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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Why Mayor Garcetti endorses Joe Biden

    Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks with us about his endorsements for presidential candidate Joe Biden and LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey. We also discuss housing and homelessness.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 14, 2020 • 49m Listen

    Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks with us about his endorsements for presidential candidate Joe Biden and LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey. We also discuss housing and homelessness.

    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:00

      LA Mayor Garcetti on endorsing Biden and helping the homeless

      Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks with us about his endorsements for presidential candidate Joe Biden and LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey.

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      15 min
    2. 14:43

      California and Texas: Same textbooks, different history lessons

      Both California and Texas have tens of millions of residents (who are mostly minorities), booming economies, and the large markets for textbook publishers.  But one’s a blue state, and the other is red. Because of that, each state’s politics…

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      10 min
    3. 24:34

      Comedy websites discover that moving their content to Facebook was a bad idea

      The internet comedy website CollegeHumor laid off nearly its entire staff -- more than 100 people -- last week.

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      10 min
    4. 35:18

      ‘Cheer’: Pushing the body, embracing injuries, and finding home

      The Navarro College cheer team in Corsicana, Texas has been deemed the best in the nation 13 times. The new Netflix documentary series, “Cheer,” follows them as they prepare to earn a 14th victory at the annual national competition in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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      15 min
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Amy Ta

      Digital News & Culture Editor

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    In this episode

    4 stories
    1. 0:0015 min

      LA Mayor Garcetti on endorsing Biden and helping the homeless

    2. 14:4310 min

      California and Texas: Same textbooks, different history lessons

    3. 24:3410 min

      Comedy websites discover that moving their content to Facebook was a bad idea

    4. 35:1815 min

      ‘Cheer’: Pushing the body, embracing injuries, and finding home

    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand