Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 75 - From LAFC Tailgating Tales to Traffic Talks: A Rally Round Soccer, Food, and Unforgettable Anecdotes
Hey there, folks! Get ready for an hour of hearty laughter interspersed with intriguing insights about the world of soccer and the joys of food, dissolved in humorous anecdotes. Remember the time our ultra-brave Rick decided to feast on expired chicken? Well, that story surely sent us into fits of laughter, and we are set to relive those moments once again with our special guest, Rafael Mendoza, an original drifter from the Arroyo Seco street.
Buckle up as we speed into a heated debate about bicycles on the freeway and the inevitable traffic implications if cars see a sudden disappearance. A ride towards memory lane awaits you as we discuss our own experiences with grueling commutes and traffic frustrations. Also, throwing some light on the soccer world's ups and downs, we dissect the unexpected slump that hit LAFC this year and the interesting concept of bilingual thinking.
Get an insider's view of the stadium as we touch upon tailgating, stadium size, and mouthwatering food options. We reminisce about the culture surrounding tailgating from the Empire Boys, The Crew to the House of Football in Highland Park. The episode wraps up with a trip down memory lane with hilarious stories from our drinking days and ends on an exciting note, with a promise to return with Rick for more unforgettable tales. So, tune in for this lively blend of soccer, debates, and uproarious tales. We promise, it's the best way to add a dash of laughter to your day!
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Hey there, folks! Get ready for an hour of hearty laughter interspersed with intriguing insights about the world of soccer and the joys of food, dissolved in humorous anecdotes. Remember the time our ultra-brave Rick decided to feast on expired chicken? Well, that story surely sent us into fits of laughter, and we are set to relive those moments once again with our special guest, Rafael Mendoza, an original drifter from the Arroyo Seco street.
Buckle up as we speed into a heated debate about bicycles on the freeway and the inevitable traffic implications if cars see a sudden disappearance. A ride towards memory lane awaits you as we discuss our own experiences with grueling commutes and traffic frustrations. Also, throwing some light on the soccer world's ups and downs, we dissect the unexpected slump that hit LAFC this year and the interesting concept of bilingual thinking.
Get an insider's view of the stadium as we touch upon tailgating, stadium size, and mouthwatering food options. We reminisce about the culture surrounding tailgating from the Empire Boys, The Crew to the House of Football in Highland Park. The episode wraps up with a trip down memory lane with hilarious stories from our drinking days and ends on an exciting note, with a promise to return with Rick for more unforgettable tales. So, tune in for this lively blend of soccer, debates, and uproarious tales. We promise, it's the best way to add a dash of laughter to your day!
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It's 3.23 am and I just left one job going to another job and I'm hearing your guys show right now and I am deeply, deeply offended that you guys did not like my humor, my taste in humor, in this review of this. I agree it's a crappy movie, but what I was getting at was the funny, hilarious commentary review of this guy doing the movie and the main character you're looking for, lano, is Meeplo, I think. So I don't know why I got the A-hole award. I was just trying to give you something stupid funny to laugh at. But now I got to hear this bullshit At 3 in the morning.
Rick:Hear you guys give me a damn A-hole award when you know I'm just trying to brighten up your guys' afternoons. But it's fine, I'll be on there next week so I could defend myself in the movie and to the people, because it is funny. The guy reviewing the movie is funny. You can't deny that. Oh man, I missed the stem. All right, I got to go because I'm driving and I'm looking like a madman. I'm on my next job right now. So to come, to be continued, more, more crappy movie reviews.
Miggy:Well, come back to the Drifting on the Royal podcast. This is me, this is Lano, and in studio, since Rick couldn't make it again, since he's hiding. He's the infamous, the one and only the original. One of the original. Yeah, from day one.
Lano:The.
Miggy:Arroyo Street Boys.
Rafael:That's right, the Arroyo Street Boys.
Miggy:He's an original drifter An original, yeah, so there's only a handful of original drifters that lived on a Royal, so he's one of them, the infamous Rafael Mendoza.
Lano:Yeah, aka Wodey.
Miggy:AKA El Chaparro.
Lano:You've been on before, right or twice? Yeah, I was on once. They're a really bad phone call.
Rafael:Oh yeah, you heard it off Something really bad.
Lano:I don't know if we got the king thought on the phone calls.
Miggy:yet yeah, we haven't tried it yet, but good to have you in studio, man.
Rafael:It's good to see you guys. Man, it's good to be here.
Miggy:The last interview. It was just too short, dude, it wasn't long enough, and we've been dying to get you in here again.
Lano:Yeah, especially live in the studio. I was surprised when you said you could make it in the studio. I was like wow.
Rafael:I didn't know I had to come in and pick up an award, though, for Rick.
Lano:You're going to pick it up for him and then hand it over to him.
Rafael:I'm going to hand it over to him when I see him.
Lano:When he gets to do the work at your house.
Miggy:Now he has to come to pick up the award, if he ever gets done.
Rafael:Rick's working a lot man.
Lano:So he's out of the show today because he said he's out working at three in the morning, midnight, and blah blah blah.
Miggy:That's what you got to do, people, when you're trying to start up your own gig. It's a lot of work and no reward for the first few years until you get established, and then you can enjoy it. He's at a business or a site where they have to wait until the workers come in or something Everybody in the building has to carry out, and then they can go in there and make all the noise and mess they want. But it's tough, dude. I mean it's tough Trying to run your own business.
Rafael:Shout out to Rick man. Hopefully everything works out for them. Right, right he's putting in all that work, so it'll pay off.
Lano:It'll pay off. We're out here because we're going to the big game on Sunday and then he's a season ticket holder. So we'll be talking about that. But should we get through some phone calls right now? Yeah, let's do it. This is the first one.
Rick:Hey, I didn't know you guys had the kind of connection to get fuel halber to call the drifted on a Royal hotline and give us that history on the freeway. Pretty badass. But I haven't heard of Hugh Houser in a long time, man, but that was pretty dope. Good job, guys.
Miggy:See, not only dumbass, and you're all putting that snoring soundbite over your dad talking. Well, you're a dick dude.
Lano:I mean if you're not a local or anything. Hugh Houser was like a legendary, like co-soul. He passed away but he would give you like history of California he's like a. Vince Cully, Like a Vince Cully right, and I think he was at that Royal Fest last year. Hey Ralph, do you remember that Royal Fest when they shut down the freeway?
Rafael:No, I didn't.
Lano:When we walked in, because Mickey didn't remember, ricky didn't remember, I guess I was only one that did it.
Miggy:Do you remember us being there?
Rafael:I don't know Well they were the only one I don't remember.
Lano:But yeah, so my dad called in, gave us some history and yeah, I guess Mark and we'll see you liked it, or the next call.
Speaker 6:Hey, listen, listen to you guys. Break down the logic behind bicycles in the freeway. This is college. You're the funny. I'll see you guys later, man.
Lano:So we had this debate because we're talking like if we still had today's roads and freeways and we but bicycles will still be as busy. Mickey says traffic will be the same or worse than it is, but I don't think so.
Miggy:You see, because, because a lot of what he's picturing is that him and maybe like four other people are going to be on the on the freeway, using it on their bicycles, driving going down the Santa Monica or whatever, and I tell them, if no more cars are available and everybody now is has to ride a bicycle to get where they're going to get to, you're going to have about 100,000, 200,000 assholes on bicycles all going in the same direction at the same time.
Miggy:It's going to be the same thing, especially when you get people that are out of shape, people that are in good shape. You know these dudes that think they own the road, that they dress up like if they're to where the France is shit. And then you get the stupid kids that are messing around and everything is like I say it's going to be the same. This says no and the caller, mark, says that I'm wrong. Also, mark the short, I don't think I'm wrong.
Rafael:I think there'll be a lot of bikes on there, a lot of A-holes riding bikes. And then which is bad.
Lano:Like going up the hill to downtown.
Rafael:Oh, by Dodger Stadium, that's going to be tough. A lot of people will be walking their bike. I know I would.
Miggy:Not long ago because he would cheat and have an electrical bike.
Lano:Well, yeah, I'm thinking, I'm thinking about electric. But if, like, cars are out, let's say, like some I don't know what to call it those nuclear pulses that shut down everything, then even an electric bike wouldn't work. It would need to be power pedal. How's your commute rough? You still working downtown?
Rafael:Yeah, it's pretty easy. I go on a work at six, so like a 15 minute commute.
Lano:What about when you're working over there by the Beverly Center?
Rafael:It's like an hour 15 minutes just bumper to bumper.
Lano:Doesn't that just like, like, like eat your life away, Like yeah, it feels like it Like you get home in a bad mood. You're mad, oh yeah.
Lano:I was working in the valley and I had like a commute like that it was like an hour over there in Sherman Oaks coming home every day. And then like I was getting so irritated that like I would, when my wife would call me like on the right home, like I would get pissed because like I was like listening to like a segment like on the sports radio or something. Like they're talking about something I'm like why are you calling on this into this? Like I've been waiting this for like three commercials for this.
Lano:Like this talk and you call me right here, right in the middle, when they're talking about the subject. I'm waiting for whatever.
Miggy:Well, that's your bad food. You just shouldn't have not answered.
Rafael:Yeah, you just skipped.
Lano:And then you get home all mad and listen to that. But yeah. I'm glad I don't have a long commute anymore. That was tough. I felt like I was getting old, just like stuck in traffic.
Rafael:What's crazy is that you're not even that far from your house. Sometime you just come home.
Miggy:Yeah, it's like, especially if you talk to like friends or family that are like living out of state and they'll look like a maps or whatever and say like oh you know, but you know, but Disneyland is so close to where you live, you know, isn't it like really close to the kids, you get there faster.
Lano:No, no, they're 20 minutes, is like 15 minutes or something. Right, they're 20 miles or something.
Miggy:Yeah but Saturday, dude, talking about that, this is why I hate leaving the house on the weekends and I would just rather just stay home and not do nothing, because I deal with traffic every day that I'm at work. You know, I got to drive all over the place, yeah, and I just get so sick and tired of traffic. I don't want to deal with it on the weekends. Well, saturday, my dad calls me because he's lost at the Galleria. Dude, he forgot where he parked his car Glendo, glendo, galleria and so I went and went to go get him. We drove around, found his car.
Lano:I was going to say what are you going to do? But you just drove around.
Miggy:Yeah, we drove around, found his car. You know he did what he had to do and I was like, well, shit, you know, since I'm out of the house, you know I get my prescriptions at Walmart right there and in a Rosebeam or not Rosebeam well, I guess they call it the Rosebeam one, I don't know, but it's off of a wanna grove. So I'm like, all right, let me go get my medicine. So I went over there, got my meds and then I shot over to San Gabriel to go get a sandwich out of the Italian deli that's there.
Lano:Where is that?
Miggy:Claros, oh, claros, and so I'm coming home. You know, I jumped on Del Mar because I got the fast track, and when I crossed from Walmart over to San Gabriel, I noticed on the freeway that it was kind of slow. So I'm like, oh shoot, I'm gonna go down to Del Mar after and jump on the fast track and get home fast. Oh, I think I was stuck in that. Were you stuck in that?
Lano:Yeah, but I was going east.
Miggy:It was on your side, though You're coming west, huh I was going west, Dude, by the time I passed Atlantic, wow, I got stuck Stop and I was there for like an hour and 20 minutes, dude. Oh my God, and I'm like what the hell is going on, man. What happened? They shut down the freeway. They shut down the freeway.
Miggy:By the time I got close enough to see what happened cause I got off on Fremont I was able to actually get off, like cut my way through. I looked and the freeway was all clear, dude. There was like no accident or nothing. It was like right there, right past the Fremont, and I'm like what the hell, dude? I'm like why, if there's everything's all cleared up, why don't they just let traffic go already? You know, if whatever actually was there, I'm like why did they do this? And then, what was the one thing that they had open the fast track link, and so they're letting everybody merge into that one, you know, and I'm like, dude, this is why I absolutely hate having to leave the house on the weekends, you know, and if I do, I gotta leave here really early or I'm leaving late, but this was around four or five o'clock.
Miggy:It was about three. Oh you're right, Two or three yeah.
Lano:Cause we got there, like it was like around 5.15, 5.30.
Rafael:You'd figure that, like traffic, there'd be less traffic on weekends, right? Yeah, but I mean Cause everyone's like at home, maybe from like the work week.
Miggy:Yeah, but the problem, yeah, it's worse, dude, because the thing is the people that go out are people that don't really go out during the week and they're like the worst drivers, especially with all the lockdowns and everything. It's like so many people stayed home working, working from home.
Lano:Yeah, and they're traffic people, they're not used to dealing with traffic anymore and they just get out there and it's just bad dude yeah nowadays I don't know how many like last minute, like lane changes or exit changes that people make Like they already crossed past the part you're supposed to.
Miggy:And I do just go to the next exit. Double back, go around everybody's got. Gps on their phones. Man, let that shit reroute you in.
Rafael:You know what gets to me now when people make a right turn, like from, like the middle of the street. Exactly yeah, the way you are aren't you supposed to like, start getting closer, like to the curb, and then you make a right and people just bus that right.
Speaker 6:These should be like five feet or so from the curb yeah, yeah, eight to five feet.
Lano:But so we went to a birthday party. A happy birthday, shout out, to Sally, my brother-in-law's girlfriend. She turned 30, so birthday wishes for her. So we were going to her party on Saturday and her family lives out in Rancho Cocomanga, so we put the GPS in and we're just going to jump on the 10 and go all the way until like last minute switch over to the 210.
Lano:But it was telling us from our house to take the 210, and I'm like I'm not going to drive all the way over there, I'm just going to jump on the 10. So jump on the 10,.
Lano:we're cruising, and then it starts like slowing down by Casa LA and we're like stuck in there for 45 minutes like slow and I'm in the fast track and going slow and then slow, and then like I noticed that the inbound traffic coming on this side was all clear empty. You can see here like one car every once in a while One car, one car.
Lano:Then I look and I see all the cop cars I like shut down the whole freeway like they're in a line, and you see cops out and then, like one guy had like one of those orange rifles, like those, I guess they're for the beanbags. Oh, yeah, so they had it. And there was like some big standoff on the freeway. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah, there was like some over there by Freeman. There was like some homeless guy I'm assuming he's homeless.
Lano:Yeah, but, he had like no shirt on and he was like standing out on the edge of the freeway. Wow, I wasn't looking up at the news by then, but he's standing on the railing or the edge of the freeway on the.
Lano:that would be on the north side, the north side of the wall, not the center lane on the north side, and he's standing up there and all these cops are around them and he's waving his hands in the air like no shirt, like this and that, and they're like going to shoot him with the beanbags but like all. So then once we pass that, like it speeds up, clears up, and then I'm just like, and all those cars are stopped and I'm just like man, I'm glad I'm not in that. I didn't know you were stuck in that.
Rafael:Yeah, dude, you don't even know what's going on. I just see it in your car the whole time.
Miggy:The whole time I'm in there. I'm just thinking about James man, those trips we used to take to Vegas on the road and we get stuck like there'd be a lot of traffic, freaking dog dude. He'd be like hey, there better be somebody dead up there. Yeah, like dude, that's messed up, that'll be same shit like that. That ain't right, dude. But yeah, that should just ruin my day, dude. That whole thing right there just ruined my day.
Miggy:So we were late for the party as it is my dad put me in a bad mood, having to go get him and everything. Dude, I'm like dude, how could you forget where you parked your car? And then just that shit just put me over the top. I was like man, I'm like, maybe just get home, Maybe eat my sandwich, and then we just decompress, man.
Lano:He has a rancheriki, or he has a truck no, a Patriot.
Miggy:Oh, a Patriot Jeep.
Lano:Patriot and they don't have a. Yeah, I guess you got to put one of those sensors or something to track it down.
Miggy:No, he was pushing the panic button until he heard the alarm going off and shit and he just followed that. But he didn't remember what store he walked in or whatever. He couldn't even find the store. Dude, it's like he parked in because he was looking for the lens crafters and the lens crafters is in the doorway next to the Macy's. It's like it's right there, as soon as you walk into the door. The lens crafters is right there. And he couldn't find it, oh wow.
Lano:Yeah, all right, the next call.
Rick:It's great. Yeah, listen, those are the. I'll talk to Brito. I wouldn't get him, bro. Why? Because he's broke, because, I listen, I got that. Brito Paggitovich, no joke, forgot to get shit in the morning. Mad dude, I wouldn't get that. I wouldn't do that. The Beanie Chief Brito, listen, yeah, dude, I wouldn't get the Beanie Chief Brito. Dude, don't get that. I've been getting him for years. My stomach's already solid on him. That's the problem, you guys. You guys don't walk the line on those fucking expiration dates. You got to put it in your stomach, dude.
Rick:You could eat weird shit. Can't wait to be here, Rick Like fucking foamy chicken. I don't care what you eat, rick, I want to know what so. I would eat like foamy chicken fucking limey.
Lano:Slimey.
