Episodes

Watts, California. Two-point-one square miles. More than 65 gangs. A neighborhood in South Los Angeles that the news visits only when something goes wrong. One cop in the film says it plainly: it’s a Black neighborhood, and nobody gives a f**k. Then a businessman went on a late-night police ride-along, saw a Watts that never makes the news, and asked a simple question: what if the people living the story told it themselves? The answer is the acclaimed documentary, "Nothing to See Here: Watts."...

The storm is coming. So is the punchline. Emmy winning weatherman and standup comic Fritz Coleman is back, and the forecast is wet. A Kelvin wave and a likely strong El Niño could mean heavy winter storms, king tides, and real trouble for the coast. We also get into burn scars that can’t handle a downpour, rising seas, and a state whose water storage and infrastructure are already straining. Then it gets weirder. Fritz walks us through a career spent making the weather funny, and why the stand...

At 15, Albie Selznick hosted David Bowie’s circle for a post-concert party at his mother’s house in LA. Later, he juggled fire at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Magician, actor and one third of the punk circus trio The Mums, Albie spent a lifetime chasing one goal: to work with rockstar David Bowie. His new solo show, Letter From David, tells the whole wild story. Early loss, a refuge in magic, tightrope and juggling, nightclubs, hand-delivered letters and one surreal night out with Angie Bowie. On t...

Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding to the folk-rock faithful) has hopped genres for decades: folk, rock, jazz, whatever the song demands. He takes us behind the curtain of One Last Heist, his latest album, and the Cabinet of Wonders, his one-of-a-kind variety show. He’s currently touring as a singer in the band Smithereens. Wesley walks us through his witty approach to songwriting, his leap into literary fiction, and how he makes his novels, including the hilarious Wonderkid and the unforgettab...

Phil fled to Canada (can you blame him?), so Ted is holding down the fort. How did one foggy city end up with the Beats, the hippies, the biggest gay community and the loudest rock scene of the 60s and 70s? Follow the trail back to the Gold Rush, where the lights came on all at once and nobody ever turned them off. Peter Richardson, author of Brand New Beat: A New History of Rolling Stone’s Early Years in San Francisco, takes us back to the city where it all caught fire. Think the Beats, LSD (...

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, son of Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, grew up as a toddler on the lam, dodging the FBI while his parents traded protest signs for pipe bombs. Then a West Village townhouse blew sky high and took three of their own with it. The kids got the bill: arrests, exile, and scars that never healed. So what happens when people give up on democracy and start building bombs? Zayd knows. He was raised in the fallout. Takeaways: The Weather Underground mo...

Season 7 blasts off with a mind-expanding conversation with bestselling author D.W. Pasulka, whose new book The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny has everybody from Silicon Valley to the Vatican talking. Pasulka pulls back the curtain on how faith traditions, Catholicism especially, saw this coming: a seismic shift in human consciousness now being accelerated by AI and emerging tech. Behold apocalyptic dread in Silicon Valley boardrooms, the rise of "grief tech"...