Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 129 - Holy Water and Fading Traditions: A Fourth of July Reflection
Have our neighborhoods become ghost towns? Miguel and Lano reflect on a surprisingly quiet Fourth of July, wondering where all the kids and families have gone as streets once filled with fireworks now sit empty on holidays. This opens a heartfelt exploration of fading traditions and disconnected communities in our digital age.
The conversation takes a hilarious turn when Miguel recounts accidentally drinking holy water at his niece's quinceañera. After the church ceremony for his 15-year-old goddaughter, he unwittingly gulped down holy water his aunt had collected, leading to jokes about his potential sainthood. Beyond the laughs, this story highlights the enduring importance of cultural celebrations even as other traditions fade away.
Technology's transformation of our entertainment habits becomes a central theme as the hosts track the evolution from physical media collections to streaming services. They discuss how movie theaters struggle post-COVID despite releasing quality films, with home viewing on ever-larger TVs becoming the norm. This technological shift parallels their observations about smartphone addiction pulling people away from real-world engagement.
Throughout their conversation, Miguel and Lano balance nostalgia with forward-thinking perspectives, questioning not if change should happen but how we might preserve meaningful connections while embracing new ways of living. The episode concludes with exciting news about their upcoming first remote interview with a local Little League baseball team, expanding the podcast's community involvement.
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Welcome back to the Drifting on the Arroyo Podcast. This is Mig, This is Lano, and no RK67 Working, working, working.
Lano:You talk to him a lot Like I want, does he? Is he choosing Tuesday nights when we record to work? Or it's random, he gets them and then Nah cause he takes them all night off.
Mig:I mean, even even before he, um, he started his company, he would Always get screwed and have to work like the night shifts and like have to work in these buildings, you know Cause the only times he can get work done Is at night, so he doesn't bother the the clients, right, you know so.
Lano:Cause I thought he only did like new, New plumbing. So it's like add-ons or no? Well, I?
Mig:mean if it's places that he's worked on you know it's like you have trouble with. You know like with sinks or toilets or urinals, you know just stuff like that, you know that's what he'll work on. Or if there's, like you know, problem with the Some of the drainage or something. You know it's like stuff like that.
Mig:Right you know, that's what he goes in there and does on those buildings that already have everything done, you know so it's work man. But right now I think it's work man, but right now I think it's Netflix. Oh, it's the same building, I think so.
Lano:Because that's the one he was working on nights that whole month or whatever.
Mig:Yeah, I think they still got him going back sometimes and doing stuff.
Lano:Well, so we got the two of us and I were trying to keep. We'll start a streak.
Mig:Streak will be three episodes next week yeah, we were almost going to call off, but we don't want to hear from Mark. I know we're just trying to make it through summer it's supposed to be hot this week.
Lano:It's supposed to be the. I think the hottest day of summer is coming up, either tomorrow or Thursday when this air, when this airs on broadcast.
Mig:So if this show is crap and you guys don't approve, blame it on Mark, because we could have gone without it.
Lano:And then I got to apologize, for last week's show was only audio only because we forgot to hit record on Mick's camera. So no way for me to um edit that out. So I was like I was trying to think, if I just put like a picture on this pretty mug yeah I was like if we just put his face up there when he talks.
Lano:But then I was like I don't want to do another show like when we had the. Um, the copyright from the music, what you should, what you should separate music, what you should.
Mig:Then we just got in the bear from the logo and every time I spoke, just put the bear from the logo up on.
Lano:On the screen. That's what I was thinking Of, doing something like that. But then I was like it's gonna be a lot of work and that day we, we finished recording late. We finished recording late.
Mig:I was going on vacation the next day, so then I was just like oh, that's, if you want this show to take off, put in the work.
Lano:Me, put the work in you guys. Man, you're the producer, it's your show. I gotta figure out how to edit. I'm just telling Edit on the road.
Mig:I'm just here to make people laugh.
Lano:That's all I'm here for we had a couple, um well one one holiday last week, right fourth of july, july, and then you guys had a family event happy birthday america, america, anything um, what'd you do?
Mig:um, I didn't do much for the July Cause. Um, this year was kind of an odd year, um, only cause my brother, my older brother, his youngest daughter, which is mine and Rick's Were co-godfathers To her. I don't know why my sister-in-law did that. I guess she didn't want us to have like hurt feelings.
Lano:But there is no Madrina.
Mig:Yeah, oh, there is our cousin. Christie is okay, Okay, but um, I guess she she didn't want us to get feelings. You know that her last kid was going to have either one or the other of us be the godfather, which would have been fine, you know, nobody would have been butthurt or anything, but because you're still always an uncle.
Lano:Yeah, you're always gonna be an uncle.
Mig:So that's whatever. It's cool, but um her birthday's uh june 27th and uh so she turned 15 this year, so her quinceanera. Who is this? Lily Liana.
Lano:Oh man, I just remember her being a baby all the time.
Mig:And her party was planned for the day after Fourth of July.
Lano:Okay.
Mig:So the plans for Fourth of July kind of got messed up, you know, since it was going to be that Friday, fourth of July is the Saturday, right? Yeah, know the. No, her party was gonna be on saturday. Fourth of july was friday, oh, uh-huh. So you know, nobody from my brother's kids and all them, you know they weren't gonna come down. You know, because they have, obviously they have all the prep and everything to do, decorations and everything you know. And then you know my mom and dad. They didn't want to go because they're getting older, they don't like being outside anymore In the cold and all that stuff, are they?
Lano:scared of immigration getting them.
Mig:No, they're citizens. And then I didn't go because I was afraid of the immigration and this is.
Lano:This is uh. We're in la and they're in san bernardino, right alhambra.
