Episodes

USC teams up with former Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas for an all-star scandal. Koreatown helps Herb Wesson settle on a new emergency shelter location that is not actually in Koreatown. More hard-boiled LA movie analysis with “Nightcrawler” and “Drive.” And one last bond proposition.

Alissa, Scott and Hayes follow up on the police shooting of Melyda Corado at Trader Joe’s and Ref Rodriguez’s resignation, complain about streetcars and unimpressive Metro goals, pick apart a Sheriff’s debate, and Prop Lock and Drop It for a water bond.

Tough week in LA. Scott, Alissa, and Hayes talk about tragedy at the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s, Ref Rodriguez set to resign from the LAUSD board, the Three Californias Proposition is toast, Elaine Chao is slow-walking funding for the Purple Line Extension, good news and bad news from the 1984 Olympics, and a short remembrance of Jonathan Gold.

Sheriff’s deputies in Compton are accused of belonging to a secret gang within the department that encourages aggressive police tactics… and it wouldn’t be the first time for the LA County Sheriff’s Department. To talk about gang culture in LASD, we brought in LA Times reporter MAYA LAU, who first broke the Compton story, and JAMES SEXTON, a former deputy who blew the whistle on misconduct in the department.

ALISSA WALKER returns to talk about Proud Boys in Atwater Village, two wild LA Times lawsuits, another lawsuit in Santa Monica over its elections, California reaching its 2020 emissions goals four years early, ants, and the first two propositions on the state ballot for November.

Will anyone survive the heat storm? Can LeBron solve every problem in Los Angeles? Will LA take money from the Trump administration to “counter violent extremism”? Will California continue to be held hostage by corporate-funded ballot measures? And will Los Angeles media apologize to the public for turnout-shaming them now that all the votes are counted?

Huge get: the great ALISSA WALKER, Urbanism editor at Curbed, joins for the entire episode as a third host. Scott and Hayes talk to her about the Bird scooters reproducing across the city, LA’s disappearing tree canopy, and why Silver Lake is fighting real hard to save a gas station.

Bonus Thursday ep! Compton’s water is brown and the water district wants you to believe that people like it that way. The City Council wants to start a public bank to launder weed money. And Scott and Hayes step inside the movies to look at the city through the eyes of 500 Days of Summer and La La Land.

A shocking threat from Mayor Garcetti to re-criminalize sleeping on the sidewalk. The Little Bangladesh vote generates the largest turnout in neighborhood council history, maybe for not-great reasons. And freelance journalist JASON MCGAHAN joins Scott and Hayes to talk about reporting he’s done for Capital and Main on the limited availability of bathrooms on Skid Row.

June 18, 2018 – Four minutes per topic! How California’s new budget affects LA, the actual Nazi running against Maxine Waters, the great Made in LA show at the Hammer, Patrick Soon-Shiong finally owns the LA Times for real, a Dodgers tribute to the Sandlot leads to a strange discovery, a march against family separation in MacArthur Park, and some words from Anthony Bourdain about LA.