We're rolling out the red carpet for the triumphant return of Ross Benson to our studio, bringing his unique energy and insights back into our Burbank-focused banter. Together, we'll unwrap a week's worth of local developments, from a surprise twist with storm-driven event cancellations to the sizzle of the new Dog Haus Beer Garden. Our conversations are peppered with playful jabs and an inquisitive look into how paper usage really impacts our environment – all served with a side of community spirit.
Strap in as we navigate the vibrant tapestry of Burbank community events, including a heartfelt tribute at the Colors Run to fallen officer, Matt Pavelka. The debate heats up when we discuss the proposed Dick Clark dog park, its funding stirring the pot on taxpayer dollars and city planning. And who can ignore the looming question of trees? We're wrestling with the balance between safety and preserving our leafy skyline, a discussion that's sure to plant seeds of thought and maybe a few opinions along the way.
Finally, we're bracing for more than just the weather with a city council meeting on the horizon, reviewing everything from the city attorney's performance to new sustainability ordinances. But don't forget, an atmospheric river of content awaits, including rain-soaked driving tips to keep you safe and sound. And keep your ears perked for that word of the week – your next prize could be just a listen away!
We're rolling out the red carpet for the triumphant return of Ross Benson to our studio, bringing his unique energy and insights back into our Burbank-focused banter. Together, we'll unwrap a week's worth of local developments, from a surprise twist with storm-driven event cancellations to the sizzle of the new Dog Haus Beer Garden. Our conversations are peppered with playful jabs and an inquisitive look into how paper usage really impacts our environment – all served with a side of community spirit.
Strap in as we navigate the vibrant tapestry of Burbank community events, including a heartfelt tribute at the Colors Run to fallen officer, Matt Pavelka. The debate heats up when we discuss the proposed Dick Clark dog park, its funding stirring the pot on taxpayer dollars and city planning. And who can ignore the looming question of trees? We're wrestling with the balance between safety and preserving our leafy skyline, a discussion that's sure to plant seeds of thought and maybe a few opinions along the way.
Finally, we're bracing for more than just the weather with a city council meeting on the horizon, reviewing everything from the city attorney's performance to new sustainability ordinances. But don't forget, an atmospheric river of content awaits, including rain-soaked driving tips to keep you safe and sound. And keep your ears perked for that word of the week – your next prize could be just a listen away!
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. Greg Sherwood here with you once again, along with Greg Durling.
Speaker 1:Where am I? Where am I there? I am. Good evening, everybody.
Speaker 2:Well, Mr and Mrs America, right At all the ships at sea.
Speaker 1:Now you're going way back in. Way back, way back machine now.
Speaker 2:And, of course, back in the studio this week, the infamous Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Oh, am I feeling better? I not look better? You're back in person here, I am the whole person, and we'll see how at least table up. I'm glad to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're worried about you last week but you've had some tests and things seem a little better and uh.
Speaker 3:I feel better today. We'll see.
Speaker 2:You even got through the pre-production meeting dinner in good shape tonight.
Speaker 3:I haven't been to the-.
Speaker 2:And ain't healthy too. I did. Did you notice that? Yes, I did. You ate the scrabble, not the scrabble, the scrabble the ground, turkey scrabble.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I bought the megwites before and yesterday. Yeah, well, there was something.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was the chalula that I had you put in in your dish that got set you off. Oh, that's it. You got a boost of energy about halfway through the meal.
Speaker 3:You notice how many pages and notes I have. I was prepared for you tonight.
Speaker 1:I don't think we're allowed to use paper anymore, are we?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, we can always First plastics now paper Don't give them sustainable people, don't give them any ideas? We love the sustainable commission to a point To a point To a point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to a point.
Speaker 2:Well, let's start off with the last week's winner, we had a winner last week, as always. And this week Alexa picked out Steven Arakawa.
Speaker 1:Steven Arakawa. What did he win?
Speaker 2:Steven Arakawa has won a $25 gift card for Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 1:Oh, our favorite, so good.
Speaker 2:Well, steven, I don't think you are listening. Hopefully, because you listened last weekend and you're hoping that your name was announced this weekend. It was.
Speaker 1:Well, congratulations, steven, 25 bucks for Hill Street. Ross is showing you. Look at that. Well, it could be your actual gift card right there. I'm covering up. I don't know why he pulled it out of his wallet.
Speaker 2:Is that where we keep them? That's not where we keep. We actually out there out by the. But I will throw the mail as soon as you send us your address so I can send you.
Speaker 1:Oh he didn't include it in his original. No, I did not. All right, Steven, send your email or your mailing address.
Speaker 2:Yeah, address, and I'll have it in the mail this week for you.
Speaker 1:So the same email address. Then he sent the submission to you.
Speaker 2:I sent it to winner this time.
Speaker 1:Winner Because he's a winner now. So winneratmybrickcom. We're not going to sell your address, we're not going to come knocking on your door like publishes Clearinghouse, but we're just going to use it to mail your.
Speaker 2:And if you get a chicken dinner at Hill Street, it'd be winner-winner chicken dinner.
Speaker 3:Chicken dinner. Didn't I see Ed McMahon down the?
Speaker 1:street and if you want to listen Now, how did Steven win that gift card?
Speaker 2:Well, he heard the word and he sent the word in. On the website decline To contestatmybrickcom. And I got the email, put it with all the others and in the week we have Alexa pick a number and whatever number she picks, whatever email came in, that's the winner.
Speaker 1:Sounds good, so you have to listen. For so the whole show, because somewhere in tonight's show we will alert you as to what the word of the week is.
Speaker 2:When you hear that, stick that in an email to contestatmybrickcom and something tells me you probably know when we get to that word.
Speaker 1:It's hard to miss. It's hard to miss. So if you're nodding off at some point during the podcast listening to us, that'll wake you up. It'll wake you up. There's no missing the word of the week, but you too can be a winner. Like Steven, you play your cards right. So listen for the word of the week and we'll probably give you four instructions again.
Speaker 2:Yes, we will, we always do. All right, we thank Hill Street Cafe, one of the fine eating and stuff. I think one of the best kept secrets in town.
Speaker 1:It really is and it's off the beaten path. It's not likely to drive by it. On the odd chance you're going down Glen Oaks up there. And thank you to Steven for listening to the show.
Speaker 2:We appreciate that. Okay, let's get on to the week that was you know who he didn't introduce, who? Didn't we introduce. He's out of the shot.
Speaker 1:Where is he? Here we go.
Speaker 2:We got him the.
Speaker 1:Dodger Cam. We got the Dodger Cam on tonight.
Speaker 2:Hey Dodger, how you doing. I'm in the dark.
Speaker 3:Say hi, dodger, we have to call the gaffers in to get the lighting on the dog, all right.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, but now he's on the move.
Speaker 1:He's on control. I've heard my name, I'm moving.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's get on to the last week. So let's start off. Ross, you were busy on Tuesday and Wednesday Nothing.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:We canceled Tuesday and Wednesday last week we had the storms and we were just trying to recover.
Speaker 1:That's right. Everybody was hunkered down Because of the rains Everybody. It was a great day to go getting my errands around town done, though, because nobody was out. No lines, nothing, there was no waiting. Not that I want to give anybody else that idea.
Speaker 2:But Thursday we did have a ribbon cutting. Ross, why don't you tell us about the ribbon cutting you went to?
Speaker 3:Went up to the new dog house. Is that what it's called Dog house H-A-U-S Dog house?
Speaker 2:And I believe there's a name under it. Well, I think that's something you know. Something else to do there?
Speaker 1:No, it's a chain, because they also serve alcohol or something there, so it has something to do with that.
Speaker 2:The chain is dog house, though that's the chain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but there is something else under it.
