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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks AB.

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Speaker 2: Mike Yardley's had travel correspondent. He's with us this morning. Hey, Mike,

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Speaker 2: I'm doing the Coast to Coast check again.

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Speaker 3: Dreams are free.

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Speaker 2: I love Coast to Coast day. I love Coast to

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Speaker 2: Coast weekend because it is a bit of a weekend,

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Speaker 2: depending on if you're doing the two day of the

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Speaker 2: team or the or the or the longest day. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we used to sometimes go out to Sumner, you know,

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Speaker 2: as the as the computers were making their way in,

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Speaker 2: and because they don't close down all of the roads,

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Speaker 2: often you sort of passing Coast to Coast cyclists and

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Speaker 2: stuff as they make their way through the final speech

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Speaker 2: in the city. It's some year. It's a it's an

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Speaker 2: exciting weekend, to say the least. Hey, my big update

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Speaker 2: since this time last week is that we haven't had

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Speaker 2: a baby yet. Tell me that you've got an update.

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Speaker 2: Tell me that you have finally taken down your Christmas decorations.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I thought my update was I haven't had a baby.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. There's two of us in that department.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Christmas is down. Jack, send us back in his box.

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Speaker 2: I guess all right now, I'm glad to hear it.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad that it's finally finally been wrapped up. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this morning we are focusing on California, and obviously this

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Speaker 2: year has got off to an absolute horror start with

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Speaker 2: those incredible fires around Los Angeles and Malibu. So you've

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Speaker 2: been to Malibu. How mangled was Malibu by the fires?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really interesting, Jack, because it is hard to

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Speaker 4: get a full true sense of it by the television coverage, because.

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Speaker 3: As you know, Malibu is actually a massive area. It

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Speaker 3: stretches for.

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Speaker 4: Forty k that coastline, the stretch below Pacific Palisades, eastern

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Speaker 4: Malibu that was caught in the firing line. So about

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Speaker 4: a third of eastern Malibu's beach front times and businesses

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Speaker 4: were torched or incinerated, and sadly that included some really

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Speaker 4: legendary eateries like Moonshadows and a place like Real and

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Speaker 4: I ate it Real in last year and it's like

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Speaker 4: this old school seafood check on the Pacific Coast Highway.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's now just a pile of ashes.

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Speaker 4: But beyond eastern Malibu, the really good thing, Jack, And

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Speaker 4: what Malibu wants to like screen to the world is

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Speaker 4: we are open and we are welcoming back the world.

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Speaker 3: So the vast bulk of Malibu is good to go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what about the Getty Villa?

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Speaker 3: So lucky man, this was lucky.

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Speaker 4: So as some of the television covered showed, it was

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Speaker 4: right on the edge of that fire zone and some

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Speaker 4: of the trees and foliage around the villa were singed,

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Speaker 4: but the villa itself narrowly escaped destruction for a couple

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Speaker 4: of reasons. They actually have a one billion dollar fire

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Speaker 4: prevention system built into the Getty Villa, so it's sort

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Speaker 4: of like firewalls on a gigantic scale and so forth.

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Speaker 4: They also, unlike other parts of California, have done very

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Speaker 4: vigorous brush clearance in recent years, so they reckon that's

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Speaker 4: what actually saved a lot of their site. The villa

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Speaker 4: is actually still closed because of the problems with the

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Speaker 4: Pacific Coast Highway with debris removal and getting a lot

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Speaker 4: of those gas lines repaired, so they are hoping to

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Speaker 4: reopen in about a month or so, but definitely go there.

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Speaker 4: It is such a stunning museum. The whole villa was

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Speaker 4: sort of built as a replica of Villa day Papai,

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Speaker 4: which was buried two thousand years ago in the Vesuvius eruption.

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Speaker 4: It's got about fifty thousand Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities

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Speaker 4: inside the museum. I spent all day there last year,

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Speaker 4: late last year, and it really is quite a tantalizing attraction.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nice, okay, okay, that's really good to hear, really good

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Speaker 2: to hear it. Now, the Malibu Piir also emerged unscathed.

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Speaker 4: Ah, yes, So, I mean there were so many landmarks

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Speaker 3: But the Peer really is the great glory.

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Speaker 4: It's one hundred and twenty years old, that peer, and

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Speaker 4: I love those Cape cod style twin towers at the

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Speaker 4: end of it. It is fully reopen. You've got carbon

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Speaker 4: beach on one side, surf rider beach on the other.

