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Episode 10 - Londonium Pt. 2
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Gregg and Ross continue their discussions of their trip to London.
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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.
Anticipation for London Trip Part 2
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to episode number 10 of Unmotivated and Unprepared. I'm Ross. And I'm Greg. And it's been a while, Greg. Man, we've been promising London part two. We've got people on the edge of their seats. And if they listened to part one, they learned, I guess, one of two things,
Enhancing the Podcast's Audio Experience
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Greg. Either you're loud or I'm quiet. But I think the correct answer is yes.
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Yes, absolutely. So now that we're back to being in our own hovels, I think we can try to adjust the audio as best possible for the optimal listening experience for our listeners who've managed to hang on to get us into double digits.
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I think today we're going to continue with our London exploits, because when we recorded it, we still had quite a few things to do. And I think we'll go through the punch list.
Teaser: Who is Gage Pineapple?
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I think we did promise people that we would talk about who Gage Pineapple was. So we'll cover Gage Pineapple here in a little bit. If the mysterious, I feel like we need
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We'll happen to have a whole other podcast on that one. So gather, gather clues. Uh, but one of the things, you know, we all had our.
Exploring London: Tea and Club Visits
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I guess our things, right? Because we went, you, me, and my wife all met up there. And we each had our one thing that we really wanted to do. And I'll start with the most important one, which would be my wife's thing that she wanted to do, which was she wanted to do like English tea. She wanted to go to tea. And so we
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You fortunately, and when I tell this story, everybody said, man, what I learned from this is travel with Greg. That's what everybody says, right? So you happen to have a reciprocal membership to a fancy club. What was it? The National Liberals Club? Yeah, the National Liberals Club, right? Yep. Yeah. So how did you stumble upon like this? Like when we said we want to go, we want to get tea.
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Like, what is the Greg methodology for finding a place for tea in London? Well, whenever I travel now, I try to look. So you join a club, you join the membership of a private social club. So that's it, whether it's a country club or a business club or whatever it is.
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And I think you're remiss if you don't think that, hey, they have reciprocal memberships. Let's make sure that I check that out. If we're going somewhere, let me check to see what clubs I have access to. Whether you're planning on using them or not, just to know that you have access to that club is something you can use. So I knew we were going to London and I looked at the different options that we had. There was four potential clubs we could have visited. The one that had an afternoon tea that they had in the menu,
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that was well regarded was a National Liberals Club, which also happened to be Winston Churchill's Club, when Winston Churchill was alive and a politician. Yeah, that's not intimidating when you walk in, you see a big painting of people, and then you say, oh, well, here's Winston Churchill membership. Oh, okay, sweet.
Experiencing High Tea and Scotch Tasting
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Yeah, giant painting in the foyer, right? Yeah, yeah.
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And it was very hyper-formal. Americans don't really have clubs like this, I don't think. I mean, maybe New York does, but most places, they're not as... I felt like we went back in time, the time of Phineas Fogg and around the world in 80 days, or Phineas Fogg and around the world, I think it's Phineas, Phineas Fogg and around the world in 80 days.
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You felt like that you felt like there was a smoking room where guys were sitting around smoking cigars, reading the newspaper and talking about today's events that that evokes that that I don't know about you Ross, but that's what it evoked in my mind with a big high back leather chairs. Oh, totally. And the taxidermy. It just it had that air of this is 400 years 300 years older.
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Yeah, I think I think when I reflect on a lot of our travels, there was I had many moments of I feel out of place, you know, and I think that was definitely an I feel out of place. I mean, I mean, setting the stage, right? Like one, I had to wear, you know, a sport coat, which
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um unlike you who we will at one point talk about fashion and you know playing dress up and sense i'm like i had to go buy one for this trip because i didn't have one that fit me like well it's just like kind of draped over me all my other ones you know it's like a sheet uh so so one you know you we roll in into this place and like
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For those listening, Greg's got all of his stuff ready and talks to the gentleman at the front. And the dude pulls out this old dusty book from off the shelf to confirm the reciprocal membership. Dust kind of wipes it off. I'll do a little ASMR. It kind of blows on it.
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kind of get all the dust off and oh yep there it is okay yeah you can you can comment like like step number one you know you know unlocked door number one you know to get into this fancy place but yeah you're right it was very very opulent but very old school you know very very old school so feeling out of place yet yes but i think what was cool about it was
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to your point, going there, seeing things happening, but then also sitting out on the balcony having delicious tea, which I'm not a big tea drinker. So that's something that was something different for me. But then just having that whole, you know, having that whole experience throughout thinking like Winston Churchill could have been making deals here a few years ago.
