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Just for the record, I need to let you know that I appreciate you

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being here always, love you, love you so much, thank you.

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I know, but a little m I A. But we are back in

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today and for the culture. Olivia Rodrigo drops her highly anticipated sophomore album Guts.

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I give my full review, and let's talk TV. We are ranking

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our best endgame TV couples and Bitch Mercury is finally out of retro grade.

0:53

It's I've been a mess truly, and in today in the Bay, one

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of my favorite Vietnamese restaurants in Oakland is closing its store after thirty eight years

1:00

in the town. So by all means, let's get to it. This

1:07

is for the culture, for the culture, for the culture. This is

1:12

where we pick a headline and ask if they she or he did it for

1:15

the culture. My girl done did it again. Olivia Rodrigo her sophomore album

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Guts out now everywhere, and I just want to say, Olivia Rodrigo officially

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is America's princess. She is America's princess. Mind you. This was like

1:32

highly anticipated just because of how much she came out swinging with this her debut

1:37

album Sour like to this day. Our podcast episode is brutal. I hear

1:41

where we reviewed it. It's like our most listen to a podcast episode.

1:46

And I was, I don't want to say I was worried, thinking,

1:49

you know, she wouldn't deliver on this sophomore album. But when you have

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such a good debut album, you just don't know what you're gonna get.

1:56

But I personally loved this album on the first listen. Mind you like,

2:01

it's just so fun. And I know there's like a bunch of memes about

2:07

like older people listening to Olivia Rodrigo just because you know she's a teenager.

2:12

It's giving. I said this before when we reviewed the Sour album that she

2:15

reminds me so much of like the Veronicas. I know she always gets comparisons

2:19

to like Avril Lavigne and just that like that diverse like pop punk rock music,

2:27

and to me, I think everyone can relate to it just because it

2:30

does like she perfectly captures the excitement and just like the uncertainty of entering and

2:38

being in your twenties, and we got a lot of that in Sour.

2:42

You know, her overall theme of like just dealing with relationships and just growing

2:47

up and being a human and making up mistakes and not literally like not being

2:52

a perfect person. That theme is still very much the same, but I

2:55

just feel like her pen is on another level. First of all, to

3:00

put some respect on Olivia Rodrigo's pat I loved Vampire at the moment it came

3:04

out. That was like one of the first singles, and we still play

3:06

it on Wild And you guys know, I love a Disney baby cursing it

3:10

up her out here builting fame. Fucker gives me so much life. She

3:15

I read that she almost actually cut that lyric out, and I'm so glad

3:19

she didn't, because I really he just makes the song for me. But

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I don't know, there's something about this sophomore open that I feel like she's just a lot more mature in a sense, more relatable. One of my

3:30

favorites on there, I have like a top three. Love is Embarrassing is definitely up there for me right now. Shout outs to Hunter Harris, one

3:36

of my favorite pop culture writers. I subscribed to her substack hung Up.

3:39

But she has like this ongoing quote where she always says, if a man

3:44

has not embarrassed you, he has just not embarrassed you yet, Okay,

3:49

true words cannot have been said. And that's the overall vibe I'm getting,

3:53

and it love is embarrassing. I actually really do like Vampire. Vampire is

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still up there for me get him Back. We need to put respect on

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Olivia's pen. That's why I'm saying. I think this album, she just

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grew a lot more and like the pen went so crazy. The songwriting is

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just different this time around, Like get Him Back is a song about wanting

4:14

revenge on someone, like someone did her dirty and she wants to pay him

4:18

back. But in the song, it's the time you read the title and

4:21

you think it's about getting your man back, like I want to give my

4:25

man back. Shakespeare could never. Shakespeare could never put some respect on Olivia's

4:30

pen. I don't know, I really like this one. I know we still need more time to sit with it in regards of, you know,

4:33

dubbing it album of the year or you know, having those favorite records and

4:38

just overall how it performed. But I do think, you know, the

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sophomore slump is very much a real thing. It could ruin an artist's momentum,

4:46

you know, whether you take too damn long to put that album out got us waiting too long or fit sounds too much the same from your first

4:51

one. You showed zero growth. And I just think she definitely proved that

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she's not all hype. Know. The successful Sour was definitely not a fluke,

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and she continues to you could tell how inspired she is by singers like

5:08

Lord and Taylor and Avril Levine. And I'm still gonna keep comparing her for

5:13

the ronicas because I just get so much of that. And it's just another

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fun album that is crazy relatable. It's one of those ones you want to

5:20

be singing at the top of your lungs while you're driving or in the shower.

