Episode 125 - Boomer to Alpha: The Generational Decline

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Remember when concert venues would sell out in minutes and album releases were cultural events? Those days might be fading as we explore a startling demographic shift affecting how generations connect with entertainment and each other.

Through a fascinating conversation about Disneyland trips and concert experiences, we uncover a profound generational disconnect that's reshaping our cultural landscape. The numbers tell a compelling story: Boomers (71 million) had Gen X children (65 million), who had Millennial children (72 million), who had Gen Z children (69 million). But now, Gen Z is producing significantly fewer children in Gen Alpha—just 45 million—as social behaviors and priorities continue to evolve.

We dive into how previous generations formed deep attachments to music artists, flocking to concerts for the immersive experience rather than just documenting it on smartphones. The evolution of music itself reveals changing attention spans, with today's tracks averaging just 2:30 compared to the epic 5-6 minute journeys that let classic rock songs "breathe" with extended intros and guitar solos.

Our Disneyland discussion unlocks powerful nostalgia as we compare childhood memories to today's theme park experience. The park that once seemed vast now feels conquerable in a day, yet iconic attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion continue to bridge generational gaps through shared experiences.

Are we witnessing the cyclical nature of society at work—where "hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times"? Join us for this thought-provoking exploration of how cultural touchstones evolve across generations and what might be lost or gained in the process.

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Episode Transcript

Mig (00:00):
And you know that already.

Lano (00:11):
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast.
This is Mig.
This is Lano, RK67.
Let me start off by saying ourproducer is straight nalga.

Mig (00:27):
It's been a while.

Lano (00:27):
Booty, son booty, you missed one week bro.

Rick (00:31):
Gotta figure out what to do again.

Lano (00:34):
We've been ready to record For like half an hour and this
guy's fussing around.

Mig (00:40):
Yeah.

Lano (00:41):
Trying to get light on him , like anybody wants to see him.

Rick (00:43):
Well, first my light went out, but I had it plugged in.
Yeah, like anybody wants to seehim.

Lano (00:45):
Well, first my light went out, but I had it plugged in
correctly, yeah, like anybodywants to see your ugly face?
Dude, who cares?
We're the talent.
Should just light us up.
Is there any phone calls?
No, nothing, I had checkedearlier I thought Mark was going
to call.
He got mad because we weretalking about tools.
The last time he said man, come, we didn't talk tools when we

(01:07):
were there last time, when I wasin there last time.
That's his wheelhouse rightthere, so we probably should
have him back For like tworeviews and stuff, right,
because he's the ultimate tool.

Mig (01:18):
Oh.

Rick (01:23):
Is he still working at Universal?

Mig (01:25):
Yeah.

Rick (01:26):
Because he can stop by.

Lano (01:27):
Yeah, I'm waiting for him to hook us up with some damn
tickets before he leaves thatjob once his um, his retaining
wall is done, maybe they'll getscore some free tickets, yeah,
um.

Rick (01:38):
So, speaking of tools, I mean you guys probably know, but
like I was watching somehighlights and they're showing
some baseball highlights inJapan, right, yeah.
And then the big sponsor wasRyobi.

Mig (01:49):
Yeah.

Rick (01:50):
And then it clicked that Ryobi is like an Asian brand,
right, did you guys ever?
I never thought of it, ryobi.
It never clicked in my head.
But, Ryobi it sounds like anAsian name or word oh Ryobi is
made.
They're like the big sponsor ofthe stadium and the baseball
team, but all those, all thoseare are made by like the same

(02:10):
company is it?
Okay?
Probably a lot of those, but Ididn't realize that there was an
Asian brand.

Lano (02:15):
Milwaukee and, um, I wanna say Ryobi, it's like a whole
branch, it's like this one.
I want to say Ryobi, it's likea whole branch, it's like this
one company, I think TLI orsomething like that, and it all

(02:36):
branches out and it makes allthese tool brands and I know a
lot of them are.
I don't know if it's Milwaukeeand Flex, maybe Flex is Well.

Rick (02:47):
Flex is like a new brand.
I know a lot of them are.
I don't know if it's Milwaukeeand Flex.
Maybe Flex's is Well.
Flex is like a new brand.
Well, I just know them becausethey're like the sponsor of the
soccer team.

Lano (02:52):
For a while Flex's has been at Lowe's, so if you ever
go to Lowe's you won't see it.
And then also Matabo.
Matabo actually used to beHitachi, that's the Matabo brand
.
Now it's like rebranded MataboMatabo.
They have pretty good.
That guy that I watched, soulSoul With Tools, with Souls, he

(03:20):
I think he says the Matabo hasthe best Um Drill For like Like
Performance wise.
Yeah, they have like the bestTop, top uh Drill.
I wanna trust him that shit,that shit sounds like the
disease from uh, outbreak Matabo.
Yeah, motaba, motaba, oh, isthat what it's called?
Yeah, man, oh shit, outbreakmonkey.

(03:42):
That's a.
That's a good movie, that is.
Have you seen that?
Milano, which one I'll Break?
No, you know what.
We should put that on the list,because that's a good one.
I won't give you shit about younot watching that, because it's
.

Rick (03:57):
But it came out before.
Covid, right yeah yeah, Iremember during COVID they were
like talking about that movie.

Lano (04:03):
I think it was mid 90s, maybe, yeah, mid to early 90s.
Dustin Hoffman, I don't knowwho the girl was.
Not Michelle Pfeiffer, right?
No, no, no, it was.
Oh, dude come on.

Rick (04:13):
Who was it?
Was the guy from Obi-Wan right,it was Lethal Weapon.

Lano (04:20):
She was in Lethal Weapon.

Rick (04:22):
No, yeah, she was 95 it says she was in Lethal Weapon.
She was in.

Lano (04:25):
Lethal Weapon.
No, yeah, she was 95, it saysshe was in Lethal Weapon 3.
Oh, what's her name, dude?
Renee Russo.
Yeah, there you go.
Oh, I was thinking of anothergirl.

Mig (04:32):
Renee Russo, and then Cuba Gooding Jr oh there you go,
patrick.

Rick (04:35):
Dempsey Renee Russo.

Lano (04:36):
Good movie man, really good movie.
And you know, another one Likeold school movie we gotta put on
the list too Is 12 Monkeys 12Monkeys is good.
12 Monkeys is good.
You gotta really pay attentionto it, though.

Mig (04:51):
Yeah, that's when you really gotta pay attention.

Rick (04:54):
You get lost quick yeah 12 Monkeys with Brad Pitt Same
year, 95.
Yeah.

Lano (05:01):
Hey, man Can't go wrong with old movies.
I've already seen you and Ithink you've looked up like
three times, aside from lookingup at the, the movie.

Mig (05:12):
Me, or me, oh me.

Rick (05:14):
Yeah, well, I got the camera on, so hopefully it's
recording right now.
I forgot to hit record.

Lano (05:21):
I'm following what our listeners say.

Rick (05:23):
Well, last time I forgot to hit record, so hopefully now
I'll be able to put that in onthat top camera.

Lano (05:30):
Well, right now that we're on the topic of movies, last
time we recorded we were talkingabout Young Guns 3.

Mig (05:37):
Yeah.

Lano (05:39):
I didn't get to go over the plot of what they were
talking about, Like Some of theOutlining Outlining what the
plot was gonna be Cause theywere saying that A lot of it's
gonna take place Kinda like moretowards Mexico.

Rick (05:57):
Territory.

Lano (05:57):
Territory and um it's gonna involve a lot more.
That's why Chavez is in it.

Rick (06:03):
Yeah, is that the interview you saw?
The one that's on theavez is init.
Yeah, is that the interview yousaw?
The one that's on the screenright here?
Maybe this is it he set you upno, no I mean, I wanted to know
yeah, I think so.

Lano (06:12):
Okay, yeah, that josh horowitz I'm gonna have to look
it up now yeah, so um he's, hewas saying that um he's gonna
have a character on there thatplays uh, it's a pancho villa
character.
Oh, so it's gonna involve a lotlike the revolution in mexico
in mexico so that should bepretty cool.
That's cool, like elements ofthat, and that's what I meant to

(06:34):
talk about.
Forgot about yeah, well, Iforgot we just went off like on
a tangent and I'm gonna watchdid you say you and laura watch
those?

Rick (06:43):
no, no, we're gonna.
I'm to watch it.

Lano (06:45):
Yeah, maybe.

Rick (06:47):
Probably this Memorial Day Weekend or something?
When is Memorial Day?
Two weeks the end of.
May, yeah, may 23rd.
So the LA County Fair started.
And then the last weekend,memorial Day weekend, I went to
Disneyland yesterday.

