Episode 111 - Heartfelt Tributes and Tasty Triumphs: 9/11 Reflections, Taco Reviews, and Car Repair Chronicles - Drifting on Arroyo

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Mig (00:11):
Welcome back to the Drift Down the Roya Podcast.
This is Migg.

Lano (00:14):
This is Lano, RK67.

Mig (00:18):
What's up.
What's up, what's up?
Heatwave is done.
Yeah, Gonzo F, that Heatwave.
Yeah man, Good ratings.

Lano (00:24):
You know, just another week, another day, nice and
comfortable in the studio.
Yeah.

Mig (00:32):
It's not freezing cold from the AC, it's not burning up
from the Heatwave, just nice.

Lano (00:40):
Another week, another failed assassination attempt.
That was pretty crazy Whack.

Rick (00:44):
Another week, another failed assassination attempt to
the big homie.

Lano (00:46):
That was pretty crazy Whack.

Mig (00:48):
Okay before we go any further, a couple things I
wanted to address.
Last week we didn't get to it.

Rick (00:55):
Yeah.

Mig (00:56):
Mainly because I forgot to mention it, but there were a
couple things I did want tomention last week.
Number one rest in peace toDarth Vader.
Oh yeah, james Earl Jones.
James Earl Jones, that one hurtman yeah.

Lano (01:15):
That one freaking hurt.
That's our youth right there.
Such a great body of work withthat guy man, I mean everything
From when we were kids.
It started with the Star Wars.
Yep, with his voice alone.
Man.
That one hurts man.
Rest in peace.

Mig (01:34):
I just wanted to throw that shout out there to show a
little respect.
But the other, more serious andmore important thing I wanted
to cover was, um, when werecorded the show it was a day
before and I always forget thatit's coming out after and I
should have brought this up.
But, um, the anniversary of9-11, oh yeah and that's just

(02:01):
that, yeah exactly, you see, andthat's just.
Oh, it was yeah, exactly you see, and that's just something that
we should never, ever Forgetabout.
Yep, you know it's like because, when you think about it,
that's already.
It's already 23 years ago.

Lano (02:14):
That that happened.
That's nuts.

Mig (02:16):
So that's almost like a generation that doesn't know.

Rick (02:21):
Anything About 9-11.

Mig (02:22):
You know you see 9-11 and they're just thinking like,
whatever you know, it's knowanything about 9-11?
You know you see 9-11 andthey're just thinking like,
whatever you know, it's justanother date, you know, and it
should never be forgotten, youknow, because who knows if
they're gonna teach about it inthe history books or or what you
know?
yeah, yeah it's like because,like, even like world war ii and
everything like the, the daythat they bombed pearl harbor,

(02:43):
you know, it's like we don'tknow the date.
Huh, december 7th, oh, I didn'tknow it.
1941.
The day that we live in infamy,I didn't know that one.

Rick (02:54):
These are dates we've got to make an effort to remember.

Lano (02:56):
Yeah, I mean, and it's important, I mean 9-11,.
Yeah, because that happenedduring our time.

Mig (03:00):
It's important, you know, because a lot of people died you
know, and a lot of people weresacrificed and everything.

Lano (03:04):
Well, even the people that died on the plane, in the
building and then after fact,yeah, and all the people.

Mig (03:12):
And then all the firefighters and police officers
that are dying to this day.

Lano (03:16):
Yeah, because of all, the, Because of all the contaminants
and everything.

Mig (03:19):
You know it's like, so we got to remember them you know,
and just you know, just on yourown, just a little prayer for
those families that had theirloved ones lost.
I just think it's important tomention it.

Rick (03:34):
So it was 2001,.
23 years ago.
Yeah, wow, that's crazy, that'samazing right?

Mig (03:38):
Yeah, it's like blinking my eyes.

Lano (03:41):
You said 23 years ago, and I think about I mean we've
already talked about it becausewe've talked about it before
Like I was at Home Depot in themorning when I heard about that.

Mig (03:51):
Yeah.

Lano (03:51):
So then I think back, like how far back it was when I was
at Home Depot.
I'm like damn man Can't believeit's been that damn long.

Rick (03:59):
And how long?
Have you stopped working atHome Depot.

Lano (04:01):
It's been a while and how long have you stopped working at
Home Depot?
I was with Neptune since oldtwo until last year.

Rick (04:12):
So that was 22 years.
Oh, so the year after is whenyou switched yeah, 22 years with
Neptune.

Lano (04:16):
Then we got one year with our new company, MGR.

Rick (04:19):
Completely one year exactly, almost.
Huh, yeah, it was around thistime.
Yeah, it was August 21st wasour official.

Lano (04:23):
You don't have that on exactly almost huh.
Yeah, it was around this time.
Yeah, it was August.
August 21st was our official.
That's what.
You don't have that on yourshirts huh Like established
2023?
.

Rick (04:30):
Oh no, yeah, we got to.

Lano (04:31):
You should put that.
I got to tell Marcos.

Rick (04:34):
So then I mean now that it's your company you're
building a legacy but yeah youknow.

Mig (04:40):
I just thought it was really important to mention that
.

Lano (04:43):
Yeah, never forget, never forgotten.

Mig (04:50):
Teach the youth what happened.
Yeah, never forget, man,because that was a terrible
moment in time, you know usrecording.

Rick (05:00):
In LA there used to be memorials that the they didn't.
I don't remember they didn't dothat this year at all.

Mig (05:07):
No, well it's because sometimes you know, it's like
you start changing, you start toforget.

Lano (05:11):
Well, no, but they're already like trying to erase all
that, like they don't wantpeople to be talking about that.

Rick (05:17):
Because I saw, ricky, there was like a piece of debris
or the building at the fireacademy.
Yeah, at the fire academy andthey would always have something
, a ceremony there, but thisyear I don't remember anything.

Mig (05:28):
You know, they might have still had it, but they got no
publicity Right.
You know, because Rick says youknow, it's like the rhetoric or
the what am.

Lano (05:40):
I?
What's the word?

Mig (05:42):
I can't believe I'm stuck for a word.

Lano (05:43):
You know what it is.
It's people coming together andI think they frown upon that
patriotic.
Yeah, you know that's the thingit's like.

Mig (05:57):
I want to know since when has patriotism become such a bad
thing?

Rick (06:02):
Yeah.

Mig (06:03):
You know, it's like why are you going to yell at me and
bark at me and tell me that I'mracist and I'm this and I'm that
and everything, just becauseI'm patriotic, because you're
American, just because I love mycountry?
Man, it's like why?
It's like, but yeah, you getall these dumb kids, you know,
that are all proud of Mexico orwhatever.

(06:24):
Yet they've never been there,you know.
But they claim, you know, theirMexican pride and this and that
or whatever, and fly theirMexican flags and all this shit.
You know, I'm guilty of it, Idid it, you know, and so I wised
up, you know, and it's like,yeah, it's fine, you know it's
like be proud of your heritage,be proud of your culture and
everything.

(06:44):
But you know, and it's like,yeah, it's fine, you know it's
like be proud of your heritage,be proud of your culture and
everything.
But, dude, you're living here.
You know it's like be proud ofyour country and be proud to
call yourself American man,because so many people would
kill to be in your position,dude.
And you know, for you to justtake that for granted, man, I
mean that just really, it reallyjust chaps my ass.
Man, I mean that just really,really just chaps my ass man,

(07:07):
you know so.

Rick (07:09):
I'm on Wikipedia right now and they have like a diagram of
the planes, like the debris,and you got like landing gear
landed like three blocks away.

Mig (07:18):
Yeah.

Rick (07:19):
Crazy Four blocks.

Mig (07:21):
I mean I don't want to make the whole show that.
I just wanted to bring it up,you know, and just make sure
that people remember you knowand if you have you know, if you
don't know about it, I'm sureit's easy to look up stuff on it
.
You know, and learning channel,discovery channel, history
channel they got tons of footageand specials and documentaries

(07:45):
on it.

