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This website at thelapod.com is sunsetting.. Going forward, new LA Podcast episodes will be available weekly at Think Forward and wherever you listen to podcasts. Think Forward is a new digital home for thoughtful commentary and informed opinion about the important issues facing Southern California. The site brings together written and audio commentary from across the LA Forward family of organizations — LA Podcast, What’s Next Los Angeles?, and Report Forward; plus an entirely new feature — a forum of original opinion essays.

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We’re excited to announce that LA Podcast is now part of the LA Forward family of organizations! Expect to hear new episodes more frequently with a rotating cast of co-hosts, including veterans of LA Pod like Alissa and Rachel and a whole bunch of new voices, including Mike Bonin. Mike will also continue hosting his What’s Next, Los Angeles? podcast as an interview show under the umbrella of the LA Forward. Listen to our “October Surprise” show featuring Alissa, Rachel, and Mike, plus LA Forward leaders Godfrey Plata and David Levitus, to learn more!

Thank you, India. Thank you, parents. Thank you, seven Republicans.

We put together a guide to voter guides in Los Angeles County.

Fewer than half of renter households who applied for rent relief have received it. Meanwhile, billions sit in government accounts.

The Spring 2022 season of LA Podcast’s spinoff podcast Thirty Mile Zone is set to kick off on Wednesday, February 2nd, bringing listeners 12 new episodes about LA Movies on representations of the city, and Angelenos, on film. New episodes include P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014), Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004), John Singleton’s 1991 debut Boyz N the Hood, Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator (2004), and more.

The first film in the spring series is Joey Soloway’s Afternoon Delight. The 2013 dramedy stars Kathryn Hahn as Rachel, Juno Temple as McKenna, and Josh Radnor as Jeff. Co-hosts Alison Herman (The Ringer) and Scott Frazier (LA Podcast) are joined by guest Sophia Benoit (GQ) for this episode.

Watch along with us! Afternoon Delight can be watched on Amazon’s Prime Video or on the Peacock app.

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A former faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine alleges the school engaged in a decade-long pattern of irresponsible supervision of surgeries and fraudulent billing practices.

A former LASD deputy was fired in 2017 for a previously unreported DUI. On the night it happened, he wanted special privileges.

Austreberto Gonzalez’s lawsuit threatened to spill out secretive details about the deputy gang in court. A judge quashed it.