- Okay, where did we ...
- Yes, yeah.
We were chilling on here.
- Hollywood is here, that's where we ...
I thought we'd start here, it's too restricted.
- Right, okay, that makes sense.
- Hey, everybody, for this episode of Happy Hour,
I'm joined by Pat from Life Noggin.
- Hi.
- Tell them what Life Noggin is.
- Life Noggin is an animated 2-D education channel,
and we make videos ranging from Why Do We Itch
to What If All the Cats on Earth Died,
so questions you've asked yourself
and questions you probably haven't asked yourself combo.
So you should check it out.
- Yeah, and it's really, it's a great channel,
it is all those questions that maybe you won't say out loud
but you think, and so they've answered them for you.
So they're really great,
check out the links in the description.
But today, for this episode of Happy Hour,
we are at Griffith Park, and we are gonna hike
to the Hollywood sign. - Yes.
Which I have never done before.
- I haven't either.
You're new to LA. - Yeah.
- Welcome. - Thank you.
This is gonna be a great introduction,
I'm completely unprepared for a hike.
I have shorts and minimal water, so ...
- We'll cross our fingers.
But I've lived in LA since 2002 and I still haven't done it,
and I'm excited. - Yeah.
It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be a new experience
for both of us, we're gonna try our best,
and that's all anybody can ask for.
- That's all that matters.
Also we picked the hottest day,
but I love being outdoors, it's a great way to relax,
and enjoy, especially in LA,
full of so many people, so much traffic.
- Yeah, I stay inside all the time.
- Same.
- So this is new to me, the smell, real new, real new.
- Don't worry, we're wearing sunscreen, we're prepared.
- I'm not wearing deodorant, so
this is gonna be really fun for you.
You're gonna get that smell the entire time,
so sorry about that. - That's okay.
I can handle it.
Okay, well let's go check it out,
let's get going. - Yeah, let's do it.
Just playing Breath of the Wild on the Swish the whole time,
and I was looking at beautiful landscapes, but
this is actual beautiful landscapes.
- Isn't it really pretty today?
- You can actually see everything, which is nice.
There's not that smog over LA.
I feel like I'm dragging this dog,
she's just like, "I don't wanna do this."
Let me try to switch to backpack mode and see if this works.
- You good? - We're good, okay.
- Let me know if it gets too much and we'll swap over.
We'll take turns. - Okay.
- Don't worry, we got you.
- It's actually pretty comfortable.
As long as she's okay, I'm okay.
By the way, if you smell something that ...
It smells like a fart, that's Cleo.
It's Cleo and I swear it's not me.
I'm literally like ... her breath is great,
you're gonna love it. - She's old.
She's had a lot of good ...
- She's very old.
- Although my favorite food is Italian food.
I know, right?
I thought that that's what I
was getting when we became friends, but--
- No, 'cause I can't cook,
but I can call my mom and tell her to fly over to LA.
And she can cook you a mean lasagna,
let me tell you right now.
- Ooh, speaking my language.
- I was gonna say, "Lasann", but that's not even an
Italian thing, I know Italians screw up words all the time.
A nice lasann.
- You are from New York, originally, born and raised, right?
- Mm-hmm, yes.
- How has that transition been coming out to LA?
'Cause I know LA, at least from my experience,
visiting New York, we're polar opposites.
- Yeah, it's definitely different
'cause it's not very fast paced,
everything's really chill here.
I was trying to get a coffee yesterday
and it took 20 minutes, and the guy was trying
to have a conversation with me about his screenplay
and I'm like, "Cool, man, but I just--"
- But I kinda gotta go.
- I just wanna get my coffee 'cause I can't function.
The first time I was ever in New York by myself,
I was 14, and I started walking, and I tripped and I fell.
And then somebody just walked over me
like it was nothing, they saw me and they were just like,
"Excuse me one second." - I'm in a hurry.
- Yeah right?
And I got up and I was like, "Wow, this is what it means."
Someone's just gonna walk over you
to get where they need to go.
I learned that lesson real quickly.
So moving here, I'm always hesitant to ask people
about things, 'cause I don't wanna do that in New York.
That's probably the one thing, is
talking to people, and trying to get help,
I'm always afraid of moving to a new place
'cause I don't want people to think,
oh, you don't know your way around here.
You're not a local.
- Most people aren't locals here, that's the thing.
So it's a whole different vibe, almost.
- Right, if I was really local,
I wouldn't be wearing this California hat.
Being in a place you're so comfortable with,
you don't even realize you're rushing half the time.
You don't realize how quickly you do things
until you get to a place that's so dramatically different.
I really do enjoy LA,
but it's gonna take me a little while to get used to
the culture, I feel like.
I never wanna be too content, right?
I never wanna be like, "Yep, this is good."
- Well that's when you stop growing,
and we stop changing, or challenging ourselves.
And that's when we get bored, or at least for me, I guess.
That's when I get bored.
- Yeah, even when you were pitching me on this idea,
I think you were like, "We can go to a spa,
or maybe we can go hiking."
I was like, "No, hiking, let's do it."
'Cause I'm so not used to it and
I wanna try something different.
- And we've never done this.
- Yeah. - We're so close.
We can't get lost, we're headed there.
- We know exactly where we're going, it's right there.
So hopefully we don't get lost.
Although, I'm really excited because I see these signs
that say, "Caution, rattle snake", which I'm not used to.
Yeah, just one rattle snake.
There is one rattle snake.
When life gives you rattle snakes,
you just gotta run away from them.
- You've gotta run, quickly.
- Sometimes you have to run away from your problems.
- Agreed.
Only in those scenarios.
When poison's involved. - Yeah.
I don't like that I'm not courteous of other people.
I consider myself a nice person,
but I'll be walking and I'll be just totally into
what I'm doing at the moment that I'm not
looking at anybody else, or I'm not looking out
for other people.
- Not paying attention to your surroundings.
- If I'm with friends, I'm generally
looking to help them, 'cause they're my friends.
But if it's people that I'm meeting,
I'm so awkward about it.
I'm not like, "Do you need me to move?"
I don't do that, I'm just sitting there ...
- Well, we're not gonna make it to the Hollywood sign.
- It's behind us right now, so
it's probably the wrong direction.
- It truthfully kept feeling like it was
pulling us farther and farther away,
but the whole point of the Happy Hour is just
to do something that you can do with the time given.
And today, this is all we can do.
- Yeah, but it's- (dog barks)
- Oh. - Ooh.
- Cleo.
She doesn't agree.
She just wants to go to the Hollywood sign.
- You lazy sons of ... - So mad.
But no, this view is totally fine.
I'm happy with this.
- Yeah, and I've never hiked this park at all.
So this is all new,
and getting outdoors is really important for me
and helps me feel better,
and also just gets me out of my house
and away from the city a little bit, so
thanks for braving it with me.
- Yeah, thanks for having me.
I feel good, and I'm happy to be here.
It's beautiful. - It's nice.
- It's real pretty.