S8 Ep760: Preview for Later Today Jeff Bliss explores the history and expansion of In-N-Out Burger, tracing its journey from a small 1950s Los Angeles drive-thru to its iconic status and a new massive multi-story location in Las Vegas.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Jeff Bliss explores the history and expansion of In-N-Out Burger, tracing its journey from a small 1950s Los Angeles drive-thru to its iconic status and a new massive multi-story location in Las Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchler, conversation with my colleague Jeff Bliss, about In-N-Out. |
| 0:05.5 | I do not know the franchise, but Jeff swears by it. |
| 0:09.3 | And he tells the story, the oar in-and-out, the beginnings of In-N-Out now to be a three- or four-story |
| 0:17.8 | extravagance on the strip in Las Vegas Vegas lights, film, camera, ready for its |
| 0:23.4 | close-up, Mr. DeMille. |
| 0:25.1 | Jeff Bliss. |
| 0:26.5 | More tonight. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, I guarantee you, certainly the first few months, there's going to be a line out the door, |
| 0:32.4 | you know, in and out are legendary hamburgers. |
| 0:35.0 | And it's so funny to think when it first opened, |
| 0:37.9 | a little mom and pop drive-through here in the LA area |
| 0:42.5 | in the 50s, it really was a shack in a sense. |
| 0:45.8 | It looked like an old gas station, |
| 0:47.7 | barely enough room inside for a couple people |
| 0:50.6 | to work the friar and the hamburger grill and all that. |
| 0:53.7 | And now they've grown to this and the numerous stores throughout the country as they |
| 0:58.5 | expand eastward. |
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