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Special: Burbank Road Kings at Johnny Carson Park
What happens when you combine a love for vintage cars with a strong sense of community? You get the 33rd annual Road Kings Charity Car Show at Johnny Carson Park in Burbank! Join Craig Durling, Ashley Erikson, Craig Sherwood and Ross Benson as they, along with guests, celebrate the rich traditions of Burbank and reminisce about past car shows. Nikki Perez shares her personal experiences growing up in the city, emphasizing the importance of maintaining these beloved community events. Whether it's custom bikes, food vendors, or the heartwarming sight of families and pets enjoying the day, this episode captures the vibrant spirit of Burbank.
Get ready to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones as we dive into the essence of local journalism and community events. Karen Arellano, president of the Burbank Road Kings, sheds light on the behind-the-scenes efforts that make the car show a sensational success year after year. The atmosphere is electrifying, filled with the hum of garage bands and the presence of Star Wars characters, all under the quintessential June gloom weather.
Feeling nostalgic? This episode will take you back to the 1950s with its parade of meticulously maintained vintage cars, classic motorcycles, and custom bicycles. Hear from Don Baldaseroni about the Road Kings' long-standing philanthropic efforts, including nearly $500,000 donated to local causes over the years. From personal anecdotes to future plans like Hot August Nights in Reno, this episode encapsulates the essence of Burbank's unwavering community spirit and its love for old-school cars.
What happens when you combine a love for vintage cars with a strong sense of community? You get the 33rd annual Road Kings Charity Car Show at Johnny Carson Park in Burbank! Join Craig Durling, Ashley Erikson, Craig Sherwood and Ross Benson as they, along with guests, celebrate the rich traditions of Burbank and reminisce about past car shows. Nikki Perez shares her personal experiences growing up in the city, emphasizing the importance of maintaining these beloved community events. Whether it's custom bikes, food vendors, or the heartwarming sight of families and pets enjoying the day, this episode captures the vibrant spirit of Burbank.
Get ready to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones as we dive into the essence of local journalism and community events. Karen Arellano, president of the Burbank Road Kings, sheds light on the behind-the-scenes efforts that make the car show a sensational success year after year. The atmosphere is electrifying, filled with the hum of garage bands and the presence of Star Wars characters, all under the quintessential June gloom weather.
Feeling nostalgic? This episode will take you back to the 1950s with its parade of meticulously maintained vintage cars, classic motorcycles, and custom bicycles. Hear from Don Baldaseroni about the Road Kings' long-standing philanthropic efforts, including nearly $500,000 donated to local causes over the years. From personal anecdotes to future plans like Hot August Nights in Reno, this episode encapsulates the essence of Burbank's unwavering community spirit and its love for old-school cars.
Good morning from the heart of Burbank's Media District, right here at Johnny Carson Park. The air is clear. Hopefully the sun will be on our side today. The grass has been cut and there are hundreds of cars sitting right in front of me. We're here at the 33rd annual Road Kings Charity Car Show. We're glad to have the MyBurbankTalks crew with us today. With the one and only the president of the company, the Greg Sherwood. We have today's producer and co-host of the weekly podcast. He's known around burbank as mr burbank the ross benson himself also joining the panel today. The voice of my burbank, yours truly, greg derling, joining us in a while, will be my burbank talks writer.
Speaker 1:Writer and podcast host Ashley Erickson.
Speaker 3:We are fortunate to have Vice Mayor of the City of Burbank, Nikki Perez.
Speaker 2:Hi Ross, hi everybody.
Speaker 3:Welcome, welcome. Well, you just said you know the opening remarks you said this is a Burbank staple. Definitely is, and it definitely I mean Road Kings, burbank. You're a lifelong Burbank resident.
Speaker 2:I have been coming to these shows on my dad's shoulders.
Speaker 1:I'm the only one here that hasn't spent their entire life in this city. I'm a transplant, but I'm still here. Still here. I got no reason to leave. We've adopted you. I'm adopted. I'm adopted. Burbank resident.
Speaker 3:So as you made your way to the stage, you passed Hundreds of cars. Can you believe this? I remember you would last year. I think we have pictures of you and Jay, jay Last year. I think we have pictures of you and Jay I don't know walking around. He made his presentation or came and you were here and you're off to a busy Sunday schedule. Burbank is busy.
Speaker 2:Burbank is busy, but you know what? It's good because we're busy with community events. My favorite thing is seeing all the little kids that are getting to enjoy what I got to enjoy when I was little, with their dads, their moms, out here, so this, this is a burbank staple. I love this. I love the bob's friday nights. John just told me about another one coming up, so I'm excited to be there too yeah, it's uh, like you say, it's community.
Speaker 3:Burbank's a little different and we need to continue to do these events like this because it just brings people out, brings kids out and for kids. I know I have two granddaughters and when they come to community events they let them run around and they know who's here and they see their other friends. And that's what Burbank is. It's a little different than other communities.
Speaker 1:And it's great, this event. There's so much for everybody here, our enthusiasts, children, there are games to play, there are displays, there are vendors here, there's food. That's always a plus, but this is great and it gets us all out of the house, that's for sure. On a nice Sunday morning, a little cloudy. That's keeping it cool for now, which is good.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I love what you said, craig. There's something for everybody. Last year, you know, I ran into some folks who do custom bikes. They deck out their bikes. They will add all of the glam that you think you can add to a car. They've added to a bike and they're cruising down on chandler.
Speaker 3:You can find them on saturdays really, yeah, burbank has so much going on. I know there's an art festival going on yesterday and today. Our show today, like you say, chandler bike path will probably have hundreds of people walking on it today. There's an art festival going on yesterday and today car show today. Like you say, chandler Bike Path will probably have hundreds of people walking on it today. There's probably a dozen other events going on. Well, I know you have a very busy schedule today and we'll let you go and look upon the cars before you zoom off to your next assignment, and maybe we'll see your partner, uh, your partner in crime, the mayor of the city of burbank which one is yours?
Speaker 1:I like that black little convertible over there.
Speaker 2:I see you in that one going down olive you know I would take any of these lovely custom old school cars. But you know what? I wouldn't trade my car for anything. I have a 1996 toyota tacoma full metal body. It's in great condition, love her and I hope she lasts another 200,000 miles.
Speaker 1:It's not out here anywhere. It's not on display, though.
