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The Week That Was and That Will Be - July 15
Have you ever wondered why Burbank's summer events seem to cram into just a couple of months? We’ve got the scoop! This week, we take a trip down memory lane with Fred Flintstone's famous "yabba-dabba-doo" ringing in our ears and share a chuckle over a toothpick fiasco at Hill Street Cafe. We also celebrate John Wofat's impressive win for "Starlink" as our Word of the Week. From the whimsical Burbank Elephant Parade to updates on downtown's bustling cultural market, this episode is your ticket to all things Burbank.
In the spirit of community, we bring you the latest from the Sustainable Burbank Commission, discussing their strides in greenhouse gas reduction and urban forestry initiatives. Plus, get the lowdown on the electrification of landscape equipment and the significant changes in Burbank's retail scene, including the transformation of local favorites like Chow Christina into the new Idlewild Tavern. We also delve into the canceled Arts and Public Places meeting and its ripple effects on airport art projects and city aesthetics.
Traffic safety, scam alerts, and a throwback to Burbank's mayoral first pitches at Dodger games—this episode covers it all. We chat about the controversial eviction ordinance, the importance of civil discourse in city council meetings, and upcoming local government issues that could impact you. Don't miss our rants on the latest scams and the importance of vigilance in our digital age. With a mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and practical updates, this episode promises a comprehensive look at Burbank's vibrant life. So sit back, relax, and join us for another entertaining and informative week in Burbank!
Have you ever wondered why Burbank's summer events seem to cram into just a couple of months? We’ve got the scoop! This week, we take a trip down memory lane with Fred Flintstone's famous "yabba-dabba-doo" ringing in our ears and share a chuckle over a toothpick fiasco at Hill Street Cafe. We also celebrate John Wofat's impressive win for "Starlink" as our Word of the Week. From the whimsical Burbank Elephant Parade to updates on downtown's bustling cultural market, this episode is your ticket to all things Burbank.
In the spirit of community, we bring you the latest from the Sustainable Burbank Commission, discussing their strides in greenhouse gas reduction and urban forestry initiatives. Plus, get the lowdown on the electrification of landscape equipment and the significant changes in Burbank's retail scene, including the transformation of local favorites like Chow Christina into the new Idlewild Tavern. We also delve into the canceled Arts and Public Places meeting and its ripple effects on airport art projects and city aesthetics.
Traffic safety, scam alerts, and a throwback to Burbank's mayoral first pitches at Dodger games—this episode covers it all. We chat about the controversial eviction ordinance, the importance of civil discourse in city council meetings, and upcoming local government issues that could impact you. Don't miss our rants on the latest scams and the importance of vigilance in our digital age. With a mix of humor, heartfelt stories, and practical updates, this episode promises a comprehensive look at Burbank's vibrant life. So sit back, relax, and join us for another entertaining and informative week in Burbank!
My Burbank Talks presents another edition of the Week that Was and the Week that Will Be a weekly podcast featuring highlights and commentary on local events and issues taking place right here in Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda as we join our program.
Speaker 2:Hello Burbank. Greg Sherwood here with you once again, along with Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Hi there, as they say in show business, yabba-dabba-doo, the week of July 15th. We're live from Burbank. Well, when people hear this, they won't.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, while we consider that line, let's introduce Craig Durling. Instead of that line, let's introduce Craig Durling.
Speaker 1:Good evening everybody. And I think it was an animated caveman that said yabba-dabba-doo as he slid off the tail of a dinosaur.
Speaker 3:Oh, I think that's who said it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if everybody in Hollywood said it Was that from Fred Flintstone, that's Fred Flintstone, fred Flintstone, the Fred Flintstone. With my tooth I can't say Fred, I know with it, your chiclet Right off the dinosaur tail. What a way to start a show.
Speaker 2:Right into his car.
Speaker 3:That's right. Do you remember people? Nowadays we can say Fred Flintstone? No, people have no clue.
Speaker 1:Say a lot of things and people won't have ever heard of it.
Speaker 2:They've even done feature movies and people don't even remember those probably.
Speaker 1:Makes you feel old, doesn't it? I think it's getting worse. It is, isn't it? I think it's getting worse. It is but the week that we'll be for this week. Well, we got the band back together for another week. Here we are here we go and we just need to kill an hour and a half because nothing happened last week.
Speaker 2:Last week was canceled due to.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess it's because it's the summer, everybody's on vacation.
Speaker 2:I think so yeah.
Speaker 1:Out of the office.
Speaker 2:It's just slow. In fact, we don't have a lot of stories on our website lately, just because it seems everybody's not doing anything.
Speaker 1:Nobody's around.
Speaker 2:It's strange to me that everybody wants to do their galas all within a two-month period and tap the community's money all over the place, whereas if they spread it out a little more they might have more money this time of year. If it's the only game in town, maybe so who knows, it would certainly fill up our agenda.
Speaker 1:Yes, it would. We'd have something to talk about.
Speaker 2:Well, we can talk about last week's winner.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the Word of the Week winner.
Speaker 2:Which was Starlink, and that was one of the people who sent that in was John Wofat Wofat.
Speaker 1:The lucky winner.
Speaker 2:I think it's Wofat. He's pronounced it Wofat.
Speaker 3:He's not one of the monkeys, is he?
Speaker 1:The monkeys. Now you're on the hook. You've got to explain that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you explain that Well not Mickey Dolenz. Who's the other guys?
Speaker 1:You're not thinking of Tom Wofat from the.
Speaker 3:Dukes of Hazzard.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, I'm not so sure he's being mindful. When I saw Tom, I saw it as Tom John Wopat. I'm like did you combine John Schneider and Tom Wopat but Tom Woffat? I hope one of those is correct.
Speaker 2:I know the Wofat.
Speaker 1:Congratulations, john. Thanks for listening and sending in the right word of the week, which was Starlink last week, absolutely. And now listen, and what they get? Oh, that's right, you get the $25 gift card at Hill Street Cafe, and a couple of us in this room had lunch there only a few days ago and had a great meal, as you will.
Speaker 2:John Guess which two, and I was not one of them.
Speaker 1:That's kind of a dead giveaway right there yeah that's easy, matt.
Speaker 3:Let me just give everybody a little warning as you walk in the door. There's a little tiny dish with. Crayolas. And then there used to be a crystal or glass thing holding toothpicks. The toothpicks aren't there anymore, thanks to Greg Durley.
Speaker 1:No, the toothpicks are still there. The glass bowl they were in is not there anymore. They put it right on the corner of the counter as you walk in and I was reaching for a crayon just for funsies and as I pulled my hand away, I guess I clipped this thing and it happened in slow motion and, as I'm thinking, certainly they wouldn't put something round and glass that could easily fall off the counter right on the counter. And and next thing I know I was counting toothpicks on the floor and all people, everybody in there.
Speaker 3:There must have been 20 or 30 people in there for when we were in there.
Speaker 2:All look, that doesn't probably all using my burbank gift certificate and I look.
Speaker 1:I turned to ross and said I can't believe you did that. We're putting you in a home. But no, they didn't add it to the check, which was nice.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll have a new word coming up later in the show and send in that word what did you have?
Speaker 1:I didn't ever even finish the sentence. John gets a $25 gift card.
Speaker 2:I was trying to move on here.
Speaker 1:To Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 2:I was trying to do your job for a change.
Speaker 1:It is the initial font, hill Street Cafe on Glen Oaks. And if you have to listen later in the show, yeah, there you go, the rabbit hole, click. Listen later in the show. It's way later in the show. It's always in the second half. But listen up for this week's Word of the Week and we'll give you instructions on what to do at that time, mr Sherwood back to you If you have an extra bowl that you can bring for their toothpicks. Ah, quit it, never gonna live it down.
Speaker 2:Well, let's talk about last Tuesday, wednesday, thursday and Friday. How'd things go last week? They were dark. They were dark. It's the dark days of summer, as we say. Were those the days that it was like 100, 103, yeah, so six?
Speaker 1:you know, I don't it was just too hot to go outside, so nothing happened those four days. Does our producer have uh having a heat wave? Uh queued up on the victrola over here no, once again our production meeting.
