Newsom's Fart Detecting Satellites

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[00:00:27] What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California Underground Podcast, the most trusted podcast for all things California politics. I am your host, Phil. And as always with me, my trusted cohost, the best, the fastest researcher in the West, Camille. Now with a new tagline, you have to take a really big breath to get through all of that in one single breath. I was like running out of breath. I was like, How are you doing tonight, Camille?

[00:00:55] I'm good. The weather's good. But I have to tell you, I'm going to actually check real quick. I know we're not like technically even near each other, but I think we're expecting rain next week. Oh. Oh, yes. Next Thursday, rain is expected. So... Well, yeah, go ahead. No, it's like we had... Sunday, I want to say it was like 88 degrees.

[00:01:22] So I was in my temperature controlled, air conditioned home. Today was like a low 70s. But I like that, you know, it's getting dark later. And my chickens are laying eggs because there's light longer. They're happy with the weather. Anyway, how are you? Did you enjoy that tweet I sent you about... Yes. I forget which laboratory. This is what happens when you don't murder millions of chickens. The price of eggs has dropped down.

[00:01:51] And start laying eggs when you don't murder chickens. Yeah. Amazing concept. A pretty amazing concept. No, I don't actually sell my eggs anymore, but I'm thinking, oh, no more $10 dozen eggs from my organic backyard clock. They'll have to move on to something else to complain about on the left about egg prices and stuff like that. Well... This is not really related to the episode tonight, but I did finally get some wall art.

[00:02:17] If you can see to my right, to people who are watching there left, if they can in the chat, there's only a little bit of you you can see here. I'll tilt the camera just a little bit so you get to... If you can tell me what that is. It's a guessing game, you guys. You have to put your response in the chat. What is that wall art of? Because we were talking about it before we hopped on. All right. We have a lot to get to tonight.

[00:02:47] First off, we're going to be talking about Rosie O'Donald was on a talk show in Ireland, which is where she has recently moved, engaging in full election denialism. Karen Bass, her solution to why she's a billion dollars in the red is to go beg Sacramento for $2 billion. Newsom has launched his own satellite or California's own satellites, not Newsom satellite, but he used California money to launch a satellite to detect methane. I know it said fart detecting.

[00:03:16] We all know it's the joke of like cow farts are polluting or warming the globe. We went down the rabbit hole on that a lot of money involved in that. And then finally, we're going to end on the fact that this poll came out and even my parents noticed it all the way on the East Coast. They said, wow, 48% of likely California voters would consider voting for a Republican governor in the next election in 2026. So we're going to dive into that a little bit.

[00:03:44] But before we start, make sure if you're watching, you like share, subscribe, review, comment, all that stuff helps with the algorithm. Are you ready to watch Rosie O'Donald go full election denialism? I am never ready to watch Rosie O'Donald anything. So. All right. Well, fair enough. I, the only time I, you know, it's sad because I liked Rosie O'Donald in a lot of things, you know, a league of her league of their own. Love that movie. Great movie. You know, she was a great character in that.

[00:04:14] Some great lines with her and Madonna. Both of them have kind of got off the deep end when it comes to anti-Trumpism. But she's played a lot of good characters. And it's sad. Now she's gone, you know, a little crazy and she's off in Ireland. She finally moved. I give her credit. She was one of the only celebrities who said, I'm going to move. And she actually moved. Right. Like every election. They're like, oh, Trump wins. This happened. We were like, why are y'all still here? Shouldn't you be gone? Yeah.

[00:04:43] So it's always all these celebrities are like, well, I'm going to move to Europe. I'm going to move here. I'm going to move there. I give her credit. She actually got up and moved. So good for her. I think it was Ellen DeGeneres left before Trump got elected. But I think that had something else to do with like P Diddy and why she was running away from that. But all right, we got to start with our stinger before our cringe moment of the week. So as always.

[00:05:06] So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris's particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos. Yeah. For the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars. Yep. Got to get those Doritos. Doritos. A lot of people did vote for him. Yes. Do you accept their right to do that and their opinion of him?

[00:05:36] Well, I respect their right to do that. I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state. And is also best friends and his largest donor was a man who owns and runs the Internet. So I would hope that that would be investigated. His best friend is Al Gore. Is that who? Okay, thank you. I was wondering if Al Gore had anything to say about this.

[00:06:04] I thought Al Gore started and created the Internet, right? Like so. Right. He is the father of the Internet. Right. And I had no idea that Al Gore and Trump were besties, but you learn something new every day. Yeah. Strange bedfellows. And that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her. And Donald Trump was not able to do that.

[00:06:34] So it's curious to me. And as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country. All the reasons. We're just. Is it her country anymore? She moved. I don't know. Well, she's not officially. I don't think she's Irish yet. I don't think she's officially as a citizen yet. You have to go through. There's a process over in the UK that you have to go through to become a citizen.

[00:07:05] But I guess it's still technically her country until she becomes a UK citizen. Now, does she plan to stay there just for the duration of Trump's presidency? Or is she going to come back? Or is she like permanently? She's out. She's like, I've given up on America. That would be interesting to see if she does come back after a certain amount of time. I don't know why it's so shocking to her that. Well, I shouldn't. I shouldn't say I don't know why.

[00:07:35] A lot of people were in this bubble and we saw reactions from everybody on the left that they were shocked that Trump did so well in this election. But if you were really like reading the tea leaves and you were looking at the polls and you were looking at the support, I don't think people who were in the know were that shocked that Trump won. I think they were maybe a little bit more shocked that he won by so much.

[00:08:01] I think that clip of them on CNN looking at all the counties of like Joe Biden won and Kamala didn't do better in one single county in the entire country probably gave you an idea. Who cares if she filled up stadiums at the end of the day, like you can fill up a stadium of 20,000 people. You still got to get people in the state to vote. And Trump still won all those states and he won every single swing state.

[00:08:27] Why is why is that suspicious to her if a more popular candidate be an unpopular candidate and won every swing state? It's happened before. I don't know, like back in the day when Reagan won, like how many states 48 states like it's happened before. It's not not cause not cause for like, you know, big election denialism and conspiracy theories. Uh, what were your thoughts about that? I didn't know that we were allowed to do that.

[00:08:56] I thought that was like very tinfoil hat to even say, utter the words election denialism. Right. I thought I was told that election denialism is like akin to being an insurrectionist and therefore you're a traitor to your country.

[00:09:15] If you're an insurrectionist, um, that's what I was told, but this was just four short years ago that I was told if you, you had any questions about elections and the security of elections and question their results. You were an insurrectionist and you should be, you know, thrown in federal jail forever. Hashtag never forget.

