Alun's Birthday Surprise: Adam Arrives in Tokyo!
Surprise! It's Alun's birthday and Adam has flown to Japan to celebrate it with him. We discuss Adam's arrival in Tokyo, as well as his layover in Asia's worst airport. We tuck into 7-Eleven's finest birthday cake and revel in the joy and misery of Adam's favourite football team: Arsenal. Start the celebrations!
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro: Adam's arrival
03:04 - Birthdays, Tokyo and loneliness
05:20 - Alun's 7-Eleven birthday cake
10:54 - The West are being shafted
19:56 - First ever flight and online dating
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[0:01] Hello and welcome to this episode of Tripology. It's a backpacking show where two best friends call each other up and share travelling stories. And this
week is an ever such a special show because I'm here, actually here, actually in the same physical realm as the ever physically here, Adam. You introduced the show as us calling each other up and that's not what's happening now because i'm sitting right next to you yeah our knees are touching in a manner that can
only be described as a little bit saucy i'm trying to focus and dial in on the show anyway but here we are in the same physical room adam you've come and visit me in japan well you wouldn't expect anything less because let's talk about the elephant in the room oh it's your birthday let's talk about the elephant in the room you've put on quite a lot of weight since last time I've seen you. What have I told you about eating ramen every single day? Yeah, it's my B day. Not B day. No, no, but that is something I do like about Japan, is the B-Days. Have you had a birthday B-Day? A B-Day B-Day? No, not yet, actually. Okay, well, we'll give you one afterwards, will we? It's nearly 6pm. Yeah, in the Patreon section, lost and found, link in the description. Yeah, that doesn't convince you.
[1:18] What's my birthday B-Day? Yeah, mate, I love that you're here for my birthday. I like that it's like a tradition, isn't it? A tripological tradition that you come and visit me on my birthday. In and around, because last year I was in the Philippines up until the day before your birthday, a couple of days. And then just without us even knowing, coincidentally, I've arrived on the same day that I left the Philippines last year. So, yeah, it's becoming a bit of a tradition, we could say. I'm going to keep on going to ever more obscure places around my birthday.
And then I'll be disappointed if you don't turn up. Now, so I've set the precedent. Next year, I'm going pretty deep into the Arctic. Arctic I'm going deep yeah I want a polar birthday so we've done well there are some pretty exotic destinations yeah the Arctic's one of the only ones where you can't have a birthday bidet, so no birthday it's an icicle by the time it gets out yeah different kind of ring sting you don't want an icicle anywhere near your anus and I'll tell you that from personal experience yeah.
[2:22] Uh what am i doing here what am i doing here we did we tease the idea that i'd be in japan only in the patreon section because our patreonis having spent a little money on the show they get a little bit of saucy extra information so they maybe had an inkling that you were coming but for the audience at large they had no idea they had absolutely no idea so you just think that we've been calling each other up from different parts of the world which is true i mean the last couple of episodes i've been in thailand yeah um bangkok and then kong kane and now i've decided that i didn't want you to be in tokyo on your own because uh it can be quite isolating you know japanese culture as amazing as it is isn't the most warm welcoming open and friendly i find tokyo japan and birthdays all three of those things quite isolating in some ways why birthdays i think birthdays can be an isolating time if you're not careful you can feel lonely you know like when you're in a bad relationship it feels lonelier than when you're on your own yeah i mean unless you're a twin if you're an identical twin birthdays are probably quite cool it's the only time it's a social event yeah get everyone around you've got the same friends though haven't you that's why i'm going to try and have twins later on in my life they run in the family no but i'm going to do quite a lot of ivf.
[3:38] How does that even work that increases the chance of twins a lot does it oh yeah oh my god yeah If you want twins, a little tip for you. I've yeah. Big tip. But how are you feeling? You all right? You're hungry? Yeah. I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm 32. 32. So I might be a surprise to some, but it's the age I am. I'm still not the age that Jesus was when he died, which I've long had my sights set on as being like the age to be. To die at? No, no, no. Just to be. Okay. And once you've beaten Jesus for longevity... I know he had some setbacks, but you are on to a winner. Yeah, but surely you also question what you've achieved in your life. Like, you know, Jimi Hendrix was 27 when he died, and he's one of the
greatest casarists of all time and had a massive influence on how people played. And what are you trying to say, that Jesus in his life did a lot? Yeah, that's what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah, he did. Did quite a lot, apparently. He did a lot in a short amount of time. I think that is good. But one thing he didn't do is live a long time.
