New Episodes
- Parenting in a diet culture, Sri Lankan cuisine, farmland water
- Virginia Sole-Smith exposes society's anti-fat bias and the issues surrounding childhood obesity. Restaurateur Karan Gokani revels in his first tastes of Sri Lankan food and traditional hoppers made of fermented rice and coconut.
- Presidential hopeful Mike Pence evokes Reagan, carves anti-Trump lane
- Mike Pence is officially running for president as a Reagan-style conservative, but do GOP voters want retro? The dam collapse in Ukraine flooded the front lines and raises questions about whether Russia was responsible. And is Saudi Arabia now running the world of golf?
- You Sure You Want to Eat That Sentient Being?
- Peter Singer knows it is difficult to make a lonely stand against the mega corporate food processing machine.
- Amid changing abortion laws, OC clinic workers seek union protection
- Reproductive health workers nationally have been turning to unions for support since the fall of Roe v. Wade. Planned Parenthood in Orange County could be next.
- News media layoffs, artist Keith Haring’s iconic images
- The Los Angeles Times joins a slate of news and media companies, including Spotify, Buzzfeed News, and NPR, that have laid off employees in recent months.
- Will LA see more ‘social housing?’
- California and LA are seeing major pushes for “social housing,” which is government-supported, not owned by a for-profit entity, and is affordable to people of different income levels.
- ‘Ghost students’ try scamming colleges, violence erupts over Pride month
- In California, an estimated 1 in 5 community college applications are scams, amounting to hundreds of thousands of "ghost students” who are trying to steal financial aid.
- The Fight for Abortion Training
- The overturning of Roe v. Wade has severely restricted how doctors can access training in abortion care and it’s already having a devastating ripple effect on patients seeking all kinds of reproductive care. Two medical residents in abortion-restricted states fight for training and for the future health of their patients. Plus, the centuries-long battle over who gets access to abortion training in the first place.
- Some VA benefits get in the way as veterans try to secure housing
- Some disabled veterans are shut out of supportive housing due to VA disability income. It’s a catch-22 that reflects larger challenges in filling subsidized units.
- Patricia Arquette looks back on career, Apple pushes out VR headset
- Patricia Arquette talks about “High Desert,” a twisted comedy about a former drug dealer who struggles to remain sober and cope with her mom’s death.
- From This is Uncomfortable: The Price of Eggs
- From This is Uncomfortable, we bring you the story of Ashleigh Griffin. She hoped the fertility industry could put her on the road to financial stability. But the decision to donate her eggs had some unexpected costs.
- Are you doing any good by throwing food waste into green bins? Yes
- If you put food scraps into a green bin with your yard waste, are you truly helping the planet? For LA residents, the answer is definitely yes.
- AI remixes music industry, directors and studios reach deal
- AI is reviving voices of deceased musicians and creating new tracks by contemporary artists. The tech could mean job loss, especially for people in technical roles such as mixing and mastering.
- Meat consumption and human health (part 2)
- While consuming meat can negatively impact our health, it also affects meat processing workers and those living near these processing plants.
- Emilio Estevez, Maggie Bullock and Joe Manganiello on The Treat
- This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes back actor and director Emilio Estevez who stops by to chat about the re-release of his 2010 film “The Way.”
- Effective altruism and our collective human heritage
- Philosopher Will MacAskill argues that protecting the future of humanity is the moral priority of our time. Historian Tyrone McKinley Freeman explains philanthropy’s rich tradition within the African American community.
- Chinese doughnuts and comfort food, vegetarian Vietnamese
- Jean Trinh shares the story of her refugee family's connection to Chinese crullers. Cookbook author, teacher, and omnivore Andrea Nguyen offers vegetarian Vietnamese recipes for the home cook. Bill Addison finds comfort at Luyixian in Alhambra.
- The resilience of the movie theater industry and Cannes during the writers’ strike
- While the WGA strike continues in the U.S., many writer-directors, actors were off promoting their films at Cannes. Did that weaken the WGA effort? Then, former National Association of Theatre Owners CEO John Fithian speaks about the industry navigating the pandemic, and why he is optimistic about its future.
- In American Prisons, You’re Nothing More Than a Number
- Often overlooked, ignored and damned, the cycle that throws people in the prison system and spits them out is a calamitous yet integral part of the American experience.
- ‘Pretty dang good?’ Debt ceiling deal clears key House hurdle
- The House agrees to raise the debt ceiling. Ron DeSantis recovers from his Twitter debacle as he hits the campaign trail. What the “Succession” finale says about our politics and our lives?
- Meet the bumble bee Census counters
- As bumble bees decline, local volunteers fan out to find them. Together they’ll create the California Bumble Bee Atlas to help guide conservation decisions. June ushers in Pride month and with it celebrations and remembrances.
- AI screenwriting, lemon-lime thirst quenchers, weekend film reviews
- How serious is the threat of artificial intelligence replacing Hollywood writers? It’s a point of contention in the current Writers Guild strike.
- Quantifying your garbage footprint — to reduce it
- Sometimes the best way to cope with anxiety over the climate crisis is to focus on something you can control. So why not start with your trash?
- Love and immigration in film, curbing LA traffic with fees
- Celine Song’s film “Past Lives” is about what happens when a girl from Korea emigrates and leaves behind her childhood sweetheart, and they reconnect decades later.
- The Fourth Trimester
- Jess was overjoyed when she got pregnant. But after giving birth, her reality spiraled out of control. She didn’t know it, but she had postpartum psychosis, a mental health condition that occurs after about 1 in every 500 births.
- Small businesses near Hollywood studios feel financial pain of writers’ strike
- Small businesses that support the film/TV industry are feeling the economic ripple effects of the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike.
- ‘Succession’ writer on finale, Rufus Wainwright on folk music tradition
- Georgia Pritchett says the joy of writing “Succession” is seeing the characters develop, often in disturbing ways. She breaks down the series finale.
- Memorial Day special: ‘Elephant Whisperers,’ ‘Dinner with the President’
- On this Memorial Day, Press Play rebroadcasts some favorite interviews from the year.
- The impact of meat consumption on human health
- The relationship between meat consumption and human health is complicated.
- Brooklyn Sudano, Aidan Levy, and Sam Wasson on The Treat
- Director Brooklyn Sudano on Donna Summer’s career, writer Aidan Levy on Sonny Rollins, and Hollywood chronicler Sam Wasson talks Tom Waits.