Atlantic Exchange

Sporting Events & Concerts

• Matt.peckover • Season 1 • Episode 2

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The Atlantic Exchange - Episode 2: Concert Tales and Cultural Differences


Join Matt and Jerry for the second episode of The Atlantic Exchange! They dive into their week’s happenings, including Luca's baptism and plenty of concerts. The duo humorously discusses differences in healthcare, cultural quirks related to events, tailgating, and the stark contrast between British and American sporting experiences. Matt shares some hilarious and rather embarrassing stories from his recent festival adventures while Jerry brings up his concerns about Matt’s hearing, thanks to his concert-going habits. Get ready for unfiltered opinions, some cheeky banter, and a true glimpse into how differently people across the Atlantic enjoy their events!

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Matt:

We go. Welcome again to the Atlantic Exchange, episode two. We've made it. We're done. We've done a whole episode. Jerry, we're on episode two now. How's it feel?

Jerry:

accomplished. It feels good. It

Matt:

Can we just retire now? That's it. We're done. Yeah, I mean, we're still shit, so don't, don't forget if you're tuning into episode two and expect this to be brilliant, we're still gonna be shit. I predict we're gonna be shit for at least 30 to 40 episodes, so.

Jerry:

right.

Matt:

If we've only got 20 out there at the moment, give up, come back later. Um, if we do have more, please skip forward to the end.

Jerry:

If,

Matt:

And as I say, things will be very different

Jerry:

if we have more than 30, 40 episodes, I, I even, I'd be surprised in a general sense

Matt:

that we have that many or we're still shit.

Jerry:

that we just have that many, the shit part, we'll, we'll

Matt:

Yeah, we,

Jerry:

being shitty for 50 60.

Matt:

yeah. Uh, let's, let's start with how your week's been. It's been a week since we spoke last spoke. What have you been up to?

Jerry:

yes. Well, uh, Luca has been baptized wonderful events. We had some folks over after the, uh, after the church ceremony, which was very nice. Um, and just working, man, just working a lot of travel. How about yourself, Matt?

Matt:

Uh, as you know, I went to, went to a couple of concerts'cause you were concerned about my hearing.

Jerry:

true. I did, I

Matt:

and you tried to put me in for an edit.

Jerry:

um, a couple of providers in area that, that deal with

Matt:

Yeah, so an ENT for anyone who's in ENT, ears, nose, and Throat, that's who you go to to have your hearing checked. Jerry's concerned the amount of concerts I go to that it could be bad for my hearing. Um, he's quite rightly, but I think there's other concerns there, like why is a guy going to concert two concerts a week? That should be.

Jerry:

the real concern. When I went on the website, it says there, there's a six month wait for an appointment.

Matt:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jerry:

whole new episode.

Matt:

Free healthcare. Free healthcare. Yeah.

Jerry:

chat

Matt:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we do healthcare and the difference between private Yeah, that's be fair. That's, that's a decent weight. But, um, yeah.

Jerry:

Dude, I can go to my

Matt:

Okay.

Jerry:

now. Knock on his door.

Matt:

Yeah. Maybe episode 20 when we're not so shitty. We're talk about healthcare. Yeah. What we drinking at the moment is that tea, coughing

Jerry:

Some coffee. It's a little early here. It's eight o'clock.

Matt:

sound. How do you take your coffee? You black sugar. What's going on with black? No sugar.

Jerry:

black. It, it, it makes me go to the bathroom. Perhaps not something I should share on a podcast, but yes.

Matt:

No. But if you do, maybe that's another podcast we're doing from the bathroom.

Jerry:

bridge shit versus

Matt:

Um, yeah. So yes, I went to concerts. So let's talk about this obviously Coldplay. Now obviously some listeners may not be Coldplay fans, that's fair enough. But you can't deny they put on a good show. Um, as you know, I dunno if you've seen footage, everyone gets a light up wristband.

Jerry:

Super common here.

