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Episode 9 - Londonium Pt. 1
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Ross and Gregg record their podcast live from London on the day of the Queen's funeral. Discuss leadership, influence, and UK adventures.
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Introduction to 'Unmotivated and Unprepared'
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You're listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared, a podcast where we take a break from the everyday hustle and bustle to muse about life, liberty, and the pursuit of randomness. Now here's Greg and Ross.
Episode 9 and Recording in London
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What's up everybody? It's Ross. Hey, it's Greg. And this is episode number nine, almost in double digits, Greg, of unmotivated and unprepared. And we're in the same, we're in the same studio. The same room. Yeah. Well, I called it a studio.
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Don't tell people we're in a hotel. We're in the same studio and we're coming from across the pond. That's right. We're in London, United Kingdom today for this episode. Not saying we came all the way over here for this episode, but you know it's a big deal in a podcast when you take it on the road. That's right.
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We're going to hit double digits soon, so we figured we'd take this on the road for our many fans to give them a taste of what it's like when we're both in person. Spoiler alert, it's not going to be much different. Don't expect any higher quality content than we normally have.
Reflections on the Queen's Funeral
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But yeah, so we are in London, United Kingdom, and it's actually an interesting day today because the day we're recording, we just
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We just witnessed the, I guess, former Queen of England's funeral and we got to see the procession come by where we were at. So many adventures that we went on in our travels and maybe just talk a little bit about influential people.
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We just saw somebody who I guess was either influential or impactful to many people in their lives over here. And whether you agree or disagree with the monarchy, it's still something that's a fact of life in modern day times. Right. And I think what's interesting, at least for us, just on how influential she was, is that people were waiting 24 hours in some cases just to see her. And not even her, just to see
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It may not have been her. Just a box with a cloth over it with a crown. Now, I don't want to be sacrilegiate or anti-belief structured, but ultimately they were waiting for the opportunity to say goodbye in their own way, waiting up to 24 hours. People were having to be airlifted out and ambulance out because of the cold.
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because it did get down quite low. But that kind of dedication, we were laughing because I don't know of anyone that we would wait that long for. Dead or alive. Yeah, no, like we were thinking like Americans in our country. The quote was, I don't think we love anybody. No, I paid to see an artist for a meet and greet once and they made me wait an hour and I was already pissed.
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You're like, you know what, I don't even need this. Let's just let's go get our seats. I don't need to wait. I'm gonna be disappointed. I'm gonna be disappointed. But yes, so it was it was interesting because we came here during the time of morning. And
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you notice all the signs, but all the activities were still going. They had the period where they postponed Premier League matches, which is a big deal in England for sure. But otherwise, it seemed kind of every day other than the paraphernalia. But then you got closer to today where everything was shut down for the state funeral. I mean,
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pharmacies, any essentials that you needed, good luck because pharmacies were shut down, grocery stores. It was truly like a Christmas holiday.
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Even more so, I think that and the time up to it, the preparation, the signs that came up. Yeah, initially, every, every store had a sign that said, thank you and gratitude to the Queen, as well as the sign said, we will be closed on. Yes. And it is a bank holiday. So it is a day where they have off, but traditionally stores retailers would have been open on a bank holiday. There were no retailers open.
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Yeah, correct. So so that was so that was interesting. And I mean, the procession was normal. You could see the standard stuff go by and everything. It was pretty incredible to see the crown on top and like it truly did bling. It did.
Monarchy vs. American Celebrities
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It was it was definitely attractive as it went by. So that was but that was that was fascinating. But I wanted to ask you greatly. So influential people like you look at the monarchy. Do you think
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that there is anyone else across the world that is more at least impactful or influential for like like who are some people that come to your mind that something like this happens and people mourn for 10 days or that set up or is that just because of the structure that set up?
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I mean, we joke, right? In the US, our monarchy, our royals are the Kardashians, right? They're the ones who people love to do, you know, the rags about, you've got the National Enquirer, those things that they're always front and center. I think because we don't have monarchies, our celebrities are
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However, I will say what makes the Queen different than I think any other influential person in the world is that she shied away from sharing her opinions, her political opinions, her views. You could put on her. I think it's the same way we do with cats.
