Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 106 - Fly Fans and Political Ponderings: Tackling Summer Hurdles and Reliving Music History
Ever wondered how a global pandemic, social media absurdities, and scorching heatwaves intersect? Lano and RK67 kicks off our latest episode by recounting his harrowing battle with COVID-19, complete with relentless coughing and intense body aches. We then shift focus to an engaging discussion on the bizarre Hawk Tua phenomenon and the pervasive influence of viral trends on society. Our conversation takes an analytical turn as we scrutinize the current U.S. political landscape, pondering potential hidden agendas by major news networks. The misery of enduring a heatwave while sick adds another layer, underscoring the discomfort of extreme temperatures.
Tired of flies crashing your outdoor parties? We’ve got you covered! We dive into practical solutions for dealing with pesky flies during hot weather, from horse sprays and ointments to the ingenious Fly Fan available on Amazon. Personal anecdotes about preparing for a backyard wedding amidst a heatwave highlight the exhaustion and triumph of creating a beautiful reception. Tune in for tips and tricks to maintain a fly-free environment and make your outdoor gatherings more enjoyable.
Ready for a nostalgic trip down memory lane? We explore the evolution of music accessibility, from boomboxes and detachable car stereo faces to modern-day streaming services like Spotify. We reminisce about the charm of vinyl records and childhood memories of classic albums and Disney read-along books. Our reflections on the simplicity and joy of past entertainment experiences are sure to resonate. Join us as we share stories that promise to entertain and inform, blending personal memories with practical advice and thought-provoking discussions.
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Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast. This is Mig. This is Lano and RK67. So Lano survived the Rona once again.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:Welcome back from death. I was sick man.
Lano:I was out of work the whole week, whole week coughing, and no, this is bad. My whole back was hurt just from coughing.
Mig:Good thing we weren't around. We would have put you down.
Lano:I was sore from clenching, coughing so much where you start. Damn dude, you start gagging. I was gagging every morning. I would try to wake up. Were you like hot tua. I didn't know what that was. I finally found out that shit pissed me off too dude.
Mig:People were talking about it yeah dude, that stupid Hak Tua chick.
Rick:You know what that is, Rick? Oh, you know what. I just saw it today because actually it was a YouTube short that Joe Rogan was talking about. Yeah, well, I didn't know what it was. I saw this chick.
Lano:I didn't know what it was either. Then I started looking it up, but recently, right the past couple weeks- yeah, it is.
Mig:It's stupid. The things that go viral, yeah, and then she's making money.
Rick:But she's making money on like merchandise, right.
Mig:Yeah, people are asking for autographed shit dude.
Lano:It's not the video, right? Yeah, they're just like shirts with the label.
Rick:I saw she had a hat.
Mig:Yeah, probably just a hat.
Rick:You don't I don't know. Someone made that already.
Lano:huh yeah, someone To take it from her, yeah, and then she's been getting interviewed everywhere.
Mig:That's stupid, it is dude. Social media Just goes to show you where society's going man.
Lano:Well, speaking of that, I don't want to talk politics, but the debate was kind of crazy. I don't know I liked it, I know, I know, but I don't know what you guys did like with our president right now.
Mig:He needs to go your president. He needs like I don't know. He needs like I didn't vote for that dog.
Lano:Face pony, it's kind of like it's for like our enemies to see that. Let's say our enemies see that debate and be like this guy's in charge.
Mig:Like, like, like now's the time to attack. They've been sitting there for the past three years yeah, so this is crazy I mean, I don't know if you still think he's right in the head.
Lano:I don't know well, I mean they're, they're turning on him, but um, yeah, so now I'm surprised cnn is turning on him.
Rick:see the thing now.
Mig:I'm surprised CNN is turning on them, See the thing with me, though, dude, is they're such low, conniving, sneaky that I don't know what they're up to, why they're running out of time Exactly. So what the hell are they up to? What are they going to spring at the last minute, but something's in the works. I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it to drop. Yeah, you know, I'm waiting for it to drop and see what the hell they're going to do. Yeah.
Mig:You know, because, as of right now, dude, they're done, there's no way, there's no way they had planned it this way I find it hard to believe that they let it get to this point with as much control that they have.
Speaker 4:Yeah. And as much that they're willing to manipulate, to let it go off the rails like this.
Mig:Yeah, it's got to be planned.
Lano:Right, so they have something waiting, yeah, and then they were saying Newsom was out there. And why was he out there? Is it going to be the surprise big?
Mig:Nah, because Newsom Went on CNN and they had Adam Carolla on there. Oh dude. Adam.
Lano:Carolla ripped him a new. A Carolla has his number man, surprisingly, I haven't heard anything about him, carolla A new ass. Surprisingly, I haven't heard nothing about Harris the VP.
Rick:Kamala yeah.
Lano:I mean, no one's talking about her Bringing her up or whatever.
Mig:She's gonna do. She's gonna do Haktua part 2.
Lano:Forget it. The politics aside, the worst thing About being sick Was, um, like being sick, like Like stuffed up nose and then having to be Like a heat wave, like hot, oh yeah.
Rick:Yeah.
Lano:Like, just like you know you're, you're trying to like Snuggle, it's hot, like you put the air On.
Rick:It's too cold.
Lano:It kind of calmed down, no A little bit the heat a little bit like maybe today, but yeah, I mean if anything, I hate being sick when it's hot.
Mig:It sucks, it's the worst I gotta be spraying down the dogs.
Rick:I bought a fly spray or even ointment to put on their ears.
Lano:All the flies and stuff.
Rick:Yeah yeah, because they're all.
Lano:They're all like red, they're blood.
Rick:Yeah, because as it is already hot, and then they gotta have these damn flies all the flies, chewing them up.
Lano:So what'd you get, a mister?
Rick:It's like a horse spray. No, no, no, it's a horse spray out of a spray bottle. You just spray them down behind the neck, top of the head, and then the ointment I put on their ears. It's a clear ointment, you know what's been working at the house, keeps them up pretty good, laura.
Mig:Our sister bought these. It's the stupidest looking thing, dude. The fans yeah, those fans, and they're working Because she has them all over the porch. They're just little fans with two blades. They're reflective and they have like a dot on the end of one of the blades and so they just, they just spin but like the wind, the wind blows them, or they're motorized.
Lano:No, no, no, they're motorized, they're rechargeable.
Mig:Yeah, you recharge them Every night.
Lano:But they're shiny.
Mig:Apparently the reflective tape or whatever In this dot or something To the flies.
Rick:It looks like it's Some kind of predator, so they stay awake I, she gave me uh, they come in a pack of four, and she gave me, she ordered me, or she had an extra pack and I put them around the dog house in the kennel and they were still around there and then, yeah, I guess you're supposed to be able to hang them upside down and they don't work that good because the reflectiveness doesn't. The sun doesn't hit the reflectiveness I don don't even know why.
Mig:Well, because she has them on the porch, because the dogs like to hang around on the porch, yeah, and when I'm out there with them, it's like there's hardly any flies.
Rick:You know what, when I open the doors, I mean doors, the windows, the big window, yeah, and I put them right there at the window. Nothing, they don't.
Lano:Where should you get them?
Mig:at Amazon. I'm pretty sure on Amazon.
Rick:Yeah, but it's good like, especially if you have like a party.
Mig:Yeah, like if you're going to put it around the food.
Rick:Yeah, that's perfect, because that's actually what she saw. There you go, that's it, right there.
Mig:Yeah, she saw that's what the purpose was, all these little fans that were on the table. She was wondering what they were and when she got closer she asked one of the caterers or something. They said it was to keep the flies away and she was like wow.
Rick:And you know what. They're not exactly like that, but it's the same idea. Yeah, so the little propellers that have the little reflective on it. They're like paper, so they spin like a fan. But like, say, you have it around food and you're going to reach for something, your hand hits the blade but it's just like over. It does nothing, yeah, it just stops.
Mig:It's like a ribbon or something, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's actually funny because the other day I was putting out the trash, I was doing something, and I had the dogs out there.