Mig:Yeah, my brother, my brother's, in alhambra, okay, but, um, where we usually go to my sister's house or with my nephews and, um, my brother-in-law, they're in alhambra, that's. That was tradition where we always go every fourth of july. Um, yeah, I didn't go because, um, it's always a pain taking the dog and well, yeah, trying to keep them calm, you know. So I figured, this year, since everything was kind of messed up, I figured, okay, this year I'll stay home with them and see how he does at home, you know, and see how bad the fireworks are at home and this is nothing.
Lano:No, tranquilizers, no, yeah, no like pills or which dbd or anything yeah, which turns out in the neighborhood.
Mig:It wasn't that bad, that's all I was gonna bring up. Yeah, it wasn't that bad, dude, so I could have just left them at home with the TV on really loud.
Lano:Like our street was nothing going on.
Mig:Yeah, I mean I could have just gone and enjoyed myself over there, you know, and had a good time, you know, and left them there with the TV on loud and he would have been cool, you know, because it wasn't crazy like it was, was maybe what, like five years ago so normally it's like a war zone right the street.
Lano:Oh, it's been crazy fireworks going on everywhere, smoke everywhere, and um, like we avoid it, like we always, we go to my mother-in-law's house, which is um city of walnut, which is about 20 miles away, but um, and then the, the dogs are the same reason. We had, um, my wife had a dog that we would like, you know, get out of town during the fourth. But we came home and and um, I was like maybe 9 30, you know, get start 8, 45, like 9 30, you would think it would be peak. I mean, on the freeway we saw the fireworks, yeah, but the, the, our street, the royal, like it was like empty yeah, I was all surprised dude, I was really surprised and does that make you like a little sad?
Lano:I mean, it was not easier than us, but like there's, that means there's no kids on the streets, no families or they all went somewhere.
Mig:Yeah, I don't know if they all went somewhere or not. I mean, I don't know.
Lano:Because I was kind of disappointed. I was like, oh, there's nothing here. And then I started thinking about I mean, my girls are young, so they get like the loud booms and stuff. Like scares them when they get home. But I was just like oh man, but.
Mig:I was just like, oh man, I was actually glad Because now I can leave the dog at home, you know for next year. So I was pretty proud, I was pretty happy about that. I'm more sad when, like, halloween comes around. And there's no kids walking up and down the street, dude.
Lano:When everybody, the streets are all lonely, that's what I was gonna say, cause last year we had a really low like Halloween when, like I think my parents said, like Maybe one family of kids Shit last year, man, that's been like the past decade, dude. Well, it's been getting less and less, but I feel like last year nobody came walking. I'm just wondering our generation. We have two schools nearby Me and you growing up, all the brothers, all the neighbors, like we all had, like you know, friends all along the street and and I don't know if there's like a generation On this block like that, nah, like of kids.
Mig:Like they're all getting.
Lano:Bust in or or walking in. But Even when I drive I try to see like who who's my daughter gonna play with Like in the neighborhood and I don't think.
Mig:With their sister, yeah.
Lano:I don't think there's any Kids her age.
Mig:Just I mean, it's not like before, dude. I mean I used to see a lot of people walking, but now everybody's driving in.
Lano:Yeah, there's less walkers, so that means like there's less people on the street. They're driving from, from a distance.
Mig:Because people don't pay attention. Man People, I mean, I'm telling you, dude, phones and social media have ruined society Completely, because everybody has their faces buried in their phones so much that they don't pay attention to anything else. It's like and you can see it anytime they driving around, walking around whatever. If you're walking around, dude, it's like it's rare that you see anybody walking down the street without them looking down at their phone. Yeah, yeah, down the street without them looking down at their phone. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Mig:And then you're driving and that pisses you off too, because everybody's always looking down at their phone. You know, and you're just like come on, man, it's like you're supposed to be paying attention what you're doing, you're supposed to be driving. It's like don't be looking down at your phone. You know, and you can only tell you know. It's like you can see it in front of you. You know, because you see their heads down, or you can see it in the rearview mirror. You know, because their heads down, right, you know, and I said this as it came out. It's like did this? This is a downfall of society. Right here is that this is no good.
Lano:And, like I think those Like virtual reality, like glasses, are cool, but that's going to make it even worse when people are going to be like In their rooms With glasses over their eyes, like you know, seeing the world instead of going outside. I mean, they're already doing that, but it's, I mean they're already doing that, but it's, I mean they're doing it now, but it's gonna get Like bigger, bigger in our era.
Mig:They're already starting to do that Since way before, like with video games.
Lano:True, true.
Mig:You know so. Too much advancement, too much, too much technology. Man, it's like we look at some of these movies and some of them Hit the nail on the head dude.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:I always refer back to Terminator man. I mean, the machines are going to take over. You know, it's like Cyberdyne and they're just going to.
Lano:Some people think um, matrix is real, like we're in a simulation. I don't know about that, that's another podcast. But some people think, um, so sorry, so we started talking about fourth, but you're talking about and everything.
Mig:No, well, to finish up on the fourth. I mean the fourth was cool because, you know, rick went though and he posted some videos on our WhatsApp group chat that we have within the family and it was cool. It was funny because my nephews you know full pun intended where they're the ones lighting up the fireworks now and taking all the chances and getting all the burns and the scars and everything, taking all the risks, and it's just.
Mig:It was so funny to watch, man, it was just such a blast, you know, and I'm glad Rick recorded it and he got it on film or like he got it on video yeah, but um, yeah, it was cool because before these kids, you know they would be so terrified to get near them and even, like, try to touch the fireworks, and that's why me and rick were always doing it, right, right, and you know, just, it got to the point to where these boys got old enough, to where they started taking the risks, you know, and we would be like, come on, get in there.
Mig:You know, it's like quit being such a wuss, you know, and it's like, of course, all the women would be like, no, don't do it, you know you're going to get burned. I was like, so what? Let Let them, man. It's like they need to, they need to feel that pain, man. I mean shit, it's all part of growing up. Like, let them grow up, let them be men, let them have scars and burns and shit to show later on, man. So I would have stories to tell afterwards.
