WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:20.559 Hello, Hello, Welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane and 2 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:26.239 this is producer Brian. Hi. Brian, looks like we're hosting the show 3 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.640 tonight. Yep. It's gonna be a great time. We're gonna have so 4 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:35.600 much fun because someone the talent is missing. I haven't heard from him today. 5 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.240 I didn't even call him. No, I did call him. I 6 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.359 called him because I had to discuss something with him. No answer, but 7 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:47.079 that's normal. I even have presents for him today. You didn't forget? 8 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.479 Forget? He would know. He has not forgotten one time. Well, 9 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.920 it's seven oh one. Okay, you text him because I'm using my phone 10 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.359 for Instagram Live. Hi, everybody on Instagram Live. How are you okay? 11 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.079 We have so much to talk about, and we have a special guest, 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:10.760 David Steele, entrepreneur, environmentalist, he's a solar guy, he's a 13 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:15.319 podcaster, he's a dad. There's so many things about him that are so 14 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:22.040 interesting. And he's the guy that I tried to sell my Apple Watch to 15 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.719 and I have We're not gonna talk about it yet, but hey, hey, 16 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.799 hey, hey, hey, stop, I'm going to before we start 17 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.200 our interview with him, which we will do after well, whenever Eric shows 18 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.959 up to do the double d uh, we'll have on David Steele and I 19 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.400 have something to say to him about that. Did you see this the thumbnail 20 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:49.879 I made for that video? No, what was the thumbnail? What did 21 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.599 it look like? It was a good thumbnail. Does it look like a 22 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.400 Do I look like a crook or something? Do I have like a does 23 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:04.920 it look like I explain it? What does it look like? Oh my 24 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.039 god, I did not know. Oh my god? Okay, whatever for 25 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:14.599 oh my god? Okay, So well, let's start off by playing we 26 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.759 brought back the secret sound. We used to do the secret sound back I 27 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.840 don't know, like two years ago, and it was very popular and so 28 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.439 we decided to bring it back. It's just a random sound. We're going 29 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.919 to play the sound. If you think you know what it is and you 30 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.639 guess it correctly, the winner gets one hundred dollars cash. Now here's what 31 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.039 you do. If you feel like you want to guess, you can comment 32 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:46.840 on our Instagram page. You can comment on our Facebook or on our YouTube 33 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.759 that would be great too, or send us an email Laura Kanead at gmail 34 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.680 dot com. Oh thank you for well, Thank you the talent has arrived. 35 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.439 Everybody, the talent has arrived. Almost five minute. It's late. 36 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:08.960 Yeah right, I this is what you're talking to right now, and it's 37 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.840 called the hand. Because there's so many things I needed to talk to you 38 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.599 about today, I need to, okay, step in front of the camera. 39 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:21.000 Hello, Hi, are you okay? By the way, Like, 40 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:27.879 what's going on? Right? Yeah? I believe that? Huh. I 41 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.599 know he was closet. I know, what the heck? What just happened 42 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:35.000 to you? Why should you like turned hitting me with the two by four 43 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.159 out in the street. Okay, I just got here, dude, I 44 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:45.680 know you got back from a workout. What you know what? Okay, 45 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.280 I guarantee you this. This is Ir Grimmer by the way, my co 46 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:53.639 host, Hi, not for much longer. This is exactly what was going 47 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:59.879 on. I know, Eric, he was sitting in his car on this 48 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:06.360 street talking to one of his girlfriend. This happens frequently, doast Oh my 49 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:13.879 god, this is like the third time I got in traffic. You had 50 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:18.720 a meeting, You got caught in traffic? Oh yeah, And I don't 51 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:24.000 And Brian doesn't, I know, I know, like but he he always 52 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:27.879 throws that at us, like we don't work. Now he knows I work. 53 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.879 I know he works. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Yes, 54 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.079 I'm the worst thing ever. I'm disappointed. I'm going to pack my 55 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.639 toys and go home. You brought toy? Did you bring my present? 56 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:45.560 No? I have several things. I have presents for you tonight, not 57 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.839 this show, but for the next show I've got. We have a new 58 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:57.720 sponsor. What we have David Steele in studio, our special guests, and 59 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.439 I needed to talk to you today. I called you no answer, which 60 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.399 is typical. You didn't even call me back. But or did you call? 61 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:11.639 Oh? See wow? Anyways, Anya, So we were talking about 62 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.120 the secret sound, so we brought it back last week. Nobody guessed it 63 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:23.639 correctly. Was there anything close? No? Nothing close. This is something 64 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:28.439 I'm not even gonna give you any kind of hint or anything. Just you 65 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:32.360 guys, listen to it. Okay, guess it. Just throw out some 66 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.000 guesses. You never know. You can win one hundred bucks if you guess 67 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:51.839 it first person. Okay, let's chew it again one more time. What 68 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:57.079 is that all is? At one point you definitely hit your phone against something. 69 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:04.319 Do it again? No, I don't think you did. Yeah, 70 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.800 right there, that's you banging your phone against something. That's that's the that's 71 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:15.120 audio clipping. I don't think that happened. We were together when it happened. 72 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:21.519 Yes, he does. We created it together, and it's nothing like 73 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:28.480 unbelievably hard to guess. But there you go. That's all I'm going to 74 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.560 say. Maybe it's like a plastic bag. I'm going to say, you're 75 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.600 not allowed even if you do guess it correctly. I'm not going to say 76 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:39.000 giving our people who listen some hint, some you know, guesses, they 77 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.000 can steal who's your phone? It's right there, see, because we have 78 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.839 a special guest. I know, I know you love waving to everybody, 79 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:51.040 but we needed to include the whole entire set because of our special guest, 80 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:57.240 David. I love sporters. They just get worse and worse. Yeah, 81 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.680 that one's pretty egregious. David's already here, but he's going to come on 82 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.920 the sent in a minute, David his last. The best part is Eric 83 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.839 wouldn't know anything about that. No, he wouldn't. I would not. 84 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.160 He's never seen a live vagina. I would not like to see what comes 85 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.839 out of there. Sorry, David, I'm sorry, David. He's our 86 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.439 in studio guests. We need to be professional, but we just got to 87 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:23.519 be honest with him too. Well. I love Squirters shirts exactly. You 88 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.639 should see the one for tomorrow show. He wore a hat last week that 89 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.680 said I shaved my balls for this Wait, did you wear it to work? 90 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.839 Okay? Thank god? No, only to this work, only to 91 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:35.920 this one. I'm make sure you didn't come straight from working. No, 92 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.079 no, no no? Do you have double D news? I too? 93 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:45.959 Okay, excellent. I have to tell you about something I did today, 94 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.120 and then something I did for Evan's birthday, and then we will have our 95 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.079 special guest, David steel On, and I have a lot to say to 96 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.800 him, and he has so many things that are going on in his life 97 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.399 that are so incredibly interesting. I cannot wait to interview. You're gonna love 98 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.879 it, love it, love it. 