Big Sur: In the Soup

as the gentrification of van Life. Turn in next week for a conversation. This is Not Lost California so far, how everybody feeling. I'm Brendan France has new him feel great that it's not New York. That's my friend, the audio producer John Delor, just like it is an incredible

joy to just be out of the city. It's April twenty twenty two, and after a two year hiatus spent hunkering down in New York City due to COVID, we're heading toward the opposite of the Big Apple, Big Sir, eighty miles of vodness along the rugged coast of Central California. Look at these beaches, taking in the coastal beauty. It's hard to remember why I ever left California, Like, what do we do in their lives? Oh, that house is for sale. Maybe the world speaking to me? Live right there,

work remotely, make podcasts, eat soup. So you've been to Big Sir? How many times I was thinking about on the plane. I think like eleven or twelve times. What was the first time? Big Sir is not new to me. Years back, when I lived in California, I would visit it all the time, and like many before me, I was seduced by the areas looming redwood forests and mountains on one side, the bananas wow and the drama of cliffs, rock and ocean on the other. Look at the shoreline.

It's accessible for like a stretch, and then it just turns into the sort of cliffs. It is hard to overstate house dunning, Big Sir is. It is an Edenic wilderness. It is Beethoven, the taj Mahal for let Mignon, Queen em On, all of it all in one. And yet what really makes the special for me are the thinkers, artists and writers who live and visit here. Despite being remote in Big s a book of poetry or a

good conversation are not hard to find. I can't believe I can't find parking in Big s Okay, come on out, you lay in your horn, no want to You can take the guy out of New York City. I'd rather live a life that's a little on edge, like wildfires, mountain lions, and then paradise and elation, those two ends of the spectrum, then this monotonous middle of the road stuff that I was ever mentioned. When we arrive in Big Sir village, we strike up a chat with a radiant,

even beatific looking stranger named Jake Podour. How did you end up in Big Sir? I ended up here by accident, which most other residents of Big sur will say the same. They didn't actually try to live here. Jake is young, has a short beard and baggy clothes, with the touch of Bohemian flair, music and spirit. If I do say so, is really the reason why I ended up here? Yeah? I found myself in La trying to do the music thing and it just was making me feel lost, and

I was luckily cradled by this beautiful land. I mean is there enough to do as just a big sur like young guy living here, Like you can get off work to get by? Oh now I can before you know, living in my car saving money on rent. That made it work out for me in that sense. But are there there a lot of car life going on? There is. There's a lot of car life, a lot of transients, and a lot of multi millionaires and not much more in between. But right now I have a work trade situation.

I garden for this lady's property and live in a little shack and play music, and people seem to enjoy that. My journey is I ended up in the middle of the road, and I've kind of been digging it because I spent so much time not but I'm remembering those old feelings of what it's like to be on the

road and to be someplace so dramatic. How is how what is it like being in a place where people are like travelers like us are coming through constantly, constantly, Like is it it's a beautiful or is it it's invigorating. I'm meeting people from all over the world. I feel like I'm touring through vast lands, but really I'm just on this eighty mile stretch of coastline, and I'm just

meeting all the most wonderful characters. As Henry Miller said in Big Sirs, they put and watch the world go rounds to these people who are going to be here for decades. Who knows it's transitory, as you said to me, it is. It's it's fun to think about some visions or the future. But um, I notice, I'm happiest one. I'm just right here right now. Yeah, day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. When we left Jake,

his words rang in my ears. Yeah, let's be right here right now, which I interpreted to mean let's get into the nature we travel so far to explore. Took it right off the one. It was time to visit the beach, driving directly off the continent of North America, said, come up to the edge. Do you know this one? Beach Boys? Right? So I found this song when I was making a playlist for the trip. I knew one of them lived up here, but I didn't know they

were in a song about it. Yea, before we can hit the beach, we stop at a little gatehouse to buy a day pass for our car. Good morning, twelve dollars. Yeah, we take cash or card whatever. Okay, is it busy or slow today? Starting to pick up a little bit? Yeah, slower than it was yesterday at this time. Right, still a weekend. All right, thank you for this, got a problem. You guys are all set to go have great afternoon? All right, thank you you. What do we think his

life out of a scott one to ten? I'm thinking ten? Right, It seems like super happy. He seems happy. He's like living near the beach. I'm trying not to be jealous. Oh wait, oh dick, I'm gonna go put my feet in the water. Okay, yeah, all right, let's do it. But we're gonna have to. It's not sure it's what we're gonna show some calf all right, urt your eyes because my calves have not seen the sun and years. Oh yeah, wow, this feels like the opposite of a

zoom call. It's good to touch the water. That sounds a little bit like the beginning of creation. There's like mist these beautiful flowers, these purple piano, the edges in the green right into the water. It looks like this is where man sprung forth. Yeahs such an interesting beach. Experience. Though you come here, you're not swimming today because it's cold. I don't think you could swim here, could you? Are the waves too much? You can do whatever you want here.

