Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 120 - Whirlwind Wonders and Culinary Quests: Weather Woes, Vallarta Ventures, and Football Feats
What if your New Year's party plans got derailed by a gust of wind—or a flying Christmas tree? This episode takes you through our adventures surviving the infamous Santa Ana winds in Southern California, dodging airborne debris, and bracing for unpredictable weather events like power outages and earthquakes. As we recount our festivities, or rather the quiet holiday marked by illness and a cozy half-day work celebration with Santa, you'll find humor in the chaos and tips on being better prepared for nature's curveballs.
Get ready for tales of sun-soaked adventures turned chilly as we recount our New Year's escapade to Puerto Vallarta, where sickness couldn't stop us from enjoying the "Rhythm of the Night" show on a secluded island. Discover the contrast between the tourist-heavy Puerto Vallarta and the hidden charm of Sayulita, along with our quest for authentic Mexican experiences and delectable eats, from shrimp tacos to mouth-watering ribs. Our journey also takes us through the highs and lows of concerts, where restroom emergencies can disrupt even the most anticipated countdowns, but a surprise taco stand can save the night.
Finally, we wrap up with a hearty exploration of barbecue platters, fantasy football victories, and a sprinkle of sports analysis. Hear about our culinary indulgences, from the generous servings in Temecula to chain restaurant surprises, and join the lively banter celebrating family wins in fantasy leagues. Plus, we tackle football strategies, team prospects for the NFL Wild Card weekend, and critique our recent show, aiming to turn technical flops into future hits. Whether you're here for the laughs, the food, or the sports camaraderie, there's something for everyone in this whirlwind episode.
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Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast. This is Mig. This is Lano and RK67. Belated merry christmas, people, and a very happy New year. Happy new year. I'm glad you guys are with us. Hope you guys enjoyed your Holidays and let's Start this year off better Than we ended it. Yeah, yeah, right now we're in the middle of A windstorm, right, yeah it's crazy.
Lano:Windstorm 2025 yeah, yeah, yeah. Right now we're in the middle of a A windstorm, right.
Mig:Yeah, it's crazy.
Lano:Windstorm 2025.
Mig:By the time you guys hear this, you guys have gone through it. Yeah, I mean going down the Coming on the freeway right now. I think I had a damn Christmas tree Flying in front of me in the damn freeway.
Lano:Oh wow, Like it was a missile.
Mig:Yeah, it was like a big old Like. What do you call that? Like a spear? No, what's crazy is how what do?
Rick:you call them the damn Tumbleweeds, tumbleweeds, yeah.
Mig:Yeah cause that's what I was gonna say At Cause we rent space At an airport, an airport hangar, to Park our truck and keep all of our Supplies and tools and everything. Park our truck and keep all of our Supplies and tools and everything. And of course there was no flight, no airplanes going out. But it's funny because yesterday An airplane crashed Right there, like a couple streets away from the airport. Oh really.
Rick:I don't know if you guys heard about it.
Mig:Yeah, one of the small planes To a backyard. Yeah, it said it just narrowly avoided hitting the house.
Lano:I think he hit the garage so like he missed the runway or broke down.
Mig:No, no no, he was, uh, he was. They said it was a crash landing, but I guess they said like some rose bushes or something kept them from completely like going into the the residence. But it did end up in the backyard of someone's house, yeah, and from what I saw on the news it looked like it went a little bit into the garage, yeah, anyways. So today, with all the wind and everything, there's no airplanes going up or landing or whatever. So I guess they grounded everybody because of the winds, but man, there are so many tumbleweeds blowing around all over the place.
Rick:It was crazy man.
Mig:I thought it was a damn Christmas tree on the freeway, like cars were swimming out of the way and the thing just caught me in the fast lane, yeah, and I just stayed. I mean, I was hoping it wasn't going to be like a big trunk that was going to mess up my like crack a light or something.
Mig:Yeah, it wasn't going to be like a big trunk that was going to mess up my like crack a light or something, yeah, and it just stayed it stayed under my grill for like the majority of the ride until I made it on the five freeway, and then, um, and then it slowly went down and then I ran over it and then it went. It went past, yeah, yeah, but uh, these winds are pretty fierce, so we're hoping they don't knock the power out and cut this show short and these are called For Southern California, the Santa Ana winds right Santa Ana.
Lano:My dad he called. He said that this is like the strongest he's remembered ever.
Mig:Yeah, it's damn crazy out there, there's like a little tornado right here, right in front of the house.
Lano:It's crazy, these are pretty.
Mig:I mean I remember them. There's been a couple times where I remember them really strong, but I don't think sustained for this long Right. Manny just texted me right now that Ballin Park is out of power Right now.
Lano:Oh, your neighbor, your house is out. Yeah, power right now, oh your neighbor, your house is out, yeah, yeah, so um, he says getting home, and he saw the transformer blow up. Well, you have a propane grill, yeah, the clutch and stuff. I bought some protein propane over the weekend just to have some tanks full of fucking stuff you're, I got. Getting ready for the 2025. I got the food.
Mig:I hope you didn't store those propane tanks on the top shelf, cause I gotta get those. The bucket of food that lasts for like 3 months.
Lano:You know we have one, but we tried to get another one at Costco this weekend. They didn't have any. They were like sold out. But we have one. But you got to think it's a bucket per person for like the 30 days.
Mig:Oh, it's a 30-day supply.
Lano:Yeah, so I mean like it makes multiple meals. You were talking about it me and Mark but you need like we should be getting those things.
Mig:No, I've thought about it too, and then, when it's getting Already time to. Ever since Cuckoo, our nephew Gave us those Like yeah. It's like there's like a one person. No, I think it's like a three day or something like that.
Rick:Like a survival pack yeah.
Mig:I've been, I've been thinking about that and I do. It's like we should have. I mean, only cause we're under constant threat Of, of this huge earthquake that. Yeah, they say that we're way overdue, for yeah, you know, so you think we'll have that In our lifetime that, and I should have like Some Bottled water. Yeah, you know some stacks of bottled water and shit.
Lano:But you got that at work right, like Like Water and Snacks and stuff you just don't have at the house.
Mig:Not right now, man. We're broke. The shelves are empty. I haven't been shopping in a while, so so what'd you, guys Real busy, what'd you? Guys do, for I was bored man, I didn't do shit.
Lano:You know, I was sick. I like Christmas Eve. We had this like there's a Christmas Eve at work. It's like this day when you work half day and bring your family in. They have like Santa Claus.
Rick:Oh yeah.
Lano:And all these like Advanced popcorn and they show like um power safety for the kids and all that stuff. So it was. It was crowded at work, but like when I got home, like I just started feeling like the scratch in my throat, so I don't know if I got it at work from all the people. But and then christmas day I was miserable.
Mig:Everybody took their kids and everything. I'm sure it was Christmas Day. I was miserable. This room feels like it's going to take off dude.
Lano:We might be in Kansas at the end of the show. Yeah, not.
Mig:Kansas man In Oz, In Oz. We're going to open the door and say I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. The winds are crazy. I went walking because I was telling you guys before the show I was doing that hard 75 thing with Mark.
Lano:Well, that's going to help out with the marathon, yeah, so the past three days I got three runs in.
Mig:I did three runs, three miles each, and then I did weightlifting to complete the hour and a half workout. And so my body's real sore now because I haven't done anything in so long and I wanted to give my legs a rest. So today I just I walked. I walked for almost like I was short, like three minutes, like an hour and a half. I did like walk like four miles and I was walking in this damn wind man, it was even making it harder because you're like you harder, because you turn a corner and you're like walking up against wind.