Lano:They're on the porch, so the dogs could Come into it, and nothing happens. Yeah, and Zoe.
Mig:Actually got her nose Really close to the blade and like it hit her and like she didn't even Flinch or nothing. She just like, kind of like Just backed off.
Lano:Yeah, those are really.
Mig:Like it'll hit you. They're not spinning so fast when it where it's going to hurt. So it'll hit you and it'll stop, and then it'll keep going again. They're pretty effective, though, man yeah check it out.
Lano:This was on Amazon. It's called the Fly Fan.
Rick:That was just the top of the search.
Lano:Fly Fans for tables, and it's a four pack for $30.
Mig:Get it I would actually say that's the type of gadget that you would Bring our attention to.
Rick:I know.
Lano:I haven't seen it.
Mig:I've been locked inside being sick, that's what I'm saying. I've been sick inside, so I didn't know that's your type of gadget Right up your alley? Yeah, we definitely recommend, but you know, what Cause?
Lano:So I got sick. Like I said, it's been are two weeks. Three weeks, yeah, two weeks. So congratulations my um baby sister-in-law. Her wedding was oh congratulations the 22nd the 22nd congrats.
Rick:Is that what you're doing that one week?
Mig:yeah, we're. Oh, that was that one week where you couldn't come, the backyard.
Lano:We're power washing the backyard like the whole week before and then nice fixing up the garden like trimming all the bushes and like we're all working garden like trimming all the bushes and like we're all working, so like. So that that show we missed because we couldn't record that day yeah because I was. I was out there.
Lano:Um, I'll put with the yard work, but, um, everybody, the wedding came and then, by the time, like everybody's beat, it was a heat wave yeah everybody's tired from cleaning up the backyard all week, exhausted like the day came and like we're all like in their suits and we're just like we couldn't even celebrate, like you know. We're just like exhausted.
Rick:The reception was in the backyard the reception was in the backyard.
Lano:So then, um, she had rented like uh, like a big, like a big tent, like with tables and stuff, so it was like a big, long tent that went across the back it looked nice. I'll try to find some photos. That's cool. And then, um, like big, long wooden tables. You know they got like fancy chairs that you know they decorate them right real nice.
Lano:But they had, like they had like a big spread of um charcuterie yeah like it was like a full take like and flies were getting all over it, but like this little fan could have helped out yeah, damn, if we would have had.
Rick:Yeah, if we would have had the show. Yeah.
Lano:This fan would have helped out with that.
Rick:We could have gotten that plate.
Lano:Yeah, but that plate, that's a must.
Rick:Well, even if you, you could be a hero at the next family gathering, which?
Lano:is 4th of July, Take them take well you can't order them now, because they got all this leftover like food and like sodas and stuff.
Rick:Order it right now. Is that what you?
Lano:Oh yeah, it'll come in two days.
Rick:But, um, if you order within the next two hours, but wait, there's more, it might, because that might be at the warehouse yeah, there's a two pack right here For 16 bucks.
Lano:No, don't be cheap, get four, get the crazy. But out of that waiting Four people got the Rona. Well, when her brother-in-law, um, got diagnosed like the the wednesday before the wednesday before the saturday like he, he came back from colorado. So I don't know if he was a super spreader, but he was. He was outbreak monkey. He got the rona. He was locked up in the room where we're all cleaning it. He was all like locked up and then like masked up and then um, but by the time the wedding came he wasn't wearing his mask and stuff.
Rick:And then so four people got Corona.
Lano:And then like six, seven people got like the cold or flu and stuff. Damn Probably people that never tested.
Rick:At least you guys partied one last time.
Lano:Yeah, I mean everybody had a great time, but like we're beat.
Rick:We're just beat the yeah, that's. That's crazy, because it's been. It was hot that week yeah it's pretty damn hot, especially right there in walnut. Yeah, yeah, right there on our side town it's hot, it's damn freaking hot so now like um hey um whatever since we're talking about gadgets, does my beard look majestic?
Lano:Oh, you know what? I haven't even opened my box yet, wow.
Rick:I think my beard's looking a little majestic. Well, we didn't even say. We didn't even say yeah, because the last show we walked out, miggy gave us the kits.
Lano:Oh, right right.
Rick:I've been mixing it with the one you got me and the Viking one I got. Oh, okay.
Lano:I had it already.
Rick:I really like the brushes man, the beard brushes. That's what I like.
Mig:No, but actually I like, I think out of everything I like the balm, yeah, the balm.
Lano:Tell me the routine. Every morning you're doing the bum, or in the evening.
Speaker 4:Well, when I mean, if you want to, the way I do.
Rick:It is when you get out of the shower. You do the oil, Use the oil.
Lano:It's on the beard.
Rick:Well, yeah, you got to comb, get it all, but then get the oil. We're talking about beard and Beard oil.
Lano:Beard oil about beard and beard oil beard, yeah, um.
Rick:So you get the oil and you put it all like on your skin well, let's hold on, let's go all the way back.
Mig:So the last show, after the last show, I my dumb ass, you know forgot to bring it and I wanted to introduce it to the audience. Another product review, since Lano had already brought us some stuff and gifted us some stuff, you know, to try out and review the sore soap, yeah. So I thought I figured this is something that we've talked about that we wanted to do and try out. So I took the initiative and since it was right around Lano's birthday, I figured I'll get him a gift, you know, and we'll all try it out together. So I found these kits for the beards, like grooming kits, right. So then I bought three kits, similar kits, and I gave one to Rick, one to Lano and one for myself so we could all try them out. Now Lano again, I said I don't know why he wanted one, but he wanted one, so I got him one.
Rick:He's got a little bit on his chin, but you know what? What I was thinking.
Mig:Now back to the review.
Rick:But it's good because look, three types.
Lano:Lano's little bit of stubble.
Rick:You got the goatee and then I got the long beard. Different hair styles, so it's different.
Mig:But I really do like the product though. Yeah, I mean because that's what I would do in the shower, you know, shampoo it in the conditioner, you know, because it says for the shampoo you get like a good lather going and you leave it for five minutes and rinse it.
Mig:And then do the same thing with the conditioner. You know you put it in there for five minutes and then rinse it. I do so, then I'd come out, you know, come out the tangles, or, yeah, come out the tangles, and it does a really nice job, at least everything like really relaxed now, now that you have it, it's, it's it.
Rick:You can manage it pretty good. Yeah, where it's. And then and then even because I've even, like when I got swimming At Mark's house, like, once the beer dries it gets pretty good, it's not all, yeah, crazy. You know it doesn't go all crazy.
Mig:Cause you know I've been lazy the past couple days and I could tell Because the hairs are like Popping all over the place, yeah.
Rick:Oh, so like you don't get that when you use the product, no, it all stays nice and in place the beer pump you just put it Like every so often.
Lano:Alright. So what's in the kit? Cause I haven't opened it yet Okay.
Mig:So you get Some little jars of oil, like with droplets Droppers. You get a little, can it looks like a?
Rick:Tobacco.
Mig:Little tobacco can. That's the balm that you can probably carry with you everywhere. It comes with a brush and a comb and a little bag to carry everything in, oh and the shampoo and the conditioner.
Rick:You get the shampoo, the conditioner, then you get the two bottles of oil, you get the one little can of the beard balm.
Lano:It's the same oil, just two bottles yeah.
Rick:You get a wooden comb. You get the brush, little can of the beard pump. It's the same oil, just two bottles, yeah. You get a wooden comb. You get the brush for your beard to brush or the goatee. Then you get a little pair of scissors. And then a really small comb, I think for your mustache or something. I forgot about the scissors.
Mig:That's a good kit.
Lano:It's a good little kit. So you shower with the, with the shampoo and the conditioner.
Rick:You get out of the shower and you put the oil, I'll do, I do shampoo, I do shampoo, and then I do the beard and then I let it sit and then I start washing everything else, yeah, and then once it's time I wash that, then I do the conditioner and then, once it's time I wash that, then I do the conditioner and then I finish washing and then at the end I wash the conditioner off and then when you dry, then you put the oil on and comb it.
