2026 Road Kings Car Show Podcast

The best car shows are not really about cars. They are about the people who bring them, the neighbors who stop to talk, and the traditions that make a city feel like home and that is exactly what we found at the 35th Annual Road Kings Charity Car Show at Johnny Carson Park in Burbank, California. We’re on site with the MyBurbank crew as the park fills up with classic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, vendors, raffles, music, and families soaking up a sunny day.

We sit down with councilmember Chris Rizzotti to talk about showing up, listening, and why local control matters when Sacramento policies collide with Burbank’s reality, including the ongoing conversation around BRT, development, parking, and what the city could look like in ten years. Then we switch gears into pure community fun with Sebastian from HW Racetrack, whose Hot Wheels tournaments turn toy cars into a full-on bracket experience for kids and adults, plus a can’t-miss stop at Mark Vargas’s What A Dog for the behind-the-scenes method that keeps his hot dogs legendary.

You’ll also hear why a single 1966 VW bus can unlock a lifetime of memories with Burbank attorney Adrianos Facchetti and what motivates planning commission chair Samantha Wick as she kicks off her run for Burbank City Council. And if you’ve ever wondered how Burbank keeps winning on the Rose Parade stage, Steve Edwards from the Burbank Tournament of Roses breaks down the year-round volunteer work, engineering constraints, and the storytelling magic of float animation.

If you love Burbank events, local news, classic car culture, or the real mechanics of community, hit play, subscribe, share the show, and leave a review so more neighbors can find us.

Transcript

Welcome To The Car Show

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hello, and welcome to myburbank.com's coverage of the 35th annual Road Kings Charity Car Show. It is Saturday, June 14th, 2026, and we're coming to you once again from Johnny Carson Park in beautiful Burbank, California. Today the park is packed with classics, hot rods, and muscle cars, along with food vendors, great music, smiling faces, and more. I'm Craig Derling, and I'm joined by my Burbanks, Craig Sherwood, Ross Benson, and Ashley Erickson. You're in for a treat today, so without further ado, start your engines. Drop that clutch, and let's get this show on the road. Hello,

Meet The Hosts At The Park

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Burbank.

SPEAKER_13 0:41

Craig Sherwood here with you once again, and a very special day because we're at the Road Kings 2026 car show. And of course, with me as always is Ross Benson. Holly hell, look at all these cars. There's more tires in this park park than I've ever seen before.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

And you're just tired.

SPEAKER_13 0:57

And of course, we have Craig Dirling here with us. Good morning, everybody. And what would an event be without Ashley Ericsson?

SPEAKER_04 1:03

Hello, hello.

SPEAKER_13 1:04

This Burbank.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

No. Well, I think it should be. I was I was I grew up in Glendale, actually. I was I was in a pageant once when I was in high school. I was Miss Metropolitan Los Angeles. Because Glendale, I think, might have been taken.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Well, we on that note, I missed Burbank. That's why I moved back.

SPEAKER_13 1:23

You know, Ashley, you you do so many things around town. What what what's your uh your Instagram and and your TikTok?

SPEAKER_04 1:28

Oh yeah, I'm uh Ashley in Burbank, and I'm uh pretty much all over Burbank. I'm featuring all of the best places to eat and hidden gems and you guys gotta check that out.

SPEAKER_13 1:38

I mean, she does our our Instagram for us and our TikTok, but she does a really good job on her own, also putting a lot of small places in Burbank.

SPEAKER_12 1:45

But anyhow, did you notice that we just got concluded our the best of Burbank? And Ashley not only ran it for us but helped us, and then she was on the pod. There's a podcast. She got her voice back. Oh, yeah. People can follow. I mean, it was long.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

Yeah, people look forward to that so much, though.

SPEAKER_12 2:02

You we're starting to see those stickers on business.

SPEAKER_13 2:04

Yeah, we're starting to see those all around town. People are really are really proud to have that my burbank on there. And we you know what we love the contest too. We love to point out, and we find new business every day. And by the way, this summer I'm gonna go get some boba.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

Yes, and pokey.

SPEAKER_13 2:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 2:20

Today's gonna be a great day. Yes, let's

Cars Food Raffles And What’s Ahead

SPEAKER_12 2:22

talk about today. What are you guys looking forward to today? Well, I'm looking forward to seeing so far. The day's just started, and we got people, there's tons of people here. All abuzz.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

And I hear that I already smell the food cooking. I can't wait for that part.

SPEAKER_12 2:35

There's kids, there's boy scouts. We had the Ginio singing the national anthem. We got Don Baldastroni from Road Kings running around.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Everybody's here. Hundreds of cars here lined up. I think some are still coming in. There's two parts to this park. There's behind us here, there's a hundred more cars on the other side. Plenty to see here, all kinds of cars, and it's amazing. There's raffles. You can buy some shirts, some swag. You see all the swag, the trinkets? A lot of swag, a lot of walking around to do, and it's a beautiful day in Johnny Carson Park.

SPEAKER_12 3:06

You know, Road Kings does a fantastic job. And, you know, I I know the troubles they go through to putting on an event like this, but I'll tell you, look at the people trucking around here already. And what is it, just nine o'clock?

SPEAKER_03 3:18

Come down, get your raffle tickets, sign up for the door prizes. It goes till three o'clock today. If you're watching this on YouTube, it's probably a little late, but mark it on your calendar for next year. It'll be about the same time next year.

SPEAKER_04 3:30

Early because it's always so hot.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

I was I got here at eight when it opened, and it was like we'd been going for two hours already. Car's still pulling in.

SPEAKER_13 3:38

Okay, let's find some guests here, and we're gonna go to the house. Wait a minute, there's a dog walking by with black spots. Yes. Okay, we're gonna find some guests. We'll be right back in a second. Well,

Councilmember Razzotti On Local Control

SPEAKER_13 3:47

Ross, we have the first guest already, and somebody who always is in the know.

SPEAKER_12 3:52

Well, you know, we happen to have council member Chris Razzotti with us, and Chris today is representing the city. He was up on stage already, and I think I we have seen you at probably every event that goes on in this city. You really you get around. What do you think of your backyard? You live right down the street.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

I live right down the street. This is such a uh breezy, casual Sunday to come over and enjoy the car show. I'm gonna have a hot dog later. Uh my son literally plays in the place structure almost every day behind us. But yeah, it's it's that's what Burbank is, right? Small towns uh we're hoping to get the parade back next year. Do the small uh car shows and bring the community together. It's it's such a great day.

SPEAKER_12 4:36

Oh my god, there's what are these what are they?

SPEAKER_04 4:38

That's the Star Wars gang over there coming in.

SPEAKER_12 4:40

Well, we'll do them later. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Well, I was just telling somebody yesterday that you're at every ribbon cutting, you're at every event, like you you really take being a c a council member seriously, and you prioritize it and you priorized prioritize the city, and I just want to commend you for that.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

I I you know it's it's what we signed up for. And um you know, obviously schedules clash sometimes, but I do I make every effort to really be at everything that I'm asked to be at. And I think the fun part about this job is of representing is you meet so many great people and you get a lot of insight on your on your community, and you really need that when you're making decisions at the dais.

SPEAKER_12 5:24

Well, people don't know you have a little background here in Burbank. Somebody told me once there was a coach by the name of Craig Sherwood. Yeah, that old time playing baseball. Now that we're dating. We're dating back today, back today. But besides Burroughs, besides going to Burroughs. We won a league title back then, didn't we? Yeah, yeah. Win title, look at that. Well, you know, you look back, you went to Burroughs, you've been uh president of the Burbank Chamber, uh Burbank Porter Realtors for years. You know you've been a realtor in this town. You know, you were on the planning board for six weeks, twelve weeks, twelve years, yeah. Twelve years never missed a meeting, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Never did miss one meeting.

SPEAKER_12 6:04

You know, and see that's what if you want to know about Burbank, you ask people that have sat on a planning board or sat on a commission for all these years, you know the city, and that's who's supposed to be sitting on that dais. I always say if you don't know every street in this city, you don't deserve to be up there. You know, Craig and I always used to joke, people don't even know there's a street in Burbank called Gaylord. Gaylord, yeah. Or Purvis, or Colgin Cord. Folks, drive around a little. You happen to know every alley. Craig and I years ago used to be in a group called Neighborhood Radio Watch. We we know streets and alleys and parks, you know, like that. And you gotta.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Well, back in the day there's a place called Pizza Prince. And uh I was a delivery boy at that time. Oh, were you really? I knew every street in Burbank. I uh it was it was a great job if you really wanted to get to know the lay of the land. But you know, I I think it's important to to have the historical uh background of our of our city. I'm open to new ideas, I really am. I I I listen to everybody, I want to hear everyone's point of view. But you can't paint every community with the same broad brush. And that's my biggest um issue with Sacramento is uh and all the legislation that they pass. They try to paint uh San Francisco and San Diego and Burbank with the same broad brush, and what works for them may not work for us. So I really, really am hoping that we can battle to get our local control back before it's too late.

SPEAKER_12 7:45

And putting up seven story buildings all over town with no parking is just asinine.

SPEAKER_13 7:51

Yeah, you know, I I just Well we were talking real briefly before we got run on the air and and the BRT has become the the biggest issue in our city.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Sure.

SPEAKER_13 8:01

I mean the development that can come along with that, yeah, it's scary.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

It's scary. Uh you will i if it happens, uh you may not recognize Burbank in ten years because you can put up a five to seven story uh building uh along that corridor uh uh from all of all the way up to Glen Oaks.

SPEAKER_13 8:18

So um and even if they put a bus lane in, we can take the bus lane out, but you put a seven story building up there it is. You're stuck with it.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

And I'm I I'm for transit and I'm for BRT in a mixed flow until they get their numbers. But if you look at their d declining numbers, it doesn't seem like the community or people are actually using it. They're using alternative forms of transportation, rideshare, Uber, uh microtransportation, things that are more reliable, safer, and not that many people are getting on the bus.

SPEAKER_12 8:53

We did a podcast with uh David Chrisky. David Chrisky from Burbank Transportation Transportation Guru.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Yeah, he's a he's a smart guy. I've worked with David for 20 years.

SPEAKER_13 9:04

In fact, I sent him an email after that meeting recently and said, Thank you for all you do because you are a wealth of information and good information.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

And a Burbank guy.

SPEAKER_12 9:13

Yes, he is. Born and raised here, went to Burbank High School. You know, he knows City very, very well. Well, you know, I don't want to take your time. We're gonna see your little son around here in his brand new bicycle later.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Yeah, but we got he we got his green bike, so yeah, we went bike shopping, so he got his first bike. I remember my first bike. We all remember our first. Oh, we know we were stingray.

SPEAKER_12 9:34

Yep, stingray, baby with a banana seat.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah, he had a bar, my paper out. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Well, you know, Burbank has a great skate park and they have bike days for little kids. Have you thought about going over there?

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Not yet.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

Oh, we love that skate park. It's like a hidden gem. It's but people don't really utilize it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a great one.

SPEAKER_12 9:54

Well, Chris, just keep up on the good work. Thank you for joining us at today's.

SPEAKER_13 9:58

I'll say this too. You're at every event. If you see him at an event, walk up and say hi to him. Absolutely. He's very communicative.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

I'm very approachable. Absolutely. Absolutely. I want to hear from you. My phone number is pass uh plastered all over town, so you can text me or call me. I'm not hiding from anybody.

SPEAKER_12 10:15

You know where I've seen your signs, not only on the bus stops, but I see the best of Burbank for how many years now, Stuart? Ten years.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Yes. God bless. I thank you for everyone for voting, by the way. I just every year I'm astonished and thankful and grateful, so thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate it. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_13 10:31

All right, all right. All right,

Hot Wheels Racing For All Ages

SPEAKER_13 10:36

Ashley, we have a guest.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

I thought I was gonna Hi, we have Sebastian from HW Racetrack, who is here almost every year, right? How many years have you guys been here?

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Right. Uh I think this is like the fourth year now. Amazing.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

And it's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_12 10:55

You do holiday in the park, you've done the food truck nights.

SPEAKER_04 10:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what tell them what explain, like what's what's your pitch? Like when you explain what you what your setup is, how do you pitch it?

SPEAKER_12 11:08

You know what lead into how did you fall in love with this? Your dad has a classic car. And your dad has been into cars for a long time. You know, and you're following in your dad's footsteps.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Yeah, that's right. Uh so yeah, my dad always had a classic car. And uh it's a bit of a long story, so I'll try and give you the like shortened version of it. When his car became a classic, uh like almost uh ten, ten or twelve years ago, uh he brought it to Bob's big boy. And uh all the like all the old guys there, they didn't really like his car because it was an eighties car. They were like, Whoa, what is this? This is nice classic, get out of here type of thing. So he was like, Well, okay, I'm gonna make my own group, and so he did. He made uh a group for like old eighties and nineties, like Toyotas and Nissans and stuff like that. We had that group, and uh ever since I was little, that's always been like a thing uh in our family, and and uh I've always liked loved that cars because you know I kinda grew up with that. So I built I kind of based my own Hot Wheels collection growing up off of those uh old guitars and uh that really spurred my love of Hot Wheels. And then uh our whole little uh guitar group kinda like grew. We've we based it here in Burbank and we've been here for ever since 2012. And uh it's been going great. And then uh, you know, around uh I think it was uh the end of 2020, early 2021, so like uh the middle of like pandemic time, we were like looking for something to do and we thought, you know, uh we got all these Hot Wheels uh it might be fun to do something with them. Because there was a show here, a little like uh gathering over at the uh Orbank Autobooks and Aero Books store. I think you guys know about that one. And uh we had a friend who brought a big Hot Wheels track and he just set it up on a simple table and it was a simple ramp. And we saw the idea and we were like, this could be something awesome. Uh because we were having so much fun racing our own cars because like we brought some from home and we were racing against them all day. We were like, we could do something like this, but we could do it bigger and better. So we asked to borrow his track and we started doing some events, and then uh one thing led to another and like it kind of like grew and became a big old thing. We got our own track, our own tables, our own tents, and we started doing uh these things. So what we do basically now is we take this Hot Wheels track to different car shows and like big events and stuff, and we set it up and hold a big tournament for everyone to join. So everyone of all ages, it's a whole public thing. You join in, you sign up your car, you race against everyone else, and we have a big competition, it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_12 13:27

How many Hot Wheel cars do you own?

SPEAKER_00 13:30

I've lost count, but the last time I counted them it was uh like a little over two thousand of them. And that was uh like ten ish years ago when I last counted. And uh the number definitely ballooned around twenty eighteen through twenty twenty.

SPEAKER_12 13:47

Oh amazing.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

So you how do you display them or do you have them out at all?

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Uh yeah, I I have these uh display cases I have mounted on my wall. I put my very best ones in there. I have uh a small bit of my collection I take with me to all the car shows and stuff. I have a lot of my special ones in there, and then I have a gigantic bin under my bed where the rest of them go.

SPEAKER_04 14:03

Awesome. I love it.

SPEAKER_12 14:04

You know, I know I I've run into your dad at uh as Craig and I used to call it 1721, the winchels on all of we Craig taught me how to take and put pull on the emergency brake and pull donuts in that parking lot. 360s. 360s, but that lot, you guys use that lot sometimes, I know, to gather. And people don't understand. You guys aren't out in the middle of Van Nuys Boulevard and Parthenia pulling donuts.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Oh, yes, that's right.

SPEAKER_12 14:32

You know, you guys are a very good group of people. You've talked to the owners of those stores. Craig and I used to know know the owner, that Winchells, it was a Winchels at one time, way before Donut Prince. And we he'd love us sitting out there all night long. He can never get robbed. And that every cop would go there for coffee and donuts. But having you in that parking lot when it's empty, you guys people don't realize they say, Oh, there's a car club there. I bet they're hoodlums, you know. And then they're not. What you guys put together, you your dad makes it very clear I, you know, with his car that you guys are a good group of people and you just like talking about your cars.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_12 15:12

Talking about girl cars, girls, and and you know, nice nice paint jobs. Oh, sorry, Ashley.

SPEAKER_04 15:20

Okay. Yeah. So you're you're about to start a race at at twelve today. Yes, our tournament is gonna be at twelve. Everyone can come up, they don't have to have their own cars, they can borrow cars from you guys.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Uh the idea is uh you run what you bring, you gotta r you gotta have your own Hot Wheels. If you don't have one, we do have some for sale.

SPEAKER_04 15:35

Great, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

And uh yeah, and then you you sign it up and then you race against everyone else who brought their cars. We get a lot of people who bring like their own little like boxes and cases from home. They got their cars and they're like, I'm gonna test these two out today, and then they test them out and they're like, This one's faster, I'm racing this one today. This will be my one. And uh yeah, and then they race it and then we see how it goes.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

What do they win?

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Uh different pr the different places give different prizes. Sometimes it's like a big cash prize. We do uh an event in Anaheim every month where the prizes are a hundred bucks for first place, fifty bucks for second place, and twenty-five for third place. That's one of the big ones. Uh today I for I'm not sure I have to check, I have to double check what the prizes will be today, but it's always gonna be something good.

SPEAKER_04 16:11

Very exciting.

SPEAKER_12 16:12

Well, Sebastian, we love to thank you and thank your dad for teaching you the ropes and and what he does in his car. And uh we're looking forward to seeing you at holiday in the park. I know you guys will be out there. I know you you're designated corner there in Ontario and Magnolia. But here, people, you know, listen to this next year. You'll be here. And uh, like I said, uh keep up the good work, buddy. Absolutely, absolutely. Take care.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Thank you. Thanks a lot.

unknown 16:39

Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 16:40

Wow,

What A Dog Builds The Perfect Hot Dog

SPEAKER_12 16:41

we have uh we have this probably an interview with somebody that is most important, Mark Vargas. Now, the name might ring a not ring a bell, but if you go to any event in Burbank, what a dog is there with the best hot dogs. And Burbank is a small community, you know. We we're all real close.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

I'm told you even Ashley's uh My wedding was at his house.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

But does he know that?

SPEAKER_09 17:12

Oh, yeah. Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

I think you're on vacation at the time.

