Épisodes

  • Heir and Space (Aerospace Industry)
    Jul 1 2025

    Look! What's that up in the sky? It's a bird? It's a plane? It's a plane.

    This month we're diving into one of the foundational industries in Los Angeles history: aerospace. We'll be covering the companies and the men behind them of Douglas (27:32) and Hughes (1:00:22).

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    1 h et 51 min
  • Surfin' Bacardi (Tiki and Surf)
    Jun 1 2025

    Surfs up, glasses down. To kick of summer we're diving into two pillars of the hot months of the year: Tiki culture (17:00) and surfing (58:27).

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    1 h et 44 min
  • Songs the City Taught us (LA Songs)
    May 1 2025

    Hey Mr. DJ (Daniel and Jreg) put a record on. This month we're going to be talking about AND listening to a smattering of some of the most iconic songs about Los Angeles.

    We'll discuss some of their backstory and what they say about the city. Come for the ones you expect; be angry at the ones we missed.

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    2 h et 15 min
  • The L.A. Meekly Junk Drawer: Part IV
    Apr 1 2025

    Spring is here and our drawers are loaded. That means it's time to empty them out in another junk drawer episode of topics that never found a home in other episodes.

    We'll be covering the Los Angeles Pigeon Farm (20:24), the geographic center of Los Angeles (34:09) and the Bella Union Hotel shootout (46:55).

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    1 h et 22 min
  • L.A. Womans (Trailblazing Women)
    Mar 1 2025

    For Women's History Month we're covering some notable women who made an impact on Los Angeles. We've got the first woman there was: the La Brea Woman (14:24), mental health pioneer Agnes Richards (23:20) and suffragette Caroline Severance (43:33).

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    1 h et 15 min
  • My Scuzzy Valentine (Houses of Ill Repute)
    Feb 1 2025

    This ValenTINE's Day we're doing the most romantic thing we can think of and going to a couple houses of ill repute.

    This month we'll be covering the history of Jumbo's Clown Room (29:52) and Chippendale's (45:59).

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    1 h et 28 min
  • The Itty Bitty City Committee (Ethnic Enclaves)
    Jan 1 2025

    In light of bad people trying to destroy the very fabric of our country, this month we're highlighting that which they want to destroy. We'll be covering some of our favorite ethnic enclaves of Los Angeles including Little Ethiopia (16:22), Historic Filipinotown (32:55) and Koreatown (51:25).

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    1 h et 18 min
  • Creepy Christmas/Chaunted Channukah Part: XI(for an)I (Haunted Stories)
    Dec 1 2024

    At long last it's here: our annual Creepy Christmas/Chaunted Channukah. Hide the children. Hide the elf on the shelf. Hide the afikoman (wrong Jewish holiday but still).

    This year we'll be covering the haunted Wolf's Lair (15:17), the Dog Woman of Watts (30:13), the Hollymont Hauntings (39:24) and the dreaded Lamb Mortuary (47:07).

    This episode best enjoyed after dark.

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    1 h et 20 min