I cannot believe you talked about Native Americans... I feel so loved and actually seen... You brought up the MMIW and I nearly cried. Hearing someone with your platform actually bring it up.. I feel seen. Thank you Cristine, from the bottom of my heart. I myself am a N.A., I am a full blooded Navajo on the Navajo Nation and I am always on high alert, because i don't want my mom to find out I'm missing. Then I'm found in the ditch, dead. YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SPEAK ON IT. PLEASE BRING IT UP TO THE LIGHT. MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, MY SISTERS ARE MISSING WITH NO KILLERS IN PRISON. MY SISTER TRIBES ARE HURTING. I'M HURTING. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. You are an amazing human being Cristine. Thank you for helping my People be seen. Ahé'heé.
I remember watching a documentary on CNN talk and visit the various N.A. reservations in the USA. And honestly, the indigenous people need more awareness. They truly need our help. Whether it's Canada or the US, the fact remains that indigenous women are much more likely to go missing or murdered. And that's not okay.
I'm so sad because I'm N.A but i don't have a res as my dad hates the fact that he is n.a so he kinda just ditched that part of his life so idek what res i would ig "belong" to idk how to explain it because it very complicated but i hate how i don't know where i belong i feel like I'm missing my other half but i dknt eveeen know where I'd start to try to figure it out so i feel for all the missing and murder beautiful lovely woman and there family's
@@stinkylizzzy4830 Res as in reservations? Reservations were set up to force Natives off their own land. The trail of tears is part of that. And a lot of natives died. And, USA wasn't that great to the natives of Hawaii either. I think you're referring to tribes. However, a good way of finding out which tribe you belong to is doing a DNA test. Like from 23andme.com or Ancestry.com if you have the funds.
lizzy is drowning I would check with the tribes near you or hints of where your dad’s family is from. I know my tribe has an enrollment office and they do get phone calls and emails from people requesting their certificate of Indian blood. You could try reaching out to the tribal offices and give them your information and your dads.
@@angelawang7126 NordVPN gives you great security.... except that isn't really why you should use a VPN. Sorry, software developer here. Mini rant. The attack they claim to protect against, you have protection against if your website traffic is encrypted. (And guess what HTTPS does?) So, the average person does not need a VPN just for normal browsing of the web. probably the only thing a VPN is good for, for a normal non-technical person, is for making it appear like the user is in another country. But, seeing all these bogus security claims from these VPN companies really grinds my gears. It's all fear mongering and making people think they need to buy expensive software that they don't need or understand. Yes, VPNs can be useful, but NOT for what they're advertising! The advertising of these companies is so shady, and these clueless youtubers promoting them should know better!
The expression 'don't cry over spilled milk' actually comes from a time when most milk was gotten by hand milking a cow. When the cow kicked the bucket of milk and it spilled everywhere it meant that you just lost all the milk for that day, as a product or for your own family.
I'm Polish. I'am a student writing a thesis, needed some statistic data from few countries and had problems finding them. I wrote to 6 different countries and only Canadian goverment wrote back :) Moreover, they thanked for interest
I appreciate the discussion on American health care. My husband was diagnosed with Liver Cancer (15 cm tumor in the right lobe of his liver) when he was 29. While we are beyond grateful that he survived, we were saddled with incredible debt due to his treatment. We actually became homeless at one point so that we could continue to get treatment. Yes, we had health insurance. Thankfully we had family to take us and our newly adopted son in at the time, but it's crazy that we literally had to make choices about feeding our family or treating his cancer. Even 6 years later we are still paying the bills. I don't know the answer for how to make health care in America better, but we definitely shouldn't have people have to choose between housing, food, and life-saving surgeries.
@@olesia2799 Thank you! He is officially 5+ years cancer free. We were able to buy our first home last year, and our son is graduating from high school this week! Life is great. We are just on a grind to pay off all the debt.
I’m really sad to hear this. Most people see USA as an ideal contry to live in. I’m from Europe and our health care covers almost everything. Can’t believe a country chooses to spend more money on wars than on saving lives of their own people. I’m glad you got through it.
I absolutely love how the sponsorships are stuff that Cristine likes, first the oats, now David’s Tea. Also that tumbler is 🔥, I have the pink one and their tea is really good. Glad to hear the code is back!
almost cried during the American vs. Canadian health care discussion because i live in America and i cannot fathom the thought of walking into a doctor's office just for a check up and not paying at least $50-$100...
My boyfriend has dislocated his shoulder, 5 times in the last year. (It's more complicated than being clumsy.) And it's cost us nothing each time! We're very thankful.
I have pretty good health care through my dad, and it still costs $30 a visit. Which is much better than most Americans, but not sustainable long term for things like therapy. Especially since we’re a family with 3 kids and an assortment of issues. (Adhd, autism, depression) on top of that all of us are currently in college. What are people supposed to do, if even at middle class we’re struggling?
Yes. As a Canadian with an American boyfriend. I will say that we constantly tease eachother with stereotypes! I love him but like still. It’s hilarious
“Ireland, or somewhere weird like that”. Me being from Ireland found that hilarious. For Ben, we have a very low corporate tax because no international companies wanted to locate here, and we lowered the corporate tax to attract them here and give Irish people jobs. Random example, when Apple finally set up a location near where I live, over 30,000 jobs were created which is wonderful.
I mean deductive reasoning should make it obvious that whole has 3% or more of a fat content if we see 2% reduced fat in the usa but again we are talking about average american consumers here and i am not going to suggest as an american that we aren't known for being stupid.
Well it's silly to only call whole milk homogenized... The fat content has nothing to do with that process, the 2% and 1% milk is homogenized also. In fact, if you want to get non-homogenized milk here in the US, it's usually only offered full fat!
Dude same. I was just cleaning my kitchen while listening to this and I heard ‘how do we explain this to some in Iowa’ and I literally clapped and scared my dogs.
SHE FINALLY GOT SPONSORED BY DAVID!!! in her "Mixing All My Teas" video, she said that she wanted to be sponsored by Davids Tea and it finally happened!
I think David’s tea was slightly forced to notice cristine cause I think a lot of simply fans were like please sponsor simplynailogical cause I definitely saw like one or two comments like that on the David’s tea site ☕️ 😮
Awe thank you so much for talking about the First Nations topic , im tsilqotin from b.c, my nation is the first to claim title rights to our lands , meaning we went to provincial court for it, we also just won a long court case against a mining company to not mine on our lands
as an american who grew up watching that show, i always got so mad when i tried to play the total drama games and it told me you could only play it if you were in canada, and to "have some canadian bacon" i was so pissed lol
I love how when Ben mentioned 'Loonies and Toonies', Cristine exclaimed "That's obvious! Meanwhile I'm wondering are you talking about Loony Tunes the cartoons?.. No?... Umm, is it a nickname for crazy people then? Did NOT guess it was Candadian currency :o
I don't watch her, but when I watched the show which got broadcast as a substitute for the ESC I immediately recognized her. Would have never guessed she's Dutch though.
Re: the thing about multiple languages on product labels, I think it's a reasonable expectation. Lots of non-English speaking countries still have English text on all their labels. I think lots (maybe most) things I buy in the UK have maybe French, German, sometimes Spanish or Italian on labels. I think in any multicultural society, you kind of have to factor that stuff into the budget. More inclusivity is never a bad thing.
I live in Sweden, so labels have at least Swedish, Norse, Danish and Finnish. Usually they also have English, German and French. THAT is a lot of translation...
@@rebeccamccordic7137 I live in Spain and chain supermarkets like Carrefour, Lidl or Aldi that are present in other EU countries have all their products labeled in more than one language, usually countries language (my case Spanish), French, Portuguese, Italian, English, etc. Haven't you noticed? I think you guys have Lidl and Aldi's too
In Quebec there is the French Language institute (Institut de la langue française) that defend the language because we were having issues keeping the rates of french use high. We want to protect our culture and heritage so in order to protect it and prevent people from just flooding our markets without caring about us we asked to implant this. So there is laws about if your product name or commercial place makes easy for french people to understand what you are selling, you must put a sub title, a translation or stuff like that under your brand name/product. ex: if you have a Pokemon card pack, it would be written ''jeu de cartes'' or a descriptive of the product underneath it.
I feel like this is the most immediately effective sponsorship I've experienced so far. I haven't thought about David's Tea in months, and now I'm looking through both their tea and travel mugs to buy something
I’m 12 years old and Canadian, and we learn about residential schools and indigenous peoples. We’ve pretty much learnt about it since elementary school.
And college too - if the program you are in does intergrate the historical consequences that is currently present in the indigenous community in its curriculum.
Clara Norris as an Indigenous person from the US, you should keep learning about the horrible history of residential schools and forced assimilation of First Nations people. First Nations/Indigenous people are still feeling the effects of these injustices brought upon them hundreds of years later. I’m extremely thankful Cristine and Ben brought this up, because like most issues a lot of youtubers like not get into politics or racial issues because they’re hot topics. Even though advocating for POC shouldn’t be an issue, it still seems to be.