But it's so goddamn beautiful that that is enough. There's something something about over there. I can't tell if it's a lot you actually look up right, if that's a piece of driftwood or crazy seaweed. The large brown thing down there, Yeah, that it's moving. I don't think that's a long Let's go check it out, all right, Oh, check that out. Those are the elephant seals. Wow, Oh my god, look at these these things are massive. Wow. Like when you come up to this, it looks like

a battlefield with all these like fallen soldiers. Yeah, you see battlefield. My read is like Rockaway Beach, like sort of mid August on a Wednesday, when there's not too many people and everyone's really quiet. Everyone's got enough space for their blanket, but everyone they're just all very chill. Right now. I feel like they just parted their brains out right. It's got that five what I'm saying. Trapsing between the blobs of napping elephant seals was a figure

holding a clipboard. John and I waved and they approached us. I'm Brendan Arena. John. Nice to me, what are you doing here? So? I'm currently working on my PhD, and this morning I was actually just out doing recites, and so I was out looking at their flipper tags. Oh no way, Well, look at this guy scratching his side. Get How do they move? It's like such a dumb basic How do they move? We have a very scientific term for that on land. It's called glumping. So it's

galumping galumping. Have you ever seen that dance move the worm? Yeah, really looks like that. That's incredible. So why do they come here this spot? Yeah? So they actually come back to each of these colonies because that's where they were born and that's where they know to go. Is there a scientific word for that sort of thing, like that behavior of like going back to where you came from. Yeah, it's known as like Philopatrick, Philopatrick. I like that. It's

like like after college, I was Philopatrick. I just ended up in my dad's basement. And so where do they go when they're not here? So they spend most of their time out at sea? Okay, the adult females will

go out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I think their round trip can come in at about ten thousand kilometers that they're doing, and then after about two months they come back to molt and while they're on land, they're fasting the entire time, and then they'll go back out to see for seven months, putting on a ton of mass to then come back for the breeding seasoning.

I'm looking at them, I'm like inspired, Like I feel like I moved way too much in New York that I need to spend a little bit more in my life focusing on the basics, which is napping. It looks to me, maybe finding a good mate, maybe having some kids for me. I was drawn to them by what they can do out in the sea, because that is really like how they make a living out there, you know, Like it's really if they don't do well out there, they're not going to be able to come back on

land and do well online. Right, So this is classic me. I'm looking at them just chilling out after the result of all their hard work, and I'm like, I want that. I don't want to do the ten thousand hours of work that allows this to happen. It's pretty amazing. Do you know any of the like these ones that are laid on the beach, any of them are familiar? We

do have. Yes, there is this one girl eighteen eighty five who I believe is twenty this year, all right, and I think she held the record for the deepest dive of the seals that we've instrumented, Yeah, which was about two hours and down to one thousand, seven hundred meters. That's so cool. We know we have her her track from that year, and then we actually chacked her several years later. It seems like she's doing the same thing

every year. And it was where to go. The idea that they keep coming back to where they came from, like ISRAELI intriguing to me. But thank you so much for yeah, sharing your work with us. Yeah, this is beautiful. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's nice to be able to come out on the beach and run across someone who just hangs out with these credits all the time. You guys are heading south, right, Well, we might go to there's this place in Pescudero. Have you ever been

to Duarts? No? Oh my god, it has He's got this supup So there's this soup I used to again every time I visited Big I might have mentioned it once or twice while planning for this trend inflatable soup cream of artichoke made from artichoke they pick in the cart, cream of vartach utter garlic. I first encountered it in years two pounds of artichokes, and now I make a

pilgrimage to eat it anytime I'm nearby. If you know, if you've been there, you can order off menu the fifty fifth blended with this chili verde soup, which is more pecant and spicy, chick in stock, heavy cream, salt, pepper. In my mind, it contains more than just neutri super grounding and almost woods like a metaphor for the ideal life. It contains wisdom for living. You know, the soup's grounded

