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The founder of Tesla, Elon Musk is on the show this week. Tesla is a new car company based in California that produces the only highway legal electric vehicle in the U.S. President Obama has called for one million plug-in electric cars on the road by 2015 to recharge our auto industry, create new jobs and improve the environment. In June, Tesla secured $465 million in federal low-interest loans through the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of the administration’s plan to invest in alternative energy vehicles. The Mayor and Elon talk about the future of the car industry and the role of electric vehicles.

Mayor Newsom is broadcasting this week’s show from San Quentin State Prison. His guest is Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Mayor Newsom and Secretary Cate toured San Quentin talking with prisoners and staff about issues facing the biggest prison system in the country and ways to reform it.

The mayor sits down with the founder and developer of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, to discuss blogging and open source. “What is open source?” Mayor Gavin Newsom finds out.

On the show this week Mayor Newsom talks about California’s special election on Tuesday, May 19th with State Senator Alex Padilla. The Mayor and Senator Padilla talk about the need to change the 2/3rds rule in Sacramento to pass a budget. They also talk about Sen. Padilla’s efforts to restrict smoking near schools and his groundbreaking 2008 menu labeling legislation making California the first state in the nation to require chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus.