Get ready to immerse yourself in the heartbeat of Burbank with your hosts Craig Sherwood and Craig Durling, along with Ross Benson's sharp wit. This week, we're peeling back the curtain on everything Burbank, from the glitz of the Oscars to our pride in Ann Harding's local victory. Ever wondered about the best hour to savor a bite at Hill Street Cafe or what it takes to design a winning float? We've got that covered along with our generous sprinkle of humor and personal insights, ensuring your time spent with us is as informative as it is entertaining.
Navigating the twists and turns of local politics can feel like a labyrinth, but fear not! We dissect the impact of term limits on the political scene, offering a window into the future of Burbank's governance. From the comical battles with city elevators to the serious discussions around firearm zoning, we serve up a robust blend of the issues that shape our streets and skies. Our discussion extends to the importance of community input on projects such as the George Izay Park redesign, illustrating just how vital your voice is in the grand scheme of Burbank's development.
As we wrap up this episode, we take a whimsical detour to chat about the newly installed clock near the police station and the pothole that became an internet sensation. While Craig Durling takes a temporary leave, rest assured Ross Benson will keep the conversation as lively as ever. Join us next week for another round of Burbank Talks, where we continue to connect dots, share laughs, and offer a slice of life from our beloved city.
Get ready to immerse yourself in the heartbeat of Burbank with your hosts Craig Sherwood and Craig Durling, along with Ross Benson's sharp wit. This week, we're peeling back the curtain on everything Burbank, from the glitz of the Oscars to our pride in Ann Harding's local victory. Ever wondered about the best hour to savor a bite at Hill Street Cafe or what it takes to design a winning float? We've got that covered along with our generous sprinkle of humor and personal insights, ensuring your time spent with us is as informative as it is entertaining.
Navigating the twists and turns of local politics can feel like a labyrinth, but fear not! We dissect the impact of term limits on the political scene, offering a window into the future of Burbank's governance. From the comical battles with city elevators to the serious discussions around firearm zoning, we serve up a robust blend of the issues that shape our streets and skies. Our discussion extends to the importance of community input on projects such as the George Izay Park redesign, illustrating just how vital your voice is in the grand scheme of Burbank's development.
As we wrap up this episode, we take a whimsical detour to chat about the newly installed clock near the police station and the pothole that became an internet sensation. While Craig Durling takes a temporary leave, rest assured Ross Benson will keep the conversation as lively as ever. Join us next week for another round of Burbank Talks, where we continue to connect dots, share laughs, and offer a slice of life from our beloved 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 yes, who's back? Craig Durling.
Speaker 1:I am back. We're all awake after that little introduction, aren't we? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Good to be back and, of course, what's the week without Ross Benson?
Speaker 1:There he is. He's over here.
Speaker 3:Ah, there goes my tally light. I'm here. Hello, and Craig, why is your face so red?
Speaker 1:I had a little time in the sun, son, in the last couple of days. A little bit of time in the sun, oh you're working.
Speaker 2:I thought it was something I'm actually Working on, a reward for stivities, and congratulations on that.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't win anything. Oh, you didn't. I did not take home an Oscar. No, I didn't win one.
Speaker 2:We understand it. I was even nominated. Well, is it true that you were John Cena stand-in'd before?
Speaker 1:the John Cena.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the stand-in for the the naking part there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That was your job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my envelope had to be bigger though. Oh absolutely, I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I'm surprised you didn't come out with a bigger envelope. You know, for some reason.
Speaker 1:Well, it was cold in the theater, why they keep a chili in there? Yes, they do. I think they're all. Anyway but, yes that's where I was all last week working the Oscars, and then I already forgot what I was doing. Last week, I think I was out of town for business and unfortunately I will be gone the next couple of weeks. I'll miss the next couple episodes of this, but we'll be back as soon as I can after that I gotta keep you.
Speaker 3:I gotta keep you, I gotta keep you, leave you wanting more right. The Oscars, have a roadshow or something you're going on?
Speaker 1:No, I'm done with the Oscars for the year. Oh, for a year, huh, for the year. That's it Moving on to the next projects, but I will be out of commission. The next couple of episodes of this year program.
Speaker 2:Well, good to have you with us once again, and thank you, ann Harding, because you are the winner of this week's Hill Street Cafe gift card for $25.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ann Harding All right Ann. Harding Congratulations. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:The word was recruits last week and she was one of many to send it in, but her name got picked.
Speaker 3:He's not a recruit.
Speaker 2:Is he? He's not a recruit? Okay, so we will have the gift card and mail to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Yeah, thanks for listening, ann, and participating. Enjoy your meal at.
Speaker 2:Hill Street Cafe and later in the show we'll have another word of the week and there'll be another $25 gift card to give you to a lucky listener who sends in that word to.
Speaker 1:You have to stick around, though. Yep, you got to stick around. You never know when it'll come up.
Speaker 2:The email is contestedmybrewingcom. So just so you know, get your email ready. All we need to do.
Speaker 1:They hear the word and it's hard to miss. It is hard to miss the word Whether you're watching the video later on, if you're not watching live, but if you're listening. We make it really hard to miss the word of the week when it does come up, and then you zip an email to contestatmybrewingcom.
Speaker 3:But I think we need to tell our winner they need to check the hours, because you say go have a good dinner in the past shows and on Monday they're not open.
Speaker 2:Monday to Wednesday, they're not open for dinner.
Speaker 3:Right Only day lunch, but Thursday, friday and the weekend.
Speaker 1:So check your local Hill Street Cafe schedule.
Speaker 3:That's a good way to put it. I think he's still doing kids eat free on Thursday, so you guys can bring your kids oh.
Speaker 2:Double down, all right. Well, double down, let's move on to the week that was, because that's what this show is all about.
Speaker 3:Was it what?
Speaker 2:What so? On Monday we had it was announced that we're going to turn them roses. It shows the winning float design for the 2025. Yes, I said 2025.
Speaker 1:That's like 20 and a quarter, 20 and a quarter.
Speaker 2:The winner is Eric Anderson, who's a longtime volunteer of the Brewing Tournament Roses and this is his third float. He has designs for the City of Burbank and the parade scene. This year is best day ever.
Speaker 1:Does he get the ride on the float or something because they chose his design? Or does he get anything or just the prestige? I don't think they've come up with your.
Speaker 3:He just does the design and I don't think they've come up with if they're going to do float riders, what music, what flowers? That's all.
Speaker 1:Also, they don't even.
Speaker 3:Have you gotten that far?
Speaker 1:I think he gets some sort of accolades.
Speaker 2:Some years they don't have a float rider, some years they do.
Speaker 3:But it also has to and I don't know if this has yet from the designs and it was actually on Sunday, but I wrote Monday because Sunday was the previous week show they have to send the rendering to Pasadena to make sure no other float company is doing the same float. So usually Burbank comes up with two designs in case, the first and second, but there's a rendering picture which I will send you.
Speaker 2:We could add I didn't have to do that for the name too, because I know I haven't picked a name yet. But what if the two floats have the same name?
Speaker 3:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Ralph one and Ralph two. Yes, ralph Ralph.
Speaker 3:Was that like Doby Gillis? Oh, I'm dating myself.
Speaker 1:There's our first zap. Yeah, first zap Dodger. Dodger came over to visit me. That's a first.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because he heard you say Ralph hey, Ralph Hi hey.
Speaker 1:So Dodger Dodger, the, my Burbank dog, is hanging around the studio.
Speaker 2:We'll get him on there. He's making a trip over there.
Speaker 1:So look, I just walked by out of his own shot. Oh well, moving on.
Speaker 2:He's not a Hollywood dog. Um Tuesday night with election night in Burbank and in effect, all of a sudden can affect all of the nation Well, not most of the nation.
Speaker 1:Did everybody vote.
Speaker 3:Wait, can I put everybody on notice? They came out with a float design. If somebody wants to work on the float, you have a whole year to work on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I don't think they can work on it until you actually build it first.
Speaker 3:Well, you get to help build it. I'll even teach you how to.
Speaker 1:So they're always looking for volunteers, right?
Speaker 3:Volunteers year round. Right and you can learn how to weld and work a forklift.
Speaker 2:And work for free, you're a volunteer.