Speaker 2:Nobody asked me to bring that that sound in so funny because I was going to email you, but what sound would you have for a heat wave?
Speaker 3:I could picture it in the desert, whatever that's called.
Speaker 2:You know what I would have? I'd have bacon sizzling.
Speaker 1:Okay. I think, that would be a new scent. It would also make everybody hungry.
Speaker 2:Yes, it would.
Speaker 1:That's a good sound for Hill Street Cafe.
Speaker 2:That is. I'm sure they have bacon there, don't they?
Speaker 3:Oh yes. I had it on my bacon lettuce tomato without lettuce or tomato.
Speaker 1:So you had an L, I had an L. Yes, all right, all right, all right. Well, tuesday through Friday, we don't have much to talk about, but there are a couple things. Oh, not at all.
Speaker 3:But I did hear that pachyderm is still around A pachyderm parade.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you see Alliteration. Alliteration Two Ps. Oh, Pachyderm parade. Ha, Perhaps, but the elephant parade does continue. We've talked about it several times on the show as a reminder. They are still in place, spread out around the city and that goes through August 31st. The elephant parade.
Speaker 3:You know what's nice about this parade? It doesn't move.
Speaker 1:You don't have to chase it and it doesn't require a shovel.
Speaker 3:You took that right out oh did I beat you?
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, we can edit that out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, level, you took that right out. Oh, did I beat you? I'm sorry, we can edit that out. I was just going to say the one time this parade doesn't need to be having a super no cleanup after it.
Speaker 2:How are those elephants in the heat, I wonder?
Speaker 1:But they can go.
Speaker 2:What was that Bacon sizzling? That was bacon sizzling, but I guess it didn't. That was bacon sizzling. Well, that was a campfire.
Speaker 3:You know, what?
Speaker 1:That's very specific.
Speaker 2:Yes, in a campfire.
Speaker 3:I bet that wasn't Hormel.
Speaker 1:At least it wasn't the campfire scene from Blazing Saddle no.
Speaker 2:I have it in a kitchen. I don't know if we can get away with that one. We have a kitchen also.
Speaker 1:Well, that sounds more like sizzling.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, but again last week, like we said, I know somebody that took crack two eggs on olive once at the top of Olive and Sunset and it was 108 degrees and it did not cook.
Speaker 1:But if people want to see, visit the elephants wherever they are. The map is available on the city website as well as myburbankcom.
Speaker 2:I would also advise them to look at our YouTube videos, and we have a great video of what every elephant looks like and the location of every elephant.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the helpful part.
Speaker 2:And who made the?
Speaker 1:elephant. A little background on each pachyderm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, driving here today I took a look to the right. Did I go down that street? Yeah, in front of city hall, and I think that elephant is almost done. Might be done by the end now are they.
Speaker 1:Are they to move them around at certain points, or are they stay and put? Where they're staying put for two months end of august, okay, so everybody has plenty of time to go see them. Um, but the map, yeah, the youtube videos.
Speaker 3:Our youtube channel is my burbank and I did again, driving down to the studio in the media district adjacent. Uh, the elephant that's at safari is not at the safari, it's inside the lobby of the hotel okay, so it's not out on the corner it's at the safari hotel just inside the office.
Speaker 1:They still have the restaurant in there, don't they?
Speaker 3:Safari. No, you're thinking of the block west. One block west.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what is that place called?
Speaker 1:Weren't they both safaris at some point? The Safari. Inn and then the. I think that's where the rooms are. One was more of an inn and the other was more of a hotel.
Speaker 2:The cook there had Frank's also. Yeah, and then I think there's still a restaurant. There's got to be, yeah.
Speaker 1:Annabelle. I want to see the Annabelle that sounds. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3:But that's a block west Okay Of Safari.
Speaker 1:But the elephant is in the Safari Inn.
Speaker 2:Right Inside Annabelle's at Lamer and Olive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think so, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, right-o, you know, there's not much else, oh there is. Once again we'll plug the downtown cultural market Ongoing, which happened last week.
Speaker 1:And it's happening every Friday, saturday night, until further notice, I guess from 5 pm to 9.30 pm, right by the. What do you call it? It's the Paseo, the Paseo, the.
Speaker 3:Paseo. You know there's a couple of restaurants they come and go so fast on that block. But there used to be a taco place. I don't know if it's there anymore, but I hear there's a Slices that's opening soon. I it's there anymore, but I hear there's a slices that's opening soon. I've only gone there because I can't afford it is the broiling crab boiling crab oh, my son has taken me there. And not familiar. Oh, it's a mess.
Speaker 2:But the um, which would call it the um. There's another restaurant. I thought it's opening in there, but it's going to be a while away. I saw that it's not a release or whatever.
Speaker 3:But it's going to be. Is that the one that slices the pizza place? No, because they're supposed to open end of July.
Speaker 2:I think it was another pizza place.
Speaker 1:We need to get back to food reviews. We've got to do a whole redo a new best burger in town thing. Right, there's a lot of new burgers in town.
Speaker 2:Look at those fat-free burgers, because my diet is right now king.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, your test will be just smelling it.
Speaker 2:Two more pounds last week. Put it in front of you. I lost two more last week. Put it in front of you and you can smell it, and if you find them, I don't want them back.
Speaker 3:What's located on the AMC walkway? Who is that? How do you pronounce it? I didn't catch that. It's at the top of page 92 of our show notes.
Speaker 1:No that, oh, Is that? Well, that's one of the elephants, I think. I think that might be a rollover from.
Speaker 2:Go back to page one. Yeah, oh, and then page one continues to page two and a whole paragraph of info.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that how?
Speaker 3:that works, the pachyderms. Oh, now I know.
Speaker 1:No wonder I'm always. You can hit rewind on that pile of papers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Page and table.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:It's like going back in time, only we're talking about the future, so we're going back in the future.
Speaker 3:Back to the future.
Speaker 1:No, we're going back in the future?
Speaker 3:What are they going to do with the elephants when they're done with Burbank?
Speaker 1:They go into a circus.
Speaker 2:No, they actually go to other displays, but didn't they paint them here?
Speaker 1:No, or do they arrive to?
Speaker 2:Burbank. They're only painting the Burbank one to get painted here. Oh okay, all the rest are, you know. Go on their merry jaunt. I saw they've been in like four or five countries or something. Go on their merry jaunt. I saw they've been in like four or five countries or something, oh wow. Everything to buy, because they just say here's a billion dollars bring us something.
Speaker 1:They just have to get all their shots before they go to the next country.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I need to check that cultural market out one of these weekends.
Speaker 3:Why don't we plan on taking a walking tour? They're either on a, if we can get parking Friday, Saturday, you know, but I'm told it's bustling Is that the word Bustling and bustling.
Speaker 2:Maybe we need to bring our video camera with you.
Speaker 1:I agree, and Taser and Seattle Broad Get everybody out of our way.
Speaker 3:And you know one thing about that cultural market. That's kind of cool. They donate from all those vendors to Home LA. They do.
Speaker 1:They do. We talked about that for sure. Well, it's good to remember that, though it's always a good cause yeah, let's make a field trip. Let's do it. We have a weekend coming up. Field trip. We have a weekend coming up this week.
Speaker 2:Let's get the permission slips out, right?
Speaker 3:We have a weekend coming up this week, let's get the permission slips out, right, okay, well, craig and I, we're still looking for that good place that has that etouffee.
Speaker 1:We need good Creole food, good Cajun food in the area. If anybody out there knows of good Cajun place in the Burbank area, please let us know.
Speaker 2:Notice he said Burbank area, not only in Burbank.
Speaker 1:Cajun places at myburbankcom.
Speaker 2:Media district Burbank adjacent, like the media district adjacent.
Speaker 1:If I can throw a rock and hit a touffée, I want to eat there.
Speaker 3:I remember you took me to a place Was that in Newport, when you worked down there? Hermosa Beach?
Speaker 1:Hermosa Beach. There were two. There's a region Cajun, but then there was Cafe New Orleans, the smaller place, and that was the one where the owner, literally Sandra Sandra, would cook right there and you sit at your little table and she'd come over and here try some of these, honey. Yeah, try some of these. You like these little? She'd make you little things while your dishes were cooking, so good.
