Imperfect Paradise: Lions, Coyotes, & Bears Part 1 Redux - The Mountain Lion Celebrity

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This episode first aired on July 24, 2024.

One of Hollywood’s recent celebrities wasn’t a person, but a feline. The famed mountain lion made headlines in Los Angeles and nationwide. He became a household name for making his home in Griffith Park, right in the middle of L.A. But the overwhelming support for P-22 wasn’t enough to save him. LAist Correspondent Jill Replogle looks into P-22’s stardom, people’s obsession with him, and what his story says about our ability to coexist with wildlife in a rapidly changing, increasingly urban world.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Antonia Serejido. Right now, we're putting out this episode during our year-end fundraiser at LAist.
0:06.2	Listeners like you keep in Perfect Paradise going strong. So please give what you can before the year is over.
0:12.5	Your support goes a long way. Donate now at lais.com slash join. Thank you.
0:18.1	I'm Franklin Leonard, founder of the Blacklist, where we celebrate exceptional
0:21.5	storytelling. In our new podcast, we're turning the Hollywood creative process into a game show
0:26.4	with the help of a star panel of guests. Find nobody knows anything wherever you get your
0:30.7	podcasts. Presented by FX. This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy
0:36.7	realities.
0:39.2	I'm your host, Antonia Zedekido.
0:46.1	On a sunny Friday morning in May, I met up with L.A.'s correspondent Jill Replagal in L.A.'s I don't know if this is really a trail.
0:50.0	This is going to get us up the hill?
0:51.3	I do have a little bit of a reputation of getting people lost.
0:53.9	I'm not going to lie.
0:56.6	My husband, I almost didn't get married because of it.
0:59.2	Oh my God, really?
1:01.5	We went on a hike and I was like, let's go this way.
1:03.8	And he's like, I don't think that's right.
1:05.9	Griffith Park is one of the most famous parks in Los Angeles. And the fact that Jill has made what I was assuming
1:11.0	was going to be a very pleasant, chill promenade into an extreme outdoor expedition is kind of what I
1:16.6	love about it. It's very much a choose-your-own-adventure experience. Okay, this is what I was looking for.
1:24.2	Cool. I feel like this is sort of the boundary between urban Griffith Park and Wild Griffith Park.
1:31.5	The observatory is right here.
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