4:02

kindergarten takes care of my kids. He's

4:04

probably taking care of them right now. And

4:07

Ken, I believe, is from Tonga,

4:09

which is an island, I think, between Papua New

4:11

Guinea and Australia. I haven't checked it on a

4:14

map, but I think it's up north or

4:16

it might be to the northeast. Anyway,

4:18

he also went to New Zealand and

4:20

lived there for a long time and

4:23

was working there, but moved to Australia

4:25

recently and he was telling me that

4:27

New Zealand is just insane in terms

4:29

of the cost of

4:31

living, prices of housing, the

4:33

price of food, milk, fuel,

4:36

all that sort of stuff. He's like, I actually

4:38

moved to Australia here in order to have

4:41

a better life that I could afford,

4:44

which is saying something considering Australia's cost

4:46

of living is absolutely out of

4:48

control at the moment. So, yeah, I guess

4:50

it is one of those things. It goes

4:52

both ways, right? Australia isn't necessarily

4:54

the land of milk and honey at all,

4:58

but neither is New Zealand, even though a lot of

5:00

people would tell you it is, you know. And it's

5:02

probably one of those things, too, where the grass is

5:04

always greener. Like, I've always sort of day dreamt about

5:06

moving to New Zealand or, you know, another country like

5:09

France or something. But I'm sure no matter where you

5:11

go in the world, there's always going to be problems

5:13

and issues and, you know, looking over the fence and

5:15

being like, oh, my neighbours have it better. All

5:18

right, let's keep going. I

5:21

don't know where this stupid shoey business came

5:23

from, but it needs to stop. So

5:27

the thing he's talking about with shoey business, he

5:29

means those shoeys, which is this kind of like

5:32

bogan culture in Australia about pouring your beer into

5:34

your shoe and then drinking it, right? It's kind

5:36

of this blokey, gross

5:39

ritual. I've seen a few

5:41

sporting stars do it when they win things. You

5:43

know, you might see people who are Formula One

5:46

races or who are bike

5:48

riders in the Tour de France or

5:50

whatever. Right. But yeah, it is. It's

5:53

one of these things where you just like, where

5:55

did this where did this come from? And why

5:57

is this uniquely Australian? Because it just seems like.

6:00

a kind of silly thing to do,

6:02

right? But at the same time, Australia's

6:04

culture is pretty,

6:07

what would you say? It's wide,

6:09

but not very deep. We've got a lot

6:11

of weird shit that we do and that

6:14

we consider Australian, but it's not necessarily, you

6:16

know, centuries old cultural behavior, right? Like the

6:18

mullet. OK.

6:23

Another one saying, everything can kill you and

6:26

upside down jokes. So,

6:28

yeah, obviously we just covered the everything can kill

6:30

you thing. The upside down joke is often

6:33

made by, I

6:35

guess it's made by like Americans, but also Australians

6:37

when they're sort of trying

6:39

to accentuate the

6:42

fact that we're different. We're on the

6:44

other side of the planet and underneath

6:46

the equator, right, in the

6:48

southern hemisphere. And so there's quite often those

6:50

sorts of tropes that you'll see on ads

6:52

or in movies and all that sort of

6:54

thing. And the whole, you know, you're from

6:56

down under, right? Down under the

6:58

equator is where that comes from.

7:00

But there I remember there was there

7:02

was an ad a while back. I don't know if it

7:05

was for beer or what, but there

7:07

was something where they were saying, you know,

7:09

Australia is on top and they they showed

7:11

an image of the globe kind of like

7:13

changing orientations so that

7:15

the southern hemisphere was in the north and

7:18

rotating the country and being like, you

7:20

know, Australia was upside up. Yeah,

7:23

what would you say? Would be up the right

7:25

way and everyone else is down, you know, down under.

7:28

Yeah. OK, let's keep going.

