San Diego Weekend Events + Real Estate Minute 🍸 | TGIF San Diego Live - November 6, 2026

Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. I guess. Well, you just came from Costco. You wanted to tell me about your Costco trip, but then it was time to go live. It was crowded. That's all. That was it? There was nothing remarkable about it. It was crowded. And then when I got back to the car, I had a number of texts and phone calls that I had to deal with. Because this new property we just put on the market this week is insanely popular. Blowing up. It's blowing up. Well, and I think this is a case study in what happens when you price right from the beginning too. Yes, absolutely. I don't want to go into a bunch of details about it, but often, you know, you try to talk to a client about, you know, how to price properly and they're more interested in what they think they need to get out of the property rather than what, um, what the in what the buyers are actually willing to pay. But this client was very smart and paid attention to the market data and put it on at a good price that is attracting offers. Oh, Art. Hey, what's up, Art? What up, Art? And then, yeah, and it's just one of these things I wish I could figure out how to encapsulate in a statement or story that all sellers would understand because it's just so much better. You get so much more money. If you come out of the gate at a screaming price, because then it goes over and you get market value, which is what you're going to get anyway. So if you price it over market value, you're going to sit there for two months and spend two mortgage payments. And that place is going to get shopworn and people are going to think there's something wrong with it. Yeah, it's pricing it as a little bit below what the market looks like the market might be. People get interested and they get excited about it, yes. And you get nine offers in one day. Oh my gosh, okay. OK, you know, that's. Anyway, we're talking about real estate. We've already used up our market minute. Oh, well, let's just do it anyway. Okay, we'll do that. Yeah, Art, good advice. Always. Art got it right when he sold his house. Art got it right. He's a smart businessman. Mm-hmm. So let's do market minute, and then we might talk about the house a little bit more, but we'll show you some pictures. Um, okay. Ready? We're realtors. It's hard for us not to talk about real estate. Okay. Five. Oh no. Five, six, five, six, seven, eight. Go. This week in San Diego real estate inventory continued its plunge, uh, as you might expect this time of year. However, it has been going down. New listings have been going down. Pending Pending sales were way down last week. Why? It was an election week. Nobody does anything purchase-wise the week before the election. I shouldn't say nobody because a little over 300 people did. But as you can see, the week before, more like 350 people. Anyway, so inventory is down, new listings down, pendings down. They'll pop up again next week. We've already talked about prices from September to October. And we'll have, no, August to September. We'll have September, October numbers next time. Price reductions down a bit this week, again, as sellers keep hanging on to those high prices. And interest rates came down to 7.18, which is great. Well, it's better. Oh, time is up. Yeah. Interest rates down, inventory down, sellers. ...buyers, all that. Watch the video on YouTube for a more coherent explanation. So we forgot to talk about our shirts because we got so busy talking about Costco, but we sort of have coordinating shirts here. A little bit. Places in California. They were sort of wearing the shirts, ironically. Yes. Anyway. These are places in California. Barstow, of course, is out on your way to Las Vegas, And, you know, it's a place and Modesto. is the in the heart of the Central Valley, you know, just sort of in between Madera and Stockton, which is another lovely place. And I'm from the San Joaquin Valley and I got this for my birthday. I asked for it, frankly, because, you know, we we go through a lot of shirts on this show. So, well, I'm looking at the established looks like Barstow 1880 and Modesto 1884. So very, very close together. That's why they have the same font. Um, arts. Oh, so you're busy. You, you, you, the car business is booming. Oh, okay. I guess people was that before the election or right after, cause right after the election on when, on Wednesday morning, my, my phone started going nuts. So, um, let's talk about, okay. So we've been talking about this home. Let's show some pictures of it. Yes. This is, this is a, this This is sort of a case study. This whole week, yeah, this week has been busy. So I want to preface this by saying that this home is in, much of it is very original. And it, you know, the client, the seller knows, and we're being very open with the buyers that this is, it's a fixer. It needs, you know, paint and flooring and some other stuff. But the location and the view, like you can't, you can't take a house. And add a great, it's already, you know, the location, it already is the location. The view is the view, but you can make the house your own home, but you're, you can