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What do we mean when we talk about home? A podcast from Bill Barol.

  1. 27/11/2017

    Goodbye (for now)

    I started this podcast in the fall of 2015 with a notion to tell stories of the many ways people think about home. For 27 episodes, that’s what I’ve done. I don’t think that going in I ever conceived HOME as a project that would go on in perpetuity, and now, in the fall of […]

    2 min

  2. 18/08/2017

    Episode 26: Going Tiny

    HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve also made them look fun, cute and easy. The realities of a tiny lifestyle can be more daunting. Municipalities often don’t know what to make of tiny houses, and living in one legally is, in many places, challenging. There’s a […]

    17 min

  3. 02/08/2017

    Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories

    “The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who worked in their garage their whole life, they’re guys who’ve worked at one business for forty years, people who’ve lived on one street for forty years… “ “All Night Menu” started with a question: What is a well-known […]

    21 min

  4. 19/07/2017

    Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity

    The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedy “The Loved One.” For tourists and curiosity-seekers, it’s the gonzo life’s work of Hubert Eaton, who memorialized himself as The Builder in the park’s every corner. For the families […]

    21 min

  5. 05/07/2017

    Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland

    How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best designers to think hard about the home of the future, in Los Angeles and beyond. MUSIC: “One More Time,” by Quincy Jones  Theme from “The Jetsons” “Hollywood […]

    28 min

  6. 30/06/2017

    Update: Season 5 starts July 5

    HOME: Stories From L.A.

    2 min

  7. 25/02/2017

    Update: The Future of HOME

    Join me, won’t you, as I peel back the curtain on this podcast and kick around some thoughts about its future. (TL;DR: I’m slowing the production cycle a bit to make the project sustainable over the long haul. New season is coming this spring. Also, if you’re a social media wizard and would like to help […]

    6 min

  8. 14/12/2016

    Update: New Season Coming

    HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!

    1 min
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