GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM Talks California, ICE, New Book

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Let's just start here with Jerry Lewis is annoying and the French don't know anything that's funny. I don't want to piss off Jerry Lewis. He's a legend. Jerry, if you're watching, you're a legend. I think he's dead, no? He's dead. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another special episode of the Adam Friedland Show. I'm Adam Friedland. I'm once again recording from home because I'm gravely injured. Yesterday, while trying to pick up this very large water bottle right here, I threw out my back, and I'm now at home resting and medicating with this pill. But as we know, the show must go on, and our guest this week is City, California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, is available now wherever books are sold. It's actually Gavin Newsom's third book, following Citizenville, my personal favorite, and Ben and Emma's Big Hit, a gripping sports drama that follows two schoolchildren as they learn how to read using baseball. Young Man in a Hurry certainly doesn't carry the same re-readability, but it's the kind of book that you have to write because you write it before you run for the president. But here's hoping that someday down the line, Gavin returns to the Ben and Emma series, perhaps penning an even bigger hit. Please enjoy my interview with Gavin Newsom. The book is Young Man in a Hurry. It's about trying to find a bathroom, right? Yeah, I did. Well, I finally found one on the third floor. By the way, it's a fine. You haven't been up to the third floor bathroom. You should get up there. If they actually have a better bathroom than us, ours is like a. Well, you don't even have a toilet in yours, so let's establish some facts. We have two toilets and a Uribe. You don't right now. You have one toilet, and there's someone in there working. Why are you. You're talking. You're letting them all know they're the second floor. I'm just trying to be honest with people about where we are. Can you beep second, everyone? Can you. I really appreciate you coming on. Good to be with you, man. How's the book tour? How are you enjoying it? It just came out yesterday. You're moving units? So this is it? Are you moving bad news? I mean, this may be the end of the book tour. Day two. Yeah, yeah. What'd you get on the SATs, by the way? You know, really? We'll just jump right there. What'd you get on your SAT? Let's have that conversation. I don't remember, actually. I don't know. Oh, you were one of those guys. I think I got like 14 or something. Yeah, exactly. Right? So what? Yeah, well, 960. Yeah, I'm smart. Is there anything wrong with that? Yeah, you are. You probably are. No, I'm not smart. You are smart. I don't know that I'm smart. But I've got a 960 SAT, which, by the way, is, you know, that's a fact. And I was going to do it again. My mother said, don't waste your time. First of all, you got 1,600. He's doing the George Bush thing right now. Yes, you are. My wife, I think, may have gotten 1,600. Did she? She's one of those Stanford people. By all appearances, you seem like the lawyer to politician. Aesthetically, you look like a politician. I was doing pre-law in college. You're the restaurant. That was the plan. You're a restaurant owner to politicians. Yeah, all screwed up. It all went south on me. So it's you and Boebert are the two restaurant owners to politicians. By the way, well, there's a few others. Hickenlooper. We used to hang out. Well, there was a bunch of mayors. John Hickenlooper was mayor of Denver. He's a senator now. He was governor of Colorado. All those guys, Martin O'Malley. There was this sort of group of people that were just different because they all had bar experience. They all had restaurant experience. So I'm a bar guy. I'm a restaurant guy. I stole a bunch of bars and restaurants. You were hanging out or you didn't let her? I'm not with Boebert. I don't know. I've never met her. You know what a restaurant is called? Shooters. It's a gun-themed restaurant. Oh, that just makes so much sense. And apparently it's a diarrhea-themed restaurant, I've heard, too. I think we're going to get sued. By the way, if I had an identity, it would be that restaurant guy. I stole a bunch of them. And that's why when I'm done with politics, I'll go back to the bar and restaurant business. Is that what you're going to do now that you're done with government? I've got a sell-by date. You're going to be an author slash restaurant store? I'm going to grow a beard. And then I'm probably just going to start delivering wine again or something. I don't know what I'm going to do. That's what you're going to do? Well, you've kind of stepped up. You've kind of ascended, right? You were like city council, kind of parking in traffic, brother. So you started out parking in traffic. Yes, don't forget that. Then you worked your way up mayor of San Francisco. No, I worked my way down to supervisor, then mayor. Down