Speaker 2:And feed you time and, and they loved each other, they fell in love anyway. We need a place like that around here, okay, well, that's it for the week that was and the week that we don't care about anymore whatsoever, anyway so that was a quick week, so we're gonna take a quick commercial break and we'll be back with you in a second enjoying the show right now, think you may want to do your own podcast.
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Speaker 2:Now back to our show. All right, back with you. Craig Sherwood here, along with Ross Benson. Yabba-dabba-doo, here I is, here I is. English majors Grammar check.
Speaker 1:Grammar check.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the old Burroughs education once again.
Speaker 3:I didn't have Steve Campbell.
Speaker 2:Rest in peace. And of course we have Craig Derlingwood.
Speaker 1:I'm still here. I'm still here. Hey, I like that ad. That sounded pretty good. Who's that?
Speaker 2:guy Sounds familiar.
Speaker 1:He sounds like one of the voices in my head.
Speaker 3:You really had to listen because from George that did it before to your voice, man, I had to really pay attention there.
Speaker 2:Don't tell me which one you like, better we're sticking with this one, it'd be better because I deleted the other one.
Speaker 1:That's the way I like it. Okay, good, good, the heck with them.
Speaker 2:Well, here we are for the week that is, and today, the Sustainable Burbank Commission. They met today and they had a report from Burbank Water and Power about a greenhouse gas reduction plan and urban forestry habit restoration and electrification of landscape equipment from Park and Rec. Habit restoration and electrification of landscape equipment from Park and Rec. So both Water and Power and Park and Rec came in and presented them with their annual reports. The Arts and Public Places meeting was canceled, so I guess once again the airport will have to wait another month to stall us again.
Speaker 1:Luckily that cancellation allowed me to be here tonight. Yes, it did, Because normally I'm at the arts and public places.
Speaker 3:You know there's been floating and I'm not sure where I saw it. You know there's so much, so much coming across my computer screen Not last week On how moving along or moving moving along.
Speaker 1:Okay, compose the thought.
Speaker 3:Boy, the new terminal. They're like concrete and the steel's going. We might see an airport, craig and I. You know, in our lifetime we didn't think we'd ever see.
Speaker 1:Well, if you follow the airport on. You know their social medias and stuff like that. They're putting all these you know progress videos and things up there and it's, it's happening. I know I was wondering for a long time if it was ever going to happen and it is happening. Hey, we've been in that boat for how many years?
Speaker 3:But you know, I think it's Elevate Burbank.
Speaker 2:There's still no guarantee that I'll be alive when it's completed, though.
Speaker 1:Elephant Burbank.
Speaker 3:That's another exhibit as always I'm day-to-day Well you know every report that they make to the city is we have that date that we're going to open up.
Speaker 1:And they're sticking with it still. But the reason you brought that up is that that involves the arts in public places. Right, because they're putting art inside the terminal and there was some argument that, well, you have to be like a ticketed passenger to see it. Right, but it's actually in a public area. They haven't decided that yet, but they're still working that out.
Speaker 2:They haven't even decided, 10 years later, what artwork's going to go in the Ritzy Center.
Speaker 1:Well, they're not going to work it out this week, oh, they're not going to work it out. They don't have a meeting this week.
Speaker 3:Good summer.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow, tuesday, we do have a Burbank City Council meeting. They will be getting together after their couple week absence. Bmc says they must have two meetings a month, and so this is one of the two meetings. In July they're going to have the annual review of planned developments and development agreements, so that means all the projects that are going on. I saw on the list their development agreement is going back to 1998. So there's all kinds of yes. The pavilions development agreement just finally ended last year.
Speaker 1:You're kidding.
Speaker 2:Wow, and I hate to tell them, but pavilions is being sold. I don't know if you guys have heard that Pavilions and Vons are being sold.
Speaker 1:No, does Pavilions still have a Panda Express in it? They used to have a Panda Express in it.
Speaker 3:No, I was in there after our show last week. We wrapped so early I stopped in at Pavilions. I haven't been in that story.
Speaker 1:I haven't been in there in years.
Speaker 2:Exactly, panda's gone, huh I didn't see you there was no Panda.
Speaker 1:Back in the middle they had the deli or the bakery, but attached to it was a Panda.
Speaker 2:Express To the left was a sushi.
Speaker 3:And you could actually sit there and eat too. Well then it might be still there.
Speaker 2:There was something there, but they're closed. By the time you get in there, 9 or 10 o'clock I think, they close at 6 or 7.
Speaker 3:But that store, that store is a fancy. I mean it really the same company that owns Piggly Wiggly's back east.
Speaker 2:now are going to own Vons and Pavilions as they sold they're going to sell those to.
Speaker 3:Instead of going to Kruger, they are going to WSH Wholesale, which owns stores like Piggly Wiggly. Now, dating ourselves, what was there before? It was a pavilion.
Speaker 2:It was the Pickwick Drive-In. Thank you very much. What was supposed to go in that area? Oh, that was actually down the street with the Whole Foods.
Speaker 3:Main and Alameda right Now this just in.
Speaker 1:I don't know if this is news to you guys, because you usually know everything in Burbank a week or two before anybody else does, but the old Chao Cristina in the media district. Yes, there's a sign on there now that says it's going to be the Idlewild Tavern.
Speaker 2:I saw that it's going to be Going to be. Well, they're doing the roof now. At least they have a name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're doing the roof now, but this week was the first time I saw the sign, what it was actually going to be.
Speaker 2:By the way, a little more history for the pavilions area. In case you're ever hungry late at night and you want to go somewhere on a 24-hour restaurant, you always oh, dennis is always 24 hours, not at the pavilion's parking lot.
Speaker 1:Not that one, the.
Speaker 2:Rancho. People said, no, we can't have a 24-hour restaurant in our neighborhood, so they've got to close at 11 every night.
Speaker 1:You know what, you know why they don't want 24 hours? Because it's too much horsing around.
Speaker 2:Wait a second.
Speaker 1:Nothing good happens late at night.
Speaker 2:Wait a second.
Speaker 3:Wilbur. Where are you, Wilbur? Uh-oh.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, uh-oh. That's not a good face on Mr Sherwood.
Speaker 2:Something's gone horribly wrong.
Speaker 1:Danger, danger.
Speaker 2:We have lost our.
Speaker 1:We'll have to get the engineering team on that.
Speaker 3:Well, when you talk about the Idlewild Tavern, we don't have on our list and it's going to have to be part three of our restaurants that have come on oh, like there wasn't going to be anyway. The River Bottom Inn. That's what before. This is chai chuchina and a ton of other places. It used to be called the river bottom. Isn't that where emmett?
Speaker 1:otter lived. Who emmett otter's jug band christmas, didn't? They live in river bottom, I remember.
Speaker 3:I lived across behind the b of a many when I worked as a fireman for the studio Boy Riverbottom Inn. The drunks were out there nightly.
Speaker 1:Well, also on the city council agenda is the MOU between the city and the Burbank Firefighter Chief Officers Unit. I saw that.
Speaker 2:I guess they have their own union, so I'm sure they're going to get a nice pay raise, the way the firefighters all got their pay raise.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody gets a little piece of the pie.
Speaker 3:Now I had heard a little birdie had told me that Burbank, the chiefs that drive the little pickup truck, they're going to have aides like they do in every other city.
Speaker 1:You get somebody to drive them again.
Speaker 3:Yep, they're going to have drivers.
Speaker 1:Well, they have a lot going when they're on a response, they have a lot to deal with. You know driving was always the most not a good combination. You said you're driving Code 3, lights and siren.
Speaker 3:You got firemen telling you we got a raging fire.
Speaker 1:They're on three different radio channels. They have the computer with updates coming on dispatch. No, I'm all for it. It's something that never should have gone away.
Speaker 3:That's kind of why they're going to have drivers.
Speaker 1:And that MOU will go from this well, july 1st to June 30th, 2027.
Speaker 3:But I don't know. I think the drivers were in the part of that other budget.
Speaker 1:Would they have to be engineers or something like that, or could they just be a firefighter, fireman, yeah. I don't know if it was its own kind of special position.
