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The Week That Was and That Will Be - January 22
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Navigating the intricacies of a city's heart can be as complex as untangling a Gordian knot, but when it comes to Burbank, the tapestry of tales that compose its community are rich with color, character, and a robust sense of belonging. Our latest podcast episode, offers a multifaceted glimpse into the municipal soul of Burbank, presenting a vibrant narrative that resonates with both locals and beyond.
We kickstart the journey with the Olive Auto Repair crew, who bring more than just car repair wisdom to the table. Their stories, filled with humor and humanity, paint a picture of the trusted local service that forms the backbone of Burbank's daily life. It's not just about getting from point A to B; it's about the connections and experiences we forge along the way, be it through a serendipitous fix of a loose gas cap or the camaraderie in sharing a mechanic's expertise.
Moving on, the episode delves into the heartbeat of the Burbank Police Department, where the addition of three new officers exemplifies the growth and evolving spirit of the force. Their backgrounds and journey into law enforcement are not just tales of individual accomplishment but are a testament to the community's dedication to nurturing and safeguarding its own. As we delve into these personal stories, we are reminded of the broader narrative of civic engagement and public service that is central to Burbank's identity.
As the conversation unfolds, we navigate the twists and turns of Burbank's municipal scene, which, much like a well-plotted story, is full of intrigue and development. The Transportation Commission's deliberations on parking management and the Bus Rapid Transit project serve as key plot points in understanding the city's evolving infrastructure. The impact of these changes on Burbank's community tapestry is analyzed with a critical yet passionate lens, offering insights into the potential future of urban mobility in the city.
No exploration of Burbank would be complete without soaring through its aviation history, which the episode achieves with nostalgic gusto. From tales of stealthy war efforts to the excitement surrounding the airport terminal's new adventures, we are transported to a time when Burbank's skies were a testament to innovation and ambition. This historical journey serves as a poignant reminder of the city's enduring quest for progress and its indelible mark on the aviation industry.
Adding to the cultural landscape, the episode spotlights Burbank's creative pulse through its local arts scene. The passion for performance and the arts in schools like Luther Middle and Burbank High not only showcases the city's talent but also underscores the importance of community support in fostering artistic endeavors. These stories are but a few threads in the rich fabric of Burbank's cultural heritage, highlighting the vital role that creativity plays in the city's unique charm.
To cap off the episode, Ross Benson delivers his signature unfiltered take on the San Fernando Valley and the struggles of the restaurant scene, providing a candid and often humorous perspective on the challenges and changes within the local business landscape. This segment, much like the rest of the episode, offers an authentic and personal reflection on the city and its many facets, from its gleaming successes to the trials that test its resilience.
In summary, "The Weeks" is more than just a podcast episode; it is a celebration of community, a chronicle of progress, and a heartfelt homage to the city of Burbank. It serves as a reminder that the stories we share and the histories we honor are what bind us together, creating a sense of place that is both unique and universally relatable. Through this tapestry of tales, we come to understand that it is the people, their experiences, and their collective spir
Burbank Cops and Auto Repairs Discussion
Speaker 1From deep in the Burbank Media District. It's time for another edition of my Burbank Cops, presented by the staff of my Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda as we join our program.
Speaker 2Hello Burbank, craig Sherwood here with you, along with.
Speaker 1Craig Durling. Good evening everybody. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2And everybody's favorite guest star, Ross Benson.
Speaker 3Wait a minute. Guest star. Is this the week that was the week that will be for January 22? 22. It's the week that is Wow.
Speaker 1Whenever we do the show, it's the week that is, and I now take my, my nice little beanie.
Speaker 3Well, I don't want to catch. I don't want to catch P pneumonia. Wait, watch it. And I have a question. On our production table we have a ball. We have a ball. Somebody lose their ball.
Speaker 2You know who lost it.
Speaker 1Let's see, we can see. Mike, you got to catch a clip, some of them in the corner of that camera. Does that belong to Down there? Down there, there he is. That's Dodger.
Speaker 3Oh, Dodger the.
Speaker 1My Burbank dog, the mongrel. There he is, did you?
Speaker 3notice the dog from the shelter today.
Speaker 2Yeah, same name.
Speaker 1That's okay, it was probably it might not be that uncommon in LA Probably not have a dog named Dodger right.
Speaker 2Probably not. Also the fact that you imagine, if you did adopt him, then you started. How would they know themselves apart?
Speaker 1Dodger one who's on first base.
Speaker 2Yes, what's on second? Who's on first?
Speaker 3Here we go here we go.
Speaker 2Ross is lost again, old reference lost on young.
Speaker 1What page do we own, would they say? Old reference lost on younger viewers? Yes, except Ross, I mean, this is your. I'm the senior here, right, that's true, I'll see. It's not that you never heard of them, you just started. You forgot who they were.
Speaker 3You know it's funny. The other day I was thinking I was thinking them back to the 50s and 60s and I remember stuff from then, so Alzheimer's or yeah.
Speaker 1But do you remember what you had for breakfast?
Speaker 3Actually today Back in the 50s and 60s. I didn't really eat breakfast this morning. Nothing to forget.
Speaker 2Here we go. Well, last week I started off and one of the things I talked about was my disappointment with Floyd's Barbershop being a my Brinks Best Winner and their lack of what they had to do. I have a new story this week their lack of staffing.
Speaker 1Wait, wait, wait, wait wait their lack of staffing.
Speaker 2Lack of staffing.
Speaker 3You get tear cut at Olive.
Speaker 2Auto Repair. No, I have a story to tell.
Speaker 1If you like me to tell it you should see them putting them up on the rack. So, check his undercarriage.
Speaker 2This past week my car made a very strange noise. I thought the suspension was a problem or something. So Olive Auto Repair did and they're my Brinks Best Winner, that's why I went to them. And I went back to them and said hey, I have an issue here. And they fully looked at my car and I said you know what? I think the brakes might need to work. Also, they've put my car for test drive. They fully looked at it, took things apart, looked at the brakes and said you know what? Everything is great. I said Well, the brakes, they got down. You know you don't need brakes.
Speaker 3And I said to myself you know Well, you do need brakes, but your car didn't need brakes.
Speaker 1He needs new sneakers because they're all worn out. Because the hole in the floor? He just puts his feet down like Flintstone style.
Speaker 2So I looked at it like you know, they could have sold me brakes for easy. I wouldn't know, nobody knows, and so you know, shout out to Olive Auto Repair, my Brinks Best Auto Repair shop, for doing a great job and, and you know, just taking care of me and not charging me. They didn't need to be charged for integrity. So are they on Olive. They're on Olive in victory.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, unfortunately, coming here tonight he drove through the fence because he couldn't stop. That's another story for another time. That's next week's gripe.
Speaker 2That's my, that's my eyesight.
Speaker 3In fact you're gonna laugh. I once had to call them. I went to another mechanic that couldn't help me that day and I wanted to get my car looked at, and the gentleman that used to own Olive Auto Repair was a chamber member and he was at every mixer. He'd always come up to me. Come see me, come see me.
Speaker 2Olive in victory. Actually, it's actually a little a little east of victory on Olive, right next to what used to be Pep Boys. Now it's a auto Okay, it's a little white play you drive into it, it's a drive in repair shop.
Speaker 1If you can.
Speaker 2Yeah Well, if you can't. Young guy owns a drive.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3What it from.