Speaker 2:We're not there yet.
Speaker 1:A couple more hours in the garage.
Speaker 2:It needs a couple of hours at West Coast Customs before it's presented.
Speaker 3:There you go and there you go. Why do West Coast Customs choose Burbank as a home? We're a great community for businesses like that, and you know it's just nice to have West Coast Customs here.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and you know I'll leave you with this, Ross I think Burbank is a huge old school car community and we really embrace that through our businesses, through our community members who are really involved in this, and I think it's a wonderful thing to showcase and I want to make sure we do that more.
Speaker 3:And the Road Kings are a fantastic organization. They give back to the community. These guys pay to be in this show and that money turns around and goes to different organizations, nonprofits in our city. So we got to take our hats off to Road Kings, Road Kings.
Speaker 1:they've been around longer than you have. They're 72 years old today.
Speaker 3:Very true, very true. Well, madam Mayor, our Vice Mayor, have a great day. Nice seeing you, glad you stopped by. Your makeup's still looking good and I wish mine was. Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 4:Well, Ross, we have another guest. Why don't you introduce him and find out what's going on?
Speaker 3:Well, we, you know we. This show has hundreds of people walking around and walking by our booth just now and I grabbed him by his shirt sleeve, by his beard, by his beard Kevin Maldoon A lot of you in Burbank if you listen to this podcast. He writes a lot of letters to the editor. He addresses the city council. He's lived here many, many years and knows a lot of history about the city of Burbank. What do you think today about this car show?
Speaker 5:You know it's one of the go-to events every year, you know, and they filled the park again this time and if you haven't been up on the hill yet, if you at the show make check that out. It's a nice casual uh event up there. A lot of cool cars up here, but down here is the main road kings and and they just they're burbank staple. You know, I mean, what is it with a 50, 60 years, something like that? They've been around and, uh, the only thing I do miss is the chili cook-off that used to go with the car show here.
Speaker 3:Well, Kevin, I am working on bringing Burbank Con Parade back to a smaller version.
Speaker 6:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:And we're looking. There's been conversation. One day, maybe Burbank Con Parade on a Sunday, do the chili cook-off? You remember being out here for the fire? Oh for sure. Yeah, there were thousands and thousands. And what stopped, that is, some kid had a couple of beers and climbed up the power line.
Speaker 1:City said no more, you never let me live that down.
Speaker 5:But no, the Road Kings. They're great fundraisers and they're charitable with their activities and things like that. So they're a great part of Burbank. It's part of the reason people love Burbank so much is it is the home of the car culture. We got Bob's Big Boy, we got the Road Kings, we got the studios, we got the studio cars that we see. You drive around Burbank. You're going to see Jay Leno in an old car.
Speaker 1:We haven't seen him walk through yet.
Speaker 5:He usually shows up he does he does and who knows what he'll pull into. When I was working at NBC, it would be what did Jay drive today? It was one of the highlights of the day to see what was in.
Speaker 3:Jay's pocket. Now, there you go. We're sitting literally across from NBC where you said you were working. How do you like that sight line? I mean these new iceberg buildings.
Speaker 5:You know, it's really neat what they did. I mean, it's a Geary right.
Speaker 3:Frank, neat what they did. I mean. Uh, it's a geary right frank. Geary is frank geary. Building done by that's a worth project, in fact, looking through that tunnel, all those are worth buildings.
Speaker 1:Well, we heard from the vice mayor of that the inside of that building is is is amazing, right, the decor, the way it's decorated and uh, but isn't it you've?
Speaker 3:been you've been there a long time. City's changing, sure, sure you know we look downtown.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you live up on olive, or up on the hill and what we call the hill yeah people that listen to this podcast will know when I say up on the hill, right, but you know, you, you get around, you know, and burbank is changing. You can't do anything about the number of cars because people are moving here. They say that you have to build more houses. That means bringing more. Some people will be riding bikes In their own lane.
Speaker 3:Well that's funny. As you know, they're narrowing streets in Burbank and putting bike lanes in. You know, we don't know what the city, the planners and all those guys have planned. But you look at this, I doubt if we have an electric car here today.
Speaker 5:Well they're not going to get rid of the road kings or gas cars anytime soon. In fact, you know we still kind of push Sacramento into giving us the exempt older cars Because right now it stops at 75. So anything later than 75, you still got to smog and that takes a lot of classic cars off the road that you can't get smogged anymore. I belong to a website about smogging your classic car and it's a needle in a haystack of what pollution they're putting out. It's a car culture that hopefully will be still embraced as we get into our twilight years and not have to go buy specialty gas from somewhere that you know makes gas for us old-timers to drive our cars around.
Speaker 1:It's hard enough finding the parts to keep it running, much less.
Speaker 5:That's. What's amazing is you know some of these cars out here on the lawn. You can get a catalog and you can buy every nut and bolt for a 65-year-old car, but your washer machine goes out. That's four years old and you can't get a computer that's disposable you got to throw it away.
Speaker 3:I talked to a guy. I have a 2004 chevy tahoe sitting behind me and he has built this is what the lap or la sheriff's department bomb squad used to drive and he has built one, rebuilt one, everything from what he can get by online, right, every part of it. He says you can get online.
Speaker 5:And that's a tribute to the automobile business in our country. That was part of the thing. You couldn't build a car and leave people high and dry on parts for it, so they had to make a certain amount of parts and, like you say, those are getting some harder to find. I mean, there was a I forget what car pulled in here recently, but I looked at it and went you're not going to find a single part for that car in a catalog anywhere. There are some orphan cars that were just so few made that there is not a lot of market in making parts for those cars, so they all are hand-tooled.
Speaker 1:We've got to keep those fabricators and machinists in business.
Speaker 5:Keep them around. Luckily, 3D printing has brought a new life to finding parts for a lot of these cars. I know Jay Leno. He prints old Bakelite knobs for his cars that are obsolete and no longer available, so it's still a business out there. The old-timers are going away, though. I know a lot of guys that repair these cars and build these cars. They're retiring and they're moving on, and there's not a lot of people following them to keep up with this restoration. So things like events like this and the Road Kings are what keeps it popular going.
Speaker 1:The camera picked it up, but we have a couple of stormtroopers and Darth Vader just walking by behind us here.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah. So, Kevin, out of all the hundreds of cars that are here, what's your favorite? You?