make the out, what am I trying to say? Location, location, location. You can make the house your own and customize it, but you can't make a great location where there isn't one. And you can't create a great view where you don't have one. So yes, this is a case study in a home that definitely needs some work. So in a lot of cases, a lot of realtors would just snap a picture of the front with their phone and say, eh, it's a fixer. Let's just let it go. But we hired a professional photographer to come and document exactly what the house looks like. And the owner got it straightened up for us. So, I mean, this is a very nice representation of what the house looks like. It's out there. We did the whole package with the floor plan and the virtual tour. And, you know, we've had nothing but showings and offers for the past couple of days. And it's going to go over the asking price. which is to say it the asking price was designed to fit the market and the condition so we're not asking it's you can't ask a crazy price and get 10 offers just using great marketing Price is part of the marketing. And that's what we did here. And if I were the new buyer, I would leave the shingles and the mirror. Yeah. Leave the shingles on the wall. I left this picture up because I wanted to say I love the mirror wall. And I know a lot of people think mirror walls are dated. To me, they're timeless. And I would always go for having more mirrors on the walls. So I hope whoever buys this place keeps the mirror wall. The shingles, you know, that's the shingle wall. Um. You know, definitely there was a time when this was, you know. the thing to do. Yes. I don't know whether I would leave the shingle wall or not. Definitely a matter of taste, but I certainly hope they keep the mirror wall. Well, I mean, look, they even cut out a hole for the electrical outlet and the shingles. I agree with you. I think that I was being funny about the shingles, but the mirrors, I mean, I love mirrors on the wall too, so. And then the cool thing in the kitchen is this intercom panel on the left there. That's from 1960. Wow. This house had an intercom where you could push a button and talk to any room in the house from that panel right there. Does it still work? No. Oh. But I bet you could make it work. I could. I mean, I'm sure I could fix it so it would work. It's all low voltage wiring, I'm sure, and probably just needs the... contacts cleaned and whatever else but who has time for that and you know nobody asked me to do that so. What about the floor here I mean this looks like pretty nice tile didn't this could just like be steam cleaned or? Yeah I mean you could you could steam clean that and and you know get get the grout looking good again and this kitchen is not original these cabinets are looking like 1992 or ish and those appliances too so the you know it's been updated over the years. Um, but yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people would come in here and say, oh, this whole thing needs to be redone. I mean, for me, I could, I could put a new fridge, I could put a new microwave at cooktop and, you know, clean up that floor, maybe, maybe pour some, uh, epoxy resin over the top or something. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, if this were us, like we could live in it while we fixed it up, you know, but But I know not everyone, you know. rolls that way, but I could totally live in this property while renovating it. Yes. And that's what I mean. I don't, I don't understand why more people don't do that because I mean, this house is priced 200 plus thousand below what it would be if it were all fixed up and there's no way you need to spend $200,000 here. Um, somebody might, but Um, and you know, the windows are already redone, so you don't need to worry about the windows. Yeah. That's one thing. Like we can totally redo the flooring ourselves. You've done lots of flooring in different houses. I do. I mean, you don't do some paint, but I usually do the paint, but windows are something that you kind of need a pro to do. You should. I've never, I've never, yeah. I've never tried to do windows. The thing with windows, It's they have to be measured very precisely and that's not necessarily my forte. I mean flooring you can get away with half an inch you know quarter inch quarter round around the edges right windows they need to be like dead dead on. Yeah. Anyway yeah this is a it's a cool old house and this is a cool neighborhood uh up above Genesee Avenue and in Claremont. Um, nice view from, from up here in the backyard. I mean, come on. And actually that pool is in really good condition. The pool is in excellent condition. The pool equipment is in excellent condition. This spa looks good. Yeah. I mean this, this place just needs somebody to come in and love it. You've got a call coming in from the seven. My sister, I can't. I can't, I can't take calls from family right now. We'll have to talk to you later. Okay. So here's the deck up on the second floor. And again, I mean, it looks like, you know, we need to, uh, I'm not sure exactly what you do here. It looks like we need to strip the old paint and then this is actually a Trex wood. Oh, okay. So it's