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Speaker 3: How you doing? I gotta say now not to interrupt
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Speaker 3: that you're looking for? So, but I had a late
Speaker 3: night last night. That's where I'm going to take us first.
Speaker 3: So the focus for today is going to be trying
Speaker 3: to as the weather is turning, getting us out and
Speaker 3: about a little bit more, not to steal that tie
Speaker 3: from somebody else here on KFI that works the morning hour.
Speaker 3: But anyway, last night it was out super super late.
Speaker 3: And it's because are you familiar with the Grunion Do
Speaker 3: you know the Grunnion run? Yes? Yes, so it was
Speaker 3: the first one it is as a kid. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you got to go out and
Speaker 3: do it again if you've never done it before. Cabrio
Speaker 3: State Beach near the like in the South Bay La
Speaker 3: Harbor is an easy one. I've done it there. They
Speaker 3: also have it in Long Beach. That's where we went.
Speaker 3: Actually it was Cabrea Beach, which is and it's the
Speaker 3: easiest one and it's specifically because California Department of Fish
Speaker 3: and Wildlife are always out there to make sure that
Speaker 3: everything is going smoothly with it. So was there last
Speaker 3: night until this early morning. And that was the first run.
Speaker 3: So it started on the fourteenth, and it went through
Speaker 3: last night into this morning. And so the next one
Speaker 3: is coming up Saturday, the twenty ninth. So not to
Speaker 3: steal Natica's you know, weekend idea, but for the final
Speaker 3: weekend of the month, Saturday and Sunday, you'll be able
Speaker 3: to catch it for that. If you're looking to get
Speaker 3: out about so pretty much Grunnion are the it's and
Speaker 3: it kind of doesn't go with the only fan story
Speaker 3: we had earlier on. But the reason that they are
Speaker 3: coming and the Grunni and are running our fish that
Speaker 3: spawn in the sand in the shallow waters of the
Speaker 3: coastal areas here of southern California. So you're literally, I mean,
Speaker 3: I Sam, oh no, Sam's not there. I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: can I get let's get it on. Oh you are there, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm here, Okay, But I was just like, this is
Speaker 3: like definitely very white music style. So because the thing
Speaker 3: is is it has to be late at night when
Speaker 3: they're out there running up onto the beach and they're spawning.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: So it's a really good time if you've never experienced before.
Speaker 3: It is definitely one of those quintessential coastal southern California things.
Speaker 3: A lot of schools back in the day used to
Speaker 3: there we go, thank you, there we go, Sam my first,
Speaker 3: my last, my everything, there you go. But this is
Speaker 3: something that I would highly recommend. You can get details
Speaker 3: about it at Nick Polio Keno this week with a
Speaker 3: Nick on Instagram. The Lincoln Bio has more details for
Speaker 3: you there. But like, so you've done the grunning and run.
Speaker 3: It's been a few years, but you can can. It's
Speaker 3: a very interesting and unique experience. Oh, it is that.
Speaker 2: And I didn't really fully process it as a child, right,
Speaker 2: it was a school of field trips.
Speaker 3: Yes, And the thing is what's odd is you actually
Speaker 3: can care them or can catch them with your bare hands,
Speaker 3: and they can be consumed. Although I you know, I'm
Speaker 3: not no, I'm a huge seafood person. This is probably
Speaker 3: not the one especially because and not just that, but
Speaker 3: you know, if they're getting it on, I don't want
Speaker 3: to interrupt they're spawning rituals. So but that is something.
Speaker 3: But if you're looking to do something still in the
Speaker 3: South Bay, and this is from my favorite botanic garden
Speaker 3: here in southern California, the South Coast Botanic Garden, which
Speaker 3: has a unique story. We've talked about it here later
Speaker 3: with mo Kelly. It was a trash site in the
Speaker 3: South Bay originally and it has since become a botanic
Speaker 3: garden and it's really they did the really cool during
Speaker 3: the pandemic. They had the disco. They was chic. They
Speaker 3: did a whole like outdoor disco socially distant thing that
Speaker 3: was incredible. You Also, they had the trolls, which I
Speaker 3: talked about, like the eight you know, several stories tall trolls.
Speaker 3: And what they've got coming up this weekend is going
Speaker 3: to be a celebration of everything agave. So even though
Speaker 3: I don't drink anymore, agave is a delicious sweet nectar
Speaker 3: that can eventually become tequila. So that is something to
Speaker 3: check out. That's in the South Bay. It's really really inexpensive.
