Alex Villanova, a long shot candidate, runs for LA County Sheriff as a reformer at a time when Trump was cracking down on undocumented immigrants and wins, surprising everyone.

After taking office in 2018, he turns into the Trump of Los Angeles, a vindictive leader who mocks reform resists oversight and launches criminal investigations of his enemies.

From LA studios, in perfect paradise, the sheriff is a five episode podcast that explores how Villanova went from a former sheriff's lieutenant with almost no leadership experience to the head of the largest law enforcement agency west of the Mississippi,

host Frank Stoltz has covered policing and politics in LA County for more than 30 years, including the Rodney King riots, and he's never seen a sheriff like Alex Villanova.

In perfect paradise, the sheriff includes an extensive interview with sheriff Alex Villanova himself. In perfect paradise, the sheriff is a production of LA studios and the high quality journalism of KPCC plus LA's newsroom, LA's largest public radio station.

Episode three is out today. Find the sheriff at laus.com slash imperfect paradise or wherever you listen to podcasts that's laus.com slash imperfect paradise.

Everybody check it out.

Hello Philadelphia. Great to be back. Welcome to Love It or Leave It. Live or else coming to you from Philadelphia, the birthplace of America.

And I'm what I'm about to say I mean as the highest of compliments. This is a city that dares to ask the question, what if Chicago was mean as hell?

10 out of 10 sandwiches, no time wasted on manners. My kind of city. I really mean it too.

There's an energy. Rude as hell. I love it. No pleasantries. Unnecessary. We've got a great show for you tonight. Your next governor, Josh Shapiro is here.

State rep Malcolm Kenyatta is here. He's going to join returning champ Jared Goldstein for Gay News. It says here Taylor Swift's publicist is here.

I'm not sure what that's about. She might have some gay news to them. Plus Jill McGuire is here and she'll join Jared and me for some hot takes.

Thank you. I want you to know something. I was going to talk about this later but I want to talk about it now. I understand that Philadelphia is known for cheese steaks. I understand that. And they're good.

It's fine that you're known for that. But I think you're doing yourselves a disservice because this isn't a cheese steak city. This is a sandwich city.

And you're not getting enough credit for all the many other kinds of wonderful sandwiches available. It is rare to get a sandwich so good that you're like, I should be naked while I eat this.

It's not right to be in clothes.

But first, let's get into it. What a week.

At a Democratic fundraiser, President Biden warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not joking about the use of tactical nuclear weapons and that the risk of nuclear armageddon is the highest it's been since the Cuban missile crisis.

Yeah, I mean, it's not a cool thing to joke about so that makes sense.

If we're vaporized tonight, I want you all to know something. I'm glad I was here and I died as I lived lying about wanting to be in Philadelphia.

Boo. I don't care.

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