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There 158 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.000 used to be companies that you could call and set up and they were like 159 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.440 actors that would come show up at somebody's house or birthday party as a surprise 160 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:03.639 in singing a special song from somebody, like Hello, this is from John. 161 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.000 He wants to say happy birthday. And they're dressed in like costumes and 162 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.960 it's just like a special whatever. I feel like those weren't cool even back 163 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.919 in the day. Well whatever, anyway, so I thought it would be 164 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.519 cool to do that for Evan since she's in New York City, something Evan 165 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:24.679 would get a kick out of. Okay. Well, so so I decided, 166 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.240 I'm like, well, you can't really hire anybody because there's no company 167 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:33.519 really, So I got in touch with her boyfriend. We figured it out 168 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.559 a guy, a guy that's in her theater department. I paid him a 169 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.240 hundred bucks and gave him some extra money to go buy her a big bouquet 170 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.519 of flowers. He showed up where all her friends were gathered for her birthday, 171 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.000 sang her Happy Birthday in the most awesome way, and then like he 172 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.320 read all these things that I wrote about her, like fat doys. It 173 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.000 was. She was floored, so surprised, it was so fun. So 174 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.159 like, if you guys are looking for a really creative, fun surprising idea 175 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:07.799 for somebody's birthday, I would definitely try this out. A singing telegram. 176 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.559 You're hired to do that, right, Heck yeah, I think all the 177 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:16.320 grams are, aren't those like Stripper Graham telegrams singing like all the aren't those 178 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.159 all out the window? Now? Well you can still have your stripper. 179 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:28.159 Stripper g well, isn't it you know what? I'm bringing it back that 180 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.559 business ventsure. Okay, I'll do the stripping. You know what, costume, 181 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:39.240 Hey, strip and I can wear the costume. Sure he's gonna wear 182 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.120 the not the red nose somewhere else. It depends on the money. It 183 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.720 depends on the money. We'll see. Boy. Yeah, I know I'm 184 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.799 not. I'm not at that point. Okay, I'm gonna check your YouTube 185 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:54.519 starch history and that oh god, don't what did I look up the oh 186 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.519 some weird thing the other day? I was like, oh god, I 187 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.559 hope Brian's not. I don't go now. I don't look lucky for you. 188 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:07.080 Okay, So over the last couple of weeks, I've been creating and 189 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:13.080 drawing something that I want on my body tattoo. I know, don't get 190 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.279 on crazy, stop it stop it. Don't get in addiction. That's a 191 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.279 real thing. Well I think I might have it. So no addiction. 192 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.600 I know I have an addictive personality. What can I say? No, 193 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:31.159 no, listen, it's really sweet. So did you know that you have 194 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.919 you know you have a birthday stone right for your birthday month. There's also 195 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.080 flowers. You have birthday flowers too. So I created I'll show you the 196 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.840 picture I drew, and then i'll show you the picture that Anastasia drew, 197 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.960 because Anastasia, who was on the podcast with us, did the tattoo for 198 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:52.399 me today. Okay, so it's my dad's yo's so I don't have time 199 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.200 to object. You've already gotten it exactly. She just got the design right. 200 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.000 Oh no, it's I got tattooed. It's on me for forever. 201 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.879 But I'm not going to show it to you because it's it's still it's brand 202 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.360 new, so it's a little red and it's like covered with the plastic. 203 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.519 But I'll show you what it is. Where is it? I'll tell you 204 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:17.960 in a minute. So it's my dad's flower, my mom's flower, Charlie's 205 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.679 flower, Evans flower, and then mine and then a kind of like a 206 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.159 rosary cross thing that kind of combines it all together. This sounds large, 207 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:33.480 shut up. So this is what I drew. It is an iris. 208 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.519 My mom's flower is called the Narcissus, which is kind of funny, and 209 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.159 she's not anything like that. Charlie's flower, Evans flower, my flower, 210 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.960 and then the rosary. It's believe me, it's not this big on my 211 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.559 body, trust me God. So then Anastasia took it to a whole nother 212 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:55.240 level and did it like so beautifully. And this is I just printed out 213 00:16:55.320 --> 00:17:00.440 a bunch of different sizes. She wound the rosary around the flower hours anyway, 214 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.000 she did such a beautiful job. So I got that done today on 215 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:07.839 my back, like right below my neck. It's only like three inches big. 216 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.319 So it's not that big a deal. But you know what it means. 217 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:18.799 It means my family always has my back. Okay, okay, see 218 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:25.039 what I go. This is very literal. I think. No matter what 219 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.319 I say tonight, No, no, no, that's not one thing that 220 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:32.200 you guys will be supportive of. It's just you pray like a bad joke. 221 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.640 You're like, it's on my back. So because my family always has 222 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.279 my back, that's what I mean. It's true, Like it's like that's 223 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:41.240 where I wanted it. They don't have your friend, because it would be 224 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.920 like that Rihanna tattoo under your booths. Oh I love that. Oh No, 225 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.599 I wouldn't do it, absolutely not. I wouldn't do it, but 226 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.839 I think it looks great on her. I love that. I'm gonna I'm 227 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:59.240 gonna sneak in tonight where you're sleeping with a wire brush and transcrib trying to 228 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:04.319 scalpel Anastasia at nothing sacred tattoo in Hillcrest. Seriously, she's the best, 229 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:11.559 the best, Okay, So let's get some double D out of the way 230 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.720 so we can get our guests on absolutely on stage in the studio because we 231 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.839 have so much to talk about with him, and as this is the right 232 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:23.000 up your ally. Oh okay, Uh do you still watch ninety Day Fiance? 233 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:29.680 Yes? I do? Uh? Do you know who Shaquina Gardner is? 234 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:34.799 Chicaina? Yes? Oh Chakainah. Well, those of you not in 235 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.720 the know, what happened to her? She was like a man has slept 236 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.079 with twenty five hundred women. Good for him, Yes, and she doesn't 237 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:49.000 want people to slept shame him. She's completely under this guy's control. It's 238 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:52.480 weird, And yes, I already knew that because that was on the show. 239 00:18:53.799 --> 00:19:00.960 Twenty five hundred women. You know, how can that's all? That's 240 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:06.559 a bunch of day. That's like a couple a day he's like in his 241 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.880 forties. Wow, he's had some busy weeks. He's very handsome. I 242 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:15.240 think he's from like Turkey or something. But anyway, she's beautiful, absolutely 243 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.519 beautiful, but totally under his power. Wow. Anyway. Okay, so 244 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:25.200 have you seen the stuff with Kanye West? Now? Right now? No? 245 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:33.039 So he's being sued by his employees because he allegedly called them slaves and 246 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:41.480 his wife, Bianca Sensory sent porn to the staff. Some of the people 247 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:47.279 that work there, which I don't understand how this is possible were miners h 248 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.000 Well, what you wasted? You can get a job when you're what sixteen? 249 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.319 Yeah, but why is he hiring miners? That's kind of weird. 250 00:19:52.799 --> 00:20:04.720 I don't know. But anyway, the lawsuit says this, so the his 251 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:15.359 former chief of staff, Milo Yanopoulos. That's just that's bad. Yeah, 252 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:21.920 that guy's a crazy right winger. Yes, so, uh the well, 253 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.559 I can't read the letter here. It's bad, but if you want to, 254 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.440 if you want to read it, go to TMZ. That's all I'm 255 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:32.279 going to say. Side note, did I didn't watch the debate? But 256 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.640 did who farted the presidential debate? Yeah? Oh Biden big time? Nightmare 257 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.279 because they didn't know who it was. Was it Trump or wait, somebody 258 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.240 far away? I thought you just meant like who did bad? I don't 259 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.519 know if Biden farted or anything. He did terrible though, No, somebody 260 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.160 like there there's like a big controversy who passed gas? Because it was like 261 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.559 audible, like I didn't this is what I read. I probably did. 262 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:59.319 Here's scooch over here, So you're more in the camp there you are. 263 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.000 Probably I didn't hear anything, but that would be funny, I know. 264 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:07.839 And I bet it was probably Biden probably so well, I don't know. 265 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.400 Didn't the other one fart in court? Trump during the trial? Yeah? 266 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.119 I think he's he's a you know what, I'm going to say it was 267 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.519 him Trump because he apparently can't stop doing it. So it happens. What 268 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:25.759 are you gonna do? Yeah? Remember Martin mull from Roseanne Vague. He 269 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:30.160 played like the crotchety old boss when she worked at the coffee shop or what. 270 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.279 Yes, he died at eighty Oh okay, yeah, that's a nice 271 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:40.319 long light. Last but not least well. J LO has been performing to 272 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:45.880 tens of people in Italy. Ben Affleck has moved his stuff out of their 273 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:52.599 house. No way. And when paparazzi descended on him, he let everybody 274 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.400 have it. Youet A'll melt down. He can't. He just can't take 275 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:04.559 it anymore. No, she's just too famous or sixty million dollars now they're 276 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.759 going to sell it for sixty five. She enjoys it seems like the attention, 277 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:14.680 the paparazzi, the fandom, the everything, and he doesn't seem to 278 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:21.240 be that on that same level. No, okay, so they're over for 279 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:26.680 anybody that wants to see more on it. TMC investigates Jlo and Ben missed 280 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:32.640 warning signs. I'll pass. You know what, I don't have any interest 281 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:36.920 in that at all anymore. Why care? I don't even care about them 282 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.319 not being together anymore. Care about them when they were first married. I 283 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.799 kind of cared when they came back together. I kind of care that that 284 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:48.400 was like, oh, they came back there like a rekindled love story. 285 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:53.039 No, but then like something happened. Not interested, I know, Like, 286 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.359 I don't think if you said to me, hey, I have j 287 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.640 Loo tickets, we go with me, I would say no, thank you. 288 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.000 If you said, I'll pay you one hundred dollars to come with me? 289 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.279 Will you come with me? I think i'd say no, thank you, 290 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.799 you'd go No. I think I would have to do it. I 291 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:14.000 think it would be more than that. You'd go and then you'd go shopping 292 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.759 in like the boutique. I'd go. I'd did for like one song on 293 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:21.519 one song, but I wouldn't want to buy any merch. I wouldn't want 294 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:25.200 a j Loo T shirt. Oh no, probably not. I don't think 295 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:30.279 anybody. She's not one of your songstresses. Not really. I like some 296 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:34.319 of her stuff. But yeah, Marilyn Monroe's home, the owners have no 297 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:40.000 plans to sell it after it got its historical monument tag, so they can 298 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.640 never tear the house down. It is now a historical monument. That's cool. 299 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:47.640 Yes, so that's probably where we'll live in our old age. Yes, 300 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.920 well, uh, we're probably gonna live in an assisted living home. 301 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:56.359 But we'll be living together, right because we're going to be needed. We're 302 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:02.720 somebody's gonna need to take care of us like our needs. It's true. 303 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:06.200 Is there anybody out there? Do I see a show of hands? Is 304 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.839 anybody willing to do that? We'll both probably be incontinent and uh oh, 305 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.759 I will be for sure. If you guys give me power attorney, I 306 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.799 will pull the plug at the first of your water. They're suffering. Just 307 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.559 take around a misery. Here's screw screwore this way. You're there, all 308 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:25.680 right. So now wait a minute. Okay, Katy Perry has a new 309 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:27.880 album coming out, and the new song that she released, Woman's Work, 310 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.039 is not doing well. Is it a remake of the song's work? It's 311 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.039 completely different? Okay, and it is cheesy, it is. Yeah, 312 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.079 it's not great, and I like carry Katy Perry. It's not not my 313 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:47.680 favorite. Now she's in trouble excuse me, because she had doctor Luke produce 314 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:53.000 it and he got sued by Kesha for like sexual harassment and all that stuff. 315 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:57.599 So now everybody's like, you're doing it an album on empowerment of women 316 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:06.799 and you have a oh come on yeah really wow? I mean okay, 317 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:11.200 now let's get onto the good stage, all right, So put on some 318 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:15.680 music. We're bringing up David Steele. Come on up into the hot seat, 319 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:23.000 David Yay. Okay, So this is David Steele. He is an 320 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:30.160 entrepreneur, he's a podcaster, he's a surfer, he's an environmentalist. He's 321 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:40.319 a builder of orphanages in Mexico. He is a solar power expert. And 322 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:44.440 I need to say something to David before we start our interview, because you 323 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.400 have you are so interesting. There's so many different things I want to talk 324 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:56.279 to you about. But I am in the program aa okay, and in 325 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:02.119 our program we make amends to people, so I feel like I need to 326 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.599 be open with you one hundred percent. Oh boy, Now I brought this 327 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:08.920 up on the podcast. I believe I'm doing this is I'm gonna get it 328 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.519 out of the way because it's awkward. All right, We'll get the awkwardness 329 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.759 out of the way. God, nobody does awkward like you. I know, 330 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.640 I know, but I feel like he deserves it. And you know 331 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.559 what, I have a question. I'm curious to know something. I had 332 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:30.240 an Apple watch that I bought in New York City and I didn't open it 333 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.960 for the longest time. Finally I opened it. It's a man's watch. 334 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.880 It was big, it was black, it was GPS, it was waterproof, 335 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.599 it had all these things. I'm like, all right, I'm just 336 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:45.119 gonna put it up for sale on Facebook Marketplace for like four fifty They're worth 337 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:52.599 like eight nine hundred dollars. Okay, mm hm. So David contacts me. 338 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.720 I'm already starting to scow. No, no, I have to get 339 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:56.960 this out of the way. I have to Can I leave and come back 340 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.519 around now you already told this story to Eric, But now we have David 341 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:04.680 right here. God. He's like, I'm coming down right now. I 342 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.799 live in La Costa, which is far from Hillcrest. I'm like, okay, 343 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.359 I'm sure you don't want to FaceTime first, and like look at it, 344 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:14.400 and he's like, no, no, no, I'm really interested. 345 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:15.799 I want to. I need it, you know, I'm cooming. I'm 346 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:23.720 like great. So we're talking as he's trying to pair the watch with his 347 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:30.759 phone, and he's telling me about his environmental work and solar. He drives 348 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:36.839 a nice car that's powered by solar. It's an electric vehicle and all these 349 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.920 interesting things. Meanwhile, still trying to pair the phone, he stops and 350 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:47.359 he goes for some reasons, it's just it's just not pairing with my phone. 351 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:52.960 I don't know. And then so I panic because David I bought the 352 00:27:52.079 --> 00:28:00.359 watch from a guy who pulled it out of a bag on canals set in 353 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.440 New York City for sixty dollars. Look, I need to be honest. 