Rick (07:45):
So yeah, like my girls um once, two and a half once you
know six months um, thathappened 20 years before they
were born, so I don't even knowlike I'm gonna have to educate
them on that you know.

Mig (07:59):
So I mean, the point is is, like we said Since the day that
it happened Never forget, justnever forget.
So that's my point.

Rick (08:17):
Moment of silence.
Let's keep.

Mig (08:20):
No, I mean, it would be good, but A moment of silence?

Rick (08:22):
What 20 seconds?

Mig (08:23):
No, I mean that's, that's fine, it's already just that,
pause All right, we can move on.

Rick (08:29):
We had Tacos Frontera.
Tacos Frontera, a new taco spotthat opened up in the
neighborhood, and so what do youguys think of it?
Food review people, food review.

Lano (08:44):
We did a food review.
Surprise food review.
Gorilla food review.
It's in Cypress Park on CypressAvenue.

Mig (08:52):
And we actually did it right before the show.
Yeah, so it's fresh in ourheads, it's fresh in our heads.

Rick (08:57):
It's fresh in Ricky's mouth right now.

Lano (08:59):
Yeah it is.
So what did you guys order?
What did we grade?
I'm actually.

Mig (09:06):
This agua de piña.
I call it a lemonade, butwhatever, they call it a piña.
Pretty, delicious.

Rick (09:16):
What did we order?

Lano (09:18):
So it was Six tacos de pastor, three tacos de asada, a
burrito de asada.
Just to try the two differenttaco and the burrito and they
also have chorizo.

Rick (09:33):
They have lengua and they have something else you had.
You had the same thing no, Iknow, but it's on the menu, but
that's like the main heavyhitter right, that's what people
are going to go for yeah, Ididn't put nothing extra on it,
just like that.

Lano (09:45):
So we just ordered them just the way they came, wow, I
had horchata and it was alreadystarting off because maybe I
mean, I know horchata is goingto be, you know, depending on
the person, that horchata wasnot for me.
I don't like that.
That taste of horchata is toosweet.
It has like a weird, like a lotof say kind of an ice cream
taste.
Like I don't like that, thatstyle of horchata.

(10:06):
So the horchata is a no go forme.

Rick (10:09):
Hmm.
Yeah, the horchata tastes likea little sweet, like yeah, it
tastes like ice cream like avanilla ice cream, yeah.

Mig (10:16):
Yeah, I like the drink that I got.

Lano (10:21):
I mean, it's not that it's bad, it's just it's not the
kind of flavor that I like.
It's not your cup of tea, yeah,okay, so I'm not going to knock
it just because it's a personalpreference of the way I like
horchata.

Mig (10:38):
So as far as the food, Go to that picture Asada tacos.

Rick (10:45):
Yeah.

Lano (10:46):
On the bottom, right there in the middle.

Rick (10:47):
Oh, that was a different restaurant, so this is a.
They didn't put nothing on theasada here.

Mig (10:55):
Someone probably ordered it that way.

Lano (10:58):
I thought that's how TJ tacos were, don't they put?

Mig (11:01):
No, they put the cilantro and the onion on it.
They don't put the guacamole onit.
They don't put the guacamole onit, no guacamole.

Rick (11:06):
Because they didn't have that on there.

Lano (11:07):
They didn't have guacamole on there.

Mig (11:09):
You see me I'm one for I don't like too much stuff on it.
It's like for me I'm, I guess,like a taco purist, to where
what we grew up with, with thetaco trucks around us, where the
flavor of the meat itselfcarried the taco and the flavor

(11:31):
of the salsas.
Yeah, you know, it didn't needthis big, gigantic dollop of
guacamole on it.

Rick (11:40):
Yeah, we just ordered tacos and they came with
everything already.

Mig (11:43):
Or this crema on it.
You know the al pastor was good, flavorful, it was good, but I
could have done without thatcream that they put on it, only
because I don't like it when youput too much stuff on it.
You know, it's like even likesome people say, like put the
pineapple.
I've never had it with thepineapple and I've had had it

(12:04):
with the pineapple and I don'tlike it.

Lano (12:07):
You've had it, I've had it , oh yeah.

Mig (12:11):
I don't like it with the pineapple.
But the way they show them onthe pictures, you know where
they put all this cream and theyput all this gigantic spoon of
guacamole and everything.
It's just.
That's not for me, you know,because for me that's hiding the
flavors of everything else.

Rick (12:28):
See, ricky this one has guacamole.
They didn't put it on there.
Yeah, they must have went out.

Mig (12:34):
You see, and that's the thing Right there, you know, so
we had.
I wanted purposely just to havetacos so I could taste the meat
, and the asada was veryunimpressive, very bland, seems
like no seasoning whatsoever.
You know, if they're not goingto season it, then they should

(12:55):
at least do it like overmesquite, not just like over a
charbroiler, you know.
So that way at least it picksup Some kind of like smoky
flavor or something, but justlike that.

Lano (13:07):
The asada and the burrito.
The asada and the burrito was alittle bit better Because of
the cheese.
The cheese helped it out For me.

Mig (13:16):
Cause.
Then you got a little bit ofthe flavor there.
Since they had that big openwindow where you could see, like
the chefs.

Rick (13:22):
Or the cooks.

Mig (13:23):
Putting everything together .
I saw how the guy was puttingtogether the tortas and like all
the because there's one guyworking the pastor, the trompo,
and there's another guy workingthe asada and other meats, I
guess and I see them making atorta, putting it all together.
It looked good and he put themeat on there and it looked like

(13:44):
he put a spoonful of like somekind of like a juice, like a
orange or some something whichprobably they did to the burrito
also, which is why it had muchmore flavor than the tacos.
You know, it might be like aconsomme from their birria or
something, I don't know.

Rick (14:03):
But and right here ricky says that the parking that we
parked, that that's not theirparking lot.
Oh no, so it's the otherbusiness.

Lano (14:09):
But maybe after hours.

Mig (14:11):
After hours, it's fine, yeah ain't no biggie, but um
well, that's the pineapple rightthere, huh yeah, yeah, no, at
the spot where I go.

Lano (14:23):
It's not a big chunk like that, it's just a very small
slice of pineapple, just barelyenough on the taco See.
Look at that.

Rick (14:36):
Yeah.

Mig (14:38):
You see, but even like that , the way it is like that, I
wouldn't want it like that.
I wanted to try the guacamoleyou know, know, because it just
it hides everything I mean itcomes.

Lano (14:47):
I guess you gotta order it because that's that looks like
a pastor there.

Rick (14:49):
No, that's chorizo.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Every taco comes like wrappedup like in a, like a paper cone,
yeah, and when I just see thatI think like we're paying for
all that stuff.
I mean, the presentation isnice no, that's how.

Mig (15:02):
That's how they make them in TJ.

Lano (15:04):
I don't know the Pastor is just that I've had a pretty
bomb Pastor by my house.
With the review soon, so itdoesn't hold the candle to this
one.

Mig (15:17):
I mean, this one doesn't hold the candle to me.
It is difficult to find good AlPastor.

Lano (15:22):
That one that we found.

Mig (15:23):
Outside of Mexico.
It is so hard to find good Alpastor.
Yeah, that one, that one thatwe found Outside of Mexico.
It is so hard to find good alpastor.

Lano (15:27):
That one is this one was just okay.
Yeah, you know, and that sauce,I don't know what it was, but I
started.
I started having like tingling,a tingling in my mouth or
something I felt.
I felt the the top of my mouthand the gums below my teeth,

(15:48):
inside and outside.
I felt like my gums startedgetting wrinkled.
I was like what the flip?
I don't know if it was maybethe tortillas, because when I
eat cornflakes I get the samefeeling up on top.

Rick (16:03):
You knew that, miggy, when he eats cornflakes, get the
same feeling up on top.
You knew that, miggy, when heeats cornflakes he gets like an
alert of your action.

Mig (16:09):
News to me.
Yeah Well, I don't know, I meanOverall, if we're going to rate
it.

