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 spirit that truly define Burbank.
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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 spirit that truly define Burbank.
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From 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 2:Hello Burbank, craig Sherwood here with you, along with.
Speaker 1:Craig Durling. Good evening everybody. Happy Monday.
Speaker 2:And everybody's favorite guest star, Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Wait 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 1:Whenever we do the show, it's the week that is, and I now take my, my nice little beanie.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 2:You know who lost it.
Speaker 1:Let'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 3:Oh, Dodger the.
Speaker 1:My Burbank dog, the mongrel. There he is, did you?
Speaker 3:notice the dog from the shelter today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, same name.
Speaker 1:That's okay, it was probably it might not be that uncommon in LA Probably not have a dog named Dodger right.
Speaker 2:Probably not. Also the fact that you imagine, if you did adopt him, then you started. How would they know themselves apart?
Speaker 1:Dodger one who's on first base.
Speaker 2:Yes, what's on second? Who's on first?
Speaker 3:Here we go here we go.
Speaker 2:Ross is lost again, old reference lost on young.
Speaker 1:What 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 3:You 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 1:But do you remember what you had for breakfast?
Speaker 3:Actually today Back in the 50s and 60s. I didn't really eat breakfast this morning. Nothing to forget.
Speaker 2:Here 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 1:Wait, wait, wait, wait wait their lack of staffing.
Speaker 2:Lack of staffing.
Speaker 3:You get tear cut at Olive.
Speaker 2:Auto Repair. No, I have a story to tell.
Speaker 1:If you like me to tell it you should see them putting them up on the rack. So, check his undercarriage.
Speaker 2:This 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 3:And I said to myself you know Well, you do need brakes, but your car didn't need brakes.
Speaker 1:He 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 2:So 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 1:Oh 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 2:That's my, that's my eyesight.
Speaker 3:In 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 2:Olive 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 1:If you can.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, if you can't. Young guy owns a drive.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:What it from.
Speaker 1:Well as the corner is that use car.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:I thought I was hearing something we did.
Speaker 1:Well, we did hear something, you did hear something confirmed. So Olive Auto Repair yeah, so they do general service and repairs.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, 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 1:So essentially they're saying, they're saying you're the problem, I have the problem.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:Well, look at the sounds you make when you get up. Yeah, a couple times a day.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:You 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 4:What kind of car? What was your first car?
Speaker 1:It was a spectacular magnet of a vehicle. It was a 1981 Oldsmobile Omega ragtop golden color.
Speaker 2:Ross, your first car.
Speaker 1:But it was front wheel drive and got me out of snow banks, which was handy growing up.
Speaker 2:Believe me, I didn't have a lot of that problem here in Burbank.
Speaker 3:Are 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 1:I've got you and that Cadillac.
Speaker 3:What'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 1:They didn't even cite you for having the brody knob on there. No, but I might not have been illegal back then.
Speaker 3:One 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 1:Is that your tender handle now?
Speaker 3:So they stopped me. You know what, for? I had landing lights on the front bumper and he said those need to be covered.
Speaker 1:There 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 2:So it was yours, so my was a 62 Chevy station wagon.
Speaker 1:Like a Griswold mobile.
Speaker 2:Oh 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 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, he's mechanics, so Bill Briggs.
Speaker 1:All right, I wish we thrown down the hallway.
Speaker 2:If I do, guess who's going to chase it.
Speaker 1:Right, oh yeah, I know Careful what you wish for.
Speaker 2:Oh, of course it's hard to now. We're going to hear rolling around on the hardwood floor.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, Should we just start?
Speaker 2:over. 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 1:Wow, thank you for keeping that clean, though Little baseball fun for you, okay, I remember somebody who had an El Camino and took.
Speaker 3:What is going on?
Speaker 2:That wasn't me.
Speaker 3:I don't think it was me. I turned Oops.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was, that was dodger either. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:I say you do 360s, rockford, rockford, a J turn.
Speaker 1:Go backwards and then go backwards and then turn around and hit the brakes and turn around and go.
Speaker 3:Oh 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 2:That's a whole new, that's a whole different topic.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's Monday, monday.
Speaker 2:Monday 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 1:Our drawing for the the word of the week, the Hill Street Cafe gift card. Who won that? Samantha?
Speaker 2:Stevens.
Speaker 1:Samantha Stevens.
Speaker 2:Stevens, the car has actually already been mailed out to her.
Speaker 1:Excellent. 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 2:And 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 1:Usually 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 3:But if you guys remember, I let you know last week that kids eat free on Thursdays there we go.
Speaker 1:I can get real tiny if I have to.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about Tuesday first.
Speaker 1:Then there's Tuesday.
Speaker 2:Tuesday we did our podcast with the mayor.
