Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today.

I'm very excited.

I have Gavin Meg North on the show.

And before you even say a word, I want to, I want everyone to be surprised when they hear you because I've, I almost tagged you on a post of it.

And maybe that's too much, you know, and then we're going to talk about that a little bit.

But you have a refined nature to you that is, that is unique to people of the, of the north, I guess, of, I guess we could call that more proper speaking.

And the post that was on LinkedIn the other day was talking about how we need to like accept

people that are from foreign countries that have accents.

And I was like, what are you talking about?

Absolutely.

Like, of course.

And they were talking about how, you know, it can sometimes be difficult on one's career

if they have certain accents.

But I was thinking sometimes it can be a benefit. So, welcome to the show.

Well, thank you, Phil, for that introduction. And yes, I think it's fair to say that in the US,

I felt that my accent has been somewhat of a secret weapon rather than a hindrance.

It is. For some reason, people from the UK, we could, let's throw in Australia, mates,

if you, you know, mate, and we got to throw in South Africa. If you have some kind of refined

English accent, you are almost automatically

treated with a higher level of respect and trust. Why that is, I don't know. Does it make any

sense? Probably not. But you guys say things like, could you take out the rubbish, please?

And if we say things like, hey, can you go get the trash guy and take out the trash?

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