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were like, they don't have any emotion, their facial expressions are the same all the time. But we put on them our human emotions. Yes, I think the queen, not that she didn't have emotions, she was absolutely for the absurd. And she did have a sense of humor. She was definitely human. But I think because she kept such a stoic
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presentation and she did not share her political values, whatever she believed, she did not profess, she shared the beliefs of the country. In a couple cases, she definitely shared her opinion, I think about apartheid in South Africa, and I think about Brexit, I think she was a bit...
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But even then in her words, she never shared so much that would allow it to be she was swaying one way or the other. And I think that allowed her to be everybody's queen. I don't know of anyone who has the level of fortitude and character to be able to maintain a sense of service.
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at that level. I don't, I just don't, I've never met. It's impressive. And that's where you get that sense of respect that people had for her, because people probably realize like, there's no way I could, I could be like that. So it's almost like holding her on a pedestal, like, respect of an admiration, right? Truly admiration, because you can see these folks admire her, they really did, whether you, whether you like the structure or not, or appreciate the structure, you admire the person that she was. And I think the longevity shows out. I mean, look what she lived through.
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70 years in that position, that is a lot of stuff that she saw and she went through and people she met and having to balance that with other world leaders that she sees going one way or the other and her having to be truly kind of in the middle of all those things.
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That's right. I mean, she gave up so much of what we accept as being human, sharing our opinions, sharing our beliefs, sharing our attitudes, being about ourselves, somewhat self-involved. I think humans by nature being animals are somewhat entitled, self-interested. She had to give up all that to maintain the symbolism that is the monarchy.
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I'm not sure I care about anything that much to do that, but it is a level, a lesson in leadership I was not aware of or at least accepting of until I realized looking at some of the stuff that's been playing. And I grew up here, right? I grew up in England. I went to high school here and the queen at that time because of the Princess Di thing and all those pieces had a different taste, a different flavor. I think she became a grandma for a lot of people. I think for a generation, I've seen her as kind of the matriarch
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of a generation. Whereas, I mean, look at the 80s, right? The 80s was sex pistols and hating the queen and then the young ones and rebellious and then you've got the 90s would die. And then you have the 2000s, the 2010s when people needed symbolism in a country, in a world where our symbols are so fractured, she maintained a constant moderate in
The Queen's Influence and Adaptability
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the middle. And I think that's what allows people to accept her for who she is and what she is.
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more so than I think anybody else and that's that's influence at its core more so than probably anybody else and I don't have that kind of fortitude so yeah you think she liked the sex pistols you think secretly she listened to them I think secretly she probably did I think based upon some of the things about her I'm sure there's quite a bit that she passed judgment on but I think with her ribble sense of humor sure and her desire to hear a dirty joke and her desire to just be human sometimes and shed all of that yeah that
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that pomp and circumstance i think she probably did like the sex pistols totally totally i i think so you probably walked in i really like to turn the air pods on nothing at all don't mind me don't mind me just listen to some classical baroque sure sure sure
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So so we had so that's good. And I think we'll talk more. We'll weave in other things when it comes to to influence throughout because I think there's some fun things on our adventures. But what about you? I mean, do you think can you think of someone influential that she is? I don't. I can't. And I think it's it's becoming we've talked about entities before and corporations. I think it's it's really what
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for better or for worse, you mentioned the Kardashians. Well, they got their influential and impactful because of the platforms that they have. That's right. That amplifying it more and more versus old school, the queen was always like, she grew up from a standpoint, she was placed into that influential position. Right. She kept it for that long and she changed
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as you know she kept that one same way but all the stuff around her changed where I don't really think we have that in things quote influencers as it's funny we we have a name for that now influencers you know people that basically have a large following on social media so in order to become an influencer it's no longer the title you're given it's no longer the
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Other than a couple of, you know, you have your president of the United States, you have your certain things, but for the most part, influencers in someone's life is now defined by social media as someone who has a lot of followers because a lot of people watch you, you're now an influencer because the assumption is
Social Media Influencers vs. Traditional Influences
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If I watch you, I'm going to believe everything you say. So instantly I'm influenced by you, which I think is absolutely absurd, but that's just my opinion that just because I watch something or see something, I should automatically believe them because they're an influencer. But I think that's why it's a dying, it's kind of a dying breed of individuals who have a long standing influence. I think there are influencers, but I think they come and they go really fast.
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And there are rules to it. I think she understood the rules and understood how to play them. I think we in America, we love and idolize people who make lots of money. Bad humans, absolutely terrible human beings. You pick any of the top five leaders that people put on a pedestal, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs.
