Culture Shock! Australia vs. LA with Girthmaster and Holly Randall

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Culture Shock! Australia vs. LA with Girthmaster and Holly Randall  #Girthmaster #HollyRandall

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00:00What are some of the biggest differences between LA and Australia?

00:03Like any massive culture shocks here?

00:05The tipping thing is strange to me.

00:07And I still don't know how to navigate it.

00:09Yes.

00:10It's like you go to the bathroom and there's a guy handing you paper towels to dry your

00:14hands with.

00:15Like you tip him, like my hands are wet.

00:17I got to get my wallet out.

00:18I just washed them and I'm touching money.

00:20That's strange.

00:21You meant to tip your hairdresser.

00:23I didn't, I went to a hairdresser three times, didn't tip them and they stopped returning

00:27my phone calls.

00:27And it turns out I just, I was stiffing him on payment.

00:30I didn't know how to tip the hairdresser.

00:31I was already paying for the haircut.

00:33I didn't know how to pay for the tip as well.

00:35Tipping is a big one.

00:36I don't get it.

00:37Yeah.

00:37Well, and since COVID, they added like the tipping thing to just going to get coffee or going

00:45to like the store.

00:46And it's like, would you like to add a tip?

00:48And it's like, and it's built into the things and you literally have to deny the tip.

00:54Yeah.

00:55To like any.

00:55And it's just the way they turn it around, like, oh, just a couple of questions on the

00:58screen and they walk away.

01:00And then you have to make your own.

01:01All they do is pour it in the cup and then you go to the little station and make your

01:04own coffee.

01:05You add the milk and the sugar and I'm doing more work than you are.

01:08And I'm just like.

01:10That is a hundred percent a new thing.

01:11And that started in COVID.

01:13And when you have to add, like the price isn't the price.

01:15Like the price on the shelf is a dollar.

01:17Yeah.

01:18You go to the register, it's a dollar 14 or a dollar seven, whatever it is.

01:21Like, do you guys not have sales tax?

01:23No, we do, but it's built into the price.

01:25So if it's $10, you have $10 note.

01:27That's it.

01:29It's like the rest of the world is like that.

01:31But America just adds money.

01:33The price isn't the price because then you have to add the tax and the tip.

01:36But and in my head as well, the exchange rate when I'm spending Australian money, like if

01:40something's $10, it's like 25 Australian dollars.

01:43What do you do when you're in a hotel and they, and you get room service and then they

01:46add like the room service, like delivery fee.

01:49The service fee at hotels as well.

01:50I think the resort fee or whatever it is.

01:52Like I paid, you know, a hundred dollars a night and then I get to the hotel and oh, we

01:56have a $50 a day resort fee.

01:59That's part of the price.

02:00Put it in the price.

02:01Why am I paying extra fees on everything?

02:04It's because everyone in this country, especially in LA is full of shit.

02:10We're not upfront about anything.

02:13Yeah.

02:14Everything has extra fees with it.

02:16Like you can't do anything without, you can't leave your house without spending money somehow.

02:20I know.

02:21It's crazy.

02:22Yeah.

02:23Culturally, I mean, but yeah, that's, that's the biggest thing.

02:25The tipping is what I'm like most unsure about.

02:27I love that you can turn right on red lights here.

02:30Love that about America.

02:31I remember actually, cause I'm so used to the tipping thing.

02:34I remember going to England one year and I left a tip for the drinks.

02:38Like I went to the bar and I left a tip for the drink on the bar.

02:42And I remember leaving and the bartender like chased me out.

02:44They're like, oh, you left your money on the counter.

02:46And I was like, thanks.

02:47I see people that work in restaurants in Australia, love Americans because they tip as well.

02:51Yeah.

02:51No one else tips, but the Americans are tipping.

02:52Yeah.

02:53Free money.

02:54I know.

02:54And when it's so funny, cause I know that when I go to other countries and I know that

02:58people don't tip, I still tip.

03:00Yeah.

03:01Cause I feel so guilty.

03:02I mean, the U.S. dollar is pretty good right now.

03:04So.

03:04Yeah.

03:04And I'm just like, I know that like people don't do it, but like, if I don't tip, it's,

03:08it's like ingrained in me now.

03:10It's like, I have to.

03:11Yeah.

03:12No, they get no wage.

03:12They're good.

03:16So that turning on red lights.

03:18What about the people?

03:19The people are surprisingly friendly in America.

03:23Like what you see on the news, you know, you, you don't expect Americans to be normal.

03:27And then you come out here and Americans are actually pretty normal, but then you do have

03:30those weirdos, like the ones that like growing up, you see Americans on TV and it's like point

03:36to, you know, England on a map and they can't do it.

03:39And like the crazy videos from Walmarts of people just.

03:42Oh, the people of Walmart.

03:43The creatures of Walmart.

03:44Yeah.

03:44Like those, those kinds of videos of like genuine insane people.

03:47You're like.

03:48That is.

03:49It's like.

03:49Have you been to middle America?

03:51Yeah.

03:51But like, when you see that from outside, you're like, that's just Hollywood stuff.

03:54Like no one's really like that.

03:55Yeah.

03:56Like they're not real people.

03:57Then you go to Walmart and you're like, oh my God, they're actually real people like

04:00that.

04:01Like it's not made up.

04:02They're everywhere.

04:03So the spectrum of people in America, like the way, how far to the crazy scale people

04:08go in America is interesting.

04:10It's pretty wild.

04:11Finding out those people are real is a culture shock.

04:13Yeah, it is.

04:14It's funny because like, you know, here in LA, because all the beautiful people come here,

04:19right?

04:19You walk around and you're like.

04:21A six.

04:23Right.

04:23You know, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like a six and I go to some other state and I'm just

04:28like, I'm a fucking 10.

04:30Yeah.

04:31You know, the crazy thing to me about dating in LA is like you're chatting to a girl and

04:35she'll say something crazy.

04:36Like, you know, she used to live in Miami.

04:38I'm like, oh, what were you doing in Miami?

04:39And she'll name drop like some, you know, like NFL player or famous musician.

04:45She's like, oh, I used to date him for a while.

04:46I'm like, you dated like an NFL player and now you're talking to me?

04:50Like my competition is like famous musicians and sports people and actors.

04:56I'm like.

04:56Yeah.

04:57But their dick ain't the size of a wine bottle.

04:59You know what I'm saying?

05:01That's true.

05:03They got to compete with you.

05:05Yeah.

05:06No, I was like at a dinner with the girl and I just like at a bar and like accidentally

05:11in a peripheral vision called like her Instagram DMs, just all blue ticks.

05:16Like famous people.

05:17I'm like, damn, that's crazy.

05:19My competition in Australia was local dudes.

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