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Hello, Hello, Welcome to LauraKane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane and
this is producer Brian. Hi.Brian, looks like we're hosting the show
tonight. Yep. It's gonna bea great time. We're gonna have so
much fun because someone the talent ismissing. I haven't heard from him today.

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I didn't even call him. No, I did call him. I
called him because I had to discusssomething with him. No answer, but
that's normal. I even have presentsfor him today. You didn't forget?
Forget? He would know. Hehas not forgotten one time. Well,
it's seven oh one. Okay,you text him because I'm using my phone
for Instagram Live. Hi, everybodyon Instagram Live. How are you okay?

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We have so much to talk about, and we have a special guest,
David Steele, entrepreneur, environmentalist,he's a solar guy, he's a
podcaster, he's a dad. There'sso many things about him that are so
interesting. And he's the guy thatI tried to sell my Apple Watch to

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and I have We're not gonna talkabout it yet, but hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, stop, I'm going to before we start
our interview with him, which wewill do after well, whenever Eric shows
up to do the double d uh, we'll have on David Steele and I

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have something to say to him aboutthat. Did you see this the thumbnail
I made for that video? No, what was the thumbnail? What did
it look like? It was agood thumbnail. Does it look like a
Do I look like a crook orsomething? Do I have like a does
it look like I explain it?What does it look like? Oh my

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god, I did not know.Oh my god? Okay, whatever for
oh my god? Okay, Sowell, let's start off by playing we
brought back the secret sound. Weused to do the secret sound back I
don't know, like two years ago, and it was very popular and so
we decided to bring it back.It's just a random sound. We're going

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to play the sound. If youthink you know what it is and you
guess it correctly, the winner getsone hundred dollars cash. Now here's what
you do. If you feel likeyou want to guess, you can comment
on our Instagram page. You cancomment on our Facebook or on our YouTube
that would be great too, orsend us an email Laura Kanead at gmail

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dot com. Oh thank you forwell, Thank you the talent has arrived.
Everybody, the talent has arrived.Almost five minute. It's late.
Yeah right, I this is whatyou're talking to right now, and it's
called the hand. Because there's somany things I needed to talk to you

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about today, I need to,okay, step in front of the camera.
Hello, Hi, are you okay? By the way, Like,
what's going on? Right? Yeah? I believe that? Huh. I
know he was closet. I know, what the heck? What just happened
to you? Why should you liketurned hitting me with the two by four

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out in the street. Okay,I just got here, dude, I
know you got back from a workout. What you know what? Okay,
I guarantee you this. This isIr Grimmer by the way, my co
host, Hi, not for muchlonger. This is exactly what was going
on. I know, Eric,he was sitting in his car on this

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street talking to one of his girlfriend. This happens frequently, doast Oh my
god, this is like the thirdtime I got in traffic. You had
a meeting, You got caught intraffic? Oh yeah, And I don't
And Brian doesn't, I know,I know, like but he he always

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throws that at us, like wedon't work. Now he knows I work.
I know he works. I'm notmad, I'm just disappointed. Yes,
I'm the worst thing ever. I'mdisappointed. I'm going to pack my
toys and go home. You broughttoy? Did you bring my present?
No? I have several things.I have presents for you tonight, not

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this show, but for the nextshow I've got. We have a new
sponsor. What we have David Steelein studio, our special guests, and
I needed to talk to you today. I called you no answer, which
is typical. You didn't even callme back. But or did you call?
Oh? See wow? Anyways,Anya, So we were talking about

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the secret sound, so we broughtit back last week. Nobody guessed it
correctly. Was there anything close?No? Nothing close. This is something
I'm not even gonna give you anykind of hint or anything. Just you
guys, listen to it. Okay, guess it. Just throw out some

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guesses. You never know. Youcan win one hundred bucks if you guess
it first person. Okay, let'schew it again one more time. What

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is that all is? At onepoint you definitely hit your phone against something.
Do it again? No, Idon't think you did. Yeah,
right there, that's you banging yourphone against something. That's that's the that's
audio clipping. I don't think thathappened. We were together when it happened.

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Yes, he does. We createdit together, and it's nothing like
unbelievably hard to guess. But thereyou go. That's all I'm going to
say. Maybe it's like a plasticbag. I'm going to say, you're
not allowed even if you do guessit correctly. I'm not going to say
giving our people who listen some hint, some you know, guesses, they

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can steal who's your phone? It'sright there, see, because we have
a special guest. I know,I know you love waving to everybody,
but we needed to include the wholeentire set because of our special guest,
David. I love sporters. Theyjust get worse and worse. Yeah,
that one's pretty egregious. David's alreadyhere, but he's going to come on

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the sent in a minute, Davidhis last. The best part is Eric
wouldn't know anything about that. No, he wouldn't. I would not.
He's never seen a live vagina.I would not like to see what comes
out of there. Sorry, David, I'm sorry, David. He's our
in studio guests. We need tobe professional, but we just got to
be honest with him too. Well. I love Squirters shirts exactly. You

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should see the one for tomorrow show. He wore a hat last week that
said I shaved my balls for thisWait, did you wear it to work?
Okay? Thank god? No,only to this work, only to
this one. I'm make sure youdidn't come straight from working. No,
no, no no? Do youhave double D news? I too?
Okay, excellent. I have totell you about something I did today,

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and then something I did for Evan'sbirthday, and then we will have our
special guest, David steel On,and I have a lot to say to
him, and he has so manythings that are going on in his life
that are so incredibly interesting. Icannot wait to interview. You're gonna love
it, love it, love it. First, let's do our sponsors.
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appreciate it so much. Okay,So I want to tell you about something
I did today, but first Iwant to tell you about Evans's birthday.
And this is a great idea andit's something that used to be really popular
back when I was young. Brian, have you ever met a coach rides?
Wow? Poppers? Really? Haveyou ever heard of a singing telegram?

