Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 141 - Tools, Terms, And The Card Break
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Ever notice how a simple name can carry a whole history? We start with the tool bench—crescent wrench vs adjustable, drill bit vs twist bit, brand names turned into everyday nouns—and realize those words aren’t just labels. They’re memories from job sites, mentors, and the way craft travels from hand to hand. That opens the door to a bigger question: when we call ourselves things like “short kings,” are we building strength or just polishing the mirror?
From there we dig into the heart of Lent. Not the performative kind where skipping sweets looks like virtue but really just feeds a summer goal, the kind that actually costs something. We talk fasting from harsh words, refusing cheap gossip, and adding daily good deeds as honest discipline. We revisit why Fridays mean no meat, how fish once signaled simplicity, and why lobster night misses the point. If sacrifice is supposed to shape the soul, maybe the better fast is the one that dents comfort and lifts someone else.
The episode takes a turn into a tense real-world moment at a Home Depot parking lot—camera phones, assumptions, and adrenaline. We walk through anger, a hard reset, and an apology that chose dignity over pride. It’s messy, human, and a reminder that empathy and judgment can coexist if we let character lead.
Then the energy flips as we go live for a card break. We chase Shohei in baseball and Wembanyama in basketball, pull shiny inserts, a couple autos, and debate whether we made our money back. Between the pack odds and the hype, we find the real win is the ritual: friends leaning in, sharing knowledge, and feeling that jolt when a good card hits the light.
If you’re into craft, culture, faith, or cardboard, this one threads them together: how language shapes identity, why intention matters more than optics, and where risk meets joy in a live pull. Hit play, ride with us through rants and reflections, and tell us your take—what would you actually give up to grow this season? If you enjoy the show, subscribe, share it with a friend, and drop a review so more people can drift our way.
Follow us @DriftingOnArroyo
TEEPUBLIC Merchandise Store
Subscribe at https://driftingonarroyo.buzzsprout.com/share
Email us at DriftingOnArroyo@gmail.com
Hotline (323) 207-0012
If interested in getting a Tesla please use referral code.
https://www.tesla.com/referral/emiliano739087
Thanks for Listening!
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast. This is Mig. This is Lano and RK67. What's up, everybody? Hola. Another week, and we're back all together again.
Lano:Hola, chico. We're on a streak already, right?
Mig:Yeah. Are we on a streak? Nah. No, we're back to back. Oh, back to back. We're back to back with this week. One more, and then it's a streak. It has happened. So. It has happened. I got I got some uh what? Some I got some inside information, man. I got information, man. Um, I got some uh constructive criticism on the YouTube's front. On the producer? On me. Oh. Yeah, apparently I uh I'm distracting because I always look up at this stupid screen. Yeah. And I have people wondering what the hell I'm always looking at. Well, Donald, don't you have the camera on and recording that? It doesn't cut to it. I don't know. Because I haven't watched the YouTube video in a while. So I don't know how this dude's editing shit. It might it might be. But he has the software that it's edited. No, I edit, but they might be looking at old, old ones. I don't know. Old these because um so OG might called you out on it already. Yeah, I know I've been called out on it before. And I tried to I know I was doing it. I tried to work. But it's usually I look up when we're gonna when we talk about something, then Mulano puts it on the screen.
Lano:Normally when we look up, I'll I'll I'll post somebody or show something.
Mig:Well, anyways, yeah, if uh YouTube you notice now I'm in a different position away from the TV because uh it was constructive criticism, but since I'm so sensitive and so touchy and uh I got butthurt, so I gotta reposition myself. Thank you.
Lano:But we're gonna go live. Oh, I um actually, yeah.
Mig:No, I've repositioned because we're set up. Uh last week we promised we were gonna do a card break, and uh we're gonna do it. So I got it set up right here, so that's on sideways right now. But um, I mean by the time you guys hear this, the live's already gonna be done. So hoping we get it right now. So many people get a feed. You know, we'll we'll leave the live feed going for like maybe like five minutes to see if people catch it and log on. So it should be fun. You know, I haven't had a um I don't think I've had a rant in a while. But you know one thing that that that kind of irritates me and pisses me off? Wow. I don't know uh it happens a lot because you I you you come up working, like say I'm working in plumbing, you're mechanic, whatever. And people call tools different things, you know? Yeah, it's like I I and I watch a lot of tool reviews, like you know, I send you a lot of stuff, right? And this one guy that I like, tools of souls, like he's an old school dude, like right, old school guy. Um reviews drills, testes them all out, you know, calls it like this. But one thing that drives me nuts that he that he calls the the the drill bits, uh huh, he calls them twist bits. Oh he's like this twist bit is like isn't that a twist bit? Yeah, it's like I even go to the damn Home Depot and it says right there, drill bit. Like I another video, this dude came out, he was explaining how to repair something or like a hose on the stupid on the cart, radiator holes or whatever, and he calls a hose clamp a worm clamp. Yeah, well, you gotta get that worm clamp. Is like, what the fuck is that worm clamp? The one that annoys me is that you know it, I know it, we all know it as a crescent wrench. Yeah, you know what a crescent wrench is, right? Yeah, it has a little the little knurled end where you can open and close it and adjust it. Well, everybody knows it as a crescent wrench, but then they'll come on and start calling it an adjustable wrench. Which I guess technically is more accurate, but we know it has a crescent wrench. You know, another one is uh a pipe wrench. Yeah, pipe wrench. You know, pipe wrench they call them monkey wrenches. That's always been the that's always been monkey wrench and pipe wrench has been. I mean, that doesn't really that doesn't really bother. That does better than a flathead.
Lano:I think it's the same thing, no? Screwdriver and flathead or no?
