Speaker 1: Get your hit us together and we're going to start
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Speaker 1: Duran after Party. We had a party. It's time for
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Speaker 1: let's do it. So our friend Steph has joined us here.
Speaker 1: Steph another member of our incredibly fantastic, always growing morning show.
Speaker 1: Hi Steph. Hey, So Steph recently took a trip to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Did she wants to share with us something
Speaker 1: that happened to her. I have no idea what this is,
Speaker 1: what this is, or where it's going. So what happened
Speaker 1: in La Steph?
Speaker 2: Well, it was my first time there ever. I've never
Speaker 2: been more west of Pittsburgh, so I was like, this
Speaker 2: is a great place to go. My friend hasn't been either,
Speaker 2: so the two of us really wanted to dive in
Speaker 2: and do all of the torrisy things. Go to the Observatory,
Speaker 2: see the Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Walk of Fame. We even
Speaker 2: ate at hard Rock Cafe and we were finishing up
Speaker 2: eating and then we took a long walk. We ended
Speaker 2: up on Vine Street, I think it was, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I see Elvis Durant on the ground.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is he doing here?
Speaker 1: I've been on the ground in La many times. I
Speaker 1: don't recall being there while you were there. Can you
Speaker 1: please explain?
Speaker 2: So I see you in the pink star there. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Elvis has a star here. We have
Speaker 2: to take a picture. And wait a minute. In my purse,
Speaker 2: I had my wet wipes and I put one on
Speaker 2: the ground. I started cleaning off your star.
Speaker 1: Question was there any gum on that star? Because last
Speaker 1: time I was there, we had to actually go inside
Speaker 1: and scrape the gum off because.
Speaker 2: Someone put gum on it. No, no gum. And there
Speaker 2: was a nice I don't think he was a Valey,
Speaker 2: but like a very nice man who was by the
Speaker 2: hotel or the restaurant next door, and he was like,
Speaker 2: who are you looking for? I'm like, no, I got him.
Speaker 2: He's right here.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, look at that. Yeah, here's the thing. If
Speaker 1: you're visiting La, you're on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
Speaker 1: please have some wipes with you. Maybe a little gum scraper.
Speaker 1: What are those things are called? Because people, I mean,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, the whole world is walking down the street.
Speaker 1: It's like Steph is like going to times Square and
Speaker 1: licking the sidewalk. You gotta be really careful about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my rod was nervous when I picked up the wipe.
Speaker 2: She was like, you're gonna touch I'm like, what where
Speaker 2: am I gonna put it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For you?
Speaker 2: Can you hire somebody to go out to the Star
Speaker 2: every month and just like do some maintenance on it?
Speaker 1: And yes, I mean it doesn't take that much, does it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who.
Speaker 3: Was the last time you visited your star?
Speaker 1: Elvis. I haven't seen my Star in quite some time.
Speaker 1: It's been years. I mean, how long has it been
Speaker 1: since I was twenty? Has a Star twenty nineteen? No,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: I was twenty seventeen, yeah, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah. You know, if you're listening in LA and
Speaker 1: you want a little extra gig, you know, daddy's got money,
Speaker 1: what would you pay the start cleaner? I would pay
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a visit? Okay, okay, I mean and
Speaker 1: shine that baby up.
Speaker 2: I'll go back right now.
Speaker 1: Will you pay for well? Okay? Okay, it's adding up.
Speaker 1: So what else did you do in La? Other than
Speaker 1: you know, hard rock? Cafe. I mean, what did you
Speaker 1: see that made you go, huh, this is definitely Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or something that stood out from the old days
Speaker 1: of Hollywood and movies And what did you see that
Speaker 1: kind of reshifted your thought about what the city is
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 2: Well, just the fact that they have the Santa Monica
Speaker 2: Peer and it's like right in near all of Hollywood.
Speaker 2: So I was like, wow, you have the best of
Speaker 2: both worlds of like the warm weather. It was very warm,
Speaker 2: way warmer than right now, by the way, So yeah,
Speaker 2: just like going to the beach for them, also being
Speaker 2: able to like go see all like the fancy things
Speaker 2: and all like the Warner Brothers tours and all that.
Speaker 2: And also like the hotel that my friend and I
Speaker 2: stayed in was like wonderful. So we're like this is
Speaker 2: awesome too.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us which hotel it was?
Speaker 2: It was the Citizen m And I was a little
Speaker 2: nervous when we walked in because there was a huge
Speaker 2: sign at the front that said porn in the shape
Speaker 2: of like the L O V sign and like, what
Speaker 2: is that Philly?
