Hi everyone! I’m @GustavoArellano a columnist for the LA Times and host of our new podcast “The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times”! For the next hour, I’m taking over this account to talk about the podcast, take your questions, and have FUN!

Every weekday, “The Times” offers you the world through the eyes of the West Coast, specifically through California. We believe in the bold proposition that you can’t understand what’s going on in life without understanding the Golden State: politics, culture, food, EVERYTHING

So because of that, we decided to do this here podcast thing—about a half-hour each day. Follow us on @ApplePodcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-times-daily-news-from-the-l-a-times/id1563351107

And Follow us on @spotifypodcasts over here https://open.spotify.com/show/2R01OdMERnbNA3B5dXrEmr?si=X1XavgIxQByIsf9rnFJUhg&nd=1

Can you find us on other podcast platforms as well?

We just finished Week 1, and it’s a great preview of what you can expect from us. The inaugural episode featured LAT housing reporter @boreskes and homeless advocate @abales about a federal judge who told Los Angeles: House your homeless, or else https://open.spotify.com/episode/169yQ5NifnupRmHogCjn6z

Ep. 2 of “The Times” focused on China’s persecution of its Uyghur minority, and how it hits California. For that, we featured a Uyghur restaurant in Alhambra and spoke with LT business reporter @JMBooyah https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eSDz0cNF0kpB2FMAyjqSx

*LAT aka LA Times, of course!

Next, our host @GustavoArellano had a chat with Axios justice and race reporter @RussContreras about forgotten, radical roots of Cinco de Mayo https://open.spotify.com/episode/6sjadXClP2Lj24QEX8EJSh

Ep. 4 featured our LA Times film industry experts @StacyPerman and @joshrottenberg about the the final reckoning for the Golden Globes caused by their reporting https://open.spotify.com/episode/7z6cSqzy97MPLd6cUX376x

We concluded Week 1 with a delightful feature by our science reporter @DeborahNetburn on how she learned to stop worrying and love video games during the pandemic https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KFVDPP1LbGYtsqHJTQDBe

It was a companion piece to her Column One on the same subject https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-05-07/covid-19-video-games-parenting-children

Today’s episode of “The Times” has host @GustavoArellano focus in origins of California's recall fever with Recall Gavin 2020 senior advisor Randy @EconomyRadio and LAT politics columnist @markzbarabak https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fSKqS2xUWXjb5rYJEHXzl

So who are the people behind “The Times”? Let’s meet them!

The host is LA Times California columnist @GustavoArellano, seen here doing an interview out in the field:

The head producer is @DGJourno seen here putting an episode together

Next up is @LinshannonLin who’s originally from the Bay Area and was a GREAT get for us

Coming in right on time is another Bay Area native @scuevasradio_66 who’s a familiar voice in SoCal radio. This is footage of his first day in the middle of the podcast launching

Engineering all of this is @mustangmario who makes me @GustavoArellano have a dulcet tone ala Bing Crosby

Our boss is LA Times podcast jefa @dearabbie who holds monthly happy hours for us via Zoom because she’s cool like that

And we can’t wait to welcome incoming executive editor @meridak and tell him all of this again!

If you have any questions—topics you want us to cover, for instance—start lining them up NOW

One more time, first: follow “The Times” podcast on @ApplePodcasts here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-times-daily-news-from-the-l-a-times/id1563351107

Follow on @spotifypodcasts here https://open.spotify.com/show/2R01OdMERnbNA3B5dXrEmr?si=X1XavgIxQByIsf9rnFJUhg&nd=1

And find is ANYWHERE you get your podcasts from—but DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!

Station ID: I’m @GustavoArellano columnist for the LA Times and host of our new podcast “The Times: Daily news from the LA Times”. I’ve taken over this here @latimes Twitter account for this hour to take your questions about the pod and perhaps more! Now, let’s get them!

Got 10 more minutes to ask me questions about “The Times” podcast, folks! I’ve got some in the cue, but can always use more!

Question via email: “Will @LATstevelopez or @Patt_Morrison appear on your podcast?” My response: