BONUS: And, This Is A Lighting Round With The Prof G Pod & Scott Galloway
This is Gavin Newsom
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this clip from his appearance on the Prof G podcast, Governor Newsom responds to a series of rapid fire questions from Scott Galloway. They discuss everything from how to implement fair tax policy to how to parent young men.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | So I could do this for three hours, but unfortunately, we only have you for about another 18 minutes. |
| 0:10.1 | So I'm going to do a bit of a lightning round. |
| 0:11.6 | I'd love to just get your top line thoughts on some stuff, just general reactions. |
| 0:16.0 | If, again, should in fact you at some point have influence over federal policy or national policy, |
| 0:22.3 | mandatory national service. |
| 0:24.1 | I mean, are you kidding? |
| 0:25.0 | You're talking to the guy who's built the largest service corps in the United States of America |
| 0:28.7 | significantly larger than the Peace Corps, someone that has, without going out of my way, |
| 0:35.5 | been critical of what we tried to do on student debt in the last administration, |
| 0:40.0 | without asking for anything in return. I'll give you an example, Scott, because I know you care about |
| 0:44.8 | higher education, UC system, which, by the way, we've invested since I've been governor, |
| 0:50.1 | 46% increase in investments in the UCs. 40,000 more California residents have gotten into the |
| 0:57.5 | UC system, 55% increase in dual enrollment, and 65% of people coming out of the UC |
| 1:05.1 | and CSU still graduate debt-free. I don't know. There's many systems as large. And we still have work to do. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm not naive about some of your critiques. But one of the things I'm proud of is we provide |
| 1:17.5 | $10,000 grants for service in return for 450 hours of service contribution. And it's just been |
| 1:26.9 | extraordinary. Absolutely. We it's just been extraordinary. |
| 1:28.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:30.0 | We need to make it mandatory. |
| 1:31.4 | How we do that and scale it, there's some nuance, |
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