Lano:So you got to just let them be men, you don't let them be boys.
Mig:And these were your sister's boys, yeah, my sister's boys, or yeah, my sister's boys, and and yeah they, they had a blast, dude. They were just like the next day at the kitchen, you know, they were all telling me their stories and everything. And at that time, yeah, dude, that's how my son on the video man, that should look fun and that's how they learned yeah so now, from here on out, they're gonna be the firework masters, so we don't got to worry about it anymore, man.
Mig:We just got to take our lawn chairs and just sit back and relax and watch the shows, man.
Lano:So the Roman torch was passed.
Mig:It was.
Lano:It was. They still saw that the Roman torch Like a firework. That was the name of the firework right Roman torch.
Mig:Roman candles. Roman candles, yeah, but that was the name of the firework, right.
Lano:Roman candles yeah, but those are illegal here Now. Uh, so the fireworks you guys had were all legal, yeah, or a pot on a hamburger, or whatever.
Mig:We don't mess with the illegal stuff anymore. So everything's like not that big no but that's why we figured um, we figured out to uh Put them on ladders. So we get different height ladders and put them on the steps and everything, so they look bigger than they actually are. And this was in Alhambra.
Mig:Yeah right in Alhambra, right in front on the street, and it actually works. Man, it's pretty cool. You know, you buy those sets and then you buy like a few, a few um separates, you know, like add-ons or something yeah, you have to buy the spark.
Mig:Yeah, you, you ask them at those, um, those places where they sound like which ones are cool, you know, which ones are popular, which people buying, you know which ones are good, you know. And then, like you buy a couple of them and then you want to ask like which ones, like really Big, you know, because you want one for like a finale Right. So Then, like after you're sorting them and everything and you try to figure out an order To light them up, and, yeah, you know, you just start Setting them up on the Steps of the ladder and, like the better ones, you put them up on on the top rung of the ladder and it turns out pretty cool I remember um one year growing up.
Lano:Um, I mean I tell my wife this story like chacho had some fireworks and we're shooting them, or they were launching them like in front of your house, or yeah, I remember that.
Mig:But um, I mean I'm assuming they're illegal fireworks because they're like like Chacho had some fireworks and we were shooting them or they were launching them, like in front of your house or their house. Yeah, I remember that.
Lano:But I mean, I'm assuming they were illegal fireworks, because they were like big ones because, like I remember, he had like connect them to like a car battery, like a launcher or something like that, Like he pulled out like a battery out of his truck and, and then then they would like fire up in there, like it must have been, like a launcher or system, but I mean the battery he took, he had to use his car battery to like set them up.
Lano:But they're like the ones you see. The ones you see, like now everybody has yeah like they shoot up in the sky.
Mig:You know, 30 feet or I remember when we had those, uh, those carton tubes with those big balls oh, it looked like artillery balls and that's the way the real fireworks are With the long fuse, yeah. And we would set those up. Those are like those big freaking bang ones, man.
Lano:Yeah, they come out like little, like you said, like cannons and stuff. Yeah, they pop to shoot them.
Mig:Ah, but the most fun was when we would buy those little red fireworks man. The little red packs, those Chinese ones.
Lano:And you would separate them right.
Mig:Yeah, separate them or Try to go through them. You buy a brick and then like they're all tied together. Three or four packs, you just throw them like that, yeah. Then when we had like a bunch of dirt, they're all tied together, three or four packs, you just throw them like that, just pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, yeah. Then when we had a bunch of dirt hills everywhere, or dirt patches everywhere you see where the red ants were- oh, drop them in the hole. Drop them in there and shit and see them explode the ant hills.
Lano:Because I remember we would get Hot Wheels and put them through the windows and roll them.
Mig:We were blowing up all Hot wheels and put them like through the windows.
Lano:And like roll them and they would pop or explode and stuff. Good times, man, good times. And then I guess so Laura, my wife, she found some I don't want to say cheap rooms, because she corrected me, she was like they weren't cheap rooms, affordable rooms. For Since we took a trip to Arizona we found out that the kids love the Lazy River, they love to just float around, both of them, we got all these pictures. What part of Arizona. We went to Sedona and then we went to Scottsdale.
Lano:That's where the Lazy River was. So Laura's been on this like lazy river trip ever since. So she's looking all the locally lazy rivers and so we found one in um indian wells, which is the palm springs palm desert area over there. So then, um, it was a grand hyatt and they had a lazy river. So then she's like, oh, there's some affordable rooms, but it was was from Wednesday to Friday, like before the holiday. Check out Friday and then the rooms like double for the 4th of July weekend.
Mig:You know, the Harrah's in San Diego has a Lazy River.
Lano:Oh, do they? Yeah, oh, I mean we'll put that on their list because we like to go to San Diego too. Harrah, is that? It's a casino? It's a casino, yeah, oh, okay, well, we'll check it out. So, um, we got the rooms, um, I was off friday for the holiday, which is which was on my normal day. Also, I had the thursday and the friday off, so we're like wednesday we're gonna drive after work to palm desert. So we drove after work, we got there, um, jumped in the lazy river. The next day, all day day, lazy River, and then, before we checked out, we did the Lazy River again. Then we came home. So we left Friday, like you know, around noon we stopped at the outlets and checked out. The 4th of.
Lano:July sales. And then we got to my mother-in-law's house around it was like around 3.30, 4 o'clock, which was nice because they were planning a barbecue and a water balloon fight because it was going to be a hot day. So I kind of knew as soon as we got there they're going to be waiting for us. So as soon as we started parking, you see people poking their heads out around the side of the house and they all got their water balloons and super soaker squirt guns. They all got them ready.