Rick (16:16):
Out of 10.

Mig (16:17):
Out of 10, 6-7 About a 6.

Rick (16:19):
I give it a 6.
Yeah, I mean I welcome it tothe neighborhood.
Yeah, I mean I welcome it tothe neighborhood it's different.

Mig (16:23):
Will I go back?
Yeah, yeah, because they're alot better than how much do you
think it cost?

Lano (16:30):
Six, that's what I was going to ask you how much was it
?
It was six.

Rick (16:34):
It was $76 total.
For everything we got Eleventacos.
Eleven tacos.
I got apple pie, Ricky.

Lano (16:43):
Eleven tacos, a burrito and three aguas.

Rick (16:46):
So the tacos are about $3.75.
Wow, damn For the little tacos.
The burritos are smaller thanaverage burritos.

Lano (16:53):
Is that what?
How much taco was?

Rick (16:54):
Yeah, a burrito's $12.
And a smaller size burrito also, it's a small burrito too.

Mig (17:00):
Yeah.

Lano (17:01):
Hey, and my spot, while they're taqueros on the street,
the burritos are nice size dude.

Rick (17:10):
Yeah.

Mig (17:10):
Yeah, for the size of that, one fresco's pretty expensive.

Rick (17:15):
Yeah, because we go to the Rero's you get like a big giant
one for almost like less theprice.

Mig (17:22):
Well, I mean, it's a brick and mortar, you know.
So you know you gotta figurethey gotta cover their overhead
and everything yeah sidesConsume I mean, that's what I'm
saying, will I go back, probably, you know, because there's some

(17:42):
people, maybe just to try thattorta.
Yeah, cause there's some peoplethat Put up their stands and
everything that I've gone to.
They're just they're not good.
Yeah, you know, they're justnot good and that's why A lot of
times I don't wanna, you know,when I'm craving, like Asada or
something, it's like I know Iwould have to Drive.

(18:03):
You know, cause the like I knowI would have to drive, you know
, because the only spot I knowwhere they have good trucks are
on Valley, out there by the 605.

Rick (18:11):
Well, I was going to say Whittier, like La.

Mig (18:13):
Puente Right or Whittier, you know.
So I would have to drive, youknow.

Rick (18:18):
Yeah.

Mig (18:18):
And I don't want to make that drive.
You know, I want to be able tobring, get the tacos take them
home and eat them at home.

Rick (18:30):
You gotta do that, it's gonna.
They're just gonna get cold.
You gotta go to la carneceria,huh, yeah we bought some over
the weekend.

Mig (18:33):
Now I would say like that, I saw this better I mean better.

Rick (18:35):
Well, I mean yeah, yeah, I think it's way better.
Um, it's all prime beef.
So when it says media, I'massuming that's chivo or no, I
mean it could be either.

Mig (18:45):
Or I do want to go back and try the chivo.
I would say they're probablyDoing beef.
I don't think they would dochivo, because I thought the
default was chivo, not beef.

Rick (18:56):
It depends.

Lano (18:59):
I prefer the rest yeah.

Rick (19:02):
Yeah, me too.
Me too.

Mig (19:03):
A lot of times they don't do the, they don't do the, they
don't do the Chewable and itends up Tasting funky.

Rick (19:07):
Yeah, yeah, gaming to me, that's what I don't like.
I can't even do Goat cheese.

Mig (19:11):
But I'm telling you, if they do it right, like when I
was in the F, that one trip Itook to the the F.

Lano (19:19):
And I had some.

Mig (19:20):
Birria Borrego.

Rick (19:22):
Uh huh.

Lano (19:23):
Lamb.

Rick (19:24):
Uh huh.

Mig (19:24):
Dude that's like nothing.

Lano (19:25):
You can't compare that.

Mig (19:26):
Dude.

Rick (19:27):
Dude, I wanna go to a trip , you talk?

Mig (19:29):
about mouthwatering man so good Like a.

Rick (19:31):
Mexico City trip With you guys.
I mean, I need a A handler Togo out and try All the food
places.

Mig (19:37):
Yeah, go to Go to that, open down that street when it's
nothing but tacos man, nothingbut taqueros.

Rick (19:45):
That's what I want to do, if yeah.
So we said what a six and ahalf?

Mig (19:50):
Yeah, it's middle of the road.

Rick (19:54):
It's okay, I'm going to take the wifey pie this weekend.
I say six and then try someother stuff on the menu just
before I give it my full review.

Mig (20:00):
I would say I was disappointed.
I kind of like hyped myself up.

Lano (20:06):
You're going to wait to give it a full review?

Rick (20:08):
I mean I'm going to try some more stuff, you know I mean
, and then I went on a fullstomach.

Lano (20:13):
I mean really like the asada and the pastor.
Like I said, that was like theheavy hitter were.

Rick (20:18):
Yeah, yeah, the pastor to me had a lot of flavor.
It has a little kick to it.
I mean I'll take the, the wifeand stuff and then we'll see.
But I I want to try, like thetorta and stuff, because maybe
it's a torta place for me or theburrito.
I gotta try the oh yeah, the wayyou said they're making the
burritos man, so yeah, so maybethat's that's, I gotta try the

(20:38):
burrito, but but, um, I wasreally excited about it and
people have been telling meabout it, so I was excited about
it and then people are tellingme like it's in my neighborhood,
so they're like you haven'ttried it yet, because they're
asking me about it and I waslike no, but I'm a little
disappointed, a littledisappointed I mean, I wish them
well, I wish them success, youknow if they hear this you know,

(21:00):
I hope you do a little bit moreto season up that asada, a
little bit more, you know, giveit a little more flavor and
that's the thing with thoseprices.
Like we'll see what theneighborhood will decide, like
they're gonna.
You know, a lot of people arejust trying it for the first
time, but like I'm gonna keepgoing at those prices.
We'll see because, um that,that area, go back.

(21:21):
Go back to the days of Rambles,man Rambles had some pastor
dude, One of our good friends,Dolores.
She said she just went lastweek, so she's gone multiple
times, but she liked it.

Mig (21:36):
Yeah, she enjoyed it.

Rick (21:38):
We're going to have her on the show soon.
Maybe we tried to get her today.

Mig (21:45):
That's her right there, daria.

Lano (21:46):
Maria, that's the food review You're going to wait for
the full review after you gothis weekend To get the drum
roll.
You want to do the drum.
I mean no, you got to give yourfull review.

Rick (22:01):
I mean, the food was okay, the prices were high.

Lano (22:03):
We can touch back, we can touch back.

Rick (22:04):
We'll touch back.
We'll touch back.
We'll touch back.
All right, we'll touch back.
Don't give it, don't give thefull, because I only, I only
have like a yay or nay, I don'thave like uh in between well,
let me tell you my adventurousweekend on saturday does it have
to do with food, uh?

Lano (22:22):
you got another food spot a little bit, yeah, a little bit
, I mean I got, I got.

Mig (22:26):
If're going to stay on the food topic, I got one thing I
can say.

Lano (22:29):
Well, I went to go get pan dulce at that bakery in
Champurrado, ooh, the one acrossfrom.

Rick (22:35):
In-N-Out.

Lano (22:36):
Huh, no, it's over in La Puente.
And so I went to the bakerybakery and the car has been
messing up the Malibu and uh,the service battery Like kept
coming on Service light and, um,the AC wasn't Like cooling

(23:02):
anymore.
And then, um, so Saturdaymorning I go you know why I want
to try it?
Because Vanessa was driving itso I wanted to drive it just to
the bakery and back see what itwas doing.
So then when I put it on thevoltage so I could see the
voltage, and then I just keptseeing the voltage drop and then
I'm like shit, I'm like halfwayin it and it was was like three

(23:30):
times while I was going with it.
I was gonna go, just go back tothe house, going, going, going.
And then, um, I just see thevoltage go and then it says
steering, something, um,something's happening to the
steering, drive safe.
And then the steering gets hard.
I'm like I have no more powersteering.
I'm like what the kiss your assgoodbye, yeah.
So then, like I'm turning reallyhard, and then like I was going
to go back, and then the bakerywas right there.
We're like, well, you know,might as well, just drop in real

(23:54):
quick, get the pan dulce, andthen we pull in, you know, we
get off.
We go get the pan dulce and theChaparral.
We come back in the car and thecar doesn't start.
It's over, and I was going toleave it on, I wasn't going to
turn it off, your alternator andit wasn't starting, no more.
I forgot my wallet.
I forgot my wallet.