Speaker 1Well as the corner is that use car.
Speaker 2I was very impressed with them that comes from Dodger's new toy and I put it up here so he wouldn't play with it. Now it's going off randomly. Yes.
Speaker 3I thought I was hearing something we did.
Speaker 1Well, we did hear something, you did hear something confirmed. So Olive Auto Repair yeah, so they do general service and repairs.
Speaker 2Absolutely, and they did my, actually did my suspension before and they did a great job. Yeah Well, you are wrong with your car. They said nothing, they couldn't find anything wrong with it, and I've driven it since now and not had a problem.
Speaker 1So essentially they're saying, they're saying you're the problem, I have the problem.
Speaker 2Well, you drive your car. I fix that. Your car was three weeks, I guess it's just. It's from just a while. Where are you, what? Why am I driving?
Speaker 1Well, look at the sounds you make when you get up. Yeah, a couple times a day.
Speaker 2I think I put what five tank of gas in my car since COVID started. I mean, it's just and I don't even feel the take all the way up.
Speaker 1You know, I bought my first car from my grandmother, who bought it from my dad, and when I bought it from my grandmother she had put in the two years she owned it. She put 200 miles on it. All she had to do is drive it from the house to Arlington Heights.
Speaker 4What kind of car? What was your first car?
Speaker 1It was a spectacular magnet of a vehicle. It was a 1981 Oldsmobile Omega ragtop golden color.
Speaker 2Ross, your first car.
Speaker 1But it was front wheel drive and got me out of snow banks, which was handy growing up.
Speaker 2Believe me, I didn't have a lot of that problem here in Burbank.
Speaker 3Are you ready for this? Go ahead. A 1962 male truck. You could stand up and drive on the right side With a Jeep style or a Jeep on with no front end. So if you run into something your legs are gone. But what was so cool about it is you could stand up and the brake pedal it had a break here or break straight down. That you had to get used to truck. Yeah, and it was. And what was cool is when I was at Burroughs I was a manager of the baseball team. We found it was the best vehicle to drag the field with because you could stand outside that door and I had to hang out the door and I used to put one of those roti knobs on it. Oh yeah, and you just turn that thing and go in circles. And then I got rid of that and got a Cadillac from there on.
Speaker 1I've got you and that Cadillac.
Speaker 3What's the pay? You to break the field. Oh, that was part of my duty. I got out of sixth grade or sixth period to go. Oh, what was funny about it? That's when CHP used to have checkpoints and I'd always go a Verdugo and they would set up on Verdugo just east of Pass Avenue. Well, I'd come off a Tloucabark drive where I lived and I'd go that way. They'd let me go through every time they thought it was a mail truck.
Speaker 1They didn't even cite you for having the brody knob on there. No, but I might not have been illegal back then.
Speaker 3One day or now. One day I went to go through it and the guy pulled me over. I said what US mail? Because I had on the right side MLE instead of MAI.
Speaker 1Is that your tender handle now?
Speaker 3So they stopped me. You know what, for? I had landing lights on the front bumper and he said those need to be covered.
Speaker 1There you go. They found something he already landed Good traffic guys right there. He had landed. That's why they needed to be off or covered.
Speaker 2So it was yours, so my was a 62 Chevy station wagon.
Speaker 1Like a Griswold mobile.
Speaker 2Oh it was, yeah, it was old, it was. The neighbor gave it to me, or actually about $200. And that lasted for a while. That was. The neighbor always fixed it for me too.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Well, he's mechanics, so Bill Briggs.
Speaker 1All right, I wish we thrown down the hallway.
Speaker 2If I do, guess who's going to chase it.
Speaker 1Right, oh yeah, I know Careful what you wish for.
Speaker 2Oh, of course it's hard to now. We're going to hear rolling around on the hardwood floor.
Speaker 1Oh boy, Should we just start?
Speaker 2over. So do you know why? And, by the way, do you know why it takes longer to get from second base, the third base that it does from first to second? Are we talking baseball? When you drove when you drove, you're, you're, you're, you're always taking a longer group with second to third than did from first to second. And I'm not a dragon because between second and third is the shortstop in between.
Speaker 1Wow, thank you for keeping that clean, though Little baseball fun for you, okay, I remember somebody who had an El Camino and took.
Speaker 3What is going on?
Speaker 2That wasn't me.
Speaker 3I don't think it was me. I turned Oops.
Speaker 2Oh, that was, that was dodger either. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3I remember an El Camino and somebody taught me in the Safeway parking lot how to do donuts. You just jump on that emergency brake and, yes, you do. I think you ever learn how to do a Rockford.
Speaker 2I say you do 360s, rockford, rockford, a J turn.
Speaker 1Go backwards and then go backwards and then turn around and hit the brakes and turn around and go.
Speaker 3Oh no, that one you never taught me I don't need to do it. We didn't even have room in that parking. That was what we used to call 1721. Yeah, and that was before our tea hunts.
Speaker 2That's a whole new, that's a whole different topic.
Speaker 1Okay, that's Monday, monday.
Speaker 2Monday we talked about. We talked about auto repair. One of the last week said line last Tuesday. Oh yeah, oh, we did last day Our drawing last week, that's right.
Speaker 1Our drawing for the the word of the week, the Hill Street Cafe gift card. Who won that? Samantha?
Speaker 2Stevens.
Speaker 1Samantha Stevens.
Speaker 2Stevens, the car has actually already been mailed out to her.
Speaker 1Excellent. Is she going to take us to Hill Street, Because you know it's only $25. So all their suits and dressings are homemade.
Speaker 2And listen later in the show. We'll have another cup of wake for this show also, and that word has been selected later in the show. We have to listen.
Speaker 1Usually somewhere after the middle break, the second half of the second week of the show. Sometimes it feels like the second week of the show.
Speaker 3But if you guys remember, I let you know last week that kids eat free on Thursdays there we go.
Speaker 1I can get real tiny if I have to.
Speaker 2Let's talk about Tuesday first.
Speaker 1Then there's Tuesday.
Speaker 2Tuesday we did our podcast with the mayor.
Speaker 1Mayor Burbank, I wasn't here.
Speaker 2There was really good.
Speaker 1He's very good on camera.
Speaker 2I thought I thought it went really well. I was very happy with it. It went a little longer, I probably had planned, but it was conversational.
Speaker 1That's how long it took to do.
Speaker 2It really did, and he learned a little more about him. He's very happy with it and he'll be back in February due to again.
Speaker 1That's the thing, is you have to keep him shorter, so you have stuff to talk about. The next month.
Speaker 2There's always something going on about him. Sure, there'll be plenty.
Speaker 3We already got a list going. He said we'll have to talk about it next month.
Speaker 2And then Wednesday Talk it in reverse. Our mayor was a little busy on Wednesday. Ross, what did our mayor do on Wednesday?
Speaker 3Where did the word float us come from? Well, it's.
Speaker 2You know, the first time I ever heard the word POTUS was actually on the premiere episode of West Wing.
Speaker 1Really, it was actually a very good show. Very well written show.
Speaker 2And they said POTUS and I'm going, huh. And then there's SCOTUS. And the lady said what does POTUS mean? And he goes President of the United States Right.