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Brian? Yes, okay, butthey don't really exist anymore. There
used to be companies that you couldcall and set up and they were like
actors that would come show up atsomebody's house or birthday party as a surprise
in singing a special song from somebody, like Hello, this is from John.

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He wants to say happy birthday.And they're dressed in like costumes and
it's just like a special whatever.I feel like those weren't cool even back
in the day. Well whatever,anyway, so I thought it would be
cool to do that for Evan sinceshe's in New York City, something Evan
would get a kick out of.Okay. Well, so so I decided,
I'm like, well, you can'treally hire anybody because there's no company

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really, So I got in touchwith her boyfriend. We figured it out
a guy, a guy that's inher theater department. I paid him a
hundred bucks and gave him some extramoney to go buy her a big bouquet
of flowers. He showed up whereall her friends were gathered for her birthday,
sang her Happy Birthday in the mostawesome way, and then like he
read all these things that I wroteabout her, like fat doys. It

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was. She was floored, sosurprised, it was so fun. So
like, if you guys are lookingfor a really creative, fun surprising idea
for somebody's birthday, I would definitelytry this out. A singing telegram.
You're hired to do that, right, Heck yeah, I think all the
grams are, aren't those like StripperGraham telegrams singing like all the aren't those

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all out the window? Now?Well you can still have your stripper.
Stripper g well, isn't it youknow what? I'm bringing it back that
business ventsure. Okay, I'll dothe stripping. You know what, costume,
Hey, strip and I can wearthe costume. Sure he's gonna wear

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the not the red nose somewhere else. It depends on the money. It
depends on the money. We'll see. Boy. Yeah, I know I'm
not. I'm not at that point. Okay, I'm gonna check your YouTube
starch history and that oh god,don't what did I look up the oh
some weird thing the other day?I was like, oh god, I
hope Brian's not. I don't gonow. I don't look lucky for you.

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Okay, So over the last coupleof weeks, I've been creating and
drawing something that I want on mybody tattoo. I know, don't get
on crazy, stop it stop it. Don't get in addiction. That's a
real thing. Well I think Imight have it. So no addiction.

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I know I have an addictive personality. What can I say? No,
no, listen, it's really sweet. So did you know that you have
you know you have a birthday stoneright for your birthday month. There's also
flowers. You have birthday flowers too. So I created I'll show you the
picture I drew, and then i'llshow you the picture that Anastasia drew,

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because Anastasia, who was on thepodcast with us, did the tattoo for
me today. Okay, so it'smy dad's yo's so I don't have time
to object. You've already gotten itexactly. She just got the design right.
Oh no, it's I got tattooed. It's on me for forever.
But I'm not going to show itto you because it's it's still it's brand

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new, so it's a little redand it's like covered with the plastic.
But I'll show you what it is. Where is it? I'll tell you
in a minute. So it's mydad's flower, my mom's flower, Charlie's
flower, Evans flower, and thenmine and then a kind of like a
rosary cross thing that kind of combinesit all together. This sounds large,

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shut up. So this is whatI drew. It is an iris.
My mom's flower is called the Narcissus, which is kind of funny, and
she's not anything like that. Charlie'sflower, Evans flower, my flower,
and then the rosary. It's believeme, it's not this big on my
body, trust me God. Sothen Anastasia took it to a whole nother

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level and did it like so beautifully. And this is I just printed out
a bunch of different sizes. Shewound the rosary around the flower hours anyway,
she did such a beautiful job.So I got that done today on
my back, like right below myneck. It's only like three inches big.
So it's not that big a deal. But you know what it means.

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It means my family always has myback. Okay, okay, see
what I go. This is veryliteral. I think. No matter what
I say tonight, No, no, no, that's not one thing that
you guys will be supportive of.It's just you pray like a bad joke.

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You're like, it's on my back. So because my family always has
my back, that's what I mean. It's true, Like it's like that's
where I wanted it. They don'thave your friend, because it would be
like that Rihanna tattoo under your booths. Oh I love that. Oh No,
I wouldn't do it, absolutely not. I wouldn't do it, but
I think it looks great on her. I love that. I'm gonna I'm

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gonna sneak in tonight where you're sleepingwith a wire brush and transcrib trying to
scalpel Anastasia at nothing sacred tattoo inHillcrest. Seriously, she's the best,
the best, Okay, So let'sget some double D out of the way
so we can get our guests onabsolutely on stage in the studio because we

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have so much to talk about withhim, and as this is the right
up your ally. Oh okay,Uh do you still watch ninety Day Fiance?
Yes? I do? Uh?Do you know who Shaquina Gardner is?
Chicaina? Yes? Oh Chakainah.Well, those of you not in
the know, what happened to her? She was like a man has slept

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with twenty five hundred women. Goodfor him, Yes, and she doesn't
want people to slept shame him.She's completely under this guy's control. It's
weird, And yes, I alreadyknew that because that was on the show.
Twenty five hundred women. You know, how can that's all? That's

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a bunch of day. That's likea couple a day he's like in his
forties. Wow, he's had somebusy weeks. He's very handsome. I
think he's from like Turkey or something. But anyway, she's beautiful, absolutely
beautiful, but totally under his power. Wow. Anyway. Okay, so
have you seen the stuff with KanyeWest? Now? Right now? No?

