818s and Heartbreak

This week we're joined by comedian, improviser, and birder Loring Griggs to talk about the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area! 

This week Shervin Aazami returns to the show to talk about the wild and intense history of how LA gets its water. 

This week we are joined by comedian and actor, Matt McCarthy, to talk about another stretch of Reseda Blvd! 

This week we sit down to talk about the 1979 film Van Nuys Blvd!  Wednesday Night Cruising! Meeting your new best friends in jail! Real time footage of people riding Revolution at Six Flags! Officer Al Zass! THE CHOOCH! it's a truly wild experience from start to finish! 

This week we sit down to talk about 2002's Punch Drunk Love, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. 

This week the 3 of us sit down to talk about some of our favorite summer memories in the valley.  Don't forget to buy your tickets to our screening of Van Nuys Blvd at Whammy Analog Media on July 23rd! Link below!  https://www.whammyanalog.com/events/818s-and-heartbreak-present-van-nuys-blvd

This week we are joined by return guest Courtney Latter and her husband Dave Stopera to talk about the two CVSes on Ventura and Laurel Canyon! 

This week we're joined by one of the hosts of Podcast: The Ride, Jason Sheridan, as we make a return trip to the Empire Center! Is it as bad as we made it out to be the first time around? Listen and see! 

This week we are joined by writer and producer of such shows as Friends, Will and Grace, and Desperate Housewives, Jeff Greenstein to talk about the stretch of Ventura between Whitsett and Laurel Canyon! 

This week we break format to do a commentary track for a movie set in the valley, 2005's The 40 Year Old Virgin! 

This week we are joined by comedy writer Joe Saunders to talk about Beautiful Downtown Burbank! Mama Hong's! AMC movie theatres! Gourmet 88! Noah's Bagels! 

This week we are joined by Leah's longtime friend and all around good dude, Shawn Kranitz, to revisit the Noho Arts District! 

Welcome to our first ever mailbag episode! Our wonderful listeners asked us some valley questions and some questions about the show and we answered them! It was a fun time. 

This week we are joined by Animatic Editor and listener of the show, Roger Carnow, to talk about a big ol' stretch of Reseda Blvd!

This week we are joined by journalist Lisa Kwon to talk about Park Moderne! Park Moderne was a modernist artist retreat that operated in Calabasas in the 1920's! The tik tok hype house of its day! 

Andrew sits down with the owner of the final car ever produced at the Van Nuys GM Assembly Plant, Leonard Stevenson. UAW Local 645 FOREVER!

This week we sit down with podcaster Miles Gray to talk about Panorama City's former GM factory turned shopping center, The Plant! 

This week we are joined by actor, writer, and all around legend, Mara Wilson to talk about the Oakwood Apartments, the apartment complex that was home to many a child actor over the years. We also talk about the documentary about the Oakwoods, "The Hollywood Complex" ( check it out on Peacock and Amazon Prime) 

This week we are joined by another of Leah's ex boyfriends and founder of Deficit Owls, Sam Levey, to talk about North Hills! 

This week we are joined by journalist, valley legend, and host of the upcoming podcast, Heidi World (a podcast about Heidi Fleiss), Molly Lambert, to talk about the recently closed hobby/craft store Kit Kraft!  Heidi World drops on April 11th wherever you get your podcasts. 

This week we are joined by filmmaker and old friend of Andrew's, Caroline Golum, to talk about the valley's most enduring bookstore, The Iliad! Below is a link to Caroline's fundraiser for her new film!  https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/revelations-of-divine-love/campaigns/3945    

This week we are joined by a musician with the same name (kinda) as one of our hosts, Andy Warren, to talk about The Commons at Calabasas! Marmalade Cafe! Barnes and Noble! Ralph's! Dry Bar! It's a true deep valley classic. Also, Rick Caruso sucks! 

This week we take a stroll down to the affluent suburb of Toluca Lake to talk about its iconic restaurants and its secret lake that you can only visit if you're ultra rich. Sorry, poors!

This week we are joined by rapper/producer/artist Connor Musarra to talk about that magical place known as Valley Glen. 

This week we are joined by Andrew's sister Hayley to talk about Warner Center!