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The Week That Was and That Will Be - October 2
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Urban issues are complex and multi-faceted, often impacting communities in ways we don't always recognize. From public safety protocols to fast food politics, our cities are a hotbed of discussion and debate. In this episode, we dive deep into these topics, exploring how they shape our communities, particularly focusing on Burbank.
Encryption of police radios is one such issue that has wide-reaching effects. As technology evolves, so too does the way we communicate. Police departments are increasingly encrypting their radio communications, a move that has implications for the media and the public's access to public safety information. While encryption can certainly enhance security, it also presents challenges. For instance, it can potentially hamper the interoperability of communication systems during joint operations. This is a significant consideration, particularly in scenarios where mutual aid is needed.
A seemingly unrelated but equally important urban issue is the politics surrounding drive-thru restaurants. This episode takes a closer look at how establishments like In-N-Out Burger and Raising Kane’s influence city politics. Drive-thrus are a staple of American fast food culture, but they also bring with them unique challenges and considerations. From zoning laws to traffic congestion, the implications of drive-thrus on urban planning and community development are substantial.
This episode also sheds light on the impact of Senate Bills 2 and 368 on gun store owners. These pieces of legislation impose specific requirements on gun store owners, affecting the way they operate their businesses. Understanding the details of these laws, such as the prohibition of gun stores holding contests or raffles, can provide insight into the broader conversation about gun control and public safety.
In addition to these serious issues, the episode also celebrates local Burbank events and awards. From the gym ribbon cutting on Magnolia Boulevard to the spotlight awards honoring Joe McCarthy of Disney and Sally Chan from Warner Bros., we revel in the positive developments in the community. Community events are a crucial part of city life, fostering a sense of togetherness and shared identity among residents.
The episode also covers updates on the My Burbank website and the upcoming Johnny Carson Parkshade structure. It delves into the Burbank City Council's decision to waive bus fares for California Clean Air Day, discussing the potential impact of this move on public transportation. Furthermore, the episode takes listeners behind the scenes of local events like the USPS job fair and the Family Service Agencies gala.
In conclusion, this episode serves as a microcosm of urban issues, providing an in-depth look at the complexities of city life. From public safety and fast food politics to community events and local legislation, we unpack the intricacies of urban living, with a particular focus on Burbank. Tune in for a fascinating exploration of these topics and more.
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Speaker 1Yeah, the week it was the week will be October 2nd Marker Okay it looks like we lost Twitter, don't know why, but we're live on YouTube. Let's stick with it. Let's have fun, people. Okay, from deep in the Burbank Media District, it's time for another edition of my Burbank Talks, presented by the staff of my Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda, as we join our program.
Speaker 3Hello everybody, Craig.
Speaker 2Sherwood here along with our guest today. Let's get that, here I am. Oh, no, you said that before. Got all your chicklets in. Yeah, it's in.
Speaker 3Alright, well, just got down on our meeting, in fact, and once again, I had another great pre-production meeting over at Patties. That, craig, I'm sorry you missed that. But um, yes, no free cake. But our our waitress named Heather, heather from Heather Yonder and away. But our head said give me a little bit of a tour of, uh, clyboard and Riverside.
Speaker 3You can always say hi to Heather and say thanks a lot for, thanks a lot for coming in and, uh, our name there so well, you know we last week we had our permit or production meeting over there.
Speaker 2The help was great. We got, the owner brought us cake and today we were talking to a lady there that had a cute little dog.
Speaker 3She said you know you can bring your dog to the outside patio and have your dinner.
Speaker 1Well, I brought you with I have dinner with your dog I brought you with. Yeah, bring your dog.
Speaker 3Sure Clear the place out. Dog is out there with her, so I mean.
Speaker 2I get it His dog.
Speaker 1Dodger would clear his. It would clear me out. Dodger and I don't necessarily get along. Sorry, I couldn't make it. I had another commitment that uh wouldn't allow me to attend.
Speaker 2We had a two week controller.
Speaker 1Two weeks ago oh, two weeks ago, you're going to have to do it next week too. Sorry, oh, it's a. It's just a busy time a year for me, with other obligations and okay Well enough of our. At some point we can try to do this thing remotely, we might be able to put that.
Speaker 2Well, I think we'll try to try next week. Alright, so the week there was the week there will be that was it was and twill.
Speaker 3So last week, uh, monday was kind of quiet day, but we did the podcast that day, so you know about that. And on Tuesday the police commission met with the council. Um, many issues are brought up, including, uh, the encryption of the radios and, uh, while they said on the the meeting that Verdugo Fire was going digital, they already are digital.
Speaker 3They have been. Uh, they, they're talking about them going encrypted. They, the fire department is not. We did find out that the fire department is not going to be encrypted. They had no plans to go encrypted because of that?
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't think you you'll see any fire departments going encrypted.
Speaker 3What doesn't make?
Speaker 1sense if you need it, because there's so much mutual aid and stuff I need to talk to each other.
Speaker 3They can't do it. They can't fair which channel they're talking or they can't hear each other.
Speaker 1And, and as more police departments go encrypted, we find the same problem when mutual aid is needed with up to bring other departments in that don't have their radios programmed with the encryption, I mean like LAPD helicopters?
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, well, I mean Orange County. Somewhere went our department when encrypted and it lasted less than a week Orange County went encrypted. They had to undo it yeah because you killed.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's too many interoperability.
Speaker 3Interoperability uh issues issues with fire department and on a selfish thing, we still think the media should be able to hear what's going on, you know, for news gathering purposes and just for transparency.
Speaker 1So yeah, we're locked out too, and we've talked about that, because it's more about releasing important public safety information in by other methods than open the radios, you know. But I understand why they are going encrypted. But they have to adjust and provide necessary information in other ways.
Speaker 3We're working on it and we will give you updates as we go Um.
Speaker 2We will be the office of independent how is that OIR?
Speaker 1You're looking at me.
Speaker 2Independent review. There we go, hey, well, we're in the office of independent review. They gave the police commission yes, they gave their report and Mr Janaka, who owns and operates the office of independent review, said that they have dealt with the other department. They've dealt with the longest Palo Alto, palo Alto and they had the same problem they went encrypted and apparently they made things different.
Speaker 3They also discussed drive through restaurants and, of course, because it was funny, nobody would say raising canes at the meeting. It was just that restaurant they're calling it that restaurant.
Speaker 3Is that implied at this point? It's implied by everybody and it finally, near the end of the meeting they started saying, actually raising canes, um, that the lot is caused by them. I found it interesting that during the communication period um, a spokesman for in and out talked to the council about how they were in and out. I I had never thought about in and out being part of the problem, but, ross, you said you drove by in and out there tonight and what did you see?
Speaker 2They were out. How they queue now is the cars that come out after you get your food. You go in there and you turn on.
Speaker 3You know and and and, not to interrupt, but they, they have taken out like 10 park 10, 20 parking places. Right, so you can, those cars can queue in there.
Speaker 2So now you've lost 20 parking places for queuing on the first street, first front, first street, first street, all the way up to San Fernando and around the corner on San Fernando, just to get in. So that had to be at least 30 cars.
Issues With Drive-Thrus and Mayor Conduct
Speaker 1So, so, at least, so anybody on San Fernando can't take that right.
Speaker 2Turn onto Correct yeah.
Speaker 1While there's two Right turn pocket.
Speaker 3Oh, there are two lanes down, yeah, and I think there's no businesses that are affecting really by having a parking parking for their business, but the point is that there's no one that can take that lane.
Speaker 2Well, if you recall, when that was originally built, there was a Mexican restaurant at the end, and then, when the furniture store took over, they consumed that. Oh, that's right. So they had changed it around in and out.
Speaker 3I don't care, you can go to any in and out.
Speaker 2Right, there's going to be a line, right, same thing with Glendale, same with everyone.
Speaker 1If you want, if you want to eat in the neighborhood, you can walk in your way through the snake for the drive-thru to find a parking space to actually get to a parking space and I just saw on the news today they're opening four more in and out in California. Yeah, real More in than out.
Speaker 3It's a good burger. To me the fries kind of suck, but I think the burgers are outstanding, but you know what you can get it.
Speaker 1But it's fun watching them make the French fries, but who they cut? Them right there, that's true.
Speaker 2They cut Chunker thing. Yeah, chunker thing.
Speaker 1It's a good. It's a technical. Is that a technical?
Speaker 3thing that's gotta be a trademark that gotta be a sound effect for a Chunker. Well, we don't have that. We have also for now. We have the official. Paramount Deli Going on, moving on that council meeting and by the way, if you like to make it, make it, make the French fries. Go watch how they, how they, smashed the lemons at the. Oh, they're not hot dogs, Hot dogs.
Speaker 1Hot dogs gonna stick. Oh, I see, I know how they make the lemonade.
Speaker 3Yeah yeah, go watch how they do that. How, how they. That's an interesting thing to a few to put a bow in the drive-thru thing.
Speaker 1We're not picking on in and out. This is a general issue with new, new new.
Speaker 3They look to their cities they're going to decide on you know how, how much area you have to have for queuing, how much. You know different things and all that. And you know I mean it's the way we are nowadays. We don't want to get out of our cars and you know we found the pandemic. That was the only way to business could stay open was was drive-thrus and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1So but you think in the initial approval process that would be caught, because in in my day when I was part of the, the planning process of approvals, I would look at in because I was a traffic guy, that was my role. I looked at Ingress, egress and the streets and stuff and I would make, I would put the kibosh on it as far as I could say now. To add to that, there were still plenty of times that they kept pushing, just pushed it right on through. Despite my objections but.