Speaker 3:Well, you're from back east and it's funny, because out here their drivers are aides. Well, they call them chauffeurs back east. Exactly, chauffeurs, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:And I don't know there if it's historically a different position or title or anything but a friend of mine I went to high school with my hometown, just became the fire chief Really Hometown, yeah, Kyle Murphy Chief, Kyle Murphy. Congratulations to him. I know he watches this show.
Speaker 2:Well, let's see. We're also going to fill the vacancies in the various commissions in Burbank.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's your chance.
Speaker 2:Commissions and committees Any thoughts on that?
Speaker 3:Well, the other night I spent I don't know how many hours. We won't say how many hours there's only so many hours in a night. I don't know how many hours we won't say how many hours.
Speaker 1:There's only so many hours in a night.
Speaker 3:Reading, because for every person that put their name in, they also put their resume in Bios their bios in who their babysitter was 13 years ago I learned more about some of the people. We have some sharp people that are applying for boards and commissions. We don't want dull people.
Speaker 1:Are there some not so sharp?
Speaker 3:people. Well, there's a couple people who work at NASA and have worked at NASA. Some are doctors, yeah, but not that NASA, oh no, it just kind of blows me away when you, if you and that's all public information People wonder it is now, how do you? You know they blot out their address, but it gives you everything else and I'll tell you. Some people's resume are. So you wonder, and I will say it's a challenge. You know, a lot of people meet with the council members to give them their sales speech why they should be. Honestly, I think you need there's a couple that read lived in the city for three years. You don't know this city?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I agree how many US senators and congresspeople move into a state or a district or a city, like while they're running, like right before they put in the papers to run for that district or something they don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it just kind of and I understand oh, I want to make Burbank a better place. Okay, I get that, I want to get involved. You know, I did PTA, I did Leadership Burbank, I did the DIG program. You know, see, those guys that have done the DIG program, they're automatically they're vetted.
Speaker 1:Consider them vetted right. I want to ask any of them they've had their hands in the soils?
Speaker 2:of burbank in the earth and yeah, they've worked with a hose and they have a history with hose.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you know, many years ago I how they used to do it is it was alphabetized and they would just pick the first person, and I remember I put my name in for a board and you called yourself, abraham, alabama.
Speaker 2:So you got to pick first.
Speaker 3:No Benson was. There were no A's, so I was first Alfred Abraham.
Speaker 1:Alabama.
Speaker 3:That's your service. I think they pull out of a hat of what position they're going to be and so forth, and usually that takes a little while voting for the council.
Speaker 1:Now, if they wanted to see the list of vacancies, they're posted on the city website or council.
Speaker 3:On the council agenda. The city clerk makes it very clear. In fact, she broke it down.
Speaker 3:This is a time period you have to submit Right. And yeah, what in fact she? This is a time period you have to right, and she even put a chart up of the incumbents when they were their term ends. All that is on the city website, which is interesting, and you think about it, I get it. I'm sorry. You know, if you don't know where Gaylord is, or Purvis, or you know some of these streets in Burbank, you don't belong on a commission. You need to know the city Well.
Speaker 2:It depends on the commission though. Well, but you, I like sustainable Burbank matters. You know where Gaylord's, off a riverside drive in the Rancho area, but the sustainable commission.
Speaker 3:Some of those people are rocket scientists. I understand that.
Speaker 1:At least they think they are Literally and not literally, not literally.
Speaker 2:I think if you're on the Transportation Commission or you're on commissions that deal with aspects of you know geographic areas of the city, I think you should actually know yeah.
Speaker 3:So what you're saying is everybody that applied for the Transportation Committee should own a bicycle.
Speaker 1:Or a car, metal power. But this is a good chance for everybody out there that is looking for a way to get involved in the city, to have your voice get on a commission and most council members have served on different.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is where you start, yep, but it's not. As we have learned, you can't just think you're going to. Oh it's, I can wear my tennis shoes and flip-flops and go to a meeting. There are rules and regulations. These are formal events.
Speaker 2:I don't think anybody's ever.
Speaker 3:Well, I've seen a couple of boards and commissions where people show Isn't there?
Speaker 2:a US Senator that they have changed the whole dress code for I was just going to say I don't get rid of people who dress up like a Senator from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they changed the whole dress code of the Senate for him.
Speaker 2:He was on the Bill Maher show a couple weeks ago. He hasn't changed In his sweatshirt and everything else.
Speaker 3:What the heck what's his name?
Speaker 1:we'll come up with it here that should be the word of the week. Email us with the.
Speaker 3:It's right at the tip of my tongue, but anyway I will say that there is a lot going on at this week's city council meeting.
Speaker 1:Betterman, that's there you go, betterman, there we go um?
Speaker 3:I I believe after last week's. When was the last council meeting?
Speaker 2:I forget now, like february a couple weeks ago, john federman. In fact, there you go.
Speaker 3:Fact, there he is yeah, the the decorum in our city council chambers got a little out of hand and I think you're gonna find uh, tomorrow the mayor's gonna. He wasn't there. Nicky handled the meetings pretty well, but I think he's going to lay down the of how decorum is going to be when he is the mayor and they're probably going to shorten time periods. He is the mayor, isn't he?
Speaker 1:He is the mayor, but I mean when he's there, when he's in attendance, well yeah, he's going to keep everybody in line.
Speaker 2:I agree 100% with doing all that. But here's the problem you can get up in front of that microphone and you can say whatever you want to say. You can use whatever four letter words you want to use and they can't stop you and they can't say that's you know. You have the right to 100% free speech. It's not right, it's, it's. I think when you, when you use that kind of language and you use those, you know that people downgrade you and your message.
Speaker 2:It's really going to help your cause, right? Well, respect, yeah, but they cannot make you respect them. When you have that three minutes to talk, they can spout off anything you want to spout off with, and hopefully our nation's learned a lesson this last week about how we need to tone our talk down and then tone our how we say things down, because, you know, words do have consequences. Yeah, as it turns out Well which we should have all known that we had a, thank goodness it could have been worse, so Well, I think we're happy that we can go on now, but use this as a lesson and hopefully our city council meetings can be the same.
Speaker 2:you know civil.
Speaker 1:Let's be civil. Let's come back to civility.
Speaker 3:yes, and have a difference of opinion and respect the difference of opinion, yep and I think the mayor will see how tomorrow night's meeting starts off and goes and in fact I was really surprised. Today they put out on social media what time chamber opens, who can be. You know you got to go through the metal detector. You know there's quite a bit also security's going to ramp up.
Speaker 3:I think we've all learned now that security needs to to be a little more in effect in public settings and I wonder if they'll you know, it'll be interesting to see if they'll have any additional. What do they call them? Sergeant of arms?
Speaker 1:Well, there's only one. I don't think they have more security.
Speaker 3:You mean more officers that you're talking about, and they also people don't realize that the fire marshal, which we have a new one, will also. There's so many seats. They will not allow you to stand. They're just following the rules of what is out there.
Speaker 1:Right, but they're also going taking one more step toward protecting tenants in the city.
Speaker 2:Yep, well, yeah, they're going to um the ordinance on the evictions so they're introducing an ordinance right, let's have a public hearing about it.
Speaker 2:So I'm sure that's going to be a very heated, very heated thing. And then, if that's not going to be heated, the very last thing on the agenda will be very heated once again, and that's the discussion. And, uh, I'm going to let you support the president's proposal and or ceasefire resolution pertaining to the middle east. So, once again, I I know the country is waiting, in fact, I know israel is waiting to hear burbank's opinion on on what they should do, and so they're giddy with anticipation yes is that burbank, california, or Burbank, illinois?
Speaker 2:No that's Burbank, California. This is a meaty capital world and until we chime in on it, there will never be peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:I'm being facetious, but I think it's nothing.
Speaker 1:You think it's a waste of time.
Speaker 2:It's a waste of time and city resources, but it's a serious subject, but it's a waste of time. It's a waste of time and city resources, but it's a serious subject, but it's not something that anybody anywhere cares about the city of Burbank shouldn't have any involvement.
Speaker 1:No, exactly.
