290: London Travelogue

In this episode, Professor Mouse, the Cosmologist, and Teddy debrief about Professor Mouse's trip to ole London Town. 

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Is This Just Bad?
Is This is just bad? The best podcast you ever
heard of? I'm your host, Professor mouse Joint is always
bad to see Becausmologist, Hello.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Govnor Halo, Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome back from Earth to.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
He'll be on all the way back from the UKAI,
isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
And was there anarchy all.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
The way back from the UK brought Nka and the
Yuki n Ak and the Yo guy in the Straits,
break sausage, row yolk ship pudding and football.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
You picked up the accent's perfect love it perfect? Even
better than Carl Urban.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, Carl Urban fun sucked. Oh what of a disdainful man.
It's just like the disdain anywhere is on his face?
Do do that bullshit accent man?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
So did you catch any football while you were out there?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, the Premier League is out of it's like in
the off season, like the very short off season. So
and so's the UFL. So there's no English football being played.
All the football that's being played actually is in the
United States. So the Club World Cup was happening, and

(02:05):
the Conker CAF like Gold Cup is happening, which is
like the lesser competition in the Americas. So I did
watch a couple of Club World Cup matches and a
couple of Gold Cup matches, But yeah, not a ton
of football happening. And like there weren't there were, Like

(02:27):
Manchester City was was was part of the Club World Cup.
They didn't seem to give a shit in London. Honestly,
I guess Spurs and Arsenal, which were like the are
like the two big London teams or were aren't a
part of the Club World Cup. It was just like
this weird like calculus that went into basically they were
like when they were making the Club World Cup, FIFA

(02:49):
was like, how do we get messy in it? And
then like let's work backwards from there because he's on
an MLS team that's like not i mean, they're not bad,
but it's just kind of like a middling MLS team
and like the top MLS team gets crushed in the
Club World Cup, you know, no matter what, playing these

(03:10):
like European sides and shit. And so it was like
this weird thing where they they had won like an
in season tournament or something like that inter Miami had
and so like they used that as a justification to
like weigh that in terms of like points for qualification
into it. And so inter Miami made it into the

(03:34):
Club World Cup and then they made they did made
it out of the group which was pretty good. It
was like the one of the first MLS teams ever
do that. And then they got they got fucking rocked
four nil in their round of sixteen match against a
PSG who just won the Champions League. So it's like
the even like you know, Messi en Suirez and all
those dudes, they can't compete at the level of like

(03:57):
international like actual uh you know football skill. Yeah, no one,
no one will, No one is really giving a shit
about it. I think it was. It was like summer
in London, fucking hot as ship everything. All the buildings
are built in the most stupid fucked up way where

(04:18):
it's always hotter inside than it is outside, And every
every Londoner we came across was like, yeah, it's like
historically bad summer here. It's like extremely hot, and uh,
it's normally not like this, but normally it's like not
that much better anyway, so much you got like heat

(04:40):
rash and stuff. So we're being very sort of careful.
London is weird. London is like if if New York
kind of sucked. It's like it if you spend a
lot of time in New York and you go to London,
you instantly understand it. You instantly under stand what the
city is, you instantly understand how it's laid out. In

(05:05):
a lot of ways, New York copies London, and it's
layout and like perfects it in in in the way
that it wasn't. The streets weren't designed for horse and
buggy and shit like that. They were designed for horse
and the you know, like it was weird because the
thing about uh food in the UK is that it's

(05:29):
bad and and that's just true. I guess, like we
ate a lot of food and most of it was
kind of bad and it was like it was under
seasoned always, oh yeah, no matter where you went, and
like everyone was like, well, you got to do this.
You gotta you're you're you're eating at the wrong place.

(05:49):
You gotta go uh to to a pub that's like
a hole in the wall. You go there, not a
fucking kernel of salt insight, You can't.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Know the pub.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Don't go to the fuck a public street food. You
gotta get the street food. You get the street food,
no salt. No, you gotta go down to this fucking
market that's like a fucking eighty minute right on the
tube or whatever the fuck, and to Zone six and
then you get out and then you go and you
get a fucking pie that doesn't have a whisper of
salt on it, Like everything is unsalted it's so crazy

(06:23):
where it didn't matter what level we were eating at.
If you got a fucking sausage roll from a goddamn
convenience store, there was no salt in it. If you
went to a fucking restaurant and paid two hundred pounds,
which is like two hundred and sixty dollars, there's not
a whisper of salt on the plate. It was baffling.

(06:43):
We were like, where's the fucking food, where's the salt?

Speaker 4 (06:48):
And this is why they are obsessed with Nandos.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
That was the other thing too. I was like, I
was telling my wife, I'm like, this is this is
how sad the state of food is here, like Nando's,
because there are Nando's in the US, and we've eaten
at Nanto's in the US, and it's like, oh, this
is like a great spot if you don't have a
reservation for something but you want to like a sit

(07:13):
down meal like before a movie or something like we've
been in that position a bunch of times Nandos and
you're like, this is this is a less good than
gas station chicken, but still it's serviceable, it's fine. And
then you know these fucking rits are out here, like
this is the best thing I've ever had, And.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Did you have the experience of trying to like track
down Chinese food or Pakistani food or like the various.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Even some of the Indian food we had was pretty underwhelming.
And I mean we were going all over the place too.
The one place I will say that was good was
it was sort of like in this market, this market
that was kind of set up where they were like, uh,
you know, selling like plantains and shit, like fresh plantains,

(08:07):
and they also had like a bunch of different uh
like Vietnamese places and shit like that. We had some
Afro Caribbean food and we had a jerk chicken and
stude oxtail and that was good. And that was in Brixton,
which you have to like go you know, we had
to like grab a train and and go like forty

(08:28):
five minutes outside of like, yeah, London.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
The lie of Greater London, where it's just sort of
begun to absorb the other towns that were outside of it,
and like zone five, Zone six technically you can get
the tube out there. It's not it's not London. It's
a summer.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, It's like it's like that It's like if you're
in d C and they're like, you got to go
to Shady Grove to get their good food, and you're like,
hold on, what you gotta go to Roslind Dude, You're like,
hold on, isn't that it different state?

