Things Foreigners Like About Americans

Who knew foreigners actually liked these things about Americans?!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do foreign nations or people from other countries, what
do they say about Americans that they like?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Like, Oh, it's good that you clarify because we know
what they say.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Can I tell you something really quick?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes, Alison?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
That song? Yeah, we in kindergarten we started every class
with singing that country and country tizzavy. I'm pretty sure
it was kindergarten, and my kindergarten teacher had to get the.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Note so she would go lou my. So I thought
the song starting like that.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I mean I spent years going loo yeah, great before
I realized that wasn't the first word.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
No one wanted to correct you. No, it probably felt
bad thing.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
My favorite thing about Americans is how often football fields
is used as a unit of measurement.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
We do do that.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's an easy visual, just show a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I love how Americans say coffee. How else do you
say it?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Cough coffee cafe.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I love how Americans make a salad where the primary
ingredient is pasta. Which salad? Oh, I mean like pasta salad?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
You know the little thing called pasta?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Sound I'm thinking a salad with pasta in the center. Like,
I'm like, what, Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
There's nothing that grosses me out more than pasta noodles
with lettuce.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, I don't think that they can go together.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I love how Americans call their dogs things like Cooper, Tucker,
and Tanner. I have no idea what any of these
names mean. But the dog is very cute. What does
that mean? I have no idea what those they're names
it mean?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Does it mean? By the way, this could be universal.
We've moved away from calling them fido, and we give our.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Animals people named so much better.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it's so much better. They're almost little people.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I love when Americans say I got you. I feel
I do feel genuinely reassured.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
We'll put this together. Like BuzzFeed, I'm not liking any
of these so far.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
A website scoured social media to find things that foreigners
like about Americans, and there are interesting random responses.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I got you as nice, Yeah, I got you's fine? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I love how Americans have these mysterious unexplained food substances
called things like hot grits or sloppy Joe's.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you have weird stuff too, like bangers and masks. Yeah, right,
what even is that right.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Sarah Douglas, the actors from Superman, who's a great friend
of ours and was in our Imagine trailer this year,
always talks about the portion sizes here are so outrageous. Shit,
It's like it's a joke to people in the UK.
They're like those Americans and they're big portions.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
It's funny anytime I've gone to like if you go
to the West Coast anywhere in California, are you know
the portion sizes are much much smaller, And I always think, O,
my guy, I just want to get home and go
to our cony where we're just stuffing our faces with
so much.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So if you have a hardy appetite in the UK,
do you get two of something? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I don't know. I mean it's not like you don't
have fat people too, maybe not as many you do.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I love how Americans pronounced duty like duty, dooty like
duty oh the.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
D Yeah, well there's a paul I don't Yeah. Maybe
that's country wide, but I know that the Midwest specifically.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Has a Someone wrote a lazy tea accent.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Someone wrote on Facebook that maybe it was on your
page or something about how you say can't canton Dolly Parton,
And he said, like, I will slap her. Yeah, she
doesn't say Dolly Parton.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Really, I do.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Want to say I go out of my way to
say canton. And that sounds weird too, like because when
I went to broadcast school, we had to I know
it's not like this anymore, but we had to, like
we had a class on how to say double you.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
We couldn't say w I have.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
The guy Randy I worked for back in the early
to mid two thousands. I used to be the voice
of Daimler Chrysler training videos.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
So when you it's a great when you, Yeah, when
you when you took your Diamaler Trice, Daimler Chrysler training
online or what however it was. I was the voice
of the prompts yeah. And these were constant arguments with
him because he would want me to say important, yeah,
and I'm like, I know that's how it is, and
it is that's probably I probably should be saying it
is important. But if I actually talked that way, it's important.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I had a boss that said important and every time right,
because he was very you know, he's older, so he
was even more about enunciating, but it always sounded weird
when he said important.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'm also hearing reporters saying cardinals, cardinals, cardinals, cardinals from
around the country, and maybe that's right, but it doesn't
feel right.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I know.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
This says. I love it Americans say whoopity whoop?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Who's what American?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Did you meet? Wo?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Wo?

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Or like I'm trying to think, is that like a
phrase that someone uses in a TV show that maybe
they would watch?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
But no, do you mean whoop whoop? Was that from
our senior?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Maybe? I love how Americans and movies just end phone
calls without any further explanations. That's funny. I don't I
don't know what that means.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I don't either.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
No, And I love how Americans greet each other by
saying how you doing and not answering back. That is true.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
I mean, how many times have has someone said like, oh.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 5 (05:37):
And then you just like continue on with your walk
because it's like you don't yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I don't care, Well you say something you don't acknowledge,
how you doing? Hey, how are you right?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
I mean, most of the time, I do, but sometimes
I've just walked away or vice versa with the other person.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is it vice versa or vice versa?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I think it's vice versa.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
We keep going back to England, although these could be
but I'm watching I told you, I'm watching mob Land.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Which is so good.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
It is so good, but it is funny to it's
all in England, and it is funny how they talk
like I mean, we could say that. I mean just
an everyday conversation. They have words and the guse chips,
phrases that. Yeah, not even about that, just regular random stuff.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's like, it is interesting how different our language is.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
They say brilliant a lot too. Yeah, they do, Like
Sarah says, brilliant a lot. But but I also have
other friends over there that were rite brilliant on everything,
and I'm like, here, brilliant means like you are really smart. Yeah.
Like when I think brilliant, I think like Albert Einstein.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think brilliant means they're awesome.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
But I'll tell you, I can't tell you what the
word is they use a lot, But there is one
word they use a lot, and it is the most offensive,
uh swear word. I don't even I don't think they
don't even say that because we use the letter to
say the word, because we don't want to say that
word talk.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's an adjective, it's a it's a noun, exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's a sandwich, it's all of it, all right,