EP 83 - When Venice Beach Struck Oil

In this episode of History for Foos, Felipe and Butch dive into one of Los Angeles’ most unexpected and overlooked chapters—when Venice Beach wasn’t just a hub for boardwalk performers, muscle men, and artists, but also a booming oil town. Before the palm trees and skate culture defined the coastline, hundreds of oil derricks crowded the sand, reshaping the city’s future and leaving behind an environmental legacy that’s still felt today.

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LINKS Felipe Esparza: @FelipeEsparzaComedian (IG) @Felipeesparzacomic (TT) Butch Escobar: @ButchEscobar (IG and TT Theme music (Intro and Outro) - by IkeReatorBeatz

Felipe Esparza is a comedian and actor, known for his stand-up specials, “They’re Not Gonna Laugh at You”, “Translate This”, and his latest dual-release on Netflix, “Bad Decisions/Malas Decisiones” (2 different performances in two languages), his recurring appearances on Netflix’s “Gentefied”, NBC’s “Superstore” and Adultswim’s “The Eric Andre Show”, as well as winning “Last Comic Standing” (2010), and his popular podcast called “What’s Up Fool?”. Felipe continues to sell out live stand-up shows in comedy clubs and theaters around the country.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hey, what's up for? I thought you were telling you
a strata. Sometimes when my wife was talking to me,
I got to fix this my hairs she could reach
because I lift my stomach up, raising my stomach. Henry

(01:29):
and Glenn Forever and forever, Welcome kids. I know people
don't like when transvestites or trans women read to them.
How about a heterosexual man reading to you about two
guys living together called Henry and Glenn Forever Forever, Page one,

(01:53):
Mommy children of the Grave damasaic. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Hey, man, hey, we're.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Gonna Are we gonna play with your toys all morning?
Or are we gonna actually do a podcast today?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
My bad history for fools people? Oh man, this I
got a lot of stuff that I have, Man, sometimes
I don't get to them.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
And all these toys. I don't even have any toys.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Bro, I got to the ukulele over there. You never
touched it. Bro, I was to hear you over the
head with him. He told to hear you over the
head with it, is like like like like you go
out like he thought that you better playing with your toys.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Stop playing with your toys.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Let's get on with the podcast.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Did you stop playing? People gonna think still doing the
history of Hawaii. But you're that guy and chase it
more with no hair. I'm the big khuna, the big
khuna that.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Means to save the old that again, I was the
person who like made a lot of spiritual decisions and stuff.
But her role what we're talking about that ladies roll
because it's a dude or girl was to watch them
have sex.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Bro, they clearly the bigger huna now And we don't
mean none of that, huh no, just kidding me. It
means you about a tuna sandwiches means your fat and
you also smell that tuna or something he spelt like
to Yeah, Like it's we're like in I lay the
will give you a nickname for like if they don't
know you, then rhyme, really give you a nickname, bro,

(03:34):
Like did you met you for the first time and
you come three times? Hey, here comes the comfort you're
always coughing? Hey, we thought on the third grade and
for some reason, Bro, I has a liter in my
eye blinky all year.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Really, Yeah, that's fucking hilarious blinky yeah, come on, We'm
gonna give myself like ha ha, bro, I got my
first ever first, first ever.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Uh health check.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh yeah, you went to physical.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Before they gave me the they drew blood on me
right with a fuckingolo. I was scared, really yeah, and he.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Was like I was talking send someone he feels comfortable with.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, right, And so he took he drew blood and
goes and I remember asking, you know, because he's like
my age, right, he has He looked maybe like four
years younger he would have been. He might have been
thirty four. Yeah, and he goes, hey, run up, he goes,

(04:39):
I'm gonna drop blood from you. Okay, he has that tool. Bro.
He look like a little gangster. And I asked him,
did you want to school for this? Now? Back in
the day, he didn't. He going to school for get
the fuck out of here. Was he an old guy
like fIF back then? He's probably right now, he's probably

(04:59):
forty five, so he probably got in when he was younger. Well,
it was just r o people where probably what like
just filling on stuff or drawing blood from a mannequin.
I guess right, yeah, because it's called the botomy. Yeah,
he learned that he drew blood, bro, and then he

(05:19):
was getting good though. I don't like medical people having
a sense of humor, bro Right, why it's just not
it's not there, bro, and they should have like he's
like this, he's like touching my vease and he gave horny.
He goes, I got good ones day. Then he draws blood,
broke and a lot of blood. He took it all
loud whatever. But this time I went for the actual

(05:42):
physical bro. You got to take a clothes off, right,
and they grabbed yeah, And I was like, why why
do why do always going to be somewhere where people
The first time we were in the first floor and
everybody could see broke. The window was open, so the
winner was like this it was like a first floor
like this, No, there were a passing by and they

(06:03):
can see are you serious? First time? Yeah? And this
time I went it was like like on the third floor,
but there was like fucking roof working bro, so they
can see you can see everything shadow and they can
see like what they can see her head going down

(06:28):
And if you ever work with a bunch of guys
on a roof for a kitchen, there's the same five guys.
They all have a character they already have. There's Butch,
the guy who they want to go home and and
leave exactly though as soon as the fire it's over.
I think, motherfuckers the person are leaving shopping at five.