Speaker 3:That's a different one, different owners in the one Right over here on Olive and real nice facility. They got a nice little outdoor patio and the chamber was there, the mayor, the council members and got to talk to the owner and nice little setup. You know what. I hope he gets real busy before the airport. But I got talking to the guy and he was thinking I need to find out when those construction workers are going to be working at the airport all night long and have be open at two in the morning, so when they have lunch. Well, that's smart.
Speaker 1:I will say our crack reporter team has done some research and it is the north. It is the dog house beer garden, north Burbank. I like that Beer garden spelled, you know the German way, but we get the point. They serve beer there, so that's the word under it.
Speaker 3:They had a garden.
Speaker 2:They had a garden.
Speaker 3:They had you know how many beers and you know what. I have not seen one of those big Steins having a mustache like this. You can't drink out of a sign, and years ago I got a sign that was at a mustache.
Speaker 2:You got a beer stifler he does not drink beer.
Speaker 3:You got it. You can't beat a big glass of water, that big, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:but how do they make the foam? Oh anyway, there's all kinds of jokes there, but we digress.
Speaker 3:But it's a real nice facility. Glad they joined the Chamber of Commerce and a couple other restaurants there. We'll, like you guys, saw Randy's. Randy's, did we see it?
Speaker 2:Do we see it? There's a banner somewhere waving.
Speaker 3:But there is a Jersey Mike's there and a wing stop that I haven't gone into, but I am addicted to old, good old Jersey Mike's, oh Jersey, you get it Mike's way. Yeah, light easy, because if they put too much of that on, you're swimming the next day.
Speaker 4:Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1:There's more images in my head.
Speaker 3:I think about it For us long time people. That used to be the test site for jet engines. There was a huge building there, Right.
Speaker 1:And that was like that was the last building standing that one, that big yellow, the tall, building. And they used to put jet engine in there in case they blew up Like rocket dying used to be on the other end of the valley. We'd hear that every once in a while.
Speaker 3:Yeah so. But you know, for us people that have lived in Burbank all our life seeing Lockheed come and all the aircraft, You've lived in Burbank two people's lives.
Speaker 1:That's supposed to be honest, but it's nice to see you know how?
Speaker 3:what do you call that Repurpose, repurpose that property.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, it took them long enough to redevelop it, just like the Empire Center.
Speaker 3:It took them a while to clean it around water that they found that was contaminated and they had to clean that all up. So that's kind of different. You know it's people that don't drive San Fernando and Hollywood away. Brand new hotel.
Speaker 1:But if you're going that way, keep going and hang a right and you'll go by Hill Street Cafe. You're right, yeah, but to be on that end of town.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're going to do that, that hotel there, cambria, in a couple of weeks, I think. I'll keep you posted. I'll let you know the date a couple of days before. Ross, those are talking about the future.
Speaker 2:So we have we also. On Thursday we had a fire. Burbank fire responded to a fire in abandoned commercial building. Wake up, it was upgraded to a two alarm fire. That was located 611 South Glenwood. They knocked down the flames in 39 minutes. So, ross, you, you were on scene, got some nice shots for us. So why don't you give us a little rundown on on the on a major fire?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I went from the dog, I was halls, couldn't be farther away, Six and a block of Glenwood, and you know you try to go right down the five. Well, do I go the five? Do I go Hollywood Way? Do I go?
Speaker 1:point of this down to streets, hang a left.
Speaker 2:And then people are good. It was Glenwood and Oak, and Glenwood is one street off of Maine. Correct, give people an idea of the area.
Speaker 3:And I figured they went to a second alarm. So far fires not going anywhere real quick. What was kind of? If you don't know Glenwood, it's a dead end street. But I knew a secret.
Speaker 2:Ross knows the way to get in. He knew the way to get in. He's got his tunnels to bypass all of the events and tunnels under under Burbank running. Would have gone to Glenwood, no, and honestly, I didn't know this either, so he told me I was skeptical. I was skeptical and I had to look on the map. I said, oh OK, I see that so.
Speaker 1:I still don't know, because it has spit it out yet I would have Most people would have gone to Glenwood.
Speaker 3:Oh, can I would have had a block walkable. Who wouldn't I went? There is a Glenwood place and people that remember the old martinos in town. At the end of that block it's an alley.
Speaker 2:Maine and Alameda.
Speaker 3:Maine and right, but it's not there, my old martinos.
Speaker 3:Right, old martinos. Right, there's this alleyway across from it used to be an ice cream place there. Years ago. I worked on that block. I also have done two grand openings on that block, so I went that way and I was right in front of the fire. Well, you don't want to be right in front of the. Well, I almost was. I was right next to the BC vehicle, but I achieved and you know it's raining. As a photographer, I was not dressed to shoot in the rain. I hate when my camera gets wet because you can't wipe the lens off, cause then you get that this makes it worse, oh it does you know.
Speaker 3:and then I pull out my phone and I'm shooting with my phone and I can say to myself it's a phone, it's not a camera. But I'll tell you it's a camera, it's a phone, no, it's. I got some real nice pictures with my phone With your what?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Just your run of the mill phone. Well, as I said, when I departed that fire to Craig as a photographer and I've been doing this a couple of weeks I remember editors always said did he come back with something? And I figured, with the rain and with the lights and the water squirting, I have something. No flames.
Speaker 1:People are going to have to go to the restroom now, after all that description of it was a small fire.
Speaker 3:It looked like they were going to demo.
Speaker 2:It was a vacant building.
Speaker 3:It was vacant and there was a construction fence in front of it with a was suspicious. Well, they called out to I don't want to say investigators, but to investigators from the Harrison task force. I don't want to say it but but people don't understand. You know, you put that in print, you know it's an under investigation, it's not suspicious.
Speaker 2:It's not. It did you know? Every fire that we report on, they say investigations continue or and never once have we ever heard of what the investigation uncovers.
Speaker 3:And you know why.
Speaker 2:Tell us why.
Speaker 3:Usually I have taken classes. If it's an electrical fire, you have to do Take extension cords and they send them in to be tested. If it's flammable liquids, you have to do analyst.
Speaker 2:I understand. So what's the purpose? They would never tell us what the.
Speaker 1:Well, if you ask a couple of days later, the news cycles over. Nobody cares anymore, Exactly.
Speaker 2:You know we had that fire at Victory and I want to say Manning, years ago that whole building tree alarm burn for and I asked over and over again for months what the cause and they never would tell me.
Speaker 3:I know what started that fire.
Speaker 2:What started that fire?
Speaker 3:no-transcript.
Speaker 1:No, but if you like, a heat, oxygen or fuel, those three things.
Speaker 3:That thing burned good, which I wasn't at the beginning of.
Speaker 2:I got to the end of I remember who called you the numbers times.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, I, I, oh right, but they do. They have to come up with a cause. Their insurance and even if it's a building being demoed Now you would think an empty building. Yeah why would start on fire? But if you really think about it, You're still gonna give it to your building. You can still can collect insurance money and they have to investigate that.
Speaker 2:So and okay, I'll let Ross Research this and he will come up with a cause of that fire.
Speaker 1:It's his beat.
Speaker 2:He can figure out that yeah, next week show will let you know what the cause of that fire was.
Speaker 3:I will come back to you and if it's there we go.
Speaker 1:Let's you come back and say heat, fuel and oxygen or a Matt was ratchets. What. That was ratchet with ratchet with ratchets.
Speaker 2:I want nurse ratchet. No, um, so we will. We will let you know. Well, that's a Friday, was canceled due to lack of interest and we run on the weekend.
Speaker 1:Just like rain down for literally, they ran in the on the weekend.
