Episode 74 - From 9/11 Remembrance to LA's Complexities: A Rollercoaster Ride of Reflections, Discussions, and High Spirits

Let's take a journey back in time to a day that forever changed our world, 9/11, and share our personal memories of that heart-wrenching day. We pay homage to those who lost their lives and those still missing as we listen to the last voicemails from the planes. Then, we turn our gaze closer to home - the ever-growing issue of homeless encampments in LA, unfolding from a lone sleeping bag to a makeshift village. We contrast LA's approach to cities like Baldwin Park and discuss how this issue is reshaping the Santa Fe Dam's bike lane.

Don't you ever wonder what it truly means to be an Angelino? Let's dissect the complexities of LA's geography together, delving into the distinctions between counties, cities, neighborhoods and communities. We place the spotlight on Highland Park's location and its proximity to downtown LA. Switching gears, we discuss the parallels between historic trails and today's highways, and the perils of rainy freeway driving. 

Fancy a lighter mood? How about a hilarious misadventure rescuing a doll, or some lively chit chat about the fantasy football season? We also discuss some memorable calls from our listeners, a family barbecue that had promoters salivating, and a shout-out to our generous supporters who bought our limited merch. And finally, we whet your appetite with our love for Tommy's famous breakfast burrito, laying the groundwork for a review in our next episode. Join us on this rollercoaster ride of reflections, spirited discussions, and laughter!

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Remembering 9-11

Mig 0:12

Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast . This is Mig , this is Lano .

Lano 0:17

RK67 . What's cracking like ?

Mig 0:19

a people .

Lano 0:21

Go ahead , hola Chepko .

Rick 0:23

Happy Labor Day . Actually , you know what I want to start off first .

Mig 0:26

Prayers and condolences and my heart goes out to everyone and anyone affected by 9-11 . Because we said we would never forget and it's already been . I can't believe because I heard in the news it's already 22 years 22 years since that happened . 22 years I can't believe it . I can't believe it 22 years since that happened .

Rick 0:58

I was actually thinking about that . I see the calendar . I work with dates and stuff . I was like 9-11 , no one's doing , not even flags and stuff .

Mig 1:07

We said , we would never forget and it's so easily out of mind , with all the absurdities going on in society today and everything , that's the one thing that had brought this country together , yeah , and just unified everybody .

Rick 1:26

I didn't watch as much news as before , but I didn't really see anything talking about it . No , they did .

Mig 1:32

I just watch it in the morning mostly just to get traffic reports and stuff and just find out what's going on locally .

Mig 1:43

They always do their , and the talk shows I listen to they all cover 9-11 . I follow on Instagram . I just wanted to say that to everybody that was affected in any way , shape or form by those attacks on the towers and the Pentagon and that plane that went down in the field . Just prayers go out to all those families that lost and people that don't have their loved ones here today . Because of that , we won't forget .

Mig 2:20

At least this generation , or us , we won't forget . It's sad if it's not taught to any kids that were born after that , because they should know , they should know and they should be taught that should be treated like Pearl Harbor , like those attack lines . But I just wanted to put that out there .

Lano 2:42

It's tough when some people that cover it , like Dan Bongino . He had played a couple of voicemails from people that were on those planes . Damn heartbreaking .

Mig 2:55

Heartbreaking man .

Lano 2:57

I mean , I was people that were trying to hold it together to just leave their message . They called their loved ones from the plane and their loved ones didn't answer and they're just trying to get through their message without crying or whatever .

Mig 3:09

I was channel surfing and the whole weekend history channel and channels of that same magnitude all have stuff of 9-11 . I was channel surfing , looking through them and everything and there was one where you're hearing the people in the towers calling 9-1-1 . It's heartbreaking , dude . You got this operator trying to calm the person down and the person is hysterical , saying that they don't want to die . It's like , what do you say ? You tell them everything's going to be okay when you don't know it's like and it's not . It's just dude . It tore me apart hearing all that again .

Rick 4:02

You remember me , but you remember where you were , like when you heard about what happened . Yeah , I was watching the news .

Mig 4:09

It was in the morning .

Mig 4:11

It was like 6am or something , right early , and I was just getting ready to . I was probably on 01 . I was getting ready for work . I was getting ready to go to work Probably getting dressed or getting out of the shower or something , and watching the news and I couldn't believe what I was seeing . It's like because when I started watching it , the first tower had already been struck and I was already on fire and I was like what the hell's going on . I was like what I was just watching and watching and it was taking forever for all the pieces to come together . And then when you see another plane hit , you're just like what the eff ? It's like what the hell just happened and everybody just in shock , the news reporters . I'm at home watching in shock . I couldn't believe what I was seeing . And then afterwards , when everything starts unfolding and all the information starts coming out , we're like wow man .

Rick 5:11

Yeah , I was , because here on the West Coast it was like early in the morning , so at the time I was working in a warehouse , so we'd start like 6am 5am and then load trucks and stuff .

Rick 5:23

But , my compadre called me and then he's like , hey , put on the news like a plane crashed into the Twin Towers or whatever . And I was like what ? We were like what are you talking about ? He's like , yeah , some plane crashed and we didn't have a TV , so we put it on the computer . So I was like I don't know whatever was like the news was on the computer streaming or something , because this is 22 years ago , right , so I don't remember what it was . And then some whatever AOL news or something . And then , as we were talking on the phone , we're just like watching it , like then that second plane hits . We're like what the hell ? Then you realize this ain't no accident and you're just like holy crap .

Mig 6:02

And then that's . The funny thing is that at first everybody was saying that it was an accident . You know , and they're trying to figure it out and they couldn't figure it out and they're thinking this , but then when the second one hit , they're like no , it's like , this is , it's no accident .

Rick 6:17

And we didn't know about that third one in Washington or anything .

Lano 6:19

No third one's going to the Pentagon , was it yeah ?

Mig 6:22

The third one to the Pentagon and the fourth one was the one that fell in the field , went down in the field . That one was , they said , was heading either for the White House or the Capitol building .

Rick 6:34

And they fought it right . That's why it crashed .

Mig 6:36

The people on the plane by that time . They said that the people on the plane were getting calls like on their cell phones telling them what was going on . So the dudes that got up and did something about it , they knew . They knew that we're dying . So it's like , well , we're going to fight , you know . It's like at least we're going to give other people a chance .

Mig 6:58

You know , because if we're going to die regardless , then we're at least going to fight to see if we can save other lives , because , I mean , we can't shoot it down because there's civilians on it .

Mig 7:05

No , but I mean , the information is so sporadic and you know it hasn't gotten around fast enough that you don't know , you just didn't know , you know . And it's hard , man , it's hard sometimes to watch all that , Like now , all those documentaries that come out in everything do it . It's like it's such a difficult watch , it's like and I watched a lot of them and it's like every year when it comes on , it's like it gets harder and harder to watch , man , Because , like you get older , you get more emotional , you know , because you start talking your own life and people you lose , and everything you know .

Mig 7:44

And it's like you put yourself in their shoes . You know it's like and I work on the knife floor .

Rick 7:50

I mean , I'm not that high up but still I'm in the building and this and that .

Lano 7:53

And he's scary man . I'm working in these buildings in downtown when you're up on those upper floors in that building swaying so I can imagine those buildings , with the build , with the airplanes crashed into it .

Rick 8:09

And imagine how the building must have felt the floors above you like coming down whatever like seconds before .

Mig 8:15

Because you weren't working for no , you weren't working for them to know no , I was , I was at Home Depot . I was at Home .

Lano 8:21

Depot . I was at Home Depot and I remember coming down the main aisle and it was . It was Mark , mark Ricky Big head . He goes he goes hey , they just , they just crashed into the Twin Towers . He goes , he's crazy fuckers , you know .

Rick 8:37

I'm like what .

Lano 8:38

And then I remember we went . We were all in the break room watching the coverage where these buildings were burning and seeing people jumping out of damn buildings .

Mig 8:47

Because I remember . I remember that whole day , dude , even that whole week , trying to think of people that I knew that worked in downtown , like in those buildings and the high rises , because people didn't want to go .

Rick 9:00

Yeah , after that .

Lano 9:03

I mean even after that and even when I started after that , even after I left Home Depot and I started working at Neptune , Working in federal buildings .

Speaker 5 9:14

They were out of bomb threats at those federal buildings .

Lano 9:18

I remember at the what was going on . I was at the federal building over there in West Adelaide and they evacuated the whole building except us that were working in the damn restrooms . Yeah , I remember you told me you can't piss that thing .

Mig 9:34

It was like what the fuck ?

Lano 9:36

Yeah , yeah , like we're working . The whole building was evacuated because there was a bomb threat in there .

Mig 9:41

Yeah , but you're the stupid beaters working in the basement , working on the toilets and shit .

Lano 9:45

And the workers that were in the damn restrooms . They didn't come get us . That's messed up , man .

