6.1 - The Land of the Free

The blokes are BACK to Make Podcasting Great Again! They're now on other sides of the world, but the chat is still god-awful!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Blokes Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Adam and I'm Greg and we sit down once
a week to shoot the Breeze. We chat about anything
and everything, sports, films, drinking, politics, music, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
So sit back, crack open a beer, and enjoy. Dude,

(00:34):
long time, no card. This is crazy. So good to
see you, my god.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
You too, dude.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Ah, I'm living a dream, mate, living the dream. What
it's It's been a while and a lot has changed.
I checked our last Gype because we used to do
it on We used to video call on Skype and
I think it was December one.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Holy hell, Jesus christ Man. So we're coming up to
coming up to three years.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's mental. This will be the first episode of season six,
Am I right?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, I think you're absolute, Yeah, absolutely right, season six.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's that's fitting because that's like American style English series
they only go to like series two or something.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
But the Office, Yeah, we are well and truly on
the down on the downward spiral. We've run out of
ideas at.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
This point in writers, you know, we're just.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, just guest directors all were everywhere, just we're
just trying to eying can milking as much as you
can out of this.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
We've got pop stars acting they should definitely not be acting.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah yeah, ed Shearan's making a cameo.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
He's like a surfboard is acting. Sold man. But it's
good to be back, dude. I have to say, it's
good to be back, big time, man, big time. It's
so good to see.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So I think we need to we need to fill
the the good listeners in on kind of what's happened
in this little three year hiatus. So since then, we've
both we've both got married, we've both moved, moved homes,
some of a slightly further afield than others. So you've, yeah,

(02:26):
you've moved all the way from Britain to the United
States of America, the good old US of A. I've
moved about ten to fifteen minutes. So where about whereabouts
you're living now? Man, tell the good listeners.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
So yeah, So I guess just after our last podcast,
I think I went to America for a month with
my now wife and had a little mini midlife crisis
and decided to move to a completely different continent. So
we ended up in Tucson, Arizona, all places. So the

(03:08):
wild West, truly the wild West. I can't tell you
how low down the list it was, the places that
we actually wanted to live in. Like on paper, it's
a kind of small town in a freaking desert. It's
it gets incredibly hot, it gets pretty cold when it's nighttime,
Like it's uh yeah, it's like it may might as

(03:30):
well be a different planet from as far as we're concerned,
how different it is. But I think that was kind
of the allure with it really when we first got here. Yeah,
so yeah, we made it here, and I know right
for sure for sure. Listen, like it's like everywhere you
look as different, Like I can't, I could. We could
be here for an hour just talking about it. It's
like there's no freaking squirrels. Instead we have lizards. Like

(03:53):
there's cactus everywhere. It's just insane.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Is that what you're messed from? It's like squirrel so
a little bit. You know, you know they're a bit cute,
you know, you.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Know they're not they're annoying in fright when you when
you're actually around them, but you know it's weird what
you miss, Yeah exactly. But yeah, so we made it here, man,
we made it here.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Fantastic, mate, incredible. I'm sure people can already tell this.
You're on a very strong, stable Wi Fi connection back
in Blighty with just nothing works. Nothing works here, as
you know very well. So yeah, there might be a
few little teething problems. Yes, we'll work it out. We'll

(04:42):
get there, We'll get there. I reckon, we need to
we need to crack a drink. Yes, tell me what
you're drinking. And then I want to hear the top
three things that you miss about Britain. Oh great, Then
I want to hear the top three things that you
love about Tucson.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Right, all right, I love it? Okay, good.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I actually have to lay my microphone down on the
ground in order to grab my drink because of the
insanely Jerry rigged setup I have right now.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I wish I could show you this.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Actually I should have filmed this before, but it's carnage
and this freaking road what is this an MT one
or something? Weighs a freaking ton and I'm already throwing
my back out. So I can't wait to see how
I feel like the end of this. Anyway, two seconds.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Blood tastic, blood tastic. Okay, Well, I'll start, I'll make
sure to drink.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now, I'll crack it right near my I'll crack it
right near the mic so everyone can hear. But yeah,
you go for it. There we go. Okay, so.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm going to go for the best of British, right,
the best British supermarket that there is is Marks and Spencer.
Thatcher's favorite, the Queen's favorite, and now my favorite. Right
We've got a Marks and Spencer around the corner. And
I was in there the other day and I saw
this American pale ale and I bought it thinking about you,
because it's covered in cacti. I don't know where you

(06:02):
can see this, like cacti and succulents, kind of like
a dessert. It's oh God, I'm pouring it everywhere.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jesus h. You can tell we've not done this in
a while. Right there we go. I've got the micro
five job done.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
So American pallel and I've had a few of these
right because they're I initially spotted it because of because
of you, and then I thought, oh it must be
it must be a lot bit cheaper.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's like a kind of supermarket own brand or whatever.
But it's not.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's like full whack. It's like two pounds a tin
or something, but it's fantastic. It's everything you need. It's
that classic American palelele.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Whenever I go to America anyway, first thing I do
is I want checking wings, you know, Buffalo wings and
one of these kind of American palleles. So this is yeah,
this is my new go to Yankee pallele. Basically love it.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh great, dude, yeah mate, mns you're going to be Yeah,
it's dangerous everyone near the house because it's easy to
get to and it's easy to spend your entire paycheck on.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I'd be offended if their if their own branded
stuff was less expensive than like, you know, the premium
brands anywhere else. To be fair, yeah, yeah, like they're
they're living up to the living up to their reputation,
which is.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Good, reassuringly cool. Man. Well I've gone for yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Listen, you know it's like you know, premium stuff, if
it's too cheap, you don't trust it, right, Yeah, So
I'm going for this is my this is my go
to now whenever I'm in a bar around here, and
it's basically, yeah, this will be a theme as we
talk about tuson more and more. But it's not American.

(07:47):
It's from Mexico because we might as well be in
Mexico at this point.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know how long ago America conquered Tucson from Mexico.
But yeah, it's we're very much in conquered land at
this point. It's uh, proper border town. But I'm going
for a medello, right, so everyone knows what medello is.
It's like a Mexican lager. But this is the Medello

(08:15):
negra ordering this bad boy. But yeah, this one's good.
So I've actually said it wrong a couple of times,
and no one's bad an eyelids, so but I thought
i'd get in trouble, but yes, so this one's good.
This one's like it's a really dark, strong lager. Basically

