Brian Calaway @BrianCalawayPod

Diesel averages $6.32 a gallon nationally, up from $3.69 a year earlier. Cave Creek Unified buys about 7,000 gallons a month for 24 buses. A diesel bus gets roughly 5 mpg, a gasoline bus roughly 14. The district is raising field trip fees. Source: Cronkite News, Oct. 6.

Number Ten is twenty-two things we got wrong across the first nine episodes, read back out loud and corrected on the record. Correction Corner covers the IRS tax rate history Brian kept repeating and a movie monologue we credited to the wrong actor.

Phoenix says it will restart water shutoffs for customers with seriously delinquent accounts. Shutoffs have been suspended since 2020. The city counts more than 9,000 accounts well behind on payment, with nearly $24 million in past-due balances. Source: KJZZ.

Picacho Water and Sewer customers near Eloy pay an average of $143.59 a month, up from $72.01 before the March rate increases. The AG's appeal says the Commission never examined the details of the utilities' sale, which closed four months before the rate filings.

No platform? No leg to stand on to persuade a disenfranchised voter that lives in reality? No problem! "If we make the signs huge with a lie that's more huger the fine print will be smaller" seems like something that was said in that meeting. @TPUSA BS indeed.

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I’m starting to think we aren’t 2 weeks away from that healthcare plan being signed into law

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Live now on YT, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon: Brandon and Brian recorded Number Thirteen Part One in the shadow of another 9/11 anniversary, and Brandon tells a story about a skyscraper full of asbestos and an insurance policy that pays twice. YT: youtu.be/o12oci-DCak

Live music is one of the last rooms built for presence, and the raised phone people make it a task to get lost in the moment. Number Ten runs through Comedians and Tool banning phones, and everywhere else which the attention economy works as designed.

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Brian knocks on about two hundred doors a day. Number Eight explores what he's learning from voters. The conversation goes from Reagan's FTC and the race to monopoly into fractional reserve banking, and the overdraft fees banks charge people who have nothing in the account.

Josh Chilton is a project manager and the dad of an eighth grader at Rhodes. He's running for the Mesa Public Schools governing board. In Number Seven, Josh walks through career and technical education and what the $449 million bond on the November ballot would actually pay for.

Brandon opens Number Nine with a hot take about the Beatles. Then it turns practical. In Number Nine, Brian and Brandon walk through how Maricopa County counts your ballot, from signature verification to central count along with various other shenanigans & such

Continuing our current path, despite the climate crisis, is like an addict refusing to acknowledge rock bottom. We're subsidizing our own destructive behavior, clinging to outdated rationalities. #ClimateAction #Sustainability

Over 90% of media is controlled by just 6 billionaire-owned entities with a single agenda: get richer and gain more influence. This unregulated capitalist system fuels a race to monopoly. #MediaMonopoly #Antitrust #Capitalism

Number Six. The Founders wrote the Constitution with goose feathers and paste, trying to design a system where a king never happens again. What would they say if they could see where we are after 250 years? PLUS Lebowski Leaflets, UFC at the White House, & Chicago Sports Idiocy

Mesa keeps getting asked to tighten its belt on water. The data centers keep coming anyway. Number Five is up. Mesa City Council District 5 candidate Danny Hart joins Brian and Brandon on AI data centers, how much they draw, and who decided to put them here.

Hardest working people on the planet, and we don't have a fucking floor. Number Four is up. That line is the whole campaign in one breath. We work more than anyone and somehow the basic stuff, rent, a doctor, a wage that covers the month, still isn't guaranteed to anybody.

Part Two is where it goes full Woo-Woo Zone. Number Three Part Two (Woo) is up. Marcus Aurelius shows up. So does Laplace and Miranda Priestly. We take the clean elections thread from Part One and follow it somewhere weirder than a policy panel would ever let us.