but spice. I've kind of been thinking about this soup for five years, and soup is not the main reason I decided to visit California. Soup that you talk about all the time, but I just want to make sure we hit it if we're traveling there, certainly played a role in my decision. You gotta do the math this even makes sense to go back. Unfortunately, because we have to backtrack and go the other way, we didn't have

time to stop there. On the way down to being Soup, and after our jount to the beach, the jet lag hit us like a wave of molasses. So we checked into the cabin, unpacked the car, and when we were settled it was dark, and not bluish city dark, but squid ink black dark. We lit a fire, opened a bottle of mescow, and continued to try to be in the present. Big God plans and mine, I'll go into

ourselves to your Dave two Walmond cappuccinos. Some people know the best fishing spots or a good place to catch waves, to surf. I'm like that for coffee shops. Even in the wilderness, I can hear the siren call of a milk frother. And thus the next morning we proceeded to Big Sur Bakery, a casual eatery nestled in the hills off of Highway One. So, John, I've been to Big Sur Bakery dozens of times. What was your what's your experience?

All right? So, first of all, it's across from the most beautiful gas station of all time, like it makes gas look probably good for the planet, Like you imagine that the person who works in there is like extremely fit and doing yoga in between a humping gas bakery is good. I mean, I've got like this, what is it? What did you order? Why am I? It's a blueberry

strudle bluebers at least like two pounds of blue blueberries. Seriously, but I had to give it to you because they did not announce there was almond flower, right, and you you like you threw it down like like it was like a wet ragular. This is going to close off my throat. But yeah, or you could just say I threw it down like what you know. Either way you could act like I'm being pretentious, or we can talk

about a medical condition. Yeah, but no. The pastry cabinet here is like of the gods, and there's like a little pursudo greer cheese loaves and vegetable for tatas. Let's since you have a question though, you so when I gave you my blueberry, it's going due to my medical emergency. You were like, oh, well you can eat my ginger skull, which is very generous of you, right, but ginger is like kind of a coffee killer, you know. I mean it's like the flavored ginger intersecting the coffee. To me,

it feels like I'm taking a pill. It's like gingers. So huh. I don't know. I found the collision a little. I think it's like having like a cookie or like a you know, it's like it's like here toothpaste in our shoes. But thank you, You're welcome, You're welcome, Thanks for this. It's good. It's good. I'm sorry about the almond flower thing. Like all your glance is your throat

closing up at all. John snark rolls off me as I happily watched the line of people in yoga pants and hiking boots stifle yawns while waiting for their coffee orders. Often there's a flat white John Diggins texting his wife in New York, who he left home alone with their two kids. You can almost feel the like, as I'm leaving, like I'm just taking this huge like sixty pound like flak jacket combination like old hair shirt. You know, it's

like uncomfortable and it's heavy. I just like take mine off and like, all right, you're gonna have to wear both of them five days already, Like I can just feel the space or it's it's like it's quieter in my head because there's not that like it's like you need to get up now, you need to get their pajamas, and then like you wake up and you open your eyes and you're like, oh no, no, I'm in California. Yeah, I don't have to do that today. Yeah, all right,

let's um get out here. Let's go check out Henry Motor Library. And it's a little nonprofit because Henry Moller used to live here. And so we'll take with Magnus, who I've known over the years. He's seen me in different states with different hairlinths, different partners, in different cars, and now it's years on and I'm still still here. You'll be the harriest partner I bring to him yet. Amazing, Let's do it. I'm glad you're here with me. Yeah, I'm glad. We got you out black coffee for Chelsea.

Anaphylactic shock avoided, bellies full. We hop at our rig and mosey further down Highway one. But it's that same thing, like do you go to those natural places to recharge and come back Yeah, but I think like if you do the opposite, where you're living in the country most of the time and then going to city and coming back, that's just like it's like the inverse of like the thing that I think I aspire to. That's that's like the chili verde soup is the majority and in the

middle is just a little bit of artichoke. Right, you're saying, I'm just trying to figure out, like, if I acknowledge it, does that mean we're going to keep talking about the soup, or if I just we come to a little turnout where a tiny cabin sits amidst redwood trees at the edge of a shady glade. This is perfect. Look, there's this old wooden sign painted yell at Henry Miller Library, Book Music, Art. All right, let's go check it out.

The Henry Miller Library is not an actual library. It's a nonprofit art center, bookstore, and performance space set up as a kind of memorial to the writer. Miller had had his fill of city life and moved to Big Serve back in the nineteen forties. Yeah. I'm just so

happy to be here, man. I think this is the first trip in two years and I wanted to come right to the most beautiful place I could think of, what do you mean, first trip in two years because of COVID, because so the show we were making it and then stopped right And then in that time I got a normal job, got my hair cut, my girlfriend moved in, bought a car, started watching TV, became an American. Yeah, and now it's kind of tapering right, and I'm back

out here. My name is Magnus Taurum, and I've been here at the library since nineteen ninety three, and I come I came here from Sweden. Magnus is tall, Cladden Denham and has a full head of silver hair doing this kind of cool scarecrow shag thing. All right, so can you give us a lay of the land here? Um? Well, the library is here. It's been like this since nineteen eighty one. Very few things have changed. People don't like

things changing here. Oftentimes people would comment on a rock that used to be in one place and now it's moved, and they get slightly perturbed. See that railroad tree right there is actually classic redwood that. See how the branches are drooping, like really drooping, hanging down. That's like the cover tree for a book about Sequoia Sampavillians, which these are.

And when when David Crosby did his concert, which was not that long ago, he stood on this stage and suddenly, in the middle of the concert he stopped like this, and they looked up and he suddenly noticed that tree, and he said, this song is for that tree. Do you mind telling John the story of how you ended up in Big Sir? Initially? Initially I hitchtaged down the coast in the nineteen seventy eight the first time, and then I sailed for seven years in the mainliness of Pacific.

And then on August twenty eight, nineteen eighty four, I had a motorcycle accident right outside of Fernwood here in the valley, right in Big righting A downtown the valley, Big Sir. And I lost my consciousness and I was laying I sprawled myself on the hood of this car, bleeding profusely out of certainly my nose and mouth. And I wake up and I'm holding somebody's hand, and I opened up my eyes and I see this beautiful young woman,

and I said, how did you get here? And then she went with me in the ambulance, and I'm still with her a four months south of here on Parlington Ridge where she brought me up. So that was that's the reason I'm here is having met her, it fell in love completely and fell in love with her and the place. And I had so many stitches on my lips that it took it took three weeks for us to finally be able to come gently kiss. Magnus walks

us around the grounds of the library. There's a ping pong table, a small stage for performances, and various folk art sculptures nestled beneath redwood trees. This is the iconic thing. This piano has been taking a beating for years. Yeah, it's entropy. It's a it's a piano that's slowly rotting in front of our eyes. Here, I had three of those mannequins surrounding a redwood stump on which I had a cup, and in the cup I had a Rubik's cube.

So a lot of these are is you bathe these and they're kind of just ready maids inspired by your wild mind. Yeah. Now that orange thing there that actually comes from the bowling alley where they shot with the Botskid movie. Yeah, Yeah, that's from the big sort of fashion show that we have here, like jellyfish. All right, And now we approached the the mL White House, which as we converted into this beautiful little library and bookstore.

I've been poking our heads in here. So we're basically in this place and it's like a really handsome bookstore in a cabin, but this kind of nice warm lighting. Is there an organization, what's the what's the roads, the selection? It's a little bit. It's you know, they're on the shelf. We have books that are essentially by author, pretty much alphabetical, and then we have displaced on the tables and they

they change all the time depending on how we feel. Yeah, but the books themselves are all kind of rotating in and out modern classics, moniting classic classics. Yeah, it's like an education humanities on one level. And this poster here is from the Wild Year of twenty eleven where we had she like Peppers and John Waters and oh my way. So this is these are people performed at the library. Red Hot Chili, Peppers, John Waters, MGMT, Henry Rollins. Remarkable

three and a half hours Wow. After our chat with Magnus we Linger on at the library. This tree is probably what about a thousand years old? How is the Redwoods? John finds a spot of cell reception and calls his kids before nightfalls on the East Coast. Hi, guys, where am I? I'm in California? Hi Indi boo? How are you? Are you tired? You're busy right now? Are you too

busy to say hi? Yeah? Meanwhile, I browsed the bookshop and find a copy of Big sur and The Oranges of Hieronymous Bosh Henry Miller's memoirs from when he lived here. I sent you a video. We saw an elephant seal. It's really big and it makes a noise like it's burping. We whiled away the day. How tall do you think it is? It's like a It looks like, Oh, here's how I could do it. It looks like a fifteen

story building. Right after a while, we got ourselves together, Hi guys, and pushed off to another iconic big surf spot. So we're in Nepente. It's a little bit foggy out, but we will there will be a shift when this goes down in about a half hour's time. Designed by a student of Frankloyd Wright, a Pente Restaurant was built around the cliffside cabin in nineteen forty nine. In any other setting, it's modern redwood structure and expansive terrace would

catch the eye. But here it's beauty is dwarfed by the views in the wake and there is something stinking set up over there, whether it's a whale or we'll seal. Nepente's perch on a cliff allows a miles long view of the horizon out there. See that bump, yeah, believe. In eighteen eighty five, John and I stare males the gape and Napente's greatest attraction the sunset. We've got sunsets on lakes in the Midwest, which are nice, but they're

like a specific thing. This is just huge. The thing about it for me that strikes me as like how far it goes from left to right? Do you know what I mean? Because the body of water is so much larger that that pink band it's along the water for a lake. It's like you know that big in your in your view, like, but this is like left to skit of two inches. It's like absolutely the entire screen, the entire screen the Penthe pulls off the rare trick of being a tourist destination as well as a spot

where locals meet and mingle. What is it, Jade, Jade? Yeah? Nice? People looked at me now they go, God, Rudy, you are local. Sometimes they even talked to each other, Alexander, do you live in Big thir two? No, I don't. I live in Santa Barbara. Actually, Santa Barbara is beautiful. Yesterday I put out a prayer because I knew I was gonna go jan thing today. Yeah, what about you? Nice? Yeah? New York seems really inspiring. Three different people over the

day brought me jee like. One guy gave me one, one guy gave me two, and then the other guy gave me like. I don't think I would survive there intense. As I sat into penthe I thought out of a passage I'd read in Miller's memoirs earlier that day. Surely everyone realizes, at some point along the way that he's capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. Those words stirred up an old feeling deep inside of me. Before COVID, I had a raging

case of wanderlust. I spent years thinking there was a better life somewhere else, if only I could find it. But the fourth stillness of the early pandemic seemed to inoculate me from the need to rome. I began to enjoy the quieter pleasures of domestic life, the burble of a stovetop espresso maker, reading on a couch with my partner's legs in my lap, a day on a park

bench instead of a day or airplane. But here in the penthe I was getting a sort of contact high from past memories of when I was more footloose and fun seeking. I mean, if you want to get drunk or smoked ope and get high, you come to big Shirt. And I have to admit, that's been a big shirt for the weekend. Okay, that's good with me. I did feel pretty good. Something's never changed. John was enjoying himself too. But this is great. I mean, look at that fucking sunset.

Man his dad brain on pause, if only for a brief moment. Living on the East Coast, he's seeing the world closed for the day on the West coast once in a while, like I think, kind of it's grounding another beautiful day. Yeah, those red woods. If we get out for a walk on the glade side, A walk, a hike on the glade side. Those trees are just I don't know what they are, but they're they're such a presence. After a good night's sleep, our bodies felt refreshed,

and it was time to tend to our spirits. Now. I don't necessarily believe in the New Age spirituality that's as plentiful here as sunshine and poppy flowers. But I would be remiss if I came through Big Sir without checking in on the neu veaux hippie scene you see at Big Presence Here is the Esslin Institute, a kind of bougie New Age resort founded in the sixties that involves a lot of bodywork and hot springs. But John

and I weren't going there. Nope. I like John, but not enough to spend nine hundred dollars to hang out with him in a towel eating macrobotic food. Instead, we were heading for some bespoke spiritual maintenance. So we're going up this hill brandcho Rico. If forgot sound healing session. It's a little bit mysterious, the healing part. If even if this had been called a sound bath, I would have done it, but it happens to be called a sound healing session, right, and I'm sure I could figure

something that needs to be healed. Paused on that and just like look to the right, like maybe don't drive a Ship's just beautiful, beautiful hills and their mountains right are these mountains mountain the mountains, they're Satia mountains. Hills is not doesn't do it? And this is again one of those roads I would appreciate you in a little slower. I'm afraid of heights and the fact there's no guardrail to our right. It makes me feel a little bit nauseous.

What do you need to heal today? We'll just the nausea from the drive up your driveway, I know, and you're gonna lose all the things you gain when the drive down away. I think left, but but that doesn't look safe. Doesn't proceed about a mile and that the three way forks stayed in the far right. This feels like it's not the three way fork. That doesn't even look like it's drive. We want to drive on it,

like I think this is yeah, followed this right? I mean this looks like a road, right, That's what I think. All right, I guess we got to just choose pick one, right, I mean hashtag not going there half while cattle grade, that's the cattle gray big Sir, fiddle camp. That's the worst that could happen. We end up like in a field of kids practicing fiddles. Well, I need to go here, but I need to do a k term without falling off that cliff. Yeah, I don't do that. You want

me to get out of the car first. That was a journey. Sorry, we're late. Really, this is such a beautiful little place in the way you're in the Shangari Lana devil Mine is the owner of Sacred Sound and Wonder, where she does sound healing sessions and sells crystal singing bowls. Her home. She calls it the Starbarn is on a huge ranch, and if John weren't feeling woozy from the drive, he could look out and see a stunning view of

the ocean raging one hundred feet below us. I should say, we're now peeking out of the ocean, which is just on the other side here of sunrise sunset. It's kind of the place to be foot So where are we? What is ramcho Rico, which is my dear friend's family ranch. How long have you been up in Rancho Rico? A little over nine years now. Yeah, And I started off living in a small cabin with a murphy bed, and then I moved to an old renovated wine barrel. Did

you say renovated wine barrel? That's like van life, but Diagnet doesn't move with the ocean views. That's square footage than a New York apartment. Deva has long brown hair, blue eyes, skinny jeans that flare at the bottom, and the easy manner of someone who has nama stayed her way around a yoga mat once or twice. Every culture has some form of sound that they use in their healing. Just shamanstrum rattles are another one that are really odd.

She gives us a sonic tour of her audio healing tool. Kid. This one is called a sharkunak from Russia. And this one's from the most recent ones that I got. Are the Egyptian systems that won't feel so satisfying. I don't know the same. That's like my favorite so far. There's something about the tone of it. And today we're going to You're going to deploy bowls, so if you guys are ready, We're ready. So here's my question before we begin this journey. Do are we supposed to think about

what we need here? Like? What? How are we supposed to? Yeah? It helps because intention is everything. Right, just to name what is an area that you're seeking harmony in your life? Over the course of COVID, I feel like I've become normal and it's been pleasant and some ways, and I'm not completely chafing against it, but coming out to big Sir, I'm remembering the kind of more adventurous, the wonderlust, the

kind of more roaming free character I was previous. And I just want to make sure I calibrate properly so I don't find myself too much one or too much the other. All right, If I give you one that's like an opposite flavor, is it going to muddy the sound healing? You know what I mean? Like? No, they're kind of like adaptogens that okay, they'll work towards your individual constitution. I think probably my top line anxiety right

now is just like pure mortality, fear of death. I was like never afraid of death until after I had kids, So that's just like I think about death way more than I ever have in my life. Is that why you had a salad for lunch? Yeah? Right, Yeah, that's a really big one for people right now. Is facing our mortality. Well, if you could just solve all those things, we could get thanks. Let's you know, we'll dive in

and see where it takes you. Well, go ahead, and I'm going to invite you to take three nice long, deep, slow belly breasts inhaling deep into your belly and as you exhale, letting out a side or a sound, releasing

your jaw. Maybe rock your head just a little side to side, and again, nice deep, full belly breaths, bringing through great clarity balance being a little too hot, inner peace and tranquility, Bay by day, hour by hour, mom, by mom, and by mom, and by mom and my mom and my mom, and in beauty we begin again and it want to become right, Yeah, those beautiful place I can think, so may be and so it is God Mother, god Father, gond of Iceberg already where to

just feel the basically, I love all these purples and people. Whereas it's like it's quiter sameles s tranquil. You want to get drunk or Spain. How you come to big sixty fast time? What is it? Ja? Yeah? Redwood trees, a pure mind. I see this beautiful young woman in the endless joy he be and I said, how did you get here? Here? Is this one be et faboush free? This one girl? Eighteen eighty five? I am can you tell me that word again? Like why they come back

to the same place? And Philip Patrick Patrick both didn't you find bashi below or something? Every year? And knows where to go? So we had plans. I'm gonna go put my feet in the water. Well that rabbit tisted to take mountain night studio beaches avoid for reces, must go back to a t the giant prize, screeching sirens and back home in New York seems really inspired. That's not an uncommon thing in New York to go drawn to it. Now you're a New Yorker, I mean, there's

no doubt about it as a city that fits you. Well. Are you too busy to say? Hi? Black coffee for Chelsea? Okay? The wind is he at fifty fifty? Do you go to those natural places to recharge and come back? What are we going in our house that's got a big share for the weekend. Okay, that's good for me. For me, while in Big Sir, I communed with nature, vibrated away some city grime, and marveled once again at this area's utopic vistas. I I also realized that traveling feels different

from me now. The pandemic forced me to stay in one place, and during that time I began to lay down some roots. I still find roaming around exhilarating and mind expanding, but I no longer see it as a trial subscription to living in a new place. So instead of going back to New York, now that my trip is over, I'm returning home. So that's rapid tested to beaches. Flood rush is oh myself, it's not. Oh but first So John, I don't know if you can understand. You

had one more stop to make. How excited for two miles to be entering Pascadero. Remember I told you about this little roadhouse pretty much because du Art's tavern. This place's got a good look. Oh it's got that like sort of old L shaped spot tavern sign on the first car. Look at these people already line it up. It doesn't know until noon. Do you think these people are here for the soup. They're here for the soup. You look at those people, Look at old They are

gonna tell you guys about this soup. So can I get the soup? And do you still don you do half and a half? Yeah? Yeah, thank you. I'm gonna do the exact same thing. That's the right move. Yeah. Yeah. See how it's in the middle it's like light green, and then in the middle it looks like a little bit of Florida lee. All right, all right, that's the heat art choke on the outside, Thank you very much. You gotta get a little bit of both in this boon. God, this has been a long time coming. Man, you have

no idea. All right, it's a good, sue, Oh fuck you good? That's good sounds. The lead producer on this episode of Not Lost was the brilliant Bart Warshaw, who also sound designed to mix the episode like what I say, it's good, sue, Like that wasn't me? A good is not a lesser adjective than great, it is said. The show was also produced and written by me Brendan Francis Newnham. Our associate producer was the wonderful Amy Gaines. Editorial guidance

was provided by Julia Barton. Production assistance on this episode also came from the unflappable Jacob Smith. Literally, but this is the big Thanks to my friend and this episode's travel partner, John Delore, I can say this. I could say it's great soon you know argue that is good too. If you'd like to hear one of our earlier collaborations, head to the Parish of You podcast. If you check out season one, you will get a sense of his sound design brilliance. Or you could say he's son of

a bitch. You were so right. I underestimated you. His studo Slafe changing but not lost. As a co production of Pushkin Industries, Topic Studios and iHeartMedia, was developed at Topic Studios. The show's executive producers are me Christy Gressman, Maria Zuckerman, Lisa Lyne Gang and Lata mullad. Our theme song was created by Alexis Georgiopolis aka ARP. He has a new album coming out this July on Mexican Summer. It's called New Pleasures. There's a single out now, be

sure to check it out. I've never had anything like it. It's become CREAMA artichoke is like a mushroomy hug, but then it's gotten this, like this little vinegary like little sass mushroom. And a special thanks to everyone in Big sur who made us feel at home while we were away from home. Jake Badour, Arena Favilla and the Coastal Lab at the UC Santa Cruz Deva Mune, my friend Magnus torn at the Henry Miller Library, and of course do Art's Tavern for making great soup. Thank you. It's

a thing, people, please check it out. Plus a special thanks goes out to eighteen eighty five, who at this point has returned to See to attend her epic dinner party for one. Good luck out there. If you want to see some pictures or learn something about our guests, you can head to not Lawshow dot com. And if you're still listening to this, you've either fallen asleep or you really like it. And if it's the latter, do us a favor. Head to Apple Podcast and Radium View.

It does seem like a silly thing, but it's actually an important thing. It helps us stay on the charts, and also I get to peak at them every once in a while and see what you guys think so, I'd really appreciate it. And after that, if you still want more information, you can learn more about Topic Studios at topic studios dot com and to find more Pushkin podcast And there's a lot of great podcasts happening over here. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

listen to podcasts. I'm Brendan Francis, Newnham. Until next time, bon voyage. I could have a good life from Bascadero. You could have a great life Pascadero