[00:09:38] Um, I, I know it was rumored and I don't know, I w I was never at a Kamal Harris event, but it was rumored that people were paid to go. It was rumored that the stadiums weren't full. Um, and that they were, you know, doctoring images. I don't know. I don't care. It doesn't matter.

[00:09:58] But, um, we've talked about this before because we were actually at an event that Trump was at and we talked about like, and again, this isn't something like, I don't use these words to describe like, oh, you could feel the energy. Oh, but you could feel the energy. Yeah. And you talked about like, I, I, and I have photos of some, some woman was there who she, her thumbnails were painted with like Trump's picture on her thumbnails.

[00:10:27] Um, then there, you know, as you know, that Trump was really late to that event, like an hour and a half late. And instead of people getting mad, they just start doing like Trump chants and dancing around the room and showing off their gear. And we didn't see any of that for Biden and certainly not for Kamala. It was, there was all the, oh, finally we can elect a woman president.

[00:10:50] Like as if this was the first time a female had ever run, but, um, yeah, there just wasn't, you didn't see those things in support of Biden or Harris. And so I don't know people were shocked again. I didn't think it was going to be this close either, but through paying attention to politics, it was pretty clear America was getting fed up. People were mad and a lot of my left leaning friends were even like, no, I'm not voting for him or her.

[00:11:21] It's, it's going to have to be Trump. So. Yeah, it's a, well, we play the, we make a little jab at her every single time we do our cringe moment when we do little sound clips of Kamala. And I think that definitely reverberated. Um, there's a whole issue of, she was paying a lot of these performers. And there's a lot of performers to show up, which got people to show up. So like Beyonce stadiums, like, yeah, okay.

[00:11:49] She filled up a stadium cause Beyonce was there and then people were pissed because they showed up. Beyonce can fill a stadium. Beyonce can fill a stadium. And then they were pissed because they thought Beyonce was going to put on a concert. And like, they were at a Beyonce concert with like a Kamala, like introduction. Um, but that's not what happened at all. Instead, it was just Beyonce came out and read like something that was scripted for her and she was paid. And then she left. And that's how you fill a stadium on that.

[00:12:17] But Trump didn't need to do that. He didn't need to use a lot of stars or Beyonce or anything like that to fill stadiums. But regardless, the whole filling stadium thing is so, it's such a weird thing to use as like a measurement. Now it's kind of like what's going on with Bernie and AOC where they're like, well, look at them. They, they showed up and there were 20,000 people in deep blue Colorado. Like the, the, the fire is real. The passion is real. It's like, okay, well, first off you're in Colorado, you're in Denver.

[00:12:47] Like these are very deep blue areas. Bernie and AOC showing up in those areas is, is a good, a draw crowd. I mean, make them go to, I don't know what's a really conservative city in the middle of like Texas or something. Make them go to Oklahoma or something and see if they draw 20 or 30,000 people. We'll see how well that does. Does Oklahoma have that many people? No, I'm just kidding. Might be the whole state. 30,000 people would be the entire state of Oklahoma. Yeah.

[00:13:14] I, I, it's hard to tell whether or not people showing up means it doesn't translate into people voting. I mean, yeah, obviously if you show up and a lot of people show up, that shows excitement. I don't think it equates to whether you're going to win a swing state or not. That's more like the polls and the ground game, but whatever. That's Rosie's prerogative.

[00:13:35] She moved to Ireland and now she's questioning the election, which is, I laugh every single time that I hear people on the left question the election and saying, you know, Elon Musk stole it and his supercomputers and his Tesla humanoid robots are taking over the world. I'm like, okay, you know, four years ago, if we had been saying this, you would have said we're election denial, you know, deniers. And that's, that's the end of it. And we should all be thrown in jail.

[00:14:01] So any final thoughts on Rosie O'Donald out in Ireland question the election? I hope she thrives. Yeah. Yeah. Ireland, I hear is a very beautiful country. So take some time, get some rest, have a good pint of Guinness and some Irish whiskey and just chillax for a little bit until, you know, maybe you get in a right headspace. Anyway, all right.

[00:14:27] This next thing is kind of hearkening back to the last episode we just did prior to this episode 307 where we were talking about how Los Angeles is facing a billion dollar deficit. It started off as $300 million, which was bad enough. And now it's ballooned to a billion dollars.

[00:14:45] And we talked about how extensive that is, why it is, what they're paying out their bare bones budget, which is 12.8 as opposed to $13 billion, which I won't get into that. Why? I think you might be crazy if you think that's bare bones. That's not close to bare bones. And we kind of ended the show, but like, well, they got to figure it out. They got to start cutting.

[00:15:10] They got to start figuring out how to save money, the parking tickets, which you brought up about them trying to collect on parking tickets, which they actually ended up spending more money. Only the government could figure out how to spend more money than trying to collect money that's owed to them. But Karen Bass has a solution and it's a solution that, you know, most Democrats when they run out of ideas or status or leftists, I'm going to lump them all together.

[00:15:37] When they can't raise taxes, what do they do? They go and they beg for a bailout. So Karen Bass was spotted in Sacramento. Our favorite reporter, Ashley Zavala, caught up with her in the capital and said, what are you doing here? And are you asking for help? So we'll take a look at that. The state right now is dealing with a really uncertain budget situation in terms of its Medicaid funds, in terms of what federal funding looks like in the future. That's right.

[00:16:07] Tax returns in your district are delayed until October. So lawmakers are going to have to formulate a budget plan that they don't really even know how much money they're working with. So just your what's your I guess what's your message to California taxpayers and other parts of the state who sort of see these challenges ahead for the state while, you know, you yourself have your challenge. Right, right. And we are fortunate to have the state legislature and governor that we do. And we are concerned because we don't know what awaits us from Washington, D.C.

[00:16:35] But the state will have a better sense of the finances after April 15th when taxes are due. The May revise when the budget is updated based on the tax returns will give us a better idea. But that's why we're here now, because the subcommittees in the assembly and in the Senate that decide the budget that the governor put forward are meeting right now. So we want to make sure that L.A. City is included in that. We've been working lockstep with the county. The county was here last week.

[00:17:03] So we wanted to make sure that our voices were heard as well, which is why we're here. So basically, she is begging for money from Sacramento. The number I heard she's asking for is around two billion dollars, which is more than the deficit that she currently has with her budget. Obviously, some of that probably has to go with the wildfires. I think it's interesting how she said we're fortunate enough that we have the governor and the legislature.

[00:17:30] We do mean we have a super majority. And who's going to tell us now because we run the entire state and who's going to push back on this? I'm just going to show up and ask for whatever I want and hopefully get it because that's we're all Democrats and we're all on the same team here. Sure. I think that's what I was about to say.

