Ron Brownstein
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Although, like I said, that 80% investment in Republican-held districts might be a circuit breaker on how far they can get with that.
Yeah, so my book is about L.A. in the early 1970s and the great pop culture produced then, movies like Chinatown, Godfather, Godfather II, Shampoo, Nashville Carnal Knowledge, the really, you know, path-breaking TV, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, and then the great music, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell. And basically the story is about how the pop culture produced in L.A.
in the early 70s took... the social critiques that emerged in the 60s, the critiques of American life, and mainstreamed them, brought them into the living room of the country, literally, in the case of All in the Family and Mary Taylor Moore Mash.
And I came away feeling, you know, writing that book, I've always felt LA is kind of the capital of the future in American life, for better or worse, that, you know, a lot of the things that the country will be dealing with, cultural changes, demographic changes, economic changes, happen here first. And sadly, this is another example of that.
You know, certainly coastal states that and southwest state coastal states in the southeast with hurricanes, southwest states with wildfires are most at risk. But man, Asheville was neither, you know, and it was flooded. And, you know, the amount of damage from hail and severe thunderstorms and flooding and the
LA is living through this horrific tragedy, but more places are going to unless we get control to any extent. Control is even the wrong word, unless we mitigate or slow the deterioration of the climate. And my heart goes out to all so many people in L.A. I mean, one big fire on the west side, one really big fire on the east side.
There's there's virtually no one in the city who doesn't know someone who has been affected like this. And I hate to say this is coming to a neighborhood near you, but some version of this is intent. I mean, this is 2025. What's 2035 going to look like?
If we allow the trajectory of, you know, of extreme weather to go on uninterrupted in a Doug Burgum like way that says anything we do just makes Russia stronger.
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
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