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Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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🗓️ 9 November 2013

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week our show sounds like an homage to Edward R. Murrow's reports from the London Blitz. Brian explores the pubs and sweet shops of Jolly Old and has a run in with the Royals. Jason requires caffeine but opts for a morning Miller to liven things up. Please visit http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/33 for the show notes for this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'm going to apologize and advance to everyone for the sound quality, but when one of us
0:59.4	wants, I'm going to apologize and advance to everyone for the sound quality, but when one of us
1:23.8	wants, I'm going to have dinner with him again, so...
1:26.8	Okay, cool.
1:28.8	Mostly it's just me fucking around and being in London instead of back in Venice.
1:32.8	So speaking of you left the day of the shooting, you got to deal with like that crap that was going on with the airport?
1:40.8	Yeah, I did. You were actually the first person that delighted me to the fact that that was even going on because I was running around doing my last minute packing thing and you sent me a text saying,
1:49.8	you're not leaving. I was like, what? And I went and looked online and I found out that there was been a shooting at LAX.
1:56.8	Our flight was a bit later on in the day, so it was still touch or go, we weren't sure if we were going to make it.
2:03.8	Our airline didn't update their website at all and basically just said, flights on time, so we're like, fuck, what do we do?
2:10.8	I guess we just go to the airport and see.
2:13.8	We had our cab booked and he took us and he's like, you know, the closest I can get you is the in and out burger.
2:18.8	And you're going to have to walk in from there.
2:21.8	So we got over to the in and out and basically it was like a refugee camp over there.
2:26.8	There's probably a good two to three hundred people just sitting around at the in and out because they basically shut down the terminals, which you didn't really hear in the news.
2:34.8	And LAX's website was down and nobody was really kind of providing any information.
2:39.8	So by the time we got over there, we couldn't even get into the terminals.
2:43.8	I mean, we were still, you have to be there two and a half hours early for international flights.
2:47.8	So we were there well before our flight was supposed to be, but the terminals were shut down.
2:51.8	You could not walk into LAX.
2:53.8	Everybody was just kind of standing around and we just kind of hung out there for a while.
2:58.8	And eventually we were like, well, we're supposed to be checking into our flight right now.
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