Is Las Vegas the next Los Angeles? Let me Explain. . .
In a Minute with Evan Lovett
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5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Listen in as I make what I believe to be an ultra strong case that Las Vegas, is becoming the NEXT Los Angeles. All the signs are there, from similar origins in the desert, from lack of resources to an abundance, to the power of pro franchises coming to town... and this just scratches the surface. Listen all the way through and tell me I'm not wrong!
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, in a minute with Evan Lovett, and I'm here in my second home, aka the IAM studios in the heart of Los Angeles. |
| 0:15.0 | And this is another episode brought to you by the folks at Surrinos Auto Square, which is a very good thing this time. |
| 0:21.0 | Because we're taking a road trip. Yes indeed heading to my second home the place I call |
| 0:27.6 | LA's backyard Vegas baby Las Vegas. Check this out. More than 4.8 million people in LA County |
| 0:37.5 | visit Vegas in any given year and since 2019, 270,000 people have moved from LA to Vegas. |
| 0:46.0 | So yeah, I'd say that qualifies as our backyard. |
| 0:49.0 | As much as people love Vegas and think about Vegas for the nightlife the day club |
| 0:54.4 | Cirque de sile the strip sports books roulette blackjack Vegas is more than that |
| 1:00.9 | much more I know people that have moved out there for my wife's |
| 1:06.4 | cousin to our CPA to some good friends and they didn't go there for any of that |
| 1:10.8 | so-called fun stuff. They went there because Vegas is |
| 1:14.0 | becoming a metropolis, a force to be reckoned with throughout the world. |
| 1:18.3 | Economically, culinaryly, and yes, dare I say culturally I'm gonna get into all that but you know what this is |
| 1:29.8 | reminding me of that's, the origin of Los Angeles. That was another desert adjacent |
| 1:36.9 | frontier town without enough resources to thrive that is thrive beyond anybody's wildest imagination. |
| 1:44.8 | So that being said I'm going to dive into this concept. |
| 1:47.6 | Is Las Vegas the next Los Angeles? |
| 1:51.0 | Let me explain. All right y'all. Let's get into it. |
| 1:55.0 | So we start with something that happened in LA this week. |
| 2:01.0 | So we start with something that happened in LA this week. This is big news. |
| 2:06.0 | It's on a lot of newspapers. A high-speed rail project that's going to link LA and Las Vegas received 2.5 billion |
| 2:14.9 | dollars in bonds from the Department of Transportation. This is that project |
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