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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.

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Speaker 2: EDB nineteen past eleven non News Talks. He'd be our

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Speaker 2: travel correspondent. Mike Yardley is I think, without a doubt,

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Speaker 2: the single keenest Christmas fan on Saturday mornings on News

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Speaker 2: talks 'EDB and given as the second of November, given

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Speaker 2: we are what seven eight weeks out, that means the

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Speaker 2: inevitable of Mike's place. I cannot believe it, though, Mike,

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Speaker 2: You've really got the decorations out already.

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Speaker 3: We're all up Jack you so I scared off the

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Speaker 3: trickle feces. They thought that I'd just charged to eve

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Speaker 3: in the calendar, so they gave me the wide birth,

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Speaker 3: which was a good thing. But I'm very pleased Check.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of seasons, I'm very pleased happy for all y'all.

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Speaker 3: You've got a chance to do some belief peeping in

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Speaker 3: the States. That's so cool.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean only only so much, but I

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Speaker 2: mean it's when you're traveling through the Northeast. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's just amazing all of the leaves are turning, and

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Speaker 2: in Washington, DC at this time of year, it's extraordinary, right,

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Speaker 2: But I think they always say that.

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Speaker 4: The best kind of leaf viewing or what do you

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Speaker 4: call it, leaf peeping?

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Speaker 2: Leaf peeping, Okay, leaft peeping. That's in kind of Maine

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Speaker 2: and Vermont. You hamsh that part of the country, right,

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Speaker 2: the northeastern states in the United States. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's pretty pretty amazing everywhere. So just to

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Speaker 2: be clear that you've got all of the decorations out

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Speaker 2: at your place, I have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it talk me about three days honestly to do

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Speaker 3: the whole house. But I've gone full of Mary days. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: three days, and I've gone like full Clark at Griswold.

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Speaker 3: So I've got like seven foot high snowmen, and I've

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Speaker 3: been bigger on the timu this year. I have to say, Mike.

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Speaker 4: You don't have the same Christmas decorations every year.

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Speaker 3: I add I do a little bit of bedding each year. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of tragic, really, isn't it. I have

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Speaker 3: a lot of people checking on me, Jack, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You have different decorations every year.

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Speaker 3: I do additions each year. So I've got my base,

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Speaker 3: I've got my base Christmas streak order, and then we

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Speaker 3: just add to it, you know. But of tessellation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, dear, good for you, Jack, I think so.

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Speaker 2: If anything, if you need to spend several days putting

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Speaker 2: out at Christmas decorations, I think we can safely agree

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Speaker 2: that that is probably a little bit of an addiction. Still,

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Speaker 2: there are many worse things to be addicted to. Now

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

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Speaker 2: aside from Mickey and Friends, what would top your hit

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Speaker 2: list in Anaheim?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Well, given presidential politics is in full cry, I

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Speaker 3: was very keen Jack a couple of weeks ago to

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Speaker 3: check out another controversial White House residence legacy. So I

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Speaker 3: went to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, which is beneath

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Speaker 3: the Anaheim Hills. It is the most beautifully designed facility.

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Speaker 3: The storytelling there is so absorbing, and I mean, obviously

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Speaker 3: they spend a lot of time packing the whole Watergate scandal,

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Speaker 3: but there were just so many aspects, so many threads

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Speaker 3: to his repertoire that I hadn't previously appreciated. Things like

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Speaker 3: the clean, the erect the wall on cancer, which a

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Speaker 3: lot of cancer specialists in the States they still attribute

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Speaker 3: his leadership on cancer treatment. Who you know, a lot

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Speaker 3: of the breakthrough treatments coming out today. So yeah, fascinating

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Speaker 3: presidential library.

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Speaker 4: What were the big highlights?

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Speaker 3: Well, Jack, as you would know, all presidential libraries had

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Speaker 3: those replica oval office facilities, which are very popular for

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Speaker 3: photo ops. I actually think the most popular selfie spot

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Speaker 3: at Nixon's library is to stand on the steps of

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Speaker 3: the Sakowski c. King helicopter, which is from where you

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Speaker 3: know he famously farewelled the nation on the White House

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Speaker 3: of there. The most surprising feature you can walk through

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Speaker 3: Nixon's childhood home. This was the most incredible vision on

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Speaker 3: the part of the Nixon's family. So they've got the

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Speaker 3: century old house on the grounds of the Presidential Library,

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Speaker 3: and they built the library all around the house. He

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Speaker 3: next to the most sublime Rose Garden, which is actually

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Speaker 3: one of the most popular wedding locations in Orange County.