5:25

So I give it. I give it a eight and a half out

5:29

of ten right now. I might come back to it. Christy's gonna be

5:32

back next week and we're gonna talk more about it, because I know he really liked this album too. But I say, Olive Rodrigo very much doing

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it for the culture, ghost stream guts, let's talk TV. I just

5:44

want to put it out there again. They need to pay these damn writers.

5:48

Every time I log onto HBO on the home page, they'd be trying

5:54

to feed me straight bullshit. This time it was I had to take a

6:00

screenshot because I sent it to my friend and I was like, bro, they need to pay these writers. Megan the Stallion and versus Tory Lane's five

6:05

shots, get the latest, I'll get the inside story on the shocking shooting

6:09

of Global Music Start Megan the Stallion like, and then they have the Kim

6:14

and Kanye divorce and the Johnny Depp one, Like, Bruh, it's giving

6:17

PVS special, it's giving YouTube, it's giving cheap, it's given reaching,

6:24

it's giving We're the fuck over it. Nobody wants to watch a documentary on

6:28

the ship like I hate it. Pay the damn writers. I do want

6:31

to talk about this real quick though I can't find the Twitter thread, but

6:33

I saw it was trending up. People were kind of talking about the best

6:38

End Game couples on TV of all time, and I just have to share

6:42

my love again for this couple because not only do I feel like they were

6:46

underrated or at least overshadowed by another couple on the show, but I low

6:49

key feel like they put the show on their back. I'm talking about Monica

6:51

and Chandler from Friends. If you make it part of your personality to tell

6:56

people that Friends isn't funny or how much you hate it every time someone brings

6:59

up Friends, I'm not talking to you. Okay, we get it,

7:02

you don't think it's funny. There's definitely some problematic moments in the show now

7:05

that I've rewatched it over a hundred times, but whatever, I'm not talking

7:10

about that right now. Them getting overshadowed by Ross and Rachel. They're kind

7:15

of like the highlighted couple throughout the whole show. Like even the early seasons,

7:18

Ross is in love with Rachel, couldn't get her. You know,

7:23

when they finally hook up, it was a thing. They were on a

7:26

break, Like when they finally break up, that was a huge thing.

7:30

And can I just say, maybe they were on a break, but not

7:32

even for twenty four hours. This man did not even wait twenty four hours

7:35

until he decided to go sleep with someone else. Robin is trash and I

7:39

will die on that hill. First of all, he's light weight, annoying,

7:42

very whiny. I mean, let me count the ways of how much

7:46

this man is trash. Hooked up with one of his students, maybe not

7:50

under rage. She was probably barely eighteen, though he definitely was probably twice

7:55

her age, and he's a professor, Like, that's someone professional for you

7:58

to hook up with one of your college students. But luckily, I guess

8:01

her dad was Bruce Willis, so we got that star cameo. But at

8:05

trash. He hooked up with Rachel's sister. Okay, they didn't sleep together,

8:11

but still even you entertaining the idea of sleeping or going on a date

8:18

or giving any attention to your ex's sister, even though it was Reese Weatherspoon.

8:22

Again, we love a star cameo. Garbage, trash. He hooks

8:28

up with Janice. Maybe he didn't know that Chandler was looking up with a

8:35

sister Monica. This isn't the beginning. Before it was out garaj you hooked

8:39

up with one of your best friend's exes. Another violation against friend code,

8:45

bro code. This man is garbage. And then, like I said,

8:48

the whole thing, we were on a break, but it wasn't even twenty

8:52

four hours. Haven't even passed before you decided to go hook up with some

8:54

other bitch. The man is trash. I feel like I have some other

8:58

ones, but those are off the top of the Dome reasons why Ross is

9:01

trash. I don't think he was that great to Rachel, and I just

9:05

think Chandler Monica had way better chemistry. Also, Friends is my comfort show.

9:09

When I see I've probably watched the whole season over a hundred times. I'm not even kidding. I watched a shit like damn near every night.