SPEAKER_09 17:15

Yeah, we had yeah, we had a uh a wedding reception, which was unbelievable, memorable.

SPEAKER_04 17:20

Night of my life.

SPEAKER_09 17:20

How many years ago was that already, Ashley?

SPEAKER_04 17:22

Uh we're gonna have our ninth wedding anniversary next week.

SPEAKER_12 17:27

Nine years ago, and the party's still going on.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

Still is, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 17:30

Well, Mark, you've done these events. I you know, you do holiday in the park, you do other events. How many weenies will you sell today?

SPEAKER_09 17:37

Well, I'll tell you, uh well, uh Johnny Carson Park's a little over about uh 400, 420.

SPEAKER_12 17:44

Um and you're buying that's one thing I have learned. Every time I've gotten a hot dog from you, we're not talking those little tiny Dodger dogs. We're talking you buy the quarter pound of the big, I mean they're the deer bread dogs.

SPEAKER_09 18:00

Yeah, the Hebrew national quarter pound. And what we do, we put them in uh they're called dirty water. So I have them in filtered water spiced up. Spice the water, and then from there we transfer them to a grill. And I I designed a cutter. We put them like five cuts halfway through them, lay them open a little bit, and serve them off of the grill. So they're you get dirty water, then you have them grilled, which gets them super hot. And people go, these are hot. I go, Well, that's why they call them hot dogs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 18:26

Well, you know, we we're not too far from where you're set up. Yes, the line usually starts before the car shows.

SPEAKER_09 18:34

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 18:35

I mean, it is only 10 in the morning. Yeah, people are enduring it.

SPEAKER_09 18:38

I think this is about my fifth show here, and I started with just two people. Uh I was overwhelmed. I was like, just I could I couldn't even keep up and I couldn't quit. It was like, and then there was a guy selling these pastries next to me, and he goes, Mark, you're you're crazy, you're badass. I because he saw me all, you know, unbelievable, just not I couldn't stop. Yeah, and you know, you know, just go, go, go. But now I have there's there's four of us now.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

Now you have some different varieties on the menu up there. What's I after an event like this, what's the most popular thing?

SPEAKER_09 19:06

Well, you know, the classic dog. What if I give you the classic dog, you build it yourself. I have mustard, spicy mustard, ketchup, relish onions, jalapenos, and then so you build it yourself. And then I have the classic um chili cheese dog, of course. Everyone knows what's on that, chili cheese, and onions. And then I do a thing I design called the Texas dog. The Texas dog is uh baby ray sweet spicy barbecue sauce first, and then I do a grilled chopped bacon bits on top of that, and then onions and cheese, and then I lock it in with one more uh roll of um um sauce.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but you had that last year. I'm pretty sure that was my go-to. Okay, and I love the do-it-yourself bar with all the condiments and stuff. Because you just go to town on this.

SPEAKER_09 19:47

Yeah, when I designed it, I go, what do they like in? I call it the Texas Dog. I go, what do they like in Texas? Baking and barbecue. I went with the Texas dog. Yeah, so that's so that's how I came up with the Texas dog, and then I do a turkey dog. And then I started uh Frito pie, which is you know, like a walking taco. I sliced open a Frito bag with chili cheese tapa teal and with a fork. Oh my gosh. So that's like a that's a that's a Frito pie. And then um, and then I do a turkey dog, and then nachos, and then uh all the drinks.

SPEAKER_03 20:16

So and everyone gets a roll of paper towels.

unknown 20:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 20:19

Well, you know, I want to say, you know, you've been here, you said the last four or five years. Five years, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:24

I can't lie.

SPEAKER_12 20:25

And this podcast once it airs next year when this car show is here, you gotta come and come with an appetite because Mark will fix you up the best hot dog you have ever experienced. And if not here at the car show, holiday in the park.

SPEAKER_09 20:38

And uh we almost did uh the parade.

SPEAKER_12 20:40

Parade parade's gonna be back to celebrate Burbank. We're gonna bring back the parade May 15th next year.

SPEAKER_09 20:45

And you know, and I want to throw a shout out to all the people like uh she was the when I started, Yashi was the uh committee chamber on the park, yeah. At the park, and then and then Jeff took it over, and Ross is always there overseeing everything with his cameras and everything. I'm I'm I he drive up, I'd throw him a hot dog just to keep them going. And Gary and Karen with the Road King. So I'm also a Road King. So Gary and Carey, it takes so much, and I get both uh both spectrums of it because I'm a vendor and I know what it takes to get into the park, and you know, it's so much, and I see what she does to all the vendors is so much work. And I have to put a shout out to Garen Carey, uh Gary and Karen Arellano.

SPEAKER_12 21:22

Yeah, they do a great job. But you also, if if a company wants to have your services, oh yeah, they can yeah, it's um what a dog.

SPEAKER_09 21:30

Yeah, what a dog. Um I don't even have any pot, I mean any uh I'm offered.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

You've got a phone, a phone number on your shirt, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 21:37

Then at my stand, I have a card with uh what a dog and all the information.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

Can we say the phone number?

SPEAKER_09 21:42

Yeah, you can say my phone number is eight one eight um four two two nine three two three.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

There you go.

SPEAKER_09 21:47

What a dog all the time.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

You were in the industry for so long.

SPEAKER_09 21:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 21:52

And then what what made you want to do hot dogs?

SPEAKER_09 21:54

Well, you know, always always like and then uh there's Arolanos now, and then uh I um I just you know because I just always like the food catering.

SPEAKER_12 22:03

Well you are probably one you are you smile ear to ear, buddy.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

As far as food goes, it looks like a fun kind of food to deal with.

SPEAKER_09 22:11

You know, since since I'm retired out of the my I was in the motion picture business for 33 years, set lighting. I retired, I've been on my five fifth year retirement. I started this in 2019, and it's just fun money, not patriarchy. You got a retirement. But it is income money, but not you got a pension and oh yeah, you got all that good stuff. So this is just really fun money, and especially coming to these uh hometown events. I see everybody, you know, they they go, you know, I'll start bull, you know, start shooting this stuff with everybody and Mark, come on, we're backing up, and you know, we're having fun, and you know, so well you do it because you want to do it, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

And not because you have to do it. But I do have a food-related question. Considering how early the lines were at your booth this morning.

SPEAKER_09 22:51

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Do you have a breakfast dog in the work?

SPEAKER_09 22:53

No, I don't, you know, because usually the guy next door will have a breakfast burrito. So I don't know people always ask for that. I don't, you know, I you know, I don't do a breakfast burrito, yeah. But you know what? The diehards are they're early for a hot dog at nine o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_12 23:06

There is no wrong time for a hot dog.

SPEAKER_09 23:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 23:08

Well, buddy, I uh again, thank you not only for setting up hot dogs, yeah, but the supporting Burbank.

SPEAKER_09 23:14

Yeah, I love Burbank. I've been in Burbank since 1973, graduated from Burbank High School.

SPEAKER_12 23:19

Oh, we won't say anything about that, will we? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 23:24

Never ending rivalry. I almost graduated anyway. And then I I I finished my career at Warner Brothers. So I live, play, and work in Burbank. I love Burbank. You know, I'm I got deep roots here, I ain't going nowhere.

SPEAKER_12 23:34

Kind of like all of us, you know.

SPEAKER_09 23:35

Yeah, all you probably staple guy. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_12 23:40

70 years here, I can say.

SPEAKER_09 23:41

And those photographs that he has, unbelievable. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you for all your services, man. It's like, yeah, it's you know, it's just it's just a hamorati of everybody in Burbank. This is what we call community.

SPEAKER_04 23:52

It makes Burbank special.

SPEAKER_09 23:52

It's a yeah, exactly. You know, they got the you know, Ashley here, everybody. She's still with all the podcasts here, my Burbank, unbelievable. You know, it's like great.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Well, Mark, you're gonna save a couple dogs for this.

SPEAKER_09 24:02

Oh, we will come on by, got you guys.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Sounds good.

SPEAKER_09 24:05

Super, go over there and everything's free, but leave a big tip.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Always a big tip.

SPEAKER_12 24:09

Thanks for watching. Okay, guys.

SPEAKER_09 24:10

Well, thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure. Thanks, Mark. Okay, yeah, bye-bye.

An Attorney’s Burbank Memories And Pride

SPEAKER_12 24:14

Wow, we have with us now not only one of our top advertisers. If you open them on Burbank.com, he has that leaderboard ad, but probably one of the top attorneys in the city of Burbank. You know, uh, Adronas, you graduated from Burbank High. You love the city. What do you think of today's car show? Is this amazing? Who's with us? Oh, I'm s I I'm I'm looking at cars in the sun. Maybe have gotten to me already. I, as the first podcast, when you won the best of Burbank, I screwed your name up very well.

SPEAKER_08 24:52

I think he called you a girl too. I still love that actually. So I won two years in a row, my Burbank's best, and you referenced it when when you called out my name. I thought it was hilarious. I love just ribbing every single time I see you.

SPEAKER_04 25:05

And I know traumatized from that. We're always like, we're so sorry when we announce the winners.

SPEAKER_12 25:10

Well, good. I'm glad we're in a public place where I don't need an attorney to thank you and apologize to you.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

So you don't risk mispronouncing it. Maybe you should introduce yourself for everybody.

SPEAKER_08 25:19

So so it's Adriano's Facci. I blame my parents for that. It's a really tough name. First name is hard, last name's even harder. So it's tough. But you know, my parents were from Brazil and Argentina. So it basically means I was yelled at in three languages as a kid. I for sure deserved it. Uh and I was born and raised in Burbank. I went to Emerson Elementary, I went to John Muir, I went to Burbank High, graduated from Burbank High, and and now I came back to Burbank about 12 years ago with my family. So Burbank.

SPEAKER_12 25:47

Your office is on Riverside Drive, you're in within Burbank's range, and you're walking. We've done a podcast with you. You put a column every month, we promote a column that you uh you send to us. You are probably one of the top attorneys in this city that can say you know Burbank pretty damn well.

SPEAKER_08 26:08

I appreciate you guys, despite the fact that you guys went to Burroughs. Okay, so I tolerate. Can't shake that, you poor guys. We're still Bulldogs, by the way. I don't know. I hear I hear your name changed, but I'm not calling it. Well, not our names, but yes, you're right.

SPEAKER_12 26:24

Yeah, I don't know. Some Bears or something.

SPEAKER_08 26:27

Yeah. We were we would have been.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Have you been to the car show before?

SPEAKER_08 26:33

Uh I've been a couple of times, but this is the first time with my son. My son's almost seven. And uh it was great. I just got a chance to go see a VW bus, a 66, and it it brought back great memories. Uh my brother and I, my brother actually taught me how to drive stick shift on Burbank Hills with a VW bus, and we'd be listening to like Sugar Magnolia, Grateful Dead. So it just totally brought back these amazing memories. And the guy let us sit in the car.

SPEAKER_12 27:01

Got it.

SPEAKER_08 27:02

Yeah, stick shift.

SPEAKER_12 27:04

How many people? One, two, three, four, the reverse, low for far right. I mean, out here you get to see what people with the old cars. And this this car show is just magnificent. A little bit of everything here, too. And have you tried a hot dog yet? We had Mark over here a minute ago. You want the best hot dog you have ever had.

SPEAKER_08 27:25

Right over there?

SPEAKER_12 27:25

You gotta try Mark's hot dog. What a dog.

SPEAKER_08 27:27

I'll be the judge of that. I'll go over there and we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 27:29

We'll see if it's good. You'll have to come back and tell us. But your son's over there destroying the uh the monkey bars and the jungle gym while you're here talking to us. Is he enjoying the show so far too?

SPEAKER_08 27:41

Well, he's really excited. Um, he likes the Batmobile. That's his car. I said, look, you know, it's it's the old cars that you like. So uh he wanted to go in and and he's just he just he's excited. He's like thrilled. There's like too much, it's like overload almost. There's so many cars. Absolutely. He's like, where do we go? I said, just go one by one.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

And he's kind of a headlight level for everything. So he's got all of the color and everything that's jumping out at him. And we got the Star Wars characters walking around.

SPEAKER_08 28:11

Well, we see that. Kylo Wren, though. Yeah. Kylo Wren. I'm like, what is Kylo Wren doing here?

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Why not? Yeah. Nice hot sunny day in a park.

SPEAKER_08 28:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 28:20

There's a bunch of Star Wars characters walking around. As a Burbank resident, and you've been here all your life. Is this a community event? Is this just a fantastic way to celebrate community in this city and get people together?

SPEAKER_08 28:33

When I think about my memories as a kid being a Burbanker, remember it's not Burbankian. We were corrected. I used to always say Burbankian, but it's Burbanker. Um, apparently. Um, this is what I think of things like this. This gives you that sort of small town feel that I remember about Burbank that I want to keep as part of Burbank. So I hope that you guys keep doing this every single year. The Road Kings Yeah, the Road Kings does a great job.

SPEAKER_12 28:56

Craig and I have been, well, I'll speak for myself. I've been around here about 70 years and way before any of these high-rises.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

Just typewriters typed in pencil. That's right.

SPEAKER_12 29:05

Before that freeway was put in, you know, 1963. I just love our small town community, you know. Where else can you pick up a phone and dial a three-digit number, 911? Guaranteed to see somebody in three minutes.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

I love events like this though. Even that Burbank has that small-town energy, but it just concentrates, it brings it all together in one spot where everybody, everybody can come and enjoy it.

SPEAKER_12 29:30

Yeah, you look around, you see the kids, you see older people here. I've seen strollers, I've seen dogs, I've seen we've seen a little bit of everything. Hilo Wren.

SPEAKER_03 29:39

Yes, there you go. Just in case anything happens. No, he's working security today. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_12 29:44

But but for next year, if you listen to our podcast, if you need any legal advice, keep the business here in Burbank, correct, sir? Yeah. Take a look at the front of myburbank.com for your phone number. And you can click on that, it'll take them to your webpage. We appreciate you advertising with MyBurbank. Congratulations being on the best of MyBurbank.

SPEAKER_08 30:05

Thanks so much, guys. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_12 30:07

And we hope to be back next year, and we've been doing this for a while together. We uh been my Burbank was Craig's idea 16 years ago, and when newsprint uh Craig said it's gonna go away, and everybody has these little phones now to get your news, and he came up with this idea. And we are the main source of news for Burbank. The city did a survey a couple years ago, and they random 500 people, and 49% said they get their news from my Burbank.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

Well, and you're a big part of that, so thank you for stopping here.

SPEAKER_08 30:40

Appreciate that. Let's not forget Ashley, too.

SPEAKER_12 30:41

She's getting Ashley is the point of one of our top reporters. She is a she covers crack reporter.

SPEAKER_08 30:47

She is amazing. I'm like, I like I need help.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

I mean, you can hire her. She does that on the side. Tag her in all of your posts and she'll repost them for you.

SPEAKER_08 31:00

We gotta talk, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 31:01

And that's the same thing. If you hashtag Burbank, well, we do your so we retweet stuff. But if you're doing any social media, if you hashtag, Craig goes through and anytime it says hashtag Burbank, he retweets it.

SPEAKER_08 31:13

I mean in his spare time, he's doing that, he's sitting there, he's he's doing the retweeting.

SPEAKER_12 31:18

Well, we have we have a couple of Twitter followers these days. What are we 56, 59,000?

SPEAKER_04 31:25

That's like the one app I never figured out. I refuse to go on. I can't figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

It's still the wild it's still the Wild West.

SPEAKER_04 31:32

It is is it? It's like it's exhausting on there.

SPEAKER_08 31:35

Yeah, it's good for news though.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

Definitely it is.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

It's it's really what I kind of what I might when I get up in the morning. That's really where I go quick. See what you know, what's burning in the world? Yes, what's going on?

SPEAKER_12 31:46

But what we are the source of news in Burbank, and why do you, you know, not only promote your business because you know it'll be seen. But people I go so many places around Burbank and I'll hear people talking. Oh, did you see that on my Burbank?

SPEAKER_08 32:00

Did you see they don't know I'm you know partner and vice president of it, and it just blows me away how many people although recently you guys have made me very sad with the recent stories you guys have posted because of all the stories of Burroughs beating Burbank. Two weeks ago it was like every single article was like Burroughs beats Burbank, Burroughs beats Burbank, Burroughs beats Burbank. I'm like, come on, man, you're trying to give me a heart attack here. Like, is Burbank good at anything anymore? Poor kid. Yeah, it's terrible. But we were good though. We I played on the tennis team. We won ten years in a row of leagues.

SPEAKER_12 32:31

Oh, what was that coach's name?

SPEAKER_08 32:32

Clyde Richards.

SPEAKER_12 32:33

Thank you very much. He's still around, he's still around. Is he? He chased me once. Yeah. I was up there to cover a tennis match, and he ta chased me from one court to another that he didn't want me to be somewhere, and he said, Don't let your camera click.

SPEAKER_08 32:46

And it was he's just a character, but one of the best coaches of all time. I learned so much from him about just how to live. And I'll I'll tell you a quick story. He was so tough. We were the best team, not because we're the most tennis lessons, we were the most well coached. We also we also had the best conditioning. And back in the day, you can't do this anymore. Back in the day, he made us actually run all the way up Walnut from Lenox all the way to beyond Sunset Canyon. And he be in his car on purpose. Yes, on purpose. And he being his little car, beater car, driving right by us, going five miles an hour, going, You guys are a bunch of Twinkies! You can't run fast enough, you better run fast and get me to the if to push us to get to the top. Uh there'd be times where if we didn't run a mile in under seven minutes, if one player didn't run the seven miles uh a mile in seven minutes, everybody else had to run behind him to pressure him to run another mile. Let me tell you, that worked. It definitely worked. You can't do that nowadays, can you, Coach Greg?

SPEAKER_04 33:43

No, you can't none of that. That's why Burbank's losing and everything. I guess what it is. There you go.

SPEAKER_12 33:48

Well, again, enjoy the rest of your day. The sun is out, so I'm glad you're wearing a hat. You get comfortable. We're gonna get you a My Burbank hat because you deserve it.

