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There we are America seriously That's what the ducks come we're talking about America tonight Delicious food things got me for actually turning the flag on without just the location I was coming from now. I got the big maple leaf over here on Jaredina. Oh, yeah, I did show that off I'm showing this up. I'm too busy to show you anything Okay, I got it, but it's so bright tech. Hey Okay, so I should say up front that this isn't actually going to be like a post-mortem We basically have a series of questions followed by a few observations You're not allowed you're a time traveler. Oh, we're echoing a little. I don't hear any any echo Okay There's that you win again We're drinking something that the TT gave us, okay, let's drink that yeah Here's to drinking that We have nice little whiskey rocks in it too. So it's a blood orange look here and And we have our rocks in it And we cut it with some no it's water. I don't know what water what? Yeah, what did you what? You like it you liked it before I told you was cut with water. So you like it Don't be that guy until you told me you're being a guy. Oh my god. Texan visible. Holy shit That's because he's a vampire. Oh my god. I always knew Didn't you notice the sparkling at the cookout? That's why you had the sunglasses on yes, that's why where's the sunglasses at night? Stop it flash. I've said no Okay, I'm done. I promise Finished so Nutty, do you have the results of the cook off? Do I have what the results of the cook off say that again cuz rich cough? Oh Jesus, right? Are you shamed rich? No, I I'm proud of my cough The results of the cook off Oh, I haven't taken it off the H2 yet. I I need to get to that. Oh, no, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine We know how it rolls. I just got the pictures up yesterday. I mean, we know who won anyway This morning Whoever eat ate it wonders, you know what I did uh rich left all of his Ingredients to go into his burgers in my hotel room. So I might have snagged them all the burgers were eaten on Uh saturday, I believe no, sorry friday. Very nice. Good brought back to canada. Sweet Mark kept them and he ate them every night So great seized those at the border You know, we had a really fast border. They didn't ask us anything technically james are being repatriated so Yeah, we could have like snuggled a nuke in they wouldn't care Yeah, they didn't they asked us like one question I would no way of filling with these people. Thank you Actually, we only have to worry about ceases because we went into canada We we were actually just outside of ceasus office like a couple of days ago at the wedding That's always a weird experience eating in the milestones. No, it's uh What is it? Moxies. Yeah. Do you guys have moxies down there? Yes, there's one in Halifax Yeah, we went to the moxies in Halifax. I remember I'm outside of the border It's like we uh we we tipped and the wait staff had to come back with the manager to thank us because I don't think it's ever happened to them before Oh god They got very confused when we tipped that happened in america too. The guy ran after me with my two dollars Your don't tip a taco bell rich was like dude. He's gonna come back out here. I'm like no. He's not Okay, i'm with rich you don't Why do you know what though he came and he cleaned her table and everything? No, okay, listen Robby Robby the taco bell man. He came around to take our garbage to whites Okay, that is a man who deserves a tip seriously I know places up here that would just leave that garbage from she is she's always right nutty directly Here's the tip get out He just kept waiting near the table He kept Make more money Yeah, by getting tips because you work harder than everybody else at taco bell Thank you. Robby heard about the giant fast food strike that's spreading across america Oh, no, is it because they never get tipped? I bet you because they're they're not getting paid Um, they're they don't get raises so they only get minimum wage and They are not getting benefits when they should and all this other stuff and basically they're going to create a fast food union That's interesting Fast food chain when I was in college and it used to be nice before I worked there and now it's gone to hell Yeah, well, I think the impetus was that they found quite a few fast food franchises not whole chains but individual stores where People were working there that were brought in under special visas and weren't getting paid Hmm classy. Anyway, that was the political commentary for the evening. Sorry. How is it up here? By the way, it's good at work Not bad after four days in the car. Nope, it worked Don't forget beer in the car. Yeah, especially when it goes over 93 Surprise beer. Oh, man. That's when it's in a two liter mason jug Oh Yes, it is a growler What's it a growler of? The door yard. This is the english style wheat ale quite good very light summer beer and yes Very nice. That's the beer segment for the show Although be more of those don't worry All right, so maybe we'll move to intros and then we'll start interrogating good america, what up? What up america? Actually, america. The name of our script is america seriously Uh-oh seriously seriously Actually, I really like to say I really had a great great rate. Okay. Save it. Save it. I can't save it a nice time with you people Okay, fine. Screw you Every time she talks about how great america is unlike we have health care And i'm like that's not holding up. This is I would save so much money. I could just have a bank account strictly for health care No, no, you couldn't But wagmans Okay, okay Hey mob welcome to the uh vultecan mobicon breakdown We have a panel of experts here today all with an individual expertise Uh, we have rich the time traveler representing the south of america Not south america. I think he should tell us what his expertise is Go He's giving us the southern perspective. That's what i'm saying Okay, we also have hue offering more of a northern perspective Uh, american, but just over the border. We have nutty a trans plant She straddles the canadian american Aspect. Oh wow nutty that sounds dirty It it is it is very dirty very dirty business And we have tak here to give us another canadian perspective outside of skinnico North north perspective. Yes, the northern north and we actually have something about that, but we'll get to it in a bit Is jrd I'm from north more north north. No, he's