9:13

It's it's actually sad needs to be looking into. But I don't watch the

9:20

full seasons like season one through season I don't even know how many fucking seasons

9:24

are ten. Anyways, when I decide to rewatch, I always start season

9:30

four, season five, like just before Monica and Chandler hook up, because

9:33

the episodes of them one hooking up in London up until Ross finding out that

9:39

they've gotten together, and then picking back up to when they finally decide to

9:43

get married or when Chandler decides to propose to Monica the best episodes in the

9:48

entire show. That whole build up comedy golds, and their chemistry is just

9:54

on point. I love Monica and Chandler down, I will forever fight that

9:58

their relationship was ten times times better than Ross and Rachel. But also they

10:01

are one of my favorite end game couples A close I should say too this

10:09

okay, Jim and Pam are definitely up there for me, even though when

10:11

you rewatch the Office a couple of times you do relize. In the beginning,

10:16

Pam was definitely on some bullshit. She definitely played a lot of games

10:18

with my boy Jam. Maybe he deserved a little better. But Niagara Part

10:22

one and two Top five Office episodes for me, like hands down, do

10:28

I kick an all girl in the face when he's walking down the aisle?

10:33

Comedy goals, even Oscar, like hiding the Vogue moves. That whole scene

10:39

was just perfect. Them doing the viral wedding dance to Chris Brown's Forever will

10:46

Forever be embedded in My brain Red Free? And Jim just loves Pam down

10:54

Like, do you ever just think about how he bought Pam's wedding ring a

10:58

week after they started dating. That's a lot lot it can all be so

11:01

simple. I don't care even though Pam was playing games if you really dissect

11:05

a relationship. But as far as Jim's love for her relationship goals, okay,

11:13

they're top two for me. A close one though that I was having

11:16

trouble with is Jess and Nick. I love New Girl. I haven't watched

11:20

that one in a long time. Maybe I'll rewatch a New Girl. But

11:24

the only reason I'm not like fully giving them the award is just how rushed

11:28

the end of New Girl was, Like the part where they when they broke

11:33

up the final time, I guess when he starts dating like Olivia Nun I

11:37

don't even I feel like they broke up a second time after that. I

11:39

don't know, they were not together for a minute. It just didn't make any sense, And I feel like when they got together at the end the

11:46

season was rushed. The cast members tell you that too, that they hated the way it ended. New Girl fans are constantly trying to petition for them

11:52

to redo the final season, or at least the final episode. But I

11:56

do love me some. Nick and Jess do love me some. Nick and

11:58

Jess another couple, endgame couple that I need to at least mention. But

12:03

I'm having a little trouble ranking like if they're endgame couple of all time.

12:07

Easa and Lawrence Insecure is up there with friends in regards to like me rewatching

12:13

a show an unhealthy amount of times like, is this your comfort show or

12:18

is this depression? Or are you rewatching seasons this many times? It's another

12:24

one I kind of just watch whenever I'm going to bed, and that one

12:28

I will rewatch all the way through. In the beginning, when I am

12:33

I rewatching of Insecure, I would always skip the last season, But lately

12:37

it's gotten so worse that I just I watched the last season two. Even

12:39

though I feel like the last season was definitely rushed and a tadbit trash.

12:43

Ethan Lawrence definitely had better chemistry. I think when I was watching the show

12:46

in real time, just because of how fine Nathan was, I did want

12:50

them to somehow work out. But rewatching their chemistry is not the same as

12:54

Easa and Lawrence, and the episode that's just Easa and Lawrence. I forgot

12:58

what it's called the one and not the very last episode I think season five,

13:03

like the one before the last episode the last season. I mean that

13:05

episode is a top three episode for me, just the way it was beautifully

13:09

shot and it did start making you like, whatever your opinion was on Daniel

13:13

or Nathan, it really showed their chemistry and just like them being a different

13:18

spot in life, like they clearly needed that time apart to find themselves and

13:22

get their ship together, and here they are thriving and clearly still in love,

13:26

and it was at that moment where it's like they need to be endgame

13:30

and then of course a controller finds out she's pregnant, and then they rushed

13:35

the last season and it was kind of like, eh, but I do

13:37

love Lauren Anissa. I feel like I feel like I watched Insecure too much

13:41

to not mention them. You let me know your favorite endgame couples on TV

13:46

on our Instagram as Underscore FTR pod. You can hit me up at Angelina

13:50

on air, or you've probably got your phone out right now, leave a

13:54

message in the comments, especially if you're listening on Apple podcasts. I said,