[00:17:56] Well, yeah, you said and it was on the screen there that she's asking for approximately 1.9 billion dollars. So, okay, rounding 2 billion. And we know that the deficit is just under 1 billion. And so I'm wondering if there's more coming down that we haven't heard about that this deficit is maybe way bigger than what's even known yet. And yes, okay, there is the wildfire situation. I get that.

[00:18:22] But yeah, I'm wondering if like slowly but surely things are going to come out that their deficit is actually closer to 2 billion. And yeah, you know, only time will tell with that, but that is curious to me that she's asking for double the number because as I discussed last week, or a few days ago, whatever, I can't even comprehend the number 1 billion. That number just, I just don't understand it.

[00:18:48] And so when you double 1 billion to 2 billion, I'm like, this is not 1 million to 2 million. This is, again, billions of that just escapes me. And so I don't, I don't understand how anyone like, and she's, she's standing there just being like, luckily, we have, you know, the governor and the legislator that we do. She should freaking have her tail between her legs that are head down and shame.

[00:19:11] Like there should be some serious remorse and shame and embarrassment that she's even asking for any money at all, but billions. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. I remember the point I was going to make. So we had discussed on the previous episode about this billion dollar deficit was due to the budget that they had voted in for 2024 and 2025.

[00:19:38] So this budget was voted in prior to the wildfires. Sure. So this billion dollar deficit has quite literally nothing to do with the wildfires. This is incompetence. This is not, oh, the wildfires set us back. And that's why we're a billion dollars, you know, short on our budget. It's no, you pass this budget. Tax revenues didn't match up.

[00:20:06] And now you're a billion dollars in the red. And I think we even talked about how they knew like this was going to be an issue, this budget that they passed. Prior to the wildfires. So a lot of the, you know, a lot of repairs and stuff we're seeing damage control or damage cleanup has a lot to do with the federal government. FEMA is there. They're on the ground. So they're spending federal money. The EPA is there as well. Also federal money.

[00:20:32] So there's a lot of federal money pouring into rebuilding or getting L.A. back on its feet. So asking for 2 billion and you make an excellent point. Why is she asking for 2 billion? What's the extra billion for if your budget deficits only a billion dollars? Where's the other billion? I mean, we're now we're just throwing out numbers. Yeah, it's just we're just throwing out numbers now. Yeah, you know what? Don't worry. It's it's a billion to 2 billion. Who cares? Whatever? We got the money.

[00:21:00] Sorry, we're a billion in debt now. It's like, you know, California is not doing so hot either when it comes to the budget, because now they got a dish out money for the wildfires. You know, tax revenues are down for them as well. There's a lot of things going on for California that they're not exactly, you know, now they're borrowing money to pay for Medi-Cal to just for the bills for this month to cover everybody under Medi-Cal.

[00:21:29] And that includes all undocumented citizens here in California. So there's a lot of money going out of the Treasury in the state and asking just sauntering up to Sacramento and going, oh, can you give us 2 billion dollars is like it's just outrageous. It's OK. You got caught with a budget deficit. You have no other solution to figure it out. But please just bail us out. And like she said, I don't know what's coming out of D.C.

[00:21:55] I can tell you right now, nothing's coming out of D.C. D.C.'s not going to bail out Los Angeles. So, yeah. Any other thoughts? Have they tried switching to Geico to say 50% or more? I don't know. They probably should. Well, Geico left the state because of the insurance rates they couldn't have. That makes sense. I don't mean to sound condescending to anybody listening, but just in case anybody doesn't know the budget, how it works, it's not like January 1st to December 31st.

[00:22:25] So as we talked about this budget that was passed, it's it resets July 1st. So this current budget is 24 to 25 until June 30th of 2025 and then July 1st. So that's why now they're working on the 2025 to 2026 budget and they are already, you know, this huge deficit for the 24 to 25. So just just wanted to clarify that in case anyone didn't know that again. I don't mean to sound condescending. I just want that to all add up.

[00:22:56] No, that's an excellent point. So it seems weird, like 2024. They're not doing two years at a time. It's the fact that their fiscal year covers 24 and 25. So it's the rest of 24 and 25. And they knew that this was going to be a problem back then. And long before the wildfires came along and there's still a billion dollars in the red. So they're like trying to figure out how to cover this budget, which is now three months away from starting the next budget.

[00:23:24] And there's no money. Oh, so it's a good evening blessings from Mount Shasta. Hey, what's up the postman? Yeah, if you guys have some questions or comments, make sure you put them in the chat. That's why we do this live stream every Tuesday. So people can give us their thoughts and their comments and their questions. I'm wondering your art. No one has guessed my art is a very important topic that we're going to have to kind of like. So let's throw out like throw out a hint.

[00:23:53] It's it's related to music. If that helps. I want to give it all away. But another thought I just that just came into my mind is if she's running to Sacramento asking for two billion dollars, what's stopping like Daniel Laurie from showing up in Sacramento going? Hey, yeah, absolutely.

[00:24:13] And then we're bailing out every city in California because they're all in the red like Ben Todd Gloria shows up and he's asking for a billion dollars because why not if we're handing out money just keep handing it out. Yeah, what's up from Forestville, California? How's it going? Yeah, I'll mayors will be lining up if that's the case they can go like, well, hey, we want our share. Hey, we you know, we got problems here, too.

[00:24:42] They're like, I didn't know this was an option. I thought we had to like make hard choices and like balance our budget and like cut services and stuff like that. I thought we had to actually like do work. I didn't know we could just walk to Sacramento and like, I don't know, like get bailed out. Um, what's up, Amy from Bakersfield, California? Um, I just want to add and I and I keep saying this. I like probably almost every podcast. I say this, but, um, if one city.

[00:25:12] What we have 58 counties. I don't know how many cities, 400 cities in the state of California, if one city is asking for $2 billion and they're facing what was it? 750 possible layoffs. Maybe I just made that number up or maybe I read it elsewhere. I don't know. They're they're trying to like they want to avoid layoffs, of course, but they're looking at having to do a bunch of layoffs. They're asking for $2 billion. This should tell you our government is too big.

[00:25:40] Our government can't even handle itself. And so I'm for the layoffs, not because I want people to lose their jobs, but government is too fricking big. And, um, and $2 billion is way too much money. One city. It just got to stop. It's got to end. This is crazy. This is madness. No, I, you know, me, I completely agree.

