Patt Morrison Asks

By Los Angeles Times

A companion podcast to L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison's weekly interview series "Patt Morrison Asks." Patt Morrison is a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist who has a share of two Puli... more

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How many episodes does Patt Morrison Asks have?

The podcast currently has 187 episodes available.

Patt Morrison Asks episodes:

October 18, 2016 Journalist Ja’han Jones: A website compiles obituaries that black Americans are writing about themselves, imagining being shot and killed by police
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Ja'han Jones, journalist and creator of the "Black Obituaries Project," a venue for members of the African-American community to compose their own obituaries, controlling the narrative of their lives, and potential deaths.
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19min
October 11, 2016 Playwright Joseph Rodota: Caryl Chessman‘s death row ghost as California votes on death penalty
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with playwright Joseph Rodota on his recent work "Chessman," about California's controversial relationship with the death penalty, and the infamous Caryl Chessman.
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22min
October 04, 2016 Oppo researcher Alan Huffman: Digging dirt to clean up democracy, and the year of Donald Trump
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Alan Huffman, opponent researcher and co-author of "We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics."
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16min
September 28, 2016 MacArthur "don't call me genius" Fellow Josh Kun: Digging past Hollywood for LA's cultures
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison discusses Los Angeles culture beyond Hollywood with MacArthur Fellow Josh Kun.
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17min
September 21, 2016 The woman who brought Vin Scully to Los Angeles: Roz Wyman is Dodger true-blue for the man who talks a Dodger blue streak
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Roz Wyman, the former LA city council member who helped persuade the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles in 1958, bringing with them one of the most prized possessions in baseball: Vin Scully.
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14min
September 13, 2016 Caltech planet hunters Mike Brown & Konstantin Batygin: Could Planet Nine be the new Pluto?
Patt Morrison speaks with Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin about their hopeful discovery of a new addition to our very own solar system: Planet Nine.
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15min
September 07, 2016 Arson Detective Ed Nordskog: Finding the firestarters when California burns
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with arson detective Ed Nordskog about fires, how they're started and who starts them.
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16min
August 30, 2016 Word wizard Edward Finegan: For LA's birthday, La La Land's tubular gifts to the world
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison interviews Edward Finegan, USC linguist professor, about how words from southern California disseminate into the national vocabulary. latimes.com/patt
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15min
August 23, 2016 Stanford linguist John Rickford: for black kids, changing neighborhoods can change language skills
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Stanford professor John Rickford about how different spaces affect dialect within the African-American community.
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16min
August 16, 2016 Election fraud expert Andrew Gumbel: Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, and rigging the vote
LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with journalist and author Andrew Gumbel about allegations of fraud within the 2016 election.
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16min

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