[4:37] Even by old standards? Yeah, yeah, he was in his prime. Was that the first time he died or the second? He didn't die the second time. He just lived forever? In Islam, he's one... I mean, I don't want to talk too much about Islam on the show, but in Islam, he's the only prophet that's still alive.
[4:56] Really? Yeah. Somewhat similar to Hanuman, the monkey. The Hindu god that's still alive. He's in amongst us somewhere. You know you've chosen the right podcast host when I bring up Jesus and Muhammad in quick succession and he ties in Hinduism. Because we're multicultural, multi-global. we're a traveling podcast we're liberal as all hell and we're here in the same room so that's nice isn't it really nice really nice it wouldn't be a birthday in japan without a little birthday surprise now on that table over there i can see it you can see it so what we're going to do guys we're going to celebrate alan's birthday all right with a little sing song and then i've got him i've got him a cake over there if you can call it a cake it's generous okay yeah i can see it looks It's quite viscous for a cake. Yeah. Quite liquid. I'm excited about this. This is the second time we recorded this show. We tried to do it this morning and, you know, there's no cake. We've got to cancel the show. Yeah. So we canceled that show. No, actually the mics were switched off, which is one of my only jobs when we set up the show. No, they weren't switched off. There's a technical issue. Yeah. Well, the technical issue was the mics weren't switched on.
[6:00] So that's a problem. Do you want me to, do you want to do that now? Do you want me to hold your mic or you go and get that? Or is that for later? And if you can just sort of pretend you're me and you. Let me tell you guys about Hanuman a little bit. He's a monkey god. He's the only god in Hinduism that's still on planet Earth, existing, swinging around the forests. And by that very nature, he's revered and worshipped. He was assistant to Ram, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, if you're interested in that. Here he is. The cake's arrived. I believe we just now hold it to my mouth because I've got to go and show this to the camera so the fans can see what I'm getting at. All right. Yeah, cool. Well, it's nice of you.I don't subscribe normally. I don't eat a cake every birthday, but when I do, I make sure it's from 7-Eleven. Nice.
[6:44] You're off mic, Adam, but Adam said get a load of that, you guys, and he's really... That's good enough. Yeah, yeah, amazing. We'll cut around it. No, no, no, it's lovely, it's lovely. It adds a bit of atmosphere, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, it does. A bit of environment, a bit of authenticity. All right, good. So what this is, is it's a 7-Eleven special. Okay, yeah, amazing. I do think something that epitomizes Japan and a lot of people's daily lives, actually, in your case, is the Konbini, the convenience store. This is 7-Eleven. And we've previously learned that 7-Eleven is probably your favorite convenience station. Yeah, it really is a part of my daily life. That's the elephant in the room. And you'll be able to read that. Yeah, it's 248 calories. It just says pudding. It says pudding. That last word, which this is probably boring if you can't read the hiragana, I did do a little Google Translate. Or if you can.
[7:37] Which has been quite useful, actually. Yeah, I introduced Adam to the joys of Google Translate and how it could replace real-world text with translated versions. Yeah, the only problem is with Google Lens and using the translation is it doesn't tell you how to pronounce the Japanese word. It just tells you what the literal translation is in English. Yeah i mean it's just translating it for you no i know that but i would quite like to have maybe a, two so i could see how to pronounce it in japanese if i want to say it well i mean it's a different app isn't that's duolingo that you want there is it duolingo well has it got a camera function it's not a language learning app it's a translation tool no that's fair enough um you have got a point obviously but maybe if there is an app builder out there i'd like to work with you we would tripology imagine google translate but every time you take a picture of something an owl swoops down and tells you the vocab, we've already lost that sponsorship, this actually translates to smooth oven baked pudding wow so how are we going to open this with just one hand I'll do it I can open it with one hand that's one of my skills he's incredibly dexterous even on his birthday I've done the first half already done the second half and he's right handed, wow Patreon subscribers remember the time I opened a pistachio nut with chopsticks one of the greatest episodes of Patreon ever link in the description if you want to so um so um.
[8:53] So, happy birthday to you. Thanks so much. Happy birthday to... Happy birthday, dear. And that's the license. We've got to stop there, royalties. Okay. So, I'm just going to pop this spoon in here. Do you know how hard it was to find a spoon in your kitchen? I know. I've got them all in my room because I use them to put... Oh, God.