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So he's being sued by his employeesbecause he allegedly called them slaves and
his wife, Bianca Sensory sent pornto the staff. Some of the people
that work there, which I don'tunderstand how this is possible were miners h

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Well, what you wasted? Youcan get a job when you're what sixteen?
Yeah, but why is he hiringminers? That's kind of weird.
I don't know. But anyway,the lawsuit says this, so the his
former chief of staff, Milo Yanopoulos. That's just that's bad. Yeah,

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that guy's a crazy right winger.Yes, so, uh the well,
I can't read the letter here.It's bad, but if you want to,
if you want to read it,go to TMZ. That's all I'm
going to say. Side note,did I didn't watch the debate? But
did who farted the presidential debate?Yeah? Oh Biden big time? Nightmare

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because they didn't know who it was. Was it Trump or wait, somebody
far away? I thought you justmeant like who did bad? I don't
know if Biden farted or anything.He did terrible though, No, somebody
like there there's like a big controversywho passed gas? Because it was like
audible, like I didn't this iswhat I read. I probably did.
Here's scooch over here, So you'remore in the camp there you are.

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Probably I didn't hear anything, butthat would be funny, I know.
And I bet it was probably Bidenprobably so well, I don't know.
Didn't the other one fart in court? Trump during the trial? Yeah?
I think he's he's a you knowwhat, I'm going to say it was
him Trump because he apparently can't stopdoing it. So it happens. What
are you gonna do? Yeah?Remember Martin mull from Roseanne Vague. He

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played like the crotchety old boss whenshe worked at the coffee shop or what.
Yes, he died at eighty Ohokay, yeah, that's a nice
long light. Last but not leastwell. J LO has been performing to
tens of people in Italy. BenAffleck has moved his stuff out of their

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house. No way. And whenpaparazzi descended on him, he let everybody
have it. Youet A'll melt down. He can't. He just can't take
it anymore. No, she's justtoo famous or sixty million dollars now they're
going to sell it for sixty five. She enjoys it seems like the attention,

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the paparazzi, the fandom, theeverything, and he doesn't seem to
be that on that same level.No, okay, so they're over for
anybody that wants to see more onit. TMC investigates Jlo and Ben missed
warning signs. I'll pass. Youknow what, I don't have any interest

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in that at all anymore. Whycare? I don't even care about them
not being together anymore. Care aboutthem when they were first married. I
kind of cared when they came backtogether. I kind of care that that
was like, oh, they cameback there like a rekindled love story.
No, but then like something happened. Not interested, I know, Like,

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I don't think if you said tome, hey, I have j
Loo tickets, we go with me, I would say no, thank you.
If you said, I'll pay youone hundred dollars to come with me?
Will you come with me? Ithink i'd say no, thank you,
you'd go No. I think Iwould have to do it. I
think it would be more than that. You'd go and then you'd go shopping

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in like the boutique. I'd go. I'd did for like one song on
one song, but I wouldn't wantto buy any merch. I wouldn't want
a j Loo T shirt. Ohno, probably not. I don't think
anybody. She's not one of yoursongstresses. Not really. I like some
of her stuff. But yeah,Marilyn Monroe's home, the owners have no

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plans to sell it after it gotits historical monument tag, so they can
never tear the house down. Itis now a historical monument. That's cool.
Yes, so that's probably where we'lllive in our old age. Yes,
well, uh, we're probably gonnalive in an assisted living home.
But we'll be living together, rightbecause we're going to be needed. We're

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somebody's gonna need to take care ofus like our needs. It's true.
Is there anybody out there? DoI see a show of hands? Is
anybody willing to do that? We'llboth probably be incontinent and uh oh,
I will be for sure. Ifyou guys give me power attorney, I
will pull the plug at the firstof your water. They're suffering. Just

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take around a misery. Here's screwscrewore this way. You're there, all
right. So now wait a minute. Okay, Katy Perry has a new
album coming out, and the newsong that she released, Woman's Work,
is not doing well. Is ita remake of the song's work? It's
completely different? Okay, and itis cheesy, it is. Yeah,
it's not great, and I likecarry Katy Perry. It's not not my

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favorite. Now she's in trouble excuseme, because she had doctor Luke produce
it and he got sued by Keshafor like sexual harassment and all that stuff.
So now everybody's like, you're doingit an album on empowerment of women
and you have a oh come onyeah really wow? I mean okay,

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now let's get onto the good stage, all right, So put on some
music. We're bringing up David Steele. Come on up into the hot seat,
David Yay. Okay, So thisis David Steele. He is an
entrepreneur, he's a podcaster, he'sa surfer, he's an environmentalist. He's

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a builder of orphanages in Mexico.He is a solar power expert. And
I need to say something to Davidbefore we start our interview, because you
have you are so interesting. There'sso many different things I want to talk
to you about. But I amin the program aa okay, and in

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our program we make amends to people, so I feel like I need to
be open with you one hundred percent. Oh boy, Now I brought this
up on the podcast. I believeI'm doing this is I'm gonna get it
out of the way because it's awkward. All right, We'll get the awkwardness
out of the way. God,nobody does awkward like you. I know,
I know, but I feel likehe deserves it. And you know

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what, I have a question.I'm curious to know something. I had
an Apple watch that I bought inNew York City and I didn't open it
for the longest time. Finally Iopened it. It's a man's watch.
It was big, it was black, it was GPS, it was waterproof,
it had all these things. I'mlike, all right, I'm just
gonna put it up for sale onFacebook Marketplace for like four fifty They're worth

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like eight nine hundred dollars. Okay, mm hm. So David contacts me.
I'm already starting to scow. No, no, I have to get
this out of the way. Ihave to Can I leave and come back
around now you already told this storyto Eric, But now we have David
right here. God. He's like, I'm coming down right now. I
live in La Costa, which isfar from Hillcrest. I'm like, okay,

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I'm sure you don't want to FaceTimefirst, and like look at it,
and he's like, no, no, no, I'm really interested.
I want to. I need it, you know, I'm cooming. I'm
like great. So we're talking ashe's trying to pair the watch with his
phone, and he's telling me abouthis environmental work and solar. He drives

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a nice car that's powered by solar. It's an electric vehicle and all these
interesting things. Meanwhile, still tryingto pair the phone, he stops and
he goes for some reasons, it'sjust it's just not pairing with my phone.
I don't know. And then soI panic because David I bought the

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watch from a guy who pulled itout of a bag on canals set in
New York City for sixty dollars.Look, I need to be honest.
I need to this is a partof my program. I need to like.
But I'm curious to know something.So I panic and I said,

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oh no, you think it's fake? Oh crap, my boss gave this
to me as a gift. I'mpanicking like I'm making up stories because I
don't know what to do at thispoint. So I go, should I
tell her about the watch that itdoesn't work? Like maybe she gave watches

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to somebody else? Meanwhile, knowingfull well I bought it from some dude,
some shady dude in New York City. I have to say something to
you right now. That's probably thebest acting job you've ever done. Well,
maybe not, because I want toknow here now, David, did

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you know that I was lying?Just be honest, It's totally cool.
I did not. Oh man,see hm, Now, David, I
have a question for you. Crapright at this moment, who do you
like better? Me or Laura.I was not out to scam anybody because

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I thought for sure this watch wouldwork, like I hadn't tried it.
Sometimes they do. Why did youthink it was worth four hundred and fifty
dollars. I guess the watch isthe watch goes for like eight hundred,
nine hundred bucks. I'm selling itfor four hundred. But watch me just
another watch. So I purchased itthe next day from Apple. Yeah,
he said to me. He goes, like I've been trying. He goes,

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this happened to me. Now threedifferent times. You scammed the man.
For the third time, and youwere the straw that broke the camel's
back. I was. I actuallywas the drove all the way down here
for a faulty watch, and Ijust want to say, I'm really really
sorry. We would have never Iwouldn't be here right now exactly. That's
exactly my point. But I justfirst needed to apologize to you for trying

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to dupe you. I wasn't tryingto dupe you. I thought maybe what
could have been real. I wasn'tsure, but I think David is going
to be my new bff. Ithink you have just you have just slid
down the ladder a little bit.Okay, now that's out of the way,

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David, I apologize, you acceptmy apology. It's all good.
Thank you, and now you havea real watch. That you don't have
to like go to somebody else's houseanymore, drive here and there to try
to get a deal. You gottaYou actually got a good deal for sixty
bucks because it looked like a realwatch, you know, for a lot
of people charge four hundred and fiftyfor those fake watches, people like Laura.

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I know, I was so excitedto make a couple hundred bucks.
I really was. I can't believeyou thought there was a chance this singing
telegram thing is looking even better.Well, I thought there was every good
chance it would have worked. Itcame in the box. It was like
whatever, Anyway, we're done withthe watch. The good thing is we

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were meant to meet because you areso incredibly interesting. I want to know,
first of all, how did youbecome an environmentalist so into the earth
and solar and all that, Like, what is your background? What got
you into this in the first place? Where do I start? Where do

(31:38):
I start? Okay? So grewup on one coast and move to the
other. So I grew up inMiami Beach and learned to scuba di I've
when I was still single digits,you know, breathing off of somebody else's
regulator extra regulator and got certified whenI was twelve years old. And so

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I've seen in my lifetime the oceanchange, and I just remember those early
years going, wow, this isincredible. The coral reefs, just the
beauty of the ocean. And forme, like source is most represented in
nature, and for me, natureis usually the ocean. And so moving

(32:22):
out to California as a teenager,I became a Sandego lifeguard, started surfing,
you know, did some commercial diving. I've always been around the ocean,
and you almost can't be a surferand not be some sort of an
environmentalist. And I just didn't likeeverything that I saw and so how was

(32:43):
it changing? Like how so whatwere the signs? What were you seeing
different? So my dad was inpolitics, he was a judge, and
I noticed that the US Chamber wasdoing a lot of things, the US
Chamber of Congress that were anti environmentfor big, big corporations. So I

(33:06):
joined a local chamber and then starteda green chamber focused on let's teach people
sustainability, that you can be justas successful or more successful in business and
do the right thing. So westarted the San Diego Green Chamber of Commerce,
which later became the US Green Chamberof Commerce Chamber of Commerces don't have

(33:28):
the influence that they used to haveyears ago, years ago. You know,
when we were young, you starteda business, you joined the chamber
that was that was the way youmarket it. But we're able to share
the message, and we're able toeducate people, and we're able to do
a lot of things, and so, you know, I've just always been
blessed to have the opportunity to,you know, kind of share my thoughts

(33:53):
around the environment. And so I'mlike one of those weird environment mentalists hippie
dudes. I grow my food whenI can, and I don't use very
much plastic, and I power everythingI can through solar and uh yeah that's
who I am. How uh whathas been changing? Is it just trash

(34:15):
in the ocean? Is it plastic? Is it? Is it just what
is what's wrong and what needs tobe done? We just utilize the ocean
like it's a fully renewable resource thathas no limit, and it does have
limits, and so you know,I could do a couple decades of podcasts

(34:39):
about what we do to the ocean, and uh, plastic is a huge,
huge part of it. The goodnews, though, you know,
from the environmental standpoint is is thatthere's always incredible entrepreneurs that are figuring out
new ways to do things better.We just hope that we can do it

(35:00):
in time. You know that likethe Earth will still be here, we
just might not if we don't figuresomething out. You know, I mean
not to get at all political,We're not going there. But it wasn't
a conversation in the recent debate.You know, the environment barely barely was
touched. Climate change was barely touched. And that's just we've just got to

(35:24):
wake up, in your opinion,if we don't start doing something, what's
going to happen to our oceans?What what is happening? So we don't
have enough resources to support the entireplanet with the ocean and so you know,
there is some good fisheries management insome places, and we just have

(35:50):
to kind of come together, youknow, because everything we do affects everyone,
and it you know, it's it'sI want to get better. I
have to believe that, you know. But right now, when I was
at San Diego Lifeguard in the eighties, we barely ever saw a seventy degree
water. And now during the summerit's you know, it's sometimes it's seventy

(36:13):
four, seventy six, but it'llbe seventy for a month straight. You
know, it's it's it's definitely warmer. This year, it was like a
I think, I don't know thatthe sea rows almost a third of an
inch or something like that. Imean, it's sea level is rising.
We're seeing bigger things, and yeah, what happens when that happened, I

(36:35):
mean, like what goes wrong?So many things. So for example,
here, as the water gets warmer, the kelp doesn't do as good.
The kelp is the fastest growing plant, but it also protects the coastline,
you know, and so once thekelp is gone, when we also now
combine that with bigger storms, wehave much more beach erosion. So there's

(36:57):
you know, there's a whole myriadof things that happen a lot on the
along the path, you know.You know, bluefin tuna, you know,
are being sold for a million dollarsor more in the Asian markets,
and they're not they're not sustainable,like we won't have them in a few
years. But there's also lots ofyou know, there's also lots of good
things. You know, we livein a town SeaWorld pretty much saved white

(37:22):
sea bass, you know, withtheir with their fisheries management. You know,
there's there's there's always there's always positivethings that are happening. You know,
they're finding ways to to clean theocean, they're finding ways to do
better. You know. Uh,my company power pow you are. We're
carbon neutral solar company. So we'rea public benefit corporation, which is a

(37:45):
way to file a company when youhave a higher good. Ours is climate
change, and so we offset thecost of what it took to manufacture solar
panels, right, so you can'tjust imagine they're on your roof one day
and and they didn't take a lotof carbon to get there, you know,
so we offset that, and youknow, hopefully there's companies like ours

(38:07):
and hundreds and even thousands of othersthat are doing things to move in the
right direction, you know, andthat's and that's all we have to do.
You know. It's uh, it'sjust such a beautiful planet. I
mean, we live in paradise herein San Diego. It's so nice,
and we just we have to protectit. Before it's too late, right.

(38:27):
You know, people don't think aboutthe help, but they understand when
a storm comes in and the beachis gone. You know, it's like
what happened to the sand? It'slike, well, that's what happens,
right, Okay. David also isa podcaster. He does his podcast on
a paddle board in the ocean.So you who do you interview and what

(38:49):
have you talked about? And howthe hell do you do that? You
must have to juggle a lot ofthings. It's not the easiest thing.
And I did the typical podcast thing. I did like eight or ten episodes,
like literally like eight years ago ona podcast on un powder boards,
and then I kind of stopped doingit because it was really just for fun
and I was inviting my like somereally amazing people. But in my world,

(39:13):
I just get to meet some reallyreally incredible people. And my podcast
focus is environment. Right. Soyesterday, yeah, today's Monday. Yesterday
I interviewed my friend Stacy and sheworks she's an architect and a developer designer,

(39:34):
and she's working on creating like thebuilding materials of the future, like
sustainable buildings that can heal themselves likethat. Actually can grow and heal like
the next generation. By twenty thirty, here's what's coming out. We could
do things that are way more regentitive. You know. So often in the

(39:55):
environmental space we talk about how canwe be more sustainable. Maybe I'll I'll
buy a bag so I don't haveto use plastic bags. Those are all
there's nothing wrong with that, butregenerate. When you start thinking about regeneration
is how can I do something that'sbetter than it was when I got here?
Right? So, if I reallyappreciate being in nature and that's my

(40:16):
source, why wouldn't I want towork and live in a building or home
that represents nature. That's that's living, you know. And so there's so
many cool things. I got tointerview my dear friend that that was the
co founder of our company, andhe talked about taking our CEO to the

(40:37):
rainforest and doing in the Amazon,and doing ayahuasca and coming up with the
version the vision of our company,and changing clean energy and doing something about
climate change, and so really cool. I have some really great episodes.
I sat in a river with IanMichael, who designed probably the most incredible

(41:00):
eco community in Costa Rica I've everbeen at like just incredible and got to
interview him there, and so Ijust keep meeting these really really cool people
locally. My friend Mustacha started ChoiceJuicery and all organic, all glass,
all cold press, just really amazingproducts. And she's just, you know,

(41:24):
a vegan, not a vegan activist, but an example of what's possible
when you live a certain way.So, yeah, so you're are you
hopeful for like our children? BecauseI know, like my son who's twenty
four and wants to eventually have kids, is worried about bringing a child into

(41:45):
this world when it seems like thingsare going a little south. It sounds
like you are very hopeful, whichis great news because a lot of people
are really working hard to make thingsdifferent. Yeah. So I have to
grown kids adults, and uh,I do what I do because of them,

(42:07):
and and I'll finish my career atPower because I think that we're making
a difference. You know, we'rewe're we're truly making a difference. And
my kids are like me. Mydaughter's probably even if if it's possible,
she's more of an environmentalist and meshe's she's lived off grid for several years

(42:29):
now, and you know, it'slike like we'll go to a restaurant and
she pulls out her utensils and I'mlike, really, oh yeah, yeah,
oh what do you mean off grid? Like she doesn't have a cell
phone or she doesn't like have anor her property in northern California, they
have solar and batteries and they're they'reoff of Yeah, any utility grid or

(42:54):
any water grid or anything. Yeah, what about water? What about drinking
water? What's I worry about that? Like we're gonna run out of water
to drink, to take a shower, to do all these things, especially
here in California, Southern California especially, there's good news there, Okay,
good good, good good. Ilike that, and there's bad news bad.

