Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On November 24, 2025, Phil and David welcomed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for a wide-ranging and revealing conversation at Naked Lunch's studio in Phil's house about everything from immigration to Max & Helen's. Food is by https://www.dulans-sfk.com/, a great Los Angeles soul food restaurant. For more about Mayor Karen Bass, go to https://mayor.lacity.gov/. For more on Max & Helen's, go to https://www.maxandhelens.com/. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hi, David.
0:04.6	Phil, this is exciting.
0:06.0	It's a big day for us.
0:07.4	Yes, I don't think we have had any elected, we've had rock stars, we've had superstar actors,
0:15.5	we've had members of the Rosenthal family, we've had our wives,
0:20.0	but we have never had, I don't think, an elected official.
0:23.7	Certainly not a mayor. Not, and certainly not our mayor. Our mayor here in Los Angeles.
0:29.5	The Honorable Karen Bass is with us today. How about that? That's a booking coup, I think.
0:35.3	Coo, don't use Coo with an elected official.
0:38.1	It's not a good word.
0:39.6	And we have some exciting food because she has chosen something that is very exciting and not the usual sandwich.
0:46.7	She might be a foodie.
0:48.2	Yes, we're going to find that out.
0:49.3	Yeah, okay.
0:50.4	How long have you lived in L.A.?
0:52.0	I moved here in 1991.
0:55.1	Right.
0:55.5	I have voted every time.
0:58.4	Me too.
0:59.0	Yeah.
0:59.4	I got here in 89.
1:01.3	89.
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