(08:38):
put a lime in it still, which threw me off
at first, but it's actually solid, freezing cold always but
it's I'm getting used to that.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
But yeah, beautiful, dark, rich flavored. I guess I wouldn't.
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's not like an ale, it's it's still largery in
a lot of ways. But it's just a little bit
more flavor in there, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Nice, I think some places call it like dark beer
or black beer or something like that. But yeah, I
know I've never had that particular one before, but yeah,
that sounds amazing.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I think I've had a few.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, it's like rival brands that have done a you know,
a Nagra dark beer, black beer, you know, whatever they
call it, they've.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
All got sure.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
But yeah, you're right man, this as soon as you
start slurring your words, like if you had a few
of those, like, you can get canceled real quick, baby.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Real quick.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
So yeah, as long as we're on the pod, I'll
make sure I can say it right. But yeah, so
it's solid to be fair. Everywhere I go they've got
it as well. So this is the one for me
at the moment.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Anyway. Nice. What's the percentage? Yeah, oh, we're talking. That's
a good question.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
We are going for a four five point four, okay,
so yeah, yeah, that's probably about percent more than Medello Classic,
right I think.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
So, yeah, just a little stronger. Well, like I say,
a bit more flavor to it, but it's not it's
not your London Pride or anything like that. Yeah, it's
not a spitfire, but it's uh, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Fantastic, man, that's great. That's great.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
So that leads that leads me, That probably leads me
pretty well onto my first thing I'm missing. Yeah about
oh Blighty, the Motherland. Warm beer, mate, warm beer does
not exist, at least where I'm living. I think I
was on the If I was on the East coast somewhere,
maybe I'll be all right.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But it just does not.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's just not a thing, which I get because like
during the summer here it gets to like forty five
degrees cent grade, so it's it's insane. But you know,
everything's everything's a seed. So when you're in a bar,
you're not hot. Yeah, And you know, there was there
was one that I was out and I saw a
lady drinking a like a dark ale looked pretty good,

(11:03):
and I asked her what it was and she said
it was called kiltlifter, so Scottish alee nice. And I
was like, hell, yeah, one of those, please barkeep and
my good man. And it came out and it was
freezing cold, and this was literally like a like a spitfire.
Very similar to something you'd expect from like a you know,
a brown ale, but it's freezing. It just wasn't right,

(11:25):
yeah right. You know, if I was smart, I would
have just left it on the bar and waited. But
you know, no one's got time for that exactly.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh yeah, that's that's a real name, because you know
we both love our we both love our English brown ale.
And yeah, if you've not got the for sure, if
you've not got the the hookup for the brown ale,
well maybe that's something I can. I can use my
entire baggage allowance next time I come out and just
break like two suitcases full of spitfire like old speckle.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, you get the misses to carry it and all
I just get her. She's in charge of that one. Yeah,
she can throw her back out.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
All the sniffer dogs are like gathered around a no
brown ale and it okay. You know one thing I
always found find a bit amusing is in America they
always when they have a beer that is as similar
as you might find to an English ale, they always
call it Scottish. It's always kind of a Scottish air

(12:31):
or a Scottish better or something like that. And I'm like,
I always think, I don't know any Scottish. Scotland isn't
famous for US ales, is it. I mean it's got
it's like tenants, you know, good old vitamin Ta and
it's there's a few larger than that, But Scotland's not
famous for US ale.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Is it. No?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't think so either. I think you're absolutely right.
I think there's probably something to do with the heritage aspect.
They've they've probably done some marketing and they found a
lot of guys for America go I'm Scottish, do you know,
like Monarch of the Glen and stuff like that, you know,
and it's like, you know all that stuff. I think
that they're tapping into that, tapping into that. You know

(13:11):
that the classic no American is actually from America. They're
either Italian or Irish or Scottish or something. So there's
probably something there big time. I think you've got the
nail on the head. It's easier for them to.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Market a Scottish beer. Yeah, we've solved at okay number two.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
But yeah that okay number two, we go in. We've
got to go Indian a curry. Yeah, just stinking, disgusting,
beautiful curry. You know, one that's just going to absolutely
destroy your guts, but you just love it every second.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
It just does not exist.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
There's a couple of couple of restaurants around, but I
dared not go in because I've asked people around town
and not a single person and.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Has ever said it's a good idea basically really.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Like I think the last guy I spoke to mentioned
microwave meals, Like the idea is like basically just like
a just yeah, just not good, not good stuff. So
I should try it to be fair. I'll try it
before the next part and I'll come back. Actually that's
that's that'd be my mission. But yeah, I think I
think we're gonna have to wait until I'm back in

(14:25):
the UK for that. So it's not enough Indian people,
that's the problem.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, right, I always think this when I when I
go to America, I'm like, what you what you lack
in Indian expats Indian cuisine you make up for in
Mexican cuisine. It's like the opposite here, isn't it. Like
we have incredible curries in Indian food, but then all
the Mexican are well, no, there's a few places in London,

(14:51):
but like in general across the country, it's like really
poor quality of Mexican food here, so it's kind of
a trade offs.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, yes, I agree, but I think
if I would, well, I don't know what you'd say,
but I think if I was going to pick, i'd
definitely pick Indian over Mexican personally.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
If I could only it's one thing to the end
a time, as.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Good as cool.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
I love a Mexican exactly, yes, exactly, But yeah, I
think you're one hundred right.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I think it's kind of interesting to see that. Like
that was one of the cool changes that.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I saw, is like just the type of people, the
culture around you know, who's actually moving there, who's living here,
and it is kind of yeah, the UK as varied
as America is. The UK is just a complete and
utter mish mash of so many cool cultures and obviously
the food comes with that.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I think the UK's in a good spot.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Honestly, I guess it's a bad rap, but it shouldn't
because it's just there's so much, very variation from you know,
the Old Empire, the Commonwealth King, so.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
So yes, that is what I'm saying. One thing I'm
missing for sure. Nice. Nice, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'm still trying stuff out, but yeah, Mexican is great.
To be fair, that might come on my second list.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, fantastic, fantastic. Okay, so round round it off. What's
number three?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right?

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Number three then is I think people see this coming
from a mile away, but a Sunday roast meat. You know.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I love the fact that you're like your family, your
friends have like that. I forget about those guys brown aile,
I want carry and I want a fucking Sunday roast
on mate.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I don't blame you at all. That goes to that
saying that, that goes with that saying surely, surely. Oh,
I'm probably done. I've exposed myself here.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm gonna I'm gonna be giving your mama ring after this,
and I'm gonna be like, no, I didn't mention you once.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
No, it's not worried, absolutely stitched myself up here.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh god, no, listen, listen, No, that is that is
we'll get back onto the Sunday race. No, the obviously,
that is the big, the big downside, you know. Yeah,
it's amazing that's so funny. But you know it's I

(17:37):
that is obviously the biggest thing I missed in all honesty,
Like you know, it's especially for me because I'm terrible communicating,
I like on text as you are. I'm fully aware,
I'm sure texting, phoning, all that crap. I'm terrible. So
not the great mix moving to And also I couldn't

(17:57):
have moved further away. So in terms of like the
time difference is like eight to seven hours depending on
the time of year, right, So.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that's not ideal. I need to work on that.
But but yeah, no, I miss Sunday roasts more than
you mate, So.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Likewise, well, so what I'm assuming by Sunday roast? You
mean the Dad roast, right, all three mets.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
All the meats, all all of the condiments, you know,
take it out, you know, you know, you and mixing
them up. You know, come on, you don't have to
just have horse radish with beef. You know, you get
some mustard on there, get some sapple sauce, you know,
if you're feeling feeling crazy, Yeah, why loving yourself. So