Speaker 2:Right, um. So Tuesday was election night. We had a few candidates here in Burbank who were involved in the election process. Congratulations go out to both Nick Schultz and Laura Friedman, who both made it through the primary and will now go to the general election. Nick Schultz for the assembly seat in the forty fourth district and Laura Friedman for the congressional seat in the 30th district. So congratulations to both of them. And I got to tell you, I got to tell you what I think they have a pretty good shot because they're both going against Republicans in the in the general and we it's 72 percent Democratic voters and 28 percent Republican voters and if they just you know it's hard for Democrat to lose unless they really screw something up.
Speaker 1:It's their election to lose right it's their election to lose.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, I was looking at it, looked at the primaries too. It was interesting. I only saw one or two Republicans running in these races compared to seven, eight, nine Democrats. So the Democrats are all splitting their voice, their votes up, and Republicans are all getting. Mostly that's why a lot of Republicans made the runoff, because there was not a lot of elections to make. So I think a lot of these Democrats kind of shot themselves.
Speaker 1:Well and unfortunately. Well, maybe, unfortunately. I don't know everybody's different opinion, but we have a couple of names that that we're very familiar with. Who Well?
Speaker 2:yeah, one being Anthony Porto. Tino, who was also going for the congressional seat, came in third and I got a feeling that if all those votes were broken up, he would have made the runoff with Laura Friedman, but the Republicans, not having a lot of contenders, snuck in that second place seat there and I got. We were all a little bit surprised because Anthony Portino is a good friend of the city and and I know Ross is a good friend of yours also and he's done a lot for the city. And if you feel bad for him, but you know, come now, now January, he's out of a job and I know what's up for him next, although he could run for Brubin City Council now this year, because he's been a Lock and Yacht and City Council member and when he lived up there now he lives in Burbank.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you know Anthony is election wise. He might not have made it but he has some great you know the bills that he fast and a lot of things that he does. So I feel confident that Anthony will move into a good position somewhere.
Speaker 1:And we've got somebody else who's been on this show before.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do, our former Constantine Anthony, who ran for LA County District Supervisor in the fifth district and he actually did a little better than I thought he would do, to tell you the truth. You know he kind of said that. You know he didn't really expect to win because Laura for not Laura Freeman, I'm sorry. That's a bargain Was it for reelection, and usually your incumbents kind of get their way back in, but now a term limits, this is it for her. So he kind of got a practice.
Speaker 1:I can give it another whack. Well, he doesn't have a council.
Speaker 2:He didn't win City Council the first time either, it was a second time. So you know he can come up for City Council or for Supervisor again, but this also opens him up to run for City Council again this this year, if you wish is. Nick Schultz, however, is barred from running from City Council again because state laws says you can't run for two seats at once. So Nick Schultz is now off the council as of January when the, or December actually when the switchover happens. So hopefully we're rooting for him and hoping makes assembly. I think he'd be a great assembly member. I think he's. He's got a stuff together, you know. I think he's got a reasonable thought process and Intelligence. He's a lawyer too. I mean, how do you beat lawyers?
Speaker 3:But you know, as we learned when he was a bat, we learned when he did his marriage.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, did I say that out loud? Oh, did I say that?
Speaker 3:It was very important.
Speaker 3:The reasons is he just kidding everybody you know Everybody said that he got on city council. Now he's just moved, using the seat to move up the ladder. But if you Listen to his explanation, yeah, if he does not wait a second, let me give. Okay, if he does not Win, he's done. But who represents Burbank? I mean, this is the assembly, is where money is dished out, and if he loses or doesn't run, nobody's at the table fighting for Burbank. So you know, electing him to that position will help us maybe get my Burbank as a Judicated official start somewhere.
Speaker 2:I mean what bit that becomes to me someday. I mean, the LA Times is not the all be all. See all the daily newspaper Burbank that they say they are.
Speaker 3:Now, if anybody reads the article, the other day their presses have moved. Prices aren't downtown anymore, and I've been for a while. We still use presses.
Speaker 2:They do. They still print newspapers, even Many, but they still print newspapers.
Speaker 3:Well, you know what gets me of that election night. I did cover a couple. I got to Laura Friedman's and a Nick Schultz Campaign watch party, or whatever you want to call it. I'll tell you they built the new Taj Mahal for counting the votes and it was so goddamn slow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was there trying to eat up and I'm waiting an hour and they and the vote count went up 15 votes. Yeah, I'm going an hour. We got 15 votes counted, that's it.
Speaker 3:I just cannot believe, and People were wondering. If you live uptown Burbank, you heard a lot more helicopters that day. People don't understand LA County Sheriff's From out in the north Lake, los Angeles, lancaster that's how they get their votes Down to Norwalk to be voted.
Speaker 2:A lot of people don't understand that because and a lot of people might also understand that Helicopters generally use the freeway system as their freeway system in the sky. You're right. I go over the five freeway or down the 134 they try to go with. The freeways are also reliable reference.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it kind of got me I.
Speaker 2:Wanted to throw one thing for Nick Schultz so that you know, and I agree exactly what you're saying. But you know, if you look at you, look at Joe Biden, you look at any any of these people in politics, they all started out in their town councils or city councils and moved up. So yeah, I mean, do we hate to lose Nick Schultz? Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1:But I respect the fact that they've started there and they still have the passion and want to do even more and help even.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he's like a stop and assembly. I'm sure you know he's still young and he's a smart guy and I think he'll be On the Democrats radar, as far as you know, down the line and I can eventually see him, you know, moving up the ladder. So I mean I have no problem with this because I mean they all start somewhere. That's nice to say. They started in Burbank for a change.
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny, my grandfather was a judicial judge. He was an elected official in Chicago and you get into that political world.
Speaker 1:Especially Chicago, in Chicago.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Voterly and now you know why we moved out here. But once you get into that you know doing the Senate or assembly you move on. You want to move up because there's bigger and better things to use your expertise in.
Speaker 2:There's a smart guy I know we hope he does. Well, um, let's move on. There is. He was the the state of the Union. Now I'm not. We're not here to talk about the State of the Union or the Republicans or the Democrats, or the policies or anything else. That's not what we do here. But I'm gonna throw one thing out there which I think you know in the trickles down theory, to use that, what was that? Reagan? Economics, that economics? Um, the trickle down theory, and that is the quorum, and, and it really bothers me that, you don't have anymore.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean the president of the United States is speaking. You know what, keep your yaps shut and just sit there like you should. But you, you want to go up there and talk, become president. But I'll give you a quick story. When Bill Clinton was president you know we're very lucky here in Burbank that the presidents will fly into Burbank once in a while and we, you know, I knew back then because being in the media, that he was going to fly from Burbank to Hollywood or somewhere else and you, marine, was to come basically fly over our house here.
Speaker 2:Now, my dad was a staunch Republican I mean it was. You know he was a Ronald Reagan cheerleader, but no doubt Anyhow. I said, hey, dad, you know the marine, what, if you want to marine one fly over? You know it's gonna fly. You're gonna see what the president's helicopter looks like. All of a sudden he runs in the house, he grabs the American flag, he runs out in the front yard and when he comes over he starts waving American fast. I said, dad, that's good, that's not.
Speaker 2:A report goes. Oh, he's my president. And it taught me a lot right there that you know what, just because you didn't really like the man. You respect the office Right, respect what the man stands for. You know he stood for the president, united States, and I think we need to learn, you know, because it's trickles down to sometimes our city council meetings, when people go, when they dress the council and they start yelling and screaming and swearing and it's a quorum, it's. You know. You need to keep yourself Under, under control, you need to check yourself sometimes a lack of respect and they make it too personal.
Speaker 2:And I really feel I talked to Mike Nolan many times he loved Mike Nolan, but he'd get up there and he start yelling and screaming and and Counting his finger yeah, and sometimes demean some of the women up there and I would say, like you understand, you are so smart and you are so right on with so many things, but every time you do that, people lose the message and they see the antics. They don't remember what the message was. Good point, so did I ever?
Speaker 1:and for me that I'm sorry real quick. The the thing about like the state of the union is. I also consider it as the whole world is watching and it's a representation of how we are as a country, how we behave as a country and how the rest of the world looks at us and if they anybody tunes in around the world and they see how we're behaving, how the our leaders are behaving, it's embarrassing. It's an embarrassed global embarrassment when we act like that.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know it's March. We tear, I don't know really much. Yeah, I know she likes to raise, but for her to sit there and just like cat calls and everything else, and because and she's did that last year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just, it's sad.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's unnecessary, it's sad, and I know the speaker actually asked the members to please show professionalism into quorum during the speech.
