Hey everyone welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast travel

addition walk edition I guess I'm taking another walk today I'm in the

valley in San Fernando Valley in California. I actually lived here for about a year in

2010-2011 and I was actually born in Van Nuys so not far from where I am right now in Panorama City.

And my dad moved out when I was two years old, so growing up most of my life in upstate New York.

I've spent four years, or a little more than that actually.

It's been four and a half years in North Carolina and Virginia. And now I'm back though visiting.

And there is a part of me that just does feel comfortable here

that feels like I'm home although things change over time and when you visit

somewhere and you don't see it for a while, you miss the progressive changes so you see the changes all at once.

And certainly things have changed politically, socially.

They have, they're certainly a homeless problem.

There's just a lot of things actually that have changed.

But one, some of the things that haven't changed are the weather.

Although we do have a drought, but the, you know, I still smell the same kinds of flowers.

The weather's just so nice, honestly.

It's amazing.

I understand why people live in California,

because in the winter, you can have a short sleep shirt on and you're

not sweating either it's dry heat it's awesome but the weather and and the plants don't seem to change.

So anyway, I'm enjoying it and just wanted to talk today a little bit about

geopolitics.

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