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Hello, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover.

It's Friday.

So we're breaking down the news with a smart person and a funny person and also me.

As usual, the smart person is funny and the funny person is smart and I am neither.

This week I am joined by Guy Branum, a very funny stand-up comedian, writer for hacks and many other television shows.

And we got Sam Roudman who, Sam, how do you describe yourself?

You're a journalist, you're a writer, and you've done, we've worked together in a research capacity for many, many years. Yeah, I feel like I'm a writer-producer who used to work in journalism as now is stranded in Hollywood like everybody else. You're like the guy who every dumb-ass host calls to say, I want to do a video about something. And can we, can you, can we figure this out together? I like being that guy.

I'll take it. It's great. Okay, well, this week, we got a lot of shit to talk about. Our first topic is the L.A. mayor's race, which for a while I resisted talking about in the show because I was like, that's going to be too nitty gritty. We're going to be, it's going to be like zoning and bus lanes and stuff like that. But in the last like week and a half, this race has become like truly nationalized because it's become part of the right wing media hate machine industrial complex.

To break down really quick, Karen Bass is the current mayor of Los Angeles.

She's been in term for one, but in office for one term.

She's catastrophically unpopular. She has like a 24% approval rating. She has drawn a couple

challenges. One of them is Nithya Rahman, who's a progressive city council member. And to

disclose, I have volunteered for her. I worked for her campaign for a couple weeks at the beginning.

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