the program. Phil: (04:08) Thanks very much for having me. Kit: (04:10) I know people are gonna think travel insurance sounds kind of dry, so let's get people off with a good start and let's tell them some fun stories to show them. This is going to be a fun show. Tell me your favorite happy ending travel insurance story. Phil: (04:23) Oh, we have so many. Oh, okay. Here's one. There was a Florida guy and he was doing base jumping in Switzerland, would you believe? And ended up hanging on a rock ledge quite a way off the ground and was quite badly injured. He got rescued and we got him back home to Florida and because of his head injury it had to be a low altitude flight. You can't just put them on a regular commercial plane, but we got him home and he made a full recovery. So, you know, that was very expensive for us, but it was a great outcome for him. The downside of it is we don't have a base jumping anymore. Kit: (05:01) And one reason I, I should note, the reason I switched to world nomads from my previous carrier is because I cover adventure travel and I didn't realize a lot of the things I was doing wasn't covered under regular policies. Phil: (05:13) Yeah, yeah. Look, we've got, ah, you know, I think it's about of, uh, over a hundred, nearly 200 adventure activities that we will cover. And generally they're ones that are not covered by other people as well. But you know, there are certain things that we don't cover. You know, like if you wingsuit flying or as we'd like to call it plummeting, uh, you know, it's not going to be covered. Kit: (05:37) Oh, I've seen video of that. Yeah. Now that's pretty cool. It was crazy. We don't cover anything that the bar is set, so I've got to be able to do it. And I'm 58 years old and I'm only in reasonable shape. I'm not like a super athlete, so for the most part we just do hiking, biking, paddling, nothing too crazy or too adrenaline kind of stuff. Yeah, so I bet you you also have some pretty interesting, weird stories Phil: (05:58) of just like freaky things. Can you tell us one of those and then we'll get into some of the nitty gritty? Okay. We've had three broken penises. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I'll explain this. All right. Just stick with me. Okay. Where are your tone joins the bottom of your mouth? There's that little bit of skin there that sort of, you know, little, yeah, that's a frenulum. All right. Men have got to, yes, the other ones down there, if you tear that it plays a lot and there is an operation that you need to reattach it. It's called [inaudible] to me. I see. And we've had that come up with three times. People that have been away on holiday and they've been having some, you know, some wee time with their partner and something's happened and it's got torn. Kit: (06:46) That's a different kind of adventure than what we cover on this show. However. Phil: (06:50) Yeah. Okay. Uh, okay. Yeah, let's hear it. Few years ago there was a, a customer traveling in India and noticed he had an insect bite and it was getting, you know, kind of itchy and whatever. And then he noticed that it was actually moving underneath there and something that laid its eggs under his skin. So he went to the doctor and the doctor said, go buy a piece of mate and strap it to your lake because the lava inside the maggots inside will be attracted to the role made on the outside, not the inside. And they did, they all lift his leg and went into the meat and he threw it away. We paid for the doctor's appointment, but he had to buy the piece of meat himself. Kit: (07:29) Well that one seems like you came out pretty good on that one. Phil: (07:32) [inaudible] Kit: (07:34) so let's, let's, let's talk a little bit about why should people buy travel insurance? Just to like a, a brief thing. Cause I'm gonna ask you some more detailed questions, but just kind of give us a synopsis of what should be going through our heads when we say, oh, we've got this great trip. Why should we cough up a little extra money? Phil: (07:48) Because there are always unexpected things that happen that mean that you're not able to go on the trip or continue the trip or I have to end it early and these are things that people are just not planning for. I mean who would know a volcano would go off in Iceland and ground or flights in Europe who would know that you know you're going to get hit by a BMO when you're crossing the road in Indonesia, who would know if a close family member is going to be suddenly very ill, which means you have to stay home. These things you can't plan for it. You don't know they are unforeseen. And this is what travel insurance is there for, to make sure that you don't end up out of pocket and don't forget. And travel insurance, it's insurance, it's not compensation. So it's going to make sure that you end up financially where you were if that thing had not happened, but it's not going to compensate you for a bad experience. Kit: (08:42) Right, right. And actually the reason that you just brought up about the a loved one or something, that's the main reason that I started buying travel insurance is I have elderly parents now, it's just an elderly mother. But at 93 and a half years old I that I might get the call one day. I travel so much that I need to go home instantly and they stick it to you at the airfares. And some of them, the tours I do are extraordinarily expensive and I just don't want to be out that much cash. Phil: (09:07) Yep. Yep. Well every sensible willed out. Kit: (09:10) So let's, let's talk about, that's one of the key things that most policies covered and that's trip cancellation. So I'm going to ask you about a couple of different things that I know of about trip cancellation. You can tell me a little bit about what are the kinds of things we need to be looking at. One of which is like natural disasters. You talked about the Iceland and weather things like who decides how bad is a disaster and how does all that work? Phil: (09:32) Well it varies a little bit. I mean it's pretty obvious with the volcano cause when it goes bang, that's it. You know an earthquake, same thing but a a natural disaster. If you, if you check out like the State Department's travel section, they will put up warnings about when things, you know, when they advise you not to travel to a destination. That's a big key factor. The British Foreign Office also do those warnings as does the Australian Foreign Office defect. So we kind of take that is you know the Bible basic. If they say to their citizens, don't go here, then you are not, you can't travel against the adviser. View of the old covenant h case is judged on its merits as well. We have underwriting teams everywhere and they will look at events and they'll go, well this has happened. How has that kind of impact our travelers? And so they will, you know, we're, we're constantly monitoring things that happen around the world. Phil: (10:27) But basically if it works this way, if the, if there's been, you know, some sort of incident in the place that you're going, if the planes are still flying there, if the hotel still open and you know, the roads are still open, you're going. But if any of those things are not happening, you know, like you can't get to it. The roads blocked. The hotel has been forced to close. The tour has had to be canceled because of this incident or you know, there's no, no flights going in and out of the destination, then that's the taste. Kit: (11:00) All right, let's, let's take that a step further with terrorism, which is unfortunately something we have to deal with these days at the State Department, let's say, uh, I'm actually this fall going to several places that are a level two, which it's advise a little bit more caution than the level one. If the State Department moves at two a level three does that kick in the insurance because now it's more advisedly not to go what is level three? So I think it's four levels. So level three is saying, Eh, not a good idea. Like Nicaragua right now is a level three and that they're almost in civil war. Phil: (11:33) Yeah, no you're good for level three but you know, don't go near any of the protests in the streets of Managua. But you know, if there's no advice, no level four advice, then you, yeah, you can use the travel insurance has not yet been cut off. Kit: (11:48) And then now on the the death or a serious illness of a loved one, what are the parameters? Who defines loved one? Phil: (11:55) Look, it is actually defined in the policy wording in the PDS. So yet somebody asked us, we did get a question, somebody said my dog died. Does that count as a close family member? We're really sorry and we understand how you feel about your dog. But no. Yeah, it's generally siblings, parents in laws, but it probably wouldn't extend to cousins. But again, every case is judged on its merits. I mean, if you're sharing your life and you're living in the same house as a cousin and it's a cousin that dies, then we'll, we'll say to that, Kit: (12:31) okay, that actually sounds pretty fair at fair than I would've thought. Um, how about, and then sometimes there's coverage for layoffs if you get laid off and now all of a sudden cash could be a problem. Is that typical or is that something you need to look for? Phil: (12:43) Okay. It does happen. The amend, the one of the other providers as