Speaker 1:Well, if you, if you saw him, he would. He was giving hand signals. Like you know, he's on camera was like party settle down. Settle down yeah.
Speaker 2:I respect him for that because I say you don't have to agree with the man, you don't agree with his policies, but he has that right to that speech, that one hour or two hours or whatever it's gonna be that night, that's his, that's his perk of being the president. So yeah, afterwards you have your time to rebut it, you know, and, and have your your person talk about. You know what it's all about. I mean, that's fine that you have your time, but not during his speech, right, okay, that's that's well, and the and the gentleman that was that shouted out Was actually he was.
Speaker 1:He's a gold star father. Yes, son was killed in the. Afghanistan with the pullout, yeah and and I saw him interviewed today, his first interview and he says he doesn't even remember doing it. He said he remembers the president saying something about keep our children safe and he heard that and it triggered him and he doesn't had no intention of yelling.
Speaker 1:No he just couldn't help himself. But now, unfortunately, they filed charges, criminal charges, against him. I and he's looking at jail time and there is a whole Group of community out there that wants to support him and, yeah, I Charges hopefully gets a when he gets a jury, every jury members don't understand that and say, no, you walk. Yeah, but the way things go now, they'll, they'll make the process, the torture, the punishment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately.
Speaker 2:That's too bad, because that's a I wear a traumatic thing.
Speaker 1:You know what to serve your country and yeah, it's like okay, they removed him, but now drop the charges. Yeah, when you understand the circumstances.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I did see them walk him out and he walked out very. He didn't have put up a scene or anything, I don't know. You walked out very calmly and and obeyed instructions and you know he wasn't there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did, and he went in, did not have the intention of doing that. He was invited by a, by a, a congressman or one of the senators, and he lost control for a second.
Speaker 3:I was just gonna bring up. Did I ever tell you guys, monika Lewinsky was a relative of mine? Now, that's a top isn't anymore. That's another show. But yeah, you guys, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow there's a cigar joke in there somewhere.
Speaker 3:Give me a tip or a low. What about those elevators over a metro? Good segue, good segue.
Speaker 2:Them their elevator up and downs right now, as it is. So let's um, you know, it's, it's you know. We listen to the radios all the time, and what radio. Iraq no, we listen to the fire department dispatches.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, there's nothing there, unless you want to hear past old news. Um, anyhow, the elevator at the Metro link station on Saturday alone had three different calls for service for truck 11 to respond to People trapped in the elevator. And I'm saying myself, and that's just on one day, and I think we I've heard it maybe five to seven times this year already and probably times when I'm not listening and you know I between that and the one at that islands in the city parking structure there. In fact we're going. I'm gonna send an email in and try to get a list of how many calls.
Speaker 1:It's become a running joke for us. I mean it's a city elevator.
Speaker 2:It's the state's most dangerous elevator.
Speaker 3:Did I hear them at one? You know to me that is that white noise that you hear in the back right Because they go on it so many times but did I hear them say once we've been on this Earlier today yeah, when the fire captain says that you could tell they're making a point, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here's the thing, though, because that's such a vital transportation hub from the overpass to the Metro link station, you know it's either it's, either take that over. You got to walk all the way down the overpass and walk all the way back, you know, and then some people maybe Can't, aren't mobile enough, so that's, it's a necessary elevator. Now they're pretty new elevator in on the Magnolia overpass with that new project they're doing right now.
Speaker 1:But you know, and it's not like they can't not respond because it's a nuisance call. It's not like a nuisance alarm that they can say okay, we're gonna go three times, that we're not gonna go back anymore. It's a problem with the wind or the sensor. You got people stuck in the elevator.
Speaker 2:You still have the same person, it's only we have to go now and they can't turn it off because they do. Those people need the, you know, I mean they need that elevator.
Speaker 3:Well, we should. We should go up there and sell parachutes. I was going to say just jump off the overpass with a parachute to beat the elevator down anyway.
Speaker 1:Or a slide, or a nice pole.
Speaker 3:A pole. Remember when we wanted to pull? Oh, you know what?
Speaker 1:or you know what would be a great idea is to put an elevator in you know working elevator. Problem solved, oh working.
Speaker 2:Working, yeah, that costs more that costs more. Well, anyhow, talking about all of the things that we're doing, right now I'm going to be talking about the problem. I may, I may, I may actually Ross is this Mr Segway?
Speaker 1:tonight he's just keeping us moving, I may?
Speaker 2:do a video of the elevators and Burbank. What happens when I'm not here for a couple of weeks. See, you got to keep this thing, this boat, moving forward. We also posted this story on my Burbank Um this week and we did a video about the turmaloose.
Speaker 3:I was turmaloose. She was after them every week and she'd say to turn to the video room and go roll the video. Click over to another video on YouTube after you watch this show.
Speaker 2:Don't get confused, folks.
Speaker 3:We're talking about the striping on east Olive between Glen Oaks and Sunset, there were a lot of people complaining about this, though, right? Well, no this is no, this is, we got too many guy.
Speaker 1:damn problems we're still about the bus bus lane.
Speaker 3:Well, the bus lane is the west month, the bus lane is the west Olive, the striping is the east Olive, and wait till we start talking about San Fernando Road into.
Speaker 2:technically it's northeast and west, so um, david was nice enough to respond to us and we got his quotes in.
Speaker 3:I gave his phone number. I noticed yes.
Speaker 2:I put his phone number on the video. Yes, I did, so you can talk to him and give me your points. I just don't understand why he said in this written written statement that Olive is not considered a bike. Um, what do you call it? It's not in the bike master plan. Orange Grove is correct. And I'm going. So Orange Grove is safer to ride a bike than Olive with all that room.
Speaker 3:Well, it's not. The room amount of traffic and that's what they go by is by those traffic numbers.
Speaker 2:So once you put a single lane in, though, and you put a dedicated bike lane in, isn't that make things a lot, whole lot safer, no matter what the traffic is?
Speaker 3:No, because now we're a bike. Oh, I'm just wondering what did they have planned which they haven't said, but he did say in his notes, kind of in his response to you at Orange Grove I've been up and down Orange Grove and I've never seen a sign that says bike yeah. You know. So when are they going to do that? It makes you want.
Speaker 2:He also said that the thing that Olive has nothing to do with the Phase 2 of Magnolia.
Speaker 3:Correct, I saw that. So I think they're bearing that because we Magnolia Park merchants, we talked about that. Yeah, scandalo.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what we asked? A question that's about. Yeah, we asked the question. You did your job, you do diligence.
Speaker 3:That's all we can do so now with city must have gotten a grant. I don't know where they come up with this stuff, but they must have bought a grant for paint. Yes, that's what I was just going to say. Oh, they must have got a discount from Sherman Williams or somebody you know. 3m to redo, because they're doing East Olive. They're going to do the BRT. Have you driven down San Fernando Road? Yet there's more yellow paint out there this last couple of days. Yeah, it all goes one way. Now what goes one way?
Speaker 2:Down San Fernando, down San.
Speaker 3:Fernando goes north, where the mall used to be, from Angelino to the mall. That's one way, yeah, starting this week, see what happens when you go out of town, for you Well, I've always advocated.
Speaker 1:I think they should shut that down to pedestrian only anyway. What was it like it used to be? Yeah, there's no parking worth at Narn up there anyway, and everybody is making illegal U-turns to get into spaces.
Speaker 3:Not anymore, because it's all one way.
Speaker 1:But which way Northbound?
Speaker 2:Northbound only.
Speaker 1:Northeast bound.
Speaker 2:Yes, starting at Angelino.
Speaker 1:But, it's. Angelino.
Speaker 3:Yeah, camila went out there with her phone. She showed a video, because you don't look at Facebook. She responded to.
Speaker 2:Nobody looks at Facebook.
Speaker 3:Well, enough people followed her little video that she did. I looked at it the other day and I didn't realize those food areas that they have cutaways for they've now raised it is all. Even you don't have to step down off the curb to eat in there. They're all now nice wood. They've moved out those barricades so there's more of them so you could eat more.
Speaker 1:A lot of yellow. They're gobbling up the street.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what happens when the car goes out of control? And those barricades protected diners?
Speaker 1:See, that's part of it too. I think it's going to end up being like Third Street Promenade in the In the Monaca.
