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Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to another edition of 10 Gently Speaking. This is a very special episode. My guest today is a young lady by the name of Anya Katz also known as Anya Kates.

She should have buried that last one.

I had known Anya Kates for a month or so. We were neighbors in Topanga. It's a long story which we won't tell here but we basically met because you ordered a t-shirt and my mother said, oh look someone from Topanga ordered a t-shirt and being the good son.

I said, let me just take it. You don't need to go to the mail to the post office for that. So I hand delivered it to your mailbox which I think is illegal by the way.

Really? Yeah you're not allowed to open people's mailboxes if you're not an official mail carrier. Yeah so I think I broke the law there allegedly. I'm not admitting to that officially. This may have been what happened. I don't know it was a long time ago.

Anyway, what was the story? I think my name was that where you were going? Yeah that I had known you for a month before I listened to your amazingly interesting podcast called a Millennials Guide to Saving the World.

And I heard you say, welcome to another edition of Millennials Guide to Saving the World. I'm your host Anya Katz and I was like, what? Katz, why didn't you tell me?

Because you were right. Isn't that weird? I miss I and my entire family mispronounce our name intentionally, right? Because it was Dutch and you wanted to deductify.

No, I have this friend Hunter Mots and A T S in your Katz K A T S. Yeah it wasn't us intentionally. I believe it's when my family came to America from the Netherlands and they'd you know when they came through Ellis Island or wherever it was if they couldn't pronounce something or didn't understand.

They'd change the spelling or the pronunciation. So it was it was pronounced Katz for many generations prior to me saying Katz. Right.

But no, it's it's absolutely supposed to be Katz. So your grandmother. No, your grandma is from the other side of the I'm thinking of your grandmother or the publisher. Oh yeah, other.

What's her last name? Well, her married name is Arden, but it was Arnoth originally and that was another one that they changed. And that was Russian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, in any case. Welcome. This has been a long time coming. Yeah.

We should tell people where we are because they might hear like we sound strangely relaxed. So strange. Yeah, we're on the Kukka Nusa Lake. Kukka Nusa Lake, which isn't really Lake. It's a reservoir. Yeah.

Which I keep calling a river. So well, it is the river. I mean, it was a river until they put a dam on it. But it's it's interesting because it's very north west Montana. If you're looking at a map.

And it took me a while to me a day or two before I realized that the name Kukka Nusa is a conglomeration of the Kutanai Indians who I guess this was there.

And Canada and USA. Yeah. Canoosa. It's like that. Calling a calling beef. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Coal. Linga. Coal. Linga. Yeah. I think I've told that story, but people who don't know there's a place in California called Coal. Linga. It's on the on the five going out from LA to San Francisco. And of course, everyone thinks that's an Indian name.

But I think it was Malcolm. I forget Malcolm's less than Fleishner. Anyway, he's been on the podcast a couple of times. And he explained to me that it was calling station along the railway line. And that was calling a.

So it's where the steam train stopped to load up on coal. And that area was called calling a and somehow over the years it became coal. Linga. So yeah, we're on the Kukka Nusa reservoir, which spans the border.

I wonder how they enforce border control in the middle of the. I was thinking the same thing. Just like a buoys. I don't know about how that how enforcing that is, but I'm sure they're they mark at it.

Yeah, some sort of motion detector or something. Yeah, so we are on this little peninsula that we discovered. And it is really sweet here.

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