Rick:Yeah, yeah, just comb it out With the wood comb, and then yeah, and then what's the Bump or styling. Yeah.
Mig:Like after.
Lano:You know Like if you're not home.
Rick:But it's also throughout. And then what's the bump, or?
Mig:styling. Yeah, like after.
Rick:You know, like if you're not home, but it's also throughout.
Mig:Yeah, later in the day when the oil kind of Uh-huh.
Rick:It's just to kind of like rub it into your skin.
Mig:Rub it into your skin. And rub it out, because then it kind of helps prevent if it's the dandruff, if you're split ends or whatever, yeah, Well, for me it was dandruff, because my problem was dandruff, because every time I would brush it before I would always have like I wouldn't Like the dark colored shirt. I'd have all kinds of flakes, oh really. Yeah. And now that I started Using this stuff, it's like no more flakes yeah. Yeah, I like it, it's good, pretty good.
Lano:I'm gonna try it. Well, today is Tuesday night, I'm gonna try it for Fourth of July and then see if people, people, notice anything different.
Rick:You need to start tonight.
Lano:Well, so I'll start tonight, but I'm just saying Because we're recording, it's like midnight, like I won't. I'm not gonna shower tonight and then Sucio Tomorrow, I guess in the morning I gotta.
Speaker 4:Like I'm not going to shower tonight and then no Sucio Tomorrow.
Lano:I guess in the morning I got to go into the office tomorrow, so I guess I'll do it in the morning. Do it in the morning, I'll be right. Are you going to add? Another 15 minutes to my routine. I got to wake up earlier, or no? Yeah, I got to wake up earlier tomorrow.
Rick:Yeah 15 minutes. 15 minutes is good. Hey bro, you trim your your goatee. Yeah, when it gets like, like if I'm sleeping, so you don't want to Let it grow long.
Lano:Well, I'll grow it long. I'm just telling my reason Because sometimes, like I'll be waking up. And then it's all over the place or when, the time when we had to wear masks and stuff, like right now, like I wore a mask, like to work on Monday because I was sick while recovering. But when you wear the mask and stuff you know it gets all hot and all that stuff.
Mig:Not that it gets hot dude, but I really hated it during those times because not having this care product stuff it would go all over the place.
Lano:man, yeah, it was crazy, yeah.
Mig:And I just I hated that. I would always just keep it real short and I'd keep, and I give it to a stubble the whole time we had to Be wearing those stupid masks. So you cut it, yeah.
Rick:Well, yeah, so so far, so good. I'm liking the beard, yeah.
Lano:The beard and you bought this. You bought it on Amazon.
Rick:Amazon yep Okay, I bought mine on Amazon too. The first product I bought the Viking yeah Brand, I think those I was almost, I was almost gonna get bought the.
Mig:Viking brand. I was almost going to get that brand that Viking brand, but this one that I got had, I guess, more reviews, more stars, so that's the only reason why I got it, but it was between those two, I'll see.
Rick:Right now it's majority of the Viking. So then, once that finishes, then I'll see the difference when I use yours, but I am using the shampoo and the conditioner.
Lano:I think Viking, like I have their like shaving kit, like the badger brush and stuff. Yeah, I think that's Viking. I have, or I used to, with my safety razors.
Rick:This probably this dude doesn't use it, but you're the work truck. Does it have an ox? No, a auxiliary? No, oh, nothing. Okay, all the work truck. Um, does it have an ox auxiliary? No, or nothing. All right, so I I got a new I got a new product that you brought it right now. I'm loving it. Yeah, all right for for the people that don't have bluetooth in their car and they use an ox cable because in my work van, even in the, the car, the yeah, it has an aux input.
Rick:So then I bought an male-to-male aux cable auxiliary I I and it really it's. It's annoying in the in the van because you know aux cable. I found this on amazon. Let me show you this little thing, this little thing, this little thing right here, oh it's a Bluetooth transmitter. Yeah, uh-huh, the Bluetooth transmitter. This thing works so damn good.
Lano:So you're not dealing with the cable and everything. No, you leave it in there all the time you charge it, you charge it and it lasts like 16 hours. It charges in that box or something it has the USB-C to charge. Oh, you want for your phone.
Rick:So if you have the cigarette lighter and you have it plugged in, it keeps it charged, but you can also you can disconnect it and it lasts for like 16 hours or whatever it's going to last, and you can call. You can hear the call on the speakers and also talk through this.
Mig:Oh, that's what I was going to ask, yeah speakers and also talk through this.
Rick:Well, that's all I was gonna ask. Yeah, that's cool. Also the the, because the van, the van only has an auxiliary, yeah, so when I put this out of the car speaker, so sometimes, when I would be using the, the cable connected to my phone, I would be able to talk, but sometimes it doesn't, because the cable is already messed up and I and I was always careful not to let it get kinked up but, it just started messing up.
Rick:The cable just started messing up and before I would able to be talking to someone and hear them through the speakers, and now they can't hear me. And then and then with the cable, now I was only able to hear one side of the speaker, like the passenger side, and the driver's side was nothing but that's all right, it's not gonna get pulled out, or yeah, it doesn't.
Rick:But this thing right here for the people that have auxiliary input and they don't want to be using the damn cable, this thing is badass. I also got this on Amazon.
Lano:Well, I've seen that, but they use it for airplanes. If you want to connect your Bluetooth headphones to the airplane movies and stuff, you put it in the aux and then you can connect it.
Rick:But I didn't think about it for the car it comes with With the cable, metal mill auxiliary cable.
Lano:Oh, so that's you want that separately? Huh, no, no, this comes with it, oh okay.
Rick:So you can use that or you can. You can use that little cable or you use this. So I like this Because I think it helps With the interference difference. Yeah, yeah, plug it in, that's it no, that's a good tip, that's good.
Lano:Yeah, my work, my work truck.
Rick:I think it's too old, too old it doesn't have a yeah, so the people that have the auxiliary input put the tape in there with the this thing auxiliary or something. Yeah, I, I, I was, I was like skeptical of buying it. I was like man, it's probably gonna be like every other transmitter. That sucks, you know. So then I saw some of the reviews and then they were just the people that were did little videos on the review they just show it. Oh, like connected, but they wouldn't play. You know the music. So I tried. I'm like all right, I'll order it.
Lano:Try it out, this thing so you have your, your phone just connected to it. You have two phones connected to this too, and then, like, the phone picks up your voice if you're talking like a phone, call this.
Rick:I think this has a speaker. Oh.
Lano:Or I don't know how it works, but you don't have like headphones, I mean Before I would use headphones.
Rick:Uh-huh, I would use headphones if the like when I was using Manny's truck. He doesn't have an aux input, so I would use the speakers. That way I can. Also, if I get a phone call, I can talk to the earphones. But this thing man.
Lano:Yeah, because I've seen something like that, like for the airplanes.
Rick:Everybody uses Bluetooth headphones. Then you get connected to the airplanes yeah.
Mig:No, but that's a good idea. That's funny, dude, because to think about when we first go back, and think to when you first started driving or when you got your first car or the first thing you drove, and if you couldn't afford a CD player, like a good CD deck, you wouldn't get that, that um so by the time I started driving, what's everybody's first car?
Rick:mine was a was a detachable face the beretta, I think the beretta, but I think you guys still had the pullouts pullouts.
Mig:He pulled out the whole stereo, the whole stereo and and to me like like when, when that came out when people had that, because Juan had that one, like Ralph's older brother.
Lano:Like to me it didn't make any sense Because I was like you're just making it easier for someone to pull it out in a jacket. But then I didn't realize you carry it around with you, yeah.
Mig:You don't leave it in the parking lot. That's a thing, dude. It's so crazy Because, yeah, you would go, you'll go to the swap meet. Back then, you know, go to Santa Fe Springs or whatever, but back then it was just a swap meet. Yeah. And you see so many fools Walking around. With their Carrying their radios. Oh yeah yeah. And it was like, it was like A completely common thing.
Rick:Yeah, like normal Nobody thought anything of it. But then they started making like little bags for it too, right yeah?
Mig:You put them in like a shoulder bag, shoulder over bag, and then so you started carrying it like that and then eventually they went to the detachable face to where all you do is you keep the face Just keep the face.
Lano:Put it like in the little kind of like the case, like yeah, yeah, yeah and they had good ones where, like, the face was like it would come off and it was like a computer plug right. And then they had the cheap ones where, like, the buttons were still there, like oh yeah, like it was just like you know, like the buttons were like, like, like a cheap, like a cheap you had.
Rick:You had that well when the detachable face, and then you had your cd changer. Yeah, they were just so, you see it.
Mig:The point I was trying to make is Like, after the whole CD thing and everything, when MP3s started coming into play like, not everybody had the ability to play MP3s or the iPod or whatever you had to play on the stereo. So you would have to get like if you still had a cassette deck. You know, you get that cassette.
Lano:You stick it in there with the wire coming out, Like it would connect to a CD player or something right.
Mig:Or you would get the one where it tunes into an FM station.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:Man, we suffered through so much dude.
Lano:Yeah, oh yeah, you would have to put it on some AM number. Yeah, remember, you would have to tune it in.
Rick:Vanessa's grandparents when they let us use the Tahoe to go to Ensenada when we got with Mark and his wifey the Tahoe to go to Ensenada. Yeah, when we got with Mark, and his wifey. They still have that transmitter that you get to the you get through the stations. Yes, in that Tahoe. Love it yeah, those damn transmitters Love it.
Mig:They suck man. How many of our listeners remember those?
Rick:things Well, no, the cassette one had the cable, so you just play it in there, so it was pretty good. Well, yeah, but that was pretty good sound. Yeah, the connection was good Because it was direct.
Mig:You connect that to the To the iPod or whatever. Yeah, the actual transmitter that sucked. And for you youngins out there that don't know what an iPod is, that was actually A little music device. I think I still have my eye where you could store.
Rick:It was an ipod, ipod ipod nano or touch nano yeah, what was the other one. How long was that run with the ipods? That was like five, ten years yeah I mean I never like.
Lano:I had the little one I never like upgraded for, like bigger storage or whatever. The Shuffle, the one that was like a little stick, like I had like a screen, I think, oh, that's the Nano.
Rick:Yeah, it was the Shuffle, the Nano and then the iPod.
Lano:Yeah, I didn't have the original iPod, Just strictly like.
Mig:I Apple. No my favorite type of music storage device the iPod.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:Yeah. Or any of those things that held the MP3s. You know, because back then you know you could.
Lano:The best one.
Mig:You would spend the weekend trying to load this thing up with music. You know it's like. The best one was Playlist.
Rick:Yeah, the best one was the iPod yeah. Because you're like this you're going like.
Mig:That was the only good. Apple product Looking for a song Like. I had a.
Rick:Lyft, I would get a lot of the songs off of Napster.
Lano:Well, that's what we're all into Napster?
Mig:Yeah, we're all trying to find these sites where we could download free.
Rick:That was crazy.
Lano:Free music. Napster was a crazy time. You're like pirates just downloading music like that's why.
Mig:That's why I'm still like, I'm still stuck in that mindset where, you know, like then the phones eventually were able to hold all these songs and everything, yeah, so then I started downloading all the playlists to my phone, you know, and that's why I kind of want to have it like that. It's like I know you guys, guys say, well, just go on Spotify, create a playlist or whatever. Nah, man, I just want it to be on my phone, because now you don't store it in the cloud. You have to have the internet connection.
Mig:I want the phone to have the music in there, so I don't got to be connected to anyone or anywhere or nothing, and I can just play it Wow.
Rick:The way I started doing. It is my playlist Spotify. You name a playlist and you get your songs Say rock, whatever. You put your rock songs on and then it's there. If you're going to go for a trip, an airplane trip, go camping, whatever, hit the download, it downloads all your songs. Now you can listen to it All offline If you have Like little storage or room.
Mig:Cause, then Cause then also but you most likely will, because. What I but also.
Rick:And then once you come back, you just Undownload it. You still have your playlist Cause you're streaming Through your, through your signal. Yeah, but now You're listening to a signal, but if you know you're going to be somewhere when you're not going to have a signal, hit download. It downloads your playlist, that way you can listen to it offline.
Mig:See, because another thing I liked also Is that you already have your CD collection. You have your whole collection, your whole catalog of music right there that you want. So you were able to Burn that music Onto your computer, save it on your computer and then from there transfer it to your device. Yeah, and it's like it's not that simple anymore. So you can't do that anymore, or I don't know, can you?
Rick:That's the CD? No, because you just get the song off of Spotify and then you have to play this Well that's what I'm saying you know, I don't know, it's not as easy as you're saying now. Like itunes is not even around now, it's just like apple music. Because why would you want to go through all that step when you could just make a playlist right?
Lano:there, that's, you're gonna.
Rick:You're gonna, I mean, if you're gonna upload a cd to the computer, then the computer to a damn um uh drive. What is it?
Mig:well, that's what I'm saying because that that's what I was used to, so to me that's easier you know, until you try until you try with the spotify but you gotta pay for it, right
Lano:you get the free one, but I don't think you could download with the free one. Oh no, I don't know. I don't. I think that's one of the things.
Rick:Well, kick down with your damn Spotify.
Lano:I don't have a Spotify account, oh no, I don't have a. Spotify.
Rick:Well, I'm on Mark's family plan. He gave me a spot.
Lano:See my wife's on my sister-in-law's family plan, but she only gets like five users.
Rick:So say, we chip in and we get a Spotify and you can have like five family members on it. They each create their list and then you can see what their lists are. But I'm telling you it's easier that way. You just look for your album and then put it on, because you're going through so much.
Mig:It's pretty crazy the way, the way the music's evolved, or at least accessibility to music.
Rick:It's crazy with all these beefs, like a lot of the stuff that's going on with Kendrick and the Drake beef.
Lano:All right, wait, wait. Just to say I'm on the Spotify webpage. So premium, you get ad-free music Free, you don't. Premium, you can download to listen offline. The free plan, you can't Play a song in any order. High audio quality how much?
Rick:is the plan.
Mig:Well, there you go. That's why I've always struggled, because I don't pay for it. That's why I can never download anything. One person $11 a month.
Lano:The family is $20 a month $19.99 a month for six premium accounts.
Rick:What's that one next to the student?
Lano:Dual Two people, two accounts, 17? $16.99, yeah, 17.
Rick:So you might as well do the extra three bucks and get the extra damn four people 15 hours of listening in on your books. Look, six people split that damn 20 bucks. They're cheap.
Lano:Yeah, no that that is, they're cheap. Whatever now before you gotta be hounding the thing before um before spotify and stuff um, it was like some you play music and then like match your song.
Rick:Well, it was the Amazon Prime.
Lano:No, no, before all that stuff Planet or something, something, something.
Rick:Everybody used to listen to it Kind of like streaming.
Lano:It's kind of like a radio station you pick a song and then it played like similar songs, like it was really hot for a while. Oh.
Mig:Pandora, pandora, that's what it was like it was really hot for a while, oh pandora, pandora, that's what it was. That was still a while, that was still out there isn't it?
Rick:yeah, I use it. It was a good, like three years. Pandora's good, because and then spotify does the same thing, because you just go, you pick the song then it says go to that song radio and they don't play similar stuff because the one that I feel that pandora has a better mix of things, yeah.
Mig:Pandora. The one I haven't really tried is iHeartRadio. Iheartradio is supposed to have the same the similar features as Pandora.
Rick:I don't think I got hooked on iHeartRadio because I didn't like the layout of it. The layout, the layout.
Mig:Or the way it was set up. The only reason I use it is to listen to the radio shows.
Rick:Yeah, because, pandora, I feel like you get a good mix of songs and songs from artists that you don't even know. Like, oh man, you hear a song that's pretty cool, and then you see the artist.
Lano:Like oh man, I like this stuff. You see the artist.
Rick:Yeah, you get a lot more of that on Pandora than you do in Spotify. You get more like artists out there. That's what I like about Pandora.
Lano:Now you're like a Spotify guy.
Rick:Yeah, what got you?
Lano:into Spotify. Like what is it? The Android connection I didn't like.
Rick:Spotify for nothing when it first came out. Where were you on, chris would? Tell you Pandora, pandora, because at the end of Pandora you could, I think, like a song, and then you could whatever song you like, you know, like shoot it in a playlist.
Mig:It'll do like an algorithm or something.
Rick:But, chris, when she first tried to like get me on Spotify, she was explaining it to me. Oh, I hated it man. I remember that.
Lano:I hated it. I thought you guys would be like Amazon Music or Google Music.
Rick:I did Amazon Music. I did Amazon Music. I was on that for a long time.
Lano:Just because you guys had that services or whatever.
Rick:I would download it. Yeah, I was on Amazon Music for a long time. I preferred Amazon Music to Spotify, but then I started using Spotify. I don't know if the Spotify changed the way the setup was, but I just started getting the hang of it like, all right, I like this, you know.
Mig:So started making my playlist and yeah, it was good see what I started doing was on my phone, whatever came on the phone, whatever music player was on the phone, and I would just like start looking for songs and I would be able to download songs onto that music player. Yeah, you know, but as the phones, you know, you switch phones and everything. It wasn't able to transfer everything over into the new phones to eventually to where this phone didn't even have the same app anymore. So everything that was on my old phones was kind of like obsolete and it went in transferring to these phones and to my new phone. So I'm like man, it's like why do they do that, dude? Yeah, it's like why, why, why does he mess with you? Like that? It's like why, why can't they just let you keep all your shit that you have from before and move it onto your new phone?
Lano:It should be like once you sign into the thing, everything.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Like populate or whatever you don't yeah, they make this world complicated.
Rick:They do so. You know it's a trip that that vinyl I don't ever see.
Lano:You know, they say that vinyl came back like you know, like I don't ever think vinyl got like I got records in here, uh, just because they're saying they're coming, coming back, and I was like I'm gonna buy like my favorite I don't feel that vinyl ever left it did. It's like a niche, but like I'm trying to like even now, like from people talk about, like I want to get it from way back in the 70s.
Rick:I have a turntable right, I just I just feel that people have had listening to vinyls all throughout. Yeah and they keep saying vinyl's coming back like, but it's I mean they never stop selling, they, yeah, any album today. That's the one thing that has never, like, lost its, its, its value or listening value, whatever it's cassettes.
Rick:No one really listens cassettes cds no vinyl, maybe because it's like the first thing and they're pretty valuable. But people like they'll get like the what do they call it? The second edition, third edition or whatever of an album or the pressing, yeah. And they'll buy that vinyl and they'll listen to those vinyls. I feel like vinyl's never gone out. That's the one thing that's been constant. You have a turntable. Yeah, I have three vinyls right now. It that's been constant.
Lano:You have a turntable? Yeah, I have three vinyls right now. It sounds better the quality. It sounds like deeper or something. I don't know what it is. Even that crispiness, you hear a little stuff.
Rick:The player that I got the speaker. I mean it's a little cheapy like old school.
Lano:I have a turntable here that I just bought on Amazon. I have some records right here.
Rick:I probably have the I don't know, yours is a little bit better. But like I don't have my, shoes On top of it, but I think I think mine. You can hook up speakers, so it'll probably sound Really good.
Lano:Well, I have some speakers that I connected here.
Rick:That I put on, that I was gonna like Do you should like have it set up so we can like? Like our music room. You play your intro and then like when we talk about something, then you can play a record. Have it ready.
Lano:But hey, imagine I made the intro On a vinyl and then every, like every, I would play it. And then you jump in and then, like, I take it off. Can we make a vinyl? I don't know, I don't know how you make it, but Can people make a vinyl? I just need that one song, the intro, the outro. And then you guys are talking, I start getting the outro ready and then you put it on the death row label. That'd be kind of cool. But I see, like some djs on youtube you know they're doing, and then they got like brushes.
Lano:You know they brush the the album yeah like they clean it before and then they put it on like it seems like a cool hobby you never um.
Rick:You've never seen. Seen Mayor Hawthorne's the Wine and Vinyl Wine and Vinyl Hour. No. Mayor Hawthorne.
Lano:It's on YouTube.
Rick:Yeah, on YouTube he's still doing it. He started it in COVID because when everything was locked down. He started doing it every Thursday for an hour. He called it the Wine and Vinyl. Hour.
Rick:And so he'll whatever wine he's drinking, and then people that are on the live they'll start saying what they're drinking and then he just plays. I mean, that dude's vinyl collection is amazing, like you. Look at it now. Oh yeah, the way he has his room set up now, oh man, it's crazy. Look at one of the newest videos and you can see his room. Look at that room and I don't even know how he finds a vinyl. Like, if he wants to hear a vinyl, a certain vinyl, oh like. How does?
Lano:he find it Like yeah, because it's. Look at that you don't see it. There's no like book spines or whatever you can't just this dude's got the Alphabetical, or.
Rick:What's his name? Vibes, you know, because on the weekend, sometimes, when Lauren's cooking.
Lano:She'll throw on, like some DJ mix, Uh-huh, like Soul Selection or something like that.
Rick:And then I'm going to tell her to play this. This dude play, there's so many. I mean he's been doing it since covid. Yeah, he's got so many like in his playlist wine and vinyl and he plays like vinyls from like, from like other countries, like different types of music, like genres, and then he'll play like old school stuff, funk stuff, like he's it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty bad, badass. The um, the music selection and it's so very it varies. What do you got you gotta, you gotta. How many do you got?
Lano:well, maybe six or seven what are they?
Rick:show them to the camera man? Show it to the people.
Lano:I just have.
Rick:No, the first one's Coloring me bad.
Lano:I got um.
Rick:Mariah Carey.
Lano:Number one Butterfly, unopened, sealed, damn.
Rick:You gotta open that Kid. Let me open it. All eyes on me, all eyes on me, and I'm gonna sign it out the park.
Lano:Oh, and I got an open one now. So I got one sealed one open. I don't know why.
Rick:Because you wanted to listen to one.
Lano:I wanted to listen. Then I got the.
Rick:Oh, that one's a classic.
Lano:The doggy style, that one's classic. Yeah, that's a good one, doggy style. That's a good one, this one, this was a gift which is that one so remember, my favorite horse was Zenyatta from Horse Racing.
Rick:Yeah.
Lano:So the name of the horse was from the police.
Rick:They had a Zenyatta album.
Lano:So this is it, oh.
Mig:Who gave you that Good album?
Lano:One of my dad's friends. He was a record collector and then he found out and then he pulled it out of his collection, gave me oh, that's his personal yeah, and you just have it right here like sir, like, um, like a side job. I cataloged all his records for him because he wanted like a list of them, yeah. And then he's like here I heard this was your favorite horse, they named it after this album and he gave me oh, that's cool.
Rick:This is, that's really cool.
Lano:Thug Life, thug Life, another album, and then this is from.
Rick:He's got some good ones, man.
Lano:Back in the day In LA, the Amoeba Is still around. Amoeba Records you know what.
Mig:They moved locations or something. Yeah, the original location Got knocked down, or something but they moved, I think, on Hollywood Boulevard.
Rick:Yeah, they're somewhere else, I think on Hollywood Boulevard.
Lano:With the original receipt Um.
Rick:Save it. This is uh. Save that bag. Save that bag, dude Jack White. Oh.
Lano:Is that his first solo? No, but this was. Uh, I just bought this Because I saw him do an interview. Uh, huh. And there was something, something with the record when you played it like like some little like patterns popped up on the record like some angels, like 3D angels.
Rick:Oh, as it spins yeah as it spins, oh crazy.
Lano:And then like in here Well you got to set that up.
Rick:You got to bring that record player down here. We can put that on camera.
Lano:So when you play it, kind of look it in the light.
Rick:I can see the different colors of it.
Lano:It reflects. There's this one album. I got to look it up, but there's three Special things about this album. Like it had like Hidden messages and all kinds of stuff. Oh, secrets and all kinds of stuff.
Rick:Dude, you can see it right there.
Lano:Something. What do you see?
Rick:The angels right there, look at it.
Lano:Yeah, like an angel, like it spins. See it right there. Or?
Rick:something like that, Like the angel's spinning twirling in a circle. See it.
Lano:Well, I can't see it on my angle, but maybe I can see it Go like this man.
Rick:Look at it right here, At the reflections that are right here, Like the light when the light shines on it. And then just go like that. You'll see the Go like this. Don't grab it like that, dude.
Lano:I don't know how you're supposed to grab one Put your damn.
Rick:So that album it had like three little you see, like the little angels in there, they're kind of like spinning, you don't see them.
Lano:It had like three little tricks on it, that's pretty cool. Like one is. You get that. There's like a little record in the middle, a big record. You flip it over, there's another song and then somehow it's thick. There's like another record on the edge or something like that. The edge had something, something. The way the light shines on it, you see it or no?
Rick:let me get these glasses there. It's the shape of that angel right there. Look the angels on the cover. Oh yeah, this is it. See the angels. But they're really small inside there and they're like it looks like they're twirling, like if they were on a merry-go-round. So I'm sure, if that record's spinning, you could see it better, like with the light.
Lano:Yeah, yeah so I bought that one just because I saw it and I'm like well, that's kind of cool. It's like a trick album. There's different secrets with it. That's cool man.
Rick:Mayor Hawthorne has, was it his first album. You know how he started off, doing like old school Style songs. Well, he did a vinyl record Of that album, but he did it in a heart shape. I've seen those things Selling on them At the eBay.
Mig:Oh yeah, 500 bucks man. A heart shape record. A heart shape record. How the hell does that work?
Rick:A heart shape record.
Rick:I was like man and at the time, and at the time that he came out Like breaker, I was like man. And at the time and at the time that he he came out like man, I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, I should have bought one when it came out. Yeah, because because when his record first came out I I listened to him a lot and then I saw like, oh, man, that's a cool record. But I think at that time I didn't have like a record player, so like. But then, like I look at now, you look on e eBay, now they're like 500 bucks. I was like damn, that's why you said so.
Lano:I saw some record player, that you put the record like this and it plays like on its side, that people have Like on their walls. But then, when I read the reviews, they said that they didn't like the quality wasn't that good. Yeah, and then this is what's going on. That was good. Marvin Gaye is, uh, what's going on?
Lano:that was good marvin gaye and then uh more than six bro this is star wars but this is um kind of like the same thing. The something um something does the trick record like the millennium falcon or something is on here so these are just like oh yeah, see this one, you can kind of see it oh yeah, you can see right there, that was real easy.
Rick:Yeah, you see it oh, yeah, so when you spin it.
Lano:Oh, that's crazy oh yeah, I see right there, really good I don't think there's nothing there, but so that's why this one's a double disc that's pretty, that's crazy dude but that was like I was gonna try to get into it.
Rick:But then, like, like I just have them here, like I don't have, like I only have three, I got, I got an expanders, I got, uh, janice joplin and an arctic monkeys. Just three vinyls.
Lano:I remember like growing up my dad, my dad had a nice like record player and um they had like um bruce springsteen and stuff sure we had.
Mig:We had that big ass cabinet one. Yeah, it was like one of those made out of wood. Huge freaking cabinet. One man I remember we had our X-Fighter. Where is it? Oh yeah, that's cool.
Rick:How much is that record worth?
Mig:Remember we would put all of our.
Rick:I would listen to CPE on that damn thing yeah, but also we had those Disney books oh, yeah, like the fox and the hound and all that. I played the fox and the hound, yeah, all the time on that thing, yeah, we would always be putting those on stories yeah it was like you read the book.
Mig:Yeah, you know, but the record player played along with the book.
Rick:Yeah so you're following with the book. Yeah, man, I played the Fox and the Hound all the time.
Mig:It's like I don't know. It's because we never were able to see the movies of it or anything. Yeah, Well, at least not until later, you know, when it started coming out on VHS. Yeah, but that was like our movies right there. It's like we would put that shit on dude and, just like Fox and the Hound Lady and the Tramp, Sit there like going on with the book Pinocchio.
Rick:Yeah, that was cool man. Yeah, Imagine if we still had this stuff. I bet that's a character man, the read-along books man, all man, the read-along books man, all the stuff that was, it would do it would do either like a beep or a the chimes or whatever, for you to turn the page. Yeah. Yeah, I remember. That's why the Fox and Hound is my favorite, my favorite Disney movie Story See man, you need to have so much damn stuff to have a good childhood man.
Mig:That's why the Fox and Hound is my favorite Disney movie story. See man, you don't need to have so much damn stuff to have a good childhood man.
Rick:Simple.
Mig:You don't need all these advanced electronics and keep your mind stimulated and shit man, it's like we had a damn good childhood, dude, With what little that we had when we were kids Shit.
Rick:If I had kids I would have encyclopedias in my house. Go write me a book report. That was our early internet Encyclopedias.
Mig:I almost picked up. Write me a book report on the Alamo. Yeah, that was always it Encyclopedias. I almost picked up. Remember the book report on the Alamo.
Rick:Yeah, that was always there, I always, and I almost picked up an encyclopedia set that got left out on the curb. Oh yeah, I wanted to take it so bad. Yeah, it was one of these times that I went running over there in Tustin I think, and it was, you know, nice houses up there, yeah, yeah and they had left their whole encyclopedia collection outside. This was about, maybe damn, where was it Like about? And it wasn't too long ago, maybe about five, six years ago, you know that's pretty crazy though dude Five, six years ago.
Mig:Because my dad bought us that encyclopedia set, yeah, and that saved us so many trips To the library, dude Having those encyclopedias there, because not everybody had them. And it's like whenever we needed something, just go straight to the encyclopedia. It's crazy that those books had everything in it Pretty much.
Rick:You had any kind of question On history or whatever, and it's in there. That was crazy match, like everything a to z. Yeah, you had any kind of question on history or whatever you go, and it's in there. Yep, that's, that was crazy. That was crazy that that was our google. Yeah, that's trippy man, yeah it's nuts man that's all you needed to know, right there it's like book report.
Mig:Book report on washington, no problem yeah they Get my encyclopedia and Read about them. See how much I can BS about this.
Lano:We had Britannica right. That was encyclopedia Britannica.
Mig:It wasn't Britannica, it was a different one. Britannica was one, I think we had that set.
Lano:It was like A through Z, it was one bookshelf and then, like every year, it was just like one, just one yearly edition or something, I don't know what it was they would change it.
Rick:I mean, you think about it. It's good because it forces the kid to open a damn book.
Mig:Yeah.
Rick:Instead of just like seeing some idiot on TikTok spew lies. Yep that. And then what about Thomas? Guys, man, oh yeah.
Lano:I used to love looking at them, just looking at like the pictures, like I started looking for, like the stadiums, the drawings of the like the footprints of the stadiums and stuff, like the points of interest, like looking for all that stuff in the Thomas guys. And people didn't know how to read them, huh.
Rick:That was, and think about it. I started in Neptune in 2002. That's 22 years ago, yeah 22 years ago, when I entered in Neptune, Dan told me like we were going there. He's like, like you need to get yourself An encyclopedia. I mean not encyclopedia. A.
Lano:Thomas guide, you gotta buy your own.
Rick:Make sure you have A Thomas guide in your book, that way we know when to send you. In your books you gotta know how to read. Yeah, thomas guide. And you think, like Damn, that was like 22 years ago.
Lano:You go to the back, look up the street right and like the number, and then like find the page, and then I mean, I never had it down packed.
Rick:I was always lost in that damn thing. Yeah, I was always off by them, like 30 pages.
Lano:And you would think, like, like, let's say, you work for Thomas guide. Like, well, this, like everybody's always going to use maps, like I'm set for life. And then, like they're absolutely like, they're not even like the number, even the number one.
Rick:They didn't even go digital.
Lano:It could have been Thomas Guide Maps instead of Google Maps. You know what I mean. It could have been something, but they didn't stay with the times.
Rick:Yeah, they were stubborn in their ways.
Mig:No, but then what about, even before we had them on our phones? Mapquest.
Lano:Yeah, oh, you print out the directs, yeah.
Mig:And you're reading as you're driving.
Lano:MapQuest or Google Maps, like you.
Mig:print them out you got all these pages of dab instructions of how to go. That's what got me so prepared in mapping out my drive before I would go anywhere. The MapQuest, yeah Well, no, just like mapping out Before I would go anywhere.
Rick:The map quest.
Mig:Yeah, well, no, just like mapping out, like even now. Before I put the GPS in yeah, like if I put in the GPS, I wanna know what exit it's going to be when I'm coming up. I don't want to wait until this thing tells me Use them out and you look at the exit and all that Yep.
Rick:You look at the route.
Mig:Or look at the text of it and see how far Do you guys ever use the Tom Toms? Tom, tom, I've heard it. Oh, that was like a GPS device, right yeah. I have Remember, remember.
Lano:There was one summer, one season when we were doing that scavenger hunt and winning stuff- I had won like Two Tom. Toms Through that.
Rick:Two or three. It was one of the Two of the prizes, yeah, like. I think I remember that. Yeah, they don't have those, no more.
Lano:No, it was just like One year, like, I think, like we were taking all the prizes, we were going into like Places where you shouldn't they don't have those, no more.
Rick:No, it was just like when you're like I think like we're taking all the prizes. Dude, we were going into like places where you shouldn't trespass that Japanese garden, that.
Lano:I jumped the fence to go get the prize, like in Elysian Park or something. Yeah, dude, I don't remember what it was called, it was Scavenger.
Rick:I mean it was Scavenger, but I don't even know like the name name, the brand or whatever.
Lano:He wanted to get. No, what did you want to get? It was something we were winning, tom Toms.
Rick:But there was something you wanted to win from Apple. I think Was it an iPad.
Lano:Or iPod or something, probably Probably an iPod Color one or something Back then.
Rick:Yeah, but yeah, he wanted to get that. I'm telling you, we were all driving all over the the city we, we, we saw, we came up on this on this japanese garden area that was locked up. We're like, oh man, we're like walking all the way around like gps. Yeah, it's like we gotta hop the fence and it's right there by the fountain.
Mig:It was like the like not recently, but a while back, the stupid pokemon thing something similar.
Lano:Yeah, where were you going?
Mig:you try to find the Pokemon character.
Rick:Whatever how it worked, like we would get clues or something, what we look for yeah, they give you a clue, but the clue you had to figure out, like what the location was. It gives you a clue of the location. You got to figure out the location and then drive there and get it like for someone else get, gets it. And and yeah, we were racking it up man like I was a bunch of prizes yeah, that was. That was pretty badass. See all that man no, no what year was that?
Lano:you think like after 2020, I mean after 20 2000, oh yeah, like 2000. I mean you said you're working for neptune 2002 around time With the Tom Toms, or when.
Rick:Yeah, I don't remember doing that. When I was at Home Depot I was already at Neptune, so that was probably early 2000s. That had to have been early 2000s.
Lano:Well, we were off air for two weeks. So today, me and Miggy were waiting for you to come by. And so today, me and Miggy were waiting for you to come by and I had this idea like what if? Like well, you know, when you say you're going to be late or whatever, like me and Miggy did like a quick, like 30-minute show, oh yeah, just to like store in the bank for like days. We can't make it. But we call it like I I mean now that I got records on my mind we call it like the b size or something like that, oh yeah, but it'll be like no, no filming, just audio only, because I mean the filming takes up time. So, like, me and miggy were like like, if you're saying you'll be out, you're like 20 minutes out or whatever you know, that's like 40 minutes. Like we'll do a quick 30 minute, like just one subject or one story that, like me and miggy will talk about, and all audio only you need and then you get
Rick:here, and then we could do our filming because I want to film when the three of us are here. You need to. Um, I mean, let me add more to your plate, but but get the phone line down packed. That way we call people. I I mean even like that, like if I'm on my way here, oh yeah, we could call you.
Lano:You can call me and I could be on the phone. You could be coming in and walk in the studio, but you know that that kind of I mean I got my my uh, my trusty little bluetooth thing that I can talk to you guys with if I'm in my work van you know that that is.
Mig:One request I have heard is that we need to have more like guests on, like more different people. You know, because I know you guys have felt it, because I know I've felt it, some episodes there, man, are pretty damn stale. It's boring.
Lano:And our guests. Those are our top members when we have guests on.
Mig:that's when it's pretty good, Especially Vampiro.
Lano:We've got to get Vampiro back On YouTube, especially he's had a lot to. I'm sure he has a lot to talk about, you know, but Is he working or what's he up to?
Rick:He's on vacation right now. He's out of school. He's probably traveling the the world right now. Every summer vacation, that dude always thinks Of somewhere new.
Mig:Yeah, living the life.
Lano:Yeah, dude, he's just about guests, like I, like I can't promise him, like, oh, we're recording at seven because like our hours are like different, but like we have a guest, you guys know.
Mig:But that's what I'm saying about the phone line you know, because we can have him on the phone. Oh true, yeah, you know. And um, I mean, last weekend I was in Vegas.
Rick:You wanna, you wanna have a.
Mig:And uh. I was out there with the With some OC friends and they listened to the show and they were Shout out OC.
Rick:Yeah, they were, they were kinda.
Mig:They were saying you know it's like.
Lano:It's not as lively as yeah you guys need to have Like more guests on, you know, and it's like it's not as lively as yeah, you guys need to have more guests on, you know, and Because I mean we're here like we got a bunch of stories to tell, but like we forget them. And then when we bring a guest, like they remind us, like oh, remember this, remember that, and then we find the old stuff and Okay, but the next guest.
Rick:We need to get Ralph in here, because there's a lot of stuff going on.
Lano:He invited me to the game on Saturday but I was sick. I couldn't make it to the soccer game.
Rick:I hear noise out there, man.
Lano:He called me for the soccer game but I was out sick. But I'm going to try to see if we can get him here one day. Did you know that Billy Carson was on Rogan?
Rick:Yeah, I still haven't heard of him. I haven't heard of him yet too. I haven't watched it yet, but he was on. Rogan like maybe a few weeks ago or something like that. You know what Vanessa got me? Oh, that mushroom creamer. Remember when the show started, I got it.
Lano:I got it, I use it. The performance mushrooms.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it makes it like coffee or yeah, the creamer like a creamer.
Rick:Oh oh, I didn't get the cream.
Lano:I have the performance mushrooms no, it's like you had it the cream uh-huh, you have it at costco, I think, whichever you got.
Rick:No, it's a creamer, isn't it?
Lano:well um. They have performance mushrooms in the.
Rick:You can put it in your coffee or your tea.
Lano:Right.
Rick:I think you can put it anywhere.
Lano:Yeah, you can put it anywhere.
Rick:Kind of weird. It neutralizes the coffee taste but it gives you like a.
Lano:Like a calmness. No, it wakes me up like more focused. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know if it's placebo, but I felt different.
Mig:Well, check this out. It doesn't take you to the spirit world.
Rick:So yesterday, according to Tuesday, yesterday was the first time having. Well, I tried it on Sunday and then I had a full cup of my gallon of coffee that I have in the morning and I had it.
Lano:Is that real? You say gallon of coffee no 32 ounce, Damn damn 32 ounce?
