Episode 7: Outlander, Scotland's Lost Languages and the Hebrides

To Outlander.

I mean, h- where do you even start with this absolute phenomenon? But maybe let's just, uh, for th- for, for if you have been living under a rock, uh, for the past 20, 30 years-

Mm-hmm

... um, author Diana Gabaldon started this series of books.

Um, it's...

I mean, they're...

They've turned into something unbelievably special.

Like, it's a 60, 70, 80 million books that have been-

Wow

... that have been sold.

Wow.

That's nearly as many as you.

Uh.

[laughs]

Right.

Just for, so just for the folk that, um, like, aren't quite aware of exactly what happens, basically Outlander, and this is with full respect, it's like a sort of a sexy time travel fantasy where a modern woman falls through a standing stone and finds herself amidst the Jacobite risings and finds herself a really hunky Highlander.

[laughs]

And on the surface, on the surface-

I mean, I've tried that.

[laughs]

I've g- How many times have I gone to the Callanish Stones?

Honestly, there, there's, there's, there are memes and, like, sort of, uh, trends on, uh, sort of TikTok and Instagram of, like, sort of American women coming here on holiday and sprinting towards standing stones-

[laughs]

... hoping to tumble back and meet hunky Highlanders from yesteryear.

Wow.

To Outlander.

I mean, h- where do you even start with this absolute phenomenon? But maybe let's just, uh, for th- for, for if you have been living under a rock, uh, for the past 20, 30 years-

Mm-hmm

... um, author Diana Gabaldon started this series of books.

Um, it's...

I mean, they're...

They've turned into something unbelievably special.

Like, it's a 60, 70, 80 million books that have been-

Wow

... that have been sold.

Wow.

That's nearly as many as you.

Uh.

[laughs]

Right.

Just for, so just for the folk that, um, like, aren't quite aware of exactly what happens, basically Outlander, and this is with full respect, it's like a sort of a sexy time travel fantasy where a modern woman falls through a standing stone and finds herself amidst the Jacobite risings and finds herself a really hunky Highlander.

[laughs]

And on the surface, on the surface-

I mean, I've tried that.

[laughs]

I've g- How many times have I gone to the Callanish Stones?

Honestly, there, there's, there's, there are memes and, like, sort of, uh, trends on, uh, sort of TikTok and Instagram of, like, sort of American women coming here on holiday and sprinting towards standing stones-

[laughs]

... hoping to tumble back and meet hunky Highlanders from yesteryear.

Wow.