Hearst Castle
Castle in San Luis Obispo County, CaliforniaWikipedia
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Sep 12, 2026
Robert FriedlandGUEST
In World War I, the price of copper went to the moon.
Robert FriedlandGUEST
Uh, William Randolph Hearst owned the Butte, Montana copper mine, and with that, he bought up all the media in the United States and built the Hearst Castle.
Robert FriedlandGUEST
So he was sort of the Jeff Bezos of his day.
Robert FriedlandGUEST
And in World War II, copper was so scarce we had to mine zinc to make our pennies.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
And nearby is Morro Bay, home of famous Morro Rock.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
And then just up the coast a bit is the famed Hearst Castle, which is...
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
The magnificent Xanadu-like facility, structure, complex, home, zoo, museum, et cetera, that William Randolph Hearst put together.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
And that is breathtaking.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
It's also quite nice.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
And so, you know, you have little sleepy artist towns up there like Cambria and Cayucos.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
And then you get to the area where Hearst Castle is in San Simeon.
Jeff BlissCORRESPONDENT
But it's not far drive at all.
Roxanne CracktonGUEST
Okay.
Adam MontielHOST
I feel it's almost like Hearst Castle.
Adam MontielHOST
You walk in and you want to ask, have people ever just jumped in because they wanted to? So good.
Roxanne CracktonGUEST
We had Skinny Dippers when I was first there.
Katrina McGheeGUEST
And I saw the Grand Canyon, right? And we drove up A1, A, like the highway on the coast in California and north.
Katrina McGheeGUEST
And we went to Hearst Castle and we just so happened to be there.
Katrina McGheeGUEST
The
AJ JonesHOST
Pacific Coast Highway, the PCH.
AJ JonesHOST
The PCH, yeah, it was
Katrina McGheeGUEST
so cool.
Katrina McGheeGUEST
And we saw like, The Hearst Castle at night during, I think it was like right before Christmas when they had like people in period costumes, like just acting like they were doing.
Katrina McGheeGUEST
Oh, wow.
Jake BrennanHOST
I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Hollywoodland.
Jake BrennanHOST
William Randolph Hearst leaned back in a large fireside chair in his San Simeon Castle, the 168,000 acre California estate he'd recently inherited from his dead mother.
Jake BrennanHOST
He closed his eyes and smiled.
Jake BrennanHOST
Smiling wasn't really his thing.
Bill CurranGUEST
And then we stayed in Washington, D.C. for a week in the National Cathedral's dorm, for want of a better way to describe it.
Bill CurranGUEST
And then they flew us out to L.A., and we were in L.A., Santa Barbara, Hearst Castle, and then we were in UC Berkeley for a few weeks there.
Bill CurranGUEST
and traveling around the Bay Area.
Bill CurranGUEST
And during this whole time, it was study.
Clara ParkHOST
It's just wild.
Clara ParkHOST
But doesn't the Hearst family also have their own cattle ranch? I've been to Hearst Castle, yes.
Clara ParkHOST
For our young listeners, Citizen Kane, one of the best movies of all time, the character of Citizen Kane was based off of William Randolph Hearst, the founder of the Hearst Media Empire.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
I also hate to mention them, but the Koch brothers also had a huge ranch.
Bailey SarianHOST
Can you guess who it is? No? William Randolph Hearst.
Bailey SarianHOST
Have you been to Hearst Castle yet? Let me know.
Bailey SarianHOST
So listen, they should've just went to the police.
Bailey SarianHOST
When Delight's family showed up at his front door, he was salivating at the thought of exposing Father Divine.
Rob StaegerGUEST
yeah so this this creature was designed originally by millicent patrick was fascinating woman And I read a book about her by Mallory O'Meara, who wrote a biography of her.
Rob StaegerGUEST
She was the child of an engineer at the Hearst Castle, San Simeon.
Rob StaegerGUEST
And she grew up there.
Rob StaegerGUEST
She lived there for 10 years before her parents moved away.
Chris GregoryHOST
I can't even remember El Paso, honey.
Chris GregoryHOST
Perhaps the castle in San Francisco is the Hearst Castle, a famous haunt for celebrities built by the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, which was wickedly satirised by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane as Xanadu.
Chris GregoryHOST
The narrator's entire project in this song is as hopeless as Kane's bid for immortality in the classic movie.
Chris GregoryHOST
He tries again to assert his innocence in the relationship, claiming that you never had to be faithful, I never wanted you to grieve.
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