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Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates to some extent, I mean paying penance with this foundation, but these guys track records, human interactions. They're not great humans. They're just really good at making money, probably because they're not good humans. And you do look back at the Royals and you do look back at Royal Heredity. Heredity passed through people. They weren't exactly great people either.
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So it's interesting to have a monarch, I think, namely a set of circumstances with the fact that she took the throne, she got the throne from her father, who wasn't even supposed to have the throne.
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To his brother abdicated, he was not raised to be the king, stutter and all, and ends up trying to make sense of it. Probably a very good human knew his spot in life was not to be a royal and just be a good person and do the charitable work. Has his daughter, his daughter gets the same set of values. I mean, again, first woman to be photographed with an African American or African.
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right dancing at a thing first white person uh there's there's so many things to be thinking about how her how she got to where she is in her career which is what it is it's a career it's a life and a career it's yeah it's a career not really a life choice you were given i mean i guess you right you can abdicate but but you know she was kind of thrust into that early but yeah she did but you wonder you wonder now with the monarchy and with the pressures that they have and charles who's
Future of the Monarchy with King Charles III
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more like the socially autistic leaders that we've seen that we validate versus that kind of service oriented of the people, will we still maintain that level of influence? Will the crown maintain? Will the monarch maintain? Yeah, especially with the younger generations who social media is global. That's right. I talk about my influencers. That's not a US thing. That's a global thing.
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That's right. TikTok is everywhere. So people can watch those, you know, and I don't think King Charles III is necessarily going to be posting dances on TikTok and then giving... Although I pay to see it. Yes. I'll subscribe to that channel. Please, please, please, somebody. I will download TikTok.
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if King Charles is showing me how to do some new dances. Charles is doing the doggy. See Greg, you just aged yourself, right? It's coming back on TikTok. You hear it here first. The doggy is going to make its way back. It's back on TikTok.
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Even said on the TikTok. Oh, that's great. Yeah. So, yeah, but I don't, you know, to your question, I don't, I think there are influencers. I don't think it's anything a singular person. And to your point, I mean, you have to, you have to genuinely
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Like really love and respect a person to put like, I mean, we were, we were, we watched the funeral in a semi-public area and it was quiet. It felt like a funeral. There were, I mean, people were quiet. There was some dirty looks going when people would walk by and make too much noise. It was, it was very solemn. And I'm looking around going,
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Like I, I don't like funerals for close relatives because they're just depressing and sad and like, I mean, I love my relatives, but it's still it's just hard. But everybody just stopped like the whole country stopped, which is fascinating to me. And, you know, it gives me a different viewpoint, different expectation of what I thought when I was, you know, originally had planned to come here and then the queen passed away. And I knew that we would be right in the middle of all this.
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Had to move plans around, but at the end of the day, a day like today where we watch a funeral procession and do a podcast ends up being something that I'll remember because it was something that will never happen again. No matter what, you could have another person be over the monarchy for 70 years and it still wouldn't be the same experience because of the place and the time and the position they were in and how they came about it.
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I also don't want to live another 70 years or else. Well, so you don't want to have like your your consciousness. 130 years from now I want to be dead. I don't want to be alive anymore. Are we gonna hit 100 episodes? I need your consciousness. Man, that would be tough. Yeah, but it was it was good. But now we did move plans around, but we still had some
Exploring Harry Potter Studios
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plans. So we went
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So other than the jet lag, which was a bit wicked at first, we visited the Warner Brothers Harry Potter studios, which I know Greg, I appreciate you appeasing my wife and I as we went there on this tour. You have been load up in a bus, which
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you know, a nice bus which had a rest, a loo, sorry, had a loo built in. And a toilet. Yes. Which was, you know, it shows that I'm still a country boy. I'm like, wow, this bus has a toilet in it.
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Like wow that's that that was the highlight of that wasn't the highlight it was actually really cool there was. All the you know the movie magic stuff I think was the stuff that you you enjoyed the most of his problems the props which is like oh look it's Dumbledore's you know.
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coat, wand, robe, you know, all that stuff. But then it was like, OK, here's how we did all these scenes, which is really impressive considering we look at things now and just kind of, you know, whatever. But you think about these were made in 2001 through 2011. Right. Ten years is a long time for cinematics and movie like.
