Adeptus Ridiculous - Bricky's Bizarre Adventure | Warhammer Travels

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

Bricky "Brickster" Brickson returns from his globe spanning adventure to visit every possible Warhammer creator and the dark land that spawned Warhammer itself: United Kingdom. He tells tales of his misadventures in the backwater countryside, English food, his visit to Warhammer World and being chased around by homeless people.Support the show

Welcome and rolling to another episode of the Adeptus Ridicrous podcast. My name's D.K. Diamantis. He's Carrie-O. And whoa! Bricky's back. Wow. But before we get into that, if you enjoy today's episode and you maybe want to support the podcast, head over to Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can access to the Discord. Blupers if they happen. $15 tier gets you all of our posters in whatever digital format we offer them in. It's great. You should check it out. Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous. oh my god the brick is back how is the brick who let the brick out

put him back in put him back in take him back to the EU um hello hello i mean oh god it's been so long um I think I should have to show the merch is why I normally do I go to orchidate.com buy the merch

check out that stuff all the usual uh it's been Kiryoth is here too yay yay yay karyov he's been holding down the fort he has been even when I'm gone

Even when I'm back, he's still here. I had to welcome you back. You couldn't be back without me being here to, like, welcome you home from the dark and twisted land that is the UK. It's been, which is so ironic that you say such a thing like that, Karioth, because that is somewhat what we're doing, isn't it? Oh, we're doing an episode on the dark and twisted lands of the UK? The foreshadowing was real. Love it. Can't wait for the quote.

What a good, um, can't wait for the quote. You got a license for that. Is there? That's the whole quote. So, um, speaking of, uh, the union jack and mini cooper's, um, I must, I must say, today's episode, obviously, I just came back home yesterday. I got off of like about an 11 hour flight in which I got home about the same time I left the same day because time zones are funny that way.

And I stayed up and so I could get back to my, an unjet lag, I still am a little bit jet lag. I've been up for, I woke up like 5 a.m. But instead of a regular Warhammer topic today, we are discussing something a little bit more casual. D.K., we're just going to talk about England's. Oh, well, all right. It sounds good to me. Oh, Lord.

Oh, no. What, what, what? What? It's going to be all over the shop, I'll think. What? Oh, goodness. You're really making me. out of it, aren't you, D.K.?

Yeah. Finally, I have a legitimate excuse to pull this out. I can just be an orc the whole time if you want. Like, you know. True. I mean, so, okay. So here's the thing, right?

Warhammer is obviously a British, English property. It's been around. It started in Britain. It's been around for the entire time. It is, I mean, that is the property that it is. I remember the first time I learned that,

I feel like my, my stars or my eyes lit up because I was like, oh, that's why all of them speak in like an English accent. It's because it's a British property. That's why all the, the imperials talk this way. Huh, how fascinating. But obviously that's what it is.

And I have been in the, in England for about two weeks, was it? And we kind of had the idea that like, well, obviously I believe our majority. of our viewers are from the U.S. because we are a U.S.-based podcast. But there is still a large amount of them from the U.K., England and other areas of the EU that are very, very familiar with, you know, Warhammer in general, because that's where it is. And so I thought that it would be kind of funny if we did an episode where me, someone who has never been to England before, discuss how my trip was in England to, um, to, those who have lived there their whole lives, and especially Kuriath here, to kind of compare and

contrast bits of what I experienced and the usual type of thing. I'm so here for it. I genuinely am, because it's one of those things where, like, I've lived here my entire life, so everything's normal. It's when you go somewhere new that's got familiar things, but a lot of really different things, that's where all the really interesting differences come from, I reckon. I fully agree. So, D.K., I mean, more than anything, I'm sorry, but I know that you won't have a ton to add in this particular situation.

Oh, don't worry. I'll find something to add in. That's kind of where I was going with it. Yeah, I was kind of going with that. I was like, I'm sure he'll figure it out. I'll figure something out. Jellied eels, am I right? I didn't have any jellied eels.

Good, good, good thing. I knew it was going to come up, but I wasn't sure how far in. Jellied eels is the other thing. Maybe that's like the Great British meme, just jelly deals, which also I have had and it's not good. No, it didn't look very good. I didn't have any blood pudding either for the same reason. Oh, no, that's all right. Black sausage.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, some context. I'm filming a really big like Uber Warhammer video. It's extremely long. It's going to be two hours and three episodes that are all two hours each. I've hired a videographer to come with me and flew out to a ton of areas. I've met a ton of other Warhammer people, whether they are tabletop channels,

lore channels, painting, et cetera. And that's why I was gone for so long. I saw eBay Minutes rescues. I saw Miniac, Ninjohn, Goobritown hobbies, all in the U.S. I went to Moist Critical, saw the art of war guys for the tabletop side of things. And then in the UK, I visited a whole bunch of lore people and Warhammer World in Nottingham specifically. And also saw Tabletop Tactics and Vanguard tactics also in the Battle Report type style of things. And this entire time, my compatriot guy named Dan, he's Dan's filmmaker straight out of Delco, Philadelphia.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Came along with me with about like an entire, I would say cart, but I guess. it would be referred to as a trolley, um, full of filming gear, cameras, lights, sea stands and so on,

in which we then paled around many areas of England, uh, to go check it all out. Uh, I had been to, in total, the cities I'd been to were Chippinim, Worminster,

uh, Chersham, uh, Nottingham, London, and, uh, Brighton, the gayest place I've ever been.

And in my entire life. And it really, ruled. I absolutely loved Brighton. It was super neat. That's all aside. So that was what I was out there doing a bit. And obviously I'd never been out to Europe in general before. So it was the first time. It was kind of a trial by fire. Me and me and Dan, the filmmaker, neither of us ever have been gone to the UK ever, just being like, all right, here we go. Let's go filming. And doing that amount of traveling as well when you've not been before. is, when I say brave, I don't mean it in a derogatory way.

Getting around the UK can be, it can be interesting, but not necessarily in good ways. Like in theory, we have really good railways, but in practice, there's so many delays and cancellations and replacement bus services. Did you get put on a replacement bus service? Because it's not, you haven't completed the full scope unless you got to a station and been told, Oh yeah, no, that train's not coming. However, we do have this 40-year-old vehicle for you to ride it instead. Oh. So, no, I never had that.

But it's for a much worse reason. So I had three bags total. My Dan, the filmmaker, had, like, it was a trolley, like two C stands, a long bag, like a light bag, and like four other bags worth of cameras gear in his own personal stuff. and so we couldn't take any trains when he was there where we were going because it was genuinely like a meter long and maybe I don't know like a half a meter tall like trolley oh so like proper like you would block the aisles no one would be able to get anywhere yes yes I see we couldn't we had to carry it in the hotels

very precariously because it was so big and extremely heavy. So when we got to London, we had to rent a van. And it always had to be a van specifically because that's one thing I noticed. The cars are definitely much smaller in England. Oh, yeah. That's something that I became very aware of not that long ago where my car is quite a big car for the UK. and I'd made some sort of post or comment on social media

because I've done stuff to it and I quite like it and I made the comment that some of my friends refused to even try and drive it because of how long it is and the number of people from the US who were like, what are you talking about? That is not a big car. I did not see a single truck in my entire time in the UK. Oh, that must have been so nice. No truck nuts anywhere. No, but I mean like, okay,

That's not fair. I think I saw like one or two flatbeds for like construction sites. Hmm. Uh, but that was it. Like there were no trucks anywhere. Uh, the, the predominantly most seen vehicle of the entire trip was the mini Cooper.