(24:15):
Vanessa paid for it.
I forgot my wallet and my phonewas about to die.
I didn't know, I couldn'tfigure out, my damn, my login
for the AAA.
So then I was like dude, I wasso pissed off.
It was Saturday morning, I wasso damn pissed off.
I had to get out of the car andwalk up and down the street a

(24:38):
little bit.

Mig (24:39):
I was furious, I just started thinking about oh,
pacing, yeah, I just startedthinking about all the fucking
junk cars there that are notrunning Like.

Lano (24:47):
this is all I needed.

Rick (24:48):
Well, at least it wasn't hot.

Lano (24:50):
Another car that doesn't run to the damn junkyard in the
back, and so I was able to login and I got the guy and they
said it was going to be herelike in 30 minutes.
When the guy finally got there,he tested out everything.
He says, yeah, the battery'sdone.
When the guy finally got there,he tested out everything.
He says, yeah, the battery'sdone.
And he, he was able to jump it.

(25:10):
He jumped it, got it startedand he, he was checking.
He says, yeah, the alternatoris done, and I was because I was
signing the voltage.
Yeah.
He's like, yeah, he goes, I'lljust follow you home, I go.
I told him I was, I live justclose by.
He's like, yeah, I'll followyou, I'll be right behind you.
I'm like, all right, cool.
So then I pull on and powers no, power steering.

(25:32):
So I'm turning and I'm tryingto make the red light and then
the car in front of me stops andthen, as the light turns green,
we, we go, and as soon as Iturn the corner, it turns off
and the guy has to get hisjumper and leave the jumper.
I turn the corner, it turns offand the guy has to get his
jumper in and leave the jumperconnected to the car so it's
jumped up again, but he left itconnected.
He like bungee tied it, tiedthe hood and everything.

Rick (25:54):
So the hood's kind of open right.

Lano (25:56):
Yeah, that's crazy.
And then the lights.

Mig (25:59):
I didn't think they would do that.
Yeah, the lights going off.
Hood is open.
Hood is open.

Lano (26:06):
I have everything off inside, but the hood is open and
you know you had all that.
So I made it to the house and Itold dude, cool, you know
thanks.
And I was like, dude, what thefuck.
I was like.
I was already so pissed off.
Well then, um, it wasn't until,like I think, um, sunday, me
Manny.
We pushed the car back in thedriveway and yesterday,

(26:32):
yesterday, I went to, I startedtaking it apart, I started
looking at YouTube videos, Itook it all apart, took the
battery out and then I went.
I could have sworn you hadgiven me a braking bar and I
couldn't find any braking bar inthe garage.
I thought I had it in the truckand nothing.
I could have sworn.
You gave me one.

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Manny was nowhere to be found.
The one time that I need Mannythere to come snooping and being
nosy, he doesn't show up.
Like the whole time he's notthere.
So I could ask for a damnhalf-inch breaking bar Nowhere
to be found and I was like dude,I was like nothing, and then I
had a half-inch ratchet.
But the space there's, thespace in there to get it in.

(27:14):
I couldn't get the space inthere.

Rick (27:17):
But you didn't have like pipeline around to like put it
over the handle and no, thething is the tensioner.

Lano (27:22):
The tensioner.
You can put a half-inch drivein it.

Mig (27:26):
They actually have special tools that are real slim, that
have the half-inch drive.

Lano (27:32):
A regular, just a regular, damn braking bar.
Well, let me get to that.
Yeah, because we have thosetools, I went to a.

Rick (27:45):
So what I have on the screen.
That's a braking bar.

Lano (27:47):
I took everything apart.
A braking bar is just the drivewith the swivel on the bar.

Rick (27:53):
So what I have on the screen right, yeah, okay.

Lano (27:58):
So it doesn't have the head of the ratchet because it
doesn't ratchet.
Okay, so I took everythingapart, took the battery out, I
took everything apart and Istarted taking apart the
disconnector, alternator andeverything.

Mig (28:11):
Yeah.

Lano (28:13):
And I couldn't get the damn thing.
I went to Home Depot to go buya breaking bar and then I go.
I was like ah, you know what,I'll get one at Harbor Freight.

Mig (28:26):
Yeah.

Lano (28:27):
And so I didn't get it there.
I left it there and then I leftstraight to Costco to get the
battery.
Got the battery, went to HarborFreight, got the breaking bar I
had at Harbor Freight and theyhad this cool one that was kind
of like a ratchet, okay, aratchet on the head.
I was like, oh, hell yeah, thisis like a ratchet, okay, a

(28:49):
ratchet on the head.

Rick (28:49):
I was like oh hell, yeah, this is pretty clean you know I
was already gonna get theregular one, that's what I saw
pro it was uh, yeah, like this,no, no, it looked a little bit
different look kind of like awrench.

Lano (28:57):
No, no, was it a pittsburgh?
I think it is a pittsburgh itlooks, yeah, it looks like kind
of like.
It looks like that one rightthere, that one, yeah, that one,
that one, that one.
Huh, I got that one.
So that one was slick.
I was like oh this is nice, man, that thing fit.

(29:18):
No, it didn't.
So I came back home and thatstupid thing didn't fit.
I couldn't do it.

Mig (29:27):
I'm looking at it right there.
I could tell you that shitwasn't going to fit.

Lano (29:30):
I'm so enamored with this stupid damn ratchet feature.
I'm like, oh yeah, this isbadass, this is going to work.
So then I get home and itdoesn't fit Blood pressure's
about right here now, I was likedude.
It's like what the and then Isaid, said, fuck it, I got.
I got a little like uh, anadapter, a three-eighths, a

(29:51):
three-eighths drive to a halfinch drive adapter I put that
that bitch in there and I justgot one of my fucking pipe
wrenches and I just fucking.
I really released the damntensioner to get the fucking
belt off, and then I got thedamn.

Rick (30:06):
I finally oh, and then?

Lano (30:07):
I got the damn alternator off and I couldn't get it out of
the damn, out of that spot.
And I finally get it out, go toAutoZone.
They had the refurbished onethere.
They go oh, the one at Ramonahas a brand new one.
I'm like, nah, I go give me abrand new one.
So I went to another AutoZonein Ramona, got that one, got the

(30:28):
brand new one.
Came back it was already dark.
I'm like there's no fucking wayI'm doing this in the dark.
So I just waited for today.
Well, you know, getting homefrom work today I was at Home
Depot.
I got me my damn.
Oh no, I went to Harbor Freightand I got me my.
Sorry, no, I went to HarborFreight and they got me my
Breaking bar.
Sorry, no, autozone.

(30:49):
I got the breaking bar atAutoZone when I bought the
alternator because I was goingto do it at night, but it was
already done.
So when I got home today, I gostart putting everything back
together.
Right, got the alternator inAlternator, was easy to adjust
the three bolts and Everythingwas going smooth Up until I had

(31:10):
to put that fucking Serpentinebelt back on.
That thing was pissing me off,man, just to slide it on the
tensioner.
You can't win, dude.
That shit was pissing me off,man.
I took off the old one Becauseit was starting to crack, so I
bought a new serpentine belt,but I couldn't remember the way
it went.
I kept putting it on.
I took off the old one becauseit was starting to crack, so I
bought a new Serpentine belt.
Okay, but I couldn't rememberthe way they went.

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I kept putting it on and I washaving all kinds of slack.