Matt:

they're kind of, yeah. I mean, but they invented, they invented four Coldplay. They actually, they weren't invented by Coldplay, but the very first ever night at wristbands were, were a Coldplay, a guy who was a big Coldplay fan. He invented it. The technology set it. Some Coldplay music sent it to Coldplay. They liked it. Um, I think in the original demo he did, he, he put a load of dog collars on about 20 dogs and let him free at night on a golf course and let him run around with Coldplay music playing. Um, Coldplay loved it. Uh, and then they adopted it about. 2010 and I think they were like the third iteration of these bands. But there's other companies now that do, because I went, when I went see Lewis Kadi on Tuesday. Similar, not as good as the Coldplay bands. Uh, but yes, very similar technology. So it's kind of just given the norm now, isn't it? That you go to a concert, you get a light up band. Alright, my, I've got draws full of me. It always says recycle at the end. No, no, no, please. This is coming home with me to never be used again.

Jerry:

go to as many concerts as you do, but I was in Puerto Rico, uh, a couple weeks ago to see Bad Bunny and everyone received a, uh, sort of like a necklace with a camera on it that was lighting up throughout the concert.

Matt:

Okay, so this isn't a real camera you can take photos with, or

Jerry:

for the show. Right. Similar to the wristband. So it, you know, it, it, it goes on beat, different colors. The camera itself is in reference to one of his. One of his songs. That's probably the most popular song that he has out now. Um, and it was cool. It

Matt:

it's on the tip of my tongue, but just, just, just because it's not there. What's the song called?

Jerry:

de I should have, I should have, I

Matt:

That was it. I was, I was, that's what I was about to say. Yeah. Was it that one?

Jerry:

more photos. Right. That, that's essentially the

Matt:

Is that from the Oasis album?

Jerry:

from the Oasis album, which is,

Matt:

Oh, okay.

Jerry:

correlation between those two. And that's where it ends.

Matt:

Okay. See, so Jerry and I have very different tastes of music. That's fine. Um, obviously he always sends me these artists like Bad Bunny Ho I'm not aware of. And so I, but I always look'em up and quote albums just to sort of, so he thinks I've got this knowledge. And he's like, oh yeah, that's, I think I always was The second album was that the collaboration album? Or, and I, I said to him, his Oasis is that, is that we just did a cover of All Oasis songs, but apparently it's not, which is a shame. I think that would've been interesting.

Jerry:

what did you do? I'll share what I did, uh, prior to the Bad Bunny concert, but what did you do as a Brit prior to going to the Louis Capaldi concert or the Oasis concert? What, what, what are

Matt:

Okay, so the very.

Jerry:

to you walking into the stadium looking like,

Matt:

Yeah. And that, that, that leads our topic today is actually sort of events. So that leads nicely into that. So they're very different. So Louis Capaldi, uh, uh, I went with, with my wife Jen. Um, we went for a meal. Uh, I wasn't drinking actually. I drove, we wanted Louis Capaldi went home. Uh, Coldplay. Very different. I Coldplay, uh, I, I was actually, I was, I was meeting up with Jen's. Brother's wife, um, she was running late in traffic, so an hour and a half on my own. So I went to a bar called the Box Park at Wembley and just drank heavily for an hour and a half on my own, and then went to see Coldplay, and I carried on the drinking while I was in Coldplay. So I, I, I think I probably had close to about 10 pints during Coldplay. It was fair. Yeah, that's how you gotta see Coldplay, isn't it?

Jerry:

is you missed half the concert'cause you were stuck in the bathroom taking a piss.

Matt:

No great bathroom stories. Not every day you hear a co a Coldplay bathroom story. I have a couple, like, uh, I took, I took my very first shit at Wembley the other day. That was during Coldplay. Not this one. This was prior prior time I saw Coldplay. And I did actually think, when was the first time someone's ever taken a shit at a concert?'cause you just don't do that, do you? I dunno if you've ever done it.

Jerry:

That's probably something I wouldn't admit out loud, but

Matt:

Who's, let's be honest. Jerry, who's listening? Yeah. Who's listening?

