Uncover the secrets of Burbank's resilience to nature's caprice as we recount a storm that showed mercy on our city, sparing us the havoc seen elsewhere in LA County. We also peel back the layers of mystery surrounding Air Force One's recent departure, it leaves us pondering the President's covert itinerary during a weekend of Grammys and glittering fundraisers. Tune in as we weave the tale of Burbank's unique weather patterns and the clandestine dance of presidential movements.
Join us at the heart of community conversation, where the simple art of salad making becomes an act of local celebration. We'll then escort you through city hall's corridors, shining a spotlight on Jeff Worthe's development dreams and the single-use plastic ordinance that's stirring the pot among establishments from the beloved Porto's Bakery to retail giants. As the Zanta club's influence unfurls and city council meetings stretch into the night, we echo the collective call for a city that moves with purpose and haste, leaving no stone unturned and no salad un-tossed.
Our journey concludes with a flourish of community updates – from the digital leaps of Burbank's 311 app to the city's power dynamics and the PD's proud addition, Alejandro Sandoval. Mark your calendars for the grand unveiling of the Dick Clark Dog Park, a tribute to a local legend and a future haven for our four-legged friends. As the city buzzes with committee meetings and cultural engagements, we bid you a temporary farewell, already eager to return with more stories that pulse with the heartbeat of Burbank.
Uncover the secrets of Burbank's resilience to nature's caprice as we recount a storm that showed mercy on our city, sparing us the havoc seen elsewhere in LA County. We also peel back the layers of mystery surrounding Air Force One's recent departure, it leaves us pondering the President's covert itinerary during a weekend of Grammys and glittering fundraisers. Tune in as we weave the tale of Burbank's unique weather patterns and the clandestine dance of presidential movements.
Join us at the heart of community conversation, where the simple art of salad making becomes an act of local celebration. We'll then escort you through city hall's corridors, shining a spotlight on Jeff Worthe's development dreams and the single-use plastic ordinance that's stirring the pot among establishments from the beloved Porto's Bakery to retail giants. As the Zanta club's influence unfurls and city council meetings stretch into the night, we echo the collective call for a city that moves with purpose and haste, leaving no stone unturned and no salad un-tossed.
Our journey concludes with a flourish of community updates – from the digital leaps of Burbank's 311 app to the city's power dynamics and the PD's proud addition, Alejandro Sandoval. Mark your calendars for the grand unveiling of the Dick Clark Dog Park, a tribute to a local legend and a future haven for our four-legged friends. As the city buzzes with committee meetings and cultural engagements, we bid you a temporary farewell, already eager to return with more stories that pulse with the heartbeat of Burbank.
From deep in the Burbank Media District. It's time for another edition of my Burbank Talks, 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 once again, along with in the studio, craig Durling.
Speaker 1:Hey everybody, Good to be back.
Speaker 2:And today on Remote, it's Ross Benson From his mansion.
Speaker 3:Hello, roger Roger Are you that are listening.
Speaker 2:Are you in your Florida kingpin mansion today?
Speaker 3:I don't know, but I just noticed that the cleaning lady didn't get to the top step.
Speaker 1:Either did you. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3:I didn't get too far out of the driveway.
Speaker 2:Well, it looks like so far we've all survived the storm of 2024. At this point, stormwatch 2024. Burbank, in all honesty, did not get hit very hard. We got around, I'd say, four and a half inches here compared to, I know, woodland Hills got over 10 inches. So somehow it just had those cells just happen to go a little bit north of us, so we didn't get hit as hard as it could have been.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was looking at the maps earlier today and midday. Downtown LA had like six and a half inches, malibu had like seven and a half inches, burbank had about two. Yeah, so it's all over the board.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but see you guys are on the flatlands. You're literally way out there.
Speaker 1:Media, district adjacent.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, Living up here on the hill.
Speaker 2:Well, that's right down the hill now.
Speaker 3:yes, it rains a lot more up here You're on Snob Hill.
Speaker 2:now is that where you're at?
Speaker 1:Well, ross is just, he's just over the hill, just over the hill.
Speaker 3:But let me share with you. You know I cover the desk all night and last night I was in the middle of the river so I went to the bank and I didn't have anything. Nothing landed at Burbank from about 1230 till six this morning when the heavy UPS plane wanted to come in. They couldn't land their first time. They had to go back to Southern California control and ask can we try it again? We had to do the same thing before we attempted again and I watched him land real slowly. He came in and he was the only plane that landed. Burbank canceled 63 flights yesterday.
Speaker 3:Oh the weather.
Speaker 1:Wow, and LAX was on reverse ops yesterday too, which was kind of fun to watch Air Force One taken off. It was a different view.
Speaker 2:I went to live stream of LAX and watched it land and take off. And kind of interesting. I found what's interesting when it took off, actually landed too. The very bottom of the plane has a very silver metallic feature to it.
Speaker 1:It's got that color on it. Yeah, that's like a thing.
Speaker 2:What does that have to do with radar bouncing or something? Or somehow it can't get tracked, or something, I'm sure it's all kinds of stuff with magic, stuff with that. Everything on that plane is there for a reason.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, well, and they're still building the two new ones that President Trump designed.
Speaker 2:One thing I didn't I thought and I guess I'm wrong about, is that I thought Air Force One had a fighter escort, but nothing. And I also looked on the flight tracking.
Speaker 1:They can scramble and get to it quick enough.
Speaker 2:I couldn't find Air Force One on the flight tracker either. It was not a Weird, it's a ghost on there.
Speaker 1:Well, it is a military aircraft, so I don't know if that would be the reason.
Speaker 3:Well, last week, with the Ospreys being down, they're flying the Shikorsky.
Speaker 2:They had three of those yeah.
Speaker 3:They had five.
Speaker 1:From the Marines.
Speaker 3:Yeah, from the Marines, and everybody sees them flying over Burbank and say, oh, in fact I put a tweet out the POTUS isn't in any of those. That is his entourage, or meaning his press corps, his office staff, his secret service. That's what goes between Burbank and Santa Monica, but a friend of mine sent me a picture on the runway of six of them lined up and one of them parked in front, and it just Well.
Speaker 1:I have pictures from a year or two ago. We're staying at the end of 15, with HMX taken off right over our heads. It was cool.
