Matt Matson

Padres fanatic, Downtown Real Estate Broker, cool dad & car enthusiast

[Calvin Applebottom II @_MaroonKoolAid]

For those of you who don’t understand, in college football terms this would be like Notre Dame’s schedule

[604RAW @604RAW]

Chilliwack’s ‘Sturgeon Slayers’ break a world record catching a 1,200 pound white sturgeon in BC’s Fraser River

The 11-foot fish is over 100 years old and took over 40 minutes to reel in 👀

[Chris Tourtellotte @CTourtellotte]

Los Angeles is the aerospace capital of the world.

11,000 new aerospace jobs added in LA County in the last two years.

$141k average salary.

Venture capital funding in LA-area defense tech surpassed $4 billion last year — more than double the prior year.

Greater LA is home to nearly one-third of the nation’s space technology companies and employs — contributing $35B annually to CA GDP.

SpaceX added nearly 4,000 new millionaires to the region last week.

Anduril just announced a $1 billion new campus in Long Beach, adding 5,500 jobs.

NASA JPL, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Boeing, Raytheon are all within 30 miles of each other.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

California billionaire tax odds of passing plummeted last night. Someone knows something 👀

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@hgomez27 @JasonLSwitzer Nah, they’re not sending Salas

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

NIKE WITH ONE OF THE GREATEST COMMERCIALS OF ALL TIME AFTER THE NEW YORK #KNICKS WON THE #NBA FINALS.

CHILLS.

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@SamanthaLaDuc @ChrisBloomstran Interesting listen. Music still playing 🎶 🎶

[Samantha LaDuc @SamanthaLaDuc]

Brilliant fundamental review on the AI manic capex spend by @ChrisBloomstran 🎩🫡

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@Deptof_fWAR @MLBNetwork Impressive patience. Hopefully this ends up being circular 😆

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@SamDiego319 @jonschaeffer Checks out. Who got the knock?

[Sam @SamDiego319]

Since May 1st the San Diego Padres are 1 for 23 with the bases loaded. (.043) holy shit. @jonschaeffer

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@ExxAlerts @EVT_JClark That’s the long daddy too… that thing wraps a mile

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: Train derails outside of San Diego Padres stadium before smashing into a bridge.

3 train cars carrying automobiles derailed outside of Petco Park in downtown San Diego and fell onto a nearby bridge pillar.

Authorities say they have set up a concrete barrier blocking all northbound bicycle, motor, and pedestrian traffic near the incident, and it could remain closed for several weeks.

The city of San Diego released a statement saying crews are "conducting structural assessments to the elevated roadway above the train tracks to determine needed repairs."

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@bpodgursky And the circular financing goes round and round

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@23cmcpadres Sell? Nah man, we always have slow May. They’re gonna pick it up this month

[𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™ @The_Banned_Vids]

[POV]: A tank spotted you

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Matt Matson @mjmatson]

@FocusedCompound Elon magic multiple is going to be put to the test June 12th… it’s most watch TV

[Andrew Kuhn @FocusedCompound]

Finally got my hands on the sell-side analysis that explains why SpaceX is worth $1.75 trillion

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley