watch a couple of the PPRuNe comm experts make their way VFR from Thermal to Santa Monica
Nothing to worry about - everyone else (Palm Springs Approach, LA Center, Socal, SMO Tower) would be wrong. They'd probably spend ages writing on here about what a bunch of idiots those yanks are for getting everything wrong, and how they even split an infinitive.
It would be fun to watch them doing an overhead join at SMO though.