Speaker 2:Two of the Were they sea stallions and then three of the Well, I also saw there's only two of the Marine ones Usually have three.
Speaker 1:Well, the standard is two plus three support.
Speaker 2:So whether it's the Ospreys, that's when you look at the LAX. They had three of the military choppers and they had two of the Marine ones, and I thought they had three, because the reason they have more than one is it could be mission specific depending on where they're going. I didn't know where he was in town for it. I never checked there.
Speaker 1:Well, he was in. I know he was in Vegas today for a fundraiser in and out, so I'm sure he was here for a fundraiser. That's not the only reason they come here.
Speaker 2:They come to California for the money for the campaigns and they come Straight to Beverly Hills. And they spent in other states.
Speaker 3:He came here Saturday to speak because, the Grammys being yesterday, he wanted to speak to the black group that has, you know, quite a bit involved in the Grammys, to talk to them about pushing out the go out and vote through the music world, and that was his main point.
Speaker 2:He was not at the Grammys as I know my son was there In all honesty, but then he flew off to Las Vegas. In all honesty, he should have made an appearance at the Grammys, because I'm sure that would really help him with that entire demographic.
Speaker 1:But to be honest, if you've seen him lately, they got to control his environment, they got to keep. They can't have him add living or in a crowd. They really have to control where they put him. Now it's sad but he's not doing the classic, traditional presidential Super Bowl interview.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's not.
Speaker 1:I heard that today. Wow, and I mean talk about getting an audience but, Isn't he doing something? They might be doing something pre-taped or him saying something, but I heard today that he's not doing that Maybe a tour around the White House, or something, a traditional interview, so they'll probably pre-taped something.
Speaker 2:Maybe a tour around the White House or something.
Speaker 3:Well, they should do that doggie bowl in the Oval Office. You know where the little dogs? Yeah, the puppy bowl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the puppy bowl. It's adorable Animal Planet. At the same time, the Super Bowl is on, animal Planet has the puppy bowl.
Speaker 3:Right, well, they should do it in the Library of Congress, or you know that big conference room which I have pictures of some performers standing on that desk. Can we please keep?
Speaker 1:some decorum in Washington DC. Okay, I'm sorry, Some dignity please.
Speaker 2:Should we move on a little bit here?
Speaker 1:How about we start? There's nothing, there's no moving on. We haven't started.
Speaker 2:Let's start with last week's winner. Last week's winner of a, last week's winner of a Hill Street Cafe gift card. Where did the week winner go? $25. It went to. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:Ta-da-da, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Craig, continue to do that, because I can't hear that part.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll be your eyes, okay, your ears, steve Austin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, steve.
Speaker 1:Austin.
Speaker 2:Steve Austin. I wanted to say relation to the wrestler.
Speaker 1:The wrestler or the bionic guy. There's another Steve Austin.
Speaker 2:You would think it was A common name.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'd heard of the city before and Steve's a fairly Can you imagine being named Steve Austin and going through life with that name and people looking at you like although you try to get reservations at a restaurant.
Speaker 1:Right Now we're talking. Well, now he's going to Hill Street.
Speaker 2:Yes, he is.
Speaker 1:No reservations needed.
Speaker 2:Well, steve, send us your address to winners at MyBurbankcom and we will send that $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe out to you forthwith.
Speaker 1:Excellent Homemade salad, dressing and soup, and all that. There's a good weather for it too. Good weather, don't?
Speaker 3:forget to share that, Steve. Don't forget to share that on your social media. I know your fan group would love to see that.
Speaker 1:And tell them who sent you. Well, that's it Now, the wet butt. The second of that is now. Everybody out there has to listen up for the rest of the show to hear this week's word of the week Because there will be a new word of the same chance.
Speaker 2:Somewhere, somewhere in our show.
Speaker 1:Somewhere in our show. Listen for the word of the week and we'll give you further instructions at that time.
Speaker 2:Well, let's go back to last week, because it was the week that was. It was Twas, indeed. Last Tuesday we had a council meeting. They approved the development agreement for another three years for the property that Jeff Worth owns, that used to one time be a golf course and is now a.
Speaker 3:Driving range. That was not a full golf course. Well, golf course it was a driving range.
Speaker 2:Where was this? It's just two 2,900 for those of us who don't know, for those of us who don't know, for those of us who don't know, it was just to the north above of Johnny Carson Park.
Speaker 1:Okay, is that where? That's where the KCET is there now yeah. Okay, so that's you and when he developed that building.
Speaker 3:he owned all that property and he put up that building what we call the park building that's how they identify it and he built the foundation for another building matching that that he was going to do in phase two. Well, he always said that he wouldn't build the second building until he had occupancy like 90% occupancy in the park building. And then Warner Brothers decided to do their iceberg buildings, their 21st century buildings.
Speaker 1:The ones along the 134.
Speaker 3:Right. So the designer of that building, he'd had them redesign another building that'll go next to the park building and that's what they extended the development agreement for.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought it was very. It was very nice that Jeff Worth himself came and addressed the council about it. You know, usually these developers always send their you know first head flunky or something you know and don't want to be wasted with it, you know and but he showed up himself to answer questions and sounds like it looked like a very down to earth person and concerned about the community. So he also said that they you know they'd been remodeling the former Daltz restaurant that used to be in the bottom of the building and olive and Riverside. Then it became great malts there.
Speaker 2:Oh great malts. I'm sorry to see Daltz go, anyhow they're. They've been remodeling that and he says in the steakhouse commune called the Capitol Grill, which is a, will be a nice steak restaurant, although we do have Morton's and we deal with a smoke house.
Speaker 1:But we got plenty.
Speaker 2:I missed all.
Speaker 3:everybody enjoys the steak, so the reason he does that is. He also said you have to do amenities now for these new buildings going in to keep the employees there for lunch, so if you wanted to go to that, I want to help me.
Speaker 2:Employees can afford a nice steakhouse.
Speaker 1:Was kiss FM still in that building? Yes FM and some other stations used to be in that building.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of them moved over to the building at Naomi and olive. I know that's where the sports sports is now. Oh, seven, 10.
Speaker 3:Dirling, and Craig Dirling is thinking of the building across from Whole Foods. I don't think you pass Whole Foods that much, no.
Speaker 1:I guess the thing used to be in the in the Daltz building is to see it on the, and yeah right.
