In our latest podcast episode, we take a deep dive into the heart of Burbank, uncovering the pride, challenges, and unique perspectives that shape this vibrant community. Our conversation begins with a light-hearted exchange about Burbank swag, including the sought-after myBurbank hats, and the announcement of our word of the week contest winner, Samantha W., who won a gift card to the local Hill Street Cafe. This sets the tone for an episode that seamlessly blends humor with serious community discussions.
We proceed to cover the Burbank Police Department Foundation's awards luncheon, an event that honored the bravery and service of our police officers. The efficiency of this luncheon sparked an interesting debate on how city council meetings could benefit from a similar approach, potentially increasing productivity and public engagement. This example serves as a reminder of the importance of recognizing local heroes and the role such events play in fostering community spirit.
One of the more contentious topics we tackle is the issue of rent increases in Burbank. The debate is multi-faceted, touching on the financial strains faced by tenants, especially those on fixed incomes, and the economic pressures on landlords who need to maintain their properties amidst rising costs. We reflect on the diverse opinions shared during a council meeting and explore the tension between protecting housing rights and the realities of rental property economics. The impact of state laws on rent control and the responsibilities of landlords during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are also highlighted in our discussion.
Switching gears, we reminisce about Valentine's Day, sharing personal stories that range from heartwarming memories to amusing anecdotes involving pets. The conversation takes a serious turn as we report on the police force's successful efforts in cracking down on a series of armed robberies at local 7-Elevens. This segment illustrates the dual nature of life in Burbank – the joys of family and festivities against the backdrop of vigilant law enforcement working to keep the community safe.
The episode also explores Burbank's inclusive approach to sports, celebrating the success of initiatives like the wheelchair basketball league at McCambridge Park. Our banter about pronunciation quirks and the confusion over Presidents Day provide a humorous interlude before we delve into the complexities of law enforcement equipment oversight. We demystify the term "military equipment" and discuss the advantages of surplus donations to local municipalities, emphasizing the importance of transparency and public meetings in the process.
As we near the end of our episode, we touch on the significance of community events and the efforts to revive the beloved Burbank on Parade. We discuss the necessity of community support and financial backing to make local events a success and extend an invitation to listeners to recommend their favorite food truck vendors to improve event experiences.
Finally, we address common frustrations, such as the overwhelming presence of attorney advertisements on bus stops and the lack of awareness about local events despite extensive publicity efforts. We advocate for direct communication over social media speculation and highlight the value of constructive dialogue in navigating community issues.
Our episode wraps up with an appreciation message for our local advertisers, reminding listeners of the interconnectedness of the Burbank community and the shared commitment to supporting local businesses. As we sign off, we leave our audience with anticipation for our next episode, promising to delve even further into the captivating stories and discussions that define our city.
In our latest podcast episode, we take a deep dive into the heart of Burbank, uncovering the pride, challenges, and unique perspectives that shape this vibrant community. Our conversation begins with a light-hearted exchange about Burbank swag, including the sought-after myBurbank hats, and the announcement of our word of the week contest winner, Samantha W., who won a gift card to the local Hill Street Cafe. This sets the tone for an episode that seamlessly blends humor with serious community discussions.
We proceed to cover the Burbank Police Department Foundation's awards luncheon, an event that honored the bravery and service of our police officers. The efficiency of this luncheon sparked an interesting debate on how city council meetings could benefit from a similar approach, potentially increasing productivity and public engagement. This example serves as a reminder of the importance of recognizing local heroes and the role such events play in fostering community spirit.
One of the more contentious topics we tackle is the issue of rent increases in Burbank. The debate is multi-faceted, touching on the financial strains faced by tenants, especially those on fixed incomes, and the economic pressures on landlords who need to maintain their properties amidst rising costs. We reflect on the diverse opinions shared during a council meeting and explore the tension between protecting housing rights and the realities of rental property economics. The impact of state laws on rent control and the responsibilities of landlords during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are also highlighted in our discussion.
Switching gears, we reminisce about Valentine's Day, sharing personal stories that range from heartwarming memories to amusing anecdotes involving pets. The conversation takes a serious turn as we report on the police force's successful efforts in cracking down on a series of armed robberies at local 7-Elevens. This segment illustrates the dual nature of life in Burbank – the joys of family and festivities against the backdrop of vigilant law enforcement working to keep the community safe.
The episode also explores Burbank's inclusive approach to sports, celebrating the success of initiatives like the wheelchair basketball league at McCambridge Park. Our banter about pronunciation quirks and the confusion over Presidents Day provide a humorous interlude before we delve into the complexities of law enforcement equipment oversight. We demystify the term "military equipment" and discuss the advantages of surplus donations to local municipalities, emphasizing the importance of transparency and public meetings in the process.
As we near the end of our episode, we touch on the significance of community events and the efforts to revive the beloved Burbank on Parade. We discuss the necessity of community support and financial backing to make local events a success and extend an invitation to listeners to recommend their favorite food truck vendors to improve event experiences.
Finally, we address common frustrations, such as the overwhelming presence of attorney advertisements on bus stops and the lack of awareness about local events despite extensive publicity efforts. We advocate for direct communication over social media speculation and highlight the value of constructive dialogue in navigating community issues.
Our episode wraps up with an appreciation message for our local advertisers, reminding listeners of the interconnectedness of the Burbank community and the shared commitment to supporting local businesses. As we sign off, we leave our audience with anticipation for our next episode, promising to delve even further into the captivating stories and discussions that define our city.
From deep in the Burbank Media District. It's time for another edition of my Burbank Talks, presented by the staff of my Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda as we join our program.
Speaker 2:Hello Burbank, Craig Sherwood here with you once again, along with Craig.
Speaker 1:Durling. Happy Monday everybody, and of course, the one and only Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Good evening. Now can I take this hat off so it's not raining anymore. What's wrong with the hat? Oh, I like the hat, but I always wonder why you even why you.
Speaker 1:oh, it's your branding, it's a yeah, you know my Burbank hat. Can somebody get one of those for themselves? Is that possible to obtain one? Is there one in the swag store?
Speaker 2:I'll have to look. We do have the swag store. I don't really have hats.
Speaker 1:Show the hat, hold the hat up again. We'll see if there's any interest for a nice lovely.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, and it's one size fits all.
Speaker 1:Look at that Nice flex fit. That's actually 47.
Speaker 2:That's a staff. A staff hat right there, so I'm sure we might have some in the Want to take a look it is Well those available to somebody other than Ross. Might be. I have one, do you? I do, it's a staff member. I do have one, a fancy t-shirt probably too. Oh the one that says I do have a t-shirt you survived, you have one.
Speaker 2:Well, let's get on to the week that was we're going to start off with and last week's winner with the word atmospheric, and when we went to Alexa she picked Samantha W. Samantha W, you are the winner this week of our. From the word of the week, we're the week. Atmospheric for a Hill Street Cafe. 25 Dar gift card.
Speaker 3:Say something about what Lapping.
Speaker 2:Yeah so.
Speaker 3:I must be a dog lover.
Speaker 2:She must be, because it said on your email that she stopped probably schlepping the dog somewhere Shlepping a dog. A dog somewhere. So does Samantha, please send your address to us and I will get that gift card out to you.
Speaker 1:Fourth, with Well, thanks for listening and thanks for emailing. Now the question is does she get bonus points? Points, if she spelled atmospheric correctly.
Speaker 2:And she did.
Speaker 1:She did.
Speaker 2:Actually, she would get bonus points subtracted for not spelling it right.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's all that. Okay, I got to read the rules again.
Speaker 2:Your mileage may vary.
Speaker 1:Well, congratulations, samantha. Now everybody out there listening. You got to wait the rest of the show. You can listen for this week's word of the week, which will be announced whenever it pops up. Whenever it happens, and you'll hear the horns.
Speaker 3:Never know when it's going to happen, but I like that on my notes.
Speaker 1:But if you hear the word of the week and then email contests at myburbankcom with that in the subject line and include your address if you don't want to get a lot of emails only because we have nowhere to mail it to the card. But if you are the winner which is chosen randomly from all entries, you too could win a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 2:Boy, and let me tell you it's a great meal oh great menu.
Speaker 1:Yeah great menu. There's not a loser on that menu up there.
Speaker 2:On Mondays they make this homemade tomato bisque. Oh, that is just amazing. Love me a bisque.
Speaker 1:I do love a bisque.
Speaker 2:Anyhow. So let's move on to last week, the last Tuesday.
Speaker 3:That was the week. That was Week that was.
Speaker 2:That's what we talked about first.
Speaker 1:It was yes, it has already happened.
Speaker 2:Last Tuesday the police department foundation had their their awards lunch at the Marriott Ross was there to recover it. The Ross was to give us a rundown of what what the event was.
Speaker 3:Well, the police foundation honored several officers. What the Medal of Valor winners. People got some self esteem award or not. Self esteem Professor of Steam Award. Move that one up.