Rick:Slimey fucking Slimey. Right, rick, do you eat that. Slimey's remix Do you eat foamy chicken when you're cooking it? It foams up, but I think you're cooking it. Do you eat that?
Speaker 6:Do you eat that, hey, rick? Yeah, fuck you, dude. This is a nasty bastard, hey.
Rick:Why would I have to be a bastard? But I could eat bean and cheese burrito from the taco, yeah, but you got to have that like heart stomach though. I'm just trying to say, listen, I went, I took your advice to you, like I was like the family pack and I don't know if, like, like you're coming to the podcast, I don't know if you're coming to the podcast, like, hey, go try bean and cheese burrito and eat them all, or like, eat what you can. But I tried to eat them all. I couldn't. I see reds on my boys and the boys is the part of my face all night. Dog, that's just not cool.
Miggy:You don't need the whole family pack. You eat one or two. I don't need it.
Rick:I don't need it. You're too. Recommendation is like on point, because I did get a del taco, I got the family pack, I got taco burritos and I ate as much as I can and whatever I couldn't eat at home in the boys they ate it and they don't go to the third and I'll tell you what? Terrifying right in my face. That's not cool, dude. So I only be like you know what's up, bro, because you're still. You still know how to handle it. You just say so much bad shit in your life. I mean, you're the kind of cat that, like, talks fast, eats fast, eats fast. Yeah.
Rick:Well, it's like a bunch of guy stuff, so I don't know why you're complaining with. The boys are eating these burritos and farting in your face. That sounds like nice shit. So what's the problem?
Lano:I don't know if he knew he's being recorded.
Miggy:I don't think he did.
Lano:Are they like? Are they in person or?
Miggy:No, I don't know, talking to their motorcycle Last Rick, when we see him? I don't know.
Lano:I mean, the call came in Thursday 5 32,.
Miggy:But I don't know, I don't know.
Lano:That's just when he posted the recording.
Miggy:I had a story of the foamy chicken.
Lano:Well, you know that story.
Miggy:Oh, dude, this shit. Rick has had a history Since he's, since he moved out and living alone, of Calling me and asking me about what food is still good to eat. It's like a. The shit says expired, he is still good. You know, it's like you'll have like, like turkey, to make sandwiches or whatever you know like. When it comes to the Dally Meets, a Tom wall that don't smell. It doesn't smell bad. It'll be like no, a Tom touch. It is a slimy, it's like no. I thought, okay, it's looking to be good, go for it. Well, there was one time when he called me where he was cooking some chicken that he had I Don't know how long in the freezer in the fridge or whatever he's cooking it and he calls me.
Miggy:He's like a big. He's like yeah, I'm making some chicken and I'm in the fridge for a while. He's like is this supposed to like foam up? Foam up.
Miggy:What the hell are you talking about, dude? So yeah, it's like a white foam that says it's coming out. I like you're cooking, it is making a foam. He's a. Yeah, I thought, well, dude, I thought you didn't like smell the chicken first or touch it we're. He's like what was a little slimy and like dude, throw that shit out. Man, he's like, well, you know, she's serious, he's okay, I just wanted to make it before I went bad. I thought I'm too late, dude, right too late with that foamy chicken is gonna kill you. Do yourself a favor and just throw that shit out.
Lano:Now what I had asked him to bring that Mexican baloney over this border, like you know anything about that.
Rafael:Mexican baloney.
Miggy:Mexican baloney that this dude says that it's like all the rage and people are trying to sneak it over.
Rafael:It's a little over. Yeah, what's going on?
Lano:some like high quality baloney or something that everybody is like gold over here.
Miggy:You know, since Rick was going in Sonata so many times with this girl. Yeah, this dude had a Told Rick to bring back some of that baloney smuggles some back. Yeah, dude, and um, so he brought it back.
Lano:But he went on that trip.
Miggy:He went and he went on his trip. He got it and he's.
Lano:I'll bring it next week. Yeah like he, like four weeks went by.
Miggy:Five weeks, a long time went by dude, but I think he brought it back and he had no cooler nothing to bring it in, you know. So it's not like kind of like, pretty much like in a hot car the whole trip back. He puts it in the fridge or whatever. It sits there for who knows how long. Finally remembers to bring it, dude, ballooned up because of all the gases.
Rafael:Yeah, it started forming in there they come posing over yeah.
Lano:But he was just like, like, very confident, just cook it on the grill, cook it on the grill.
Miggy:So this will freaking cooks it up, dude, and we eat it. And the thing is, him and Rick know this is. So I show up and there's like all this, that famous a swollen baloney, you know, and and so I eat it and everything. And then they tell me the story about how it's all the package was all swollen and everything. I was like what the hell, dude, are you trying to kill us or what?
Rafael:Oh.
Miggy:Nobody thank.
Rafael:God no.
Lano:Nobody got sick, but all natural in. We have a certified butcher here, so I mean meets, go bad on chicken especially. Yeah, of course he did, I mean.
Rafael:Remember that, speaking of Rick and Del Taco, remember that one time we were in. Old Town and then we went to Del Taco and then Rick passed out while we're like in the drive through.
Miggy:Oh yeah, what time do you remember? One time my past on you passed out.
Rafael:There were a pass out, I mean Rick passed out, and though I think we were up next like to order, like I don't know how long we were out. It could have been out like a minute or like 30 like yeah. Like when you're waking up and you hit that snooze and it's like 30 minutes later. It could have been that, but there were never.
Miggy:One time was going over and me getting out of the car and just see the light.
Rafael:Oh, Damn dude. It was crazy that we were probably out for, like I'd say, like a good, like five, ten minutes and like nobody hung. Dude, I was like real patient in the right.
Miggy:So you guys actually have people be yeah.
Rafael:No one like came to check on us. I passed out, this would pass down and then next thing over like we woke up or I'll do this. Place the order and, like everybody, I was like a big old line behind us.
Miggy:Hey, we went hard man some hard days we would go hard man those days.
Lano:But if this wasn't so much of a family show, we would get into it, but it's a family show so that's why I got a Like I listen to, got a taste of Rick Ricky's dirty mouth, all the cussing and stuff. That's why sometimes he you know bilingual people how they say like if you're Spanish and English, like you think Spanish, you, if they translate in your head before you say it Like Ricky, like thinks, like sailor mouth, yes, I like converted to you. That's why sometimes it gets words wrong and stuff.
Lano:Yes it's on the podcast he says stuff differently, wrong or the last call.
Rick:Hey you guys. I just want to say man risk not on the call, he's on, he's on the podcast sleep. But you mean yesterday got bump it on there because you know you get to do the conversation and the fact that I'm people was on there it reminds me. You're like I miss some dog and my view, like Harry and the Hennison's, I think by this Matthew feet.
Speaker 6:I'm not the most people Even to Harry and Hennison's dude.
Rick:If you guys know, you know, man, but my people I thought you probably found them, bro, hitting them with the station wagon.
Lano:My mom she's been late every time. See, she's like there's something I gotta ask you. I gotta ask, but I can't remember what it was and I was like, well, wasn't? She's like. I was like about the podcast. She's like, yeah, and then finally she remembered, yeah, and she's like when you guys in the post van Pudles feet on Instagram, we try to get it, then you covered them up. He's all shy but you try to get them, but we got to put them on Instagram. Everybody wants to know. We gotta see it.
Miggy:Oh, we're gonna throw my nollie fans. Do you make some money?
Lano:Yeah, you met him before. No.
Rafael:I never met him.
Miggy:Are you never met him? He's a tramp, he's a trip.
Lano:Now he's back in town, so he'll be. He'll be on the show. Yeah, I mean he gives different, a different opinion.
Miggy:He's the days that Rick has been gone. We've been trying to get him in here, but so max we could go.
Lano:It is for people in the studio because we got our guests Mike.
Lano:Yeah, so one of the three of us. So whenever, ralph, you want to, you got something to say. You want to come on, like there's always there's room for a third person, I mean for a fourth person. That's where it was gonna be with Geno, but then, um, geno had a bow out. We got it, we got an extra mic, but, um, so our special guest Ralph here, season ticket holder for LFC, did you tell the story last time, like, like, how you've been with them from day one?
Rafael:I Think I may have. Well, yeah, you're one. They won pretty close to it. Um Went to like the second home game they had. That first one was like sold out, but they've been going since ever since then, man, we got hooked on it.
Lano:You know so your season tickets, like how many home games is it 17? 17?
Rafael:and like they throw in like a preseason game in there.
Lano:Well, that's not bad, I mean it's not bad and um does like tomorrow's game included that that champion.
Rafael:Well, they added like to your season. You got to still like pay for it, oh yeah.