7:32

All right, here's one. That

7:34

we're all blonde tan surfers. Maybe

7:37

that was true decades ago, but these days,

7:39

most people are migrants and many can't even

7:41

swim at all, let alone surf. And

7:43

I can't tell you the last time I saw

7:45

someone with blonde hair. It's annoying because whenever I

7:48

go overseas and let's say I need to wait

7:50

for a host or something, they

7:52

can never find me because they were looking for

7:55

a surfer chick despite

7:58

despite even having a phone. photo of me, which

8:01

clearly displays that I'm not blonde nor a

8:03

surfer. So that is that

8:05

is true. I feel like that's a trope that came from probably

8:08

the 60s, 70s, maybe the 80s, when,

8:11

yeah, everyone thought of

8:13

Australians as these, you know, Caucasian

8:17

blonde people that lived on

8:19

the beach. And, yeah,

8:21

it's not true at all. And it's becoming

8:24

less and less true the

8:26

more we, you know, move into the future.

8:28

Right? Yeah. I think it's probably something like

8:31

50 percent of Australians now are

8:33

born overseas or have parents who were

8:36

born overseas. So, yeah. Anyway, what's the

8:38

follow up comment here? My husband has

8:40

dark hair and dark eyes and slightly

8:43

olive skin. No, he's not a

8:45

migrant. He could

8:47

not be much more Australian as he is a

8:50

direct descendant of one of the first settlers

8:52

and related to the first white baby ever

8:54

born in southeast Victoria. And

8:56

he doesn't have a surfer's body either. On

9:00

the other hand, I'm a migrant. And when I was

9:02

young, I was blonde and fit. I'm

9:04

European. But as soon as I open my mouth,

9:07

people are surprised to hear a rather thick accent.

9:09

Then they they ask my dear husband

9:12

with perfect native English where he's from.

9:16

Yeah, I don't know. It's one of those things.

9:18

I had friends who are a

9:21

little sensitive when it comes to

9:23

that. Right. I've got friends and their partners who

9:26

are migrants and they

9:28

don't like being asked where they're from. But it is one

9:30

of those things you need to get used to in Australia

9:32

because we're curious and we're

9:34

interested and it's not a it's

9:37

not done to otherize, you know, if we can turn

9:39

that into a verb. It's not done to make someone

9:41

feel less than someone else. You know,

9:43

oh, you're not Australian originally. No one gives a shit

9:45

about that, really. You know, and if they do, yeah,

9:47

they're not worth your time. But

9:50

generally, people are just curious and they're

9:52

interested in people from overseas. And this might be

9:54

one of those things that perhaps

9:56

it's different in your home countries or

9:58

in places like America. But again,

10:01

I don't know, but I imagine there

10:03

may be differences in how much people

10:05

care about where you're from. And

10:07

it may matter a lot more, right? Like, ooh,

10:09

you're a foreigner. Ooh, you're not one of us,

10:11

right? You're from over there. Ooh. Or maybe the

10:13

complete opposite of like, oh my God, I absolutely

10:15

love foreigners. Like, my wife is

10:18

Brazilian. You guys all know this. And

10:21

it is so interesting seeing the cultural

10:23

differences between Australians and

10:25

Brazilians when it comes to, say,

10:28

foreigners speaking their native language, right? So what do

10:30

I mean by this? If I

10:33

speak Portuguese to someone who's from

10:35

Brazil, they lose their mind,

10:37

you know, and it's not everyone. But

10:39

quite often, they'll just be like, oh my

10:41

God, you speak Portuguese. That's

10:44

amazing. That's incredible. It's like,

10:46

it's like I'm a genius, right? Like,

10:48

you blow their mind if you are

10:50

able to speak their native language fluently.

10:52

Whereas for me, if I encounter migrants who've come to

10:55

Australia and speak to me in English, it's kind of

10:57

like, yeah, you

10:59

know, migrants speak English. It

11:01

would almost seem nasty

11:04

if I was to be like,

11:06

oh my God, you speak English.

11:09

That's amazing. That is that I can't

11:11

believe you speak. Like

11:13

it would almost seem like I was being patronizing

11:15

or rude, right? But it's just one of these

11:17

things where I think Brazilians aren't

11:19

used to loads of foreigners coming

11:22

to their country the same way they do to

11:25

Australia, showing an interest in their culture, learning their

11:27

music, you know, all that sort of stuff. And

11:29

so when they do, they seem to semi,

11:31

like, lose their minds a little bit. It's

11:34

just really it's a really interesting cultural difference.