Lano:So as soon as we get out of the car they're, like you know, bombing us, launching us. So then we take it to the back. You know we have like water balloon toss and all the water stuff. We had the barbecue and then we all, like you know, we left, came home at nine o'clock and like we're seeing all the, we're showing the kids the fireworks on the 10 freeway home, showing the kids the fireworks on the 10 freeway home, all the parks. But then when we got to, like they said, the neighborhood the neighborhood was just like empty, yeah.
Lano:So then, um, the kids were like you know, they're already wiped out from the the water balloon stuff and and visiting the vacation and visiting their cousins and everything. So they just knocked out. And then, um saturday and sunday, like we were just like just vacation mode, just chilling, you know, getting stuff done. But, um, but how was that quinceanera? Quinceanera was good dude, was it at a hall?
Mig:Yeah it was at a hall. It was fun, man, good DJ man, he played a lot of good music.
Lano:And that was in San Bernardino. San Bernardino, everybody made it out there too.
Mig:Yeah, all the family. You know A lot of the family. All the family did so she's the youngest though the youngest one, dude, the last one.
Lano:I can't even imagine what she looks like. I just remember her being a baby.
Mig:The last quinceanera.
Lano:I just remember her being a baby. Who was the chambalon.
Mig:There was no chambalon.
Lano:Okay.
Mig:Yeah, it was just her and her padrinos.
Lano:Now, you and Ricky being the padrinos, was there like a big dance, Because I remember I went to I think it was Ceci's Quinceañera where Ricky did this big dance.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Did anything like that happen again? You guys have tape of that dance.
Mig:It wasn't anything like like choreographed or choreographed like that, but we did have a dance because I remember ricky put on some big old show yeah well, you know, like costume props and you know he did, I think, a whole like risky business or something yeah, the thing, the thing with lily is that she's like she's really shy, so she just kind of like wanted the, the whole dance part, waltz and everything to like Just be done with quick. So yeah, so she didn't want, so she had the.
Mig:You know the Like public speaking stuff like the public yeah so she just had like the father daughter dance, the mother Daughter dance. You know the, the intro dance, you know where, where we walk her in and she dances with everybody.
Lano:Her court was pretty much her family and her Cousins, everybody, no, no, well, just her siblings. That's a big family.
Mig:And us, you know, the padrinos. So once we got that done, that was it, you know. And then just DJ the rest of the night. Catered food, or you guys Made food yeah, catered food, and the food was really good too. What was it? Yeah, it was a choice of either Beauty or chicken.
Lano:Oh, okay, yeah, it was pretty good Now me having two daughters. This is something Lily wanted.
Mig:Like this tradition.
Lano:We have to have the quinceanera, or was it the family?
Mig:pushing it. No, no, no, no, because I had asked her, you know, because the exact same question I have, you know, I was like Is it something that she wants or is it just something that they're pushing, just because they're saying it's tradition, right, you know? And I had asked her and she was like she was excited for it. Okay, so it was something she wanted.
Lano:And, more than anything, it's just like a big birthday party. Yeah.
Mig:For her, yeah, so she was excited for it.
Lano:Cause I'm just like Curious my two daughters If they're gonna Want all that stuff Like a quinceanera or a sweet sixteen, yeah cause.
Mig:Cause they gave her an option. You know they told her, with the money that's going to be spent on the quinceanera, you know you could either have the quince or could be taking on a nice trip like a really good trip, you know. So the choice was hers and she chose the quince. Oh, that's nice.
Lano:It's like, okay, I would have took the trip, that's just me you mentioned the yeah, the story was. Did you say it?
Mig:yeah, nah the story. The story involves, uh, me possibly being nominated for Sainthood.
Lano:It happened at the church.
Mig:Ah yeah, I'm a dumbass. What happened? So we're at the church, right, the whole ceremony happens and everything. We walk out. It's a hot day. My sister, you know, she had left early Saturday To start Setting up and everything and she told me to take a cooler that she had packed with like drinks and snacks and everything. But I had to stop by and get ice and some other stuff that she wanted me to take.
Lano:And for everybody that doesn't know, his sister is a party planner, right? Or a planner Does all this stuff okay.
Mig:So so I, he does know that his sister is a party planner, right, or a planner does all this stuff. Okay, so so I, you know, I had the cooler in my truck and everything, and the other, the other part was, um, I was supposed to meet everybody at the hall, so they wanted me to kind of like be the chauffeur and drop off Lily in front of the church, you know. So I was kind of like the limo.
Lano:I guess yeah the driver.
Mig:So you know I drove her there, we got off and everything made her entrance. You know, the whole ceremony happened, came out and you know it was a warm day. It was warm, hot, you know, we were all in suits and everything, so I was kind of hot. So I went and I went to the cooler, you know, and I felt the water and it's still like it wasn't hot, you know, because in the trunk, in the bed of my truck. So I went and I got some water.
Lano:You have a cover.
Mig:Yeah. So, you know, it was still like At a decent temperature. So I drank it, you know, and I was asking anybody else If they wanted water, you know, and my aunt had asked me For water, you know, and so I told her oh, let me go get you water, you know, and I'll get you One out of the trunk. And she was like no, no, no, just give me. Just give me your bottle, you know, and I'll get some inside. She says they're giving it inside, you know, and I guess I didn't understand exactly what she said. So she went inside, filled up the bottle and at that point we um, I thought I was going to be driving her around To different points To like go Take her to Take pictures and everything, cause you always Go take pictures After the church, give a sight, or something you know, yeah.
Mig:You know to like Take her Kinship pictures. But, um no, we just Went back to the hall. So at that point, you know cause I had Driven my mom, my dad and and, uh, my aunt, which is my dad's uh sister-in-law, to the church or to the hall.
