Talking Shit with a Yank & a Brit - 43. Saint Colin of Moldova

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

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I suddenly got all shy about swearing and I don't know why Yeah we will not swear any no just kidding we will probably quite a bit We don't swear on this podcast actually That's a lie Proper

Speaking of what podcast is this oh well this is a podcast called talking shit with a yank and a brit guess what happens on it kate we pray yes we pray we're talking shit to god listeners at home you might not know this but god is a great shit talker he's a great listener and a great listener in addition to praying though we also talk shit about a lot of things. Yeah. If you haven't worked out already, one of us is British and the other one is American, hence the... Name and everything. Hence the name, yeah. We'll leave it to you to decide who is who, though.

I'm Kate. That's Gemma. Hi. Hi. How are you? Yeah, I'm alright. I've been at Good good friend of the pod amy's birthday drinks happy birthday amy we love your fanship and your friendship your fanship and your friendship thank you so much for being a loyal supporter of talking chef with a yank and a bread and when you're a loyal supporter well you get a birthday shout out so happy birthday and i think today is the actual day right no it was last week

fuck but it was mother's day so fair okay so also my mom's birthday then. Yeah. So yeah. Birthday twins. Sorry, Amy, that we didn't necessarily shout you out last week, but since you celebrated today, happy birthday. And you know, I think you probably know this, but for those who don't, Amy's a Pisces and Gemma, what do you know about Pisces? They're it's a fish sign yep fish sign therefore loves water and apparently according to the internet loves to swim so really yeah there's the strong connection to the water is why pisces enjoy swimming so much so i you know i guess if you didn't know that about yourself get in the water and see how it makes you feel. Yeah, Amy, do you like water? Do you like swimming?

I mean, if you just like drinking water, that's fine. I think that counts. I'm going to have a sip right now. Ah, life-bearing water. Yes. Also, Pisces achieve the best emotional relationships. Oh, do they? according to the internet gotta be right then yep and uh let's see what else they have a strong connection with music um and i think it's also because they're pretty sensitive and we all know music is

something that can make people sad or happy and emotional or nostalgic um also ruled by Neptune which means that they are creative to do with relationships isn't it yeah that and it brings out their creative side and they can easily express their emotions through art and have a boundless imagination and dreams are really important um also you're adventurous and you're a good travel buddy you know how to keep a secret you're loyal and you don't hold grudges well there you go amy yeah that's you. That is you. And my mum, I guess. And your mum, yeah. Now that I know that it was last week, though,

I'm hoping that it's actually correct that she's a Pisces because it could be that she's not. Okay, yes, the 19th of February through March 20th, so we're good. Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh. Yep. See, I wonder if I've got Pisces in my chart because i really love water and love swimming but

i guess aquarius is a water bearer even though you like to carry it with you yeah i just like to carry water splash my feet in it a bit you know yes definitely you could be it's not your is it your rising or your star I can't remember I know you've told me hmm can't fucking remember now maybe you got a little yeah it's probably somewhere isn't it

do you know what else is today the rugby was on oh who won i don't know but that's why my gig got cancelled seriously okay well um that's dumb but i guess that enabled us to record so that's nice and you could go to Amy's thing exactly so thanks rugby you didn't ruin someone's life for once way to go well done um what is it so a couple things you know how there's always those weird days that are sprinkled throughout the year like there's national hot sauce day and international woman's day which

was last time we recorded well i just you know i was kind of curious today and wanted to see what else we're celebrating um for one it's national corn dog day oh i've never had a corn dog you're not missing out you actually might be into it i know how brits love sausages i do i love a hot dog so so this one's wrapped in bread what i mean it sounds like it's right up your alley yeah i fucking love that i love bread and i love hot dogs well we've talked about the state fair a few times if you ever make it over we'll take you to the minnesota state fair and you can get a pronto pup don't flame me if you're not a fan of those Minnesotans, because I know there's like maybe a debate between which brand or whatever is the best.

But I think we'll just try them all. Yeah. Okay. And then I'll judge what's the best. Come on, dog. Yeah. Okay. Apparently, though, fun fact about that is it changes annually.

So today it's this year. Just happens to be this year. Social National Panda Day, which is pretty cute. That's nice. Yeah. I was going to look up a fact about pandas, but I forgot. So we don't have one. They're not very good at copulating.

That's a fact for you. How do you know that like going extinct we're having to like artificially inseminate them because they will not fuck is it just because they're so they're so cute i thought they bothered no i just want to sit here and eat eucalyptus trees isn't that koalas? Well, that might be koalas, yeah. Bamboo, maybe? Bamboo.

They eat bamboo, don't they? Fuck if I know. That might be a no. They're so cute, though. Have you seen the videos of them just rolling around on the floor? Yeah. They're really cute. Yeah.

I would have a pet panda if such a thing could be possible and it wouldn't like want to kill me. I don't think they're like super aggro. No, they seem quite docile. Yeah, but you know, I get it. They're going extinct. I probably shouldn't try to keep them as a pet either. No, probably shouldn't. I also, have you seen the red pandas?

They're super cute and they use their tails as a pillow. That's just resourceful. I mean, if I had a tail, I'd do the same thing. So would I. And a scarf. I'd just be like, oh, this is great. I actually wonder if red pandas and just regular pandas, are they actually bears?