Lano:Oh yeah, and stuff flies in your eyes and stuff.
Mig:It was crazy out there, dude.
Lano:And this is around the house or where.
Mig:I was afraid of walking underneath Damn palm trees, man, especially my palm tree. My palm tree has a lot of Dead shit on it. Man, we're talking about that dude. You should have cut that Damn thing down. Nah, I don't know. You've trimmed it like twice right? More than that. Yeah, I always, they always cost me but whenever, whenever you see all these Fires going on, those things they're.
Lano:Like Kindle.
Mig:They're like sparklers, dude. Yeah, that thing's way up there.
Lano:How's the one I planted, the little Saigon, one in the back? Which one? The one at Ricky's house, the little palm in the back that I trimmed, and stuff.
Mig:Is it big, yet you didn't plant that dude. Is it big, yet it's the same size. It keeps growing up. You didn't Just do the one, I planted, I planted it. Oh yeah, you haven't gone back To trim it.
Lano:Well, I don't have to look at it. Well, I don't know when you're home or whatever. Oh, you know what? We've been going to a lot Well, not a lot, but twice the Baldwin Park Dutch Brothers, oh yeah. Well, how is it? It's so the two times we got it it's not as crowded as the Covina Really, but they kind of have like a better setup?
Mig:Yeah, but you would think people would find out about it.
Lano:It's a two like driveway, two lanes, and then they merge into one. But they tell you like oh, you're after this car and like kind of like canes yeah, that's what they that's what they do at the covina one and I asked the girl.
Lano:I was like how is it? Like is it busy right now? And she's like, oh, this is like normal. And I was like, oh, because I go to the covina when it's like super busy, like oh yeah, it's spread out. Now that's crazy. Like that one, you got two there, so west covina going that one and bond park are going over here.
Mig:Well, I guess because there was one time I was leaving the casino with my dad and, um, I thought I remembered um, a dutch brothers, emmanuel told me about, yeah, but I went to the wrong one, but it's one or two years house off of university oh yeah, there's one there so I went to that one. There was no line dude yeah, you go.
Mig:Even you'll pass by three or four of them like you to see them on the freeway those are always super busy, the ones on the 210, because he was telling me about some other ones that are off the freeway, oh you know, and I thought that was one of them and I went there and there was no line and I told you know, I asked the, the worker there, I thought hey, is it like this?
Mig:you know? Because I thought, um, my brother says, you know, whenever he comes it's not really that busy, and they're like Nah, we have the waves, you know, it gets busy. Then yeah. It'll be calm, and then all of a sudden It'll get busy again. It'll be calm, I'm like. Well, this is nice man.
Lano:Yeah, cause there's Uplands in that other Caramel area Caramel something?
Mig:huh yeah, caramel drink.
Lano:Yeah, but we went friday and saturday and and then it was um. It was nice like it was where you drink from there, I always get the energy drink because it's uh like uh you don't get like, because your gordiness is making you sluggish you can't get an energy drink that big anywhere else like you're paying're paying premium for like a little can. But here you get this big old, like cup of like energy and it's just like a big old cup of like Vipo Vitan or something, a big old cup of sugar dude.
Mig:No one saw before this show but this gorda broke a step stool that was rated for 400 pounds. He cracked.
Rick:He went straight through. It almost fell on his ass. That shit, it had crack.
Lano:And I didn't know where the piece went. So at Costco we bought another one, because I told them I was like, oh, this thing broke that shit sounded like if he went through four floors of brick.
Rick:I went straight down.
Lano:I went straight down but just through the stool, it was like a foot off the ground. Oh man, I was straight down but just threw the.
Rick:The stool, like that was like A foot off the ground, oh man.
Mig:Like if it was John Wick being thrown Off a building and shit. He crashed through Like the.
Lano:Four different yeah he. He threw his arms up.
Mig:He almost cracked the damn Um.
Lano:You guys, probably I'll give you this.
Mig:You have pretty good Balance, man Cause it was like Like two Hands up in the air. I'll give you this though dude, you have pretty good balance man.
Lano:He almost cracked two of his hands up in the air.
Mig:He almost cracked the homeboy's vinyl record, javier.
Lano:Julian Torres, julian Torres.
Mig:Oh man, that shit was funny.
Lano:The thing was coming down from the wind or something.
Mig:Yeah, something, oh shit, it was something I was like. Oh shit, we broke through Either that or that. Dr Evil hit the button and hey, so it's funny that you say you were sick or all.
Lano:New Year's the whole week. I was just really bad.
Mig:Yeah. So the first day being in Puerto Vallarta, I got sick, like I was already getting a cough on the way over there, flying over there, bet you from the plane.
Lano:Yeah, well, maybe.
Mig:Mark's boy, andrew, was sick, so I don't know if he passed it to me. He was like throughout off and on, like up and down, through the whole trip. He had like a bad cough.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:But that's that. So the first day we got there, um was was pretty badass because we had a boat ride to like a supposedly a secluded island and we saw the show. Rhythm of the night oh shit, badass show. Acrobatic yeah show right like aztec theme live music Just to catch everybody up. Rick spent New Year's In Puerto Vallarta.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:I spent New Year's in Puerto Vallarta.
Mig:We marked a shark in the family.
Lano:He's telling the story.
Mig:Like everybody knew where he was at. Yeah.
Lano:Like your family, like everybody knew where you were.
Mig:Yeah well, I went over there and that show was Pretty badass Cause First you take the boat right over there, that's um, that show was, was was pretty badass because you first you take the bowl right over there, it's all you can drink yeah give you a little snack, little little, uh snacks on the charcuterie board, kirkucci, yeah, and then um I never knew exactly where it's at, but do the show there.
Rick:It's a list correct, and it was a yeah, and it was a badass show, man.
Mig:These performers were amazing. The stuff that they were doing was so unique it was crazy. And then even the boat ride back to the port. The guys were cool on the boat. They had put on a little show All you can drink still. But by then, man, I was already like oh, we had dinner on that island too. After the show, we had dinner.
Lano:So this is it right here on the screen.
Mig:Yeah, that's it right there.
Lano:It says Rhythm of the Night.
Mig:Yeah, amazing show man In the night. All right, they're in the jungle. They have all that set up in the jungle, all their stage area and their little areas where you have dinner too. They have so many different sections where they send people because it's a lot of people, it's like a couple boats that go there.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:And the people are all spread out in their areas, depending on your boat and yeah, man, that thing was an amazing show and then on the way back, um it was real windy on that boat, so it's like a man I was like I. I didn't really take a hoodie or nothing, I just had my damn. I want to take a hoodie, but I ended up taking one of my my sweaters, my lightweight sweaters because it wasn't't going to be cold over there.
Mig:I wouldn't imagine it was going to be. But at night on that boat ride it was real windy and it kept getting on that wind so I had to put my bandana on to cover so I'm not covering myself up like this and by the time I got back to the room, man I I was like I was all jacked up and I was out for the next day. I didn't do anything. They went into town to go walk around and stuff Like just sick.
Mig:Yeah, I was like with a cough With a cough and then I had body aches a headache. I have body aches A headache and let me tell you, man, the whole trip there, those, those fucking beds suck the hotel room that we stayed at. Those whole, those damn beds Are, are they? They're the worst beds I have ever slept in. They're all lumpy and soft.
Mig:And the pillows were like rocks in them man, like regular mattresses by far the worst bed that I've ever slept in In. They're all lumpy and soft and the pillows were like rocks in them man, like regular mattresses by far the worst bed that I've ever slept in in a hotel.