(06:49):
He's leaving that five, he's dropping his tools. Then there's
that one guy no more starting sweeping everything off and
putting his two shirt away and no neat. That guy
is the kiss ass and he finally shows up late
every day, but he's gonna stay there for seven minutes
extra right, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then there's that one

(07:09):
dude has been there forever, never rolls to the top,
but he dry helps everybody when they bend over.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
That's so fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Bro Oh my god. And you think you think a short,
buff motherfucker right right, you're gonna get him a spartan
kick all the time, but he coup that running. There's
that one homie that's young, young, and he's getting all
the chicks. Man, he's not really working, but everybody's all
cool with it because he's fucking chicks. Hey, lit don't

(07:38):
mind he's the playboy because no mind, he's not working. Well,
then there's the owner son fucked that guy. He's a
big rat. He parted with everybody, and he never rolls up.
He's still picking up nails. He's getting fired by his dad.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Get the other side.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, but but my character broke. I will show up.
Brother sweats right every where I went. I actually I
thought I showed up working hardcore, hardcore. That people thought
that I was like a like a track plant, like
a rat, like they put you there to just knock
everybody else out. That works so hard. But I gotta

(08:21):
there was I will get away with it. Like there
was one other rehab. They said, who want to rake?
Who wants to do the raki? And I said, and
I goes, I'll rake, But I want to go. Where
are you gonna put me? Your brother? You know you
have to be raked closer to the forest. Okay, how
about everybody else gonna be everybody else gonna be closer

(08:41):
to the church, and closer to the cafeteria, and closer
to the grounds. You and this homie gonna go over there,
and a little homie that's been in the back forever,
he goes, well, pick the back, so all the fools
bro there will be watched all day that we're work
getting a fry me him in a back bro. Every
time they would look over, we'll wave and we'll grab

(09:03):
a fake rag. They couldn't even see it. You see,
I did that.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
I did that a work release. I would like I
would stand there as soon as the CEO would look
at me, I start working.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
So getting back to the physical, yeah, I would. I
don't think that's gonna be like the warm up, like
hey man, you know man farther lot and you get
to know the doctor, right, nah, dog, the fucking the
guy who was the who was the fucking doctor? He

(09:37):
was short like Meyer Landski bro from Empire Boardwalk. Anyways,
he's wearing a mask. Good, that's like the execution. He's
wearing a mask, not me. He don't want me to
know who he is later on, first of all, and
I'm glad I want to see that. For in the streets,
see a man tik my balls and yeah, that's the fo.

(09:57):
I don't want to recognize him. A guy a rouse
like I found on me. Ladies and gentlemen, show me
on the dollar where he touched me. All right, Bro,
I was tinding like this and then you put my
parents down and my shirt was I pore my pants
down right, but see I have backup because then my
my blown shirt, my three X shirt falls down. See

(10:20):
I wear two eggs. I was supposed to wear one
ex but torso I wear two weggs longer. But when
I wear like shirts, I wear three eggs right or
two eggs tall like the kind that that run our
test wears Universal human Being whatever the new his name is.

(10:41):
I met at the Universal the world. So this food
put down my pants, and my big shirt came down, bro,
like you tell you some my peanut, know you did it.
Third curtain came down my long shirt, hanging it over
my long shirt hanging out. I say, now, bro, at this,

(11:03):
he's gotta reach under your shirt. He has to lift
my shirt like every other person. I try to go
down there, so you make your little house. So this
fool he grabbed my balls, breathe the other one, uh
uh whatever right off, And then I was ready for
this fool said bent over. I don't know that was

(11:26):
because that's our age. That was our surprise. So the
fool said really, So that fool at this and put
it in there, and I was shocked by it. Right,
he went real deeper, deeper. No prostate cancer, by the way,
So he went deeper. Then I got shocked, bro, and
that fool said, you're gonna break my fingers. I gotta go,

(11:52):
but I got I can't be here anymore joking dog.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Get the funk out of here. Oh my god, bro,
he commented.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
He's like, man, you gotta can. I stood out of
your stood up because I like he went back for
the thing. But then I got up, Bro, I just
stood up.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah yeah, so, oh my god, Oh my god, bro.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
So yeah man. So then he goes, yeah, to tear
yourself off.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
He throws a towel at you.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I tell myself off, Bro, I get like wipe the
jelly off, bending over, wiping and show, O, my god,
this is that I passed up because I wasn't ready
for that part. Right, it's part this is pushing my
I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for this part. You
can to be like a thing, right right, And then

(13:03):
this food goes Who would you do that for? What
was that test for? For my pleasure? Joking around? Like right?
Nobody laughed, like nobody laughed. My face turned into arm.
I guess in a situation where I gave him the

(13:24):
five miles stare out of no reason. Bro right, I
don't know how to do the five miles stare. I
heard it really right, right, right, right right, I guess it.
I guess it the one I have to point you
to it? All right, people, I.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Get it all people. I think I look angrier than
I am all the time.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I'm trying to do it. Now was the memory laps
as the next to the way I've been learning, And
I'm gonna do it to you, but I can't do
it like automatically, so I never really did it.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, my favorite.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
People. Oh no, my pleasure. They went at this, brout
it big in his mouth. No, but I'm just Joe.
I'm like, I'm a start but made it with my fall,
you know. I told that whole the comedian right, So
then I said, you know what's crazy about that? That

(14:22):
I was surprised that you did that, and I'm glad
I don't have project cancer. But my friend George Peretz,
he was locked up in prison, and he was telling
me that they would put on his big tubes and
get ready for war, maybe what kind of war? While
you and I went up there, he told me that
you got you bend over at this and you stick
this big rod out of your mouth and you just

(14:42):
start poking fools get the fuck out, and they're like
just and they're like asshole, yeah said that they were.
When there's wartime, they will put him in there ready
and and then I'm going to a corner and baallely
down and then now it'll come out and automatically come out,

(15:03):
and then he'll just pull it out and just start.
I'm going through theory thing. Let me pause from it,
running back to a doctor, go ahead, never mind.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Then I just feel like it's the gayest ship ever
to put things in your asshole to go fight people.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
But you're in prison, Bro, what are you gonna have
the nighte?

Speaker 5 (15:20):
I get it, I get it, but you're still bro
like you're shoving rods up your eyes.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
But ever go to president Bro and people hear the
story and people go, Philippe, we heard that story. Bro,
here's two nights. We heard your cancer free. You're breaking
you're breaking wrists. We're giving people carn Jay Ron can
hire you for the pipe classes. I can just picture,

(15:54):
but hey, Bro, been over bro, Bro?

Speaker 5 (15:57):
This week I got Philippe as far as I used
to the best pipe bender.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
In the in the business. Help me, So that's funny.
I'm I'm trying to do. I know that I already
do the I always do the joke about that. I'm
but I'm I'm gonna try to tell on on a
fucking a bit as a bait. Broke my finger, Bro,

(16:25):
That's it's funny as fun Bro. It's a crazy that
he said that. Do you hear anybody is complimenting the
sweltness of your interior? If you will, well, I'm the
air bender, Bro, certainly the figure bender ah from the

(16:54):
Porky Pine, the porky Pine. If I a porky Pine
brought you what he does?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
A broa just shot him full of needles?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Shot him, Bro, I'd just imagine, man, like, how cool
it would have been a woman doing it right, joking
around like that her big old softball hands.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
It's a weird thing to say this. I'd rather be
a male doctor.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Not me. Really, I don't know why I'll take all
shaky ass old lady or because.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
I might find it sexual. If she puts like I'd
be like, hey, you know, like maybe that's what I'm
afraid of. I don't know, dude, I don't know. I
just got I feel like my but hoole and my
ass is like that soap, that soap secret strong enough
for a man but made for a woman.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I go, I can't. We're gonna be fucking bendy pipe
with shame.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh my god, bro, that's fucking so funny, dude.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, my history for fold speaking of pipe faitting and fingers,
just wiggs, oil rigging and just oil drilling, oil drilling.
Bro yea luckily he struck oil. The doctor. I don't
think that was oil. It was that that stuff before

(18:42):
the oil.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Oh god, bro, that jelly history for Folds.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
This week we're talking about bunch of Escobar and the
drilling and all the all the all the oil drilling
that went down in Los Angela's We're gonna mainly focus
on Venice Beach, California oil rig oil rigs because it
was a it didn't last that long like all the
other one like staking no hail still there mobile is Sampedrod.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Do you know there's one at the Beverly Center. So
the Beverly Center has you know how it's curved, Yeah,
in that curve behind the curve.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
If you drive by.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
On the other side in sam Vincente is a huge
oil rig and processing Claire.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's funny you say that, because right there by the
grove area. Yeah, and that little a little motel recuts
the street. Yeah, it's called the Farmer's Daughter's Hotel motel.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I think there there used to be a baseball field
there back in the day, that whole area of the
grove area. Yeah, that was the old baseball field. I
read about it somewhere. Look can you look up the
baseball field at the grove And I'm pretty sure there's
oil rigs all up on the outside of it, because
you know, when I when I don't know, usually when
they build something like I could chew up the earth

(20:02):
like oil and all that. Sometimes if the oil guy
or the guy has a lot of money, he'll build
a park, you know, the owner, he'll build a park.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, the company will do that some to like to
make the people feel better about what's going on in
their neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Or a hospital or something.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
They were called the Hollywood Stars. Oh, there was like
a minor league. Minor league. Yeah, they were called the
Hollywood Stars, and they played right there at the grove
in nineteen oh one nineteen o eight, So we.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Can go back to when we did the History of Baseball,
we talked about how like baseball teams were formed. I
don't know if I if I left this out or
we talked about it, but the way it worked back
then was that you had in the MLB or what
would have been the MLB back then, you had a.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Thousand teams or something like that. Yeah, like all these
teams from different cities, and then the top twenty would
play each other in their own like kind of little league,
and then then they would have like a championship. So
like that that kind of makes sense because like there
were all kinds of like baseball fields all over LA

(21:15):
back then. I know there's one. Oh there they are
right there. These are the Hollywood stars.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, it looks like it was called Gilmore Yeah, Gilmore Field. Yeah,
Gilmore Oil, Gilmore Oil. I think it's Gilmore Oil. Looks
for Gilmore Oil. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Shout out to our our new engineer, Xavier, who's like
kind of figuring out things, uh on the fly and
under fire.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
So bear with us.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
If you go to the grove, there's like a little
gas station thing there and then that's the Gilmore gas
cop Ye.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, I know what that is. I totally know what
that is because I go.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
I eat there for lunch, like at least once or
twice a week.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah. So Gilmore as company and now the gas station.
They owned that baseball field back in the day and
this left over, and I think they used to own
the motel cut the street although Farmer's daughter. And look
that's all the oil rigging that was going down over there.
That's the place that what you're talking about by Fembusino. Yeah. Yeah,
but there's center.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
From the top, like look up Beverly Center or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think the one is what you're talking about, is
the one that's still stands and it hidden somewhere.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
It's so this one is behind the It's crazy to
me because it's behind the Beverly Center and it still exists.
It's still there. I drove by it yesterday on my
way to the comedy store. See that's the curve of
the backside of of of the Beverly Center on the

(22:46):
right hand side. And if you could see those little
oil takers right there, see those little tanks, those two circles.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
In the middle.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, that's the that's the oil rigging right there. That's like,
that's the whole thing right there. It's crazy because it's
the Beverly Center. It's Beverly Hills. The Beverly Hills actually
turned out a lot of oil.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oil drilling began there in Venice Beach in nineteen twenty five,
transforming the coastline into a landscape dominated by hundreds of
oil derricks. Key detailed about the Venice oil boom, discovery
and peak. Following the discovery of oil nineteen twenty nine,
the Venice oil field was producing four hundred and fifty

(23:27):
wells within just two years. By nineteen thirty one, it
had become the fourth most productive field in California because
there was other places that were drilling shipload. Signal Hill,
part of the Biggest One, Biggest One Right. Signal Hill
is also mentioned in that movie That Will Be Blood.
When he's telling the story to those people, he's telling them,

(23:49):
he goes, oh, I god, I got one hundred twenty
Signal Hill producing two hundred about la I never watched it,
it was yeah, but he does about you mentioned a
little Signal Hill. He mentions, He mentions, those people are
free mind So the.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
First successful drill in California was in an area called.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Uh Peco Canyon and the first drill was Peako number
four and that and that drew oil at twenty five
just to give you guys an idea of what these do.
Twenty five barrels a day it started. Then it went
up to one hundred and fifty eight barrels a day.
And this was like proof that La had oil. This
is the first and this thing ran till nineteen ninety