354 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.799 I need to this is a part of my program. I need to like. 355 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.119 But I'm curious to know something. So I panic and I said, 356 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:21.279 oh no, you think it's fake? Oh crap, my boss gave this 357 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:25.559 to me as a gift. I'm panicking like I'm making up stories because I 358 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:30.000 don't know what to do at this point. So I go, should I 359 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:36.559 tell her about the watch that it doesn't work? Like maybe she gave watches 360 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.880 to somebody else? Meanwhile, knowing full well I bought it from some dude, 361 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:45.400 some shady dude in New York City. I have to say something to 362 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.880 you right now. That's probably the best acting job you've ever done. Well, 363 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:56.880 maybe not, because I want to know here now, David, did 364 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:03.039 you know that I was lying? Just be honest, It's totally cool. 365 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:10.119 I did not. Oh man, see hm, Now, David, I 366 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:14.920 have a question for you. Crap right at this moment, who do you 367 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:22.440 like better? Me or Laura. I was not out to scam anybody because 368 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.240 I thought for sure this watch would work, like I hadn't tried it. 369 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.440 Sometimes they do. Why did you think it was worth four hundred and fifty 370 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.920 dollars. I guess the watch is the watch goes for like eight hundred, 371 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.720 nine hundred bucks. I'm selling it for four hundred. But watch me just 372 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.240 another watch. So I purchased it the next day from Apple. Yeah, 373 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:44.640 he said to me. He goes, like I've been trying. He goes, 374 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:47.559 this happened to me. Now three different times. You scammed the man. 375 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:51.359 For the third time, and you were the straw that broke the camel's 376 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:53.880 back. I was. I actually was the drove all the way down here 377 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:59.119 for a faulty watch, and I just want to say, I'm really really 378 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:03.839 sorry. We would have never I wouldn't be here right now exactly. That's 379 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:08.720 exactly my point. But I just first needed to apologize to you for trying 380 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:12.759 to dupe you. I wasn't trying to dupe you. I thought maybe what 381 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:18.079 could have been real. I wasn't sure, but I think David is going 382 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:25.519 to be my new bff. I think you have just you have just slid 383 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.400 down the ladder a little bit. Okay, now that's out of the way, 384 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.119 David, I apologize, you accept my apology. It's all good. 385 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:37.039 Thank you, and now you have a real watch. That you don't have 386 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.920 to like go to somebody else's house anymore, drive here and there to try 387 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.240 to get a deal. You gotta You actually got a good deal for sixty 388 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:48.960 bucks because it looked like a real watch, you know, for a lot 389 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.039 of people charge four hundred and fifty for those fake watches, people like Laura. 390 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.000 I know, I was so excited to make a couple hundred bucks. 391 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:02.519 I really was. I can't believe you thought there was a chance this singing 392 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:08.240 telegram thing is looking even better. Well, I thought there was every good 393 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.160 chance it would have worked. It came in the box. It was like 394 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:17.160 whatever, Anyway, we're done with the watch. The good thing is we 395 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:22.599 were meant to meet because you are so incredibly interesting. I want to know, 396 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:30.880 first of all, how did you become an environmentalist so into the earth 397 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.799 and solar and all that, Like, what is your background? What got 398 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.759 you into this in the first place? Where do I start? Where do 399 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:44.039 I start? Okay? So grew up on one coast and move to the 400 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.960 other. So I grew up in Miami Beach and learned to scuba di I've 401 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.400 when I was still single digits, you know, breathing off of somebody else's 402 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:59.200 regulator extra regulator and got certified when I was twelve years old. And so 403 00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:05.559 I've seen in my lifetime the ocean change, and I just remember those early 404 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.720 years going, wow, this is incredible. The coral reefs, just the 405 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:15.680 beauty of the ocean. And for me, like source is most represented in 406 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:22.359 nature, and for me, nature is usually the ocean. And so moving 407 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:28.440 out to California as a teenager, I became a Sandego lifeguard, started surfing, 408 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.599 you know, did some commercial diving. I've always been around the ocean, 409 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:37.079 and you almost can't be a surfer and not be some sort of an 410 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:43.839 environmentalist. And I just didn't like everything that I saw and so how was 411 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:46.480 it changing? Like how so what were the signs? What were you seeing 412 00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:53.319 different? So my dad was in politics, he was a judge, and 413 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.680 I noticed that the US Chamber was doing a lot of things, the US 414 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:06.200 Chamber of Congress that were anti environment for big, big corporations. So I 415 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:12.319 joined a local chamber and then started a green chamber focused on let's teach people 416 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:17.079 sustainability, that you can be just as successful or more successful in business and 417 00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:22.319 do the right thing. So we started the San Diego Green Chamber of Commerce, 418 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.799 which later became the US Green Chamber of Commerce Chamber of Commerces don't have 419 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.359 the influence that they used to have years ago, years ago. You know, 420 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:34.240 when we were young, you started a business, you joined the chamber 421 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:38.799 that was that was the way you market it. But we're able to share 422 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:44.200 the message, and we're able to educate people, and we're able to do 423 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.680 a lot of things, and so, you know, I've just always been 424 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:53.400 blessed to have the opportunity to, you know, kind of share my thoughts 425 00:33:53.559 --> 00:34:00.200 around the environment. And so I'm like one of those weird environment mentalists hippie 426 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:05.720 dudes. I grow my food when I can, and I don't use very 427 00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:10.039 much plastic, and I power everything I can through solar and uh yeah that's 428 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:15.679 who I am. How uh what has been changing? Is it just trash 429 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.119 in the ocean? Is it plastic? Is it? Is it just what 430 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:27.920 is what's wrong and what needs to be done? We just utilize the ocean 431 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:31.880 like it's a fully renewable resource that has no limit, and it does have 432 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:39.039 limits, and so you know, I could do a couple decades of podcasts 433 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:45.599 about what we do to the ocean, and uh, plastic is a huge, 434 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:50.280 huge part of it. The good news, though, you know, 435 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.840 from the environmental standpoint is is that there's always incredible entrepreneurs that are figuring out 436 00:34:54.920 --> 00:35:00.719 new ways to do things better. We just hope that we can do it 437 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.800 in time. You know that like the Earth will still be here, we 438 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.000 just might not if we don't figure something out. You know, I mean 439 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:14.480 not to get at all political, We're not going there. But it wasn't 440 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:19.400 a conversation in the recent debate. You know, the environment barely barely was 441 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:24.760 touched. Climate change was barely touched. And that's just we've just got to 442 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:30.440 wake up, in your opinion, if we don't start doing something, what's 443 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:37.920 going to happen to our oceans? What what is happening? So we don't 444 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:44.559 have enough resources to support the entire planet with the ocean and so you know, 445 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:50.719 there is some good fisheries management in some places, and we just have 446 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.679 to kind of come together, you know, because everything we do affects everyone, 447 00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.840 and it you know, it's it's I want to get better. I 448 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.840 have to believe that, you know. But right now, when I was 449 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:08.400 at San Diego Lifeguard in the eighties, we barely ever saw a seventy degree 450 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:13.599 water. And now during the summer it's you know, it's sometimes it's seventy 451 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.480 four, seventy six, but it'll be seventy for a month straight. You 452 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:22.239 know, it's it's it's definitely warmer. This year, it was like a 453 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.360 I think, I don't know that the sea rows almost a third of an 454 00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:30.719 inch or something like that. I mean, it's sea level is rising. 