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In a Minute with Evan Lovett

LAX is terrible… Is $30 billion enough to fix it?!?

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

51K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

LAX serves more than 80 million passengers per year... and it's terrible. Dingy, crowded, inefficient, slow - can this airport possibly serve as a beacon for the world as L.A. hosts the World Cup, Super Bowl, and 2028 Olympics? The good news is that a $30 billion transformation is in progress, but will it be enough to avoid the pratfalls of flying in what Reddit calls "a pathetic dump of an airport?" In short, can LAX be fixed?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, welcome to another episode of In A Minute with Evan Lovett coming to you live from

0:13.0

the IAM studios in the heart of L.A. And you can't spell L.A.X without L.A. But the problem is

0:20.5

L.A.X has problems, major problems. So how do we fix

0:26.1

LAX? The thing is, I fly a little bit. I'm not going to say I fly a lot, but Pittsburgh, Boston,

0:33.9

Chicago, Vegas, Mexico.

0:42.3

We go at least a few times a year through LAX.

0:50.6

And every time I need to steal my reserve, gird my loins, get ready for an ordeal.

0:53.6

And it's not fun.

0:58.3

I like flying. I like airports. I like being on planes. But LAX honestly is one of the worst experiences of all the airports that I go to. It's just a fact.

1:04.3

I'm sorry. I love it. Paul Revere Williams theme building will get to that. It's got some good

1:09.7

ish aspects. But man, it's tough, but it's important because about 80-plus

1:16.3

million people per year go through LAX.

1:19.2

And the opinions are pretty bad.

1:23.0

But first, I want to give a shout out to my sponsor.

1:25.2

Armin, Ardo, Brick, always coming through, does beautiful work, tile and brick.

1:30.8

And I'm not talking just random tile and brick.

1:33.1

We're talking historic landmarks, Mariahi Plaza, Alvara Street, USC, Ohio Valley Inn, I believe, Viarta, Viviana,

1:44.1

right there in his factory in Gardina, keeping jobs in L.A., manufacturing, L.A. Thank you, Ardo Brick. We love you, and thanks for the sponsorship. Great dude. Third generation L.A. Legacy, 1966. Keeping it here in L.A. So that's so important. And maybe Ardo Brick needs to start working on this LAX renovation, which is coming.

2:01.5

And we will get to that too.

2:03.1

But something needs to happen.

2:06.1

And, you know, the theme, the title I think we're going to go with today is how do we fix

2:10.9

LAX?

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