Do We Love ... Australia

Australia is the one blank spot on our listener map, and we’re taking it personally. So we kick off with a cultural landmine that made us laugh out loud: in the US, “rooting for you” is pure encouragement, but in Australia it can mean something way more committed. From there we lean into the real reason we want Aussie listeners so badly, we genuinely like your culture, your humor, and your chaotic way with words.

We bounce from Crocodile Dundee nostalgia to the Australians who’ve been on our screens forever, then turn a slang list into a game. If you’ve ever wondered what people mean by brekkie, Bottle-O, Maccas, sunnies, esky, mozzie, ute, tucker, or cuppa, we translate it in real time and react exactly the way you think two American women would. We also shout out an Australian YouTube trio that cracks us up, get weirdly fascinated by marsupials and kangaroo pouches, and swap a story about trying kangaroo meat and not wanting to admit it tasted amazing.

Then we pivot to the cozy side of Australia with Bluey, why it feels so calming, and how a kids’ show can quietly win over adults. We wrap with geography-themed listener questions, including which country seems the rudest, whether we believe in the Bermuda Triangle, and which US state could survive as its own country, plus one last nudge for Australia to finally hit play. If you laughed, share this with an Aussie friend, subscribe, and leave us a review so we can keep chasing that 100%.

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Transcript

Why Australia Is Missing

Heather 0:00

Hey, welcome back to episode 27. 27. Love it. Do we love that for you? Do we? Well, we're gonna find out today. Okay. I'm not gonna give the title out yet. I'm gonna give a hint. You ready? Yes. Go ahead. In America, rooting for you means I'm cheering you on. In this country, apparently, it means something much more committed. So in that country, I am not rooting. I am cheering for you. Oof. What country am I? Oh, I know. I know. Do you guys know? So rooting for you in this country, rooting in this country means having sex. I love it.

Zia 0:55

So we want to root a lot.

Heather 0:58

I want to root. Yeah. Um, no, I am talking about do we love Australia? So we have been cheering and so excited about a number of listens over the time.

Zia 1:17

Absolutely.

Heather 1:18

And in our app in Buzzfeed, it tells you where everybody listens from. It gives the general city and it gives the country. Absolutely. There is a stat on there and it shows every country. And we are at 90%. We are missing one country. And I don't mean country. I think it, I think it generally means continent. Yeah, continent. Yeah. But it calls it countries. But the one we are missing is Australia.

Zia 1:50

Yeah. I mean, we're internationally known, except for Australia.

Heather 1:55

Australia doesn't know who we are. So we are gonna let them know who we are today.

Zia 2:00

If you got any buddies out there, tell them please give us one listen at least. One.

Heather 2:06

And then we will have 100% of all.

Zia 2:10

That's it. That's all we want. It's like on our bingo card, didn't they say? It's like our that is one of the that is one of the other ones.

Heather 2:17

No, I I like the other quote, which I'll let you read later. You want me to read that one? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. So the other one we came up with was good day, Australia. G'day, Mike. G'day, Mike. We have listeners on every continent except yours.

Zia 2:34

Except yours, yeah.

Heather 2:36

And frankly, that feels dodgy. That's another one of their words. Very dodgy.

Zia 2:41

We are not here to fuck spiders. No, no fucking spiders.

Heather 2:45

No fucking spiders. We just need one brave mate. Mate. Yep. One brave mate to listen to this bloody podcast. Yep. So we can complete our map. Don't be a drungo. Oh yeah. Help two American women with analytic-based abandonment issues. Yes. I love that. I love that.

Zia 3:12

Are we feeling abandoned by Australia? I I think I think we are. I just like too many things from Australia that

Crocodile Dundee Childhood Obsession

Zia 3:20

we didn't know that until we started researching. Yeah, well, the problem with me was that um so when I saw Crocodile Dundee when I was younger, it hit me so hard. I was like, who is this guy? Where's he from? You know, I mean, you're we were we were younger, we didn't have the internet, okay? So we're whatever's on the TV or a movie, that's what you get exposed to.

Heather 3:47

Exactly.

Zia 3:48

Um, magazines that were huge, right? That that was another one. So I here I am watching Crocodile Dundee, and I took that to another level. I think my parents were actually scared that I was going to, I don't know, go to Australia. I don't know. Um, so my favorite line from that whole entire series of movies was, you know, when he pulled out that knife and he's like, you know, the guy was trying to get him in New York City, and he's like, that's not a knife, this is a knife. And I was like, I collect knives. This is beautiful. I I mean, I I don't know a bigger, a better line, okay? Um, I went so far as to I had cockatails, and I had each one, I have three cockatails when I was little, and each one of those birds were named Dundee. So you had Dundee one, Dundee two, Dundee three. And I tell you, I it was it was a little bit of an obsession for a while to uh be with uh crocodile dundee movies. Yep, yep. You would not think the heavy metal girl would have gone that way, but man, that movie just sucked me right in. Yep, yeah, yep. So go ahead. Um, yeah, so like, and then you know, Zachariah started with you know, Wolverine. Everything was Wolverine, Wolverine, you know, cartoons, we tried to expose them to X-Men, everything. Why, why does that not surprise me? I know, I know. Um, and you know, he Hugh Jackman started playing Wolverine. We all love Hugh Jackman, yeah, definitely an Australian there, so yeah, it was like the the family is hooked on the Australians, but they don't like our podcast.

Famous Australians We Grew Up With

Heather 5:50

So there's other people who are famous from Australia, yes, absolutely. I mean, you got the Hemsworth brothers, yeah, yep.

Zia 6:00

You got Logger was he was Russell Crowe.

Heather 6:05

I remember back when he was uh yeah epic. I mean, he's still epic, but you know.

Zia 6:11

Yep, yep, absolutely. Nicole Kidman. Yep, Margot Ravi.

Heather 6:17

Yeah. Yeah. Who else? Uh Kate Blanchett.

Zia 6:21

Okay. Um Naomi Watts. Yeah.

Heather 6:28

You know who we don't have on there? Oh. Is um, okay, I'm gonna describe this guy, and it's gonna come to me in my description, but it's the guy who died from the stingray. The nature guy.

Zia 6:42

Jeez, you know, we should have. How did we forget him? I know, I know. And the the kids are taking on his business. I know. It's like, uh, why did we not do that?

Heather 6:53

Why why did we skip him? Who is he? Steve Erwin.

Zia 6:57

Steven. There it is.

Heather 6:58

Yep, there it is.

Zia 7:00

Yep, yeah, yeah. Shout out to him too. That was so sad. So

Rapid Fire Australian Slang Quiz

Zia 7:06

sad. So do you have the slang sheet up? I I don't because I told you to surprise me. Okay, yeah. So let's do some. You ready? Go ahead.

Heather 7:18

I'ma say the word and you tell me what it means.

Zia 7:21

Okay.

Heather 7:22

Good day.

Zia 7:24

Hello or greeting. Yeah. Okay. Yay. Mate. My buddy, my friend, like you, you know, your mommy. All right, here's a here's a weird one. Brecki. Oh, was that the breakfast? You told me that one. I did. I actually had some brecki this morning.

Heather 7:46

I had brecky too. I had an English muffin. Oh, I should add an Australian muffin. Oh, yeah, not an English muffin. Damn it. Um, all right, here's one I didn't tell you about Bottle O.

Zia 8:00

Oh man. Is that like a bottle? It sounds like a bottle. I don't know.

Heather 8:06

Liquor store.

Zia 8:07

Oh, bottle o. Yeah.

Heather 8:10

I'm gonna go to XN9 Bottle O.

Zia 8:12

Yeah, I love it.

Heather 8:14

Um, oh, here's your favorite, Maccas.

Zia 8:18

Oh, what was that McDonald's? Yes. Yes, I remember that one.

Heather 8:22

No, that's for Angela. Because she's been dying for Angela at your work. Yes, yes, she's been watching. She's been dying for Maccas. Yes, yes.

Zia 8:32

I wonder if she got any.

Heather 8:34

She did. She posted it on Facebook. Awesome. She did.

Zia 8:38

Um, Sonnies. Um, hold on. I feel like I feel like I've heard this in something. Are they sandals? No, I don't know. Go ahead. Sunglasses. Oh, sunglasses. Okay.

Heather 8:57

I feel like it was something else. Go ahead. Okay, I gotta do, I gotta do this one because it just doesn't even make sense. Well, a couple of them here really don't make sense. Mozzie. Mozzie is a mosquito. You never would have got it. I'm just gonna tell you. Oh no. Alright, you ready? Here's another one that we would never get. Eskey. Go ahead. Cooler. Oh. Um all right, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a they're two different ones, but they kinda go together. Okay. Ute or ootie. Ute or ute. U te u te. I don't know. As a pickup truck. Oh. But here's uh here's one that's gonna confuse us. A tucker. A truck? It's food. Tucker? Tucker.

