Quiet Laughter with Nemo the Mormon

 | SURPRISE! Nemo the Mormon is our special guest today! We discuss Nemo’s experience growing up Mormon in England, his hot takes on hot drinks & American food, and the history of the LDS church in the UK. Stick around to the end to hear Nemo judge our attempts at British accents and slang!

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Loud Laughter Podcast. Today we have two exciting things. Number one, and most importantly, we have a very special guest, Nemo. Hello. Yay. You're likely familiar with his platform, but if not, we're going to have him do a little intro. And second of all, it's our first video episode. So we're so honored that you join us.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Yeah. Pleasure to be here.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Very grateful. Yeah. So Nemo is a famous Mormon content creator. Very famous from the UK. So today we're going to be talking about British Mormonism and just having some fun laughs. So Nemo, is there anything that you want to tell us about yourselves before we get started? About yourself, one of you, before we get started.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

I don't like talking about myself famously. Um but I'm I'm here to have a laugh.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

So great. Okay, well, we're super excited. All right. So we're gonna ask Nemo some rapid fire questions about British Mormonism. Okay. And then at the end, he is going to quiz us on Britishisms, British words, slang, whatever. And we are also going to attempt to recite his favorite scripture in a British accent, and he will give us his opinion on how well we did.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

So this podcast is laughter and cringe. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

I um I embarrass myself a lot on the podcast, mispronouncing words. We have a segment called Molly Mormon Moments, which is the most embarrassing thing that you have done as a Mormon. Like the most Mormon thing you've ever done. Sophia. Yeah, if you have a Molly Mormon moment, we welcome that for sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Sophia famously poured out uh or attempted to pour a bottle of Coca-Cola that our cousin was about to drink because he was about to partake of caffeine.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

I see, yeah, that's a problem.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

And that's almost dumped it out. I got too scared. I fell prey to the temptations of the devil. And I went back on it. She shared it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

So we welcome cringe around here. It's a space of healing, really. So no inhibitions.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

All right. That's that's a dangerous game.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

True. Okay. So our first question, we talked to Nemo a little bit about this before, but we want to tell our audience where the pseudonym Nemo came from.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Okay. Uh Nemo is Latin for nobody. Um, and the idea of my channel was that it wasn't about me, it was about kind of addressing the facts, fact-checking things, looking through it. But um eventually what I've discovered with social media is it always becomes about you. As the content creator, people aren't gonna watch unless they kind of develop a bit of a relationship with you. So um unfortunately, I had to start, you know, having a personality, which was difficult, but I managed to develop one sufficiently for uh for an online audience.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I've heard people say that part of British culture is being like very understated and sort of like humble. So I feel like that does go along. That's a British characteristic of yours.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Yeah, that is that is how we do it. We don't like to brag or boast or anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Cool. Well, that's good.

unknown 3:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Okay, so I'm curious from what you've observed, was the church culture in Britain very different from the church culture in America?

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Um, I mean my window into church culture in America is very much contact with missionaries, time spent over here briefly, um, and conversations with with Americans. But it's very different. Um, it's different in that here. I went for a walk where I'm staying down in Utah County, and I walked past four or five meeting houses within a couple of miles. Um, whereas the town of 80,000 people that I grew up in had one and it shared it with another town as well, and people would come from like neighboring towns. There's quite a few different little towns that all came to the one meeting house in where I grew up. So um the scale of things for a start and how embedded it is into the fabric of everything around here. So I'm walking around. I mean, Salt Lake City feels pretty secular these days, but you you leave it and everything is just church race. Like I went into um I was in Provo, went into a little supermarket, and there's like an inspiration card, which has just got like postcards of Jesus and little Christmases for sale and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Just you would not see that in the UK at all. That's not a thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I feel like the US in general is more religious, but especially Utah, like when you go to Costco, for example. I do have you been to Costco before? Do they have that in the UK?

SPEAKER_00 4:48

I have it. We have it in the UK. I've had a very cheap hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

They're pretty good for how cheap they are.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

I think suspiciously good.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, when you go to Costco, like they have different products for different regions. And I live in the Boston area. So whenever I go to Utah, I'm also shocked by seeing like Mormon uh, you know, books like being sold, like Deserette book kind of stuff being sold at Costco and like huge paintings of Jesus and stuff like that. They know their market.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Well, yeah, and that is the thing. It is just about the market, right? There's people to sell it to here, there's people that will buy it, so it's getting sold. Um but it yeah, it's it's strange because you can very easily imagine someone here not having any friends that aren't Mormon and living very much in a bubble, whereas I, you know, grew up with a lot of friends who weren't and spent a lot of time with people that weren't. So um that's a benefit, definitely, I think.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Um, not being kind of totally stuck in.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Do you feel like you were the most religious person like in your school in general, or were there other religious people there of different religions?

SPEAKER_00 6:00

There were other religious people there. It's a lot of Muslims in my school. Um, particularly my sort of I guess you call it middle school here, was in an area of town that was near the mosque. Um, and so there's like uh call them ethnic enclaves, I guess, where you essentially have like Chinatowns and things like that. So around the mosque, a lot of uh Muslims live on those sort of streets nearby, so they send all their kids to that local school. So uh I met a lot of Muslim kids, but I think I was the most zealously religious. Um I've talked about it before, but I wasn't allowed to do religious studies at school because I was too combatative.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Really? Wow, so they barred you from yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

So I was like, you just can't do this class because your teacher can't cope with how like just full on you are.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

I was very zealous Mormon.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Wow. What kind of religious classes did you get barred from? Like historical or how does it be?

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Well, so our religious class was all just in one, so it was we would be taught about lots of different world religions, things like that, and it was all fine until we got to Christianity. And then they were like, Well, Christians believe in the Trinity. I was like, How dare you? That's where that's where it started. Um and I yeah, kicked off. And um, I think at one point I almost managed to get the missionaries to come into class. I think that was yeah. So we want to talk about like cringe Mormon moments, and mine was trying to get more missionaries to come in. Most Molly Mormon moment is getting missionaries to come into my school.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Wow, and did they come in?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

No, no, no, it wasn't allowed in the end. Yeah, which is in hindsight a very good move by the school.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

I don't know how I almost managed to shoehorn like proselytizing into a class at school. That's pretty wild. Yeah, so so when people ask why I'm so like intense about the church and and things like that, I always have been. It's not a new thing.

SPEAKER_03 7:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Um, it's just part of the personality of the church built in me, I guess. And you get used to being a lot louder with it because there's people to be loud too. Whereas you can there are people here that will be loud. I mean, it's no surprise that Americans are loud generally.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Um, but our podcast is quite literally called Loud Laura. Loud laughter, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Which I feel like that's a very American-coded instruction in the temple. True, really. Like, yeah, refrain from loud laughter. Brits are like, well, we're not laughing loudly. So what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Well, that was always a point of anxiety for me because I've got a cackle.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

I've got quite the cackle. So I was like, well, is it any laughter or is it just a it's just a decibel cutter that uh categorizes us as loud?

SPEAKER_00 8:29

Or is it duration of laughter as well? Like it's a laugh for too long.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

A really long, quiet chuckle might also be laughter.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Yeah, it's gets you in trouble.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

That's really cool. No, because that really like genuinely was has been a point of anxiety.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

So coming from a culture where that's not a thing, you know, not a thing, I wouldn't have to worry about that.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

Yeah, so we're all just like, oh, okay, that's fine. So funny. Easy. Well, uh, my bishop used to say to me about tithing, he said it's the only commandment you can ever guarantee that you're fully keeping because it's numerical. I was like, as long as you're paying the right amount, then you're definitely good with it. I was like, that's an interesting point. But also loud laughter. Uh there's some people in my congregation with no discernible sense of humor. So I think there's no risk that they are laughing loudly at anything. Um they're just they're they're deficient in humor, I think.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

That's so funny. Well, they'll know that they're always gonna keep that commandment then.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it was no no no trouble for them.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

We have a uh Scottish uncle, and he has the greatest sense of humor, but he famously does not laugh. So very dry, very witty, but completely deadpan.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

He's someone that I think of that's certainly not in danger of breaking that of breaking the loud laughter commandment. But that's gone now. It is gone now. Yeah, it is gone. That is true.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Generations have been saved from repressing that laughter.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

They have it. Guys, when did that go away? Do we know?

