California Sun Podcast

The California Sun presents conversations with the people that are shaping and observing the Golden State

Kate Washington on how getting into cold water saved her life 05/07/2026

Dillon Osleger on the paths we've erased and the stories buried beneath 04/30/2026

Julia Turner and Julia Wick: making sense of the city with L.A. Material 04/23/2026

Peter Richardson on how Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while 04/16/2026

Ann Carlson: When L.A.'s air was both a punchline and a poison 04/09/2026

Severin Borenstein on global oil shocks and California's price premium 04/02/2026

Miriam Pawel: The Chavez myth comes apart 03/26/2026

Caroline Tracey on the strange life and unnatural death of our salt lakes 03/19/2026

Joe Flint: It’s Oscar weekend, but Hollywood’s future is unscripted 03/12/2026

Geoff Davis on soul food, fair pay, and the service fee that sparked a firestorm 03/05/2026

Valerie Ziegler and Joel Breakstone on teaching students to navigate algorithms and deepfakes 02/19/2026

Scott Eden discusses a tech bro's fatal gamble on black-market cannabis 02/12/2026

Danny Goldberg on how L.A. fought back after Rodney King — and what it means for Minneapolis 02/05/2026

David McCuan on how California's county fairs became corruption hotbeds 01/29/2026

Laurie Lipton: An artist's insane technique for disturbing times 01/21/2026

Esther Mobley on California's wine crisis 01/15/2026

Tom Freston on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California 01/08/2026

Scot Danforth on the fight for disability rights in California 12/11/2025

Matthew Scott photographs L.A.'s hidden stories, from concrete rivers to palm-lined streets 12/04/2025

Gustavo Arellano on California families under siege 11/20/2025

Roddy Bottum: A queer rock pioneer remembers San Francisco's lost era 11/13/2025

Ashlee Vance on robot gladiators and the future of AI combat 11/06/2025

Todd S. Purdum: How Desi Arnaz invented modern television and lost himself 10/30/2025

John Freeman sees California as America's literary center 10/23/2025

Ari Gold on what happens when 'live cinema' meets family dysfunction 10/16/2025

Dina Gilio-Whitaker on how California commodified Native identity 10/09/2025

Mike Magee on building the world's most innovative university 10/02/2025

Tim Higgins on the battle to take down Apple 09/25/2025

Jeff Chang on Bruce Lee and the emergence of Asian American pride 09/18/2025

Satsuki Ina on echoes of Japanese incarceration 09/11/2025