Zia 10:02

So I would need some tucker. Does a you need some tucker. Got it. But if you want that with like sleep or something, I'm tuckered out.

Heather 10:10

You would I would tucker it out, yeah. No, it's food. So do you want a cup of coffee?

Zia 10:15

Yes, please.

Heather 10:17

You want a cuppa?

Zia 10:18

Oh, a cuppa. Yeah, that's English too. That's the cocky accent.

Heather 10:24

All right, let's uh go to the next page. Um knackered, of course, is sleepy. Um okay, after you have your kappa, I hope you're not stuffed. Tired or broken? Oh. Yeah. I have a yarn. Go ahead. I have to tell you a story. I want to chat. Oh, like tea. Like our tea. Yeah, tea for them though means supper.

Zia 11:09

Oh. Well, I would not have a a lot of tea for you then.

Heather 11:18

I'm taking a piss. I don't know.

Zia 11:23

I don't know. Joking. Joking. Oh man, I piss all the time then. I I'm just full of piss. Full of piss. I like these. Um, let's see. This is why I love crocodile dundee. No. Oh, do you stuff around at work? I hope not. Go ahead. I hope not too. That would be waste time. Oh no, I do not. I do not stuff around at work. Um, all right, let's see. I gotta find another good one.

Heather 12:02

Um she'll be right. Oh, what's that? It's okay. Oh no. No, that means we're right. I I'm I'm very right, exactly. Yeah. Um crinky? Crinky. Oh, what's that? No? Crikey? I guess it's crikey, yeah.

Zia 12:28

Crikey. That's what uh Dundee Dundee. Well, surprise that too. Oh, surprise. Okay. Yeah, I believe that Dundee said that too in the thing. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

Heather 12:39

All right, so here's some spicy ones.

Zia 12:42

Oh.

Heather 12:44

Um, bloody, obviously. Yeah, but it's an emphasis. It doesn't mean like it's not an actual curse, it's emphasis.

Zia 12:52

Yeah, so a lot of the ones that you were telling me were also like the English cockney expressions. Yes. So yeah.

Heather 13:01

Because they always say the bloody thing. Oh wait, I forgot one. Crook. Oh, what's that? Sick or dishonest. Yeah, that's what our crooks are. So if you stuff around when you're crooked, you're not gonna be having any tea. No. No tea. Mm-mm. Oh my god. A bastard is just a person.

Zia 13:34

Yeah.

Heather 13:37

Piss off, go away. Yeah.

Zia 13:40

Piss like that's why drunk. I thought that um Ricky Jarvais uses a lot of these. He always says piss off. Oh no, you know who uses piss off? It's not Ricky Jarvaise. It's Gordon Ramsay. He goes, puss off.

Heather 13:58

Piss off. All right, here's a saying, you ready? Oh god, go ahead. Dry as a dead dingo's donger. Oh, I like it. Very dry, like useful for weather humor or somebody's personality.

Zia 14:15

Ah all right.

Heather 14:17

Dingo's donger. Love it. Dingo's donger. Couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery. Oh. We couldn't organize something. It was very incompetent. Oh. I like that. Mad as a cut snake. Oh.

Zia 14:38

Wild, crazy angry. Oh, I I am that all the time.

Heather 14:43

So mad as a cut snake. Mad as a cut snake. Flat out like a lizard drinking.

Zia 14:51

Oh. Like, is that like a blunt statement?

Heather 14:56

Or not even.

Zia 14:58

Oh god, what is it?

Heather 14:59

Very busy.

Zia 15:02

What? I'm reading. I would I would have thought that that would be like, you know, you ain't doing nothing.

Heather 15:11

You would think. Oh man. Alright, so here's I got a lot to learn if I'm going to Australia. Here's the dirties. We are not here to fuck spiders.

Zia 15:23

Yeah. We're not here to waste time. That's crazy.

Heather 15:28

And then the C-U-N-T word. Yeah. That means a whole bunch of different things. Love it. It's extremely context dependent. Like if you're mad, it'd be wildly impressive. If you're sick, you'd be like you're so cool. Like they mean sick as in, like, yeah.

Zia 15:47

So I think if you guys want to know how that's used, just go watch the boys. And just watch The Butcher. Butcher says it that all the time. Yep.