Speaker 3:And now in Craig, when you say you don't think some of those people can afford it, we're talking DJs, we're talking producers. That was his intent and putting those buildings there.
Speaker 1:It's a high red building.
Speaker 2:Do you know how much they pay radio people? Lately, though, they're kind of like journalists and newspapers, really hanging on.
Speaker 1:Right, we're getting into a rat hole. Um any sound effect for a rattle.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do One size fits all for them. They also the single use plastic ordinance. They made some changes to it. We're going to have a list of all the changes and what the ordinance basically says. I asked them to city people and they said you know, so much went on. We're still trying to figure it out right now and get exactly what they wanted. So when the ordinance comes back for the second reading and to get passed, they'll have a better handle on everything. So the next council we will talk more about that ordinance and about what they, what they did pass. I think they took out the 31 seat restaurant thing and they're going to make it all restaurants and oh geez, there's a lot. There's a lot to it. It's getting worse. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, you guys, I feel sorry, I do. You know Betty Porto called me. We all know Betty Porto from Portos. You know, think about it. They serve 15,000 people a day. Think about it, you know. You change an ordinance like this and make them put in some of this recyclables, when you can go three blocks or two blocks and go to Target or Vons, go in and buy from the deli and they don't have to do this for another couple of years. You know, she told me they ordered their stuff from China, do you think? You think?
Speaker 2:ship after the order. I've never seen anybody stand line to go into Vons.
Speaker 1:Does it also mean that Vons supermarkets Target, walmart can't won't be able to sell plastic forks and spoons and stuff anymore?
Speaker 2:No, you know, and that's a good point, that's a good point. They can still sell them, they just can't use them.
Speaker 1:So what if a restaurant includes that plastic where in the price and says that they're selling it with the meal?
Speaker 2:I loophole, loophole. I should be a lot of loopholes, loophole.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and some of these small shops. And what about catering trucks that roll into town? They got to qualify, they have to meet the same. They're making these Well, I'm sure you definitely know by who was reporting at council. She's never worked at a restaurant.
Speaker 2:I think what she has is ideals for the future and we've got to start somewhere and not realizing you know they say the big picture, you know and what it's like to really be in business, and I understand that too.
Speaker 1:Then start, start chipping away at it. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Speaker 2:Some of the stuff is going to become state laws.
Speaker 1:Baby steps.
Speaker 2:Some of the stuff is going to be state laws.
Speaker 1:They say within a year or two anyway, because the state is as bad as the local governments and the federal government is. They make all these mandates and the infrastructure and the users aren't ready for it, so they just force feeding all this stuff and nobody's ready for it.
Speaker 2:Maybe a good example that I remember years ago they passed the recycling thing where all restaurants had to are, all stores had to take back a five cent deposit or 10 cent deposit and everything, and then all stores must then take back the cans and bottles and then suddenly less and less and less and less, and now I think there's only one or two places in Burbank that actually you know, except before the rule was if you sold it you had to take the returns also. Somehow they got that loophole. Stop having to take the returns.
Speaker 1:Somebody's always going to figure out a way around a regulation or something.
Speaker 2:Are the proposition 65 that says you must have a warning if there's any kind of cancerous things, and then they stick the sign somewhere around a corner or something and somewhere where you can't really see it.
Speaker 1:If you notice, if anybody uses eBay out there as sells anything on eBay, that's a box. To check is if you're going to need to include the Prop 65 warning in your auction yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, I sell on eBay. I never knew that was on there, it's in there. Oh, there you go, they also don't worry.
Speaker 3:Craig, they won't come look for you because they know your media district adjacent and they have no clue where the adjacent is.
Speaker 2:I'm sure most of them are the media.
Speaker 1:Probably a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Human trafficking ordinance passed Good. And you know, Ross, you know why don't you talk about not to take the lead on that?
Speaker 3:Well, the city attorney is the one that made the presentation at council and they've done their homework on it. This is long overdue. People don't realize just what. Two weeks ago there was a sting operation and they picked up over 5000 violators through the state and they need help. You know you're not going to see a city attorney going out to businesses. So Zanta, who has been pushing the ordinance for a while they had a. You remember an event last week. They did a walk a couple weeks ago that we covered. They have offered to be the the boots on the ground.
Speaker 2:And I applaud Zanta. We just started an event and we just had a story come out today on the on the ordinance of the past.
Speaker 3:So nice job by Gloria Solis has been very vocal on that and she she has offered the city. We have plenty of people to help get the word out, and that means passing out posters and signage and so forth.
Speaker 2:Ross, you have any information on what the Zanta club is?
Speaker 1:This for some context.
Speaker 3:Yeah, zanta has been around for many, many years. It's a fellowship of women and now others, that many things involving women. To what's the word I'm looking for, like women in power, you know army in power in power.
Speaker 3:Yep, you have quite a few newer. I know some of the nonprofits In fact I think all the nonprofits are partisan and some new, new companies in town that are run by women, so it's and some of their causes are are very, you know, worthwhile and they have a lot of support. Like I said, I know our local Gloria Solis has has the aid of many people when she puts out a phone call for something and Well now, what's one of my big gripes with the city council that I have all the time too many meetings on one night, none on another.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I miss the city a lot of the meetings that go way too late. I get it.
Speaker 1:Yes, and going too late.
Speaker 2:So here's what they did once again, too many things on the agenda. It's around 1130 night, they hadn't gotten to trafficking yet and they decided that they would pull the landlord, tenant stuff off the agenda. Now there are rules now that you can't if you want to speak about dining you can't speak during Oral communications and then to be able to speak again when the item comes up. A lot of people you know are first aid.
Speaker 1:That's 1130 when they made this announcement 1130.
Speaker 2:They decided that you know.
Speaker 1:It's been there for hours late tonight.
Speaker 2:So they were there five, six hours waiting, you know, and then they said well, yeah, I talked to two people that were sitting, two people that were sitting in that audience.
Speaker 3:That could have left right, and it's just.
Speaker 2:Someone consider it and how many people were at home who we wanted to call in or something. I mean, it's just one of those things that that you know why not have extra meetings if you're gonna have that long of a me know those long of a meetings. They said well, you know it went long because of this or that. Well, you had a feeling the plastics ordinance was a big deal and that's gonna take time. Some of the other things take time to I get it. So, instead of two meetings a month, why not have two meetings, maybe sometimes once?
