Who is this bass apologist acting like the news is the reason people don’t like bass. She’s just annoying.

Recently came across this podcast and I am hooked. I love the frank discussions about Los Angeles politics.

I appreciate the variety of perspectives and depth of discussions that this show has brought forth over many years now. You need to listen to this podcast to know what’s happening in government and politics across the City of LA and greater region. You can now also hear about how to get involved in policy decisionmaking and join a community of LA progressives working for a better democracy!

Started listening to this podcast early into the Covid pandemic because I found them to be the best place to hear what was going on around LA, but the show is still my first source for all news related to LA today. The team was on top of all the 2025 LA fires coverage, and it continues to be my preferred place to find out more about upcoming LA political campaigns. Thanks to the hosts for bringing their wonderful personalities and enthusiasm to every piece of news, and it’s also always produced perfectly! Plus, every episode title makes me smile :-)

I have been a loyal listener since almost the beginning. I have learned so much about our city and been introduced to new and diverse voices. The hosts really do the work of explaining local issues and exploring various viewpoints. They’re also hilarious and fun to listen to!

Excellent for staying up to date on LA area news, specifically anything with a political lens (but honestly you should be listening if you want to understand what is happening around LA regardless)

used to be great about improving transit and streets, as well as building denser housing, but now the left-nimbys at LA Forward took over and it had gone downhill. still some good info, but they are generally not promoting what will move the city forward in a better way.

I’ve been subscribed to this show since it started and loved the hyper local coverage of scandals, politics and happenings. I even stayed subscribed through their endorsement of Sheriff Villanueva! But the constant giggles and sarcasm is agonizing. I find myself stopping the show 15-20 minutes in and don’t go back. I can get with a joke here and there but the sarcasm and “dry wit” can come off as disrespectful and dismissive of really important topics like policing and homelessness. I have found myself checking on who the hosts are before I listen and delete episodes accordingly. The main host isn’t helping when it comes to stereotypes of women podcasters. It’s still a show I listen to and recommend with caveat.

If you can get past all of the nervous and awkward laughing every few minutes, it’s a great podcast to get insight to LA politics. Depending on the host combination, prepare for more laughs and more awkwardness.

I live in LA, am very interested in what is going on in the city and really want to like the podcast. However, the lack of editing kills this show for me. The first 20 to 30 minutes of the podcast consists of the hosts’ LA Stories, which, while occasionally interesting are way too long. The remaining hour includes at least 5 minutes of the hosts laughing at one another’s jokes. If the hosts tightened things up and posted episodes more regularly I would enjoy the show a lot more and consider contributing financially to it.

Was hoping for some hot takes for voting season!? Where ya at LA pod??

We need more breakdown post leaked tapes and going into the election. Can we return to once a week????!!!???? Thank you, the emergency episode was so good and so needed to help process whats been happening. No one else is doing this thoughtful kind of conversation. La pod we need you!!!

***I’M CHANGING MY REVIEW TO 5 STARS*** -Note I was FURIOUS when they went off air. I lost everything. I had a case of the Mondays. Looks like they’re coming back now that Council has been fully exposed. I haven’t been this excited since they would do emergency Pod/IG live and Hayes would be cooking odd things like beyond sausage over say it ain’t so. Rather famously, this podcast has never missed a single week since it’s inception. Unfortunately, an original mind of the program moved on (to city hall? CD4?unclear) and ever since listeners could sense seismic shifts afoot. Regardless, for three years you could get some of the most crystalline and unabashedly earnest knowledge of a place so ceaselessly fascinating and under-examined you’d wonder how you could live without it. For completists, the back catalogue is a stunning survey of civic education. For those who are late, remember that the Colorado River is THE continuum…

This is the best podcast I’ve found on the ins and outs of Los Angeles city and county politics and issues. I skip the LA stories segments.

This podcast reminds me of the worst part of working in an office… listening to your coworkers ramble on (with horrible vocal fry) about what they did over the weekend followed by their liberal-to-a-fault views on a few basic morning headlines. This podcast perpetuates the worst stereotypes about Los Angelenos.

This show used to be focused on Local news that actually matters. Now it’s just 30 minutes of people saying what they did this week then vamping about headlines anyone would know from a casual look at the latimes

They take the work out of being an engaged and informed member of the community

Excellent new format. We’ll worth listening.

I loved the three original hosts. The podcast used to be very informative and thoughtful, focused on local issues. Now it seems to be a lot of abstract complaining. I don't see what Dax Shepard's and Mila Kunis' bathing routines have to to with Los Angeles. There have also been some hot takes lately that turned me off ("San Diego is part of LA," "real Angelenos don't go to the beach," etc.). There is just a lot of inconsistent logic and lack of actual information lately. Too bad.

I wish everyone in LA could hear this podcast, and I wish every city had an LA Podcast of its own. Indispensible.

Like I said good content but hard to get passed by the vocal fry throughout.

Deliciously woke! The perfect podcast for progressives to have all their beliefs confirmed. If you’re a big Gascon and Bonin supporter- you’ll love it. The kids who host do sound sweet and friendly so it’s not a knock on them.

Want to know more about how Los Angeles works at a city, county, state level? Come for the humor and gossip, leave with hard facts about legislative process and where we are going as a city. Can’t recommend it enough.

Not only informative but entertaining. I never miss an episode. My one small quibble, and I really don’t mean this in a hurtful way, is that Alissa laughs after almost everything she says and now that I’ve noticed it I can’t stop noticing it. But I admire and appreciate her and will live with that laugh.