got a lichen. lichen all over it so it needs to be clean. Okay yeah the trex wood yeah that's going to be that's going to be an easier uh easier fix. Yeah. But I mean this is an amazing view panoramic view of you can see I mean what are what all are we seeing out here? Okay so go back I'll show you um a little bit here so this let's see do we have just one picture of the view okay. I think there's like four of these if you can pan back and forth all right scroll back and forth. You can see Yeah, we're looking. Okay, so Point Loma, Point Loma is here. So you're looking at Point Loma there. And am I going? Oh, Mount Soledad is over here somewhere. I would put a telescope up here. I mean, I have a telescope. I would, I might, I might do that anyway. Yeah. Do you think David would mind if we dragged our telescope up there one night? No, I don't think so. So, um, So yeah, it's, it's basically when you're standing on this deck off to the right, Mount Soledad, and you can actually see the cross up there and then to the left Point Loma and it goes beyond that as well. But I mean, that is. quintessential San Diego view. Art says he can see Alaska. That's true. Yes, you can see Alaska. And you. And you can see Russia from Alaska. Okay. Remember Sarah Palin told us that. All right. Yeah. Well, maybe she has really good eyes. I think it's okay to mention Sarah Palin. She ran in 2008. It's not like we're making current political references. So, okay, yes, we've definitely talked about real estate for longer than we promised people, but we're done now. Let's talk about something else. Let's talk about animal news. And the animal that I'm going to be talking about is actually in Colombia, but so my friend Tina is a zookeeper and she goes to zoo conferences all over the world. Last time she was doing a talk on dangerous animals, how to handle dangerous animals, and I forgot what her talk is this time, but she sent this video to our group chat. This is a group of zookeepers examining an Orinoco crocodile, which is critically endangered. This croc weighs 782 pounds. Check out, oh here, okay, yeah. So they're not so much handling it as they are trying to keep it from killing them. But look at this, this is crazy. This is a giant crocodile and it's taken, I don't know what, 20? Several people. Yeah, lots of people to subdue the crocodile so they can examine them. Do they give it a tranquilizer or something? I don't know, she didn't mention that. Anyway, yeah, here's some, this is what, this is what my friend Tina is up, was up to today. Wow. Doing this crocodile and giving it an exam. Some, yeah, giving a, giving a, geez, that's a giant croc right there. 782 pounds. 782 pounds of crocodile. Take 20 men to hold it down. Well, it looks like there's some ladies in there too, folks. 20 folks to hold it down. All right. All right. Okay. Let's talk about a weekend event. So animal news. Art, when I was speaking with him earlier this week, told me that he wanted Eric's take segment, which we didn't have time to put together this week. But that would be like, for instance, aviation news. Eric's take on something. You know, we have the media going crazy this week about this Learjet that went, you know, like a missile into the ground in Florida. And Art was asking me about that. And he said, you should talk about it on the show. Well, maybe I should, but I didn't have time to put all the... Art says yes. Yes. I didn't have time to put all the slides together for that. However, I will say that as the week has worn on, more information has come out. And this 20-year-old co-pilot, this woman was only 20 years old. She'd been flying for three years and had 1,300 hours, which is not an insignificant number of hours. She was the co-pilot. And as information has shaped up, what seems like had happened is the pilot was a 50-year-old guy. Bye-bye. And. responsible for steering the plane where it went and for whatever reason we don't know the reason why this happened but he went right into the middle of a thunderstorm cell which wound up ripping the horizontal stabilizer off the airplane and once you lose the tail of the airplane you have no more pitch control so it just went straight down and the woman This 20 year old woman communicated with air traffic control the whole way down for a minute and a half. The plane is on its side and dropping at 20,000 feet per minute. And she's still communicating with air traffic control, telling them what's going on, which gave the NTSB a huge headstart in the investigation. So I give her a huge credit. The pilot. He's flown lots. He had interesting info. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. So I don't know if your friend has, you know, similar take to me or not, but this, this woman was, uh, I mean, nothing less than heroic in the face of death, uh, just by communicating to air traffic control exactly what was happening. So anyway, uh, yeah. Or it says the 20 year old wasn't the issue. It was the older pilot who, uh, Well, it was somebody made a bad decision, didn't read the radar weather correctly, because the plane has onboard radar. But if you don't, like, dial it in right. You might not see what's happening. So they avoided a huge thunder cell. And instead of flying in between the two, they went right into a bad one. And that was the end of it. So nobody's nobody's left. No, no, no, no, no. There's absolutely no one left and nothing left of the people that were in there because it just that's it's one of those one of those. One of those crashes where the plane didn't like, you know, skid along the ground and cartwheel. It just went straight in and there was nothing left. So anyway, didn't avoid the storm. Plus the Lear doesn't have a lot of leeway. Well, that's exactly right. The flight surfaces became iced over. And so when that happens, the stall speed of the aircraft increases dramatically. In other words, it takes a lot more airspeed to keep it flying. And at that altitude, the air is thin. You get ice. The pilot pulled back on the yoke to climb, which stalled the plane and then ripped the tail off. And then once your tail's gone, that's that. That also happened to American Airlines 585, which was just a month or two after 9-11. um there was some on takeoff there was too much uh aggressive rudder action ripping the tail off and then it anyway shame when you don't have a tail you can't fly and that's my take so there you go all right that's one yes that's one we'll we'll do it we'll do a different take on something else next week okay let's go back to weekend events now this weekend is the uh renaissance fair at felicita park we have it every year yeah um we used to have a renaissance fair in hanford Now, now, wait a minute. This says spring. Okay. But it is not spring. It's not spring. Um, someone told me it was this weekend. It's not this weekend though. That's April. It either already happened or it's going to happen. Okay. So I was, I was on a list. I was on a list of stuff that was happening this weekend and it maybe it's happening this weekend and this is just for the spring one. I think it might still be happening. This is just the wrong website, but I was sort of irritated because, um, every time there's a Renaissance fair, my friends want to go and they ask me if I go and then I don't go, but I still appreciate being asked. And I was like, well, the Renaissance Fair is happening and no one asked me to go. So, you know, what's up with that? Well, what I've learned is there's only so many times you can say no and then they stop asking you. Like Will Banks, who's not on the chat tonight, but sometimes he is in the chat, used to always ask me, you know, you want to go golfing? Sorry, that's my Will Banks impression, and I hope he wouldn't mind if I did that. He's got sort of an old Southern gentleman thing going on. I wanted to see if you want to go golfing. Anyway. I don't golf. Sorry. I don't golf. And so a dozen or more times I declined golf invitations. And now I hear about golf trips that my, my friends are taking and they didn't invite me. And, and at first I'm like, God damn it. You didn't invite me. But then if you did invite me, I wouldn't go. So, well, maybe, um, I don't, I still think this Renaissance fair might be happening. This is just the wrong event page. And I'm sorry about that. That's a, that's right near, that's right near We're gone in Grace's house. Yes. Uh, okay. I'm going to have to look into this some more later. Kind of like you and me doing lunch. You guys have lunch sometimes, don't you? We haven't for a long time, but I mean, we do. And I don't, I've never declined a lunch invitation from you. Well, maybe you guys should have lunch soon. We should. Absolutely. It isn't like you and I doing lunch because I like lunch. I hate golf. He does like lunch, it's true. And you know I don't like, I mean, although if it's on the Xbox, I'll golf the ---- out of everything. I like that. But I don't like, I mean, I'm sorry. Well, geez, I shouldn't. Ooh, I shouldn't say I hate golf. Cause I know there are a lot of people who are really passionate about golf, but for me, I guess it's just not your thing. Well, it's not my thing. It's like, I I'm, I'm always, I'm always on the go and I'm always anxious about, I gotta, I gotta get back. I gotta get back to my desk. I got stuff to do and golf like takes. Six, seven hours, and it just, I can't. You don't have time for golf. For a lot of people, it's relaxing. For me, it's just like anxiety, because all I can think about is I've got to get back and get my work done. Maybe when the kids are grown and out of the house and I'm retired, I will feel differently about golf. Of course, I would have to learn how to golf. I can putt real good, but... We have golf clubs. We do, yes. That's all we have from your grandparents is their golf clubs. All right. Well, the Renaissance, I'm going to have to look into this some more and see how upset I need to be with my friends. So Art, it's... Yes, we can... Art says, I'm with you on golf. Okay, Art's not a golfer either. Well, we should go golf or we should... No, we should not go golfing. We should go have lunch and then, you know, we'll, we'll. Come up with a fun activity after lunch. All right, good. Okay, let's talk about some more stuff happening around town. Fashion Valley. So they were supposed to do a bunch of development there. The owner said they were going to. And now this has changed. They have a new plan that they're pitching now. Still mixed use. They want to tear down the JCPenney and build a big mixed-use project. Here's a rendering of the redevelopment. There's like office space and some houses. People all look pretty happy. And they can all walk to work because their offices are right there. No, sorry. You don't think it's going to happen? It's Southern California. You're going to need to get in a car at some point. Well, so they're saying they're... This plan has 410 housing units, and each of the housing units has 1.5 parking spaces. 