Portuguese

I don't know about Lou.

You know, L- Lou with the Portuguese background-

Does sound good, though

...

[laughs]

Yes.

Portuguese.

So, so a worm that's-

He represents a massive religious and economic threat.

At this point in history, the Portuguese and the Spanish, who are Catholic, have a total monopoly on European trade with Japan.

They got there first.

They did, and they have heavily influenced the local lords with Jesuit priests.

He is Protestant.

Exactly.

To the Portuguese priests in Japan, Blackthorne is a heretic and a pirate.

They immediately try to convince the Japanese authorities to execute him.

Right.

I do know three languages, and it's part of SOUTHCOM, so I know Portuguese, Spanish, and English, and on the o- other languages as well, and it is part of SOUTHCOM.

They're in charge of whatever wh- happened right now in Venezuela.

[laughs] So Once I joined, uh, I was part of the seventh group.

Like, you, you can hear it clear and in your language.

I speak a total of three languages, so when they speak to me, they speak to me in three languages.

Like, certain words I understand better in Portuguese or English or Spanish, and they, they talk to me like in three languages.

I'm like, "Oh, wow."

Yeah, sure.

So, uh, Silence is about 17th-century Portuguese missionaries in Japan.

Mm-hmm.

It's, uh, based on the book by Shusaku Endo, and both Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver had to prepare for the roles, and Andrew decided he wanted to do the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius.

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some of the nicest I've ever experienced ever, ever traveling.

And the government has invested very heavily in English education, not because they're not proud of their history and the Portuguese language, but it does give them a leg up on communicating with the world.

Like Portugal is a very popular spot in Europe to go to now because everybody knows they can get by easily.

Yes.

Pretty classic.

Like steam room, wet sauna, dry sauna.

Like almost only Portuguese men.

Nice.

So in the summer, I think the whole world was, well, at least most of the world, was united in this sporting event.

And I always think that these national events... kind of reignites your patriotism from whatever country you come from, whether for me, Canada, whether you're American, Spanish, Portuguese, you kind of root for your country, you know, you're waving the flag.

But the question came up, I was in and this is in two separate occasions in two different Spanish areas, one in Mallorca, one in Madrid.

get into the taxi and it's World Cup fever.

A

Portuguese game show.

A

hugely popular Brazilian game show where like the biggest stars of Brazil are on this game show.

The Swedish people have a good grasp of English.

The Portuguese people more than likely have a good grasp of English.

The Polish people definitely have a really good grasp of English.

Yeah.