we've got [inaudible] policies for US citizens is if you get called up for military service or you get called up for jury duty or if the business that you work for goes into liquidation, you know, it goes bankrupt and you're required to be there to help clean up and things like that. So there's a lot of reasons why you can cancel around those sorts of areas. Kit: (13:08) Yeah. It sounds like you're actually using some judgment calls, which is nice cause it sounds like it's some of the things that are above and beyond what, what you read in the actual policy. Cause I've looked at the website kind of extensively. So you've talked about the weather and then also if you miss a flight or a connection through no fault of your own. How's all that work? Phil: (13:27) Okay. This is complicated. If you, which lots of us do because you know we'd like to book our own trips and our own flights. If you book a flight from destination to destination B, stop over it with the intention of going to destination C and you book airline number one for a and B, but you book airline number two for B and c and you miss the connection. That's your fault. That's your problem. You didn't allow enough time to be able to make the connection. Whereas if you had booked from a to B to c with airline one the whole way through, it's their responsibility to get you to see. So if you're held up or delayed or your missy connection in destination B, they will sort it out for you and they will put you on the next flight. But in the first scenario where you've got two different airlines as far as airline two's concerned, when you just don't show up, they don't know where you've come from, they don't know you've got a connecting flight, you just haven't showed up. And airline one has, when they eventually get you to destination B, they fulfilled their commitment to you. So it's your fault for not allowing enough time to make the connection in between. So don't leave it a couple of hours if it's really important that do it. Stop over, have a day in the, in destination B. Yeah, Kit: (14:43) that, that's actually happened to me and d was not covered. So I get that one. Now Phil: (14:48) we will book our own cheap flights and we like to make it up ourselves. Right. I get that. But just have to be aware that you leave enough time. Right. Right. Now what about the lost or delayed luggage? How's all that work? You obviously have got to report it as soon as you can at the airport. Always keep those baggage tickets. They stick on the back of your boarding pass varies from, cause I'll take it, you've got not just Americans listening and maybe it's some British people this, no, no actually we are. We're international and we have over a hundred countries. We've got like 13 different policies that cover people from around the world and the wording unfortunately slightly different in the mall. So generally though, if your luggage is delayed for more than 12 hours, in some cases it's only six hours, but you know it's like say 12 hours, check the policy wording, you can then go and spend and get some essentials to make it up. Phil: (15:41) That might mean that you need to go and get some new underwear. You need some toothpaste, you need, you know, some pajamas a you, it may be in a cold climate and you need a new jacket or something like that. You're entitled to go and get those up to a certain amount, which I think is around about $250 a day. And you can claim that back now if it's gone for more than 24 hours, I think there's 24 24 hours. If it's that and then it's considered completely lost, then it's basically as if it's been stolen and we'll pay out the maximum benefit that we've got for your luggage. Now let's switch gears to something that's, that can be really, really expensive and that's medical. So let's, let's talk a little bit about if somebody's got a preexisting condition. For example, a lot of our listeners are over, let's say over a certain age, over 60 a lot of people that we interview here, and they may have diabetes or they may have some heart conditions. Phil: (16:34) How does all that work? Again, with like I said, 13 different policies and different wordings and what have you said, check the policy in the world nomads policy for your country of residence. But there are some of those conditions which we do cover. But if it's not on the list of things we do cover, then we don't. And if you are traveling and something happens that is related to that condition, it won't be covered. So we are not necessarily the right policy for you cause not all policies are everything to everyone. So the reason you should read the policy wording is to make sure that it's right for your circumstances. So you, if you have a preexisting medical condition, you may need to go and choose a different provider who does on their own providers who have screening processes and they will say, yeah we'll cover you for that for an extra premium or no we're not going to cover you for that but we'll cover you for this whatever. We're not one of those because that just adds a layer of complication and slows things down. We are a different type of travel insurance and we might not be right for you. Okay. Now would that be something, do you know of going to like ensure my trip back calm would be a good resource to do that? Sure, Yep. I know of the brand in Australia that has a screening process, but I'm not aware of, I don't know. Kit: (17:49) I used them before I switched to you, but I don't remember them ever asking me about any preexisting conditions. So I guess the bottom line is to read your policy in check while you still have the grace period. That's going to be the only time you can get your money back. If it turns out you inadvertently bought a policy that's not suitable for you. Uh, how about if you have an accident or sudden illness or you eat something? Oh boy, you got sick. What do you do then and what kinds of things are covered there? Phil: (18:15) You have medical bills, so if you're overseas and new VOR, ill look, if it's a minor complaint, find an near clinic and get the medicines that you need and what have you and keep the bill that you get from the clinic and then submit that and you'll be reimbursed if it's a major incident and you're admitted to a hospital. Sadly, when you're admitted to the emergency department, as soon as they've stabilized you to make sure you're not going to die and they've stemmed the bleeding, one of the next people you will see will be somebody from the front office with a clipboard and they're going to be asking you how you're going to pay for this treatment. I'm serious. The person with the clipboard turns up and that's when you go, here's my world nomads policy number, give them a call and they will call our emergency assistance teams and we will swing into action there. Now our in house medical teams will liaise with the people treating you to make sure you're getting the best possible treatment. We will assess the hospital that you're in and decide if there's actually a better one nearby and if it's possible medically advised to move you to get the better quality care and we will pay the bills up front so you can concentrate on getting well rather than having to find your credit card in your wallet. Kit: (19:33) Right now when my girlfriend Mickey, we were in Tanzania and she had a really bad fall and they wanted to fly her to Kenya. She chose not to. Would that have been something when the locals are even saying you shouldn't get that treated here, you better go into the next country, you get better treatment. Is she a doctor? She's not. The doctors were saying exactly she adult number cause she's stubborn. The start ended well but if everybody's saying Eh, you know cause a lot of places we go to our go to may be a little dicey when it comes to the medical scene there. So Phil: (20:07) yeah call, call our emergency assistance team and no it shouldn't be called in emergency. It's like customer assistance team and traveler assistance team. Really like give them a call and say look this has happened. I've had a fall. The locals here and saying don't get this treated here. Go to Kenya. What do you advise we will, you know, you'll probably end up speaking to our in house nurse or our in house doctor who will make the best assessment they can over the phone. And then if it's decided that, yeah, okay, we can't tell from here, whatever, and you do need better treatments so it will get arranged and we'll get you somewhere where you're going to get quality care. And I got to say, if the locals are saying don't do it, I would whoa, Kit: (20:49) you hear that Mickey? Uh, it just, it's, it's so hard cause you know, you, you're so excited to go on your trip and we are walking to breakfast the morning of our safari and she just does this face plant and just smushed her face in and she's just, and she's also, you know, be fuddled and you know, just, it just wasn't what you're expecting that day and you know, surprises happen. And she was just being shook up and stubborn. She's like, no, I'll just go ahead and stitch me up here. So whatever. Like I said, it ended up working out fine, but it was a little traumatic morning. She's pretty tough then, right? Yeah, she's very tough. She's very tough lady, so she's pretty cool. Yeah. All right. So now let's say what, is there any