“What the Hell Happened to L.A.?” with Meghan Daum
May 28, 2026
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as posted by the channelLos Angeles was once the city where people went to reinvent themselves. Space, sunshine, stardom. How did it become the city where people go to disappear into homeless tent encampments?
Meghan Daum is one of America’s sharpest cultural essayists, a former LA Times columnist and a longtime Angelino.
While Josh is in L.A., he and Meghan livestreamed from the Hollywood Hills in this Memorial Day conversation about what, exactly, Los Angeles is (city? county? megalopolis?), the decline of showbiz, the 2025 wildfires, California Democrats, dog abuse, addiction, incarceration, and why Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star from The Hills, might be the most honest candidate running for mayor.
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