Episode 136 - Youth Fads, Old-School Grit

The show kicks off with a spicy takedown of empty trends before sliding into a rain-soaked Christmas drive and a candid look at EV ownership that car ads won’t give you. We talk real numbers—home charging, subscription fees, and those shockingly frequent tire replacements—then compare them with weekly gas runs to see where the savings actually land. If you’ve ever wondered whether a Tesla is cheaper, easier, or just different, this conversation gets past the headlines.

From there, we get under the hood. Oil weights, manufacturer intervals, and what sludge really looks like when you push your luck—plus the simple upgrades that protect modern engines from their own emissions systems. An early oil catch can, careful interval choices, and paying attention to symptoms can turn a “problem engine” into a quiet workhorse well past 150,000 miles. We also question the cost of big screens and fragile tech, and admit where the truck market shines and where it lost its way on design and value.

Then food steals the show. Arts Burgers is open again, but the nostalgia hits differently when the portions and textures change. The redemption arc lands at Sunset and Amar in West Covina: handmade tortillas, silky al pastor sliced hot from the trompo, salsas with bite, and aguas frescas that taste like fruit, not syrup. We trade tips on what to order, why it’s cash-only, and which dishes surprise: alambres, mulitas, and a quesadilla that proves simple can be sublime. We wrap with community shout-outs, prayers for friends healing up, and an open line for your takes.

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Transcript

The 67 Meme Rant

Mig 0:11

Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast. It's Mig. This is Lano and RK67. Did you guys forget about this? And I'm the original 67, all this stupid 67 crap. You know. They hijacked my number. That was that was one of the things I wanted I wanted to bring up. Stupid. Is that what the hell, dude? What what the hell is with the youth of today? Any stupid thing. But it had meaning. This stupid 6'7 crap has no meaning. Nothing. Yeah. But a lot of them keep going back to that one basketball player or yeah, the one rapper, the one, the one lyric, but then you go and you ask every stupid kid what does it mean? It's like, well, this is just 6'7. It's like, but what does it mean? Nothing, dude.

Lano 1:07

Absolutely nothing. That's the joke, right? That it means nothing.

Mig 1:10

I I guess. I don't know, dude. Stupid, man. And the only reason I know about it is because of stupid ass South Park. I saw that one episode, dude, and it annoyed me so much. Yeah. That they were doing that. I'm like, what the hell is the deal with that? And then within this year, past year? Yeah. That that stupid shit took off? Because then, like, after that episode, dude, I jumped on the computer and I started Googling and started looking it up and everything. And I did a dive on it, dude. I'm like expecting to see like something that makes sense. I'm like, this shit means absolutely nothing, dude. Pisses me off. And it's like, what pisses me off is that I can't even say 6'7 without having that stupid shit in my head. It's like if someone asks me something, I'm gonna I'm gonna be all like six of them. Or like seven of them. Or I'll be like, oh, maybe like six to eight of them. It's like I gotta avoid saying the stupid six seven cuz you're gonna get some stupid reaction.

Lano 2:20

I heard like in and out, right? They stop picking the number because people are going crazy.

Mig 2:26

Oh yeah.

Lano 2:26

They stop what? Picking the number. Order number. Yeah. Or they skip over it.

Mig 2:30

They skip over it.

Lano 2:31

What do you mean? Like if you get 67.

Mig 2:34

Order number 67 number. They stopped doing it because all the stupid kids that were in In N Out, when they announce order number 67, everybody's like, ugh. Start going crazy. Oh, the the when they order number number.

Lano 2:50

Yeah. Oh.

Mig 2:53

I don't know, man. So they they would call order number sixty seven and then they'll be acting stupid in the when they announce it. Like when they call out order sixty-seven. And all the stupid kids in there would be with their stupid. Such bullshit, dude. Yeah, dude. I pray for you, youth, man. I don't know about you. I really the shit better pass already because they're right here. I'm sure, I'm sure it does, dude, because with their short attention span.

Lano 3:26

When they do the 6-7 they get all like crazy. They're jumping. Well, look at a stupid idiot employee.

Holiday Catch‑Up And New Year

Mig 3:41

I guess it's all like junior high-age kids, the one of the ones that make the big deal about it. Stupid shit. Yeah. Alright, take that shit off. Don't want to piss me off. Alright, um. Thanks for getting my blood pressure up in the first two seconds of the show, dude. You? I go they're messing up my my handle. I've had that since high school. Stupid, this stupid. Oh, like your jersey number, right? That's uh my football number. That's why I'm jersey number the original. His uh email. I still have my my high school backpack that says RK67 on it. And then these stupid idiot kids are here. Take that shit off already, dude.

Lano 4:28

It's pissing me off.

Rick 4:31

Yeah.

Lano 4:32

Um, house cleaning. We haven't been on since the 27th. Already like longer than a month. Uh November 27th?

Mig 4:40

We've already had Thanksgiving pass. We had Christmas pass. Now we're creeping on with New Year's tomorrow. Tomorrow's New Year's. By the time you guys hear this, it'll be New Year's Day. Happy New Year! Yeah. Um so, Lano, Christmas. How was it?

Christmas Travel And Tesla Range

Lano 5:03

It was good, but uh it was uh we we ate our um lucky enough, um my mother-in-law's we always go Christmas Eve. Their house is under construction, so um, thankfully, um my my sister-in-law invited us over to her house. We went over there. It was nice. Um kids had fun with their cousins. Just uh um it's in Manafee, so the the drive's um I don't know, it's about 80 miles. It's about 80 miles, and then um we left at 12.30 p.m. and got there like at 4 o'clock. So the the drive was like three and a half hours in the heavy peak rain. Freeway was flooded. Hey, were you worried that the Tesla was gonna turn out of charge? No, no. We have we had plenty of charge and I had I had to even like um raised the limit, so I wasn't gonna worry about that. But raise the limit, what do you mean? Because um I only charge it to 80%. They recommend that for the battery. Uh-huh. So then um, like I charged it up to like, you know, 100%. So I got like an extra like.

Mig 5:58

So you're always charging to 80%?

Lano 6:01

Yeah, I just charged because um it's supposed to like um help um save on the battery.

Mig 6:05

So you can't even use a car at 100%.

Lano 6:08

Well, and the battery I have on the newer ones, they have a different battery technology. You can use it 100%, but the one I have um then how much is it gonna cost to get that new battery in your car? Well, I won't it would be a whole new model.

Mig 6:18

I wouldn't get it, but um it's uh Yeah, you never you never heard those stories about the Teslas, dude? That by the time the batteries are done, that it's not even worth replacing it.

Speaker 2 6:29

They're a disposable car.

Mig 6:31

Because uh the batteries the batteries are so expensive that it's a disposable car. You might as well just buy a new car.

Lano 6:37

Well, I I seen one guy on YouTube, like he had to get his battery replaced, and it was like six grand, but um he says that they give him a good warranty on the on the new battery. But okay, so my car I get 320 mile range. When I charge it to 80%, I I get um two 260. So on the the newer the newer batteries, it's like a different um chemical inside. They recommend charging to 100%, but you get less mileage. So for them to charge to 100%, you get like the 280. So I have a larger battery, like when I need to, I'll I'll raise the charging to get it. You know what's funny?

Mig 7:14

Because I go rabbit holes with on YouTube on the people that talk about new cars and everything. And these these idiot people that buy Teslas, and they're like, no one, no, like they didn't well, obviously they didn't do no research on the damn car. Yeah. Because they start complaining about having to charge the damn thing all the time. And then like, I can't believe I gotta wait for so long for it to charge up. Because, first of all, these idiots they don't have a charger at home. So they gotta go to a charging station. It's like it's the same thing as putting in gas, but gas is faster and all this and that, and yeah, yeah, yeah. And then forget about if it's not Tesla, like if it's something like other these other oh man. Forget about it. The chargings are that's unreliable. The machines are. People are pissed that man. All they're just complaining the whole time on the video. Yeah.

