Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 125 - Boomer to Alpha: The Generational Decline
Remember when concert venues would sell out in minutes and album releases were cultural events? Those days might be fading as we explore a startling demographic shift affecting how generations connect with entertainment and each other.
Through a fascinating conversation about Disneyland trips and concert experiences, we uncover a profound generational disconnect that's reshaping our cultural landscape. The numbers tell a compelling story: Boomers (71 million) had Gen X children (65 million), who had Millennial children (72 million), who had Gen Z children (69 million). But now, Gen Z is producing significantly fewer children in Gen Alpha—just 45 million—as social behaviors and priorities continue to evolve.
We dive into how previous generations formed deep attachments to music artists, flocking to concerts for the immersive experience rather than just documenting it on smartphones. The evolution of music itself reveals changing attention spans, with today's tracks averaging just 2:30 compared to the epic 5-6 minute journeys that let classic rock songs "breathe" with extended intros and guitar solos.
Our Disneyland discussion unlocks powerful nostalgia as we compare childhood memories to today's theme park experience. The park that once seemed vast now feels conquerable in a day, yet iconic attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion continue to bridge generational gaps through shared experiences.
Are we witnessing the cyclical nature of society at work—where "hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times"? Join us for this thought-provoking exploration of how cultural touchstones evolve across generations and what might be lost or gained in the process.
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Lano:Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast. This is Mig. This is Lano, RK67. Let me start off by saying our producer is straight nalga.
Mig:It's been a while.
Lano:Booty, son booty, you missed one week bro.
Rick:Gotta figure out what to do again.
Lano:We've been ready to record For like half an hour and this guy's fussing around.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Trying to get light on him, like anybody wants to see him.
Rick:Well, first my light went out, but I had it plugged in. Yeah, like anybody wants to see him.
Lano:Well, first my light went out, but I had it plugged in correctly, yeah, like anybody wants to see your ugly face? Dude, who cares? We're the talent. Should just light us up. Is there any phone calls?
Lano:No, nothing, I had checked earlier I thought Mark was going to call. He got mad because we were talking about tools. The last time he said man, come, we didn't talk tools when we were there last time, when I was in there last time. That's his wheelhouse right there, so we probably should have him back For like two reviews and stuff, right, because he's the ultimate tool.
Mig:Oh.
Rick:Is he still working at Universal?
Mig:Yeah.
Rick:Because he can stop by.
Lano:Yeah, I'm waiting for him to hook us up with some damn tickets before he leaves that job once his um, his retaining wall is done, maybe they'll get score some free tickets, yeah, um.
Rick:So, speaking of tools, I mean you guys probably know, but like I was watching some highlights and they're showing some baseball highlights in Japan, right, yeah. And then the big sponsor was Ryobi.
Mig:Yeah.
Rick:And then it clicked that Ryobi is like an Asian brand, right, did you guys ever? I never thought of it, ryobi. It never clicked in my head. But, Ryobi it sounds like an Asian name or word oh Ryobi is made. They're like the big sponsor of the stadium and the baseball team, but all those, all those are are made by like the same company is it? Okay? Probably a lot of those, but I didn't realize that there was an Asian brand.
Lano:Milwaukee and, um, I wanna say Ryobi, it's like a whole branch, it's like this one. I want to say Ryobi, it's like a whole branch, it's like this one company, I think TLI or something like that, and it all branches out and it makes all these tool brands and I know a lot of them are. I don't know if it's Milwaukee and Flex, maybe Flex is Well.
Rick:Flex is like a new brand. I know a lot of them are. I don't know if it's Milwaukee and Flex. Maybe Flex's is Well. Flex is like a new brand. Well, I just know them because they're like the sponsor of the soccer team.
Lano:For a while Flex's has been at Lowe's, so if you ever go to Lowe's you won't see it. And then also Matabo. Matabo actually used to be Hitachi, that's the Matabo brand. Now it's like rebranded Matabo Matabo. They have pretty good. That guy that I watched, soul Soul With Tools, with Souls, he I think he says the Matabo has the best Um Drill For like Like Performance wise. Yeah, they have like the best Top, top uh Drill.
Lano:I wanna trust him that shit, that shit sounds like the disease from uh, outbreak Matabo. Yeah, motaba, motaba, oh, is that what it's called? Yeah, man, oh shit, outbreak monkey. That's a. That's a good movie, that is. Have you seen that? Milano, which one I'll Break? No, you know what. We should put that on the list, because that's a good one. I won't give you shit about you not watching that, because it's.
Rick:But it came out before. Covid, right yeah yeah, I remember during COVID they were like talking about that movie.
Lano:I think it was mid 90s, maybe, yeah, mid to early 90s. Dustin Hoffman, I don't know who the girl was. Not Michelle Pfeiffer, right? No, no, no, it was. Oh, dude come on.
Rick:Who was it? Was the guy from Obi-Wan right, it was Lethal Weapon.
Lano:She was in Lethal Weapon.
Rick:No, yeah, she was 95 it says she was in Lethal Weapon. She was in.
Lano:Lethal Weapon. No, yeah, she was 95, it says she was in Lethal Weapon 3. Oh, what's her name, dude? Renee Russo. Yeah, there you go. Oh, I was thinking of another girl.
Mig:Renee Russo, and then Cuba Gooding Jr oh there you go, patrick.
Rick:Dempsey Renee Russo.
Lano:Good movie man, really good movie. And you know, another one Like old school movie we gotta put on the list too Is 12 Monkeys 12 Monkeys is good. 12 Monkeys is good. You gotta really pay attention to it, though.
Mig:Yeah, that's when you really gotta pay attention.
Rick:You get lost quick yeah 12 Monkeys with Brad Pitt Same year, 95. Yeah.
Lano:Hey, man Can't go wrong with old movies. I've already seen you and I think you've looked up like three times, aside from looking up at the, the movie.
Mig:Me, or me, oh me.
Rick:Yeah, well, I got the camera on, so hopefully it's recording right now. I forgot to hit record.
Lano:I'm following what our listeners say.
Rick:Well, last time I forgot to hit record, so hopefully now I'll be able to put that in on that top camera.
Lano:Well, right now that we're on the topic of movies, last time we recorded we were talking about Young Guns 3.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:I didn't get to go over the plot of what they were talking about, Like Some of the Outlining Outlining what the plot was gonna be Cause they were saying that A lot of it's gonna take place Kinda like more towards Mexico.
Rick:Territory.
Lano:Territory and um it's gonna involve a lot more. That's why Chavez is in it.
Rick:Yeah, is that the interview you saw? The one that's on theavez is in it. Yeah, is that the interview you saw? The one that's on the screen right here? Maybe this is it he set you up no, no I mean, I wanted to know yeah, I think so.
Lano:Okay, yeah, that josh horowitz I'm gonna have to look it up now yeah, so um he's, he was saying that um he's gonna have a character on there that plays uh, it's a pancho villa character. Oh, so it's gonna involve a lot like the revolution in mexico in mexico so that should be pretty cool. That's cool, like elements of that, and that's what I meant to talk about. Forgot about yeah, well, I forgot we just went off like on a tangent and I'm gonna watch did you say you and laura watch those?
Rick:no, no, we're gonna. I'm to watch it.
Lano:Yeah, maybe.
Rick:Probably this Memorial Day Weekend or something? When is Memorial Day? Two weeks the end of. May, yeah, may 23rd. So the LA County Fair started. And then the last weekend, memorial Day weekend, I went to Disneyland yesterday.