Speaker 5:know I gotta walk around again. I, I, you know they're audi. Audi gill has a rolls royce here today, a right hand rolls royce. Now audi has a collection of the finest automobiles on the planet. It's probably the most expensive car here today, so I'll have to tip the scale a little bit. That is a beautiful piece of machinery sitting over there. So if you haven't looked at that Rolls Royce up at the front of the show today, I'll have to go find that one I like that, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a beautiful car.
Speaker 3:Well, I appreciate you stopping by and taking time. Go ahead and listen to my Burbank Talks. We're doing podcasts. I don't know if you follow us.
Speaker 5:I do, I do, and I was going to say thank you guys for all you do. You're the only voice in Burbank left. You know there's no other way to keep on what's going on, or letters to the editor anymore, and so you guys are old enough to remember the good old days when we had reporting as things like that.
Speaker 1:Well, they are, they are.
Speaker 5:So I want to thank you guys for what you do, too Well that's what Craig and I both we've been doing a long time.
Speaker 3:We feel Burbank deserves its own news and there's enough going on and no offense. Local governments are trying to just keep it quiet. You know we remember the days that there used to be trays in the city manager's office for all the publications. They don't do that. We do have a great PIO in our city that keeps us informed, that keeps the public informed.
Speaker 1:Well, they've taken out all the newspaper boxes, right?
Speaker 3:Oh that was something, but that was more of an eyesore than anything, all the empty ones, but kind words indeed. Kevin, if there's ever a topic that you want us to cover, throw us an email or get a hold of me. We'll do the research and so forth. I know you're around town quite a bit.
Speaker 5:I am my guys. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Enjoy the show. Thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 4:Hey Ross, we've got the band back together again. The band.
Speaker 3:I hear it, wow, we are. Is this a garage band? Not today it isn't. Were you really I was.
Speaker 8:I was a drummer in my high school garage band.
Speaker 3:Oh, come on, let's see some stick movement here. Who's joined us oh?
Speaker 1:that's right. That's what we're doing. The lead singer of our garage band.
Speaker 3:We said Ashley Erickson was going to be joining us in a bit, and look, I got out of bed. Lo and behold, you're the only one that requested a makeup trailer too. I don't get it.
Speaker 8:I just needed a little extra beauty.
Speaker 1:You're the only one of us that doesn't need it.
Speaker 3:Well, we have Ashley Erickson with us. Ashley, if you've listened to any of her podcasts, I mean, you probably have a dozen shows down now on my Burbank.
Speaker 8:Yeah, definitely more than that.
Speaker 3:They are very interesting. I listen to them all and you have some great hosts.
Speaker 8:There's some great women in this community.
Speaker 3:That there are, and you're also one of our feature writers of my Burbank. You handle our my.
Speaker 8:Burbank Email blast.
Speaker 1:Email blast and our new awards.
Speaker 8:You're behind a lot of the social media too, yeah yeah, yeah, I have 200 envelopes sitting on my table ready to be mailed out on Monday.
Speaker 3:And that was for the library's best.
Speaker 8:Yes, I spent all weekend working on those so our show today.
Speaker 3:Ashley, I can you believe this I know I love it.
Speaker 8:This is one of my favorite events of the year we.
Speaker 3:We have the vice mayor here and, like she said, this is community, yeah, yeah, this is what brings people. You know, people are walking by where we're set up. We got dogs. I've got dogs. I've seen babies. Yeah, I've seen people, probably in their 90s. We have stormtroopers.
Speaker 1:Darth Vader just walked by. Oh yeah, We've got a whole Star Wars crew that walked by.
Speaker 8:I'm excited to look around.
Speaker 3:And turn around and look right behind us.
Speaker 1:You know that's what I get Hand polishing cars you know, that's what you see at a car show Scooby-Doo on the engine of another car there.
Speaker 8:This weather is so perfect.
Speaker 7:It is.
Speaker 8:Overcast is so nice. No one's standing out in the burning hot sun today.
Speaker 1:Thank goodness, not yet anyway, right, yeah, right.
Speaker 3:So I know you're going to run out and look at some of these cars and make an offer on a couple that I hear.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I'm here to purchase a vehicle today.
Speaker 3:Well, we know your other half is a car aficionado. Yeah, he probably has ripped apart more automobiles.
Speaker 1:As long as you put them back together. That's really the important part.
Speaker 3:You know, he always has that extra bucket full of parts.
Speaker 1:That's a problem.
Speaker 8:We have a garage full of parts.
Speaker 1:Extra parts when you put the lawnmower back together.
Speaker 8:Oh yeah, he's always like I think I have this laying somewhere. I'm like I'm sure it's in there.
Speaker 1:We'll be able to look forward to it. You're going to grab a couple of people throughout the day here and interview them. That'll be great.
Speaker 8:We'll look forward to that yeah.
Speaker 1:Get yourself a breakfast burrito.
Speaker 8:I need some coffee.
Speaker 1:They're good Coffee's right over there Stage right Okay.
Speaker 3:Well, stay tuned for our next guest everyone. Ashley has joined us and she happens to have probably the most important person of this whole day, the president of Road Kings.
Speaker 8:Two times yep.
Speaker 3:second year I'll give it to you, Ashley.
Speaker 8:This is Karen Arilano. She's here with us as the president of Burbank Road Kings. Welcome.
Speaker 10:Thank you. It is wonderful and it is a unique weather day, but it is wonderful because it's not too hot.
Speaker 8:This June, gloom is killing me. It is gloomy. It has been gloomy every single day.
Speaker 10:When you see all this, how could it be gloomy?
Speaker 8:But I feel like the colors I mean when you have the sun, you know reflecting in their shadows. But I like it like this. No one's out there sweating Nice.
Speaker 10:Right, and I don't have to call the paramedics at all.
Speaker 8:That's true, yeah, we got this. So this is your day. You have been planning this day for a very long time. You've been up since 5 am. Yes, you're extremely tired, I'm sure. Yes, but tell me.
Speaker 10:Now that this is here and people are enjoying the day, how are you feeling? I'm feeling wonderful. I mean, I've seen these people. I run the registration as well, so I get to actually talk to everybody as they come in. And you know there's a good and a bad a little bit, but we got everybody in here. We had approximately 100 cars come in day of show, which is a lot, because people, with this weather lately, kind of wait to the last minute.