1.5? 1.5. I don't know how you use 0.5 of parking space, but at least it's better than no parking, which is what a lot of these places are doing. So when you come home from work, you can somehow put your car in the halving machine and park half of your car can park, and the other half can be floating around like the Star Trek transporter. for you know 14 hours while you eat dinner and sleep and everything and then in the morning you can rejoin the two halves of the car back together. Yeah here's another rendering it looks looks nice I mean I think this is probably just an AI image but. Well I mean it does look nice and mixed use housing is essentially a good idea. If you're able to live and work and shop within walking distance, that's a beautiful thing. Art says he's going to start selling half cars. There you go, Art. Yeah, you're going to make millions of dollars selling halves of a car. Half of the car, half of the car. Yes. I mean, I like this better than trying to stuff a bunch of infill development into currently existing neighborhoods and ruining their character and cramming them with traffic and, you know, all different other kinds of problems that come with. Stuffing more units into existing neighborhoods. Yes, converting like JCPenney. I mean, do people, is that even still around? Well, I don't know if it's open or not. I don't think so, but I'm not sure. So here's the site. So in our modern world, these giant 14,000, 15,000 square foot retail stores like JCPenney and... You know, Nordstrom Rack and all these other ones. There's a Nordstrom right here, too. Oh, that's not a rack. Well, I mean, we had a Nordstrom Rack here in Carmel Mountain Ranch. And so over the years, we've seen a lot of these giant spaces empty. And yes, I believe that that is a perfect opportunity. to put housing. And the trolley runs by here and stuff. I know, that's also good. This seems like a better idea than a lot of the places they're stuffing. It's a lot better an idea than digging up open space in Carmel Mountain Ranch and raising a bunch of dust and stuffing in a bunch of homes and tying into an aging stormwater system. Anyway. Is that my car? No, it's somebody else's car. Anyway, all right. You know, we'll see what happens. Anyway, the politics of housing is complicated. In any event, yes, old shopping centers, that's a perfect place to build up and make some stuff happen. All right. Oh, this land here, too. I think this is going to be part of it. And it's all going to flood, unfortunately. Yeah, that's true. That's true. When you're talking about this area, you know, the river is right, The river is right there. Yeah. And it does flood. And you know what they what they did in Los Angeles is they just cemented the river so that it would stay in its channel. And if you hate that, though, I mean, maybe it's I don't know the logistics of it. It just seems like such a shame to me to take a natural environment and fill it with concrete. But, oh, absolutely. It is a shame, but also it prevents. Flooding. Yeah, that's true. And if you're going to put a bunch of people by a river, it's really the only thing you can do to mitigate. But anyway, we can debate water politics next week. We'll save that for something. Because that's a whole other topic. Okay. So Open Table came up with their list of top 100 restaurants in the whole United States for 2026. Wow. That seems a little, it's either early or late for 2026. Like, why are we having this in November? But anyway. It's time to start, you know, talking about end-of-year stuff, I guess. Okay, so five of these are in San Diego. Wow, really? A lot of them are in San Francisco and Palm Springs and Scottsdale. But, okay, so Cesarina, that's this pasta place. We've never been there, but we've looked at it a bunch of times. I think this is where they have the giant Parmesan wheel where they'll put your pasta in the parm wheel. Okay. Cowboy Star in San Diego. And this is another one. Where is that? I don't know. Can I just... I've never heard of it. It's a steakhouse. We've never heard of it. It's not for us. It's in East Village, and it's fancy. It might be... It's one of these ones where they have, like, a fancy Michelin star chef and stuff. Okay. Uh... Okay, more famous... Okay, Lila, here we go. Here's another one that is not for us. Oh, it's a consortium holding project, too, which is no reason to go there. Yeah. So, I mean, to me, that means overpriced and the food isn't that great, but that's just. And it's the same food that you're going to get at other consortium holdings restaurants? Lilo and Carlsbad, again, it's