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What I found interesting is, and I need to remind myself to remind my club about this, the interesting part was no one had us on a reservation. They just had, yep, you're part of that club. I had a letter that said very officially that we came to see. Well, you didn't send a telegram. You didn't send a telegram to them, Greg. I forgot. I forgot the telegram. So we show up, we show up, and we get to the top of the
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the stairs and we talked to the maitre d of the little restaurant. So we have tea at 3pm. And at this point, you can look in his face. He's like, wait, I don't have you on my on my agenda. I don't have you on my schedule.
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And let me go check with the chef. He comes back and goes, no problem. Just let us know where you want to sit and we'll serve you. And we go and sit down. And there's a lengthy wait between when we actually sit down to when food arrives. And we realize at this point that they had made everything fresh. All the scones and everything had just been made. They were all hot. We realized at this point, we had probably put out the chef, but they were not going to lose face.
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with my official letter that said we could be there. Yes. Yes. Official letter. That's right. Like you could tell he was, he was a bit, he was a bit taken aback, but he managed to quote fit us in, you know, to, to the busy schedules they had. So yeah. So that was, it was interesting. I mean, it was a good time. And I think honestly, I think the fascinating thing you had mentioned this was that, uh,
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They hadn't allowed women into that club until, I wouldn't say a few years ago, but a couple of, I guess it was a couple of decades ago, correct? Right. I think it was a couple of decades ago. We read that on the wall that it wasn't a co-ed club for almost its history.
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Yeah, so so that was very is very is very interesting to me how like times are changing, but there's still places that are Catching up from from that standpoint. So yeah, so that was delicious and we had that and then we But before that though, so that was that was my wife's request and and I think she thoroughly enjoyed it It was very good. But your request Greg
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which we've talked about before was you had mentioned over text that you wanted to go talk to your Scotch broker, which I thought you had said stock broker. And we talked about that in a previous episode about what that was. But, um, we rolled into that place and
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Once again, just by happenstance, we go up to the place and we're kind of confused. I mean, they drive on the opposite side of the road. So we're trying to kind of confuse, trying to find which room we're supposed to go to. And everything's kind of locked. Our key cards didn't work in this building, this visitor pass that they gave us. And then some random Brit walks by. And Greg, of course, is like, hey, I'm here for my scotch tasting.
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And what did you say? You're looking for, what's his name? Josh. Josh. We were looking for Josh. Josh. Looking for Josh. And what proceeds to happen, Greg? The dude looks at you and what does he say? So yeah, we walk up to the door, we walk up to the door, we put our key card in there. It's not working. The guy told us exactly what we should be doing. And he says, this guy stops. He says, hey, you should probably go back downstairs and then get access if you have to be in one of these rooms.
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And he said, what are you looking for? I said, well, I have an appointment with cash trade with my broker. And he goes, do you remember his name? And I said, yes, his name is Josh. He goes, well, I'm Josh.
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And you can see on his face that he was like, wait, wait, did I have an appointment today? And he's starting to, the gears are starting to work in his mind. And he's like, oh, wait, yes. You have tea at three o'clock. Yes. I remember our conversations. Yes. Okay. And it was a lot of apologies. So many apologies of that. It didn't, he didn't have us in, what do you say? His diary. We weren't in his diary.
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And to translate for those listening, diary equals Outlook calendar still. Outlook calendar, yeah. And we walk in and the face of his colleagues realizing that he had no idea that he had as an appointment and we're clients from America, they definitely were what they say, taking the piss. They were definitely making fun of him. Yes, they totally were.
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Yeah. You could, you could hear, I could hear his head going, dammit, Susan, why didn't you schedule this? But yeah, or a Pete, you know, like there was nobody there scheduled like Eddie. And we saw him pull up his calendar. He was wide open that day. So poor, poor dude, poor dude thought he was just going to have a day of researching different
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Barrels of scotch and then like all of a sudden the Americans roll it and it's not just Greg He's got two other two other folks in tow too. So now he's like, oh man This could be like a big deal-making day and I had no clue. So that was that was it was a Interesting start right so then we get we get shuffled into the room right Greg and was this was this what you were expecting for the experience and
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I had no idea. So I bought my first cask from this company, Site Unseen. I never even tasted it. I knew what I wanted to buy. I knew what scotch I wanted to purchase. And I did what I always tend to do when I buy things. I already have done all the research. You don't have to sell me. I'm already here to show you. I have money. I want to purchase this thing.
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and so it wasn't a one of these deals but this time around I didn't know what to buy the second time and so and being in person he actually laid out several bottles of scotch for us to try and we'll talk about that experience just a second but you're right I had no idea what actually is supposed to look like when you purchase a casket of whiskey so yeah so so he so he lays these out and he finds out that
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Greg is a whiskey connoisseur. He loves his scotch. My wife had some bad experiences years ago where she's like, I don't really like whiskey.
Whiskey Tasting: A First for Ross
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And then you had Ross who's like, I don't like the taste of alcohol.
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So I'm sure this guy's thinking his head like, well, I hope this Ross guy is loaded with money because I'm not going to give him good scotch. So what did he say? He said, I'm going to give you something to try for the experience that we could pour out, i.e. something that we have a lot of. He's not going to waste.
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the triple digit, you know, priced scotch on, on, on, on this guy here, like no, no chance. So, so, so we had what for, and I don't know, you call them like the little glasses. We had Glenn Karen, we had Glenn Karen glasses. He, which is the, which looks, it's a nosing glass for scotch whiskey, very pretentiously looking light upside down light bulb with the end turtle off of it. But that's what I always think of it. It looks like an upside down light bulb.
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Yeah, that's a good point. It does it does and then we and then so then you We went through and he explained the science for me even though you I mean you already knew the science do the whole hold the hand over heat it up let the
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let the everything else go. So like, is that how you, because that how you kind of learned when you got into that? Did you do that type of thing? Or did you learn anything from him as he was talking through that? Or you kind of knew all the facts and the science of it all? I think from the science perspective, I knew most about I mean, I've been drinking whiskey for years, and I love to talk about whiskey. So a lot of the things that he was doing, I was very familiar with those pieces of it.
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what temperature does to it if you had a little bit of water, what it does to it, the nosing pieces of it. And it was a good reminder too that don't lead the drinker. Don't lead the drinker. Let them discover their flavor palates from the whiskey and don't lead them in that process, which I thought was a nice one, of what flavors are you getting off of the whiskey.
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But from the science perspective, I didn't. But I learned a lot about different, unique things that distillators do. And I always knew they do fun things, but there was a plenty to learn there with the scotches that we got into, which is ones that you think of it being unpeded or ones that do not have a strong smoke to them.
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you'll have some that they make an expression that's smoky, that's competitive with another very super smoky skies. Those were unique things. And when you live there, you forget if you have access to that level of volume and that level of competition, that they're all sorts of different flavors that they've they've created in their history, which we don't get here. We don't get here in the United States.
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Yeah. It truly is like, it truly is like a chemistry thing, right? Like I was blown away. Like my quote untrained nose, you know, was like, I could actually smell and like peed it and not like I was like, Ooh, well like that I can actually, I can actually smell that versus you're like, you're smelling notes of X, Y, and Z. And I'm like, I don't know. I just smell burning, you know, like I'm not right. And then I tasted burning because yes, folks, I tried whiskey for the first time.
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You know, hold it in your mouth, all that stuff. Breathe out. Ooh. Wow. You tried it. Thank you. You tried it. Hey, I, I, you, I will try most things at least once, usually twice, just in case, because I'm like, maybe I just had a bad, bad thought in my head about it. So, but yeah, it was, it was, wasn't bad. Now you ended up, you ended up, you did buy, you did buy a cask, correct? I did. Yep. Bought a cask with Tamina Vollen.
Investing in Whiskey Casks: Art or Not?
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Yeah. Tamina Vollen. Yep.
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Okay. And, um, have you had any of that since you bought, I mean, obviously you're not drinking from your cask. Like we've talked about how that works the best, but, but have you had any of that? Have you found any of that anywhere near you since you've been back?
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No, actually, Charlotte. So North Carolina is a terrible place to get whiskey. Terrible place. And I have to drive to South Carolina to get whiskey if I want to, which isn't that far. It's a 30 minute drive. But Texas has much greater quantities of it. And Tamanavulin happens to be located there. So when I come to come to San Antonio, and two weeks, I will be purchasing some bottles of Tamanavulin to bring back with me. Yeah, into my collection.