Heather 15:58

Yeah. There's yeah, I have I have all of that. Mad, sick, dog shit, and good.

Zia 16:04

Yep.

Heather 16:05

And the first word means what it means.

Zia 16:08

So love it.

Heather 16:10

Yeah.

Zia 16:10

So that's amazing. I love it. I love it.

Heather 16:13

Yeah, that's I mean, I have other ones on there, but I'm not gonna read the entire list. But no, that's all some of these are so funny.

Zia 16:19

I love it. I like the you know, the bug spiders. That's great. That's not good. Yeah, let's not do that. I think we're gonna have to implement that somewhere. Yeah, I mean, I love my spiders, but man, I don't know if that I don't

The Hilarious Aussie YouTube Guys

Zia 16:35

know.

Heather 16:35

So so when we started talking about Australia, yeah, it occurred to me that Rich and I follow this YouTube channel. Okay, and it's three guys who have clearly been friends for a long, long, long time.

Zia 16:52

Yeah.

Heather 16:53

And it's how ridiculous. And they're huge now, but they're from Australia, and they started off like their first couple of videos that we watched when we saw them, they were already big. Okay. Now they're like all grown with like married and kids of their own and all that crazy. But they are epically hysterical. So they go by their last name. So it's Stanford, Heron, and Gone Gonston. Gonson.

Zia 17:23

Gonson. Okay.

Heather 17:25

Gonson. And they have this little um plastic or stuffed, never sure what it is.

Zia 17:33

Yeah.

Heather 17:34

T-Rex doll.

Zia 17:35

Okay.

Heather 17:36

That they do all these crazy um things with. I think I sent you a video of them using a thing, uh, it was a mouse trap, I think, was their latest video.

Zia 17:47

You sent me um, you sent me two, and I did watch them this morning. Um it's the one with the um arrow going through all the things.

Heather 17:59

Oh yeah. So catapult, like I don't know. Yeah, they have like a cat, yeah. They do a lot of catapults. Yeah. Um, but a lot of times they'll put Rexy. The name of the T-Rex is Rexy. They'll put Rexy like on one, or like if they're dropping something, they'll have Rexy there to see if they can make Rexy bounce or whatever. And then the second one I sent you was them jumping on the little trampolines with balloons.

Zia 18:23

Yeah, that I was like, oh my god, that could be so dangerous. Cause like, what if one top? Kind of like our version of Jackass, like we said.

Heather 18:33

Only these are three guys doing it on YouTube. And I mean, they're hysterical. We love them.

Zia 18:39

If you guys want to check them out, we do.

Heather 18:41

Oh, yeah, there's I love them.

Zia 18:42

Yep, we will tag them.

Heather 18:44

Um, I have this over in the um five minute loves, but I think we should talk about it now.

Zia 18:50

Okay,

Marsupials And Kangaroo On The Menu

Zia 18:51

go ahead. The marsupials. Oh, let's talk about them.

Heather 18:55

Let's talk about marsupials. Yep. They're interesting.

Zia 19:00

Do yeah, like they have their little little pouches.

Heather 19:06

You know?

Zia 19:07

Oh.

Heather 19:07

And and what weirds me out is that the the Joey just climbs in and out. Yeah. Like as it pleases. Yep.

Zia 19:15

Like and and they're not small when they're doing that. No. Yeah. Yeah. No, they're not. So tell you though, I would not want to get in a fight with one of those big muscly. Oh no, hold on. Oh my gosh.

Heather 19:33

There. And she'll kick you with the baby in her pouch. She don't care. Absolutely. Probably even harder. That baby gets in there and holds on. Yeah. He's not going. Oh, excuse me. He's not going anywhere.

Zia 19:45

Nope.

Heather 19:46

But would you want to be one?

Zia 19:49

Um, well, there are situations I probably could have used that. Um, yeah, yeah. Uh I don't know, man. That's I mean, to have the muscly build and you don't have to work out, why not? Yeah. I mean, they're built, man. They look like whips. They're lifting, they look like they're lifting some heavy duty armor. Yeah, I want to know what gym they're going to. Yeah, absolutely. It's Australia. Australia's gym they're going to.

Heather 20:26

Yep. And then I feel like sometimes we were more soupies because you know the kids would just climb on you.

Zia 20:33

Yeah. Well, I do have to say, when we went to Aruba, um, one of the restaurants we we decided to eat at did give uh the meal of kangaroo. So I have eaten kangaroo.

Heather 20:49

Oh, I have never.

Zia 20:50

Yeah, so I didn't want to because I do like the little kangaroos, okay? And um, since the babies are called Joey's, my favorite one of my favorite uncles was Uncle Joey. So I was like, I don't know about this, guys. I don't know. So I think it was only Zach and Leon that had the kangaroo. Okay. Okay, I will try a little piece. I let me just try a little piece because I'm thinking it's probably really tough meat because of the muscles and stuff, you know? So I they they shared a piece with me, and I was like, my head clicked, and I was like, damn it, it's so good. It was so delicious. So I was like, I like I really don't want to say I like this, but I love it. And so they gave me a little bigger piece, and I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, Joey's. It's like the that was just so good. And might have been just the way the restaurant prepared it, but it I didn't seem like there was anything special about it. Um, just like a steak cooked, and they're dropping it on your plate kind of thing. So yeah, it was very good. I mean that day I think we had a Scorpio. Scorpion. We did the scorpion shot at one place and then we ate at the other. So we were eating exotic animals that day. Like we were we were all about the animal eating of yes the weird things. Yep. Okay.

Heather 22:23

Yeah. All right. So yeah. I don't I've never had it. I don't know that I would want to eat it.

Zia 22:30

Yeah.

Heather 22:30

But honestly, you know who would eat it? Eliza.

Zia 22:34

Yeah.

Heather 22:35

Yeah. I mean it just all about trying

Australia On The Map And Travel Dreams

Heather 22:37

the new stuff.

Zia 22:37

Yeah. We had an ostrich. We had, you know, when we were in Virginia, they always had like these uh bears um you know down by the docks and stuff and we they always had the alligator and you know so we always had the kids trying all these different things you know yeah yep so another thing yeah do you know Australia really they only live on the coast there's like nobody who lives like in the middle of the country wow really I feel like we can be productive too though I don't I don't know I don't know that's a very interesting now that I'm looking well so I guess Australia was kind of like on my radar all the time because my family's from Indonesia. So it's right there. So as you look at Australia there's Indonesia. Indonesia's peeking over it yeah so it I guess you know I was always like what is that you know what are those no um and it was always Australia and um I guess you know it was never off my radar so I guess subconsciously when Crocodile Dundee did come out it was like oh yeah Australia yeah so they only live it looks like they only live on the east and then the east the east the southeast the very southwest and then the very northeast okay so interesting very interesting and then I believe Tasmania is part of Australia isn't it oh please don't hit me with all the geography this way dear God let's go science science yeah yeah I don't know dumb facts I can you know let you know about but not not not the solid facts we need like Zachariah or you know uh you know Alex to do these things yes yeah so do you want to go to Australia?

Heather 24:45

I would like to see Australia I really would um most definitely yeah yeah I'd go have to dig out my uh crocodile dundee hat I did buy one of those when I was younger also so yeah that's funny I was dead into this I believe a girl in Eliza's class her older sister went to college in Australia oh wow I feel like that's something I remember oh that's awesome yeah yeah very cool I remember I don't know if she did like all our college or if she did a semester or a year I don't I don't know what she did but I remember she went she went to most things very cool stuff so oh so cool yeah this was fun um Australia listen to us yeah please we're gonna tag a few things but if anyone knows anyone from Australia please let them know we would love to have them as a fan and have them listen to us we are funny I mean I feel like Australia quite funny I think we're quite funny yep but all right I'm gonna write down our fake time oh fake time go ahead love it 26 you want to do oh eight yeah sure we can't do eight it did eight to twenty okay go ahead oh 20 okay 20 20 yeah what is wrong with us so many things so many things oh my god excuse me oh my goodness so my grandchildren yes we're always watching blowy blah blah blah bluey yeah so I follow I follow um I follow a uh they're not tick tock well I'm sure they're on TikTok but I follow them on uh Instagram reels and their dogs love bluey yeah I who doesn't love bluey who nobody do you I know I do like bluey I love bluey too yeah I like bluey I don't turn bluey on but if if I'm there and your kid or dog is watching bluey I won't not watch it I'll join them but but why what is so cool about bluey I don't under oh I'm I'm thinking very simple not a lot of noise ever um it does calm my mind because they're just talking there's not a lot of stuff going on um not a lot of screaming yelling you know the parents are talking children are listening lessons are being told yes yep all right yep that's my take on it all right I'll buy it like I said I'm not I'm not a big bluey um I have a friend and her and her

Why Bluey Feels So Calming

Heather 27:50

daughter her daughter's now 13 but this was probably even a year or two ago yeah they were watching Bluey yep like that was like her car thing she would get in the car and put on the cell phone on a Bluey episode.