14:00

bitch, if you wanted to go to Taylor's, just tell her brother

14:05

you want to go to Taylors, right you said that? Oh? Hell yeah, man, I laid it out right, I says, I say,

14:11

I says, I said, bitch, bitch. Has anyone else been

14:18

feeling like in a fog like these past couple of weeks just seemed like I

14:24

don't know, like not real, I don't know. I feel like I'm

14:26

in a weird space, Like I don't have a feeling that something bad's going

14:30

to happen, but I feel like something's about to happen, not bad,

14:33

like I'm not getting bad juju. I just been feeling weird, like I've

14:37

been in a weird bubble, and I feel like a lot has been happening

14:41

too. So on Friday, me and Chris we're gonna record the podcast,

14:46

so ready, this man came with his ring light. I was like,

14:50

okay, perfect, we need to get back on it because we missed last week. Guys. I literally had a full down mental breakdown, like I

14:58

was kry. I also was like in the middle the peak of my peridots,

15:07

okay, midgets tap dancing in my uterus, cramps on one hundred thousand

15:13

emotions high as ever, I've also been dealing with a lot, like I

15:16

want to break down everything that went down this past weekend because it's a mixture

15:20

of like the most the greatest things, like a really happy time and a

15:24

really really sad time. But it's not personal to me. This is very

15:28

much other people's business, but people that I'm very close with and kind of

15:31

interwined with my schedule. Basically, I had two very important things and two

15:37

of my best seas that I need to be there for it, and I

15:39

double blucked on them. And I was in a predicament and I was panicking

15:43

and I didn't know what to do, and it just trickled from there.

15:48

I endable working out. I had amazing weekend. My best friend, my

15:50

best best friend, naughtyf since like kindergarten, she's getting married. I'm her

15:54

maid of honor and we said yes to the dress and I we got turned.

16:00

On Sunday, she got a little tipsy, but she ended up going

16:02

home. She's like remodeling her house and everything. But me and one of the other bridesmaid bridesmaids decided to go out to the dB to the Dirtsy Bird

16:12

after already drinking like the majority of the day. You guys, I have

16:15

a new role. I cano drink on Sundays. I haven't thrown up in

16:18

forever. I had one of those moments where like I needed to sprint to

16:22

the bathroom because I had the spins and I was trying. I don't know

16:25

if I said this before, but I will get in every position. I

16:29

will be in fetal position. I will stand on my head dual hand stand

16:33

before I decided to throw up. I hate hate throwing up. And I

16:38

was like sleeping the majority of the day, and I think I was like,

16:41

Okay, I have to get up. And I stood up and I had the spins and I literally like I had to book it to the bathroom.

16:47

And it was one of those thropes where it's like just water because there's nothing in my stomach, because it was like freaking two pm and I haven't

16:52

eaten all day. Anyways, new role normally drinking on the days that we

16:57

have work the very next day. That's the new rule. But anyways,

17:03

I do want to talk about all my crazy mental breakdowns. I think I'll

17:07

wait till next wee though, when Chris comes back, because again I just

17:10

don't know how to properly word it and explain everything that happened, because again

17:14

I'm like a little for me my business. I'll tell you guys everything,

17:17

but like when it's other people involved, even though it's not that big of a deal and it all worked out, I'm still a little like, oh,

17:22

how do I share this to me? You know what I mean?

17:27

But either way, Mercury was definitely a retrograde the day after I had my

17:33

mental breakdown. Let me pull it up right now, because I sent it

17:36

to my friend my horoscope very much. I'm point, oh, I don't

17:41

have it. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,

17:45

hold on, leading Mas. I know. I said it to my co

17:49

work also because I'm crazy. It said interrupted routines are frustrated your progress.

17:55

During Mercury's three weeks retro gay, that's almost a whole month. Today,

17:59

Mercury goes to wrecked. What have recent inconveniences taught you? Some of your

18:03

habits were unstainable and inefficient. Scheduling errors force you to slow down and reevaluate

18:08

your priorities. That's literally what happened to me. You guys, now you

18:11

can determine your next steps. So I'm hoping that's all over and I'm ready

18:15

to get back. And in my GM, I'm always talking about how I

18:19

need to work out, I need to get back on it. But I

18:22

truly do like I'm feeling like, okay, we we I have a peloton

18:26

sitting in my living room right now. It's a code hanger, but it's

18:29

sitting there, and I'm like, usually my excuses that I'm too busy.

18:32

But it's like, no, I'm having a good I'm having a good three

18:36

hour block at home where I could either go on a hot girl walk or get on that damn peloton. And I'm deciding to take naps because I've been

18:41

in this weird fog. You guys, I hate naps. I don't even

18:45

like naps lately. I've been getting up. I'll answer some emails, maybe

18:48

I'll make me some coffee, and then I go and lay my ass right

18:52

back in bed, and then I'll sleep until like the cut off of me

18:56

going to work, like I'm leaving five twenty five thirty, and you should

19:00

get to work like two hours early, so I could want to like hanging

19:03

out with On, talking to him, prepping for my show, my social

19:07

calendar, and I just I've been there's been such throwaway days this past week,

19:12

so I need to get back on that girl has been booked in busy

19:15

though. For weddings, I feel like I've worked a wedding every Saturday.

19:18

It was really cool. Not this last Saturday, but this Saturday before I

19:23

worked a wedding, and right away the night before I was looking at the

19:27

timeline and I noticed one of the last names, and I was like,

19:30

oh my god, I think that's my friend from middle school, like her

19:33

brother. And then I was going down the bridesmaid names and there she was.

19:37

Me and this girl were really close in elementary school, got even closer

19:41

in middle school, but then met her had to fallen out and like or

19:45

I guess in elementary we kind of had to fallen out, and then middle

19:48

school, like it was like all's forgotten. I was really excited to see

19:51

her because she was like a year above me. I'll never be get the

19:56

first time she saw me. She was so excited to see me and my

20:00

friends that I was like best friends with at the moment saw me and like

20:03

ran to come see me because it was like the first day of school,

20:07

and like interrupted her talking to me and kind of bumped into her, and I remember her like like it was really they did that. I think everyone

20:12

was just excited to see each other, like that was this is like dumb

20:15

middle school shit like that had happened. And then there was another time where

20:19

she had like got picked up and she thought I was mugging her. It

20:22

was a whole thing, and like me and this girl almost fought, but

20:26

it never got to a crazy point, and like we still follow each other

20:30

on socials and like still have a lot of love for each other. So it was cool seeing her and like rekindling. I saw like other people from

20:34

high school too in elementary school, and you guys, I got turned at

20:38

this wedding like was I hosting or was I a guess because once the last

20:42

like major announcement happened, a lot of my friends they were like, let's

20:45

go take a shot. Like even the bride and groom were like feeding us

20:48

drinks, and I was like on the dance floor with them. Let's let's

20:53

see you guys. Overall, it was a really good time. But it

20:56

felt really really good finally, like seeing my elementary school like beasties who I

21:03

had this like weird falling out with over like nothing, because you know,

21:06

it's like stupid childhood shit. And even though we were cool now, like

21:08

we never had that moment of like talking in person and like telling each other

21:11

how much we love each other, so we'd like definitely had that moment even

21:15

pre drinks, Like we had that moment and then carried on having that moment

21:18

after we were turt It was just a really good time and like seeing everyone.

21:22

I even made some new friends and these are like my South Hayward girls,

21:26

so like it was just it's so cool when you like see people from

21:32

your childhood or just like remind you like where you grew up, you know what I mean. It's like I remember one of the main girl like wanted

21:37

to take a picture with me and we like took a break the photo and

21:40

she was like, okay, now with South Hayward one, it was just like throwing up South Hayward. Like it just reminded me of like when I

21:45

was a kid, and it was really good seeing those people. So I've

21:48

been having really good and semi bad weekends. This last week, I just

21:52

was like in a fog. I don't know. It's funny because another friend

21:56

that I'm super close with like called me the other day and stole her words.

22:00

She literally said, I'm gonna fog. It feels like nothing's real right

22:03

now. So I think it is marcury in a Gatorade or whatever. Let

22:08

me know if you've been filing that way. Okay. On the Graham at

22:11

Underscore FTR pod, I'm at Angelina on air. We really excited though.

22:15

I think this Friday, I got a double check my calendar. I'm out

22:18

to interview Billy motherfucking Eyelash, Billie Eilish shout out to the New Hitlist again.