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah? Absolutely, London is this amieba that has eaten in
the surrounding areas but and absorbed all of its flavor
in the meantime.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I will say this though, it's you know, the it
makes sense to me why like they don't have a
Top Chef type show, but they do have the Great
British Bake Off because the baked goods are really good
in London. They're like extremely good. They know how to

(09:31):
bake there, and also like so much of their even
savory food is like baked in a fucking pie. I
had a mince meat pie which was pretty good. I'm
still like not a ton of salt in it, but
it was savory and like the pastry is just cooked perfectly,

(09:52):
and so we had a bunch of Like I mean,
you know, if I ever go back, I'm just gonna
eat dessert the whole time, because like that's the move.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Man.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
You're exactly right. The problem with like there's no seasoning,
there's no spice, it's all too sweet. But if you
get baked goods and sweets like they rocket, you know,
the fact that their afternoon teas like clotted cream, lemon
or birds, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
That shit was great. And then they also do have
like a ton of snacks that like really put ours
to shame. Like the I had this thing called Monster
munch that I have that as a goof because of
Munchy's name, and I was like, this is really fucking good.
It was like this weird. It was just like chip

(10:39):
that was roast beef flavored or something like that. It
was like everything about it looked bad, but I ate
it and it didn't taste like roast beef. It tastes
just kind of like you know what it tastes like.
It's like salt.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Uh, that's where all the salt goes. You have to
go to a court of store, grab a packet of crisps. Yeah,
crunch them all up and throw them on whatever food
or eating in a restaurant. Yeah, they get all their
salt intake when they're moving around snacking during the day.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah. We also had like all like malteezers. The fucking
I had a mars Bar that was like I remember
mars bars in the US, but like I feel like
they're not around anymore. Like I haven't seen a mars
bar in uh forever, and so when I saw one,
I was like, this is crazy. And there's like a
ton of them here. They must love a mars Bar.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Aiden.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I was like, this is really good. The shit they
say about like you know, chocolate and stuff is is
for sure true, Whereas I think in the US there's
a lower threshold for the amount of actual like cocoa.
You need to call something chocolate, which is higher everywhere else.
And so like even in Canada, if you go you're

(11:53):
like immediately the chocolate is better. Here in the UK,
it's really good. Jafa cakes like all the like best.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Dude, love the Jaffa cake.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, love a java cake. My wife thinks chocolate and
orange together is unnatural and should not be.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Uh really, they did you try? They got the raspberry
versions of the jaffa cake too, but.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
She hates the jelly chocolate combo because they have java
cakes here too, they still an aldi and uh, she
just thinks that it's such a disgusting cookie. I love that,
and I love the form factor like molted like uh, biscuits, wafers,
shit like that. Uh, it was good. And then yeah,

(12:42):
all like the little bakeries and stuff. We went to
a bakery that had a waist free carrot cake, which
means that they've made the carrot cake using all of
the refuse. It was probably not a great word of
the other cakes like that they have to like cut
off the side or whatever to like shape them, and

(13:03):
like the extra buttercream goes in and like shit like that.
And it was fucking delicious.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
There was this place. It was this bakery called Letto,
which I ate at us several different times. Then we
had like gelato at this like famous famous on this
app called Belly, which I was introduced to, which is
like a crowdsourced app where people go in and they

(13:31):
sort of like rank foods and stuff like that. And
this was like the top ranked ice cream. And we
went in there and it was like the thickest sort
of like heaviest, most decadent ice cream I've ever had.
I was, I was, I was very satisfied halfway through,
and by the end, I was like I shouldn't have

(13:53):
eaten this all of this.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's awesome. All right, so you found you found your way.
That's great. Were able to zero in on the stuff
that they can do.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, the tube is good, but the
tube is not like I mean, in a competition. New
York takes that every single day of the week because
to get like, for instance, from Heathrow to Yeah, what
the fuck was the stuff that we were near, like

(14:24):
Tottenham Square or something like that, it costs fifteen pounds.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Like the the scaled pricing between zones and shit like that,
that's some like DC Metro bullshit. That's like that's a
way of building in like a preventative nalty.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
For you don't actually want to go out there, and
if you're out there, we don't actually want you to
come in.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Exactly, Yeah, it was, It's exactly that where the scaled
pricing is always just this like barrier to entry for
people that you know, they don't want, uh, you know,
to come into the city or whatever. And the subways
like flat rate, you can just never top that.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
That is such an.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Important part of the economy and the sort of like
social life of that city is that they have a
fixed rate subway pricing. But yeah, it's some of the
shit you're paying too. And everything is contactless, so you're
just like boom Oyster card. There's no Oyster cards. Oyster
cards are dead, like they go. You can you can

(15:34):
get an Oyster card, but no one uses it. They
just use contact lists like your phone. So you just
you just like pay with your your debit card to
go in and to get out, which is I think
a good upgrade because like the cards were meant to
replace the fair whatever.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
No, I don't trust that, Like what if you lose
your phone, I don't know. I'm getting more and more
trying to unplug I suppose, and getting more suspicious as
I get older. But having the separate cards so you
do have to actually think about it, and like you said,
so it doesn't sort of just get taken from you
without your knowledge.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
It also feels almost inherently hostile in terms of like
as you were saying, if you lost your phone or
if you didn't have like oh, I don't have my
phone anymore and I haven't been able to replace it,
can't call an uber, can't get on the train or
the bus. Ostensibly like Yeah, no.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
I think you're exactly right. It is the sort of
move to the singularity we've spoken about before. I mean,
you can't, I imagine, still get the cards. They just
are going to make it more and more obnoxious to.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
You can get the cards. It's just like you initially
would have like a paper card, and that is a waste, yes,
and then you would go over to a plastic card,
and that is a waste. Everybody has a phone, and
if you don't have a phone, you can get a
plastic card.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, and as long as the plastic cards do still
exist as an option, and I will say I'm a
sucker for a limited edition like special event plastic card.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah. That the certain arbor themed festivals.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, certainly. Absolutely, you get your festival. You get if
you happen to be in a major metropolitan city that
has let's say a zoo, you get an animal themed card.
You know, the card for a I don't know, carnation.
It would be great to get a card with that
horrifying portrait of King Charles that looks exactly like hell
Blazer cover drenched in blood.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, we got we got a couple of just like
pound notes out of the fucking atm and they had
his ugly mug on them. I mean, just horrible, horrible,
horrible to look at that man. Yeah, it it's it's
a it's a very weird city. We went to a
lot of the music art is all the same. We

(18:02):
went to the Tate We went to the Serpentine.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh wait, Tate Modern or Tate Old School, the Tate Modern.
Oh yeah, they got some weird stuff there. Date what
is his name Hurst? No, heirst. He like put a
giant shark in from aldehyde, and he does lots of
polka dots and he's a dumbass. The Tate Modern is goofy.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, there's a big spider. There's the National Gallery or
whatever near troffic Traffolger Square, Trafalgar Square. There are also
sucks walking through. The West End is pretty cool, Like
you see the show's going up. Rachel Zegler's there right
now doing a vita. She was like singing off of

(18:47):
the balcony into the sort of like crowd that was
walking by, and and somebody took a photo of it
or a video of it. And I mean, as a
sport girl can't do anything. They were like, why is
she doing that to the people there. Why did she
do it for the paying people on the inside.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I think that's really nice.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Did she fucking catch a break? She can't do anything.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Right for a woman, That's very cool. Wait, so did
you check out the either the big Old British Museum
or the British Library.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
No, the British Library. I just didn't want to go
to a library and vacation. British Museum. We're looking when
you're looking on the website, and didn't see anything that
was like super interesting or grabbing. There's like, yeah, we
went to the Tape Tape Modern and we went to
the Serpentine because there were like specific exhibits that my

(19:44):
wife was seeing. And you know, the Tate Modern was
was was cool, and the the having three museums available
to open to the public is is cool and that
that's a that's a great thing that all cities should have.
I believe the moment you have to pay for admission

(20:05):
into it the Tate Modern, you don't have to pay,
but you do are like heavily encouraged to donate, which
happens a lot in London. There are a lot of
instances in which you are heavily encouraged to donate money

(20:27):
to something like even on British airways, they're like like
passing around like a collection like ten, like you're a
church or some shit, like any culture of.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Heavy Protestant social pressure.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Absolutely social pressure and shame based economy.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Get yeah, no it does feel that way. Yeah, the
the the I would say also like the London is
a very small city, but it's not like a walking city. Yeah,
we walked to a lot of places and I was like,
this is a forty five minute walk. This is like

(21:07):
uh not this this was sold to me as like
it's within walking distance and we are We've been walking
for so this is ninety minutes of the day where
we're just walking. We could have jumped on a bus
and been here in fifteen.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
This isn't think why the bus is so iconic, I
mean the red buses or whatever, But truly it's because
it is a busing city.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it's not like New York. Where New York
you're in seven different neighborhoods in Manhattan and ten minutes
of walking like North You're just like, oh now I'm
in fucking Hell's kitchen, Like I was just in fied eye.
I'm in Hell's kitchen. It's been ten minutes. In London.
You're like just walking by. It's weird. It's like it's

(21:55):
like this, I forget. It's kind of like a fashion hub.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Absolutely, you might see something like cool, very cool, big
shops and a nice park and a statue.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, you see you go by Gucci, your Balenciaga ball
man a park and you're walking by the park for
twenty five minutes. You get out of that and it's
Gucci ball Man.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Fucking you spend a lot of time on Oxford Street
walking up and down.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sounds like there was so much bullshit. And then they
were like, yeah, you should go to Herod's. It's on
the other side of Hyde Park. And so it's like
we just passed all these like boutique whatever. We walk
through Hyde Park where the grass is dying because it's
so hot, and.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Your destination is another department store.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, but I didn't know what it was. We walked
in there, we were like, what is this? This sucks
everything here. The cheapest thing here is twenty pounds and
it's like tea that's probably bad, and it's just full.
It's full, it's packed, there's so many people in there
where I'm like, damn it, there's no place like this
in the US where like it's like a truly like

(23:04):
just packed department store with people buying shit.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Not anymore, right, Like that's a very old school like
Macy's Fao Schwartz kind of like Times Square experience that
I remember having as a child in the nineties. And
I remember when I went I did the Harrod's thing
at the end of my time in London, and it
felt like a very old school experience and like, oh wow,

(23:30):
this feels nostalgic. Wait a second, I hated this as
a child. This is overwhelming. Why am I here? I'm
not trying to buy anything.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, No, it is like if you ever watch a
movie that takes place in like the early twentieth century, Like, uh,
I think there is weird Carol.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
If you watch Carol, like that kind of department store.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, where you walk in and there are like people
people who are aggressively trying to cater to you and
they have like very expensive shit. It's not like it's
not like like uh, who have set up on the
street and are trying to like sell you some shit
and they're like you can like haggle with them. It's
like no, it's like people who are very aggressively trying

(24:09):
to sell you, like something that costs two hundred pounds,
and it's just like I can't even like this is
a this is done already, the interaction as soon as
you told me the price, it's.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Done before it started.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I don't even have that. But yeah, it's very it's
very that, it's very old. There's a lot of shit
in the city that's like very very old where you'll
like cross over, like come around a corner and then
you'll see like this enormous building. This is like stately
manor just like huge thing that's been hollowed out. And

(24:46):
there's like a fucking Tesco Express where you can get
a fucking meal deal for five pounds, get.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Your sausage roll in the empty shell of a once
great bank, go for something.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, yeah, it really is that. And there's so many
there's so many grocery stores. There's fucking Sainsbury, there's Tesco,
there's Marks and Spencers, there's Watros, there's fucking Iceland. There's
all these fucking grocery stores. And that also does speak

(25:21):
to like an earlier time in history where or not
even in history, but like when we were younger where
there was like several grocery stores and now it's all
just like Walmart or whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, and that's something I think the London has up
on us is there's no food deserts. You may not
want to eat the food that's available, but you can
get it, and a lot of it is like mostly
can It's it's kind of like a very large seven
to eleven, like the Sainsbury Tesco style, so it is
sort of convenience store model, but it's a nice piece

(25:55):
of the European model of being able to walk in,
grab a snack, walk out, get your scents. I did
a lot of like short grocery chips like that when
I was living there, and it's yeah, it's convenient, it's nice.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah. And they have like eggs in like several cartons
of eggs that are just like four eggs. Where that
was like a lifesaver to just have because we were
staying in a place that like had a kitchen and stuff,
but we were also trying to like eat out, so
like we would make meals sort of like to order.