Speaker 2:I went there and took a look at the other day and I went to Magnolia and Thursday said street close and they had Magnolia northbound down to one lane starting at front. I'm going. Well, why are they closing the lane off in Front Street? And there was really no reason for it. They're not working on it or anything and it was taking forever to get to. And the reason why was they never fixed the signals? The signals kept giving they had truck. Oh for right turns or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah they had trucks parked on the signal indicators on San Fernando, so the signals were going full cycle to come off San Fernando and there's no cars because it's closed, and so everybody's waiting forever for a signal.
Speaker 1:For cars that weren't going to be coming in.
Speaker 2:Why wouldn't they think about things like this? I freed this out in five minutes. Who's the?
Speaker 1:How long it took you to get through.
Speaker 2:Oh no, five minutes just to get through from off the overpass onto Magnolia, past Front. It was literally 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:That's messing things up, okay.
Speaker 3:I thought they were supposed to do that project tonight.
Speaker 1:So what time did you go through?
Speaker 2:Oh, 3.30 in the afternoon.
Speaker 1:You're a night owl, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I was actually going to start that night, I was actually going to do a video down San Fernando of both directions of traffic, but Too late.
Speaker 3:Too late, yes, it is they have new bollards out there that you know separate the lane from the turn and see yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:It takes some getting used to for.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a one-year project because they're going to examine it then and decide if they want to continue with that, go back to two lanes or go to no traffic at all. So one-year experiment.
Speaker 1:They're getting there. They're getting there.
Speaker 2:All right, I don't mind them going back to the mall if they want to go back to the mall, but this time you have to maintenance up. You remember the last time the fountains all broke they didn't fix them. There was trash everywhere. They never picked it up.
Speaker 3:You're going to laugh. That's when Burbank Leader used to be on Magnolia behind the drug store and I remember they used to send me out to do man on the Street. I had not only the same, was it Homeless man on the Street, homeless man on the Street. But I ran into our good old friend Rich Kaufman one day and I said what are you doing on San Fernando Road? He said well, I thought this savant had an ice cream parlor. Well, back in the day there was a savant on the mall that had a ice cream.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 3:was that thrifties? No, it was thrifties, but savant did too. Right next to the green chip.
Speaker 2:That was legendary one time.
Speaker 3:With the weird scooper. Where's Cooper? I don't know.
Speaker 1:My zapper isn't working.
Speaker 2:Well, what else?
Speaker 1:They're way back rat hole zapper.
Speaker 2:Also on the on the weekend we at Ross you you heard a couple interesting medical calls. Why don't you do?
Speaker 3:yeah, somebody sent me. A couple of people sent me texts. Apparently there was a medical call at the farmers market Saturday and looking there we go.
Speaker 2:Well, they have a quick call. They got there.
Speaker 3:They're not there yet but apparently the looking at the time log of Online that anybody could look for, our medics were out for an hour and a half a long time to be on a first aid call and then the next day and I know there were a lot of people have commented there was a lady living in her van On victory, just west of point of vista blue or silver van in fact. My son drove by One day and saw a lady slumped over her wheel and called it in and they came out and she refused aid, I guess or something. They were out there later that day in June 14, and again she refused aid. I guess there was a car, police car, blocking off the road with police line tape and a corners vehicle Out there. So I'm trying to find out. I believe the ladies name was Colleen.
Speaker 2:Everybody in the neighborhood knew her and Well, sometimes it's a shame that these homeless people out there Is that the correct term? But the homeless people out there really don't want help. I mean, it's not that sometimes they're offered help and they just won't take it and Sounds like she just didn't want the help, no matter how bad she was and Can't force them. No, you can't force them.
Speaker 3:That's what my son said. You know, even now, he did the right thing, not knowing, but if he refused aid?
Speaker 1:Now my one thought about the color farmers market. You said it was hour or more. Do you know if they ended up, if they transported the person, or that's what I'm looking at thinking. If they didn't, maybe they just went shopping.
Speaker 3:That's a veggie, well, I do know that fire station potentially that's the case.
Speaker 1:You never know.
Speaker 2:Resets our MDT button.
Speaker 3:Fire station loving used to go over there and buy their eggs Early in the morning Saturday morning, because they're the freshest and the guys would buy dozens for.
Speaker 1:They go through them pretty quick. Yeah, they do so a lot of cooking, a lot of people hungry firefighters.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that's it for the week that was and that was the week that was.
Speaker 1:That was a quick week.
Speaker 3:It was that the week there was, was, was.
Speaker 2:Well, let's take a quick commercial break and we will be back with you in a few seconds here and we'll come back with the week that will be.
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Speaker 2:And here we go again Craig Sherwood with you, along with Craig Durling, still here, and, of course, ross Benson.
Speaker 1:Let's go you know weeks worth of meetings coming up.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do Well. Yes, we do have some meetings kind of a busy week. Interesting that on Monday we usually have four or five meetings. We only really have your favorite thing. Yeah, let's pack them in and have the two meetings. One actually got canceled, the planning commission. I Guess it was canceled due to lack of interest.
Speaker 1:No, I have nothing, was it? Was it canceled due to lack of planning?
Speaker 2:lack of, but they have nothing planned for the planning commission. So you know what? May I always say maybe the police commission should learn from things like that when there's nothing really to talk about, don't have a meeting, um we got that tell a time machine. Yes, we do, just for you.
Speaker 1:You got to do the thing again with your hand.
Speaker 3:Ding, ding, ding. I just got from the designer this whole on standby. We have breaking news, breaking news from the designer of the float. Eric Anderson said Possibly the float prehistoric fun, but they might be coming to the community, community to submit ideas. Oh now, you would have heard that here first. There are no other podcasts in this city. I just heard to hear first. No other podcasts in the city that probably no other live local Burbank podcast.
Speaker 1:This just an exclusive.
Speaker 2:By the way, we now have a new for breaking news. We are ready. It's for breaking news now, Breaking plates. That's not all I can do for you.
Speaker 1:I hope is what I hope. Is his name Eric? It is, I just hope. His winning design included a non-functioning elevator.
Speaker 2:What is prehistoric?
Speaker 1:it is pretty well much like apparently the elevator down.
Speaker 3:Everybody has a question. He threw this at me, just texted to me. Anybody has a question about his design or his float? Send them to us and they'll be glad to answer for us. Send them when? Send them to my Burbank. Rose float at my Burbank, or something.
Speaker 1:We have an email address for everything. Float questions for Eric at my Burbank calm well, we thank Eric very much. Yes, thank you for that, okay.
Speaker 3:I'm on Monday.
Speaker 2:Right, moving on to Monday All right, it's a whole new week.
Speaker 2:My commission has been canceled, so the only meeting was scheduled and you know the only thing going on really, this is they're having from Monday from 6 o 7 30 pm the community services building. They had a meeting tonight about the firearm and ammunition retail uses. It was a to to establish zoning regulations for firearms and ammunition retail uses. The staff presented an overview of the draft standards and it will be available for questions and comments. We actually sent one of our freelance reporters, doug, over to the meeting and he's gonna write about it and we'll have it on tomorrow's website on Tuesday. It says here all feedback received will be considered. Development of final draft standards, that no decisions we made at the informational meeting and City Council decided later.
Speaker 2:I still have I and I need to find this out. I have one question. You know I originally broke the story on this entire thing and talked about all the gun shops and and the locations of schools and the the state of California Standards, everything else, and I think it said you can't have a, a gun store within. I think I, you know I can't remember I appreciate said 500 feet within a school and I know, of course, gonna Google Maps, and I went okay, here's a gun store, here's a school, and Three or four times it was under 500 feet, but that was as the crow flies, because I knew you didn't go out there and walk it right if you go by, if you go by a street, so it would be over 500 feet.
Speaker 1:But if you go in a straight line, it's not something that would make more sense as the crow flies?
Speaker 2:I would think so, yeah, but I didn't.
Speaker 1:I looked and looked and looked at the regulations and Now is that like property line to property line, door to door?
Speaker 2:That's why I went by one from property line to property line.
Speaker 1:Okay, because that's gonna be your shortest distance.
Speaker 2:Yes, Well, yeah, but that's still but that makes sense, yeah so I'd like to find out is that is that state? And if it is, why did Burbank not? If it is by the crow flies, why did Burbank not enforce that, especially on a new gun world which is within 500 feet of?
Speaker 1:Roosevelt, and it's something that, if they've discovered it now, they I can't imagine they can undo right, they said they can't, oh, they can't but yeah, once again, you know. You know, you got caught your past. Miss the ball on that one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, when this whole thing started, the city said it's gonna take us several years. This is not one of those Tone-techs amendments. You got a change overnight over, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, they have to know they have to do it later this year because their emergency orders has run out. But they can also extend no, they did already the only lot of one extension. Oh, so I think it's August or say they got a lot. Still enough time. But I'm sure they'll do the right thing. But you know, I still not heard put a more trailer.
