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In a Minute with Evan Lovett

1-on-1 w/ L.A. Mayor Karen Bass!

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

51K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Getting to know a side of our Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass you may not know. We talk about her origin story from growing up in L.A., to when she realized she wanted to end up in politics from working in the health field, to her Mom and Dad, to her family now, and wrapping with a solid recap of her first year in office. Then, do not miss the closing segment of the pod as we're talking about the one thing to in L.A. this week, which is... the 95 year old City Hall!  Its beautiful, and it's free!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, episode number 44, we're not live from the IAM studios today. We're in City Hall.

0:15.0

Downtown Los Angeles City Hall completed in 1928 to embody the energy and

0:21.9

ambition of a growing metropolis.

0:24.0

And we're here because we embody energy and ambition

0:28.0

of a substantial world metropolis.

0:32.0

And because I will be interviewing Los Angeles Mayor

0:35.4

Karen Bass who just completed her first year as mayor of LA. Now look I'm honored to sit down with the mayor and we're going to discuss

0:45.3

her origin story, her obstacles, her accomplishments, and the future both for her and the city of Los Angeles and look we were fortunate to get time with Mayor

0:56.7

Bass I want that to be clear she has a ton on her plate so we got about 15, which wasn't enough to cover everything that I wanted

1:04.8

to get to, but we cover a lot of ground. And you know what this does? It sets the stage for future

1:09.9

more expansive interviews with the mayor. So for that I'm extremely appreciative.

1:14.4

And I need to put out a stipulation here. This is not political.

1:18.2

I'm not conducting this interview as a Democrat, a Republican, a member of the Green Party, anything like that.

1:26.0

This is an opportunity for the people of the city of Los Angeles to get to know the person

1:29.5

in charge.

1:30.5

And I've always said, if you're gonna complain then you gotta understand first

1:35.6

Then it's your right to complain. So whether or not you support Mayor Bass she is the mayor of this city that we all love so much and I am proud to be sitting in this building with our mayor

1:47.1

So thank you in advance for listening with an open mind a clear heart and an eye on Los Angeles and one more thing you know I'm not going to leave you with one without one thing to do in Los Angeles this week

1:59.0

This is a really good one and it's gonna take you right into the heart of our city.

2:03.7

And before I forget this episode is brought to you by McKenna Cars.

2:07.9

McKenna Cars.com with nine dealerships in LA and Orange County,

2:12.9

all roads lead to McKenna.

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