Lano:Oh, you did. How was it? It was good we got in 13 rides On Monday, so during On Monday, yeah, it was 13 rides. And it was, yeah, it was kinda, yeah, kinda busy, but you know what? Small world is still down.
Rick:Yeah, that's been down forever. The metal horn is down. The metal horn, the refurbishing that went down Like two weeks ago and I think that's it. It's a small world.
Lano:It's been down for like I want to say like A year or six months, but it was a big difference, because last time we went Like the Dude the Well, before I jump on that but Last time Indiana Jones was down there was like there was Indiana Jones, small world was still down. Um, then rides off and on were breaking down, so all the other rides were getting cluttered with everybody. That's why it was hard to get on. But now that you know, indiana jones was on like it spreaded everybody out the rise, rise to the resistance, right, right, the star wars.
Rick:One dude it said it was like 65 minutes I still haven't been on I think 30 minutes and we didn't like oh, that's really good and that, yeah, 30 minutes is bearable dude.
Lano:We waited damn 70 to get on damn space mountain.
Rick:No, that's.
Lano:Yeah, I mean. Anything, now it's like Star Wars themed, it's not. I liked it a little bit better when it was just that rock Like that fast.
Rick:Well, that's because of the and the snow beasts.
Mig:Coming out.
Lano:They don't have the snow beasts no more, just all dark and everything.
Mig:Like with a couple of Specs of lights. Yeah, specs of lights, but it's a Star Wars theme now, so it's like they're shooting lasers and do, do, do, do, with ships on the side and they're doing the Star Wars music
Lano:yeah, but that's for me that was my bad, because Rise to the Resistance was 65 minutes and it was just 30 minutes, and then we jumped on another one that was supposed to be like, I think, 40 minutes, 45 minutes yeah, but it, I think 40 minutes 45 minutes. Yeah, but it was less. Oh, it was. I think that buzz light here, uh, right.
Mig:The blaster, it was like four yeah 40 minutes.
Lano:But then we got in there like 20 minutes. So I was thinking like, ah, they're probably lying, let's get in line, let's just. You know it's probably bullshit. But yeah, it was 70 minutes. But they have a. Uh, you pay the lightning pass so you can get jump ahead you did all that we got that, but that's for you can't right. Use that for the rise to resistance right oh you have to buy separate. That's what is it? A lightning pass for.
Rick:For each ride you have to buy so the lightning pass.
Lano:You pay for it and then you have to reserve your spot.
Rick:You can't just walk so they're making it so like yeah, so the rich, okay you pay for it.
Lano:Then you look on the app and then like, okay, um, we got this right, this right, this right, we can do this one at 1005, this one at 1015, this one at 1030, which one you guys want to go? So, all right, let's do 10 15. Boom, you reserve it. Okay, so you show up at the lightning line at 10 15. You can go in now and sometimes it's spaced out pretty, pretty long. So say, like a popular ride, you can reserve your time frame and say it's two hours until that ride.
Lano:Well, now you can. You can go get in line for another ride, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, do that one, boom, boom do the ride and then get out. And then you know, walk over, get a snack and then when you pull up to that line, that next ride, you walk right in and it's because it could be like an hour wait for that ride. But you knock out that one and then you get ahead of the line for that one and then, and then you can kind of already start reserving your other ones throughout the day.
Rick:So if you're a poor family you got to wait the whole hour and a half, but if you got money you go to the front of the line.
Lano:Dude, if you're a poor family, you ain't even getting in the door, dude. So it's crazy you got to pull out a second mortgage on your house. If you're poor, a couple things being at Disneyland To get in there, one is like, oh man, the parents pushing these strollers around.
Rick:SUV strollers like wagons and stuff.
Lano:It's just crazy how much like I don't think if I had a kid I would not take them until they can walk or go to the restroom on their own. Yeah, I'm just not taking them when they're before. That that's just me. But man, I was watching these parents, like already when we're leaving, and these parents are like, some of them are like already done, some of them still got that energy, whatever and I'm just thinking, man, I go. These parents when they get home, they must like collapse once they put the babies.
Rick:Oh, that's what we we are. It takes like three days to recover with the baby.
Lano:Yeah, because I mean, yeah, I wouldn't do it. Then you see them like folding up their strollers to get in the tram, to go back to the parking, and I just imagine how they feel when they get home or their hotel room, put the baby down wherever, and then just they just probably like drop dead so we're walking out, and then I heard some ladies saying like I'm too tired to take the tram, let's just like do the walk through Downtown Disney.
Rick:To the parking lot or the garage. We're at the Toy Story garage Parking garage, so I asked her.
Lano:I was like Wow, maybe to pack up everything. Yeah, yeah, she said she was too tired, because you have to pack up the stroller. So then I asked her like where is it at? I was like, wow, maybe to pack up everything on the tram. Yeah, yeah, she said she was too tired because you have to pack up the stroller. Yeah, you have to pack up the stroller, fold it and then. So then I asked her like where is it at?
Rick:And she's like, oh, just walk to the end of downtown.
Lano:Disney. I mean you've already walked 20 miles throughout the day. What's another damn half a mile. So that's what mile could be the straw that?
Rick:breaks the camel's back. Yeah, especially on the on the way out, you got like bags of like the stuff you buy, like you know, cotton candy, and then it's all like packed in the stroller, so you're not gonna like take all that stuff out and fold it up, we're just like carrying it all to the car.
Lano:Yeah, but yeah, like Me and Laura are dead. You guys already been there once, right?
Rick:With the girls. Ali's been there three times, shia's been there twice. Yeah.
Lano:Oh damn. So how are you guys feeling On the drive?
Rick:home we're dead. Yeah, that's what we Like yeah, I don't know.
Lano:I see those parents, I'm like damn.
Rick:I save a Red Bull in the car Just to drink on the way home and Laura's like you're not gonna be able to sleep and I'm like no. I'm gonna sleep Cause I'm dead tired.
Lano:Another thing is like at Disneyland. I noticed like so back in the day when we would go when we were young, that's what I always remember Like every ride, we're waiting in line. And long To jump on the rides at least like an hour, and I don't know what it is why the days were longer back then, but it seems like every ride we were waiting in line and we got and it seems like we got on everything we got on everything.
Lano:So how the flip is it that today is like that, regardless the hours like the most I've seen? That today is like like that I mean regardless the hours like the most I've seen a ride is like maybe 90 minutes, maybe like an hour and a half Wait. And that's like the Star Wars one.
Mig:The big one.
Lano:Yeah, but then, like everything else, like you know, like you don't throughout, like you know, like you don't throughout the day, you know you probably still don't get to do all of it.
Rick:Yeah, I don't know, but I just don't get it.
Lano:Like that's what I was remembering, like dude, like how is it that the day is going by so fast right now?
Rick:And back then it seemed like every ride we would be waiting, especially Magic. Now there's more rides, now there's more rides, and I feel like Magic Mountain has more rides and you're not even getting on Peter Pan, toad's World and all that stuff. You're not doing none of that.
Lano:That's the thing All the little kitty-kitty rides we would avoid those.
Mig:There were still good amounts.