(18:45):
the closest we've got is prime beef over here whatever
they call it. Prime whatever they do serve that with
the horse Radish, but like the sides are unbecoming. They're
a joke. No, Yorkshire's no roast veg no, I don't know,
but no potatoes of any any sort, no gravy anyway.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, it's just a sad, sad state of affairs. Man.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
No sprouts, oh no, not a singular spro The sprouts
are too fancy. They do sprouts over here, but they're
all they're all just they're trying too hard, you know
what I mean. You know, they've got nuts and they've
got poor chetta with them.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
And yeah, yeah, you know, I came on lots of
lots of shredding going on I imagine with those sprout.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah yeah, and they're not none of them are whole either,
They're all they're all chopped up to an inch of
their life anyway. So yeah, no, they don't know what
they're doing over.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Here with that for sure. And the sad thing is.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
There is there are British pubs, a couple of them around,
but I don't know who runs them. They're not British,
definitely not because their menus are a joke. Oh god,
these things I ordered, I ordered what they order a
Yorkshire pasity and mate, you would have cried.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'm sure of it. I mean, for stop, what's a
Yorkshire pasity?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Oh Jesus Christ, that's me. That's that's to be fair,
that's on me. Cornish pasty. I definitely meant cornish past.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
You've been gone too long, man, you've been gone to
what would the king station has begun?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh Christ, this Cornish pasty came out. It was joke.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I was actually imagining some sort of pasty esque contraption,
but with a Yorkshire pudding around it. Maybe there's a
gap in the market for something like that, so it's
not like traditional short now talking.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, basically just a big Yorkshire pudding full of all
the good stuff. Oh yeah, that sounds buddy good.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Actually no, this was just a sad, sad looking pastry
thing filled with an abomination of mixed ingredients that did
not resemble anything close to a pasty. I don't even
think I had minced meat in it at all. Like
it was just just too much cheese. Cheese, cheese for
God's sake.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, that's the problem. They put cheese on everything over here.
It's insane anyway. So yeah, I'm not upset. It's fine.
I'm having great time. It's great here.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
But but.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But yeah, there's the there is just no British food.
But it makes me want to start like a pub
or something. You know, I could do it right, but
then not clearly. I'm sure that that's people have tried
that before in Americans just don't like it or something.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I don't know, but I mean, yeah, maybe you would.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I bet the thing is, I bet they all start
out with good intentions, someone genuinely from Britain, and then
they do everything the way it should be done, and
people complain that there's no cheese on it, and you
know there's the beers too warm and blah blah blah
blah blah, and then you know they have to kind
of squeeze it into the idea of what America thanks
Britain is perhaps and then they all kind of change

(22:05):
and then it's like English themed.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's not a real poblem.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, I think I think that's one hundred percent. And
I think the problem is we've for some reason, well
I think I know the reason, but they think our
food is terrible over here. Like if you talk to
an American, there's always this people. I have never been
to the UK still a step foot on those beautiful shorts.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I have no idea. They just assumed that our food
is terrible. I think it's just I think it's a.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Something from World War two or something that they've it's
just been passed down generation the generation.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, right, which is not fair.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
To be fair, like we've been rationed for like five
years or something by the time they came over.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Sometimes like yeah, I don't I don't think they quite
realize how, you know, how poor everyone was and how
crap it was in Britain during the war and just
after the war and you know, into the eighties basically
into the early nineties. Probably if what my dad says
is anything to go by, it says it's you know,

(23:08):
it really was bland and rubbish and cold, and everyone
had bad teeth.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
And you know, all the stereotypes whatever.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
But like, yeah, within the last twenty years within our
you know, our kind of memorable lifetimes, like it's yeah,
we've nowed it.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, I agree on one hundred percent with you.
You know.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, you can't. You can't judge a
country after they've literally been like scrounging like an ounce
of butter. Yeah, every week, you know, spreading that between
a family of eight, Like, you know, halfway through their
Sunday lunch they have to run into a freaking shelter
because there's like bombs being dropped on the house. It's like,

(23:49):
you know, yeah, the cuisine's not going to be quite
you know, it's not going to be quite up to scratch.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, you know what I love about rationing is the
fact that they somehow always managed to find a slot
for fags and chocolate.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I love it, I know. Yeah, it's that the soldiers
just wouldn't fight unless they got there, Like they're like
one bar of of Cadbury's dairy milk. You know, we're
just not We're not going over the over the trenches
without our dairy milk.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Mate, is go on?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
If I don't get plenty twenty players navy cut, I'm
not fighting.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh man, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
So.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
There's a great quote about Americans when they came over.
It might have been Churchill or it was someone someone
in the army about how they were overfed and over
sexed and something along those lines.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
It was great. The exact quote was, but it was, Yeah,
it's it was.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was a tough time for us. Like just all
these young guys coming over. They've been living the living
their best life. They have no idea what they're about
to step foot into, and they've.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Got all the food they want, and you know, just yeah,
it's it's like when you you go down and get
down the pub and there's the one mate that you've got,
this like a bit rich or the one that went
to public school or something, and he steps foot in
the in the red lion, and you just feel this
like tension. It's like he doesn't know what's about to

(25:20):
hit him, Like he can't play fool, he doesn't know
how to work with jukebox, you.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Know, he's all this sort of stuff. It's like, yeah,
we're all mates, but it's like he's got a few
things to learn. He'll get there.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you can. That's a that's
a really that's probably a good topic to talk about. Actually,
you can tell a lot about someone how they throw
a dart. I feel like, yes, i feel like I've
seen people throw darts and I've lost so much respect for.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Him, you know what I mean, Like just just oh no,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, it's like you've never watched You've never watched like
a professional darts match, darts match at all. Like you know,
you don't have to be good, but just at least,
you know, line up, you put you on shoulder in
front of the other, you look down the look down
the barrel that you know, you don't just throw it
willy nilly, just like over the shoulder, just like like
you're throwing a freaking baseball.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's the same with Paul and everything, really exactly. Yeah,
it's the same sort of thing. It just shows that
they haven't spent enough time in pubs as a kid,
you know, kids slash teenager. You know, I think that's
part of the British rite of passage, isn't it. Yeah, absolutely, Okay,
So give us your your top three things of things
that you're really enjoying out there, things that have surprised

(26:35):
you or you know, things that just really stand out
to you that are better than ever here.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Sure, man.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
So the level of friendliness that you encounter on a
daily basis, Man, everyone is so cool, Yeah, genuinely nice, wanting.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
To help you out. Again.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
One of the reasons why we stayed here. When I
got here, I was on my own. The missus was
still at home. I was getting out of green card.
I wanted to I wanted to lot the green card
in just depending on the old election results. I didn't
don't want to leave anything up to chance for that.
But which seems like it was a good idea.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Mate, you're gonna get thrown over the wall where you
came from.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I'm not from Mexico. I don't care man back over
the wall.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
God, I would I would pay money to see try
and survive in Warez for a day.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
That would be that would be interesting to see. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
So when I came on my own, I was going
to like jam nights and stuff, trying to meet some people.
And literally within a week I booked a gig just
because this guy I met her a jam knight, was
just like seriously going out of his way to try
and get me involved and get me gigs, which I'm
sure as you are, as you know in the UK,
is just it's that's a rare, you know, unless you're

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like really good mates with someone, Like, no one's taking
a chance on a random guy they meet in a jam,
especially like if you go to one of those London
jams whatever, like disgusting.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Dude, dude, it's just brute.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
It's just unless you've already, unless you already turn up
with a good gig, like no one wants to talk
to you or those things anyway.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
It was just a very eye opinion and awesome. But
that just that's obviously not just in music. It was
in everything. So I'm not sick of that. I know
a lot of English people sort of bemoan the Americans
sort of very in your face, very positive attitude. But
it's it's I love it. It's great.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, It's uplifting, isn't it. Yeah, So did you have
to do? You have to tip this guy when he
when he got your gig on top?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Maybe I was supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
I don't know, he's probably he's probably still expecting expecting
a little money transfer any moment now, I.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Don't know, not a mere twenty five percent tip.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, I should have put tips
on that, on that, on that first list. That tipping
man is a joke.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
You can walk into a Starbucks and you know my
order is just I don't order an espresso. They don't
even need to pull a freaking shot of coffee for me.
They literally just pour it out of a jug they
made like three hours earlier. Yeah, and they and they
turned the thing around to me and like twenty percent tip,
you know. And when I first got here, it was
like awkward. Now though, no shame at all, just you

(29:32):
have to scroll like through three pages to find the
no tip thing before you say, and I'm just looking
at them right in the eye, no tip. But yeah,
so that is a bit of an awkward thing, like
figuring out what you should supposed to do when you're
supposed to do it, especially when like again anyway, yeah,
talk by this for ages, but like it does look

(29:56):
cool as well, Like we need to go to a
hotel and some kid like grabs your luggage, takes you
to your room, you like slide some money in, but
like how much do you give someone like that?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
I don't know. Anyway, it's a nightmare. It's what do
they expect, you know?

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I mean, I uh yeah, go to a few few
places like that where there's just you know, bell what
they call the bell hops, bell boys whatever, just like
they're on your like locusts just like take taking everything,
like before you even have chance, they've like whisked it
away out of the taxi and all this sort of thing.
And then it's like, oh God, and you can't exactly say,

(30:29):
I'm a cheap scake. Can you give me my suitcase bag?
Like you've got to you know they've got it then
and then you look through your wallet and it's like, oh,
I've got twenty. It's like, oh my god, like you know,
a couple of dollars or a five of Max, Like
now I've got to give him this twenty.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
I'm like, oh Jesus just opening the door. Yeah, I
could have done all of this myself. One.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, there's there's something about that.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's just it's just it's the desperate of it is
that they have to they have to pounce, they have
to be doing things, and they know they're not helping you. Yeah,
you know they're not helping you. It's this weird, like
unwritten just like yeah, I don't know, I just don't
get it. So anyway, that's that's definitely not ideal. But

(31:17):
but this guy didn't ask for a tip, so he
was cool. And yeah, so definitely the people here, man,
they're just they're looking out for you everyone else and
they're really cool.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
So oh brilliant that is. That is refreshing.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Nice. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Other thing I would say is the heat, dude, I
love it. Yeah, weather in general is just it's insane here. Man,
it's getting colder now. Like I'm it's going to be
interesting to see what it's like over winter for Christmas
and that. But it's getting cold. I was kind of
worried like Christmas with heat load of heat would feel weird.
But it's it's still cold enough at night and in

(31:57):
the morning that it feels like it's winter, right, so
it doesn't feel crazy. But like every every day is
like blue sky, sunshining. I'm in a place where I'm
surrounded by mountains, so like the views are always like insane,
the sunsets and stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Not that I care about that because but number two
sunsets great, you know, but yeah, so that's insane the weather.
I can take this.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
This is I didn't realize how much the weather weather
affected me, my mood and stuff like that until I
came to a place where it's just sunny every day. Yeah,
and you just you wake up earlier, you feel more awake,
You're you know, you just want to be doing stuff,
whereas in the UK, you know, it's as you I'm
sure everyone you're aware and everyone listening is aware.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
It's like, you know, you don't feel like that a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's interesting. I'm just going to go kill myself.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, you're right, isn't it? Like you want to exercise,
you want to go to the gym, you want to
you know, go out for a run or like play
football or whatever. It's like, yeah, and there's just so
many more hours in the day when there's when you're
in a place when it's you know, blue scar like
that's great, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
But you did a Christmas in Australia, right, I've done it.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, I've done a couple actually, yeah, a couple of
Christmas and then one in South America as well, so
that was that was sunny as well.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
And it's so what do you think, how did that?
Did that affect it for you at all? Do you care?
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
I didn't care about the fact that it wasn't kind
of like snowy and cozy and any now, because you know,
it's not it's not worth it, is it rather, I'd
rather have the sun, the pinacle arders, you know, the
beach whatever.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, it's it's much better.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
And yeah I would if I could flick a switch
and make Britain like, yeah, twenty degrees hotter. Maybe it's
not even maybe it's not even the heat. I think
it's the sunlight, isn't it. It's the daylight, because yeah,
I would play golf for this lad last week and
he's he's from South Africa, but he he went to

(34:20):
UNI in Pennsylvania. He was saying, and he's like, it's
it's fine because even though it gets down to like
minus twenty or whatever, some crazy cold temperatures, they've still
got a full day's worth of sunlight. And it's not
like rain rainy and drizzly and gray, and it's like,
you know, you've got your big cand of the goose

(34:41):
jacket on and aside from that, you're like you still
live in the dream, you know.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, that's true. I think it is the sun.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I think it's just the blue sky having UV rays
coming in, just just there's something there. But who knows,
you know, if you know we've got trumpet now, he's
going to be opening up all the oil fields, so like,
give it, give it a few decades, you might Britain
might be as hot as as Tooston.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Who knows exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just we're just
playing a long game. We don't mind fels. We just
want we just want nice mild winters.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah. Man, it's it's kind of it's kind of funny.
So so no joke.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
So the climate here is kind of kind of tropical
in a way because it has held monsoon season.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
So other than monsoons, which are just like obviously like
crazy amounts of rain, big thunderstorms for like an hour
and then they disappear, We've had one day of drizzle
since I've moved here, so about it in about since April,
we've had one day where it's just kind of wet
and rainy all day, which is like insane.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
And the funny thing was it was the same day
the Highland Games were happening. There was a Highland Games
happening here, of course, so obviously me and the missus
went there. I've got a Scottish so weren't there to
see what's going on. And it is so hilarious, like
Americans like playing Scottish it's kind of not to be
condescending or anything, but I guess I am being very condescending.