(26:29):
We'd be like, oh, well, we got to make breakfast,
let's get eggs and you know whatever. Some never bacon
because the bacon there is different. The bacon there is
like picking weird. And they called the bacon that we
know as bacon like streaky bacon, as like a qualifier,
so we you would end up getting like just like

(26:52):
kind of like weird meals. Never had the beans on toast.
Did go to a pub and have fish and chips
and several different meat pies and the the mushy peas
and all that bullshit, and it was it was good.
We went to one that it was weird. We were

(27:16):
watching a season of Top Chef that that was like
happening in London. We didn't know that. We we picked
it before we left and we saw an episode the
first night after we had gotten off the plane and
we were trying to like stay up to acclimate and
it was it took place in London. And one of

(27:38):
the challenges that they do in like episode three or something,
is they they go to three pubs and they have
like all of the classics. They have fish and chips,
they have bangers in mash, they have fish pie, they
have Yorkshire pudding, they have like all all the classics,

(27:59):
and then they have to like elevate them and remake
them and make them. Like the subtext is like make
these dishes good because I've never seen a top Usually
in Top Chef when they like go, they're like, go
out into Like the last season they were in Canada,
they were like, go out, have like Jamaican beef patties,

(28:19):
have Afro Caribbean food, Like have that and let it
inspire your dish. That's usually how it's framed. It's never
have all of this food and make it better.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Fix it. Oh man. They're trying to elevate mushy peas
where you get like it starts looking like guacamalle, like
a fancy little dish and it's whipped and like, okay,
if it can get to the level of like a
mashed potato, you might have saved it.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, they did that. They did like a puree with
like mint and there was like acid and salt. Uh.
But so one of the places they went to was
this place called the Jack Horner, which is just where
we went. We were like, okay, so this is like
some chefs like to. We'll go and I'll say, like
we had fish and chips and I was like, yeah,

(29:09):
I understand this, I understand what this is. This is
a like this the skin was really crispy. The chips
were fried nice. It wasn't like overly greasy because like
we get fish and chips in the United States, they
like try they make it the same way they make
like fried chicken and shit, which is is is good

(29:31):
because it's like fucking greasy fried food, right, but it's
like not the same consistency.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
It wasn't the same kind of light buttery. Yeah it
shit ought not to be super heavy, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah it was. It was extremely light, and I was like, uh,
this is the highest. This is better than anything I
could have asked for. And this dish is mid but
it just.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Is it just great? You fried the fish.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's okay, yeah, it's fine. It's like, but there is
there is dark cuisines like that where you just the
ceiling is so low, where it's like this is fried
fish and French fries, Like what what do you expect
this to be besides exactly what I just said it was.
It's not gonna be like it's like gonna blow your

(30:22):
fucking mind. This is what exactly what it is. It's
like It's like it's like if you go to a
place and you're like, they have chicken tenders and fries
that are really good and you eat them and you're
like cool, man.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Right, that takes That's that's great that you you really
dove into. You're right. The great British bake off their
baking culture, their sweets, their confections. That's where they succeed
and excel and it's just a man, you can't eat
that all day. But but there's good stuff there you get,
so you can try. You can certainly try. So what

(30:54):
was your favorite spot that you could be food but
also cultural and favorite The thing that you think was
Monkey's favorite.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh, Monkey's favorite. Uh, Munkey had a hard trip. Monkey
was like, Monkey's favorite thing was the coffee table in
our in laws Airbnb. Yeah, she couldn't get enough of
that fucking thing because it was low enough that she

(31:26):
was able to grab onto it and pull herself up
and stand. She's really in the standing and that I
would say is the most joy she had on the trip.
There were there isn't a lot of stuff like she
she can't really appreciate a museum.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
That baby friendly city.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, she can't really like. We we fed her a
lot of food, like, uh, you know if every you
know dish that we had, you know, particularly like it
Indian restaurants would would come with a roti or like
we ate a lot of Mediterranean that would come with
a pita or something like that. So we would constantly
just be breaking off little pieces of that and feeding her.

(32:10):
And she was she loves bread, so she was she
was going ham on that stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
And it's all fairly bland, you know, simple.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, yeah, And and like we were like, she had't
a French fries are too salty, and then we tasted them.
She was like she can have these. Uh, So she
she ate some French fries and I mean she she
she loved being in a high chair sitting next to us,
getting like little bits of food. But you know, everything else,

(32:41):
the the her, her, her. We have a thing called
a duna, which is a car seat that turns into
a stroller, which is very very convenient, but a car seat,
by its design is meant to like really en case

(33:01):
the child so that they don't get hurt, and so
it's very it's suffocating.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah, and so if you're turning it into a stroller,
in the hot sidewalk. She was she was struggling.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
It became a trauma response every time we went to
like you know, open up the douna to put her in.
So to the point where like halfway through the trip
we were trying to carry her around more because it's
just like not happening, and the just like the amount
of sweat build up and she was just like getting

(33:35):
a rash. Yeah, and there's no there's no a s.
It's so she was sleeping, and she was sleeping in
a bed with us, in what would be like a
full size bed. Uh, And so we were all like
very in close quarters. I'll say. When we got back
here and she slept in an air conditioned room, she

(33:57):
fucking passed out and was like a sleep for like
ten hours.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Yeah, London's it's to your point of it being an
old city. I mean much of it is eighteen hundreds
architecture at this point. It's not super old because it
all burned in the sixteen hundreds. But yeah, it's that
is a a higher altitude than we give it credit for,
which used to matter and doesn't anymore, especially in the summers.