Lano:So that there's a Campioness cup. When did like? When did that happen? How did we get to the final? I don't remember.
Rafael:Like the, it's the it's the winner of the mls cup from last year and then from the mexican league.
Lano:Oh, it's just like a final two champions playing each other. And that's when the like the clasura that they're yeah from the.
Rafael:Well, actually they had a you know how then in mexico is divided. Yeah, they had to play each other to see who would Would be Would be the champion or out of them, and then they would play lafc.
Lano:Okay because, uh, like we have to win a cup. We have a good team, meggy, but this year, like we hit like a slump in june, like we're playing in like at one time like three different tournaments and like we're playing like Twice like three times a week, and our, like our players got all burned out and then we went like we hit this like big slump, huh.
Rafael:Yeah, they did. By the time they made it like to that final is this we're all burned out, man.
Lano:Like tired, like they every. They thought we could hang. I mean we thought like we could do. But this they really got like burnt out, like but what do you?
Miggy:what do you mean tournaments? Don't they play like a season?
Lano:or well, you have like like the regular, like american soccer season, like mls, okay, but um.
Rafael:but then there was like they have like a, they have an open cup an open cup which is like all professional teams in like north america like, like, even like lower divisions that are not like an mls, like like other there's there's more than like One league in the us.
Miggy:And does that happen within the season? Yeah, really Wow.
Lano:So let's say, lc plays like every like weekend, so those games happen like on a wednesday, so they're like playing like twice a week. That's really cool because, like small teams, as long as they keep winning, they, they can they keep advancing, so like last year, like yeah, it's like it's open, so it's open to everybody, kind of like you know, like a golf open, like I'm right right right.
Miggy:Yeah, I could actually. That answers my question. I was gonna ask. I'm like well, what other teams are involved, or you know, like any other mls teams, or yeah it's all the mls teams and then you know Whoever matches up against them.
Lano:But you could have uh, there's like it's north american soccer league or something. Yeah we got like little teams, like um Sacramento, like um was it monary bay, monary bay. Like um san die, like smaller teams that don't have like a professional, like they're not in the mls.
Miggy:That's crazy. So none, none of those games ever overlap like with any of the regular season games.
Lano:Well, sometimes they do, like the championship right where, like they had to move, like postpone some lfc games.
Rafael:Yeah, they gotta, they gotta move stuff around. But they had that going on and they had that conca champions where they they were playing the mexican team. So, yeah, they were playing like three games in a week.
Lano:So there was a conca, that's like all the champions of like north america, like like all the different leagues in north america. All the champions like played in another tournament to see who's the best like champion in north america. So we're like in that league. So we're playing like cosa rica, we're playing um Dude. There's so much to keep track of like all these different like countries right, Like mexico, and we lost against mexico right.
Rafael:Yeah, they lost the leon right Mexican team in the final.
Lano:But you're playing like the champion of canada, like they have like a little like cup, so like, since we won the mls last year, like we into this champions league. So we just play the champions of like everybody in north america and then if you win that, then you go to like a world cup, like champions of the world cup for club teams.
Miggy:Okay, well, that's what I was gonna ask. It's like what tournament do they have or what like for the, the teams, the club teams, like what's the biggest, like the one that holds like the most weight, like the most prestige?
Rafael:it would be the the club world cup.
Miggy:Like worldwide. Yeah, you're playing like real madrid and how long has that been going on?
Lano:I think it might be every year it's.
Rafael:It's been going for a while now for a long. Yeah, but I never heard of that. That's like the ultimate you want to. You're close. I mean they got to the final. He could be playing, uh, but like real madrid.
Lano:No, well, really, we had a, really had a soccer team, so we can follow it.
Rafael:Yeah it's, it came up close. It was close, but it came up short man.
Lano:That would be like, let's say, like the NBA champions, like they play, like the champions of like I don't know, like another, like Filipino League or a different world.
Miggy:Because it's more like worldwide. That's a lot of shit to keep track of. That's why our players are like playing.
Lano:They got burned down. They're like flying all over the place.
Miggy:Yeah, they've been. I mean playing once a week. Soccer is probably burning out as it is and Running up and down that field three times man.
Lano:Yeah, so. So some teams like, like they focus on the mls league and then like those other tournaments, like they'll put like their second team, like their like subs, or or some people focus on like those other tournaments and then like they don't focus on the mls. But we were trying to like play them all, like to win them all, but like we just it just burned us out.
Rafael:I think that kind of worked against them at the end. Yeah because they were trying to win everything and it came up Came up short on everything.
Lano:I mean people start getting. I mean we're going good and people start getting hurt. Yeah, and then we're like missing players.
Rafael:Yeah, you can't sustain it people start getting hurt.
Lano:And then we had like it was like another league where like Mexican versus like us Leagues were like playing another tournament, like in the middle of summer, where they stop mls and they're playing in that, but then, um, we got bounced out of that and then we we kind of had like a few weeks off, like two weeks like of rest, and then, like we came back pretty strong. But so right now, currently like we're in second place in the west, so we're trying to win the fight. So you'll be going to a game like I think there's only three games left, right, three or four games left.
Lano:Pick four four games and we're trying to fight to be like number one to get like homefield advantage in the playoffs. So it should be pretty crazy.
Rafael:Yeah, it should be, a good game.
Lano:Yeah, it's gonna be a good game. Like what? What should uh miggy expect, ralph? Like it's first time there's gonna be like five new people because we're bringing mark the shark, his family it's just the whole environment, dude.
Rafael:You're gonna see that like people are really into it, like you can see like the passion, like the whole yeah, yeah like rick said, like the that one section, the north, did, he said it's like, uh, it's like the black hole but, on steroids. Everybody's pumped up, everyone's all excited. It's like like like controlled chaos. Everyone's just. You know, everyone's in sync, but like everyone's just like partying.
Miggy:Yeah, from from seeing some of the some videos dude Make sure you wear black.
Rafael:This is and that's, that's all game. Do 90 minutes, 90 minutes non-stop, man.
Lano:And it it's wild and crazy, but like family, still family friendly You're not seeing like fights like dodger staying like Really I don't really see like out of control drunk people.
Miggy:People don't have no loser cholos in there. That's why I mean people still drink.
Lano:But you'll see like there's Asians, there's like all nationality all nationalities.
Rafael:Oh, like it's cool.
Lano:Everybody like you know rich people there, Poor people for everybody celebrities people from the neighborhood, everybody do, it's cool.
Lano:Yeah, from the net, yeah. So I used to go before um pre-covid, like I'll take the train down there, so I'll catch the train, and they'll be like three or four people from the neighborhood Catching the train with us, like all in our jerseys, and then we get on the train and they'll be like people were in jerseys, like coming from pasadena, like already, like we're all riding the train. And then you're riding the train going through downtown and you see people, like when their jerseys, like on scooters, like just like riding the one hitting to the stadium.
Rafael:Every here in the state like a commercial.
Lano:Every's on scooters. They're just like going down the street, going up, like it's a big event. Then, like you get off the train station and like it drops you up by like usc, and you start hearing the drums Like at the stadium and as you get closer, this gets louder and louder. Uh, do you get there? You do the whole 90 before the 90 rough.
Rafael:Uh, sometimes, yeah, you show up early, they got like really good beer specials or like specials on food. Or if you show up really early, they got tailgates going on outside.
Lano:Yeah, like the park, the Christmas tree lane park.
Rafael:And those man, those things, those are like on a whole other level, man, they got you name it. People barbecuing out there, all kinds of food, man, beer, everything.
Miggy:They get out there really early. Yeah.
Rafael:Those guys, man, they're hardcore dude. They're probably out there like at 10 am for like a seven, seven, 30 game at night.
Miggy:Wow, and they just go hard the whole day Because I remember the good days of going up to Oakland when we would, when we would tailgate that's what we would do We'd probably be at the stadium, like at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2:For a 1 pm game for like a 1 pm game.
Miggy:Have the girl going in there because you got to pack up and have everything packed up.
Lano:Oh, before you go in the stadium.
Miggy:You know, before you go to the stadium like by 12, you know. So I remember getting out there early and having a good old time, dude. Yeah, that's fun when you get to tailgate, that's just fun.
Rafael:Yeah, they got some good tailgates there, man. They bring bands and everything.
Miggy:Yeah.
Rafael:So it's like a whole event this weekend. I'm not sure it's probably won't be like on a bigger scale because the game's a little bit earlier.
Lano:I mean it's on a Sunday, Like normally. I don't do the Sunday games because it'll work next day, but it's an earlier game at five. I think it might be like a good crowd because it's an earlier game.
Rafael:That should be a good crowd. It should be a good crowd. Everybody's excited right now with them.
