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The Week That Was and That Will Be - February 12
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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!
My Burbank Talks
Speaker 1From 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 2Hello Burbank. Greg Sherwood here with you once again, along with Greg Durling.
Speaker 1Where am I? Where am I there? I am. Good evening, everybody.
Speaker 2Well, Mr and Mrs America, right At all the ships at sea.
Speaker 1Now you're going way back in. Way back, way back machine now.
Speaker 2And, of course, back in the studio this week, the infamous Ross Benson.
Speaker 3Oh, 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 2Yeah, we're worried about you last week but you've had some tests and things seem a little better and uh.
Speaker 3I feel better today. We'll see.
Speaker 2You even got through the pre-production meeting dinner in good shape tonight.
Speaker 3I haven't been to the-.
Speaker 2And 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 3I don't know, I bought the megwites before and yesterday. Yeah, well, there was something.
Speaker 1Maybe 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 3You notice how many pages and notes I have. I was prepared for you tonight.
Speaker 1I don't think we're allowed to use paper anymore, are we?
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Yeah, to a point.
Speaker 2Well, 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 1Steven Arakawa. What did he win?
Speaker 2Steven Arakawa has won a $25 gift card for Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 1Oh, our favorite, so good.
Speaker 2Well, 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 1Well, 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 2Is 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 1Oh he didn't include it in his original. No, I did not. All right, Steven, send your email or your mailing address.
Speaker 2Yeah, address, and I'll have it in the mail this week for you.
Speaker 1So the same email address. Then he sent the submission to you.
Speaker 2I sent it to winner this time.
Speaker 1Winner 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 2And if you get a chicken dinner at Hill Street, it'd be winner-winner chicken dinner.
Speaker 3Chicken dinner. Didn't I see Ed McMahon down the?
Speaker 1street and if you want to listen Now, how did Steven win that gift card?
Speaker 2Well, 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 1Sounds 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 2When you hear that, stick that in an email to contestatmybrickcom and something tells me you probably know when we get to that word.
Speaker 1It'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 2Yes, 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 1It 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 2We 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 1Where is he? Here we go.
Speaker 2We got him the.
Speaker 1Dodger Cam. We got the Dodger Cam on tonight.
Speaker 2Hey Dodger, how you doing. I'm in the dark.
Speaker 3Say hi, dodger, we have to call the gaffers in to get the lighting on the dog, all right.
Speaker 2Okay, oh, but now he's on the move.
Speaker 1He's on control. I've heard my name, I'm moving.
Speaker 2Okay, so let's get on to the last week. So let's start off. Ross, you were busy on Tuesday and Wednesday Nothing.
Speaker 1Nothing.
Speaker 2We canceled Tuesday and Wednesday last week we had the storms and we were just trying to recover.
Speaker 1That'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 2But Thursday we did have a ribbon cutting. Ross, why don't you tell us about the ribbon cutting you went to?
Speaker 3Went up to the new dog house. Is that what it's called Dog house H-A-U-S Dog house?
Speaker 2And I believe there's a name under it. Well, I think that's something you know. Something else to do there?
Speaker 1No, it's a chain, because they also serve alcohol or something there, so it has something to do with that.
Speaker 2The chain is dog house, though that's the chain.
Speaker 1Yeah, but there is something else under it.
Speaker 3That'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 1I 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 3They had a garden.
Speaker 2They had a garden.
Speaker 3They 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 2You got a beer stifler he does not drink beer.
Speaker 3You got it. You can't beat a big glass of water, that big, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1but how do they make the foam? Oh anyway, there's all kinds of jokes there, but we digress.
Speaker 3But 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 2Do we see it? There's a banner somewhere waving.
Speaker 3But 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 4Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1There's more images in my head.
Speaker 3I 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 1And 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 3Yeah 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 1That's supposed to be honest, but it's nice to see you know how?
Speaker 3what do you call that Repurpose, repurpose that property.
Speaker 2Yeah well, it took them long enough to redevelop it, just like the Empire Center.
Speaker 3It 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 1But 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 3Yeah, 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 2So 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 3Well, 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 1point of this down to streets, hang a left.
Speaker 2And 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 3And 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 2Ross 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 1I still don't know, because it has spit it out yet I would have Most people would have gone to Glenwood.
