Where on Earth is Faketown? | America's Weirdest Place Names
It's Adam's turn to be tested this week, on his knowledge of strange place names in the United States of America. It's a good thing there's not a family holiday riding on it. See if you can guess which ones are genuine holiday destinations and which one is completely fictitious. Alun promises to tell the truth, or there will be consequences.
Adam's made his way to Bangkok but not before a flying visit to his old home of Melbourne. Did you know British citizens need visas to enter Australia? Blimey! Join a discussion filled with privilege, bureaucracy and a loss of perspective.
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00:00 - Intro
04:55 - Travel Quiz: Where on Earth is Faketown?
07:16 - Adam's Australian visa issues
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Welcome to Tripology
Alun:
[0:02] Hello and welcome to this episode of Dripology. It's a backpacking show where
Intro and Travel Chaos
Alun:
[0:07] two travelling best friends hang out and talk about all things backpacking. I'm Alun and I'm here with the hyper-considerate Adam.
Adam:
[0:17] Hello everyone, thank you for joining us for another week. I'm in Bangkok this time and I'm jet lagged up to the eyeballs and Alun is still in Tokyo, So smart, casual as ever.
Alun:
[0:26] Yeah, coming straight from my job at 7-Eleven to record an episode of Tripology. It's all very exciting. I called you hyper considerate, Adam, because we had a little conversation before the show started about how you're always thinking and caring for my time zone when we're planning the record. So extending a heartfelt thank you from both me and my 7-Eleven manager, who, you know, it's difficult to organize around both his schedule and yours. So I appreciate the time you've taken.
Adam:
[0:56] That's quite all right. It's quite all right. It's been difficult for us over the last couple of days because I've gone from New Zealand to Melbourne and then two days later to Bangkok, where I now am. So I don't suspect you had any idea about how many hours I was making up. And now I think I've actually surpassed you, mate. And I'm now, are you in front of me now? Am I behind you?
Alun:
[1:16] You've surpassed me in more ways than one adam and very few of those ways we can discuss on the show but what i would like to say is maybe it's the first time in topology history where you're moving around itinerant and i am stationary stationary in tokyo you're zipping all over it's the first time in a long time at least that's been the case normally of course i'm the harder topology member to pin down i'm definitely the one with the itchier feet uh and you like to bunker down a little more so that's an exciting dynamic that we've stumbled into yeah.
Adam:
[1:49] I think maybe now i'm just feeling all the pains that you probably felt when you were traveling backpacking and worrying about wi-fi connections and you know the ambient sounds in the room i'm sort of in a hotel just next to cosan road look i know about its reputation i don't like the road itself i think it's gone downhill if that was even possible but it is conveniently located uh but you know the problem is it's very busy outside and there's cars honking and motorbikes going past and there's actually two pigeons as we speak wooing what's the sound that pigeons make.
Alun:
[2:24] A cooing, actually. Yeah, a woo is something that also happens on Kosan Road, but unfortunately, we can't discuss that, but Tripology listeners, travelers will all know what I mean. Adam, you've been, you're traveling, and I'm proud of you, and I love it, and you're coming to see me soon, and all that's very, very good. I've been pondering the state of travel and how it's sort of basically it's turned into an absolute industrialist free for all where people are constantly on chat GPT, Googling and trying to like go to the same places, do the same things, do all that, you know, been pondering that a little bit.
Vagabot’s Fake Places Game
Alun:
[3:04] I've been excited about you journeying around. So I thought we have a little guy. We love him very dearly on the show. He's called Vagabot. He's a little traveling AI robot that sometimes we ask questions. I recently polled the listeners and I found out that he was quite a polarizing character. One listener, a friend who I speak to and deeply respect, but they are a listener of the show said i don't like that robot thing you have another said uh what's that vagabot about so listen he's the vagabot 3000 he's essentially a little robot that we use sometimes if we need something getting done.
Adam:
[3:52] But he’s a backpacking expert from the future.