SPEAKER_00 9:58

A couple of years ago.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

Okay, most recent. I know it was part of it when I was endowed. Yeah, same. But yeah, recently it has been it has been removed.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

2023 is the number that's coming to mind. So I'll say it was those changes then. They got rid of that, they changed a couple of other things. Yeah, they changed it a lot. For for an everlasting covenant, it doesn't have change regularly.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um everlasting and ever evolving.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Indeed, indeed, continuing revelation.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Yeah, true. Oh, yeah, that's good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

So Brits may not have a problem with loud laughter. I have a question about something they might have a problem with. Good segment. That is tea. I'm wondering. Did was that so tell me, tell us about the tea culture in England, and was that a hard a difficult commandment to keep, or did you just do herbal tea? Did people think that was weird? Because I imagine everyone's drinking. Herbal tea is not allowed. Herbal tea is not allowed.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

It's a hot drink. What I don't know what nonsense you're justifying, but it's warm and goes in you.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

So if you have tepid tea, that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah, exactly. Cold brew, fine.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

Iced tea. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

I mean, we could spend a lot of time on the circular logic of the word of wisdom and the ways in which it's been said to me in this or that. But uh tea culture in the UK is big, really big. Um, I was surprised when I came over here by the lack of kettles. I've seen deeply disturbing and upsetting video footage of Americans microwaving water, and it bothers me greatly.

SPEAKER_02 11:29

Yeah, you guys can't see this, but I do have a kettle on my stove.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Oh, very good, yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

So I'm gonna have to get one of those.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

So you're doing a that's a moment of non-embarrassment for me today. There will be some embarrassment to come, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

So I I remember my first Thrive conference I did, it's like an ex-momon conference. I the I gave a presentation and I started with instructions on how to make tea properly.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Um, I said before we get into anything else, this is the most important thing you will learn today. And then I just started with that. Um, and I got pictures of me and my kitchen putting a tea bag in. That's awesome. Because I knew how to make a cup of tea, even though I didn't drink it. Because it was just so around. Like at work, it would be like tea breaks was regularly, and different people would take turns to go to the kitchen and make tea for everyone, then bring it back, and they knew how everyone liked it, and it was the amount of sugar they wanted, or milk, or this or that. And yeah, everyone had a mug on their desk, and I was seen as quite odd as the person at work that didn't want a tea or a coffee. Uh, I got called the camel at one point because they they doubted that I hydrated.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Oh my gosh. So tea is a form of hydration. I guess that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Would be deeply, deeply dehydrated if we didn't drink the amount of tea that we did.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

I drink a lot of water, like a lot. Um, and especially when I'm out here because it's so dry. It is the lack of humidity is is deeply upsetting.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

True. Yeah, you have to like we're from Florida originally. Oh, okay. And so extremely humid. Yeah, yeah. And moving here, the amount of lotion that I purchased just yeah, like that moisturizer. So yeah. So you weren't into like chamomile tea, any of that?

SPEAKER_00 13:12

No. Interesting. I do now have a fondness for peppermint tea.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Oh, me too.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

And green tea. Um, but I've never been able to get into sort of black tea generally. Uh and fun fact, the reason we use milk is because during the war, the tea that we had, we needed it still, but the quality of it got so bad that we um basically the government encouraged us to add milk to it to make it drinkable.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

Um, and then that's kind of stuck.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Oh, that's so interesting.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

It didn't used to be the case.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

I I enjoy milk and tea. That's funny though, that that's where it came from.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Yeah, yeah, it's just to make it somewhat palatable. Um, otherwise, you're meant to drink tea.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Just as is. Uh, but yeah, so but I can't deal with coffee. Coffee is burnt nut water, and you won't change my mind.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

All right. I mean, it I won't try it. It's like yeah, it's grim. You know, technically some people like it.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

It's like someone took my hot chocolate and ruined it.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

Yeah. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Sorry. I shouldn't have such hot takes on that sort of stuff, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

No, it's fine. Hot takes on hot drinks. This is a safe space. Hot takes on hot drinks. I think we should have them. We, you know, we were raised to have hot drinks in such a central place of our minds that most people wouldn't. So, at least for me, I've become analytical and thoughtful about pretty much everything, but also these random topics. So I think part of being Mormon is having some really random hot takes. And I think that's all right. So that's fair enough. Yeah, very true. Okay, also, I would say there's a stereotype that British people drink a lot, especially teenagers. Yeah. Was is that true? And was that difficult growing up?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Uh yeah, I was I mean, I was very good at keeping that. I didn't drink, never drank. Um, and uh, but at parties and things, I would avoid parties because there was drinking there and things like that. So we would just avoid that sort of stuff. Um I was very avoidant um generally, socially, yeah, when it came to keeping the rules. It was just kind of stay away from a little. Um, or if I was there just sitting there self-righteously, clutching my soft drink or whatever it was, like avoiding getting it spiked. Because people will just come along and just put alcohol in your drink if you're not watching it. That's terrible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

That's so scary.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

That's totally scary.

unknown 15:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

Yeah. I uh once gave a book of Mormon to a friend while they were drunk at a party. It's another Molly Mormon moment. Yep. Yep. Really good friend of mine. We're really good friends to this day, but I gave him this Book of Mormon and I wrote my testimony in it. It was so like heartfelt. And then I found out later he was drunk and it was just the biggest betrayal. Obviously, he was drunk. We were at a party. Like, what did I think was gonna happen? But yeah, I um I found out there was drinking going on at the party, and so I did what I was told to do. If you're ever in a situation, you call your parents and they'll get you out of it. So first I went to my friends and I was like, dude, like so-and-so is drinking.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

And they were like, Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

So then I'm like, the parents need to know about this. It was the parents alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Either they didn't. So then I called my stuff. No, I was such a snitch. This is like my worst Molly Mormon moment. So I totally snitched on everyone. Then I call my dad and I'm like, Dad, they're drinking here, come get me.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Um yeah, that's the story of how I shared the gospel, didn't get drunk, snitched. Nice.

unknown 16:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

I had a really good friend who was Baptist. I chased him down the street with a copy of the Book of Mormon and made him take it. He's still a very good friend today.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

Yeah, still a very devout Baptist.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

Um, didn't change his mind on that one.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Well, yeah. That's so funny. There's a street that I was taking photos with some friends yesterday, and there's a street in Salt Lake because I served at Temple Square, and it's just right below Capitol Hill. And every time I drive past, I'm like, and that's where I chased a lady. Unfortunately. That's where I chased a lady almost to her home, and then realized what you were doing. This is really bad. Like, this is really bad.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Oh yeah, and just that behavior is to chase a woman.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Yes, like really bad. Yeah. I was training though, and when you're training a missionary, you have this extra gusto, and like, I have to be the best example of what to do. And we also had a saying in my mission. Unfortunately, I think I coined it. The first thought that you have is the Holy Ghost, the second one is Satan.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

So when you have a thought, that's a recipe for a complete lack of impulse control. That's incredible.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Yeah, that's so true. It was like, okay, so if you have a thought like I should share the gospel with so-and-so person, but then you have a thought like, oh, that's not really socially acceptable.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Satan, do it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

I have a question then, right? Because this works when you're having righteous thoughts.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

But we've all had unrighteous thoughts.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

And that's still the first thought that comes to mind. So what was your what was your mental gymnastics to be like, well, no, that one's actually Satan, even though it's the first thought. Like the first thought was I really want to kiss that cute mission mate. And you're like, and then the thought comes along, oh no, but I shouldn't. Right. That's Satan. That second thought Satan, so you better go tongue that guy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Um and you know, I wish I that would have made my mission more fun. Right. And I think you've fallen out of my own.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

I wish I'd had different mental gymnastics because I did have the filter of like, does this align with the gospel and the rules? If so, it's from God. You know, but if I'd skipped a few steps, I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

But if your first thought is something you shouldn't do, then you just forget that other rule that you had because you're like, well, this doesn't align.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Correct. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Mormons are so good at make gymnastics, just incredible at it.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Really, really good. Really good. Yeah. Yeah. So um, Nemo, I listened to your Mormon stories recently, your episode from back in 2020.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Oh, wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Uh yeah, it was interesting because I hadn't watched it before, but I've seen all of your videos like with Mormon stories. I mean, not all of them, probably. Yeah, and those were great. Um so you talked a lot in the Mormon stories about just the like the youth dance culture um and YSA dances. Honestly, it sounded way more fun than our experience in Florida, right? Where there also weren't that many members, but we didn't travel as much as you guys did. Oh, yeah. So it was like always the same people at the dances. Yeah. It was traveled up and down the country.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

I tried hundreds hundreds of miles to go to things.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

It was that sounded so fun.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Yeah, I don't know if I I don't know if I told John about this one where we went all the way down to Wales. So so the UK is made up of four separate countries, just fun facts for the people that don't know. Um, and one of them is Wales, uh, technically a principality, but it's it's a constituent country of then the whole country. Um, so we drove there, which took about three hours to get there, went to this dance and drove three hours back the same night um to go to this UV one, I think it was, which was great fun. Covered ourselves in UV paint.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

So two uncles in one no no, the one dance.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Okay. Just the one dance. But yeah, with UV paint and all that fun stuff. Oh fun. They put that on. Um my friend, I won't name her, but she she was so used to just putting an address in her satnav and going to dances that she didn't know where she was in the country at any given time. And so she embarrassed herself at a dance once by saying, Um, they were saying, Oh, we're waiting for the people from the north to get here. She's like, Well, we're in the north, aren't we? We're almost on the south coast, actually.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

So no substances, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Just pure game. Yeah, she's just like, right, I'm gonna put an address in and go because this is the next dance that's on. So um, that's yeah, a two-hour drive to that one, and there's people that are gonna drive four hours at least together, and then go go back. So we had this tradition of going to a McDonald's or there's a place called Big John's in Birmingham we used to go to a lot. Um, these sort of late-night fast food places.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

Um, everyone would then go from the dance when that would finish, we'd go there, and then people would kind of peel off. You get the people going, Oh, we got a long drive, whatever. But the people who didn't quite have so long a drive, and then just McDonald's culture was a big thing, which is why after my excommunication, we went to McDonald's.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Um, you know, it's a church event.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Now we gotta traditionally go to McDonald's. Which is not good for your health, but but great for the souls and people.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

But you need something, you need something, right? Yeah, and it's open late. Yeah, we would do temple trips in Florida because the closest temple, so this is a lot less fun because there's no party involved, but we go on temple trips to Orlando about three, four-hour drive.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Yeah. Um, and then you know, back in the same day, but the highlight was stopping for food on the way back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

So that is golden corral most of the time. Like all of us. Yeah, have you been there?

SPEAKER_00 21:40

No.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

It's a I wouldn't, it's very American.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Do you have it here?

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Okay, but you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

It's very cheap, it's a buffet. So like all you can eat. There's the Utah version is like Chukarama, I think, which I think is a terrible name.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

I saw one of those. I was coming down the I 15 earlier today, and I saw something called Chuckarama, and I yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

Does it

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Sound appetizing.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

No, I really am surprised that they have such success with such a terrible vomity sounding. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm puzzled by that.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Yeah, like a kid's just been on a roller coaster and eating too quickly, and it's like, oh, I'm gonna chuck around my body because in the sentence of that, I think.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

No, exactly. Exactly. That's basically what it is. So yeah, the Golden Corral rolls are really good. I was craving those last night out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

I was like, I was like to my boyfriend, I was like, we need to schedule a time to go to Golden Corral. I don't want anything else that they have, but I need the roll and the honey butter.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

It is very good.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Honey butter.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Yeah, have you had honey butter?

unknown 22:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

It's just butter mixed with honey. So good. It's a Utah staple, really. It is okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:39

In the same like in the same vein as green jello or fry sauce.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

I would say it's similar to fried sauce. Have you had fry sauce?