Lano 8:12

It's like, well, so it's uh with the battery, it's a heavy car, so like it doesn't like slide. I mean, it's a it's heavy in the rain, like it gets traction.

EV Ownership: Charging, Tires, Costs

Mig 8:21

Oh, because even even that also they say that the tires, you can't just put like whatever tires on there. It's like they gotta be specifically rated for an EV for the extra weight. Because of the weight. So they they gotta be like um almost like truck tires. You know, truck like a regular car tire is maybe like uh three ply or four ply or whatever layers of of the material. Yeah. And the truck ones are usually like up around like 10 or 15 or something like that, some high number. Well, I'm assuming these Tesla ones are gonna be the same because you gotta be able to withstand the weight.

Lano 8:58

Now, I've had my car three years, and I've already replaced the tires twice. All four set sets. All four? Yeah, like twice because they just they wear out fast.

Mig 9:10

And then that also they wear out fast, you know, because of the weight. But then they say that you you I guess you don't have to, but they say replace all of them at the same time.

Lano 9:21

Yeah. Yeah, you have to be on top of the the like rotations just but that's the only the only bad thing is that the how expensive were they? I want to say maybe 2100 to replace all four. Damn. It was like 2000 something.

Mig 9:38

You see, you see, so so all this research that this guy knows are keeping up with this car, right? When you get the majority of the people that just don't maintenance their car and they buy a Tesla, this is the kind of crap that they come they could they complain about. Okay, so so cost analysis. Because I know, I mean, I know I gave you a lot of shit for buying the Tesla, but I know you bought it because you wanted to save money on gas. Have you done a cost analysis to see if it has like balanced out or are you ahead? You know, it's like have you really saved that much more or after all these expenditures and electricity?

Lano 10:22

Well, the only expense is like you said, like um the tires rotation, and then there's there's no fluids. I mean the only fluid you put is for the the wipers, like for the windows. And that's the only expense we bought tires and then the wipers will be able to do it. Yeah, but and you gotta include subscriptions too. What subscriptions are you?

Mig 10:42

Like any software updates or any stuff like that.

Lano 10:45

Oh, there's a I have a an internet package where I have internet, so I pay a hundred bucks a year on the internet for the car.

Mig 10:51

And then um the charging.

Lano 10:55

Like well, the the charging, so I know exactly the charging because um like I since we have like the long driveway, I use my my my dad's meter. So like I gave him the money every every month I do the calculation, then I gave him the money because I'm I'm I'm using his his power, his charging.

Mig 11:08

Okay, so so with all with all that said and put together and done.

Lano 11:13

So monthly, it it ranges from $90 to $135 a month, depending on how much we drove. A month. So that would be like gas. Where gas, we were putting in close to like $60, $70 every week. But now I'm only paying like a max $140. Between like $90 and $140, it varies like a different month. So there is a savings on the gas. Have I calculated like the three years? Not not yet, but but the app does that. But on the gas, like Costco, we were going to Costco every every weekend, every Friday, and like filling it up like 60, 70 bucks every week.

Mig 11:50

But that's that's that's also you're going all the way to Costco. I mean, that's long, that's driving around.

Lano 11:55

Yeah, for the cheapest, but we would do it like you know on visits to my mother-in-law and all that stuff.

Mig 11:58

But you see, the difference from I mean, like I said, like Wilano, he did he did his research, he knows all about the car. He crunched the numbers and everything, yeah. And then he has a home charger. Yeah, I know. Where I mean that you just like giving him shit just to give shit. Where a lot of these idiot people are stupid that won't even do their oil chains on their regular cars. Yeah. Hey, and then you know what's crazy? You know, Sally Vanessa, and it took me showing her video. Because always like like when I start I start doing her oil change, and then it always always asked for that OW20 crap.

Speaker 2 12:36

Oh, 020?

Cost Analysis: Electricity vs Gas

Mig 12:37

Oh, 020? Yeah, that's the weight or whatever. 020 weight? Yeah. And there was this guy from Jersey talking about the same, like Toyota, the same car, same engine, or same engine, yeah, that's in Mexico, have a different chart of recommended um weight or oil weight. Okay. And it's they have 520, 530, um maybe like 10. 1030? Or yeah. What do they attribute it to? They'll they'll be like it oh over there because I guess it's hotter over there. Okay. Where you need that oil to be thicker, heavier. Like in the Viscast. Or if you're over here in the US, like if you have a car in damn um So in the heat level in the cold, maybe you need it that that lightweight in the cold.

Speaker 2 13:34

Yeah.

Mig 13:35

But if you're like over here in the heat, Midwest, or say right here in San Bernardino, if you have that lightweight oil, and then once that thing gets going and then the heat, the temperature, the outside temperature is really hot, then that what that it's basically water. The oil has no weight to it.

Speaker 2 13:53

Yeah.

Mig 13:54

So and there was there was a recommended, like, and a lot of videos started popping up, and the guys started talking about look, people, they start talking about the old old 20 fucking oil. They start saying it's manufacturers are like 100% synthetic. Yeah, but it's lightweight, it's lightweight. So they're saying manufacturers are recommending this oil because they want your car to fail, they want your car to take a shit, so you go buy another one. So they only want it to last because they know a lot of people barely maintenance their car. So you got this lightweight oil that's getting changed. They like they recommend five to seven thousand every five to seven thousand miles manufacture. You know, you know what was crazy? In my book, my owner's manual for my for my Ford, my F-150. Yeah, that thing was saying to change oil every 9,500 miles. See, I was like, that is insane, dude. Yeah, that is and what's the weight? Crazy. What's the weight? The weight, the weights uh 530.

Lano 14:59

Is that is that like or more longer?

Mig 15:03

Is that what?

Lano 15:04

Is that more frequent or or more longer for you to change? No, it's longer.

Mig 15:07

It's longer. I I reg I now regardless, I do it every 3,000. Yeah, I think I'm doing mine every at the most. I let it go maybe 4,500. Yeah, 3,000 miles, I do it. 4,500, 5,000. There's a lot of videos and they started talking about that where they said people they'll say they'll start removing the damn valve covers and it's all sludge.

Speaker 1 15:32

Yeah.

Mig 15:32

The oil's all sludge because people that don't. Yeah, people, I mean, the the manufacturer is recommending some cars 10,000 miles. Yeah. It's like, are you are you crazy? Like 10,000 miles? Like they said, whatever, whatever the manufacturer recommends, do it half. So if it's the recommending 10, do five. They recommend seven, do 35. I mean, the thing, the thing also is um these engines, they're built with such tight tolerances, that's why you need a thinner oil. But they do break down, and that that's why now pretty much everything is a synthetic or a semi-synthetic.

Lano 16:11

That's what's the I was an asset.

Oil Weights, Maintenance, Engine Sludge

Mig 16:13

And really conventional, you can't really find conventional anymore. But but and then too. You know, but that's the thing. The the temperature. Yeah, the outside temperature. Yeah. So, but the thing is, you gotta keep it on the thinner side because of how tight those tolerances are on these engines. With that being said, how I told you my my truck, you know, they it's like before I was letting it go six, seven thousand.

Speaker 2 16:37

Uh-huh.

