Under The Influence with Jo Piazza on Imperfect Paradise
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities brings you an episode of Jo Piazza’s - podcast Under the Influence with Jo Piazza.
Last December, Jo had LAist reporter Emily Guerin on to talk about Imperfect Paradise: People vs. Karen, the story about a white mom-fluencer who falsely accused a Latino couple of a crime and their fight to hold her accountable
If you haven’t listened to Imperfect Paradise: People vs. Karen yet, we encourage you to binge the series. In this episode you'll hear Jo and Emily get into some behind the scenes details that went into making People vs. Karen, and a deeper discussion into the role social media played in this story.
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| 0:44.2 | Hey, I'm Antonio Ceregido, the host of Imperfect Paradise, a show about hidden worlds and messy realities. |
| 0:52.2 | Today on Imperfect Paradise, we're sharing an episode of Friend of the Show Joe Piazza's podcast under the influence with Joe Piazza. |
| 0:58.0 | I think that lovers of Imperfect Paradise will get a lot out of Joe's deep dives into social media. |
| 1:06.4 | On the show, Joe recently has covered such topics as sobriety influencing, cancer influencing, and of course, tradwives. |
| 1:12.1 | Last December, Joe had our very own Emily Garen on to talk about our series People versus Karen, the story about a white mom fluencer who falsely accused a Latino couple of a crime |
| 1:18.1 | and their fight to hold her accountable. |
| 1:20.9 | If you haven't listened to People versus Karen yet, then what are you doing? |
| 1:24.4 | I highly encourage you to binge the whole series. |
| 1:26.9 | But Joe and Emily also do a recap of the series at the top of this episode. |
| 1:30.6 | If you've already heard the series, you may want to skip to about the 16-minute mark. |
| 1:35.1 | That's when Joe and Emily get into some behind-the-scenes details that went into making people versus Karen |
| 1:40.4 | and a deeper discussion into the role social media played in this story. So without further ado, |
| 1:46.7 | under the influence with Joe Piazza, an update on Katie Sorensen from the Michael's parking lot. |
| 1:58.1 | How many of you remember the Katie Sorensen story? |
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