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List - Rudest Things Americans say When Traveling Abroad For April 11th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Even before all of this stuff, Trump tariffs and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. It's making things difficult for people who travel abroad,
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  Speaker 1: Americans who travel abroad. But even before all that happened,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do a lot to endear ourselves to foreign
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  Speaker 1: countries as the American. Yea, and I have a list here,
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  Speaker 1: Oh the rudest things that Americans say while traveling abroad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good, let me get out my pen here, kay,
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  Speaker 1: there we go. It's Radio from Hell with another list,
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  Speaker 1: because people love a good list.
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  Speaker 2: X ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: This is from a travel professional and etiquette expert. And
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  Speaker 1: here are the things that people the rudest things that
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  Speaker 1: people say when traveling abroad. And I've heard this, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard many of them. First, when you're buying something in
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  Speaker 1: a shop and you say to the shopkeeper or the salesperson, look,
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  Speaker 1: the customer is always right.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good if you say that here either, that's
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  Speaker 2: rude anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it is very often the customer is
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  Speaker 1: not right. Let's see number two, referring to a country
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  Speaker 1: as third world. If you if you're any place in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: and you say, even if you're in a third world country,
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  Speaker 1: yeah you men, Yeah, I do not say I'm a
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  Speaker 1: third you're in a third world country. Don't say, well,
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  Speaker 1: how much is this in real money?
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  Speaker 2: Your money is not real money.
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  Speaker 1: Referring to people as exotic or romanticizing certain situations as authentic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for an authentic experience here in your exotic country. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't do that. Here's number five. Can you just
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  Speaker 1: speak English? Not good? Now, most places they do.
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  Speaker 2: I encountered that most recently. Everybody spoke which I actually
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  Speaker 2: apologized to our tour guide.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you did, because that's what you do.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, we speak English because and I said,
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  Speaker 2: that's I'm sorry you feel like you have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in your country, I should so speak Italian to me.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't understand anything you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: That should be part of the authentic experience is going
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  Speaker 2: and trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's so exotic.
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  Speaker 2: Americans are so lazy. We expect to travel and just
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  Speaker 2: have everything be perfect and easy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think you should expect, though.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm going to be a tourist in Italy, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to learn Italian before I go. It should be
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  Speaker 1: a little difficult. Listen, I tried to speak French in
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  Speaker 1: Paris one time to somebody and she went, we were
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  Speaker 1: Terry was with me. We were looking for the flea market,
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  Speaker 1: the famous flea market in Paris, and it's called marcha Opoice.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, oh, a marcha opoice and the woman
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  Speaker 1: went ah and stuck her fingers in her ears because
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  Speaker 1: my accent so offended her she couldn't stand it. So
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  Speaker 1: here's number six. I can't believe they still do that here.
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  Speaker 1: Customs that are unfamiliar, well.
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  Speaker 2: The bullfighting, yeah, I'll say that out loud down there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, let's see, uh oh. Making comments about
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  Speaker 1: criminals in certain Latin American countries, talking about criminals as
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  Speaker 1: you visit Latin American countries is misinformed and rude. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, not all the people who are getting deported
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  Speaker 1: back to Guatemala are criminals, exactly most of them. They're
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  Speaker 1: only if you want to call them at a crime,
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  Speaker 1: that they are existing in the United States without paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to call that a crime, that's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the administration call. They call them criminals because
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  Speaker 1: they're living here without the proper paperwork. They're paying, they're
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  Speaker 1: paying taxes most of them get the benefit of So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Those are the those are the only ones.
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  Speaker 1: But I've got one. And I think you were with
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  Speaker 1: me this time too, Carrie. We again we were in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: and we were with our boss brought along a client
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  Speaker 1: and we were in a restaurant, a French beastro. Not
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  Speaker 1: not a high end restaurant, but it just kind of
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  Speaker 1: a normal, you know, just every day restaurant. And and
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  Speaker 1: he the this client said to the waiter, have you
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  Speaker 1: got any ketchup? I need ketchup for this? I think
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  Speaker 1: he was having steak and freez and he needed ketchup.
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  Speaker 1: I need some ketchup for this. You guys got any ketchup?
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  Speaker 1: And the and the way I remember the waiter sort
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  Speaker 1: of going, I think we could find some, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like what do you want? Huh? The nicest
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  Speaker 1: thing that ever happened in again Paris. I was with
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  Speaker 1: when my son was really young, and he was like
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  Speaker 1: six years old, and he was picky eater, couldn't eat anything.
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  Speaker 1: All he wanted was a hamburger. I need a hamburger.
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  Speaker 1: I need a hamburg So my wife and I would
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  Speaker 1: go to this restaurant and I said, there's no hamburger
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  Speaker 1: on the menu. And I said to the waiter, is
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  Speaker 1: there any way you could get this kid a hamburger?
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  Speaker 1: And the waiter said, well, we have steak to our car.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, I don't think he wants to
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  Speaker 1: eat raw meat. And he said no, no, I mean
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  Speaker 1: will I will take it and we will make it
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  Speaker 1: into a hamburger for your Wow. Boy, that's service. And
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  Speaker 1: he did, and to this day when we talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: he says, that's the best hamburger I have ever eaten
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  Speaker 1: in my life. You're using some fine, fine meat there.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, that was just the waiter was just
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  Speaker 1: very kind. I found that when you travel in at
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  Speaker 1: least I used to be, when you traveled in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: if you had small children with you, children in arms,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of like they've.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there aren't a lot of babies there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of kids. Not a lot of babies.
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  Speaker 2: When we took Jonesy to Italy when she was six
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  Speaker 2: months old, I was worried about going like is this
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  Speaker 2: They're like, no, people are gonna love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They just fawn over the babies and the little toddlers.
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  Speaker 1: They just love them. They'll do anything. You know who's
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  Speaker 1: happy to make my little son, five year old a Hamburger.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from Hell
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  Speaker 2: on X ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go.