from north earth. Yeah I'm the north-est stamped it. No take back sees lord. We have to talk about who's north is bigger Oh my god No, keep your north in your south. Actually, let's jump to one of the observations What are you gonna do later? Balticon was like at least for me. It was like a pokemon game Which involved hugs because it was just catching everybody who I knew on twitter and saying hi And it seemed like hugs were definitely the dominant. No, we did not catch them all But it did seem like it was hugs over handshakes. There was a lot more hugging than handshakes Even people I hadn't met before would kind of do the shoulder thing and I'd be like, okay. We're doing this Yeah, you can blame scott rose for that. I cut a wild nutty First kind of instituted the everybody hugs kind of a thing. Nice. A couple years ago That's good. And he's like are you good with hugs? You can tell the story TDS is really the hugs You know what there's actually a point in here where I noticed that American hugs are slightly different than Canadian hugs I found American hugs to be like less committal and in fact the huggiest Canadian hug I received there Was from tech. That's right, which was funny because you got the shoulders. It was like a real Where it's like TT. He'll give you a quick, but then he's like, oh, oh, maybe that's too much Are you okay? You know like it's like this, you know quick sort of forget the don't forget the bro tap at the end of the hug Yeah Yeah, we're bear huggers in Canada. You definitely had a Canadian hug Is the maple syrup it scares us? You'll stick to us for fatal stick. Yeah Tech is the student of the hug. So he's had many years of practice to study Good hug He's a hug food strong master But uh, I don't know uh a pope you you got that literally the tail end of uh a tackle hug Oh, yeah, I actually got involved in that as well as it piled through the bar I don't know how that happened, but but I enjoyed it immensely. Oh, baelyn. Oh, it's awesome. It knocked me back Uh, that was one of the three tackle hugs. I received that Very nice. Hey, I think you guys were around for the first one too. Wasn't it all from the illustration? Yeah, they were all from him Yes, actually recall that. Yes So while we were standing around waiting for our name takes together or whatever Yeah, the uh hugs came from scott rosh because when a seven foot tall man in a nuss nice peat mustache Taylor kilt says we're having a hug After all and just kind of go with it He actually told a number of people on twitter to come and aggressively hug me Which was interesting because I felt like I had cuddle assassins all around me just waiting for Oh the keyword jaredy skinner i'm on it You can snuggle at anyone with my my second ball to con uh, my first ball to contact was overseas in afghanistan My second ball to con he was home in novus gosha and so he's watching you know facebook and things like that And he says um so I see this picture And and i'm driving home and he's telling me this he says there's a picture. It's a very tall man He's got a chinstrap beard A fantastic hat and a kilt dog. So you're being hugged by an amish kilted man Yeah, that's that rosh Very nice. I didn't realize he was tall. He is super tall He's a very tall man saying he was the shortest and he's like the the shortest of what seven or nine or someone man I'm in his family. I don't remember. He's like he's the good six six yeah, and then you know watching a conversation between him no billis who's Six eight. Yeah, who's six two. It's like watching a tennis match on the ceiling You feel like a child when you hug you're like come here. I got tummy Okay, just want to have them carry me like hodor would oh We will return to the observations momentarily, but I feel there are questions that need to be dealt with Well, if if I can if I can uh, uh, redeem myself in the hugging for a moment. Okay. Oh, I don't know Down the you know down the south. There's not a lot of hugging And I've come more comfortable over the years But it still freaks me out when I visit my wife's family up in around New York Because they're the hug at least the women are the hug and the kiss and the cheek. Yeah And that just just like I don't know It's too much for you. It's a little bit much and then like when you got married the week They're all down And they all everyone was like the hug and the hug and then the limmer all your hug You know I kissed the cheek. Oh, so congratulations And then with like the day after he got married. I was on the couch deathly ill for like a week so I blame The northern new york strains of germs to me Just to deal with it The hug vector The hug the hugging kiss vector. Yeah, that's very new york We were at my brother's wedding this weekend and there was it was the hug and kiss All the everybody was well the older people. That's like at a certain age. You just you got to make out Cheek make out most of the time Okay Being kebequah we have the tradition of the hug and double kiss. Yes. That's what I was gonna mention actually Yes, there's lots of kissing his grandma to kiss us. I'm a mare Eddie. I was the last family unit. I I believe sadly it was my grandfather's funeral Now your sister's wedding No, no even worse grandfather's funeral Okay Because we all lined up in a line and we did the whole conga family line Did you have whiplash at the end? But the good game good game good game Kisses are completely insincere. It's like we're just going through the motions like if they're gonna do this Let's just do a limp handshake Yeah, yeah, she's not with us Canadian. You don't even get lips No, not even it's it's it's it's cheekbone to cheekbone Yeah At that point you may as well just being a double row of high fives Just run And you probably be more excited about that at the end of it. Honestly, yeah While uncomfortable more comfortable hugging a guy It doesn't bother me. It took even like to cheat kiss like unless the guy's name is afraid of what I'm very disappointed in him That's fantastic. Oh, okay, so um, okay, so america What's the deal with all the flags flags you tweeted are really weekend flags Not the flags that are up all the time because the flags that are up all the time are a little more radier The whites are we sus or ratting them there was still a fair contingent of Like farmhouses and small town flags that were obviously permanent installations That was the country But the but the and I didn't really think about them all the angle