Nithya Raman’s Optimistic Vision for LA
Factually! with Adam Conover
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Adam has been friends with LA city councilmember Nithya Raman for a long time now, and certainly didn’t expect that one day she would be running for mayor of Los Angeles. This week, Adam sits with Nithya to talk about her vision for what this city could do for its residents, how it’s already one of the greatest cities on Earth, and how Nithya made Adam believe in her before she even got into city politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't know the truth. |
| 0:08.3 | I don't know the way. |
| 0:10.9 | I don't know what to think. |
| 0:13.6 | I don't know what to say. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah, but that's all right. |
| 0:19.4 | That's okay. |
| 0:22.0 | I don't know anything. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello there. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome to Factorily. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Adam Kanover. |
| 0:30.2 | It's so wonderful to have you on the show with me again, especially for this week's |
| 0:33.9 | episode. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a little bit of a special one. |
| 0:36.7 | You know, I talk on this show a lot about how important it is to get involved in local |
| 0:41.6 | politics, how fulfilling it is. |
| 0:43.5 | Many of you, when I talk to you after my live shows, folks have come up to me and said |
| 0:47.7 | that they've gotten involved in local politics because of listening to this show. |
| 0:51.2 | And that's one of the greatest compliments anyone pays me. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, today on the show, I have the person who brought me into local politics here in Los Angeles for the first time in many ways. Her name is Nithya Rahman. And she happens to be running for mayor right now for the city of Los Angeles. And, you know, that race has made a little bit of national news lately. So maybe you've heard of it. And, you know, I just want to say to start out that, you know, I think sometimes there's this |
| 1:16.5 | illusion that a host like me or a comedian like me should be like politically neutral or, |
| 1:23.3 | or objective in some way, or that if we talk to politicians, you know, we're being sneaky |
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