#546 Poland Then & Now: An 18-Year Perspective on Independence Day

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No cześć. Dzisiaj chciałam z tą porozmawiać na taki dosyć ważny temat,

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ponieważ zbliża się ważny dzień w Polsce. Czy wiesz, co będziemy świętować?

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Co? Wiem od ten grafika 11 listopada, tak?

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Tak, ja myślałam, że bez grafiki też wiesz. Chyba nie.

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Ale ja nie wiem, że ludzie ma urlap. Oh, it's one stop.

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I say, yeah, I work, it's like, oh, it's Jen, I don't watch TV or anything,

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so I don't have any information on this topic, so my son says,

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I don't have school in the morning, so I'll be with my mom, I said, no, that's.

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So you've never seen a march or a celebration, a meeting where people have flags?

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Sometimes flags, but the worst thing is when I have the chance to something

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to a store and the store is closed.

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And then the question is if today is the 11th of September, right?

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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To prawda, sklepy też są zamknięte, ale chyba żabka będzie otwarta.

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Żabka jest zawsze otwarta, a 300 mano do 11, tak?

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Ej, żabka zawsze jest otwarta, więc jakbyś czegoś potrzebował,

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to możesz iść do żabki i nic. No, dobra.

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Dzisiaj porozmawiamy sobie trochę o Polsce, no, bo to już jest,

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no, dużo lat niepodległości.

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No tak, powiedz mi, Roi, mieszkasz w Polsce już 18 lat.

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Well, you can tell us how you observe the Polish evolution, because you know,

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that 18 years ago, Poland looked at the same way, and now it is.

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How is it with Poland? How did it change? What did you observe?

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A few things. One, the autostrader, because when I went to Giedenck, It was 8 hours.

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Now it's a lot of me, because I have a very good autostrader,

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right? Infrastructure has been developed.

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It's important, very important. I remember, because I have a lot of clients,

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because I spread my own and I remember that once I saw a lot of people and said, where is this person?

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Grubi osoba. Nie ma grubi osoba.

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In Irlandia, it was. And now it's exactly the same as in Irlandia.

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People eat a lot of McDonald's, KFC, and it's not good.

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And a chicken. Do you eat a lot of things that are healthy?

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No. Everything is hot dog or something not good.

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And unfortunately, people are not healthy. They're very healthy.

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So you want to say that Polarists are healthy?

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Well, there is a tendency to

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be gruby, right? Well, there is a tendency to be gruby. It is fantastic.

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But a few percent is the tendency to be.

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General tendency, no, it's true. I also see people, they are gruby.

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I also see, that they are Polish.

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Who is doing sport, who is doing it. Then he is not gruby. no ale faktycznie

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większość społeczeństwa nie chodzi na siłowny jednak mimo wszystko i jem po prostu tak.

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Nie mówię, od czasu do czasu hodod z Żabki jest fajny, ale jeśli się goje ciągle,

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no to nie, nie może tak być.

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No dobra, czyli taka rewolucja w Polsce, infrastruktura, ludzie tyją,

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czyli stają się coraz grubsi, tyją.

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Czy co jeszcze? On a przykład, kiedy prowadzi samochód Irlandia,

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kiedy nie jesteś na głównej ulicy Irlandia, zawsze następna osoba może patrzeć,

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proszę bardzo, tak, proszę bardzo,

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ale tutaj, kiedy byłem pierwszy, musi być kamikaze, bo nigdy mówię proszę bardzo, tak.

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But teraz jest trochę lepiej, Irlandia 100%,

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but since 18 years now there is a bit of culture.

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I think that's the person who works in Germany, Great Britain,

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Ireland, who is coming back.

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Maybe that's why, I don't know, but it's a bit better.

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Okay, tell me in this case, Poland is evolving, and it's still growing, and we hope it will grow.

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And at the end of this holiday, to właśnie taki temat, a powiedz mi Roy,

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jak myślisz, z czego Polacy mogą być dumni?

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Bo ten kraj jest bardzo bezpiecznie, safe niż resta Europa, bo i mój kraj nie

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ma bezpieczeństwa teraz, tak?

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Wielka Brytania jest gorsza, ale tutaj może idzie na spacer and in the night,

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normal, you don't have to look at everything in the same way, normal is okay.

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So Poland has to be afraid of that, right?

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Yes, for example, when you go to the gallery and you have your car and you have

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your own things in the middle of the car,

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when you return, you will be back, but in Hispania, maybe not in a few countries,

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you can't, right? like, maybe the baggage, people look at it.

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But for me, I've never been like that.

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Maybe 15 years ago, but now I'm,

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Też nie. Dobra, a powiedz mi, Roj, czy ty znasz w ogóle historię poluski?

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Jakoś tak w trochę chociaż?

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Czy nie? Ja, jak słuchałam od tych ludzi, kto ma wings, kto wojny z Rosją,

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I can't remember, they had wings. To muże kateria.

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Ale na wszystko wiem od wojny World War II, od So, Russia was so...

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And it was also very alive for me, because Poland was from Great Britain,

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Spain, USA, and then, oh, give your country half to Russia.

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It wasn't normal, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no ski or something like that.

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The wall, the Russian wall, the Arden, not Russian wall, Berlin,

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when you got odd communism, odd, chyba, rok 89, right?

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Tak, to ten moment. A dlaczego ten moment? Ja myślałam, że inny.

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No, nie wiem. Po prostu cię interesuje, tak? O tak, w Polsce komunizm też był. No i tak.

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No dobra. So we have our Polish love.

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Now, to be honest. tożsamość polska.

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Uważasz, no bo trochę Polskę znasz, na pewno znasz jakieś polskie tradycje,

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no potrawy, ja myślę, że nie muszę wspominać o polskim jedzeniu, no to powiedz mi,

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czy znasz jakieś polskie tradycje i czy jakaś tradycja polska jest dla ciebie

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szczególnie znowu interesująca jakoś, z perspektywy obcokrajowca,

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może tak, no bo ty Polakiem nie jesteś.

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Co najbardziej cię ciekawi w polskiej kulturze na przykład, w zachowaniu Polaków w kuchni?

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No, Kuknia. No, Pologi, tak? No, to вкус she's interesting.

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Yes, but in general, there are some cultural aspects of it, no, I don't know.

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For me, in Irlandia, before people were very close to their family, always with them,

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and then the country was rich, people work all the time and pay money,

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and they were not very close to their family, to their people.

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And here, when I was here, there were always people on Christmas,

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New Year, all together, everything was very important day, right?

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And, for example, I was here alone, because my son was with my mom on Easter,

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and my son said, you can be alone, but when I was, I don't know,

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20-30 people on the house,

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everything was close. to do everything and for me it is very important.

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So, so, so. Okay, so. We were talking about how Poland will evolve.

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You mentioned about your experience from 18 years ago. How was it when and now?

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So, maybe we'll talk about how Poland will look at. How do you think?

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How do you think? How do you think? How do you think about the scenario for

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Poland? How do you think, in which direction the country will go?

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Because a perspective is, every country has some perspective.

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How do you think, looking at Poland, you know what happens here,

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you see what happens here, and politically, and economic, and so on,

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how do you define the perspective of Poland?

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Do you know, if we are going to be a strong country or not at all?

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On paper is a big no open on other people it's good but it can be changed tomorrow and.

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To jest na cały świat jest problem, bo energy jest dość wysoki, gaz, prąd i obiet.

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Bo ja znam na przykład starej osoby,

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kto było zawsze dobre za pieniądze, ale jest amatora i teraz nie ma pieniądze na wszystko od ten kraj.

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So, when, for example, your armory is, I don't know, 2000,

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and 4 years before, and now your gas and prąd is more, you have more money,

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and you can't buy good food, you can't buy everything.

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So, it's not a good country, when you make it. But it's in the whole world.

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It's not only here. So, I don't know what will happen.

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I look at everything when I open and I don't feel anything. See you.

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But now it's probably the best in Hungary and here it's the best in Europe.

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To Węgry in Poland. Węgry, yes.

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So, in Węgrzech and here in Poland. So, security above all. All right,

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I'm very happy that you like Poland and the peace of mind.

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No, it's true. We are here pretty safe in our country.

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No, okay. And finally, talking about the day of the day, the day of the day

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of the day, tell me, Roy, today, because today, we know what it is.

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And now, today, the society, the people.

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Or maybe not, is it the freedom for them is the same thing that it meant for

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people who had to fight for Poland?

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Is it the same thing or not?

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I think maybe the older people know what it is, but it's like, hey, I don't have work.

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So, when you don't feel pain, you don't know what's wrong. Yes,

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that's true. That's true.

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That's what we do. We're not very much. I think that's true.

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Well, I wanted to talk about this.

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It's a very important holiday. Poland has actually found a new place from the

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11th of September. We are here. We are here.

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We are speaking in Polish, we are learning Polish, to understand us here in

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this country, and so on, of course, everything is positive, so Roja,

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thank you very much for this podcast,

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and that's it. Thank you very much, see you again.

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