35 Burst results for "Palm Springs"
Fore The People
JJ Reviews Lajitas Golf Resort
"This is cool. I mean, great place for guys trips. I think they keep spruce in it up a little bit. I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of cool stuff there. They have the mayor as a goat. I mean, there's a bunch of cool bars. It protects us, man. I don't even think there's anywhere in the entire state where you can go and get good weather during the winter time. I guess like south podger or something, but not really golf destination. I don't know why, but well, he does so you can go in the wintertime and it was cool. So is it a place for families? Like what families liked it? I bet I've been one time to leave this. I think it's a badass place to fly an airplane too because you come over an 8000 foot mountain and you literally have to nosedive. There's no instrument approach in this runway. You have to nosedive visual approach into this runway. Is there anything to do for families? We let me, we came in for 18 Olsen left. Yeah, I think dude, if you have tash was there and if she was really committed to leaving the resort, which she wasn't because we were only there for a couple days, like, I mean, some of the best hiking in the U.S., I'm not a hiker. I feel like people come from all over the U.S. to hike there in the winter time because it's still warm. And in the summer, it's brutal, it's hot. So I think that kind of, I mean, you saw the mountains and stuff. It's insane. You wouldn't think that place exists in Texas. Like it's more, it looks more Palm Springs ish to me than Scottsdale or something. I would say, but it's different. It's just different. It's pretty cool. And then there's holes in Mexico. If you hit a slight foul ball, your ball goes into another country. That's not even not even a joke. So that's pretty cool to witness, and then you just delete a couple balls into Mexico if you're feeling if you're feeling the flow. But it's a cool spot, man.
AP News Radio
Gallagher, watermelon smashing comedian, dies at 76
"Gallagher at prop comedian who left behind a trail of smashed watermelons and laughter has died Gallagher audience has always new to bring a tarp or a poncho if they plan to sit in the front few rows Sledge Madden gets the lab to have a toothpaste Leo Anthony Gallagher junior built a national following doing stand up in the 1970s and 80s he appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and 12 showtime specials In his signature bit the advent of long haired comedian would impersonate a late night TV pitchman peddling the amazing sledge O Matic smashing everything from birthday cakes to watermelons So it's not a chopper and a hover What in the hell can it possibly be I'm at it Increasingly controversial in recent years chastised for racist and homophobic material his former manager Craig Ricardo says Gallagher died of organ failure at age 76 in his Palm Springs home While Gallagher had his detractors Mercado said he was an undeniable talent and an American success
The Eric Metaxas Show
Jim Domen: You Can't Outrun God
"Were you in that lifestyle, 5 years from 23 to 28? And during that period, I thought I had found freedom. Finally, I'm out. I told my parents, actually my mom, my parents sat me down and said, Jim, you've been acting really strange. You're not home. You never see us. You're like a, you know, we never see you anymore. What's going on? And I said, I met someone. We're around the kitchen table and my mom said, is it a man or a woman? And I said a man. And she cried at that point, but I just kind of decided to pack my bags and move out to Palm Springs for Orange County. This is heartbreaking stuff because I know there are people listening now who have kids on this journey who have friends on this journey. This is hard stuff. And I think we have to be honest, folks. This is hard stuff. And we should never, ever pretend that we can understand what someone's going through. I mean, I've never struggled with same sex attraction, but I think to myself, how tough that would be when somebody says, oh, just blow it off. It's just not God's will. It's like, well, yes, except do you understand what you're asking? This is hard for people. And we have to be honest. That's why people we need to love those who are dealing with this, not by saying it's a good thing, but by saying, I will walk with you. This, because we all have our own struggles. Nobody knows what someone else is going through. So you went through this for 5 years. What happened in the course of that that made you what happened eventually? Well, you said you asked me a question earlier a little bit. Did I know God, or was God speaking to me? And I would never, ever admit this to anyone, he still would speak to me. And he actually my partner and I got in a fight one night in our dining room out in Palm Springs. And the lord said, you're going to be sharing your story publicly someday. And I'll never forget. I looked up the ceiling. I'm like, how can I be sharing my story? I'm sleeping with men. You don't have a partner yet, but God never left me. I mean, I've been to 40 countries. You can't outrun God. You know, be
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Because when she wakes up in the morning, what she's done, so I was like, okay, so I concert reminded that betraying her sister. I thought the man. To me, that was good. I was like, okay, because I was like, you know, as you go on the film, I'm like, okay, I get what's going on. We're going to drag this out, but I was like, but what are we getting at? I thought, okay, this is starting to make a little bit more sense. So I liked it a lot. Yeah. So here's the thing, like if you were stuck in this loop and you had the option of just chilling all day in the pool and like drinking a whole bunch of beer and then going out that night to a party where there was going to be a birthday cake and like a free bar. Yeah. Would you, I mean, I guess eventually you would get bored, but you would get bored with it. How many weeks do you think it would take for you to get bored of that? She went to, well, she went to a diner and then busted out the old laptop. I used to go to the library too and I don't know. Well, I've read like people speculate, how long Bill Murray was in Groundhog Day, like how long he was in that day. And I've heard like centuries. Possibly hundreds of years. He learned piano. High sculptures. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, you never really saw that with this movie. They never really perfected a craft or like they don't said it was his 1 millionth birthday. Like, I'm sure it's a joke. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think this one did attack more of the philosophical side of it than Groundhog Day did. Like you said. It was a little bit more lighthearted and Groundhog Day. Whereas this was more like, what does it mean if you experienced the same day over and over again? Like, truly. What does it mean to be a human in a life where there are no consequences and there are just constant repetitive cycles over and over again. Yeah. Like I get that, but also, was it an all inclusive resort? Like, was there an omelet bar? Because I think wake up every morning and have the breakfast set up every morning. He was just making daiquiris or margaritas in the communal kitchen that they had. That communal kitchen looked bomb. I'm just saying the amount of time I would spend in this weird time loop. The answer would change if we had like an omelet bar and if there were like, I would want to try every combination. Every omelet comment, I would like to get some pineapple juice, maybe some tequila. Let me try mushroom Swiss spinach, no jalapenos. Yeah. See if I can get myself behind it like I want to learn to make the perfect omelet. Learning to make an omelet is important. I'm very true. Anyway, this is a good movie. No. So you're 7. You're 7. 7. 8, 8 and a half. And my metric my criteria that I've always brought up is like, does this movie make you feel things? You know, that's the big difference between a 9 and a ten. I think this movie makes you feel things and I think that's why it's an 8 over a 7. Yeah..
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"The brachiosaurus, what the fuck? The dinosaurs. Apparently those are a tourist feature, like they have like actual dinosaur sculptures. In the polymer screen area. That was when they were doing mushrooms. Wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, but again, at the end, and the credits you see them again. And walking towards the weird cave. Whatever. The movies have a little fun. Yeah. It makes you think. It makes sense. To get bread get head cave. Skull island. Skull. I am. Sucked out. See you later. What did you think of this movie? It was dog shit, y'all. Fuck. No, I'm kidding. No, I liked it. I did not love it. This was your first time saying it was. I remember seeing the trailer for it and then just kind of zoned out. Never saw it in 2020. So my first time seeing it, it was actually yesterday. And I liked it. It was very, honestly, going into it, not knowing what it was. I read the little blurb, but okay, so it's a repeating whatever. But I didn't really know how similar it was going to be to groundhog's day to me. But it was very funny. I liked it a lot. I can't say I love it, 'cause I love Groundhog Day. And I was like, man, I liked it a lot. And it was very, and again, the time, hour and a half, thank freaking God. And it was like, and the comic relief, the perfect timing. I didn't know until you said it, but Sandberg is like, at first I was like, God, I've never been a huge, I think he's fucking hilarious. Saturday Night Live. Yeah. But I've never liked any of his movies. And I know this might be blast me, but what's the TV show? Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I've never gotten into that show either. And I never watched it. I love Brooklyn 9. Yeah, it's like, I don't know, for some reason I just can't get behind him. A lot, you would. Fuck you. But he does kill this movie. Does Amy Sandberg Canadian? Sounds Canadian. I don't think so. But we need to verify that. Sounds Canadian..
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Well, and you guys stuck around for the stinger at the end of the credits, right? The mid credits scene. Where basically J. K. Simmons comes back to the wedding and he's just like, Niles. I got the message from your girlfriend. Is it really work? And it's Niles and the tuxedo and he's like, I have no idea who you are. And it's basically proving that Niles gets out because at the end of the movie, if you just watch it to where it ends, you think J. K. Simmons just never finds out. This is continuing to live in a loop. No, he gets a message from Christine malati. And finds out how to get out. Yeah. That's sweet. That's nice. Thank you. What do you think? All right, so I would give this a 7. Just because Groundhog Day for me, is this movie but better? Like, I appreciate it. I love every movie that is a weird little loop. There's the, oh God, the death saves or something. There have been live die repeat. No, well, that one as well, but there's like one where like a weird mascot is killing some sorority girl. And I can not life of me remember the name of the film. Happy death day. That's it. And there's a sequel to that too, that wraps it all up. I'm like, oh shit, this is really good. This is like a really good two parter. But I love all of these weird, time loop movies. Also that lived I repeat. But yeah, this one was also great. The cinematographer for this one is Quinn Q tran, who has done several different films. I can't remember the other shit is not on my tongue right now, but her husband also plays D&D for critical role. And that's how I knew her name. I'm like, oh, fuck yes. Like, I had heard about her through critical role. And she's very good at her job. So that was her cinematography that you enjoyed so much waffle..
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"I think I watched it just like pretty much as soon as it came out and immediately fell in love with it. Again, I probably think it's right up there. I'd probably give it an 8 and a half, 8. Out of ten. There's something gratifying to see how someone would live their life. If there's no consequences, if you just like, you could do whatever you want. You know what's going to happen. And it doesn't focus on the Groundhog Day aspect of it. It focuses on like, I'm just going to continue living my best life and having fun and now that I have someone who's who I can enjoy this time with, you know, seeing how they use that time together, how they do goofy shit. And both actors are really funny. They're very good actors. And they play their characters really well. Just seeing like, you know, they are at a wedding, but at the same time, they can or they choose whether or not to interact with that and then choose whether or not to be a part of the wedding aspect of it. His girlfriend who's cheating on him or will eventually cheat hunt him during the day. I love seeing his interactions with her where she's just like, what? No, you're cheating on me. Are you cheating on me? No, you're cheating on me. Yeah. Say something in Australian. Yeah. What? Oh, it's awesome. They just do such a good job of using the recurring bits and continuing to build off of it. That they build this small little world that just continues to grow and grow. And talking about all of his different escape attempts. He's like, yeah, you know, I took methamphetamines and I got as far as somewhere in South America or something. But Ecuador, the equator. Equatorial New Guinea or x-ray and Guinea. Yeah. Just tremendous..
