Los Angeles: The Most Diverse City on Earth... Literally

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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L.A. is the most diverse city on Earth. How and why did this come to be? I get into details behind the history of how this happened, as well as dropping some mind blowing facts around it to boot/If you have to do one thing in L.A. this weekend, do this, go see the largest Religious painting in the World! The story behind this work of art and how it arrived and came to its place of display is perhaps wilder than anything!

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0:00.0	What is up?
0:01.0	What is up? I am Evan Lovett and welcome to my new podcast in a minute with
0:11.6	Evan Lovett. This is an Odyssey original brought to you by my company
0:15.4	in a minute media coming to you live from my studio in the heart of my favorite
0:19.7	city in the world Los Angeles, California. Let's get into it.
0:24.0	Yo, what is up? This is episode number 16 of In A Minute with Evan Lovett.
0:35.1	Arguably the most fun episode to date. I'm excited about this. I'm coming to you
0:40.6	from the I am studios in the heart of Los Angeles. This one's
0:45.1	gonna be dope. Here's the rundown. We start with this. Los Angeles, it's the most
0:50.6	diverse city in the world and I mean that in the literal sense the most diverse city on the planet
0:56.7	And I'm gonna get into some facts about the diversity of the city that'll blow your mind
1:00.7	Including how Los Angeles became the most diverse city of the world.
1:04.3	You are not going to want to miss this.
1:06.6	If you're going to do one thing in LA this week, do this.
1:10.3	You're going to a cemetery, but not for a grave site or anything somber.
1:14.4	It's for a work of art, a painting that is almost unfathomable.
1:19.4	It's as wide as a 19-story building is tall and it has its own amphitheatre built specifically to showcase this one painting.
1:29.0	And the story of how it got there is even more mind-blowing than the painting itself.
1:34.0	Stay tuned, this is awesome.
1:36.0	All right y'all, let's get into it. Chinatown, Byzantine Latino Quarter, Little Saigon, historic Filipino town, little Armenia, Cambodia town, little
2:00.0	Ethiopia, little Bangladesh, little Moscow, Croatian place, little Tokyo, Korea town,
2:09.6	Teerangels, Thai town. These are just some of the officially designated community hubs here in Los Angeles.
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