Speaker 3: It's fifteen bucks for the general public, or if you're
Speaker 3: looking for a little bit more of a tipsy experience,
Speaker 3: VIP tickets are thirty seven dollars and if you're a member,
Speaker 3: which I am, it's free general admission or twenty bucks
Speaker 3: for VIP admission for that. So the thing is, we've
Speaker 3: got so much in our own backyard. And as again,
Speaker 3: as said as the weather is turning to be a
Speaker 3: little bit more hospitable, still a little chilly, a little
Speaker 3: bit rain chill, a little windy, been real windy, but
Speaker 3: it's time to get back out and about and that's
Speaker 3: kind of my thing. I mean, I went to Mammoth
Speaker 3: to do snowboarding. They just had a huge another dump
Speaker 3: of snow in Mammoth. Wish I could go this weekend.
Speaker 3: You went since the last time you got snowed in, No,
Speaker 3: that was the last time, And I wish I could
Speaker 3: go this weekend because they literally just had this huge
Speaker 3: dump when we just had the rain here. I forget
Speaker 3: how many inches or feet at that point, but it
Speaker 3: just and you know that I wish translated to our
Speaker 3: closer mountains a little bit better. We still have some
Speaker 3: snow in Rightwood. We still have some snow in the
Speaker 3: same Redino Mountains over in Big Bear and Arrowhead and
Speaker 3: all that, so but that's a little bit less. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can definitely still they're grooming the mountains, so you
Speaker 3: can still go skiing and snowboarding everything else. But if
Speaker 3: you want like insanity six hours north up to Mammoth,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's it. Just like we talked about getting
Speaker 3: snowed in, and that's not the first time I've been
Speaker 3: snowed in, and last time it happens a few years back,
Speaker 3: I wasn't even to be able to make it back
Speaker 3: for the show. So there's that also. Something that I've
Speaker 3: talked about before, but I love to always push it
Speaker 3: is the National History Museum in Exposition Park, so deep
Speaker 3: in the heart of la It is the this weekend
Speaker 3: actually coming back, and if you happen to be a
Speaker 3: member there, you've got a preview coming up. But it
Speaker 3: is going to be the Butterfly Pavilion. So I'm the
Speaker 3: Halloween kid and I love the Spider Pavilion that comes
Speaker 3: in the fall. Here's what happens the Butterfly Pavilion pretty
Speaker 3: much it runs through the summer to August twenty fourth,
Speaker 3: So it opens this Sunday, runs through August twenty fourth.
Speaker 3: Then what butterflies may be around also stick around to
Speaker 3: become food for the Spider Pavilion, which opens is exactly
Speaker 3: the same place. So it's you know, circle, circle of life,
Speaker 3: you know. But that's a great opportunity for you. It's
Speaker 3: ten dollars per person gadmission if you're a member of
Speaker 3: the National History Museum. Again, I'm trying to keep it
Speaker 3: super inexpensive to encourage you to get out. And also
Speaker 3: a former school trip. Correct, No, that's exactly it, because
Speaker 3: I mean I was I grew up in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 3: I was born in Upland and raised now Talloma, and
Speaker 3: we used to come all the way out here. We
Speaker 3: did the same Ridino County Museum and everything else as well,
Speaker 3: but we came all the way to Expo Park to
Speaker 3: do the museums that are here. And I mean I
Speaker 3: was born in eighty one and in eighty four we
Speaker 3: had the Olympics, right, No, it's easy. So anyway, so
Speaker 3: those are the fun things and then the biggest thing
Speaker 3: that is coming up is going to be a little
Speaker 3: bit further out and it's already underway. Actually, no, it
Speaker 3: starts off for Thursday Friday. Check in my facts there
Speaker 3: we got Thursday. Gotta keep it right, fact check yourself.