455 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:35.039 We're seeing bigger things, and yeah, what happens when that happened, I 456 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.199 mean, like what goes wrong? So many things. So for example, 457 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.159 here, as the water gets warmer, the kelp doesn't do as good. 458 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.280 The kelp is the fastest growing plant, but it also protects the coastline, 459 00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:52.119 you know, and so once the kelp is gone, when we also now 460 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:57.000 combine that with bigger storms, we have much more beach erosion. So there's 461 00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.280 you know, there's a whole myriad of things that happen a lot on the 462 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.639 along the path, you know. You know, bluefin tuna, you know, 463 00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:07.800 are being sold for a million dollars or more in the Asian markets, 464 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.960 and they're not they're not sustainable, like we won't have them in a few 465 00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:16.840 years. But there's also lots of you know, there's also lots of good 466 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:22.480 things. You know, we live in a town SeaWorld pretty much saved white 467 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.199 sea bass, you know, with their with their fisheries management. You know, 468 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.400 there's there's there's always there's always positive things that are happening. You know, 469 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:34.400 they're finding ways to to clean the ocean, they're finding ways to do 470 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:39.760 better. You know. Uh, my company power pow you are. We're 471 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:45.519 carbon neutral solar company. So we're a public benefit corporation, which is a 472 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.239 way to file a company when you have a higher good. Ours is climate 473 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:54.639 change, and so we offset the cost of what it took to manufacture solar 474 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.800 panels, right, so you can't just imagine they're on your roof one day 475 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.360 and and they didn't take a lot of carbon to get there, you know, 476 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:07.400 so we offset that, and you know, hopefully there's companies like ours 477 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:13.280 and hundreds and even thousands of others that are doing things to move in the 478 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.159 right direction, you know, and that's and that's all we have to do. 479 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:19.920 You know. It's uh, it's just such a beautiful planet. I 480 00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.280 mean, we live in paradise here in San Diego. It's so nice, 481 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.480 and we just we have to protect it. Before it's too late, right. 482 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.360 You know, people don't think about the help, but they understand when 483 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.840 a storm comes in and the beach is gone. You know, it's like 484 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.199 what happened to the sand? It's like, well, that's what happens, 485 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:43.559 right, Okay. David also is a podcaster. He does his podcast on 486 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:49.440 a paddle board in the ocean. So you who do you interview and what 487 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.000 have you talked about? And how the hell do you do that? You 488 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:58.119 must have to juggle a lot of things. It's not the easiest thing. 489 00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.760 And I did the typical podcast thing. I did like eight or ten episodes, 490 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:05.480 like literally like eight years ago on a podcast on un powder boards, 491 00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:07.920 and then I kind of stopped doing it because it was really just for fun 492 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:13.039 and I was inviting my like some really amazing people. But in my world, 493 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:19.000 I just get to meet some really really incredible people. And my podcast 494 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:24.079 focus is environment. Right. So yesterday, yeah, today's Monday. Yesterday 495 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:34.280 I interviewed my friend Stacy and she works she's an architect and a developer designer, 496 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:38.639 and she's working on creating like the building materials of the future, like 497 00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:45.639 sustainable buildings that can heal themselves like that. Actually can grow and heal like 498 00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:51.199 the next generation. By twenty thirty, here's what's coming out. We could 499 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:55.039 do things that are way more regentitive. You know. So often in the 500 00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:00.480 environmental space we talk about how can we be more sustainable. Maybe I'll I'll 501 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.360 buy a bag so I don't have to use plastic bags. Those are all 502 00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:07.599 there's nothing wrong with that, but regenerate. When you start thinking about regeneration 503 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.960 is how can I do something that's better than it was when I got here? 504 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.360 Right? So, if I really appreciate being in nature and that's my 505 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:21.679 source, why wouldn't I want to work and live in a building or home 506 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.719 that represents nature. That's that's living, you know. And so there's so 507 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:32.280 many cool things. I got to interview my dear friend that that was the 508 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.519 co founder of our company, and he talked about taking our CEO to the 509 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.559 rainforest and doing in the Amazon, and doing ayahuasca and coming up with the 510 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:49.840 version the vision of our company, and changing clean energy and doing something about 511 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.199 climate change, and so really cool. I have some really great episodes. 512 00:40:53.239 --> 00:41:00.599 I sat in a river with Ian Michael, who designed probably the most incredible 513 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:06.960 eco community in Costa Rica I've ever been at like just incredible and got to 514 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.679 interview him there, and so I just keep meeting these really really cool people 515 00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:19.039 locally. My friend Mustacha started Choice Juicery and all organic, all glass, 516 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:23.119 all cold press, just really amazing products. And she's just, you know, 517 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:30.079 a vegan, not a vegan activist, but an example of what's possible 518 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.519 when you live a certain way. So, yeah, so you're are you 519 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:38.519 hopeful for like our children? Because I know, like my son who's twenty 520 00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:44.760 four and wants to eventually have kids, is worried about bringing a child into 521 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:51.280 this world when it seems like things are going a little south. It sounds 522 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.400 like you are very hopeful, which is great news because a lot of people 523 00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:02.039 are really working hard to make things different. Yeah. So I have to 524 00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:07.920 grown kids adults, and uh, I do what I do because of them, 525 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:14.880 and and I'll finish my career at Power because I think that we're making 526 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.800 a difference. You know, we're we're we're truly making a difference. And 527 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:24.199 my kids are like me. My daughter's probably even if if it's possible, 528 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.760 she's more of an environmentalist and me she's she's lived off grid for several years 529 00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.000 now, and you know, it's like like we'll go to a restaurant and 530 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.920 she pulls out her utensils and I'm like, really, oh yeah, yeah, 531 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:38.800 oh what do you mean off grid? Like she doesn't have a cell 532 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:46.000 phone or she doesn't like have a nor her property in northern California, they 533 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:54.719 have solar and batteries and they're they're off of Yeah, any utility grid or 534 00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:59.679 any water grid or anything. Yeah, what about water? What about drinking 535 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:05.480 water? What's I worry about that? Like we're gonna run out of water 536 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.400 to drink, to take a shower, to do all these things, especially 537 00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:14.039 here in California, Southern California especially, there's good news there, Okay, 538 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.000 good good, good good. I like that, and there's bad news bad. 539 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:20.599 The bad news is we mainly get our water from the Colorado River, 540 00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:25.159 so the least expensive water comes the farthest and we're at the end of the 541 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.639 boat for the Colorado River. So there's not enough, Like when you look 542 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:36.559 at city planning for San Diego in the next twenty thirty years, that is 543 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:42.199 the huge issue here now. Fortunately there is technologies like desalinization. Is that 544 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.039 taking water that's actually sewer water? No, there's that as well, which 545 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:51.639 we need to do way more of and that's less expensive. Desalinization is actually 546 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:55.440 taking ocean water, which we already have a desalinization plant, but to do 547 00:43:55.480 --> 00:44:01.239 them at this scale that we need requires times tons of