[00:26:04] If you're a billion dollars in the red and you need to make some hard to harsh decisions and figure this out, get to cutting because obviously whatever you've proposed and all the promises you've made, you can't keep up with. So, um, slash and burn time to start slashing and burning. Um, so on to our next topic, which I found really fascinating. This happened last week.

[00:26:29] Uh, Gavin Newsom doing his best Elon Musk impersonation by trying to launch stuff into space, decided he was going to have California launch satellites. Well, actually it's only one satellite as of right now, they have plans for more. A satellite into space to detect. Mething. Um, that's right. Mething.

[00:26:54] And that's why the title of today's episode is fart detecting satellites because yes, cow farts are part of methane, but they have to also do with landfills and stuff like that. It costs the state. Well, let me read the press release first and I'm going to actually bring this up on. Um, I'm actually going to bring this up so people can see it as well. Cause I figured, you know what? People want to see this as well.

[00:27:20] So, um, this is his press release from his office as us EPA rolls back protection. California launches satellite project to detect and reduce dangerous methane leaks. It is first action since being named co-chair of the sub national climate coalition. America is all in governor. Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a groundbreaking state effort to cut methane pollution with the help of innovative satellite technology.

[00:27:47] The new initiative comes as the Trump administration's EPA works to dismantle decades of clean air and clean water protections. Specifically, the U S EPA is reconsidering the endangerment finding, which is the basis for federal actions to curb planet warming emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane. He goes on to say decades of progress to protect public health is on the line as the Trump administration works to roll back critical environmental protections.

[00:28:16] California isn't having it thanks to our state investment. And we'll get to that in a little bit. We're using satellite technology to detect methane leaks as they happen with this new data. We'll be able to move faster to cut harmful methane pollution, protecting Californians and the clean air we fought so hard for. And he got this nice stock image of a satellite. That's I don't think that's the actual satellite. It's a nice stock image of it. And I guess this is an image of what methane looks like from space.

[00:28:44] So it was made possible by a hundred million dollar investment from the state's cap and trade program. Already one satellite has been launched with up to seven more to be deployed. And this is from the California air resources board chair. Leanne Randolph said this satellite project to monitor methane is unique for a state effort that will help us better identify sources of pollution. Californians are already seeing and feeling the intense fine impacts from first hand.

[00:29:16] Are you suffering from any methane problems or impacts from methane emissions in Orange County? Maybe I just don't know. Maybe I could be so much better if I wasn't. And I have no idea that I'm really not operating at my best. Can you go back to that article? Are you able to bring it up again real fast? Yeah, I can do that.

[00:29:39] Is and now is this an article or is this a press release on like California website where you probably said and I ignored you? This is directly from his office. This is from the governor's website. All right. This is March 21st, 2025. Yeah. All right. Brand new. Okay. Scroll, scroll, scroll. There's a okay towards the bottom here. It says something in 2023. The last paragraph. What happened in 2023?

[00:30:04] In 2023, California launched a new pledge for governments around the world to commit to cutting global methane emissions. One of the worst pollutants. The pledge is aimed at subnational governments like California and builds on the global methane pledge that focuses on countries. Okay. So question and maybe you're going to get into this because if this is just something I just thought of the first satellite we know is up. He's he has plans for seven more.

[00:30:32] Do you know when that first satellite allegedly was launched? Uh, it doesn't say when it was launched. I thought it was recently. Um, I thought I read 2024. I, and I, I have a reason for caring about this. I do, but my point will not be valid if it was launched this year. Um, when, what was the name of that satellite? I might have it. Hold on.

[00:31:02] Give me a second. I have so many tabs open as always. Um, yeah, there's a lot to this one. So people like, you can find out the answer to this. Cause again, I have a point if I find out the answer. So I wanted to bring this up because Gavin Newsom wanted to brag about like how, you know, this is, this is thanks to the hundred million dollars.

[00:31:29] And I'm bringing this up because you can look this up and this is fun to look at. If you like looking at numbers and stuff, this is a award from the federal government to Caltech California Institute of Technology. So Caltech receives a ton of money from the federal government. So if your first question is, well, are our tax dollars paying for Gavin Newsom satellite to go up in the air? Maybe in a, in a roundabout way.

[00:31:59] Uh, because the cap and trade investment, I believe is you buy, right? Cap and trade was a big thing like 20 years ago. And I, people don't talk about it. And that confused, that whole thing confuses me. I'm gonna have to like really do end up the reading to understand that program. If people can, I think I remember if people want to correct me in the chat. I remember it's like, you can pollute up to a certain amount. And then like, after that cap, you can buy like somebody else's pollution allotment.

[00:32:29] Like, so if factory a has a cap and they go over the cap, but factory B is under the cap, you can buy like their unused cap. Like, I think that's what cap and trade is. So they like pay each other and then you pay the state for it or something like that. Um, so it was a hundred million dollars drop in the bucket compared to the billions of dollars that Caltech gets from our government for a lot of NASA research.

[00:32:56] So yes, NASA is still around, even though space X is primarily doing all of our space exploration and actually going to space. NASA still spends a ton of money and gives it to Caltech. So down here, it says it gives it the California Institute of Technology, a private nonprofit educational institution, which establishes the relationship for the operation federally funded research, blah, blah, blah. So, uh, it's known as jet propulsion laboratory.

[00:33:23] The contractor JPL is required to perform work that is designated and task orders issued by the NASA management office. So now if you look down, here's all the stuff, the four broad scientific areas that are, uh, or science, planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics and performance. It goes on to talk about shall broad base of scientific techno technical capabilities relevant to NASA program. I mean, you can read it. It just keeps going on and on and on.

[00:33:52] And it, it kind of gets this, like, if you know anything about federal regulations, they write these things with enough wiggle room that you get these grants and it gives you enough wiggle room where you can sort of just start using it as you see fit. Um, now, am I saying that the money for this satellite came from this to almost $3 billion?

[00:34:19] We still have to do some more research to see if that's true, but I'm, what I'm doing is I'm setting up here sort of how much money funnels into California and jet propulsion laboratory. And that's important because jet propulsion laboratory. Everyone stay with me. If I ever, if, if I'm going too fast, raise your hand, everyone can just let me know.

[00:34:42] So this is another article that I found and that's why I think it's important that I bring all this stuff up and not just, um, not just read it is. So this was from space news in San Francisco planet announced a $20 million agreement to provide hyper spectral data for carbon mappers, greenhouse gas monitoring campaign.

[00:35:05] The deal, which extends from 2026 to 2030 will help carbon mapper deliver high resolution methane and CO2 superadminter data to decision makers around the globe. Riley Duren said in a statement, he's the CEO. In particular, this agreement lays the groundwork for further expansion of the constellation of tanager satellites and the extension of carbon mappers mission to make methane and CO2 visible in transparent fashion through our public data portal.

