So tell me something funny about me! One of the funniest things, hands down, about
being married to you and you're from Sweden, is your studious cleanliness. Your whole and clean Swedish concept. That everything has to be spick and span. Everything in Sweden is really clean. Everyone's houses, there's a lot of pride
there, and the way people dress themselves and put themselves together. The hygiene level is really maxed out over
there. And that might not be strange for most people,
but it is when you're from New Zealand. Because people like I was saying before to
Saga, like you can go into a supermarket without shoes on, that's just normal. And dust, dust, and not throwing away old
things, that's all pretty normal here. All the houses in Sweden are insulated and
they're very warm. You expected coming to Sweden and being cold
inside? Yeah, I was really confused that you could
be warm inside in winter, because our houses are much more makeshift, and well we don't,
we got poor insulation standards. You kind of expect to go inside and put on
jerseys and jackets to keep yourself warm, because insulating the house costs too much. Another incredibly shocking thing or hilarious
thing about Swedish people, and that we still haven't gotten over in our relationship, is
Saga experiences very real sun anxiety. So if it's a warm sunny day, and this is the
same in Sweden, you walk out and people will just stand there and bake themselves lightly
in the sun. Because that sun's going away and it's not
going to come back for a long amount of time, and you're all very cold. Whereas in New Zealand it's warm and sunny
at least six months of the year, and it's sunny basically, it's quite sunny year around
and the sun doesn't go down you know at three o'clock. You can waste a few sunny days, you can stay
inside all day and do work or play on the computer some video games. And that's fine in New Zealand, but every
day it's sunny Saga drags us outside, and I'm like why it's going to be sunny tomorrow,
and the next day. We're not in Sweden anymore. Oh there was this brilliant moment when Saga
first met my parents and my parents went to hug her because in New Zealand. I can't remember this. Of course you can remember that. Oh my gosh, so in New Zealand you can hug
people when you greet them, you definitely do that with family and you definitely extend
that to your your children's spouse. And both my parents came in, they swarmed
her and they hugged her, and then Saga Saga step back and went "ah, so you guys are huggers",
which is hilarious. Because apparently in your country.. That's we don't really hug that much. Have you hugged my family? Once, yeah, and it was awkward actually. Another confronting thing when you go to Sweden
from my point of view is how well people are dressed. There's a real kind of status game in there,
which you know isn't bad, you know maybe we should dress up more. And in New Zealand people have taken that
a step further. And people go out in like, a shirt with holes
in it. Like it's super relaxed. Where as if you did that in Sweden, people
think you'd gone insane. Yeah, you can go into a supermarket in New
Zealand without shoes on. And New Zealand prides itself for being clean
and green, but a few people will litter and smoke a lot on the streets and just chuck
their cigarettes out. I don't experience that in Sweden. We don't smoke nearly as much. I mean his entire family everyone smokes but
I didn't have a single person in my family who smoked. The pride for looking after things seems to
be a bit lower, like we like to think that we are, but people do litter in forests and
parks too, plastic, not all the time but you definitely see it happen, and it doesn't happen
in your country. It doesn't, not as often I don't think. One one of my favorite things about being
married to Saga unequivocally, is your access to SVT Play, which is your government channel
which seems to produce really inspiring journalism. We have like a governmentally owned TV channel. So they're not allowed to endorse any brands
or have any commercial breaks, it's just a bit more neutral and it's a bit less like
what's that called, like excitement driven or like you know. Yeah, we're chasing the reactionary kind of
clickbait. The thing is, coming from New Zealand you
meet people from different countries and English is their second language, but it really is
their second language, it's quite broken it's not fluent. When I meet Saga her English was so fluent
I was like. oh so it's like your second language but you've
got two languages in Sweden. That's not the case when you go to Sweden,
the English is quite broken, it's really a second language. So that was very surprising. And my family, some of them don't really speak
English. My dad really doesn't like speaking English,
so they have exchanged maybe 30 words. We haven't spoken a lot. Yeah but my granddad speaks a lot of English,
my sister speaks a lot of English, but most people are also very self-conscious speaking
English unless they're drunk. It makes it very difficult because Swedish
people are so scared they're doing it wrong, so they just won't speak to you. I think the most honest thing I can say is
that Sweden has more of an emphasis on gender equality, and because I'm with you our relationship
is more equal than if you weren't from Sweden, surprisingly equal for some people. But mainly when you defy people's expectations. When we were working on the van people assumed
in New Zealand that it's me doing all the work because it's a "manly" thing to do, but
it was all Saga. You, you did some. Sweden also is like really scientific too. Before you move on something you seem to want
to do the tests. In New Zealand we can get a bit of agendas
in there, and hype and like the concern drives policy. I mean you guys all get free education too,
so intellectuality and thinking through things is really a high value. Ah, the most shocking thing about Swedish
culture is that you don't have condensation on your windows. In New Zealand you have condensation and every
morning you wake up you had a condensation. And mold, pretty much in every house. For some reason no one, everyone refuses to
buy a dehumidifier. Oh I think it's all been covered. It was supposed to be a fun video, I don't
know if it's that fun. I hope so. I really enjoyed it. That's good. So thank you so much for watching! and yeah we're very relaxed like that or dirt a little bit of both and he's an actor
so he should know yeah if anyone gets upset Sweden's a lot like New Zealand instead of
cows they've got lots of grain he only went to south of Sweden that's a good one honey
yeah that's real something else and enjoy the conversation when you edit these things
and you cut them down they end up looking great anyway so you've got to go out strong
okay let's not let them know doubt well yeah so as you can tell my husband is equally strange
as I am I was gonna say yeah we have different working methods
