119 Episodes

  1. Imperfect Paradise: When the disinformation machine comes for you

    Published: 4/2/2025

  2. Imperfect Paradise: Meet the filmmakers who love AI

    Published: 3/19/2025

  3. Imperfect Paradise: How AI became a Hollywood villain – especially for animators

    Published: 3/12/2025

  4. Imperfect Paradise: Highland Park: Land of the snake

    Published: 3/5/2025

  5. LA Made: The Other Moonshot - Part 4: The Landing

    Published: 2/19/2025

  6. LA Made: The Other Moonshot - Part 2: Spring Loaded to Failure

    Published: 2/5/2025

  7. LA Made The Other Moonshot - Part 1 Ignition Starts

    Published: 2/3/2025

  8. Imperfect Paradise: Is it possible to build a fire-proof house?

    Published: 1/29/2025

  9. Imperfect Paradise: Why fires happen in Southern California — and how we can prevent them

    Published: 1/23/2025

  10. Imperfect Paradise: The first five days: Inside LA’s most destructive wildfires

    Published: 1/16/2025

  11. Imperfect Paradise: LAist newsroom answers your questions about the fires

    Published: 1/10/2025

  12. Imperfect Paradise: How one man rebuilt his life, 100 miles at a time

    Published: 1/8/2025

  13. Imperfect Paradise: Lions, Coyotes, & Bears: Part 4 Redux - The Eagle Lovebirds

    Published: 1/1/2025

  14. Imperfect Paradise: Lions, Coyotes, & Bears: Part 3 Redux - The Bear Nuisance

    Published: 12/23/2024

  15. Imperfect Paradise: Lions, Coyotes, & Bears: Part 2 Redux - The Coyote Villain

    Published: 12/17/2024

  16. Imperfect Paradise: Lions, Coyotes, & Bears Part 1 Redux - The Mountain Lion Celebrity

    Published: 12/11/2024

  17. Imperfect Paradise: Hollywood’s flopping, send in the clowns

    Published: 12/4/2024

  18. Imperfect Paradise: Too young to vote, but not to care: 3 high schoolers watch the election

    Published: 11/18/2024

  19. Imperfect Paradise: George Gascón’s reelection loss and whether there’s a future for the progressive prosecutors' movement

    Published: 11/9/2024

  20. Imperfect Paradise: Republican strategist on what both parties get wrong about the Latino vote

    Published: 10/30/2024

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Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be rich one day. Thousands of people bought this dream. Many were young couples and hard-working immigrants looking to build a better future. But much of the land they bought is nearly worthless.  In this new podcast from LAist Studios, host Emily Guerin tells a story of money, power and deception.