[00:35:34] Uh, so they're one company. So you have carbon mapper is one. You have, they're a nonprofit. You have planet, which is a private or public publicly owned. It's got shares is a private enterprise. And then you have the carbon mapper consortium was unveiled in 2021 by the state of California, NASA jet propulsion laboratory and planet.

[00:36:01] The contract announced March 28th is an extension to an existing data license agreement between planet and carbon mapper. According to the news release, funding for the agreement was provided by a major climate fill out of philanthropy. Philo, why can't I say that? That's a hard word. Philanthropy. The release added.

[00:36:19] Now, what that is, we haven't quite found that out because as of last year on their tax filings, carbon mapper only brought in $17 million in revenue. So where they're getting this extra money is kind of interesting to me. Um, also planet reported a net loss of $9 million for the quarter and earnings before interest taxes and depreciation. Um, so they haven't, as of the last quarter, they have not made a profit.

[00:36:49] Um, anyway, and their earnings were up to $221 million. So why am I bringing this all up is because it does kind of create this web. The federal government gives Caltech $3 billion. And this was in 2018. So they gave them this grant and award, and this is only one.

[00:37:12] If you go on us spending, USA spending.gov, you can see the amount of contracts they have. This is the largest one that's $3 billion, but there's others that are worth billions, hundreds of millions of dollars, all going to Caltech. I set the date parameters from 2018 until today. This big $3 billion contract starts in 2018 and still has like three years left. So they still have a little bit more of that to, you know, $3 billion.

[00:37:42] What happens after that? Who knows? Do they get another $3 billion? But the point is a ton of federal money is coming into Caltech for these ominous kind of projects that are pseudo space are also pseudo climate change. They're also pseudo global warming. Um, they're also pseudo like examining the earth and stuff like that.

[00:38:09] If you look at these project descriptions, they're all kind of very pseudo. So this is what's going on here. Um, and then Caltech, which partners with jet propulsion laboratories, then works with these organizations like planet and carbon mapper, and then they give them contracts and they get more money. And then at the end, Gavin Newsom comes in and takes $100 million from our cap of trade program, throws it at the program, gets to pat himself on the back and say, look, we launched a satellite.

[00:38:39] I'm such an amazing person when in reality, it was mostly the federal government who ended up paying for this satellite that California is now putting up by themselves. And I put that in quotes by themselves when in reality, it's mostly the federal government. Okay. Did I lose anybody? Oh, I was still here. That was a lot. That was a lot. That was a lot. Um, but I kind of mentioned this to you earlier too, though, where it does feel like with the insulin thing.

[00:39:08] Um, and that, that, what is the name of that company? Civica or something like that. I've, uh, we're there already. What's going on everybody. I want to take a quick minute and talk about today's sponsor for our show. Stop box. If you're not familiar with stop box, it is a firearm retention device, no electronics, no biometrics, nothing like that, that can get in the way. If there's an oncoming threat and you need quick and easy access to your firearm, it is literally just this finger combination on the top.

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[00:40:38] We're leading the way. California is leading the way. And then this, it feels like it kind of happened and he attaches himself to it. So I found the date that that tanager. Is that what it's called? Satellite. The tanager satellite. Yeah. Tanager one was launched October 16th, 2024. Now, the reason why that is important to me is because Gavin put out this press release today. Yes.

[00:41:05] A few days ago this week saying to fight Trump's policies, but yet this, this satellite launched before we elected Trump as president. So. Yeah. Right. So he's just running his mouth again. He's really, I'm just saying Gavin Newsom is full of. Full of full of.

[00:41:35] Full of. We try to keep it a clean podcast. Yeah. That's an excellent point that he's saying, and he only joined this America all in coalition. Last. Which I was researching. It was like four days ago. And he's like a co-chair of it now. And I was looking at like what America all in is. Um, let me see if I can pull this up. It doesn't seem to be a nonprofit. It's just more like a. Yeah. It's not a nonprofit. Project of like, we care.

[00:42:05] Cause I looked at a lot of like, uh, I looked at open secrets. I looked at pro publica. These are sites that we use when we're researching this stuff, open secrets, follow the money, all that stuff. Pro publica. Um, I want to show this because there's a, you can get an idea of like who this company is, uh, based on who is a part of this coalition. So there's our esteemed governor right there.

[00:42:34] Joins America all in his newest co-chair. That was a couple of days ago, you know, four days ago. Yep. Um, I'm trying to see who they partnered with about, I think it's with about who we are. Learn about the coalition is a joint declaration of support for climate action signed by CEOs, mayors. So it's kind of like, it's not really, what is that thing that was in COVID?

[00:43:01] That wasn't the, the Beringer declaration or something, the great Beringer type. Someone in the chat can let me know. It was like, it was like hundreds of scientists who came out against the vaccine and they called it the great, I keep thinking it was like the Bering, it's not the Berington reef or something like that. Um, I try to block a lot of that stuff out. So here's the co-chairs, Gavin Newsom, Gina McCarthy, J B. J B Pritzer, and the mayor of Cleveland.

[00:43:29] They are co-chairs of this. Um, so what this feels like is what groups or a person endorse a candidate, but it doesn't really, it doesn't mean anything. And this just feels like it's like, we're all endorsing climate change. We all, yeah, it's, there's like no skin in the game at all to do this. It's literally just like a feel good, like all these groups, like Bloomberg philanthropic. That's that damn word again.

[00:43:59] Philanthrop, philanthropies. There we go. I swear. I did not start doing that. Is that one philanthropies, but I don't know what. Philanthropies. Philanthropies. Feels like that episode from, uh, from friends where he, you know, Chandler pointed out to Joey, there's no B in supposedly. And he sits there and goes, supposedly, supposedly, supposedly, supposedly. That one drives me. A moo point. It's a moo point. It's a moo point. It's like a cow. It's moo. No one cares.

[00:44:30] Uh, so here's some other groups, climate mayors, the national Congress of American Indians, uh, environment and culture partners. So you can sort of get the idea of like, who's, who supports this and who's behind it. Uh, WWF. Um, but that's the coalition. I'm sorry. This is not the point of it. Please go to the success stories. I would like to hear about their success. I need to know. The success story. Erie fire station goes a hundred percent solar. Okay.

[00:45:01] Um, this was major success stories. This was two years ago. Erie, Pennsylvania wants to see the effects of anthropogenic climate change. They could just look out the window this past February. Here is the fourth fastest warming city in America. Oh, blah, blah, blah. I can tell you one reason I'm so excited. Reopened with a new set of solar panels and a backup battery system. Good for them. Yeah. Um, what, what happens with those solar panels? They never want to answer that. Whatever the batteries came from.

