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Uh whatever state you guys are from are you from the west or east side of the state? West West side?

Where I'm from like where I grew up the state you were born and I don't even care what it is east the east. Yep.

West now kind of you're right dead. Not no we're not not even kind of so you think you're West Michigan Southwest Michigan.

Yeah, that's what we call it. I'm not talking about I'm not talking about land. I don't I'm not talking about latitude. Sure.

But when someone says where is Kalamazoo in Michigan? I say Southwest Michigan. Yeah, I don't know about that.

Oh my god, get a map out. Oh, I don't where it is. I just don't know if it has the West Michigan sensibility.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because never we talked about how you guys didn't grow up flipping off your

buddies as a way to say hi. No. Okay, because here we go. Have you ever met anybody else? Yeah, check this out. Check this out.

What brought up the conversation about the Michigan hell. Oh, which is the middle finger is we're talking about the some guy was saying man you should like it's bad to say mugs and this guy

hadn't be Australian because we just use mugs like hey friend, you know, friend. Oh, it's more like hey friend. Oh, where it's like friend with a little little jab in there.

Um, you say, oh, it's horrible thing to say. And so we're looking up like what mugs means in different places. I think it means something kind of awful in Australia.

And in this discussion, one guy wrote in it to say man, I would never take any advice from people in Australia and Australia, they call their their Michigan hello or their mugs is the call everybody the queen mother of all swear words.

The C word. That's right. One day my little boy made a list of all the naughty words he knew. He's public school kid made a list on a board on a plank out in the garage with a sharpie a list of all the naughty words.

He knew and I said, you know what? You almost got him off. There's one I will never tell you. It's dying to know what it is. He even knows what letter it starts with. But I will never divulge. They use that word as a salutation.

So this other guy was saying, plus, you know, he brought like swearing allegiance to the crown. He brought up all kinds of reasons why he wouldn't take advice from an Australian about how to speak to people. But in talking about the middle finger, it turns out we get a letter from a guy who Claire, like just without any prompt and clarified that he's from Western Wisconsin.

And then we got a guy who wrote in about the middle finger and he clarified these from Western Wyoming. So I was wondering if in every state, there's this weird phenomena, we're in every phenomenon, we're in every state. People that live in the West half of that state.

Flip people flip their friends off as a way to say hi. This guy in Western Wisconsin said it was so prevalent. He said that if his body didn't flip him off when he's driving by, he thinks something was wrong.

It was pretty prevalent where I think the guy must be mad at him.

Yeah, Western Washington. I mean, maybe it was just my Jack asked friends, but I feel like that was completely ubiquitous.

Yeah, another thing about the bird, the guy from Western Wyoming said, we really differentiated between putting your thumb out or not.

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