because where I grew up as a You know flag country too is the girl south But when you posted the pictures of the bunting that wasn't every day, right? Sure The other thing is I've noticed after 9/11 There's a lot more people that fly flags than there used to be. I mean americans have always been about red white and blue everywhere I mean we got it on bathing suits. We got it on flowers Candies, yeah, even the carnations and the red white and blue uh, but after 9/11 like The first two or three years you couldn't see a car in New York without an american flag on it. Mm-hmm Around dc when it was working across there when it happened and like you cars just had you know handmade signs the back of it You know and things driving around for the first few weeks. That was and then there's that annoying sticker that Annoying to me came out. It's just the american flag and this is the power of pride Everyone had so we had two of them on the back of their cars And they were extra proud and what I love is that someone came up with one of them looked exactly like it But it said the peril of pride Because that was like that's exactly it because it's hubris Yeah, for real You get to be careful with it and yep I definitely noticed more handmade Written items and I realized this is probably have to do with prom season and maybe memorial day as well But there was a lot more handwritten signs in the back of windows Yeah, and Yeah, like plastered on the on the glass just graduated and even around here evil. Yeah, it was more celebratory It was like hey, guess what's going on with me. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was really cool. I like that The old I saw this uh, I saw this picture of a uh A marine that had just left the service he ended active service What they call an EAS. So the sign in his window says just EAS and he's dragging his combat boots behind his cars That's that's something that you see a lot more in america by the way Is you'll see it like bridge overpasses and things like that Uh homemade signs and some graffiti sometimes, you know welcome home so-and-so Right, the soldiers because he loves Ginny Yeah But in the in the states there's not like huge recognition when a soldier comes home Whereas in canada, I think we kind of make a big deal when you guys come home Yeah, well remember you are the country of the ticker tape for ed So But that's for hockey games and yeah football. Yeah, not for not for the iraq war. That's for sure Yeah, we don't I think you're sorry with Vietnam that we just didn't treat our soldiers. Well when they came home Things became really good. Yeah, but really gotten past the coupling What we may find is as as dislike for the policy versus those people who sign up to serve and deserve the respect sometimes Yeah, there's a weird thing that it's weird Well, and I also think it is that the bases are At least in my experience growing up in the northeast They're still far away From where regular people are. Yeah. Yeah, whereas living in canada um I don't know like I feel like the bases are just right there in the communities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I grew up. I grew up. I was uh 30 minutes late from cherry point green for air station My dad worked there We were now already from camp machine marine corp base um, and we had hope air force base and and uh brag I mean, it's like they're all over the place. Yeah, you are so there wasn't your smack dab in the middle of it Yeah, yeah, you know Yeah, base the base closing committees were serious watching where we were because everyone's cluted tv Those are races. Well, there's a lot of bases up here But because of the border, but they're kind of far from anything sneaking in Whereas here I live what 20 minutes from the capital of the province And i'm in a town. That's not just base people. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm It's got to be better for your morale too because Yeah, more so more segregated I like it So I was trying to think about Canadian equivalent because there's just not that many flags And the only thing I could come up with at least in Ontario and in my experience the um, an ex-suite or an ex-suite How do you you know the little rock piles that look like men Oh, yeah, the nucheps. Yes. Yeah along the highway. You'll see people make men out of thin rocks They stack them sees too, right? We made them overseas. We made them everywhere every base We went to every airfield we went. Yeah. Oh, yeah, fantastic Do you guys want to give the American listeners the history of this because I remember when we had to Find some statues at work and nobody at work knew what a new nucheps was Oh, if you have a prepared spiel go for it is an inuit stone pile made to look like a little dude that the The first nations would use as road markers To to mark their trails through the through the tundra because you didn't have paths There was no trees There was no shrubs for you to bend or break or make like an arrow So you just make this little dude out of rocks And then people would know to follow the little dudes and that would take you to to wherever and since then it's become a And they would point to right? I'm sorry. They would point to where they were going They could but they're just like a like a little stick figure to do with the arms sticking on both sides So they could point in two directions, but they were um It's now become this this symbol that this Canadian symbol of uh, you know, come here or go this way or I was here Yeah, I was here. It's kind of like the the killroy I was just gonna say is that the first nations killroy? Yeah, pretty much I was gonna say it sort of reminds me of It's like the couple of those southwest United States the coke of pelleys Sorry. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the little there's the trickster fertility god is the flutes Yeah, it's kind of curved using the curves bent over with the flute. Yeah interesting. You know I saw that on Hercules. Yeah. Yeah Hercules It's deadliss hurt. It's deadliss Okay, so america What's the deal with naming naming things after your country uh, specifically we have brian's usa diner and I can I can't ever see a canadian diner being like tony's canada diner It's a fresh usa there like canadian tire Oh, you make a point No, but not like jim's your own currency jim's canadian like straight marination It's the mom and pop shop. Yeah, it's mom and pop shops, but they have america in the title american muffins theory is that's immigrants Because uh a lot of immigrants are really proud to be americans Mm-hmm. How many um, how many so-called chinese restaurants do we go to in canada that proudly say that they serve chinese slash canadian cuisine? Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. Okay. Well, that's what's up with that. Good enough. We'll play Also be a generic a lack of imagination and naming You know, it's like the oh, I think this is quality. Oh, usa versus like Where's you know, triple a plumbing or a one? Yeah, you know, these names are just I swear We passed both through freedom pennsylvania and new freedom pennsylvania Named in pennsylvania's weird. Yeah, okay. So that is a pennsylvania problem Northeast pa is in the west north corner of pa After passing through new freedom, did you pass it down and said oops we had a mistake in here's classic freedom back Okay, so what's the deal with sheets? She I should say sheets with a zd the chain gas station slash blue joint We sell a lot of sheets on the road She eats It's never heard of it. Really? Really? They were everywhere Everywhere in pennsylvania thing. Yeah, you can get gas Food by pennsylvania Hey my family White house that was down there. My family comes from pennsylvania for a very long time. My family was in pennsylvania So I was like my homeland and I had to buy things from pennsylvania when I saw like Amish people. I'm like my family. She ran out and gave them high five. No, I didn't really confused No, they wouldn't talk to me because i'm english The english the uh really good gas stations out that way are the walwas Walla which is not to be confused with walla on dairy. Oh god. Nothing should be confused with wall water a sheets like literally less than i'm off from our house and The sheets and wall walls are kind of like they're Like your 7/11 Okay place, but they have generally their own brand of Like sub-inverter shop inside. Okay That you can order. I mean, I think it's either sheets or while one of them has like a you can order the touch screen So you don't actually have to dane your, you know, solely your hands by talking to a human being Which when we went to sonic was also a little bit like that. Yeah, human beings You know, I guess the upside of that is you can if you enter it correctly, you know, you don't have the misinterpreting your special order Which but there seem to be popular people like their food. No, it seemed like they were everywhere They were everywhere and we just didn't have the time to go in so we figured put it on the list We'll just ask And there's another chain of kangaroo. That's like them. That's doesn't have the food surface So so they're past food places you didn't get to on the trip. Oh, yeah, there's there's always this of course We we even we had the all you guys did We had breakfast at Taco Bell and then 35 minutes later. We were at cracker barrel for lunch But that was the only one that was like the only one on the way and we had to hit the barrel I didn't need a tuck of those options too. Oh my god, dude. It was so cheap and delicious We had like these three big plates and we're just like a fork into it and making vines like the lady Must have thought we were insane Oh my mind didn't work. Let's do this again Buffalo near where the 90 ends damn Or where the 90 splits off where it becomes pay again Right Damn, I've never been there. I don't think Oh, man. You have to go. Where was that hot dog place in buffalo that we went to? Yeah, we did wander off the highway and buffalo and ended up Scared us. Sorry? Did you go to Ted's Ted's It's like hot dog heaven or some junk, but it was good The good hot dog place in Buffalo I have to remember for next time I knew we should have texted you because Jared couldn't find anything and I'm like he's like I found a subway. I'm like there's no way my last meal in America is gonna be at a subway The two places, okay, there's some places you need to check out. Yeah, it did Okay, where are the places? Ted's which is burgers. Okay, mighty taco, which is like tacos about a million times better. Okay And duffs. Way to set the bar high Duffs has international renowned. I've heard of duffs as well I think we have a duffs people as I told people that I was going through buffalo They were like you need to stop at duffs. I think I may have seen one in Ottawa before I think duffs is where macromedia took my sister for wings. Oh, I was gonna say did you ever get her back? There I mean there was there was so much brick work that was just so gorgeous And I wanted to stop and take a million photos, but so much of it was vacant It was just so effing sad. Okay. Well, that leads me to my next question Which may be another Pennsylvania problem, but what what's the deal with all the abandoned buildings? Is that everywhere dude because that was sad Have you heard the uh Billy Joel song Allentown? No, uh Okay, sing it go. Yeah. Yeah. No right now. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. One, two, three, go There's this huge swash there. The steel mills just went away and the industry just died Uh, okay. Well, I know that story. That's very much of the north. I'll let you plug it in Okay, fine fine every town in northern Ontario. Yeah. Yeah, exactly That's all in town Yeah, but um, basically all the industry moved south after like the 50s Is that why there are dead deer and blown tires all over the highway? Yeah, I think we have I think we have someone to pick up those things because I've never seen there was like a dozen deer. I'm like make a vine of the dead deer, but he thought that was too dark My favorite was driving up to Ontario from New York and I'm driving in and I just see the smear of red and like whoa And then I gave a piece of deer on the side of my Well, there's what caused it and then I see another piece And then I was like go further on. There's the head and the median. Oh god. No, they were all solid this time Thank the lord if there I feel like if that had happened in northern Ontario somebody would be eaten well Yeah, like somebody picked that up and snack on it But I saw a lot of I saw a lot of like just furry things like bone bags that like we're there for so long And nobody picked up that junk and I'm thinking you guys need to pay somebody But they can't Do it um, well, I'm like the big highways. Oh, they should how do we do it? Motor assistance patrols that do on the highways that will stop and pick those things up when you see them, but Generally out in the middle of nowhere We pay yeah, they'll just until they're dust in the windman. They're out there We pay high school students in the summer to just drive around and truck Oh, that's not even true, but we do pay minutes for workers I went to a high school with a lot of guys who did that really? Yeah, my brother lives in uh Sort of the country and he teaches in the country and uh, he had a deer on his way to work And like five trucks stopped by and we're like, do you want help getting rid of that? Yep, for sure. That's fresh good meats, sir. Our friend hit a deer Uh shortly before we left for a ball to con and everybody was like, did you get to keep the deer that make good? Did you eat it? Uh, well good for the deer then but if it's to die someone should be snacking well. That's all I'm saying So use all of the emotion I guess in the damage that nutty described that was probably a semi you're just Yeah That was a hit and drag. That's what that was. Yeah, well at least it didn't feel it. I'm like worried for the deer Yeah, okay to move on from that Okay, so it's the season So that's the reason why there's so many goddamn dead deer on your highways You know, it's the season we should bid to the deer running wild season We should if they're just coming out of like the winter you're gonna say hibernation I was gonna say hibernation, but they don't do that Hiding time And now they're starting to venture looking for food and they have forgotten that these big scary things on wheels can kill them Yeah, once they learn that they'll start shying away from there Don't they have like deer highways in northern Ontario where you can just or is that like out in Alberta We're over the highways. They have those grassy little paths Yeah, you'll see basically over passes with just dirt and grass on top so that they can walk over the highways Have I seen that We'll have to google it. We'll confirm this. I've seen photos of it. It's beautiful Rangers out there that train the deer. That's what it was across Well, they figure it out and then they know it's much safer. There's food so they just follow it. Yeah Well that and there's the um Have you guys seen those new deer fences that they've been putting up on the sides of the highway that have the gates in them You know, it's a it's like a 10-foot fence that prevents anything from getting in And if anything either goes around the fence or somehow makes it in through a great That's it through a break in the fence. There's these gates which are made of curved bars that you can only go one way Very cool Highway back into the wilderness, but from the wilderness you can't get in because all of the Little spikes are against you. Yeah, so um They work very very well. They've almost I think they've got all of the major highways in New Brunswick and uh every time there's an accident there's some group out there that screams that we need more fences, but uh Like anything they are pricey. Yeah But they're awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's I get scared when driving you around areas that don't have them Like main Yeah, I can see that speaking of scary driving. We should be discussing infrastructure. Oh, not right now. Okay, fine But let's discuss needs to do another beer segment before I give it Let's deal with the lack of coffee. Thank you very much away. I go But it seemed like there was a general lack of coffee shops Starbucks, but not Not like in Canada where it's like every corner. Somebody needs the sweet sweet nectar And it might be like a Tim Hortons every three blocks But believe you're such a star boat because you need the hot coffee to keep you guys in freezing in the winter. Yes True. True. Sorry. What were you going to the Tim Hortons is just a lot more prevalent in Canada And it is misnomer that there's a starbucks on every corner now there are you know in cities You will find a starbucks on every corner. And like I said, there's one on six avenue across from Bryant park that in the summer There's one on the corner and then just across the street. There's another booth that sells starbucks as well There is a um Shopping center in my town, which is about a mile from where I am right now that has a starbucks and a berns novel which now has a starbucks Into the berns novel is a target which remodeled it out of the star Oh my god, I need photos of this importance next to the starbucks But see you're close enough to canada that even the canadians are like you need more coffee We've got a lot of Tim Hortons Yeah, we did so I think there's sort of like a line between the Tim Hortons and the waffle houses Oh Yeah, you know what we noticed about the Tim Hortons in america because we did we did stop as a comparison We went yeah, it was like the first thing we did we went to Tim Hortons They were called bakeries and cafes. They tried to class it up. Oh god. It was so funny. We're like oh Tim Hortons You put on your fancy pants for america Yeah, what is what do we call them in Canada just Tim Hortons? Yeah, there's no Tim Hortons is they don't even know yeah, you have a good point there. Yeah We know Tim Hortons. He's part of the french connection So this is more of a technical question, but so if anybody can feel pretty well Tech may be the only one here who doesn't oh you may answer. Yeah, absolutely. What does a flickering bar across a red light mean? Oh, it's like a white white strobe. Yep, it's scratch your attention Yeah No way and generally they're at really busy really Accident prone intersection. Yeah, I thought it was like an advanced left turn. I don't know It's kind of like when they read when they highlight the circles. No, you know like when they broadcast it on There's there's a place on highway 70 growing up Between morons city and new burn that's their place called have Newport and it's just a slow look of a town in that where everything's 55 forever and there's nothing Yep, there's one light and what happens with people would be flying along it would turn red and they would just blow through it and someone come across the side and they would get t-boned Every week so that they read they read to the light there and that's one of the first ones I ever saw as a kid growing up And so they put the flasher in it so that when you're coming along the highway Oh Grab your attention. So you realize oh well. Yes red. Okay. I see where i'm from you'll find them mostly on the way home from bars and Down at the base of what the red lights aren't enough anymore. The other thing I noticed is on your yield signs It says yield On the road where there's particular it's all written out for you On the definition of freaking yield because once people don't understand It has a description of what to do Oh, well, we can fit words on our signs because we only have to do it one, but you're supposed to know it be the symbol Yield lay slow down and wait for people to go by On the yield Well, you're not the french connection either then sir Well Okay, so I think that actually ends the interrogation section, but I think we have a few more little But yeah, I feel like i'm more informed. How do you guys feel you feel good? Little less judgmental less judgmental a little less. Yeah, i'm a little less big No more questions. No, well, we have a few more observations, but not questions So you can jump in if you have something to mention but hotel windows Yes, very interesting balconies. I opened up a balcony door in america And it had just this like skinny little bar across it I even saw children doing it and I was like oh my god. Oh my god because in canada guys You can't hotel with special. Oh, yeah, because your hotel was special. That's not normal. Oh, yeah Having glass elevators with water fountains. Oh, well, I just mean Access Generally like access to the outside in canadian hotels you get this much of an open window because they don't want you to jump and die And that's even the fancy. That's all they'll give you They will not allow you access to Yeah, so they don't want to let polar bears in that too because they can climb really fast I think it seems in an effective disorder really and the window only the window opens this much, but a hockey puck is this wide Yeah, it's a safety feature Yeah, exactly. You just have to be really good at playing like me I I can't I can't imagine though Like I can't remember actually opening hotel windows I I don't smoke Who smokes? I don't smell here. Yeah, some of them like I can open my mom might be listening here and there Here's my mom listens staying in a hotel as part of the role-tracing or complex Back where oh 88 or 87 when I was there doing macy's macy's parade with high school ban Mm-hmm and one of the guys I was with Had brought a little toolkit in his suitcase And he took the restraining system off the window so he could open it oh my I can't see this TT can't see this. Yeah, I can't be responsible for this but he hates trouble plausible deniability Um Some of the some of the schools that I worked in in New York city like they would open up the window and it was dry again To get kids could fall out like whatever, but those are generally schools that were built Yeah Yes That's what you're gonna say. Yeah But Queens though and all the apartments I've ever seen in Queens or Manhattan or whatever they have like those greats and special things where you can open the window, but it's not yeah Exactly vent you from actually we only have those to keep robbers out. Robbers? The home invaders and I mean need the full bars You never go full bars *Laughing* There was a lot of Jesus on the radio something you don't hear But there was a lot of Jesus America for you. Yeah, America and your Jesus It was even in other languages, but I'm like, I know they're singing about Jesus Well, if you had a Spanish station in yeah, you probably got a lot of that, but uh Yeah, come on down this way. You get like old stations dedicated to oh god Are they like all holy rollers? Tell me about your yeah, it's just it's a bible belt So oh yeah, you've like the big mega churches and stuff. Yeah, we got those. Yeah, should I mention the evangelistic hospital? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they had hospitals dedicated to only people who believed in the same deity What is that about explain? Yeah no, they uh, it's because they do Because it's not private. It's not public health care. Mm-hmm. Churches create like do hospital Medical sick care staff as part of their mission. Okay, so it's not the catholic health system Is it for you or is it just cheaper? It's a catholic health system, right? Okay, but But you have to have prayer. The catholic health system has been doing health for thousands of years You don't have to be a Jew to go to see their cyanide Okay The best hospital. Yeah, I think the only and I don't think it's restrictive, but the only hospital that Subscribes to anything specific would be the is it the seventh day Adventist or the Christian scientists the ones who can have blood transfusions Surgery. Oh, wow Good luck Christian scientists and I think How's it maybe some of the Jehovah witnesses? Yeah, Jehovah's don't do blood transfusions. Yeah, very Picky about it interesting We actually do have a really big watchtower compound right compound. They have a complex part of it is underground guys They have like orchard to farm down the street from the watchtower the actual building Wow where it's printed. It looks just like the picture. Oh, yeah Actually, this this is a good full circle back. You're talking about bridge graffiti earlier There's a place on 495 around dc where you come around and you can see the warm and temple up for the trees sticking up the towers aspires sticking above the road And on multiple times throughout the year someone's written on the bridge. They were past right in front of it Surrender Dorothy Oh, that's so perfect. Oh, that's so perfect Okay, the last little item here Uh, it seemed to us and again, this may just be a Pennsylvania thing But it seemed like there were less brand name establishments in the smaller towns than even you'll find here in Canada. Yes Yes, yeah, a lot of mum and pop places like the pharmacies I love it. I love it because here you'll have like it'll be brand name gas station brand name pharmacy brand name grocery store But I found everywhere and it looked like they had been there a long time like they were You know serving the community and I think part of that I think part of that too is that our liquor stores and our beer stores are all government run Yeah, because we went to this liquor store and it was just an old lady running it and here You know, you need several people on at the same time They're all you know in their little government uniforms and it's very is it like a sterile environment But this was just some old lady in her cute little like wolf wolf sticker poster shirt sweater Sweats thing cheap cheap liquor