(34:24):
And so it's still built. Like you said, assuming it's
going to be cold and rainy all the time in
the summers or bu did you get the experience of
it being hotter in the tube than it was above ground?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah? Yeah, the tube is fucking The tube is a nightmare.
It's so hot in the goddamn tube. And this is
like just a famous.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Complete that somehow there's like it's like trapped heat from
generations of people and or they dug too deep and
too greedily into mortar.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
It just ghosts.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
I didn't the tube was invented by a buck an American.
That's some crazy ass ship. But it makes sense because
that's like that was the stock and trade of American
businessman was fucking railroads. I'll saw your railroad. I'll make
you the most efficient railroad in the Western world. The Yeah,

(35:19):
so that that was his favorite. My favorite was probably
going to Brixton. Brixton was Brixton was cool man. Brixton
was It has this sort of like West Indian Afro
Caribbean dia supports of culture there and it was it

(35:42):
it felt and looked more like places in the States
that I'm I'm more comfortable being in, like the A
lot of like that, like what quote unquot downtown London,
like the fucking soho Are and shit like that. A
lot of that looked like Manhattan, New York City. You

(36:03):
go out to Brest into some of these other places,
you feel like you're more like in a small town
city type vibe, and so it has a much more
inviting feelings suffocating, and there's there's also more British people.

(36:24):
Because the other thing too is that we were like
until we got to like Zone two and three, like
we were there were no British people. There were like
a ton of like just you know, internationals. Just like
I kept being like, you know, are we in the
United States? There's so many Americans here? This is fucking crazy. Uh.

(36:47):
But you know when you get out to some of
these other places, everyone's fucking British like, and then you
feel like very much like a tourist in another country as.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
A part, like yeah, it sounds like you'd probably appreciate
like Liverpool and you know, northern England.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
And I'm never going I'm never going to Liverpool, but
We're going to Yorkshire for sure.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Okay, perfect, Yeah, I'm just thinking about like like your.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Lungs Liverpool and Manchester can eat my ass. So we're
going to West Yorkshire, going to Leeds and we're.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Going Yeah, this is entirely having to do with his
sports fandom now, it has nothing to do with the environment,
though you're also right today.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Uh No, Liverpool would be interesting because there are a
lot of museums and archives and ship there because it
was a central hub for the African slave trade. So
Liverpool is on a list of places that I would
I would like to go to. Uh, Manchester sucks, West Yorkshire,
would like to go and see Leeds play. And then yeah,

(37:56):
if if we ever do go back to London, it's
gonna be like where going to the Greater London Metropolitan area.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Yeah, get out north, get out into the Zone six
and the suburbs and experience some that there's this like,
you know, the country culture of England rather than the
central London. You know, it is a international tourists trap
but also theme park. But also you know, if you're

(38:25):
there for the museums and see the sort of riches
of colonial conquests that are there and you're interested in
those artifacts, really cool stuff. I mean you know that
you can't see in Greece because they stole them all.
But if you're not looking for that, that's really cool.
I'm glad you got a little bit of the taste
of the authentic like Sainsbury's experience, that's very much. You

(38:46):
know how they live meal to meal, little grocery trips.
That's cool. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, the fucking meal deals are so funny putting together.
Like the one thing that they love in London is
a fucking prepackaged, disgusting sandwich meal.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yes, dude, that that shit was so rank. We had
They have so many great pastries and like, but you
could have it warmed over, saran wrapped and bad for
five pounds.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
They they they invented preda mange and it's like the
worst idea ever, but it like thrives there. People love
that shit. There's something about it that's like just kind
of not. It strikes me and maybe this is wrong.

(39:44):
It strikes me as like anti American to be like,
let's go inside this place and get a disgusting sandwich
in a bag and go to work.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
London culture certainly, I mean it's so fast, yeah, that
that like busy work all the time, hyper convenience because
they're working constantly and then they're at the pubs getting
blasted and breaking glasses till three in the morning and
they do it all over again, and so there's no
time to go cook. So it's it's you know, living

(40:22):
entirely on pints of beer and prepackaged sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh yeah, and bad beer. The ball The beer in
London is fucking bad, dude.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Is it all room temperature?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
I mean even the cold ship we had. They kept
saying Fullers is the best beer. We went to. We
went to we went to a pub and we asked, like,
what's the best Uh god, what what was it called?
Let me look it up because it has a name
that's that sucks.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
We were like, what's the best beer? It's called London Pride. Uh.
It's a Fuller's beer from Fuller's Brewery which is in Surrey, England,
that's where it's headquartered. And we I was like, I
was like, I want like whatever your like best English

(41:18):
beer is. And the bartender went through a couple of them.
They had like an Asashi or something like that. They
had something wicket. It was like a cricket themed beer,
and then she said, like Fuller's London Pride. It's like
it's like you take everything about a regular beer and

(41:42):
you just heighten it ever so slightly. It's the perfect
Oh man, that is the perfect drink.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
That's exactly the way Londoners think of themselves. You know,
we're just quietly slightly a little bit better than you.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
And then I had it and it was like, yo,
I'm from the United States. We are the king of
hiss beer, and this is this is the pissyst beer
I've ever had in my life. There was no body
to it. It felt it felt empty. It just felt
like and that is kind of the perfect encapsulation of

(42:22):
like a Londoner, just like somebody who was like on
the outside just so like upright and confident, but then
when you really get in there, there's nothing inside. It's
just dead wasteland. I remember drinking the entire thing and
feeling like and just kind of like not realizing that

(42:43):
I had finished it. It was like it was like
a whisper of a beer.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
So I noticed that like almost everybody every man you
saw was in an identical blue business suit, the dark blue.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
I we kept running a past. People were really like
are these MPs? Like why are all these guys look
like they're in the government.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Now.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
I bought two of those suits from Primark when I
was there because I had to wear them for work.
And everyone looks exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Every person looks like every person looks like they're about
to go scream at each other at a parliamentary meeting
or something. It was so weird to Yeah, it was weird.
It was weird because they were like, clearly there are
a lot of people here doing business, because there's a
lot of business happening, so there was a lot of
that on all, like all the bridges like that that

(43:40):
crossed attempts, Like if you just take one of those
and coordinate it off, you're like, this is the full
range of experiences in the city. Because there's like businessmen walking,
there's a teenager tourists who like gen Z tourists who
feel like they own the world and that they're never
gonna die. They're like millennials pushing a baby in a

(44:03):
cart that's too hot. There's there's like tourist from all
over the world, and then there are like several like
middle class people who are trying to just get through
the mess.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
I'm trying to get.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Just all these fucking idiots who are just like, oh,
what's that?

