Spencer Pratt’s National Implications + Democrats’ Contempt for America’s Innovators.

Next Up with Mark Halperin

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Mark Halperin’s reported monologue explains the significance of a Spencer Pratt general election campaign regardless of the outcome — and what his success reveals about the current state of our politics. The New York Post’s Lydia Moynihan joins to discuss the billionaire backlash, the growing data center challenge, and the contempt for America's innovators. Plus, Mark answers your questions about the 2028 Democratic presidential contenders, before Jessica Patterson and Karen Skelton kick around Gavin Newsom's legacy and the future of California politics. Chapter: For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (262) 454-0503 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/mark *Paid Partnership*” Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. SelectQuote: Compare top‑rated life insurance options. Visit https://SelectQuote.com/mark to get the right coverage at the right price. Follow Next Up with Mark Halperin on all social platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextuphalperin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nextuphalperin X (Twitter): https://x.com/NextUpHalperin Connect with Mark Halperin on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markevanhalperin X (Twitter): https://x.com/markhalperin Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-up-with-mark-halperin/id1810218232 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/2f0n8G4xqUo8aGxbbbtRjH%3Fsi%3D8e4ff54000cc438d

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. This is Next Up. I am Mark Kaepern, editor-in-chief of the live interactive video
0:06.8	platform Two-Way and your guide to everything next up here. Grateful to you for spending another
0:12.1	episode with us as nexters or new nexters. Stick around. Great show. Three great guests. Just such
0:18.9	smart people. Lydia Moynihan will be here, the financial
0:21.4	correspondent for the New York Post. She's got just such always interesting ideas, and we're
0:26.4	going to talk about why billionaires are getting such a bum rap and about the AI industry.
0:32.1	Their impact on our society already is massive, and as we go forward, and they start to expand, we're taking a huge
0:38.7	risk as a society turning over so much power to them. And also as people invest, they're going to have to
0:45.2	make so much money to make the investment back that they are going to be expanding rapidly.
0:49.6	So Lydia and I will talk about what the implications of that are for our society. And then two great Californians
0:55.6	will be here to talk about Tuesday's results and about the Golden State. Fourth or fifth
1:00.7	biggest economy in the world, one at every seven Americans or so lives in California. I know those
1:05.2	of you who live in the other 49 states occasionally wonder why so much focus on California,
1:10.3	but it's not just Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
1:13.6	It's just the sheer size of the place.
1:15.6	It's just so important.
1:16.6	And it's often the case.
1:18.6	What happens in California not only affects what happens in the rest of the country, but
1:22.6	often foreshadows what happens.
1:23.6	So Karen Skelton will be here, a-time Democratic strategist, who's a visiting
1:27.9	scholar at Stanford University's door school of sustainability, very smart person who's been
1:32.6	involved in national and California politics for a long time. And Jessica Patterson
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