Jerry:

Who's listening exactly.

Matt:

It's listening. Um, second one. Yeah, so I was in the queue for the toilets on Friday. Uh, quite large, uh, probably Wembley, always not enough toilets for the stadium. And this guy comes up to me, he had high vis and he went, follow me. I didn't even, I didn't even question him. I followed him. Me and a couple of guys just followed this guy and he started taking us to the exit and I thought, oh, okay, this is, it's not great. I could see the exit of Wembley and literally by the exit was a little toilet door. Went in there, massive bathroom, no one in there. It was brilliant. I kept that to myself.

Jerry:

open and

Matt:

Well, when the other.

Jerry:

care.

Matt:

Yeah, as people were coming in, they just saw me. Hey, hey Aiden. Yeah. So that was cold. We're talk about the actual music of Coldplay Lewis Kadi. That's not what we're here for really? Is it? You know, you you wanna know that? Look'em up. But, uh, yeah, they're my concerts for the week. Um, so yeah. So let's, let's talk, let's talk events. So

Jerry:

I apologize. Sorry, I'm, I'm, I'm

Matt:

actually physically pause.

Jerry:

and she has my child. Hold on.

Matt:

Out the first seven minutes or it'll go

Jerry:

would be

Matt:

on recording

Jerry:

that was

Matt:

that we've done. Yeah.

Jerry:

as shit as the first one. So we were actually

Matt:

Is that our tagline? Tagline. Not as shit as the previous episode. Anyway, so.

Jerry:

you made a really good point before, right? Uh, where essentially you said you went to the pub, You had some pints and then. You headed into the stadium. Very different here, right? So when you were here for summer slam tailgating, concert sporting event, that's the thing to do.

Matt:

That still blows my mind. That's what you guys do. I think the reason, there's two reasons we don't do it. A we seems drinking and driving over there is something that you just don't care for. Um, also, we just don't have the space around the stadium. So,

Jerry:

We're we're super car-centric

Matt:

there's a stadium in a, a. Yeah, so obviously any stadium, especially in London, if there's space around it, they're gonna build something else. Some other real estate of some sort. That could be shops, that could be restaurants, especially flats.'cause flats. You obviously can build them up and you can get a lot of, a lot of people in there. Um, Wembley go back to the, the previous Wembley, which got knocked down. 2001 maybe

Jerry:

right.

Matt:

that, um. There was massive car parks. It's very similar to MetLife, car parks all around it. You could park there, skip 4, 25 years. Now there's, there's, uh, maybe two car parks and they're multi-story. So, oh, as you know, you can't really tailgate a multi-story, but as you say, many people don't. I think there's three underground lines going into Wembley. Um, people get there by tube. That's why they had to move. We had a tube strike the other day. So Coldplay or any artists that had a concert in London, they just had to cancel'em because if you can't get, if tube's the only way into these venues, you know, I think it's 90,000, 85,000 go to Wembley. If you can't get, you can't get any other way there. So you just have to move. And Coldplay moved it Post Malone. They had to cancel their concerts just moving to another date. So yes, so the tailgate. So as you say, I went, I kind saw you last month. We went to Summer Slam MetLife. Completely different experience. I mean, you've got these A, you've got this, it's in the middle of nowhere. You've got these massive open car parks. People pull up. It just made you getting out. Marquees tables, speaker systems, there was DJs setting up. It was an amazing experience. And people you're drinking, I think we in sort of three, four hours before we go in and then you go in. So when you are in there, so. Some that might be different. But say it's a football, um, is it mainly football people tailgate for or is it all sporting events?

Jerry:

All sporting events, you're gonna see some sail gating.

Matt:

So once you're in there, what's the drinking situation like? Do you just do all your drinking before and now you're just in there to watch the sporting event? Or are you drinking during the sporting event?

Jerry:

So you're still drinking, you're, you're still,

Matt:

I.

Jerry:

you know, you're, you're getting a proper sized beer. Right? I've been to a couple events in the uk and it's just, I, I the real concern with the size of the beer that you get.

