Listener Tiffany from Puerto Rico wants to know what we think about this racist, ignorant map that supposedly denotes how Americans really view the world. Now obviously, we don’t like it, and Tiffany wasn’t looking for us to confirm its accuracy. So we take it as a springboard to talk about the realities of terrible geographic knowledge that plagues American… and probably every other nationality.
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We get a kick out of letting the PodcasterPro computer brain try to interpret our words every week. No, this isn't how transcripts of podcasting should be done, but it's funny!
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We're he be get on a bus to do when they got up to go to Africa. What's wrong with you from rare year. You can take it. Oh, it's one tower. This one is one time. This is one on this one time. Oh my God, Just one time. You're going to be not question this week, my love from Tiffany, Paul, Reds, She writes, Hi, she though, And I'm not going to be Burrel. She says, Hi Shiboh. I recently saw a map on the Internet, which I have a close to this email message titled The world according to Americans. Since you are American world travelers, I would like to get your personal perspective of the map, especially These statements related to the countries you have already visited, looking forward to your response. Thank you very much. Tiffany Rama. Put the reco is where Tiffany is from now. Obviously, you can't see this map will put a link through the map in the show notes. So if you're listening, I'd just scroll down your lessening notes which should be in the app if not get a better podcast app and click on this map. That's a great question. Tiffany. Thanks for asking. I'm She lady And I am Ibo Tara. We are XIV. Oh, you are listening to this one time the podcast. Now this Map my love which the people listening right now should have pulled up on their phones. Yeah. Given his question was what about the commentary around the So I'll describe it because I know some of you were driving. Some of you are too lazy to follow instructions and click through do not offend our listeners. It's only the one person.
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You know who you . So this is a map where Americans have like I guess it's two supposedly making fun of the fact that Americans don't know about things. So here's the one for Europe. For example, everything in the far eastern side of Europe and into Asia is called just Khamis. The area where Turkey is call Thanksgiving meal France's smelly people, England is just the word Mummy as a variety of things like that. If you go over to the Asian side of things that India is yoga, for example, You get the picture. You kinda get what this is all about the for some reason in South America, Brazil is listed as the Land of no pubis. I guess for a Brazilian waxes. The idea though, anyhow, This is the map in question my love and Tiffany would like to know how we feel about it in general. And also I think she's asking, Does do our experiences into...
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