https://minutesof.com/on/california/ Everyone on the record about california: 18 verbatim quotes from 2 people, September 2020 to July 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:50 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/498d3855-3b03-4d93-af19-c83ec92559ea/ https://minutesof.com/q/498d3855-3b03-4d93-af19-c83ec92559ea/ “But fast forward a year, none of those kind of rules and requirements actually map to the technology of the day.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:54:40 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/d46950a8-4b5f-47a1-ba3d-01f84aea60e2/ https://minutesof.com/q/d46950a8-4b5f-47a1-ba3d-01f84aea60e2/ “Not a big chunk, but I've done my part. And 80,000,000,000 of that went to increase and it was supposed to go to increasing schools and, like, health care services.” — David Friedberg, Chris Williamson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/da0751e4-5a9c-4802-a482-114cf9493193/ https://minutesof.com/q/da0751e4-5a9c-4802-a482-114cf9493193/ “That's now your private property. You own this stuff. That's yours. So now comes along the government or this new bill, the billionaire tax act in California.” — David Friedberg, Chris Williamson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/7d5043e0-fc27-4e8b-90e9-8bafda9bbd66/ https://minutesof.com/q/7d5043e0-fc27-4e8b-90e9-8bafda9bbd66/ “The estimate currently is that there's 600,000,000,000 to a trillion dollars in the whole. Okay?” — David Friedberg, Chris Williamson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/34abd78d-6fb7-44ba-b037-a5e9c74f3567/ https://minutesof.com/q/34abd78d-6fb7-44ba-b037-a5e9c74f3567/ “And I'm talking about somewhere between 250,000,000,000 and $1,000,000,000,000. California is bankrupt. That is a major Right. Fact that is completely ignored by” — David Friedberg, Suffiyan Malik Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:34:36 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/3b040886-3c71-4a00-90d4-8f0795645fe6/ https://minutesof.com/q/3b040886-3c71-4a00-90d4-8f0795645fe6/ “Well, it's it's on the ballot now in California to pass a wealth tax, and it starts as a one time 5% tax for billionaires, but it gives the legislature in California the ability to lower the threshold and make it every year if they wanted to and change the percentage.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/0139da0d-f5f9-4cef-a361-6c965c6bf608/ https://minutesof.com/q/0139da0d-f5f9-4cef-a361-6c965c6bf608/ “Well, it's it's on the ballot now in California to pass a wealth tax, and it starts as a one time 5% tax for billionaires, but it gives the legislature in California the ability to lower the threshold” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/0b9ab4ca-8fb1-4f7d-91de-01332c68d616/ https://minutesof.com/q/0b9ab4ca-8fb1-4f7d-91de-01332c68d616/ “I saw the statistic yesterday that I think 1,100 bills get signed into law a year out of the state assembly because it's a uniparty state.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/b6aee94d-137a-4059-886c-19ea691c4736/ https://minutesof.com/q/b6aee94d-137a-4059-886c-19ea691c4736/ “there's a proposal right from this guy, Dave Regan, who's the head of the SEIU, to do a one time 5% tax on anyone's net worth over $1,000,000,000.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/9f380e06-49cc-492f-8033-9c8bfd8a4007/ https://minutesof.com/q/9f380e06-49cc-492f-8033-9c8bfd8a4007/ “That money has to come from somewhere. The United States is 40,000,000,000,000 in debt. We're burning 1,500,000,000,000, maybe 2,000,000,000,000 a year.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/ac462372-d3f4-46f7-9460-c360687378ff/ https://minutesof.com/q/ac462372-d3f4-46f7-9460-c360687378ff/ “There are some estimates that say that the pension shortfall in California for public employees that have retired is 600,000,000,000, maybe as high as a trillion dollars short” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/1f77168c-51ba-4d71-ae45-5c5574db69c3/ https://minutesof.com/q/1f77168c-51ba-4d71-ae45-5c5574db69c3/ “There are some estimates that say that the pension shortfall in California for public employees that have retired is 600,000,000,000, maybe as high as a trillion dollars short of the legal obligations of payments that need to be made to those retirees” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/8a672883-6200-4d3d-b2db-a0cc4013c18f/ https://minutesof.com/q/8a672883-6200-4d3d-b2db-a0cc4013c18f/ “I don't know if you followed this autonomous vehicle stuff in California, But, you know, for every million miles, autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by, like, ninety five percent.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/0d64dd9a-3011-4185-9347-ab3ca372a500/ https://minutesof.com/q/0d64dd9a-3011-4185-9347-ab3ca372a500/ “the Palisades fire a year ago destroyed 6,837 structures, including about 5,000 homes. And as of November 2025, only one home has been rebuilt.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/569ff5ca-b0f2-4109-94aa-c2f9cd3df110/ https://minutesof.com/q/569ff5ca-b0f2-4109-94aa-c2f9cd3df110/ “Tesla, of course, produces cars over in Fremont just across across the bay from here, employs 20,000 people, produced over 550,000 Teslas in the Fremont factory.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/925fbd53-acdc-4fa7-9984-1ac56ecc96a5/ https://minutesof.com/q/925fbd53-acdc-4fa7-9984-1ac56ecc96a5/ “When we burn an acre, we release about 15% of the carbon that's stored in that acre into the atmosphere.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/915665d2-7858-45c1-ba32-6daf8b4075da/ https://minutesof.com/q/915665d2-7858-45c1-ba32-6daf8b4075da/ “Forests make up about a third of our land. So far, we're we're burning three and a half million, so about 10% of our acres.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 california https://minutesof.com/q/40e0bfbd-791c-4d92-840a-8b5685619e84/ https://minutesof.com/q/40e0bfbd-791c-4d92-840a-8b5685619e84/ “California has 33,000,000 acres of forest land. It's about a 100,000,000 acres in total land. Forests make up about a third of our land.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 california