Double Date-Cation with Cherry & Jason! Pt 2: Los Angeles

what we're gonna do. Now. How much do you'all enjoy sitting here listen to us talk about our road trips. Let me tell you about every taco I ate the last month. Well, just in case you missed the last episode, just unlet you'll know what's going on. We we decided to bring you all a couple episodes about our trip. Um I hadn't heard. We're dealing with kind of a difficult time right now. At home. We had to say goodbye to our beloved dog and our producer. It's just

the best, fluffiest, sweetest boy you ever would need. Um, And we had to he left us pretty suddenly shortly before we went out of town. And you know, we we we talked in the last episode already about dealing with that. But where it led us is to taking a little break from the research for a second while we sort of get our heads back in the game, get back on our feet, And we decided we would bring you all on our journey that we shared with Cherry and Jason out west. It's been super fun having

all four of us together. We think is always a pretty hilarious time. Um, a lot of goofy banter. Jason and Cherry each such characters of their own and we love spending time with them, and I hope you all do too. Yes, So yeah, and we were I think we were trying to do it in one episode. Yeah, but you know, we do be going off on tangent.

I guarantee that what you're hearing in these episodes is a fraction of what we actually recorded, because man, but probably a really good look into what it would be like to travel with all four. So you've been warned. We're trying to do one thing and who knows what's gonna happen. So last episode we talked about Las Vegas City and all the insane times we have there, just basically four straight days of stuffing our faces. I think it's more or less, what happened that thing? And living

in utter opulence that we don't we don't deserve. We're just we're just regular folks like yourself. But now we can't go back. But we did have to go back because next we traveled to Los Angeles. Nobody cared about our diamond status. We were just regular old tourists. Sorry, you make your own way here, ain't no concierge l A. So we went to l A and for about four straight days we stuffed our faces. Yeah, it was a big part of the trip. Where and what are we eating?

So I do hope you'll enjoy this. We had a good time. We had a good time talking about it. I don't know. Sometimes it's fun to listen to people's vacations. Some people hate it. I don't know. I always love it, you know what, like for social media, Like I don't like your trip photos, I don't like your meal photos. I'm like, what are you talking about? You don't want to see people and enjoying. Yeah, that's true, that's true, instead of like, hey, I want to see I want

to see people post their hotcakes. Yeah, I'm sick of this happy life stuff. Yeah, I think you know what, like late two thou two thousand eight, two thou twelve, and there everyone got angry about people posting their food picks, And I'm like, is this what you wanted? You are people posting politics? You want people to say something divisive. For God's sank, God, give me your mundane daily activities. I would rather read went to CVS today kind of a long line than let me tell you something about

the FED. You know, the line was longer than the rest sipt and like reacts that solid stuff. I'll be starting my CVS A world tour any day now. Well that's what you're about to get here as we talk about our trip to Los Angeles. But Cherry and Jason, yes, which we find historic at least for our personal life. But don't worry, we'll be back to the history soon. Get into our scary stories for spooky season and everything. So yeah, enjoy these this little break from the norm. Yeah,

let's dive in. Yeah, Hey the French, come listen. Well, Elia and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking, a romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships, a love. There might be any type of person at all, and abstract cons that don't a concrete ball. But if there's a story. Were the second Glans ridiculous roll? Yes? A

production of I Heart Radio. So, Cherry Jason, thank you so much for coming back to talk more about all the time we just spent together very recently, very recently. Go back through it all again, so it's like it never stopped. Keep the party going, avoid reality a little longer. Well, when last we left off, I guess we had just drove away from VA. We just drove away. We packed up the car and checked out of the Bellaggio. Goodbye Bellaggio. We'll miss your opulent Yeah, so it was about to

be less of an opulent trip. I guess you could say it was this orienting, right or none of us were Diamond members in Los Angeles. There's no rewards program, and that it would. I'll say, Diana and I love a road trip. Will drive clearly across the country in either direction. We've done it a few times, uh and uh, and it's been great. I'm so glad that Diana puts up with it because I love to do it. And I was saying I was really glad that she's not

someone who you know, says that that's insane. I would never sit in a car for that long. You guys, however, I think that's your normal. So you think that's insane and you would never sit a car. Well, I will say, if Skynet is developed is developing a robot, that only if skyne is developing a robot, the only drives they should use you as a a I think that good idea goodness to plug it into the robot. Don't even make any modifications, just be like, all right, robot, get

to driving. That's fair. You're tolerant, I mean, you're tolerance for driving. Yeah, you really enjoy it. Like I've I've driven across country, like I've been on a family road trips where we've gone from like San Francisco to Georgia. Yeah, so I've been through that. You're like, never again. And I know it was cool. It was interesting, you know, driving through the desert for the first time. It was just like insane. But it's like, I don't think it's

something I would choose to do. I had the option to fly, which we did for this tip, right, yes, But the drive from Vegas to l A, however, oh my gosh, it was only four or four hour drive or four four hours, yes, but you know, I was like insisting we stopped in to break it up a little bit, and that was so it wasn't a bad drive at all. Yeah. We stopped at some place called, um, what was it, susie Que Diner. Yeah, they had thing. They had Betty, a big Betty boot standing like a

six huge and they also have Blues Brothers statues. Right, they have big life size Blues Brothers statue. Yeah. And the Blues Brothers for those that need, you know, to go to their mind palace to invent their mind. Their Blues Brothers are seven ft bigger than life size. Yeah. Yeah, and they're both in the main dining area and they're both they both have their arms and legs flinging their arms ecstatically flying in the very action an action movement,

pure sort of. And I regret to from you that facially, I mean capture was just legal enough of a statue, you know what it's like A It's like you told an AI program the Blues Brothers and then print three d um. What I thought was interesting in there were those little statues, um. And remember this is an explicit rated podcast, so yeah, it was Disney princesses. Um there were many, you know, they were like six inches tall

