Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 126 - The Diesel Mechanic Life
Remember when you could recite every word to "Freaks of the Industry" but couldn't recall what you went to the store for? That strange quirk of memory serves as just one fascinating tangent in our latest episode, where we explore how certain songs become permanently etched in our neural pathways despite decades of dormancy.
Between bites of fresh Baja seafood and navigating California's latest regulatory labyrinth, we dive into the realities of running a diesel mechanic business during transitional times. California's new emissions requirements for commercial trucks have created a perfect storm—mechanics scrambling for certification, fleet owners rushing to comply, and a testing process that requires multiple cold starts and sophisticated diagnostic equipment. While challenging, these changes have opened new revenue streams for those willing to invest in the necessary technology.
The conversation takes a nostalgic turn as we reminisce about cross-border adventures, complete with mouthwatering seafood platters and two-for-one Palomas that remind us sometimes the best escapes are the closest ones. Through listener call-ins, we debate when artists should gracefully bow out versus continue creating, whether stroller parking at theme parks has gotten out of hand, and if the rumored Young Guns 3 can possibly capture the magic that made the originals resonate with Generation X.
As we navigate our busy schedules—night shifts, late workdays, and family commitments—we're reminded that this podcast serves as our excuse to reconnect regularly, to share stories, and to keep the conversation going, however sporadically. If you're enjoying the drift, drop us a message, share your thoughts, and join us next time as we continue our journey toward the elusive 200-episode milestone.
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Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo podcast. This is Mig, this is Lano, and no RK67. We're bringing you what we can, people. It's a complete show, but at least it's a show.
Lano:And Rick said this is probably his last week being out working nights.
Mig:Yeah, it's been a pretty rough month for me and Rick because Rick's been working nights and I've been getting off of work really late, like getting home past 9 o'clock. So it's been kind of rough. And then Lionel's had a couple things come up. You know family wise, so Nothing emergency right Like nothing bad.
Lano:No, no, nothing bad. Yeah, yeah, just stuff that come up.
Mig:You know, so Just busy.
Lano:Just busy, normal stuff.
Mig:You know, like everybody you know, so Try to squeeze this show in whenever we can.
Lano:I was looking at the stats yeah, and 2025,. We've only done six episodes.
Mig:That's rough dude.
Lano:And we're, like you know, June's going to be next week, so like that's the six months, so we're doing about an episode a month, average almost. Is that good or bad, I mean?
Mig:Bad, I mean. I mean Cause the thing. The thing is the episode After Mark's Appearance. Mark the Shark.
Lano:Was that the one? Well, not his episode. The one after that one, yeah, the one after that.
Mig:When I came back Right you know, since we're leaving so much time gap between shows I saw on YouTube that that episode had the most views that we've ever had of any of the YouTube episodes that we've put up, and I was like, wow, I'm like is that what we need to do? But what do we talk?
Lano:about I don't know. Dude, I'm like, is that what we need to do? But what do we talk about?
Mig:I don't know dude, I don't know, honestly, I don't know.
Lano:I think we're just like going off the cuff or just I don't know Well, because, like I sent you an update on the stats, like I was like, oh man, like we blew up this week.
Mig:Yeah, on the downloads, just on the podcast downloads, that's just the audio only. Yeah, that's not including YouTube.
Lano:YouTube's a whole separate account and all that stuff. That's what I told you about the YouTube. I told you, dude?
Mig:did you see the YouTube numbers Right? Because I went into the YouTube channel and I went to look at all the episodes that are recorded on YouTube so far and that one episode was the one that had the most views, like by a lot. I was like dude, it's like, why is this one episode? It's like, why did so many people watch it? Or why was it watched so many times? Last I saw it was like not that I'm complaining, you know.
Lano:Thank you, everybody out there who watched it last I saw is that 150, which is a big number for us. It's big right big number.
Mig:Yeah, thanks, guys. I mean glad we were able to catch your attention at least a little bit. I mean, even if you just watched it for a few minutes or whatever you know, but at least you know their numbers 150 um, views, I guess, on youtube, thanks a lot and um, and then we had a jump in audio too, the audio podcast version.
Lano:So I don't know, I mean it's tricky Something, something I mean I don't know If it's because we're leaving them Wanting more or you know, we just leave them anxious and waiting.
Mig:We're not doing it on purpose. I promise you that we're not doing it on purpose. You know it's no like Gimmick or Marketing scheme or Any stupid crap like that. You know we're not. We're not that clever, we're not that smart Right To be doing stuff like that.
Lano:So and this is, don't be thinking that, our time to we catch up with each other, like you know, weekly or monthly, like we're busy Before the podcast, I don't know. This would be every once in a while I would hit up Rick or you.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Like you know, something would happen, or a holiday, or something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Lano:But this show gives us a reason to you know. Come together or talk every weekend, yeah, and catch up.
Mig:When was the last show that we did? What was the date? It said May 8th, so we missed Mother's Day, right?
Lano:Yeah, because I think that's the 10th. Mexican Mother's Day is the 10th, and then I think the US was like on the 11th.
