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Hey, barstool listeners. You can find every episode of the Ryan Rosillo show on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. New beyond raw lid V2, GNC's number one pre workout. Now with harder hitting energy, an intense mind, body connection and enhanced endurance support. This isn't just a pre workout, it's precision engineering for your body. Supercharge your workout out with new Beyond Raw Lit V2, available now at GNC and GNC.com. Priscilla on the Road London. This is a treat. Well, it's great for me because I get to be here, but I didn't think that I would be taping one of these. Maybe there's thoughts of going to Japan over Christmas, but I don't really know how I'm going to pull that off. And then that means I'm probably not going to do any sort of adventurous stuff until July. So we're going to try this. There will be some incomplete parts of London. I'm not going to be able to get it all in because I'm also working while I'm here. So how did this transpire? Backstory the summer I knew that, you know, there were a couple different things in play as far as where I could be working. I would say for about six weeks, it felt like it changed. Like for two weeks I'd be like, okay, well, this is what's going to happen. And then the next two weeks I'd be like, okay, I think this is what's going to happen. As you know, know, now I'm at Barstool. But during that uncertainty, a good friend, a guy I become friends with in LA who has now hooked me up with all sorts of concert options. Brad Sands, former manager of fish, he's the reason why we got Les Claypool of Primus on the show. Stuart Copeland from Police. So he's been just an awesome guy to me. And this summer he was like, hey, I know you love Radiohead. I know that you've never seen them. And for whatever reason. Well, there's a reason, actually, I'll share it with you because I sound like a dick. But back like 25 years ago, was living in Vermont at that point, you know, was fully, fully into them, completely fell in love with Radiohead. And my girlfriend, who was awesome, was like, hey, I'm gonna get you tickets for your birthday to see Radiohead in Montreal. And I was like, I want to go to, like, go with you. I was like, I want to go with, like, dudes and go To Montreal with dudes. And she was like, are you serious? And I thought just how fucked up I was in those early 20s years of just like, what a dick you can be when you're a guy in that phase. And I was like, yeah, like, to go to Montreal for a concert with you, like, that wouldn't be fun. So guess who didn't go to Radiohead with his girlfriend in Montreal? This guy. So I didn't see him. And as much as I love music and as much as I do like concerts, I'm not like a crazy concert guy where I'm like, okay, I have to see this person. For the most part, I think I've seen everyone that I like to see. Maybe go Go Penguin. I'd like to go on a time machine and see maybe Tuscadero in the 90s. That's not going to happen. So, yeah, there's, like, a few things that I would still want to go to, but Radiohead is easily the top of the list. And I didn't know if I would get this chance to see him. I saw Tom York with a Smile in la. I just love him. So, anyway, Brad Sands was like, hey, I think I can get his tickets to both nights in London. Do you think you want to go? And I was like, you know what? I don't know what I'm doing, so I'll just say yes. Because if I don't say yes now, I'll come up with a ton of reasons why I shouldn't do this. Because all the work and all the games that I have to watch. There's also a lesson in there for you kids. If you're about to change jobs or if you don't know if you're going to stay, or maybe you're just going to stay at your job, right? But if there's job uncertainty. And for me, it was still, like, a good thing. I wasn't, like, ever really worried, like, oh, am I not going to be working? So I had options. But it's not the worst idea to just plan something and then when you work at the new place, be like, hey, by the way, now, granted, I didn't have to ask for anyone's permission, so maybe at this age, I'm in a slightly different category. But, you know, think you're going to be starting up a new job in a couple of months, Plan a trip, you know, you get hired and you go, hey, I got a wedding in the Maldives in November. Just a heads up, like, it's already paid for tickets. The Whole thing. And if they want to hire you, they're likely going to say, okay, yeah, you know, something you planned before. If you start working there, then two weeks and you're like, hey, I've got to go to Bali just to reset, dude, that's probably not going to go over as well. So, yeah, there is some value in making plans before you know you're going to work. And then telling. And look, if you have to cancel, you have to cancel it. And there was probably like two or three times where I'm like, maybe I'm going to have to cancel this. So that's the backstory. That's why I'm here. So fly out of la, Red eye. I did buy the bed seat. I've done it twice ever. This is the second time. I don't know what was up with these beds. It was Virgin Atlantic. I don't have a ton of bed experience on the plane, so I think this is only my second time. These were different. A little different angle. And then you have to pull the seat forward. And I usually can't sleep in a plane anyway, but I was looking forward to like, maybe the red Eye. I'll be able to pull this off. And the Virgin Atlantic seats are a little different because you actually have to like, put it all the way back and then pull it forward. And then it's kind of like a mattress sort of on the back. And then they put over a mattress cover. It's still pretty hard, especially if you're pushing some size, but whatever. I mean, it's better than sitting in coach, right? So not complaining. The service is incredible. The lady was like, hey, do you want me to help you figure that out? And I was like, I think I got this. I did not have it. So I had to bring her over while the entire cabin was asleep. And I was like, hey, is there any way. Actually, I don't think I can pull this off. And new record for me. I slept for the 10 plus hours on the flight. That's easily a record. I think my other record was like 35 minutes on the flight from LA to New Zealand, which is like 12 to 13 hours. But I flew coach on that one on the way out. I know, look at me, you know? So flight. Nothing really to report. Oh, yeah, actually I do a couple things I threw on mob land. I've already watched it, but I just kind of wanted to get caught up in the whole thing, maybe get my accent down. Check and see if the cost wallets really are worth checking out. I don't know if based on intel, it's like in the winter, two hours out of London, maybe not worth it. I don't know. We'll see, we'll see. Couple next to me, well, the accent, you know, I don't know how many times I'm going to do it. I'm not going to promise that it's going to be less than 5 because it's probably not going to be less than 5. I can't really do it that well. It's not going to stop me. It's never stopped me before. But yeah, couple next to me, you know, she was, you know, the winner of bulking season maybe a little bit. And she was like, I'll have the pork, mom. And so she just smashed the dinner. And then as soon as she fell asleep, she just could not stop farting. And it was right next to me and it was fucking awful. And then when she woke up, I could smell her breath. That was also terrible. And she was just, she was gross, man. I don't know what to tell you. And then as we were wheeling off after we landed, no issues on the flight, I saw like Disney badges all over the place and I went, yeah, all right, so get to the airport. The only thing that's of significance, this is the earliest I've ever booked plane tickets, which I've never done this before. I'm not a great planner. I just sort of go last minute, change my mind, not go. But I booked the hotel, I thought, because I was going to do two different spots and then when I landed, the reservation hadn't gone through because somehow on the plane, whatever. All right, so I land. I'm now trying to figure out like Wayne, where, where in Mayfair I'm going to stay because that's what a bunch of people had told me. Like, hey, just stay in Mayfair. Now that I've been here a day, I can see the arguments for and against like some of these little neighborhoods in west of London. But I'm not saying they're all the same. But you know, to me is a very inexperienced traveler. I've never been here before, which I know is also surprising just because I have traveled a lot, but it was just never ever on the radar. Like during the summers. Is not a place that I would want to come because I want to get to the. Even though there's a river here. And then ultimately I could drive out to the coast or whatever. These were not beaches, these were like not all time destination beaches that I wanted to see. So London was never really in play. So, yeah, I mean, getting in, took a taxi in, you know, it was dark, so, you know, you can sort of see and like, at times it reminded me of Boston, but kind of the outskirts of Boston where if it wasn't as nice, maybe a Mass Ave Drive as you're heading into downtown or Back Bay, and then as it got nicer, maybe like a stretch of Brookline where it's all the beautiful houses and the trees and the whole setup, and then you're just right on top of the city. So there's a lot of different ways to go into Boston because it's an impossible place to navigate, but it is. You know, there was parts of that drive in from London that felt a lot like that. But then other times it felt like some of the ritziest areas, maybe, you know, depending on which side of Central park, are considered the most prestigious. I know that there was a Ritz over there I stayed with when I flew the one time with the Celtics where I was like, wow, this is a little bit nicer than the Lower east side. So, yeah, there's. There's a little bit of that where it reminds you of, of parts of Boston, which would make sense, and then parts of London. But then other times, kind of walking around, it feels like something completely different because it also feels like incredibly pristine. And it also feels like in every single direction, you're just surrounded by history. And all of these incredible buildings were like, hey, if this building were in another city, this might be the main attraction. And in London, this building that looks just spectacular isn't even on the radar because there's like a hundred other things you're supposed to prioritize overseeing that. A little backstory on the history of London comes from the Roman occupation where they called it londinium. That's 43 CE, common era, same as 80. So if you're a stickler for those things. But it just feels like more people that are into the science and some of the scholars. Common area, common era, common area, different term, but don't know if it works. I guess you could say back then Rome thought all of the world was a common area. So yeah, 43 CE londinium. They