Zia 28:02

Yeah yeah I was like okay uh sure sure that works yeah maybe I'll maybe I'll watch it I have to fly in a couple days in a week or so yeah I mean I like it because they always like there's an episode where they're doing a I shouldn't know this but there is an episode where when they do pass the parcel right okay do you remember we you go to a birthday party they get this like little gift and you keep passing it it's usually like play-doh when we were younger the mother would wrap it up and you pass it around and music stops you get the present right yeah and so one of the dads got upset because what they were doing was pass the parcel turned into a gift wrapped into a gift wrapped into a bigger gift to a bigger gift so as the music stopped the kids were unwrapping and they'd get a bracelet or then they'd get like a tiny little thing and then the last person it stops on gets the bigger prize. Okay.

Heather 29:05

So one of the dads got upset and Bluey's dad said to him it's not like it's the 80s so I owe it that kind of stuck out in my mind because I was like that is true because with us we'd play maybe parents would get two things we'd play it for a while you think you were gonna get the gift and they were like sorry we're playing again so start the music again you think you got it you're not getting it you know you're out of love start over yeah that's so that that one just stuck out in my mind because he's like oh my god it's not like it's the 80s anymore it's not the 80s not everybody can win a prize you know because everybody was winning a prize yeah right yep yeah I love that yep go ahead so this week I put on social media our five minute loves like I'm trying to do every week yes and I said let's make it a theme just because I wanted to see and surprisingly we got a bunch of responses and I'm so excited so our theme was

Geography Prompts From Social Media

Heather 30:16

geography.

Zia 30:17

Geography yep so go ahead I know you want to get this one so this one came from Zach uh what country has the rudest people and again we're speaking not in complete generals of the entire country no no no we are neutral territory over here we're like Sweden no oh Sweden no Sweden you like Swedish people now only no sorry um yeah so I had a feeling that my son put this up because he just knows and I had my general surmise was the French people the French okay and I will tell you why I tell me and I and I'm and I'm separating French Canadian people okay France okay because I feel like that's two different even though you know we may have migrated whatever whatever's happening I I'm separating French Canadian because I do I do my daughter in law's family's French Canadian okay I have no problems right okay when I am dealing when I am dealing with someone or when I have dealt with someone directly from France it has not been a positive experience ever. And I don't know why ever. I've not like immediately they'll be like you know oh I come over from France or whatever accent I can't even do the accent and and I can do pretty much all the accents you know I can um the only thing at least right I I mean and the only thing I can get from that accent is oh that's it that's all I got anyway we were in Egypt and uh the people weren't even speaking so I didn't even know where they were from they were just like looking at each other nudging each other kind of knowing what like you know you and I we go out we can do that too. Yeah so they had big huge backpacks on their back okay and this is just one example because it's the nicest example I could bring up um they had the they had the backpacks on they kept hitting us turning talking like not talking but nudging and hitting us with the backpacks in front of us in line to go into the pyramid or the tomb and all of a sudden they made this and I just looked at Michael and I'm like oh my god what is happening where are they from what's going on and I didn't want to put it in my head that they were from France. I was like you know whatever it's Egypt everybody's here from everywhere and so all of a sudden they came up with a plan somehow not talking to each other and the French came out and they decided to go down the up okay where everybody was walking up from seeing what we were waiting in line for okay they decided we're skipping the line and we're just not waiting and we're gonna go down this way. That's what we're gonna do. So there they start speaking French and I just looked at Michael and Michael was like please don't say it please don't say it just shut up and they got out of line after like after like 45 minutes of them hitting us with the backpacks okay they get out of line and everybody was annoyed they're like where do you guys think you're going you know we're right we're waiting here for a while get down here started walking down and I'd say about because it's it's a long walk down in this tomb. They get escorted back I think and they're yelling and screaming and then some English came out like we didn't get to see it they get to see yeah because you can't see it now you went the wrong way so they're walking back and I just stared at Michael and he was like please don't have the thoughts come out of Zia's mouth so I just and I'm like I knew it I freaking knew it I just knew it from past experiences I just knew it and that's a nice version of something you know that had happened or it was like you know um we a little thing we went to um las vegas last year and or no actually I'm sorry it was this year we went to see the Michael Jackson show you did and we got on we got on the little tram to go back and you know it takes a couple minutes people get on and this uh gentleman was standing there very annoyed about the whole situation didn't speak just was like very standing sitting standing sitting standing and I was like oh my god is he gonna take us out because like what are you doing dude and the wife was asking questions she's like is this the tram to blah blah blah does this go here does it get there and the lady was like no this only goes and stops at one stop and the other one on the other side that goes to the different stops so she speaks French to her husband that I was like are you gonna take us out or what are you doing because you're making me nervous so so nervous and he was like whatever he said in French and I and I I just looked at Michael and he's like because I was like oh my god this man needs to sit down because like I don't know what he's doing and you know me I'm always on guard and well yeah he starts looking talking French to his wife and then all of a sudden I looked at Michael and he's like please don't say the words I can read them all over your face please don't say the words and I was like I knew it I just knew it again I knew it it's just a certain mannerism I think that I pick up right and one would have thought my my own mother my real natural mother would have been French because she put off those tears too and she had no French in her no French in her nothing nothing none yes yes that would have made me French but I'm like this is so my mother like my mother could have been French my mother could have been a French person so what do you think after that long rant um the only I mean I feel lame but the only other country I've ever been to is Canada okay so I can tell you who I think is rude in the States yeah well I've never been to France and never will I go can I still eat like baguettes and and I love croissant colors and stuff I mean I love the croissant I love it can I eat the French fries which really weren't made in France but they're called them okay I love the things I love the things um I think France has the stigma of being the rudest yeah yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with that as my answer. Okay. But I love your answer. I think I'm gonna stick with that because I don't know I've never been anywhere but Canada and Mexico but Germ German Germany gets a rap that they're rude to because I guess they just you know they personify their voice their words come out harsh. So my son Zach speaks German he can speak German um and a lot of the words are but a lot of the words are a lot like Dutch and my grandfather used to speak Dutch and you know he could be saying hello to you in a very nice way or something nice about your outfit yeah I was very scared that my outfit was offending him yes yes and it wasn't he was like it's so cute you know and I was like whatever I