(24:38):
in Pigo Canyon. So like that just gives you an
idea of how long oil like. And then the other
thing is is if you can look up Los Angeles
oil fields, it'll give you an idea of like there's
so much oil. I didn't know how much oil was
here in LA. Like did you also know that? Like

(25:00):
look up a map. Yeah, I can pull a map.
Uh that was not like a great one.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
But if you go back to the top actually and
click on that one in the middle, sorry, that one
in the middle right there. Yeah, so that's that's the
middle of Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay, back in the day.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah, And if you can notice there's a cluster that
moves in the line all the way through Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
So this actually so if you go on a map
and look under.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Dodger Stadium and then go all the way to Vermont Avenue,
that is the amount that is just the oil patch
that was running through LA.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think there's no I think there's I think earth
quake are caused by all those fucking polls we have
all over the stadium. Brooks.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
You think we like kind of fucked up the ground
by doing that.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, and every once in a while some magnetive force
shows that are around.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Push them back together.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well yeah, I mean it's I'm just guessing.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Well, we kind of talked about it when we talked
about lava. Did we talk about we have a discussion
of lava on our show? Oh, last week was five
six a d Oh, Okay, that's exactly what we did.
Somebody mentioned in a common that we should talk about
the five thirty six a d miss America. But you
mentioned it right, I did, the volcanoes of Salvador.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, yeah, because that was the one that triggered.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
But so when we talk about lava, like the whole
world is set on top of lava almost like and
then so where we are there's a lot of lava
that's pushing around underneath, and then that's like as it's
drying and cooling, that's setting the Earth's layers and shit, dude,
and then they pushed together and that's where we get earthquakes.

(26:47):
Like we like when you look at mountains and stuff
like not like like you know, we pointed out mountains
that look like volcanoes, but when you look at a
mountain range, that's actually the earth smushing together over time
because of and then that movement is.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
What causes earthquakes.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
But you're I mean, that's the thing though, is like
we don't know the damage that we do to this
fucking planet. Like you know, when when we start drilling deep,
deep deep, because you know, we're talking about Venice Beach
and we're going to talk about as we get into
the Venice Beach oil fields, we could talk about the
pollution that it caused and like kind of all that

(27:27):
it ruined.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Those another Venice Beach before the oil they were handmade
there what.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
The Venice Beach, So the canals were not handmade. It's
a great story. It was discovered by a dude named
Abbot Kenney who came mc kenny.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
We mentioned him and the one about the We're the
wing about the the over.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
He was a realtor and so he actually designed the
Palisades map and then he lost the Palace say It's
development program during some sort of like economic breakdown.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
But then him and his buddies went in on a
on a piece of property on the beach that had a.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Casino, and then over a couple of years they kind
of realized like that they didn't get along with each other.
So he was like, well, let's break it up into
fourst and we'll flip a coin to see who gets
the who kicks to pick the half, So he wins
the coin toss, and then he decides to go ahead
and go with the worst half of the property, which

(28:33):
is this like lagoon marsh thing filled with all kinds
of water. And he says he's gonna build the next
Venice of America because he got to go to Venice
for school and he really fell in love with it.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
So he breaks down the so he digs up a
lot of the marshlands, he excavates all the water out
of there, puts in salt water, and he makes the
canals and they're kind of they're really beautiful.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
You know this is.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
So and so July fourth, nineteen oh five. But the
canals we see now are only a quarter of the
canals that were there drug venis It looked like Venice, Italy,
and in fact, like some houses were on islands where
you had to like get a boat to the mainland,
you know, which wasn't far.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
He just paddled across the way. But like, yeah, like
so it was better.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
So it was like canals like like like bad and
answer them, yes, yeah, it looked a lot like it
and people were really enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
The problem was nineteen one hundred, right before.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Nineteen oh five, and so you were looking at so
he actually Aler Kenney died the year that they started
putting in the first oil dereks in Venice Beach, so
he didn't even get to see them destroy his vision.
But the other problem, you know, and I will give
this all fairness. You know, as bad as oil companies are,
they didn't do a lot of the damage, or they
didn't do all the damage. The biggest problem with the

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canals was the nobody saw this because back the day,
we don't think about science.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
Still apparently we don't think about it now.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
But when you put saltwater in like a basin, and
then you let it sit there for a series of time.
It creates certain algas and things you can't Salt water
is not supposed to just be sitting around, And that's
what was happening, was that, you know, this is sea saltwater,
so there's algae's, there's all kinds of shit that's for
me in the water there. It's starting to fucking smell.

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But then you have the oil companies come in and
start drilling. I wish there was some way that I
could introduce the drilling of oil to Venice, because I
really tried to look up, like what created this boom
all of a sudden, and it was just that all
the oil was being discovered. There's so much oil in
La even to this day, there's a ton of oil,

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like in the fucking floor of La. And the one
thing that's so beautiful about it to these oil guys
is that it's super close to the surface of the earth,
like if you go to like the Lebrea tarpits.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
You know. But there used to be a guy named
Jose called that full Holser pimpos. Some kid called him that,
and actually my son's godfather. Actually, my first son shout
out to him, and so we started calling his brother caveman.