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"That come out recently. Exorcism. That recently come out. Existentialism is a pretty new train of thought. Something else recently came out. I was just farted, and I think I'm going to have to well, it's even better that it might not have been Travis, but we don't know. We're going to have to go back. I mean, I'll claim it. We'll have to pull that out of the podcast and see if our listeners can figure out which one had dealt it. That's actually that's a whole point of nihilism. It doesn't matter who smelt it nor delta. Look, it's just the fact that it was dealt. It's going to be on our Instagram stories. You make the call who dealt it. And I know that's a call you guys are dying to make out there. Who dealt it? Yeah. Paul springs. So Niles. So Sarah meets Niles at her sister's wedding reception. They hit it off immediately. Mainly because of his don't give a shit attitude that he exudes at the reception was kind of vibes up with her attitude of being pretty much over everything that's going on. So they kind of hit it off and head off for some nookie in the desert. And he gets attacked by a stranger out of nowhere in the night. Played by J. K. Simmons. God, I love J. K. Simmons. That was perfect. Yes. And so he Niles is wounded and kind of stumbles off to a K with her running frantically behind him. He gets into the cave, gets sucked off into some yeah, he does. Yeah. He gets shunted. He gets me. Yes. Yeah, he does. Yeah, okay, what's a better way? He goes to another dimension. He gets vortex into a hole. No, I'm going to put it the way I did before. He gets sucked off to another dimension. We're going to leave it like that. Good for him. Just say he gets sucked off in a cave. I'm going to leave it just the way it was. I'm happy with that. Freezing. And so he vanishes, she follows him, she vanishes, they both wake up. It would have been a better movie. They wake up November 9th morning, Groundhog Day style, rebooting everything. They start all over again. And now she comes to realize that he has been there for years, possibly centuries, repeating the day over and over again. Just one of my favorite lines in this movie where he's just like, yeah, it's one of those time loops you might have heard of. Yeah. One of those time loops I might have heard of? What? Yeah. And so she realized that now she is cursed to repeat this day along with him and along with J. K. Simmons character who is haunting Andy Samberg. Occasionally, he occasionally gets a wild hair and goes predator style hunting Andy Samberg through Palm Springs. And captures him, tortures him, kills him. Liv died repeat. And so they basically get to know each other they bond, probably, again, over years and years, maybe decades. And she has to contend with his extreme nihilism, but she comes to like him. And it's a matter of can she tear down his armor that is his nihilism. And possibly in the end, can she figure out a way to get them out in the loop? You know, can they have a love affair in this repeating day over and over again? And does anything mean anything? It's like it definitely asks bigger questions and does anything mean anything? Does our need for companionship define us? Does our mortality define us? Does anything mean anything if we don't die? If you can't die and every time you die or fall asleep, you wake up the next day, perfectly fine, and there are no consequences for your actions, ultimately..
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"The gir arbitrary rose and the gravier Bordeaux, all affordable, all good. If you're looking to give wine to a lot of people. I could do like 60 bottles of this. Maybe only $12, but it tastes like 16. Yeah. Exactly. That's your advertising right there. Yeah. Where do they get that? Actually, this is really good. I'm enjoying this. Is that trapez? Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina. You're going to take a picture of this label and share it on our Palm Springs, Instagram. It will be it will be shared. Was it wasn't Dick Grayson a trapeze artist? Yes. Trappist monk? Touche. That'll be podcast on Instagram for those who haven't followed us yet. Go ahead and get on over there and follow us. Todd offered movies dot com. Oh yeah, we've started doing voting stories and things and other social media practice. I voted on for my best friend's wedding. Dermat mulroney was the winner of the sweepstakes versus Dylan McDermott. Same person. Either way. Whatever you want to call them. Palm Springs. This Palm Springs. So my notes real quick. It is a and this is going to be a mouthful of fantasy sci-fi rom com. It kind of covers several genres blended into one seamless whole. It was released on Hulu, July 10th, 2020 at the peak of the pandemic, they released this in a few theaters, but theaters weren't really doing a whole lot of business then. So the primary arena for this was Hulu. It was released to almost universal claim via critics and audiences. It was nominated for Golden Globes for best picture and best actor for Andy Samberg. Real quick synopsis film takes place on November 9th, Palm Springs, California. Sarah, who is played by Chris maladi, meets Niles and it took me to rewatching it. I felt stupid. Rewatching realizing Niles is short for nihilism. I did not realize that at first because I'm not very bright. So now you make us feel stupid because none of us got that. And I wanted to know. Other people see this? I mean, I know, but for Taylor, what is nihilism mean? Anybody who's seen lebowski can sum it up in one sentence. I believe it's flee, who says it of course we believe in nothing. You can't trust nihilists. They don't believe in anything. Taylor means they don't believe in anything. Thank you. Which we got a heavy dose of in everything everywhere all at once. Yeah, the contrast of nihilism and existentialism. Yes. This one is pretty much just a heavy deep dive in the nihilism. And I know what existentialism is, but Sean, if you could explain it to Todd for me. I can not. Okay. Oh, I didn't watch the movie. There you go. So that come out recently. Exorcism. That recently come out. Existentialism is a pretty new train.
Cinemavino
"palm springs" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back to cinema vino. We're going to continue our wedding series tonight talking about Palm Springs. Movie I enjoyed quite a bit, came out about two years ago. I'm hearing with traps bud. Bravest hud, Taylor Owens. Yo yo, Sean Jordan. Howdy, I've got the whole crew here. This would be part 5 of our 6 part wedding series. We are drinking trapeze, Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina. Tapesh. Nice budget red. I really like this. You know, tasty. Yeah. This one clocks in at about ten bucks. Really? This is X, not bad. Maybe 12. If it's over ten, it's not much over ten. Argentinians, wines, not people. Generally cheaper than other rides, pretty affordable, yeah. They tend to be. Argentina quiz. Is that the one that has moved vedra? Is those from Argentina? You'll see those in France. Primarily. Yeah, that's a French throne. Is there some other Argentine ball bag? Okay. I knew it started with an M yeah. 'cause I'm a little bit of an awkward position. So you guys talk amongst yourself for a second. I'm a scooch away. Go ahead. So Argentinians. No, no. Oh, hey, what's up, man? Oh hey guys. So yeah, Malbec is going to be the primary grape out of Argentina. That's kind of their niche grape because you'll see that Malbec and France is a blending grape. It's a grip that they add in the Bordeaux with Cabernet alone. Get more of a blending grape. It's a blending grape as knobs might say. Argentina has kind of made it their own. And they release a lot of stand-alone. Malbec. In France, there is a region that does Malbec called cahora. Sometimes you'll see a little bit of reload blended in there, but a lot of times it'll be a Malbec centric wine. So I got those fucked up. So what is a move Vera? That's another grape. That's another variety. It totally different in that in France. Blending. Yeah. You'll see that blended with grenache and syrah a lot. Like in the rhone. There you go. Very good. That's the end. Ganache, I like a ganache. Yeah. You'll see me better than they're kind of round them out, kind of sand them off a little bit if they get a little bit too big and bold. So I'm a veteran is a good grape to kind of round off other grapes. So this is an Argentinian cabinet. Cabernet. I opted not to do a Malbec from Argentina because Malbec. I love Malbec, but it is a different animal..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"palm springs" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"Right, look, we've already got folks who have lined up wanting to weigh in on this, but I am curious. Do you think that do you think that Obama was joking? Or do you think that Obama really is pulling the strings here? Or is Joe Biden just faking the incompetence? 8 four four 747 88 68 that's your toll free telephone number. 8 four four 747 88 68. The website again is touched on dot com. Click on that live show blog and sign up for the big culture engagement summit coming up on April 30th. We'll be right back. About a backup and bring it. It's time darned. With the political pressure of the left and the woke mob that is the Democrat party. Our society has ultimately become controlled by the cancel culture elites. Since when had the founders of our constitution, the American flag, Dr. Seuss, and many other things become anti American. There's never been a better time in our nation's history to stand up against the woke mob and fight back. And you can do that with this exclusive offer I'm giving to my listeners for a limited time only. Now is your chance to win a signed photo by president Trump himself. That's right, not only will you be taking a stand against the radical left, you'll be entering to win a piece of history. All you have to do is text the word photo to 55 four O four today to enter. That's photo to 55 four O four. Join me in standing up for president Trump and canceling the radical left once and for all. Paid for by the national Republican senatorial committee. All right, welcome back to everybody. Good to have you with us today. Wow. I'm going to get to this Palm Springs story in just a minute. A lot of you folks weighing in on the Facebook Live stream. Hey, let's go to the phones, though, oak ridge, Tennessee, Jerry, listening to us on kwa, the mighty 9 90. Thanks for taking my call. It's a good to talk to you again. Thank you, Jerry. I want to chime in a little bit on this anniversary for ObamaCare and how Obama completed Biden. And you mentioned a couple of things that you turned away from a meeting to acknowledge Biden when kept him on the shoulder and I brought that call these memories of how Biden and Obama never Obama just tolerate a Biden because he had to. And if you remember, back in 2012, when he was running for an Obama was running for reelection, they almost dropped Biden because it was such an anchor around Obama's neck. And if you remember, Barack Obama was forced by Joe Biden to come out for gay marriage. Obama didn't want to do that, but Biden as usual is running his mouth. So that they were all for the gay marriage and then Obama had to come out and back up Biden. So I'm sure that Obama is pulling the strings. I'm sure Obama can't stand Biden. No doubt about that. Jerry, no doubt about that. There's a lot of bad blood between those two and keep in mind that that Obama was quoted in private as saying that never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to blame things up as he said. Yeah, I was going to mention it. And then a year before that, he told he told Biden don't run, you don't have what it takes. It's just amazing. I think I think that Obama is still pulling the strings or at least the vast majority of them. And I think he had no choice. I mean, who are they going to who is going to run them? Everybody hated, right? Buttigieg and beto, they're no good. Klobuchar. I mean, it was the last fish in the barrel. This is a working up. Thank you. This isn't working out for them at all. No, it's not. And Jerry appreciate the call and thank you for listening to us there in oak ridge on kwam. Kwan. And it's true. There's just a lot of bad blood there, but at the end of the day, Obama has got his people there, Susan Rice being chief among them, and she is more than likely calling the shots on behalf of BH Obama. All right, this story out of California. It cracks me up. And you know who ought to be really upset about this, are all of the gays and lesbians who live in Palm Springs, California. All you heterosexuals just set aside for a moment and I want to talk to the gays and lesbians out there across the fruited plain. So the mayor of Palm Springs, who happens to be transgender. A, his honor, who identifies as her honor. The mayor of Palm Springs pushed through a pilot program that will give a universal basic income to every transgender and non binary person in Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs is a very posh community. It's very popular among the alphabet people. They love the dry, the dry air, and the spas, and I'm sure the assortment of fruit juices and wheatgrass and all that kind of nonsense. They love that place. So it's a very popular desert community. High dollar. And the mayor says, well, you know what? Being transgender, it's just hard these days. The unemployment rate among transgenders and the non binary folks is just astronomical. So we're going to give, we're going to give a universal basic income of $900 a month to every transgender person every non binary person in the city lemons. And I hate to break it to the mayor, but thanks to Joe Biden. Everybody is suffering from unemployment and inflation. Everybody. Now, the city says that gay people and lesbians, okay, why should the gaze of the lesbians be upset? Because you folks are getting deadly squat. You're not going to get a penny. So if you're gay or lesbian, you're just like the heterosexuals now. You don't matter. All right, so the city council is to shove all the gays and the lesbians into the closet with the heteros. And the only people that deserve special treatment. The only people who are getting a stipend, the thanks to this government funded program are going to be the trans people and the non binary. Asexuals, idle note. No, no, they're not on the list grace. I'm sorry. I don't know. Furries not on the list. I hope they've got a big closet. They're shoving everybody into that closet, except for the trans and the non binary. So the city council originally, so there's a group called queer works, and they're working with the state, and they wanted like. I don't know. They wanted millions of dollars for this. But the city is only going to go with about 200,000 right now. But they want about $1.8 million. I hate to break it into the mayor. I think that's illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians. You know, heteros don't count. You people don't count anymore. But the gays and the lesbians you got to kind of feel bad for them, right? Oh jeez a little. Maybe go to south beach. We'll.