But the, the thing is though. That makes sense. Carriot, do you know where chippinem is? Vagely, yes. It's not, sounds like such a fake name.

Is it chip? Yeah. Well, I called it, I called it, I call it, I call it chippinemem. Well, I call it, I called it chippen ham a bunch of times. and they started getting mad at me.

So, but it's like, it's like Southwest, right? Oh, yeah, yes. Because Walminster isn't that far from Bath either, is it? Correct. No, you're correct. I also went to Warminster when I was out there. Like a 30 minute drive, give or take from Chippinim. Yeah.

And that was the first, like, week of my trip to the UK was Chippenim of Warminster. Let me tell you, Kerioth, I did not have a very good initial stuff. with my thoughts on England. Okay? Oh. For context, D.K., this is in the middle of fucking nowhere. Oh, no. I was in the countryside in the sticks, bro.

Oh, in a country that you've never been to. Oh. I mean, if you've got time. So fun. If you've got time to go for lovely walks and to investigate the sort of little local pubs that you only find in small places in the country where they have. have a particular beer or cider that you can't get anywhere else in the UK. It's nice. If you're trying to get stuff done or if you're for a specific purpose, not good. And the irony

being, it's not that far from Bath, which is actually really nice. Yes. Yeah. That was the one thing I noticed was like, oh, Bath is actually quite, quite pretty was what everyone kept telling me. But I was here in the middle of nowhere. And it was very difficult because I had to carry around all this gear with damn. But like to explain how in the middle of nowhere this was, like I pulled out my phone to get an Uber. Now an Uber is a very American thing. There are some elsewhere obviously, but like it's predominantly used in the U.S.

It's the main kind of mode for transportation for a lot of it because it's so car dependent. I could not get an Uber at all. Ever. Oh. Like it was, we're searching for a person in this area. It never came. Like there was none. There's nothing.

When you get to a certain point in the countryside, it's literally, you either have a car or you have a relative with a car or you never leave the house. Those are your options. Pick one. That was the what did you end up doing? So that's the wildest part, right? Is that there wasn't a train system or any railway I could use either because it's out of the middle nowhere. So I, um, they said, oh, I was because. I was talking with tabletop tactics at this point.

And Lawrence, the other tactics was like, oh, go to your, oh, I didn't even mention this, Keryoth, because I was, I'm paying for all of Dan's travel. I had to skimp a little bit on some of our lodging. So the first week I stayed in travel lodges. Oh, no. That is proper baptism of fire going straight in with nothing but travel lodges. It's not the, it's not the worst. It's pretty bad, man.

It's also not great. I'm not going to lie. Like, like, D.K., this travel lodge is like, the, it's like, it's a days in. It is the lowest you can get. Oh, no. If you run to some of the lowest of the low of like days in in like downtown Detroit. DK, they don't do two queen beds. That's not a thing in, in England.

And so when I, when we got like the family size room, room, it was a single double bed, which mind you, my feet hung off of because I'm six foot three. And two like cots, it's like two metal cots and the double bed. And it's, you get one big bed that isn't actually that big. And then you get two child-sized beds. And that's actually a lot every time. I really like proper like fold out like cots. Like it's a cot, yes.

Yeah. Like, it is a cot. And I must, I was, um, I kept trying to ask Dan to flip flop with me. Like I'll do, uh, I'll do the Delibet one night. He does the other one. But he's also like, like, five, eight or something like that. So the cot worked out for him. So he was a real bro and just said, no, just do the cot the whole time.

So, uh, even though I felt kind of bad about it, I do appreciate him for it. Even though he ruined my night's sleep with his cough, he had the whole damn trip. But we'll get to that. Oh no, no. Dan. But so, but so when you go to the front desk, you have to ask for their taxi services, because it's not getting a taxi. There are specific taxi services that are in these middle of nowhere areas. So I had to ask for like, like, they just gave me a piece of white paper with three phone numbers on it with like the name of the taxi services.

They're like, yeah, call one of these. And I'm like, what does that mean? And what do you mean just call one of these? That's so crazy. I'm loving this already. I'm loving it. It's such a standard experience if you're traveling in the UK, especially if you're like going somewhere and you're just going to stay a couple of nights.

You stay in a travel lodge. You accept that it's going to be bad. And if you want to get anywhere without taking your own car, you get the scrap of paper, the scrap of paper, and then you get a few phone numbers. And they're like, yeah, do it. And then that's it. That's your customer service.

It's like, we've given you all the information. Sort it out yourself. What do you think we're here for? That's so strict. Because in most American hotels I've been to, if you're like, oh, yeah, I need a taxi. Even at like some of the worst hotels, they're like, oh, yeah, don't worry. We'll call them and they'll be waiting outside for you in X amount of time. Or like, we know the shuttle service.

We got this. We'll call them. Don't worry about it. And it's very strange. It's just like, yeah, basically more or less, he's the fucking phone book, right? That's weird to me. I don't know. It's weird to me, too, because I've grown up in this, in, in the U.S.,

and that's what is considered normal for myself. Obviously, I consider it strange because I'm not used to it. I don't have any, like, also because, and this is, so I want to make it clear, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in England. It started off poor. I will become more positive later, I promise, but it started off. poor because it was a week in in like the sticks

without also like if I had known I was out there I probably would have rented a car but they drive on the other side of the road and I was almost got hit twice because I looked the wrong direction while crossing a roundabout while walking here's a question because I've never really thought about this how familiar

are you with like roundabout loads in the US I knew you're going to mention that so I don't think I've seen a roundabout in my goddamn life. That is, that is, I don't believe you, D.K., we do have roundabouts. And I know you're being hyperbolic. That being said, every single four-way stop sign stop intersection is a, that we have is a roundabout there.

It is like, it is a roundabout into a roundabout into a roundabout. And don't get me wrong, it's efficient and we should do it more in the States. but when I enter a roundabout on the opposite side of the road and start spinning clockwise my brain like short circuits and I start to melt in the car like I'm just like oh I don't know I don't like this I'm closing my eyes I've got to show you something this is my favorite my favorite picture to show just how insane our roundabouts can get this is the magic roundabout in Swindon oh oh oh I hate it yeah that's I never had any anything like that?

