Episodes

LA Podcast does its first live show at UCLA’s Lewis Center! The audio is not great! We get into what’s happening in lawless Westwood and the audience brings the heat with some Big Questions!

The homeless count results are in, and they’re brutal. Scott, Alissa and Hayes go through the numbers and look at how different LA public officials responded to them, then get into the fallout from Measure EE’s failure and Loraine Lundquist’s victory in Tuesday’s election. Plus: a bizarre Sheriff’s Department And 1.

A big housing episode! Scott, Alissa and Hayes perform an autopsy on all the victims of the CA legislature’s May Massacre, try to figure out what is going on with AHF and the high-rise on Sunset and Gordon, look at the first supportive housing building built with HHH money after more than 900 days, and anticipate the numbers of the homeless count coming this week.

All three hosts reunite to discuss the big cuts to Metro service, the newest incarnation of Boring Company technology, the Commerce City Council brawl, yet another task force, some of the housing bills still alive in the state legislature, and the Freehand hotel.

Hayes is in Florida so Scott and Alissa get into the shelving of SB50, newly free admissions at MOCA, Metro and Garcetti’s flip-flop on the bus lane pilot, difficult questions for Sheriff Villanueva, big tourism numbers for LA, and not-so-big weed numbers for the state.

A labor shortage delays the regional connector to 2022! Zev Yaroslavsky gets his sources cited! We make our endorsements in the CD12 primary and the LAUSD District 5 runoff! Gun house!

The Mayor has unveiled his Green New Deal — why do academics and activists say it won’t reduce emissions? Why did Metro announce service cuts the next day? Why did Inglewood’s Mayor try to turn left into oncoming traffic? Why did someone with measles go to The Grove? Why did the aspiring terrorist in Long Beach want to bomb both a protest and a counterprotest? Why didn’t Obama show up for his road naming? Why did a police shooting victim’s mom accuse Torrance cops of character assassination? Scott, Alissa and Hayes answer some of these questions and more!

Measles are back! Which LA schools have the lowest numbers of vaccinated kids? Somebody painted over an historic mural! Who was it and why? Rick Caruso gets a big New York Times profile where he basically says he wants to run for Mayor! Will he? A councilmember voted on projects from developers that paid his wife! Is that… as bad as it sounds? Scott, Alissa and Hayes answer these questions and more.

Hayes and Alissa are joined by KPCC/LAist’s MATT TINOCO to get into the LA City Council’s vote on SB50 and how some talk radio giants weighed in, plus Mayor Garcetti’s comments on homelessness in the State of the City.

Alissa, Scott, and Hayes talk about scooters and the Nipsey Hussle memorial for a few minutes. Then the great LA Times reporter/critic CAROLINA MIRANDA joins the show to talk about the new plans for LACMA and the Times guild’s ongoing contract negotiation.