Alun:
[3:53] He's been to.
Adam:
[3:54] More countries than there are on planet Earth.
Alun:
[3:56] Yeah, I don't get what your guys' problem is. Look, if I have a question about travelling, you might go to ChatGPT or Google. I go to the Vagabot 3000. But... He is a little bit haywire sometimes, our little travelling robot, and me and him have devised a game show for you to participate in today. Are you prepared?
Adam:
[4:18] Is it just me, or is it everyone at home as well? Is this going to be like a collective play-along thing?
Alun:
[4:23] No, I asked Vagabot what he wanted to do, and it very much felt like a personal attack towards you.
Adam:
[4:31] Amazing.
Alun:
[4:31] He seemed very insistent that we play this game with you. Are you ready?
Adam:
[4:35] I am ready. Yeah, yeah. I haven't had much sleep, as you can probably imagine. Maybe we'll talk about that at the end of the show. But I'm ready as I'll ever be, mate. I've got my Pocari sweat. If you didn't believe that I was in Asia, there you go. My favorite drink in the world apart from wine. That's my new catchphrase.
Alun:
[4:52] Okay, I like it. Yeah, good catchphrase. Okay, so the game comes with a bit of prevarication. Basically, this is the scenario in which you're playing. It's very much a role-playing game that you have to imagine a set of circumstances, and then you're playing within that parameter. okay okay.
Adam:
[5:08] Excellent is it still travel related.
Alun:
[5:10] Oh yeah oh it's travel related mate yeah okay so this is the scenario i've i've come up with this vagabond helps but largely it's from my brain the smith family a fictional family have decided that they want to go traveling in the united states of america they've got their heart set on visiting three three locations in the united States in an action-packed week. okay okay they've settled on going to vagabond and saying provide us with said locations we want a list of locations to travel to vagabond's given them four options but one of them isn't real adam.
Adam:
[5:58] Right okay okay.
Alun:
[6:01] So you as a travel expert they've gone to you and said oh vagabond's just given us this list we're going to go here here here and here you've got to deduce which one is the fake location and protect the smith family from going somewhere which doesn't exist are you ready okay.
Adam:
[6:22] I'm ready definitely i mean my knowledge of the u.s is pretty good as long as it's only about the four places i've been.
Alun:
[6:29] Okay i'm going to give you each of vagabots locations and you must decide and then send the Smith family on there a week away, baby. Let's go.
Adam:
[6:42] Is this revenge for the tripping point we did on Japan or what? It's feeling a little bit like it might be.
Alun:
[6:50] Look, I don't come up with the questions, Adam. It's simply polarizing third member of the crew, Vagabot 3000. Okay. God, his handwriting is hard to read. Vagabot. Okay. Place number one. Boring. It's in Portland. And some things that you can do there. It's got a scenic rail trail and you can explore Mount Hood. But that's one place number one. Boring in Portland.
Adam:
[7:24] Oh, it's a place called Boring in Portland.
Alun:
[7:27] That's right. Yeah.
Adam:
[7:29] Okay. Well, there is a place in... I think it's in Oregon. It might just be over the border from Washington called Bend. That's a funny name for a place.
Alun:
[7:40] That's a funny name for a place Maybe it will come up later in Vagabot's thing But so far he wants to send the Smith family To Boring in Portland Okay Next one, You're going to go all the way To New Mexico For the wonderful location It's called Truth or Consequences, in truth or consequences the place in new mexico you can visit hot springs and you can also visit elephant bot lake state park uh if.
Adam:
[8:24] This is real then the committee needs to intervene or something you can't call places this.
Alun:
[8:29] Yeah truth or consequences in new mexico you've got elephant butt lake state park and you've got some hot springs there that's place number two the vagabond wants to send the smith family to truth or consequences yeah truth or consequences when.
Adam:
[8:45] Was that ever the choice between two options.
