This week we take a look at the songs that define our podcast's hometown. (Well, technically we record in Burbank, but close enough.) Our choices run the gamut to sing along songs you hear after a win by our local sportsball teams to laments about the crushed spirits of dreamers who came here and became broken by the quest for fame. Also: Frank Zappa really hates the way girls from the Valley talked in the 1980s!

SHOW NOTES:

2:25 - "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A. (Joint Choice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

7:15 - "Screenwriter's Blue" by Soul Coughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR9WJSX9pnU

10:19 - "Los Angeles" by X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiZHt6sqg4

14:18 - Get a free 30-day trial at Audible.com by going to www.audible.com/rushmore. This week's audiobook pick: "Under the Big Black Sun" by John Doe and Tom DeSavia.

16:00 - "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Zappa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

20:16 - "Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJVclgwS5g

24:03 - "I Love LA" - by Randy Newman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

29:20 - "Desperados Under the Eaves" by Warren Zevon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0J3ossUzhU