Speaker 2:And then, after we talk about that, then next week we're going to start talking about a ceasefire in Ukraine and Russia, and then we talk about, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean it's just not. It was nuclear war. You know, last time it was going to be something.
Speaker 2:Yes, I always thought it always said you can comment on city business. It used to. I thought and that's just not city business and while it's important, you know, I just don't think it's. You know how many Don't take up city time and all the staff being there and everybody having to sit around, yeah.
Speaker 3:And you wonder why some of these meetings go how many hours. Because now that they've changed it, you used to have to go to council but now that they, after COVID, they, you know, do phone in. And like Craig wrote somewhere, I believe I copied or I saw they're all speaking from the same script.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of bothersome to me. In fact, that was not. No, that wasn't that. That was the Arancho thing Okay, I thought it was, and everybody read from the same script. And I think everybody should call in. Everybody should call in, but they should give their opinion on it.
Speaker 2:I mean, they just have their talking points that they were handed and they're all like yeah, because it was the exact same script with the same exact names and Patrick Prescott and everything. And it's like, come on and they said nothing else, they didn't read it and say something like and I really do feel strongly about it. No, it's just they read it and then they hung up on the phone or walked away from the podium and I go oh, you know, Are they just getting it on the record?
Speaker 1:Well, that's it.
Speaker 3:But also if you ask half of them to call in, where's Burbank City Hall? I doubt if they could tell you.
Speaker 1:Waste everybody's time. Moving on Wednesday's your favorite. We know where you're going to be Wednesday, mr Sherwood.
Speaker 2:You know where I'm going to be Not watching my television, because actually.
Speaker 1:Actually, you'll be watching your television, you just won't be watching the police commission.
Speaker 2:Actually Tuesday I'll be watching To watch the all-star game actually but Congratulations to our Dodger, mr Hernandez, who won the home run.
Speaker 1:Tao.
Speaker 2:Won the home run championship tonight. The home run.
Speaker 1:Did you say that's the first Dodger to win the home run? First Dodger to ever win it. Wow, wow, that's his, and he had to fight to get there right. Yes, he did. Yeah, and it's really funny, he get there right. Yes, he did.
Speaker 2:And it's really funny. He really took less money to come to the Dodgers. He really wanted to come into a team where it had a chance to win and he could be part of something special. And he's actually might be the guy besides Tani who's actually kept them in this thing and in first place.
Speaker 1:That's the same reason I'm here. I took a pay cut, but I wanted to be part of something special.
Speaker 3:But you know what I look on social media. The Dodgers are on social media quite a bit. It was really cool to see how they got to Texas that Gulf Stream.
Speaker 2:I was going to say in a plane, I hope.
Speaker 3:It was but a private jet, you know with who paid for it? That's what I kind of wondered. It didn't say I wonder if Otani paid for it.
Speaker 1:Well he could. Freddie Freeman could pay for it.
Speaker 3:He's not making a lot of money with his deferral, but did you also see MLB put out how many racks and racks and racks of clothing with 17 and his name on it? Oh yeah, they're booking.
Speaker 1:Well they're working on making their money back, which they will in the long run.
Speaker 2:I think they're already making a profit, because not only the fact that every time you know, the Dodgers get a third of the ticket sales when they go on the road, so those students who feel up to see him, they're getting a third of that money, plus they get two-thirds of the money at their place, plus they have still I think six now sponsorships to Japanese companies. For have you looked?
Speaker 1:in the photo, wells at the home games.
Speaker 2:But have you looked sometimes on the message boards behind home plate there that are? You know that they change every inning once in a while it's in Japanese lettering, or the on the mound.
Speaker 1:The Japanese press is well represented.
Speaker 2:So the Dodgers, I bet you they're going to actually turn a profit on him after 10 years. Oh yeah, they will.
Speaker 3:You know, alana Rizzo made it very clear and she did a piece a couple weeks ago on MLB these owners of baseball teams, they know I mean what they were getting into. We're talking billions.
Speaker 1:Well, they're also thinking long-term, yeah, long-term. But other than the Dodgers, what else is the police commission talking about?
Speaker 2:Yeah, ross, because I have a new policy of being like the police commission and I have nothing to say and I know how not to say something Well.
Speaker 1:Ross is here to give a report.
Speaker 2:Yes, Ross, you can talk all about the police commission tonight.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm kind of curious because I'm seeing our show notes and it's on their agenda. They're going to talk about bike and pedestrian safety and I've been lately seeing and reading and— oh, for schools, now, now well, that's for schools, but for schools, they want to know the big problem is people riding their bike on the sidewalk and come up flying behind you and by the time you know somebody is right there.
Speaker 1:You could be dead well now here's the question is there a burbank municipal code preventing riding a bicycle on a sidewalk?
Speaker 3:No, and that's what. Why isn't there? That was discussed a long time ago or several meetings ago. Burbank doesn't have it on their books. They need to, and we've talked about it before.
Speaker 1:Scooters and bicycles.
Speaker 3:Downtown.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:I think the law that needs to be changed is the fact that bicycles should be allowed to ride the opposite way of traffic on in bike lanes, cause you come down in a in a marked bike lane. A marked bike lane, okay, come down, verdugo, you should be able to watch the cars coming at you, cause there's a tragic accident of a, of a family who got hit rear ended by a. You know they had the kids in the little trailers behind the bikes.
Speaker 3:Right and the car came from behind, not in Burbank.
Speaker 2:But the car came from behind them. They never saw it and out there riding towards that car and they saw a car veering towards the bike lane. I don't know if they would have been, you know, but they may not have lost a life in that.
Speaker 1:I 100% agree to that. I think that would cause a larger problem where there would be more accidents at driveways and intersections, Because in my experience when bikes are going the wrong way. Drivers are entering roadways and they're not expecting something to be coming up from their left.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a very good point yeah, have you noticed?
Speaker 1:I think that's the larger concern, but your, your point is completely valid for that one family. Uh, it might have helped there, but I think, generally speaking, that's the well, that's why I will not.
Speaker 2:I won't uh ride a bike on a bike on any kind of where a car can be, because people are looking down their phones and the car just starts.
Speaker 1:Well, it's hard to be defensive on a bike.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I used to ride a motorcycle. For several years I had my good old Goldwing.
Speaker 1:I scraped the plates on your Goldwing too, in the Pickwick parking lot, as I recall, that's right.
Speaker 3:But you know what, when I used to ride on that motorcycle and you look over at people in cars shaving, putting pantyhose on, doing makeup, distracted driving now is insane.
Speaker 1:But there's two reasons. When you're on a motorcycle, you notice that Because you can easily see into vehicles next to you, but you're also hyper aware of your surroundings. Oh yeah, if you're smart, you are, so you see everything. When you're on a bike, because you're looking for what I call bogeys everywhere, looking for those threats, so you're much more observant. You tend to be on a bicycle. You don't have the armor of a car around you.
Speaker 3:And have you noticed driving around Burbank these signs are popping up. Pedestrians have right-of-way. You know where people can turn. You got a green light.
Speaker 1:But if there's a green light and a pedestrian pedestrian has the right-of-way in a crosswalk, at intersections, Notice quite a few of those signs starting to appear around, but they still have to have due regard for safety, and that kind of goes into something coming up here the ABO update discussion and recommendations on the effects of AB 2147, the Freedom to Walk Act.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say one more thing about the pedestrians. On intersections I've noticed, such as Pass and Oak, that when the signal turns red it's a seven-second delay. They go walk right away on the walk signs but you don't get a green light for seven seconds once the other light goes right in the other direction.
Speaker 3:I've noticed that and I remember a traffic engineer was saying they do that in high traffic area, high pedestrian traffic, because they were finding people can't get across.
Speaker 1:Right. It's usually to let pedestrians finish crossing Right, but also to let left-turning vehicles clear the intersection, yeah.
Speaker 2:I know that they do time. I remember they said they timed the intersection at Virginia and Olive and it's a very long signal when they hit the walk button because they take into account senior citizens trying to get across the street there. So I think it's 24 seconds instead of 18 or something.
