This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
This episode is a radio replay, a pairing of two previously aired podcast episodes that we've married together to play on our radio show.
What you're about to listen to is a combo of the episodes pedestals and guillotines and the perils of power.
We're calling it the power hour.
Power dynamics shape everything in our society.
From high school.
You're wearing sweatpants.
So?
So that's against the rules and you can't sit with us to the highest court of the land.
We'll hear argument first this morning in.
Case ten 5400 what are the qualities that give people power and what happens to us when we have it?
We answer those questions and more on today's show.
Alright, lets get to it.
Welcome to Los Angeles, the celebrity capital of the world.
Its a city that conjures palm line boulevards, sprawling mansions, luxury cars at the center.
Of all the glitz, Hollywood movie stars arent the only ones here.
Star gazers are drawn here too, like paper clips to a magnet.
And point your attention to the left because we are seeing Beverly Hills for the first time on the left hand side.
Wow.