Mig:Let me wish a late Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, lano, especially to your mother, our number one day one fan, right, right, our biggest and greatest fan that we have of the show. Happy mother's day. Sorry we're so late with that greetings, you know, but glad you guys are there for us, you know, supporting glad to have you there and, um, just hopefully we can keep on doing this and keep it rolling and keep you guys entertained.
Lano:I guess the next one we missed was Memorial Day. I mean, we just finished that up, wrapped it up.
Mig:We just passed Memorial Day right now. We just ended Memorial Day this past weekend.
Lano:How was your weekend it?
Mig:was good you didn't have to work right Monday. No, we were going to work, but turns out you know, my older brother had to do some stuff, so we ended up just not working.
Lano:We were going to work, though. We were going to work To catch up, yeah, yeah.
Mig:Because, dude, we're so buried right now, man, Well, you've been working late. Don't know if a lot of you drifters out there know or not, but, um, I'm a diesel mechanic. Me and my, my older brother, we're diesel mechanics and we have our own um repair business. But the thing is we don't have a shop Like a regular shop. What we do is we do On-site service and we don't really like have a Like.
Mig:I want to say like, like we're open, kind of to like the public. You know it's like we, we have our accounts that we're happy with. You know, and we have our Set amount of work that that keeps us very, very busy, and we don't take on new customers. But it's the two of you guys, it's because it's just two of us exactly, and if we do try to take on new customers, then we're gonna neglect the ones that we have right now and we don't want to do that so yeah and so the thing is right now we we do take advantage of the daylight, you know that there is more day to extend our day and get more, try to get more working, which is advantageous, you know, and it is working out.
Mig:but, um, the thing that's happening now is California being California, with all their lovely regulations and you know issues they decided to start doing a smog testing on diesel trucks, on all the heavy duty and like all the medium duty and heavy duty. Is that that's a new thing? It's relatively new. Like january 1st or yeah, so now every, and actually on the trucks, like because you know on on your car or cars in general, it's done every two years, right, a smog check every other well on these trucks.
Mig:They're requiring them to be done twice a year, and they're they're moving to pass. Um, isn't this supposed to be clean though? Or I mean right now, the systems that they have in place, that you know, that's really complicating things, and, um, it's been a real pain to figure out how to work on these systems and everything, but we kind of we already got a really good grasp on it, you know, and as soon as we get like a really good grasp on it, I know they're going to change the technology and move on to something else, and we're going to have to relearn something else, you know, which is a real pain, but for right now, you, you know, we have a really good idea of how to work on all this stuff and how to troubleshoot it, and you know how to get these things running right.
Lano:So, you're talking about um fixing it to pass, or are you doing the smog check on those vehicles or um well, yeah, yeah, I mean because just in general, like if a check engine light comes on. That means something's wrong, right Like an air filter.
Mig:Well, yeah, you know, because, like you say, a check engine light comes on in your car and say it's an O2 sensor, you know it's not going to be something that's going to make your car die out or stall or not run right or anything, but it is something that's going to affect, like the fuel mileage, or you know it's gonna. It's gonna affect it in one way or another, you know, and it will affect it the efficiency, right the efficiency, there you go.
Mig:That's what I'm looking at that's the word I'm looking for the efficiency. But it will also not allow the vehicle to pass a smog check Right. So that's where all the equipment right now is at, the heavy equipment. So that's where my brother got certified in that and we had to buy, you know, a computer. We had to buy a laptop, we have to subscribe to software and everything.
Mig:That's how they get you all that stuff, stuff, yeah so all that stuff is expensive and it's money, you know. But on that flip side, it's like we have all these vehicles now that we need to do it. You know, because all of our customers all of a sudden called us because they're like, hey, you know, it's like we need the smog test and we need the smog test done. You know, because they're not going to give us our tags. And everybody Called us at the same time Because, of course, that's the way the stupid State works. They don't give anybody any warning, they don't give them any time to do anything, they don't give them any prep time or nothing. They just hit everybody At the same time and get it done or pay penalties.
Lano:It wasn't like the people who expiration was up this month, it's just everybody had to like get it done, like like the whole fleets or whatever yeah, it's like everybody had to get it done, like by the end of march, you know.
Mig:So we were like scrambling through, going with everybody and you know, trying to get. You know, half of the fleet passed and the other half had check engine lights on and how to get stuff changed out. And you know, once you, once you change out a part, you know that you need to change, you need to change out. Then you retest it and then you get the, you clear the codes. But then it has to. It has to Reset the monitors and everything. So it needs at least 5 cold starts. So what that means is that it has to cycle 5 times when it starts up, it runs to temperature, then it cools down, you know. So, basically, like you say, you run it for a day, then you come in for the day. It sits overnight, then you come in for the next day so basically running for a week with no issues.
Mig:That way you know the truck is running without issues and then it'll pass.
Lano:That seems like a pain in the butt.
Mig:Yeah, then that's all we've been experiencing all year long and it's like with all of our customers doing it's like all this catching up and all this repair work here. I mean it's great for us, dude, don't get me wrong. It's like we're. We're pretty much like raking it in, dude.
Lano:But I mean in dude, but I mean we're paying for it, but it's like it's a lot of work, man, it's a lot of people like different, is this not? Oh, every job is different. I'm coming for the smart checking.