Speaker 1:well, three meetings a month and the spoiler alert city council's dark next week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's no meeting. There's no meeting now, you know tomorrow, but there is, you know oh yeah, this week I guess yes, they pushed that back and of course landlord tenant commission met today. But now nothing could be said that you know they had a special ad hoc committee about the it's just really a shame.
Speaker 2:The mayor actually wanted to. You know, like he said, and he goes look at it, I'm here to do a job, I'm here to stay as long as I need to stay, which I commend, but even so. So if they get to it now, it's gonna be two, three. In the morning I go have an extra meeting.
Speaker 1:Do we know why they're? Why they're dark this week?
Speaker 2:because it's not scheduled to have a meeting.
Speaker 1:They were they working for? Who are they there to?
Speaker 3:in January they sit down and talk about their goals and plans. The city manager is the one that makes it scheduled For city council made us to have our goals this year. That's every two years they do that well they, they came up with a calendar for meetings because, if you recall, the city manager show told us that he was gonna say something you know, but again happen.
Speaker 3:It's weird how they make presentations and why they're dark or dormant or A sleep, but a lot of people don't realize all those city staffers there's a lot sitting in the audience that people don't see. Besides your department heads, you have city staffers that have to be at a staff meeting at 10 am On Wednesday. No if, ands or buts. After a council meeting they get off at 2 1 2 in the morning. They got to be back Chipper as a that's understandable.
Speaker 1:What's what on the agenda is making these meetings run so long? Is that one item? Is it public comments? Is it something that?
Speaker 3:they can move. Yeah, every council member needs to give their opinion.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's their own fault then.
Speaker 3:They need, they want to hear. I love all of our council members but I gotta say sometimes they like to hear themselves talk.
Speaker 2:They have a temperature here. Well, I agree what he said or what she said, and I want to also say that here's my version of it. Yeah, it's the same thing and but it's just, I guess, if there are major things coming up and have next meeting especially if you're gonna table something because you don't want to run too late tonight.
Speaker 1:Well, guess what then round? We're having a meeting next week.
Speaker 2:I know it's probably not that easy to do, but at least table in beginning, then those people's right still be upset that they came for no reason but they would have suffered five hours and then left for no reason. That was just to me that that's unprofessional. It's just not a not a good way to run your.
Speaker 3:Craig, did you read the city manager notes on the tenant landlord commission from a couple weeks ago? Two people were there in public to bring something up and one they answered an email. What, like you said that the landlord tenant commission has zero power and their meeting. It just kind of gets me.
Speaker 2:I feel sorry for those people that yeah, it's a place to go gripe, but there's no results can come from it. I don't know what the that's a feel-good commission. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Make you feel better.
Speaker 2:Well, let's move on to Wednesday. Brumwick announced it there. 311 app. Now it has code enforcement and real-time bus Bus times on there too. So so now, if you want to tell on your neighbor, you don't like your neighbor, you and your neighbor does something you don't like. You can, you can uh sprinklers are on, yeah. I do go code, code enforcement and say and tell on your neighbor which I think that's the other reason that's on there is so you can tell on people well, no, no, no, come on, that's not true.
Speaker 3:There are a lot of things that people see driving around our community that do not meet the Burbank minutes code, and who goes out and take care of those? They don't want people calling 9-1-1 or the police desk, they want code enforcement All right, but every code enforcement is for is for negative things.
Speaker 2:What enforcement does not you contact code for positive things?
Speaker 1:I have a question and, ross, I've asked you this before because it's come up but do they have a way to Report illegally parked vehicles on the 311 app yet?
Speaker 3:I believe there is but Burbank on 311, burbank's 311 right on the perfect day one. Okay, last time I checked I had some issues on my street, though I found no, no Option to submit an illegally parked vehicle you know, and I think just last week I, when I went to install it, our update it, I saw that Other other city of Importance that you could now Put in who's who's administering that and gonna send it to the right person?
Speaker 1:do you know?
Speaker 3:I believe that all of those go to public works and then they divvy it up. If it has to go to PD or to the different departments, Okay well.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I haven't looked at the app since, so it's been a few months since I Was in there, so I didn't know if this new update included that specifically and I said update also includes a Real-time Burbank limousine service.
Speaker 2:I mean Burbank bus service. Is it called the insert? Because you write a brand bus, you're probably the only one on it, so treat it like a limousine.
Speaker 1:To carry over from the pandemic. Yes, it is even you have to be one bus apart. Everyone has to be one bus apart.
Speaker 3:Yes, I want to know who's keeping talent tonight. Craig's Pist pot.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm kind of I'm being I'm so far I'm sounding like the curmudgeon in the group.
Speaker 2:But now you got.
Speaker 1:You get the two of us alone in a room because you're not here to play referee.
Speaker 2:If you want, I can sugarcoat everything. Is that you know what? Hey, what a great job.
Speaker 1:Need any more sugar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can say I can sugarcoat everything and then, yeah, I think we need a question, we have we have opinions.
Speaker 1:I'm sure everybody listening has an opinion about all this stuff too, so maybe they agree with us, maybe they disagree with us. Let us know what you think. Shoot us an email.
Speaker 2:Just email. Hey, I I will take the criticism.
Speaker 1:If you want, we'll read your emails next week in the show Yep.
Speaker 2:Thursday, city manager Justin Hess appointed the CFO, the chief financial officer. Joseph, I was moving state Lillio, li L L I oh, I think it's Lillio. Well, that sounds like a right about right now.
Speaker 2:And he will be the acting water and power head until a national search firm finds a New candidates. I don't know if he's pretty big spot I don't know if he put his hat in for the permanent job, but he was the CFO. So I mean he doesn't know the utility, knows what he's doing, and At least we have somebody in charge.
Speaker 3:We got that email today from About social media. They have a new person handling their social media presence, but that's somebody different Then your PR person.
Speaker 2:I got the flavor, the flavor of the month.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's quite a bit of turnover there and Unfortunate, but our power and our lights stay on.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:If we ever can find a map that says what's not working right, that'd be nice.
Speaker 1:Did you not give? Well, I could feel I could fill a map with what's not going right here.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3:You did not get the email that I sent to them After this weekend's power outages.
Speaker 2:I all I said it'd be nice if they hadn't mapped.