Speaker 8:That was just 100 people just showing up, not registered.
Speaker 10:Right.
Speaker 8:Wow. So how many are here total? I don't know A lot.
Speaker 10:Yeah, lots, a lot. City of Burbank charges me so I can't disclose that. But yes, plenty, we filled the park, plenty we filled the park. All the park we rented, we filled it. Yeah, and we have a lot of fun things here. We've got great vendors, all sorts of fun things for that Good food and we'll have beautiful trophies later on tonight.
Speaker 8:Oh, that's exciting. Is there any favorite of yours here?
Speaker 10:There's a couple I've looked at. We have the dragon tractor thing down there that I love. The guy sent me his card in the mail and said can I come Like? Yes, we have some people a lot. One of the things we try to do with this is, when we have them, find the cars that are somewhat new or people newer to doing this, or just finish something and bring them out. Yeah, we have some of those out here this year and I've seen some. There's a blue wagon thingy over there that's beautiful. There is, um, a bike somewhere, a sidewinder, something that's custom painted somewhere. It is gorgeous.
Speaker 8:There's just so much to see here. I haven't even got a chance to walk around yet. I'm so excited because I mean, this event is huge.
Speaker 10:You have a double decker right here we're a double stacker.
Speaker 8:Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 10:It's nice to see we've got the fire department here. I love seeing them.
Speaker 8:Gary loves to hear that.
Speaker 10:It's just all very positive. We've got a lot of foot traffic too, so it's great. It's a big weekend for Burbank.
Speaker 8:We have St Francis positive, we've got a lot of foot traffic too, so it's great. It's a big weekend for Burbank. We have St Francis Fair. Yes, we have the Downtown Art Festival. I mean this is the Burbank weekend, like you're staying in Burbank and you're enjoying everything that the community has to offer this weekend. That is perfect. Yes, well, thank you for coming. Oh, thank you. I mean, now you get to sleep. Tomorrow I'm sure you're going to feel so good.
Speaker 10:Yes, so it'll be over. Yes, but then the next day you start planning for the next year.
Speaker 8:Yeah, and you have little things throughout the year. Right, you have little car shows.
Speaker 10:Well, we actually help on other ones. Like we'll help the Burbank Elks is going to do a chili cook-off this year I don't have their flyers. It's in August I think. And then we also help the Santa Clarita Elks on theirs, because we have members Burbank moved to Santa Clarita right, and so we have those. So we've got different car shoes. We'll help out with the different people and show up at them and just support them.
Speaker 8:Amazing, amazing. Well, I'm excited. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 10:I have to go back up on stage too because I have to go get the club. We have club participation trophy for the most club members for a club that comes. You are busy today I was about to say you are busy, go drink some coffee and get it done.
Speaker 1:We don't want you to be late.
Speaker 8:Alright, then Bye Karen.
Speaker 1:Thank you. As you can all hear and see, if you happen to be watching this on the YouTube, it's a great day here at Johnny Carson Park so far at the 33rd Annual Road Kings Charity Car Show. Now, as you know, our local traffic enforcement expert here formerly. I haven't had a chance to walk around yet, but you suggested I do and maybe take a pad of paper and a pen with me to take some notes as to some of the vehicle code violations I see out there. But I'm happy to say I haven't had a chance to walk around yet. But a lot of these being vintage cars, older cars, they fall under a lot of exemptions and grandfather exceptions for a lot of these sections. Emissions, I don't know. They go back to like 75 or something like that. But I'm not here for that anymore. I'm here to enjoy the show, the event, the cars and the Road Kings and everything they're here to support. Do you have anything to say about the day here, ross?
Speaker 3:Well, you know we just had Karen on and she said you know some of the stuff that's going on today, from our standpoint, or sitting where we are next to the stage, there are cars. What's that word? A plethora, a plethora of cars on this green grass.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't know how long the 405 freeway has existed, but this is what I imagine the 405 freeway looking at during rush hour back in the 50s yeah, look at some some of these cars and there's food here.
Speaker 3:they're jam-packed in here. I see vendors over here. When we drove in, I saw the fire department. I saw a group of bicycles custom bicycles, yeah there's a classic fire engine over there.
Speaker 1:The Burbank PD classic car is over there.
Speaker 3:Wow, you know just this car show has grown. I mean, it's a couple hours in now and there's got to be a couple thousand people.
Speaker 1:This whole park is full. They've filled parts of the park I didn't know existed here. Can't even see them from here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the upper part is, if you know, Johnny Carson Park. The upper part, we've been told, has as many cars up there as we have down here. There are motorcycles.
Speaker 1:Like Karen said, when they opened the gates this morning they had over 100 car entries that hadn't even registered yet. I'm impressed they found the room for them.
Speaker 3:Also, you know what it's nice doing it out here at Johnny Carson Park there's kids, out here there's dogs out here. Dogs everywhere. Yeah, there's a ton of dogs out here. Pets Good dog day. There's dogs out here, Dogs everywhere yeah, there's a ton of dogs out here. Pets Good dog day. Oh, great dog day. I mean, dog gets exercise and everything, Chex, you know. I guess they're going to do awards. Karen said they do. She had to run off to Cali up and do a participation award for Road King members.
Speaker 1:She's got to get up on stage soon and hand out some awards.
Speaker 3:You know, and yeah, it just blows me away. Another great day for my Burbank Talks to be out in the public. Another great day for Burbank.
Speaker 1:It is Every year and this goes until 3 o'clock this afternoon, so it's actually a pretty lengthy event so people can sleep in on a Sunday and still make it here to enjoy the show. This is great. You could walk around here for hours. You can see the pace. People are walking around at Very slow pace because they want to take in every detail, every car. There are still people doing every few minutes. They're buffing their car, they're wiping down their car because they want the shine right. Yeah, a little sprinkly out here today, a little misty on and off. We're under this covering here so we're not noticing it so much. Well, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3:Back in the day you remember, we always used to say, boy, that's a Kodak moment. I don't think I've seen one person without their cell phone camera out shooting their favorite car.
Speaker 1:Well, we were talking about it earlier. I'm glad I didn't bring my camera camera, my big camera, today, because I'd be completely distracted taking pictures of the detail of these cars. That's my favorite part the overall artistry, the work that goes into them. But these older cars have these details to them the chrome, the grills, the headlights so unique it's great Well sitting just across from us.
