UNWON with Keely Covello

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UNWON with Keely Covello is a society podcast hosted by Keely Covello, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Keely Covello hosts UNWON with Keely Covello, a society show with 26 episodes published.

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  POINT REYES RANCHER TAKES ON HUFFMAN: Nicolette Niman Is Running to Represent the People Jared Huffman Forgot

  May 29, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Nicolette Hahn Niman has one of the more unusual biographies in American public life: environmental lawyer, former vegetarian, cattle rancher, Nobel Week speaker, author of Defending Beef, Point Reyes Seashore resident, and now, a congressional candidate challenging seven-term incumbent Jared Huffman in California’s newly redrawn District 2.</p><p>She’s also one of two ranching families still standing at Point Reyes after 11 ranching families were forced out in a secretive Biden-era deal brokered by the Nature Conservancy and wrapped in non-disclosure agreements—a deal Huffman reportedly helped engineer and was bound by NDA himself. The Nimans did not partic...

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  GOVERNOR FOR RURAL CALIFORNIA: Chad Bianco on Water, Fire, Cartels & Taking California Back

  May 21, 20261h 30mS0

  <p>00:00 Introduction02:00 California's politician-made water crisis07:15 What rural California actually looks like10:30 Why Bianco chose California — and why he's fighting to keep it13:35 Small-town Utah roots and what shaped him15:47 Over-regulation destroying rural industries18:30 The decision to run — what happened at Trump's inauguration23:08 Faith and leading through darkness27:48 Newsom and the sheriffs: zero communication, zero relationship29:35 Cartels, illegal cannabis, and what legalization actually did33:50 Water: dams, desalination, government control38:55 Fire: forest management, logging, and prescribed burns48:20 Energy: CPUC corruption, utility rates, nuclear power59:44 Predators: wolves, mountain lions, grizzly reintroduction1:11:00 Second Amendment and CCW access in rural counties1:19:15 Agriculture: bringing the Cali...

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  Carrot Cowboy: Justin Pettit of Santa Carota Is Taking on the Industry

  May 13, 20261h 26mS0

  <p>Justin Pettit is a third-generation cattle rancher in Bakersfield, California, where the West has never quite been won. Nine years ago, he developed a novel premium beef product. His carrot-finished beef was soon in demand among customers seeking a prime-graded grass-finished option as well as high-end restaurants and culinary programs across the country. </p><p>After surviving COVID in Gavin Newsom’s California, Pettit says a massive meat processor based in Southern California cheated him and his customers by cutting his product with foreign beef. Once he caught the alleged fraud, he says he tried to catch up on or...

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  WHO WOULD WANT THE POTTER VALLEY DAMS? Meet Darcy Burke of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District

  Apr 23, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>Darcy Burke is vice president of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and a longtime California water professional. She was also featured in the tweet heard around Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties on Monday, when USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a potential buyer has emerged for the Potter Valley Project.</p><p>Darcy joins me today to talk about why her board is interested in purchasing two dams in Potter Valley, California local politicians and corporations have assured us for years no one wants.</p><p>Just what exactly is the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District? Why are they...

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  FIGHTING BIG SOLAR with Alexandra Fasulo: One Farmer vs. the Industry Erasing Upstate New York

  Apr 17, 20261h 21mS0

  <p>America’s farmland is being destroyed in the name of green energy. Alexandra Fasulo is doing something about it.</p><p>Alex is an influencer, entrepreneur, first generation farmer, and accidental activist. Not long after buying a farm in her home state of New York, a neighbor told her about a foreign-owned company that had approached him six times, offering well above market value to lease his hayfield for a solar complex. Her curiosity piqued, she attended a local hearing on a solar protection ordinance. A lobbyist from California confronted her in the parking lot. What was really going on...

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