Speaker 3Absolutely so. Yes, the first lady of the United States that's Flotus Came in Burbank Wednesday night. The mayor gave us a little you know clue that he was going to greet her and she landed pop-up airport and was swiftly greeted and moved off by West Wing, by CHP and her security detail to an unknown location. But I know our mayor I saw one of the TV channels was out there and he was at the bottom of the steps to welcome her to Burbank there you go.
Speaker 1Maybe, they went to Hill Street. Hill Street Cafe Close.
Speaker 2Moving on to Thursday, we had a we actually did one of our podcasts my Burbank, my Community and she sat down with a Burbank mom, alyssa Nelson, who talked about her five year old son, charlie the Champion, who's had some major heart surgeries and they're doing a fundraiser for him in Burbank. So please listen to that podcast and if you're a softball player, they're having a big tournament in February. You can always come out and support that even or just donate to their cause.
Speaker 1But Burbank and all the information was given on that. Oh, everything, yeah, every time I do that.
Speaker 2And there's links below in the description about how to contact them also. But it was a good podcast and actually did a nice job with it.
Speaker 3There's an article on my Burbank.
Speaker 2An article on my Burbank all.
Speaker 1Charlie the Champion.
Speaker 3Yeah, if you want to get out of yourself and just show up to root and, you know, be there to support.
Speaker 2He's born with, I guess, half a heart, which is really you know, and he's had a couple of, and he's going to public school now and even playing a tee ball.
Speaker 1So he's, amazing.
New Officers at Burbank Police Department
Speaker 2He's on his amazing yeah, Wow. So, um then, Ross, you went out to help welcome three new recruits on Thursday.
Speaker 1Drought drove all the way to the Burbank Police Department. Burbank Police.
Speaker 3Department had three new officers at the LA County Sheriff's Department's Star Training Center in Whittier and don't ask me how long it took to get there, but it was there is no quick way to get to Star Center.
Speaker 1I had to go there many times in my past.
Speaker 3I'll tell you once I'm going to get an early start. I went to Ways, or one of the you know maps. It was taking me through alleys.
Speaker 1Yeah, ways will take you the most obscure routes. And it's already pretty obscure getting there.
Speaker 3So oh, I went down some streets. I don't think I'd go down at night. So Burbank has three new officers Officer Gomez, officer O'Hanion and Officer Parks and I believe it's Gomez or O'Hanion could have been Parks, he was a cadet, I'm not sure which one Base cadet? Well, no, he's one of the three. One of the three.
Speaker 1Burbank Base Cadet.
Speaker 3So that program worked real well.
Speaker 1Oh, that is a success story.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah. And the other one I believe it's Parks has a Relative Ecclinial PD. They didn't get them, we did, and woohoo, three sharp guys. One, you know, it's nice to see amongst this class. So we are I don't know how many retired last week, but at least we have three new officers, and it'll be a year before they're out on the street and so forth, and that was no.
Speaker 2They'll be on the street now with training officers, right, but they won't stay in the odd station for a year. No, but that'll be on probation for a year.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was Ellie Sheriff's Recruit Class 270.
Speaker 2Good for them, that's right.
Speaker 1Good luck in your training.
Speaker 2I saw the news that night and they showed the sheriff up there. They also showed Chief Mike Albany's talking with the, the guy who was posing for a picture with one of our recruits. They showed him on the news.
Speaker 3Yeah, how they normally do. That is, there were six outside agencies. There are like a ton of sheriff's officers to graduate. Linda had some officers, fullerton, cal State University, burbank had three and Mike Albany's poses for the picture.
Speaker 2They'll give each city gets gets a chance to get up and and I think, as you know, the city is that we only have three. We can't have a whole training class with three officers. So combining them to the sheriff's that has a large class is, you know, economically feasible and and everything else. So that's why small departments do that they go in and the sheriff's take their recruits in.
Speaker 3Right, they send them there and then they come back and teach them how Burbank does things.
Speaker 1I said good luck fellows. I assume they all males, or OK, they are OK.
Speaker 2It's past weekend Our friends at logic. They had a An open house of their at their new location on Riverside Drive and Bariota and they had a pink hot dogs was there to give out hot dogs. Anybody the public who showed up and wanted a pink hot dog, they got one. Ross, you know it's again. You were there. Why don't you give us a rundown?
Speaker 1I wouldn't bring it in. Give us hot dogs, might as well. Give us a rundown.
Speaker 3Yes, actually I didn't even get pink thought dog because I was busy shooting away. It's always it was raining out there and it's really hard to shoot.
Speaker 1And you know hot dog. This is very hard to do.
Speaker 3But our friends at Logix, who is one of our new advertisers, invited me out and I shot a lot of people they gave away Photographed. I photograph your right.
Speaker 1They had a horrible event.
Speaker 2Not moderate park as a terrible event.
Speaker 3They gave a gift card to Priscilla's which is to look like Burbank business Burbank, and somebody won that. Somebody won a fifty dollar, whatever the market is right down there, what's in that neighborhood, joe's? Hey, there you go, trader Joe's gift certificate. And then one person won a five hundred dollar Amazon gift certificate and on top of that, good to look like elementary school was given a check for being in the neighborhood. Twenty five hundred dollars it takes. Would you believe that I'll hang out?
Speaker 1next time.
Speaker 3Well, I'll tell you, Logix is very committed to their local branch.
Speaker 2I will suggest to this them next time. Instead of doing five hundred dollars when Amazon gift card would not give a five hundred dollar savings account to somebody, they'd probably save the money in their bank and plus them a customer, if not already, and they probably add to it over time and help them save. You know that's true. You might suggest if it's five hundred dollars, it's five hundred dollars when you put it in your own bank or you Good idea, put it on Amazon card.
Speaker 3But that mad hat balloons, that is our good friends of mine. They were there making balloon characters and all you can look for pictures on my Burbank dot com, with a little story coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2Oh, tomorrow Excellent. Yeah we'll be done with them tonight, okay, well, that was it for the weekend. We are going to be back with you for in a second, right after this word.
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Speaker 2All right, everybody. Craig Sherwood with you, along with Craig Durling, still here, and, of course, not only guest star now, but a full member of the band, ross Benson.
Speaker 3I even got my chicklet in.
Speaker 1Got a chicklet.
Speaker 3There you go.
Speaker 1And if you saw the video, the hat he was holding up was from Logix. That's the Logix.
Speaker 2That's not from Disney.
Speaker 1Logo there.
Speaker 2Not B-8.
Speaker 3The first people that were at their event the other day got beanies and you know what? I showed up and bawled and it was raining out. He came over and put a beanie on my hat and I never wear a beanie or a hat. I was warm. I can't say that anymore. Yeah, you might see me wearing my beanie more often.
Speaker 2Well, let's move on to today, today, today, the week that was no, this is the week that's going on, and today, you know.
Speaker 1January 22nd. Today is January 22nd, if anybody's keeping score at home.
Speaker 2Today is actually pretty much over, because we get this podcast on audio on Monday nights.
Speaker 1So, by the time this comes out, today will be the week, that part of the week that was.
Speaker 2That was, which is why we don't do usually.
Speaker 1Monday In a weird way the week Okay.
Speaker 2Anyhow you only two meetings this week. Now we talked to the mayor in our podcast about why they have so many meetings in the same day and at the same time and he was a little bit you know what. I agree with you and they're going to look into a little bit. So, anyhow, two meetings, but one was cancelled. Planning Commission was cancelled. There is no planning anymore. We just kind of we know by year, now Not.
