True Progressive Policies with State Senate Candidate Maebe A. Girl
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Maebe A. Girl (Maebe Pudlo) joins the show to talk running for state Senate in California (election is on 6/2), why she runs for office in drag, and having the conviction to be truly progressive despite roadblocks.
Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.com
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You got told a lot of lies about achievements. |
| 0:03.0 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's buy back in naps and talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and nots. |
| 0:18.0 | Fat Cats and Fox. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a thousand natural shocks. A Bad With Money podcast. Hello and welcome to a thousand natural shocks, a bad with money podcast. I'm your host Gabe Dunn. And with me today, do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? Yeah. Hey, everybody. My name is Maybe. Some of you might know me as Maybe Pudlow. Some of you might know me as maybe a girl. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm a trans non-binary politician, drag queen running for California State Senate here in District 26. |
| 0:46.5 | For my audience, who maybe hasn't heard of you, can you explain how you got into politics and why you wanted to get into politics? I've kind of always |
| 0:56.2 | had an interest in civil engagement, in politics, but I think for a lot of queer people, you know, |
| 1:04.5 | we grew up kind of seeing what a politician looks like. It doesn't always look like us. In fact, |
| 1:09.1 | it very rarely looks like us. You know, |
| 1:11.5 | I love to ask this question to people, you know, what do you think of? What do you think of a |
| 1:15.3 | politician? And I feel like, unfortunately, the average person thinks a white, cisgender, |
| 1:21.3 | heterosexual, older, wealthy, white male. I think I might have said white twice. And that's fair. |
| 1:26.7 | But, you know, this is not what our |
| 1:28.1 | communities look like. Our communities are not represented in our government in the way that |
| 1:33.5 | they are actually represented in our neighborhoods, in our communities, in the actual real world that we live in. |
| 1:38.8 | So I think there has been this hesitancy for a lot of people belonging to any variety of marginalized communities |
| 1:46.0 | who don't think that they have a place in politics. |
| 1:49.3 | But here's the thing, it is do or a die for so many communities that we actually have to |
| 1:53.8 | be in these spaces to guarantee that we are being represented fairly, that we're even being |
| 1:59.1 | represented at all. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 19 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.