Hey everybody. Welcome to the Lions Lead by Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and with me is Nate. What is up? My man.

Oh, you know the usual just hiding out in the United Kingdom, the sun's been out like three or two of three days this week and I don't know what to do with myself.

My buddy Hossain, who's one of my co-hosts and friends, said, do not let the sun gaslight you into thinking England can be redeemed.

And I understand because it's such an unusual occurrence to have the weather be nice here.

But I have what might be described as sort of like symptoms that in combination with other things would be taken as asthma symptoms.

Now I don't have asthma but I have a constant wheezing cough so it's sort of like well the weather is nice but you're going to get the

hay fever that kills you welcome to the United Kingdom.

So you're such a a Tia boo you've acquired a Victorian era wasting disease.

A wasting disease I've wasting disease, I've acquired consumption, yeah, I have a, you know,

years ago I did a video call with some of my former soldiers and it was after I had grown the facial

hair and he saw the mustache and he was like, fuck me, sir do you go native in every country you go to

I appreciated that line I did something similar not growing a mustache because I think I

looked terrible with one but we had a very good weather here in the Netherlands over the weekend,

and I went to the beach, and you know,

people have been listening to the show for a few years.

No, I'm pretty big fan of the beach.

I lived in Hawaii for a year, so I'm like, I'm gonna beach. I lived in Hawaii for a year so I'm like I'm gonna go.

I live in a place that has ocean access which I didn't previous to this one is living in Armenia

so I'm gonna go take advantage of it. I did not realize just how busy the beach gets in the Hague. There are so many people on the beach

it's like there's a roiling carpet of humanity to the point you can hardly even move.

It's interesting because that's what it was like at Jones Beach in New York City,

but Jones Beach has like a sandbar that while it's not a mile long feels like it might as well be so it's like you traverse the great sandy desert and then you get to the most

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