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Speaker 4: I just think it is Malibu in one moment to

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Speaker 4: take a stroll along that Peer, and I'll tell you what, Jack,

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Speaker 4: when I was down there, I couldn't decide who was

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Speaker 4: having the most fun, the surfers or the dolphins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because they were both.

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Speaker 4: Just frolicking in the waves big time. Then there's the

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Speaker 4: fishing chatting to the locals. They were busy reeling in halibut,

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Speaker 4: corbina and mackerel. And if you do want to have

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Speaker 4: a try at the old fishing scene there there is

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Speaker 4: a really cool rod rental shop at the end of

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Speaker 4: the pier, the bait and tackle shop next to the cafe.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, what would you recommend for food? What are

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Speaker 2: the good eats to Malibu?

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Speaker 4: Well, on that peer that they actually have two really

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Speaker 4: good venues. So at the far end you've got the

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Speaker 4: Malibu Farm Cafe that's all farm fresh, fair, local, organic,

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Speaker 4: blah blah blah. You can go wrong with the cauliflower

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Speaker 4: pizza and the lobster rolls. And then at the Pear

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Speaker 4: entrance the Malibou Farm Restaurant, which is a fancier affair.

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Speaker 4: It's got this whitewashed dining room, ocean side patigo bar.

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Speaker 3: That's the place to go.

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Speaker 4: I reckon for freshly squeezed juice cocktails really good and

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Speaker 4: it's such a great perch to check out the surf

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Speaker 4: rider beach scene.

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool. What celebrity haunts would you recommend in Malibu?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm a bit of a tragic for this Jack,

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Speaker 4: So if spotting stars is also high on your to

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Speaker 4: do list, I reckon Nobu Malibu, just down from the Pear,

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Speaker 4: is a really good opportunity. This is a very trendy

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Speaker 4: Japanese restaurant co founded by Robert de Niro, so Clooney

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Speaker 4: DiCaprio Fever. They are regulars at Nobu. I had the

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Speaker 4: Rockshrimp Tempura with Ponzu sauce, which is that lovely tart

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Speaker 4: citrus based sauce.

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Speaker 3: Really good.

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Speaker 4: The only diner I recognized at Nobu when I was

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Speaker 4: there Jimmy Fallon.

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Speaker 3: But hey, it's like the drawer.

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Speaker 4: You take that still, ah, I thought the Sealist Maybe

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Speaker 4: Jack se List.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 4: By the way, Melibu Country Mart another good place to go,

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Speaker 4: particularly Cafe Habana, which is run by Cindy Crawford's husband.

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Speaker 3: So they do like.

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Speaker 4: Really good Cuban sandwiches. But best of all, it's such

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Speaker 4: a fun spot for cocktails. Cafe Habana nice.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, if you're heading west from the pier along

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Speaker 2: the Pacific Coast Highway, what are the beaches that you recommend?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you want to cruise the coast, there are

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Speaker 4: so many beaches, but two really other good standouts the

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Speaker 4: long white sand sweep of Zoomer Beach that is gorgeous.

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Speaker 4: And for something completely different, El Masador Beach, gigantic boulders,

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Speaker 4: picturesque rock arches. It's sort of like Utah has come

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Speaker 4: to California, all crashing onto golden shores. And that is

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Speaker 4: why El Matador is hot property for commercial bots, especially

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Speaker 4: at sunset when the hummingbirds are flitting about as well.

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Speaker 4: That really is a special beach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice, okay, any other little tips.

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Speaker 4: For a dollop of history, check out Adamson House also

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Speaker 4: reopened after the fires. It was built a century ago

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Speaker 4: by a pioneering family who lit the fuse on Malibu,

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Speaker 4: becoming such a coveted celebrity bolthole the Ringe family. This

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Speaker 4: house is wild. It's this big Spanish colonial revival mansion.

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Speaker 4: But it's nicknamed the taj Mahal of Tiles Jack because

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Speaker 4: the entire property inside and out is just festooned in

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Speaker 4: colorful decorative ceramic tiles. They've even got an eighteen meter

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Speaker 4: long imitation Persian carpet, all made in tiles, so it

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Speaker 4: is crazy. It really is something you should add to

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Speaker 4: your checklist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah okay, I checked out the photos of it. It

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Speaker 2: does look kind of remarkable, very unique.

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Speaker 3: Busy, Yeah yeah, very very busy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thing necessarily Okay, very good. We'll put all of

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Speaker 2: those tips up on the News Talks B website. Thank you, Mike,

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Speaker 2: and have a wonderful Coast to coast weekend. Cheers man

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Speaker 2: look forward to catching up so Mike Yard, the travel correspondent.

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