That's an anomaly, to be fair. That doesn't crop, that's not like a regular thing. But yeah, pretty much any busy junction, we just do a roundabout or maybe two, like one after the other, especially around motorways. But I just wasn't sure whether that was a regular thing for you guys or whether that was like, what the hell is this kind of thing. Roundabout. Yeah, my brain is seizing up looking at that a little bit.

I got to be honest with you. Roundabouts are most definitely less common in the states. however, they're not like they're not there. I know that 95% of drivers can do a roundabout perfectly fine. But they are everywhere in the UK. And there are also just some small things that I think are a little bit interesting. Like, for example, like you call a trash can a bin. And it's the car park, not a parking lot.

The motorway instead of a freeway or a highway. The one that took me out the most, though, was way out. way out like oh yeah it's way out there no no no that is their version of exit like a little sign that says way out and an arrow like this is like this is the way out right like the video game yeah oh i can think of that every single time i saw it but like like there was like there was some places that had exit on it but most of the time it just said way out and i was like what do you mean like what's way out there what is way out i i never even It's the exit. Yeah. I'd never even consider that as being, like, unusual. Like, when you get into, like, city centers, especially bigger, more modern cities, it will say exit. But now that you've said that, quite a few things, like, around where I live, it doesn't say exit.

It says way out. And I've never thought about it before. It just means that's how you leave. Yeah. I've never once considered that might be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, it was pretty while.

I didn't really think about that so much, but that makes sense. Okay, I have to talk. I have to do this because we have to talk about it. I have to talk about the food. Oh, right. Let's do it. No seasoning. They don't know what salt is.

No pepper, no nothing, right? Okay. So my time in England has had me deny stereotypes, confirm stereotypes, and create new ones. Oh. Honestly, that sounds about right. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

It's been rather interesting. So the first thing that we went to was the tabletop tactics guys took me to a pub. Now, the tactics guys are most, I think they're mostly Londoners. And I love them for it because they're, they're a bit shit-talky. And they're very, I wouldn't say crass, but they're definitely like, they're fun to be around. I would call them like loud or anything, but they're, they're very enjoyable to like have a conversation with.

They laugh loudly. I laugh about loudly with them. We talk about like a bunch of stuff. It's a lot of like back and forth banter. I really enjoy that. I think I've found that I'm a bit of a city person. Coming out and about and that kind of goes into London later. They took me to a pub called the pheasant.

Now I decided to get about a proper British meal. So I got ham, fried eggs and chips. Excellent. There? Yeah. Okay. Kiroth, can I, can I, can you guess how good that meal was? It's honestly, it's difficult because if it's in a chain pub, it'll be garbage.

But if it's in an independent pub that's in like a small town or a village, it's probably amazing. There's like, it's one or the other, I find. So I don't know if the pheasant is a chain pub or not, but it may have been one of the worst meals I've ever had in my life. Oh, no. A bad one. Like, when I say it's fried eggs, ham, and chips. Like, D.K., I want you to, I want you to picture this. It is, like, it is ham that you would get from the supermarket.

No, no, no, no, no, no, shi, no way. That's, that's too good looking, I think, for this meal. Wait, hang on, are we talking, like, thin, sliced supermarket ham? I'm, no, not, not like deli. I found the picture. Hold on. This is merely. we're going to be like, yeah, it looks like what you get from the plastic tub in like the lunch and meat section, not even the deli.

No, not that. Not that. This is, this picture here is almost beat for beat identical to what I had. That is a travesty. That is not on. Let me make this, the movie's very clear. Let me make this very clear. You notice no specs of anything on the, there was no seasoning on the eggs.

There's no seasoning on the hands. There's no seasoning on the chips. And then I got, I asked for some. ketchup. I got the ketchup. It is so full of vinegar. There is not very sweet at all. I was like, I get it. Like, like, it was one of my first proper meals in England. And I was like, they're all correct. This place sucks. I hate it. This is exactly, I knew it. I knew they were, I knew they were wrong. And then, and then, that was the first meal. And I think they did this, I think they did this to mess with me because it was absolutely,

Horrid. Yeah, no, that's awful. That's the sort of thing where you get it and you immediately think, oh, so nothing they serve here is good. Right. It's one of those meals. And, you know, the ketchup thing makes sense because every other country is like, God, I can't believe what those Americans are doing with their ketchup. It's so sweet. It's like sugar syrup.

And I'm just like, what? It ain't that sweet, is it? And I'm assuming UK ketchup was quite the eye-opener. It was quite the opposite. That being said, later, we went to a place called in Chersham, a local city, went to this place called the Flemish Weaver, a pub that's been around since before the U.S. existed. 1725, went in there, had a bacon and rabbit pie with mash. and it was one of the best fucking savory pies I've had in my entire life. It absolutely slammed.

The mash was incredible. The gravy was rich and strong. The pie, it was like that little burnt flakes around the edges. It was like stellar, genuinely stellar. And that was which I think you were talking about earlier, Kieryath, where it depends on the pub. That. Yeah. Now, it was hilarious because I had a duck to get into the door.

because it was so small. Yeah. But that right there, I was like, holy hell. It was probably one of the best meals I had in my entire trip, even when in the Netherlands, it was phenomenal. That's honestly, oh, go ahead, go ahead. I was just going to say, if you can find a pub where you have to duck to get in and at least one part of the inside, you have to walk slightly hunched to not bash your head. nine times out of ten, you're going to get phenomenal food out of it. I don't know why.

I don't know what the correlation is there, but that's just how it seems to work a lot of the time. No, that was genuinely, like, one of the best meals I had in my entire trip. That's when I started to be like, okay, you know, maybe this is a stereotype. It's wrong. Maybe the food in the UK is pretty good. I just had like some bad, have some bad stuff. I mean, I've had, the food in the US can get bad, you know, Don't get me wrong.

Oh, yeah, it can be awful here. It can be terrible. But me and D.K. do live in a very densely populated area of Southern California, which is known for its food. Yeah. You didn't hear this crap places. So, like. Yeah, but I won't lie.

I don't, even the crap places here, like, I would get better food at yardhouse than I would, like, that first pub probably would ever serve. Oh, absolutely. That is the most depressing looking plate of food I think I've ever seen. Yeah, no, that's, that's the sort of thing. that I have this probably makes me sound like an absolute Karen. I have sent stuff back like that where it's shown

up and I've just gone, what is this? Can I have something else? Because you've bought this in and that in. Why are the chips cold? Why is that egg made of rubber? No. And just got something else instead.

Don't think that makes you a Karen. I think that just means you have standards. So like this. Yeah, you don't send stuff back in the UK, though. You just, what you do is you go, thank you very much. You eat all of it. They come and take the plates. They say, how was it?

And you go, oh, it's very nice. And then you never come back. Yeah, then you pay and you never go back. That's how, that's how this country worked. I'm about to, Kirath, I'm about to make some enemies. All right. I'm about to, if there were, if we, because like I said, I'm going to be positive the more as I continue. We're already doing the part where I'm saying that all British food.

as bad as a myth. Go on. Let's hear it. I mean, it's kind of a meme, but go ahead. It is kind of a meme. I will, I got to say something that is going to make me a lot of British enemies, English enemies, okay? Gregs sucks.

