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Ep. 358 Today's Peep Lands in London for Cuban Cigars from Soho's Rock-and-Roll Rooftop, Piccadilly Circus, and More

• Pat Walsh

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London greets us with music in the air and a skyline that feels like a promise. We land at a rock-and-roll hideout in Soho—formerly MI5 research space, now a boutique sanctuary curated by Mark and Shireen Fuller—where portraits of Hendrix and Tyler watch over the lifts and the rooftop spins a perfect soundtrack. It’s our launchpad for a fast, joyfully chaotic plan: a bullet train to Liverpool for Strawberry Field and Penny Lane, the Beatles’ childhood homes, and a hopeful stop at the Cavern Club, followed by a dusk walk through Jack the Ripper’s old haunts and daylight hours set aside for the Tower of London, the crown jewels, and Westminster Abbey.

The road here ran through Sicily and southern Italy, where we tried everything from fried peppers to arancine and learned how endless wine pairs with endless hospitality. Still, we crave simple comforts after two weeks abroad—smash burgers, fish and chips, maybe even a milkshake—and that honesty becomes part of the travel story. A coach window gifted us a cinematic moment: Mount Vesuvius in silhouette against a deep orange sunset, a full moon holding steady on the other side. Those scenes hit different when you share them with a bus full of friends who have become a travel tribe.

Every journey needs a legend, and ours arrived on two wheels. A gelato shop owner, a Cuban connection, and a scooter run delivered a box of Cohibas at a price we’ll be telling our grandkids about. We light up on the Soho rooftop and toast to serendipity, friendships, and the kind of finds you can’t plan. Along the way we celebrate a Dodgers repeat from an ocean away, wrestle with time zones, and keep our energy for the next day’s adventures. A local named Sarah nudges us toward Bonfire Night on the Thames, reminding us that the best travel tips usually come with a smile and a story.

Ride with us through music history, city lore, and the delicious whiplash of new places meeting old tastes. If you’re into London travel tips, Beatles landmarks, hidden hotel histories, and the art of scoring a rare cigar, you’re in the right place. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves the UK, and leave a quick review—what should we see next while we’re here?

SPEAKER_01:

So this is podcast 358. I'm just gonna start. I'm just gonna start up. That's right. My first time ever in England, my first time in London. Ryan Harris and I are traveling over here together. We just got in maybe, oh, I don't know, a couple of hours ago. Checked into this incredible hotel. Uh this is the fourth day. Fourth day of November? Or fifth? It's the fifth. Fifth of November uh 2025. It's we're on the rooftop of this hotel.

SPEAKER_02:

What is this hotel, Ryan? Okay, so the sign on the outside says the Sanctum Soho Hotel, but the full official name is the Karma Sanctum Soho. Uh and it's I'll tell you the quick story here. It's operated by Mark and Shireen Fuller. Mrs. Fuller uh comes with the resort and hotel experience, and Mark Fuller is a concert producer and promoter, did like the concert for Diana, did one for Mandela. So basically, he's the guy that wrangles all the rock stars backstage. And the idea behind it was he wanted a place where rock stars could stay and just chill. And if they wanted to have drinks, we're in this beautiful rooftop bar, which uh hope Pat will put up a video at some point on his Facebook page. Uh so they could relax and have drinks and then just go to their room and turn in for the night. And instead of having to be out all night partying and then making their way back to the hotel. And uh, he has done a smashing job of it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and and by the way, we got a soundtrack for this whole podcast, I believe. Everywhere we go, there's music. We just went to Piccadilly Circus here in London, went to the Hard Rock Cafe, and we had a smash burger. A uh I had the spicy, like smash burger and a beer, and Ryan had a smash burger.

SPEAKER_02:

The drippy, the drippy smash burger.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, they were drippy, they were so good, and like, okay, well, you're gonna go to London, you're gonna have a burger at the Hard Rocky Damn right. We have been in Italy, which is was fantastic for four days. We've been in Sicily for many, many days, and we ate a lot of things that you know were brand new to me, and I'm not an adventurous eater, but they were laying it out there for everything from algae cheese to this meatless lasagna to stuff that was, I mean, just um uh fried peppers, deep fried peppers, so all of these things that uh I had never really tried before, and I gotta tell you, there was as people told me that you know, in Sicily, there's so many flavors and different foods, and so we we to we had all that. And look, this is my fourth time to Italy, and and you know, which is a blessing, but I honestly they got great food, pizza, pasta, lasagna, all that. But after a while, Ryan, you gotta get a break. Well, let me remember that. You gotta get a break, you've gotta get you're like you begin to you really crave some American food. I don't care if it's a hot dog with onions and jalapenos or a hamburger, whatever.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, a milkshake of Coke. And I will tell you, Pat, remember, I was there a couple days early, so your first day was my third day. I was in Sicily and Italy total a full two weeks and loving the Italian food. In fact, one of the Sicilian treats that I wanted to get is what's known as arancine, which is a that's the plural, and you have uh una arancina if you order one solo. It's a ball of rice breaded and deep fried with a filling, and they put all kinds of different fillings in. So depending on where you get it, you'll have your choice of you know, whatever cheese or spinach or some kind of meat or something, you'll you'll be able to find something there. And as much as I love the food, oh my god, the food in Italy is so I the wine never stops, never stops. Endless wine. But after two weeks of it, you know, uh, I'm I'm glad to be in London. I plan on having what they would call a proper fish supper, which is fish and chips and mushy peas. Love my mushy peas.

SPEAKER_01:

I'll be skipping the mushy peas. You might like them.

SPEAKER_02:

I bet you I bet when you taste them, you'll like them. Because you like split pea soup, don't you?

SPEAKER_01:

I do, but that seems like it's in the middle of split pea soup and the mushy soup.

SPEAKER_02:

It's really just thicker split pea soup.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, it's mushy peas.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, whatever. I put a lot of work into my split. Into your split pea soup. See, I like a thick split pea soup if you're not like water.

SPEAKER_01:

But anyhow.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh, but no, we're gonna we're gonna be eating some good food, and then as soon as I get home to California, uh, I'm gonna give a free plug to my favorite drive-thru Mexican joint, Baldos in Vacaville, where I'm gonna get a giant plate of carnitas nachos and dump so much hot sauce on it, uh, I might be able to set my mouth on fire.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

But I'm loving it. Right now we were we are smoking Cuban Cohiba cigars, and I must tell you, if you are a cigar enthusiast, if you are an occasional cigar smoker who likes to smoke socially, which is what I do, I'm not an everyday smoker. Uh, and I I so then then we're gonna tell you the story of how we got these, but these Cubans, which would be illegal in our country, oh, very illegal. You know, and I've had Cubans before, you know, just because it's a Cuban cigar, let me just tell you, it doesn't mean it's a great cigar. Quite frankly, there's some Dominicans and some others that are just just very, very good that we have these these days. But but if you get a good Cuban, and these are very good, then there's really nothing like them. So if you can imagine, I I promise you, this is in my wheelhouse, is to be sitting there last night, well, dressing up in my suit, which I waited this whole time for. I waited the whole time, drugged that thing, my brand new pinstripe, wanted to wear it for Sicily or Italy, and wanted to go top flight, my my shoes I got in Stressa, and to sit there and listen to some Frank Sinatra, and I'm not talking about like Frank Yois here, I'm talking about like the 19, the old stuff, you know, 30s, 19, the very vintage Sinatra. To sit there and listen to that, dressed to the nine, smoking Cuba cabal uh these Cuban cigars, uh, and going to an incredible restaurant, it was just first class, top shelf stuff, and it is really an experience like no other. So it's it's just truly been a blessing. And even on that note, before we even got to that, we had a long bus ride yesterday. You know, and as so we had a three-hour bus ride from Calabria, right? Calabria? Five hours. Five hours from Calabria, but then we broke it up into two and three-hour chunks. But anyhow, you see some beautiful countryside, and now if you can imagine, and I did post this on Facebook, to be riding on this coach with the Pat's Peeps group to look out the window, and you are seeing an orange sunset. I'm talking dark orange, and in the middle of that sunset, and I'm on the front of this coach, it's like watching a movie because the the coach window is so huge, so I sit in front so I could do social media. I couldn't catch it in time, so that if you see the video, I had to get it on the side. I wasn't quite ready for this when it happened. But when you talk about sunset, that's Mount Vesuvius. You're looking in the center of a window at the silhouette of Mount Vesuvius, which, if you know history and what Mount Vesuvius means at Pompeii and the destruction that it called us to be looking at that, and then on the right side of the coach is a full moon, and as he's talking Italian and explaining some of this stuff, and we're listening to some nice music, um, it was just really hard to describe how special that was. Because again, how many times in your life? I don't know for me, I've seen it a couple of times now. Will I ever get to see that again? I don't know, maybe, but to see that was glorious, and I gotta say, it was I'm so incredibly glad that we got to see that.

