818s and Heartbreak

This week we are joined by our friend Hailey Simpson to talk about our favorite Valley movie theaters! Century 8! The Arclight! The Twin! The many, many AMC's!  Email the show: 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us on social media: @818heartbreak 

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 are joined by Aya Lehman (Aya Vs. The Big Boys podcast! Merry-Go-Round Magazine!) to discuss some of our favorite Valley coffee shops! We also talk about some of our favorite celebrity sightings! 

This week we are joined by Leah's beautiful boyfriend, Tyler Peters to talk about the Ikea in Burbank! Meatballs! Chocolate Conspiracy Cake! Grimsbu!! We also do a taste test of several Swedish snacks!   Email the show! 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @818heartbreak 

This week we're joined by Kevin Cookman,(Merry-Go-Round Magazine, Aya Vs. the Big Boys podcast!)  to talk about one of the Valley's finest eating establishments, Nat's Early Bite! Also, Albert doesn't understand how a snake draft works. Classic.  Email the show 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @818heartbreak   

This week we return to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to talk about the shops located on the upper levels. 24 hour fitness! Burke Williams! The Arclight (rip) and, of course, DSW! Also, Andrew educates Albert and Leah on the ancient art of "dropping trow"  Follow us on instagram and twitter: @818heartbreak email the show at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com

This week we are joined by Albert's beautiful girlfriend Sarah to talk about the only theme park in The Valley, Universal Studios!  Email the show at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @818heartbreak

This week we are joined by our friend Molly Wright Kreppel to talk about the shopping district next door to Universal Studios, Citywalk! So many memories! Jurassic Parking! Leah getting catfished by a friend! Making out! Classic stuff! We also talk a little about the tasty Chinese restaurant just down the street, City Wok! Orange Chicken!!   Email the show at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com Follow us...

This week we head to The Valley's premiere location to buy video games, Game Dude! We talk about our favorite video game memories, the current collecting boom in the video game industry, and that time Leah got her hand stuck in an NES! Classic!  Don't forget to rate and review us on whatever podcast app you use! Email the show at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com   Find us on social media @818heartbreak...

This week we bring you our first ever episode recorded in person!!! We kicked it at Andrew's house in Pasadena and talked about our last two weeks worth of Valley adventures! We went to Follow Your Heart in the West Valley, visited Leah's parents, and had an indoor (!) dining experience at Islands Fine Burgers and Drinks in Burbank! Classic stuff!   

This week we take a swan boat ride down to Lake Balboa Park! We also talk at length about the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant. It's a real fun time!  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @818heartbreak Email the show at: 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com

This week we head back to the West Valley to talk about the Topanga Plaza with our guest, Scott Gairdner! Scott is a comedian, writer, (Conan!) co host of one of our favorite podcasts, Podcast: The Ride, and a Woodland Hills native! We had a lot of fun on this one! Chowzers!!!!    Also, keep listening after the show to hear Andrew chat with the designer of the Chowzers food court, Art Garcia

This week we are joined by our friend Xanthe Scheps to talk about the Sherman Oaks Galleria...fountain! That's right, listen to us talk about the fountain where all the cool kids would hang out on Friday night! Right by where Albert got detained for shoplifting at the old Tower Records when he was 15. Classic! 

This week we are joined by Burbank City Council member, Konstantine Anthony to talk about Magnolia Park! Halloweentown! Blast from The Past! Romancing the Bean! We also get into some recent happenings around a certain bar and grill in Burbank! 

This week we travel to a quaint little place called Tujunga Village! Aroma Cafe! Vitello's! Caioti Pizza! Listen as we regale you with tales about gelato, espresso, and a salad that causes pregnant people to go into labor?????    Email us at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com   Follow on IG and Twitter: @818heartbreak 

This week we visit one of the hardest to get to places in the valley, the Burbank Empire Center! Walmart! The Baked Bear! THE GRAIN LAB!!! This place has everything! 

This week we are joined by Leah's friend Maggie Drew to talk about one of The Valley's most beloved music venues, Cobalt Cafe! There's a lot of Hoobastank talk on this one! This episode is so good the boys of summer will come back! 

On today's episode we are joined by public transit enthusiast/ King of Public Transit Twitter, Kenny Uong! Listen as we share our favorite bus lines (233!) and talk about our perfect LA transit day! It's a lot of fun!  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @818heartbreak email us at 818sandheartbreak@gmail.com  

This week we finally give the West Valley some love by talking about The Chateau in Woodland Hills! Located on Ventura Blvd right next to the 101 freeway, The Chateau is the building that looks like the White House! We've all seen it! We get into some of the characters that helped bring the Chateau to life and talk about what mysteries hide in the building so many of us have seen but have never en...

This week we are joined by Alixan, the creator of the Valley Haunts instagram page! We talked to her about how she came up with the idea for Valley Haunts and why some of the spirit of The Valley is slowly disappearing. We also talked about the mysterious cave under the 118 freeway! No one knows why it's there but it sounds creepy as hell!    Follow Valley Haunts on Instagram! @valley_haunts 

As promised and threatened, Andrew and Spike did a bonus episode on NBAers that played their high school basketball in the San Fernando Valley. This is an episode for almost no one, which is why it needed to exist. Deep historical analysis of Gilbert Arenas, Jordan Farmar, The Collins Twins, The Holiday Brothers, and more! 

This week we head back to Sherman Oaks and talk about the Moorpark Avenue Shopping Mall District with our guest Spike Friedman! (Journalist and Community Organizer) Mogo's! Dr. Blue Jeanns! Pineapple Hill! Baby Corn! Below is a link to some of Spike's work!    https://medium.com/@spikefriedman

This week we are joined by the hilarious Julia Prescott (Comedy writer! Wrote last year's episode of Treehouse of Horror on THE SIMPSONS!!) to talk about the NOHO Arts District! 

We are excited to bring you our first bonus episode! We sat down with Rachel Lee Goldenberg, director of HBO Max's "Unpregnant" and director of the 2020 musical remake of Valley Girl! 

As we were recording an episode with the hilarious Julia Prescott (She wrote last year's Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode! ) we heard about the closure of Fry's Electronics. This is our live reaction to the awful news. Full Fry's episode imminent! RIP Fry's! A true valley legend.