Irv's Burgers with Sam Brown

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Headgum / Doughboys Media

Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Sam Brown (@thatsambrown, The Whitest Kids U'Know) joins the 'boys to talk Dune, Sandwich Massachusettes, and stunt eating before a review of Irv's Burgers. Plus, another edition of Chips Inhale: Res-Chew Rangers.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.roadtripusa.com/blog/get-your-kicks-song/

https://national66.org/pages/route-66-history

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/back0303.cfm

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/news/76-year-old-irvs-burgers-returns-to-west-hollywood-after-four-years-070522

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/28/irvs-burger-a-los-angeles-staple-since-1946-comes-to-orange-county/

https://irvsburgers.com/our-story/

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:06.0	Want to watch this episode?
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0:10.0	Com slash DoB's Media. Well, it winds from Chicago to LA.
0:18.0	More than 2,000 miles all the way.
0:22.0	Get your kicks on Route 66. In 1946 the Nat King Cole
0:29.3	Trio released their single Route 66 and the Bobby Troop composed
0:33.2	did he sped to the top of Billboard's
0:34.8	archaically named Race Records Chart.
0:37.7	In the years since, the song has been covered by Chuck Berry,
0:40.9	Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters,
0:43.0	The Rolling Stones, to Pesh Mode,
0:45.3	and of course John Mayer for the end credits of Pixar's Cars.
0:50.0	Authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, opened in 1926, and fully paved
0:55.8	via New Deal infrastructure funding in 1938.
0:59.0	The titular highway that connects the Windy City to the City of Angels would shape
1:02.4	pre-war interstate
1:03.4	commerce as well as hasten the rise of American car culture for better or mostly
1:08.2	for worse. And back in 1946 near Route 66's West Coast Terminus, as drivers near the Pacific Ocean
1:16.2	along what is now West Hollywood Santa Monica Boulevard, one might see a sign over a
1:20.4	roadside stand advertising no lobster, just burgers.
1:25.0	First opened as Queens Burgers, the restaurant has operated for three quarters of a century via a
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