Mig 16:38

Well, the times I let it go like that, I would notice it kind of starting like a little misfire here and there. I noticed it running a little bit rough. Uh-huh. You know, I started noticing my gas mileage going down. But as soon as I changed that oil, boom, everything came back, dude. Smooth acceleration, my gas mileage came back. You know, and it it's like it's like that's why it's so important to stay on top of your oil changes. And like you're saying, whatever the manufacturer recommends, do it half. Do it half. And just do them frequently because if you don't, you're gonna be sorry. Because I mean, the car, the these cars that I see a lot of videos on, yeah, they're they're going to shit. But as far as like all the sludge and everything, also, another contributing factor is um all the emissions on it. Because they have so much going back into the engine. Like as far as like the EGR, the exhaust gas for circulation. Yeah, new cars. New cars. New cars, yeah. It's like that, but how you're saying that they sludge, you know, it's like that's why. Because all that dirty air is being recycled back in when it should be clean, fresh air. Yeah. You know, before cars would get all sludgy like that and everything, because they were using cheap oil or not good oil, and that's why. It's like, but now these oils are supposed to be a lot better, but they keep going in circulation, so back in. And that's what causes like everything to get all sludged up and everything. It's it's it's it's like um Manuel's car. We just had a dude like we had a switch out a we had to change out one of the cams. The truck. So he has a Ford Escape. A little 1.5 uh turbo. And for the longest time, you know, we were just putting band-aid on it, you know, until we had time to work on it. We finally had time to work on it and change out that uh that cam. You know, it's like when we cracked open, you know, the valve cover, you know, it's like everything looked really good, it looked really nice. It's like why? Because it was on top of the oil changes. Uh-huh. You know, it's just this one part that failed that was defective, you know, so we had a change. It was a big job, it was a huge job. Uh-huh. You know, but um I remember like uh working on your van, on your work van. Oh, yeah. Some of the stuff that we took off, a lot of sludge and crap and everything. But like that, I at Neptune. No, I know. I would let the damn oil changes go way past. You know, but totally messed up that engine. But the thing, the thing is, the engine in your van and the engine in my truck are similar. And what I did since the very beginning is that I put an an extra what they call an oil catch can.

Lano 19:36

Oh.

Mig 19:36

In between.

Lano 19:37

You added that?

Mig 19:38

I added it. I paid like 500 bucks for it. And the purpose of this thing is to catch all those oily fumes that you were circulated back into where it's supposed to be fresh air, and it separates the oil from the air. So all the bad crap's not going back in, and all that oil I drain it out after. How did you know that was part of your engine or you as an option? Because when I first got my truck, I was just looking up like simple upgrades. And I, you know, I did a lot of research because I heard a lot of bad things about those engines, and I still was kind of like iffy on it. Uh-huh. Wasn't sure if it was gonna be a good engine or not. And I just did a deep dive and you know went down rabbit holes and eventually found out that that catch can was good insurance to have. Yeah. And it turns out it has been because proof right there that manufacturers want people to have their cars fuck up. Yeah. Because so many people why doesn't that can come already on the damn side? So many people complain about those those twin turbo, those twin turbo Ford engines being bad. And I'm like, you know what? I haven't had any problems with it except for a couple sensors here and there for the emissions that I had to change out. Other than that, my my engine has been rock solid. And I'm already like six years with it, it's already got 150 some thousand miles on it, and I haven't had any problems. Yeah, I see. You know, so but that that's that's just bull crap, man. But I don't know, people still want to. I mean, apart from damn buying uh this crap damn brand new car and then going in debt with it. And then all this damn technology that every like car is coming out with is like it's ridiculous. There there was a there was a I saw this car, I forgot what it was. They had a whole panel, a whole monitor, the whole dash, yeah, was a was a monitor. It's a screen a screen. Like a like a like a loan, a corruption. And and the lady, the lady wanted it, wanted it changed out because her kids scratched the shit out of it. So she went and just that monitor, 3,000 bucks. Yeah, 3,000 bucks. And just see, you know, it's all touch screen and all this crap.

Lano 22:09

What is that crap right there? Is that electric? Yeah. So is it is it safe to say all like cars today, they they take synthetic oil?

Mig 22:22

Yeah, you should. That's safe, yeah. That's the safe within the stuff.

Lano 22:26

So the is synthetic, they they have there's weights to synthetics also, or no?

Catch Cans, Emissions, Longevity

Mig 22:29

It's the same thing. Same weights, and then uh they're they're built to withstand.

Lano 22:34

So you always replace the oil, you never like change the oil filter, or they don't have filters on what? Oh, yeah, filter. But you never just like change the filter and that's it. Like you always have to replace the whole oil. Oh, that's hand and hand.

Mig 22:47

It's not it's not the thug bug, dude. Change everything.

Lano 22:50

No, because um, so the filter doesn't catch that sludge that you guys are saying that happens after well.

Mig 22:55

So that's specific for his his engine. No, on yours or whatever. Well, the sludge that builds up that comes from engine neglect, from service neglect. Because eventually you leave an oil in there long enough, synthetic or not, it's gonna break down. It's gonna it's gonna lose all of its you know, lubrication properties that it has, and it's eventually gonna turn into a thick sludge. Synthetic or not synthetic? Yeah, regardless. Hey I'll tell you one engine that's that's bulletproof. You can run it for long as time with no oil. Oh your Nova? No. No. Your Tooda? The Malibu? No. Your Malibu? No. The Briggs and Stratton. Is that your lawnmower? My lawnmower is that bulletproof, dude. I felt so bad for my lawnmower. I even just to make up for it, I bought a nice blanket cover so I could cover it up. Keep it nice and warm in the shed. That cover is waterproof. I could probably leave it outside, but like, nah, I'm gonna put you inside. You deserve to be inside. Yeah, I'm not neglecting you no more. That's fine. Yeah. Oh, and then uh, so um Lano. Wait, wait, okay. Oh, what do you what are we talking about? Car still? Yeah, yeah. Okay, go. I was gonna say, you don't miss hearing the sound of an engine?

Lano 24:30

No, not no more. You know, I I used to love the fiat engine. You're not a car guy. But but nowadays, like, I'm just all into the radio and stuff. I don't I don't miss it. And now it's not even like like you step on it, you just like you you feel it. You don't you don't hear it. You feel your your neck snap back, or you just like take off. You hear the the tires grab the dirt, like it's not the motor no more. It's it's a different different feeling. Well, me, I hear the kids screaming in the back because they get all excited when I step on it. But but um why you you you think you're gonna miss the sound? Because I know I know like the Mustangs, the new electric Mustang, they they add like a manufactured sound. They do? Yeah, they add like a motor sound.

Mig 25:11

They put they put like speakers in the exhaust or supposed to be in the exhaust.

Lano 25:17

So you can hear it sound like a little bit of artificial sound, and I I think um the chargers too.

Mig 25:23

Yeah, I think Dodger's doing the same shit. Stupid. Yeah.

Lano 25:27

But I I brought up this this um the VW ID bus, the bus. Um last week they made the announcement that they're pulling the plug. They're not gonna come out with it. They're they're um they don't have no charging station for it. It came out already. It came out last year. Oh remember last Super Bowl, Danny's big commercial? Uh not only the commercial flop, the car flopped. Dang, well, yeah, it's an electric car. So um the car don't bother, I think they only sold like 6,000 or something like that. Yeah.

Mig 25:55

But um, yeah, I was looking to see if I mean it it's because the thing is you're basing it on the original VW bus.

Lano 26:04

Right.

Mig 26:04

And it doesn't really look like the bus.

Lano 26:06

And it didn't match up. Oh, but it got low mileage.

Mig 26:10

But that's low mileage, yeah. For being electric, it had low mileage. Oh, there you go. And what about the um the charging system for it? And that's what I was gonna check to see on what charges it use. Yeah, do you charge it like everyone else? Oh, it's Volkswagen. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

Screens, Repairs, And Overpriced Tech

Lano 26:28

I was gonna check um what kind of charge it took because I was thinking if they're discontinued, you might be able to get a final deal on it, but if it doesn't have that Tesla charger, because now the lot of the new cars are switching to the Tesla charger.

Mig 26:39

And Tesla's making bank now, huh?

Lano 26:41

Yeah, now there's now people can charge at their spots and they charge for it and stuff.

Mig 26:46

Uh weren't they saying that give in? That Elon's worth like 600 billion or something like that? Because of that? No? Well, everything. Everything that he does. Yeah, but now if all these cars are they just gave up and they said, like, all right, F it, let's put a Tesla uh battery in here. Yeah, then they sell the batteries there.

Lano 27:09

Even even like the self-driving, they're gonna sell that that software or whatever.

Mig 27:13

Hey, do you have like uh a Tesla uh backup, like a power station for the house? No, I I don't. Just because I picked up my cousin Louis has one. I mean I heard good things about it.

Lano 27:28

I mean I would I would I would want one.

Mig 27:29

Ruffin Christie's uh they have solar panels. I mean he does.

Lano 27:36

You need the battery and the solar panels. That's that's what makes sense.

Mig 27:40

Well, it's crazy is because he said he said when the the blackouts were happening over there. They're in the belly, right? No, no, no, West Kovina. They were the only house with power in the neighborhood. Like everyone was in darkness. Aeronians were power. Yeah. That's why I say when you're gonna do solar, the only way to do it is dish out the extra money and have those that battery backup. Yeah. Yeah. Because otherwise it's pointless.

Lano 28:08

It doesn't make sense, yeah. Because you use all your power at night and there's no sun at night. So you need to um like charge the batteries during the day with that solar power, and then you run off the batteries at night.

Mig 28:20

But just like Rick said right now, it's like, what about during the power outage?

Lano 28:23

Yeah, you just off the battery, yeah.

Mig 28:25

Your solar power, your solar panels aren't gonna do you any good at night. Yeah, if you don't if you don't have backup power somewhere stored, then that's what you would need the battery, and then the next day it would charge up again.

Truck Loyalties And Design Trends

Lano 28:36

Yeah, but those batteries are smart, like they'll they'll do um like they'll charge up like extra to 100% like before a storm and all that stuff, and they they start like saving power and this and that. And then now they have, I don't know if you've seen they have um smart panels, you know, like the electrical panels. No, no, so before you had electrical panel, you put a battery, you have to like tie like you know four circuits to it, whatever. So those first four circuits work, but now they have like smart panels that like that they're dynamic. You could change. So you could be like, oh, make sure um the fridge has power, and then make this. And you could like I'm gonna be in the bedroom, so make sure the bedroom has power, but then you can switch it to the living room and all that stuff. You could electric, you could switch the circuits the ones you want power. So now you need the electric panel, you need the solar, and then the battery. I thought they would just hook up the battery to the main power box and because the the battery can't um, I mean, unless you buy like two or three of them, like one can't like support the whole house. You need like multiple. Some people are like I mean, you need at least two. Oh, yeah, some people I know that three or something. But those batteries are like maybe like between twenty ten thousand to fifteen hundred a battery. I mean ten ten thousand to fifteen a battery, depending on what size you get. So it starts adding up on the battery. But yeah, when you need batteries if you have a solar, that's the only way it makes sense.

Mig 29:56

Yeah. Or just get one of those uh generators, man. You can piggybank together.

Lano 30:02

Then you gotta get gas, and if the power's out the gas station. No, they have the power power bank. Oh, like a bigger one. I mean that's something I would I would I would like to do with the house. Just to be off-grid, because I guess we're switching everything to uh electric at the house.

Mig 30:21

You're not gonna be off-grid, bro. Everyone, they all know your stuff. Yep. You've given all your all the hackers' smart devices and everything.

Lano 30:37

You've given the hackers a wide open entry to your home. So um they're saying that the the this van failed because of the mileage and then it was a high price, and then it wasn't as big as um people thought. Wow. And I I'm trying to look for the the range, I don't see it here.

Mig 31:02

It's just not not they're these cars don't have any character. They all they're just too look futuristic, man. It's too um they all look the same.

Lano 31:23

There's really no or if you're gonna get a you're in line for a new car. What would be your car? What are you looking at right now? You wouldn't go electrical. If it's a brand new car, yeah, brand new car. No price range or whatever.

Mig 31:36

It's gonna be a truck. It has to be a truck.

Speaker 1 31:40

Yeah.

Mig 31:42

I I would I would have to get maybe it would probably be a Ford or a or a Dodge. I would I would definitely go Ford again.

Speaker 2 31:53

And but um guess Dodge, I wanna go Dodge because I don't trust your transmissions.

Lano 31:59

Yeah.

Mig 32:02

Dodge. I mean I mean I mean Ford is really the top truck out there, no? Yeah, the top truck maker. And then and then really as far as looks, dude, Ford trucks just look great. Yeah, he used to be a Chevy guy. Oh, Chevy used to well, Chevy used to be beautiful, dude. I love my old body style, man. Yeah. It's like after I would say after maybe 2010 is when I stopped liking the way Chevy trucks looked. I'm not too, I mean, after my style truck, it was okay the style after 98. But once those those lights started going from the little like kind of rounded shape to like that really blocked off kind of trapezoid looking, yeah. They're ugly. From from there on up, they're ugly. Yeah, though those rounded ones are still still past, they're still still cool. But and then it's it's stupid how overpriced they are, dude. Yeah, I mean, just ridiculous. And I'm not talking about right now, I'm talking about back in 2018 when I was truck shopping.

Lano 33:16

Uh-huh.

Mig 33:17

Dude, they're uh yeah, they're those those trucks were just I don't know how people afford them.

Lano 33:21

They're like super people don't talk about, but they're expensive.

Mig 33:24

Expensive, dude. I'm telling you, when I was shopping them, like 80 plus, right? That's also pretty much for the same price that I got my truck 2018, brand new, you know, no miles on them, or like 10 miles on them. I would have had to have settled for it if I wanted a Chevy similar price, yeah. It wouldn't have been a 2018, it would have been maybe like a 2014 with like 60,000 miles on it. You know, and I would have got it for the same price as my truck, brand new. Those are the new Chevy's right there? Yeah. Those are the Chevy Colorado. Yeah, it's I mean, it looks like a Toyota. Yeah, yeah. The Toyota and the Silverado look the same. And then I think Toyota started kind of going more American style.

Lano 34:12

Well, Bigfoot, Bigfoot was a Ford?

Mig 34:14

Ford, yeah.

Lano 34:15

And I think that's like my favorite model, that truck, that Bigfoot one. That style.

Work Rigs And Minimal Tech Preference

Mig 34:24

I mean, my my style, my truck, the the the old body style is is not it's not the well 95. 95 no um silverado. Yeah. Mine's just not the it's not the best look, it's not the best Chevy looking truck in history. The the older ones, yeah, you can't compare it to the older ones. But that's I just love that style. My my truck style. Yeah. That whole square look. And I mean, I'll I'll still see those trucks just driving down, and I'll still damn break my neck to look at those damn trucks.

Lano 35:08

In in your industry, the construction sites, what are you seeing? It's all a lot of vans. It's all like those um splinter vents?

Mig 35:16

It's vans or utility trucks or um no, it's like a lot of work vans.

Lano 35:22

Yeah. And those work vans are things like that. Utility trucks are what? Chevy? Does this have different beds or what are they? What? Utility trucks.

Mig 35:30

I think it's a pretty good mix of the big three Ram, Ford, and Chevy. Oh, I forgot about Ram. Ram is went is separate, huh? They're their own division. Well, yeah, Ram's their own division. They they stopped being called Dodge Ram a long time ago. And they just go by Ram. Yeah.

Lano 35:52

But it's still under Dodge, though. No, he just said, oh, it's um maybe the umbrella, but now they just go back.

Mig 35:58

Yeah, but they don't like it's not a Dodge Ram anymore, it's just yeah.

Lano 36:06

So they can they kinda went away from their style. I like them when they had remember when they had like kind of like uh a dog nosed like truck like like truck where it had like the fenders and stuff. Remember when they they came out with that new look? That is like a semi.

Mig 36:19

Like a big semi.

Lano 36:22

Remember when Ram came out, they had like that um it was like an older look where the fenders were like lower or something.

Mig 36:30

That was the first style?

Lano 36:31

I don't know if it was the first, but like it was like a new look. Remember when they came out? It looked kind of like uh like a semi-truck, like the fenders and stuff. They went away from that, huh? Yeah, they made it just all blocky, all squared up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mig 36:48

Yeah, you know what I have to say for it. I'd probably buy it for it. And the Toyotas used to be big too, huh? Not no more. There's some pretty badass Toyotas.

Speaker 2 36:56

Yeah, the where's it? The tundras? That's what they are now, tundras?

Mig 37:02

But man, you know what? Still, all these new cars, man. I don't want all that crap that they got.

Lano 37:12

Yeah, I mean now it's it's just different. Like, you just get error signals and stuff, like when things break.

CDs, Collectibles, And Nostalgia

Mig 37:16

Look at that forerunner. Sequoia's a full SUV. Tacoma. Yeah, I think I think that's why I'm kinda glad, like, with my truck, because it doesn't have that much like excessive bells and whistles. You know, I would say like the most it has is a backup camera. That's about it. Cause even uh even the um the the stereo or like the the stereo area, the console, yeah, there were other trucks um that I was looking at of mine that instead of it having the um the stereo the way mine does right now, uh-huh, it just had like a big touch screen. Oh and I would have hated that. I would have hated it because I knew. Yeah, because I I know that shit would have failed already by now, and it would have pissed me off so much to have to replace that damn thing and get something else. So that's why I'm glad I just got like my simple radio with you know, I could pop a CD. That's the only thing I do wish. I wish it would hold more than one CD. I wish I could have like yeah, there's no CD changer in it. I have a stereo that I took to the garage that man, I think I want to look for some CDs. Just pop some CDs in here.

Lano 38:40

Dude, I've been buying records and I hear like CDs are making a comeback.

Mig 38:44

Yeah. I gotta I was um moving some stuff around, like reorganizing and stuff, and I found uh a folder. What a CDs with our CDs. So but I gotta see what CDs are in there. Cause I know from for a long time, man, ever since I redid the I remodeled my or redid the room, uh, you know, I I packed a lot of stuff up in bins and put them away. And there was this one certain shelf that I had where I had like all my my favorite football cards. Like I had my Barry Sanders autograph on there, I had my Lawrence Taylor autograph on there, you know, I had uh my Lincoln Kennedy autograph on there, uh-huh you know, I had my Steve Wisduski rookie card, you know, just those my favorite cards. Yeah, yeah. And I was looking everywhere for it, everywhere. I'm going to the laundry room, check all those bins in there, you know, and in the basement, all the the bins down there, nothing. You know, I was I was looking everywhere where I where I had bins and where I put them. And I I couldn't find where the hell I put my stuff from that shelf. And it was driving me crazy. And then I don't know why just one day I went to the storage unit right there in Amani. Uh-huh. And I went in there. I forgot what I was going to go look for. And I see some bins. You had them there? And I'm like, nah. So I go on and I start looking. Not even in the bins. Because the bins were all the bobbleheads and the PS2 games and a bunch of shit like that. And the I think the PS3 was in there too. I don't know if you wanted it or not. But but it's there. And um, like in a cardboard box. I go and open the cardboard box, and there's everything that I took down off of that shelf. My my golf ball from when I hit that hole in one right there in uh you still have that? Yeah. It's a big one? Yeah, it's almost like 200 bucks a month.

Lano 40:55

I forgot about that hole in one. I would have saved that ball.

Mig 40:59

Yeah, so like well, yeah, that's why that's why I wanted it because I bought this cool little this little display that holds three golf balls. Uh-huh. And I wanted to display that one, my hole in one. I wanted to display the fourth quarter one that Eric gave us.

Lano 41:14

And is this a ball with the fourth quarter logo?

Mig 41:17

Yeah, just the fourth quarter logo on it. Uh-huh. And I forgot what other what other one I wanted to put up there. But I've been wanting to display it, but I could never find where the hell I put the ball.

Lano 41:26

Yeah.

Mig 41:27

And I finally found all my stuff that I want, all my favorite stuff. I'm like, oh man, about time. I'm like, I'm so glad I didn't lose this stuff. Because I was I was already panicking, man. It's like those those cards, man. It's like the Barry Sanders one might be worth, I don't, I mean, I don't know. If if I get it graded and it comes back good, seeing how old it is, it might be worth a pretty good chunk of money. But like the Lawrence Taylor one is probably like a few hundred bucks. Yeah.

Lano 41:59

Yeah, Barry when that uh documentary came out, probably went up. Those are more sentimental holds.

Mig 42:05

You know, but yeah, they I was pretty happy when I found all that stuff. Yeah.

Lano 42:14

To me, it would be like the CDs. I mean, all of them I mean.

Year In Review: Movies And Shows

Mig 42:18

Oh, and then I found CDs. That that's where I was that's the point now. I was getting trying to get it. Yeah, I found the folder of the CDs in there. I was I was making fun of David and buying CDs and all that now, you know, going back to CDs. No, no, no. David was buying big chances, dude. No, he bought BH. When he was staying with me, he had his he had his boom box the way. David, the professor was the best. The professor? Lorenzo? Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 42:49

Yeah, Vampito.

Mig 42:50

Oh, yeah, Vampito. Uh-huh. Yeah, David. David sold his boom box to his homie Lorenzo. Uh-huh. I don't know, for like 60 bucks or something like that. Because he was one of the times that he was moving. Yeah. Lorenzo bought it for 60 bucks. And then when he came back, he wanted that boom box back. Lorenzo sold it back to him for 80 bucks. Or something like that. He was like, Oh, he told me that. When he told, I don't doubt it, dude. I really don't doubt it. When he told me that. Oh, yeah. When he told me that. And I told, I go, David, I want you topping at my store when I open it up. Well, what did Rizzo tell us? Dude, it's vintage. It's a classic. You're not gonna fight them like this anymore. I'm telling you, man. That dude. We gotta get him back on for the after the new year. Yeah.

Lano 43:56

Yeah, I think we're we'll be season four. Frickin' David. Damn. It was um, I mean, now that it's New Year's, do we do it retrospect? Like go back. I don't know if it's a good one.

Mig 44:07

Hey, well, how was this year for you guys? Did it seem fast? It flew by. It went by so fast. It flew by. I didn't feel like it went fast. You didn't feel like it went fast? No. I did, man. Before I knew it, freaking all these holidays like right now are here.

Lano 44:24

No, like I feel like one summer hit. Like, well, I had a like two weddings. And so everything was fast. Everything was just coming up. And weddings and birthdays.

Mig 44:33

I didn't feel it like it went fast. I did. And that thing I was so caught up with fucking bullshit at work.

Lano 44:44

What's um list um 2025 best? Best uh album of the year. Or song of the year. Like Kendrick or what? Was that not like us or that was last year?

Mig 44:59

That was last year, dude, dude. That was last year.

Lano 45:03

That was last summer, dude. It came out this summer. Oh yeah, because they they had it last year when the Dodgers won.

Mig 45:08

You know better than to be asking us about any current music or anything. What's the best of this or best of that?

Lano 45:12

Movie of the year? Well, not I mean, I don't know.

Mig 45:17

I don't know what came out this year.