Speaker 3I see you retweeted that one of the members of the planning board was wearing part of my Burbank.
Speaker 2We did see a planning board member actually bought some. Or in sweatshirt from the my brain swag shop.
Speaker 3What Samantha Wick, one of our commissioners who does listen to our podcast, and she was really proud. She looked good in it too.
Speaker 1You did that right here Are there my Burbank beanies.
Speaker 2We have to look into that. We should.
Speaker 3You got because they are all guys.
Speaker 2We put our swag store up, but it's actually doing very well.
Speaker 1And there's I know there's glasses and cups and they can get to that from the front page of my Burbank dot com.
Speaker 2On the my brain swag shop and swag shop, swag shop and on anyhow. Transportation Commission met today and one of the things they talked about was shifting parking management from the infrastructure committee to the transportation committee. So right, right now, because the way it was set up, parking was going through infrastructure and probably not because of the financial aspects of it, but not not really saying that infrastructure really needs to deal with. So they're going to transfer that because of the municipal code they have to do it.
Speaker 1you know officially that way, the infrastructure committee has their hands full with elevators.
Speaker 2Yes, they do.
Speaker 1Elevator maintenance right.
Speaker 2Isn't that the truth? They also discuss, we're going to discuss the, the BRT, which is the bus transit project. Did you burp what? What I would miss pronounce.
Speaker 3I thought you said burp, brt, brt. For short, it's brat. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2I was right. Bus rapid transit project.
Speaker 3It's burp. Okay, almost as good as that toilet button we have.
Speaker 2No, don't pick up my toilet. They had initially voted in 2021 to recommend side running lanes, which was take away, a lane of traffic and but now they're going to rediscuss it now and come up with a new recommendation for the council and then, once again, the thing that goes to the council, they recommend to the council, not just take a report and say thank you and goodbye.
Speaker 1The side running lane for people to run, or is a dedicated running lane?
Speaker 2or for bicycles, or dedicated running lanes only for buses.
Speaker 1By buses.
Speaker 2So you'll take away a lane of traffic. Yeah it'll be one lane each in each direction and then one lane between parking and the center lane where only buses may go into it, so that one bus running every 15 or 20 minutes will have a lane and the rest of time it'll be gridlocked.
Speaker 1That's me being too literal, I guess. Once again is see.
Speaker 2I'm running.
Speaker 1They're going to close down a whole lane for people to run.
Speaker 3They better run fast. Bicycles are allowed in that lane. We talked about it a walk bike Burbank and they said that bus they've included. If you're on a bike, you can be in that lane.
Speaker 2Well, considering how many people I see on a bike on a redugo and a dedicated bike lane.
Speaker 1I'm not, I'm not as well through a bus in here, and I'm not too excited about them throwing a whole lot of bicycles on all of them. Don't take away lanes for vehicle traffic for people that aren't going to use them.
Speaker 2I could, I could, I can really see that that could be a thing to do if we had the capacity. But, like I said in the show that are now to go, micro mini, which is the Metro buses man and nobody uses it's a dollar dollar to go on your trip and they're actually having to cancel routes right now because nobody will use it and for every dollar fair, it cost them $62 to give that person.
Speaker 1So they're operating. The whole thing is a lot at a loss and nobody's still using it.
Speaker 2So you could do big for free and they still wouldn't use it. So, but yet they're going to close a whole lot of traffic down in Burbank, our busiest artery in the city, our main street for a bus that's going to run half Well, especially with the Burbank bus, it's going to run nine tenths empty.
Speaker 1And how often do they run?
Speaker 2every 20 minutes.
Speaker 3So my question was to the mayor you know, are they doing this all for the 2028 Olympics and then realize, you know it didn't work? Let's just put the.
Speaker 2you know my problem is it goes north highway to Pasadena. And how many people in the Olympics are going from north highway to Pasadena? True?
Speaker 1I know I know different council people in other cities have tried this, in Santa Monica and some other cities, with horrible success, because the backlash they went through reserved the lane for whatever it was going to be I think usually bicycles and then they realized what a horrible mistake it was and then they had to go through and spend all the money to have the lanes repainted again, giving them back to the vehicles.
Speaker 3Our question is what are they going to do when they get to raising canes? Have a bus stop.
Speaker 1Spike strips yeah.
Speaker 2But anyhow, that's a they're also going to talk about. Maybe meet. Change your meeting time to 4pm next meeting, so they don't compete with other meetings. Why not change the day? I don't know what?
Speaker 3what didn't the mayor say? Also, do I recall right scratch him ahead about people attending, about that bus route meeting Right, it is open to the public and you want to make comment, and so forth.
Speaker 2Who got a Tuesday? We have a city council meeting back again.
Speaker 3Wait, now there's got to be some fancy music. We have to that.
Speaker 2Once again, having a pre show meeting does no good as far as when are all?
Speaker 1these ideas. Before the show Talk about the we got to.
Speaker 3We got to come up with a sound for Burbank City Council.
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Speaker 3I was going to save the music to running Lillies of the field or something, wow.
Speaker 1Okay, what's that? How does that one go? Lillies of the field, tip toe through the tool.
Speaker 2Who was the star of that? The Sydney?
Speaker 3Poitiers Ah.
Speaker 1Wow, or what's that? Other has his moments, folks, you notice what I listen to it, you take that hat off. You can. Your brain can breathe.
Speaker 2So the city council is gonna meet on Tuesday at 6 pm at City Hall. One of the things they're going to receive is a federal legislative update by the Ferguson group. I guess we're paying them a lot of money to tell us what's going on.
Speaker 3Will that come gift wrapped?
Speaker 2Yeah, they say were they the group in charge of telling us about SB nine when that came out? Yeah, there you go, but this is federal, so maybe this is not doing the state, so I don't know.
Speaker 1Literally they're paid to come in and update on federal legislation and stuff.
Speaker 2What legislation is in the works and what has been recently signed and how it affects cities. Whoever the group was, who did something?
Speaker 1Like something in internets that you all can do.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, they're the ones up in Sacramento that do lobbying and rub elbows. With even that, we rub elbows down here.
Speaker 2So when we have proclamations to stop nuclear wars, they're the ones who go in, and anyhow it was a great idea. We're also going to receive a grant for funding VR training by the DOJ, department of Justice for Police, which is a very, very interesting I kind of read a little about it and virtual reality Right.
Speaker 2So we have the headsets and I guess you can play out scenarios you know, positive situations and simulated scenarios and make it very realistic to the officers and how they react to it, and it's probably much more realistic than I mean.
Speaker 1We always had a trailer outside. We would go out to the trailer and there was a screen with different scenarios projected on it, but they were also interactive. So if you had to take some action, the actors in the video would respond to that, which is interesting. But I'm assuming this is a newer technology, did?
Speaker 2you have a gun? Yeah, they had CO2, guns and pepper spray. Probably electronic or whatever were they used?
Speaker 1and sensors that picked up on it.
Speaker 2Interesting.
Speaker 1Yeah, so this is the new technology, replacing it.
Speaker 2Kind of a public hearing, and I can't imagine anybody talking in public hearing and talking against this. But you need to amend the Burbank Municipal Code to. They want to start putting artwork in areas of the airport that are only accessible to passengers, because the way the BMC is written now is that any artwork paid for by the city has to be accessible by everybody. So if they want to put artwork in the new terminal and pass where the ticket ticketed passengers pass the screening area.