Speaker 2:Maybe you didn't.
Speaker 1:They would now feel better about themselves.
Speaker 2:Is that a Freudian slip or no?
Speaker 3:It was put on by the police foundation, the fundraiser for the foundation. They haven't done it in three, four years. And what's really nice is they had the you know flag salute sung by a Burles fire member and thought they gave out about 50 awards, A nice chicken dinner or chicken lunch. People got in there and sat down by 12 and we're out at 110.
Speaker 1:They gave that many awards away In an hour and Wham bam. Thank you there were no switches, was a part of the buffet. You get your max salad and your your your piece of chicken and your award and you just keep going to your table.
Speaker 3:Well, it was, you know, sit down. So they were served. But yeah, it moved rather rapidly. I mean to go through to get people up there. They had them Prepared, or prepped standing on the side. They got up there. They would Jim, the host or the emcee would read off why they got their award. Boom, they got down all their certificates. Instead of doing them all in front of everybody, cherry Nakamura, the chief secretary, had them all together ready for them. They walked off the stage. They were handed all their certificates.
Speaker 1:I guess you think about it. It's a lunch. A lot of people probably have to go back to work because it is during the lunch hour. That's the thinking. A well oiled machine.
Speaker 2:Hey, how about this City Council pay attention? Maybe we can start doing our resolutions the same way.
Speaker 3:What a great idea. I thought you were going to say maybe we could have lunches that are, council meetings at the Marriott.
Speaker 1:We could have council meetings during lunch now.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So they can go late if they need to go morning, afternoon and evening that way you?
Speaker 3:know there were some awards that I've heard all. I was kind of a shock to read some of the words, but one of them was something that we Carried a long time ago. It was an apartment fire on Grismar where two parents went Mark walking to the market, left their kids at in an apartment place called fire and now with body cameras they showed what those officers had to go through through to this.
Speaker 1:They showed it at the luncheon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and talk about saving lives. That's what the Medal of Valor is for, and they really you know these guys.
Speaker 1:Love and beyond.
Speaker 3:Yep and truly. That's what Medal of Valor is for Absolutely. And there were some other words. We've covered stories. They were for three or four years. Burbank was the first city for DNA to a 30 year case, a murder case here in Burbank that they solved. They went and they were able to go back to the family of the girl that was killed and the guy has been convicted and trial. He's away for life Couple of life sentences because they found out from DNA and a Burbank officer did that. So it was really a great one. Technologies.
Speaker 2:So maybe a 30 year old murder had a 30 year old sentence, instead of having the current DA give him two years A couple of life sentences.
Speaker 1:The technology is catching up now and we can give these families, you know, closure and bring suspects to I give them credit because they've saved all that evidence for 30 years.
Speaker 2:They didn't just toss it away.
Speaker 1:It was stored properly.
Speaker 2:And you know, having that DNA back then. They didn't even know anything about that.
Speaker 3:And it was a. It was a what they call a cold case. You know, 30 years and a detective Right.
Speaker 1:But if you had a hairbrush or something in that evidence thing, then as long as all the evidence is processed and stored Properly, I mean it can last indefinitely. But because there's no statute of limitations for for homicide or murder, then there's always a hope Maybe.
Speaker 3:There was some more evidence will come up and not only honored the officer that did the case when he was a detective, they honored the FBI agent that was involved in the case. They honored the DA that prosecuted the case. All four of them got awards. Good and normally, like one of the FBI agents said, we don't get awards like this. You know they don't do that at our level. So it was the article. There's a great article by Lynn Lepinski in my Burbank from last week. I got a couple of pictures and it's a good read.
Speaker 1:Congratulations, fantastic. Yes, well done Job, well done everybody.
Speaker 2:I was yet another part of getting back to normal again and with the pandemic we would didn't have that for a few years and now we're one more thing that's back to hopefully a yearly event.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Well, tuesday night we had a city council meeting and he only lasted until midnight this time instead of one am. But one of the things on the agenda which had pushed back from another meeting is the talking about the landlord tenant committee and the situation at the committee. I should say, but the landlord tenant situations, how they can solve.
Speaker 1:Well, this is the one that they everybody sat around for hours for waiting the previous meeting and it got bumped to this.
Speaker 2:And here's the thing to which somebody made a point during the oral communications, because when he bumped he goes. I promise the next meeting is the first thing on the agenda. Well, it wasn't the first thing on the agenda. Yeah, it was. The mayor said well, we have public hearings. We have to do first.
Speaker 1:Now, you know you should have known that we're making big promises.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean he said later Well, you know, public hearings have to always come first, you know, and we meant it was the first agenda item after the public hearings. Well, you know, we could have said that night.
Speaker 1:I just know fair enough.
Speaker 2:Those people were here. We go again, you know so.
Speaker 1:But they got it in there, they got it in there.
Speaker 2:And here's the thing. And you know, I think Ross is probably the only who can really relate to this, but there's issues on both sides and I get both sides. You know, if you're a renter, having a rent go up six percent, this is tough. But on the other hand, I'm going to say this if you're a landlord and the cost of being a landlord is X amount of dollars, but every year the property, to say the property taxes, the water and power bill, all those things go up seven, eight, nine percent and the most you can do is recoup six percent. You're actually losing money on a yearly basis, you know, at three percent. Is that fair to the landlord? No, was it fair to the tenant to raise this rent Nine percent? No, I don't know what the solution is here. You know, and your Ross has gone through this, I know you just had your rent raise a little bit. You know a little bit.
Speaker 3:Nine point eight percent. I thought the state law was six percent Ten percent.
Speaker 2:Well, state law is ten percent.
Speaker 3:And they went to. They didn't go to the money, they didn't go to the max, they didn't go nine Almost almost. But talk about several hundred dollars.
Speaker 2:Yeah, On my rent, you know when you're on social security and fixed income. I mean, all of a sudden you can't work overtime. You know the government's going to say, oh, work overtime for social security, we give you an extra couple hundred dollars. That's not, that's not going to happen. So you know I don't know what the solution, because I look at the landlord's point of view too. I mean, if your air conditioning goes out, if your plumbing goes out, if you need a new roof, you're not going to pay for that. And all of a sudden, a new roof is twenty thousand dollars. Well, that's part of, you know, collecting rents and all that's part of the cost of doing business. But I think being a landlord is not as lucrative as people think it is. Maybe these big, huge corporations and that's why you have slumlords we don't care. But I think also we have the smaller.
Speaker 2:The smaller homeowner is a smaller landlord who does care and wants to do right by his tenant.
Speaker 1:But doesn't have the resources to absorb all this.
Speaker 2:Right, probably as an investment for their retirement.
Speaker 3:Well, some you know, and as they said during the meeting and they've said previously, some of these landlords have been in Burbank since Locke was here. They bought a second place for income. But you also have to look when they bought those places 30, 40, 50 years ago I know my parents live it over here on to Lucke Park Drive they paid twenty five thousand dollars for their house. Yeah, but now, when you have a house worth a million dollars, you're making some good money on that house and you're not rented for that.
Speaker 1:So, but it's, it's a tough you make a good money on it when you sell it? Oh yeah, not, but not when, not when you're renting it as a landlord.
Speaker 3:It's, it's a tough you know, but it's, it's so touchy I mean. Well, yeah, sorry for some of it.
Speaker 1:It affects so many people in every city. You know we have these.
Speaker 2:I just saw that the LA landlord commissioners are tenant union, union and they're they're protesting at that city halls and been here in Burbank and they say we have a, we have a right to housing here, we have a right. Well, yeah, you have a right, but don't the landlords have a right to, to, to charge you out of the, to charge you know, even a price?
Speaker 1:I mean COVID landlords weren't getting. No but they still have mortgages to pay, they still have utilities to pay.
Speaker 2:They have to pay the county that say, ok, no, no taxes this year because of the pandemic and I was people that didn't have pay rent for months and months and months. Once it's OK, it's over, they go up and pay. Sorry, we're leaving.
Speaker 1:But if you're a landlord, you don't have the cash in the bank right To pay utilities and proper and insurance and stuff for two, three years. What are you supposed to do? You know your income is the tenants and if they're not paying rent, what are you supposed to do If you're not? If you're not a corporation?
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3:You know, and I will say, a majority of the large property owners in Burbank or Burbank people are reasonable, but there's a handful out there that are evicted because they're they're local.
Speaker 1:You're right, there's a difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But when there's new buildings built on an empire seven stories and 140 units things are going to really have care about the tenants there.
Speaker 1:You know the one with two parking spaces. Oh, it's got seven, oh seven.
Speaker 2:And then one handicapped spot too. Amazing, amazing, they really care. Thank you, state of California, for showing that down our throats Anyhow. So that was kind of what the crux of the council meeting was. And you want to add on that, ross, or?
Speaker 3:Yeah, there were a couple other things on that agenda that I mean, after they did that, I kind of watch these things and it's like, oh, they're done with it already. I mean I think this one was a lot of public comment with a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been two hours on it. Okay, so if they would have done that last week, they would measure three or four in the morning.
Speaker 3:But I will say listen to our city attorney. Like he said, they can't get involved on a private deal. No, you know, and they were talking about where they draw the line they can't advise them legally. You know the city council and the city attorney, he's there for the city council.
Speaker 2:Well, they're going to come back with a they call a second reading, right, we're going to suggest, have suggestions for the council to look at and one of the things that's going to be is actually given the landlord, tenant commission some teeth A little. Oh yeah, but yeah, maybe teeth, yeah, but they need to have something. You know, you just can't go there and have your gripe to say, well, we'll call the landlord and the landlord doesn't respond. Oh sorry, we called, nobody respond and that's the end of it. Well, that doesn't really help the person about ready to be evicted after years and years of good faith, you know. I mean we'd have to have those things such as these no fault evictions. I'm sorry, you're going to, you're going to evict somebody for no reason you got to remember.
Speaker 3:I lived in a place yes, I love me 28 years and we both got eviction notices because the landlord decided to go through and flip it and he wanted to triple.
Speaker 1:Right, because he could, because he couldn't raise it enough on you guys. He got rid of you Unbelievable.
Speaker 3:Yep, you know, and I fought it. I lost several thousand dollars Lost fighting it. Oh yeah, I paid a Burbank attorney who was highly recommended to go see. He charged me fifteen hundred to just see me.
Speaker 2:And what did you do that day in court? Oh wait, he didn't show up, did he? Oh no. The landlord no. The lawyer oh no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh geez.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're going to pay a couple thousand dollars. I'm actually going to show up for you in court too, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I went to court, I lost a security deposit, a cleaning deposit. I lost quite a bit and you know what. Oh too bad Right. And I went to the landlord commission, yeah, and they did a lot for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they consoled you.
Speaker 3:Right, I will say there was one person on the landlord commission at the time. That recalled me back.
Speaker 2:I think those are all good, caring and good meaning people, but you know, they're like the crossing guard they have no power, they can just slow down. If you don't, well, we can do about it Nothing.
Speaker 3:Yep, and then the next day.
Speaker 2:Oh, wednesday, you mean, is there, is this supposed to be some kind of a?
Speaker 1:that was a segue. That was a segue. That's what they call a segue.
Speaker 2:I guess, after after the tenants and the landlords fought with each other in case they want to go out with each other and make up that it would be a nice romantic dinner. We've been Valentine's.
Speaker 1:Day on Wednesday, February.
Speaker 2:Now I hear some people 14 miss. They had to miss, say, valentine's Day.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not even. I think everybody would know would would. Since you brought it up, I think everybody would spell it correctly Valentine's Day. But how many people do you know pronounce it Valentine's Day with an M? Yeah, a lot of people say Valentine's. It's not Valentine's. But if you ask them to spell it, they'll probably spell it with an N, but they don't say it that way, you know. I know I got married, that is.
Speaker 3:I got married 35 years ago on Valentine's Day. No, valentine's Day. What a doctor. I'll never forget it because we did that. So I'd never forget my anniversary. I was married, I would. My former wife and I we're civil and friendly to each other because we have a great son who we both raised and I know a lot of people. But I will tell you, for many years is you were a roommate of mine. It was pretty hectic a couple of times, many years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, yeah. No need to get into any details, but it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a difficult time for you, you know and all I could say to people going through it now to get through it, You'll live through it Well it'll get better.
Speaker 1:Yep, as they say, but yes, it is Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2:That's not. It's not a mime, it's all I got.
Speaker 1:It's just like it's median strip and not medium.
Speaker 3:Not medium Right. We're going to talk about that in a bit.
Speaker 1:Something in the human anatomy makes the M, makes you go to M instead of N.
Speaker 2:There's some reason people pointed out to me which and I can't change you, because this way it is. I don't say Tuesday, I say Tuesday. Tuesday I have Ds instead of days.
Speaker 1:You do that and it's noticeable in this show, because we name the days a lot. Yeah, and you do the Tuesday, tuesday, but you have it's almost like an old timey, like maybe a Midwest pronunciation, because you also say program.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the program.
Speaker 1:Right Right, you have a different emphasis on it. I don't know if that's almost reminiscent of like a regional accent or something like an old timey. It's old timey thing, you're old timey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I tell you your old timey, it's a Burbank accent from the old days.
Speaker 1:Is it a Burbank? Yeah, I had the media district adjacent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the old teachers like Mrs Melton and Mrs Brady and Mr Brindale.
Speaker 1:There was some stuff Because people that actually live in the media district don't have that. They don't pronounce the words like that.
Speaker 2:No, they probably don't, that's the people on the outskirts on the other side of the tracks. Yes, just a little media district adjacent area.
Speaker 3:Now I will tell you, you know, I didn't have anybody to buy roses for, or chocolates for, anything like that.
Speaker 1:I would have graciously accepted the gift.
Speaker 3:We're out of town. Oh no, you weren't, you were still in town, you got to remember. I will say I stopped and did see my granddaughters and I wished them both.
Speaker 1:They're your valentines right there. You better believe it, absolutely.
Speaker 2:My only valentine here is Dodger. I don't know if that really counts, dodger, how you doing Things are good for you, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I just smile.
Speaker 2:We got the Dodger cam on again tonight, yeah.
Speaker 1:He's very blue.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:He's very blue down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, he's making a little appearance. Attack Sick balls. There you go.
Speaker 1:There, you go oh there you go. That is that a leg? Or is that Dodger? I can't.
Speaker 2:My leg and Dodger's a Dodger's snout.
Speaker 1:And after a wonderful valentine's day, it was Thursday.
Speaker 2:Well, we understand that there's a segue, and guess what happened on Thursday, thursday?
Speaker 1:Thursday Like DEE.
Speaker 2:You'll never remember that, will you? Lots of stuff.
Speaker 1:Big, big, big day, In fact Thursday, big day on Thursday, I understand On the 15th.
Speaker 2:Thursdays just cancel due to lack of interest.
Speaker 1:The Ides of February.
Speaker 2:Nothing. Nothing on Thursday, we move on to Friday Nothing on Thursday.
Speaker 1:We're bouncing right to Friday, february 16th.
Speaker 2:So we had a press release come out that the Burbank police announced the arrest of three bad guys who had robbed two different 7-Elevens in Burbank, wanted to holler away and Burbank and you know that Buena Vista and Burbank and had robbed two 7-Elevens at gunpoint and actually did a lot of other Same day. No, they were within a couple of days and they also did a lot of other. They called 2-Elevens, which is armed robbery at different other areas outside of Burbank.
Speaker 3:And their MO was the same.
Speaker 2:And MO stands for.
Speaker 3:Money order.
Speaker 2:Method of operation.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you, or modus operandi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's probably.
Speaker 1:Sounds fancier.
Speaker 3:Yes, and probably more correct. But what really got me in the press release that the PD put out? They go, and they don't just go clicking them and ticking them and taking them to jail. They, you know, investigate where they lived, everything. They came up with stuff from the stores. They come up with what they were wearing.
Speaker 1:They'll do search warrants or their houses. They'll do surveillance, watch them, follow them around.
Speaker 2:They worked with other agencies on this that were involved also. I think the impact LA Impact which is a mutual.
Speaker 1:It's a multi-city, multi-agency task force Primarily charged with narcotics investigations, but they also do major crimes. But they have so many resources that they can pool together and handle a case like this, which was a major crime. It was several felons, several felonies, but it was LA Impact and that's been around a long time and apparently how they caught them was outside agencies.
Speaker 3:They'd followed them. They went in to do a armed robbery. The officers did the follow up, went in and the guys yes, that's what they were there for. And then they made their arrest. Burbank is not just little little Burbank anymore.
Speaker 2:Burbank. I think Burbank Helicopter Didn't we see on FlightAware? We had the Burbank Helicopter over there in LA. No, Uh-oh, wait, they're going to be in Crip FlightAware now.
Speaker 1:As law enforcement agencies are lower in staffing and budgets. And all that now these task courses are really coming into play to provide the support that individual cities may not be able to provide.
Speaker 2:There was an LAPD, had a task force that used to do that wait for people to rob. We had that one situation here, the old security Pacific Bank in Von's Park. It's now Bank of America. They watched them rob the bank, followed them up that alley, up the alley to the lakeside apartments where they had their.
Speaker 1:they stashed the side of the car, followed them back.
Speaker 2:Yep, and when they went to get the car into their stashed car, they confronted them and there was a huge shootout and there was a death in Mayhem.
Speaker 1:Well, that's obviously not the intended or preferred outcome.
