#202 A Tour Guide's History of Los Angeles
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Millions of people from across the globe visit Los Angeles every year, but only a lucky few have gotten a tour of the city from tour guides/stand up comics, Rivers Langley, Anna Valenzuela & Carter Glascock. In this episode, Ben speaks with Rivers, Carter and Anna about their favorite stories from Los Angeles' history, what it's like to work as a tour guide, and what makes a good (and bad) day at work.
For images and links to other material discussed in this episode, visit our website episode page: RTNpod.me/202.
Carter Glascock is stand up comic and co-host of The Goods From The Woods Podcast. His first album, The Crystal Pistol is available on Spotify and Apple Music. You can follow him on twitter at @carter_glascock.
Rivers Langley is a LA-based stand-up comedian and host of The Goods From The Woods Podcast. You can also find him announcing the matches at Wrestling Pro Wrestling. You can follow him on twitter at @RiversLangley.
Anna Valenzuela is a comic, writer and host of the podcast 12 Questions. whose appearances include Comedy Central's Roast Battle. You can follow her on twitter at @annavisfun.
This episode was mixed by Rivers Langley and edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 1:21.6 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Road to Now. Today's episode is not a traditional episode of The Road to Now, but I think it does a lot of the same things and it's a lot of fun. |
| 1:35.2 | The episode, I'm entitling a tour guide's history of Los Angeles. |
| 1:39.6 | My friend Rivers Langley is a comic and host of the Goods from the Woods podcast. |
| 1:45.9 | He is one of those guys that knows kind of everything about everything. He reads constantly. And he is not only a stand-up comic |
| 1:51.6 | and a podcaster, he's also a tour guide in Los Angeles. And he's been doing this for years. |
| 1:57.1 | And so he leads these tours. He works with other people that he's brought in, including our mutual friend from, |
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