Speaker 1:Well, it's also the benefit of hitting the crosswalk button if you're a pedestrian and waiting for a crossing signal, because any time it's triggered by you pushing the button, usually that phase for the crossing is going to be a lot longer than it normally would with a normal traffic phasing signal.
Speaker 3:Now it's funny you brought up that the sensors work. You brought up that intersection but the sensors work. You brought up that intersection Tonight driving here. I was going to ask our traffic expert or if he knows there's no signs that say no U-turn? That's a T-intersection. Where is this? Olive and Virginia Jocelyn Center. It's a T-intersection. Can you make a U-turn going east or westbound? Olive and Virginia Jocelyn Center, the T intersection.
Speaker 1:Can you make a U-turn going east or westbound on Olive?
Speaker 2:If it's not posted and there's not, it's not considered a business district either.
Speaker 1:Well, the only place you can legally make a U-turn in a business district is in an intersection anyway. So if you're in an intersection it's not posted u-turn, you should be able to okay, because today coming here I noticed somebody.
Speaker 3:I was coming westbound, coming here and like a car last second right in front of me and it's like well, my, okay.
Speaker 2:So my question would be this okay, so it was a car coming um westbound. They were going eastbound. I was Okay, so was the car coming westbound?
Speaker 3:They were going eastbound, I was westbound.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you're coming westbound. If they're going eastbound, there is no left turn lane.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 2:Because if they were, they'd drive into the park. Exactly so do they just make the U-turn out of a lane.
Speaker 3:Yes, hmm, now Craig is.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, if there were more specifics to be had. Let's say you have two lanes going in one direction. You can't make a U-turn from the right lane.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You'd have to make it from the furthest lane to the left available to you.
Speaker 2:There's no U-turn, no left-turn pocket. You'd still make it in a T-intersection.
Speaker 3:Now going the other way there's a turn area.
Speaker 1:I don't believe the law specifies T intersections or differentiates. I believe the wording is just intersections. Ross, that's a good question.
Speaker 3:Well, that's one that I would really think You're seeing going down Magnolia no U-turn, you see them in everywhere that is one intersection.
Speaker 1:If there are double-double yellows Running down the middle of the street, you wouldn't be able to do it.
Speaker 3:Which I think there is.
Speaker 1:Then you wouldn't be able to make it no there's a center left.
Speaker 3:There's that center, you can pull into the left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't have a double yellow Because you've got a left turn lane Going from Going westbound.
Speaker 1:All right, I need a picture of this intersection.
Speaker 2:You're confusing the heck out of me now we can do a road trip out there. I need good information to make an educated decision and when you two go up to the cultural market, you can stop by and take a look at that intersection.
Speaker 3:There's a couple other things.
Speaker 1:You know, next time I'm making a U-turn at that intersection.
Speaker 3:I'll take a closer look the agenda. If you want to know what's on the police commission's agenda, I do know that it's printed. It's online. They're talking about some other stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, there's quite a few things on their agenda, but I don't know if many of them are critical.
Speaker 2:And, of course, at the end of the meeting, nothing will have happened.
Speaker 3:Well, and I always find very interesting Probably the best part of it is when the chief gives his announcement of things coming up and it would. People can mark on their calendar. I know you guys hate when I say something about an event coming up, but national night out's coming up real quick here. But I don't hate that first night of uh, first tuesday because I'm a reasonable person it's weeks from now.
Speaker 2:It's not, it's not, you know.
Speaker 1:Christmas is coming.
Speaker 3:Yes, well, that's one that you know, have it on your calendar. Do you have any?
Speaker 1:inside info of what the chief might bring forward at the meeting this time.
Speaker 3:Well, probably that Thursday he's going to. He had a graduation at the Star Center. What kind of a graduation? A recruit graduation. We have one more officer coming on board for that sixth this month and also there's a couple more in the academy. Your turn, and oh, probably something that'll remind me, craig write down a note for me to tell you about a baseball player that might become a Burbank police officer. That's all I have to say. I think you know who I'm talking about, so we call a tease.
Speaker 3:I have no idea. That's why we'll talk. That's why, you're going to write a note. Yes, you do, you know, he was a— All right, there's a tease.
Speaker 2:There's a tease and I think that brings us to Friday Big day, on Friday the 19th, in fact, it's so big, my favorite thing to do. We're going to let you guys all decide what you want to do on your own.
Speaker 1:Because you're going to have plenty of time to do it.
Speaker 2:Of course, the cultural market is going to be there.
Speaker 1:There you go. Well, said Friday evening yes, you should rest up for everything going on on the weekend.
Speaker 3:There's a lot going on on the weekend, but honestly, you know I we talk, we we kind of joke about people coming to visit burbank but I drive going home up olive, up magnolia, the number of people that are walking on san fernando from the hotels to the mall, to the AMC walkway, to the Paseo. I guarantee those people at the Paseo Boy.
Speaker 2:So now, what's the difference between the walkway and the Paseo? I thought the AMC walkway and the Paseo were the same thing.
Speaker 3:It's the same thing it is. It is. It used to be a street Palm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, palm, speaking of downtown, is the hotel ever going to get a reasonable sign on it?
Speaker 3:No, that's it, that's it. Burbank Hotel.
Speaker 1:It looks like they've got a tarp hanging off the roof.
Speaker 3:Doesn't it yeah?
Speaker 1:But I get it. I know it was always a decent hotel.
Speaker 2:If that's actually like a tarp or a banner, that's actually illegal in Burbank.
Speaker 1:So it's a permanent fixture that sign they have to have a what's OSO stand for.
Speaker 3:Isn't that the name of what's?
Speaker 1:OSO, oso.
Speaker 3:Burbank. What OSO Burbank? Oh OSO OSO yeah what's that?
Speaker 2:It's Burbank Hotel.
Speaker 1:I think that's the name of a hotel A hotel chain.
Speaker 3:It's got some yeah other letters.
Speaker 1:Well, DIG doesn't stand for anything We've come to find out. It's an acronym for absolutely nothing. But some good stuff on the weekend 20th and 21st, that's right.
Speaker 2:Once again, we're going to open up our expensive venue for some garage bands.
Speaker 1:We have the start light, but oh, on Saturday, the 20th DSB presents Wanted God, I hate it when you do that.
Speaker 2:What did you say?
Speaker 1:Oh, I did See we had a last minute change On the word of the week and it scared me. I must have said the word wanted, and we all know what that horn means. It's time to get up. It's time to wake up. But wanted Is also the word of the week so if you're still, listening.
Speaker 1:Your reward is the possibility of winning a 25 gift card to hill street cafe by emailing the word wanted to contest at myburbankcom and with your mailing address in there, and you'll go into the drawing uh, random drawing and possibly win the $25 gift card Now you know what's pretty funny about that word?
Speaker 3:wanted Wah, wah, wah wah. I know you're not on diuretics, but no offense, that looks like you haven't. I never read the book either, Isn't that the L Ron Hubbard book?
Speaker 1:Isn't that the L Ron Hubbard book? I think so.
Speaker 2:Diuretics Wasn't that, john Travolta, diabetics?
Speaker 3:Isn't that Diabetics? No but no. I that when he, when he I'm just now tongue-tied you are.
Speaker 1:You've got so much going on in your brain.
Speaker 3:Watching him hit that button because I looked down.
Speaker 1:Oh, it didn't say wanted. Oh, okay, Now here's why you want to send in. Take the two minutes it takes to put that email together and send it, because this might be the week one person submits, so that kind of ups the odds of you winning the gift card right. Yep, or there might be 100 people, but it's still worth it if you win it.
Speaker 2:And I don't want you at the end of the week when you say, oh, I forgot to be on, oh, then I wish I would have done that.
Speaker 1:You know, that's a much better visual if you actually say something when you bleep yourself rather than close your mouth. That's true.
Speaker 2:That's because it knows my thoughts.
Speaker 1:In case your timing was off.
Speaker 2:You didn't want the word to actually get out, yes, but.
Speaker 1:But you put in. I'll finish what we actually were going to say About Starlight Bowl. So I was interrupted by the wonderful Wow, the word of the week. But Wanted is a Bon Jovi tribute band. They are billed as the number one Bon Jovi tribute band in America and DSB is a very successful Journey tribute band. So if you want to get get real bands and DSB is a very successful journey tribute band so if you want to get some good journey and Bon Jovi music, that's at Starlight Bowl and you get tickets at starlightbowlcom.
