 You know, May 40 here. It's inspired by my three-month holiday down under hiking all around Sydney. I need to get out here and start hiking in Los Angeles. I think this is only my second time at Will Rogers National Park here, Pacific Palisades, looking out at the Pacific Ocean. I've been in Los Angeles for 29 years, and I've been here twice and it's such a lovely bus ride too. Taking the bus in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Bel Air, very different experience than taking like the subway. Wow, there is such an air of menace and just crazy criminal behavior going on in the subway. Wow, so I rode the Los Angeles subway for the first time. Nine days ago and some pretty rough, scary, crazy types. Not a pleasant experience at all. Now, a commuter bus from, say, West LA to downtown thugs there aren't too many stops. That's pretty good. All right, you get the rapid bus. All right, that's pretty good. But boy, take a lot of stops down towards downtown Los Angeles, south-central Los Angeles. Some other dicey, crazy criminaly inclined anti-social characters. But riding the bus West LA, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Pacific Palisades. Perfectly pleasant experience just like taking the bus in Australia, the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Very nice experience. Right now we're in big city of Los Angeles and I just finished season four of Babylon, Berlin. Wow. Almost ready to buy the novel. That's a great show. I hear it's one of those rare TV shows or movies. It's better than the book. Babylon, Berlin's got it all. It's got Jews. It's got degeneracy. It's got Nazis. It's got German efficiency and German corruption. Everything. Babylon, Berlin. So the first three seasons are already on Netflix. Very much worth a watch. Just incredible acting. Just incredibly compelling from beat to beat. It's not bad being the middle of the big city of Los Angeles, right? You've got this fantastic national park. Perfectly pleasant bus ride to and from. Now you drive a car, a $12 parking fee, but take the bus. No worries, mate. The type of people you meet here. Very, very nice. Just the best. Hikers are the best people out there, folks. They bring their goodness with them on the hike. Hiking brings out their best. It encourages the best. It develops the best. It's like you're on a golf course. Please and thank you. How are you? Have a nice day and smiles and just good men is all around. You don't need a lot of super predators out here. Now, there are some mountain lions. Say you encounter a mountain lion out here. I saw the sign. The important thing is like raise your hand above your head and make some noise. Frighten them away. Got all mountain lions. We love our mountain lions in LA, don't we, folks? We've got the best mountain lions here. And they've got to be really quick and agile to get across the freeways. So you live in LA, you've got you've got snow an hour away. You've got the beach 10 minutes away. You've got the Santa Monica Mountains here. And we would have had snow up here a week ago. We had snow down to a thousand feet. We had snow flurries at the Hollywood sign. And this is just like dipping into the mikveh of nature. It's just very renewing, refreshing, reinvigorating, revivifying, reconstituting. It's all here. Nice to get away from computer screens. From the sturm and stress of doing a live stream. Just to enjoy a leisurely recorded video. With a high quality DGI gimbal too. With its external microphone. And this feels like Australia. So. Babylon Berlin. The protagonist, the good guy. Gideon, the detective. He's also quite a flawed character. Develops drug addiction. And then the second lead is a woman who works as a prostitute by night and a police detective by day. And there are some tabloid journalists, some communists, some Nazis, betrayal, children living on the streets. You got psychoanalysis, medication, administering of speed, administering of other drugs. Oh, and the zeppelin. Damn, the zeppelin is amazing. So this character gets a phone call from Berlin. On Friday night, God forbid. Gets a phone call, realizes he needs to go to Berlin. He books a zeppelin. He flies on the zeppelin from New York to Berlin. I mean, that's amazing. I've got to research that. Like, how long would that take? And I mean, the facilities are top class. I mean, much better facilities than we have when you fly economy now. I mean, when you're flying on the flying on the zeppelin airship, that's really flying. So just imagine jumping on a zeppelin in 1930, New York, taking the zeppelin to Berlin. Got to watch some more videos and do some more reading on life on the zeppelin. I mean, this thing would just go over oceans. And yeah, there was a major disaster. What was it about 1938 in New Jersey? Or was it the Hindenburg exploded? But one of my fantasies is just to be floating on a balloon over the ocean. Getting into a zeppelin. How do you beat the winds? Like when you're flying to Australia, you're flying against the wind. Do they take zeppelins from Europe to Australia in the 1930s? I got to know. I guess if you're going with the wind, you know, air travel by zeppelin is possible. But I just don't see those little motors you have to successfully navigate against the wind. But they had really posh headquarters flying on a zeppelin airship. Sounds tops, mate. A lot of new technology going on in Babylon, Berlin. So there's this one guy who's convinced that he's going to fly to the moon. He's going to be the first man to land on the moon. And so under post-World War One regulations, right, Germany's only allowed very limited armed forces, but they're allowed a civilian experimentation to create an aircraft spacecraft. But they can just rejigger the spacecraft instead of hitting the moon. They can just reprogram it to hit Paris, London or New York instead. And so the Germans invented the first ICBM, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. And then we've got their top scientists after World War Two and they led America's space program. But to see the beginning of this innovation that's portrayed in season four of Babylon, Berlin, it's pretty cool. German technology, German engineering. If you want to see Jewish engineering, then look at what happened to Russia and Nagasaki.