he was one of the first LA Times ppl i freaked out from meeting when i did

which was early in my run there

he had written a story that would later get him in trouble

about how this guy in jail told him who killed Tupac

turned out it wasnt true and they had to retract it from the paper and we had to do all these special things on the website

but a few weeks before that he was assigned to do a live chat in my office

and i was all holy shit chuck phillips i used to read you way back in college

he was so nice

so down to earth

and here he is interviewing 2pac back in the day