kind of coverage amounts we should ask for or is this something that you have a choice on or how does all that work and any recommendations there? Okay. Phil: (21:41) In Australia, the United Kingdom, we're kind of used to travel insurance being the way it is through world nomad. But Americans are kind of used to a different type of insurance won't see you. This is the value, this is the cost of my trip, this is a value of my trip. And then you get charged and certain percentage of that of the cost as your premium at doesn't work that way. With world nomads, what determines the cost of your premium here is the maximum benefits payable. So you know there was a limit of say $1,500 on lost luggage. So that's the maximum benefit that you can claim and given. And then you go across all the other benefits against which you can claim that determines what the premium will be. So if you are going on a $500,000 trip to tens and year, your insurance premium determined by the, the better maximum benefit of Alpha will be saved. I don't know what it is. I'm making this up. Maybe you know a $150 if you're going on a $50,000 trip to Tanzania, it will still be $150 because of the maximum defined benefit that's payable. So you won't pay any more if you're going on a luxury trip as if you going backpacking somewhere. It's the same because it's defined by the maximum benefit possible. Kit: (22:59) Okay, so so it's so it looks like we need to look at the policy to see what the coverage limits are and if we see that there's a huge gap between what the coverage limits are versus our trip. And most of our trips aren't anywhere near those kinds of things. I've looked at your policies, everything that I've covered so far for the most part outside of maybe Kelly would fall within those ranges. But if you're doing some extraordinary luxury trip, you need to check that closely before you buy. Did I get that right? Phil: (23:26) January. The thing that happens most often is people have got really super duper expensive camera equipment and the maximum benefit for the leading camera is not going to replace it. You know, you might have a $5,000 camera and it's not going to be covered by our benefit limit, but in that case, people who've got big cameras that generally are a part of some sort of professional association or Semiprofessional Association and you know, or photography club or something like that. And those clubs generally will have insurance policies for their members to cover their equipment. So you make sure that your camera equipment is covered in some other way. The world nomads policy has got that equipment benefit level and if that's not sufficient, then you know, you should look at getting additional insurance to cover a specific item Kit: (24:14) and US citizens at Leisha check their homeowners policy because sometimes in particularly we have a rider, you may have coverage there. Phil: (24:20) Oh totally. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. A lot of home policies will cover it. Things like laptops and cameras when you take them out of that out of the house. Yeah. And they often have higher benefit limits than we do at world nomads. So you know, so you walk into breakfast in Tanzania and you fall and split your face open, but also smash your camera. We will do the medical stuff, but don't claim the camera from a, the camera damage without his claim. The camera damage with your other insurance Kit: (24:47) and when you buy something expensive, make a copy of the receipt because a lot of times your credit card company will offer some insurance because they figured we're going to forget all about it. So that's another little hidden insurance benefit that you may have and not even realize you have now also gets a little bit confusing with the insurance with the Schengen travel insurance in Europe. Can you explain a little bit about that? That whole thing was kind of new to me anyway. Phil: (25:10) You know, the USTA that you need to get into America, which is you have to apply for clearance for these at free entry. It's kind of like a visa to say you don't need a visa. Right. That's what's going to happen in Europe as well. You're gonna need to apply so that they can screen you beforehand to say that you're eligible for visa free entry. That's all that is. Kit: (25:32) I thought there's a requirement for travel insurance with that now too. Uh, Phil: (25:36) probably a requirement for medical insurance. So your travel insurance will cover that. Kit: (25:40) Oh, okay. That's probably what they're going after. Okay. All right. Yeah. So yeah, cause I understood that you had to show some kind of proof of insurance. Phil: (25:47) You've already got travel insurance, which includes medical, you see if you've only taken out trip insurance, so you have any cupboard, you know the flight that doesn't include medical, which is why travel insurance is as an all encompassing trip insurance, medical insurance, evacuation insurance as a combined product. That's why that's better to have because as you say, and you know you're going to have travel insurance anyway. Kit: (26:12) Right, right. And then also I read too that sometimes some travel agencies and cruise lines and all that, they'll push travel protection, which is quite different from travel insurance. Can you talk about that a little bit? Phil: (26:25) Yeah, that, that's like the trip detection. So what they are doing there is they are selling a product and you can buy it at a kiosk at airports in the United States you are offering insurance against the cost of that travel ticket so it doesn't cover anything else. It doesn't cover your medical costs. It probably doesn't cover loss of your baggage and what have you. But if the flight is delayed or the flight is canceled, then you can make a claim for insurance compensation thing that to cover your costs that you've lost. So it only covers one thing and they are making around about, I would suggest, I don't know for sure, but I reckon they're making about 50% commission on that insurance that they sell you. Kit: (27:07) Yeah, that's about what I read too. So, yeah, so it's not necessarily a good value. And, and people are getting confused between protection and insurance or what they have in their mind, what they're buying. Phil: (27:18) Correct. And they're using the word protection for that reason. Kit: (27:22) Is there any tips you can give us about how to not only just evaluate insurance policy, but also the company behind it? Because there's, you know, everybody's heard of the nightmares, oh, I bought insurance and they didn't pay anything and Blah, blah, blah. How we evaluate looking at a company Phil: (27:40) such a major, it's really great for that. Go onto the company's website, find their Facebook site, find that, see what people are saying, go on other travel forums, see what people are saying it as well. Because you know, read it is a great place to find information like that as well. It is such a heavily regulated industry worldwide that there are no dodgy operators. You're not going to buy insurance and it's not properly bad. It just doesn't happen. So you're pretty safe with going who maybe you choose with the product that they are offering, which is right for your circumstances. It's very, very, you're not, you're just not going to fond an insurance company that goes bankrupt. But their processes for handling claims about whether they are good at that or not, we'll be very, very clear on social media. But don't forget as well, lots of people get very upset on social media of like, oh, I paid all this money and they won't pay my claim. Phil: (28:34) There's not an entitlement to be paid for something. You actually have to play by the rules. And in lots of cases, people you know, have done things which are not covered. We had a case recently where a customer was upset, they got altitude sickness was, they were in Nepal and they were at 4,900 meters, but they had purchased a policy that only covers up to 4,600 meters and now it's only 300 meters and can, yeah, but you know, that's what the policy wording said. You know, that's the one you chose, but then you've done something different. You've just, so maybe you originally plan not to go above that altitude, but then suddenly you found a reason to, he could've called us up an upground new policy to get covered, but you didn't. So now you're saying, oh, it's not fair that you've rejected my claim. We ended up paying by the way, because you know, yeah, it is only 300 meters or so, but a lot of the complaints that you get, Oh God, they won't pay my claim. It's, yeah, it's because you don't qualify to get it paid. Kit: (29:37) Okay, and then that brings up the other thing too is a lot of times are mad because they might've done something negligent or they might have been under the influence or can you talk a little bit about that and maybe give some stories about that? Phil: (29:49) Yeah, sure. Here's an example for you. For Australian customers who go to Bali a lot, it's very great destination. We go there a lot. It's very close by. It's like our Cancun place. 