It was just she was so cute and it was just her and it was all like, you know Wooden walls and just totally, you know The decor was awesome. The the alcohol was so packed in though that it was gonna like come at you or fall on Yes, there was so So much So many different types like just crazy like it just blew our brain I took so many pictures just in the liquor store and all my god is it cheap here like the same thing It's it's like 60 percent more more money for each like each item at least It was horrific I don't know about Give us a Pennsylvania thing. I know that we're around in North Carolina in general and state sporting us Uh, you don't see a lot of bomb and pop grocery stores Okay, or or gas stations anymore. The last ones I didn't solve going away with chains And drug stores way before that. They got oh, okay The cbs's and the records and the neckers got the corn mail but um a lot of bomb and pop Foodplaces, which you're generally are better than the chains, right? Quality control. Yeah. Yeah, ABC here. It's all in North Carolina. It's all county controlled So county has the control board that controls it and they you fork back up the state somehow And so in way county off they'll they'll have these red and blue vests. They wear over their Close and there's usually a couple guys in there in given time, but the selections control by the county Okay, so the county doesn't want to carry it You can special order it, but they won't special order any quantity less than a case. That's what i've been told Oh wow. Oh wow. I really like it Like black maker It does depend on what state you're in. Um, I've been here at the pencil thing. Yeah, it's a really nice selection New york. You can Everybody can run the liquor stores in new hamster. There's the state liquor store, which is basically a walmart walmart of booze It's huge. I've heard of the trader joe's. I wanted to go there. I'd never found one Oh, trader joe's is awesome too. They're building one In my town. It's gonna be the first one. I'm coming more and more reasons to come. Yeah, and in kineticate Um, they're package stores So it's kind of like going to a convenience store that only sells alcohol And they're not allowed to stay open past nine, which most people don't want to start drinking until mine anyway Yeah, it doesn't make any sense and it's Really appeared in the butt to buy booze New york is weird because you can Sell booze or you can sell beer Yep, but you can't sell beer in a liquor store or liquor in a Yeah No, the beverage store. It's all over here because we can sell beer in our liquor stores But not like the beer you'll buy it like a beer distributor or a convenience store or gas station And then there'll be a liquor store. Yeah, then wine's just all over the place Yeah, you might do whatever. Oh, yeah Because it's classy for market too. Yeah, you can sell wine in a supermarket or beer in a supermarket But only a bad Wine in a liquor store. So Wine everywhere. Well, here's beer and wine at beer and wine at Crochet stores or specific stores like total beverage and then liquor only at the liquor store that all they can do sell certain mixers That's about it. But the interesting thing about what we lived about to say DC was that Virginia, Maryland both were the same kind of system of Carolina was But DC was kind of no holds bar. They had private stores. So if you're looking for something kind of You know off the unusual you could find specialty shops that would carry it. Mm-hmm And it was a little bit nicer something I noticed too Not even on the alcoholic front, but on the beverage front I noticed there was a lot more like crazy weird flavored beverages like Like you can have lemonades and like yeah, you'll see on like tons of different stores just slathered all these different types of Squirts you could put in and yeah, and they're all like five six hundred calories But they're like different kind of milkshakes like even the Tim Hortons had a million types of beverages And it's it's interesting like we're not really a beverage base. Yeah, you get your standard like water and maple syrup Yeah, no, you get only water Lead coffee. It's always your cola your cola your spider. You're seven up Maybe dr. Pepper and then the diversion of all of those in a root beer. No, dr. Pepper only if it's fancy Yeah, I would say that's a relatively recent trend to my opinion. I don't know It passed through three maybe four years before that's usually like coca pepsi Spriters seven up. Yeah, so it'll be here in another year or two as well. They have those they have those machines now That they're putting Yeah, and you can get like a hundred two hundred kind of combinations of different that is so cool man Um, we didn't actually go there, but yeah, oak and it comes up with end different diet goat flavors. Yeah, exactly. Oh god I didn't get to noodle and company this year. I know I know just not enough time I feel like we need to try it Because netty loves it. Yeah, not all five guys because I was at one and there wasn't one Five guys and those Either remodeled or the newer ones will have them. I've never been to a five. Oh, we did it for the first time It was so good nutty. It was oh good I really do feel like we need to have a a noodle off now though And go to noodle company because nutty says it's so good and tt is not a fans. Yeah, we Tt doesn't like it. No, I can understand tt's a version Yeah when you have a silly act child and they tell you that they can provide gluten-free and they can't Yeah, that's that's a problem. That's x But overall he didn't like it. Yeah, exactly. Look, he's squinty right now and he's talking about them Like a tt's a squinty So I can only attest to that one. Well, we'll go next time. We're both going disappointed Well, I'll say to me they and I let flute them together with red bull. I find red bull had a blend As well, it's another chain. I see it's like so I'm gonna go to a chain noodle Asian style place You know, I go to pay way It was see I'm I'm kind of terrible for talking about all of these chains and so forth because um Coming from Long Island. There are so many chains that didn't make it until I was an adult like target didn't get to us Until I was in university. We always had our own brands You know, we had caldor where everybody else had target and we had King colin where everybody else had like regular grocery stores and your drugstores are the front for a well-known crime family It's the front but yes, it is really on drugs and the Genevieve Drug stores or a chain that were just on Long Island and in the surrounding area of New York Um, but then they were bought out by something that was bought out by Eckert that was bought out by Rite Aid and blah blah blah Right. Um, but yeah, so we had our own versions of things and so slowly things are starting to creep into Long Island But so many times people will talk about things And I'm like, I have no idea what that is I think that Long Island to be hit first because they're so close to New York Yeah, but nobody wants to send trucks through New York You see, it's funny. I I Kind of lament how everything is becoming the same, but at the same time I'm here furiously writing everything down that you mentioned and so I can taste it next time I'm in America I know I know because I'm like wow you guys so cool places. I know the danger I know what would happen to me if I lived there, but it's a man. Oh, I swear used to it in blasé He had jaded whole idea of Of brands and that's something that I noticed in Canada Canadians are very brand specific and they will call things a brand before they'll call it a generic name Yeah, um clean. That's before tissues university students live on Kd which stands for craft dinner or bromin now At least in New York we call kd macaroni and cheese Right. Yeah, it gets its own word. No, they actually changed the packaging to reflect what people call it Craft it actually says yeah, could she on it? The craft isn't on a kd box It's kd in giant letters and it's even got its own slogan. Yeah, you've got a bkd Hey, I got don't have I got a box over there. I'm making after here. Don't judge me There you go. Oh, it's been months, man. I can't wait at a bit of Campbell's tomato soup to it done I don't know Okay, you can make it for me next time Oh You heard me. They bred that out of me Man bread it out of me again. I tried Wait, are you making me bread? Have we told you they bred you what? Oh, no techno. I've been in 14 years. Do the math. Are you beer battered? Is that what you're talking about? Don't walk into a cracker barrel Oh my god, there's a chatter. Hey, thanks watch bomb girls by the way. No unfortunately. I've tried it But I didn't really know what was going on It seems like there was some chronology that I was unaware of so I got to drop out We should start from the beginning. Yeah So many series on there's a whole episode where Meg Tilly's character discovers spaghetti Because one of the Italian characters makes it foreign. She's like, what is this? I've never had something so exotic Spaghetti Oh, I heard this it was a there's a show on the afternoons on cbc radio that plays Old documentaries and they had one from the late 40s Which was sort of this concerned mother talking about this new food that is that her teenagers Uh-oh are eating which they they get from the specialty italian restaurants that the italian The restaurant and the restaurants are called pizzerias At the pizzeria and they can't be they're up to no good. I just know it Yeah, my grandma. She was like Justin Bieber. He's up to no good these days. He has tattoos all over his body Don't you Well, I all of it, but she doesn't listen to Justin Bieber music. So For the course of oh, yeah, we get trouble with a capital T that rhymes with penis dancer pizza All right, well now that i'm thoroughly hungry and upset about Justin Bieber We'll let you guys go, but maybe we'll do outros everyone can maybe Mention where we can find you on the tubes. We'll start with nutty because I think she's most prepared to be put on the spot. Yeah Uh, you can find me and everything about me at nimlas.org and I am las Dot org you can find my nanny netty bites Podcast my daily creativity project and the other podcasts that I am a regular on and co-host I'm tech and also find me at nimlas.org where I have a column where I write about nerd stuff geek stuff engineer stuff guns and mars and other things Always informative. It's a great piece. Uh, how about you? You okay? You can find me at Way of the buffalo podcast dot blog spot dot com where you can find my podcast the way of the buffalo You'll figure and this month. I'm going to be running all my panels from palticones Sweet Including podcasters And jr. D was on it and a popo's on it. Mm-hmm. That's hilariously wrong It was fantastic, but in all the right ways. I still regret my final answer. I feel like I could have went with you anyway I like how you apologize for reading. I'm sorry. This isn't about anybody in the room I should have just a Canadian name Oh shut up. You're like the most politically correct. Yes, we're in like ever ever Unpolitically correct All right. Well, sorry. Sorry about that and Richard tell us where we can find you sir Well, I I do absolutely nothing. So all you can do is find me on the twitters at uh device nal And that's about it. Oh, you can also find the unknown package on the twitter, which may be a little more of an evil experience Yeah, I'm drinking some unknown package following you And when I drink his insides All right, well, thanks everybody Thanks for coming. It was so much fun hanging out with you a bolt of con I'm so glad my meat was eaten until the very last drop of meats Good. I'm glad it's have to come next year. We will absolutely we are Fill the time in between with hopefully another mob movie night shortly or something to that effect Yeah, well, we'll shoot the shit or something. Shit. The mob movie night After the last one shouldn't we all good fear it low that worry go. All right. Good night guys Good night, everybody Thanks for coming tech. Thanks for your Canadian hug. It was the best dude Thank you for the return hug. It was also awesome Great. Thanks for giving it to your wife too. I told her. Oh, don't give it to your wife But I gave you a hug to give your wife Later later after we say goodbye north meat set that's where we're going Oh It was good. You were just like, are we done? Can we be done now? I'm afraid Classes of both the concom. We are We'll sell them for a dollar too. Yeah, we'll have rich at the hugging beats. This is not a fairy discussion You don't want to be at the guy at the convention giving out free hugs. Yeah, fair point fair point. The shirt that said free shrugs Pretty funny with it with a zombie costume and then a shirt and this is a free hugs Okay, I gotta go eat some katie. Yeah, okay. Good night. I'm making the best katie Good night. Bye That was adorable