I feel like this is a position to be, that is very useful to demystify a lot of things, right?

Like growing up, you really don't know where your money is being spent.

You really don't know what your government is doing.

And I look at like the people like me when I was growing, you know, now, you know, I just live in my life.

I don't really know what's happening in government.

I'm like, well, let me try to target these people. So they know what their government is doing. And that's why we do everything through like funny mediums, right? Of course, we still have our long page reports that are super serious. But if you really want to meet people where they are, you have to explain it to them or do things in a way that makes sense.

What is up and welcome to another episode of In a Minute with Evan Lovett coming to you live from the IM studios in the heart of Los Angeles.

And here today we have the watchdog of Los Angeles, if you will.

If you will, that is Kenneth Mejia, the Los Angeles city controller who, it's incredible

because I wouldn't even be able to name a previous LA City

controller, but he has somehow been able to take the position, make it high profile,

and tell us basically how important it really is.

And he's done it in such a unique fashion.

This is a really good story is what I'm trying to say.

Like you're city controller accounting. It's one of those, you know, your eyes roll back in your

head, but he's made it exciting and he's really taken a stand and been a face for the city

of Los Angeles and a face for transparency in finance for the city of Los Angeles and has been able to rally up

a lot of support for a position that's generally under the radar. So, I mean, we're going to get

into his background. First Filipino American elected to citywide office in Los Angeles. That is

significant in a city with such a proud and deep Filipino history and big population. But Kenneth, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate this. And thank you for everything you're doing for the city. Thank you so much, Evan, for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So I'll give you my background with Kenneth Mejia, first of all. Again, it's, I never, never even hear about the city control. You know, I vote and blah, blah, blah, but it's, it's one of those where you're like, account, it's, it's, I knew it is maybe the city accountant, which probably isn't accurate, you know, but where you like, okay, does this, it matters, but like, what do they even really do kind of thing. But I started seeing you on social media.

And I started seeing you just get a high profile based on, you know,

you're previously an activist.

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