Lano:There's still good amounts. There's still good amount of the Magic had a lot of roller coasters, yeah, but like, see at Disneyland when the good rides, when the lines were too long, and we would say like we're gonna wait or we'll come back to it, we would go and we would get, like, on Mr Toad's wild ride, or we would get on one of those, or we would go see the Country Bears show, like if, like say it was really hot and we wanted to cool down or some shit.
Rick:Then we would go see the we're going to the auditoriums you go in that, that auditorium, one at the main street, there's all these families just chilling on the couches with the uc like it's well you see, even that you had time to go check out a show, whatever, and still go back.
Lano:Was it like? Were they open like till midnight? Back then I think they were. They were open pretty late, cause now they close, like at 9 or 10. I remember them being open till midnight.
Mig:Yeah, disneyland closes at 10 and they probably opened earlier too.
Lano:8 o'clock Is when they open.
Mig:I don't think they opened up.
Lano:I don't think they opened up Earlier than that, I don't know. But it was less rides 8 o'clock.
Rick:Even the teacups Is like over an hour wait. Yeah, like the teacups, that's like one of the popular ones.
Lano:I don't remember doing the teacups, that whole area where the kids are, where the little kids are, god. It's like the attack of strollers there, man, just like strollers everywhere coming at you.
Rick:And they didn't have stroller parking when we were kids. Now they got all this parking. And it's like there's employees paid just to watch the strollers right there like organizing them and all that stuff lining them up. Yeah, we just stand there all day. I was just thinking about that, like how is it that back then I think it was just less rides, there's more room to walk around. Now it's like it's it's jammed. And you know they already started the expansion disneyland forward. So they're they're.
Rick:They're building like um behindland or Avengerland and then Behind Like Splash Mountain. You know what, making it bigger.
Lano:That was another thing when I was there. It doesn't, it's not, it's not big, like, so you just went to Disneyland. Yeah, disneyland seemed so big to me when I was a kid. Yeah, but like you go there, like you just walk over, you're already in Frontierland.
Mig:You will go back. You're already up here.
Rick:And if you're going to Star Wars, you walk there fast like you hustle there. You're already at the top of the park.
Lano:It's like oh, it's already here. Yeah, it's like where are they, they've expanded, I mean I haven't seen nothing of it. Last time I was there, none of that stuff was there. California adventure you run out of, you run. It's easy to do everything there you run out of that's what I'm saying, like all that expansion stuff.
Lano:I haven't seen none of that yeah you know, because the last time I was there none of that was there and I was ready. I was ready to pay someone at the gate at california adventure to go get me that damn um jalapeno corn dog or spicy corn dog.
Rick:That thing is so fucking good man I haven't, I still haven't had that one. That's by the life school.
Lano:I would have bought that damn hopper pass to go on the other side just to get that damn coin?
Rick:An extra 75 bucks for that hopper pass. Don't tell Raj. So what's your favorite part? Like you go to Star Wars Land or you go to country my favorite right Frontier Like what's your favorite area?
Mig:Because it used to be like.
Rick:Tomorrowland. But now Tomorrowland is kind of like empty, like a lot of stuff is closed at Tomorrowland. No like Tomorrowland, but now Tomorrowland is kind of like empty, like a lot of stuff is closed at Tomorrowland.
Lano:No, there's a lot of stuff at Tomorrowland.
Rick:That's where the Buzz Lightyear, star Tours and Autotopia, that's it.
Lano:Yeah, Space Mountain's there.
Rick:Oh, space Mountain yeah, but all that other stuff is all closed. No, the area was still kind of packed, do they?
Lano:No, they had an arcade Off of Main Street.
Rick:No, no, no, no, no, tomorrowland, tomorrowland, yeah.
Lano:I remember they had an arcade there.
Rick:But it was closed. Yeah, it was closed, yeah, that's why a lot of the buildings there Is closed, I don't know.
Lano:Yeah, it's just a big old building, that's, it's not anything. Yeah, do something with it.
Mig:It might be the.
Rick:I heard the rumors they're taking the autotopia out or they're moving it autotopia yeah because that's like they're gonna want, they want to. That's like a lot of um, a lot of space, space, and they want to put like a whole, like land there.
Lano:Yeah, that there, people are always in that line.
Rick:This is like that in the submarines and star tours. That's it, dude.
Lano:I love that submarine ride man, I do too. And Vanessa talks shit about it. She's like no, we're not going on there but now it's like Dory, finding Dory, like as like the Dory characters or Nemo yeah, finding Nemo yeah, as the characters they're like no, you can go so what's your favorite area, like Star Wars now, or what's your favorite? Star Wars is pretty badass, that whole area.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:It's pretty badass.
Rick:So do we do a day, a drifting day. We take Miggy, I ain't going, we'll go, and we get him the ears and everything with his name on it.
Lano:And take him. Do the part, copper, we'll get him one of those little. Take him on Dumbo.
Rick:Those little. Come on Dumbo. We'll record it, all those animals, with that magnet so he could be walking around.
Lano:With it on his shoulder. Shoulder they move and stuff he control it.
Rick:I am.
Lano:I am anti-Disney dude. They are not getting my money.
Mig:Um.
Lano:Um, disney, sorry, I don't know it. Just it just takes me back Like I. I get lost in there. So it's not, it's just looking at All the old stuff and Thinking about when we were kids, you know, thinking about Rosalba and yeah.
Mig:All that, all that nostalgia.
Lano:They're taking it all away, dude. No, you go to Main Street. It's A lot of it's the same. It's the same. You go jump on like you go through the Haunted Mansion, it's the same. My favorite ride is Pirates of the Caribbean and going through that ride, ellie loved that ride, it's like man, I just like and I told Vanessa and Shelby this time like I see the little huts on the south of the swamp. They're just there. Like I remember from a kid, I always wanted to live on a swamp like that.
Rick:The little fireflies flying around the old man's right there just chilling on his porch with the little banjo playing in the background, the background.
Lano:They just seen the way how old it is, with all the like, the kind of the renaissance style with the pirates and everything.
Rick:It just it took me back and I don't know when the last time you went, miggy, but they updated it for like the movies, like Johnny Depp.
Mig:They don't have a lot of them in there no.
Lano:Oh no more. Yeah, there's only like Three spots I think they have. Like I remember when Pirates of the Caribbean first came out, it was popping out at like every scene.
Rick:Yeah, yeah, taking advantage of it, yeah.
Lano:I think you could only see them like three times I think.
Rick:And it never changes, like the smell of the water.
Lano:All that chlorine. Yeah, those were my favorite rides, man. The rides I would always want to get on when we went were Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh my bad. The snow beast is on the Matterhorn, huh.
Mig:Matterhorn yeah.
Lano:Yeah, it's not on Space Mountain, it was Matterhorn Pirates of the Caribbean, Thunder Mountain, which I know they're taking out.
Mig:You jumped on Thunder Mountain.
Lano:That pisses me off. They said they're taking it out, aren't they? No, no, that's a.
Mig:That's a, that's a.
Lano:That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a.
Rick:That's a Look out. People love the Thunder Mountain Barbecue Because that's where they build the Star Wars land.
Lano:Thunder Mountain Everyone loves that yeah well. Thunder Mountain at Disneyland. That was my absolute favorite ride. I love that ride, dude.
Mig:That was my absolute favorite.
Lano:That's the one ride I would always look forward to. And then I also love the Haunted Mansion. You know the matterhorn. I love the autotopia, the cars. You know the. The submarine ride was always fun. Space mountain actually. It's funny because the first time I I was in line for the space mountain, dude, I chickened out. I got scared. Dude, I got out of line and I walked out. Dude I was. I think I was like maybe like 10 or something like that. Dude, I just I got too scared.