Speaker 3:It worked, and I still their reply was they have their new software that they are working the bugs out of. Yes, and I just looked at LA's. La is amazing. They can take it down to a block. So I don't know what money they paid for in LA, but it'd be nice that Burbank puts it back up.
Speaker 2:Well, we will see how that you stay on that does vector control still handle Infestation?
Speaker 1:they have a lot of bugs to get out of the system. Yep, yeah I. Um also on Friday Waka Waka on Friday.
Speaker 2:I shouldn't say also on Friday, because it's the only thing on Friday. Yes, on Friday it and I got put in the wrong position here, but we're in PD person to two new jailers.
Speaker 1:The jailer. What do we?
Speaker 2:know a new jailer and a A custody class. Well, you know what, ross, you went to it.
Speaker 1:Is it the same person? Is this one person? Yes, it is okay. Just a really long title.
Speaker 2:Ross you went to, I'll let you talk all about it.
Speaker 3:Well, because of the rain, they changed the location, they expected rain and they moved to the East LA College. In their auditorium, I think, there were 19 different graduates, mostly from the Sheriff's Department, and I believe there were six from outside agencies, including Burbank, who had one student, one class, alejandro Sandoval, and it was nice to when they were making presentations. He was the it served fire military and he also was given one of the things that they end out, or Class points Physical agility and all those things he placed in one of those. So, and I was, though we have a couple more jailers, I believe three, going in the Academy for the class. This class is only, I think, nine weeks, not like the Right, the officers.
Speaker 1:So if you find yourself in the Burbank poke anytime soon, say hi to Alejandro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, welcome on the board on the weekend we had actually had a dig event at Jrossen Center. What went off on Saturday morning and, believe it or not, why Burbank Center? Reporter out there and we will have a story getting there this week on the dig program and the volunteers are you know what? I saw the pictures, number of people out there Really digging. Oh yeah, I mean. So they dug, they dug. They're about their hose with them.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, sorry, I started laughing before my my adult brain caught up with you. There we go.
Speaker 3:Well, they've cut so many groundskeepers. They need some. You know citizens like to volunteer. They really are committed to the city. And I'll tell you, going to Purdue go Park Aquatic Center every week, there's a lot of greenery that, just you know, gets watered, keeps growing and growing. So I understand the dig program. Hell, I don't do weeds in my own and, of course, dig stands for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2:It just for some reason they want to capitalize actual act of scooping. I don't. I do is just not capitalized the ING and everybody was fine with it.
Speaker 1:That's what has thrown me Since the beginning, trying to figure out what the letters start for.
Speaker 2:But I did ask the city and I said no, it doesn't stand for anything if we're it's just digging, just the active Scooping things out of something else.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:Other than that, a quiet weekend we had all right, yeah, so let's take a quick break for our word from, Hopefully, one of our sponsors one these days.
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Speaker 2:Hey again everybody. Craig short here with you, along with Craig Durling still here. And of course, on remote, this week on assignment not assignment is for. Your assignment is Ross Benson.
Speaker 1:I thought for a second. He said we will make you look unsound, like well, that's, that's not a great selling point he said look and sound, I just miss her, I miss her well, mr AI, sometimes is a little bit.
Speaker 2:What can I tell you? Just trying to take my gig, that guy on Monday, gun Monday, the fifth Monday, the fifth today being today of course. Yeah, I used to write today on here now.
Speaker 2:I today February 5th it is all day and a half at tonight Now, after last week of very little meetings, now we have this week a ton of meetings. So today we had the perfect arts, urban Culture, arts Commission, the beautification subcommittee that met at 10 am the service building and they were gonna talk about phase 8 of the utility box beautification program and how to recognize the artists and sponsors of phase 7? I think my burbank was in phase 4. Is that correct, ross?
Speaker 2:I think about then and we have our our box that we sponsored over at Magnolia and Hollywood way.
Speaker 1:I like that program. I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:It's yeah because this box is when it's gray or they're painting art on the trying to beautify the utility boxes at intersections are gray, like puke, green or something, and just I look like I dig it.
Speaker 3:I dig it. Years ago, mr Dirling, before, I think, you Relocated to the fine city of Burbank, they used to have a contest to paint fire hydrants and they found after several years it's easy to Lose them when they're painted the same color as a background if you don't know what they look like.
Speaker 2:I heard a lot of dogs complained to they couldn't find that fire hydra anymore, so Anyhow there's a rim shot somewhere there.
Speaker 4:Well, of course there is.
Speaker 2:Arts and public places meeting has been canceled, so I guess the we're not talking about anything with the air too much art in one night.
Speaker 1:Is that what's going on? I?
Speaker 2:guess so. And landlord tenant commission met at 615, the community services building or who knows what, and really to tell yeah, probably just to console people.
Speaker 1:It's a time of recording that we had not heard about what they they talked about no, really, because I don't record the meetings. Oh, we're not okay. And and we're recording this show on the night of that meeting. Yes, we are.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow night, what's again. The Burbank arts, burbank culture arts commission, or arts, once again gets together, this time the community engagement subcommittee, and they will meet at 10 am with the community services building and this is the standing morning They'll discuss ideas and planning for the subcommittee. So they're really just discuss plans for how they communicate and how they engage the community. The Burbank audit committee and I'm not there's a committee that is probably a- lot of committees.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's also probably a committee, that, if you were really gonna audit the city, yeah, or audit committees? You want to get a little extra sleep going there and listen. That mean for a while. Yes, it is now they're meeting at 11 am, the community services building.
Speaker 3:Others. There's big conference rooms and little ones I didn't know the public could sit on, and on that one I've never, I've never heard anybody say oh, meet me at the.
Speaker 2:I don't think they also meet every month either.
Speaker 1:I mean they meet every all the cool kids are doing it.
Speaker 2:I think they meet every three or four months too, so they don't really every month.
Speaker 1:Personally, I've never.
Speaker 2:Of course the city council, because there's nothing to talk about went dark on Tuesday, so there is no meeting because.
Speaker 1:So, in theory, they've been dark. They've known they were gonna be dark since the beginning of the year, right since they planned all these, the scheduled, all the by the way, as the mayor told us, he's able to call special meetings, so he could have said looks that a genesis.
Speaker 2:You know what we can't get to all this tonight? We're gonna take the last two items and move them and we'll come back next.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I that's. I like that idea oh.
