"Going up north" means going on vacation.

Also a Michigan Left, I also called a Michigan Turn.

I'm from Grand Rapids, we also called it Gun Ru! Just a FYI.

Pasties are Cornish, not Finnish!

8:33 as someone from Detroit, you don’t emphasize the “Doe”, you emphasize the “up”, as if saying ‘What up, though’ (the actual meaning)

Michigan doesn’t have any slang or an accent dummies. As well as we are not Michiganders, simply Michigan residents

So you guys living down by Detroit are trunk slammers

Clever. Thanks

I like how Michiganders don't just go to a place. They go "up" to the store or "down" to the gym, often depending on elevation.

Shoutout from Flint!!

I just finished this book on audible , your review was SPOT ON! This book was terribly predictable.

Tahquamenon Falls! Did not take the time to look below to see if someone else mentioned this! LOL!

Hay,. Aye Yoopers.

I LIVED IN MICHIGAN THE FIRST 6 YEARS OF MY LIFE BUT MOVED OUT TO CALIFORNIA AND AFTER 10 YEARS LOST MY MICHIGAN ACCENT. HOWEVER MY PARENTS AND OLDER BROTHER WERE FROM MICHIGAN AND THEY RETAINED THEIR MICHIGAN ACCENTS ALL THEIR LIVES.

Do you know what “Canadian ballet” refers to?

I loved it 😂❤❤❤

Dude I was kicking my feet during chapter 20!!! I love this book :3

you were unlucky to read his weakest novel try "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code"

The bridge in Detroit can also refer to the Belle Isle bridge

She's talking about pierogies. Like a pasta pocket with mashed potatoes and cheese inside

Holy wah, eh!

Gratiot. Gra- shit

I am 68, a far cry from my 20s. I used to watch Scooby-Doo when it was part of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Line-up back in 6th grade. Jump ahead 7 years when a college buddy introduced me to the Cthulhu Mythos. Edgar Cantero takes these two polar opposites of playful spooky and cosmic horror into a tale with characters I cared about. Meddling Kids hits the right notes to be a love letter to both genres and yet stand alone as its own unique story. If you love either or both of these genres, Edgar Cantero's "Meddling Kids" is worth the time spent reading it!

You just don't know what you're missing until you eat a Flint style coney. At least one place in Flint has Detroit style and Flint style. The Detroit style is a chili dog, and the Flint style has a much meatier, tastier, well seasoned topping that won't run off the ends because it's not liquid, it's mostly ground meat. It's not too dry, but it's solid enough to stay put, most of the time. Look at the pictures of both at Wikipedia for a comparison. One Angelo's coney island in Flint had several decades of flavor cooked into their flat tops without being scoured away. The funny thing about the word coney is that it means rabbit., or rabbit fur. Say whut? I don't recall ever hearing a white say, "Naw, I'm straight" in my entire life. Maybe no one else either, but I'm an old fart and don't talk to young people if I can avoid them. Several years ago I saw a PBS telethon on a Detroit station and got a good laugh when a contribution came in from Grand Blanc. This lady pronounced it in a way that was probably proper IF you're French, Gron Blon(c), but everyone in a few counties around here pronounces it Grand Blank, and it means Great White. Lake Orion isn't pronounced Oh-RY-un, it's OR-ee-un. There are some things we just flat out say wrong, but if you say it right, people look at you like it's your first time visiting this planet. The same way they do when you talk about an M1 Garand rifle and pronounce Garand correctly. It's not guh-rand like most people say. It rhymes with parent, according to noted firearms expert, Major General Julian S. Hatcher who worked on the development of the M1 rifle.

Jeet is one of Jeff Foxworthy's words from the redneck dictionary. Your combined ages don't add up to the number of years I've lived in Michigan and this is the first time I ever heard of a Walmart Wolverine. I'm less than a 2 1/2 mile drive from a U of M campus, and don't see a lot of Wolverines anywhere. But I don't shop at Walmart, so maybe that's where they're all at. CORNISH miners brought pasties to the U.P. from CORNWALL. They're usually full of beef and root vegetables including potatoes, carrots, and rutabaga. The Mackinac Bridge opened for deer season in 1957, even though work wasn't completed on it. Just try to stop Michiganders from deer hunting! No one wanted to take a ferry across the waves in November, so they opened the bridge. I never heard of a Fudgie or FIP before. I usually stop at the Fort fudge Shop in Mackinaw City on the way home if I go to the U.P. Mmm, fudge. I think the only places I've ever had to make Michigan Lefts were near Detroit, and maybe Pontiac. Instead of a left turn there are places where you need to go past the street you want turn left on, then make 3 right turns on a route that's marked out with signs and arrows. No U-turns. What you're describing is a P-turn, and I've seen those too. They're more dangerous than the "around the block" turns. The only people I've EVER heard say, "What up doe?" were very rich in melanin, or people with much less melanin doing stupid impressions of them. I've heard people from other states say it too, so it's not a Detroit thing or even a Michigan thing. I never heard of a Door Wall either.

Pond = any great lake. Lake = ocean, any ocean Dunno = i don't know

When I move from Michigan down to Arizona that drives me crazy that people say soda instead of Pop I keep saying no it's pop I'm down here they don't have corny dogs McCallum chili cheese dogs I still miss Michigan

Lived in Michigan my whole life, and I still didn't know that 'Euchre' involved cards, I thought it was just dice. A lot of these slang terms I haven't heard of. Wow.

I really like you.

Flint Coney Dogs are the best and don't forget Vernor's

Tenna shoe

I am a native Michigander who's lived in the Hoosier state for 11 years. I have a roommate who is from Australia who says that he can definitely tell that I sound different from the Hoosiers.

4:58 That shit's true. Except our scary monsters aren't Lovecraftian....They're mostly other people working in the shadows.

Idk bout the lafayette being the only one since its trash compared to american

I lived in Michigan for 21 years I never heard of Paczki Day

It is not exactly a fast paced book. It should come with a warning label. I have read the comments and I believe I understand the issue. It honestly REALLY is like a classical music concert. It.....honestly begins SLOWLY before much happens and it does go BACK to being slow. If you like things that are like that, then you need no help at ALL to enjoy it. If you are not sure how much slow pacing you do or do not like, the kind-of spoilers explanation, the "punchline" to the joke so to speak, is "we really actually mean this is extremely British. Including having to stand extremely still and be extremely patient like those infamous Palace Guards 💂‍♂️ " It's all about deliberately being as totally English as possible with every possible characteristic of England including YES the stuffy boredom because you can't have ENGLAND without stuffy boredom! If you view the entire epic as a joke whose punchline is "How much England 🇬🇧 can we fit in 900 pages?" then it's really obvious only that motivation could actually explain how the author was able to write anything remotely like this. It is even at many points thoroughly insane to be frank. But you had better believe it's the most ENGLISH insanity you have ever seen. I mean the footnotes oh. My. God. But once you see the punchline you just cannot ever unsee it. It actually has to be the explanation. "This is my love letter to England. I hate the metric system. Screw you France and die mad about it." It's completely *legitimate* too to point out the social commentary! William Wilburforce was ALSO an Englishman! You can't have England without a sense of some William Wilburforce! So yes you are definitely supposed to critique the patriarchy even while enjoying some kind of torrid affair with it. ENGLISH, I tell you what.

If Benjamin Franklin or Patrick Henry read this book they would say "Yes this is what we love about England and why we want English rights and why we are angry we think we are not being treated as full Englishmen by England." And if Bismarck or Napoleon read this book they would say "yes this is what's wrong with England this is what England is would anyone like to declare war on England with us." If Mahatma Ghandi read this book he would say "yes this is England please let me and my people out, we do not want any." If Joseph Stalin read this book he would say "aha! So THIS is what it's like to be inside Churchill's mind! I will teach all my Natashas and Boris Badenoffs to read this book perfectly so as to be more English than Parliament or the Queen ve vill be perfect spies for great Communist Revolutionikov!" If Harry Potter read this book he would say "perfect! Now I don't have to study before class! I'm going to cast all these spells without looking up what they do first because I think that's the author's message!" In short, you may LOVE England or you may HATE England but this book definitely IS England and it is so Blatantly English its somehow both Braveheart and Rule Britannia at the same time. It may even be the Beatles. It's. Like. You would actually not believe how English this book is. It, like, might be more English than Beowulf.

‘I’m here for it’ She says in to her white patriarchy camera about her white patriarchy books published by white patriarchy printing press. And to think I nearly dropped a like

i just finished this book myself!