Mig:Uh-huh, and so we, we got split up afterwards. And so, since it was already like um two o'clock after the ceremony was done, you know, we, we split up again and I wasn't hungry because I was smart and I had a big breakfast to make sure, because I knew I wasn't going to eat again until five or six o'clock, right. So at that point, you know, everybody was hungry. So Rick took my mom, my dad and my aunt in a aunt, in a separate van and took them to go eat. So my mom and my aunt, and all them, put their stuff in my truck and my aunt, you know, left her water in the cup holder in the back seat.
Mig:So I get to the hall, you know, started unloading stuff out of my truck, you know, started helping set up and everything. And then, um, I forget what I go to my truck for and, uh, I see the bottle. I see the bottle there and I'm like, oh man, it's like and it's like the, the coolers inside. You know, at this point I had already gone to the liquor store, dumped ice in and everything. But I was like, let me just get this bottle and drink it. You know I'm thirsty already. So I just got it, slammed it To the bottle, whatever, didn't think about it. So the whole night goes by. You know we had a great time. You know there's music playing good and everything. Everybody's dancing, everybody's drinking, having a good time, and so we're going home. You know it's already like Almost like 1 in the morning, 1.30 in the morning.
Lano:And San Bernardino. Yeah, and you're going to drive home.
Mig:We're driving home. And so we're driving home and my aunt, you know she tells me in Spanish, she's like hey, miguelito, he goes Gracias mi agua. You knowito, did you throw away my water? I was like, did you throw away my water? And I was like no, I saw you didn't drink it. I saw you didn't drink it. So when I was moving stuff around and everything, I saw it and I drank it because I got thirsty. And she was like no, mijo, era agua bendita, it was holy water. Then she had got it from church, dude, because they had a container there. They were letting people take holy water if they had a container.
Mig:I was like, oh man, I was like dude, are you kidding me? I'm like I drank, was like dude, are you kidding me? I'm like I drank that whole thing of holy water. I'm like, well, I don't know you said, your foot got healed.
Lano:I don't know.
Mig:This is way before, so I don't know. Man, when I say I'm blessed Dude, I guess I am dude, I'm like super blessed.
Lano:Everyone was like laughing.
Mig:Yeah, dude. So I was like, I was like and it's funny, because earlier, when they were giving out the communion, you know, I didn't go up Because I haven't been a confessional forever and you know you can't receive communion Unless you want a confession, right but then Laura told me she's like, well, go up there and just get a blessing. And I was like, nah, man, I'm not going to go up there, you know. But then Laura told me she's like, well, go up there and just get a blessing. And I was like, nah, man, I'm not gonna go up there, you know, it's like I end up drinking. I end up drinking that bottle Of holy water. Oh man, unbelievable dude, only me.
Lano:I guess opposite side of the spectrum of Holy Water, I guess, because Ricky was teasing it. Last week, I guess we got to talk about the P Diddy yeah, p Diddy verdict. What happened?
Mig:Yeah, he got away with it, man.
Lano:No, I got to ask.
Mig:Ricky, well, I mean.
Lano:Because he was following the trial, trial or whatever. So he knows, but I guess that they didn't have a good case, I guess, I guess they had a weak case.
Mig:I don't know, man, I mean I didn't, I didn't really follow it that much, but but there's no list. It's funny because you hear different things from different people. It's like some people were saying that they had a strong case, other people were saying that they didn't.
Mig:You know, and From what I kept on hearing, you know they just said that the one ex girlfriend or whatever, yeah, he beat the crap out of you know, it's like that she was like the star witness and all they had was just him Beating her up. I'm like, well, that doesn't prove shit, dude, I mean yeah, I mean it proves that he's a jerk you know, an asshole and everything but but did she talk?
Lano:I mean, she went up there on the stand yeah she testified because um I I why I heard that he did not right, he didn't testify, no, I don't think so and I don't know why, if you have a strong case, why, um, they wouldn't like put the guy up there like the cross-recruiter?
Mig:Yeah, I don't know, man, I didn't follow that case at all, dude, so like I can't speak, and that's the thing.
Lano:Like I didn't follow it either, so I didn't. I mean you guys said like racketeering, they got him or they were trying to get him on, but what there was six counts. Four of them were not guilty and two of them were guilty, and the two that were guilty he was well like transportation for prostitution or something like that. Right.
Mig:I mean, the only thing I could think of of that but they couldn't prove it, is that Cause I was saying that the victims or whatever wanted to be there, you know, is that that's who Diddy was pimping out and having there and he was providing them for the celebrities and like the celebrities were paying for that. You know, like he was providing them for the celebrities and like the celebrities were paying for that. You know, like he was charging them kind of like a fee or something.
Lano:Well, that's what it was kind of. I mean, I was comparing it to the Epstein, like he was providing this.
Lano:But I don't know Life for I don't know celebrities or whatever to do, whatever they want to do. But even after after that, we did get, like um, another news announcement. There was like there's no old epstein list or there's nothing. You couldn't find nothing about that either, but somehow that guy um, like you know he, he was murdered in jail or committed suicide in jail and all this other stuff. But they had no list or no, I don't know nothing. I mean, they didn't have any list to to bring down any celebrities or or anybody else, and that's what that's like, the juicy stuff of both cases you want to know who was involved?
Lano:who did the what or what everybody's like dark secrets were?
Mig:or fetishes, or whatever I mean and and they say you know that that they're just saying that because they're like protect, they're protecting the administration or whatever, but it's like this previous administration's dude, they didn't do it.
Lano:Who knows?
Mig:what they pulled from those files. You know they're not there now. You know they were incriminating.
Lano:You know for them and their supporters and the previous administration had the files longer yeah, the case is longer so, but we, I mean they could have done whatever they wanted with those files and just left, like whatever, behind.
Mig:So it's, it's a bunch.
Lano:I don't know um can't trust anything what those people do was this so like you just think something's happened and nothing happens? It's just like not heartbreaking, but it's just like, come on, like you think it's, it's so obvious, and then nothing comes out of it.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:I haven't seen that F1 movie, but everybody keeps talking about it. I am interested in seeing it. Like are you?