set it up on a very thin part of the Thames, the river, which looks like Thames. For those of you that live in the New London, Connecticut area, you probably say it wrong all the time. I know that I did, being from New England, but I wasn't talking about the Thames a ton growing up. So pretty spectacular river, though. But I guess There was originally this area that Roman soldiers set up there because they thought it would be easier to protect and also was the thinnest part of the river, so they could navigate going across it. Right. A lot of this stuff makes sense. If you go through a ton of the history and I've read, you know, some of the Roman history with this stuff, it's actually pretty funny because basically the Roman expansion, I mean, this just plays out over and over and over again. It's just boredom. And if you're in charge, you have to be doing something like a mayor who's elected mayor of a city. And it's like, okay, you're going to make sure that you just, let's redo the waterfront so that you have some sort of legacy moment, even if it doesn't make any fiscal responsibility or fiscal sense whatsoever for the city. But this was different, the motivations behind it, because whoever was in charge and all these generals is just like, hey, unless I do something of significance, essentially conquering other places, like, I can't then go back to Rome with my army unless we've done some. So the funny thing about these guys crossing over to England, you know, they got there and, you know, it's chaos. First of all, you've got these Vikings, then you've got these pirates that have all sorts of weird backgrounds from Ireland coming over. Then you've got Wales, which, I'll be honest, like, I don't even know if I could have picked out Wales on a map in my early 30s, because the entire UK then, slash, great Britain. I mean, it actually makes a lot of sense. And it's not that complicated, like, once you look at it. But I'd be willing to guess that if you put a map of the United Kingdom in front of 90% of Americans, they would not be able to point to Wales. And I don't know that I would have been able to up until recently. So, you know, just trying to get better every single day. But yeah, I mean, just absolute chaos. You got Scotland in the north, and then, you know, reading about, again, some of this. This stuff, it was like, these guys are out there and they're so far away from Rome and kind of like, hey, what's the point of this? Like, we're building fences, I guess. Wales, they just built this massive trough. The king was like, don't come over here. And then, you know, look, everybody's trying to say that they're the king. No, I'm the king. And then the Vikings show up and they're like, we're the kings. So there's a lot of years there leading into medieval times and, you know, everything else beyond that. Then there's a great fire. There's also some random history here that in 1868, the city of London started hiring cats to deal with a mice epidemic. There's just too many mice. And so they hired cats. They actually had a salary. I don't know. You'd like to think they wouldn't tax the cats, but I don't know how that works. Wasn't able to find that information for you. I was reading through some letters where they're like, are we really doing this? And they're like, yeah, we're going to do it. And they're like, well, if it doesn't work in six months, we have to come up with another plan. And then I guess it worked great. They started giving some of the cats raises, including one legendary cat named Tibbs the Great. 20 plus pounds. He's like the guy. And I think the last cat that worked for the postal office to deal with mice died in 1984. So there's probably some people walking around the streets that remember that cat. I will probably not find time to interview that person. So in the taxi with my guy Danny, we talked everything. We talked immigration, not going to share those thoughts. We talked about the royals. You know, that was pretty interesting. He was trying to give me a tour, but it was basically just really dark out. Not the brightest city. I'll I'll say as well, which was a little surprising. And then I pointed off to, like, the side. He's like, oh, that's Winter Wonderland or whatever. And he's like, this amusement park that basically is going from now all the way through, like, Christmas, New Year's, I guess. So he's like, you got to go to that. You got to go to that. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna go to amusement park solo while I'm in London. I got some other stuff to do. What else did Danny and I talk about? Oh, we talked about celebs, because he asked me what I did. I said I worked in sports. Then he was like, are you sporting Joe? Or whatever. I don't know what the he said. I think I said bloke at once, though. So I kind of feel like a fraud. But again, full transparency on this podcast. What I did like, is that he did when he started talking about. I was a stutter, talking about celebrities, he talked about Danny Craig, because we were Huge. Huge. He called him Danny Craig. I mean, you know him as Daniel Craig 007. We talked about how we were worried about Daniel Craig because they're both huge James Bond fans. We were talking about Bond and then I was like, you know, he did all right. He goes, he was in my taxi and he goes. He goes, I asked for a picture. He said, danny, do me one good. That's what he said. And now you guess that meant take a picture. And then he was like, the rides on me to Daniel Craig. If you can do a picture with me. And he goes, and Danny, he goes, danny keeps to himself. So I said, danny, do me one good. Which I'm trying to work that in at some point this week. And he took a picture with him and then apparently took him up on the free ride. So I was like, so he stiffed you? He's like, well, no. He's like, we had an agreement. He, like, stuck to the agreement. He's like, but he had a. He's like. He had a 20 in his hand and he's like, I thought he was going to give it to me still. He's like, he kept it. I was like, you know what? You offered, he took it. You know, why are the rules different for him? So, yeah, Danny was great. Gave me his card. He said he would give me a ride wherever I need to go. I probably never talk to him again. Hotel, staying at the Mandarin. It's fucking sick. There was a massive Christmas party last night. When I rolled in, it looked like a scene from Industry. I think I can give you an observation on the men and women here. I cannot imagine what it's like to be like, 6, 2, 6 3, full head of hair, early 30s, work in finance, have that accent and talk to American women. It is so unfair. If you are that guy and you're listening to this, that you. You. It's just not fair. And there's Australians listening to this right now, too, going like, yeah, it's pretty easy. Because the thing is, you just sound like you're better than us, and I don't believe that. Think you're better than me, but you sound it again. That's why I pointed this out so many different times. Why do we have English people on all of our shows judging us? Because they just seem like they're better. Even when they're rude, they're polite. It's crazy. Like, everything's so polite. I mean, they were so over the top with their. And again, if you're flying in a plane and you're in the bed section or you're checking into a nice hotel. Like, they're over the top with the hospitality, but there's something. There's another little layer of. I don't know what it is. When you're dealing with the English, they just. I don't know, I guess they want to make you feel all right. So, anyway, that's my rundown on the dudes. Not all. I mean, look, if you look like Mr. Bean and you work in finance, I'm not saying, like, you're crushing it, but I saw these guys walking to this party, and I'm like, hey, when they go to New York City, it must be a joke for those guys. The women, now that we've talked about the men, you know, look, major cities. I don't know that anything will ever top Madrid, Reykjavik. I went in, as I've said, way too hot. It was sort of disappointing, which, you know, there was a lot of years thinking about that trip. And then, of course, some of the south. The south of France, you know, southern coast of France, there it was. It was also pretty ridiculous, I would say, like, because I'm in London and look, it's London, you know, do some numbers here. 9.8 million people. 9.9 metro London. 15 million people. Although it's considered, I think, the smallest city in England. Maybe that's just from a land standpoint. But, like, when you look at a map and you just go, okay, Slough's all the way over there. No wonder they made fun of it. Like, close enough to London to realize how far away that you are. So. I'll just say this about. About, like, so, yes, like, when you're walking around a major city like this, at some point you're like, oh, my God, that woman's gorgeous. But then there's this other tier where some of them are so made up that it tricks you into thinking, like, oh, you know, you do a bit of a double take, right? We're all human beings here. It's just science. And you're looking and you're like, oh. And then you're like, what the fuck is going on there? Like, what? Is the lighting different? I would just say that if I lived here in my 20s, there'd be a few times I would wake up the next day and go, what the fuck? What happened? Also, Danny, the taxi cab driver told me, hey, go to this place in Kensington. And then, of course, he said, he's like, no. And hell movie. He apparently not a huge Julia Roberts guy. So told myself stay up till 10 o', clock, grabbed some food, went over to this other area. This place is Christmas on steroids. They take Christmas seriously here. So the plan was to stay up at least until 10 o' clock local time, 10:11 and then normal routine. If I'm in a new place, I need to fall asleep. I have to put on a show that I've already seen a million times. Because if it's a new show and then I'm interested, I'm not going to fall asleep. And again, I'm dealing with all these hours. So I throw Veep on the laptop and I fall right asleep. I wake up. As I look at my laptop, yes, I was watching BE and I see 7:45. And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I just slept eight plus hours straight like that. Like I knew I was tired because it's like this virtual day coming from Los Angeles on the direct flight. But I'm like, I'm. I'm like, this is amazing. I'm fully rested, I felt great. I jump in the shower, I throw on my workout clothes. I'm like, I'm going to get a sick workout in. I've got the whole day in front of me. This is awesome. But I did have a ton of work to do the first day because I had to tape shows and then get caught up in some NBA stuff because I wasn't going to stay up till 4am watching the Pelicans, even me, shower, take a couple energy bites before pre work at. And then I grab my phone and I look and it says 3:45am and I was like, you've got it. Well, I was 15. Well, it was like four now after showering, prepping and getting dressed. So say. Because I was doing it in my head, I'm