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Pete Smissen

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1434 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Off the beaten track.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Oh, we're in another town.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Yeah, but, Dad, it's a different beach and it's slightly warmer.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Well, yeah, there is that.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

I guess I should explain the joke there is that pretty much every English speaker will only know of Shetland because of Shetland ponies, which are those miniature- Or the TV show, the crime show now that's been on for the last eight years or so.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Yeah.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

So, I don't know.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

I guess that's, yeah, what I wanted to kind of talk about.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

So, you prefer that.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Do you think most Aussies are like that?

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Do you think they prefer the kind of four-wheel drive, go somewhere, explore?

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

It is interesting how much that-

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Like, four-wheel drive camping culture in Australia, especially among younger guys.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

For me, growing up, it was just a normal thing.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

You're just like, isn't that what all young people do?

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Yeah.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

And then once I started, I think I probably realised more when I started doing Aussie English.

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

Well, no, it was more about Aussie English and meeting foreigners and then asking them, oh, like, you know, in China, where do you go camping?

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

And they're like...

Aussie English
AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia

No one does that.