Rick 9:51

Well I don't know if this is like a policy for all buildings , but for our building . Like if there's a fire alarm , like , let's say I'm on the ninth floor , they only notify the floor above you and the floor below you and your floor they don't , just in case there's a false alarm , like they don't notify the other . So sometimes , like we'll get these alerts like on the loudspeaker , like oh , the building's all clear , everybody could walk back in , and I'm like what ?

Mig 10:14

Like from what I remember that day it was a bomb threat like a terrorist bomb threat and they evacuated the whole building . Yeah , so I'm like why the hell did they leave them there ? Yeah , they evacuated the whole building . It's racial .

Rick 10:31

But I think I've shown Ricky .

Lano 10:33

I mean to be fair , the escort that was there with us , I mean , he didn't get notified either .

Rick 10:39

So what building was this ?

Lano 10:42

The federal building right down on the veteran , veteran and Wilshire right there in West .

Rick 10:47

Oh yeah , oh , I was gonna say I think I showed Ricky . I don't know if you know about this , mickey , but whether by Dodger Stadium does the fire Academy , not the police Academy , but the fire Academy .

Mig 11:02

Yeah , okay .

Rick 11:04

There's a big . They have a big piece of the Twin Towers . No one of the beams yeah , it's like a , like a Y , but they have it right there , just like in the police Academy , the fire Academy .

Speaker 4 11:16

I've shown you before .

Rick 11:17

Yeah , and then they show like I mean it's that big beam , it's all like rusted and stuff , yeah . But then they have a little picture of the where it's from on the building and you can see like the actual shape and the .

Speaker 4 11:28

Y , but it's .

Rick 11:30

I mean it's pretty cool , like I've shown , like Laura and her family .

Lano 11:33

It was in the parking lot .

Rick 11:34

Yeah , it's in the parking lot , parking Right . But I told myself I'm going to make a trip out there every night and live in . But I forgot this year .

Lano 11:43

Yeah , you know , just to get on a little brighter side of things , you know what happened to me in the morning . It kind of had me caught me off guard At first . It kind of made me chuckle , like what , because I was like what the heck Like should I go back and ask this guy like what the frick is his problem ? Like I was , I went to go pick up some faucets or some fresh fowls for work at a supply house in Pomona .

Speaker 4 12:19

So you're in .

Lano 12:19

Pomona to catch the 71 over there in that area .

Mig 12:24

No .

Lano 12:25

There's a lot of ranch areas there , right . So as I'm leaving the supply house , I get on this one street that's Riverside Drive . And on this Riverside Drive it's kind of like a hill . There's a hill on the right side of it where the house is . You have long driveways that go up a hill up to the house , right . Yeah . Well , as I make a left on that street and I'm going down and then I'm approaching this one house and I see this old man . He looked like an old Mexican man . He was right at the base of the driveway behind a trash can . He's like that . He was just looking at traffic past by , right . Yeah , he was at the base of the driveway behind a trash can with his elbows on the trash can . And as I'm passing him and I make eye contact with him , this fucker flips me off . He just but he flips me off .

Mig 13:29

But then he goes back to waiting for the next car , like he's waiting for the next car to flip off .

Lano 13:36

So I was like I did double take . I'm like what the hell is this old man's problem ? Like he made me laugh . But then I was like wait , am I offended ? Should I be pissed ? Should I bust a ? U ? But he was like homeless , or was it ? No ? No , no , he looked like an old ranchero .

Mig 13:56

Good thing you weren't on a horse , because he would have been working for you and working for your horse .

Lano 13:59

He was just there with his elbows on the trash can , like the trash can was blocking him , and he , just as a passing by , he flips me off . Dude , I was like what , he caught me off guard and I was like , dude , should I go back and tell him what the , what the ?

Speaker 4 14:15

hell is his problem .

Lano 14:17

He's like oh man .

Speaker 4 14:19

I go . That was a funny little- .

Mig 14:20

If he's that ballsy then I don't know . I wanna be back for him .

Lano 14:23

But it's funny , like it seemed like that's like his morning , his morning routine . Go down there and flip off cars , See where he could piss off .

Rick 14:31

Yeah , that's crazy Miggie on the screen . That's the that piece .

Homeless Encampments and Bike Lanes

Rick 14:35

It was pretty cool to check out .

Mig 14:36

Oh , okay .

Rick 14:37

Yeah , have you you seen over here behind the house that there's a big homeless encampment when , by the rail tracks , no , but yeah by the train station .

Mig 14:47

It's a power station .

Lano 14:50

Inside that whole field . I thought they were building there .

Mig 14:53

Yeah , a homeless encampment .

Rick 14:55

No , it's like a , like a village .

Mig 14:56

I mean when ?

Rick 14:59

Like to the right of it , like the whatever , the yard or field- .

Mig 15:01

It's a big open field . Yeah , cause they already burned already once though . Yeah , yeah , yeah , they already burned it down once , yeah , and now it's up again .

Rick 15:08

I mean it's a . I mean I don't know , I wouldn't call it like a field , but like a big grassy area . It's just a yeah , properly a property .

Lano 15:14

They specifically made it for them . No , no , no , no , no , no , no .

Mig 15:18

Someone camped out and built it and they just started building it , they signed in .

Rick 15:21

They're in the 10th city but they got a fence open . They put private property and like .

Lano 15:25

Oh , okay , so they put private property , so no one crosses there .

Rick 15:29

Well , I think they could get like a squad of rights or whatever . I got a picture of them , cause I thought they were building .

Lano 15:33

They already had like structures built there .

Mig 15:37

So they built the new apartments , then the little like power stations right there next to it . Yeah , and then on the other side of that , like towards the school , there was just that big open area .

Lano 15:49

Oh , it's not that big open .

Mig 15:51

Well , I mean , it's big enough .

Lano 15:53

I mean , it's just the open piece .

Mig 15:57

It's bigger than anything .

Lano 15:58

It's right here when you're passing Loretto and you make the turn .

Rick 16:00

Yeah , and then right there , right yeah .

Lano 16:03

There's always been like homeless people there .

Rick 16:05

But they got like a tree stump .

Mig 16:07

Yeah , but they don't say they built something Like , it's not like 10 cents .

Lano 16:11

There wasn't that much room to build there .

Rick 16:13

They got like the structure , it's a structure . The homeless build the structure . Yeah , the homeless , homeless . They built a structure ? Yeah , no shit . And they got like tree stumps , like lined up like a fence and like they decorated it in . There's like a gate and everything . It's pretty big . I mean , it gets bigger and bigger . What was one of you guys seeing ?

Mig 16:32

it . I might have to . I've seen it before , because they're already either . They burned it themselves , I think . I remember that Like trying to cook or whatever they did , but the fire got away from them and it burned up . Or someone intentionally tried to set them on fire or something . But yeah , little by little it gets out of control . Dude yeah , it all starts with just one dude lying there in a sleeping bag . Then he gets a tent , then he gets a bigger tent .

Rick 17:02

Get some pieces of wood , then he connects two tents and then four people start putting up tents in their team .

Lano 17:09

That's when people I mean Then they start collecting plywood in their team , Then they start putting up walls . They should just start kicking them out right there , right when the one guy's there .

Mig 17:17

Yeah , Well , then they say that they have a right to be there . They get like squatter rights . It's like I don't know how if you're building that thing right next to a school .

Speaker 4 17:25

Yeah .

Mig 17:25

Exactly Like a thousand feet or some rules or whatever . It's like , but they care more about these homeless drug addicts and everything being there than they do protecting the kids .

Lano 17:39

Right now , when I leave tonight , I'm gonna say I'm gonna roll by there , roll by there , do they ? Have lights up on all that shit .

Mig 17:44

I wouldn't be surprised if they did , cause they probably tapped into the other one . Our plan is to surprise me one bit dude .

Speaker 4 17:50

What is the problem with one bit Cause we talked about it how they tap into the light poles to get power from their RVs .

Mig 17:56

I've seen on the news and just like driving by , I've seen people that tap into sources like that they got microwaves , they got fridges they got TVs .

Rick 18:06

They charge up their phones , whatever they charge up their cell phones . The point is , they get the service or whatever they're in survival mode . How's your area ? Is there homeless over there in Boggham Park ? No ? Not really Not as bad as this , huh .

Mig 18:24

No , no , not really over there , you see because I mean here in LA , like LA proper , the politicians here they suck , they're terrible . I mean nothing to get off on a political rant or anything .

Rick 18:36

Wait , okay , when you say LA proper , what do you mean ?

Mig 18:39

Because LA proper they would be . We have our own PD .

Rick 18:46

Right . So , like LA city right , Boggham Park has its own PD .

Mig 18:49

Culver City has its own PD , alhambra has its own PD .

Rick 18:53

Yeah , Because when me and my wife , we would debate this all the time and she says I'm wrong . And when I say she's wrong .

Mig 18:59

The reason why Boggham Park doesn't have that bad of a problem is because the police department there does something Right Someone sets up a tent , they go in there to tell them get the hell out . You can't do that , you know .

Lano 19:13

But here like in Los .

Mig 19:15

Angeles proper . They give them all the rights they want .

