The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Two cousins, Maria and Leslie, discussing wild personal experiences in relationships, current events, and just life. We are sharing our experiences for relatability and entertainment. There will be laughs with a lot of gasps and we will also get down to the very intimate and raw details of the dating world and life lessons at every turning point.
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The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Thingz to do, places to Go!
Who knew podcasting could be such a rollercoaster? From tech fails to the endless grind of editing, we’re here to spill all the tea. We’ll chat about our dream studio, laugh about weird work dreams, and even share how we juggle personal lives with podcasting. Oh, and did we mention how hyped we are for the latest Deadpool movie?
Summer is here, and we're here to guide you to make the most of it! We’re diving into our favorite movie theaters and we're raving about summer hotspots like the OC Fair and the 626 Night Market!
Love breweries and food trucks? So do we! From pet-friendly nights at Angel City Brewery to the family-friendly vibe at Brewery X, we've got the lowdown on the best spots. We'll also discuss the Anaheim Packing District and Venice’s First Fridays. If you’re into outdoor adventures, we’ve got hiking trails and charming eateries covered. Tune in, relax, and join us on this journey of summer fun and valuable insights.
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Hi everyone, welcome to Cousins, honestly, openly Discussing Everything Spicy.
Speaker 2:No, that one didn't go out. We stopped recording for a week and they forget everything. Honestly, y'all this is hard.
Speaker 1:It is, is, and I'm like technologically challenged, and maria is so patient with me with pictures and diagrams, I still don't get it well you know, I should have been a kindergarten teacher.
Speaker 2:No, hell, no, I would be in jail, probably low-key, like disrespecting me, but anyways. No, because the girl at work tells me that too. She's like oh, you're so patient with me. She tells me all the time.
Speaker 1:She's like I can tell that I frustrate you and I'm like no no, you're, you're okay you don't show it, but I'm like fuck, I'm frustrated with myself.
Speaker 2:I'm over here like no, but it's weird though, because, like when we send each other videos of what is going on um, it looks different on both of our ends. So it's technology, girl. It's fine, we'll get it down eventually.
Speaker 1:We're only 20 episodes in only it feels like 50 really, only 20 only 20 I, but only 20 is like girl.
Speaker 2:We're on the 20th episode, like in February when we recorded the first one. Did you think we were going to get this far?
Speaker 1:Honestly, no, after the fifth one, we would have tapped out. Well, I would have tapped out.
Speaker 2:I see a lot of forums where people are talking about podcasting and they're like, oh, I have three shows going on at the same time. I'm like how the fuck do you not work? Do you not do anything else with your life? Because right, this takes what like an hour or more it takes like an hour to record and then it takes like five to six hours to edit and then it takes another like hour to post and then to figure out like the captions and the title and the posting on instagram.
Speaker 1:It's like a whole day, girl, like just for one episode all combined yeah, yeah, if you guys want to start a podcast, don't do it, that's okay well we'll still listen. We'll still listen. I like the tea.
Speaker 2:Don't discourage people invite them to come on our podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, You'll have to give us your email and then we'll have to set up a date and a time and plan it accordingly. Call you, make sure you have everything, or you can come over to one of our houses Either, or, if we, know you on a personal level.
Speaker 2:Eventually, we're going to have a studio and then everything's going to be different. Manifesting my dream life, I see that. On this August. Like I'm all about manifesting girl, like I'm like, oh, I have this, I have that, you know, because that's how you're supposed to do it. You're supposed to say I have it already, not I want or I'm gonna. No. You're supposed to say I have. So technically, we have a studio already. That's what we're supposed to say. We have a studio.
Speaker 1:Yes, anyway, and we have money. Lots of money. Good, right now it's just the hottest day in the world.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that too dude, like we're recording at night, imagine we were recording at midnight, not at midnight, at midday, almost like midnight.
Speaker 1:I was like girl we can barely stay awake. But right, look, I'm just gonna say, when you get to a certain age, look, I'm just gonna say you're passing lines right now.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding girl, I'm literally right there like I got invited out and I was like, um, yeah, I don't know, maybe next week I'm free after five. From five to six thirty after that is a no you're like no, but me, I've been having these.
Speaker 1:Uh, I've been taking naps and I've been having these weird, weird dreams. Today I had another one where I kicked some girl's ass at work and I got suspended. For those of you that work with me, it was none of y'all, it was someone from a different department, which I don't even know the person. But I was like what the heck, how did that come about? But yeah, I threw down.
Speaker 2:But I woke up like oh, no, no, we don't want to get fired right now.
Speaker 1:Right, not the time. No, I feel like everybody's just staying afloat.
Speaker 2:Do you think, like everybody's like that right now?
Speaker 1:Yes, I applied to transfer internally within my company, so hopefully something comes about. I'm putting out that I am going to transfer. Let's put it that way. So yeah good vibes, good vibes, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. All right, so Deadpool, are we going to talk about Deadpool and how freaking awesome it was?
Speaker 2:I was literally just going to tell you that the only thing keeping me afloat every damn day right now it's been that freaking movie like I go on instagram, go on facebook, go on tiktok, like everywhere. It's just a stupid dance. It's not stupid, it's the fucking greatest dance ball, like the greatest opening scene.
Speaker 1:I know and I'm just like yes, this is what life is about I mean, I'm not a full on comic nerd, but I'm a nerd for it. I love Marvel and this was great, didn't disappoint. I love that all my mans were in it. Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2:We have so much to thank him for because, girl, I was at the movie theater and I was just jaw dropping moment after jaw dropping moment so I was like, oh, dropping moment after jaw dropping moment, so I was like, oh, yes, the offense was real.
Speaker 1:Ladies, if you need to go see a movie, if your man wants to go see it, I suggest you go for it, just for the plot. There's many plots.
Speaker 2:I've seen so many comments where girls are saying like Ryan Reynolds did this movie for the girlies because it's it's a superhero movie, but he turned Deadpool into like a Disney princess for fucking real he did uh huh, cause the dog and everything, dude. That scene was disgustingly funny.
Speaker 1:Like I think Hugh Jackson's face in that scene is just like everyone's face in the audience like what the fuck did you really do that anyway?
Speaker 2:spoiler alert well, at this point, that's part of the previews. We're not spoiling anything but like. If you have social media, you've got you already got super spoiled and it's on you for not seeing it on opening weekend. What the fuck, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:honestly, fucking up, speaking of spoiler alert for my nerds, my other nerds house of dragons. I know you're not watching it, mariah, but I fucking am living every week to get to sunday so I can watch this damn show and then this sunday is the last episode. So by the time our podcast episode airs it will already have passed and I'm I'm to be sad and waiting for two years for this damn new season to come out. But I'm so excited. But apparently, good thing I don't have TikTok, but TikTok released the final episode.
Speaker 2:Really I have not seen any of that, maybe because I'm not a fan. It's not that I'm not a fan, it's just I haven't seen the show. But I did the same thing with Game of Thrones, remember. I watched literally all the seasons before the last one came out, and I watched it all together Because I would not have been able to live with myself if I was, like y'all, waiting two years to know if Jon Snow died or not.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking bitch. Let me tell you that it's a fucking bitch. Let me tell you that it's a fucking bitch. But I mean for all of us who get enthusiastic about our shows and our movies. Oh my God, Just give it a shot, I'll watch it.
Speaker 2:I actually started watching the first episode the other day, but I fell asleep. Girl, again, we come back to the age thing. I started watching it at 8.30. Fell asleep within the first five seconds of it, not five minutes of it. So it like at 8 30, fell asleep within the first five seconds of it, not five minutes of it. So I was like okay, now I have to go back and re-watch it.
Speaker 2:But now that you're telling me that this sunday is the last episode, now I'm more inclined to watch it next week, because you don't have to wait, yeah, all together, yeah I don't know, like me waiting every sunday.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love looking forward to sundays because I'm like oh, okay, at six o'clock I'm gonna to have a nice little dinner, I'm going to have a drink, I'm going to watch my show and I'm just going to stay there with my eyes glued to the TV for a damn hour. But I'm going to be happy and I'm going to pretend that I have a dragon myself and I'm going to fuck someone up.
Speaker 2:What would you name your dragon, if you?
Speaker 1:had one, I don't know that's a good one. Mariah Carey, just kidding who.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, the picture I sent you last night, the one that I said. I thought this was. Angela Aguilar. She responded, that's all she responded.
