🎙️Gay Head - The Daily Wounder
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What do Jerry and Manaia talk about at the start of the episode?
We ain't going over We can't be stopped because it's better for love
Welcome on to the podcast. It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm gonna say seven days.
Yeah. Yes.
Nine days. No even longer, yeah. Ten days. Ten days. Nine
days, ten days. You, Jerry,
been away on holiday. I have been on holiday. Would you you're away on holiday as well? Briefly? Yeah. Not really. Not really. Okay. Just a scheduling era? Oh, one of those ones we've got. Yeah. Yeah, I went to the States. And the United States. The United States of America. The United States. Divided. A country divided. Uh it is. Although weirdly enough, as you found out when you went last year. Nobody
I know nobody gives a crap. I was talking to my dad about it the other day and he's like I wouldn't go there, man. I wouldn't go there, not with everything that's going on at the moment. It's like all that stuff that's going on is going on in your Facebook feed. Yeah. It's not going on on the street. Although Winter Not Bourbon Street. What's the one in Memphis? Uh Beale Street. Beale Street, yeah. Went to Beale Street, home of BB King, home of the blues. Yeah. Ghost town. Empty. And that's because they had deployed the
Yoppas?
They'd deployed the Yoppas.
I would have thought that if you deployed the Yoppas it'd it'd be going off on Beale Street.
How did Jerry’s trip to the United States shape his view of the country?
Here's something uh
We've had a day of body noises. Hold on, Zoe. Zoe's stomach today made a very unusual involuntary noise. I would say yours that was voluntary, your noise them and I was Zoe's was involuntary.
She was like one of those bloody groan tubes, you know. She's a victim of her own body. You know when you tip one of those things we ti you tip Zoe upside down and she goes
the groans
stick. Some people throw up whenever they hear those, uh
I love those things. I had a fluorescent yellow one. I remember do you did you ever have one of those, Zoe? Do you know the ones that you go
A groaned tube? You don't know them?
Oh yeah. So yeah, don't you judge me.
So yeah, you were where were you? Bill Straight. Oh yeah Beal
Strait and the um National Guard have been deployed there. Oh yeah. Um so that was the only time it was you know the division was apparent.
I felt it. Yeah. Well I felt it. I went to Massachusetts.
Oh Massafetes.
Yeah. Quite a word. Spell it. Uh M well, interesting because I actually went to write a text and I went to spell it and I was like, I've never written this word before. M A S S I S S I P P I.
I'm just I just wrote it in the
M A S S uh
Yeah.
E? No. Oh A T No. Miss uh Mesa M A S is A. Yeah. Mesh. C H E U E U T T E S. No I've kind of lost it. Zoe, would you like to have a crack?
M A S S A C H U T No
Alright, C uh C H U S E T T E S. No, just S. No S. No E. Anyway, it's a difficult word. Yeah.
What stories do they share about visiting Beale Street and the blues heritage?
Massachusetts. So it's a Massachusetts is a blue state. Notoriously blue.
Like what does it mean? Ha blue means Ha uh blue
means blue means um Democrats.
And what one's Trump?
Trump is a Republican. So it's h it's home of the uh Kennedy family. Okay. Boston is the big city in Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. Yes. Uh big Catholic area. It was settled by Irish Catholic people in the sixteen
hundreds. That's why they're the Boston Celtics. Yes. That's exactly right. Boston Tea Party.
Yeah, Boston. And people people talk like this very much so. Good party. And they go around their words.
Park your car. Park your car. Yeah, park. Your park your car.
It's a park.
I've lost it there, but
Ka. Did you have it? It's actually more like New Zealand. We say car. We say car. They go they say car.
We don't pronounce the letter R. They go car. We say a
car. And and and in America most people say car. Park you. But in Boston they say
Ka
Ka.
Car. Water. I had some water in my car. What water. And I've made it there. Water. Uh so you went to mess of
huge tits. I went to mess of huge tits. And what'd you do? I went to a friend of mine's mum who lives in the States.
Why did the hosts become obsessed with clam chowder on the ferry?
He's American. She lives sometimes she's got two houses. She lives in Florida. Uh that's what do they call that? God's waiting room. Yes. With whole she's eighty one. Yeah. And then she's also lives up because it gets real hot in Florida over summer and m really, really humid, and it rains all the time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do Jerry and Manaia talk about at the start of the episode?
0:00–1:31
2
How did Jerry’s trip to the United States shape his view of the country?
1:31–3:52
3
What stories do they share about visiting Beale Street and the blues heritage?
3:52–5:10
4
Why did the hosts become obsessed with clam chowder on the ferry?
5:10–6:55
5
What insights do they give about Massachusetts, Boston and its political leanings?
6:55–8:53
6
What did they discover about Martha’s Vineyard and its historic quirks?
8:53–10:10
7
Why is Gay Head Light a highlight of their holiday and what’s its history?
10:10–12:24
8
How do they explain the odd place‑name “Gay Head” and other local name stories?
12:24–13:31