Do We Believe In The Bermuda Triangle

Zia 38:42

I didn't know that. Yep. Yeah so yeah it's not the language it's I guess right the added because the language sounds bad yeah I don't know yeah I don't know yeah so but that was a good one good one um Nicole asked us do we believe in the Bermuda triangle I am a survivor never bought the shirt but survivor no I I don't I don't I don't I I I I got nothing I I truly you you silenced me I got nothing as I normally do I got nothing my my mom joyce always wanted to go to Bermuda so we spent tons of summers in Bermuda around her birthday that was not hurricane season um and accurately placed the trip as my for my mother's birthday okay um I was way too young to be on a fancy ship like that um but I had to do all the adult fancy things um we used to go on the Doric and um Holland American line I should say those ships that's what we used to go on. And uh yeah I would you know for a while you're little you don't know nobody's telling you about the Bermuda triangle you see the shirts I survived the Bermuda triangle you know what does that mean you get older and you're like holy shit how many times have I gone through the Bermuda Triangle right say they go around the Bermuda triangle but do they do they do they I don't know I don't know so yeah I believe in it yep saw too many documentaries on it oh yeah tons of documentaries Eliza and one of her cousins and my parents her grandparents their grandparents took the girls on a cruise to Bermuda and it was you know drive drive drive out on the boat no two you know a day or two at sea and then two days in Bermuda and then a day or two home. Yeah and they did a glass bottom boat oh yeah for the Bermuda triangle so Eliza's been there so Eliza's a survivor too I don't think she came home with a t-shirt but no no no it wasn't a thing you know it wouldn't have gone with any of my outfits I can't believe my mom would be Eliza's not a graphic tea person.

Heather 41:19

Yeah my mom would have never allowed me to wear that anywhere at all ever unless it was pink maybe if it was pink she would have I need to get you a pink one then no please don't please God please don't I have to no I will dye it somehow black well Rich said that to me this morning because I'm in I'm in the black sweatshirt that you can see and then I'm also in black leggings. Yeah because it was chilling it's like it's like 50 degrees in here today.

