Growing Up In LA in The 80's with Comedian Scott Boxenbaum
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Scott Boxenbaum grew up in Santa Monica near the beach, amongst the strange children of Hollywood. He went to a few parties… okay, a lot of parties. Sometimes, he drank a little too much… okay, way too much. This is what happened at one of those parties.
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| 0:52.7 | Hey, it's Scott Boxenbaum, and you are listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:05.4 | Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Sfini. |
| 1:21.5 | Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn and I'm here with |
| 1:25.1 | Hanas Finney and we often take our mobile van to exact locations, but |
| 1:30.7 | today we are taking the story-worthy |
| 1:33.3 | time machine of truth |
| 1:35.4 | to travel to |
| 1:36.8 | 1981 and go to |
| 1:39.2 | Spago on Sunset Boulevard. |
| 1:42.0 | Hi, Wolfgang! Oh, hello, how are you? Wow, that was... That was... That was a very popular place in the 80s. Spog... Yes, right down Sunset from the comedy store, kind of in back sort of above the Tower Records. It's a hillside there. Yeah. And so Spago was up there. Very popular at the time, I remember, lot of the awards shows. At the time we are in because we've traveled through a time scene, yes. People would go to there before the award show, after the award show. Yeah. You would just, like, it was the place to be seen. Yeah. And then Wolfgang Puck spun off and did, you know, my gosh, she's got all sorts of stuff. Yeah, I remember when he had restaurants, or he will in the future in the 90s, have restaurants all over the country, Wolfgang Puck cafes. That will abate somewhat in the 2000s. He'll have his own frozen food. But he still has, yes, he still will have frozen food. And, you know, he will not age a bit. I just heard a comedian talking about Wolfgang Puck, about how he, when he's talking |
| 2:37.5 | on his cooking show, it sounds like Hitler. |
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