Alun:
[8:48] I'm not sure vagabond fully understood my input but that's what he's come up with, are you ready for number three yes vagabond wants to send the smith family all the way to pennsylvania dutch country for the place called intercourse yeah, i don't know why intercourse in pennsylvania dutch country where you can visit handicraft places and farmland that.
Adam:
[9:21] Three of these are real places with real names and.
Alun:
[9:25] Yeah that's.
Adam:
[9:27] Maybe even more strange.
Alun:
[9:29] I'll give you your final option and then we'll review and you can do your working out The last place is Fake Town in New Jersey. Fake Town, New Jersey. There's lots of casinos there, quite a vibrant casino culture, and a couple of hiking trails. There's a couple of famous politicians from there as well. Fake Town, New Jersey. So to review, you've got Boring in Portland, Truth or Consequences in New Mexico, intercourse in pennsylvania dutch country or fake town in new jersey is.
Adam:
[10:10] Intercourse spelt the way that the word intercourse is spelt or is it a sort of i-n-t-a.
Alun:
[10:15] Intercourse no intercourse as in to have sexual intercourse.
Adam:
[10:22] Yeah in pennsylvania um with your pennsylvania it's.
Alun:
[10:27] Fake town is all one word no hyphen fake town yeah boring is i mean as you'd imagine dull and boring and truth or consequences is truth space or space consequences.
The Smith Family Decision
Adam:
[10:46] So, I think Fake Town is a real place. That's what I'm going to go with. I can imagine that being a real place.
Alun:
[10:53] I'll play the Smith family. I'll play the father of the Smith family. Oh, God. This AI travel agent's gone terribly wrong, Adam, because he's given us four places, but we know that one of them isn't real. So, thank God you're here. So, okay. So, first we're going to go to Fake Town.
Adam:
[11:09] Well, here's the good news, Mr. Smith. I'll give you the option. Do you want to hear the truth or consequences?
Alun:
[11:15] I want to, well, can I go to Truth or Consequences?
Adam:
[11:19] Um, I need to do some more research on that. Uh, let me just sort of think it through. So Fake Town is a great place. I haven't been there myself, but I do know people who have been. They're big gamblers and, uh, they had a great time there. So maybe you might know there's a couple of famous
politicians who have come from there as well, but it's a really good place. Loads to do. Uh, so I do recommend that.
Alun:
[11:42] Okay, so we're going to New Jersey first.
Adam:
[11:45] Yeah, then there's also Boring. You can go, well, that would be right over the other side of the country, so maybe it doesn't make much logistical sense.
Alun:
[11:52] Yeah. No, no, no. We're not worried about that. Money is no object for us. We're going to be... Forget about the gas prices. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Adam:
[12:05] And I know what you're thinking.
Alun:
[12:07] It's very much a hop-on, hop-off helicopter tour of the States.
Adam:
[12:11] Yeah. Don't judge a place by its name. boring is a great place where there's lots of things to do there's some really good food there uh and it's conveniently located uh to get to your third destination which is a real place, and it's all the way down i'm looking at your patient expression so.
Alun:
[12:39] Yeah welcome to tripping point that's how i.
Adam:
[12:42] Play tripping point just really like trying to coax it out of you just by using your eyelids uh as you know my only indicator you can't do that with vagabond.
Alun:
[12:52] Though because he's an emotionless drone.
Adam:
[12:54] Yeah i think i've fucking forgotten the fourth one mate what is it i know the one truth or consequences is new mexico right intercourse intercourse yeah, um where it would have made sense actually to do to go to intercourse when you're on the east side of the country which is uh sort of pennsylvania and then new jersey as well but as you've said we don't really care why don't we why don't we finish on a high a climax and you can uh leave intercourse until the very end the end of the evening the end of the trip, book that in for the last week um and you're gonna have to miss truth or consequences because if that is a real place which it probably fucking is let's be honest uh that might be the strangest place name of anywhere on earth and in the uk there are some funny ones but truth or consequences in new mexico how did they let them get away with that.
