Protecting Mangroves & Monkeys

Hello friends and welcome back to the Let's Talk Lauderdale podcast. I'm Marv. I'm Jen.

And this is the show where we talk about all the events, the people, the places, the things that make South Florida fizzle. We are focusing. Sorry.

Should have said sizzle, right? It's my fizzy drink, my energy drink. Yes. Yes. 

Celsius got me off guard there. We are talking local food events, business culture, and conversations that matters to the folks who live, work, and play right here in the Lauderdale area. So welcome back. 

Welcome. Well, I should say I'm glad to be back. I was gone for a little while and. 

In the cold, right? It was freaking cold in the city of Philadelphia, but I heard it got cold down here too. Yeah. Like sixties, maybe high sixties. 

It was sweater weather. It was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. 

I'm not complaining. It's actually, it was nice this morning, but it already warmed up. Yeah. 

If you are listening to this show, we are recording on Saturday, November 1st. And I was out of town Tuesday. I think you were busy Tuesday as well.

Normally record. Absolutely. But we are back. 

And let me ask you, how did you survive trick-or-treating or did you do trunk or treating? Well, the kids are older. So we, we did trick-or-treating at my friend's house. We, we were the hosts giving out the candy. 

So we had a fun night. We had a fun night. I think I've shared before. 

We used to go to my sister's neighborhood and she would give out glasses of wine to the parents. We actually moved to another friend's house. So we were laughing at all the parents that were probably looking for us last night that wanted the wine and the other neighborhood. 

But now, I mean, we all have kids that are older adults now, so they're not, they're not trick-or-treating, but we still like that celebration. So she, she got it. She told us she, she typically didn't get trick-or-treaters, but she got a nice crowd yesterday. 

We played a fun game last night. It's a dice game. I was just looking it up because I want to get it. 

It's called left, right, and center. I highly recommend it. It's like eight. 

I just saw it on walmart.com for like $8. Super fun game. We played with quarters. 

They give you chips if you don't want to play with money. She had asked, like, it was later in the night. Do you guys want to play a game? And I'm like, I don't want to play a game. 

But we all got forced to play it. Had a blast. So I highly recommend it.

That's not the type of game that would cause fighting and... No, it's totally a game, a game of chance. You roll three, you put in three quarters. If you have to, according to the dice, have to pass a quarter to the left, put it in the center, pass it to the right, or keep it in a... No, it was fun. 

We had a blast. Okay. So not a political game.

No, gosh. No, no, no. Not that kind of left, right, and center. 

No, no. Now I see where you're going. No, there is a podcast by that name, which is good, by the way, politically.

All right. So of course, I, so I flew back into town yesterday. On Halloween.

On Halloween. But I have a nine-year-old nephew. Oh, that's right. 

Did you go trick or treating? Yes. I traditionally will walk him around our neighborhood. And our neighborhood, this is going to sound old, but our neighborhood has become the melting pot of other neighborhoods where everybody comes to our neighborhood to do that. 

So our park, there was a trunk and treat at the park. We have a park that's in the middle of our neighborhood. So there were, as we walked by, there were probably, I don't know, 100 kids at our park.

Our park isn't that big. So it was crowded. So my wife and I will take the nephew and my sister will stay at the house and she'll hand out candy at our house so that at least our house is still... Because that's one of the things we were kind of upset about. 

Half the houses don't participate anymore. That's frustrating. But it was interesting. 

My nephew wore a costume that we as adults, if we don't have kids on the regular, have no idea. I looked at his costume. I'm like, what the heck is that? What was he? Not that I will know.

He was a character from Among Us, which is a game. And we thought, okay, poor kid is going to be so upset. But everybody knew.

It was you. Everybody. And then we're like, okay.

Another sign that you're old. We're the old folks here. I mean, there was a house we went to where the kids were leaving and they saw his costume and they ran back into their parents and say, we got to get candy. 

