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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: British Men in America

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After both having recently visited the United States, Carl and Callum reflect on how America is different from the UK, and what they noticed about the country and people.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks, Kellyn and I have both recently returned from the United States, not on the same journey.

0:06.7

We were both there for tourism in different areas, and so I thought we'd just have a conversation

0:11.6

on our observations of the United States as compared

0:14.8

to a normal country like Britain because I found it very interesting and like

0:19.2

there are just parts of America and American culture that are just very strange to me and is very different to hear.

0:26.4

And I think that a lot of people in America don't realize that their culture is odd in some ways to what I think is I guess maybe it's kind of a new world, old world distinction

0:37.3

something like that but a lot of places in the old world

0:40.3

are much more understandable to me than places in the new world.

0:44.0

Does that make sense?

0:45.0

100%.

0:46.0

Absolutely 100%.

0:47.0

So, I mean, do you want to begin by just telling us where you were?

0:51.0

So the places I went was upstate New York and then Florida went to

0:55.4

a place called Largo. So that's that's the two locations I was at. Yeah.

0:59.4

What about you? You weren't hanging out with anyone interesting?

1:02.6

No, no, no, no.

1:04.8

I went to Miami, then Maryland, then Dallas.

1:09.8

But I have been to Maryland. Sorry, I got to visualize otherwise. Yeah, yeah. But I have been to Maryland. Sorry I gotta visualize otherwise.

1:14.0

Yeah, but I have been to Boston, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles,

1:20.0

and San Luis Obispo, which is a small city in California.

1:24.0

Because you've been to America a lot, you've been fairly regularly even.

1:27.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have, yeah.

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