Anyone else notice...
...in the first episode, while in D.C., he states the Fourth Amendment grants freedom of speech? (If this has been brought up before, my apologies.)
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Yes, I did.. I repeated that section, just to make certain that I heard him correctly. He also stated that Gettysburg is "80 miles to the West of DC" (It is North of Washington DC). I thought that Limeys prided themselves on their knowledge of History.
Shhh... don't tell him. It'll just hurt his pride.
I'd love for an American to go do a series like this only travel around the British Empire complaining about all the things British.
But that would be considered the height of American piggishness, right?
What on Earth made you take the tone of this series as him complaining about America?? If anything, he seems almost fawning in his fascination. Other than about Miami, and the cheese, of course...
If you are interested in an American's take on England, though, you might enjoy the work of Bill Bryson, who is widely loved in England for (with a similar tone to Stephen Fry) offering his thoughts and feelings, positive and negative, on their country.
Yes. I assumed he knew it was the First, but simply misspoke and it was not caught in editing. I mean, why would someone specifically think it was the Fourth unless they looked them up, and if they looked them up they would have learned it was the First.
(For the record, the Fourth ammendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.)
"My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider."
Between this and his mispronunciations (I mean beyond his English accent), I can't imagine how he got these wrong. He had an endless supply of free fact checkers all along the trip.
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