We got to get candy. Among Us, I love that costume. It was one of those where people... Everybody's usually nice and friendly. 

Hey, nice costume, love your costume. But a lot of people were like, we love that costume. All right. 

It was a hit. And there was a kid that couldn't have been more than two years old. He had gone up to a house before my nephew. 

And as my nephew's walking up, he's walking back. And he literally calls out the name of the costume. And we're like, how does a two-year-old kid know this stuff? But they do.

Welcome to old age. Yes. We old. 

Oh, my. Well, of course, now I still won't be able to participate, but this is the weekend of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Did you sneak over? I didn't. 

I really wanted to, but this week has just been crazy busy with work. So I did not. The closest I got, I actually met... I had a meeting, a breakfast meeting over at Pier 66.

I think it was Wednesday morning. So that was the closest I got. I got in the traffic, how about that? And I saw some of the boat show folks who were staying at the hotel.

Pier 66, though, have you been since they reopened? I have. I want to go. It is beautiful.

Yeah. Beautiful. Because, of course, the big attraction is to go up to the restaurant.

Yeah, that I haven't done. And, you know, here's the funny thing. For years, I keep meaning to find out if the restaurant still spins.

It does. Okay. It does. 

That I can tell you. Although it's not really a restaurant. It's more of a happy hour.

Yeah, I think it's more of a lounge. A lounge, yes. With an upscale.

But still, I do want to go there. But how's the hotel itself? The hotel is gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. 

I will say the valet parking. It was a rainy morning, so I didn't self-park. That was $50 valet parking.

So next time my coworker and I will drive together rather than separate. Breakfast was great. We had a breakfast. 

I think it's Garni Cafe. I'm not really sure how to pronounce it. It's on the lower level. 

So you walk into the lobby and then you can kind of see via a balcony the restaurant below. So we went down there. It was delicious. 

Amazing breakfast buffet. Or a la carte items. I had an avocado toast that was just too pretty to eat.

And, you know, typically you get an avocado toast and it's like the seed or wheat bread. This was like flaky croissant-ish type of toast. It was amazing.

Okay. Did you post it on the social media? You know, I should have, but I didn't. That's what the kids do.

I know. I was with a work breakfast, so I was like, maybe not today. Okay. 

So I'm going to be too busy today and tomorrow to head out there because I will be traveling again next week. I'll be gone most of the week, so I got to get stuff done before I go. But I was just doing a little bit of looking and some of the comments that I have seen about the boat show seem to be really good.

I saw a quote from Jimmy Tate, CEO and co-founder of Tate Capital. And he said that, I think the crowd and the energy and the demographics of the buyer, it traverses all markets. Many of them end up buying here and staying here, whether it's their second home or their permanent home. 

So that... It's a lot for this community. It does. But the other part was they talked about the fact that a lot of people keep their yachts here after they buy them. 

So, of course, that's, you know, part of that economic, you know, success that we have down here that, you know, they keep their boat here. Yeah. They need a crew to keep it up.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's pretty cool.

Yeah. I wonder, do they charter it or do they just maintain it here? I don't know. You know what? It probably depends on the type of yacht because some of those, yeah, I would imagine that if you're not going to be here six months, charter it out once or twice a month.

Right. Cover your dock fees. Exactly.

So they also said that there might be eight or nine hundred million dollars  worth of boats and equipment that you can see throughout the weekend. That's a lot. That is a lot.

I guess the floating docks, it takes like six days to build those floating docks, apparently. Yeah. But I know, I said I was going to get down there. 

It's just, I don't know. This is the time where it's super busy today and tomorrow. So I'm not sure I want to fight those crowds.

Yeah, that's true. Although it is beautiful weather. Yep. 

So here's a wonderful quote that I think puts Fort Lauderdale in a great light. Rishi Dela Vega, a real estate developer down here, says Fort Lauderdale has really come into its own. It's no longer the quiet neighbor of Miami.