Speaker 1:But I was living girl. I know I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 2:I like that question, but I can't come up with an answer in typical um corporate world, I'm gonna say we'll circle back to that one okay, thank you, oh my god. Well, speaking of Deadpool and where to go see it, I went to go see it at the Regal Cinemas and I got the coolest cup that we could possibly get. Where did you go?
Speaker 1:I went to a Regency, and I went to one by my house. It's not a Regency, the one by my house, it's a I don't know what. It's called Starlight. I think it's Starlight.
Speaker 2:Oh, Starlight cinemas are not bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they're not bad and the prices are okay by me. You know I'm not saying a lot, but the broke girl problems. But I heard amc had little mugs and stuff and I think that would have been cool to get each.
Speaker 2:Each theater had different merch uh, but they ran out of it quick, oh.
Speaker 1:I'm sure stupid resellers.
Speaker 2:I know I hate them they need a stop right. How do you even stop that you?
Speaker 1:can't girl you can't it's like when you go to the supermarket.
Speaker 2:Well, this is pandemic all over again.
Speaker 1:When the toilet paper even when you put a limit to stuff, they still find a loophole, like, oh well, I'm getting it. Yeah, because they take the whole, they'll go back in line, and then each person, um, buys like.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm telling you. It's like pandemic all over again, because I remember in the pandemic I would see people in line and it was like a whole ass family and each person would buy like a a package of toilet paper. It's the same shit at the movie theaters, but anyway, um, do you have a favorite mom? I guess the one by your house would be home, because I have one. My favorite movie theater to go to is the cinemark and downy, I feel like they have good food, good merch, they have drinks. You can order food to your, to your seat, which you know your cousin does, because I'm lazy as fuck and I don't like to complicate my life.
Speaker 1:I guess my favorite theater would be. There's one in LA. I think it is a Starlight too, I don't know. It has like a very like a crystallized dome. It's pretty, it's very elaborate and you can also order and they'll take it to your seat, so I like that one. There's also an AMC on Fullerton. They also do the dine and get it delivered to your seat, and they have good drinks. The bartenders are super, super nice, so I like that one.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's still there or if it's closed Because I didn't know about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that one was nice. But now that we're on the subject places to go we said we're going to talk about giving you guys some little advice on places to go for the summer and now that I know that summer is almost over, but if y'all still have time, the oc fair over here is still going on. It's in the costa mesa fairgrounds and I didn't hear much noise about it this year. I personally didn't go. I've gone in the past years and to me it's just like it's very expensive, Like at that point I'd rather go to a theme park and I mean, if I go, it's just for the food and the food's already expensive, really you think the food is good.
Speaker 1:Some of it Like. Some of it is intriguing, like deep fried Oreos, where you think like you didn't need that shit and you go get it.
Speaker 2:Fresh baked cookies, I guess for me, if I think about that type of food, like I would say, the 626 Night Market In is it Arcadia market and is it arcadia? Well, I'm sure if you look for it on instagram. The six to six night market has a lot of deep fried food. They have like uh, octopus and chicken legs and fried chicken and they have a lot of food and the drinks. Like they have a lot of boba and a lot of vendors and they have games.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they have like um uh live show and I feel like, because that's going on, like why go to the fair? But I mean, the fair is there and I'm sure, like if you have kids, they'll want to go because all their friends are going. So that's one.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. I think like they're similar the 66 Night Market and the OC Fair. I've never been to the LA County Fair. I've only been to the OC Fair with you once.
Speaker 1:That was years ago, oh yeah, I was like when, and then I was like, yeah, I have the receipt of that. Oh my gosh, oh yeah, girl, yeah, yeah, you see yeah, no, exactly when you think of that, you're like oh shoot, I have a receipt. Oh, we thought it was cute to go take a picture with a damn pig. It was not a cute idea.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of pictures that we have that at the moment we think is a good idea, like the one that we're like.
Speaker 1:Why did we? We like self-sabotaged.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the one at the freaking high roller Girl. I saw that picture the other day. I was like what were we thinking?
Speaker 1:We paid money to look like shit. That's crazy. And we posed like shit. That was on us. Yeah, that was on us.
Speaker 2:But it was because we did Okay. So like the backstory to that picture the high roller picture we did the unlimited drinks at the high roller. It was for summer too.
Speaker 1:For 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was 30 minutes and we got there super late, like they were about to close, so we got a whole bartender just for ourselves and this guy was giving us all kinds of drinks and they were like, oh, try this. We don't know what we drank because we were just like surprises, um. And so we got really, really, really, really drunk and then the air hit us so we didn't know what the fuck we did with our money the next day.
Speaker 1:We were like I was like I'm missing 20 dollars yeah, we were both tripping out that we lost 20 dollars and it's like, oh, we find this cute little picture where we look so messed up because we're so gone and we're like, looking at the receipt, that's where our 40 went, because she's missing 20, I'm missing 20, there goes 40. Dang, don't buy the picture, y'all. It wasn't even nicely framed.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's another recommendation do do vegas for summer. The pool parties are cool find groupons, find group.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's what we did.
Speaker 2:We? We paid, like I think, was it 80 for both of us for 30 minutes of unlimited drinking, a drink at the bar, and yeah, that's what it was a drink at the bar and then unlimited open bar on the high roller.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for 30 minutes and it was 70, so 35 per person.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I suggest you guys go when it's about to close so that you do get one to yourself, because usually people go when it's like hey, you know, and then you get stuck with random people. I mean, well, if you want to socialize, but if you don't want to socialize, you don't want to socialize?
Speaker 2:Because I went once with my friends, like for, I think, father's Day weekend and it was like it was already like 10 of us and then there was a lot of people in there and so the bartender was busy, so the 30 minutes go by quick and then they told us that we had to finish the drink to be able to get another drink.
Speaker 1:so yeah, so the luck that we had no.
Speaker 2:But there was a girl in my group that she wasn't drinking, um. So I said here, girl, hold my drink. And so she was holding my drinks while I was going to get more, and then I couldn't hold my drink, so now it came out of it, so I had one in my boobs and one in each hand. You know, the girls hold a lot of things.
Speaker 2:Um, for me I would say well, depending on your area, I'm in the la area I think the nights in little tokyo are pretty cool because the bars you can sit outside, you can go um to like all of the arts district. They have events at the angel city brewery. They have a lot of summer events during the week. They have events during the weekends. You can go on their website and you can check. They have nights where you can bring your pets. They have nights where you can build terraniums and do the sip and paint. They don't do it year-round. What else? What's another place for you?
Speaker 1:you around, what else? What's another place for you? So over here in the oc, I don't know, I'm gonna give this place ah fuck, I'll give it a 7 out of 10. Okay, only because I'll get to the point where I. Only because. But it's called brewery x and if you're from the OC, we all know where the fuck Brewery X is.
Speaker 1:That's like the main hangout spot now. And here's the downfall for it. It's all ages girl. So people bring their damn kids I'm sorry, no offense to those that have kids and, you know, need a night out and they want to take their kids and, you know, need a night out and they want to take their kids. As a person who doesn't have kids and would like to have, just you know, a girl's night or a hangout with friends, I don't want to have to trip or spill a drink on a five-year-old that's doing cartwheels in the fucking open space. So that's the downfall for it.
Speaker 1:But but other than that, they have great food. They have these little food trucks. They offer, like pokey quesadillas pizza. Their pizza is so amazing 30 bucks for a pizza, but I mean it's good and you can share it. So if you get a good group and everyone pitches in, it's going to be nice. Um, the slices are huge. The pizza is so good, though, um the drinks. I think that's why a lot of people go, because the drinks are phenomenal. They have spritz, they have um their beer, their regular beer, and I like the. It looks, I don't know if I don't know what it's called, but it tastes like a cactus cooler. So that's the popular one. There's also a blue one. I can't think of these names, but yeah they're really good.
Speaker 2:I just go there and be like, give me the blue drink. I'm sure they know Because I've seen people Like like when I go to the Angel City Brewery, they have a beer that tastes like coffee. And I go there not as often anymore, but I've been going for years and I cannot, for the life of me, remember the name of the beer and so I'm always like you know the beer that tastes like coffee. And they didn't tell me the name and I'm like, yeah, yeah, that one yeah, they already know yeah the whole, bring your kid right, I'm like, uh, I don't know how I feel about it.
Speaker 2:I do the horrible, because why? Like, if you're gonna go out with your kids. I get it, but I don't know, go to an applebee's where you can drink and eat, and no, not even don't ruin, not ruin other people's meals, I don't know. I think I'm a firm believer that they should have family places that are like kind of like adultish, you know. So the parents don't feel like they're only parents, but also I don't know.
Speaker 1:But you know what I mean, right okay, so the name of the drink, I think think, is the Baja Sipper, I think.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a blue drink.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. But I also get the Jungle Juice and it's a seltzer. It has 10% Ooh and I like to look at the alcohol percentage. So I love them for putting it out there.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because you're trying to get fucked up, girl. I love doing for putting it out there. Well, yeah, because you're trying to get fucked up, girl, I love doing that too. Like my beers when I go out. I remember I used to go out with my ex-bestie and I like hard, like not hard beers, the high alcohol level beers, Like IPAs and stuff, Like the dark beers. And every time that they would give us the beer, they would give me the dark beers. And every time that they would give us, every time that they would give us a beer, they would give me the light one and they would give him the dark one. And I'd be like, no, I'm not a pussy, I don't like his water.
Speaker 1:Exactly, that's what light beer to me is, but that's one place here, the Anaheim Packing District.
Speaker 2:I think it's done, it's overplayed, it's too crowded well for you, maybe because you live in that area, but I had never heard of it until last year and I went and I thought it was pretty cool. So people was it crowded a little bit, yeah, yeah, but I mean the food was good. I had a grilled cheese sandwich and a tomato soup and and it was.
Speaker 1:It was so good, um, but see like this to me it's the parking, for me it's the parking oh yeah, well, the guy that I went with because I went on a date he paid for.
Speaker 2:He paid for um valet. So I was like, okay, cool, so we didn't have to struggle with that. But I mean it's still a cool place to mention because I had never heard of it. Like until he told me about it I had never heard of it. But that's cool. If you're in the Venice area, they have the First Fridays at Venice, which is like what is this road called? The one from the Beatles? You know which one?
Speaker 1:No, oh my God, is this road called the one from the?
Speaker 2:beatles. You know which one? The? No, oh, my god, dude, I freaking, we're having brain farts, yeah, yeah. Well, the first fridays at venice is basically um, where all these food trucks gather abba kenny road. First fridays on abba kenny road. So if you go, like you have to find parking a little far away and you have to walk, but like it's basically streets and streets and streets of food trucks, bomb-ass food. Every place you go they have like really good food. It's a little pricey, but I mean technically it's free. And then, like at the end you get to the beach. If you want to like see, see some bumps or whatever, yeah, I recommend the food there. If you want to go, you just Google first Fridays on Abba Kinney road okay.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm trying to think of another spot, because our beaches low-key, suck. I'm just gonna say it. Yeah, they're dirty and you don't want to go the water's cold yeah, we might as well, we might as well be the sien river no, apparently it's clean enough to swim in now.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I saw some girl on tiktok.
Speaker 2:I saw some girl, listen girl. I saw this video on tiktok and like I think collectively the whole internet, was like what the fuck did you just do? She went to paris and she was like, oh, like wake up with me, like get ready with me to like go on whatever day. You know those fucking videos right that are like super popular and she goes and basically takes like a like a dip in the fucking river in a random ass fucking area, not even like where the olympic games are happening, which I don't even know. All water is fucking dirty in that place and she like goes in and then she washes her face and she takes a sip from the water. Girl, and I was like what, who are your parents? And why didn't they educate you that you don't fucking do this in a sewer? Because that's what it is girl like, oh, you know that's so gross it was so disgusting oh, that's the comments, all the comments.
Speaker 1:Girl no, you didn't see that I got and one of the olymp, the Olympic guys that was supposed to swim in there, he threw up because he didn't want to swim in there. That's how bad he put. He projected vomit on live TV.
Speaker 2:Honestly understand, because we were there, girl. We were there in the picture that, the pictures that we took at the Lemari neighborhood or whatever. Those are my favorite pictures because it looks fucking beautiful, like I'm going to post the picture that I took because I'm a great photographer, but no, I can smell that picture. Every time I see it I'm like, damn, that's so fucking beautiful, but I can smell that shit Like it was disgusting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you can also go to Paris for the summer. Not right now, though, though. Wait till the olympics are over, because right now, don't go to europe right now, because, apparently, all of europe is under construction. Did you see? The rome is under construction because of some yes, christian stuff that are happening with the churches, damn girl Easter want to be Easter girl.
Speaker 2:It's not, it's a festival for, kind of like the Twilight movie. You know how in the Twilight movie, when she goes to save Edward in Italy, there's a festival going on. It's something like that, but I can't remember the name of it because we don't know the names of anything. Guys like again, this is not an educational podcast like that. We're gonna give you clues, like blues clues.
Speaker 2:You go find the actual blues clues um, another thing I wanted to talk about was the dance downtown LA at the music center. So this is a free event, that that's this much I can tell you. So you go to the, I think, the the music center at LA. It's free parking. You can bring a table, you can bring a cooler, you can bring food, um, you can bring chairs. They have like a sitting area but it gets super packed.
Speaker 2:But it's the dance nights at the music center. It's every friday, and each friday they have different types of music. So today, today friday, it was samba night from 7 to 11. Next weekend is gonna be uh, let me see what is gonna be next week. What did what date? Even so, august 9th is going to be hip-hop night and then august 16th is going to be disco night. So you can go dressed up like in disco attire and it's it's really fun. I've been, I've been to the salsa night, I've been to the reggaeton night, uh, I've been to a lot of them and it gets really fun because it's like, um, like in the center, everybody's dancing and they have like important people from the dancing community and they teach you kind of like these little choreographies. I think you would really enjoy that, actually because you know how to follow choreographies.
Speaker 1:Oh girl, Back in the day.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I think that's a fun event too if you're in the LA area.
Speaker 1:Like when I used to do Zumba. Fuck that.
Speaker 2:Those days Remember.
Speaker 1:No, but remember I used to go like every Wednesday. That sucks my past life. Yeah, I used to go every Wednesday.
Speaker 2:You used to go every Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Yes, I used to go every Wednesday with my friend.
Speaker 2:I used to go with my mom, but I have never been able to follow a choreography in my entire life.
Speaker 1:You're like going the opposite way. You're the left shark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's because I don't have coordination, girl, even with walking, my brother calls me an idiot because he says that I can't walk in a straight line.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know what I'll vouch for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. You're always like la-da-da-da-da. Yeah, because yeah, that's true, you're always like, yeah, because I'm always in my own little world. I'm like, and I'd be tripping on nothing to be challenged. But yeah, do you have any other places you'd like to plug in? Is there more breweries around your area?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, balance point people go to balance point. Yeah, that one's cute. And also, um, uh, what is that called? The pike in long beach? They have, um, the boats, the booze boats that you can take and if you get a good group, um, you guys can rent a boat for a couple hours and go drink I love going to the pike.
Speaker 2:The pike is fun. There's a lot of things to do there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a little shopping center. Then there's the aquarium.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I 100%. Would prefer to go to what is it called to the pike than going to Santa Monica. Like, santa Monica to me is just a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1:What beach did we go? Hermosa Beach?
Speaker 2:No, we went to the redondo beach pier last last year with our parent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that place is cute for a cute little stroll.
Speaker 1:Um just park and go to the little shopping center get a little ice cream yeah, the parking wasn't bad either, hi, it was like two dollars every I don't know how long every hour yeah, and if, for my adventurers, hiking um peter's canyon is always a must, but there is an incline where, if you're not trained or whatever you can be like, but I like it, um, I've done that one. It's just really hot, so wear a good hat, wear sunscreen. Um, there's also, mm-hmm, there's also top of the world in Laguna, and I mean, if you put it on your phone or on google maps or whatever, you'll find it. That one I like. It has different levels, um, depending on what you want.
Speaker 1:If you want easy trail, if you want medium trail, if you want hard trail. They have all that and they have little maps throughout the path so that you can either switch up. So like, say, if you start on the easy one, there are connections to get to the medium one or to the hard one. So it's pretty cool and there's like an abandoned car, there's a lot of wildlife, there's even a trail that leads up to the ocean, so it's pretty cool there's one like that in, uh, palos verdes.
Speaker 2:If you're in that area, there's this place called avalon, avalon cove park and it's also a hiking trail. Um, it's I wouldn't say like. To me it looks kind of like a cliff, but there are areas where you can go down to the beach and I mean, if you're into getting in the water and stuff you can. You can bring dogs, which I know a lot of people are, you know all about their pets. And also, close by there there is a oh my God, a. It's a restaurant. I'm pretty sure the people have heard about it. It's called yellow face in malaga, malaga cove plaza and palos verdes. Do the paninis there, the tomato soup, the grilled cheese, everything that we got at that place was 10 out of 10, amazing yeah, it's like this little european looking um restaurant.
Speaker 2:When we got back from europe like I wanted to take my best friend somewhere kind of european and they have a, they have a fountain of like mermaids touching their boobs and I was like oh, I identify with this let's go there you're like this is me yeah it's a cute little photo up. It's a cool hike, it's good food. You know like it's all close to each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's all I can think of.
Speaker 2:Girl, like I can think of a lot of places, not necessarily summer activities, like if you're also in LA, like, go to the Grand Central Market. A lot of people don't know about it. It's one of the oldest places in downtown LA. They do have parking I can't remember how much it is, but the food 100% guaranteed is good. They have a golden road brewery there too. It's right next to la cita bar. So if you want to go eat, have a little drink at the brewery and then go dancing at la cita la cita is also one of the oldest bars. They play all kinds of music but, like, for the people who are like more into the latin scene, like the reggaeton, like you know, like music in spanish uh, to actually dance, that's one of the better places, because nowadays, like bars and clubs, they don't, they don't really play good music.
Speaker 2:Girl, like I don't know, I've been to a lot of places in downtown and that's my favorite one to go dancing, and it's not a club, it's a bar, so you can kind of dress down if you want to dress down. Uh, it's also right across the street from the the angels flight stairway, which is basically it's like a little tram, but it's like a little baby tram and the history behind it is that because all the financial buildings are across the street from the grand central market, back in the days when the finance bros wanted to go eat, they had to go all the way around and it's a big hill and not like you know, but by the time that they would come and go back up, like their hour, lunch was up, you know. So they created this little tram for them to be able to come up and down. It's like a dollar or two and then, like when you're at the the top, you're like literally in the middle of all the buildings in la um, so it's a cute little history lesson for you guys.
Speaker 1:But yeah, other than that, it's hot as hell.
Speaker 2:Stay inside I don't know yeah for real.
Speaker 1:I'm fine. I go to airbnb that has a pool, or if you have a pool.
Speaker 2:Going to an Airbnb out here is fucking crazy.
Speaker 1:You know how much I paid for these.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I've never been to Palm Springs.
Speaker 1:Mariah, we need to plan this I've never been. We need to plan this. That'd be fun actually. Don't give me ideas. Don't give me ideas. Hold up, I'm already looking at Airbnbs. Don't give me ideas hold up.
Speaker 2:I know I saw a thing today that said it said I'm not the kind of friend who will let you stop, who will tell you to stop traveling, I will tell you to call in sick and lead us both into financial ruin, but at least we will have memories. Yes, that part.
Speaker 2:If you guys still have a chance, when is this coming out? Monday, right, if you guys still have a chance. Also, if you can go, if it's in your possibilities. Uh, universal studios, hollywood. Um, they have the studio tour photo ops right now. It's pretty cool because they have the shark from jaws, they have the king kong hand, the cars from fast and furious. You can get down from the tram, take a lot of pictures. I think it's a cute idea, like you know, for a date or whatever. So if people can you know, spare some coin and do that. If you have a year pass. August 11, I think, is the first day that we're not blacked out anymore, and I think I was reading today that that's the last day of the studio tour. So keep that in mind. It's because of their 60th anniversary or whatever, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I'm looking for the Airbnbs now. See, I told you don't do it, girl, not right now, I know. That's why I told you don't give me this idea, because I will Calmate. You started this.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, but let's go, I'm done.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm looking.
Speaker 2:All right, anyways. So on that note, those are a few of our recommendations. If you're in the LA area, there is a page called we like lacom. They give you ideas of things that are happening around town on a weekly basis. They tell you from monday to friday and then they do another bulletin board for friday to sunday. A lot of their events are free. A lot of them are paid. It's up to you what the fuck you want to do. But yeah, I'm very thankful for them because I've gotten to know la because of the things they post.
Speaker 2:I don't know about your area if they have anything like that I think I've looked before and I've never seen anything, so yeah, no all right all right.
Speaker 1:What are we talking about next? So next week we're going to be talking about how the dating world is now again the market. The market's still not great, but the dating experience is. Mariah, you're going to vent out your struggles, not just you. I'll vent for the other people that you know I hear talk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to be a combination of stories.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:All right, babe. Well, I will talk to you on the next episode no, actually before that, but you know we'll talk to you guys, the listeners, on the next episode right, all right.
Speaker 1:Everyone have a good day bye.
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