Mig:You know what's funny though? That, Rana, that you mentioned that F1. I was watching the YouTube video and we're talking about Like Big flops so far, like of movies.
Lano:Uh huh.
Mig:And I think it's just Cause people Like ever since COVID Dude it's like movies just Haven't bounced back the way they have before.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:You know. But they say that the movies, like, they get good ratings. You know they get good reviews.
Lano:Like good movies, but they're not. But they're just.
Mig:Not bringing in the money. You know that they're spending and so they're calling them flops, you know, and f1 was one of them. Oh, they're saying yeah.
Lano:Well, just because they're not bringing the money. I heard it's good. People say it's good. No, they're saying they're saying it's good, it's a really good movie, but they're just saying that it didn't bring in the money that they thought it was and a flop, I think, is considered like if it makes earns less than what it costs to make the movie, yeah, but like they're not getting their money back or like they break even right.
Mig:You know another one. They said, um about that was uh, that ballerina, oh the the um john wick one you know, they. They said it was a good movie. But I guess, uh, it didn't like draw A big crowd, cause if it's gonna be like A John Wick related movie, they wanna see John Wick. You know, not this chick, you know, but Manuel saw it. He said it was pretty good.
Lano:Now I kinda feel like I mean, I love going to the movies. I used to go every, every weekend, no matter what was playing. Like you, you know, you find something to see, especially in the summertime, yeah, but, like you said, after covid, like I feel like everybody like well, we just got lazy to go out and go and now, like our home tvs are like bigger than ever. You know, like um, I mean, I don't even have a big tv, but I have like a, a 55 inch, but that's like considered on the smaller side now. But, like you know, now there's 70 screen, 70 inches, 80 inches, isn't that a trip dude?
Mig:that now that's like a considered a small screen, yeah, and people notice it like people that come over, they like oh, you're like you're not gonna get a big tv.
Lano:You know, it's like considered a small screen, yeah, and people notice it, like people that come over they're like, oh, you're not going to get a big TV. That's crazy. I mean I can only go so much Because our couch is, like you know, so close, yeah.
Mig:I remember when I got my first big screen I think it was like a 45 inch or some shit like that and it was like a rear projection.
Lano:So this thing the box feels freaking huge Right, yeah.
Mig:But the screen itself was small. Was thin and the box was like Maybe like a foot and a half deep, yeah, and then when when I finally got a flat screen Same thing, you know, it was only like a 42 inch, you know and it still seemed like it was huge, right.
Lano:But then now, when they start coming out with 80 inch and 120 inch and freaking project on the walls and shit, oh man so that, and then like the, the sound like um, now you, you get like that dolby atmos which is, like you know, you get all the rumbles, all the yeah it's flying behind you.
Lano:So and I think it's like you know you get all the rumbles, all the bullets flying behind you, so and I think it's like you know the movie's going to come out, like you know, like a few months, like streaming. So people just wait like they want to see it and then, like they kind of blow up on the streaming world because like they're not paying to I mean, I guess not paying to go, but I don't know. It's like what's the new? Not millennials, what's the new group Gen Z?
Mig:I think, um what are they? Gen Alpha.
Lano:Well, whatever the age is that the kids are going to the movies, whatever that generation like they're saying I don't know if they're more frugal, but they're not spending their money Like at movie theaters. Like, cause I heard that that generation doesn't tip anymore, they don't do nothing. So but like, if it's a kid movie, like a pixar or like some animation, then like I'll wait for it to come out yeah, I'm streaming to watch the kids, just because I mean the kids are gonna go crazy and it's just more comfortable.
Lano:But the big blockbuster is like. I saw top Gun At my house. I wish I would have saw Top Gun 2 At the theater and then this F1. It's the same, the same director Of Top Gun 2.
Mig:And all All I've heard is that that thing Needs to be seen on IMAX.
Lano:That's. That's what I told my wife. I was like I want to just see this and I it was.
Mig:It was shot specifically for imax to be seen on imax and I have some family members.
Lano:They went to see it and they they said they loved it and stuff and I was like I gotta, I gotta see it. But it's just like the we gotta find a sitter for the kids and all that stuff because they're not gonna watch the movie. But um, like what's? I mean that was like a date night. Like you know, you go to movies, you take your girl or whatever and you go like what are they Like? What are people dating? Where are they going now? Or what are they seeing, or what are they doing?
Mig:I don't know, dude, you got me on that.
Lano:Because now I mean there's no general. They don't even want to like like drive cars, they want to like uber everywhere, take rides. So I I hope it doesn't die in the movie industry, like, but I don't know, I mean I don't know how they're gonna fix it. Like covid, just really like you know, food delivery just made everything so much easier, just to do things at home, and the tv is like you said I mean I, I don't.
Mig:I don't think it's going to die, dude, just that the the theater experience might die, but the movie industry I don't think will, because there's always going to be streaming or something right.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:It's just. I mean, it's just like the other day. Um, what was it? It was just like the other day, what was it? I was explaining something to my dad you know about, about music, you know, trying to explain to him. You don't even use CDs anymore.
Mig:But he knows that right, yeah, cause um, I tell him, yeah, dude, I tell him, you don't, I tell you, if you don't have a, you know, I think it was with DVDs, cause when I was watching, I was watching Rocky or Rocky 3 or whatever, they're having a marathon and he was saying cause, I guess, as a gift, one Christmas or one of his birthdays or something, they gave him a set, you know Like a five disc set or something, dvd set Of the Rocky movies. And I told him yeah, unless you have a DVD player, I told him that shit's worthless. Yeah, I told him, you can't watch them. I told him, and, besides, I told him Now All you have to do Is just Find the stream of it or somewhere and download it.