like, you woke up third. So if it's 4am right now, that means you woke up 15 minutes ago. It was 3:45. Your laptop never changed from Pacific time. And that was hell. So I hadn't slept eight plus hours. I'd slept four plus hours. And now I was fully. Because I was so excited. The tempo, I was just pushing the tempo here in this room. And then I sat in my bed and watched some basketball, watched Roofman, which is good. Just check it out. Then try to put beat back on. And I think I slept from like 8 to 9 and it was, it was awful. So then I worked out, went for a walk. I'll report back more on the walk later. Then taped a bunch of shows until like Six and I'm going to head out to dinner and then we'll hit you up. After another day in London, golf season is in full swing. And getting out there to work on your game is bound to make any day even better. And if you're looking to improve your drive, Chevy Equinox EV is the smartest choice you can make. Bold athletic styling, a commanding presence, award winning tech, and impressive range, all with an affordable msrp, Chevy Equinox EV will put a smile on your face no matter how your scorecard shakes out. Okay, another day in the books here. Day two London. So when I last talked to you, I had gotten done taping a bunch of stuff. I definitely was pretty tired, but I was like trying to stay up again, again. And we'll see how it goes. The dinner that I had the first night was like, one part of it was great, another part of it wasn't. It was on like a more touristy side of town. Hey look, I'm a tourist. I just got here. I know the lay of the land. And then so I was walking around a little bit, I went over to Bond Street. So there's New Bond and there's Old Bond Street. Old Bond street is like right out of a movie. You know how like when you're watching a Christmas movie right around Christmas with your entire family and it just feels like a hug, you know, maybe before the conflict of Home Alone, maybe before the conflict of Christmas vacation. But there's just something about Christmas movies where it makes you feel better. I don't know. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's not everybody. So to see it visually, the way London just takes Christmas head on and when you're walking down Old Bond street, you know, it's this old one way street and it has basically every luxury item you could ever imagine, every name brand, every single store. And all the storefronts try to completely outdo each other. You can tell it's basically like this contest to see how they can decorate their storefront. The Cartier one has this like panda reaching into a box or something. I don't know, I mean, people are just standing there, they're standing into the streets, taking pictures all day long, all night long. All the shops will be closed and people are still coming. They're filming videos in front of it. I got to tell you, some of you influencers, um, I mean, nobody likes you first of all. But the, I think the self confidence for you to be like, I saw somebody else doing this, and they're just walking in front of Gucci or Tiffany and they. I've seen girls in Beverly Hills with empty bags. I don't know how that works. You've got to know somebody, maybe pay for the bag. I'm sure the shop is laughing at you, but it's just your arms just loaded up with bags that don't have anything in them. And then filming that content. And look, dudes watch it. If we've learned anything about men post Instagram is that dudes will watch. And there doesn't have to be a lot more to the content than that. So, again, kind of good for you. But watching it in the wild, nobody's like, hey, that's. This is pretty good. That's a good video. That's. That's pretty good right there. So, yeah, the storefront thing is incredible. You got music going the entire time. Christmas music going all the time. When I lived in Connecticut, when I was there, what, almost 10 years, I definitely missed being in a major city. Like, being in Boston during Christmas was really cool. So it was the point where, like, I like Christmas enough that I would always find a way to try to get down to New York City for, like, one weekend in December just to kind of feel Christmassy. Because, like, look, if you're into Christmas, I think it's kind of cool because, you know, they. They go by and this place just is. Is every other city I've ever seen on steroids when it comes to Christmas. Speaking of walking around, holy shit. This has to be one of the most dangerous places I've ever walked. I mean, Tulum was a little sketchy because you walk down that stretch and there's not really any sidewalk, and you're just kind of like, I hope no one hits me. But there's this. It's almost like this weird understanding of everyone that's running around because, look, you're on the left side. I'm probably not going to rent a car here. I probably should have done it in New Zealand. I did drive on the left side for, like, the two plus weeks I was in Jamaica. And then once you do it for a few hours, it's kind of weird that your brain just sort of kicks in. So I don't think the driving is the challenge here, the walking, because, again, you have to look like the other way before you cross the street. And then nobody really cares. Like, everyone just darts out in front of the cars the entire time. So when I'm in the taxi yesterday, I'm thinking he was this Close to hitting like five people. But he kind of knows that he's not going to. The other person apparently is like in some sort of societal agreement that it's like, I'm going to make it look weird and people are going to have a little anxiety about this, but I'm still going to cross the street and pull this whole thing off. And the streets are still so small throughout most of this west area of London other than like the main arteries. But it's just so small that you're kind of like you constantly think these cars are going to crash into each other and no one gives a fuck. And everybody in the bikes throw a whole nother wrench into this system of transportation. Or the bikes go the wrong way, the bikes will just fly with. Crosswalk has the right of way. Everybody stopped at the stoplight, four way stoplight. All the cars are stopped. Just have some on a bike that just powers through everybody. So it's wild. It's absolutely wild. I put chance of me getting hit by a car at 15%. Yeah. So had dinner and I did actually research this a little bit. I don't even know. I may have to pull this up now in front of me because I do want to share what was going on here because it was a steakhouse not that far from the hotel and I want to make sure I can find it here. But of course I'm not going to be able to find it. As soon as I do this, I'll have to go. Steakhouse in Mayfair, not London, because that would be too wide a net. This is pretty good right now, huh? This is pretty awesome. Goodman. Oh, unbelievable. All right, so Goodman steakhouse rolled in. Hey, seat at the bar, whole deal. Don't always order the filet. It's not necessarily my favorite cut. Triple done French fries. Although they had to look everywhere for a bottle of ketchup. Like, sorry, guys. Like you're just going to eat these fucking raw. Like maybe you hate the Italians, but you know, come on. And then a nice little mustard salad, which was killer. Anyway, this day comes out. No sauce whatsoever. And it's perfectly cooked, even though it's the biggest. It was an Irish filet, so it wasn't potatoes, it was actually beef. I know Italian guys are making jokes about that. And they have these charcoal grills from this grill that's made by the family, and I already forgot the name, but apparently these grills are incredibly, incredibly rare. And this family makes them and they install the whole thing. And the guy was telling me he's like, how does it taste? I was like, it tastes unbelievable. Because there's almost like a. You know how when you're cooking at home and you have like a good grill set up and there's just that char that you hope you get at a restaurant, but there's something about it at home where it's like a little more charcoal y, depending on how you're using stuff to cook your meat. Well, this charcoal grill that they use in the kitchen, it stays on for seven straight days. They close it down Sunday night to reset it, and then they start it back up for Monday lunch and they leave these coals going and this entire thing goes the rest of the time overnight, whole deal. So awesome stake there at Goodman. And then after that, I walked out of Buckingham palace while it was closed. I walked right through this park. Everything was dark. And then you could see Big Ben off in the distance, which was pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, Buckingham palace. Like, I went at night, so there was nobody there, no guards. It wasn't like I was going to be one of those guys who's going to fuck with them and take a selfie in front of it anyway. That's just not really my style, you know, I don't think that's a shock to anybody. And then, yeah, went up to the rooftop of Mandarin, grabbed myself the equivalent of a Sauvignon Blanc. It was a different. Different grape. Or maybe it was the same grape, but a different thing. And I can't. I think it's Sancerre. I think that's what it was. And it was delicious. Way up, I think, the 11th floor, see, you know, a good stretch of the city up there, but it was like a little before 11. So after the disaster of the sleep thing, it was like, I'm going to go back to bed, try to go to bed. Go to bed early. So here I am the next day after last night, and I did not sleep well at all. It was terrible again. At least I wasn't tricked this time. I was just awake. There was nothing I could do. And then finally I was like, you just have to stay in bed. You have to find a way to stay in bed. But I had all these plans today. And then I did fall asleep. I think I was awake from 4am to 8am and then I fell asleep. I grabbed my phone and it was 11:30. And I'm like, you dick. So way behind schedule, way. But the history was waiting for me and I was letting history down. So quick workout. How to get the workout to get the Mind, right? And then headed right down to the Churchill war room, which I've read about extensively, the bombing raids of World War II. And I had a couple friends that had been. And they were like, check the whole thing out and you get a St. James place. That whole walk down there is incredible. Just that stretch of London you can't go slow enough. You feel like you have to go even slower to make sure you're taking it all in. So check into the Churchill guide thing. Grab the little audio. Dude, that sounds stupid. I didn't do the guided tour. I just grabbed the. The audio thing that you hold and you hit. Hit the buttons on. You've probably heard of this technology, so I shouldn't act like it was that advanced. Couple. Couple things. There was a Churchill impersonator there. He looked just like him. I mean, I imagine if you're working, you're part of the. You know, if you're in the Churchill business, that's going to be Goldman Sachs, right? Like, do you hear about