SPEAKER_08 33:58

Yeah, when you if you guys got one, I'll definitely uh wear it around town.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

We'll get you one. And check out myburbank.com for his ad and correct spelling of your name.

SPEAKER_08 34:05

Yes, it's tough. Two C's, two T's. There you go.

SPEAKER_12 34:07

And again, I'm sorry how I screwed that up so well.

SPEAKER_08 34:10

Okay, I'll keep reminding you.

SPEAKER_12 34:12

Have a great day.

SPEAKER_08 34:13

Thank you for stopping by.

Samantha Wick On Serving Burbank

SPEAKER_13 34:16

Well, Ross, we have another guest. Why don't you introduce her?

SPEAKER_12 34:20

Well, you know, today we have um uh several different people that we've invited to interview, and what's coming by the table now is Samantha Wick. And if you haven't heard Samantha Wick's names, well, Samantha Wick and who? Who's with Samantha Wick? Well, that's right. She is hiding down there. Oppie, who is um one of her rodeering I can't even say it my tongue tear. Rhodesian ridgebacks. There you go, and you have three of them.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

I have three of them. Oh my gosh. Three, three eighty-pound dogs. Wow.

SPEAKER_12 34:52

Well, you are a big animal person because I know not only but besides your three dogs, you have tortoise tortoise and two cats. And two cats. So you're a real animal person. You know, I I want to Samantha Sam as she goes by. You see a lot of her on Facebook right now and YouTube and so forth. She's gonna be running for Burbank City Council real soon. And I know this weekend she or this coming week, Wednesday, she's kicking off her campaign at Tequila's. And Ashley, you know a little about tequila, so I do, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

Yeah, I'm excited to kind of hear about your campaign and and you know why you've decided to run and you know what you want to see happening in Burbank.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Thank you so much. I'm I'm really excited to run. It was something that it was not something that I considered really for a long time, but having lived in this community for 23 years and serving on the planning commission, I love Burbank and I'm a firm believer in public service, and I I truly just want to give back to this community that's given me essentially a home.

SPEAKER_04 35:57

Yeah, and you are so knowledgeable, and I think that's really what the Catholic Council should be made of. I mean, we you really need to know and be on a board to understand the city, and you've done that. So I'm really excited to see what knowledge and information and ideas you can bring.

SPEAKER_12 36:11

Well, I know she has a background in urban planning and um a degree in it, and uh I do. And she knows uh the city darn well. Prior to being on the planning commission, she was on the heritage commission. And if you don't know about old buildings or learn quite a bit about them and what was here a long time ago, but you know you you really care about the city. I see you at a lot of events and it just really um it's good to see you out in the community and know what's going on in the city. You you answer people correctly. You know, I've watched you on numerous planning board meetings and you keep those meetings running smooth. They're no more than an hour or so. I mean, it's like you look at you don't look at your watch, but just everything you do is is really good. I think you deserve a uh people to meet you and talk to you and and vote for you in our upcoming election.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Well, thank you so much, and thank you so much for that about the meetings. I mean, that's actually as chair of the planning commission, that's one thing I strive for is to get the information out, but also to just uh respect everybody's time, respect the public's time, respect staff's time, because a lot of times when you see somebody coming before Planning Commission, these aren't issues that people think are super fun. It's uh permits for car washes, alcohol, bars, signage, that kind of thing. But sometimes they're only experience with local government, and so I always want to make it a good one, have everybody feel heard, have everybody feel respected, and also to feel like their time wasn't wasted.

SPEAKER_12 37:50

Well, I I find when you I've been out with you and I've seen you at events, you'll stop and talk to somebody, they have questions, and you know, you're pretty well recognized, you know.

SPEAKER_04 38:01

Ashley had red hair for had blonde hair too because You're probably a are you a natural? I am okay. So she's oh gee, I'm a copycat.

SPEAKER_12 38:10

Well it's funny because you've had blonde hair and we have pictures together with you and me with blonde hair. And I had hair, I think.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

A little bit, I think.

SPEAKER_12 38:18

But Sam has has red hair, you can you can't miss you.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

That's true. I match my dogs.

SPEAKER_12 38:22

You match your dogs, and you know, if you have a question or whatever, Wednesday night's a good night. You're on YouTube, you have your uh election stuff all moving along, you've done some great videos.

SPEAKER_13 38:35

Let me ask you this though. Yes, in all seriousness, running for city council is a whole different beast to be on a planning board. Are you ready for people to come after you and stuff? Because you're a nice person, and 95% of the city is a nice city, but we have those few out there who just go after people. Are you prepared for that whole process? Because you mean you're wondering if she has thick skin? Yeah. Yeah, you know what, you know what I'm saying? I mean, it it's not what you're signing up for, but it's what you get sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Absolutely. And you know, I know that 95, like you said, percent of Burbank is great. I'm gonna get the five percent that disagree with me, and that's okay. You know, it's if nothing else, it's a conversation, it's a dialogue. And you know what? I worked retail for a lot in college, so I can handle anything. But I mean, luckily, I, you know, I have my dog, so on a bad day, you'll catch me hiking up at Stowe Canyon and just blowing off some steam.

SPEAKER_12 39:35

Well, that's a good thing. You have three dogs, you can do your choice of walking. Absolutely so forth. That's a good part.

SPEAKER_13 39:41

And and later this year we'll we'll be doing podcasts with those with the candidates, and we'll let you sit down and really give your perspective and and your visions and give you the time to you know talk to people, you know, your way too. So I think I I like that I like those podcasts for that reason. So real real let's get off that because that's down the line. What about the car show? What how what a great event, huh?

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Every year it's gorgeous. The rogue kings bring it, and it's just wonderful to see the community out here, and everybody is so generous with their time. And the car owners, if kids have questions, they're always so welcoming, and that's that's what Burbank's all about. It's all about community.

SPEAKER_12 40:18

How did you move if you get elected and put on that dias? Let me just share. I want to bring back, celebrate Burbank. We kind of there was a glyphs this year, May 15th, next year. Hopefully, you'll be on city council by then. And community events. Craig and I miss them. We've been to we were here when the fire department used to put on a chili cook-off.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

That's right. Well, that was brought back this year by the chamber. So much fun.

SPEAKER_12 40:44

And yeah, it was a great turnout. They did a good job there. So hopefully we can do more community events and show the world Burbank is a great community.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Absolutely. We should have a chili cook-off, we should have a bake-off, we should have a pie contest. I mean, let's do it all. Let's bring the community out. I mean, even even yesterday, um, I saw Ashley at an event at the circle, and that's a community event. So I I'm all for it. I think it's a great way to just highlight local businesses and and meet and meet different people too.

SPEAKER_12 41:16

Well, Craig and I remember back in the day when they closed down San Fernando Road and had bed races. Yes, they did. The high school high schools, the football teams, and they would they would race beds down.

SPEAKER_13 41:27

Oh my gosh. Burrows Burbank Week used to be a huge thing. They'd do that. They'd have the Burbank High Band march down from Burbank High to Burroughs. There was all kinds of things back in the day they used to do which all been forgotten now.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

Yeah, and I I think it's a shame because in order to move forward, I think we do need to understand our history, and the history of Burbank is really, really important. And if we don't continue it, talk about it, it'll disappear.

SPEAKER_12 41:51

Sounds like you get it.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

I do, I do.

SPEAKER_12 41:54

Well, again, uh I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday. I know I'm gonna be there.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 41:59

And I'm glad to see you out here today, and and I'm glad you brought it.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

Poppy is loving it. Look at that. Yeah, she's named after the California Poppy. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_12 42:09

Yes, well, thank you very much. Thank you for having me. We'll see you.

How Burbank Builds Rose Parade Floats

SPEAKER_13 42:15

Okay, Ross. Well, we have somebody with us who many people may not know by looking at him, by recognize him, but he's one of the reasons that every year Burbank gets a lot of pride because our road rose parade floats are absolutely outstanding. And this is the guy kind of behind the scenes who year after year makes it happen.

SPEAKER_12 42:39

So why don't you introduce him and well, I would like to introduce Steve Edwards, and Steve and I have known each other. I I used to be on the board back in the 70s, and I've watched Burbank Rose Float, and you see that Rhodes Parade float every year, and you don't realize the gentleman we're talking to right now is in the driver's seat underneath that float. He is the vice president of operations, he has been for years. He is what makes Burbank float, Burbanks float. Last year we won't team award. Which is a very high huge.

SPEAKER_03 43:13

It is. That's huge. Always seem to win something. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 43:19

You remember back in the day we used to win the award for uh best cities between a hundred and a hundred and fifty thousand population. Like, what is that? That's you know, that's participation trophy. Now let me now we win the the major stuff.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

The big stuff, the big time now. Now let me ask you this since you drive the thing. Do you see red lines in your sleep?

SPEAKER_07 43:35

So my my role has been um chief animator. So while I'll drive the float out of our building and get it prepared for test drives and get it ready for the parade, we actually use Burbank Water and Power deploys to drive it in the float. Drive it in the parade. I mean, that is goes back way back when we designed this chassis back in ninety. 1993, we um he knew that the the Corvair engine that we were running was not gonna handle it.