to meter maid? By the way, I changed the name meter maid to parking control officer. I just want to go on record. This woke bullshit. By the way, it was very emotional. People appreciated that. By the way, we did something. We should do the meter maid? Yeah, it's in the book. It's actually in the book. Lovely read-through. You must have read the damn book. We're talking about stuff in the book. I read the book. Okay. We not only changed. See, I actually accomplished something as parking traffic commissioner. We changed the name from meter maid to parking control officer. And then we did parking control officer of the month. Did you give them guns? They don't have guns. Yeah, yeah. No. That's why they're the least respected cops. But meter maids is, you know, don't you like parking control officer better? No. See, he's a little more. I have no respect until they get the gun. Okay. I'm sorry. They get a gun and then we'll talk. I, in the book, talk about a pellet gun that was used to shoot one of the parking control officers. Yeah. And if they had an AR-13, it would have been. Jesus. Well, they had an AR-15. It would have been more impressive than an AR-13. I don't even know what that is. I don't know what a 15 is. They made a new one. Okay. San Francisco, from what I understand, is kind of, in terms of California politics, kind of like it's a talent factory. Right? Weirdly, right? I mean, you may not. You may despise all of this, but it conveys all of these. Former vice president. Yeah. And then a legend, Willie Brown, who is connected to all this. There's sort of this Brown-Burton-Pelosi machine that it's referred to in Northern California. And it's, by the way, San Francisco, man, everybody, I mean, the folks out on the streets and sidewalks know all about you. Yeah. Cab drive, all about you. It's 24-7 surround sound political engagement. So you got to be on your game all the time. And it's a big enough city. And small enough city that you're expected to know everything and be everywhere and do everything. I'd go when I was a kid to SF because I had family that lived there. And it's a magical place. I mean, it's an unbelievable place. It's also, I was saying to you on the phone, it's like when it's winter everywhere else, it's like 75. And when it's summer everywhere else, it's like 32 degrees. The fog. It's really doing its own thing. But it's also just like it's on the West Coast, but it's like confined by geography. So they build up. It's like a real city. By the way, it was, you know who said it was about the summers? It was, who the hell said it was? Alec Ginsburg. No, when in doubt, it was Alec Ginsburg. It's just that San Francisco is Ginsburg. No, but it was Mark Twain who said the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco because of the fog that comes in. And you get September, September, October, man, it's the most beautiful weather. And Golden Gate Park is stunning, but you go down to Crissy Field, you walk down there right near the bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge, come on, Presidio, there's nothing like it anywhere in the world. It's one of the most spectacular cities for all the hate that they're spewing about. Yeah, but a lot of those burning, man. of singularity let's do ketamine and by the way uh i was like that was my those are my people back in the day i started do burning man i started to to do burning man sculptures when i was there we started put it out there i never went but i brought they always they were they were bringing the sculptures back i'm like can't we put this stuff out you can't have a president that goes i'm not saying you're gonna whatever you've never been a burning man no way back when it was cool okay the only way that's all you know it's never been cool it's ridiculous you never bought into that it's ridiculous you haven't tried ketamine no it's really it's the whole thing i don't know listen a lot of people talking about ketamine on the phone yesterday we we it was like two alpha this is what happens when two alphas get together butt heads and let's just say the cameras weren't on but it is one nothing to me okay oh we're really is that how we're starting wow okay so you've edited the first part of this and we're just gonna like jump right into it it's one nothing you so the book it's it's it's not like a celebration by the way you shouldn't be so competitive it's not zero zero something i'm we're all in this together man we're all in this together whatever yeah your success is my we're all in this together no no no you don't buy that no no are you one of those people that begrudge other people's success like you just like damn man that guy if they suck if it's like the squad if it's the the team and they're eating that's great you're good i'm happy for this i'm not a boy i used to be this guy's gonna win academy award this guy is this guy right now he's unbelievable talented well as long as we edit a few of the things and we'll be all right uh are you an editor or just a cinematographer no