(43:16):
The bad news is we mainly getour water from the Colorado River,
so the least expensive water comes thefarthest and we're at the end of the
boat for the Colorado River. Sothere's not enough, Like when you look
at city planning for San Diego inthe next twenty thirty years, that is

(43:36):
the huge issue here now. Fortunatelythere is technologies like desalinization. Is that
taking water that's actually sewer water?No, there's that as well, which
we need to do way more ofand that's less expensive. Desalinization is actually
taking ocean water, which we alreadyhave a desalinization plant, but to do
them at this scale that we needrequires times tons of energy. Right,

(44:01):
So you're forcing water through a veryvery fine membrane and it requires a lot
of energy, and so you knowit's a cost issue as well. But
yeah, water for us is abig issue. In other parts of the
country they have other issues. Butyeah, the other thing that David told
me was sounded so cool and soscary at the same time. When you

(44:28):
were out in the water and yousaw the biggest mammal on the planet next
to you, talk about that becauseI mean, that would be fascinating and
also terrifying at the same time tosee something that huge. Okay, I've
been very blessed to have gotten toswim and snorkel and dive with things like

(44:49):
whale sharks before and just being outin the water. I got here in
San Diego to paddle with a graywhale and a pop you know, mom
and pop, two different times.One time I had work, I'd gone
out literally every day and for fourmonths in order to be on the water
enough that it would eventually happen,and it did. I have a dear

(45:10):
friend rich in Orange County that haspaddled with blue whales and killer whales,
and there's been a pod or agroup of blue whales in Laguna hanging out
eating krill, the largest living thingever on planet Earth. So now I've
made four trips up there have notyet seen the blue whale. But it's

(45:34):
going to happen. For sure.You will probably know it because you'll hear
me scream all the way back herewhen it happens. But yeah, it's
just you know, I used topaddle every morning because I lived right at
the beach, and I kind ofcall it like possibility living because I've seen
so much in the ocean and solike I can be paddling and you could

(45:55):
just your imagination doesn't have to workhard to go. I might see a
dolphin or a turtle or a whaleor something right, and so I just
I just like being on the water. It just it just feels good.
And I know it's gonna happen.I keep driving in Laguta, so it
will. Oh my god, Ihope for you, well it will,
it really will. It will.And my friend Rich is gonna take me

(46:17):
with him at some point and we'llfind it together. What do you think
about all these shark attacks that havebeen happening lately? What's up with that?
So there's not all these sharks,well, I've been hearing that they've
been like in the news a lot. We kill about ten million sharks to
you know, one, there's probablyI don't I don't know what the exact

(46:37):
number is, but somewhere in likethe thirty to forty range per year in
the world. Like it's it's notan issue, like way more people will
die from beastings tomorrow then will diefrom sharks in the next five years,
right, But but it's just thescariest image that people could come up with.

(46:58):
And we have had re attacks inSan Diego. When in nineteen fifty
two in Lahoya one about eight orten years ago in Solona Beach, and
then someone didn't die the other day, like a few weeks ago again in
Solona Beach. It was mostly amistake, funny story that not that it's

(47:19):
funny, but when that happened inSolona Beach many years ago, like I
don't know what that was like tenyears ago or something, it was a
retired veterinarian and he lived in Cardiff. Well, my sort of adopted dad
of thirty years was a retired veterinarianwho lived in Cardiff who has a great
sense of humor, and so peoplewould call him and ask him, you

(47:42):
know about it, And he wentand served there like he went out in
the ocean like the next day,because he's like, what the hell,
what is the odds of two retiredfrom from Cardiff getting getting getting attacked by
a great one? He was,he was hilarious. He's not with us

(48:02):
anymore, but I have so manyincredible memories and that one especially, it
was just super. Have you everbeen close to a great white shark?
I? Yes? And so Ihave a dear friend here who's a coach
and he teaches something called the FearlessLife Academy. So for like a decade
I bugged him and I'm like,we've got to do the great white shark

(48:23):
thing, you know, because youcan drive to Ensenada they just recently closed
it last year and take a boatovernight that goes to this island where the
great whites are and dive in acage. So we finally put it together
and twelve of us went out therefor two days and and we're in the
water with great white sharks. Ohmy gosh. Guadalupe Island they closed it

(48:46):
last year. But yeah, wewere in a cage though, but still,
wow, I would did they Imean, like, yeah, they
come right up to the cage,but not like they don't attack with their
rows of teeth. If you lookat if you look at Guadalupe Island,
it's full of not seals or harborseals, elephant seals. These things are

(49:08):
like giant, bigger than cows,like giant things. They are the least
bit interested in us, you know, like they have elephant seals. Yeah,
okay. Speaking of Mexico, he'salso helping build orphanages. What don't
you do for the world. Youare an amazing person. Please talk about

(49:31):
that. Oh, thank you somuch. And I wish I was building
the Orphanage. I'm helping with aproject at the Orphanage, and and really
I just get to work with somereally, really incredible people. I feel
very blessed. But we've been goingto Mexico for a while. If you're

(49:51):
here in San Diego, there's acouple of groups that do house builds in
just just past and Sonata, andif you've never done one, you show
up on Friday morning and you givea family that was living in the dirt
a new home on Sunday and it'sone of the most rewarding, amazing things
that anyone can do. And webring thirty people down and we build a

(50:13):
house and then we're going to orphanage. Is so half are working on the
house, half go to the orphanageand we switch off for two days.
There's an orphanage in Via des Guadaloupe, which is like the wine region.
It's almost like the becoming like theBeverly Hills of Baha. It's beautiful there,
amazing place, and this orphanage hasbeen there since the sixties. It's

(50:36):
amazing. They've almost fifteen acres andthey care for between like ninety and one
hundred kids. And I had theopportunity to go down there on my birthday
once with my son and we weregoing to surf and we wanted to visit
the orphanage in the morning. Andour community is just great. Like I
just put a note out like hey, I'm going to Rental de las Ninos,

(50:57):
and my car was filled with liketo and clothes and gifts and stuff.
Right, so you know, whata great day. We're gonna go
down and we're gonna give gifts toall these kids. And I met Jorge,
and Jorge is the director. Heand his wife met there as orphans.
Orphans. They grew up in theorphanage, and when they became adults,

(51:22):
they went to school, they graduated, they came back and now they
run it. Wow. And oneof the huge issues there's a lot of
issues in Baha right now, butone of the huge issues is teenage child
pregnancy. One in three young womenone in three, sometimes twelve, thirteen,
fourteen are pregnant before they're eighteen.And a lot of times it's drugs

(51:44):
or violence, it's whatever it is. They have the baby in the hospital
and they just leave and the hospitalwill call Jorge and say, hey,
can you take a baby. Babiesare expensive, there's no government resources and
they can take like two babies orsomething thing, but they are three,
but they can't really, So hereally wanted to build a baby nursery.