Mig (31:33):
I'm like what the fuck, there's no diagram on the.

Lano (31:36):
I didn't even Anywhere on the shroud or anything, or on
the hood.

Mig (31:39):
I didn't even check.
There should be a diagramsomewhere around there, I
probably should, I don't know.

Lano (31:43):
I was just pissed off again.
I was like pissed off again.
I was like everything else wentin smooth the battery, the
alternator, everything.
And the serpentine belt was theone thing that was giving me a
pain in the ass and I couldn'tEvery which way I was doing it,
up until I got it around thecrank and then around the
tensioner.

(32:03):
You figured out the pattern.
I was like, oh my God, dude,like what the fuck?
Like a damn, this thing's likea damn riddle right here.
Like I got it on and I was likeI went once I got everything
put back together, I'm like,dude, this better crank up,
cranked it up and I was like,yeah, man.
So I drove it around a littlebit, did I?

(32:25):
Took it to the driveway, carwash, yeah, deposited some
checks, did some stuff, cameback and boom, perfect.
And then I was thinking.
I was thinking like Fapo whenhe had the car, like if he had
all that problem and, you know,kept having problems with the
alternator and all that stuff.

Mig (32:43):
The battery light.

Lano (32:44):
yeah, I wonder if he was like getting refurbished
alternators.

Mig (32:49):
Probably, I don't know.

Lano (32:50):
That's why, like they never were good, I don't think I
ever did it.
Nah.
So I don't know if, maybebecause he didn't want to spend
the money on a new one, he justsaid, probably, ah, refurbished
is cool.
Maybe that's why there wasalways an issue with it, but I
was going to get a refurbishedone and they're like nah, you
know what, I'm going to get abrand new one.

(33:10):
I go, give me a brand new one.
So I didn't know.
I mean, so far, no check enginelight or nothing.
So I was part of your testdrive over here to.
I drove it like a couple hoursearlier today but man that I
couldn't believe that it was soeasy to take that alternator off

(33:33):
and it was that stupidserpentine belt and that
tensioner thing that was givingme a headache, dude.

Mig (33:38):
Well, all that frustration and pissed off for everything
you were, that's why we don'twork on cars.
You have the tools for all that, yeah, but still no.
But now that you get the roofhangers and all that stuff, when
you run into shit like that,and exactly how bad you are at
anything from working on cars,that's how we don't work on cars
.

Lano (33:56):
The half-inch braking bar.
You have that, the serpentinebelt.
You just said it yourself.

Mig (34:01):
I'm saying Look at the diagram there.
I'm saying the problems thatyou ran into and everything, how
pissed off you felt andeverything.
That's what happens to us whenwe work on cars, but it wasn't
like an issue that kept evolving.

Lano (34:14):
It's just because I don't work on cars, you know better
because you do work on cars, soit would have been a lot
smoother for you.

Mig (34:21):
No, I don't work on cars.
I work on trucks.
You never worked on cars.
It's not the same thing.
You never worked on cars.

Lano (34:27):
It's not the same thing.
You never worked on cars?
Yes, but Okay.

Mig (34:30):
So you have two.

Lano (34:32):
You just said right now oh , did you check the diagram on
the car?
Like it didn't even occur to me, but you know that because
you're familiar.
It's what you do.

Mig (34:42):
You're a mechanic, yeah, but still, with all this, new
shit, the way everything comeson new, everything's completely
different now.
Yeah, well, that's why we avoidworking on cars.

Rick (34:56):
When I had my Fiat, as soon as I opened up the trunk
people would just shake theirhead.
Everything was jammed in therein the Fiat.

Lano (35:06):
You have to take off fenders to get to stuff and
remove parts to get to this part.
You can't just repair it.
That's why you went with aTesla.
That way, tesla can only workon it.

Rick (35:11):
No, no oil changes.
They bring their laptop and doa program and that's it.

Mig (35:20):
Okay, mr Tesla lover, I got a story for you too.
Let's circle back to the foodstuff.
Good job on getting your carworking.
By the way, yeah, have a pandulce to get that blood pressure
down.
It called me down.
So we're pretty much all inagreement that the best chili

(35:43):
cheese fries that we've had isfrom Cypress Best, aka Frank's,
and it's been like that fordecades for us, and we've
searched high and low everywherewe go for chili cheese fries.

Rick (36:00):
And everybody we introduce , like my wife's family, we take
them.

Lano (36:03):
They all love it Javi Chris's, javi Everybody.

Mig (36:06):
Everybody, yeah, okay.
So this past weekend I get thedog, put him in the truck,
decided to take him for a drive,just driving around, and the
plan was to like on the way homeI was going to stop at Cypress
Best, get a burger, get somechili cheese fries and a soda

(36:28):
for dinner.
I'm near like I'm in the EagleRock area driving back.
Is that Colorado?
No driving down Eagle RockBoulevard.
Okay, back towards ourdirection, and I figure you know
what.
I'm going to try somethingdifferent, because I had gone to

(36:51):
go deposit a check in Glendaleand we passed by a Troy's where
we used to eat a lot when weworked at Soto, but I was away
from there.
So I'm like you know what, letme try Patra's.

Rick (37:03):
On New York yeah.

Mig (37:05):
Patra's has been there forever.
On New York.

Rick (37:04):
Yeah.

Mig (37:04):
Patras has been there forever, you know, and I'm sure
people in that area Swear thatPatras is the best and
everything.

Rick (37:13):
Not the one by San Fernando Road in Cyprus.
That one, no okay.

Mig (37:18):
Right where it splits into the.
Teguac Boulevard.
So I go to Patras, I get aburger, get some chili fries and
a soda.
Wow, let me tell you, dude, Ithink I might have found
something that tastes better thechili fries, yeah.

Rick (37:41):
Ooh.

Mig (37:42):
And I know that's a hot take and I know I might catch
crap from some people.
But Go back to those chilifries.
To me like Cypress Best.

Lano (37:55):
I don't know that looks a lot like Cypress.

Rick (37:57):
Best they give it to you in the tray the same.

Mig (37:59):
No, it's a big tray, though .

Lano (38:00):
They don't have like sizes , they just have like a big tray
that looks a lot like Cyaefer'sbest.

Mig (38:04):
I think someone stole Schaefer's best, okay, well,
that's a thing.

Rick (38:10):
The texture is different.

Mig (38:12):
The texture is more similar to Tommy's Chili is, so it's
not like as wet.

Lano (38:21):
This is it right here yeah but it looks a little too
chunky.

Mig (38:27):
Yeah.

Rick (38:28):
That's what Tommy's I mean Texture.

Lano (38:31):
That's that meat looks A little too chunky.

Mig (38:34):
Well, it's all about the flavor, not the so yeah, so to
me it seems my ass, your ass,the thing, the thing I've always
Kind of like.

Lano (38:45):
It's the same fries.

Mig (38:48):
The thing I've always kind of had issue with the chili
fries over here.
Separate's best A little toostrong on the cinnamon flavor,
just like a hair over A littletoo strong.
Well, a Patras dude.
They got a totally different,like kind of like savory flavor.

(39:10):
You really don't taste anythingOf cinnamon in it, and so they
only do one size yeah.
I don't know how I feel aboutthat.
That's the other downfall.
They only have that one bigtray, you feel it?

Lano (39:28):
Because it's like they just want to put it all out
there it looks like they havethis little one in here too, in
the basket.

Rick (39:32):
Yeah, what's that small one.

Mig (39:35):
Well, I don't know.
Because I asked for chili fries, that cheese has to melt.
Because I asked for a specialand I asked for chili fries
Instead of the regular fries andthey gave me that big tray.

Lano (39:44):
So we might have to.

Mig (39:46):
So you guys might have to go try it that looks like that.