or something, many figurines in a glass case. And it'd be like Cinderella with her skirt like split open and under the skirt was like a little even more miniature diorama of the carriage and the horses pulling in was like the cottage snow White with her skirt hiked up and underneath was like the cottage of the Dowars. Yes, And I was like, are you trying to say that my vagina is a cottage for the dwarf? I mean it's been said, but wow, who said that about me? Gosh,

it was very strange. Ariel to Ariel like slit wide open, which was like an under the sea. I think that would kill her. It was very strange. I will say, though, Okay, you say it hiked up the skirt, so you're kind of making it sound like she's like like, look at this. Take a look. They're more standing there. They're part like a gun yeah, greed, Yeah, hiked up to me, it

is more okay, take a look. You know what they're doing that they're like spreading it like a curtain to let you take a look the world she's a built on her. I did love there was a ton of Lucy and DESI yeah, paraphernalia there I wanted to load

up on. And Marilyn Monroe was painted on the bathroom wall right right where she I'm sure she would love to be there, and she'd saying best wishes or something, best wishes on your p I think that in the women's bathroom there was like a statue of a cowboy like leaning over and he had his hand on the wall and a lot of women like with his back turned to the door like he was peeing in a year and all. And the women came in were like like I really thought that there was a guy in there.

I was like, I don't know if you should have this statue in here. It's a funny, it's kind of a lot of I was like, it's like I'm not saying it was like this is did I walk into the wrong bathroom or what's going on? Like what is wrong with this bathroom? Might just have to be and yeah, why why is the bathroom such a weird place? I think the bathroom should just leave him out of you know what I mean? Just let the bathrooms, Yes, no, No,

nobody's standing in there. No mannequins, No mannequins, I agree. But we had burgers and shakes at Peggy Sus. We hit the ro again and we made our way into Los Angeles. Ended up staying in Hollywood, like right in Hollywood in the Vinyl District. It was like a lot of recording studios there and like a lot of history of music history going on. So I was really cool, super awesome. It's a really dope neighborhood. Actually, we stayed at Airbnb this time, a lot different than the Baccio

talk to the system. We were like in plush, king size beds. I'm like, you know, chili and I love that when cold room like a bundled up in my blankets. But now I'm like sleeping with like my shirt off, blank just kicked down to my feet, and like, what is happening? Where we go wrong? Where you go wrong?

You have to ask, though, if I was listening to a podcast and I was commuting somewhere right now, I had to listen to someone else complain air ben b Room is a little too high, I might be like podcast all I'm saying, I think everybody needs to learn that exactly. Money changes, money changes you, status changes you don't. Don't don't try nice things, or you'll never be happy unless you can afford them forever. Lesson to be learned here the lesson We did eat gruel the remainder of

Morning Union night. Exactly, you uber eat some gruel for like I have a little robot shows up with it. We saw all over l A. All over l A, we saw delivery robots rolling around little R two D twos bringing food the people's houses. And they have different names. We saw Ashley and Isaiah leone, but they were also seemed to confused, like they would stop in the middle of the sidewalk and just kind of just like be thinking for a minute, you're in l A and you're

waiting on your delivery food robot to show up. It is at a stoplight somewhere, just waiting, has no idea what to do. It felt like a little child is I wanted to give it. I was concerned for you, like it it's like, oh no, don't there's a little bump there, please, oh please move out of the robot's way, trying to like then I'm sorry, you know. It was like watching out it was really, where's your mom bought? Do you know mommy bought? I really wanted to follow

it and make sure it was weird. It was weird. It felt very shy too, because I kept like trying to film them moving and as soon as I put my camera on it, they would just stop. I want to know if they actually work, because we did look it up, like we're like, are they effective? Are they getting where they need to go? Are people getting their food and everything? And couldn't really find anything. They were just a lot of headlines about how they were rolling

out the program and stuff. So if anyone lives in California and has has in fact accepted a delivery from a robot, I would love to hear how it. So, yeah, we got to l a I catch you off the next one. Uh yeah, I think you're right. We got there late, so we like went out, we had a couple of drinks, We went back and crashed, and the next day we kind of like started our l a experience with grant Place Market because I know Cherry has

got the restaurant eggsplet on her list. Yeah, and it's also you know, it's a big food food hall, but it's like historically the original marketplace for downtown l A. Now it turned into a lovely food hall with lots of amazing food options. And we ate eggslet obviously, and then we tried more and more food, like like we can't leave, I know. I was like, I want to eat like tiny portions of everything. Is that possible? Although you were just shipping all over Buffet's was, But it's different,

it's different. It's differ. I pay for each individual dish. They try harder, they try harder. But one thing I did like about that food hall was that they also had a Filipino Yeah you remember what it was called? Um sorry sorry store. Filipino food is huge on the West Coast because huge population of Filipinos over there. It's a little close to the Philippines and it is Atlanta, so um, definitely trying some Filipino food. UM was on the list of things to do like high up there?

Yeah yeah, how did it measure up your mother's cooking? I know your mom's cooking. Any restaurant has to measure up to your Well, if you talk to any Filipino person, like nobody cooks as good as there, of course, yeah, of course, like that's just a given. So Mom, if you're listening, it was not a good yours this better? I love you. That's what's funny is when I when I first started talking to Cherry's family, you know, I'd

be like, oh, there's some Filipino spots up here. We gotta get you guys up there to try them, yeah, in Atlanta, And they were like no, like no, it's not going to be as good as what we make here. I don't really want to try, right, Like I was like, okay, okay, my bad, that's crazy. I want to I do want to say about the Sorry Sorry store in l A. The hollow hollow that I had there was the best

hollow hollow I've ever had. What is Hello Hello? Hello Hello is a shaved ice dessert in the Philippines, And it's just a bunch of little sweet ingredience you can add to it, and it's the skuy's limit is what you can add it. But usually there's like some kind of sweetened bean or um blond blond traditional putting their UBEI ubey something right, I love it, and some kind