Lano:I was telling Miggie last week that the stadium I think only holds like 20 or 22,000. 22. But it seems like a big like you know Dodger Stadium, socrates, like it seems like a big stadium. This gets it's full and loud. Like I think the Staple Center holds more, but this like it just feels like a loud group.
Miggy:And the field is. It's sunken in now. Yeah, like compared to the street level.
Rafael:Yeah, it's lower. Yeah, yeah, lower yeah.
Miggy:I thought. That's why I remember seeing when they were building it.
Lano:And so you'll walk in and then like like we'll go down, like it's not tunnels, you just go down the stairs. But like me and my wife, the past couple, like three games. I mean, this is only going to be the second game we did this year but we started paying for the parking in advance, like the ticket master, and then we just get there like 90 minutes early, get comfortable, you know, grab our food, find the seats and just like relax, eat and stuff before, and then we're ready to game, just ready to watch the game.
Rafael:Yeah, if, you still do that, and I was going to tell you that they opened up the fields. Now it's open. They hadn't been open since COVID.
Lano:Since COVID and the field is like like a big kind of like, I want to say one like a cafeteria, like a big like food hall.
Rafael:Yeah.
Lano:Like it's outside. Is it open? Like because I remember it used to be open like non game days with food, like if you wanted to go have lunch there. Is that still happening? Or just only game?
Rafael:No, right now it's just only game days and they got like a few, they got a that spot right here from Island Park, that pizza place, uh, triple beam triple beam yeah, have you had it?
Lano:Yeah, I've had it.
Rafael:No, pretty good. They have that in there. Now they got like bars in there. It's pretty cool they just open. They're probably like three games, like going back to like about three games.
Lano:We still go have like lunch there a couple of times. Yeah yeah, they had good food before.
Rafael:They had good food and then COVID screwed it all up. But yeah, they're, it's coming back around.
Lano:The team store is still open. Right Non soccer team.
Rafael:Yeah, yeah, it's still open.
Lano:Because me, my wife, we want to go. She wants to get some gear because she's pregnant right now, so she needs, like a bigger jersey before, before the game. So we're going to go on Friday.
Rafael:Hey, but either way, dude, that I mean that you know that bar your jersey full. What am I going to wear? That, uh, the Paloma. That, that, uh, oh, right, right, yeah, right there by the DMV. Uh huh, they got good food there.
Lano:You can always stop there, you know that's what Ricky had had mentioned, that you took them there last time. Yeah, we went to that spot that hold books. The whole box. Remember we were watching it on the TV, the YouTube, yeah.
Miggy:That's like um, that's a technique you can take, or it yeah.
Lano:They had one, just some award or something right Recently. I know those mission line or something, but it was like restaurant of the year or something. Yeah, they got restaurant of the year for LA, that's a good spot.
Miggy:I heard about that place years ago, dude, but it's never gone. I really want to try their PB, dude, cause I love fucking PB.
Rafael:Yeah, that's just right next door. It's the same owners.
Lano:It's the same owners, cause that whole box is a seafood, oh okay, what time you go there, like before the game, like like an hour before, or what?
Rafael:If you want to like, stop by there. You probably got to get there. Like, probably the like to eat comfortably like an hour and a half two hours before to and is there like, is there a crowd, like an LAC? Yeah, last time, we went, there was a lot of LA FC people on their eating, so everybody knows about it and probably more because they won that award. So you know they got more attention. They were. There was more people in there, but yeah, it's a good spot, man.
Lano:Well, you know, when the stadium opened and had like a lot of like um, the food vendors are like local, like mama pop shops, like the you recognize me like around town, and then, um, after COVID hit like like I guess, cause the games weren't being played, um, like they all like um, like I guess they didn't renew their leases or something Cause then it kind of turned into like you know, like um, like Dodger Stadium, which just like just regular stadium, yeah like a service, stadium service that like made all the food.
Rick:Yeah, but.
Lano:I heard like the some restaurants are coming back. Like like do you know about that rough? Like like there's some more. Like new mama pop stops inside.
Rafael:Well, they got that um or that Hawaiian bread um.
Lano:Oh yeah, hawaiian bread restaurant like that. The Hawaiian bread. Like you know, there's a couple of them in Torian's, yeah.
Rafael:Like they do the Hawaiian bread? Yeah, they got that spot there now. Um what else Cause they?
Lano:used to have like soul sausages, right, so they always get sausages. They don't have that no more.
Rafael:Yeah, they took that one out. Those were good.
Lano:Yeah, and I think is there three whole tacos there, no. It's still there. It's still there. And then, um, they had a barbecue. What's that? Um blood soul barbecue?
Rafael:I don't know if that's still there, blood, souls or something like that. Yeah.
Lano:Yeah.
Miggy:Well, they're in Compton now, yeah.
Lano:So they had one of those there Like that, like cause I was part of their like like an issue. They wanted like mama pop spots, right, but um, yeah, I don't know if, if, like they're still coming back because when COVID hit, like like their games, like um, they were like locked out, like closed, and like I'm sure the leases were expensive, but no, I'm excited, can't you know? Um, I always read like on the app like you could like order ahead or order your food, but every time I got there like I could never figure it out.
Rafael:Yeah, I tried it last time and it wasn't working.
Lano:Like it wasn't working, like it never worked for me.
Rafael:Like that you just go pick up the food, right?
Lano:Yeah, yeah, you're supposed to like order on your phone and then like you pick it up like at a pickup spot or something like that. But it never like worked for me or I couldn't figure out how to do it. But then they got a little like markets where you can just go pick up like cans of beers and like chips and stuff, and like you just like scan your phone and like everything's cashless now. So make sure you have your, your digital money?
Miggy:Just about to ask you that, right now.
Lano:Like Apple pay.
Miggy:Like it's all that cashless, yeah, use Apple pay Rob.
Rafael:Yeah, use Apple pay.
Lano:Yeah, you just like swipe your phone or your watch or whatever, or something.
Miggy:But you can still use your cards, right?
Lano:Yeah, yeah, you can tap your card. Yeah, so use that. And then I'm kind of I'm really excited to bring Miggie.
Lano:Yeah, that's cool, no it doesn't mean like I hope, like, like I don't know, like I mean Ralphie has season tickets, but like if we could get another group to pitch in for some tickets, like you know four or something like that, and like you know like a group of eight or four tickets or whatever to share them, I mean it'll be pretty cool Because I mean you go to every game, rob. Yeah, just about, that's tough, that's tough with the kids and stuff.
Rafael:I think I missed like three this year.
Lano:When your little girl goes with you, right.
Rafael:She goes to like half of them.
Miggy:Yeah yeah, four or two tickets Just two tickets, Because in the season pretty much spans the summer, right.
Lano:Uh well, it's going to finish like, um, like October right or September Late.
Miggy:September, but like, but, like.
Lano:Most of it is like baseball yeah, it starts in April.
Miggy:Yeah, you see. That's why, even if you get the season tickets, it'll be hard for me to make um midweek games.
Lano:Yeah, that's the hard part. Midweek and then most of them like Saturdays are the best, or Friday nights.
Miggy:Like I know, ralph hit me up already a couple of times, and both times I was stuck at work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rick:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Miggy:Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Rafael:The games of going to UW, to the sports floating all the time, yeah, yeah.
Lano:We'll have invitations, doesn't We'll have? Ну, we'll have no Muller maybe, no, no, I mean I'll go on j down to Army first class pro account. Um, we knew there was this f game. We六 years in like p.
Miggy:I mean, we could have actually there, there Um.
Rafael:I feel like Dodgers stadium games. Dodgers got expensive. Dodgers got expensive. Dodgers got brownie.
Miggy:One side, because you know I had my boycott, Uh huh. You know, I was like when they took it off, when they had it like a spectrum exclusively to watch the games, I said I'm not going back to a game until either they change ownership or they put them back on TV, uh huh. And when they put them back on TV, I was like okay, now I'm ready to go back to games. I started seeing those ticket prices. I'm like dude, like are you kidding me? Yeah, I'll stay home and watch them. Better.
Lano:Have you been there since the remodel rough.
Rafael:Yeah, well, last year, like that new home run era it's really nice though.
Miggy:I haven't seen that yet. I haven't been there Like I wanted to check back at this home. I haven't been there. I see easily about 10 years.
Rafael:Yeah, Before that it had probably been about four or five years. Yeah. But my. I got a neighbor across the street who had season tickets and he invited me. Oh. And he was like showing me around. It's really cool, though.
Lano:Like I want to check out that book home run. Looks really nice. Looks really nice, it's really nice, expensive. They did a really good job with the pavilions.