(31:23):
And then it became so much that they thought to
call the whole family caveman. Bro. Oh no ship, So
we'll pull it by there. We call it wholesales or bits.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean, if they were cavemen, this is where
they actually if a person wann to jump in their weapons, dead,
gone die.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I can't pull them out. Fuck no, bro, get stug.
You just single.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
By the time you get an air you get some
sort of support to come and get.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
You out, you're gone. You can't even pull them all
with a hook. Fuck no, bro, no, I don't think so, dude.
That was the thing with the tarpets.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
You'll fall and.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Picture on the right shows exactly what happens is animals
go to get So what happens is animals go to
feed over there, like those masdons right now that you're seeing,
and then they get stuck in it and can't get out.
But what happens is some tigers will some well they'll
come over and start to eat them. But what happens
then is they get stuck in there as well.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
The brand of tarpets is like one of the number
one spots that has fossils, like preserved, perfectly preserved fossils
because they're digging them out of the tarpets. Now, that
big tarpet when you first pull into bread, that's not
the only tarpits.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
There's some in the back.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
But what's even crazier, And this is what I'm getting
at when I talk about oil closest, because tar is
that tar is what we get our oil from. It's
just unrefined, so we suck that into a tube and.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
That's just that's that oilers in that area that just
put berthed out.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Out fucking crazy amounts of oil.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
So we're just talking. I'm just thinking about the diners
silver blad that we don't even know that so many
of these things bursted all over where they all sunk in.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yes, yes, because the right exactly, because this wasn't the
only one, you know. Like, And that's the thing is
that over time, you know, like I said, as earthquakes happened,
it pushes the planet together. I mean, we have a
whole thing called the continental drift where we know the
continents have shifted. But the most interesting thing about this

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to me, the tar pits.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I mean, there's so to me, the.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Tar pets was one of the most interesting museums I've
visited in Los Angeles. Where are yes when twice I've gone,
I've taken my girlfriend and my son.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
And I went last month.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
I took my girlfriend and because she's really into all
that stuff. But if you go outside the tar pits,
there's buildings that are nearby. There's like business buildings, there's
a couple of residential buildings, and you look where where
the gardens are or where the planters are, and even
some parts of the street you could see tars seeping

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up through the streets.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
So this tar deposit is underneath the earth and the
only thing you can see is the pool of tar
right there, but it spreads all over the earth.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
The other thing that I know.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Is that the Native Americans that.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Lived here used to use they were called seep seeping
seeps and seeps for these little pools of tar that
came up under the ground.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
And again, if you go to the tar pets, you
can see them in the grass. They have like cones
over them because they happen all the time. They would
use them to like seal their boats. So they were
using tar. You're not too far off from the caveman thing,
you know, because they were using.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Tar to like.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
To like you know, seal their boats and to make
crafts with it to fucking make Yeah. See see that, dude.
Those are all over the streets in.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
La. Yeah, and a lot of people just walk by
them because you see them everywhere, and you probably think, well,
that's part of the asphalt or no, that's a fuck
that's a tar seep that's coming up from directly underneath
the earth.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
That's the thing with La is.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
That, you know, if you look at La and you think, oh, La,
La Land, and all these fucking people want to be famous,
and you got the seed of entertainment there, you got
the most wealth in one area is here as well,
and you just think, well, this is how it's always been. No,
the reason why La is La is because of the
oil that was here. That's what brought people here a

(35:29):
big time. I'm gonna add one with you before we
move on to the Do you remember, because you were
around here in eighty five, do you remember the Ross
exploding Ross?

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Yeah, So there was an explosion in nineteen eighty five.
March twenty fourth, nineteen eighty five, methane had started to seep.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Out of red in La. So you know what, O're
here on Courtz Hill. Uh huh, there's the leakage of gas.
We're here, yeah, Oh yes, at fucking horse Field something canyon.
Look them leakage in Corfield.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Methane had seeped up into the ross. And this is
methane like gas, you know, like because they were building
the Redline at the time, and so fucking gas had
started to seep out from all the drilling.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
You know, you talk about how we hurt the earth methane.
All the old drills that had been covered up, all
the capped off ones had been mowed through by that
fucking drilling machine, and then it was letting out methane,
and methane was coming up and building up into that ross.
I don't think anybody died, but there are quite a
few people injured.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
It was shook.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Tell me about the nineteen eighty four explosion in Los
Angeles due to methane.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Eighty five, oh eighty five.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, an explosion due to methane build up occurred in
Los Angeles on March twenty fourth, nineteen eighty five.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
It happened in Fairfax District at ross injuring twenty three people.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
No one was killed.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
The incident had lasting impact on building regulations. So yeah,
now we have like.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
All over the city. I don't know if you've noticed these,
I've noticed them. There's these things that sit on top
of like telephone polls. If you can hear them worrying if.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
You go to your.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
That's a methane gas like detector.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
So it's something we have to live with here in
La that I don't think a lot of people know about,
you know, because we talked about the explode, we talked
about the hidden oil sales, but you know, I mean
there's also a chance something might.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Have gone from gas leak at Courtz Hill. Yes, Artz
there it is. Bro. Look that's been going on Sinz
for a couple of years now, Bro, what do they
say on it there? I see it.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, you can see it from the earth. It's crazy.
And it's been burning for since like two thousand and
five or something like that.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, messed up water in that a real flow and
then then they clean it up and it goes bad.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
That's Aliso Canyon. Yeah, and it's been burning since twenty fifteen. Yeah,
that's fucking crazy. Yeah, they're polluting too, Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
For the time I heard about it, well, Rachel Madden
was talking about it, and then this this guy to
listen to a serious called the Brown Eagle. It's a
black dude, you shouldn't miss. Maybe, I meant because that's
a conservative city. I guess. Yes, it's still leaky, you know, yes, yeah,

(38:42):
and do they grab it here? It is? It is, dude.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Coincidentally, Rebecca said this to me like a week ago.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
I was like, can you believe this is happening in
la And I was like, holy shit, No, I had
no idea we were going to be even talking about this.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's just funny to me that things pop up right before.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Because that goes. So I'll tell you bro that the
environmental impact of the oil drilling in Venice was the
rapid extensive drilling led to severe pollution. Yeah, the canals
became filled with oil sludge. The drilling waste fouled the
waterways and beach. The oil boom was short lived, with

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a production dropping drastically by nineteen twenty two as the
wells began to run dry as well were depleted. The
city were to remove the unslightly dereks. By nineteen seventy
most well werecapped, and the last remaining well from Benet
was nineteen ninety one.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Yeah, isn't that crazy that they were like so recent
that they kept them so recently?