Lano:That could be crazy, because I got in the dark yeah, I got scared and I ran out dude and as I exit by the trash, can they tell me?
Rick:if you go out the exit it'll make a chicken sound.
Lano:I'm telling you before it would be more intense because of that fast-paced kind of rock music. Now it's like the orchestra of the Star Wars music.
Mig:Yeah, because how dark it was and everything.
Lano:Hearing everybody screaming it just scared the crap out of me, dude, and I was like no, I can't do this, I can't do this. But then once, like after that, after my first Six Flags trip and doing all those rides over there, then when we went back to Disney again, no problem, yeah.
Mig:You know, I did that shit, no problem.
Lano:Hey, lalo, did you say that Magic Mountain or Six Flags bought Knott's? Yeah, you're the one that said it, right, yeah?
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Like they own it now, but they're keeping it the same right. Yeah, yeah, like they own it now, but they're keeping it the same, huh yeah they're keeping it the same, they just run it.
Rick:Yeah, six Flags, that's the company About it yeah, oh crazy.
Lano:Yeah, it's pretty cool. Keep it the same. Well, I mean, they needed it.
Rick:But I mean, I'm sure Rick is the same, but when you go to Disneyland you just feel like a kid again, like all these memories come back.
Lano:Yeah, yeah.
Rick:Once you go.
Lano:Did you guys ever go?
Mig:You guys all went together.
Rick:They got Huh when you guys went as kids.
Lano:Yeah, what do you mean?
Rick:Cause Laura's a family of seven and they've never gone all together. They've all gone separately, like all the Each sibling.
Mig:Yeah, like they can only buy Like two or three tickets At a time. Oh yeah, when we were young, you guys would all Everybody go.
Rick:Yeah, laura says, they've never all Gone together, they've like Taken turns going.
Lano:You know, on the last time, the last time I went To Disneyland Was when the Indiana Jones ride Was new. That's a damn good ride, man. That ride is badass.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:That's a really good ride, so that was like another one of my favorites was that Indiana Jones ride.
Mig:Yeah, Indiana Jones is a really good ride.
Lano:And that was the new ride. When that thing came out, that was the last time I was there Indiana Jones, and then you know, which was pretty cool, the, the damn runaway train. You guys jumped on that one lano yeah, the mickey mouse one right like just going through there, that like toontown yeah and then you see all the old posters, the old mickey mouse that's where we go first, because, um, that's the kids want to see that ride. That ride is is cool. I really like that, right? Oh, there's a map.
Rick:And then it has um, like posters of the old, like cartoons that we've seen, like you'll see, like the, not artifacts but like Pieces from the cartoons, like oh, I remember this Christmas special. Like.
Lano:Santa Claus came out. You know what's one thing I always wanted to get on that steamboat, the riverboat oh, we got on it last time.
Mig:The bar twin. We got on it last time, the Mark Twain I've never, been on that one.
Lano:That thing always looked like so much fun, dude. Yeah, we got on it, and then they got that little island in the middle. You can go explore Tom Sawyer Tom.
Rick:Sawyer, there's caves in there. You can go around that. That's why Treehouse yeah.
Lano:I always wanted to go do that, hey, and you know what bomb clam chowder. It's just that they're tight with it, man, where they got to scoop out more of that bread out of that damn bowl and get some more clam chowder there. Man, they don't sell it at that New Orleans, right in that New Orleans store anymore. It's a little booth next to the-.
Rick:Oh, it's not over there by Pirates.
Lano:No, it's a little small booth that's next to that ship. The ship that's next to the that ship, the ship that's there where that Mark Twain steamboat goes around. Is it a bread bowl? Yeah, it's a bread bowl. They do clam chowder or like a corn thing. Give me that clam chowder.
Rick:So they're supposed to be adding an Avatar land and then like Avatar sucked Zootopia.
Lano:I've never seen that whole movie.
Rick:Zootopia, and then there's two of them. Yeah, at California Adventure they're adding a Coco Land and then they're expanding the Marvel.
Lano:There's a little small area, that's Coco. Yeah, like mixing restaurant, yeah.
Rick:This is like a little plaza, but they're gonna add a whole land where you take some boat ride.
Mig:I thought they're going to have more stuff.
Lano:For Mexicans. They're being there to Cinco de Mayo. It wasn't anything.
Rick:Well it's all because of the May. May the 4th be with you like May 4th.
Mig:That's how they're doing.
Lano:You went the day of Cinco de Mayo.
Rick:Yeah.
Mig:Well that's more At the.
Rick:At the California Adventure.
Mig:Yeah.
Rick:What Did they have? Cause they had like new food and stuff For every season.
Lano:Well, every damn restaurant you got a damn reserve. Like I thought it's all Pre-order on the app or something. By the time you like you go jump on it. Like, oh your, the reservation available is like at 10 pm, like or not. Not 10 pm, but like 8 pm, 7 pm, it's like you want to have lunch there's like I don't know when. You got a damn reserve, that thing, that damn. The damn restaurant for the pirates caribbean, that one in the middle yeah you gotta reserve that like two months in advance.
Lano:Oh yeah, oh shit, yeah that.
Rick:That restaurant. I forgot what it's called, but um yeah, and then we.
Lano:I don't know what happened. They had it Like Vanessa and Shelby had it reserved, but the day that we went the restaurant was closed.
Mig:Of course.
Lano:Or no. No, we had no. No, I'm sorry it was open, but we moved the day, I think the Disney day. The reservation didn't move with you, yeah it didn't go with me, it didn't go with us, but yeah, it was cool. I mean we got a lot done. You take the girls on that storybook ride.
Rick:Yeah, like the boat ride where you go through the whale's mouth. Yeah, yeah.
Lano:Did they like that?
Rick:They liked that one Did you do it during the day or at night, during the day.
Lano:You got to do that at night.
Rick:When 7 o'clock hits like we're wiped out.
Lano:Do we stay a couple?
Rick:hours. No, like at 8 o'clock, no, but I'm saying that 7 o'clock like we're dead.
Lano:We're exhausted From being there all.
Rick:All day with the kids.
Lano:Make that the last ride, because we always try to stay Till closing, but we're just like done. It looks a lot better At night because you see the little lights In the little castles, the little oh like, the little, yeah, the little lighting that they got.
Rick:All throughout the whole area, whatever.
Lano:It's you gotta, you gotta watch it, that's something new.
Rick:No, no, it's an old ride, storybook ride I don't know if it's Pinocchio or something you go through.
Mig:Montrose Mouth, it's just a little Quick boat ride.
Lano:Like a little boat ride. Yeah, it shows Cinderella's castle and it's been there for Aerials Like next to Dumbo. Little castle where she lives.
Rick:Yeah, it's just like, like on the map you can't see, but it's right here when I'm circling yeah like the whale spout, and then there's a train right too that you could go up around.
Lano:That was uh what I, what I always liked, as cheesy as it was, was, uh, the jungle ride when you got that hippo, yeah, making his cheesy jokes and everything yeah that was pretty cool. I always enjoyed that one. They said people try to be that that host, that on the boat announcer making his cheesy jokes and everything.
Rick:That was pretty cool. I always enjoyed that one. They said people try to be that host on the boat announcer because they go on to do big things. It's like a coveted job.
