Hello, Hello, Welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane and this is producer Brian. Hi. Brian, looks like we're hosting the show tonight. Yep. It's gonna be a great time. We're gonna have so much fun because someone the talent is missing. I haven't heard from him today. I didn't even call him. No, I did call him. I called him because I had to discuss something with him. No answer, but that's normal. I even have presents for him today. You didn't forget?
Forget? He would know. He has not forgotten one time. Well, it's seven oh one. Okay, you text him because I'm using my phone for Instagram Live. Hi, everybody on Instagram Live. How are you okay? We have so much to talk about, and we have a special guest, David Steele, entrepreneur, environmentalist, he's a solar guy, he's a podcaster, he's a dad. There's so many things about him that are so
interesting. And he's the guy that I tried to sell my Apple Watch to and I have We're not gonna talk about it yet, but hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop, I'm going to before we start our interview with him, which we will do after well, whenever Eric shows up to do the double d uh, we'll have on David Steele and I have something to say to him about that. Did you see this the thumbnail I made for that video? No, what was the thumbnail? What did
it look like? It was a good thumbnail. Does it look like a Do I look like a crook or something? Do I have like a does it look like I explain it? What does it look like? Oh my god, I did not know. Oh my god? Okay, whatever for oh my god? Okay, So well, let's start off by playing we brought back the secret sound. We used to do the secret sound back I don't know, like two years ago, and it was very popular and so we decided to bring it back. It's just a random sound. We're going
to play the sound. If you think you know what it is and you guess it correctly, the winner gets one hundred dollars cash. Now here's what you do. If you feel like you want to guess, you can comment on our Instagram page. You can comment on our Facebook or on our YouTube that would be great too, or send us an email Laura Kanead at gmail dot com. Oh thank you for well, Thank you the talent has arrived. Everybody, the talent has arrived. Almost five minute. It's late.
Yeah right, I this is what you're talking to right now, and it's called the hand. Because there's so many things I needed to talk to you about today, I need to, okay, step in front of the camera. Hello, Hi, are you okay? By the way, Like, what's going on? Right? Yeah? I believe that? Huh. I know he was closet. I know, what the heck? What just happened to you? Why should you like turned hitting me with the two by four out in the street. Okay, I just got here, dude, I
know you got back from a workout. What you know what? Okay, I guarantee you this. This is Ir Grimmer by the way, my co host, Hi, not for much longer. This is exactly what was going on. I know, Eric, he was sitting in his car on this street talking to one of his girlfriend. This happens frequently, doast Oh my god, this is like the third time I got in traffic. You had a meeting, You got caught in traffic? Oh yeah, And I don't And Brian doesn't, I know, I know, like but he he always
throws that at us, like we don't work. Now he knows I work. I know he works. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Yes, I'm the worst thing ever. I'm disappointed. I'm going to pack my toys and go home. You brought toy? Did you bring my present? No? I have several things. I have presents for you tonight, not this show, but for the next show I've got. We have a new sponsor. What we have David Steele in studio, our special guests, and I needed to talk to you today. I called you no answer, which
is typical. You didn't even call me back. But or did you call? Oh? See wow? Anyways, Anya, So we were talking about the secret sound, so we brought it back last week. Nobody guessed it correctly. Was there anything close? No? Nothing close. This is something I'm not even gonna give you any kind of hint or anything. Just you guys, listen to it. Okay, guess it. Just throw out some guesses. You never know. You can win one hundred bucks if you guess
it first person. Okay, let's chew it again one more time. What is that all is? At one point you definitely hit your phone against something. Do it again? No, I don't think you did. Yeah, right there, that's you banging your phone against something. That's that's the that's audio clipping. I don't think that happened. We were together when it happened. Yes, he does. We created it together, and it's nothing like unbelievably hard to guess. But there you go. That's all I'm going to
say. Maybe it's like a plastic bag. I'm going to say, you're not allowed even if you do guess it correctly. I'm not going to say giving our people who listen some hint, some you know, guesses, they can steal who's your phone? It's right there, see, because we have a special guest. I know, I know you love waving to everybody, but we needed to include the whole entire set because of our special guest, David. I love sporters. They just get worse and worse. Yeah,
that one's pretty egregious. David's already here, but he's going to come on the sent in a minute, David his last. The best part is Eric wouldn't know anything about that. No, he wouldn't. I would not. He's never seen a live vagina. I would not like to see what comes out of there. Sorry, David, I'm sorry, David. He's our in studio guests. We need to be professional, but we just got to be honest with him too. Well. I love Squirters shirts exactly. You
should see the one for tomorrow show. He wore a hat last week that said I shaved my balls for this Wait, did you wear it to work? Okay? Thank god? No, only to this work, only to this one. I'm make sure you didn't come straight from working. No, no, no no? Do you have double D news? I too?
Okay, excellent. I have to tell you about something I did today, and then something I did for Evan's birthday, and then we will have our special guest, David steel On, and I have a lot to say to him, and he has so many things that are going on in his life that are so incredibly interesting. I cannot wait to interview. You're gonna love it, love it, love it. First, let's do our sponsors.