@@claranorris5418 I get that you'd probably be tired of hearing a story told almost on repeat, but at a post secondary level, I found it to be about a different discussion. More about the fallout of the attempted cultural genocide on the current population and state of affairs. Granted, it'll depend on the classes and profs that you take.
As someone who works in a Native American school in the US, I GREATLY appreciate you speaking about the Indigenous People and a very small portion of the heinous acts that happened to them. I am not Native American, but the US education system in the 90s and early 2000s NEVER talks about what was done to them. I have learned so much about the history that occurred and I feel any amount of light shed on that truth is necessary to spark anyone's interest in learning more about the genocide done in North American.
I think that’s unfortunate. I’m currently in the US education system and we learned about it in great detail, although I learned a fair amount of it in my gifted program. I’m sad that it wasn’t like that everywhere in the US
@@SnakeEnthusiast I think a big reason for why my education was limited in this was due to school systems I was educated in, Virginia and Michigan. Both areas were very conservative so textbooks approved by those districts were also conservative. I am trying to get better and learn, and am fortunate to work with very passionate Haudenosaunee teachers who are helping me learn and giving me directions on where to find more. I think more systems are getting better at disclosing the darker side to US history, but more should be done in the upper-grade levels and secondary education.
@@MsMdip Let me look up some information that can be accessed easily by the public that's a part of open domain. The one book I have been reading that helped me was "Lies my teacher told me" by James W. Loewen.
Forever sad when Cristine mentions David's Tea since it doesn't ship internationally, and yet everything from there looks so GOOD. I want to support your business, David, please let me buy from you!
There are Facebook groups where people buy and sell David's products! Mostly mugs and cups but sometimes when someone tries a tea and doesnt love it they will sell it too!
I'm Canadian and some of the questions seem so strange to me. Also when pouring the milk you need to hold the other end of the bag so it doesn't spill!
@@lovelol199012 I'm not even Canadian, but this was my first thought when I saw the clip. Anytime I have to pour a container like that, I cut an air hole.
We also had these milk bags in Hungary, now it is not so popular but still available. We also have cocoa and milk coffee in them. I also hated when the bag collapsed in the jug when there was not much milk left.... :D
How did two countries, both formed out of English (and French) colonies become so distinct? All the conversation about healthcare, politics, and culture boils down to a short history lesson. The United States was formed when 13 colonies joined together to fight for "freedom" (and by freedom I really mean a fight to not pay taxes to the country that started them). While Canada gained independence through peaceful means and we maintain a strong relationship with the UK as well as all the other countries in the Commonwealth. Today, Americans believe in and stand for the struggle for "freedom." This is why many are still not interested in their taxes going towards other people's healthcare, why many are afraid to give up guns, and why immigrants are often expected to melt into the culture (hence it is called a melting pot) and become "American." In Canada we refer to ourselves as a Mosaic and we celebrate people maintaining connections to their culture and country of origin. This is also why their isn't as much of a Canadian identity. Even Canadians who have been in Canada for generations often maintain customs from their countries of family origin. Today we are quite distinct from each other in many ways. If you are more of an individualist (want to work to get ahead, work for what you want, and let other people work for their own), the States might be a better place for you. If you have a strong sense of community and working for the best of all people within your borders and abroad, Canada might be your place. I am a dual citizen, born and raised in Canada with MUCH time growing up in Washington and Oregon, and both countries are wonderful. But at the core hold some fairly different values.
Thinking about how the United States healthcare system has treated me is so painful. I didn't have insurance because I couldn't afford it, so I had to put off going to the doctor when I became really sick. I was jaundiced, my pee was nearly black, I couldn't keep down any food, I was feverish, couldn't sleep, and had intense abdominal and back pain. When I finally couldn't take it anymore and went to the doctor, it turned out I had such a severe case of mono that my kidneys and liver were damaged and I was in severe danger of my organs failing. It took me years to pay off the medical bills and the experience haunts me to this day.
Me in Iowa: “What?! You know about us Iowa fans?! 😱 I feel so seen!” Also, I majored in Sociology and Research Methods with a minor in Criminal justice. I’m so happy when you talk about it! You’re both basically working my dream job that I wished to get out of undergrad!
in Quebec, almost everyone speaks at least two languages, and it is more common, in my opinion, to encounter people there who speak at least three languages. Montreal also has a section that has the highest concentration of new immigrants in all of North America. It is called Park Extension, or Park X for short. the vast amount of Canadians only Speak English.
if it's any consolation the different provinces and territories have their own official languages too. The North West Territories in northern Canada has something like 14 official languages (to be fair many of them are endangered and mostly serve as a way to try and represent and preserve cultures that are being revived)
In India, we have more than 800 languages but 22 of them are considered as scheduled... Including Bengali, Maithili, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, Dogri, Kannada, Gujarati, Bodo, Manipur (also known as Meitei), Oriya, Marathi, Santali, Telugu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Malayalam, Konkani and Kashmiri. *AND HINDI AND ENGLISH ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES!!!*
@@vasundhra4086 I've met people from India around the world who have told me about their languages and it seems so amazing yet stressful to keep up with them, I assume it's similar to going to a more culturally dense part of Canada where not everyone speaks English so depending on where you are there are communities of people who speak different languages to each other ( think like, China Town)
Being from Wisconsin, there are so many things that bleed in here that so many of these questions are so odd 😂😂 like "is it really that cold?" Bruh, it was -40 degrees F last winter here 😂 Also #indigenouslivesmatter
Yeah and then imagine to pay for something like that and not having the opportunity to do something like this. I don't get why some US citizens are against having a universal health care.
@@simonopps From an outside perspective (Australian) I was also curious, because there was a kinda-big ad campaign against privatisation a couple of years ago, so I looked into it. Apparently people think that it would cause some huge increase in taxes because their 'normal' medical bills are so expensive. What they don't realise is that private hospitals and private companies hike up the prices to ridiculous levels (or so I've heard from many many places on the internet). So if America were to finally catch up to the rest of the world and set up universal healthcare then, while there would be a small tax (in Aus it's 2% of our taxable income), it would be nowhere near the current price of healthcare. If you look up 'Australia medicare levy' and go to the ato.gov.au website there is a better explanation of how things work.
Right? I follow someone on Instagram that has come out of ‘retirement’, starting an only fans to be able to pay for the medical bills from having a preemie. I’m glad as fuck she has a side hustle she can make money with, but shit. It’s hard enough raising a kid without having to spend a boatload on their first month in a hospital to ensure they don’t die.
Koichi the problem in America is that the people making millions of dollars off of privatized healthcare basically pay politicians way into congress/senate and then there’s no way to pass any decent legislation because our representatives are personally being paid off to allow normal Americans to die because we can’t afford healthcare. Rich get richer, poor stay poor. That’s America for ya.
Thank you for actually breaching the conversation about First Nations and not skipping it over because it is a big and daunting topic, and also THANK YOU for not sugar-coating it and saying it is a dark and negative history! Also, you need to watch Letterkenny - not related at all to First Nations but you both will greatly enjoy Letterkenny! lol
The jenna & julien podcast is awesome (in my opinion) as the other commenter mentions them - one that a lot of people go back to is the guessing recipes one from there. Dont wanna spoil too much - but they even make guessing recipes sound hilarious
Why is that? I could probably suggest a couple for you. I think they are very compatible with Simply. I'm not necessarily looking for wholesomeness, but I'm also not looking for Joe Rogan. Grackle, from the UK, is darling. Start earlier in her Works, she's becoming more mature now.
To answer your profound questions about cheese in Poutine: it’s not an aged cheddar, it’s a fresh one, ideally fresh frome the day! The cheese has been soaked in salted water That’s what makes it squeaky. And yes, the squeakiness is proof of quality!
Thank you for speaking on the indigenous history of your country. Thank you for speaking about those who are missing or those whose lives have been lost. I pray that we see improvements for all countries indigenous populations in representation and care.
I’m in England and there’s the same opinion about the NHS as you do about your health system. It may not be perfect but right now it is the backbone of England and I am proud to say that the NHS is part of Britain. 🏴 🇬🇧
Oh well, better get rid of Boris if you want to keep your NHS. You should be proud of it no matter what, you created it after all. Fight to keep it. Greetings from the end of Europe ❤️
Don't let them take it away from you, protect the workers and protect the infrastructure. Right now my British colleagues are suffering shitty working conditions, especially the junior doctors.
What’s hilarious about you guys talking about Iowa so much is that when I was in Canada and people asked me where I was from, and I told them Iowa. They responded, “Oh, I love Ottawa!” 🤣🤣🤣
I'm so glad you brought up indigenous issues! I was listening to this while doing errands but stopped everything when I heard you guys touch on it. I'm a Native from Alaska and this is something that's really been on my mind so much recently. Thank you for recognizing what's going on with our people!
