Lunch Academy 007 - SF Flavoured Profiteroles

Welcome, everybody to Lunch Academy Episode 007. I am your co host, Sam, and to the right of me, as always, the star of the show. Still don't have a nickname for her yet?

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I have never had a nickname in my life. I'm still waiting. What was wrong with make something happen? Shoddy Souk. Get creative.

Apparently double S is not popular. We should do a poll of, like, the worst nicknames, period. So welcome back everybody that's listening and welcome back yourself. Are you enjoying the weather today?

Yes, it's great. I mean, it's kind of cloudy.

I feel like last time we. First of all, we went over time, but then after that we. We did a fatal mistake. We didn't talk.

We didn't talk about the weather last time. So we apologize. We're so sorry. It's very unprofessional of us. And we had one job. I had a talk with Sam about it.

She was. She was very strict. She didn't let me eat lunch for a week.

He didn't prompt me into giving the weather forecast.

So what is the weather forecast today?

Today is cloudy. You may think that it's hot out. It's not. It's breezy and cold. Tomorrow is going to be sunny and beautiful. So plan some outdoor activities. I'm going to go do Diaz Vistas. Great hike.

What? Every week you come out with like this new place.

Check it out.

Last week you did. What the.

What did I do last week? I did Tunnel Bluff and bcmc.

Yeah, bcmc.

Okay, we're having technical difficulties. Let's see.

I'm going to pop away.

Come back, Come back. I'm getting nervous to be on camera. Come back. Okay, Sam is back. It's all good. Sorry, I panicked.

Just now was called dead air. So for the people listening on the podcast in on this, they won't see this.

Okay, great.

But for the people live, we're sorry. I'm not sorry. It was actually pretty funny. I think we should do more time on air with just shot air.

Our producer lady also right now is eating Phoenix while producing and I am just nervously looking at her bowl of foam on top of the computer. Don't water damage anything.

It's dry. It's dry. Don't worry. It's my computer. It's no problem. Anyway, what are we talking about? We're talking about the weather.

Yeah.

What happened with it and what's going to happen next. Should I be raining?

It's going to be sunny. It's going to be sunny.

I don't know. It kind of looks pretty rainy.

Sunday might be shitty, but it's okay.

Yeah, I can hear the broccoli crunching.

It's going to look close.

It's gonna get us. Get us a while to catch back up on this, but so, so sunny throughout. Is it gonna get hotter or.

Yeah, it's gonna be really hot outside.

I still have.

You can wear your tank tops on Saturday. It's gonna be good. Tank tops and sandals on Saturday.

Tank tops and sandals.

Find a lake to sit next to.

But last week you weren't here.

No, I was away in San Francisco.

Thanks for the invite.

And I was just. The whole time in my head as I was walking around, I could not get the song out of my head. If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair. I think that's how it goes.

I join in. But I've never heard this song in my life.

I know you guys know the song.

I don't know the song. This is not a bit.

Just imagine me walking around San Francisco singing that song to myself. That was pretty much it.

Okay.

It was great.

I loved it. What was the weather like there, though?

It was beautiful. We got really lucky because usually it is sort of cold in San Francisco. No matter what, we did get one really hot day. That was awesome sun throughout the whole time we went to the beach. It was not bad, actually. Like, we spent a whole afternoon at the beach and it wasn't that cold. I did have a sweater on, but I had shorts and I fell asleep on the beach, which meant I got a great short stand. And my face looks super tan and my hands look super tan, but everything else is pretty much white. Yeah, that's what happens in San Francisco. You fall asleep on the beach with the sweater.

Into a beach in San. Which. Which part of San Francisco? Which part of the bay are we talking about here?

So it's bad because I literally don't know north and south, but there's Bakers.

Turning into a geography.

And then there's, like, the marina next to Pier 39. So those are on opposite sides.

Yeah.

So I went to the Baker beach side.

So the west side?

Yeah, the west side. And there's another beach before Bakers Beach. I went there and we walked from there all the way through Baker's China beach, through the Golden Gate park, all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge and then around back to Pier 30 bridge. No, we didn't. And I didn't even know you could do that.

Yeah, you can.

I would have. Totally. My friend didn't even say anything. He's been to San Francisco like seven times. I thought you weren't allowed.

No, you're allowed. I only walked half of it and I walked half of it back. So I told myself I walked all of it, but then if I walked all of it, then it'd be like walking twice. So that's.

That's not a sandbox.