Alun:
[13:49] Oh man what one emotional roller coaster, what an emotional roller coaster for the smith family it's gonna be because you know, Vagabot had the decency to tell them that one of the places was fake.
Adam:
[14:06] Yeah.
Alun:
[14:07] And they've gone to you as a trusted human confidant to try and plan their trip. They're going to get off the plane in New Jersey.
Adam:
[14:18] Yeah.
Alun:
[14:19] And the very first place that they go to on their holiday. I tried to give you a hint with the name, Adam, but Fake Town is not real. a hint as soon as.
Adam:
[14:37] You read it i said well it's just too on the nose surely there is a fake town there has to.
Alun:
[14:40] Be the smith family they get off in new jersey they arrive we're here in fake town can you imagine the people at new jersey airport are gonna laugh at them oh what hotel are you staying at sir oh just fake hotel in fake town yeah let me guess your.
Adam:
[14:57] Name's mr smith.
Alun:
[14:58] Yeah it's not real mate the other place is completely real boring absolutely a real place intercourse.
Adam:
[15:06] Is fine isn't it intercourse was a word before it was.
Alun:
[15:08] Maybe it's like an amish community place an amish village wow.
Adam:
[15:14] Really weird a boring boring is just i mean that's just a word i'm sure it wasn't called boring because of the meaning.
Alun:
[15:21] Well interestingly interestingly it's it's a sister town with a place called dull in Scotland.
Adam:
[15:28] No, that can't...
Alun:
[15:32] That's true no.
Adam:
[15:34] It's not true.
Alun:
[15:34] It's true so that.
Adam:
[15:37] Would be so good if that was true it's a.
Alun:
[15:39] Shame no no i'm telling you it's true we're not playing the game anymore i'm telling you that is true there's a place called dull in scotland which is the official sister town of boring in portland it's like been twinned like some german towns yeah oh.
Adam:
[15:51] My god what is that someone's got a sense of humor haven't they.
Alun:
[15:54] Yes probably the scottish let's be honest.
Truth or Consequences Revealed
Adam:
[16:01] He doesn't mean it he doesn't mean it american listeners come back um and hang on truth or consequences why have we let that one slide that's a real place.
Alun:
[16:11] That's a real place in new mexico yeah it was called hot springs because it had hot springs there but there was a um there was an npr radio show a radio like game with that name and for For whatever reason, they went, let's just change our name to that as a publicity stunt. And they've been it ever since.
Adam:
[16:30] That really is wild. Truth or consequences. That might be my least favorite place name of all time.
Alun:
[16:36] Well, you've not been to some of the others that I came across in my research. Dull or boring. I'm not going to say any of the others because I might save them for a future episode. Because I enjoyed that, mate. The Smith family didn't, but I did.
Adam:
[16:48] It's difficult, that. Well, how would they ever have confidence in me ever again?
Alun:
[16:52] They won't.
Adam:
[16:53] I'm sure they don't listen to the show anymore.
Alun:
[16:54] It'll be a different family next time.
Adam:
[16:56] I feel like I've been... I've had the wall pulling over my eyes, pulled straight over my eyes.
Alun:
[17:02] Well, Vagabot tends to do that, you know. He sends his regards, actually.
Australia Visa Panic
Alun:
[17:08] He says, thanks for all your service, but let him take the holiday planning from here.
Adam:
[17:15] Yeah. I haven't spoken to him in ages. You know why? Because I've been moving around, leaving New Zealand behind, and then going to Melbourne, a place where I used to live. Big old trip down memory lane over the last 48, 72 hours. um and then on to bangkok where i now am mate and it was not a smooth journey let me tell you what.
Alun:
[17:34] Was rough about it.
Adam:
[17:35] So you might remember because we speak off air but in order to go to australia as a uk citizen now i know this is going to sound ridiculous but i even though i had one last year completely forgot that you need a tourist visa.