SPEAKER_12 44:08

And the reason you use Corvair engines, they were w air cooled, air cooled, didn't have to worry about water overheating. Right. And you did they use that Corvair engine for years.

SPEAKER_07 44:18

But the tournament did not like that. They wanted water-cooled engines, they wanted us to move us to a new direction. So we used a a graduate out at Cal Poly Pomona, a mechanical engineering student, as a senior project, he designed a new chassis. We did all the welding out at Cal Poly and we put it all together, we trucked it back to Burbank and one mechanic, um former mechanic there, Dennis Fats, he put together the drive system. When he did that, our chassis became a city vehicle. As such, Burbank Water and Power provides two people in the parade every year, one to drive it, one to observe, one to actually be the seeing, the eyes of the float. We have a second engine, an animation engine, that we built and we maintain, and we run that. So we run everything that's not driving the float.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

That's all the moving parts and armature.

SPEAKER_07 45:12

I like to say, I like to bring the float alive. I I have the fun job.

SPEAKER_13 45:16

Well, let me ask let me ask about so somebody we you know, you have the design competition every year. And you have your new design, you're ready to go. Does a person who design it say, I'd like to see this thing do this, or this thing do that? Or do you look at the picture and say, hey, we can make this guy do this thing, and we can make that guy do that thing, we can make that tree do this? And is that who design decides what the animation is going to be on the float?

SPEAKER_07 45:40

It's a it's a team effort. Uh the designer absolutely has some input into it, and so does our construction and our design teams. They get together and they look at it and they go, what does naturally need to move? What what will make sense? What will be better at the storytelling part of the float? So if I may, I'll talk about uh 2027.

SPEAKER_03 46:03

Which is already well in the works, I would think. Yeah, please talk about it.

SPEAKER_07 46:06

So, like you said, it started out with a worldwide design contest. Anyone anywhere can submit a drawing. Um we we started that process last September, and at the last Wednesday of January is when you get your drawings turned in. That's right. A couple days later, our board of directors, there's 12 of us, we sit down in an all-day meeting.

SPEAKER_12 46:28

And those, let me just interject, those 12 directors are citizens of Burbank or members of Burbank Turner and Roses.

SPEAKER_07 46:37

They're all members of Burbank Turner and Roses.

SPEAKER_12 46:39

And they are the ones that make that choice. It's just those judges, those board members, have some big responsibilities.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

Well, though all the rules and parameters you have to follow within for every aspect of these.

SPEAKER_07 46:51

So our vol our our board of directors looks at all the submissions and it's an all-day arguing meeting. We we go through a series of votes until we get down to about 12, I mean about six or eight finalists. Then, if you become anyone can become a member of our association, on the first Thursday of February, we have a what we call pick the float. This is where our our volunteers come together and they help rank them. So they're they're presented their eight or so finalists, and they'll go through through a series of votes. We will end the night with saying this is our number one, two, three, four, five pick. On the second Wednesday of February, I, along with all the other float builders, meet at the tournament house at the old Wrigley Mansion on Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. And there we take our drawings with us and through a series of rounds, we register the designs. So we'll register our top two picks. And it's possible, and it has happened, where the tournament may reject one of our drawings. The reason it got rejected the last time it happened to us was a duplicate. It was too similar to somebody else's drawing. Because there's a special order that when we go to the tournament house, they have us pull a number. So that number tells us what order we're all registering our drawings. That means I, who's gonna build one float, is competing against a commercial float builder like Phoenix, who might build 15 floats. How do I compete with something like that? And that's how they do it is by drawing this number.

SPEAKER_03 48:28

No, you now you said sorry to interrupt, but you said this is in February.

SPEAKER_07 48:32

February.

SPEAKER_03 48:33

So this is a month after the parade. You just had the parade. So you're already working, already that far into the process for the following year. Yes, we are. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 48:42

So then it takes them a couple weeks to get the final approval from the tournament. Um, and then we start right into what we call the design committee. The first meeting is a brainstorming session where we take that simple black and white drawing that people submitted, that our designers submitted, and we figure out, okay, now what do we do? How do I take this black and white drawing and turn it into a three-dimensional rolling entertainment unit? So from there we will um brainstorming is is kind of fun because sometimes there'll be crazy ideas, just really, really out there ideas, but many times those way out ideas become the foundation for some really good ideas too. So we'll bounce ideas like, all right, we have some physical limitations, we got to have engines and people, and there's a chassis, and we have to build upon this frame. We have a 210 freeway that we're gonna eventually have to go under. Everybody knows the 210 freeway underpass is 16 feet six inches.

SPEAKER_03 49:44

And that doesn't move.

SPEAKER_07 49:46

That is what we call an unmovable object. That are not moving that for me.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Right. So you if you have tall parts of the the float, they have to be able to collapse or fold over. And no palm trees bent in half, right?

SPEAKER_12 49:57

Or do raff necks or volcanoes.

SPEAKER_07 50:01

So this year, I'm excited to show you and talk about the theme of the 2027 Rose Parade is welcome. And our float is called Welcome Home. It depicts it depicts um these peligles, not quite pelicans, not quite seagulls, they're peligals sitting on a dock and they're welcoming seagoing travelers back to land. They're welcoming them home. You see, they have the marshalling wands and flags and just like an airport would, you know, trying to bring them on in. Coming in for a flight, coming in for a landing.

SPEAKER_12 50:37

So that lighthouse is gonna be bent in half when you're going under a bridge. Or maybe it'll collapse into itself?

SPEAKER_07 50:43

That lighthouse is currently under construction. It is scheduled to be about 32 feet tall, making it one of the tallest floats we've ever built.

SPEAKER_03 50:54

It's more than 16.

SPEAKER_07 50:55

It is way more than 16. Oh, did I mention the door to get out of our building is only 15 and a half feet tall? So we have some engineering challenges.

SPEAKER_03 51:05

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

SPEAKER_07 51:07

Exactly.

SPEAKER_12 51:08

Well, you know, I see you guys are working on this, but today you have a real. I mean, we were supposed to have a parade celebrate Burbank back in May, and due to technicalities it got canceled, but you guys took pieces of last year's Rosebarade float, and you put together a mini float.

SPEAKER_07 51:29

We did.

SPEAKER_12 51:30

And it's here today.

SPEAKER_07 51:31

So let me talk about that little mini float there for a few moments here, because that has quite a history.

SPEAKER_12 51:37

Right here.

SPEAKER_07 51:37

It goes back to does anybody remember Burbank on Parade?

SPEAKER_12 51:42

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_07 51:43

Well, in Burbank on Parade, we used to use an ATV. Um, we've used some other vehicles to try to put in entries there, and we realized that these were not really good solutions. Again, going back to air-cooled, an ATV does not like to go slow, it's not designed to carry weight. It was not a good vehicle to be a float. So we had a brainstorming session, would you believe back in 2008 of what to do? And we we brainstormed a whole bunch of ideas and like what can carry a lot of weight, what hides hydraulics, and what goes slow. One of those ideas we we had like street sweepers and we were tugs and all sorts of things. And we w reached out to a forklift company, Heister, and we were able to get a forklift donated. But once we started that project, unfortunately, Burbank on Parade stopped happening. So we have been working on this, what we call the Floatette since 2008.

SPEAKER_12 52:43

Floatette, I like that, huh?

SPEAKER_07 52:45

2008, we've been working on and off of this through the years, and just this this year we finally finished it. Um, and we had started taking the characters off all paws on deck, our 2026 Rose Parade.

SPEAKER_12 52:59

And most people don't realize the old float, when it comes back after being on show for a couple of days, every vial gets cleaned and bathed and washed, every piece of metal comes off. You guys go down to frame to frame. But this this floatette, you guys save some of the characters for and put them on put it on this raft, call it um, and we saved it.

SPEAKER_07 53:25

We we kind of retold the story here of of our 2026 was a big pirate ship, kind of had some troubles. Now it's turned into a raft, and we put those characters on this raft to try to get back to home. Um we were ninety percent done building this float when and the unfortunate uh news came down about celebrate Burbank and that uh parade.

SPEAKER_12 53:53

Well, it it it will be finished for next year. Well, next year they're gonna take and break this one down, I'm told. And next year, what we just saw will be they're gonna redo it for next year's parade. They'll build something new. People don't understand. Uh you know, that's why I love this car show. You guys had it out two weeks ago at uh movie night in Magnolia Park. People need to see this is all volunteer work by citizens and and members of the community who have put together the flow d and they did a lot of hard work. And and for it to be out here, those people need to be recognized for that time and so forth. And this is a year-long effort.

SPEAKER_07 54:32

This thing this never stops. So we were very fortunate that this event and some other events had come up. We were we were wondering what to do when the parade got canceled, were we just gonna tear it all apart and with nobody getting a chance to see the final product? But we had some events come up and we're like, let's take it out. Let's take it out and show the public and generate some publicity for Burbank Tournament of Roses. And we're very happy and very proud to be here today uh at the car show. We're getting a lot of good feedback, a lot of good um interest in working into the float into the float.

