Take Two

Take Two

129 episodes

Join Take Two hosted by A Martinez each weekday when we’ll translate the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that people are talking about.

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Paul Schrade talks about the RFK assassination and more

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 10:46 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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How to Save Water

Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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Youth Homelessness and Mental Health in Los Angeles

Published: June 3, 2021, 10:47 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 34 seconds

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High Cost of Homeless Encampments, New Police Misconduct Registry, Amazon Buys MGM for Multibillion Dollar Price Tag

Published: May 26, 2021, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds

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Half of Angelenos are Vaccinated, One Year After George Floyd's Murder: Where Are We Now?, Getty Center Reopening

Published: May 25, 2021, 10:16 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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Take Two Special: 'Norco 80' - the event that reshaped modern policing

Published: May 17, 2021, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 44 seconds

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State of Affairs: Newsom's Big Budget, California Mask Confusion, Universal Basic Income Proposed for LA County,

Published: May 14, 2021, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 21 seconds

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How to Safely Reopen Schools, Fears About Going Maskless, More Fires in LA Homeless Encampments

Published: May 13, 2021, 10:42 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 32 seconds

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CA Drought Declaration, Vaccinating Latino Teens, Billions of Dollars for Schools

Published: May 12, 2021, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 20 seconds

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$9 Billion for Homelessness, Contact Tracing Diaries, Shortcomings of California's Cap-and-Trade Program

Published: May 11, 2021, 10:17 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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Newsom Announces New Stimulus Checks, Incentivizing Vaccines, 21st Century Federal Writers Project

Published: May 10, 2021, 10:41 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds

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Bridging the Digital Divide in California, the Future of Carbon Vacuums to Fight Climate Change, Race in LA

Published: May 4, 2021, 10:29 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds

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Can We Ever Reach 'Herd Immunity'?, Learning How to Socialize Again, Alamo Drafthouse will Reopen Downtown

Published: May 3, 2021, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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State of Affairs: Spending Billions on Drought, Teen Mental Health, Kristina Wong is a Food Bank Fan

Published: April 30, 2021, 10:29 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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Special Report: Immediate Jeopardy in California Nursing Homes

Published: April 25, 2021, noon
Duration: 29 minutes 18 seconds

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Take Two's Derek Chauvin Verdict Special

Published: April 21, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 37 seconds

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Unprotected: How Some Nursing Homes - and the State - Have Failed to Care for the Most Vulnerable.

Published: April 19, 2021, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 45 seconds

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State of Affairs: 'Packing' the Court, How Little Tokyo is Surviving the Pandemic, Meme Creators Are Loving NFTs

Published: April 16, 2021, 10:39 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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The Return to School, the Difficulty of Watching the Chauvin Trial, Bay Area Athletic Trainer Aids COVID-19 patients

Published: April 15, 2021, 10:37 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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California's Reopening - Are We Ready?, OC DA Todd Spitzer Talks Reform, Tackling Extremism in the Military

Published: April 7, 2021, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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Looking at the Future of LA Infrastructure, CA Drought Check-In, Inside Museum Reopening

Published: April 1, 2021, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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Asian-American communities under attack, 'Minari' a film for this moment, Godzilla vs. Kong is out

Published: March 31, 2021, 10:26 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 18 seconds

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Why Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Again... Screenwriter Behind the Oscar-Nominated "Soul"

Published: March 30, 2021, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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Protests Over Removal of Homeless at Echo Park Lake, the Reality of Gun Violence in 2020, Goodbye 'Servant of Pod'

Published: March 25, 2021, 10:22 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 22 seconds

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California's Road to 100 Percent Clean Energy, People REALLY Want to Go Back to the Movies, Rob Bonta Named California AG

Published: March 24, 2021, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds

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AstraZeneca Effective for All Adults, the Deep Relationship between Gov. Newsom and Blue Shield, Goodbye Elgin Baylor

Published: March 22, 2021, 10:22 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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State of Affairs: Newsom Recall Nets 2.1 Signatures, Keeping Faith in a Pandemic, How LACC Kept Students