Lano:Because you have a memory from at the house In all my life traveling. Huh, you have memory from at the house, or no?
Mig:No, your regular mattress. Yeah, no, because I need kind of like a firm. Not stiff, yeah, like a firm. But man, I was tossing and turning the whole damn week. Man, that sucks the whole week. I could not get a good night's sleep, so already with that I was waking up every morning with my neck hurting with a headache, fucking body aches.
Mig:There was one morning I woke up and I had this pain in my knee, like, like my knee was stressed, like Like my knee was being Like hyper extended yeah, you know what I mean. And I woke up and I felt my knee Like a mean pain and I was bending it real slowly With a mean pain On my damn knee, because my knee was like that's how bad, that's how, that's how bad that damn bed was that my, my, my leg was kind of like hyper extending. So then, when I was kind of bending my knee already to straight to, to bend it, I had that pain in my, in my knee is like. And then, aside from that, where our room was was right next to the damn big washers where all the workers are pushing their carts the day after the damn New Year's these.
Mig:I don't know what the hotel was thinking, but they have the truck right there, right in front in the parking lot, loading the tables or stuff that they put out on display, putting the shit away, like at three in the morning. So I'm hearing all that. I can hear a thing in the hallway. I was like, and the whole time I was there I did not get a good night's sleep, man? It sucked by far the worst, the worst bed that I have ever experienced at a hotel. Who booked the room? What?
Lano:hotel, was it it?
Mig:was Mark's wife. But you would think Like man it's a nice damn hotel.
Rick:I was gonna say Was it a nice hotel?
Mig:Yeah, it was a real nice hotel, but I don't know, those fucking beds Were horrible dude. And then I couldn't know what else. Those fucking beds were horrible dude. I got in, I couldn't sleep on the floor cuz the floor there's no carpet, it's all damn towel yeah, like stuck.
Mig:No, you have a scorpion crawling under the door or some shit. Yeah, but that was that beginning like it took me. It took me couple of days to get past it because, even like the third day, we went to a little. We went to to a little town, uh, sayulita in Nayarit, cause the state's right there, next state over, there's North. Yeah, um, that little town's cool Cause it was like a little beach town that we went to. So that was, that was cool and but man leaving in the morning like I had body aches and man, I was just like sweat, like I didn't what was the name of the town?
Mig:sayulita oh not that level, sayulita no it's nuevo vallarta, I think, is the the area they're trying to promote like the new.
Lano:That's crazy, because that's so.
Mig:It's like they're trying to take it away from yeah, so Puerto Vallarta is down, where we stayed at, and then Nuevo Vallarta is the area where they're trying to promote more people going there.
Lano:They have they have a oh, so you're right by the airport, huh, so you just fly in and you're right there yeah, a new um resort or hotel or they got a walmart right there yeah, but you know what pu Puerto Vallarta, it's real touristy. So everything's like high price, no bargains.
Mig:No, not really. That's why I think, if you want to go to Mexico and do like a beach resort and stuff Like, Hobos or something no. Well, yeah.
Lano:Matalou or something like that.
Mig:I think Cthulhu is where it's still kind of like not as touristy, you know.
Lano:Yeah, I don't know it wasn't, it wasn't a real yeah, on this side um by talum there's like a lot of places.
Mig:There's some other one that I heard is marilu or something like like it wasn't until we went, did our stuff like the little activities yeah where you go to the little, the little like kind of like towns or the little pueblos, like that was like nice. That was a cool little feel of how me is. Yeah, you know, but like out there it's like real. They cater to a lot of the tourists.
Rick:It's like Americanized You're speaking.
Mig:English or Spanish, or even next time, if you guys want to do a trip like that, go to go to Ixtapa. But like if you don't if you don't really like that feeling, ixtapa, because Ixtapa is, like all, touristy also. Uh huh. Where you fly in the airport Zihuatanejo Uh huh. Right there, dude, that's like that's where you wanna be. Yeah, that's where they got all the Mercados and everything, and it was um I didn't realize it was cool, like.
Mig:Little bit of the jungle that we were in, like where Vanessa's aunt and uncle stayed. They were in an Airbnb and then right off the river, that thing was awesome, right, that thing was nice where they stayed. I would have gotten way comfortable sleep there because you could just open the back door and you could just hear the river oh man, I wish I would have been able to like fall asleep over there you see, but that's, that's even nice, if you're hearing the the waves crashing everything you know, but I mean, while we were in, we were in the front.
Mig:Yeah, you're saying that the hotel the hotel, you just walk um, you walk past the lobby, past the pool, and then you hit the sand, and then you're right there and you walk into the beach. So we were on the front side of the hotel next to the damn washers.
Lano:Like you not being sick. How was the weather? Like cold or hot? It was hot.
Mig:Yeah, it was hot Water's cold, yeah, but it was hot Water's cold. Yeah, but it was bearable. Like, even when we went, like Dovin, like the, we did something like ATV riding and we we did a horse, a horse, ride up to the the waterfall and diving in that water. It was pretty chilly, pretty chilly. But yeah, the beach water Wasn't too bad, it was good. Once you got in, you were good.
Lano:But was that your first time? Yeah, I've never been there.
Mig:Go back and then, being that it's a port city, not a lot of damn seafood places to eat there Really. There's like there was not there's a big presence of seafood and mariscos Nothing, dude. I think I saw one like nearby us, like one seafood restaurant. There was like a seafood restaurant connected to the hotel, yeah, but it's like not a real big presence of mariscos dude.
Rick:Can you go to?
Mig:I mean right now that I think about it. Ixtapa was the same way, but I'm telling you, since Ixtapa is more touristy, the actual like area of Ixtapa where all the hotels, like the resorts are and everything that's like way catered to tourists, so all the restaurants around there are all like trying to be like the upscale, modern cuisine and shit and everything. That's why when, when, when, I went, you know when, when, me, and everyone went. We were like we're not gonna eat around here.
Mig:It's like let's go back to the guatanejo and let's go to the mercados over there, because that's how, that's how we like to eat. You know it's like you go. You go back to Zihuatanejo and let's go to the Mercados over there, cause that's how, that's how we like to eat. You know it's like you go. You go back to the, to the little towns, or you go where they have like the central markets.
Mig:Yeah, and they got all the little food stands in there and everything, yeah, and that's where you get the real authentic. That's where you get what we grew up on. I, there was like a for like um pennies on the dollar, right, yeah, the our last boat ride activity that we did we're supposed to go snorkeling, and that was just a scam.
Mig:A scam rather than oh really yeah, they say we're gonna snorkel and they say that the marina police, like 30 minutes before gates the marina police, is um closing the area down because the water is unsafe or whatever. Oh like a scam like that? Yeah, and then, like one of the other workers had said, like well, he goes that that spot has been closed already for four or five days. So it's like, why the hell do they sell the ticket? Yeah, you know, and what are you going to do?
Lano:And these guys on the beach like selling like tickets. Yeah, they're out in the streets selling these adventurous things.
Mig:And then they said like okay, well, we're going to get to this little beach, to this beach area. That's where people can hang out. Or we could have taken a horse or ATV ride up to the waterfall and have our lunch up there. But it's an extra 600 pesos, of course. So we're like, well, we don't want to damn, we want to go do, of course, so we're like we don't want to. We want to go do that, so we paid another.
Mig:We lost out on the damn Snorkeling stuff. Supposed snorkeling. You're supposed to have kayaking included. You could have Jet skiing, but have you ever been snorkeling?