Speaker 3I can't remember on the run, but at one time I know the Taco Bell wanted to move from Magnolia and Buena Vista up to Burbank and Buena Vista, where the UM, um, um, um, um, um, um UM. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, umuum UM, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um UM.
Speaker 1If there's more than three vehicles in the drive-thru, you can't get into the lot to park.
Speaker 3No, and if you do park in the lot. You can't back out.
Speaker 1You can't get out, right yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's a lot of it.
Speaker 2But the one where B&B Cafe is.
Speaker 3The neighbors also did not want the noise and the traffic and all that neighborhood.
Speaker 1So I would love to live next to a Taco Bell. We were pretty fortunate. Take a tunnel, just walk right through, walk right in.
Speaker 2They've rebuilt that Taco Bell at Hollywood Way in Magnolia. Yeah, somebody just asked me the other day. You probably don't get up that part of town, but they rebuilt Jack in the Box. Think of the. Jack in the Box is open 24 hours a day, 365 days, and it hadn't changed in 20 years. I guarantee there was stuff falling apart inside.
Speaker 1They literally as long as they don't change the tacos ever.
Speaker 3I still missed a Jack in the Box at Alameda in Buena Vista, but now Charles Kersen, that was that's for our back in the day episode, um. So anyhow, they've worked on passing orders for drive-thru restaurants. I think it's a happy medium for everybody. Lastly, the meeting and this one is going to be went to what one? To the morning, like usual.
Speaker 3These meetings go just forever, kind of like our podcast people say, go till, they're done which I think is why they should have more council meetings instead of only two a month. If they did that they might not have to go so late every night when they have one. That said, that said they brought up Council member Zizette Mullins, one you know proper agenda item about. You know how the mayor conducted his business in Burbank and you know what their councils can do about that type of thing. And Mayor Anthony actually gave I thought was very heartfelt apology.
Speaker 3Um, it was interesting that he brought him on for a podcast and I kind of said you know, I think you kind of I think we should give an apology out to the citizens of Burbank, just, you know, for dragging Burbank into this thing. And you know he was kind of admit that. Now I don't know that he didn't think so. I mean I respected his opinion, I mean it was, it was a good conversation. But at the meeting kind of changed a little bit and it was reflection, I think, and you know, because I think he saw some of the people who were actually hurt by what happened and were carried and buried, you know, in all the backlash. So I think he had a happy medium and he did apologize for his actions. Now I gotta tell you, um, I accept that his apology and I think that you know all said and done. Well, I think the council needs to have recourse if something were to happen.
Speaker 3Yeah because it's facing up to the Stacey Murphy thing. We do it there. They should have back then put something in line if a council member's you know does something especially illegal, they should have a way of removing the council member.
Speaker 1Well, they have a way to put him in. They don't have a way to take him out.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, that's just, that's just as mayor, though I'm talking about off the council completely, though I see so, anyhow, on the city, city books.
Speaker 1Nope, so I would direct everybody out there to check out the the mybergbankcom website and the article you wrote about that, basically like okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3Yeah, let's move on. Yeah, exactly, you know, let's move on I think it's you know, and it's a shame it happened, but you know it happened and we we've beat it to death now.
Speaker 1Let's get back to business.
Speaker 2Exactly. I do know, and I've said it from day one. We watch different people move into that seat and I ask all of council members in high school, did you take mayor ship? One on one, and they said there wasn't one. Well, you look at that seat. There is not even a guideline of what the mayor's responsibilities are. You're in Burbank, you know they need to and they're going to make up a policy of your responsibilities as a council member, as a vice mayor, as the mayor as a council member. Well, I said that.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2And they're going to. Those are things that I get it he doesn't need. Where was his training? He didn't have any. But I will say I've talked to him at a couple of events now since then.
Speaker 3They, he knows the next couple of months, well, they know that basically they gave mayor Spanky a spanking for an hour and a half is what they do, so that spanking is okay.
Speaker 1Yeah, that public, yeah, exactly To win but to take it one step further, did they know his style and his kind of behavior corgi behavior before they appointed a mayor, or no?
Speaker 3Well, I think, I think so. I think they understood that he's not the usual.
Speaker 1Why did they appoint a mayor?
Speaker 3Well, he deserved it. Well, OK, I think he earned it, you know, and he had, let's remember, the mayor didn't expect this to come up, I guess. Marin Burbank has no power whatsoever, except you go around saying I'm the mayor sits in the middle. That's it and he runs the meeting. I mean he's got. He can't pass anything, he can't write any directives. He can't do one single thing If the council has to act as a whole the figurehead.
Speaker 2Well, if people are wondering, he has been, is not doing any ribbon cuttings, is not doing the state of the city, he's been removed from that and that I know personally. I've talked to him. That hurts and he understands why.
Speaker 1But that is an action of his kind, of the consequences of his actions Is that for the duration of the remainder of his term?
Speaker 3And his term? Yes, two more months.
Speaker 1Two, just two more months yeah.
Speaker 3So in the middle of December they will probably picking a vice mayor Schultz to move up to the mayor's spot. It's easy. How it works it's, you know, vice mayor to mayor and and different council members did have some requests.
Speaker 2One of them was Nick Schultz thinks it's wrong that the mayor is the first one that always speaks, meaning if he brings up a topic or something.
Speaker 3Well, that's, yeah, that is just a quorum of let people write, but that's also that's his prerogative, as, as the mayor, he doesn't have to. Yes, every other mayor has always said I'll be the last one to speak, the last one to vote, but he wants to be the first. I mean, and that's his prerogative and that's his style. I, you know, I don't, we'll see. Yeah, I mean that's, we're still.
Speaker 1Allowed to disagree in this country.
Speaker 3Absolutely Okay, absolutely, um, let's move on to Wednesday. 927 927. Um so, uh, senator Anthony Portino's gun measure SB, sb 368, um that we actually had a story on my Burbank uh, was passed and signed by the governor into law.
Speaker 1It was actually signed by the governor on the 26th.
Speaker 3Okay, I didn't say.
Speaker 1Yeah, we it was. We posted it on the 27th.
Speaker 3We reported on the 27th. Yeah, you guys are both our our gun people, so comments.
Speaker 1I did a little look in and it's funny because the more looking I did into SP because SB 38, senate bill 368- and the one we're talking about.
Speaker 1But Senate bill 2 is also wrapped up in that because that's deals with the Second Amendment and the and the Bruin decision and all that. But the more I looked into it, the more detailed. I mean SB 2. I went to print it for tonight. It's 40 pages long, sb 368 not so long, but that's the one that got that we're talking about.
Speaker 1That got signed in and just, and that puts some more requirements on gun store owners, like there's. There's part of it I'll read some of it here, but would require licensed firearms dealer to accept for storage a firearm transferred by an individual to prevent it for being used during periods of crisis, which is I'm for that. I mean if there's domestic stress, domestic issues going on, or someone's going through some depression or just feeling like I shouldn't have a gun around or something like that. Or they have young children, they had a baby and don't feel that it's safe to have a firearm around the house or what have you. But it it now require will require gun stores to accept those for safekeeping. For what period, I don't know and what the criteria will be, I'm not.
Speaker 3I think they'll think they'll stop to hammer out, report that to somebody that they've done that, or is that just a? I think they would have to keep a register but is it a confidential that report to a government agency that that person?
Speaker 1no, no, that's yeah. It doesn't go into the end of that much detail in the summary here, but the other option, if anybody's looking for it, is to turn. You can turn firearms in for safekeeping to your local police department. Don't walk it into the lobby. Keep it in the car and go into the lobby and tell them what's your, therefore, and they'll have an officer meets you outside usually, but this now, but this now will require local gun stores to provide the same service and the details of which aren't outlined in the summary here.
Speaker 2I just want one thing in the in the section so you anybody could take a firearm for safekeeping and they'll just hold it for you, a gun store or a police department. So no a civilian to take a gun in for safekeeping at that's what.
Speaker 1That's what this Senate bill allows yeah what this would require. Yeah, that's the first thing would require a licensed firearms dealer to accept for storage and also says I'm not telling about that.
Speaker 1It's maybe some people don't feel comfortable going to a police department do that and they feel absolutely they know Joe, owner at the gun store, and they say, hey, look, it do me a favor, and now they'll do this for him yeah, yeah and and that's a good point you bring up because some people, if they're involved in a domestic situation, they don't want to involve the police department at all until they have to. And now you're bringing a firearm. Oh why, why do you want this? To leave this for safekeeping? Then it might open up a can of worms we'll post a link to to both build.
Speaker 1Both bills are just a couple more bullet points on this before we move on, though it'll also prohibit. This is an interesting one. Basically, the long and short of it is a local gun store owner could not offer any item in their inventory for a contest. Basically a contest, a raffle or game of chance. It's worded in here, but you see some outfits that, hey, we're holding a gun raffle or something like that. They wouldn't be able to do that now?
Speaker 2now is that just for gun that's.
Speaker 1It was actually exactly my question is that you?
Speaker 1have the gun world or big five that has a store full of merchandise so they can't have a raffle for them. Maybe that's something they're kind of stuck with as a FFL federal firearms licensee that now that kind of cuts them off from being able to have any raffle, or if that is going to be an exemption under this. Again, these are. This is just a quick summary, but I would recommend anybody that wants more detail to look it up and we're going to put links in the show notes right of this episode. But real quick, it's all for both sections, all those, both of those Senate bills. It's short for legal info, but leginfolegislaturecagov a little long, but for that reason we'll put it in the show notes so you can do your own research on that again. This is just kind of a highlight thing, but letting everybody know that this was signed into law you know, and when Bering passed their ordinance they're talked about.
Speaker 3No miners are allowed in a gun store. Now I don't know, isn't big five big five has got to be considered a gun store. So I you know what. I need to find out what big five has done. Have they made a separate fenced in area for their gun area?
Speaker 1well, gun world is like that, but no other stores yeah, I don't think that any other gun store had been in town, including big five, which is a sporting goods store that sells guns, right. I don't know if they're looking at and we'll get back to another podcast and find out and we may be able to, you know, dig into the the text of these sections and find that in there somewhere, but that was in the Berger court didn't say pass before.
Speaker 3So okay, go yeah okay, moving on to Thursday, ross and I both said our alarm clocks and we went to a chamber. The chamber of commerce sponsored a, I guess, a seminar, informational period where a restaurant owners would come in and bring in their, their plastics and the.
Speaker 1The recycled apartment was there and they just do tensile straws, you tensile straws, all the stuff like that yeah, and they said, okay, here's the, here's the ordinance is gonna be.
Speaker 3We're gonna, you know, try to pass in November. Here's the timeline it's gonna go in. They want to work with the, with the restaurants and and and really try to get more sustainability. The one thing I found interesting they said there's a lot, and I'm Ross will get into a lot more things too, but one thing I found interesting was that restaurants that seat 31 or more people will have to not be allowed to use plastic utensils or disposable utensils. So basically that means if you're McDonald's and you see 40 people in there, you're gonna have to use silverware and I'll have to have a dishwashing station and everything else. And that'd be a very interesting you know. That's we interested to see how they come up with that.
Speaker 1There's gonna be a waiver that restaurants can, a hardship waiver, but I can't see the city giving hardships to fast food corporations well, we jokingly said in their production meeting I bet a lot of these restaurants are gonna be ripping out all but 29 seats, yeah.
Speaker 2I'm leaving 20 restaurants well, some of the interesting things that we heard that day Ken Berkman, who is the director of Public Works, and Amber, who has done a podcast on recycling. Here we learned a lot of things. If they do have to put in wash dishwashers, they will be allowed. You know a waiver or a timeline, yeah to do, because planning and installation, all that. The other thing I did not know that on recyclables, black, most of the machinery that Burbank recycle uses that. Their plant is all optical black. You can't the machines don't read, doesn't register it. Yep, and that's why we in recyclable containers you can't use black.
Speaker 1Oh, but most plastic silverware or plastic wear in is black right they told us there's the difference, but it was really.
Speaker 2They have hired a couple of.
Speaker 3It was very it was a very good meeting I mean very informed, and all the business owners, the restaurant owners, they're all very cooperative there's. They were not fighting it, they weren't getting mad there that the chamber put this on and I thought it was very, very well done and and they made it very clear the city is not out to slap your hand.
Speaker 2The city is not out to site you. They are being demanded by Senate bills that they have to recycle and in time they're kind of getting on board and that's why and Burbank's kind of doing it.
Speaker 3First before I was against this because you know it's not fair to Burbank business owners. They're doing all these things and then so this is all go across to Los Angeles and I'll get a discount and I won't pay for these things. Well, it's coming to Los Angeles to their their state laws and they have time to enact them, and Burbank's just getting ahead of the curve which is fine.
Speaker 2They see it coming, so they're trying to get ahead of it right every for once, proactive well, and, if people remember, back in January the city came down with this ordinance and all the restaurants said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we got.
Speaker 2Yeah, we know that's full of right there's a there's a all that stock of stuff that there was a terrible job of outreach in the beginning and they learned that and so now they have hired some consultants that know the laws and regulations, are there to help. So, restaurant owners, if you have questions, I know the Chamber of Commerce can help you. You know that's who the people, the business and go through. And our own recycle center, yeah, have consultants that'll come out and work with you yeah, it's not in us versus them, kind of thing not at all so very
Speaker 2interesting and I thought it was very well put together and it was well done well, one thing we going from recyclable plastics to a kid that did a really dumb thing yeah, and not the first kid that's done this, not the last kid will do this, but the this wouldn't, this would you know.
Speaker 3This is kind of never happened 20 years ago. It wouldn't happen because there was no social media 20 years ago. But now, because of social media and sometimes a kid can only turn to that, I guess evidently a kid made some threats on social media, showed a toy gun at which you probably could not tell the toy when in the social media post and Luther Burbank middle school got put on, you know, alert and police immediately because it was a very high priority thing for police 13 year old student right now very high priority for police once again.
Speaker 3You know to, you know high priority case and they figured out through, you know the post and and everything else, and they arrested the student, the 13 year old first they put out that it was not a viable threat right.
Speaker 2And that comes a lot of people's rights so they arrested them.
Speaker 3The parents were very cooperative. They found the toy. It was a toy gun. They found the toy gun. Once again, it's just a unfortunate situation. And maybe a 13 year old who felt he hadn't, he was backed into a corner, maybe or he's probably bullied at school or something like that. And I'm gonna tell you right now, if anybody says there's a zero bully policy and all that stuff and you never, you know the real world is calling your name.
Speaker 1It's been a while since you've been in school no, that's a long as I've coached in school. I don't mean you, I mean anybody that doesn't think it's going.
Speaker 3I spent 40 years, you know, coaching and teaching it at a school and I saw going and I always put you know because I had an instance where I was bullied against back in Jordan Junior High School. So I understand that side of it and I always went out of my way as a coach to never let that kind of stuff happen.
Speaker 3I but, it goes to the PD for investigating it quickly because you know you could have 99 that are that are false my only complaint was but that one that's real my only complaint was that all the school district did was they put a Facebook post out, which I don't know how many people are on their Facebook page, you know but they didn't put it on their website about it. They didn't send anything out to the media about it. So we found out on Facebook and when we reported in the afternoon, about half an hour, 45 minutes later, then the police put a release after that. But I think they should have put something out okay, officially earlier. So if people saw a lot of police cars around Luther, they would say, okay, there was an incident there, it's under control, everything's fine. You know, instead of wire all these police cars at Luther, right?
Speaker 2now, we don't know.
Speaker 1We don't know I was gonna ask you, ross, can you mention the police put out that they found out quickly, as soon as they found out it was not a viable threat. How they communicated that right to the public.
Speaker 2They put that out in different ways.
Speaker 3Okay, but what was the first time you saw it, though?
School Communications and Burbank Events
Speaker 2Oh, I, when the police put out their release. Okay, which is in about? Is that on Twitter or Facebook Twitter? All their social yeah, that's about 43 in the afternoon though right, but I don't know if the school district Having not all the channels that parents do to get emails from the school, we don't know if we're signed up for every you know signed up, but how many out of all the schools in the district?
Speaker 2Craig, we get things from now to schools. What's one of the schools? Well, that's a thing, that's what that school didn't send anything out. Well, but also one of our employees has a son that goes there and she didn't know about it. Yeah, so you know, craig, communications a key. What I out of all this, I think what we're trying to say, and and I guarantee we don't have any kids listen to our Podcast. If they do, I tell you they're really bored. Get a life.
Speaker 1No, they're very mature.
Speaker 2There you go. But parents, you need to hear a little threat. If your kid repeats it, retweets it, says something about it, talks to anybody about it, they're adding to the problem and they can be charged. The police made it very clear as accessory that you will be dealt with.
Speaker 1So, hey, threats, pay attention to those kids.
Speaker 3threats they're still yours, you know, yeah, exactly, so moving on also on Thursday that the Burbank Arts and Education Foundation held their state of the city where they honored Joe McCarthy of Disney and Sally Chan of Warner Brothers with a spotlight awards. And the event was held at a federated in North Hollywood. And I will say, as I put a tweet out saying I didn't think the school district Should have a fundraiser in North Hollywood and they should keep their tax money in Burbank, and it's not actually put on by the school district, it's put on by the Burbank Arts and Education Foundation. But we will still say I think events like that should be held in Burbank To support Burbank businesses and the tax base here, because even every dollar spent a portion that goes to city services. So, anyway, ross, you were there and it was a you said, a pretty, pretty good event and you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I thought my show notes. I wrote down some of the things that went on. I will say that the school board president spoke and John Promo spoke and gave some examples of a nurse that now works in New York and Went to Burbank Adult School to get her LVN or RN, you know, and she said just the art. Our adult school is Magnificent. She learned things there that none of the other nurses in New York know and she contributed to our schooling. But the Burbank Education, burbank Arts and Education Foundation there's an article on my Burbank was started many years ago to supplement the funds for art programs. Every kid should have art.
Speaker 2And Joan McCarthy, who has worked for Disney for many years, and Sally Chan. They have championed tons of money coming toward the Burbank Arts and Both of them are they're both retiring. They were awarded and thanked for their hard work. I know personally. I've worked with both of them for many, many years and Disney would bend over. People always say well, why doesn't Disney donate? Well, they do in other ways. You know they sponsor kids, warner Brothers have internships, all these things. So it was a rather nice, nice event and, like I said, both Joan and I got to see some other. They had some original people that started Burbank Arts For all Craig Murray it was great to see him there and Dr Miller spoke from Muir and Some other people, so it was a great night.
Speaker 1Oh, I assume, since you were there, people can see some photos from that on the website.
Speaker 3They are on our story online Presently about it my Burbank dot com and, speaking of Dr Miller and Muir, just a quick shout to Lisa Perriss, our Associate ever, for the great story she did on Japan Day, so check that out also.
Speaker 2I know who shot the pictures.