Scott is brilliant in his analysis and brings a ton of historical context to each topic. Alyssa is sharp, smart, and funny. I only wish Hayes interrupted less - he’s intelligent and adds a lot to the show, but he sounds as if he’s constantly surprised to find out he has feelings about his own opinions

Awesome weekly digest dissecting pressing local issues in a fun and accessible journalistic manner. Scott, Hayes, and Alissa are super well versed on the issues and have their fingers on the pulse. Great follow.

But I love this pod. I’m a fan of Hollywood Handbook, and find this to be a great combination of wit, humor, and an empathetic distillation of the news.

LA podcast empowers angelinos with information about los angeles politics that isn’t covered by local news. this podcast is a light.

This is one of my primary sources for local news. Very informative.

The new song is a huge step down.

I like this podcast a lot. Helps me untangle the mess that is LA leadership and politics. Sometimes the two male hosts cut off and talk over the female host tho and maybe they should chill?

I heard Scott (?) on the Antifada podcast today. I’m hooked. I listened to your last week update. I live in the AV where Robert Fuller died. The inside football detail on BLM, Olympics, cops, supervisors is exactly the stuff I need. Gotta thank that Jamie ! Newest Stan.

Hard to listen to two dudes interrupt and talk over their female co-host who can barely get a word in :/

Love the topics in this podcast, homelessness, public transportation, housing crisis etc. it’s just that sometimes those hosts appeared to be single-minded and double standard, not really encouraging discussion but just preaching to the choir.

Essential listening for understanding local LA politics as well as the global protest over the senseless police violence and the need to reimagine the entire concept from the ground up.

Nothing like it.

Since moving to Los Angeles, I had always wondered why things were broken, and people unkind and the city was not Hollywood glamor, but rather a decaying, remarkably poor city physically falling to pieces. Listening to this help me understand the moral and economic values of Angelenos which cause LA, which should be a great city, to instead be miserable place. I don’t enjoy listening to this. The way they make fun of the city council, and belittle people who have different opinions or policy proposals from the authors. It actually makes me really upset to listen to this podcast. I do disagree with many of their policies, but what makes me more mad is to share their goals, and know the they policies they arrogantly advocate for will undermine those very goals. I hate the way they act as though their one idea is the only way to accomplish something, and that smaller, viable steps, are not just insufficient, but bad policy. It upsets me. Listening though, I do understand Los Angeles better. This podcast reinforces that while I see this LA as a terrible place: poor, dirty, violent and economically stratified place; it is like that because there are clearly many people, like the authors of this podcast, who advocate for policies that make it poor, dirty and violent which leads to economic stratification by people feeling to adjacent corridors. And for that understanding, I suppose I should say ‘thank you’.

Much needed resource for granular Los Angeles news on various city topics.

I love these weekly podcasts. I especially appreciate the emphasis on action items; they help me vote, engage in my local politics, and encourage others to care about really important issues that aren't always attention-grabbing. Thanks for all the research and analysis!!

This podcast makes me laugh more than anything else I regularly listen too- being informed about local issues and politics is a bonus

Amazing younger perspective on the nitty-gritty politics and news of LA. Highly recommend listening to gain a better understanding of the institutions, politicians, people, and history that shape today’s Los Angeles.

I love this show!!! These guys talk about LA politics, public transit, and housing with a great sense of humor and without polarizing and falling into a rant. The show is common sense and informative. All LA politicians should listen.

I moved to LA right when this podcast was getting started. I feel more informed and civically engaged than I ever have done, thanks entirely to this podcast. (I also feel super depressed about how badly run this city is but that's not technically their fault!)

I’ve lived in LA for just a couple years now, and I had a hard time feeling in the know about local politics etc. The hosts are super funny but also so smart !! I really feel like I know so much more about what’s going on around me in LA, and it’s easy to learn from these sweet people.

This podcast is giving me an easy way to understand transportation and politics in LA, and that is NOT easy. Congratulations you guys! I’m hooked!!

It would be so much easier to listen if they didn’t talk over each other so much mid-sentence.

I have lived in a medium- sized Oregon town (small) for all my life but recently moved to Chicago. Drawn because of the hosts. I recently listened to LA women, summoned by a juke box, in a south side Irish bar and was bummed that intelligent talk about transportation and zoning didn’t follow. This podcast is interesting even if you don’t live in LA. Great discussion of issues that affect all urban communities.

As someone who lives in LA, is involved in politics on both a local and national level, and just loves a good podcast I love LA Podcast. The hosts are all super smart, funny, and clearly not only talking about making LA a more just, equitable and sustainable place, but out there helping to make it happen. I learn a lot every time I listen, and am bolstered in a lot of what I'm already out there trying to do. My one complaint: there is no way I have found of actually contacting the hosts other than tweeting at them individually and hoping they get it--but they never respond. I really, really wish this podcast had an email address, website, FB page--anything. I constatly have questions or want to send them pictures or articles from local LA events I'm at--like a Sherrif Villanueva town hall I attended recently, for example. There is literally no way. Even a twitter account for the podcast would be great--right now you have to tweet at the individual co-hosts. Fix this, please, and I'll change my rating to 5 stars!! Thanks!

Is this the best overall LA politics, transit, government, crime, design, AND comedy podcast?! Probably not, but it's the only one I've found.

This is a great insiders guide to the business and politics of the municipality known as Los Angeles.