TV Programmes

UK vs US: TV Shows, Casinos, and Cultural Differences

In this episode of episode of 'Atlantic Exchange', hosts Jerry and Matt engage in a lively discussion comparing UK and US TV shows, including differences in series length, content, and cultural touches. They delve into experiences with casinos in both Las Vegas and the UK, explore popular series like 'The Office', and touch upon the influences of streaming services on modern viewing habits. 

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Transcript

Intro

Matt 0:07

Hello and welcome to the next in Stillman of Atlantic Exchange. Good afternoon slash morning. Jerry,

Jerry 0:16

Morning, Matt.

Matt 0:18

you know what? I thought you were just gonna nod and not say anything. I thought this is an audio podcast. You can't be nodding on a podcast. Okay. We need audio input. Luckily, you did respond, but you started off with a nod and I thought,

Jerry 0:28

Well.

Matt 0:28

be visually noted.

Jerry 0:30

Well, to be fair, I I, I, I figured there would be some visuals, right? Which is why I wore this Mickey hat. So for any American corporations out there, this could be you to our three, four listeners that wanna promote their brand.

Matt 0:45

Three or four

Jerry 0:46

This is this, this is what you would get right here.

Matt 0:48

Yeah, let just turn my mic down a bit. I think we've got a bit audio clip in there. Yeah. Three to four. You are, you are a, uh, optimistic man. That's what I like on a Friday

Jerry 0:56

am.

Matt 0:56

Optimism. Um.

Jerry 0:58

It's the American way.

Matt 0:59

Now I would say that we haven't spoken for a week, but that wouldn't be true because I drunk called you last night, didn't I? You were my, uh,

Jerry 1:05

You did.

Matt 1:06

you were my, uh, like my booty call really? Weren't you?

Jerry 1:09

That's right. That's right.

Matt 1:11

Yeah. Which

Jerry 1:11

You had a, a mouthful of mouthful of Burger King as I was trying to understand the word you were trying to get out.

Matt 1:16

But no fries. No fries. 'cause uh,

Jerry 1:19

No fries. They charged you the same for, for a burger and a drink.

Matt 1:24

the argument I had was

Jerry 1:24

I.

Matt 1:25

a, a meal. And, uh, he just gave me the burger and a drink, and I was like, well, where's my fries? We're at fries. I was like, well, you didn't tell me that when I ordered. And he charged me. He goes, no, no, I haven't charged you for fries. So I looked to my receipt and that the cost of a burger with a drink was about 20 p less than it was for a whole meal. I was like, well, technically you're right, but fuck you, you.

Jerry 1:46

Yeah. What, what? What happened to the upsell, you know?

Matt 1:49

yeah. You call yourself Burger Royalty. Well, I'm afraid you're not. See, yeah. I suppose it maybe in America there'd be upsetting some extra stuff, like onion rings. This guy was the end of his shift. He really

Jerry 2:01

Right, right. Yeah. And he's, he's dealing with a, with a drunken Brit that's just sort of had probably eight, nine pints.

Matt 2:10

Not even that many, but yeah. So how's your week

Jerry 2:15

Fair. It's been good, man. Just been traveling for work. I was in the beautiful city of Las Vegas.

Matt 2:21

Is a beautiful city.

Jerry 2:22

Uh, it's, yes, we've been many times great time. Uh, really just focused on conferences and then visited clients in Texas.

Matt 2:31

See, we might as well talk about Vegas for a bit 'cause as you say, we've been a few

Jerry 2:35

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 2:37

I think it is a beautiful city, but I'm not sure if beauty's the right word. It's, it's an expensive city. And for anyone that's

Jerry 2:44

It is an expensive city, but I find the beauty in it, you know.

Matt 2:49

Yeah, I mean, uh, can you move your mic a little bit away from your mouth as well, um, to get some audio

Jerry 2:55

How about there? Yeah,

Matt 2:55

Yeah, that's better. Yeah,

Jerry 2:57

yeah, yeah. We can, we can edit that out.

Matt 2:58

city. Anyone that's not been, I do recommend you go, um, at least once in your life. Um,

Jerry 3:04

Oh, absolutely.

Matt 3:05

every time I've been there, I think I counted, I've been there 10 times. I've always gone. This the last time I were gonna come here, but here I go. Here we.

Jerry 3:13

What's what? What do you guys have there? Because 'cause Crockfords is out right in London, that that no longer exists.

Matt 3:21

As in what do we have that's now equivalent to Vegas?

Jerry 3:24

Well, just any casinos at all? Was it Stratford?

Matt 3:26

See? Yeah, so casinos are very different though in uk. So a lot of them, a majority of 'em have a membership scheme. So you have to be a member. It could be free to join, but you just have to join. Um, some do allow walk-ins, but they're limited. It's 'cause they just, they don't give out the casino license. That easily. So there there's

Jerry 3:45

Right.