SPEAKER_02:

Me too. I I didn't realize we were gonna be seeing Vesuvius again on this trip after uh you know going to Sorrento and and uh seeing it from our hotel there and visiting Pompeii on a previous trip. It never occurred to me that when we drove by Naples we were gonna be driving by Mount Vesuvius as well. Uh that was just super cool, and that sunset, you're right. I got a couple of great pictures of that too. I was just stunning. Just stunning.

SPEAKER_01:

To look out there, and it was just this, and for some reason it lasts a long time. I don't know what the longitude, latitude, latitude, or I don't know what it is, but it keeps it right there, man. The sun seems to set for a long time over here. But so we um were again my first time in England and in London, and just walking down, Ryan surprised me. He said I didn't know where I was. He's like, Alright, Pat, I'm just gonna take a uh I'm just gonna record you, shoot a little video while you're walking up here. So I'm gonna get ahead of you, and I walk out there, and I emerge into this beautiful area, and Ryan tells me that this is essentially like London's version of Times Square.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, Piccadilly Circus is. I mean, that's where I mean in New York it's very similar. Times Square is very similar. You got a lot of live theaters around there, like you do around Piccadilly Circus. You have the big signs with the video boards and the advertisement, and you know, Times Square has always been full of those big uh, you know, names and lights and and big advertising and all that. It's a little bit smaller than Times Square, but it's still just as spectacular, and it is I like a three or four minute walk from our hotel. Yeah, literally right off the night. And then right nearby here is Regent Street, which is full of. I mean, I always describe Soho, this area of London, as I mean, most people know Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and then I always say, imagine if Rodeo Drive exploded and scattered nuclear Rodeo Drive fallout over a much larger area that's Soho, and right up the block here, in addition to Regent Street, you got Saville Row, which is the center of fashion in London. It doesn't get any nicer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And then in Soho in London. You're real, I mean, from what I've seen of it, it just has a very special feel to it. You know, we come to the hotel, the doors open at the front of the hotel, and all I see, the first thing I see to the left is a big art piece, I don't know if it's glass or what, several profiles of Jimi Hendrix. As I look straight ahead behind the desk, they had probably, oh, I don't know, a huge, beautiful portrait of Jimi Hendrix. Now, I then I realized when I turned to my right and they had a huge portrait of Steven Tyler, I'm like, we are in rock and roll hotel here, man. And I want you to give a little history on the hotel for a second, because what you were telling me earlier, but the cool thing is I was noticing, because again, we've only been here, I've only been here a couple of hours, but as you come off the elevators, and if you turn down the stairs, it's so cool. You open the elevator door opens, and there's a portrait of a rocker there. Just the most incredible thing. So what I thought we would do is at some point, you know, travel the elevators and record what we see coming out, you know, what open what the doors open to, so people can get an idea of that.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, we can do that. Yeah, we can do that too.

SPEAKER_01:

And then the speaking of music, what we're gonna do tomorrow is Ryan and I are we're gonna get up, we're gonna take a bullet train, two-hour bullet train to Liverpool. And we are going to go see Strawberry Fields, and we're gonna go see Penny Lane, right? We're gonna see Penny Lane, we're gonna see the Beatles' childhood homes. Hopefully, we're gonna go to the Cavern Club. I'd like to get a t-shirt or something. Even though I have enough t-shirts or a sweatshirt, something in the Cavern Club, you know, where the Beatles first played. And um, it's the magical mystery tour. And then at some point, Ryan can expand on this a little bit. And how cool is this in London? We're gonna take the dusk tour, the Jack the Ripper tour. You know, we may not have been able to celebrate Halloween in the traditional way this year, Ryan, by you know, handing out candy, or you know, when we were kids, we'd go out and get the candy. But to be on a black volcano of Mount Etna, one of the most active there is, and walking up to and in that black lava up around that area, between that and taking a Jack the Ripper tour, it's like we expanded Halloween a little bit here. And it's just a whole new incredible experience.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and uh, you know, that's one of a few things we're gonna do because uh I had been to London for the first time 22 years ago, and I did go into the Tower of London, which is uh you know where Henry VIII uh would lock people up and have them beheaded and all of that stuff, I believe. We'll get more history when we go, but it also houses the crown jewels of England, so you know, not uh including the Imperial State Crown, which is when you see the films of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, or if you watched uh King Charles crowned, the Imperial State Crown is what they place on his head, and then he'll wear it again for the opening of parliament if he goes in the regalia. Queen Elizabeth uh used to do that, so that's one thing. I have been here four times and I've never been into Westminster Abbey, and so that's where they do the coronations, and so among other things, and that's I want to go in there. There's a lot of very famous people, Winston Churchill and Joffrey Chaucer, and there's a whole slew of people that are buried in Westminster Abbey. Uh, and then uh we've got it pretty well open until the evening that day when we uh go and do the Jack the Ripper walking tour at dark. In the dark in old London.

SPEAKER_01:

That's just that is really gonna be cool. Walking across Abbey Road. I look forward to that. We're gonna do a podcast, by the way, the whole uh, you know, as much as we can on the magical mystery tour, and we're gonna definitely be podcasting on the corner of the crosswalk as we're preparing. I'm curious to see how that goes. Do people stop and wait for you? Do they allow you to just kind of go by yourself, take pictures? Are people patient? I mean, how's that work? It's pretty wild. So we're gonna just kind of report from there. You know, we always see the pictures. People, if they do manage, anyway, blessed enough to be over there and do that, take that that iconic photo, then um walk across that iconic crosswalk. I don't really hear people standing over there talking about getting ready to do it and they're experienced doing it. So that's what we're gonna be. That's what we're gonna be doing, which I'm really looking forward to. That tell us a little bit about the the history of this hotel we're at, Ryan.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, you know, it's really not that old, but the building, uh to me, the coolest thing about the building is uh it previously housed uh a research center for MI5, which is the British equivalent of the FBI. MI6 is like the CIA, I believe James Bond, 007, uh, you know, he would have fallen under MI6. And so, you know, they've turned it into this rock and roll hotel. And it's like I explained to you, they they built it for rock stars to be able to just have a place to chill. It hasn't really been around that long, uh, just a few years. I don't know exactly how long it's been, but like Mark and Shereen Fuller, the operators, they've been written up in the Evening Standard newspaper, and uh they just took on a uh new partner from the music world, Paul Okenfold, who Mark says might even be here on Friday. So hopefully we'll get the chance to say hello to their new partner. Uh, but uh it's just such a chill, like this rooftop bar is pretty much when I'm here where I'm hanging out, because we can sit outside and smoke cigars. Uh when the weather is better, there's a hot tub up uh, you know, half a level up here. Uh, and I have sat in the hot tub up here too, and it was super cold when I got out and I regretted it even in April. Uh, and then there's guy there's some indoor space uh with a lovely selection of cigars in their cabinet. Very, very expensive cigars. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