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
"palm springs" Discussed on A Beautiful Mess Podcast
"At times is like you've got to make sure that your partner knows it's important to you to have time with your Friends so they have to help you with that because they have to help you use everything that's important to you and you have to help them. So leaving that space is really, really important too. So yeah, I think it's just like trying to be a thoughtful person, do little things and if needed like booking time. But yeah, there's a lot of stuff in the book, big friendship if you're interested. And I don't want to make it sound like friendship is just a bunch of work. It's actually like such a joy and such a relief to feel like I have people I can talk to or when I went through a really hard time. The past year and a half, they were all there for me. And I'll never forget that. It's a very meaningful, wonderful. Okay, so I have like a couple things to share, so the last couple of years have been like a little bit of a tough time in my life because a couple of my closest friends moved away from where I live, which is never fun, but it is just like a normal part of adulthood and life. So yeah, a lot of my closest friends are online friendships or long distance friendships and that has been, I think actually really good. So a couple of things. The first one is, I think that when I first started therapy, my therapist has helped me with so many things, but one of the things is just like letting go of guilt, feelings, like I have guilt problems, and I know so many women do, and it's like it serves no one. It helps nothing. Is just a drag and there's no purpose behind it. But yeah, I think that just like realizing that this is a time in my life, I have little kids, and you know, we have two companies. This is a time my life when the only friendships that I can have are low maintenance friendships where we're on the same page about our expectations. And so in the past, I've had a couple times where friendships were like I couldn't keep up and that was like sort of like a deal breaker and a relationship, which is like really, you know, it's tough, but I think it's also totally normal. So if that's a phase that you hit in your life, you can feel seen by me right here right now because I get it. Yeah, and so all of my close friends are very forgiving low maintenance people who it's like when we catch up, it's like we can get into the mode of catching up and feeling close immediately and then when we don't talk for a month or a couple months, it's fine. It's like not ever a problem or an issue. And that's just like where I'm at in my life and I think I can see a phase in the future where I could have like high maintenance friendships again but it's definitely not in this decade. So what do you consider a high maintenance friendship? Like how would you define that? Okay, so if there's someone like just to make it really specific, someone who would be upset if you didn't text them back that day. Like I don't have any friends who would be upset if I don't text them back today. They would all just understand if it's like a couple days and like sure it's like a totally different thing if like you need each other and you're not there, but just like on normal everyday stuff is just like there's no pressure and we're all just like understanding and like chill. And I think yeah that's something that's like a comfort to me at this age. Okay, and then the other thing is, okay, so a few years back I tried to do like you know that Tim Ferriss thing that's like about like I can't even I'm gonna get it wrong. The thing that's like about how the people closest to you are essentially like the future of who you're becoming. Oh yes, yes. I don't know how to describe it other than that too. Like you're three closest friends is like who you will become kind of thing. That's perfect. So I put a lot of thought into that over the past few years and so my sort of mentality with friendships right now is definitely like quality over quantity as far as like I tried to make a list I was like okay who are like the ten women in my life like my actually a couple of my close friendships are men too, but whatever. Who are the ten people in my life who I want to invest more in and it's like I look up to them. I admire them. I respect them. I want them to be an influence on me so it's like I'm gonna be more intentional about these relationships and as I started making that list and it took a while, it was a great exercise. I realized I didn't even need ten people. It was like more like, I don't know, 5 or 6 people at the season and that was like totally enough and so yeah, if you haven't done that, I think that's the other thing is to realize that maybe you don't need more Friends, maybe you need to put more into the friendships that you already have. You know, 'cause it is kind of a thing where it's like during the times when you're putting more into it, you're also getting more out of it and you know I think having room to breathe and rest and like life happens and we don't have to talk every single day is also super healthy. So anyway, that's all my advice. Yeah, I hope that it helps as you were explaining that with the Tim Ferriss thing and all that. I also was thinking like, so I kind of explained how I have this great group of friends and we have a book club and all that. So that's really something that's happened in the last probably 5, 6 years, something like that, probably 5 years. Many of them, if I got married today, would be my bridesmaids. Oh. And many of them, I didn't even bite to my wedding because I didn't know them then. So, you know, it's a more recent friendship thing, I guess, is what I'm trying to say with that. I think to for a long time, like most of my 20s, and definitely before that, other than like you and my family, I think I really mostly had friendships where I gave a lot more to it than I got out of it. And I don't think I realized for a long time that that isn't necessarily healthy. It's very like, there's nothing wrong with it. It's something I chose willingly, so I'm not complaining about it. It's just more, I don't think I realized it could be a different way for a long time. Yeah. And then when I kind of matured, I guess, and grew wiser as I got older, I don't know. I was like, oh, I need more friends who pour into me and listen to me, talk rather than just me listening all the time or whatever. Yeah, that was like, I think it took me a while I guess to realize that I deserved a good friend like I was trying to be. Hell yeah. Kind of like giving myself the space and permission to have that. And also have times in my relationships where I'm like kind of the down one and they just like listen to me and take care of me. And then return it when I can, you know? And yeah, I'm really grateful that I figured that out. I bet a lot of people figured that out much earlier than I did, but just in case maybe you didn't and you're listening just so you know like your friendship should pour into you and like be a positive influence on your life kind of like what else he's saying and if not, that doesn't mean like don't be their friend, but maybe keep looking or keep that in your mind.
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"Or topic request. I actually like we've had this request coming in probably like once a week for a year. So I'm surprised, I'm sure we've mentioned it before, but I don't think we've ever fully dove into it. But the topic is making friends in your 30s or making like adult friendships. So a lot of people write in and say, at this phase in life, it's definitely escalated for people who have become first time moms, and it's definitely escalated because of the pandemic, and there's probably all other situations working from home, things like that that have changed things over the past few years, but yeah, a lot of people just want to talk about how do you make friends as an adult and how do you like, you know, sometimes your friendships sort of like fall away or evolve or things like that. So anyway, it's a great topic. So yeah, I want to hear your thoughts about it and I am collecting mine as well. Yeah, so I don't know if I have a ton of tips or ideas around making friends because I kind of have like a pretty large group of friends that I've had now for some years. So I have more thoughts around maintaining friendships and your 30s, especially as your life gets more and more full, whether it's sister, career, kids, or whatever. So my group of friends, a big way that our anchor point is we have a book club. So every other Tuesday night, we get together and talk about a book other than the book we talk about our lives and joke around or cry or whatever's going on. You know? So that's kind of like the anchor that you can always turn back to. And there's lots of times where people kind of drop out for a while, you know? They have stuff going on or whatever. They just had a baby and they're like, I'm doing that. Don't have time to come right now. You know, and then they drop back in. And in that sense, it feels nice. Yeah, very much like a community where you can come in and out, but it's always there. I honestly think of the book club with my Friends as like my church because it's like it's not necessarily spiritual. I wouldn't say it's not spiritual. We talk about all sorts of things. But I just think of it as like, this is my community of where I go. And it's like always there, but if I can't make it one week, that's fine. So we just read a book, though, in that group called big friendship, and it's by the same women behind the podcast, call your girlfriend, which I actually think they just ended their podcast this past month. But they've been doing it for years, and there's a lot of great episodes and content in the book, big friendship was really, really good. So and it's about maintaining growing and maintaining friendships in adulthood. So more like your 30s or 40s or whenever. So if you're interested in something longer, I would recommend that it was really good. And there's a lot of things in that book and just generally where I would say basically if you want great friendships, you have to think of it as something that's really important to you and the same way that you might a career or a partner or a romantic partner or a marriage or whatever, or parenting, like it needs to be something that doesn't necessarily take up that amount of time because those things I just listed probably will take up more time than any friendship likely. But it has to be something that you're willing to pour into. And if you're not willing to do that or you feel you don't have the space for that in your life, then I think that's going to be kind of difficult because it has to kind of be a two way street. So when you've poured into a relationship for a long time, then you can expect that it'll still be there whenever you need to like dug out for a while 'cause your mom died or you just had a baby or you're just going through whatever and you just need people to support you rather than reach out. But when you're in a space where you can reach out, you know, you kind of need to be doing that. And whatever it is, you know, going on a walk in the middle of the day because you can't do evenings because that doesn't work for your schedule or whatever, like so many of my friends, I have to schedule time to hang out with them two or three weeks in advance. I don't have almost any friends where it's like a random, what are you doing tonight? Nothing, let's hang out. That was that was maybe something I would do sometimes in college and after college, but that does not fit my life anymore. So I just don't have any friends who expect that of me or want that because it's just doesn't fit. And I think that that's fine. I think in some ways, if you love spontaneity, that can be kind of a bummer, but I think it's just a season of life. I think I'll get back to that when my kid is bigger or like my life's just different, but right now it's not like that. So I really do like book hangouts with my friends that might not even be like a big deal. Like it's literally like I'm going to go on a walk in their neighborhood with them. And I'll say two or three weeks out and I put it on this like shared time tree with my husband just in case there's anything child care related around that so that we can communicate and make sure we leave space for the other person to have friendships and relationships because that's a piece of it.