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after Dark sent you. We love everything about La joya cosmetic surgery center. Go to dot com. Okay, thank you for being our sponsors. We appreciate it so much. Okay, So I want to tell you about something I did today, but first I want to tell you about Evans's birthday. And this is a great idea and it's something that used to be really popular back when I was young. Brian, have you ever met a coach rides? Wow? Poppers? Really? Have you ever heard of a singing telegram?
Brian? Yes, okay, but they don't really exist anymore. There used to be companies that you could call and set up and they were like actors that would come show up at somebody's house or birthday party as a surprise in singing a special song from somebody, like Hello, this is from John. He wants to say happy birthday. And they're dressed in like costumes and it's just like a special whatever. I feel like those weren't cool even back
in the day. Well whatever, anyway, so I thought it would be cool to do that for Evan since she's in New York City, something Evan would get a kick out of. Okay. Well, so so I decided, I'm like, well, you can't really hire anybody because there's no company really, So I got in touch with her boyfriend. We figured it out a guy, a guy that's in her theater department. I paid him a hundred bucks and gave him some extra money to go buy her a big bouquet
of flowers. He showed up where all her friends were gathered for her birthday, sang her Happy Birthday in the most awesome way, and then like he read all these things that I wrote about her, like fat doys. It was. She was floored, so surprised, it was so fun. So like, if you guys are looking for a really creative, fun surprising idea for somebody's birthday, I would definitely try this out. A singing telegram.
You're hired to do that, right, Heck yeah, I think all the grams are, aren't those like Stripper Graham telegrams singing like all the aren't those all out the window? Now? Well you can still have your stripper. Stripper g well, isn't it you know what? I'm bringing it back that business ventsure. Okay, I'll do the stripping. You know what, costume, Hey, strip and I can wear the costume. Sure he's gonna wear the not the red nose somewhere else. It depends on the money. It
depends on the money. We'll see. Boy. Yeah, I know I'm not. I'm not at that point. Okay, I'm gonna check your YouTube starch history and that oh god, don't what did I look up the oh some weird thing the other day? I was like, oh god, I hope Brian's not. I don't go now. I don't look lucky for you. Okay, So over the last couple of weeks, I've been creating and drawing something that I want on my body tattoo. I know, don't get on crazy, stop it stop it. Don't get in addiction. That's a
real thing. Well I think I might have it. So no addiction. I know I have an addictive personality. What can I say? No, no, listen, it's really sweet. So did you know that you have you know you have a birthday stone right for your birthday month. There's also flowers. You have birthday flowers too. So I created I'll show you the picture I drew, and then i'll show you the picture that Anastasia drew, because Anastasia, who was on the podcast with us, did the tattoo for
me today. Okay, so it's my dad's yo's so I don't have time to object. You've already gotten it exactly. She just got the design right. Oh no, it's I got tattooed. It's on me for forever. But I'm not going to show it to you because it's it's still it's brand new, so it's a little red and it's like covered with the plastic. But I'll show you what it is. Where is it? I'll tell you
in a minute. So it's my dad's flower, my mom's flower, Charlie's flower, Evans flower, and then mine and then a kind of like a rosary cross thing that kind of combines it all together. This sounds large, shut up. So this is what I drew. It is an iris. My mom's flower is called the Narcissus, which is kind of funny, and she's not anything like that. Charlie's flower, Evans flower, my flower, and then the rosary. It's believe me, it's not this big on my
body, trust me God. So then Anastasia took it to a whole nother level and did it like so beautifully. And this is I just printed out a bunch of different sizes. She wound the rosary around the flower hours anyway, she did such a beautiful job. So I got that done today on my back, like right below my neck. It's only like three inches big. So it's not that big a deal. But you know what it means. It means my family always has my back. Okay, okay, see
what I go. This is very literal. I think. No matter what I say tonight, No, no, no, that's not one thing that you guys will be supportive of. It's just you pray like a bad joke. You're like, it's on my back. So because my family always has my back, that's what I mean. It's true, Like it's like that's where I wanted it. They don't have your friend, because it would be like that Rihanna tattoo under your booths. Oh I love that. Oh No, I wouldn't do it, absolutely not. I wouldn't do it, but
I think it looks great on her. I love that. I'm gonna I'm gonna sneak in tonight where you're sleeping with a wire brush and transcrib trying to scalpel Anastasia at nothing sacred tattoo in Hillcrest. Seriously, she's the best, the best, Okay, So let's get some double D out of the way so we can get our guests on absolutely on stage in the studio because we have so much to talk about with him, and as this is the right up your ally. Oh okay, Uh do you still watch ninety Day Fiance?
