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Oct 27, 2026
Gil DuranGUEST
And people actually don't really want to be in a cult.
Gil DuranGUEST
And if you look at California Forever, the project in Solano County, a gang of billionaires gave $900 million to a guy with no real estate experience who's only been in California for a few years to creep around buying up 60,000 acres in a place where there is no water.
Gil DuranGUEST
no infrastructure, no roads, a host of endangered species, an Air Force base, and a law specifically preventing a big new city from suddenly being built on the sensitive environmental lands there.
Gil DuranGUEST
And this was their idea, and everybody hates it, and they're running into terrible obstacles.
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Gil DuranGUEST
And we need politicians who are not going to be cowed or persuaded by that.
Gil DuranGUEST
That's a problem I point out in my book.
Gil DuranGUEST
I see it here in California where a lot of the consultants I came up with in politics are people I've known for decades and been on campaigns with in the past, are now all somehow hooked up with venture capital, with crypto, with the California Forever Project.
Gil DuranGUEST
And these are all the people who are going to be running Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign.
Telamon ArdavanisGUEST
So for Desmeralda, a lot of it was around getting the land deal approved by the local community.
Telamon ArdavanisGUEST
And we also went to visit our California Forever, which notoriously didn't do it probably that way.
Timothy AllenHOST
People make mistakes.
Timothy AllenHOST
People are thinking out loud.
LevHOST
Whole sections have been paused, including a planned stadium inside and on top of the walled city.
LevHOST
California Forever wants to build a brand new city from scratch in Salino County, California, backed by Silicon Valley money.
LevHOST
This year, a surprise county vote killed their shipyard proposal outright.
LevHOST
They're already regrouping for another run at it.
Taylor LorenzHOST
Thankfully, they keep failing.
Taylor LorenzHOST
There was that California Forever project, I think, where people were just like, we just don't want this.
Taylor LorenzHOST
We're actually fine with our local mayor or whatever that you think is authoritarian.
Taylor LorenzHOST
I do think local governments can be so corrupt and broken in the United States, but I don't think people want to run our government on crypto nonsense either.
Steve HiltonGUEST
There's so much [laughs] land here that is not beautiful parkland or state parks or whatever, that is absolutely suit- that's not being put to good...
Steve HiltonGUEST
A good example is what's happening in Solano County in the Bay Area with that California Forever project.
Scott LewisHOST
Right.
Steve HiltonGUEST
That's just a s- you know, that's a new city of four, like what about 450,000 homes.
Dave TroyHOST
But like, you know, that's sort of the people that are sort of leading a lot of this is they're very kind of unstable, you know, kind of, I mean, they're dreamers to some extent, but their dream is pretty disconnected from reality.
Gil DuranGUEST
One interesting thing that I found these guys have in common, because if you look at other projects underway, California Forever in California.
Gil DuranGUEST
Now, they insist they're not a network state project, even though Balaji indicated during the network state conference that they were.
Gil DuranGUEST
And Jan Sromic, this Czech guy trying to do the whole project.
Gil DuranGUEST
That was his goal, to be the European Peter Thiel.
Gil DuranGUEST
And wherever you look in this stuff, you're always going to find the same characters.
Gil DuranGUEST
The Collison brothers, Mark Andreessen is an investor in California Forever.
Gil DuranGUEST
That's this big tech utopia city they're trying to build in Solano County, which is between San Francisco and Sacramento here in California.
Guy MarzaratiCORRESPONDENT
And then for those candidate races, bringing locally relevant questions.
Guy MarzaratiCORRESPONDENT
So Sassoon City, city council, we wanna know, okay, where do they stand on that proposed California Forever development? San Jose City Council, what are they thinking about data center development? North Bay, how are they thinking about, uh, insurance non-renewal? So really trying to bring locally specific questions to candidates in hopes that that can help inform your vote.
Brian WattCORRESPONDENT
Does the guide have endorsements?
Guy MarzaratiCORRESPONDENT
[laughs] You know, we do not have endorsements.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
Candidates for state assembly in Marin, we're asking, "Okay, what, what are you gonna do to limit home insurance non-renewals?" That's a, a locally revelant, relevant issue there.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
Sassoon City, we're asking the city council members, "Okay, how are you gonna deal with this proposed California Forever development?"
Dana CroninHOST
Mm-hmm.
Guy MarzoratiGUEST
That's something that that city has been grappling with.