Part Two of two episodes with Will Durst and Willie Brown sitting down at Tres Agaves in San Francisco @ 130 Townsend in San Francisco with Producer Paul “The Lobster” Wells and have lunch at this Restaurant close to AT&T Park, home of the SF Giants. A freewheeling discussion was recorded as part one.  After a delicious and very satisfying lunch for cast and crew, we pick up the conversation in Episode 18 on taxes and  money and dive in to the political topics of the day: President Obama’s first one hundred days, The rescue of the ship captain from Somalian Pirates by Navy Seals, Newspapers and what will be the key to their survival and the importance of it to democracy.  We touched on how Rush Limbaugh was proliferated through syndicated radio and what the impact of deregulation has had on radio and local communities.  The newspaper talk leads to sports writers and the Giants and their pitchers, and the new show on Comcast Willie Brown will be doing with Gary Radnich for 49ers post game wrap-ups.  Then we circle around to the May 19th special elections in California and Governor Arnold, Schwarzenegger, and the unpopular notion of new taxes and fees.  We end up with the proposal to rename 3rd Street in San Francisco “Willie Brown Boulevard.”

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On December 11th, 2008 an event was held in San Francisco that distributed food, personal items and toys to thousands of low income San Francisco families. Paul Wells, producer of the Will and Willie show was one of the volunteers at the event, organized in part by the Willie L. Brown Institute. As the election, the Holidays and the Inauguration of President Barrack Obama all rolled past into history, Will and Willie’s schedule was too packed to get together for another Podcast. A post-inaugural session will follow soon. Here’s Feed The Children’s Larry Jones on what brought his philanthropic organization to San Francisco for the “Miracle on Pier 48.”

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Our roundtable pre-election discussion at Epic Roasthouse, 369 The Embarcadero on San Francisco’s scenic waterfront. For more on this fine dining establishment, visit www.epicroasthousesf.com Technical difficulties prevent Episodes 13 (Ah Ha!) and 14 from being seen in the video version in their entirety. Segments #13 are combined with the video version for #14. In this episode, we talk about the elections, the setting and how it got built, and the history of The Will and Willie show, which ran as the morning show on 960 AM in 2006, and is produced by Paul “Lobster” Wells, of Flow Communications, the duo’s Ed McMahon and Freddie DeCordova rolled into one. We also touch on state and local politics, personalities and propositions, auto dealers, newspapers, gas prices, suv and prius drivers, and more.

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Will Durst and Willie Brown join Producer Paul “The Lobster” Wells at Epic Roasthouse, a fine new Pat Kuleto restaurant managed by Pete Sittnick at 369 The Embarcadero on San Francisco’s scenic waterfront. This is part one of our final pre-election broadcast. We start with the Presidential race, Will and Willie’s predictions, the polls, the economy and how it has swung the race in Obama’s direction. We also give historic perspective to the current financial crisis with a look back to similar events going back before 1929 to the current changes that allowed sub-prime mortgages to be sold as “Triple A” securities and traded through banks and hedge funds. Technical difficulties prevent Episodes 13 (Ah Ha!) from being seen in the video version in it’s entirety. Segments #13 are being combined with those from the video version of #14.

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The inaugural episode of the Will & Will Podshow is the first gathering of Comedian and Political Pundit Will Durst, former Mayor of San Francisco and Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie L. Brown Jr. and Radio Host and Producer Paul “The Lobster” Wells since their highly acclaimed, award winning morning radio show “Keepin’ it Real with Will & Willie went off the air in September 2006 from Clear Channel’s 960 AM in San Francisco. Their blend of humor and politics from the San Francisco point of view, begins on the world wide web with an irreverent voters guide to the Election on November 6th. Next episode will take on the upcoming Presidential election and other national events in 2008.

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The inaugural episode of the Will & Will Podshow is the first gathering of Comedian and Political Pundit Will Durst, former Mayor of San Francisco and Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie L. Brown Jr. and Radio Host and Producer Paul “The Lobster” Wells since their highly acclaimed, award winning morning radio show “Keepin’ it Real with Will & Willie went off the air in September 2006 from Clear Channel’s 960 AM in San Francisco. Their blend of humor and politics from the San Francisco point of view, begins on the world wide web with an irreverent voters guide to the Election on November 6th. Next episode will take on the upcoming Presidential election and other national events in 2008.

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