SPEAKER_00 22:46

I have had fry sauce. Yeah. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Yeah. I love it. I love fry sauce. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

It's ketchup and mayo with something else, probably.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

I think that what Utah does best in terms of food, first of all, like there are so many immigrants that come here from other countries, and their food is outstanding, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Five stars every time. But the American cuisine from the Mormon tradition, they do baked goods very well. They are sweet, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

But the baked goods, the honey good. Yeah, that kind of thing. That culture is very strong.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

So it's if there's Mormons make killer brownies, is that what we're saying?

SPEAKER_02 23:23

Yes. That is correct.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Because I've not tried any, so they're good.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

But I I wouldn't go to like a crumble.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

A what now?

SPEAKER_02 23:30

A crumble?

SPEAKER_00 23:31

What's a crumble?

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Crumble is a cookie company.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Well again, you guys need to sort out your names because crumbling as a cookie is not a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

You don't want it to crumble. They do crumble. That's why I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

It needs some structural integrity to eat it.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

Yeah, it should be called like gooeyers.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Yeah, I'll call it dust. Like, okay, right, cool. Come and have what was once a cookie until you picked it up and it fell apart in your hands.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Is that the product that you really want to sell?

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Yeah, apparently. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

It's not melting the mouth, it's crumble in the hands. And you're just left eating bits.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Oh, true. It's true. So yeah, I wouldn't recommend that. If you're going for baked goods, you can go to like a Shirley's bakery. Yeah. They have really ex leaders, orange. Needers. I've seen needers around. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Which that's a good name, right? Right there.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

That's a good one. Yeah. Right? Shirley's is fine. There's a lady named Shirley.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

I'm sure. I'm sure she's lovely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Yeah. Fat daddies.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Fat daddies.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

He's probably a dude for fat daddy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Um, so Nemo has to head out soon, so we gotta rush through the ending. But sorry. Um, no, you're good. My one of my last questions is what was your favorite part about being Mormon in England?

SPEAKER_00 24:45

You know, Mormons love a good persecution complex. You get to dial that up to 11 when you're like the only Mormon kid in your school.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

Oh, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

You get to really feel like a sort of oppressed and very marginalized person, which just makes you feel even more correct about your worldview.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Um, because we're, you know, it's very much the attitude of oh well, if everyone was doing it, it wouldn't be special. Um, and we still have people to convert, we have people to bring into the fold, all that sort of stuff. Whereas I can imagine growing up surrounded by it, you're kind of like, okay, it's sort of job done, I suppose. Whereas I felt you felt very pioneery, you felt like you were on the frontier of something still.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Totally. Yeah.

unknown 25:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Is there pride? Um, because I know I think that England was like one of the first missions. You know, I think Brigham Young went to England.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Oh, loads of them. Yeah, several apostles.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

So is there pride in that too? That it took part in the early days of the church?

SPEAKER_00 25:39

There was once, uh there was at one point more members of the church living in the UK than there were in America. Uh right in the early days of the church. And then the church was more than 50% British.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

For a lot of like as pioneers came over, and um we we often joke in the UK. There was a joke in the church that said America may be the promised land, but we're the promised people. Because without us, the church would have died. Yeah, without British converts, the church wouldn't have survived, it wouldn't have become what it was.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

That's true, that's where our ancestry is largely from. Yeah, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Uh yeah, you know, the the oldest LDS meeting house in the world is in the UK.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 26:14

It's a place called Gadfield Elm. It was built before the Kirtland Temple.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Wow, I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

And it was yeah, it was built by another group, uh, and then all of them converted to the church apart from one.

SPEAKER_03 26:26

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I wanted to do a video about who that one guy was, and I've never been able to find out who he is. Um really interesting.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

That would be.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

But yeah, there's uh there's a meeting house in in sort of rural England that was uh built by this group, and then they gave it to the church, and it's been owned by the church ever since, and it it's been restored and whatever, but it's older than I think it's older than Kirtland by a couple of years, 1830s. Wow. So yeah, that there's a lot of church history in the UK. There's you know the River Ribble where the first baptisms took place, and there was famously a race across a bridge to decide who would be the first person to be baptized.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

Oh, I didn't know about that.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Um, the first child, I did a video about this. There was the first child who was born uh into the church in the UK, a girl called Mary Smithies, um, which is really creepy because Heber C. Kimball held her in his arms and blessed her that she would one day become a mother in Zion. And then when she was 19, he married her as a plural wife. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy with the two-week old baby in his arms.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Yeah, there's that um going on in the church. But yeah, whole villages got cleared out to go to Utah.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

Wow. Were there any who stayed and had descendants that are still there?

