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California Love is a blend of memoir, pop culture analysis and oral history. The newest season, K-Pop Dreaming, is about the rise and history of K-pop in the United States, as told from the point-of-view of the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles. Host Vivian Yoon takes listeners on a journey from K-pop’s origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Uprising and the booming global popularity of K-pop in the present day, all juxtaposed against Yoon’s own coming-of-age as a second generation immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to fit in and come to terms with her own identity. In the first season Walter Thompson-Hernández was inspired by Tupac and Dr. Dre's "California Love"- a love letter and anthem for a generation. Walter invites listeners to join him in his family home, on horseback through the streets of Compton, and up into the sky to examine belonging.
Episodes
Host Walter Thompson-Hernández returns home to L.A. and reflects on how much the city has changed since he was a child.
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Walter was just eleven years old when he was admitted to L.A.'s infamous Scared Straight program for graffiti related crimes. In this episode, Walter, through a chance encounter, checks-in with his friend who went through the program with him, their anti-tagging arch-nemesis, and how they have turned out after all these years.
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A story about a wild party line that many Los Angeles’ teenagers used to create a fantasy world.
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Stream We Are Freestyle Love Supreme beginning July 17, only on Hulu
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Walter dives deep on what Kobe meant to him in his life and how the icon’s death spurred a collective mourning throughout the city.
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A first-parrot perspective into legends and myths of how L.A. became home to the world’s largest population of green parrots.
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California Love is a limited series with 8 episodes. Show support by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts.
There’s a horse ranch in the heart of Compton that may hold the answers for salvation and redemption for the city’s black cowboys.
Read the original NYTimes article, "For the Compton Cowboys, Horseback Riding Is a Legacy, and Protection."
Read Walter Thompson-Hernández's book The Compton CowboysThe New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland
Eleuteria “Ellie” Hernández moved to Los Angeles from a small town in Mexico when she was 14 and fell in love with the city. In this episode, Walter sits down with Ellie, his mother, to understand her relationship to L.A. and how it shaped his own.
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We close the series with a meditation on how 28 years after the 1992 Riots, for many in L.A., things feel exactly the same.
Censorship efforts at libraries nationwide have increased steadily over the last several years. In the 2023 - 24 school year, more than 10,000 book bans were counted in the country’s public schools. These efforts have become a cornerstone of a larger national debate over cultural influences and parents' rights to restrict those influences. LAist Orange County Correspondent Jill Replogle joins us to talk about how censors...
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