Alun:
[17:49] Interesting because i remember copping quite a lot of flack on this podcast for the time where I didn't book a visa for where I was going. Do you remember where that was? We were together and I had to panic book a visa really quickly.
Adam:
[18:02] Yes. Hang on. Let's brainstorm this. Was it Azerbaijan?
Alun:
[18:07] Yeah. Feels like it might be Azerbaijan. Yeah. Yeah. Going from Oman to Azerbaijan. That's right. Well done. Well remembered. And you called me a c**t. No. You called me a c**t.
Adam:
[18:25] That was before Vagabot 3000 had made his way into the fold but you know he hadn't become the third member of the trilogy team yeah yeah.
Alun:
[18:31] No you gave me I got quite a lot of flack from you for that for that so um so what do you think you're playing at.
Adam:
[18:38] Well what I would say to that is that Azerbaijan although it begins with a is not Australia in terms of its relationship with the uk and i think i think i got lured into a false sense of security i think i at the time and i realized that this is going to make me sound like a very privileged individual which we already do, but i thought surely i don't need a visa to go to australia i'm from the uk, and i think that that i think that's what happened, well well if it was azerbaijan i might have thought oh i don't know a lot about that country and i don't think swathes of tourists are going there there is a chance you might need a visa okay well yep.
Alun:
[19:24] Um yeah yeah sure i agree.
Adam:
[19:27] I mean i.
Alun:
[19:29] Understand i'm not gonna push back.
Adam:
[19:32] So uh oh you can imagine the panic set in when i looked online after booking the flight and my flight was only sort of in six or seven days time from queenstown up to melbourne and i thought i better just check just because you never know dear jumped online yeah there it goes uk citizens as of whatever day now need the visa uh tourist thing subclass 651 whatever it is and i thought fuck you know if there's it's the last thing i need dismantling my life getting all emotional having lived in New Zealand 14 months selling my van all that sort of stuff um you know going through the motions wondering whether I'm making the right decision or not because I've still got, another almost a year left on my New Zealand visa with the option to extend for a further year, so you know we do get a good deal us Brits and and then yeah got the information I thought fuck so jumped online went through the rigmarole and it's do you think it's bollocks or not having to apply for, not having to apply for a visa, but given that there is a share of information between these two countries. It's hard to not see it as just bureaucratic data collection.
Alun:
[20:47] I think it's bullshit. And I want the world to feel like a big sexy party where everyone's sort of invited and everyone's getting off with each other and hanging out.
Adam:
[21:01] You just rename all the towns intercourse.
Alun:
[21:03] Yeah. That's what I want the world to feel like. But I'm also aware it sounds insane to a lot of people as talking like that because I'm friends with an Armenian person. I know that might come as a fucking shock to you, you bigot, but I am.
Adam:
[21:22] Okay.
Alun:
[21:23] I'm friends with an Armenian person, and the rigmarole that they have to go through to get a visa is insane. like they're trying to go to the Schengen um just to see what's going on out there they're interested in sort of seeing what's happening in the Schengen right and the amount of work that they have to do to get a visa for the Schengen they have to book appointments they have to go to the visa office they have to learn Norwegian they have to get married to a Norwegian person they have to catch a fish they have to do so much stuff to even get the visa for the Schengen that you saying it's bullshit that you have to get a visa for Australia, it seems you know to her listening when she's listening to that no no I'm on your side she's going to think Adam's.
Adam:
[22:14] No, I'm on your side. I would prefer that there was maybe a pool of people, we'd be included in those, of people. These are people who want to travel. They're people who put their passports forward and say, hey, I'm interested in travel. I'm really curious. I would like to explore more of the world. can can you please just include me when you know you're giving out these visas wherever around the world anyway and then all of the people who don't want to travel you know like the people who choose conventional lives then you know they they don't have to get involved that's fine hold.
Alun:
[22:58] On but it sounds to me like what you're advocating for is essentially going to mean that rich people just get visas easily and poor people don't.