Speaker 2:Yes, they did. It's a, and Saturday morning a very unique thing in Burbank happened called the colors run Ross. Why don't you give us a little of you know, craig? Why don't you tell us what the colors run and Ross?
Speaker 1:maybe you can put it in context.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll tell us why they do Ross cuz. Why?
Speaker 1:is the colors running.
Speaker 2:And you can tell us what it is Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, burbank PD has a couple of recruits in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's training facility and and every class does a colors run for their class, this class, but explain what a colors what?
Speaker 2:he means going to okay.
Speaker 3:Don't jump ahead like rats with matches or the rats with match. What was that match?
Speaker 1:with rats and ratchets.
Speaker 3:That darn nurse ratchet. This class had its two recruits in the class and they usually do run For a fallen deputy who was either killed or murdered or Involved in an accident or whatever this class chose to do it about from at Pavelka, and they're apparently the Sheriff's Department and this where I'll give it off to Craig Durling, he's witnessed these classes they invite the family members, other recruits, other deputies. I guess they had A close to 200 people. It's a big deal.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and they ran.
Speaker 3:I guess they were gonna run just around the station.
Speaker 2:My question is still why do? They call it a color. The colors run.
Speaker 1:Historically, color come, they'll dedicate the run usually to a fallen officer or something like that. But they call it a colors run because when it's usually two-thirds to it, between two-thirds and toward the end of the academy is Is you get the? Have the colors run, and that is a run to earn your colors, your patches and at that point once you finish the run. You can now put your department.
Speaker 2:Colors are considered patches.
Speaker 1:That's what the colors are.
Speaker 2:Okay, is your department?
Speaker 1:Okay, I didn't know that so after the after that run, now the next time they go to their academy, burbank can have their Burbank police patches on their shirts and sheriffs can have there. So they're whatever their department patches are, they can now wear them on their Uniform shirts in the academy.
Speaker 2:That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1:The colors run, but they also use the the occasion to dedicate the run to so I guess this run was in memory of Matt Pavella. Wonderful that they recognized.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 20. Yeah, pastor died in line of duty. Yeah, 20 years ago, apparently they were gonna run around the station. It's so many cadets Recruits and our cadets their recruits.
Speaker 1:They ran.
Speaker 3:I guess a mega snake chasing its tail, literally, yeah they went down Magnolia to San Fernando, san Fernando over to Alameda. I'm sorry to Angelino, came back up at seven in the morning and they chant or are not champ, but it's well, they call cadence cadence. Yeah, and I'll tell you when you have 200 people running, it's impressive.
Speaker 2:Is it can sitting in specific, or is it?
Speaker 1:a pacing. It's like a Chad. It started in the military.
Speaker 2:Right, but is they make it up as they go? What in that? In that, you know, in that beat, or they?
Speaker 1:they can, or is it? Usually the same wording a lot of them are preplanned. They're there ones, but whoever is leading the run is the one calling it out, and then the runners either Repeat it or they respond to it with preset. Okay, kind of almost lyrics, but it but it's done to kind of run to keep everybody in pace in beat Left, right, left, right, but it's a musical in nature, but they call, it's calling cadence and they shouted out when they're while they're running and they run at a pretty good pace.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's no walkers in this, no, I've run a couple of these in my day.
Speaker 3:Those days are far gone now, but and then they go back to the station. They presented some awards to a couple of the recruits that got them coming and I guess for bank police foundation provided breakfast, breakfast burritos and refreshments for them and I was told they were out of there like when yeah, they seem to be much bigger events than when I went through my Academy.
Speaker 1:You know it's it's a big deal. Now it's it's more of an occasion because they bring the family and they'll have pancake breakfasts and they'll have lunches and things, because it chance for everybody to get together for that.
Speaker 3:But in fact, the Jailer graduation I just did at Two weeks ago, apparently they did theirs and it was on in Hermosa Beach and they ended up having a Barbecue on the beach and it's really to get Maraudery and yeah and it's kind of it's a reward for the recruits to have made it that far in the Academy and it's a privilege to be able to wear your, wear your patches, wear your colors.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of it's a the recruits see it as a huge reward and and a privilege that they've. They've Got into that level, that that place in the Academy.
Speaker 3:Now Tell me the truth. You can keep up when they run this, because every week you do callous tenants.
Speaker 1:Oh you're, you're doing PT and you're running every.
Speaker 2:These guys are in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3:They would be where they are I know, yeah, but they also have Retirees joining them and some of these guys have been around they join in.
Speaker 1:They're escorted. You know, when I was a motor I several of these colors runs.
Speaker 2:We Escort the group to close intersections and stuff so they can safely run through them and I'm sure the cars in the back people volunteered to also be in it, knew what was coming and knew that they could probably run it to that they wouldn't be winded in two blocks.
Speaker 1:They don't let just anybody. Run in that, you know. But but the officers from usually participating agencies right will come in and help escort.
Speaker 3:Glendale had. As they're going down there, that's a couple of Burbank officers. There's some Glendale officers in this class, so the Glendale guys and everybody usually send somebody to participate in it it whether either running or providing traffic control and so if you were down, if you live downtown, or if you're driving Early in the morning, maybe going to farmers market, because a lot of people go there they saw this and wondered what was going on.
Speaker 4:That's what it?
Speaker 2:was there you go. Well later that date, on Saturday, we had something we're still don't have much information on, but they're Burbank pair makes recalls the 2200 block of Niagara for report, a 50 year old not breathing and Soon. You know, ross, you were. You were listening to the 15 minute delay radio and heard them starting to roll Detectives to the area well, I heard a couple hours later them request.
Speaker 3:I heard a detective sergeant go out and then I heard Pre-detectives go out, and that's kind of on a Saturday night, but they're not working us on, so unless they're called in, and so, for me, that kind of you know made my ear turn, wonder what it was. And, craig, is it kind of normal to you know, when you have a suspicious Unknown, why somebody stopped breathing?
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be suspicious, it's just if you can't explain the manner of death. Like a lot of times you go to a call like this where someone's non-responsive when they passed they may have been under the care of a doctor for a while, or a family doctor. I've been treated for something where you can find the doctor and they will Essentially agree to sign the death certificate because they know they're basically assuming the cause of death at that point the history of the patient.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they hit. They know the medical history, they've been treated for a heart disorder or something like that, so that they're they're attending doctor can say, yeah, this is, I'll sign that, the certificate. You know part of this. Short of that, it's up to the court. It becomes a coroner's case. So it's now up to the coroner to figure out how they passed, why they passed, and in doing so they basically take possession of the of the remains To do their testing and autopsy. Now that becomes a coroner's case. It's now their handle.
Speaker 3:So I figured, you know, if they called a couple of detectives, yeah, somebody the first unit's in there must have. Well, it is not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if, if there's any hint that it could be suspicious or Suicide or something like that, they have to basically treat it at from that point on as a homicide as we always learned, so they.
Speaker 2:It's always a homicide until it's not right.
Speaker 1:So if a couple of detectives and a detective sergeant are their standard call out for what could be a suspicious death, really they're just coming to document the scene and kind of take you know, take a snapshot of the scene In case it becomes something bigger. So they'll do follow up with doctors and neighbors and family members and things like that, and if they finally determine it's not suspicious in nature, then they close the book and it goes now.
Speaker 3:It's funny because I listened to this one, heard the detectives go out of. You know, like I say, an hour later I never heard field forensic people called, so that makes me think it's not a murder. Or you know there's guns or knives laying around that they need real.
Speaker 2:We don't know.
Speaker 1:We don't know there have been many times I've been on calls like this and they'll call in. The watch commander will say well, let's get detectives in here just so they can Bless it as no, this isn't suspicious, so we're just to make that this that official decision.
Speaker 2:We'll follow up on that and if it is anything unusual, I'm not sure how we're gonna get past the corner, because we won't have a name for reference to ask.