Steve? He got the nod. Like, he's going to be the Churchill at the Churchill War Rooms. Like, I don't. I don't know how you do better than that, right? Unless you get cast as him in a movie or something like that. Speaking of movies, by the way, shout out to Hollywood, just in general, wherever I travel all over the world. And you realize, like, imagine if you went to downtown LA to go to the theater and 90% of the movies were British, or, you know, 85% of the movies were Mexican. They're not. They're not. Hollywood cranks out the content everywhere you go. I don't care where. In Europe, South America, like, it's wild. It's always. I mean, not every single movie, but. I don't know, 80, 90. I don't know what percentages I'm throwing around here, but it's really, really high. So Churchill did look at me and kind of gave me like a nod, like, hey. But it was a bit arrogant, so I don't know that I really liked it. But that's Churchill for you. Even if this guy's not really Churchill. There's also something about impersonators that I'm kind of fascinated about. Is like the ego on these guys. Because we know you're not him. You know that, right? We know you're not actually Winston Churchill. I'm not sure sometimes. Do you remember that Barack Obama guy that was in that documentary? I'm not talking about the actual former president. I'm talking about this impersonator, Barack Obama, I think he lived in like the Bronx or something and he was in this documentary and he was kind of like, I think he was on it early, before Barack was elected and then he was kind of like pissed that he maybe wasn't part of the administration at some point. He was seriously let down. He's like, you know, I thought because they had met briefly at something and you know, Obama's pretty good at like making you feel special in those encounters and so he's probably like really nice to him. And then they'd like checked in and they were like, what's going on? He's like, I haven't heard from him. Like you haven't heard from him? Like you think, like, what did you think was going to happen here, man? Like, you've got the voice down and you're about the same size. Like, fucking congrats, dude. Where, where else did you think this was going to go? Checking out the war room. Look, this is while London was being bombed to by the Germans. Just relentless air raids over and over and over again. Although I have read about this time in the past where people would actually gather like on these hills, these hillsides that were outside of the bombing range and they would just watch, you know, they might even bring a picnic and then watch the bombing, which seems pretty macabre also reading about this stuff. People went out. People would just go out and be like, fuck it, you know, if tonight's my night, then I'm done, but I'm going to get a couple gins in me and I'm going to do some dancing. So for the younger listeners, like if you start to come home, college years and you know, you're. Because I just remember one summer in particular where I was back home and my dad's like, what are you gonna do? Go out every night? And I was like, yeah, like what did you think I was gonna do? Like, you're the one who moved us to Martha's Vineyard. There's always something on the books here, buddy. What do you want me to do? Watch you about John Wan so I, I would say to the younger listeners, like if you're, if you're home for summer break and your parents. I was the oldest, so I was always gonna bit more than everybody else because I had to break them in. I didn't do a very good job. But if you're getting about going out a little bit too much when you come home in the summer, you're like, hey, World War II air raids, they went out. No, no reason. I Can't. So one bomb apparently landed, like, right in front of this thing, which they did not technically call a bunker. So during this stretch in the War Room, they're broadcasting over BBC Radio. I do think about what I would do if I were a world leader, not of the entire world. That's a little arrogant. But if you were the equivalent of Churchill, if you. You know, if you're one of these guys and, you know, you gotta get on the radio and tell everybody, hey, it's gonna be all right. And it's kind of not gonna be all right. I mean, it ended up being fine once the Allies got involved. But there's. There's something to be said of, like, you're just gonna get on the old blower there and tell everybody it's gonna be fine. I guess there's really no other message. I guess I'm just a little too transparent, a little too honest about things. I'd be like, if I were in charge, I'd go, hey, we could be. Just wanted to be straight with you. And I think that speaks to something else where we can get really mad about being lied to by our leaders. But then sometimes I wonder, like, if we knew everything, if we knew the truth, every single hour, updated all the time, like, we would actually be worse for it. They certainly think we'd be worse for it. Be nice, but maybe that's where all the line comes from. So, anyway, then they played a video, but it was also with the audio from actors, but it was based on the actual minutes in a meeting where they ended up sending what was the equivalent of, like, the first cruise missile. These Germans were sending these missiles that they could launch at very low altitude. They didn't go that fast, but they didn't have to be manned. And this technology was more advanced than anything anybody else had. And they were just bombing the shit out of London. I mean, it just. It's unbelievable that this place even exists. Well, granted, 80 years ago. Well, now, not 80 years ago, we're. What are we? Yeah, yeah. 80 years ago. Yeah, since the end of it. So these missiles are coming over, and so all the heads meet up with Churchill. And you can hear all the audio of, like, how they actually talk about. I did think this is really interesting and also sort of admirable. But you can hear the debate through the reenactment of the minutes from the quotes of, like, all right, what do we need? Because, like, this is getting to its absolute worst point here, and these missiles are fucking us up. So what do we do? And some people were suggesting, I think we need to go after civilian targets in Germany, hit some of the smaller cities, turn the tide of the war, start to get actual Germans against their own leaders. Like this might be the way to do it. And the other argument was we have to stay in the big cities. We have to stay in the industrial areas. That's the only way to slow down what they're doing. Because if we can slow that part of it down, then we. Then we slow down production. And if we can cut that off, cut the head of the snake off, essentially, like the rest will come to. And they were. They were kind of like just going back and forth where there were some people that were really, really for going it. We have to just start going after these smaller cities and start maybe even landing troops and wiping them out where they're weak because they're concentrated. Well, they weren't concentrated. That was part of the problem is the Germans, much like the Romans, the Germans would just conquer and conquer and conquer, and they spread themselves out so thin. Like their whole defense of Normandy. If you read Holland's Normandy 44, like, it's just absurd how stupid they were tactically, because you're like, why would you be so far up this peninsula where as soon as anything goes wrong, you're completely cut off from all these other places. You have this concentration of troops over here. It doesn't even make any sense. You don't even need this area. You're exposing yourself. And they did it constantly, right? So as the English and Churchill in this war room were debating all these things, they basically, like, some people were for it, some people were against it. And then they kind of landed on let's kind of wait and see. And I think the lesson in all of it was, I thought it was pretty admirable that they kind of knew, like, they were going to be wiping out a lot of innocent civilians if we go ahead and do this stuff. Just to try to turn the tide of the popularity of this, you know, on. On the enemy's side. And they actually never ended up doing it. And then the Allies showed up and, you know, the rest is history and this place has recovered. So made it there, went over to Big Ben, checked out Parliament. I don't know where Clark was driving in the movie, now that I've seen it up close, Parliament Super. Into Parliament especially. You know, a lot of Henry's, a lot of Richards, a lot of meetings, A lot of meetings. But they didn't have Internet. They didn't have TV back then. Probably wanted to get away from the farms, get away from their wives. So I would meet all the time. I mean, no wonder they were in Parliament constantly, because, you know, I guess they had sessions that broke up. But then I walked up to Piccadilly Circus area, which. The walk. I went to the theater district, which is really cool. It actually has Channing Tatum's Magic Mike, which I will not be going to. But I thought it was interesting that he got kind of a. It wasn't just Magic Mike Live, it was Channing Tatum's Magic Mike. I can't imagine he's involved, but again, I did like him in Roofman. The walk from the theater district to Piccadilly and then beyond, because I went up to Chinatown, which was kind of cool. I went up through SoHo, which was really cool. Some really just spots, like side streets. You're like, all right, this. I mean, there's just so much here. There's no way to wrap your arms around this in just a week. I mean, forget doing any of England. I mean, I don't know how you could do London. I'm not even going to go onto the east side of it. There's. There's. I don't think there'll be any point that I would go over there. But that walk, I would say, was the most that reminded me maybe of Times Square. You're like, oh, this sucks. And this is stupid. This is cheesy. You know, casinos that you wouldn't go to. I don't know. I don't know where you'd have to be in life if you're just like, hey, I'm gonna make sure I had it. Like, can you imagine visiting New York City and going to Times Square? And you're like, I'm gonna play slots here right now the rest of the day. That wouldn't be my call. That's not what I would want to do. Grab some lunch there. And then I grabbed a T shirt from the war room, which I is way too small. But considering how resilient the English were, in their defense, I think it being a small T shirt kind of fits. I'm going to grab some dinner, maybe a jazz club, and then Radiohead. I'll probably report back after Radiohead. I'm not going back to college to be your friend. I'm going so I can get Uber one for students. It saves you on Uber and Ubereats. I'm there for $0 delivery fee on cheeseburgers, up to 10% off smoothies, and 6% Uber credits back on Rides. Just to be clear, I'm there for savings, not whatever you think college is for. Get Uber one for students a membership to save on Uber and Uber eats. With deals this good, everyone wants to be a student. Join for just 499amonth. Savings