Lano:A lot of those guys fall flat. We had a really good one when the first time we went with me and Vanessa. It was our first time together going. We had a funny dude it was good. And then the last time we didn't get, I kept calling it that damn Tatiana's.
Rick:Bayou, the Splash Mountain, yeah but it's, it's, tiana's, tiana's. Tatiana, I think no, tiana's or Tiana's I kept calling it Tatiana's. Tiana's Bay or Tiana's. I kept calling it Tatiana's, tiana's.
Lano:Bayou Adventure Bust down, Tatiana Bust down. I think that's the song.
Rick:You went on that.
Lano:No, we didn't go on that.
Rick:Because it's all new.
Lano:It's the one. What was it called before? Splash? Splash Mountain, Splash Mountain.
Rick:Yeah, now they rethemed it Just opened up.
Lano:No, it's a log. They just renamed it A Disney movie. A Disney movie and they added new characters, but it's the same Rowing Rapids. And then, when you the log right, it's a log right, not Rowing Rapids. Rowing Rapids. Is it's? You're in a circle, you're in that.
Rick:No, no, no, it's a log. The Rowing Rapids Is at the California Adventure the one with the Flash. Mountain is the one you go down that big drop at the end on the log.
Lano:Flash Mountain is in the log. Oh no, then it's the other one. It's, uh, the Grizzly.
Rick:Peak is the Royal Rapid. That's a California Adventure.
Lano:No, no, the three of them that round, the round, one it um, where you, where you, it's everyone sitting in a circle? No, yes, that's the, the Tiana's, that's what it is. No, yes, it is. Look it up, I'm looking it up right now. I tell you right now, we were gonna, we were gonna jump on it.
Rick:This is it, but we didn't wanna do it. It's a log right, like see, look at the pictures you go down, it's replaced by Splash Mountain. It's the log right, tell me. And it's. It's a. It's the the log right there. It is well, you can see a video, but it's the longer. They just rethemed it. You see it? Tiana's Bayou, the one, the Grizzly Peak Is the other one, the circle, the rapids.
Lano:I guess we went on that.
Rick:I see that.
Lano:That's the log, right.
Rick:Yeah. Tiana's People really get wet there At the end. That's the log right.
Lano:Yeah, Tiana's.
Rick:People really get wet there At the end. I guess the drop at the end we should have jumped on him. But yeah, this opened up like I think in February. This is all like brand new. I mean, after the remodel they rethemed it Because the Splash Mountain mountain, they said, was like a little too racist why?
Lano:what was racist?
Rick:about splash mountain, the, the crows and all that zippity doodah or whatever. Oh my god, the crows so they.
Lano:They rethemed it to um tiana's it was don't, don't listen to this guy politically incorrect. That's why they redid it, it's party for this shit. Oh dude, I believe it. I believe that dude.
Rick:Now if you watch disney plus now, like for those movies, they have like disclaimers before you watch it. This, this was, uh, made and filmed at a different time that we don't agree with now, and blah, blah, blah.
Lano:Even aladdin, they have a disclaimer and that fat alligator right there is not offensive.
Rick:So this is the drop at the end. Before it was like that rabbit and stuff and then you go to the drop. Hopefully the camera is recording this Because we're looking around. We're looking up. Here's the drop.
Lano:Not much of a drop.
Rick:Oh, there it goes. And the splash. I think it's just like artificial splash. Like you know, they shoot water on you.
Lano:Oh hey, we should have jumped on that yesterday then.
Rick:I know I was thinking it was that one that you, that's Grizzly's Peak. Wow, that one, I haven't been's Grizzlies Peak Wow.
Mig:That one. I haven't been on in a long time hey.
Lano:That's interesting. I came across you guys ever watch Tim Kast, tim Kast, tim Kast. That sounds familiar.
Mig:On YouTube. He was wearing a beanie. Tim Kast Tim.
Lano:Kast. He's a skater dude that sounds familiar On YouTube. He was wearing a beanie. Tim Kast, Tim.
Mig:Kast, he's a skater dude. That sounds familiar.
Lano:Talks fast. You see him Right there. Oh, tim Pool, sorry.
Rick:No, it's Tim Kast. Yeah, Tim Kast, but I guess his name is Tim Pool.
Lano:Yeah, okay, yeah yeah. I don't know he does little clips right, so I uh, yeah, I think I've seen clips of him on.
Mig:Instagram and stuff.
Lano:That's what I was writing. He came across something crazy like um interesting when he was talking about um, he, he was talking about Beyonce and and, uh, katy Perry, cause you know how they're having. I guess they're struggling to sell out their shows. Oh, I heard a bit of Beyonce. Yeah, they can't sell out, I guess, their stadiums or whatever. And they're looking like at the generations. Oh, he started talking about it because I think Generation Alpha is about to end this year.
Rick:I thought Alpha was the new one. What's next?
Lano:No, I think the new one's gonna start x wires.
Rick:I don't know well, I thought off off, I think alpha ends this year.
Lano:It was yeah, I think it. I think it ends this year now they're getting smaller and smaller. The years used to be like 10 years, like a generation, 15 years ago something while he was talking about how there's not now, there's not, a lot of people that are going to shows, Like these new kids that are growing up. They don't really have that artist that's.
Rick:Oh, alpha is 2010 to 2024. Oh, yeah, see, so that's why he was talking about it.
Lano:That's why he was talking about it. So they don't have, like us, that we had, you know, our 90s, our 80s, our 90s, like so, our groups, our singers, or whatever that we like you know, we would go to their shows. There's not really anything known today like on that level of a singer, a band, yeah, like there. No, nothing that they can relate to or or attach themselves to. So he started, he started talking about the, the generations, how many are there? And it was pretty, it was pretty crazy, and that's what. That's what I was writing right here. And he was looking up, he was looking up the generations. So boomers, they asked how many? I didn't want to get it wrong. He asked, like, how many Gen X? Because what are we? We're Gen X, gen.
Rick:X.
Lano:How many Gen X are in the US. And it was 65 million. And then he went to the next generation, how many millennials are there? And there was 72 million. And then he goes like, well, that's interesting. Then he went back, well, let me see how many, he said how many boomers are left are in the US. And there's 71 million still boomers.
Mig:There's still a lot, yeah, I thought there'd be like so it goes from 71 to 65, gen X, us.
Lano:And then Gen X had a lot of kids. They were 72. Millennials. I mean, I'm sorry, gen X, the Millennials were 72 million. So Millennials having their kids, which is Gen Z. It dropped down to 69 million. Now, gen z having kids dropped all the way down to 45 million. Wow, 45 million.
Rick:So because they're not like dating and stuff, yeah, so now they're saying, okay, gen z, they're not getting married.
Lano:No, gen alpha, like what's that number gonna be? Like it'll probably be way less. Because they're saying, okay, gen z, they're not getting married. No, gen alpha, like what's that number gonna be?
Lano:like it'll probably be way less because they're probably not had gen alpha's, not having any kids yeah as much so like there was like a big drop where you see how the differences were from boomers, gen x, millennials, how they were going to shows. They were related, you know, they were more attached to their music and now the younger kids they're not really attached to music.
Mig:What it is, is that all of us, our previous generations.
Lano:We were all about the life experience, about being there, of actually experiencing it. There's no YouTube, go see it. Our previous generations. We were all about the life experience about being there, yeah, of actually experiencing there's no youtube.