Mig:Have you ever done it? You know what? It's probably better that you didn't, because if they didn't have anybody that was going to instruct you on how to do it, james says it's whack, because he think he did it. He says it's bullshit. He goes, you go out, you swim, like around this rock, and then you got to go back to the boat and then go. They waste so much time. There's this big boat that's full of people, like those charter boats, and they put them on those smaller boats. No, but I was going to say like, as far as like Actually doing the activity, it's For me it was hard Because I didn't know what I was doing and it's like it's almost like a. If the waters are like a little rough or anything, you kind of like start to panic, you know, because you're not used to breathing through this tube thing.
Lano:But is it like what I'm imagining, like goggles and a mask with a little straw?
Mig:Yeah, that's it, that's it.
Lano:Because I've seen somewhere like your head goes in some tank and then they drop you and all this stuff.
Mig:No, it's just the goggles with the tube and you keep the tube above water so you can breathe and look down. And then you get on the boat and you see the box full of then the scoop of the snorkeling gear. Yeah, like they look, all like all raunchy.
Lano:Yeah, they all look all raunchy. Looking dude your neck's like oh we sanitized it.
Mig:It's like we're supposed to put our mouth on that shit you guys even sanitize that shit, yeah, yeah so.
Lano:It's just some bowling shoe spray.
Mig:Yeah, bowling, bowling, shoe spray.
Lano:Yeah, so we didn't do that, it was like yeah, but then like you get one hour and then like 40 minutes of loading and stuff on the damn beach, you know.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:You want to enjoy everything and then, like us, we got up and then they took the bull ride to the spot where we're going to get the horses and then we got on the horses and then we went up, we had our lunch and then we we couldn't stay too much At the waterfall, we had to come back down, come back, and then we were waiting For them to To all these little boats that are picking up people At the beach, yeah, to put them back on the boat To come back. It's just a whole Wasted day, like, yeah, of waiting dude.
Rick:Like everything.
Mig:Hurry up and wait.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:Yeah, it was that sucked, that sucked I wouldn't believe. I'll tell I'll be flipping off these guys Like any future trips, these guys trying to sell these bullshit Little adventure packages. I'm just gonna flip them off Right in their face. I'm gonna tell them Fuck you. And they're all competing Like oh, r2 is better.
Lano:That guy's a scam, that guy's a scam, that guy's a scam, this guy's better, or whatever yeah.
Mig:That's why, like, especially in Mexico traveling with Maribel, you know, because she's like a hustler dude, it's like she, you know she's really heads up when it comes to shit like that and she would talk to different people and try to get like different deals. She would talk to different people and try to get like different deals and that's where we always found such good deals, you know, because she would talk to those same dudes. You know that offering those packages, we never did any of those, but somehow or another, talking to people, she would find someone that would go and like guide us.
Mig:Yeah, like in Ixtapa, she found a dude that was willing to take us out for the day on his own boat took us fishing took us to a snorkeling spot and then after took us to like a little island where you could only get to by boat, to cook everything that I caught and just chill on the beach, dude like at a private restaurant and shit damn you know when, when we went to a mexico city same thing she found a dude that was gonna pick us up, take us to the pyramids, spend the day there, you know, and then bring us back, like, take us to a restaurant to eat or whatever.
Mig:Yeah, that was a hard thing because we didn't have a car to be around. Yeah, you know, so it's like, but it was all like not with the people that are trying to sell their packages or whatever. Yeah, but it's like finding people that kind of do it kind of like on their own. Yeah.
Rick:You know, I think that was.
Mig:That was the case for the people on the beach yeah that had their stuff already ready there yeah, like guys that had their boats ready to go fishing, they had their boat, they're ready to go so that's kind of.
Rick:That's kind of what you got to do. You know, next time go through those.
Mig:Yeah, next time you go you gotta try to find people that like, do it on their own. You know, not the one, the one atv riding that we did up to the the water. I think it was a waterfall too. I mean, that was the actual park canopy park, that you go to them like that's your thing, and you can zipline there and I guess you can zipline over where they uh, oh okay, where they film predator.
Mig:Yeah, so we didn't do the zip lining Because Costa Rica kind of Messed it up for us, I was gonna say Did you do it in Costa Rica? Dude yeah.
Rick:Isn't that like the ultimate? You know what?
Mig:Even Like everything was Like it was. It was beautiful there In Puerto Vallarta, but, yeah, after going to Costa Rica, man, after seeing Costa Rica's- jungle yeah man, you get it like kind of ruined it for everything else like it doesn't. Nothing else compares to that. And then forget it, man, the zip lining in costa rica by those damn waterfalls and all that, it's like there's no comparison anywhere else.
Lano:It's like the, the, the jungle was kind of nice, the areas I went to, but man, it's like it's not the same well, you go to ensanada like can you still get like like shrimp or fish tacos for like dirt cheap and stuff like on the beach or no?
Mig:yeah, it's not on the beach, it's um right in the town, yeah, where the ports are but it wasn't like that that stand in Huerto. Uh huh El Huerto where everybody Hooks together. Yeah, right there, right uh, across the street From the tequila, yeah, spot, man, me and Vanessa Get the the cocteles With camarón and pulpo. Uh, huh. So damn good and it's cheap right, I tell her.
Lano:I tell her. I tell her, man, we gotta start. Yeah, compared to, it's so damn good and it's cheap. Right, I tell her, because they have abundance of it. I tell her, man, we got to start.
Rick:Yeah, compared to.
Mig:We got to start bringing a couple of them home, because, man, those things are so damn good Because that's what I want to do I told Rick about the spot that I like to go to, but he says he has a better spot.
Lano:Of what?
Mig:The fish tacos Fish and shrimp tacos. Remember, I sent you to that in. Phoenix yeah because they weren't really.
Lano:The breading or what Crispy.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:You see but right there you're probably getting each taco for about a buck and a quarter. I had some pretty good fish tacos right there at Puerto Vallarta.
Rick:They're really cheaper.
Mig:There's a food park Across the street and little Food court area. But like they had A pizzeria Sushi Stuff like that, and there's a Fish taco place there. The fish tacos I had there yeah, the second time the second Fish tacos that I had Vanessa, they were like they gave her the wrong ones. They were hard shell Dude. It was like biting into damn grease. It had that damn strong grease, damn fried. They didn't change it or something. I was like, oh man, I couldn't even finish the last taco, it was just too much.
Lano:That was the one that Miggy recommended. No, no, no, this was in Puerto Vallarta. Oh, puerto Vallarta.
Mig:Yeah much, that was the one that miggy recommended. No, no, no, this is in puerto vallarta. Oh, puerto vallarta, yeah, so it was like man.
Lano:Now you said it's touristy like are you you're speaking english or you still need to know spanish?
Mig:no, you need to know spanish, but there's a lot of gabachos there, yeah, and where they were them? The malacón, where the, where the whole new year's thing was, uh-huh, that's like the, the damn um west hollywood area over there is this?
Mig:it on the screen right here those gays got that, those gays got that. On the lockdown up there there's like arches and let me tell you, dude, I ended up not liking new year's. It wasn't good there. I, I, they have like first we get there. Like the music wasn't good there, I, they have like first we get there. Like the music wasn't. They had a big stage and as soon as we got there, this dude on a guitar, oh, these arches right here, the one guy, yeah, and the stage was to the right okay um, this guy on a guitar just playing his goosey guitar, playing like romantic songs.