Matt 3:46

and more opening up. Like I say, we've been to one in Strat with that. I had that sort of Vegas feel. There's a couple in London. but yeah, they're not, uh, there's no free drinks. Not like when you go in Vegas, you've just gotta

Jerry 3:56

That's terrible. That's the,

Matt 3:58

There's no free drinks. You have to pay for all

Jerry 3:59

yeah.

Matt 4:00

while you're gambling in the uk and that's, that's why I just stick to gambling online and scratch cards. Now it's just safer,

Jerry 4:06

We, we have a really fun topic to discuss today that I'm, I'm very excited

TV shows

Jerry 4:10

to get to.

Matt 4:11

Yes, today we're gonna discuss TV programs. So obviously with the, the, I see the invention of Netflix. It wasn't the invention. Now, uh,

Jerry 4:22

Right, right,

Matt 4:23

the same. We'd be watching the same content, back in the day, programs would be American and programs would be English and had a very different feel. Um.

Jerry 4:30

right.

Matt 4:30

And I think let's, let's address the, the elephant in the room here. So it is, it's probably known that UK series lengths run times are a lot shorter than a US Series

Jerry 4:40

Four or five episodes.

Matt 4:41

six. The standard is six, so six episodes. The US it's like 20. Is that about

Jerry 4:49

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Matt 4:50

I mean, and also we don't run for many series as well, so you take the, the office obviously that's a good example here,

Jerry 4:58

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 4:59

UK and us. The uk I think there was three series of it and then a Christmas special, and

Jerry 5:06

Right.

Matt 5:07

Um,

Jerry 5:10

The, the US version of the office is nine Seasons.

Matt 5:13

nine seasons. I thought it was 10. Was it

Jerry 5:16

Yeah. And now there's a spinoff

Matt 5:18

Yes,

Jerry 5:18

called the paper.

Matt 5:19

that. Yes,

Jerry 5:19

Yeah. Which was fantastic as well.

Matt 5:21

yeah. It's, it's not the office now. happened Great. Here is the US office translated perfectly. It's, it became, its different show. I think

Jerry 5:31

Right, right.

Matt 5:32

I don't watch it and think, oh, I'm watching version of something.

Jerry 5:36

Mm-hmm.

Matt 5:36

I watched the Australian office,

Jerry 5:40

Oh, I haven't seen that yet.

Matt 5:41

um. That just seems like it's a copy of the US one. It it had that, like, that sort of fill

Jerry 5:48

Right.

Matt 5:49

the, the UK and the us they're very different shows. Um, yeah, I mean I Love US Office. Um, I, you might say it's not called the US office, but I'm gonna call it the US office so we can distinguish 'em. It's definitely up there as one of my top shows and it's one of those things where there's, you know, shows become cult when you can just quote parts of a show and people

Jerry 6:09

Oh yeah. Yeah.

Matt 6:11

we constantly are quoting different parts from the office.

Jerry 6:14

Yeah, likewise. It's, it's, it's my favorite show of all time. Openly. I've been to a ton of office trivia. That's, that's a question that I had for you as well. Uh, are there trivia nights centered around certain shows at like your local pub?

Matt 6:29

Yeah, there are, there's not loads. I've been in London. I've seen a, a US office trivia night.

Jerry 6:35

Okay.

Matt 6:36

friend's one. Um. But yeah, not, not Lowe's, but I, I did a, a US trivia, a US office trivia on YouTube. I think it's 10 questions. I think I've got one. Right. And it's like, 'cause when you've got, when you've got, I mean, I, you are looking at what, 400 episodes

Jerry 6:58

Yeah.

Matt 6:58

Yeah. How are you

Jerry 6:59

That's a new record for you, one, right?

Matt 7:02

I'm not gonna know, I'm not gonna know everything that happened in those, those episodes. And they were some really obscure questions. So

Jerry 7:08

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 7:09

a, uh, office trivia. I, I'll just be coming out with like one or two correct.

Jerry 7:16

I, my, my main issue isn't even the length of, uh, of British series, right? If it's six episodes and maybe three seasons, that's, that's not a big deal. The issue is that a British show will go unresolved, like it just.

Matt 7:31

Yeah.

Jerry 7:31

It'll just, it'll just go unresolved, like nothing. Hey, life sucks. What are you gonna do? Thanks for watching. In the US it's like fat to black, inspirational music. Everyone hugs it out,

Matt 7:42

Yeah, it every, it always closes off in the us in the uk it'd be left and they will never finish it off. Um, they a, a recent example of that was Gavin and Stacey now that ran for, again, two or three series. They had a

Jerry 7:58

right?

Matt 7:58

they had a cup of Christmas special I think, but they penultimate Christmas special and people thought that was the end of it. It was just left on a cliffhanger, but they.

Jerry 8:05

Yeah.

Matt 8:05

was just gone. They actually made another episode they, they tied it all up. But yeah, it's very, it's, it's not unknown that the UK series, you're like, well, what happened? And that's frustrating, but

Jerry 8:17

I hear you. So

Matt 8:17

that,

Jerry 8:19

now I was gonna say, sometimes U UK shows also, I feel like they pack so much content into one season because they know. That they can't really extend it.

Matt 8:31

yeah. I mean, I find it that a lot of 'em. A lot of 'em just, they don't extend past three, three series. Some

Jerry 8:38

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 8:39

sort of things. Some do, they go on, but it's some of the major cult, uh, series. So let's go, uh, like in betweeners in modern day,

Jerry 8:48

Mm-hmm. Fantastic show in betweeners. Mm-hmm.

Matt 8:51

they, they have like three series and even you think 40 towers, that's a, that's a classic. You might not have seen all episodes, but you've seen clips and you are aware of it.

Jerry 9:00

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 9:01

episodes ever, but it's. It's,

Jerry 9:04

It's super quotable though.

Matt 9:05

yeah, exactly. But you would think that it's had loads The fact how, how worldwide known it is.

Jerry 9:12

How do you, how do you feel about the laugh track? So super common here.

Matt 9:17

Yeah. We don't have it so much now. So

Jerry 9:19

Yeah.

Matt 9:20

they, that kind of disappeared early two thousands. So in the nineties it was very much either laugh track or you'd have a studio audience in there watching it being

Jerry 9:29

Yeah.

Matt 9:30

Um. And it, if you watch 'em now, it feels dated. 'cause I think I've got used to going to or watching comedies without it. And I think kind of clocked onto that was that was the way, 'cause like the office obviously doesn't have a laugh, tracks not filmed in front of an audience

Jerry 9:47

Right.

Matt 9:47

they're going that way. But yeah, if you watch a, you wouldn't, it's very rare to see a comedy in the UK now with a laugh track or an audience. I can't remember the last time I saw a new one that had that.

Jerry 9:58

Agreed. I, I, I feel like my, my only other major observation and how can I say this politely here,

Swearing on TV

Jerry 10:07

everyone looks like a model, right? All the actors, everyone in a show in, in UK shows, just regular folks are on screen. Doing their thing. Like even, even the nerdiest person, right. That or the homeless person on the street is super handsome. Right. But, uh, but UK shows they, they will choose someone that properly fits that row,

Matt 10:33

Yeah, so I think a good example of that is, is I say you wanna call 'em cop shows or

Jerry 10:38

right?

Matt 10:39

thrillers. So in the UK they're, they're very dark centered it's just, you say it's a regular crew and they police when you watch it in the US

Jerry 10:48

Oh dude, what was that? What was that solid ass show that you guys in the line of duty? Fantastic series. Whoa.

Matt 10:56

See, I haven't seen. Now obviously there's some great, uh, I'm gonna call 'em cop shows, just so we know the genre. There's some great

Jerry 11:02

Yeah.

Matt 11:02

ones. Um, obviously the y was a popular one.

Jerry 11:06

Yeah.

Matt 11:07

I'm not gonna put 24 in that bracket. That's a different sort of show. But yeah, they're very different over there. So when you watch, if I watch any US based shows like that, as you say the, there's like a, a male or a female cop, she's pretty much probably a model. Could be a model, but she's also a policeman on the side, it seems. So it's like

Jerry 11:23

Yeah.

Matt 11:23

realism's not there, but it's just like in America, you have to be a model to be on tv.

Jerry 11:28

Yeah, it's, it's odd. Also, I feel like outside of streaming, we're talking about shows that are on cable tv. Right. UK shows might have some riskier words. You might hear a curse word here and there. Cable TV in the US especially primetime. Very rare that you'll hear an F-bomb or,

Matt 11:47

yeah, yeah. South Park bleeps. Fuck doesn't it over there on

Jerry 11:50

yes, it does, it does. We'll bleep this for, uh, the younger audience

Matt 11:54

this?

Jerry 11:55

and we bleeping the fuck.

Matt 11:57

we're definitely

Jerry 11:58

You know, let's let them all out and then let's let the crowd guess what we're saying.

Matt 12:01

Yeah. Yeah. This so I can figure out how to bleep, eh?

Jerry 12:07

Exactly.

Matt 12:09

Yeah. I think, um. Yeah, you can definitely drop an F on UK tv. That's not a problem. seems now we can drop

Jerry 12:16

That's so wild.

Matt 12:18

so,

Jerry 12:18

You can drop the C. Now, you guys have graduated to the C word on tv,

Matt 12:22

I think we're getting blurred is Netflix. So obviously on Netflix

Jerry 12:25

right?

Matt 12:25

you can, I've watched programs and they say it, I'm trying to think, then I've been watching American shows, so let's, let's say, but maybe they're streaming. So I was watching Peacemaker the other day, US show. I think it's HBO, but I dunno if it's on TV or it's on streaming. But they dropped a

Jerry 12:44

Mm-hmm.

Matt 12:45

now. But I dunno if it's actually on tv. Do they bleep that out?

Jerry 12:49

Right, right.

Matt 12:51

I'm not sure. So

Jerry 12:52

Yeah.

Matt 12:53

you'll

Jerry 12:53

No, I hear you.

Matt 12:54

like another great show. Uh, obviously a great American comedy, always sunny in Philadelphia. Again, it's on like

Jerry 13:00

Sensational.

Matt 13:01

What you on? 17?

Jerry 13:02

Yeah.

Matt 13:03

Um.

Jerry 13:03

Yeah. I, I can't, I can't drink orange juice without calling it cocktail mix.

Matt 13:09

Yeah, I cooked some GA the other day and I called it rum ham, but I see they, I don't, I was gonna say, they've gone down now, so the latest EP series, they're only sort of six episodes, so they've, they've jumped onto, this is how the British do it. But I think it's just 'cause they're just doing other stuff and they can't be bothered anymore.

Jerry 13:25

It. Obviously the US market has a monopoly just around Hollywood and shows in general, how much content would you say percentage wise were you watching growing up? That was UK versus us. Now we watch a lot of UK content. Again, because of streaming services, it's available.

Matt 13:43

isn't it? Um,

Jerry 13:44

Yeah.

Matt 13:45

I would say, let's go back to the nineties and it's very relatable to our young listeners. Um. I was probably 75, 80% stuff. But then there'd

Jerry 13:59

Okay.

Matt 14:00

stuff. So we might have South, south Park was on friends, um, but we'd get 'em a lot later just 'cause obviously the world was a bigger place back then. You couldn't stream it.

Jerry 14:08

Right.

Matt 14:09

like an episode of

Jerry 14:10

That explains the rise in depression in the uk.

Matt 14:13

So an episode of Friends that might be on in America, we'd have to wait sort of six months for it. So.

Jerry 14:18

Yeah, that's right.

Matt 14:19

dunno if someone have to put it on a tape and bring it over here. I'm not sure. But where now

Jerry 14:24

I do.

Matt 14:25

day.

Jerry 14:26

Yeah, exactly. I do. Like when shows try to translate, sort of like the office or do you watch some of the newer shows, Matt? So for the audience, I, I don't want to age you may I, may I say our ages.

Matt 14:40

Uh, you can,

Jerry 14:42

Alright. I'm 35.

Matt 14:43

and I'm 43.

Jerry 14:47

Are we sure?

Matt 14:48

I think so. I'm not sure, but I'll

Jerry 14:49

I think so. We'll, we'll, we'll stick with it. We'll stick with it. Do you watch some of the newer shows that, that have a direct series in each country? Like Love Island or Love is Blind?

Matt 14:59

So reality shows, um,

Jerry 15:01

Yes.

Matt 15:02

I don't, I don't, I have watched them. I've, I think I watched the very first series of Love Is Blind. I've seen married at First Sight.

Jerry 15:11

Right, right.

Matt 15:11

have things like Love Island, but they're not my go-to. I think. I think my time is limited, you know, so I, I, I tend

Jerry 15:19

I hear that.

Matt 15:20

yeah, they, they, I'm not sure how they translate differently. I've never watched sort of a different versions of them. You obviously do, 'cause you spend all your time watching that stuff, but, uh,

Jerry 15:29

Well, I'm, I, I'm an irresponsible individual, so I, I try to watch as much TV as possible. No, I, uh, it's just, I, the reason I mention it is reality TV in the UK is so much better here in the us. Folks are just tiptoeing around each other. That is not an option for whatever reason. In the uk, if there is an issue, if there's a concern, you're gonna hear about it.

Matt 15:51

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. There's, there's some well-known fights on things like Big Brother

Jerry 15:55

Yeah.

Matt 15:56

and uh, uh, what's the one that we had of, which is our copy of Jersey Shore, um, Judy

Jerry 16:04

Uh, Jordy Shore.

Matt 16:06

shore.

Jerry 16:06

I've seen, I've seen Jordy, sho. It's not bad, but it's no Jersey Shore.

Matt 16:09

I think the first

Jerry 16:10

May, may, maybe it's 'cause I'm from Jersey.

Matt 16:12

yeah, that's like your home series really, isn't it? Yeah.

Jerry 16:14

Yeah. Did you watch the Jersey Shore at all?

Matt 16:17

I've never seen Jersey Shore. No.

Jerry 16:20

It's wonderful.

Matt 16:22

How far from where you are, is it based?

Jerry 16:26

An hour, maybe less, 45 minutes.

Matt 16:28

it's not

Jerry 16:28

Yeah. So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty centered to, yeah, no, the Atlantic City's a bit more south. Uh, but as you know, I'm, I'm sort of in the center of the beach in Manhattan.

Matt 16:38

We covered ies, we covered thrillers. Um, yeah, I mean, here's another thing. So have you ever watched stuff from another country, another language? Do you put the subtitles on or do you change the audio?

Jerry 16:51

Well, I feel like now I put the subtitles on, even if it's in English. I don't know. I. I don't, I, I feel like Netflix got so many people accustomed to just having the, uh, the subtitles on. But it's, to answer your question, one of my favorite movies of all time is parasite, uh, the Korean sort of drama thriller.

Matt 17:10

Yeah, so I haven't seen it. So I watched, obviously I watched Squeak Game like everyone else.

Jerry 17:14

Of course. Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 17:15

it was till first couple of episodes. I didn't even realize that. The original version though. Was she speaking in Korean? I just thought they just filmed it in English though. That's how in my small centered world I am. I'm just, well they probably just filmed it in English. It's fine

Jerry 17:29

The, uh, the third season, the third season's gonna be in America. It'll be in Los Angeles.

Matt 17:34

Uh, yes. Yeah. So that's like a spinoff now it's squid game at LA

Jerry 17:38

Right, right.

Matt 17:39

Well yeah. Not getting away the ending for anyone's not watched it, but yeah, they, they've

Jerry 17:43

Yeah.

Matt 17:44

game LA and

Jerry 17:46

Well, we can give away some info.

Matt 17:47

Yeah.

Jerry 17:48

of them die.

Matt 17:49

Yeah. All but one.

Jerry 17:51

Yeah. All but one die, which is a pretty British.

Matt 17:56

Yeah. But it wraps up. It does, it wraps up. So

Jerry 17:58

It does wrap up. Yeah. Yeah. There, there's a, there's a proper ending.

Matt 18:03

what is your, so at the moment, obviously Korean culture is quite big at the moment. Um, and obviously you have a, a young daughter. Are you, is your house just playing K-pop demon hunters on repeat or.

Jerry 18:13

Now. It's actually playing a very popular, uh, British

Peppa Pig ever get dark?

Jerry 18:16

show. Nonstop.

Matt 18:20

What's

Jerry 18:20

Can you guess what that is? Pep Pig.

Matt 18:22

Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah, I think, I think

Jerry 18:26

And that that is one rude little girl.

Matt 18:29

She's a bit entitled, isn't she?

Jerry 18:31

A a bit is, uh, a bit is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence.

Matt 18:36

So what you're saying is Pepper just needs a good slap. Just sort that child out.

Jerry 18:40

Oh man. Just a solid timeout. Something, I don't know, maybe boarding school.

Matt 18:45

Maybe, yeah, I, I, I don't think they're gonna do like a really dark

Jerry 18:49

I.

Matt 18:49

of Pepper Pig where she, you know, she gets beaten up or abused or anything like that. I don't think that's on the horizon.

Jerry 18:55

I think the parents should consider adoption, like giving her up for adoption.

Matt 19:00

Yeah. Um,

Jerry 19:02

That's, that's, that's my solution.

Matt 19:05

I, I, they seems very hands off parenting. I mean, the, the dad, I don't think, what have I seen him do? He's, he's either working or he's off playing football. I don't think he

Jerry 19:16

Right, right, right.

Matt 19:17

he's just, he's, he's zoned out at this, this point of his family life, hasn't he? He's just, uh, he's got a

Jerry 19:24

It, I mean.

Matt 19:24

say the word dinosaur. Mommy pig's upstairs working, but I don't see her bringing home the money. I think he's, he's doing it all. So it's just, I, I

Jerry 19:34

Where, where would you, where, where would you align the, the, the Peppa Pig family? Do, do you think they're more sort of like south, like Londonish area or they're, they're proper geezers,

Matt 19:46

Well, considering they're pigs that are not real, it's very hard to actually. Sort of regionalize a fictional

Jerry 19:52

right?

Matt 19:53

Uh, they've obviously got like, pepper Peak has very, a very posh accent. Like she, she's

Jerry 19:57

She does, she does.

Matt 19:58

she obviously goes to some sort of public school or something. Um. But it's a strange land as well. I mean, the whole land of pepper pig, wherever it is. I mean, they're all very, they're very lazy. No one does any work apart from, uh, Mrs. What's her name? Mrs. Rabbit. She's,

Jerry 20:12

Yeah.

Matt 20:13

She's taking everyone's job. She's, she's coming over there taking everyone's job. No one else seems to be doing anything, and they seem, they seem okay with it. So I dunno how they're getting their

Jerry 20:22

Okay. So, so essentially you're saying, uh, it's Liverpool, Manchester. Got it.

Matt 20:27

Just watch now. Northern, Northern customers

Jerry 20:29

Yeah,

Matt 20:29

for tuning. Thanks for tuning.

Jerry 20:31

exactly. Thanks for tuning in.