3:18 "Expecially" Maybe this isn't entirely unique to Michigan, but I've heard it a lot here. "I'm going to sneak past" makes no sense, because talking to the person you're sneaking past is very un-sneaky.

I know this is old but ive found it hilarious to try and type how we talk. Like the "Didja'eet" "wassup" instead of "whats up"

Love your eyeshadow, fitting so well with the movie haha

More please! Haha I am so glad I found this video. I needed to find someone who hated this book as much as I did. God damn did I eye roll constantly throughout this trash. For some reason I've read all his books and they are all the same. Same plot structure, always a damsel helper, Dan Brown saving the day with his knowledge of everything and anti climatic ending.

JSAMN was one of those books that leaves you in shock after you finish it. It's so long that you grow to love the characters and it's full of humour and amazing writing. The characters in particular are wonderful. I grew pretty attached to the antagonists as well as the protagonists, purely because they were all written in such a lovely, detailed way. I especially love Lascelles! He's wonderful

I love this book so much tho and now I am desperatly searching for books similar

Its such a shame that sarcasm and disdain permeate your review (despite your preface about having a rant). 5:57 Dan Brown's novels are known for their intricate plots that often revolve around hidden symbols, historical references, and codes. By delving into the minutiae of the ampersand, Langdon's description aligns perfectly with the author's style and the overarching theme of decoding mysteries. It adds depth and authenticity to Langdon's character as a renowned symbologist and professor of art history. Regarding your 7:16 "Dan's Brown" writing of female characters, I would respectfully. On your critique of the revelation of the "Singularity" it is important to remember that not all readers possess the same level of knowledge or familiarity with scientific concepts. While the notion of the "singularity" may be well-known within certain circles or among enthusiasts of emerging technologies, it might be unfamiliar to a significant portion of the general readership. Brown's intention may have been to introduce and explore this concept in a way that engages a broader audience, shedding light on its potential implications and sparking curiosity. Moreover, even if some readers are already aware of the concept, the impact of a revelation in a story is not solely dependent on its novelty. The way an author presents and contextualizes a concept within the narrative, along with the characters' reactions and the unfolding of events, can still create a sense of awe and wonder. Brown's skill lies in his ability to blend suspense, mystery, and intellectual curiosity, captivating readers regardless of their prior knowledge. Furthermore, the purpose of a climax in a story extends beyond surprising readers with entirely unfamiliar ideas. It serves to tie together narrative threads, unveil hidden connections, and provide a satisfying resolution to the story's central conflicts. Even if readers are already familiar with the concept of the "singularity," the climax may offer new perspectives, raise thought-provoking questions, or provide a fresh interpretation that enriches the overall reading experience. It is also worth noting that Dan Brown's novels often interweave fictional elements with real-world facts and theories, fostering a sense of plausibility and encouraging readers to explore further beyond the confines of the story. The incorporation of known concepts, such as the "singularity," can serve as a launching pad for readers to delve deeper into related topics and expand their understanding. In relation to the "big revelation", did you expect fact or fiction here? If fact - Brown did a great job on existing themes and concepts. If fiction, the book would lack the substance and Brown has chosen to ground the story in a more realistic framework to enhance the believability of the plot. By utilizing real-world concepts, scientific theories, and historical references, Brown can create a sense of authenticity and credibility. This approach appeals to readers who prefer a more grounded narrative and enjoy exploring ideas that align closely with established knowledge. "Origin" was intended, I believe, to explore the intersection of science, religion, and philosophy in a way that resonates with real-world debates and discussions. By presenting ideas and theories that have real-life implications, the novel can invite readers to reflect on the ethical, societal, and existential questions raised by these themes. Using real-world elements can foster a deeper connection between the story and the readers' own experiences and perspectives. Further, the climax was also about "Where do we come from" - yes - repeated yet again - I need to because you obviously forgot this half. The notion of tweening was expressed well in the context of this "Where do we come from aspect". Sorry Super Pao, your rant was, I believe, misplaced. A better review would have had far less sarcasm and more substance, including an understanding of book structure and how the point culminant and dénouement are reached.

Dowagiac, MI. (Du-wah-jik.)

The Soo are so fuckin' good.

Wow, I wish I’d found this in 2019 when I moved to Michigan. Hilarious and informative!

Wow, I wish I’d found this in 2019 when I moved to Michigan. Hilarious and informative!