Mig:He was playing for a long time. We were like dude, you're like Putting everybody to sleep. And then even the band that went on after La Banda, like they started off With a couple hype songs and then they just like Kind of like Like nothing Not beat, like yeah, and then people are just Standing there. And then what I hate is like we were already on the edge, like next to the water. It's all rocky, you can't get in the water there, but there's like a little edge where people can sit. And we had a little area right there, right where you can see the, the stage, yeah, and all of us were just in this little area and people were still trying to get in that damn area, knowing that we're, we're right there. And what ended up happening is me and Mark were like we ended up being like trying to like block people from from crossing it's like dude there's no walk.
Mig:You can't walk through here. This is the end. Like this is our area. Like where are you? Where do you want to go? Like these these damn Mark was saying these cameras is like three, four dudes are trying to like go in and we were like, nah, we weren't letting them through. It's like dude, where do you want to go? Like this is where we're at. This little square that we're at is like this is our spot. What the we're? Like why the? Why the fuck do you want to go in this area? Like this is our spot. And I just hate, I just I ended up.
Mig:It was like leading up to it, like I was dancing with vanessa having a good time, but then after that, I just ended up being a damn bodyguard just keeping everybody back. They had the music going and then they were like I don't know like a minute behind the damn countdown, because all the other hotels were already setting off the fireworks, yeah, and we saw the time and yeah, it was already like 12.01, and they were barely getting into the countdown, yeah. And then, of all the timing, of all the timing, right when everyone's saying their New Year's, whatever, whatever, whatever. Vanessa has to go to the fucking restroom. So there I go. She's like I gotta go, I gotta go and I gotta fight Through all this fucking crowd To get her to a fucking restroom. Dude, well, cause the advice.
Rick:I heard.
Mig:That was going around was For you to take a dump Right before New Year's.
Rick:But yeah, you're drinking.
Mig:That way you don't Carry the same shit.
Rick:Into the new year. Too bad, but like. But yet you're drinking that way, you don't Carry the same shit Into the new year.
Mig:That's too bad, thank you. Thank you. You know like I'm here all week, but even like the bathroom, like the restroom situation Is like so many people there Drinking and I had to fight Through the crowd To get her to a damn restaurant. I said she, I got her to a restaurant. I took her upstairs in a Swiss restaurant, whatever. It was a restaurant on the second floor. I came back down, I go, I'm not walking back through that bullshit to look for everyone. I go, let's start walking. I was pissed. I go, let's just go. I'm not even gonna try.
Rick:To walk past that.
Mig:So we just started walking and we ended up walking and then like Even to try to get a taxi cab there, like you would be Just stuck in traffic.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:So just, everyone just started Just walking Out of that whole area and we just kept walking and walking, and walking and Vanessa, she just kept saying let's get a taxi, let's get a taxi. I go, by the time we got cleared all that stuff out, all the taxis that were coming out had people in it. I go, man, the taxis are full, they're full. We just keep walking and then, luckily, like about halfway, I found a damn taco spot, a taco stand. Yeah, some bomb ass. Damn Pastor, pastor, tacos man at least that man shit, they were so damn good so damn
Lano:bright spot in the trip.
Mig:You don't remember the name that, nah, it was like about halfway, and then we ended up walking all the way back to the hotel. No, and I was like, dude, I'm, I'm hoping, I'm hoping I'm so tired that I can Damn.
Rick:Knock out.
Mig:Yeah, like Complete knock out and Knock About to knock out. When those assholes were fucking Loading up the damn truck Making all that fucking noise, I was like that sucks, dude, but I mean I will not do New Year's there again. And what sucks is our hotel? They had like a thing that has like for 80 bucks they had, um, like a dinner set up all you can eat like a new year's special yeah and then they had like a dj there that was right off the beach.
Mig:You could have been at the beach, which would have been better than your you got your restrooms right here if you get too up, you just go to your room. They had this big tronco of damn meat dude just hanging there making like I. I don't know if it's just a big chunk of of like a carnitas or I don't know this huge piece of meat, slab of meat and then they had two little small, like two pigs that were, that were being yeah, you
Mig:know, warmed up too and man, it looked like it was gonna be bombed there. Man, like they were setting up cool, was like dude and I said I I regret it. After I said like no, because, because because mark's wife was like oh, let's tell everybody to just come over here, whatever. But it was just Vanessa's aunt and uncle were already over there and saving the spot and kept calling to see where we're at and that was the original plan. Let's just keep the original plan, which I wish I had never gone over there, because that would have been so much more comfortable. You have aj dance floor there, the food that they had there how long were you there?
Mig:it was like a week, from saturday to friday oh wow, yeah, but although, although, although, this is the saturday after christmas, although yeah yeah all the hotels had their own thing going on, which was pretty cool. It would have been nice just to be there.
Lano:They want to keep you in the house and not lose their business.
Mig:Yeah, because I hate people man, I just hate people being in that crowd like that. I hate it. There were so many people there and you're just fighting to keep your spot man, that's why I just stayed home, yeah I'm like I'm I'm done dealing with crowds.
Mig:Man, um, yeah, that, that that crowd right there. I mean it does sound fun sometimes to be out and, you know, be drunk and shit and bullshit with people. But yeah, I mean, when you're somewhere and it's too crowded and you're just it's too hot, you know, and bumping into people and people acting stupid and people fighting Right, it's like why didn't I just stay home? Better? As soon as you start hitting me and getting close, you're like like man, I wish I would just stay home, I wish I would just stay at the damn hotel, telling you man.
Mig:Everybody was asking me what are you going to do? I ain't going to do shit. Man, all that partying and shit, I already did all that. I'm burned out on it. I've already done so much partying in my youth. I don't miss it at all. It was cool all that, dude. I'm burned out on it. It's like I've already done so much partying in my youth, dude, it was. I don't miss it at all, it was, it was. It was cool. What. What saved it? What saved it was the rhythm of the night to show the, the horse horse riding up to the waterfall, jumping in the waterfall, the ATV rides jumping in the water, the ATV rides. Sayulita was cool in that little town over there. I tried to go to sleep there on the beach.
Mig:I didn't even get in the water over there. I was trying to go to sleep because I was so damn tired. And then that last day that we went over to the Airbnb just chilling in the river, and then that last day that we went over there to the Aunt and Uncle's Airbnb, like just chilling in the river, you know, in the water, it was cool, that was cool. So it was. It was a cool, cool trip. But New years I ended up not liking being out there. Live and learn. So my sister-in-law.
Lano:She lives about a half a block From the Rose Parade route and, being out there, live and learn. So my sister-in-law, she lives about a half a block from the Rose Parade route. She saw it. Yeah, well, we went. So she lives a half a block from the very end. She lives on Sierra Madre in Colorado, like one of the back streets, so that's at the very end of the parade. So we did it last year where she had a little get-together for New Year's Eve. We stayed up and then woke up early, did the parade. And what's nice is that from our house we just walk half a block and we're at the Rose Parade, but it's at the very end so it's not crowded Maybe two or three people in front of you like at the curb.
Lano:Two or three people in front of you, which was fine because, like the girls could see, and then um my wife got me a new 360 camera.
Lano:So, um, I was holding, I was just holding it up like up in the air like the stick, like recording the floats. But, um, like you say, like I've been to the rose parade, like maybe once or twice before this, and like I hated it with the crowd, you know all the hustle and bustle, waking up early and doing it like an old town, but this is at the end where it's not as crowded.
Lano:and then, um, like I told my wife, I was like if you want to celebrate new year, you want to go to the parade. And she's like, I just want to take the kids to the parade. So, like we didn't even do the like, we didn't go to her house like the night before, like we just left, like you know, at 6 30 in the morning to get there like at 7. But it was nice, more laid back, like we skipped the. I mean we stayed up at the house, me and my wife, for the New Year's, but like it wasn't like a big party, like where everybody's drinking, so the kids were asleep.
Mig:They woke up when we were saying Happy New Year's and went back to sleep and then we just took off and saw the Rose Parade, which was I nice, but like it wasn't like two days back to back of staying up and then waking up early, so um, you can see the floats the day before the parade or the bummer, my house or by our window they put them together and they start driving lining them up yeah so the day before, everybody lines up over there and you can see them because they'll come down.
Mig:Irwindale, and then they'll turn on Arrow Highway and then just start making their way towards Pasadena yeah this is like some big like warehouses in Irwindale.
Lano:And then I think, um, my wife always built a Cal Poly float by her parents house, by the campus. But um, that was our New Year's. Like I mean, we just woke up and did that and then I had the rest of the week off. So we're just like I was sick, just chilling, but, like you said, like we didn't do the whole night before, we just did like one evening, because it's too hard with the kids to do everything. Like we're still like recovering from Christmas Eve.
Rick:Yeah.
Lano:The food yeah.
Mig:Food was disappointing for me.
Lano:And Puerto Vallarta. Yeah, yeah, that's. I mean that was disappointing.
Mig:I mean if it's as touristy as you say. I would imagine it was yeah, because Vanessa was craving patas de mula and she couldn't. No one had them. The, the.
Rick:Blood, blood clams, blood clams.
Mig:Right, yeah, so I was gonna say clams Nowhere to be found, wow, yeah.
Lano:For a port not to have that yeah.
Mig:That's crazy, yeah, oh. I'll tell you one thing, though On the way when we got back in, me and Mark were like hey man, what are we going to eat when we land, when we get back in the good old yes, old US of A?
Rick:LAX you flew in LA no we flew into TJ, and then we crossed over to CBX, isn't it?
Mig:so much nicer doing that dude. Yeah, yeah, it's cool. It's just so easy and you don't really got to deal with customs too much. What time did you fly in and fly out? Four in the morning, when we left, okay, and then when we came back it was like two, two in the afternoon, two pm and not really all that crowded, two there was three, I think, when he flew back in To TJ. Yeah, that's what I've done. I've always, I've always taken off On a red eye.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:And got him back. Like you, like you know.
Lano:It's cheaper, right, flying out of Tijuana, right, oh way cheaper.
Mig:Hey, well, check this out. You probably have to look this up. That's a nice airport too, the TJ airport.
Rick:Yeah, yeah.
Mig:It is so nice and they got so much shit in there, dude, they got like restaurants and bars. And it's so nice in there, man, you watched the show Breaking Bad Lano, yeah, okay. Well, I don't know who the character is, but One of the characters has a barbecue spot In Temecula. Okay, let's see where it is Dean Norris.
Lano:Dean Norris, yeah, he's the brother-in-law, the copper here.
Mig:Yeah, swingin' Cafe. Hey, we stopped there, swingin' Cafe.
Lano:This guy? He's on the show.
Mig:Yeah, he's the brother-in-law was that the name of the barbecue spot, swinging dean ors takes over gorilla barbecue. The kid is swinging cafe yeah, it is hey man, yeah, that's it. That's a bomb ass barbecue right there.
Lano:Really Thank you.
Mig:I got two meat, two meat, um Platter, yeah, dude, they give you so much damn food. I got Brisket and Pork Uh, burnt ends. And then Macaroni cheese and the and the Damn barbecue beans. And we added a sausage. Dude, they give you so much meat. This shit was so good. The beans, the barbecue beans.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:Oh man, I fell in love with them.
Rick:I'm a sucker for some good barbecue beans, oh my.
Mig:God, like baked beans, dude, we have to, we have to go back. I mean, we, we, you guys gotta try this out in temecula in temecula. I was telling mark dude, we gotta have this at least once a month you know, you know where I was surprised. That was good when you had a van's birthday party, that was Lucille's. Yeah, I was surprised because it was good. Yeah, I remember Lucille's. Lucille's wasn't that good.
Rick:No, it's right here.
Mig:Well.
Rick:I mean.
Mig:But for, you know, for being Like a chain place, you know, I thought it was pretty Damn good because we got. Where do we get? Because the we got um. Where did we get brisket? We got. Where did I get brisket? Did you get trite dip Brisket? I thought it was two different types yeah, you got ribs, yeah, ribs, brisket. You got spare types yeah, you got ribs, yeah, ribs, yeah, brisket. And then you got spare ribs. You got baby backs yeah, and you got Brisket and I think tri-tip oh.
Mig:I thought there were two different types of briskets. Yeah, no, I think it was tri-tip. Yeah, it was four things.
Rick:Oh, okay, I got from.
Mig:Lucille's yeah, cause the ribs. Dude, I thought the ribs were real good.
Rick:Yeah, I like the ribs.
Mig:The ribs were real good Cause for me. You go to a barbecue spot and if you don't gotta cover up the meat, drown it in sauce, then that's good barbecue, because it should. All the flavoring should just come from the rub and the smoke and I thought it had pretty good, pretty good flavoring.
Mig:My, my stomach starts to hurt when I eat a lot of pork. And, man, my stomach was hurting. I was still trying to Dig into that platter dude, that thing was so good. But hey, man, those beans, man, it had like little pieces.
Rick:Of meat in it.
Mig:Yeah. Yeah, it was kind of reminding me big. Yeah, it had like little pieces, pieces of bacon eating it. Yeah, I'll probably burn ends. Yeah it was. It was kind of reminding me of the damn um, um, kenny rogers, damn roast barbecue spot before kenny rogers.
Mig:That's right, I love those big beans and the with the cornbread yeah kenny rogers was so good. Oh, that spot was so good like that's that's. It took me back to that man like that's how good these beans wow, they're so good like we got it. We got to make a trip out to to make it in there and have this spot my sister-in-law lives out there, so I might oh shit, this guy's gonna beat you to it.
Mig:Yeah well, you guys go, dude, because it's a cool little town, that little Temecula strip right there, old Temecula, it's like a little old town. No, that's not near to know that shit. Speaking of Texas, big shout out to my primo Phillip, the black hole champion of fantasy football. Good job, primo, primo. Congratulations Raj. I'm sorry, dude and Primo, I got to admit it, I was rooting against you because Raj is just the freaking bills of our fantasy league.
Mig:Where he gets there and he just can't get over that hump. And I'm sorry, roger, I'm going to give you a big hug when I see you in a few days. But, primo, good job, dude, you pretty much wired a wire. Yeah, because he was in the lead the whole time, the whole way out. He just manhandled and I've been meaning to post something on the boards and I kept forgetting and I kept forgetting. But I know you listen, so we're better than on the air to give you, your props primo. Good job sir.
Lano:Me and my wife. We passed by this place. Um, I guess it's covina, but we had never seen it before. But then we saw it um the other day spirit of texas crab barbecue.
Mig:It's on um arrow and on bonnie cove avenue you know, I think I just saw something on instagram about that place and I marked it down on my phone but it was like, uh, like I mean a line it's a new spot I think it's new, but there was a line like out, the like, you can see the, the glasses right here.
Lano:But you can see like those, all these people, like a big old line inside, oh, like all the way, all the way to the back and we're like what's this? All this crowd.
Mig:But Well, you know, moocraft is still like that, is it? I driven by Moocraft, I mean, I mean, I guess Cause they're not open During the week, oh, I hardly ever See that place open During the week, and the times I've driven by On the weekend, like in the afternoon, it's like maybe not All the way down the side of the building but like at least to the door.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:A line.
Lano:So you saw this place on Instagram.
