Yo, this is a bonus episode because I just did something pretty awesome and free and I couldn't

wait to tell you guys about this.

Listen to this, it's one part, super significant LA history,

and one part one thing to do in LA this week. Listen to this, I went to the most important spot in modern Los Angeles history.

I'll tell you why. This is the spot that Los Angeles was able to connect with the rest of the United States and

join the American Industrial Revolution. It's Lang Station and let me tell you about this

It's in cany country and it sounds far but this is a straightforward ride. It's the five to the 14 about 45 minutes from downtown and you're not going to run into the traffic.

But the coolest thing about this, and this is like, look, this is out kind of in the middle of

nowhere, what's up, SEV, my people out there, but this is off the freeway a little bit but there's a huge

plaque commemorating this occasion and every 25 years since there's been a ceremony

recreation celebration of the moment that Los Angeles became a modern city.

I'm talking about the golden spike.

On September 5, 1876, the President of Southern Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker,

drove in the last bike connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco by rail, and thus connecting Los Angeles to the Intercontinental Railroad.

This was a very, very significant moment because until then you had wagon trails you

had these treacherous canyons mountains especially getting out of Los

Angeles and we always talk about frontier Los Angeles but it really was an

island on the land I mean that's what Carrie McWilliams called in his famous book it

really was because LA with these mountain ranges,

the only city, by the way, in the United States

with a mountain range running through it,

is really isolated geographically

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