Latest Patt the hat Podcast Episodes
For "tax day," UC Berkeley’s Dacher Keltner on how tax cuts affect the rich and poor differently.
Patt Morrison Asks - April 10, 2018 19:44 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison talks with Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center.
Anchor Judy Woodruff on the dare-to-be-boring PBS NewsHour in the era of Twitter and “fake news”
Patt Morrison Asks - April 03, 2018 16:58 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJudy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, reflects on changes in the news media at a time when, more than ever, the public needs accurate and reliable sources.
Could Facebook throw an election? “Of course they could,” cautions Silicon Valley’s Aza Raskin.
Patt Morrison Asks - March 27, 2018 18:52 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison talks with interface designer Aza Raskin. Raskin's work with Mozilla, Firefox and numerous innovative startups, as well as having grown up the son of human-interface expert Jef Raskin, gives him rare insight into Facebook's recent data theft debacle.
Author Steven Pinker’s long, uplifting view of human progress -- even in spite of humans themselves
Patt Morrison Asks - March 20, 2018 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison speaks with Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker. In his new book, “Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,” Pinker makes the case against doom and gloom-ism, especially in academia, and tribal know-nothing-ism in politics.
Senator Dianne Feinstein -- the assault weapons foe considers whether Donald Trump can really be the man who can carry gun control reform over the goal line.
Patt Morrison Asks - March 07, 2018 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison speaks with Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Joan Baez's fabled voice has changed over her 60 years of singing, but her passion for civil rights and human rights has not.
Patt Morrison Asks - February 21, 2018 00:49 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJoan Baez talks about her new album, her upcoming farewell tour, the current state of protest music and how Trump inspired her to write a new song.
LAPD commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa on choosing a new police chief for Los Angeles
Patt Morrison Asks - February 07, 2018 20:33 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Los Angeles Police Commission already has its hands full being upbraided by protesters at its public meetings over questionable police shootings and the use of drones. Now it has to find a replacement for LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa speaks to Patt about the ta...
Maimuna Syed: A big Trump ballot backlash means prepping more women candidates to run for office
Patt Morrison Asks - January 22, 2018 18:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison talks with Maimuna Syed, executive director of Emerge California, about how the organization prepares women to run for office.
Maimuna Syed: A big Trump ballot backlash means prepping more women candidates to run for office
Patt Morrison Asks - January 22, 2018 18:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison talks with Maimuna Syed, executive director of Emerge California, about how the organization prepares women to run for office.
Comedy writer Laurie Kilmartin’s book “Dead People Suck” also shows how much the living suck at handling death, and tells us how to do better.
Patt Morrison Asks - January 02, 2018 02:22 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison talks with author Laurie Kilmartin about death, dying and what to do with your stuff before you go.
Radio legend Art Laboe, who pioneered dedication shows and trademarked "oldies but goodies," is still riding the airwaves six nights a week
Patt Morrison Asks - December 26, 2017 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with radio legend Art Laboe.
Freeway blogger Patrick Randall: He writes the signs that make the whole driving world see his message
Patt Morrison Asks - December 19, 2017 04:19 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with "Freeway blogger" Patrick Randall about his unique protest method
Whatever voter ID laws require, whatever candidate you support, Voteriders and Kathleen Unger want to put the ID, and the rules, right in your hands
Patt Morrison Asks - December 05, 2017 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Kathleen Unger about her voter ID law non-profit, Voteriders.
Polymath performer John Hodgman rats out the state of Maine and his own foibles and follicles in his book "Vacationland"
Patt Morrison Asks - November 21, 2017 07:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with John Hodgman live at the LA Times Ideas Exchange
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne on the team that saw the waves that change the universe-- and a national science gap
Patt Morrison Asks - November 14, 2017 01:50 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne.
Feminist author and editor Kate Harding explains the ferocious power in owning the phrase "nasty woman"
Patt Morrison Asks - November 07, 2017 08:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with feminist author and editor Kate Harding about her new book "Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America"
Former adman Andrew Essex: Why bad ads deserve to die, and what might replace them
Patt Morrison Asks - October 24, 2017 06:50 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Andrew Essex about the new era of advertising.
Writer Salman Rushdie's new novel of a rich immigrant family sizes up New York in the age of Trump
Patt Morrison Asks - October 09, 2017 01:44 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with author Salman Rushdie about his new book "The Golden House" at the LA Times Ideas Exchange.
Author Steven J. Ross: How Hitler's sunshine fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles
Patt Morrison Asks - September 26, 2017 05:50 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with author Steven J. Ross on his new book, "Hitler in Los Angeles"
Author Kurt Andersen goes looking for the dangerously strange in "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire"
Patt Morrison Asks - September 19, 2017 06:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Kurt Andersen about his new book "Fantasyland: How America Went Waywire"
Author Kurt Andersen goes looking for the dangerously strange in "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire"
Patt Morrison Asks - September 19, 2017 06:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Kurt Andersen about his new book "Fantasyland: How America Went Waywire"
LA's new cannabis chief Cat Packer on building the city's new legal pot business from the ground up
Patt Morrison Asks - September 12, 2017 06:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Cat Packer, LA's new Executive Director of the Department of Cannabis Regulation
Science educator Bill Nye on the terrifying ascendancy of American 'dingbatitude'
Patt Morrison Asks - September 05, 2017 22:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPatt Morrison sat down with Bill Nye (the Science Guy) at the LA Ideas Exchange to discuss his latest book, "Everything All At Once"
Documentarian Ken Burns brings "Vietnam" to PBS, the documentary about the war Americans thought we knew, told through voices we may never have listened to
Patt Morrison Asks - September 05, 2017 22:18 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison interviews documentarian filmmaker Ken Burns on his newest project, "The Vietnam War"
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta: In the spotlight for a new documentary, as the civil rights battles she's fought are still being waged
Patt Morrison Asks - August 29, 2017 06:37 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta.
Women's rights campaigner Bernice Sandler: Evaluates the 37-word law that helped women to make the big plays in sports and in the classroom
Patt Morrison Asks - August 15, 2017 07:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Title IX author Bernice Sandler about the lasting influence of her bill.
California's emergency services director Mark Ghilarducci: Preparing for just about any disaster, including a nuclear one
Patt Morrison Asks - August 07, 2017 01:16 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with California's emergency services director Mark Ghilarducci about disaster preparedness.
Stanford professor John J. Donohue: The numbers show right-to-carry gun laws make for more violent crime, not less
Patt Morrison Asks - August 01, 2017 22:43 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Stanford professor and crime statistics analyst John J. Donohue about gun control and right-to-carry laws and data.
Author Anne Helen Petersen: Women who are "Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud" are on the rise
Patt Morrison Asks - July 10, 2017 04:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with author and senior culture writer for BuzzFeed Anne Helen Petersen about her new book "Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman"
Dr. Robert Pearl: His book offers a prescription to cure what ails American medicine
Patt Morrison Asks - July 03, 2017 19:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsLA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Dr. Robert Pearl, author of the health care reform book "Mistreated."
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