Rafael:But yeah, dude beer is really expensive now over there.
Lano:How much, because I remember they were at 18 bucks before.
Rafael:How much is that now 18, 19 bucks for a tall can?
Miggy:Like I think they were like at 12, 12 and 15.
Rafael:You know parking, parking is expensive.
Lano:Now that like that's the area they redid Like, so the pavilions was like the hot ticket, like everybody wants to go there now, or?
Rafael:yeah, like the new area, they got that standing room, that standing room section. It's pretty cool.
Miggy:Well, what they did too? Is they connected? They connected the pavilions to the rest of the stadium right. Yeah, they said, now you could do a loop around, like walk around the stadium. Yeah, you can do that before.
Rafael:Then you could. They added like some tables, like towards the back of the pavilions, that you could. They're like seats, but I mean they're, they're like tables. Yeah, you buy a ticket for that, for that table and you like watch the game from a third.
Lano:Pretty cool, like separate from the homerun seats, like the ones on the wall yeah. Oh, have you been to? I mean, I, I take on the tour of the bank. I'm glad we could still call it the bank, because now they switched banks, now it's like Bebom Bank. Um, like, I took a tour and like I I've seen those restaurants but I never ate inside, like that Figueroa, like club and all that stuff you eat there.
Rafael:No, I've been in there, but I've never. I've never been in in there during the game, but I last year, actually, like during that championship game against Leone, I bought a tickets for that founders club and it's, it's really cool up there, man, it's so that's on um so, like on the West side, like on the top, or where's that? Yeah.
Lano:Because I know there's like different, there's like Figueroa club, founders club.
Rafael:Yeah, it's on the West side and your ticket it includes, like food and drink.
Lano:So it's not a suite, it's just like a area.
Rafael:Yeah, it's an area. So I mean, right there, dude, you just walk up, get you could walk up to the bar. As for a beer, or how many, how ever many? And you just how much?
Miggy:what's the price of the tickets? Yeah, so the next yeah, they're a little high, I mean probably. I mean, if you got one time.
Rafael:I think there's it's probably like about 150 bucks.
Miggy:That's not bad which wasn't bad for me that was a championship game. That was like a championship game, championship game, and that's all the food and drink you want.
Rafael:I got out there like an hour early and I just started drinking here eating. They had all kinds of food up there, man.
Lano:That's not bad at all they got desserts. And then there's like a Sunday club that I've just like walked in the tour by and they were being up there during the game. Yeah. Like an area where they got like launched like seats and stuff like outside up on the top.
Rafael:Like a little pool up there.
Lano:Yeah.
Miggy:That sounds like a pool or a hot tub in there somewhere.
Lano:So is the Founders Club. Is that on the top or the bottom?
Miggy:It's like in the middle Because is that the one?
Rafael:Because I More towards the top. It's just like the second dick.
Lano:Because there's like a, like a restaurant where, like when the players walk out, you can see them. No or no, or is that something else?
Rafael:Yeah, that's downstairs, yeah.
Lano:What is that one called?
Rafael:That one and I forgot. But it's like a high end, like restaurant down there.
Lano:Yeah, because there's an area like like you know, all the new stadiums like like before the game or half time, when the players like walk out into this field, they walk like a hallway and like the rope is like blocked off so like you can see them walking out to the stadium. There's a restaurant where you can see them, like that.
Rafael:Yeah, it's like some high end restaurant down there.
Lano:No, that's just like I was on the last one.
Rafael:That's for like people that are like sitting on that field field club.
Lano:That because there's like they have like some like like lazy boy seats, like on the field, like like for, like the high end people. Oh yeah, yeah, so like I guess that they have exclusive to that club. So it's not that you can't just buy a ticket to that or make reservations for that spot.
Rafael:Yeah, you just got to spend the money, dude.
Lano:You just sit there and then there's a little corner, like like on the North end, where, like all the celebrities like sit, like you see, like B Real is always there.
Rafael:He real is always there.
Lano:Will Ferrell will say Well, we're close. A part owner. He's a, has a suite.
Rafael:Um, what's his name from system over down Shabbo? Shabbo is always there. And then they always bring, like special Others, like special guests.
Miggy:Your brother, literally get to hanging out with them.
Rafael:He's busy. Well they invite him down there every once in a while, but he says, I really like going down there. He's got his like own thing going on, but he goes, he goes down there.
Lano:Like I want Mickey to see that, like the parade, there's a parade like of them, the supporters, like walking into the, like the stadium, outside, like their drums, and then they, then they go. Um, I just want to experience it.
Miggy:My, my thing is because the whole, the whole game, you guys are screaming out all these chants to the like, I guess songs or whatever and is like, do you guys ever repeat them, or you know?
Rafael:what they actually only repeat them Like like they'll they go through like the whole thing, like during the first half, and then they do it again. So they'll repeat like just just oh, so they have like a set.
Lano:Yeah, it's like a set that they do. Oh, because I guess it's 90 minutes. You know what, like, what's going to happen? That's, that's crazy.
Miggy:And it's not stopped. That's not stop, Like if you're going to sit there like, let's say like after half time like you want to go hang out with. Kobe yeah.
Lano:Like you're ready to work your your butt off. Like you just be like pumping your hand they can't look at your phones or nothing. Like they'll yell at you like you know that's another thing I was going to ask.
Miggy:I'm like what, what shouldn't you do? We're like what should I not do when I'm there?
Rafael:Yeah, the one the number one thing like don't be on your phone, like trying to record, take pictures and all that.
Miggy:I don't do that. I don't do that bullshit anywhere regardless.
Rafael:And other than that, like try to like join in.
Lano:You know, yeah, the flow, yeah, pump your arms, like yell, because even they'll be like chat, chat, Like if you just like trying to watch the game. If you're in that section, yeah, they'll be like hey, pump your arms, pump your arms.
Miggy:Oh, but just that one section.
Rafael:If we're not in there. Yeah, no, you're good, and then, like.
Miggy:It's like I don't know what the chance are yeah, but if you can, you know you go in there and you get the full experience.
Rafael:I think there's like signs on the wall that say like you can't wear other apparel, like besides LSE or something. Yeah, like other teams, other colors for sure other teams and then every now and then they they put other like rules in there for like I don't like for a Miami game. You know like they would they they close it completely off for like just for the 32, 52. Did you go to that game? Yeah, I did.
Lano:I was gonna say if you sold tickets, but I could have like, for how much dude?
Rafael:my tickets were going for like about six months. Yeah, I mean.
Lano:I just looked at it at the glance and they're like up to $35 tickets selling for like 600 bucks.
Miggy:Yeah, Well what was it Cause I was hearing on the news that, um, I guess messy played his last game somewhere. Was it here, like in LA?
Lano:or somewhere near. Well, I mean, it was last game, maybe his last game in Paris, but like this was like his first game in LA.
Rafael:Yeah.
Lano:When he played because he barely joined the league this year Like this summer, during the summer, yeah.
Miggy:Well, so he's not retiring, he's not like no, no, you shouldn't be back next year. I heard that I could wrong that because I thought I thought it was like his last game ever, like he was going to retire already and then like cheap seats were selling for like over $700 or something to see him.
Lano:He played in Europe and he transferred over to, like the major league soccer, the American league and um, so I don't know if they were talking about the last thing in Europe, but over here, like now, he's over here.
Miggy:I'm telling you, I thought I heard that he played here somewhere in the States Actually like here in the West Coast somewhere and people were paying like stupid amounts of money.
Rafael:Oh, man dude, there was a there's like a family of four that sent X to me that they, they, they went for it. Man, they bought the expensive seats right there. They paid 600 each Wow.
Lano:They sent extension seats, but I mean well for them. It was expensive seats.
Rafael:And they, they want to go see Messi.
Lano:So where they like, like foreigners or no, or just regularly.
Rafael:Yeah, they were actually, but they, they were, they were, they were, it was like an Indian family and they were all excited, man.
Lano:They're like dude, we want to see him. So yeah, they and then if they score a goal, well, if you're in the 32 52, that's um, because it's 32, 52 seats. So that's why they call that section the 32 52. If you're there, if there's a goal, expect a beer shower If you have a beer area, we throw it up in the air.
Rafael:Yeah, you walk out of there smelling like beer, so why do?
Lano:they call it 32, 52? 32, 52 people like seats in that section. Oh, so that whole section is 32, 52, 3000.
Miggy:That's how many seats are there?
Lano:Yeah, and it's standing room only, so standing room spots in that section and like there's drums and everything but also there's no seats there, no, just only standing Like. The seats are kind of like locked up right.
Rafael:Yeah, they're locked up. I don't know if they actually have seats there, but they're like, uh, they're like folded up, folded up.
Lano:I don't know if they ever bring them down like for what? Like a concert? I don't know what they would.
Miggy:Oh, maybe a regular concert yeah.
Lano:They're like no doubt recently um right now played there right Papers um so really don't hear much about them playing there.
Rafael:They had a like a big rave, like a few weeks ago, or there too, yeah.
Lano:Have you been to a concert there?
Rafael:Yeah, I have.
Lano:Who would you see?
Rafael:I took, uh, I took Claribel and see a Imagine Dragons right there.
Lano:Oh, do you get like first dibs on those seats or like because of the season ticket?
Rafael:E-mails like like before, uh, before they go on sale, like to the general public.
Lano:And it's like whatever seats, it's not your seats, right, it's whatever seats you buy.
Rafael:Yeah, whatever seats you can, you want to buy.
Lano:You can afford. Yeah, pretty much yeah. And then, um, what else? It's just um, no, it's going to be crazy. It'll be fun, Learn the chance.
Rafael:Do your homework, do your homework, do your homework, do your homework Do your homework, do your homework.
Lano:I mean I I don't know if Kobe will bring you over there, but like the full experience. What time does Kobe get to the games?
Rafael:Dude, he's one of those guys that shows up like at 10 in the morning. They they go, they they set up and everything for for the tailgating. Oh dude, he's, he's there all day.
Miggy:Well, at least that parade no.
Rafael:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he leaves it. Yeah, he leaves it. So, yeah, he's there.
Lano:You were like from day one, like he came in like a year later, right?
Rafael:That same year, like later in the year he came in but he just got like really involved in it.
Miggy:Like, that's how I say how did he get to where he got to?
Rafael:Dude. He put in a lot of work, like like just being there all the time, you know, like getting people together. They always have like events and stuff. He'd always go.
Lano:Cause. It seemed like first, like like when I first saw him there, like I just happened to see him like drinking a beer, like we're like drinking a beer together, and I was like, hey, there's Colby. And then then he's like, where are you sitting at? And I was like, oh, I'm, I'm sitting at the 32, 52. He's like where, cause 32, 52, it's first come, first serve. So he's like where? And I'm like, well, 32, 52. And then he's like, where are you sitting? And I was like, well, I don't know, we'll find out when I get there. And then he's like, because that group right there in the corner, that's my group, he's like are you sitting with us? And I was like, well, I'll walk with you, we'll sit with you. So then he got a sandwich side in the group and at the time he was part of the empire boys and then now he's he's part of like like LSE originals or something.
Lano:The crew, the crew, the nice part of the crew. So cause me, like I was naive, I was just like oh, we just bought tickets, it's first come, first serve. Like we just like squeeze in whatever, but but like they have little, like little squares or sections.
Rafael:And then there's sections where, like every sub quarter group, like, like takes up, you know so.
Lano:So I was with them and back then he was just like he was involved, but like like everybody knew him, but he wasn't like a couple. And I had asked him, like, have you ever, like, did the like led the couple or the church? He's like, I did it once, but then they kicked me down, they kicked me off and I was like, oh, all right, but now like he's the one that's up there like leading it and I don't know, like, like, if they do, like they take turns at halftime or whatever, or like sometimes it's like ladies night where like you'll see only girl couples up there, like leaving the charge, and like I don't know how it's organized. But then, like he told me he's like, yeah, like we go to them. What's that place in Helen Park? The house of soccer or house of something?
Rafael:Oh, the house of football.
Lano:House of football.
Rafael:Yeah, here it's closing. I heard I saw something on that. I don't.
Lano:Are they moving like location or Well, that guy will that, um, who's part of the ticket is, or whatever. Yeah, he told me that like they're closing it because he's like hey, did you hear about house of football it's closing. I was like, oh man, I didn't know that, but he just told me it was closing.
Rafael:Man, that was a really cool spot. It was like on your spot.
Lano:But he says, like they were, they're only open because they took donations or something. I don't understand what he was telling me exactly, but he says they're only open because of donations and then I don't know something that they're closing down.
Rafael:That's a really cool spot, and they had a. They bought like trophies over there like a few times already. They had like the trophy from the, from the, from the German league. They had it there like a couple of weeks ago and they had, uh, they bought the one from the Liga Liga, from the Mexican league, Liga Mekis, Uh-huh. Oh their trophy yeah, they the one they had like a whole event for like people that go for Atlas.
Lano:Oh, I thought you like the cellar. You see trophies, oh, okay.
Rafael:They've taken those two. But I mean dude, it's, it's a spot man.
Miggy:Well, what was it Like a store?
Rafael:It used to be an old church and I think they used to do like special events there, right?
Lano:Yeah, like maybe a venue type thing. Yeah.
Rafael:They used to rent it out and then they took over and on the top level they they would sell like all these vintage, like Jersey's kids. And then downstairs it was a bar, oh, okay.
Miggy:Like a speakeasy.
Rafael:It was like low, low key. They had all the, all the games going on and they would. Yeah, I don't know what the deal was with, like with the whole like alcohol license there, so that might. I don't know if that's why they're closing it up.
Lano:No, I see Kobe, and like I want to get more involved in this one, when the when the babies get bigger. But like they have a good, like a way to get following me, like where the like there's a group that travels those two away games like different soccer scene. Have you done one of those away trips?
Rafael:Yeah.
Lano:Where'd you go?
Rafael:Dude, we did a like, a few like. Two years ago I think we did. We went to a Utah for the rail South Lake.
Lano:That's what we're seeing on Sunday.
Rafael:That was cool. I think about that day like about 400 people went.
Lano:Yeah, like a group like hardcore man.
Rafael:Some people drove, did like that, 11 hour drive Same day yeah. So I'm like stopped in Vegas, like the night before, but like I will send me.
Lano:There's like a WhatsApp group where they organize it all, or something. Yeah. Those away trips, but at the biggest season you'll see a calendar and they'll be like. They'll tell you like which supporter or organizers is doing it. But I think I saw, like Kobe, like in like a lot of places, yeah.
Rafael:I think you're using Portland. Yeah, portland recently is in Portland. You've done like the San Jose trip too.
Lano:Yeah, and then I was like I was thinking about like that Monterey Bay, but I looked at like some smaller, like high school.
Rick:It was like a small venue.
Lano:Oh, because this Monterey Bay like is pretty cool area. I want to go but that's like that'll be kind of cool to see, like all the kind of soccer stams in the MLS, just cause it's like a different like atmosphere, family, family environment. I have a list of on the on the board. These are the legend and Ralph stories and we got over a couple of them. But before we we finish, I just wanted to. I want to go over one of the stories. I guess the next on this was the magical lollipop. Tell us that story you read there, miggit no, I was there for that one.
Rafael:Danny was there. I think Rick was there too. Right, it was Florentine Gardens. So we're at Florentine Gardens and we were drinking, hanging out and stuff, and then they started having a. What was it like a?
Miggy:they always have either a hard-bodied contest or like a thong contest for the chicks or some stupid shit so yeah, man, they started having like that hard-bodied contest.
Rafael:It's funny, those dudes get up there and they think you know they're up there, they start flexing they're all hard they're like from the audience, they're not like part of the show those guys. They go to the gym all week and then they go up to go flex at the club they're pumping the outside just to be ready for the show. I think we might have been a little annoyed by it because it's a little too much, like some of those guys that get up there and stuff.
Miggy:So anyhow, you're like bring the chicks out already. Get these fools out of here so they gave out lollipops.
Rafael:Dude, we're right there, I had a lollipop in my mouth and shit, so we were under like a balcony you know you've been to like was that Florentine Gardens, right? Yeah, I think it was there's like a balcony over you and stuff and those guys like that stage.
Lano:It was pretty far out they're on a pedestal or the stage they're on a stage and stuff there's like a whole dance floor there's like a whole dance floor in the way and stuff.
Rafael:So, dude, I don't know man, it's just one of those drunk things, man. I did a lot of dumb things while I was back in the drinking days. So, dude, I just I got my lollipop. Dude, I tossed it. Dude, how would it manage to like hit that guy like right on the neck? I don't know man and it's stuck right when they called him up, like to, like you know, like spotlight on him and the light shane spotlight goes up and you know like there's a lollipop dude and like hits him in the
Lano:neck and like it gets stuck dude he's like flexing, like the whole time lollipop stuck on his neck and I think he kind of like brushed it.
Rafael:Like you know, he tried to like brush it away and it got up like higher, like up to his face, dude. So the whole time he's like flexing with me you start hearing like people in the crowd like laugh they're like oh man, dude, you start getting louder and louder.