Zia 41:47

I'm in blue are you no I'm in all black and he goes oh you're taking after Zia and I'm like yep yep and I I'm taking after Heather today I have blue on black Two blue pants yes blue all right all right you want to hit the last one sure um this was from Kate and she said which uh US state would survive best if it became its own country so I gotta say Jersey man well I mean Jersey baby um but did you know that Texas has been trying to leave the country for a bajillion years yeah so honest are Texas because yeah I don't know why they haven't been able to leave yet but yeah I mean they don't get the votes but yeah they've been trying to go forever.

Which State Could Go Solo

Heather 42:39

Um but they are pretty big so I don't know if like size is uh I don't know that it's size would matter it's how you use it not the size not the floors um no but I mean I feel like Texas has a little bit of everything it has the city it has the water it has country it has true deserty it has mountainy well it doesn't have mountains but it has yeah high hills so I feel like Texas could easily do it. Um I think besides Jersey because obviously Jersey is the number one answer but I think I think New England as a whole could yeah yep sectioned off like by threats right yeah like like all of New England you know I feel like they could do their own thing like they could be their own country.

Zia 43:34

Yep yeah it's very odd I mean I don't I think you'd have to it to do that I feel like you would have to think about all the resources.

Heather 43:46

Yeah um you would need it you would need to have a little bit of everything. Yes yes all the different yeah and and honestly the the New England not making it would be because of the climate. Yeah. Yep. Because we wouldn't be able to sustain ourselves. Yeah. I don't know that we would be able to produce enough food. True.

Zia 44:06

True.

Heather 44:07

Although they have greenhouses now, so you can.

Zia 44:09

Yeah. Yeah. But still, it's like, what happens when that goes down? You know, it's like all those uh sci-fi shows where they're building a dome over some part of the world so people can survive and you

Sinkholes To 10,000 BC And Wrap

Zia 44:23

know live. Um, we're actually watching a show and we're torturously watching the show. Um, it was good in the beginning, and then all of a sudden we're just like with the the acting and a couple of like, you know, we always say from a few things got bad. What was uh was the huge zombie show, uh Walking Dead? Walking Dead. Yeah, like you know, we're always like Carl, stay in the house, Carl. You know, there's always those actors that don't listen, like Carl in that show. And it's like, yeah, my dad told me to stay in the house, but right, so this libra is that everybody falls into a sinkhole, and the sinkholes are leading to 10,000 BC. Oh, and you're they're finding things from other uh time frames because there were so many sinkholes happening. So very interesting concept. Actually, Rich would love it. Um it's very hard to get through. We had to take a break, um, because we're just like, I can't take that character anymore, and you just keep doing the same thing, and people keep people keep repetitively saying it's okay when nothing is okay, it's all gonna be fine. It's okay, it is not going to be okay.

Heather 45:45

As you're what what is that guy from um Money Python and the Holy Grail? It's a flesh wound.

Zia 45:51

Right, it's a flesh wound. I forgot about him. Yes, absolutely. So very interesting show. Actors, not so much, okay. Um, yeah, but time zones and everything, you know. So the point is that they literally went back to 10,000 BC because the world now doesn't have stuff to fix itself. Oh, okay. The the guy when he first went, he created this time thing to go down there, pick up everything he needed, fix the world back then come back and be so everything could be fine when it rehappened. Yeah, so but yeah, I'm not telling Richard about that show. People about that show. Yeah, it's only three seasons, they didn't renew it because it sucked, but very interesting. Very interesting.

Heather 46:47

They at least did they at least make a conclusion?

Zia 46:51

We are stuck on season two. Oh, okay. So we don't know that yet. We're trying really hard to get through the actor. Yeah. Fingers crossed, Australia. Fingers come on, Australia.

Heather 47:06

Hook us up. Fingers crossed. Then after we do that, we're gonna work on 50 states.

Zia 47:13

Yes, we will work on our 50 states.

Heather 47:17

Yeah, we will have hopefully. Hopefully, yeah, hopefully.

Zia 47:22

But um to be internationally known at 800 and was it 26 or 26 was yesterday.

Heather 47:31

Honestly, did not look this morning. Shame on me.

Zia 47:33

Downloads, people, thank you so much. Oh, we love it. We love it, we love it, we love it. Yep.

Heather 47:40

All right, that does it for today.

Zia 47:42

Absolutely. Thanks for being with us.

Heather 47:45

We love you.

Zia 47:46

Yep, bye.