Adam:
[23:07] Why rich? We travel more than anyone I know and we're not rich.
Alun:
[23:13] Well, exactly. But who is going to go through the rigmarole? Like, this is the thing about travellers, mate. There's people who are interested in travel and then people who act as if they're interested by travel because actually they've just got too much money. Some of the most well-travelled people I know, they're just rich. So they're like, oh, I've been to 100 places. I'm like, oh, that's amazing. You must be so cool. And they're like, no, what's happened is I'm just wealthy. So going to different places is very easy for me. The barrier to entry for rich people to be interested in travel is much less than it is for us. It's like, to use a niche example, Logan Paul has a very expensive Pokemon card. Is he the most interested in Pokemon cards? Maybe not, but he's got more money than anyone else who is interested in pokemon cards i regret starting that example but the same applies to travel yeah.
Adam:
[24:06] I see what you're saying i see what you're saying um yeah just because someone hasn't been so just because someone has been to a lot of countries doesn't necessarily make them a great traveler um.
Alun:
[24:16] When someone who's really like seems like they're interested in travel because they travel a lot it might just be that they're rich.
Adam:
[24:23] Yeah i think that's probably a fair point actually that is a fair point and i wish it was much easier for everyone else instead of being more difficult for us.
Alun:
[24:32] That's my point give as many visas as that armenian traveler wants yeah because she's genuinely interested in traveling and seeing the world, you i think maybe you should have to apply for your australian visa.
Adam:
[24:50] I just think there's a lack of common sense here. I wish that it went straight to a human. Because it never goes to a human, does it? I wish it went straight to a human. And then they said, oh, who's this guy? Oh, he used to live in Australia. Okay, well, let's have a quick look. Oh, he's already booked a flight. Oh, I bet he's stressing. Bless him. I bet he's stressing. He probably didn't even know that he needed a visa. He's from Britain. Why would he?
Alun:
[25:09] It's a shame not to role play what that might sound like. Nah, let's not.
Adam:
[25:19] We're having a laugh. forever to last um so anyway i read online that it should take less than a day actually for these to be approved so there i was less than a day and there i was after one full day and two and three and four and five and i still hadn't had my visa and in that time you got a little text a little panic text didn't you mate.
Alun:
[25:43] I did yeah i tried to solve the problem for you didn't i because you actually the crazily you'd been using vagabond to try and find out, the way to go about it you'd been messaging vagabond like oh which visa subclass do i want and i said don't use vagabond for that he's a madman.
Adam:
[26:01] I said vagabond are you sure that english people need a visa to go to australia can't be the case it simply can't be the case um, and ironically i did have one last year that expired the day before i flew so had i just booked my flight a couple of days earlier wouldn't have needed one already had a one that was active, um but it came through just in time you probably got a text then as well was.
Alun:
[26:26] That the guy was that your visa officer just in time.
Adam:
[26:29] Just in time my name's just.
Alun:
[26:32] In time now i'm responsible for anyone coming through this border.
Adam:
[26:35] What do you think he was called what's a typical australian name just in time just in time mate I have been hearing a lot of Australian accents quite like it, soft on the ears.
Alun:
[26:47] I think it's the sexiest accent of all.
Adam:
[26:50] Do you?
Alun:
[26:52] Yes.
Adam:
[26:54] Interesting.
Alun:
[26:55] That could be because the first person I was ever in love with was an Australian, and it's formed a psycho... Yes. Oh, bloody. And incidentally, I fucking hate stingrays. Those absolute arseholes.
Accent Talk Turns Flirty
Adam:
[27:12] Um or is some sort of like home and away neighbors fascination was it growing up or what.
Alun:
[27:17] I just think that when the first person you fall in love with is quite specific they possess specific qualities then sometimes that can become something which you admire in future partners so, um if you are interested in dating me purchase a cork hat beforehand.
Adam:
[27:37] And dating me is basically.
