Episodes

Scott Frazier returns to the podcast! He hosts alongside Alissa Walker and Matt Tinoco for a packed show covering the Newsom recall, school re-openings, street design, and more.

Alissa Walker, Matt Tinoco, and Rachel Reyes gather to talk shop about free school lunch, lies from the San Diego Sheriff’s department, and what happened when Caitlyn Jenner went to Venice.

We also answer a listener question about the early history of Black Angelenos.

Matt, Rachel Reyes, and J.T. the L.A. Storyteller gather to talk about: the bathing habits of local A-listers; the status of hand washing stations for unsheltered Angelenos; the abrupt shutdown of the Avenue 26 Night Market; the LAPD’s evaluation of how it handled the Echo Park Lake closure in March.

Thirty Mile Zone (TMZ) is a show for discussing the canon of LA movies. Who are they for? How do they depict LA and living here? What are the worldviews at play? For more episodes and other members-only perks, please consider supporting LA Podcast for just a couple bucks a month at patreon.com/lapodcast.

In Episode 18, we talk about the second film in the Conjuring Universe: Annabelle. The titular demonically possessed doll attacks extremely square Santa Monica parents-to-be John and Mia Form.

Here to talk about the hodgepodge of Manson family reactionary paranoia and Rosemary’s Baby familial horror are Scott, movie/tv critic Alison Herman (@aherman2006), and writer/horror maven Juliet Bennett Rylah (@jbrylah).

What happens now that City Council has approved a new anti-homeless ordinance? How is wage theft impacting grocery workers in Los Angeles? Why was a community group’s bid to purchase the Crenshaw mall ignored? Why did the Banditos gang in the Sheriff’s Department host an inking party? Scott is joined by Cerise Castle and Rachel Reyes to discuss the latest news from LA.

Samanta Helou Hernandez joins Scott and Matt to talk about the ongoing pandemic, continuing coverage of the LAPD’s bomb in South Central and the sewage spill in the Santa Monica Bay. Then, Scott shares his experience at the trial of Ed Buck.

Rachel Reyes joins Matt and Scott to talk LA’s reinstated mask mandate, police brutality and right wing violence at Wi Spa, a sewage spill in Santa Monica Bay, racism in the foster care system and Food 4 Less workers bargaining a new contract.

Eric Garcetti answers the call, Wi Spa becomes international news, Los Angeles’ buildings are as vulnerable as South Florida’s, and a dive into how the Venice housing situation got so bad.

The L.A. City Council passes a strict new anti-sleeping in public law, Metro’s bus system re-think has a rocky start, LAPD sets off a bomb in a residential neighborhood, and the latest on the novel coronavirus in Los Angeles.

Alissa and Scott sit down with reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray to talk about city-provided hand-washing stations for the unhoused. Ray has investigated Los Angeles’ failure to maintain basic sanitary resources for its unsheltered residents during the pandemic, despite public promises to do so.

Find Lexis-Olivier Ray on Twitter and Instagram: @shoton35mm

Read Ray’s reporting at L.A. TACO:

Garcetti Said That L.A.’s Hand-Washing Stations for the Homeless Were Regularly Refilled, Records Obtained Show Otherwise.

There Weren’t Enough Porta-Potties for the Homeless To Begin With, in October They’re Being Pulled.

Hand-Washing Station Vendors Collected Millions of Dollars In Payments From The City While Some Units Went Dry.