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KCRW Podcasts
Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating
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The best film reviewers in the business give you recommendations on what to see and what to skip each week.
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An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Sign up to receive the Second Opinion topics in newsletter form at kcrw.com/newsletters .
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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
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Host Madeleine Brand looks at news, culture and emerging trends through the lens of Los Angeles.
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This season on Lost Notes: Groupies. Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. From KCRW and Golden Teapot.
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The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW is your guide to entertainment. Find out what makes your favorite artists tick, dissect the trends that shape our culture, or just make sense of that random meme you can’t stop thinking about. Join us every week to unpack the pop culture we love. Sign up for Sam’s Newsletter to get behind the scenes stuff from every interview each week. Sam Sanders is an award-winning podcast and radio host. He’s been named best podcast host by both The Ambies and the iHeart Po ...
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The Treatment is a compelling listen to the vital conversations about the catalysts of creative inspiration. Following some of the most interesting, influential, and crossover creators in the world of entertainment, fashion, sports, and the arts, we hear from tastemakers who are the very fabric that forms popular culture.
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Left Right & Center is for listeners who feel like people on the other side of the political divide are on Mars. David Greene pieces together the big picture by inviting people from the left and the right to unpack their ideological differences, not to smooth them over, and look at what’s truly at stake. The show offers a rare kind of clarity. It doesn’t ask you to agree. It asks you to look more closely at what’s happening and to challenge your assumptions. You might not always agree – you ...
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Life Examined is a one-hour weekly podcast exploring psychology, philosophy, spirituality — and finding meaning in the modern world. The show is hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
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The stories shaping California's Central Coast, hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
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Host Steve Chiotakis connects you to the people and places of Southern California.
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Each episode of this documentary series begins with a medical mystery. Sometimes the sickness is in the body, and sometimes the sickness is in the system. Once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge. Created by Allison Behringer and supported by KCRW.
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Steve Chiotakis talks to Los Angeles journalists about the week's leading news stories.
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A weekly tour of the real Orange County, warts and all, with reporter Gustavo Arellano
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Go behind the gates of America’s largest port complex for an intimate and unflinching look at the lives riding the waves of supply and demand.
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Celestial Blood is a bilingual radionovela about love and secrets in the family of twins Sol and Mundo Lucero. It’s narrated by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
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KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and how it shapes us.
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Award-winning moderator Warren Olney leads lively, thoughtful and provocative discussion on the issues Southern Californians care about.
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Kim Masters, host of KCRW’s The Business, breaks down Hollywood's top stories.
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A wry take on real life in Hollywood.
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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
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Screengrab is a new KCRW commentary segment hosted by veteran TV journalists Michael Schneider and Joe Adalian. Each week, they'll have a lively discussion about the evolving world of television and that screens – be they tablets, phones or TV sets – increasingly dominate our lives.
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The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.
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Actor Greg Kinnear has starred in dozens of roles on film and TV from his breakout role in 1995’s Sabrina, to his Oscar nominated role in As Good as It Gets alongside Jack Nicholson, but he actually got his start in broadcasting. Kinnear hosted E!’s Talk Soup and the late-night talk show Later with Greg Kinnear. For his Treat, Kinnear pays tribute …
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Guillermo del Toro on building the world of Frankenstein
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23:32This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro about his film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Del Toro talks about filming Oscar Isaac like he was a rock star, how Jacob Elordi stepped in quickly to take on the role of the monster, and why he sees the story as "catholic" in many ways.…
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Fire up the oven and get creative with your holiday baking. Kat Lieu offers 108 Asian cookie recipes that you can bring to your next cookie exchange. Maureen Abood unlocks memories as she finds inspiration in the Lebanese bakeries of Dearborn, Michigan. An American baker living in Berlin, Laurel Kratochvila dips into the Polish canon with black bre…
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Celine Song on confronting the cost of love in ‘Materialists’
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30:02This week, Kim Masters sits down with writer-director Celine Song to talk about Materialists, her rom-com that became a surprise commercial hit worldwide. Song explains how a stint as a New York matchmaker schooled her in the economics of modern dating—and how those real-world dynamics shaped the film’s story. She also reflects on the privilege of …
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Ruth E. Carter: What Makes an Iconic Costume?