11:36

I'm always mind blown. Like my wife and

11:38

I have these things where she'll be like,

11:40

you got to check this guy's Portuguese out.

11:42

And I'm like, when have I ever said

11:44

to you, check out this chick's

11:46

English or check out this guy's English? You know,

11:48

he's also from overseas because it would be like,

11:51

why would that matter? Like of course he's good

11:53

at it. Everyone's good at English,

11:55

right? Everyone learns English at school or whatever.

11:57

So anyway, I'm rabbiting on. All

12:00

right, let's keep going. OK,

12:03

here's another one. That Australians are blunt

12:05

and like to speak their mind honestly.

12:07

Whilst it may be true in the

12:09

country, in the big cities, Australians are

12:11

so easily offended with the most insane

12:13

levels of bureaucracy. Business

12:16

is all about nepotism and even

12:18

a suggestion of disagreement will offend.

12:21

Yeah, see, I don't have a lot of experience with that.

12:23

Obviously, I haven't worked in the business sort

12:25

of community at all, but there is definitely

12:28

a lot of nepotism that happens in Australia

12:30

and you will see this in politics. Right.

12:33

A lot of people who are

12:35

politicians and yeah, who would

12:37

be bankers, who would be high up in

12:39

the business community will almost certainly be from

12:41

families where that's always sort of been the

12:44

case, where they are rich. They've sent their

12:46

kids to private schools with the intention of

12:48

having them, you know, in air

12:50

quotes, highly educated so that they can then

12:52

sort of further the family business or name,

12:55

you know, that sort of thing. So there is definitely that kind

12:57

of attitude at

13:00

the top, especially, yeah, with loads

13:02

of politicians. Like you'll probably hear a lot of

13:04

the time at the moment,

13:06

our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leaning on

13:09

the fact that he was from public

13:11

housing. Right. So he's emphasizing the fact

13:13

that he comes from poverty. I

13:15

think he was raised in a single parent

13:18

household, right? I think it was him and his mum and

13:20

they had, you know, nothing back in the

13:22

day. Whereas someone like Peter Dutton is

13:25

worth three hundred million dollars. You

13:27

know, the opposition leader is worth something

13:30

like three hundred million dollars

13:33

through business and houses and all that sort

13:35

of stuff. And I'm pretty sure, you know,

13:38

it would be family wealth. I doubt that he's

13:40

made that himself. And it's the same. You look

13:42

at all the Malcolm Turnbull, who

13:44

is the other one? Scott Morrison. They're all private

13:47

school kids, rich,

13:49

rich families. The liberals are the worst for it.

