Show overview
California Love (old feed) has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 58 episodes. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 24 min and 32 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 34 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 34 episodes published. Published by LAist Studios.
From the publisher
California Love is a blend of memoir, pop culture analysis and oral history. The newest season, K-Pop Dreaming, is about the rise and history of K-pop in the United States, as told from the point-of-view of the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles. Host Vivian Yoon takes listeners on a journey from K-pop’s origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Uprising and the booming global popularity of K-pop in the present day, all juxtaposed against Yoon’s own coming-of-age as a second generation immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to fit in and come to terms with her own identity. In the first season Walter Thompson-Hernández was inspired by Tupac and Dr. Dre's "California Love"- a love letter and anthem for a generation. Walter invites listeners to join him in his family home, on horseback through the streets of Compton, and up into the sky to examine belonging.