About this episode

Bridget discusses her observations and feelings about returning to Los Angeles after a long absence.

Bridget checks in from Los Angeles — where she's spending five weeks with family — and the city is not what she remembered. Empty storefronts on 3rd Street, deodorant locked behind glass at Walgreens, stores you have to get buzzed into, and a Hollywood Bowl 4th of July that felt more like a eulogy than a celebration. She and Maggie get into what it actually feels like to come back to a place you loved and see the decline in real time, why Texas feels so different, what a dead Vegas says about...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Maggie

Topics covered

• returning home
• city decline
• family
• cultural differences
• personal reflection

Keywords

• Los Angeles
• Texas
• Vegas
• 4th of July
• family
• city decline
• cultural differences

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Los Angeles, Texas, Vegas

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