Speaker 1:Mayor Burbank, I wasn't here.
Speaker 2:There was really good.
Speaker 1:He's very good on camera.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:That's how long it took to do.
Speaker 2:It 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 1:That's the thing, is you have to keep him shorter, so you have stuff to talk about. The next month.
Speaker 2:There's always something going on about him. Sure, there'll be plenty.
Speaker 3:We already got a list going. He said we'll have to talk about it next month.
Speaker 2:And then Wednesday Talk it in reverse. Our mayor was a little busy on Wednesday. Ross, what did our mayor do on Wednesday?
Speaker 3:Where did the word float us come from? Well, it's.
Speaker 2:You know, the first time I ever heard the word POTUS was actually on the premiere episode of West Wing.
Speaker 1:Really, it was actually a very good show. Very well written show.
Speaker 2:And 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 3:Absolutely 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 1:Maybe, they went to Hill Street. Hill Street Cafe Close.
Speaker 2:Moving 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 1:But Burbank and all the information was given on that. Oh, everything, yeah, every time I do that.
Speaker 2:And 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 3:There's an article on my Burbank.
Speaker 2:An article on my Burbank all.
Speaker 1:Charlie the Champion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you want to get out of yourself and just show up to root and, you know, be there to support.
Speaker 2:He'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 1:So he's, amazing.
Speaker 2:He's on his amazing yeah, Wow. So, um then, Ross, you went out to help welcome three new recruits on Thursday.
Speaker 1:Drought drove all the way to the Burbank Police Department. Burbank Police.
Speaker 3:Department 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 1:I had to go there many times in my past.
Speaker 3:I'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 1:Yeah, ways will take you the most obscure routes. And it's already pretty obscure getting there.
Speaker 3:So 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 1:Burbank Base Cadet.
Speaker 3:So that program worked real well.
Speaker 1:Oh, that is a success story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 2:They'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 1:Yeah, that was Ellie Sheriff's Recruit Class 270.
Speaker 2:Good for them, that's right.
Speaker 1:Good luck in your training.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:Yeah, 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 2:They'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 3:Right, they send them there and then they come back and teach them how Burbank does things.
Speaker 1:I said good luck fellows. I assume they all males, or OK, they are OK.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:I wouldn't bring it in. Give us hot dogs, might as well. Give us a rundown.
Speaker 3:Yes, 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 1:And you know hot dog. This is very hard to do.
Speaker 3:But 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 1:They had a horrible event.
Speaker 2:Not moderate park as a terrible event.
Speaker 3:They 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 1:next time.
Speaker 3:Well, I'll tell you, Logix is very committed to their local branch.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:But 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 2:Oh, 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 2:All 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 3:I even got my chicklet in.
Speaker 1:Got a chicklet.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 1:And if you saw the video, the hat he was holding up was from Logix. That's the Logix.
Speaker 2:That's not from Disney.
Speaker 1:Logo there.
Speaker 2:Not B-8.
Speaker 3:The 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 2:Well, 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 1:January 22nd. Today is January 22nd, if anybody's keeping score at home.
Speaker 2:Today is actually pretty much over, because we get this podcast on audio on Monday nights.
Speaker 1:So, by the time this comes out, today will be the week, that part of the week that was.
Speaker 2:That was, which is why we don't do usually.
Speaker 1:Monday In a weird way the week Okay.
Speaker 2:Anyhow 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 3:I see you retweeted that one of the members of the planning board was wearing part of my Burbank.
Speaker 2:We did see a planning board member actually bought some. Or in sweatshirt from the my brain swag shop.
Speaker 3:What Samantha Wick, one of our commissioners who does listen to our podcast, and she was really proud. She looked good in it too.
Speaker 1:You did that right here Are there my Burbank beanies.
Speaker 2:We have to look into that. We should.
Speaker 3:You got because they are all guys.
Speaker 2:We put our swag store up, but it's actually doing very well.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:On 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 1:you know officially that way, the infrastructure committee has their hands full with elevators.
Speaker 2:Yes, they do.
Speaker 1:Elevator maintenance right.
Speaker 2:Isn'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 3:I thought you said burp, brt, brt. For short, it's brat. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I was right. Bus rapid transit project.
Speaker 3:It's burp. Okay, almost as good as that toilet button we have.
Speaker 2:No, 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 1:The side running lane for people to run, or is a dedicated running lane?
Speaker 2:or for bicycles, or dedicated running lanes only for buses.
Speaker 1:By buses.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:That's me being too literal, I guess. Once again is see.
Speaker 2:I'm running.
Speaker 1:They're going to close down a whole lane for people to run.
Speaker 3:They 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 2:Well, considering how many people I see on a bike on a redugo and a dedicated bike lane.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:I 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 1:So they're operating. The whole thing is a lot at a loss and nobody's still using it.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:And how often do they run?