Lano:I think he won it right, I won it for him, dude, he won it because the crowd was cheering for him yeah, it's like that throw man.
Miggy:I don't think I could it's got to be like one in a million dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a one in a million shot, one in a million one in a million money shots, oh man because it was like a pine, like, like you had a belching over you, so you had a like, like.
Rafael:It was like a like a underhand, like it's like a underhand kind of like like sidearm dude, like it was like a magic bullet like, like the Kennedy's, like it was magic, like magic lollipop. It had to go straight and then up and over, it could have been somebody else from the balcony. Yeah, it was like the grassy door with the pop of the valley. There was two lollipops or one lollipop, but yeah, it was a magic bullet. We laughed the whole night.
Lano:Man, it was hilarious and then, uh, why don't we go through like there, we save some of these? I don't know when you can be on again, but like there's, we got the wine cellar, the border crossing and then the radar schedule. Which one do you want to hear, miggie? No, the radar schedule. I think you had it at your house yeah, or that big poster yeah.
Rafael:And then the border crossing.
Miggy:It was a big, some big sign that you remember, remember that yeah, and then the wine cellar, some bottle you took you remember going to a bar one time when we went to go see Strick9 play and uh they had that one band up there that Fulke Tadaski for a Greyhound. Like you can't want any people to buy him a Greyhound. Oh yeah, that dude was singing right yeah and then they, um, they brought up this huge drink like a shell oh, like a big clam, a big clam, like a big clam, oh he was like what is that shit?
Rafael:like a clam drip or something yeah, that's right, dude I think it was huge it was like a little dude, like a sink bro, like a kick a sink, it was huge the funniest thing, though, was that one Fulke, that singer man.
Miggy:He was like. He was like how about somebody up there? And he was like get the singer on Greyhound don't?
Rafael:we want to buy him a fun he was like come stage Fulke is that that day we got into that brawl, or what?
Miggy:uh, no no but I think that same bar is the one where that radar sign was. It was like a big banner. I don't know how the hell you got out with that one dude.
Rafael:I think I used to like a cane dude when.
Miggy:I walked out it was huge.
Rafael:Huh, it was huge, dude. I walked out like I used to, like a cane, and nobody noticed they had it been at least like 4x8 or like maybe 4x10. Dude, this was huge and where happened to it? I still had that thing, Rick has it.
Miggy:Yeah, rick has it. We were talking about that and he thought we were talking about the border crossing sign where you got another bar and that's the one we thought he thought I was talking about. But I was like I don't know, it's a banner, it's like a big radar banner. I don't know how this dude got out of the radar schedule and shit.
Rafael:I thought it was that place where he got into that brawl. What do you remember from that brawl? Which one the BS Orisa no, I was at one of the Strik 9 shows oh Ventura yeah, there you go that midget freaking pin me on stage.
Miggy:They pinned you okay, so.
Rafael:Strik 9 is playing dude how did it start like from a march pit these fools were like trying to knock everybody down or whatever.
Miggy:So then um Rog had asked me to get in front of the stage and make sure nobody got up on the stage right, and so me and my homeboy Brian you know, he was bigger than me we were trying to keep everybody off from the stage and let them perform. And there's this little asshole. You know, little fat, pudgy, freaking midget. You know, like I don't know why he just had it in for me. You know, when I see them from like the back of the room, they get like a running start and come right at me.
Miggy:But the thing is I'm like I'm right at the stage, so the stage is high enough to where my it's the stage level is at the back of my knee. So then this little fat shit comes and pins me, so like it kind of takes my legs out from under me and then, just like, lays his whole body on top of me and shit. So we're both like laying down on top of the stage and I'm trying to get him off me, dude, but he's so heavy it's like I can't get him off me.
Rafael:You couldn't bench that dude.
Miggy:I couldn't dude, I couldn't he was solid man yeah, man. And then, um, julien, you know he stops playing the guitar and he goes in there and tries to get him off and everything, and just. It was just a simple fact that these idiots were just trying to come at me and Brian just because we're big and pretty much, like Marsh Pit rules are to get the big guys and it turned into like a brawl right remember it turned into a brawl and stuff, you know, and the thing was I went, danny, through that phantom.
Miggy:Oh it was me. Well, that was me. I got that, that phantom left.
Rafael:I nailed that dude, I caught him.
Miggy:Dude, that's right, cause after he was like, oh, someone socked me.
Rafael:I saved Biggie dude.
Lano:I cracked that dude and I remember Tom was like nobody saw it and then it took a few days and I think Roger confirmed it, the famous phantom punch the other day I was listening to DJ Quik and remember that one time we saw DJ Quik at the house was the house of blues, house of blues in Hollywood, in Hollywood, yeah. And then, um, I think Ralph, like they had like Nate Dogg, I think had passed away or wasn't there. So that's a new guy, like cocaine, who was trying to be the new Nate Dogg, like replacing them, and I think was it like Ralph, you threw a drink at him or something right, I threw a drink in the air dude, I don't know where who it hit, so it was like DJ Quik or Deffero.
Rafael:I thought they scored a goal, so I just was it DJ Quik or was it exhibit?
Lano:I think it was DJ Quik.
Rafael:I think it was like a DJ Quik.
Lano:It was DJ Quik and then, uh, or maybe it was Philly Agni or something.
Miggy:No, no, no no, no, no no they'll probably DJ Quik and then.
Lano:So these guys like I don't know, those Deffero or whatever his entourage, they jump off the stage and they charge the guy next to Ralph.
Miggy:The rest of the food next to Ralph is start beating his ass. I remember looking at Ralph like whoa, we're both like oh shit.
Lano:So Ralph threw the drink, and then they just run and meet up with the guy next to Ralph. We're just like oh my god yeah, that was bad dude.
Rafael:Hey, my bad. If that guy's listening to the pot my bad dude yeah, but we do dumb shit when we're young man and then I just want to go with the border crossing sign because we don't know how you did it.
Lano:It's like a mystery, but it's like this big steel, like sign, right and somehow you're able to like walk off with it and they said it like in your shirt and you're like these big pointy shoulders like from the sign, like a border crossing sign. But how did that happen?
Rafael:I think I took a fancy to that sign, dude, they were like in some, really like yeah, they were.
Miggy:Was it a Ventura? Was it a Ventura, probably a Ventura super white area.
Rafael:Yeah, super white area. So we took a little offense by that sign where it had like a family. You know like, like, if you're going like to the border, they have like a sign with like a family, like to be, like they might be crossing yeah, like to be aware like there might be runners crossing so these fools had one, but it was a like they were all carrying surfboards yeah, they were running. I think that they all had surfboards or one of them had a surfboard.
Lano:At the end we're like ah man Ventura yeah, surf city, usa, whatever.
Rafael:So yeah, dude we wanted to take it down. We wanted to take it down.
Lano:You know, those were those crazy, those crazy strict night party busties man, yeah those were cool man, all these were so much fun so you just grabbed and just threw it under your shirt, or how under?
Rafael:your jacket. Yeah, I just went behind the bar and got it.
Lano:Dude like that so you were grabbed it.
Rafael:I took it on my shirt and it walked out. Dude, that thing was like man, it was sharp. It was sharp. I may have cut myself that day, dude, but it was worth it, because who has that sign?
Miggy:I don't know. That's the mystery. We don't know where that sign is at.
Lano:We don't know where it's at it might be. Danny, or maybe um Rod Strykney someone took it.
Rafael:Nah, yeah, it was there's a state on the bus. No, someone had it. I remember seeing it, maybe Dennis. I think Dennis had it over at his old little house, oh, maybe oh, he's supposed to be joining us at the shows, man oh he is.
Lano:Yeah, I was talking to him on his birthday and he we were trying to get him last week but he couldn't come. Dennis, this week, lothanese, he's trying to get a transfer over to my work, so I'm hoping he gets that and then so we'll save, I guess, the Raiders schedule and then the Wine Cellar for another time, but yeah, I'll be back.
Rafael:I'll be back you're always welcome.
Lano:You've been here now you know how it works.
Rafael:All the magic's done. You gotta come back with.
Speaker 2:Rick's here though, cause you and Rick have been through some shit, dude, yeah that was big for good stories.
Lano:Come back with Rick, and then we'll follow your house and finish the job so we'll be back next week let you know how I survived the matchup. Yeah, I'm thinking about just doing a little recording on my phone or something like just to get a little teaser.
Miggy:I mean, we'll see we could broadcast live on the Gramps just like a little quick, 10 minutes.
Lano:Yeah on the Gramps. Oh yeah, save for the Instagram keep drifting yo peace.
Miggy:Thanks for watching.