L.A. Meekly: A Los Angeles History Podcast

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Creepy Christmas/Haunted Hannukah Part Boo (Haunted Stories) Dec 24, 2014

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Another year another fear. Our seasonally creepy and haunted look at LA's sordid history is back to take on ghostly hospitals, culty parks, lizardy people and more. Pray to baby Jesus and hold on to your yarmulke.

Padre Issues (Native People and the Missions) Dec 01, 2014

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In honor of what we now know as "Thanksgiving", we'll be talking about the native people who lived in what we now know as "Los Angeles" and what happened to them once what we now know as "the Spanish" came to take their land and put them in what we now know as "the Missions". This description is now known as "over".

The Meekly-Go-Round Came Round Nov 11, 2014

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Miss learning about LA's golden age of animation? Hear us delve even deeper into it on the This is Rad! podcast hosted by Kyle Clark and Matt Burnside. Take a listen to find out how.

Monsters and the Nerds That Love Them (Universal Movie Monsters) Oct 31, 2014

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Ever wonder what goes thump in the night? A new episode of L.A. Meekly downloading. This month we celebrate Halloween with the story of the golden age of Universal monster movies and the tortured men that played them in addition to the endearingly obsessive efforts of hometown hero Forrest J Ackerman to keep their memory alive. Bonus credit to anybody who can keep count of how many wives these people had.

The Podcast That Time Forgot (Forgotten Stories From LA's Past) Sep 30, 2014

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Nazis? The plague? Union bombings? Aliens? Crimes against civil rights? What do all these have in common you ask? We forgot. Join us this month as we shine a light on some Los(t) Angeles history that most history books and Nazi sympathizers would rather not talk about.

The Meekly-Go-Round Broke Down (Animation In Los Angeles) Aug 29, 2014

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DRAW up a chair as we ILLUSTRATE to you folks the ANIMATED story of Los Angeles' cartoon history. We'll TRACE it's roots all the way from when Walt Disney first set up shop in his uncle's Los Feliz garage, through the COLORFUL cast of characters that populated Termite Terrace up to the SYNCHRONIZED mayhem of the cartoon renaissance of the '90s and beyond!...INKING DEPARTMENT!

There Will Be Mud (Extreme Weather) Jul 31, 2014

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This month we talk about the extreme forms of weather Los Angeles has been subjected to throughout history. Join us as we watch the thermometer go from hot and dry to hot and wet to hot and on fire. We’ll also give you tips on what you can do to survive the city’s impending environmental doom. Hint: not much! (We apologize for the slight loss in audio quality this episode. Tom Bosley was being very uncooperative. That will make sense shortly.)

Under the *Venice* Boardwalk...*Venice* Boardwalk (Venice) Jul 01, 2014

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You must be this tall to hear this extensive history of Venice of America. Join us as we take a gondola ride through the canals, join one of LA’s oldest gangs and watch the rivalry of the Venice and Ocean Park piers as they’re built up and burned down and built up and then burned again. And again. And again. (All heights welcome)

Episode 6: Episode 2-11 (Bank Robberies) May 31, 2014

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Los Angeles was once the bank robbery capital of the world so put the money in the bag and put your headphones in as we give you a rundown of some of the city’s most notorious holdups, heists and bandits.

City Bites: Back for Seconds? May 08, 2014

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A poisonously vital part of the puzzle from one of last episode’s stories falls into place just a little too late so we present to you our very first bonus episode to fill in one of what promises to be many gaps.