Santa Monica State Beach

well you know what's interesting billy Thank you for all that, by the way.

But I will tell you that I don't know if you would know this either, but the last time we saw each other, okay, it was in Santa Monica Beach area.

I don't remember if it was a hotel or whatever it was, but it was like at the restaurant because we were outdoors.

And I remember we were covered.

Marion Davies has given Hollywood two things for which the town may be thankful.

A good fellowship, which has inspired so much loyalty, and a great white landmark on the oceanfront, her home at Santa Monica Beach.

A quiet little gathering there may mean from 30 to 1,000 guests, and may include princes, giants of business, statesmen, and the nation's leading socialites, all being quite themselves under the spell of their charming and unassuming hostess.

I've seen prominent ambassadors play ping-pong in the cellar, and a world-renowned scientist romping with Marion's four dachshunds.

And perhaps most hauntingly for the residents of other parts of the US, he was looking up various other locations.

For example, he looked in great detail at Santa Monica Beach and how many people might be on that beach at a summer's day.

But he was also looking into other venues such as Fenway Park in Boston.

And it wasn't just locations that he was researching either, because he also looked into police tactics.

Santa Monica was a cool trip.

Hillary Clinton was staying in the same hotel I was staying at, which is called Shutters, which is a stunning hotel on Santa Monica Beach.

Yeah.

And Hillary Clinton was staying there at the same time.

Just to get to the beach? Well, that beach is...

No, I can drive 15, 20 minutes to get to... 15 minutes and no traffic to get to Santa Monica Beach, but I haven't been there in a while.

I like

Santa Monica, but it's been a while.

So number one, it's highly distortionary to the market.

It's how that people in the 1990s bought Santa Monica Beach property for a couple hundred grand.

They're sitting on $3 million with the real estate.

They're paying taxes on a couple hundred thousand dollars, all right? This drives up all of the surrounding prices whenever they eventually go up for sale.