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yep, yep, And that's the London experience. You had the
full gamut of it. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yes, everybody with their fucking room temp sandwich because that's
the other thing too, Like the food is like it
disintegrates as soon as you walk outside. It's so hot.
But then we were looking at how hot it was
at home, and it was even hotter. There were some
days where it's like ninety eight degrees. I'm like, what
the fuck is going on over there?

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Yeah, my building's air conditioning kept conking out and there
as a whole, it's good to be in a apartment
complex where, like we all, even though it's it's not
like a landlord situation, there's enough like collective bargaining of
people getting really really angry on a list surf. Yeah,

(45:14):
management can you know has to pay attention.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
So it's been There was also a lot of like
we we overheard people talking about Zorn's win in New York.
That was like big, it was news. That was news. Yeah,
that was news in London when we were there, I
was like, this is this is crazy. So many people
give a shit about who the mayor of New York

(45:38):
City is, but they like there was like it was
crazy how much people were talking about.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
It in the New York are very much sister cities. Yeah,
they're sort of bound together. Yeah, spiritually.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
There's probably also something underneath that about like a critique
of the Mayor of London, which I do.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Every but he hates the Mayor of London absolutely. I
don't know if it's even still the same guy, but
everyone always hates the Mayor of London, whoever it is.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm sure. I'm pretty sure it was
something like that as well, of like taking a lesson
away from like it's not it's not bad to be
radical or whatever.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
Ever since they they you know, ripped it Jeremy Corbyn
off at the knees and his party betrayed him, it's
been Yeah, it's been bad ever since. Fascinating. That's cool. Yeah,
I mean truly, London is it's banking for first and
foremost and finance still, so anytime any kind of big

(46:38):
political move that could affect their money happens, I imagine
they care.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah cool. Yeah, So yeah, that was that was that.
It was. It was it was fun.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
It was fun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
And then next weekend, I'll be in Mexico City. It's
then I'm gonna take like an extended sabbatical just at home.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
Not go out Mexico City. That's going to be a
fascinating in verse like big metropolitan city in a different
kind of way. I'm really interested to see to hear
how you experience that and what you like about that
in comparison to London.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Immediately starting off like just like at a deficit. Because
the one of the great things about London that I
didn't mention, and I'm glad I just remembered is the
tap water. The tapwater in London is among the cleanest,

(47:46):
most drinkable tap water on the planet Earth. It is incredible.
It is like a fucking it is a municipal achievement.
How good it is. That's not the case in Mexico.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
All.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
It's just so nice to just like have water available,
like you take it for granted. Like when we went
to India, they were like, under no circumstance, drink this
fucking water.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
You will.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
You will be on the toilet this entire trip. It's
gonna ruin a couple of days, like just you know,
And so you're just constantly trying to find bottle of
water and shit like that, Like you do take for
granted when you can't just open up a faust and
just drink water like that. Unfortunately, that is like a
thing that people have to contend with, not locals or whatever.

(48:38):
They they they are accustomed to that, But like when
you're traveling, when you have a small child and like
the basic thing and you have to make a bottle
and the basic thing that you need is clean water
that you can drink, then you're just like, Okay, we
got to figure this, Like this is this very very

(49:00):
basic thing that you can take for granted anywhere else.
We got to figure this out and be like very
strategic about it, and I like start hoarding bottles of
water or some shit. But yeah, she won't yet be
at the point where she can just drink milk, which
will make all of it so much easier when she transfers
from formula.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
To just like cow milk cows. Yeah, wow, okay.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Because you can get that shit fucking anywhere.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Cool. Well, welcome back. I'm glad that you had the
full range of experience. That's awesome. You is there football
on in Mexico City or are you gonna go see
any Luca.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
No, by the time, by the time we get to Mexico,
they will have just won or lost the Gold Cup,
likely in a match in the final against the United States.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Oh, being there in the aftermath is gonna be fascinating.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, the the Gold Cup traditionally has been Mexico's tournament.
They won the last Gold Cup against Panama, which not
got the United States. They've won the most Gold Cups historically.
The United States like petitioned to have a Nations League
Cup instituted, which now the US has won the vast

(50:33):
majority of it's a more recent tournament and just kind
of decided unilatterally that that one was more important than
the Gold Cup, which is just like it was such
a fucking dick us the toa zoo. But but Mexico
takes the Gold Cup very seriously, so we'll see. I

(50:56):
as a supporter of the American team, I'm like, there's
no fucking way beating in Mexico. This is like, uh,
it feels like a foregone conclusion. But we'll see. So, yeah,
that will have just happened, and the uh MLS season
is starting. In MLS is kind of like there are

(51:17):
American players there, but like really it's like a South
American Central American Mexican league, Like that's where all the
players who are sort of like not good enough to
play in Europe play. And yeah, there are a ton
ton ton ton ton of Mexicans and Mexican viewership as well,

(51:39):
which is why the attendance at MLS games is directly
correlated to how many Mexicans there are on the team. Huh,
because Mexicans will pack a fucking a stadium because they
care in America, don't.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
That makes perfect sense? Yeah, that the sports loyalty and
fan is strong. Yeah, very cool, Teddy. Any questions if
you spend much time in London.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Myself? Yeah, a layover for six hours?

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Okay, did you have a terrible sandwich?