Yes? I do? Uh? Do you know who Shaquina Gardner is? Chicaina? Yes? Oh Chakainah. Well, those of you not in the know, what happened to her? She was like a man has slept with twenty five hundred women. Good for him, Yes, and she doesn't want people to slept shame him. She's completely under this guy's control. It's weird, And yes, I already knew that because that was on the show. Twenty five hundred women. You know, how can that's all? That's
a bunch of day. That's like a couple a day he's like in his forties. Wow, he's had some busy weeks. He's very handsome. I think he's from like Turkey or something. But anyway, she's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, but totally under his power. Wow. Anyway. Okay, so have you seen the stuff with Kanye West? Now? Right now? No? So he's being sued by his employees because he allegedly called them slaves and
his wife, Bianca Sensory sent porn to the staff. Some of the people that work there, which I don't understand how this is possible were miners h Well, what you wasted? You can get a job when you're what sixteen? Yeah, but why is he hiring miners? That's kind of weird. I don't know. But anyway, the lawsuit says this, so the his former chief of staff, Milo Yanopoulos. That's just that's bad. Yeah, that guy's a crazy right winger. Yes, so, uh the well,
I can't read the letter here. It's bad, but if you want to, if you want to read it, go to TMZ. That's all I'm going to say. Side note, did I didn't watch the debate? But did who farted the presidential debate? Yeah? Oh Biden big time? Nightmare because they didn't know who it was. Was it Trump or wait, somebody far away? I thought you just meant like who did bad? I don't know if Biden farted or anything. He did terrible though, No, somebody
like there there's like a big controversy who passed gas? Because it was like audible, like I didn't this is what I read. I probably did. Here's scooch over here, So you're more in the camp there you are. Probably I didn't hear anything, but that would be funny, I know. And I bet it was probably Biden probably so well, I don't know. Didn't the other one fart in court? Trump during the trial? Yeah? I think he's he's a you know what, I'm going to say it was
him Trump because he apparently can't stop doing it. So it happens. What are you gonna do? Yeah? Remember Martin mull from Roseanne Vague. He played like the crotchety old boss when she worked at the coffee shop or what. Yes, he died at eighty Oh okay, yeah, that's a nice long light. Last but not least well. J LO has been performing to tens of people in Italy. Ben Affleck has moved his stuff out of their house. No way. And when paparazzi descended on him, he let everybody
have it. Youet A'll melt down. He can't. He just can't take it anymore. No, she's just too famous or sixty million dollars now they're going to sell it for sixty five. She enjoys it seems like the attention, the paparazzi, the fandom, the everything, and he doesn't seem to be that on that same level. No, okay, so they're over for anybody that wants to see more on it. TMC investigates Jlo and Ben missed warning signs. I'll pass. You know what, I don't have any interest
in that at all anymore. Why care? I don't even care about them not being together anymore. Care about them when they were first married. I kind of cared when they came back together. I kind of care that that was like, oh, they came back there like a rekindled love story. No, but then like something happened. Not interested, I know, Like, I don't think if you said to me, hey, I have j Loo tickets, we go with me, I would say no, thank you.
If you said, I'll pay you one hundred dollars to come with me? Will you come with me? I think i'd say no, thank you, you'd go No. I think I would have to do it. I think it would be more than that. You'd go and then you'd go shopping in like the boutique. I'd go. I'd did for like one song on one song, but I wouldn't want to buy any merch. I wouldn't want a j Loo T shirt. Oh no, probably not. I don't think anybody. She's not one of your songstresses. Not really. I like some
of her stuff. But yeah, Marilyn Monroe's home, the owners have no plans to sell it after it got its historical monument tag, so they can never tear the house down. It is now a historical monument. That's cool. Yes, so that's probably where we'll live in our old age. Yes, well, uh, we're probably gonna live in an assisted living home. But we'll be living together, right because we're going to be needed. We're somebody's gonna need to take care of us like our needs. It's true.
Is there anybody out there? Do I see a show of hands? Is anybody willing to do that? We'll both probably be incontinent and uh oh, I will be for sure. If you guys give me power attorney, I will pull the plug at the first of your water. They're suffering. Just take around a misery. Here's screw screwore this way. You're there, all right. So now wait a minute. Okay, Katy Perry has a new album coming out, and the new song that she released, Woman's Work,
is not doing well. Is it a remake of the song's work? It's completely different? Okay, and it is cheesy, it is. Yeah, it's not great, and I like carry Katy Perry. It's not not my favorite. Now she's in trouble excuse me, because she had doctor Luke produce it and he got sued by Kesha for like sexual harassment and all that stuff. So now everybody's like, you're doing it an album on empowerment of women
and you have a oh come on yeah really wow? I mean okay, now let's get onto the good stage, all right, So put on some music. We're bringing up David Steele. Come on up into the hot seat, David Yay. Okay, So this is David Steele. He is an entrepreneur, he's a podcaster, he's a surfer, he's an environmentalist. He's a builder of orphanages in Mexico. He is a solar power expert. And I need to say something to David before we start our interview, because you
have you are so interesting. There's so many different things I want to talk to you about. But I am in the program aa okay, and in our program we make amends to people, so I feel like I need to be open with you one hundred percent. Oh boy, Now I brought this up on the podcast. I believe I'm doing this is I'm gonna get it out of the way because it's awkward. All right, We'll get the awkwardness out of the way. God, nobody does awkward like you. I know,
I know, but I feel like he deserves it. And you know what, I have a question. I'm curious to know something. I had an Apple watch that I bought in New York City and I didn't open it for the longest time. Finally I opened it. It's a man's watch. It was big, it was black, it was GPS, it was waterproof, it had all these things. I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna put it up for sale on Facebook Marketplace for like four fifty They're worth
like eight nine hundred dollars. Okay, mm hm. So David contacts me. I'm already starting to scow. No, no, I have to get this out of the way. I have to Can I leave and come back around now you already told this story to Eric, But now we have David right here. God. He's like, I'm coming down right now. I live in La Costa, which is far from Hillcrest. I'm like, okay, I'm sure you don't want to FaceTime first, and like look at it, and he's like, no, no, no, I'm really interested.
