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The Sellout | 9: There's A Fire
Season 3 Episode 9
Mariah talks to the Boyle Heights residents who watched as FBI agents raided Huizar’s home and offices. Three months into the pandemic, he’s arrested…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Sellout | 8: The Downfall
Season 3 Episode 8
Huizar’s carelessness starts to catch up with him. After more than a dozen all-expenses paid trips to Vegas with plenty of perks, Huizar gets played …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Sellout | 7: The Coverup
Season 3 Episode 7
Huizar’s downfall started with a sexual harassment lawsuit. He didn’t have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle the suit on his own... so t…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Sellout | 6: The Heyday
Season 3 Episode 6
Gentrification comes in waves. Over years, a piece of downtown LA transformed from Skid Row, to a bastion for young artists, to a hipster neighborhoo…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Sellout | 5: How Downtown Was Won
Season 3 Episode 5
No man is an island. Huizar couldn’t have pulled off the alleged corruption scheme without help. Host Mariah Castañeda tells the story of how Huizar …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Sellout | 4. Progress Over People
Season 3 Episode 4
When fancy new developments like The Gold Line expansion get proposed, residents of Boyle Heights wonder if it’s actually for them, or if these new n…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Sellout | 3. Red Flags
Season 3 Episode 3
Alvin Parra worked for Huizar when he first got elected. He saw early warning signs that Huizar wasn’t the man of the people he made himself out to b…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Sellout | 2. Gentrification is Warfare
Season 3 Episode 2
A militant organization called Defend Boyle Heights protests encroaching gentrification, by any means necessary. We dig into two origin stories: how …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Sellout | 1. The Gem of Boyle Heights
Season 3 Episode 1
As a working-class Latinx neighborhood in Los Angeles faces gentrification, residents are ready to fight to defend their turf. Mariachis lead a rent …
4 years, 7 months ago
Introducing The Sellout and Smoke Screen Plus
Jonathan Hirsch, Neon Hum CEO and host of I Am Rama, introduces this season of Smoke Screen (it's called The Sellout!) and our new paid subscription …
4 years, 8 months ago