Alun:
[27:38] Like cosplaying in a parody fashion.
Adam:
[27:41] Yeah the sexiest accent i don't know what is the sexiest accent actually to you and we i know what the sexiest.
Alun:
[27:48] Accent is for you.
Adam:
[27:49] Oh go go on if i did if.
Alun:
[27:52] I did if i was to do an impression of it we'd have to end the show early i know what you're.
Adam:
[27:55] Like what because i would come through that screen and uh yeah lay one on you you.
Alun:
[28:02] Find to arrange don't you well you for you my observation is that you find the french accent very alluring.
Adam:
[28:09] Yes yeah um do you think there would be a difference between french people speaking french and french people speaking english with their accent well yeah no one's.
Alun:
[28:19] Interested in a french canadian accent there's not.
Adam:
[28:21] One person in the world my.
Alun:
[28:24] Favorite accent is is quebec.
Adam:
[28:29] No i'm well i'm thinking about moving to montreal so i do have to tread carefully here but i don't think i think we're all in agreement here and that's basically most english speakers um as a first language and all of france apart from maybe four or five people um probably prefer the French accent from France than a Quebecois accent.
Alun:
[28:53] I personally don't like, the French accent doesn't do it for me.
Adam:
[28:59] Yeah why is that because i have to tell you you're wrong no.
Alun:
[29:03] I know but so this is it for me i think and i'm going to be completely honest here and it's you know it's a personal show i associate the french accent with poshness i like.
Adam:
[29:15] My australian.
Alun:
[29:15] Accents quite bogan you know how fucking straight.
Adam:
[29:19] Matters right.
Alun:
[29:22] So i think i'm into the more white collar or is it blue collar which is the one that's like working class.
Adam:
[29:31] The working class um don't ask me that live on there probably blue blue isn't it i'm into.
Alun:
[29:37] The i'm into the blue collar accents french for me a little.
Adam:
[29:42] Bit too high.
Alun:
[29:42] Brow i like to leave those ones for you.
Adam:
[29:44] Okay cool yeah i mean i'm but but all what we're talking about here is like other people speaking english with their accent right so what i'm my question to you is do you still find it sexy yeah if they're speaking their own language and you are listening in and we know you're not understanding anything because you you only speak english but do you still find that quite attractive and sexy when you hear people speaking their language and you can't understand is it just like a yeah a sound thing.
Alun:
[30:18] No yeah obviously i think i think there's an allure if that's talking a different language and you can't understand because it's mysterious, isn't it? Mysteriousness is sexy.
Adam:
[30:29] Yeah. If you go to Glasgow.
Alun:
[30:31] It's a bit like that.
Adam:
[30:33] Really? I was actually having a drink with a girl from Glasgow just the other day. She just sat at a bar next to me.
Alun:
[30:37] And could you understand what she was saying?
Adam:
[30:38] Not a word, actually.
Alun:
[30:39] And was it sexy as a result?
Adam:
[30:43] The fact that I didn't understand what she was saying. No, I think she might even start listening to the show. We did have a bit of a chat about the show. Really, really nice.
Alun:
[30:50] Well, that's the thing. It's mutually unintelligible. So she can understand us. we can't understand her and that is sexy.
Adam:
[31:00] He's not wrong. He's not wrong. I had so much to say today and we've gone off on an absolute tangent.
Alun:
[31:06] I think we have to end it there and we'll kick your story over to next week, mate.
Adam:
[31:10] All right. Well, I like the sound of that.
Alun:
[31:11] I think we carry on this conversation. I think there's a lot of fruitful ground talking about accents and sex appeal. So we'll continue that conversation in the Lost and Found over on Patreon. The link is in the description. For everyone else, though, we'll have to see you next week. There simply isn't time.
Adam:
[31:25] We'll see you there, guys. Thanks ever so much for tuning in. Bye-bye.
Alun:
[31:28] You little bastardy bee.
Adam:
[31:30] Ha ha ha ha ha.
