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*PREVIEW* Britainology 3: Understanding Home Counties Guys

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This week's bonus features Milo and Nate on another Britainology, this time with Kent guy Hussein, to discuss the Home Counties and how the deeply cursed world of London suburbia has created an identity of Britishness that you've probably encountered, even if you didn't recognise it. Hope you enjoy! If you want the whole episode, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40816290 Our theme song for this series is from the 'Visit to Primrose Hill Extended Version' of the 1993 Blur song 'For Tomorrow,' which Nate picked because it was formative in teaching him various aspects of London geography and it's premium old millennial / young gen xer nostalgia bait. You can listen to it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3mvdN3a4p4SaOnpUBGWan2?si=B8IQ7g1PSfGqFw_P1dSY9Q We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

I went back very recently and like every third shop on that high street is a vape shop.

0:20.7

So there are like Turkish restaurants, a KFC and McDonald's And like every third shop on that high street is a vape shop.

0:31.1

So there are like Turkish restaurants, a KFC and McDonald's, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the money transfers, porn store and vape stores.

0:35.3

So the vape stores are like the thing that are like keeping this like local economy afloat.

0:42.8

It's funny to me because my great, great grandfather was in the Royal Army Band at Woolwich Arsenal and my great grandfather was born in Plumstead.

0:46.9

And where he was born, that street doesn't exist anymore because it was blown up, you know,

0:52.1

errant bombs trying to hit the fucking army base, hit the street in the war.

0:55.6

And so they built a bunch of social housing there.

0:58.3

But as I understand it, my family then moved further out.

1:04.0

So after the war, they left Plumstead and went to Croydon.

1:09.5

And it's weird how, if I look now, it took me a while finding, looking on old maps to figure out where the old station road was.

1:16.6

Because that was, and I've seen a photo on Ancestry.com of like the house he was born in in 1900.

1:21.5

Yeah.

1:21.8

And that house, that street doesn't exist anymore.

1:24.8

There is a station road, but it's just a different street now.

1:32.7

And God, fucking hell, man, around the actual station, it's just really, really grim. Like, it's just scrapyards and, like, like, what you're describing, you know? I mean, I, I, I don't

1:36.6

live too far away from there. So, like, I see them. I see, I see it a lot. And yes, it is a pretty, it's a pretty grim place along with all the other places that we

1:44.9

talk about.

1:45.7

Listen, here in Dartford, you ate the Muslims.

1:48.1

You love your wife, gold, and you love glowing flat clouds, simple as.

1:52.1

But that's the thing.

1:52.9

Like, I feel like with one of the like the through lines that connects all these places is the

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