60% of the claims that are made related to motorcycle injuries out of Bali, we reject because they are not licensed to ride. They're not wearing a helmet or that under the influence or what we call the unhappy Trifecta. All three drunk, no license, no helmet. And they crash and fall off like a client, sorry, not happening. So we reject 60% of those, uh, those, those requests. Kit: (30:28) I like beer. So if I have one beer and something happens to me, I'm not covered. Or do you have to have a certain limit or, or, or is there a, a formula that you use? Phil: (30:38) Yeah, every case is judged on its merit. Somebody will assess your claim and they will make investigations and they will get the toxicology report from the hospital where you're admitted and we'll find out how much alcohol was in your system. And then they will make a person, a person will make a decision on whether your state of intoxication may have contributed to what happened to you. So there's no hard and fast rule because common sense prevails. And I know people will find this hard to believe. But it is true if we get somebody and you know, these are people that we care about, these are our customers, these are our, you know, these are nomads. We want them to travel. We will look and go, well under this part of the policy, we wouldn't pay that claim. But, uh, there's a contradictory part of the policy over here that says we are able to, to pay it. Phil: (31:29) You know what, let's use that one and pay the claim. And as long as you can justify that, I mean then we can, we can look after you and we're gonna we don't, we don't want to strand people in hospitals with huge bills. If there's some way that we can find that is going to pay it, then we will do that. So some a person is making that assessment on your claim. So, you know, we try and put as much humanity into that as we possibly can. But if you're over 0.05 or 0.08 or whatever the legal blood alcohol limit it is in the place where you have the accident, then it's very likely that it's going to be, you know, a contributing factor. But look, if you've had one drink and your sensibly walking back to your accommodation rather than riding a motor scooter and a vehicle Koreans off the road and hits you, you could be as drunk as a skunk, but as long as you know, because that was somebody else's fault, you did not contribute to what happened to you. Phil: (32:24) So it's interesting as well by the way, because we were looking at this now that they've legalized cannabis in Canada and it's like how do we treat that? And there is such a, you know, people do go to destinations because cannabis legal or at least dispensed in places in the United States and the same thing applies. But the, in Canada, the government has said if you are intoxicated, if you are under the influence and you have a traffic accident, then you will be judged. So the Canadian government advisers don't smoke and drive at all. And we would be kind of following that advice as well. So that's the rural set up there. But I mean it's really easy to determine what your blood alcohol level is, but not quite sure how it is to determine how intoxicated you are by cannabis. So go easy. Kit: (33:13) And then also if somebody is, we do a lot of hiking on this program. If so many clients at the top of the mountain, they're just too tired to come down. You don't send a helicopter for them, do you? Nope. Nope. That's their problem. Right? Have people tried? Phil: (33:28) Sure. We've got a massive problem with that in Nepal at the moment because there are lots of helicopters operating there and a lot of very tired and grumpy and saw people at the tops of Trex who can't face another four days trekking back. And it is a problem. And, and if they are claiming to have symptoms of altitude, mountain sickness, altitude sickness, then first priority is to look after their welfare. So, you know, they will get medically evacuated and yeah, and it's, it's a problem if you are at the top of mountain and you haven't planned well on up, what will happen is night will fall, a blizzard will come, the local Alpine rescue team will be throwing in an action and they will come and get you off the mountain and put you in a hospital. Then that's where your travel insurance takes over and we start paying your medical bills and we are canceled and miss trips and all that sort of stuff. So No, there is no helicopter with the world nomads, you know, our little symbol Sanchez, the little sort of in command, there's no helicopter with cheers plays and on it that will come and get you. Sorry, Kit: (34:42) I definitely get that. You've got so many people that are hidden to Nepal, they're not doing their training, they have no altitude prep at all. And then they just wanna be able to show an Instagram that they did this or they did that. So now I totally get that you shouldn't have to pay for somebody arriving woefully unprepared. Phil: (34:57) Why would you put yourself in that position in the first place? I mean, it's like airbags in cars, right? So people go, I've got their bags so they stopped wearing their seatbelt. You know? Why would you put yourself in the position where you haven't planned appropriately, where you may find yourself too tired to get back down where you've gone? Why would you do that to yourself? Kit: (35:14) Well, they may not have the experience to know. Yeah, maybe. I think with Instagram and, Oh, I've got another question coming up about that. You know, they, they see people doing all these things and they want to do it and they may, you know, I heard of somebody thought she was going to the Appalachian trail, pushing a shopping cart, you know, I was like, has she done any homework whatsoever before she started out? Phil: (35:35) Well, here is another about travel insurance. All right. We don't cover the stupidity. Seriously. You're doing a really dumb thing. We don't cover that. Kit: (35:43) Got It. Got It. All right. What about people that are not traveling so specific with specific dates? And this is a very personal question because I got a really complicated project this fall that I'm going to multiple destinations over the course of several months with time in between that I haven't really, I haven't booked the flight yet. I book the tours, booked the conferences, so combined it's too much. So do I do an individual policy or do I do chunks of policies or how, how do I do something like that? And what do you do with people that are just traveling nomadically and don't really know where they're going to be? Is there annual policy or chunk policies or what do we do? Phil: (36:22) Well, you can get a policy that covers you for the world worldwide. So let me get this straight. So you're going away and then you're coming back at an indeterminate time. At the end of all of this, you're not coming back home in between. Correct. By a policy right now because you've already outlaid money on tools and what have you. Get a policy now that covers the dates that you're going to go. And if you don't think you're ever going to come back, then get worldwide for up to six months. Now. Federal regulations when you can't do more than six months at a time, but you can renew your will nomez policy while you're on the road. So you just get online and extend it. And if you've got worldwide then you can go anywhere that you like. But if you know you're going to a specific region, you can get a policy for Asia, you can get a policy for South America out of world nomads. So it doesn't really matter where you go within that region. Kit: (37:12) How about some credit cards bragged that they offer travel insurance? Can you talk about that? Phil: (37:17) Yeah, sure. And they do. And the policies are generally underwritten by the same people that are underwriting, you know, specific providers. But you again have to read the policy wording to see what they cover. They often have a higher deductible than a it standalone travel insurance provider. And there may be criteria around how it's activated. Do you have to tell them beforehand? Do you have to have paid all of your trip portion of your trip or pay for on the credit card. So make sure you know how it's activated. Then check who the emergency assistance company is that they are using. Cause it's not, you know, somebody in your bank who's going to help you and you're in trouble. They've, they've got service provider, find out who they are and you know you can make an assessment of those as well. And the other thing is what is the emergency assistance number that comes with your credit card insurance? Phil: (38:12) You have to dig around pretty hard to find that sort of information. And the other thing is you don't know exactly how much you pay for that. They go, it's complimentary, it's included in your credit card. But they don't tell you how much that travel insurance policy is actually costing you. You've got a willed nomads, you know you're paying, you know, $109 for that policy, but you get this complimentary, not free, but complimentary travel insurance and they're stinging you for it. It's all the charges that you're paying for that. So it's actually not very good value either. And just on a personal level, if you're, you know, if you've just face planted in Tanzania, are you really going to call your bank to look after you? Why wouldn't you know like let's get a, you know, let's get a specialized travel insurance provider to run it for you. I don't know, like it's there and if it suits you again, you know, like I said, we'll know him as policies. I'm not going to