I want to. I need it, you know, I'm cooming. I'm like great. So we're talking as he's trying to pair the watch with his phone, and he's telling me about his environmental work and solar. He drives a nice car that's powered by solar. It's an electric vehicle and all these interesting things. Meanwhile, still trying to pair the phone, he stops and he goes for some reasons, it's just it's just not pairing with my phone.
I don't know. And then so I panic because David I bought the watch from a guy who pulled it out of a bag on canals set in New York City for sixty dollars. Look, I need to be honest. I need to this is a part of my program. I need to like. But I'm curious to know something. So I panic and I said, oh no, you think it's fake? Oh crap, my boss gave this to me as a gift. I'm panicking like I'm making up stories because I don't know what to do at this point. So I go, should I
tell her about the watch that it doesn't work? Like maybe she gave watches to somebody else? Meanwhile, knowing full well I bought it from some dude, some shady dude in New York City. I have to say something to you right now. That's probably the best acting job you've ever done. Well, maybe not, because I want to know here now, David, did you know that I was lying? Just be honest, It's totally cool. I did not. Oh man, see hm, Now, David, I
have a question for you. Crap right at this moment, who do you like better? Me or Laura. I was not out to scam anybody because I thought for sure this watch would work, like I hadn't tried it. Sometimes they do. Why did you think it was worth four hundred and fifty dollars. I guess the watch is the watch goes for like eight hundred, nine hundred bucks. I'm selling it for four hundred. But watch me just another watch. So I purchased it the next day from Apple. Yeah,
he said to me. He goes, like I've been trying. He goes, this happened to me. Now three different times. You scammed the man. For the third time, and you were the straw that broke the camel's back. I was. I actually was the drove all the way down here for a faulty watch, and I just want to say, I'm really really sorry. We would have never I wouldn't be here right now exactly. That's exactly my point. But I just first needed to apologize to you for trying
to dupe you. I wasn't trying to dupe you. I thought maybe what could have been real. I wasn't sure, but I think David is going to be my new bff. I think you have just you have just slid down the ladder a little bit. Okay, now that's out of the way, David, I apologize, you accept my apology. It's all good. Thank you, and now you have a real watch. That you don't have to like go to somebody else's house anymore, drive here and there to try
to get a deal. You gotta You actually got a good deal for sixty bucks because it looked like a real watch, you know, for a lot of people charge four hundred and fifty for those fake watches, people like Laura. I know, I was so excited to make a couple hundred bucks. I really was. I can't believe you thought there was a chance this singing telegram thing is looking even better. Well, I thought there was every good chance it would have worked. It came in the box. It was like
whatever, Anyway, we're done with the watch. The good thing is we were meant to meet because you are so incredibly interesting. I want to know, first of all, how did you become an environmentalist so into the earth and solar and all that, Like, what is your background? What got you into this in the first place? Where do I start? Where do I start? Okay? So grew up on one coast and move to the
other. So I grew up in Miami Beach and learned to scuba di I've when I was still single digits, you know, breathing off of somebody else's regulator extra regulator and got certified when I was twelve years old. And so I've seen in my lifetime the ocean change, and I just remember those early years going, wow, this is incredible. The coral reefs, just the beauty of the ocean. And for me, like source is most represented in
nature, and for me, nature is usually the ocean. And so moving out to California as a teenager, I became a Sandego lifeguard, started surfing, you know, did some commercial diving. I've always been around the ocean, and you almost can't be a surfer and not be some sort of an environmentalist. And I just didn't like everything that I saw and so how was it changing? Like how so what were the signs? What were you seeing
different? So my dad was in politics, he was a judge, and I noticed that the US Chamber was doing a lot of things, the US Chamber of Congress that were anti environment for big, big corporations. So I joined a local chamber and then started a green chamber focused on let's teach people sustainability, that you can be just as successful or more successful in business and
do the right thing. So we started the San Diego Green Chamber of Commerce, which later became the US Green Chamber of Commerce Chamber of Commerces don't have the influence that they used to have years ago, years ago. You know, when we were young, you started a business, you joined the chamber
that was that was the way you market it. But we're able to share the message, and we're able to educate people, and we're able to do a lot of things, and so, you know, I've just always been blessed to have the opportunity to, you know, kind of share my thoughts around the environment. And so I'm like one of those weird environment mentalists hippie dudes. I grow my food when I can, and I don't use very much plastic, and I power everything I can through solar and uh yeah that's
who I am. How uh what has been changing? Is it just trash in the ocean? Is it plastic? Is it? Is it just what is what's wrong and what needs to be done? We just utilize the ocean like it's a fully renewable resource that has no limit, and it does have limits, and so you know, I could do a couple decades of podcasts about what we do to the ocean, and uh, plastic is a huge,
huge part of it. The good news, though, you know, from the environmental standpoint is is that there's always incredible entrepreneurs that are figuring out new ways to do things better. We just hope that we can do it in time. You know that like the Earth will still be here, we just might not if we don't figure something out. You know, I mean not to get at all political, We're not going there. But it wasn't a conversation in the recent debate. You know, the environment barely barely was
touched. Climate change was barely touched. And that's just we've just got to wake up, in your opinion, if we don't start doing something, what's going to happen to our oceans? What what is happening? So we don't have enough resources to support the entire planet with the ocean and so you know, there is some good fisheries management in some places, and we just have to kind of come together, you know, because everything we do affects everyone, and it you know, it's it's I want to get better. I
have to believe that, you know. But right now, when I was at San Diego Lifeguard in the eighties, we barely ever saw a seventy degree water. And now during the summer it's you know, it's sometimes it's seventy four, seventy six, but it'll be seventy for a month straight. You know, it's it's it's definitely warmer. This year, it was like a I think, I don't know that the sea rows almost a third of an inch or something like that. I mean, it's sea level is rising.
We're seeing bigger things, and yeah, what happens when that happened, I mean, like what goes wrong? So many things. So for example, here, as the water gets warmer, the kelp doesn't do as good. The kelp is the fastest growing plant, but it also protects the coastline, you know, and so once the kelp is gone, when we also now combine that with bigger storms, we have much more beach erosion. So there's you know, there's a whole myriad of things that happen a lot on the
along the path, you know. You know, bluefin tuna, you know, are being sold for a million dollars or more in the Asian markets, and they're not they're not sustainable, like we won't have them in a few years. But there's also lots of you know, there's also lots of good things. You know, we live in a town SeaWorld pretty much saved white sea bass, you know, with their with their fisheries management. You know,
there's there's there's always there's always positive things that are happening. You know, they're finding ways to to clean the ocean, they're finding ways to do better. You know. Uh, my company power pow you are. We're carbon neutral solar company. So we're a public benefit corporation, which is a
way to file a company when you have a higher good. Ours is climate change, and so we offset the cost of what it took to manufacture solar panels, right, so you can't just imagine they're on your roof one day and and they didn't take a lot of carbon to get there, you know, so we offset that, and you know, hopefully there's companies like ours and hundreds and even thousands of others that are doing things to move in the right direction, you know, and that's and that's all we have to do.
You know. It's uh, it's just such a beautiful planet. I mean, we live in paradise here in San Diego. It's so nice, and we just we have to protect it. Before it's too late, right. You know, people don't think about the help, but they understand when a storm comes in and the beach is gone. You know, it's like what happened to the sand? It's like, well, that's what happens, right, Okay. David also is a podcaster. He does his podcast on
a paddle board in the ocean. So you who do you interview and what have you talked about? And how the hell do you do that? You must have to juggle a lot of things. It's not the easiest thing. And I did the typical podcast thing. I did like eight or ten episodes, like literally like eight years ago on a podcast on un powder boards, and then I kind of stopped doing it because it was really just for fun and I was inviting my like some really amazing people. But in my world,
I just get to meet some really really incredible people. And my podcast focus is environment. Right. So yesterday, yeah, today's Monday. Yesterday I interviewed my friend Stacy and she works she's an architect and a developer designer, and she's working on creating like the building materials of the future, like sustainable buildings that can heal themselves like that. Actually can grow and heal like the next generation. By twenty thirty, here's what's coming out. We could
do things that are way more regentitive. You know. So often in the environmental space we talk about how can we be more sustainable. Maybe I'll I'll buy a bag so I don't have to use plastic bags. Those are all there's nothing wrong with that, but regenerate. When you start thinking about regeneration is how can I do something that's better than it was when I got here?
Right? So, if I really appreciate being in nature and that's my source, why wouldn't I want to work and live in a building or home that represents nature. That's that's living, you know. And so there's so
many cool things. I got to interview my dear friend that that was the co founder of our company, and he talked about taking our CEO to the rainforest and doing in the Amazon, and doing ayahuasca and coming up with the version the vision of our company, and changing clean energy and doing something about climate change, and so really cool. I have some really great episodes.