of colconut element. Those are like traditional and then like you know a little crispy, kind of fried rice, kind of crunchy thing texture, So it's all, you know, the journey is like sweetness and textures like the flaw and the cruncheese and the ice. It's a whole thing and you're just supposed to mix it all up and eat

it as one dessert. But like, I don't know, I don't know exactly what it was, but it was definitely the best I've ever well, I'm sorry, Sorry sends us a free care package for this, for this promo, I know, I mean the mail rolls up to the studio, you ridiculous from. I would definitely eat it. We got to try a little piece of the Hello Hollo, didn't me? I didn't you did. I was a boarding sugar at the time, which I do sometimes. I was. I was

speaking out sugar. I was actively looking for sugar experiences. Um, and yeah, it was really good. I've never had hollow hollow, so I'm nothing to compare it to, but it was very tasty. We should try more so you can compare exactly. I'll be like m I started high. I started very high, Barr. It's like going to the bellagio and then go to an Airbnb. Yeah, I had that good life. Well anyway, Grand Central Market, great times, great food, and this is a great spot for a break. We will be right back,

all right, welcome back to the show. Since we were downtown, we went to Last Bookstore, which is also one of the coolest places in La I've ever been. I love an old bookstore anyway, but this is so cool. It's in like an old bank. I don't know. I love a bookstore, so as soon as I walked in, I

was like my happy place. I get really kind of I get kind of disoriented bookstores, Like when I see a shelf full of books, my brain just scrambles all the letters together and it's hard to like single things out became so I have a hard time just like randomly browsing bookstores. I kind of have to know what I'm going for. But this place has so much designed to it. There's so much crazy crap on the walls, and the bookshelves are all wonky and weird, and there's

like tunnels of connels. That is something though, I do like about a bookstore, especially this one, because they have a lot of used books, so you would pick a book up and be like, I'm kind of interested. Oh, it's only three dollars, I'm gonna get it. You know, at Last Bookstore, I get to judge books by their cover very literally and say, oh I like that that that the title is cool, the cover is cool, the description is interesting. I'll buy it. It's only five bucks,

so I bought like three or four boo. Found some cool stuff in there. You yeah, oh yeah, I just want to bring around the book cover thing. Book covers are important. They are there, you go, they are. You've designed a book cover, You've designed some book covers. I've designed several book covers. That's right. They are important. So we can judge that you want to tell us. There's a few of your book covers that we can go.

We can go find. There is a trilogy that I did for stand Heat and the Third Yeah, an actual friend of the show. Yeah, the Other Side Tales. Yes, Other Side Tales had already written them and I just did a redesign. Okay, so yeah, that was really fun project. Also, there's a Southern Stories, Old Southern Stories from Tim west Over. It's an anthology of spooky, strange stories from the South, the old weird South, the old weird. But yeah, the

last book store. There a huge art section right in the front, and it's definitely a place where I got lost and I was like, uh, should I really bring like five or six books home. The art section was amazing, and it's just so what a beautiful environment it was. I think I would like to hang out there. It's one of the type of a book story that you just want to just be at. Yeah. See, our plan that night was to go to Universal Studios for Halloween

Horror Knights SdeA some spooky season action into our October. Yeah, Cherry had done a bunch of research on this. Cherry, Cherry, I would consider you a Halloween queen. I definitely love Halloween, A love horror movies. I love anything spooky, scary, glory. So the big this was a big thing on the list. Yeah. So we we went to dinner, and we figured at dinner, we'll grab our tickets, we'll go out there Universal Studios.

We'll just pop easy, no problem. So we're enjoying some delicious dumbly wings and just pull up our phones to purchase these Halloween Horror Knight's ticket and they are sold out. What sold out aren't broken? I know? That was a really big bummer. Yeah. No, no Wolfman, no Mummy, Frankstein's Monster. I was really sad about missing out on the Killer Clowns. So colorful and just insane and in fun, such a

fun movie. I was looking forward to that. Yeah, Unfortunately, there are a lot of streets in l A at night where you can walk down and get a similar scary experience exactly like instead. Yeah, we were like found a really cool bar nearby called Scum and Villainy Cantina, and it was like a Star Wars themed bar. Yeah, but it was really cool. They did a lot. They're very thoughtful about the details of the design of this place thoughts. Yeah, no, it's pretty much designed just after

most icily. Um. It was generally a nerd theme bar. Like they had drinks based on all kinds of properties. The menu, there's like a projected menu on the wall that was sort of like mass effect. Yeah, they had like Game of Thrones drinks, and it was Halloween, so they had a specialty drinks three, especially drinks after the Hocus posted focus Sanderson Sisters. Yeah, it's really good. So it was. It was super fun. We end up spending a lot of time there. I think we spent most

of our night there, Yeah, most of our money. Yeah, I really enjoyed the time and there for sure like bummed that we didn't get to go to the horror nights. But this was a good constellation. It felt like a theme park restaurant kind of feeling, so that it was impressed. Yeah, you were like, hey, take a picture of Yoda because