Speaker 2You know you can't have blank walls, you know, and rather have artwork instead of advertisements and then it's no longer available to the public, If it's right so they have to change the BMS, need to have a public hearing, change the BMC on that, I wonder how many people are going to get up to speak? I don't think anybody's going to even get.
Speaker 3I wonder how many people are going to be sitting in the audience scratching their well, they're always scratching how many people are there for this topic, this item, yeah.
Speaker 2Exactly One of our GAD files will get up and swear about it.
Speaker 1Someone's. Somebody's going to have a problem with it, right?
Speaker 3Yep.
Speaker 2And finally, they're going to extend the emergency ordinance for SB 435. And that was created back in December. 435 is the one that's actually helping cities combat SB 9 and protect areas such as the for qualified sites, such as the equestrian center or equestrian area in Burbank. So we have a right now we have an emergency ordinance that it expires, I say, january 26th. They're going to extend it, so it'd be good for a year as they continue to come out with the new regulations for building in the question center, with conditional use permits and everything else.
Speaker 1Is they going to allow public comment on this, or is this just a?
Speaker 2consent agenda. No, they will have comments. They'll have comments when they get to the number one before the meeting yeah, the usual comment period, and then before, they always talk about it once it's read.
Speaker 3So that's you, well, you know what. And here's a. If people kind of wonder about this SB, this and SB that, and you know you can call it whatever you want. The mayor explained it pretty well on the requirements that why we're being force fed some of these bills that we didn't meet the housing element.
Speaker 2Now didn't you just tell me last a couple days ago, that Beverly Hills got as gotten a spanking from the state?
Speaker 3They got a big spanking.
Speaker 2They did not allow low income, if I recall right and now they can now no more industrial building, no more office buildings, no more any kind of buildings, unless only residential, correct?
Speaker 3Correct, and it has. And Beverly Hills, oh. So yeah, beverly Hills got their hands slapped. So people wonder why is Burbank allowing this? Because, right, like this, because if the state comes in and I went to a judge, you know, and the judge said you guys aren't doing it right, you're going to get punished. When we say slap your hand, they cannot issue any building permits.
Speaker 2So that would have happened in Burbank. We never could have issued permits to raise the ranch and build 16 new studios and office building and parking lot and modernize it and bring a lot of tax money through rentals and through all the studio people having to do, you know, for whatever you know they need, you know, in services in Burbank. We would have lost a whole lot in that alone. So why that's why that's important to be able to build commercial besides residential.
Speaker 3Yeah, this all comes down the state and when people think, oh, we can tell the, you know the state what to do.
Speaker 1There's a lot of things that the city has to push through and people might not agree with it going. Why is the city allowing this or doing this or making us do this? They may not have a choice. It might be mandated by the state or the feds. Well, and what?
Speaker 3we learned. Jumping back to the bus situation. The mayor said people don't understand. Yes, we're, we want to help you, we want to work with you, but people don't realize we get a lot of money from Metro for other things road repairs, sidewalk repair tons of stuff.
Speaker 1Same reason Hawaii has interstate highways. Yeah, money, you get money from the federal government. I know.
Speaker 3Craig, the other day when the mayor was talking, it's kind of we get blackballed and we have to do it, blackmailed, blackmailed, blackballed. That ball reminded me of.
Speaker 1Of almost count Exactly.
Speaker 2Okay, we're going to have. That's enough of that.
Speaker 1Does it just go on until you get to make it?
Countywide Homeless Count and Community Meetings
Speaker 2It's about 10 seconds long. Okay, that's enough of that During the council meeting we're going to have the homeless count in Burbank. That's. It's the county wide, I don't know it's the state.
Speaker 1Just going to count the homeless people at the meeting? No, it's state.
Speaker 2It's statewide. They have a statewide homeless count and for some reason we're having. We scheduled a council meeting on that night.
Speaker 3Well, they requested the our last mayor requested, and not to be on a council, or the council needs to be.
Speaker 2So that night, there's a lot of people who would not be involved in it because they're going to be at the council meeting. Anyhow, if you'd like to, to volunteer, and I mean this is basically you're going to go all around town, you're going to go on all the freeway sightings and the on ramps and off ramps and and everywhere under the bridges and everywhere else and we're going to do a count of homeless people in Burbank. So if you're interested in doing that, you need to be at the community services building at 730 on Tuesday night and you can also sign up on the city's website in advance also.
Speaker 1Burbankcagov. Do you know if they need to sign up in advance or do?
Speaker 2they recommend it, but I got to tell you the truth They'll probably take anybody who shows up and do it.
Speaker 3They're not sending people out alone.
Speaker 2No, no, you go out. Yeah, you're in groups of four.
Speaker 3I talked to one of our airport or, excuse me, police commissioners, and the commissioners are going out with Steve Turner, their the PIO, to go into the locations where they don't want to send Right, you know it's not unsafe here, right?
Speaker 1They're not sending anybody out alone, or?
Speaker 3with these. Counts are real important because that's how the state determines what cities get funding wise.
Speaker 2But the county doesn't decide that when they measure H we're going to get one tenth of what they put into it Anyhow. That's a whole different.
Speaker 1So the count is you tried to sneak a gripe in there, didn't you? I tried a rant.
Speaker 2I tried.
Speaker 3So there will be people out walking around. I know they give more vests, clipboards, flashlights. I mean, if you see, you know if you're out and about tomorrow. That's, it's a big thing.
Speaker 2Well, wednesday we got a few meetings like usual, starting off with the senior citizens board. Can I go, ross? You should go. You should get on that board. That's a 1 PM, I don't know, well, it might be early for you. 1 PM. So yeah, it's at the Johnson Center and they're going to get an update on the streets plus plan, so that'll be good. What's that Preach plus plan.
Speaker 3It's a quick version of that Well the council voted a couple years ago. The city did tons of studies and the new streets plus plan is several different parts to it. One of them is turning all the traffic on San Fernando Boulevard northbound. That was one step of it, closing down that road between Olive and that building that access road to the freeway. They're eliminating that eventually. Down the road, way down the road about putting a center divider down Magnolia and making that one way, one lane in each direction again to slow traffic and mitigate a lot of things.
Speaker 3Okay, thank you for the explanation Right from the readers' digest.
Speaker 2Yep. And then we also have a meeting of the heritage. Wait, what Did I say? Heritage, a heritage commission? I have no heritage.
Speaker 1Why did the horn go off when you said heritage? Because I heard it. How did the horn go off when I said heritage? It's the word of the week. The word of the week we told you at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2And for those of you who have listened this far, email us at contestatmyburbankcom and use the word heritage in the subject line.
Speaker 3Do they have to spell it correctly.
Speaker 2No, I didn't spell it anyway. I just started with an H and you'll be entering our contest for next week's drawing. So $25 gift card.
Speaker 1And it's not a giant pool of people submitting. So you're winning a card are pretty good, but a $25 gift card for the Great Hill Street Cafe on Glen Oaks.
Speaker 2Can't beat that.
Speaker 1Love it. Good place, heritage. What, what did you say, heritage? Oh, there you go, see, and that's good. If people lasted this long and dozed off, that horn would wake them up. Just in time to hear the word.
Speaker 2Turn their volume down. So that's the word All you have to do is send an email.
