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A news and politics podcast for people who live in Los Angeles.

 Los Angeles, CA
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👎🏽 BITTERSWEET DEM PHONIES 👎🏽 On the anniversary of the Fed Tapes, a look at the legacy of the scandal and how its participants are working hard to rehabilitate themselves in public. Plus, the charges against Councilmember John “City Staffer B” Lee thelapod.com/episode/bitters…
LA Podcast October 10, 2023 Episode 232 BITTERSWEET DEM PHONIES On the one-year anniversary of the Fed Tapes, Scott, Alissa, and Rachel discuss the legacy of the shocking scandal — including two new lawsuits, proposals for charter reform, and how the participants are working hard to rehabilitate themselves in public. And ethics charges are finally filed against yet another councilmember, John Lee, also known as “City Staffer B.” Revisit our emergency episode from one year ago

ALT LA Podcast October 10, 2023 Episode 232 BITTERSWEET DEM PHONIES On the one-year anniversary of the Fed Tapes, Scott, Alissa, and Rachel discuss the legacy of the shocking scandal — including two new lawsuits, proposals for charter reform, and how the participants are working hard to rehabilitate themselves in public. And ethics charges are finally filed against yet another councilmember, John Lee, also known as “City Staffer B.” Revisit our emergency episode from one year ago

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“These people didn’t get together to talk about Mike Bonin’s family. That’s not why they were there. You can say, as apparently Nury is saying, it’s a high-pressure job and sometimes that makes me racist. No, they were there to do a racist thing.” 🎧 thelapod.com
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"City Council has taken no action on the conduct of their colleague John Lee. City Council has sought no investigation into the conduct of their colleague John Lee. The citizens of Los Angeles expect and deserve more." From our own Scott Frazier in 2021 thelapod.com/posts/a-co-cons…
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There’s a very special guest on our latest episode…
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“It’s the deserving versus the undeserving.” On the eve of the storm, Scott, Alissa, and Rachel discuss the region’s preparations for Hurricane Hilary, the first tropical storm to make landfall in LA since 1939. Listen to Episode 230 now at thelapod.com
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⛈️ WRITERS ON THE STORM ⛈️ 🌀 Preparing for Hurricane Hilary ✊🏾 LA's astonishing union solidarity 👜 The rash of smash grabs-slash-flash robs 🫶🏽 Plus, a very personal LA story from @Rachel_Reyes thelapod.com/episode/writers…
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New LA rule 📢 for every new train line that opens, another councilmember is indicted 🫡
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💸 PRICE AND PREJUDICE 💸 😵‍💫 Yet another LA councilmember is indicted 👨‍⚖️ Why the case against Curren Price is different 🏳️‍🌈 LA’s Pride month crashed by extremists 🗳️ Final thoughts on the CD 6 election thelapod.com/episode/price-a…
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The DA's case against Curren Price is weak compared to previous corruption cases: it requires reading actions easily explained by inattentiveness or incompetence as weird and inconsequential scheming. bennywally.com/2023/06/15/th…
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The DA accuses Price of intentionally not recusing himself from four procedural votes whose outcome was not in question. Though they seek to insinuate he gained something by doing this, they fail to spell out what the benefit to him was.
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kim (@KimSilv26) profile picturekim@KimSilv2613 Jun 2023
Hey babe wake up a new @thelapod will be dropping soon
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⛱️ THE REAL GRIM SHADY ⛱️ 🪧 #WGAstrike enters week 4 🚇 Who gets to feel safe riding transit? 💸 LA's new budget and the lone vote against it 🚏 And, of course, La Sombrita thelapod.com/episode/the-rea…
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We eventually achieved 125%
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DEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️ (@uhshanti) profile pictureDEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️@uhshanti21 May 2023
didn’t get a shot with @hayesdavenport but saw 100% of @thelapod tonight, feel like I got the full Celebrity Experience
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Apparently the correct figure is 133% please don't hire us to do any LADWP billing
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The LAT's retelling of these events has been off-kilter for a long time. The Times was, somewhat unbelievably, late to find audio that almost everyone found out about because their reporter David Zahniser was tagged on twitter with a link to the reddit post.
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Los Angeles Times (@latimes) profile pictureLos Angeles Times
@latimes8 May 2023
Replying to @latimes
Oct 8: We came to know of the audio’s existence on a late Saturday afternoon—when news is typically slow—and quickly began working to authenticate it: latimes.com/california/story…
L.A. council members made racist comments in leaked audio. Read our full coverage

L.A. council members made racist comments in leaked audio. Read our full coverage

Audio of Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo speaking with labor leader Ron Herrera quickly became a new and incendiary issue in the Nov. 8 election.

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The audio was circulating by Friday. I - Scott 👋🏽 - was texted a link to it Saturday morning. Like the LAT, other publications, not just LA Podcast, but also Knock LA, "began the intense and painstaking work of verifying and analyzing the contents" upon receipt.
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Co-host Scott Frazier on Karen Bass's "anti-ambitious" Earth Day climate protection proposal: "She cannot be serious." bennywally.com/2023/04/25/ea…
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🔊 The Sound and the Nury 🔊 Scott, Alissa, and Rachel talk CD 6 results, CD 10's fate after MRT's conviction, toxic workplaces in City Hall, and the “New LA” proposed by Mayor Karen Bass in last week's State of the City thelapod.com/episode/the-sou…
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Cohost Scott Frazier says of this week's allegations: "The longer this goes on, the stranger [Mejia's] insistence on hiding behind spokespeople and lieutenants will appear. Angelenos deserve to hear from the Controller in his own words." bennywally.com/2023/04/16/th…
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The allegations sound very much like a hostile work environment, and can't be convincingly answered by denials from surrogates or by counter-accusing the accusers of being unprofessional.
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Co-host Scott Frazier - hi it's me - on Council's decision to reappoint Heather Hutt: "To blame democracy itself for disenfranchising voters is an act of reptile perversity." bennywally.com/2023/04/13/bl…
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..... .... ... 🎼"Thank u 7 republicans" 🎵
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We’re back! Scott, Alissa, and Rachel discuss CD6, EPL, MRT, & MEG. Listen to episode 226 now 🌴 thelapod.com/episode/the-tor…
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