Speaker 3:I.
Speaker 1:Support that.
Speaker 2:So we'll be on later, actually the same time, because thank goodness there's no council meeting. So if you wanted to go to the council meeting and the athletic federation who admit the same time on Tuesday, Head over to the community services building.
Speaker 1:Now it's just the community services building. You could spend the day at the community services building. Yep, now it's just just the um.
Speaker 2:We're making a federation there. The ones who are going to meet, they're going to be. We have a report on the youth, sports and gender athletic policy. They're going to talk a little about the um, what else they have here.
Speaker 1:Adaptive sports.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're having an adaptive sports expo in McCambridge Park in about a week or two. It's going to be a big thing where they, you know, with all kinds of different sports and it's going to be a neat event. So I think we're going to try to cover it and great.
Speaker 1:So a couple good, uh good topics they're going to be they're going to be covering Could be of interest to the listeners at 6pm. On what? What day? Tuesday Tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Well, you know that you're listening to this.
Speaker 1:Tonight is tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Adaptive sports. I covered the one, basketball, uh, when they introduced that one, and I'll tell you, there is a lot of people that are glued to you know, live their life in a wheelchair and they're competitive as hell, and I watch these guys play basketball.
Speaker 1:So that's what this is. These are sports involving uh uh, disabled folks or people with limitations and all that. Yeah, excellent, that's good, good.
Speaker 2:We've been. On a Wednesday, the Burbank Cultural Arts Commission is going to meet once again, this time of subcommittee. The marketing subcommittee will meet at 10am at the community services building. They will discuss marketing plan for upcoming city and arts related events. So I'm not sure what the you know, but so far that's the third meeting this week for the Burbank Cultural Arts Commission. Instead of instead of doing everything on one day and going six or seven hours.
Speaker 1:These are subcommittee so in theory these are different panels of people.
Speaker 2:Yes, they are getting together Right.
Speaker 1:Uh handling the business of the civil service board is going to be at 430.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about recruitment and appointments, and also on Wednesday, because we just have a lot of meetings on Wednesday coming up.
Speaker 1:That was at City Hall. By the way, the civil service that was at City Hall 430.
Speaker 3:That one is a recorded meeting. That's a Brown Act meeting and, yes, it is recorded as required.
Speaker 1:Is that a public? Is that open to the public?
Speaker 3:Yeah, most of it is. But if you look at their agenda, not well this one.
Speaker 2:I didn't say close session Pretty interesting. I didn't think close. I didn't think close session on this agenda.
Speaker 3:No, not on the civil service board.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they. You know they talk about recruitment and appointments. That could be an interesting to list Is that is that streamed?
Speaker 1:Do we know?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, we don't know. Sit in on the meeting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if they're. You know, I'm actually I'm not sure what they do with that All righty.
Speaker 2:Also they stumped the band also, on Wednesday, domestic Violence Task Force meets at 530 in the community services building. We're going to talk about financial, financial literacy course for domestic violence survivors. So basically talking about the violence task force goals and objectives and talk about frequency of meetings. So once again, that's another good wish. I'm not sure how they help people. This one's talking about financial literacy which helps people who've had domestic problems probably get their finances back together and how they and I think one of the biggest things, especially, you know, for a wife who has to move out is maybe just a housewife and not an income earner how is she going to survive? Right, and that's a big one.
Speaker 1:It could be one, or the other half of a couple may have one. May have done the finances for the last 20 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So and everything and everything's in their name, or something like that.
Speaker 3:Now that committee I have been told it has quite a few department staffers that attend it. I know the PIO's office police department as a representative there.
Speaker 1:No, PIO, the police department has a place that you just said department, so I was trying to know which one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was going to PIO. The police department, the fire department, parks direct, they all have representatives and then some of the things that the department domestic violence has has created on the back of all the city. Business cards for your council members have hotlines, so if they hand out a card to somebody that you know domestic violence, if you need to make a call, that number is on that card. That's one of the things they do and also give out leads where you can get out.
Speaker 1:Great resource, great resource.
Speaker 2:Well, because they, I guess, filled up all the rooms everywhere else and have nowhere else because there's so many meetings the same day. The youth board is going to meet at 6pm at the Jocelyn Center.
Speaker 1:This is still Wednesday the 7th.
Speaker 2:Wednesday. So now I can't why you'd have the youth board meeting at the senior citizens home, but that's well, if you read, not home. Well, it's just the center. There you go. I'm sure that they're not a lot in common.
Speaker 3:Which we're putting both of you after, you know, people play pool, socialize, get their lunch fed, served and so forth at Jocelyn. The Jocelyn is a great center with a lot of meeting rooms, so no reason on not spreading it and taking them down there. And it's also they might want to get the youth and some of our seniors, you know, talking.
Speaker 1:Not a bad idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but no, there's no senior things on their agenda. I kind of looked at that, so there's really not. Their agenda is very, very vanilla, as it is just more or less Everybody talk about their own school.
Speaker 1:And then there was Thursday.
Speaker 2:Thursday happened or will happen is about to happen. Well, thursday is the big one for, once again, the Burbank Culture Arts Commission. They're going to have the whole commission meet this time at 9am.
Speaker 1:Community Services Building altogether and there's all the subcommittees.
Speaker 2:All subcommittees will are going to give a report on what they subcommitted and is that a verb? It is now.
Speaker 1:If it would ever floats your boat right. Everybody knows what you meant.
Speaker 2:Art program update. From the new terminal and Johnny Carson Park we're going to get an arts grant program update. We're going to talk about the recently held downtown arts festival and of course I said the subcommittee reports, so they have a general yes, sir.
Speaker 3:That downtown arts festival, same group coming back in June and July.
Speaker 1:That the jackalope.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they come every time. They come twice a year, every year.
Speaker 3:Mr Durling covered it for my burbank.
Speaker 1:I did indeed.
Speaker 3:Photo gallery for us and enjoyed the time he was on the Boulevard.
Speaker 2:Well, that brings us later Good event up there later Thursday, in case you want to get some lunch and come back for. Another meeting is a park and recreation board will meet at 6pm at City Hall and we're going to talk about a couple of things. Number one is the roller hockey. Is that what I just heard? Did I hear, just hear that roller? No hockey.
Speaker 1:Hockey, hockey. What could that mean, that horn?