Mig:Oh, yeah. No, they they'll call it like a panhead or something like that. Yeah, the flat the flat skirt yeah, flat screwdriver, right? Yeah, yeah. Or or like a flat ball. I don't mind I don't mind Phillips or Cross. Yeah. I don't mind that. Well that's the same thing, right? A Phillips is the cross. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's Phillips. It's Phillips, yeah, yeah. And then the the you just said it uh flathead screwdriver I mean screwdriver. It's the flathead on the monkey wrench? Oh, the monkey wrench wrench. Yeah. Monkey wrench and pipe wrench is the same. Uh no, I lost it. Is it but it's just on it's it's annoying. Like different brands or just people? I mean the the the brands oh I was gonna say well like Crescent Wrench. I don't know if because the company Crescent invented that um style wrench it's like uh it's like vice grips. Vice scripts, you know, vice grips are because of the company that they call them something else too, huh? Locking pliers. Locking pliers. Locking pliers, yeah. Yeah, but vice grip is because of the brand. It's like saying ziplock bags, or pampers and and diapers or something like that. Yeah, channel locks. Channel locks. Channel locks are the brand. It's the brand. But that's the ice grip, right? They're all known as channel locks. Yeah. But that's a vice grip? No, that's an adjustable plier. Well, you see, that's uh it's accurate. I mean, that's what it is. But yeah. I don't know. You know what's been you know, well, right now that we're on rants, and what's been irritating me, and I kind of wanted to bring it up and I kind of didn't, but like I always forget. All these stupid terms that people are like describing themselves by. You know, it's like you you get on Instagram and you see someone call out all the short kings out there. It's like, you know what? Enough of that shit already. It's like sh you know, insert adjective kings here or whatever queens there. I'm calling it. Well, to all my assholes out there, yeah, let's let's uh let's get on these idiots that are no, but I'm saying what I'm saying is that you know, it's like, are we so mentally weak that on everything you gotta put like some kind of like big positive oh big spin, you know, and it's like dude, you're short. Get over it. It's like you're not still they're not a king.
Lano:They had kings to make them like night, like make it like special instead of night short.
Mig:Oh yeah, negative with the positive, you know, which still equals. It's like I'm not gonna go out there and call myself a fat king. A negative times a positive equals still a negative. Stupid, it's just like stupid terms like that that just piss me off.
Lano:It's it's a physical description, like a shorty or something. I mean, you're not do all my short kings. You're not cool, but you're just describing it. I mean, I don't think it's offensive.
Mig:You're just describing the particular I'm not talking about offensive or anything. I'm just talking about that it's supposed to be like uplifting. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's supposed to be like for your positive body image or some stupid shit like that.
Lano:What about okay? So me growing up, like as like you know, you're at uh I mean, we're at the boy section, whatever, Macy's or whatever. And then uh I remember my mom would always take me, like, oh, you're in the husky. Yeah. Which means I was like the chubby kid or the bigger kid, like the husky, but yeah. Yeah, it should be nice.
Mig:No, but I mean that that's a section that was a huck. They should have just called it the fat boy section because that's where all those fat boys bought our clothes. It's like we were one one step away from buying from the men's section. Right. You know, because that's what would fit us. There'd be like, come on, Mijo, we're going to the push away from the dinner table section. Yeah. I remember that shit. That husky section. Yeah. But that's that's one thing that's kind of irritating me. A big thing that's that's uh that just started is Lent. Leonard, did you give up anything?
Lano:Yeah, I gave up um drinking.
Mig:Drinking? Drinking, yeah. Oh, because you're such a heavy drinker.
Lano:Are you do you drink a lot? Um, I mean occasionally. I mean, last time I drank was um Well, I drank when there was a wedding, yeah. The thing that's that's and then I'm gonna try to do a nice deed every day. Yeah.
Mig:That's what I that's that's that's what I want to do, because I wanna go. It happened the first day. I want to go out of my way and maybe like uh buy a homeless uh some food, buy some homeless people some food I say and I and I you know at Big Five, there's always like sales on on um like the sleeping bags in the tents, like 30 bucks, like $30 tents, like sleeping bags, maybe. Don't tell me you bought one, you buy one? Now you're encouraging it. No, now no, I want to buy just a couple seating bags, couple tents, and then just have them there. And then when I see someone that doesn't have any clothes, then I you know, hook them up. Yeah, because on on this past Sunday we got together for uh my sister, my sister-in-law's birthday. And um, I was talking to my nephews. I was telling them that I was uh going down this uh YouTube rabbit hole of um a lot of questions I had about Lent. You know, like like stuff like one of them was why do we eat meat on Friday or do not eat meat on Fridays? That was like one thing that I was searching for. But um one thing that I saw that came up was um I wish I would have reviewed it again so I can remember. Um the three things that uh Pope Leo wants us to do this this um Lent. And I think you're you're helping out people is kind of like in line with that. You know, because he's saying it's like the fasting. It's like why don't we fast from um our words like words that are harmful to people It's like it's like trying to not talk bad about people and yeah, you know and just you know try to better yourself that way, yeah. Yeah, you know it's better because that's so I I went well I went to Ash Ash Wednesday last week, went to the master and then I went to mass on Sunday. Yeah. And um what the father was saying was um a lot of times we how it's it's it's been said before, like a lot of times we will we'll pick something to better ourselves or to right like, oh, I'm gonna quit uh eating junk food, but not really with the intention of sacrificing, but just so you can lose weight. So it's like a personal thing you're doing. It's not really a thing you're doing for God, like you know, whereas you you should focus on doing like that, like maybe reading reading more or getting into the Bible or doing stuff, you know. That was one of the other one of the other points that uh Pope Leo was making is that Lent is all about sacrifice and penance, yeah repenting. You know, so that's why he's saying it's like yes, you know, you can give up your sweets and everything, you know, but it's like what are you really like sacrificing, you know? You know, and that's when when after I found out about the um the no meat on Fridays, and the reason that came about is because back in in those days, it's not that like the meat was bad or you know, it was forbidden or anything like that. Like, you know, like how pork is forbidden in the Jewish and Muslim. You know, it's like it wasn't nothing like that. The reason why it's they don't do it on Frida. Well, first of all, the reason they do it on Friday is because of Good Friday. Yeah, you know, so that's the day that Christ died on the cross. So that's why it's every Friday in Lent. And that's why it ties in with fasting. You know, so we should be fasting all day Friday. And back in those days it was uh a luxury to be able to have something beef or some type of chicken or poultry or whatever, you know, lamb, you know, goat, whatever it was that they ate back then. You know, and and to give something up like that for a fast, that was like a sacrifice. You know, when when you you you were of means and if you can abstain from that, then that showed, you know, that you know, you can you're serious, I guess. You know, because and the reason why fish is allowed is because fish was like peasant food, like food of the poor. And that's why they they said, you know, the fish, yeah. You know, and I started thinking about them like, you know what? It's like I'm like, yeah. It's like, but it's like I kind of started thinking also, no? Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, but like if we're really supposed to be sacrificing everything, it's like we really shouldn't be like seeking alternatives, like, okay, you know, it's like I can't eat a burger today, so I'm gonna go get a cocktail de camaron. You know, it's like you should still like abstain from that too, you know, because you know, or or if you say I'm gonna go get lobster, you know, it's like that's kind of like missing the point. You know, that's what I thought about after, like, damn, dude. You know what?
