USC-CRETS AND LIES

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USC-CRETS AND LIES

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37 minutes

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May 21, 2018

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Scott and Hayes apologize for pronouncing Michel Moore's name like that, Cristina Garcia is absolved kind of, big news in the Woon Frazier story, USC steps in another truly revolting scandal, and a very dumb Congressional race in far east LA County.

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May 21, 2018

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A news podcast for people who live in Los Angeles. Hosted by Scott Frazier, Matt Tinoco and Curbed's Alissa Walker.

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THE HOLY COUNTIN': The results of LA's Homeless Count are in -- DR. ROBIN PETERING worked on the count and she joins Scott and Hayes to talk about the results. BEFORE THAT, LA politicians are working hard to make the gas tax popular, and why a bunch of signature gatherers got arrested on Skid Row. by LA Podcast
42 min listen
THE VOTER GUIDE NO ONE ASKED FOR: Scott and Hayes choose a few of the more bizarre races from the June 5 election day for a sort-of voter guide. Also, Max Nikias resigned as President of USC. How did that actually happen? by LA Podcast
44 min listen
The Mayor Makes Out with an Ear of Corn: Garcetti goes to Iowa because he wants to be President so bad he would do basically anything, Steve Ballmer and James Dolan are in a very relatable fight over their arenas in Inglewood, and JANET KIM and ALEXA ROMAN from the League of Women Voters talk to us about permanent supportive housing and what that is. by LA Podcast
45 min listen
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY: 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. by LA Podcast
63 min listen
BADGE TO THE BONE: 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. by LA Podcast
67 min listen
JUST BEUT ME: The LAUSD board chose their new superintendent, hedge fund guy and political dilettante Austin "3:16" Beutner, and a school union is maybe going to go on strike. Plus a new politician gets accused of sexual assault, another one is maybe going to be primaried, and the possible bad news regarding new emergency shelter beds. by LA Podcast
36 min listen
We Somehow Have Exclusive Information About Elon Musk's Tunnels And Also A School Board Member Got Arrested at Yard House: An assemblywoman gives a bad radio interview, Mayor Garcetti has a friendly sitdown with Mohammed bin Salman, a school board member gets arrested at Yard House, and we reveal exclusive information about the tunnels Elon Musk is digging under the city. by LA Podcast
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CHRONIC PENAL FAILURE: Scott and Alissa on: the Santa Monica scooter decision, a tunnel meeting at Dodger Stadium, the completion of My Figueroa finally, Garcetti raising money for Dems everywhere but LA, the possibility of last call at 4AM, truly horrifying charges against LASD, Patrick Soon-Shiong's maybe-shady hospital bankruptcy, and the truly bewildering Prop 8. by LA Podcast
56 min listen
"We need our space.": Frederick "Woon" Frazier was killed on his bike by a hit-and-run driver in South LA on April 10th. In the week following his death, four more pedestrians and cyclists were killed in car crashes, all hit-and-runs. We talked to Woon's friend Keiven Munoz (@Keiven11) about losing Woon and why he feels like LA is letting bikers die. Plus: LAUSD is choosing a new superintendent and it looks like they don't want someone who has ever worked in a school. by LA Podcast
36 min listen
EXTREMELY PROUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: 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. by LA Podcast
63 min listen
GAS-FED BEEF: Alissa and Hayes go over the new proposal from Elon Musk's Boring Company to dig a tunnel to Dodger Stadium, then welcome ASSEMBLYMEMBER LAURA FRIEDMAN to talk about her Vision Zero bill and Prop, Lock and Drop It for Prop 6, the gas tax repeal. by LA Podcast
53 min listen
SODA STORY GOES: 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? by LA Podcast
33 min listen
SINCE YOU BEEN GONDOLA: Frank McCourt wants to ride a gondola back to relevancy and the Mayor is HERE FOR IT!!!! Scott and Hayes also talk about four movies about LA they watched on Filmstruck and why home prices in Southern California hit an all-time high for the first time in eleven years. by LA Podcast
38 min listen
State Representatives Have Been Committing Sex Crimes So Now You Have to Vote Again: There are three special elections tomorrow because in Los Angeles you have to vote every week now. Scott Frazier and Hayes Davenport talk about the new candidates and recklessly throw around rude gossip about why the old candidates resigned. by LA Podcast
38 min listen
