421: Edward Ring—What to do About Bass

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Edward is the co-founder and director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center. He’s written voluminously on how to fix California’s problems, and he has lots of thoughts about the Los Angeles wildfires: why they happened, who is getting it right, and who is getting it wrong.

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0:00.0	It figures. The second this podcast begins, my mother calls, hang on everybody. Let's just take a
0:09.5	second. Hey, Mom. Oh, oh, you're busy. Well, I'm just recording a podcast right now, so say
0:15.9	hi to everybody. Hi, everybody. I hope it's going well.
0:21.4	Well, we literally just started, but I got to call you back, okay?
0:24.6	That's fine. I just came from a wonderful concert. I'll tell you all about it.
0:28.1	I can't wait to hear it. I love you.
0:29.7	I'll meet you. Bye.
0:30.6	Okay, bye-bye. Hi, folks. I swear we didn't set that up. That's my mom.
0:37.2	She's just checking in on me, which I guess leads to the obvious question.
0:41.3	How many people have checked in on you in the last five days?
0:46.8	Ah, that's a good one, man.
0:48.5	I mean, I would say probably 30 or more.
0:51.9	Yeah, me too.
0:53.0	And I don't even live down there, but they know the office is there.
0:56.0	You were here.
0:57.0	Yeah, you were here.
0:57.6	Oh, God, folks.
0:58.6	What a strange one.
0:59.9	So it's the first podcast of the New Year, high and happy New Year.
1:03.9	If you've been following me on the Facebooks and so forth, you know, I've been writing
1:08.1	about the greatest disaster in the history of California.
1:12.7	That might be a bit much, you know, the earthquake was a big one.
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