(36:11):
But it was, you know, it's kind of everything was
kind of right but also wrong, you know, so like
the tossing the caber and stuff. But then they were
doing the Hagis toss, which is in Scotland traditionally they
throw like a kettle bell thing over their head and
they try and throw it over a higher and higher
like that the stick they have to throw it gets

(36:32):
high and higher. Right here, they were doing like a
bale of hay with like a pitchfork, like a proper
like hillbilly version of it basically, which is kind of
fun to see. But it was just it was so
surreal because it was kind of cold, there was it
was rainy, it was gray. Everyone was wearing kilts. There
were like Scottish stuff everywhere, because it literally felt like

(36:54):
we were back in like like a little sort of
middle border town in Scotland and you know where we've
been to Highland games before.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know, there were bagpipes playing. It was great. It
was really cool. It was very nostalgic. But what is
there A yeah, but that's.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
A Scottish community there or like why because I mean,
we don't even see Highland game stuff down here in England.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
So yeah, so well I think two songs. A weird,
weird place.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
It's it's like it's a kind of a big city
but it's the second largest so it's a lot smaller
than Phoenix. But it seems like all of the events
that happened in a sort of Arizona are happening here.
They don't really happen in Phoenix. So like a lot
of cultural things happen here. So for example, we've got
like the biggest Day of the Dead event. Oh nice,
So there was a like one hundred and fifty thousand

(37:43):
people just turn up to this big parade that goes
through town. That was the same day actually the rainy day,
so that was kind of sad for them. But they've
got Highland games they do here. They have like massive conventions,
Like it's a it's a really cool spot that every
every weekend me now it's like festival season there's something
going on, which is kind of fun. So yeah, I

(38:07):
don't know whether that's just part of the course for
most cities around here, but it apparently not. Apparently this
seems to be for some reason, Tucson seems to be.
I guess it's probably cheap to hire the event space,
but there's also enough people to make it worthwhile or
something along those lines. I don't know, but right, so
I'm lucky with that. But yeah, no, so there were
tons that all the clans had a different tent. So
we went into the the clan that my wife's family

(38:30):
is from, and they were very cute, give us like
a lineage and stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Signed her up.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
So she's now part of a newsletter. So she'll she'll
hear about all the I don't know, whatever they do.
I guess she'll be unsubscribing uick so quick, man, She
does not care at all, Vinity. She grew up hating
the Highland Games. She couldn't she couldn't stand it. But
so yeah, but that just to say, that was basically
the only drizzly day we've had, which is kind of cool.

(38:58):
So the weather here is another level And like people
complain about the heat, but I love it. I guess
the novelty all where off eventually, but right now, just
I want to just sit in it and just freaking burn.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, right, make the most of it, man, it's great,
excellent man. Yeah, is it time for a second drink?
I think he might be, you know, awesome, let's do it,
so drink number two. I'm along the same sort of lines,
hazy pale ale. But this is an English one. This

(39:31):
is from North Brewery, which is from Leeds. It's a
bit stronger, it's a five percent and it's called spot Neeck.
I don't know why they've called it that, but I
think Spotanik was the like Russian space spacecraft, right that
they sent up?

Speaker 4 (39:50):
It was.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
I think it's satellite, the first. Isn't it the first
satellite that makes sense that was ever sent up or.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, maybe it was the one with a dog in
I don't know. Oh, y, yeah, what was the name?
The dog had a name as well, wasn't hey, Yeah,
poor bugger. He wasn't landing back down like Elon Musk's thing.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Right, Oh mate, No, no, no, yeah, he's still He's
still out there somewhere.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Sorry, that's not a joke, that's true.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I heard the other day that the Japanese have sent
a rocket up made entirely out of wood, or at
least the body of the rocket, the casing isn't tied
it up wood.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
I'm sure it's got like instruments inside and.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Stuff, but they also haven't used any sort of screws
or rivets or anything. It's all in this sort of
traditional Japanese craftsmanship style where it's kind of like threads
together like a chair or something like that. And I
think they've despite it being a little bit of a gimmick,
like they've you know, showcasing their methods and their craftsmanship

(40:57):
and all that sort of thing, it actually works and
it actually went up there and it you know, it's
collecting data and blah blah blah. And I think it's
basically just like a disposable rocket because you know, when
it comes back down or when it does what it does,
it all just kind of you know, bio degrade essentially.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah, okay, yeah, pretty much how Japan That's that is
pretty cool. Yeah, I just yeah, that is cool. I
think my media, my media erections, and that was why
classic just listen. We know you're good at doing those
cool little mounts with wood and stuff like that. Yeah,

(41:35):
you're very traditional and stuff, but like yeah, nah, just
metal and fuel and just destroy the environment.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
If you're going to do it.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Well, I mean, the thing is in space. I know,
I know, it's still an environment of sorts. It's like
a trillion trillion trillion times bigger than Earth. So it's
not like you're really gonna, you know, ruin anything.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
It's not because it's not.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
It's infinite pretty much, isn't it. Like, Yeah, no one's
ever going to see that rocket ever again, just like
no one's ever going.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
To see that Russian dog again. Oh God, why did
they pick a dog?

Speaker 2 (42:15):
They could have done any animal Man's best friend baby, Yeah, exactly.
That makes it sadder. You put a couple of rats
on there. They should have picked the worst ones. Yeah, yeah,
like a really really cruel version of what's his name?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Noah?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
In the arc? Just one.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Cock crow, you know what, that's actually interesting. But put
two of everything on there, you know, just let them
let them produce anyway. That's getting it's getting sick now.
But make a little little colony of space rats. Okay,
So I'm going for I'm going for a whiskey. I'm

(42:57):
excited to talk about this one because this is the
local distillery in Tucson called Delback. And the reason I'm
excited about this is they produce it like Scotch. So
some of my favorite American whiskies weren't actually Bourbons. They're
single malts that are made at Bourbon distilleries. So for

(43:20):
people we can't don't remember, a single malt means they're
just using malted barley.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
They aren't allowed to use anything else, so.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Which is how Scotch is made, whereas Bourbon has got corn,
barley and brye in it anyway, So this is just
a single malt. It's del back, it's called dorado, and
it's smoked, so it's like peted Scotch, but they smoke
it with missquit wood. So it's just kind of a unique, different,
amazing thing. Yeah, so it's very unique and cool.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
So again it's kind of like Americans doing that. They're
doing the British thing or the Scottish thing, you know, they're.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
They're doing that.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I wouldn't be surprised. I haven't looked into it. I
wouldn't be surprised if a Scottish guy, uh founded it,
or if they maybe they trained with in Scotland or
something before they made it.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
And it's good.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
It's not super super smoky, but it's like a good
mix sort of harding Park esque.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
That's right. Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's really good. It's yeah,
is it?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Do you when you taste it, do you consider it
like a different a different thing altogether or are you
like it's all it's almost like smoky Scotch, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Basically what I'm saying is how close have they got?