Matt 20:32

Yeah,

Jerry 20:33

Everyone in Northern England.

Matt 20:35

It's, it's definitely a British, uh, seaside town. Um,

Jerry 20:38

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 20:39

Yeah. I mean, maybe think for another episode, but, but regionally it's like, it's, think that a, a seaside town would be a nice extravagant area, but sometimes you go to 'em and you think, ah, I'm gonna leave quickly. I think this isn't for me.

Jerry 20:53

What, what's Brighton is what, like three, four blocks of like solid hotels?

Matt 20:58

yeah, so Bri Brighton's different, there's some that obviously they're, they're too big to foul, but some of the smaller

Jerry 21:02

Right? Right.

Matt 21:03

tourism moved away from Britain, so these all built on tourism. just nothing there from now. Uh, it's, they're very dead, but yeah. Brighton, you've always wanted to go. Brighton. Every time you come out, you go, let's go bright and let's go bright. And I

Jerry 21:16

Yeah,

Matt 21:17

what you've got in your head, what you're expecting, but it's, it's nice, but it's not gonna be.

Jerry 21:23

definitely. I wanna go for the gay bars. No, uh, I just, uh, I, I, I did hear that about Brighton. There's a ton of, ton of gay bars. Um.

Matt 21:31

a capital of England

Jerry 21:33

Yeah,

Matt 21:34

Hmm.

Jerry 21:34

that makes sense why you're there once a month. But what I would add is they also have a casino, from my understanding.

Matt 21:39

Probably. Yeah.

Jerry 21:41

Yeah. Yeah. And uh, it should, it has to, it's a, it's the seaside town

Matt 21:45

It's

Jerry 21:46

the uk.

Matt 21:46

Yeah. I mean

Jerry 21:47

Yeah.

Matt 21:48

there's, if you think of Seaside Towns, you've got Blackpool, that's another place you'd like to visit. That's, that's the

Jerry 21:53

Yeah.

Matt 21:53

we're talking, we circle background now. So the Vegas of the UK is

Jerry 21:58

Probably closer to Atlantic City. Maybe not Vegas, but, uh.

Matt 22:01

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. As, as someone that's been to Atlantic City, I'd say Blackpool's that you've got, you've got obviously new, the Cornish town is, is very

Jerry 22:08

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Matt 22:09

you've got Blackpool. They're the, they're the. sorry, Brighton. They're the three that you know are definitely on the map.

Jerry 22:15

New key seems more familial.

Matt 22:18

Yeah, yeah.

Jerry 22:21

Yeah.

Matt 22:21

Bournemouth as well. And he's Bourne. There are other places, but, uh, it seems that these sort of seaside towns, that's where they're very sort of, um, staggering head popular. when a bachelor bachelorette party, they tend to go to the seaside towns like Brighton, Blackpool, new key. Something about it. Those, you know, last days before you trapped is wanna see the sea. You wanna see the sea, don't you?

Jerry 22:46

Yeah, exactly.

Matt 22:48

Um, yeah. So we, we stayed off topic of TV shows. It was kind of a TV

Jerry 22:53

We, we, we did. We did. It's just whenever we get a chance to make fun of Brits, I just can't help myself. I think that's the issue.

Matt 23:00

yeah,

Jerry 23:00

Yeah.

Matt 23:01

And it's like.

Jerry 23:02

Yeah.

Matt 23:02

We allow it to happen. It's like when you, a, uh, you've got a niece or something and then they're a little slow and you see if they don't mind them laughing at you, you let them have a little Jeb. fine. We allow it.

Jerry 23:16

Oh goodness. But no, just, uh,

Matt 23:18

the good news is we can't get canceled because we're nobody's. So who's gonna

Jerry 23:21

that's right,

Matt 23:22

Yeah.

Jerry 23:23

that's right. Well, I was gonna say though, just kind of circling back to the TV shows, I find that, again, because of streaming services, I find a lot of these. Shows that are just not American being really popular with the younger generation. Right. Not just the Peppa pigs, but Australian. Right. If we look at Bluey, this house loves Bluey, and I'm pretty sure that you guys have watched Bluey as well.

Matt 23:47

Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely, you know, it's, it is a banging theme tune. I mean, that's what I like in a, if a program's got a great theme tune that's gonna bring me in.

Jerry 23:54

Right, right, right, right. So you, you're just, you're just jamming it in the car.

Matt 23:58

Can never hit the timing right. But it doesn't matter.

Jerry 24:00

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 24:02

Um.

Jerry 24:03

speaking, speaking of tunes and, and I, I should have asked you in the beginning of the call, uh, did you go to your, was it fourth or fifth Oasis concert last week?

Matt 24:12

it was third. Um, and

Jerry 24:14

It was the third. Okay.

Matt 24:16

uh,

Oasis concert again?