Mig:Yeah, cause we were like I saw someone talk about it.
Lano:Cause it was like A lot. Well, here it doesn't look busy, but it was a busy one when we passed by it.
Mig:They didn't die down.
Lano:It must be new. Yeah, Cause then I like that other place by Rick's house. It was a Kansas City barbecue or something like that. What's that one by your house?
Rick:Rick.
Mig:Oh Canyon City.
Lano:Canyon City. Yeah, oh yeah.
Mig:That's where I get the cornbread. Oh, okay, yeah.
Lano:Yeah, my friend, but yeah, Temecula.
Mig:If you guys wanna yeah.
Lano:We'll take a trip down there.
Mig:Yeah, we Just do.
Lano:And eat and maybe go to some winery.
Mig:Or something I was looking at people's other dishes, that's.
Rick:Man.
Mig:We could go down there, go to Wilson Creek Mmm. Drink some Champagni Mmm.
Rick:Mmm.
Mig:We're due for another food review. We could do a day over there damn winery and, yeah, that barbecue spot yeah, we'll just have to set it up planning.
Lano:We'll just get out there um day trip. Yeah, we need to. We need to do more food reviews.
Rick:More guests. All the shit off at Pachanda, the casino.
Mig:Yeah, we're going to Vegas this weekend. Vegas, baby Vegas. This weekend, vegas. You want to put in a bet? Wild card weekend. Who do you like? I don't know. I already started doing my own, my research this morning. I think I'm going to bet heavy on Green Bay Diesel. I don't even know who's in their wild card, their wild card spot. I think they're a good team. I think they're gonna have decent odds. You know they're playing Philly huh. I mean I, jalen Hurts, is coming off that concussion. I'm I don't know, I'm gonna. I'm a bit big on that. Honestly, the I don't know how. I don't know, I'm gonna. I'm a bit big on that. I don't know how the matchup is. I think who the underdog that I'm liking that's going in and they're going in hot Because they're on a fight game winning streak the Commanders man. That team is unbelievable and they're gonna play the Bucks. How hot they are, dude.
Lano:And another team. Who's the quarterback?
Mig:That dude, daniels, yeah, and or Jaden Jaden, another team, I think, is going in pretty hot. I think the Chargers dude, at least for One week yeah. I think they'll take out Houston. I can't believe the Broncos Made a damn playoffs, dude yeah.
Lano:I'm guessing the Raiders are out. How the fuck does that happen?
Mig:And then I heard the coach got fired today the three AFC West teams are in the playoffs. Yeah, on that note, beginning of the year, that means AFC sucks. I had one of my customers ask me about the Raiders and what their record is going to be, because he was all hopeful and everything and I bursted his bubble when I gave him my prediction yeah, which I nailed it 5-12, 4-13, 4-13. I told him they're only gonna win 4 games, dude, and he was like nah, you think so.
Lano:I'm like 4 games dude.
Mig:They fired AP too, yeah they fired him.
Lano:Are you guys happy with that or no?
Mig:Fuck. No, we're not happy dude.
Lano:Well, I'm just asking. I don't know, that's why.
Mig:No, you wanted Akiba. No, I mean with the season or with the firing. No, I mean I just. The firing the firing because I don't know.
Lano:I the firing Cause. I don't know. I thought you were talking about the season he got rid of Dante, right, like he had beef with him and stuff, or no.
Mig:Nah.
Lano:Or no.
Mig:That's all. That's all management.
Lano:Was management Okay.
Mig:No.
Lano:So what you mean, the season or the firing of oh is it a good thing or bad thing that he got fired? I don't know. I didn't see a single game, I think it's good he inexperienced.
Mig:He's too inexperienced. The new GM is going to be just I mean, you know, you know what I wanted to look into, because I didn't really see that many of the games all season long and the one thing I want to investigate was how were they on penalties, did they?
Rick:play smarter.
Mig:Were they more disciplined, regardless of all that, regardless of how they did whatever. But that's the thing. That's not Teleski, it's not his head coach, so it's not ever going to work. It's not ever going to work, regardless of what little successes there wasn't within the team it doesn't matter, but that's what I'm saying.
Mig:His coach, but that's what I'm saying, you know, yeah, okay, well, put that aside. See, that wasn't an issue. You still, you keep a ap in there because the players love him he has him in line, get an offensive coordinator or whatever.
Lano:Yeah, that's the coach I mean, because obviously the defense came around.
Mig:He's a good coach for back then, for back in the day, like Vermeer, vermeer, vermeer.
Lano:Dick.
Mig:Vermeer, dick Vermeer.
Lano:Vermeer type yeah, I mean well, he's like a manager, like not like you know. Yeah, I mean well, he's like a manager.
Mig:Yeah, or Schottenheimer. They're game managers and they had their OC and DC running the show.
Lano:Well, so was.
Mig:Belichick and look at everything that he did. But that era of football, that's where AP's coaching style would have came through. Right now this type of football. You can't have a motivational or a player's coach in it. You need X's and O's, and even that that there's such a short leash on them. And that's just the type of football it is now. That's all it is. They want to use like five fucking different running backs, want to run all this fucking rpo shit, that's true yeah, there's no that that old style of coaching is is so what?
Lano:what do we need? Well?
Mig:in short, dude to answer your question. We need continuity dude yeah, no, that's what disappoints me you know, we we need One system and for it to be there At least 10 years.
Lano:Yeah, and let it grow and see what happens. Yes.
Mig:You can't be changing this shit Every two years. You're never gonna get Put anything together.
Lano:It's starting over again, yeah.
Mig:Yeah. So To Rick's point, whoever this GM is Is like he needs to get his people in or whatever, and his guy, but they need to know what the hell they're doing, which I'm pretty sure he'll have.
Rick:He'll be able to pick someone.
Mig:Once that's in place, and we have at least five years with that in place, then I think it starts seeing some success. And even even then, then, man, there's such a the players that are coming out of college right now yeah you get a, a good player, a top prospect.
Mig:You know it's all about their money, yeah I mean it's just the whole game, the whole game is different and and I'll say it to the end of time, dude we had our window Once they got Devontae to play with Carr. Why they blew that shit up with McDaniels. I don't know. I don't know who got into stupid-ass Mark Davis' head that made him do that stupid, boneheaded move to blow up the team like that and bring in this shithead to completely destroy everything I wish.
Lano:I thought the GM was a black guy Him and Pierce, they're like two black guys. No, they got.
Mig:No, that was the president of like operations and that was, I think, think after McDaniels got remember like they came in together, like came in, like they're like doing press conferences together. That's why I thought this Tom Telesco, I wish instead of giving Kingsbury the damn OC job, they should give him the head coach job, because I think he would have been good for the Raiders.
Lano:But now Brady's involved. Now, right, yeah.
Mig:Well, I mean he has input because he has a piece of the team. Oh, that was a thing. That's what I was trying to remember. He's trying to get Vrabel.
Rick:I think Brady wants Vrabel and I'm down to remember he's trying to get.
Mig:Vrabel. I think Brady wants Vrabel and I'm down with that. He did a pretty good job with Tennessee when he was there. I'm definitely down with Vrabel. I mean, I like what he did there.
Lano:Where is he at?
Mig:now he's probably not coaching. No, I think he's coaching. Yeah, if we get Vrabel, I'm down with that. Still a lot of work, but I'm down with Rabel. You know I'm Whatever it's like, bring in who you're gonna bring in. I'm just saying there has to be consistency. That's not the Raider way man it's gonna have to become the Raider way the.