be perfect for everybody. Maybe the one that comes with your credit card is perfect for you, then go for it. Kit: (39:16) What about to a, sometimes our car insurance here in the states covers, at least in the United States, I've never, I can't remember overseas if I rent a car, I'm covered on that. Does that translate in travel insurance when you're traveling outside of the area or can you talk about that a lot? Phil: (39:35) Well, you'll so unsure about it. I'm pretty sure everybody else's does. My American car insurance cover me for that excess damage waiver. I think they call it, Kit: (39:45) does my car coverage? If it says it does, does that cover a scooter in Vietnam for example? I have no clue. Phil and I went back and forth on this auto insurance and what's covered and what's not covered, and I edit out all that junk because the bottom line is, is you need to check with your auto policy here at home first and see what is covered there. And if it doesn't cover you where you're going, you're going to need to buy whatever the insurance is at the place that you're going with whatever the vehicle is, whether it's a scooter or a car, whatever. And the key thing is, is you've got to make sure that you have a valid driver's license for the location that you're going to be in. And that might require having an international driver's license. You have to wear the hell about or follow whatever the rules of the roads are in that country. Kit: (40:30) And you can't be breaking any rules, which means you can't be under the influence and you gotta be following the law. So your travel insurance basically will cover the medical problems if you have an accident and assuming that you are following the rules but it will not cover the auto vehicle damages. That's what your auto policy needs to cover. And if you don't have an auto policy, you need to buy one from the company you're renting from. So that's the bottom line. And some policies may cover your deductible on auto accident but not the actual accident. So I can not emphasize more clearly you need to read the policy, you get a grace period after you buy the policy, you download the policy, you actually read it and see is this a suitable policy for you and are you willing to take the risks that are not covered. Your policy will spell out in black and white what is and what is not covered. And you cannot expect them to make exceptions. That's just the way it is. Okay, so let's switch gears and let's talk about stolen baggage. Phil: (41:37) The biggest problem we have, and it's a little unfair, is what's what's considered to be unaccompanied baggage. If you are not paying proper attention to your belongings and they get stolen, the loss may not be covered. And sometimes that gets down to, oh I just put it on the table now turned around for one second. And it's like, yeah, well that was unattended baggage as opposed to, you know, I, I left it over there and walked away to another shop and came back, which is quite obvious. So sometimes it can sound really unfair about the way it is treated. So please look after your belongings. Don't put your cell phone down on a table and turn around just for a second. Cause in some places that we traveled to, they are or can be solid on the black market for like, you know, a month with wages for somebody local. So look after your belongings, don't leave them unattended. And don't be surprised if you do and your claim is questioned. Kit: (42:40) Let's, so let's talk about theft. You're walking through the markets and somebody snatches your purse. Phil: (42:46) So you had it on under your arm. They still grabbed or they cut, they cut the strap and ran off with that. Yep. Is that covered? Yeah, it happens all the time. Hatton. Just recently, actually a friend of mine works for a big international airline and they have had two or three of the cabin stuff, have had the handbags snatched by motorcycle thieves. You know, they ride by and just pull them off. There's an Australia woman who died because of that, about three or four years ago. So yeah, look, if you're injured in that, yes. If the bag has got valuables in it and it will often have things like your passport in it, yeah. Then the cost of replacing those items will be covered. That is absolutely. They left lots of baggage. Yes. It's covered. Plus you may have been injured as well, so we'd cover your medical bills Kit: (43:34) and so what kind of proof do we have to present to you? It's something like that. I mean, I don't take a picture of what's in my purse. How do we have to show you that we've actually had a loss? Phil: (43:42) Well, it's pretty obvious with a passport. I don't have it. I can't leave the country. I need to go and get a new one. If it's something like a camera or something like that, and you should do this with all of your positions that you take away. Nobody keeps the receipts when they bought stuff. You know, maybe you've had your camera for five years and you don't know where that receipts gone and what have you. But to prevent fraud, we're going to need some sort of proof that you owned it in the first place and some sort of proof that I actually was stolen from you. So the proof that you had it in the first place, if you've got the receipt, great, nobody does. But if you tape, you're the one person that does,

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series (https://cisoseries.com/improve-security-by-hiring-people-who-know-everything/) If you're having a hard time securing your infrastructure, then maybe you need to step up the requirements for expertise. Why not ask for everything? We're offering unreasonable advice on this week's episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at ADAPT's CISO Edge conference in Sydney, Australia. This special episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and founder of Spark Media Solutions and Liam Connolly, CISO of Seek. Our guest is Matt Boon (@mattjboon), director of strategic research for ADAPT. Plus, we have a special sponsored guest appearance from John Karabin, vp, cybersecurity, Dimension Data. Thanks to this episode's sponsors Dimension Data/NTT and ADAPT By 1 October 2019, all 28 NTT companies, including Dimension Data, will be branded as NTT. Together we enable the connected future. Visit NTT at hello.global.ntt. ADAPT’s mission is to equip IT executives with the knowledge, relationships, inspiration and tools needed to gain competitive advantage. ADAPT’s membership platform provides business leaders with fact-based insights, actionable patterns of success and the collective experience of 3,000 peers to improve strategic IT, security, and business decisions. Visit ADAPT for more. On this week's episode Why is everyone talking about this now? Independent security consultant Simon Goldsmith sent this post from Stu Hirst, a security engineer at JUST EAT who posted a job listing that requested subject matter expertise on 12 different aspects of security. This highly demanding request resulted in well over 200 responses from the community. Is it laziness on the part of the company posting? Is it an attempt to just capture job seekers' search queries? Or is it simply an editorial mistake that they shouldn't have requested subject matter expertise but rather basic knowledge across 12 different aspects of security? Ask a CISO Mitch Renshaw, Fortinet, describes a problem that many vendors are having. He says: "Fortinet’s broad portfolio makes it hard to give a concise yet effective overview of our value. As a result I’m worried my emails are going long. Customers know us for our firewalls – and a full firewall refresh is hard to come by as a sales rep. So if I get more targeted in my demand generation techniques, I’m met with an 'I’m all set, I’ve got Palo/checkpoint/juniper/etc.'" Mitch has got a conundrum. He's looking for the happy medium on how to sell a company with a wide variety of products, some of which are highly commoditized in the industry. How should he reach out to security professionals? "What's Worse?!" We play two rounds and the audience gets to play along as well. Hey, you're a CISO, what's your take on this?' My American co-host, Mike Johnson, asked this question of the LinkedIn community, and I ask you this as well. "Why do sites still **** out the password field on a login page?" It's designed to stop shoulder surfing. Is this really the main problem? What else is it helping or hurting, like password reuse? Passwords are a broken system that are easily hacked. We have solutions that add layers on top of it, like multi-factor authentication. What solutions do we have for the password process itself? OK, what's the risk? Ross Young of Capital One, asks this question about what risk should you be willing to take on? "What should cyber professionals do when they can’t contract or outsource services like pen testing however they struggle to acquire the talent they need. If they train folks they find them poached sooner and if they don’t they are stuck without the talent they need to survive." Why is this a bad pitch? We've got a pitch sent in to us from Eduardo Ortiz. It's not his pitch, but one he received. You may need to strap in when you hear this. It’s time for the audience question speed round Yep, it's just like it sounds. I ask the panel to ask some questions submitted from our audience.    