[9:11] Creatine in my coffee. Oh, really? So, hold on a second. This is baked in an oven, is it? It looks like it's barely been baked for a second. It's almost entirely liquid. Is that too much for one person? I don't know. Do you feed that to me, do you? I'm going to, yeah. All right. And so just for anyone who doesn't know, if they think, well, where are they? Why are they both together? I'm now living in Alan's house. Yeah. And for anyone who thinks, why is Adam feeding Alan this pudding? We actually went viral on Instagram a number of years ago for a reel that we filmed in India in which Adam feeds me food and the number of homophobia in the comment section of that reel. If you're interested in seeing what hatred looks like, go into the comment section of our Instagram on one of our reels where Adam feeds me a bad apow. And we just had a lot of abuse leveled us, didn't we? Yeah, apparently in India they don't appreciate that. So here we go. You've got to give us a review of what you think it's like because it's your birthday cake. I didn't expect it to be bitter. Is it bitter? Well, that would be the caramel at the bottom, wouldn't it? Is caramel bitter? Yeah. It's burnt sugar. Burnt often. So I've had one of those before. I've had two of those before, actually. And I think they are good value for money. Actually, they're better than you would think they would be. It's a creme brulee without the hard top. Exactly. It's a creme brulee without the hard top. You've all had it. You've all had it. But given... I'll tell you what we should do, mate, because this is going to be about Japan and about my arrival in Japan this episode. Sorry, I should have fed you there. That's all right. I'm a bit of a rude human. A lot of vanilla. Mmm.
[10:37] All right but um i smell is that what it is yeah yeah auto sensory meridian response i'm referring to there the tingling sensation that some people get when people do certain noises over a microphone auto sensory meridian response yeah what i was going to say was we've been quite vocal uh off off mic over the last 48 hours we've been together i arrived on friday it's now monday alan's birthday and uh we've been talking a lot about england and the uk and british cuisine and the the level of cookery and quality ingredients that you get in even a supermarket or a convenience store in comparison to the uk and i did say the exact phrase we are getting shafted in the west, yeah and i agree people don't know how bad they've got it i don't think i don't think they do i mean maybe they do they think they've got it bad but when you live in an east asian country it's actually so much you took me to market the other day we found the most beautiful piece of mackerel sushi with real genuine mackerel and it was so beautiful and i thought the amount of money that you'd have to invest to have a mackerel like that in the uk yeah it would be wouldn't be possible on a teacher's salary which i don't have i work in 7-eleven so it's you know it's impossible to get that sort of quality.
[12:02] I totally agree, mate. The food here is incredible. Shall we tell the story of you arriving and go into that a little bit and how it came to be that you're here physically in the same space? Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you one thing. Shanghai Airport is shit. We've done a whole episode on that. It's the shittest of all the airports if you're in a connecting flight. Yeah, if you like good airports that are functional and a joy to be in, like Changi in Singapore, for example. It's the holy grail. There's no Wi-Fi in Singapore. A shanghai airport not the works no plug sockets really not the work no friendly people uh no do you think that airports are somewhere that are known to have friendly people in because everyone's in a rush all the time you tend to meet friendly people in airports you like make friends often on planes and airports yeah that is true yeah that is true um there's friendly people there you'll find them um a russian man approached me when i was charging my phone with my power bank and asked if I could give him my power bank. Whilst you were using it? Yeah, I was about to penetrate my phone with the cable. And he intercepted. He said, can I use your power bank? Before that USB cable goes in there, how did you know he's Russian? Because I heard him speaking to his wife in Russian. Oh, amazing. Because he wasn't wearing a t-shirt.
[13:22] He's wearing a tracksuit. He was on the way to Nha Trong in Vietnam. Yeah, but the audacity though, to just approach someone and say, you know, the plug sockets weren't working in fairness and maybe we should live in a world where that's normalized. But you can just approach people and say, look, do you mind advice? You've got something that I want.