Lano (07:02):
Oh, you did.
How was it?
It was good we got in 13 ridesOn Monday, so during On Monday,
yeah, it was 13 rides.
And it was, yeah, it was kinda,yeah, kinda busy, but you know
what?
Small world is still down.

Rick (07:15):
Yeah, that's been down forever.
The metal horn is down.
The metal horn, therefurbishing that went down Like
two weeks ago and I thinkthat's it.
It's a small world.

Lano (07:29):
It's been down for like I want to say like A year or six
months, but it was a bigdifference, because last time we
went Like the Dude the Well,before I jump on that but Last
time Indiana Jones was downthere was like there was Indiana
Jones, small world was stilldown.
Um, then rides off and on werebreaking down, so all the other

(07:53):
rides were getting clutteredwith everybody.
That's why it was hard to geton.
But now that you know, indianajones was on like it spreaded
everybody out the rise, rise tothe resistance, right, right,
the star wars.

Rick (08:08):
One dude it said it was like 65 minutes I still haven't
been on I think 30 minutes andwe didn't like oh, that's really
good and that, yeah, 30 minutesis bearable dude.

Lano (08:20):
We waited damn 70 to get on damn space mountain.

Rick (08:23):
No, that's.

Lano (08:24):
Yeah, I mean.
Anything, now it's like StarWars themed, it's not.
I liked it a little bit betterwhen it was just that rock Like
that fast.

Rick (08:32):
Well, that's because of the and the snow beasts.

Mig (08:34):
Coming out.

Lano (08:34):
They don't have the snow beasts no more, just all dark
and everything.

Mig (08:37):
Like with a couple of Specs of lights.
Yeah, specs of lights, but it'sa Star Wars theme now, so it's
like they're shooting lasers anddo, do, do, do, with ships on
the side and they're doing theStar Wars music

Lano (08:47):
yeah, but that's for me that was my bad, because Rise to
the Resistance was 65 minutesand it was just 30 minutes, and
then we jumped on another onethat was supposed to be like, I
think, 40 minutes, 45 minutesyeah, but it, I think 40 minutes
45 minutes.
Yeah, but it was less.
Oh, it was.

(09:07):
I think that buzz light here,uh, right.

Mig (09:11):
The blaster, it was like four yeah 40 minutes.

Lano (09:14):
But then we got in there like 20 minutes.
So I was thinking like, ah,they're probably lying, let's
get in line, let's just.
You know it's probably bullshit.
But yeah, it was 70 minutes.
But they have a.
Uh, you pay the lightning passso you can get jump ahead you
did all that we got that, butthat's for you can't right.
Use that for the rise toresistance right oh you have to

(09:35):
buy separate.
That's what is it?
A lightning pass for.

Rick (09:39):
For each ride you have to buy so the lightning pass.

Lano (09:41):
You pay for it and then you have to reserve your spot.

Rick (09:47):
You can't just walk so they're making it so like yeah,
so the rich, okay you pay for it.

Lano (09:51):
Then you look on the app and then like, okay, um, we got
this right, this right, thisright, we can do this one at
1005, this one at 1015, this oneat 1030, which one you guys
want to go?
So, all right, let's do 10 15.
Boom, you reserve it.
Okay, so you show up at thelightning line at 10 15.
You can go in now and sometimesit's spaced out pretty, pretty

(10:12):
long.
So say, like a popular ride,you can reserve your time frame
and say it's two hours untilthat ride.
Well, now you can.
You can go get in line foranother ride, 30 minutes, 40
minutes, do that one, boom, boomdo the ride and then get out.
And then you know, walk over,get a snack and then when you
pull up to that line, that nextride, you walk right in and it's

(10:37):
because it could be like anhour wait for that ride.
But you knock out that one andthen you get ahead of the line
for that one and then, and thenyou can kind of already start
reserving your other onesthroughout the day.

Rick (10:48):
So if you're a poor family you got to wait the whole hour
and a half, but if you got moneyyou go to the front of the line
.

Lano (10:53):
Dude, if you're a poor family, you ain't even getting
in the door, dude.
So it's crazy you got to pullout a second mortgage on your
house.
If you're poor, a couple thingsbeing at Disneyland To get in
there, one is like, oh man, theparents pushing these strollers
around.

Rick (11:10):
SUV strollers like wagons and stuff.

Lano (11:12):
It's just crazy how much like I don't think if I had a
kid I would not take them untilthey can walk or go to the
restroom on their own.
Yeah, I'm just not taking themwhen they're before.
That that's just me.
But man, I was watching theseparents, like already when we're
leaving, and these parents arelike, some of them are like
already done, some of them stillgot that energy, whatever and

(11:36):
I'm just thinking, man, I go.
These parents when they gethome, they must like collapse
once they put the babies.

Rick (11:41):
Oh, that's what we we are.
It takes like three days torecover with the baby.

Lano (11:44):
Yeah, because I mean, yeah , I wouldn't do it.
Then you see them like foldingup their strollers to get in the
tram, to go back to the parking, and I just imagine how they
feel when they get home or theirhotel room, put the baby down
wherever, and then just theyjust probably like drop dead so

(12:04):
we're walking out, and then Iheard some ladies saying like
I'm too tired to take the tram,let's just like do the walk
through Downtown Disney.

Rick (12:13):
To the parking lot or the garage.
We're at the Toy Story garageParking garage, so I asked her.

Lano (12:19):
I was like Wow, maybe to pack up everything.
Yeah, yeah, she said she wastoo tired, because you have to
pack up the stroller.
So then I asked her like whereis it at?
I was like, wow, maybe to packup everything on the tram.
Yeah, yeah, she said she wastoo tired because you have to
pack up the stroller.
Yeah, you have to pack up thestroller, fold it and then.
So then I asked her like whereis it at?

Rick (12:29):
And she's like, oh, just walk to the end of downtown.

Lano (12:31):
Disney.
I mean you've already walked 20miles throughout the day.
What's another damn half a mile.
So that's what mile could bethe straw that?

Rick (12:49):
breaks the camel's back.
Yeah, especially on the on theway out, you got like bags of
like the stuff you buy, like youknow, cotton candy, and then
it's all like packed in thestroller, so you're not gonna
like take all that stuff out andfold it up, we're just like
carrying it all to the car.

Lano (13:03):
Yeah, but yeah, like Me and Laura are dead.
You guys already been thereonce, right?

Rick (13:06):
With the girls.
Ali's been there three times,shia's been there twice.
Yeah.

Lano (13:10):
Oh damn.
So how are you guys feeling Onthe drive?

Rick (13:13):
home we're dead.
Yeah, that's what we Like yeah,I don't know.

Lano (13:19):
I see those parents, I'm like damn.

Rick (13:21):
I save a Red Bull in the car Just to drink on the way
home and Laura's like you're notgonna be able to sleep and I'm
like no.
I'm gonna sleep Cause I'm deadtired.

Lano (13:30):
Another thing is like at Disneyland.
I noticed like so back in theday when we would go when we
were young, that's what I alwaysremember Like every ride, we're
waiting in line.
And long To jump on the ridesat least like an hour, and I
don't know what it is why thedays were longer back then, but

(13:51):
it seems like every ride we werewaiting in line and we got and
it seems like we got oneverything we got on everything.
So how the flip is it that todayis like that, regardless the
hours like the most I've seen?
That today is like like that Imean regardless the hours like
the most I've seen a ride islike maybe 90 minutes, maybe

(14:16):
like an hour and a half Wait.
And that's like the Star Warsone.

Mig (14:20):
The big one.

Lano (14:21):
Yeah, but then, like everything else, like you know,
like you don't throughout, likeyou know, like you don't
throughout the day, you know youprobably still don't get to do
all of it.

Rick (14:33):
Yeah, I don't know, but I just don't get it.

Lano (14:35):
Like that's what I was remembering, like dude, like how
is it that the day is going byso fast right now?

Rick (14:43):
And back then it seemed like every ride we would be
waiting, especially Magic.
Now there's more rides, nowthere's more rides, and I feel
like Magic Mountain has morerides and you're not even
getting on Peter Pan, toad'sWorld and all that stuff.
You're not doing none of that.

Lano (14:55):
That's the thing All the little kitty-kitty rides we
would avoid those.

Mig (15:00):
There were still good amounts.

Lano (15:02):
There's still good amounts .
There's still good amount ofthe Magic had a lot of roller
coasters, yeah, but like, see atDisneyland when the good rides,
when the lines were too long,and we would say like we're
gonna wait or we'll come back toit, we would go and we would
get, like, on Mr Toad's wildride, or we would get on one of
those, or we would go see theCountry Bears show, like if,

(15:23):
like say it was really hot andwe wanted to cool down or some
shit.