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you know when it comes to all the special effects and everything now versus versus in the past we talked about cgi how that does right and that doesn't even keep well but but yeah it was it was a lot of fun the the snacks were not good um the food was standard sub sub par food court cafeteria yeah cafeteria food there's one dessert that was good but uh what was your like being somebody who's not a huge harry potter fan
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But loves movies, right? But loves movies. What was your because because I think when we left, I coined the term. What did it what was it information surplus that you got from this because we were talking about how you enjoyed the experience and did it meet your expectations? And I think you got an information surplus out of it. So in other words, you benefited more than you felt you was, you know, was worth was worth what you paid. But what was your like, what was your highlight from that?
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I mean, I think I think Harry Potter, it's interesting, I am not not a huge Harry Potter fan, as you stated, but the wherewithal of the team that put the movie together, the sets that they built, the the depth that they took and the workmanship that they in time they took to build these giant sets that I think only happens if you have a 10 year or a five year or something you understand the run is going to be that it's going to be a journey, you know,
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And the fan base that's there, that's keeping this alive, this Harry Potter thing was insane. I mean, it's just amazing that people dress up to go to a studio tour about set pieces. Yes.
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But the tricks that they use were impressive. I mean, a lot of the movie wasn't CG. A lot of the things that they did were physical props. They enhanced it with CG. But I thought, you know, I think the coolest part for me was learning about how they made these plaster columns and put paper over those plaster columns that looks like marble and then lacquer that to make it look like solid. And it does. Even up close, it looks like solid marble. The idea that they went to those lengths to build out that with acrylic, et cetera.
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It gives you a sense of pride that these workmen had for these sets, what, 78,000 pieces of gold for the treasure scene that they actually made, they rubber made these. Rubber made these and then after the fact duplicated them and building
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you know, different platform, like physical platform structures to make it look like it's rising. Like, that's all they could have easily, you know, today's day and age, CGI, you know, done CGI, and they did to enhance it, but to enhance it, but not like the amount of Oh, yeah, we're gonna do 38,000 of these things and produce them all in a short time. That was, it was impressive. And that was in to your point, like seeing some of the things you look at, you go,
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Oh, wow. That seems so simple to make it look like marble. Right. You know, like, like, why didn't I think of that in my wedding? I could have put some of those up and people thought I was in a really nice venue instead of my backyard. But but yeah, so it was it was cool. And I mean, I think I think for me, being somebody who is.
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you know, I'm a Harry Potter fan. I mean, I don't have like tattoo Harry Potter tattoos on my body. I'm not that level of fan. But at the same time, I really enjoyed and I enjoyed the books. You know, to me, it was a slice of nostalgia seeing that and then just to your point hearing about all the people that put the time that you see the actors, but then you see all the people that put they said they talked about how it was a family. That's right. Truly a family to go in all that. And I think that's the whole part that's
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interesting to get it behind the scenes of any movie, but especially like a long running series when you think of all these series is where these people are living together. I mean, they literally, especially with Harry Potter, they grew up together. They were there. They said they were their parents, their counselors, their, you know,
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you know, friends, family, you name it, they were all there in that, you know, in that studio in those confined places. So it was very interesting to me as well. And I think I would, I would recommend it. It's not something typically that, you know, I mean, you, you do have to be a pretty big fan. You've got to understand the series or you're not going to catch a lot of it.
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Yeah, a lot. But if you've seen the movies, and you appreciate movies, you don't have to be a superfan to really get some to get value out of there. And it's self paced, right? So you can read and do the audio guide for every single thing. Or you can just, you know, kind of breeze through it and hit the parts that you really enjoy.
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And it's very different than if you go to like Universal Studios or some other set tours where they show you these kind of movie magic quote unquote things where they try to show you jaws coming out of the water. This is really a mover movie lovers kind of experience.
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of seeing the actual pieces there, the walls that are built up to make Dumbledore's tower. You get a sense of movie making and it's grandeur and all the tricks that they do to make it feel real on screen. And when you get there, it makes it feel a lot more. I mean, there's an element of ruining the illusion because you are seeing it for what it actually is. Yep, yep, yep. I'll never look at Quidditch the same.
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But even the last thing in the treasure room, the actual gold cup that he tries to get is, I mean, it's the size of probably a man's palm because it was designed to be illusion. Right. It was designed to be the illusion of being far away. So it's very small, whereas it's very big. And I think those little pieces, you'll lose some of that magic, but at the same time, it's also an awe and a sense of just
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purpose that each of these people that made a movie did. And I think that's, that's probably something that yes, probably mostly a Harry Potter fan is going to appreciate the most, but I think any movie lover will enjoy it. Yes, would enjoy that. Yeah. So that was, I mean, that was fun. I enjoyed that. Like we did.