That's not. That's not efficient. So I walked it once.

I'll have to go back to do that.

Was this. So, so was it your first time in San Francisco?

My first time in San Francisco, I had lots of preconceived ideas of how it was going to be. I had heard so much.

She was looking for hover cars.

Yeah, I was looking. I was like, San Francisco, you know, the city of the future. Silicon Valley. Tech, all of it. And I got there and I was like, this, this is crazy. It's like a city that looks like it's from the 90s or the 80s, but it's the most high tech hub of the world. No, not the world.

Maybe it's all underground.

I don't know. The only high tech thing I saw that was visible to the eye was everybody going around in those scooters that you can rent out.

Oh, yeah.

And then you can literally.

Were they orange?

They had different ones. There's so many scooters and so you can pick it up anywhere and kind of like you would for like. What are bikes here in Vancouver?

I don't know.

Any bike.

The ones that biking is working, I don't like.

You can just rent it out on your app and then take the scooter and then when you're done, you just literally leave it wherever you want.

Yeah. So one of those companies is called Spin. So Spin. Ewan is actually from. From Vancouver originally. So he's down in the Valley right now. Um, pretty good buddy of. Of Alex's. I also know him. We played hockey together. I was his backups.

Backup. Yeah. There was also the same system for bikes that were all solar powered.

Yeah.

Which I thought was really cool. So there was. There's some areas like that that I could definitely see a little bit of. And they have. I mean, they have Uber, like.

Yeah, Uber is more my style than bikes that. Where I have to use exert energy.

Four days with Uber made it so that you can't go back. I just I came back and I felt immediate depression. I cannot Uber. I have to think of the bus. If I call a cab, it's gonna take 10 minutes. Ah, I'll just walk. But it was great to have Uber while walking around the city, because I'd walk around and sometimes I'd be like, I'm kind of lost and kind of done with walking. And I'd just be like, pick me up. And within 30 seconds, an Uber was there. But everything else was pretty archaic. I mean, the architecture of it all, they've kept all their heritage buildings intact, which is so beautiful. But it's so. It makes a contrast. It's a funny contrast in the city. When you walk around, this is the most intense tech hub.

So you went through. You entered the Tenderloin, right?

Yes, I go into that. That was kind of crazy. There's definitely. I mean, you can see the gap between the poor and the rich in San Francisco. San Francisco. So clearly. And it's. It's bad, but there's. I mean, there's poverty everywhere. Right? But it's really visible in San Francisco. I don't know if it's worse than other places. I just think that it's. It's definitely visible. And you walk through neighborhoods and it was like, one block, it's fine. The other block, not fine. One block, fine. It really varied through neighborhoods. Even in, like, the nicer side of towns, there was always some areas that were not as great, that were crappy. And I've. I heard that there's, like, a really high percentage of mental illness. I don't know where that comes from. Are they tired of the wind and then go crazy?

I don't know. So could you see yourself living there?

At first, everybody that I told I was going to San Francisco told me, you're gonna love it. I'm so sure you're gonna want to move there. Like, okay, okay. And I went. But no, definitely not. I don't see myself wanting to live there long term. I think that Vancouver, if I were to compare it to Vancouver, the lifestyle I get here, and I don't know, the cleanliness, it just feels pure. When you're out here, you get the mountains.

You're really just thinking about the human defecation that you saw.

Yeah, I saw a lot of human poo on the sidewalks, but that's not the reason. I just think that. I don't know, I. Compared to Vancouver, I'd rather live here. So far from the vibe that I got from it all. And also, I don't want to pay 3,000 plus for having four roommates in a 100 year old apartment? No, no, thank you.

That's fair. That's fair. And, but like, like on the topic of. And if you guys haven't figured out by now, we're only going to be talking about San Francisco the whole day today. Good things, bad things, ugly things, and of course poop. But, but like, did you, I know you mentioned that you only felt like you saw tech a little bit. Did it seem like a place where like the most brilliant minds, the tomorrow's future is being built? Did you get that vibe at all? And part of it is you were there on the weekend, so maybe not. Not. You didn't get to see as many people or go to a meetup or something like that.

Not. Yeah, I feel like I definitely, I didn't get to experience that tech side of San Fern. I went there as a tourist and just walked around and ate ice cream. So I can't say much about it. But to like your first impression that you get of it, definitely not. That's why the contrast is kind of interesting. The fact that you wouldn't peg it as that. But then you look into the history.