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A (0:02)
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B (0:22)
All right, Rebecca, it's fall media diet time. Or just like other stuff we've been doing that isn't books. I guess I, I can talk about some traveling. I didn't talk about my San Diego bookstore adventures. I can do that here. I know you've seen some movies or some tv. Where would you like to start? We can sort of ping pong back and forth.
A (0:37)
I would love to hear about San Diego travel. I've actually never spent time there.
B (0:41)
Well, San Diego is what people who haven't been to LA think LA is. It's, the weather is better especially it's more of. It's on the coast. Like again, the San Diego that I visited, maybe this is more touristy parts, but a lot of the LA that I go to is not on the water. And so, and it has, it has a, it has a big city feel to it where San Diego feels like a lot of smaller neighborhoods. But the weather is just unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It was like 65, 68 and sunny and low humidity with a little light breeze. I've been there a few times. We went and stayed in La Jolla, which was, which is a Tony. I guess it's a different town, but it's in the San Diego area. It's on the water. All the fancy coffee places that you can walk to, it was just, there's beaches that the kids splashed around the water. Again, it's still pretty cold, but like it's, it's so beautiful down there. And you know, we did the zoo, we went to a couple of universities just to walk around like this is one thing we've done as the kids have gotten to their teen years is going to check out a college. University is kind of like just an activity on its own. You go to a different part of town, you can learn something about the school and give them some sense of possibility. But I found, I found, I went to two bookstores that were individually notable. The first one is Warwick's in La Jolla, which is in the tony downtown area. But would you like to guess the year that Warwick's was established?
A (2:15)
Oh, I think I read something about Warwick's recently.
B (2:17)
It was the PW Bookstore of the Year for 2024. That's how I heard about it initially.
A (2:22)
It's like pre1900 1896.
B (2:26)
1896 on the west coast is old and you wouldn't know that walking into it now. I'm sure this is not the original Clappard house or whatever they were in in 1896. It's in this downtown area. And half of it. I think one of the reasons they've probably survived in this very I much must imagine extremely expensive piece of real estate is essentially half of the store is like gifts and stationery and like jewelry and stuff.