13:51

Absolute worst for it. So there's there's truth in

13:53

that. Here's

13:56

another one for you guys. Shrimp on the Barbie. Check

13:58

another shrimp on the barbie. a barbie. Prawns

14:00

maybe, but snags are the most common

14:03

thing to go on a barbecue. 100%

14:06

true. I remember seeing this, like, this is the whole

14:08

Paul Hogan ad

14:10

for Australia. It was like a tourism

14:12

Australia ad from the 80s where it's

14:15

aimed at Americans after his movie Crocodile

14:17

Dundee came out, right? So, I think

14:19

Crocodile Dundee, whether or not it was

14:22

explicitly made in order to advertise Australia as

14:24

an exotic place that Americans should visit or

14:26

not, I don't know

14:28

if the government sort of funded the film,

14:30

but it definitely kind of took that position

14:32

in the cultural kind of zeitgeist in America

14:34

and Australia. And he became the face of

14:37

kind of like tourism for a while in

14:39

the 80s. And he's on

14:41

these ads. You can look him up, just type in

14:43

like Crocodile Dundee ad or Paul Hogan ad

14:45

and you'll see him and a bunch of

14:47

other Aussies being like, you know, the beer

14:50

is cold, the beaches are beautiful, chuck another

14:52

shrimp on the barbie and come out here

14:54

to Australia and see the replies, you know,

14:57

overdoing the accent. The

14:59

thing that they had to do, though, was

15:01

use the word shrimp when he said chuck

15:04

another shrimp on the barbie because Americans use

15:06

the word shrimp. Whereas for Australians, we say

15:08

prawn, right? A prawn is a large, they're

15:10

the same thing, but we use the word prawn. A

15:12

prawn is a large shrimp. A shrimp would

15:15

be the kind of crustacean thing that you have in

15:17

your fish tank, you know, the

15:19

size of half your little finger or something. So you're not

15:21

going to eat it. It'd be pretty crunchy. So,

15:24

yeah, it is one of these things. And

15:26

I think in Dumb and Dumber, there's

15:29

a scene, right, where Jim Carrey is in the

15:31

limo driving around and he leans out

15:33

of the limousine and this lady, this

15:35

beautiful woman standing there and he's like, hey,

15:37

I don't know what he says, but he

15:40

says, like, where are you from? And she's

15:42

like, oh, I'm Austrian, right? Austrian, right, as

15:44

in Europe, right? Austria, they speak German. And

15:47

he's like, oh, Australian, chuck another shrimp

15:50

on the barbie. And, yeah, so it's

15:52

the bane of our existence. We get

15:54

so sick of hearing that

15:56

phrase and that idea of like, especially

15:58

for Americans. It's like it's

16:00

an eye roller, right? If you go to America

16:03

and you they're like, oh, you're a strag, check

16:05

another shrimp on the barbie, mate. You'll just be

16:07

like, go fuck yourself. Seriously,

16:10

man. Come on. Anyway,

16:13

all right, it's getting off the rails. We'll see if

16:16

we can do a few more, guys. Again,

16:18

let me know if you're enjoying these sorts

16:20

of episodes. I feel like it allows me

16:22

to talk about more interesting topics that we

16:24

might otherwise not talk about,

16:26

and I get to sort of mention the

16:29

experiences or comments from other Australians as well.

16:31

So it's not just me and my, you

16:33

know, two cents. OK.

16:36

People make it seem like we're

16:38

speaking a whole other dialect. We're

16:41

just using bastardized English, British

16:43

English and with less effort. Yeah, so that's

16:45

one of those things that's interesting. Again,

16:48

my experience with this. So I had this

16:50

is this might be an interesting story for

16:52

you guys. So when

16:54

I was probably 18 or 19, I

16:57

had bought a VN Commodore

16:59

wagon, right? This old wagon, it was about as

17:01

old as me, I think from 1987. So,

17:04

yeah, there's not many of them around

17:07

anymore. They've all rusted out and probably been

17:09

honed into oblivion by young men.

17:13

I bought one of these and I was driving around,

17:15

you know, as I would as a kid. And

17:17

there was a guy who needed a lift from

17:20

my local town, Barwin Heads, into Geelong. And

17:22

he seemed like a kind of interesting, crusty looking

17:24

character, you know, probably 40 something years old, carrying

17:26

a guitar and a surfboard. So I was like,

17:28

ah, he's probably not going to hurt me.

17:30

I'll give him a lift. Anyway, turned out to

17:33

be the most interesting dude, right? Just

17:36

had a bit of a hippie. You know, I

17:38

think he had like no thongs on, no shoes.

17:41

He, you know, was anti-government type and just

17:43

had all these kind of theories. And he

17:46

was just interesting to talk to. A really cool guy, his

17:48

name was Steve. And he

17:50

reminded me a lot of Bernard Fanning

17:52

from Powderfinger. So,

17:54

yeah, anyway, I struck up

17:57

a convo with him and he had the broadest

17:59

Australian accent, you know, that. Hey, how's it going,

18:01

man? You know, really nasal

18:03

kind of pronunciation on everything that

18:05

he said. And I got

18:07

to know him, so I dropped him off in Geelong, gave him

18:09

my number and we ended up catching up, you know, quite a

18:11

few times in the future, probably first and

18:14

second year university, you know, because he was just

18:16

he was just always around and I would just

18:18

see him in places. It was so random. I

18:20

remember. So that was taking him from Barwon Heads

18:22

to Geelong. He lived in Barwon Heads. He was

18:24

renting a house there. Wouldn't

18:26

be able to do that anymore. Any of us. Barwon

18:29

Heads is hell expensive.

18:32

But, yeah, so he was doing that at the time. And

18:35

then I remember one day, so I was I made

18:37

friends with this American girl. It would have been first

18:39

year uni. I was living in God,

18:42

where is it again? Public

18:45

Square, what is it called? Uni Square, something

18:47

like that outside of Melbourne University. There's this

18:49

big building that has student sort of accommodation.

18:51

I was living there with a friend. I

18:53

made friends with this American chick. We're walking

18:55

through the city one night after getting coffee

18:58

or whatever. And I see Steve just busking

19:00

on the side of the road playing his

19:02

guitar. And I was just like, fuck, Steve,

19:05

what are you doing here? Like, I just, you know, aren't you

19:07

living in Barwon Heads? What the hell? And he's like, yeah, man,

19:09

just came up, you know, doing some masking, chatting away. And

19:13

I introduced the girl. I'm like, you know, he

19:15

is so and so we're just going out to

19:17

get some blah, blah, blah food, whatever. And

19:20

he's chatting away and she just turns to me and she's

19:22

like, I can't

19:24

understand anything he says. And

19:28

I remember I was like, oh, look, Steve, we're going to

19:30

head off. I'll chat to you later, mate. Have a good

19:32

one. So we go off and she's like, was he was

19:34

that seriously English? Seriously. And it would have

19:36

been like that. Was that seriously English? Was

19:39

he speaking English? And I

19:41

remember just being flubbergasted because I'm like, yeah, it

19:43

was English. He was speaking

19:45

Australian English just like I do. And

19:47

she's like, it was not just like you. And

19:51

so it was just a really eye-opening

19:53

kind of moment where I realized

19:57

she had obviously moved to Australia to

19:59

study at university and was used

20:01

to speaking with other people also

20:03

at Melbourne University, who would have

20:05

been, who would have probably

20:07

learnt American or British English if they were

20:09

migrants or people from overseas or

20:11

would have that general Australian

20:14

accent like myself. And

20:16

she hadn't encountered broad Australian English. And

20:18

it is one of those really interesting cultural

20:21

differences between America and Australia and

20:23

probably most other countries in the

20:25

world, really. I

20:28

always think of Australia as kind of like we're

20:30

a house with loads of windows

20:32

and we're all looking out the window,

20:35

right? We're all looking at other countries.

20:37

We're consuming their films, their TV shows,

20:39

their music, their books, all

20:42

this sort of media, podcasts, you name

20:44

it, right? I probably know

20:46

more about American politics than I do about

20:48

Australian politics. And that's and

20:50

it's not very much, but still, right? That the

20:52

point is I consume so much

20:54

content that talks about American politics that I know

20:56

way more about it. Whereas

20:59

America is the opposite. They're

21:01

inside a house, you know, if the country was

21:03

a house and there's no

21:05

windows, right? Like

21:07

there or there's a maybe there's a few tiny

21:09

little windows, but by and large, I think Americans

21:11

could care less, right? They do not give a

21:13

shit about Australian film,

21:16

you know, French film, Argentinian

21:18

film, whatever. They do

21:20

not. They have no interest. There's

21:23

they're interested in American stuff. So this tends

21:25

to be one of those really interesting things

21:27

where like I grew up watching

21:29

American TV shows, British TV

21:32

shows, films from places

21:34

like France, Brazil,

21:36

whatever it was, right? I would just consume

21:38

content that was interesting. But

21:40

by and large, and it's not every single

21:42

American, obviously, but this is definitely one of

21:44

those things where when

21:47

I was chatting to this girl, I

21:49

remember realizing she just doesn't have much

21:51

exposure to Australian English. She hasn't spent

21:53

her young years watching TV

21:55

shows, listening to music with

21:57

the Australian accent and therefore.