Speaker 1: And I was like, where are we gonna get into
Speaker 1: right now? I don't know, you know, they have citizen
Speaker 1: m hotels in LA in New York and Miami. I
Speaker 1: mean they're everywhere, and they're supposed to be a very
Speaker 1: very fun hotel.
Speaker 2: Fun is an interesting word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a brand. It says here on their website.
Speaker 1: It's it's from Mariott. It's a brand for the people
Speaker 1: modern design meets essential comforts experience a unique and efficient
Speaker 1: hotels day. Oh I never heard of them? Try, did
Speaker 1: you get the bug?
Speaker 3: Do you want to go back?
Speaker 2: I do want to go back, but I think I'm
Speaker 2: okay for right now. Like, I wouldn't want to move there.
Speaker 2: It's a great little vacation spot though.
Speaker 1: Yeah someone who lived there?
Speaker 3: Oh really right, yeah, eleven years I would. It's a
Speaker 3: great place to visit. I could never live there again,
Speaker 3: I really couldn't. It's just a different brand of people.
Speaker 3: Did you notice that while you were out their staff
Speaker 3: that people.
Speaker 1: Will, yeah, be different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. They're just not as like fast paced
Speaker 2: and they're just like kind of I don't know. Everybody
Speaker 2: wants to be something like everybody is either a writer
Speaker 2: or a director or wants to be or not. You know,
Speaker 2: even the way to or asked me what I did,
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's really what you're gonna ask
Speaker 2: me right now about.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to not like LA at all,
Speaker 1: but as I grew older, I really discovered I do
Speaker 1: like LA a lot. And uh yeah, it depends on
Speaker 1: where you are in your life as well. But when
Speaker 1: Ghani asked you if you got the bug when you're
Speaker 1: out there, I was thinking, like from the bed sheets
Speaker 1: at the porn hotel, then.
Speaker 3: Hopeaking of hotels when I don't know if you ever
Speaker 3: stayed there, all of us. But our building in Los
Speaker 3: Angeles was in Burbank and there was an hotel right
Speaker 3: down the street called the Tangerine. It was like no
Speaker 3: affiliation whatsoever, and that's where we would put people up
Speaker 3: anytime they were staying from out of town. And it
Speaker 3: was so embarrassing dropping there because was it nice. It
Speaker 3: looks exactly like one of those rent room for thirty
Speaker 3: minutes places. It used to be one of those places
Speaker 3: where you could rent by the hour.
Speaker 1: Oh god, so killet proof glass. I love it. The
Speaker 1: iheard budgets.
Speaker 3: I've redone it right, But you can't out, you know,
Speaker 3: pace the look of one of those cheap cedy motels.
Speaker 3: So it looks like there's either going to be a
Speaker 3: body in the parking lot or hookers standing out front
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Sorry, wow, sorry to say that. So we really so
Speaker 1: far I have not paid it quite a elegant picture
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles or Burbank in this case. Well, look,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I love going out to
Speaker 1: the West Coast. But you know the reason why I
Speaker 1: don't think I could live on the West Coast is
Speaker 1: because all of the natural disasters. They would they because
Speaker 1: they do get really really intense with fires and slides
Speaker 1: and yeah, el Nina, you know all of it. But
Speaker 1: it's a nice place. So you and your friend are
Speaker 1: you travel friends? You like to go different cities with
Speaker 1: each other? Now we are all right, what's your next
Speaker 1: what's your next goal? What's your next town or city?
Speaker 1: Your country?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to Toronto for the first time ever
Speaker 2: to see Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1: Bruno Mars could play anywhere and you have a good time. Yep. Okay,
Speaker 1: what about whipping out the passport for some place other
Speaker 1: than some foreign country as closed as Canada? How about Europe?
Speaker 1: How about Asia? What are you thinking?
Speaker 2: I mean, I would love to go to Japan, but
Speaker 2: I cannot swing that. Yeah, that'll be down the line.
Speaker 2: For now, I want to see more of the US because,
Speaker 2: like I said before, La, I haven't been west of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: so like, I really want to see like Texas and
Speaker 2: other places, Arizona, Vegas, Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2: You want to come?
Speaker 1: Everyone, We're in, Come in. I'm okay done. You'll check
Speaker 1: out this sphere. I'm dying to see a show with this.
Speaker 1: I want to go see The Wizard before it closes.
Speaker 1: Come on, all right, well, there you go. Thank you
Speaker 1: for shining the star for me. I appreciate it. But
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to put you on payroll. But if someone wants to
Speaker 1: go over there monthly and clean my star up, much obliged.
Speaker 1: In there you go, step everyone steps after party