Forest fires, 5G and Local Government with Reinette Senum

Freddie has another first on the podcast! Reinette Senum is one of the most progressive mayors in California and provides a first-hand glimpse of how local governments can help foster a safer and healthier community. 

First, a bit about Reinette. In 1994 Reinette Senum would become the first woman to cross Alaska alone. It would be during this isolated winter solo trek, filmed by Reinette for National Geographic, that she would learn, of all things, the power of community. Ultimately, lessons learned along the trail would become the catalyst for Reinette's community work later in life.

For the last dozen years, Reinette's focus has been on building her hometown, Nevada City, California, as a more resilient community through creative and unconventional means. Through risk assessment, public outreach, and a daily hands-on approach, Reinette has been at the forefront of curating Nevada City towards a more sustainable and connected future. Whether as a city council member, mayor, or community activist, her community-changing projects such as the city-sanctioned sustainable vision, the organic Nevada City Farmers Market, construction of 40 portable micro-houses for the homeless, launching a county-wide TimeBank, or fostering a test-pilot for a town square, Reinette has changed the conversation while reweaving community for a more challenging and unpredictable future.

In this conversation, Reinette and Freddie go deep into the history of the wireless industry, the negative impact of monopolies on the lives and health of communities, and ask throughout - what are the solutions to these issues? Enjoy this engaging and insightful conversation from a leader at the forefront of these issues.

Episode Highlights

1:43 - Why is Nevada City a special place? 

2:58 - The extraordinary history of Nevada City

7:32 - How the wildfires have set Nevada City into the Stone Age

12:44 - The impact and rationale for cutting off the power to fight the wildfires

14:24 - A few solutions to the California wildfire and power crises

15:43 - How the FCC forces 5G on the U.S.

20:41 - The dangers of smart meters and other "smart" tools

22:43 - How the government gave away all our rights to minimize our exposure to signals

24:00 - How wireless companies are wargaming the public

27:03 - Solution-based actions for the wireless crisis

29:52 - What does it mean to be beautifully broken?

30:18 - Reinette's call to activate

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (00:00.086)
I do believe that we are in a massive, massive shift. We are seeing the old paradigm crash around us, and this is the opportunity to rebuild our world from the grassroots up. That looks at the planet holistically and includes every living thing. And it's not through the lens of corporations and greed, right? It's through the lens of love and equality and fairness and understanding that we are all interdependent and interconnected.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (00:32.173)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast brought to you by AmpCoil. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on this show, we discuss the common thread survivors share after walking through the fire, the practitioners making a difference, and the treatment modalities that deliver healing back into the hands of the people who need it most. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (01:06.339)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. I am here with the current mayor of Nevada city, Renette Sunham. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Freddie. I'm so honored. I don't always get to do interviews live. It's a treat. It's a rarity. And if I could just paint the picture for everyone, we are nestled in Nevada city, California, which is if you're driving out of San Francisco towards Tahoe, you're like an hour and a half away. Beautiful mountain landscape.

fall foliage. There's a hummingbird outside. It's stunning here in this town if you haven't seen it. It's a special place. Let's talk about the special place. Why? What is the magic of Nevada City? Because I've experienced it, but there's definitely a certain type of individual who settles here. Right. Well, and you have to excuse me. I do have bronchitis, so I sound a little Kermit frog. Nevada City. First of all, it's not easy to live here. In that, it's expensive.

food and gas and jobs aren't easy to come by, good paying jobs I should say. But you move here for a community and you move here for quality of life and that's kind of like the compromise you're making. And so it's a very conscious choice to move here and to live here. I was raised here but I lived in LA for eight years in other places and I've always known this was my place. I was member four years old driving up Broad Street downtown Nevada City for the first time and I literally remember looking at

the beautiful, well-preserved, gold country, Victorian homes and shops and saying, it's so magical. know, little did I know someday I'd be the mayor of this place. But the buildings are what captured me first, right? This beautiful aesthetics of the town. later on in life, it was the people and the spirit of the community that really captured me for good. Mm-hmm. So when I go and there's, whether it's a cafe, it's hanging out at Elixart.

or it's one of the local pubs, I always meet these incredible characters. It seems like everybody has a hand in making the world a better place here. This is a town full of activists. To give you some history of Nevada City, it's pretty extraordinary. Nevada City is where the Gold Rush broke out, the 49er Gold Rush, and one of the places. And this location was in the 1850s, the third largest city in the state of California.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (03:34.385)
It was after San Francisco, then Sacramento, then Nevada City, California. To give you an idea, the population today is 3,100. At that time in 1850, it was about 10,000 people living in know, miners' cabins and so on. What was extraordinary about Nevada City is this incredible history of ingenuity that is alive today, just this creative spirit and can-do spirit. And what has come out of Nevada City, to give you an idea, is let's see, let's...