Speaker 1:How many gun stores in me or Burbank once they go out of business I'm still scared more can come in unless they put a well, if they do it right, if they go, these Stores go away through attrition and it's a second chance for the city to get it right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they have to have to be something in place. I say limit the five gun stores in Burbank and as they they want a business or move or whatever, and Etrish goes down. If they get to four one can come back in the city again, but until then, right now, there's no reason that they can't add more. Which is scary, who does you know? City of LA and Glendale both limit the gun stores, and so well, cuz what's in the middle, burbank, let's go there when they say gun stores, are they in clue?
Speaker 1:Are they just talking about like brick-and-mortar and stores, or does that include FFL?
Speaker 2:I think that includes the gun stores himself.
Speaker 3:No, I believe the FFL is because the one place that is over, near Victory and Five points that is in a riders or a rental place.
Speaker 1:And they came to Burbank because the loud FFLs I think LA County requires FFLs to have an actual storefront.
Speaker 2:So I also want to find out. I think the permit Emergency ordinance said that no miners are allowed inside a gun shop under 18 years old, right, I heard? Now big five is a gun shop. They sell guns.
Speaker 1:Well, that's interesting, my question is.
Speaker 2:My question is I have they walled off the gun section so minors can't get in? I've also heard, possibly like a Walmart, they may not sell guns there anymore. So I do not know and I'm gonna look into that a little bit and I was in Big five last week and they don't have one of her bank here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't have your typical shot guns, Right well they've gotten rid of most of what you would typically see them selling. They have mostly pellet guns and and pellet guns are fine. Yeah, those, those, those aren't typically included.
Speaker 3:They still hurt when you get shot at the back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and the police will still shoot back if they see one.
Speaker 1:Oh man, if you look in the display case at big five, you'd swear they're selling handguns, because they have these pellet guns right that look and don't don't the paintball guns Also look like that too.
Speaker 1:Well, these, these pellet guns, I'll tell you, look like regular handguns to me and I've seen a few. But that brings up the question of like a Not this is not in a negative way, but like unworld they have their, their gun. Firearm area is fenced in completely and the rest of the store is regular kind of Sporting goods merchandise. So can a finer go into the store, just not into the firearms area.
Speaker 2:I don't think that is Spelled out yet but I'm sure the new ordinance will be and it'll be interesting to. And you know I have no problem against the gun shops. I have no problem against, I'm not saying. And the second amendment, I'm just saying having 14 in a In a five and a half square mile area, Burbank. It's not necessary. So you know I support these businesses, want to see and all these these gun stores have been good. You know Good people in Burbank. Yeah, they're good businesses.
Speaker 1:They haven't caused problems might be good revenue for the city too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure you like that sales tax.
Speaker 3:Oh, I guarantee. But what's it?
Speaker 2:What's it gonna? I don't know what it gonna cost off, I don't have one.
Speaker 1:I don't know dollars anywhere from 300 to several thousand are there extra taxes beside? This is like the gas station, where you have to pay fire, like State fees and and FL fees, things like that. It's not not that much.
Speaker 3:Right. If I recall, once when they made a presentation to city council they talked about the front of gun world. They have Blockage Boliards inside so you can't drive a tank through it, and they are they in this new laws. It'll say how far off the sidewalk and what the minimums are. So I know they're making a lot of yeah.
Speaker 1:And even once you're inside, like I said, the firearms counter is completely from rafters to, you know, joists, you know fenced in as a separate, secured, secureable area. So you've asked to make a point to go in there.
Speaker 2:I'm not against, you know, I am against assault rifles, though I just think there's no, there's no valuable reason.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping in a whole another can of worms with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, but I just think that's my only complaint is on, yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's, it's not really else I'm fine, yeah, the.
Speaker 3:I went to Unworlds webpage the other day Like they wrote we live in this community, we shop here, we live here.
Speaker 1:They're just in a new, bigger location. They expanded, but they were always. They were down the street there for years. Yeah, years.
Speaker 3:So they want to be friendly, they want to be. You know, they want to go by the regulations the city puts.
Speaker 1:Yeah they're not looking to cheat the city or break rules. They're their community conscious. It's just they're in a fairly controversial business, or at least portion of it.
Speaker 3:And you know what, honestly, in Burbank?
Speaker 1:Or marijuana shops, and so are tattoo parlors, and so a lot of cities don't have any, don't allow any tattoo parlors Burbank is one down.
Speaker 2:We don't allow any of that.
Speaker 3:So look at you know you wonder about the regulations.
Speaker 1:That's why. That's why you have that tattoo shop set up in your garage. Oh Cheap, edit point, edit point, dear editor.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:The why I'm here, just to disrupt the whole.
Speaker 2:How you do it so well thing I'm getting pretty good at it Tuesday. Well, the council's dark no meeting for the city council ever find that light switch in City Hall.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's over the same circuit as the elevators.
Speaker 2:Could be any every time an elevator goes down but if you're looking for something to do, on Tuesday, the animal shelter is once again offering a Vaccination clinic for both dogs and cats. So we have our, our dogs and cats. You know we can get from two to five at the animal shelter and you must make an appointment To to get yourself taking care of the number. I'll give the number, but I know you don't have a pencil on you right now, but it's 818 238 3340 we put that on the screen oh.
Speaker 2:You want to spend the time doing the editing too, huh 818.
Speaker 1:If you have time to set Ross on fire during his rant, come on. 818 238 3340, and it's a low-cost vaccination.
Speaker 2:Yes, not free low cost.
Speaker 1:You know still worth it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely still worth it. Let's see here also. It's at 6 pm At the Jollah Jocelyn Center. I was a little surprised at having this at the Jocelyn Center, but they're gonna have it there. So the brewing parking recreation department is Is gonna have, is gonna start conducting a series of public engagement outreach workshops to help identify and determine the needs of Bearbank residents and stakeholders Regarding future improvements to city parks, amenities, facilities and recreation programs. The information they gather is going to Outside process will will guide the ultimate vision and development of city parks master plan. It's interesting to have it at that the job. It is sentry located in the city.
Speaker 3:I will say that but I know you're over, you're getting up there, you're getting a little sea now you might have to go check in there.
Speaker 1:He's tall.
Speaker 3:He can see the Nile from here, but you know, jocelyn has his own parking, handicap accessible, and they have a meeting room that'll hold 500 people.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying they shouldn't have it there. I'm just saying is that every other mean the world? They have community services building for some reason there.
Speaker 1:But you know I maybe they're expecting a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Well, it could be the one I have. You have in different locations. They're starting with Jocelyn Center first, yeah, so I mean I'm no price more centrally located.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of bathrooms there. You can go out and shoot whatever they play.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's horseshoes horseshoes link.
Speaker 3:But you know what I guarantee they're probably gonna talk about a little Jocelyn Center in that whole master plan because, well, it's part of the park's problem.
Speaker 2:Well, actually they're, you know, they're going to redesign completely. I keep calling it all of. I say park.
Speaker 3:George.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we knew George Isaiah.
Speaker 3:Probably don't remember.
Speaker 1:That's kind of neat that he was named after a park in Burbank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't that amazing yeah.
Speaker 3:Burbank neighborhood radio watch had an office in that building Over at Oliver.
Speaker 2:He's coached baseball games. Is that field until the earthquake destroyed?
Speaker 1:it shut my zapper.
Speaker 2:Here we go I sense it coming. Anyhow. So I'm sure to be more outreaches, but they are gonna redesign completely George Isaiah Park. I'm gonna just raise the entire thing a new gym, the little theater. I think they're gonna try to save the little theater.
Speaker 2:I can't make it a little little, little little, or they want to put a community center in the back of all of rec and make that a theater and a Recreate and a meeting hall. And people in the theater said no, no, no. A theater is a theater, it's not a, it's not a room where we just stick many things into it. So I get their point. You know, we need the theaters.
Speaker 1:It sounds like it could be a very productive meeting. They got a.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll see talk about. Moving to Wednesday, at the board of library trustees. They're gonna meet at 530, the Central Library. They're gonna talk about digital equity and receive information from the library's efforts to expand digital equity and access to technology. You know what? Who knows what that means?
