In this episode, we explore the brutal birth of the california dream. Welcome to the deep dive. So glad you could join us today. We are going to jump right into it. I want to start with a story from our sources about a guy named Francisco Lopez. Oh, right. The 1842 discovery. Yeah, exactly. So it's 1842 and he's a California native out looking for some stray horses just northwest of Los Angeles. Right. And he stops to rest, digs up some wild onions for a snack, and he actually notices something tangled in the roots. It's gold. Just right there in the dirt. Literally pure gold. Right there among the onion bulbs. So he takes it to the authorities. They confirm it's absolutely real. And you know what happened next? I mean, historically, absolutely nothing. Nothing. Yeah, a few local miners worked the area for a bit, but it didn't spark any kind of glob ...