very expensive and exclusive. All right. We have not been there. We're not expensive, exclusive diners. No, we're more like, you know, down-home, hole-in-the-wall kind of diners. We do make great food at home. Yeah, that's one of the reasons. Like, you go out and, you know, pay a bunch of money for food, and it's not as good as what you could make at home. You know, we're not really down for that too much. There's supposed to be one more, unless that was already five. I don't know. Um... Okay, well, maybe that was five. I don't know. I lost count. Anyway, San Diego represented. Way to go, San Diego. Bougie, fine dining. Um... So this might be an angry rant opportunity. I don't know. I'm going to try and hold it to a minimum. Okay. Oh, oh, no, this isn't it. Oh, okay, wait, no, how, this is interesting, because this is, this is my seat. I forgot that I had this slide up. I didn't even read this story. I was meaning to, I was meaning for it to be a Todd Gloria rant, but I don't know if you want to talk about this. I don't know a whole lot about it. All right, so there will be a special election to fill the District 5 City Council seat, because our City Council person, Marnie Von Wilpert, just got elected to Congress. With a whopping, wow, basically 60, I like Casa de Edelman, yes, you've eaten at Casa de Edelman, you know what's up. So anyway, regardless of how badly she beat the living crap out of Jim Desmond, she is going to vacate her city council seat and go to Washington, D.C. This seat is going to, okay, so early, okay, whatever. In a media advisory, city outlined how District 5 residents will continue receiving services. Da-da-da-da-da-da. The departing council member, chief of staff, will manage the district under city authority, until appointed, elected, or appointed. District 5 residents, okay. City appointed to similar to this, I'm just, special election required. Here we go. City Council must call a special election within 90 days of vacancy if more than one year of the term remains. Candidate, da-da-da, if no candidate... All right says run, Eric, run. I'm thinking about it. You don't want me to. Me? Well, I'm just concerned that it's going to suck up all your time and... I don't know. I mean, if you want to run, you know, you'd probably be, you know, good for the job. I would, I want to do the job. I don't want to have to raise all the money to get the job. Yeah, there's a lot of kissing hands and shaking baby. I mean, you saw how, I mean, Marnie was at our, Marnie's been to our house several times and she did at one point ask you what you thought about running for her seat if she became a senator. Congresswoman. Congressperson. Congressperson. Maybe she'll be a senator later. Later on, maybe. Maybe she wants to be a senator too. Well, no, she's... Yes, maybe eventually. Oh, this makes me feel a whole lot better. Joe LaCava says we're not going to see any... Thank you, Joe LaCava. Oh, yeah, I'm sure he's on top of it. Yeah, Joe LaCava's going to help us out. Right. They will continue to be well-served. I commit... I guess I shouldn't talk ---- about Joe LaCava if I want to become the... Yeah. Sorry, Joe. I actually like you a whole bunch. That's exactly why I can't run because I can't keep my mouth shut. You say too much I know. I know. All right. Anyway, there's going to be a special election in District Five and I probably won't be the city council person from District Five. Even though a lot of people have told me I should run, not just start. Yeah. Even Marnie herself asked you if you would consider it. Maybe I'll text her and see what I need to do. Okay, so this is the one I thought it was. Todd Gloria, surprising recall campaign. Now look at this picture of Todd. Oh, that's like a bad picture. And he's growing this mustache and the beard. I'm It looks like he's in maybe like H Mart or something next to the 69 cent top robber. I'm Interesting choice of picture. tired. Oh, look, he's got he's got the little fuzzy thing. starting We have one of these, too. We have one of those, too, Todd. Yeah, exactly. See, you've already got the you know, you can be the mayor with your little. Well, I mean, think about it. I mean, look what happened to Marnie. She from San Diego City Council to the House to of Representatives. That's a huge jump. speak. You know, he looks like a crackhead. Ha ha ha ha! See, this is why you can't be on the city council. This is why I can't run for office. Because I've got friends that are going to, you guys are going to sabotage me. God damn it. Stop. Stop making me say bad things about people. Okay, so I don't really want to go into a bunch about the details about this. But there's a campaign to recall the mayor over all of his bungling. And we could go on and on about the bungling. And we have. Although I feel like it's going to cost a lot of money for the recall, and I don't know. I mean, as much as I would like Todd to be, you know, ushered out, and for someone better to take over, I don't know that spending a bunch of money on a recall that, you know, may or may not be successful and might get even someone even worse in theirs. That's the thing about... Impeachments, recalls. Oh, Clark is here. Oh