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In a Minute with Evan Lovett

The Story of Neal Baker: The Most Essential Man in Restaurant History?

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

51K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Neal Baker had his prints all over the origins of some of the most revolutionary restaurant chains in history, I cover it A to Z / Therapy Session is back, and it's heavy... about my Dog and the moral dilemmas it comes with!  I explain in detail/If you do one thing in L.A., do this... Hint: it's the birthplace of Los Angeles! 

Transcript

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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 14. You know where I'm coming from, here in the

0:36.4

I am studios in the heart of Los Angeles. Let's jump right into the rundown of

0:41.2

this week's episode.

0:43.0

Gonna start with something I learned this week.

0:45.8

I learned about a man named Neil Baker.

0:48.8

Let me tell you something about Neil Baker.

0:51.0

He might be the most influential person in the restaurant industry, ever.

0:56.2

I'll explain.

0:58.3

And the therapy session is back.

1:00.8

I want to talk about dogs. LA is the dog capital of the world, but selfishly speaking I want to talk about my dog, my firstborn dog if you will, and the ethical dilemma I've been faced with regarding my dog. I'll get into that one.

1:17.8

And lastly, if you're going to do one thing in LA this week, do this. This is classic Los Angeles and I mean that in the truest sense it's actually

1:26.0

the birthplace of Los Angeles in 1781 this one's gonna be good all right y'all

1:32.1

let's get into it.

1:42.4

So what I learned this week. I was driving to my wife's family's house in the i.e.

1:48.0

and we take the 210 to get there. And off the 210 you pass locations of just about every fast food chain on the planet

1:57.0

most of which if you've been listening to in a minute with Evan Lovett we know come from Los Angeles

2:06.4

But one of those places is a restaurant I haven't frequented but I'm familiar with. It's called Baker's drive through.

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