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UnFictional Podcast: full transcripts and summaries of all episodes

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Podcast: UnFictional

UnFictional

Description: In this season of Unfictional, Stories of Transformation, and the ways in which the world — and all of us — have fundamentally changed since the pandemic began. One man watched his children suddenly turn into grown-ups, while another upended every part of his life. Someone else had to learn to live with hardship and found their true identity along the way, all while living in two worlds. Meanwhile, a subculture ascends, one reporter explores Olvera Street, and another finds an old notebook filled with memories from his time in a cabin. It’s UnFictional, hosted by Bob Carlson.

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Fútbol Confidential: Fútbol full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Fútbol Confidential: Fútbol

Fútbol Confidential: Fútbol

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Two Mexican-American fans talk about rooting for more than one hometown team in Los Angeles and in Mexico.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Football Confidential, stories of soccer in the international city, Los Angeles. It's a special production from the unfictional podcast of documentaries, true stories, and radio movies.

Fútbol Confidential: Hollywood United full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Fútbol Confidential: Hollywood United

Fútbol Confidential: Hollywood United

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Fútbol Confidential looks at the legendary LA city league soccer team formed over beers in a Santa Monica pub by British expatriates.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Football Confidential, stories of soccer in the international city, Los Angeles. It's a special production from the unfictional podcast of documentaries, true stories, and radio movies.

Fútbol Confidential: Soccer City full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Fútbol Confidential: Soccer City

Fútbol Confidential: Soccer City

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Fútbol Confidential looks at AYSO, American homegrown soccer culture.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Football Confidential, stories of soccer in the international city, Los Angeles. It's a special production from the Unfictional podcast, documentaries, true stories, and radio movies.

Fútbol Confidential:The Soccer Store full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Fútbol Confidential:The Soccer Store

Fútbol Confidential Soccer Store

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Fútbol Confidential looks at Niky’s Sports, the biggest family-run chain of soccer stores in LA.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Football Confidential. Stories of soccer in the international city, Los Angeles. It's a special production from the unfictional podcast of documentaries, true stories, and radio movies.

El Pueblo full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: El Pueblo

El Pueblo

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In ‘El Pueblo,’ producer Mike Schilitt explores the surprising history of Olvera Street – an idealized fantasy of Mexico created in downtown Los Angeles that has supported generations of Agelenos. 

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

The Cabin Notebook full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: The Cabin Notebook

The Cabin Notebook

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When Aric Allen was 21, he lived in a desolate mountain cabin for 10 weeks. There he planned to write a novel, but instead he learned how to be alone.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. Unfictional is a program of true stories, personal documentaries, and what I call radio movies, kind of a cinematic audio story. And this episode is a good example.

Lowrider full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Lowrider

Lowrider

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Producer Jaime Roque takes a ride with Ernie Moran in his 1965 Chevy Impala to explore the history and culture of the lowrider community of East Los Angeles. 

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. There's a movie from 1993 directed by Taylor Hackford called Blood In, Blood Out. It's a crime drama with some B-movie acting.

nisha full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: nisha

nisha

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In the U.S., nisha venkat feels safe and relieved to identify as queer and non-binary. But in their home country Dubai, nisha’s gender identity is illegal, and they can be deported or convicted of homexuality, or “cross-dressing.” 

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Los Emprendedores full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Los Emprendedores

Los Emprendedores

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Street vendors are an essential part of Los Angeles’ history and its economy. You can find vendors with mobile carts and food trucks on street corners, outside concert venues, and sporting events selling hot dogs, tacos, burritos, churros, fruit, t-shirts, souvenirs, and just about anything else you can imagine. For

decades, this activity was illegal. And even though vending was somewhat decriminalized in 2018, the line between legal and illegal is not always clear. Producer James Roque follows the stories of a few of these entrepreneurs, finding out why they started vending, the challenges they encounter on a daily basis, and how they fared during the last few years.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictionable. And these are the supporters of L.A. 's own downtown soccer team, LAFC, at Bank of California Stadium in Exposition Park.

The Transmogrifier full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: The Transmogrifier

The Transmogrifier

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Imagine entering a giant machine that sucks you in one end, and spits you out the other side as something completely different. That describes the transmogrifier — a fantastical device from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. Over the last couple of years, it feels like everyone has been through

the transmogrifier in one way or another. In this episode, stories of the transmogrified. Unfictional producer Bob Carlson watches his two children go through the transmogrifier and come out unexpectedly as grown-ups. Meanwhile, almost every element of producer Jaime Roque’s life was upended by the transmorgrifier: new job, marriage, and prospective fatherhood.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. We all have close friends who we haven't seen now for years because of everything that's been going on. And I feel a little bit like that right now.

Music could be your whole life full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Music could be your whole life

Music could be your whole life

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KCRW’s Bob Carlson talks to some of Deirdre O’Donoghue’s friends and gets further inside her world away from the microphone.

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This is, in fact, Snap on KCRW in Santa Monica, and it's Concrete Blonde who are playing live here on this Thursday night. And all I'm going to do is turn everything over to you, my dear, and your extraordinary rock and roll.

This is SNAP! full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: This is SNAP!

This is SNAP!

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Bent By Nature Episode 1 introduces KCRW DJ Deirdre O’Donoghue, host of "SNAP!," a freeform alternative and independent music and culture program in Los Angeles in the '80s — and goes inside the community she cultivated, her passion for music, and the problems she had with KCRW’s management and staff.

Featuring archival live performances by Camper Van Beethoven, the Meat Puppets, Glass Eye, Jazz Butcher, the Dream Syndicate, and more.

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Hello, Unfictional listeners. This is Bob Carlson, host of Unfictional.

The Man Inside the Radio full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: The Man Inside the Radio

The Man Inside the Radio

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UnFictional host Bob Carlson’s journey on the inside of rock and roll radio.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Rolling Thunder full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

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Mary Lorson explores scenes from her childhood in a personal memoir musical documentary. Featuring an elusive father, A Dancerina doll, a Polaroid Swinger, and a camel hair coat from Saks, all in constant motion.

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From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. Unfictional is a program of true stories, personal documentaries, and radio movies, and always interested to find new ways of telling stories. And on this episode, you can add something different.

The Rescue full transcript and summary - episode of podcast UnFictional

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Episode: The Rescue

The Rescue

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A promising job drew Fedelina Lugasan to the U.S. from the Philippines, she’d start her new life with a family she trusted. But the picture they painted for her was not what her life turned out to be.  

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from KCRW. I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.