Speaker 2 (44:46):
So it's it's definitely not Scotch like Scotch is definitely
the king as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't have
as much of that sort of if you've ever been
to a distillery and they really taste the sort of
a new brand new maid like Scotch, like the new
makes stuff they call it. It has that sort of
multi taste to it, almost like bready kind of taste.

(45:08):
It loses that a little bit and it's kind of okay,
it's super woody because they put it in they still
age it I think in like brand new barrels, oh yeah,
which Scotch doesn't do. So it's very woody kind of
it's got that astringent kind of attack to it that
you get in bourbon. But it's it's definitely got the
smoky character that you would get from something like Hydeland

(45:30):
Park or like one of those middle sort of half
smoky half non smoky scotches. Yeah, yeah, it's for me.
It's a perfect mix of bourbon and Scotch. It's a
nice it's a nice balance. I feel like bourbon sometimes
misses the mark for me a lot of the time.
So this, this definitely is my go to and I

(45:52):
would recommend if anyone wants to try it in the UK.
I know you can get the Woodford Reserve single molt.
You can find that sometimes the shops. So if you
see that, take it because it's so good. It's way
better than would have reserved bourbon in my opinion, So
you can sort of get an idea of what I'm
talking about if you if you try.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
That amazing maybe yeah, maybe I get a bottle of
that soon and I can Yeah, I can give.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
You my thoughts on it.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Do it, man, Yeah, it's worth it. I think it's
it's they're really good. They're really good. But yeah, I
haven't really dipped my toe into the bourbon. Well if
that's some mixing up metaphors there, but I haven't haven't
done that. I haven't gone deep into it yet. But
that's that's the plan for sure, is to get to
get myself more acquainted with it over here, because Scotch
is just like incredibly expensive, Like even stuff we can

(46:37):
get cheap over the UK, it is like super expensive
over here.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Right, So I'm gonna be a bourbon drinker for a
little while, I think.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Right, And.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
If Trump rumors are to be believed, there's going to
be big tariffs on it as well, right, so it's
going to go up even more.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Is that what would happen? I think?

Speaker 2 (46:57):
So? Yeah, I imagine, I know, I feel like he's
just going to pick and choose things he doesn't like
and just smack massive tariffs on him.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Probably don't know how Scotland exactly. That's kind of what
I'm hoping. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
It's kind of interesting because he's raised a really cool
like uh well cool to me, but this might be
most the most boring topic ever. But he's raised his
economic question. Right. We just assume that income tax now
is the sort of go to way that governments earn
money is by taxing the citizens from their income. But

(47:33):
he wants to actually replace income tax with tariffs.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Oh wow, holy hell, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
So yeah, so his his plan is, I mean, and
who knows. He's obviously not in office yet, and we
don't know. People say a lot of stuff before they
get into office. But if if his plan is to
be believed, he's going to reduce federal income tax to
zero or very near zero and earn all of that
money back through tariffing products coming into the country from

(48:03):
outside of the US.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
So not only am I paying an absolute ton of
tax here in Britain, essentially I'm going to be paying
your tax as well? Right?

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Is that how it works? That's well, yeah, it's on paper,
it sounds like that.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Well I think how it's probably going to work is
prices of things will go up here too, Yeah, but
it will go up less than what you're paying on
your income tax in theory, So in theory, I'll have
more money in my pocket.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Well yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
I mean, it's, like I say, it's a real massive
shift in terms of like economic policy from for a
long time. But it's definitely it's an interesting way of
going about it. Yeah, And he put loads of tariffs
up on stuff before in his last term, and Biden
kept them all so right, they're obviously they were obviously

(49:06):
working and earning a decent amount of money. So we'll see,
we'll see how that goes. But yeah, interesting. Can we
talk about the big Man? You can talk about him
crossing cab.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I mean, he's he's he's soon to be Emperor, captain,
President of the Free World.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yeah, I know, dude, I feel like I feel like
his his appointment brought this podcast back to life.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
You feel like.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
So many things we have to thank him for the
most important of which the Blokes podcast.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
So yeah, when you when you listen to this, guys,
I wanted to raise a glass to Donald T because
he's big d because he's uh, he's.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Back and a man. I can't be happier about it, dude,
I could not be happier about it this.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I mean, yeah, it's it's great. I mean obviously you're in,
you're in the kind of not I at the storm,
but like you're right there on the feet on the ground,
right and correct me if I'm wrong with Arizona. Last
time twenty twenty they went Democrat?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Is that right? They did? Yes? So so you've you've
won it.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Back basically, maybe it was just by you. It was
the one vote that went that went the right way.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I was.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I was canvassing and then like this, this British guy
knows what he's talking about. Maybe maybe we should change
change the way. No, honestly, I just keep my head
down this entire time in or honestly, like I wasn't
sure looking around. To be honest, my entire family over
here are very much Democrat, So whenever the topic came up,

(50:52):
I would say what I thought, but in a roundabout terms,
you know, I didn't I didn't want to rock the boat.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Like I'm fresh off the boat as well.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I wasn't even sure if I was going to vote
this time because I was kind of up and up
in I didn't know if it felt kind of wrong
in a way because I haven't lived here for a
very long time.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
But but you're going to You're going to be living
there throughout the outcome of that presidency at least, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
So yeah, so that's I kind of convinced myself to
go for it. I was.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I was in.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
America immediately prior to the election.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
In fact, I left California on election day, and I
don't know what I thought I was, you know, I
don't know what I was expecting, but when I got there,
it was almost nothing. I think by that point, everyone's
made their mind up. You know, all the promises have
been said, all the crazy things have been said, you know,

(51:45):
all the assassination attempts have occurred. By this point, it's
like it's, you know, there's nothing, there's nothing left to do, right,
So it was it was actually really chilled, and I
didn't really hear anything about it, to be honest, Like
if you didn't, you know, if I wasn't walking past
the news channels in the airport or something, you know,
I wouldn't know that there was an action going on.

(52:05):
Aside from there was this one I'm assuming guy I
didn't actually see the driver, but there was this one
guy driving a pickup down rodeo drive like but in
the middle of two lanes, so he was like blocking
the traffic, and he was going at about ten miles
an hour, just like cruising. Everyone was honking.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Him and stuff. But he had like the full you know, freedom.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Banners, Trump make America Great, blah blah blah, like all
the works, like the flags and the stickers and the
and he had a bullhorn as well, and he was like,
you know, vote tomorrow for your freedom, like make it
count everybody, all this kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
But that was the only that was the only thing.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
But it was just so funny because it was just
like so just so American, like regardless of which side
he was on, Like, that's the sort of thing you
wouldn't ever ever see a Britain. You just see it
like a very gray man in a suit, like with
a little rosette, like knocking on doors like that about
about as crazy as it gets, you.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Know, just like halfheartedly like hanging out flyers outside of
the local like Chazza.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Yeah exactly. It's just like just in.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
A dying like shopping center that about five people go
to every day. But like yeah, one hundred percent, one
hundred percent. God, that's the most obnoxious way of trying
to advocate for a person there isn't it?