Gregs is fucking terrible, dude. Gregs is awful. What's Gregs? I'm left out of the joke. Gregs is like their AM-PM. type place. Oh, okay. It's a bakery.

You can get like pasties and pies and bakes and sausage rolls and bread and sandwiches and like it's just a sort of all-purpose bakery, but people love them some greggs because you can go in and get a very cheap sausage roll. In fact, right there in that picture, sausage roll 50p. That's really cheap. There's a reason it's really cheap. Yeah, there's a reason for that. See, that's the problem, though, is like, if people told me like, yeah, Gregs isn't good, but it's really cheap, I would accept it.

I have the exact same bias when it comes to In-N-Out. In-N-Out is fast food. It's a fast-food burger. It's not gourmet. But a double-double fries and a drink is like $10. And a big Mac meal is like 14 or something like that at this point. Yeah. Like, that's where my patriotism comes from In-N-Out because it's about the price.

I totally would agree with that with Greggs if people didn't keep saying the same thing to me, which is, well, what did you have at Greggs? What did you have there? Yeah, yeah. I feel like somehow Greggs has kind of transcended the normal standards for food. And it's become basically a national meme where it's just there's a Greggs in every single town, city. I mean, in my town, my town is quite small. where I live, it's not a big place.

There are two Greggs, and they are within, like, 30 seconds walking distance of each other. I don't know why, but for some reason, they've both been there for like 10 years, so clearly it works. It's just this thing of,

it's cheap, it's available, and any time someone moves out of the UK, they get this weird craving where they really want Greggs. They really want the salty, sort of sodium-filled, okay pastry-covered treats that Greg sells. And that's just been translated into Greg's is an international powerhouse of flavor. When actually, it's just semi-okay food at very cheap prices. What does this remind me of?

What does this remind you of? Of Little Caesars. Okay, Little Seasers is better than Greg's, but sure. Continue. Continue. Whenever you talk someone about Little Caesars, it's like, oh, yeah, their pizza must be really good, right? And the response is always, well, it's hot and it's ready and it's $5. And it's like, I didn't ask that.

I just, was it good? I can feed a small family off Little Caesars for like $10. Gregs I'm not so sure about. It's so funny you say that, D.K., because there's a food podcast that I used to listen to who went to Little Caesars. and their exact sort of summing up as to the, like, the quality of it was, yeah, but it was cheap and it was hot. It's hot and ready. Did it taste good?

My brother in Christ, you didn't hear me. It's hot. And it's ready and it's $5. But did it taste good? It's hot and it's ready. I got four things. I got coffee. I got a donut.

I got a sausage roll. and I got a BAP. Now, the, yeah, I'll show, I'll show you what a BAP is, DGK in a moment. So the sausage roll was the best. It's not like great,

but it's flaky. And I'm not going to lie, the UK mogs us when it comes to bread. And then I got to say, then I was in the Netherlands, and the EU mocks the UK when it comes to bread. The Dutch, The Dutch know their bread

And the UK Definitely kicks our ass when it comes to bread The bread over in the UK was fantastic It was very, very good And it wasn't quite as good as the EU But we are definitely last place in bread right now I'm not going to lie And so all of the pastries and stuff

Were really good So the sausage roll was like decent The coffee was absolutely terrible Genuinely horrendous The donut was I've got a last Sorry did you find the coffee slightly acidic.

Yes. Because that's what I've, yeah, okay. Slightly might be a little, a little too light of a word if I'm being on. Yeah. Every time I've stopped at a service station and got like a Greg's coffee, I have taken approximately two sips and gone, why did I get this? And then felt sad because there's a Costa or a Starbucks right there. But instead I've been like, now just Greg's is closer.

I'll get that. And it's, it's never good. It's never good coffee. That being said, the first thing I had was the BAP. D.K., this is what a BAP looks like, and this is prettier than what I got. It is just bun, sausages, and, like, two slices of bacon. And this is... I don't like that picture because it looks like it's staring at me.

Like the sausages are eyes and, like, the crinkly bacon is like, it looks like it's judging me. This sandwich perceives me. I don't like it. It's something quite fancy and interesting because as I was, I had the bat. And this is something that I found fascinating. So in the U.S. service workers are extremely nice compared to everywhere else I was at, overly kind at times. And the reason for this is obviously tipping culture and things like that, which is its own issues, of course. but I will say the thing I found particularly fascinating about England is that they weren't

like rude but like every person I worked with at a service any kind of service person whether it's like a hotel lobby like a receptionist or a person at a food place just they just didn't give a shit like it's it's not that they weren't rude they weren't mean they weren't like annoying. They were, they just didn't care. And like, I went to some places and I was like, oh, do you have this? And they were just like, no. Like, like, like not, not like that, not rude. Just no, like not. Oh, no, but we do have this instead. Just now. It was very interesting. Oh, God. I'm, I'm sorry. The last like 10 seconds of that. My audio is just me laughing. It's not, I don't mean. Not in a mean way. You're not, you're not wrong. You're not wrong. You're not

But it's just one of the most fascinating things is you saying that and not two weeks ago, a friend of mine went to the US and said that the like the kind of service staff being so friendly and helpful actively made her irritated. Like we're so conditioned to just be like, here's the thing. Have you got this? No. All right. So the U.S. service staff annoys me too sometimes. But normally it's the, they come to like check up on you if your food is okay, like five times during the meal. And I'm like, yes, if it's a problem, I'll tell you if it's a problem I'm trying to eat here.

Like that's the thing that bodes me the most. General, like, and don't get me wrong, like fast food workers in the U.S. are often the same as England, if not worse at times. It's quite rude because they're working a job that they don't like. I was going to say severely underpay. working hours they don't want, still can't afford rent. The classic thing. Oh, Jesus Christ,

Shy. Absolutely. Ma'am, I just want a burger. Please take your tongue out of my ass. I'm not sure if I agree with this one, Shai. If the burger comes with a free ass tongue and maybe I'm a,

maybe I'll be joined this. I mean, that's one way to get a bigger tip, right? Oh, my, oh, my tips getting bigger. Don't you worry. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, no. The wording. Oh, this game was. But, um, but yeah, so, uh, but yeah, that was the one thing I really noticed. Like, it's, it's not like an, I don't have an issue with it. Like, if they're going to, like, that's fine. They don't need to like, like, carry me around or anything like that. But it was just, it was just very interesting to see the difference.

And one of my favorite ones was when I was at the Greggs. And I was, um, the guy, the guy was like, you want to sauce with the Bap? And I'm like, what sauce do you have? And he's like, we got ketchup and brown. And in my head, I was like, what the fuck is brown? And I was like, what's brown sauce? And he's like, it's brown sauce, mate. And I would have assumed gravy, just straight plain as gravy.