[00:45:31] Do you think they came from China? Oh yeah. From China. Someone's helping me fill and filling throat. I can't. We're all trying to now. Every, I think I've gotten it in everyone's head. Now everyone's like, wait a second. How do you say this word? And still no one's guessed what the, the art is. The new are on my wall. Um, just kidding. Well, you know, if they can see it, it's right there. Just guess.

[00:46:00] Tell me what that is. I don't know what prize you'll get. Um, but yeah, there's Phil and right. Phil and Rob Phil and throppy. Um, got it. Okay. There was one more. I'll let you say, you have any more thoughts about this while I collect my thoughts for this next point? Cause there was something else I want to brought. Or are you just like, nah.

[00:46:25] Well, I would like to point out that, uh, to launch a satellite, it requires rocket fuel and that, um, is bad for the environment. Maybe I already said that. I know I said it to you. I don't know if I said it on here. So to track methane, we are polluting the environment. Right. Yeah. We were talking to collect a hundred million in parking tickets. We spend 160 million to track methane. We add methane.

[00:46:54] It's yeah. And I'd found this, this is from the international association of fire and rescue services, because if we're so worried about, uh, CO2 and what's being released into the atmosphere, how much do forest fires contribute to CO2 emissions? It can range from 5% to almost 300 times that of all fossil fuels burned. So keep that in mind when you're thinking about. Do you want to know something interesting? I, I, I grokked. I don't know.

[00:47:25] Someone else tell us how to do that. Okay. So I used grok, which is the engine on the AI on X. And I, uh, asked it actually compared it to Google as well. And it's pretty much the same answers. What are the top countries leading the way in climate change? And, um, India was in the top 10. India is the number one, uh, country with like, they have the most cattle. Oh, okay.

[00:47:54] But they're leading the way in climate change. And therefore I find that extremely interesting because they must be like one of the number one producers of methane, right? With all those cows. Yeah. Wasn't it going back how many episodes when we had Keely on talking about point Reyes and all the ranchers wasn't the whole point that they were saying, and one of their arguments was that all these cows and these dairy cows were bad for the environment because of all

[00:48:23] the methane they released. Right. So they're replacing them with the tool with Tule, Tule, Tule elk, which also released methane. This is a great episode of we can't speak. Yeah. We don't know how to pronounce words. Apologies. Um, okay. There was one last thing I want to discuss before we hop into this poll.

[00:48:51] So there is this, I had to look this up because I had never heard this before. It's this endangerment finding that they were talking about and what an endangerment finding is. Uh, it's a 2009 EPA endangerment finding, um, standard. Uh, the Lee Zeldin is trying to get rid of this and I'm trying to.

[00:49:15] I think if this is sort of what we saw in point Reyes where people bring lawsuits on behalf of the federal government for like the clean air and water act. And then we, then we, the taxpayers end up paying the attorneys lots and lots of money, like, especially like that one nonprofit that makes like $25 million just on these lawsuits. Uh, this one page primer says, what is it? And why does it matter?

[00:49:42] It says the 2009 endangerment finding was the first step in the Obama by administrations and later the Biden Harris administrations overreaching climate agenda. That agenda has imposed trillions of dollars of costs on Americans for a generation. Defenders of this agenda have avoided scrutiny of how it all began. And that evasion ends today. In 2007, the Supreme court Massachusetts, the EPA ruled that the George W.

[00:50:08] Bush EPA aired when in 2003, it denied a petition to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles that the petitioners argued were causing climate change. Massachusetts held that the clean air acts general act wide definition of air pollutant was broad enough to include carbon monoxide. Massachusetts explicitly did not hold that EPA was required to regulate these emissions from these sources.

[00:50:34] Uh, so then basically what happened was the court sent it back to the EPA and this is where the agency started to slice out the, the, the statute itself passed by Congress and basically slashed it to the point where they can then find there was an issue in the statute. Um, okay. What is it? Okay.

[00:50:57] So basically the problem was, is that they were able to give the power. This was way back in the day. And I say way back. It was only 2009. 16 years. And that's, yeah, that's, that's a way back in the day. Um, where they gave the EPA this like incredible power to look at a statute, pick apart the statute that our representatives in Congress passed.

[00:51:26] They were then able to cut it up and rewrite it the way they wanted so that they can find and regulate based on what they wanted to regulate. Now this Supreme court, not a fan of that. Uh, they overturned the Chevron deference, which means agencies can't like go in and change statutes, whatever the statute says, they got to deal with it. Okay. So that's what Lee Zeldin is basically doing is he's taking that away from the EPA.

[00:51:55] He's taking more power away from the EPA, which I agree with. Right. If, if the statute says something, the agency has to follow what the statute says. And for too many years, the EPA has basically been, how do I say they've been running amok on their own and making statutes and regulations as they see fit. So I'm all for it.

[00:52:17] Anything that can, you know, cut the power of, uh, of more of extra government is great. Um, so any final thoughts on Gavin Newsom and his, his amazing satellites? He's going to be shooting into space. You know, I feel like we could have titled this episode, Gavin Newsom launches a podcast. Gavin Newsom launches a satellite. What will Gavin Newsom launch next?

[00:52:46] He's president. I should have asked for an AI. I should have asked for an AI from Grok of Gavin Newsom in a space suit and call them little rocket man or something like that. Cause now he's all into launching stuff into space. And that is sorry. Just go. I just got a rocket man. So long. I get man. Still no guesses on what the art is. Speaking of.

[00:53:10] It's kind of a hint, but not the same artist, but not in the same realm of that artist. Same country or from the same country as that artist. So, all right. Final story tonight. Hmm. I said same age. Are you? Yes. Sort of. I feel like they, he came out. Elton John came out a little bit later after these guys. Uh, but yeah, close 10 years, maybe 10 years younger. It's another hint.

[00:53:41] Um, all right. Last story of the night. Right. This was a poll that came out showing that 48% of likely voters would consider, consider not saying it's actually going to, that they're going to do it would consider voting for a Republican governor in 2026.

[00:54:06] So this obviously sent shock waves through the political pundits because of the fact that, well, California is so blue. So why would they ever, why would it even get that close to 50%? So this is from the Sacramento Bee. Whatever have Democrats done wrong that we would vote against them. A new poll of 700 likely California voters shows growing dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and its leadership.

[00:54:34] The poll was conducted earlier this month via text by David Wolfson, a national pollster and lecturer at Columbia University. Top findings from the poll 48% of likely California California voters say they are now considering voting for a Republican for governor in 2026. 71% believe the governor and the legislative leaders have not addressed California's high cost of living. Wow. You, you think so? Huh? Interesting. 60% oppose free healthcare for undocumented migrants or immigrants.

