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Welcome back to sort of sophisticated, the podcast and I quote, rooted in becoming more cultured and curious, Amanda, where we endeavor to suspend judgment, expand our worldview, and explore new topics that will help us learn to appreciate varying perspectives and values. That was the original thesis. Anyway, right now we just talk about shit that's interesting and hopefully makes you the life of the party. 'cause who doesn't wanna be the life of a party People? Am I right? I'm Pete. And with me as always. Is Amanda Bonjour? Oh shit. Is that how I say it? Oh shit. Bonjour. We're starting already like right away, I guess. So. You're not screwing around. Well, I'm just trying to get into the spirit man. Gotta warm up the French vibes. Okay. Well, spoiler alert, apparently Amanda just leaked our whole topic today with the whole French vibes thing. Thanks for that. Chill out. Fine. But wait, um, before we go into like all things France, I have a question. Of course. You do what? I have a lot of questions. You always have questions? I'm full of questions. You are full of questions. Okay. Um, have you ever had one of those moments where you're like absolutely convinced, like you made the right choice, but then like two seconds later you like immediately regret it? Are you talking about buyer's remorse? Uh, yeah. That thing? Yeah. Okay. So like, every time I buy something on Amazon. Okay, perfect. Yes, but I mean like, like big, like big, big, like life altering big. I, I can't say that I really do Peter, but I feel like you do. I do. So I have something to share. So what is this? Um, I gave up Diet Coke for Lent. So like, I thought, you know, like, this will be good for me. Like I'll feel healthier. I'll prove like I have willpower, um, and I'm dying. I can't even think straight. I mean, of course, because you are totally addicted to caffeine. I know. And you're rum and coke and all the things. So are you just trying to kill yourself? Right. I didn't realize Amanda, how much my entire personality depended on frigging diet Coke. But like regular Coke's fine. Uh, no. So you got rid of all Cokes? Yes, of course. The idea I get, but I only drink Diet Coke. But yes, that's the whole idea. Okay. Like I think if I heard the like sound of a diet Coke can opening right now, I might like totally orgy, if you know what I mean. Oh my god. Settle down. But have you like replaced the Diet Coke with something else or are you just like drinking more water now? Oh no. Like I totally get alcohol. No, no, no. I, I drink a hundred ounces a day. Like it's brutal. I go to the bathroom. Every 30 minutes. It's stupid. I plan my day, I around gonna the bathroom. I mean, you have planned your day around when you have to go to the bathroom for a while now. But we don't need to talk about that whole it old man bladder. It's, it's old man bladder and then it's like drink a hundred ounces of water. So I can't wait to at least go back to Diet Coke where I'm only drinking like, you know, three diet Cokes a day, getting my, what is that? 36 ounces of, of liquid. And it's all good. Right? We're gonna, we're gonna call it a win because That's right. You drinking that much water is very good for your body. But I do have a quick question. What, do you drink your water with ice? I totally drink my water with ice. Everybody drinks their water with ice. Everybody does not drink their water with ice. It's actually better. Everybody in America drinks their water with ice. And this is why the Frenchies hate you because you're not, I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to drink your water ice. First of all, I love the way you just supposed temperature completely just tore me apart and just like got back on track with this episode. And two, are we even allowed to call them Frenchies? I have no idea. Oh, we need to figure that out. It does sound a little bit degrading, so we're gonna have to ask all, we gotta hold that thought. Okay. Can I introduce our special guest? I think it's about freaking time. Like I, I've gone long enough. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I agree. So we are honored today to have in the studio with us. All the way from the town of to lose in southwestern France. I mean actually he lives here in Huntington Beach, but he grew up in to lose. So he is our dear friend Eric Marti. Hello, Eric. Hello. That's V Thanks, uh, first to both of you for inviting me today. Uh, it's really a pleasure to be here. Uh, first of all, I wanna apologize for taking 15 minutes before we introduce Eric. Yeah. cause Eric's the best part of this whole, my bad. Yo. We love you Eric. Um, thanks for coming. And, um, before we start, you have to gimme like a ten second bio on like your background or who you are and why you're even here today, please. Sure. I'm sure I can do that. I was born in the mid sixties in France. Oh my God. In the sixties, in the 1960s. I know. Mid sixties though. Hold please Amanda. Are we allowed to have like old people in our studio? I think it's perfect. Thank you. Isn't it Peter? Isn't it awesome that you tell him, Eric, isn't it awesome that we have three generations in the studio? I love it. Oh my god. We have grandpa, then we have dad, and we have grandpa. No. Okay. I'm kidding. Sorry. Continue. First of all, it's a luxury to get old. Okay. Not, it's not a luxury that is given to everybody. Amen. I like the way you said that. Amen. I remember that. Yes. So I meant to that. Wait to clock me. So like I was saying before, I was interrupted so rudely, so rudely. This is gonna be bad. Thank you. Thank you to, you know, I was born in the mid sixties in France and uh, I've been living in the US since, uh, 1996. Uh, you can do the math, right? That's most, almost 30 years now, which I spent almost half of my life in the us. I grew up in the southwest of France in a village called Las Salva. Sangio is located 30 minutes, uh, drive from Tous. Wait a second. I need to know. You just said village. Village, like is like a small, small town. Yes. Like you grew up in a small little town. Yeah. Like not in Paris or anything? Not in Paris. All Paris. So you're a, you're like a country. You would call this a country? Country. I'm a country boy. Oh. Oh. Let's go. You know, I love it. I wanna go so bad. I grew up in a pig farm. No. Yes. What a pig farm. Yeah. Oh, this is excellent. Oh, there's so much. I know. Hey, this is gonna be rich. Today's gonna be rich. Full of pig. That's why stories. I know so much about, uh, sausage and, uh, let's go. Oh, that makes so much more sense. And now I know why you married my sister. This makes perfect sense because her, she mother grew up on a dairy farm. I thought you were going. No, her mother grew up on a dairy farm, my mom. Oh, on a dairy farm in Ohio. Really? Yeah. They're both a bunch of country bumpkins hanging out together. I'm not a farmer anymore, though. I was never a farmer, obviously, but I grew up in a farm. Right. Yes. And, uh, just to give you an idea about, to lose, you know, how big to lose is? I have no idea. It's, uh, the fourth biggest seed in France is very well known for the, uh, being the European capital Aerospace. Airbus is in Ous. Really? Yeah. Huh. And so, wait, so but you said that it was a village and that it's small. No, no, no. 30 minutes outside. Oh, okay. Understood. Understood. The village where I I grew up was Las Albata and she, and it's like half an hour drive from Ah, you got you. And to lose, it's, uh, it's the fourth biggest city in France, so it's a pretty big city. Well known for, The aerospace and also very well known for the rugby team that they have. It's, uh, I would say the best rugby team in Europe. Oh shit. We just did an episode of, we just did six nations tournament. We did. And by the way, shout out to France for winning the six Nations tournament like I predicted. Indeed. You did. Let's