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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds? |
0:06.0 | So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time. |
0:18.0 | One train journey at a time can help create a greener future. |
0:23.0 | So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener. |
0:30.0 | Ah, the sound of spring cleaning. Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the car to steam cleaner. |
0:39.0 | You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up. |
0:44.0 | Find your car to steam cleaner at car to dot code.uk or a car to retailer. |
0:51.0 | If you're listening to this episode and don't want to wait till next week to hear where the story goes, head over to Spotify. |
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1:04.0 | A quick note before we begin. This series contains some language and topics that may not be suitable for young children. |
1:11.0 | In 1867, a dentist from New Hampshire named David Burbank bought some real estate in Southern California. |
1:22.0 | It was mostly empty ranch land back then, and he bought about 9,000 acres. |
1:27.0 | When he sold the land to a development company two decades later, he got a quarter of a million dollars on his initial investment of nine grand. |
1:34.0 | Not bad for 1886. Plus, they named the town after him. Burbank. |
1:39.0 | Today Burbank looks like any other Southern California suburb, but there's one fascinating trace of the ranch land origins of the place. |
1:49.0 | Horses. Drive around and you'll often see people on horseback. You might notice some of the crosswalk buttons are a little higher than normal, so people riding horses can reach them. |
1:59.0 | And because of this weird peculiarity in the zoning, even today private residents are allowed to keep horses in the backyards of their suburban homes. |
2:08.0 | Yeah, this is all grandfathered in for horses because you know, it used to be the polo fields for Warner Brothers when they kept all the horses John Wayne and all of that stuff. All of this was grandfathered in. |
2:20.0 | This is Howard Johnson. So that's why we were able to have horses. That's why we moved here. |
2:25.0 | That's his actual name, Howard Johnson. His friends call him Hojo. |
2:29.0 | Yeah, she'll nip you. I love it. I love it. |
2:32.0 | We're behind his house two minutes off the Ventura freeway and Hojo is introducing me to scout the thousand pound Apalusah and keeps in the backyard. |
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