You're going to be here. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jersinski Culture Editor here at the Federalist as always. You can email the show at radio at the Federalist.

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I'm joined today by John Matsu. He is the CEO right now of Hedgehog.

You may know him formerly he was the CEO of Parlor.

John, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me on, Emily.

Did I bought your last name, John?

Oh, yeah, totally.

That's all right.

Give me the better pronunciation.

It's mates. It's mates.

It's mates. Like a thing like Australian friends.

Mates, okay.

So that was like probably the worst botch I've ever done.

So thank you for the correction, John. No worries. I mean, people have done all sorts of stuff.

Sometimes they just call me like Motsabal or something and they just totally go off and like, just give up.

I mean, Motsabals are great, so it's not the worst comparison. Yeah, I could see it works.

Okay, so let's, before we started recording, we were talking a little bit about how you're back in California and there's all kinds of things we can talk about with California with your industry, the tech industry, and I know you have a lot of thoughts basically on what's going on with regulation and AI and everything so I want to get into that first though

Could you tell us a little bit about Hedgehog and what you're doing with it?

Yeah, that'd be great.

So, yeah, basically at the end of my last project,

so I founded and kind of led parlor from nothing to the big success that it was.

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