229: Fighting the Political Machine w/ Adam Conover and LA Mayoral Hopeful Nithya Raman
Podcast But Outside
Headgum
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ready, set, VOTE!!! We've got a special episode this week as the politically savvy Adam Conover joins us to discuss the Los Angeles mayoral election with candidate Nithya Raman. If you don't live in LA, don't fret, the chats with strangers are all very fun and interesting to humans everywhere. Guests include a local man who is VERY opposed to a new bike lane, a smart and thoughtful guy from the state government who somehow walked by, and an adorable dancing kid with a sushi obsession. Recorded on 4/8/26 at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, California.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgum podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to the introduction for podcast but outside, episode 229. |
| 0:09.9 | This episode was recorded in Echo Park Lake with two special guest co-hosts. |
| 0:14.9 | The first is comedian podcaster and I would say politically savvy guy, Adam Conover, |
| 0:19.9 | and the second is Los Angeles current city council member |
| 0:23.6 | and mayoral hopeful Nithya Rahman. |
| 0:27.1 | Nithia is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 0:29.6 | The election is on June 2nd. |
| 0:30.6 | If you live in L.A., you should have gotten your mail-in ballot in the mail already. |
| 0:34.6 | I got mine, and I'm personally voting for her after talking to her this episode and seeing how much she cares about this city. |
| 0:41.5 | But I encourage you to listen to the episode, make up your own mind. And if you're not someone who cares about Los Angeles or lives here, this is still a very interesting episode. We talk about larger political stuff. We talk about how to get involved in your own local political scene. And we just talk to strangers around Echo Park Lake about random everyday life stuff as well. It's a really fun |
| 0:58.2 | episode. I'm very proud of it. And Adam Conover is on tour. He's in Kansas City this weekend. You can go |
| 1:02.8 | check out that show. There's a poster for you there. Switching gears massively. I just want to |
| 1:08.7 | share a deeply sad personal thing in my own life. |
| 1:12.6 | My beloved mom, I've been extremely close to my mom my entire life. |
| 1:16.6 | And 10 days ago she passed away unexpectedly, and she was a massive fan of this podcast. |
| 1:22.6 | She watched it every single week and listened to it every week. |
| 1:25.6 | And it was, I think, a big part of us getting even |
| 1:29.4 | closer together through um the last years of her life was her checking out the show and being so |
| 1:35.5 | supportive of it and calling me every episode and talking to me about the guests and um this will be |
| 1:41.5 | the first episode she hasn't seen and and that's extremely sad, and I will |
| 1:47.3 | miss her tremendously. |
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