Speaker 2:Do I mean one thing, that's the key is the word of the week for the no Street Cafe $25 gift card a good one to have. Yes, a good one to have.
Speaker 1:Good one to have.
Speaker 2:So once again, send that email to contest at my burbankcom. Put in the subject line hockey and we'll have you in the contest.
Speaker 3:I only get parts of it, but I can you know what?
Speaker 1:you know it's playing. You know it's playing.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Excellent, so hockey, so put hockey in the in the subject line.
Speaker 2:What is hockey? I believe it's hockey. Oh hockey.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, there you go. There's the word of the week. If you're stuck around this long, good for you, congratulations and thank you for being here.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Now if we can maybe reward you with a $20, $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe. You know what. You know what I'm going to interject here.
Speaker 3:If you're new in town and have found our podcasts and you haven't driven around the flatlands and other areas of Burbank, Burbank's Roller Hockey Rink is on victory at. Ontario, that's right.
Speaker 1:There was a bit of an urge or point to this, wasn't there?
Speaker 3:And I figured well I didn't need to say hockey again.
Speaker 1:but what, what'd you say?
Speaker 3:That's right, hockey. But if people are wondering, you know they find our podcasts and they find it useful, but they don't know where everything is Now. They know where to drive by and my son lives about two blocks from there. You can hear the buzzard go off when there's a cold. You can hear the adults playing. It's pretty active.
Speaker 1:And you can. If you're new to the town. You can go up to on Glen Oaks and find Hill Street Cafe while you're at it.
Speaker 2:I found it interesting that they're going that so far. That hockey rink every year pays $25,000 in rent to the city to use that location. But I also saw in report that it's mostly only now adult teams. They didn't have any youth teams still there, so it's mostly just adult teams using the hockey. They do have family nights and an open days and all that where I get some kids come.
Speaker 1:But now is the rink still open at Pickwick. Oh yeah, okay, I thought maybe that had closed with the bowling alley.
Speaker 2:It's going to be ten years still on their lease. Okay so, but I just thought that it would be that it's just. It's too bad that they're not getting any you know any youth teams in there they need to address that at the youth board meeting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the LA Kings has supported both of these facilities. They are the ones that are holding part of the contract at Pickwick Ice Rink but the Roller Hockey Rink. They also have signage there and have donated quite a bit of money to keep these youths you know out active and so forth and give them ideas of Well, the problem is, they need stuff to do in this town, but there's no youth teams.
Speaker 1:Well, mostly adult teams, it says. So there are yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm reporting to head zero for the adult youth. Oh, correct, Actually it had. It had an A's on Apple or something, I'm not sure, but had the youth number not adult numbers.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was not adult?
Speaker 2:Yeah, not adult.
Speaker 1:I see my old boss's name coming up in the rundown.
Speaker 3:Yes, but he doesn't have a small C in a small C.
Speaker 1:No, it's not branded, but Dick Clark Clark has appeared in our rundown.
Speaker 2:That's because the Dick Clark dog park is not a part of their design.
Speaker 1:Say that 10 times fast.
Speaker 2:There we go, they're going to dog park. The Park and Rec Board is going to talk about that. They want to have more, more public meetings and input on the design. They came up with two different designs. The dog park, I think one has parking in it. One does not have parking in it. We had parking on the street. Instead we have two parks separated when we're small dogs, one for large dogs.
Speaker 1:And this is going in on the other side of their freeway from Johnny Carson Park. Correct, yeah.
Speaker 2:Johnny Carson Park. This is between on Riverside Drive, between the bridge at Wendellista, on halfway toward Bob Hope Drive. Okay, on the north side.
Speaker 2:That's considered Johnny Carson so if you drive by there right now, all you see is a big, big fence around the area that the water that LA water and power had used in part of their pumping construction, all that, and now they've they've left it becomes Burbank's. They're going to help pay for some of the money and Dick Clark productions, or his ex wife his wife is his former wife. He passed away Donating very, also Very. Clark she has been very active.
Speaker 1:She's great.
Speaker 3:Subcommittee and a lover of dogs Like he was, and the agreement was LA city needs to replace the same amount of trees, sprinklers and do that. And then they had a donation of a large amount I believe it was 125,000 from Dick Clark's and that's why they named it and they're kind of finalizing the plans. I will see it in our lifetime.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think this park like this would be really popular, and I can vouch for the Clarks being dog fans, because I used to see Carrie little Carrie wrangling four dogs around the office every day.
Speaker 2:They said that the park will be functional by the fall of 2024.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just, it's not a lot to do to make up the park, I don't think.
Speaker 2:If you look at the plans, they did a lot of design. That goes into a lot of trails and amenities and nothing really to have to build a fence or have to build a parking lot. That's going to take a little, you know, so we'll see tonight's trivia Molly, maybelline, lucille and Bernardo.
Speaker 1:Those were the Clarks four dogs, yeah, in order of height.
Speaker 2:He had his offices over on all over around Fairview Right.
Speaker 1:And now three zero zero three West Olive and dogs would roam around in there. Oh yeah, lucille the Dalmatian was a gift from Mariah Gloria Estefan, I believe to them, and Lucille would go around the office. She was a vacuum cleaner. She would eat absolutely anything you left out. Molly and Maybelline were mother and daughter, and Bernardo was the little little bitty mutt that's basically lived on the chair and in Carrie's office. She was the little little left dog trivia.
Speaker 3:I tell you I'm way back I can't, none of them. They're all gone now, I'm sure, but I spent a lot of time with those Clark now we should assign Craig Durling when that groundbreaking is, to cover that I love that I bet you he would love to see Carrie, and I bet you a ton of Dick Clark employees.
Speaker 1:The people stuck around. They were very loyal employees with that. That company People stuck around for a long time to work with Dick and Carrie.
Speaker 3:So well, he's been good to Burbank. I know that when he had offices here.
Speaker 2:Is that still their offices there, or have they completely moved out?
Speaker 1:No, that's gone. He sold the company. It was bought and they're down on. Dick Clark Productions is down on Wilshire now.
Speaker 2:They still do productions.
Speaker 1:It's a different production company. It's open road productions now, but I don't think it had anything to do with DCP. I think it was a former Casket showroom, but if you go all of past the Chick-fil-A right there, all of an Alameda. You got the gas station right there, but the brick building across the street from the gas station, three story brick building with Ivy all over it. That was Dick Clark Productions for many, many years.