Speaker 1How easy is that? Send an email? Easy to be $25. No chance of getting it and just put that word heritage in the subject line.
Speaker 2Right, so the commission will meet at 530 at the community services building. What are they going to talk about? The National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Meri-Posa Street Bridge. Now I've got to quit Meri-Posa Street.
Speaker 3Bridge Meri-Posa yes. Burbank property yes.
Speaker 2It goes across the LA River.
Speaker 3Yep, it says right over it.
Speaker 2It's the entirety of the bridge Burbank.
Speaker 3You'd have to ask some horse affectionados.
Speaker 2That's like talking to you about the question center. The entrance is on in Burbank. Once you go into the arch, you're in LA.
Speaker 3They've talked about it many times. I forget what the, but I do know there's a sign on it and it's city property and it has been for years, but I don't know about on the other side.
Speaker 1And we can ask Mr Ed. We can ask Mr Ed, he knows.
Speaker 2Hello, I'm Mr Ed. There you go, he'll tell you.
Speaker 1How about that Meri-Posa Street Bridge? That all he says. That's all he says. Okay.
Speaker 2I wonder how many Willber wants a while to.
Speaker 3I just wonder how many of our listeners know or have ever gone down Meri-Posa to the end and looked at the Meri-Posa Street Bridge. That's all.
Speaker 2I can do. They can only look at it.
Speaker 3They can't walk over it.
Speaker 2You cannot. You're not allowed to walk over it. You're not allowed to walk your bike over it to the bike lane. You're not allowed to use it any other way, except for a horse has to. Oh, you have to have a horse with you.
Speaker 3Thank you, Mr Ed.
Speaker 1Well, who doesn't, who doesn't have a horse with them these days?
Speaker 2Friends of the library. They're going to be meeting at 5.30 to prepare a central library, and good for them. Our full support behind the Friends of the Library Not much to talk about on their agenda, but they're going to meet and Probably upstairs in the auditorium.
Speaker 2Or a book club, probably anything else, huh. And there's going to be a meeting for sustainable water use ordinance at 6 pm at the Permanent Water and Power I guess. We're going to talk about how many days you can water your lawn and things like that, and they're going to have a couple meetings, I guess, for that. So they want the public to come to that at 6 o'clock.
Speaker 3Is that something that we just got a note from? Water and Power that.
Speaker 2Yeah, we've changed our ads to that and they want people to come, go to our website and click on their ad. You'll take it right to their website, where you can get more information.
Speaker 1And if they have any opinions or thoughts, they can go to the meeting and be heard, and be heard We'll be on Thursday.
Speaker 3Those people over at Water and Power I mean Craig and I went to tour where we get our water from and people think you know, you just turn on the faucet and it'll always. And back to our Right in operation over there we actually started at the Hoover Dam.
Speaker 2We sure did, and went all the way back through California, the back of the desert areas, saw the public stations, saw the reservoirs, saw the lakes. It was a two-day trip and it was very.
Speaker 1Back in the day, hewler-houser did a great episode about that following the water, and it was ultimately to the city of Los Angeles, I believe, but essentially the same path, right. But the system in place to get water from there to here is amazing. The Metropolitan.
Speaker 2Water Districts. And we have Marsha Rimbos, our commissioner, who always very knowledgeable, and if you actually really want to find out about this, I think she can even arrange to get you on the tour one time.
Speaker 3If I recall right, when our council members reported out at the last meeting, mickey Frez went on, that Mickey, council member Perez, and so did our assistant city manager, courtney Padgett, went together and she was in awe, right like you and I were. I mean, they pay for.
Speaker 2They took us down into the Hoover Dam itself the operation really publicly doesn't get to go and showed us the turbines and showed us all the history of it and everything else. We walked out on the bottom of it.
Speaker 1I have to ask how was your dam tour?
Speaker 2Damn fine Good.
Speaker 1Did you go to the dam gift shop Buy some dam gifts?
Speaker 3Damn it, I forgot. You know it's funny because that tour People that work at Hoover Dam they all live all right there and their day job and they fed us I mean, I had the best steak I think I have ever had and they gave us, they served us dinner and breakfast and they flew us up there and then we came back via bus. But if you want, you're a Burbank citizen, you could always talk to Marcia Ramos, and those tours go on every so on.
Speaker 2I think it's about three, four times a year. Very, very. They do know one from Sacramento too. Right, it's a one day tour.
Speaker 3Very informational. Well, you will, I guarantee, after doing that tour, you will turn the water off when you brush your teeth or when you're shaving between.
Speaker 2You know. What I'm going to look into, though, is how we ever signed into a contract that we're not allowed to keep any of our rainwater that falls in Burbank. Our rainwater belongs to the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1You mentioned that a while back. How's my mind?
Speaker 2I'd like to do a little deep dive into that and find out where that came from. What's the reason for that?
Speaker 1How long is that been in the case? How long ago they? I can tell you somebody.
Speaker 2Can we just talk about that?
Speaker 3I can tell you somebody could ask you won't be getting the answer very rapidly. Mike Nolan would have known that Well he would have known that.
Speaker 2Well, how quick do you want the answer?
Speaker 3But I think you know who you could ask. We can arrange it. You know what she does listen to our podcast and.
Speaker 2Who's that? Marsha, marsha Wood problem? Well, you guys are the reporters.
Speaker 1Well, I'm going to find out. You're the journalists.
Speaker 2I'm actually going to find out because I think it's something that needs to be. You know, it's something we can change. I mean, it's a great way for Right.
Speaker 1Can we undo it? Does it expire or something like that I'm sorry.
Speaker 2You know Los Angeles, if they were saving their rainwater, you wouldn't see going by by the LA River. You know they'd be saving that, you know. But yet we can't save it. And they can't even save what they're getting as it is.
Speaker 3But then I recall hearing there's money involved and some waters that go through certain reservoirs because it's groundwater when they're lawsuit the last couple years.
Speaker 1These are huge, huge disputes contractually in everything the state of Arizona with the Colorado River.
Speaker 2Yeah, and divvying that up, but of course they're getting yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a big big, complex deal.
Speaker 3So you know, most people just think life goes on, but there are attorneys and yeah, deals like that, that.
Speaker 2We will look into it. You have my unconditional word.
Speaker 1Oh, you heard it, you're fine.
Speaker 2Let's move on to Thursday. Thursday, the advisory council on disabilities will meet at 1.30. It's going to be a Zoom meeting, which is probably the best, because you know it's hard for you to get out and you need to have a Zoom meeting. So you go to the city's calendar and you get more info there. It's not on their meetings and agenda, it's only on their calendar. The infrastructure board will meet at 6 pm with the community services building and they'll talk about parking control, about making sure that they switch it over to the transportation.
Speaker 1Right, they're giving it away to the transportation commission.
Speaker 2Something else on Thursday I saw that might be. You may enjoy A moonlight hike at the Stout Canyon Nature Center starting at 6 pm. It's a staff led hike and you up for a view. It says the hike times will vary and there is a phone number you can call, 818-238-5440, where you get an exact hike time. You know what? It's around six o'clock.
Speaker 1Will that be in the show notes or?
Speaker 3maybe, maybe, maybe not, maybe. I would highly recommend, if anybody wanted to go to, that you call prior or call tomorrow, because currently, as of today, all our hiking trails are closed. These are closed to storms Because of the storm and now, if there was any damage yesterday or today, this might be canceled. So before you go up there with your hiking boots on, make sure it's happening.
