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Hi, I'm Mina Kim. And I'm Alexis Madrigal, and this is Forum and Focus, a show where we bring you the most

compelling conversations that we've recorded live on our radio show forum on KQED in San Francisco.

This week, I talk with State Attorney General Rob Banta.

You know, how different is it for you, Mina, preparing to like interview Rob Banta versus

like a California novelist.

Well, one of the things that's really hard is that you can pull from a universe of different

things, right, which is where production support, Susie Britton produced this one, is so critical.

She's able to put boundaries on the universe of things that we could talk about with him

because there's a whole range.

And we did do the range.

I mean, we talked about the latest news all the way to how he is, you know, going after Facebook

and Instagram, how he's going after big oil companies and also how he's going after small

school districts.

And so that's how the preparation is different, right? You have to start

with a much bigger umbrella than what's contained in a book. I feel like when I'm interviewing a mayor,

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