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Music Donkeys and join the Legion of the Old Crow today. Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Lions, led by Donkeys podcast, the only military history

podcast on the entire internet. I'm Joe. With me is Tom and Nate. Fellas, how are we all doing

today? I'm doing good. Everywhere else in Europe is apparently balls cold. It's decently warm here, a little rainy, but it's supposed to stop raining. So I guess I have, though, for the one time, I get to be like stunting on everyone for having good weather. And you guys are just like, you're basically in the kingdom of cold my, was what was it? Was it cold miser, whatever his name was in, in the, that fucking weird claimation movie from the 70s? Remember? No idea what you're talking about. We're off to a good start. Heat miser, cold miser. I'm Mr. Heat, my, I'm Mr. Snow. Whatever the fuck that movie was. I have no idea. Am I tripping? like do I just I'm just like inventing fake movies? I know I'm not. You're now starting to see the signs, Nate. Yeah. I have no weather report to give. I don't think anybody wants to hear about Dutch weather. But I will say, Nate, you're talking to someone that lives in the UK and someone that lives in the Netherlands. Anybody on earth can stunt on us about weather. We have the worst weather on Earth.

Yep, that is true.

I'm experiencing the wonderful planned obsolescence of roadworks in London,

in that every year in March, they repave parts of the road outside my house.

And by February, it's just all falling apart.

There's like 50 potholes just like on the street outside

my house. So when I cycle to the gym at like half six in the morning, it's like, oh, I'm playing

Mario card on a line bike. I'm happy to see that all the former Michigander road workers have found

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