So these cigars. So Ryan and I wanted some cigars, and there were a few other people on the trip, Jeff and David. There was a few of us who wanted some cigars, and we kept looking for these tobacqueras. Well, guess what they don't have that I didn't see? Tobacco. Now they might have had some cheap cigarettes. I don't know what in the heck else they had. But but so um Marco, who is our liaison, who does a fabulous job. Please check out Pat's Peeps, our group with conservative tours. By the way, just mentioned on this coach ride across Ken Chase, who runs the business, told us that coming up, he uh they're gonna be planning a trip to Portugal and Spain. So this will be our next adventure that I will be hosting, which is amazing. So we have these liaisons like Lorenzo, Romina, uh, Marco, we have incredible drivers, Nicola. They're just you wouldn't believe how good they are, how fun they are on the bus, the way we laugh, the way we get along, so they really look out for us. So we can't find a dagon cigar. So Marco knows someone who owns a cigar store, and they got the good ones, the Davanovs and the Cubans, and the uh just all these great cigars. Our Truffegas, and and well, the guy's business was either he had sold out, he was sold out of cigars. So Marco gets a hold of a guy. We go to this little restaurant. Where were we in that town?

SPEAKER_02:

We were uh I can't even remember the name of the town. Not Terra, not Terra. No, no, but it was a no, it was a tiny little town, and it was a just a brief stop, and we're at a gelato place. Yes, and the guy who runs the gelato place, Giuseppe, Giuseppe, happens to be married to a Cuban girl, and they had some cigars from Cuba, these cohibas, and they put somebody on a scooter and sent them over to the house to get the cigars. On a scooter! Yeah, and they offered to sell them to us individually or the whole box, and I took every bit of euros, my cash, and I bought the entire box of 21.

SPEAKER_01:

For 200.

SPEAKER_02:

For two for 200 euros. And it's a box of yeah, 200, 210 euros, which is a box of cigars that costs uh anywhere from 16, 1700 to 2,000 dollars.

SPEAKER_01:

So these are beautiful cigars, and that was an unbelievable score.

SPEAKER_02:

For about one-eighth the price. Just unbelievable. Well, but here's the thing, guys. It's like, you know, we Italian Americans, uh, we we often kind of kid around. Hey, you want something? I got a guy. Well, we came to Italy and we got a guy for Cuban cigars. Yeah. And you better believe uh I'll probably be seeing Giuseppe again in my future at some point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Now the trick is gonna be getting what's left back home. You know, we're gonna smoke, we're gonna smoke them all here. Uh, Customs and Border Patrol. We're gonna smoke them all here. Any cigars you find with us are cigars we purchased in London.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right. Absolutely 100% correct.

SPEAKER_02:

Dominicans or whatever they are.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, I don't even know if I on a completely other note, a completely different note, I want to say this. Um, we have our Pat's peep sponsors, one of them being Rock and Soul Diner in Sacramento. Tentan R, I believe it is. Now, I've been telling you this every time, and you guys will benefit from this. Rock and Soul Diner, R O C and S O L Soul. Rock and Soul Diner is going to give you two-for-one dinners. Not breakfast, not lunch. My friends, we're emphasizing dinner for the entire month of November. If you go in for dinner, you say what? Hey, I'm gonna go to a concert, let's say, or you had an event downtown. Please do yourself a favor. You talk about a win-win. So the Pats peeps, we start to look good because hey, it's working, you guys. If you could do it, then it makes me look good because my business starts to work. Without you, I can't. So if you go in, you get a free meal. You get two for one on you or when you order a dinner, underlining dinner at Rock and Soul Diner, okay? And then they get the business, you get the free meal, and hey, again, it makes me look like you know, it makes it means that my business is working, and that's the model of that. So that's one thing on a completely different note. I am gonna brag for a minute. I don't know if I did this on a previous one or not, previous podcast. Chances are I did, and I don't care. How about the freaking Dodgers? Now, you may hate the Dodgers, but it is a remarkable thing that the LA Dodgers won the World Series, they were down in this World Series, okay? And I can't here's the thing: when you're over here, the time difference makes it so difficult unless you are, and I'm a diehard. So for me to literally have to go to sleep when the World Series game is starting, yeah, and it starts at 1 a.m. in Italy and in Sicily, I would lay there with my radio next to my head like a little kid with my Dodgers jersey next to me for good luck, and I would fall asleep. And I couldn't listen. But in the mornings, I would get the scores. So to all of you who were so kind, when I I'd wake up in the morning, like I had to have nightmares all night, especially after the seventh during the seventh game, that the oh god, oh god, the the Blue Jays won. It was a nightmare. And I would think to myself, I think this might be, I might be dreaming. Maybe I'm not though. I think I am, but I'm not sure if I am. So I wake up in the morning, I can't even sleep, barely sleep. I wake up early. First thing I do is I'll look at my phone, and it's lit up like a Christmas tree. So many of you wanted to tell me, hey, Pat, you might want to wake up and look at this, because your team is back-to-back champions. I am so proud of them. You know, so proud that they were able to do this. The first time in 45 years that a team has gone back to back. It's the well, it's the first time in 45 years, I should say, that a team has won the last two games on the road in a World Series to win the World Series, but it's the first repeat champions since the turn of the century. Ryan, can you get that coat on or not? Do you need some help?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I'll be fine, Pat.