Speaker 3Sheila? He wasn't there. Was she on the drums?
Speaker 1is it Ross, a Benson you got it All right she was not the drums was she no, okay.
Speaker 3Okay, and Friday Ross, you had a ribbon cutting on Friday. Once you give us a quick rundown on that.
Speaker 2Well, people probably have driven down Magnolia. Or who hasn't gone to Baskin Robbins next to tequila's on Magnolia, across from the original Magnolia theater, and there has been a gym in that parking lot. If anybody remembers longtime Burbank, people will remember well, wasn't?
Speaker 3aura wheat had a Store there or yeah, or we just had their factory down in the Clyburn.
Speaker 2This was the red, the bread, yeah.
Speaker 2Clive, warren and Chandler and on Magnolia, in that little shopping center was a store for our wheat. Well, it's been a gym for many years and a gentleman took it over, him and his wife, husband, wife, team of Alex and Tyler. They have a great website. They were gonna try to do some stuff with them. He it used to be a boxing ring Boxing rings not there anymore, but it's a full course and this ribbon cutting was kind of different because he had other vendors that are Burbank businesses like Fleet Street came in and would help you with your shoes, and there was an Aussie Bowl Vendor there. There was a hot meal. You know it's a great idea.
Speaker 1Yeah, it really was to spread the word, warm yourself up to the neighborhood, that's right. Your other businesses?
Speaker 2So hopefully we're gonna have some stuff from Alex and Tyler in my Burbank soon, and then, thank God, there was a weekend.
Speaker 3We had a weekend, quiet one. It was a very quiet one, so with that, maybe for you guys.
Speaker 2Oh Okay, we did a ribbon, cutting another one, no, See like we need a jingle for ribbon cuttings.
Speaker 1Now, this is a common thing.
Speaker 2This is there are. See, you know what gets me? There are a lot of new businesses.
Speaker 3Which we can do on the weekend.
Speaker 1Yeah, what happened? I don't have that.
Speaker 2I do remember writing it down. See this cafe which is on Magnolia. They had a ribbon cutting and then a grand opening. They're just. I Remember putting the show notes address, but they got deleted somewhere.
Speaker 1How do you spell it?
Speaker 2CEL.
Speaker 3I want to say it's a 3300 block of.
Speaker 2Magnolia See is Mediterranean cafe, so as we see Steve chase Bank.
Speaker 1I'm not saying it's a rancho restaurant.
Speaker 3No, what it used to be before that you said healthy bites, I'll see bites.
Speaker 2Yeah, and they've moved in. It's Mediterranean. They got a gorgeous patio in the back and I'm sorry, burbank, it's too darn small there. I'm talking to some guests who are relatives of the owners who are my next-door neighbors, three houses up from my house. I Mean I can't move around Burbank, and then ladies said there were guests there.
Speaker 3But you didn't know them, but they knew you yeah, this is true.
Speaker 1All right magic of the internet is 30. Where to go? Where to go? I said around 3511.
Burbank Updates and Local Events
Speaker 2West, my 511, and I'll tell you you really good they do catering, got a great patio, really really sweet people, so I hope to get for that moving forward and they also weekend for you. Well, I did a reunion for Burbank high class of 73. I was a busy beat this weekend and it was at the Elks Lodge. I got to see Fred DeLane You're the busiest man in.
Speaker 1Burbank.
Speaker 2Well, I do get around and people say that that you do. Well, it was nice to see that was Joyce Rudolph's graduating year that she passed away last year but that it's. It's nice going to reunion people having good times but that's further proof.
Speaker 1There's always something going on in Burbank.
Speaker 2Oh, definitely right.
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Speaker 3I see so it's the glare of the studio lights, the glare, the studio lights. I hit the wrong button.
Speaker 2Okay, then I'll bring up for your people, your people in live.
Speaker 3You just got a highlight.
Speaker 1You people are not seeing this live is unedited, you'll never know what happened I brought up on the show notes to say right after the commercial we got to talk about what we all started here my Burbank comm.
Speaker 2There are some fantastic stories. There are a list of podcasts that we have a dozen people doing and If you're listening this podcast, go look at my Burbank comm. In fact, today there are so many news stories in Burbank we had to rearrange our front page and Craig put in hours to Realign pages.
Speaker 1We now have nine stories instead of five and I put in minutes Doing spell check and putting the dates in for us right.
Speaker 3We had a little bit of an upgrade to our website today. So, monday being today, we had a. We started a street closer from Orange Grove to Olive on San Fernando, and they have a lot of things that let's see, ross, you know why they're. Concrete repair concrete repairs is. This was a one-way street.
Speaker 2No, that's first. No, that's that Fernando day when I drove coming here to the studio. They have one southbound lane and all the other lanes are closed Between Olive and Orange Grove.
Speaker 3So once you made it past in and out in an outtrip, I'm actually reading the release right now I sent out and it's really not clear what streets they're talking about here.
Speaker 2You know it. Like I said, I drove by it in the end you can't make a left turn to go down.
Speaker 3Right street. Okay, that's good that you actually. Yeah, I, because every lease is actually very confusing.
Speaker 1I'm looking at, I should there is a lot here, yeah.
Speaker 2But I, like I said I drove by it if I didn't see it for myself, because my brain says what are they doing if I don't know about it in the city? What's going on? Who do they think they are? But there was one lane going southbound and all the northbound lanes are closed for this.
Speaker 3Well, the great thing though, they'll be done by Wednesday, october 11th, so by then you have the streets to be open, and In fact.
Speaker 1So two episodes from now, it'll be ancient. There we go, so what else happened today?
Speaker 3Well, yeah, arts in public places had their meeting. It wasn't cancer and one of the things they talked about was the Johnny Carson Parkshade structure and they're doing a call for artists to go, I guess, do some art on on the new structure. And they talked about the Purdue Aquatic Facility Public Art update also, which they're Doing some artwork at is that just because I occasionally do an event?
Speaker 1there is the shade structure on the stage.
Speaker 3Yes, yes for the state. Yeah, they put it in and good beautiful after bring my easy up anymore.
Speaker 2Yes. I will say the Verdugo Aquatic Craig. Well, craig Sherwood, I know you don't get too close to pool.
Speaker 3I don't go anywhere near a pool.
Speaker 1I know ever since he saw Jaws as a kid.
Speaker 2I know before that he doesn't go around pools, but I will say, my granddaughter Swims every day there for this way.
Speaker 3Well, swim Sherwood's don't.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, sure what it does.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'd like to what Sherwood doesn't.
Speaker 2But I'll tell you my granddaughter is loving that pool.
Speaker 3Yeah, what's the only, what's the only wood, you know, that doesn't float though.
Speaker 1Deadwood Natalie.
Speaker 3Oh, I'm sorry, but you know what? It's been long enough.
Speaker 1That's why we don't have kids listening, because they would not get that they wouldn't get that joke at all. There you go.
Speaker 2Well, I'll be at Purdue Park I. That's my treat on Wednesdays, taking my granddaughter to swimming lessons, and Very well so we'll cut that as a Ross a Benson public appearance.
Speaker 1If you want to Hang out with Ross for a little while, how true he'll be there just only somebody try you a swimming lesson and then hold you under.
Speaker 3Does that happen to me, about five years old, at the old swim place? What was it up on Glen Oaks and the seals? Yeah, that's where it was at that, that location, you know how they taught me to swim and I got held under and I've been terrified of pools ever since.
Speaker 1Well, that was that was. I thought that was your baptism. Yeah, he's held you under, but I was always told I could. I learned to swim before I learned how to walk, and back in that In that day, even though I'm way younger than both of you. But they threw me in the deep end. There was somebody there to catch me right through just three you, I.
Speaker 3I've heard a lot of people do that.
Speaker 1They say you know they're looking at a swim real fast instinct, either you have the natural instinct, you don't right as I was somebody there to you know.
Speaker 3Catch you before you're all the way drowned. Just have your taft around, right?
Speaker 2well, we had a pool when I grew up. We had a pool in my backyard. That's how I learned to swim was throw him in her plunk and he'll go get to a side, you know.
Speaker 1It's funny for everybody else except for the person being thrown in exactly not Trump, not traumatizing at all, but I will say I am remember it, but we're talking about it now.
Speaker 2I'll tell you I am so grateful I have a nine, a seven year old and a four year old, and they both can swim Excellently, so if they are ever in somebody's backyard and get pushed in throwing in, I never have to worry about a incredibly important thing to teach children.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3I'm sure I could dog pal for 30 seconds or something, but that's about as far as we go anyhow your dog would drag you under yes. My dog my dogs was very nice do. Now. Tomorrow, on the third, the brain police are gonna be unveiling their pink cruiser, which they do every year to, to celebrate the month of October, and Ross and Ashley will be there to cover that. So we'll have a story on my. A perfect about that.
Speaker 2Well, what's that about?
Speaker 3What's, what about the pink? The pink, it's cancer. Where awareness month?
Speaker 1breast cancer that's cancer.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, very you see the police department.
Speaker 1So we'll break out the pink patches.
Speaker 3Yeah, and you know what? I think they sell those two in Burbank usually do.
Speaker 2You can go the word yeah and the money will go to the cancer Society and I. They do it every year the pink cruiser. There's a gentleman in Burbank and tomorrow we'll have the story up that donates Doing the wrap on that car and It'll be Unveiled tomorrow. That car will be all over town.
