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The Gist

Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Mike. It's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. And are you like me? Is Tom Steyer on your mind?

0:22.3

Okay, let's go through the checklist if Tom Steyer is on your mind. One, are you Tom Steyer? Probably yes. Two, are you married to Tom Steyer. You know, his wife's name is Cat, and their ranch is called the Tom Cat Ranch. three, that's it. Those are all the people who are thinking about Tom Steyer.

0:23.3

No, no, I exaggerate.

0:31.2

Tom Steyer is currently third, but rising with a bullet in the California gubernatorial primary.

0:33.5

And the votes are coming in late, but the votes are coming in more democratic.

0:37.1

So Steve Hilton,

0:38.1

who is number one in the polls, he might go down to do, Javier Bashara. He is maybe the guy who's

0:44.6

definitely going to get through and be at least one Democrat in the race. But there is a chance

0:49.3

that Tom Steyer gets through. And the race is between Becherra and Steyer.

0:55.3

I talked about on the show this week how a similar phenomenon is happening in the L.A.

1:00.0

mayor's race, late-breaking Democratic votes.

1:02.8

I have not interviewed Spencer Pratt, who's perhaps in that second or third place position,

1:10.3

nor have I interviewed Javier Bichera,

1:13.4

Steve Hilton. I've interviewed Tom Steyer. So I'm going to bring you my interview with Tom Steyer.

1:17.8

And I'm also going to bring you a very snarky take, but I think deserved, that I offered in the

1:24.7

beginning of a show in 2019, July of 2019, when Tom Steyer burst or mozied

1:29.8

and sat on a log and we got to see versions of his lower anatomy that we didn't ask to.

1:37.3

I'm going to play you some of my take when Tom Steyer first ran for president.

1:43.3

That one's mostly for humorous, humorous interpretation.

1:48.1

Then the interview I did a couple years ago was mostly about the climate. And then after all that,

1:53.5

I'm pretty proud of myself. I didn't play this before the vote. I wouldn't have wanted to

1:57.7

affect the vote. But after all that, maybe you can answer is Tom Steyer,

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