Speaker 2:But once they, if they follow them back, then they know where to get the search warrant for and they know the uproar was you let them go in there with guns and rob a bank and knew that was going to happen. And what if they would have shot a person inside that bank? Now I get you know they don't want to get them red handed, yeah, but you can't. My understanding is now and you'd probably know more and I will on this but you really don't want to go into a when somebody's doing an armed robbery. You don't want to go in and confront them with a couple hostages inside.
Speaker 2:You want them to come outside and being a more.
Speaker 1:So they complete the crime.
Speaker 2:Right. But you don't want to force a situation by going in and trying to take it down inside, like that too.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly, yeah, you don't want to go in and force a situation inside. You want to get them outside, whether it's mobile or not, but after they've basically Well, I think you were referring to, greg.
Speaker 3:There was a pursuit about a week or so ago and one of the news stations it was K-Cal who reported that they looked at flight aware and they said Burbank PD is over in West LA and they couldn't figure why Burbank was involved. They finally Burbank watch commander. The helicopters don't always tell their watch commander where they're flying and there's no agency to work for too, and that's just Burbank.
Speaker 3:They were doing again a task force with an outside agency and that's why they were flying over there because Burbank can fly where they're needed and they used to take that task force when they did a recovery of big drugs and money and split it up. I don't know how that works anymore.
Speaker 1:Well, the asset forfeiture they sell it and divvied it, but that's something through the courts and stuff that handle that. But this LA impact, it's interagency metropolitan police apprehension crime task force rolls right off the top.
Speaker 2:As it does impact.
Speaker 1:LA. That's why they call it LA impact Exactly.
Speaker 3:And it's right, like these smash grabs. Burbank has an officer now that is participating in that group Again.
Speaker 1:Get multiple agencies. Yeah, you got these task forces, the department's pooling resources, to go after this because you think it's not by happenstance that they caught these two guys. You know you didn't have patrol knock on a door, anything like that. You had maybe potentially dozens of officers doing investigation, follow up, surveillance, getting warrants, things like that. It doesn't happen magically.
Speaker 3:But I will say, for many years and I remember we wanted to cover street cameras and some of the things that the police use now and in fact one of the awards that were handed out at the luncheon was to the city's computer team and streetlight camera crew. They have helped solve something like 165 calls, yeah.
Speaker 2:Who caused an accident. All those cameras you see on the signals, on corners, they're watching you.
Speaker 3:Well, they're not always watching you, but they can go back?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they can go back and look at the recording. It's kind of like they do in London.
Speaker 3:In London they record like every intersection and so if you're a bad guy and you think you're going to do a crime here in Burbank, investigators, that's their job. Well, there are cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1:It's not just cameras on poles and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:But they look at. Every 7-11 has cameras. You know license plates. That's where they start.
Speaker 2:And I think a lot of businesses don't have good camera systems.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it's relying on the quality of the equipment. The cameras, if they have the resolution to see a license plate Systems, have to be working, actually recording and unfortunately you have a lot of businesses where regular employees aren't trusted with the equipment, access to the equipment. So now you gotta, if the manager or the owner is out of town for two weeks, you don't have access to it for two weeks.
Speaker 3:The Burbank system is so set up. Now you can email them your footage. They have you know, anybody can. My son was involved in some cases and they said here's the DR, here's the access, and you just send us your footage. That's all you gotta do. I will say I was involved in an auto accident when it was to Magnolia a couple of years ago and I, after the accident, I know I had a green light and the car made one of those left hand turns right in front of me and she said no, I had a green light. No, green light was for southbound traffic, not for the left hand turn lane.
Speaker 2:And she nailed me she had a green light. It's just she didn't have a green light that's supposed to yield.
Speaker 1:Well, after she made her left hand turn, she saw a green light.
Speaker 3:Well, that, so you know what? I went to the city and you can get that footage Mine, sure, it's company got the footage. And Thursday she had the yellow, you know, yield, and I had the green light, and that's what's all that case real quick.
Speaker 1:Anyway, great arrest by Ellie Impact, the whole team and Burbank PD. Now hopefully the county will prosecute them justly.
Speaker 3:Well, that's a question I had for you. Is that a you know site and release type thing, or are they.
Speaker 2:No, it's a felony.
Speaker 1:It's a district attorney issue.
Speaker 2:So it's going to be a gas gun.
Speaker 1:Thing.
Speaker 2:As far as setting bail and as far as all that's out, you know our control.
Speaker 1:The bail is set by standard bail schedule issued by the county. If they go to court and they're assigned bail there, that's by the judge, but it's usually it's usually prewritten. It's standard for whatever the crime is. That could take a while. Well, yeah, not going to get into the whole process, but it's basically a. You're looking up in a book. It's pretty standard. You look at two 11 PC. The bail is this much.
Speaker 2:They have to be in court within 96 hours or something after being arrested. I think it is.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, you have to get the probable cause declaration in within 48 hours, because they have to be.
Speaker 2:All right Well.
Speaker 1:I've seen by the court.
Speaker 2:That brings us to our weekend, and last weekend we had something kind of unique and very cool and Burbank and the sports side was the adaptive sports expo that was held over at McCambridge Park and had all sorts of activities and sports.
Speaker 1:I saw the pictures, some pictures from that. It looked like a great turnout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, our sports that was there and did a real nice article on it. Great turnout. Rossi said there's several hundred.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've read comments. The city staff apparently did quite a bit of research. They went to other cities that have done this. So they did. They were prepared and apparently there were several hundred people Baseball, the basketball, there were like six or eight sports that they did this for and they were really pleased. And the mayor was out there and got himself in a wheelchair and did some competitive basketball playing. So hats off to our city sports department that put this on. And Burbank is the leader in helping people that are confined to wheelchairs or blind or hearing enabled that get involved in sports Fantastic.
Speaker 1:Is that obviously planning to continue that as a regular thing?
Speaker 3:Well as successful as it was. It was at McCambridge Park and you have a lot of things up there that they could do, and are we doing, a wheelchair basketball league?
Speaker 1:there, I saw that. Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3:Okay, great event. We have an article in my Burbank.
Speaker 2:Our sports surgeon Regio did a real nice article on it.
Speaker 3:Who.
Speaker 2:Jim Regio. Oh, okay, is that sports there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just sounded like you sneezed.
Speaker 2:Oh, I did yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I'm tight. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2:Jim Regio. Well, that kind of wraps up for last week. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the week that will be.
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Speaker 3:We have to thank Ryan for that. Oh no, it wasn't Ryan. Last week Craig thought that was Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 1:It does sound like Ryan Seacrest. Oh wow, who knows I know who's really behind it, because he said program, program and Tuesday yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's good to speak, Craig Schruin, with you, along with Craig.
Speaker 1:Durling Still here.
Speaker 2:They haven't changed the locks and yes, the hatless, ross Benson, my teeth is back, he's got his tooth. Okay, what's today?
Speaker 1:Well, Monday Monday, but Rewary the 19th.
Speaker 2:Today, the day we're recording this, A lot of people leave that on out there.
Speaker 1:It's really hard to say, especially being from Boston. I don't want to say my Rs anyway, but Rewary, wait, I can only say it. If I say it like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to say it, rewary, you have to say it when Ryan actually thinks about it.
Speaker 1:It has a hyphen in it.
Speaker 3:Wait in schools. That's how they taught you Back there in Boston, In Boston, Boston.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how can I catch those and stuff? I remember when you were wicked cold. Right now.
Speaker 3:I remember many years ago when you and I, we lived together as roommates.
Speaker 1:and if you get you going, yeah, yeah, you get me going and it comes out. But I've always said if I'm back with the family back home on the East Coast, if I'm there for two days with them, I sound. I'm talking like Cliffy from Cheers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's back in a goodwill hunting mode, aren't it?
Speaker 1:Goodwill hunting? Absolutely, yep, we're the clam chowder. Oh good chowder. How about their mammals, you get?
Speaker 2:some friends.
Speaker 1:Kind of that.
Speaker 3:Manhattan. You have a couple of buddies that always like to emphasize that on Facebook.
Speaker 1:Chowder, yeah, chowder. Have a friend that calls me chowder Love it.
Speaker 2:The day was they call Presidents Day. Now, we used to have two Presidents Day. We had one two weeks apart, on Mondays. I can't remember which order. One was for Washington, one was for Lincoln Monday. Mondays, yes, on Mondays. Oh yeah, you're gonna. You won't ever forget now, will you?
Speaker 1:Like did you remember to wash your Mondays?
Speaker 2:I was just gonna say that Anyhow. So now both Presidents got lumped together into one day.
Speaker 1:But officially.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure which present day it really is.
Speaker 1:today it is to honor all Presidents, but originally it was to honor George Washington's birthday, which is actually on February the 22nd. But they now have it. It's, I think, it's a third Monday of February. It's to honor all Presidents. Some states still celebrate Lincoln's birthday. That was Lincoln's as a state holiday, right, but federally they're all recognized under President's Day, even though it was originally actually Washington's.
Speaker 2:What was our holiday last Monday? It was it was a holiday. I know that.