I sat in a river with Ian Michael, who designed probably the most incredible eco community in Costa Rica I've ever been at like just incredible and got to interview him there, and so I just keep meeting these really really cool people locally. My friend Mustacha started Choice Juicery and all organic, all glass, all cold press, just really amazing products. And she's just, you know, a vegan, not a vegan activist, but an example of what's possible
when you live a certain way. So, yeah, so you're are you hopeful for like our children? Because I know, like my son who's twenty four and wants to eventually have kids, is worried about bringing a child into this world when it seems like things are going a little south. It sounds like you are very hopeful, which is great news because a lot of people
are really working hard to make things different. Yeah. So I have to grown kids adults, and uh, I do what I do because of them, and and I'll finish my career at Power because I think that we're making a difference. You know, we're we're we're truly making a difference. And
my kids are like me. My daughter's probably even if if it's possible, she's more of an environmentalist and me she's she's lived off grid for several years now, and you know, it's like like we'll go to a restaurant and she pulls out her utensils and I'm like, really, oh yeah, yeah, oh what do you mean off grid? Like she doesn't have a cell phone or she doesn't like have a nor her property in northern California, they have solar and batteries and they're they're off of Yeah, any utility grid or
any water grid or anything. Yeah, what about water? What about drinking water? What's I worry about that? Like we're gonna run out of water to drink, to take a shower, to do all these things, especially here in California, Southern California especially, there's good news there, Okay, good good, good good. I like that, and there's bad news bad. The bad news is we mainly get our water from the Colorado River, so the least expensive water comes the farthest and we're at the end of the
boat for the Colorado River. So there's not enough, Like when you look at city planning for San Diego in the next twenty thirty years, that is the huge issue here now. Fortunately there is technologies like desalinization. Is that taking water that's actually sewer water? No, there's that as well, which we need to do way more of and that's less expensive. Desalinization is actually taking ocean water, which we already have a desalinization plant, but to do
them at this scale that we need requires times tons of energy. Right, So you're forcing water through a very very fine membrane and it requires a lot of energy, and so you know it's a cost issue as well. But yeah, water for us is a big issue. In other parts of the country they have other issues. But yeah, the other thing that David told
me was sounded so cool and so scary at the same time. When you were out in the water and you saw the biggest mammal on the planet next to you, talk about that because I mean, that would be fascinating and also terrifying at the same time to see something that huge. Okay, I've been very blessed to have gotten to swim and snorkel and dive with things like whale sharks before and just being out in the water. I got here in San Diego to paddle with a gray whale and a pop you know, mom
and pop, two different times. One time I had work, I'd gone out literally every day and for four months in order to be on the water enough that it would eventually happen, and it did. I have a dear friend rich in Orange County that has paddled with blue whales and killer whales, and there's been a pod or a group of blue whales in Laguna hanging out eating krill, the largest living thing ever on planet Earth. So now I've made four trips up there have not yet seen the blue whale. But it's
going to happen. For sure. You will probably know it because you'll hear me scream all the way back here when it happens. But yeah, it's just you know, I used to paddle every morning because I lived right at the beach, and I kind of call it like possibility living because I've seen so much in the ocean and so like I can be paddling and you could just your imagination doesn't have to work hard to go. I might see a dolphin or a turtle or a whale or something right, and so I just
I just like being on the water. It just it just feels good. And I know it's gonna happen. I keep driving in Laguta, so it will. Oh my god, I hope for you, well it will, it really will. It will. And my friend Rich is gonna take me with him at some point and we'll find it together. What do you think about all these shark attacks that have been happening lately? What's up with that? So there's not all these sharks, well, I've been hearing that they've
been like in the news a lot. We kill about ten million sharks to you know, one, there's probably I don't I don't know what the exact number is, but somewhere in like the thirty to forty range per year in the world. Like it's it's not an issue, like way more people will die from beastings tomorrow then will die from sharks in the next five years, right, But but it's just the scariest image that people could come up with.
And we have had re attacks in San Diego. When in nineteen fifty two in Lahoya one about eight or ten years ago in Solona Beach, and then someone didn't die the other day, like a few weeks ago again in Solona Beach. It was mostly a mistake, funny story that not that it's funny, but when that happened in Solona Beach many years ago, like I don't know what that was like ten years ago or something, it was a
retired veterinarian and he lived in Cardiff. Well, my sort of adopted dad of thirty years was a retired veterinarian who lived in Cardiff who has a great sense of humor, and so people would call him and ask him, you know about it, And he went and served there like he went out in the ocean like the next day, because he's like, what the hell, what is the odds of two retired from from Cardiff getting getting getting attacked by
a great one? He was, he was hilarious. He's not with us anymore, but I have so many incredible memories and that one especially, it was just super. Have you ever been close to a great white shark? I? Yes? And so I have a dear friend here who's a coach
and he teaches something called the Fearless Life Academy. So for like a decade I bugged him and I'm like, we've got to do the great white shark thing, you know, because you can drive to Ensenada they just recently closed it last year and take a boat overnight that goes to this island where the great whites are and dive in a cage. So we finally put it together and twelve of us went out there for two days and and we're in the
water with great white sharks. Oh my gosh. Guadalupe Island they closed it last year. But yeah, we were in a cage though, but still, wow, I would did they I mean, like, yeah, they come right up to the cage, but not like they don't attack with their rows of teeth. If you look at if you look at Guadalupe Island, it's full of not seals or harbor seals, elephant seals. These things are like giant, bigger than cows, like giant things. They are the least
bit interested in us, you know, like they have elephant seals. Yeah, okay. Speaking of Mexico, he's also helping build orphanages. What don't you do for the world. You are an amazing person. Please talk about that. Oh, thank you so much. And I wish I was building the Orphanage. I'm helping with a project at the Orphanage, and and really I just get to work with some really, really incredible people. I feel
very blessed. But we've been going to Mexico for a while. If you're here in San Diego, there's a couple of groups that do house builds in just just past and Sonata, and if you've never done one, you show up on Friday morning and you give a family that was living in the dirt a new home on Sunday and it's one of the most rewarding, amazing things that anyone can do. And we bring thirty people down and we build a
house and then we're going to orphanage. Is so half are working on the house, half go to the orphanage and we switch off for two days. There's an orphanage in Via des Guadaloupe, which is like the wine region. It's almost like the becoming like the Beverly Hills of Baha. It's beautiful there, amazing place, and this orphanage has been there since the sixties. It's amazing. They've almost fifteen acres and they care for between like ninety and one
hundred kids. And I had the opportunity to go down there on my birthday once with my son and we were going to surf and we wanted to visit the orphanage in the morning. And our community is just great. Like I just put a note out like hey, I'm going to Rental de las Ninos, and my car was filled with like to and clothes and gifts and stuff. Right, so you know, what a great day. We're gonna go down and we're gonna give gifts to all these kids. And I met Jorge,
and Jorge is the director. He and his wife met there as orphans. Orphans. They grew up in the orphanage, and when they became adults, they went to school, they graduated, they came back and now they run it. Wow. And one of the huge issues there's a lot of issues in Baha right now, but one of the huge issues is teenage child pregnancy. One in three young women one in three, sometimes twelve, thirteen, fourteen are pregnant before they're eighteen. And a lot of times it's drugs
or violence, it's whatever it is. They have the baby in the hospital and they just leave and the hospital will call Jorge and say, hey, can you take a baby. Babies are expensive, there's no government resources and they can take like two babies or something thing, but they are three, but they can't really, So he really wanted to build a baby nursery. So my son and my GoPro we like filmed a little story about it, and then some of my amazing friends, my Ray Dresden that I mentioned.
A PR guy helped get us on the news and got some press for it. And dear friend Amar, who's very involved with the orphanages and doing a big project there, really helped out and got to work with a nonprofit called corson Davida. It's a California nonprofit highest Guide star rating you can get, and they support like a dozen orphanages, like over five hundred kids, and so we're working with them, and over time we've raised money. So I
wanted to raise one hundred and fifty. We're at one hundred and five. But we've got enough that we've actually finished the structure, Like we finished that we put just put the roof on. So now we're just going to raise to do the finishing touches and the supplies and the staffing. But I didn't do it. I just I just helped, you know, get something started,
and then told the community. And then my friends, like my friend Bing like had like two Christmas parties and like we had like one hundred people.
We had gifts for all the kids and donations. And my friend Ray is very connected in the fishing community and in Baha, and he's arranging and we're still putting this together, but he's arranging where the San Diego fishing fleet, the fishermen can donate their extra fish because it's really expensive to profit them, they can donate their extra fish and they'll go to orphanages in Baha.
And so like all these other things happened that had nothing to do with the nursery, but because of the nursery and the attention, one of my of their friends, Harv, has this amazing nonprofit where he brought bikes for all the older kids so they can get jobs in further than just walking distance. And it was such a positive experience for him. He's doing it for the
other orphanage. Oh wow. Okay, So somebody who's watching right now or listening and they're like, Okay, I've always wanted to do this kind of thing where I go on a weekend and I help build a home for somebody. How do they do that? And what is this community you're talking about? Like, I know, we have all your links. All your links are on Laura Kane after dark dot com. You can see his link tree, his podcast. You have a GoFundMe on there for the right for the
orphanage. Yes, for the orphanage. So that's all on there, But like what's the community called? Like who would somebody contact? So corson Davida. They're the real deal. Like their events are like they have a big event coming up in Orange County and like their first first class, like you know, wear a formal suit, like it's gonna be. It's a beautiful, beautiful events. They raise money and they they literally feed all of the
orphanages and they're just they're just incredible. And I could tell you the story about how they started, but we have more to talk about, I think. But but so Corson Davida and then I could share the link with my one of my best friends, Mike Scherbakoff, who started Greatness Greatness Ventures I think it is now and and he does the trips. The next trip we have will be in January to do a house built and it's always one of
my favorites because it's my son's birthday. He's gonna do it, and it's my dear friend Mike's birthday as well, and we just we just have a blast. And there's lots of groups that go down and do them. There's lots of church groups and other groups. But it's one of the most rewarding things you could do. And these families work really hard to be able to buy this little spot of land over time and uh, you know, it's
it's always so touching. You know, it's amazing. They could build a home in a weekend, two rooms and a loft, and they're and they're really amazing. And now Power we do them as well. In fact, we have like a big summer promotion and one of the huge prizes for the
top thirty people is they get to go and build a house. And so it's like a huge motivation company wide where people will fly in to go down to uh to do a house and it's like becoming a part of the culture of our company is to like, how can we get back David Steele for President of the United States. I don't want that job. I know who want job. You are just so incredible and you're so giving and so concerned
about our earth. It's thank you for that. Thank you for being that person that is leading the charge, that is that is doing something instead of talking about it, you know, And that's why I thought it was so important to have you on because you're actually somebody who is who is not only just talking the talk, You're walking the walk. You're doing it, You're helping, You're you're furthering the cause, and instead of bringing it back,
I just feel fortunate I didn't. I don't feel like I've done what so many others have done for the orphanage. I just helped to bring attention to the issue. And if we remember right, it wasn't that many years ago that we were separating children from parents at the border. And you know, the way I look at the world, it's like, it's not just me and my kids, but it's my community, you know, and the border is right here now. If we got in our car, we would be
there in fifteen minutes. I'm going there tomorrow, and they were separating children from their parents, and so it's like for me, it just like makes me feel good that we can say, hey, let's do something for children because there's not really resources and unfortunately, if you want, is overcrowded because all those people that are trying to come potentially to the US because of their situation are waiting there, and so you know, it's it's it's it's a
challenging environment, but it's that close to us that you know, we have to do what we can. I don't know if you know the answer to this, but I know there's a lot of people who want to adopt a child, and a lot of people go overseas, you know, China, Romania wherever to get them to get a child, to adopt a child, a baby at the orphanage. You say, there's a lot of there's babies all the time. Are they adoptable? I mean, what's up? Do you know? I don't profess to be an expert in this right, but
I will tell you it's incredibly, incredibly difficult. As an American, You're not going to go to the orphanage and bring home a baby. That just won't happen. Most of these kids, when they get to the orphanage, they'll be there their life. But but it's a great life, Like the each each of the dorms has a male and a female figure, the wineries of all the things they donated. A soccer field, but it's a really nice soccer field, really really nice, and the kids go to school and
the kids have great they have meals. It's like it's actually a good life for them. But they're going to be there and so we really wanted to create something where in this example of how much love and education and how we could raise the children from a bat like give them a really good start in those first few years. So there's a whole education component to you know, building the baby nursery. And the hope is that it will get duplicated to
the other the other nurseries or the other orphan hitches. I should say, and again, you know, like Hilda that runs Corzon Divida, to me, she's like Mother Teresa, She's an angel, Like she's the one who they're doing the hard work. There's Jorge with with Corson Davida and so many incredible people. I'm just you know, uh, all I did is trace my hand and say, hey, come over here, look at this thing.