SPEAKER_01:

I've been watching trying to put his arm into the other coat sleeve for, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

All of thirty minutes. All of thirty seconds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I twisted the coat when I grabbed it with my own thoughts.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh no, I see the problem. It's a Raiders coat. See, things don't function when it has Raiders logos on it, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02:

They function just fine.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, do they? Unlike the team. So much for commitment to excellence.

SPEAKER_02:

Unlike the team, the jacket functions just fine.

SPEAKER_01:

Team, not so much. Same thing with the Rams the other night. I want, I never miss a Rams game. I'm laying on the bed, I start to listen to Rams game. They're already up big time, and I just like, well, then I fell asleep. I couldn't do it. I woke up and I smoked New Orleans. But anyhow, that's my little fun um sports while I was over here. And I'm very proud of them. I don't, you know what? I don't care. People can shake their head. Oh da da da. You know what? Hey, not me. I'm a fan, and I'm freaking happy. I watch every game, and so it's just been uh in that way, it's been it's been really fun for me too. So yeah, but it's hard to miss those games, isn't it? It's so hard, man. But what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_02:

You just have to do it when you're traveling, man. That's all you can do.

SPEAKER_01:

The only thing you can do is catch up the next day, or just stay up online and not sleep ever.

SPEAKER_02:

And that's not reasonable.

SPEAKER_01:

If there's one thing I love as much as the Dodgers and the Rams, it's my sleep. And because it's more important, that comes number one. So, and I'm the host of the trip. I can't be, you know, sluggish during this whole thing, which I'm not. By the way, that's another thing I want to say. I absolutely have so much fun interacting with everyone on this crew. This Pat's Peeps group, some of them have gone on five trips with me. You know, there's some George and Jennifer at five, they're at five, so is Eve. Of course. So, and they've already said, yep, we're gonna go to Portugal and Spain with you coming up.

SPEAKER_02:

And Rick and Gerilyn, they're on at least three, probably four.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right. Don Starr has been on at least four.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm on three.

SPEAKER_01:

Dale is on three, you're on three. So, and then we grow first. Yeah. And then we grow and we we meet new friends all the time. Marty and Cecilia, Cecilia, Cecile, Cecile from uh from New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. Absolutely uh incredible couple. Sarah, who is the sweetheart who's out here hosting us right now, who just walked out here. We're doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_02:

Sarah, come over here real quick.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, she doesn't want to be on, but she's got a good personality.

SPEAKER_02:

What I what we didn't tell you is my friend Pat Walsh here hosts a radio program in Sacramento, California, and he also does his podcast. And we, of course, have been podcasting from Sicily and Italy and now London. So, and Sarah here uh has only been working for Mark and Shireen Fuller here at the Sanctum Soho for a month now.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think tech do you have an accent or are you American? Oh no, she has an accent. I haven't heard you talk.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm definitely a London off.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, there I got to hear her voice. I I'm sorry. I didn't really hear your voice as well when you were talking to Ryan. Oh, yes, you were born and raised here.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

How many generations now in London?

SPEAKER_00:

The best.

SPEAKER_02:

First generation? Where's your family from?

SPEAKER_00:

Jamaica and Cuba.

SPEAKER_02:

Really? So Commonwealth members. Not surprising, right? It's all one big happy family in the Commonwealth, right? Sarah's laughing at that because we don't want to be a little bit more. She knows I'm on the spot. She knows I'm full of along.