Mig:Every job is different dude, every it's. I mean, you know you're, you're talking about um so every job is like a troubleshoot.
Mig:You have to figure out what's causing yeah it's not like majority of the other problems are coming out to be um, um devices. They go on the turbo chargers that are called actuators or sensors that are called uh knock sensors, nitrogen oxide sensors, so but sometimes it is the actual turbos, you know just, or just a bunch of other stuff. You know that can go wrong and but yeah, you know, I mean you gotta you can't just go connect the computer and go by what it says the code is. You know it's like you gotta troubleshoot it.
Mig:You gotta understand why it's triggering that code you know, you can't just see the code and say, okay, I'm gonna change that part. No man, you gotta know why what's causing it?
Lano:what's causing it or is it? Or is it the actual part that's?
Mig:failing, and if it's not the actual part that's failing, what's causing it to go off?
Lano:you know so it's now, after you're done with it, like it's done, or they just have to take it to like some certified like no, we're.
Mig:We're the ones that are certified dude. Yeah, it's us Once it's done.
Lano:You put a stamp or a seal on it or whatever.
Mig:That's why we have the laptop and we're registered with the state. So the testing Is done through a portal that's with the state. So it gets sent Directly to CARB, which is the California Air Resources. Board and it gets sent directly to CARB, which is the California Air Resources Board, and it gets sent directly to them, so everything is handled by them.
Lano:Oh.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:So you have to like, like, stick something in the tailpipe and all that stuff To check the quality or the richness of the fuel, or whatever.
Mig:Only if the truck's really old, like if it's older than 2011, I believe. But everything newer Cause even the cars now. The cars now, when you're doing them smog, I forget what the cut off year is For For smogging them now, but the cars now they just plug them in. They don't do that tailpipe anymore, they're just you plug in the computer yeah, it's been a while, and right there, it just. It says everything.
Mig:The monitors tell you everything it's like it's no more in the tailpipe, you know that little thing to read the gases or anything is that like um to prevent, like?
Lano:I remember small checks like they would stick that thing in another car yeah another tailpipe to fool it, or something it's way more difficult now.
Mig:That's why the the guys that do it um illegally, they really charge you. Now, dude, they, they charge us like hacking stuff.
Lano:Now right yeah, yeah, they charge a pretty penny to so you had to buy a special laptop or a laptop that works with no just.
Mig:Just a laptop, you know? Just Make sure. We just had to make sure it had a At least like Windows 10.
Lano:And when did you guys know that this was coming? Or like, how did your brother know To get certified before and all this other stuff? Or he was always certified.
Mig:No, I mean, we're always On top of it. You know, it's like we, you get notices.
Lano:Yeah, we find out, we find out from our customers.
Mig:You know we have our customers that are always finding out about these things. You know, they get all the literature and everything and they start asking us if we're going to get this or we're going to get that, or you know, will we be able to do this or will we be able to do that?
Lano:You know and that's what we find out. And then we start investigating it and everything. And then you say your brother went and got certified. Is that just like an online course? He does, or he has to go somewhere?
Mig:Yeah, it was just something online that he did. Yeah, it wasn't a big deal.
Lano:But a big fee, though, right to get it done.
Mig:Not even that big a fee.
Lano:Oh really no. But fee, oh really no. But what they charge you for is um is, uh the subscription to um that's.
Mig:It was expensive. Yeah, like the licensing and all that crap.
Lano:That's where they get you wow, yeah, but you're saying everything is it's like a minimum five days. You have to do the five cold starts yeah like every truck.
Mig:Oh yeah, about a week job so you gotta, you gotta hope, you cross those fingers that week passes and no more check engine lights and the trucks are just out of service until you get that done.
Lano:No, no, no, they're not out of service.
Mig:You're using them. Oh, they're still using them. Yeah, you use them. You have to use them. Oh, that's the whole point.
Lano:You just don't turn them on.
Mig:That's the purpose. No, no, use it. Okay, but you're hoping that no more check engine lights come on. Oh, you know, you're hoping you figured out the problem and you solved it. So on that fifth day or the fifth cold start, you come back and there's no more issues. Boom, it passed. Oh, you don't got to worry about it for another six months.
Lano:Six months Every twice a year now.
Mig:Yes, every six months. Six months every twice a year. Yes, every six months. Oh, and I'm, and I'm telling you there there's rumors going around or there's legislation wants to make it every quarter.
Lano:So now you're talking about four times a year I mean that's good for you, but you're just going to get slammed every quarter every six months, yeah, wow.
Mig:So that's my life people.
Lano:How are you guys doing? Oh well, me more than I didn't do much Cause we've been having busy weekends. So we, me and my wife, we just told each other like we're going to like keep it very light this weekend, and we, we just told each other like we're going to like keep it very light this weekend, and we just did a lot. We got a lot of rest done so we're just like sleeping and stuff. We had some yeah.
Mig:So, in a nutshell, I enjoyed my memorial day. I just lounged it, except Sunday. Sunday, I got a wild hair on my ass and I went down to TJ. Is that what I'm looking at on the screen? Yeah, you are. That looks like really good. It was dude, it was delicious. How much is that? That was, uh, 365 pesos. Which is what? At 18 dollars, or 18 pesos to the dollar? I think that was what about 17 bucks maybe that looks worth it, dude.
Mig:Shit dude. Right here you get something like that For like maybe like almost 30.
Lano:Yeah, no, that looks like good and it's like fresh and everything.
Mig:Yeah, dude, that was so good, dude.
Lano:So we're looking at the Instagram.
Mig:And then those palomas right there Right off to the right. Those were two for one, so oh wow.
Lano:It was a good time you say. It says you took your century pass, you went down with Richard, just by yourself.
Mig:No, I went with my OC homie she knows who she is.
Lano:So how deep is that into? In, it was Ensenada. No, no, that was TJ. Oh, tj, right there, so you didn't have to go that far.
Mig:Yeah right, where were the the beaches? It's called the playas de tijuana. It's right there, it's right away.
Mig:It's close like, like maybe like 10 minutes from the, from the border. That's what I'm saying. You don't have to go all the way to ensanada or to rosarito to get some good ass mariscos. You just cross the border, head to playas and go to Tito's. Well, that looks good, dude, it's so good. And then you go and you get the fish tacos. Dude, and listen to me when I say this Only order one, because they give you the full size tortilla, uh-huh. One, because they give you the full-size tortilla, uh-huh, and they give you two big pieces of fish and they give you two tortillas, so you can split those up and make two tacos.
Mig:I might have to make a trip down there, so but I got to get all prepped, like you, with that century pass, because I don't want to be waiting that long, oh yeah dude, I'll tell you, and the only reason we we went is cause we both have the century pass, and um, and I told her you know it was like she, she was hitting me up in the morning. I told her, well, yeah, it's cool, I'm like the traffic's going to be on Monday coming back, oh right, I'm like. So Sunday probably won't be that bad, and it wasn't. You know, we got through pretty, pretty quick, like within a half hour 40 minutes. Maybe Passing right there by San Ysidro Would have been faster if I would have gone through Otay by the airport. So that would have been way faster. But you know, yeah, it was good dude. Oh, I want to go back.
Lano:No, it looks good. So we weren't sure what we were going to talk about, but we got a lot of calls. So the last episode aired May 8th and all these calls came in on May 9th. So either somebody got drunk or well, we'll hear it. So we'll just start running down the criticism let me see, I have to make sure, let me see, this is set properly alright, let's hear it alright, let's see hit us with your best shot.
Mig:Get the shot.
Lano:Get the shot. I don't hear nothing right now. I don't hear nothing.
Mig:Come on let me see.
Lano:Damn fake-ass producer. Well, let's switch on me.
Speaker 3:There we go. Well, let's switch. There we go, hey guys.
Lano:This is the OG Mike. Oh sorry, that's the old one. Sorry, Right here is number one.
Speaker 3:What's up, mike? Hey, three amigos. If Young Guns 3 doesn't come correct with the production like 1883 and 1944, or 19, 1923, whatever those shows are, if it don't come correct like that, I don't know if it's gonna hit man, they gotta do it right. What if you agree?
Mig:I agree with you 100 mark, but I don't think it's gonna hit like that dude I. I honestly don't think they're gonna get that type of writing into young guns.
Lano:3 no, nah, what is it? Is it?
Mig:amelia west was writing it I don't know who's writing it.
Lano:I honestly don't know well, I don't know if he's talking quality. I mean, we just mean, make us all this I mean, I mean the west was different from what we thought, but no, no, I mean Cause.
Mig:The thing is, I don't think, I don't think they can figure out A storyline That'll captivate you, like Like 1883 or 1923, does you know? It's like Young Guns Was like a fun, not fun, I mean it was. It was. I don't know man, how would you describe it. It was like a fun, not fun, I mean it was. It was like it was. I don't know man, how would you describe it. It was like it was just cool, it was it was a cool western.
Lano:I don't want to say like hip, but it was like for the time, for our era, like our age it was like cool, you know, it's like you wanted to be the top stars you wanted to be the top stars. You wanted to be a cowboy, you know.
Mig:And it's like the music. It was kind of like a departure from your dad's westerns, you know yeah it wasn't Clint Eastwood. So that's why, like Today, I don't if they write it for today. I don't know if they want to kind of like Stick to that formula, cause I don't know if it'll to kind of like stick to that formula Because I don't know if it'll hold up, you know. Or if they're going to go Completely different direction and, like Mark says, you know, try to go With the Taylor or Taylor Sheridan type.
Lano:Storyline I mean His story, is 1923, 1883. Those are all. Taylor Sheridan shows and I saw an interview with him and he says he likes to keep his stories simple but he does a lot of character development. Yeah, and, and that's how you can see it in his shows, because like the character developments like like off the charts, it's really good.
Mig:I mean for me, mark. I mean I don't know if you go back and listen to the other shows. For me I think they're already messing up, because my take is I thought Chavez was dead, because for me, when they showed the spirit horse coming for him, he clearly stated that when the spirit horse comes for you, that's it. So now all of a sudden he's alive and coming out in the third one. So for me that's already a strike. Rick will argue With me on that one.