may vary. Eligibility and member terms apply. London, Day 3/4 all right, so we got a lot to get you caught up on. It is now the morning after the first night of Radiohead. So let's back up a bit. Few things to get to. When I last left you, I was headed to dinner. It's freezing here. It's not like crazy cold. It's not like Chicago cold. It's kind of like northeast cold. One day, I promise I'll learn to pack. Like, look at the weather, the place I'm traveling to. So I packed a little light. Even the hotel lobby has been a little concerned. So I did go to Montclair, and I know it's bougie as, but as a guy who has a few different versions of Birado, I'm not afraid. So bought one of those quilted deals and they're just, you know, they're a thin jacket that keeps you warm. So happy to do it. Happy to do it. Feel like it's a good investment. I had one 10 years ago. Still like it. Don't wear it in California a lot. Went to an Italian spot by Old Bond street. Was terrific. Very classic, chicken paillard, side salad. And then woke up the next day with the intention of hitting up Notting Hill. I'm just a boy who likes a movie. And, you know, look, I just wanted to see it, see what the deal was. So as I was heading over to Notting Hill, I see on my phone that my sprinkler system back in Manhattan beach is going off, which is not the best feeling. Immediately get a call from the security monitoring service saying, hey, it looks like your sprinklers are going off. I'm like, okay, is my house on fire? And they're like, you know what? We'll check. Followed up quickly by a call from the fire department, who was like, we've sent out a truck and firefighters to your house. Meanwhile, it's like 3:30 in the morning back in California. And I was having a good old chat with the cab driver. I love talking to these guys. They're great. We talk about the economy, we talk construction. And then he quickly realized, it sounds like this guy's dealing with something heavy. So I get dropped off in Notting Hill on Portobello Road. Right there in the main intersection of everything. And despite my excitement for adventure and just checking out something that's a massive tourist spot, we'll get to it in a second here. I'm on the phone for probably an hour trying to figure out if my house is burning down. It is not burned down, but there's about an hour there where I was like looking at flights. I even typed in like, how much is a private jet from London to LA? Cheapest one's gonna get you home for 100 grand. So at that point I was like, I guess my house will just burn down. Not that in the 10 hours it would take me to get home, would I be able to put out the fire in time? But yeah, it wasn't the best feeling. And then I called the alarm company again and said, hey, you know, like, what's going on? And then I turned on the security cameras and was watching on my phone. I was like, I don't see any smoke, I don't see any firefighter lights. So you know, the camera still works. So anyway, the alarm company was like, look, they didn't call us back, so you're probably good. And I was like, that's an interesting policy. If your house is burning, we'll call you back. But if it's not, you're just left to assume that it isn't. So I got through that and then grabbed some food. I kind of went off to a side street. You know the rule on trying to pick out places to eat. Like if you can get a block or two away from the most touristy spots, probably a better chance that the meal is going to be better. This did not work out. Order some pancakes, which I've realized too, like, if you're not good at pancakes, you just bury it in fruit syrup and you know, you throw in a couple strawberries and some powdered sugar and you're like, hey, this is great. But they weren't even like, if you can't make a fresh pancake, like, what the fuck are you doing? Like, why are you even in the food business? So they were already pre made pancakes. They threw it on a griddle for maybe 30 seconds each side just to get the temperature up a little bit. They were terrible. The juice was good, the hash browns were fine. But Portobello Road itself do not go. It sucks. There's nothing you would want to buy. It's packed. Bikes are just darting in and out. If you're in a vintage clothing, maybe if you put the time in, you'd probably find something that you'd want and there are some food trucks, but it is, it's, it's not that great. It isn't. And I'm glad I did it for you. Then I walked east from Portobello Road back to this other, other like version section of. It's still in Notting Hill, but you could just tell like a couple blocks east was really nice. Did remind me of Brookline and Mass, just, you know, nothing more than three to five stories. Really nice shops, really nice restaurants. So if you do make it there, I would, I would really emphasize you walk not even 10 minutes east back towards London technically. Even though it's not like, you know, you're just walking to London from Notting Hill because that would be a bit of a walk. Not impossible. But yeah, if you just, just head away from Portobello Road and then find this other spot. There's a really nice cool section of the town. Better shops, much better food. I wish I had seen it the first time I rolled through. So headed over to the British Museum, probably one of the five best destinations. It's free. They would prefer you to throw them a five pound donation. I bought a tour guidebook. I asked the guy who was pretty friendly what was the best thing to see and he looked me dead in the eye and said, besides me. So I've still got it. So that felt pretty good. Hit up a lot of the Greek Roman stuff, some of the Egyptian stuff. Before that, that Susan Bauer book that I've talked about a few times. Kind of like the first recorded history. And then working forward from there, there's like three volumes. Really enjoyed that because I'd read a lot about this different time period and kind of like what this stuff meant and you know, like everybody just attacks each other the entire time. Centaurs, big part of it, big part of history. The Greek stuff. Wedding, somebody gets drunk. I guess the centaurs get faced at these weddings and you know, they just wrestle normal dudes. Somebody was marrying somebody else's sister, I guess there was a big fight and depicted historically. I did enjoy the Japanese section. It was terrific. I don't know that I'm super into the history, but I think I'm more into it now. Also some of the Buddhist teachings, you know, essentially getting to that place of enlightenment where there is no desire and that is eternal happiness. So I don't know if you, if you want a ski house. I don't know if you can be a Buddhist, but you know, something to think about there. The enlightenment section was cool. Just seeing books, huge coins. Dudes loved coins back in the day. Which makes sense because a lot of the stuff that comes from like Roman times, Greek times, anyone who's in charge, first thing you do, let's make a coin for this guy. Huge battle, victorious general, let's make a coin. So coins were huge and you know, a lot of the designs that you see are based on, you know, the, the early Greek minting of these coins. So yeah, checked out the coins, checked out a lot of, a lot of the books. I mean just seeing the detail that goes into some of these books from 1700s, 1800s. There was something that I noticed that was a common theme like throughout the Enlightenment section of it was just these, these summaries of what you were looking at and then this apologetic tone for everything. And I don't know who that's for. It's like, hey, this was at the time thought of and like look, I get nobody's rooting for colonizers, but it was, it was like, you know, this was kind of the way we saw the world then and now. Scholars have put into question many of these ideas and you're like, well no shit. Like who, who's reading the displays without that warning going, well I guess this is the only way to see the world during this time. So yeah, I don't, I don't understand. I mean it was just constant. I kept seeing it over and over and over again. All right, awesome. Hold on. The lights just went out of my room. I don't know why not going to edit this out. It's for everybody. I guess there's some kind of timer there just keeping, keeping the cost down. All right, so we saw that the clock and watch display is incredible. Like seeing these handmade watches from. I think it goes all the way back to the 1700s. There was even a watch ring. So if you're in the watches, you're probably kind of like that. My new favorite artist after Madrid, super into was it Goya. But there was some pretty cool Swedish paintings from a guy that I'm going to read about right now. Oli ole Olson Hagelin 1904, 1972 the Snowplow 1956. Really enjoyed it. Here is the summary of our guy Oli. A self taught painter and printmaker, Olson depicted the quotidian nature of an artist's life in his naive and charming work. Set in the small village of Hagelin, north of Stockholm. I could be murdering that name, but that's what it looks like. Although he traveled frequently Olson always returned there, living in the same house and which he was born and grew up. Built by his grandfather in the 19th century, it is now a museum dedicated to the artist who remained until his death in Hagland, adopting its name as his own. So the guy liked the town so much, he was like, you know what? This is my new name. It's not just Olson, it's Olson Haglin. I can just imagine if, like, somebody loved Hartford and, like, right before they were, like, getting older. I'm like, you know, just call me Chuck Hartford from now on. So two hours over there, two hours is not enough to see the entire thing. And because it's free, you kind of wish it was like, 10 bucks because it's free. It's a bit of a shit show in there, granted. I'm also in there on a Saturday on, like, a cold and cloudy day. So not to sound like an elitist, but sometimes things, you know, should be at least five bucks or ten bucks. There was one guy that I could not stop watching. I don't know, he may have hit the entire Museum in 30 minutes. He took a picture of literally every single summary of anything, any display. Like, there was a bunch of, you know, tablets, and they would display them, and it would be like, okay, this is depicting a war. This is depicting a river. This is the wedding. This is the king. These are servants. And, you know, it's all explained along these timelines going back to, like, ancient Egypt. And so I would say, like, one side of a hallway would maybe have 20 of these summaries, and you don't need to read them all. You know, you're just going to be there forever. This guy took a picture of every single one. And then later, when I saw him in the Japan section, he took a picture of every single thing on the stair. So look thorough. Or I was thinking maybe he has a sick parent, you know, who can't make it to the museum. And he was like, I'm just going to go and grind for the relative here I'm trying to take care of. So that did it for that. I also saw the Rosetta Stone, which is probably the most popular thing there. Dinner, back to the steakhouse, and on my way to Radiohead at 02. Okay, so going back historically, me and Radiohead, when Creep first came out, I was working at a CD store in high school, and I was like, this song sucks. So I didn't like him at all. And then the Benz came out, and I'm like, you know what? Some catchy Tunes on this. I think I like these guys. And then, okay, computer later. 