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"Her sexy fairies book. So it was. Sexy fairies is like a category. So I feel like I call it that because of sherry from young house love because she calls it them sexy fairies book. I didn't know it was a huge category of books. This is a new thing, but okay, so tell them about when you were in the airport reading the book, how not a podcast listener not a blog reader but a stranger ran up to her because they saw her reading this book. Yes, so I was reading a court of mist and fury, which is the second in the series, trying to think of the series name. I can't remember. But if you know you know, and it is a fantasy about fairies and it is also romance. So there's quite a bit of sex. So awesome books. And I had just read the first one in the series and normally I don't like to like read a series straight through. I like to jump around. I don't like to get too stuck in one genre. That's just my way, but I was going on vacation. Yeah, and I was like, you know what? I want something easy and fun, and you know what? I'm gonna read that second sexy fairies book. That's what I'm gonna do. So that's what I brought with me and it's a huge book and I had the paperback, so it was a little easier to carry, but it was pretty big. And so I'm sitting in the airport, just starting it. By myself, you know, my layovers, I'm headed to LA to meet elsie. And a lady comes up to me and for one moment I was like, I was like, oh, maybe she reads our podcast to read the blog. Every once in a while that happens, it's certainly doesn't happen to me very often, but every once in a while, someone is like, oh, I read your blog, you know or whatever. But then she just kind of like taps the book and I look up and I'm waiting for her to say something about a beautiful best and then she just shows me her book cover, which is a different series by the same author, but I knew and she was like, oh, you're so infer a ride because she apparently read like this series. And so then we chatted for like a minute, you know. And we both have our mask on. It's kind of hard to chat with a stranger at the airport. Just the interaction of it, I was like, oh, I'm in a club. And they are stoked that I am reading this book. This is an enthusiastic crowd that I have entered into. And you know what? Since reading the first and second, I get it. These books are awesome. You should definitely read them if you are at the interested and sexy fairy books. This is very fun. I have never read any kind of romance novel in my whole life, so if you're like me, tragedy. I'm going to tell you a tiny, tiny little secret. We are going to read one in our next book club round. So we're on our last couple of weeks of Q one and then next month when April starts will be in Q two and we are going to read one together. So if anyone is like, I want to understand what the hell a sexy fairy book is, you can learn that for the first time with me. And I was so excited because I feel like all my Friends read them except for me. So I'm like, what am I missing out on? I think it's so fun. But yeah, so I read a court of mist and fury I read the whole thing on the trip and it is rather long and it was a blast. And I also, while we were at Barnes and noble, I picked up the Paris apartment, which I've read other things by that author and I love it. It's kind of mystery thriller type thing. So I started that on the way home, but I haven't gotten super far into it yet. Nice. I get a little bit of anxiety when I'm flying. I always did, but it's definitely way worse now that I haven't flown in so long, so I couldn't read very much of it on the way home because I was kind of having like a, you know, like where you cry on the plane because you have anxiety, but you're trying not to disturb people around you. So I was like, I can't read this book right now. Yeah. No, I didn't know it was that bad. I just get a little, it's just like your heart's beating fast and you just keep telling yourself like nothing's happening. I'm fine. It's fine. But you're just like, you know, just trying not to make other people anxious too, I guess you're like, I promise nothing's wrong with me. I'm just crying right now. Don't look at me, please. Yeah. Oh, sister. Anyways, not super far into that yet. It wasn't the right environment, but I'm excited to read that too. Yeah. It was so much fun just sitting by the pool, reading for like a whole day. I've never done that before, and I do understand now why people, I never interested how people could sit at the pool for so long. Now I understand it. All right, so let's talk about our favorite meals. We had in Palm Springs. I kind of want to give it a tie for two. A dinner meal and a breakfast.
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"To take a hardcover if you can take a paperback and like just to like make my bags better and okay, so the book that I ended up reading the whole thing on day one was the year of magical thinking by Joan didion and it was heartbreaking and sad and I didn't know what it was obviously 'cause I picked it 'cause I thought like from the title I just thought it was gonna be a completely different thing but I will say ended up loving the book and I absolutely will reread it other times in this lifetime for sure for anyone who's going through a loss of someone close. I think that it is definitely a beautiful book and incredible but it just wasn't what I thought it was gonna be at all. So I don't know but I think it did kind of like cleanse me or something like, well that author is incredible and although I haven't read that book yet when you showed it to me, I knew what it was right away because I just I know generally what that book is about and I was like, oh no she started her vacation with a book about grief, which, you know, if you're in the mood for it great but you're literally asking me days before like I was fun. What's more fun to read than Harry Potter, that's what I was asking her. Right. And so that's why, once I saw what you had picked up to bring on the plane, I was like, all right, I really dropped the ball here, and that's when I was like, all right, thinking thinking she loves magic. Oh, you gotta read the night circus. So that's when we were like, gotta get to a bookstore, get you the night circus, because that's gonna be a fun one to read by the pool. So yeah, I read the night circus and it was definitely one of my favorite books I've ever read. Can it be topped? I feel like it'll probably remain in my top ten ever. It's really good. Was so good. I loved everything about it. If you like magical things and you haven't read it, definitely just buy it immediately right now. I'll put it in the show notes. Yeah, and it was definitely like the trip I was looking for. Like to a magical place, and I just want to try all the magical food..
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"One day off vacation after every family trip. Exactly. You just need a good nap. Okay, so yeah, we wanted to talk about our trip. I didn't post a lot on Instagram. I posted a little bit, but pretty much we were just like zoning out. It was amazing. It was the most like we slept in, most of what we did. Would you say was like sitting by the pool reading, like most of the activities or the hours spent, we got massages, it was like so like amazing. It was a ten out of ten. Okay, so let's go through each part of it and just kind of just kind of talk about it for fun. So we live through us if vicariously. Yeah, well, so we started the trip with a small, well, it was a big work event, but it wasn't something that we were absolutely required to do, we just, we were going to go on a trip anyway, so we did that, and that was in LA. So we stayed at proper hotel, the downtown one, because there's another one in Santa Monica. And that was really fun because it's designed by Kelly wearstler, and I have followed her on Instagram a long time. Like, I'm definitely a fangirl already was, but I'd never seen any of the spaces she's designed in real life before. And I didn't realize when we had booked this hotel that it was one that she's worked on, but now I'm like obsessed. I love this hotel. I started to look up all her other proper hotels, and they're so cool, and I'm just like, you know, now I'm like, Trey, check out all these Pinterest boards of these proper hotels that Kelly designed. I think these are beautiful. We should make our house like this. I'm just like way into it. I love that as a design reference. I totally agree. Okay, so the part of it that left the biggest impression on me so there was like a lobby we posted this picture on Instagram. There was like a lobby with a big mural ceiling and that was really incredible and then also the restaurant downstairs. We had breakfast there and it was like the perfect mixture of like really trendy but also really cozy and there was plans everywhere and just like Spanish lot of yeah, a lot of black and white tile I totally forgot like I think there's just like some things due to pandemic stuff that it's like you forgot. I totally forgot how much I love hotels. And just like the design and the detail and just like walking around and seeing like there was even like really amazing bathrooms that were so cool and yeah we were definitely geeking out like it was like our first time to go in the world for the first time. It was great. Wow, wow, look at this plant. Look at this countertop. Sure everyone around us was like, okay, you guys haven't been anywhere. But yeah, we're like, look at all the chairs. Look at the chairs in this hotel. You're obsessed. Yes, it was incredible and yeah, I would definitely recommend it if anyone's staying in LA or I had a rooftop rooftop bar and restaurant. We went there too to have like a drink before our event and snack. So yeah, and I actually think it has a pool. I didn't see that while we were there, but from stalking her Pinterest board now, I think there's a pool as well on the rooftop, which is really cute. Yeah, so the hotel was amazing. And then after that, the next morning we had breakfast and we drove to Palm Springs and we stayed there for the rest of the time. And what was our first stop? Maybe you should tell him. I'm excited to be the first stop when we weren't quite to Palm Springs. I guess we're in Palm Desert. Okay. Deserts, but Emma was like, I want to go to a bookstore and she had this one specific book. The night circus that she really wanted me to read, like it just popped in her head and she was like, you have to read this book. So anyways, we drove up all the springs in which straight to Barnes and noble. And just like shopped for books for a really long time, it was magical like, I mean, I think that Barnes and noble, if you haven't experienced this already, the next time you go there, really take this in, it's like a time capsule of the late 90s. Nothing has changed, and yeah, in the late 90s and the early 2000s, Barnes and noble was the coolest thing to do in our hometown, like especially for church kids on the weekends and the evenings. It's like we would go there, get a Frappuccino, get 18 magazines, sit there and read all the magazines and buy nothing and leave. And that is our youth. I do have a soft spot for it and I'm glad that they exist and I stand by it as something that I want in this world. If Barnes and noble stops, I know that local bookstores is better, okay? Like I'm not saying they're not better, they're better. But I think they can coexist my belief on it. I just don't want there to be no more Barnes and no. Like it's too sad. Like, okay, whenever we were driving, I was like, Emma. When we're old, do you think they're all still be red lobster and Olive Garden? And she said, I don't remember what I said. I feel like I said yes. You said definitely yes, and I was like, 'cause I think definitely know. But it's interesting. Like, I guess we'll just see. I think the nostalgia though. You went there when you're little with your grandma, so I just feel like it's familiar in this way that you kind of see. It's very familiar from our childhood, but yeah, I don't know if it will be in future generation childhoods. Yeah, that's true. Because as we have grandkids, are we going to take them to Olive Garden? I don't know. I can't answer that. Anyways, so we went straight to Martin noble. We bought some books, and then we went to our hotel, so we ended up staying at the ace hotel just because the other day we wanted to say I was already booked. And the ace hotel is cute. We've stayed there a lot. It has definitely great restaurant. Yeah, it's good. Nice solid. There's a little coffee shop across the street. If you don't want to get coffee at the restaurant there. And yeah, we walked to a number of restaurants and things. So it's a great little near a bunch of other things too. And yeah, it has a great pool, and you can order drinks by the pool or snacks, has a hot tub, it can be a little crowded sometimes, like there was a wedding going on while we were there, which was beautiful, and actually kind of fun to watch. But, you know, if you're looking for more of a, I don't want anyone near me, then it might not be a good spot in that sense. But they're also a ton of babies. So many people have babies and toddlers with them. So that was actually really cute and was making me extra miss my baby. Emma was having a lot of baby, not baby fever with other words. Like missing her baby, but there was no kids my kids age their hardly at all. I think it was like babies and then you don't bring your kids to learn like upper elementary maybe. I don't know. Yeah, I feel like once they're asking for things that might not be the spot anymore. But what's going on? Yeah. Yeah. I know what you do. So we start by the pool, so I got to read two whole books on our trip, which is a lot. I felt like the first one was like on my flying day and then the second one was like at the hotel, the poolside. And then did you get to read two whole books? No, I read one, but it was a really long book. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. Okay, so let's talk about what we read. So on my way traveling, I read, I was looking for a light, happy read, but in the end, what happened is that I just grabbed a bunch of stuff off my shelf so it was like in my two read pile on my way out the door and I was trying to get books that were like, you know the right size, like you don't want.
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"To the beautiful mass podcast. This week we're sharing all about our little getaway to Palm Springs, which was such an ultimate mom getaway and we're also chatting about adult friendships, making and maintaining friendships in your 30s and how that's different from your 20s. Also this week, we're sharing our book report from the vanishing half by Brett Bennett. Awesome, I'm excited for this week. Okay, so before we jump into talking all about our trip, I thought we should talk about the inspiration for the trip, which was your January and February, like how it went. Yeah, well, okay, so I should say too. This vacation. I hadn't been on a vacation since before COVID hit the U.S.. So it been more than two years. Which is fine. I was pregnant and I had a maternity leave in there and I have a 9 month old now, so it's pretty understandable even aside from what's been happening in the world. Basically, my husband Trey has been like, you really kind of need a vacation. You seem like a vacation. That's how he was trying to encourage me to go on one, which was very nice. And he was right. And yeah, our January and February, so normally I have day care 5 days a week. A Monday through Friday, and it's like 9 till 5 30, sometimes I'll pick him up early. But in January and February, just due to sickness and snow days and Oscar was teething and just things like that. We only had ten day care days all of those two months, which if I had been planning for that, cool, you know? Like some people don't have any day care. Like, if you're planning for it, that's fine. But if you're planning to basically like two weeks of day care days spread out into two months. So while you're trying to do full-time work hours, which is what I was expecting to do. So I was just kind of like a stressful time. I got a lot of extra time with Oscar, so it's weird 'cause it's hard to talk about it because there's this piece of me that's like, that was actually really fun. But then there's this other side of my brain that's like, I felt stressed and guilty the whole time 'cause I wasn't getting my work done. I was just hanging with my son a lot, because he's just at an age. You can't just put him in front of an iPad. That's not where he's at. So everywhere understand. It is both all the time and there's no need to ever apologize for that. Yeah, I think that January and February were so like, I don't know, rocky is the word. Like that I kind of felt like I wanted like a new new year's on March 1st. Like, you know what I mean? 'cause you know how people say like, you can make new year's be any day you want. I was like, I think I need to redo. So I think we both felt that way, so it was Emma's idea was like, we should do a trip, and I was like, you know what? Yes, the answer is yes. I was so, I mean, it was my first time to do a trip in more than two years. Yeah. Yeah, I had been like the only time off from work I've done in the last two years was time to spend with family, like my maternity leave. Yeah, going to visit you guys in Nashville, you know, stuff like that, which is in a way a vacation from work, but it's a lot of like hanging out with little kids or taking care of a newborn or you know, which is not really a vacation in the sense of the word. I feel like there's a lot of moms probably understand this too. Sometimes you go on a trip and sometimes you go on a vacation, like those are two different things at times, you know? You can take my gosh. Your baby too. Visit family and it's a long car ride. That's more of a trip. And it's wonderful and you don't have to work, so in a way, you might feel like, oh, I should be rested after this, but the truth is you're not. That is really a good point. Somebody is going to try to call me out that last summer, we went on a family trip to Disney, and it's like, is that technically a vacation? Yes, it's technically a vacation, but here's the thing. We drove. And we, you know, we have little kids and I think there's a difference. I guess, yeah, maybe there's just a difference between a trip and a vacation. I like how you said that. A family trip is not always like the same thing as like, you know, any kind of resting. Yes, and it's funny because now it's like a really broadening my perspective on our parents because there was a time. We drove from Missouri to California to go to Disneyland, so three kids in the car to go to Disneyland, and I'm like, wow, that for me was like such a special vacation as a kid. We went to the ocean, it was the first time I'd been to the ocean. I'd never been to Disneyland. It's so vivid in my memory that our parents took us and did all that. I even remember some of the hotels we stayed in, but that was not a vacation for our parents. That was a family trip that I'm sure they enjoyed, but there's no way they were rested after that trip. They were probably so exhausted. Yeah, in a perfect world that we design, we can give parents.
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"palm springs" Discussed on Netflix is A Daily Joke
"I went to Palm Springs, okay? Which is just like a desert town two hours outside of LA and I didn't think I was going to be down, you know? Because it's the desert and I don't like to sweat in public. But I loved it. I loved it. It turns out, and the reason why I love Palm Springs is because when I, how do I put this? When I want to practice self care, all right? When I want to get away from it all. I like to imagine I'm a protagonist in a Nancy Meyers movie. That is. That's about what I'm trying to feel good. If you've never seen a Nancy Meyers joint like something's got to give, it's complicated, the holiday. Whenever Diane Keaton is feeling frisky, okay? If you've never seen a Nancy Myers joint, I will break it down for you very simply, okay? First, imagine I'm a white woman. I'm in my 50s. I'm in my 60s. I'm living in the hot flash, okay? I'm in a moment in time. I'm in a moment in time. My name is Margot with a teeth. And I'm wearing two. I'm wearing cream. I'm wearing beige. Eggshell. It proves. And whatever I'm wearing is a loose, but also fitted. That's my vibe. And at some point in the movie, I will be sitting with my best friend drinking a California white wine. And I'll say, his new wife is how old? And that's every Nancy Myers movie in a nutshell. Thank you. Thank you. She's very true. His new wife is always two young, okay? And that was Palm Springs. Palm Springs was Caucasian decadence. It was his and hers kitchen sinks. You know what I mean? That kind of level. And it's funny traveling while black in a place like Palm Springs 'cause nobody knows how you got there, you know? And you kind of start like a whisper campaign. Walk into the restaurant and they're like, is it Michelle? It's like, no. No, it's not. But I will take a free appetizer. Yeah. And we were staying in this hotel where people could bring their dogs, which normally I wouldn't have been into, but something happened to me, y'all. I moved to LA. I felt that hot air on my face. And I was like, I want a dog and a podcast. You know immediately. Immediately. And there was this old black lab sitting by the pool, and I love old dogs. Old dogs are my jam, okay? It's so true, right? I don't want that dog that hears the doorbell and starts running in a circle and yapping. I want the dog that here's the doorbell and is like, you gonna get it? You know what I mean? Like doesn't even lift up. Does it rise from the bed? And that was this black lab just chilling. You know, plus, it's a 100° in Palm Springs, so me and this black lab are just too colored girls trying to stay in the shade. We were nasty. We made a life together. And after ten minutes of me petting this dog, two older white women approach. Fresh out of an ANSI movie. Okay. They come over because, you know, obviously one of them owns the dog and they're like, who are you? And they introduce themselves, and their names. Were Susan? And Jan. Oh, Palm Springs take me away. I love it. And we start chit chatting, and I'm hoping that Susan and Jan are a couple, but they're just Friends. And I'm like, boring, but all right, keep talking. And we're chatting and Susan and Jan are besties. They are on a vacay, a road trip, and Jan stays with me. She has a place in my heart, you guys, because Jan live in Maui, Hawaii, and was on vacation in Palm Springs. And yes, honey. And at one point we chit chatting and Jan says to me, dead serious. Well, I know people go to Maui for a vacation, but sometimes I need a vacation from Maui. Wow. Y'all, that is the Janice shit I ever heard. I said January a bad bitch. Okay. AJ and I'll see you. I'll see you talking to me like I'm not black in America. Go on. Go on, Chan. And then later, she goes, she goes, well, while I'm on the mainland, okay, pull it back. Now it's overboard. You're probably from Indiana, okay? But she was like, while I'm on the mainland, I was thinking of visiting my brother, but I don't know. Jay and don't give a fuck about her brother, y'all. This is Jan's vacation. Oh my God, I'm trying to be a jam in this life. I feel like right now I'm a Susan, I'm just along for the ride. You know what I mean? But Jan is making the reservations, honey, okay? She is setting you up for success. That is how I feel. And I've been trying to figure out how do I channel Jen? How do I be the Jan I want to see in the world? And so sometimes, you know, if I face a minor inconvenience, like I stubbed my toe, I'd be like, oh, I'm going to vacation for mallet. But that's not quite it. That's not quite it. Jan, Jan was in her 60s. She had two adult sons. And she was living her life. Jan had a joie de vivre, honey, Janet is taking lovers and painting with watercolors. She's doing it. Even though she's older than me, she's younger than me in spirit, honey, because Jan is out here thriving, and I like to sit in the shower. And so catch Naomi ekperigin in season three of the stand ups, only on Netflix..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Is Chrissy Teigen Deleting Negative Instagram Comments?
"Let's talk about somebody else I hate. Chrissy fucking tegan. Despite being a member of the council club, boy, this bitch gets around. She was, I'm sure you saw one of the guests that Obama is 60s birthday bash. The one went out the mask. The sophisticated crowd who got vaccinated, they said, a bunch of bullshit. She's been to Miami recently. Palm Springs, New York City, Italy, life's really hard when you're a fat former fucking model, isn't it who suffers from depression and takes drugs at home while your boyfriend husband motherfuckers is living across town at his bachelor pad in boystown in West Hollywood. That's true. I mean, he stays with us sometimes, most of the time he ain't there. Christy, I'm working late in the studio. Yeah, sure. Okay. Rather than go over the hill to be with you. I'm gonna save my bachelor pad and boys town. Put two and two together. Once you please, this bitch continues to shield for food and fashion lines and last month she posted 25 pictures. And I don't even know how many Instagram stories. All these people are canceled in the past must be wondering, what the fuck houses girl doing? How is she doing this? It's unbelievable. She's got 35 million followers on Instagram. And yet, after all the shit she's done and said, threatening people asking people wishing people dead, blah, blah, blah. Sharon Stone, Andy Cohen, the Kardashians, Paris Hilton. They all love this woman. All The Real Housewives and any of you like The Real Housewives, you need to ask them, why the fuck are they still acting like Chrissy Teigen's okay in their book? She's still getting a lot of love, but apparently this angers hard to tractors. And they think that the new controversy, Chrissy Teigen's been deleting the negative comments from her Instagram because all people are seeing is positive comments. Those of those of you look, they're like this can't be true. No one's saying anything negative about this bitch. Of course
Even the Rich
The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Taylor
"Img thank you so much for joining us today. We're really excited to chat with you. Yeah we're super stoked to get into. Elizabeth taylor's filmography thank you so much for inviting me. I'm i'm eager to have this conversation. Yeah so before we start. Mg can you introduce yourself to our listeners. Who are you what he no well. We only have an hour. That's going to be I guess my official title is. I'm an associate professor In the english department at usc. I've written often on popular culture Actually i started out as newsday's political cartoonist. And in there in one thousand nine hundred four. I published forever barbie the unauthorized biography of a real doll. Which did well in enabled me to leave the newspaper And of course the next woke followed logically from forever barbie. It was a cultural history of nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in a way though it is a book. End to forever barbie because forever. Barbie discussed the mid twentieth century. Construction of femininity more. Recently i wrote the accidental feminists tau elizabeth taylor raised our consciousness and we were too distracted by her beauty to notice. The whole book is the subtitle so How did you become a fan of elizabeth taylor. And what drew you to write about her life and career. Thank you about ten years ago. I was dating someone relentlessly inappropriate and yang and her friends and her friends friends and i ended up in a vacation. House in palm springs or the streets are all named after fifties era movie stars frank sinatra drive and so forth and that first night all we had for entertainment was a boxed. Set elizabeth taylor. Dvd's and we thought we were going to have a you know a long evening of champ. You started watching. And we were amazed not just by the quality of the films and her acting but by the actual content the feminist content movies
John Bachelor
Western U.S. Sizzles Amid Major Heat Wave
"Triple digit heat this weekend 32 million residents from California to Montana under excessive heat alerts. It's hot. It's like you're on fire. Sacramento heading 111 degrees Grand Junction, Colorado, 107. Palm Springs 118 degrees this weekend Death Valley reaching 130 just four degrees shy of the hottest temperature ever reached in the world. ABC's world Car Time is running out for about seven
Bloomberg Surveillance
Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Breaks New Records
"In the Pacific Northwest broke another record yesterday as temperatures sort of well into the triple digits. The heat wave is engulfing the country coast to coast in Palm Springs, California 119 degree heat is being blamed for the death of a 55 year old man in New York City. The National Weather Service is warning of dangerous humidity.
AP News Radio
Heat Wave Grips US West Amid Fear of a New, Hotter Normal
"Scientists say the dangerous heat in the west could become the new normal one hundred fifteen degrees in Phoenix one hundred twenty in palm springs California and it's not over yet the National Weather Service is Bob we're back on the record shattering heat records were observed in parts of South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona and California and Nevada so that you can choose the pretty widespread nature of this heatwave scientists to study drought and climate change say those living in the west may see more of this brutal heat in the future I'm ready to fall late
790 KABC
"palm springs" Discussed on 790 KABC
"Exile from my living room in Palm Springs, California and it's time to open up the state of California for business. Straightaways. The sports desk in Culver City, John the CHP is reporting yet another quote, Road rage shooting this time in the San Fernando Valley on Laurel Canyon Boulevard near the 11 Freeway. Where a man someone in a white sedan shut up, Alexis and that man got shot in the arm had to go to the hospital. And the CHP does not know of any more information about the suspect very similar to the incident that happened two weeks ago where now the reward money is up to $400,000 for information on the killer of six year old Aiden. Okay, Here's what I don't understand. In Southern California. We get around town by driving ourselves in our own cars. Which is something that I find to be highly preferable to sitting on a crowded, smelly bus with a bunch of homeless people talking to themselves or a subway. You would assume that all the rage would be going on the bus is and the subways and if you get to sit in your car and control the temperature and control the music, you would be a little bit happier. But apparently Randy, something went haywire. Yeah, And now people are gonna be paralyzed. Ever honk their horn again, No matter what happens. Which is really good. We're gonna have to teach ourselves how to drive all over again because my favorite thing to do in the car is on the horn. Last thing I need those to get shot at. 802 22 k A. B C is the phone number What 800 25222 as I mentioned before we are live on this holiday this memorial day Monday. We are local. And we've got a big show for you today. Coming up after the news that one doctor Kelly victory will be here to take your Calls your concerns your questions on covert 19 lockdowns all points in between. And it two o'clock. David Horowitz, the man himself is going to be here to talk a little politics with us. And of course, we'll Sprinkle in your phone calls. But first one of the tricks that people use online when they want to say something That's not particularly polite, but they don't want to catch the public blowback for saying it. Is they create these burner accounts. You don't go on Twitter as Randy Wing or as John Phillips, you have an alter ego. Remember when Mitt Romney got caught with his alter ego? Oh, with the French name? Yeah, peered electro or something along the I think that was it. And then Andrew winner got caught with his Burner account, which was Carlos danger, he was doing a little more than trolling with that account. Yeah. No kidding. He was trying to fill up his dance card. And then you mentioned to the news that NBA star Kevin Durant has a pension for doing it is well, Yeah, I don't think he doesn't anymore. But a couple years ago, he got in trouble because he had multiple burner accounts he would use to trash fans that would trash him on his official Twitter account. Which that level of being that big of a star who has time for that. And then Michael Hiltzik with the L A Times also got caught doing the same thing. Where he would write a call on people would trash his columns because they're all idiotic and that he would fight with people as his alter ego and the comments section and defend the brilliance of Michael Hiltzik. The last place any normal person should be is the comments section of the L. A Times website and the absolute last place A reporter should be is the comment section because that devolves into idiocy on the first comment That's right. And Randy. I believe we found yet another case of an individual believing they were on their burner account but accidentally being logged into their real account, and it was a politician in the state of Hawaii. That's correct. What usually happens when this comes out is you think that you're tweeting on your little burner account with some fake screen name and no one's gonna know it's you can't get traced back to you. We accidentally clicked on your regular account. Sometimes you're verified account, and that's what happened to the state senator from Hawaii. Donovan dela Cruz, who is verified on Twitter. Tweeted something that he must have thought was from his burner account to a journalist Tariq Nasheed and the tweet is as follows. Edward. I can't say I'm going to kill you. Bad word I can't say being verified on yelp. Oh, Now. Extra added lair. To all of this is Tariq Nasheed, the journalist that he was tweeting at happens to be black and one of the words that we can't say happens to be the n word. And the state senator for Hawaii won't be in office very long. Yeah, and that state center from white, not a black person. No, no, no, no, no. No. And what's interesting is you Look at who the state senator is following. It's like everyone in the California state Legislature. So I don't know if he's buddies with all of these people, because that would be enought account to follow Assemblyman from California or a state senator from California of You're a legislator in Hawaii. But he seems to be in that click. You know, I actually think it makes a lot of sense. If you remember when we were in the middle of a lock down. A lot of California legislators went on the big vacation to Hawaii. That's right. That one of the what was it PG and hear someone like that paid for it? Yeah, they were out on a junket. Maybe they booked a room with Donovan dela Cruz friends. Yeah. Mm hmm. Edward around them, too. So now, any minute now we're going to see you Go account any minute now we're going to see Donovan Dela Cruz either tweeting. My account was hacked or I have a mental illness problem or admitting that whips Rodica. Have you been checking out the responses to his tweet? It's pretty fantastic. People keep tweeting him pictures of Kramer on stage at the laugh Factory. So many people spend way today. What do you do spend way too much time on social media. Yeah, No kidding. Now, things are starting to get back to normal to one degree or another, including movie theaters being open with new movies. Being put on the screen now, typically when they would open up the theaters even after they were closed down for so many months, you could go to the theater. But who wants to go to the theater and watch the Little Mermaid for the 500 times? But now there's new content and Randy, It looks like things at the movie theater back to normal. Yes, this is a review them in viral of the brand new Disney film crew, Ella, which is a live action prequel. 101 Dalmatians for some reason, and we'd like to read you the reviews. You get a real understanding of what happens in this movie crew, Ella Three stars. Five ladies walked into the showing late and spend a few minutes continually changing their seats and whispering loudly to each other. They finally got settled in and then this kid started making noise. One of the women got up, walked over to the kid and told him to Please shut the bad word. I can't say up. The kid's mom yelled at her and called her a white trash bitch. And then she yelled back and called her fat and then a mixture shouting match broke out like she was feeling my fruit. Uh, thanks does sound very John Phillips ask. They walked out and continued fighting right outside, and at this point half the audience had gotten up to watch them instead of the movie parentheses. I was sitting all the way in the back, so I was able to do both. And then I heard the sound of a Taser The mom taste the other lady. Twice..
Climate Cast
Refurbished Wind Turbine Powers Homes and Learning
"I'm standing underneath a wind. Turbine in chaska minnesota on a windy spring day. I'm npr chief meteorologist. paul hutton. Her this is climate. Cast this wind turbines middle. School educates students about renewable energy and generates electricity for nearby homes. It's operated by the minnesota municipal power agency or m. pa matt quota. Har- sqi is the group's chaska chair or standing under a hundred and sixty kilowatt Wind turbine that was refurbish. Here from palm springs california and one of these resides in each of the twelve member communities. And what does mpa do. So mvp is twelve member counties that basically represent municipal electric Users that we basically get together both to generate our own electricity for all communities or to purchase it off the grid depending on the pricing of one. Electric has a give time. What are you trying to accomplish. So basically our goal is -ccomplish having a very reasonable electric creates our goal is to have power that's cheaper than xl energy As investor owned utility. How is it going deeper. Yep it's going very well. We're on a residential level. We ten in chaska to be about eight to nine percent lower than xl energy. These swishing blades above us help adults and their pocketbooks and offer a learning opportunity for students. Amy feet teaches. Fourth graders at saint. John's lutheran school in chaska. She leads her students on field trips to see renewables action. It's a great opportunity for students to think about how they use energy on a daily basis. We think about what are some ways that maybe we could cut some of our energy use and maybe not us quite as much energy. Our we may be wasting energy. We talk about how our use of energy affects the planet and all the people around us as well and then we also when we get to favorable energy park We they put us through. Maybe we'll ride a bike and we'll try to power entire home and how hard that is when we have lots of different things on in our home versus when we have maybe one thing on or two things on We'll go to a different station where we look at the solar panel. We'll go to a different station where we look at the wind turbine We'll talk about how we use non-renewable energy and also renewable energy the differences in those and how they actually affect us and how they actually affect the world around
AP News Radio
Ex-UAW Leader Gets Nearly 2 Years in Prison for Corruption
"Hi Mike Ross you're reporting an X. U. A. W. leader gets nearly two years in prison for corruption of former president of the United auto workers was sentenced Tuesday to twenty one months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement sixty eight year old Dennis Williams led the way W. from twenty fourteen to twenty eighteen an investigation revealed Williams was part of a scheme that used union dues to finance golf watching and fancy meals according to prosecutors in twenty seventeen Williams turned a three day winter meetings event in palm springs California into a four month stay in a multi year investigation eleven U. A. W. officials and the late official spouse have pleaded guilty since twenty seventeen hi Mike Rossio
AP News Radio
James Levine, who ruled over Met Opera, dead at age 77
"New York Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine has died of natural causes in palm springs California according to his physician Levine was seventy seven I marches are a letter with a look at his career James Levine conducted for the Cleveland Orchestra in Chicago's Ravinia festival but his claim to fame was presiding over the New York metropolitan opera for four decades he conducted two thousand five hundred fifty two performances and built the orchestra's world class reputation he was forced out in twenty sixteen due to Parkinson's disease and became music director emeritus he was fired in twenty eighteen over allegations of sexual misconduct Levine had planned to perform this past January in Italy but the concert was canceled because the corona virus pandemic
Dean Richards' Sunday Morning
Golden Globes 2021: Complete list of nominees
"Let's start off with the major categories. First of all, for best picture. For the Golden Globes. They break it down. Best picture drama and best picture, music or comedy. So let's start off with best picture drama in which the nominees are Nomad Land. This is the amazing movie with Frances McDormand. Who, you know, play. Somebody who's her life is sort of falling apart and she gets in a van and hits the road and lives in RV camps and recreational areas taking on you know little seasonal jobs along the way. It zest a very sweet and very thoughtful, touching movie. I think this is going to be the big winner for tonight. You know People love Frances McDormand. I think that this is gonna have a lot of Lot of success at the Golden Globes tonight. It will be up against the trial of the Chicago Seven, which, if Nomad land doesn't win trial of the Chicago Seven is going to win. This is the Aaron Sorkin. The written and directed production about the famous Chicago seven trial that took place in Chicago 50 years ago. The Carrie Mulligan movie promising young woman Is a revenge thriller, also an outstanding films nominated for tonight and also the Anthony Hopkins movie called The Father. Those air. Your nominees were best Drama for performances in the dramatic category. For actresses. The nominees are Violet Davis on Drew a day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carrie Mulligan. For best actors in the drama. The nominees are Riz Um, Ed Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Hopkins. I think the winners are going to be Frances McDormand and I just I don't know how Chadwick Boseman Doesn't win. He's amazing in the movie Ma Rainey's black bottom. But you know the fact that he passed away the young age and nobody knew that he was fighting cancer. I think that probably is going toe play into the Planted the decision making also for best movie, musical or comedy. The nominees are Boer at subsequent movie film Hamilton. When they put together a television version of Hamilton in the put it on Disney. Plus, this got nominated. The motion picture called Music was nominated, as was the comedy with Andy Sandberg, Palm Springs. And the Ryan Murphy directed production. The prom. Which has Meryl Streep and has just AH, whole variety of very talented actors. That's also nominated for best picture as well. I kind of have a feeling that Borat is going to want to ping the winner tonight in the musical or comedy category. For best actress in a motion picture Maria Buckler Cova, who is placed Borat's daughter in Borat. Subsequent movie film Kate Hudson from music. And, uh, Anya Taylor, Joy dominated for the movie called Emma for best performance by an actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy. Sasha Baron Cohen is nominated James Corden from the prom Lin Manuel Miranda from Hamilton Dev Patel for the personal history of David Copperfield and Andy Sandberg. For Palm Springs again. I think it's going to be a kind of in a reverend pick, but I think Sasha Baron Cohen could wind up being the winner. Now. The Golden Globes also give out
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
Zlatan Ibrahimovic criticizes LeBron James for activist role: 'Do the category that you do'
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The Indicator from Planet Money
Why The Housing Market Is Booming In A Bad Economy
"Glenn kelman has been the ceo of redfin for fifteen years and he says for all that time people looking for a home always put this one thing as their top priority rich poor urban rural people buying homes always had this one big question. What about the commute. The commute to work. Yes it's the old real estate mantra right of time immemorial location location location and most of the time. Those locations were big cities. Were most of the jobs were concentrated and as a result buying home in these cities had become kind of blood sport. The new york real estate market the san francisco real estate market. These were insane markets where there were bidding wars with twenty thirty forty buyers glimpses smaller cities rural areas. Were just a different world. In fact over the last few years housing sales had been a little sluggish and there was a bunch of speculation. About why millennials weren't buying houses. And what was going on. Yeah that has changed. The national association of realtors announced that from may to june just as the covid nineteen crisis was bearing down on businesses and millions of people were losing their jobs pending home. Sales rose more than sixteen percent. That's the biggest monthly rise on record. That is crazy to me because you know like in every five americans is on unemployment like i. It's like blowing my mind that homeownership rates might also be going up or that there's kind of a real estate boom but it sounds like there is well. It's white collar professionals who are able to work from home in some ways. This is a sign that the economy is just officially split in two. You have people who are worried about unemployment benefits running out and at the same time you have other people who are able to work from home and thinking about the home all the time and that's where they want to spend their money. These are the people who are really benefiting now because even if the economy is going through a crisis for them it's not crisis just sale. Glenn says that for the people who were lucky enough to have kept their jobs. A huge number of them are working from home now. And that's changed everything the traffic to listings that are in towns with populations of less than fifty thousand people is up eighty seven percent in other words. It's no longer location location location. It's more like space space space. And glenn says he's also seeing a big migration of people out of big cities like new york l. a. chicago and san francisco to smaller cities. Like palm springs tucson austin grand rapids and nashville and tiny san francisco and new york apartments. That used to have forty people. In a bidding war people have been leaving those places in droves tanya zapata and her husband moved to san francisco about seven years ago at the time they got one of those overpriced apartments in san francisco but a couple of months ago tanya and her husband noticed that a lot of people were moving out of their high rise. I started seeing a lot of people moving out of the building and tiny and her husband started to think maybe they have the right idea and they started looking around on the internet and then one day my husband saw this house and not by which is in the middle of vineyard and and the house is so beautiful because you have been yards all around the house It has space with fruit trees and also Raised beds for for growing your own vegetables. So we were like this is amazing. Go to napa. The house was not cheap. In fact it was about twice the rent that they were paying in san francisco but it had more than three times. The amount of space also their parents could move in with them. They had this big yard and all this land for their daughter to run around. Glenn kelman ceo redfin. He says people are making tania's calculation every day now paying the same amount of money that they're paying city but getting way more space for example he is seeing a lot of requests for extra bedrooms for parents and grandparents and requests for extra rooms for offices and home gyms
The Finer Points - Aviation Podcast
The Hardest NO-GO Decision I've Ever Made: Metal Fatigue in Piper Wing
"Yeah in papers a whole interesting conversation. I can tell you guys need. We can even start there. I made one of the hardest decisions in my life. The hardest no-go decision i've ever made was. We ended up driving the motorhome down here to palm springs which tickets twelve hours. I'm sitting all the way down. I'm thinking i'm a pirate. I gotten here three hours. You know but the only airplane of currently checked out in where we're living in. Grass elliott has that piper and You know there's wing spar issues with the partner. Your official came out the yeah. Yeah that's that's part of the story so but this is before the came out and I've been flying at you. You know. I've been making videos in it. I've been checked out in it. But when i was making the video i was gonna interview the mechanic because i wanted to tell the story that this is no big deal that these spars are dealt with that they're inspected and i assumed that. When i interviewed the mechanic i was gonna get an open and shut case. I figured the mechanic tell me something solid. I would record the mechanic saying that. I could button it up for everybody on youtube and we could move on But that's not what happened in fact what ended up happening is i stopped flying the plane and the reason was because i didn't like what the mechanic told me. I mean. It really did not inspire confidence and i don't know if we got off to a bad start well there so i actually interviewed mechanics. The first one it appears in this was not the one related to the actual era that i was flying. This is somebody at a different airport but also managed piper aircraft. And i just went in. I thought i'd give him a cameo sort of throw a bone and i asked him. Are there any out for the wing. Spars on the piper in the and he didn't know what i was talking about he'd never heard of it and he's been like over issue going. Eighteen eighty seven no wings gonna follow. Yes going on for a long time and for those. That don't know that that the accident that put it on my radar was in two thousand eighteen at embry riddle angry tone of florida. When a commercial candidate and a designated pilot examiner had the wing separate in-flight doing normal one g flight maneuvers. Like touching goes. They weren't doing lazy aides or any steep turns nothing that would load the wing up there just doing touch and goes on the upwind. The wing fell off and they both died. And if you look if you google and start looking at it there are there are versions of the wing spar issue that goes far back as nineteen eighty seven so the first mechanic i interviewed did not know about it and actually he said if there's an ad i would know about it and he went into the system he goes. Oh no here's one. It says you have to inspect it at twenty seven thousand hours. So what he didn't he wasn't putting together and i didn't wanna cruise fine but when he wasn't putting together was the embry riddle crash plane. Had about seventy five hundred dollars on it. So i knew that there was an requiring inspection at twenty seven thousand hours. The issue is here was a two thousand something model airplane two thousand and four two thousand seven. I can't remember it wasn't that old. And here's one. That had seventy five hundred or so hours on it and the wing fell off so clearly. There was a disconnect right. Can't like just a fraction of the allowable time so i just thanked him and i laughed and thought okay. I'm not gonna use that guy. So i went to the actual mechanic that worked on the arrow that i've been flying and i don't know if we got off on a bad foot because i asked him i if i could film it and i think that pissed him off and he's like no pow does so so that's fine. I put the camera down. But then i just said hey i just want to know what you think about the wing spar and he goes what about it and i said well you know. There's been some failure issues. i'm not worried about it. That was his answer. I'm not lying so right so this is not what i wanted to hear. This wasn't going to be like the open and shut case that i was hoping to roll into this video. This was like wait a minute. If you're not like you should have a better attitude than i said. Well is there a d. goes nope there's no well there's not the isn't there something and he goes. Well there's a service bulletin. Which is i said. What's the difference between eighty eight service bulletin. And he says an ad is mandatory compliance service. Bulletin is a recommended procedure. And i said did you do the service boat and he goes. Nope and i was like so. You didn't do the service bullet he goes. Nope and i was like why not he goes. Because i'm not worried about it so these are not answers that like inspire confidence right and so i went and looked over the airplane logs. I just poured over the airplane logs and they had eight thousand hours on the airframe which is five hundred more than the aircraft at embry riddle. So i'm sitting here thinking about a logical perspective. Because i didn't like the answer. I got and then i asked i so. I called the mechanics of san carlos slate center who i know and trust and they said no. You guys should be doing that. He's said that that's not that's not. Okay he should have done the service bulletin and they should look at it every annual so i asked the owner of the flying club and i said hey what are you guys do the annual look we look at it every annual we get in there. We inspect it but what he wasn't connecting. Was the failure happened. There was a crack at a point. That's not visible not visible during an annual inspection so inside where the yeah the only way to get to that component is to take the wings off and that's a whole process and i'm sure it's expensive and not fun to do. But he him telling his way to check it without that if if you look at ad they don't recommend remove their now require the removed. Wayne's there is a check that you can do without ruining the ways that will determine if it's At risk interesting. Let's let's talk about that in a second but the wrap up of the story is i thought about it and i actually was about to go get in the airplane to fly back to the bay area to do a lesson with joe i was gonna film the commute to make it a youtube video for last week saying this is how i commute in an airplane and i was gonna use it to take my family to palm springs right after all that happened so if i decide to make this decision. It's like if i decide that this airplanes not safe for me to fly. Based on what. I've just heard from ali people. I'm going to have to call joe and cancelled last minute. I'm going to torpedo the youtube video. And i'm gonna end up driving twelve hours in the motor home with the kids to get to palm springs but you know after talking it over with my wife and she goes. What was her comment. This was the was sealed it for me. She goes she goes. If something happens you can deal with it right. And i said no you're not getting it then wing falls off like it's not because you're dealing with this this is like you're a lawn dart you know and just imagining putting the kids in the back putting my wife in there just imagining anything like that where to possibly happen for me. It was like it was just a no-go so anyway really tough call. I even called flake chops to haven't talked me off a wall. I called the guys on my content team. And i was like did i make the right decision. This is stupid and then two days after we got here to palm springs the faa issued an airworthiness directive. That says. everybody has to do what. We're gonna talk about here. Second so i felt really justified at that point really thankfully at least there's an ad the guys on my team texted me and said it looks like your decision making was okay. You know and i felt really good about having made that decision
WSJ What's News
Southwest Airlines Pushes to Expand Amid Pandemic Pressures
"The pandemic has devastated demand for air travel in response. Many airlines have pulled back offering fewer flights cutting jobs and rewriting the route maps yet. During all of this upheaval one carrier stands out. Southwest airlines is taking aggressive steps to expand. It's a high stakes gamble but southwest is betting. It'll help the company emerged from the pandemic stronger than before. Let's take a look at the company. Strategy and wide sky competitor's talking with the journals ala's insider who covers the airline industry for us. Hi allison it's always good to have you here. Thanks for having me so. Allison we should be clear. Southwest is facing plenty of struggles revenue in the third. Quarter is down. It's burning cash and it still dealing with the seven. Three seven max which won't return to service for a while yet but at the same time it's adding cities like palm springs. California steamboat springs colorado. It's also moving into big airports like chicago. O'hare is well. how can this be. yes definitely. there's no airline that has really escaped. The devastating impact of the pandemic and south west is no exception on track to lose money this year. You know really for the first time in in other breaking a forty seven year streak. It's a huge deal for the company. And they're talking about and seriously considering furloughs also for the first time in their history so you know. This is really unprecedented for them. But the strategy of being opportunistic a downturn. That's not that's not unusual for them. That's something they've done time and again in the past in sort of how they've grown throughout their history so in some ways it's it's not surprising to see them doing that again. Okay let's get into specifics. What's the strategy. What opportunity does southwest see here how they explained it was that the way their network is now. They have multiple flights day all of these cities. And that's been you know offering. That kind of schedule is sort of a big advantage for them but now that demand is down so much they just don't need to be offering five six seven flights a day in some of these places so they it means they have extra planes in extra people they need to deploy somewhere else so they sort of looked all over the country in thought like work and we really quickly move. That would kind of help bring in revenue right away for us. And that's how they picked some of these new cities as you mentioned. Southwest may break its profitability streak yet. It does have a lot of things working in its favor. It has less debt and lower costs compared to its rivals southwest. It's hard to say. Any airline is well positioned right now but southwest came into this crisis with a lot of advantages and they had a lot less debt than some of their biggest rivals so even though they've taken on a lot of debt during the pandemic they still they still have more cash than debt which is pretty rare position to be in for an and that's something that sort of gives them a little bit of a cushion and a little bit of flexibility to try things or the rivals like spirit and allegiant watching they offer low fares and find opportunities at empty your airports and is this. A big risk for south west. I was definitely watching. United executive sort of said at o'hare you know. They said we have the high grounds and they're not too worried from from what they said. But you know there are so few people traveling right now in the recovery expected to be so rocky. I i really think airlines are just competing over every passenger one. Great example of that is how the big airlines like united and american delta. Have done away with cheney's or most domestic changes. Anyway you know. That was a huge selling point for south west for years. So that's something that's going to make the competition even more heated. So what could that mean for travelers more options more competitive fares. Yes i mean over the course of its history. Southwest going into a market often brought fares down significantly and sort of got new people brought new people into traveling and something that the department of transportation once called the southwest effect. So i always tends to increase competition and bring down fares when a new entrant jumps into a market alison insider covers the airline industry for the wall street journal. Allison thanks so
Jason and Alexis
It's official: Clare Crawley exits The Bachelorette — and gets engaged!
"That Claire Crawley walked away into the sunset with her choice, Dale Moss in the middle of the bachelorette season. This has never happened before. This is 1/16 season of the Bachelorette because she fell in love in the middle of the season, she thought it was not worth the other guy's time. To waste their time. She's like I already know who I want. We are into each other, and we are going to be together until the day we die. Like all bachelor and bachelorette contestants are no. But she left the show very unprecedented. And so they brought in a new bachelorette. Her name is Tasha. Adams. She is a flat bottom miss and she, which means she takes people's blood. If you don't know that she's a nurse, and so the guys were braced for her entrance. He was a little bit concerned about blindsiding the suitors, Claire's former suitors, and she said, I just know that this process moves very quickly and you start to invest a lot of feelings Early on. I don't know if that's the case for some of them. On def, So I'm more than happy to have that conversation with them, and if they don't feel like this is the right time for them, or I'm not right for them. They can walk away at this point. She's not going to get her feelings hurt. S so you know, that's that's good of her. She is absolutely gorgeous. I think this is going to be great. In August, she was seen in Palm Springs wearing a teal bikini. And then there was a teaser for Theo episode that she was in season and bikinis a lot basically. It's like when they show the bachelors coming out of the pool or showering. It's like OK, thank you. We know they shower. Ah, and so there's was a to be continued at the end of the show. Next week's Caesar promised. Possible cases of cold feet of some of the guys walking away from this, plus some more answers from Claire and Dale. So they're gonna have a portion of the show. That's like, all right. Well, how did this happen? How did you you know, because there was also talk that during the pandemic when they had to stop filming that they were still in contact with each other. So that's sort of how their relationship blossomed. And, Yeah, I mean, I give a tour. You know why drag it out? If you know you're going to pick and well, she is getting a lot of hate. Oh, it's like this is real life. It's not just a TV show, you know. She
The CheapWineFinder Podcast
Trader Joes Napa Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 Review
"And cheap wine fighter.com coming again with a kind of a fun one. Well, at least it was fun like adults playing until off the fires and Napa Valley half and all the tragedy and people lost their lives and grape Vineyards that have burned and raped Wineries and people lost their life's work off. But rather to be a downer when I dressed wine, this one is called the Trader Joe's Platinum Reserve Cabernet, Sauvignon, Oakville, Napa Valley 2018 lot 97 There have been a couple of bumper crops in Napa Valley Sonoma that area so there was Surplus and then the covid-19 off but these are wines and so to restaurants and for parties and none of that's going on right now. So there was a trip plus and there was going to be a great many wines that were going to be a prices. They usually never AR CNET and Trader Joe's was starting to show this was a velour the Palm Spring Mountain at Atlas Peak and there might be another one all Napa some Indian from a high-end subdivision small places. I think the Oak Grove that's where Screaming Eagle is front Screaming Eagles when it was 100 Point perfect lines themselves in the thousands of dollars and I figured out I'm going to have a 1490. I have one that off. Ghost videos of Vineyard within two miles of that place or or something like that. I don't know where the vineyard is. They don't tell you that when you're paying $49 for high-end. Well, I'll tell you about you all the details, you know with Cooperage what force the old came from who's arrived start with winemaker the history of the winery all and for the price of these things and when you don't offer you get cheaper, so I don't know if there's still going to be a a glut is just the last gasps Trader Joe's were you want to run out and find these small production wines? I think there was a little bit less than five thousand cases. There's twelve thousand twelve bottles off the case for each of these but which you know is a lot of wine, especially when it's a nationwide distribution. So, you know on a Thursday Supposed to go to continue there's resorting lions and in the works that are coming our way out of cheap price, but you know a lot of that, you know a big deal any more with the fires are happening there and you'll see the devastation and I know you know people lost their lives people of lost history things. They worked on forever. You know, I just saw a man who had 100,000 bottles in one of his buildings in the building burned burned out. It's just, you know, it's crazy drink to him. I'm going to do that. So I don't know if this is gonna be the last of the cheap wines from Napa Valley. They're coming up or what? But they're good the 1499. There's over those got a nose that is worth you just smelling it all the different Roma's going on in there is worth forty nine thousand. I mean you don't get that and just regular then there is a reason why these Appalachians are famous and this is a 2018. It's not a young age worthy. Why that's drink it now. Maybe you could put it away for a couple of years if you want to you know, but it doesn't need to you can drink it right now, but it tastes great. It's got a lot of flavor. It's got its Sleek doesn't have a lot of Weights medium weight on the palate. It's liquid has a ton of flavor. It's you know, it's just kind of flows money's nice deal II 1499. It kicks butt Trader Joe's says that it's if it were a retail branded. Did you have an air brand on it? What's so for about $30 and $30 Napa cabs are starting to really ride, you know that when it starts getting more expensive a lot of that is because of its more often. It's it's rarer line mean, there's not enough to go around you gotta pay to get them but you really hitting some really good wines when you get dirty on the upper end or you can go higher the 13 get you some good one. And and this