ALL CLIMATE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: Raid on an artists squat on Hollywood Boulevard! The people who yell racial slurs at every City Council meeting might get banned! The first candidate throws her hat in the ring for the 2020 City Council election! And BRYN LINDBLAD from Climate Resolve tells us whether air in LA is healthy, how to cool neighborhoods by 10 to 20 degrees inexpensively, and what she and Alissa saw at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. by LA Podcast
66 min listen
THE TALENTED MR. RIDLEY-THOMAS: 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. by LA Podcast
48 min listen
BONUS: SCANNED AND DELIVERED: The typhoon-intensive future of LA weather, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas's old scandal is new again, the first installment of the Sheriff's Department And 1, Inglewood's Mayor Butts said something crazy to a protestor and tried to erase it -- and LA Times transportation reporter LAURA NELSON joins Scott and Hayes to talk about a new Metro collabo with the TSA and the latest attempts at a scooter ban. by LA Podcast
56 min listen
LOVE ME VENDOR: LEAKED: the list of three finalists for LAPD Chief. Scott and Hayes talk about the choices and a not-great day Chief Beck had this week. Then: RUDY ESPINOZA from Leadership for Urban Renewal Network (LURN) talks about the fight to legalize street vending in LA, the only major American city with no permitting process for vendors. by LA Podcast
46 min listen
LOVE DON'T COSTA THING: An ENTIRE EPISODE dedicated to Prop 10, the most expensive November state ballot measure in America and one with major ties to LA. Scott, Alissa and Hayes get into Costa-Hawkins, the rent control law that Prop 10 would repeal, the man behind the measure, and what passing or not passing it could mean for the city. by LA Podcast
66 min listen
SIDEWALK THE LINE: 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. by LA Podcast
45 min listen
ROAD DIET TO PERDITION: LA things we're thankful for! Scott digs into turnout numbers on his blog! Local pro-car activists exploit a horrible tragedy to kill bike lanes! New Sheriff Alex Villanueva immediately burns his supporters! Richelle Huizar quits her race! Scott, Alissa and Hayes talk about all this and more. by LA Podcast
57 min listen
BONUS EPISODE: WATERSHIP BROWN: 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. by LA Podcast
42 min listen
2018: THE YEAR HERE: Alissa, Scott and Hayes choose the most representative stories of 2018 in LA and make resolutions for the city for 2019. by LA Podcast
58 min listen
HILL STREETCAR BLUES: 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. by LA Podcast
52 min listen
THE FLAWED BANK REDEMPTION: LA Stories about In-N-Out fundraisers and mountain lions, a new ruling on whether cities in LA County are allowed to coordinate with ICE, and a visit from CHRIS ROTH of Ground Game LA on Charter Amendment B, the city initiative on the November ballot to create a public bank. by LA Podcast
69 min listen
FUNDRAISIN IN THE SUN: Elon Musk scraps a tunnel plan! LA is increasing speed limits on 100 miles of streets! Melyda Corado's family is suing the LAPD! Jose Huizar is now in trouble involving a school fundraiser! Herb Wesson might replace Mitch Englander with a former councilman who is often armed! LAPD are giving jaywalkers vests! Alex Villanueva fired 16 members of Sheriff's Department leadership! And LA legalizes sidewalk vending! Alissa, Scott and Hayes talk about all of these things and somehow more. by LA Podcast
67 min listen
CHARTER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER: Scott and Hayes wrap up Tuesday's primary elections and the new choice for LAPD Chief, then dig into the massive amounts of pro-charter school money flowing into every election in California. Plus Scott goes on a very restrained rant about the different rail options Metro has put forward for the Sepulveda Pass. by LA Podcast
39 min listen
AND TEJON OF THE BRAVE: Packed episode! All hosts are present as LAUSD chooses how to replace disgraced board member Ref Rodriguez, the City Council pays another big settlement after a fatal LAPD shooting, developers want to build a new city in middle-of-nowhere North LA County, Measure H gets its first report card, we Prop It Like It's Hot for Prop 7's Daylight Saving Time repeal, AND we interview LA Times data reporters JACK DOLAN and RYAN MENEZES about their coverage of the LAPD's DROP program. by LA Podcast
69 min listen
USC-CRETS AND LIES: Scott and Hayes apologize for pronouncing Michel Moore's name like that, Cristina Garcia is absolved kind of, big news in the Woon Frazier story, USC steps in another truly revolting scandal, and a very dumb Congressional race in far east LA County. by LA Podcast
37 min listen
SCOOT TO KILL: 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. by LA Podcast
58 min listen

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