[00:55:04] 73% support fully funding anti-crime prop 36. The poll was sponsored by Madison McQueen, a launched Los Angeles based media firm that among other things creates ads for Republican campaigns. Uh, Rusty Hicks chair of the California Democrat Party shot down the results over the next 18 months. California Democrats will connect with the nearly 20 million voters and elect Democrat as the California's next governor again. He said in a state. I have a comment about that.

[00:55:31] There are approximately 22 million registered voters in the state of California, and he's claiming they're going to connect with 20 million of them. Um, I don't, I just, I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. Um, Oh, the new, the new democratic candidate, whoever it is. Well, what that, what you just read the last sentence you just read when he's like over the next 18 months, we're going to connect with 20 million voters.

[00:56:01] Uh, there's, uh, there's 22 million voters registered in California. So yeah. He's pretty much going to connect with every voter in California. Um, yeah, that's never happened unless they just never connect with me. Somehow, somehow we miss that connection. I'm waving a pen around like it has some authority. Do I look smarter with this pen? Does my statement stand out? Put the pen down. I want to calm down. I was like a Bob.

[00:56:30] You look like Bob Dole now. I just think it's a little ridiculous. I don't think they're going to connect with 20 million voters over the next 18 months. Yeah, that'd be a lot of voters. That'd be all the voters. And I don't think you're going to connect with all the voters. Um, you had sent the numbers, which was interesting about Gavin Newsom compared to Alex Padilla and like how many votes he got. Right? Yes. It was very interesting. Would you like to share those results? Um, we just find what I sent you.

[00:57:00] Sure. I'm sure I have the tab open here, but I'll just go pull up what I sent you. And, um, well, there was a while you're looking that up. There was an article in Newsweek. Um, I don't know if we'll have a chance to get to it. I saw this on Reddit because some, you know, we, we do the hard research that you guys don't have to do.

[00:57:24] And you can come here and listen to us talk about we, we filter through the, the muck of places like subreddit to find this. This was in Newsweek. It was Republicans next target, California. And it was talking about how the shift, uh, toward the GOP was 12 points in 2024 compared to 2020. That's a lot of points. That's a huge shift in California. Um, and I think this was from Brian Jones.

[00:57:54] He told Newsweek, our mission is clear, break the democratic super majority and fix California. The Senate minority leader. That means flipping four Senate seats. Next election. Californians are fed up with one party rule. That to me does not sound like that many seats. I don't know if they're in competitive districts, but four seats to flip the Senate. Well, he's saying break the super majority, not flip it. I apologize. You're right. But to break the super majority, you can log jam a lot of legislation.

[00:58:22] If you don't have a super majority in the Senate. Yeah. And that's one of our biggest problems is that it's like a super, super majority. Um, to bring, to go back to the, the numbers, um, in 2022, more people voted for Alex Padilla, a U S Senate in both of the partial, cause there was a partial and a full term position than they did for Newsom.

[00:58:51] Uh, Newsom got just under 6.5 million votes and Alex Padilla in the same election got just under 6.6 million for the partial term and over 6.6 million for the full term. And, um, so this was, you know, do some second term. And in the 2022 election, Newsom received about 6.5.

[00:59:16] Well, I just said like just under 6.5 million votes, which was 59.2%. And Brian Dolly received, um, 4.4, a little over 4.4 million, which was 40.8%. Now, yes, that is a big gap, but I think we discussed even like last year or the year before that that's actually, those numbers are closer for governor than they have been in a while. Like there is definitely an increase in people voting for a Republican governor. The percentage is going up.

[00:59:46] The gap is closing. And so that does show that more people are voting. More people are voting red. More people are voting for a Republican governor. Right. And, um, cause in 2018, 7.7 million people, 61.9% voted for Newsom while 4.7 million three, which is 38.1% voted for John Cox. So, um, there's a trend now trends don't stick around. We have to fight for these.

[01:00:16] We're always an election away from losing anything and everything, but there has been a trend of, and we, of course we saw in the 2024 election, which wasn't our campaign. California statewide election, but it's, you know, the presidential election definitely turned a little more red. And now they're talking about 12 points, which is a big number in California. So, so it's not that far off to think people are fed up.

[01:00:44] Um, they are fed up with the super majority and the extreme liberal push of what's going on in California. And, um, I feel like Gavin Newsom is going to start taking credit for the cost of eggs going down soon. Like he's gonna be like, see, we're doing great. We're addressing the cost. Eggs are the cheapest they've been. And somehow that'll be all him.

[01:01:06] And then we'll find out he's investing a hundred million into some egg farm specific for California, or they're going to produce the biggest eggs and something like that. You know, sure. We'll hear about that soon enough. I think the biggest lesson to take away from this is you and I have been preaching on this podcast for many years about politics is a slow game of inches.

[01:01:30] And people get very dismayed and they want like, they want people to come in and save California and flip it red, like overnight. Like, you know, and I've, I've always said, like, I would be happy if in 10 years or maybe less than 10 years at this point, I feel like we're on that trajectory of like, if we were a purple state, I'd be happy with a purple state at this point. Like a competitive state, a state that like presidential. It's very possible 2030 will be purple. It's very, yeah.

[01:01:59] I mean, there's a lot of trends of Hispanic voters are trending more Republican, you know, Asian voters, who is who's winky or our favorite character from San Francisco. She's so winky from Chinatown and San Francisco in the heart of San Francisco and Chinatown. A lot of people were voting for Trump, a lot of Asian voters. Um, so it's kind of a game of inches and we've seen, you know, big leaps and bounds, not just inches.

[01:02:29] We've seen like big jumps from going to what more than 50% of the counties went red in California, which when you explain that to people like, yeah, more than 50% of our counties in California are red. Now that they're not the counties with all the voters were like, you know, Los Angeles and San Diego and all that stuff. But there are gains here in San Diego. The most biggest shift we saw was in the South Bay with Hispanic voters.

[01:02:54] All of this is good news to break the super majority and, and just throw off the shackles of this horribly, you know, you know, monotonous one party state where they get to do decide everything, do everything and get whatever they want. Like Karen best just walking up to Sacramento and going, well, we have a super majority and Gavin Newsom's governor. So I'm going to get $2 billion.

[01:03:21] Like if you're a purple state and it's an even legislature, you're not walking up to Sacramento and begging for $2 billion and thinking you're going to get it. You're that's just not what's going to happen. Um, so I think it's all like really good news to see.

