My Mt Rushmore of Los Angeles!

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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I was somehow able to come up with just four icons that I think truly define Los Angeles of the modern era... my Mt Rushmore of L.A.! This was borderline impossible to pull off, considering the names that DID NOT make it, but I get into those details also. Be sure to give me feedback on how you think I did!

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0:15.8	Yo, episode number 42, coming to you live from the I am studios in the heart of Los Angeles and 42 is a very significant number for a very significant episode. Some of you may recognize number 42 is the jersey number of
0:25.0	Jackie Robinson who broke all kinds of barriers while excelling in an extremely high
0:30.0	level from his days at Muir High School in Pasadena to UCLA to finally the Dodgers
0:38.1	truly Los Angeles and one of the most important people in LA history and that's the crux of this week's
0:44.8	episode I'm gonna try to take 241 years of modern LA history and build a Mount Rushmore
0:52.4	the Los Angeles Mount Rushmore, the Los Angeles Mount Rushmore.
0:55.0	And let me tell you, this is LA.
0:58.0	We're talking about people who've impacted the globe, the universe, really, really, I'm serious, in art, science, sports, culture.
1:07.0	And to just choose four names to chisel into one of our glorious sun-swept mountain ranges? Well, that's a big task, but I'm going to do it here.
1:18.0	So yeah, Jackie Robinson inspired this episode, number 42 baby, But did he actually make the Mount Rushmore? This,
1:26.8	you're going to want to listen to. And hopefully it inspires somebody to go get a chisel
1:30.8	out on the Santa Monica or San Gabriel Mountains to start making some of those big
1:34.9	rock faces so we could celebrate yet another amazing Los Angeles monument, the LA Mount Rushmore.
1:41.6	And before I forget, this episode is brought to you by McKenna Cars.
1:45.9	McKenna Cars.com, with nine dealerships in LA and Orange County,
1:50.8	all roads lead to McKenna.
1:52.9	That's McKenna Cars.com.
1:55.2	All right, y'all.
1:56.2	Let's get into it. So we start with something that happened in LA this week. What inspired this episode?
2:11.0	I was cleaning out my garage with my wife and I'm talking a major reorg here it's the only area in the house that was not pristine my wife is an interior designer so got to admit it's beautiful in our house she She does an awesome job. But the garage maybe not so much and going through all these boxes and piles of stuff. I covered all kinds of memories and nostalgia, treasures.
2:33.0	But the item I was most happy to find was an old newspaper from Brooklyn, published in
2:38.6	1892 called The Joker.
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