Pacific Gas and Electric, PG &E, was signed into existence in Nevada City because we had to have electricity down to the mines, Arm and Hammer, Levi Strauss, somebody had to have those blue jeans, right, for the miners. Wells Fargo, right, the banking. The 19th Amendment, which gave the women the right to vote, was actually penned in Nevada City by Senator Aaron Sargent, his wife Ellen, and their dear friend, a woman by the name of Susan B. Anthony. The Transcontinental Railroad was also

written in this, the bill was written in Nevada City. That kind of ingenuity and spirit has been here. So it was all based upon gold mining, right? And interestingly enough, too, the first environmental regulation in the United States came from here. It was the Sawyer Act of 1876. We were doing what's called hydraulic mining. And what they were doing is we had so much water available to us that they had these gigantic cannons and they were literally washing away the hillsides, washing them away so much so

that they removed eight times the amount of the dirt that was removed out of the Panama Canal, washed down our beautiful, really well-known and beloved Yuba River. It polished the granite. It's one the most beautiful rivers in the world because it's polished granite, ironically by environmental damage. And all of that deluge, and we're talking arsenic and mercury and heavy metals, washed down the rivers into the farmland, into the delta.

which ultimately created what was known as the Sawyer decision that led to the first environmental regulation stopping hydraulic mining. And so you are speaking to, well, there's a certain spirit, like everyone's involved in this community, everyone's engaged and you do feel that sense. And that's one reason why I want to be mayor and city council member. been, I want to protect this little tiny town. It's a pearl in the Sierra foothills. But we are all standing on a lot of gold and crystal actually, interestingly enough.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (05:58.355)
And I've always had a hard time describing Nevada City spirit. And I could never find the right story or anecdote to be able to describe that. And then I came across a movie, a documentary, during what's called the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It's a South Yuba River Citizens League, is the largest watershed organization in the country, and it's based here in Nevada City. We have the most nonprofits per capita in California. I'm not surprised by that. And they have this incredible

Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival every January where the whole entire town opens up the doors to all the filmmakers and producers and we actually house them and we have 700 volunteers all from local people. And quite a few years ago they were showing a documentary about a couple that were traveling across by foot in canoe across Canada to get to their favorite home of their favorite author. And along the way they came across the bird known as the loon, right? And the loon is very well known for its musical melodic.

songs. a loon will, interestingly enough, will settle into its place and it will have its own particular song. It will sing over and over and over again. It's like singing the sense of the place itself right. And when that loon dies, the song will die with that loon. But what's most extraordinary is when another loon comes along and settles into the same place, it will pick up, begin to sing the exact same song and carry it on. And that is, to me,

the story that represents the spirit of Nevada City. Beautiful. I can feel that right now. So we've got this song that, as you say, like generation and generation have almost picked up and continued to sing. We've got all these incredible events that have happened through the timeline of the city. And I've been very drawn to this place. Not only because I was brought out here to work with Amp Coil, but

you know, right away I was like, there was something magical walking down Main Street. And I remember being here and thinking about, was like, I could live here. So I even went around with a realtor, we looked at properties and in the midst of this, you know, being back East and probably like the last three months in the news has been this rush of wildfires. And for people who don't know and other parts of the world,

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (08:22.174)
they've actually preemptively shut off the power when the winds will start to increase in Nevada City. you've had weeks of cumulative days of no power whatsoever. No power. Actually, we've been set back into the dark ages. And why I say that is because not only do we not have power, but we've lost our landlines, including our copper lines, which would never go out before, our cell phones, our internet. Many have lost their sewage and their water.

any way to actually heat their homes. And we're talking days on end, sometimes into a couple of weeks. It's like a hurricane might as well have hit the place. And this has been preemptive for PG &E. And what they're basically doing is they're outsourcing and externalizing the risks and the responsibilities onto their customers. So instead of them being responsible of sparking a fire with their outdated and poorly maintained transmission lines, they're putting the responsibility on us. And now everyone has

generators. I've got one in my backyard. Right. We have fuel generators. Well, guess what? They're catching fire. They're setting homes on fire right now. And not only can you not call 911, you can't even call your neighbor for help. And you can't even for some people turn their water on to put the fire out because there is no water. And it has been so destructive that I actually personally went down to San Francisco a week ago Wednesday.

And I do want to make this very clear that I only speak for myself and not for the city of Nevada city, course, the city council members. But I did go down there as a representative of the city for this instance. And I spoke for the three minute public comment of the CPUC, which is the California public utility commission, which is overseeing the investigation of PG &E and whether or not they've been responsible or not with how they've been operating themselves. And I went down there for three minutes to speak to them, to tell them the havoc they have wreaked on us. it has,

We have lost businesses. have lost successful businesses. have, give you an example, one business called Old Republic Award-winning brewery. They have a new restaurant they opened just this last year and they had to close it. It killed them. Now they don't even know if they can keep the brewery going. We have manufacturers right in the height of busy season for the holidays. They've been folding different departments and arms of their manufacturing, hoping they can kind of keep the core alive. It's not just like, once the power turns back on, boom, you just go back into business.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (10:46.101)
for restaurants and grocery stores, it takes them days to get their stock back in, their orders, their perishables, and to sit there for the grocery stores to, you know, they can't just get a generator to, right? Getting a generator and connecting it to a grocery store takes building permits, right? And it takes months and costs literally $85,000, $100,000 to do something like this. So we've had businesses lose $125,000, a quarter million dollars for some restaurants.

grocery stores. We've had businesses who know they're going to fold and they're just trying, trying to stay on. Well, guess what? Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m., we're going to lose power again. And we don't know exactly when it's going to go back on again. And we were told only a few hours ago, it'll be going off at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Well, we just got wind. No, it's going to be going off at 7 a.m. instead. People are feeling whiplashed. They're anxiety ridden. They're stressed. We have people, employees who can't afford to pay the rent.

And, you know, it's just, it's brutal for the economy, the sales tax, the tax base for the city, what it does to the hospitals, medical facilities, the schools, the schools are just getting pummeled as far as what's normal for them and their snow days. is a cascading domino effect that does nothing but hurt the people who've done nothing wrong. And again, puts all of the responsibility on them and PG &E, which is a monopoly.

in my opinion, absolutely must be broken up and go away. Ultimately, I do believe this is a wonderful thing because we can turn this around to our advantage. And I can see that very clearly. The CPUC, I went and spoke with him for that three minutes. One of the commissioners wanted to speak to me. I talked with her yesterday on a conference call for about 45 minutes. She wants me to actually go and speak at bankruptcy hearings of PG &E, which I'm going to do.

talk about the harm that was done to our community as well as the possible solutions which are phenomenal. we have this instance of and for people who don't know in other parts of the world and across the country, why are they preemptively shutting down the power? Well first of all I want to say that really I think the community as a whole supports closing and turning down the power, turning it off. And they call these PSPS events power shutoffs and we support that. But the problem is it's so broad.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (13:07.672)
and it is not targeted well enough, it'll be for days. And then they have to go and check every single line. We're talking thousands of miles of lines before they turn them on again. Well, this is not sustainable. And they're turning the power off so that a wind or a limb or a tree doesn't spark. And of course, with these high wind events, cause the winds to blow the fire and cause catastrophic fires that we've seen in paradise, that we've seen in Santa Rosa.

that we've seen in Malibu, right? These are the things that are happening. And Malibu, by the way, is not PG &E, I believe. So we understand that, but it's too broad and it's too wide and it has to be much more targeted. And they need, you know, I keep saying you have smart cities, you have smart grid, you have all these smart devices, and you can't figure out when the wind is blowing. You can't put sensors on the line. Sensors are called synchrophasers. Synchrophasers could have been attached to these lines many, many years ago, but instead,

The money went to the shareholders, the money went to the CEOs, and they just didn't invest it into the maintenance and the upgrading of the transmission and the power lines. And so now they're just turning off the power altogether. And I've been in Africa without power. I know what that's like. And I feel like at times I'm living in Africa. so being solution-based, what are some of the things that can come to the table?

PG &E is so big that basically rural areas like ours gets overlooked. what our Nevada city and neighboring city, Grass Valley and the County of Nevada, we're in California, by the way, it's Nevada County, California. And then we have what's called NID, which is Nevada Irrigation District. We like to all become our own one big power utility. And that's gonna be quite a process and it's gonna take a few years, right? But the beauty in that is a couple of things. One is,

We can maintain the power lines ourselves and we can ensure they're maintained we can make sure we keep the rates down because right now Nevada Irrigation District has hydro power and the hydro power we actually sell to to PG &E and then for Wholesale and then they sell it back to us for retail, which is kind of crazy So we can actually have it more to you know, just a little bit above retail or sorry wholesale price, which would be wonderful So there's that

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (15:30.958)
The other thing is that we can ensure that we are reinvesting that money into, again, the maintenance of the transmission lines, but also into the restoration of our forests. So, I mean, is where we see these, we see that where it's so imperative that these small towns are taking a stand. Yeah. And you're really digging your heels in.