Oh. And it's really being driven by investors. People come here.

They look at yachts. They have fun. They understand our lifestyle.

And then, of course, they get interested in real estate and they eventually either want to make an investment here or they look to make it their home. Okay. That's good.

So the boat show has a huge ripple effect, I guess. Absolutely. Yeah.

So, yep. I didn't make it over there. I won't be able to make it over there, but I at least wanted to share some of the comments that I saw about how great the boat show is for us.

Yeah. Maybe next year. Maybe next year we can walk the crowd.

Yes. I did participate in the beach cleanup last week. I got a hat for that.

Nice. Yeah. There's a lot of trash in an hour that we picked up.

Filled a bucket and a bag. Which area of the beach did you guys... Fort Lauderdale by near B Ocean basketball courts area. That's probably where the most trash is.

Yeah. Well, we were really digging in the dunes and the stuff that blows along the trees and where the fence area is. Yeah. 

In an hour, we got a lot of trash. Good turnout? It was a decent turnout. It was a windy morning, so I wasn't sure.

It rained, but it turned out the turnout was well. Good. Very nice.

All right. Let's see what else has happened. Anything else you do last week? Because I can't report.

You can't report. I can report that it was cold in Philadelphia. I was happy that one of the cheesesteak restaurants that people told us to visit was right next to the hotel.

Okay. And was it worth it? Was it a good referral? Listen, I had to tell people it was worth it. Oh.

I've had cheesesteak before. Okay. This really didn't feel any different.

It wasn't? No. Huh. That's disappointing.

But one of our vendors and somebody that supports my business podcast apparently went to school with the owner of this restaurant. Oh, so you had to really talk about it. Yeah. 

He's like, you got to go here. And the keynote speaker used to be, I don't know, he's not necessarily a chef, but he has been known to cook in kitchen stuff and stuff. He actually got to go cook behind the kitchen with that company.

That's pretty exciting. It actually turned out pretty good. And for those that are interested and want to know, we stayed at the Sheridan Philadelphia downtown.

Okay. And the restaurant is Shea Steaks. I shouldn't say it's a restaurant.

It's more like one of those things. It's a store in a building. It's in a hotel and there is seating, but it's not.

Like a small little. Yeah. It's a small little diner-ish type place.

It's not. We sat back in the second part of the seating with the coolers and the boxes. Okay. 

So not fine dining. Yeah. Don't think of it.

You have to get your Sunday best on. Don't dress up. Don't make a reservation.

So I have a question for you. Yes. If you had somebody coming to town, which I'm sure you do with your podcast, and the conferences, where is the one place that you would say you have to go? Like to go eat.

To eat? Yeah. Where is that top-notch place that if you're going to be in Fort Lauderdale for one day, you have to check this place out. I don't see. 

I don't have one of those places. You don't? No, but we do have, for instance, if we have people that have to hit the beach, Aruba's. Okay. 

Gotcha. So it depends on what they're looking for. Right. 

Right. If it's somebody where we have to go to someplace other than Fort Lauderdale, we'll take them down to Margaritaville. And I don't even know the name of that restaurant in there, but they've got a very nice steakhouse.

I think it's JB's. No, it's not JB's. I don't think it's JB's.

I know what you're talking about though. Yeah. Like it's a prime steakhouse.

Right. Yes. So there's that.

Um, I'm trying to think we used to, I don't even know. You don't know. Well, I think you make a good point.

It depends on what their goal is, what they like. Right. For me, it would Hollywood beach. 

I feel like that's kind of where I grew up. Yes. There's a... The Broadwalk is great.

What's the name of that restaurant that is on the corner there? On Hollywood beach? Actually, you know, it's not on the Broadwalk. It's actually further. There was a place where somebody took us.

It was like, you had to go here. Intercoastal or Ocean? Ocean. On the corner.

Yeah. See, I need to figure that out. South or North? I think it's South.