Lano:Guru might be like giving up like hot showers on Friday.
Mig:No, I guess. Hot showers. That's interesting.
Lano:I mean that I mean that's to me that's like suffering kind of like you're talking just cold. I mean, I mean, right now it's still kind of a little winter, it's being changed.
Mig:That's pretty that's pretty brutal there, dude. I mean I don't think I could do it. It's how it's it's healthy though. Yeah, they do say yeah, like a cold plant. Yeah, you know, that's what I think I could do. Maybe maybe seals swear by it. 55 minute showers instead of 15 minutes. You know, they all they always say that it it grooved that grinds uh toughness groove into you. Yeah. Doing that. Um, but I found it pretty interesting, dude. That that that's the reason why we don't have meat on Fridays. You know, and it they gave me like a whole new outlook on it's it's kind of crazy because now like seafood is expensive is the expensive yeah. Food. Oh yeah. You see, so then so then what does that tell you? You know, it's like, well, don't eat nothing of seafood, then it's like stick, well, even vegetables are expensive now too.
Lano:It's weird because um like I went to um I got my ashes, then I went to church on Sunday, and the the father during his sermon, he was saying um, like after he gave away the ashes, like he took off to um I don't know, somewhere far because he was meeting up with some other priests because they're they're doing something like um Together mission or something. You know, there's there's some like program going on around where they're they're collecting money for for some cause, and all the priests were gonna meet up, like I guess it was like the last day, whatever, and they're gonna meet up at some convention or some place. So he got invited, so then he said he went down there, and then um he got there like at 10 30, and then they're like, hey, let's like him and his his buddies from um whatever um what's it called the like the priest school or whatever, or the when the the place where they become the priest? The monastery? The monastery. So all his buddies from the monastery, like they're all catching up on like what's going on, and then um like they're like, Oh, let's wait till midnight, and like we'll have pizza, but we'll have like with pepperoni, because that's what they used to do at the monastery, they would stay up late to have meat. Oh so then um, so everybody's like you know, the audience is all laughing, and he they said they stayed up, but he said he ordered a cheese pizza, but then he said that he had given up um he gave up bread. He gave up bread, so he's like he already broke it, and he's that's so he was saying that like like it's tough to do this, like even he broke it like within 24 hours. Like he broke the fast, so he so then he said he had to like pivot and and do something else, um candy, or I don't know what he said. He gave up, so he had a pivot. But then I started thinking, like, isn't the host bread? Like, doesn't he like eat that every Sunday? Well, yeah, or it's the body of Christ. Yeah, the thing is once once it's blessed and everything, yeah.
Mig:So I guess it's not after it's not bread, it's not you know it's like to people who don't believe, yes, it's just bread. But when you're up there and you believe and you've done your confession and your penance and everything, you're taking in the body, body and blood of Christ.
Lano:But it was interesting because he says even like him as a priest, it's it's hard for them to like um even they they make mistakes.
Mig:They're like just Well, remember when we were kids, we would give up meat for Lent. Yeah, and then night before Easter, man, we we'd be at the taco truck at midnight. Like right after midnight, dude, we'd be right at the taco truck, man, and get our pig out on we try to, but then after it was like wait till after you go to church to have like a good Friday of Mass? No uh Sunday Easter, Easter Easter Sunday. But at midnight mass at Easter? I mean it was sometimes, sometimes it was that. But then sometimes like when I gave up donuts back in the day, then I was having a damn chocolate bar at midnight.
Lano:Have you guys ever gone um because I've done it a couple times and then with my wife we've done it, uh they have like in Riverside the like uh uh um sunrise mass? Like in that you know there's like that mountain, like that big rock that has a cross on it? Oh no, and everybody like they all hike up there and they do like a sunrise mass.
Mig:Oh, right here, um it's pretty nice. When when we were going right here to um Rose Hills, I mean uh Our Lady right there in uh El Sorino. Is that one still open or no? Yeah, it's still open. But um when uh Father Tom was there, which is who we loved playing it here, right? When he was still there, he would he would host uh uh Easter morning mass. Oh, I was thinking of Our Lady Help of Christian, yeah. A sunrise mass. No, no, not Help of Christians. Our Lady Guadalupe, right? Yeah, our lady Guadalupe. And um across the street, there was that ball literally ballpark, and yeah, and they had like a little hill. So he would he would host a sunrise mass every Easter. And they get packed. A lot of people, a lot of people.