Speaker 3:We have an address, so and a report and a report number.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can get that that won't be the coroner's report number, but you'll have a PD's report number.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, ross is gonna be busy. I mean, that's another thing for him to follow up on we'll give it to one of our ace reporters. How's the fire and what does what happened? Okay, well, I think that's kind of it for the week that was. So let's pause for a quick commercial and we'll be back with you with a week that will be.
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Speaker 2:Okay, make sure with you, along with Craig Durling.
Speaker 1:Thanks for sticking with us and, of course, ross Benson.
Speaker 2:He said hi, for you only my thumbs up.
Speaker 1:I keep forgetting this. He's all about the camera.
Speaker 2:He's got a microphone in front of his face and forgets he has to talk.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's below my lips.
Speaker 1:Why does that, that, that announcer, that that, that, that just did that spot? Yeah, sounds suspiciously like Ryan Seacrest. Is that Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 2:Well, it sounds like him does this it does sound like Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 1:We have that kind of budget on this.
Speaker 3:No, let's say we're gonna get a bill.
Speaker 2:I think that's kind of. I can't remember his name. I think it was is Gary or something. On the AI website.
Speaker 3:Here he owns I.
Speaker 2:Think he's these the same places as a big man.
Speaker 1:Very.
Speaker 3:Owens.
Speaker 1:Well but now we are entering the week that twill be so today. Okay, always with the wrench In, the wrench into the.
Speaker 2:I don't get it. You know, we sit down, we spend an hour eating and talking about things. We come back and have a meeting, we go over the rundown and then he says Wait a minute.
Speaker 3:I forget when these meetings were, that's, I watched so many stop time I have something to add.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, what does he want to add for last week?
Speaker 3:You know they, they had a parks erect board meeting. They talked about the Dick Clark dog park, our farf bow Wow.
Speaker 1:Richard, a wag staff Clark.
Speaker 3:Did you know his middle name? I've worked for him for many years, 26 years in the making. Now, that's not Dick.
Speaker 1:Clark, the dog park.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, they talked about this 26 years ago. How many dogs you? How many years do a dog live?
Speaker 1:Well, it's not two dogs worth. Yeah, roughly you know.
Speaker 3:And they got a gift from Dick Clark's wife, carrie, as her name Carrie Hill, for $150,000 for naming a dog park. That was nice. I'm after Dick Clark. Well, everybody drove past that monstrosity. For what an extra year a Riverside Drive. Riverside Drive. Everybody complained about the motorhomes over on Forest Lawn Drive that were an eyesore. The Burbank See they were. And the other day there was a staff report on the dog park because the what is the park erect had to decide on a.
Speaker 2:You know what would they want? To have parking in the dog park or parking on the street?
Speaker 3:Well, but that's not the only thing.
Speaker 2:And but they picked the design with the parking that's in the dog park right?
Speaker 3:Well, there was a, b and C.
Speaker 2:See, I never saw. I just thought a and B.
Speaker 3:Well, there was an a, B and C. Okay the C had. I Was about to say shit, oh, thank.
Speaker 1:God, you didn't Might offend the listeners.
Speaker 3:It had like three, three dog benches in a water bowl. You know that's what they could afford. Well, they decided to go with plan B, which is a Taj Mahal. They were gonna go with plan a, but that's what Burbank wanted. Burbank residents wanted the sky.
Speaker 2:And how much is that plan B gonna cost?
Speaker 3:$2.8 million. Mum-mum a million.
Speaker 2:I was told 2.4. It's 2.8 now.
Speaker 3:See, somewhere in there they were six. There's $600,000 short. Now if we, if they stall For another year, you know it'll go up to a million.
Speaker 2:It just really kind of gets me that 2.4 million dollars to do a small, little acreage thing with a small dog large and the parking lot I see is gonna be asphalt instead of just doing gravel, which is probably very expensive. But 2.4 million for a dog park LA okay, I just don't get how the breakdown and they'll say you know, they're gonna say well, you know, we got grants, we got this. Now we got 150,000 from Dick Clark for ten things.
Speaker 1:That mean we still have to spend two point two and a half million dollars is because well, here's the breakdown that was not in the staff report.
Speaker 3:That's what kind of gets me. Ladwp For ripping up our park and tearing out the trees said we'll pay.
Speaker 2:We'll give you 377 $370,000 because that's probably what it cost to reput grass and put trees in the way it was.
Speaker 3:Yes, and they got 150,000 from Kerry. Right, yeah, kerry, okay, what's the dog's name? Kerry Clark.
Speaker 2:So we're about half right, about half million right there.
Speaker 3:They got a grant coming in for 244,000 okay, ground 750,000 now now most people wonder when they build a high-rise here when they do the fries, those are called developer impact fees. Yes, 710 thousand dollars they're getting from that.
Speaker 2:It's about 1.6 now. Taxpayer money 450,000 okay, so around two, two million right now.
Speaker 1:So that's what we're paying as residents.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're two million and, like I said, that is 1.9 million To get up to the 2.4. That's what they're short.
Speaker 2:More taxpayer money.
Speaker 3:So, where do you get that money? Well, do they take it from the general fund, or do they, you know, put that fishing line up.
Speaker 1:Okay, but here's the other half of it. This is how much money they can bring in for the project. I want to know how much it's costing. What are they spending it on, oh?
Speaker 2:Yeah well the amenity there now we'd like to get, we get a rundown. How much are those trees costing? Are gonna put in how much.
Speaker 1:I think great, great, you can bring in two and a half million for this project. You're gonna find a way to spend two and a half million just because you're getting it. What are you spending?
Speaker 3:Yeah, all the things that they have to do that are required. You know, lighting for dogs it's a it's a city, it's a people park.
Speaker 1:I never, I never saw their pretty much.
Speaker 2:They're gonna put lighting in that. It's sort of we'll put a nighttime.
Speaker 3:It, it'll be open guess 6 am. Dogs at 10 pm Because it's a city park. Okay, it's a dirt park, so they got to do lighting, but the you know the branches for people to sit on the water, fountains for the people, not the dogs.
Speaker 1:All. So it's a dog, a dog friendly city park.
Speaker 3:So it's city park first that you know, for many years I remember making a big deal out of this, doesn't it though? Well, you know people wonder, you know we talk about an airport taking how many years, you know, agree on 19 gates, 26 years to agree on a dog park and I hope I see it before the airport.
Speaker 2:Well, they said it's supposed to done by the fall period. It's supposed to done by the fall. They said I.
Speaker 3:Hope they get their shovels out there pretty quick so.
Speaker 1:You'll be there for the ribbon cutting Well that's true.
Speaker 2:I'd still you see a breakdown, the expenses you know we're already spending all that money on, and do we need it? Do we need an asphalt parking lot? We can't do with a, with a gravel lot. I mean how much we saving that alone to save that 600,000 Smaller trees.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry you can. You can't put a twig in the ground. You know I remember when they did. But over in park they showed the pictures of the trees, gorgeous canopies and the purple and the blue flowers.
Speaker 2:I'll put one of those trees and they put it like in front of your house when the tree falls down. It's about 15 feet tall and I've got three little branches.
Speaker 1:They're just starting to well, it's got to grow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. So how about how much that tree cost?
Speaker 1:in 20 years from now, that'll be a lovely tree.
Speaker 3:Yes, the Clark will like it. So that was just. You know I listen to that report. Not a lot of people probably listen to Parks or rec but it's still a city council.
Speaker 2:It's not a done deal.
Speaker 3:City council now has to they have to make the final decision. I don't.
Speaker 2:600,000 authorized the money. They got to look it over. So we'll we'll bring it back up to you guys when we when I guess I know, ross, you were, you were in.
Speaker 1:I see, don't think I missed it, you were trying to catch me. There are four dogs that I knew of when I worked for Dick Clark, or Molly, maybelline, lucille and Bernardo. I said I said this on the show before. Has this come up? Yeah, I think so, but you asked me earlier if I can name them and those are the four I knew. So there you go now.
Speaker 3:Now I know we have Dodger in the house and I wonder and Craig's right leg and my right leg.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll just have Dodger early now.
Speaker 3:And I wonder you know a good way to make money. They did it at the airport. My son bought me a paver my name on it. That is in the entryway of the airport as a gift at some time he gave to me at this dog park they walkway going in. I bet you they can make six hundred thousand dollars selling pavers with Dodger's name on it.
Speaker 2:And I will buy one for Dodger they I talked about. Buy one for Rocky.
Speaker 1:He's already thanking you.
Speaker 2:Oh yes he is he likes to.
Speaker 1:All right, we're still in last week, this, this. Well, now we can eat, an addition to last week.
Speaker 2:Let's now move back to today.
Speaker 3:So today, When's the day?
Speaker 2:the Sustainable Birmingham Commission did meet at five o'clock at the Community Services building and and all they talked about whether there are four subcommittees. All reported back on whatever the subcommittees were Talking about, so they didn't really do a whole lot for change and just for clarification, today is the day of recording.
Speaker 1:We're recording this, which is Monday, right, we're a 12, so they met.
Speaker 2:They met. We were recording around 9 30, so they met About four hours ago now my question about that is sustainability.
Speaker 3:You know, I'll tell you I get it with the Bali story. You got a poly Styrene plastic okay, but then I'm from cups.
Speaker 2:I didn't talk about this stuff tonight.
Speaker 3:I don't give a damn. You talk about Sustainability. You get me started. You're gonna have to hold your seat belt and fasten your boots.
Speaker 2:Well, let's, let's take your two, let's wait till we get to tomorrow, when we can actually talk about this or his rent a little more.
Speaker 1:Yes, All right, we will okay if people, if the audience sees him take his tooth out, you know he's about, he's all he's about to throw down.
Speaker 3:He used to have a council member, garvey Gilbert, when he took his microphone off, dropped it on the counter. They knew they weren't gonna hear anything like a mic drop.
Speaker 2:Yes, that'd be a good thing. So means it last lot less. So the planning commission also met today at 60 City Hall. And Of course Ross has comments on the fact to Ross. So one of the things that they talked about. I Said you want to just have the comments, or should I go about what they talked about first?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what's that first thing they talked about, craig.
Speaker 2:Well, first they talked about was an appeal of the Decision, the emergency removal of trees located at 113 North Niagara, 434 North Niagara and 400 South Keystone that were statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. So evidently those are three trees that had to come out immediately, which I understand that, but they had. For safety reasons, so somebody appealed it, though, and paid the appeal fee, and so I had to listen to the appeal tonight now, that's what blows me away.
Speaker 3:Okay the attorney that has been hired by those residents is the same attorney that did the lawsuit against the city on the Pickwick project.
Speaker 2:Well, he was very successful, there, wasn't he? You know how much he's charging these people to be brought into this case and now so he's involved in this one on the appeal also. Yep, okay.
Speaker 3:How do you like them, cookies? Where'd you hear that? I have a source.
Speaker 2:Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3:That just kind of gets me that you know the city. Okay, you wait till these trees fall down. I was out there, destroyed a house, destroyed a nice car, and these people are now bitching and complaining.
Speaker 2:And this is three trees. Now I understand the 122 trees they want to take out. That's right. It's just being preemptive. Now we just went through some big storms and those trees didn't do a thing. I do have a problem with just taking out trees, just to take out trees, but if they are in danger and they're near their end of their lifespan, they might absolutely we need to take those out.
Speaker 1:If they survived the last rainstorms, they're doing pretty good.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I'm not talking three trees here. I'm not a tree expert. The city called in. We remember a couple years ago, city park in Pasadena tree falls on a young girl, kills her city gets sued for millions and millions and they go. That's what happens.
Speaker 2:But that tree was not in danger of falling, it just happened. I mean, and that's an act of nature, and you don't know one.
Speaker 1:But especially in the city's defense. If they've already declared that a tree is at risk of falling, imagine now if it fell over and hurt somebody.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the case. The city's already admitted these trees are through their lifespan. People think trees live forever. They're finding these experts that come in. And did you see the tools, arborist?
Speaker 2:yes, Arborist, arborist.
Speaker 3:Magnifying glass and compasses and the tools that they use to come up with water?
Speaker 2:How do you feel about taking all the trees on an agrarian all 122?
Speaker 1:My guess is, since we live in a desert, these trees aren't exactly. They didn't just spout up out of the ground here. They were probably planted at some point.
Speaker 2:I just think we could look at all the trees on the agrarian and figure out which ones are in trouble, which ones aren't, and why take them all out. We're gonna go to Bellard next and take all the palm trees out, I mean.
Speaker 3:No, but look what they did on Magnolia. How many years have we heard about people complaining about Magnolia, the trees along Magnolia.
Speaker 2:And why was it taken out? Because the roots were tearing up the sidewalks. People were tripping.
Speaker 1:But the point of this is, there are three particular trees that they've discovered are exempt, and they can't pull them out.
Speaker 3:No they're against, they've pulled them and they're this attorney you know, guardian of the Pines. An unincorporated association is suing the city for pulling three trees.
Speaker 2:But remember, not for this, it's for the whole thing on all the trees, okay. So also the residents came to council instead of doing communications. We have to do this because you refuse to come talk to us. They would not park on record, not come communicate with them over numerous requests that had to sit down and talk about it.
Speaker 1:That's like a perfect excuse for an open house or a what do they call it? A town hall. A town hall, yeah.
Speaker 2:And they were not. The city was not talking to them in any way. They said this is the only way we can get somebody to actually talk to us. So I feel bad for those residents who had to go through legal Marines means to actually get something. You know why parking record not be.
Speaker 1:They have to sue, file a lawsuit to start to open the discussion.
Speaker 3:Well, that's Burbank's thinking is reactive, not proactive.
Speaker 2:Well, we were being proactive by taking, but instead of taking out damaged trees or the potentially damaged trees, they just took them all out.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2:You know, and that's yeah, I agree with those people Is that really the best way to do that? But they're also having a hearing on their request to start serving alcohol at Chili John's, which is a 2008 Burbank Boulevard. And, of course, Ross, you've got some comments there.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna leave the camera on Ross the rest of this show.
Speaker 3:I happen to know the owner, the new owner he bought it from.
Speaker 1:Chili John.
Speaker 3:I know from a relative on a relative and he's been trying to get this liquor permit to sell on sale for years since he bought the place and most people if you've ever been in the restaurant business, you're food you're not making any money on, you're making money on your beer and your wine and your alcohol and for him to survive why, you know all the red tape that he has to go through. So hopefully the-.
Speaker 2:Well, there's rules about how many alcoholic you know restaurants or stores that you can have in an area, and I'm sure there are some liquor stores there, unlike a gun store. Yeah, unlike gun stores, we can just have as many as we wanna have.
Speaker 1:Well, that's a good point. You can sell alcohol at a gun store.
Speaker 2:Ooh Well, we brought that up many times Beer and bullets. We brought it up many times is how they have the restrictions on alcohol but not on gun stores.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it kinda makes you wonder. And there is, what was that place? Pirates Cove, I think, across the street and Buchanan Arms is up the street.
Speaker 2:And you. Sometimes they called the ball park or the park. It was by there and there's a liquor store right by there.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:So we'll just rename it, like in downtown Prescott in Arizona, we'll just call it Whiskey Row.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:Hey, why not? San Fernando is a boulevard only in Bar.
Speaker 1:Hop, you can just do a pub crawl down the street.
Speaker 2:Well hopefully and you'll be crawling by the time you got to San Fernando. You'll be crawling at the end.
Speaker 3:yep, I think I read in the bottom of that report that it was recommended by the city planners to approve.
Speaker 2:To approve it. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3:I'll buy you a beer when we go there for a chili dog.
Speaker 2:No, you can drink it, because I don't drink it, you know.
Speaker 1:say if you're beer money, buy him another chili dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'll take the chili dog, not the beer.
Speaker 3:But he won't eat the chili dog with beans. Oh, let's not open that can.
Speaker 1:Let's not open that can.
Speaker 2:That's because chili is chili. Now, if it's chili and beans, then no, I don't want chili and beans. But you go to Wendy's you get beans in it. Okay, I always say, call it chili and beans, if you're gonna put beans in it.
Speaker 1:Then I submit to you this Chocolate chip cookies. They don't say chocolate chip and walnut cookies. Who's putting nuts in chocolate chip cookies without telling you? Oh, I didn't oh yeah, you go buy cookies. A lot of the time there's nuts in a chocolate chip. Who put nuts in a chocolate chip?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure they got disclosed that for people who are allergic.
Speaker 1:Chocolate chip and nut.
Speaker 2:Well, all I know is that can you imagine having beans in your Larry's chili burger or chili dog or your Tommy's and beans?
Speaker 1:in it. I grew up. My dad's recipe has beans in the chili. Those are the kidney beans Red and kidney beans right, I just absolutely hate those.
Speaker 2:but you hate all of these. Who asked you? No, I like green beans.
Speaker 3:Oh, you do.
Speaker 2:I like green beans yeah.
Speaker 3:What's the occasion?
Speaker 2:Dinner.
Speaker 1:This week on Craig and Ross's dietary preferences.
Speaker 2:So we've got a Tuesday, we're having a city council meeting this week, because no way, yeah, every, every, every now and then they do have one, it seems like now, and who knows how long it'll go and if they'll get to everything. But oh, actually, you know what, before we actually the city council meeting, we have another event tomorrow and that's gonna be 11.
Speaker 1:It is going on script.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't see that up there. The Brimwick Police Foundation is going to have their annual police awards luncheon at 11.30 at the Marriott and my brick will be there to cover it and Ross will be there to shoot it.
Speaker 3:Photograph it.
Speaker 1:Photograph. Is it open to the public or you have to buy tickets? You?
Speaker 2:gotta buy tickets.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you can't just wander in.
Speaker 2:The public can buy tickets, yeah.
Speaker 3:I believe I heard a couple of hundred people have bought tickets, like you say, our reporter.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:Uh huh.
Speaker 4:That person.
Speaker 2:What's her name?
Speaker 1:We'll fix it in post.
Speaker 3:We'll insert the name it would be Lynn Lepinsky. Lynn Lepinsky, and you know what it covers all of our community, with my phone today and I couldn't find her.
Speaker 2:She covers all our nonprofits for us.
Speaker 3:Yep and I talked to her and they have about 50 awards they're giving out to officers that have done some spectacular.
Speaker 2:I want to do a little shout out to Karen Volpe and Barry Glasto who are going to. Actually who gave her a ticket to get in?
Speaker 3:They're eating there. She's going in the rotary table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's going to be their guest, yep, so I assume, if somebody wanted to buy a ticket to the luncheon, they could go to the Burbank Police Foundation's website. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2:OK, so now we'll move on to the city council meeting.
Speaker 1:Is there a city?
Speaker 3:council meeting.
Speaker 2:There's a city council meeting.
Speaker 3:When is that?
Speaker 2:6 pm at City Hall.
Speaker 3:Oh, where is it? Who's having a deal?
Speaker 2:They're going to start off with a closed session earlier and have an evaluation of the city attorney, kind of a. They do that twice a year or something and just evaluate nothing to. I don't think they're upset with him. There will be a public hearing On establishing development standards for SB 9, single family dwellings and urban lot splits in single family residential which are R1 zones, to ensure consistency with the state law. Once again, this is something they're trying to work out, a bug in the SB 9. And I think there's only so much they can still do. But there are provisions in the SB 9 that let people do all sorts of bizarre things and I think they're trying to fix some of those things before it happens. So we will find out what I'm sure they're going to and it's kind of a no brainer and they're going to pass. I can't imagine me speaking against it during the hearing.
Speaker 3:Oh, we wait a minute. We said that.
Speaker 1:Well, we said before Are we inserting a Ross's rant?
Speaker 2:Well, also during the during the consent agenda, they're going to do the second reading of the sustainable ordinance that they talked about the last meeting and they're going to finalize the ordinance and put it in. I'm sure I heard there might be some additions or subtractions or corrections, or you know, it's a very complicated ordinance. We're going to have a complete rundown on Wednesday or Thursday when we get the information from the city. Ross, I think you had some opinions on that, didn't you?
Speaker 3:Where who's starting my engine?
Speaker 1:Are you ready? Sustainability oh, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 3:You know, I understand our earth is only going to be here for so long, but when I read the staff report To the city manager, I don't know how many people the city manager's notes or is this on the council agenda?
Speaker 2:Staff report on the agenda.
Speaker 3:OK, on the agenda not to the city manager.
Speaker 2:But you know, and I like I said a minute a few minutes ago.
Speaker 3:Polly styrene such as Styrofoam. I get that. But you know, when people ship you these packages that have this styrene in it, what do you do with it? What trash can you can't put in your trash? Can you burn it? Then it's illegal. But going down the list of the things that we're going to be restrictive on using, you know egg cartons, cups, cup lids, bowls, plates, containers, utensils, straws, napkins, drinksters, plugs, and I get it that they all leave pollution and they lead to wildlife harm. But this couple of these new ones, folks, are we regulating us to where you're going to carry your own plastic so for in your pocket? You got to carry your own straw now because you get go to places. Where are we with this? It's? You know, I think Berber thinks they have to start somewhere and all of a sudden now, you're talking about proactive and reactive.
Speaker 3:They're trying to be proactive on something that's how many people put their After dinner put their scraps in their regular trash and take it out every day and they put their scraps in their regular trash and take it out every week. You know, it just really gets me and you know, on some of this stuff I feel I do feel for restaurant owners that are going to have catering trucks.
Speaker 1:You know, like I said last week, whether you're gonna be handed out silverware and China. They're gonna be restricted and anything.
Speaker 3:Let's say like Burbank Magnolia parks, holiday in the park because the city contributes financially to it, like pain for some of the barricades, we can't have bottled water.
Speaker 2:We can't send single use water bottles yeah doesn't mean they can't have refillable stations for your own water bottle you carry with you, but they just can't sell their own. They can't go to store and buy cases of right water bottles and just does that mean the stores can't sell it anymore?
Speaker 1:well, that's yes in the by a certain year so you go to smart and final or Vaughn's. You can't buy a case of water in plastic bottles anymore. Pretty soon, yes is that?
Speaker 2:is that the Burbank orders, or is that coming state?
Speaker 3:order. That's state okay, but the city is what they're doing now. Have to comply, they have to comply. So what kind of gets me?
Speaker 3:is there can still sell the water bottles now for now, until is there until the state law comes to effect right, but, like I just read in another publication, have we done too much to regulate to where they're now finding? Like I said at our dinner meeting, do you remember when you had to get the thin bags at the grocery store and you had put two, and now those aren't even allowed? They have a heavier bag, you know, and you got to still pay for them we're in them.
Speaker 3:We live in the most regulated state in the in the country and I think you said it last week, how many places in Burbank you remember the bottles you had to pay five cent deposit on? Yeah, and where can you turn those in for five cents? You know, do you know it just where are we going?
Speaker 1:if you can find a store that has the recycle machines, the receptacles, and then it's like those coin.
Speaker 2:But in Burbank.
Speaker 1:They take a percentage, there's none left in Burbank. Oh, they're gone geez that's again these, the state, the government is coming up with these regulations that society and the infrastructure in these industries are nowhere near ready to and that's why I feel sorry for some of these restaurants.
Speaker 3:A mom-and-pop shop that are is hardly making it selling a burger.
Speaker 1:Well, look at chili. John's has it's trying to get a liquor license so they can keep their doors open. But now they can't use plastic. This plastic, I think they do use silverware there.
Speaker 2:Last time I was there, my friend, six or years ago what?
Speaker 3:did they have beans?
Speaker 2:they did not have beans in the chili.
Speaker 3:Had not, you can request them you know, I know I usually have a ramp, but that one just.
Speaker 2:I read this staff report and when you say it work well, we're gonna talk about it more next week and what they actually approved and what's gonna be in the ordinance, and yeah, let's let them have the meeting we're gonna get a rundown.
Speaker 2:Johnson has promised me a rundown on all this and I will look forward to his email tomorrow. There's also gonna be. This is taking off the last agenda and now dumped on this agenda to have an update on the landlord and tenant ad hoc roundtable meeting and direction regarding the proposed solutions. I know what the were. People who spoke at the last council meeting before they took this off the agenda made them sit there for six hours, that a lot of people were never notified about the roundtable and we're not included in the roundtable. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised, kind of surprised. We didn't get any emails from that last week. Yeah, people that got stuck sitting there for all those hours, yeah, just to have them bump it to punt it to the next meeting.
Speaker 2:I think that's a that was. That was a black eye on the council. I think they're also going to talk about resolutions by the council back in December. Council members, is that Mullins requested a first step report regarding limiting resolutions considered by city. Oh, hold on here. Considered by city, the city council, those and matters and issues related to city business. In 2003, 23 alone, the council considered over 100 resolutions, including, of course, nuclear proliferation or proliferation and also we were talking about nuclear war in the Bering City Council and how it's a bad thing that's a bad thing.
Speaker 2:Bad war, clear wars, bad war. So you know, I don't mind the resolutions, it's always resolution. Yeah, it's like it's funny. I get emails, immediate emails, from the governor's office and he'll proclaim like we have them. Oh, let's say Easter coming up. He'll say we're proclaiming this day Easter, it's like Easter egg hunt today.
Speaker 2:Hey, governor, it's already Easter. We don't need you to proclaim it Easter, we know it's. It's just what a bunch of busy work and all that, but. But in burbank they hate drink. They have to, they have to have the staff member make up a resolution, they have to have present it. It's just a big thing and it was something that it should be done as one thing. But these, some of these things that don't have any use in Burbank theater it's theater now I think I know why council is dark some weeks.
Speaker 3:That's because those city staff printing resolutions.
Speaker 2:Yes, busy printing resolutions and doing research could be well, that's our and that's it for the council meeting. We look at 10 by 11 o'clock. So they have to make a motion to have the meeting go past 11 o'clock, which we don't understand. Why they have to make the motion and then greet it every time. Why not take that off the books and just have your meeting without having to do that? But of course that was an old council. What?
Speaker 1:if they start the meeting earlier.
Speaker 2:Well, I agree with them starting it when they do, because you know people get off work. Yeah, I want to have a chance to come in and make their their voice heard but I think what they need to do is limit the time if they're doing presentations yes limit. Sometimes those take an hour well, and also I'll tell you what else is counter ridiculous when everybody has to make a comment on something right and they have all, the, all the council members every council has to comment on something, even though they have nothing new to add to it.
Speaker 2:If you have something new to add to it, yes, we want to hear from you, just have they just have to have their opinion yeah, I just want to know. I agree with my colleague and I agree with this. I agree. I think we need to hear that. Okay, fine, we get it. You know if you didn't agree, ditto. Yes. If you didn't agree, you could have just said, hey, I don't agree, and here's why. But we don't need to know.
Speaker 1:You agreed because they don't need to spend an hour.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I want their politely agreeing oh, they know that they are saying something yes, I've said something.
Speaker 1:I'm meeting about it well they figure, if they have to speak so that people can see that they're doing something, they're actually participating yeah, past 12 1 and that's why we need a council code of conduct oh, that's why
Speaker 3:yes and, by the way, with that it was in mind.
Speaker 2:I saw our, our former mayor, who's now a council member, was in our Katie the other day at the dragon the lunar new year celebration and there were dragons running around. He posted a video and I kind of sent out one of those snarky little tweets that said I hope one of those dragons doesn't spank you he put the dragon the lunar new year celebration so that's all we need, is he?
Speaker 2:he's even rep himself is no, no, no, no no no, that was gonna say he just put a tweet out saying we're by mayor now he's put a tweet out saying he was there is. There's nothing about city, the city on there but personal yes, what Wednesday is the day not to get married. I mean, I'm sorry why would you not want to get married on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3:you can't because we were told can't get flowers for that day and the other reason for the wedding.
Speaker 2:For the ceremony yeah, well, flowers left you can't get when we, they won't sell.
Speaker 1:The flowers are sold out because it's Valentine's.
Speaker 2:Day? Okay, I don't know. You can't buy them in advance?
Speaker 3:flowers look kind of dead the day after you know all right.
Speaker 1:Well, you gave it away.
Speaker 3:Wednesday, the 14th is Valentine's but it's the only time that I got Craig Durlet, craig Stuart, in a limousine that's, that's true. That's true door-to-door service to very impressive day there are, we'll say, a ton of Burbank establishments that have special menus one of my stuff and prices, and did you see that?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, you're gonna pay to. You know what it's. It's why not have your Valentine's Day on February 15th?
Speaker 1:you'd probably save a lot of money but you always argue that for holidays that it needs to be celebrated on the actual all.
Speaker 2:That's not always true you said that. You said that oh, after we wind the tape, these Monday, 3d weekends and stuff is don't celebrate no, I don't understand.
Speaker 1:No, I understand that I'm talking about, yeah, serious holidays oh serious holidays don't veterans day, memorial Day don't sell that to the Hallmark greeting card company who invented Valentine's Day? What else is on Wednesday?
Speaker 2:well, the library Board of Trustees wait wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:After Wednesday is that when the Halloween candy starts appearing?
Speaker 1:or what after Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2:well, they replaced the probably put the Easter candy up for.
Speaker 1:Easter okay yeah, halloween is a little.
Speaker 2:I'm sure the Halloween store in Burbank will still be open though yeah, you bet it will so also on Wednesday, the Board of Library Trustees meeting at 530, the Central Library. So if you're into the library, talk, look them, look them, dano.
Speaker 1:No wrong terminology, huh we have a lack of sound effects. This on this show.
Speaker 2:I didn't, I didn't have a why yeah, there's no. There's no noise in the library Anyhow.
Speaker 1:Well, we go from Wednesday Side sliding sideways that sound effect from Wednesday. We slide sideways right into the weekend, yes, right over Thursday.
Speaker 2:So yeah, thursday and Friday or canceled to lack of interest again again. So Saturday morning something kind of neat is the perfect time to adapt adaptive sports expo from 10 to 3 at McCambridge Park, and it's for our, you know, mentally disabled or physically challenged, you know, kids and, and I think, adults too. I think the available sports include they call beat baseball, which I think is. Is that baseball for the blind? They do it through a sound in the ball or something.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure either, but I think that's what it is blind soccer, wheelchair, rugby power chair soccer, adaptive judo Was that bokeh? Is that the? Am I saying that right?
Speaker 1:that I don't know. I haven't seen that one before, you know.
Speaker 2:CCIA. What I think I'm saying, that's bokeh.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's a bokeh ball or something, or maybe somebody could email and tennis what that is and tennis.
Speaker 2:So it's said on the website Yesterday that registration and more information are still coming. I hope it comes Soon because it's in five days, so hopefully they Don't look forward to that event. That sounds like a cool event and, of course, on this weekend, baddened down the hatches because the atmospheric river is coming back.
Speaker 3:Hey, wasn't atmospheric, atmospheric conditions, a special word, oh wait.
Speaker 2:What would you say, Didn't you say at who? What's that word? What is it?
Speaker 1:atmospheric.
Speaker 2:Never slow on the.
Speaker 3:My tooth got stuck on. What is that? What is?
Speaker 1:that loud, obnoxious horn mean that atmosphere or atmospheric the word, the week word the week everybody.
Speaker 2:So once, if you've gotten to the show this far, congratulations, thank you. Thank you also, and I know you're probably just waiting for Ross's rant, anyway, but everybody waits, but it's kind of been a ranty show for him. But our word week this week is atmospheric.
Speaker 1:I think we take atmosphere too. Right yeah, we'll take atmosphere that one is. Except that as well. What do they do with that word?
Speaker 2:email. Email to contest at my brink comm and will throw you into the Hopper and the winner is going to get a 25 dollar gift card for Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 1:Street Cafe Locate. Maybe you can join Steven aracawa. Yeah well, winner from last week.
Speaker 2:Street Cafe on Glen Oaks and, by the way, they have a table out front For if you want to come with your pet and and be a really there's a single table out front where you can sit down with your dog.
Speaker 1:I was there recently and didn't notice a table. I have to take a look.
Speaker 2:Maybe then put it out If you want to sit outside now well, there's one table out there, hopefully, yeah, yeah, it'd be, I may. They should conclude a few more.
Speaker 1:It's a. It's a great neighborhood family restaurant and they make almost everything on the menu fresh there the salad dressings, the soups, everything it's a. It's a great meal.
Speaker 2:So that this week we have the atmospheric Atmospheric River coming to back for a second go around there, predicting it probably late Sunday night. In the Monday I haven't predicted how much rain you're gonna get yet, but we got to the last one pretty good. I we got about what similar 20 inches that area and six to eight inch. Yeah, we got through pretty well, unlike some other cities did so but don't feel that bad.
Speaker 1:New England's supposed to get a foot of snow tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Which would you rather have?
Speaker 2:Yes, so the rain washes away, but we're also working on a little side story, also about that rainwater the fact that Burbank cannot keep any of it.
Speaker 1:Any of it, yes we're working on that right now and that if you go to the the my Burbank YouTube Channel, you'll see a video, a one-minute video of Of the rainwater running through the wash behind this house here, how many gallons, how many gallons. When you photo shot that, photographed it, you think past, you had to have been at least a hundred gallons at least, maybe even two thousand.
Speaker 2:You have a chance to look at our YouTube pay if you're watching our video here on YouTube. There's a YouTube short on the LA River that Craig shot, which it shows you the river nearly at the top of its.
Speaker 1:It was about six, eight feet from the top. I won't say that it's the the highest I've ever seen, but it was certainly the fastest yeah but I don't know how long water I've seen in the river.
Speaker 2:It was about 60 miles an hour in that area it was in 60. It was hauling which is why you don't go near the water, because you, you're gone, your dog goes in, there's no swimming against that yeah and and people say you know I took I can. You know raft on it? I can. The problem is it's when you get to the bridges and when you get to the tunnels. That's how. That's what actually kills the people is they. They get into those situations and and they can't breathe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's stuff under the stuck or they're getting shot through like a rat out of an aqueduct. Anything from a atmospheric condition it's actually a muddy python line. Oh, I thought it appropriate and it was.
Speaker 2:Anyhow. So, yeah, we had more rain coming and hopefully we we get through it. Well, Anyhow, here we go. That brings us to the one, the only buckle up, and if you've been here this long and you deserve to hear it, it's this is probably why you've been here as long as you have.
Speaker 1:You're waiting for this.
Speaker 2:It's time for Rosses rant, rosses rant, rosses rant.
Speaker 4:I take a.
Speaker 3:You want to know what's up, I'll tell you what's up. Oh, I'm a friend. I'm too sad back in for this one. What did you say is happening this weekend? Or what Atmospheric River? Folks, when you're out driving, I don't care if you got to go to 7-eleven, bonds, rouse or Shopping bag, slow though I'm gonna ding, ding down. The streets are wet. I Mean there's schools going on. Still, you know what people you don't know how to drive and don't think you do. I don't care if we're in California, it's raining. Hey, you know. Have you put new windshield wipers on? Wimps, your wiper blades? What about your umbrella? You know raincoats and what are who? How many of you went and bought rubbers lately? The Lashes? Oh yeah, those two. You know it's time to Slow down. Where we're in the worst rain they said that we've experienced for a couple of years, and and Burbings paving these new streets, that oil slickest snot and I've always said people say you know they lose it.
Speaker 1:In LA when, when it's raining, people drive like, drive like maniacs. No, they don't try like maniacs, they just drive the same as they usually do. And you can't, because the rain brings all that oil up out of the pavement and everything that's been sitting and cooking. They're all all summer and it makes it super slippery. Your stopping distances are different, your hydroplaning potentially, and all those Lines that go across the crosswalks and stuff. You'll slide right over those things because those are already slippery because the kind of paint they use. But just slow down, leave five minutes earlier. The world is not revolving around you and doesn't care if you get there on time. I'm plan accordingly. Slow down, just be safe. I don't mean to sound mean about it, but I don't allow people.
Speaker 3:Passion and he told you reminded and you know they have a lot of younger people driving and older people that shouldn't be driving, you know and people feel terrible.
Speaker 1:You know we don't wish anybody to to get in accidents, but as many as I've handled over the last 30 years, everybody always feels real terrible when they get in the car accident, whether there's injuries or not. Well, somebody did something to cause that collision. So if everybody just slow down, we'll get through this rain really, we'll get through it, we'll make it through together, we'll make it.
Speaker 3:You know the LA River will still be there. It'll get the water. They're the Barry Matalo song.
Speaker 1:I Made it through the rain. Do we have that on cue, mr?
Speaker 2:Sherwood. We don't have that one. I'll get you to the firewood from.
Speaker 1:Billy Joel, I should have sent you an email earlier.
Speaker 2:Yes, I miss that Well.
Speaker 3:I probably didn't have my full rant written, but you know, I just think of that. I stayed home last week during the rain and I could hear it just coming down in buckets. And Excuse me, that was, that was your chair.
Speaker 1:That was, that was Well, since you called attention to it, that was the chair that was my car telling me we're ready to hit the road.
Speaker 2:That or a duck ran through here well, I Think that was another week another week from the week that was and the week that will be, or February 12th okay 2024 and just wait or whenever you're listening to this.
Speaker 1:Right, whenever, yeah you're right and you might be listening to this ten years down the road. We have, you'll still be wondering what's going on with those three trees.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Why you can't have a plastic fork.
Speaker 3:And dick Clark's and dick Clark's dog's names.
Speaker 1:What are they?
Speaker 3:Willie.
Speaker 1:Lien, lucille and Bernardo. No that's the four. Okay well, with that, we've learned. We've learned something tonight.
Speaker 2:Well, that's it so for Dodger for Dodger. For Ross Benson or Craig Durling, as I say telly-ho True, and saying thank you for listening and we will leave it up. Be back next week to talk to you one more time. Good night everybody.
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