Lano 45:19

F1 was was one of my tops. You know, um, we just saw we saw Avatar 3. It was pretty good.

Mig 45:25

Not a fan of the Avatar.

Lano 45:27

F1 was good.

Mig 45:28

I've watched a lot of what was the last movie I liked. I liked that one that I told you about. That Phoenician Phoenician scam scam scheme? Scheme. It's a movie? I haven't even heard it. What is it? It's on uh Prime. The Phoenician P-H-O-E, I think.

Speaker 1 45:50

Yeah.

Mig 45:52

Phoenician scheme. It's with uh right there. Right there. Right there. I haven't even heard of this one. So it's kind of it's a quirky comedy. Yeah, there's a lot of actors that came out in it, dude. Like, like uh, like you could kind of say they're cameos. That was I really like that one.

Lano 46:18

Is that 2025? Amazon Prime, yeah. Oh, yeah, I would have to say that one.

Mig 46:22

The director's Wes uh Anderson, if open another tab and look up a movie called uh the Grand Budapest Hotel.

Lano 46:29

Oh, oh, he did this one? Wes Anderson?

Mig 46:31

Yeah.

Lano 46:32

Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, my normally uh my my wife and her friend loves all that stuff.

Mig 46:36

This is that's a that's a funny, it's a quirky comedy. Yeah, all of them quirky. And you know what? You see, that's why seeing the the the previews of this one, the Phoenician scheme, yeah, reminded me of that Grand Budapest Hotel. And it's kind of filmed like Napoleon Dynamite.

Lano 46:56

Hmm.

Mig 46:57

Uh it didn't come out in the I don't know if you've ever seen that one, Rick, Grand Budapest Hotel, but you should check it out if you haven't watched it. Okay. Because if you like that Phoenician scheme, uh-huh, it's the same director. And I'm telling you, it's almost like the same style. All right. That's why I wanted to watch it because I like that Grand Budapest Hotel.

Lano 47:15

My wife normally loves these movies. I'm surprised we didn't we didn't see it or heard about it. Yeah, check it out.

Mig 47:20

You see, that's another one that Asteroid City was kind of supposed to be kind of like that, also.

Lano 47:26

And then um this one was good. This like claymation or not claymation, stop action, this um Isles of Docs were good.

Mig 47:35

Well, that's what this guy's known for. West Anderson does kind of like off the wall kind of.

Lano 47:38

Life Aquatic, they say is good. I haven't seen it.

Mig 47:40

Oh, life aquatic is really good, dude. That's what Bill Murray, right? Yeah, Bill Murray. Yeah, Bill Murray. Yeah, so yeah, he did that one, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that would that's exactly what that gave me vibes of.

Rick 47:54

Okay.

Lano 47:55

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch it. We'll probably see it this weekend. That was good. Um TV shows. I think the best show on TV right now is Landman. I don't know.

Mig 48:07

Oh, I haven't watched it, I haven't started it. Yeah, well, I'm on season two, but I haven't started it, but I started talking to your stupid brother about it, and he already spoiled a bunch of shit on it for me. That guy for his for his life, dude, he can't like give you uh a little a little read review or you just they keep listening, you don't say stop, and he just keeps going or what? He just keeps going, dude. Yeah.

Lano 48:32

Yeah, that was good, dude. And then and I kept telling them they're season two of them right now? Yeah, we're on um, we just finished episode seconds.

Mig 48:40

It's like I kept telling them like, dude, I haven't watched it yet, I gotta watch it. He just keeps on going. I'm like, dude, I haven't watched it yet, I gotta watch it. I'll probably watch it this weekend. It keeps on going. But you say you're gonna watch it and you don't watch it, you watch some other bullshit. No, you watch stuff that you've already watched like 20 times. Yeah, but um I watched uh Tulsa King. All of it was. Oh, I still no, I still gotta catch up on there.

Lano 49:06

That was pretty good. Tulsa King was good. Um well, all the the Taylor Sheridan Yeah, but you know what?

Mig 49:14

What I started like trying to finish the and I don't know why, and I'm stupid for going back to it. Not Walking Dead, but Fear of the Walking Dead. Because that one I liked more the characters and everything.

Lano 49:26

Did I like East Coast or no?

Neighborhood Lights And Food Plans

Mig 49:29

No, they're actually they ended up in Texas. They started off West Coast, yeah. They started off West Coast, but then like one of the seasons was just all in Mexico. Oh, really? Right now, like already towards the end, right now, like season seven and season eight, they're in Texas.

Lano 49:45

Well, that's what I like because they didn't like go anywhere. It became like repetitive zombies coming up.

Mig 49:50

Yeah, but um, my favorite show, and I'm pissed that there's not gonna be a fucking second season with the mean cliffhanger.

Lano 49:58

You told me I gotta watch it, but Duster. Duster. Yeah.

Mig 50:02

Duster's so good, dude. Yeah. I would I mean, it it has to get picked up. It has to somebody's gonna buy it. That was a yeah, someone has to buy it. Someone has to. That show is too damn good.

Lano 50:17

Netflix.

Mig 50:18

Um, what about did you guys see the Diddy? The Diddy. I haven't watched it. I don't want to see that, dude. You better be ready to give me the damn code. I want to see that.

Lano 50:29

You haven't watched it yet? I haven't watched it. It's like four parts, no? Yeah, we've been um we haven't watched it yet.

Mig 50:36

Well, that that time that you asked me for, I think I was in Vegas. I didn't see my damn phone. You don't want to check my phone in Vegas.

Lano 50:42

You gotta call them first and then do it. So they're this is not sitting there in the text.

Mig 50:48

And then I don't know why you're you're having a problem because I I went and logged in and everything. It's not telling me to change the password or anything or update it. No, it's because when you do a different household, it says you it says update your household or I I don't want to do that because I don't know if it'll switch to mine. So then I just put I'm traveling.

Speaker 2 51:13

Wow.

Mig 51:13

And then when you go and traveling, that's when you need the link. Because I even did your own because I did your own profile liner. I don't want to mess with the home. I don't know how I don't know if it'll mess with the home. It's weird because before sometimes, like even with Rose, sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't. Like sometimes it'll go right in, and sometimes they will say that you gotta update the household. Dexter Resurrection was really good too. Man, I mean kind of.

Lano 51:38

You're saying hacks. This is um 2025. Um year's best TV shows shows Paradise. I like that one. That was on Hulu Adoles. I don't know.

Mig 51:47

Yeah, Hacks was one that I wanted to get started, but I I didn't.

Lano 51:50

I think you saw a couple. You did you see a couple?

Mig 51:52

I saw like the first episode.

Arts Burgers Relaunch: Hype Vs Reality

Lano 51:54

Daredevil, I saw this one Disney Plus, it was pretty good, but it's just short one season. And you know what I didn't see to see this year?

Mig 52:03

I can't believe I let it pass.

Lano 52:08

I didn't even see um Christmas Story once. I know we missed it too. We kept trying to make time for it. I think this is the first year in my life that I I I miss it. We're gonna see the first one and then that new one. But we we never we never got to it.

Mig 52:26

I watched parts of it like bits and pieces here and there. You know what I what I did watch dude, then I I never really paid too much attention to it, but this time like I watched it with like my full attention and the shit was funny as hell. Alf. Oh really? Oh, with Will Farrow. Oh, um The Alien. Uh-huh. Oh man, Alf. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That was that movie's big D is so funny. No, that's a like you gotta watch that every year, too. That's a classic. Hey, um and I don't know, did you end up taking uh the girls to go see the lights?

Lano 53:02

You know, um me and my wife, we we saw um we went to go see the one, but the girls were asleep. You guys went? We went because we were out there at that in and out, and I was like, oh, let's drive around the corner. But the girls were already asleep, so we we drove we drove by there and then um should have woke them up. We tried. I think Ellie was like, oh yeah, I see it, but then she was sleeping.