[01:03:38] I'm all for breaking the super majority in California because I think that's how we improve different points of view trying something clearly what we're doing now is not working in California. Um, this also doesn't mean every, you know, I'm sitting here cheerleading for the Republicans. Rah, rah. We definitely have our critiques of the Republican party here in California. It has a new chair, which be interesting to see.

[01:04:03] But in my mind, any group that's trying to break the super majority and the Republicans are sort of the tip of the spear with this is good in my is good in my estimation because we need to break the super majority. And, um, this is all good news. If you know, this poll is showing that people might consider voting for a Republican. Maybe this is the closest someone gets maybe a Chad Bianco gets really, really close and they go. Wow.

[01:04:31] You know, all of a sudden a lot of voters in California go, wow, we were that close to having a Republican governor. And if they buoy, you know, at the top of the ticket gets a lot more red votes that helps the down ticket, which then helps legislature, city councils, mayors and stuff like that. So, um, goats Krieger had, uh, he threw a whole bunch of things out. You have a correct answer in your guess.

[01:05:00] He said, rolling stones, beach boys, Beatles, Koreans, clear water reviled leads up on the doors. Pink Floyd, the who grateful dead Simon and Garfunkel. He just, just throwing everything. He's literally, literally throwing everything out. I'm speaking of this. I'm speaking of this art right here. What is this art? Um, if you can name it, I still haven't decided like what, what it's going to be. What's the prize going to be here? I'll give you guys a hint. It's like right there. There you go. You can take a look at it. Okay.

[01:05:28] Uh, I mean the, the song titles are actually right here in the bottom. It's hard to see though. I'm sure. Anyway, um, 700 voters. Uh, is it a big enough sample size out of a state with 20 million voters? Who knows? But, um, either way, this is part of a larger trend in my opinion of things are changing and people are getting frustrated with where California is going and they're kind of going, okay,

[01:05:58] what are our options here? And they're thinking, uh, maybe I, maybe I do vote for a Republican. So any final thoughts on whether or not we're that close to a Republican governor or is this just good signs that we're moving? It's possible. I mean, four years ago, I think, I think we were both like, yeah, not happening. Like, no, I'm pretty sure we were like that. We're like, cool. Not happening. Yeah.

[01:06:26] We were like, we applaud anyone who goes out there and fights to fight. We literally are like our position for sure. Yeah. We, and we went down the names of like, who was running and we were like, thanks. No, thanks. Not happening. Not to say that we want to do some, but we were just looking at our options and we were like, yeah, this is, this is not, it's not, the state is not voting this person in. Yeah.

[01:06:50] So I think the biggest thing is if you work to make it, if you shock the system by making it closer that, well, it kind of reminds me in a way of what happened in New Jersey and their last gubernatorial election. And I think it's, his name was Phil Cicchini or something. It was an Italian name, but he came really, really. Oh yeah. New Jersey.

[01:07:19] That's where I'm from. Hey, how you doing? Um, but he came really close. It was like less than a percentage point as a Republican winning the state of New Jersey. Now I know people are going to be like, well, they had Chris Christie. It wasn't that long ago, but New Jersey is a deep blue state. I know Scott Pressler is working on changing that. You know, if, if that happens, it's the little things that people take, they take into the next election cycle.

[01:07:49] They read the tea leaves and they're like, Hey, we saw more engagement in these areas. We can build on that. If you have a really good showing in 2026 for Republicans and it gets really close, all of a sudden people go, California is not as far gone as we think it is. Maybe it is closer to purple. So I hope it is because I really, this morning reading the news, I felt the heaviness that

[01:08:17] like, you know, all the comments that we get, I'm so glad I left that state. California's lost. California has no hope all that. Like I kind of felt that this morning. No, and it was a fleeting, it was a fleeting feeling. It's not a permanent feeling, but I just read the news. I was just like, this is so bad. This is so bad. Yeah. I don't know. I felt that when I was driving over from work the other day, I looked at like the highway and I was like, this highway looks like a third world country.

[01:08:46] And it's like a historic California highway. I'm like, why is this highway such in like crappy condition? It just looked really bad for a state that, you know, pumps itself up to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Right. And it is. It is. We know that. But, but, but yeah. We'll keep an eye on it. Um, does it mean that there's gonna be a Republican governor? Who knows? I don't know. Politics is crazy.

[01:09:16] Um, Rosie O'Donnell couldn't figure out why Trump won all the swing states. Politics is crazy. All right. Is everyone dying to figure out what the answer is of what this, this art is behind me? Um, it is the who's quadrophenia. That is the album art for in my estimation, the greatest rock album of all time. I'm just going to say it is the greatest rock album of all time from end to end.

[01:09:46] I can listen to it. Max volume, just from beginning to end. It's an amazing album. I'm also a huge who fan. So we were talking about this before that we're both who fans. So, um, I don't get to go out and say it's the best album of all time, but I can't name a better album. I'm just leaving room for first place just in case. Well, you said you were at, you like, you really like quadrophenia, but you really liked who's next. Yeah. So who's next is a really good album as well.

[01:10:16] Um, excellent. Lots of, you know, all the hits, you know, of, um, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to go out on CSI and all the intro shows of Bob O'Reilly won't get fooled again. They're all on there. So now everyone who's listening has to tell us if they like the who or not, or just, you know, tell us your favorite band or your favorite album or. Cause now we're a music podcast. We're now we're just going to review old music. Um, musician in case you can't tell by his instruments hanging on the wall.

[01:10:47] Megadeth 1988. Somebody said so far. So, oh, never been to a Megadeth concert. Not, not big into metal. Yes. Those are my actual instruments. I have played those instruments. This guitar over here has actually traveled the world. It's been to Italy. So, um, all right on that note, no, cause we're talking about music. Now I just picture you like walking through like. Streets of Florence.

[01:11:15] Like a walkway through like all of trees, just carrying your bit, bit like an emo album cover. I'm sorry. Now we're getting way off. We should probably just. Yeah. Yeah. On that note, uh, we're not going to go down the whole history of me playing guitar since I was 15, but, um, yeah, that's our episode for today. Make sure you like, share, subscribe, review. Thanks for everyone for, uh, showing up and being active in the comments.

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[01:12:12] Um, my dad, Led Zeppelin song. And why is it cash? Oh, that's not my favorite Led Zeppelin song. Um, I think my favorite Led Zeppelin song has gotta be, um, oh gosh, now it's embarrassing. Cause I can't remember. Now I can't remember the, the name of it. It's my favorite song and I can't remember it. It's all right. Anyway. Um, my dad saw them. He told me a story how he saw them at the Fillmore East back in the seventies.

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