[13:40] Communism dictates that i should have a small amount of that for free ah you reckon that's what it is maybe he was old enough to remember communism as well i'm sure yeah he thought i will have a small piece of what you're providing in exchange for a good or service that i will in turn provide wink wink yeah so that's communism baby it was difficult that one because maybe he thought oh he's a smiling guy he seems friendly yeah he would want me to have charge on my phone yeah so um that set the tone really and then i was a little bit i wouldn't have said worried but there's a few people walking around shanghai airport that were creating an atmosphere doing what they it was three big police men um with big guns and they were perusing walking around um and then there was a guy who was acting very suspiciously who got picked up by the three policemen how suspicious do you have to be to attract attention in shanghai he kept on sort of approaching people in a really strange way. Asking for the power bank? He approached a few groups so confidently that I assumed that he was with them. And then after approaching many more people, I realized he was just going around chancing his arm or something. But because I don't speak Mandarin, I've got no idea what he was saying. He was chancing his arm. Yeah, it was weird. And the reason I tell you that is because it was about 11 o'clock at night.
[14:58] And I went up to the immigration desk and I said, can I just go straight through to transfers because I'm flying tomorrow morning over from Shanghai. It was like a transfer through Shanghai from Bangkok all the way over to meet you in Tokyo. And the guard said, no, you can't come through because your flight is in 12 hours time. It's technically tomorrow morning. So you're going to have to exit. You're basically going to have to enter China, go through the immigration process. And then if you want to stay in the airport, you're more than welcome. I think that's ridiculous. I agree. Let him in. let me in guys but because i was with the riffraff in arrivals i was a bit worried about going to sleep you had russian man asking to borrow my power bank yeah you had this chinese guy approaching every tom dick and harry in the airport chancing his arm left in the uk all three of them, one direction and i was going to sleep on my rucksack in the most brightly lit you know what airports are like they don't turn the lights off to try and let people i almost wish there was some sort of some product that we can talk about in a future episode that would have helped you in that environment i just don't know if one exists so ironically i had it in my bag and chose not to use it yeah i didn't choose not to well yeah yeah yeah i pulled pulled my t-shirt over my head um to make sure that what actually if you've got russian man and weird chinese guy and they're all coming around you sniffing about crikey and i thought they said there's There's no friendly people.
[16:21] No, but if you act weird yourself and do things that are a bit alternative-Stop biting your shoes and that sort of thing. They're less likely to come over and try something, aren't they? Yeah, I suppose they're- Sort of trying to look unapproachable. Opposed to my default very welcome to my world mate i've practiced for years looking so unapproachable that no one ever bothers me i've mastered it you are you're an expert you're an expert adam i was a bit stressed about you coming this time because there was a dilemma that i want to share with you in the audience and that is do you think it's the right thing to do if a loved one a partner someone you care about is coming to see you yeah.
[16:56] Is it the right thing to do to make the journey to the airport and go and meet them it's it's difficult the answer is yes of course you should do that you should do that but in this case you're arriving to narita airport in tokyo which i happen to know is in the chiba prefecture you're going there i was going there that's two hours away from my house the second you get off that plane yeah you're going through immigration and then you're getting on the bus that takes to central tokyo that's your only option yeah basically once i've had a few chats with all the friendly people at tokyo narita airport that bus is expensive and it's another two-hour bus it's 1500 yen should i get on that bus come to see you see you off the plane then we both get on that bus go back to tokyo central and then the journey to my house or do you say adam just get off the plane and get on that bus and i'll meet you where the bus gets off in central tokyo yeah well yeah that one but that's what i did but i'm feeling that it is a romantic gesture isn't it to go to the airport and be there yeah also that i think it probably it's a bit nuanced because it depends on the nature of the relationship it depends on how long you haven't seen each other for it depends on maybe the reason you're even coming uh how long the journey is for you for you to come all the way to meet me just to do the exact journey backwards. I mean, if we were doing something in the vicinity.
[18:25] Oh you were still working by the way yeah i was working that's true so i think for many reasons i'll let you off i wasn't expecting you i gotta be honest when i came through into the arrivals hall even though we'd agreed that we would meet each other yeah at tokyo station i did think i know what he's like though i do know how much he likes me and i know how excited he is to see me i know that he appreciates me flying all the way from thailand just to come and see him for his birthday So I'm sure he's probably going to be there. Did you really, your expectation was that probably was going to be? Well, the thought creeps into my mind. I thought, I do know him. I know. And then after studying the crowd for 45 minutes, I thought he's not here. Yeah. He's not here. You waited. You were like, oh, must be late. You said I'm running late. I was like, oh, God. Well, I thought about surprising you. I said, you're not running. I know he's not running. If anything, you're walking, looking unapproachable.