90s. So like, what, 97, 96. 97, I think. Blew me away. And then Kid A. So I'll never forget where I was. I was living Church street in my studio apartment above the Rusty scuffer is like, 25 years ago. And I used to go over to Pure Pop back in the day when you could just go to a music shop and spend an hour in it and listen to all the recommendations and if it was kind of like a cooler place and this place was like the cool place to go to to find out new music, find out about different stuff, talk to people in there. And as a former CD shop employee, it was just something I always really enjoyed and be like, hey, I got an hour to kill. And I could just walk across the street, go in, downstairs into this basement dwelling, and just, you know, run through 20 different things. And you could play stuff, be like, hey, I want to hear what this sounds like. So I had really liked Radiohead at that point, but it wasn't to the awareness of, like, hey, the new one comes out next Tuesday. I'm gonna go wait in line. I think I did that for transistor 311, but I think. I don't know if that's a good or bad stat. But I just will never forget, like, hearing the. The first notes of everything in this right place. Like, the second I heard those notes, I went, holy shit, what is this? And then I was just absolutely obsessed with it. Played it over and over and over again. So now, 25 years later, to finally see him live, to see that song being played in the entire thing, it was just great. And look, people kind of shit on people that really love Radiohead. And I would ask you this, like, maybe. Maybe you're right. Maybe we're all sims. Because I don't think there's a song that I don't enjoy. Like, I can't think of another band where there's not one song where I'm like, hey, that song sucks. Although I guess I don't really love the first stuff. And ironically, Tom York did make fun of Creep, and they didn't play it, but he made fun of it, because then they played a song from the Bends, and he was like, maybe we'll just be this band who has the one song. He goes, and then we wrote this. And, you know, the great thing about the English crowd. And I'm sure there's, you know, I'm sure this happens like Taylor Swift shows or something. But they're playing whatever the song is, and York will. Will kind of, you know, he'll. He'll get creative in the way. He's going to do some of the singing. He's not going to sing it? No. For. No, just like in the album, every single time. And they actually have done a few different variations. Like when they did Kid A last night, they did a little different, which they've obviously done a few different ways. But he'll be singing kind of the main part. But then on the album, there's like this. This chorus behind him, and the entire crowd is just singing the chorus, like, for him, while he's just kind of doing whatever he wants to do and maybe, you know, a bit, I guess. It was explained to me last night that Oasis is actually more popular here than even Radiohead is, which was just kind of shocking to me. But dudes love Oasis, I guess. Oasis sold out Wembley like, five nights in a row, and then sold out Manchester like another five nights. I don't know if those are true or not, but I'm 02 small and we had really good seats, like 15 rows up center. And they kind of play in the center of everybody with these screens that are surrounding them. The light show is amazing and there's just this anticipation, like, even them playing these random notes on the screen before anybody'd even come out on the stage. You're just sitting there and you're so fired up. So they play for two and a half hours, encores, like seven or eight songs. But it's. It's just enjoyable from beginning to end. And yeah, I would say anybody that, like, shits on people that love Radiohead as much as I do, I'd be like, what if they're actually that good, though? Is that a possibility? So Radiohead a complete win. I do wonder, you know, watching your kind of, you know, there's something going on in there. Obviously somebody will pull this off. 30 plus years and how creative he is. But he also, you know, a little guy out there dancing around in his denim, his jean jacket, he's kind of feeling himself. I just wonder, like, if Patti LaBelle watched him, should be like, I like that. This guy's soulful. Not the best dancer. Not the best dancer. But I think he just loses himself in the music so much. He doesn't really give a. By the way, like, nobody's gonna give him a hard time. It's Tommy or so a few beers there. I did expect that last night would be the night that I would get after it. The only night that I would have that window to be able to do that, because I was like, look, if you're gonna be here, like, let's have a night. And it kind of happened, but also kind of didn't happen. So I don't know what you've heard about some of these London clubs that are a little weird. I wouldn't call the place I went to last night a sex club, because it wasn't. I've heard about some of these other ones. And I got to be honest with you, I don't know that that'd be something and be like, yeah, I want to go to this and have a vodka soda and then watch Strangers. I wouldn't be interested in that. Now, if I were at a place where it was happening, you know, would I run away? No. Probably just to be able to say that I did it. But that was not the case last night. But it was a club that, like, at 1:00am There was this performance, all right. And we had a connection to this thing, so they walked us in, totally took care of us. It was great. All the guys were super nice because apparently we knew one of the guys that kind of ran the place. And so maybe a mistake on my part, but it was like one of those things where I'd order a couple vodka sodas, and then when I'd say soda, I would get either tonic or Sprite. And again, vodka soda is supposed to be with a lemon. It's not supposed to be with lime. Everybody in the States puts it with a lime. Apparently, like the story goes, when I would order with a lemon, like some fancy place, they'd be like, oh, yeah, you're doing it the right way. This is how they used to do in England. So I didn't think it was going to be an issue whatsoever. I can't really blame it on the language barrier because we're all speaking the same language here. But there's just nothing worse than when you like the dullness of the vodka soda, and then all of a sudden, you think you're drinking, like, a Belvedere and squirt. So it was one of those deals where actually, every time I felt like I had one, I was getting more sober. So, nothing. It wasn't. It wasn't. It was weird. It was kind of like, hey, I don't. I don't really think these are working. So the show. There's an emcee who came out who was voluptuous, and she kind of just yelled at everybody all the time. But she was great, good performer and they had kind of this catwalk. Give me a moment here. I like the show industry. It's a fun watch. It is a little ridiculous. I do wonder, I'm like, would a bank let these kids be this in charge of accounts? Probably not. But probably not a great show if the entire cast is just like 30 to 50 year old white guys who are fund managers. And then there's the main like white kid who's in industry who's like the good looking dude who clearly has some substance issues. He works through those. But you know, look, it's a TV show, so things can't perpetually work out. TV is pretty simple. You have to think something's going to work out and then it doesn't work out and then you watch the next episode wondering if something's going to work out and ultimately things can't work out or the show would be over. But there was a part of his early storyline where, you know, all the girls liked him. He was a party boy. You know, he's an interesting guy. And then I think early on in his, his arc it was like, oh, he's going to hook up with a dude. I was like, edgy. Wow. So edgy. Well, I'll admit after being out at the spot last night and then one of the performers was a guy with incredible long hair and pasties on, shirtless. I was like, yeah, I guess I could see how this happens here. Yeah, yeah. Like, all right, you know, I'm older. I don't, I don't understand some of this stuff. But now witnessing some of the performance, I'm like, yeah, maybe, maybe you could have a weird night. Then the rest of the show was. There was a poll. She was actually incredible, very, very agile. And then there was another one at the end where it's like, how do you like your eggs, Dean Martin? And saying some other woman. It's like a duet, old song, obviously. And then the person had like a mask on and then she gave birth to like eight or 10 eggs in a bucket. It's not as aggressive as you think it is because I think there was a trick arm involved. She was really good at it, like sleight of hand. Terrific. But I was, I was locking in and I was like, I don't, I don't really think this is what, is what the audience is led to believe. Anyway, pretty, pretty easy night after that because then I'm just kind of looking around being like, all right, I think I've got it. Walked home, caught up on some NBA stuff worked out this morning. And now heading over to Fulham as they take on Sunderland. We're going to the cottage and a preview here says the home side are under pressure following a desperate run of form. It could drop into the bottom three if results go against them this weekend. So we'll be sitting in the Fulham section, rooting on the home team, Radiohead again tonight. This college football season, we are feeling the cheesiest with Cheez it. The ultimate irresistible football watching snack. Cheez it brings 100% real cheese and deliciousness to every game. Fuel your game day cravings with cheesy, crunchy, salty deliciousness and fuel your cheezit fandom@cheezit.com use code stool25 for 20% off your order. Part 5 of London and this will be it. Come on, Fulham. Come on, Fulham. Come on, Fulham. That's right. Your boy went to his first Premier League match. Little Fulham. Sunderland at Craven College. So the plan was to take an Uber out. I don't know, I forget what we did. From Mayfair, where I've been located, out to Fulham, which is west of where I am, so I guess it's considered West London. And this place is incredible. I mean, all the history that you can imagine. Craven Cottage is kind of what it's called. Well, I guess that's exactly what it's called. Originally it was the grounds of a hunting cottage. I think it was some barren or something that was built in 1780. And the backside of the stadium is right on the Thames, so it's, I mean, right behind it. I'm not talking about like, hey, there's the river over there. Like it runs right