Michael Searle is the executive director of the Austin Civic Fund and Chief of Staff for former Austin City Council Member Ellen Troxclair, who in 2018 tried to do a comprehensive audit of Austins finances.  In this episode, we talk about the need to hire more police officers, our cities history of wasteful spending, the need to adopt Bitcoin on a municipal level, the socioeconomic benefits of legal weed, the future of the Republican Party and much more.