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LA Podcast

LA Podcast LLC

A podcast for people who live in Los Angeles. Hayes Davenport and Scott Frazier get together to talk about LA news, just like you and your friends do every day.

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Listen to LA Podcast, a News & Politics podcast by LA Podcast LLC. Stream 322 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Bass Tacks

Mike, Godfrey, and guest co-host Jasmyne Cannick discuss the promise and perils of the LA mayoral runoff between Karen Bass and Nithya Raman...

00:56:27Jun 15, 2026

Prattfall

Alissa, Mike, and guest co-host Marco Santana recap the election results from a wild primary season. Who are the winners and losers? How did...

01:14:27Jun 8, 2026

Poll Yourselves Together

Mike, David, and Liz weigh the progressive divide in the last days of the mayor’s race, the latest polls which show a Karen Bass-Nithya Rama...

01:01:51Jun 1, 2026

Ring of Fires

Alissa, Godfrey, and guest co-host Loraine Lundquist track local wildfires, an oil spill, and a leaking tank of methyl methacrylate in Garde...

01:02:26May 25, 2026

The Great Debain’t

Scott, Alissa, and Mike recount yet another attempt by LA’s City Council to undermine the Olympic Wage and why a corresponding ballot measur...

00:59:30May 18, 2026

To D Continued

Metro’s D line extension is finally open! Alissa, Mike, Godfrey, and David discuss the many ways a longer Wilshire subway can be a game-chan...

01:02:00May 11, 2026

Quality of Strife

Alissa, Rachel, and Sophie talk about yet another new ICE detention center that’s opened in a former private prison in the Central Valley. H...

01:00:39May 4, 2026

Dollars and Nonsense

Alissa joins Mike and Godfrey to decipher LA’s new budget, Karen Bass’s second (or third?) State of the City, and which departments are gett...

00:55:12Apr 27, 2026

New Hack City

Alissa, Mike, and Rachel on the 2 a.m. union deal that prevented an LAUSD strike. A major hack of sensitive LAPD information causes City Att...

01:00:46Apr 20, 2026

Dissembling in the Dark

Mike, Rachel, and Laura reveal the troubling story of the Neighbors First dark money network that’s mucking up LA City Council elections, in...

00:50:58Apr 13, 2026

I Heard It Through the K Line

Scott, Mike, and Godfrey go long on Metro’s greenlighting of a major regional transit expansion – the northern extension of the K Line – and...

01:05:29Apr 6, 2026

Departure of Water and Power

Alissa, Mike, and Sammy discuss the resignation of Janisse Quiñones as head of LADWP and what this will mean for LA’s clean energy goals. Th...

01:01:25Mar 30, 2026

Revision of Labor

Alissa, Rachel, and Sophie discuss the bombshell sexual abuse accusations against the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, including by Chavez’s...

00:55:23Mar 23, 2026

Just Say Noma

Alissa, Rachel, and Mike discuss LA city’s six-year journey to end the racist and ineffective practice of pretextual stops by police. For th...

01:04:46Mar 16, 2026

What’s the Fiscal Chief, Kenneth?

Mike, Godfrey and Oscar dive into two big charter reform debates: oversight of the LAPD and the role of LA’s city controller, which current...

00:50:59Mar 9, 2026

Gov Me Something to Believe In

Alissa, Mike, and Godfrey report back from the California Democratic Party state convention where endorsement battles plague the governor’s...

00:50:58Mar 2, 2026

Paved and Confused

Scott, Alissa, and Rachel dry off after yet another flash flooding event and absorb a new report that says LA County could eliminate half of...

01:08:48Feb 23, 2026

Raman Up That Hill

Alissa, Mike, Rachel, and Olga unpack Nithya Raman’s surprise mayoral run. How the LA city councilmember’s last-minute decision to challenge...

00:54:54Feb 16, 2026

Casey Closed

Alissa, Mike, and Memo discuss the “No Secret Police Act,” which requires ICE agents to remove face coverings — and why LAPD Chief Jim McDon...

00:59:44Feb 9, 2026

If I Was Your Boycott

Alissa, Godfrey, and Sophie recount another week of accelerating immigration raids and how Angelenos are organizing against them. Why the “n...

00:53:32Feb 2, 2026