899 - Nut Up feat. Yasha Levine & Rowan Wernham (1/13/25)

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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We’re joined by journalist Yasha Levine & filmmaker Rowan Wernham of the new documentary “Pistachio Wars” join us to look at water in the state of California in light of last week’s L.A. wildfires. We discuss California’s water history, the network of real estate developers and agribusiness concerns that effectively control California’s water, the Resnick family and their Nut Empire, 21st century company towns, and how California water politics affect the Iran Nuclear deal. Watch The Pistachio Wars documentary now: https://www.pistachiowars.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. It's Will here. And before we get into today's episode and guests, I would like to enlist your support. You are wonderful listeners for your participation in this upcoming Thursday's episode in which we are once again doing a call-in show. So please use this as my plea to, if you'd like to submit a
0:24.1	question for us to answer on Thursday's show, we would love to hear from you. Any queries that
0:29.0	you'd like to pick our brains on? Politics, pop culture, personal questions. We'll give some
0:37.0	advice. We'll answer your questions. But your
0:39.2	instructions should you wish to participate in our Thursday call-in show for episode 900 at
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1:14.5	Without any further ado, let's get to Monday's episode.
1:17.3	All I want to be is a joke.
1:21.4	All I want to be is a joke.
1:25.2	We need problems and places. All I want to be a joke. Hello, everybody. It's Monday, January 13th, and Chapo is coming at you.
1:39.1	Obviously, since last week's show very much the catastrophic wildfires that have devastated LA are very much
1:46.1	at the forefront of our mind. So I figured for Monday's episode I would have on a guy who has been
1:52.3	covering the water beat in California for many years. So and now also joining us with his co-director
2:00.0	has a new documentary out about the pistachio wars in California. So, and now also joining us with his co-director has a new documentary out about the
2:02.5	Pistachio Wars in California.
2:04.8	So a very, very appropriate time to talk about water in California.
2:08.8	So without any further ado, I'd like to welcome to the show, Yasha Levine and his co-director
2:13.9	on the new documentary Pistachio Wars, Rowan Wernam.
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