Speaker 2:Or else go on Spotify and say play some Bon Jovi music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you want to sit in the nice summer skies over your head at the Starlight Bowl. That's at 630 on Saturday, starlightbowlcom.
Speaker 2:All righty, then Sunday we have a special event in Burbank also. Well, not in Burbank, but involving Burbank, you're breaking your own rule. It's Dodger evening in Burbank.
Speaker 1:Does that mean it's Burbank night? It's Burbank night at Dodger Stadium, and they're playing the Red Sox.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a nationally televised game.
Speaker 1:Can I go on assignment there?
Speaker 3:That's my hometown team and you know, many years ago, when Burbank had their Burbank Night there it was a big hoopla. But they don't sell enough tickets, I guess.
Speaker 1:If you sell enough tickets, then actually the mayor gets to the first pitch out.
Speaker 2:Well, I was about to ask who's throwing the first pitch at this one. I'm sure it's going to be somebody's kid or something from oh, not Burbank.
Speaker 3:No, because we don't have tickets anymore. I have for many years good old John Soho Suhu.
Speaker 1:Suhu, you removed two O's.
Speaker 3:He would take me out to the Dodger mound, the mound, and if you shoot the picture of the mayor out to throw and you have it on the Dodger Tron behind it, it was a great picture. I know Bob Kramer, I shot him out there, david Larell Photographed, photographed and then they changed it to where there was just a lineup along first of a whole mess of burbank organizations and people.
Speaker 1:Well, john, we don't sell tickets anymore who knows where all the great pictures are to be had. He's a legend. He's been the john's photographer for what? 40, 30 something years now amazing person, I'm sure you see him all over the place during games and I'll tell you he is.
Speaker 3:Not only his photography is amazing, but to work with him is just. He is a class act. The Dodgers are very fortunate to have him. If you're a professional photographer, I remember turning to him.
Speaker 1:Well, just follow his Instagram account.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you know Great stuff.
Speaker 1:Not just Dodger stuff either.
Speaker 3:The time changed because it was picked up by.
Speaker 2:ESPN is going to. It's the game of the week.
Speaker 3:So it's 4.
Speaker 2:4. 4 o'clock game yeah.
Speaker 3:And I think there's tickets might still be available. You can call Parks and Rec.
Speaker 2:You have to give them to Park and Rec. But don't expect great sitting. It's way down the reserve level.
Speaker 1:Bring a hat, sunscreen and some money for water.
Speaker 2:And thank God it's not the 1 o'clock game, because you would probably bring a roasting pan with yourself.
Speaker 3:You have to really look into, be careful what seats you pick, depending on the time of the game, it is what time of year because you could just be baking in the sun and you kind of led off to it a few minutes ago that somebody made history today for the LA Dodgers Right and you're going to be able to see him probably play, and I guarantee you.
Speaker 1:He'll probably hit another home run Exactly, and he'll probably get a standing ovation, because, oh, definitely. He deserves it. He represented the Dodger Blue today. Hey, Oscar.
Speaker 3:Hernandez, those people going to that game should have a good time.
Speaker 2:A good time will be had by all.
Speaker 1:I think we should go. We need to go, but I, my Burbank, can pay for it.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to the game until they send Dave Roberts down to AAA.
Speaker 3:AAA or even.
Speaker 2:AA, aaa, just so you can learn how to manage yeah well then to watch a couple of those games.
Speaker 1:we'll count that as Mr Sherwood's rant today, but coming up now is my favorite part of the show all of our favorite parts of the show and that, of course, is going to be Ross's rant Ross's rant. Ross's rant Ross's rant.
Speaker 2:I take a flame through to this place. What's up?
Speaker 3:Wow, it's time for my rant of the week. I got, I got a dozen of them, but I I scaled them back.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I'm not taking the whole time, but you're going to save for. Save some for next week.
Speaker 3:Keep, yes, so I'm not taking the whole time you're gonna save for, save something next week, keep keep them wanting. I'm going to the couple that I got. I got an email the other day from doordash saying that we apologize for screwing up your last order. Blah, blah, blah. And I've never ordered from doordash in my life. A day later I get an email from doordash again. Oh, you were in our mail apologizing for something that we didn't send you. Wow, talk about scams. Well, last week I'm listening to it just blows me at&t. Two years ago, their system was what do you call it? Hacked and everybody's text messages, phone numbers, personal information.
Speaker 1:They finally got to you, huh. Well, they got to be on the list.
Speaker 2:AT&T people, not everybody, just people are.
Speaker 1:I once had customers of AT&T.
Speaker 3:Not very smart people then, Well, I once had AT&T Not very smart people then. Well, I once had an AT&T account and what I'm going to bring up is I've recently got emails from a company that wanted me to pay for equipment that was never returned and I returned it all and they said just give us your credit card. Well, I'm not falling for that. People need to be aware currently the number of scams going on. If you get an email, even if it's from DoorDash that you see all the time, at&t, you see all the time look at who it's from. Make sure it's written from that company. You know, don't just voluntarily.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do your due diligence. And the reason I'm jumping in here is because in the last few days a close older relative of mine was scammed out of a considerable amount of money and there were red flags everywhere. But because they are the primary demographic for these kind of Internet scams, it went in hook line and sinker. But an interesting thing happened to me along these lines too. About a week and a half, two weeks ago, I got a letter in the mail from a bank with a check and I guess it looked legit. But the wording in it was like well, after refinancing your mortgage, we did an audit and found that there was a discrepancy and we're sending you a check for the balance. You know the error deposited at any of your banks. Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at it and I kind of said, well, that doesn't sound right. I don't have, I haven't had a mortgage in five years, you know, and I've never, I haven't refied anything in 20 years. I'm like you know it's sometimes you get these checks, see these checks, but if you deposit them they end up kind of like bouncing and the money goes to somewhere else. And you know these checks can be involved in scams. But it was the point where I was suspicious enough where I actually took it to my local branch.
Speaker 1:The bank spoke to one of the not even one of the tailors, but one of the banking people at a desk and he looked it over and said, no, this, no, this is, this is legit.
Speaker 1:And he said you've had a mortgage though I said yeah, but years ago he said, well, mortgages get bought and sold bought and sold by banks and they bounce around and go hand to hand up at different banks, buy them and all that, and you're not even aware of it. Well, at some point this bank took possession of my mortgage, did kind of an audit of it, refinance of it or something, and I was owed some money. So he looked into it and he said no, at some point our bank had your mortgage and it's a good check. Go ahead and deposit it, but I also Free money. Here's a lesson is I did my due diligence and actually walked it into the bank and had them verify it for me that it was good. So a lesson learned, teachable moment for anybody out there If you're suspicious or dubious of something like that, do your due diligence and confirm that it's good before you buy in on it.
Speaker 3:With the situation regarding AT&T, I believe we need to hold these companies accountable. We need to, you know, really complain about two years ago and not telling everybody.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the big thing when this data breach occurs, they do not report it for months, and that's there they are for you.
Speaker 1:free credit monitoring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll give you credit monitoring instead.
Speaker 3:After your Social Security and all your information.
Speaker 1:And it's too late.
Speaker 2:I think there should be a law that they must report within 10 days.
Speaker 1:Now, just so you know or when they find out about it.
Speaker 2:Just so you know, AT&T did pay a $400,000 ransom.
Speaker 3:See to me In Bitcoin and that's chump change to somebody like AT&T, verizon, at&t, all those I mean it just, but once it trickles down to the user, it's that much more. And now, no offense, I've had a call recently, my phone, you know cell service and you can't talk to anybody anymore. This computer bit, push this button or go online, we'll send you a text I hate trying to text and then they'll send you something else and you got two screens going and it's like folks, let's get you know.
Speaker 1:You know why they do that because you can't understand the people in india when you call a call center it's cheaper to confuse you and frustrate you to the point where you just go away or get lost in a phone tree than it is to actually help you. Was that your second one? Was that a separate one, or did you call an audience I got?