This week our discussion of how we make our China vlog centers on lighting. How can you tell if it's good or bad? Besides visibility, what style can lighting contribute to your video? And what difference do expensive lights make, anyway? Videos and links: • Hello Foreigner: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftjeM16I5qqLnCc1iIH8Ag • "Three ways I survive China" https://youtu.be/0Xzexf_sfi4 • "What time is it in China?" https://youtu.be/Qj1pC_h_VBc • "No ice, you're in China" https://youtu.be/HkpwDMI4fXQ • "It's China, so get used to it" https://youtu.be/yWtgxvmnupQ • "Making weird noises at the gym in China" https://youtu.be/9TMZ_cnWAmg • "Fighting in the foothills of the Himalayas, and a normal massage" https://youtu.be/U2OUO79wZl8 • "Still shy in China" https://youtu.be/lAD1K3Jew0k • "My American husband almost died in China" https://youtu.be/3Cw5j4oddFg • Western Toilet "About time" https://youtu.be/Em_KyGTr_0M Well-lit shows mentioned: "The Twilight Zone," "What we do in the Shadows," "A.P. Bio" Also, I recommend this article on how racism has affected the physical development of film and lighting: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Farticle%2Fsyreetamcfadden%2Fteaching-the-camera-to-see-my-skin&redir_token=7WtDny_hkEV9B5G8lopwvEGOEqF8MTU1NDg3NjM4MkAxNTU0Nzg5OTgy&v=QcWpVDm9ZIo&event=video_description Uncle Sez what?: How's your uncle?: Qing Ming Festival 1:46 • Conducting business: Posting videos out of season 5:00 • Homeschool Film School: The right lights 14:15 • Commentary: 7 videos 33:03 • Watch it!: "The Tick" -- Uncle Sez is a weekly chat about the making of China vlog channel Hello Foreigner. You can find those videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftjeM16I5qqLnCc1iIH8Ag

This country’s extraordinary real-life research facilities provide a wondrous backdrop for Sawyer’s imagined futures, proving you don’t have to stray far from home to be inspired by leading-edge science Award-winning author Robert Sawyer dreamed of a career in science, but was discouraged by the state of Canadian research in the 1970s. So he decided to write science fiction instead. These days, he often sets his novels in Canada’s remarkable research labs, including the Canadian Light Source (where he was writer-in-residence) and SNOLAB (where part of his Hugo Award-winning novel Hominids is set). Speaking to a room full of researchers at a workshop for the country’s national research facilities in November 2018, he surveyed the state of Canadian science institutions from the time he was entering university in 1979 through to the world-class installations we have today. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the 20th century would belong to Canada; Sawyer tells us why, as far as science is concerned and thanks to the CFI, he was off by a hundred years. Music credit: Soda Machine by Kabbalistic Village | @kabbalisticvillageMusic promoted by www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Transcript: [SAWYER] I started out to be a scientist in this country in the 1970s. I was graduating from high school in 1979, and I wanted to be a dinosaurian paleontologist. [NARRATOR] This is Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning Canadian science fiction writer. He has written more than twenty novels, and his books can be read in over two dozen languages. Here he speaks to a room of about 85 Canadian researchers at a workshop hosted by the Canada Foundation for Innovation in Ottawa in November 2018. [SAWYER] My father taught economics at the University of Toronto, and he said, “Whatever you want to do, do a little research. Find out what the job opportunities are before you invest.” Because if you’re gonna become a scientist, you’re talking ten years to get your PhD. You’re going to invest a lot of time. So I started looking around, and at that time, 1979, there were precisely three dinosaurian palaeontologists in Canada. There are only 24 full-timers in the entire world. And so what I thought was a crazy dream, which was being an internationally successful science fiction writer, based in Toronto, based in Canada, actually turned out to be more practicable as a career choice than choosing science in this country in the 1970s. [NARRATOR] After he wrote his first novel in 1988, Sawyer was still troubled about not having become a scientist. He quotes David Suzuki, who was also reflecting on the state of Canadian science at the time. [SAWYER] He had said this in ’87. So, again, just to give us some perspective here, this was 31 years ago — “I was soon to see the difference between Canada and the United States. My American peers, starting out as assistant professors like me, could expect their first grants in the 30- to 40 thousand dollar range. I was told that National Research Council of Canada grants start at about 25 hundred dollars.” So there’s no question that, at the time I was thinking of becoming a scientist, and indeed in the early days of science in this country, we were undervaluing it. We didn’t have a lot of people who were making full-time careers in science. We were underfunding our institutions. We were depreciative of the great intellectual base we were producing here in Canada. Times change though. And I've been privileged as a science fiction writer to watch those changes. In 2002, a novel of mine came out called Hominids, which is set in large part at what was then called the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and is now — because it has widened its mandate — SNOLAB. [NARRATOR] SNOLAB is a unique underground research facility in Sudbury, Ontario. Located in a nickel mine two kilometers underground, the lab specializes in neutrino and dark matter physics. In 2015, Canadian astrophysicist, Arthur McDonald, and his research partner won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that subatomic particles known as neutrinos have mass. [SAWYER] And I remember, very vividly, calling up Art McDonald, and I said, “You know, I want to write a novel set …” And he said, “Oh man, we had a mystery writer come here. We weren’t really happy with what they did, I don’t know.” And he said, “What do you want to do?” And I said, “Well, in the first chapter, I want to destroy the neutrino detector.” And he said, “You know how you can do that?” [SAWYER AND AUDIENCE LAUGH] And I actually used his scenario. So he immediately got engaged. And I loved the fact that, when I was writing this novel, I was able to … I was looking for a facility that was world-class, and unlike when I started writing in the late 80s, by the early 2000s, I could look around and have my pick of them to write and set novels at. But I started with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, as really, it’s a wonderful, amazing, facility. If you get the chance to go, go down. Have a look. I learned that SNOLAB, has the world’s deepest flushed toilets in the world. And I felt bad because you have to go down for four hours. That’s the only … so, I held it. I didn’t know. I should have used the toilet because then I would have been part of that record, right? I would have said, “Oh, wow! I used it.” It’s like going to the Louvre and not seeing the Mona Lisa, right? You’re missing out on the whole point of the trip, in some ways. [NARRATOR] Setting his novels in world-class research facilities is an idea Sawyer has returned to again and again in his fiction. By his twenty-third novel, Quantum Night, he found inspiration in the Canadian Light Source, Canada’s national synchrotron facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. [SAWYER] It was such a natural to set it there. I’ll just read you a paragraph from the novel. [READING] “Kayla and I made it to the Canadian Light Source a little after 9 a.m. I was amused to note that its street address, on the University of Saskatchewan campus, was …” What is it? [AUDIENCE MEMBER RESPONDS, SAWYER REPEATS] 44 Innovation Boulevard! [CONTINUES READING] “I suspect the other occupants of that street were hard-pressed to match the sort of things Kayla described as she gave me a tour. “A synchrotron,” she said, as we walked along, “is an amazingly versatile tool; it’s the Swiss Army knife of particle accelerators. You can tune its output to do almost anything, adjusting energy range, wavelength, resolution, photon brightness, and beam size. The researchers here do work in fundamental physics, archaeology, geology, botany, new fuel sources, materials science — you name it.” It’s incredible how much world-class, first-rate science is going on here. And that purpose-built machines — in a way that the synchrotron was, in the way that SNOLAB was — expand their mandate as time goes on. Who would have thought, when they were building the synchrotron, that one of its key areas of research would be archaeology? So incredible, once you have the infrastructure in place, what can be accomplished. [NARRATOR] Sawyer has drawn on powerhouse science facilities for his novels both internationally — including CERN, a particle physics lab in Switzerland — and across Canada, like the paleontology department at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the TRIUMF particle accelerator in Vancouver. He is committed to using his fiction to put a spotlight on Canadian science facilities. [SAWYER] I never want to look beyond Canada’s borders, unless I can’t fulfil my fictional need in Canada. For instance, I have a novel called Illegal Alien. Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant. The defendant is charged with murder. In the United States, that means the defendant can be facing the death penalty. In Canada, the defendant would be facing a stern talking-to. So I had to set it in the United States to have the dramatic stakes. But in every other circumstance, I look for the Canadian answer. And it has not failed me this century. [NARRATOR] Sawyer’s enthusiasm for Canadian science stems from his vantage point of aspiring-scientist-turned-writer. He has witnessed a transformation in research in this country over the decades. He talks about that in an interview after his presentation. [SAWYER] I think we’re at the best we’ve ever been, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to be the best we’ll ever be, in terms of Canadian science research. I think we’ve got real momentum moving forward, here. We had a Nobel Laureate in physics in 2018. We had a Nobel Laureate in physics three years prior to that. I suspect we’re going to see more and more Nobel medals coming to Canada in the sciences, and we’re also going to see more and more generations in Canadian science students staying here because there’s nowhere better to go. Because the best place in the world to do fundamental particle research is SNOLAB. The best place in the world to do all the variety of things that you can do with a synchrotron is the Canadian Light Source. The best place in the world to do Arctic research is aboard our icebreaker Amundsen. We have, not only now the best trained minds, but also the best facilities. And what we’re going to see come out of that is a recognition on the world stage. [NARRATOR] Sawyer’s optimistic view of where Canadian science is headed carries through to his approach to writing fiction. He sees science fiction as instrumental to influencing how we envision our future, and the role of research in shaping it. [SAWYER] I’m passionate about science fiction, not because, as is often erroneously thought, it predicts the future, because that’s not our job. Our job is to predict the multiplicity of possible futures, the smorgasbords of tomorrows, so that we can look and say, “Well that’s terrible! Everybody’s under surveillance all the time, there’s no privacy, there’s no freedom. We don’t want that!” You know, George Orwell reminded us of that. Or, if we start, “Okay, a lot of new technologies in reproduction, but if we just let men control them …” Well, Margaret Atwood gave us a science fiction novel about that — The Handmaid’s Tale, right? The problem with science fiction generally is those are the easy ones to write. The dystopian — “If this goes on, it’s going to go horribly wrong.” And I felt, what I’m passionate about, is finding the place on that smorgasbord of possibilities, where there hasn’t been a really appetizing one put out. I want to say if we do artificial intelligence right, we can have this world, where everybody is better off. If we do genomics and genetic research and the sharing of genetic information in a socialized medicine context, we can have better, longer, healthier lives for everybody. I think that when science fiction turns its speculative knack to positive futures, we can energize … it’s all well-and-good that I energize my readers. That’s incidental. I make my living doing that, but it’s incidental. What’s important is when those readers turn around and energize their representatives in government and say, “We want that! Give us that! Give us successful, safe A.I. Give us longer lifespans that are healthy. Give us a way to grow more crops than we ever grew before. Give us this future. Don’t give us the one where the robots take over. Don’t give us the one where we have no reproductive freedom. Don’t give us the one where we have no privacy. Choose those ones …” And I’m passionate about being the advocate for the positive futures that I know … Because we’ve had 150 years, now 151 years, of doing it in this country, of making positive futures come true. And we try to do it for everybody! And no other country on the globe has our track record of doing it. [NARRATOR] At the end of Sawyer’s presentation, he reminds the researchers in the room of their part in deciding the future of research in Canada. [SAWYER] My favorite science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clark, once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I don’t actually think that’s true. I think if you get too far into magic, you’re violating known physical law. But the spirit of it. That the more advanced science becomes … And look at how advanced we are, here in the second decade of the 21st century. Imagine how advanced we’ll be by the fifth decade, or the ninth decade, of this century. The more advanced science becomes, the more miraculous it will seem to the general public. The things that we’re able to do. You guys are getting the funding. You guys have a great custodian agency that you’re responsible to in CFI. You also have a great responsibility to your fellow men and women, to make sure you make the right decisions, as we move ahead into a wonderful future in which I, even I, could have been a scientist, had I been born today.

Listen as Luis tells us about his background which set the path for this career in the Outdoors and government. He also talks about all the fantastic things the Colorado office of Outdoor Recreation is doing.   Facebook Twitter   Instagram The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Please give us a rating and review HERE   Show Notes First Exposure to the Outdoors You know I tell people all the time that I was lucky enough to grow up in the outdoor industry and it's really true. My American grandfather, dad's from Ecuador mom's from the United States, my American grandfather owned a sporting goods store. A small specialty fly fishing bird hunting shop that was literally right down the road from my grade school. You know those pictures that you see from the olden days, I would walk a quarter mile down the road my grandfather's shop every day on ice before school and my parents he liked to pick me up after they got off of work. What I really learned at a very young age other than just specialty family-owned retail was that these places in these spaces were really convening spots for folks to talk about things that they loved the most. My grandfather had the normal core customers but those core customers loved spending time in the shop to talk about fishing, hunting, hiking, and boating. He was one of the original Orvis dealerships so if you know anything about fly-fishing that was a fairly significant brand back in those days. So to hang out with some of his old cronies at a really early age and realized that all these folks love talking about policy and access and conservation and stewardship, that was my start. Things we talked about Outward Bound Warriors to Summits Trekking for kids Colorado Outdoor Office of Recreation: Economic Development, Conservation and Stewardship, Education and Workforce Training, Public Health and Wellness Outdoor Research- Dan Nordstrom Camber Outdoor Job Board Advice, tips I think it's on all of us as leaders within the industry to make sure people know what's out there. Number one a lot of people younger folks that I talk to think a lot of these jobs it's kind of a wizard behind the curtain. I'd love to be a ski or snowboard shaper but I don't know, do I just call a ski company and ask them? I mean I think that's been the journey up to this point you used to have to hack your way in. I think what the responsibilities of officers like mine and I talk to a lot of my counterparts is that we need to educate everybody about how deep and wide our ecosystem is. So if you have a searchable database that has every outdoor company and nonprofit listed, which we have in Colorado and it's constantly being built bigger and bigger. A young student can go in to be like okay I got a list of fifteen different ski companies. Much like folks wanting to start out their career, they know what their landscape looks like in the backyard. With a little bit of knowledge and then access to some senior level folks, you know you got to get out there. Invite CEOs,  not to a closed-door session where you know the general population can't attend but open door sessions where anybody that wants to comment is interested can do a little networking, professionally exchange emails and ideas. We are really working hard to create that ecosystem here so people feel like A they understand that it's an inclusive environment and economy and B they can start to define what a career path could or should look like. Other Outdoor Activities Luis does it all Favorite Books Undaunted Courage by Steven Ambrose Everest, West Ridge by Tom Hornbein Best Gear Purchase under $100 nokero solar lights We believe people should be able to thrive after dusk. We exist to bring light to the energy poor so rural communities are safe, happy, healthy and productive. By inventing, engineering, and producing the world's most efficient solar lights, we affordably lift 1.2 billion people out of the dark. We are Nokero (no kerosene) and are on a global mission to eliminate kerosene lamps. Connect with Luis you can follow Luis and the Colorado Office of Outdoor Recreation on Twitter @CoRecIndustry  