with the camera there is just a cinema director of photography it's not that yeah forgive me is that it do you pay him accordingly why are they laughing man he doesn't have to what is that what is it how are you guys all doing here he's uh he doesn't have dog he's undocumented unionized what is this shut the fuck oh okay oh wow the chest match yeah no i'm just saying okay um i guess this is a very confessional book it kind of ends right before your gubernatorial term yeah it's much more about yeah where you come from and who you are so like when someone reads this book which i'm sure everyone is unbelievable you're gonna get it day one day two buy the book buy the book we're gonna move that's the way to buy it is in bulk uh yeah yeah go to costco buy a packet uh uh what kind of what what do you what do you want people to to know about you what what do you think the message is uh well then i'm not this politician i mean this is about me you are a politician i know but that but the political side it's that uh i'm a work in progress i'm human i make mistakes i'm not trying to be something i'm not i'm trying to actually express that i tried to be someone i was not and i walked through that i put a mask on and i tried to be you know try to strike a pose try to be what people expected me to be and i didn't you know i'm I didn't feel good about myself and insecurities anxieties and so I scrutinized all that man I dove deep it was a five-year process and I call it a memoir of discovery because I didn't even understand all this stuff about My background my life my parents my mom died 20 years ago. My dad died Right after I got elected and I never had a chance to talk to them about their childhood and their backgrounds their struggles And and so this allowed me to do that and I just it was I learned about this house of secrets How did you do did you integrate people like yeah? Yeah, I went back I got FBI files I didn't know there's tons of FBI files in the family. I didn't know my grandfather was close to Oppenheimer. Mm-hmm I I'd someone randomly mesh. I didn't know about his suicide and what led to it I didn't know that he was a prisoner of war there marching in Corregidor in World War two I I didn't know about my dad's forays into some interesting mob related issues Is it relates to old San Francisco back in the day that they didn't know my? The origin story The Newsom's was an Irish cop and my dad used to say he didn't know what came first The Irish cop or San Francisco and so you just start to learn about all that and it sort of makes sense all of a sudden You're like that's why this is interesting or that's why my father did this 20 years ago, or that's why they got divorced I didn't know why my parents got divorced my dad lost two races. Yeah, I lost two races Why my mom said don't get into politics. I didn't know why she didn't want me to get in politics But it wrecked their marriage erect her youth her life. She was 19 and he was How old 32 33 man 33 as he described it scandal. Yeah You know, she's 19, bro So that's ridiculous and then imagine being like 19 and a couple years later with two kids and you come from no money, man You had a broken house hold I mean her family mess in terms of just how she was her mother was a was a red, right? Her mother was a Soviet Union pretty cool trigger at us. That was her stage. She was an actress. She was an actress Yeah, it's like a movie Reds. Yeah and then her and that's why they thus the FBI files yeah on her parents that they were you know, they they were you know, They're very involved in you know in social justice and economic and racial justice It was my great-great grandmother's suffragette back in the day. So it's interesting this advocacy that ran through it But she didn't talk about that. No one talked about I didn't know about it till I wrote this book One thing that's unique about you is that America is a place where no one's from from somewhere for five generations. Yeah, it's weird You're a fifth generation in San Francisco. This isn't like a thing in this country. Like people aren't tied to a geographical place I want to make the point you're making because you just reminded me so no BS when I was mayor I think I was at one point. I was the only elected official in San Francisco from San Francisco And it was like used against me. Yeah, like I remember saying when I grew up, you know in the media people like Who do you think you are man? I was like, I don't know. I just grew up here. I talked about the old neighborhood They're like was some elitist. Where's everyone else from Burning Man? Yeah You know what that that San Francisco is like someone described it is is 47 square miles surrounded by reality Right a city of dreamers Baleo Hercules, you remember Hercules is still there. Do you ever ghost ride the whip? Yeah, oh, yeah, a lot of my friends actually hurt themselves severely in high school trying to ghost ride the whip Have you ever heard the whistle go? Whoa? By the way, one of the things you got to do no BS