Speaker 3:Prior to that, it was a mortuary.
Speaker 1:A casket, showroom or more. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:Well, also on Thursday, talking about, what were we talking about? We're talking about dogs, speaking of dogs, speaking of dogs, dog house you know Dog house.
Speaker 3:What a segue, what a segue, wow.
Speaker 2:Well, we have a ribbon cutting. Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1:I couldn't find the button there it is One of our favorite things A ribbon cutting at the dog house, the dog house, that's a hot dog place right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the dog house on is a 3019 hallway.
Speaker 3:That's one I gave you the tour of.
Speaker 1:So is this a new one, or are they replacing the one? That used to be the Taco Bell on. They're both open here in Burbank now, okay, so this is going to be a second one open.
Speaker 2:And I will say, when you drive in that parking lot you can at least find the dog house. It's got a very nice neon sign, unlike Randy's Donuts that has a little band somewhere down the hallway Randy's or Randy's, but the dog house on.
Speaker 1:is it all of? Oh, next to what used to be lightning dubs, but it was prior to being the dog house. It was a Taco Bell that did not have a drive through.
Speaker 2:Right Always a problem, yep, always a problem.
Speaker 1:And right there there's not a lot of parking there.
Speaker 2:And then right down the street from that, you know where there was a block. There's been an empty lot forever. That was a KFC, but that's back in the day, Back in the day.
Speaker 1:Do you have that Taco Bell on your list of restaurants? That ain't no mo cross.
Speaker 3:I definitely do Okay.
Speaker 2:And the KFC. I do.
Speaker 3:How do you spell that? How many KFCs? We had a couple we had a couple.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we got the one on victory still there, yep, we had the one on olive not there, and we're the third one.
Speaker 3:Conspicuously not there, if you recall, the one on all of and the one next to Texaco, next to the mailbox place at all of, and what is that?
Speaker 1:We need to revisit our cross streets, going down all of wait a second. Everything's on all of the busy street. I think we should shut it down to a bus lane and a bicycle.
Speaker 2:I remember KFC and olive.
Speaker 3:I have two here. I thought I had three. There was one uptown too. How did I know? The other side of the hill.
Speaker 2:Anywho 4.30pm on Thursday the 8th. We've been cutting. I'm sure they'll give a free something or other here. So goodbye and pick up something.
Speaker 3:They might have some freebies. I'm going to go back to the other side of the hill. I'm going to go back to the other side of the hill. What's the word I'm looking for? The whole month they have offered. I've seen almost every organization have A meal that you know A gift night or a night there. I know Rotary did, I know some Burbank I teams did and I believe they were offering Whatever organization.
Speaker 1:If you've ever seen the menu at the dog house, it's quite a menu. They actually quite. They have a whole bunch of different stuff there.
Speaker 2:That's all Chili on it, cheese and all kinds of I still say this If you like to donate to those organizations, they're going to spend $20 somewhere, or they only get $2 or $4. Give them $10 or $20. Right to the right to the right to the organization. They can use that a whole lot more than the two or $4 they make off here.
Speaker 1:Every little bit helps.
Speaker 2:We'll put it in the every little bit help. Every little bit helps Every little bit helps this category, all right, you know that these four, only one thing left to talk about.
Speaker 1:There might be a couple of new additions to this category tonight, I don't know, but I can't wait to find out with everybody else, it's time for.
Speaker 4:Ross's rant. Ross's rant Ross's rant I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a I take a, I take a.
Speaker 3:I take a.
Speaker 3:I take a, I take a, I take a I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a, I take a. And I heard what's up, doc. Well, I ain't no doc, but I got a rant. Actually, it's not a real complaint, I was just noticing I have Been home and watching, like everybody, report after report, news report about this and everything, and watching houses slide down hills, burbank. Know about readyburbankorg where you can sign up and you can go online and even if you got sandbags from Burbank or anywhere, there's a diagram, the proper way to put your sandbags, so they're useful. People think that the sandbags novel idea isn't it?
Speaker 3:yeah, and I mean, if you put them the right way, the sandbags are to divert water. You know, a lot of people put them in their garage, along the garage door you got to give the water up somewhere to go exactly you're channeling the water, you're not just damning it up you can go online and readyburbankorg.
Speaker 3:It's notcom. I know I called the or I text the mayor today. Why aren't they publicizing that? And he did a PSA on his own TikTok and so forth, that Burbank is pretty well prepared. And then the other thing I have a friend that took sick yesterday and I said give me your neighbors, sorry, give me your neighbors well, we lost your, your audio Ross did you hit a button?
Speaker 1:you can see you, we don't hear you well, something.
Speaker 2:So we have a bug in the system here can you write?
Speaker 1:can you write it down on a piece of paper? Hold it up to the camera? I think I'm gonna predict, see if we can get you back. But because you told me this story earlier that you wanted to get your friends, neighbors phone number so if there was an emergency, he had an emergency or something like that, you could communicate with his neighbor right who may also have access to his house if he is away for a bit. It's not in the affirmative, if I'm right, or close. Pretty good, but that's another.
Speaker 1:Another thing, and we talk about National Night Out a lot. It's a way, a chance to get to know your neighbors. In these days you may not know your neighbor to the left and right or across from you, but get to know them, exchange phone numbers so if something does happen and if they have keys they can get in and turn, you know a pipe off or something if it's flooding, or get access if somebody is falling down in the house. But a good lesson in that National Night Out is a good reason to do that. But get to know your neighbors, help each other out, watch you, watch out for each other and what we learned tonight?
Speaker 2:that for some reason, when Ross's rant went off, ross currently you're only allowed one, one right tonight. Ross, one part of a rant you off after the first rant.
Speaker 1:But we still see you, but we don't. We don't hear him, we don't have Ross's audio we don't know what the technology well you know. Lucky for us, though, it was the last, the end of the show so okay please just wave goodbye Ross, there he is. There he is. Since we don't have your sound back, it's a perfect.
Speaker 2:I guess we can go ahead and good time to finish up, yeah well, that's it for another, the week that was and the week that will be right for Craig Durling good night everybody and the silent Ross Benson here he goes this is Craig Sherwood saying. We will talk to you again next week good night everybody.
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