Speaker 3:I don't know what this is. It's a hot rod between the chrome in the engine. Yeah, and I looked at one or two of these cars the upholstery inside has stitching that I don't even have on some of my wardrobe and one.
Speaker 1:One common thing that all of the the owners of these vehicles have that are displayed here today is pride.
Speaker 3:Oh, definitely.
Speaker 1:Pride in the car, pride in that manufacturer, pride in the decade it was built. You know these are a lot of classic cars, older cars, you know they take you back to another time and you've got some 50-, 60-, 70-, 80-year-old cars out here and they look like they just rolled off the factory floor.
Speaker 3:It does, and I know these guys that own some of these cars and that's what they do every weekend. This is they go to all these different shows. As karen said, they do the elk show and do a show at santa nita racetrack. They do one a holiday in the park. There's a good display of cars. Look at these cars. They're just, you know, they're amazing and they love doing this and they all run. I know I haven't seen any battery attenders or AAA out here, yet About 2, 230.
Speaker 1:We'll probably have a line of tow trucks on the street out here, but hopefully not. This is great. I hope we get a little chance to walk around a little bit Behind the scenes here. We're going to grab some GoPro footage for the video version of this so you can get a good view of what's around here. So check out the YouTube version of this at my Burbank for some pictures and some videos, as well as the rest of this podcast. But we'll get back to it. Find some more people to talk to, maybe take a little walk around. Sounds like a great idea. All right, let's do it. All right, we are among greatness right now with this bike and we'll cut in some video and some B-roll of it for the video version, maybe a picture. But we've got this custom Raiders. It's a trike, it's a tricycle trike. The owner of this magnificent creature out here is sitting with us right now. Well, you know.
Speaker 3:I was just walking around to take a quick gander and I didn't have to walk more than 50 feet and I found Ruben Garcia with this trike. We have said during the podcast everything's out here today cars, bikes, fire engines I can go on and on. Ruben.
Speaker 6:Yes, sir, this is classic. It is.
Speaker 3:This is classic. You're from the San Fernando Valley. This show attracts everybody Of course. I've walked by. You've got a stereo on board. Are we going to?
Speaker 1:get to hear the sound system. Yeah, a little demo.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 6:A little demo, a little boom box there, huh. So tell us what got you into it. Well, I've been in the lowrider industry for about, I'd say about two or three years. I used to love lowrider cars and I always wanted a bicycle lowrider bike. I had a single one, but since I'm a, you know, a little bit on the side being You're talking to someone you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, but anyways.
Speaker 6:I decided to get a tricycle, and I want to give shout-outs to SoCal Lowrider Bikes, because they're the ones that helped me put a little bit of part in it. I put my part, I told them what I wanted and we did it together. So, anyways, I'm a Raider fan all the way.
Speaker 1:You better be. Yeah, I better be. I have a Raider bike.
Speaker 6:You know I have a lot of people that comment on that. They just don't like the team.
Speaker 1:Right, right, yeah, you'll get reactions from the Trike fans and the Raiders.
Speaker 6:So, anyways, I decided to do a tricycle with some music on it, anyways.
Speaker 1:Now is this a custom build from ground up.
Speaker 6:Ground up.
Speaker 1:Really, they fabricated all this stuff and you had a hand in it as well.
Speaker 6:The frame is airbrush the Raider plaque. Joel made the Raider plaque, I decided to put it on the weld it on there, and so it has 188 spokes on each.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of spokes.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of polishing.
Speaker 6:And the tires are from the Lowrider. And then I made it into, I wanted to twist it, I handled the steering wheels just for looks. And then the boom box. This is actually from a motorcycle, how they built it, okay, and it has two batteries, it has an amp I'll show you guys later and it has four speakers.
Speaker 1:Now I feel bad for the audience out there that's just listening to the podcast, because you're missing the visual of this. You're watching the video version later on YouTube we're going to show some footage of this, but the detail to this? You just see spokes through, spokes through, spokes on these wheels. But do you notice, craig? People stopping to take pictures. Everybody's stopping to take pictures of it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, they take pictures.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I asked you. You know not seriously and jokingly but you've got the twisted bars, which is a fantastic detail, and the mirror mounts coming off of it are twisted metal as well. But you've got that chain steering wheel in the middle, and I asked if you could steer with that if you wanted to, and you said that's just for looks. That's just for looks. I'll tell you. It's a winner, though, but this is a reason everybody needs to come to this show in person to see this stuff up close. This is great stuff.
Speaker 3:Well, ruben, I'm glad I stopped and talked to you, because this is just this is what this show is all about, right? Yeah, you know, and thanks for coming out to the bank.
Speaker 6:This is my first time here in this show.
Speaker 1:I like the lowrider because I kind of got short stubby legs and my feet can touch the ground.
Speaker 6:Yeah, and then, as you look over here, the sprocket Raiders.
Speaker 1:Even that is branded with the Raiders. Is that laser cut or is?
Speaker 6:that it was already made.
Speaker 1:Oh really, okay, it was molded or something. Wow, you've got mufflers. You've got pipes coming off the front wheel.
Speaker 6:They don't come yeah.
Speaker 3:And look at you. They keep your feet warm in the winter.
Speaker 1:Protect the dice hanging from the home. You've got the fuzzy dice and the drink holder, of course, mirrors and everything. This is this is this is great.
Speaker 3:Thanks for letting us take a look at it. Yeah, thanks for stopping by and have a great day today and we hope to see you at future years again. It's my burbank talks. We're going to be on air in a couple of days with shid's show and tell all your friends the first of many for ruben thank you so much right on
Speaker 1:thank you all right, we're back. We have the whole band back, together with a new lead singer. Sorry, ashley, we've got a new lead singer. Past president and current face of the Road Kings. Please introduce us to this gentleman.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, if you've been around Burbank a week or two a month, you know the voice of Don Baldessaroni. You've heard that name, part of the heritage commission, the burbank chamber of commerce. This guy owned more service stations than 76, had no standard stations, excuse me, one of each. One is 76 of them if you ever drove through the intersection of olive and first street, or gl Oaks and Olive, you went by a couple of gas stations that Don has been around Don. You've been involved in Road Kings since 1987.
Speaker 9:And it started it started in 1952 here in Burbank and they had a group of guys get together and they liked the common things of automobiles and started a club and we had a lot of famous members coming up through the years.
Speaker 3:If you're not into drag racing or anything, like Don Perdomo, bob Moravis, jimmy Miles, tommy Ivo, I remember walking home from school down Oak every day and Tommy Ivo had that car trailer and he'd be out there working on it. Us kids walking home from Jordan Back then. It was Jordan Can't say that nowadays, but Tommy Ivo lived in that 1600 block of oak, I think, in that car trailer and he was just it was you know, tommy still lives in that same house really yeah we've climbed into the way back machine.
Speaker 1:Yeah now well, this is a road kings event.
Speaker 3:You know, don, and I start talking all the time.
Speaker 1:I know I hang out with you too.
Speaker 3:John, this is just amazing.
Speaker 9:You know it's unbelievable Because we started back. If you remember, in 1991 at the Hilton we had a small little car show. The investor was the general manager of Hilton and we were in the parking lot. He had 50 cars. I don't think much more than that. The second year we did that and then went to the Equestrian Center. Oh, that was nice, of course, the general population around the Equestrian Center and the horse people we didn't want that kind of horsepower there, right.
Speaker 1:Too many horses.
Speaker 9:A little loud and everything else. And, as you know, that's in LA and when you go through the breezeway there it becomes Burbank 480 Riverside Drive becomes Burbank 480 Riverside Drive. So after a couple of successful years there, he moved Big Show to Santa Anita Racetrack. It was a lot of fun. We had a lot of cars there, it could hold 20,000, 30,000 people. By the way, we had Geno Singh, the national anthem there. Okay, Anyway, we still had the urge. We had to do something here in Burbank. So Bob Beck and I I was vice president, he was president- Look who's walking up behind us.
Speaker 3:He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car Fox and I. He's the car haired man in the Levi outfit.
Speaker 8:I have him on my other GoPro too.
Speaker 9:We'll keep our conversation going here though.
Speaker 3:Look what this show brings.
Speaker 9:Yeah, Well, without a question. You know, Jay has more cars at his warehouse than we have here.
Speaker 1:I have been there. I go way back with Jay. We went to the same high school, grew up in the same town. It's the same teachers. He was a little ahead of me, went to the same college. He might not remember, but we've known each other for about 35 years. I remember. He might not. He's met a lot more people over the years than I have. The Road Kings is a local. It's a community very engaged in the community, but a philanthropic organization too. This is a charity car show, is it not?
Speaker 9:Oh, without a question.
Speaker 1:So what can you tell us about that part?
Speaker 9:Well, let me continue on with coming here to Johnny Carson Park.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 9:Bob Beck was president, I was vice president and we wanted to keep something in Burbank Very imperative. We started doing a car show here. We'd actually have a lot more cars than we had here, but we didn't charge any admission, we just wanted to come and have fun, you know. But then as the years, a couple years, go by, we started having raffles and this and that and it turned out good. Then we were given all our money, gave away, probably. That's a close to five hundred thousand dollars so far. The last 30 years 33 years, I guess is here and that money all goes back to burbank.
Speaker 9:Non-profits 99 of it. Does you have to have a one percent that we have to pay city of burbank other things ago, but still need permits to have the events right last year we gave away twenty thousand dollars for charity. Wow. So you know, and that's what it's about, and everybody that comes and participates today and can help toward that exactly, no matter what they do Raffle prizes, hot dog vendor, taco vendor Everything that we raise goes to charity.
Speaker 9:Because what are we going to do? We have $100,000 of cars. You know, $500 or $1,000 is not going to mean to us the big scheme of things if we can give it to a charity. Have five kids go to summer camp, or the Boys and Girls Club is one of ours, etac is one of ours. They use the money for really good cause, for Burbank, and that's what we're about.
Speaker 3:Well, don, I got a question for you the other day. I ran into you and getting these cars are kind of, you get one, you get two. Now don you tell me the other day you got a new car this week how many I've lost count, and the numbers of fingers on my hand, how many cars you have?
Speaker 1:what did you pick up this as as many cars as gas stations.
Speaker 9:Actually, yeah, about the same, because I did have garages. In between that I bought a 41 Ford. A 41 Ford, well, a friend of mine.
Speaker 3:And that thing is in pristine shape, oh yeah.
Speaker 9:It's nice, it's a nice car.
Speaker 3:Yeah, tell the story. I just love that.
Speaker 9:Well, he called me up and said you know we need to. I need to get it out of my warehouse because I'm renting out my warehouse. He's 80 plus years old and says come on over and take a look at it. I'll go over. My wife and I went over there and says I love the color. I think you really should buy it. I think it's a good idea. Buy it. So we did and I really love it. I don't know if I love it as much as my 55 Chevy, my Trans Am, so I have three cars.
Speaker 1:It fills that empty spot in the garage right.
Speaker 9:I wish it was in the garage. It's right in front of the cars. I take one car out, I have to move three other cars.
Speaker 3:You almost bob frutos beat with his what? Seven, six or seven, I know, and I don't know how he jockeys cars. Again, I will. I I've asked him how do you decide what day you're going to drive what car? I drove by today and one of them is in the driveway. I'll probably go home and a different one will be in the driveway because he has to shuffle them and he starts them all, rubs them and wipes them all down. But, don, you're also, like I, led off there. You're part of the Heritage Commission. Yeah, you are also with an organization here in Burbank, I think it's called the Historical Museum. Do you have anything to do with that place? Sure.
Speaker 9:I sure do. Gordon Howard Museum. I'm actually the president of the board of directors of the Gordon Howard Museum. I'm actually the president of the board of directors of the Gordon Howard Museum and the best position to be in I get to go into work. When I'm there at the museum and can't see at all, I still, after 25 years, I still walk around. I don't remember, of course. My memory is not.
Speaker 1:You're still getting lost.
Speaker 9:Just about I know which way to go. I have a GPS on my phone. It's a great feeling. That is what the museum's about, just like with the road king Showing people what we have. That's the fun part of it.
Speaker 3:We're custodians of burbank's history well, said it really, it really is, and we love it so that's why you know, this event today is brings out burbank's best, burbank's worst, burbank's everything. This is community, and you and I have been on burbank on parade together j July 4th. I mean I can go down the committees, you and I have been on, but this is what we love.
Speaker 1:That's why we stay in this. Everybody's here, everybody's getting along, everybody's having a good time with shared interests. Fantastic families, kids, adults.
Speaker 9:Everybody's here, everybody's here, that's true, and Nikki Perez, our vice mayor, was here today. She was Our vice mayor was here today. There was, you saw Jay Leno. I love Jay. He wanted to take a picture next to the car that's next to us here. What year is that again?
Speaker 1:Looks a little newer than your 40. I think so, but it's the same color, is it Okay?
Speaker 9:Bright red, I mean the sense of community. That's what it's all about. Giving back to the community that's a misused term. Why not Absolutely? I mean, my wife is just now on the board of the VFW committee.
Speaker 1:Well, that's something to be spoken for too is the Road Kings are represented everywhere. You see the shirts all over town. You see your members all over town participating, leading different events, participating in different events, attending Road Kings are everywhere in Burbank. It's fantastic.
Speaker 9:We try.
Speaker 3:You have a lot of shirts. Well, thanks for stopping by and conversing with us and I mean this is just fantastic. I mean I can't you know. You can tell that I'm in my glory out here. It's running into people, I think I we got here and we started setting up and people came up to me and you know they listen to our podcast or listen to our weekly show or read my Burbank with some of our articles and that's why we're here.
Speaker 1:It's really sensory overload. There is just so much to see. It's like which direction do I go now?
Speaker 9:Without a question.
Speaker 1:Amazing.
Speaker 9:Hopefully you guys go out and take a look, see, thank you for my Burbank being here for us. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:It's our pleasure to be here. Okay, thanks.
Speaker 4:Great day. Thanks, ross, you found us another guest.
Speaker 3:Yes, I have Woke everybody up. I don't know what happened there, but I think a spaceship just drove through me. Who?
Speaker 1:do we have His shirt, says Hot Rod Bob, this is.
Speaker 3:Hot Rod Bob, and I hope it's his shirt.
Speaker 7:I was when I left the house.
Speaker 3:Bob has been the announcer how many years now?
Speaker 7:I've been an announcer since 1974. I've been with the Road Kings for about 35 years.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're not that old. Come on, dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am actually. It sounds like you get the pipes of an announcer.
Speaker 7:Well, he does.
Speaker 3:That's the thing you guys. Greg's the voice of my Burbank and, you like it or not, you got the pipes. You know you're a car aficionado. You have done this show for years. You've done, I've been at tons of events that you have emceed and so forth. Isn't today's show amazing?
Speaker 7:It is great. The weather is perfect. It's not too hot, it's not cold, got a little cloud cover, that's okay, it's comfortable.
Speaker 1:Good for photos.
Speaker 7:It is great because you don't get the shadows Right. You talk about this show. When I was president of the Road King this is the show that I started. We moved it from the LA Equestrian Center to here. The cost of doing the Equestrian Center was prohibitive. The horse people didn't want cars there in the first place. This was the perfect place for it. Moved it here. We still made the same amount of money for charity as we did at the equestrian center. Without the excessive money and time put on that show. You didn't have to fence it off. We had to fence off the equestrian center. You didn't have to do that here. We had to charge admission. You don't have to do that here. But it's a great venue. It's on the grass, it's in the shade if you want to be in the shade, if you want to be in the shade although we have plenty of shade today all over. But this was the show that I moved here in 1996.
Speaker 3:And are you amazed? I have seen just the amount of, not only the amount of people. I've seen babies in strollers. I've seen babies on shoulders. I've seen mothers, fathers, grandmothers, great-grandfathers. This show has brought out the community. I mean, there's got to be, and they're still coming.
Speaker 7:They're still coming and it's not just car people. These are people here to see the cars and see the event my grandkids showed up.
Speaker 3:I saw that a minute ago.
Speaker 7:So you know, we put them in the car, we let them sit in the car, and that's one thing I do. I like to perpetuate the car hobby. The best way to get a kid involved is get them in the car. I put my grandkids in the front seat, behind the steering wheel. They love it. They've got their own vintage pedal cars. As a matter of fact, this year at Christmas time I gave my grandson his father's pedal car that he had gotten when he was two years old. We're carrying on a tradition.
Speaker 1:Well, you might call this an interactive art show. Yes, because you don't have to be into cars. This is art.
Speaker 7:It is. When you look at some of the cars, the workmanship in it, the quality of the cars I mean right alongside us is a Nomad. This car is a Grand National Roadster Show winner. Multi-award winner at various car shows Just Roadster Show winner. Multi-award winner at various car shows Just perfect.
Speaker 1:So I shouldn't put my drink on the hood.
Speaker 7:Wouldn't be a good idea. Okay, I'll go, but then on the other side you've got mine alongside it with a 1972 Earl Shy black paint job. But you've got all different degrees of car quality. Mine's a driver. I drive it everywhere. We put over 100,000 miles on it.
Speaker 3:Wait a minute. So a minute ago I walked by that car and it's the license plate frame that says no smartass. No, I didn't buy it new.
Speaker 7:That's correct. I was at a gas station at Costco and the attendant the guy that walks around acting like he knows what he's doing he comes up, he's talking to me about the car. So I explain the car and the next thing out of his mouth was so did you buy it new? I'm old, but I'm not that old guys After he picked himself up off the ground you told him oh, and my wife started laughing like mad.
Speaker 1:Well now I was wondering what the graphic with the guy with the microphone was. Here I am. Mystery solved, that's it.
Speaker 3:Mystery solved, see if we stick around here long enough. But I have seen not only people, but I've seen people with two and a quarter cameras cameras on poles, cameras on sticks. I've seen GoPros. I've seen Brownie walking around Cell phones. Sure, this is.
Speaker 7:Kodak moment. I know of at least four podcasters that are out here today shooting podcasts of the show and they were amazed. These are guys that go to shows every weekend and they are just set back by the amount of cars, the amount of people, the breadth of the cars. I mean you've got everything here, from sports cars to muscle cars, to hot rods, to restored antiques.
Speaker 1:This is a content-rich environment for everybody, it is.
Speaker 3:So I got a question for you and we were going to you know, I saw Jay Leno walking around. In fact he walked right by. Do we have any electric cars here?
Speaker 7:You know what we don't luckily, I mean we don't you see, I'm mixed on this. Do I like electric cars? If you can use it, buy it. If you want it, buy it. If you like it, buy it. But don't tell me I've got to drive it too.