The way Cristine says “poutine” warms my French Canadian heart. There were several interesting points made about the whole Québec situation, but I would add that the bilingual packaging goes both ways; in Québec, you also have both English and French on items in stores, even though most people speak French. It’s just a way to make sure that every Canadian can read packaging text in at least one of the two official languages. In my mind, if you are bothered by it, you don’t have enough real problems in your life. Also, there might be fees linked to translation, but if you actually take the time to look at those translations, you'll see that some of them are straight from Google Translate. I remember an incident with Sobeys in Ontario where “spicy turkey breast wrap” was translated to “Turquie épicée du sein”, which basically makes no sense and can be translated back to “Spiced Turkey (the country) of the breast (the human kind)”. It's pretty common to see botched translations like that.
For the bagged milk spilling technique, the corner thing they said is correct for me, but when I pour milk by using one hand to hold the pitcher and one hand to hold the opposite corner that the milk is coming out from. This endures a more accurate pouring.
Sure but effectively there are only 2. Only two that have enough power to get into office and because of the “winner take all” voting system in the USA, it’s likely to drift to and stay as a two party system. Even in American media, non democrat/republican are almost always referred to as Independents. In Canada, an independent is literally someone who doesn’t have a party. Also in the states they always refer to something as being bipartisan (other places call it non-partisan because there’s more than 2).
Cristine, I'm so happy to see how you're continuing the podcast, getting these wonderful sponsers that fit you so well, and just in general seem to really be thriving. It makes me happy
I have family in England who I penpal(I am Canadian)and in the last letter I received, my cousin told me you’re her favourite youtuber! As a long time subscriber myself, this was super exciting, she is really into Canadian culture, and I thought it was funny I was bonding with someone over a youtuber, crazy times.
re: "Homo Milk", the invoices for the store I work at actually use that phrase for our whole milk (full fat milk, also sometimes labeled "Vitamin D Milk" on the carton). I have a picture of the invoice somewhere on my phone because it listed "Homo Gal" "Homo 1/2 Gal" and one other that all made me laugh.
As someone who lives in wisconsin, "squeaky" cheese curds are the only way cheese factories seem to market cheese curds. And they are probably my favorite food.
You're damn right I will advocate for universal healthcare! Served in the military for 4 years, got out with an honorable discharge with no claimed disabilities. Worked for a few years and developed a genetic autoimmune disease (psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis). I had to quit my job because I had it covering over 60% of my skin eventually. Was in pain every day and neither Veterans Healthcare or my job's private insurance would cover the medication for it. I went several years before I was able to get insurance through my college to cover the meds. America can't even take care of its veterans properly when it comes to healthcare, let alone all of its citizens. I'm sure there are people in much worse situtations than what I've told. Not a nice place to live for people that need to get on their feet. I'd leave right if I wasn't still neck deep in school and other financial restrictions. These conservatives act like anyone can just get a good enough job to put a roof over your head, deal with no insurance, and get out of a swamp of debt in only a short few years. Then they blame drugs for being the reason people are poor half the time. I know a lot of poor people who have never touched a drug in their life, they are poor because they can't pay the transactional costs that come with BEING POOR, such as not being able to start a bank account or get a loan. The shit stacks here man, especially with the sky high divorce rates creating negative residual generation fallout.
I'm Secwepemc from BC and I am appreciative that you guys were comfortable enough to chat a little bit about First Nations issues! Its a topic that is so often grazed over when talking about Canada as a whole.
"Wait time" is such a cop out reason to not have universal health care. Wait times in clinics and ERs are hours and hours long in America anyway. I've never went to the doctors and didn't expect to wait less than 3 hours. And finding family doctors is hard here too.
Mother Marlen Their wait time is more like weeks or months or even years some times. Just depends on the doctor and their specialty. I heard from people in Canada that have torn cartilage in their hip and they have to wait MONTHS to get in to the doctor to even discuss options to fix it.
@@karlagoff6635 Well, waiting a few weeks for appointments but getting a treatment without ending up homeless and years of paying crippling debt seems kind of worth it. I'm not from Canada, but Germany has some waiting time for appointments, too. If you are in accute pain or danger, you get treated right away, though. A paycheck away from loosing stability (Job, home, health) is not freedom, it's keeping people in their place.
I'm from the states and my husband is Canadian and we want to live in BC someday. While I know they have good intentions, my family and friends try and talk us into staying in the states. We want the free healthcare for our future family, and they're all like bUt WhAt aBoUt ThE wAiT tImEs??? My husband had to go to PROMPT care while he was in the states and we waited for 3 hours and they just gave him a prescription for a skin thing he should have had excised. At the quick clinic. 3 hours.
Waiting in an emergency room in Canada take HOURS and I mean if you have a broken arm you can be sitting there for 12 hours. The privilege is great having the option to go to an emergency room and not pay for the visit, but the wait discourages you from going anyways. And we still technically pay for healthcare through taxes, and have limited dental, eye, and medication coverage unless you have good insurance. Canada isn’t as perfect as it seems, but I also can’t imagine having to pay thousands for birthing a baby.
the worst thing lilly did for her career was to move to LA i think it's safe to say she built her audience on the face that she was doing more personal content whether mocking indian/desi stereotypes or rap about culture but it felt more real hence the audience connected to her more but when she moved to LA she became.. just another trying so hard to be in hollywood that she lost her personal identity which gave her that popularity in the first place and even with facts i highly doubt if her subscribers/viewers increased rapidly after moving to LA if anything it's decreased exponentially
Yea, lily was my favorite RUclipsr for a really long time and I will still happily watch her 4 year old videos but now everything she does it trying too hard and it feels so fake, like the whole set up of her videos, it doesn’t feel like her.
As a "franco-ontarienne" I would like to emphasize that while Québec is more well-known for their french culture, there are many french canadians in the maritimes and Ontario among other areas in the country. Québec is its own thing and by no means do they represent the rest of the french community. As the name states, the Bloc-Québecois party is devoted to Québec nationalism and the promotion of Québec sovereignty, not french culture or french canadians.
Yess, franco-ontarienne too 🙋♀️, moved to Montreal for university and sometimes could not relate to my quebecois friends, with their "devisiveness" and "hate" for Canada. Most are not aware that there are francophones in the ROC ("rest of Canada" .. a term I had never heard outside of Quebec.. they have a "us vs them" mentality that I could not relate to). French speaking people outside of quebec are more for unity accross provinces to have strength in numbers and representation on a national level.
@@Katie0119 wait your income tax is the same for everyone??? ours depend on your income. transport is subsidized so it's not really expensive and there are special bus passes for different groups that make it free or much cheaper.
@@sofip6293 once you earn over €35k, you are taxed at 40% plus other taxes. The lower rate is 20%. The “liveable salary” is considered to be €40k minimum, and that’s really just to pay bills and have a very basic standard of living. Public transport is terrible, unreliable and very expensive. It can cost over €15 to get from one side of the city to the other (maybe 10-15km). But owning a car is even more expensive. Most who live in the capital can’t afford a car or have to sacrifice a lot of other things to afford it if they want to work outside of the city and don’t want to spend hours commuting on buses. I’m talking about Ireland by the way and Dublin in particular.
It's true that Obamacare has really helped people in that financial status. As much as I complained in my comment it really has reduced the cost. Not that I'm political at all but it definitely was something very helpful to allot of people, including my family.
20:09 we have a similar thing in Finland! since 4-6% of Finnish people speak Swedish as their first language and Swedish is the second official language of Finland, we have a political party for the Swedish speaking Finns
I’m from Quebec and I’ve visited hospitals in Amsterdam and Tokyo and I’ve got to say Dutch hospitals are far better than in Canada. It’s free, but you don’t have to spend 8 hours in a clinic, (I spent 1 hour waiting) you don’t have to wait months to have mental health care etc etc. In Tokyo, you have to pay 30% of the cost, but you can literally almost always see a doctor ASAP. In Quebec, I’ve had to wait 8 or 9 hours to see a doctor who is overworked, and even when I need to ask follow up questions, it’s been impossible to go back and talk to them. It’s just a mess. They are overworked. Of course it’s better than in America, but it’s not great either.
This podcast makes me want to move to Canada, for real, haha. I’m sick of hearing about how great the U.S. is when we can’t even get affordable healthcare. And we rank pretty low on quality of life compared to other developed countries. We rank low on education, healthcare, social welfare, etc., but we do have the highest incarcerated population! Can you guys sponsor us for Canadian citizenship please??
It seems that a lot of people have this response whenever people talk about Canada and as a Canadian, I get it. But we're not perfect. Ben and Cristine touched on a couple of things but remember, Canada is a vast place with all the complexities of anywhere else. It's also extremely difficult to immigrate here. So not raining on your parade but perhaps a little drizzle.
I mean yeah, but you Americans get more cereal flavors and US domestic shipping rates. I went to Vegas one year and found SPRINKLED DONUT CAP'N CRUNCH. Canada could never. Honestly, though, Canada is nice for the health care, but we definitely aren't perfect.