Speaker 3: I love going out to the desert and one of
Speaker 3: the things that's really impressive is being able to go
Speaker 3: to Living Desert, which is a zoo and botannic garden
Speaker 3: out in Palm Desert or like Palm Springs. And they
Speaker 3: have done this for a few years and they kind
Speaker 3: of change the time period. But it's Glow in the
Speaker 3: Park so from the twentieth through April twenty seven, so
Speaker 3: it opens this Thursday, runs through April. You can see
Speaker 3: these beautiful lanterns, like huge animal lanterns, different wildlife that
Speaker 3: are in and among the existing exhibits that are there now. Granted,
Speaker 3: all the animals, the real animals have gone to bed
Speaker 3: become this time period, although a lot of them are nocturnal,
Speaker 3: so you may hear sounds and you may see some movements,
Speaker 3: but you're not going to get a beautiful view of
Speaker 3: all those incredible animals that live out there. But this
Speaker 3: is something that people go year after year after year
Speaker 3: to go see because while some lanterns stay the same,
Speaker 3: and we've got similar things that happen, like the Garden
Speaker 3: in Arcadia also here at the La Zoo, but this
Speaker 3: one is really special because you're out in nature, you're
Speaker 3: out in the middle of nowhere, and it really is different.
Speaker 3: It's a different experience, and it's still if you're looking
Speaker 3: for those chili experiences, it is real cold, still out
Speaker 3: in the desert.
Speaker 2: You give us such great information and I'm amazed. As
Speaker 2: an Angelino. Some of this I obviously did know, like
Speaker 2: the Grunion Run, some of it I did not know.
Speaker 3: See that's but that's what I love because there's so
Speaker 3: much that we don't do in our own backyard. And
Speaker 3: having you being born and raised, me being born and
Speaker 3: raised here in La Or in the South Southland, and
Speaker 3: the Inland Empire. From me, there's so much that we
Speaker 3: don't do, and I know, I like you, and many
Speaker 3: people don't want to necessarily do the touristy things. Granted
Speaker 3: I go to Disneyland and Universal Studios and do all
Speaker 3: the theme parks. I do a lot of touristy stuff,
Speaker 3: but the bigger and more exciting things for me are
Speaker 3: what's in our backyard? Absolutely what can we do to
Speaker 3: support our local community? And also, as always you know
Speaker 3: last Colum Free ninety nine is how we roll, so
Speaker 3: trying to make sure that it is being aware of
Speaker 3: your time, energy and effort is what's being spent, and
Speaker 3: a little less on the pocketbook.
Speaker 2: We'll have more with Nick POULIOCHETI just a moment and
Speaker 2: find out what else is up with Nick.
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Speaker 4: What's you? What grew up?
Speaker 3: What did he change that? I was gonna say? Eric
Speaker 3: Clesardo obviously sent us a new one, and Sam's confirming, yes,
Speaker 3: I see it there. It got sent to me hot
Speaker 3: off the presses from Twala himself. I said, those are
Speaker 3: not the same lyric. No, I was impressed because I
Speaker 3: was like, it's fantastic, it's a rework and it gives
Speaker 3: us a little bit more for Tuesday Night. Thank you, Eric,
Speaker 3: Eric Lesarto, You're amazing. We appreciate you greatly. And a
Speaker 3: huge fan, huge fan and huge friend of KFI. Absolutely
Speaker 3: always jumping right back into it though and again getting
Speaker 3: into that free ninety nine and last call. If you
Speaker 3: are a Catholic, you may or may not know that
Speaker 3: tomorrow is Saint Joseph's Day. So the nineteenth of March
Speaker 3: every year Saint Joseph's Day. Why do we care about
Speaker 3: that if you're not Catholic, Well, it is the day
Speaker 3: that this swallows return to the church in Sane Calpastrano. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Swallows Day is actually tomorrow. The reason I talk
Speaker 3: about it is because this weekend is the huge Swallows
Speaker 3: Day celebration that happens every year in sanmue Capistrano. And
Speaker 3: it's a Las Colndrinas, if I remember correctly, as the
Speaker 3: name of Swallows yesterday Las Colndrinas, which is the best
Speaker 3: party for the bard. Right there you go. If you're
Speaker 3: not familiar, then I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 3: If you have not grown up in southern California. The
Speaker 3: event has always been closely tied to the nineteenth of
Speaker 3: March because of Saint Joseph's state coincidentally, and it's been
Speaker 3: reserved observed that way for centuries. But the modern celebration
Speaker 3: was popularized by Father Saint John O'Sullivan in the twenties
Speaker 3: and according to legend, Father O'Sullivan and by the swallows
Speaker 3: to nest at Mission San Juan Capistrano after seeing a
Speaker 3: shopkeeper destroying their nest elsewhere in town another childhood school trip. Right,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, so, I'm hitting all the like
Speaker 3: the harm my marks back. The swallows migrate every year
Speaker 3: up from Argentina. They nest and raise their young in
Speaker 3: the eves of the missions and surrounding area. What did
Speaker 3: migrate from Argentina? Argentina, Argentina and then over time the
Speaker 3: celebration has grown to include cultural events and festivities, including
Speaker 3: this weekend. So the Swallows Day Parade. I am not
Speaker 3: doing it this year because I've got a couple other
Speaker 3: things going on that I'll talk about. But in years
Speaker 3: past I've actually em seed or I've been the announcer
Speaker 3: for the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capestrono. It's
Speaker 3: always a blast if you're going to go number one
Speaker 3: free ninety nine. I love that. But beyond that, it
Speaker 3: is making sure that you give yourself plenty of time.