Rick (15:27):
Then we would go see the we're going to the auditoriums
you go in that, that auditorium,one at the main street, there's
all these families justchilling on the couches with the
uc like it's well you see, eventhat you had time to go check
out a show, whatever, and stillgo back.

Lano (15:47):
Was it like?
Were they open like tillmidnight?
Back then I think they were.
They were open pretty late,cause now they close, like at 9
or 10.
I remember them being open tillmidnight.

Mig (16:00):
Yeah, disneyland closes at 10 and they probably opened
earlier too.

Lano (16:05):
8 o'clock Is when they open.

Mig (16:08):
I don't think they opened up.

Lano (16:10):
I don't think they opened up Earlier than that, I don't
know.
But it was less rides 8 o'clock.

Rick (16:16):
Even the teacups Is like over an hour wait.
Yeah, like the teacups, that'slike one of the popular ones.

Lano (16:22):
I don't remember doing the teacups, that whole area where
the kids are, where the littlekids are, god.
It's like the attack ofstrollers there, man, just like
strollers everywhere coming atyou.

Rick (16:35):
And they didn't have stroller parking when we were
kids.
Now they got all this parking.
And it's like there's employeespaid just to watch the
strollers right there likeorganizing them and all that
stuff lining them up.
Yeah, we just stand there allday.
I was just thinking about that,like how is it that back then I
think it was just less rides,there's more room to walk around
.
Now it's like it's it's jammed.
And you know they alreadystarted the expansion disneyland

(16:57):
forward.
So they're they're.
They're building like umbehindland or Avengerland and
then Behind Like Splash Mountain.
You know what, making it bigger.

Lano (17:11):
That was another thing when I was there.
It doesn't, it's not, it's notbig, like, so you just went to
Disneyland.
Yeah, disneyland seemed so bigto me when I was a kid.
Yeah, but like you go there,like you just walk over, you're
already in Frontierland.

Mig (17:27):
You will go back.
You're already up here.

Rick (17:30):
And if you're going to Star Wars, you walk there fast
like you hustle there.
You're already at the top ofthe park.

Lano (17:33):
It's like oh, it's already here.
Yeah, it's like where are they,they've expanded, I mean I
haven't seen nothing of it.
Last time I was there, none ofthat stuff was there.
California adventure you runout of, you run.
It's easy to do everythingthere you run out of that's what

(17:55):
I'm saying, like all thatexpansion stuff.
I haven't seen none of that yeahyou know, because the last time
I was there none of that wasthere and I was ready.
I was ready to pay someone atthe gate at california adventure
to go get me that damn umjalapeno corn dog or spicy corn
dog.

Rick (18:15):
That thing is so fucking good man I haven't, I still
haven't had that one.
That's by the life school.

Lano (18:20):
I would have bought that damn hopper pass to go on the
other side just to get that damncoin?

Rick (18:24):
An extra 75 bucks for that hopper pass.
Don't tell Raj.
So what's your favorite part?
Like you go to Star Wars Landor you go to country my favorite
right Frontier Like what's yourfavorite area?

Mig (18:39):
Because it used to be like.

Rick (18:40):
Tomorrowland.
But now Tomorrowland is kind oflike empty, like a lot of stuff
is closed at Tomorrowland.
No like Tomorrowland, but nowTomorrowland is kind of like
empty, like a lot of stuff isclosed at Tomorrowland.

Lano (18:46):
No, there's a lot of stuff at Tomorrowland.

Rick (18:47):
That's where the Buzz Lightyear, star Tours and
Autotopia, that's it.

Lano (18:52):
Yeah, Space Mountain's there.

Rick (18:54):
Oh, space Mountain yeah, but all that other stuff is all
closed.
No, the area was still kind ofpacked, do they?

Lano (18:58):
No, they had an arcade Off of Main Street.

Rick (19:04):
No, no, no, no, no, tomorrowland, tomorrowland, yeah
.

Lano (19:08):
I remember they had an arcade there.

Rick (19:09):
But it was closed.
Yeah, it was closed, yeah,that's why a lot of the
buildings there Is closed, Idon't know.

Lano (19:14):
Yeah, it's just a big old building, that's, it's not
anything.
Yeah, do something with it.

Mig (19:22):
It might be the.

Rick (19:27):
I heard the rumors they're taking the autotopia out or
they're moving it autotopia yeahbecause that's like they're
gonna want, they want to.
That's like a lot of um, a lotof space, space, and they want
to put like a whole, like landthere.

Lano (19:37):
Yeah, that there, people are always in that line.

Rick (19:41):
This is like that in the submarines and star tours.
That's it, dude.

Lano (19:44):
I love that submarine ride man, I do too.
And Vanessa talks shit about it.
She's like no, we're not goingon there but now it's like Dory,
finding Dory, like as like theDory characters or Nemo yeah,
finding Nemo yeah, as thecharacters they're like no, you
can go so what's your favoritearea, like Star Wars now, or
what's your favorite?
Star Wars is pretty badass,that whole area.

Mig (20:06):
Yeah.

Lano (20:07):
It's pretty badass.

Rick (20:08):
So do we do a day, a drifting day.
We take Miggy, I ain't going,we'll go, and we get him the
ears and everything with hisname on it.

Lano (20:19):
And take him.
Do the part, copper, we'll gethim one of those little.
Take him on Dumbo.

Rick (20:26):
Those little.
Come on Dumbo.
We'll record it, all thoseanimals, with that magnet so he
could be walking around.

Lano (20:28):
With it on his shoulder.
Shoulder they move and stuff hecontrol it.

Rick (20:28):
I am.

Lano (20:29):
I am anti-Disney dude.
They are not getting my money.

Mig (20:32):
Um.

Lano (20:33):
Um, disney, sorry, I don't know it.
Just it just takes me back LikeI.
I get lost in there.
So it's not, it's just lookingat All the old stuff and
Thinking about when we were kids, you know, thinking about

(20:53):
Rosalba and yeah.

Mig (20:55):
All that, all that nostalgia.

Lano (20:56):
They're taking it all away , dude.
No, you go to Main Street.
It's A lot of it's the same.
It's the same.
You go jump on like you gothrough the Haunted Mansion,
it's the same.
My favorite ride is Pirates ofthe Caribbean and going through
that ride, ellie loved that ride, it's like man, I just like and

(21:17):
I told Vanessa and Shelby thistime like I see the little huts
on the south of the swamp.
They're just there.
Like I remember from a kid, Ialways wanted to live on a swamp
like that.

Rick (21:30):
The little fireflies flying around the old man's
right there just chilling on hisporch with the little banjo
playing in the background, thebackground.

Lano (21:38):
They just seen the way how old it is, with all the like,
the kind of the renaissancestyle with the pirates and
everything.

Rick (21:45):
It just it took me back and I don't know when the last
time you went, miggy, but theyupdated it for like the movies,
like Johnny Depp.

Mig (21:52):
They don't have a lot of them in there no.

Lano (21:54):
Oh no more.
Yeah, there's only like Threespots I think they have.
Like I remember when Pirates ofthe Caribbean first came out,
it was popping out at like everyscene.

Rick (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, taking advantage of it, yeah.

Lano (22:09):
I think you could only see them like three times I think.

Rick (22:12):
And it never changes, like the smell of the water.

Lano (22:15):
All that chlorine.
Yeah, those were my favoriterides, man.
The rides I would always wantto get on when we went were
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Oh my bad.
The snow beast is on theMatterhorn, huh.

Mig (22:30):
Matterhorn yeah.

Lano (22:32):
Yeah, it's not on Space Mountain, it was Matterhorn
Pirates of the Caribbean,Thunder Mountain, which I know
they're taking out.

Mig (22:40):
You jumped on Thunder Mountain.

Lano (22:41):
That pisses me off.
They said they're taking it out, aren't they?
No, no, that's a.

Mig (22:45):
That's a, that's a.

Lano (22:45):
That's a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a, that's a, that's a,that's a.

Rick (22:54):
That's a Look out.
People love the ThunderMountain Barbecue Because that's
where they build the Star Warsland.

Lano (23:01):
Thunder Mountain Everyone loves that yeah well.
Thunder Mountain at Disneyland.
That was my absolute favoriteride.
I love that ride, dude.

Mig (23:10):
That was my absolute favorite.

Lano (23:13):
That's the one ride I would always look forward to.
And then I also love theHaunted Mansion.
You know the matterhorn.
I love the autotopia, the cars.
You know the.
The submarine ride was alwaysfun.
Space mountain actually.

(23:34):
It's funny because the firsttime I I was in line for the
space mountain, dude, Ichickened out.
I got scared.
Dude, I got out of line and Iwalked out.
Dude I was.
I think I was like maybe like10 or something like that.
Dude, I just I got too scared.
That could be crazy, because Igot in the dark yeah, I got
scared and I ran out dude and asI exit by the trash, can they

(23:56):
tell me?