Yeah. And it would be one thing if as the mayor, I just want to like pivot for a second. So we're talking about power and we're talking about charging up the battery so everybody can keep the lights on and do the work and do the due diligence. And then we have another, we have another thing because you can't just deal with one thing as mayor. No, Why is the power issue. We have, we have the influx of fifth generation internet coming through the Nevada city area.

which is already live in New York City where I am. It's already live in San Francisco. It's testing in Houston. They're in DC. just to catch people up on the show, if you haven't heard me talk about this before, fifth generation is... Millimeter wave. Millimeter wave internet. it does not do well with the human body. And there's been many large cities across the globe that have actually shut down testing and stopped many major cities, major countries across the world.

But in the US, we pretty much just decided to flip the switch and just go for it. The FCC is basically forcing it on to us. And there are actual federal court cases right now that are being heard that might actually reverse that. So we're hopeful, right? But this is an amazing corporate power grab of what's called a prowl or public right of way, where local authorities have no say or authority over these millimeter wave antennas. And they call them small cells, which is a misnomer.

There's nothing small about them. They're as powerful as the cell antennas you see on buildings and mountain tops. But they're placed on your front step, on your lawn, on your sidewalk. And you can't do anything about it. And I'm telling you, I know because I'm on many different email listservs that there are people who have had these small cells placed on their front lawns on the sidewalk. And we are talking within days. And this is in Sacramento, as a matter of fact.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (17:50.143)
days the children who are sleeping in the front bedrooms of the home have to move to the back of the house. And then finally they have to move out of the house and then they can't sell the house because nobody wants to touch it with a 10-foot pole. And we have Switzerland just instantly, just recently I should say, they put 5G in there and within days people were having still births. Later on they were having birth defects. People were getting sick, nosebleeds and people have literally

taken to the streets. And to let you know, I'm not a leadite. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a anti-technology. In fact, ironically, and this has been a very long personal journey. I had the first cellular phone store in Nevada County in 1990. It was called Empire Cellular. First storefront, I was selling the Motorola bag phone and I saw a couple of red flags back then. When I started to sell the Motorola bag phone, I had to put a little antenna on top.

of the roof of a car, know, suction. This is how I'd install them with a cable that went in. You clip your Motorola bag phone, the actual handle into the clipper. And I was told then, yes, you can never have the antenna inside the car, because the car would be a Faraday cage and would hold that radiating signal within the car, which you don't want. And you don't want the antenna anywhere near your head. And the next year, boom, the Motorola TAC phone came out.

this little antenna would pull out, you know, and you put it next to your head. I said, well, wait a second. I thought this was dangerous. I thought this was bad. You just taught me how to do this whole entire installation. Well, what changed? Nothing, except for greed. Greed was there. They just wanted to make the money. So that was the first red flag. And then at that time I was very much an extreme adventurer and I was looking forward to the day what they call

low orbiting satellites where you could be on the top of a mountain or in a canyon. And if something goes wrong, you could call and say, Hey, get me out of here. was looking forward to that day. Right. I thought it'd be wonderful. And they're just radio frequencies. What harm could be done? was thinking, and I was told they were safe. And I believe that, of course, I believe they had, they were safe and they were tested for safety. I was wrong. They had never been tested for safety. If cell phones had been tested for safety, they would never have been released onto the market. Now you fast forward.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (20:04.348)
I'm a city council. And again, I'm speaking for myself 100 % personally. And my first term back in 2008 to 12, we had people coming to us talking about smart meters and needing to opt out and how they're sensitive. And it was sending them out of their homes. And I thought these were ultra sensitive people. It's not that I didn't believe them. I just thought they were ultra sensitive. And it was not until I had a smart meter put onto my home that unexpectedly, and I was looking forward to it, I started having these, immediately having these symptoms where I

thought I had a brain tumor that fast. And what it was is when I would go to bed at night, I'd lay down, as soon as I lay down, if any little slight noise was made like my cat jumping onto my bed, the sound would reverberate in my head so loud it would startle me. And I couldn't sleep and I was having anxiety and it was just like something really is going on. think I have a brain tumor. Well, a few weeks later, four weeks later, I get the PGNEE bill in the mail and there is this graph that clearly showed you

my energy usage through the day. The graph would show you when I'd wake up in the morning, the graph would go up. It'd show you when I left at home, the graph would go down, right, that little line. When I returned for lunch, when I come home at night, it'd go up, and then I'd go to bed at night. So basically, you, if you want to burglarize my home, could go into my mailbox, take my PG &E bill, and clearly see when I was sleeping at night and when I was not home in the day. And I was like, I don't want this. That's so risky. I can't believe they're doing that. have since actually stopped doing it, by the way.