22:23

That's every night at eleven pm everywhere. I think in the next couple

22:27

of months it truly is going to be everywhere. But right now it's like

22:30

on I think like fifty stations, but a lot of big market stations like

22:33

while ninety frames one of them here in San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit or

22:40

some of like the more big another other bigger markets as well. So I've

22:45

been getting all these like amazing interviews. I got the interview Selina Gomez.

22:48

Of course they're like on zoom and they're like ten to fifteen minutes tops.

22:51

But I'm still so blessed that I'm in this slang. Like it sucks because

22:55

a lot of these people when I have the interviews are not necessarily in San Francisco. So like, I'm so blessed to be able to interview these people

23:00

that I love and are these huge, huge stars. But nothing beats it

23:03

in person interview you just get the vibes and you can carry on going,

23:08

you know, like one question can lead to a freaking thirty minute conversation and

23:15

lead you to a whole another lane. And when I do these Zoom interviews,

23:18

a lot of the times the record labels like I have to send them

23:21

questions in advance that they can approve because these are also huge stars, and

23:26

like when you're on Zoom, it's hard to get carried away in the conversation

23:29

even in person, if even if it was strict, like if it was a huge star, where like I kind of still needed to get some my

23:33

approval for my questions. In person, you could very much lead off another

23:37

way into another conversation. It's just a little harder to do that on Zoom.

23:41

But still so blessed and excited, and I mean, what the fuck

23:45

Billie Eilish, So I'm excited about that if there's any questions that you might

23:48

have for her. For the most part, I'm doing like my research and

23:51

it's going to be the questions that I want to ask. But you never know. Sometimes the fans, you guys, I have a really really good

23:55

ones, So shoot them to me. I think I posted on my Instagram story today at Lena on air and again, or we could leave a comment

24:02

in the podcast comments or at underscore FTR pod on a gram. This is

24:08

today in the Bay. What's your host and Jelina Today in the Bay,

24:26

You guys, I am so sad. Okay, I might be pronouncing it

24:29

wrong, don't judge me late. I always say lay chavelle, but it

24:32

could be lay chavell. That's the way it's spelled, where I could be

24:34

wrong both ways. Either way, it's a bomb. That's Viennamese Restaurant in

24:37

Oakland. I have a special place in my heart for this restaurant because my

24:44

cousin, Desiree, who I look up to, you like, she was

24:48

like one of my first idols, you know. She was like the cool older cousin. Me and her have a significant She's not a hulla older than

24:55

me, but I feel like growing up like I was like maybe like a preteen, like twelve thirteen, and she was very much like in her twenties

25:00

going out to the club. But me and her would we had like such

25:03

a special bond, like she was really my friend even when I was younger.

25:07

And she's always say stuff like, oh my god, you're so mature for your age, Like I love Angelina, her having Angelina around, and

25:11

she had another best friend. It was funny, like they used to be

25:14

like getting ready to go to the club, and I'd be hanging out with them like all day until like, of course they had to go out,

25:18

and it's like, oh, well, we can't take Angelina with us. She's just such a good role model. Like she's one of the funniest people

25:25

I've ever met in my life. Every time we're together, it's NonStop laughter.

25:29

She now is married and has a son, and they're just like the

25:33

cutest family ever. And her husband Ron, I don't know a better man

25:38

like he is perfect for her. They just truly love each other. You

25:44

know, they're there are a couple that you see them and they're just having fun. They're making jokes. And I do have a saucepot for Ron too,

25:49

because I remember my dad, the one that raised me, that passed

25:53

away, Rest in peace. He's such an overprotector. He's a big teddy

25:59

Barry like he could be. He you know, was very soft in a

26:02

lot of ways, but he looks like a scary man and he did not

26:04

play when it comes to the girls in the family, like me, my

26:07

cousin Desiree. He will give you a hard time if we bring a guy

26:12

around. And my dad always had a lot of respect for Ron, because

26:15

when they had first met Ron pulled my dad to the side and like basically

26:19

told him how serious he is about deser and how much he loves her,

26:22

and like not asking first permission, but just I don't know, they just

26:26

had like some kind of conversation. And I remember my dad telling me that,

26:29

like he had like a different kind of respect for Ron, and he always walked with Ron and Ron this is a good person. Like my dad's