yeah, everyone loathes Todd. Yeah, I mean, I've run into a couple of people who like him, but it's pretty rare. He's generally unpopular. And anybody who says they like him is probably lying, but I shouldn't, again, here I go. You're saying too much. I'm saying too much. Oh, recalls and impeachments and all this stuff. It expends tremendous amounts of public resources to try and remove somebody from office Whose term will end. And, you know, I mean, in my humble opinion, you know, the voters put him where he is, let him serve his term, and let the votes, you know, fall where they will at the end of it. Has he done a bad enough job that he deserves to be recalled? Maybe. Yeah, that's serious. Maybe. There's been a lot of problems. How much time does he have left? That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know. It's probably buried in his mind. He got elected the same time as... It's not much. It's not much. Yeah, it's probably buried in here somewhere. It's a four-year term, I think, and it's got to be at least halfway through. It seems like it's been at least five or six years. My God, it seems like it's been forever. Yeah, that's a good question. We should figure that out. And, you know, if they can get the signatures, if they can get the thing, then fine. Let's do it. But to me, it seems a little bit performative. Well, I guess we'll see what happens. But he does look like a crackhead. Right. Anyway. I think we can all agree on that. Yes. Okay. Let's talk about, what are we going to talk about now? Let's talk about some Christmas stuff coming up. Because, I mean, it seems far away, but you were at Costco today, and it was Christmas time. Oh, it's Christmas time. Also, Todd, if you're watching, I would really like to meet with you to discuss Carmel Mountain issues. So you can ignore all that stuff I said about you looking like a crackhead, because I really need your help. I'm sure he'll get right on helping you. This is exactly why I can't run for office. Yeah. All right, here we go. Okay, so December 9th is happening, and it's in less than a month. It's starting on December 4th and December 5th. Clay Aiken is going to be the headliner. That's Clay Aiken? Yeah. Okay. You don't believe that, Clay? I mean, he looks old. I mean, the last time we saw him was like probably 20 years ago. He's looking a little more like Ellen DeGeneres. Well, he looks older and different than he did when we saw him on American Idol like 25 years ago. He's got the whole turtleneck and everything. Well, that's just, I mean, people don't wear turtlenecks that much anymore. That's true. He's bringing back turtlenecks. All right. Clay, he's got a great voice. Good job. Yeah. So Clay Aiken is headlining. Sorry, here I am. You're digging yourself a deeper hole now. I mean... Yeah, okay. All right, Clay Aiken. I love Clay Aiken. He looks phenomenal. He looks great. We like his turtleneck. Yes. Yes. Looking good. And he's going to be headlining at December 9th. Okay, what does that mean? He's going to be singing at the Organ Pavilion. Oh, okay. Yeah, kicking off the festival. That's a crazy organ. It's a big pipe organ. Yeah, our son's high school graduation was there at this organ pavilion. Yes, and a guy played the organ. Yeah, there's a... He's fine. He looks good. He looks a lot better than Todd Gloria. Yeah. Alright, alright. All right. Maybe we should end the show right now. Delete everything. Let's just delete the thing. Yeah, here's, you know, December 9th. I don't go to, we've tried to go to this and it's like so crowded and the parking is just ridiculous. Forget it. Okay. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information. I will say that my Clay Aiken for mayor, my worst parking experiences of my entire life were trying to park during that. Yeah. It was bad. I've never had a more difficult time parking ever anywhere. All right. And I've parked a U-Haul van on Haight Street in San Francisco in 1989. Parallel parked at that thing. Clark says, Clay looked like a 1980s pop star. A little bit. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm getting that. Like, he could be in maybe Depeche Mode or Pet Shop Boys or something like that. West End girls. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Yeah. Yes. So Liberty Station, they're turning into a Swiss winter village. Now I might actually go to this. I'm not sure how I will get there or where I will park, but it sounds pretty cool. It's easier to park at Liberty Station than it is at Balboa Park. Now see, Swiss village I can dig because like late at night, sometimes when we're out of stuff to watch on TV, we'll just Put on some music and put YouTube on. And a lot of times what I will pick is Swiss Christmas Village because it's just, you know, sort of relaxing to watch. It's snowy. It's Christmassy. Art says, we're lucky to park at Deb's condo, but it's still too stupid crowded. Oh, for Balboa Park? Yeah. Is Deb's condo near Balboa Park? I guess it's close enough. Okay. Well, that's cool. All right. The Swiss Village, they're going to have more than 60 chalets and they have in parentheses for those of us who are stupid or wooden alpine houses. I mean, most people don't know what