Mig:I don't know who else will argue With me on that one. I mean whatever, but for me that's already like a strike.
Lano:Lazy writing, you know I mean.
Mig:I know you need star power, but I mean I know you need star power, but I mean, if they were Gonna foreshadow or leave An opening for a third one, then they shouldn't have done that. Yeah, you know, but I don't know.
Lano:And I think I think it's gonna be big Like if it comes. Think I think it's gonna be big Like if it comes out.
Mig:I think it's gonna be like oh, I'm gonna see it. I mean, just for nostalgia's sake, you know, I wanna see it. I think it's gonna be like and I wanna see what they're gonna do. You know I'm interested to see, for better or for worse. You know I wanna see what they do with the story.
Lano:Cause I'm thinking it's gonna be like like maverick top gun. This is like one of our old movies that they're bringing back.
Mig:It's gonna be like like really big well, I mean, it'd be nice if they make it as good as maverick was written, but I don't know all right, that's asking a lot um the next call, which is still mark the shark lucy.
Lano:Oh, what's going? On with the voice. Oh, that's when I switched to the tv.
Speaker 3:Okay, let me see people with strollers that go to theme parks. Nah, they need to stay home. I watched the back lot at universal and I've seen it at other parks too, but way too many strollers. They have a home parking lot but they stack them all in. You gotta find your spot. It's in the way. Nah, hell, no, get rid of them, bro, get rid of them. Put your kid in a backpack before, when we were growing up.
Lano:You would either like rent a stroller there right like they had, like the plastic ones oh man, like they had, like the plastic ones you would rent or borrow or check out yeah, there's some big bootleg ass ones there, man, but but it is like people have like wagging strollers and have a small fold up one.
Mig:Is it out of hand now?
Lano:It's out of hand. They're like they park them side by side. They're like 8 deep, 8 rows.
Mig:It's a mess. They pack so much stuff for the kids.
Lano:That's the thing. Do we leave our stroller here? We got our bags, we got, like you know, souvenirs. You think someone's gonna take them, but then there's a disney employee there like watching them. Dude, what happened?
Mig:what the hell happened. I remember, going around, my mom just took a bag with all the, with all the bean burritos Wrapped in foil dude, and you know we didn't have no bag of extra clothes or nothing.
Lano:Look at these pictures. This is it like.
Mig:Oh, dude, that's.
Lano:So I mean, this is a small parking, but they're just Like you got no room to walk, like see. So they're all like lined up, there'll be an employee watching them oh yeah, that's pretty stupid and, um, someone like, as someone moves them, the employee, like you know, reshuffles them all.
Lano:This guy reshuffling them all, but they're taking up a lot of like real estate. But um, just, it's just a bunch of strollers and see, these are old plastic ones we used to rent. The first time we went we rented one, but then we saw everybody bringing their own. Look at this, wow, this is a park where people run around, the kids play, and it's just all strollers everywhere. But it is, look at this, like Tomorrowland. It is like ridiculous.
Mig:I'm with Mark. Carry those kids in a backpack or take a leash. Drag them on a leash.
Lano:Alright, let me see. Next call is Make them.
Mig:Make them work the way Us Gen Xers did. Damn stroller Parking lot. Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3:Man, you gotta spend way Too much time Talking about Disneyland and theme parks.
Lano:You've heard this before.
Speaker 3:Forget it. Rick's rich. He goes to Disneyland every other week. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, okay, you understand. Move on, bro. Let's go Get the show moving. Man, what do you guys got to talk about today? I'm not even done with the show yet. I'm not even done with the show yet. I'm ready about to hit fast forward. You guys need to figure the pace bro I mean finish the stuff, Edit that out. I don't know.
Lano:Well, I don't even know if that was the episode that blew up, the Disneyland episode, but uh, nick swears that or no, rick swears that he didn't, like he hasn't been to Disneyland. And I was like, dude, you went three times last year.
Mig:What are you talking about?
Lano:He goes all the time now.
Mig:Dude goes. So many times I think he's going to grow a pair of ears permanent man he goes for the corn dog and this and that he's got a lot of.
Lano:He's got more than me With no kids.
Mig:They probably got a stroller for him. Imagine that shit Carrying him around in a stroller.
Lano:Let's see this next one.
Speaker 3:Yo, I can't believe. I just heard that.
Mig:How'd you hear that, Mark?
Lano:I just said it.
Speaker 3:What's this jailer show? I don't even see your gay ass with that jailer show. That's a girl's night out, homeboy. What's this jailer show? Call me a tool.
Lano:So Mark was referring when Meg was talking about I went with my girl fool. It was her birthday present.
Mig:You're going to tell me you want to take your lady to a show like that for her birthday.
Lano:Come on. And someone stood up in front of him and recorded the show.
Mig:Yeah, I was venting because I had a freaking planet in front of me. I wanted to see J-Lo's big bulbous ass. Dude. I paid good money to see that, Not some freaking orca in front of me holding a damn phone.
Lano:You didn't go to SeaWorld, right.
Mig:Yeah, man Get my blood pressure up. Don't get me started, mark in my opinion.