Matt:

See, see, this is obviously, and you may not know, you may know, but our listeners,

Jerry:

Our

Matt:

listeners,

Jerry:

two of

Matt:

yeah, listeners, two of them are wives.

Jerry:

Yeah, because we're forcing

Matt:

they, you know that you, because you can't, you're not allowed to drink alcohol while watching football in the uk. You see? Are you aware of this rule?

Jerry:

no.

Matt:

So, yeah, it came in about 40 years ago. Uh, they brought in a law that's illegal to drink alcohol while you can view the pitch. So if you've got line of sight to the pitch, you can't drink alcohol. So what would happen is you would go to, let's say you go to a. Football event you would go to, obviously to the pub before you drink, you get to the stadium, you can drink, but you can't take your drinks to the seat. So what's different in what I notice at the American stadiums from the bar, you can actually even see, you can see the pitch deal, can't you? Just, it's just a straight seat.'cause maybe the seat's a bank, so they go down. It's different in the uk you can't actually. Pretty much a brick wall. You have to go through a door or or an entrance to then get to your seat so you can't see the pitch at any point where you got the alcohol so you can drink at the bar. I think they stopped serving just before kickoff. And yeah, you can't take any alcohol again. Half time after the match you can drink, but it's just illegal. Take any alcohol, see your seats, and be able to see the pitch.

Jerry:

That's very unfortunate.

Matt:

Let's put you off and see a football match now, isn't it?

Jerry:

That's, that's, that's outrageous. I'm assuming folks try to sneak alcohol in or

Matt:

Uh, do you know what? I've never actually, no, I've never seen anyone do it because there's so many stewards, uh,

Jerry:

You'll get

Matt:

in the grounds then standing, watching people and they're just watching. You get kicked out, you get banned. I remember once I went to a football match, and I don't think a guy knew this rule, so he bought like. Four or five beers. He had him in like a carry thing and somehow he must have got past. He wasn't, he didn't even realize that it was, wasn't a thing. He got past, like the stewards, maybe they were looking outta way and you saw him walking up to his stand with like these four or five beers. I've never seen so many stewards jump this guy as quickly as possible and literally drag him out

Jerry:

boxes? Can't even drink in the

Matt:

again. They, they've got, yep. So they have to, uh, they have to close a curtain, uh, if they're serving alcohol or the, the bow in there has to stop serving alcohol. Basically, if you can, I think it goes down to all professional. I think the law is all professional tears of football and while football's on, you're not allowed to have alcohol and it won't have actual line of sight. If you watch it through a TV screen, that's fine. Obviously can you go to a bar and watch it? But if you've got actual line of sight of the pitch, you cannot drink alcohol.

Jerry:

get it because in the US cheerleaders, right, we have cheerleaders, right? There's no cheerleaders in the uk, or at least I haven't seen. No. Yeah, neither. Yeah. Yeah. We, we have cheerleaders that are essentially leading the chance in, uh, in the US but in the uk it's like a father of two named Gareth that's been drunk since like 10:00 AM leading the chance. So I, I can see why alcohol might be a problem during the middle of the game.

Matt:

And also the, the chance in the US are very positive base towards the team. The chance in the UK from Gary and his son in the stands are more negative to a, the team, the referee. They're normally, you'd be surprised, they normally, they, they normally ch negative stuff towards their team more than the other team. Yeah. It's like people pay good money to go and completely scream abuse at their football team.

Jerry:

Why is that? Why is it that essentially the Brits during a sporting event just become stereotypical Americans? Like loud and obnoxious.

Matt:

I, I think it's more, I think it's more than that. I think we pretty much say like, hold my beer. Well, don't hold my beer. I wanna drink it. But we literally say, oh, that's cute. We're like, oh, that's cute. You, you turn up with a marquee. Now watch us when there's a major sport, like a World Cup or something. Now watch us.

Jerry:

therapy for you guys.'cause composed, everyone's always relaxed, but suddenly a sporting event comes on and it's just, you let loose.