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Soo man. Oh, they tried to cap this one in
February of this year.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
They tried to cap that one in February of this year,
but they couldn't cap it right. It was just it's
just exploding like crazy, dude.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
There was a place called looking at this up in
Venice Beach. What was talking about? The Memory Center. How
they hide these drills. It's called the Camouflage Lighthouse. One
of the last oil wells that the Venice Pavilion was
camouflage as a lighthouse which stood into the field, was
completely depleted in the early nineteen nineties, just one of

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one of several creative ways to hide oil operations that
became common Los Angeles Today. Fenced off concrete, they will
remain near the beach as a reminder of the four
more oil things.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
See that there things Derek does have a light at
the top of it.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, they just hide it, bro. Yeah, there's man, there's
something bro. People talking about how oh Man that Los
Angeles sold one of the liberal cities, and I looked
up the top ten liberal cities against what hell is.
Los Angeles didn't even come as twelve sumer sinceul number one.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
San Francisco should be number one, number one.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
It should be like San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Berkeley, to
me is the most place. Oakland should be number one.
San Francisco should be number two. Berkeley should be actually
number one. But it's not a big city.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
We hired your stuff well on that because when I
moved here, bro, so because I come from the Bay Area,
where everybody's very liberal, and when I moved here and
started hanging out with people at the way more liberal.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
This place has a lot of conservatives living here, a
lot of conservatives.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
I mean we have Google here. Bro. They move over
here from other conservative places to not be conservative, but
then they realize that you just can't hang bro.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
So they're like migrants.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
They missed, they missed, fucking they can't. They made this
SPAGHINNI was Cheerley, Bro.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Oh my god, John, they missed the pick wiggy. They
can't fucking hang because and that's it. That's why I
know that they're there.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
They want to include, but not like it is.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Because we are a majority liberal here in LA.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
They're like, we're conservative, but the but the there's a
lot of Mescus too, are conservative.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
So many Mexicans that are conservative.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
I don't even know how conservative and they're conservative. Bro,
so fucking met it's I do get Joe, isn't it? Joe,
No gonna go good to go back to a lighthouse. Yeah,
And then we had those everywhere. There's like Cutter Tower,
I think it's called, which was old building in.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Uh Pico Robertson, Uh that looked like a business building,
but it had an oil well in it.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
There's due the Tower of Hope that was in the
middle of Beverly Hills High School's football field that they
just took down in like twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Basically met but just saying that that form one of
the little buildings that's covered up the oil rigs, and
it looked like Lost Hills.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
It would look like ship, yeah, it would.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
It looked like Lost Hills or Oildale oil deal. Bro.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
Yes, dude, See there's a Tower of Hope right there.
How the fuck do you not know that that's why
would you call that the tower a hop? To top
it off, where's that at that's in That's in the
middle of Beverly Hills High School's football field.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Bro, it's not there. They just took it down for years.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
That was fucking drilliant, the whole school. That's also what's
crazy to me is that it's worth putting kids in danger.
You want to know the other thing that's crazy. This
is just a side note.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
Disney. You know Disney cruise ships where you get on
and you go for a cruise.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
If you stop at destinations, that ship picks up oil
at one port while it's picking up passengers, picks up
crude oil, raw oil, and then.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
Has a refiner underneath the fun You can look this up.
Disney doesn't hide this.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Uh, it hasn't a refinery underneath the ship, and it
refines the gas so by the time at port again,
it unloads the gas.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
And it makes so it's making money. Well, it's making
money basically money.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Don't sleep.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Yeah, see those are oil refineries. Those are fucking oil refineries.
But that's just a side note.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
That's just it.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
Yeah, But underneath it, there's a on the on the
very lower steck of the cruise ship is is an
oil refinery.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
But that's the thing, man, is like, so, and that's
kind of what we're getting at because when you look
at Venice Beach, sorry to make it jump from thing
to thing exavier, but when you look at Venice Beach,
look at the oil dereks on Venice Beach, it looked
so ugly, dude, like that was the thing that I
that was baffling to me because I thought that Venice
Beach itself, I know, I.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Wanted to do a painting, but I got sick.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
It looks yeah, there, that's the one that's true.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
Look yeah, that's the one that's exact.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Try that I had mountains, you did. I did the
Cinamonica side.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
I was gonna say, where those mountains come from? Bro,
that's that's sabb diego back there and funny.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
But back then there was people that were there were
environmentally back then, but they locked the battle.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
They super lost because that was the thing. It was like,
so in Venice Beach.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
Uh, there's a great series called Lost l a on
PBS and it's all on YouTube and they have the
Venice Beach one. So what's crazy is that Venice Beach
was this beautiful place that that we talked about that
Abbic Kenny had invented. The other thing about Abboc Kenny
that was really dope was that he hired black people

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at a time when nobody wanted to hire black people.
So one of the architects and builders, the top architect
and builder of Venice Beach is a black guy, okay,
and and and and Abic Kenny's driver was a black guy.
So they needed so they had this little neighborhood where
they were putting black people. And then it was closest

(45:59):
to the oil derek's obviously, and they were complaining. They
were saying, we're getting sick, there's things that are happening,
you know, and nobody would believe them until oil started
showing up in the fucking canals. And then one person
even complained that the sand on the beach was clumpier
and felt.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Different, you know.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
And and so that's what's amazing to me is that
I thought the beach was built before, I mean, after
the oil dereks had left, but the oil dereks came
in between and fucked up the beach, It fucked up
the canals. It's why we we we only have a
quarter of the canals left because we had to fill
them up because of all the pollution that the oil