Rick (39:49):
Looks like cypress best right there you guys will
probably have to go try it andsee if I'm, if I'm crazy maybe
like a head-to-head I never gotthat cinnamon flavor that
miggy's talking about, so maybeoh look, they have a small one,
so small chili cheese fries,okay, so maybe do a side by side
but um, I really, really thinkI enjoy these chili cheese fries

(40:11):
a lot more than Cypress Best.
I mean, I have to try it.
You know they took down thenewspaper at Cypress Best with
the article in LA Times.
It wasn't up last time I wentoh yeah.
They used to be framed, but nowit's not up.

Lano (40:27):
They're giving their words to like these hipster
restaurants.
I mean.

Rick (40:31):
Well, it was an old like article that was printed.
I'm looking to see how muchthey are, but I don't see it on
the menu yet I don't know.
They look very similar to uh itsays chili or bacon fries um
32929 or $4.89.
So two sizes Alright.

Lano (40:51):
We'll have to do a side by side test.

Rick (40:54):
I'm very curious Now.

Mig (40:56):
I'm curious about Dino's Cause I don't remember when was
the last time I had chili friesat Dino's.

Rick (41:03):
They were up there for you before.
No.

Lano (41:06):
They weren't up there for me.
They were good, but not upthere for you before?

Rick (41:08):
No, they weren't up there for me.
No, but why are you?

Lano (41:08):
bringing up Dino's.

Mig (41:09):
They're good, but not up there Well that's what I'm
saying.
It's like I got to go back andtry it now.

Rick (41:15):
Yeah, because you know what I don't really go try and
chili cheese fries other placesbecause I know Cypress is the
best.
I mean I'll try it every oncein a while but then, like I get
disappointed.
Like you know, it's a chilibrick and it's too heavy.

Lano (41:32):
Yeah, but I'll have to try Patras.
We're going to do that nextweek.

Rick (41:36):
We could.
We could do it next week.
We could we bring it here.
Let me know when I can stop byand go get it before he goes.
This guy likes it right here,so see this right here.
Jamie Oliver Revolution Burger.

Mig (41:55):
Yeah.

Rick (41:55):
So he had a TV show and then he revamped Patras and he
put like it was supposed to belike a healthier menu and all
that stuff.

Mig (42:03):
Weekend.
It was on ABC.
That lasted for a while, but soit's still not there.

Rick (42:07):
No, more.

Mig (42:07):
I think they went back to their the old stuff.

Rick (42:09):
Okay, I don't know I was wondering like did he change the
chili cheese fries?
Did he make it better?
It was supposed to be like morehealthier, more like less
preservatives and all that stuffI don't know okay all right, so
now I'm gonna, I'm gonna ripyour tesla new ass.
Wait, wait, wait, what, whatyou got?
The cheese fries.
What else did you get?

Mig (42:27):
That's it.
No burger or nothing.

Lano (42:29):
How's the burger?

Mig (42:29):
Burger is good.
I think the burgers are betterat Cypress.
Okay, all right, but the chilicheese fries.

Lano (42:35):
I think were All right.
Hand him his ass, let's see.

Mig (42:39):
Hand him his EV ass your piece of shit, teslas hey, you
know what?

Lano (42:45):
I'm not gonna knock teslas because I want.
I want musta win.

Rick (42:53):
So if a tesla's for you, by all means I'm waiting for you
to make a van, because I'mwaiting.

Lano (43:01):
I'm waiting for you to, I'm waiting for you to see that
damn cyber truck in the damndriveway.

Rick (43:05):
You haven't oh, you haven't.
Oh, you haven't.
Oh, you've seen them in person.

Lano (43:07):
Yeah, you haven't seen them.

Mig (43:08):
Yeah, I've seen them all over the place now.
Okay, so this story I had totell this guy, especially since
he has kids and it involves kids.
Oh shoot.

Lano (43:16):
The lady got locked out was trying to break the window.

Rick (43:18):
Yes, I saw that.

Lano (43:19):
She couldn't break the window.

Mig (43:27):
Well, it was in the middle of the heat wave, she was
charging that piece of shit.
And when she got out to gounplug it, the freaking thing
locks itself With the kid in thecar seat.
The AC wasn't on, supposedly.
When you get in those thingsand you sit in them, as soon as
you sit in them it turns on.
Yeah.

Lano (43:49):
Why it didn't turn on with the kid in there.

Mig (43:50):
I don't know, Kid jumping in the driver's seat.
No, no, there's a baby.
It was like a toddler.
It was in his car seat.

Rick (43:55):
Damn.
Well, there's a car seatfeature.

Mig (43:57):
You have to turn on that we have set up so when she got out
to go unplug it because it wasalready charged, the stupid
thing locks itself because itstarted doing a software update.
Oh, is that?

Rick (44:11):
what the reason was.

Lano (44:12):
Dang.
What the hell is this?

Mig (44:14):
Can you imagine that dude and she could not get it open.
You know, she was like bangingon the window frantically, of
course, and then the dude thatwas parked next to her, that was
charging his, was trying tofind something in his car to try
to break the window.
It's funny because he says hebrings out this fishing weight,

(44:37):
huge, freaking fishing weight.

Rick (44:38):
Dude Like a grenade, like a metal.
He had it in his car.

Mig (44:42):
Yeah, I'm like what the hell are you fishing for dude?
But he couldn't, he couldn'tget it.
Is this it right here?
Yeah?

Rick (44:50):
Well, this is the.
Yeah, this is the video.
So oh, I mean.
I'm just telling my experience.
But you need to Like tell thecar that there's like Car seats
in there.
Oh, that's it right there.
Yeah, he pulls up, he's anotherTesla guy.
And then oh man.
Hey, so it didn't work.

(45:12):
He's throwing it and then he'sjust watching.
Then he gets like that's theweight.
Oh, yeah.
The fishing weight.
Do it the other way, bro, andthen he ends up getting there's
like a Like, a tool, like forthe jack.

Mig (45:23):
No, he has some kind of hooker.
Oh man.

Rick (45:25):
Well, that comes in the car, that poor baby.
I think that's for For towing.

Lano (45:30):
Hey, if I was you, I would .
I would Get some kind of clipsor tie wires and tape like a, a
baton Underneath the car orsomething dude.
That way, if that ever happens,get the baton and start
breaking the window Like a cop.
I have a baton, you can have it.
Oh, a real baton, a real baton.

(45:52):
Yeah, so strap that underneaththe car.
Well, that's the thing Foremergency.

Rick (45:57):
So this thing has, like the car seats and then like the
air, like I always push a button, like to leave the air on, like
whenever.

Lano (46:03):
I'm getting out when the kids are in there.
Hey, you're not understandingwhat Go.
This is a freak accident.
It can happen to anyone.

Rick (46:13):
No, no I understand.

Mig (46:14):
Do you understand that?

Lano (46:15):
Because it's all electrical.

Mig (46:16):
It started doing a software update and it just overrode
everything and locked everythingup so you could have done what
you're saying you're going to doand everything.
But it started doing a softwareupdate.

Lano (46:28):
But I'm just saying like normally If you don't want the
baton, you don't have to takethe baton, dude, I mean me
having the car like it alwaysasks you.

Rick (46:36):
You want to do it If you want to be a responsible father.

Lano (46:40):
strap a baton underneath that car and use it and leave it
there for emergency.
I'll even give you a tourniquetwith it too, Just in case.

Rick (46:50):
But no, I did see this video and I showed my wife just
to have her go through theprocedure.
Make sure to do this or rolldown the window, or do this and
that A car with automatic locks?

Lano (47:01):
it could happen too.

Mig (47:02):
Yeah.

Lano (47:03):
So it's not just Like Tesla.

Rick (47:05):
Cause it looks like she just walked out and then it
locked, but like the car like Adumbass.

Lano (47:11):
The AC doesn't get.

Rick (47:12):
Doesn't cool down that fast Like the AC.

Lano (47:14):
Like she gets To get out and close the door and then the
lock's automatically locked.
I mean, it could happen To aregular car too.

Rick (47:22):
And then if she left the phone on in the car, then, like
the trunk, the front opens thepoint is, we should all have
batons strapped underneath thecar for emergencies, right?