Lano:And you, don't, you don't even need.
Mig:Yeah, you know it's like, and it's like that with everything. It's like that with music. You know it's like that with the, with the movies.
Lano:You know it's with everything and I went from DVDs. I never Got involved in the whole Blu-ray, which was like a whole Generation in between oh yeah, I stopped at that. Cause I was like I'm not gonna buy my collection All over again or whatever To see this.
Mig:Once I saw everything was being um online and you can like start downloading shit. That's when I stopped. I'm like that's it and then like I'm not buying no more of this high def or any of this other crap anymore because it's all going to be obsolete and it went from like, like boxes of or like containers of, like tapes or like. I still have them.
Lano:Let's say cassette tapes.
Mig:I still have mine.
Lano:And then to CDs where, like Some people would put them in albums or, little like you know, trays or whatever.
Mig:I still have my Case logic, my my huge suitcase of case logic for the cassettes case logic yeah and then, uh, the folders for the cds and then I went to then I went to an uh ipod or ipod or mp3 or you had to buy like the biggest storage?
Lano:yeah, they had, because if you filled up, you're like you couldn't download any more music that was actually my favorite. And then now you don't even need Like storage no more, cause it's all like In the cloud. You just like.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Download it and stream it.
Mig:That was actually my favorite Cause you could. You could get your CDs, load them up to your computer and then load those Onto your iPod. You don't have to go like looking from like for an MP3 somewhere else Right right.
Lano:And risk freaking, corrupting your, your files or whatever, and messing up your catching a virus or something I went to building my like movie library and music library, like in the cloud, like if it's a really good movie, like like, let's say, like top gun 2 or and like end game, like something I really like, then I'll buy the movie, just to like to give the studio money because, like you know, like I enjoy this movie, like I'm gonna give you guys whatever my 20 bucks or whatever for this movie. But now, like like my wife was just like, don't even buy it because, like you're gonna find a streaming service that already like has it. You're already paying the monthly fee, like someone's always gonna like have it playing where you don't even need to like purchase the movie anymore. So it's just. But it's to the point where, like, how many streaming services do you have like other stuff you you watch, or or whatever, but you, you stay, you still watch cable tv, or no?
Mig:I still have it. The only reason I have it is for my parents to give them the spanish channel feeds that they watch right because I don't know, is there like a Like a Netflix Español or Spanish, like streaming service or no? Um, I don't know, but but right now, like DirecTV has, like the Spanish channels that they like watching, like there's some Like directly from Mexico that they like watching, and clear and clear.
Lano:Yeah yeah, uhf. Like it was always Fuzzy or blurry.
Mig:We're getting clear pictures and that's the only reason why I keep it around. Otherwise I would have gotten rid of that shit a long time ago and I would have just streamed whatever I wanted to stream. So I bet it's one of your biggest like DirecTV is one of your biggest bills.
Lano:I bet, oh yeah, directv is kind of expensive. I think, yeah, like $220. I think yeah, like Two Twenty a month, that's all it says.
Mig:It's gonna be like Around 200 bucks and that I only have one Premium channel 200 bucks a month.
Lano:That's. That's stars. What's on? What are you watching stars?
Mig:My dad dude, cause there's a western channel On there that he likes, oh, oh. But it's cool Sometimes they have like Good movies on there and stuff.
Lano:So that's the thing, because we went to um, like we're in these hotels, right on these little road trips, and then you're trying to see some people offer youtube or like nowadays on youtube you can find a bunch of stuff, and then some people have like their own little like you know maybe 10, 15 channel like cable network in the hotel, where you will have like a premium channels and then the basic channels and stuff, but even like like we try to throw it on disney channel for the kids, but even like not everything on there they like, they just like certain shows and stuff yeah we're like on demand, like you could download or whatever stream the shows they want to see at your schedule, not the tv guide or their their routine you ever think about showing them the original?
Lano:um little rascals the black and white version I have it just because I don't know where to get it, like access it I wonder if um you could just um youtube it maybe I mean, I haven't even searched YouTube, but we started watching because you guys recommended that John Cusack, was it One Crazy Summer?
Lano:Yeah, one Crazy Summer. So I saw the trailer and then the kids were like you know, they're looking at the trailer because you had like Bobcat, was it Bobcat Go away? Yeah, at the trailer because you had like yeah, like um, bobcat was a bobcat go away? Like yeah, and then um, so like let's watch this. Because I go, like my laura wants to see like an 80s movie and there's nothing like 80s movie. That was like a whole generation of like. I don't know if it's like hollywood, like like at its best, but like all of the popcorn movies that came out during the 80s are just like so fun to watch. But the like we started kind of late and the kids were into it like the first like half hour and then they fell asleep. But um, it's just crazy because I was telling my wife like, um, because she's she's unfamiliar with these actors, right, so I was telling her like, um, that guy bobcat um goldwickak.
Lano:I was like that's, that's the way he talks, like in real life. She's like oh, no, that's a character. I was like no, no, that's the way he is. Like he was a comedian, that's the way he did his stand up and any movie you see him like that, like that's the way he talks, and I'm like back then we just thought Like this guy was like weird. But now it's probably like Tourette syndrome or something right oh, you know.
Mig:You know what's the only movie he didn't really like. Talk like that, that much that I remember um Scrooged oh, he was like um he came out of, scrooged she was like one of the office workers, like one of the yeah, yeah, one of the guys in there and he didn didn't really like talk like that much like all like yeah, like Peace Academy yeah. There was a movie, too, that I was thinking of, dude, that I wanted to tell you about for Laura, oh, I thought about it earlier.
Lano:Oh, just tell her, because she wants to see all those movies, damn dude, I can't think about it now.