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dereks were causing.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I remember swimming and Tampedro Beach, Cabrio beach, Cabrio Look
it up. Okay c A B R I L L
Cabrio beach. Bro, that beach you could be swimming and
a fucking oil because oil and water.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Oh yeah, because Pedro's big oil place.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Look good, look up oil and water, oil and Cabrio beach. Bro.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
Yeah, you can see that rainbow and ship right there.
That's fing oil.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
The mobile near there, bro mobile, and they're there by
Gaffy trying to tell you that they put up oil
rigs and Gaffy on Gaffy and Orgary Street in San Pedro.
Yeah yeah, g A M M E y Look bro

(47:39):
boom oh yeah oh bro. And that's by the Cabrio beach.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
That's by the beach.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Yeah. Bro. When during ninety eleven, we we thought they
were all over. Who are gonna get bombed? That's a ship,
a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Oh yeah, dude, well there's that the ones he hide
those they don't the cat you can't hide those that's
a refinement.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Also, there's an oil refineries by the Ali airport. Because
I remember in that movie Beverly Hills Coup to remember
how he's he's running. He's running and he feel the
dirt and then any and then Eddie Murphy touches the
dirt and he realized and then he went walking and
he goes where he where did you follow the jog at?

(48:19):
Because he has like this oil oil flick on his foot.
He drops over there by blah blah blah right and
then like Eddie Murphy went over there to touch that dirt,
the dirt on the shoe, and he realized this dirt
has oil, and then it belongs to the.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Cop so he was able to figure out where he
was talking.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
But but right there you can see all the oil
rings and they got.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Real and they made it real real, they made it
look like that all.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Orange all of a sudden broke. I remember that.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
I totally remember that scene where it's him running.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
But anytime you take off out of l A, you
can see the rigs in the There's a lot of
interesting stuff that is going on around.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
The Lax, like the abandoned village.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
But to me, oh, that sky showed me bro the
abandoned village right, yes, of oil. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
See, look at there's the abandoned village.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Dude on up there. Yeah wow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
So when you drive towards Plyve del Ray, uh from
San Pedro along the coastline, you'll pass these.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
As you get towards Lax, you'll pass this little village.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
That was abandoned.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
And part of the reason is because of the runway
and they're extending the airport, but also because the pollution
from next door was kind of encroaching on them as well.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
So the neighborhood itself started just to dilapidate and become,
I guess, an unwanted place to live.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
It just looks so.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
Crazy, like right next to the water, isn't it. Have
you been there before? Isn't it crazy?

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Yeah, it's such an interesting part of Lost LA. I
think there's like a huge portion of LA that's been
built over or like abandoned, and I think this is
one of the most interesting things.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
By the til end of nineteen forty two, a total
of forty seven million, four hundred and eighty eight than
twenty eight thousand baros of bubbling crude had been sucked
out of the shoreline, and with the wealth running dry
and the unslightly oil diaries were being removed as a
population grew and the city urine to get his beach bag. Bro.

(50:27):
By nine seventy to almost all the world had been
capped except not. All that remains is that that fucking
lighthouse brought.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
And I told you during the thirties we were like
the this is nomine quoting, this is a qual from
someone else in that documentary I was watching.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
But during the thirties we were pretty much the Dubai
of the world. We were giving.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
We're supplying the world with one quarter of fuel needed,
of oil needed. So we were a huge supplier of
oil at this point.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
And this is just La.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
This is not California, this is in the United States.
Just La itself was supplying one third of the country's
uh gasoline and oil needs. Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
So fight a picture. Go to a short a website
called just put a Short History of Venice, and then
it'll it'll just pop up and there's a picture of
people swimming in the beach with all the oil rigs
in the background looking at that bro. They're there, boom
bro ship.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Yeah, can you imagine, man, you have this beautiful colored one,
then a nice one is by the look at the beach.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
Can you imagine you have this beautiful.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Neighborhood looks like Venice, Italy, And then all of a
sudden these jack fux come in and put all these
huge oil derecks all over dude, and it's like, again,
it's not just that's.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Not Washington Street, Bro. The next one go back, another
one for the just swimming dog like whatever whatever wes
dog and.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
They're swimming in it. They're fucking and again these people
have no idea.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
You play a video on YouTube is called Venice of
America and play without sound that way won't get busted
a little bit of it. And you can see Albukini
is ben is Rod before the canals. So no, he's
got there be that Ben's beach right there. Yeah, he
ori afford it. And know that's Plaine and then the

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that's like the first oil.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
Well, he originally lived in Pasadena, but he didn't like
the weather, so he moved to the beach and that's
where he started buying out.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
How bad it was, bro was not bad?

Speaker 5 (53:01):
All, Yeah, that's original Venice Beach right there. Dude, that's
original Venice Beach. That's original. Those gondolas, all of them
except for a couple that were built, uh built home. Yeah,
those that is still there part of it. Wow, amazing
how that It's crazy to me how and back in

(53:21):
that time we were able to develop something.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
You know, at that time all of that Park Lake
and Boyle Heights looked like that. They have gondolas too,
but they had no no homes. But I guess it
was a style to have a Venice Beach style back Yeah, well,
he was trying to the park had eco park.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
I'm sure a lot of LA's architecture came from Venice
Beach's ideas because you know, the time that he was
building Venice Beach, LA wasn't much.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
There was not a lot.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
There was a lot of forest, There was a lot
of just desert land. There was a lot of emptiness.
Hey so this probably how bad?

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Yeah, this probably inspired a lot of people that built
the rest of l A because yeah, I noticed, No,
that's Venice, that's Venice for sure beach.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Yeah, No, that's Venice, Italy itself.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Go forward. Yeah, right right back there there you go,
right around there is is Venice.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
And there used to be like a huge bath salt
bath house. They had like a big lagoon that they
would have like replica battles in and then you could
go swimming in.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
When Albert Kenney developed this place, he wanted to be
a cultural arts center and he wanted people.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
To come and and have fun but also learn stuff,
you know, And.