Rick (23:56):
if you go out the exit it'll make a chicken sound.

Lano (23:58):
I'm telling you before it would be more intense because of
that fast-paced kind of rockmusic.
Now it's like the orchestra ofthe Star Wars music.

Mig (24:08):
Yeah, because how dark it was and everything.

Lano (24:10):
Hearing everybody screaming it just scared the
crap out of me, dude, and I waslike no, I can't do this, I
can't do this.
But then once, like after that,after my first Six Flags trip
and doing all those rides overthere, then when we went back to
Disney again, no problem, yeah.

Mig (24:30):
You know, I did that shit, no problem.

Lano (24:31):
Hey, lalo, did you say that Magic Mountain or Six Flags
bought Knott's?
Yeah, you're the one that saidit, right, yeah?

Mig (24:38):
Yeah.

Lano (24:39):
Like they own it now, but they're keeping it the same
right.
Yeah, yeah, like they own itnow, but they're keeping it the
same, huh yeah they're keepingit the same, they just run it.

Rick (24:45):
Yeah, six Flags, that's the company About it yeah, oh
crazy.

Lano (24:48):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Keep it the same.
Well, I mean, they needed it.

Rick (24:54):
But I mean, I'm sure Rick is the same, but when you go to
Disneyland you just feel like akid again, like all these
memories come back.

Lano (25:00):
Yeah, yeah.

Rick (25:01):
Once you go.

Lano (25:03):
Did you guys ever go?

Mig (25:05):
You guys all went together.

Rick (25:05):
They got Huh when you guys went as kids.

Lano (25:10):
Yeah, what do you mean?

Rick (25:11):
Cause Laura's a family of seven and they've never gone all
together.
They've all gone separately,like all the Each sibling.

Mig (25:17):
Yeah, like they can only buy Like two or three tickets At
a time.
Oh yeah, when we were young,you guys would all Everybody go.

Rick (25:23):
Yeah, laura says, they've never all Gone together, they've
like Taken turns going.

Lano (25:28):
You know, on the last time , the last time I went To
Disneyland Was when the IndianaJones ride Was new.
That's a damn good ride, man.
That ride is badass.

Mig (25:42):
Yeah.

Lano (25:42):
That's a really good ride, so that was like another one of
my favorites was that IndianaJones ride.

Mig (25:46):
Yeah, Indiana Jones is a really good ride.

Lano (25:48):
And that was the new ride.
When that thing came out, thatwas the last time I was there
Indiana Jones, and then you know, which was pretty cool, the,
the damn runaway train.
You guys jumped on that onelano yeah, the mickey mouse one
right like just going throughthere, that like toontown yeah
and then you see all the oldposters, the old mickey mouse

(26:11):
that's where we go first,because, um, that's the kids
want to see that ride.
That ride is is cool.
I really like that, right?
Oh, there's a map.

Rick (26:19):
And then it has um, like posters of the old, like
cartoons that we've seen, likeyou'll see, like the, not
artifacts but like Pieces fromthe cartoons, like oh, I
remember this Christmas special.
Like.

Lano (26:29):
Santa Claus came out.
You know what's one thing Ialways wanted to get on that
steamboat, the riverboat oh, wegot on it last time.

Mig (26:36):
The bar twin.
We got on it last time, theMark Twain I've never, been on
that one.

Lano (26:38):
That thing always looked like so much fun, dude.
Yeah, we got on it, and thenthey got that little island in
the middle.
You can go explore Tom SawyerTom.

Rick (26:45):
Sawyer, there's caves in there.
You can go around that.
That's why Treehouse yeah.

Lano (26:50):
I always wanted to go do that, hey, and you know what
bomb clam chowder.
It's just that they're tightwith it, man, where they got to
scoop out more of that bread outof that damn bowl and get some
more clam chowder there.
Man, they don't sell it at thatNew Orleans, right in that New
Orleans store anymore.
It's a little booth next tothe-.

Rick (27:12):
Oh, it's not over there by Pirates.

Lano (27:14):
No, it's a little small booth that's next to that ship.
The ship that's next to thethat ship, the ship that's there
where that Mark Twain steamboatgoes around.
Is it a bread bowl?
Yeah, it's a bread bowl.
They do clam chowder or like acorn thing.
Give me that clam chowder.

Rick (27:32):
So they're supposed to be adding an Avatar land and then
like Avatar sucked Zootopia.

Lano (27:41):
I've never seen that whole movie.

Rick (27:44):
Zootopia, and then there's two of them.
Yeah, at California Adventurethey're adding a Coco Land and
then they're expanding theMarvel.

Lano (27:53):
There's a little small area, that's Coco.
Yeah, like mixing restaurant,yeah.

Rick (27:58):
This is like a little plaza, but they're gonna add a
whole land where you take someboat ride.

Mig (28:02):
I thought they're going to have more stuff.

Lano (28:05):
For Mexicans.
They're being there to Cinco deMayo.
It wasn't anything.

Rick (28:08):
Well it's all because of the May.
May the 4th be with you likeMay 4th.

Mig (28:14):
That's how they're doing.

Lano (28:17):
You went the day of Cinco de Mayo.

Rick (28:18):
Yeah.

Mig (28:20):
Well that's more At the.

Rick (28:22):
At the California Adventure.

Mig (28:24):
Yeah.

Rick (28:26):
What Did they have?
Cause they had like new foodand stuff For every season.

Lano (28:30):
Well, every damn restaurant you got a damn
reserve.
Like I thought it's allPre-order on the app or
something.
By the time you like you gojump on it.
Like, oh your, the reservationavailable is like at 10 pm, like
or not.
Not 10 pm, but like 8 pm, 7 pm,it's like you want to have
lunch there's like I don't knowwhen.
You got a damn reserve, thatthing, that damn.

(28:52):
The damn restaurant for thepirates caribbean, that one in
the middle yeah you gottareserve that like two months in
advance.
Oh yeah, oh shit, yeah that.

Rick (29:00):
That restaurant.
I forgot what it's called, butum yeah, and then we.

Lano (29:03):
I don't know what happened .
They had it Like Vanessa andShelby had it reserved, but the
day that we went the restaurantwas closed.

Mig (29:12):
Of course.

Lano (29:12):
Or no.
No, we had no.
No, I'm sorry it was open, butwe moved the day, I think the
Disney day.
The reservation didn't movewith you, yeah it didn't go with
me, it didn't go with us, butyeah, it was cool.
I mean we got a lot done.
You take the girls on thatstorybook ride.

Rick (29:35):
Yeah, like the boat ride where you go through the whale's
mouth.
Yeah, yeah.

Lano (29:38):
Did they like that?

Rick (29:40):
They liked that one Did you do it during the day or at
night, during the day.

Lano (29:46):
You got to do that at night.

Rick (29:48):
When 7 o'clock hits like we're wiped out.

Lano (29:51):
Do we stay a couple?

Rick (29:52):
hours.
No, like at 8 o'clock, no, butI'm saying that 7 o'clock like
we're dead.

Lano (30:00):
We're exhausted From being there all.

Rick (30:01):
All day with the kids.

Lano (30:01):
Make that the last ride, because we always try to stay
Till closing, but we're justlike done.
It looks a lot better At nightbecause you see the little
lights In the little castles,the little oh like, the little,
yeah, the little lighting thatthey got.

Rick (30:12):
All throughout the whole area, whatever.

Lano (30:14):
It's you gotta, you gotta watch it, that's something new.

Rick (30:17):
No, no, it's an old ride, storybook ride I don't know if
it's Pinocchio or something yougo through.

Mig (30:21):
Montrose Mouth, it's just a little Quick boat ride.

Lano (30:25):
Like a little boat ride.
Yeah, it shows Cinderella'scastle and it's been there for
Aerials Like next to Dumbo.
Little castle where she lives.

Rick (30:35):
Yeah, it's just like, like on the map you can't see, but
it's right here when I'mcircling yeah like the whale
spout, and then there's a trainright too that you could go up
around.

Lano (30:42):
That was uh what I, what I always liked, as cheesy as it
was, was, uh, the jungle ridewhen you got that hippo, yeah,
making his cheesy jokes andeverything yeah that was pretty
cool.
I always enjoyed that one.
They said people try to be thatthat host, that on the boat
announcer making his cheesyjokes and everything.

Rick (31:02):
That was pretty cool.
I always enjoyed that one.
They said people try to be thathost on the boat announcer
because they go on to do bigthings.
It's like a coveted job.

Lano (31:11):
A lot of those guys fall flat.
We had a really good one whenthe first time we went with me
and Vanessa.
It was our first time togethergoing.
We had a funny dude it was good.
And then the last time wedidn't get, I kept calling it
that damn Tatiana's.