Published: March 19, 2021, 10:20 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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Spring Member Drive - Support Take Two

Published: March 18, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 42 seconds

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Orange County DA Todd Spitzer Just Got Some Competition, Remembering Latasha Harlins, The Restitution of Bruce's Beach

Published: March 16, 2021, 11:22 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 43 seconds

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Los Angeles is Officially in the Red Tier: Listeners, Restaurant Owners and One of Favorites Doctors Weigh in

Published: March 15, 2021, 10:20 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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State of Affairs and that Newsom Recall, Helping Kids Transition Back to In Person School, LA's Largo Mulling it's Future

Published: March 12, 2021, 11:28 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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How LA County Hopes to Vaccinate All Angelenos

Published: March 10, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 1 second

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Compton Unified Heads Back to Class, How the Pandemic Has Put Limits On Our Grief, Wind Company to Breed Condors

Published: March 2, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Using LA's Vacant Commercial Properties to House the Homeless, Vaccine Passports, LAUSD getting 25,000 vaccine doses

Published: March 1, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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West Covina Moves Ahead With Plan to Start Own Health Department, Banana Trees Fighting Fires, Goodbye Fry's

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds

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Senate Votes Second Trump Impeachment Trial Can Proceed; NTSB Delivers Report on Kobe Bryant Crash

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes

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State of Affairs, Child Care Providers Next in line for Covid Vaccination, FREE BRITNEY

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 9:35 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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District Judge Weighs in on Homelessness, Battle for Vaccine Equity, The Band 'SPARKS'

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 9:19 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds

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California is Getting a Lot of DC Love, LA's Only Black-Owned Birthing Center, #OscarsSoWhite Legacy

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 10:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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Vaccine Equity Issues, What's Next for Police Reform in LA?, Derrick Spiva, Jr. Composes "To Be A Horizon."

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

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State of Affairs, Navigating the Second Dose of the Vaccine, Tuning Out the Noise with Music

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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Racism 101: How to Be an Ally, Code Switching for Survival, Deconstructing 'Defund the Police', Legacy of Slavery

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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State of Affairs, Update on Vaccine Rollout, Becerra on allegations of misconduct by LASD

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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Desert Conservation Under President Biden, Coronavirus Crisis Care, Lessons from L.A.'s History with Smallpox

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 10:43 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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President Joe Biden Sworn In, Local Amanda Gorman Makes History, Memories Triggered By Jan 6th Insurrection

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 9:34 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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Variants and Vaccines: Your Coronavirus Questions Answered, Teaching Civics in Schools, Immigration Under Biden

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Vaccinations at the ballpark, 'One Night in Miami' Screenwriter Kemp Powers, Citizen Journalists in LA

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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Vaccination Roll Out; Defining Hate Groups on the Web; LA's Cosmic Barrio

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 10:56 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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Breaking Down the Impeachment; Debrief with Adam Schiff; Secrets and Sheriffs

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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LA City Councilman Kevin de León proposes a broad new homelessness strategy

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Introducing Norco 80 Episode 1: The Robbery

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds

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LA's Post-Holiday Rise in COVID Cases, Police Reform In 2021 and New Laws in the New Year

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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Year In Review: The Pandemic and The Politics of The Golden State

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds

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Year In Review: Housing and Homelessness, and Pathways to College, plus the Year in Music

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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Race in LA: How Does Race Shape Your Life in LA ?

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner on "Marshall Plan" For Schools

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11:58 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 1 second

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Olympic Hurdler Turned Coach Confronted On A Local College Campus For Allegedly Molesting Boys

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11:58 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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As Vaccine Comes to California, Public Fears that Some Will Cut Ahead in Line

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11:56 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds

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Race in LA: Shirlee Smith

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11:55 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds

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State of Affairs, Coronavirus: Exploring The 'It Won't Happen To Me' Mentality, New Documentary Explores The Life Of Frank Zappa

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 35 seconds

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LA Chef and Restaurateur Suzanne Goin responds to County shutdown of eateries once again due to COVID-19

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 12:19 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds

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State of Affairs, Coronavirus: Face Masks Have a Starring Role On TV Now, Weekend Preview

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 10:35 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Can Trump's 'Invisible Wall' Of Immigration Policies Be Dismantled?