Speaker 3:I think this if an artist is outdated, like he's done, like his people, him, they should know, like they're out, they should be telling like this is it, your career is done, bro, you shouldn't don't try to come out no more. Because I heard something new, too short stuff too, and I wasn't impressed. I was like whatever this? We got bills to pay, obviously, you know. But uh, you know, like other rappers, like red man, he just came out with the album, the album's banger. It's dope, you know, you just keep kind of keeping it to himself, keeping it kind of old. So I think it just depends on the artist. Some artists need to like just stop. You know they shouldn't be rapping, but they got to know this man. People in the camp have the talent. That's my opinion. Some can do it, some cannot. I think you sure should have bowed out at 10.
Lano:Agreed Dude, I was listening, but I was reading it.
Mig:I don't know if you read it. Look at, look at the third line on the screen. Yeah, nothing, nothing of what he said was written up there, dude, so I caught redman album, and then I don't know what that other stuff after that is.
Lano:Yeah, dude, I don't know what the hell?
Mig:I won't repeat it, dude. But yeah, dude, I don't know what the hell hopefully the camera is talking about there dude? Yeah, I don't know, man, AI is a pervert.
Lano:He's talking about old artists. So I didn't realize, because I was looking up, I was searching for new albums out and stuff and I didn't know. Snoop Dogg came out with a new album this past month and it's not that bad. So, mark, listen to the new Snoop album. That came out with a new album this past month and it's not that bad. Mark, listen to the new Snoop album that came out last month, not the missionary that came out during the holidays. This is another album that came out on Death Row, but check it out. I was surprised because my wife was like, oh, this is pretty good. She was bobbing her head to it.
Mig:It's funny because G-Dog Sent me the funniest meme that I relate to so much. It's funny because G-Dog sent me the funniest meme dude that just like I relate to so much. It's just so relatable. Dude, I don't know how relatable it is to everybody out there. You know fellow Gen Xers that are out there listening, but the meme it shows this dude in his car and he's like listening to the radio. He's listening to a raw bass, it takes two. And In the caption it reads you know I went to the store but I can't remember For what. But in the meantime, you know, so the music's playing and he's rapping along Word for word. Dude, like he knows every lyric to the song. It's like. It's like how is it that we can remember every damn lyric to a song that's like 30 years old, but I can't remember what the hell I went to the store for.
Mig:No, that's that's you know that's true, and it's so funny, dude, because just the other day, you know, like on the topic of too short, I was in my you know, I was driving around and I'm like you know what that's like I want to hear some too short dude. It's like I want to see how it sounds in my truck, you know, because I haven't really listened to anything any music worth listening.
Mig:Yeah, worth listening to in my truck yeah, putting it up like something that bumps, you know, because I want to see how my truck sounds like if it bumps and it sounds pretty good, dude. So, yeah, dude, I got it and I put on. Uh, don't fight the feeling and oh man, I was listening to that shit, dude like, oh, dude, that that just made me feel so nostalgic, man, the other day I passed by your truck, you always had the the flag like lettering in the back.
Lano:Yeah, oh yeah, well not always.
Mig:I mean it, I think after a year I looked I I seen, uh, somebody had like that's on the back of their truck, so I started looking for it and I found it.
Lano:Well, that's cool Cause it's like subtle, but it's nice.
Mig:And yeah, dude, I just started finding, like other you know, like on YouTube, cause I try to do it on. I mean, you guys swear by Spotify dude, but I hate Spotify dude Cause I don't know, I just can't figure out how to use it.
Lano:So it's like I don't know cause I'm not a paid member, but I do have a.
Mig:I have an account like a member account.
Lano:But like I'll search something and they just bring up things that sound like that, it's just, it's frustrating to me.
Mig:So I just I jumped on YouTube and Started bringing up two short songs, you know, and then I put up cuss words, dude, and it's just like everything just comes back, dude.
Lano:It's like I'm a teenager again. You go back to that moment when you first heard it or something like your soundtrack.
Mig:It's like I know it word for word. You know it's like it never left and it's like, why the hell do I remember this? You know it's like, why do I have this? And you know why is this like this memory that's your brain?
Lano:ingrained in my head, dude and I can't remember nothing else, and like you said, like you, you probably hadn't heard that song or album in what? 15, 20 years dude, decades, decades and then decades.
Mig:And then you knew, word for word, everything it's like it comes on and it's like boom, it's there. You know, it's like I put on that and do it, and then I put on digital underground. The freaks of the industry oh, dude, freaks of the industry. I put that one on, dude. That one I knew word for word. Yeah that's such a good song Anyways for today's music.
Lano:You can't even I can't remember anything in today's music. You can't even I can't remember anything in today's music. Ah caca. Well, that's crazy, because music is like, even if it's like like a soundtrack, like to a movie, like you hear that song like, oh, this is that movie.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Or this is the that time, or whatever.
Mig:Yeah, like you hear, eye of the Tiger. Yeah, right away Rocky, you know it's Rocky, you know.
Lano:Yeah, like you hear, eye of the Tiger. Yeah, right away, rocky, you know it's Rocky, you know.