Lano:So you think he does it at St. Rita now? In Lenorville? Because he's there now, right?
Mig:Um yeah, I I believe that's where he was asked. Sierra Mundre.
Lano:Yeah, Sierra Madre, yeah.
Mig:I mean, if there's somewhere around there where he could host it, I'm sure he does.
Lano:Yeah, I mean it's kind of up on the hill by maybe it's some outside. I think he does. I think we went to an outside mess. I just don't remember who's sun raised.
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Um last week you left off. Um we're gonna do a car break today, but Ricky left off. You said you had two stories and you told us one story. You remember what the second one was?
Mig:Oh, you told us about the dogs. Yeah.
Lano:You said you had another you had another story you wanted.
Mig:Oh, it was an encounter with one of the white ladies at Home Depot. A Karen? You know those ice people those people that are looking out for ice for the workers?
Lano:Oh uh.
Mig:They were out there. And because it was it? Which one does it? Uh-huh. So it was kind of bad because it happens to me because in my van, my wind, my van's tinted. Yeah. I drive in. Sometimes I have my orange vest on. Wait, you get yelled at? Well, they they move on to the house. No, no, no, no. Yeah, every time, even right here at Cypress Park. As soon as I drive in, they're like looking at me like this, and then they start talking to the walkie-talkies, and it's just stupid. Like, who do you think you're gonna who do you protecting? Like, who what are you gonna do if the shit goes down? You're not gonna protect shit. Yeah. But they're I guess they're just there, they're with their their their air horns or the bullhorns or whatever, and you know, just like it's just to notify it, you know? Yeah. And every time I pull into the parking lot, they're right there looking. That'd be well, you have a place I come up to you with a bowl full of slice storages. The lack house can have the lack of. No, no. Well, I feel bad because like like sometimes them them too, like I I remember one time the old man right here with the selling belts. Yeah, he saw me come in. And he Oh, you say you made him nervous, huh? He really was not nervous, yeah. And that means like, man, I go it made me feel bad. Not that I did anything bad, it just makes you feel bad that day. Are you with me? No, no. Um, so I'm I'm driving into the Home Depot, and the ladies like because the windows are tinted, so you can't really see me inside. Yeah, and then you see a white van come in. So then like as soon as I come in, she's at the entrance of the parking lot. She's just looking, like looking and looking, and then she's like keeps looking at me, and like I drive around and I park, and I can see that she's still like looking at my van, and then she's walking over. She's walking over like to my van because she could still can't see nothing in there. I guess looking suspicious, right? Yeah. And then she's like looking and she's like like right in front of my van, and then she pulls out her phone and then starts like recording my my my van, like my license plate. And then that pissed me off. I get out. I would have gone off on her, dude. I get out and I tell her, Are you I go I go, Are you recording my license plate? Are you taking a picture of my license plate? And she's like, uh, she was like, uh, no, no. She's like looking back, like, I go, why are you? I go, I get in and I get off. I go, why are you recording? Why are you taking a picture of my license plate? I go, what do you think you're doing? Like, I got I got pissed and I walked up her. She's like, and then she comes up to me, she's like, what's your name? I go, I'm not gonna give you my name. I go, what's your problem taking a picture of my van? I go, well, you know that's dangerous if you're doing that to the wrong person. And she's all like, then she's like, she's like, it's all right, it's right. She's like, and then she's like, this is like, we're we're just we're just looking for ice. I'm like, I don't care what you're doing. I go, don't be don't be taking a picture of my van. Like I was I was like hot, right? I want to put it too. She's all like, she's all like, I'm I'm so-and-so, whatever. It's like, I I go, I I really don't care. I go, the issues I had, like you're you're you're you're filming on Home Depot property and you're filming my van, my my license plate. Like I was just going off and just sent me off. And then this other white, this other, not this white chick, but this other Latina chick came over. She comes over to like to like to the to the lady. She's like, Are you okay? Are you okay? Is anything wrong? And like she's like, No, no, no, I'm fine, I'm fine. And then, and then um she's just like kind of like, no, this other chick that was like in hiding in a car and all right. And then she's all like, Are you okay? So she's like, I go, You guys, but you guys better be careful with the shit that you guys are doing here. I mean, just you know, you're gonna come across the wrong person. Yeah, and then she's all like, give me a side eye, like, she's like, Are you sure you're okay? Are you okay? Like, like, she's like, No, I'm fine, I'm fine, whatever, whatever. We know I went off on her. And then, and then when I started walking, then this other dude comes up, he's like, he's talking to me spanning. He's like, hey, he's like kind of talking, um, I don't know, maybe like cubano or something. It's like like, hey, qué paso, qué paso, like. He's like, hey, I'm like, I go, I don't know. I go this, I go, this fucking lady's fucking uh filming my my van or whatever, this and that. And she's like, La mira, la mira. I go, I don't know. I go, I don't know. I don't I don't care. I don't care what you guys are doing, or I don't care what they're doing. So then I go in and I was hot and I was walking around, I get my stuff, and then I'm like thinking, like, is it really that damn serious that I popped off like that? And then like I like I cooled down, and I was just like, they're just they're just out here, whatever. If you're for it, you're against it, it doesn't matter. There that's that's that's their right, that's the prerogative, and this and that. Like, for me to go pop off, like I started like cooling down and started like it started getting to me. Yeah, I kind of started feeling bad because this lady's just she's out there helping the people. Yeah, but the thing the thing is they need to assess the situation first. They can't just go up to you and start doing the shit that they're doing. It's like because you're right, dude. What what if they come up against someone? What if what if someone's pulling up and they're gonna do like some kind of drug deal or something? Yeah, you know, they don't want to be caught on film, yeah. You know, they don't want to they don't want their vehicles, you know, yeah, you know, um marked. Well, you know, and and they're gonna come across someone that that's not just gonna yell at them. You're you're completely correct, dude. Well, I mean, and and walking around walking around the store, I was already contemplating talking to the manager and time like, hey, you know, why are you letting these people do all this or whatever, whatever? Yeah, it had nothing to do politically, just them recording my license. Well, yeah, I didn't I then I started feeling like feeling like a a Karen or Kevin or whatever they male uh name of it. Is that what it is, Kevin? I didn't even know. I don't know, or Kyle or I don't know what it was. The equivalent to a male Karen, maybe a Chad. Um but then I came out and then um um I got in my van, then I I exited right there where she was at. And then as soon as I exit, you know, I called her over. And like she she was talking to an older older white dude there, and then you know, I called her over and I I told her and I apologized to her. I go, you know what? I go, I just want to apologize because I didn't mean to pop off on you. It's just that you caught me off guard. You're just coming up to my van right in front of me and you're recording my license plate. And she's like, she's like, oh, she's like, no, he goes, he goes, you're fine, right? It's not the first time, it's not gonna be the last time that someone you know yells at me, whatever. I go, I you know, I just I just want to let you know that I'm you know I I want to apologize to you because I wasn't I didn't mean to like just yell at you and pop off and and apologize to her because regardless if I'm for or against whatever they're doing, that's that's their right, and and that that's that's that, right? But I just felt bad that I yelled at her. She's like, she's like, don't worry, she's like, you're a good man. She's like, I go, yeah, well, I just um you know, I just wanted to, you know, just let you know, you know, well actually as far as the rights of it, the legality of it, I'm not too sure because she is recording you, she is recording your property without permission. I mean on private. On a private lot. If she was doing it from the sidewalk, then that's fine because that's public. You know, but I'm on a private parking lot. So but still it's like I'm not gonna be that kid and nitpicking and that's but you know, but but I after walking around cooling down, I was like, that that that made me like go through like dude, like come on, it's like not that fucking serious. It's tough, but I mean the thing is you're you're you're totally correct in your initial reaction because they're you know it it's like the it's the FAFO right now, you know? Yeah, that's what's gonna happen, you know, and then they're gonna be screaming tragedy and everything when you yourself just said that she gets yelled at all day or whatever, but yet she's still putting herself in that position. Yeah, it's like and then after they're gonna come out telling us that oh she was just a mother of three and this and that or whatever. Why are you putting yourself in that position? If you care about your kids so much, why are you putting yourself out there? Yeah, I mean, I I I know all that, but just going through it then made me realize like, look, these people are out there just notifying them, notifying the people there. And it's not like I I kept I kept thinking like, oh, they're they're trying to like like if there's some kind of special force is trying to like no, they're just there to alert everybody there that that ice is around. No, and then and then the thing the thing that gets to me too is that they act like it's a 70s or or early 80s where you know immigration would just show up somewhere and just pick up everybody just because of how they look. But that's that's always that's that's always kind of been the joke, right? Like it's like, oh la migra, la migra, like everyone's running. You know, but but these people that are out there recording and doing all that shit make it seem like that's what they're doing. But when they show up somewhere, they have a specific name, a specific person that they're looking for. All the shit that happens afterwards, it's all incidental, and that happens after because people are butting in. No, I think they're they're raiding people that are do they just see in the street too. I think they're doing that. I mean, they're not just looking for specific because the the guys at Home Depot, they're not how are they gonna know that that one person is there? They're not gonna if they're looking for that one person, how they gonna know they're at this Home Depot or they're looking for the people. Because the thing, the thing when those those things happen at the Home Depot is they were staging there to go somewhere else nearby, like right next door or something. And then that's when dudes got nervous or whatever and took off running, or you know, it's like, yes, it sucks. And it's point point the collateral damage sucks, and I agree with you. Point is I felt bad that I yelled at the lady. I came out and I apologized to her. Stupidly and and I'm most positive, and I'm I'm positive that we're both on the different ends of the political realm, but the the decent thing to or the the right thing to do was to show respect to her because I was I was in the wrong yelling at her and all this. Regardless of what I you know, she's not hurting nobody. She's just she's just helping people. And why am I gonna be yelling at someone that's helping people? Even though she was doing what she was doing, but still like I know I know what she was doing, but she don't know what I was doing. I mean So I hope nothing ever happens to her. You know, I hope she she never gets harmed in any way. But I mean if you're gonna be putting yourself my little encounter and if you're gonna be putting yourself in harm's way, I mean, it's bound to happen. I hope things were you know kind of made right. Uh but that was it.
Lano:Alright, um start getting ready for the card break. You wanna do it? Alright, we're gonna go live on Instagram, but we're gonna do a quick setup and then um I created uh an intro for your segment, Miggy. So uh Oh, you did? Oh so we're gonna have the debut of the intro and then um are we gonna cut are we gonna cut right now?
Mig:Well I'm just gonna try to set it up because we hardly we need to get the live running for like maybe like five minutes and yes and let people get notified that we're live uh that way they can start watching. And then I'll play the I'll play the intro and once you hear the song we the s we'll be we'll be seeing that there'll be like a counter saying how many people are watching live. Oh, okay. And then once the music starts, you can get at least like two people, hopefully. Okay. Or give me a minute if anybody's paying attention to Instagram, you know. Epic build up. You think it might be a touch too long?
Lano:All right, let's go.
Mig:I like this. I like it.
Lano:We live on the headphones in the car, it should be good.
Mig:Okay. Let me adjust my mic. Can you see the hands? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, good, good. Okay, uh, should we do your dad's box first or our box? Yeah, yeah. Um, whatever, it doesn't matter. Okay, let's do your dad's box since he's been waiting the longest for this. So Big Mike gave us a box of oh okay. There we go. A box of 2025 Tops Series 2. So obviously Shohei. We want to pull anything Shohei, so anything low numbered would be ideal. Autograph would be insane. But um what's the what is it? Top series two. So this is like their this is like their uh basic product, you know, like the low end. But they do stash a lot of treasures in here, man. I've seen good stuff pulled out of this low end product. Still, they're they're beautiful cards though, man. Watch IMs. Yeah. I could tell Marte. Okay, what do we got here? Are we looking for anything shiny? Uh you see like cards like this. If we can pull um who is a player in 2025? I think uh Nick Kurtz, I wanna say maybe Jacob Wilson. But like stuff like this, you know, if this was like low numbered, then we'd have a good card. Usually when they're like this back, we're just because they're they should be good. Sean Burke. I don't do error cards no more, dude.
Lano:Oh no, uh huh, not like before. Or someone write something on the bottom of the bat or something like that.
Mig:Yeah. So anything low-numbered shoe oring it out. Yeah, what do we got? Okay, this is all bass off. All I'm doing is I'm separating the rookies from I just heard some dude on YouTube today saying that he's gonna start loading up on Trey Turner because he thinks Trey Turner's gonna have a big ear with his cards. Is that is that a Dog number? No. Marcus Seaman. You want to show him in the picture or no? It doesn't matter. What? What we pulled before? I mean, we'll show him at the end. What the hell's that? That's product placement, man. Who was who cares about the Lakers, bro?
Lano:Uh notification popped up on the phone.
Mig:Oh, I thought you meant because I dropped the drifter on the royal sticker on here. See, these are these are pretty cool, and these sometimes come in um like refractors or different parallels and everything. You get a good player and on these uh this is uh throwback.
Lano:It won't be in the video. It won't be in the video. Oh, it's uh screen recording. Yeah, this is we're just following the the line, all that stuff that won't show up.
Mig:What was that?
Lano:Jackson Joe. Something shiny. We have to because we have audio listeners, we have to describe we're looking at something card reflective.
Mig:Yeah, well, oh man, that's gonna be bad. That's true. Sorry about the audio only listeners. So far we haven't pulled anything too exciting. If uh something exciting does pop off, we'll let you know. So basically everything is pretty much base. Everybody's gonna be tuning off in this portion of the show. Yeah. Well, you guys gotta keep talking, man. Well, I mean, we're kind of intrigued on what's going on over here.
Lano:We're watching um all you audio listeners go to um drifting on royal on youtube.com. Yeah, this is this is your your calling. Oh, oh! Oh, fucking shiny. We got a dodger there, right behind. Freddie Freeman.
unknown:Hey.
Mig:And Freddie. Freddie! Los Freddy's that's a nice card. Is it a low note? Los Freddy's no. So we just pulled a nice uh Freddie Freeman Chrome card. That means a shohe is gonna pop up. Personal collection. This is a Dodger box right here. This is a Dodger box right here.
Lano:Dodger box um provided by the OG listener. OG Mike.
Mig:OG Mike. Oh, what's that? What's that? Oh redemption card? No, but I thought it was a shohei. Well, because look, Shana and Managa, I just saw the show. Oh, it's not even rookie. Alright, this is garbage. Who the hell would put that in there? Who's that? Manny Machado. Oh, that's good, man. What uh what I used to like doing with with Eric, when Eric would have his card breaks, uh-huh. Anytime a Machado card came up, I told him, dude, rip that shit up, throw it away, tear it up, dude. It's like because it would if it was like mine, like my personal break, yeah. He's like, are you sure? Yeah, dude. I told him F that fool. Even though it was the number one.
Rick:Hey.
Lano:Yeah, even if you said the the P of the jersey.
Mig:Yeah. I'm like, F that fool, man. All right. Here we go. All right, we got uh after this, we got three more packs. Three more packs. Three more packs of the donated box. The show is gonna be on the last pack. 101. Who's that?
Lano:Holman Drifting on the Row YouTube.com if you want to see what's going on. Hey, do you remember action going on?
Mig:You remember the uh the LAPD when you used to give out the cards?
Lano:Like a sheet of a shoot of baseball cards. Yeah, you know those um they end up becoming collector items. I heard I saw. Boba Shett's a pretty good thing.
Mig:I don't even know what I did with them. They're probably back there. They're back there somewhere.
Lano:Well, people will collect that because that's like some limited run.
Mig:Not as collectible as you would think, dude.
Lano:I don't know why they were. If people collect happy meal, man toys, then they're gonna collect that. They don't do stuff like that.
Mig:Well, I wonder that you remember the the eagle? The American Eagle? What is that my dad had? The Olympic Eagle? Oh, those those are collectible.
Lano:Sam the Eagle.
Mig:Sam the Eagle, yeah.
Lano:But um I hope they bring them back for our Olympics 2028.
Mig:There's there's this show that I started that I started watching that I got into. It's called um, it's on it's on Discovery, and it's called uh Filthy Fortunes. So what this company does is they go into people's it's almost like uh hoarders meets American pickers. So they're going into into houses where people were hoarding, but supposedly they have like good stuff in there. Uh-huh. It's just that everything's so buried in trash and junk that they don't know where it's at. So what the this company does, all right, not much there. What this company does. Keep opening, keep opening. I didn't realize we're already over an hour on the show. What the company does is um it goes in, puts in a bid for cleaning the house, you know, which I think is pretty ridiculous because a lot of their cleaning, they say there's like anywhere between 8,000 and 10,000, uh you know, to clear out a house, you know, but then they say, like, depending on the sales of the stuff that they find, yeah, that they're supposed to have in there, that um they try to split it like a 2040 or six or twenty um fifty-fifty or sixty-forty or something like that. If they find it in there, if they find like good stuff, like sometimes they'll say, like, oh, you know, my dad was a collector and he has like uh a Bay Ruth autograph baseball somewhere in there.