Lano 19:21

And then you know what's weird too , where there were Santa Fe Dam , all on the bike lane , there was some meaning can't means going up there , like along the 605 , and that's on the west side of the 605 . So that's already .

Rick 19:32

Like we ride the bikes . We ride the bikes . Yeah , we ride the bikes .

Lano 19:36

So instead of going up the ramp up to the Santa Fe Dam , you know there's a route that you can go underneath the freeway , the 210 freeway .

Lano 19:45

I mean , I'm sorry , the 605 freeway , and then jump on the other side of the freeway and then all that's all feel , cause that's where the main river comes out of the mountains and all that field like it was getting to the point where it was a mean village out there and they went through and they cleaned everything out . There's people even driving a car in there and pulling up to their spot .

Mig 20:07

Yeah , they don't care because they can get away with it . But how would they get ?

Rick 20:10

access . It was like a bike park that we would go on . Then you get access . How would they drive in there ?

Lano 20:15

I think from the Duarte side , the .

Rick 20:16

Duarte side . Over there the service road or something .

Lano 20:18

Yeah , there was like a gate open over there on that side that they can get in and they just drive along the bike lane .

Rick 20:25

I mean I haven't rode the Alley River , but like through the Glendale area , but like I see it from the freeway , you know , oh , yeah , you just see all these tents camping on the bike Looks like they're in the bike lane , like just taking up that area .

Mig 20:38

Well , I mean , I don't know if it still is as bad , but they did report like a news report on that on how so much was spent on this bike lane and everything to connect , like Burbank or Glendale Do like a river a river run or whatever . And then now people don't even like using it because they're so many they're afraid of being attacked by all the transients that did there . I wouldn't take my wife or my daughter .

Mig 21:03

You know it's like . So what good did it do to put this bike lane there ? Spent all that money and everything they feel like keep people from getting there .

Speaker 5 21:12

And you know what ?

Lano 21:13

Yeah , that's pretty wack because they don't clean it up , because the bike lane over there on my side of town , from that whole bike lane , from the Santa Fe Dam that goes all the way down to it goes down to Newport Beach , newport Beach .

Rick 21:35

Yeah , I know where you're talking about .

Lano 21:37

Yeah , right , all the way down to 605 . Yeah , with 605 ends over there , I think it's called the Santa Ana River right , Manhattan .

Rick 21:43

Beach .

Lano 21:43

No .

Rick 21:45

I think it's what's the name of it . My father likes to work there 605 and 45 .

Speaker 4 21:51

It's what the name is , seal .

Lano 21:53

Beach . Yeah , seal Beach . Yeah , seal Beach , exactly Seal Beach . Sorry , yeah , Seal Beach . So all along , even that whole area right there where I think Pico River is at . Maybe there's a few people , but not as bad as you would think .

Rick 22:05

And that area of Pico River like UT families like fishing and stuff like in the river , oh yeah . Now it's homeless .

Lano 22:12

I don't . I haven't been there in a long time I haven't been there . I can just imagine it I mean , when I checked it out it was , you know people that own their horses on that area . They ride that whole area . Oh , you went biking with us .

Rick 22:24

Remember when I had the little bike , yeah , and we were like we'd go past the golf course , yeah .

Mig 22:29

And you couldn't keep up with us on the little clown bike and we had to keep waiting for you , the homeless .

Lano 22:36

It was all clean .

Mig 22:37

I mean it's a good thing that they got them out of there when they did , because this past year we thought that rain , that whole wash that was done along the six or five , the whole rain season it was topped off . Oh yeah , it was high .

Lano 22:52

It was like it was topped off , like when it had a big rainstorm .

Mig 22:55

Yeah .

Lano 22:56

When we were kids and we'd go watch the river , yep how the river would get all full . Yeah .

Rick 23:01

And then I'd go watch someone A lot of videos of East work . It's all full right now , like I mean watching a lot of different videos .

Lano 23:09

Yeah , I remember that . And then there was always someone that was caught in the dam river , always doing some stupid shit .

Speaker 5 23:14

Yeah .

Mig 23:17

Oh some dumbass .

Rick 23:18

Now we were talking about the riding the bikes . You guys remember that one time they shut down the 110 freeway for like a festival and you could ride your bike from like your house to Pasadena .

Lano 23:31

Oh , I can't remember . It was like 20 years ago .

Rick 23:35

We all like , like me , my mom we got bikes , and my aunt and we rode it like we caught it from the McDonald's by your house and then you could ride it all the way up to .

Lano 23:43

You guys did it . You actually did it .

Rick 23:44

Yeah , we did it we were all the way to Pasadena . It's hard because you're going uphill . Then we turned around and came all the way down .

Mig 23:49

I don't remember that you remember that .

Lano 23:50

No On the freeway .

Rick 23:53

They shut down the 110 because they're doing it again .

Speaker 4 23:56

If you look on the screen and it's coming up .

Rick 23:59

It's called a royal fest , october of 2019 . How long is it so ? This is when they did it back when we were kids . Yeah , oh shit , oh wow , they shut it down , so you ride up one way and go down the other way . That's pretty cool , but it's happening again October 29th .

Lano 24:16

What day is it ?

Rick 24:18

It's a Sunday and it's only from see the parkway . That's seven to 11 . So you got like three hours or four hours . Oh , that's pretty cool . But I was thinking maybe we do it and we wear our drifting shirts .

LA Geography and Biking Event Discussion

Lano 24:30

Drifting on a royal .

Rick 24:31

You still have your bikes , I have mine . I mean , I got my , my parachuting bikes , I got rid of my folding ones , I gave them away . I got my paratrooper bike , but I would have to get one for Lori . I might get a little trailer for Ali , if I remember but it's coming up .

Lano 24:46

You're gonna pull Ali on your little paratrooper bike .

Rick 24:49

The paratrooper has big wheels . It's a big bike .

Lano 24:53

I remember that thing having small wheels . It was like those , those circus bikes that a bear rides while juggling .

Rick 25:02

So I was gonna say , if you wanted to make this a drifting event like we go .

Lano 25:07

When is it ? October 29th Sunday .

Rick 25:09

It's a Sunday . We got about a month and a half , but we gotta get bikes . I was even thinking of maybe buying an electric bike .

Lano 25:16

Yes .

Rick 25:17

Modernize . I won't be pulling a trailer . Also , here it is the details , so they're gonna shut it down .

Lano 25:23

Where does it start ?

Rick 25:24

I'm right here . I guess this is the McDonald's right .

Lano 25:27

All right .

Rick 25:28

We could go all the way up and then you come down . Arroyo Vs Fest , arroyo Fest . We have a world where we're drifting shirts . I got this . This flyer was in the mail and then I was going to bring it up and I forgot . But here it is again . Dad , but it's been that long since they've done it , huh Well , I don't know when the last time they did it , but I remember we did it once when we were kids , because I remember my mom did it with us .

Lano 25:53

It's a bike , walk , run , skate , art , music , play , entertainment .

Rick 25:57

Yeah , because this is the footage back in the day and I was in . I mean I did it . I mean I don't know what year it was .

Lano 26:05

Is it free ?

Rick 26:06

Yeah , it's free . We're going to charge you at the freeway entrance . I mean , I don't know .

Lano 26:11

Well . I mean you might have to . It's probably like a run stupid Register . You got to register and then you get a t-shirt and everything .

Rick 26:18

But I mean , I say we do it . That's pretty cool .

Lano 26:21

Yeah , I'm done with it .

Rick 26:22

Kind of with Arroyo . So this is a debate Like I always get with my , I have with my wife . So me being a city boy , la , when we say LA , like I think of LA city , but like when they say LA , like they think of , like they consider all LA is LA county , like you said , like , like like Baldwin Park , everything , cause I mean you know they're , I mean I'm an Angelino , but are they an Angelino Like living in Walnut they're . I mean when you say LA , what do you mean when you say LA ?

Lano 27:02

LA is is right here downtown LA .

Mig 27:06

When you , when you your home address , if I mail you a letter and says LA right , and I put the street address so be LA city and I got to put Los Angeles , California , nine zero zero , whatever that's LA .

Rick 27:22

That's LA .

Mig 27:24

If you're living in Baldwin Park , and I got to put Baldwin Park- California whatever , blah , blah , blah , blah , that's not LA .

Rick 27:31

Because when they always say like oh LA , they say they oh . She says like we want anything in LA County . No they're talking LA County , but no , it's not . Sorry people .

Lano 27:42

Counties are big .

Mig 27:45

Counties are broken up into smaller cities .

Lano 27:47

Yeah you know . So you got counties . You just have Los Angeles attached to it .

Mig 27:54

So you got like counties , you got cities , you got neighborhoods , you got communities . You know it's like if you go um , say like , if you go like by the Coliseum , you get like Jefferson Park , you get like Hyde Park you know , it's like , those are just like communities , you know , but they're in LA . Yeah , you know it's like us here . You know we say Cypress Park , highland Park , whatever it's like .

Speaker 4 28:17

but we're in LA yeah .

Mig 28:20

You know . That way you tell people because I get this a lot , you know , I don't know how it is that they know Highland Park so much , but like people when I travel and stuff , I tell people I'm from LA . They're like oh , we're in LA , you know . I tell them well , there's an area called Highland Park . They know it really . Oh yeah , I know Highland Park . I'm surprised how many people know Highland Park , you know , and it's like when people don't know Highland Park , you tell them well , it's an area that's in between , pretty much sandwiched in between downtown and Pasadena .

Mig 28:48

I always say like five and one ten Because they know , but I mean for people who don't know the area you tell them between downtown LA and Pasadena , because those are like landmarks that they know , Because they know Pasadena because of the Rose Bowl and stuff and they know . Or the Rose Parade , they know that all Like you say , oh we're near Dodger Stadium , but we're not really near Dodger Stadium .

Rick 29:09

Close enough ? Yeah , close enough .

Lano 29:11

The closest , the closest , the closest . I think people that will claim LA and not have LA to touch Swiss , probably like people like Compton or Inglewood , yeah .

Mig 29:25

Yeah , but again , I mean , they're their own city . Well , Compton is the city , Inglewood is the city , yeah , they're their own city . But you know , but that's what I'm saying .

Lano 29:31

They'll , they'll , they'll know . No , no , no , you're going to go to LA , where you're going to go to Compton or Inglewood and they that's probably as close as to being in Angelino .

Mig 29:44

Yeah .

Lano 29:44

Then these are like Glendono yeah because we're different .

Rick 29:47

We're not Glendono , yeah , glendono .

Lano 29:49

Pasadena no , burbeck no .

Mig 29:53

So that's what I'm saying , because LA city is . So you know , because even I don't know , torrance maybe , but Torrance has its own police department , yeah , you know . So there's like you get Torrance , you get Cardina , you know , I think , wilmington , wilmington is part of LA , I think like I don't .

Lano 30:14

I've never considered like San Fernando or Silmar LA .

Mig 30:20

Oh , but a lot of the value there .

Rick 30:21

like Van Nuys , Silmar is , but San Fernando's not . San Fernando is its own little city , I mean , but there's San Fernando Valley and then there's San Fernando , the city , but Silmar is part of LA .

Mig 30:34

So I would say that that's how you know . Like San Pedro , we always say San Pedro . So just look at your , your , home address and if it has Los Angeles in the home address , you live in LA .

Speaker 5 30:44

Yeah .

Rick 30:46

Okay , and then we started this conversation because we bought a puzzle at Costco and it said LA , but it had like Long Beach , it had like the Queen Mary in it and it had .

Lano 30:55

Well , it's going to be LA . What you could say is LA area , la area or LA county , la county .

Mig 31:02

But I think , more and more than anything , people say the LA area , LA area , you know , it's good , it's almost like they like , they think like people that don't know they'll be like . Oh , you know , it's like San Diego's just right there , right , you know ? Yeah Well no . Yes and no . I mean because , with all the traffic or if they like , say , for instance , say someone stays like right in downtown LA and they're like , oh well , disneyland's just right there , isn't it Not really , do you ?

Speaker 5 31:36

think like the beaches are LA . Yeah .

Lano 31:40

You know it's like people associate LA to Orange County .

Mig 31:44

But when they come , like when they come visit California , you know they figure they're here and they figure that you know , if you're staying in LA somewhere , that Disneyland is like maybe like a 10 minute drive we're in the corner . Yeah , From wherever you're at , and that's not the case .

Rick 32:01

That's why it was default to Universal . We'll take it to Universal . But they think the beaches like next door , like a short drive or something .

Speaker 4 32:09

They consider .

Rick 32:10

LA , the beaches All right , so which it should be .

Mig 32:15

I mean technically really it is , but with traffic nothing's close .

Lano 32:23

There's too many , too many FM people coming here , but it doesn't stop .

Mig 32:29

We need to do a purge in California .

Rick 32:33

Now let's say they did shut down like the freeways , and like we had to go back to bikes , like , let's say , like car batteries or something doesn't work . We had one of those pulses or whatever , and you think things will be better .

Mig 32:45

Better how .

Rick 32:46

Like with bikes . I mean like right now , like like my trip to work downtown is 10 minutes but I'm going , like you know , six in the morning and stuff , like I think on a bike ride to LA , I mean it'll be like maybe 10 , 15 minutes , like you know , if I'm using the 110 on a bike , oh yeah .

Lano 33:07

Yeah .

Mig 33:08

But you're going to make it up that because you're not coming in that upgrade dude .

Rick 33:13

I mean I'll have to go through Broadway . You did that grade going up to 110 . Yeah , I know you think that's easy . I'll have to go through Broadway .

Lano 33:22

You're using your Tesla when you're zipping up there Broadway is a hill too , but Wait , but are you going to have an electric bike ?

Rick 33:28

No , I mean , let's say , electricity is down , you can't , it's all pedal power or feet power . But I'm saying like like the hall seems you know it's on the other side of town , like other side of downtown , but like if the roads were open , like , let's say , the freeways , and you're riding a bike like it's maybe 15 , 20 , I mean I think it's to be faster than I mean having no traffic . Well , yeah . Like , if we had no traffic , everything would be like . Yeah , because you think about it If you're .

Lano 33:53

if you're going to go jump on the freeway and you're in traffic , think about it . If you're on a bike , are you going to be just riding like splitting through all the cars ?

Mig 34:02

Yeah , you're going to be faster , and then and then , because you're imagining you're by yourself .

Lano 34:07

I'm saying You're just going to work . Because you're just going to work .

Mig 34:12

Imagine a hundred thousand assholes at the same time trying to get to whether you're going , I guess , so All on bike ?

Lano 34:20

No , it would be , it would be better , because there's a hundred assholes out there in cars , so a car is taking up that much space , whereas if you're on a bike , you get more space , you get more space , you get more , you get , you get less traffic out there .

Mig 34:34

That's just going to be more people on the road You're going to be going up that hill .

Lano 34:39

You'll be zipping by like , like , like I would be zipping by like , like . If you were on the bike , you'll be , you'll be huffing and puffing your way . It's going to be the same and I'm going to be passing up Like if I was in a I wouldn't be the same . I say , I say it would be quicker .

Rick 34:59

How far would like your house , like on a bike , like we've yet the freeway as a ? My house as a path . Yeah , cause I used to ride my bike to Rick's house . I mean , I took a train , but but like , like that ex knows it .

Lano 35:14

I used to ride my bike to Rick's house . Oh , but I took a train .

Mig 35:17

We took the bike to the train and then off the train .

Rick 35:20

That was a cool little trip .

Speaker 4 35:22

Cause .

Rick 35:22

I take it to the little train and the big train and get off , and but right there , it was like that .

Lano 35:26

I think that would be .

Mig 35:29

I would say 30 minutes Cause on the freeway . You're the mileage on the freeway . Your house is like about 12 miles .

Rick 35:40

I wouldn't say 10 miles , but maybe 12 .

Lano 35:43

Yeah .

Mig 35:44

That's freeway , that's like straight shot yeah .

Lano 35:47

I would say 30 minutes .

Rick 35:50

I'm gonna say cause I'm just saying my range is a marathon , so my radius is like 26 miles anywhere . I mean just thinking back like , let's say , the wild west , like horses and stuff , like we didn't have cars and all that stuff , and like you're living in Bowdoin Park and I'm living here and like I had to take a horse or whatever to go to my house . Like , how long would it take ? Like , will it be better than the the now , at the times of cars ?

Lano 36:18

While a horse ? A horse would be faster than a bike .

Mig 36:21

Yeah , but then the thing too is like how fast are you going to ride the horse ?

Lano 36:27

That's are you going to be holding ass on the horse ? That's also like . That's also like uh , yeah .

Mig 36:32

It's going to be like a slow pace .

Lano 36:35

It's just the next town over , let's go .

Rick 36:37

That's the way it was in the day . I mean , imagine that like huh .

Mig 36:41

I mean . Well that that's the thing , that that's why , um a few weeks ago , I just finished binge watching , while I told you I got paramount , I signed up for the paramount network , but for a specific reason cause I wanted to see those prequels 1883 and 1923 .

Rick 36:56

Okay , is it good watching ? Yeah , they're really good and um , that's one season of both right , sorry , yeah , one season of both and that's the whole thing .

Mig 37:04

Especially , especially , they're making their way from Fort Worth , texas , and they're trying to lead a group to Oregon through the Oregon trail and it's like you see them , like just how slow they move , you know when it's a big group like that and wagon trains or whatever I mean it's crazy , dude . I mean it's just like all the , all , the , the shit that they go through all the dangers and if you don't know what you're doing , you know how much more difficult is like 10 miles a day , 15 miles a day , or what is it ?

Mig 37:44

Um , could be . Yeah , you know , depending on the terrain cause .

Rick 37:48

No roads are making the roads right

Trails, Freeways, and Dangerous Driving

Rick 37:50

, they're just going through . Well , there was a trail .

Mig 37:51

I mean , they follow trails that are already , that have already been made . So , but , um , it is a really good watch . I thought it was really good . That's somewhere in Oregon too or where they're going to Oregon . There were Fort Worth , texas , and they were going to make their way to Oregon . So that's north , huh yeah , north and west , northwest .

Mig 38:10

And there's like a video game like that right , the Oregon trail and I think , uh , I think it was like the beginning of summer in where they were in Texas and they're talking about trying to make it to , I think , like Wyoming or something , by before winter . Mmm , you know cause then the winter is going to be like brutal .

Lano 38:28

Yeah .

Mig 38:31

Like to cross over the Rockies and everything so that's that first one , 18 .

Rick 38:34

Yeah , you seen both um , so that you only stand out on the other . You seen both of those . I see him both on , you think .

Mig 38:44

Yeah , but no , I mean , yeah , I mean it it takes forever , because You're talking about , if you're doing like a long trip , like that , you're talking about having um , not only Put in mileage every day , but every day you're setting up camp and breaking down . Yeah you know and you're taking all . You're taking everything with you .

Rick 39:09

And it's like Sun rays , of sunset , traveling , yeah , like , yeah , I mean maybe a lunch break or man , or you just walk in the whole time , or you're walking dude , and then that that's the thing , you know .

Mig 39:17

I say there could be days where you're , you could do two or three days just non-stop . Don't stop , you need a rest . I'm you know , and then maybe two or three days you stop any rest , you may camp , you just chill . You know you probably got to go hunt For something to eat , you know , and because there's no stores .

Rick 39:34

Right you know , there's no , nowhere to buy slurpees on the wheel and no one talks about this but you got to like feed that horse right , give it water , or they just drink it upstream water .

Mig 39:43

Yeah , you let them drink water and they graze raise on the grass .

Rick 39:48

No , just different world .

Mig 39:49

But it's just , it's a trip , dude . It's like watch that .

Rick 39:52

You'll see how difficult it was traveling back then and Now those trails are like Like free I'm free ways are big , famous roads .

Mig 40:03

I guess . I mean they must be marked , labeled somehow , because you know , we had one count historic , historic Trails and all that .

Lano 40:11

Yeah , we had that alchemy , no real , you know it's like along the fiber .

Rick 40:14

You see the bells . Yeah , that's like another .

Mig 40:17

See , that's how they're probably how , that's how they're probably marked , and we're like we talked about there's like paved road . Now they probably Labeled it that this was used to be .

Rick 40:26

Oh , whatever , such as such trail or whatever I mean , we mentioned the route 66 one time and that's not .

Mig 40:36

It's just like like right , the right here , the freeway which we're just talking about , right in the bikes , up and down the royal . When they built that freeway , cars didn't go faster than like 40 miles an hour . Right , that's what's so windy , and that's why it's windy , and that's why the exits and on ramps are like five mile an hour 10 mile an hour because they weren't looking ahead .

Mig 41:00

Yeah , you know they weren't thinking cars are gonna be hauling ass Up and down that freeway at 80 miles an hour . You know , it's like back when they built that thing that the cars were barely putting along when I grew up that they're saying that was the first way freeway bill .

Rick 41:14

I don't know if it's true or not , but that's what they would always tell me . No that was the first freeway .

Lano 41:18

You remember , you remember what they called that freeway .

Mig 41:20

Maybe here .

Lano 41:21

You know what they call that freeway ?

Rick 41:24

No , like a nickname or an official name no In high school . No , what they call it suicide .

Lano 41:33

Well , really suicide freeway .

Rick 41:36

I know people can't drive on it because of the curves on it .

Lano 41:39

They want to be hauling ass , driving the car thinking that they're race cars and there's a lot of accidents . Man .

Rick 41:45

Well , to this day , when it rains , I don't drive on it because it floods , and then people don't know how to drive on it . Yeah , I always just like take the streets when it rains , like I avoid the freeway and I've taught my wife to do the same .

Mig 41:55

I would tell you the story of the one day me and manual were on there and we almost died .

Rick 42:00

No , High school high school .

Mig 42:04

Oh , younger Manual manual is probably buried in the Smurf . Remember the Smurf ? Yeah , my mom had this little Toyota Corolla , blue one , and we call it the Smurf , and we were driving highly park out of what the hell we were driving for the bills pouring . And we're going up or probably near I Mean the 60 , I want to say maybe like near the York exit , and he just hit this huge pool of water .

Mig 42:38

You know the fast thing I remember he just hits you guys talking about he just hits this huge pool of water and we're just hydroplaning , so we're like it's in God's hands . You know it's like really nothing money could do , but the one thing , thank God , you know his big blackhead was thinking Don't step on the brakes . Oh step on the brakes , then you completely lose it everything . So he just didn't , and as much as it started like getting all squirrely and everything , somehow he was able to control it , because we were going right to that center divider Mm-hmm , about to go off .

Rick 43:16

You know , we really hit that divider and it didn't have a little , just like a little pulse .

Mig 43:23

Yeah , yeah little post in a chain link fence . Yeah so we're going towards that thing and somehow or another I don't know how man , but he got control of that damn thing and Got us out of there . And since that day is why I hate driving on that freeway . Yeah , and I don't drive on that freeway unless I absolutely have to . And even to this day , coming southbound , the one thing I've learned is , when you're coming like just passing Pasadena and starting to get into Highland Park , do not stay in those right lanes .

Mig 43:59

Get the hell out of those right lanes that are coming in right get in the middle lane , get in the left lane , but that right lane stay out of it . Yeah , because there's blind spots and as soon as you come around there could be someone you know , that slow down and you rear-end them .

Lano 44:15

I don't always yeah , that , that damn freeway . I've always thought like when I'm driving on it , for those blind spots . Yeah , I was like what if someone's broken down on this damn ?

Speaker 4 44:25

turn right , here I'm just like full blown .

Lano 44:28

Yeah yeah , that's always crossed my mind while I'm driving .

Mig 44:31

And then right now , right now , driving northbound , since they improve the barriers and everything , they're all up , which is not good because you can't see ahead , just like what you're seeing . Yeah , so now the left lane is a bunch of blind turns .

Rick 44:47

Yeah , so it's broken down in the left lanes . You can't see them .

Mig 44:51

You can't see through it , or so for that reason I kind of like stay in the middle lane , if not , I stay in the fast lane , but I make sure I can see the car ahead of me , because if I see him react and slap breaks , then I give myself plenty of time to react and get out of the way so .

Lano 45:08

Well , yeah , yeah , that that if that freeway you , you got to be an experienced driver to be on that freeway .

Rick 45:13

I don't know if it was true enough with like I heard stories , rick , but did you know someone that went into the river ? Yeah well , so what they were actually went into the river , they crashed .

Lano 45:22

I see that , yeah , oh , when we were yeah , we were kids .

Rick 45:28

Yeah , the escalators . Yeah , no , no .

Mig 45:36

We were kids , dude , we were all maybe like ten or eleven are actually damn . Went in and then like Dude was drunk , because when , when they , when they lift up the car .

Rick 45:47

Bottle and cans fellow , oh , and the dude was pinned underneath the car . You guys saw them lift the car .

Mig 45:53

Yeah , we were on the bridge right here on the .

Lano 45:56

You know it's cool time because every time you hear when we were hanging Now . I'm in front of the house every time you hear the skid mark and you're waiting for the bang .

Mig 46:04

And once you hear that bang , you start running up the bridge was what book Start running , then we run up the bridge that we could see the accident ?

Lano 46:11

Yeah , and then from school . Yeah , no , it was that it was in the evening . Oh yeah or at night .

Mig 46:18

Whatever , we're also playing .

Lano 46:21

There was a lot of like tag or anything secret , or even we're later days . Remember me as just me . You and touch yeah and then we're hanging out with our , with our stereo out there .

Mig 46:31

Yeah , just listen to the boom box , boom box . And then .

Lano 46:33

And then we were , we would play quarters , wow , get the quarter closest to the curb , you know it , yep . And then you would hear I mean there's so many accidents that happened because that that one where you where that dude went into the damn river . And Then you know , once they did that car , we saw that shit . But remember that that one where that , that that guy , he , he took the turn , he hit the rail , whatever , and he kind of I Don't know what happened to him . They got crushed in the , in the , in the car , and we even hopped down and ran down the freeway to go see , make sure he was alright , hmm , and I remember right , that's like the team area .

Lano 47:13

I mean , yeah , curves , and I mean it's like that , it's like that turn before that , a lot of motorcycle guys like , yeah , because they would go up on that ramp and then try to Say that a lot of people Underestimate that curve .

Mig 47:28

Yeah , the southbound 110 to the five connector . They way underestimated and they think that they can go up that thing flying at a hundred miles an hour .

Lano 47:40

Oh yeah , and once they come to it .

Mig 47:41

That's when they lose it .

Lano 47:43

And hey , I remember that one accident that dude had . He hit , he hit the rail , he was like bouncing out the rail and then he kind of spun and we were able to get through the chain offense because it was , it was the hole . Yeah and then we went running down Down into the freeway and I remember running up to the car and I saw that dude all bloody and like , just like doing little short , short breaths , little short breath like it , oh man .

Lano 48:12

I had a look away , I was like dude , this is gonna fucking die . And and I was , I think Paulie in junior high . Paulie yeah , I ran up on the car and the dude was just like little short breaths like just like kind of like Shaking or whatever , and now like , oh man , I don't want to look at that . Yeah , you probably didn't make it .

Mig 48:34

Yeah so but that one guy that we tell you that they lifted the car off of them . I remember it so vividly , dude , cuz they lift up the car you know there was a pretty good level of water at the time so they lift up the car so all the water is like falling out from from the car cause it was flipped over as I was roof . So once they start flipping them over , all the cans and bottles are falling out . And then , like you see the dude pinned under there and then , like , as soon as they get to the car to a certain point , lift it up all the water . You just see they turn red , yeah , and then you go and you look and you see his legs severed . Oh , so you just see like the white of the bone .

Mig 49:15

The fever just like barely dangling this . Maybe the clothes was holding it there . Yeah , there was a thin piece of flesh . I was still holding it there , some shit , but Vividly do that . Remember that , and that was , I think , coming north .

Speaker 4 49:33

But the dude was drunk .

Mig 49:34

So he just went off into the river . Yeah , so he just lost control of the car and just went into the river .

Lano 49:40

He was heading north .

Speaker 4 49:41

Heading north , yeah , because that's the only way to get to the river Heading north , yeah .

Lano 49:45

Yeah , because the river's on the northbound . Yeah , oh , wow .

Mig 49:50

Yeah and I remember that dude , clear as day man , and we just see him like oh , look at that . It's like oh , yeah , like dude . He's like nah , that dude's dead .

Lano 50:02

Yeah , that dude's done . Yeah , that was crazy . I mean , there's so many accidents .

Mig 50:08

See some shit , dude . See some shit on the Royal .

Lano 50:11

See some shit on the Royal In that damn freeway .

Rick 50:13

Yeah , well , this is . I mean , it's not a gruesome story , but it's probably like a good story to tell . But this was on the 110 by Expo Park . You know , underneath the carpool , you know they have that big leg on top .

Rick 50:32

So like we're driving , and then we see , like you know , you start seeing smoke and cars like jumping around . So the SUV flips over , like in front of us , like maybe like a car , like two cars ahead of us . So it flips over and then , like you know , people like every starts like pulling over , like to get the guy out of the car . So we all like run out and then like everybody's looking at the driver and I just happen to like glance at the back . Like the back it was like an SUV . So like the like behind the back seat it's like the trunk area , those are like this baby . So the car is upside down , windows broken . I get on my belly and I start crawling in to save this baby . And then you went to save the baby . I went and saved the baby this is maybe 20 years ago , I was um so I go in to save the baby .

Lano 51:32

Wait , this story involves you being a hero .

Mig 51:36

And we're just hearing about this right now .

Rick 51:38

You know it's kind of embarrassing story . Why is it an embarrassing story ?

Lano 51:41

Let me tell you .

Rick 51:42

So let me finish .

Speaker 4 51:43

So then , um , it was a doll .

Lano 51:44

Well it's in cinemas .

Discussion About Dolls, Football, and Plumbing

Rick 51:48

I crawled in , I reached and it was a doll In the back . I was like the girl's a doll , like I grabbed the baby and I just remember like I pulled the back draft , it was a doll . Like I went in there and I was like oh damn .

Speaker 4 52:02

Like there's a baby .

Rick 52:02

And I'm thinking , like I got to , like I'm going to be this big , I mean . I don't know dead or alive . I'm going to be this hero , like this baby , yeah . And then I reached and I grabbed like the leg and it was like hard and I just like I remember just like slamming it like that and then getting out , like crawling out and then like going to check on the people , like the driver and stuff , like like they didn't even like tell anybody .

Mig 52:24

When he did when he , when you grab the leg you pull it out and they go , man man .

Rick 52:29

But it was a doll and I was just like what the hell , he got pissed because it wasn't a real baby . And then then I'm just like we're all checking the driver , like everything's okay , you know , like yeah , nothing in the back seat . Then he threw it .

Mig 52:38

Look at that trick turn of the baby .

Rick 52:40

I'm like back seat's clear , Like nothing out of the way .

Lano 52:44

And then like yeah right .

Rick 52:46

You were trying to flip over the car and I , just like we , just you were probably embarrassed .

Lano 52:49

You probably just backed into a bush to disappear .

Speaker 5 52:52

Like over . Simpson Like over .

Mig 52:55

Simpson just .

Rick 52:56

But I was just like I was just thinking like oh man like but news is going to interview me and blah , blah , blah .

Speaker 4 53:04

And it was a stupid doll . That was my story .

Rick 53:10

Oh yeah , you got it this is when I used to go to South Carolina , that's right .

Lano 53:15

Well , you know what You're my hero . Yeah , you know what your intentions were on point .

Rick 53:20

But I didn't see no one lose their leg or or you like blood and this and that .

Lano 53:27

Yeah , that thing freaked me out .

Rick 53:28

Wow , we got a couple phone calls we should get to .

Speaker 5 53:31

All right .

Lano 53:33

Let's do it .

Rick 53:33

Let's do it All right .

Lano 53:34

Let's see hey , wait , hey , before you get to him , I just want to say it was . It's a good start to the fantasy season . Oh , that's right , Migos , having a great start For others , for others , hey , hey , you know what was the last time I lost my backup ?

Mig 53:53

You know what was the last time this bullshit happened to ?

Rick 53:55

me dude .

Mig 53:56

When my QB1 goes down in week one . When I drafted stupid Tom Brady , I drafted that idiot and game one dude they ripped his knee apart .

Rick 54:06

Well , that's when they made that whole rule , right , dude .

Lano 54:09

For everyone out there . That doesn't know Migos quarterback is Aaron Rodgers and only lasted four plays .

Rick 54:15

You want to talk about football . You want to get to these calls no .

Lano 54:17

Let's get to the calls no man .

Rick 54:19

I was in a good place .

Mig 54:20

I just got my blood pressure up with that .

Rick 54:23

It's only two calls , so it should be quick , but this is the first one we can hear .

Speaker 5 54:30

Hey , hey , this is for Rick 47 , or whatever his number is . Hey , Rick , this is Mike . I don't know if you remember me , but I'm the guy who gave Lana his life and we need some help . We have a fleshmate that needs to be replaced and my understanding is you're starting your own business and I'd like to be your first client . Let us know when you're available and , Rick , I want to wish you success . I think you're following in your father's footsteps . You leave a legacy , buddy , a legacy of wealth and joy and happiness . Take care .

Lano 55:11

Hey , thanks a lot , Mike . I appreciate that .

Rick 55:14

I told him you were working in San Diego , but I wasn't sure if you were back or not .

Lano 55:16

Yeah , but I'm definitely going to help you guys .

Rick 55:19

You put in those fancy toilets those handicaps or what is it ? 80a or something like that . Yeah , 80 height ones , so they don't know if those take special parts , Because those have a strong flesh so they get any parts at Home Depot or it's a special commercial part .

Lano 55:36

You know what's the main cartridge inside . They can get rebuilt or replaced .

Rick 55:42

Because he says it's . I don't know . He said flesh me , but I was like I mean , I don't know where to get that stuff .

Lano 55:48

I forget the ones that I got them .

Rick 55:51

But it's got to be 10 , 15 years . It's been a while yeah .

Lano 55:54

You replaced the whole inside .

Mig 55:56

You know what . The ones that are like water saving or no , it's a power we prefer . The bigger , the power flush those big things .

Rick 56:03

But he says it's making some high pitch noise and then it goes away when they turn off the water . So I don't know what that means .

Lano 56:11

Yeah , we'll check it out .

Rick 56:12

So one of the days I told him you're busy doing stuff .

Lano 56:16

Yeah , I appreciate the wishes , Mike . Thank you .

Rick 56:20

So the little people , if you could help them out or tell me where to get it . I mean , I'm sure it's easy , but I just don't know where to get the parts .

Lano 56:27

Just get the . I forgot what toilets I put in there . I think they're a cooler , but find out the toilet . All right Then we can look it up for these .

Speaker 4 56:37

Seconds .

Rick 56:38

All right , here's the next one .

Mig 56:41

Hey guys , long time no see here . I really enjoy the show , but you guys got to do something about that kettle cough with that bear dude .

Speaker 5 56:49

I suggest you take them out back and get them the old yellow treatment . Anyway , keep up the good work .

Rick 56:57

Hey , this guy sounds like an asshole , I agree yeah .

Lano 57:01

What a jerk . Yeah , he sounds like a complete asshole .

Mig 57:10

Should we give him the asshole the show award ?

Speaker 5 57:13

He can get the asshole award .

Rick 57:15

If he thought that joke was in the work or not , but yeah .

Lano 57:24

But yeah , I mean I'm just saying but you know what ?

Mig 57:27

Because I heard the show and it annoyed the piss out of me , dude .

Lano 57:33

You did it today when I was going to tell you like dude , your cough is coming on , and then you're still talking , trying to get your point across , and you're still talking .