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Yeah, so I think some of the oldest continu I think the oldest continuous congregation of the church is also in the UK, I think.

SPEAKER_03 27:45

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Um because some people did stay and and had children and had children and had children. So you have some families, they're not as many as here, but you have some families that are seven, eight generations of Latter-day Saints in the UK. Like old, old time families um that have been around. So yeah, the church has got a deep history in the UK. Um and we're very aware of it.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

That's great. Very interesting. That's super cool. All right, so my last question before we get into our final segment. While you while we were talking about all this, did any Molly Mormon moments of yours come to mind?

SPEAKER_00 28:20

No, I've given you chasing a guy down the street with a copy of the Book of Mormon. Yeah, that's pretty good. And getting the missionaries into class. That's all I've got, I think.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Those are pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:28

Those are pretty good. Very good. Okay, so now, Nemo, if you could just give us some British words, if we went to England, we would be confused because we would not know these words.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Okay, okay, cool. Yeah. Do you know what uh quid means?

SPEAKER_02 28:47

Cash, right? Or or dollar, or it's like a pound. Like 10 quid, 10 pounds, right? Yeah, nice. Okay. Good job. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Uh there is chuffed.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Chuffed? Chuffed is like put off, yeah?

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Chuffed is put off, I guess, over here.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Like uh maybe to like put put someone or to dismiss someone, maybe? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

If you're chuffed, you're happy.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

Wait, really?

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Absolutely chuffed, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Oh, okay. I'm chuffed. Any of my answers come purely from the love island UK. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Fair enough. Um okay, so if you were to leg it, what would you be doing?

SPEAKER_02 29:25

I'm legging it. Is it is I'm I wanna say going fast. You're walking somewhere instead of driving. By leg. Going by leg today.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Yeah, no, you yeah. No, if you leg it, you're running away.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Okay. Oh like I'm gonna leg it out of here or something.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Um we talked about drunkenness earlier.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Um this is just a fun fact rather than a guess. Um, any noun, if you add E D to the end, uh it's a phrase for being drunk.

SPEAKER_02 29:56

Oh, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Like last night I got absolutely candled.

unknown 30:00

Really?

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Yeah, I got totally lampshaded.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Wait, I love that. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Yeah, you know, whatever. Like, I was completely sore spinned.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Like just trolley.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Trollie's is a common one. Kettled, plastered.

SPEAKER_02 30:15

That must be where plastered comes from, because we use that one here as well.

unknown 30:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

It's so funny. It's funny. I like that a lot.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

If you throw a wobbly, what's happened?

SPEAKER_02 30:23

Throw a wobbly, fail miserably. These are so much harder than I thought. Throw a wobbly. Oh my god, throw a wobbly. I don't know. I have no guesses.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Okay, throwing a wobbly is like having a tantrum.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Oh man. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

Okay, what is uh bog roll?

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Bog roll?

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Oh no. I thought I was gonna do way better. This is so bad. A bog roll? A bog roll. Is it an is it a it sounds like a roll from the bog? Me when I roll in a when you're some type of pastry? I don't know. Well, I'm thinking like a roll.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Yeah, no, bog roll is toilet paper.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

Oh that's really funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Chuck us and bog roll is yeah, that's toilet paper.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Do you use that more often than toilet paper?

SPEAKER_00 31:11

No, because I'm not uncouth, but it's Is it like kind of a crude way of saying it? It's a little bit of a crude saying, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Oh, interesting. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

And then do you know what the loo is?

SPEAKER_02 31:20

The bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

The bathroom, yeah. Yeah, the restroom.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Yeah. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

Wow, thank you. Well, we didn't pass. And we didn't pass the. Well, yeah, we didn't pass. We probably got 10%.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

Give up on that after the third fail.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

I forgot one of my questions. I was gonna ask Nemo, what's your favorite piece of British media or literature? Do you have one? I know that's so hard.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Favorite piece of British media literature, and it's really difficult. Um, The Hobbit.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

Nice. Um movie or book?