Lano:Yeah, and the thing is, this is what pisses me off when I would still go to shows, you know, even just like, maybe like five, six years ago or whatever, you know, it's like when, when I was with my previous relationship, you know, I would go with her to shows that she wanted to see. It's like, say, we went to go see J-Lo in Vegas at her residency.
Rick:Oh, you did yeah.
Lano:So I went to this J-Lo show. You know not my thing, but you know she wanted to go, so we went and I'm like okay, let's go, you know. So we bought our tickets or whatever. And the thing is, it wasn't sold out. No, it was sold out, but my thing is we're there to see J-Lo.
Mig:You know a show.
Lano:So In front of me is sitting this planet. You know that didn't let me see the show Because she's standing up With her stupid phone.
Rick:Looking at it, filming it, recording it.
Lano:And I'm like stupid. You know what? Sit down, enjoy the damn show. You know what? Sit down, enjoy the damn show. You know. It's like what the hell are you Putting your phone up for? You know, if you're gonna do that Stupid shit, then just go home and watch somebody else's Feed on YouTube. Look up a YouTube there. It's like why are you Getting in my way Ruining?
Rick:my experience. No, like my kids, they watch like the Disney on Ice on YouTube and they love it. So I took them last month to go see Disney on Ice and they loved it in person, you know, but that's the thing.
Mig:That's why I didn't record it anymore.
Lano:That drop off is because these generations now Are being made so stupid by social media and just having their faces buried in screens.
Lano:Yeah, that has a lot To do with it, but it's like there's such a disconnect. But look at, but look at what's out there. It's like there was more. I mean, I know a lot of people, a lot of these youngins, like all this stupid Rap that's coming out right now, all that crap. But I think it was more of a variety with with our generations, because, aside from all the, all our rappers, our 90s rappers and our shows that we go see, we went. We liked a good rock show.
Rick:Yeah, we liked a good classic rock show or an oldie show, or even like know stuff like that, even like in the summer when they do shows at the park, like I enjoy those shows.
Lano:But you look back it's like, especially just look at rock, being Gen X, we loved all the 60s and 70s stuff, which was that was the boomers, Right, we loved that. That's you know we. We love that we. That's, that's part of our, our, our youth, Right. And then eighties hit, that's us growing up as kids. So we have all the eighties stuff growing up and then nineties is when we hit our stride and then think about the nineties Cause, like dude, the rap that came out.
Rick:All the rock, like the grunge, the new metal.
Lano:We were like spoiled. We had our 60s and 70s from our parents to fall back on. And then we peaked in the 90s right at the turn of the century is where we peaked, like 2000s.
Mig:I would even say early 2000s was still good Up. I would even say Early 2000s Were still good Late 2000s. Up to like.
Lano:Maybe 2010s.
Mig:And after that it's just a huge drop off.
Lano:But you see after that, like I mean what Iconic bands are out that are making a big impact, like there's gonna be bands that you know Some kids like or whatever, but On the level, of Our stuff.
Mig:Yeah, let me give you an example.
Lano:Nothing on like on the level of our stuff. This past weekend I just got on this kick to listen to Too Short again, so I've been putting. You know, just you know old stuff yeah old stuff. Life is Too Short, his album.
Mig:We shouldn't have been listening to that when we were kids.
Lano:Yeah, we shouldn't have, but whatever. And um, so I started bumping it in my truck, his album. We shouldn't have been listening to that when we were kids. Yeah, we shouldn't have, but whatever. And so I started bumping it in my truck. You know which? I didn't know. My truck sounded that good, but you know, it reminded me of being back in high school and hooking up our systems and this would be a tape where we would do a bass check, right, right, you know it's like if you wanted would do a bass check.
Rick:Right right, you know it's like, if you wanted to do a bass check, get some Too Short.
Lano:You get your. Your life is too short, you know, put on.
Rick:It was you know you put on. I'm gonna put that in the car now. I'm gonna listen to it.
Lano:Yeah, dude, you put on. You know you could put on. Don't Fight the Feeling. You know you could put on.
Rick:Don't Fight the Feeling you could put on City of Dope it was a few things. You could put on a few artists, you know.
Lano:so I'm listening to that. So just today I figure okay you know it's like, since you tell me to use Spotify so much, I go okay, well, let me check out Spotify. So I put Spotify on, I clicked on the Too Short playlist, you know, because it said his greatest hits or whatever, and I pushed it Playlist of Too Short and his greatest hits and I guess something New recent Came out Of.
Mig:Too Short.
Lano:Must have been like, within the past Five or ten years, something.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:I don't know, but it was horrible. It was horrible, dude. Yeah, I mean just the hook being sang by this Over Auto-tuned Synthesized Garbage. His part was good, but just Whoever produced it Was trash. You know, it's just the instrumental and the hook and everything Was garbage. As far as him, his rap and everything was good, but just Hearing the instrumental and everything else, it was trash and I'm like dude, how did you let Hearing the instrumental and everything else? It was trash.
Rick:Yeah, it's like, and I'm like dude, it's like, how did you let yourself come to this? Yeah, your legacy, you know it's like you had said 10 and you're done.
Lano:10 albums and you're done.
Rick:Oh, that's right, I forgot about that. It's like why did you keep going, dude?
Lano:They can't stay away from it. It's like why, dude? It's like at 10, you should have just stopped. It's like after that you should have just been producing, then you know if you wanted to stay in the game. That's why I like I think it was Andre 3000.
Mig:You know that he said.
Lano:He said like, nah, he didn't want to be an old, an old head still trying to rap, and it an old head still trying to rap. He said it wasn't cool. I mean it was so bad dude? Yeah, I think the song was like Girl or something like that.
Rick:Lano Getting it. That was the number 10 album.
Lano:No, I'm not getting it. It was like Walk it Girl or something, something, girl dude. No way, this is not in in order. The camera's not recording, cool. The audience needs to see what we're looking at?
Rick:I think it is, I just don't see it.
Lano:In the back it shows like but I mean, well, if you guys get a chance, listen to it, you'll be like, oh man, you'll just shake your head, and I mean even going through. Let's just say going through, and you'll be like, oh man, you'll just shake your head, and I mean even going through. Let's just say going through a mainstream thing Like go through K-Rock, go through the alt. What is that one? 98.7, it's supposed to be alternative music. But it's like A lot of times they just go back to the yeah 2000s stuff.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:The late 90s stuff, because there's nothing, there's nothing good. It's like right now. Right now, the only stations In my rotation Are Jack FM, oh yeah. Jack.
Rick:FM.
Lano:KLOS and K-Earth.
Rick:K-Earth, yeah, yeah.
Lano:And K Earth dude.
Rick:K L.
Lano:O S did they change? No, dude, the thing is Classic Rock. Now is what we were talking about. No, but I thought K L O S, no, that was. Oh, no, that was 100.3.
Rick:The sound that was classic rock. We're working hard listening to the sound.
Lano:Remember when it was a pirate 103, remember it was a pirate. Yeah, that's when it was a real rock station.
Rick:But the sound will do like themes every weekend Of just like music non-stop.
Lano:But that's why there's nothing out there For these kids to Attach to like that.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:And then, like Miggy says, they're not socializing If artists but then artists right now Are getting lazy and they're not Learning the instrument, they just do everything On the computer.