@@savannawithoutanh5973 not perfect, but I'm sick of living in a country where people can politically condemn homosexuality. It's eye opening to hear of a country that doesn't have the extreme right wing that we do.
Sydney I’ve always wanted to and looked into it when I was 18 but I didn’t have a “needed” skill or fit the other requirements. Now that I’m married to a chemist completing his Ph.D program I am so stoked to possibly be able to move there!
I heard this joke once: Two government officials traveled to the border of US/Canada to inform a home that lived on the border that there had been slight changes to the border and that they were more living on the US side of the border. The homeowner replied with relief: "well that is great, I have been getting tired of these Canadian Winters."
“How do we explain this to someone living in Iowa” haha that would be me. Not normally a podcast person but they just feel like listening to your friends talking if that makes sense.
I cannot believe you talked about Native Americans... I feel so loved and actually seen... You brought up the MMIW and I nearly cried. Hearing someone with your platform actually bring it up.. I feel seen. Thank you Cristine, from the bottom of my heart. I myself am a N.A., I am a full blooded Navajo on the Navajo Nation and I am always on high alert, because i don't want my mom to find out I'm missing. Then I'm found in the ditch, dead. YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SPEAK ON IT. PLEASE BRING IT UP TO THE LIGHT. MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, MY SISTERS ARE MISSING WITH NO KILLERS IN PRISON. MY SISTER TRIBES ARE HURTING. I'M HURTING. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. You are an amazing human being Cristine. Thank you for helping my People be seen. Ahé'heé.
I remember watching a documentary on CNN talk and visit the various N.A. reservations in the USA. And honestly, the indigenous people need more awareness. They truly need our help. Whether it's Canada or the US, the fact remains that indigenous women are much more likely to go missing or murdered. And that's not okay.
I'm so sad because I'm N.A but i don't have a res as my dad hates the fact that he is n.a so he kinda just ditched that part of his life so idek what res i would ig "belong" to idk how to explain it because it very complicated but i hate how i don't know where i belong i feel like I'm missing my other half but i dknt eveeen know where I'd start to try to figure it out so i feel for all the missing and murder beautiful lovely woman and there family's
@@stinkylizzzy4830 Res as in reservations? Reservations were set up to force Natives off their own land. The trail of tears is part of that. And a lot of natives died. And, USA wasn't that great to the natives of Hawaii either. I think you're referring to tribes. However, a good way of finding out which tribe you belong to is doing a DNA test. Like from 23andme.com or Ancestry.com if you have the funds.
Colt James dna testing does not identify what tribe someone belongs to. It will only say the percentage of Native American.
lizzy is drowning I would check with the tribes near you or hints of where your dad’s family is from. I know my tribe has an enrollment office and they do get phone calls and emails from people requesting their certificate of Indian blood. You could try reaching out to the tribal offices and give them your information and your dads.
I just love how the fact that Cristine's sponsors are actually things she likes and uses! Not just random shit. 😘😘
No Raid Shadow Legends here 🙌🏻
No NordVPN here
OMG thanks everyone! If you wouldn't mind checking out my channel, I would appreciate it very much! 😘
NO BANG ENERGY 😂
@@angelawang7126 NordVPN gives you great security.... except that isn't really why you should use a VPN.
Sorry, software developer here. Mini rant.
The attack they claim to protect against, you have protection against if your website traffic is encrypted. (And guess what HTTPS does?) So, the average person does not need a VPN just for normal browsing of the web. probably the only thing a VPN is good for, for a normal non-technical person, is for making it appear like the user is in another country. But, seeing all these bogus security claims from these VPN companies really grinds my gears. It's all fear mongering and making people think they need to buy expensive software that they don't need or understand. Yes, VPNs can be useful, but NOT for what they're advertising! The advertising of these companies is so shady, and these clueless youtubers promoting them should know better!
The expression 'don't cry over spilled milk' actually comes from a time when most milk was gotten by hand milking a cow. When the cow kicked the bucket of milk and it spilled everywhere it meant that you just lost all the milk for that day, as a product or for your own family.
When they said, "Double-Double" during the slang part I thought about the In-N-Out burger since I am from California. 😆
I wanted to cry just reading this!
I'm Polish. I'am a student writing a thesis, needed some statistic data from few countries and had problems finding them. I wrote to 6 different countries and only Canadian goverment wrote back :) Moreover, they thanked for interest
I appreciate the discussion on American health care. My husband was diagnosed with Liver Cancer (15 cm tumor in the right lobe of his liver) when he was 29. While we are beyond grateful that he survived, we were saddled with incredible debt due to his treatment. We actually became homeless at one point so that we could continue to get treatment. Yes, we had health insurance. Thankfully we had family to take us and our newly adopted son in at the time, but it's crazy that we literally had to make choices about feeding our family or treating his cancer. Even 6 years later we are still paying the bills. I don't know the answer for how to make health care in America better, but we definitely shouldn't have people have to choose between housing, food, and life-saving surgeries.
This is so sad, I hope your husband is ok.
@@olesia2799 Thank you! He is officially 5+ years cancer free. We were able to buy our first home last year, and our son is graduating from high school this week! Life is great. We are just on a grind to pay off all the debt.
Now that is what I call a badass bitch💖
I’m really sad to hear this. Most people see USA as an ideal contry to live in. I’m from Europe and our health care covers almost everything. Can’t believe a country chooses to spend more money on wars than on saving lives of their own people.
I’m glad you got through it.
In the US if it doesn't make money it has to go. If the Republicans get back in power social programs will be gutted. The rich want it all.
I absolutely love how the sponsorships are stuff that Cristine likes, first the oats, now David’s Tea. Also that tumbler is 🔥, I have the pink one and their tea is really good. Glad to hear the code is back!
Amethyst Pretty sure Roots Canada is going to be the next sponsor
David Basurto I really hope so.
Agree!
That tumbler is even prettier in person! I bought it like a month ago when I first saw it. I love it! 😍
David Basurto omg i hope coz they expensive!!!
ben saying “honey, i’m not a cheese expert” made my night.
i was looking for this comment for 5 minutes! that was the cutest thing
Ellie Woodward I know it was so cute!
It's at 28:30 if anyone is wondering
But his description of cheese curds squeaking on your teeth made me never wanna try poutine ever
Kat but... you should
almost cried during the American vs. Canadian health care discussion because i live in America and i cannot fathom the thought of walking into a doctor's office just for a check up and not paying at least $50-$100...
Facts
My boyfriend has dislocated his shoulder, 5 times in the last year. (It's more complicated than being clumsy.) And it's cost us nothing each time! We're very thankful.
@@christianmazerolle7094 :'(
@@christianmazerolle7094That sounds heavenly... I went in for just a check-up the other day and it's costing me $60 to do preventative things
I have pretty good health care through my dad, and it still costs $30 a visit. Which is much better than most Americans, but not sustainable long term for things like therapy. Especially since we’re a family with 3 kids and an assortment of issues. (Adhd, autism, depression) on top of that all of us are currently in college. What are people supposed to do, if even at middle class we’re struggling?
Around halfway through the podcast, Ben called Cristine “Honey” 🥺 they’re so cute.
wait whennn 🥺
Well that's a cute relationship for ya
mc donald’s 28:30
@@jennivee5621 I thank all of you for your contribution to my smile
did you notice how Beyyynn said 'steep claim'
tea jokes
Now we’re just waiting for that Roots sponsorship...
Nah, next it'll be Timmy's!! :) Or the Body Shoppe.
Loranne Arboleya lol it will definitely not be Timmies. They don’t like Tim Hortons all that much
@@loranna_lorannadan the body shop is british :)
i am american and my boyfriend is Canadian, so going to his house and seeing a bag of milk in his fridge was interesting 😂
Yes. As a Canadian with an American boyfriend. I will say that we constantly tease eachother with stereotypes! I love him but like still. It’s hilarious
It’s not only Canada, Mexico does it to it was weird the first time I went to my home country 😂
Bailey Giese m
I used to think that America used milk bags too
😂
First oats and now Tea😂💅 Cristine is fulfilling all her dreams😌 also ily hehe
Beyyn: body loving benefits
Cristene: Can I bath in it? 😂
XD
the next video. Cristene taking a Tea bath.... again 😂
lol Beyyn. lol
Asha T sorry! Auto correct
Felly1992 again again 😂😂😂😂
Ben talks about cold: "maybe that's why Canadians are a little more friendly"
Me, Russian and freezing in May: NOPE.
Точно!🤣
I spent the last few years in Canada (BC), and, man, it's never been this cold as it is in Moscow rn
Rabinka37 BC weather I think is more mild because of the mountains. It’s colder in the plains but still we probably can not compare that to Russia
Вы там где в мае мëрзнете?)
У нас в Сибири вторую неделю +30 XD
Omg, I feel bad. I live in Nova Scotia and our winters are cold, but luckily we are having a heat wave right now
Ben's voice sounds like the "captain speaking" part of the plane ride sometimes lmao.
Great podcasting voice
Or ebook reading voice.
