Podcast Episodes

Ukraine, Russia and your gas tank

Here in the United States, we’re already feeling the cost of Russia’s war in a place none of us can escape: the rising price of oil.

Today, we look in…

3 years, 11 months ago

One family's 27,000-mile road trip

Greg Bledsoe is a former morning news anchor for NBC 7 in San Diego. About a year ago, he, his wife and their two children got into an SUV and began …

3 years, 11 months ago

500 miles to Kyiv

For more than a month now, L.A. Times Middle East Bureau Chief Nabih Bulos has been on the ground in Ukraine, covering the escalating Russian invasio…

3 years, 11 months ago

Media bias, and refugees 'like us'

The European Union is doing everything possible to welcome Ukrainian refugees. And people around the world have donated money and supplies to help. B…

3 years, 11 months ago

History-making, Oscar-nominated Ariana DeBose

Ariana DeBose has made history as the first Afro-Latino and openly queer woman to be nominated for an acting Academy Award. In this crossover episode…

3 years, 11 months ago

An American leaves Ukraine to return

Aaron Bray is a San Diego native who’s lived the last couple of years in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after a stint with the Peace Corps. And now, alongside ove…

4 years ago

A homeless community that couldn't last

A small, tight-knit community grew inside an abandoned building in L.A.’s Koreatown. The people who found shelter there felt lucky. In a city where u…

4 years ago

Russia and China, forever frenemies

On Feb. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping just hours ahead of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympi…

4 years ago

Mexico's lawsuit against American guns

Gun violence has killed more than 100,000 people in Mexico over the last decade. Yet most of the guns involved are illegal, smuggled into the country…

4 years ago

How workers evade vaccine mandates

As more and more workplaces have instituted COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a cottage industry has sprung up to help skeptics evade them. Today, we look i…

4 years ago