21:59

for training her listening comprehension to be

22:01

able to understand it easily, right? Whereas,

22:04

like, I can watch movies

22:06

where, you know, maybe it's African-Americans

22:09

and their culture and they speak

22:11

with African-American English and

22:14

it is very, very different from Australian English,

22:16

but I can understand it perfectly well because

22:18

I've watched and consumed so much, you know,

22:20

content that has exposed me to it and

22:23

I've gotten used to it. So

22:25

that's one of those cultural things that differs.

22:27

And it may be the same for you

22:29

guys in your countries with other countries, not

22:31

necessarily America or Australia. I

22:34

think I remember hearing that, is

22:36

it Norwegians can understand Swedes really

22:38

easily, but Swedes can't understand

22:41

Norwegians very easily. And a big reason

22:43

for this is that Norwegians consume loads

22:45

of Swedish music, TV, film, all that

22:47

sort of stuff. So, I

22:49

don't know. I find it endless. That sort of

22:51

thing endlessly fascinating, right? Where there's sort

22:54

of directionality in how easily someone

22:57

can understand someone else culturally

23:00

or their dialect or whatever. All

23:03

right, let's do a couple more. We've been ranting for a

23:06

little bit, though. Dumb, drunk

23:08

and racist. OK, in

23:10

quotes. I don't want to

23:12

get into an argument about how true or

23:14

not it is, but it bothers me that

23:16

some people view us this way. This

23:18

does tend to be something, right, that Australians,

23:21

you will hear from certain

23:24

people that Australians are

23:26

stupid. They drink too much, you know, and

23:29

this may be Aussie saying that we're

23:31

all we're amazing drinkers. We're not actually

23:33

a stony a win, from what I

23:35

understand. I think it's a stony and

23:38

Russia that win on the drinking front.

23:40

But then also that we're massively racist. And

23:43

it's one of those things that sort of irritates me, too. Racism

23:46

exists everywhere. Australia has racism,

23:49

but at the end of the day, if

23:51

Australia was as racist as

23:53

some of the people that I've interacted with

23:55

in the past believe Australia is, you're kind

23:57

of like, why would we have So

24:00

many migrant people coming to the country, right?

24:02

Wouldn't people vote with their feet? If it

24:04

was Nazi Germany in the

24:06

1930s and 40s, you would

24:08

have thought loads of Jewish people and migrants

24:11

and everything were like, OK, we're leaving the

24:13

country. Like, we can tell that this

24:15

is becoming more and more racist. We need to get the

24:17

hell out of here. They wouldn't come

24:19

in more and more and more and

24:21

more if the place

24:23

was, you know, so awfully racist. So, yeah,

24:26

I find it one of those things that

24:29

racism exists everywhere, guys, and

24:31

it's not OK. It exists in

24:34

Australia. It exists everywhere. But

24:36

that said, it's not all pervasive

24:38

in Australia, right? You're not going

24:40

to walk outside your house in

24:43

most places and be

24:45

just racially vilified and shamed or all that

24:47

sort of stuff. So it is

24:50

definitely overblown, like the whole going outside

24:52

and getting eaten by a crocodile or

24:54

a shark or whatever. It's totally it

24:57

can happen. But by and

24:59

large, when you go outside and look around,

25:01

there's birds chirping, the sun's up in the

25:03

sky. You know, cars are driving

25:05

by, the day is just going on. OK. All

25:09

right. Should

25:11

we do one more? There's

25:14

a lot that we're all white. Exactly.

25:17

Exactly. Man, exactly.

25:21

OK, I think that's it. Oh, that we all

25:23

love sport. That's another one. Yeah, I always feel

25:25

bad. I always wish that I liked

25:28

sport more because my dad is massively into

25:30

sport. He could watch sport 24 hours

25:32

a day, seven days a week. Doesn't matter what it

25:34

is, just put it on the TV and he'll be

25:36

a happy man. Give him a beer, leave him alone

25:39

and he'll be happy. Right. Maybe give him one of

25:41

his mates who likes sport as well to chat to.