Speaker 1:You know, I mean, it can only mean, I can only think they're using that very Currently popular term to say Everybody should be able to have access to the same information. I maybe I got it wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're also gonna work on improving the children's Children area improvements. Receive information about the coming improvements to space and furnishings and areas that serve Children at all the branches, the library.
Speaker 3:Well, I remember the old oh Lincoln know what library was in the library. They had the kids.
Speaker 2:It was caddy corner to where it is now.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, now it became a. Now it became a daycare center daycare center, but I remember that children's center. Those chairs were only made for children.
Speaker 2:Well, I remember the day. I remember the day to Stevenson elementary school and our and we would walk to that library once a month.
Speaker 3:Oh, that you guys. Early days of PE.
Speaker 2:Yes, that was Absolutely oh um. Also, I'm gonna have to talk about National Library week and they're gonna discuss the city's council's proclamation. Oh yeah, that's why we need more proclamations.
Speaker 1:Oh proclamation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so more proclamations is what we need, because yeah, I probably have all that special paper to you. And what do they do those proclamations once they get them? What I mean? What, what is what? What do they do with them?
Speaker 1:You know I'm not at my own back, but I've received a proclamation or two in my days.
Speaker 2:And we're in there right now, don't fit in anything.
Speaker 1:No, there's what happens. You fold it in half to get it home and that's creased forever and they don't fit in anything. Where's it? Weird size.
Speaker 2:Framed on your wall.
Speaker 1:I've never found a proclamation frame at At the local store.
Speaker 2:You know, amazon doesn't have. They do now, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what's been a while since my last proclamation.
Speaker 3:You know, if you ever look, you know I do those ribbon cuttings. You know, oh, you do. And they, they give either a certificate or proclamation and they give you the county ones. They're the size of a billboard. They have ribbons on them, they have handles. They must have one, one person that knows how to do calligraphy in their left hand and dots stuff with their right hand, because there's a ton of dots, tees and eyes and those proclamations.
Speaker 2:We'll take your word for that.
Speaker 1:And they still don't fit in the frame.
Speaker 2:So let's see later that night. We're going to have a virtual workshop at 6pm via the Zoom, zoom, zoom Zoom, the Media District Pacific Plan update. Let's say the workshop will provide an overview of draft mobility process and programs being included in the updated Media District Pacific Plan. I wish I could say I was in the Media District. Wait, wait, wait wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:Could you do me a favor? Yes, could you read that paragraph one more time for me?
Speaker 2:This workshop will provide an overview of draft mobility policies and programs being included in the updated Media District Pacific Plan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what gets me. They pay a staffer to write this bumble, bumble.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1:Wait, you're too early for your rant.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. They're paying a consulting company to write that.
Speaker 3:See, that's where that money comes in.
Speaker 2:I knew it was so hard, I gotta tell you, since I am Media District adjacent here. Now I'm in the Media District.
Speaker 1:You don't get to say yeah, it's basically an unincorporated part of a verbat.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, we haven't checked in on Dodger and.
Speaker 2:Orwell. It's funny how they have mobility strategy. Wait, you can send a burbink bus down the street or something, so nobody else can write it. I mean, I just don't understand what this whole thing is. I know the neighbors in this neighborhood right now are very upset about the development at Pass Riverside. Going in, it must be a six or seven story building I have.
Speaker 3:Sorry, right the triangle. No, no, no, no, this was where Kiko's was.
Speaker 2:FedEx oh, right, right over there. Yeah, they're going to tear out the wrong intersection.
Speaker 2:You're going to tear that whole block out in that area and the neighbors are very upset about it and I can imagine. I've tried to tell them I go, you empty the council, say no and everything else. But you got to remember the city council has to obey the law. They can't just say no, we don't like it, you can't do it. They have to have a reason behind their decision. It has to be an ordinance or has to be zoning. There has to be specific things that they can and can't.
Speaker 1:They're not all powerful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they don't have the right to just say well, you know what, maybe it's like it's you can't do it. That's not how it works.
Speaker 1:And the Rancho District would love that.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's not the.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I attended one of those Saluka Lake chamber meetings and a good friend of mine that works over at Universal now she used to be in the planning department at Burbank whispered in my ear they're all complaining about that building but they're going to be rewriting the media district specific plan. That building's going in the property owner that sold it.
Speaker 2:I guess what those plans are even basically put in. They've been submitted, yeah, so we were contacted. We ran pictures of that, you recall, in my Burbank they may scale it down a little bit and things like that, but there's going to be a building there.
Speaker 3:That property owner has met with everybody in the community. There's one lady that lives on national that is running around with a big red flag. The sky's falling, I got a flyer here.
Speaker 2:I got a flyer.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I read the flyer and I go. They just don't understand. It's just, you just don't say we don't want it and they won't get put in. That's not how you're taught to raising canes, taught to the Pickwick Project, taught to the Mariposa Project, the Empire Project doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3:Unless it's coming in as 35. Yep.
Speaker 2:You'll have no say. Well, I don't know if it's as 35, though, but anyhow, I'm just saying is that it's coming people, I wish I could tell you differently, and no matter how much you stomp your feet.
Speaker 1:It's nice to want.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean we're not in my backyard Right Back.
Speaker 2:Oh, anyhow, that's going to be at six o'clock and you know I invite you to go to the city website and get the zoom link and zoom in and you would have some consulting company tell you what they're going to do for you. And they have no clue. I've actually participated in the discussion. They have no idea how things work. They don't have any idea how they were. No way more people are there, little bubble?
Speaker 2:You don't understand why more people aren't using public transportation to go to studios and things like that. I go. You don't understand the studio. They don't work an eight hour day there, right, they work a 12 hour day and then they work for three months and they're gone. They don't come back. You know they work there as long as their production goes, so they have no idea. Um, the Burbank Art Culture Arts Commission is going to have a special meeting at 630 at the Colony Theater. Special meeting. That means that they're actually going to show up there and they're going to have themselves a Burbank Art, burbank Arts. Artist mixer. What Did I say, mixer? I think you said mixer.
Speaker 1:I specifically heard you say mixer, and then that noise the horns went off. Oh my, goodness. After you said mixer. What does that mean?
Speaker 2:It must mean that's our word of the week, the word of the week is what?
Speaker 1:Mixer, mixer. So send us an email Now that everybody's awake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, send us an email at contest at myburbankcom and then the subject line put mixer, mixer.
Speaker 3:Where's the mixer going to be?
Speaker 1:But we haven't finished talking about the word of the week yet. Oh, where is the word of the week? They sent it to contest at myburbankcom.
Speaker 2:And you're up for a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe, you'll be in the running In the running, like where is it, when is he?
Speaker 1:And like and did last week and she won a $25 gift card to Hill. Street Cafe and you could possibly win your own. Maybe you'll see her there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know what? I bet you people it would be real nice if they went to Hill Street Cafe before they go to the colony and then on the weekend they can go to the colony and watch Footloose. The show Footloose is running this week and they have an ad at myburbankcom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, there'll be a reception following, allowing an opportunity for artists to communicate on arts related to manners in Burbank. This is actually a meeting. That's cool. This is actually an official round act meeting, so they have to have public comment beforehand and the whole thing and afterward, you know, and they have to run it like a meeting because it's not a just a get together. It may be a mixer, but it's still a official city meeting.
Speaker 3:So well, I was just told the other day I didn't make the red carpet Ananza that went on for Footloose, but the colony redid the lobby and they have redecorated. And if you haven't been up there in a year or two because of COVID, good time to go. If you're a.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it's making a big turnaround in a lot of ways. They're doing what they promised they were going to do and the city council made the right decision to give them the contract, and we're very happy with what went on.
Speaker 1:And if you wanted to talk about it with other artists, you could go to the mixer. The mixer.
Speaker 3:You know that brings up a good point. Will you remind me, when we're done with the show, about a friend of mine that has does photos? It's a great place to put a photo exhibit up there and we should communicate about that.
Speaker 1:Great idea. I knew I would remember that I mean a couple of photographers that might be looking for a place to put their photos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, moving on to Thursday Absolutely after their, after their mixer on Wednesday night, they're going to get bright early on Thursday morning and have a meeting at 9am at the community services building.
Speaker 1:Can I break the news to you, Mr Sherwood? Yes, 9am is not. Many consider 9am not to be bright.
Speaker 2:Well, it depends on how late they go on Thursday night, right?