Speaker 6 (54:46):
That's the thing, man, I think Venus One of the
things I love about Venice Beach and I've talked about
this off the podcast with you and how much I
want to live there because it's a cultural renaissance continuously happening.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Go to the forward to the oil. Oh totally end
right there and then boom bro Yeah you know what
that's a that's but anyone you were there, Yeah, no
fucking they had to be funny how our name works
broke like like they just couldn't just go to Venic

(55:21):
VENs was not incorporated city yet, Yes, right they did
the same day they did what you want water so
your water up was they incorporated Venice Beaches through the
City of Los Angeles. That's when I was okay to
go start putting their finger in her there for oil right.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
Right, Well, you had people like Hermosa who was laying
down tracks all over LA.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
That was the name of Hermosa, Remember we talked about
that in the water episode. Hermosa, which Hermosa Beach was
named after, was laying down tracks all over LA. He
was like a he cauted a lot of money out
of the gold uh Era and he went to l
A and he what he was doing was he bought
all this property and then he laid out tracks, and

(56:06):
then he would sell property in bulk to whoever would
toever helped it.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
And then.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
And then you know, the idea was like you could
buy this whole piece of land. It'll have a train
train coming into it and the station and that's kind
of how a how La was built, like Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Is built like that, Palis Saves's built like that.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Like fucking you know, maybe we could do an episode
on transportation in LA and talk about how there used
to be trains that went all over this place.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Like in.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
History of Black beaches in l a oh shit, like
where black people had to go.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Yeah, you know where there's a black beach on Venice's Beach.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
You know where it is.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Here's Venner's Beach. Yes, here's a Monica. There's a little
tiny little piece there used to be the Black Beach.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
He should be called Oak something right up for.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Little Black Beach and Vennon Beach. Look Bruce's Beach beach.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Dude, all right, well that's might be another episode.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah what else you got? Bro? That is?

Speaker 5 (57:13):
That's all I got? Man?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I mean you have people? Was it quick? It was
a great quick.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
History, but it was something that we were very interested
in wanted to share with you guys.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
And I'm gonna give you a more history. Venterans Beach. Bro,
there's two three big ass guys of Vennans Beach. There's
a Venice Beach locals, which is pretty much all the
people you saw in that skateboarding movie, Yeah, Doc Challe
Lords of Dogtown, Dogtown, those were all Venice soolos. And
then there's also the I don't know they're still around, bro,

(57:42):
the Venice Shoreline crips. No ship still around. Then both
fool used to patrol Vennan's Beach during the nineteen eighties
eighty five. And then if you were like a red
track stood they tell you a blood, they jump you, Bro.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Get the fuck out of here. So if you were
to go with that when they jump you.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Yeah, ask me like, what's up? Food?

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Were you from dog?

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Yeah? What's up? Fool? Shut up to that guy that
dressed up like a hillbilly? Which one remember that black
dude that dressed up that hill billy? I told you,
Oh yeah, oh pretty good. Huh yeah?

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
What was that guy's name?

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Shrugs. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (58:20):
I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
But he dressed like a hillbilly and went to the
fucking racetracks and made fun of he did like white face.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Yeah. So how was How was how to Elkhart, Indiana? Bro?

Speaker 5 (58:33):
So we went to elkhartt me and ho and then
we did Milwaukee the next day. Al Cart was great.
The people there that that that showed up were really fun.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
I'll be honest. I was a little scared of the
weed factor. I kinda kind of was like, felt more
paranoid than I usually do we go out on the road.
But Elkhart gave us some nice, warm reception. However, Milwaukee
was like walking through a dream.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
It was amazing. It was a dope uh filled ballroom.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Also shout out to Aaron from Hayward and Elf part
Oh yeah, yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Bro, those edibles were fun. They dude, those are the
best edibles I think I've ever had.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
And show up to that comment. We met up there
from South ben If I got your name already, Cruise,
I don't know, man, I wrote it down. I told
him to hit me up.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
People that walked up to that listened to the history propose.
Thank you everybody who did do that. Oh yeah, I
have a couple of shout outs that I want to
give out to the Venmo people. I got a couple
of Venmos this week, So I want you guys to
know that your money is going to go towards shoutouts,
the next books that we get, and the next things

(59:46):
that I get.

Speaker 5 (59:46):
All all products.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
If you guys send something to Butch Escobar Venmo, it's
just Butch Escobar.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
I promise you all proceeds will go towards the podcast
and uh and research for the I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Mention your business on the podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Oh my god, what am I fucking?

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Uh? You are brove dollars, He'll mention you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
I will.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
I will totally. You're fucking right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Yeah, But you know what if you're living in southern California,
because most of our listeners are from southern California, A
lot of listeners, a lot of listeners from Denver. Yeah,
we got listeners. Hello, sun Antonio. So know what you what?
Father gonna listen where you're at. Man, If you have

(01:00:31):
a T shirt company, just send it to Butch.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Yeah, send me something and I will all shout out
your business. Johanna shop Johanna.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
First of all, I.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
Love you for always defending me in the fucking comments
on the lives. You're the best I watch you. Thank
you so much, and Chris Ramon a special thanks for
the uh thank you also for the donoh. I just
want to let you know, Bro, I thought that your
suggestions were really good. I'm gonna bring us up with
Felipe when we come off. But again, thank you guys

(01:01:02):
for sending that to me. And again, if you guys
want yeah, if you guys want us to advertise your business,
throw some money.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
I sound like to here on now, yeah, bro, good,
throw some money in the venmo and I will give
you guys a shout out along with it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
And again, everything goes towards the fucking podcast. None of
that money goes towards my weed. None of that money
goes towards my.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Other needs.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Everything goes to the podcast and the stuff that we
use because I do a lot of reading. I read
at least one or two books. I find grafts, I
do all kinds of stuff. And then we got Xavier.
Now that's working for us, and I see big things,
big things for it also mat Thank you everybody who
came to go see you, come to see me in

(01:01:46):
Las Vegas last night.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Thank you. Don't forget man. We're going to hard for Connecticut.
Funny Bone. I'll be there. He'll be that one next week.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
All right, all right, brother, good good podcast. See you
guys next Sun.