Speaker 2:every 20 minutes.
Speaker 3:So 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 2:you 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 1:I 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 3:Our question is what are they going to do when they get to raising canes? Have a bus stop.
Speaker 1:Spike strips yeah.
Speaker 2:But 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 3:what 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 2:Who got a Tuesday? We have a city council meeting back again.
Speaker 3:Wait, now there's got to be some fancy music. We have to that.
Speaker 2:Once again, having a pre show meeting does no good as far as when are all?
Speaker 1:these ideas. Before the show Talk about the we got to.
Speaker 3:We got to come up with a sound for Burbank City Council.
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Speaker 3:I was going to save the music to running Lillies of the field or something, wow.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's that? How does that one go? Lillies of the field, tip toe through the tool.
Speaker 2:Who was the star of that? The Sydney?
Speaker 3:Poitiers Ah.
Speaker 1:Wow, 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 2:So 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 3:Will that come gift wrapped?
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Literally they're paid to come in and update on federal legislation and stuff.
Speaker 2:What legislation is in the works and what has been recently signed and how it affects cities. Whoever the group was, who did something?
Speaker 1:Like something in internets that you all can do.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, they're the ones up in Sacramento that do lobbying and rub elbows. With even that, we rub elbows down here.
Speaker 2:So 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 2:So 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 1:We 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 2:you have a gun? Yeah, they had CO2, guns and pepper spray. Probably electronic or whatever were they used?
Speaker 1:and sensors that picked up on it.
Speaker 2:Interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is the new technology, replacing it.
Speaker 2:Kind 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 2:You 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 3:I 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 2:Exactly One of our GAD files will get up and swear about it.
Speaker 1:Someone's. Somebody's going to have a problem with it, right?
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:Is they going to allow public comment on this, or is this just a?
Speaker 2:consent 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 3:So 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 2:Now didn't you just tell me last a couple days ago, that Beverly Hills got as gotten a spanking from the state?
Speaker 3:They got a big spanking.
Speaker 2:They 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 3:Correct, 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 2:So 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 3:Yeah, this all comes down the state and when people think, oh, we can tell the, you know the state what to do.
Speaker 1:There'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 3:we 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 1:Same reason Hawaii has interstate highways. Yeah, money, you get money from the federal government. I know.
Speaker 3:Craig, 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 1:Of almost count Exactly.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to have. That's enough of that.
Speaker 1:Does it just go on until you get to make it?
Speaker 2:It'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 1:Just going to count the homeless people at the meeting? No, it's state.
Speaker 2:It's statewide. They have a statewide homeless count and for some reason we're having. We scheduled a council meeting on that night.
Speaker 3:Well, they requested the our last mayor requested, and not to be on a council, or the council needs to be.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:Burbankcagov. Do you know if they need to sign up in advance or do?
Speaker 2:they recommend it, but I got to tell you the truth They'll probably take anybody who shows up and do it.
Speaker 3:They're not sending people out alone.
Speaker 2:No, no, you go out. Yeah, you're in groups of four.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:They're not sending anybody out alone, or?
Speaker 3:with these. Counts are real important because that's how the state determines what cities get funding wise.
Speaker 2:But 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 1:So the count is you tried to sneak a gripe in there, didn't you? I tried a rant.
Speaker 2:I tried.
Speaker 3:So 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 2:Well, 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 3:It'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 3:Okay, thank you for the explanation Right from the readers' digest.
Speaker 2:Yep. And then we also have a meeting of the heritage. Wait, what Did I say? Heritage, a heritage commission? I have no heritage.
Speaker 1:Why 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 2:And for those of you who have listened this far, email us at contestatmyburbankcom and use the word heritage in the subject line.
Speaker 3:Do they have to spell it correctly.
Speaker 2:No, 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 1:And 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 2:Can't beat that.
Speaker 1:Love 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 2:Turn their volume down. So that's the word All you have to do is send an email.
Speaker 1:How 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 2:Right, 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 3:Bridge Meri-Posa yes. Burbank property yes.
Speaker 2:It goes across the LA River.
Speaker 3:Yep, it says right over it.
Speaker 2:It's the entirety of the bridge Burbank.
Speaker 3:You'd have to ask some horse affectionados.
Speaker 2:That'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 3:They'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 1:And we can ask Mr Ed. We can ask Mr Ed, he knows.
Speaker 2:Hello, I'm Mr Ed. There you go, he'll tell you.
Speaker 1:How about that Meri-Posa Street Bridge? That all he says. That's all he says. Okay.
Speaker 2:I wonder how many Willber wants a while to.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:I can do. They can only look at it.
Speaker 3:They can't walk over it.
