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hiya welcome to easy english today i'm

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out in the sun on brighton beach and i

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want the people to tell me what is the

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best thing about the uk

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okay so yeah tell us what is the best

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thing about the uk in your opinion

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um

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the best thing about living in the uk

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i mean

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it kind of depends where you are but

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it's the people

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the people yeah i think it's kind of

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because you get quite nice people and

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like people that help you out

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um i'd probably say the people here

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everyone's so friendly like when you go

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on holiday it's not always the case yeah

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um certain parts of the uk obviously not

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so much that's like everywhere

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everyone's got the

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places that are a little bit more about

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the community yeah and brighton's really

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like that everyone's so friendly

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everyone says hello everyone wants to

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chat what in your opinion is the best

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thing about the uk

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in my opinion the best thing about the

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uk is i'm actually going to say two

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things yeah um

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pubs

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a real old-fashioned english pub with

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proper english beer

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and a roast dinner on a sunday

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and the second thing is

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music we have a really really amazing

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culture for music right tell me now then

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uh

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just in the burgundy uh me yeah yeah

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what is the best thing about uh the uk

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or living here

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probably the beach

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yeah and the coins

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the grinds what's the grind tell people

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what a groin

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is that thing there the coin is

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basically

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let me get

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what people stood on right now

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you jump off it right come back to the

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microphone you've all walked away what

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in your opinion is the best thing about

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the uk

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for me it would be the music of my youth

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it would be the music we get to grow up

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with i love house music drum and bass

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bit of old-school hardcore acid house

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getting out going to clubs with your

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friends that culture of meeting up

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beforehand having fun through the night

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and then chilling the next day for me

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that's that's the thing that the uk

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really drives forward it's it's that

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youth culture so enjoy it whilst you're

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young yeah people can give you like

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directions and stuff uh

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are you one of those people if i was

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bit lost yeah yeah

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yeah if i knew where

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wherever you was asking was i would help

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you yeah do you think uh uk people are

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approachable then

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yeah yeah do they look approachable do

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you think

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i mean i'll be honest sometimes it can

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i know you it's like never judge a book

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by its cover yeah but with some

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people it can be like that like you can

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judge someone by their looks

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but i think most people you turn to

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depending where you are will help you

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out and like give you directions if you

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needed it okay so let's unpack that then

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so the first thing you said were was

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about uh the people right and what is it

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about what what do you mean specifically

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is it the openness the helpfulness the

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politeness what is it um so yeah the

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openness the helpfulness all of it so

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especially spirituality down in brighton

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i love that everyone's so open everyone

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wants to like

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help themselves

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i say everyone of course you can't

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really generalize um but everyone that i

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seem to have come across i feel like

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it's always a place i want to be in

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its cover

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so the first thing what is your what is

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a typical did you say traditional

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english beer yeah a traditional we'd

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call it i guess an old man pub

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okay and what kind of what kind of

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drinks

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are those so we're looking for them

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english beer in old fashioned english

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pubs usually is not fizzy yeah like most

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like most beers are around the world

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usually not that cold either just a

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little bit cold rather than very cold

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but

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the flavors can range and sometimes

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they're very light color and sometimes a

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very dark color and this is like a

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crochet because i think a cliche of the

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english other than that bad teeth all

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the stuff is that we drink warm flat

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beer

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what is what what is so good about it

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because i think people kind of put off

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by that those two descriptions of this

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yeah what's so good about warm flat bear

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that's better than the fizzy

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well don't get me wrong i like the fizzy

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like convincing as well but i think um

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i don't know there seems to be there

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seems to be just more variation in

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flavor and you're never quite sure what

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you're gonna get and that's often it's

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often much more local as well like

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usually those beers will be from what

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what particular area you're in rather

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than being beers that you can get

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anywhere in the world okay so you're

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kind of representing yeah i think so or

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helping your local brewery yeah i think

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so and is there a place because maybe

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like people think about you know like

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guinness is like i know it's not like a

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beer but that's i guess it is better but

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it's stout style

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more stuff yeah yeah

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people i think imagine we just drink

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that constantly but maybe there's a time

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and a place or you know there's a

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certain circumstances where these beers

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aren't meant to be drunk well for me

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um

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for me it would often be on sort of a

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to be fair more in wintertime i think

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when you're in a like it's cold outside

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pub's got a fireplace going maybe maybe