Speaker 3Oh, 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 2Maine and Alameda.
Speaker 3Maine and right, but it's not there, my old martinos.
Speaker 3Right, 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 3and 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 3Yeah, 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 1People are going to have to go to the restroom now, after all that description of it was a small fire.
Speaker 3It looked like they were going to demo.
Speaker 2It was a vacant building.
Speaker 3It 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 2It'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 3And you know why.
Speaker 2Tell us why.
Speaker 3Usually 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 2I understand. So what's the purpose? They would never tell us what the.
Speaker 1Well, if you ask a couple of days later, the news cycles over. Nobody cares anymore, Exactly.
Speaker 2You 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 3I know what started that fire.
Speaker 2What started that fire?
Speaker 3no-transcript.
Speaker 1No, but if you like, a heat, oxygen or fuel, those three things.
Speaker 3That thing burned good, which I wasn't at the beginning of.
Speaker 2I got to the end of I remember who called you the numbers times.
Speaker 3Yeah 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 2So and okay, I'll let Ross Research this and he will come up with a cause of that fire.
Speaker 1It's his beat.
Speaker 2He can figure out that yeah, next week show will let you know what the cause of that fire was.
Speaker 3I will come back to you and if it's there we go.
Speaker 1Let's you come back and say heat, fuel and oxygen or a Matt was ratchets. What. That was ratchet with ratchet with ratchets.
Colors Run and Suspicious Death Investigation
Speaker 2I 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 1Just like rain down for literally, they ran in the on the weekend.
Speaker 2Yes, 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 1maybe you can put it in context.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll tell us why they do Ross cuz. Why?
Speaker 1is the colors running.
Speaker 2And you can tell us what it is Okay.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2he means going to okay.
Speaker 3Don't jump ahead like rats with matches or the rats with match. What was that match?
Speaker 1with rats and ratchets.
Speaker 3That 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 4Yeah, and they ran.
Speaker 3I guess they were gonna run just around the station.
Speaker 2My question is still why do? They call it a color. The colors run.
Speaker 1Historically, 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 2Colors are considered patches.
Speaker 1That's what the colors are.
Speaker 2Okay, is your department?
Speaker 1Okay, 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 2That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1The 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 3Yeah, 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 1They ran.
Speaker 3I 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 2Is it can sitting in specific, or is it?
Speaker 1a pacing. It's like a Chad. It started in the military.
Speaker 2Right, but is they make it up as they go? What in that? In that, you know, in that beat, or they?
Speaker 1they 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 1I mean, there's no walkers in this, no, I've run a couple of these in my day.
Speaker 3Those 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 1You 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 3But 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 1So 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 3Now Tell me the truth. You can keep up when they run this, because every week you do callous tenants.
Speaker 1Oh you're, you're doing PT and you're running every.
Speaker 2These guys are in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3They 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 1They're escorted. You know, when I was a motor I several of these colors runs.
Speaker 2We 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 1They 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 3Glendale 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 4That's what it?
Speaker 2was 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 3I 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 1It 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 1Yeah, 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 3So 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 1Yeah, 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 2It's always a homicide until it's not right.
Speaker 1So 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 3It'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 2We don't know.
Speaker 1We 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 2We'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 3We have an address, so and a report and a report number.
Speaker 1Yeah, we can get that that won't be the coroner's report number, but you'll have a PD's report number.
Speaker 2Okay, 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 2Okay, make sure with you, along with Craig Durling.
Speaker 1Thanks for sticking with us and, of course, ross Benson.
Speaker 2He said hi, for you only my thumbs up.
Speaker 1I keep forgetting this. He's all about the camera.
Speaker 2He's got a microphone in front of his face and forgets he has to talk.
Speaker 3Oh, it's below my lips.
Speaker 1Why does that, that, that announcer, that that, that, that just did that spot? Yeah, sounds suspiciously like Ryan Seacrest. Is that Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 2Well, it sounds like him does this it does sound like Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 1We have that kind of budget on this.
Speaker 3No, let's say we're gonna get a bill.
Speaker 2I think that's kind of. I can't remember his name. I think it was is Gary or something. On the AI website.
Speaker 3Here he owns I.
Speaker 2Think he's these the same places as a big man.
Speaker 1Very.
Speaker 3Owens.
Speaker 1Well but now we are entering the week that twill be so today. Okay, always with the wrench In, the wrench into the.
Speaker 2I 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 3I forget when these meetings were, that's, I watched so many stop time I have something to add.
Speaker 2Okay, well, what does he want to add for last week?
Speaker 3You know they, they had a parks erect board meeting. They talked about the Dick Clark dog park, our farf bow Wow.
Speaker 1Richard, a wag staff Clark.
Speaker 3Did you know his middle name? I've worked for him for many years, 26 years in the making. Now, that's not Dick.
Speaker 1Clark, the dog park.
Speaker 3Oh, okay, they talked about this 26 years ago. How many dogs you? How many years do a dog live?
Speaker 1Well, it's not two dogs worth. Yeah, roughly you know.
Speaker 3And 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 2You know what would they want? To have parking in the dog park or parking on the street?
Speaker 3Well, but that's not the only thing.
Speaker 2And but they picked the design with the parking that's in the dog park right?
Speaker 3Well, there was a, b and C.
Speaker 2See, I never saw. I just thought a and B.
Speaker 3Well, there was an a, B and C. Okay the C had. I Was about to say shit, oh, thank.
Speaker 1God, you didn't Might offend the listeners.
Speaker 3It 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 2And how much is that plan B gonna cost?
Speaker 3$2.8 million. Mum-mum a million.
Speaker 2I was told 2.4. It's 2.8 now.
Speaker 3See, 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 2It 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 1That 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 3That's what kind of gets me. Ladwp For ripping up our park and tearing out the trees said we'll pay.
Speaker 2We'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 3Yes, and they got 150,000 from Kerry. Right, yeah, kerry, okay, what's the dog's name? Kerry Clark.
Speaker 2So we're about half right, about half million right there.
Speaker 3They 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 2It's about 1.6 now. Taxpayer money 450,000 okay, so around two, two million right now.
Speaker 1So that's what we're paying as residents.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 2More taxpayer money.
Speaker 3So, 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 1Okay, 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 2Yeah 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 1I 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 3Yeah, 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 1I never, I never saw their pretty much.
Speaker 2They're gonna put lighting in that. It's sort of we'll put a nighttime.
Speaker 3It, 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 1All. So it's a dog, a dog friendly city park.
Speaker 3So 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 2Well, they said it's supposed to done by the fall period. It's supposed to done by the fall. They said I.
Speaker 3Hope they get their shovels out there pretty quick so.
Speaker 1You'll be there for the ribbon cutting Well that's true.
Speaker 2I'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 3I'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 2I'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 1They're just starting to well, it's got to grow.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly. So how about how much that tree cost?
Speaker 1in 20 years from now, that'll be a lovely tree.
Speaker 3Yes, 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 2It's not a done deal.
Speaker 3City council now has to they have to make the final decision. I don't.
Speaker 2600,000 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 1I 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 3Now I know we have Dodger in the house and I wonder and Craig's right leg and my right leg.
Speaker 2Well, we'll just have Dodger early now.
Speaker 3And 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 2And I will buy one for Dodger they I talked about. Buy one for Rocky.
Speaker 1He's already thanking you.
Speaker 2Oh yes he is he likes to.
Speaker 1All right, we're still in last week, this, this. Well, now we can eat, an addition to last week.
Speaker 2Let's now move back to today.
Speaker 3So today, When's the day?
Speaker 2the 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 1We're recording this, which is Monday, right, we're a 12, so they met.
Speaker 2They met. We were recording around 9 30, so they met About four hours ago now my question about that is sustainability.
Speaker 3You 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 2I didn't talk about this stuff tonight.
Speaker 3I 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 2Well, 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 1Yes, 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 3He 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 2Yes, 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 3Yeah, what's that first thing they talked about, craig.
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Okay 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 2Well, 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 3How do you like them, cookies? Where'd you hear that? I have a source.
Speaker 2Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3That 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 2And 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 1If they survived the last rainstorms, they're doing pretty good.
Speaker 3Well, 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 2But 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 1But 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 3Well, 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 2yes, Arborist, arborist.
Speaker 3Magnifying glass and compasses and the tools that they use to come up with water?
Speaker 2How do you feel about taking all the trees on an agrarian all 122?
Speaker 1My 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 2I 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 3No, but look what they did on Magnolia. How many years have we heard about people complaining about Magnolia, the trees along Magnolia.
Speaker 2And why was it taken out? Because the roots were tearing up the sidewalks. People were tripping.
Speaker 1But the point of this is, there are three particular trees that they've discovered are exempt, and they can't pull them out.
Speaker 3No 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 2But 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 1That's like a perfect excuse for an open house or a what do they call it? A town hall. A town hall, yeah.
Speaker 2And 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 1They have to sue, file a lawsuit to start to open the discussion.
Speaker 3Well, that's Burbank's thinking is reactive, not proactive.
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Well, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2You 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 1I'm just gonna leave the camera on Ross the rest of this show.
Speaker 3I happen to know the owner, the new owner he bought it from.
Speaker 1Chili John.
Speaker 3I 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 2Well, 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 1Well, that's a good point. You can sell alcohol at a gun store.
Speaker 2Ooh 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 3So 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 2And you. Sometimes they called the ball park or the park. It was by there and there's a liquor store right by there.
Speaker 3Yep.
Speaker 1So we'll just rename it, like in downtown Prescott in Arizona, we'll just call it Whiskey Row.
Speaker 2There you go.
Speaker 3Hey, why not? San Fernando is a boulevard only in Bar.
Speaker 1Hop, you can just do a pub crawl down the street.
Speaker 2Well hopefully and you'll be crawling by the time you got to San Fernando. You'll be crawling at the end.
Speaker 3yep, I think I read in the bottom of that report that it was recommended by the city planners to approve.
Speaker 2To approve it. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3I'll buy you a beer when we go there for a chili dog.
Speaker 2No, you can drink it, because I don't drink it, you know.
Speaker 1say if you're beer money, buy him another chili dog.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I'll take the chili dog, not the beer.
Speaker 3But he won't eat the chili dog with beans. Oh, let's not open that can.
Speaker 1Let's not open that can.
Speaker 2That'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 1Then 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 2I'm not sure they got disclosed that for people who are allergic.
Speaker 1Chocolate chip and nut.
Speaker 2Well, 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 1in 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 2but you hate all of these. Who asked you? No, I like green beans.
Speaker 3Oh, you do.
Speaker 2I like green beans yeah.
Speaker 3What's the occasion?
Speaker 2Dinner.
Speaker 1This week on Craig and Ross's dietary preferences.
Speaker 2So 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 1It is going on script.
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Photograph it.
Speaker 1Photograph. Is it open to the public or you have to buy tickets? You?
Speaker 2gotta buy tickets.
Speaker 1I'm sure you can't just wander in.
Speaker 2The public can buy tickets, yeah.
Speaker 3I believe I heard a couple of hundred people have bought tickets, like you say, our reporter.
Speaker 1Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3Uh huh.
Speaker 4That person.
Speaker 2What's her name?
Speaker 1We'll fix it in post.
Speaker 3We'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 2She covers all our nonprofits for us.
Speaker 3Yep and I talked to her and they have about 50 awards they're giving out to officers that have done some spectacular.
Speaker 2I 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 3They're eating there. She's going in the rotary table.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2OK, so now we'll move on to the city council meeting.
Speaker 1Is there a city?
Speaker 3council meeting.
Speaker 2There's a city council meeting.
Speaker 3When is that?
Speaker 26 pm at City Hall.
Speaker 3Oh, where is it? Who's having a deal?
Speaker 2They'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 3Oh, we wait a minute. We said that.
Speaker 1Well, we said before Are we inserting a Ross's rant?
Speaker 2Well, 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 3Where who's starting my engine?
Speaker 1Are you ready? Sustainability oh, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 3You 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 2Staff report on the agenda.
Speaker 3OK, on the agenda not to the city manager.
Speaker 2But you know, and I like I said a minute a few minutes ago.
Speaker 3Polly 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 3They'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 1You know, like I said last week, whether you're gonna be handed out silverware and China. They're gonna be restricted and anything.
Speaker 3Let'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 2We 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 1well, 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 2is that the Burbank orders, or is that coming state?
Speaker 3order. 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 3is 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 3We 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 1if you can find a store that has the recycle machines, the receptacles, and then it's like those coin.
Speaker 2But in Burbank.
Speaker 1They 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 3A mom-and-pop shop that are is hardly making it selling a burger.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2Last time I was there, my friend, six or years ago what?
Speaker 3did they have beans?
Speaker 2they did not have beans in the chili.
Speaker 3Had not, you can request them you know, I know I usually have a ramp, but that one just.
Speaker 2I 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 2Johnson 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 1I'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 2I 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 2Bad 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 2Hey, 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 3That's because those city staff printing resolutions.
Speaker 2Yes, 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 1if they start the meeting earlier.
Speaker 2Well, 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 2If 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 1You agreed because they don't need to spend an hour.
Speaker 3Yeah, I want their politely agreeing oh, they know that they are saying something yes, I've said something.
Speaker 1I'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 3yes and, by the way, with that it was in mind.
Speaker 2I 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 2he'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 3you can't because we were told can't get flowers for that day and the other reason for the wedding.
Speaker 2For the ceremony yeah, well, flowers left you can't get when we, they won't sell.
Speaker 1The flowers are sold out because it's Valentine's.
Speaker 2Day? Okay, I don't know. You can't buy them in advance?
Speaker 3flowers look kind of dead the day after you know all right.
Speaker 1Well, you gave it away.
Speaker 3Wednesday, 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 2yeah, yeah, you're gonna pay to. You know what it's. It's why not have your Valentine's Day on February 15th?
Speaker 1you'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 2That'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 1No, 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 2well, the library Board of Trustees wait wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3After Wednesday is that when the Halloween candy starts appearing?
Speaker 1or what after Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2well, they replaced the probably put the Easter candy up for.
Speaker 1Easter okay yeah, halloween is a little.
Speaker 2I'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 1No wrong terminology, huh we have a lack of sound effects. This on this show.
Speaker 2I didn't, I didn't have a why yeah, there's no. There's no noise in the library Anyhow.
Speaker 1Well, we go from Wednesday Side sliding sideways that sound effect from Wednesday. We slide sideways right into the weekend, yes, right over Thursday.
Speaker 2So 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 3I don't know.
Speaker 2I'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 1that I don't know. I haven't seen that one before, you know.
Speaker 2CCIA. What I think I'm saying, that's bokeh.
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Speaker 1Maybe that's a bokeh ball or something, or maybe somebody could email and tennis what that is and tennis.
Speaker 2So 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 3Hey, wasn't atmospheric, atmospheric conditions, a special word, oh wait.
Speaker 2What would you say, Didn't you say at who? What's that word? What is it?
Speaker 1atmospheric.
Speaker 2Never slow on the.
Speaker 3My tooth got stuck on. What is that? What is?
Speaker 1that loud, obnoxious horn mean that atmosphere or atmospheric the word, the week word the week everybody.
Speaker 2So 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 1I 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?
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Speaker 1Street Cafe Locate. Maybe you can join Steven aracawa. Yeah well, winner from last week.
Speaker 2Street 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 1I was there recently and didn't notice a table. I have to take a look.
Speaker 2Maybe 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 1It'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 2So 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 1New England's supposed to get a foot of snow tomorrow.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Which would you rather have?
Speaker 2Yes, 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 1Any 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 2You 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 1It 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 2It 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 1Yeah, 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 2Anyhow. 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 1You're waiting for this.
Speaker 2It's time for Rosses rant, rosses rant, rosses rant.
Speaker 4I take a.
Speaker 3You 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 1In 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 3Passion 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 1You 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 3You know the LA River will still be there. It'll get the water. They're the Barry Matalo song.
Speaker 1I Made it through the rain. Do we have that on cue, mr?
Speaker 2Sherwood. We don't have that one. I'll get you to the firewood from.
Speaker 1Billy Joel, I should have sent you an email earlier.
Speaker 2Yes, I miss that Well.
Speaker 3I 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 1That 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 2That 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 1Right, 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 2That's right.
Speaker 1Why you can't have a plastic fork.
Speaker 3And dick Clark's and dick Clark's dog's names.
Speaker 1What are they?
Speaker 3Willie.
Speaker 1Lien, lucille and Bernardo. No that's the four. Okay well, with that, we've learned. We've learned something tonight.
Speaker 2Well, 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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