The LA City Council held off yesterday in approving LA's bid for the 2024 Olympic games. Also, as part of our series looking at presidential contenders, AirTalk dissects Wisconsin governor and GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker's campaign. Then, a twofer on the 2015 Emmy contenders for Unstructured Reality: ‘Alaska: The Last Frontier’ and ‘Wahlburgers.'
LA Olympics bid book’s ‘financial guarantees’ call future into question
The LA City Council held off yesterday in approving LA's bid for the 2024 Olympic games.
The City, and US Olympic Committee, are trying to hit an IOC deadline of September 15th. That fast timeline has some council members worried about having time to study the financial guarantees the IOC is demanding.
KPCC reported yesterday about a confusing item in the Olympics bid book from LA officials that claims Gov. Brown expressed support for a state "financial guarantee" for the Games. But now it's not clear Brown made the statement.
Should the City be the backstop if the host committee runs a loss?
Guests:
Ben Bergman, Senior Reporter for KPCC covering the Southern California Economy
Rich Llewellyn, legal council to the Mayor of Los Angeles
Zev Yaroslavsky, former Los Angeles County Supervisor, and is now affiliated with the UCLA’s history department, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs
Barry Sanders, chairman of the Southern California Committee For The Olympic Games
GOP 2016: Dissecting Scott Walker’s presidential campaign
Wisconsin governor and GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker is perhaps most known for slashing collective bargaining rights for most government employees in 2011, and in 2015, signing into a “right-to-work” law that made Wisconsin the 25th state in the nation to give workers the freedom to choose whether they want to join a labor union.
Walker’s presidential campaign seeks to build on those two victories during his governorship.
What is his political platform? What are his policies? What are his beliefs on issues ranging from education to reproductive rights to gay marriage to immigration?
Guests:
Patrick Marley, politics and statehouse reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He’s also co-authored with Jason Stein of “More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). He tweets
Jenna Johnson, Washington Post reporter covering Scott Walker and his presidential campaign. She tweets
How to leave a job with no plan B to find the career and life you really want
How do you know when it’s time to leave a perfectly good job? That’s the subject of former Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland’s latest book, “Leap: Leaving a job with no plan B to find the career and life you really want.” It’s a subject Vigeland knows intimately well, as she made said leap herself when she decided to quit her dream job as a national radio host.
Guest:
Tess Vigeland, former host/anchor with public radio's Marketplace from 2001 to 2012 and author of “Leap: Leaving a job with no plan B to find the career and life you really want”
The state of birth tourism in Southern California
The term anchor babies has gotten a lot of attention in the Presidential race.
In his attempt to clarify his initial “anchor babies” comment, Jeb Bush said that he was talking about “organized efforts” mostly executed by “asian women” who intentionally give birth on U.S. soil to ensure citizenship for their children as a bigger issue than Latinos.
Now, members of the Asian-American community are upset. But the reality is, so-called “maternity houses” do exist in Los Angeles, and in particular, the San Gabriel valley.
At these houses, women are typically cared for prenatally and through their births. Birth certificates are taken care of for them. These kind of stays can cost women tens of thousands of dollars.
So it’s upwardly mobile Chinese making this choice, usually driven by unpredictable socio-political conditions in China. U.S. citizenship is perceived as a way to give their children future choices, if things go very sour in China.
We'll look at Asian maternity tourism in Southern CA, and try to find out how many babies we're talking about.
Guests:
Alex Garcia, supervising regional planner in the Department of Regional Planning for LA County, and supervisor overseeing the maternity boarding house task force
Steven Castillo, detective in the Arcadia police department
Leslie Berestein-Rojas, KPCC reporter
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Public Policy at UC Riverside
Emmy 2015 Unstructured Reality: ‘Alaska: The Last Frontier’
The Kilchers are not your average family.
They live on a 600-acre plot of land just outside the remote community of Homer, Alaska, a place where electricity and water aren’t always running, and spend the few months that it’s not winter in Alaska preparing themselves to survive the cold.
All of this creates the basis for Discovery Channel’s “Alaska: The Last Frontier,” which chronicles the lives of the Kilchers as they try to survive the harsh conditions together. Family patriarch Atz and his brother Otto are the main focus of the show, though other members of the family and extended make appearances as well.
The show is currently broadcasting its fourth season. The Kilchers are kin to singer/songwriter Jewel (Kilcher).
Today on AirTalk, the showrunner for “Alaska: The Last Frontier” tells us how the idea for the show came about, the harsh conditions the Kilchers and the film crews have to endure while shooting, and his thoughts on being nominated for an Emmy Award.
Guest:
Daniel Soiseth, Executive Producer of Discovery’s “Alaska The Last Frontier”
Emmys 2015 Unstructured Reality: 'Wahlburgers'
The Wahlberg family may be best known for their two most successful sons, Mark and Donnie, who have both gone on to succeed in the film and music industries, the rest of the Wahlbergs are becoming household names as well, thanks to A&E’s reality series “Wahlburgers.”
This year, the show is up for an Emmy Award for Unstructured Reality Series.
Located in the Boston suburb of Hingham, Wahlburgers is a gourmet burger joined that Mark, Donnie, and Paul Wahlberg operate.
Because of Mark and Donnie’s careers, Paul is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Hingham location, which happens to be across the street from the Wahlberg’s other restaurant, “Alma Nove.”
The reality series was created as a way to promote Wahlburgers, and what began with a single location in Hingham has now spread to other cities including Philadelphia, New York, and Toronto.
The show not only focuses on the daily happenings at the restaurant, but also the Wahlberg family dynamic. While many of the Wahlbergs appear on the show, the series’ main characters are Paul, Mark, Donnie, and their mother, Alma.
As AirTalk continues its profile of this year’s Emmy nominees for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series, we’ll take a look at “Wahlburgers” with executive producer Rasha Drachkovitch and get the inside scoop on the restaurant, the Wahlbergs, and how the show ties both together.
Guest:
Rasha Drachkovitch, executive producer of the Emmy-nominated A&E unstructured reality series ‘Wahlburgers.’