Mig:Yeah, you hear Back in Time.
Lano:Right away Back to the Future, right, you know. And those are not like Even songs that, like, we would bump every day. Like you know, like those are movie songs. It's not like we're listening in the car, like Back in Time or Eye of the Tiger.
Mig:Like bumping. No, but it's just. It's what you associate it with.
Lano:All right, let me see what's the next call.
Speaker 3:Let me see there's hold on Exhibit. Exhibit's coming out with a new album May 16th. It's called Kingmaker. You know I like 40 Days, 40 Nights. I like I see the life and I like the things he did with the alcoholics and his underground stuff with Defy, yeah. But I knew he came out with like man vs Machine. I don't know, I wasn't really feeling those albums but I'm going to check this one out. But maybe Exhibits is one of the cats that should have bowed out, maybe after Restless, I don't know. But on the 16th when the album drops, I'm going to listen to it. You can pre-download or pre-order right now to listen to on Spotify. Anyways, later yeah.
Lano:I'm not going to do that on Spotify. It's not going to work for me. I don't know why. Maybe I got to be a paid member but he's saying a new exhibit album is coming out that we should check out or listen to.
Mig:You know what Mark?
Lano:listen to you know what mark.
Mig:You could be the show uh music tester. Send it to us if it's good. Yeah, dude, you'll. We, we trust your judgment in music because you got a pretty good uh musical palette there so so what's the?
Lano:I mean? Because not everything's on youtube yet. Like not everything has a music video, but like sometimes I want to send you guys a song but like spotify doesn't have it or doesn't pop up, like does everybody have amazon? I know, not everybody has like apple music, but like I'll search it for spotify, because I know you guys why? I know ricky and mark use spotify, but but I mean the music doesn't have all the songs I'm looking for all the time. I just have to probably record on my phone and send it probably.
Speaker 3:Yo, yo, man Yo. I hear you trying to do the hard times tough people, hard times, good times when you're young boys, all those things you're trying to say. How about this? I'll donate $35,000 to your favorite charity if you read one book from Harry Potter.
Mig:Play that again. What the hell was he talking about?
Lano:I think he's talking about the quote, but I don't know what he's saying.
Speaker 3:Yo, yo, mick, Yo, I hear you're trying to do the hard times tough people, hard times, good times for you, young boys, all those things you're trying to say. How about this? I'll donate $35,000 to your favorite charity if you read one book from harry potter it was a quote that, uh, we had to look it up to get it right.
Lano:But uh, mark issued a challenge to make the, I guess to read a harry potter, but those things are like 700 pages or whatever. You've seen all the movies? Nah, you didn't. But you never got into it. Nah, I mean not reading the books, but not the movies.
Mig:Not your thing, not even one, nope I watched one movie and you didn't like it crap I thought they. I thought they ripped off star wars really yeah dude. It was that first harry potter episode, dude. I thought it was like a direct rip-off of Phantom Menace.
Lano:Alright, two more left.
Speaker 3:I heard you Lano. Yes, getting it From Too Short was supposed to be his last album. That was it.
Mig:Yeah, Because he had said 10 albums and he's out, hey Lano.
Speaker 3:I'm with you, man.
Lano:Yeah, he had said 10 and then it seems like I don't know from what you that list we're looking at he made like 10 more. I don't know. Yeah, 10 more that we hadn't even seen. But that's why, like, if you're gonna like Make that your thing, like I'm 10 and I'm out, then stick to it 10 year old.
Lano:Like Mickey was saying, become a producer or maybe do guest appearances. A few lyrics here and there, but albums. I don't know if he was hurting for money or what, but his old library, that was enough. Retire a legend, yep.
Speaker 3:So again it's Friday and there's no podcast. Again, you guys dropped the ball. I cannot believe it. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men got together and created just another royal podcast. Is that how it goes? I don't know, Someone tell me if I'm right or wrong here, but I think I got it pretty right, Blake.
Mig:Well, listen up here, partner. If you start Chipping in some ducats and pay us for doing this, then maybe we'll do it With more consistency and we can't even get Mark to join another show. But since we got bills to pay, son, we gotta take priority Work priority over the podcast.
Lano:So Mark's working in universe studios. We're on his way home. Yeah, stay in your lane, we'll buy his dinner. Go rearrange those strollers at universal studios. We'll buy his dinner and he could join the show and like we'll do it like I could have done it with mark last week if he would have showed up oh, there you go, everybody was out with mark last week.
Mig:If he would have showed up.
Lano:Well, there you go. Everybody was out. I'll just step up. I would have been happy to do a tool episode with him. Talk, talk tools, talk um retaining walls at universal, whatever he's doing. But uh, he couldn't make the commitment. He had that one episode with us and then he was wiped out the next day. I checked on him and he was like he said he was. He was tired. Talk a big game, son.
Lano:But let's, let's see if we get like, let's challenge my, we'll get him within the next next three weeks if you could join us for one more show. You talk a big game, but you're just another la flop. He's just hiding behind his phone phone calls over here. Yeah, all right, so that was the. The last call. That was on may 16th. I guess that was last Friday. But, like you said, we've been busy. I don't know if we're going to do another summer break this year or not. We probably shouldn't. We'll probably just keep going because we haven't done that many.
Lano:I think we should just keep going, keep going. We haven't done that much, but as we go every week I like to get in the rhythm, when we kind of skip a fuse and I get out of rhythm and stuff and then it's hard to come back and and do it, but um, ricky's out again today.
Mig:But he did say it's the last week that he's doing this one particular job. So he says working netflix or is he working? He's doing some job for netflix In Hollywood.
Lano:I don't know, but it requires him to work at night, so, so that's why he's out. And then, um, maybe with this. You know these diesel smarts.
Mig:I'm spotty. So I mean there's days where I get off early and, like the one day where I got off really early, you had something to do with your dad. Yeah, and I got off really early, you had something to do with your dad yeah, and I got off like super early yeah yeah. And I was like ready and pumped and primed to do the show. Then you said that you had stuff to do with your dad.
Lano:I was like are you kidding me?
Mig:dude, I'm like I'm ready to do the show.
Lano:And that's like random and stuff yeah well, it happens, man, but I'm going to take, I'll be gone one week in June, so we'll probably be off that week and then, yeah, just different stuff, but I want to keep it going. Like I told my wife, the goal is to get to 200 episodes, because I had saw somewhere like only 10% of podcasts make it to 200 episodes.
Mig:Where are we at right now?
Lano:125. Yeah, we could do it. So we still got maybe another year and a half or two years if we get back on the street. But um, no, I mean we could do it.
Mig:We only got like three or four people listening, but we could do it. We could do it. Um, we we owe it to our four listeners you got um, you want to keep.
Lano:You got anything else to talk about right now, or?
Mig:um, I mean I got a lot of stuff we could talk about right now.
Lano:I mean I got a lot of stuff we could talk about, but I kind of want to wait for Rick to be here, so he can weigh in Me too.
Mig:I mean, if you want me to tease some topics, let's tease it and send Rick some homework. I did want to weigh in on the whole From when Mark was here. I did want to weigh in on the whole Jordan LeBron goat topic and then uh, oh, and then I wrote down Rick wanted us to remind them about the Lucha Libre that he saw.
Lano:Oh, that's right. Where did he see that at no no, I think it was somewhere over there. Oh, at that west covina or something yeah the food hall or something.
Mig:Yeah, he went to that food hall well, I was gonna ask you guys that they're making a new naked gun movie but you see, you see any trailers to that yet not yet, yeah, I saw it, it looks pretty horrible. Oh, it's not good, what's like he passed away right yeah, it looks really stupid. Supposedly it's liam neeson dude. Oh, that's but, he's supposed to be the son, but I mean the, the little clip that I saw looks so a trailer's out.
Mig:I'm gonna look for the trailer. Yeah, look for something, and then um, something in vegas that I wanted to bring up to you guys going on, but I want to wait till Rick's here.
Lano:All right, a little little teaser for next week. And then um, I was, I was passing my Rick's house and um there's a sign. I don't know if you saw this, but um, the first annual Baldwin park 5k, 10k run they're having august 2nd. Oh yeah, yeah, they had like it's on their digital sign. Now I'll um, I know, I just saw it and it's like the first annual so I was gonna hit a break. I was thinking about running it not the first annual, it's inaugural oh, inaugural was.
Lano:It's the inaugural, baldwin park run next year.
Mig:It'll be the first annual 5k and and 10K.
Lano:So I saw it and I was like maybe I need something to get to get me going on this fitness journey, but I need a. I'll see him out running it. That's August 2nd, so I wanted to hit up Rick to see if he was thinking about running it or if he knew about it. But we'll save that for next week when he's here.
Mig:Yeah, because one thing that I also wanted to talk about that's kind of like just fluff stuff was that I was watching a video going down the YouTube rabbit holes and everything and something I thought was interesting. But I don't know how true the source is, but they were talking about the heights of celebrities and I jotted down a lot of these celebrities and their heights and a lot of them. I found pretty surprising what they were. Some of them were shorter than I expected and some of them were a lot taller than I expected, male and female now I mean I I think this is well known, but tom cruise is small, right well, yeah they said something they put him on top of, like a box or something, when he's talking to people yeah, and then like the camera angles and
Mig:all that stuff, but you know there are dudes.
Lano:But again you know, it's like I'm not too sure that guy um from saving sarah marshall what's her name, that tall dude?
Speaker 3:well, he's tall.
Lano:I saw him in person at the cvs. Yeah, he's tall that guy from how he met your mother. I forget his name, but y'all, that'll be a cool list to see. Like, have us guest.
Mig:Yeah, see the heights but how big they are. So I got a list here, you know. But I'm telling you again, I have the name of the video that I saw so you guys can check it out if you want.
Lano:I heard Stallone's small too, which, like surprised me, surprising.
Mig:That's what I thought too.
Lano:Alright, so we'll save that for next week, not necessarily.
Mig:So Mark.
Lano:Chill out, chill out, chill out. I challenge you, relax, stop by One out of three episodes Next week.
Mig:We're doing what we can when we can, whenever we can, so calmate, keep on drifting, yo Peace.