Rick (31:29):
Bayou, the Splash Mountain , yeah but it's, it's, tiana's,
tiana's.
Tatiana, I think no, tiana's orTiana's I kept calling it
Tatiana's.
Tiana's Bay or Tiana's.
I kept calling it Tatiana's,tiana's.

Lano (31:41):
Bayou Adventure Bust down, Tatiana Bust down.
I think that's the song.

Rick (31:44):
You went on that.

Lano (31:45):
No, we didn't go on that.

Rick (31:46):
Because it's all new.

Lano (31:47):
It's the one.
What was it called before?
Splash?
Splash Mountain, SplashMountain.

Rick (31:52):
Yeah, now they rethemed it Just opened up.

Lano (31:57):
No, it's a log.
They just renamed it A Disneymovie.
A Disney movie and they addednew characters, but it's the
same Rowing Rapids.
And then, when you the logright, it's a log right, not
Rowing Rapids.
Rowing Rapids.
Is it's?
You're in a circle, you're inthat.

Rick (32:09):
No, no, no, it's a log.
The Rowing Rapids Is at theCalifornia Adventure the one
with the Flash.
Mountain is the one you go downthat big drop at the end on the
log.

Lano (32:18):
Flash Mountain is in the log.
Oh no, then it's the other one.
It's, uh, the Grizzly.

Rick (32:23):
Peak is the Royal Rapid.
That's a California Adventure.

Lano (32:26):
No, no, the three of them that round, the round, one it um
, where you, where you, it'severyone sitting in a circle?
No, yes, that's the, theTiana's, that's what it is.
No, yes, it is.
Look it up, I'm looking it upright now.
I tell you right now, we weregonna, we were gonna jump on it.

Rick (32:47):
This is it, but we didn't wanna do it.
It's a log right, like see,look at the pictures you go down
, it's replaced by SplashMountain.
It's the log right, tell me.
And it's.
It's a.
It's the the log right there.

(33:11):
It is well, you can see a video, but it's the longer.
They just rethemed it.
You see it?
Tiana's Bayou, the one, theGrizzly Peak Is the other one,
the circle, the rapids.

Lano (33:29):
I guess we went on that.

Rick (33:34):
I see that.

Lano (33:35):
That's the log, right.

Rick (33:36):
Yeah.
Tiana's People really get wetthere At the end.
That's the log right.

Lano (33:42):
Yeah, Tiana's.

Rick (33:44):
People really get wet there At the end.
I guess the drop at the end weshould have jumped on him.
But yeah, this opened up like Ithink in February.
This is all like brand new.
I mean, after the remodel theyrethemed it Because the Splash
Mountain mountain, they said,was like a little too racist why
?

Lano (34:03):
what was racist?

Rick (34:03):
about splash mountain, the , the crows and all that zippity
doodah or whatever.
Oh my god, the crows so they.

Lano (34:11):
They rethemed it to um tiana's it was don't, don't
listen to this guy politicallyincorrect.
That's why they redid it, it'sparty for this shit.
Oh dude, I believe it.
I believe that dude.

Rick (34:23):
Now if you watch disney plus now, like for those movies,
they have like disclaimersbefore you watch it.
This, this was, uh, made andfilmed at a different time that
we don't agree with now, andblah, blah, blah.

Lano (34:33):
Even aladdin, they have a disclaimer and that fat
alligator right there is notoffensive.

Rick (34:43):
So this is the drop at the end.
Before it was like that rabbitand stuff and then you go to the
drop.
Hopefully the camera isrecording this Because we're
looking around.
We're looking up.
Here's the drop.

Lano (35:00):
Not much of a drop.

Rick (35:02):
Oh, there it goes.
And the splash.
I think it's just likeartificial splash.
Like you know, they shoot wateron you.

Lano (35:10):
Oh hey, we should have jumped on that yesterday then.

Rick (35:16):
I know I was thinking it was that one that you, that's
Grizzly's Peak.
Wow, that one, I haven't been'sGrizzlies Peak Wow.

Mig (35:22):
That one.
I haven't been on in a longtime hey.

Lano (35:27):
That's interesting.
I came across you guys everwatch Tim Kast, tim Kast, tim
Kast.
That sounds familiar.

Mig (35:34):
On YouTube.
He was wearing a beanie.
Tim Kast Tim.

Lano (35:36):
Kast.
He's a skater dude that soundsfamiliar On YouTube.
He was wearing a beanie.
Tim Kast, Tim.

Mig (35:41):
Kast, he's a skater dude.
That sounds familiar.

Lano (35:45):
Talks fast.
You see him Right there.
Oh, tim Pool, sorry.

Rick (35:49):
No, it's Tim Kast.
Yeah, Tim Kast, but I guess hisname is Tim Pool.

Lano (35:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
I don't know he does littleclips right, so I uh, yeah, I
think I've seen clips of him on.

Mig (36:00):
Instagram and stuff.

Lano (36:01):
That's what I was writing.
He came across something crazylike um interesting when he was
talking about um, he, he wastalking about Beyonce and and,
uh, katy Perry, cause you knowhow they're having.
I guess they're struggling tosell out their shows.
Oh, I heard a bit of Beyonce.

(36:22):
Yeah, they can't sell out, Iguess, their stadiums or
whatever.
And they're looking like at thegenerations.
Oh, he started talking about itbecause I think Generation
Alpha is about to end this year.

Rick (36:37):
I thought Alpha was the new one.
What's next?

Lano (36:39):
No, I think the new one's gonna start x wires.

Rick (36:42):
I don't know well, I thought off off, I think alpha
ends this year.

Lano (36:49):
It was yeah, I think it.
I think it ends this year nowthey're getting smaller and
smaller.
The years used to be like 10years, like a generation, 15
years ago something while he wastalking about how there's not
now, there's not, a lot ofpeople that are going to shows,
Like these new kids that aregrowing up.

(37:09):
They don't really have thatartist that's.

Rick (37:12):
Oh, alpha is 2010 to 2024.
Oh, yeah, see, so that's why hewas talking about it.

Lano (37:17):
That's why he was talking about it.
So they don't have, like us,that we had, you know, our 90s,
our 80s, our 90s, like so, ourgroups, our singers, or whatever
that we like you know, we wouldgo to their shows.
There's not really anythingknown today like on that level

(37:41):
of a singer, a band, yeah, likethere.
No, nothing that they canrelate to or or attach
themselves to.
So he started, he startedtalking about the, the
generations, how many are there?
And it was pretty, it waspretty crazy, and that's what.
That's what I was writing righthere.
And he was looking up, he waslooking up the generations.

(38:03):
So boomers, they asked how many?
I didn't want to get it wrong.
He asked, like, how many Gen X?
Because what are we?
We're Gen X, gen.

Rick (38:17):
X.

Lano (38:18):
How many Gen X are in the US.
And it was 65 million.
And then he went to the nextgeneration, how many millennials
are there?
And there was 72 million.
And then he goes like, well,that's interesting.
Then he went back, well, let mesee how many, he said how many
boomers are left are in the US.
And there's 71 million stillboomers.

Mig (38:41):
There's still a lot, yeah, I thought there'd be like so it
goes from 71 to 65, gen X, us.

Lano (38:47):
And then Gen X had a lot of kids.
They were 72.
Millennials.
I mean, I'm sorry, gen X, theMillennials were 72 million.
So Millennials having theirkids, which is Gen Z.
It dropped down to 69 million.
Now, gen z having kids droppedall the way down to 45 million.

(39:09):
Wow, 45 million.

Rick (39:11):
So because they're not like dating and stuff, yeah, so
now they're saying, okay, gen z,they're not getting married.

Lano (39:18):
No, gen alpha, like what's that number gonna be?
Like it'll probably be way less.
Because they're saying, okay,gen z, they're not getting
married.
No, gen alpha, like what's thatnumber gonna be?
like it'll probably be way lessbecause they're probably not had
gen alpha's, not having anykids yeah as much so like there
was like a big drop where yousee how the differences were
from boomers, gen x, millennials, how they were going to shows.

(39:39):
They were related, you know,they were more attached to their
music and now the younger kidsthey're not really attached to
music.

Mig (39:54):
What it is, is that all of us, our previous generations.

Lano (39:56):
We were all about the life experience, about being there,
of actually experiencing it.
There's no YouTube, go see it.
Our previous generations.
We were all about the lifeexperience about being there,
yeah, of actually experiencingthere's no youtube.
Yeah, and the thing is, this iswhat pisses me off when I would
still go to shows, you know,even just like, maybe like five,
six years ago or whatever, youknow, it's like when, when I was
with my previous relationship,you know, I would go with her to

(40:18):
shows that she wanted to see.
It's like, say, we went to gosee J-Lo in Vegas at her
residency.

