And, This Is A Country In Crisis With Keith Edwards
This is Gavin Newsom
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3.0 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Keith Edwards joins the show to reflect on the events in Minnesota and how to find hope amidst the tragedy. Then they jump into Keith's personal journey from reality TV to shaping political discourse, the choice to have Ben Shapiro on the show, and whether Democrats should shut down the government over DHS funding.
00:00 New York Culture vs. D.C. Culture
1:52 What We're Seeing in Minneapolis
7:30 Running in 2028 On Accountability
10:10 Keith's Upbringing Makes This Surreal
13:20 Processing Grief & Learning To Trust Ourselves
17:30 How Reality TV Helps Keith Cover Politics
24:10 Trump's Election & Prayer Changed Keith's Career
29:45 "We Actually Need Someone Who Knows What They're Doing"
33:00The Lincoln Project Or The Inspiration Was I Need Money
38:20 Becoming An Intentional Content Creator
49:18 What Breaks Through In A 2026 Political Environment?
54:18 What's Wrong With The Liberal Side of YouTube?
59:10 Why We Had Ben Shapiro On The Show
1:02:55 Does The Left Hurt Itself By Being Too Judgmental?
1:08:10 Fixing The DNC's Social Media
1:13:26 How Do Democrats Persuade People?
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| 0:00.0 | We just want people who are going to fight. |
| 0:02.8 | Greg Bovino. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm offended by him because he's trash. |
| 0:06.3 | Do people cry on this podcast? |
| 0:07.6 | But they do now. |
| 0:10.3 | This is Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:13.0 | And this is Keith Edwards. |
| 0:17.2 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Guaranteed human. Where are you living now in L.A.? I live in D.C. In D.C. I moved to New York. All right. Because I'm Donnie, you know, I don't know. No, I'm moving in New York because actually I just can't live in D.C. How many years you've been in D.C.? Too many. five. It's a long time. It's a long time. Do people feel |
| 0:41.3 | that way? Do you feel like a foreigner in D.C.? Or are there people from D.C. that feel like, |
| 0:46.4 | or even, you know, been there seven, eight years that feel like I should be here in my life. Here's what I'm |
| 0:50.4 | going to say. No offense to anyone who lives in D.C. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | But New York is a place that's self-selecting. |
| 1:03.2 | You have to, one, want to live in New York. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | Two, move there. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | Not easy. |
| 1:12.2 | Three, and then actually enjoy living there. It's not easy to live in New York. Yeah. Not easy. Three. And then actually enjoy living there. |
| 1:13.8 | It's not easy to live in New York. |
| 1:18.3 | So it's a very special type of person who actually moved. You don't believe me. |
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