Speaker 1:Well, that's true too. That's what I'm thinking, but it's a lot of folks Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
Speaker 2:You know those artists though.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're talking about artists. We're talking about artists. Creative types Is it?
Speaker 3:set up at 9am.
Speaker 1:Well, the clock's just changed, so we lose an hour back. And I think no, because it's darker later now in the morning.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:Sun is up later in the day.
Speaker 3:Anyway, so I qualify for still sleep time.
Speaker 2:So, anyhow, they're going to talk about.
Speaker 1:You do, you do you.
Speaker 2:Art's going to be at 9am. We're going to have a community arts grant program update. They're going to talk about the arts grant writer program developer compensation. They want to start paying their grant writer more money and get more hours and those grants. Yeah, if you write grant, writing is an art. It really isn't itself.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, well, there are people. They're full time job with some organizations is just to write grants.
Speaker 2:There's money out there. You have to know what grants are out there and then know how to apply for them. So, and they have their subcommittee updates, so good for them. Park and Recreation is will then meet at 6pm at City Hall. They're going to get a report on the Burbank adaptive sports expo they had last week and in their consent consent agenda they have a.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about the police department's park patrol for January and I just thought I'd throw a couple of stats out for you, just to you know, give an idea of how well the police department keeps track of things. And now we're talking January alone. It was a cold month, it was raining and but still there were 103 graffiti incidents during the month. 35 of those were at Isaiah Park and 27 were at the Valley Skate Park at Jason, north Hollywood. So we kind of I wonder where that crime came from.
Speaker 2:But of course the city does such a great job in removing graffiti. You probably never see it and Ross, I believe, shows a 311 Apple if you report graffiti there and on the next day, the next day that decrofit is gone. So you know what Come and we come and do it. We're, you're going to show. It's not going to be like downtown LA where a building is going to sit there for forever. So hopefully you can that'll work out. So during the month the parks with the most calls for service for the police were Isaiah McCambridge they both had five calls each People called for the police. Bell and Verdugo and Miller each had four.
Speaker 3:Now. Now I want to regress just as a drop here, because many years ago Burbank Neighborhood Radio Watch that's why we assembled it was to do park patrol and to do report these acts of Analystm and then they had a dedicated park patrol. Now most people don't understand. Police officers walk through the park, they get assigned and reading this report you notice how many man hours If they all get I think it was like 45, the 50 man hours that's how police officers weeks worth of work on getting when they get called out to some of these calls. So it was kind of interesting to read what goes on in our parks.
Speaker 2:Friday night. Ross, I'm sure you're gonna be going too. Why don't you talk about what's going on Friday night?
Speaker 3:I believe BTEC, burbank Temporary Aid, is having their gala up at the castaways celebrating 50 years of service here in Burbank. Oh, they are celebrating the late Larry Stamper who, a former mayor who is very involved with BTEC, volunteered Dorothy Murie and the Burbank Chamber of Commerce. There are tick. Probably most galas will take tickets, money at the door. If you want Up at the castaways Friday night, I'll be there shooting it. They're gonna, like I say, honor some great people living in the Angon and it's a good show.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Great.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna throw something in piggyback onto that a little bit. I salute BTEC for having it here in Burbank, but a lot of our organizations are. This is what we call gala season. Everyone's having their gala, but they're having them outside of Burbank, and I'm a little bit down on that. You know, they come to the citizens of Burbank all the time for their fundraising and to donate money and services and time and everything else, and then they take their big ceremonies and awards things and they move them outside of Burbank, where now the Burbank businesses are not benefiting from the money that's being raised here in Burbank.
Speaker 2:I got a little bit of a problem with that. You know what's wrong with our meeting hall? We have a lot of great meeting halls here. We have a great, lot of great facilities. Yeah, okay, I mean they didn't be the sexiest in town, but the castaway is always a nice place to go. I know we lost Pickwick. I don't know if the garden's just still working or not. I think they're done, but we still got other places in town. And for some reason, though, why are we going outside of Burbank for all these things and spending money outside of our city? I'm just not a fan of it.
Speaker 3:So but it also makes you think. I just recently heard one of those organizations moved out of Burbank because they can't get spaces in Burbank to have their offices.
Speaker 2:Okay, I understand that that's one place, but I'm talking about we know there's multiple places not having their Well, I always get and I'm the one that usually goes. I'm not gonna call anybody out by name, I'm just bringing out the generalization.
Speaker 3:We drive out of Burbank for 20, 30 minutes, half an hour to attend a fundraiser, when it could be done right here in Burbank.
Speaker 2:Yes, using Burbank rentals, Burbank, terrors, burbank. I just think you need to support the hand at Fija, you know.
Speaker 3:Very true.
Speaker 2:Okay, enough of that. Moving on to the weekend, the Burbank Parks Department Parks and Recreation is gonna have an event at Johnny Carson Park from 10 am to 1 pm. I guess we're gonna show off their summer camps. You can meet the camp instructors, you see demos, games and they have fun prizes. It's free.
Speaker 1:It's like your mattress.
Speaker 2:It's like your mattress. Yes, so, but that's gonna be on Saturday from 10 to 1 at Johnny Carson. It'll be nice weather out there for change, so take the kids, go out there and have some fun. And then finally, on Sunday technically the weekend, but now Sunday we're still gonna talk about it's Burbank night at the LA Clipper game, which so go down the crypt and cheer on them Clippers. You know, actually the Clippers are playing right now. They're the number two seed in the NBA and the three games behind being the number one seed for the playoffs.
Speaker 1:That's a good time for it to be Burbank night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a good time to be a Clipper fan too, a lot of people watching. So, and it'll also be the last year you'll go see the Clippers have a home game at the crypt, because next year they moved to their new facility in Inglewood.
Speaker 3:So they like them bananas.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, like them yeah.
Speaker 3:They like them apples. You know, I just noticed on there's a new clock in town. Did you know that?
Speaker 2:I did not know that.
Speaker 3:Rotary, we talked about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a On this show by the police station that little See you did know about it. We talked about we talked about it.
Speaker 3:We talked about it.
Speaker 2:Didn't know it was installed yet, though.
Speaker 3:Well, I guess there hasn't been a ceremony yet, but it's installed.
Speaker 2:Hopefully they'll tell us if there's a ceremony.
Speaker 3:You're very true. I believe this is a Rotary event and our ace Rotary reporter, Lynn Lipinski, who is doing an excellent job on our clubs.
Speaker 2:Oh, great job.
Speaker 3:Anybody want to know about club or how to join a club or what's going on in the club Social clubs social activities, things like that, rotary nonprofits.
Speaker 2:And how if you have a club and you have publicity for it, Ah, Invite Lynn.
Speaker 3:Right, she'll be there covering our story Friday night at BTEC, but the clock is at Palm and Third, that little park. I don't. The park has a name, but I-.
Speaker 2:Well, you brought it up. Give us a name.
Speaker 3:I have to go look, there's a plaque out there. I don't think they're done because-.
Speaker 2:I think it's a walkway, I think, more than a park, I think and they put people's names there, or a senior year.
Speaker 1:Now did somebody have to run up there at 2 am Sunday?
Speaker 3:morning to move it ahead an hour. I looked at the numbers and I don't think they've moved yet. I don't think it's been turned on.
Speaker 1:Is it an analog clock?
Speaker 3:Yeah, an old wrong. You know real face.
Speaker 1:Old timey clock.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you actually know? They did a study a few years ago and there are a number of kids under 20 years old who do not know how to read the time on an old clock with hands on it.
Speaker 1:Oh, some of the funniest videos you'll see is they'll throw an old rotary phone in front of a millennial and they won't know how. What is this we?
Speaker 3:had a wall phone. I need to dial this A wall phone Used to hate people.
Speaker 1:they had zeros in their phone numbers.
Speaker 2:Right, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:They go all the way to the end, wait for it to come all the way back.
Speaker 2:What I used to hate was we used to call our numbers Victoria.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're all just like switchboard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, victoria, our number here at the house was Victoria 94003. And how about the old gym in LA for wrestling, richmond 9? 5171.
Speaker 3:Don't delay. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:By today. We shot roller derby Declan and wrestling.
Speaker 3:Where's that pen Craig?
Speaker 1:I'm already holding it up. Oh, I thought so I already have it up the zapper. Did you know when?
Speaker 3:you had a wall phone. What CHP number was? You can call in the CHP dispatch Zenith 12000.