So I was like, all right, I'll take the brown sauce. And he's like, cheese. And he just, and he put it on the thing and he gave it to me. And it's like a sweet barbecue like Worcestershire sauce type thing. It was actually quite good. I actually like brown sauce quite a bit. It is impossible to actually describe outside of just kind of, it sort of tastes like this, but not quite.

And it's really weird how it's become like a cultural institution where it's just, what do you mean you don't know what a brown sauce is? It's like, well, it doesn't tell me anything. Tomato ketchup, it says tomato on it. I can guess, you know, brown sauce, it's brown. What does that mean? I just, it's just put it on your thing. It's just a.

fact that he was like, it's brown sauce, mate. And I'm like, do I sound like I'm from here, mate? Oh, if you had responded just like that, excuse me, do I sound like I am from here, mate? Yeah, he probably, he probably was throwing the back in my face. All right, it's fine. Here's what's in the brown sauce. It's a mix of wish. It's a source.

And barbecue. You're like, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's just, it was just really funny to me because I was like, doesn't tell me anything, man. What do you want from me? Like, I'm like, but, um, but no, that was. That was quite funny. I will say, and it's very interesting.

Because I went to, I went around a little bit for the food wise. And obviously, like I said, the first week I was in those areas. And my opinion of the UK was not high. And then me and Dan took, took a van with all of our stuff to Nottingham. Right? We finally went to Notting him. And it was like a three-hour drive because here's an interesting thing they don't really tell you. while the roads are smaller in the UK,

they don't slow down. Like people ripped around these roundabouts, man. They are hoofing it. But it's also, oh, you're going from Chippenham to Nottingham, are you? Okay, cool. You get to ride on the single, like, cobblestone road out of the farmland for an hour before you finally get to the motorway. There are so many places in the UK where to get to or from, you are basically on a road that is only slightly wider than your car, but the speed limit is 60 miles an hour.

Yes. So you can, if you want, legally go 60 miles an hour on this track that probably was made for horses and carts, you know, 500 years ago. But they just put tarmac over it and went, yeah, be good. And it's it's simultaneously very fun if you're used to it and you're going through places you know about. And if you're going through places you don't know about, kind of terrifying because you might take it slow, but the locals absolutely won't. When I did make it to Nottingham, I got there on a Saturday after like three hours of driving. And I went to like the city center area, like where they have like the five lanes kind of converge, like a little downtown area.

and let me, oh, okay, let me tell, let me, let me paint you a picture. We get there, like 11 a.m., give or take, it's a Saturday. We put all of our stuff in our, in our hotel, do the usual thing that we're doing. After like a three hour long van ride with all of our gear, we basically have a free day to ourselves. We walk into the city center area, and it's like, it's a proper city. You know, it's not London, but it's a proper city. A little bit more healthier, whatever the reasons is.

But I was walking around, and there were some pretty darn good-looking. people. I was like, damn, I'm, like, surrounded by a lot of pretty decent looking folks. And then I went to, like, the Netherlands. And then I was like, holy Christ, the Dutch, the Dutch are fucking beautiful. But, um, building up slowly to the, to peak beauty. So, but then I was going to this, like,

bar and there's this group of like four gals, gorgeous, like, blondes, the, the classic model type look. And sitting right next to them was this big motherfucker. shirt completely off bald red as shit tattoos all over his body missing a tooth with the biggest beer i've ever seen in my entire life talking about the football game and i pointed and i was like holy shit it's the brexit geyser he's real i cannot believe it i he's he's like the come on england score some fucking goals guy he was there it was him I found him.

He was like a Pokemon in the wild. And I had like a genuine soy jack pointing moment to Dan. And I was like, holy hell, it's the guy. He's real. He's real. He's in front of my eyes. It was insane. And then about because he's having like, he had like three empty pints of beer at like 11 in the morning on Saturday.

And I sat there. I looked to Dan and I was like, we're actually in a real city. Let's go. And then we drank until like 9 p.m. Yeah, that sounds about, I mean, you're entering into the spirit of things with that. We're honestly, we've made, I swear, the UK has made drinking into a national sport where it's just, okay, we've got a lazy Saturday. You go to the pub at 11. You start drinking.

And then at 1 a.m., you either pass out or die. Those are the two options. Either way, you'll have consumed a lot in the meantime. I was actually really surprised how, like, open, excessive public drunkenness was. Like, people were actually falling over and spilling their beers just around the place. Oh, yeah. It's honestly, it's wild. It happened a lot.

Yeah. Anyone who's got the strength to be sober in a major. city in this country has, I mean, they've got infinite respect from me because a huge amount of, like, especially weekend culture is, well, you go out on Friday, you get absolutely wasted, you see if you can hook up, then on Saturday you go out, you get absolutely wasted, Sunday is spent regretting your decisions, then you have a nice drink because you've got to go back to work on Monday, then you work Monday to Friday, and then on Friday, you go out and you get annihilated.

Like, okay, so I'm hooking a lie. Maybe this is like a Brexit issue or whatever. I don't know how this happened. Things were expensive in England. I mean, this is coming from me who's lived my his whole life in California, which is known for being expensive. I was quite surprised by it. That's why we drink PBR. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. You get a 24 pack of that for $5. That'll get you. you done right. Yes, sir. We don't even get a PBR. We get like Tesco's own value logger. Okay. It's like eight pounds, 20 cans or I don't even know if they do it anymore. They probably don't. I did have a Tesco meal deal. Oh, okay. Oh, hey. I've, I've heard of this. No, no, no. This, do not worry. This is the, the similar but somewhat opposite thing to Greg's. it is better tasting than Greg's and like the same price, if not somewhat cheaper.

Like that was my quick, I got to get something and make it right now because I'm working. And for me that I was like, okay, this is perfectly fine. This makes sense for the cost that it is. I'm all right with this. Nice. Did you go? Did you, did you max out? Did you min max your meal deal?

No, I did not. Oh, there's a whole economy behind this. Okay. Well, I didn't get that far. Damn, why didn't you ask Kiri, I've had a min-max your Tesco meal deal? I've done this before where I've looked at what's available and gone, okay, well, the sausage, bacon, and egg is the same price. The triple used to be the same price as just two sandwiches.

And then if you get an energy drink, like a large Red Bull and, say, a chocolate bar, that is better value than if you bought all the things individually. It's just, there's a whole, there's literally subredits dedicated to this. It's that, I don't know, pervasive, insane. I mean, considering what we just said about prices and how everything skyrocketing, I have no problem with trying to get max value out of your meal deal at Tesco. Like, that makes sense. It would be that high on it because if you're spending upwards of $300 on, like, alcohol

because prices are just so insane, yeah, you know what? I'm okay with, like, being as thrifty as you can at the meal deal. Yeah. There was a point where Was it, I think it was Boots where you could get a tin of travel sweets, which I don't know if that's just a UK thing,

but it's an actual like metal tin full of sweets that are flavoured with like apple and pineapple and blackberry and stuff. And if you looked at it calorie for calorie, your best bet was to get a triple sandwich, a tin of travel sweets and a large

can of red bull and you could achieve like, it was something like four, thousand calories for four pounds. Oh, excellent. See, that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for,

maxing out of that. He'd also die of a heart attack at like 30, but you know, you could pull it off. Nottingham, though, was actually really lovely. I thoroughly enjoy my time in Nottingham.