Speaker 1:Amen, and that's where it is.
Speaker 7:We've got three states right now that have already passed legislation to ban the demand, so you can have a choice. There's a bill pending in California right now to rescind Newsom's plan of all electric by 35. Whether it goes through or not we don't know, but there's three states that have already passed those bills, so the resistance is growing. I don't mind, if you want to drive an electric car, drive one, enjoy it if that's what you want. It's like telling someone you can't buy a Chevrolet anymore, you have to buy a Ford. Want. It's like telling someone you can't buy a Chevrolet anymore, you have to buy a Ford.
Speaker 1:It just tells me the common sense is still alive somewhere.
Speaker 7:Someplace. Yes, and we're working on it. Great.
Speaker 3:Well, bob, I know you were up on stage before you do a fantastic fan. I'm not exaggerating folks. When I say fantastic job, your voice goes with the job.
Speaker 1:It's all your music we're hearing in the background. It's all your music we're hearing in the background. It's all my music, nice.
Speaker 7:Good stuff, good choices. I try. You know you got to look at this group and this time of day it's got to be upbeat.
Speaker 1:You know how to read a room.
Speaker 7:I try, yes, I try. Don't tell that to my wife. What is your official role with the club? These days Do very active one, I'm a very active one, and then I do the announcing for them at the different shows. And you know we talked about. Yes, I've been doing this since 1974. I started out doing drag racing, road racing. I was the announcer, I was.
Speaker 1:Were you one of the first when there were 17 people at the first meeting.
Speaker 7:No, I'm not that old. This club started the year I was born, so you didn't buy that car new.
Speaker 7:No, I didn't Not this time. Yeah, I do have a few that I did, but that's not one of them. But yeah, no, that's what I do. I announce auto racing. I emcee other car shows. I just did the LAPD show. Last week I helped at the Huntington Beach Concourse. On Sunday I'm headed to Great Britain to do an event there next month. I'm going to be at Hot August Nights in Reno for a week. I'm in there, seth See there's hope for you, craig.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know Well, I can fill in while he's gone.
Speaker 7:That's it Right, there you go.
Speaker 3:I'm going to snap a cute picture of you, so I have it. Did you say cute, a cute?
Speaker 1:picture. Oh, that's adorable when you shoot with your camera.
Speaker 6:Give us one of these.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Bob, thanks for stopping by. Oh, thank you. We'll let you get back to the mix.
Speaker 1:We're going to get back yeah.
Speaker 7:We're going to start doing award presentations in just a little bit.
Speaker 1:Thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 7:Thank you guys, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4:Okay well, Ross and Craig, what a great show. What a great time today. Great show, what a great time today. Road Kings were a great host and helped us out. Had a lot of great things to look at, to talk about. What are your?
Speaker 1:final impressions. It's been a great day. All the years I've known this is going on and been around town. This is the first Road Kings car show I've been able to attend and even though I'm in this thing, I was able to do a lap and see some of the stuff out there the variety of vehicles, pride in all these vehicles, but the vendors, the food opportunities here and everybody just having such a good time. What a great event. This certainly won't be my last. Congratulations to the Road Kings on their 33rd show. They're still giving out awards and stuff on the stage over here, but it's ending almost at a perfect time because we've had shade and cloud cover until the sun's coming out now.
Speaker 4:Here comes the sun.
Speaker 1:It's going to start heating up. That means I have to find shelter before long, but a great show. Ross, this is not your first rodeo, so to speak, but how does this compare to those in the?
Speaker 3:past Well you know I didn't get to walk around, but I've seen quite a bit. I've met a lot of new people, and what a great opportunity for.
Speaker 1:Now everybody should know out there that the Road Kings were nice enough to loan us one of their canopies and it's branded Road Kings.
Speaker 4:So all day, everybody's going to be taking the info booth that proves we're live my answer to everything is down two streets.
Speaker 1:take a left, there you go.
Speaker 3:Oh, I noticed the antique Burbank Ford is just pulling out and cars are going to start pulling out soon, so I think it's time that we pull the plug on this podcast.
Speaker 1:We're just waiting for the 50-50 raffle.
Speaker 4:And, by the way, shout out to the guys making the hot dogs here.
Speaker 3:What a fantastic hot dog Quality stuff, holy cow, pretty well known.
Speaker 1:Everything I had was fantastic today and reasonably priced. You don't see that a lot of these shows You're so correct.
Speaker 3:You go to a county fair 20 bucks for a hot dog.
Speaker 1:You go to a Dodgers game and get one of these hot dogs. How much are they now? Ridiculous. This was only a few bucks. It was fantastic.
Speaker 3:It's nice to see, with the money, that will come back to Burbank in the long run. Our weather, like you said, the sun's breaking through and getting warm.
Speaker 1:I feel it. I feel it, but when we say the money coming back to Burbank, it's not going to the city. No, no, no, no it's coming back to organizations nonprofits going to benefit the people that enjoy the city of Burbank, that live and work here. Yep, sure, but a great event. We don't know the final tally of how many vehicles are here. Jay Leno came by and said hi mid-interview at one point, but he was whisked away quickly to his next stop.
Speaker 4:Go on our website. My Burbank Ash is going to write a very nice article. You can find out a lot more about who won the awards and everything else. Myburbankcom.
Speaker 3:MyBurbankcom and you know, as we promote it all day, we have MyBurbankTalks, we have MyBurbankcom A lot of ways for you to get information of stuff in Burbank.
Speaker 1:And we're going to keep doing it folks and it's come up several times talking to these great people all day is. Myburbankcom is the local newspaper for the city of Burbank now.
Speaker 3:It's funny you say newspaper, because Craig he hated that line for years.
Speaker 4:I just call it the digital news source.
Speaker 1:It is Well, we'll evolve to that, but it's replaced the gap left behind by the newspaper industry.
Speaker 4:You can look at myburbankcom and not get ink all over your fingers.
Speaker 1:That's right, unless you iron the paper first. Yes, unless your staff irons the paper.
Speaker 3:You know and honestly, we'll have this out in a day or two. Yeah, you won't see this in the local paper for another week, but do this too right when you listen to it.
Speaker 1:Put it on your calendar for next year.
Speaker 4:There you go Okay Well for Craig.