Speaker 3Yeah, they take all the events that they're involved in. Also. Tomorrow night and I'm not really sure why this is happening at the time it's happening, but there's gonna be a virtual town hall sponsored by Laura Friedman and it's gonna be online and a zoom type of thing and she's doing a A town hall on tenant and landlords rights and she's partening partnering with the Burbank. I will find it here the Burbank.
Speaker 3Burbank tenants Union and it starts from it's from six to seven o'clock. Not sure why she's doing the exact same time the city council meetings going on. Does that means you got a pick you Gonna watch your town hall or you're going to watch the Burbank City Council meeting?
Speaker 1if the city council meeting goes till 2 am, you'll have plenty of time to true to jump in but you probably miss oral communications, which is usually the spiciest part.
Speaker 2That's why all the action happen, yeah yeah, she's doing it Oral communications, so you won't miss anything, by the way.
Speaker 3also six o'clock we're gonna have a Burbank and Senate Federation meeting, a community services building. So that's three things that once at six o'clock, I once again I Know who plans these things so take your pick.
Speaker 1Yeah so everybody has different interests and priorities, so they'll pick their the one they're more interested in.
Speaker 2Well, what's? They've got the choice? What's happening to city council Craig?
Speaker 3Well, city council's got a few things going on. Number one they're going as part of their Consent agenda is they're going to agree to the sale. They're buying the property 904 906 North Lake Street, right next to the reclamation Center, and they're gonna spend eight million two hundred thousand dollars to buy this property. And one of the reasons is is eventually, while it doesn't need to today, but in the future they're going to need to probably Expand the water reclamation plant and instead of having to figure that out later, they're going to be able to have the property that they need right now to make those, those improvements.
Speaker 2So if people don't know where the water reclamation plant is, just drive over the the Burbank overpass. On a hot day, craig and I were around the animal shelter Used to be located underneath the Burbank overpass. That's a dead and they closed it because they needed to expand. They said the reclamation plant well, that's pretty shitty deal because they got expanded again. Yes, they did see what you did there.
Speaker 3Well, I think it's. That's a load of crap.
Speaker 2Well, but if you think about it, we are making, I Mean, why are they having to do it?
Speaker 3They're expanded because either well, yeah, you're not expanding because we're gonna add seven thousand SB 35 units to the city pretty soon. So, yeah, they need to just kind of go somewhere.
Speaker 1They're gonna dump that on all of us, huh.
Speaker 3Yes, they are Okay, we each got one. Good, there you go, there we go.
Speaker 2Wait, we gotta have a button for that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3We do have a bike flat, of course.
Speaker 3We know where that's yes, we do, but the big one for the night. Okay, and I got to it. I'm still now confused by all this. They're gonna pick a map and change the city and do a new the municipal code for council districts. I Thought they had to go through a charter review, a charter Amendment that was being built on by the public, to do this. Evidently I need to find out more, because and I will listen to the meeting to see if they have to or not but this sounds like this is gonna be a done deal and they're going to adopt a map and adopt five districts, so I'm not sure. I Guess they're just gonna roll over and play dead for this. This guy who's suing Because they want to pay the thirty thousand dollars, or whatever it is, for his lawsuit.
Speaker 1So we're spending three hundred thousand to do all the redistricting.
Speaker 3Yeah, I, I well, we're gonna be interested. This is gonna be a big topic for the meeting and it's gonna go on for a while, I think, or maybe not. Maybe the council members are just gonna roll what goes on in Closed session and what they agree to there. Maybe they've already rolled over and played dead on this. I don't know, I'm not. I'm not a proponent of this in any way you know, I know some of the people.
Speaker 2I still hear from people what is this redistricting folks? If you haven't paid attention, you might not be voting what your next door neighbor will be voting Come a couple of months from now.
Speaker 1How long have we been talking about this? If they don't know, now they're just tuning in.
Speaker 2Well, let me put it this way you had hair on your head when we started.
Speaker 1You trying to say your old. It's been a while Okay.
Speaker 3So yeah, that's gonna happen on Tuesday night. I don't how long. I could take a long time, it could take a short time, we don't know. But that's on the Tuesday agenda. I Think there's too many questions. You know, I say there's a need be a charter amendment about this. This is a burbank has a right to approve or not approve this. The citizens of Burbank have a right to say we don't want this and we will fight this in court. Or does the city, the citizens of Burbank, just say we're gonna roll them, play dead, just do what you want to do.
Speaker 1Apparently, we have nothing to do with it right, yeah just moving right along School district did it that way.
Speaker 3Yeah, school district put out no information whatsoever, they just did it so.
Speaker 2But now let's talk about one of your favorite topics, wednesday police commission.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Oh wait, am I looking at the wrong page?
Speaker 3I'm trying to figure that out page four October four.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I guess we are talking about Wednesday 10 for okay.
Public Transportation and City Council Meeting
Speaker 3Yeah, that's right, you're for your favorite. Let's take a chronological order here. If we could well my page is wrong.
Speaker 1This is kind of a day by day thing, and I do at the top, put page numbers on it so you can kind of follow along with well, I goofed up when I was shuffling.
Speaker 2I didn't know I had to shuffle the deck tonight.
Speaker 3Okay, um.
Speaker 2What's going on on Wednesday on?
Speaker 3Wednesday is it's uh, california clean air day, which is, I'm sure it's, a very worthwhile event. But to celebrate it the council has voted To waive the burbank bus fairs that day. So people are more encouraged to take public transportation. So they're going to waive the one dollar fee on a burbank bus and I'm sure it's going to pack the buses. Probably it might double the ridership in one day, so you might have actually two people on a bus instead of one. In fact we sat once again. We sat there tonight at the uh At patties, and we saw what five burbank buses go by on Riverside Drive On their busiest route, the pink route, and on one bus Do we see one rider? Not one bus, not one. But we saw a Metro bus go by with some riders on it.
Speaker 1So a metro bus. We won't be losing money by letting people ride for free if there's never anybody on it to pay the dollar.
Speaker 3That's true, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 1So I well, you know I get, but it's symbolic more than anything, right?
Speaker 3I don't think people aren't riding the bus because they have to pay a dollar. I think the burbank bus system is just doesn't go where they want to go. Yeah, it doesn't do. It might be nice getting people to the burbank Uh, or to the airport. The subway, the subway the subway north hollywood, that's. That's probably nice, but nobody seems to be riding it when we're watching it.
Speaker 1For that but on october 4th, check out the map, the routes they take and ride it for free. This is not necessarily about right, that's true.
Speaker 3How much the the system is used or where they go, but the the symbolic gesture they're they're having on that day it's going to have an informational booth in the morning at the Burbank Metrolink station and try to encourage people to what the, what the buses are and what they do, and and to make more use of public Transportation and and more environmentally friendly.
Speaker 2Well, we have found locally that bus, just doesn't you know. Yeah, it'll take you to the airport, it'll take you to the subway, get you downtown. I think it has a media district, uh, route that's the pink, the pink one but you know what, craig I?
Speaker 3we read in locally Recently, this metromed no, no, not med, oh, metro meds, the, the place for hospital supplies.
Speaker 2That's right on san fernando metro dash, I think it is or metro. It's a new transportation. For a dollar, they'll take you from a bus stop to anywhere you want. And I'm, and I'm pregnant. It's running all over LA.
Speaker 1They're gonna wave that dollar on October? Yes, they are.
Speaker 3Yeah all the uh, all the um. Public transportation is gonna waive their fees that day.
Speaker 2And, but what I'm reading is younger girls. When I say younger, meaning 20s, 30s me, that's younger. They're preferring to take this van, which only has one or two people on it metro mini.
Speaker 3Is that what it's called? I'm trying to remember the name of it.
Speaker 2Um, take that instead of an mta bus. They feel safer on it. Oh, they take you almost to your destination. Um, for women that work downtown or work at night, you can call and get the bus to a bus stop. They'll pick you up and take you closer to your home. So again, public transportation, and there's other options out there, so, yeah worth it, worth a look.
Speaker 1You know what I could use right now. A cup of mr Sherwood, a cup of coffee a cup of coffee. I was just kind of where can I get a cup of coffee on october 4th?
Speaker 3Well, you can go. Uh, it's a great place in brune called priscilla's, but Show notes buddy. But since we, since we have well, I just trying to answer this question. Yeah, I'm trying to think of a local operator who's been around for a long time, but if you are ballers and brew oh, by the way, that's called micro mini, that's a micro.
Speaker 1Oh, you were distracted.
Speaker 3That's what happened there I was trying to actually do research Nice, nice, nice attempted a recovery, but ballers and brew at 407. Yeah, but that's where you get a cup of coffee, but why would you go there?
Speaker 1for a coffee cup, of coffee with a cup. A cup of coffee with a cup coffee with a cup is Wednesday, october 4th, from 8 am To 11 am At ballers and brew, 407 Irving Drive, and it says here it's free.
Speaker 3Yeah, it said that's what the police put out. They said it's free, so I guess it's free coffee between those hours.
Speaker 1So show up between 8 and 11 and you get to, uh, enjoy a coffee and maybe some snacks with your some members of your local police department. Get to ask them questions, get to know them.
Speaker 3But the cream and sugar is 20 a container. These have to get the coffee or free.
Speaker 1You can't get it in a plastic cup, though.
Speaker 3No now plastic cup, even unless you have 30 people dining there. They have some.
Speaker 1It's a great event. I yeah work these many times In my career and it's a great chance Not just for the public to to spend some time and get to know their local, some of their local officers. But it's a it's an informal event. There's there's no pressure right, and you can ask, ask questions.
Speaker 3You got questions, you don't know about you, know how they, how things work. It's a great time to do it.