I'll have to look it up. Yeah. Now I'm really curious.

Don't be trying to get me off guard here. I'm sorry. Well, it just... Actually, here's another restaurant.

It used to be The Cove up in Lighthouse Point. Oh, yes. Yes.

But it's, I forget the name of it now. It's not still The Cove. We talked about this before, right? We did because it actually changed name to... Something else.

Like Charlie's or something. But then they renamed it The Cove. I think it's back to... I could be wrong, but I think it's back to The Cove.

Yeah. That was another place where we would have to take people because it's, you know, it's on the intercoastal. It is... It's a combination of outside dining, but you can, you know, it's a sit down place.

They had Sundays, they used to have the music. We haven't been on a Sunday in a while, so I don't know if they still do. And you could really, you could see really nice boats going by.

Yeah. That's, that's the kind. Yeah. 

Usually if people are visiting, they're not from this area. They're not from the beach. Right.

So... So it has been renamed back to The Cove. The Cove. Okay.

Waterfront and Tiki Bar. Okay. I had a girlfriend from Tennessee come down.

It was a jujitsu thing. And she wanted to go to the beach. And I took her to Bo's on Fort Lauderdale Beach, which was good.

Oh, okay. And she wanted oysters. So a delicious lunch there.

Usually families, the Broadwalk, because you can eat and walk the beach and have fun. Yeah. Of course, Jackson's ice cream.

You have to experience Jackson's. We had a friend come down with their kids and they wanted hamburgers. Okay.

So where do you think we took them? That place we talked about before. Jack's. Jack's. 

Yep. Yep. And we took them to the one in Pompano, not to the one in Lauderdale.

Okay. Fantastic. Yeah.

So... There's a lot to do. Okay. It doesn't sound very refined, it doesn't, my choices.

Not a foodie. No, but it's... But like there's that... There's a... In Hollywood, a sandwich shop. This is what made me think about that.

I think it's Sonny's. It's off Taft Street. And Guy Fieri had actually gone there and they're like... They've been around forever, but it's the same kind of place.

It's like, you know, older, not fine dining kind of place, but super good sandwiches. So, you know, that's kind of one of those, if you're going to be in Hollywood for a little while, check that place out too. Yeah.

So, okay. I went to Lauderdale, which is a nice little brewery by the port. So if you're... Between the port and the airport.

So if somebody's ever doing a layover, kind of has some hours to kill, check out Lauderdale. I was just looking, they do Sunday yoga, yoga and beer. At the ale house? Sunday yoga and beer, 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock maybe.

So I might have to check that out one morning. Interesting. Goat yoga, beer yoga.

They have trivia night. They bring in a lot of good food trucks. So I was there a little bit earlier this week as well.

I did listen. Again, I'm not a Fort Lauderdale resident. I'm a Dania resident.

And I like to listen. If I can't attend my commission meetings, I listen on YouTube. And there's some pretty big, what's the word? Stories, issues being addressed in Dania, which are eventually going to be going to Broward.

There's a piece of land in the mangrove area near the port. It's, that area is kind of weird because the port has Dania Beach, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale all in one little area. So you never really know where you are.

This particular parcel used to belong to Nova Southeastern University. Was sold to a developer back in, I see two different dates, 2014 and 2022. Well, the developer wants to build a big warehouse project over there.

And I believe from what I heard in the commission meeting, the land is zoned commercial or industrial, whatever is needed to build this warehouse. But it has an environment, what is the ESL? Environmental, and I just lost the page that had the word. Because I couldn't remember what ESL means.

But basically there's an environmental protection on that piece of land. Which the residents of Dania are upset about. Because that has to be removed in order for this project to move forward.

And there are mangroves in that area that would have to be removed. And those mangroves are important. I'm sure those are protected as well.

They are. And this developer wants to remove it. They're like, we purchased the land.

It was zoned to be able to build what we want to build. We should be able to build it. And so I guess there are some things, from what I got from the commission meeting.

There were some things that were happening behind the scenes that the commission and the mayor of Dania didn't really know was happening. So when a few residents started calling the mayor, Mayor Joyce Davis, she really started to dig in and really research and study and decided, she worked with the county, I guess, before they could approve what had to be done. The county said, okay, we're going to delay this vote.

We're going to let Dania commission hear from the residents and decide what their recommendation is before they vote. So that was a big topic. I think like 20 people showed up to the commission meeting on Tuesday.

And most speaking against moving these protections on the land. And part of it is, I don't know if you, what's over there too. It's not even just the mangroves and the way that they protect us from flooding and just really protect our environment.

Did you know about the monkeys over in that area? I did not know about the monkeys. The vervet, I'm not saying, no, if I'm saying the word vervet right. So I'm only going to say it once.

I always know they're monkeys, but I just see what the title is. But there was a monkey sanctuary back, or there's a monkey sanctuary there now. And these were monkeys that were a part of a Dania chimpanzee farm back in the 40s that had escaped and they just kind of taken over that area.

And they, if you ever go back in that area, it's near the port between US1 and the port. So it's east of US1. If you kind of go back in that little undeveloped area, you might see some monkeys hanging around.

In fact, I know some offices over there where they become friends with the workers and kind of watch them work in their shop. But what, you know, one of the concern is not only the mangroves, but it's going to disturb the monkeys that are living in that area. After all the construction and the noise, they're going to kind of be moved out of their area and really their habitat is going to be disturbed.

So I'm curious to see what happens now that the commission has all but one commissioner voted to not recommend this project to move forward. The one commissioner that didn't said, listen, this developer bought this land thinking that they can build on it. It's not really fair that they're stuck with this.

They had every intention and were told that their intentions could be honored, that they can build. And so now they're stuck with this. So that's why he didn't vote.

So I'm curious now that it's going to go back to the county. Dania really can't be the end all be all to say no, it can't go forward. It's just their recommendation to the county.

Well, I do know this. So there is environmental protection for mangroves that prevents them from being removed, trimmed or disturbed without a state permit. So you have to get a state permit.

So that should have been one of the things that as part of this buy-sell agreement, that should have been disclosed and known there. And now I think what happens is most people think of it as only pertaining to the shoreline, but it's all mangroves in the state of Florida. And Fort Lauderdale should know that.

We've got a ton of mangroves. Absolutely. Well, a couple of things.

Apparently early on in this project conception, the city of Dania provided some letter somewhere that said, and the developer's attorney came up and said this, that they provided a letter saying they know of this project and they're okay with it. What the city manager came back and said was at that time, it was kind of more of an LOI, like we're okay with it, but they didn't know all the details of it and what was going to happen to the land. And, you know, moving forward, we'll have to rethink how we write these initial letters, because we didn't know the full circumstances of the project when we wrote that letter.

So, you know, it's contentious. So we'll see what happens. So back to the monkeys.

Yes. You got to go visit the monkeys. So how is, I'm assuming this land is just open and the monkeys don't go outside of this area? They don't, no.

They don't go. They're kind of all living in that area. There has since been a sanctuary that was created.

It's the Vervet Monkey Sanctuary. So there is an organization that now that's really tasked with protecting these monkeys and taking care of them. But no fences, no cages? I can't say for sure, but I don't think so.

Because like I said, I know people that work back in that area that have regular friends that come visit them at their offices. Somebody who owns a business there, his father, who's no longer with us, would go out every morning and bring bananas to feed the monkeys. They were his buddies.

They would come every morning to visit him. All right. So this is definitely something that.

Maybe we should have her on. If you are a listener of the show and you know something about the Vervet Monkeys or are a part of this organization, yes, please. Yeah, the founder is Dr. Missy Williams, PhD.