energy. Right, 548 00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:07.480 So you're forcing water through a very very fine membrane and it requires a lot 549 00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:12.239 of energy, and so you know it's a cost issue as well. But 550 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.719 yeah, water for us is a big issue. In other parts of the 551 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:21.239 country they have other issues. But yeah, the other thing that David told 552 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:28.559 me was sounded so cool and so scary at the same time. When you 553 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:35.880 were out in the water and you saw the biggest mammal on the planet next 554 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:39.519 to you, talk about that because I mean, that would be fascinating and 555 00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:44.719 also terrifying at the same time to see something that huge. Okay, I've 556 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:49.239 been very blessed to have gotten to swim and snorkel and dive with things like 557 00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.639 whale sharks before and just being out in the water. I got here in 558 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:58.199 San Diego to paddle with a gray whale and a pop you know, mom 559 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:02.119 and pop, two different times. One time I had work, I'd gone 560 00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:07.239 out literally every day and for four months in order to be on the water 561 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:10.159 enough that it would eventually happen, and it did. I have a dear 562 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:16.599 friend rich in Orange County that has paddled with blue whales and killer whales, 563 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:23.679 and there's been a pod or a group of blue whales in Laguna hanging out 564 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:29.639 eating krill, the largest living thing ever on planet Earth. So now I've 565 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:34.679 made four trips up there have not yet seen the blue whale. But it's 566 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.760 going to happen. For sure. You will probably know it because you'll hear 567 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:43.400 me scream all the way back here when it happens. But yeah, it's 568 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.280 just you know, I used to paddle every morning because I lived right at 569 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:52.239 the beach, and I kind of call it like possibility living because I've seen 570 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:55.679 so much in the ocean and so like I can be paddling and you could 571 00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.599 just your imagination doesn't have to work hard to go. I might see a 572 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.519 dolphin or a turtle or a whale or something right, and so I just 573 00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:07.400 I just like being on the water. It just it just feels good. 574 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:12.559 And I know it's gonna happen. I keep driving in Laguta, so it 575 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:14.840 will. Oh my god, I hope for you, well it will, 576 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:17.079 it really will. It will. And my friend Rich is gonna take me 577 00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.360 with him at some point and we'll find it together. What do you think 578 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.920 about all these shark attacks that have been happening lately? What's up with that? 579 00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:30.280 So there's not all these sharks, well, I've been hearing that they've 580 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:34.239 been like in the news a lot. We kill about ten million sharks to 581 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.360 you know, one, there's probably I don't I don't know what the exact 582 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:44.039 number is, but somewhere in like the thirty to forty range per year in 583 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.719 the world. Like it's it's not an issue, like way more people will 584 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:52.159 die from beastings tomorrow then will die from sharks in the next five years, 585 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:58.519 right, But but it's just the scariest image that people could come up with. 586 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:01.840 And we have had re attacks in San Diego. When in nineteen fifty 587 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:07.719 two in Lahoya one about eight or ten years ago in Solona Beach, and 588 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:14.320 then someone didn't die the other day, like a few weeks ago again in 589 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:19.840 Solona Beach. It was mostly a mistake, funny story that not that it's 590 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.039 funny, but when that happened in Solona Beach many years ago, like I 591 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:27.480 don't know what that was like ten years ago or something, it was a 592 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:32.719 retired veterinarian and he lived in Cardiff. Well, my sort of adopted dad 593 00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:38.079 of thirty years was a retired veterinarian who lived in Cardiff who has a great 594 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.400 sense of humor, and so people would call him and ask him, you 595 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.360 know about it, And he went and served there like he went out in 596 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:49.719 the ocean like the next day, because he's like, what the hell, 597 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:58.599 what is the odds of two retired from from Cardiff getting getting getting attacked by 598 00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.519 a great one? He was, he was hilarious. He's not with us 599 00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:07.719 anymore, but I have so many incredible memories and that one especially, it 600 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.280 was just super. Have you ever been close to a great white shark? 601 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.920 I? Yes? And so I have a dear friend here who's a coach 602 00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:21.360 and he teaches something called the Fearless Life Academy. So for like a decade 603 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.719 I bugged him and I'm like, we've got to do the great white shark 604 00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:28.960 thing, you know, because you can drive to Ensenada they just recently closed 605 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:34.840 it last year and take a boat overnight that goes to this island where the 606 00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:37.719 great whites are and dive in a cage. So we finally put it together 607 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:43.039 and twelve of us went out there for two days and and we're in the 608 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:46.840 water with great white sharks. Oh my gosh. Guadalupe Island they closed it 609 00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.639 last year. But yeah, we were in a cage though, but still, 610 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.519 wow, I would did they I mean, like, yeah, they 611 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.920 come right up to the cage, but not like they don't attack with their 612 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:04.559 rows of teeth. If you look at if you look at Guadalupe Island, 613 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:08.800 it's full of not seals or harbor seals, elephant seals. These things are 614 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:15.480 like giant, bigger than cows, like giant things. They are the least 615 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:21.239 bit interested in us, you know, like they have elephant seals. Yeah, 616 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:28.079 okay. Speaking of Mexico, he's also helping build orphanages. What don't 617 00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:30.960 you do for the world. You are an amazing person. Please talk about 618 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:37.440 that. Oh, thank you so much. And I wish I was building 619 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:42.119 the Orphanage. I'm helping with a project at the Orphanage, and and really 620 00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:45.679 I just get to work with some really, really incredible people. I feel 621 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:51.360 very blessed. But we've been going to Mexico for a while. If you're 622 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:55.199 here in San Diego, there's a couple of groups that do house builds in 623 00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:00.280 just just past and Sonata, and if you've never done one, you show 624 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.800 up on Friday morning and you give a family that was living in the dirt 625 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:08.000 a new home on Sunday and it's one of the most rewarding, amazing things 626 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:13.679 that anyone can do. And we bring thirty people down and we build a 627 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:15.880 house and then we're going to orphanage. Is so half are working on the 628 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.159 house, half go to the orphanage and we switch off for two days. 629 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.760 There's an orphanage in Via des Guadaloupe, which is like the wine region. 630 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.679 It's almost like the becoming like the Beverly Hills of Baha. It's beautiful there, 631 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:36.039 amazing place, and this orphanage has been there since the sixties. It's 632 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:40.480 amazing. They've almost fifteen acres and they care for between like ninety and one 633 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:45.559 hundred kids. And I had the opportunity to go down there on my birthday 634 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:49.360 once with my son and we were going to surf and we wanted to visit 635 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:53.000 the orphanage in the morning. And our community is just great. Like I 636 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.559 just put a note out like hey, I'm going to Rental de las Ninos, 637 00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:01.920 and my car was filled with like to and clothes and gifts and stuff. 638 00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:05.719 Right, so you know, what a great day. We're gonna go 639 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:10.360 down and we're gonna give gifts to all these kids. And I met Jorge, 640 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:16.440 and Jorge is the director. He and his wife met there as orphans. 641 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:22.079 Orphans. They grew up in the orphanage, and when they became adults, 642 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:23.719 they went to school, they graduated, they came back and now they 643 00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:29.719 run it. Wow. And one of the huge issues there's a lot of 644 00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:32.920 issues in Baha right now, but one of the huge issues is teenage child 645 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:38.559 pregnancy. One in three young women one in three, sometimes twelve, thirteen, 646 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:44.440 fourteen are pregnant before they're eighteen. And a lot of times it's drugs 647 00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:46.760 or violence, it's whatever it is. They have the baby in the hospital 648 00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:51.519 and they just leave and the hospital will call Jorge and say, hey, 649 00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:57.320 can you take a baby. Babies are expensive, there's no government resources and 650 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.320 they can take like two babies or something thing, but they are three, 651 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.920 but they can't really, So he really wanted to build a baby nursery. 652 00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.480 So my son and my GoPro we like filmed a little story about it, 653 00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:15.360 and then some of my amazing friends, my Ray Dresden that I mentioned. 654 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.719 A PR guy helped get us on the news and got some press for it. 655 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:24.639 And dear friend Amar, who's very involved with the orphanages and doing a 656 00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:31.559 big project there, really helped out and got to work with a nonprofit called 657 00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:37.880 corson Davida. It's a California nonprofit highest Guide star rating you can get, 658 00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:43.840 and they support like a dozen orphanages, like over five hundred kids, and 659 00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:49.079 so we're working with them, and over time we've raised money. So I 660 00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:51.599 wanted to raise one hundred and fifty. We're at one hundred and five. 661 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.000 But we've got enough that we've actually finished the structure, Like we finished that 662 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:59.119 we put just put the roof on. So now we're just going to raise 663 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:06.400 to do the finishing touches and the supplies and the staffing. But I didn't 664 00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:08.960 do it. I just I just helped, you know, get something started, 665 00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:14.199 and then told the community. And then my friends, like my friend 666 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:19.400 Bing like had like two Christmas parties and like we had like one hundred people. 667 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:24.360 We had gifts for all the kids and donations. And my friend Ray 668 00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:30.480 is very connected in the fishing community and in Baha, and he's arranging and 669 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:35.800 we're still putting this together, but he's arranging where the San Diego fishing fleet, 670 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:39.519 the fishermen can donate their extra fish because it's really expensive to profit them, 671 00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:44.599 they can donate their extra fish and they'll go to orphanages in Baha. 672 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:50.519 And so like all these other things happened that had nothing to do with the 673 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:53.719 nursery, but because of the nursery and the attention, one of my of 674 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:59.199 their friends, Harv, has this amazing nonprofit where he brought bikes for all 675 00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:04.039 the older kids so they can get jobs in further than just walking distance. 676 00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:07.119 And it was such a positive experience for him. He's doing it for the 677 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:10.199 other orphanage. Oh wow. Okay, So somebody who's watching right now or 678 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:15.719 listening and they're like, Okay, I've always wanted to do this kind of 679 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:20.840 thing where I go on a weekend and I help build a home for somebody. 680 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:22.920 How do they do that? And what is this community you're talking about? 681 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.639 Like, I know, we have all your links. All your links 682 00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:30.519 are on Laura Kane after dark dot com. You can see his link tree, 683 00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:35.000 his podcast. You have a GoFundMe on there for the right for the 684 00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:37.880 orphanage. Yes, for the orphanage. So that's all on there, But 685 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:44.760 like what's the community called? Like who would somebody contact? So corson Davida. 686 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:50.519 They're the real deal. Like their events are like they have a big 687 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:54.639 event coming up in Orange County and like their first first class, like you 688 00:54:54.679 --> 00:55:00.000 know, wear a formal suit, like it's gonna be. It's a beautiful, 689 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:05.519 beautiful events. They raise money and they they literally feed all of the 690 00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:09.519 orphanages and they're just they're just incredible. And I could tell you the story 691 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.920 about how they started, but we have more to talk about, I think. 692 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:21.480 But but so Corson Davida and then I could share the link with my 693 00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:27.360 one of my best friends, Mike Scherbakoff, who started Greatness Greatness Ventures I 694 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.519 think it is now and and he does the trips. The next trip we 695 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:36.159 have will be in January to do a house built and it's always one of 696 00:55:36.199 --> 00:55:38.719 my favorites because it's my son's birthday. He's gonna do it, and it's 697 00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:43.119 my dear friend Mike's birthday as well, and we just we just have a 698 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.360 blast. And there's lots of groups that go down and do them. There's 699 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:50.679 lots of church groups and other groups. But it's one of the most rewarding 700 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.039 things you could do. And these families work really hard to be able to 701 00:55:53.280 --> 00:56:00.519 buy this little spot of land over time and uh, you know, it's 702 00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:04.119 it's always so touching. You know, it's amazing. They could build a 703 00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:07.920 home in a weekend, two rooms and a loft, and they're and they're 704 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:12.280 really amazing. And now Power we do them as well. In fact, 705 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.679 we have like a big summer promotion and one of the huge prizes for the 706 00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.519 top thirty people is they get to go and build a house. And so 707 00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:23.079 it's like a huge motivation company wide where people will fly in to go down 708 00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:27.760 to uh to do a house and it's like becoming a part of the culture 709 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.800 of our company is to like, how can we get back David Steele for 710 00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:35.840 President of the United States. I don't want that job. I know who 711 00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:42.880 want job. You are just so incredible and you're so giving and so concerned 712 00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:45.199 about our earth. It's thank you for that. Thank you for being that 713 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:51.320 person that is leading the charge, that is that is doing something instead of 714 00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.400 talking about it, you know, And that's why I thought it was so 715 00:56:54.440 --> 00:57:00.760 important to have you on because you're actually somebody who is who is not only 716 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.400 just talking the talk, You're walking the walk. You're doing it, You're 717 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:08.480 helping, You're you're furthering the cause, and instead of bringing it back, 718 00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:14.000 I just feel fortunate I didn't. I don't feel like I've done what so 719 00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:16.880 many others have done for the orphanage. I just helped to bring attention to 720 00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:23.000 the issue. And if we remember right, it wasn't that many years ago 721 00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:29.840 that we were separating children from parents at the border. And you know, 722 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:32.800 the way I look at the world, it's like, it's not just me 723 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:37.559 and my kids, but it's my community, you know, and the border 724 00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:40.199 is right here now. If we got in our car, we would be 725 00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:44.920 there in fifteen minutes. I'm going there tomorrow, and they were separating children 726 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.920 from their parents, and so it's like for me, it just like makes 727 00:57:47.960 --> 00:57:52.719 me feel good that we can say, hey, let's do something for children 728 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:59.159 because there's not really resources and unfortunately, if you want, is overcrowded because 729 00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:04.119 all those people that are trying to come potentially to the US because of their 730 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:09.199 situation are waiting there, and so you know, it's it's it's it's a 731 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:15.079 challenging environment, but it's that close to us that you know, we have 732 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:16.599 to do what we can. I don't know if you know the answer to 733 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:21.199 this, but I know there's a lot of people who want to adopt a 734 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.239 child, and a lot of people go overseas, you know, China, 735 00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:30.440 Romania wherever to get them to get a child, to adopt a child, 736 00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.960 a baby at the orphanage. You say, there's a lot of there's babies 737 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:38.840 