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*PREVIEW* Britainology 25: The North feat. Rob Smith and Kaye Wiggins

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Nate and Milo discuss the North-South divide of England with help from two friends of the show--and FT reporters--Rob Smith (@bondhack) and Kaye Wiggins (@kayewiggins). Rob is from Derby (technically not in the North, but presumed to be) and Kaye is from Southport (definitely in the North). We discuss their experiences in the South, the fact that Liverpool and Essex have so much in common, and a guide for international students in the UK that offers a doctrinal definition of Northern Monkeys vs Southern Fairies. Hope you enjoy! Rob and Kaye worked on a piece about financial misadventures in the North that you should check out: https://t.co/YaFREWTHbg?amp=1 Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57523069 If you’re in the UK and want to help Afghan refugees and internally displaced people, consider donating to Afghanaid: https://www.afghanaid.org.uk/ *MILO ALERT* Milo Edwards comperes a stellar line-up of professional acts trying new material, headlined by Archie Henderson. See it on 26 October at 19:30, Sekforde Arms, London EC1R 0HA: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-archie-henderson-tickets-188961367537 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

I was chatting to an American friend of ours about accents and sort of what they make of the North South Divide.

0:10.4

It's probably worth at this point reading out what they said, which was.

0:13.6

Kay's made notes and come prepared.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:16.2

None of us have phenomenal.

0:18.6

Well, I've screenshotsed this, which was, I was asking what they think of the North South

0:23.4

Divide, the response was, I have no concept of it.

0:25.9

The Northerns are meant to be nicer.

0:27.8

That's all I think I know.

0:29.3

But they sound funny and therefore their job prospects are limited, question mark.

0:35.6

It's Britain.

0:36.4

Everyone's job prospects are limited.

0:38.3

So is a wonderful like Victorian anthropologist field guide.

0:43.0

Wearing a helmet.

0:44.8

Yeah, this is like a, yeah, an explorer on the Solomon Islands in the 1850s or something like that.

0:50.1

It's nothing to do with like trying to wash away my accent.

0:53.5

But I'm notorious for like just

0:54.9

kind of being very malleable with my accent so like my partner's Canadian and I remember

0:59.0

when we first started going out I like kind of picked up a Canadian accent but like I remember like

1:03.9

at Cambridge like by the time I finish there I go home and like all my friends and Derby would

1:08.8

like take the piss out of me because they said like

1:11.4

oh you know you're really posh now all the usual shit but then one of my mates there who was like

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