25:43

I've always felt sort of guilty about the fact that

25:45

I kind of take it or leave it when it

25:47

comes to sport in terms of watching

25:50

it. I always loved participating in it. Like

25:53

I love doing it. I love playing the

25:55

sport. I love the physical activity, but I was never

25:57

someone who was like, I

25:59

just see. in front of the TV living and breathing

26:01

sport and my teams and I am, you know, so,

26:04

so, so obsessed

26:07

with my specific teams and if everyone else

26:09

who doesn't go for my teams, you know,

26:11

we're going to dominate you, suffering

26:13

your jocks if you lose. And oh, my God, it's

26:15

the end of the world if we lose. I've never

26:17

been like that. It always blew my mind again. This

26:19

is one of those things that is

26:22

culturally different between me and my

26:24

wife and Brazil and Australia. Well,

26:26

Brazil and me, maybe. Brazilians

26:29

seem to be absolutely psychotic when it

26:31

comes to football. Right,

26:34

soccer, football. And it's, it's

26:36

almost on the level with Brits, right? The Brits

26:38

are the same. And it's one of those interesting

26:40

things where British people

26:42

and, you know, the migrant

26:45

community in Australia when they first came here,

26:47

right, the colonists were largely the

26:49

same group of people, right? There were loads

26:51

and loads of Caucasian, European migrants

26:53

who came to Australia at that time. But

26:55

it's interesting that in

26:57

Great Britain, people are psychotically

27:00

passionate about football, soccer,

27:03

compared to Australia, where we

27:06

could care less about soccer. But we

27:08

are a little more psychotic about AFL

27:11

and cricket and rugby. But

27:13

even then, you don't hear about the same kind

27:15

of brawls breaking out, people fighting each other, killing

27:17

each other in the street. They're

27:19

having to be segregation in

27:21

the stadiums because, God

27:24

forbid, two opposing team supporters

27:27

sit next to one another because they'll bash each

27:29

other to death. You know, it's so weird when

27:31

you hear about those, the hooligan aspect

27:34

of British support

27:37

of football. And then here you're just

27:40

like, you can sit next to anyone.

27:42

We don't care, you know, like, it's

27:44

sport. It's sport. It's OK. You know, at the end

27:46

of the day, we're all friends. And I remember saying

27:48

I remember when I was learning jujitsu, I had

27:51

a coach called Tiago and it

27:53

was really funny. I remember asking him, like, who do

27:55

you go for in the in the football? You know,

27:57

and he's from Sao Paulo, so obviously he went for

27:59

the team, Sao Paulo, I think it was black and white

28:01

stripes. And he was like,

28:04

look, I'm just going to tell you now. And

28:07

he said it with a Brazilian accent, he didn't say it

28:09

with an Australian accent, but he said, you

28:11

can say whatever you want about my wife,

28:14

my children, my mother, but

28:17

if you ever say anything about my soccer team,

28:19

I'll kill you. And

28:21

he said it with a smile on his face, but I think

28:24

he was trying to make the point of like it

28:27

just, you know, how obsessed he is.

28:31

And again, it's probably not all Brazilians, but my

28:33

wife kind of has that flair in her sometimes,

28:36

too, that comes out and you're just like, ooh,

28:38

okay. Didn't know that was in there. But

28:40

how obsessed he was with his team. And it was

28:42

just really funny. He's like, you can say whatever you

28:45

want about my mum, my wife, my kids, about who

28:47

any... I do not care, but if you insult my

28:49

team, I'll kill you. Anyway,

28:52

so, yeah, hopefully this has

28:54

been entertaining, probably not in

28:56

light... Enlightful? What am

28:58

I thinking of? Enlightening. Gosh,

29:02

I think I need to have a break. But

29:04

yeah, hopefully you've enjoyed this episode, guys. Don't forget,

29:06

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29:52

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29:54

love to know what you guys think of Australian

29:56

stereotypes as well. Are there loads that

29:59

you've heard of? Are there... ones that are true that

30:01

you've experienced firsthand or they're ones that are complete bullshit.

30:04

You got here and you're like, where are

30:06

the crocodiles? Where are they? You know, they're

30:08

nowhere. Anyway, thanks for joining me.

30:10

See you later.