California is in chaos: wildfires, unemployment fraud, a train to nowhere, high energy costs, lousy public education, and a California exodus that includes billionaires and working people piling their personal effects into U-Haul trailers bound for Texas. David and Will discuss why none of that will likely matter in 2028. Bonus! Will travels back nearly 500 years to the rise and fall of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo -- the first European to set foot in California and to be buried there. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes:

• One year after the LA fires, survivors' big question: Where's the accountability?
• Northern California, Bay Area leaders react to strikes on Venezuela, Maduro's capture
• SEIU’s coy X post (facto)
• The Legislative Analyst’s Office analysis of the billionaire wealth tax
• David Sacks opens Austin office as threat of California ‘billionaire tax’ looms
• Solana Co-Founder Calls California’s Proposed 5% Billionaire Tax Measure ‘Dumb’ – Warns Of Capital Flight
• Billionaires make strategic moves out of California ahead of proposed wealth tax
• U-Haul: Florida ranks 2nd for net gain of one-way customers; California last for sixth year in a row
• California State Auditor’s report
• Why Gavin Newsom would crush JD Vance in 2028 
• The Atlantic: The Front-Runner 
• Even more Cal State campuses will automatically admit eligible students under a new state law
• A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego (ep 420)
• San Francisco mayor quietly signs reparations fund that could lead to $5M payments per person
• New California law requires ingredient change for this grocery staple

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