[19:16] I am i did think about surprising you but i decided against it because logistically it was a bit of an issue and then there was that one time where i came to visit you in canada and you didn't meet me at the airport so which airport wasn't it vancouver yeah i mean that's a six hour drive away from where i was living which is slightly different it's only a few hours longer than the one i was gonna have to get to get you so it goes about 80 dollars one way to get down to the airport yeah so this must 1 300 yen so swings and roundabouts isn't it so i think and we're both if i was completely incompetent and it was my first time on an airplane yes um actually talking about first time on an airplane oh yeah i've just had to tweak my memory i wanted to tell this on a previous episode but i didn't.
[20:04] Um because i think we got sidetracked on my flight from it was would have been melbourne actually in australia in australia to bangkok in thailand was just a couple of weeks ago we're educational geography uh there was a young gentleman who was sitting in my row and the guy sitting next to me he might listen to the show actually big shout out to you mate great guy um he'll know who he is but no one else listening will but that's fine there was a young gentleman who was sitting up against the window and we all sort of got chatting very early on before the plane had started moving yeah and then another gentleman came along and he said i think you're in my seat and then the air hostess came over and said yeah yeah that's your seat you need to move you're actually one row forward it's a bit of a kerfuffle and that sort of stuff but in that very short time that we were talking to each other this young gentleman only 22 23 years old he had told us that this was going to be his first international flight of his life wow and earlier that day he had taken his first ever flight and that was from tasmania where he's from over to melbourne he's taking it all off he's doing domestic he's doing international he's doing firsts it was unbelievable and we said well where are you living where are you going now what is it big holiday you decided to take yourself away because he was traveling alone he said i am going to meet my russian girlfriend we've been together for about eight months and we met online.
[21:27] And hold on as he has he met her before never first time first time he's gonna be intimate with his russian girlfriend as well what a day and for that guy you can imagine me and the other guy we looked at each other and went oh god oh god we hope to high heaven this is genuine, oh yeah real thing you met on like he looked for what you know hopefully there's no offense um made no way but he looked like a gamer, you know what i mean oh so you're worried that she they met online through a gaming community, so you just never know but there were a number of stereotypes and cliches, happening and because you hear the horror stories don't you and he's such a cat fishing i believe it's called such a sweet kid such a sweet kid so we thought uh seems like it could be legitimate we won't ask too many questions it didn't seem like it could be legitimate there was a chance it could be legitimate well if you don't know all of the other stuff that we're kind of alluding to maybe he's done the checks maybe he's done like video call hold up a newspaper today's day that's Maybe he's really gone right out of it. Potentially. I mean, there is also a world that exists whereby all of that could have been true, and it was still a scam. So well there's also a world in which it's all true he's done all the checks they're connected they liked each other then he gets there and it's a nightmare like what happened to me once oh really oh yeah of course.
[22:46] Well we don't we don't have to go because it's it's not about that on your birthday no we don't think about those sorts of things on the birthday but you know we've all been in situations where we've liked someone a lot yeah and it's turned out that maybe they're not right for you after a little while very recently it's happened to me yeah happens a lot so frequently someone a lot people saying it's something about me it's my fault some people say at which point you turn the questions towards yourself and think hang on am i the problem hold on this is the second time this week um but anyway we got off the plane and then we walked out into the arrivals hall and there he was with said the aforementioned no way you got the payoff and then we saw they were Hugging, kissing, you know, big smiles and stuff. And we kind of looked at him. We did the okay sign. He just gave us a wink. And we thought, all right, brilliant. The world is a good place. I love that in your pipe and smoke it, you doubting Thomases.
[23:41] So that happens. So I've been taking a lot of flights. I'm happy for him. I'm really proud of him. Because he did the necessary verifications. He bit the bullet. That's really important. It's important to bite the bullet. The bullet's there for the biting. If you like someone and you have the appetite to travel and they're in a different country. Yes. And it's their birthday. Yes. Go and see them. Thank you. I have a lot of opinions about this because, like I say, I'm someone who's met lots of people around the world. Some people I've tried to go and visit. Some people I've persuaded to come and visit me. I think there's always best to remain open to connection. And the best thing, if someone's the wrong person for you, it's best that you find out as quick as possible. I love it now. If I'm connecting with someone and something happens, it means that's not the right person. I think that's great.