Speaker 2:to throw one thing in there. The line I love when they put you on hold said your call is important to us, please hold on. It's like if my call is important to you, you would have answered it by now.
Speaker 1:I hate the phone tree ones where they're well hate. I don't want to use the word hate, but when you go, please listen to all of the options, because our options have changed. No, they haven't.
Speaker 2:No they haven't changed. They haven't changed in the years I've been calling. If they have, I don't call your company every other day.
Speaker 1:It just means they don't want to. The person that's the first option on the list is sick of getting the calls because everybody just pushes the first one.
Speaker 3:Well, okay, on the flip side of that, I will say this last week I had a situation that I had to call BWP, burbank Water and Power, and I got your caller 25.
Speaker 2:Your wait time is your call is not important to them, though Remember that.
Speaker 3:I'm caller 25. And nowadays, with your cell phone, if you're just sitting, you know, you just listen to it. But I will say that in the long run, dwtp took care of my situation, my problem. I was treated like a human, I was treated like a citizen of Burbank and I'm very grateful for.
Speaker 2:He talked to somebody in Burbank too, which was nice.
Speaker 1:I did talk to somebody, but you know what? That's why he was the 25th or 26th person in line.
Speaker 3:So you know a couple other things. Those were my rants, but I did have. What was it? What were we going to call it? Note, news of note or notes of news, noteworthy news. We don't have breaking. We got to come up with this Noteworthy noodles, noteworthy noodles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll come up with something I don't know.
Speaker 1:I wasn't on this part of the meeting.
Speaker 3:Oh, you came to fire up the raspini, for I had to fire up the studio. Yeah well, who used to say that?
Speaker 2:fire up the raspini, I have an alarm for you. Would you like the alarm instead?
Speaker 1:No, there you go. That should be the word of the week, then. Which is wanted?
Speaker 3:Run out roof records. A vinyl store that was on Cordova and Magnolia. They moved to a larger.
Speaker 2:I like that. In fact, we have this important announcement for you.
Speaker 3:News and notes. Notes of news Run out groove records. Jeff Ferguson, who sits on the Magnolia Park board, moved from that little tiny street on Cordova to a bigger place up on I'm sorry on Cordova to a bigger place up on I'm sorry on Cordova, the Magnolia. Here's some shocking news that we have more news. You heard it here first. Well, you might not have heard it here first, but the Rite Aid Magnolia in Hollywood Way is going to be the Burbank Sports Card Shop.
Speaker 2:That's a tremendous acquisition.
Speaker 3:That really is. I mean, what a location. Sports Card Shop, card Shop, I believe it's on. That's a lot of cards to fill a place like that, I believe it's on.
Speaker 2:I want to say either Reese or Burbank and Reese yeah, yeah, burbank and Reese, they have two spots.
Speaker 3:They have their warehouse, which they ran out of room, and then they opened a brand new place, but that Rite Aid is huge.
Speaker 2:What about that sports card shop across the street?
Speaker 1:My only question are they? Still going to carry the thrifty ice cream.
Speaker 3:That's funny, because the first person I asked How's that chocolate?
Speaker 1:malted crunch.
Speaker 3:It's funny you say that because Mike Graceffa was very close friends with the owner and I said, Mike, are you going to at least offer to work the ice cream stand?
Speaker 2:Yes, but you did break the news to him.
Speaker 1:in fact I'd certainly be interested in playing cards or sports cards.
Speaker 3:Two other quick things that I noticed. Sogo's Sogo's Sogo's is opening a sandwich shop up on Hollywood Way near the airport, next to Denny's. The store's in the back Apparently Togo's is still around.
Speaker 2:I thought they all went bankrupt. I know the one that was on Hollywood Way in Magnolia went.
Speaker 1:So Togo's went.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you're right, the one that passed in the Vaughn Shopping Center, which is now a Panda, yeah, the one that passed in the Vaughn Shopping Center, which is now a Panda, yeah, yeah, I just saw that. And the last one is I'm really kind of looking forward. We had on our calendar market calendar. It's about a week away or so. This is big. Polo returns to the Equestrian Center.
Speaker 1:We buried the lead.
Speaker 2:Not even on the rundown, but it is on our calendar. It is, and I used to.
Speaker 3:That's where I saw it. Yeah, I used to be the team photographer.
Speaker 1:I shot all polo I shot now, you're not just horsing around, are you?
Speaker 3:no, I, I shot some award-winning pictures, uh, shooting polo, and that's back in the film days. I used to shoot 16 rolls of film and process it and get it all done that night for press releases the next day.
Speaker 1:But Anthony Question Center, that's where I met Sylvester Stallone, michael Jackson a ton of celebrities Is everyone in the neighborhood looking forward to its return?
Speaker 3:Well, that I don't know, but it's free to get in to watch polo inside the Equidome, it is free.
Speaker 2:There are food trucks there and all that stuff going on too.
Speaker 3:So if you've wondered you got kids or whatever. Hey, it's free. I know a ton of people that I used to take to those games. It still blows me away. You've got people on horseback trying to hit a ball on the ground the size of a grapefruit as people are trying to knock you off your horse.
Speaker 2:I don't think they're trying to knock you off your horse Full contact polo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh well, they try to block your shot. Okay well we're not knights jousting in the medieval time at the Renaissance Fair, but if they want, that's on the calendar at myburbankcom there it is.
Speaker 3:It is on the calendar, some deets there's a couple of things for you and other than that, no.
Speaker 1:You haven't ever. You're at and smoke it, that's right.
Speaker 2:Well, I well, I think we've got another show in, don't we as little as there was to talk about.
Speaker 1:We talked about a lot that there wasn't to talk about we always, we always manage we get that hour in, no matter what you know, I make it worth always, make it worth your time.
Speaker 3:I listen now. This show is usually, craig, you get this up pretty quickly. I mean, it's online that night we get out the door I get the audio version up on all the podcast platforms, usually within an hour and then the next day you get the video up and I I watch them, for you know, for my input, if my shirt's buttoned or my tooth is in the chiclets in or not, if I'm sweating or whatever, but I I'll tell you, between that and the other podcasts we have going, we have a slew of shows that you can look at at myburbankcom the week that was.
Speaker 2:Actually on my Burbank YouTube page.
Speaker 3:Yes, our YouTube page. But also, if you go to myburbankcom, I'll tell you you can click on this week's show, and I don't know what we talked about an hour ago. And he done told you. I'll tell you you can click on this week's show, and I don't know what we talked about an hour ago and he done, told you two more podcasts coming up this week.
Speaker 2:In fact, I think Ashley's doing one on Wednesday afternoon and then Wednesday night we have another a new coaches corner we're going to work on.
Speaker 1:I saw the name and I good to have a comeback and we're working on the next ask, the mayor working out some details on the details and the Mayor working out some details on that, working on the details and a very popular show.
Speaker 2:Ask the Mayor.
Speaker 1:I enjoy it.
Speaker 3:We are busy doing. Hey, we love Burbank. We hope you love Burbank as much as we do. That's why we do these shows. That's why it's called my. Burbank.
Speaker 1:It's our Burbank.
Speaker 2:And a future play. I'll say it right now, starting in August. If you are a candidate and you're appearing on the ballot in Burbank, you're going to be more than welcome to contact us and we will be glad to do a podcast talking about your candidacy. So that'll start in August. I'm throwing it out there. We're not going to call you and invite you personally, but if you call us, we're going to call you and invite you personally. So if, but if you call us, we're going to accommodate you sounds good.
Speaker 3:You might be real busy because I noticed that list of people now that they what is that called? When people turn in their papers. I don't think the filing period started yet I thought we just got a notice from the city clerk that it had.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe it's I didn't get that, okay, yeah, I thought.
Speaker 3:thought I had seen that she put something out, but that list is growing that to look forward to in August.
Speaker 1:but hopefully some candidates.
Speaker 2:That's it for another show For Craig Durling and, of course, ross Benson.
Speaker 3:It was great having a good time with you. I got a little there that you Unscripted. I did a little better that time.
Speaker 2:Look at that. Wow, this is Craig Sherwood saying thank you very much and we will talk to you again next week.
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