- 21
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 438
- Ratings
- 2018
- First episode
- 307M
- YouTube views
About Welcome to LA
Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert — a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
- Publisher
- David Weinberg
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 20 May 2018
- Latest episode
- 2 Jul 2026
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Published 2 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What do you think it'll look like, this land, this country? I hope that we'll be thriving, that the working class of the United States is going to be in a much better position. Do you imagine yourself still being in Tennessee? I don't know. I feel like if you want anything to change, you can't abandon ship. To truly make change in an area, you have to stay and fight for progress. It's a process, sometimes it seems as though we go forward and then we go backward, we go forward and we go backward. But the way I look at going backwards is, think about a bow and arrow. In order for the bow to go any length, it has to be gone, go backwards. […]
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- Nick White
- Emile Klein
- David Weinberg
- Trevor Pan
- Rob Navarro
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 306,965,971
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 438 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100
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- Quality
- 37
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 66
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