“Ireland, or somewhere weird like that”. Me being from Ireland found that hilarious. For Ben, we have a very low corporate tax because no international companies wanted to locate here, and we lowered the corporate tax to attract them here and give Irish people jobs. Random example, when Apple finally set up a location near where I live, over 30,000 jobs were created which is wonderful.
I live in Ireland and I found this hilarious too lol.
Yeah and PayPal opened a call center there
That was such a weird comment from Ben, I thought I misheard 😆
I moved here about 10 years ago. It's small compared to home, but definitely not weird!
13:32
'how have I never heard that?'
'I don't know you never asked'
me in future relationships: 'so, has your dad _ever swam in Tim Horton's pool?'_
Love how the sponaors are so on brand:
Week 1 oats
Week 2 tea.
Next week cat treats in a holo bag :-D
Tazzy29 Another week, sweatpants! Roots!
@@Amateur.Nail.Art.1 yes absolutely!
3.25% milk in the US is called Whole Milk- for anyone curious
I’m over here like “‘no that’s not popular here!” And it actually is. Wow 😂
Ohhhhhhhhhhh
I mean deductive reasoning should make it obvious that whole has 3% or more of a fat content if we see 2% reduced fat in the usa but again we are talking about average american consumers here and i am not going to suggest as an american that we aren't known for being stupid.
Well it's silly to only call whole milk homogenized... The fat content has nothing to do with that process, the 2% and 1% milk is homogenized also. In fact, if you want to get non-homogenized milk here in the US, it's usually only offered full fat!
Cristine: How do we explain this to someone living in Iowa?
Me sitting here in Iowa: 👁👄👁
Franjo Matković yep!
Dude same. I was just cleaning my kitchen while listening to this and I heard ‘how do we explain this to some in Iowa’ and I literally clapped and scared my dogs.
I'm in Iowa too and just did the exact same thing 😂
Me too! 😂
“How do I explain this to someone who lives in Iowa?” IT IS MY TIME TO SHINE lol
All of us Iowan's turned out heads like "Hold on... we know things!"
Right? I lived there my whole life and I feel equipped to answer any Iowa questions.
Hawkeye state
Yes!
I was born in ottowa for 5 years then we moved to UK but are moving back in the next 6 months
The episode I was waiting for. As a Canadian, this is hilarious.
Same doe
Im Canadian 2, and i was totally with u
Catherine Keresztesi ME TOO
As a quebecker, i really enjoyed the tactfulness that they used to discuss the position of my province in the country. I kinda expected it, tbh!
There is difference in between our country but compare us to US culture and we will unite 😂
Ben used to be so shy on camera and now hes the star of this podcast lmao
i watch this shit for ben and cuz cristine is cute lol
SHE FINALLY GOT SPONSORED BY DAVID!!!
in her "Mixing All My Teas" video, she said that she wanted to be sponsored by Davids Tea and it finally happened!
She also got a sponsorship for her birthday. It’s on her main channel, when Ben made her a birthday cake.
It has happened before too... On her 31st birthday, she made a tea cake and ben gifted her with a sponsorship with DAVID'S TEA...
🍵🍵☕☕
I think David’s tea was slightly forced to notice cristine cause I think a lot of simply fans were like please sponsor simplynailogical cause I definitely saw like one or two comments like that on the David’s tea site ☕️ 😮
Gunjee 9493 probably
bluetopazify oh ok I didn't know that.... So I guess I kind of overreacted.
Awe thank you so much for talking about the First Nations topic , im tsilqotin from b.c, my nation is the first to claim title rights to our lands , meaning we went to provincial court for it, we also just won a long court case against a mining company to not mine on our lands
Congratulations on that win hun!! I am part Ojibwa and Miqmaq and proud to have that in my heritage.
does anyone else think that when ben said "honey, I'm not a cheese expert!" to Cristine, it was rlly cute? hahah
damn, they just left out total drama island. That show was a cultural reset
as an american who grew up watching that show, i always got so mad when i tried to play the total drama games and it told me you could only play it if you were in canada, and to "have some canadian bacon" i was so pissed lol
whaaaat! i totally thought total drama island was australian since it’s a major thing here in australia.
@@madilyne a lot of Canadian cartoons work with Australia!
Our animated media is like a joint gift to the world ☺️♥️♥️
and stoked lol
Facts and degrassi! That show was everything when it aired
I love how when Ben mentioned 'Loonies and Toonies', Cristine exclaimed "That's obvious!
Meanwhile I'm wondering are you talking about Loony Tunes the cartoons?.. No?... Umm, is it a nickname for crazy people then? Did NOT guess it was Candadian currency :o
Haha, loonies are called that bc they loons on them and I guess toonies are that because they’re loonies times 2!
@@Sarah-ew3ku okay but what's a loon? :D
Belynda Nichols it’s a type of bird.
Belynda Nichols they’re similar to ducks but are more rare sort of and they call really loud and they duck under the water for a really long timd
Same
First sponsor was oats!? And their next sponsor it TEA!? How?!
Cheri Trickster magic
I got a feeling their next sponsor will be Roots Canada
Maybe the next one will be roots!!! :D
Next itll be bananas!
Dont forget holo taco!
i feel like Nikkie Tutorials is an example of someone who is like deep into the community but farthest away from LA haha
I don't watch her, but when I watched the show which got broadcast as a substitute for the ESC I immediately recognized her. Would have never guessed she's Dutch though.
Wait she doesn't live in LA?
@@maddietillem6778 She permanently lives in the Netherlands
As an American the "double double" made me think of the burger chain In-n-Out. Where a burger with 2 meat and 2 cheese is called that.
Same!😂😂😂😂
Haha same i was like I KNOW THIS!!! LOL -Californian 🙈🙊🙉
Re: the thing about multiple languages on product labels, I think it's a reasonable expectation. Lots of non-English speaking countries still have English text on all their labels. I think lots (maybe most) things I buy in the UK have maybe French, German, sometimes Spanish or Italian on labels. I think in any multicultural society, you kind of have to factor that stuff into the budget. More inclusivity is never a bad thing.
In the US most of our products have Spanish on the labels along with English. I agree that many countries have two languages on theirs.
I grew up in the UK and have never seen another language on produce???
I live in Sweden, so labels have at least Swedish, Norse, Danish and Finnish. Usually they also have English, German and French. THAT is a lot of translation...
@@rebeccamccordic7137 I live in Spain and chain supermarkets like Carrefour, Lidl or Aldi that are present in other EU countries have all their products labeled in more than one language, usually countries language (my case Spanish), French, Portuguese, Italian, English, etc. Haven't you noticed? I think you guys have Lidl and Aldi's too
In Quebec there is the French Language institute (Institut de la langue française) that defend the language because we were having issues keeping the rates of french use high. We want to protect our culture and heritage so in order to protect it and prevent people from just flooding our markets without caring about us we asked to implant this. So there is laws about if your product name or commercial place makes easy for french people to understand what you are selling, you must put a sub title, a translation or stuff like that under your brand name/product. ex: if you have a Pokemon card pack, it would be written ''jeu de cartes'' or a descriptive of the product underneath it.
Podlogical: We have a 20% discount off David's Tea.
Me: *sighs, opens wallet*
I feel like this is the most immediately effective sponsorship I've experienced so far. I haven't thought about David's Tea in months, and now I'm looking through both their tea and travel mugs to buy something
they literally made me want to buy it so bad!!!!!
Ben: this isn’t tax time with Ben
Me: OH, BUT IT IS THO 😂
Ikr
Where are his secret to tax?
Here in Argentina we have Milk in bags too. I never thought it was something strange😂
The milk in a box is fancy for us haha
Oh I didn't know that, I think the closest thing we have in Brazil is condensed milk in bags.
Same for Ukraine 😄
Same Mexico
Same for India!
I’m 12 years old and Canadian, and we learn about residential schools and indigenous peoples. We’ve pretty much learnt about it since elementary school.
And you’ll keep learning about it until high school
And college too - if the program you are in does intergrate the historical consequences that is currently present in the indigenous community in its curriculum.
Not tryna disrespect, but I was hoping it would end once I got into high school. It doesn’t end.
Clara Norris as an Indigenous person from the US, you should keep learning about the horrible history of residential schools and forced assimilation of First Nations people. First Nations/Indigenous people are still feeling the effects of these injustices brought upon them hundreds of years later. I’m extremely thankful Cristine and Ben brought this up, because like most issues a lot of youtubers like not get into politics or racial issues because they’re hot topics. Even though advocating for POC shouldn’t be an issue, it still seems to be.
@@claranorris5418 I get that you'd probably be tired of hearing a story told almost on repeat, but at a post secondary level, I found it to be about a different discussion. More about the fallout of the attempted cultural genocide on the current population and state of affairs. Granted, it'll depend on the classes and profs that you take.
