California Love

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California Love episodes

August 13, 2020 Ellie
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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34 min
August 06, 2020 Compton Cowboys
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

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40 min
July 30, 2020 Parrots: A Parable
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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37 min
July 23, 2020 Kobe
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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36 min
July 16, 2020 P Line
A story about a wild party line that many Los Angeles’ teenagers used to create a fantasy world.

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34 min
July 09, 2020 Scared Straight
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.

California Love sponsors include:

Stream We Are Freestyle Love Supreme beginning July 17, only on Hulu

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39 min
July 09, 2020 Prologue
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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Stream We Are Freestyle Love Supreme beginning July 17, only on Hulu

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12 min

About California Love

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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.