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39:11Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter makes people look good on the big screen — especially Black people. She’s the mind behind the costumes for countless iconic films including Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing, the Black Panther franchise, and arguably the biggest movie this year… Sinners. Sam chats with Ruth about the literal blood and sweat…
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Trump rants, Hegseth deflects while Congress looks for answers
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50:30At the end of a cabinet meeting this week, President Trump unleashed controversial comments about Minnesota’s Somali community. The president said he “[didn’t] want them in our country” and referred to Minnesota’s Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar as “garbage”. His diatribe came as reports surfaced of ICE raids in the Minneapolis/St. Paul re…
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Lizzie Weber ‘Maria’ (Feat. Marketa Irglova)
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4:11Lizzie Weber weaves a spellbinding blend of folk intimacy and spiritual resonance on a luminous collaboration with Icelandic artist Markéta Irglová. Their voices intertwine with a quiet, cathedral-like warmth, carrying a sense of devotion and emotional clarity. Gentle piano, soft strings, and Weber’s patient, heartfelt delivery create a space that …
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Weekend Film Reviews: 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2,' 'The Chronology of Water'
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17:40Film critics Witney Seibold and Tim Grierson review the latest releases: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, The Chronology of Water, The Secret Agent, and Fackham Hall.
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Caribbean boat strikes, Signal fiasco. Could Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s days be numbered?
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53:07Plus, why self-driving cars could be a “public health breakthrough,” a new documentary follows a woman in rural Iran who won a seat on her village council, and our weekly film reviews.
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Why San Francisco sued Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and others over ultra-processed foods
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51:38Plus, children are working on California farms and an investigation finds the state is turning a blind eye to safety violations, a mom writes a private letter to her son every year and gives them to him when he turns 18, and Evan Kleiman on the loved (and loathed) holiday fruitcake.
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Solomon Ray is the hottest new voice in Gospel music, but there’s a catch. He’s not real. Sam chats with Andrew R. Chow, a correspondent for Time where he covers technology. They break down the rise of AI in the music industry and how human artists are fighting back. Are streamers doing anything to filter out tracks made by machines? What can liste…
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‘No Lessons Learned’ over 12 pretty, pretty good seasons of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
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52:29Plus, longtime Ukraine watcher Alexander Vindman doesn’t expect the war with Russia to end anytime soon, an LA Times investigation adds context to the Trump administration’s claims about attacks on ICE agents, and whether or not a domesticated raccoon would make a good house pet.
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Mothers of the Mothership: The women who shaped the sound of 70s funk
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52:23Plus, the Trump administration pauses granting asylum and visas to Afghan nationals, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over online piracy, and the Cal State system invests in “AI-empowered higher education.”
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When veterinarians vaccinating goats in India discovered women were dying in childbirth along migration routes, the solution came from recognizing that herders already knew how to save lives—just not their own.
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Dwayne Johnson defies expectations with The Smashing Machine
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23:32This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with actor, producer and all-around Hollywood powerhouse Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock.” Johnson stars in the new Benny Safdie film The Smashing Machine alongside Emily Blunt where he portrays real life MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson talks about going deep for the role, performing the role of "The Rock," and …
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The Treat: The Mortician director Joshua Rofé
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4:39Director Joshua Rofé’s unforgettable HBO documentary series The Mortician, about an unethical family-run funeral home, left its mark on audiences. For his treat, Rofé pays tribute to the underrated 1977 William Friedkin film, Sorcerer. Rofé recalls his first time watching it in a theater and breaks down why it’s possibly the best thriller of all ti…
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