Speaker 1But it's a two-way street because we as officers, it's a great opportunity for us to interact with the public, um, in an unstressful Uh situation, a relaxed situation where we're not on a call to your house or something like that Uh, and we can just have conversations. If we just uh should chat with each other.
Speaker 3It must be popular, because they've had a just location a few times now.
Speaker 2Well, they have the, the ballers and brew. It's nice, like you said, um, because if you have a problem with Parking or you have trouble with a neighbor or whatever, this is a good time. You can ask the command staff and some of the pio's usually there, some other officers and, like you said, in a comfortable setting, more intimate intimate, yeah, environment.
Speaker 3So we encourage you to go by and and have a free cup of coffee. Ask those questions You've always wanted to ask then we're having a special council meeting on wednesday.
Speaker 2Don't we have teletype? That uh goes, do we?
Speaker 3do. When you talk about that, the pre-production meeting we'd be glad to include that for you.
Speaker 2I guess they should have showed up. Oh, you too Um.
Speaker 3You just go turn to your respective ends of the table the city council Is going to meet a special meeting on wednesday night to talk about the burbank center stage facility, which most of you know as the colony theater and um, basically, this is uh from the process that the park and rec tried to do before and A lot of people say it wasn't a very fair process, a very uh, transparent process.
Speaker 3The city council and once again you know as much as you want to criticize some of the city council they said wait a second, we don't like what's going on here, we're going to take this over, we're going to run it and we're going to make the decision, and I applaud them for that. You know what? And they're doing it on a special day, so it won't be. You know, it's the only thing on the agenda. It will be that meeting. They're going to interview all three of the, the different people, which is the burbank community, ymca, the greenhouse arts and media and the colony theater company has who presently Owns and operates not actually, but uh operates the facility and they came up with some ground Rules and regulations.
Speaker 2You know they're going to make a presentation right. The public can speak for one minute.
Speaker 3One minute, one minute right.
Speaker 2So if you're passionate For any of those three, this is the time to speak your voice, and the council's going to have write it down.
Speaker 3They're going to have a one hour interview for each proposer and then they have um, they have, which I have a 15 minutes to write overview, followed by 45 minutes of questions for council review. Um, so I think it's, you know it's a good way. It's going to be a televised, to be very a transparent Thing why they're doing in the chambers and while the and while the um Council's talking to one group, the other two await a nearby conference room, so they can't hear Really what's going on.
Speaker 2And I'll sequestered sequestered.
Speaker 3Yes, that is, that's true. Um, so tomorrow we're going to figure out who's going to run it. Now I think I will go on the record and say I think the colony theater has done a great job. I'm very happy with how the colony theater has run it. I'm not sure the Burbank YMCA knows what they're getting into. I think, if you look at it, having the Burbank YMCA run a theater would be just another thing for them. Kind of the way this kind of got lost with the Burbank Park and Rec Department. It was just another thing and it wasn't any kind of priority, it was just another thing, what qualifies them to run a theater operation.
Speaker 3Yeah, and in all honesty, I really do not know much about the greenhouse arts and media, so I'll be nice to listen to their presentation, but I just think the YMCA, it would just be another thing for them. In all honesty too, from what I understand, the colony theater has purchased the soundboards and a lot of equipment inside which, if they're not the operating board, they will take with them because they own those items. That means the YMCA would not only have to run the theater, they'd have to put all the equipment back in.
Speaker 2The other thing is there. This whole RFP process got real messed up and people don't realize.
Speaker 3If you read our article, lisa Parades did a very thorough article- In fact, I think her article is the reason this whole thing came to light.
Speaker 2Quite a bit of it and people don't realize that they were in the middle of an RFP process with the colony and the vendor up at the ball, golf course and, by the way, rfp means we've quest for proposals. Right, I'm sorry, that's okay. The vendor Not Mayberry.
Speaker 1Mayberry RFP yes.
Speaker 2The vendor up at the bell quit. Burbank and the parks department had to scramble and because that is Burbank property up there, they had to put a staffer up there to run it. They had to keep the operation running. Well, that took from people running it.
Speaker 3Well, there's probably more, the one person charge of the RFP process for the colony would be the person doing the bell. Once again, too many things on one single hat. That's why I'm scared to go home with the YMCA reading that thing.
Speaker 1There's always so many things you can do well at the same time.
Speaker 2Yes, Well, I find the city has never been real good as a rental agent or as a landlord. Yes, the tennis center runs itself. Yes, the hockey rink, they got a vendor handling itself. The colony is kind of different. You can't. There's a lot of you worked in theater. There's a lot to it and I think they just need to.
Speaker 3I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm naive to this. But they want the person who runs the theater to do all the capital improvements, to pay for them themselves the upkeep of capital improvements. Yet at the Bell Golf Course I read that they're putting in. They spend millions of dollars this year on new irrigation and to improve the course. So why does the city pay for that and not have the Bell Golf Course pay for that? But they want the colony people or the who are rents a theater, to pay for the upkeep of the theater. So it seems to be different. You know, the city wants to see the golf course thrive and they're just. We don't care much about how the theater operates, as long as they have a theater that they run.
Speaker 1It's almost like in the schools where, where sports is more important to them than the arts, right, so they eliminate the arts.
Speaker 3I disagree 100%. They have basically eliminated all funding for sports.
Speaker 1Well, no, they've gotten to sports. They eliminated a lot of the arts. Now they've gotten to sports.
Speaker 2So it'll be an interesting meeting. Again, we will have a report after they're done.
Speaker 3Absolutely.
Transportation Planners and Coffee Ribbon Cutting
Speaker 2A lengthy and interesting here. Listen and watch, so moving on for Also still still.
Speaker 1Wednesday.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I wanted to see the civil service board. They're going to meet at 430 Community Services Building. They actually have nine openings for transportation planners. Maybe all nine can actually ride a Burbank bus and triple the ridership for a time.
Speaker 1I don't know. They could have the meeting on the bus for free.
Speaker 3I just don't know why they need nine transportation planners for us. Hopefully the Burbank bus is going to become a expert bus one day. I'm all for being rid of that damn thing. Ross has a great proposal for what they could do, but nobody seems to want to listen.
Speaker 1That'll be a future Ross's rant.
Speaker 3Yes, it will be.
Speaker 2I've said it for a long time.
Speaker 3So Thursday, moving on Ross, you've got another room cutting. To go to what?
Speaker 2No way Would you believe now this one.
Speaker 1I was getting all these scissors that's what I want to know and all this ribbon. I want to own that business.
Speaker 3Ross has the scissors. That's what I want.
Speaker 2Well, I did, they took them back.
Speaker 3Well, they Well you kept running with them. Yeah, you shouldn't run with those scissors.
Speaker 2They were big Three sisters coffee company. On Thursday they're going to have a ribbon cutting and I'll tell you, if you look at the history, the reason it's called Three Sisters.
Speaker 3Must be Three.
Speaker 2Sisters. Well, it's a family run business that with ties really deep in our community. Matt and Kristen, is it Sagna SAG?
Speaker 1Oh, sagona, sagona, Sagona.
Speaker 2Name their three daughters Dennell, lily, danielle, dennell I'm sorry, lily and Skylar.
Speaker 3Skylar.
Speaker 1That's it. I'm just going to read all the names in here from now on.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think you should for me, mike Doofus.
Speaker 1I don't have any lefts of a chance of getting it right, but Well, the building that they're when the new coffee shop is, is.
Speaker 3Is.
Speaker 2Dot, dot dot Sagna. Oh geez, sagona is. That's a Burbank public school. That's a Burbank public school. That's a Burbank public school. That's a Burbank public school.
Speaker 1That's a Burbank public school. That's a education everybody.
Speaker 2Well, no, it's that my, my two. Are you a chicklet falling out? Yeah, and I can't say asses. You know my sister used to be.
Speaker 3You said the SHI word pretty good.
Speaker 1The Sagna whistle.
Speaker 3Whistle.
Speaker 2My name was Rocky Benton Ross Benson, you know, but if anybody remembers Now this is a test If anybody remembers where that their the upholstery place was on Magnolia. What pizza place was on that corner at recent Magnolia?
Speaker 3for years, everything you had to call pizza pie. Well, you knew, I used to go there for lunch every day from Burroughs.
Speaker 2Okay, but the family runs deeper than that.
Speaker 3You only had three choices every day.
Speaker 1You had four choices. You're eating up his two minutes.
Speaker 3I know, but you had McDonald's. Everybody went there. Who cared? Clint's you had Clint's, but if you didn't get there early you wouldn't get in time. If you really thought you could get to the distance, you had a Puppet Taco at Buena Vista, in Magnolia. What kind of taco.
Speaker 1Puppet Taco, puppet Taco, puppet Taco. What's a Puppet Taco?
Speaker 3Oh, it's a Puppet Taco. We had one there and we had one up on Glen Oaks also.
Speaker 2And in the Angelino yeah.
Speaker 3Or you could go to Pizza Pie. It had pizza already made, slices already made and grab some slices. Those were your four choices.
Speaker 2That was a tiny tiny.
Speaker 3Until you had a car. And then you had a car, the city became yours.
Speaker 2Well, Kristen's family, the Savarts, owned Pickwick Gardens and we all know what recently happened at Pickwick Gardens.
Speaker 3Well, they didn't own the gardens, they just they rented gardens probably.
Speaker 2No, no, they owned, they sold it then.
Speaker 2Yes, oh, I took it right off their website. Okay, they had Pickwick Gardens for generations where they worked until the family decided to sell the property and it was very important to Kristen to reinvest in the Burbank community and watch, which is how the ideas of Three Sisters, coffee and Tea was born. So the family's goal was welcome, happening, inclusive environment, three Sisters. They have a fantastic webpage. I have been told by numerous people that have stopped by there. It's warm, it's housey, it's really nice. What's the webpage? Um, I did have it written down here.
Speaker 1Oh sure it is.
Speaker 2I do have it, threesisterscoffeecom Wow.
Speaker 1Spot on. And what time is the ribbon cutting?
Speaker 2I think it's five o'clock.
Speaker 1You say no my clock. I'm gonna help and fill in the blanks here.
Speaker 2It is on my calendar for five o'clock.
Speaker 1Okay, On Thursday October 5th.
Speaker 2Yeah, stop by. I mean I have like I tell I think Lisa stopped by. I know Ashley stopped by.
Speaker 3One thing we don't have in the city is coffee places.
Speaker 2Wow Four.
Speaker 3Four.
Speaker 1Mail carriers.
Speaker 3Or mail carriers, and, in fact, what's lucky for us was a city. We don't have enough mail carriers. We don't, but the postal service is going to be hiring. You want to be one? Yes, they're going to have a job fair at 3307. Linux will run from 830 to 2pm. They need mail processing clerks and mail handlers. They need delivery people, city and rule carriers I'm not sure what rule area we have in Burbank Transport and tractor trailer operators and any mechanics, labor custodian and automotive technicians.
Speaker 1Well, basically everybody.
Speaker 3Yeah, the postal service, they are hiring, they're having a job fair and you know what you get one of those government jobs.
Speaker 1It's a great job.
Speaker 3It's a pension for life.
Speaker 1That's how a kid I grew up with just changed career, had a career changed and became a mail carrier and he absolutely loves it In New Hampshire.
Speaker 2Now wait, they're not doing it at a post office on Glen Oaks, are they?
Speaker 3There is no post office on Glen Oaks.
Speaker 1Do we know what is that? 3307 Glen Oaks, where they're having it? Any chance it's a business. Okay, you know what? A curve ball on that one, because I don't know.
Speaker 2Put in 3307. Okay, and I bet you.
Speaker 3Hillside, you're doing that I bet you Hillside Cafe will come up, I bet you it doesn't. But I will do that just till.
Speaker 2Hill Street Cafe is about 3300 block 3307.
Speaker 1I can't wait, suspense is killing me.
Speaker 2Yeah, here's the suspense, because the next thing on our show notes Craig's going to love anyway.
Speaker 3It says it's IHSS Ops V Burbank.
Speaker 1I just go ahead and cut this part out.
Speaker 3There's no name. It's IHSS Operations Division, bureau of Special Operations.
Speaker 1So it's maybe a government facility of some kind at that address.
Speaker 3Yeah, that they're disposing.
Speaker 1Anyway.
Speaker 3I guess it's the Department of Public Social Services location. Okay, we see 3307.
Speaker 2Glen.
Speaker 1Oaks. I live in the neighborhood?
Speaker 2I don't even know.
Speaker 1Well, you'll be there because you want to carry letters, you want to work.
Speaker 3Besides that, we're going to have a water and power board meeting at 5 pm with a very light agenda. The Heritage Commission. It's been canceled. We seem to have no heritage to talk about right now Heritage Commission meeting. Finally, the weekend. The weekend is coming.
Speaker 1The weekend is coming. The weekend is coming.
Speaker 3It's going to be a hot weekend. By the way, we're talking out between 95 to 100 degrees, 100.
Speaker 1Yeah, we've got. Then that's when May he's going to kick out.
Speaker 3He wave coming in.
Speaker 2You're going to have to wear your, your, your tuna suit, careful.
Speaker 3So we have a, we have a family service agencies, gala, imagine, the city and they're going to honor assistant city manager Judy Wookie, who is retiring at the end of the year. And Judy Wookie has been a I've done a great job and been very, very helpful to us at times and very approachable, and you know we're going to wish her the best in her retirement. She has been. She's been around since. Here it says since. Oh, FSA has been around.
Speaker 1She hasn't been around since 1953. Right.
Speaker 3FSA has been around for since 1953.
Speaker 2So Well, if you know Judy, she worked in finance, she worked as our city clerk.
Speaker 3And she worked as Park and rec.
Speaker 2Oh, she was a park director. And I know I'm a busy guy. I said Judy's first wedding and we shouldn't talk about that wedding.
Speaker 1Yeah, if you have to say first, then we probably shouldn't talk about that.
Speaker 2But her and I joke around because we go way, way, way, way back the daughter of former Larry stamper and Sue stamper. But it's going to be held at the Nickelodeon studio. It's a great great venue. Oh it is. It's kind of neat. I know there's tickets still available. They're doing a wine pool. Is SpongeBob going to be there? Spongebob is in the play yard.
Speaker 3Oh, okay.
Speaker 2But if you're looking for tickets, you want to honor Judy. I know FSA. People don't realize FSA is there here in.
Speaker 1Burbank for everybody. They do so many events in the city, so many benefits and stuff. It's great, we and we. Often I'm surprised Two or three a year.
Speaker 3Yeah, it says it hasn't been Burbings since 53. So this would be 70 years. I wonder why they're not doing a little more of a you know 70 year celebration.
Speaker 1Maybe when they hit 75, that's their, that's the one. They'll. They'll be around for that.
Speaker 2Well, don't understand. If you get into an argument with your neighbor and you're scared to go out of your house, you should be talking to a counselor or therapist at FSA.
Speaker 1So they will help you out with neighbor disputes and all that right, Not just family related Family disputes If you have to go to counseling court ordered counseling.
Speaker 2there's a lot. They're on every campus here at school here in Burbank where kids can go in and talk to their neighbors.
Speaker 1Yeah, everything they do all that info, all that stuff's on their website, right On their website, including getting tickets to the to the event which is is it? Family service agency of Burbankorg. So exactly that. It's a lot of typing, but that's it Pretty easy to remember.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's. I've covered their galas every year and I know they do a great job, so well, and that'll be Saturday.
Speaker 1Saturday.
Speaker 3And actually the person who wrote this did not do this in chronological order Correct Earlier in the day.
Speaker 1Well, we know he likes to shuffle things up. Yes, earlier in the podcast.
Speaker 3Earlier in the day, keller Williams is sponsoring a thank a soldier where they do. I guess goody packages, or or you know like care care packages for all the Burbank soldiers.
Speaker 2Last year they packaged over several thousand.
Speaker 3It's gonna be a Umecrate Union. That's going to run from 10 am at 2 pm. I know Umecrate is a very active partner in that every year. I know there's a lot of community groups that come to help through the packaging. It's a it's a huge Burbank community type.
Speaker 1There will be a great event, great cause. Send soldiers that are deployed a little piece of home.
Speaker 2Well, people from Burbank, soldiers that are local, that you know they'll have kids out there doing drawings, people will put in postcards and books and toothpaste and all the necessities that make you feel at home. Right, and you know what it comes from. Burbank Comes from home. The city helps postage on those. Last year they filled the truck up and the nice part is it's free. Bring something that they if we'll have it on our website, myburbankcom the things that they're looking for.
Speaker 1So from 10 to two. They can bring items that they're looking for, but can they also come and help pack them?
Speaker 3up. I'm not sure if you can still bring the items that has to be there before before then doesn't?
Speaker 2you can. They have plenty, they've been storing. But if you bring stuff, they'll put it in. Okay, you think about it. You know pistachio, and it don't put chocolates or stuff that will melt. But the stuff and the buy your lunch, they'll pay for your lunch. They'll have taco Usually last year they had tacos and burgers but the only admission is you bring something there you go.
Speaker 1The goods are good too right.
Speaker 2Well, normally they don't do, unless they're not perishables, obviously Okay Cool. Um and just I put on here. Yeah, I know I'm out of order.
Speaker 3Mark, you're out of order.
Speaker 2You know people want to know something. If you don't, if you hear it here, you might remember it. Kiwanis Well, you're not out of order.
Speaker 3That is the next day. This is Sunday. Okay.
Speaker 1It says Saturday. Nope, you're right, it's Sunday, sunday the 15th, the 15th.
Speaker 2Yeah, Sunday the 15th.
Speaker 3Well then you have this way out, of order.
Speaker 2So we're a week early, Because this is Right, right. I put this down only for people to put it on their calendar.
Speaker 3Ah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2Because so many people go. Oh, I wonder what's going on next.
Speaker 3Ah, then we have to do a little sub-hing that says add your calendars for future.
Speaker 1Upcoming.
Speaker 2And if they go to my Burbank calendar which anybody can go to MyBurbankcom, myburbankcom and hit on our calendar and you will see a lot of things. People are wondering what's going on in town. Take a look at and if it's not there, our executive editor will make sure it's there come tomorrow. And who's that? Don't we have a tone for that?
Speaker 3Well, I'm trying to figure out if that's even on the on the calendar, and if not, it's probably because we have not been sent the information.
Speaker 2It came to me today.
Speaker 1Stay tuned.
Speaker 3Okay, well, guess what? You can submit it on the calendar too.
Speaker 2Okay, I will then.
Speaker 3So that brings us, finally, to the part of the show that you've come to know and love.
Speaker 1The reward for everybody who's still here.
Speaker 3Yes, Wait I got a cough, which is called, of course, ross's rant, and Ross wants to rant about the fact-.
Speaker 2That there are no parking signs up around.
Speaker 3McCambridge Park. They're still back up. Are you on set? No, around McCambridge Park for the Pride Parade.