So I called them up, said, please take my smart meter away. I don't want this. That's ridiculous. A couple of weeks later, my brain tumor disappeared overnight. And I thought, what the heck just happened? How did that happen? And I thought, that's smart meter. Oh my God, that's smart meter. I went running out to where my meter was and it was 15 feet from my head where I slept and had been removed. That's when I realized there was something to...

know, electric magnetic sensitivity and I knew it was a real thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's funny to be on my side of it where from the health and wellness and survivors and people with Lyme and mold and you know, we're, we've been, we've been damaged a little bit. So we're very sensitive to the environment and it's always about finding a necklace that will shield you or a case for your phone or it's, or it's building a Faraday cage around your bed. That's going to be a nice little safe haven from the RF signaling.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (22:29.655)
however, where, where this issue meets local government, that's, that's, mean, that's why I'm so excited to have this interview. hands are tied. The FCC and people don't believe this when I say this, but Bill Clinton signed what's called the telecommunication act of 1996. And it literally said basically local governments, deciding bodies cannot make any decisions based upon

you know, environmental or physical damage. Since when did that happen? Since when can you talk about the harmful physical effects of these things, right? When I tell people they're like, no, no, that doesn't happen here. That happens in China. That happens in Russia. It's like, no, that's happening here in 1996. Before we ever had any idea what EMFs were or modems, right? Or the wireless world or what internet was really going to blow into. And what people don't realize is there's now this ubiquitous

wireless signal, we're surrounded by 24 seven. And it's actually in the last, this is not an exaggeration, in the last 10 years, our exposure to wireless devices has gone up a quintillion times. That's 18 zeros, a quintillion times. are literally with all of us in our animals and the hummingbirds and the bumblebees and the insects.

All of our lives are one gigantic biological experiment. We don't know how this is gonna go. And I have to say, you do not have my consent. Yeah, it's a... I like to tell people, remind them that it's an electrical body before it's a chemical one. For sure. So our electrical signaling is affecting all the downstream chemical. And when you go to a doctor for a snapshot of your blood work, which looks at a chemical reaction in the blood, nobody's really taking into account what's happening in the home environment. Nope.

I mean, just you can look at, and I think it's, there's a couple towns in Sweden who have done this, and they've done studies in schools and just looked at basic test scores, which have jumped like 20 to 30 % just by shutting off the wifi. That's right. Which is incredible. and it's really, think one thing that we need to consider is what it does to the developing brain. It's much worse.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (24:49.855)
Because that brain is in, you know, that's that brain, especially under eight, that brain is in a state of play. It's a different wavelength and it's very susceptible to that Wi-Fi or, you know, nobody's even, we haven't even seen what 5G will do to that brain state. in fact, it's the brain waves as well as their cells are dividing much faster. So a cancer that would take us 20, 30 years to develop as an adult will take children three years or five years.

And we're seeing this in the US cancer registries. This is not just, you know, peer-reviewed studies that we have thousands of, by the way, thousands, less than the millimeter way. Those are more military studies. But as far as studies around the world, we have thousands. So when people say there's no studies, that's actually, that's a corporate fabrication. And what we know is that we have seen a huge uptick in the deadly form of the brain tumor known as glioblastoma. And that has actually was always reserved for

64 years and older and it was rare. Now, those who are getting the most are 20 to 29 year olds because they've had a cell phone to their head for five to 10 years. We are seeing prostate cancers skyrocket in 15 to 19 year old boys because they have a phone in their pocket, rectal cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer from the women who are putting into their bras. You know, it's just we're seeing the evidence but there are

you know, what's happening and people don't realize is we're being wargamed. And this came out of a wonderful expose in the nation about how this information has been held back from the public. And it's the same kind of tactic that the cigarette companies used, which is, and this was from a freedom of information request of Motorola. And we saw within their memos that they were going to wargame the public. And there's three things you do to wargame. One is you make sure to discredit any of the scientists who are not

pro big industry. You make sure to place people who are pro industry onto the agencies and the boards like let's say the World Health Organization, the FCC and so on. And you make sure to, what's the last one? You make sure to basically send out misinformation. So as long as people don't really know what the facts are, they'll think they're safe. There's a little bit of that going on right now in the world. There's just a smattering.