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you're playing a game of i don't know

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chess or something

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in the in the pub sitting on my dad

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having her having a couple of pints

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that's the that's in my head when i

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envisage it being best nice so you don't

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want to obviously have like an ice cold

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pilsner type beer yeah yeah and you also

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want something that lasts for the four

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hour game of chess you're pretty yeah

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yeah exactly what is it about brighton

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or are there other places which you'd

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recommend or please you say it maybe

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isn't quite like that

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i think it depends what sort of vibe

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that you like in london it's a very busy

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lifestyle it's like the hustler

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lifestyle everyone wants to be like here

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they're everywhere and making it into

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like the top places right yeah in

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brighton people still are like that but

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it's a lot more laid back it's a lot

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more like everyone goes at their own

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pace and they're on their own journey

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and i love that for here because that's

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the kind of person i am and but are

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londoners approachable then

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i would say no like no and people don't

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really go oh hey how are you in london i

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walk past people on the street

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especially with blue and they all want

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to come over and cuddle and say hello

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and ask me how i'm doing and like what's

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going on in my day and i'm the same with

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everyone else because we're social

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beings like we're meant to talk to each

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other we're meant to like connect okay

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but not everyone is like that and i

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found in london it was a lot more like

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keep your head down like don't really

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talk to anyone do your own thing so

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they're not approachable maybe as much

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in london but what if let's say you

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tripped

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over the step on the on the underground

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would someone help you out in this i

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feel like they would yeah yeah yeah

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i don't know that's never really

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happened to me so i can't like assume

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but everyone's lovely you know i'm not

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saying that like one area is better than

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another area but just in my experience

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people seem to be a lot more

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yeah approachable here yeah for sure and

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what was this uh when you said the

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musical youth what era are we talking so

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we're talking like the late 80s early

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90s that thing that took me out of

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disliking my parents music to and

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finding my own music finding my own

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tastes right

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yeah yeah it went from abba to to beats

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to base to repetitive beats the

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government tried to ban repetitive beats

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in 1991. is that right yeah it's the no

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repetitive beast is the criminal justice

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act it wasn't cool

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no but that was part of it they banned

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playing repetitive beats in public

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places

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to try and stop illegal raves as they

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were happening at the time

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yeah yeah so enjoy your culture whilst

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you can

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well let's say can you give me an

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example of if someone was looking for

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what house music yeah

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give us some really good the top

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uh acid house or house bands house music

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that you can look right now well you're

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clearly out of touch because there's no

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such thing as a house bands they're

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they're pretty they're all producers

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um but you know

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i again i'm looking back to the golden

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era when when house music was was at its

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prime you rarely knew who the the

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producers were behind them and there was

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usually a very small group of producers

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you know when you look back and you dig

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it out you look at omni trio you look at

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dj seduction you look at many of the

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dutch people you know anything on the r

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s label from an old you know early 90s

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period you're looking at absolutely

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banging tunes but you won't often know

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who the producer is unless you really

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start delving into it but you know steer

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clear of calvin harris and david guetta

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whatever you do the second thing you

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asked you said was bans yeah

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who is your favorite favorite british

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bands yeah i've got loads i tend to like

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um

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lots of music from the 70s and 80s right

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like i like led zeppelin for example

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yeah and um

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and the who black sabbath

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going back to going back to the beatles

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as well that's the golden age i think

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for for british music there's lots of

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good more recent stuff as well like even

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well i say recent arctic monkeys for

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example still not that recent now but

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there's lots of lots of bands like that

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that more recent too yeah nice and then

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last question um what if you have

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anything what is maybe the worst thing

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about the uk the worst thing about the

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uk is

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how dark it gets in winter

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okay when you go to play chess and have

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you yeah exactly yeah yeah there are

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some benefits to it but like when it's

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today because i live just down the road

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in brighton and days like today are very

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amazing

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but yeah when it's uh

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getting light at 8am and getting dark at

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4pm it's not that nice i'm a dj myself i

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do it in my bedroom

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yeah oh my front room now to be fair

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i've progressed from bedrooms to front

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room dj yeah so you know it's it's it's

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great fun when you can't take it out

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with you anymore you take it home thanks

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for watching this week's episode let us

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know in the comments below your favorite

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thing about the uk if you've been or if

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you haven't been about your respective

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country and we'll see you next week tara

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