Rick:That's what I'm saying. What are you gonna perform? And you ever notice Like today's songs Are just like two minutes and 30 seconds, yeah, like super short Because the attention span. It's like two hooks and like that's it. You're like that's the whole song Before with us it was like five, six minutes, right, that's what I'm saying, dude, it's like the old rock songs.
Lano:You're like you hear the intro, yeah, you get the buildup, the buildup of the riff going. Three or four verses, no. Then you're like, you're just seeing like when, when, like how epic is the solo gonna be A nice long solo the song used to like breathe yeah. Yeah, there was no rush, solo, yeah and yeah. Now they're like two, two and a half minutes.
Mig:But it's just no, but even Even.
Lano:It's even the same thing with, with, um, whenever they call rap now, dude, yeah, you know, there's just nothing but but hooks. And I've been on a, you know, dude, I've been listening to.
Rick:Spanish music. I've just been listening to Spanish music Cause they're doing Having a renaissance right now.
Lano:I would hear like A lot of like the Righteous Brothers and you hear Like the singing and the style and even the musical part, the instrumental it's like I wonder if anyone could come and just like, kind of like just get lost in that era of music to see if they could just come out with something and be influenced by that.
Lano:Just nothing new, that era music to see if they could just come out with something and be influenced by that. Just not, not none of the nothing new. Just listen to that stuff, that classical stuff, and see if you can come out, you know, inspired to make something like that.
Rick:How do you guys feel about um the genre, um yacht rock? I'm not familiar with it.
Mig:It's like.
Rick:I saw a documentary on it recently yeah yeah, rock, it's like all the like the, the slow, like rock music, like um right here says what is an example?
Lano:is it a fucking baby?
Rick:come back, steely dan fm slow rock. Yeah like um. I don't know if you know dreamweaver baby, come back sentimental like the doobie brothers and all that stuff yeah, fools falling. No, I just saw this documentary yeah, soft rock yeah but now it's called yacht rock.
Rick:But um, no, because I saw that I saw a documentary and I was like really into it and then like I typed in yacht rock on the apple music and then all these songs were pretty good I mean, I don't know what, what type of music it was, but whenever I get, like my emails from the casinos, yeah like, especially the palms.
Lano:There's this act that's out there. They're called the like the yacht rock boys or something like that covers of all those music. I guess, yeah, but check it out, check out what they play, check it out, check it out. I don't know what they play.
Rick:Yeah, check it out and tell me what you think. Yeah, I ain't going to be listening to that soft shit. It's like the rock music you can sing to.
Lano:Is it classic rock? Yeah, dude, it's all that soft crap. Coldplay.
Rick:Yeah, I'll show you the trailer For the documentary, but there was a. I think I saw it on Amazon Prime, but pretty good, but I don't know, man. But Like today, kids don't even like, want to drive or buy cars. I understand that, like they're not socializing and stuff Not having babies, so I understand why their Population is like going down.
Lano:I think everything just so damn expensive.
Lano:Yeah, and then everything's expensive, it's that, and they're lazy too, because A lot of stuff is being handed to them and it goes back. I said the same one time before and I know I butchered it then and I'm probably going to butcher it right now again. But Hard times Create strong men. Strong men, ah dude, I wish I knew that. Right, how about you write it down? Look it up and write it down. Yeah Well, what it I mean? The gist of it is, you know that the hard time, you know, makes the man here it is.
Rick:I have it on the screen so you can read it.
Lano:Okay, the quote Hard times create Strong men, strong men create good times, good times create Weak men and weak men Create hard times, basically. So that's the cycle that we're in, you know so Pretty much From the boomers, which were the strong men, yeah To now the we grew up in the great times. Yeah. So now to the alphas, or whatever they are. Right now they're the weak ones.
Lano:They're gonna create the hard times there's not that many alphas, and who knows how the alphas kids are going to be. You know, and the thing is it's a joke calling them Beta. It's a joke calling them alphas, because there's nothing alpha about them.
Rick:Right, no, there's not.
Lano:You know, I think the next generation is XY.
Mig:It's like when they.
Rick:When they start.
Lano:I saw it was beta. Oh, beta yeah.
Rick:When's like when they start.
Lano:I saw it was beta, oh, beta, yeah, when they start crying about toxic masculinity and everything. I mean, dude, how are you going to call yourself an alpha generation when you can't define what a woman is and you get mad when a man is supposed to be what a man is? You don't let a man be a man, true?
Rick:I'm telling you it's. I mean, I know what you're saying.
Lano:The ones that are going to come out on top are the ones that are living in the mountains. Yeah, they're just watching all the weaklings disappear slowly. Run to the mountains with your guns, people.
Rick:I wish someone had this boat. Like with the years, and your breakdown. Yeah, like what would the like? Yeah, like the generations, like you say, like what segment we're?
Lano:in right now. They moved like the millennials. I thought millennials was started in 85, but it started in 81.
Rick:There's no hard like deadline, it's just like Like an era. It's not like from this year. Oh, I don't know. There's like a transition and all this other stuff.
Lano:What's funny, though, is that If you jump on YouTube and you see like you see like Gen Zers React. Reacting to videos of Gen Xers.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:How we were as kids, like the shit we used to do, and you see their reactions. They're all like shocked, yeah, you know like by the shit that we used to do?
Rick:What about the things your parents used to do? I mean, I think we were crazier we were.
Lano:I mean, I think we were crazier dude, you think so? I think we were crazier dude.
Rick:Maybe Miggy was crazier than my generation because you're a little older. What are you talking?
Lano:about dude. You're insane man. Gen X was adventurous man.
Mig:Yeah, dude, I mean because you're talking, and it started fading with the millennials.
Lano:Yeah, cause you're talking about Our parents would just.
Mig:Let us go throughout the day Just look at Jackass dude, that's Gen X.
Lano:I mean cause.
Rick:I'm thinking how many times did we go to TJ without like Telling my parents I'm talking?
Mig:about when we were kids, when we were young.
Lano:You know, it's like being outside and building a ramp when you have no business building a ramp and you have no business building a ramp and jumping it on your bike and eating shit and you scrape up your elbows and everything.
Mig:Jumping a fence when you shouldn't be Jumping a fence.
Lano:Yeah, dude, I mean Going, you know, cutting holes in the fence and going in the river bed and riding your bikes all the way up to Pasadena, and you know, and then going up to Flat Top on.
Mig:Right Coming down the hill on cardboard.
Lano:I mean dude Swimming in that, god knows red infested water in the tunnel Pina Lake.
Rick:Yeah, oh, the tunnel.
Lano:Nightingale Tunnel the Nightingale Tunnel that Builds your immunity up yeah. Oh, I didn't tell you I went Check this out. I went, we went to Ensanada Like two weeks ago.
Rick:Yeah.
Lano:Right and we went again to El Güero Already when we were leaving and I got All mariscos.
Lano:I got mariscos yeah, just the marisco with the shrimp and the octopus. I had mine. I didn't finish it so I saved it. We got back home, shane and Shelby went with us. I ate half of it, vanessa ate half of hers, or a little bit less than half. Same thing with Shelby. And then Shane wasn't feeling good already at the end and they kind of forced him to get like a shrimp cocktail, but he didn't eat none of it. We brought it all home, right. I was like I'm going to have this tomorrow. Well, I kept forgetting about it and I think it was like Thursday. It was like Thursday. I pulled it out. It was like Thursday. I pulled it out. It was Shane's Mine. I ate, but I pulled it. I pulled out Shane's cocktail.
