I didn't think you came off awkward or odd at all, and was quite surprised he opened the interview with comments to such an effect.
I also am often surprised how big a deals wearing seems to be in the USA, in Australia swearing's a national past time!
I just started listening to the survival podcast about a month ago and I LOVE IT!
Id encourage anyone here to go browse through his archives and just listen to one of his over 500 podcasts. Great stuff!
Interesting stuff. Nice job Jacob. A tangent... that blog is from Hot Springs, AK... one of the places I've investigated as a ERE friendly location (and it appears to be pretty good).