Mig 53:24

And then after you eat it in and out, you wanna go get our pastor. How you go out of the room?

Lano 53:27

No, I wanted to go, but we didn't have cash. We haven't we haven't had cash, so I haven't tried that out. But um, we drove by there and then we drove by, remember that that trailer park that had all the lights lit up? We drove by there because we went to that in and out right there on San Bernardino Road or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then we started we started making a trip, but um the kids were uh the kids were just asleep, sleeping, and then we didn't have cash to go get the pastor. But I I I've been telling Lori about that pastor. We want to go back. Maggie's been back.

Mig 53:53

Oh, you did? I went back the week after I got a torta.

Lano 53:56

How was the torta?

Mig 53:57

Pretty damn good, dude.

Lano 53:58

The pastor? Uh but every it seems like everything they make there, uh. I might get that uh get that alambre? Was that that big tray thing over there?

Mig 54:09

I might get that and you just dip your damn tortillas in there.

Lano 54:13

Oh dude, you know we're gonna go this weekend.

Mig 54:15

I think they want to try that potato, dude. They don't want to go all the way. What is it called? Papa loca. Papa loca?

Lano 54:21

Like a stuffed potato with stuff.

Mig 54:24

Yeah.

Lano 54:26

Amar?

Mig 54:27

Because when when I told the dude torta and sunse, yes. When I told the dude torta, he actually thought I said papa. And so he was like doing the asada and he put cheese on it, and I just thought that's the way they made a torta. And then when he brought a potato down and he opened it, I told him, hey, then yo, you can't torta no. And he's like, oh no, this is papa. I thought, no, torta. Like, oh okay, he's like, pues, you gonna put it on seeing? Like, yeah, dude. The the fucking um I asked Menio if he's you've taken him there. He's like, no. You haven't taken him. Every time you say, you just say you've already been there. Or that you just went.

Lano 55:15

It was um I f I I figured out the name. That's a long name.

Mig 55:19

Oh well he's full of it because there's already been a couple times that Tom Hey, you wanna go get some tacos? Nah, let's just go back. Let's just get out of here. I'll get something at home.

Lano 55:29

Fine. Cause it was um amor in sunset, right?

Mig 55:35

Yeah.

Lano 55:37

Let me see. I I f I found it. There was some little um the corner. Wait, it shows a little booth there or what? It popped up like um the name of the place and everything. No, it's not that fun.

Mig 55:52

That corner up there, it's on sunset. That corner there. It's right there.

Lano 55:57

This one? Oh it popped up somewhere right where I saw the name.

Mig 56:04

Wow.

Lano 56:04

It was on like Yelp or something like that. In um, what is that?

Mig 56:08

West Covina? Yeah, it's West Covina. If you guys want some Balmas al Pastor. Sunset and Amar. They're on the corner. But it's like Manuel says because he went one time and he wasn't sure which one it was. So that's why he didn't stop.

Rick 56:27

Uh-huh.

Mig 56:29

It's the one that's on sunset. Because there's another set of people that set up on Aymar. Oh yeah. So make sure it's the one on sunset. Yeah.

Speaker 2 56:41

Next to the bus stop.

Lano 56:49

There's a way we can do the maps, huh?

Mig 56:51

Oh, and you what about the other spot? Um, I sent you guys the it was that those tacos that they put the guacamona Ding TG style. Oh no, I haven't been. That was also like I said to you guys. I don't remember which it was. It was a restaurant. It was a restaurant.

Lano 57:09

You know where I did go? I don't know if I told you. Was that Clandestino? Oh, did you go? Yeah, we went, me and my wife went and um How'd you guys like it? It was good. We had that tomahawk. Um it's nice, huh? The tomahawk um whatever it was? Uh-huh. The chilaquillas?

Street Tacos Deep Dive

Mig 57:27

Oh, yeah, yeah. It was good. Like we just that's what they said that they're known for their chilaquiles. And their chilaquiles were good. Uh you guys went on a date or what? You guys didn't take the girls? Was it late night or not?

Lano 57:40

I think we know we we did take the girls because they ordered some mac and cheese. And the the mac and cheese was like really good. It was like a different, it wasn't uh elbow macaroni, it was like a um uh uh my wife knew it. It was like a big thick um a thick noodle. Uh-huh. Like um she said papa dela or something, papadelli or something, like a big thick. But the mac and cheese was in that and those it was really good. Oh, that's good. Oh, yeah, this is it. This tacos, la, la um, how do you say this?

Speaker 1 58:16

Huculita.

Lano 58:18

But this is the stand we went to.

Speaker 1 58:20

Huculita Oaxaca.

Lano 58:21

This is Aymar and Sunset Oaxaca. But um, it's they have it at 3.8, but this was this.

Mig 58:28

Right now, right now that you guys brought up Chilaquitas, it remind it reminded me. Every time I'm driving uh Soto on Valley, right there in La Puente, there was this uh place, it it's where that nudie bar is at that um I think it's uh Paradise. Like at a little strip mall. Oh no. On the on the right side. Oh no. Like if you're heading uh east, no, it's on Valley. Oh. And um there used to be it was a Brazilian place. There was a Trudasqueria, but they only lasted a few months because I guess people didn't didn't go. We wanted to stop a lot of times, but every time we wanted to stop, they were closed.

Rick 59:09

Uh-huh.

Mig 59:10

So I don't know what hours they had that were erratic. Well, anyways, they put a lot of money and everything to fixing the place up just to fail.

Speaker 2 59:18

Uh-huh.

Mig 59:19

But we've been passing by like since last week I noticed another banner went up in its place. And I guess they're gonna open a place called Chila Killers, like killers. Uh-huh. Chila Killers. Uh-huh. Chila Killers. So I'm assuming their main thing is gonna be Chilaquilas. So I'll be keeping an eye out, see when it opens up and see what the deal is with it. The restaurant business gotta be the most yeah, dangerous or the most the riskiest thing to start up. But on on the topic of restaurants, you know I'm sure we've already posted it on uh the Instagram and everything, and we all know, but Arts Burgers is open again.

Lano 1:00:07

Have anybody went back?

Mig 1:00:08

I went back. I went back. Uh Miggy was disappointed. Kind of. With what'd you get? I didn't even get it. The burrito. Breakfast burrito.

Lano 1:00:16

That's the only thing I know is the burger. Well, I had the the burger and not burger.

Mig 1:00:20

The big John is no longer big. Oh. Yeah. You remember before it used to be real big and heavy and everything? Well, now it's just a regular size. Yeah. And that's the large. I ordered the large. A lot of fat ass size.

Lano 1:00:34

They didn't, you've gotten they didn't mess up and give you the regular one?

Mig 1:00:38

I ordered the large. I mean. With potatoes? With potatoes. And even that, I think they kind of changed the potatoes because the flavor is still similar. It's still kind of like I remembered. Like, was it the ham or something?

Lano 1:00:52

What was the flavor?

Mig 1:00:53

I remember something. Like it was different. It wasn't as good as they used to be. The texture changed. Something changed because it's like really kind of grainy now. That week it opened, I went on Sunday and I got in line like at 6.30. And it took me about like almost 25 minutes to get to the curb before I was about to order. And then they came out and said sold out of meat. Yeah, but you know, for some reason, I don't know why they're not opening both lanes. Yeah. They're only doing the one lane.

Lano 1:01:30

Is that the inside or the outside?