go. Hey, um, okay, so I have a question for you, Eric. Um, are we allowed to call you Frenchy or was that already a bad way to start the whole episode when we said Frenchy. Well, because I, I've been married with your sister, unfortunately, you have. Yes, I know. Uh, that makes you my brother-in-law, right? Kill me now. Yes. And if you translate brother-in-law in French, it's both rare. Both rare. Both rare. Yes. Both rare. And if you transl this back, both rare from French to English is beautiful, brother. So that means that, uh, I didn't know if you knew that, but I'm your beautiful brother. Wow. You're my beautiful pig farming brother. This is excellent. But today, if you want, you can call me Frenchy. I, I will be okay with it. I would much rather call you Bo Fre because that's, and I'm just saying for all of our listeners who can't visually see. Right. I'm gonna give it to Eric. He is the more beautiful of the brother-in-law. Wow. Okay. In, in slang, would we say. Buff. He's the buff. Buff. So, hey, this is my buff. This is my buff. Okay. And this is my buff Eric, or this is my buff Pete. Okay. I'm, I'm gonna do that from now on. I've learned, I'm, I, I feel so sophisticated already, Amanda. I'm so proud of you. Okay. Are you, are you quite done over there, Peter? I'm done, yes. Okay. Because if you are, we can move on and do, uh, word of the day. Oh shit, we forgot. Word of the day. Yes. We have to get better at that. We need to, I think we do just find that how tangle you just get little know, but like we have to remind each other all the time. Um, okay, Eric, so this is where we like, pick like a random word that's just in English, not like a normal word we use every day, like, like a hard word. And we try to find a way to work it into the episode and not make it look like, like it was hard to do. We, we like, try to pretend like we know what we're talking about. Does this make sense so far? Everybody tracking? I'm in. Okay. All right. So our word of today is moish. Is this anything like Gish? Um, okay. If I knew what Gish meant. Then maybe, oh come on. You can figure it out. Gawk like to stare at or an amazement? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Of an ish. Okay. Red ish. I'm going on record. Like I don't think that's a word. I know what gawk is, but I don't think Gaw ish. You can add ish to anything. Okay. good-Ish. It doesn't matter. It's not even class bad ish. This is one of those things where like, you know, sometimes you nail it, sometimes you hit the word of the day right. On that you're like, oh, does it anything like this? And sometimes you nail it 50 50, you just blew it Completely mock. Okay. Wellm mock moish means overly sentimental in a way that feels forced or like way too sweet. Yeah. Is this MOCK or MAWK. M-A-W-K-I-S-H. Moish. Because I mean like MOCK would make sense, right? No, this not like they're mocking your feelings. This isn't the Mickey Mouse Club. Like, okay. Okay. I got it. Let's go. Alright. Okay. Like I'm totally moish, like can we just start? Yes. Okay, so let's go. Why don't you go ahead and tell us, please, how is learning about French culture gonna make us more, uh, cultured, Pete? Because France rules Well, yes. It's like the epicenter of culture. Eric, am I right? Of course you are. Yeah, let's go. Okay. Learning how to survive in France without looking like a clueless tourist, Amanda is totally an art form that, um, you need to learn. And Eric's gonna give us a little lesson today. I figure if we can learn how to navigate at least some of France's social norms, I can promise that we can pretty much handle almost any sophisticated setting around the world. 'cause let's be real people. France is the ultimate when it comes to sophistication plus. Amanda, it's about respect. When we make an effort to understand another's culture's, customs, we're showing that we can appreciate other perspectives, which Amanda is why we started the show in the first place. Totally. And the good news is we don't even have to be fluent in French. We just have to know what not to do. And we're just gonna bring Eric along, to be our backup. Of course. So I think we're all ready, I think to go That's a good idea. Um, for those of you listening at home who can't see Eric, he's uh, happens to be about six foot five and, uh, the better looking of the two of you. Yes. And is completely and totally ripped. So there's that too. Um. I got a tablecloth. I like Amanda already, right? I know this is, this is bunch of horse shit. It's because she spent a year with me. She doesn't like me much anymore. That's not true at all. This is what happens to, that's not to two cohos. We spend too much together. Eric is just, I'm very intrigued. That's all. Let's go. Um, can I table of content of shit right now so we like know what we're getting through in this episode. Please. I mean it's gonna calm your A DH ADHD so. Sure go for. It's okay. So first we're gonna talk about how to greet people and not get bitch slapped. Okay. 'cause that's important. So lock and load Eric. Then we're gonna move on to like how to not be stupid in like a little French cafe when you order coffee. 'cause I figure that's like important to know. Then we're gonna talk about what to wear, how to order food. And finally like some language hacks so you don't get like a shit ton of eye rolls from everybody when you go there. 'cause I have no idea how to sound even remotely normal in France. Make sense? I don't know if Pete knows how to sound remotely normal in. Regular life. Right. But, you know. Wow. Okay. So Eric, this is where you, um, butt in and tell us if we're on the right track. Got it. I'm in. Thank you. Okay. Um, let's start with saying hello. Um, 'cause as soon as you get there, you better be ready to say hello. So in America, obviously we're all about handshakes. Well, not me personally. I'm like a total hug and kiss guy, but I'm totally in the minority. We know that, uh, in France it's all about, how do you say this? LAIs, the little kiss thing. How do you say that, Eric? Yeah. Labis. LAIs. Okay. I said that right? The kiss on the cheek thing. Um, so how do we do it and when do we do it? Because I don't wanna go in for a kiss and accidentally overdo it and get slapped in the face or anything. So gimme, gimme the down low. Eric, please. Yeah. So first I would say observe what's going on, right? And, uh, uh, we either check the right hand or we do. Oh shit. You do shake hands. Well, of course we do. Shake hands. Well, I don't know. I, I, I'm trying, I'm trying to be cultured over here. Know if I go to work and I don't know really anyone, I'm gonna, it's not, I'm gonna start giving a kiss to everybody. Alright. First of all, you're making me feel better already. I thought you literally had to kiss everybody. Oh, okay. And in fact, if you will have, let me tell you the second sentence. Oh, I'm already, I'm kidding. You gonna shut your pot pothole. Wow. Holy shit. Go. I, I always say that. Shaking the hand. You know, the, you, if you don't know the people, usually you're gonna shake the hand. If you know the people you're gonna do the, you're gonna do Le Bees. Uh, especially if it's family. Yeah, definitely. You're gonna do the bees. If you some, if it's a friend, you're gonna do Le Bees. And otherwise, if you don't know people, you're gonna shake hands. I also love how, like, how confident the men are in their masculinity where they don't have to worry about like, should I give this guy a kiss on the cheek? No, you just. You own it and you do it. Yes. Yeah. So, so how, like when do you decide, you know, someone, how many times do you have to meet someone before LAIs happens? You just observe. Right. And usually it's pretty fast. Okay. You know, if you Yeah. If you, if you become friends and Yeah. Uh, okay. After a few times you, yeah. All right. It's pretty quick. You don't have to be like intimate friends. You just have to see 'em a few times, get to know 'em a little bit and then boom. If it's in the friend zone. Yeah. If it's a like a walking zone, you know, you're gonna shake hands. You're gonna say hi and you're gonna shake hand. Yeah. And now that, and this is same for girls and guys, so if you're friends with girls and guys, it doesn't matter. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Alright. And now things have evolved. I've been living here for quite a while. And to be honest with you, it may have changed the last 20 years that, uh, I've been living here. When I go back to France, I spend a lot of time with my family and my friends. I don't really know, you know, cultural Yeah. Appropriate. Yeah. Yeah. It may, it may have changed. Right. And then, uh, also one thing that, depending on the area that you come from, like in Tous, uh, lab is two kisses. So we'd go, we'd give a kiss first on the right side of the cheek and then the left side and uh, and that's it. But, uh, in Paris it's, uh, two kiss and there are different, depending the area in France, it can be up to four kisses, which I, I believe for, it's a little bit too much. But, uh, you know, that's, that's the way it is. That's a lot of kisses. Yeah, that's a lot of kisses. I love though, how it's regional. Like that's how you know where you're from. You gotta know before you go, man. It's true. Well, I'm just, I'm just glad I can shake people's hands. I was freaking out there for a minute. Yeah, but how about hugs? Can you hug? No, we don't really hug. We don't really hug in friends. We, we kiss, we kiss or we shake hands. I'm a big, there you go. I'm a big hugger. I know. You're gonna get beat up, that's all I know. Alright, but I can shake hands. You can. So I'm just gonna pull back a little bit. I'm not gonna go in for the hug. I'm gonna do ies or I'm gonna do the handshake. I think I'm in, I got this. Yes. Um, let's not be like Emily in Paris though when she meets Cumi and ends up kissing her on the lips by accident. Did you see? I love that. That was one of my favorite scenes in Emily in Paris. It's super uncomfortable and excellent and I love the way they do that. I do wanna know Eric's thoughts on Emily in Paris. Did you ever watch Emily in Paris or No, I never watched it. Yeah. See, but it's like sort of, honestly it's like younger Jen kind of thing. Like now I'm not shitting on you at all. It's true because it's so, it's even younger. Like it's my daughter's age stuff. Yes. Like, but it is like, I think honestly if you're like, I know this sounds so, like whatever, trite, I don't know if I'm using the right word, but like if you like are gonna go, you should watch that show because it does explain a lot and show you like a lot to help you like a along. For sure. Totally does. Okay. So in Emily, in Paris, Eric, um, they are always at a coffee shop. So I feel like if I went to France, I would have to learn how to order coffee. Is that such a thing? Do you drink coffee? Yeah. Uh, you know, rule number one and suddenly the most important role when you are in France it's, don't worry about anything. And especially don't worry about anything. Yeah. What do you mean don't worry about anything? Don't worry. Be happy. Don't rush. Oh, don't I got you. Rush. Don't rush. You know, just Take your time. Be chill. Be chill. I dunno, I dunno if I would survive in that answer. I can't. For you, Peter. We're screwed. It's gonna be number one. It's gonna be difficult, right? You're both, you're both Reed. Can't, can't relax. Remember, you are on vacation, right? You are on vacation, okay? You go to, you go to a star. First of all, we, we don't even go to Starbucks. I don't know when. I don't go to Starbucks. When I go to France, I go, I would go to a cafe. Why would you go to Starbucks if you're in France? Do they have Starbucks in France? Yeah, they are certainly for American people. Oh, oh my god. That's how you know American. Touche. That was classic. Stay outta Starbucks. You know? In fact, you know, I wanted to tell you my entire experience in France, I never order a, a coffee at a Starbucks. And I never order also a coffee to go, ever. Because you wanna go to like a authentic cafe. You wanna go to an anti cafe. Yeah. And, uh, which is, you're gonna spend some time, you're gonna spend, I don't know, you have half an hour to cure. You're gonna stop at the local bar and you're gonna park your car, and you're gonna walk in and you're gonna order do a next cafe, which would be an espresso. And if you want something different in espresso, you're gonna have to mention it. You're gonna have to say, I want a cafe I or I want a cafe with milk. What, what is this? What does that mean? And it's a, a long coffee, long, like, uh, mm-hmm. Like an Americano. Yeah. Okay. Well, Americano though has water, right? Eh? No. American. Well, more water. Well, Amer American Americano has water last year. Americano. It's just that, uh, there is more water when you make the coffee out of it. Right? Oh, okay. And it's, it's an JI cafe. A in French, uh, means extended. That's the translation that allows you to extend the coffee. Right. Um, so, but if you order a cafe at the bar, uh, you're gonna get an espresso. If you want, uh, milk, you're gonna have to ask for it. Otherwise, they will not serve the milk. And usually you, you go to the bar, you would order the, the, the cafe at the counter. You won't sit at the table. You would go at the counter and, and then you would chat with the people at the other counter. I love it. And you would talk about, um, you know, the event of the day or rugby, usually rugby, rugby people. Yeah. More likely. If you are in toulu, you would talk about rugby. Or soccer. Or soccer. So this is, you don't, you don't, like if you have five minutes and you wanna get a coffee, you don't, you don't go to a bar here, you, you like. Like, you have to have a half hour to chill. Well, we drink the coffee at home. If you want to drink a coffee. Yeah. You, you would make your coffee at home before you leave because it's like an experience is what you're trying to explain. Yeah. It's more of an experience. So if you wanna drive with coffee, you would certainly get the coffee from home and drive to work with your coffee. You won't stop like we do here in the US at the, at the drive through or the Starbucks just to get a coffee. It's because here, here's the problem, Eric, because people in America are lazy and, uh, they don't wanna make their own coffee. And so we make Starbucks so they can drive through. But I totally get your vibe, which is like a way better vibe. All right. I'm not a coffee guy, but like, are there places in America where like, you can get the same vibe as like in France where you just go to like the, the bar and have a coffee and just chill, or not really? I don't think so. I've, you know, I, I don't know. Do you, Amanda, do you know any of these or No, I. No. No. Okay. I, I don't, that's not true. That's not true. That's not true. Should we open one? I feel like, I feel like maybe there's like a, there's, I feel like there's no, the micro, like micro brewery, not micro breweries. Micro cafes we're like morning lavender or, um, Ola Cafe or like little white sparrow, like tiny, tiny little. I was talking to you earlier, right? Yeah. That I find a very good place in Costa Mea. It's a brossy. Yeah. Hey, wait, hold on. What the hell's a brossy? A brassie basically is a, it's a French cafe that's serve food. And the food that they serve. It's, uh, kind of a fast food. Yeah. Uh, but has nothing to do with burger. It's just something that, uh, the menu is not that big. Uh, usually they have a great meat. They will have a ribeye with french fries and with, uh, special sauces, and they will have three or four different items. And did you just say fast food is ribeye with french fries? No, it's not. I, I love France. It's, it's not, I'm moving to France and, uh, so that, that brassy in Costa mea. Can I give the name of it? Sure. It's Butcher's House. Shout out. What's Butcher house? What is, how did you, what'd you just look that up, Amanda the butcher. Let's go. I did shout out to the butcher house. Uh, we want, uh, advertising money, please. Thank you. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, that place, honestly, it's really legit. It's, uh, so they serve, they serve coffee there, and you can chill out and do your thing. And so it's, it's basically, it's a French Cafe slash brassy, and, uh, you can go to the bar, the most of the, uh, uh, weather and waitresses that, uh, walk over there. They are, uh, French or they speak French. The owner is a French guy from Tous. Really? Yes. That's amazing. And I discovered this place like maybe three, four months ago. My son, uh, mentioned to me, uh, that, uh, Hey dad, there is a, a brassie, uh, close to where I live. What is, what is the word brassie? Is it, what does it translate to in English? Do you know? Like a, is it really the butch, is it, does it mean the butcher shop or No? No. It means something else. No. So the, the butcher shop, it's, uh, because, uh, the, the, the owner specialize in meat and he has uh Oh, okay. Very nice meat. Very nice beef that he serves. And, and one of the thing that is very cool that, uh, is very authentic is that all the meat that he grills, he grilled the meat on charcoals. In fact, it's not even charcoal. Oh, okay. So that's what it means then. That's the brossy means the way he No, he could what No, Brossy means brewery. Brewery. Yeah. Yeah. So to brew. Yeah. So interesting. They, they also have, they serve beers on, on those Bross, that's a little bit of everything. They got coffee, they got beer, they got some nice, but is, but is ribeyes I gotta go this place. Yes. But as ery it's more so, 'cause you brew coffee as well. Correct? Right. So is it, so is it more on like the brewing of coffee or the brewing of beer? I think both on and, and, uh, but again, if that in mind, it's a restaurant where you can have a menu. It's not a, a very large menu. And it's something pretty simple, but pretty good. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, the menu looks fantastic, dude. The fact that there's ribeye on the menu, I mean, and the, oh my God, Amanda, the anger. We're going there. Let's go. Yeah. You guys have to go next, next time. Let's just go right now. I know they're only open five tonight. Let's cut this episode. Let's get the hell outta here. Okay. I'm moving on people. Um, I, I made a reservation when tomorrow. You did? Uh, you sister is traveling? Yeah. Well, if I wasn't mad at, if I wasn't mad at my sister, I would go, I'm gonna pick her up. That's wonderful. I'm gonna pick her up at the airport at seven o'clock at Santa Ana Atman Airport. Oh. And we're gonna go directly from there to my, uh, he's so romantic. Is he? Gosh. Well, time out. We don't know if she likes it. She might. I don't. She might not. Like I gotta ask her. How could she not like it? I gotta ask her. How could she not? Like all, all right. She had been there already three times. I, yeah, she's doing it because she's nice to you. She loves you. Oh, no, no. She loves it. No, I'm asking her separate from you. They also make, I will report back. They make fresh homemade sausage. Oh, so this is right up your alley. So he is my alley. Right. That's, and he's from like the same area. He, so he should from, they're similar. They're both hang out. Yeah. They're both from that. Uh, so have you hung out with him outside of just visiting the shop? No, I mean, I, I met the owner. Um, maybe the second Wait, should we know the owner's name? So wait, we gotta shout out to this guy. Apparently. Then what's this guy's name? Oh, yeah. Uh, his name is Re Jre. Chef Jre. Chef Jore. Look at this. I am. Yes. Let's go. I love this very, I think it was the third time that, uh, I, I've been there and I said, you know what? If the owner is from Toulu and I'm from Toulu, I need to meet the owner. And I asked, uh, the waitress and said, where is the owner? I said, why is at the ball right now? You know, having a drink with his friend? So I finished having dinner with my wife, and then when we, almost my sister to leave with your sister, we stopped by and my glass of wine was not empty yet. So I grabbed my glass of wine and I went to finish my glass of wine talking and introduce myself to Rio. Here's what we're gonna do. We're going, first of all, we're going over there. We're gonna tell him about this podcast. We're gonna tell him to listen to this episode that we shouted out to him. We're gonna get to know this dude. He's gonna love us for all the free advertising, all right? And we're gonna hang out and I'm gonna, and I'm gonna chill and learn. French culture. I love this. All right, I'm moving on. 'cause you people are crazy. Um. We did coffee. We did saying hello. Okay. Uh, what did I do next? Uh, table of contents. It was what to wear. Okay. What to wear so we don't get laughed at. So here in France it's all about like culture, right? Um, but is the vibe like messy but intentional? Like the idea that you just kind of threw something together and it just so happened to look fabulous and put together. Um, like your hair sort of messed up, but you accessorized it and the best shoes in the world and you just happen to be wearing them. And voila, you just hit the streets and you go grocery shopping and you're just like, amazing. Is that how it works? Totally. It just come natural to us. Oh my God. Stop it. But I can tell you it's very kill, kill me now to spot, uh, American people. Oh, thank you so much. You know, they wear their Why baseball hat? They have their f flop. And what's wrong with the baseball hat? You know, if you're American, I guess you can wear it. Oh my God. And you're so bad on flip flops so bad because I wear a baseball hat yesterday. Do you know Peter? The reason why we don't wear our baseball hats, why? Oh, I have no idea. Because we don't play baseball. Oh. Oh, well, okay. There's that, that makes sense. That makes sense. That tracks. Oh yeah. And, um, but then do you all like wear the beret, right? Everyone wears a beret. Le bere. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Re is the French hat, right? That, uh, you won't see that, in in Paris. Uh, but you would see people from the south of France. Oh. It would be very curious to find out the origin of when the beret was where first, but definitely the beret and the baguette. It's kind of the image of the French guy, right? Wait, the baguette is a, so the bag, the baguette would be the, the, the bread. Yeah. A baguette. You got bread with the beret. It's a love of bread and sometimes black and white stripes. And that would be the image of the French man, right? Yeah. Oh, so good. Yeah. So, is fashion different than in the south of France versus like the big city? Yeah. So what, what I would say that in the, the big cities, uh, the men like to dress up and they will dress up all the way from, you know, wearing nice shoes, nice belts, uh, nice socks. And they would wear a suit. Uh, the ladies, uh, they like to dress sexy too. They don't, they are not afraid of, uh, showing skin and cleavage, uh, in the summer. I'm sorry, did you say cleavage? I said cleavage. I'm excited. Um, this is why Pete has to go, how do I get on a plane to France? In fact, in the summer, it would be pretty common that a woman would not wear a bra. And, uh, we like it. Why not to like that? I'm moving right? I'm moving, I'm selling my house. Let's go. I'm moving to France. Okay. Wait. I looked up the origin of the Beret people. Okay. Stay with me. The beret is a soft round, flat covered hat. Yeah, we know all that part. Okay. Um, it started in the Bronze Age, thousands of years ago. Wow. It became particularly common among shepherds in the Basque region. Where's the Basque region? The Basque region is, it's in the southwest of France. Okay. Bis, you know, surfer maybe that are listener. Yeah. They listening today. They know where BI is. That's the Basque region. Pam Loon. I dunno if you guys heard about Pam Loon, where they have the, the, Running of the Bulls in Spain running the bull it's in. Oh, because Bas Sebastian. Yes. 