I must, I went to Warhammer World. I actually got shown around a little bit by a couple of games workshop employees who I will not name for their own anonymity's sake. Sure. But they were extremely kind. It felt really good. Turns out we do have a few, a few pretty, a sizable amount of fans.

I was about to ask, did anybody, did anybody notice you? Because like, people know your face. They've seen you on the internet. You're the Warhammer guy everybody reacts to, right? Okay. So that's hilarious. You say that. So I meant actually fans as in, it seems like we have quite a few people that work at Games Workshop.

that like Adrick specifically. Not too much. But like, you know, there, we had some, there was apparently some folks that are, that are like the podcast, which I'm really stoked by. Obviously, games workshop employees like 3,000 people, you know, I'm sure.

It's, you know, it's not like the CEO is like, oh, I can't wait for the next episode ad Rick. It'd be great if he did say that, though. It would be great if he did say that, though. If you're listening. You know of. But you know of. True.

He wouldn't come down to announce it. He could be on the edge of, of his seat. You don't know. It was, it was very, very sweet, though, hearing some of that. I, hilariously, I did get recognized a few times in Nottingham and none of it was at Warhammer World. Wow, really? Local pubs.

Which is that not the most English thing I could have ever experienced? Yeah, that sounds about right, right? That tracks because that's where, you know, the. everyday people are always hanging out. So if you're going to get recognized anywhere, right? It was so funny. But Warhammer was fun. It was a little bit more lighter than I expected.

The carriot the pub was closed for renovation. That sucks. I only got to see like the store and all of the dioramas and stuff, which don't give me wrong. The painting dioramas are super sick. That was awesome. But I don't think I would ever have a reason to go back to Warhammer World unless I was going to drink at the pub.

uh, I will say, uh, they do have those like full 3D like hardboard game spaces. Um, sorry, how do you describe this? Like when you play Warhammer,

you normally like roll out of mat and put terrain on it. This is like a size of the mat, but like actual built up hills and buildings and various things like that. Like it looks like a real space. They had a bunch of those, which were super sick. I love that. Those are some of the best things to, like, play on.

The fact they're properly sculpted and you've got actual, like, valleys and rivers and, yeah, they're really, really good. Wow. Oh, so, yeah, that's crazy. Is that one of the things? That's a funny one. So I forget the name of it. But, yes, that is a gigantic, like, it's the size of a car, like, that entire thing. It's, like, about the size of a sedan.

They do a thing where they hide an imperial assassin in that diorama. And if you can find it, you get a free assassin and they change it every week. I was like, you know what? I could try that. I opened the door to the second story that has that area looked down and was like, nah, not worth my time. Not going to do it. That's still a really cool thing to do.

In that diorama, that actually sounds like a really fun activity. even if you don't find it, just to like go in there and see this, like the car size diorama of all this stuff, I'd still go check it out. It was awesome. It was genuine. That stuff was really awesome. Like, I probably wouldn't go do the whole diorama thing again because you, once you see it, you've seen it in a way. Yeah. But Warhammer World itself was just kind of, it was just like a nice little time.

I would definitely recommend people go there if they like Warhammer. They want to see all the cool minis and stuff. But, yeah, it was fun. It was decent. It's worth saying they do switch stuff out. So like they will periodically change things in the display cabinets and stuff. And they've added things to that big like diorama since it first started. So things like the warlord, there was no warlord model when that was first made.

But they added one in. So there's just little changes that go on. It's maybe not worth going like every month on. like a pilgrimage, but if you haven't been for a while, there'll be things in there that you haven't seen before that can make it interesting. Even though the pub was closed when you went there, do they have like Warhammer themed like food and drink? Because they really should.

I don't know the pub was closed. Yes, everything on the menu, last time I was there, before it was closed for renovation, everything on the menu had a like Warhammer 40K or AOS themed name. for whatever the dish was. Nice. I'll be honest, I very rarely ordered using the name. I was just like,

yes, I shall have the burger with bacon, please, and that's also fine. Oh, here we are you no fun. I actually had the burger with bacon. It was actually pretty decent.

My, my, uh, the, the hot dog that they also had there. My, Dan, it was from,

from, I mean, he's from Philly and he's like, that talks like, was fucking terrible. And I was, I was like, ah, you know. You're from Philly.

Yeah, it's fine. It was funny. But, yeah, so Noningham was pretty fun. It was really enjoyable to actually be back in a city where I can take, you know, the trolley and the tram or whatever and get some, get some stuff. And I met up with a lot of people. I met up with Luton. I met up with the Remembrancer as well as a couple of other lore folks. We got to, I got to hang out with Luis and Robb from Robbies.

I'm jealous of you. That was great. Louise is one of my favorite people. She's, her channel is amazing. And I had the opportunity to meet her once. And I chickened out because there were loads of other people around. And I didn't want to be all fan boyish. And I was like, oh, now I've got to leave.

I should go and say it now. And then I left. And then I've not had the opportunity to meet her since. And then I saw the picture you post and I was like, damn it. I should have said hello. Why? Yeah, she was a sweetheart.

She was really, really nice. definitely a really fun fun experience overall just seeing them all it was great meeting the remembrancer as well uh him and the the lore crimes folks are uh are really really neat they're also like i mean i won't lie i felt pretty good uh meeting them because um you know the him and like I also got a chance to meet Amber King as well um and they're like I don't think anyone understands Warhammer lore better than they do because they've read every single book. I think they maybe they've missed like five or six because they're finishing them up now, but they're about to finish them all.

And getting the thumbs up from them felt really good because I was like, yay, you know, like we're the goofy, doofy podcast, but getting the thumbs up from them felt great. Hell yeah, let's go. Yeah, that is, that is cool. It was, it was pretty good. That was lovely. And no, they were all great to talk. to and it was good for the work stuff too,

because we got to interview a lot of them and talk about things. Met one of the Black Library authors as well, which I might have us change to a different book for our... I'm meeting too many Black Library people. We're not going to be able to talk about books anymore because we can't be fully critical and honest, because I don't want to hurt their feelings.

