Produced in partnership with San Pedro Today magazine, Soundings uses this little corner of Los Angeles as a lens to explore global commerce, culture, art, and history. Each episode features long-form conversations with writers, thinkers, and artists who have something to teach us about how the world works.

 

San Pedro (home to the Port of Los Angeles and one of the world's busiest harbors) is a place where the local and the global collide. Every container ship that leaves tells a story of global supply chains. Every street corner holds a history of labor, immigration, and culture. Every person who lives here is connected to something larger.

 

Soundings takes this insight as its ethos: every place is a crossroads. Every person carries a piece of the larger world within them. By starting in San Pedro and looking outward, we discover truths about economics, art, identity, and human survival that resonate far beyond our city limits.

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About the Host: Aaron McKenzie

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Soundings is created and hosted by Aaron McKenzie, an award-winning storyteller whose work has appeared in publications including Road & Track, Hagerty, National Geographic, The Korea Herald, Sight, Petrolicious, San Pedro Today, Korea Business Daily, The Joong-Ang Daily, and Driving Line. For over a decade, Aaron has called San Pedro home, in the process falling in love with this harbor community where global currents meet local stories.​