Yoda was like on the bar. Yeah, baby Yoda. Well you were like, take a picture of Yoda and I was like, well, he's facing the wrong way because like I would have had to walk around the bar in front of a sacrifice to walk around the bar. There. We here's what I'm saying I got to do. If you were did it myself. If Stumm and Villany are listening, you need to Yoda back to back, Yo Yoda, back to back to baby Yoda. There crossed arms, they're leaning

back to back. They look like sister sister, but for Yoda, I have one one gripe. And this goes back to earlier in the episode Hours and Hours Ago. I mentioned themed bathrooms because we were talking about what were Peggy sus diner and there was too much theming going on there with Marilyn Monroe and the guy pen and all this stuff. Well, we went to the bathrooms at Stumm

and Villany and they were just right. I was looking forward to, like, no theme there was gonna be you know, Grido was going to be back there peeing on the wall, on the wall, and bath room was. Now at this point we're like, or like Max Rebo, it's occupied. So yeah, we got drunk. We got drunk, a little drunk. We went home, we went to bed, We got up the next day and we had another great plan to go to a museum called the Eames Foundation, which is another

good find of cherries. And we're going to have to do the Eames Is at some point on this episode on this show, because they are a couple who basically they created iconic mid century modern furniture um and they were also architects and they have filmmakers and they did all kinds of cool stuff. So we'll definitely have to do yeah, their story on here sometime. Yeah, they're amazing, They're pretty legendary in the design world. So yeah, this

was a cool find of cherries. And I know that, like Ellen, I were like I had never heard of this place or this couple. I would never have chosen to do it, but I'm so excited to go because that's why it's so cool to have friends with you that have different interests and they know different things. So we're like, fuck, yeah, there was a tour at two thirty. We're gonna go. I think, is it not their house in their office? Uh so you can see like their

architecture style and everything like that. Yes, just where they live, where they work, where they pumped out all those amazing designs. It was I'm just gonna geek out so hard. Yea, but here we go again. We were eating a delicious meal, having breakfast and Hugo's amazing breakfast, and we pull up our phones to reserve our seats at this tour and it's sold out and it's the last tour and they're only open like random days and random hours of those days.

So that was another like big thing we really wanted to do a l a that we did not get to do. Well, we didn't do that, so we decided, you know what, then it's beach day. Yeah, and we decided to go down to Venice Beach, parked our car, walked around the Venice Beach canals, lovely beautiful, checked out all the homes that were one day going to live in multimillion dollar canal side home. Unbelievably cool and lots

of different styles to I don't know. We like architecture a lot, so we're always looking at at the way the buildings, you know, how what the houses look like, and the buildings, the skyscrapers and everything historic buildings. Jason had a bird following him for a while. Oh really, I don't know if you're friends. Just flew from boat to boat as we mysterious figure. Really more than anything, nobody knew what the bird's plans were for us. Yeah,

you know, like I like a bird. I always seeing a bird from a bird from like a bird from time to I mean, just like my relationship to the bird world is very like you know, like I'm aware of it, but I don't really there's not a lot of overlap. You know, you'd be an unlikely pairing you and a bird, yes, but yeah, like if I brought home a bird, you would be very surprised, very surprised, like confused. But you're not the bird world. But you're not like our friend Rob who hates birds and doesn't

want them anywhere near him. Oh no, it's not. You've got it. Every bird's case by case, case by case birds, the Jason Mallory story. Yeah, each bird onto itself. Wasn't that Flannery O'Connor particular, you know from my hometown. Oh that's right, that's right, the same writing style, Yeah, the same relationship to the bird world. Her whole thing was peacocks. She had a peacock farm. Okay, were like her whole deal.

That's interesting a bird relationship in the Finder and Connor in the bird World are like, he's of hot, like I imagine her. Heaven is like just like her. What dreams may come heaven? It's just bird. Well, look I've got Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell a love story right here, so coming soon and all right, I don't know if I don't know if it's ridiculous, but well we'll make it ridiculous. Look, do it. But we left the birds behind,

we did. We rented bikes, run them around very g t A. Yeah, Ja, Jason and I play a lot of grand theft out of five, which is based in a fictional city that feels pretty much identically to Los Angeles. We felt like we'd stepped into the game. That's right. I will say My bike was very like it was kind of fighting me. So we got we we biked for a very long time, and then the plan was to go back. We were going to get on We're going to ditch these bikes and we're get the lift

bix liftpikes everywhere. And so we walked out of the lift bikes like, no big deal, We'll just we'll just get some bikes, and like every single lift bike was like nos sold out once again. All right, I know we were getting We were really underestimated how busy l A is full of people. So yes, the beach was awesome. Way too cold to get in the water. I think that might always be true of l A. But one day I'll stick my toes in there like a brave girl,

I know. On our drive home, we stopped at Tito's Tacos. We had amazing like you know, crispy tacos, tacos, really tasty cold cheese. But it was supposed to be cold. Yeah, it was like why is this cheese called It was like that's its whole thing. It was cold cheese, cheese, very good. And then we went out bar hopping, yeah evening and went to several really cool places, Like my favorite was the first place we went, which was like this speakeasy that was behind a pizza place is called

Sunset and vinyl Um. But it was so cool. I love that place. I would love to go back there. Yeah, definitely same. And you could actually thumb through the records. Yeah, could you make a little special question like put it aside and put on the little tray frame? Yeah, next turn tables. I thought that was super in box you could just drop a record on. Yeah, that's right. That was really cool. And the music was cool too. It was like a lot of deep cuts. He felt old,

just go seventies stuff. Rise of Cruise down track, very deep cut from the seventies. Here's here's the irony of that is the Rise of Girge soundtrack probably would have worked there because we did have a bunch of seventies songs on there, so you could have put it on and then have everybody build. Everybody be like, oh, show like this is good. I love this playlist, and you're like, oh really, because it's the Rise of you played yourself.

You're enjoying the Minions, Rise of Crew. Okay, okay, well, well after Jason played Rise of Grew they kicked us out, so we had to go to a different bar. They were like, not in my house, this is l a. You know what's funny too, is if we had put on a Sheryl Crow vinyl, it probably wouldn't have been real. Well, I wouldn't, I would be I'm going I'm going to assume that in that big stack of records this guy had out for people to pick from, chry Crow probably

wasn't in there. That's true. It was like a curated selection of records where you just picked from. Yeah, this wasn't YouTube. Don't put on some bolsh small collection of you can tell very you know, cared for? Uh? Sir? Can you play two Princes seven times in a rout? No? I wouldn't. I wouldn't allow. I would not allow. So we're drunk. We go back to the Airbnb. We're hungry, we we uber we uber eats Jack in the box. There was way too much and it was the best

meal of the entire trip. I'm like, I'm so drunk that these chicken nuggets nothing can compare. I did not deliver them I really that would have been amazing. Though three hours later he got lost at the gate, the gated driveway. Well, then the next day we had to get another amazing breakfast, so we went to Egg Tuck and got these like breakfast sandwiches, and then we also went to Treeho Danny Trehos Coffee and Doughnuts restaurant and

had some doughnuts and coffee. But it was funny about both these places is that neither of them let you sit inside to eat, so we just had to. We all had like giant piles of food in our hands and nowhere We're like okay, So we just went back to the airbnb. We ate there, and I think Jason was not feeling well that day. Yeah, like well, you know, while we were getting the Danny Trejo stuff, I just was like dizzy. I was like, my sinus, my sciences hurt.