Matt 24:18

anyone that listening that's aware of Oasis, you understand they are probably the best band in the world. Um, so what I did

Jerry 24:25

That's an outrageous statement.

Matt 24:27

it's, it is a statement, but I think there's, there's gravitas

Jerry 24:29

It's a statement.

Matt 24:30

There's gravitas,

Jerry 24:31

That's fair.

Matt 24:32

Uh, so I went in hard this time. I made sure that I had a good sort of six, seven pipes before I even got to the venue. Um, then when I got there, I continued to drink because you

Jerry 24:43

Right.

Matt 24:43

awkward curve. And I made

Jerry 24:45

Of course.

Matt 24:45

around me knew I was drinking. So, you know the people to the left? Me?

Jerry 24:49

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 24:50

Yeah.

Jerry 24:50

What's, what's the point of drinking if everyone's not gonna know you're drinking? Yeah.

Matt 24:54

got to the point when the people in front of me, they turned around and they sort of questioned, uh, had I had enough to drink and I said, no, thank you. So I carried on.

Jerry 25:01

No thank you.

Matt 25:02

And they regret at that because then, you know, I had a target then it was, uh, some woman, and I said, I thought she was with her husband. I went, look, I'm, I'm sure you and your husband have a lovely time. And she went, oh, he, he's, he's not my husband, it's my, my best friend's husband. And I said, I reply to that was, am I a Coldplay concert? What's

Jerry 25:21

Exactly

Matt 25:24

she turned around?

Jerry 25:25

can.

Matt 25:26

yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of spread out. It's not just Coldplay, now it's moving to Oasis.

Jerry 25:31

That's right. Well, and just to confirm, this is your third Oasis concert. How many cover bands have you seen at various pubs?

Matt 25:43

Oh, uh, what not Oasis, just random cover bands.

Jerry 25:47

Yes. Oasis cover bands. Mm-hmm.

Matt 25:50

uh, only two. I saw one just before, so before I went to the Oasis, I went see Oasis cover band just before. Um, then I saw one at a festival, but I don't think I've actually ever seen an Oasis cover band.

Jerry 26:02

You, you also took me to one in Manchester.

Matt 26:05

No. No. So that was an Oasis themed bar. That wasn't an Oasis

Jerry 26:09

Ah,

Matt 26:09

band.

Jerry 26:10

I I thought the band was playing various Oasis songs.

Matt 26:13

I think they might have played, I think it's kind of a given, if you're there,

Jerry 26:15

Yes.

Matt 26:16

one or two Oasis songs, but they, they were playing other stuff as well, so it wasn't an Oasis cover band you know, and would buy a cover band. The singer would try and look like Liam Gaa and, and et cetera. That's just, they play some oasis there, are great. It's

Jerry 26:30

It.

Matt 26:30

maybe Great bar in Manchester. Check it out.

Jerry 26:33

Yeah, check it out. It's also, it's also for our, our, our gay listeners, it's a gay bar as well. 'cause there were literally only men at that bar.

Matt 26:43

Maybe they wouldn't like to sponsor us. I dunno. Either way. I think when we went in there, there wasn't a single woman in there, but it was

Jerry 26:49

There was not a single woman in there.

Matt 26:52

it was very much just men sing along to Oasis songs. But

Jerry 26:55

Correct. And they were hugging.

Matt 26:58

you have to, if you don't have your arm around someone in Oasis concert or Oasis setting, are you really there? I, I don't, I,

Jerry 27:05

That's That's fair. That's fair.

Matt 27:07

Yeah,

Jerry 27:07

fair. It brings the crowd together.

Matt 27:09

it does. So when you go to your bad bunny concerts and they're not

Jerry 27:13

Yes. Yes.

Matt 27:13

hugging and singing,

Jerry 27:15

There's dancing, quite a bit of dancing. So dancing with your partner or you know, if you're by yourself or just with friends. Maybe you're a random person, right? A lot of dancing.

Matt 27:24

at a concert? Here though, let's be honest.

Jerry 27:27

Oh, a bad bunny concert. You'll see some solos.

Matt 27:29

Ready?

Cinemas

Jerry 27:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Matt 27:32

done a solo concert.

Jerry 27:33

I

Matt 27:34

it was, it's only recently I've done solo cinema and I dunno why it took me so long to do solo cinema, but I've never done solo concert yet.

Jerry 27:40

What, uh, what kind of movie theater was it?

Matt 27:45

You know the

Jerry 27:45

And did you? And did, and did you walk in with a trench coat and nothing underneath?

Matt 27:51

The standard cinema trench coat paid my mission. You know, uh, a lot of men there masturbating, just standard cinema.

Jerry 27:58

Yeah. Like on a scale of one to 10, how sticky were the seats?

Matt 28:01

Uh, yeah, I'm gonna say it, it it, I probably got banned. It was, I didn't realize I, I misread the film of Despicable Me. I thought it was a different sort of film. So I got asked to leave. Uh, they should have made it clear by what Despicable Me meant. So

Jerry 28:17

Right, right, right.

