The year is 1924. Things are blowing up in California, France makes the Winter Olympics happen, and movie mogul Thomas Ince mysteriously dies...or maybe just ate too many salted almonds.All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.*******Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbowhttps://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/mulholland.htmhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-scheming-69592006/https://www.asce.org/project/first-owens-river-los-angeles-aqueduct/http://yourlariver.com/http://www.conservationsolutions.org/https://mrca.ca.gov/los-angeles-river/https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Los+Angeles+River,+California/Owens+River,+California/@35.6223969,-120.1969623,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b7c873c06f81:0xa44a2d47e68ffb3b!2m2!1d-118.2231868!2d34.0154242!1m5!1m1!1s0x80be39a0d6711293:0x2f8f5d0ff53fdcd7!2m2!1d-118.3104015!2d37.2713485!3e0https://lacounty.gov/government/about-la-county/history/https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/about/edusafety/training/pec/toolbox/arch/climate/california_climate_zone_06.pdfhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-02-me-annual-rain-graphic2-story.htmlhttps://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-william-randolph-hearst/truth-is-not-only-stranger-than-fiction-it-is-more-interesting https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-apr-04-me-24119-story.html%3f_amp=true https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/ https://www.filmsite.org/1924.html http://www.films101.com/y1924r.htm https://popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1924.php https://www.musicvf.com/songs.php?page=year&year=1924 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Winter_Olympicshttps://www.olympic.org/chamonix-1924https://time.com/4993522/first-winter-olympics-1924-chamonix-france/