Small tip for travel to the United States. United Airlines don't weigh carry-on baggage. I flew to the USA in March, had to purchase an extra bag (200USD return), but had close to 60kg of gear. Beware that domestic flights always over-subscribe carry-on luggage so either prepare to haggle with ground staff or prepare to check in your carry-on luggage.

Welcome back sir! Good to see you're out of the clink. ;-)

"Y'all come back now, ya hear!"

Up!

To be honest, the Primordial shirts costing $25 in Seattle was less than what I expected. Smaller touring bands many years ago would often charge $20 for a shirt and no one would have an issue with it. So $5 more for a bigger, rarer band, with the insane cost hikes? Shoot, thats nuthin!

@darkhymnsfromthecoldnorth

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I live in north Idaho and really wanted to go to that show 😢

Great episode! Very glad y’all made it to the PNW.

@AlanAverillNemtheanga

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so are we....

Alan, you persistently misunderstand and misrepresent the US munitions to Ukraine issue. The vast majority of kit is surplus that is already not being used, slightly out of date, sitting fallow and costs exorbitantly large amounts of money to store and maintain or decommision safely. The majority of the 150 blah blah billion was spend a decade ago by the USA as part of its already gargantuan yearly military budget. Same with the UK and our relatively tiny military budget. We mostly donate kit that is being replaced soon by a new generation of tech. But it's now an fact-free, alt right talking point to act as if they're spending money on supporting Ukraine they could spend on 'us'. If you object, you should object to the fact the US has a consistently huge military budget meaning it has an huge amount of surplus and often unused military equipment. Never mind the fact all developed countries not constantly engaged in unending meat-grinding wars (such as Ukraine right now) normally have military surpluses, even with much smaller militaries in the EU such as Germany. The Ukraine war is not a conspiracy of arms manufacturers. The Yanks already spend infinite money on weapons. The production needs to step up in terms of dumb bombs, actually, artillery shells, not just the useful smart bombs/drone tech we're insistent on sending there in limited quantities. Ukraine manufactures its own but has had huge shortages over the winter due to local munitions firms taking the money and not actually producing the goods. If anyone's doing amazingly out of that war who wasn't before, btw, it's Iran. Iran getting much needed revenue from its Shahed drone manufacturing and supply to Russia.

@AlanAverillNemtheanga

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Check the stock exchange and see how well Arms manufacturers are doing right now.....Ukraine is being given enough to keep fighting but not enough to win? to prolong the conflict and sell more weapons into. I never said it was a conspiracy of arms manufacturers, I just said, they are making a lot of money from it through defence contracts and it is in their interest for it to not be resolved. I don't think that's misunderstanding or misrepresenting. Testing ground for new weaponry? maybe....Iran doing well from drone $$$, definitely! fair point, but mine stands, munitions companies make more money from the conflict, I think that's hard to argue against that.