How Much a Dollar Cost Kendrick LamarHow much a dollar really cost? The question is detrimental, paralyzin' my thoughts Parasites in my stomach keep me with a gut feeling, y'all Gotta see how I'm chillin' once I park this luxury car Hopping out feeling big as Mutombo "20 on pump 6" - dirty Marcellus called me Dumbo 20 years ago - can't forget Now I can lend all my ear or two how to stack these residuals Tenfold; the liberal concept of what men'll do "20 on 6" - he didn't hear me Indigenous African only spoke Zulu My American tongue was slurry Walked out the gas station A homeless man with a semi-tan complexion Asked me for ten rand, stressin' about dry land Deep water, powder blue skies that crack open A piece of crack that he wanted, I knew he was smokin' He begged and pleaded Asked me to feed him twice, I didn't believe it Told him, "Beat it" Contributin' money just for his pipe, I couldn't see it He said, "My son, temptation is one thing that I've defeated Listen to me, I want a single bill from you Nothin' less, nothin' more" I told him I ain't have it and closed my door Tell me how much a dollar costIt's more to feed your mind Water, sun and love, the one you love All you need, the air you breatheHe's starin' at me in disbelief My temper is buildin', he's starin' at me, I grab my key He's starin' at me, I started the car, then I tried to leave And somethin' told me to keep it in park until I could see The reason why he was mad at a stranger Like I was supposed to save him Like I'm the reason he's homeless and askin' me for a favor He's starin' at me, his eyes followed me with no laser He's starin' at me, I notice that his stare is contagious Cause now I'm starin' back at him, feelin' some type of disrespect If I could throw a bat at him, it'd be aimin' at his neck I never understood someone beggin' for goods Askin' for handouts, takin' it if they could And this particular person just had it down pat Starin' at me for the longest until he finally asked Have you ever opened up Exodus 14? A humble man is all that we ever need Tell me how much a dollar costIt's more to feed your mind Water, sun and love, the one you love All you need, the air you breatheGuilt trippin' and feelin' resentment I never met a transient that demanded attention They got me frustrated, indecisive and power trippin' Sour emotions got me lookin' at the universe different I should distance myself, I should keep it relentless My selfishness is what got me here, who am I kiddin'? So I'mma tell you like I told the last bum Crumbs and pennies, I need all of mines And I recognize this type of panhandlin' all the time I got better judgement, I know when it's hustlin', keep in mind When I was strugglin', I did compromise, now I comprehend I smell grandpa's old medicine, reekin' from your skin Moonshine and gin, now you're babblin', your words ain't flatterin' I'm imaginin' Denzel but lookin' at O'Neal Kazaam is sad thrills, your gimmick is mediocre The jig is up, I seen you from a mile away losin' focus And I'm insensitive, and I lack empathy He looked at me and said, "Your potential is bittersweet" I looked at him and said, "Every nickel is mines to keep" He looked at me and said, "Know the truth, it'll set you free You're lookin' at the Messiah, the son of Jehovah, the higher power The choir that spoke the word, the Holy Spirit The nerve of Nazareth, and I'll tell you just how much a dollar cost The price of having a spot in Heaven, embrace your loss, I am God"I wash my hands, I said my grace What more do you want from me? Tears of a clown, guess I'm not all what is meant to be Shades of grey will never change if I condone Turn this page, help me change, so right my wrongs

My American heritage drives me to pray for the future of my country.

Heyang: 欢迎来到这周的Round Table英语词汇小百科，我是赫扬，今天我和马克要来聊一聊英美文化的差异。So today we are gonna talk about more than just vocabulary difference between British English and American English. Today we are gonna talk about the cultural differences too.Mark: Well, that’s right, and some of those things that British people like myself know about America, but we don’t quite understand why they like it.Heyang: Yes, the first one comes to my mind is Americans love Disney prince and princess.Mark: You’ve lived in both countries, haven’t you, so you may have a better insight into these than me. But I mean, I’m not a Disney person. I can’t stand any of it. I found the whole lot just horribly, sickly oversweet and sanitized.Heyang: Well, for people who grow up watching Disney movies is the first thing they know about love, about relationships, and yes, maybe it’s a bit too bubble gummy, after you grow up you realize that. But at the moment when you are a little kid, it is the fairy tale for all.Mark: I suppose not. Ok.Heyang: What about extreme snacking? Do you think that’s very American?Mark: What is it? Is that like eating more of what we all eat when we are watching a film or something, do you think?Heyang: Well, the thing about America is everything is super-size, and I think they love that and when you see these super-size Snicker bars, they are like as big as your hand. It’s kind of great to snack on that actually.Mark: Yes, the other thing is that when I was working for another radio station, I used to do travel reports on cruise ships. You should see the size of those plates that they have on cruise ships, because many cruise ship passengers are American, and I thought the plate that I took in the serve-yourself buffet, I assumed that it’s for me and the 5 people standing behind me. I thought we were going to share, but no, that massive plate was just for me.Heyang: What about putting food stuffs inside other food stuffs?Mark: I love this whole concept. I know this is supposed to be one of the criticisms that British people have about Americans. What do you mean first of all?Heyang: Take pizza for example. It’s putting pizza inside hamburgers, so it’s gonna be gigantic, and you can have a hamburger and a pizza at the same time.Mark: Wait a minute, cause a hamburger itself is one food inside another food, isn’t it? It’s the burger inside the bread. So really, if you got a food inside of food inside of good.Heyang: Yes, and for example, that pizza burger we are talking about is made for sharing.Mark: I love the whole idea of it really, but then you are talking to someone that really likes the old British tradition of a crisp sandwich, you know, when we take what Americans call the potato chip, just put it between two pieces of bread. You can put anything between two pieces of bread and make a nice snack out of it. Heyang: That just sounds like too much calories at one go. That’s definitely a no-no for me. What about when Americans go “Bros”, or “Hi, bro”, what do you think of that? Mark: Bro is short for brother, isn’t it, I think.Heyang: Yes.Mark: It’s alright I suppose. I think it’s really quite an affectionate term of endearment I suppose, isn’t it? In fact, in Britain, we are kind of a bit stuck for the right word, cause in America, they’ve got the word guy, and it’s used to just mean man, you know, the lads, but now it can be used for girls as well over the last maybe ten or fifteen years that can be used for everybody, and that’s also a classless word. I think the problem in Britain is that there are class connotations without versions of that kind of word. For example, if say bloke, which now sounds rather old-fashioned. It’s a bit of a down-market word really I suppose bloke is. Chap, on the other hand, is a bit of an up-market saying. Geezer, definitely kind of very east London, originally very down-market, but now you might find someone like David Cameron, the prime minister pretending not to be as posh as he is using the word geezer possibly, I can’t really imagine it myself, but this is all coming with something is called Estuary English, which is middle class people trying to sound like they are not middle class, because there’s a kind of a stigma attached to being too middle class, it’s an insane country with all these things going on. I wish we had a word like “Guys”. I don’t like it personally when it’s used by British people, cause it’s an American word, that’s how I think of it. I don’t like it and it’s a bit of fake when British people say it.Heyang: That’s so very interesting. I didn’t know that such a simple concept can have so many variations and shown in languages. We’ve talked a lot about what British people don’t understand about Americans, but what about those things that the British people don’t realize are offensive to Americans. For example, friendly offensive banter, apparently a lot of Americans don’t really take the offensive bit very well. Mark: So I’ve heard, I mean, it’s not my experience. My American friends that I know here in China are all for some sort of banter where we might poke fun at an aspect of each other’s country or culture or something like that. It’s all done in a very good-natured way, so I gotta disagree with that actually. Heyang: Apparently on the list, there’s criticizing American food, saying Americans are unsophisticated and mocking their heritage. I think for Americans or for anybody when it’s not your fellow compatriot saying these things, it could be a bit offensive. Mark: I can criticize their food and mock their heritage all in one sentence. Heyang: What is that?Mark: There is no such thing is American food.Heyang: That’s all the time we have for this week’s Word of the Week. We’ll see you next week.

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