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Next Question with Katie Couric

One on One with CA Governor Gavin Newsom

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

News, Health, Society & Culture, Commentary, Documentary,, Health & Fitness

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent his career outrunning a public image that reduces him to a caricature—slick, ambitious, and impossibly polished. But in this wide-ranging conversation, recorded in-person in Los Angeles, Newsom explains why his new memoir, A Young Man in a Hurry, is an earnest attempt to show people the person behind the persona. (So far, most reviews agree that it is.)

Now a leading Democratic voice taking on Donald Trump, Newsom describes his approach (in short: “punch that bully in the face”) and wrestles with how his record in California will play on the national stage—offering a revealing look at his vision for the US in the coming years.


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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:07.1

Do you have a Zoolander problem?

0:08.9

No, Jesus.

0:09.7

Yeah, Zoolander.

0:12.9

Are you just ridiculously good-looking, as Vogue said?

0:16.4

No, seriously, what do you do about that?

0:18.6

You don't do anything about it, because if you're going to do something about it, then you're bullshitting people. You know what? I am who I am. It's fine. You don't have to like me. Or maybe you like a slick person. I don't know. Whatever. It's okay. The reason why I brought it up, because you talked about being authentic. And I think it sometimes works against you. Yeah. It's just who I am. It's just who I am.

0:38.6

And, you know, I could go out and I can get one of these Hollywood producers to be

0:43.4

member of my campaign and pick out which tope suit all wear, which we've seen happen

0:49.0

in the past.

0:50.3

When people literally are getting stylists to become someone they're not.

0:57.0

I'm okay with who I am.

0:58.0

I am who I am.

1:00.0

Hi, everyone.

1:02.7

I'm Katie Couric, and this is next question.

1:08.1

He's been called embarrassingly handsome, dangerously ambitious,

1:11.4

and the one that seems to sting the most, slick.

1:17.8

California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent his entire political career outrunning a caricature,

1:23.0

and now with a new memoir out called Young Man in a Hurry, he's trying something different.

1:24.7

He's actually letting people in.

1:29.1

The book is a very candid look at a childhood much more complicated than the polished image suggests, a father who pretty much wasn't there, a mother working three

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