From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Washington Roundtable is off today, and will be back next week. In the meantime, enjoy a conversation about the California governor’s new podcast venture, “This Is Gavin Newsom,” from Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive” podcast. Radhika Jones, the host and editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, talks with the magazine’s executive editor, Claire Howorth, and the “Hive” editor Michael Calderone about why Newsom is taking time off from running the world’s fifth-largest economy to talk to people such as Steve Bannon. Is he effectively reaching right-wingers and countering the MAGA media machine? And will the show help or hinder his chances of leading the Democratic ticket one day?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Evan Osnose from the Political Scene podcast at The New Yorker.
0:05.2	My co-host, Susan Glasser and Jane Mayer and I are off this week.
0:09.4	But in the meantime, we thought we'd share something fun that we've been listening to.
0:13.9	Our friends at Vanity Fair have just relaunched inside the hive.
0:17.7	It's an intelligent and very entertaining show.
0:20.4	Don't worry, the political scene
0:21.7	roundtable will be back as usual next Friday, and there will be plenty to talk about.
0:27.3	Have a great weekend.
0:31.5	Okay, let's play our headline game. What are our draft headline ideas for today's episode? As ever, no wrong answers?
0:42.6	I, mine.
0:46.2	Okay. Win some, newsome.
0:50.0	Cozing up to right-wingerers could cost California's Govcaster with Democrats.
0:56.4	That's pretty good.
0:57.4	That's really good.
0:58.4	You ready for this?
0:59.7	I'm always ready for yours.
1:00.9	Not Gavinet.
1:02.2	Newsom's podcast to the people is a failure in Isle Crossing.
1:06.5	This is too hard.
1:08.1	How am I supposed to choose between these two excellent options?
1:11.6	It's a win-for-gav-it.
1:13.6	It's a win-win.
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