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You had an exploration day, right? You went to a bunch of art museums. Well, my wife and I did.
Tourist Adventures in England
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We did the standard Windsor Castle, which was closed down. So we got the walking tour. We went and saw some rocks, i.e. we saw Stonehenge. Which actually, I joke, I say we saw some rocks. It was actually pretty cool. You know, some people say it's overwhelming, underwhelming.
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it was it was whelming but it was it was interesting to walk around and see like to see you know to hear about it to read about it and and really for me i had low expectations and so for me it was it was good i was like hey this is cool and then we went to bath
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And that was, that was neat, you know, quaint little town, see the Roman baths, you know, walk through there. I wish we would had more time, but it was a, it was a jam packed day because so we did, we did a day of the touristy things, you know, see, take a day tour, see all those tours, but I know you went to
00:24:01
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Victoria and Albert Museum. Where else did you go? So I went to the history of Brands Museum. Yeah, which is one that I really, if I had more time, if things were open today, I would probably be like, all right, I'm going to walk to the Brand Museum.
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History of Brands Museum. I did the National Gallery, but that was only just to see one painting. So I just zoomed around that museum. Did they look at you weird? Definitely. Like, what does that guy do? He's just in different rooms, just trying to find the paint. I should have asked somebody. But everybody looks so solemn and disgruntled with their job. I wasn't going to stop. No, that's the I'm Observing Art look. Do you not know the I'm Observing Art look? These are people who worked there, Ross.
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But okay, I'm protecting art. And then I went to the Victoria Albert. So the history of brands museum was cool. Cause I had to walk through Holland park, went up to Portobello road market. I've done all these things, but it was nice to just do the walk and it was nice to do that again. And the history of brands museum was very cool. It was a lot of the Britain as it's as told through consumerism.
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And so you see all the things like the Queen's jubbly, the fact that like now that Chinese makers are sending crockery here and misspelled the word Jubilee to be jubbly.
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and it was delivered for her platinum jubilee. The platinum jubilee. So that was cool to see the history and consumerism move through the World War II, World War I, World War II, how people cope with that through consumerism. Same as the U.S. I mean, did you see a trend is like, I mean, the U.S. is obviously way, way younger as a country than Britain, but during the same times and you see how things advance, like,
00:25:45
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the marketing, the branding, things and everything. Was it similar? I mean, you see it as like, okay, yeah, like things in the US, like not that you were around in the 50s. But same, same, same, same style, like same consumerism is global. Right. And I think while things change, though, from the, from the 20s, 30s, 40s, I mean, so cigarette ads, I mean, obviously, we don't have those anymore. Yeah. But like cigarette ads, a lot of stuff geared at men, older men, actually. Okay.
00:26:13
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with cigarette ads and tobacco with women on things. Love the little stove from the Victorian era where they had methylated spirits for little kids to cook with. That's healthy. That's special. But what I thought was interesting is as you started to get more consumerism in the 60s, a lot of ideas changed about what people would advertise to. So you had a lot more of the teenager, the rise of the teenagers, rise of consumerism to them. And that, of course, progresses dramatically through the 80s into the 90s with
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the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls and all those pieces of England to one direction for really the late 2000s. So the teens, the 2010s, etc. So you see that change whereas previously you didn't have so much of the teeny bopper investment. But overall,
00:27:02
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definitely advertising to kids with the advent of television. That's where you start to see a lot more consumerism. The idea that the shopping mall, the supermarket, you no longer were relying on an ad from a magazine to go to your shopkeeper to say, hey, I want to get these kind of beans. You went in and found it yourself. You found it yourself. So then ads changed. Marketing on the packaging, whereas previously packaging was, I mean, like they had a can, yeah, they had a can of Nestle cocoa.
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And it was just a very nondescript can of black, black tin that said Nestle cocoa versus, Hey, I want to get your attention. All of a sudden colors. You had the nest quick character. You had the Q buddy and all this stuff. So, so a lot of that, that changed with, with marketing. And I think that was a really interesting walkthrough, especially because British sensibilities are a little different than Americans.
Evolution of Marketing and Branding
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Yes. Yes. Yeah. And I mean, as, as a.