SPEAKER_01:

It's just always nice to have a pleasant woman's voice saying hi on my podcast. Rather than us, she's been very pleasant.

SPEAKER_02:

Two mooks like us.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

It's a whole different story. So Pat here has never been to London. Never. This is his first time. He's been here all the way to madness. Is it the madness?

SPEAKER_00:

It's quiet madness. You'll say things that you shouldn't be seeing in the streets.

SPEAKER_01:

Is that right?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you'll say that.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that's that's that's a tease, what we call in the radio business a tease.

SPEAKER_01:

We may I'll I'll ask her more about that off of the podcast.

SPEAKER_02:

But what if there was one thing that a first timer should see when they're here, what would you say to uh you need to get out today, because it's bonfire night.

SPEAKER_00:

So some traveling with a beautiful pilot today is a guy's night today.

SPEAKER_01:

A bonfire?

SPEAKER_00:

It's bonfire night. Where? It's Guy Fox Knight.

SPEAKER_02:

It's Guy Fox Night!

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god, are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_02:

Wow. Is there a time that's supposed to start or not now? When where?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, uh so get to get to the river, you'll see something like amazing.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, down by the river Thames. Yeah. Okay. We're a little ways from the Thames here.

SPEAKER_00:

Not too far, but it's uh 10 minutes on the on the in a car or a 20-minute walk.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Wow, how about that?

SPEAKER_00:

The entire skyline's gonna be lit up. Actually, watch it outside of the house of the parliament. Watch it just for the justice.

SPEAKER_02:

Outside of the houses of parliament. Watch it outside of Parliament?

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. That's true. We have to forgot about that.

SPEAKER_02:

You gotta go see that, man. I I I would love to see that. Oh my god. We better we better hustle this. Oh, we'll finish this. It's gonna start soon. You say more fun.

SPEAKER_01:

Sarah, thank you. Thanks for saying hi. What a sweetheart, man. What a sweetheart. She is great. Isn't it nice to have the woman's voice on the five? Much better than ours. So, um, where are we at? Well, I just look. This is Pat's Peeps 358. Um, it is it's been an incredible trip so far. There's still more to see. The next couple of podcasts. So we've done the Godfather tour, and you we got to do that on a podcast. I want to say thank you to Teresa. Teresa, if you're listening, she heard her podcast, she heard herself on our podcast. I think it might have been three, I don't know, the Godfather podcast. And so she finally heard it this morning, and she wrote me a message. She said, Pat, I just finally listened to the podcast that you guys gave me the opportunity to be on, and I can't tell you how much fun I was listening to it. She says it felt like a natural, and she was, and so she is so sweet. And you know, we might get her on again here at some point on the show or whatever you, but you know, the people that have come on the podcast, thank you so much to the whole group. They've gone back home now, except for me and Ryan. They're all they're on their way back, right? Making their way home.

SPEAKER_02:

They're not, I don't think.

SPEAKER_01:

No, they're making their way home. The one good thing about this coming to England from Sicily from Italy, well, we came from Italy, actually, this on this, is uh according to Ryan, we got we've got about almost three hours on our flight off already. So that's gonna make somewhat of a difference, I think, on the way home.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, plus I got us the shortest possible duration. So our layover in Denver is just under 90 minutes. So we're gonna have to get back through customs and hustle to the gate and get you know, get all checked and everything. So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

But we can do it, we can do it, it can be done. So, with that, you know, we don't really have any special music going out, so I thought we would just go out with the music that you're hearing, the ambiance music that's played through our entire podcast.

SPEAKER_02:

The Sanctum Soho Soundtrack.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right. Hey, thank you guys. Tomorrow we'll talk Bullet Train, we'll do a podcast from the Bullet Train, we'll do a podcast from Liverpool, and I think it's gonna be fabulous. So make sure to check out Pat's Peeps 359. Heck, we're coming up to 365 podcasts, one full year of podcast over a two-year span. Now, that's a lot of podcasts. Because I don't do holidays and I don't do weekends, so that's a lot of podcasts. Love you all. Be blessed. Thank you for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. Pat's Peeps Podcast.

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