Rick:Uh-huh.
Mig:You know, you find that and that's like jackpot. You know, so they'll put like an estimated value, they'll try to figure out an estimated value of what they're gonna uh make, and it's a risk. And they split they split it with the people that clean up. They'll figure out they'll figure out a split with the owners of the house. Of course, that's a that's a future star Gavin Williams. That's that's uh perfect for a setup, man. Is there still um Danny's or are they still around or are they closed down? Danny's a lot of them are Danny's restaurant? A lot of them are closing. I got one near my house.
Lano:What are you talking about? Bone Park has everything. No, because I at the time um I heard that those Grand Slam. Remember they have the Terra. Every season they'll have like I don't know if they still do it. All right, last pack. This is where Show is gonna come in. All right, last pack. They would have the Grand Slam like um hologram cards. Remember that when they do that? Those are pretty big.
Mig:Here we go, here we go. Last pack. Come on, Mike. Get something good. Rookie, another rookie. We need those rookies. We need these rookies to turn into Hall of Fame megastars. Some way they'll be worth something someday. Lake Snell, new Dodger. Wrong Dodger! Zach Gallen. That was a wrong dodger. So that was the baseball. I mean, it's a retail product, so you can't. Really expect too much out of it. And it's really like really big swing that you're trying to all right. Let's go to the how many packs are in that boom box? Um, I forget. I think that it's averaged six or seven. Now we're going to the heavy hitter box that we all pitched in. So we can see it's sealed. How much do we pay for? We paid 260 plus the shipping and the taxes. So came out to like close to 300 bucks. So who do we need to make that money up? Yeah, what card do we put? It's NBA, right? MBA.
Lano:Hooper Flag.
Mig:Okay, so we got uh Tops Chrome Jumbo Jumbo Pack. We got uh a Tops Chrome hobby pack, a Don Russ hobby pack, and but that's 2324, and then 2223 Bowman's Best. So who were good rookies in the 23-24 and 22-23?
Lano:I think it's that um Wembley. This is a San Antonio Spurs. I'm like talking.
Mig:So it's four packs, but he usually inserts random extra packs to make it like six or seven.
Lano:Here we go, here we go.
Mig:I thought I had like some is that a damn rice krispies pack right there? Give me a shit. I'm hungry. Oh, that's that's a jumbo pack. Oh okay. Let's see. So, oh the Don Russ is a thick one. We'll leave the top scrum last. The top scrum jumbo, we'll leave that last. We'll do the hobby. Um Bowman's bed. And those are all basketball. Oops, these are all basketball.
Lano:All basketball, but that's where the money's at right now at this time of time period.
Mig:So this kid right here, Cooper Flag, he's what we want to pull. Cooper Flag. Cooper Flag. Or any other superstars, anything low numbered. Right. Let's go. Autograph would be pretty awesome. So, okay, let's do it like that. So this probably this product I don't really like because it's like a college product. Oh. But really hard to get value out of it. But they do it across the board. They do it with uh the rapper sounds crisp. You know, they do it with they do it with football, and I'm not really a fan of it. Lay it down. Okay, Jalen Bridges, Mark Mitchell, Dharese Walker, Race Thomas.
Lano:Never heard any of those guys. Those are college cards, though.
Mig:These are college cards. I don't know. Your guess is better than mine.
Lano:It'll be four years from now. I don't know.
Mig:Hoops. Why is why is basketball expensive? Why are they the hot item right now? I think the Asian market. That's all I was crazy over this shit, dude. They're the ones that really put the big money out there for this. On uh basketball. All right, Devontae Graham, Seth Curry, Herbert Jones, Patrick Everett. Uh Walter Kessler. I don't know. What's that? Isaiah Wong? I don't know.
Lano:Isaiah Wong, flip it, flip it. The Asian market. They want it's an autograph.
Mig:It's an autograph. It's an autograph? Of who? Isaiah Wong. I don't know who he is. I don't know who he is.
Lano:Isaiah Wong's uh protect it, protect it, put the sleeve on. It's a rookie card, it's an autograph.
Mig:For from where? For sleeve it for the Indiana Pacers.
Lano:Hey, we're pacers. Yeah, um two years ago. Maybe that year. Two years ago, they're um in the final. Now that guy is a local kid. The next one that he popped up. Um this one? He's from UCLA. He's a um a Mexican. He went to um what's that area where they make the strawberries? Oxnard. He's from Oxnard High School. All right, then just for Lana, we'll sleep it up.
Mig:Um maybe we should give that to Bambino. Jaime. Okay, now we're gonna do Don Russ 2324. So we're looking for Wemby? What's the paper? Yeah, Wembley from the Spurs. I think his name is. I don't know. There's like a lot of cards in there. A lot of cards. Alright, David Desmond Bane. Murphy. Again, like the tops. You know, this is like a very low-end basic product.
Lano:Here we go. Um he's right now um sorting them in his hands. I gotta tell you, gotta do the telly. Hey, but um nothing.
Mig:The graining like when you're shouldn't you pull them? Should you be sliding them like that?
Lano:With every stroke, yeah, it's fine. He decreases the card.
Mig:I mean, they're not getting like you're not slicing the face of the card? No. No. See, these way the rookies are good cards. Like if you find one of the good rookies, there he is again. Same photo. Kobe Brown. How couldn't they get something different? Different polls on him. You know, hold on.