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Just like blocking everyone on the road. Yeah. I can't
think of a better way to turn people off from
voting who you want them to vote for than doing
that in honestly.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Yeah, by being a bit of a knob when other
people are trying. Well, it was Rodeo drives, so like
those people need a bit of a kick up the
arse anyway, So you know, I'm not too worried about them.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Yeah that's fair enough.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yeah, No, it was pretty chilled here apart from I
mean it was incessant in terms of like like TV adverts,
signs everywhere, because because we're in a swing state, I
think it was like a lot of the money that
they were dropping for advertising was in these swing states,
so Arizona was a big one. They want to get,
wanted to flip, so we got the brunt of it,

(54:04):
mostly Kamala stuff, to be honest, but so I hated it,
every single one of them.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Obviously they were just complete joke adverts. But yeah, no,
it was.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
It happened, And I think the saving grace of this
election was how how not close it was. You know,
if it was a close rock call, I think we'd
be seeing a lot more protests, a lot of like
sort of more anger and stuff. But because it was
such a landslide for Trump, we're not seeing that. So

(54:34):
I'm super happy about that. But like, yeah, huge win,
huge win for the big man. He's got everything he's
got probably he's got the Senate, he's got that, he's
got the house most likely he's got he's started picking
people for his like cabinet. Effectively, it's not called the
cabinet over here. I forget what was called, but the
AI as exactly. And I'm sure if you guys go

(54:59):
back enough podcasts to Tulsi Gabbard, I was talking about
a woman called Tulsi Gabbard.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Yeah, she's the one man.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
So.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
She used to be a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
She ran in twenty twenty to go against Trump and
destroyed Kamala Harris's run to become the nominee for the Democrats.
And now she's turned Republican and now she's going to
be I think Director of Intelligence or something.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Yeah, dude, I'm so happy about it. Like she's basically
going to be the American version of m from James Bond.
Yes she is, Yeah she is.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
But she looks a lot better than Judy Dench. Yes,
she's the one.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
For sure. I like her a lot in many ways
or professional, of course, in many ways. There are so
many ways I like that woman.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Oh God, the best thing about her, I think, well,
not not the best thing, but that's pretty shallow. But
I think one of the cool things about her is
that storm esque like strand of white hair that she's
got like straight down the middle of her hair.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Absolutely incredible. Yeah, it's just like it's like she just
had that put in for a film or something. It
looks too cool.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
God, I know, I hope, I hope it's natural, Like
I guess it is, but I don't know if it is.
But like, yeah, she looks cook sick man.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
She was.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
There was a video of her recently she's like doing
like shooting target practice and like doing all these like
army drills.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
That was like going everywhere on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
And yeah, she's very cool anyway, So I'm hoping they're
learning her up to become Republican nominee after Trump. Yeah,
maybe not in the next next election, but a couple
of elections down the line, because she's she's so she's
like I couldn't align with her more like if she
was a Democratic Republican, i'd probab vote for her. She's
very cool, great ideas on certain things, and obviously she's

(56:57):
military background so that's mainly what she talks about.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
But yeahs cool man.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
So anyway, he's he's picking the Avengers and like I say,
we've got a good four years coming up, I think,
but we'll see.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Yeah, it's going to be well, whatever happens, it's going
to be very interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (57:14):
And very funny.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
I think the real winner here is the meme community online.
They've they've got the world at their feet now for
the next four years. It's going to be some absolute gold.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
I miss I missed laughing at the news, mate, I
miss laughing at the news, just just seeing a random
thing of Trump or a clip of Trump just saying
the first thing that clearly the first thing that comes
to his head.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating
all the pets.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Oh my god, just just the coat.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I remember the big one was the COVID one where
he's just got this like health advisor, just like.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
He's just asking him questions on the things like that.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
They've obviously got like very set things that they're going
to say, and he's asking him questions about like bleach
and things, and maybe we can think about putting the
sun inside. We'll we'll look into that and this like
this guy's like what the hell, but he can't say anything.
He's not on the mic, so he just has to
like keep a straight face and trub is just spewing
whatever the hell is coming out of his head.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
But ah, god, I love it so much. That's a
real it was actually a great video. It's right, you go,
you go.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
No, I was just going to say, there's a great
video of him. How he does his tweets or his
exites or whatever you call him. Like he's just in
a room surrounded by like people, and he'll just say something.
He'll just like say, like, you know, Kamala Harris, ugliest
person I've ever run against, And they're like, ugly is
the cool?

Speaker 1 (58:45):
And then he's like looking at every and like send it.
And then.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Someone else will come up to him and give him
an advice. He'd be like, yeah, I like that good,
put it, post it. And it's just like just it's
just amazing. He's just chilling out. He's got like a
diet coke and he's just chilling in the room filled
with people.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Just ah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
It's stupid in so many ways, but at the same time,
it's just like at least he's at least it's someone
that's saying.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Actually what they think, you know, is kind of nice
to yeah, kind of refreshing, is that that thing that
you you were just mentioning, there is that? Is that real?
Is that real footage that you've seen? Is that real footage? Amazing?
Because that could equally just be someone's meme joke, couldn't it, Like.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
No, no, no, yeah, no, no, this is it? This
is like this is I think it was the day
or so before the vote or something like that. He's
just looked so relaxed. He's just chilled, and he's just
he's just like okaying tweets and just coming up with
tweets and he's like people are dictating what he's saying
and then sending and no one questions it.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Well, listen, who knows this obviously could be it could
have been a stage thing, but judging by what he
actually puts up that there, I think I can believe it.
You know, Yeah, no one questions a single word that
comes out of his mouth that he just that's what
he wants to say. He checks this spelling, They check
the spelling, and then they send it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
You know, sometimes I don't spelling. Yeah, oh god, that
was so good. Just absolutely double down and that's what
you meant. People who know what means love it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Love it. Oh man, this is kind of come full
circle because the very start of podcast series one, I
think that kind of that COVID Bleach interview had just happened.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
I think the time we start it was it was
just done.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
I think it could be you know, yeah, wow, Yeah,
that it makes total sense. Yeah, because we were we
were in the grips of lockdown, weren't we when we
started this thing?

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Big time, Yeah, big time come out the other side.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
We have very different, very different situations coming out of
that thing. But oh man, wow, it's kind of weird
to think how how that was and how that went down.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Yeah, it's I feel like I've mentally like blocked it
out a little bit, like how crazy that was?

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Yeah? Same, It's like it was sort of very minor
shell shark, isn't it. It's like, you know, so much
like turbulous rubbish stuff. I mean, obviously I few, you know,
good good bets came out of it, but like in general,
it was you know, pretty negative.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Yeah, I think No, I think you're right. I don't
think it's a hyper bowl when I say this, I
think we know exactly how the men who stormed the
beaches of Normandy feel now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Yeah, exactly exactly. We know the exact we know the
exact feeling. Yeah, there should be a war with our
name on it somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
That's completely a joke. We don't, we don't agree with that,
but but yeah, but yeah, that's I mean, yeah, I
mean it's hard an't because like, you know, we're never
going to know what that feels like, well touch, but yeah,
there there's you know, there's the occasional time when I'm

(01:02:13):
in the shower and just you know, a memory from
that time pops up and I'm just like, oh god,
just like I want to forget about that as quickly
as possible and just get on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
With life and just get out of that nyma.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Yeah god, yeah, just just an annoymare about queuing up
to get into a Sainsbury's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Just like just yeah, God, oh mate.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
There's going to there's going to be an incredible sitcom
I'm sure, or comedy film made about about lockdown, particularly
particularly British lockdown. I think that would just be so
so funny about the amount of absolute lunacy that occurred
from almost everyone about you know, at that time, like

(01:02:59):
you could, you know, I think once people have like
like the dust settle long enough, someone's going to write
a really really good comedy about it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Sure, maybe the in Betweeners, the guys who did in
between Us, I feel like they could probably capture that. Definitely,
those are one hundred percent like just just I feel
like they managed to encapsulate.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Our our youth.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Yeah, so if we could, if we could get them
to maybe have a go at COVID and how COVID went,
that would have been kind of funny. But yeah, I
don't know. I feel like we need it as a
as a for our psyche. We need to somehow break
it down or something.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
I don't know. It is crazy. It's like a it's
like a black hole in my in my brain. Honestly. Yeah,
just the more you think about it, the more crazy
it is. It seems like it's just yeah it may
well may I know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
I know we're getting near the end of the pod.
I know we're getting in in the pod, but I
did I need to ask. I need to ask unless
you want to save it for the next, next, next podcast,
but I want to ask you about that your move,
because I feel like it's this has been like all about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Me, your situation is far more interesting. Yeah, I don't
know about that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I mean, yeah, I got a new house now, so
move moved out of a flat into a house more
space and coming to you now live from the new
recording studio in the garden. So this is going to
get the whole production value of this Shenanigan is going
to get really high, really really soon.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
So only only one side of it though, is like
your audio is going to be crisp and clear and
just like perfect, and then you've got my absolutely Jerry
Reid set up coming through.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
But well, yeah, aside from a new recording studio, which
maybe down the line will will revitalize the Instagram and
that sort of thing, and we might even get cameras
involved and I don't know who knows, but yeah, that'll
come in handy then. But yeah, the main other thing
that's really awesome is we've just put a log burner

(01:05:09):
into the house.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Now, this is the most boring middle class thing, but
in winter this is the best thing. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Every single night we've got a fire goes. It just
feels like I'm in the pub every night, Just got
a drink, just got a glass of wine. There something
log on the fire and oh mate, it's mental. I mean,
it would be completely useless for you because it's you
do not need one where you are. But yeah, man,
that's a kind of big treat to ourselves this year.

(01:05:37):
Like that was not the first thing, but one of
the first things we did is put this fire in
and it's yeah, completely changed the house. And it really
makes you like think, like, you know, because back in
the day, people used to have fires in almost every room, right,
you know, they used to have them up in their
bedrooms and all this sort of thing, and that was
like the main way of heating a house. And I
feel like we've you know, we've kind of lost a

(01:06:00):
bit of that joy because it's you know, even the
bloke that was putting the fire and he was like,
you know, it's a real boy's toy. Like the blokes
always love like making the fire and like stoking it
and keeping it going and all this sort of thing.
It's like going out getting the wood, chopping the wood,
blah blah blah. And yeah, he couldn't be more right.
It's it's a it's a real sort of not lost art.

(01:06:21):
But yeah, they're just that good.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Oh mate, I love it, so I am jealous. That
is that is one of the best things ever. Like
making like having a fire in your house is like
just number one for me. Like it's one of the
coolest things to have.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
It makes a big difference just sitting around, like you say,
a glass of wine or drinking hand just chilling, maybe
listening to some music, talking.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Just I don't know what it is about fire.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
There's something primal there, There's something in us, there's a
caveman inside us that that just freaking yearns for.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
It, you know, reminds us of the you know, around
being around a log fire, being around a have fire.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Yeah, it is one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
It is that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
And I think it's kind of funny because I feel
like there is like a hierarchy, Like the guy if
there's a group of guys and there's one fireplace, like
everyone's vying to be the one that you're making it.
You know, it's like they feel like they take ownership
of it one hundred percent, just like a barbecue. You know,
there's something there. Ah, man, that's awesome, dude. I'm so

(01:07:27):
happy for you. Man, that's really cool. You're naming it
and yeahro too, Yeah, I can't wait to see it
in person.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Maybe we'll Yeah, we'll do some a little bit of
footage or a little quick recording or something when you're
over next year.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Great idea, nice man. I had.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
I had, you know, a little pub quiz set up
for you, but it was actually the it was the
US citizenship test.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Uh oh God. If you're going to leave US.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
And you're going to go over there and you're going
to live the dream, like you know, first, if you
don't pass the test, I'm ringing Big Don and I'm
going to tell him he's going to throw you over
the wall. But yeah, I tried to do it, and
just the website was just absolutely shocking. So what I'm
going to do is we'll save it for next week
and I'll give you. I'll give you time to revise,

(01:08:29):
you know, stay pledge your allegiance to kill the flag
and go through the history books. You know, we'll see
how see how well you do. Maybe Jesus, maybe maybe
you could line up the British citizenship test for me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I think that's yeah, and we can see where we
should both live. I think that's perfect. I think I
think we're both going to do atrociously.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
And you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I think that's that's what living in a democracy in
the in the Western world means that you can and
you can grow up in a country and know nothing
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Well, mate, it's been absolutely fantastic to see you, man.
I'm glad we've got this show back on the road again. Yes, dude,
we're definitely going to get some two more guests and
you know, all the old favorites. I guess this this
week was a bit more of a catch up for us, yes,
and also you know, for us small band of loyal listeners,

(01:09:31):
just a bit of a like a bit more of
a welcome home sort of episode.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
But we'll get there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
We'll get the quizzes and we'll get the games, and
we'll get the host and guests and all that sort
of thing down the line, and we'll be we'll be
up and running again soon.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
Can't wait. Yeah, no, man, I'm excited. Sea six the
best season. Yeah, yeah, so great. It's going to be
the best season ever. I came in here and I said, Wow,
what a great season. Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
I think that's that deserves a gabble down, mate, beautiful Cavul,

(01:10:27):
I've missed that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
I missed that sweet sound