'cause Basque covers a little bit of France. A little bit of Spain. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, so apparently it came from, because these shepherds were freezing and they crafted berets, of wool to keep warm. Huh. So all the way back, thousands years ago. Track bronze Age. There you go. Boom. We're sort of sophisticated. So wait, get back on track people. Okay. So on, on the side note, you know, since I, I was mentioning, wait on a side note or a side note, like, are you sad right now side? No. Can I be sad? I'm okay. On a side note, I'm side wolf there. Okay. You're making room more culture. I couldn't help, but just like, shit on like one little like accent thing you had. Go ahead on a side note. Hit it. I cannot be a happier than what I'm right now. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Oh, so good. And uh, so what I was trying to say there is the men and women, they will definitely dress up more in the big city than on the smaller city or outside of the city where they would wear, you know, regular clothes like jeans and shirt. That would be pretty common. Just to give you an idea, we don't have too many big cities in France, the five biggest city in France that have more than 1 million people. Uh, Paris, Leon, Marsai, Tous, the city where I come from, and Bordeaux. Uh, so, you know, if you go to those cities, uh, they're all hooked up. They all, they will dress up pretty, they are messy but intentional. Amanda, I think is the thing, alright, anything else on how to dress? Otherwise it's time for us to order some food in a French restaurant. Right. Okay. Wait, I have a question already. Of course you do. Am I, am I allowed to have a Diet Coke in France? Eric, please. Yeah, I guess you can. I can, of course you can, but you know, most of French people, they will not order that for sure. Wait, am I gonna get made fun of? No, no. Maybe, you know. No, he will. You know, they, if you ask me whether a French man would order at the bar, no. You know, because they're more masculine than you would, they would order wine or they would order, uh, a drink that is sort of so sophisticated. Yeah. Oh, he just did that? Yeah, he did it. Oh, I love it. Let's go. Alright. What's a drink? That's sort of, it would be gimme something I could order in France, I have to order wine A per mount. A what? A per mount. What? What is that? So it's a per bubbly water? Yes. With a sparkly water, with a syrup of mint. Oh, good. Okay. And, uh, it's very refreshing. Okay. Very fun. And, uh, and it's a pretty common drink, uh, to have during the summer when it's warm. Interesting. Alright, fine. I'm here for it. It's delicious. All right. I'm gonna try that. But then my backup's gonna be diet coke. Uh, I'm ready for any of the consequences to come along with that. 'cause I just have to deal with that. And people just make fun of me in the back or something when they pass me the Diet Coke. I don't really care. Um, okay. But what do I really need to know about ordering food? Like gimme the whole, like dinner experience in general, please, Eric, like, let's go. Okay. You know, remember earlier the rule number one, it's just take your time. Never rush me off. Everything is, take your time with you dude, Amanda, I go over to this guy's house for dinner. It's like a random Tuesday night or something, right? It's like I'm trying to get in and out. Right? I get over there at like 6 30, 7 o'clock. I'm exhausted. I just came home from work. I wanna stay for an hour and go home. No, no, no, no. Dude, he hasn't even started making, he's like, he's just prepping dinner if I go to his house, it's a big experience. I'm gonna be there for three. I know, but he does. He's lives in Huntington Beach for Christ's sake. You know what I did once, but it's, I would love it. Do you know what I did once I invite him and his family? For Thanksgiving? Early dinner. Yeah. Oh my God. When they arrive. No, none of the food was ready. We did, we did it all together. Yeah. But see, that's like part of the process. And we had the blast. We spent, we spent an hour and an hour cooking the food all together. Yeah. So in my defense, um, the family he's talking about is all American. Uh, he was the only Frenchy. But see, I think we can learn from that because. Like, to me it's the quality of time that you're spending with the person that you're with. So unlike us Americans who like to rush through everything. Okay, I'm outnumbered here. Sounds amazing. I'm gonna be quiet. I'm gonna let Eric get back to, uh, never rush a meal. Okay. Go ahead, continue. Sorry Pete, if you have the chance to be lucky enough to be invited to a French family for dinner, you know, at the house, you'll certainly spend several hours at the table, like two or three hours.` And uh, that would be just enjoying the food, coming over, talking about the kids and family and work and having a little bit more wine and having a little bit more food and then chilling a little bit. Maybe someone would play a little bit of music and then you would get up. Okay, here's what do Eric, I think I just need to do it with you. I think that's the key. It's just gonna be me and Eric. Then I think I'll be fine with our, I think you'd like it more. I think you would. Yes. Okay. Alright. You know what, we'll start with, we'll start with A A what? A, now I need to know what all this is. A, it would be like a little per, you know what? The per car, you know what ZO is? I don't know what's happening. It's a Licor drink. Very popular in France. Okay. It's a licorice. Drink. It's, uh, pretty strong. So we ed it with water. Usually we put like one fifth of per ozo and then fourth, fifth of water. And um, that's a very good ave to have Is this alcohol? This alcohol? Okay. So it's like a pre It's your beginning drink here. It's, it's it dinner drink. You're pregaming. It's an appetizer. Yeah. You know it's an napper. Yeah. Do you have that with food? So yeah, we'll have little bite. We call that amused girl. So amused girl. Amused girl. Amuse is to tease and girl is the mouse. So basically you tease the mouse with those little bites. I love it. Right? Oh my God. I'm getting, I'm gonna call any appetizer now. Yeah. And to tease my mouth, we would up having an orgy. Oh my god. That Pete will last an hour. Just maybe an hour and a half, depending. This is excellent. People also, they never arrive on time. If you invite him for dinner, Dino. Oh my god. Amanda's gonna fit in. Perfect. I'm here for it. Yeah. If you invited at six 30 and you arrive at seven, it's okay. You only miss a little bit of the appear. I think I was, uh, destined to live in France. Just saying, alright. Um, but like these appetizers and stuff, like what is this, like cheese and salami and stuff or what, what's going on there? What about appetizers? Is it a charcuterie? No. No. So we do like charcuterie. Charcuterie is big. You know, you would have like dry sausage saison or poquito, uh, pate. Yeah. You know, uh, pade made with usually pork and liver. Pork. This is a lot of meat. Pork liver. Pork liver. Yeah. Wait, there's no cheese in this whole thing. Oh. When do you have cheese? So the cheese, we save the cheese for dessert. For dessert for the egg. I know more French things than you do. Wait, all I say, what are you talking about? What is this? Like sweet cheese? The cheese comes at the end of the meal. The cheese is after? Yeah. So after the A operative, yeah, after the appetizer, then you will move, you know, usually you have the, a operative in one area in the house, and then you move to the main table. And uh, that's where you're gonna have a dinner. That would be three, four courses. And that's where you're gonna, you're going to drink a lot of wine more likely. And, uh, this guy knows how to drink and, and you're gonna, and you're gonna take your time. And at the end of the meal, the cheese would be served and then the desserts, the dessert will come after the cheese. Oh, shit. This makes a lot more sense. I was just over at his house like two weeks ago. He did put cheese on the table after dinner. I just realized you did that. I think it's great. I didn't even know, I didn't even, it didn't even dawn on me. I'm French. Oh my God. You're such a frenchie. Okay, wait a second. But now tell me about a restaurant though. Wait, because you're telling me you're giving me the dinner story at home, but like, like talk to me about what, what, why do I have one question? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I know like the cheese is for the dessert part, right? But you are also well known for all of your pastries. Mm-hmm. When is appropriate for pastries? So pastry would be after the cheese. Oh, so you get two dessert. Yeah. But you take your time. Oh, this is the best. Let's go. You know, that's why God, you spend, you spend three hours at the table. This is like, I feel like Lord of the rings second. It's just like second breakfast. It's this. Exactly. You get two desserts, Pete, one year that you sister came to France with me mm-hmm. For during Christmas, we celebrate, at my mom's house. And, uh, we sat at the table at noon on Christmas day. Yeah. And we stay at the table until 9:00 PM. No, I'm just, I'm not kidding. We spent nine hours at the table in between, they were, like my nephew that, uh, had some friend that stopped by and they then start talking stories and then someone left and someone came back. But we stay at the table. Yeah. For nine hours. Uh, we saw that my mom's gonna need to go and take a nap. And she was so excited to see that much life around the table. Right. That, she said, no, I don't wanna go and take a nap. Oh my god. Americans have lost all their culture. She stayed, she stayed with us until nine o'clock. Nine o'clock we put her to bed and then we moved the party to my brother's house that lives next to my mom's house. My two brothers live next to my mom's house. Okay. And, uh, and uh, and you pulled out the cheese and the sal No. Let, let's go. You know what, you know what we did? We pop up champagne and we, let's go. We had champagne until 11 o'clock okay. I'm moving on people. Anything else I need to know, Oh, yeah, yeah, um, the table in France are pretty close to each other and, uh, like in the restaurants you mean like the cafes or whatever time the table at the restaurant? Yeah. Yeah. Are pretty close to each other. Okay. Yeah. So just, uh, uh, pay attention to that. And, uh, and when you are with your, you know, colleague or friends or family, uh, just, try to be respectful and not to be too loud. Um, okay. Anything else I need to know, like any other little bits about restaurants before we move on? Or what? Oh, please don't ask for ketchup. Why not ketchup? I love ketchup. That, that would be an insult for the chef in the kitchen. The, the chef has been working very hard. We're very well known for, you know, making the great sauce, right? Yeah. And, asking for ketchup would be like, it would be an insult to the chef. I think ketchup is an American thing. 'cause like in Argentina, Gabby like taught me a long time ago, like her mom would make authentic argent dishes and she'd would like never ask for ketchup. It don't have it in our house. Yes. American food is bland. Is bland. Well, so I grew up with an American mom, and when you go somewhere else, uhhuh, it's part of the culinary experience that you're supposed to eat. Did can I I I feel like I have to defend America for a moment. Do you know America is a melting pot? We're not anything. We're French people. We're Japanese people. We're Spanish people. No, but the arg French people eat French food. The Argentine, no, what I'm telling you is Argentina is the reason we made America bland. Was because there was too many cultures coming together. It was a giant melting pot. So we had to make everything bland. So don't shit on Americans, please. Okay. Let's be a little nicer over here. I like my ketchup. It's still tight. I like my ketchup on In-N-Out hamburger. I'm just saying. Okay, Pete, I'm French and I'm also American. I'm very proud to be. Thank you. I'm very proud. I'm an immigrant. Thank you. I'm very proud to be a immigrant. Thank you very much. So I know we're talking about restaurants, but. If I wanted to make some French cuisine at home, is there like a French supermarket or butcher or somewhere where I should be outsourcing my, yeah. Yeah. So like, you remember Joffrey that we were talking about at the beginning with his, with his special sausages. Like, can you go somewhere to get that or no? Do you have to go to a restaurant to get it here in America? So, you know what, what I recently discovered a, a sausage at, uh, wild Fork. Wait, wait, what? Wild Fork. Wild Fork. Where is this place? It's a store that sell, uh, frozen, uh, meat. Okay. That, uh, is, Specifically French or no, no, no. It's organic. Okay. But they have a white selection and it's pretty healthy. And, uh, I find. Sausage over there that taste Exactly. Uh, like the one that I was having in France when I was going to watch a soccer game with my dad, uh, 50 years ago. And the first time that, you know, oh shit, it brought you back. Bite. I had a bite of that sausage. It really brought me back 50 years ago. Wow. Oh shit. That's so ouie. Did you watch Rati? Jay may watch Ouie. My favorite movie of all time. Oui. Disney. I love that When Eagle Goes, no, I never watched Oui. You never watched Rat? No, I never watched it. Oh my God. I'm selling out a Frenchman. You didn't watch Oui. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go to your house. We're gonna make whatever dinner you want. Sausage. We're gonna have sausage in front, wild pork. We're gonna, we're gonna put, yeah, we're gonna make wild pork sausage. And we're gonna put on ou this guy ego. He's like the, what is he? The, the connoisseur. What, what do you call it? Food critic. And he like, takes a bite of the ouie and he like zooms back 50 years until he is like five years old and he's in his house remembering his mom's or grandma's rat. Oui. Same. Same. That can do that. You just did that, you know, that's, that's exactly what I did with the sausage. That is excellent. Okay. Yeah, so like that whole like same experience Eric that you just explained happens for me. But it happens with music instead of with food. Like Amanda, you know, I totally like, I'm crazy about Pete is like real weird about music. Remember when we did like the whole like opera, like yes, Um, we are very different in this way. Pete totally has a weird relationship with music. Uh, it's not weird. It's very romantic. I, on the other hand, very romantical, have the, I guess the same reaction. Might, might be little, little with food. Might be a little moish. A little moish. A little moish much. Well played, right? Amanda, put a dollar in the jar, please. I will. Okay. Um, moving on please. Thank you. Last thing on the table of contents we gotta get through is So how do I not sound like a clueless American so I don't go like, embarrass myself over there? That's impossible. Okay, well, shit, I knew that, but like whatever. Unscrewed, okay. Not really. Oh, thank you. Everyone think it's a big deal. Just relax okay. First I'm gonna tell you what American do wrong. Go. You know, they, they don't try to speak the language at all. Got it. And, and a few words take you a long way, you know, show that uh, you are making an effort. That would be the fair thing, right? Then if you speak some French, don't speak too fast. Otherwise, with your American accent, it would be very hard to understand you. Okay? But I need to tell you that with your French accent, like you've done an excellent job here, 30 years in America, because I can understand every effing word you say. So job well done. Shout out to Eric. I take the compliment. Yes, you should. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Absolutely. Because I would love to be able to speak your language the same way you can speak English. Job well done. Another thing, what? Do not say Wewe at the end of every sentence. Wait, what's Wewe? Oh, wewe. Yes. Yes. We we. Oh, wewe. Oh, we don't do that. Like how would I say, how will I, how will I sound if I will say yes? Yes. After everything in English, everything sentence, right? You sound like an idiot. Yes. That makes sense. When? When is an appropriate time to say we, we. If you're, if like, if he's hitting just the right spot and you're super excited, you're like, oh, wee wee, we, we keep doing that. Stop it, Peter. I was not thinking about that, but that would be one of the reason why you would say it. Thank you very much. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Yeah, dead. Thank you. Okay. Alright. Gimme some things we're supposed to do then. You gave the, I'm not supposed to gimme the, what we're supposed to do. Okay. Just be patient. Like I said, I've been saying that, you know, that is, that's sort of been a mantra. Just be patient. Remember not to try to be too loud. I'm screwed. You know, don't be too loud. Learn a few sentences. Like, excuse what? They, with me. Excuse me. Uh, I don't speak French, but try to, to use a few words there that, uh, makes that you, you make an effort. Wow. Learn a few simple words like Bonjour. Uh, what, what, wait, what do those all mean? I'm gonna explain that Bojo would be a hello or war would be by be. Thank you very much. It's my pleasure. And Abian will be See you later. Okay. All right. All, all right. We can take this. Five, six words. Yeah. Few years that time. You know it, we go. Well, and then with today's technology, everybody has an iPhone. Uh, and just download an app. It it, it will help you with the pronunciation and, it should not take that long to learn that, right? Yeah. Shout out to Apple. Uh, we were promoting the iPhone there and no Android, so we would like to make sure that we get, uh, compensated, uh, accordingly, please. Thank you Apple for listening oh, wait, wait. But I now have a question. What? 'cause we're learning lots of stuff here and I kind of wanna keep going, but there's just something I gotta know. What about tipping? Like if we go to a restaurant tipping? Yeah, we already did restaurant. Did we do tip? We skipped tipping. Go. We did skip tipping. Alright, fine. Just because if I go, I know here, expected 18%, what do we do? So, right. You know, in France, Amanda, the tip is included. Beautiful. The tax is supposed to live there. We need to move there. The, the tax is also included in the price, uh, listed on the menu. So whatever you see is whatever you're gonna pay. Uh, American have a reputation though, uh, of tipping very well. Yeah. cause we tip another 20%, I'm sure, on top of whatever the bill was. And, and the, the servers, they love it. Right? So I'm not saying tip 25% or 20%. Right. But, if you like the service and if you like, you know, what you ate and just give a tip, make get extra, extra little tip. We can do a little tipping then. Good to know. Yeah. Alright. Fine. But what about like Instagram and TikTok? Like is it okay to take pictures and posts? Oh, look at, or is there like look at the millennial over here talking about TikTok and now, well again, it goes back to Emily in Paris 'cause she lives her life on No, I get it. It's good. It's a decent question. Social media. I like it. I like it. I'm sorry. And I'm just saying, is it like acceptable TikTok? What is that? We don't have TikTok friends. Nah, whatever. Maybe not in, maybe not in like outside of to lose, but yeah. You know, at the end man, you just use common sense. You know, be polite and, and uh, if you think that you are bothering people around by taking pictures and you're taking too long, it's only because you are so just, uh, have social awareness. Yeah. Just is there, you can do it or there it is. Be quick. He just promoted the podcast without even knowing it. Have a little social frigging awareness people. I mean, we're getting the inside scoop here from Eric. I love it. We're gonna, we're gonna know like. How to manage our way through France. This is gonna be excellent. Hey, at the end, you don't want to pretend to be French because you are not. Right. Thank you for that. You are American and uh, it is not a bad thing. Most people are in French. They like American people. They represent the American dream. Just be patient and respectful. Show respect to the culture that is different than yours, and if you do that, you'll be just fine. All right then. Well, I guess you all just did the job for me. I think that's a perfect way to end it. I mean, this was so fun learning about how to behave in France, how to not look so American. And Eric. This is now the part of the episode where Pete gives a few fun facts to the audience that they can remember about France. But I think it's gonna be extra good tonight because I'm really hoping that you're gonna be able to call him out. 'cause he stretches the truth. And sometimes I think he's just like lying. Ah, why are you still like doing that to me? Okay. I do stretch the truth, but it makes the fun facts even he elaborate. Even I'm an elaborator. Elaborate. No, no, no, no. You're an embellisher. Oh yes, that's what it is. It's embellishing embellish. Okay. That's like double word of the day. We got moish. We got embellished. Let's go. Okay. Um, so number one, here we go. So number one, here we go. Eric, did you know France has the most time zones in the world? Yeah. Wait, shit. You know that boy, I, I know that, uh, the French territory, he goes all over the globe. Right? Wait, because oh my God, he just like, totally just spoiled. How, but how does France, he spoiled. Here we go. 'cause 12 times zones. Okay. Because of all the French territories, right. Spread across, where are they, Eric? I don't know. The Caribbean, the South Pacific, south America. Oh, they span more of the world than like a lot of people think, right? They're everywhere. All the little islands they own. So there you go. 12 time zones. Let's go France. Okay? Um, number two, did you know there's a law in France that states that every French citizen can request a baguette even if they can't pay for it. So I guess baguettes are considered essential items like water or electricity here in America. So it's called bur lingerie. Did I say that right? The solidarity. Okay. So, no, no, you did not say it right. Okay. Ang, this concept ensures that if someone is struggling financially, they can walk into a local bakery and request a free baguette, no questions asked. Is that true? Uh, uh. Not sure that would be a loophole for homeless to get. He's totally called me out. It's chat g pt dude. It said it's true. Yeah. I gotta go try it. We gotta try. Okay. We're gonna go to France and you're gonna try this. Okay. Um, okay. You're be homeless. Number number three, we gonna go, you know what, in fact, that one, what if we go to France together? Yeah. The first thing that you have to do when we land in France. Yeah. You have to go to lingerie Uhhuh and I'm gonna follow you. Okay. Pretending that I don't know you Uhhuh, and you're gonna have to say that there is a law in France. That is why I get it free again, embarra. I'll make sure I'm wearing a, a baseball cap to in bubble gum and wearing my tennis shoes. Right? People, maybe I would give you a beret. Okay, we'll try that instead. All right, fine. Um, number three. Okay. So French stop signs, you know, like our