You're too biased. You're too close. You're lost in the sauce. There might be one book I would like to read, though, possibly, because I didn't hear about some of them. It might be fun. Yeah. But Nottingham was good. Then eventually after a couple days in Nottingham,

that was when Dan left and went back home and I stayed for another week over in London. And that's when I got, when I went down to Brighton and did a few other things. I got to be honest, this might be a hot take. I really liked London. I liked it a lot. Why would that be a hot take? Because I feel like, I feel like, I feel like, London is a lot like L.A. or San Francisco, where everyone else around California

shits on L.A. and S.F. And everyone in the UK seems that they kind of shit on London. London gets some heat because that's where all the money goes, basically. But it's also quite a cool place. And despite, you know, various headlines and reports and stuff, it's just quite a nice city and there's loads to do and it is expensive but yeah you can't really you can't be bored in london you can be there for like two weeks and there's still things to do it's actually quite a nice place i didn't see a single touristy place well besides one i didn't see big ben i didn't see any of those fancy things i don't didn't much care uh it's not really like this thing i'm interested in and i was spending the whole time there i went to i stayed in east london

Kind of in the more Indian-centric district by the Excel. Because I went to the con. I went to the MCM Comic-Con. Which was wild. The amount of cosplay there was insane. There were so many people cosplay there. It was crazy. But it was a really good con, good location.

But I went to like Canary Wharf and the O2 Stadium. I went to Convent Gardens. I went to Camden Market. I went to Piccadilly. I went a decent way around London. and I have become so public transit radicalized, which is like not a radical thing at all, but I, dude, the ability to get around that city

and get to other areas in the trains and the trams and the tube and the metro, holy shit. It's great, isn't it? It's so good. I don't think they realize how good they have it. or maybe it's just how rough it is for us because we don't have it.

Like, I did not order an Uber. I did not get a taxi my entire time in London. I did everything via there. Like actually insane how good it was. I mean, it was like, the London too was like dirty. We're going to be wrong. But so is the New York subway and other metro is like whatever.

Mm-hmm. I mean, I will say the, oh, the Elizabeth line they just added though, pristine. gorgeous. Oh, it's so nice. Because I spent most of my time either on DLR, the Elizabeth line, because I was so east. And DLR is whatever. But like the Elizabeth line was so nice.

But then occasionally it would bump me under the Northern Line. The Northern Line is a piece of shit. But more particularly, it's so loud. When you travel on it, it scrapes so insanely loud sometimes. that it's set off my, it's set off my Apple Watch for decibel levels. Wow. Really? Yeah.

It's like, it's like loud. Like it's, it is not painful, but it's getting close like slight flinch loud. It is fucking loud. Yeah. It's like you need noise cancelling headphones loud. It's, it's bad. Yeah. But then again, it's also really, really old that.

Yeah. I have, I have a question though. How many rats did you see? Zero. While on the platform? Zero. None. Not a single one.

Hey, that's pretty good. That's all right. What a question. And of course in London, the food in London was great because it's a giant city. And that tends to be good food. I did go to a chippies. Fish and ships. What's the chippies?

Fish and chips like hole in the wall. Ah, okay. I hate to say it. It is not, like the fish and chips is fine. Um, y'all love your malt vinegar a lot. Well, that's, that's, that's the, that's the, that's the classic, uh, that's the classic condom for fish and chips, right? It's malt vinegar. I was, like tartar sauce, but.

Really? Because I was, well, yeah, tartar sauce, but I always thought you were supposed to have malt vinegar with fish and chips. Like, that was just like, you do. Gotta. You do. You do. Classic. But, um, I will say, a couple of places I went to, they had, like, homemade tartar sauce.

And that's, slam. That was so good. Oh, yeah. The best ship and ships I've ever had was actually when I saw Goobartown hobbies in Maine. But if there's going to be a place that has amazing fishing ships, I think Maine, it's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, it needs to be coastal. This is the thing that trips a lot of people up where it's like, oh, well, I'm in a major city.

I'll have fish and chips. And it's like, well, okay, but where's the city? Austin, Texas. Yeah. It's got to be somewhere. The best fish and chips come from. some random, like, just a place about a mile away from the shore where there's like two people sitting there, that's where the best ones come from.

Yeah, that was, that was pretty good, though. I did enjoy that. Your plugs absolutely beat our ass. I was just about to ask two prong or three prong plugs, which are better. We do have three-prong plugs here, but yours are like built into the wall in a different way that makes them substantially better. Wait, what makes the plugs better exactly? They're just like more secure, they're more stable. Yeah, we've got like a, we've got like a live and a ground as well.

So if you pull it out the, basically if you pull it out and touch one of the prongs, it won't electrocute you because the ground. is further in than the other two. It's a whole safety thing. Something I was going to ask, there's no reason as to why you'd have this, but I just, I just have to ask. Sure. Did you at any point have a Wigan kebab? Yes, I did actually.

You did have a Wiggan kebab? Yes. Is that just a kebab? Or from a specific place? It's a pie and a bun. Hell yeah. Yeah, I did. What the fucking.

that, I was told to get one. It's a pie and a bun. This is their version of the KFC donut sandwich. I did. I love that you had a wikabat. I did. I must, I have to say, I have to say, Keriath,

it didn't need the bun. The pie was fine. I don't know why we had the bun. Of course it doesn't need the bun. I didn't understand what the bun was there for. I was like, is it because the, The pie is too hot to hold to bite like a sandwich. Like I don't know why there was a bun. It's literally just, here's some carbs. Would you like to wrap it in carbs?

Yeah, it's already like a puff pastry. I don't know why we needed it. It caught me off guard. Also, shy says, don't berate UK for its food, Mr. Deep Fried Butter. No, no, no. I've, uh, I would never. I've been enlightened. I've been enlightened.

We can't, we can't judge a place off of its worst, of its worst food options. I judge the ham and the eggs and the chips and it's not indicative. I am now the enlightened food connoisseur. I disagree. Do you have a curry at any point whilst you were here? Oh, yes. Okay.

I will say it's time for me to berate your food again. I did not have a single spicy item in the entirety of my trip in the UK. Everything that said it was spicy was not spicy in the slightest until, I had an Indian curry in which it was kind of spicy and it was very good. Can you remember which curry it was?

Ah, no. I had it when I visited Stripping and Dodger and they had the curry and it was kind of, it was a little spicy, but it was pretty good. It's genuinely difficult to get spicy food

out of like places that are run by people not from the UK. Like I don't know how to phrase it, but it's just like, yeah, You say you want spicy, but my sheets are less pale than you, so you clearly can't handle it, which is totally fine, justifiable.

I totally get it. But it's honestly quite hard to get proper spicy food out of some places, because they take one look and go, you can't deal with this. There's a place literally two minutes walk from me where it was maybe after five years of ordering curries from them. where I was like, I mean, can you put a bit more spice in it? And he went, for you? Yes. And then it became spicy.

It was just like, you can't handle this. You like, you know, English brick. Get out of here. Wow. And it only took half a decade of trust with this curry shop on it. It really, he genuinely did. Jesus. No, seriously, do.

Please. I just, just a little bit more. And he's like, okay, now you, you've, You've passed the test. You really want it. Let's go. The opinion of Americans was rather fascinating. I must admit.

Oh, yeah. Because you, you traveled internationally at a very strange time. I did. Correct. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, no. It's taken it all now for me to be like, oh, yeah.