[24:25] Neither of us are going to waste any time. thank god i found out now as opposed to in three weeks or if i've wasted any more time with you, someone said something awful or something or like you know a situation occurs where i'm like oh god i know now that this isn't the person i want to spend the rest of my life with yeah god isn't amazing what a gift i learned that right now so you'd always take the chance put yourself out there well do you think that probably two things are true so we've already covered on this show many times when it comes to building relationships with people when you are traveling yeah you expedite the process oh it's expedited to high hell pressure cooker situation you often say yeah, um but then also are you in situations that maybe fragment or fracture the relationship because you don't really have the time to get to know someone you don't go on dates as it were you don't have a few weeks eight weeks or three months or whatever just to get to know someone slowly you know go for dinner go for a drink go for a dance whatever you might want to do then all of a sudden all you go around the other person's house it can happen quite slowly and progressively Yeah. Whereas when you're traveling, you're like, oh my god, we're doing the most amazing thing you can ever imagine, and it's intense, oh, you're a nutcase. It's a stress test, and yeah, people crack under pressure sometimes. I have thought it's maybe a problem.
[25:36] You've got to be tolerant still. If someone's, like, they've shown you that maybe they're not the right person for you, it is important to, like, take a deep breath and be like, is this actually a real problem? Not just like, ah, thank god you revealed yourself, you're gone. I'm not suggesting that for a second. Oh, the scales have been lifted from my eyes. Oh, but I just wanted to see if maybe we could do what I wanted to do today. Oh, yeah, you're selfish. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that sometimes people ask. You're encouraged in the intensity of a travel situation. You're encouraged to ask the big questions early on. Correct. Yeah, I do agree. You often have conversations very early on that maybe would be uncomfortable in some other. But I've heard, I've heard, this is quite topical. In Japan, there are sort of questions that might be posed very early on in dates, i.e. The first date might often involve a chat about marriage and kids. Are we a thing? Which in- Oh, we're just having coffee. Are we a thing? Well, for me, it's just coffee.
[26:41] Sorry, you're not answering my question. Are we a thing? In what context is the coffee occurring? It's occurring outside the context of a thing. Well, in some ways, that's quite good, isn't it? It's very direct. I like to know whether it's a thing. And if it is, I'm gone. Could you imagine that that sort of dating culture existed in the West? I think we'd be so turned off, wouldn't we? It'd be strange. Yeah. Are we a thing? Me and you? Podcasters. Where? We're best friends. We're best friends with podcasters. That's all we need to be. I get caught up sometimes when people say, you know, I've been meeting a lot of wonderful people over the last few weeks. And they say, oh, are you going to Japan? I say, I'm going to meet my business partner. And it's my knee-jerk reaction to call you my business partner first. Why? Because there was a brief period where we weren't friends, but business partners, and it became the default. No, no, no, not at all. Not at all. I've always been your friend. No, no, the other way around, sorry. Oh, well. You've always been mine. I have to take your first answer. But calling you a business partner, it does you a disservice, and so does calling you my best friend. So I think you're much more than that. What am I? You're a massive part of my life. We speak more than some people who live in the same house. That's true. And now we do live in the house. Yeah.
[27:48] Well, we should talk about that in the Patreon section maybe and go on a dash. We also want to talk about a football match that we went to see. Yeah. So if you haven't worked out, I'm an Arsenal fan. I'm wearing this as a show of faith, a show of support for my team who did incredibly well this season. Oh, you've changed your tune. Well, you know, I mean, I just, before we went recording, I watched a little video and the guys were celebrating with the cup and all this sort of stuff. So, look, we missed the mark, and it was against the French, and the English don't like losing against the French in any context.
[28:18] But we should talk about that, definitely, in the Patreon, because it was good fun. We'll talk about it in the Patreon. For as little as a dollar, you could, for a dollar, realistically, what can you buy? You could maybe go to a local fair and buy a decorative pine cone. You could perhaps go, some of the Japanese fruits here exceed well the cost of a pound, like a fancy strawberry, perhaps. You could throw it into a body of water a shrine you could do that you could there's lots of things you could do with a pound but subscribe to our patreon is one of the best ones that you can do and over there there's a plethora of content some of which is of extreme value so i encourage you to click on the link and go there and take a look we're going to carry on talking there now we're going to talk about football we're going to talk about some other things that are just too sexy to mention yeah you're yeah you're going to be a little bit older in the patreon section you're me 32 and a couple of extra minutes that's true yeah ever aging and i'll see you next week i'll see you there cheers guys bye.