Speaker 2:You 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 3:Thank you, Mr Ed.
Speaker 1:Well, who doesn't, who doesn't have a horse with them these days?
Speaker 2:Friends 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 2:Or 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 3:Is that something that we just got a note from? Water and Power that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:And 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 3:Those 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 2:We 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 1:Back 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 2:Water 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 3:If 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 2:They 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 1:I have to ask how was your dam tour?
Speaker 2:Damn fine Good.
Speaker 1:Did you go to the dam gift shop Buy some dam gifts?
Speaker 3:Damn 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 2:I 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 3:Very 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 2:You 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 1:You mentioned that a while back. How's my mind?
Speaker 2:I'd like to do a little deep dive into that and find out where that came from. What's the reason for that?
Speaker 1:How long is that been in the case? How long ago they? I can tell you somebody.
Speaker 2:Can we just talk about that?
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Well, how quick do you want the answer?
Speaker 3:But I think you know who you could ask. We can arrange it. You know what she does listen to our podcast and.
Speaker 2:Who's that? Marsha, marsha Wood problem? Well, you guys are the reporters.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to find out. You're the journalists.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:Can we undo it? Does it expire or something like that I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:You 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 3:But 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 1:These are huge, huge disputes contractually in everything the state of Arizona with the Colorado River.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and divvying that up, but of course they're getting yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a big big, complex deal.
Speaker 3:So you know, most people just think life goes on, but there are attorneys and yeah, deals like that, that.
Speaker 2:We will look into it. You have my unconditional word.
Speaker 1:Oh, you heard it, you're fine.
Speaker 2:Let'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 1:Right, they're giving it away to the transportation commission.
Speaker 2:Something 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 1:Will that be in the show notes or?
Speaker 3:maybe, 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 2:That's on Thursday. Hopefully they have three days to get it figured out.
Speaker 1:Thursday, the 25th.
Speaker 2:And that is on the city calendar. So you can always do the city calendar and get the number there too.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Thursday 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 1:Formerly known as the Hollywood Burbank Airport and the Lockheed Airport.
Speaker 2:So we're finally gonna get the groundbreaking on the new terminal replacement terminal the new replacement yes, but did you say in there?
Speaker 3:I didn't hear you say it's closed to the public.
Speaker 2:Here 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 1:Burbankcom will be there.
Speaker 2:we'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 3:For 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 1:You're not an emotional crier.
Speaker 3:I think I'm bringing my silk anchor chest out for that one. You remember my silk anchor chest.
Speaker 1:Duct tape of sponge, a big sponge around your head.
Speaker 3:No, but that's really cool. I mean in our lifetime, to see what's going to happen.
Speaker 1:I think how much history is is on that property, how many things in the military government aviation history took place on that property.
Speaker 3:We 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 3:And 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 2:They built the planes there, they put them on C5 a's and then they flew the stealth to what?
Speaker 1:Palmdale 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 3:I 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 1:Their 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 3:We'll take some pictures and I guarantee that I was entering of the new terminal.
Speaker 1:So if they, have any swag like a hat or something. Grab me a yeah beanie. Okay, buddy up on Thursday.
Speaker 2:They'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 1:Hats off to those support the schools, especially the arts.
Speaker 3:Well, I saw last week Luther.
Speaker 2:Somebody 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 1:bad, but good, I guess.
Speaker 2:I 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 2:On 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 2:That'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 3:to 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 2:I think it's great fundraiser went a while back.
Speaker 3:Fundraiser 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 1:That's right okay.
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:I need to commission somebody to write a jingle for you.
Speaker 3:Yes, there we go. Well, you just put it out there.
Speaker 1:Somebody wants to write somebody out there should again write a little five. I mean three, four, five. Second jingle for Ross's rant.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, ross, start running well, I got a couple.
Speaker 3:You 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 1:You weren't Kansas anymore, were you I?
Speaker 3:was 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 1:I you could be in, I guess of anything but what. What did you see, but?
Speaker 3:what 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 1:you can.
Speaker 3:You 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 3:I 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 1:There'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 2:I 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 2:The 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 3:Well, you go out to eat nowadays. They just said McDonald's, the burger is going to go up, everything's gonna go up.
Speaker 1:I 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 3:Well, 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 1:Okay, 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 3:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 3:Right, 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 2:King'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 1:we just can't get our ourselves into the media district.
Speaker 2:We talked to me about that a little bit easy to expand it a little bit. Yeah, I don't get it right.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:I 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 1:There 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 3:What 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 1:We can't. We can't put restaurants that change their decorations on the list. This is good, it's gonna get too long.
Speaker 3:Yes, 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 1:In 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 3:There 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 2:Yeah, 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.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:I think for that we need to go to the Dodger camp me well.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:He'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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