Lano (47:35):
hey?
Hey, I was.
I was telling you guys thatI've been into like two reviews
and all that stuff and then Istarted yeah For tools.
I started coming across.
I should probably do like sometool reviews.
Man, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, we could do it.
I should bring my.
You know, I just bought a rigidbox for my tools.
Oh man, I love this thing.

Rick (47:55):
The hardest stuff.

Lano (47:56):
Everyone's doing their toolbox setups.
You know how Milwaukee has thatpack out stuff and all that I
bought the rigid one.
I love that thing, man, the wayI have it set up and everything
is so nice.
But just going through all thisstuff and then I came across

(48:20):
this guy that does these littleportable solar generators,
storage, battery storage bankswhere they use a car battery and
an inverter and a solar panel.
Yeah, the first one he did wasout of an ammo box, just a power

(48:43):
bank, and he used one of thosesmall batteries just to connect.
He did an inverter to do theswitches and all that stuff Okay
.
And then he did another one, abigger, with one of those tool
storage boxes where he put a big2,000-watt watt inverter in

(49:05):
that, the car battery connection.
He did connections like on theoutside usb connections, uh 110
connections and then likeconnections where so you can
connect solar panels to it soyou can like if you're out
camping put it there, it'llrecharge it charge the battery
it has like, like littleswitches there that'll let you

(49:27):
know what the storage, what thevolts are on the battery what.
I just left on the battery.
And then he did another onethat's a little bit smaller,
where the first one was thislittle ammo box, the second one
was this big tool storage thing,yeah.
And then he did like amid-sized one that combined the

(49:48):
two, where he did a little bitbigger battery and then also
like a solar hookup andeverything is like cool little
damn things.
And then he did another onewhere he's powering his shed.
He bought these solar panelsfrom um, I think it was Amazon,
put them on the roof and heshowed the whole setup on how he
wires it down, you know, bringsit into the solar charging

(50:12):
little module or whatever, andthen that goes connected to the
inverter.
No, no, it goes to the battery,and then the battery goes to the
inverter.
No yeah, yeah, and I juststarted in a mean rabbit hole of
all that stuff I was like dude.
I need to make me a little damnpower storage box.
I go forget running electricalto the damn tool sheds in the

(50:36):
back.
I'm just gonna buy some solarpanels, put them up on the roof
well, you should, that should beyour.

Rick (50:40):
You should experiment with that.

Lano (50:42):
Oh, this is this is one he had right here.
So he said if you don't want todo all that setup and
everything, this one right here.
What is it?
Ecoflow?

Rick (50:51):
Yeah.

Lano (50:52):
So if you put that in, it has a connection that you can
just run your solar panels to itto charge it back up.
Yeah, but I mean, they'repricey and this thing lasts.

Rick (51:03):
A thing lasts a long time too like I'll tell you, like how
many days or hours you got whenyou got something plugged in
there but uh, but I mean rickywho camps a lot.
This would be kind of coolinstead of them, uh, running
power back there well, I sentyou that video where that guy,

(51:23):
um, he built like a little, umlike well, he sets up like a
tough shed for his kid and thenhe puts an ac in there but then
he connects, like solar and oneof these to it, so the ac runs
off of the sun yeah, so it'llcharge up, like during the day
or not, run the ac and then, um,they have the ac plugged into
this yeah and it keeps up withit.

Lano (51:45):
You know, the sun, this thing has all these 649 off.
What's the full price of that?

Rick (51:50):
799.
Oh no, uh like, so look at 1400then you got 600 700 bucks and
some with the solar without theyeah oh, how much is it with the
solar.
Well, this one comes with it.
Yeah, I mean, they're all likethey're solar.
Oh, how much is it with thesolar?
Well, this one comes with the.
Yeah, I mean they're all likethey're expensive, but how much
is it with the solar?
Well, this is with the solar.

Lano (52:11):
Yeah, 700, 799 that's not bad if it comes with the solar
800 yeah that's not bad, thatmidsize one he did that midsize
little storage thing that he did.
He had bought these two littlesmall solar panels.

(52:33):
Oh, he bought one solar panel.

Mig (52:35):
Yeah.

Lano (52:37):
You could probably fit two .
The way he did the box, thewhole design of his box was cool
because everything was there.
The whole design of his box wascool because everything was
there and he even put a port soyou can either charge this by
solar or you can plug it into anoutlet and charge it to charge
the battery back up.
And these little solar panelsthat he bought fit perfect in

(52:59):
that box that he got.
He was like you could probablyfit two solar panels in there
and bring it up to like 100 watt.
I think they're like 50 watteach little panel.
I was like man.
The wheels in my head startedspinning.

Rick (53:13):
That's crazy, I mean, since you're building that
little back garage or tough shit.
I would experiment with this.

Lano (53:20):
I think we gotta like, I want to go to like two
conventions.
I want to go to like twoconventions.
I want to see, like, like thenew future stuff, all the new
tools that are coming out.
Like, there's the NationalHardware Convention, that's a
big one, I don't know.
Cima, the CIMA, that's more allthe mechanic, just mechanic

(53:43):
stuff.
Huh.
Must be cars, cars show, but Ithink a that Cars Cars show.
But I think a lot of vendors gothere too, like tool vendors.
I would.
Where are you going to go?

Rick (53:53):
I would check it's in March, this one's in Vegas.

Lano (53:57):
Is that where you're going ?
I think that's the big one.
I don't know, is it foreverybody, or you have to be
like that's that SEMA, right?

Rick (54:05):
No, that's the, that's the hardware.

Lano (54:08):
So that's like a big Convention for like DIYers,
diyers.

Mig (54:16):
DIYers DIY.

Lano (54:18):
DIYers.

Mig (54:19):
DIYers.

Lano (54:23):
DIYers, diyers, do it yourself.

Mig (54:27):
DIYers, it'll be for your birthday weekend.

Rick (54:31):
Yeah, it's not private for industry people.
It's in the middle of the week.

Lano (54:41):
Get it off, it's one day.

Rick (54:45):
it's pretty cool because you know when I was making
t-shirts I'm giving you like,damn six months, heads up when I
was making t-shirts I went to at-shirt convention and just to
see all the new technology andall that stuff.
It's pretty cool, yeah.

Lano (54:58):
I don't know, like I was talking to Marcos and we were
like back in the day, we wouldalways be going, yeah, to the
plumbing trade shows.
It's like we everyone juststopped going.

Rick (55:07):
You should be going, as, because now that you're like we
gotta see what the hell's thenew stuff that's coming, like
the heat pumps and all thatstuff like all that stuff.

Lano (55:14):
It's like, yeah, we gotta start enlisting again and going
to these things, because I don'tknow man, I got into it, I got
stuck on damn watching thesetour reviews talking talking
about, uh, heat pumps and allthat shit right now.

Mig (55:30):
Um, water heaters, is it normal for them just to shut off
?
For like no reason?

Rick (55:37):
why shut off mine, all yours, yeah well when the they
don't shut off when the watergets the right temperature in
the heater, that one there wasalways an issue with that one
shutting off just like that.

Mig (55:47):
I mean the pilot stays lit right.
No, that was a new one,remember, I got it on Lowe's.

Lano (55:52):
That one just changed.
Yeah, oh, unless there's adrift going in there and
shutting off the pilot.

Mig (56:02):
It's the first time.

Rick (56:04):
Like you had to relight the pilot.

Mig (56:07):
I've had it for, like I think, already three years back
there, and it's the first timethat it just shut off just for
no reason.

Lano (56:14):
Sometimes Sometimes, jermaine, it's just the drift
that gets in there and turns offthe pilot, so it could be a gas
supply or damaged thermocoupleclock pilot tube.

Mig (56:28):
No like.
Are they sensitive to likeshaking, like earthquakes or
anything?
Do they have any kind of likevalving or anything?

Lano (56:35):
If Laura was back there opening the door, slamming the
door, maybe a drift or somethingwent in.

Rick (56:42):
It's inside If it turned right back on it's probably what
happened.

Lano (56:48):
I gotta go pump that damn water heater up.

Mig (56:52):
I'm just saying because the other day I was it was Monday,
I think when I jumped in theshower waiting for it to get
warm.
It's already the heat wavealready passed here.
It's already the heat wavealready passed here.
It's already kind of cold inthe morning and everything.

Rick (57:07):
Yeah, it was like 56 this morning.

Mig (57:08):
Yeah, dude, I had no freaking hot water.
So I was like I was like,alright, suck it up, dude, just
jump in, just jump in.
And I just jumped in, dude.

Lano (57:19):
They didn't need the heater hotter in the front.
No, I don't know they haven'tsaid anything.

Rick (57:30):
Now, since we're talking about the, you said did anybody
feel the earthquakes last weekor the weeks before?
Well that's right.
I could have sworn.
That's what I was asking.
I could have sworn.

Lano (57:37):
I was feeling the earthquakes but I don't know if
they really were, Becausesometimes I thought I would feel
the ground shake.

Mig (57:45):
I didn't feel it but I was watching the news in the morning
and I see the fucking, I seethe newscasters all freak out.
They're all like, oh, what'sthat?
It's like they don't know ifthey should like duck under the
desk or that shit was funny.

Rick (58:02):
Well, the recent one.

Mig (58:03):
I haven't felt anything in a long time.

Rick (58:06):
I felt the ones like two weeks ago.
I guess it was the SouthPasadena one.

Lano (58:11):
Or Alhambra, or else Cal State.
No.

Rick (58:13):
Cal State, la.
Yeah, that one, I was at work.
I'm on the 15th floor so thebuilding should but the one last
week.

Mig (58:21):
Like a lot of those that I should have felt I've been in my
truck.
I've been in my truck, I'vebeen driving.

Rick (58:25):
The one last week.
I got the alert on my phone.

Mig (58:28):
Yeah.

Rick (58:28):
Like earthquake.
I got the alert, so then Igrabbed the kids and I texted my
wife, but we never felt it.
But she says she felt it atwork, but it was before I texted
her.

Mig (58:40):
Yeah, but I've been getting those alerts and I see the
alert, I look at it and I'm like, okay, so then I sit around and
I'm waiting.
Is it going to start shaking?

Rick (58:49):
Because, I think a year ago, two years ago, I got the
alert and then like 10 secondslater it happened, so like it
worked.
But I was wondering if you guysfelt it, because I didn't feel
it.

Lano (58:59):
I didn't feel it.
The talking about the, thebatteries.
One of the guys was talkingabout Connecting batteries in a
In series.
Yeah, I guess when you'reconnecting them and he says
connect them, you go.

Rick (59:18):
Like daisy chain, positive .

Lano (59:21):
Positive right, connect your positive to one battery and
then you go negative topositive, then positive to
negative I don't know how thatworks oh, you don't know.
No, because I guess that's howyou do it in series instead of
doing it yeah, because, uh, youdo that.
I was gonna say like how does,how does that work?

Mig (59:38):
you do that when you want to increase your, like the
cranking amps or something, andI know in the rigs they used to
do that to to convert it fromlike 12 volt to like 24 volt or
something like that and you haveto the reason.

Lano (59:54):
I asked somehow like that, I don't know, the guy did his
solar panels like that becausethey were a positive and a
negative and he goes I want thepanels to run in series.
So he goes.
I'm going to go from thepositive, I'm going to take the
negative to the next positive ofthe solar panel.
And then the negative from thesolar panel to the other panel.
So it's just like the negativefrom one battery to a positive.

Mig (01:00:18):
I know what you're talking about.
I've never understood it.
I've never understood how to doit.

Lano (01:00:23):
I was like damn I don't know how that.
I guess it's like, like yousaid, to crank up the yeah, the
amps the amps or the voltage orsomething.

Mig (01:00:36):
Something gets cranked up maybe the amps yeah yeah, so I
seen them.

Rick (01:00:42):
They do it like it's like.
I mean I was looking at theTesla batteries.
Some guy was building a what'sit called A Humvee electric and
he had to like Switch thebatteries, like that.

Lano (01:00:56):
You know who was into all this stuff?
Primo, primo Phillip, he's intothis stuff, he, he could
probably explain that shit.

Mig (01:01:05):
Oh, he's an electrical engineer.
No, yeah, Well then he knows.
Yeah, he would know.

Lano (01:01:08):
No, he was all into all this EV stuff.

Mig (01:01:12):
Yeah.

Lano (01:01:16):
Shout out to.

Mig (01:01:16):
Primo in Texas, in Texas.

Lano (01:01:19):
Call us.
What's that?

Rick (01:01:20):
number.
Paso, texas.
Call us and tell us how to riga battery up.
Daisy Chainum yeah, what's?

Lano (01:01:25):
the number Migg.

Mig (01:01:26):
I need a brief explanation 323-207-0012.
Booyah Call it.
We didn't get no calls.

Rick (01:01:38):
No, I checked Nothing.
This is spam.

Lano (01:01:41):
Because, I think we're trying to get our only fan back,
our.

Rick (01:01:47):
YouTube channel is slowly growing.
Is it Slowly?

Mig (01:01:51):
Going back to the food review, half a person, eric,
from the fourth quarter, outthere on York Boulevard.

Rick (01:01:59):
Our first ad spot Shout out to the fourth quarter
Highland.

Mig (01:02:02):
Park Any sporting apparel stuff you need, or hats Cards
too or no.

Rick (01:02:11):
Card breaks no, just hats no.

Mig (01:02:14):
Hats or sports apparel or anything.

Lano (01:02:19):
If you're running late to the Dodger game.

Mig (01:02:21):
Kings game.

Lano (01:02:22):
Laker game.

Mig (01:02:23):
It's kind of on the way if you're coming from Pasadena.

Lano (01:02:25):
Head up the fourth corner in Highland Park.
Get your stuff before you go tothe game.

Mig (01:02:30):
So Eric went to Tacos Frontera.
Oh, he did, yeah, and heactually texted us in a group
text.
I don't know if you read it ornot.
You were in it, I don'tremember.
He gave, gave a review ontexting.

Rick (01:02:44):
Yeah.

Mig (01:02:45):
But he was kind of messing around and saying all these big
words and everything, oh, yeah,yeah, yeah.
And I told him dude.

Lano (01:02:50):
Oh, that's right yeah.

Mig (01:02:52):
So I told him dude, call the hotline and leave a review.

Rick (01:02:54):
That's all.

Mig (01:02:56):
See if he called or not.

Rick (01:02:57):
Oh no.

Lano (01:02:58):
He gave a good review.
You said it was good.
Yeah, he liked it.
And that dude's picky dude.

Mig (01:03:05):
That dude.
But the thing I mean, the thingwith Eric, is that he loves
everything over-sauced.

Lano (01:03:10):
Like sauce, sauce, sauce, sauce sauce.

Mig (01:03:13):
He loves sauces, so that's probably why he liked it so much
yeah.

Lano (01:03:21):
More food reviews.
More tool reviews.
Buy Brushless people Brush foodreviews.
More two reviews.
Buy brushless people Brushlesstools.

Mig (01:03:31):
Yes, sir, no more brush and brush your teeth, brush your
teeth.

Lano (01:03:36):
Wash your ass, Get a bidet .
If you don't have one, get abidet right, what If you don't
have one?

Rick (01:03:43):
get a bidet, yeah, get a bidet, get a bidet.

Lano (01:03:45):
Go get a bidet, get a bidet.
Yo Go get a pack of wipeys.
Man Get a wipey shower.

Mig (01:03:48):
Get a bidet.
It'll change your life.
I don't know why you don't havea bidet, ricky, you should have
a bidet.

Lano (01:03:53):
Remember wipe from front to back, not back to front.

Mig (01:03:58):
And keep drifting yo.

Rick (01:03:59):
Peace.

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