(52:05):
So my son and my GoPro welike filmed a little story about it,
and then some of my amazing friends, my Ray Dresden that I mentioned.
A PR guy helped get us onthe news and got some press for it.
And dear friend Amar, who's veryinvolved with the orphanages and doing a
big project there, really helped outand got to work with a nonprofit called

(52:31):
corson Davida. It's a California nonprofithighest Guide star rating you can get,
and they support like a dozen orphanages, like over five hundred kids, and
so we're working with them, andover time we've raised money. So I
wanted to raise one hundred and fifty. We're at one hundred and five.

(52:52):
But we've got enough that we've actuallyfinished the structure, Like we finished that
we put just put the roof on. So now we're just going to raise
to do the finishing touches and thesupplies and the staffing. But I didn't
do it. I just I justhelped, you know, get something started,
and then told the community. Andthen my friends, like my friend

(53:14):
Bing like had like two Christmas partiesand like we had like one hundred people.
We had gifts for all the kidsand donations. And my friend Ray
is very connected in the fishing communityand in Baha, and he's arranging and
we're still putting this together, buthe's arranging where the San Diego fishing fleet,

(53:35):
the fishermen can donate their extra fishbecause it's really expensive to profit them,
they can donate their extra fish andthey'll go to orphanages in Baha.
And so like all these other thingshappened that had nothing to do with the
nursery, but because of the nurseryand the attention, one of my of
their friends, Harv, has thisamazing nonprofit where he brought bikes for all

(53:59):
the older kids so they can getjobs in further than just walking distance.
And it was such a positive experiencefor him. He's doing it for the
other orphanage. Oh wow. Okay, So somebody who's watching right now or
listening and they're like, Okay,I've always wanted to do this kind of
thing where I go on a weekendand I help build a home for somebody.

(54:21):
How do they do that? Andwhat is this community you're talking about?
Like, I know, we haveall your links. All your links
are on Laura Kane after dark dotcom. You can see his link tree,
his podcast. You have a GoFundMeon there for the right for the
orphanage. Yes, for the orphanage. So that's all on there, But
like what's the community called? Likewho would somebody contact? So corson Davida.

(54:45):
They're the real deal. Like theirevents are like they have a big
event coming up in Orange County andlike their first first class, like you
know, wear a formal suit,like it's gonna be. It's a beautiful,
beautiful events. They raise money andthey they literally feed all of the

(55:05):
orphanages and they're just they're just incredible. And I could tell you the story
about how they started, but wehave more to talk about, I think.
But but so Corson Davida and thenI could share the link with my
one of my best friends, MikeScherbakoff, who started Greatness Greatness Ventures I

(55:27):
think it is now and and hedoes the trips. The next trip we
have will be in January to doa house built and it's always one of
my favorites because it's my son's birthday. He's gonna do it, and it's
my dear friend Mike's birthday as well, and we just we just have a
blast. And there's lots of groupsthat go down and do them. There's
lots of church groups and other groups. But it's one of the most rewarding

(55:50):
things you could do. And thesefamilies work really hard to be able to
buy this little spot of land overtime and uh, you know, it's
it's always so touching. You know, it's amazing. They could build a
home in a weekend, two roomsand a loft, and they're and they're
really amazing. And now Power wedo them as well. In fact,

(56:12):
we have like a big summer promotionand one of the huge prizes for the
top thirty people is they get togo and build a house. And so
it's like a huge motivation company widewhere people will fly in to go down
to uh to do a house andit's like becoming a part of the culture
of our company is to like,how can we get back David Steele for
President of the United States. Idon't want that job. I know who

(56:36):
want job. You are just soincredible and you're so giving and so concerned
about our earth. It's thank youfor that. Thank you for being that
person that is leading the charge,that is that is doing something instead of
talking about it, you know,And that's why I thought it was so
important to have you on because you'reactually somebody who is who is not only

(57:00):
just talking the talk, You're walkingthe walk. You're doing it, You're
helping, You're you're furthering the cause, and instead of bringing it back,
I just feel fortunate I didn't.I don't feel like I've done what so
many others have done for the orphanage. I just helped to bring attention to
the issue. And if we rememberright, it wasn't that many years ago

(57:23):
that we were separating children from parentsat the border. And you know,
the way I look at the world, it's like, it's not just me
and my kids, but it's mycommunity, you know, and the border
is right here now. If wegot in our car, we would be
there in fifteen minutes. I'm goingthere tomorrow, and they were separating children

(57:45):
from their parents, and so it'slike for me, it just like makes
me feel good that we can say, hey, let's do something for children
because there's not really resources and unfortunately, if you want, is overcrowded because
all those people that are trying tocome potentially to the US because of their
situation are waiting there, and soyou know, it's it's it's it's a

(58:09):
challenging environment, but it's that closeto us that you know, we have
to do what we can. Idon't know if you know the answer to
this, but I know there's alot of people who want to adopt a
child, and a lot of peoplego overseas, you know, China,
Romania wherever to get them to geta child, to adopt a child,

