A few announcements!

Our next interview will be out soon. In the meantime, we're asking for listener questions for a special recording celebrating our 100th episode)(!!), and ideas for a UCLA Housing Voice book club. Send 'em to shanephillips@ucla.edu.

Transcript

Hello! Shane here with a few updates between episodes.

First up, as dedicated listeners will have noted, we didn't release a new episode of UCLA Housing Voice last week. Sorry about that. The cause of the delay was outside of our control, but our next episode will be out by August 27 at the very latest. 

On to some more exciting news. We have two announcements that we would love your feedback on.

First is that we're coming up on episode 100 of the podcast, if you can believe it. I'm hoping to celebrate with a special mailbag, ask-me-anything style recording with me and the co-hosts, and that means we need to hear from you. If you've got any unanswered questions from a previous episode, or about a topic we haven't covered, or about the podcast itself or the Lewis Center, or whatever else, send them my way. shanephillips@ucla.edu is the email. I've asked for questions a couple times in the past and we've yet to actually do this, so if you sent a question in a while back, don't worry, we've still got it. But we need more of them if we're going to fill a whole recording session. So once again, I'm at shanephillips@ucla.edu.

The other announcement is that we've been thinking about working a bookclub into the show's schedule. We've already talked about plenty of books on the show, but it's tough to cover everything we'd like to in an hourlong conversation, and I think it'd be fun to take our time and really dig in on a few of them every year. Just to be clear: no year-long odysseys though — the Power Broker's already been covered.

The idea right now is that we'd do at least two or three episodes for each book we cover, each episode would have a different guest, and one of those guests would be the book's author, celebrity and mortality permitting. All you lovely listeners would be invited to read along with us, and I'd love to explore creating some kind of forum for us all to talk about the books off-pod together, and bring your questions into the show, too.

We want your feedback on how you think the bookclub should be structured, ideas for a conversation forum, all that stuff. But beyond that, we also want to hear your ideas for which books we should talk about. One of my favorite housing books from the past few years was Stuck, by Yoni Appelbaum, and I think it's a great example of the kind of book I'm imagining for the club. I've somehow managed to never read Kenneth Jackson's classic on American suburbs, Crabgrass Frontier, and Freedom to Discriminate by Gene Slater is another one that's been calling from my bookshelf. Those are just some examples though, and I don't want to make this decision on my own, so reach out and let me know what you think. 

One last time, my email is shanephillips@ucla.edu, and you can also message me at shanedphillips on Bluesky or LinkedIn. Thank you for listening -- we will be back in your feed soon.