No, no, for the most part, for the most part, it was less about that. It was a lot more about, um, mannerisms and attitudes because like often you know you'd say like cheers or something like that's like your thing i say i have like 19 different things i say i either do like the classic thank you thank you or appreciate you or like um thanks man thanks brother whatever it is kind of like just the various things like that um and most of people i spoke to now granted they were talking to me to my face maybe they just didn't want to be rude were very like they were often like americans are really really nice. I've never met a mean American while they're here, which I was a little surprised

to hear. Yeah. But like, I think it's just because the, the overly friendly kind of aspect of it all maybe puts it in that interesting way or maybe tourists in certain areas are just like not really wanting to piss people off. So they're just kind of like not rude. It was, it was rather interesting. I mean, they had so many questions about California. Really specifically California. They asked me where I'm from. Because you're from there. Yeah. Like they asked me if I'm American.

I'm like, yeah, California. And they asked me like a ton of questions about it all the time. And it was like, fine. I didn't really mind it. But I was kind of surprised how often happened. I kind of assumed people would know that I'm from America pretty quickly. So I don't know. It was kind of, I was a little bit surprised.

I kind of like, it felt kind of weird. Not like in a bad way, but just like, I'm surprised they gave a shit. Especially considering how every other worker in England didn't give a shit. Like about anything ever? Yeah, that's fair. I don't know. I feel like for some reason, California is one of those states

that's got a bit of like mythology behind it. But I couldn't really tell you why. Hollywood maybe it stands out. Yeah, it's probably, I feel like California and Texas are the two ones where it's like, oh, this is just US. It's different US.

It's true. So like the big U.S. cities. Like if you're in like New York, Texas, but if you're like, oh, yeah, hey, everyone, I'm from Des Moines. How many questions are you really going to get about it? Like, hey, I'm from Des Moines, Iowa, and it's like, oh. I guess how are the. I don't know. Nice.

So alien from the only time I've been to the U.S. where when I was a kid, my parents went, we're going to go to Maine. Okay. I'm not going to lie. Not bad place to visit, but like, really? I'm not going to lie. I went to Portland, I went to Portland,

Maine, and it banged. I really liked Portland, Maine. It was sick. We did, we did not go to Portland. I don't know, I don't really know where we went, because I was like,

10 years old. And they were just like, we're going to go to the US. And I was like, oh, that's awesome. And they went, we're going to Maine. And I went,

where is that? I've never heard of that place in my life. To wrap this up, because we've been talking for a bit, um, You know, England, it ain't bad. It has, it has the middle of nowhere places that were totally shit that I didn't like. But, you know, that's like, that's just a middle of nowhere in general.

That's like a worldwide thing. Yeah. Notting in was pretty sick. Oh, oh, okay. One thing. So, so, okay, so stereotypes that I have crushed. The food is terrible. Not technically true.

Like the, the average I'd say is lower, just in general. But if you look for it, you can find fantastic stuff. So that's a myth busted. Second myth busted, I guess there's like a myth that like English women are not like attractive or something like that. That's a total myth. Oh, bullshit. Yeah, that's that's bullshit.

There are some definite, definite, very attractive people in the England. Gigantic, uh, fat football dudes, myth confirmed. Absolutely true. Oh, yeah. 100%. One, 100%. get away from it. Come on,

Inglings, go some fucking go. Yeah, 100% real. 100% real. Lots of like public transit type stuff. It's actually really, really good. Love it. Thumbs up on that. I have to, I have to state this one thing.

I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing. I'm genuinely unsure. Your homeless, Kiraeath, are bold. The homeless will chase, you the fuck down with a card reader asking you for money. Wait, with a card reader? For real?

That's a little hyperbole there. Oh, okay. I was like, wow. They are like, they are, they are like doing the spare change, mister. And if you like don't speak to them and you walk past them, they will like yell at you. They, it was wild. That, that honestly, again, like the last like 30 seconds is just me losing my shit. Because I mentioned earlier, I went to a local shop.

There was a guy outside in a sleeping bag. And unlike terrible circumstances, I hope they find their way back to having a home. But as I walked out, he went, you've got a fucking trolley, mate. Spare us some change. And I was like, I didn't pay with cash. I don't have any cash. And he went, bullshit. shit and then started to stand up.

So 100% yes. You are correct. I don't know. The first guy I got in nodding him, he was like, he did that thing of me. And, you know, me and Dan, we're from cities. We just, like, ignored him and kept walking because that's what you normally do. And the dude just like yelled at this. And it's like, we're all on good times, you know.

And I'm like, I'm like, what the fuck you? The hell are you mean? I don't know who you are. I'm from the U.S. I don't have any. I don't have any pounds. I don't have any quid. It caught me so off guard.

Like normally it's kind of be about their day. Really enjoyable time in England. If I were to go back, I would most likely go back to Brighton or London, probably. Although I have been told to go to Scotland. I've been told quite often that Scotland is absolutely phenomenal in a great place to be. I've heard that too.

Edinburgh is fantastic. Yes. The one, but it's, it's brilliant. There's so many amazing things to see. Hell yeah. Everyone is lovely. It's so good. Oh, there.

All right. I think, I think that's where we're going to call it. Okay. Sounds like you had a busy, productive trip. I have so many opinions on the Netherlands now as well. That's a whole other week. Next week, episode from the Netherlands. Yeah, we just say.

Confirm or deny. Yes, we need to find some people in the Dutch who nearly kicked us out of a casino for being too loud. Yeah, yeah. The Dutch nearly kicked. It's the worst stereotype. You can't be being too loud as someone from the US. I was playing high roller blackjack and I'm being too loud. It was like a funeral in there.

I'll just say that's allowed. Like if you're playing high stakes, you can be loud. That's fine. It was like, I was like, what you mean? Anyway, anyway, all that aside, um, uh, it was a great, it was a great time. All the, uh, the people in the UK that, uh, the various fans and stuff that I met were super lovely as well. They were quite sweet.

Um, it was, uh, it was, it was a genuinely good time. I would be very happy to go back. I think it would be a, a, a good time. I think London was actually quite fun. I didn't do any of the touristy stuff, but it was just fun to eat a lot of good food, take the trams, see some shit. It was solid.

And yeah, that's, that's Bricky's adventure. Thanks for sticking with this as well. Because this time, we couldn't take a picture of a pint because schedules didn't line up, so you'll have to come back.

Yes, and you'll have to make your trip out my way as well. We'll meet halfway, because you're a bit far. Oh, what's halfway? I don't know. I don't know. I did like that conversation. It was like,

how close are you? I'm three hours. Yeah. Yeah, that was that was a quick like, all right, got it. Yeah, that's not a thing unless you really,

really, like what was it last week where Kear was like, yeah, there was plans to have Bricky here, but, yeah, yeah, we had tentative plans and then Google Maps

got in the way because it was like, you're going to be on the road for a long time. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for welcoming me back, you three. We will be returning to the normal schedule program next week. Yippee! Welcome back, Bricky.

I have escaped the confines of England and I have returned to America. Surely nothing has changed since I've been gone. Bye now.