SPEAKER_03 55:10

Well, that's you should. Now, can people follow along on the Facebook page here? I see Facebook.com slash Burbank Rosefloat.

SPEAKER_07 55:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 55:18

They can keep tabs on the float ed and the w what's happening for next year.

SPEAKER_07 55:21

I'll even give you a more more up-to-date information. You go to Burbank Rosefloat.com at the bottom of our screen, our homepage, we have two webcams that are on all the time and they update every six seconds.

SPEAKER_03 55:35

I'm glad you told me before I came to visit. But if people want to want to get involved as a volunteer, they can do that year round. It says uh info at burbankrosefloat.com.

SPEAKER_07 55:46

Yes, those emails will go to me and I will give you information. You're welcome to just basically show up. That's people ask, how do I get involved? And I say, really, the short answer is show up. We are working every Wednesday and Saturday, year round, from 10 a.m. to about 3 p.m. Just walk in, there's some paperwork to fill out, and we'll put you to work.

SPEAKER_03 56:08

And if you've got a special skill or just the willingness to help out, sure you'd be welcome.

SPEAKER_12 56:12

I had my daughter-in-law's mother's from Canada, and on her bucket list was to work on a rose float, and she did two years ago. Nice. And she was out down at the Rose Barn, you know, for Deco Week. And then I took her to the parade, and she got to see the finished product going down Colorado, and it was just, you know, that that really she was very thrilled with that.

SPEAKER_03 56:39

Unfortunately, it was the year the theme was poison ivy. Oh, just kidding. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_13 56:45

Let me get back to your animation a little bit now. Yes. So you guys sit around and you come up with the ideas and everything else, and somebody says, Wow, this thing can do this, or turn like that, or just and that's great. And then all of a sudden now you've got these pieces. Do you ever say, Man, how am I gonna do that? How am I gonna figure this one? Whoa! You know, I mean, you know what I'm saying? Every year it gets more and more complex, more and more animation every year. So are you trying to outdo yourself every year? Or do you ever look at the say and say, How am I gonna do that? That's a great idea, but now I've got to do it somehow. It's a challenge.

SPEAKER_07 57:19

It is a challenge. Um, we always start with what is the best in storytelling? What what will make the most entertaining float? What will put the smiles on people's faces? That's that's kind of the foundation of this animation.

SPEAKER_12 57:33

And that's the purpose of Burbank. Uh, us bringing the parade back, uh celebrate Burbank. You think of that little kid sitting on the sidewalk and and the float at or during the rose parade, a float goes by and you go, give that kid a th, you know, those are built by hands, you know, and all the things.

SPEAKER_03 57:52

And you know what? That that people from all over the country, much less the world potentially, are watching that parade, and you can be sitting at home going, That's my town, that's my city, that's where I'm from.

SPEAKER_12 58:04

Well, Steve, we're gonna let you get back to the flow dead and and greeting people. I'm glad people could come out, and next year we hope, hopefully, I I know we will have a celebrate Burbank, and I hope you guys do another flow dead because you guys are a very big entry in the parade. We were looking forward to it. We're starting to do some planning, and you now have a forklift that you can make into a float at. And I'm glad you got today, people got to see the hard work that people did after the float. More to come. Thank you. And and you know, I I I need to add, people of all different you used to work at Warner Brothers. People there are um people that work in all different fields and volunteer, and it's just amazing you put all that creativity together, you know, what your day job is, and then you working on the float, it really opens up your eyes.

SPEAKER_07 58:59

It doesn't matter what your background is, you if you have the desire to learn and you just want to put in the time and work, teach you. That's what we're looking for.

SPEAKER_03 59:09

Well, that's great. Sounds great, Burbank? RoseFloat.com. Yep, great. Thanks for stopping by.

SPEAKER_12 59:15

We

Road Kings Run A Charity Machine

SPEAKER_12 59:16

happen to have probably the two most important people of today's car show. Well, at least one important person. We have the current president of Road Kings, Karen Arlondo. And Karen sitting next to you is a past president, now somebody who is in charge of community affairs, been a member of Road Kings since he was 12 years old.

SPEAKER_06 59:42

Exactly.

SPEAKER_12 59:43

Don Baldesserone. You guys have put on again, we have been here for a couple years. We just loved seeing the community out here. The cars are amazing. Thank you. You guys have done it again. Don, Karen, I know it's a labor of love for you guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:01

And if you've ever been to this show, you've seen these two running around. They're very busy, very popular, and they don't hide at this show, I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:10

We're here for everybody to see and all the beautiful cars, and just everybody, community to come together. And this year, it did it really well.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:19

And without good leadership, like Karen is fighting, you don't know the half of it, but she does, it wouldn't be happening. You have the tribe behind her, all the Road Kings, they know their place without Gary doing his job, does a great job, wouldn't be here.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:40

Well, people don't understand events like this. You know, I took on Burbank on parade, and then next year we're gonna have come back celebrate Burbank. And it's a lot. People don't understand what it takes. You know, you come into a city park like this with over several hundred cars, and the technicalities and all the things, meeting with city departments and getting through everything, people don't understand the headaches you have at three in the morning when you think of doing this event. And I know Craig and Craig have been around these events for a long, long time. They just don't happen with the snap of your fingers. So, you guys, our hats are off to both of you. To all the Road Kings, pass that on from my Burbank.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:25

Uh well at three o'clock this afternoon, you have to get started on next year's card.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:29

I do, right? No, no, no. I take a whole day off, okay? One day, and then I, you know, but I actually went over and talked to our vendors, and a lot of them are very happy things have gone well. We had Moon Eyes here, that was fantastic. Um and so a couple other ones, and they've done very well. So we have to talk to them now to start the paperwork literally a year in advance.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:50

Get them while they're here.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:51

Yes, face to face. Yes.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:53

Well, you know, I I've said it. We've seen a ton of people walk by, we've seen young, we've seen old, I've seen people be getting pushed in wheelchairs. We have dogs, we have it's a family event out here. Next year, mark your calendar. Um, you guys put on a hell of a car show. It's a great Sunday. Every year we have great weather. I mean, thank goodness we have a fan blowing on us and we're under this pop-up. But I'll tell you, it it gets mighty cooking in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:21

Traditionally, is it always the same weekend?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:23

It's the second to a second Sunday of every of June every year.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:28

Every year. So put it on your calendar now for next year, everybody.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:30

And next year is a big event. It's our 75th anniversary of the Burbank Road Kings. We have a lot of stuff whole year, we have a lot of things planned in the community. You'll see.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:44

That's great because Ross has been to all 75.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:47

I was 11 years old.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:51

So, but yeah, we're gonna start celebrating at the end of this year towards our 75th anniversary and excellent. Doing what kind of fun things we can find for the community for the and then the show, of course.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:02

But I think the important people that might not realize there's an entry fee to get into these events. And the Road King makes a check presentation to some fantastic organizations within the city. Um I mean, you guys once a year, I've covered them for many years of check passings. This money that you collect goes right back into our city. Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:25

It doesn't go back to charity car show.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:27

It is a charity, and that's the point. Exactly. So the money that we get from here from all the wonderful people that show, we turn around and go back to the boys and girls club, e-Tech, the police, and you know, places that will help, and we're happy to do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:42

Well, that's what it's all about. And that's your cause here. It's not necessarily the Road King's carship. You're the headliner bringing all these people together for the fundraising.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:51

It's fantastic. And they do a good job. Fantastic job. This is a great show. There's more cars on the other side of the park than I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:56

Up top it has uh sixty-eight cars, and down below I can. We're close to 250 cars, more or less, and we usually can get a little bit more, but I'm not sure of the numbers. We're down this year for whatever reason, but I've noticed we talked to other people, car shows all over are a little bit down.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

Next year, one million.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:14

There you go. There you go. We'll shoot for it.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:17

You're right. It's a cost to come in for a car owner. Spectators, it's free. It's free, right?

SPEAKER_12 1:04:23

So you can bring your kid, your dog, your next door neighbor, even grandma with you, and it won't cost you.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:29

And it's not just cars either, for the families, for people they're saying, I'm not into cars. I mean, these are pieces of art out here. This is artwork. This is the colors and the machinery and the designs of these cars. It's unbelievable the variety. But there's food, there's raffles, there's music, there are Star Wars characters walking around. There's so much, it's like a carnival right here.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:49

It's a mini carnival, you got it. And, you know, people sit down, just hang out at the benches, they put picnic up areas, and they just have a good time with us.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Well, you know, people that would have been here anyway.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:01

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:01

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:02

Right. And it doesn't cost them anything to see these big beautiful cars and have some food because the park doesn't provide for it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:08

It's probably a great surprise for a lot of people just coming to the park today or just driving by going, what is going on there? Exactly. Pull in and come on in.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:16

I look over your shoulder and I see this gorgeous Chevy, about a 57, 50, 56, 56. Yes. And I see our reporter, Ashley Erickson, trying to convince her husband to put a bit on it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:28

I dared her earlier. I dared her earlier to sprawl across the hood and we'll take a picture.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:36

Oh, I'd let her do it. Well, Ashley, we were just saying, I said to Karen, that I saw you trying to talk Brian into putting a bit on that gorgeous Chevy.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:47

That's my car. It says Arolano on it.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:52

Well, we're gonna let you guys get back to running the car show. Thanks for stopping by.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:57

These are three of the busiest people here today, right? We need to get you an an updated shirt. You're still president.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:04

I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:04

I I will later, okay? Well, let's put a ticker thing on there. Like it'll change the date, the year.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:11

You gotta appreciate my Burbank. Many years since day one you had your kickoff at the smokehouse. You know, it was this was the newspaper or magazine or the air on air.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:27

It's the new local paper.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:29

Ross.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:30

Well, we have been around and Ashley's one of the top reporters that we have. She is all she covers Burbank better than the streets.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:38

Okay, but my daughter grew up with Ashley, so we're good. A small world.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:44

It is a very small world. Thank you guys. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you guys. We look forward to being here next year with you, celebrating another year. All together. Great event. Great event. Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:56

Okay, back to the other job. Thank you.

