329: ‘The Scotland Board of Tourism’, With David Smith
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | David, happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:01.6 | Happy Thanksgiving to you. |
| 0:03.5 | So you are currently in the UK. |
| 0:06.1 | What is it like as an American living in the UK for Thanksgiving? |
| 0:14.0 | It is quiet. |
| 0:15.5 | I think it's probably the best word for it. |
| 0:17.6 | It's a weird week where I'm just like normally doing work stuff. |
| 0:21.3 | Everything's great. |
| 0:22.0 | And then it's like everything's gotten quiet. |
| 0:24.2 | There's no news. |
| 0:25.0 | Everyone's like quiet on social media. |
| 0:27.2 | Everything seems to sort of be shutting down. |
| 0:29.1 | But everything's like totally normal life here. |
| 0:30.8 | And here it's a funny thing too, where I go to the grocery store and they're like, |
| 0:36.9 | turkeys are coming December 17th. |
| 0:39.7 | It's like, what? |
| 0:41.4 | It's like, because turkeys the big Christmas thing here, rather than the Thanksgiving thing. |
| 0:45.4 | So it's just, it's a bit of an adjustment and we'll still have some Thanksgiving here. |
| 0:49.7 | You know, I'm having, but it's a different event where we're having Thanksgiving on Saturday |
| 0:54.4 | because that's convenient because no one has time off work. |
| 0:57.3 | So it's like where we're doing a little Thanksgiving gathering on Saturday instead. |
| 1:01.8 | But yeah, it's different, but still it's still nice. |
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