Hey there Shankar here. Back in January 2017, we released an episode called Pettistills and Geateans.

It explored an interesting paradox of human behavior. Our love, hate relationship with people

at the top of the social hierarchy. Why are we so drawn to the rich and powerful? And what is it

that makes us so excited when they fall from their perch? So much has changed in the world since

we worked on that episode. But as a long election season in the United States winds to a close,

we found ourselves reflecting on this episode and what it says about the transience of power.

We hope you enjoy.

Welcome to Los Angeles, the celebrity capital of the world. It's a city that conjures

palm-line boulevards, sprawling mansions, luxury cars. At the center of all the glitz, Hollywood.

Movie stars are the only ones here. Star gazers are drawn here too, like paperclips to a magnet.

And point your attention to the left, because we are seeing Beverly Hills for the first time on the

left hand side. Wow, some big houses down there, right? With the muesaq blaring, a handful of people

on a celebrity tour pure out their van, hoping to glimpse the homes of LA's rich and famous.

The guide points out Gwen Stefani's house, and a clump of bushes behind which she claims is

Quentin Tarantino's home. She pulls up Nyakadi Perry's compound. Do I have any Katy Perry fans of

the boy? Fine, your works. Okay, well here's her house. Look up to your left, and you'll see

the awning, the red awning. You can't really see it's red there, but we are right beneath her house.

She actually owns the entire corner here, and look at her view. It's amazing, isn't it?

One of the tour's most popular sites is the home of Kim Kardashian,

while sort of Kanye and Kim needed a house to have their friends over and on the left hand side

this is the house they use rented for 12,000 a month. There's somebody right behind us so I

can't stop. I'm sorry about that, but that is the house right there. Has its own little swimming pool.

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