past the footprint of the stadium. And it actually has, it looks like hotels that are connected to the entire experience, if you wanted to do that. The history of Craven cottage, rebuilt in 1896 after a fire. So Fulham had played there, I guess, in the area prior to this. But then officially, like the place that we went into was first built in 1896. And if I said it didn't look like there were a ton of upgrades, obviously there have been, but that's what makes this place so special. It's kind of, you know, it reminds me, maybe not Fenway today, but fenway in the 80s. Wrigley, I'm sure is the exact same way. I didn't make it to Wrigley Field until, I don't know, maybe 40 years old, late 30s for the first time ever. But, you know, going to Fenway as a kid, the first time I went was in 1982 and then, you know, go every year after that. So, you know, it just was old in the best way, like you didn't know any better. So obviously it's still a very historic place. And Craven Cottage feels the exact same way. Like rolling through and going through the turnstile, which I barely could fit in. Not that I'm huge, but just right in the crickets just smashed my dick because I just. I don't know if I just wasn't expecting it to be that small and it to be this metal turnstile and then, you know, just little paper things of burgers and chips everywhere, beers flowing and. You know, the coolest thing about this stadium is that it's right in town. When I mean right in town, I'm talking like you would have a house and 15ft across the street is the stadium. Like the second you walk out of the stadium, you know, towards. Because the other backside of it's a river. But if you're walking out of the entrance into your seats and everything, and you're leaving the stadium, you cross the street and it's just a neighborhood. So I guess you could say like, even Fenway didn't have that in Kenmore Square. Maybe you could argue like Wrigleyville at one point was like that. And I know Lambeau has some. You know, it's like similar that when you kind of see. I wish they did more work on like how cool it is the lead up to Lambeau, how it really is in this, this stretch of neighborhoods. But this is like old school London. On the ride out, you know, started to get a little funkier, you know, seeing these one and two story homes where the door, the entrance into it is like a little brick walk right off the sidewalk. And I'm talking like in some places it looked like the front door was less than 10ft from the road. So I don't know what it's like to have a kid in that part of London, but it must be just. You want to talk about iron sharpening iron, like your kid's just going to be the best at crossing the street because he's just going to grow up with it, like constantly cars going all over the place. And by the way, like, the driving here is ridiculous. Just ridiculous. Like, I've been maybe the Amalfi coast, it was a little hairy at times. You know, I've been in big cities internationally and you know, there's things in Italy that are ridiculous. And look, I've seen footage of other places in Asia that It doesn't look like that's a lot of fun to drive around. So I'm not saying like London's the toughest, but it's, it's a fucking free for all. And I can't get over how many times it looks like somebody's about to be hit by a car and they're not. And it's also why I think every single crosswalk has a reminder that's painted. Look left, look right, look left, look right. And like the first, first time I do cross the street too, like I, I look the other way, the wrong way. So anyway, the kids that are growing up in these neighborhoods, they must be just experts. Like I would argue these kids in these areas best crossing the street at an early age. Probably anywhere, at least. You know, again, I can't really speak to Asia. I haven't spent any time there. So. Yeah, look, I mean the stadium is, is everything you would want it to be. Rolling. We have front row seats right by the corner on the Fulham side. And the reason why we were able to get front row seats is that it was pouring rain the entire time and it was cold as it was so cold and I was soaked. The reason I was soaked is that the overhang covers basically everything on the Fulham side. And then of course there's the other end which Sunderland fans like have half that section. And you know, the Fulham fans, like the real hardcore Fulham fans are all the way at the top of the Fulham side behind the goal and they're completely dry from the overhang. So I'm sitting there being like, this is awesome. We have front row seats. And then after 20 minutes it's just, it was like I jumped in a pool and look, it didn't matter. I was so excited to be there. I appreciated it. It was so much fun. I would say like as a non soccer guy, football noticing like the field looks even smaller. Like on TV, it looks so massive. And because there's 22 people running around, you know, like it. It's not just so much of the space is taken up, there's just so free area because it's just going to be covered. And these guys are covering such an enormous amount of distance at ridiculous speeds and just sprinting over and over and over again. So it wasn't like I didn't know this but then seeing it in person, it was just like, man, these guys cover so much ground in such a quick amount of time that actually made the pitch, I should say seem even smaller in person. So drenched, freezing cold. Love every Minute of it, had a beer, went to get another beer. And as I was walking towards the seats, the guy was like, hey, you can't bring the beer in here. And I'm like, what? Like, this is not. This was not like, what. I was hoping I was going to see some fights or something. Like, what? What's going on here? This is not what I expected. And the guy was kind of, you know, obviously I didn't get on all that. And I was like, when did that change? He's. A couple years ago. And I was like, why? And he's like, fighting. I was like, I just missed it. So, yeah, you can't bring your beer to the seat. So everybody, you know, during. During downtime will walk behind. There's not long lines, grab a beer, they pound a beer and they go back up into their seats. But they're not missing a ton of the action because, I mean, that's the great thing about watching this live is it's just. There's no stoppage. It just goes the whole time. You've got the break and then you come right back out. What else? What else? Anything else? I'm not going to remember one guy's name. Jimenez had the goal at the 84th minute, so it was nice to see Fulham get the win at home. Sunderland didn't do anything the entire game. I know they're higher in the standings and Fulham is exactly great in the Premier League, but, I mean, it was total domination. Fulham was the class side throughout the match. 24 shot attempts to, I think, like six for Sunderland. Not on goal, obviously. That would be. That would be ridiculous. Fulham had a lot of chances and ultimately it was the right side. It was. It was right that they ended up winning this thing. So get a car out of there. And again, I cannot emphasize enough how crazy it is to just walk out of the stadium and then all of a sudden, boom, you're just in the neighborhood. Get an Uber back to the hotel, a little reset. And then off. 2:02. Once again, for night two of Radiohead, this was an even better show than the first one. There's nothing that's ever going to match my anticipation for finally getting to see him live. I'm not going to run through Radiohead Love all over again. You already heard it in the pot. I don't need to do it another time. I rarely. I don't know that there's any concert that I would ever go to two nights in a row. Granted, when you fly to London and you're there like that's a pretty good reason to go another time. So that was. That was a big part of it. So I was kind of wondering, like, hey, are you going to be a little, like, are you just not going to be as into it? And there was no way. Again, the anticipation. The anticipation and the excitement and the adrenaline going was going to be the same, but the show is actually better. I think the crowd was a little bit more into it. Just having all of the English people sing all the backing vocals of Letdown while Thom York is going. It was just like a really cool moment, you know, just how into it everybody was. And then I was sitting next to some bloke who. Who was like, hey, because I bought a T shirt and I totally choked. They were out of my size and everything. And I was like, I'll grab one of those. And then once I saw it back in the hotel room, I'm like, this is not a shirt you're ever going to be wearing. Like, fucking ever. You won't even wear it once, ironically, I don't think. But I own it, so, you know, it's coming with me. But he asked me about the merch thing, and then he's like, what do you think? And I was like, oh, I was here last night. I was like, a better crowd tonight. He's like, because we're pissed, mate. And I was like, all right, noted one little note here, though. Final note. On Radiohead, they're guitarist Johnny Greenwood. Now, granted, when York plays his three guitars going. But he is like Ohtani and LeBron up there. I'm not saying he's the greatest guitarist ever, but he's just a player who finds ways to incorporate sounds that work with everything they do. Like, they are just a band that is trying to find a way to push the limits on, like, how sound will work in a melody and songs. And, yeah, I sound a little nerdy, but, I mean, he's just doing a million fucking things at once and he's jumping on the keyboard. Then he's got this entire electric thing that's going on, which is a big part of their evolution from, like, the second or, excuse me, like the third album on. I am a little worried about his chiropractor. Or perhaps he's so flexible that he can actually be bent over in a way that you're like, is something wrong with him? But that's just the way he plays. That's how much soul he has. Wake up today now I set the alarm for eight because I was dabbling with the idea of heading down to Brighton. There's also some other village near the ocean that I was asking the hotel about. I was like, what's the story with this place? And of course they're like, oh, it's lovely, it's lovely. Like every place is lovely. I was like, is there a chance anything sucks? Because everybody's so. I can even tell that people are being rude to me. They're so polite. But there's a bit of, I think, hyperbole. I mean, they say everything's brilliant. Like everything. Like that's brilliant. Like I just like, oh, what'd you do? I'm like, oh, I got a salad from there. Oh, brilliant. Well, I don't even know. I think it's a pretty fucking standard decision. I don't really, you know, like, let's not oversell this. Like I'm, I'm happy with my decision on the menu, but. Brilliant. Come on. So in describing some of the towns and granted it gets dark here at like 3:30 and it's fucking cold. And so I was like, am I going to spend two hours getting to the coast and then, you know, granted a dick around, walk around, check out the ocean, probably