26:33

a good people reader. I'm a good people reader, Like I think that's

26:36

where I get it from. So we love Ron, we love Desrae,

26:38

we love their whole family. But I've been a bridesmaid many times now,

26:45

Oh it was a bridesmaid, never the bride. But that was the first

26:48

wedding I was a bridesmaid in, and it was one of the best weddings

26:51

of all time, not just because I love those people, but even they're friends in our wedding party, Like I remember crying and cracking up during all

26:56

of the speeches, Like you could just tell there are a couple that's so

27:00

loved by their friends and family, you know, being when my dad's side

27:04

of the family and just dancing. It just was a perfect night and being

27:10

able to be Desire's bridesmaid with such an honor. And I remember after the

27:12

wedding like the kind of after party. It was like again just the adults.

27:18

At this time, I was a little older. I don't know how old I was exactly. I feel like early twenties. Maybe I was even

27:23

younger. I don't even know if I was twenty one yet I still like

27:29

was considered a kid ish, you know, definitely not to be going out

27:33

with adults. But I'll never forget. They went to that restaurant afterwards,

27:36

and I got to go because hello, I'm Desire's favorite, and we just

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had such a good time. But I remember the garlic noodles being like the best thing I ever had in the world. And a lot of you guys

27:45

know I used to work at Lake Challe in Oakland, which is right there

27:48

on Lake Merritt. But I never knew about Lake Chale until did not even

27:53

apply. I remember it was on the news or something. I don't I

27:56

don't remember. I'm like starting at this in my life, I was like

28:00

starting to go out to Oakland more like with my friends, like starting getting

28:04

to go out period and like seeing what the whole Bay area is about.

28:08

Like I really was not outside. I was. I want to say I

28:11

was sheltered, but like straight out of high school, I had a boyfriend

28:15

and me and him were together for like three four years, and I was

28:18

in college and I had like two jobs, So I really wasn't going out

28:22

like that like I would turn up with my family. But I wasn't like hitting up bars. I wasn't doing things outside like I was in a full

28:27

lout relationship. I was a full time student and I always worked two to

28:32

three jobs at a time. So I feel like once being him broke up, like I really and like got to hang out and got to go places,

28:37

like I really got to be outside more. And I don't remember the

28:41

first time someone like mentioned like Slate to me. I'll never forget being like

28:44

you mean that Lasha Thol, Like what the fuck is like Chalet that restaurant.

28:48

I just always loved it. It was always that girl to me. So I'm sad they had an announced that they're going to be closing their doors

28:55

for good. They've been in Oakland for thirty eight years. It's a famous,

29:00

very good Vietnamese restaurant, but a little it's like a high scale.

29:03

I'm not like crazy high scale, but it's a nicer restaurant. The part

29:07

that kills me, though, is like they're closing not because of the pandemic,

29:11

which you would think for these like small businesses or like restaurants I've been

29:15

around forever. They're like mom and popped owned the owners like put on Facebook.

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Wait, let me actually bring the post up so I can read it

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to you. How do I pause this? Okay, After thirty eight years,

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Lay Chavelle or La Chavell and Downtown Oakland is closing its doors. While

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this chapter of La Chaval comes to a close. The Tran family they name

29:33

off the whole damn family. Thank you for your support, and we'll be

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looking for another location. Continue to serve you their famous dishes. Last call

29:41

at one zero zero seven Clay Street will be Saturday, September thirtieth. Mark

29:47

your calendar for one final mill reservations at five one zero seven sixty three eight

29:52

four nine five. So I feel like I definitely need a planet trip over

29:55

there. But I was seeing the owner, one of the owner's Sun Tran.

29:59

He was on the news say how this is not because of the pandemic,

30:02

but because of crime and all the break ins that's been happening at their

30:06

location in like this recent year, like in the past couple of months.