Mig 1:01:32

Like is the glass. No, you know what? I think they were they had the both lanes open. I've already gone back three or four different times, and it's always just the one lane that they have open. So the part that's why I like it. Yeah. We got denied, and there was a long line that that forms. So I'm telling you, I said, alright. Once they say they're sold out, I I went in, I went in, I went into the parking lot, busted a bitch, and then a bunch of zombies. And then as soon as I came out of zombies, everybody was gone. Yeah. So ever since the opening, I've passed by three or four times. And every time that line has been about at least 20 cars deep. 20 to 30 cars deep. So I don't stop. It was that one morning when I went, I I went to Sam's club and I said on I'm gonna it shouldn't be that long right on the morning. And I'm I'm talking about it was like nine o'clock. Yeah. Like nine thirty. So like it shouldn't be that that bad. No, it was bad. So I just ended up getting off and ordering when I got off. Yeah. Which I don't know if that was good or not because it still took really long. And um the hype's gotta go down. Yeah, so again, last week when when we made the the night we made the tamales, you know, you you came over, you saw me eating Tommy's. Well that same night I was gonna try to get a burger at Arts.

Rick 1:03:06

Uh-huh.

Mig 1:03:07

And so I go and I'm pulling up and I see that there's no line. You know, from like far away, I see there's no line. You can see it from far, like almost from like from before you pass the freeway, the underpass or the overpass. If there's a line or not. I was like, oh shit, cool. And like I'm finally gonna be able to get my burgers. And as I'm pulling up, I'm like, I'm like, why is there no line? I'm like, watch them be closed. And as soon as I get closer, yup, all the lights are off and everything. I'm like, oh freaking. What time was it? Yeah, it was I think like six. Yeah.

Lano 1:03:40

So they closed earlier or they run out of meat, or what is it? I don't know.

Mig 1:03:45

Yeah, I guess they're running out of meat.

Lano 1:03:47

So they're having big surveys because they're back and then they're running out of meat.

Mig 1:03:50

And then, like Rick, you know, I ended up just going to Tommy's. Yeah. Tommy's breakfast burrito. Good. Dude, I still need to try it.

Lano 1:04:00

I forgot about that burrito.

Mig 1:04:01

I still need to try it. I haven't tried it yet.

Lano 1:04:04

Let's go back to the stand because um before we close out, just because uh we we went with this is one of the reasons why we didn't record this past month, because we went out to try this um this food review, and then um we're gonna bring cameras and stuff, but then it was just it was too cold that night and parking's kind of hard. But uh I want to give it a school review. Oh, that's it?

Mig 1:04:26

That's it, Lano?

Lano 1:04:26

Yeah, this is it. This is the one this is it.

Mig 1:04:29

I thought that was another place you were talking about. You went with Nora about the mac and cheese and all the things.

Lano 1:04:32

Oh no, that was the clandestino. That's another spot that Ricky had mentioned. That's a restaurant. No, that's like uh so here um we have it on the. What did you order?

Mig 1:04:45

You ordered I got a burrito. No, I ordered just tacos because you need to taste uh I ordered uh pastor pastor taco. We ordered three asada and three el pastor. And what did you order?

Lano 1:04:57

Only pastor tacos and something else, a quesadilla. I ordered a quesadilla. But then I ordered one for the girls to take home. And one taco.

Mig 1:05:05

Oh, and then I took a burrito home.

Lano 1:05:07

Yeah, yeah.

Mig 1:05:08

Yeah, you took a burrito home.

Lano 1:05:09

So we went because uh Ricky wanted us to try the pastor, and for me, the best pastor I've ever had.

Mig 1:05:15

Yeah, it was pretty damn good. Yeah, the best pastor. It was pretty good. It's like everything they have there is good. I mean, the pastor was tender, juicy, fine. How did you like the cut? Lano, you said it was like turk turkey.

Lano 1:05:28

Uh I don't know. It was just it was very tender. Like the the guy was slicing it, these pieces, and and like you say, you just watch it flop on your tortilla. But it was very um I haven't I've never tasted pastor like that. Like it was more that the meat flavor than than than the pastor like salsa flavor they used to.

Mig 1:05:46

And their salsa are good. Yeah. Yeah. You know the the when you make a quesadilla, they had their the lady there making the the handmade tortilla for the quesadillas. Yeah. And I'm telling you, they had that um that one dish that's that's uh called an alambre. I saw it on the menus right here on the bottom. They just mix it all kinds of stuff. Looks almost like a fajita, huh? It's like a big like a tray though or something like that. And you just get your tortilla and just dip into it.

Lano 1:06:22

So right here it says papa, rellenos, um, tacos, tortas, and then the burrito and then alambres, quesadillas, and mulitas.

Mig 1:06:29

You see, because I told Meno that they had tripa, and I told him that the tripa looked like it was like really burned and like they looked crispy. Uh-huh. And he says that's the way they should be. Oh, really? So, and I'll tell you, I want to go back. Of course, I want to go back to the alpastor and everything. I think we're going to be able to do that.

Lano 1:06:51

We went and then um I recorded some like um B-roll footage, but then I never got to it. We're gonna we're gonna come back and talk about it the following week, but then um we everybody got busy, so we're off a month. But yeah. No, this was um it's worth it's cash only, so make sure you bring cash. Prices are decent. I thought prices were good.

Mig 1:07:10

Rick said that he swears that he went and they took Zal or Venmo. The I remember take cash just in case and make sure you have smaller bills in 20s, cuz last time they didn't they ran out of change. And their waters are awas frescos, they're they're really good too.

Lano 1:07:29

They're good, and then they were like they they give you a lot, they wasn't filled with ice. Yeah, it's look at there. There's a whole though, tortillas. That's a big one, too.

Mig 1:07:38

Oh, and those quesadillas, because I know most people are used to quesadillas being on flour tortillas, but uh these were made on uh well your choice of either flour or corn. That's nice, right? The corn ones are those big ones, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's it it's it's a legit.

Lano 1:07:56

It's legit.

Mig 1:07:57

Definitely recommended.

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Lano 1:07:59

And um, we went what time, seven? Eight? Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:08:03

It was about seven, six around there.

Lano 1:08:06

Everything was everything was good. Look at look at the spastodor right here, the way the slice this is.

Mig 1:08:14

That green sauce is good. Red one's good, but be careful with it. Unless you're a spice head, then pour it on. Yeah, we should all go and uh we should take menu there. Oh yeah. He didn't want to go with us at night. After work, yeah. You see, even after work. That time that you guys went and meet up with us, we I told him that's to go with us. And what do you he made his excuse and said no?

Lano 1:08:40

I said, forget him. We'll have to go Friday Friday. What what oh what does it say here on what time it opens? Um it's I mean they started setting up by probably thinking like around six, six, seven. But it it's good and um the name tacos, you guys say it because you pronounce it better. Cuquilita oaxenya on Amar and Sunset. Cuquilita Cuquilita. But it it's it's worth the drive out there, bring the cash and get agua for that. That was that was good. I remember we it was really good.

Mig 1:09:18

I got the pineapple. The pineapple was really good, like it wasn't a artificial with you. Sweet pineapple.

Lano 1:09:25

I got a pin. You know, and I always hear Ohkin foods really good, but this one was was really good.

Mig 1:09:31

Yeah, that was legit.

Lano 1:09:35

Well, people, so we have that being said happy news today. Were you guys listening?

Mig 1:09:41

Sorry for the absence for not being here. But like always, we love and appreciate you guys. Keep listening. Oh, we haven't given up the phone number in a long time, so call in 323-207-0012. 323-207-0012. Callin, wish us happy new year, all that good stuff. Be safe. Prayers to all the people that uh need prayers. Yeah, everybody out there that prayer for Mark the Shark out there.

Lano 1:10:14

Needs some healing, yeah. Um fighting infection right now. So drifting, yo. I was gonna call him, but he can't talk right now.

Mig 1:10:23

No. Peace. Prayers for G.

Lano 1:10:26

Call him. Peace out, yo. Peace.