Speaker 2That's on Thursday. Hopefully they have three days to get it figured out.
Speaker 1Thursday, the 25th.
Speaker 2And that is on the city calendar. So you can always do the city calendar and get the number there too.
Speaker 1And it's not finished raining yet, so correct not yet, not yet history, history in the making coming up. Thursday's a big day.
Speaker 2Thursday we are finally gonna have the groundbreaking that Ross out two weeks ago was not going to happen in his lifetime, and the groundbreaking for the new icon terminal at the Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly known as the Bob Hope Airport.
Speaker 1Formerly known as the Hollywood Burbank Airport and the Lockheed Airport.
Speaker 2So we're finally gonna get the groundbreaking on the new terminal replacement terminal the new replacement yes, but did you say in there?
Speaker 3I didn't hear you say it's closed to the public.
Speaker 2Here you go. Closed the public, public and not go. You know who? How you find out about it? You read it on my Burbank.
Speaker 1Burbankcom will be there.
Speaker 2we'll have asked there we'll have Ross. There have pictures and videos and I'm a story and you see all about the if you've looked in Burbank as long as I have 68 years.
Speaker 3For years in years they've talked about replacing the terminal. For years there has been lawsuits and debates and oh, just everything, and it's to finally see a groundbreaking. I'm gonna be probably be crying you.
Speaker 1You're not an emotional crier.
Speaker 3I think I'm bringing my silk anchor chest out for that one. You remember my silk anchor chest.
Speaker 1Duct tape of sponge, a big sponge around your head.
Burbank's Aviation History and Upcoming Events
Speaker 3No, but that's really cool. I mean in our lifetime, to see what's going to happen.
Speaker 1I think how much history is is on that property, how many things in the military government aviation history took place on that property.
Speaker 3We can't really call it, you know, burbank Airport or whatever, but the airport is there back in the war when they covered it with camouflage and it made it look like there were buildings right and it was yeah or the nice that we went out there yeah, you know, my buddy, mgm MB, work out there and would call me and say the skunk works.
Speaker 3And I mean for us, we people we'd go out there and line up on Van Owen and we watch that C5 a takeoff Friday night, remember you bill used to go out there at the end of the fence and Friday night miles would barely clear the fence yeah. Friday nights at 1130, and it was just if you think of the history when you hear stealth, that's where it started yep and as you.
Speaker 2They built the planes there, they put them on C5 a's and then they flew the stealth to what?
Speaker 1Palmdale or final assembly yeah, just amazing that you think how that airport history and yep, and I think I may have mentioned it last week, but there's a great book, if you want to know, about the history of the skunk works that used to be there. Now it's all buildings, but they're written by Ben Rich, one of the guys that ran skunk works for the end, but where they built the, you know, designed and built the SR 71 and the stealth bomber, and all that all happened right there, burbank Airport. Great, great book.
Speaker 3I was talking to somebody today and she said my dad, my mom worked at Lockheed. You know how many people I still talk to.
Speaker 1Their parents or grandparents worked at Lockheed and the only negative and they left that a super fun site well that, well, that, and the Empire Center which they had died, with the Empire Center having to be cleaned up forever and all the contaminated soil you have a Lockheed's, all the secret stuff well, they didn't know what it was. This they used to make their own, like hydrogen, and stuff that in in the facility, which is crazy, you think so Thursday will be a neat day.
Speaker 3We'll take some pictures and I guarantee that I was entering of the new terminal.
Speaker 1So if they, have any swag like a hat or something. Grab me a yeah beanie. Okay, buddy up on Thursday.
Speaker 2They're awesome. Luther Middle School is gonna have their play legally blonde Thursday, friday and Saturday. I'm sure you can go to the school's website and and get tickets for that. I know the all the schools, middle schools and high schools on fabulous shows here. You know I'm shows that you know rival any anywhere you'll see professionally. So you know what I want to just Thursday, friday and Saturday, and I think their cheer team has won a couple competitions now and done it very well, you know, so you know.
Speaker 1Hats off to those support the schools, especially the arts.
Speaker 3Well, I saw last week Luther.
Speaker 2Somebody broke into their auditorium, vandalized it, stole some items in it well, I looked into that and according to police, they stole a speaker. That was only thing stolen was one speaker. But still gonna do a we're gonna do a story on that, thinking that was a lot of stuff. But there was no signs of forced entry and a speaker was missing okay so you know, somebody left a door open, or?
Speaker 1bad, but good, I guess.
Speaker 2I mean it's not good, no matter what, but it just been worse. It's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be, as I was gonna come, you know, alert the community to it and basically any help with this stuff. So but I did look into it because I want to. You know I'd help them out if they needed to, but no forced entry doing okay. Um so go see the go see legally blonde Thursday, friday or Saturday actually on Friday, because there's nothing else going on Friday, it's a blank day for us literally blank.
Speaker 2On Saturday. The friends of the Burbank library are having a special media pop-up sale one day only, on the second floor in the auditorium from 12 to 4 pm, so I'm sure they'll put a lot of at the central library, the central library.
Speaker 2That's correct also for you people if you after you've gone to the play at Luther on Saturday night. The music is instrument instrumental benefit concert at Burbank High at 7 pm. Music from film and TV. We did a Lisa Prentice, our associate editor, a real nice article in our website. You can read all about it. Last year was fantastic and they say this year promises to be even better. Did you go?
Speaker 3to last year Ross, we covered it last year and they the numbers they play. What they do is they have Burbank and Burroughs instrumental with some professional mentors playing with them and last year in this year it was so great of a show they're bringing in the choirs also and some most people in Burbank have probably heard of guy by the name of John Williams. He's kind of a director of music and his brother, bob, is the one that puts this music is a program on and it's been going on for a while, hasn't it?
Speaker 2I think it's great fundraiser went a while back.
Ross's Rant
Speaker 3Fundraiser too well, that's it, yeah well and there is a surprise that they are going to announce. There is a production company in in town that has made a very nice gift which they will announce that night. So if you want to hear some fantastic music, come on over to Burbank High and you can go online. It's our lead story on my Burbank right now. You can click on it to tickets at the door, I believe. So okay, so like people get to show. Last year they were selling violins. They were selling original, you know music from shows autographed, hopefully, after the performance.
Speaker 1That's right okay.
Speaker 2Well, that just brings us to one final thing. It's time for Ross's rant, and we'll have better next time. I, ross's rant, ross's rant. That's still a temporary sound effect for him, but this is why you ever has been asking for one, I know we got a fine. I got to find the right one you got I was actually going to do it, an old Al Pacino sound effect.
Speaker 1I need to commission somebody to write a jingle for you.
Speaker 3Yes, there we go. Well, you just put it out there.
Speaker 1Somebody wants to write somebody out there should again write a little five. I mean three, four, five. Second jingle for Ross's rant.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah, ross, start running well, I got a couple.
Speaker 3You know, like I said, first we'll Saturday I covered the objects event and then I drove out to the valley. When I say drive, I left the bubble, somebody left the gate open. I knew somebody would say I left the bubble. I went out to Topanga and I decided after I did my shopping out there I needed to get something. Instead of coming back the freeway, I'd come back. I was thinking victory oxnard, I took Sherman way. Man, oh man, oh man. The, the visual of our Valley.
Speaker 1You weren't Kansas anymore, were you I?