Rick (40:25):
Oh, you did yeah.

Lano (40:26):
So I went to this J-Lo show.
You know not my thing, but youknow she wanted to go, so we
went and I'm like okay, let's go, you know.
So we bought our tickets orwhatever.
And the thing is, it wasn'tsold out.
No, it was sold out, but mything is we're there to see J-Lo
.

Mig (40:43):
You know a show.

Lano (40:44):
So In front of me is sitting this planet.
You know that didn't let me seethe show Because she's standing
up With her stupid phone.

Rick (40:54):
Looking at it, filming it, recording it.

Lano (40:56):
And I'm like stupid.
You know what?
Sit down, enjoy the damn show.
You know what?
Sit down, enjoy the damn show.
You know.
It's like what the hell are youPutting your phone up for?
You know, if you're gonna dothat Stupid shit, then just go
home and watch somebody else'sFeed on YouTube.
Look up a YouTube there.
It's like why are you Gettingin my way Ruining?

Rick (41:14):
my experience.
No, like my kids, they watchlike the Disney on Ice on
YouTube and they love it.
So I took them last month to gosee Disney on Ice and they
loved it in person, you know,but that's the thing.

Mig (41:25):
That's why I didn't record it anymore.

Lano (41:27):
That drop off is because these generations now Are being
made so stupid by social mediaand just having their faces
buried in screens.
Yeah, that has a lot To do withit, but it's like there's such a
disconnect.
But look at, but look at what'sout there.

(41:49):
It's like there was more.
I mean, I know a lot of people,a lot of these youngins, like
all this stupid Rap that'scoming out right now, all that
crap.
But I think it was more of avariety with with our
generations, because, aside fromall the, all our rappers, our

(42:10):
90s rappers and our shows thatwe go see, we went.
We liked a good rock show.

Rick (42:15):
Yeah, we liked a good classic rock show or an oldie
show, or even like know stufflike that, even like in the
summer when they do shows at thepark, like I enjoy those shows.

Lano (42:23):
But you look back it's like, especially just look at
rock, being Gen X, we loved allthe 60s and 70s stuff, which was
that was the boomers, Right, weloved that.
That's you know we.
We love that we.
That's, that's part of our, our, our youth, Right.

(42:44):
And then eighties hit, that'sus growing up as kids.
So we have all the eightiesstuff growing up and then
nineties is when we hit ourstride and then think about the
nineties Cause, like dude, therap that came out.

Rick (42:57):
All the rock, like the grunge, the new metal.

Lano (43:03):
We were like spoiled.
We had our 60s and 70s from ourparents to fall back on.
And then we peaked in the 90sright at the turn of the century
is where we peaked, like 2000s.

Mig (43:18):
I would even say early 2000s was still good Up.
I would even say Early 2000sWere still good Late 2000s.
Up to like.

Lano (43:23):
Maybe 2010s.

Mig (43:25):
And after that it's just a huge drop off.

Lano (43:26):
But you see after that, like I mean what Iconic bands
are out that are making a bigimpact, like there's gonna be
bands that you know Some kidslike or whatever, but On the
level, of Our stuff.

Mig (43:39):
Yeah, let me give you an example.

Lano (43:41):
Nothing on like on the level of our stuff.
This past weekend I just got onthis kick to listen to Too
Short again, so I've beenputting.
You know, just you know oldstuff yeah old stuff.
Life is Too Short, his album.

Mig (43:56):
We shouldn't have been listening to that when we were
kids.

Lano (43:58):
Yeah, we shouldn't have, but whatever.
And um, so I started bumping itin my truck, his album.
We shouldn't have beenlistening to that when we were
kids.
Yeah, we shouldn't have, butwhatever.
And so I started bumping it inmy truck.
You know which?
I didn't know.
My truck sounded that good, butyou know, it reminded me of
being back in high school andhooking up our systems and this
would be a tape where we woulddo a bass check, right, right,

(44:18):
you know it's like if you wantedwould do a bass check.

Rick (44:19):
Right right, you know it's like, if you wanted to do a
bass check, get some Too Short.

Lano (44:24):
You get your.
Your life is too short, youknow, put on.

Rick (44:29):
It was you know you put on .
I'm gonna put that in the carnow.
I'm gonna listen to it.

Lano (44:32):
Yeah, dude, you put on.
You know you could put on.
Don't Fight the Feeling.
You know you could put on.

Rick (44:39):
Don't Fight the Feeling you could put on City of Dope it
was a few things.
You could put on a few artists,you know.

Lano (44:45):
so I'm listening to that.
So just today I figure okay youknow it's like, since you tell
me to use Spotify so much, I gookay, well, let me check out
Spotify.
So I put Spotify on, I clickedon the Too Short playlist, you
know, because it said hisgreatest hits or whatever, and I
pushed it Playlist of Too Shortand his greatest hits and I

(45:10):
guess something New recent Cameout Of.

Mig (45:15):
Too Short.

Lano (45:17):
Must have been like, within the past Five or ten
years, something.

Mig (45:21):
Yeah.

Lano (45:21):
I don't know, but it was horrible.
It was horrible, dude.
Yeah, I mean just the hookbeing sang by this Over
Auto-tuned Synthesized Garbage.
His part was good, but justWhoever produced it Was trash.

(45:44):
You know, it's just theinstrumental and the hook and
everything Was garbage.
As far as him, his rap andeverything was good, but just
Hearing the instrumental andeverything else, it was trash
and I'm like dude, how did youlet Hearing the instrumental and
everything else?
It was trash.

Rick (46:02):
Yeah, it's like, and I'm like dude, it's like, how did
you let yourself come to this?
Yeah, your legacy, you knowit's like you had said 10 and
you're done.

Lano (46:11):
10 albums and you're done.

Rick (46:12):
Oh, that's right, I forgot about that.
It's like why did you keepgoing, dude?

Lano (46:17):
They can't stay away from it.
It's like why, dude?
It's like at 10, you shouldhave just stopped.
It's like after that you shouldhave just been producing, then
you know if you wanted to stayin the game.
That's why I like I think itwas Andre 3000.

Mig (46:31):
You know that he said.

Lano (46:33):
He said like, nah, he didn't want to be an old, an old
head still trying to rap, andit an old head still trying to
rap.
He said it wasn't cool.
I mean it was so bad dude?
Yeah, I think the song was likeGirl or something like that.

Rick (46:50):
Lano Getting it.
That was the number 10 album.

Lano (46:52):
No, I'm not getting it.
It was like Walk it Girl orsomething, something, girl dude.
No way, this is not in in order.
The camera's not recording,cool.
The audience needs to see whatwe're looking at?

Rick (47:08):
I think it is, I just don't see it.

Lano (47:09):
In the back it shows like but I mean, well, if you guys
get a chance, listen to it,you'll be like, oh man, you'll
just shake your head, and I meaneven going through.
Let's just say going through,and you'll be like, oh man,
you'll just shake your head, andI mean even going through.
Let's just say going through amainstream thing Like go through
K-Rock, go through the alt.

(47:30):
What is that one?
98.7, it's supposed to bealternative music.
But it's like A lot of timesthey just go back to the yeah
2000s stuff.

Mig (47:43):
Yeah.

Lano (47:43):
The late 90s stuff, because there's nothing, there's
nothing good.
It's like right now.
Right now, the only stations Inmy rotation Are Jack FM, oh
yeah.
Jack.

Rick (47:55):
FM.

Lano (47:55):
KLOS and K-Earth.

Rick (47:57):
K-Earth, yeah, yeah.

Lano (47:59):
And K Earth dude.

Rick (48:00):
K L.

Lano (48:00):
O S did they change?
No, dude, the thing is ClassicRock.
Now is what we were talkingabout.
No, but I thought K L O S, no,that was.
Oh, no, that was 100.3.

Rick (48:17):
The sound that was classic rock.
We're working hard listening tothe sound.

Lano (48:23):
Remember when it was a pirate 103, remember it was a
pirate.
Yeah, that's when it was a realrock station.

Rick (48:31):
But the sound will do like themes every weekend Of just
like music non-stop.

Lano (48:36):
But that's why there's nothing out there For these kids
to Attach to like that.

Mig (48:42):
Yeah.

Lano (48:43):
And then, like Miggy says, they're not socializing If
artists but then artists rightnow Are getting lazy and they're
not Learning the instrument,they just do everything On the
computer.

Rick (48:52):
That's what I'm saying.
What are you gonna perform?
And you ever notice Liketoday's songs Are just like two
minutes and 30 seconds, yeah,like super short Because the
attention span.
It's like two hooks and likethat's it.
You're like that's the wholesong Before with us it was like
five, six minutes, right, that'swhat I'm saying, dude, it's
like the old rock songs.