I've got your some kind of infection. I don't know. My ears were throbbing. And then I get on Twitter and the first week I see is this guy go if you have sudden sinus stuff, guess what you've got COVID no. And I was just like I was like, I guess we'll see but then I cleared out really quickly, so I was just like, I don't think I have COVID. That's good, but you took a rest while. We went to the LACMA Museum of l a County museum of Art.

That was a really cool museum. That was so cool and we only got to spend like two or three hours there, I guess, um, but it's giant. You could easily spend several days there and that see everything because they had several buildings too. We saw Picasso's and pollocks and stuff. We also Eli and I saw an Oscar Kokoshka, which was exciting because we've done him on our show The Story. Yeah, he's the one who made the polar bear for sex doll for anyone, anyone who's any listener

who knows what we're talking about. Cool to see his actual artwork on a wall. He met a polar bear sex doll and and he has a piece up at Lackman now, so you know it's it's possible for anyone if you want a sex doll, go for it. So as in the dm are they just like straight up like we only play the hits, like we got Picasso, as we got I think that was their permanent collection.

I don't know for sure. They had a lot of specific exhibits also going on there um and one of them we went to was the Language of Advertising, so it was all about like in photographies, Yeah, photography, Yeah, yeah, how they how they sell stuff basically and like design layout does line of a very very interesting. I wish we had more time. Yeah, that was a really cool. Yeah. We had fifteen minutes to just kind of breathe, and they were breathing down our next they were following us.

Museums are also not not They would have closed a very loud gate on us and as they could if they could have, but they just don't like kind of usher you out. They'll walk behind you and be like nope, come back. We wanted to go to the top of the staircase and get a good, like scenic picture, and the guy was like, this area's closed. Yeah yeah, I feel like, you know, you're in a video game and like the bad guy comes down the stairs turned around. I don't have any turtle shells to throw at you.

I don't know, run just run and run as bad as it's My favorite Grand Theft Auto level actually is when the museum curators trying to kick you out. Oh man, lack that was great. Um it sounds like a lack planning. True, that's the damn true. But we did get to see the iconic light posts. I think everybody's seen there in like a lot of rom comms and stuff like that, that installation outside. So that was really cool to get to see that. So you got to see that even

when they were closed. Unfortunately, right, don't us out, but look at this, like, okay, out of five picassos, what would you rate it in the museum? Oh, definitely four and a half pass. Yeah, I was really nice. If not, if not, just I didn't even think of what I'm taking a point off? Yeah, yeah, you're just like nothing is perfect. Well, I forgot to tell you five picassas is bad and one picassa wire did. I already locked

my vote in because I tricked into I did. I did see my favorite painting, which is my greats to People, uh, which I love. It's just I saw that as a kid and I was like, I get art now. I have loved it ever since. I love I mean that painting does remind me of you whenever I see it. I was my live journal for a time, was I remember? Yeah, I got to see some p a Montreal Yeah, one of the things and a couple of pieces of furniture.

So that was a real nerd out moment for myself. Yeah. Meanwhile, I was taking pictures of uh Lee Krasner because she was married to Jackson Pollock. But people don't really know her work as much, even though she was also a very good artist. Somebody I was kind of n I know, I was running around like, oh, this is a couple. Here's a couple I had work on the brain. Okay, yeah, we never stopped. We had never stopped thinking about this show. Very true. I'm always like, were they married? So did

they sleep with any of the hard work? The herd I'll put into it is like amazing. Well that night brings us to the whole ridiculous romance aspect of this episode is that we got to have our date nights in l a night. But before we get into that, let's take a quick break. Welcome back everyone. So Jason, you were feeling better, Yeah, I was good. I've watched Cinemic Talks, Middle to Strength up with TikTok's there you go. So what y'all get into We had a beautiful dinner

at Gwen. It is the one of the restaurants from this famous chef that I don't know, the name Curtis Stone. I'm seeing. I was like Curtis something. So he's famous for like being on Top Chef and like Iron Chef, all these amazing shows. But me, I'm like, all I know is Gordon Ramsey. That's all I care about. So sorry, Curtis. I'm sure you're amazing, but I was not. I didn't pick your restaurant because of you. Hang on, he's on the line, Okay, never come back to my restaurant. Fine, No,

it was a great restaurant. It's like a specialty, like a meat specialty that is their own butcher shop. Like they make their own sharkuterie, they make their own like just like it's really fancy's like you go in and pick your pig right there on the table. Um, well, you do select your own steak knives right if you order a steak there before the steak is stir they come to you to your table with a wooden box and they open it and you have a selection of

steak knives. You just pick one and each one has a story, so when you pick yours, you get the story after that. Oh that's cool, Yeah, it is very cool, like yours. He was like, yeah, he told me. I was like, oh, this is a single piece of steel. It's a good choice. And he's like told me, like where it came from. And then you know, Jason picked his and it's like, oh, this is from a local, uh, knife maker supporting l a local Yeah, and it was interesting cool, like, hey, if it cuts care, that's the

only story I care. He thought it was a well no, no, no, no no. I would never be like, don't tell me, you know, I don't want to hear about it. It's more about sort of like you don't really know. I think for some people that information is helpful and for some people it's like I don't know. It sounds like I'm mean negative about it, but really I'm just I'm

just neutral. I'm got to care. Yeah, I mean, if he had told me, like this knife was owned by you know, President Clinton or something, how did you get it was forged in the fires of Mountain Doo, the you go. I care. Some of them were vintage. They look cool. I mean, if you've been like grew used this knife to rise, then, Lord, then I would care. People are going to refer to this as the Grew episode, right, too much grew believe I listen to the whole crew episode.

