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Hello and welcome to The Daily Beans, a very special edition of The Daily Beans. Today, we have two great interviews for you. First of all, candidate for governor of California and all-around incredible woman, Tony Atkins, is with us. And then later in the show, we're going to be joined by Brian Cuban, and we're going to talk about his new book, Body Broker. So I'm really

looking forward to these discussions today. I am so honored to be talking to my senator,

my California state senator, before she was the state senator, and by the way,

President Pro Tem of the California Senate, she was a State Assembly Speaker. She's the first

woman and first LGBTQ person to hold this position that she has now in the State Assembly and

the State Senate, and she was the first person in

150 years to hold both posts. So absolutely incredible history of activism and politics.

And we're going to talk all about it because she is now running for California governor.

Please welcome Tony Atkins.

Thank you, Allison. It's so great to be

with you today. Did I get all that right? Because that's a lot of stuff that you've done. And that's

only touching the surface. Well, you did. And I thank you for all of that. I will only say one thing.

I have been your state senator, but I left office on December 2nd. Akila Weber took my place as a state

senator for the 39th. And I was proud to see that happen. So I am now running full time for governor.

That's right. That's right. So let's talk about your history and activism and kind of what got you to

this point. And then we're going to,

then I'm going to talk about your vision for going forward. Well, thank you. You know, I am 62,

so I have a little bit of history. And it did start with activism. I was a political science

major in college. I first in my family

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