Whiskey And Wheels Grows A Night Meet

SPEAKER_04 1:07:03

All right, we're back, and we have Christine who is a road king, but you also have something really special that you put on in Burbank, which is another car show. You run whiskey and wheels. And that's every second Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:16

Every second Saturday uh from March through November.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:18

So tell me tell me how you got into the world of cars, first of all.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:23

So it was kind of fast and furious. Um I've been wanting a classic Mustang since I was a kid. Um I saw, you know, I can't afford it, I can't afford it, I can't afford it. And then I got to be an adult and I just was tired of saying I can't afford it, and I made it happen, and then um I got my 68 GT Mustang, and immediately it was like, you know, I'm hanging around at night by myself, which I really enjoyed, and um the only thing that was in the evening was like the tops big boy and I thought, you know, there's nothing really else. So why not start my own thing? And yeah, thank you. And so I was thinking like, you know, it's like cars and coffee except in the evening, and what do people drink typically in the evening? That sounds good. We have meals, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:09

Yeah, it sounds good together, yeah. But there is no whiskey.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:11

So ta there's no whiskey now, but eventually the goal is to have like my own um kind of small restaurant bar where people can come and hang out. Basically what we do at Hill Street Cafe. Yeah. Um, you know, spend three to four or five hours and see cool cars come in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:29

Well, it's a great location, yeah. You know, I I've been that parking lot at night, you know, there's nothing going on as a church next door, and that parking lot is huge. And people don't, you know, it's next to uh Hill Street Cafe and right Cohasset and Glen Oaks, you know, and that lot is very large. Great place for a car show.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:50

Yeah, and people just kind of roll in, it's right, it's like open, people just come by. My favorite thing though that you do is she makes a flyer with like a car, like a someone's car.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:00

The individually designed non-AI flyer.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:03

Yes, every month she features it.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:05

And the fact that you have to say that now the non-AI flyer.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:08

Yeah, yes. Everything's AI artwork, and then she turns that flyer into a magnet every month that is for sale or for donations at the booth, which I think it's you can collect the magnets of all of the flyers, which is really cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:25

Really, really cool. It's uh again another car show. People get out of your houses, right? You know, COVID's long gone. Let's get out and celebrate these events in our community. See each other in person. Exactly. It's these people, they work on their cars, they polish them, they they make them look so pristine. Go out and take a look and walk around a car. It's good for your health.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:49

Get a magnet out and get a magnetic sandwich. Cute hats and everything, uh stuff for sale.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:56

Yeah, it's so you know, the thing for me is whiskey and wheels, I wanted it to be, you know, as you mentioned, COVID. So my favorite restaurants closed during COVID. Um, my favorite movie theater closed during COVID. And so when I got my car, all my favorite places that I would go to were not around. And I just wanted a place, you know, financially I can't just open my own place. But I found a place that's perfect for this event. And I want, you know, I want it to be family friendly and I want people of all ages to be able to like cruise in with their nice car and sit in a booth. And it's great because you can sit in a booth and see cars coming down um uh Glen Oaks.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:34

Well, people don't realize, you know, Burbank is a really safe community. Uh huh. And that parking lot is in Burbank. So you don't need to go to Sun Valley, you don't need to go out of Burbank. A lot of people when's the last time, you know, Craig or myself left Burbank. I try not to, you know, because I know how safe it is. And I live up right down the street there. That look parking lot is a super great location.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:01

It's got like the hills in the background and the palm trees. It's like such a gorgeous setup. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:06

The photos look great, and yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:08

So our next your next show is uh July 13th. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:12

And I believe it's gonna be a Mopar event. So every couple of months I like to focus on a to a particular brand. August will be EVW, March was Mustang, Mustang March. Oh cute.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:24

Well, we see the alliteration you like to stick with.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:27

Well, I'm gonna stop by and I want you to show me where the radiator is on a VW.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:32

Don't show them where the key goes. But do you have uh are you online at all? People can look up the schedule.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:38

Uh Whiskey and Wheels LA is my website, and um it's up now. And um yeah, I encourage people to come to check it out. And I post the flyer, a new flyer every month. And um I have a photographer that I work with, so I pick one car and it gets photographed professionally, and then I have a graphic designer um who makes the flyer based on how I design it, and that becomes the flyer for the month. So it's it's a lot a lot of work goes into something.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:08

I'm glad to see what went into your your thinking and making it come to fruition. I mean you're doing it old school.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:16

Yeah, I like it. I like that. I like it. What's funny is that when I first started with skiing wheels, it was super grassroots. I would have cla um color and black and white flyers, and I would drive around LA and Burbank in my Mustang. And if I saw a cool car, I would go put a flyer on it, take a picture, post it on Instagram. If I saw a guy driving his car, I would drive up next to him and be like, hey, roll roll down your window, you know, roll down your window, and then I'd hand him a flyer, and 85% of the time these people would show up.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:44

Well, I find in Burbank, you know, there's a great car show at Bob's every Friday night. But a lot of people don't go over the freeway. Right. They need to get up to Glen Oaks, check out the car show, check out that part of town, see what's going on in Burbank. Burbank's 17 square miles. Just not a Bob's car show. Well, and Hill Street's a great place to eat, too.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:04

Yeah. You used to hang out there. I used to be there all the time. I lived right up to the Hill Street. But Glen Oaks right there for a location. You get a lot of traffic, a lot of eyes, but there aren't traditionally a lot of events going on over there. Nothing to stop at if you don't know Hill Street's there or this is there. So what a great way to attract attention to the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:22

Absolutely. And the I love their breakfast, so I always encourage people to, you know, come and have great coffee. Um, my thing is like I love when people come in, they order a beer and have a burger and and they call their friends and then they push tables together and stay there for hours, you know. It's just it's really nice to see this one day a month or one evening a month where people come up to me and say, This is the only time I get to see my friends. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_12 1:13:47

That's community. That's we need to get back to that. And you can't do that in a lot of other communities. It just, you know, with what's going on these days and it's nice to say Burbank is still Burbank.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:58

Yeah, absolutely. So thank you very much. Thank you, Christine. Look forward to it. Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_13 1:14:04

Have a great day. Well, okay,

Wrap Up And How To Reach Us

SPEAKER_13 1:14:07

everybody, that's it for another year of the Road Kings Car Show at beautiful Johnny Carson Park in Burbank. Ross, Craig, Island Prussians I can't believe it.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:20

So we're wrapping up because the whole thing's wrapping up. We've been here all day. It's been a hot, sunny day, but a beautiful day. Right in the heart of Burbank. And uh a great turnout, as always. Great weather, great food, just like we predicted. Another great event put on by the Road Kings.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:37

Well, you know, we had a saloon of fantastic uh interviewees. We had the uh council members, we had people running for council, we had you know the Turnover Roses talking about there. We had so many different things happening today.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:54

Some we didn't even record. We weren't able to. They're just people coming up and saying hello and chatting.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:59

It's great to see all the people come out. I will say that uh another great year of another uh uh Road Kings car show. We're happy to be here, happy to be invited. And uh crew, I I gotta say it's been a pleasure sitting with you and and uh putting it on another show for my Burbank.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:17

And kudos to the Road Kings for putting on another great event for a good cause.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:21

We thank you for letting us be here because they uh they donate the space for us and uh we love to publicize them and great organization. And next year, uh they said 75 years. Great time, great time to get involved with them if you want to get involved.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:34

And they do it, as she said in the interview, they do it the same, it's the same day, same weekend every year. So put it on your calendar for next year.

SPEAKER_12 1:15:41

And I gotta throw in here, we gotta thank X, our top engineer who's been running the cameras. Our TD, absolutely, man. He has been doing a fantastic job. He's gone out between interviews and getting some B-roll for us.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:55

So all the praise and all the complaints. Right there. Again, Craig.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:00

Craig sitting between you guys' bookends, a Craig Sandwich. It's a great, great day, and thanks a lot for inviting me.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:07

All right. Well, thank you guys much. And uh, we will see you again at the next event. And if you have a big event, give us a call and maybe we'll come out and do a podcast at your event too.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:17

All we need is a table and an outlet.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:19

All right. Craig Derling, Ross Benson, of course, for Xavier Dubon, the X Men. Craig Schuert saying goodbye, and we'll see you next time.