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (27:10.71)
And so that's great tactic. worked before and it's working now. So that's what we're up against. And I do say to folks, said, the sad thing is people ask, how do you think it's going to go? I said, well, I'll be really, really honest. Because this industry knew that if they waited long enough that they would get so many people addicted to their devices. Because the radio frequencies are actually addictive. They knew they'd get everyone so addictive that when they heard the information, they would ignore it. That was by design. I said, sadly, my prediction is going to be this.

is that we're gonna see a lot of really, really young, beautiful people who are gonna die some really painful deaths from different cancers. And we're going to, for a long time, ignore the warnings that a lot of young people are dying, kind of like the AIDS epidemic, where you just don't think you need to have safe sex and wear a condom until all of your young, beautiful friends are dying around you. And then you're like, you know what, I need to wear a condom. Well, that's what's gonna happen here. We're gonna realize that, you can have a phone, but it's all about harm reduction. You don't have it in your pocket. You don't have it turned on 24 seven. You don't have it in your bedroom.

keep it away from your bedroom, have it turned off at night, and you make sure that you only use it when you need it. But from what I can tell, the trajectory that we're heading in is that we're gonna have to see a real high sad death rate before it sinks in. Yeah. So let's pivot back to that. So solution-based, you know, in this area. Right. Like what can you do in Nevada City and as a leader? Right.

What things can you put in place? mean, first of one of things I do is I educate people constantly. This is something, this is a drum I'm beating on Facebook regularly. just, I annoy people, but I'm like, well, I'm sorry, but I love you and I don't want you to die. The other thing you do is a wireless ordinance, which is something that we've been trying to hammer out here in Nevada city. It's been quite contentious, I have to say. But I believe in the end we'll be able to do that. And that's a way to basically protect yourself as much as you possibly can within

current law, but I do believe that the federal courts will ultimately, you know, you know, go in our favor. So we're just waiting for that. That's exciting. Yeah. Well, I'm really honored that you took 30 minutes to talk with us. It's been my pleasure. And I think it's fascinating because you know, we I'm always looking again, it's like, it's like, where, where do you bring the things into the home, the tools, the technology to mitigate some of these things?

Freddie Kimmel and Reinette Senum (29:35.691)
but to see where it's happening on the local level and the law. And that there are people like you looking out for us and humanity in the county. I would ask you, I'm gonna close up with two questions that I always end the podcast with, but I've skipped the last two. So what is it, the Beautifully Broken podcast, what does it mean to you to be beautifully broken? Well, I think to be beautifully broken,

is to have the most amazing opportunity to start anew. And to be beautifully broken allows light to shine into you and it allows your light to shine out. Okay, and now you've got two minutes to activate anybody that wants to support you. And how would they do that?

Whether they're here in Nevada City or whether they're on the other side of the world, how can they support you and your community and your mission and your voice? Right. Well, there's a couple of different things you can do. One is if you want to get to know me better, you can go to my own personal website just to see some blogs I've had and some of my history and personal adventures and things and what I stand for and what I believe in. And that is called thefoghornexpress.com. And don't forget the T-H-E, thefoghornexpress.com. That's a good way. You can reach me there and then you can always email me.

and I can give that email out. It's renatsenem.com. So it's R-E-I-N-E-T-T-E, then senemsenum.com. And you can always just Google Nevada City, California and look at the mayor. And sometimes they still have me as the vice mayor. It's not current on the internet all around for some reason. yeah, reach out to me because I do believe that we are in a massive, massive shift.

We are seeing the old paradigm crash around us. It is really becoming beautifully broken and this is the opportunity to rebuild our world from the grassroots up that looks at the planet holistically and includes every living thing and It's not through the lens of corporates corporations and greed, right? It's through the lens of of love and equality and fairness and understanding that we are all interdependent and interconnected

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We are all one. Renette, from the light inside me to the light inside you, thank you for being here. It's been my pleasure. Namaste. Namaste. Ladies and gentlemen, you made it to the end of the podcast. Now in a world where the average attention span is less than 10 seconds, we just spent almost an hour together. And I think this is the beginning of something really beautiful.

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