All right, no more, I promised not through contest bring up more rominions or grew stuff. You heard it here now. But the steak was delicious. Stack was delicious. We sat at the chef's table, which means it's right by the kitchen. You have a full view of how they're preparing everything. We heard the you know, expo calling out the meals and seeing how they prepped it. It was It was really fun for somebody background in the restaurant industry and

just loves just loves food in general, loves restaurants. It was a nice little peek into behind the scenes. Yeah that's cool, that's and didn't you get another happy birthday? We did? We did. It's another one of those cases where we make the reservation in the asked if it's a special occasion, and we said, yeah, well yes, and sorry anniversary. We're very happy to be celebrating you guys. And they're like, okay, well, you know, maybe I'll get a little tree nothing guaranteed, and so at the end

of the meal, um, we ordered a dessert. But before we got the dessert, so it's like, well, is it a special occasion? We heard? We thought it was like somebody's special occasion. Was it a birthday or something. I can think it was a birthday, Bay, it's actually our anniversary. But yeah, it's special occasion. They're like, okay, well I brought you this little treat um from from us at

gwen Um. Usually it's for birthdays. So if anybody asks, let's say it was right, they're gonna come over like do you deserve the treat Curtis Stone comes out and he's like, hey, whose birthday is it? Mine? It's mine, sir, I have the lot I did. I did work out a bakery for many years and for a little minute they did a free cupcake on your birthday and started being like, you have to check their ID and I've got their actual birthday. They cannot have a free cupcake.

And so it would be like people would be like, well, my birthday is tomorrow, or I'm celebrating my birthday because it's the weekend, but it's on Wednesday or something, and you'd have to be like sorry, like I can't give you a freak. It's crazy. I was like, I was like, this is police in I was too much. I was like, I don't want to check ideas. It's your cake, it's your birthday papers. Please, I need to see your papers. Yeah,

no papers were checked oully thankfully. Well again, Eline, I had a very different for our date night because um I had asked specifically that we set our dates for this trip so I could finally see Woo Tang in concerts. They're on tour with NAS and they were playing in Atlanta right when we would have left, or l A right when we would have left. So I was like, can we just figure this out so I can see

you one place to the other. And I'm so glad I got to see them in Hollywood because we got to go to the Hollywood Bowl, which is an incredible venue. Diana's always wanted to see Woot Tang and I have always wanted to go to the Hollywood Bowl, so it lined up really well for us. Such a good show. Buster Rhymes was there. He was like, I don't know part of my high school soundtrack. So I was just like I was losing my ship. I just gotta say, nobody has still got it, like Buster Rhymes has still

got it. I mean, that was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Hilarious. He was like he was just I was like, I love yeah, and like all of the Wu Tang clan you know, of course without O d B obviously, but everyone else was there and nas was amazing, and it was just Buster Rhimes started playing break Your Neck, which is one of my favorites. And in two thousand one when I was a senior and I like teared up a little bit. I was like,

this is a very strange reaction to breaking neck. This is not a tear up song, but what very emotional breaking my youth, you know you freaking Red Man came out and he was rapping with Method Man, and I was like, oh ship, it was like, how high is happening right in front of me? Uh? Mary J. Blige came out and sang, and then LLL Cooled showed up. I'm like hitting eli because my phone was like full, so I couldn't take anymore pictures or video. So I was like it was his job, so I was like

banging on. I was really abusing him, but I was like so anyway, it was just such an amazing show. I was so so cool. I had the best time. I was just smiling, laughing the whole time. I was having a black cool Ja. I know him from the movie Toys, which is the first thing I think I want to But that was my introduction. However, you learned about l L as long as you learned about l L. But what was kind of crazy to me was that

it was the end of the show. You know, everyone's on stage, bust is there, nahs woo tang, They're all doing a song. Everyone's freaking out there in the middle of a cool verse and they cut their mikes because of course at an amphitheater they have noise or a nances and it was eleven PM, so they were like,

get the funk out, and I just could not. I was like looking at Wrap Legends getting their mics cut like somebody somebody had their hand on a big power switched like a circuit breakers throw and they were looking at their watch. And as soon as eleven, oh man, this show's over. The Next day, we all woke up, had another good breakfast, and we went to another museum.

This time we went to the Guffen Contemporary Museum. This might be one of my favorite places I've ever been because they had three exhibits going and they were all really really cool. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I'm a big fan now of Talamadonnie. She was the contemporary Artists. It was kind of the main exhibits. I guess you could say, um her, it's called biscuits and it was.

