The L.A. Riots | Extra: Leading Up to the Riots
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're highlighting a few excerpts from this season's Slate Plus episodes—interviews with George Holliday, professor Edward Chang, L.A. Times journalist Jim Newton, and Rodney King’s best friend Johnnie Kelly—all who help to explain the cultural and social tensions building in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s.
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| 0:34.2 | Hey, what's up, y'all? It's Joel. We're taking a break from the Slow Burn story this week to talk about Slate Plus and how our members support the work we do here. And if you want to skip promos and ads like this one, the best way to do that is by signing up for Slate Plus. You can just go ahead and do that right now at slate.com slash slowburn. So here's what it's like making a narrative podcast like Slow Burn. |
| 0:57.6 | I started working on the season back in March, |
| 0:59.7 | and I immediately dove in by reading books and articles, |
| 1:02.8 | watching documentaries and interviews, and searching through archives. |
| 1:06.4 | This all helps the producers and I find the right people to talk to. |
| 1:10.0 | The people who are integral |
| 1:11.0 | to the story, who live through it, and can give us a better sense of everything that happened. |
| 1:15.1 | And we've talked to a lot of people so far. I think we've done, you know, I'll know about |
| 1:19.5 | nearly 40 interviews so far this season alone. But it's Slate Plus memberships that allow |
| 1:24.8 | us the time and resources to really give this story its due diligence. |
| 1:29.3 | We obviously try to include everything we've learned into the main show, but there's a lot of |
| 1:33.6 | interesting stories that we just can't fit. So that's why we do our bonus episodes, where every |
| 1:38.3 | week the producers and I get to tell you about the making of the show and you get to hear more |
| 1:42.6 | from our really great sources this season. So let's talk about some of the extended interviews you've missed so far. |
| 1:52.0 | First, we had what's believed to be one of the final interviews with George Holliday, the man |
| 1:57.0 | who caught Rodney King's beating on tape and made sure everyone else got to see it. |
| 2:01.4 | Holiday died in September of complications from COVID-19. He was 61. But when we spoke with him in June, |
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