Balthasar Speedboat: Canadian Ice Edition feat. Naomi Higgins and Emily Woods
Pure riffs, no plot: that's the Balthasar Speedboat promise. And for this week's bonus episode, we have comedians Naomi Higgins (@nomstrositi) and Emily Woods on the show. It's a pleasant sojourn into the deeply sexual world of the sport of curling--and much more! hope you enjoy.
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'G'day' is very much in normal usage, maybe she means it's not said in the inner-urban areas as much or maybe she lives in an anomaly sphere
The American fans hearing the phrase "if you know someone who works in Ice" and having the Metal Gear alarm noise go off
https://youtu.be/7QX5bLsmJrU I thought Brits liking the NFL was weird, but Germans are even weirder
Here’s the advert Milo mentioned. Apparently Top Gear recreated it a couple years ago as well. https://youtu.be/JF721r5_9vs
We say g’day a lot in Queensland actually
Remember when the Ice Man was hard...?
Holding out hope for the Trashfuture Esquimalt live show
I don't remember what's the cutoff date Riley quoted as the time the UK stopped exporting its culture but I'm pretty sure it leaves out Doctor Who, Sherlock the BBC show, and Harry Potter
Moving from America to Britain, I pronounced peugeot as "Poo-Gee-Oh" for the first few years. And "SEAT" will always be "seat" not "Say-Ott"
I hope you guys saw my Tweets. @CapitolHunters just did a massive expose citing scanned court documents from lawsuits that prove Elon Musk lied about his degrees. He's been sued twice over it and even de facto admitted to it in court. Stanford officially stated in court they have no records of someone with that name. And 3 months ago Twitter subpoena Stanford in their court case to force him to buy it.
For those of you playing Balthasar Speedboat Bingo at home, this one has (1) an Australian who doesn't know about sports played in other Australian states, cf. Aidan Jones, (2) Milo ranting about UK fans of the NFL (the center square of your bingo sheet) and (3) Riley trying to guide the opening of the show before remembering it's Balthasar Speedboat.
I play magic the gathering with a guy who drives a zamboni for the local hockey rink and i cant wait to tell him about this extended bit
Imagining a British guy who's really into an NFL team- is that how you feel when there's an American who's really really into Arsenal FC? I know a few of those guys. Never know what they're talking about
Speaking from the perspective of an American soccer fan, the set of 'American soccer fans who ardently cheer for a European club' is primarily (but not solely) populated by a specific kind of insufferable soccer nerd whose performative disdain for American football is only eclipsed by their performative disdain for American soccer. I haven't been in the UK in a decade, so maybe things have changed, but the people who I met that were super into American football were generally either into the spectacle itself or were sports fans in general who were perfectly happy to cheer for an American club because there was no local pro club to cheer for. It was probably more similar between the late 70s and mid 90s, when American pro soccer was professional in name only, and therefore anyone who was a soccer fan had to cheer for a European club to watch professional level soccer.
Hopefully you get a Quebecer on some day. I've never heard a Quebecer on your podcasts about Canada, it would be hilarious.
"I moved to the UK, it's awful here." Ah, she must have been taken by surprise by this. "This is my second time living here, and it was awful then too." Ah.
Slowly learning that most of what was in the Simpsons Australian episode was actually true.
Riley just doing a blind piss taste test on a German game show.
Oh Canada. The country that has been blessed by a deranged neighbor so any comparison between the two will look favorably , even when they actually do the same stuff.
The biggest assholes in Europe are Canadians pretending to be American. l mean, they're basically Americans anyways, but they get _really_ pissed when you point that out.