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as a self-professed marketing junkie, brand junkie as I am, i.e. I have a minor in marketing, but that's all that means. I really enjoy how the methods have changed to get someone's attention because they've adapted to how we purchase and how it's continued to change over time.
00:28:16
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and the use of going back to influence and influencers, the use of people to sell that and characters and putting likenesses on things in order to sell a product because, hey, this person uses it, or don't you want to be like this person? To nowadays, hey, I use this. Like, influence are basically the old commercials from the 50s and 60s or the shows where all of a sudden they pick something up and they're showing it.
00:28:42
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Is that not what our influencers do now? They're hawking the same thing. It all comes around full circle. I don't think there's any sort of new idea out there like we're recycling everything. And I think it still applies for whether it's fashion, which we will have a fashion episode soon, whether it's fashion, whether it's advertising, all of those things. We're just recycling the methods and adopting to the way people buy and the way people interact with the things now, because we go from
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What's interesting to me is we went from buying from, you know, to your point, an ad here, I need to purchase this to I go to find it. And now we're back to going online somewhere and ordering something. That's right. And it's just a different way of ordering it and someone gets it for us. We just have more, more stimuli.
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Right. I mean, at the end, at the end of all of this, we're animals that are not changed fundamentally in 50,000 years. Our brains are exactly wired the same way they've always been. Right. And we're always shocked that somehow we're going to end up being somewhat like an animal at some point in our life. But we are. And so we are prone to the same stimuli, the same psychological wizardry, the same level of investment. And those who have the money will always, will always influence those who have money to spend.
00:30:00
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But the more money you have, the more you're able to influence. And then you see in political campaigns, et cetera, which I think wrapping it all back up, I think that's one of the things that's most interesting about influence from like the queen is her platform is essentially granted to her through her identity. She has very little platform in which to be influential. Right. Besides, I mean, besides being on the money.
00:30:23
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I got this baller crown. Yeah, that's right. Other than that. Yeah. And and yet today with the death of the queen.
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00:30:31
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You can see that influence lasting longer than any sort of advertisement could have possibly been. People have projected onto her everything that they believe about being British or English or even part of the Commonwealth onto her. And I think that is uniquely special about influence versus kind of the brands, which are trying to force someone to believe that sugar smacks are going to somehow make you jump higher.
00:30:54
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or you're gonna get the girls if you use this perfume or if hey look if you smoke johnny player specials you know the girls will find you irresistible like i yeah no it's not it's but
00:31:07
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it will always be there. And by the way, smoking is still very huge, huge, huge, huge here. I was very surprised. Very surprised. So, um, all right. Well, we have a ton more content. So I think what we're going to do is we've still got a couple of days left. We do. So we're going to do a part two of this bad boy. All right. And we're going to talk about, Oh man, we've got,
00:31:31
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We've got tea that we're going to go to. We've got the scotch broker. We've got a scotch broker. We've got to talk about who the heck Gage Pineapple is. Who's Gage Pineapple? Who is Gage Pineapple? We've got to understand who Gage Pineapple is. We've got to talk about Ross's new favorite phrase of winds me up. Wines me up. That's right. It really winds me up.
00:31:52
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And I was probably one of the people that wound this dude up because you know, I'm a real riler up And we I mean The travel here. Yeah, like like there's so much so much content I mean we could do part two and three but I want to be respectful of people you know your commute to work for the four of you are listening is probably about over and You know, so I figured we keep it short But we'll keep you hanging on to on for the next one to hear about who's gauge pineapple and how did
00:32:22
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How did tea go with Ross who doesn't like tea and never dresses up? So that'll be, it's going to be a fun experience, but we're doing that and that's not for me. And oh, English football. Yes. Premier league. Oh yeah, for sure. Premier league in a pub. Wow. Mind blown. Loved it. So we will be back and of course we'll make it into double digits. That's right. Episode 10 London part two coming soon.
00:32:49
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And it might actually be next on your playlist depending on when we get this bad boy recorded. So thank you everyone for listening. Greg, in person. In person. It was great. We'll do this again for episode 100.
00:33:04
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We're going to be a while. Well, I mean, well, yeah, it'll, it'll be, well, maybe we'll do it internationally. Again, we'll take it on the road somewhere else, you know, and maybe we'll have a couple of people in the audience as opposed to us just hanging out and people be like, what are they talking about? So, all right, Greg, as always, it's a pleasure. Same.
00:33:27
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