Lano:But the kids, like we're all like not mesmerized, but like you're saying it was talking, like they're like looking at it, like they're following the story. And and my oldest, she's at the age where, like she, she knows, like, follows the story and knows what's going on. We're just watching it for, like you know, the, the pictures and all that stuff. But, um, we started, we got, we'll probably finish it this weekend, but they're liking it. And then I was looking, I told her we're going to either see this one Young Guns or the Michael Keaton movies. You guys had said, we had said Mr Mom Gung Ho, and then I think Multiplicity, multiplicity, multiplicity. So she's like well, let's start with the John Cusack. And then she was asking she's like did michael keaton die? And I was like no, why did you say that? And she's like well, why are you showing all these michael keaton movies?
Mig:well, that's just what we're talking about this is what we're talking about.
Lano:Last week and these are all the shows that like I can remember these movies that came out, but uh, no, this is fun watching. Going back, like I, I told you they really liked the casino men, so we're just seeing more movies. And then that one crazy summer, I remember seeing that movie. I just forgot about it. And there's so many movies that you forget about. That's why we have to make these lists and stuff.
Mig:How about seeing Demi Moore dude as young as she is?
Lano:Yeah, I was like, that's Demi Moore. Because, last time we saw Demi Moore was in Landman. Yeah, and I didn't know that was her until a few episodes in. I was like that's the girl from Landman and did you know the daughter? She's from Varsity Blues. No, no, no.
Lano:That's the mom, the daughter of them of them. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, she was the wife in um, 19 or 18, no, 1926 or what was it. Yeah, 1933, yeah, in 1926 she was one of the, the wives that um lost the babies. They lost the baby and they had like the tetanus shot or rabies or something like that.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Two different characters when, like I didn't realize, it was the same person. But this past weekend we binge watched the Bear.
Mig:Yeah, I gotta get out of here.
Lano:I don't want to say nothing until you see it. We probably won't even talk about it on the show until like a few months to. Everybody sees it and then, um, that's kind of it right now. We're watching nothing else like on tv during during the summer. It's kind of like the slow time of shows and networks. Nothing I've been catching up on on movies and stuff that I've been behind.
Mig:I haven't really started watching anything new or watched any movies or anything no, we've just been just catching up and sleep.
Lano:The kids go to sleep and normally we'll try to watch a movie or show, but like we're just like we've been just like exhausted. The kids are at our age where they're just like tiring us out like left and right they're, they're big. Actually, ellie wanted to stop by. She's like I want to see um theo rick and theo mickey, but um, she's in the house right now.
Lano:Um mig's working on a big um I don't know it's a big, but like we're gonna do our first um remote interview remote off-site interview and so we're gonna bring that to you pretty soon yeah, maybe in the next couple weeks we're gonna schedule and make using a um, do a pre-run with it and um we're gonna. There's a little league group, northeast.
Mig:Literally they want to promote yeah, it's a little cross-promotion they're going to promote us on their Little League website or on their team website.
Mig:They're called the Barons Little League Baseball Team and I believe they're on the Northeast Baseball League league. So, um, I'll be bringing on a coach and a parent of one of the kids that plays on the team to talk about what they're about and if you have kids in the area, or just a kid that you want to play baseball. And I believe they're also going to start up A female Softball league.
Lano:Or a team. Well, I don't know yet, but this is COVID or just boys? I mean, I don't know the rules of Little.
Mig:League. You know what? I'm not sure, but I think it's all boys right now.
Lano:Okay.
Mig:Yeah, I believe it's all boys, but it might be COVID. I don't know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the league says.
Lano:It's something.
Mig:I'll ask them.
Lano:And something I mean it's in my future with having two little girls. I know they're going to like some type of sports I'm hoping they do, but just how to support them and then, like, you have to like draw that line like what's going to like going too far in terms of, like you know, your kid has either skill or talent, and is this a hobby? Or do you spend that extra money to make it like, not like a career, but make it like give them like a bigger opportunity, like it could be an opportunity for school, like a scholarship or this and that and how much you you spend or how much and the dedication
Mig:it's a lot of work being a parent for these little yeah, but first of all you got to make sure that they enjoy it. Yeah, you can't force them. You know it's like, because you can't force them to live the way your life you wish you lived your life.
Lano:Right right right.
Mig:It's like the days of that type of parenting Is gone. You know, it's like the kids. The kids will flourish a lot more Just having fun If they enjoy what they're doing. Yeah, you know, but on that same token, they have to learn failures, because with failures you learn to correct it and you get better from it to correct it and you get better. From it and from failures you learn victories or you achieve victories. It's the only way.
Lano:So no participation, trophy crap, I hope you know so and and in my mind, like any sport Is like fitness, you know, like a workout, like I mean, I want my girls to be healthy. You know, I don't want them to be.
Mig:I want them to learn. I mean, I'm sure they're practicing all the time.
Lano:Yeah, practice exercise and having fun, just so they can be, like you know, in shape, be fit, be healthy. You want healthy kids.
Mig:So we'll have that interview coming to you guys pretty soon, probably in the next few weeks.
Lano:We're going to try to work on it this weekend. Yeah, we're going to try to figure out the ins and the outs Either they come to the studio or we go to them and do a little montage.
Mig:I think more than likely. We'll probably be recording on location at one of their practices, but we'll see how that goes.
Lano:But it's a big step for us because we haven't done this before. It'll be fun to do.
Mig:Hopefully you guys will enjoy that and get some good, useful information out of it.
Lano:And if we figure out how to use these cameras on offsite, then, like we'll do more food reviews offsite. That's the stuff I want to do More community stuff, more going out to see what's happening out there.
Mig:So, with that being said, hope you all enjoyed the show.
Lano:And hopefully we'll have Three of us next week. We're gonna try to keep this week going. We are Get that work done, rick, damn it. Finish it. Get it done. Like and subscribe. Get that sink in. What's the highlight number?
Mig:323 20207-0012. Call it, chew us out, whatever you want to do, but keep on drifting yo Peace.