Speaker 3: And that is because you get off that or take
Speaker 3: a highway on the five. Now this is going back
Speaker 3: to my traffic days, but there will be a good
Speaker 3: mile or two backup, both north and south on and
Speaker 3: the five it or take a highway. Really, it's so popular,
Speaker 3: and I think it is because it's free ninety nine,
Speaker 3: but it's also something that is so culturally relevant to
Speaker 3: South Orange County. It brings people from la it brings
Speaker 3: people from the Inland Empire, brings people up from San Diego.
Speaker 3: So give yourself plenty of time to get it. The
Speaker 3: theme this year is Lasso's and Lace, and the Bud
Speaker 3: Bud Wiser Clydesdalees will also be there, so they'll be
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're the Grand Marshals per se.
Speaker 3: That's a whole different ballgame here.
Speaker 2: It comes to right, comes to big number one, but
Speaker 2: wiser fear, are you.
Speaker 3: Old enough time? I'm old enough to do it? Yes, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I wasn't drinking back then. But yes, no, but the
Speaker 3: thing that's funny and just a tangent. Briefly, our generations
Speaker 3: had the most amazing jingles. Absolutely, there is nothing like that.
Speaker 3: Now you've got fun, memeable things that are there. You've
Speaker 3: got so many fun different takes, but it's not to
Speaker 3: the level of the marketing that was around so many
Speaker 3: different corporations, and I mean, you know, we just grew
Speaker 3: up with that.
Speaker 2: That was but that was the only way you could
Speaker 2: really reach people correct radio or TV, and if you
Speaker 2: had the there had to be something that was going
Speaker 2: to stick in your ear.
Speaker 3: Here we go, Here.
Speaker 4: Comes the king, Here comes the big number one, but
Speaker 4: wiser beer, the king is second. Then none, just say
Speaker 4: but wise' you've said it all. Here comes the king
Speaker 4: of beers.
Speaker 2: Solt you guys, let's head, but why the beer's the
Speaker 2: one that's leading.
Speaker 4: The list, and say, still tell you there's one.
Speaker 3: But it is stun with me for at least forty years. Yeah, easily, No,
Speaker 3: they're totally and it's it's that's fun. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: But then that was a nice desician. No, that was
Speaker 3: a good I love it because I mean there was that,
Speaker 3: but like the funnier one that came to mind immediately
Speaker 3: was Rotor Ruter Road. That's the name, and away you go,
Speaker 3: troubles down the train rot Yeah. Yeah. The best that
Speaker 3: we you don't get to see. The thing that we
Speaker 3: get to experience here is seeing each other and seeing
Speaker 3: how everybody's reacting to those jingles and music.
Speaker 2: You light up because it hits somewhere in our memory.
Speaker 2: We're like, yes, I remember watching that.
Speaker 1: Quick first aid for Claus sewers and stop that drains
Speaker 1: the wonderful road machine twists and turns and shaves line
Speaker 1: clean ro.
Speaker 3: And away troubles down the Now play the cheach and
Speaker 3: strong version of that. I haven't reached. Later with Kelly
Speaker 3: after dark, QUI we're there. We already talked about only Thames.
Speaker 2: I know, you know you could almost get away with
Speaker 2: that one these days.