Mig 57:43

Well , it's because I started saying something what do I do ? Stop right in the middle of it , yeah well stop and then cough or whatever , because it's annoying . No , but not only that . You can hear me in the background . No , no , even when I try to cut it .

Lano 57:55

Even if we're not on air or whatever , like when you're talking and you're trying to get your whole sentence through and you're like , dude , just shut up Back off cough , finish your damn cough and then start talking . I mean , I have a button to like you , I can like turn it like . No , but like stop Our other moms are going to pick it up .

Lano 58:16

I still no , stop trying to talk through your damn cough . Just stop talking and , like cough , get through it and then proceed with the talk , because it's really freaking annoying . I know it is . It's like dude , I got Like dude just shut up , but I'm just shut up .

Mig 58:37

What I'm saying is that last week I still had the cough , like it didn't bother me that much .

Rick 58:42

I mean , I didn't , no , I mean because I heard that .

Lano 58:45

I think we're already used to it .

Mig 58:46

But no , but I can hear in the background Dude it's pretty annoying and that's why I was like kind of like I wanted one more week without having to come in .

Lano 58:53

You should have like a towel there where you could just muffle it .

Mig 58:57

I was doing that . I was doing that with my shirt , with my under shirt .

Rick 59:01

Where are you listening ? With headphones or how ? No , in my truck I listen to headphones , but when we used to listen to it in the car , like you would hear different stuff , like the car , like I don't know , I hear it when I'm driving around . I put it on my truck . And .

Mig 59:13

I could just hear it . Every time I backed away from the microphone and try to cough it to my shirt and everything . Try to keep it quiet . Every time I could hear it and I'm just like dude , I'm going to call it after .

Lano 59:23

I finish hearing the show and I'm just going to , because whatever , whatever , whatever you're talking about , whatever point you're trying to make , gets lost , because now you're trying to talk to your cough through your cough and it's just like and give you that look like dude , just shut the fuck up .

Rick 59:40

All right . Well , I forgot how this sounds .

Speaker 5 59:47

So the love boat Do the hustle .

Rick 1:00:02

It's time for the drifting A whole award .

Mig 1:00:06

Ashole I'm going to . I probably accept this award .

Lano 1:00:13

Me , yeah me , get to .

Mig 1:00:14

I should . I give it to my cough . My cough is the asshole Me .

Lano 1:00:18

Me , get me . Well , this time your kennel cough gets it .

Rick 1:00:21

Yeah it's . I mean it should be gone by couple . I mean 30 minutes a month .

Mig 1:00:25

Yeah , no , yeah , I mean , it's going away more and more . So , well , yeah . Well , the last time you know it was pretty . I found it pretty damn annoying . And if I found it annoying I know a lot of people out there found it annoying . So , I apologize for that people .

Lano 1:00:43

Did you ? You posted . You know , this past weekend was the season opener for .

Mig 1:00:50

NFL season .

Barbecue and Social Media Promotion

Lano 1:00:51

So we went we went yeah , we went over to Christie and Javi's .

Rick 1:00:54

Santa Clarita .

Mig 1:00:55

Yeah , I invited our producer , but I guess he had better things to do than participate with .

Rick 1:01:02

Drifter and Sunday's just always like church and a lunch or church and brands or something .

Lano 1:01:08

Well , it's always , it's always awesome , it's always awesome when we go to Javi and Christie's over there , yeah .

Rick 1:01:13

Well , when did you plan it ? You gave me , like you told me , an hour before , and meet me in a half hour , santa Clarita .

Mig 1:01:19

But I told you Because after you get on butter , Santa didn't invite you .

Lano 1:01:23

Well , regardless , it's always a great time at Javi and Christie's . So we had a bomb ass food man there was me made a tri tip . That was damn . You smoked it or you used a glove in over there ? Yeah , I think it was bomb .

Rick 1:01:41

You just used a glove in .

Mig 1:01:42

I thought it came out of touch salty . No , it was good to me . I thought it came out a little on the salty side .

Lano 1:01:48

I made Javi and made some some bomb .

Rick 1:01:51

You guys haven't seen it go on our Instagram photos on the Instagram , okay .

Lano 1:01:54

So yeah , that was going to mention . I was going to mention that . Did you notice ? Did you read that in Instagram where the chef I don't know it says DMS , look at that .

Rick 1:02:04

Oh , I didn't see it .

Lano 1:02:04

So then you click on it and it says I guess click on is so what they do . Is they , they , they ?

Rick 1:02:15

they , they have some promoter chefs .

Mig 1:02:19

Yeah , no , but we get . We get those clicks for promotions on on everything I post .

Rick 1:02:23

No , no , Well go what do you want me to click on Go ?

Lano 1:02:26

back . Click on that link , on the link right there . So they'll , they'll , they'll put you on the profile , whatever you make . So they , you see what it says right there Up on top .

Rick 1:02:42

It says .

Lano 1:02:42

Official page for chefs community .

Rick 1:02:45

They are 7,000 followers or 700 .

Lano 1:02:48

Yeah , you see , we are promoting chefs . So whenever you make your , I mean they must have been impressed with your tri tip , your presentation . Oh yeah , so you see , just , I guess that's all different people , different chefs that make food . If they caught wind of you , you know , that's how it's gonna say they got you , they commented on your .

Rick 1:03:15

One of these hashtags foodies or .

Lano 1:03:18

Yeah . They must have seen it , and so , oh , this guy knows what he's doing .

Rick 1:03:25

Food porn or grill porn .

Lano 1:03:27

What the hell .

Rick 1:03:28

Barbecue lover . Well , something caught their attention .

Lano 1:03:31

Yeah , well , I mean , look at when you slide over to the other pictures when it's already done . Yeah , no , miggie's picture .

Rick 1:03:42

Oh , all right . So this is before you cooked it , right ? That's the marinade . What's the marinade ? And this is what kind of barbecue is this ? Just a regular ?

Mig 1:03:51

That's the regular , just regular charcoal , yeah , weber .

Rick 1:03:56

So is that that looks like a ? No , that's a tri-tip , tri-tip . I don't know what tri-tip looks like . I always look at it like a roll or something . Well , yeah , so you ask if I smoke there or whatever .

Mig 1:04:08

It's just grilled over coals All the way . So right now what I'm doing is I'm searing it . So once they get a sear on both sides , if you can see , like the off to the top part of the screen there's no coals there , right , right , right .

Mig 1:04:24

So I take it off the heat and leave it there for about half an hour and close it , you close it right , and then every 10 minutes I go back , I flip them and I baste them with that chimichurri , all that green stuff that you saw . So I'll go and I'll rebast it and everything like maybe two or three times , then pull it off the fire . I think I thought I had kind of gone over a little bit , because when I put the thermometer on it it was like up around like 150 something , which , like for steak , it's like it's overdone , way overdone . But there were still like some little pink left inside .

Speaker 4 1:04:58

Yeah , there was a pink .

Mig 1:05:00

Yeah , I mean , I would have preferred left the more pink .

Lano 1:05:03

but yeah , mark's kind of like that If he looks on the .

Rick 1:05:10

I mean it fit everybody .

Speaker 4 1:05:13

It looks a little small .

Rick 1:05:14

I'm just asking no , yeah , there was a lot of meat .

Lano 1:05:16

We left them a lot . Yeah , there was still a lot .

Mig 1:05:20

Each one of those pieces is like almost three pounds . Okay .

Lano 1:05:23

And he chopped it , he cut them up in slices and , yeah , you just get your slices . It was perfect man , perfect serving .

Rick 1:05:34

Oh , okay , yeah , you see who made the Spareguss sausage . Oh , where's that sausage ?

Lano 1:05:39

from . I don't know where I was .

Mig 1:05:44

I was just like Johnsonville , I think .

Lano 1:05:47

And then some of that kale salad from Costco .

Rick 1:05:52

This was the group , so these are longtime listeners . We should name them all , right ? Yeah , the cousins . Okay , well , cousin Christie .

Lano 1:06:03

Cousin Christie , cousin Ruff , cousin Ruff and cousin Vettel .

Mig 1:06:08

Vettel and then , so back there with Rick , that's Christie and her boyfriend Javi . Up here in the forefront , it's Rafa and his girlfriend , vettel , and then me and Rick .

Rick 1:06:23

And I can't see Rick , but I see Mickey representing his drifting shirt . Yep , was Ricky too .

Speaker 5 1:06:29

No .

Rick 1:06:29

You're not even wearing your gear . I haven't seen you wear it once . You buy some for David , or not yet .

Lano 1:06:36

Yeah , I got to give him his shirt . I haven't gave it to him yet .

Rick 1:06:39

Now we got to thank all the listeners who bought the limited merch before the deadline of Labor Day . Only we weren't able to reach our goal of a thousand to donate to Mark's cause , but we got pretty close .

Lano 1:06:58

But Mark's , thank God . Mark's like Wolverine and healed really quick .

