kind of culture shock

If you can stand it you can hear me blathering on on the BBC World Service website right now, here, on Culture Shock.  I was asked to go back and make an appearance as sidekick, rather than interviewee. It was enormous fun, though rather strange because I was massively late for the recording and had to comment on all the features without actually being able to hear them first.

And you discover a strange thing when being interviewed in that environment, you just say stuff, almost entirely at random, just to fill the space. And I say 'kind of' and 'actually' a lot.

Listening back to it I'm not sure I agree with about 50% of what I said.

Ah well. Good fun though. And it's a great programme. Full of interesting stuff from around the world.

Comments

[Iain]

I did a talky thing the other day and it went OK. But even without hearing it back I was painfully aware of my over use of 'kind of' too.

Perhaps it's an interesting verbal hitch that we're developing because we've all kind of become too scared of absolutes in a world of complexity and rapid change.

[Mog]

Pretty interesting stuff Russell. Great to be able to listen to English radio over the good old internet.

[Scamp]

You disagree with 50% of your OWN comments?

Wow.

Now that's contrarian.