Goodbye (for now)

I started this podcast in the fall of 2015 with a notion to tell stories of the many ways people think about home. For 27 episodes, that’s what I’ve d...

Episode 26: Going Tiny

HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve also made them look fun, cute and easy. The realities of a tin...

Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories

“The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who worked in their garage their whole li...

Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity

The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the...

Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland

How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best...

Update: Season 5 starts July 5

Update: The Future of HOME

Join me, won’t you, as I peel back the curtain on this podcast and kick around some thoughts about its future. (TL;DR: I’m slowing the production cycl...

Update: New Season Coming

HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!

Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2

Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, images of the American family a...

Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1

Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that millions, maybe billi...

Episode 20: Everything Must Go

Some stories don’t end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you across the back of your unsuspect...

Episode 19: Almost Utopia

What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the masses, are hiding in plain si...

Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette

What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home means to her? And to you? This...

Episode 17: Dancers In The House

A roving, shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one-off, site-speci...

Episode 16: TV Dreamland

When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with what he now calls a “drea...

Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills

The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, when we’re not paying attention....

Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead

Actress/writer/artist Rose Portillo lives in the house she was born into, in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles. It’s the annual scene of her lege...

Episode 13: A Pod To Call Your Own

Not a hotel, not a dorm, not quite a hostel, open by design and communitarian in spirit  — Los Angeles-based PodShare is something else. And, potentia...

Updates: New Season June 22, and Opening It Up To The Room

Here’s an audio update on the upcoming season. In extra bonus content — and let me stress that this is 100% free of cost to you, the home audience — I...

Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries

It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple Pan, home to freshly-baked pies...

Episode 11: The View From The Road

The crowning paradox of the touring comic’s life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and security of home yo...

Episode 10: A Life At Sea, On Land

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it agai...

Episode 9: A Home Away From Home

Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard?...

Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two)

Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the weirdest history may be the P...

Episode 7: Unmaking a Home

When an elderly parent dies after a long life of lovingly acquiring things, she leaves behind more than memories for her kids. She leaves something mu...

Update: Season 2

Season 2 of HOME comes your way in January. Subscribe today and new episodes will automagically fly through the aether to you more or less the very se...

Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta

The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians  —...

Episode 5: Growing Up 818

There’s the San Fernando Valley, the one you can find on a map… and then there’s The Valley, the one that exists in the culture, whose notoriety far o...

Episode 4: A Monk in Venice

Andy Puddicombe left college at 22 and spent a decade tramping the world before returning to the UK and landing, eventually, in Los Angeles. He’s live...

Episode 3: One Man’s Town

This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate who’s spent a fortune trying...

Episode 2: In Their Room

On a warm May day in 2005 a crowd gathered near a freeway embankment in Hawthorne, CA and turned its gaze to a house that wasn’t there. Nobody knows w...

Episode 1: The House On The Hill

Herman Stein contributed music to more than 200 films, including some of the 1950s’ best-known monster movies: Creature From The Black Lagoon, This Is...

Episode 0: Introduction

A story about home, and place, and donuts. Music by: Mongo Santamaria (“Mother Jones”) Wintergatan (“Starmachine2000”) Roger Roger (“Slippery Sid”) Bo...