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I was passed out.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
So avoided the terrible sandwich.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
I remember someone saying, Hey, we're gonna be at Heathrow,
and then I woke my ass up because they were like, hey,
you need to get on this next flight to Amsterdam,
like right now. Okay, But question wise, I am do
you mind if I ask some incredibly nerdy questions, specifically

(52:49):
about the city infrastructure. I'm very curious about maybe this
isn't so much infrastructure. But something I've been noticing East
Coast as well as a little bit in the Midwest
is kind of hostile architecture. The prevailing theory I've seen

(53:10):
in various discourse places is that older cities tend to
not do it as much as newer cities, but like it.
So I'm just curious, was there a lot of like
did you see a lot of houseless people? Was there
like a lot of hot Like was there a lot

(53:30):
of architecture that's just specifically you're not going to see
folks or is that just a kind of American thing
that well, not American thing, but you know what I mean,
Like where where do you see? What did you see there?
In terms of infrastructure?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
That's a great that's a great question because you notice it.
You noticed that there are randomly in the street. They
are like bathrooms. They're like these like ire they're not
quarter potties, but they're not like full bathrooms. They're like
these like places that you can go and use a

(54:08):
fairly clean bathroom. That said, there is a ton of
like uninviting architecture. A lot of the park benches are
sectioned in a way where you can't really lay on
them in terms of unhoused people. We were in for

(54:29):
a lot of the trip. We were in like the
prime area where you would see them in the United States,
like your equivalent of like high tourist areas with a
lot of foot traffic where like you could panhandle. And
we definitely saw on house people, but like it was
a stark difference from what you see in downtown d C.

(54:53):
In you know, parts of New York City. In a
lot of places that was interesting. There's also not a
ton of like new architecture. There's not like a ton
of like new like uh, new building. There's a lot
of like refurbishing and shit like that. But it because

(55:17):
like in American cities there's like this like weirdness where
you sort of you'll go into an area that they're
like redoing and all of the architectures that is this
like new weird, very sort of like colorful. I don't
know what how to describe that kind of architecture, but
you know what I'm talking about, Like it's just like

(55:38):
the things, yeah, but but it's so and it's so ugly.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
But I think it's like post postmodern where it's taken
all the like big fancy colors from post midern architecture,
and then linked it to like we want it to
all look like an iPod advertisement somehow.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Yeah, it's it's so, it's so it is so a great,
restively ugly that it seems intentional, like to make it
so that it's like this is new the lease here
or whatever. I didn't see any of that in in London.
I didn't see any sort of like we saw construction.

(56:16):
We saw newer buildings and things like that, and you know,
places where you can go lease, but a lot of
it is preserved, so much so that our fucking flat
didn't have a lift, Like we were lugging a fucking
stroller up the stairs and shit. Yeah, so the infrastructure

(56:38):
was really well. They also, and this is to the
London Underground's credit, and you know, fucking New York Subway
a lift at basically every station, and fuck the DC Metro.
The lift usually.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Worked okay, fair enough, and it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
It was thinking of infrastructure very different going with a
child in a in a buggy as they call it,
because you have to navigate and you have to find
the lift everywhere you go, and m there were several

(57:22):
instances where we got out of and we find we
we eventually figured out how to work around this. But
there were like two instances early on where we got
out of stops that were close to where we were
going but that didn't have lifts and they're demarketed on
the subway map, but we didn't know that, and so

(57:44):
we would get out and it would be like, oh,
there is no there's no way to go up besides
the stairs, and so we were just like lugging this
baby up the stairs inside of this thing.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Yeah, and I'm not sure what the rhyme or reason
of it is. Most of it, I think is likely
because they're like Zone one sort of like in more
congested areas, so the stations themselves are smaller, so they
probably don't have enough real estate to put a lift in,

(58:19):
so you'd have to like plan around that. You'd be like,
we're actually I have to get off at a further
stop to catch a lift and then maybe walk fifteen
minutes or something like that, or catch a bus, but
a bus with a buggy is not good either. Yeah,
And then it's like to say that the roads are

(58:42):
fucked up and the sidewalks are fucked up in London
is such an understatement. They are beyond bad. And one
of the things about and it was so not designed
for cars. One of the things that that keys you
into this is that when there is an accident, like

(59:03):
a bad accident, everything within like a certain radius necessarily
like shuts down. So like there there was this accident
on like our penultimate day, and it was it was
it was a bad one to say, the closed down

(59:24):
several streets because it was like it was this like
perfect storm of this is just one ways and so
like there's so much traffic that has to get through here.
But these cars are incapacitated, so they are like blocking
off streets and shit, and so as a result, they're
also blocking off a bunch of like metro stations, and

(59:46):
so there are a bunch of stops that were also
So my sister in law was h was trying to
get off at like Piccadilly Circus or something where the
accident happened and the conductor came on and went u uh,
this train is no longer stopping at Piccadilly Circus next
stop instead of stop eight stops. The way.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
You are walking, oh, my god, you can't catch a
bus because those are all stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Also, you can't catch a bus because literally there's so
many one ways in London where it's like if this
ship is clogged up everything, it's like a fucking it's
just like you know, your whatever germs in the body,
it's just like, oh, everything's been diverted.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
It's so it's very funny where because everything is so
congested and small, when something like that happens, it just
affects everything around it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Yeah, you can imagine like when are they even ever
going to be able to repair a road if it's
that bad to shut it all down?

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Yeah, we are a lot of sign sorry, oh no, yeah,
go for it. Well, I was just thinking about that
in terms of the communication when it comes to infrastructure,
like in in certain cities, you have to sign up
for just a bunch of alerts and constantly change how

(01:01:14):
you would be communicating, jumping on plat like different large
social media or signing up for like their email blasts
or whatever, or text alerts, which terrible idea, or sometimes
you'll just like have to rely on actual signage or
even their websites. Is that the case when you're over there,
like do you have did they just say, hey, download

(01:01:36):
this app or go? Like what were their signs everywhere
that were digital? Did people actually communicate this or was
it just like we're going to figure it out at
the same time as locals, Like how did you get
that info?