Lano (49:09):
You're like you hear the intro, yeah, you get the buildup
, the buildup of the riff going.
Three or four verses, no.
Then you're like, you're justseeing like when, when, like how
epic is the solo gonna be Anice long solo the song used to
like breathe yeah.
Yeah, there was no rush, solo,yeah and yeah.
Now they're like two, two and ahalf minutes.

Mig (49:33):
But it's just no, but even Even.

Lano (49:35):
It's even the same thing with, with, um, whenever they
call rap now, dude, yeah, youknow, there's just nothing but
but hooks.
And I've been on a, you know,dude, I've been listening to.

Rick (49:48):
Spanish music.
I've just been listening toSpanish music Cause they're
doing Having a renaissance rightnow.

Lano (49:53):
I would hear like A lot of like the Righteous Brothers and
you hear Like the singing andthe style and even the musical
part, the instrumental it's likeI wonder if anyone could come
and just like, kind of like justget lost in that era of music

(50:15):
to see if they could just comeout with something and be
influenced by that.
Just nothing new, that era musicto see if they could just come
out with something and beinfluenced by that.
Just not, not none of thenothing new.
Just listen to that stuff, thatclassical stuff, and see if you
can come out, you know,inspired to make something like
that.

Rick (50:29):
How do you guys feel about um the genre, um yacht rock?
I'm not familiar with it.

Mig (50:36):
It's like.

Rick (50:37):
I saw a documentary on it recently yeah yeah, rock, it's
like all the like the, the slow,like rock music, like um right
here says what is an example?

Lano (50:46):
is it a fucking baby?

Rick (50:48):
come back, steely dan fm slow rock.
Yeah like um.
I don't know if you knowdreamweaver baby, come back
sentimental like the doobiebrothers and all that stuff yeah
, fools falling.
No, I just saw this documentaryyeah, soft rock yeah but now

(51:08):
it's called yacht rock.
But um, no, because I saw that Isaw a documentary and I was
like really into it and thenlike I typed in yacht rock on
the apple music and then allthese songs were pretty good I
mean, I don't know what, whattype of music it was, but
whenever I get, like my emailsfrom the casinos, yeah like,
especially the palms.

Lano (51:28):
There's this act that's out there.
They're called the like theyacht rock boys or something
like that covers of all thosemusic.
I guess, yeah, but check it out, check out what they play,
check it out, check it out.
I don't know what they play.

Rick (51:40):
Yeah, check it out and tell me what you think.
Yeah, I ain't going to belistening to that soft shit.
It's like the rock music youcan sing to.

Lano (51:50):
Is it classic rock?
Yeah, dude, it's all that softcrap.
Coldplay.

Rick (51:59):
Yeah, I'll show you the trailer For the documentary, but
there was a.
I think I saw it on AmazonPrime, but pretty good, but I
don't know, man.
But Like today, kids don't evenlike, want to drive or buy cars
.
I understand that, like they'renot socializing and stuff Not
having babies, so I understandwhy their Population is like

(52:19):
going down.

Lano (52:22):
I think everything just so damn expensive.
Yeah, and then everything'sexpensive, it's that, and
they're lazy too, because A lotof stuff is being handed to them
and it goes back.
I said the same one time beforeand I know I butchered it then
and I'm probably going tobutcher it right now again.

(52:42):
But Hard times Create strongmen.
Strong men, ah dude, I wish Iknew that.
Right, how about you write itdown?
Look it up and write it down.
Yeah Well, what it I mean?

(53:06):
The gist of it is, you knowthat the hard time, you know,
makes the man here it is.

Rick (53:13):
I have it on the screen so you can read it.

Lano (53:16):
Okay, the quote Hard times create Strong men, strong men
create good times, good timescreate Weak men and weak men
Create hard times, basically.
So that's the cycle that we'rein, you know so Pretty much From

(53:38):
the boomers, which were thestrong men, yeah To now the we
grew up in the great times.
Yeah.
So now to the alphas, orwhatever they are.
Right now they're the weak ones.
They're gonna create the hardtimes there's not that many
alphas, and who knows how thealphas kids are going to be.

(54:01):
You know, and the thing is it'sa joke calling them Beta.
It's a joke calling them alphas, because there's nothing alpha
about them.

Rick (54:11):
Right, no, there's not.

Lano (54:12):
You know, I think the next generation is XY.

Mig (54:16):
It's like when they.

Rick (54:17):
When they start.

Lano (54:18):
I saw it was beta.
Oh, beta yeah.

Rick (54:19):
When's like when they start.

Lano (54:20):
I saw it was beta, oh, beta, yeah, when they start
crying about toxic masculinityand everything.
I mean, dude, how are you goingto call yourself an alpha
generation when you can't definewhat a woman is and you get mad
when a man is supposed to bewhat a man is?
You don't let a man be a man,true?

Rick (54:46):
I'm telling you it's.
I mean, I know what you'resaying.

Lano (54:48):
The ones that are going to come out on top are the ones
that are living in the mountains.
Yeah, they're just watching allthe weaklings disappear slowly.
Run to the mountains with yourguns, people.

Rick (55:03):
I wish someone had this boat.
Like with the years, and yourbreakdown.
Yeah, like what would the like?
Yeah, like the generations,like you say, like what segment
we're?

Lano (55:13):
in right now.
They moved like the millennials.
I thought millennials wasstarted in 85, but it started in
81.

Rick (55:20):
There's no hard like deadline, it's just like Like an
era.
It's not like from this year.
Oh, I don't know.
There's like a transition andall this other stuff.

Lano (55:30):
What's funny, though, is that If you jump on YouTube and
you see like you see like GenZers React.
Reacting to videos of Gen Xers.

Mig (55:43):
Yeah.

Lano (55:44):
How we were as kids, like the shit we used to do, and you
see their reactions.
They're all like shocked, yeah,you know like by the shit that
we used to do?

Rick (55:54):
What about the things your parents used to do?
I mean, I think we were crazierwe were.

Lano (55:58):
I mean, I think we were crazier dude, you think so?
I think we were crazier dude.

Rick (56:02):
Maybe Miggy was crazier than my generation because
you're a little older.
What are you talking?

Lano (56:07):
about dude.
You're insane man.
Gen X was adventurous man.

Mig (56:11):
Yeah, dude, I mean because you're talking, and it started
fading with the millennials.

Lano (56:16):
Yeah, cause you're talking about Our parents would just.

Mig (56:20):
Let us go throughout the day Just look at Jackass dude,
that's Gen X.

Lano (56:25):
I mean cause.

Rick (56:26):
I'm thinking how many times did we go to TJ without
like Telling my parents I'mtalking?

Mig (56:30):
about when we were kids, when we were young.

Lano (56:33):
You know, it's like being outside and building a ramp when
you have no business building aramp and you have no business
building a ramp and jumping iton your bike and eating shit and
you scrape up your elbows andeverything.

Mig (56:47):
Jumping a fence when you shouldn't be Jumping a fence.

Lano (56:51):
Yeah, dude, I mean Going, you know, cutting holes in the
fence and going in the river bedand riding your bikes all the
way up to Pasadena, and you know, and then going up to Flat Top
on.

Mig (57:04):
Right Coming down the hill on cardboard.

Lano (57:08):
I mean dude Swimming in that, god knows red infested
water in the tunnel Pina Lake.

Rick (57:15):
Yeah, oh, the tunnel.

Lano (57:16):
Nightingale Tunnel the Nightingale Tunnel that Builds
your immunity up yeah.
Oh, I didn't tell you I wentCheck this out.
I went, we went to EnsanadaLike two weeks ago.

Rick (57:27):
Yeah.

Lano (57:28):
Right and we went again to El Güero Already when we were
leaving and I got All mariscos.
I got mariscos yeah, just themarisco with the shrimp and the
octopus.
I had mine.
I didn't finish it so I savedit.
We got back home, shane andShelby went with us.

(57:50):
I ate half of it, vanessa atehalf of hers, or a little bit
less than half.
Same thing with Shelby.
And then Shane wasn't feelinggood already at the end and they
kind of forced him to get likea shrimp cocktail, but he didn't
eat none of it.
We brought it all home, right.
I was like I'm going to havethis tomorrow.
Well, I kept forgetting aboutit and I think it was like

(58:15):
Thursday.
It was like Thursday.
I pulled it out.
It was like Thursday.
I pulled it out.
It was Shane's Mine.
I ate, but I pulled it.
I pulled out Shane's cocktail.

Rick (58:30):
I was remembering the bologna.
I was like what did I ask youto bring from Mexico?

Lano (58:37):
I know it was a risk, dude , but I pulled it out and you
know I had like the first bite.

Mig (58:43):
Oh, dude what the hell?
What's wrong with salt dude,not seafood, on the salt teeth?