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Speaker 3: And I was here on a Saturday and there was

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Speaker 3: this big, splacky California wedding taking place while I visited,

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Speaker 3: just meters away from the Nixon grave site. Only in Anaheim.

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Speaker 2: Here, that's peculiar Oh how good though, So for a

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Speaker 2: change of scenery, how did you write Angels Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, yes, Well, of course the Dodgers they won

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Speaker 3: the World Series. But the other LA Baseball team the Angels,

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Speaker 3: and they were founded by gene Autry. Of here comes

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Speaker 3: Santa Claus fame Angels Stadium as a ballpark with wow factor, Jack,

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Speaker 3: because Disney took the reins from gene Autry in the

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Speaker 3: nineties and their imagineers just went crazy with the stadium.

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Speaker 3: So out on the main entrance you bot these two

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Speaker 3: gigantic red baseball hats adorning the entrance and inside the

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Speaker 3: ground at the southern end, this enormous artificial mountain side

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Speaker 3: completes with the cascating waterfall, and when the Angels hit

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Speaker 3: a home run, the whole thing blows up in fireworks.

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Speaker 3: To your Disney, I took it behind the scenes tour

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Speaker 3: of the stadium and mannerlife, the changing rooms. It makes

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Speaker 3: the player facilities at Eden Park look like a Super

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Speaker 3: eight motel, you know, compared to the Ritz Carlton Lax

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Speaker 3: at Angels. It really is an eye opener.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds so good.

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Speaker 2: So Orange County is building like a whole new kind

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Speaker 2: of downtown district day.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so from Angels Stadium, it's a very close close walk,

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Speaker 3: probably five minutes to Honda Center, which is home to

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Speaker 3: the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the ice hockey team, and that

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Speaker 3: whole precinct between the two venues is being transformed into

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Speaker 3: this glittering new downtown for Anaheim and Orange County. They

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Speaker 3: call it o c Vibe. But just the sheer scale

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Speaker 3: of this project, Jack, it's like something out of Dubai.

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Speaker 3: There are six billion dollars being spent on it, all

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Speaker 3: funded by a family called the Samueli family who made

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Speaker 3: their fortune as chip maker. So yeah, if you head

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Speaker 3: into Anaheim, check out this downtown project. It's going to

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Speaker 3: unfold over the next few years. Most of it should

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Speaker 3: be complete in time for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 4: Ah yeah, yeah, of course. Did you stake out some

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Speaker 4: good galleries?

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Speaker 3: There are some really interesting fines. Yeah. So, like in

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Speaker 3: contrast to the futuristic new downtown district, if you're an

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Speaker 3: Anaheim's historic art take all we wander through the Museo Museum.

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Speaker 3: They do a really good job just telling the backstory

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Speaker 3: of Anaheim's roots, which, as the name would suggest Anaheim

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Speaker 3: started as a German wine making settlement after they grabbed

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Speaker 3: by a plague, so that's when the Germans switched to Citrus,

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Speaker 3: which of course gave rise to the name Orange County,

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Speaker 3: a very cool throwback to the Orange Gribes era. Across

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Speaker 3: such an amazing building. So it was the old Citrus

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Speaker 3: revitalized as a really trendy food and porium, kind of

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Speaker 2: N Okay to the south of Anaheim. Why is Costa

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Speaker 2: Mesa or is the California say Coast e Mesa popula?

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Speaker 3: They so do well. If ever, you need a reminder

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Speaker 3: about the serious wealth in Orange County, Coast E Mesa

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Speaker 3: is another star specimen. So you've just got extraordinary statement

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Speaker 3: architecture here. It's like a sequence of art museums like Okma,

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Speaker 3: which has fantastic modernist and pop art, and then that's

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Speaker 3: all part of a necklace of venues with these dearingly

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Speaker 3: designed concert halls and theaters. I'll put this gigantic pink

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Speaker 3: granite opera house with a massive stone art once again

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Speaker 3: looks like something out of Dubai. But if you like

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Speaker 3: your art and culture served up with bling, bling architecture,

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Speaker 3: Coast and Mesa is a must sea fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, thank you so much, Mike.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna put all of those tips for touring around

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Speaker 2: Orange County, California on the news talks he'd be website

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Speaker 2: and we will leat you get back to your seven

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Speaker 2: foot Christmas trees. You're only three days deep, you know, Mike.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure another three days won't hurt too much. But

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Speaker 2: my goodness, your place is going to be like a beacon.

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Speaker 2: But that's how you finished. Mike Hardley ad Favl corresponding

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