Speaker 3was I, just I'm still in awe. I mean, I remember going out there to a place called all means a good thing no.
Speaker 1I you could be in, I guess of anything but what. What did you see, but?
Speaker 3what I used to go out there years ago to a CV's place called buddies CV and it was receding Sherman way and nice neighborhood. It was the Valley. I mean Valley. It was, you know, nice order businesses, the chain link fences around businesses, the empty property, the billboards every three blocks. That though I didn't, and I'm not talking the homeless tense long, but every street sign had graffiti on it. I drove by, I drove all the way coming up from Topanga east, that big Kmart's like. Well, it's a big distance. Yeah, going through Van Nuys Boulevard I was just. Where am I?
Speaker 1you can.
Speaker 3You can tell you're not in Burbank well, that's you know and that's part of my. I tell you we are very fortunate here in Burbank we don't have billboards there's. Five years ago our city council made that a law and the eye, its eyes, sore, I mean. I came where that came art. That big Kmart was Sherman way. It's all fenced off and you could just what's living in there now passing norms restaurant used to go there. I was just like I said. I went all the way up to the airport, went around the airport. It cleans up around the airport. But I am so glad I live in Burbank. People, if you don't get out, don't take that drive. Someday you will be very happy that we live in Burbank, but you'll be in.
Speaker 3I mean, it's not necessarily a pleasant drive, but it certainly makes you appreciate when you get home and what our council you live, what our council in our city, how we maintain it and who lives here and what lives here. And that takes a lot of work. It does, and I commend our city for just that drive. It blows me away, you know so. And then I think my other part of that was I noticed the last two, three days the number of restaurants in this city five new restaurants, the last two blocks the hardest thing to open and operate. I've talked to many restaurant owners it's.
Speaker 1There's no profit, especially now when you have to pay your employees a bus boy twenty dollars an hour you know, and now you have all the regulations with the no plastic and all this no part making it any easier there are water that they discharge from a restaurant.
Speaker 2I get the but but if people are going to live in this in California, you've got to pay them twenty dollars an hour. I mean, you just can't, you can't get. You know, I appreciate the labor being a bus boy, is this glamorous or anything else but then they got to survive to, you know the opposite side to live here and, by the way, how tough a restaurant's after the Emmys.
Speaker 2The bear did very well at the Emmys, so I, when I watched the entire series of the first two seasons on Hulu, amazing, it's an amazing show and everybody I've heard from now says the bear is exactly how restaurants really are. It's the most so you are not tough. Restaurants are to, to, to work at and to make a living at and to make money. That's a. It's a great show for you to watch. I mean I was very impressed. I mean it's a great show. A little bit of swearing in it though. So if you're not it, if you don't like that, you know that word here and there, but very realistic, here there, every restaurant business, tough business.
Speaker 3Well, you go out to eat nowadays. They just said McDonald's, the burger is going to go up, everything's gonna go up.
Speaker 1I think they go up, that's true but all these raises in minimum wage and all that get passed on to the consumer. Yeah, the restaurants in these businesses have no choice. They can't absorb the cost.
Speaker 3Well, you get a food review with Laura, with Lisa, one day. That place next to Nelson's liquor it's already gone now. No, it's now reopened new place called A's. I'm gonna want to try it out, check it out, but I can't believe I think two-fifths of all the burger places have been reviewed are all gone now yeah, there's a new place up in next to shaky's smash smash and something smash burger or something like that. I can't believe all these places that you know since you brought it up.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm gonna put it on the record okay of this project of yours that's been in the works for a while. Tell us about that, so we're gonna lock you into it now you have to do it.
Speaker 3I started compiling the list now. Craig and I go back many years here in Burbank when the Yankee peddler so and T knows we're talking a lot of restaurants, things on. I have over 200 restaurants that have come and gone in Burbank in the last, so you already have a list 50 years now the show yeah, in fact, it's probably gonna be a two-part show.
Speaker 1Yeah, a two-part because you're gonna get two into the list and they were like talking and talking about there were two Murray calendars, one up there, one down here.
Speaker 3Right, three Bob's big boys, three Bob's, yeah. So it for us that. And everybody always says god, I wish I was still here.
Speaker 2King's weed how about a very few people know that I hop, which now, of course, is up on the hill the very first I hop ever was right here, rose Riverside in the media district no, adjacent to the media, aren't it?
Speaker 1we just can't get our ourselves into the media district.
Speaker 2We talked to me about that a little bit easy to expand it a little bit. Yeah, I don't get it right.
Speaker 1So everybody, hold them, hold Ross to that. Gotta get this. This show show in the right from Ross to say let's do it.
Speaker 3I will bring that list and we will do it. And, like you know, I just drive it home on Saturday. You know there's. There used to be Tommy's, there was still Tommy's. Well, tommy's, no, no, no, I mean, I'm sure I'm away. I'm away and recede, that's not perfect be cupids.
Speaker 1There used to be up and taco all these places limiting it to a bank or the valley, or you have two pop and tacos in Burbank that's right, all right, save it for the show, people save it for the show. But I seem to recollect, maybe even a year ago, we were asking listeners to submit names of restaurants that they knew of and that's part of your list right when in your list last weekend here, every restaurant, are just a memory to you that I'm into us, your friend of Clint's in the old days and it in copper penny.
Speaker 3What was the other one, kind of like copper penny that had the wood? Oh, pinocchio's, the wine belt barrels less to their heads but there's no more cork okay on the wall.
Speaker 1We can't. We can't put restaurants that change their decorations on the list. This is good, it's gonna get too long.
Speaker 3Yes, anyway, look forward to that, everybody that'll be coming well, that was my ran and my my, you know, gratefulness or whatever right and you're letting never leave in the city again, are you? I'll tell you. I just you know I I would turn on the news the other day, just real quickly. I used to work at Hollywood Press Pateron Church. Turn on the news and top of the news, there was a shooting right on the sidewalk of the church and I used to work there and walk that well daily.
Speaker 1In all honesty, the neighborhood is not the best. Oh, it's a big campus that the church is on, but right neighborhood it ain't really so it's. You saw plenty of news vans in your day and helicopters and stuff in the neighborhood right well on Carlos.
Speaker 3There now it's tent city, I mean it. They're all the way into the street and they've had tons of problems on that street. But I'm just, I'm grateful for Burbank and how we I mean glad you survived all those years working over there well, you know what the other day, when I was talking to my son you're exactly right, this stuff was going on, yeah every night got coming and going from there.
Speaker 2Yeah, what a show. It's amazing I listen to North Hollywood PD because I can't listen to Burbank PD. Amazing how many times I hear respond to a shooting. Respond to a shooting nightly, nightly, nightly in North Hollywood or Van eyes or the foothill areas of the land, every night respond to a shooting. You know, it's just amazing.
Dodger Camp Farewell and Thank You
Speaker 1It's all the rage these days. All the cool people are doing it. Okay, dodger has lifted his head from his nap, which means only one thing.
Speaker 3I think for that we need to go to the Dodger camp me well.
Speaker 1I have that one I the Dodger camp he's in the lower left hand corner. If you're watching live, we're watching the video version there he is.
Speaker 2He's up, so that means it's time to end another show there you go thank you, dodger okay for Ross Benson and Craig Durell and Craig Sherwood saying thank you very much for listening and we will talk to you again next week good night everybody.
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