Lano:Google. DeAndre Eden. Do they um they always put the good ones like at the very end? Um, it depends. Or they always flip them over though, right? Sometimes.
Mig:Like I just uh the thing. This dude was good too, no. They call it the card. Oh, I heard those Marvel like cartoon cards. Oh, yeah, these marbles. This might be a good card, dude. Is that Steph Curry?
Lano:Yeah, Steph Curry. Those Marvel ones, people like they collect them to make the sets and stuff like that.
Mig:Because they have like some anime ones also, like manga and can we get 50 bucks. Can we get 50 bucks? I'm looking to get 300 from it to make up what we this might be some 50 bucks. It could be, dude. I don't know. I don't know how rare those Marvel ones are.
Lano:Um tune in next week to see the updates on the prices.
Mig:Okay, crunch time, uh La Flop. Crunch time. I'm sad to say, but this might be something good too.
Lano:Don't rip it, don't rip it.
Mig:La flop. And then um I'm sorry, yes, LaFlop. Let's see. And then this is uh who's that?
Lano:Damar DeRozan. Oh, he's a local USC kid from Compton. Oh, he's Compton. From Compton.
Mig:Is this a rookie? It's uh press proof. He's been around for Toronto, no?
Lano:Yeah. He wanted to come back to the Lakers, but um, I think he's in Sacramento right now.
Mig:Okay, regular tops. Oh my god. Cooper Flag, let's go, Cooper Flag. Let's go, Coop. How many more? Three more packs. Three more three more packs. Including that one? Yeah. Alright. There it is. Oh!
Lano:We got it, we got it right off the top. Is it rookie card? Rookie card on numbers?
Mig:No, low-end one? No, it's just the basic one, but I mean so how much? 10 bucks? Probably. Alright, so we're at 60 with uh with uh Steph Curry card. Derek Queen, Kifford, PB. Okay, there's a bull on the screen.
Lano:Let's see. Clipper. Oh, yeah, that guy's on the clippers now?
Mig:Well Did we get another autograph?
Lano:That's not gonna pop up.
Mig:That's not gonna pop up on the Get notification off, dude. Let's see. What is that? Oh, this is low numbered. Who is this? Low number reflector foil card, hologram, heat, catch, fire. It I mean it's a it's a check, um, a checklist card, so I don't know. Okay. Someone wants to make it a couple of things. I mean, it's it's no it's no particular player, so is that another 10 bucks? I don't know.
Lano:Nikolai Jokic, Jokic. He's MVP, like I think last couple years. That's crazy. Unless it's a recording.
Mig:Back in the day, back in the day when I was collecting my cards and I would look at my cards and the price guide. Two packs left. A card that hit like a dollar or something, you'd be excited. I get all excited. Oh man, it's a dollar.
Lano:You would get that Beckett every month and see if it went up three cents or four cents. If it had a little arrow.
Mig:This is the product we want to keep going up, stock going down.
Lano:Penultimate pack. We want to cut it to last. What?
Mig:Other of who's that? A fool? Who do we got? Detroit Piston. This this, I mean, we're actually doing pretty good. That's already the second autograph and these other two cards. This is a pretty good opening. Well, we need to make it to 300. Well, you don't always make it a 300, man. You win some and you lose some.
Lano:Yeah. Are we gonna get at least half our money back? Yeah, I know when a fold them, win a fold win a salem. What is it? Okay, this is uh Winnah, Winnah. Porzingis.
Mig:Is he good? You see this dude, Tyrese Halliburton? Yeah. I bought some packs and I pulled a card of his. It's uh it's a case hit in this product. But it's called uh the cards of patent. Really nice looking card, man. Uh this is just uh regular prism. So we're on the last pack. Numbered.
Lano:Last pack is now we gotta make the decision if we uh sell it unopened or or open it up. That's true.
Mig:Too late.
Lano:Too late. That's the jumbo?
Mig:Jumbo.
Lano:This is it. This is the money pack.
Mig:Here we go. Black border. That might be good. Garland Techampoko McGrady. Oh, oh, McGrady. What year is that? This is 25. Uh uh-huh. If we can pull a Cooper flag like refractor or anything, then you're talking about 3400. Yeah, but who's who the hell is this guy? Cam Jones. Oh, he might be a superstar one.
Lano:Cedric Howard. Oh man. Come on, I I spent time on that. Big intro. Oh, sorry.
Mig:And you're gonna manifest it, manifest it, manifest it. Oh, this guy's trolling me, man. Loading, loading with the heli. I guess this one was one too that I seen of Cooper Flag. Uh huh. And that one was worth about 500 bucks, I think. Okay. But not this dude.
Lano:Okay, not that guy.
Mig:Clippers. Nah, we didn't get it.
Lano:One more. Looks like the same picture behind it. Oh.
Mig:Clippers. Nothing. We didn't get it. Well, we don't know yet, because we don't know what this uh Marvel's Steph Curry and the Crunch Time LeBron. We we might have made our money back there. I don't know. Oh, okay. I just I don't know basketball, so I don't know if we did or not. But that's it, folks. Hope we didn't bore you too much. Steph Curry card doesn't look so we'll check it out. And I'll post it on the Instagram if we made any money or not. But uh, hope you enjoyed it. If you guys want to see anything else, let us know. Soccer, Disney, Star Wars, whatever. I'm gonna go to the I'm gonna go to the card shop and I'm gonna buy something. I'm gonna go in there. Hey, what's the hottest box right now? I'm gonna just get it.
Lano:And what the We all do it. Maybe I'll do one too.
Mig:Alright. What was that one with the celebrities that post our results?
Lano:Mitchell and Ness?
Mig:Ellen and Ginter.
Lano:Ellen and Ginter.
Mig:And uh keep on drifting, yo. Peace.