Speaker 2Well, the last time he ran to the Pride event.
Speaker 3The last time he ran about Johnny Carson Park and the parking, they went down the next day. Well, they didn't learn their lesson.
Speaker 1Right and the crime scene tape that went down.
Speaker 3Well, the parking signs went up for Pride Day and they're still up at McCambridge Park.
Speaker 2And I happen to drive by it three times a day, so I see them.
Speaker 3So Is that your?
Speaker 2rant no.
Speaker 3No, his rant is all about my tweets. The people need to know. I am the one who does the tweets. I am responsible for what they are Snarky or not. I'm responsible for the information and when I put a tweet out, I put a tweet out, not Ross.
Speaker 1Ross does not do anything and you are the executive editor. Executive editor Of myberbankcom and all of its subsidiaries.
Speaker 3And all of its subsidiaries. Originally the podcast and everything else.
Speaker 1You're the grand poobah.
Speaker 2So, dr Durling, you get to read the second paragraph there.
Speaker 1Two of three.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I do, why they're long words in it. Why do I get three? The tweet was based on the report. The tweet was based on the report.
Speaker 3Let's tell them what the tweet was At the city council meeting. I was listening. The city manager and the police chief talked about the fact that Redugo fire was gonna become an encrypted frequency, which means nobody can listen to them.
Speaker 1There are two-way radios. They're communications.
Speaker 3Right two-way radio encrypted. Nobody can listen to them the way the police department is now, and I was a little shocked by that because I had been told that was not gonna happen. But once it came out of the city attorney's mouth, the police chief's mouth, it said this is gonna happen and I put a tweet out that that was gonna happen. Per that conversation.
Speaker 1Right, because the part nobody had heard was at the fire department. That was the news that the fire department was gonna encrypt it, which the fire department typically aren't doing.
Speaker 3that and of course, because people don't know me, they know Ross, especially in the public service agencies, they all. Ross became part of the firestorm immediately that how dare you say this? It's not true. And he had to say look it, that's on. That's at the city council meeting and here's the part of the meeting that said it on, but I am the one who tweeted it out. So, ross, go ahead and say what you need to say.
Speaker 2Well, there was a firestorm and I got my.
Speaker 3A firestorm by the first fire department First.
Speaker 1Yeah, Everybody he saw, because Ross is the man about town.
Speaker 2Yes, he is, he's the face of the I carry this little device called my smartphone and the thing lit up.
Speaker 1Thank, God something's working and that face. You walk around town with that face on and everybody recognizes it.
Speaker 2You know, my phone lit up. A lot of people tweeted me. I had radio shops from here to San Gabriel saying that I said this. The rumor came from you and Not a rumor. Well, right, it wasn't.
Speaker 1But, and full disclosure. Even I hit you up because I was getting emails and messages from different organizations and stuff.
Speaker 2And what gets me is I had known this because one of the chiefs I asked, chief Hatch, told me a long time ago fire department will never go encrypted and I just knew they weren't. Well, this little tweet that went out got seen by a lot of people and got me in a little hot water.
Speaker 3It was 100% factual.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was, but you know it's whatever. It's underwater under the bridge now. But we did make clarification. Fire department, as Craig Dirling just said, will not.
Speaker 1Fire departments typically would not go encrypted because they have too many mutual aid agreements and they work with too many other departments and they need to be able to communicate with each other. But where you said the content of the tweet was factual, because you were reporting that this. These statements were made in a public forum.
Speaker 3And I said who made them also?
Speaker 1We're not saying that the information they gave at the meeting was fact.
Speaker 3I said who made the statement too.
Speaker 2Exactly, I didn't say it came from me, so so they are. They have been given the correct information. I have been told I got a confirmation.
Speaker 1And the record has been correct.
Speaker 2The record has been corrected. It didn't actually come from me. It was actual from a public meeting which was on record, which, thank goodness it was, you know, on YouTube and so forth. So hopefully we'll get it straight out Moving along. What's the other thing? I?
Speaker 1wanna say. But the real takeaway here is, if you see it on the Twitter account, you'll let Ross about it comes from me.
Speaker 3It does not come from Ross, but I'm gonna you know because this has been a point of confusion for a lot of people. Lapd is digital. They're not encrypted.
Speaker 2But I don't think most people understand it.
Speaker 3No, I'm trying to say that's a problem, is it? People think when they say, oh, they've gone digital, they think, oh, that means they won't, it has nothing to do. It took completely different things 100% digital just means you can hear them better. They go off for Peters. Encrypted means.
Speaker 1It's a different technology of transmitting the voices.
Speaker 3Encrypted means it's scrambled. You can't make out a word. But Burbank had been digital for a long time.
Speaker 1All right, you can still listen to them on a regular scanner you would buy.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 1If they're digital if they're encrypted, you can't.
Speaker 3Exactly so. A lot of people think, well, I'd say well, lap is on digital. No, no, they. Yes, they went digital, but they did not go encrypted.
Speaker 2So, folks, let me just add to this If you see something on neighborhood on a lot of these social media platforms that a Burbank police 911 dispatcher said this, or I heard this on the scanner, I will tell you I have been involved with radios now for over 50 years. You are not hearing anything coming from Burbank police. Their signal is encrypted. Nobody could hear it. If you're reading something, somebody made it up, when I put something on Facebook to clarify, or when we put something out on Twitter, we check our facts. We know what we're talking about. This neighborhood was online. I'll tell you. Just people put out stuff. You know that is erroneous and don't believe it.
Speaker 1Obviously, if they're putting it out saying that they heard it on the Burbank scanner or radio, it's erroneous. But they may have seen it on the department's Twitter account or something like that, but if they're saying they heard it on the radio, they didn't.
Speaker 2Exactly. Well, that wraps up my rant for the week.
Speaker 3That's a good rant. People need to know that.
Speaker 1you know I Is this, the ceremonial tossing of the, the tossing of the scripts. Are we sending them on fire?
Speaker 3in here. Yes, we are.
Speaker 1It's already warm enough.
Speaker 3So I'm the king of snark, and nobody else does snark like me, You're the snarkiest man. I try to be a little snarky. I think it sets a humor on and remember that's not our news page, that's a social media outlet and sometimes we can be a little snarky on that because it's different. You don't see me making those snarky comments on our website and our stories and if I do, it says on top opinion.
Speaker 2And if people remember when we Several years ago, when Burbank experienced some brush fires, we didn't put any snark out If there is an emergency and we put out tweets that are of importance we're not gonna screw around. There's a time to be serious and there's a time you can be a little lighter Exactly.
Speaker 3Picture spots. Okay, that's it. That's it. If you stayed with us this whole time, then congratulations.
Speaker 1Bravo.
Speaker 3And if you didn't, well then you couldn't hear this anyway.
Speaker 2Well, we love your letters, we love your emails.
Speaker 3Yeah, please send them in. Yeah, we do read them, we do look at them, Even the bad ones. We just don't comment on those.
Speaker 2No, we have, but no, we're working on some projects. Don't forget, tomorrow's unveiling is very important. October is breast cancer awareness. I shot a photo tonight of the Disney Cancer Center. All I can say, and I will say it here you're talking. Three guys in this room that put on this show. If you have any family members that haven't had a mammogram and you know what guys cancer is hitting guys just as much. You know prostate cancer. You know breast cancer in men. Yeah, I have experience. You can see the scar in my head of cancer. My partner, craig Sherwood, 40 years of coaching, went through, had his neck cut open. I've had my leg cut open where they did surgery of cancer in my leg. Cancer is not a laughing matter. If you have a bump or sore or whatever, get it checked.
Speaker 3We are actually gonna do a special podcast, hopefully next week, and have as a member of the St Joseph's Medical Center cancer ward in here and talk about mammograms and the importance of things like that prevention and everything else.
Speaker 1Tune in for that.
Speaker 3That'll be a good podcast, you know, just to give you some information. You know, not to scare you, not to, just it's not. You know, the more you know, the better you know. Information is power.
Speaker 2I think everybody's had a family member that has gotten hit by cancer.
Speaker 3so If you watch the World Series, they always have one of the innings during the World Series where everybody holds up a sign. You know that they, you know, remember somebody.
Speaker 1During a moment of silence.
Speaker 3A moment of silence, very powerful moment and every single person has a little card and every single person has a different member of their family, if not maybe multiple.
Speaker 1A friend or a co-worker.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's more than one on that card that they're thinking about that moment, so you know and now you know we're limited with this.
Speaker 2I know a lot of people that have gone through double mastectomies. That is not a laughing matter, I will say. My sister had a double mastectomy. The gene is in our family. We had our writer, ashley Erickson.
Speaker 3Who will be doing that podcast, by the way, with the St Joseph's?
Discussion on Breast Cancer and Prevention
Speaker 2Who had a double mastectomy. It's a topic that we can now have to talk about.
Speaker 3It's not because she had breast cancer, it's because she had the gene she has the gene and did not want to eventually catch it down the line.
Speaker 1Preventative.
Speaker 3Because she's got a couple kids and everything else and she wouldn't be around for them for a long time. So it was a brave decision.
Speaker 2So, but she, I want a way to wrap it up. Huh guys, yeah, a little truth from reality.
Speaker 1Nobody's here, you know it is funny.
Speaker 2You know, it's just something that I thought was important. We're in October, it's very important. It's going to be November. Grow your mustaches Right. I got a head start, but go get your prospect. I think we all do.
Speaker 3Yeah, we do. Okay, so with that, it's push the button, max, and we'll see you next week. Here's the button.
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