I bet panda bears are bears. Yeah. But the red pandas kind of look like squirrelly or foxy. I'm going to Google this now. Red panda is a bear? Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called Iliuridae, which includes mustelids, which is a common trait with mustelids,

which includes raccoons, weasels, and skunks. Ah. Yeah, I see that. Yeah. Pandas are bears because they're in a family called Ursidae, which is the bear family. I really like raccoons. I've got a thing for raccoons. It's their little hands.

I don't know what it is. I just really like their little stupid hands fun fact raccoons are the only other animal other than humans that can like go like this posable thumbs yep they can so i mean do what you will with that information they could do so much with that they can i don't know if i ever told you the story um but we had a stray cat when I was in law school at the house I was living at and it would come like sit at the door and stare at Momo through the door like I thought they would be friends but then one time I like opened the door

and the stray cat we named Alice and Janie lost her shit um but we put out cat food for her and the motion light went on one night and I was like Alice and Janie's here and it opened the door and it's a raccoon just standing on its iron legs holding the tin of cat food looking at me and then it just walked down the steps and left spinning upright and I was like okay then did you just see I don't know I've never seen that before what kind of weird feature is that um everyone at home a bunch of balloons just like a filter of balloons just came up on my screen I don't know why it's amazing though I like, is this happening in real life? I was kind of going, I just have a bunch of balloons released in my house. Okay, I don't know what triggered that, but cool.

Apparently raccoons. Yep. Yay, raccoons. Oh, that didn't do it. It's really cute, though, because they look like little burglars, and then they're just envisioning this little raccoon. Just, okay, well, I've got the food bye

bye now sucker but it just like leisurely strolled down the steps to it wasn't even scared it was just kind of like yeah try to take this from me bitch oh I love them we don't have them and I'm really sad about it I'll bring one over I might as well start the plight of raccoons over there

you already brought squirrels over and shit too. Okay, it's also National Curl Crush Day. Like, love your curls. So, you know, as you can see I'm observing that. I've been wearing my hair curly a lot just because of laziness. But when I saw that I was like, yes.

Is that how your hair naturally is? Yeah, I guess I have really curly hair oh very nice thanks it's always that thing isn't it people with curly hair want straight hair and people with straight hair want curly hair I would say for most of my like kind of teenage and adult life I've spent a lot of time straightening my hair and a part of it is because I didn't really know what to do with curly hair um but you know there's lots of tutorials out there like the plot method and stuff and so that's what I've tried and I've gotten them to look halfway decent but

they're still not that pretty oh it looks lovely thanks you can tell with my headphones on and everything yeah that's good I mean I spent a lot of time curling my hair but it's only in recent years i've managed to get it to stay because my hair is so super straight that it would fall out in like an hour no matter how much hairspray huh but now i don't know because i'm getting older yeah our textures change i guess over our lifetimes found a new gray hair today you probably won't be able to see it but it's no i can't um i've also got one in my eyebrow and it turns out quite a lot on the sides which obviously i can't see but alan pointed them out to me the other week and he was like oh yeah you've got loads like there's like one there one there one there I was like oh okay great I've found I'm sure I have more but no one will tell me my hairstylist

is lying to me when I ask I know she is but I found it like like a little shorty just sticking straight up kind of yeah that's what this one's doing it's just really short yes and I'm like what the fuck and so I just pull it out because i i don't know i like to self-harm i guess but i always pluck the eyebrow one out but i've left it now because it keeps growing back so i'm like fine just stay there whatever i mean that's kind of cool i'd leave it yeah i'm gonna leave them because it's just sort of natural highlights, I think. Yeah. I don't color my hair anymore. I used to. No, same.

And I just don't think I have it in me. No. I've got dye. I've got loads of boxes of dye. I've got like a red one. And I've got... A yellow one and a blue one and a pink one. But it's the time to do it and to maintain it now.

I just can't be bothered. Funnily enough, because I asked my mum when I discovered the sheer amount of grey hairs that I've got. My mum was like, when did you go grey, mum? Because I appear to be going grey, and I want to know if this is hereditary or not. But she used to dye her hair loads throughout her 20s and 30s um so she was like I don't really know because I used to dye my hair

so much that it could have started way earlier yeah I don't know when it sort of started it just kind of appeared so it is part of it is genes but I also when I found mine did a bunch of research and stress sun smoking all of those things can cause gray hairs too I like all of those things check check check check check you like stress it is my favorite I can't get enough of that stuff I love being stressed out yeah um so here's another fun day that i think is kind of a random one it is also national everything you do is right day oh well fantastic news kathy because everything we do is right right exactly um all day every day not just today but it comes on the heels of aka yesterday was everything you think is wrong day oh okay yeah i suppose it's gonna be two two sides to the coin isn't there what goes out must come down so yeah so we're supposed to now feel better after yesterday okay, that's good. It's also Lips Appreciation Day.

Oh, wow. I appreciate your lips. I appreciate yours too. Thank you. They protect your teeth and mouth very nicely. Thank you so much. Are they doing their job? It's also No Selfies Day.