As a Canadian who lives in Canada I’m only here to ensure that they state the facts 😂😂😂
Nerdy Kiwi same
SAME
As someone who works in a Native American school in the US, I GREATLY appreciate you speaking about the Indigenous People and a very small portion of the heinous acts that happened to them. I am not Native American, but the US education system in the 90s and early 2000s NEVER talks about what was done to them. I have learned so much about the history that occurred and I feel any amount of light shed on that truth is necessary to spark anyone's interest in learning more about the genocide done in North American.
Do you have any sources to recommend checking out?
I think that’s unfortunate. I’m currently in the US education system and we learned about it in great detail, although I learned a fair amount of it in my gifted program. I’m sad that it wasn’t like that everywhere in the US
@@SnakeEnthusiast I think a big reason for why my education was limited in this was due to school systems I was educated in, Virginia and Michigan. Both areas were very conservative so textbooks approved by those districts were also conservative. I am trying to get better and learn, and am fortunate to work with very passionate Haudenosaunee teachers who are helping me learn and giving me directions on where to find more. I think more systems are getting better at disclosing the darker side to US history, but more should be done in the upper-grade levels and secondary education.
@@MsMdip Let me look up some information that can be accessed easily by the public that's a part of open domain. The one book I have been reading that helped me was "Lies my teacher told me" by James W. Loewen.
I love how I’m Canadian and I’m watching a podcast about Canadians talking about Canadian stereotypes lol
Forever sad when Cristine mentions David's Tea since it doesn't ship internationally, and yet everything from there looks so GOOD. I want to support your business, David, please let me buy from you!
Sorry Megan, but you're just not apart of the 9%
Dude, David's Tea is amazing. It's one of the few stores that I could literally spend hours in, and the stores are usually very small, too. I love it!
There are Facebook groups where people buy and sell David's products! Mostly mugs and cups but sometimes when someone tries a tea and doesnt love it they will sell it too!
Megan B
ME TOO!!
I live in Denmark, northern Europe, and I am just dreaming of the day david will ship internationally! 😭
We had a DavidsTea here in my city in Ontario and they have closed now..... probably because of this COVID crap. 😞
26:00
Cristine: Avril Lavigne
Ben: Drake
Me: CELINE DION
Well also Justin Bieber.... 🤭
YAAAAASSS CELINE!
NICKELBACK
Yes me tooo
who is celine dion? i think i am too young
I'm Canadian and some of the questions seem so strange to me. Also when pouring the milk you need to hold the other end of the bag so it doesn't spill!
Isabella MacArthur i know! As a Canadian it was really interesting to see what people want to know!
You can also cut both corners so the air makes it not fold and spill everywhere! I discovered this trick not too long ago lol.
@@lovelol199012 I'm not even Canadian, but this was my first thought when I saw the clip. Anytime I have to pour a container like that, I cut an air hole.
I'm from Brazil and this is one of many similarities.
We also had these milk bags in Hungary, now it is not so popular but still available. We also have cocoa and milk coffee in them. I also hated when the bag collapsed in the jug when there was not much milk left.... :D
How did two countries, both formed out of English (and French) colonies become so distinct? All the conversation about healthcare, politics, and culture boils down to a short history lesson.
The United States was formed when 13 colonies joined together to fight for "freedom" (and by freedom I really mean a fight to not pay taxes to the country that started them). While Canada gained independence through peaceful means and we maintain a strong relationship with the UK as well as all the other countries in the Commonwealth.
Today, Americans believe in and stand for the struggle for "freedom." This is why many are still not interested in their taxes going towards other people's healthcare, why many are afraid to give up guns, and why immigrants are often expected to melt into the culture (hence it is called a melting pot) and become "American."
In Canada we refer to ourselves as a Mosaic and we celebrate people maintaining connections to their culture and country of origin. This is also why their isn't as much of a Canadian identity. Even Canadians who have been in Canada for generations often maintain customs from their countries of family origin.
Today we are quite distinct from each other in many ways. If you are more of an individualist (want to work to get ahead, work for what you want, and let other people work for their own), the States might be a better place for you. If you have a strong sense of community and working for the best of all people within your borders and abroad, Canada might be your place.
I am a dual citizen, born and raised in Canada with MUCH time growing up in Washington and Oregon, and both countries are wonderful. But at the core hold some fairly different values.
Thinking about how the United States healthcare system has treated me is so painful. I didn't have insurance because I couldn't afford it, so I had to put off going to the doctor when I became really sick. I was jaundiced, my pee was nearly black, I couldn't keep down any food, I was feverish, couldn't sleep, and had intense abdominal and back pain. When I finally couldn't take it anymore and went to the doctor, it turned out I had such a severe case of mono that my kidneys and liver were damaged and I was in severe danger of my organs failing. It took me years to pay off the medical bills and the experience haunts me to this day.
Me in Iowa: “What?! You know about us Iowa fans?! 😱 I feel so seen!”
Also, I majored in Sociology and Research Methods with a minor in Criminal justice. I’m so happy when you talk about it! You’re both basically working my dream job that I wished to get out of undergrad!
I did the same... Sitting in des moines like "she knows it's a state?" 🤣
My grandmother was from Iowa. Definitely some fuzzy feelings there at its mention.
Omg when they were talking about theory a few weeks ago i felt SO SEEN as an anthro minor
Canada: we have two official languages and everything needs to be translated into both
South Africa: 11 languages
in Quebec, almost everyone speaks at least two languages, and it is more common, in my opinion, to encounter people there who speak at least three languages. Montreal also has a section that has the highest concentration of new immigrants in all of North America. It is called Park Extension, or Park X for short. the vast amount of Canadians only Speak English.
if it's any consolation the different provinces and territories have their own official languages too. The North West Territories in northern Canada has something like 14 official languages (to be fair many of them are endangered and mostly serve as a way to try and represent and preserve cultures that are being revived)
In India, we have more than 800 languages but 22 of them are considered as scheduled...
Including Bengali, Maithili, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, Dogri, Kannada, Gujarati, Bodo, Manipur (also known as Meitei), Oriya, Marathi, Santali, Telugu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Malayalam, Konkani and Kashmiri.
*AND HINDI AND ENGLISH ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES!!!*
@@vasundhra4086 I've met people from India around the world who have told me about their languages and it seems so amazing yet stressful to keep up with them, I assume it's similar to going to a more culturally dense part of Canada where not everyone speaks English so depending on where you are there are communities of people who speak different languages to each other ( think like, China Town)
In switzerland we have officially 4 languages, not 11 but still a ‚lot‘
Being from Wisconsin, there are so many things that bleed in here that so many of these questions are so odd 😂😂 like "is it really that cold?" Bruh, it was -40 degrees F last winter here 😂
Also #indigenouslivesmatter
The entire time they were talking about healthcare I was thinking about how Rob and Corinne had to release merch to pay for Rob's medical bills
Yeah and then imagine to pay for something like that and not having the opportunity to do something like this. I don't get why some US citizens are against having a universal health care.
I didn’t know that they had to do that, that’s awful I couldn’t ever imagine not having free health care
@@simonopps From an outside perspective (Australian) I was also curious, because there was a kinda-big ad campaign against privatisation a couple of years ago, so I looked into it.
Apparently people think that it would cause some huge increase in taxes because their 'normal' medical bills are so expensive. What they don't realise is that private hospitals and private companies hike up the prices to ridiculous levels (or so I've heard from many many places on the internet). So if America were to finally catch up to the rest of the world and set up universal healthcare then, while there would be a small tax (in Aus it's 2% of our taxable income), it would be nowhere near the current price of healthcare. If you look up 'Australia medicare levy' and go to the ato.gov.au website there is a better explanation of how things work.
Right? I follow someone on Instagram that has come out of ‘retirement’, starting an only fans to be able to pay for the medical bills from having a preemie. I’m glad as fuck she has a side hustle she can make money with, but shit. It’s hard enough raising a kid without having to spend a boatload on their first month in a hospital to ensure they don’t die.
Koichi the problem in America is that the people making millions of dollars off of privatized healthcare basically pay politicians way into congress/senate and then there’s no way to pass any decent legislation because our representatives are personally being paid off to allow normal Americans to die because we can’t afford healthcare. Rich get richer, poor stay poor. That’s America for ya.
You know Cristine has reached her peak when David’s Tea is sponsoring her podcast
I love the smile on Cristine’s face while Ben talks about the sponsor
Cheese curd is cheddar or sometimes gouda, and it's a day's old, not more. The squeak comes from the freshness
This. Curds have to be VERY VERY FRESH. Definitely not "aged".
Ben: Canadians are generally polite.
Amy Cooper: Hold my double-double.
Why is this so true 🤣🤣🤣
Omg I didn't realize she's Canadian 😡 🤦🏻♀️
She's CANADIAN!!
SHE’S CANADIAN?! OH NO
she's canadian? damn that's a shame
Thank you for actually breaching the conversation about First Nations and not skipping it over because it is a big and daunting topic, and also THANK YOU for not sugar-coating it and saying it is a dark and negative history!
Also, you need to watch Letterkenny - not related at all to First Nations but you both will greatly enjoy Letterkenny! lol
This is literally the only podcast I will watch
Lemon Muffin I’m not usually interested in podcasts so I’ve never listened to one of theirs, but I will listen to one next thanks!
The jenna & julien podcast is awesome (in my opinion) as the other commenter mentions them - one that a lot of people go back to is the guessing recipes one from there. Dont wanna spoil too much - but they even make guessing recipes sound hilarious
Why is that? I could probably suggest a couple for you. I think they are very compatible with Simply. I'm not necessarily looking for wholesomeness, but I'm also not looking for Joe Rogan. Grackle, from the UK, is darling. Start earlier in her Works, she's becoming more mature now.
Lorde Platypus j&j do the guessing recipes one? Or someone else?
It's them and then Jenna and Julian
Bagged milk is sold in South Africa also. 💁♀️
you get it in europe too, it's just americans apparently who find it weird..
Also in Mexico
@@andreasm123 India as well
To answer your profound questions about cheese in Poutine: it’s not an aged cheddar, it’s a fresh one, ideally fresh frome the day! The cheese has been soaked in salted water That’s what makes it squeaky. And yes, the squeakiness is proof of quality!
Patricia Plouffe this sounds amazing!!! 😋
Thank you for speaking on the indigenous history of your country. Thank you for speaking about those who are missing or those whose lives have been lost. I pray that we see improvements for all countries indigenous populations in representation and care.
I’m in England and there’s the same opinion about the NHS as you do about your health system. It may not be perfect but right now it is the backbone of England and I am proud to say that the NHS is part of Britain. 🏴 🇬🇧
Me too!!!!! #longlivethenhs 🇬🇧
Oh well, better get rid of Boris if you want to keep your NHS.
You should be proud of it no matter what, you created it after all. Fight to keep it.
Greetings from the end of Europe ❤️
Me too!♥️🏴
Don't let them take it away from you, protect the workers and protect the infrastructure. Right now my British colleagues are suffering shitty working conditions, especially the junior doctors.
MsMdip sorry to hear your working conditions aren’t great right now. Hope it gets better for you in the future😘😘
What’s hilarious about you guys talking about Iowa so much is that when I was in Canada and people asked me where I was from, and I told them Iowa. They responded, “Oh, I love Ottawa!” 🤣🤣🤣
Me an Iowan: *hurt about being stereotypical America* Also me an Iowan: “can’t wait to get fried butter at the state fair.”
who the hell thought it was a good idea to cook fats inside more fats
Oh Des Moines, you treasure
What is fried butter?😂
@@Nat-bv3vk a stick of butter coated with batter and deep-fried, really. Haven't ate one myself though.
@@fonsineknshr - dear lord, that is the most disgusting that I have ever heard of
I'm so glad you brought up indigenous issues! I was listening to this while doing errands but stopped everything when I heard you guys touch on it. I'm a Native from Alaska and this is something that's really been on my mind so much recently. Thank you for recognizing what's going on with our people!
The way Cristine says “poutine” warms my French Canadian heart.
There were several interesting points made about the whole Québec situation, but I would add that the bilingual packaging goes both ways; in Québec, you also have both English and French on items in stores, even though most people speak French. It’s just a way to make sure that every Canadian can read packaging text in at least one of the two official languages. In my mind, if you are bothered by it, you don’t have enough real problems in your life. Also, there might be fees linked to translation, but if you actually take the time to look at those translations, you'll see that some of them are straight from Google Translate. I remember an incident with Sobeys in Ontario where “spicy turkey breast wrap” was translated to “Turquie épicée du sein”, which basically makes no sense and can be translated back to “Spiced Turkey (the country) of the breast (the human kind)”. It's pretty common to see botched translations like that.
Bon point!
For the bagged milk spilling technique, the corner thing they said is correct for me, but when I pour milk by using one hand to hold the pitcher and one hand to hold the opposite corner that the milk is coming out from. This endures a more accurate pouring.
Ben: "The rest is kinda sprinkled all over the place."
Me: *waves at my screen in the Netherlands*
Whoop whoop Dutchies united🎉 😂
same same!
*German waves to neighbors and Canada* :)
@@chronischgeheilt Other German supports you in supporting our lovely neighbours!
Hey there neighbors! Guten tag!
A common decision made in America: Do I go to the hospital or do I eat?
this has GOT to change... I'm so appalled :( [btw i am from the US]
Idk about all the states but I know that most states around where I live have a free healthcare option? 🤔
@@lrdichmann there is Medicare and Medicaid BUT alot of struggling families don't meet the qualifications and it takes months to be approved.
The moment Ben is talking about how cheese curds need to squeak. Mmmm I can taste it. Love me a poutine. Love being Canadian🇨🇦🇨🇦
Cassie Mede made me want poutine so bad! 😂😂
i don’t know how many people know this but the us has more than two political parties too, we just have two main ones
Sure but effectively there are only 2. Only two that have enough power to get into office and because of the “winner take all” voting system in the USA, it’s likely to drift to and stay as a two party system. Even in American media, non democrat/republican are almost always referred to as Independents. In Canada, an independent is literally someone who doesn’t have a party. Also in the states they always refer to something as being bipartisan (other places call it non-partisan because there’s more than 2).
Only 2 parties debate
Ben: you came out of your igloo?
Cristine: No, of course not!
Cristine, I'm so happy to see how you're continuing the podcast, getting these wonderful sponsers that fit you so well, and just in general seem to really be thriving. It makes me happy
Watching this whole podcast: “I want to move to Canada. *Cries in American.”
Me too! (Not American tho but I also cry in not being Canadian)
Same
Your really don’t it’s so boring here lmao
Try crying in syrian😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣💔💔
@@r4d1at0r i really do, my country is becoming a looney show now and if it doesn't change im gonna move to Canada, I love it there
Kinda unrelated but i love catching moments when Ben calls Cristine ,,Honey,, , i think its so cute:3
28:30
Awe that was really cute!
I think because they don't call each other couple nicknames when they do it's so cute
FINALLY CRIS IS GETTING HER DAVID’S TEA SPONSORSHIP AFTER ALL THIS TIME
She had one on her last birthday
Nana Hs she also got them to sponsor her for her 31st birthday
Thank you to the person who asked about indigenous issues and thank you to you guys for including it!!! So important.
"If the women don’t find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy." Lol The Red Green show was pretty iconic canadiana.
I love that this is the first comment I saw! Man I loved this show!
I used to watch this with my grandma at like 1am (she didn’t have cable) when I was a kid 😂. She loved that show.
"I'm a man. And I can change. If I have to. I guess." LOL! Great show!
I have family in England who I penpal(I am Canadian)and in the last letter I received, my cousin told me you’re her favourite youtuber! As a long time subscriber myself, this was super exciting, she is really into Canadian culture, and I thought it was funny I was bonding with someone over a youtuber, crazy times.
re: "Homo Milk", the invoices for the store I work at actually use that phrase for our whole milk (full fat milk, also sometimes labeled "Vitamin D Milk" on the carton). I have a picture of the invoice somewhere on my phone because it listed "Homo Gal" "Homo 1/2 Gal" and one other that all made me laugh.
😂😂😂 only sell that during pride 😂😂😂
I thought it was short for homogenized milk.
Yeah, when they said it's 3.5% I was like, "isn't that just whole milk?" I think whole milk in the US is ~3.5%
As someone who lives in wisconsin, "squeaky" cheese curds are the only way cheese factories seem to market cheese curds. And they are probably my favorite food.
I could hear the "squeak" as he talked about it. Lol
I think he made all the Wisconsinites proud in the description of the cheese 😂
Hello fellow wisconsinites 🧀
We used to buy it in bulk straight from the dairy where it was made in small-town Wisconsin.
ben: here's another one: loonies and toonies
cristine: well that's obvious
me, a californian:👁👄👁
Loonies= $1
Toonies= $2
But as coins
sd v ahhh okay thanks for the clarification!
Omg that's meeeeee 😂😂
@@SD-hs2pk and toonies have 2 metals in it, which makes it even better
Loonies have a loon (the bird) on them, just for clarifcation. It's like when Americans say "Benjamins" for $100 bills
You're damn right I will advocate for universal healthcare! Served in the military for 4 years, got out with an honorable discharge with no claimed disabilities. Worked for a few years and developed a genetic autoimmune disease (psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis). I had to quit my job because I had it covering over 60% of my skin eventually. Was in pain every day and neither Veterans Healthcare or my job's private insurance would cover the medication for it. I went several years before I was able to get insurance through my college to cover the meds.
America can't even take care of its veterans properly when it comes to healthcare, let alone all of its citizens. I'm sure there are people in much worse situtations than what I've told. Not a nice place to live for people that need to get on their feet. I'd leave right if I wasn't still neck deep in school and other financial restrictions. These conservatives act like anyone can just get a good enough job to put a roof over your head, deal with no insurance, and get out of a swamp of debt in only a short few years. Then they blame drugs for being the reason people are poor half the time. I know a lot of poor people who have never touched a drug in their life, they are poor because they can't pay the transactional costs that come with BEING POOR, such as not being able to start a bank account or get a loan. The shit stacks here man, especially with the sky high divorce rates creating negative residual generation fallout.
As a Canadian, this podcast is hilarious in every way. Also congratulations in being sponsored by Oats Overnight and then DAVID’S TEA!!
Tuesday’s are my favorite day cause I get to listen to my internet parents have an amazing and stimulating conversation ❤️ you guys are the best
I'm Secwepemc from BC and I am appreciative that you guys were comfortable enough to chat a little bit about First Nations issues! Its a topic that is so often grazed over when talking about Canada as a whole.
I've watched this so many times, but only now have I realized that they're wearing Canadian colors lol
“Oh, you’re listening to the cat lady, she’s cool”. My husband call you the cat lady lol
“How do we explain this to someone living in Iowa”
Me in Iowa: “SOMEONE KNOWS WE EXIST?!?!”
Where is Iowa?? I am British and I don’t know much about the States
I live in the same country as her, and if you said my province she'd think it's a city in Iowa..
Here ya go: ontheworldmap.com/usa/state/iowa/iowa-location-on-the-us-map.html
Same lol
I feel seen
"Wait time" is such a cop out reason to not have universal health care. Wait times in clinics and ERs are hours and hours long in America anyway. I've never went to the doctors and didn't expect to wait less than 3 hours. And finding family doctors is hard here too.
Mother Marlen Their wait time is more like weeks or months or even years some times. Just depends on the doctor and their specialty. I heard from people in Canada that have torn cartilage in their hip and they have to wait MONTHS to get in to the doctor to even discuss options to fix it.
@@karlagoff6635 Well, waiting a few weeks for appointments but getting a treatment without ending up homeless and years of paying crippling debt seems kind of worth it. I'm not from Canada, but Germany has some waiting time for appointments, too. If you are in accute pain or danger, you get treated right away, though.
A paycheck away from loosing stability (Job, home, health) is not freedom, it's keeping people in their place.
I'm from the states and my husband is Canadian and we want to live in BC someday. While I know they have good intentions, my family and friends try and talk us into staying in the states. We want the free healthcare for our future family, and they're all like bUt WhAt aBoUt ThE wAiT tImEs???
My husband had to go to PROMPT care while he was in the states and we waited for 3 hours and they just gave him a prescription for a skin thing he should have had excised. At the quick clinic. 3 hours.
Waiting in an emergency room in Canada take HOURS and I mean if you have a broken arm you can be sitting there for 12 hours. The privilege is great having the option to go to an emergency room and not pay for the visit, but the wait discourages you from going anyways. And we still technically pay for healthcare through taxes, and have limited dental, eye, and medication coverage unless you have good insurance. Canada isn’t as perfect as it seems, but I also can’t imagine having to pay thousands for birthing a baby.
I'd rather wait weeks for a surgery than being in debt for the rest of my life honestly.
As a Canadian currently living in Victoria, I love how Ben called it Victoria Island instead of Vancouver Island.
I’m from Victoria too, and I found it soo funny. People always forget about Vancouver island, even though the capital of the province is there lol
8 months out of the year: IM TO COLD
4 months out of the year: IM TO HOT
~~welcome to Canada~~
Finland too😂
the worst thing lilly did for her career was to move to LA
i think it's safe to say she built her audience on the face that she was doing more personal content whether mocking indian/desi stereotypes or rap about culture but it felt more real hence the audience connected to her more
but when she moved to LA she became.. just another trying so hard to be in hollywood that she lost her personal identity which gave her that popularity in the first place
and even with facts
i highly doubt if her subscribers/viewers increased rapidly after moving to LA if anything it's decreased exponentially
But I'm sure that Late Night show more than makes up for the income loss.
Yea, lily was my favorite RUclipsr for a really long time and I will still happily watch her 4 year old videos but now everything she does it trying too hard and it feels so fake, like the whole set up of her videos, it doesn’t feel like her.
As a "franco-ontarienne" I would like to emphasize that while Québec is more well-known for their french culture, there are many french canadians in the maritimes and Ontario among other areas in the country. Québec is its own thing and by no means do they represent the rest of the french community. As the name states, the Bloc-Québecois party is devoted to Québec nationalism and the promotion of Québec sovereignty, not french culture or french canadians.
Yess, franco-ontarienne too 🙋♀️, moved to Montreal for university and sometimes could not relate to my quebecois friends, with their "devisiveness" and "hate" for Canada. Most are not aware that there are francophones in the ROC ("rest of Canada" .. a term I had never heard outside of Quebec.. they have a "us vs them" mentality that I could not relate to). French speaking people outside of quebec are more for unity accross provinces to have strength in numbers and representation on a national level.
i love how they think 13% vat is "a lot of tax"... in my country it's 22%
23% here, 40% income tax and no universal healthcare or free tou bloc transport. I think we’re getting a crappy deal lol
@@Katie0119 wait your income tax is the same for everyone??? ours depend on your income. transport is subsidized so it's not really expensive and there are special bus passes for different groups that make it free or much cheaper.
@@sofip6293 once you earn over €35k, you are taxed at 40% plus other taxes. The lower rate is 20%. The “liveable salary” is considered to be €40k minimum, and that’s really just to pay bills and have a very basic standard of living.
Public transport is terrible, unreliable and very expensive. It can cost over €15 to get from one side of the city to the other (maybe 10-15km). But owning a car is even more expensive. Most who live in the capital can’t afford a car or have to sacrifice a lot of other things to afford it if they want to work outside of the city and don’t want to spend hours commuting on buses.
I’m talking about Ireland by the way and Dublin in particular.
In my country it's 20%, so yeah, can relate 😅
I AM HERE TO TELL EVERONE THAT U GET BAGGED MILK IN INDIA AS WELL
Edit : see the replies,
Hence - canada is not the only country with bagged milk
South Africa as well
And Russia
I am an Indian too and I can verify 😅
In Mexico too!
Same in Argentina
Before Obamacare, my family of fours health insurance was almost $900 a month and now it’s around $90.
same for me, our doctor didnt take the insurance so we had to pay out of pocket every time
It's true that Obamacare has really helped people in that financial status. As much as I complained in my comment it really has reduced the cost. Not that I'm political at all but it definitely was something very helpful to allot of people, including my family.
The reason it is so cheap is because it is terrible.
20:09 we have a similar thing in Finland! since 4-6% of Finnish people speak Swedish as their first language and Swedish is the second official language of Finland, we have a political party for the Swedish speaking Finns
I’m from Quebec and I’ve visited hospitals in Amsterdam and Tokyo and I’ve got to say Dutch hospitals are far better than in Canada. It’s free, but you don’t have to spend 8 hours in a clinic, (I spent 1 hour waiting) you don’t have to wait months to have mental health care etc etc. In Tokyo, you have to pay 30% of the cost, but you can literally almost always see a doctor ASAP.
In Quebec, I’ve had to wait 8 or 9 hours to see a doctor who is overworked, and even when I need to ask follow up questions, it’s been impossible to go back and talk to them. It’s just a mess. They are overworked. Of course it’s better than in America, but it’s not great either.
"The weather has finally gotten warm here in Canada"
*Cries in melted Floridian*
*Cries in Australian*
same
This podcast makes me want to move to Canada, for real, haha. I’m sick of hearing about how great the U.S. is when we can’t even get affordable healthcare. And we rank pretty low on quality of life compared to other developed countries. We rank low on education, healthcare, social welfare, etc., but we do have the highest incarcerated population! Can you guys sponsor us for Canadian citizenship please??
It seems that a lot of people have this response whenever people talk about Canada and as a Canadian, I get it. But we're not perfect. Ben and Cristine touched on a couple of things but remember, Canada is a vast place with all the complexities of anywhere else. It's also extremely difficult to immigrate here. So not raining on your parade but perhaps a little drizzle.
I mean yeah, but you Americans get more cereal flavors and US domestic shipping rates. I went to Vegas one year and found SPRINKLED DONUT CAP'N CRUNCH. Canada could never.
Honestly, though, Canada is nice for the health care, but we definitely aren't perfect.
@@savannawithoutanh5973 not perfect, but I'm sick of living in a country where people can politically condemn homosexuality. It's eye opening to hear of a country that doesn't have the extreme right wing that we do.
Sydney I’ve always wanted to and looked into it when I was 18 but I didn’t have a “needed” skill or fit the other requirements. Now that I’m married to a chemist completing his Ph.D program I am so stoked to possibly be able to move there!
beep boop or where people are so regularly killed by guns or POC are killed by police so often with no repercussions.
I heard this joke once:
Two government officials traveled to the border of US/Canada to inform a home that lived on the border that there had been slight changes to the border and that they were more living on the US side of the border. The homeowner replied with relief: "well that is great, I have been getting tired of these Canadian Winters."
“How do we explain this to someone living in Iowa” haha that would be me. Not normally a podcast person but they just feel like listening to your friends talking if that makes sense.