Yo, episode number 43 and we are live from the I am studios in the Hard Los Angeles. But before we get into it today, I want you to do two things. Number one, hit the follow and subscribe button so you can get alerted when the new episodes drop.

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Now, I want to jump into the rundown of this episode because the calendar hit December, and this is holiday season, the season of wonder.

Well, should I say, the season of wonders?

I mean, this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year.

Whether you love or hate the holidays, I happen to love them.

But Los Angeles is a very unique place to celebrate.

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or nothing at all because frankly it's a strange place to even have winter and that's why all year

especially in this season the season of wonders we look into the seven Wonders of Los Angeles.

I'm talking about the consummate symbols of LA.

Not talking to Hollywood Sign or Rodeo Drive,

which are fine in their own right.

I've talked about both of those. But places that genuinely

inspire wonder, places with heart, with soul that represent the Los Angeles

culture. And listen, there are about a hundred places that could have made

this list. So this was very difficult for me to put together, but I think we did a

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