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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. A'd be.

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Speaker 2: Noah. A travel correspondent is Mike Yardley and he's with

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Speaker 2: us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Kilder, Mike Kilder, Jack.

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Speaker 4: Now, Kyle Preston. I believe the Major could be handing

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Speaker 4: him the keys to the city.

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Speaker 2: Three tries on debut, So let's be honest. Kyle probably

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Speaker 2: wasn't expecting to get on the park last night. Normally,

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Speaker 2: maybe he wouldn't have been expecting to get on for

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Speaker 2: seventy minutes. He might have been thinking you'd get fifteen

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Speaker 2: minutes at the end, right, yeah, James, Yeah exactly, and

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Speaker 2: to score, to score three tries on debut having signed

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Speaker 2: for Wellington, it cannot get much sweeter than that.

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Speaker 4: I happened to be in Wellington today, but I won't

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Speaker 4: be boasting.

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Speaker 2: No, keep your keep your hometown very quiet.

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Speaker 3: As my advice to you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there is another way to look at it, though, Mike,

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Speaker 2: as I was saying earlier, you know, I think how

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Speaker 2: many of those Championship Crusaders seasons started with losses. If

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Speaker 2: you're a statistician, you might actually be really concerned that

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Speaker 2: they had that they had a triumphant victory over.

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Speaker 3: The old Faux last night.

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Speaker 2: You know that's true, but no, given last season, very

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Speaker 2: very pleased with them with the first game last night encouraging. Yes, anyway,

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Speaker 2: we're turning our attentions to another side of the Pacific

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Speaker 2: this morning, the spirit of Santa Monica, and it is

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Speaker 2: all about sand, surf and sunsets of Santa Monica.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any favorite perchase.

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Speaker 4: I do, Jack. I just love how the intensity of

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Speaker 4: Ala just melts away when you arrive at Santa Monica

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Speaker 4: and you can sort of understand why Angelino's descend there

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Speaker 4: on the weekend and such numbers to decompress. But if

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Speaker 4: you want to get to Bearings as a first timer

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Speaker 4: to the scene, I reckon there's two great spots. Palisades Park,

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Speaker 4: which is a top that huge bluff above Pacific Coast Highway.

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Speaker 4: Auto motion views and you get that long lens view

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Speaker 4: down onto the pier. And another Swell purchased the beautifully

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Speaker 4: designed Tongue the Park, which is named in honor of

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Speaker 4: the area's indigenous people. And I've got these fabulously designed

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Speaker 4: wire frame lookouts. They're like giant concures and you can

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Speaker 4: just walk into them and you're just wracked in this

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Speaker 4: beautiful like steel wire frame looking at on the Pacific.

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Speaker 4: That is a choice spot.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh that sounds amazing. Did you check out

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Speaker 3: Venus Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: You about you, Jack, but Venus stage Man. Every time

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Speaker 4: I go there, it seems kookier and crazier, a hot

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Speaker 4: mess of life's rich tapestry. Perhaps there's a nice way

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Speaker 4: of Portuguese, but it's colorful, and I have to say,

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Speaker 4: if you share my weakness for cheap graphic te shirts,

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Speaker 4: Venus Beach is hard to beat. Really good bargains down

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Speaker 4: there and very graphic, and I'm in graphic in every

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Speaker 4: sense tea shirt. I actually went on a bike down

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Speaker 4: from Santa Monica to Venice, which is I think from

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Speaker 4: memory about five k but you can actually keep going

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Speaker 4: on that cracking cycle path, the Marvin Broad Trail all

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Speaker 4: the way to Marina del Rey and if you want

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Speaker 4: to do a guided by it to it. They do

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Speaker 4: some really cool stocks outside former homes of the likes

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Speaker 4: of Jim Morrison, Charlie Chaplin, and I also saw Frank

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Speaker 4: Geary's home now. He of course, is one of America's

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Speaker 4: great architects. Think of Walt Disney Concert Hall in La

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Speaker 4: It's home Jick Frank. Gary's so odd. It's sort of

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Speaker 4: like hay Barn meshed with a loft apartment. It's the

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Speaker 4: weirdest looking house I have.

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Speaker 2: Seen, really, and by the beach as well, which is

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Speaker 2: very curious.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds interesting. I mean Santa Monica is.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're all about the beach sports, the UC

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Speaker 2: people playing frisbee and stuff and you know, and making around,

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Speaker 2: but it's really the birthplace of beach volleyball day definitely.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think how Waii says they and entered it,

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Speaker 4: but it was actually sent to Monica.

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Speaker 3: That popularized it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very much. And they also developed it into

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Speaker 4: the tour side game that you know, we associated with

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Speaker 4: the Games for example, which is why, of course obviously

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Speaker 4: that beach will play host to the sport at the

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Speaker 4: twenty eight Games. I also headed to Dogtown Coffee Jack,

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Speaker 4: the reason being that building is considered the birthplace of

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Speaker 4: modern skateboarding, so previously the cafe, and they do a

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Speaker 4: great job sort of paying homage to the history. There

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Speaker 4: was a business called Zephyr Productions that used to be

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Speaker 4: based at Dogtown Coffee. They made surfboards right back in

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Speaker 4: the seventies, but they noticed that for Surfe's and Santa Monica,

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Speaker 4: if the waves were small, they wanted to do something else,

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Speaker 4: so they developed these really aggressive skateboards so that surface

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Speaker 4: could have a ride on the dry land.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's amazing, that's so cool.

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Speaker 2: So what would you rate is the must dos on

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Speaker 2: Santa Monica pier itself?

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Speaker 4: Well, you've got to get that cliche selfie at the

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Speaker 4: end of the trial route sixty six sign. Then I

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Speaker 4: took a ride on the world only solo powered ferris

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Speaker 4: wheel are doing with one hundred and sixty thousand dazzling

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Speaker 4: alleds and I I did a light joe in my place.

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Speaker 4: You will not get a better aerial view of the

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Speaker 4: coast than from that fair as well. It's just incredible

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Speaker 4: and down the right at the end of the pear.

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Speaker 4: I loved this little Baha style canteena Maria Soul. If

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Speaker 4: you like here for heaters and oversized margaritas, you will

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Speaker 4: be in seventh heven at Maria Soul.

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Speaker 2: Cheek What about drinks and eats? Were there any standout

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Speaker 2: venues you fancy?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, beyond the pair. I went to a mistaken seafood

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Speaker 4: venue called Shaye j on the Ocean ab And the

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Speaker 4: reason I went there is because it's got the most

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Speaker 4: incredible history. A guy called Jay Fiondella. He founded it

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Speaker 4: in the fifties and he was like this big town

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Speaker 4: personality of Santa Monica. The celebrity set loved him and

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Speaker 4: there are just so many insane stories. He convinced the

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Speaker 4: astronaut Alan Shepard to take one of the bar's peanuts

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Speaker 4: into space on the Apollo fourteen mission, and then several

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Speaker 4: years later peanuts back on Earth. Steve McQueen went into

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Speaker 4: the bar and nearly ate it. And the other really

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Speaker 4: cool thing is you can look at all the history

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Speaker 4: on the walls at show. There was this photograph of

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Speaker 4: circus elephants blowing their trumpets at the bar back in

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Speaker 4: the sixties.

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Speaker 3: As you do not.

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Speaker 2: To suggest that that isn't very cultured the spot. Are

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Speaker 2: there any other culture spots you recommend in the neighborhood, Well.

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Speaker 4: If you like your movie history, there's actually this amazing

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Speaker 4: little restaurant. It's the oldest in Santa Monica called the Galley.

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Speaker 4: It's ninety years old this year. The reason it's so special.

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Speaker 4: This fits out. It is decorated with the props from

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Speaker 4: the nineteen thirty five musingly on the Bounty film. Wow,

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Speaker 4: I feel like you're just sitting in a film set

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Speaker 4: white visionary up cycling. You'd have to say, so you're

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Speaker 4: going here for a clam chowder and a bit of culture.

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Speaker 4: The other thing I really like jack down on Santa

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Speaker 4: Monica Beach, the Singing Beach Chairs. They do really good

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Speaker 4: public arts and Santa Monica, but this would be my

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Speaker 4: favorite stop. These super sized chairs and they're equipped with

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Speaker 4: stainless steel tubes, so you just sit in the chair

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Speaker 4: and those tubes produced all sorts of whimsical musical tones

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Speaker 4: as the breeze blows. Welcome to Santa Monica.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's lovely. I was there a few months ago,

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Speaker 2: so before the fires. It's some.

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Speaker 3: I reckon.

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Speaker 2: It's just one of America's top people watching spots. Walking

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Speaker 2: along that coastline from Venice to Santa Monica just you

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Speaker 2: get all I mean, you get the tourists as well,

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Speaker 2: but you just get so many characters. They you know,

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Speaker 2: walking along past Muscle Beach.

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Speaker 3: And all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: sure yeah, you know, it's just it is.

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Speaker 4: It is you know, a cannibal life.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is all sorts of interesting people. I absolutely love it,

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Speaker 2: so thank you very much for that. We will put

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Speaker 2: all of your tips on news talks the'd be website

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Speaker 2: and catch you again next week.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Jack.

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Speaker 2: That is Mike Hardley, our travel will correspondent.

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