Speaker 1:On your avocado green wall phone. You had one With the cord long enough to go all the way to the master bedroom. But anyway, we digress because we have reached that point in the show that everybody stays up for.
Speaker 2:And that is of course everybody's favorite part.
Speaker 1:Ross's rant. Ross's rant.
Speaker 4:Ross's rant. I take a frame, throw into this place Speed. What's up, John?
Speaker 2:Let the fire burn.
Speaker 3:Light that fire. Wow, what an intro. I'll tell you. I gotta come up, you know, with good rants and so forth.
Speaker 1:Pressure's on, but you never seem to really have a shortage, though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:You have a whole week to notice something.
Speaker 3:All I gotta do is drive around Burbank for five minutes. But this time I will say that I got this rant from my son.
Speaker 1:This was mailed to us from he going up Hollywood Way To the Benson DNA then, oh yeah, he calls me and tells me about his complaints.
Speaker 3:Driving up Hollywood Way to get on the Northbound I-5 Freeway, there was a pothole that was so big, how big was it? Apollo 15 could have landed in it and he wouldn't have seen it. He hit this thing so hard. His hip hubcap. When airborne he has a hubcap. He didn't oh.
Speaker 2:He ripped it right out of his car.
Speaker 3:Well, I went on Facebook. Would you believe there was a post, and how many people hit this.
Speaker 1:Does it have its own Facebook page? The pothole has its own Facebook page, but was it in Burbank?
Speaker 3:No Ooh, half a block out of Burbank, but you want to get this. My son went back Sitting there. Somebody had put a cone in it later in the day, On the roof of the car that was in it, right.
Speaker 3:And he looked over on the center divider and there was his hubcap. He got out, saved the money. Oh, still there. Yep Got his hubcap back Unescaved. But I'll tell you, burbank, you have a hubcap. If you have a pothole, I'll tell you they'll come out and they'll cover that. Burbank 311. I'll tell you that. You know you could tell when you live in Burbank when it rains.
Speaker 1:I was actually just looking at the Burbank app on my phone this afternoon to see what options have been added to it. They're always adding different surfaces.
Speaker 3:Did you notice your favorite this one Cars after 72 hours you can put it on there and they will document it and cite it?
Speaker 1:Where do you put that? I didn't see that one. I was looking for illegal parking, which still really isn't specifically on there. It could fall into a couple of categories.
Speaker 3:Oh, just yeah, but last week we got an email that you can complain about. Oh, you'll have to show me.
Speaker 2:Well, you used to be able to listen to parking people, but we can't hear them anymore.
Speaker 1:They're. You see it took. They're the end of the show, but you got it in.
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:They're encrypted now and you can't hear them anymore.
Speaker 3:But I will say that you definitely know when you're driving around Burbank, because our streets drain, there aren't potholes, the lights go on and the trash gets dumped. In that order.
Speaker 2:It's not up actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, so you know, I'll just tell you. You drive around and you notice stuff like that and it still gets me. How many times on this show have I complained about people leaving their trash not on their trash? Jay or heavy duty pickup drive down Scott Road. It looks like oh, I won't say.
Speaker 1:Well, you get a lot of that when you have areas with a lot of apartment buildings. Because you have so many people on a condensed area there's really no place for them to put a lot of that stuff. But I have personally used the bulky item pickup a couple of times in the last couple of months because I had some old furniture to get rid of and put it out, and rain or shine, holiday or not, and they tell you they're gonna be there to pick it up. It's gone.
Speaker 2:Are you trashed?
Speaker 1:Now I don't know if it's all them picking it up or other people are picking it up overnight.
Speaker 3:I was just gonna say I went to the Blarney Stone the other day in that couch you used to have.
Speaker 1:It's in the pool Blarney. Stone huh, it's in the pool room.
Speaker 2:Don't do it. The Blarney Stone's been gone for.
Speaker 1:I'll get my pen.
Speaker 2:It's been gone for 30 years.
Speaker 1:You know, there's some special podcast episode you guys are putting together that have yet to get an air date on it, but it's gonna involve talking about restaurants used to be in. Burbank, and I know the audience is eagerly awaiting it because we've been teasing it for so long now.
Speaker 3:Well, we're still waiting for food when I get you to agree on a date and it puts you on the spot.
Speaker 1:And can we get a date for that tonight?
Speaker 3:Is that gonna be a live show?
Speaker 2:No, that will not be a live show.
Speaker 3:How about a call-in show?
Speaker 2:That will not be a call-in show either. Unless you wanna start running the hardware, you're more than welcome to do all that.
Speaker 3:Wait a minute, do. I have to wear an envelope.
Speaker 1:I think it's safe to say this is probably. It'll probably be a two-parter, and within the next.
Speaker 2:We may have it.
Speaker 1:I think they'll have the next couple of weeks Next.
Speaker 2:We may have it up by Saturday. We may have it up by Saturday.
Speaker 1:All right, it's on the calendar everybody.
Speaker 2:It's on the calendar.
Speaker 1:I got them to, I pulled them down to put a date on the calendar to record it, and that'll only be part one. That'll be part one, but at least you'll have something to listen to.
Speaker 3:You know I got a question Was Tiny Nailers on that list?
Speaker 1:Jim.
Speaker 3:Nabors.
Speaker 2:How would I know if Tiny Nailers he hasn't heard the show yet Was on the list that you made?
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:You know what everyone will find out together after they listen to the show. Thank you, Peddler.
Speaker 1:But just think, the longer you keep you take to record the show the longer the list is gonna get.
Speaker 3:Here's gonna grow.
Speaker 1:It'll be a part three down the road somewhere.
Speaker 2:It probably will be.
Speaker 1:It'll be an ongoing series.
Speaker 3:Just for you guys, I'll go to that Bunt Cake place and I'll buy us all a round of Bunt Cakes.
Speaker 1:Well, and we could do a whole episode on all of the 24-hour restaurants that are open and running in Burbank. Well, maybe not.
Speaker 2:By the way, you talked about that place, that crumble cookie place on Magnolia and Hollywood. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:Are you ready? Are you parking up the parking on the roof?
Speaker 2:And the parking on the roof. And the other day, myself and a friend we were driving over to Coral Cafe it was probably about nine o'clock at night and I looked at corner and it was open and I looked and there was nobody parked in the green zone right next to it. So we stopped, had a couple of those.
Speaker 1:They're all on the roof, as Ross told them last time.
Speaker 2:But there was no line, there was nothing, nobody in the place.
Speaker 1:So how did the cookie crumble?
Speaker 2:It crumbled. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:I. You know I love cookies, but I love cookies. Oh, those cookies.
Speaker 1:But now that I know you can park on the roof now, I'll just go right there and I'll get in the circle.
Speaker 2:Or you're going at nine o'clock at night? Just park right next to it and walk right in, no lines.
Speaker 1:Now you're giving all the secrets away.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's why you listen to the show, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Let's see. That's why you listen.
Speaker 3:And somebody told me, two blocks up, Bagel Boss is opening this month. I can't wait for fresh bagels. I didn't like them, but Sramis. And don't forget what Sunday is what's Sunday.
Speaker 1:Oh well, this week it was the.
Speaker 2:Oscar, it's Clipper Day.
Speaker 3:Is it at St Patrick's Day, 17th?
Speaker 2:Okay, and what is it?
Speaker 3:Well, by your pastrami.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You used to be able to go. Oh, here's it. Well, this was Toluca Lake. We used to be able to go to Timmy Nolan's and get the bread bowl of stew. Click, click, click. All right, okay, you're trying to click Click it for me now All right, it's easier down that rabbit hole, isn't it? It's the end of the show.
Speaker 3:It's easier down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:happens? My diuretics just starting to kick in.
Speaker 1:so if we don't wrap it up, Is that why your chair's squeaking over there? It's squeaking.
Speaker 3:I've been bouncing here for 15.
Speaker 1:Time to wrap up Ross's system tells us it's time to wrap up the show, Like clockwork. Oh, don't get him going that'll just accelerate the process.
Speaker 2:Okay, thank you very much for listening. We always appreciate it For Craig Sherwood and for this week's Craig Durling Me, who will be gone for next couple of weeks on assignment Well I know. And of course, Ross Benson, who will be here?
Speaker 3:Well, wait a minute. Do we call you Craig Durling or Oscar?
Speaker 1:Well, like I said, I didn't win anything, so you can't call me Oscar, I don't have one.
Speaker 3:Tell us this week's folks Tune in for another round. The week there was, the week there will be. We'll see you in a week.
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