Hey, welcome to State of Hong Kong. Hi, everybody. I'm Paul F. Tompkins. I'm

Janie Haddad Tompkins. She's an actress. He's a comedian. We are a married couple living

Los Angeles and this is our podcast where we catch up on a Friday night and pass it

on to you. And also fight crime. Passively. We passively fight crime through our

podcast. Okay, we don't really fight crime. We're not trying to, but maybe we are doing

it. Maybe there's somebody that listens to this that's like, I was going to commit a crime,

but then the podcast made me feel good. Here's what I personally, and just like my own personal

ethos is. This is your PE. My PE. I think if you make an effort to put out goodness and

kindness and compassion in the world, even when you're not feeling like it, that fights

crime. Is that true? You're probably right. Oh, you don't know, for sure. No, I haven't

looked it up. Oh, anyway, I got my weekend water. I got mine. And it is time for the chat

fest. What kind of a week did we have? Well, last night, wonderful evening. So we met

up with some old friends. Friends that came there in town from New York. Yes, yes, we hadn't

seen them since before all this happened. We did see the other friends that were also

with us last weekend. That's right. Because they live, they live like five minutes away.

We had not seen them since before the pandemic. But we all got together had dinner at a place

called the Raymond in Pasadena. Yes. And we sat on the patio. It was outside. It's a really

charming place. I've never been there before. Yeah. And I really loved it. We were invited

to go. And I was like, what's this? And I looked at it and I'm like, this is cute. And

then I was like, I never heard of it. And now, like, once I heard of it once, like, it's

all I've heard about. Yes. Does that, you know how that happens? And I was like, how did

this escape my situation? That's like, what, what I heard of BTS. Never heard of them

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