Rick 1:07:03

He healed real quick . But I don't know . I jumped on because there was some items I hadn't had before and I jumped on and got it all . It was a Labor Day special , but the site's looking a little lonely now , Not having those other designs , so I got to come up with some other stuff , but thank everybody who bought some gear .

Rick 1:07:20

We'll try to get some new merch out there and maybe I'm thinking about maybe bringing it back , like around Christmas time for Christmas sale , like bring back all the designs that we put up for the year .

Mig 1:07:28

Black .

Rick 1:07:29

Friday or Black Friday before the staple , but I stocked up on some shirts , different colors and stuff . I'm running out of room . I'm buying a lot of stuff .

Mig 1:07:41

So you can reach out for yourself yeah .

Rick 1:07:45

But yeah , but the sales do help , so look for sales or look for the first 48 hours Holiday sales . And I like the quality . Like today , I'm wearing the baseball shirt again .

Speaker 4 1:07:56

I like that baseball shirt man .

Lano 1:07:59

Old school . What size is ?

Rick 1:07:59

that this is extra large , Old school different . I've been wearing it . I went to .

Speaker 4 1:08:09

We went to this barbecue .

Rick 1:08:10

I don't know if I have pictures , so it was not this weekend , but the weekend before you guys ever heard of Heritage Barbecue .

Lano 1:08:19

Heritage Barbecue no .

Rick 1:08:20

It's over there in San Juan , capistrano , like right next to the mission , but this is barbecue place we've been trying out and then they're having like a third year anniversary and a co-lab . Let me see if I can find a picture , but they took a . Heritage Barbecue Heritage in San Juan , in San Juan , capistrano , but they had a big old spread and I was out . It was like , yeah , it was Labor Day weekend .

Lano 1:08:49

What was the best thing ? You ?

Rick 1:08:51

had there . Also , here is this was our plate . Let me see if I can blow this up , lord .

Lano 1:08:56

Jesus here's a lot .

Mig 1:08:57

Hey , you , hey , nobody got time for that , so we had some ribs , oh that's pretty good .

Rick 1:09:02

And then they had like a media burritos and then like mac and cheese , and then Wow . I should look for their Instagrams , but I was wearing the American Flag Shirt representing Nice . No one asked me , but everybody was like I can see people looking at me like , oh , where's that from that shirt ? So it is Like an alley .

Lano 1:09:26

Yeah , it should have looked too happy . It was hot that day . We were just making a face and they got her shirt covered .

Rick 1:09:30

She looks pissed you know , she was eating off my plate and I was eating more of it , but I was like I'm not gonna eat it .

Mig 1:09:33

I'm not gonna eat it . I'm not gonna eat it . I'm not gonna eat it . I'm not gonna eat it . I'm not gonna eat it , I'm not gonna eat it .

Rick 1:09:37

I'm not gonna eat it , I'm not gonna eat it , I'm not gonna eat it , but I , I probably really want to tear into that Dino Riblet right there in front of her . Nice face , but we should Three . Oh , this is the girl taking the picture . But we should try to Three . I think , we gotta do another food review . Let's see what these .

Lano 1:09:55

Oh , where long would we do ? Yeah , I think we need to do another one . Definitely me .

Mig 1:09:59

Whose turn was it , it's yours , my turn .

Rick 1:10:02

So we never did it because you're a slacker . I'm thinking about that Inglewood spot , but I gotta look up some more information .

Mig 1:10:07

What Inglewood spot , that seafood one ? Oh , at the seafood .

Lano 1:10:12

That was a backyard .

Rick 1:10:13

Yeah , that backyard one . Let's do it , I'm thinking about it , it's working out a lot . All right , well , I'm going to look into it . We'll plan on that .

Lano 1:10:21

But you know what ? What do you think ? We can't go like on a weekend because it's probably packed no , they only do weekends .

Mig 1:10:26

No .

Rick 1:10:28

I think so . I think they only do weekends .

Mig 1:10:30

But maybe during the week .

Rick 1:10:33

Do we do it like a football day ? You think everybody's going to be going to the game , or ?

Lano 1:10:41

Oh yeah , That'd be .

Rick 1:10:43

Let me see .

Lano 1:10:45

No , but if you do , I was going to say , do it when there's a Ram's or charging game , but probably when it's packed there , oh yeah , put it in the wood yeah .

Rick 1:11:00

Yeah , I gotta look for the Instagram , but this is , oh , this , is it right here ? This is the Heritage Barbecue , but they had an anniversary .

Lano 1:11:11

All right , so we might do that Either that or drive down to San Diego and have a little breakfast burritos . Oh , but Mark , you know what ? Mark told me ? That breakfast burrito wasn't worth it .

Mig 1:11:30

Which one ? Oh , he tried it .

Lano 1:11:31

Yeah , the first one . He tried it . He went for his anniversary in San Diego .

Mig 1:11:36

On that list .

Lano 1:11:37

Yeah , so the first spot yeah , because he said give him the , the video , or it wasn't even the spot .

Speaker 4 1:11:43

I sent the video .

Lano 1:11:45

And he said he tried that surf spot . What was that first one ?

Rick 1:11:48

I think it was tacos , and surf or surf , surf , surf , taco or something .

Lano 1:11:52

Yeah , he says that it was like it wasn't worth it .

Speaker 4 1:11:57

So what I really want to do is go check out the beauty of one .

Lano 1:12:00

Worth the driver worth the price . It wasn't worth . It was like well , whatever , Like , was there a line or what ? He didn't give too many details . Mark , you got to call and give details on that burrito , Well because , we need a review of that burrito Mark .

Rick 1:12:16

Yeah , call on with that burrito the review , because that was the one that had the chorizo and then they had the regular breakfast burrito , right yeah .

Lano 1:12:22

And then the second spot had that chipotle burrito that looked pretty damn good , but then I think it was the last one that had the . It was that bilia spot , a breakfast burrito that they give to you with the cunso man .

Rick 1:12:36

Well , there was this burrito that me and Laura were chasing and it was in Cerritos and we were trying to like , go and like Every time we go , like the line was like an hour away , so we would drive out there . The guy's like , oh , like we'll have it ready , but it'll be like an hour and a half .

Lano 1:12:54

Oh yeah , I remember you were talking about that .

Rick 1:12:56

So then , last night he told us he's like call ahead and like we'll tell you . So this time we called the head before we left . So we called , we left . The guy's like oh , it should be ready . Like we called that at 11 . He's like it should be ready at 1230 . And we're like , all right . So we're in the area , like we're going to get coffee before , and then , like wherever we're pulling up in the coffee shop , the guy's like oh , your burrito is going to be ready in 10 minutes . So we drove straight there and then we had our burrito and we're like we're just eating this straight in the car . But we each ordered one . But it was just like this is the burrito .

Lano 1:13:34

Like whatever .

Rick 1:13:34

It was just too rich , like too much going on .

Lano 1:13:39

So , and it takes that long to make it .

Rick 1:13:42

Well , there's like not to make it , there's just like a line , I guess , like I mean orders ahead of you .

Mig 1:13:48

I wouldn't have gotten it . Dude , because chili like chili , chili burger , chili dog , nah , dude . Just like I wouldn't want pastrami in it . You know , I was like I don't associate pastrami with breakfast , or chili like the chili sauce . Yeah , wow .

Speaker 4 1:14:06

I mean that .

Lano 1:14:07

Tommy's breakfast burrito is pretty .

Rick 1:14:11

So you said you want a pastrami breakfast burrito ?

Lano 1:14:13

No , I'm saying I wouldn't .

Rick 1:14:15

He doesn't associate pastrami with breakfast Because I was going to tell you that Village Mart over there

Craving Tommy's Breakfast Burrito

Rick 1:14:20

. I told you guys right there by Wilson High School in the bottom on , so cool , that's a good spot , like now but I don't know what about the Tommy's breakfast burrito ? That's one of my favorites , see , you know , I forget about that .

Speaker 4 1:14:32

Something about that damn chili man .

Rick 1:14:34

It's the chili , you know it's good and I forget about it a lot because now I want it , but I remember like , hey , well .

Lano 1:14:44

Tommy's , Tommy's round part . You can go right now . They probably make it .

Rick 1:14:48

They got all of them open , like the little crust street and everything .

Lano 1:14:52

I think , if it's not the one across the street , while they're both in that corner , the little stand and then the one , yeah , yeah , the main one .

Rick 1:15:01

My wife's been craving breakfast burritos and we've been trying different spots .

Lano 1:15:05

If you're down , if you're down , I'll go . I will go right now .

Rick 1:15:11

Don't even tease me .

Mig 1:15:12

Dude well .

Lano 1:15:13

Tommy will go real quick to round part .

Rick 1:15:18

I'm down to go .

Mig 1:15:21

I'm running out the door . Wait , wait , wait .

Speaker 4 1:15:22

I'm serious Like a heart attack .

Lano 1:15:25

Do they do it right now ? They'll probably do it right now . I think it's only breakfast .

Mig 1:15:29

I'm going to call Next episode we'll have a burrito and a total review . I'm going to call Keep on drifting yo .

Lano 1:15:37

Peace , god save the queen .