Oh. I haven't done a hope just coincidentally i'm winning i was gonna ask you if you guys took any at the uh party so that's good to hear you didn't no um it's there's a lot of things happening today oh so many things like i thought there was like one thing a day you know yeah i think there's probably not any rhyme or reason to like picking a day i don't think anyone's like vetting that so people could just be like today is butts day and you just put on the internet today shall henceforth be known as butts day i'll write it down wasn't it the 16th of march okay okay yeah stay um so i was interested about this no selfies day because i figured there was

probably at least a little bit of rationale behind it but it's also the birthday of the person who invented the cell phone camera philippe khan so that's fun um and then it went on to say the website that i was on which is nationaltoday.com selfie addiction has been linked to psychologically damaging behavior research has revealed that a woman on average spends 104 minutes each week trying to capture the perfect selfie and i will say i definitely do not spend that much time maybe in my youth but not anymore no i mean that's a lot of that's a lot of time yeah it's a lot of pictures of your own face man considering how long it actually takes to snap a selfie yeah yeah but there are girls aren't there that take like a hundred pictures and pick this one and edit it and yeah like daily yeah yep do you know what day your birthday is because mine's a really cool one

i guess i don't know what else i don't know what is observed on my birthday what's on yours cancer day i was like oh cool like it's just national recognition of cancer day international cancer day brilliant oh god

well let me find out what's on my day then I'll look it up real quick what is observed on June 25 25th other than kate it's goat cheese day goat cheese day yep and also national catfish day but tvd on whether that is the fish or catfishing someone it's also global beetles day Did they mean the band? Oh. And National Strawberry Parfait Day. Okay, well, there must be more for my birthday then. Oh, absolutely.

Let's find out. Yes. We're organized. Yorkshire Pudding Day! Yes! I love Yorkshire Pudding! That makes up for the cancer. Yeah. Crushed it.

Oh, she looks so happy right now. Your face. I'm made up. You're just like, oh god, yeah. I'm so happy. Homemade soup day. Okay, yeah. National sweater day.

National stuffed mushroom day yum i'm telling you people just decide something and then it's it so it's butts day today dump your significant jerk day oh national thank a mail carrier Okay. I can do that, I guess, next year. And obviously, World Cancer Day. There you go. Well, I'm made up about Yorkshire Birding Day. I fucking love Yorkshire Birding. Yeah, I mean, that's a winner.

Yeah, that's a winner. So I think the last two interesting ones I wanted to talk about were it's Black Press Day, which is it commemorates the first black newspaper called the Freedom's Journal, which hit New York City's newsstands in 1827. And basically, that was the for the young listeners at home, the equivalent of social media back in the 1800s. The paper even. Back in the day, we used to have to read news and look at photos on a piece of paper

and you'd believe it. And you'd have to go to the shop to buy it and bring it home. Crazy! And so for nearly 200 years black publishers, writers, photographers and editors have spoken truth to power on issues of racism. And today

also kicks off European-wide Action Week Against Racism. Oh, good. That's fun. Well, not fun. So, you know, well, no, not fun, but good. And I think for you and your European cohorts over there, this is when, you know, today and for the rest of the week, you to combat racism discrimination whether it be racial slurs and targeted bullies to sharing memes and content stereotyping people based on race and ethnicity

oh okay take time to prevent and respond to discrimination educate others on the adverse effects of racism and share solutions on the best way to deal with incidents of racial prejudice okay well on that note i mean tomorrow is is St. Patrick's Day where we will... You are on my brain twin wavelength today. Well, basically culturally appropriate their way of life and drink Guinness and wear green and play fiddle songs. appropriate their way of life and drink Guinness and wear green and play fiddle songs. So, I mean, is that helping racism against the Irish or not? So I will walk down this road with you, but I first must say that being Irish isn't a race.

Yes, that's true. But the whole kind of point of St. Patrick's Day actually was to combat prejudice against the Irish. So it is interesting that how we celebrate it today is to basically engage with all the stereotypes that Irish people had to deal with back in the day. So there you are really thinking about it in the right way. Um, but you're right. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's day. I was curious this morning thinking about that because I don't, I mean, I've celebrated it, AKA wearing green and drinking. Right. But I also, I'm not Irish that I can recall anyway. My brother did did 23 and me and i know we're like european but i can't remember if irish was part of that um anyway but it's celebrated by people of all ethnicities backgrounds cultures and races because it's kind of fun i guess um but what do you remember about the like origins of it anything no other than i'm guessing

patrick was a saint we we like celebrating saint days over here we have st george's day which is I knew it I'm gonna talk about that too I don't know I always see it come up and I'm like oh it's St. George's Day but we don't actually celebrate it if you know what I mean like we do St. Patrick's Day April 23rd April 20 it's April 23rd I'll just splice that in when I edit this it'll be my voice April 23rd. I'll just splice that in when I edit this. It'll be my voice. April 23rd. But the reason I note that is because the comment on the article I was reading about St. Paddy's Day is that English people seem to know more about St. Paddy's Day than their own England's own patron saint day, which is St. George. And I was like, well, I've never fucking heard of that.

Kate, how dare you? I mean't never fucking heard of that. Kate, how dare you? I mean, you guys never told me it's your job to educate me. I'm sorry. Okay. Well, it's April 23rd.

If you didn't know. Thank you. Now, who is St. George? Can you tell me? Um, he was a guy called George. Oh,

I mean, you're right. Something to do with the dragon. Oh no, that's probably what else. Um, you're, you're actually right. Keep going. Oh, he did, you're right. Something to do with a dragon? Oh no, that's probably what else. You're actually right, keep going. Oh, he did something with a dragon. He slayed the last dragon in England.

No? No, you're wrong. That was his legend, obviously. Oh, fucking hell, really? That must be in my brain cavity somewhere because i just learned it enough in school i guess i don't know that's my deep subconscious it's just so funny because like obviously dragons don't they're not real well not anymore because george killed the last one.

You're right. You're right. And they're extinct, like the pandas will be soon. Yes, exactly. Well, before we talk too much about St. George's Day, I do want to just give you the quick rundown of St. Paddy's Day. Cool. Go ahead. Okay.

March 17th is the day. So tomorrow, but every year, is an honor of Saint Patrick the patron of Ireland his origin story um is probably not what a lot of people recall I think you've probably heard this one people say oh yeah he drove all of the snakes out of Ireland that's not true shockingly i know um but he was a fourth century uh british kid oh okay so it wasn't irish actually even irish nope um at 16 he was kidnapped and sent to ireland as a slave oh shit um yeah i wrote a few years later a voice came to him that said it is time to leave. So he left and went back to England. It doesn't say anything.

He was a God. I don't know. It wasn't just his friend, Carl saying, get out of here, bro. Who knows? Didn't say. I assume it was meant to be God considering his later, you know, kind of efforts. Yes. So he returned to England, joined the monastery, studied religion.

He was ordained as a priest 15 years after that, sent back to Ireland on a mission to preach to the local Christians and convert more of the Irish because they clearly were heathens. Obviously. He was successful because of his knowledge about Irish culture when he was a slave. Right. Came in handy. irish culture when he was a slave right yeah yeah yeah came in handy uh-huh um and then he when he died in on march 17th 460 a.d he had established churches schools and monasteries so that's kind of like like why he's the saint he built churches um yeah pretty much and like converted people so and i wrote no mention of snakes weird um

so in summary he's a cult leader pretty much um one of the more common legends obviously is that he drove the snakes out of the emerald isle by giving a sermon and then i added my editorializing was which they found were so boring they had to drive themselves into the sea. We just like prayed at them and they're like, fuck, we gotta get out of here. And as a result, the island is still snake free to this day. The color green stems from kind of the, well, let me start over. So interestingly, the order of St. Patrick's color is blue. But the color green came about in the 18th century, and it was rumored that this was because supporters of Irish independence used this color to represent their cause.

Okay. He also had a big old stick, a big old walking stick, and rumor has it it turned into a tree because he would wander around and stop at villages with his stick and just preach and then he was out of place for so long the stick got born too and basically planted roots and grew into a tree he sounds like a real boring guy i think so um he is internationally known and that's largely due to the irish emigrants who settled in other countries, a lot in America. So they began observing and celebrating this day as well. The first one was in Boston in 1737. New York has one of the biggest ones, and that started in 1762. And Chicago has dyed the river green every year since 1962.

Oh, yeah. So I remember seeing that. Yeah. Yep. And London hosts a parade. It's actually environmentally friendly. Don I remember seeing that. Yeah. Yep. And London hosts a parade. It's actually environmentally friendly. Don't worry. Good.

What? Read Algae? I don't know. It said it on the article I was reading. And I've been there and I've asked people when I was there over St. Patrick's Day. Why is the river green? Well, more just like that can't be good for anything. And they assured me it was fine. That's just what everyone everyone that's what they've been brainwashed to say it's fine it's environmentally friendly don't worry yeah pretty much don't complain don't ask questions

um and the reason i was curious about this because i was like just do like my my friends over in england celebrate saint patty's day one london apparently there's a parade and an event that draws over 50 000 people each year so yeah i mean tomorrow we're playing a saint patrick's day gig noisy and we're green at pop in brighton um oh yeah i could do probably should do now you're gonna get pinched pinched so okay maybe this is not a thing that's everywhere but apparently when i was growing up if you don't wear green on saint patty's day you people are entitled to pinch you oh really never heard that okay maybe this is just an american thing um because the irish are so violent you know but like in a kind of a gentle way it's a gentle little pinch what do you pinch um and so in looking this up

about saint patty's one of the things that i came across was how saint patty's day is such a big deal to the english when he was not even their patron saint saint george was and most actually don't know about him and couldn't even name the day or the day that his day is on and it's like it is crazy that it's like internationally recognized for you know a real non-event really just some dude who converted people to christianity well done i think it's interesting that you guys all and i'm sure other countries do too have patron saint days i don't i don't think yeah i mean i'm sure people celebrate them here in their religion but it's not like a national thing you know what i mean i imagine they probably do across europe just because we love a bit of history

and a bit of saintage i guess any reason to party too yeah exactly any reason to get fucked up um yes poor sir george well and so here are some fun facts about him he was about as english as St. Patrick was Irish. Not at all. And in fact it was said that he maybe never even set foot in England. French George? Yeah, I can't

remember where it said he might have been from. They weren't sure, but they're pretty confident he was never from England and he's never been in England. But he was canonized as a fairytale-like figure who slayed dragons and inspired fighters in the Crusades. Ah. Nice job. There you go.

Here's a quote. His awesome, magical reputation among Christian soldiers led Edward III to make to make george the patron of the order of the garter which i was like oh scandalous but no not not that scandalous it's just a the chivalric order founded in the 14th century and is still going on today oh okay um this is what led saint george to being adopted as england's patron saint and fame as famously quoted in shakespeare's henry v cry god for harry england and saint george so why the fuck have we taken him on then um because i don't know because your kings liked him yeah right um and so then i asked myself kate why not the big to do for him well for one and this is a quote,

England was once an imperialist superpower, the seat of an empire, a synonym for supremacy. So why on earth would the English need a day to trumpet their national identity when that identity has already been comprehensively stamped on lands across the world? Yeah. It's little wonder that many contemporary English folk in our self-deprecating post imperialist aw shucks kind of way find that idea very awkward and embarrassing at best and outright sensitive or racist at worst moreover the flag of saint george is still uncomfortably associated with far-right groups in many people's minds so he's become like the pillar of racism yeah

it's like it's like um our confederate flag actually yeah that's a really good comparison i think that's accurate um so going back to kind of what you alluded to at the top saint patty's day originated as a form of cultural self-defense among irish immigrants to the new world order weird that it's now honored by wearing excessive amounts of green pinching people who aren't and getting rip-roaring drunk ideally on get us yep and basically acting like every stereotype the whole day was intended to counteract yeah i guess it you know it gets their name out there and you know at least they're celebrated for something i think pretty consistently like saints days are meant to be kind of a day of like um feasts and imbibing and stuff so i get like really

we just as a people who love to culturally appropriate things also just take it way beyond probably what the intention was yeah yeah yeah yeah um i need you to tell me a little bit about this though because i i wondered if you knew if you know about this okay and i chose not to look it up um so apparently the celebrations saint patty's day celebrations went on hiatus in the 70s and 80s because of the troubles oh the ira which i yeah well okay so is that what it is because i thought it sounded like what people might call people women having their period like so a bunch of menstruating women caused saint patty's day to be cancelled for two decades but no the troubles is the uh ireland england conflict yeah i think so yeah the ira they

uh they enjoyed bombing a lot of stuff and killing a lot of people um but there's i i really shouldn't be talking about this without doing any research but, no. We don't do that here. From what I know, obviously it's a very Catholic, strong country. Ah, sorry. My necklace just pinched me. Do you know how I breathe? I think we mentioned before that only recently're only recently have they allowed abortions

and stuff oh god I'm stuck and they used there used to be a lot of like stealing not stealing babies but like the churches taking unwanted babies

from women but yeah I think I think the troubles is referring to the IRA. Let me just Google Irish troubles. Yeah, so ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for 30 years from the late 60s to 1998. Bloody hell. Damn. We were alive.

Damn. It's sometimes described as the irregular war or low-level war. We don't want to make too big of a deal about it. Yeah, it wasn't worth that much. We're not going to call it World War III or anything. So it was...

Oh, interesting. Okay, so it was deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement. So that's what Good Friday is all about. Who knew? Did not know that. Okay. Is that true or did it just happen on Good Friday? Oh, I don't know.

I read one sentence. Because if Good Friday is Good Friday because of that, then I would be impressed. But I always thought it was because of Easter. Yeah, and Jesus. Jesus being born. No, resurrected. Oh, yeah, resurrected.

Sorry, I get confused. It was born on Christmas. D get confused it's one or the other same thing it's like born again they say right exactly uh so the conflict was primary prime i can't speak primarily political and nationalistic fueled by historical events and it also had ethnic and sectarian dimension. But I can't read. I haven't got my glasses on either, which is not helping. But despite use of the terms Protestant and Catholic to refer to the two sides, it was not a religious conflict.

conflict um it was basically unionists and loyalists who wanted northern ireland to remain within the united kingdom but irish national nationalists and republicans who are mostly irish catholics wanted northern ireland to leave the united kingdom so it's kind of like brexit all over again yes actually sounds a. Sounds a lot... This is... Fuck. History repeats itself if we don't learn our mistakes. Yeah. Fuck's sake.

God damn it. Oh, God. Now I know where we're going. Well, thank you for educating me on the troubles, though I still think I like better. I got the troubles, Gemma. There's a lot of violence, though.

Do you know? More than 3,500 people were killed in the conflict. Isn't that show Dairy Girls kind of around that time frame? Yeah, I think so. I haven't watched it. I've only watched one episode of that, so I can't say too much. Yeah, same. But God, yeah, it worked for a while, didn't it?

Bloody hell. We should ask our elders who are still with us because they survived was that a cat I think it was a door screaming it sounded like a cat you got a cat and didn't tell me

how dare you I would never do that so I have one final day to talk to you about. Okay. Are you up for it? Yeah. Okay. And I'm not going to be able to pronounce it because I can't roll my R's.

Oh, what? What? I can only, like, do it. Yeah, I can't do it. I only can do it, like, Chewbacca-style deep in my throat where I go, Rrrr. So I'm going to just say it like how I can say it, which is Urhu. But it's actually Urhu or something.

Can't do it. Urhu. It's Finnish, supposedly, but St. Urhu's Day. I keep saying loads about Finland. Yeah, well, it's Finland's day. Amazing. Did you know they have a tradition of eating sheep's heads? Full sheep's heads.

Like, okay. Like they roast the head and then they chop it in half and you eat all the brains and the eyes. it in half and you eat all the brains and the eyes yeah like i've okay there's a place here called the bachelor farmer and they basically are one of those places that try to use all of the animal and so you get a charcuterie board with head cheese yummy yeah i i would struggle with that if it didn't look like the head and someone just gave me like a piece of meat and said it's sheep yeah i probably wouldn't mind but if i'm like looking at the head and just like stick my fork in its eye i would i might die yeah there's no need for that it's like when you have like a hog roast and like the whole hog's on there i don't need to see that it's just putting me off