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
So our experience was and because you lived there longer,
so you may have had like downloaded the apps and
shit like that. Our experience was everything was very clockwork
and very predictable until something went wrong and there's and

(01:02:10):
then you're just all discovering it at the same time.
So there were several several occasions. I mean, it happened
mostly to my sister in law. She just has bad luck,
but she was on several trains where they were like,
no longer stopping, We'll be stopping three stops from now,

(01:02:30):
or this train is as out of commission. Everybody get out,
this is no longer a train. To get the fuck
out of here immediately, and they never give you a
reason for that, And I have no idea what the
reason could be, but that happens several times to her,
and then didn't happen to us at all until we

(01:02:52):
were going to the airport to leave the country. And
so we were on a train that was going to
heath Row and the dude came over and said, strength
no longer going to Heathrow. Everybody get off and get
on the next train. We got off. Next train wasn't
until twenty five minutes from that that was going to

(01:03:14):
uh To to the terminals and Heathrow. And yeah, seems
like a pretty common experience a lot of Like there
was this English couple that was talking to us and
and talking to Munchie and when they heard that, got off,
like very nonchalantly, as we were like, what the fuck

(01:03:38):
this sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
Yeah, it is a queueing culture, for sure. They are
in that same like high social pressure, shame based economy.
It's like you do what the guy on the radio
tells you to do. Yeah, I had the TfL app
and that was great. But to your point, like it
runs like clockwork except when it doesn't, and if it doesn't,
you find out when it stops.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Interesting, So they don't they don't actually have to really
think like it sounds like, well they don't need the
signs because well, yeah, you know, almost instinctually because of
how regular it is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Yeah, and the sign sign. Yeah, the signs are there,
and the signage is good. One thing I'll tell you
about the signs is that I thought that there were
no street signs for the longest time, and then my
wife pointed out that the signs are on the fucking buildings.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Yep, what Yeah, they're all They're all bolted to the
corners of the buildings, on the corners of the streets,
not like freestanding pillars.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
I was like, I guess people are just sort of
like feeling it out, Like I guess everybody's just kind
of like going with the flow and just getting lost
in London, like and then she's like, no, they're they're
up there, Like, oh yeah, this is a pape changer.
I don't owing now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
I feel like city planners in London either have the
best or most heart attack inducing jobs on the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Yeah wild well yeah, especially when you have to retrofit
some ship that has been around for sole law.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
Yeah, you have to figure out how to how to
maneuver in something that has been built already, and it's
a whole different can of worms. Yeah chips, Oh oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
The basement is literally Roman architecture.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Well exactly, there is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
There is a place that's like near London's called Milton
Keynes and the I know about them because there's a
team in League One called the m K Dons or
the Milton king Doms, and that is one of the

(01:05:57):
very few examples of like a contemporary English city because
they like built it after the war as like a
planned community. So it was like this really interesting experiment
in what would an English city be if we built

(01:06:18):
it now, Like what would an English city be if
it was modern? The answer is it's kind of boring
and like my understanding is that locals are like not
it kind of is like the garden cities in the
United States, like Seaside and Florida, or like Green Belt

(01:06:39):
in Maryland. It's kind of like this is like boring
and state and it feels very much like a planned community.
But it's interesting because it's like one of the very
few sort of like modern British cities. Every other city
is like like like the city Bath, which literally has

(01:07:00):
a Roman Bath from.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Bath is gorgeous, Yeah, but it is literally Roman.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
I read a book in Old English about this town.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Yeah, yep, absolutely, oh about Bath.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
It's a yeah Canterbury Tales.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Middle English.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Uh no, Middle English here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Yeah, because I'm unless you're reading Beowulf, it was only.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Trying to read. That's a whole other next time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Next time, awesome. So, uh, one thing that you would
wreck is it the sausage roll? Is it the Jaffa cakem?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Air conditioning?

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
Air conditioning? That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
I saw Sonic three on the plane back, and I thought,
so it's got of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Okay, all right, Apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
A seven hour flight you do end up watching a
lot of ship that you wouldn't watch.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
That.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
That was the other thing too, is like, first of all,
plain food when you go to a different country for
some reason, it's way better than plain food whenever you're
you know, traveling domestically. Oh, speaking of that, because like
you know, all the ice shit that's happening in the US.
When you get off at Heathrow, there's like there are

(01:08:37):
like several lines you go through to go through customs,
and one of them, one of them has the flags
of a bunch of countries, Canada, the United States where
the white people live, and then there's another one that's

(01:08:59):
like if you're from one of these good white countries
with a family, and then there's all other countries. And
so we went down the family one for the US,
presented our US passports and the customs agent couldn't be
fucked just looked at him, looked at us, waved us through.

(01:09:22):
It was crazy. And then on the way back into
the US, we were more intimidated by that dude from
the country we were from, in the state that we've
lived in for three decades, than we were by the
fucking dude in London, just like, well, welcome to Britain.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Wow, that shit was wild. So yeah, I don't recommend ice,
but I do recommend yeah, yeah, all the baked goods
in Britain that I had, the zero waist carrot cake,
the mango and coconut cream cakes, the in Jaffa cakes,
all the biscuits that I had, and then all the
movies that I watched, because whenever you're that high in

(01:10:08):
the air, all of your emotions are just sort of
like not your own, so everything is interesting. I rewatched
Deep Blue Sea and I was like, very seriously considering
why this isn't like a classic film that people love,
And then after I got off the plane, it was like,
oh no, because it's fucking horrible that have a movie sucked.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
Wow, you really were on a trip h.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
Cool, Teddy, you want to wreck something.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
I will wreck. I've been watching a show on Apple
TV plus. It is Murder Bought Diaries, based off of
really great book series by MARKA. Wells. It's one of
those adaptations that actually the interstitials enhance part of the

(01:11:06):
experience makes it differ differs from the from the first book,
but it also allows for more like context and actually
like enhances. So now it's one of those ideas that
you're like, oh, the ada like how to adapt for
the medium versus just raw adaptations. It of course unfortunately

(01:11:31):
makes me retro retroactively way more angry at certain other adaptations,
but it's it's very good. So Murder Bought Diaries.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
This is Star's Gard. Now Alexander Sarsgard is a sullen robot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
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glad you're enjoying it. That's sweet. I will recommend the cat.
My National Park bear season has started. The salmon run
has just begun in the last couple of weeks. The
salmon are apparently like historically large, historically large numbers. The

(01:12:10):
bears are eating good, getting big, and they've got the
explore dot org. National Park Service has you know, great
live cams. So we're way early for fat bear season.
But the bears are already getting fat and it's a
nice thing to have on in the background while you're
you know, working, if you're doing that sort of desk job.
So check them out. That is breeding season. The bears

(01:12:33):
are having all kinds of fun. Yeah, well, we'll check
back in as we get closer to the fat bear contest.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Yeah, we got to keep an eye out on that.
See which one of these big boys or girls wins
the prize the biggest bear in the wilderness. Probably one
too many Java cakes do over this episode. Oh, it's
just as bad it was the other next one.

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