I was like, I think this is for me. It was very appealing time and it and it and it was like she was so fun on and like weird, a real weirdom but her work made you really think and laugh and I don't know, she just had such a good sense of humor and a lot of artistry, even though it was very and scatological. She has a whole series called ship mom Um and a lot of animations. One animation was a guy just hitting himself over and over again with his own giant dick. I was like,

oh my god, this sounds were crazy. Anyway, look her up because I'm a big fan of hers now. I would love to hear anyone else's thoughts about this person, because it was really really interesting. There was There was even that one of a Lady Made of Poopy who was went around this like fancy mansion, just like yeah, and just saying it out loud. It doesn't really seem like, you know, something you really want to see. We watched

the whole like eight minutes, eight minutes of it. It was just fascinating and like, honestly, the technique I was really just trying to dissect, like how would you do that's? How would you animate this? Same? Yeah, it was really really cool and yeah I was sitting there thinking about like what are you trying to tell me? But I really like, I don't know, it was accessible to me, and in a way that a lot of contemporary art

isn't always accessible. So I thought it was really cool and um, I'm just really interested and more of her stuff. She was so cool and that There was a really cool film exhibit by Garrett Bradley that was very amazing, like another very absorbing films and like a documentary style one and this one where they were all in the screens around this X axis, so you're watching like basically

four things happening at once. Yeah, it was interesting too because the projection technique that was being used on you know, you had these big sort of I guess screens in the middle room or cloth or you know, and it was being projected on them so that you were sort

of getting simultaneous views. It was actually very similar to the search and so a technique and yeah, yeah, I really like that execution of like multimedia inside of a physical three D space where you're taking video but you're also experiencing it like layered up like that, like writers. The effect is really wonderful too, because it's something that you cannot get online. You have to physically be in

the space to experience. So that's the kind of thing that I like about venues like this and museums, and you know, that's why I feel like the museum space will never be replaced by just the digital Yeah, definitely. No, I think you're right. That was a danger, I guess, but you know, I think people want to experience art

like that. Yeah, I mean, I remember I was never I was always kind of irritated with the idea of Jackson Pollock when I was taking art history classes in school and then on my study abroad Study Abroad alert were we went to the Guggenheim in Venice and I saw physical Jackson Pollock paintings, and I was like, damn it, I get it all right, I actually really like this and seeing the like dimension of it in the three D space and I could just feel the frustrations of

splattering paint and string and ship all over this canvas. Yeah, I was like, crap, now, I like Jackson, Now I get it. I'm one of those East Coast liberals. It finally happens, loving liberal. Hi four year old. I was like, you know what, No, he couldn't know he could. Sorry, every time it's like my kid could draw that, I'm like, not only did they not know? They couldn't? Not only did they? I'm sorry, did your four year old study

the history of art for six years? We did wrap it up with the third exa a bit Judith Bacca's World Walls, and this was very interesting from the seventies, eighties, from the eighties. Um, I think she painted the first one in like the late eighties, uh, something like that. And they're like huge movable murals, like huge, huge pieces of work. And the idea behind it was that she was like, oh, I think we should envision a better world.

Everyone wants a better world, but what does that actually look? Like, let's get artists to like think about what a better world looks like, and we'll painted, and she painted for giant murals, and then as they were touring the world, other global artists would add their own versions, you know,

like their own giant panels. So I think there was like eight altogether, eight or nine um and they were really cool too, because, like you said about Jackson plus almost the scale is what you need to go see because they're so overwhelming. But one of my one of my favorite ones was not my favorite one to look at,

but it was my favorite story. It was a mural done by artists from Israel and Palestine and they kind of have like talked about what they were going to do and then worked on their parts separately and then came together and put them together, and then argued a lot about what their artist's message would be about that part of the world and totally broke down in collaboration and they kind of were like, we're not speaking anymore, so their artist's message had to be we can't I

can't agree on an artist's message. So it was very much like kind of a microcosm of the actual situation with Israel and Palestine. Happening on a in a mural. It was just kind of that. That just felt so life imitating art, art imitating life. To me, I was like, this is too real, too real. That was such a cool museum. I mean just overall those three exhibits really impressive.

And then and and it was all three. It was all like there was a donation made the museum, some huge, massive donation and that just covered everyone's entrance fees for like the next several years. We got to walk around a little Tokyo after access right across the street, really delicious little bakery we got some snacks at and then uh, and then that night we got to go to Grand Master Records, which was like this awesome. It used to

be a recording studio. Uh. You know, everybody from Kanye to I don't know really no doubt, yes please, they were all recording there and now it's just this dope rooftop bar. And they had really good food too. We got a ton of food. We d oh my god, I just never stopped eating. Right. It felt very l a up there. Yes, well, beautiful night outside patio, Hollywood sign in the distance. Uh, Sean Penn sitting in your lap it was just, you know, you can't get more

Hollywood experience them. That's a little awkward for him to do that, and that was kind of rude. Yeah he doesn't ask. Yeah, I se yeah, it's nine Sean penn impersonators on the roof of that bar. Think they give. Is that popular? I'm Sean pain. Let me sit in your lab. Yeah. It was just like so, I guess we were drinking in the same spot that Gwen Stefani was singing about being a girl. Yeah, yeah, so I love that place. Honestly, I would go there, I think. Yeah, agreed,

So we closed our Grandmaster records. We had. It was Cherring Jason's last night. Now like we were going to be driving home, you know, sometime in the next day or so, but they would fly out in the morning. So we had one last hurrah, one final hurrah. One thing we didn't get to do in Vegas we never do at home. We had all been discussing the idea of going to a strip club. So Atlanta is the strip club capital of the US in many people's opinions,

that is true. I used to hear that if you get a dollar bill in Atlanta, it has been in a strippers song at least once. It's been a magic city. So initially we would thinking about going in this place called Bozo's Clown Room, jump bos Cloud Room, Boo, I'm not from Bozo, don't have a streeper? Does sound better? Jumbo's Clown Room is a pretty funny name for a strip club. To me, I was like, do we walk in and they look like clowns? Like? What is this

the themed vibe? Again? Maybe? Maybe? But then for some reason we ended up going to this place called seventh seventh of mal you know anyway, because it was close and it was and you know, we went in there and I gotta say, it's a strange, strange world in l A. Because there's no alcohol, that's right, are very strange.

If they show their entire bodies, they're not allowed to sell alcohol, right premise, And they showed their entire bodies, right, And if they do sell alcohol, it's just like a bikini thing, like they have to keep it all covered out right. Interesting, yeah, and this but it was just funny to me because you know, we only spent ton of time there, but it was funny to me that they were like, would you like to buy the Dancer or Gatorade, you know, like okay, sure, like you know, okay,

is it to drink minimum with no alcohol? Yeah? You had to buy these two bottles of water or Gatorade or Red Bull or whatever. And it was like, I don't even like coconut water, just like we got all this coconut water. I love coconut water, but I think that but that's not the issue of the issue was that I could not get a cocktail in there, right, Yeah, I need a cocktail to be in a strip club. I'm not that comfortable in the strip club myself. So I was like, if I'm not a little drunk, this

is not gonna work. We left quickly. Yeah. I was also very conspicuous myself because there was not a lot of people there, right, So I was like, oh, they're going to talk to us, and they did. I was like, don't talk to me. I'm not ready for this. So we ended up leaving controverts the I know. I was like, So we ended up leaving kind of quickly. They could have the lights up and it was a Thursday night,

so it was just like a Wednesday night, I guess. Yeah, so it's like there's no clients hell in their woodsoever. We walked in there and we were the only people that we walked in and they turned the music on. Oh my god, girls got up from sitting. It was just like, hey, look a lot of people are here coming in. It was awkward like in that way because I think we were expecting just kind of like a raucous kind of already happened in PROVCT exactly like ourselves,

and then that was not the pace at all. Yeah, I think that's a good way, because like you kind of just want to go in there and you want to see people mixing it up and having fine having drinks, and you really just want to have a few drinks and just be like I just want to see I want to poke my head in and see what it's what's going on in here? And instead there was no way that we could do that. Yeah, now you're we're focus exactly. Yeah, in here we were the focus. They

were like what do you guys? Well, what do you see? I was like, I want to crawl into my purse. That's what I want to do. I mean, I will say like once y'all left, there were more people that came in and it did fill up a little bit more and the girls were it looked like they were interacting with regulars, and there was like a couple there and they're just like sure, getting rowdy, you know. I was like, Okay, this is more what I was a little more than the empty room that we had walked into.

I mean, but like strip clubs, really, the two are a real toss up because if you don't go to them very often, you really don't know what you're gonna get, you know, especially because and they're also different. Each one is different. Yeah. I feel like if we had gone to jumbos and probably been it would have been a little something closer I would imagine to what we have

here in Atlanta. The Claremont, which is this sort of like naturally known, you know, historical spot with like some real characters like Blondie and like Anthony or Dane went there, yeah, and like it was like more of like a novelty, no shade to the place we went. But it was just more like it was like this is a serious business over here, like money, right, which not to sound like a dummy, like, well, yeah, of course you went to a but it's like there's different vibes you know,

in different places. And I think probably what we were looking for as tourists was probably more of just like a Claremont type thing where it's like, like, you know, novelty also have to stay. It's called seven veils. I didn't see one single veil. I mean, maybe it was the veil the seven veils of conscious thought, you know, maybe veils conscious understanding. Yeah, it's about you removing your veils, your metaphorical veils. Yeah, well that's deep. That's deep for

a strip club. I should have stayed. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have more enlightenment. Veil over your third eye has been removed. Yeah, I see the world so clearly now. Well that pretty much closed out our joint adventure. The next morning we took all the airport and uh and and of course Diana I had some further adventures, but that's for another day. Yeah. Um, what an amazing trip. I mean to have two friends with you, another couple, especially everybody's doing a couple of things. Um yeah, just

really at an incredible time. You don't want any single people in there ruining everything. You know. It's more that it's more that we as a couple would ruin it for single people, you know, probably be like, we want to do a date night and they're like cool, thanks, Okay, I guess I'll go fucking deal with myself. Um No, but it is cool. I don't think there's that many people you can travel with and have a good time the whole time and again still be friends with once

it's over. So it was just really cool to have that. I don't know, I felt lucky. I think a lot of people are like, oh, I'd love to travel with my friends, but I'd like to not hate them, so I will not do it well, I do feel after first, first of all, I agree with all those sentiments, and second of all, I think ELI should do a guide, his points guide at TikTok breakdown of like here's how you do the here's how you do it, here's how

you do the system. Here's a good points I can't decide if I want to do that to spread the good word or if I want to not do that, because if too many people do it, they're going to get rid of that program. I know that was my fear. Keep it to myself. This is my information. Free information should be well. People are more than welcome to pay me for this free information, and I will give it to them five dollars. Check our morning order to Ridiculous Room.

Yeah about Cherry Jason, we've taken a lot of your time, listeners, I think he's taking a good chunk of your time too. But but I hope you'll have fun joining us on as we reminisced through this amazing adventure that we all get to take together. Yes, celebrating couples, Yeah, celebrating anniversaries

and weddings, honeymoons and bachelorettes from bachelor parties. Happy birthday to our marriages, Hap birthday, my birthday, anyone where you get those cookies, show me your ID facing well, you know we will be back soon with another historical deep dive as we talk about Ridiculous Romances. You know the title of the show. Um, but please, I do hope you enjoyed us here. Let us know what your thoughts, send us your suggestions, tell us your stories of your travels.

We'd love to share him here on the show as well. We can reach out to us at ridick Romance at gmail dot com right or on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at Dianamite Boom and I'm at Oh great, it's Eli. The show is that ridic Romance Jerry and Jason? Would you like to tell the good people where they can follow you socially? I'm on social media as at Cherry del Row on this four bought nice post paintings and whatnot.

It under on Instagram normal world underscore and then Twitter is normal world underscore art and so but I mean, hey, just look, you know what it is though, I just said, I just put up a painting at Eli or something. So look for Eli. Smile at face. Let's see it. Uh. Jerry Jason both very talented artists, so you should definitely check out their work. Um, and we will catch you all soon. Another exciting episode of Ridiculous Romance. So thanks

for tuning in. Yeah wait, and hope you enjoyed our Ridiculous Romances on the road and we will see you next time. All right, thanks again, love you buy so long, friends, It's time to go. Thanks so listening to our show, tell your friends names Uncle Sandance to listen to a show ridiculous roll nance