MacArthur "don't call me genius" Fellow Josh Kun: Digging past Hollywood for LA's cultures
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison discusses Los Angeles culture beyond Hollywood with MacArthur Fellow Josh Kun.
28 Sep 201616min
The woman who brought Vin Scully to Los Angeles: Roz Wyman is Dodger true-blue for the man who talks a Dodger blue streak
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Roz Wyman, the former LA city council member who helped persuade the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles in 1958, bringing with them one of the most pr...
21 Sep 201613min
Caltech planet hunters Mike Brown & Konstantin Batygin: Could Planet Nine be the new Pluto?
Patt Morrison speaks with Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin about their hopeful discovery of a new addition to our very own solar system: Planet Nine.
13 Sep 201614min
Arson Detective Ed Nordskog: Finding the firestarters when California burns
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with arson detective Ed Nordskog about fires, how they're started and who starts them.
7 Sep 201615min
Word wizard Edward Finegan: For LA's birthday, La La Land's tubular gifts to the world
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison interviews Edward Finegan, USC linguist professor, about how words from southern California disseminate into the national vocabulary. latimes.com/patt
30 Aug 201614min
Stanford linguist John Rickford: for black kids, changing neighborhoods can change language skills
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Stanford professor John Rickford about how different spaces affect dialect within the African-American community.
23 Aug 201615min
Election fraud expert Andrew Gumbel: Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, and rigging the vote
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with journalist and author Andrew Gumbel about allegations of fraud within the 2016 election.
16 Aug 201615min
Author/activist Masha Gesson: Putin, Trump, and Wikileaks in this strange election year
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with author and activist Masha Gesson about Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, the recent DNC leaks, and their possible connection to the Kremlin....
2 Aug 201615min