octagon, red and white stop signs. Um, they don't say stop in French, like re they say stop, like in English, like STOP, like. They like, they use English word stop. I don't know why. It's one of those weird little ironies in a country that like is super protective of their language. That's crazy. Did you ever notice that? Of course you noticed that. No, but I think that maybe the reason why they did it is they wanted to shortcut on the printing. Right? Like just to make Yeah. Stop is, uh, it's, it's like, it's universal and RA is five letters. My God. To save the letter. Oh my. Listen to this guy. Right? Could they just didn't, they just didn't want, could be, could They didn't want dumb Americans not understanding what the hell is going on. Uh, okay, so number four, Paris has an entire underground city of abandoned quarries and catacombs Do you know this? Yeah. They have the catacombs. Yeah, they do. Okay. All right. Okay. It's illegal, but sometimes common to sneak down there. So like beyond the whole touristy catacombs things, there are miles and miles of hidden tunnels and rooms beneath Paris, known as Le, how do I say that? Le Le There's an underground movie theater, Amanda, they discovered in 2004. Thank you very much. Where people go down there and like hide and watch movies together. They like brought electrical and plumbing down there. It's insane. There's a whole subculture of what they call Phis, like, I don't know, who explore illegally of course, and host secret parties down in the catacombs. So I wonder what kind of party they have. Okay. Um, and finally, fun fact five. Did you know. There's a town in France where it's illegal to die. It's illegal to die. Eric, what the hell's going on? Okay. In a place called, oh my gosh, we all need to retire. I'm, I'm gonna butcher this. Dudu and also a town called Sapu. I don't know, I dunno. I heard S-A-R-P-O-U-R-E-N-X. Never heard of that sa Okay. Local laws. Ladu is very well known. Okay. It's very nice. Local laws were passed prohibiting death within city limits because their cemeteries ran outta space. It's technically unenforceable, obviously, but still in the books as like a real law. So if you die there, they just like throw your body outta the city, like, and like let it rot like on the side of the road. I'm sure they don't let it rot. They don't let it rot. I know what's so funny as hell, right? I mean, America has some dumb ass laws still, I'm sure. Like on some of their books, like state laws, whatever. Okay. That's all I got. Those are, that did pretty good. You did fantastic. Thank you. I mean, it is my favorite part of the whole episode, Baba. Well, good job, Pete. You got a thumbs up for thumb. All of your thumb research. Let's, good job. Good job. Um, but why don't you go ahead and hit us with the outro and send this all up for us with this. Oh my God. Only the important stuff to remember as always. Let's go. Okay. First call to action people. Uh, if we wanna get more cultured and curious here, let's go watch a French film. Like something super classy. Eric, you got any ideas? Gimme something. Uh, let me think about it. Oh, Ohla would be a very good movie to watch. Wait, what is that? What does that mean? Chocolate? It's a movie. Yeah. Oh, it does. Whoa. I'm so culture. It's a movie about, someone that is making. Shala in a small town and everybody get crazy about the ko she making. Oh shit. No, this was, this was like an Academy Award winner. Yeah, it was. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That's a good call. Like, that's a fantastic movie. Look at this guy. Like, like I was gonna say, like Ouie or Emily in Paris or something like this guy's like talking about like, let's go. I totally remember that. Um, it just helps with like, like how to behave, how to figure out French culture, like the whole idea. It's like, it's like osmosis, right? Like, it's like figuring out France. Um, next, like Eric was talking about earlier, like, go visit like a local, like restaurant or what'd you call it? A bruss, how do you say it? Bruss. Brassie. A brassie, right. Or a French cafe. Like anything local. Like test out all these things that you learn, like sit down or get some like authentic sausage. Yeah. Right. Absolutely. Stay off your phone. Pretend you're cool and stuff and you're gonna like hang out and like stay a while. And another good idea would be like, follow, like I know that. Eric's not all into like Instagram and TikTok, but like follow like a French fashion like person and they could teach you a whole shit influencer. Yes. Like an thank you. An influencer. They teach you a whole shit load, like just follow them, right? Um, but not Emily in Paris. Well, no, I mean that's like more like mainstream. Um, and finally, remember, like Eric said at the beginning, like, let all like let the French people lead for all greetings. Like don't go in with aggressive hugs. No awkward lip kisses. Just go with the flow. Cafe life, slow life. No Starbucks over there. No like hustle, sit down, sip, chill, dress like you didn't try. Somehow you'll still look amazing. Lose the flip flops. No Old Navy logos, no baseball caps. And last but not least, meals are sacred. Don't use ketchup, no modifications and cheese comes after the main course. Just deal with it people. Then finally we'll have some crystal and champagne and that's it. The simple steps to being sort of sophisticated and not looking like an idiot abroad. I love it. So Eric, a huge thanks for giving us the inside scoop and probably preventing us from embarrassing ourselves on Futur vacations, and making sure I don't drink a diet Coke, right? Absolutely. Because you'll just be showing your American. I know. I'm sorry. Anyways, thanks Eric for coming. It was great. Here you Eric, you awesome. Thank you. I thought it was excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for having me. Uh, I think we need to have you back. We need to, I think we need to do a whole nother app with Eric on like, you know, like the whole like French countryside, right? I'm here for it. How it's different than the whole like Paris culture, right? Like we give him, get like get a whole nother vibe going. What do you think? Yeah. Would you come back? Of course I would. Oh, I love it. Thank you so much. I'm here for it. I think it was great. All right, There you have a dear listeners, your crush course in how not to scream tourists the moment you step foot in France. Next time you're nervously scanning a Parisian cafe menu, or wondering if you really need to say Bonjour to everyone. Just remember you're now equipped with enough cultural savvy to blend in like a pro. Look, surviving France isn't just about knowing how to order a croissant or how to pronounce Rendezvous. Without sounding like a cartoon character, speaking of cartoon characters, and I know we talked a lot about Disney, but you know who it didn't bring up Beauty and the Beast, dude, the whole thing Oh, that's true. Is in France, it's Did you watch Beauty in the Beast, Eric? I may have watched it when I was a kid. Oh my God. Bell Bon and Gustone, right. Okay, sorry. Continue, sorry. My bad. You. Um, but it's really about embracing the rhythm, the manners and Yes, even the unapologetic directness that makes French life so iconic. And let me tell you something, Eric is very unapologetically. Direct. Direct. Oh, good. Oh my God. Yes, he is. I think we might need more of that. It's, it's why I love him in society. Okay. All right. Well, if you've done our job right today, you're leaving sort of sophisticated, armed with enough insider tips to avoid faux pa uh, impress your French friends and maybe even feel a little UA about yourself. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe. Leave us a review and share it with anyone who's got dreams of strolling the Sean. Until next time, stay curious, stay classy. And when in doubt, just always say Bon bon bon bon.
