Let’s talk about Newsom the Govcaster
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A new contender has entered the podcast landscape: wait, is that California Governor Gavin Newsom? His show features a surprisingly conservative guest list, including MAGA stars Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. Kai and Kimberly break down the fourth wall and discuss whether there’s value in platforming guests who hold a different set of values. Plus, more federal layoffs took place this past week, this time in the U.S. Department of Education and its civil rights division. Then, the hosts get smiley about rescue dogs in a sled dog race (thanks, Abigail!) and the birds in Kai’s neighborhood.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Gavin Newsom Finds Some Surprising Common Ground With Steve Bannon” from The New York Times
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- “U.S. Department of Education Launches “End DEI” Portal” from the U.S. Department of Education
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- “This Iditarod musher is racing with mostly rescue dogs from Alaska shelters” from Alaska Public Media
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- Kai’s been using Merlin Bird ID from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to identify birds in his neighborhood
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- Meanwhile, Kimberly’s uses the Seek app to help her tell the difference between weeds and plants in her garden
Got a question or comment for the hosts? Email [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do I start? |
| 0:07.6 | Because I don't have the rundown up, but we're going to start anyway. |
| 0:09.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Kai Rizzdala. |
| 0:11.0 | It is what is today. |
| 0:12.5 | Today is Wednesday, the 12th March. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | Where we make today make sense. |
| 0:19.6 | Sometimes. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you, everyone, for make sense. Sometimes. I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:21.9 | Thank you everyone for joining us. |
| 0:24.6 | Today is a news and smiles kind of day of the animal variety. |
| 0:30.4 | But first, Kai, what caught your attention? |
| 0:32.7 | Man, I think we have to leave the top on so that everybody can understand why I'm so befundled this morning. |
| 0:38.0 | So, let's see, in all seriousness, and I definitely have the wrong run down up, something is not |
| 0:44.2 | updating. Oh, it's because I'm not on Wi-Fi. But I'll tell you what my story is. My story is, |
| 0:48.4 | it's an article in New York Times, but generally the story's been everywhere, that Gavin Newsom, |
| 0:52.0 | the governor of California, has a new podcast. And, uh, you know, with much splash and hullabaloo, of course, because the governor |
| 1:00.1 | California is perennially a presidential candidate and, um, you know, all of those things. And Gavin |
| 1:05.8 | Newsom is, is, is, he wants to be the president. And, and also it turns out that Gavin Newsom is a little |
| 1:10.5 | thirsty because he is having all the president. And also, it turns out that Gavin Newsom is a little thirsty because |
| 1:11.3 | he is having all kinds of right-wing Trumpy people on his podcast, most recently Steve Bannon. |
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