Lano (58:47):
And I had it right.
I ate it and it it.

Mig (58:52):
It bit you.
No, it had a little bit of itcrawled out of your mouth.

Lano (58:56):
It had a little bit.
It had a little bit of it had alittle bit.
It had a little bit of like theSour, what's that?
How do you describe that?
Like citrusy or like Salty Tart?
Yeah, like a tart taste littlebit.
I was like, well, maybe I wasjust like the top top layer.

Rick (59:12):
We call that funky.
It's like I missed it.

Lano (59:19):
I got another one and damn , it was like.
The second one was kind of likestrong.

Rick (59:21):
I was like I don't want to let this shrimp go to waste, I
go, I go.

Lano (59:25):
I just let the shit go, dude, I got I think it was like
the fourth or fifth one that Igot cracker and I didn't taste
it anymore.
I'm like, oh, you know, it'sprobably good, son of a bitch.
And I said, all right, I'm notgoing to drink the juice, I'll
just eat the shrimp.

Rick (59:43):
Because your mouth is already numb.

Mig (59:50):
The toxins already did its job.

Lano (59:54):
What's ahead?
What's ahead the other one, ohson of a bitch.

Rick (59:58):
What's ahead.
The other one I was like thattart taste was back.

Lano (01:00:00):
I was that.
Once I had the other one, ohson of a bitch man.
Once I had the other one.
I was like that tart taste wasback.

Mig (01:00:03):
I was like oh fuck, oh no, I'm like well, fuck, I'm almost
done with it I mean ifwhatever's going to happen
happens.

Lano (01:00:08):
So I just made sure I got the shrimp out and I didn't get
none of the juice and just atethe shrimp.
So it was a little bit lesstart, just the shrimp, wow, and
I got it on and then I threwthat shit right away, like so I
wasn't tempted to.

Rick (01:00:24):
This was from Ensenada right.

Lano (01:00:26):
Yeah.

Rick (01:00:26):
Was it in the?
Cooler Like on the drive back,or where was this?
No, just in a bag, or what.

Lano (01:00:30):
No, we brought it out.
By the time we got it, we wentto the border.
Once we went to the border,then you know, we got home and I
put it in the bag.

Rick (01:00:40):
It wasn't in a cool, yeah, it wasn't a cup oh, but you put
it in the fridge?

Lano (01:00:44):
yeah, I had in the fridge, oh, shit, I thought you left it
in the car or something no, nono, no, no, no, I wouldn't know,
it was right as soon as we gothome from the fridge, but it was
still okay, all right, it wasstill tart, so it was like you
know when you order pizza andthen you know what, when I
tasted the tart, I was like, ohman, this is going bad.
And then, you know, I wastesting it, whatever, whatever,

(01:01:05):
and I was eating it in front ofVanessa and I didn't tell her
because she would have made methrow it away.

Mig (01:01:10):
I would have made you throw it away too.
Yeah, she would have like Iwould've fucking.

Lano (01:01:18):
She would've gotten and just thrown it away.
But I said ah, you know what.
But then it's like when I wasalready halfway through.
I was like man, I go, you knowwhat?
Seafood is one of the foodsthat you really shouldn't eat
when it goes bad, cause you canreally get sick that's like
poignant.

Rick (01:01:32):
But I go like, alright, we're gonna see.

Lano (01:01:34):
Remember that time you got hepatitis from eating shit you
shouldn't have.

Mig (01:01:40):
Did that feel good Okay.

Lano (01:01:45):
Remember that next time you're going to eat some week
old freaking Marisco from.

Mig (01:01:49):
From Ensenada yeah.

Lano (01:01:53):
Shit man.

Rick (01:01:55):
Your hepatitis just Awakened.
It was dormant for a while.

Lano (01:02:01):
That was last week, so I'm good it was.

Rick (01:02:04):
It was all right well, you know when, you when, while we
were kids food poisoning isfucking something else you buy
kids.
We order pizza and then likewhatever you didn't finish,
you'd finish the next day.
Right, just microwave it andthe box would be left out all
night.
Like my wife won't let me eatthat pizza, she'll throw it out.
She says like overnight whatit's gone bad.

Lano (01:02:21):
No, she'll throw it out, she's like, don't eat that,
you're going to get sick.
But pizza, like, just leave itin the cardboard box, eat it the
next day.
Yeah, man, when we finish.

Rick (01:02:33):
One day is fine, that's bad.

Lano (01:02:34):
You're wrong, laura.

Mig (01:02:36):
You're wrong.

Lano (01:02:37):
But, like the next day, you probably want to get In the
fridge.
That's a.
That's a pecado.

Rick (01:02:41):
Yeah, next day you want to get In the fridge Every time
you do that, jesus Christ.
Don't do that.
You finish it the morning ofyou eat it for breakfast.

Lano (01:02:50):
The next morning you get your slices and you put the rest
Of it in the fridge and thenyou finish it accordingly.
Right, don't throw it out, Imean.

Rick (01:02:57):
I don't like I don't like reheating the pizza.

Lano (01:03:00):
I just eat it like that.

Rick (01:03:01):
Well, you put it in Like toast in the Come on.

Lano (01:03:04):
It's rubbery, put it.
Put it in the toaster oven or,if you have an air fryer, put it
in the air fryer.

Rick (01:03:08):
Oh yeah, and then the crust gets crusty, toasty, air
fryer.

Lano (01:03:12):
That's, that's bomb right there, bomba I like that, but
yeah, that was my adventure lastDude.

Mig (01:03:23):
When did you?

Lano (01:03:24):
eat that when was?

Rick (01:03:24):
it.
That was like before Disneylandor in the morning.

Lano (01:03:27):
Yeah, no, it was.
We got it we brought it homeSunday and it was, I think, yeah
, two weeks ago, thursday.

Rick (01:03:35):
Oh, two weeks ago.
Yeah, I thought you ate it likeTwo weekends ago.
Yeah, yeah, I was at your houseTwo weekends ago, yeah, so.

Lano (01:03:40):
I was Thursday.
Yeah, pretty sure you're clear.
Yeah, I mean, I mean Damn dude,I think it would've happened.
Something would've happenedalready.

Mig (01:03:56):
Tell you, man Gen X dude.

Lano (01:03:58):
I've been training.
We're a different breed man.

Mig (01:03:59):
I've been training.
We're a different breed man.

Lano (01:04:00):
I've been training my damn Stomach.

Rick (01:04:04):
For that I started the clock late, but I think we're
like Already in.

Mig (01:04:10):
And now Did you want to?

Rick (01:04:11):
say anything, miggy.
Miggy had some notes Show notes.

Lano (01:04:14):
Alright, I'll, I'll end it on this, alright, little Little
history that I that I LearnedOn why do they call A shot Of
alcohol, more specifically, ashot of whiskey, the history of
why they call it a shot.
They call it a shot, so back inthe wild A jolt of no back in

(01:04:38):
the wild.
A jolt of no back in the wildwest.
You know, back in those days,you know not everybody would
carry money.
You know it's like money waspretty scarce.

Mig (01:04:50):
Yeah.

Lano (01:04:50):
Not everybody had money.
So when cowboys or whateverwould go to the bar and want to
drink, you know bartering, ordoing trades and shit was common
yeah.
So when they didn't have moneyin their pockets, you know, but
they had their guns andeverything on them the bartender

(01:05:12):
would say what was reallyvaluable then was a bullet or a
round.
So the bartender would say,okay, one round for one drink.
One round turned into one shotfor a drink.

(01:05:32):
So a shot for a shot, so that'swhere the term came from.
Shot.
Did you double?
Did you double check with thatguy?
So a shot for a shot, so that'swhere the term came from A shot
.
Did you double check with thatguy?
I think I saw it on TV, thatwas like on Discovery or
something.

Rick (01:05:46):
I have it up on the screen .
I was watching something on.

Lano (01:05:48):
Western.
Is that what it says, Lionel?

Rick (01:05:51):
It has a Mickey story and then it says some people think
it's something else.

Lano (01:05:54):
But yeah, it says a Boolie was was worth about 12 cents
and that's a small pour ofwhiskey yeah, the, the worth of
a, the worth of a bullet, wasthe same as a shot of whiskey,
so that's where you could tradethe bullet for a shot.

Rick (01:06:11):
I thought you were gonna say that, like for a bullet one,
they would pour like a smallglass to numb it or disinfect it
or whatever.
Okay, that's interesting.
That was an interesting littletidbit.

Lano (01:06:24):
What if I go to a bar and give them a 50 cal?
With a big shot, then Is that abottle, maybe?
Sometimes those rounds are like100 bucks.
There you go Bottle service.
All right, try it.
Keep on drifting yo Peace.