Rick:I was remembering the bologna. I was like what did I ask you to bring from Mexico?
Lano:I know it was a risk, dude, but I pulled it out and you know I had like the first bite.
Mig:Oh, dude what the hell? What's wrong with salt dude, not seafood, on the salt teeth?
Lano:And I had it right. I ate it and it it.
Mig:It bit you. No, it had a little bit of it crawled out of your mouth.
Lano:It had a little bit. It had a little bit of it had a little bit. It had a little bit of like the Sour, what's that? How do you describe that? Like citrusy or like Salty Tart? Yeah, like a tart taste little bit. I was like, well, maybe I was just like the top top layer.
Rick:We call that funky. It's like I missed it.
Lano:I got another one and damn, it was like. The second one was kind of like strong.
Rick:I was like I don't want to let this shrimp go to waste, I go, I go.
Lano:I just let the shit go, dude, I got I think it was like the fourth or fifth one that I got cracker and I didn't taste it anymore. I'm like, oh, you know, it's probably good, son of a bitch. And I said, all right, I'm not going to drink the juice, I'll just eat the shrimp.
Rick:Because your mouth is already numb.
Mig:The toxins already did its job.
Lano:What's ahead? What's ahead the other one, oh son of a bitch.
Rick:What's ahead. The other one I was like that tart taste was back.
Lano:I was that. Once I had the other one, oh son of a bitch man. Once I had the other one. I was like that tart taste was back.
Mig:I was like oh fuck, oh no, I'm like well, fuck, I'm almost done with it I mean if whatever's going to happen happens.
Lano:So I just made sure I got the shrimp out and I didn't get none of the juice and just ate the shrimp. So it was a little bit less tart, just the shrimp, wow, and I got it on and then I threw that shit right away, like so I wasn't tempted to.
Rick:This was from Ensenada right.
Lano:Yeah.
Rick:Was it in the? Cooler Like on the drive back, or where was this? No, just in a bag, or what.
Lano:No, we brought it out. By the time we got it, we went to the border. Once we went to the border, then you know, we got home and I put it in the bag.
Rick:It wasn't in a cool, yeah, it wasn't a cup oh, but you put it in the fridge?
Lano:yeah, I had in the fridge, oh, shit, I thought you left it in the car or something no, no no, no, no, no, I wouldn't know, it was right as soon as we got home from the fridge, but it was still okay, all right, it was still tart, so it was like you know when you order pizza and then you know what, when I tasted the tart, I was like, oh man, this is going bad.
Lano:And then, you know, I was testing it, whatever, whatever, and I was eating it in front of Vanessa and I didn't tell her because she would have made me throw it away.
Mig:I would have made you throw it away too. Yeah, she would have like I would've fucking.
Lano:She would've gotten and just thrown it away. But I said ah, you know what. But then it's like when I was already halfway through. I was like man, I go, you know what? Seafood is one of the foods that you really shouldn't eat when it goes bad, cause you can really get sick that's like poignant.
Rick:But I go like, alright, we're gonna see.
Lano:Remember that time you got hepatitis from eating shit you shouldn't have.
Mig:Did that feel good Okay.
Lano:Remember that next time you're going to eat some week old freaking Marisco from.
Mig:From Ensenada yeah.
Lano:Shit man.
Rick:Your hepatitis just Awakened. It was dormant for a while.
Lano:That was last week, so I'm good it was.
Rick:It was all right well, you know when, you when, while we were kids food poisoning is fucking something else you buy kids. We order pizza and then like whatever you didn't finish, you'd finish the next day. Right, just microwave it and the box would be left out all night. Like my wife won't let me eat that pizza, she'll throw it out. She says like overnight what it's gone bad.
Lano:No, she'll throw it out, she's like, don't eat that, you're going to get sick. But pizza, like, just leave it in the cardboard box, eat it the next day. Yeah, man, when we finish.
Rick:One day is fine, that's bad.
Lano:You're wrong, laura.
Mig:You're wrong.
Lano:But, like the next day, you probably want to get In the fridge. That's a. That's a pecado.
Rick:Yeah, next day you want to get In the fridge Every time you do that, jesus Christ. Don't do that. You finish it the morning of you eat it for breakfast.
Lano:The next morning you get your slices and you put the rest Of it in the fridge and then you finish it accordingly. Right, don't throw it out, I mean.
Rick:I don't like I don't like reheating the pizza.
Lano:I just eat it like that.
Rick:Well, you put it in Like toast in the Come on.
Lano:It's rubbery, put it. Put it in the toaster oven or, if you have an air fryer, put it in the air fryer.
Rick:Oh yeah, and then the crust gets crusty, toasty, air fryer.
Lano:That's, that's bomb right there, bomba I like that, but yeah, that was my adventure last Dude.
Mig:When did you?
Lano:eat that when was?
Rick:it. That was like before Disneyland or in the morning.
Lano:Yeah, no, it was. We got it we brought it home Sunday and it was, I think, yeah, two weeks ago, thursday.
Rick:Oh, two weeks ago. Yeah, I thought you ate it like Two weekends ago. Yeah, yeah, I was at your house Two weekends ago, yeah, so.
Lano:I was Thursday. Yeah, pretty sure you're clear. Yeah, I mean, I mean Damn dude, I think it would've happened. Something would've happened already.
Mig:Tell you, man Gen X dude.
Lano:I've been training. We're a different breed man.
Mig:I've been training. We're a different breed man.
Lano:I've been training my damn Stomach.
Rick:For that I started the clock late, but I think we're like Already in.
Mig:And now Did you want to?
Rick:say anything, miggy. Miggy had some notes Show notes.
Lano:Alright, I'll, I'll end it on this, alright, little Little history that I that I Learned On why do they call A shot Of alcohol, more specifically, a shot of whiskey, the history of why they call it a shot. They call it a shot, so back in the wild A jolt of no back in the wild. A jolt of no back in the wild west. You know, back in those days, you know not everybody would carry money. You know it's like money was pretty scarce.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Not everybody had money. So when cowboys or whatever would go to the bar and want to drink, you know bartering, or doing trades and shit was common yeah.
Lano:So when they didn't have money in their pockets, you know, but they had their guns and everything on them the bartender would say what was really valuable then was a bullet or a round. So the bartender would say, okay, one round for one drink. One round turned into one shot for a drink. So a shot for a shot, so that's where the term came from. Shot. Did you double? Did you double check with that guy? So a shot for a shot, so that's where the term came from A shot. Did you double check with that guy? I think I saw it on TV, that was like on Discovery or something.
Rick:I have it up on the screen. I was watching something on.
Lano:Western. Is that what it says, Lionel?
Rick:It has a Mickey story and then it says some people think it's something else.
Lano:But yeah, it says a Boolie was was worth about 12 cents and that's a small pour of whiskey yeah, the, the worth of a, the worth of a bullet, was the same as a shot of whiskey, so that's where you could trade the bullet for a shot.
Rick:I thought you were gonna say that, like for a bullet one, they would pour like a small glass to numb it or disinfect it or whatever. Okay, that's interesting. That was an interesting little tidbit.
Lano:What if I go to a bar and give them a 50 cal? With a big shot, then Is that a bottle, maybe? Sometimes those rounds are like 100 bucks. There you go Bottle service. All right, try it. Keep on drifting yo Peace.
