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Patt Morrison Asks episodes
- 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.
19 min - 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.
22 min - 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."
16 min - 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.
17 min - 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.
14 min - 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.
15 min - 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.
16 min - 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
15 min - 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.
16 min - 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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About Patt Morrison Asks
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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…
Pulitzer Prizes. Her broadcasting work has won six Emmys and 11 Golden Mikes. Her book about the Los Angeles River was a bestseller, and she was the first woman in nearly 25 years to be honored with the L.A. Press Club’s lifetime achievement award. Pink’s, the legendary Hollywood hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her.