a chalet is offering seasonal delicacies, unique jewelry, Swiss treats, mold, mold, spice, mold, wine and much more. It sounds like they're going to have, you know, music and festivities. This is happening this year? Yeah. I'd be willing to check this out. Well, it starts on November 27th, so it's happening pretty soon. Nice. Balboa Park is a jewel. Indeed it is. Indeed it is. And that's one of the reasons why people are so irritated with Todd Gloria, because of the... Jacking it up with his stupid parking bullshit. And lack of proper maintenance oversight. Oh, man, yeah. To allow Balboa Park to fall into any sort of disrepair is just unforgivable. Mm-hmm, yeah. It is the crown jewel of San Diego. I've said that many times. Yeah, I mean, when our kids were small, that was like one of the main things that, you know, we would do. You know, you were usually working, and I'd take the kids to, you know, the museums or just wander around. Right. Anyway, yeah, this looks fun. We might check. Ooh, look at that. Look at all that cheese. Oh, yeah, Rochlette. I've had this. It's like they have a big wheel of cheese and it's melted and they just like shave it off onto a big pile of potatoes or ham or something. Okay, I do like melted cheese. Oh man, the Swiss are with you on the melted cheese. Okay, let's go to Pennsylvania where a man has won a Guinness World Record for going to the most movies in one year. Congratulations, bud. He went to the movies 1,270 times in one year. And what did that cost him? Uh, let's see, I don't know what it says. Hopefully he has like a special pass or something. Hope they were matinee prices. Uh, he says, I can't say there were really any bad movies or ones I did not like. I mean, how can, that's got to be a record too. Watch 1,200 movies and they're all good. There weren't 1,200 movies to watch. He must have seen a bunch of them over again. Uh, Clark says, yeah, I used to jog through the park in the mornings. Yeah. It's a great place to jog. Yes. And, and of course, if you're a single, single person as, as you were at the time, Clark, uh, you know, it sounds like, sounds like you enjoyed the, uh, the, uh, window dressing. Okay. Well, you know, everybody, everybody enjoys Balboa park in their own way. Yes. Well, I've, you and I have run the, uh, America's finest city half marathon which ends at Balboa park. I've done 5Ks through Balboa Park, and yeah, it's a good place to go, whether you're looking for a life partner or just going for a run. Yes, yes. Many different ways to enjoy the space. And that's exactly what Clark was doing all those times. He was looking for someone to settle down with. Well, you know, everybody has their things that they're into. Yes, everybody likes what they like. And right, over three movies per day. There weren't that many movies. He must have doubled up. Anyway, that's all I had to say about that guy. I was trying to look for something fun and interesting. Fun and interesting. That's the best I can come up with. Right. Well, sometimes the chat takes you in a different direction now that we've fixed our chat latency work. We, we were for, for so many, for, for a long time, we're like, nobody's ever in the chat. Now we've got people in the chat. Yeah, that's awesome. Art, Clark, high quality people in the area. Yeah. San Diegans, we like to, we like to take care of ourselves. Well, my cousin, we had, we had my family reunion here in San Diego this summer. And my young, my youngest cousin, Kent, lives up in San Francisco. And he, he, he was like. Blown away by the beautiful people in San Diego, let's say. Especially, it seems like the ladies in particular. Well, yeah, the ladies. Okay, all right, fine, you said it. Well, I mean, that's fine. You know, people, as long as you're not being like creepy about it, it's fine. Well, I didn't realize, I mean, I take it for granted that the people in San Diego are more beautiful than... People in San Francisco, I guess, because Kent's from San Francisco and he was, again, I'm saying too much and I should just be quiet now. Well, none of our, I don't think any of our fans here are from San Francisco. So it's okay for us to say that the people of San Diego are. More attractive in general than the people of San Francisco, I think. According to someone who's from San Francisco. I don't know. Women are very friendly and educated and cultured. Yeah, I have a lot of friends who are women in San Diego, and most of them are, like, really hot and, you know, fun to hang out with and interesting and smart. I mean, you know my friends. I do. I do. I do know your friends. I'll just agree with everything you said. It's true, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Getting hungry? Yeah, for sure. Me too. It's time to... I got some artichokes at Costco that I'm going to steam to go with our ravioli that we already have. Okay, that sounds good. All right, well, Art Clark, thank you so much for joining us. It was fun to chat with you. Anyone else who joins later, thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a great weekend. And we'll see you right back here. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. See you next time. See you next time.