I think that we should maybe see if we can bring her on. We'll send her an email. Maybe she could bring us a friend to play with too.

Maybe we could visit her and play with the monkeys. That would be cool, yes. We could do a show from there.

I want to do that. We're thinking about great road show ideas, folks. So that would be cool.

I think we just found our first shop for a show. There we go. So, yeah, I'm curious.

I'm a Dania resident, so I'm super curious. I was actually really proud of my commissioners. I know that I, you know, at times get a little annoyed with some of the things they do, but I was super proud of them.

Yeah. And for the way they really spoke up the other night. Yeah.

All right. Well, we will definitely keep tabs on that. Let me just clarify what I said to you.

I was proud of the way they really discussed it and like looked at every angle. They were really hearing everybody that spoke. So it wasn't like this is a done deal.

We're just here to tell you. No. You could tell it was a hard discussion and, you know, really we're doing the work.

So I was proud of them. Okay. So speaking of efforts like that to, you know, protect the monkeys and stuff, there is going to be an upcoming session by the Fort Lauderdale Forum, which is a group that is focused on not-for-profits in our area.

And they're going to be having a discussion coming up on November 20th. And the title of this is Resilience and Reinvention, Nonprofit Leadership in the Challenging Times. And three of our top non-profit CEOs in the area, so Kathleen Cannon, President and CEO of United Way Broward, Kirk Brown, CEO of Handy Inc., and Dr. Daniel Doss, Executive Director of Second Chance Society.

So they are going to be sharing insights on the vital roles of non-profits in our area. Of course, they are going to talk about the challenges, I guess, in today's society with, you know, sustaining impact, shifting funding landscapes, and then balancing purpose with funding uncertainty. Because that is something that, you know, I have a couple of not-for-profit clients, and it's an issue now that people are just kind of discounting what non-profits do.

So I wanted to bring light to that. That'll be interesting. Yeah, there are a couple of things that haven't come to fruition yet, but we expect that we'll be voting on in the future.

That could be a real threat to non-profits. So it'll be an interesting conversation. Yeah.

I'd be interested to see what they will say. All right. We'll have a link in the show notes if you want to attend that.

It is, again, Thursday, November 20th. It's an early meeting, 7.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Let's see. It is at the Broward College, which is on East Los Olas Boulevard on the 12th floor.

And you'll have time to mingle and ask questions and network and stuff. So it's not like a press meeting. No.

No, it should be interesting. Yeah. Do we have time for one more? Sure.

Okay. So you may or may not know that Broward Health and Memorial Health Care System or the North Broward System or South Broward System are working closely together now. Yes.

They now have the CEO of Broward Health is now the interim CEO of Memorial to help bridge those two organizations really to offer better, with the collaboration, offer better services to Broward County residents. I was at a meeting earlier this week and they were really starting to brand that better together message in everything that they're doing. I got a beautiful mug with the logos that said better together.

So I was happy about that. But I wanted to say they announced today, which is November 1st, as Marv had mentioned earlier, we're recording on, they are launching a new health plan in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace called 22 Health. It's debuting today.

And it's really going to fill a need in this community for, it's going to work together with the providers that they're representing to make sure that there's a good plan available to the residents. And for those who have been with Florida Blue or been watching the marketplace, Florida Blue right now is not in contract with either Broward Health or Memorial. So this can help fill the gap for some of those marketplace holders that are really in need of care, especially if they have young children that need the hospital care system in this community.

So 22 Health plan might be something you want to check out. There's a quote from Louise Norris, a health policy analyst with healthinsurance.org. She said if a carrier has a strong relationship with providers and has created a strong network, they can be more profitable than any other carrier that doesn't have that network strength. So if this is coming out of those two healthcare systems, I think it's going to be a win-win, provided those are the organizations you want to work with, right? We have a couple, we have a few of the private hospital districts here, which are hospital systems here, which are also good, but something to check out.