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 11:17 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 50 seconds

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State of Affairs, Breaking the Major League's Glass Ceiling, the Future of DACA

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 10:34 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Kamala Harris Makes History As First Woman Vice President, Nithya Raman Wins LA City Council Seat, The OC Update

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10:42 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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State of Affairs After The Election, National Geographic Documentary: 'Rebuilding Paradise', Weekend Preview

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 10:36 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 36 seconds

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2020 Census: How Did It Go ?, Census: Political and Economic Stakes, Census: Legal Battles

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 9:58 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 15 seconds

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Breaking Down The Vote, Silverado Fire Update, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 9:23 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 40 seconds

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State of Affairs, Changes to School Coronavirus Waivers, the Sound of the World Series,

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds

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Young Poets Turn their Art into Activism, Let's Talk Props, Homeless Students

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 9:39 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds

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LA Mayor Garcetti's Advisor Rick Jacobs To Step Down Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations, On The Lot, Nick Quah

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 9:44 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Breaking Down The Vote, Coronavirus: Gavin Newsom on Future of Amusement Parks, Target in Hollywood Set To Open

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 10:13 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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L.A. County Urges Flu Shots During Coronavirus Pandemic, The OC Update, Dodgers Advance in World Series

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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State of Affairs, Race in LA: Yoán Moreno, Weekend Preview

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 34 seconds

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Tens of Thousands Protest in LA in Solidarity with Armenia, The OC Update, Voting in Indian Country

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 9:49 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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State of Affairs, International Girl's Day is Sunday, Weekend Preview

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 9:40 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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Breaking Down the Vote, Farewell to a Rock Legend, Changing Landscape of College Apps

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 10:11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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LA Protests over Armenia - Azerbaijan Conflict, Waving Goodbye to Surfer Magazine, The Purpose of 'Trash' TV

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 9:55 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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State of Affairs, How To Talk About A Miscarriage, Halloween COVID-19 Style

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 9:50 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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SCOTUS Hearing: What It Means For California, What's Happening With Cars And Trucks During Protests, The OC Update

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds

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State of Affairs, How To Talk To Your Kids About Police Violence, CSU Appoints New Chancellor For 2021

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 9:52 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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Bobcat Fire Continues to Threaten L.A. County, The OC Update, Recap of the Virtual 2020 Emmy Awards

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds

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State of Affairs, US will ban WeChat and TikTok downloads on Sunday, 'Wild Thing: Space Invaders'

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 10:02 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds

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CA Insurance Commissioner on Wildfires, On The Lot, Servant of Pod with Nick Quah

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 10:11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 11 seconds

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CA Bobcat Fire Threatens Mt. Wilson Observatory, CA Secretary on Climate Change, Census Hearing Update

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 10:12 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 14 seconds

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State of Affairs, What It's Like To Attend a Drive in Dance, Weekend Preview

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 11 seconds

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Climate Change: How Wildfires Are Affecting the American West, Race in LA, CA Scales Back High Speed Rail Plan

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 10:09 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 14 seconds

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Wildfires Force Closure of All CA's National Forests, On the Lot, Servant of Pod

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 9:43 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 20 seconds

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Long Beach Will Launch Universal Basic Income Program, On the Lot, Servant of Pod

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 10:24 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 16 seconds

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CA Approves Extension Of COVID-19 Moratorium On Evictions, New Firefighter Exhibit in Riverside, Hollywood, The Sequel

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 14 seconds

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Chicano Moratorium Anniversary: Where The Movement Is Today

Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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State of Affairs, Chicano Moratorium Anniversary, Weekend Preview

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 10:34 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 7 seconds

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