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bring it there. So you're like, I've got some of that. I'm a purchaser. You know, it's kind of like an art thing, you know? I'm investing in that. I'm investing in that. Yeah. So it is looking forward to doing that. But it was nice to do. I mean, it's an investment, right? It's for making money. It's not. It's yes, you like the product, but it's the same as buying art. I mean, hopefully you buy art and like to look at the art. You're not just buying it because
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you're trying to make a lot of money off of it. Yeah, it's kind of both. There's icing on the cake with some of it, right? You appreciate it, you appreciate what it is, and if you can make some money on it, great. But it's really more of being part of that, continuing that industry and that market because you're a part of it, you appreciate it.
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That's right. So then, so then we were, you know, so after that we were thoroughly sauced. No, I'm just kidding. They don't, by the way, that's the misconception. American, Americans, like distilleries, they're, they don't, they tend to pour you a lot. They tend to pour you heavy pours. And so you tend to get, I mean, because I think a lot of times Americans, that's what they do. They, they go to get drunk, but
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but in scotch that you don't want to ruin your palate. Your goal is to taste it. Yeah, it was a small amount. Yeah, it was a very small amount. I mean, very tiny amount. Just enough to get a smell and to get a taste of it on your tongue, like in your palate. But yes, I mean, the guy was very happy when he made the deal. Then he kind of busted out the like, oh, I won't tell the boss man, but I'm going to give you some of this expensive stuff. Standard, he still, I mean, he made commission.
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He had a good dinner that night, you know, he was happy for it. But we did stop by and buy you a hat, we bought you a cap, a hat. Once again, we will still have a fashion episode because I know nothing about it.
Fashion and Hat Shopping Adventures
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I tried on a news boy that my wife proceeded to tell me, when would you ever wear that? And I was like, well, next time we go to London, she's like, okay, well then in eight or 10 years you can.
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we can come back and you could try it on and be satisfied. So I, I've showed that picture. I took a picture of me and the news boy and people were like, yeah, that looks really good. And I'm like, don't question Greg. He knew what would look good for my, you know, for like my face shape or whatever. So like it actually worked out. It worked out really well. Um, I did have one employee being like, it's good that you didn't buy it. I'm like, ouch, ouch. But you know, everybody thought I looked straight out of like Peaky blinders or something.
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It looked good on you. I mean, it was a good look. But again, you don't wear hats. There's no reason to purchase something. There's no reason to purchase something you're not going to wear. But I think it's the same thing. I tell the story of when I took one of my employees when I was running Cyber Threat, a classic IT guy, I took him to
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San Francisco, we were at a conference and I took him to Bloomingdale's, Bloomingdale's to try on a pair of Italian leather shoes, $550 shoes, which he would never buy, right? I mean, $100 pair of shoes at that time, he would never even purchase. I mean, he's wearing a pair of vans. But the idea of putting them on in the way that he immediately changed his walk, immediately how he felt in those shoes, you could see it on his face that he recognized the value of some of these purchases. But again,
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Probably not enough to not enough to purchase it at that price but understands like why someone might want to wear that as part of their costume Yeah, it gives you it gives you some confidence gives you some swagger and I mean we walked by we went to Savile Savile Row right Savile Rose. That's right. Yeah. Yeah R.O.W. Yeah Savile which is where all the most prestigious
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tailors are, or the most prestigious. I mean, you go by and you see, like, hey, we did stuff for the queen. We did stuff for, well, who is now the new king? So it's like, oh, these people are... You don't just roll in there and be like, hey, you have something that just fits a 16R or whatever, the sizes, whatever. No, no, no. They measure
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This is what I told you when we were there. So if you gain a pound, you need to go back and re-measure. That's how well-tailored these things are. But it was interesting to just even window shop and see, to use the word again, the opulence, the extravagance of all of it. So it was very good.
Theater Experience: Watching 'Dear Evan Hansen'
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It was fun. And then, man, that was a day. I'm glad we had a
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Not, not the circumstances, but I'm glad we kind of had a rest day the day before with the Queen ceremony and everything. Cause it was a packed day. Cause then we went, we went to, went to the West end, right? We saw Dear Evan Hansen, which was very good. And I was, I was thinking about that. Like he, the actor who played Evan won, uh, what award did he win? He won the Olivier award.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so kind of not, not quite the equivalent of an American Tony, but like a very, I mean, it's a very prestigious, I mean, a prestigious acting award. And I was thinking about, I was like, I don't ever think I've seen, like, I've never seen an original Broadway run of a show in New York. I've seen the touring shows. I don't think I've ever seen like that caliber
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of acting of a run. And it was very good. It was an emotional show, highly recommended to people. But sadly, one of the things I remember the most was about 10, 15 minutes into the show.