Speaker 1:And look it up. I shall look it up. Stand by.
Speaker 3:Do, do, do do, do, do.
Speaker 1:do we have any hold music? Any yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the Petticoat.
Speaker 2:Junction. You want a little Petticoat Junction?
Speaker 1:I don't show oh wait.
Speaker 2:Petticoat. I don't have Petticoat. How about that? Here's for you.
Speaker 3:That was oh we have it.
Speaker 1:No, I have a non answer. According to Apple, I don't show last Monday as a holiday.
Speaker 2:But it was a no, because I know somebody.
Speaker 1:This is the picture of Craig Sherwood doubting himself.
Speaker 2:Somebody told me it was a holiday last Monday. What do I know? I don't know, I don't know if it's a holiday.
Speaker 1:It may have been, but I'm not showing it on my device here.
Speaker 2:I know zero, I know less than zero.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't see it. Your calendars Today is President's Day.
Speaker 1:Okay, and it's been raining all day.
Speaker 3:Yes, it has. Well, thank you to all our presidents. Well, to some of the presidents, we won't go any farther, I think you just did.
Speaker 1:This holiday is to celebrate all of them. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you feel that way about Nixon.
Speaker 3:Nobody was free to get into his museum today.
Speaker 2:Oh was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe all of them, was it Well? He's not Something of President's Day is free to get into all the presidential museums or libraries.
Speaker 3:Libraries. Right, I don't think Reagan's was you got to pay for that.
Speaker 1:Gonna drive all the way up that hill. You have to stop to pay. Actually, it's a great museum.
Speaker 2:It really is. Well, tomorrow, on Tuesday, there is no council meeting, but we are going to do an Ask the Mayor podcast, well, the one for February and February, and we are going to See you have to.
Speaker 1:It has to be Two parts. You have to hyphenate it to get it out.
Speaker 2:You have to now think about it before you say it. So if you have a have you happened to hear this Monday night or Tuesday during the day? Send you and you have a question for the mayor. Send an email to questions at mybrickcom and just say Ask the Mayor in your subject line and I will copy and paste it and give it to the mayor to answer.
Speaker 1:And if they want you to use their name.
Speaker 2:I always use first names. If you don't want that even used, I'll just say Just make a note that you don't want.
Speaker 1:You want to remain on.
Speaker 2:What's important is questions, not who you are.
Speaker 3:But I think we need to also emphasize this is not Attack the Mayor show.
Speaker 2:No, I'll honesty.
Speaker 1:The tickets cost extra.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I'll honestly, though, I'll just toss those emails If you want to. We're not here to attack people. We're here to get good information, to have good questions and and let's hear Residents.
Speaker 1:this is your chance.
Speaker 2:This viewpoint as a city official. We got a Wednesday.
Speaker 3:Wait, you got to say Wednesday, weird.
Speaker 1:Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day. Always has been in the North end of Boston Prince Spaghetti Day.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Anthony's grandma would call him in.
Speaker 2:We got him going down on.
Speaker 1:Boston. You're all nostalgic now. Anybody from these coasts will understand what Wednesday is.
Speaker 3:Prince Spaghetti Day. Wait, wait, wait, wait you Blah, blah, blah, blah blah. You got a fan club back there because you told me they love listening to you on the Burbank podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, they'll appreciate my Prince Spaghetti Reference that Ted and Joe. Look up, you find it on YouTube. You Google Prince Spaghetti, whether Wednesday or Anthony Prince Spaghetti Day or whatever, on YouTube you'll see the old commercial from the 70s, and he knows the origins of cheers also the origins of cheers.
Speaker 2:Which is that place really called?
Speaker 1:The Bull and Finch Pub there you go. I've been there my sophomore year dorm in college. I looked across the street right at.
Speaker 2:It Must have been an ugly night, huh.
Speaker 1:Well, they showed that it was while cheers was on, and they would come all the time and do exteriors, exterior shots. The interior looked nothing like the bar on TV, but the exterior was the actual place.
Speaker 2:It was down a stairway, correct?
Speaker 1:Yeah, stairs went down from the sidewalk.
Speaker 2:I'm glad the stairway went down to get in, because I'm sure if you had to come out and go downstairs people would have rolled down those stairs Right into the public garden, right out onto Beacon Street. What's happening?
Speaker 3:Wednesday correct.
Speaker 2:Well the Burring Police Department is inviting residents to attend a community meeting at five o'clock at City Hall to discuss the annual military Let me correct you right there At City Hall.
Speaker 3:Ин Thanks, you're right, are you sure, cricket? Cricket, they lay it out in room 102.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:In that Perfect City Hall, City Council chamber.
Speaker 2:I'm just going over what they put up, the press release. The press release is City Council chamber. City.
Speaker 3:Council chamber. Oh, okay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean the correction. I'm sorry. Okay, we'll go that back in.
Speaker 1:It'll also be online and on local TV6.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead. It's a discussed the annual military equipment report per California, assembly bill 41, at five o'clock and that's before a police commission meeting at six o'clock. We would love to tell you what the police commission is about, however. But, somehow somebody's missed the Brown Act requirement of posting the minutes, the agenda, within 72 hours of the meeting, so we don't know what they're going to talk about on Wednesday.
Speaker 3:So wait a minute, what are they usually? So last year was in the community services building, which has a lot of room, and they must have expected a big crowd. So are you trying to tell me they're not going to talk about the stealth bomber that Burbank PD has because it doesn't fit from the military? Yeah, because it doesn't fit in the city hall.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I mean, it's there, you just can't see it.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, I don't, but they are going to talk about drones, right?
Speaker 2:hand, there you are. They're like timing is there?
Speaker 1:Nothing like good timing. Yeah, they're going to talk about me.
Speaker 3:Craig help us out here.
Speaker 1:They're going to talk about drones. It's mandated by law. Assembly Bill 481 requires law enforcement agencies that are accepting, basically, donations or surplus equipment from the military or the government to itemize that, to list it what their use is, how they're going to use it, how long it'll be used for it's value, things like that. And the laws requires that they allow for public comment and they have a public meeting about it. They post the information on the law enforcement agencies website with that information. But this meeting is mandated by law to give the public a chance to review it and comment on it. Now, I've never liked the terminology of them saying military equipment because it's surplus government equipment. It can be anything from a armored rescue vehicle to a drone, to sleeping bags, to sandbags a pallet of sandbags it can be anything. It's not necessarily just military equipment, but the statute calls it that, so there's no way to reword it. Unfortunately, there's no tanks and bombs.
Speaker 2:It's all the brain. Military equipment reports what it's called.
Speaker 3:That's what it's called, but I think last year we discussed this. We did, and they're talking about robots.
Speaker 1:That is like kids have robots, now they're little remote control things that can go search buildings instead of canines and officers, things like that. You can get killed by they use a robot, that's rather send a remote control, the little card or something in the same thing with drones.
Speaker 3:They're now the technology has gotten really up to date where they're.
Speaker 1:I think this all started because they started seeing cities and municipal departments with armored personnel, carriers and what looked like tanks. Well, none of them were tanks, but they were used for armored, for rescues and by SWAT teams, things like that. So to basically counter what they're up against in the in the field. Now, the assault weapons, things like that. It's not going to get into it. It's a political quagmire, but when they say military equipment it's, it's basically any surplus donation from the government, so it could be anything.
Speaker 3:So we should be grateful that they're handed stuff down.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, rather than destroying it or burying it or paying for it full price. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean cities.
Speaker 1:No, the cities don't always get the stuff for free. Sometimes it's a dollar, you know, just because it something has to be on the books for the exchange, for whatever reason. But go to this meeting or watch it online and you'll see what it's all about.
Speaker 2:I think you watch 5 pm on the. Twitter meeting after it. We're not sure what will happen.
Speaker 1:We don't know yet.
Speaker 2:We'll find out, we know they won't stick around and find out if I will make a decision or recommendation, but they'll have a report or two about something, something, something, something going on.
Speaker 3:That's in neccessity to East.
Speaker 2:Thursday we have an infrastructure oversight board which is going to meet at six o'clock at the CSB and we would be glad to tell you what they are going to actually look at all the projects for the 24 25 fiscal year calendar and what they're going to buy. But not buy, but we're going to spend money on to fix like sidewalks and this and that and repavements and all kinds of repairs. But there are 75 items on the report and you know what we I'd like City Council that goes to two in the morning. We're not going to do that to you. So go to the city's website, go to the meetings and go to the over the infrastructure.
Speaker 1:We're not going to be. We're not going to be carrying this live and doing live commentary.
Speaker 2:It'd be nice All 75 items, wouldn't that? Be nice, that'd be a blast like an auction.
Speaker 1:It'd be a blast.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you know, one of the items that I forgot to bring up during our meeting is this is a perfect example. People last week were shocked when they drove up Olive Avenue and it's a single lane in each direction used to be. We live there. We know how people used to drive up all of that we were our question mayors for Monday. We are we talked about it back in November.
Speaker 2:I understand somebody asked and they want to hear what the mayor has to say about it. So that's actually our question tomorrow. So yeah that's. We've heard a lot of things on Twitter. People are saying what's going on? We talked about it in this, in one of our podcasts when the city council approved it. Actually, I think I had a question about and you're the one who sent me straight on it- yeah, because Magnolia is the same, with they repaved all of best time to realign it.
Speaker 3:And now there's a huge, huge, huge, and people are saying you can't go up the lane. How's the fire department going to get a run? Our department will get to a fire if there's a fire.
Speaker 1:You know, people don't care how the fire department's going to get around, they're worried about how they're going to get around.
Speaker 2:True, there's nothing in the center right, it's just empty Right Right. So the fire department might actually use that to go to to a fire.
Speaker 1:Wait what.
Speaker 2:I don't think they're going to wait in traffic behind somebody when the whole center is mapping up because they want to actually build that on Magnolia have you ever seen the size of the front bumper on a fire engine?
Speaker 1:They don't sit in traffic.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 3:Well, people don't sometimes. Well, that was part of one of my rants. But Green Streets, it was approved by previous counsel, not our current counsel. It was approved. They were out at Holiday in the Park two years ago saying this is what we're going to do around Burbank. This is not new stuff and people say who came up with this idea? If you listen and pay a little attention to our show or to, you know things going on in town read some of these notices.
Speaker 2:If you pay attention to our show, you wouldn't be the one asking the questions and making the comments on Twitter and everything else. You'd probably you'd probably already know these things and say I knew about that.
Speaker 1:That's because all of the smart and informed people in the city listen to it. The show.
Speaker 3:That's right Now. Our numbers are growing daily.
Speaker 2:I think we're up to 17 now.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, that's odd.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we sat down the toilet.
Speaker 2:We actually have a lot between our all the podcast platforms, so people listen to this, you know, in their cars or or whatever. And then our YouTube people also. Yeah, we get. I'm surprised how many people. The numbers keep going up and I'm happy, surprised.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening, thank you for watching.
Speaker 2:You know there's a lot of work into this to bring this information. So we do appreciate the viewership.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of different shows. I mean, Ashley yesterday or this week did a great show and there last week did a great, I mean, and they're all on the website.
Speaker 1:You can listen to them all on the website.
Speaker 2:I think we've done close to 85 shows that I think I think only 55 to 60 are on video. Our first 20, 25 are only audio. So but we've done 85 different podcasts now in the 10 months we've been doing this.
Speaker 1:Hold on this. Just in Ross is scribbling something. Feverishly, hold on, I am.
Speaker 3:I I our good friend Mike Grisafo, who was on one of your podcasts. Yes, he's been in the hospital for a week.
Speaker 2:What happened?
Speaker 3:Mike has what they thought was diverticulitis. We had to have some surgery.
Speaker 2:Now what? What is?
Speaker 3:diverticulitis is your, where your, your intestines, develop poles and so forth, and he's had stomach issues for years.
Speaker 1:And I take it he's OK, you talking about this?
Speaker 3:We talk. He called me.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 2:And I said I'm making sure we don't have to edit this whole thing out. He called you to tell you about this.
Speaker 3:I called him to see if he was OK. Ok Is in the hospital a lot longer than the. How did you hear about it?
Speaker 2:Mike Grisafo, that's true, I'm not on Facebook Anyway. Ok, I'm not on Facebook.
Speaker 1:So I just suspense is killing me.
Speaker 3:If he was still in the hospital and he was in there a lot longer because he, literally he couldn't eat in St Joe's St Joe's he did have a window view of, he said Disney enforced. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, from that side of the hospital he's recovering. He was supposed to go home yesterday or today. Mike's an Italian. He loves eating his Italian food, like Grisafo, his mother.
Speaker 1:He knows what Wednesday is.
Speaker 2:Mother was the best Italian cook. You could not go to his place I bet, you know. Say can I make you some spaghetti? Can I make you?
Speaker 1:exactly. I bet you know what. Mike knows what Wednesday is.
Speaker 2:Nina Grisafo, she was amazing. She could cook like you would, ok.
Speaker 1:Oh, but we're burying the lead here. I assume we're wishing Mike well.
Speaker 2:I told him, you know, we hope my family.
Speaker 3:You know being in the hospital for a week is no fun, but he did say a little amounts of food he was supposed to go home today or tomorrow and a little bit of recovery at home. Julie's been taking care of him. She was at the hospital for all the hours that he was there. So we give Mike a shout out get fast. Yes, Because Mike is not one to stand still.
Speaker 2:Get well, mike, five minutes. Yeah, mike is not a good person for doing anything. Well he's on the go, he's always doing something. He's involved in everything. You know what Mike needs.
Speaker 1:He needs a parade no-transcript.
Speaker 3:I think he would be a yep, you're right, you were so correct.
Speaker 2:In fact, I've heard that somebody here might actually be going to talk about.
Speaker 1:It might have some information. How immediate about it. On a parade, was that not enough of a segue? That was amazing. Did you get it?
Speaker 3:Can we rewind that From St Joe's Burbank on Parade? Oh wait, Well.
Speaker 1:This is you, ross.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I'm going to.
Speaker 1:There are some people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're gonna do Friday.
Speaker 1:We just cut the last 30 seconds.
Speaker 3:I have wanted to put Burbank on Parade back. We haven't done it for many years. There's a lot of reasons why we haven't done it. I am meeting with some stakeholders on Thursday. I love a good stake. Wait spoke a little differently. I think, ooh, we are gonna discuss. We're gonna discuss the possibilities of bringing a Burbank on Parade back to Burbank. Yes, it's a start.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know, we just gotta be support for this.
Speaker 3:And I think there is. It's a community event people loved. I have been wanting to do it for many years and there's a lot of the city's making it so difficult and so expensive. But now I have some. I have talked to a couple of people that are from the city. Oh that love community.
Speaker 1:You know some people from the city, do you?
Speaker 3:One or two and I will say that it's in the works. Possibly We'll find out what come Thursday. What we can come up with, it's gotta be. You know they always every time we've had Burbank on Parade blue sky and the clouds, and it's Burbank, everybody loves it. It's a.
Speaker 1:Chamber of Commerce day. Everybody loves it, but it's so difficult to put together sometimes. Right, it's a big event. There's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 2:And, honestly, my feeling is this we spend close to just under $200,000 in the Rose Parade float and we should have that. It's an important thing for Burbank. The whole world sees Burbank. You know 30 seconds it's on the screen and Put that in the parade.
Speaker 2:A destination place. Why aren't we spending that kind of money on the not meeting, not that much, but at least subsidizing a parade? And to Magnolia Park, all of the in the park, all day in the park. Those are two events that the entire citizenry of Burbank enjoys, responds to, comes out, enjoys the day. You know, holiday in the park. What was your tennis shoot? What 20 30,000 people came to that event. You know, and the people on the Magnolia Park committee are scrounging for enough money to try to put that together every year. You know we need, they need help on that. You know they're not saying we own for free, but all right, maybe a little easier.
Speaker 3:I'm going to cast my fishing pole out there. You mentioned, you mentioned Holiday in the park. Yeah, you know what. We want the citizens not only to come out, but if they have a favorite food truck that they have not seen at holiday in the park, they've seen somewhere else, email their name of the company to me. They can send it to Ross at myburbankcom, okay. Or info at Magnolia Park Merchants Association. We want more food trucks, so the lines aren't so long.
Speaker 2:Name that truck.
Speaker 3:Name that truck and Burbank has some requirements. Some of them not all food trucks have them, but we'll do some research. We want to get another dozen trucks Absolutely Holiday in the park.
Speaker 2:But you have that in November. Why not have this, you know, a parade in either April or May, you know, and not just a parade, make it a day. Make it a day in Burbank.
Speaker 1:I like that idea, Like a fair you know. Yeah, like that idea and the parade's over.
Speaker 2:There's more activities. There's more things for families to do.
Speaker 1:The input you get a lot of community input for these events. You get residents.
Speaker 3:Well, you get a half a dozen that they want. What?
Speaker 2:You were suggesting to put it on Magnolia and get it off of Olive, where you have a lot of businesses that really aren't, you know, friendly to the average person.
Speaker 1:They're not businesses.
Speaker 2:Well, Magnolia is more of a neighborhood feel anyway, yeah, so I mean there's a lot of Burbank small businesses that could really use the foot traffic and things like that.
Speaker 3:Holiday in the park. I've talked to some of the businesses along there. They were slammed. They love Holiday in the park. They have told me it's the best day of the year. It's like you know, when you bring 30,000 people, that's available to come into your shop. So I think Burbank on parade back to maybe do it in Magnolia Park and we'll see what this group of stakeholders, what they're thinking Not gonna happen next week. No, this takes a good year to plan.
Speaker 2:Probably the meeting next week and you know what You're gonna have? A meeting and we wish you well and.
Speaker 3:The force is with him. There you go. You know what. I've wanted to do it for a long time. I love community events. I love seeing people across. They live on the hill, everybody involved. Bring the kids.
Speaker 1:It is a great family, perfect family event.
Speaker 2:Isn't it? Yeah, I see all these parades in there, you know Marluthor Day parade, this parade, the Memorial Day parades, the forces live parade. I go, god. Why do we have that? What happened Burbank? You know? Why don't we have our special day where we can come out and celebrate our city and our people? Yeah, it's great. We see the float cold down the street and the boys and girls' scouts are all on them, and another one with all the karate kids are chopping in and everything else, you know, craig wants his special day.
Speaker 2:I just think we need to have that day where we highlight what Burbank's all about, what makes Burbank Burbank.
Speaker 1:Just remember, if you know, as this comes to fruition, the golden rule about organizing a parade you'd never let the guy with the shovel decide how many elephants get to be in the parade.
Speaker 3:You're gonna laugh. Yes, you know we. I go back many, many years, circus Vargas.
Speaker 2:I don't have an elephant, by the way.
Speaker 1:You don't have an elephant so no, I don't have an elephant I could, but it'll be really loud Circus Vargas used to set up here in town.
Speaker 3:Yes, he would bring elephants through the parade Many years ago when I was on Third Street. We had elephants, we had all sorts of animals. I think I have a picture either with Craig or my good buddy Mike Bolton, next to a llama from Circus Vargas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we, we were in Circus Vargas.
Speaker 1:Those she's wait Not to be confused with an alpaca.
Speaker 2:You know, we had our parade and we had our big event at McCambridge Park, on the first slide by the Burbank JC the big carnival. And then we'd all stop at nine o'clock and watch the fireworks.
Speaker 1:You have both spoken to the point on several episodes of this show of the hurdles that are put in front of any organization trying to get a public event going, so hopefully the communication will start flowing here.
Speaker 3:Well, people don't understand. Holiday in the Park was a $95,000 adventure for Magnolia Park merchants.
Speaker 2:That's what it cost to put on Yep yeah, that's what those merchants had to pay to get it done.
Speaker 1:Well, we had to collect to pay our you know, between the roadblocks and personnel that had to be there.
Speaker 2:They got, you know, but you know.
Speaker 3:I'll come back and I'll let you know. You know what you?
Speaker 2:find out. We'll hear about that next week on our show. We're not gonna stop.
Speaker 3:The committee, the stakeholders that I've talked to are all in Gung Ho and you're gonna say the parade must go on.
Speaker 2:You know, and I get it, there are security concerns nowadays. There are, you know, things that you know. We have bad actors, as they call them, that people wanna do things and it just happened in Kansas City. But you know you just can't hide from. Is the world shut down?
Speaker 1:because of this.
Speaker 2:You gotta still have your, you know, I mean, they win if we stop all these events. Take every precaution you can take, but just by not having it is not the solution.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 3:Burbank is a really safe community. We've pulled off holiday in the park with no problems. I mean, we don't even impound a car. I mean it's a Burbank is a great community to do something like this and that's why you know, let's honor Burbank people in the parade.
Speaker 1:We have enough of it. Let's honor Burbank. It's, it's, it's yeah. Yeah, you're honoring the city itself in the parade.
Speaker 3:Wanna keep the politics out of it, mm-hmm, and good luck with that. Do that.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, moving on to the weekend, I'm afraid you're gonna be on that committee.
Speaker 1:You know it would be great on a nice Friday evening. You know, a hike, a hike, a nice hike. What kind of hike? Oh, in the evening, what do you have? A nice moonlight hike, what?
Speaker 2:You did. I hear the word what Moonlight.
Speaker 1:Moonlight. Why did you hit the button?
Speaker 2:Oh is moonlight the word of the week. You gotta stop saying that word for a second. Stop, moonlight, you can't you can't.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, it's just, it's programmed. I need to let you know I've been moonlighting. Oh no, a moonlight is the word of the week. That's it. You want to explain it, or should I?
Speaker 2:Why don't you go ahead and explain it?
Speaker 1:I'll give you a break. You've been talking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we say I might have one of the D's in there somewhere.
Speaker 1:Right, you have until Wednesday no word of the week. This week is moonlight, so for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe, the wonderful Hill Street Cafe local business email contest at myburbankcom, include the word Word Moonlight In the subject line. Go ahead and throw your mailing address of choice in the email so we can send you. It goes into a random drawing. All the submissions go into a random drawing. One winner is chosen who will win the gift card for the week. So good luck to you and if you've gotten this far in the show, thanks for being here.
Speaker 2:Absolutely the one we are going to have the moonlight.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's a story associated with that, isn't there?
Speaker 2:From six to seven at the Starlight I'm sorry at the Stout Canyon Nature Center To seven pm. Yeah, just six to seven. I would call first because we don't know what the rain we had this past weekend, if the trails are going to be open or not, if they're going to be or they may can't, but it's scheduled. So it's going to have like four days that it's a dry out a little bit. But guess what? People are just coming weekend? We have another storm coming too.
Speaker 1:Next Sunday night, later in the weekend, friday right now is looking 45 to 68,. Partly cloudy or partly sunny, whichever way you want to look at it. But yeah, you're right. Because of the rains going on right now, the trails might be affected.
Speaker 2:And another storm can be next Sunday.
Speaker 1:So what's Sunday? Sunday Like an ice cream Sunday. Those are good too. Love those, love those. That's the hike.
Speaker 2:That's it and that, and the weekend is kind of free next week because we're all getting ready for Stormwatch 2024.
Speaker 1:Stormwatch 2024.
Speaker 2:So that leaves, us.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what's left. You know what. Everybody's here, still here for.
Speaker 2:You've gotten that part of the show and guess who just saw his flames tonight during his ramp.
Speaker 1:For the first time. Yeah, this is the only reason I'm still in the room. This is it. It's for this part, ok.
Speaker 2:Which is what. What's happening now. It's time for Ross's rant. Ross's rant.
Speaker 3:Ross's rant.
Speaker 4:I take a flamethrower to this place Me. What's up, Doc?
Speaker 3:Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1:Is that on video? I don't have a jingle. You have a jingle.
Speaker 3:Well, we won't talk about your jingle An intro. Your jingle. No, I have a couple items. I knew you would A couple. I have a couple items. I, a couple weeks ago, complained about driving back to Burbank via Sherman Way and every block or every other block, there's a billboard for an attorney. Well, Burbank is getting attacked. Bus shelters along Glen Oaks. Now Every other bus shelter has an attorney.
Speaker 1:Or real estate agent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we saw that today, but it just gets me that and they're not. They jump out at you. You know if it's Larry Parker or Hector or whoever. I mean these billboards.
Speaker 2:I guess they're not very effective.
Speaker 3:I don't know who they are.
Speaker 2:Is that Dutch yeah?
Speaker 3:Whoever, I call that blight.
Speaker 2:But is it effective? You'd know who the people are and the pictures.
Speaker 3:You know, they're not even Burbank attorneys. That's what gets me. And then one of my other ones was I hear people complaining all the time. I never knew that event was going to happen. We talk about, we cover a lot of events, that's the whole reason for having this show. Isn't it, though? We have had a calendar that's free to put stuff on on my Burbank, and we don't just take and put your stuff on it. He goes out as a tweet. He goes out on our Twitter, goes out to 48,000 people, 49,500.
Speaker 3:Wow, Wow, you know. But when people say oh, I didn't know that event took place, or after you know, after the fact I just you know, and then I got yelled at on Facebook the other day.
Speaker 1:Sorry about that.
Speaker 3:No, there were some people. I guess I'm rude. It's just because I say stuff like folks.
Speaker 1:If you do your homework, and it just kind of gets me like you know what it's not rude? People say it's rude because people are offended by everything nowadays. You're curt, I'm curt, curt Garret it's often confused with being rude. No, we just get to the point and we say what needs to be said.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, but I don't understand. You see, I have off Facebook. I couldn't, I couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh so much junk.
Speaker 2:Because you know what people get out there and say, why were the helicopters flying over? And you see it like two days. It's like what people on Facebook are gonna answer that question for you? I? Why not call the police department if it's so concerning to you?
Speaker 1:You know, I mean it drives me crazy, as people fishing for attention, like you'll see. You know people post I'm having the worst day, or ug, woe is me. They want people to bite. Oh, what's wrong? What's wrong? Why are you having a bad?
Speaker 3:day, oh there was a.
Speaker 1:Facebook is not the place for that Today. That's for, that's for piano playing cats.
Speaker 3:Okay, Somebody got.
Speaker 2:They're coming on our show and have a guest rant.
Speaker 1:Oh, we could have a whole show, it could be a whole series.
Speaker 2:We do have. We do have an extra share here.
Speaker 3:There is Well. Today, somebody apparently planned a big meal and then their power went out and they tried to call water and power. And today's a holiday and they said, oh, I'm gonna have to wait till tomorrow to cook my meal. That's been put in the crock pot. No, if you look on the city's website, there's an emergency number that you can call. That goes to the guard shack, actually, and there's. There were crews out. I listened to their frequency. Today they went from power outage to power outage. This weather, palm fronds, fronds, fronds are blowing transformers out. Is that an echo.
Speaker 1:I thought it was a stripper there. An echo in here.
Speaker 3:Palm frond. Okay, the other, the other, quickly of my that I get you know my two seconds for my, my rant, you second.
Speaker 2:Oh no. No, you can take as long as you want, there's a.
Speaker 3:Well, like the lines on Olive, you know they put them on there. We talked about it back in November. I remember specifically saying be prepared. And now that they did it, craig Dirling and I happen to be romance Romance.
Speaker 1:You're still hooked up on the Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3:I too slipped out.
Speaker 1:All right, delete that. Okay, whatever you Calling Dr Freud.
Speaker 3:We lived. We had a very nice house that we were roommates. We had a balcony. We would sit out on that balcony come four, five o'clock. Smoking cigars Smoking cigars and listen to reckons and number of cars that ran the stop sign and we would just count cars blowing through the stop sign in the intersection 40, 50, 60 miles an hour.
Speaker 1:So they wanted Up or downhill.
Speaker 3:They wanted to slow traffic down on that wide street, and so they've changed it a bit. You know what it's gonna work, you know, and the motor officers are gonna probably be able to sight people. But people are complaining and they'll always complain.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's funny. Let's change they're talking about. Oh my God, there's only one lane in each direction now, like every other street going up the hill, like Harvard or Walnut, that has the golf course and castaways.
Speaker 1:You're putting friction in between people in their normal everyday routine. How dare you.
Speaker 2:Stop saving their lives.
Speaker 1:How dare you?
Speaker 2:I guess the top of all, I guess what Sunset's only one lane in each direction too. So I mean, how much traffic is going?
Speaker 1:to come. Yeah, you know how hard it is, how hard that makes it to get over 80? Almost impossible, you know. But they don't try though.
Speaker 3:They don't take into account that there was a fatality accident a couple of years ago, that at the corner of sunset, and all of and speed was the factor on that accident.
Speaker 2:I think it was more the stone wall was the factor. Well that's a sudden stop up there.
Speaker 3:That's what he ran into. The other one is I saw I listened to Ashley's podcast yesterday. I want to promote all of our podcasts, but she had past. President of coordinating council.
Speaker 2:Marianne Bean.
Speaker 3:Marianne Bean on and Marianne talked about quite a few things that she's been very involved in. Well, I saw today coordinating council is looking for some volunteers people that are volunteers enjoying their board. Right, they're looking for some new board members. Folks, you want to get involved in Burbank? Perfect way. You don't have to go to a ton of meetings. They have one a month, you know, and they talk about a ton of things.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not sure they still have the direction they used to have. It's been 90 years and I know at one time, 20, 30, 40 years ago, it was always about coordinating all the service clubs, all the nonprofits so they could all come there and knew what was going on with each other. Now I don't think they do much that anymore.
Speaker 3:That's what they do at their meeting. Everybody could stand up and talk about your organization If you have a, and now right now, we are in nonprofit gala season.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, we are.
Speaker 3:You know we've gotten invited now to five or six, but each group usually goes there and they also do coordinating the Christmas.
Speaker 2:The baskets and also do campers also. They sponsor campers.
Speaker 3:See how many people knew that.
Speaker 1:I'm just impressed that you can now. You've known each other so long you can finish each other's sentences. I can just see these, that's adorable.
Speaker 2:I can see what he's about right now. What's funny, is he?
Speaker 3:sat in on the podcast being recorded and I listened to the podcast. So, and when they've both looked over at Craig, I figured I knew what they were looking at.
Speaker 2:Well, somebody had to wake me up. No, no, no, it was very interesting. I did not fall asleep.
Speaker 3:But no people wonder. You know, you get involved in your community. You don't have to be jumping two feet, you got young professionals.
Speaker 1:This isn't a huge time commitment. This particular board right.
Speaker 3:No, but even if you're a church, you know go to coordinating councils and share your church's stuff. So they are looking for some board members Highly recommend. You know it's they have lunch and you know they share. They're only there for an hour. Sometimes they have a speaker, but that also then segues for me into our podcast. Ashley does some great ones. We have some sports ones that Craig and Coach Hart do. There's a couple interesting ones, coach's Corner yes, coach's Corner. You want to find out a little about Mickey DePaolo? We get into it. Who?
Speaker 1:Mickey DePaolo. How do I find out more about him?
Speaker 3:Their podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, Coach's.
Speaker 3:Corner oh, Coach's Corner. He was a coach for a long time. That's handy.
Speaker 2:Yes, and we did with Microsoft.
Speaker 3:So you know, we also did a podcast at Airwalk, which we've been asked and be doing one again this year.
Speaker 1:That's right, april 20th 20th.
Speaker 3:We've been asked to come back.
Speaker 2:For remote podcast. You can come out and see how the sausage is made.
Speaker 3:We're making sausage. Careful what you wish for.
Speaker 1:Yes, there's going to be sausage. There's also road kings.
Speaker 3:Is there a big car show? We've been asked, come on back. We've been asked, no ask. Oh, okay, come on back. That's a whole mother. So you know, I had a list, wrote them down and there's a lot going on in our great community. The water is flowing in Burbank. I haven't heard any problems. I haven't heard any underpasses getting closed.
Speaker 2:As long as none water bottles at least.
Speaker 1:The community needs your support. That's right. No right to complain if you're not part of the solution. Right there you go. Don't be part of the problem.
Speaker 2:You know and I know we get the parade going again, there are going to be a ton of volunteers to help out with the parade.
Speaker 1:Huge effort, huge effort for that we go back, we go back to what we need.
Speaker 3:We went back on. Parade started at Dalt's, Went from Oliver Riverside all the way to Oliverac and I remember being on the roof of Dalt's building with binoculars watching the parade. There were any problems. Then it got shortened because the Boy Scouts, the Young Cub Scouts, couldn't walk the five miles to Oliverac.
Speaker 1:It could be a long walk.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then they shortened it because they didn't want us to.
Speaker 2:They didn't want to close Buena Vista.
Speaker 3:Well, Buena Vista. So they started Buena Vista, and then they put the kids on.
Speaker 2:Remember Dalt and. I was supposed to be on 3rd Street.
Speaker 3:Years ago. You're right, Yep. So we've seen it around this town and Glen Oaks. I have pictures of it back up on Glen Oaks.
Speaker 2:But we were hoping they'd put it on Magnolia Park and help the merchants out with it would be good for everybody.
Speaker 3:And I want to say that I was asked last week after a fire to find the cause and I was given some homework.
Speaker 2:You were given some homework Was to find out the cause To your dog Ateit that where it went that, oh, I'm going to.
Speaker 1:You'll see it again.
Speaker 2:I hope your dog's not like my dog and once he's going to sleep on a job, because he's a this one's going to throw you. Okay.
Speaker 3:Toss me, the cause was in inconclusive what does insurance companies say? About that An inconclusive for the fire investigator.
Speaker 2:We're talking about the fire that was on Glenwood, correct and Oak. The abandoned building Inconclusive.
Speaker 3:Not resolving fully all doubts or questions. Evidence without final results or outcome.
Speaker 1:So it was. Insurance company doesn't have to pay out.
Speaker 2:So it was rats with matches.
Speaker 3:Rats. I will also say I did see a Facebook post I don't like to share, you know, but there was a fire. If I recall on Myers that we ran a picture on Apparently they lost that family, did not have fire insurance, lost everything in their garage. There is a go fund me page that was a garage for, not a house, fire.
Speaker 3:Right, but they had a lot of personal property and they lost it all. And somebody, if you go on, you know, go fund me. They're asking for donations. If people can donate to this family, do you have a name or anything. It's listed under emergency or fires. If I were to put in Burbank fire, I guarantee it'll come up or put in. I think that fire was 1300 block or so.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be in Burbank and fire. That's how you're going to get you. Throw something in Burbank, illinois, burbank, washington.
Speaker 3:But I just noticed that one, so what a full show.
Speaker 1:We can go for hours.
Speaker 2:Let's do that.
Speaker 1:Let's go for hours.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. This is not a city council meeting. We're not paying staff here.
Speaker 1:Okay, we'll bump the rest till next week.
Speaker 2:I have to do that.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, that is it For Ross Benson and Craig drilling. This is Craig Sherwood, once again saying thank you very much for listening. We back next week with another dish of the week that was and the week that will be.
Speaker 1:Good night everybody.
Speaker 2:Well, my.
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