(58:30):
a baby at the orphanage. Yousay, there's a lot of there's babies
all the time. Are they adoptable? I mean, what's up? Do
you know? I don't profess tobe an expert in this right, but
I will tell you it's incredibly,incredibly difficult. As an American, You're
not going to go to the orphanageand bring home a baby. That just

(58:51):
won't happen. Most of these kids, when they get to the orphanage,
they'll be there their life. Butbut it's a great life, Like the
each each of the dorms has amale and a female figure, the wineries
of all the things they donated.A soccer field, but it's a really
nice soccer field, really really nice, and the kids go to school and

(59:13):
the kids have great they have meals. It's like it's actually a good life
for them. But they're going tobe there and so we really wanted to
create something where in this example ofhow much love and education and how we
could raise the children from a batlike give them a really good start in
those first few years. So there'sa whole education component to you know,

(59:37):
building the baby nursery. And thehope is that it will get duplicated to
the other the other nurseries or theother orphan hitches. I should say,
and again, you know, likeHilda that runs Corzon Divida, to me,
she's like Mother Teresa, She's anangel, Like she's the one who
they're doing the hard work. There'sJorge with with Corson Davida and so many

(01:00:00):
incredible people. I'm just you know, uh, all I did is trace
my hand and say, hey,come over here, look at this thing.
You know, if there's one thingthat you can tell our listeners or
people that are watching, what's onething we should start doing right away for
the environment. What's one like easy, pretty easy thing that we can do

(01:00:24):
that will make a difference. It'salways it's always easier to just reduce,
you know, like if you eatsteak seven days a week, you know,
try eating it two days a week, you know, or whatever have
you. You know, I'm notsaying professing that everyone should be vegan,

(01:00:45):
but at some point we won't haveenough planet for everybody to eat steak every
day. If if you can getget a water, like get a bottle
and stop using plastic water bottles,stop using things that are like, you
know, just temporary, you know, like like the plastics already in the

(01:01:07):
seafood we eat. It's already youknow, quite a bit of it in
the ocean, all oceans, youknow. So those are those are some
of the easy things you can do, you know. And then and then
for me, I got into theenergy industry because we have a real challenge.
You know, we're using more andmore energy, and our energy grids

(01:01:30):
weren't meant to have thousands of electricvehicles and data centers full of AI computers,
and you know, so everywhere isgoing to be upgrading obsolete or older
equipment, which means our costs aregoing to keep going up and up and
up. And so you know,moving to things like solar where you're like,

(01:01:51):
yeah, we're not We're not payingfor your energy anymore. You know,
it just makes sense. So youknow, I can't I can't help
but plug what I do. ButI really really believe you've in it,
and it just makes sense, especiallyhere. So you know, we call
it the California tax or the SanDiego tax, but we we pay,
you know, sometimes four or fivetimes what the rest of the country is

(01:02:14):
doing using for energy. So it'slike really common to have you know,
anywhere from ten to fifteen or eighteencents of kill a lot. We're here.
If I get someone's utility bill,it's usually fifty cents. You know,
it's like it's it's some people freakout, have been freaking out lately
at how astronomical their bill has become, especially when it's hot and you turn

(01:02:36):
on the air conditioner. I know, like I have on right now.
Oh I feel like I should turnit off right now and turn on or
just open up the window because you'rehere and look see it with this amazing
person, and look what I triedto do to him. I feel you
should feel deep shame. But itwas meant to be. We were meant

(01:02:59):
to meet, You were meant tobe here and to talk to us,
and I just I couldn't be happierthat you're sitting right here and that you're
on this planet and that you're doingsomething to help all of us. So
thank you, thank you. You'realso the hero for bringing exposure to so
many people all every week. Youknow, I it's harder to shoot my

(01:03:22):
podcast. I will just guarantee thanmost anyone. But you know, I'm
up at eight or nine episodes now, and you're like, what many?
Almost five hundred? Yeah, soyou know how many people have you helped
that are doing great things to helpthem get more exposure? So I appreciate
you well, thank you, thankyou. I was thinking of, like,

(01:03:43):
what what have we actually done?We talk about, like we gossip
about celebrities, we talk about likerandom things about Oh, we probably shouldn't
buy stuff from Timu anymore. Ohsee, no, I know, uh
oh uh oh. We're in bigtrouble as we do that. But you
know what, I know, I'mnot going to do that anymore because that's
a whole other thing. Fast fashion. That's like another big thing that's a

(01:04:06):
oh my god. We could goon and on and on and on.
Anyway. All of David's links areon Laura Kane after Dark, including the
GoFundMe for the Orphanage Needs and hislink tree that has his podcast, his
energy company. Everything we've talked about. Uh, you can help, you
can be a part of his worldenvironmentalist. And one more time, I'm

(01:04:30):
sorry, but I'm also not sorry, not sorry, sorry, not sorry,
because I'm glad I met you,and I'm really glad that you have
a real friggin' Apple watch on yourwrist right now. Thank you. And
the one that he compare with hisphone that actually works. It's actually quite
incredible because they're identical, like thepackaging that they make for these things.

(01:04:56):
They make the Apple packaging everything.You if you laid them side by side,
you really have a hard time telling. It's it's like an industry to
make any Apple products. But sixtydollars is a great price. I'm sorry
I lied about my boss giving methe gift. I panicked. I panicked,
But anyway, it's great crisis anyway, And thank you so much for

(01:05:24):
being on our show. Really appreciateit so great getting to know more about
you and everything that you do andand bringing awareness. And thank you guys
so much for watching on Instagram Livenice. Thank you so much for watching
on YouTube. Thank you, thankyou so much for listening. And we
say something at the end of ourpodcast, and I'll say it first,
then Eric says it, and thenwill you say it, and then we'll

(01:05:45):
close out. Okay, I'll justgo ahead and say it. Love your
podcast, Love your podcast, Loveyour podcast, Love you, my sweet
babies. Thank you, guys.Bye bye