I don't want to give away too much, but we got fun people planned.

We got some big names in entertainment, huge names in food.

Yes, politics, because we got to talk about it.

But I will tell you, this is my podcast bucket list.

And you know we've had on Jeannie Bus, Fred Armisen, Kishon Johnson, Rick Caruso,

Mayor Bass. We've had some great, great guests on here. But the bucket list is these four.

This is my Mount Rushmore, by the way. Snoop, Shaq, Magic, be real. So if any of you

you are listening, you want to come on, come on come on reach out and we'll get

you on the show yo happy new year and welcome to 2026 and the first 2026 episode of in a Minute with Evan Lovett, as always, coming to you live

from the IAM studios in the heart of L.A. And hope you had a fantastic New Year's Eve, New Year's

Day, watch that rose parade, drank some champagne, had some fun. But this is 2026, and we are absolutely ready to get into it.

First, I want to thank our sponsor coming back with us this year.

Thank you so much, Ardo Brick, keeping the legacies, keeping the history alive.

Alvairn Street, Mariachi Plaza, Plaza deotourri Artis, now celebrating 60 years this year.

Third generation L.A. American Dream Story, manufacturing tiles and bricks down there in Gardina.

Thank you, Armin.

Thank you, Ardo Brick, for helping us ring in the new year here.

And today's episode is 10 things to expect in L.A. in 2026. Now, I got to say,

when you say what to expect in L.A., you know, there's certain things on the calendar. But in the

words of the great Vin Scully, if you want to make God laugh, tell them your plans. So we're not putting anything down in Sharpie,

but we're going to take a macro view and hope that this year looks a lot better than the last one.

Many of you saw my year of review 2025, straight up, it was the year of fires and ice. And it was a

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