You know, if there's one thing that you can tell our listeners or people that are watching, what's one thing we should start doing right away for the environment. What's one like easy, pretty easy thing that we can do that will make a difference. It's always it's always easier to just reduce, you know, like if you eat steak seven days a week, you know, try eating it two days a week, you know, or whatever have
you. You know, I'm not saying professing that everyone should be vegan, but at some point we won't have enough planet for everybody to eat steak every day. If if you can get get a water, like get a bottle and stop using plastic water bottles, stop using things that are like, you know, just temporary, you know, like like the plastics already in the seafood we eat. It's already you know, quite a bit of it in the ocean, all oceans, you know. So those are those are some
of the easy things you can do, you know. And then and then for me, I got into the energy industry because we have a real challenge. You know, we're using more and more energy, and our energy grids weren't meant to have thousands of electric vehicles and data centers full of AI computers, and you know, so everywhere is going to be upgrading obsolete or older equipment, which means our costs are going to keep going up and up and up. And so you know, moving to things like solar where you're like,
yeah, we're not We're not paying for your energy anymore. You know, it just makes sense. So you know, I can't I can't help but plug what I do. But I really really believe you've in it, and it just makes sense, especially here. So you know, we call it the California tax or the San Diego tax, but we we pay, you know, sometimes four or five times what the rest of the country is doing using for energy. So it's like really common to have you know,
anywhere from ten to fifteen or eighteen cents of kill a lot. We're here. If I get someone's utility bill, it's usually fifty cents. You know, it's like it's it's some people freak out, have been freaking out lately at how astronomical their bill has become, especially when it's hot and you turn on the air conditioner. I know, like I have on right now. Oh I feel like I should turn it off right now and turn on or just open up the window because you're here and look see it with this amazing
person, and look what I tried to do to him. I feel you should feel deep shame. But it was meant to be. We were meant to meet, You were meant to be here and to talk to us, and I just I couldn't be happier that you're sitting right here and that you're on this planet and that you're doing something to help all of us. So thank you, thank you. You're also the hero for bringing exposure to so many people all every week. You know, I it's harder to shoot my
podcast. I will just guarantee than most anyone. But you know, I'm up at eight or nine episodes now, and you're like, what many? Almost five hundred? Yeah, so you know how many people have you helped that are doing great things to help them get more exposure? So I appreciate you well, thank you, thank you. I was thinking of, like, what what have we actually done? We talk about, like we gossip about celebrities, we talk about like random things about Oh, we probably shouldn't
buy stuff from Timu anymore. Oh see, no, I know, uh oh uh oh. We're in big trouble as we do that. But you know what, I know, I'm not going to do that anymore because that's a whole other thing. Fast fashion. That's like another big thing that's a oh my god. We could go on and on and on and on. Anyway. All of David's links are on Laura Kane after Dark, including the GoFundMe for the Orphanage Needs and his link tree that has his podcast, his
energy company. Everything we've talked about. Uh, you can help, you can be a part of his world environmentalist. And one more time, I'm sorry, but I'm also not sorry, not sorry, sorry, not sorry, because I'm glad I met you, and I'm really glad that you have a real friggin' Apple watch on your wrist right now. Thank you. And the one that he compare with his phone that actually works. It's actually quite incredible because they're identical, like the packaging that they make for these things.
They make the Apple packaging everything. You if you laid them side by side, you really have a hard time telling. It's it's like an industry to make any Apple products. But sixty dollars is a great price. I'm sorry I lied about my boss giving me the gift. I panicked. I panicked, But anyway, it's great crisis anyway, And thank you so much for being on our show. Really appreciate it so great getting to know more about you and everything that you do and and bringing awareness. And thank you guys
so much for watching on Instagram Live nice. Thank you so much for watching on YouTube. Thank you, thank you so much for listening. And we say something at the end of our podcast, and I'll say it first, then Eric says it, and then will you say it, and then we'll close out. Okay, I'll just go ahead and say it. Love your podcast, Love your podcast, Love your podcast, Love you, my sweet babies. Thank you, guys. Bye bye