30:10

And it's like, you, guys, I'm like Oakland's number one supporter,

30:15

you know, I think he is the best city in the world. Like I will always claim my city, but I have a lot of love for

30:18

Oakland just because of the many years I worked there. Like I'm forever going

30:22

to be a East Bay girl, and I'm always going to be East Bay biased. But I really feel right now, both Oakland and San Francisco are

30:26

just down so so fucking bad. Like the crime is crazy. I hate

30:32

every time I see the Bay Area trending on Twitter, it's always about some funcsha that's happening in the streets. I saw club both in Oakland and San

30:37

Francisco like today and yesterday trending that like a video of someone getting robbed in

30:44

broad daylight, like that's been happening so often. I didn't know him personally,

30:48

but a lot of my close friends grew up with someone who recently passed

30:52

away in a shooting, and he very much was like, at least from

30:55

I've seen nothing but like amazing messages about this person on social media for the

30:59

past two weeks of him just being a really good man. So it's so

31:03

unfortunate what is happening in the Bay area right now and the crime scene that's

31:07

going on right now, And I mean, we definitely need to do better.

31:10

But yeah, one of the owners said that is the main reason of

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closing, Like, I don't want you all to get it twisted. It's not because of the pandemic. It's because we can't continue to operate at this

31:19

location. So that's unfortunate. Other should going out in the Bay Area.

31:25

Oh my god, you guys, I told you I was. I've been big snooze girls. I'm actually like out here taking naps, which I never

31:30

do. Today I had woke up, I took a nap in like four,

31:37

which is or like three ish, which is terrible because I usually leave

31:40

my house at four and today I kept snoozing snows and snows, and I

31:44

finally woke up like five fifteen. It was like, Okay, we need

31:47

to leave by five thirty year we're gonna be late to work, So mind

31:51

you. I'm in the crib the whole day. I don't know what it's like outside. I don't know if it's sunny, if it's cold, I

31:56

come out coughing up a lung yo. I didn't about the fires until literally

32:00

I stepped outside today. Every news letter I know it's from Oregon, and

32:06

then it keeps saying northern California. I'm like, we live in northern California. Sounds so stupid saying that on air, But the fires in Oregon fucking

32:14

up the air over here, Like the air is so bad. And I

32:16

always we always make jokes that, like the studios here at the radio station

32:22

are giving jail because we had to like move to the fifth floor. And

32:24

it looks so much more modern. The board looks way nicer. We have

32:29

these like cool lights, but the screens and the walls, it's a little

32:34

too modern for me. Like we have one, two, three, four,

32:37

five, six seven. There's eight computer screens, biggest ones, and

32:42

they all just have a big gest logo. This as well a ninety for nine and like all across I heard, like I could go to New York

32:45

right now and their studios look exactly the same, and you can like change

32:50

the logo so like technically, if I need it to track a show,

32:52

I could go somewhere and like make it look live. And if you see

32:55

my videos of like being on air, you kind of know what it looks

32:58

like a little bit getting two with this. Oh, but I always say

33:01

that it is giving jail because there's no windows, Like you can't see outside.

33:06

What's the one, Like I don't know, I have to go to weather dot com. We'll look at the on my app on my phone or

33:13

remember what it was like thirty minutes or maybe two hours ago when I finally

33:15

was outside. But I came in today and I don't know if it's all

33:20

my clothes, but like I've had a headache all day because I could still smell the smoke, like it's still like in my brain. So they did

33:28

put out a air advisory sow what it's called. That's out today, and

33:34

they said it's still gonna be lingering tomorrow, which is probably when you'll finally

33:37

listen to this episode. Except for a day WAT shout out toward like committed

33:40

listeners, like the moment I upload a episode, I'm always shook about this.

33:45

They'll say, like there's been like two, three, five, listens like in the first hour, and I'll be putting these up a little late

33:51

sometimes. Sorry, I'm gonna try to be better than that. But like you know, I finished my show and sometimes I'll record it after my live

33:57

show, which is like around eleven eleven thirty, so it's like very much

34:00

midnight. Want to put this out, So I really appreciate you guys. But yes, Tuesday the eighteenth, which is tonight, in nineteenth which it's

34:07

about to be an hour, this air advisory is still going to be going

34:12

on, so be careful there. If you don't need to be outside, don't because the streets is walling out and there is trash right now, stay

34:19

your ass inside. That's it for today though today in the day. We'll

34:22

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34:54

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Air. I will talk to you next week. I love you, Bye

35:13

bye. I bought those vote tickets the day I saw that YouTube video,

35:21

I knew we need to back up. Plan the boat was actually planned C the church, Plan B, and Plan A was marrying her a long long

35:29

time ago, pretty much the day I met her. Ricket if our pricket,

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active, just want no active on the raging down record alway