Matt:

It's, it's like when you see footage of riots, uh, basically sometimes you, if I showed you footage and you go, is this, yeah. If I showed you footage, you go, is this riot or is this just people preparing for England playing in the World Cup? You sometimes it's, it's very similar, especially we see Brits of ball.

Jerry:

or lose cars are getting flipped over.

Matt:

Yeah, I mean, Paris is pretty bad. France is pretty bad for that. I mean, nothing, there's not obvious major. Someone could win sort of Miss France and they're gonna, they're gonna write the city and burn it down. They just love, they have any excuse to burn it down. They must have really great fire insurance over in France or something.'cause they're always, they're always the other news. Paris is on fire again, but yeah. Yeah. Great healthcare. They don't mind. Um. Yeah. It's, it's the, the worst. It's when we're playing abroad in a cup, like a, the Euros or the World Cup. So every two years, the, the, it's not really the Brits, it's the, it's more the, well, no, the, the English and the Scottish, you'll see they have a reputation as well, but it's the English have the bad name for, um. For the, for the hooligans and all that that you see. And it, it, I've seen some footage is shocking. It's, I dunno if it's, it's not so bad now. Maybe, I don't know, maybe they just don't televise it as much or people have grown up and it's just the younger generation don't do it so much. But yeah, it's think like, even clubs would have gangs. So you'd have, um, each, each football club would actually have a, an associated gang. And those would be like, like gangs you would see in America, these are gangs that would go around and they would meet up. They're not really there for the football. They, they'd meet up with the other gang. They just have a street fire and that's their, that's their day. I mean, have you seen the film? Have you seen the film Football Factory?

Jerry:

very familiar with what you're referencing. It's still mind boggling folks that aren't even going to watch the game, they're just, you know, it's,

Matt:

Yeah.

Jerry:

you know, they're, they're coming out of work from their factory and they're like, all right, I'll see you in two hours after some beers. Let's throw some punches and then I'm gonna go home to my family.

Matt:

Yeah. Watch a game on tv. Well, no, not on tv. Can't watch it on tv. So that's another thing we'll get to, but

Jerry:

up after the fight. But

Matt:

prison, prison. It is the same, but then you would get people to go tailgating, but wouldn't go to the match after, wouldn't you?

Jerry:

you do see that it isn't as, it isn't as common, but it does very much happen because tailgating is its own event. As you saw, right. The, the, the players, uh, the, the, some of the folks from the concert, or even in the WE summer slam event that we went to, right? There were wrestlers that came out to the tailgating event just to meet with the fans. It's, it's genuinely its own event. You pay for parking, it's like$80 to park. It's ridiculous. I better get something out of it, you know.

Matt:

I mean, I think it's, yeah, I mean it's similar cost for parking here, for Wembley and that, but what I did enjoy mostly about it is, you know, this is something that you, I dunno how many tailgate events you've done in your life. 10, 20, 30, 50,

Jerry:

hundreds every, every

Matt:

and,

Jerry:

event,

Matt:

you and your.

Jerry:

football game, concerts,

Matt:

Now many of these games, you've played beer pong at these tailgate events, haven't you?

Jerry:

Flip cup. Yeah.

Matt:

Yeah, I've rocked up, played one game of beer, beer pong in my life, kicked everyone's ass. That just shows how it, it just shows A, your shit, and B, we know how to do it.

Jerry:

weren't drunk enough. I think that was the issue.

Matt:

No, that's the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Fair, fair. I'll give you that. So events.

Jerry:

Events. I gotta ask, what is the food situation at these sporting events?

Matt:

Overpriced and usually not great

Jerry:

Agreed. Probably the same. Super expensive here, but what are you guys eating? Like what's a typical, you're gonna grab a beer, it's halftime. What? What are you, what are you, you know, sort of taking it down with,

Matt:

again. So what I would do is if we're going, most people are gonna go to some sort of pub before, maybe grab some food before. The, the food at the stadium, it's all very similar. It doesn't matter where you're in the world, they're the same. You know, you're gonna get burgers, chicken tenders, hot dogs. Um, it's gonna be minimum 10, 15 pounds for a burger for a meal. But it's not gonna be the best food. So personally, I'll try and eat before I go, like a, where the spoons, I know you, you've experienced weather spoons, food, you can.

