Season 7, Episode 22 - Special guest, author Dennis Brennan, Ferry boats in Seattle, Bill Maher, SpaceX, California Coastal Commission, California's Budget, Judges overturning rulings, and much more

A few brief technical/audio glitches in today’s podcast, but still an excellent segment. Today, for the first time, we will have a guest on the program telling us about a new book he wrote called "D.C. Swamp Strikes Back: Aaron Burr, Donald Trump and Their Similar Battles: Victims separated by centuries: bound by opponents' hatred. You can preview it here: D.C. Swamp Strikes Back: Aaron Burr, Donald Trump and Their Similar Battles.Our quote of the week explains why what you do in private translates into how people view you in public. In our Stupidest thing I’ve heard all week segment, we’ll tell how much the State of Washington spent to electrify a 30-year-old Ferry in Seattle and how that conversion has worked out. We’ll play a clip from Bill Maher telling us why the California Coastal Commission denied a request from SpaceX (a division of Tesla) to increase the number of Rocket launches from California’s Vandenberg AFB. We’ll also tell you why California is on the verge of going broke and what that might mean for people who hold California revenue bonds and for the millions of people who are already receiving pensions from the state pension fund or who are counting on those pensions when they retire in the next decade. We’ll tell you about a controversial court ruling in which a judge overturned a unanimous jury verdict and why. We’ll give you some statistics about the dramatic rise in single-parent households and what that increase has to do with the increase in violent crime. Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week is from Huntsville, Alabama, where a homeowner shoots & kills an armed home invader who had shot & wounded him.