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Greg knows where I'm going. Um, we're sitting there and like about two rows up to our right. There's some people who come in late and they're walking and they must have stepped on a guy's foot or something. Cause this guy just shouts out.
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And I'm like totally distracted from everything else. Thinking in my head like, one, rude to come in late, sorry, just is. But then the other thing, you step on the guy and then how loud he exclaims it out was just,
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I was just fanned out so so funny but like it was it was good it was good I'm glad we went but do you would you would you do something like that again like the whole thing or is that something that yeah I've done it before I I like the West End I think there's a difference right there's a caliber difference between
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There's the Broadway shows, which I think is the pinnacle of musicals, right? Just because they can demand what they do. They also pay a lot higher. I mean, we looked it up the other day. They make significantly more money at being a star on a Broadway show than you do at the West. What the West End was, what, $47,000? That's the salary for a lead singer at West End? Dear Evan Hansen, you're going to need another job, you know, basically is what they're trying to say, especially in London. So I think
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I like West End musicals. I like I like musicals in general. I think that
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Overall, I never really get into the giant ones. I kind of like more of the sticky ones because I think they're more fun that way. I think the more campy it is, the more fun it is. Dear Evan Hansen got had, I think it was fun enough, but it had definitely some awkward moments where I felt too relatable to the character. We were like, Oh man, don't do that. Don't lie. Don't say that. Oh, not to your moms. Yeah. But it tells you how well the writing is if you can have a feeling or an emotion associated to it.
Broadway vs. West End: Musical Styles
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Yeah, I definitely do more shows. I love to go to shows, but I am the same person who goes to local musicals. I like local theater just as much as I like big productions, I think. But there are people who go to local productions, especially those people who have the kind of money that it takes, who live in London, who go to West End shows every time a new one shows up. I don't think I'm that person. It has to be something special to go to a show of that size, that cost.
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Yeah, yeah, and I think we we missed Moulin Rouge. They had just finished and I didn't realize that the Moulin Rouge one, they redid the songs. There's new songs. We were, I was listening to stuff and they actually redid to modernize some of the songs, which I actually kind of like the songs. I listened to them on Pick Your Music streaming of choice, but highly recommend going out there and listening to it. They were actually pretty good. They were they were newer ones.
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love the original I love Moulin Rouge but like the Broadway ones are actually kind of fun so I was I was bummed that that run had already ended because I think that's what we had initially looked at was hey let's go to Moulin Rouge and then once we found out that was ending in like August we started going down the trail of what are some other ones so
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Yeah, well, it fascinates me, though, Ross, I was thinking about this when I listened to show tunes, because as they are, they're show tunes. It doesn't matter. Oh, yeah, 100%. Like, there's the rock opera songs of Les Mis and Family Operate, which are operatic, right? They're big, huge rock opera songs.
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Old songs. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have greatest showmen and you're of enhancing and legally blonde the musical. And I mean, they all sound the same. They all have that same style of talking, singing, like big, big, you know, what are they? I don't know what they call those things, big solos, but they're all relatively the same. Like they all kind of have a similar sound that you can just. Yeah. I mean, I think there are exceptions. I think people like things like rent or.
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Moulin Rouge or Les Mis or whatever because those are big huge operas. Yeah, they're very different. Rent is a big operatic musical. But yeah, I always find it funny when you go to a musical and you listen to songs like this could be Oliver. Like this really could just be Oliver Twist. Like it doesn't sound any different. Yeah, similar thing.
00:27:21
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Yeah. And then it's always funny when they convert somebody like Green Day to musical, and now you're listening to Green Day as a musical, and it just sounds again like Oliver. You're just like, well, this guy is Oliver singing Green Day lyrics. Green Day show too. It's always the same. It's the same.
00:27:38
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Yes. Yeah. So that's why I think, yeah, you're right. That's why when something unique comes out and wins, it's either the material is very groundbreaking or controversial, or they did something completely different with the musical style. And that's really what changes people. That's why that's what gets people listening and like wanting to go and see that and experience that. Cause it's something different. Like our, our brains get wired. So.
00:28:03
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Yeah, I didn't know. So so I'll tell you, man, the one thing that I thought was weird is I read the backstory on the Evan Hansen thing, he's supposed to be, he's supposed to have social anxiety. But it was almost like they played him autistic. They played him very different than just being socially anxious.
00:28:19
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Yeah, yeah, he did. And it did look like he was on the spectrum, from the sense of how he acted and how he played. I mean, the actor did a phenomenal job of playing off that sense of anxiety. And I think he did have that, but you're right. I think it was almost more than that.
00:28:37
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Yeah, I just thought it was interesting because I think anybody since anybody has moments of not ruining it for any listeners of our seven people that tune in. But the social anxiety aspect, I think all of us have had moments where we've been socially anxious, but to have it at the crippling level that he has and the ticks and things that he did, I thought was an interesting approach to the actor took to a story that may or may not have needed to have as much of a
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that to tell the story. So I find that interesting. I also find interesting is done. It's over. Like it's done. The run for Dear Evan Hansen ended in Broadway earlier this year. It ends in the West End this year. So it ended yesterday. Yesterday was the last show.
00:29:24
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Yes, it was last show. Let it be known, man. Yeah, so that was good. And I think that was a good way to wrap up that day. And that was our last that was our last full day. I think the day of two days before we did some exploring and we started off with full English because I know that you were excited about getting a
00:29:44
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You gotta go to London, you gotta have a full English breakfast. I still don't understand beans on toast, so I know it's a thing. Or blood pudding, or blood pudding. Or blood pudding, I don't get it. But the thing, while we wrap up this episode and our trip, I think there was one thing I wanted to do, which was,
Football Match in a London Pub
00:30:11
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Just watch a football match in a pub around some rabid fans. And I think I got that. I got my experience. We finished. And all of the, I'm glad we didn't actually buy tickets because everything was pushed because of the Queen stuff. So anybody who was supposed to be playing in London was postponed. But Arsenal, which is a London team, was playing away. And we found a pub in a very,
00:30:41
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I'd say local part of town, not a touristy part of town called the 12 pins. And I looked it up and everybody was like, Hey, you want to go watch an arsenal match? This is where you go. This is where you go. And I was like, I was skeptical, but I'm like, Hey, the interweb says so, so we'll go there. Um,
00:31:00
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They weren't wrong. The internet was correct in this sense. We walk in and I think you were the one Greg who says, you walk in wearing the wrong color in that one and the lady up front is going to be like, sweetie, I'm going to need you to leave for your own safety. Walk in wall to wall, arsenal shirts. Everybody's wearing red. That's why I had some muted form of red that I was wearing that day because I knew I wanted to be safe.
00:31:29
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Weaved around I couldn't hear no one could hear me because clearly you've heard the other podcast My voice is very very quiet and in a loud pub not going to happen We actually managed to find a little bitty table off in the corner Which was fantastic kind of out of the way you could still see I mean they had the projector going The whole pub looked like it was closed because you don't want any light blaring onto the screen You want to be able to see the match?
00:31:52
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And so we got there, we got there a little late, but right after, right after halftime, um, five minutes into the second, second half arsenal scores. And I mean, it was just like.
00:32:06
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I'm like so loud. Like it was great. People high five and yelling. I mean, even at the replay, you know, I mean, it was, it was cool. And I was, I was happy. I was like, this, this is, I think what I wrote about it in my journal, I put, I tagged it as, cause you know, I digitally journal like a nerd. I tagged it as very excited. Like, that was, that was, that was good. That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it. Y'all had some cider, right? Like, is that what you had? You had some, had some cider.
00:32:35
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Um, and so that was, it was a good, it was good times had by all. And I mean, I'm telling you that match ended. They won, which was a good thing. And it was like within 30 seconds, an unassuming pub with like three other people in their other than us. Totally empty. It was amazing how
00:32:55
Speaker
just swarm in on it, watch it and then leave. I mean, I'm sure they made like a week's worth of what they normally make in that one match. Like is what they, because just of the amount of people just having drinks and eating and everything else there. But it was, it was a lot of fun. I got to experience a definitely a bucket list item for me. So, uh, it was, it was fun to experience the energy because I don't think like we love our American football here, but
00:33:22
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Nothing of that level of excitement at all, at least in my opinion. No. That was, yeah, without question, it was an intense, intense. And we got there at half, right? So we got there and it was still intense. And it was super buzzy. And the beer wasn't expensive. I thought it was interesting. The drinks, they didn't, I mean, the drinks were very local prices, very, very local blue collar prices.
00:33:48
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Uh, which was jack them up or anything. Yeah. Yeah. Which is fun. Uh, we were definitely the only Americans in that room. One probably the only foreigners in that room. Yes. Yes. I, I, and which, which in my opinion, I would say I picked correctly because that's, that was, that was kind of what I was, what I was going for.
The Mystery of Gage Pineapple Unraveled
00:34:07
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So, so before we, before we wrap up, Greg, let's who, who is Gage? Let's talk about the story of Gage pineapple.
00:34:19
Speaker
Cause this is not going to be like, this is not going to be a multi episode arc. You know, I think we can put this into bed pretty quick. So I still don't know, but in fairness in the gauge pineapple thing. So Mont, I don't, while I have social media.
00:34:33
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I don't use social media except from YouTube and I scroll through TikTok, but I wouldn't post any content to it. But I have Facebook and Instagram. I don't use it at all. I think I use Facebook just to find discount codes for concerts so you can do pre-season and buy early. That's the only thing. Yeah. So Monica decides at the Harry Potter Museum that she's going to tag me in a Facebook post.
00:35:00
Speaker
And at this point I get emails associated to Facebook messages tied to Monica's post. Yeah. You've been, you've been tagged. Yeah. That's the only time I ever get tagged too. Yeah. Yeah. So now I'm tagged on this thing and I, and I look at my phone and I looked down and it goes, you have a new friend Gage pineapple. And I went, who is Gage pineapple? First of all, I know it's not their real name, but if you did choose the name, your kid Gage pineapple, you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:35:29
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Yeah, and then even I mean you come up with a moniker like this. Like what am I going to come up with? You know, I'm so popular. I need a fake name gauge pineapple. That works. That works for me. Yeah, like what is up with that?
00:35:40
Speaker
Yeah, I have no idea who they are. And then I went and looked and they're friends with other people that I went to high school with, which I also didn't know that I was associated with on the Facebook because I don't use the Facebook. And yeah, so now I am on a quest. I'm not really, I've given up. I have no idea who Gage Pineapple is, but forever I want to put that on a shirt, which is who is Gage Pineapple.
00:36:02
Speaker
Who is Gage Pineapple? It's like on a milk carton. Have you seen Gage Pineapple? I think what you should do is go to your Facebooks high school page that they always have where they coordinate every five years. They come out of the woodwork and say, hey, we're going to meet up for our high school reunion. And you should be like, who's Gage Pineapple? Oh yeah, it's totally a thing.
00:36:27
Speaker
Like I got invited for next year to go to Colorado for a reunion with a bunch of people that I don't know. And I was like, because what? We went to high school, the same high school, the same building? I was like, you know, half of y'all ruined my life because of making fun of me. So like, unless I'm going to flex on you and say like, I have a better job than you, like, why am I, why am I showing? I don't want to hang out with y'all.
00:36:51
Speaker
Like, like, I'm good. Yeah, exactly. Right. Like I don't, I don't need, I don't need that. So, but yeah, I think that's what you should do. So keep us informed. We'll, we'll close off the gauge and see it wasn't that exciting. We'll close off the gauge pineapple arc by saying we have no clue. It's just somebody who decided to make their Facebook name, gauge pineapple. Um, and.
00:37:14
Speaker
And if you find out, hopefully someone out there listening finds out who Gage Pineapple is and has them as a listener for this show. And maybe we'll have them as a guest and they can introduce themselves and tell us who they are. Yeah, we can have Gage Pineapple as a guest on here. I can add a guest on here for sure. All right, Greg. Well, I think we have drained London, even though there's some other random stuff that we will end up talking about at some point in some time.
00:37:43
Speaker
You having random conversations with the dry cleaner guy. Oh yeah, that was another one. Yeah, my wife and I learning about an acronym that stands for Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which I thought was an interesting way to call things. Not sure how many of those I've seen in my life.
00:38:02
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But yeah, we've got a lot of stuff to cover. And it was good chatting with you, Greg. And until next time, thank you listeners for sticking with us. We promise we'll get episode 11 out there more quickly than 10. We promise.
Closing Remarks and Future Episodes
00:38:18
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We promise.
00:38:23
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Thanks for listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared. Join us again next time as we continue to meander through random topics at a pace defined by our mood, the weather, and what happened five minutes earlier.