when people eat the whole fish like the restaurant used to work at served a whole fish and i was just like i it tastes good but it's looking at me yeah i don't need the head and also because it's like been cooked so it just looks all like dehydrated and like i think this is how people become vegetarians to be honest yeah i just haven't when you realize that food is actually animal you're like oh shit yeah yep um so a little bit about er who or er ho um god yeah shut up i knew i shouldn't have said anything but i wanted to pronounce it right so i like looked it up and then they kept rolling the r and i'm like fuck you'd never be able to speak finnish nope and that's my that's where i'm from now oh yeah shit but he's a fictional character who chased all of the grasshoppers out of finland

does that sound these people chasing animals out countries i exactly apparently he he said grasshoppers grasshoppers go to hell nah yes as you do i hate grasshoppers i get it no they're creepy they like jump at you and you don't know where they're gonna go and they play little sure like cute i guess but stay the fuck away from me they're probably. With their legs. Sure. Like, cute, I guess, but stay the fuck away from me. They're probably bigger in America, but we have little cute ones. I like them. I mean, we have multiple sized ones,

and I do think the bigger ones are the, because I actually can see their faces and make out their features. So, what was his beef with the grasshoppers, you might be asking yourself. Yeah, sorry. What was the beef with the grasshoppers? You might be asking yourself. Sorry, what was the beef with the grasshoppers? Glad you asked.

They wreaked havoc on the vineyards and St. Urhu wanted to save the grapes and the workers' jobs. And he did so well. This is a weird fact. Feeding, eating sour milk and fish soup. Oh, yummy. So to celebrate him, people wear purple and green and drink wine and talk about his heroism.

But here's a little bit more. He's fictional and he was created by someone in Minnesota. Right. Brilliant. But apparently this is celebrated in Finland, canada and parts of america what what are we doing why so patrick was an irish so george never foot in england and this fella was just made up by some Minnesotan guy or woman. What the fuck? But they're all chasing snakes and crickets out of the countries.

What the fuck? I'm glad you're upset about this. That was my intention. I'm going to get real riled up about this just seems absolutely mental christ it is it's just a reason to party so either some guy in virginia minnesota or bemidji there's conflict about whether it was a guy named richard batson or sulo habumaki who invented the second one and yeah definitely i want him more legit um and they think it's because there's like in minnesota there's quite a bit big scandinavian and finnish population or at least people who's great great great that's what they say yeah yeah

but apparently there's a statue of him holding a big grasshopper would you like to see yes please i got you and it's i when i saw i was reading this and i was getting like real into it i was like this is why finland's my country and then i was like oh it's just some guy in minnesota who made this up but this is why it's come full circle kate you're in minnesota you feel connected to finland because yep i was meant to find this out yeah and really lean into it all right link is in the chat for you thank you great he's just like this grasshopper with a big stick on his back he looks like quite a cool dude. Very short legs though.

That's why the grasshoppers were so troublesome for him because he was actually really short and they smacked him in the face when they flew around vineyards. Brilliant. I mean, I can see... Origin Northern Minnesota. Oh, it's a pitchfork. He pitchforked

that fucker. Oh, shit. What a legend. Grasshoppers, grasshoppers, go to hell. Oh, wow. Okay, well, I feel like we need to make up a day and celebrate

a man from a place that never existed all right we'll work on this for next time i'm gonna say uh we need to base this oh I'm going to look at that. Right. Wow. I'm thinking Moldova. Perfect. Saint Colin, who chased... It's not from there. No, it's not from there. He's actually from Portugal.

Wichita. Wichita, Portugal. And he chased all the butterflies from Moldova. Fucking butterflies. They were killing babies. They were killing babies, yeah. killing babies yeah they needed to be chased out there was the biggest plague of butterflies you've ever seen and man those

babies died so colin got involved with his huge he had a huge net and he just he went all around the country get away butterflies you're so pretty it makes me sick all the babies um and that's why they they have a real pollination issue in moldova now because no butterflies but they're very happy because the babies lived the population's ridiculous there now yep and they celebrate by eating pb and j's until they barf and that's the story of um saint colin we celebrate his day on uh june now there's lots in June what's a month when nothing really happens November yeah November

the 13th perfect and if it falls on a Friday we might see St. Colin come down from his spaceship yes that's what happens St. Colin come down from his spaceship. Yes.

That's what happens. I'm glad everyone got to let us talk about our favourite patron saint, St. Colin, of Wichita, Portugal, Moldovia. I'm going to put it in my calendar so I remember to drink a, what did we say you drank? so I remember to drink a... What did we say you drank? Well, PB&J is what you have to eat, but for a beverage...

I don't like peanut butter, so... Well, you can have another nut butter. That's okay. Okay. Or you could just do jelly, because people are allergic to peanuts, so I would hate for them to feel excluded. Oh, it's on a Wednesday this year.

Yeah, ooh. That means... It's Collins Day. to peanuts so I would hate for them to feel excluded oh it's on a Wednesday this year yeah that means it's Collins Day Collins Day recurring um so you have to drink um a warm flat can of coke oh yes I love one of those they really settle the stomach after after all of those after They really settle the stomach after. After all of those sandwiches. After all the butterflies in your belly. Oh! Thank you, thank you. Now we'll have to just find a rendering

or have maybe a chat, GBT or AI, make a picture of this man. Yes, I'm going to. He was somehow 17 feet tall, but also had T-Rex arms with his neck. That, I'm kidding. He was somehow 17 feet tall but also had T-Rex arms with his neck. That's what made it

so special. That's why it was so impressive and that's why he was sainted by Jesus himself. Okay. We are not

on any drugs today. I just want everyone to know that should we do it then am i the asshole yeah let's do that get ourselves in trouble turns out there is a saint colin would i though, in like five years for this to have spread? Be a good thing. Be an actual day. I'd love it so much. I've got to get St. Colin's Day off every year. Sorry.

It's my religion. Okay. Am I the asshole? You know you are, baby. All right, bear with me. I haven't got my glasses on, so this could take a while. Okay. Am I the asshole for divorcing my husband,

for putting a camera in our house to prove a point about me? Mmm. Okay. Okay. It's been about a month since I, 46-year-old female, found out about my husband, 47 male, had put a hidden camera in our living room

to prove, in quotes, that I'm lazy and worthless. I know. Okay. It was a small disguised hidden camera inside what looked like a charging block. He stuck one in a living room outlet. We have three kids, 16, 14 and 12, who all have a bunch of chargers and such,

so I didn't suspect it. The point my husband was trying to prove was that my administrative skills are not to the super S-A-H-M standards he has. Stay at home mum. Ah, good work. Stay at home mum standards. Ah, good work. I stay at home. Mum standards. He, as a, in quotes, high earner, deserves. This all started after a situation where my 12-year-old needed a permission slip signed and forms filled out in order to go on a class trip. I admit things happened and we missed the submission deadline. I had made a note to fill out the forms on another day since it was a task I needed to be 100% focused on. But it became the start of a new month,

and that's when I do most of the shopping and tracking of the household bills and subscriptions. I do daily cleaning, but we use a service for deep cleaning and landscaping that I had to supervise. Long story short, my 16-year-old calls my husband after picking up her sister, saying she was crying because she couldn't go on her trip. My husband drives to the school to beg them to let him fill out the forms out in the office, and thankfully they let him since it was the same day. I apologise profusely. My husband, who is self-employed as a HVAC,

HVAC, Home Heating Air Conditioning Technician, thank you, laid into me about how he has so many calls to make a day but still handles the administrative aspect of his job, communications and bookkeeping. I yelled back because his work is concentrated. While my work at home has a bunch of moving parts and emotional labor as well. And I do it all behind the scenes. He digs his heels in about how I wasn't as busy and needed to do easy things

better. A week later, he picks up fight about me not going that day to mail checks out to his employees when I could have done it the next day. This is when he admits to the camera and starts citing proof of times that I was on my phone and that automatically equals goofing off. I was on my phone researching meals to fit my daughter's dietary restrictions while keeping her healthy as a ballet dancer. I was looking into subscriptions for frozen but healthy meals that she and the rest of us could have or have on the go or at home. The fact that he took

offence to me occasionally lying down when I was researching or that I had taken a TV break before preparing dinner did it for me. He knew that my days are crazy during the first days of the month, which was when the permission slip debacle happened. I kicked him out the house and it's been a month and friends have been saying that I'm missing the fact that there are others out there who would not disregard the things that I do to make being a high earner possible. I ended up seeing an attorney and just filed for divorce because i feel violated and devalued devalued am i the arsehole a lot to take in there i feel like if he had to put a camera up to like have proof,

then that makes me wonder if they, like if he's complained about this before and she denied it. And so he wanted to point, but like the way she wrote that made me think that he's never had this conversation with her before. And like, so for the, I mean, they have a 16 year old, and a couple other kids so at least that long she's been a stay-at-home mom and he's like never said anything to her like fucking communicate i don't know i feel like he definitely sucks in this instance and is an asshole in this

instance because that's just really a really passive aggressive strange way to go about it and it seems to me like he maybe even wasn't going to confront her about it he just wanted to like keep tabs on her and make sure she wasn't being a lazily worthless piece of shit now on the other hand though like her reaction seems if you want to get divorced fine but like you got three kids to like maybe talk about it first before like pulling that trigger that seems a little excessive and reactive and I like wonder about like the impact on the kids but it is hard for me to say she's an asshole but I don't know like kind of everyone kind of sucks I think yeah I think first reaction was i putting a camera in does feel really invasive um and like especially being controlling do you know what i mean yeah like a secret camera

fair enough if you're putting like a security camera in to make you know make sure the kids are okay or whatever but yeah to put a hidden camera in seems a little bit creepy. But also, as you said, indicates that maybe this is an ongoing problem. But also, like, he's a high earner and there's obviously at some point been a decision that she is going to be a stay-at-home mum. So what is he expecting from it? Yeah. But maybe this has happened before and she is just a lazy bitch and the kids are suffering because she's not doing anything. Well, that's where we would need to know more information. Like overlooking a permission slip.

I'm not inclined to say you're a terrible stay-at-home mom yet. It sounds like she is. You're a terrible person.at-home mom yet it sounds like she's terrible yeah fuck you lady no but i mean she takes care of her kids needs gets them to school cleans the house runs the kind of services that come to the house um you know tries to like meet her daughter's needs who has a special diet and yeah this 12 year old probably was upset and sure like she probably should sorry kiddo i forgot i'll do better and like it got taken care of you gotta go and dad's mad at me because he thinks i'm a piece of shit i guess but i don't know like this is just a really weird dynamic that if i were

like dealing with this in my line of work and i heard all this i'd be like something missing something get that and i'm also missing something what am I missing here so yeah and I think if if this is enough to push them to divorce that something's really wrong with the relationship anyway do you know what I mean like that's a big jump it is I mean as invasive as that is feeling like i can't say if i were in her shoes i would immediately be like we're getting divorced um unless there were other things going on and this was the last straw right yeah yeah yeah but it's weird i mean my initial reactions were uh just sort of she's i think i was focusing too much on the hidden camera because

i know someone that was in a really abusive relationship and they were did that stuff yeah did that to control her um so that was my initial go-to but reading the comments man they are going in on this woman seriously well and i'm curious to hear them because my initial reaction was like no she's not the asshole yeah but then i also knew that that maybe wasn't the case so i wonder if i like let that influence my perspective a little bit but then i also heard like kicked him out and we're getting a divorce and i'm kind of just like oh like zero to 60 quick you know she wants that divorce settlement um okay so the top comment is i'm sorry but i can't get past that we have a weekly cleaner that comes in and i have to supervise no you

fucking don't and i do the tracking of our bills and subscriptions so what you have netflix and you couldn't sign a form because you were grocery shopping what i mean fair but i also think like people sometimes don't give stay-at-home moms enough credit about like the emotional labor and how they keep in their head and the stuff that they have to do looking after three kids probably is quite hard work of different ages high school middle school elementary school like a lot of different needs there but fair i see their point so yeah there's loads of people like saying yeah like i agree like if the husband's such a high earner there's no reason to not have their bills on auto pay

um i go out with my cleaners there i don't need to supervise that is a bit odd uh someone said the clincher for me is that your 16 year old called her father instead of you for help to get out of her jam that you created i'm not convinced you're as reliable as you think you are divorce him if you want but you're the asshole and your parent on your parenting priorities you know i noted that too, that the 16 year old called the dad who was at work when mom was at home. I thought that was weird. Yeah. Someone else said, describing filling out a permission slip as something you have to put off because it requires intense and uninterrupted focus is just wild. uninterrupted focus is just wild.

Well, fair. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I still think the camera is a problem, though. Like, is anyone saying that's weird? He probably should have had this conversation with you rather than tried to record you for some indeterminate period of time to throw it in your face later.

Yeah. Stay-at-home mum with three school-aged children and the teenager is picking up the younger ones from school also has cleaners and landscapers. What the fuck is a stay-at-home mum doing if there's no kids or cleaning to do? Not only is she looking up frozen meals to order for her kids, so she doesn't have to cook for them either.

Well, yeah, my mind's changing. The more you look into it, you're like, oh, yeah, okay. Oh, boy. I just feel like she, the more I read and think about it, I'm just imagining like a, you know, like a Desperate Housewives, Beverly Hills. A lady who lunches and it's so, my schedule is so busy. I have so many lunch dates with people.

So busy. I've got to sit here for at least 10 hours on Instagram looking at content and stuff that I need to buy for the house because I'm redoing the spare bedroom. I did it a year ago and it's very out of touch. It's really out of fashion now. The drapes are just awful.

So little Maria and Peter can pick themselves up for fucking school. And they can take a lean cuisine for lunch and hopefully they can microwave it there fair points fair points fair points okay yeah again i think maybe my hesitancy i i think that's probably true but my hesitancy is not being a stay-at-home mom and knowing that's there's like this kind of assumption that's being a stay-at-home mom is very kushti and it's not and same if you were a stay-at-home dad i think but i so and just the fact that her husband is

a high earner all of a sudden means something like he could not be a high earner and the issue could be the same like i don't think the amount of money he earns matters no i think what she's trying to imply is that they're rich yeah it's interesting well there you have it well that turned me around fuck her you're the asshole lady but your husband kind of is too because it's weird that he installed a camera that's just weird just talk to each other yeah you guys must be british even though i know you're american because you used hvac and SAHM. So. They've probably got Irish descendants.

Definitely. Although that's not British, but whatever. There you go. Everyone's an asshole. Everyone sucks, apart from the kids. They're just trying to live their lives. Some on their field trips. You can belly me yourselves. Well. Fun talk today.

Yeah, that was good. And obviously sending, you know, your opinions on whether this woman's an arsehole to talk shit to us at gmail.com or at TSYBpod on the social medias that we have. medias that we have. I'm actually genuinely curious to hear what other people think based on hearing it, us talking about it, and then us reading the comments. Especially from the mums out

there. Yeah. Because I don't know what it's like to raise children, but I think that would be a very hard job, and I don't want to do it. Same. There you go. Well uh saint or whose day and many blessings of saint colin and his short-armed well-wishing I'm so looking forward to celebrating that day with you I can't wait you know it's gonna be great yeah

start out figuring out all your favorite jam sandwich recipes. Yum. And also happy, you know, lip stay. Yeah, brilliant. I'm going to go and just stare at my lips in the mirror and just appreciate them because that's what today is all about. Give yourself a little kiss. They're really dry today, actually.

Mine too, actually. So a little self-care is necessary, I think, today. It's brought that to light, you know. I really also love how, I'm assuming that's chips. No, no, that's Lucy screaming her head off. Oh, that's Lucy. Oh, okay. It seems to happen every time we record one of the cats.

It gets to about 40 minutes, 50 50 minutes and the cats are like i want attention yeah uh nigel is at the gym so it's just me and of course it's been yeah too long too long it's really rough being a stay-at-home cat mom for your pain man for your pain yeah well until next time until next time ta-ra bye Bye. We'll be right back. You're always taken care of with the sportsbook Born in Vegas. That's a feeling you can only get with BetMGM. And no matter your team, your favorite skater, or your style, there's something every NHL fan is going to love about BetMGM. Download the app today and discover why BetMGM is your hockey home for the season.

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