I’m sorry, but having on Taylor Lorenz—a known liar and hack—who has turned chicanery and gaslighting into an (albeit bumpy) career path has destroyed my respect for this show. Listening to her try to gaslight and shame us into denying our own critical thinking skills is audience abuse and I won’t take it. I’m so sick of being spoken down to by professional trolls like Taylor. Respect your audience and their intellect.

Great show, love KCRW, can’t go wrong!!

Love the show! It’s my favorite show! But has anyone noticed that it says the host is Madeleine Bernadotte at Apple Podcast??

Love Madeline and Press Play! A must listen to be plugged into everything LA and California.

I really appreciate hearing the interview with the army officer who is trying to get his interpreter out. This is a humanitarian catastrophe which will be forgotten unless Biden takes more action.

just launching more raceism and riots had enough of your lies

MB is such a pleasure to listen to during the week. Mixes up serious and light hearted stuff.

Press Play has so much bias in its stories. The subjects covered are mostly ones of important topics for SoCal (& beyond). However, Brand puts her own beliefs into them ahead of (or absent of) the full and true story. Listener beware.

...as opposed to journalism. It’s nice, breezy chit chat, but hardly informative. I miss the hard-driving Warren Olney, who was rigorous, gathered multiple sources for his reporting, and respected his listeners’ autonomy. Look elsewhere for your news.

I really enjoy Press Play. Madeleine is easy to listen to and her stories and interviews are topical and interesting. It’s like listening to a favorite segment of NPR with an old friend. Never boring and always thoughtful and relevant.

One of my favorite shows on KCRW .

I used to be a regular, but I feel like it’s drifted from being a source of local news and information ,to a show mainly focused on liberal and progressive talking points. These are views that I generally align with but I have enough echo chambers in my life. I’ve started to just listen to Take Two as an alternative for interesting and relevant local news.

I’ve always loved press play but I used to only listen to it in the car whenever it was on. I’ve since started to seek it out with the gubernatorial interviews, which I find so helpful. I hope they’ll do more (senate and congressional). I love that they’re helping me be an informed voter!

I really appreciate the topics Madeline brings to her show. The show has great guests & very insightful stories. However Madeline falls short for me. I’m not fully on board with her interview style, I feel at times she belittles her guests. I personally prefer when Barbara Bogaev guest hosts. I feel she treats the guests with respect & has a very different & kind approach to interviewing guests.

Used to live in LA and our daughter lives there now. This is a great podcast for keeping up with the city. Also many topics of national interest. Madeleine Brand is an exceptional interviewer

A dependably well researched topical and important stories. Not to be missed.

It's so nice to hear Ms. Brand back on the air, she was always one of my favorites. And producer Andrew Walsh puts his spin on it to create a show with more fun and variety than a lot of NPR shows. I'm excited to add this to my podcast rotation!

You guys are Awesome. I love the show, Madeline is a Ten. The topics are great, I'm from the Bay Area and even though you guys are based in so cal it's all news and topics I'm engaged to. It's a well produced show, only suggestion, add some flute to the outro music.