Hear In LA Explicit

by Tony Pierce

This epic podcast is going to all of the 300+ neighborhoods in Los Angeles to talk with the people. Hosted by Tony Pierce and produced and edited by Jordan Katz (who also made much of the music), this ambitious journey is scheduled to take 30 years to complete. Pray for us.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 52

  • Why the Mayor of LA should hire Eric Brightwell to be the Neighborhood Tsar - Silver Lake

    Why the Mayor of LA should hire Eric Brightwell to be the Neighborhood Tsar - Silver Lake

    Eric Brightwell is all the things you’d want in a neighbor. He’s been around for seemingly forever, he rides his bike everywhere when he’s not on the bus, he’s civically minded, he knows where the best spots are, he has great taste in movies and music, and he has the greatest obsession: drawing and painting neighborhood maps of Los Angeles.Lo all these years, I was lucky enough to meet him at his spacious home, one of the best apartments you’ll find in Silver Lake as it’s near all the best haunts, it’s surrounded with fauna, and it’s inhabited by one of the biggest cats you’ll ever have the chance to pet with your foot.In this episode we check all the boxes: local politics, tales of working at the original location of Amoeba, tales of working in a musty basement of porn, discussing why the Channel Islands matter, Thomas Brothers Guides, and the realization that mapmaking is subjective.

  • Season 51

  • Growing Up in South Central and Writing His Way Across the 10 to Arlington Heights

    Growing Up in South Central and Writing His Way Across the 10 to Arlington Heights

    Gary Phillips is happily married, lives in a Craftsman in Arlington Heights and writes about whatever he wants: the LA dream

  • Season 50

  • Richard Horgan - No Hollywood Spin from this former TMZ journalist - Park La Brea

    Richard Horgan - No Hollywood Spin from this former TMZ journalist - Park La Brea

    Richard is a Canadian who immigrated to LA in the mid-90s and has been in and around the Hollywood journalism scene ever since. We talk about Park La Brea, The Grove, The Glendale Galleria, the idea of one man owning most of LA’s trade papers, the LA Times, and so much more.

  • Season 49

  • Dude he's a therapist: Phil Stark's evolution to your catharsis - Franklin Hills

    Dude he's a therapist: Phil Stark's evolution to your catharsis - Franklin Hills

    Phil Stark got his start at the beginning of South Park, then wrote and produced for That '70s Show, on a whim he wrote and created Dude Where's My Car, and now he's a therapist who wrote a book about his new love.

  • Season 48

  • Kate Cagle is here to wake you up - Palms

    Kate Cagle is here to wake you up - Palms

    The Spectrum 1 News anchor on being stopped from doing her job by the LAPD at Echo Park, her scoop with one of the tattoo artists who apply ink to sheriff deputies, her neighborhood of Palms, and what USC taught her to be prepared in TV journalism.