Rick:It probably is, because then I get another coffee Somewhere else, my intake is probably like a gallon of coffee.
Mig:It's a quarter gallon.
Rick:So I had it and then I got I was feeling like sick. I was really bad at work. Like about already by like 11 o'clock the first day I was feeling a little nause, like about already by like 11 o'clock the first day yeah. I was feeling a little nauseous and I had a mean headache, started getting a pain up my neck and then I realized I hadn't been taking my blood pressure medicines in like Probably like a week and a half.
Mig:I ran out this past week too. I felt the same way, so it was your medication.
Rick:It was medication. It was tough Because normally I could get through the day, but this one was getting me down, man, yeah, it was weighing me down.
Mig:You were able to go a whole week without it affecting you. I go one day, dude, and it starts really messing with me.
Rick:I had Jack in the Box in the morning and it just went whoa. I kept putting pressure on my neck. I was like, oh man, yeah.
Mig:Man. I went and got massaged this past weekend. Man Like them.
Lano:Where did he go?
Mig:Returning to LA.
Rick:Oh yeah, I got to go, man Juanito El.
Mig:Salvador, I keep telling you to go.
Rick:I have that card you gave me. What is that For a free one? It's not for a free one.
Mig:It's just a discounted price. Normally you go for an hour. They're going to charge you $90 or $80. Probably $80. $80.
Lano:And with the membership card which I already paid, it'll come out to like $60. So like $1 a minute minute, which is cheaper. Yeah, but were you? But was that your story? I thought you're gonna talk about the mushrooms or the creamer. You've been liking it, or?
Rick:you don't know. Yeah, I like it because I've been having it all week.
Lano:I mean while we yeah, I ate today because I think they sell it at costco like a big thing.
Rick:Yeah, she got me a little bag, so I could try it out first. But now I mean it's, it's, it kind of neutralizes the coffee taste but, it's good, I mean, I like it.
Lano:I'm sipping on it through the whole day because I've been like I added and then when I didn't have it, like like I'm kind of like craving that flavor yeah, it's kind of good because you're not adding sugar or nothing.
Rick:If you add sugar, you just you know, and then like if I use creamer, you know the sweetness you're getting sugar there. But at least this one's like kind of killing that whole like craving for that sweetness, so it's pretty good.
Lano:All right, so I'll work on Ralph Vampiro. I would like to have Dolores. I mean, I know people are tired of us talking about Dolores, but I would like to have Dolores. I mean, I know people Are tired of us Talking about Dolores, but I would like to.
Mig:Well, they shouldn't be, because we haven't Talked about her In a long ass time.
Lano:But I don't know you think maybe you could pull In Dolores in or no? I could try Dolores and then.
Mig:It's Dolores, do you? You know what she's like she?
Lano:She's filled with stories. Man, she's hilarious, I mean, and we got a lot of friends like that, we just gotta call them up, yeah.
Mig:You know, she should be a lot easier pull, because she's in Cypress Park now, yeah, she's living with her mom and her dad While she's looking for another place, so she's literally like five minutes away.
Lano:I'll give her a call then too.
Rick:Well, before we end it, we want to wish everybody a happy America birthday. Happy birthday America. And it's going to be the 4th of July.
Lano:Keep your dogs. Do your dogs get scared on the fireworks or no?
Rick:Yeah, Gunner and Gemma are good. Kobe seems cool. Chiquita she doesn't hear it, but I think she feels the vibration a little bit she, she guys all like cbd or like trunker lighters or nothing. No, that's what I was gonna ask you if you could.
Mig:Mac last year I took him with us after the fireworks. Yeah, I should probably keep him away this time.
Rick:It's not crazy. No more huh Over there. By me I would start hearing fireworks back in.
Lano:May. Well, we're hearing it now. I mean, I've been hearing it, but I haven't heard.
Rick:I hear it here and there, but before it was crazy mean I've been hearing but. I haven't heard I?
Mig:I hear it here and there, but before.
Lano:Well, I mean it's crazy around here. I hear it. Shit, I hear it all year long dude yeah, that's kind of true. We do hear it all year long I mean not it's not like, not like repeatedly, but you hear it
Rick:yeah, now, over there, my house. When I first moved in over there, you could hear it.
Mig:I remember you say, when it get near Fourth of July it be like a war zone.
Rick:End of May, all of June, it was constant Like boom, boom, boom, cause the dogs were always damn scared and then forget it. Fourth of July is a war zone.
Mig:They must have really cracked down on the yeah.
Rick:On the fire. I think more you know what it was, you know why it probably cracked down a lot. They got more people operating drones. Oh, like doing those shows, I think, because now they can see Could be.
Lano:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it has to. When I had my drone before we lost it 4th of July, like I flew it up to see the fireworks, got some cool shots that's when you lost it. I lost it in Joshua Tree. Laura was driving, I was controlling it in the car and then I got. We got disoriented and we got too far and then lost connection. I was trying to push home, come back and then we lost it you have to stop the car, hit home, then it'll come follow the same.
Lano:Yeah, but we like we're trying to like pull over and then, um, like I have like a, I took a picture of the the map, like where you see it stop and then we're gonna try to look for it. Then we're like, we'll try back another day to look for it whenever we didn't find it that mayday mayday, we just lost it and then. But now there's like all these restrictions, you can't fly them at national parks, you can't do this. Yeah.
Lano:So I was like I was going to get another one, but then am I going to be really allowed to fly it without getting in trouble or whatever? Only right here in your backyard, yeah, and here you got to dodge all the fucking power cables and stuff.
Mig:It's like you're going to conceal a carry weapon permit, right you?
Lano:can't carry it anywhere. You can't carry anywhere, carry it anywhere. But um, how's the block does? The people are doing fireworks because I'm always in, like in my wife my wife's, I mean lost house well, here I mean usually.
Mig:We're always in alhambra, but when we get back.
Lano:Yeah, I mean it's you may see the smoke in the ashes.
Mig:Yeah it's almost like one in the morning, one, two in the morning, then they'll keep going.
Lano:Because I was disappointed with Halloween last year. On Halloween we didn't have nobody.
Rick:Nah, it's been like that for a long time already, man.
Lano:Yeah, on the street. Well, I mean you're more down you're more right here. Who's Elliot and Shai going to grow up with like on the streets You're more right here so maybe you've seen more kids.
Mig:I think last year was the first year where only one kid I think zero dude.
Rick:No kid showed up to the house. That brings some mean sadness to me. It does, dude.
Lano:We took Allie to Toluca Lake and we came home back to see my parents. That was going to be the last stop. It was going to be my parents and your parents, and then you guys were already locked up dead. My parents were like no one came. They were like we're right here.
Rick:That hurts my heart.
Lano:The door, opened the screen listening. No one came to get candy. My wife at her house they never gave away candy. There was no trick-or-treaters she's not used to it, but like there was nothing. So I was wondering If the fourth was Getting like that. That's tough. Well, I don't know. Alright, so happy Fourth.
Rick:Happy Fourth of July.
Lano:Keep the animals In the house Watch your pets.
Mig:Remember it's all fun and games Until someone loses an eye.
Lano:Make sure you get out of it With all your fingers I was telling my wife, until someone loses a tooth, because she's like, oh, let's, let's get some water guns for fourth of july, we start shooting. I was like then I start chasing people and I told the story of the easter, you guys cracking heads I didn't lose a tooth. I still got it. You still got the tooth, but I was like we're too big.
Mig:It's a little dark but all, but I think it has a dead root in it but it's still there.
Lano:We got it, we'll save that story for Easter. Yeah, for the Easter. And then we got to do Bring in some food or do some food reviews.
Mig:Oh man, if I would have brought A Vegas earlier. Tell you about the burger I had out there.
Rick:I also Save it.
Lano:I also ate a Tacos Madres burrito. Oh, you went Alright. Well, next week we'll talk about it, We'll get back on track.
Mig:Keep on drifting, yo Peace.
Rick:God save the queen.
Mig:My wife.
