So we're over an hour late starting today on our recording.

Would you like to tell everybody, Gray, why that is?

It was a snow day.

It is snow day. It is snowing in London. We have had enough snow in that it makes a significant difference,

which is not a lot of snow for London, but it doesn't have to be a lot, right,

for it to make a big difference, but it's very cold here right now and there is some snow.

As always with these things, if you post on the internet that your city has snow and things are closing down.

People from the northern Arctic wastelands will get in touch and they'll tell you about how you don't know or understand what snow is, right?

That your baby, it's like, this is, yeah, I know that there's more snow in places that are colder.

That's never the question. It's entirely a question of how economically

feasible is it to keep a whole fleet of snow plows at the ready to get your city clear of snow. And the answer is, if you're London where it didn't even snow last year, you just don't have any plows, right? Like you have nothing, you just don't have anything. And so then when you do get every two years one inch of snow, everything shuts down. But most importantly, I woke up this morning. I saw that there was a lot of snow. I immediately opened up carrot weather and saw that there was going to continue to be a lot of snow, and I immediately declared it a gray industry snow day.

It was like, nope, like a year of order routine establishing in the morning,

right out the window it goes.

And I just ran into the streets, and it was great.

I spent all morning wandering around Central London enjoying the snow and it was glorious.

But I did send you a message as soon as I possibly could, like as soon as I popped up in Trafalgar Square,

I was like, oh, oh, it's not a snow day for relay industries. Mike's still going to want to record the podcast.

So I sent you a message to try to give you a heads up that I was going to be.

Almost certainly late, coming back, which I was.

But I liked that you attempted to sweeten this by sending me picture updates every now and then

of the interesting things that you were finding around London.

Like, look, it's so nice.

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