Jerry:

weatherspoon.

Matt:

What I like about weather food is you go in there, you can order round of drinks, maybe some food for the whole table. Uh, you can pay with a 20 pound note and you're gonna get at least 10 pound change from that. So, which, which is quite enjoyable. Um. Yeah. And the events. And the other thing about the, the other thing you might not know about, actually I'm not a football, football knowledge, don't, do not come to this podcast expecting

Jerry:

sport

Matt:

football knowledge'cause it's, it's not made but sport knowledge. But the other thing is, so you can't show football between three, the three, the 3:00 PM matches on Saturday. They're, they're the, they were sort of really the only ones and they branched out obviously as football's got bigger and they do'em at 12, they're doing five. But the 3:00 PM one could not be televised legally in the country. Um. You can find it on other countries can show it, but, and the reason is I always thought it was'cause people wouldn't go to the games'cause, but they set out. But the reason is, is to protect the lower leagues. So you think if you are, you'd rather be at home three o'clock watching Liverpool man, United Man City. So then no one's going to the other clubs like the, the second, the third division, the grassroots clubs. No one's going to watch those matches'cause it's not, these matches aren't on TV.

Jerry:

diehard.

Matt:

They're brilliant. You've got no fans. I love that guy.

Jerry:

I mean, tho those, those fans in the lower leagues, I mean. They're, they live and die by their local neighborhood team or whatever that is,

Matt:

yeah. See that's the thing. So you've got. You've got these, you've got a team like Reham, which are really just made up of the diehard fans now. And now these have been shoved into the limelight. These are now a championship team. They're the second division team, so they're playing with, with the big boys, but they're not used to that. Obviously. Now they've attracted two, three times fold fan base'cause they're a global brand. But yeah, it's, it's a very different thing. When you go to a lower league, could you, there normally stands sometimes, so you're still not, you're not sitting, it's. It's a different experience, but yeah. So it's protect those. And I know you have a similar thing in America, which is maybe a better idea. You're not allowed to, now, correct me if I'm wrong, you can't play professional football on a Friday, is that correct?

Jerry:

Well, there's certain days that we have professional football. It's primarily Sunday, one game on Monday. Most games are on Sunday, one game on Monday. And then just recently, a couple years ago, they added one. Game on Thursdays, but Sunday is the primary football Sunday is what we live by.

Matt:

And Friday's college football. Is that correct?

Jerry:

Saturdays, Fridays,

Matt:

Yeah. So, so yeah. So again, it protects them. So there's always gonna be attracting those crowds'cause they're not going to an NFL game that night. So it's a similar idea. You've gotta protect the grassroots. Uh, I suppose while we're on the subject of events, concerts, festivals, now I have been to a festival in the us. Granted it was not. It was called when we were young. Uh, it was more of a, in a concrete car park with two stages. But I still feel that the Brits in the uk they do festivals better than, than the us. I mean, I, I debate this with me, but obviously I think the only one I know of really is Coachella. I'm not sure what another, I dunno what other large festivals are. There's probably loads and people would argue there's probably hundreds in America, but they're globally branded that make their way over here. I think. Was it Burning Man as well?

Jerry:

It's the, the festival game has changed in the US where it's essentially glamping.

Matt:

Yeah. See that's the thing. It's like Coachella, the way it's portrayed over here, it's a very Instagram. Influencer based festival. You go there, you go there for the likes. Um, where Glastonbury, you go there'cause you wanna stink a piss for five days. They're very different sort of

Jerry:

it.

Matt:

feels, aren't they? Like Glastonbury, you, you can't shower in there. There are some showers but there're very limited. It's, there's a few, um. You can take your own alcohol in, you can take it around with you all day, which is the only festival I know that can do that. So it people, you see people drag in a bathtub of, of alcohol around on a trolley and that's'cause they can just, they're not gonna buy alcohol there. How they make money selling alcohol at Bury. I dunno. I, I, I actually had a backpack full of it every day.

Jerry:

that's, you can't bring any outside food or drinks. It's$18 for a water. It's ridiculous.

Matt:

Yeah. I mean, you can take. A lot of festivals you can take outside food and drink in just can't be alcohol. Glasbury, as I say, Glasbury is the only one in, in the country that I'm aware of that let you take alcohol into the festival.

Jerry:

I.

Matt:

Um, obviously people will try and sneak it in. I've done it myself. My my preferred way is cheaper. Pringles, take a couple of crisps out, put a bottle of vodka in Pringles on top. Hey, no one's gonna, no, and you've got some Pringles as well'cause you know you're gonna get hungry as you're drinking that vodka.

Jerry:

to share your most recent festival story?

Matt:

Why not? So the, it wasn't the last festival I went to actually, but a recent festival I went to this year, either white festival, one of the top five biggest festivals in the country, probably. Um, there was a bar and it was hot. So I was drinking alcohol throughout the day. Now these are. I'm not a medical expert, but probably not advised, uh, as the night got on, woke goodbye to the, the wife and kids, they went to bed. I thought, okay, now it's, it's safe to drink. Now it's time to party. So, so at this point, vodkas were coming out. Uh, watch some good bands. So watch this script. I remember them. I was there for Stereophonics. That's what I wanted to see. Apparently they played, I don't remember, tried to look back at the footage on my phone the next day, just the floor. Um, anyway, at some point between Stereophonics and. The next band I wanted to see, I, this is only, this has only recaps me afterwards by people I lent on some crowd control barriers, but decide to fall and bring the crowd control barriers down with me. So, so at this point now I'm entangled on the floor with barriers on top of me. I'm on top of barriers and I'm trying to get up. Security are trying to help me up. They help me up and I spilled my drink over them. But I'm more surprised I didn't spill my drink as I went down. How I managed to keep that drink in its glass. That blows me. But then I got up, just spill my drink over security and yet they still haven't thrown me out of the thing. They just,

Jerry:

of their concerns that

Matt:

yeah. Well, I mean,

Jerry:

Yeah.

Matt:

they had to rebuild a load of crowd control barriers. They were pretty busy after that, so, so anyway, I go home the next day when I wake up, I'm, I'm covered in bruises and cuts and I. For life. Me think why, and then I get told by a few people, it's exactly what happened. So the rule is here, you don't drink at a festival. But no, that's not the rule here. What is the rule? What do we do? Please help me. Yeah.

Jerry:

I mean, listen, I, I think, I mean, binge, binge drinking in a general sense is huge in the uk, uh, but at concerts and sporting events, you guys really take it to another level. It's a good time. It's a good

Matt:

Yeah. I mean. Next, my next concert will be next weekend. Gonna see Oasis. Um. I've made sure that I've, I've seen sober, but now next time is a drinking day. So I've, this is, this is a true story now it's a concert in the evening, but I've had to then tell, I've gotta take my daughter to a party. But I've had to say that I've got to leave the party at two.'cause I'm going to a concert that night. That's because I need to be in London to start drinking at three o'clock before the concert starts. So. Yeah, so that's the, the recording, the podcast recording after that, concert's gonna be interesting. I mean, I won't remember it, but it'd be interesting

Jerry:

it's gonna be beautiful. That's, that's, that's the stuff the podcasts are made of

Matt:

Yeah. Stories that you shouldn't be telling to anyone, but yet

Jerry:

exactly.

Matt:

to everyone.

Jerry:

My apologies to any future employers that are watching this. I.

Matt:

Yeah. I mean. Yeah, I, I mean, I do, I do agree that you, there's some stuff you shouldn't post online'cause employees can watch, but, you know,

Jerry:

I mean, what

Matt:

I, I don't hide that, but Yeah. Yeah. And I, you can't get drunk at a concert. What can you do? I mean, I've probably been to, I don't know, a hundred plus concerts and a handful of them were sober.

Jerry:

Oh, of course. Listen, it enhances the experience, right? There's no way around it

Matt:

Well, no, it, no. If anything it, it, it doesn't, it actually dos down the experience.'cause the whole perception, the sound and all that is, you know, you're not gonna hear it as well, you're not gonna remember it. So, I've actually cons, I've, I've been too sober. I've actually said, oh, that's one, probably one of the best concerts I've been through in my life.'cause you know, the experience, I remember it, the sound was, you can really immerse yourself. But I, I hear what you're saying. It's, you don't have to go. Sometimes you have to go and have a drink. It's what it's like. Same as going to a football match, you know, can you imagine going to a football match or any sporting event and not drinking?

Jerry:

it's impossible.

Matt:

I mean, you couldn't go watch a chill Netflix without a drink, could you? So let alone going to a sporting event.

Jerry:

Not at all.

Matt:

Anyway, I think we, uh,

Jerry:

here mad.

Matt:

I think we've covered sport. I think we, I think we've, we've pretty much covered every single event that would ever happen in the UK and us. I think we've summed that up in a good 20 minutes. There. There's nothing we've missed. Um,

Jerry:

the

Matt:

again, it's not probably.

Jerry:

really have is I would like a bit more energy around, the national anthem. Here we have just, you know, the hottest or one of the a, a major r and b artist singing the national Anthem fireworks. There's fighter jets, a B12 bombers flying over the stadium and in the UK it's like 30 seconds of God save the king. Very monotone. are yelling. It's, it's a, it's a huge difference.

Matt:

I mean, I'm not sure that's, it's not really a national pride. I think you just have, you have a lot of pride in your national anthem, don't you? You're like, you know, that's like your top song that you like to, to play. It's. It's, I think there's, people are very torn.

Jerry:

for 2025. Don't get me wrong.

Matt:

Your Spotify wrapped is not gonna have the, uh, the National Anthem star Spangled Banners not number one on Spotify wrapped. What do you mean? Yeah, no, I do agree that I, I, I've, I've been to US sport events and it's, they always have, yeah. A top service. They do. They started to do that here. I've been to some, and they've had, I wouldn't say it's been a top celebrity, but they've had a famous person sing their anthem. But again, it's not really, and we don't do it all sporting events. So would you do it every, is every sporting event in the us Do you have the anthem?

Jerry:

Pretty much, yeah, absolutely.

Matt:

Yeah. See, we would have it for, uh, like England would play in, in a competition, but if you just go to like a. Like a Premier League game. We wouldn't have the Nash anthem. That's just, just, just get on, it's three o'clock, let's go. We've got drink, we've got drinking to do. We can't, don't forget, we can't drink. At this point. We're sitting down. Jerry, we were, let's get this over and done with. Come on, let's get this. Hurry the fuck up. I want a beer. Okay, so

Jerry:

are

Matt:

that's why, right.

Jerry:

even local to me, where at 7:00 PM every day they play the national anthem and people stop drinking and it's very strange.

Matt:

Yeah, that's different experience.

Jerry:

Yeah. We'll, we'll chat more about that on

Matt:

Okay. Well, yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. Well till next week, uh, let's, let's see. We can, let's see. We can, as you say, uh, let's recap. So we had a strong seven minutes and then it went downhill.

Jerry:

Well, we, we still

Matt:

Yeah.

Jerry:

um,

Matt:

Let's see if.

Jerry:

still have that seven minutes, right? We should.

Matt:

Okay. If you're choosing this podcast in, it's 22 minutes long, and it starts off by saying we've lost seven minutes, the answer's no. Okay. So let's see. If this podcast is just coming up to 30 minutes, then you know that you've got the full, you've got the full, the full pleasure. Yeah. Okay, well, I'll speak to you next week. Let's see if we can get a good 10 minutes of, uh, quality content before it tails off.

Jerry:

to the Atlantic Exchange. I.