Matt 28:18

them. Yeah. There's a lot of kids around.

Jerry 28:22

That, that is just, just given sort of the dark themes, not even the dark themes, but just the very pragmatic themes and sort of the guilt trips of British culture. That's a proper poor name, despicable me for a UK porn film.

Matt 28:37

Yeah. Especially 'cause it just gives it like spic me for, you're like, okay. So it's obviously a series now

Jerry 28:41

Yeah, well, it, it'll probably end at three series, but that's it.

Matt 28:46

Yeah. Yeah. Unlike backdoor slots nine now that's, that's just going and going, isn't it?

Jerry 28:52

Now that, that.

Matt 28:54

I need to know, if I haven't seen one to eight, will I understand nine?

Jerry 28:59

Boy, I don't think so. I think you should really watch, sit down with the wife and, uh, just kind of get to know the characters.

Matt 29:05

Or is it like, are they different trilogies, like different Star Wars? There's nine Star Wars films and that's broken down to three triages. Is it broken down? Like that one's a prequel maybe. I dunno.

Jerry 29:15

Yeah. I don't know how much of this we're going to utilize, uh, but I feel like my so, so I'll still say it. I feel like,

Matt 29:24

it?

Jerry 29:24

yeah. Yeah. So I. I had the internet, uh, in my younger years readily available.

Matt 29:33

Yeah. I didn't grow

Jerry 29:33

So I wasn't, so, yeah, so I wasn't, you know, like just watching something like a different series on a, on A-V-H-S-I

Matt 29:47

Not for

Jerry 29:47

was sorted. Like were, were, were you buying magazines?

Matt 29:50

No,

Jerry 29:53

I'm gonna go ahead and think Yes, either way, but.

Matt 29:56

yeah. Yeah.

Jerry 29:58

No, no, probably, maybe,

Matt 30:00

reader's stories. Nothing. Nothing beats it. Does

Jerry 30:02

nah. I'm assuming it was like National Geographics or something.

Matt 30:08

Yeah. Smash it.

Jerry 30:09

Yeah,

Matt 30:11

Again, I dunno if you have smashes, but that probably sounds like that sort of magazine to you, doesn't it?

Jerry 30:16

it does. It does.

Matt 30:19

Did you? I'll take it. They're like, pop music magazine smashes very big in the nineties. Every week you get it. And every week there'd be a a section there where it'd have some current songs and it'd have the lyrics printed out. And that was the only way you could find out the lyrics to songs back then. Now you got on the internet and you, you find out I lost the lyrics to this song, but you had to wait. Was it in smash sheets that week? Yes. Now I finally know the lyrics too. Uh, spice Girls wanna be Get in.

Jerry 30:42

Yeah, without, again, the internet has just made everything so accessible. So backdoor sluts nine, just May. Maybe we should, maybe we should host a party where we played some O where we play some older films.

Matt 30:56

so you might have those sort of parties where you live with, but they're not something I partake in. Maybe people come and.

Jerry 31:02

I was, I can go to the cinema that you frequent.

Matt 31:06

Yeah. Don't, I'm banned now I need to know, um, dear Backdoor, sluts nine. Obviously it's American 'cause it's gone on to the ninth one. Did it wrap up on the last one?

Jerry 31:16

I am not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not into sluts. It's not, it's not my thing, you know,

Matt 31:23

It's not the anal, it's just the sluts.

Jerry 31:25

I, I'm more of a front door kind of guy, you know, I'm, I'm a gentleman.

Matt 31:29

Front door respectable people four.

Jerry 31:33

Yeah.

Matt 31:34

that sounds very

Jerry 31:35

Man.

Matt 31:36

it?

Jerry 31:36

This podcast has really taken a turn.

Matt 31:38

Yeah. Yeah. It's gone dark quickly, isn't it? Hmm.

Jerry 31:43

I think this is what happens when we go beyond the 20 minute mark. We just start going off the rails.

Matt 31:47

Yeah. People will see from now on episode lengths of 10 minutes, just a quick, you

Jerry 31:51

Yeah, exactly.

Matt 31:53

Okay. Well, I think we've hit 30 minutes and I think

Jerry 31:55

Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 31:56

before we get arrested or or other, we should probably this up.

Jerry 32:02

That's right.

Matt 32:02

see you next time. And just a

Jerry 32:05

We shall, uh, see you soon.

Matt 32:06

I'm gonna do some admin on the, on the call. Jerry, don't forget when I stop recording, can you not leave? 'cause it will delete your

Jerry 32:12

Oh, that's right. Yes, that would be helpful. You know what? Lemme get the fuck outta here. All right.

Matt 32:17

alright. Catch you next time.

Jerry 32:18

Alright. Cheers.

Matt 32:19

Right?