Speaker 3: Probably I was gonna say, but maybe don't risk it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I got you one more thing to
Speaker 3: talk about real quick is it says our Chavez Family
Speaker 3: Day is going to be this weekend. That is happening
Speaker 3: in the La Plaza de Colcura Artes, the Plaza of
Speaker 3: Culture and Art. If you're not familiar with Alvara Street,
Speaker 3: that is where it is located. So Alvera Street is yeah,
Speaker 3: another field trip, like I have covered street. And I
Speaker 3: think that's the thing that's so interesting because my niece,
Speaker 3: one of my nieces, Emily, she's actually on do you
Speaker 3: remember doing it? Was either fourth or fifth grade and
Speaker 3: we would go to the mountains. Did you do that
Speaker 3: field trip? No, we didn't go to the mountains? Okay,
Speaker 3: because so maybe oh okay, so that's Haley and Ella,
Speaker 3: my nieces in San Clemente do that? Is it right
Speaker 3: out of data point? And they've done that a couple
Speaker 3: of times. Emily from my family in Long Beach that
Speaker 3: she is on her fifth or fourth and fifth grade.
Speaker 3: I'm sure people are yelling at the radio right now,
Speaker 3: but fourth or fifth grade you get to go to
Speaker 3: the mountains and you're there for a week. So it's
Speaker 3: like your very first co ed. I understand, we didn't know.
Speaker 3: It's okay. I messed out, Yeah, I apologize. I was
Speaker 3: doing great.
Speaker 2: Like we didn't have elaborate field trips like that. We
Speaker 2: didn't have any type of overnight See.
Speaker 3: I remember having to raise money for it. We'll put
Speaker 3: that much and I know that I had to donate
Speaker 3: some money for Emily to go. So now the furthest
Speaker 3: I think we went with Sam Juan Cavastrom, which makes sense,
Speaker 3: I get it. But so that's not so much else
Speaker 3: is going on around the South Plan. Also, if you
Speaker 3: happened to I caught me last week, I talked about
Speaker 3: the game Man's Course of Los Angeles. They have their
Speaker 3: Rhinestone Cowboys show this weekend. I will be there, so
Speaker 3: if you are going, be sure to say what's up
Speaker 3: ron Ztone Cowboy. I should love that song. But it's
Speaker 3: so funny because there's so much much more involved. There's
Speaker 3: like country covers of pop artist and there's just so
Speaker 3: much settled happening for that. So if you want to
Speaker 3: check it out again this week of a Nick or
Speaker 3: Nick polio'cane on Instagram. Yes, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: The first time I heard about the Gabe Men's Course
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, they would always sing at the PBS Yeah,
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve special corrections downtown.
Speaker 3: I think the Dorothy Chandler.
Speaker 2: Yes, And because my family will watch that every single
Speaker 2: year and they were always the best choir every single year.
Speaker 3: It's funny because so talking to Louis Pistow, who is
Speaker 3: the director of the program or the executive director. That's it.
Speaker 3: They've done the Grammys, they've done the Auscars, They've done
Speaker 3: all these different award shows and the thing that again
Speaker 3: we talked about last week. But it's so interesting. It's
Speaker 3: not just gay men either, No, it is all Southern
Speaker 3: Californians who can carry a tune. As long as you
Speaker 3: can do ten or one, ten or two to carry
Speaker 3: you too, there are expectations, well not just that, but
Speaker 3: now you also have to be almost a triple threat
Speaker 3: because you have to at least be two of the
Speaker 3: three of being able to dance and sing, because they
Speaker 3: do an entire production number of so many things. Just
Speaker 3: looking at it, It'll be Beyonce, Brandy Carlisle, lil Na's
Speaker 3: ex Chapelerone, also Dolly Parton, Reeba McIntyre, Shania Twain, Casey Musgraves,
Speaker 3: the Chick Charge, repertoire, lots of it. It's going to
Speaker 3: be happening again this weekend, both on Friday and our
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday this weekend, and then I will be
Speaker 3: there on the Saturday show the twenty second.
Speaker 2: It's too bad I have to go to break because
Speaker 2: I could do this all night I'd.
Speaker 3: Love to, and I get you know, I've got you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I have so much and more to go through. But again,
Speaker 3: if you want to learn more, always social media. Instagram
Speaker 3: is the easiest. Nick pollio'chani or this weekend and Nick
Speaker 3: the Lincoln Bio has all the details for you. I'll
Speaker 3: see you soon, oh absolutely, you better believe it. All right.
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