Yo, welcome to another episode of In A Minute with Evan Lovett, coming to you live from the heart of Los Angeles.

And I am here with Los Angeles native, San Fernando High graduate, somebody who is absolutely passionate, prepared, persistent about positive

change in Los Angeles.

And somebody I'm excited to speak with, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez.

Monica, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me in.

Absolutely.

She represents L.A. City's seventh council district, which includes Silmar, Mission Hills, Pekoyma, Lakeview Terrace, Sunland Tonga, my hometown in North Hills, Shadow Hills, and Latuna Canyon. Is that it? That's right. And she has some very strong thoughts about Los Angeles. So we are going to get into that.

But first, I got to talk about our sponsor, Ardo Brick.

Ardo Brick is a third generation L.A. American Dream Story running a factory, a manufacturing factory down in Gardena with jobs, with opportunity for all kinds of people in Los Angeles.

And perhaps most importantly, they are the brick and tile manufacturer for many of our

landmarks, including at Alvera Street and La Plaza de Cultura Artes, which I visited this weekend,

by the way.

Beautiful.

Great.

Thank you, Gloria Molina, for making that happen.

But thank you, Ardo Br, for for keeping jobs and manufacturing

in Los Angeles and keeping our landmarks looking beautiful. So, all right, Monica, thank you

for being here. We have a little bit of a history, a good history that is, by the way. So,

so I really appreciate sitting face to face with you. Ditto. I appreciate it.

Awesome. I do want to tell a story first about how we initially met. I did a story on L.A.

was going to ban rodeo, which is very important in the culture of Los Angeles. And I tried to honor counsel woman Rodriguez by including a picture of her, which she was, you know, very adamant, kind of pointing at the picture.

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