Mig:Raider way is doing things. Mierda. That's true, very true. You don't. You don't want to use that recipe for success With the Raiders. And speaking of mierda, I want to apologize To all of our listeners and our YouTube viewers. Oh, for the last show. For the last show, dude. Oh man, was it a shit show, dude? It's like I know. I don't know if you guys will say it or not, but I tried watching that garbage On YouTube.
Mig:Dude and oh dude, it was it was horrific and I tell Lalo Watching that garbage On YouTube dude, they're saying it and oh, dude it was.
Rick:Oh, it was horrific. Okay, so, and I tell Lalo what do you think?
Mig:Is it shit, or Was it just A shit job by the producer?
Lano:Well, first let's tell us we got banned From YouTube. We got banned or we got censored, so they Strike.
Mig:No, I just, I just think like Even just Starting. Or we got censored so they Strike. No, I just I just think like even Just starting with the card break.
Lano:They blocked the audio too, no, but that was before.
Mig:That was or was no, that was the same show when we were listening to the music.
Lano:Yes, same show we did the music after the card break.
Mig:Dude you were like listening to the whole damn album dude, okay. So that's what I'm saying.
Rick:Like.
Mig:I said you can only listen to like one minute of the song, Even the thing with breaking With the card break. I was bored out of my mind Watching that shit. I should have done a better job doing that.
Lano:Well, now we know.
Mig:I'm gonna get a better camera.
Lano:Well, I'm gonna use one of these. Well, we'll use your phone in the action, because I found out that these cameras, they could do live stream for YouTube. Okay, well, I don't know.
Mig:We'll put two on, but all around, dude. It's like I'm not saying it was just Lalo, I'm not saying it was the music, you know. I'm not saying it was just me, but it was all around. The whole show was trash and I apologize putting that crap out there, my brother-in-law.
Lano:He texts me. He's like I just watched an hour of nothing.
Mig:Yeah, exactly dude Exactly Dang, so I recognize it.
Lano:If anybody else wants to deny it, I'll so the card break. I thought. I mean I had fun with it, like you think you have to be more narrating it, or what. I mean we got a bad pack of cards.
Mig:I mean what pack of cards? I mean, what do you? Well, how are you gonna prove? I mean, but yeah, but still, you know, it's like a, it's just I don't know. I I just think it could have been more entertaining?
Rick:I don't know you saw more.
Mig:You've seen more of these damn card breaks, exactly, and the other ones keep my attention more than what I did. But the other one, the other guys, they're like they, they have a lot of boxes open, so they're pretty fast. No, well, yeah there's guys that really milk it, because they're talking about stuff you know they're talking about, you know, the league Again, since baseball I'm not really too into it, into it, you know, that's all it's kind of like.
Lano:So what are you? You're into football. What do you know the most?
Mig:Mostly All my collecting.
Lano:I've done it on football, Well we'll try football, then you know Cause I wanna do it again, like I'll go in on a big box Again. We can give it, we can give it another crack.
Mig:I'll do it again and I'll open the packs.
Lano:I think that's gonna be another mistake, cause Mickey has the experience. I mean he knows he's seen what it's supposed to be Motherfucker.
Mig:I've been opening packs Since I was a little kid. What are you talking about?
Lano:Whenever on, you're gonna freeze up Once you're on camera. Oh shit, everybody has a game plan Until you get punched. Alright, everyone's gonna vote. Alright, we're gonna.
Mig:You want the damn Frankenstein hands Fucking opening packages, or do you want these?
Lano:I think your hands are bigger.
Rick:Those other sausage fingers.
Mig:That'll crush a little kid's head, those freaking.
Lano:So, and then we got back to the music.
Mig:Gino sent me this Instagram the other day. This dude with freakishly Damn gigantic hands, dude yeah.
Rick:This dude was like bending Rot iron damn gigantic hands, dude and big forearms, yeah, yeah.
Lano:This dude was like bending wrought iron.
Rick:Yeah, he's got his condition. Yeah, crazy.
Mig:Hey, normal looking guy, otherwise in his arms I can't. I've been on a damn rabbit hole seeing Devin Larratt. You're the one that sent the video. No Of that arm wrestler, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lano:He just looked badass. I wish I would have been seeing him.
Mig:When he was going through all those competitions.
Lano:Is that old or new stuff?
Mig:Nah, it's old stuff.
Lano:Cause they look pretty badass. I was like I wanted to go into a rabbit hole. Dude, he's that one guy that slapped him. And then he just came up and like toyed with him, and then he's crazy, that one guy that slapped him and then he just came up and like toyed with him, yeah, and then he's just like making faces, yeah but I don't know.
Mig:But like the arm wrestling thing, what's his?
Lano:name Devin Larratt. Devin Larratt, I'm going to look at him Because I wanted to show my wife Dude, it's like he talks like I didn't even know that that was.
Mig:I thought it was just all arm, you know like, but they got like their whole the grip on the other side. A lot of them like guys, when they start off they'll like pull and then pull over, like trying to catch the guy off yeah and then even positioning like your wrist, and then some guys will try to like get it real tight so like the it slips off and they gotta like get that wrap or whatever it's crazy seeing like all these different arm wrestlers and the techniques they use and so was that guy a champion
Lano:cause he looked badass and he wasn't as big as the other guys, and then he just like that dude's huge cause of the shirts that he wears.
Mig:He just like this well, that dude's huge dude because of the shirts that he wears but if you look closely, dude, that guy's pretty big dude but the other dude was bigger that dude's solid. Well, yeah, he was a little bit taller and thicker, but that dude, he's like six, three yeah, but but this dude I mean, and he's all damn solid dude, he's solid. It's like he wears a big baggy t-shirt. He's not like these other guys wearing their little tank tops and showing everything off and everything. But you could tell, dude.
Rick:No, you see him like.
Mig:Some of you might see him like he's all like scruffy-looking or whatever. He looks like the fucking Wolverine.
Lano:I like that. The guy tried to push him around and the other guy just fucking gets the last laugh.
Mig:Yeah, that dude's crazy, because even his he has a son. That's arm wrestling too.
Lano:Crazy. Well then you guys say the music. I don't know how people play music Like on YouTube, because I'll see a whole reaction video Of a whole song and I don't know, like, whether he thinks you can't play more than a minute Of the song, dude, but I've seen whole videos.
Mig:You were listening. You were listening to the song, you, but I've seen whole video you were listening.
Lano:You were listening to the song and then I listened to the whole album. I had to try to save it with um some non-copyrighted music on the youtube. I don't know if you saw it.
Mig:You saw that video no, I didn't see it. Don't, don't, do, don't.
Lano:I don't know it's oh, I thought it was funny when I was making it, but You're the only one dude.
Mig:Yeah, so again.
Lano:Apologies out there drifters, we're back.
Mig:Thank you for still sticking with us. I hope you're still with us.
Rick:Apparently our producer.
Mig:This is a warm up show for the year Apparently our producer says there was a spike in the numbers and I seriously doubt it was that last episode.
Lano:No, there wasn't a spike. I was surprised.
Mig:We gotta do something new, so we gotta do something hip. I don't know.
Lano:We gotta get some guests. We gotta call Dolores. We'll see what's gonna happen with her.
Mig:We'll still figure it out. Maybe some more live streams of stuff, cause there were a few of you that joined us on the live stream With that card break, so We'll work on it. New year, new content. We gotta get more creative. We gotta come up with something. Thanks for being there. Thanks for drifting along with us. 2025 people Keep on drifting yo. Peace Thanks for drifting along with us. 2025, people Keep on drifting yo.
Rick:Peace.
