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We're getting lost in the city. Lost in the city tonight (or day; whenever you listen to this, really). We're covering a couple failed cities within Los Angeles that are now lost to time. We have the oceanside paradise of Surfridge (15:41) and the desert socialist utopia of Llano del Rio (34:49).
We've got no strings to hold us down because we're back with a signature LA Meekly field trip! This time we are thrilled to visit with Alex Evans: head puppeteer at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Learn all about him and the inner workings of the theater today!
Hey, all you Hollyweirdos! Here is the live recording of our May 20th live show, Macabre Mansions and Haunted History with LA Not So Confidential and LA Meekly live from The Heritage Square Museum. Thank you to all who attended and showed their support! Be sure to check out and follow our southern friends, Bryanne and Brandon of The Southern Gothic Podcast. Check them out here Southern Gothic Podcast
Oil! Is! The! Topic! Of! This! Episode! This month we'll be discussing Los Angeles' history with the ooey gooey stuff from the earliest discoveries (14:10) to the rise of Edward Doheny (27:11) and a few of the most influential oil fields in town including Fairfax (1:12:20), Signal Hill (1:20:02) and Long Beach (1:24:33).
We bring you this delicious bonus feed episode from our friends over at the LA Meekly Podcast! They'll be joining us for our May 20, 2023, Live Event at Heritage Square Museum. So we thought, let us introduce them to all of you before our big haunted soiree! To learn more about our May 20th event and LA Meekly then please click on the links below. Hope to see you all there is Heritage Square! Click Below for more info and tickets for our upcoming event LA MEEKLY PODCAST MACABRE MANSIONS & HAUNTED HISTORY
Spring cleaning is here so we're clearing out our junk drawer once again to make room for new junk. We'll be covering a mishmash of topics that didn't quite fit into other episodes including Burmah White the Blonde Rattlesnake (15:50), the Venice Beatnik scene (33:52) and the Korean Bell of Friendship (1:03:40).
A San Francisco treat in MY Los Angeles history feed? Put the fists away. It is merely an episode of our new show Candy Is Dandy in the LA Meekly feed! In place of a Music Box this month we are releasing here our newest episode of Candy Is Dandy on Ghirardelli Squares. If you haven't already, subscribe to Candy Is Dandy anywhere you get your podcasts and enjoy more Greg and Daniel every month!
Travel back to 1927 Los Angeles with us and the guys from the L.A. Meekly podcast. Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran are Los Angeles- born comedians who have been doing their monthly LA history podcast for going on nine years. We cover the kidnapping and brutal murder of 12 year-old Marion Parker by William Edward Hickman from psych and historical perspectives. Check out their show here: https://www.lameeklypodcast.com/ *This live stream show was originally released in January 2022* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we're joined by the hosts of the podcast LA Meekly, (https://www.lameeklypodcast.com/) Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran, to talk about our favorite valley commercials! Mike's Discount furniture! Dentaland! Keyes on Van Nuys!
Ted Bundy with Ada Ruiz and Greg Gonzalez of LA Meekly.
LA Meekly's Greg Gonzalez joins us to explore the twilight years of Vincent Price, the horror legend.
Two comedians walk into a podcast. They hop on the mics and the hosts say "Hey what's the big Idea?". The guests say "We're LA Meekly and we're awesome". That's this show synopsis. LA Meekly's Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran come on to talk about LA's history, their Podcast and comedy. Check us out at www.jonathanandsergey.com and visit our Patreon to help support the show and get amazing perks. We can't make this show possible without the people who support us. www.patreon.com/jonathanandsergey
The Brujas meet with LA Meekly host Greg Gonzales to talk about the rising cost of living in his neighborhood, coded racism, and integrating into a community versus pushing them out. Also they talk hot sauce, beat boxing injuries and the Playboy Jazz fest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cindy Aravena finishes interviewing comedians Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran about their friendship, mainly focusing on how they produce their podcast LA Meekly.
Put on your pod-ing glasses and settle in for this book discussion with author Craig Owens of "Haunted by History Vol. 1"moderated by your very own LA Meekly boys live from the Mystic Museum in Burbank. We delve into the history and lore of some of Southern California's most haunted locations all while spooky speakeasy music plays faintly in the background.
Stop what you're doing and take a couple minutes to hear (handsome) us explain how we want you (loyal) listener to be part of a new segment on LA Meekly!
It’s Jessica Singer’s first episode as Co-host! Vanessa and Jess meet with LA Meekly’s Greg Gonzales to talk about the Brand Library for arts and music, scholastic book fairs, the most overdue books in the world, local resources and the worst ad read by far. We’re really excited about this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thanksgiving comes early in this, a very special episode of LA Meekly. Join us as we give a rundown on the places and things in this city that we are most thankful for and mean the most to us. Sincerity reigns supreme while sarcasm silently stages a coup.
Hop on the LA Meekly school bus and take a trip with us into the cabinet of curiosities that is MorYork. Part art gallery, part immersive experience, part motherload of human molars. We talk with the man behind it all, Clare Graham, to get some insight into what it all means and where the nearest bagel shop is.
Vanessa welcomes the duo behind the LA Meekly podcast for more talk about famous murder locations in Los Angeles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt and Kevin open this week's episode by discussing Kevin's long lost twin, a shitty set Matt had, and Kevin's pleasant encounter with a grizzled barfly. Then, comedian / co-host of the LA Meekly podcast Greg Gonzalez stops by to chat with the guys a...
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call...the Rad Zone. This week Radtober continues as Kyle and Matthew sit down with return guests Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran from the LA Meekly podcast to talk about the classic series: The Twilight Zone. They discuss this sci-fi/horror staple (which wasn't really all that scary), how this show was way ahead of its time and how people loved Rod Serling's socio-political commentary, as well as his love of boxing and grandmas. Kyle goes down a 1950s TV rabbit hall, Burnside talks about meth and Natalie watches footage from the Twilight Zone movie that she can't un-see. This episode is sponsored by Loot Crate. Give yourself a geeky gift this month! Visit www.lootcrate/thisisrad and enter the promo code thisisrad for $3 off on any new subscription. Weekly Rads: The documentary "The 13th," Peruvian food, Kyle's new standup album "I'm a Person" out on October 31st! Raddendums: Tales from the Crypt, Rod Serling, The Outer Limits, Playhouse 90, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Patterns, Lil Wayne, Ray Bradbury, Dance Macabre by Stephen King, Thriller (1960) and "Pigeons from Hell," Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, "Nothing in the Dark," "In Praise of Pip," I Love Lucy, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Charles Beaumont, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, William Shatner, "Nick of Time," "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," John Cassavetes, Ghost Dog, The Twilight Zone movie, Death Ship, meth usage, George Miller, The Regulators, "Nothing in the Dark," "Long Distance Call, "Big Tall Wish," "Walking Distance" "The Passersby," John Landis, Night Gallery
We declare this the XXXIInd episode of LA Meekly listenable! Settle in to hear about LA's two trysts with the Olympics in 1932 and 1984 and about our chances to make the third time the charm in 2024. It's a gold medal episode brought to you by two bronze gods.
In telling the stories of the two worst man made disasters in Los Angeles history, the St. Francis Dam and the Porter Ranch gas leak, the LA Meekly boys inadvertently create the third worst man made disaster in Los Angeles history.