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Books.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Nice. That's a great answer.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

Talking.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Yeah, those are good.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

Well, I went to Moon's rare books the other day. Yeah. And uh with my accent managed to talk my way into chatting to the owner, and he took me into the back room and I got to see some first editions and stuff. It was really cool.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

Oh, cool, that's awesome. We showed you some pictures, really cool stuff.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Yeah, well, I I got to hold um Hiram Smith's copy of the Book of Mormon, which was like pretty wild.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Oh, that's epic. Yeah, and I hope you'll be making some content about that.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

No, I feel bad because he didn't know who I was, so he's just like this lovely British guy's coming.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

And I'd be like, oh actually, no, Satan himself is just in your store holding sacred artifacts. So, you know, um lovely.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

Um okay, so speaking of accents, now we are going to do our final segment where we're going to read Nemo's favorite scripture in our best British accent, and he is going to tell us how badly we did. And incidentally, Nemo, do you want to tell us what your favorite scripture is?

SPEAKER_00 32:52

My favorite scripture is the one in 2 Kings where Elisha the prophet causes bears to kill children. It's just so funny.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

It is super funny.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

I don't know what that says about me, but it's just really funny.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

Well, we think it's funny too, because we did a whole episode on it. So yeah, if you haven't listened to that, is that in our it's like God's protein patties? Is that the one that has that in his protein? Let me just say another weird scripture in the Bible where God tells some prophet he has to make these weird patties out of some barley and then he has to lay on his side for 40 days and then lay on the other side for 30 days. Yeah. It's weird. Yeah. Um these titles come to me directly from God, by the way. Yeah. So God's Protein Packed Patties and Other Crazy Bible stories. So if you haven't heard that episode yet, we dive into it.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

I'm very curious to know what this episode is gonna be titled. Don't tell me, I will find out with the rest of you.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

It will come to me in a dream, and then you'll find out in like two business days later.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Call it what you like.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Um, Stell, do you want to read 2 Kings 2 24? And I'll read the verse before. Yes. Okay.

unknown 34:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

Here I go. And he went up from thence unto Bethel. And as he was going up, by the way, there came forth little children out of the city and mocked him and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head. Go up, thou bald head. Okay, rate mine, and then you'll rate stars.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Okay, out of ten?

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

It's like a six.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

It is not terrible. All the constituent parts are there, but the way that they've been combined just isn't quite.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

It sounds uh awkward.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Yeah, it's it's no one accent. Do you know what I mean? It's like a hodgepodge of like different regions.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Okay, I gotta work on my regionalness then. Okay. What wait, what's your favorite British accent?

SPEAKER_00 34:45

My favorite British accent.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

Yeah, what's your favorite one?

SPEAKER_00 34:48

I can't pick. That would be un unfair.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

Okay. You can pick your own though.

SPEAKER_00 34:51

I don't have one.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

Well, neither do I, apparently. Okay, so I'll do yours. Okay, guys, I'm shooting for a two. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood and tear forty and two children of them. Did you like how I said children?

SPEAKER_02 35:17

I tried to fit in all the accents that I do know and make them as confusing as possible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

You're welcome. That means you did lose to your sister on points. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Oh. I lost it for the blue. And I was going for a blue, so I'm actually not upset with a four. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:36

All right.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

Great. All right. Well, thank you so much, Nemo. This has been so much fun. We're so grateful that you were willing to come on our podcast and have some very loud laughters with us. Yours were a little bit quieter than ours, but that's okay. This episode's going to be called Quiet Laughter with Nemo. There we go. Very good. Reserved British laughter.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

British British titillation.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

British titillations with Nemo.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

I mean, that's going to be offering something people aren't going to get, but yeah. I've got to go see a Sphinx that looks like Joseph Smith.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Oh, the back linked Sphinx.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Great. You will have a ton of fun then. Yeah, you will. All right. Well, thank you so much for joining us, Nemo. We will check out Nemo's channel on YouTube, Nemo the Mormon, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

And uh everywhere you get your Mormon content creation. Okay. Thanks, Nemo. Thanks, everyone. Bye.