all the time. Are they adoptable? I mean, what's up? Do 738 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:43.079 you know? I don't profess to be an expert in this right, but 739 00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:46.920 I will tell you it's incredibly, incredibly difficult. As an American, You're 740 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:50.960 not going to go to the orphanage and bring home a baby. That just 741 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:53.199 won't happen. Most of these kids, when they get to the orphanage, 742 00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:59.800 they'll be there their life. But but it's a great life, Like the 743 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:04.960 each each of the dorms has a male and a female figure, the wineries 744 00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:07.960 of all the things they donated. A soccer field, but it's a really 745 00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:13.679 nice soccer field, really really nice, and the kids go to school and 746 00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:16.679 the kids have great they have meals. It's like it's actually a good life 747 00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:20.960 for them. But they're going to be there and so we really wanted to 748 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:27.679 create something where in this example of how much love and education and how we 749 00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.400 could raise the children from a bat like give them a really good start in 750 00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:37.000 those first few years. So there's a whole education component to you know, 751 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:40.440 building the baby nursery. And the hope is that it will get duplicated to 752 00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:45.440 the other the other nurseries or the other orphan hitches. I should say, 753 00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:52.159 and again, you know, like Hilda that runs Corzon Divida, to me, 754 00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.199 she's like Mother Teresa, She's an angel, Like she's the one who 755 00:59:54.320 --> 01:00:00.400 they're doing the hard work. There's Jorge with with Corson Davida and so many 756 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:06.039 incredible people. I'm just you know, uh, all I did is trace 757 01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:08.519 my hand and say, hey, come over here, look at this thing. 758 01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:15.159 You know, if there's one thing that you can tell our listeners or 759 01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:20.079 people that are watching, what's one thing we should start doing right away for 760 01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:24.079 the environment. What's one like easy, pretty easy thing that we can do 761 01:00:24.119 --> 01:00:32.719 that will make a difference. It's always it's always easier to just reduce, 762 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.920 you know, like if you eat steak seven days a week, you know, 763 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.199 try eating it two days a week, you know, or whatever have 764 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:45.880 you. You know, I'm not saying professing that everyone should be vegan, 765 01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:50.599 but at some point we won't have enough planet for everybody to eat steak every 766 01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:58.679 day. If if you can get get a water, like get a bottle 767 01:00:58.800 --> 01:01:02.559 and stop using plastic water bottles, stop using things that are like, you 768 01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:07.519 know, just temporary, you know, like like the plastics already in the 769 01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:10.639 seafood we eat. It's already you know, quite a bit of it in 770 01:01:10.679 --> 01:01:15.679 the ocean, all oceans, you know. So those are those are some 771 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:21.400 of the easy things you can do, you know. And then and then 772 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:25.400 for me, I got into the energy industry because we have a real challenge. 773 01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:30.320 You know, we're using more and more energy, and our energy grids 774 01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:37.320 weren't meant to have thousands of electric vehicles and data centers full of AI computers, 775 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:43.639 and you know, so everywhere is going to be upgrading obsolete or older 776 01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:46.480 equipment, which means our costs are going to keep going up and up and 777 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:51.360 up. And so you know, moving to things like solar where you're like, 778 01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:53.840 yeah, we're not We're not paying for your energy anymore. You know, 779 01:01:53.960 --> 01:01:57.760 it just makes sense. So you know, I can't I can't help 780 01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:00.800 but plug what I do. But I really really believe you've in it, 781 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:04.960 and it just makes sense, especially here. So you know, we call 782 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:09.440 it the California tax or the San Diego tax, but we we pay, 783 01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:14.599 you know, sometimes four or five times what the rest of the country is 784 01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:19.119 doing using for energy. So it's like really common to have you know, 785 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.239 anywhere from ten to fifteen or eighteen cents of kill a lot. We're here. 786 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.719 If I get someone's utility bill, it's usually fifty cents. You know, 787 01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:30.239 it's like it's it's some people freak out, have been freaking out lately 788 01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:36.480 at how astronomical their bill has become, especially when it's hot and you turn 789 01:02:36.559 --> 01:02:38.719 on the air conditioner. I know, like I have on right now. 790 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:42.159 Oh I feel like I should turn it off right now and turn on or 791 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:46.119 just open up the window because you're here and look see it with this amazing 792 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:52.239 person, and look what I tried to do to him. I feel you 793 01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:59.599 should feel deep shame. But it was meant to be. We were meant 794 01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:02.079 to meet, You were meant to be here and to talk to us, 795 01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:07.920 and I just I couldn't be happier that you're sitting right here and that you're 796 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:13.119 on this planet and that you're doing something to help all of us. So 797 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:16.480 thank you, thank you. You're also the hero for bringing exposure to so 798 01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:22.320 many people all every week. You know, I it's harder to shoot my 799 01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:27.679 podcast. I will just guarantee than most anyone. But you know, I'm 800 01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:30.280 up at eight or nine episodes now, and you're like, what many? 801 01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:36.280 Almost five hundred? Yeah, so you know how many people have you helped 802 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:39.280 that are doing great things to help them get more exposure? So I appreciate 803 01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:43.280 you well, thank you, thank you. I was thinking of, like, 804 01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.519 what what have we actually done? We talk about, like we gossip 805 01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:51.000 about celebrities, we talk about like random things about Oh, we probably shouldn't 806 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:54.400 buy stuff from Timu anymore. Oh see, no, I know, uh 807 01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:58.440 oh uh oh. We're in big trouble as we do that. But you 808 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:02.119 know what, I know, I'm not going to do that anymore because that's 809 01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:05.800 a whole other thing. Fast fashion. That's like another big thing that's a 810 01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:08.960 oh my god. We could go on and on and on and on. 811 01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:13.599 Anyway. All of David's links are on Laura Kane after Dark, including the 812 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:18.119 GoFundMe for the Orphanage Needs and his link tree that has his podcast, his 813 01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:23.719 energy company. Everything we've talked about. Uh, you can help, you 814 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:30.639 can be a part of his world environmentalist. And one more time, I'm 815 01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.239 sorry, but I'm also not sorry, not sorry, sorry, not sorry, 816 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:38.599 because I'm glad I met you, and I'm really glad that you have 817 01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:43.760 a real friggin' Apple watch on your wrist right now. Thank you. And 818 01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:49.400 the one that he compare with his phone that actually works. It's actually quite 819 01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:55.679 incredible because they're identical, like the packaging that they make for these things. 820 01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:01.400 They make the Apple packaging everything. You if you laid them side by side, 821 01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:06.880 you really have a hard time telling. It's it's like an industry to 822 01:05:08.280 --> 01:05:13.199 make any Apple products. But sixty dollars is a great price. I'm sorry 823 01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:15.519 I lied about my boss giving me the gift. I panicked. I panicked, 824 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:24.239 But anyway, it's great crisis anyway, And thank you so much for 825 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:27.760 being on our show. Really appreciate it so great getting to know more about 826 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.920 you and everything that you do and and bringing awareness. And thank you guys 827 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.639 so much for watching on Instagram Live nice. Thank you so much for watching 828 01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:39.239 on YouTube. Thank you, thank you so much for listening. And we 829 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:42.559 say something at the end of our podcast, and I'll say it first, 830 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.519 then Eric says it, and then will you say it, and then we'll 831 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:49.840 close out. Okay, I'll just go ahead and say it. Love your 832 01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:56.119 podcast, Love your podcast, Love your podcast, Love you, my sweet 833 01:05:56.119 --> 01:05:58.960 babies. Thank you, guys. Bye bye