take some pictures that I'll never look at again. Or I'll launch my photography page on Instagram with this camera that's really expensive, that I know how to use like 10% of OR. And then two hours back, knowing that I'm have to stay up all night to watch football, I'm like, you know what, why don't we sleep in? Sleep's been a disaster up until the last two nights. Sleep in, rest, little workout, take a lap around town. We'll hit up another museum. So that's exactly what I did. Went to Chachina again for an incredible late Italian lunch. Just capers are so underrated. We just don't use capers enough. And a lot of stuff, you know, you can just throw fresh ones in a salad, you can throw them into some pasta, you know, maybe even cook them into the sauce after the fact so they're not too cooked down, you know, you don't want to turn into a reduction obviously, but just capers, man. Shout out. So with the spare time that I have before the football kickoffs, I decided Imperial War Museum on the other side of the Thames. So I wouldn't call it like East London, but it's east of where I am. But it's more of like technically like London center, I think. And I'd read about this museum. So war is on the Mind, obviously, after Churchill and I look, I've read a lot about both World War I and World War II. There's plenty, of course, that I don't know. There's just obviously a lot of resources out there for all this stuff, but general timelines and the motivation behind everything and then kind of the deciding factors. And you know, the thing I think is that is actually the most interesting to me just throughout time, especially in World War I. I mean, granted, there's a lot of this in World War II as well, but the global alliances of, well, hey, you know, if we're going to do this, would you do this? You know, like, even when you go back to World War II and it's like Germany and Russia decide they're going to take on Poland and I mean, Hitler obviously, you know, there was one point where they were, he offered, if you can just give me back some of this place that we shouldn't have lost in World War I. If you give us like this section of France back that we think is ours, then we'll be good. And obviously there was nothing you could ever do with Hitler where anything. We'd be like, hey, well, okay, if we leave you alone here, are we good? And be like, yeah, we're totally fine, don't worry about it. And that wasn't the case. But if you go back to World War I and trying to figure out like Russia's role and then the United States trying to hold out forever, which is there's a lot of just great books on kind of going back and like, you know, it makes sense, like, all right, we're this emerging industry or industrial country and you know, like, we're not that old. And it's like, does this really make a lot of sense for us to get involved when it's all these European borders that are being fought over the entire time. But some of the lesser known stuff too, like Italy's motivation is land. Austria, Hungary, their motivation is to wipe out Serbia. You've got this, these British Empire numbers that prior to World War I, the stats would say that one out of every four human beings on the planet was under some allegiance to the crown. Which I was like, God, that number seems really high. But then if you go back and one, it's a limited number of population comparison to a hundred years later. But you're like, you know, the British Empire, that's like a Saban type run there. Like, I don't know that that's ever going to happen again. So, you know, Italy's role, whether you want to not littered with great stuff there. Didn't seem super into it necessarily either time. Lesser known. I mean, it's a horrible day in Irish history, but the easter rising in 1917, I think where Germany figured, okay, well, the Brits are preoccupied with everything that's going on in World War I because really, the British strength was the navy, and it wasn't necessarily the number of soldiers they had, because population wise, it's not the same. So they didn't have the same number of troops to send over that other countries would have. Certainly not France, which is all fucking dealing with this on their front lines. But they were like, maybe the Germans just like, every angle that they were trying to work, they're like, all right, maybe if we arm the Irish rebels. Even though there was more people in Ireland that were in favor of the British interests In World War I, there were certainly, as we know the history between those two countries, there were plenty of Irish rebels who were like, fuck them. So the Germans apparently sent like 20,000 rifles to help the rebellion and figure that the British would be preoccupied in dealing with it. The guns were intercepted. They still attempted this rebellion, and that is Easter Rising, and it did not work out. My favorite anecdote from today, which I'd forgotten about or maybe. I don't know, maybe I just. Look, there's plenty of shit that I don't know, but In World War I, Germany's desperate, and again they fucked this up, which is kind of their thing. They went to Mexico and they were like, hey, this is in 1917, like, any chance you'll join us? And, you know, you become an ally with this, with us, and then, you know, we're going to run the world and we. We promise that we'll give you back Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and some cash. And Mexico's like, well, I don't know exactly what they were doing, but they were dealing with their own shit. Meanwhile, they've got their own civil war going on. Years prior to that. Their resources are completely limited. So if at any point they had established themselves as an ally to Germany, therefore an enemy to the French, the British, obviously, Belgium's kind of like getting wiped out during this time. You know, there's. There's still plenty of neutral countries. But as America's like, debating what to do this whole time, you're like, so you're gonna tell Mexico like, hey, you get all these United States territories back. And I'm not even getting into, like, you know, the history between the US And Mexico. But at that point, like, the US is probably not giving those up without a fight. And Mexico would have gotten their fucking clocks cleaned in this. And Germany's like, you know, just do this for us now. Meanwhile, it never comes to that because it's the Zimmerman Telegram that was intercepted of March. In March of 1917. And it pissed off the United States and just the public so much that finally there's a couple other factors here too. But it was. It was so, like, it was outrageous. And there was more support for American involvement in World War I, and they declared war on Germany, officially April 1917. Yeah. So that's it. The motivations behind each country's decision back then, where the world felt like it was just a game of risk being played out for real. Walked back to the Thames after dark outside, had to run back to the football games. Uber driver drove right past me. I don't think I was in a bad section. It was just really dark. I don't think I was like, East London. At no point in my entire time here have I ever felt like, oh, no, where am I now? I mean, other than not knowing where you are and going, could I possibly be going down the wrong road? It wasn't a great feeling when the guy passed me, but I was able to chase after him just like a TV show. Then I get in on panting and he's like, did you run long? And I was like, well, I don't sprint a ton anymore. All right, so back of the room, we've got NFL from 6 o'. Clock. That's PM till 3am don't know. We'll see how Monday's pod goes. See how locked out, locked in I am on the last game there. So to recap the trip, one mistake should have left today. Didn't really map it out. I don't need an assistant because for the most part an assistant wouldn't have that much to do. But I've got to get better at this. I've got to get better at this. Going like, hey, because I worry about the work part and then not being able to watch the games the right way. I think I've got signed up for different versions of sky and Dazn today and I don't know what the fuck I'm watching right now. I would say after watching the early games, Sky Sports loves them some. Caleb Williams, their analyst, said he will surely be a top five quarterback in the NFL. It was like Manning, Marvin, Harrison, the way they were talking about Roma, Dunze and Caleb. I mean, maybe a little excessive, but yeah, look Huge, huge Caleb fans here in the uk. The coverage, very positive coverage over here too. Everybody's just having a good time sitting here talking about the NFL. But I toyed with flying out of here today because actually I could have left at 11am and with the flight, if I'd made it direct, I could have been back in LA, in my house at 2 o' clock in the afternoon and then got caught up on all the earlier games. Watch the rest of the stuff live. Bang. No problem. Ready to go. My house Monday morning. And after I thought it burnt down, I was even more motivated to get back. But the flight was $9,000 more, so we did not do that. So next time, though, I'll go, hey, if I'm eight hours ahead, I can probably fly that day where there's football and then still make it back in time for football. But I wasn't thinking that. And that's why I booked it on a Monday after. I'll be taping. All right, so quick recap. If you love Christmas, you're going to love London. This place loves Christmas. This is for the Christmas people. She's not doing the thing with the eggs that you think she's doing. Big Ben Parliament scene in European Vacation, there is no roundabout. I checked it out again. It's the Lambeth Bridge roundabout. Or Lambeth roundabout is where they filmed that scene. But them driving around Big Ben like that, it doesn't check out. It's okay. Probably the worst of the vacation movies, actually. But I liked it as a kid. Are you kidding me? When Rusty visited Germany, I think it was like 12 looking. See if your parents are around. 5 Premier League teams in London. This is the coolest thing ever. The London Derbys today. Arsenal, Tottenham, Fulham and Chelsea are 2.2km away from each other. Each other. That's just amazing to be that close to like another team. I mean, I know the jets and Giants technically playing, but you get the point. It doesn't feel the same way to have like an entire village community, however you want to describe it, that's fully supportive. Like one of these clubs that are like, these are huge deals here, as you already know. But to know that they're all this close to each other and you know, that's not even getting into the rest of the clubs that are in other cities in England. And then Rosillo, a little final piece here. Looked at some properties. Felt like a Chelsea. I felt like Chelsea was a good fit for me. I found one on Trunter Road, 8,300 square feet seven beds, seven bass, £30 million. So I don't know that I'm gonna. I don't want to waste the realtor's time because I just don't know that I could do that. But the Buddhist would tell me it'd be better if I didn't want it and did.