All right. Thanks for that. We do need to pay close attention to healthcare in our area.

We got a lot of building, which means we got a lot of people coming in. So we need to find ways to take care of everybody. So I'm just reading something to you.

ACWA marketplace in 2026 is rising 26% on average. 26%. 26%.

That's a big amount. Wow. One of the top states.

Got to get to work, go pay for my health insurance. No, health insurance, home insurance, everything is... But still a great place to live. It is.

So on a positive note, it's time for all those light up holiday events. Yes, it is. Oh, wow.

So there are already commercials for holiday shopping. Oh, I've seen them. Before Halloween, yeah.

Before Halloween. That's insane. Now, do we want to even talk about Christmas yet or should we wait? Well, I'm curious what you're thinking.

I was just thinking about what do you do for like decorations and prepping and stuff? Minimal. I try to, but... So right now we've got the Halloween, you know, table decorations and all that. That's not me.

So I'm already imagining that this weekend will be a changing of all the tablecloths and the centerpieces. Yeah. So we'll talk about that later.

I usually decorate. I usually host Thanksgiving. So I decorate a little bit before Thanksgiving and then really go all out after.

But there are several. So November 6th is the first light up Lauderdale event. This one is going to be at Riverwalk.

Get lit. At the Wharf? Or the Riverwalk could be all the way up to... Esplanade Park. Esplanade, okay.

Esplanade on November 6th. Near the convention center. Yeah, that's going to be November 6th, 530 to 830.

Then they're lighting up the beach at Las Olas Oceanside Park. Light up the beach is Wednesday, November 19th, 530 to 830. And returning, have you ever seen, I'm going to guess you haven't, Olas, the giant snowman? What? On Las Olas, on the beach, there is Olas.

And he is a giant inflatable snowman. He's a very popular Instagram able backdrop tool. So you have to go see Olas.

He looks like the abominable snowman from the... He's a cute little snowman. I mean, a cute big snowman. Look up, light up the beach.

You'll see him. Light up Galt. I do know that they've got over 50,000.

Holiday lights. On Fort Lauderdale Beach or every Fort Lauderdale? For the light, yeah, for the beach. That's a lot of lights.

Yeah. I guess turtle season's over then. It probably is.

Should be, yeah. So there's light up everywhere. So I know that there's light up the Galt, which is on the November 21st.

There's light up Sistrunk. That's, I believe, later in December. December 5th.

There's light up Carter Park. December 12th. And then... And Menorah.

For our Jewish friends, Menorah lighting for Hanukkah. Oh, that's also on Los Olas Oceanside Park. So you can see Olas and the Menorah.

There we go. December 14th. Okay.

So did you also know, Saidu, the Elbow Room has a live webcam? Oh yeah, they've had that for years. So there's a few people on TikTok that will just post themselves watching that webcam. And every time I watch those... They post themselves watching the Elbow... They'll post what they're watching and they'll do commentary.

It's very funny. Reaction video. Yes.

Oh, very funny. That's cool. Yeah.

It always makes me think, I need to start watching this and then I forget. But yeah. Okay.

Watching the Elbow Room cam or watching the people watching... Yes, watching Elbow Room. No, I want to watch the Elbow Room cam. We can do that.

That would be fun. That could be cool. I'll have to bring that up one day and just comment on what we're seeing.

So interesting. That's all I got. All right, folks.

Well, that will do it for this episode of Let's Talk Lauderdale, a short edition here on the first day of November. And of course, we will be back. When are we back? I don't know.

We'll be back soon. Actually, I'll have a separate podcast with a business focus on those of you that have not yet upgraded to Windows 11. So this is the first month after that.

So we'll be addressing both from the business side and from the tech side because a lot of tech friends and I have had that discussion on how do we keep people updated and stuff. So we will do that. So we'll see.

We'll be back. All right. So thank you for joining us on the Let's Talk Lauderdale podcast.

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