like to really appreciate San Francisco You got to walk the cable up the Golden Gate Bridge to the top. It's so scary. It's off the chart amazing Really done it twice. It is too scary Zen like Relaxing you want beauty man that you get you look at that you look down at Alcatraz You see the skyline of San Francisco the Farallon Islands while the great white sharks are Marin County You know eat your heart out all those folks on Fox just talking down to my old city such a it's like it is a Spectacular place. Yeah, and so five generations there my kids sixth generation. Yeah, which is crazy. We finally moved your Start of the fire. Is that right? They started the fire. Did he start in no six? I'm em, you know, my coolest things I was there. I didn't write about this There's they called Valley. There's beautiful a lot us fountain is where everyone came after the earthquake and it was like the only working Water and remember it wasn't the fire It wasn't to me wasn't the earthquake that destroyed the city was the great fire afterwards and and so people started to send on this area And we had the hundredth anniversary When I was mayor 2006 and I remember going down and there was five or six survivors and we it went live I interviewed people at 5:00 in the morning freezing cold and there's these wonderful ladies wrapped up and they looked all demure and What old were they a hundred and you like? No, like a hundred and six seven crazy And and and and one of them and so we're live on I think was the Today Show or something I'm trying to be the MC mayor. Yeah, tell me what do you remember that day? And that's a few cute things and then one woman says, oh, I remember getting frisky With my boyfriend wait, and I'm like, what are you like 14 years old or something? I can't remember He was a hundred. I don't know man. She said I think she was making it up or something, but it was like I mentioned to the inappropriate stuff and like I'm live. I'm trying to act all we're good I'll be right back and I went to the forest and pulled my Yeah, I was like, so anyway, that's San Francisco man It's by the way interesting just where the the the flag of San Francisco is the Phoenix Oh, I didn't know Phoenix rising from the ashes of the oh six Which I feel like is where we are today or where we'll be in the future after we're done with Trump, you know rapid-fire quiz San Francisco quiz who's the best San Francisco? band ever Well, I was just with I was with Bobby. Where's family at the funeral funeral, man I mean, I gave yeah, it has to be it has I mean come up with the dead are just so synonymous with Everything how many shows have you been to not many and they actually rubbed that in when I was there But you did a little bit. Oh, in fact, you're right about that. No, that was weird Yeah, you said you never did. No was weird. I never got into that So you stood there listening a needle needle needle needle for four hours. I'm not doing any week. It was the op You know what? You know, I was the first dead concert. I went to I wasn't even in the concert I was working for and I wasn't working as volunteering for the Environmental Defense Fund and I had a booth and I was out there promoting In fact, I was that guy. Here's second question. What's the best San Francisco delicacy? Oh a Lucas. What is seriously asking me? What is that? I do not know that Lucas Lucas deli on Chestnut Street. Oh delicatessen or a delicacy Delicatessen, okay, who is the best San Francisco? Football star who later played at USC and won the Heisman Trophy and then played for the Bears Buffalo Bills ran for 2,000 yards in one season, was in the naked gun, and then was falsely accused of. Who is the best. Man, I ain't going to OJ. What are you talking about? That's your goat, bro. That's my goat. Back to the editing. Can we edit this? I'm saying, what's the best band? What's the best delicacy? And who's the best football standout star? Come on, the best of the best. The goat. Who later went to USC, won the Heisman Trophy, played for the Pumlin Bills. The goat is Joe Montana, bro. Number 16. Five rings. What? He's from SF? He is from my perspective. I don't know. Where did Joe grow up? I should know this. I've gotten to know him. Probably Burning Man. Everyone comes from Burning Man. They all just appeared from the middle of Earth and just all emerged. Grow up, okay? I'm just saying. Grow up. What is it? Do you get, as a kid, were you injured by someone who went to Burning Man or something or what happened? No, it wasn't a thing in Burning Man. What was it? What offense? I just don't need to listen to the guys that are quite frankly going to ruin the world talking about drugs and the singularity. By the way, you're on to something with all this stuff. Those idiots, they know all the problems in the world, but they think only they can solve them. And oftentimes their solutions are just moronic solutions. Thank you. Yeah. We're now actually, I hear you. I got it. All right. Did you see when Uber invented, they were like, it's called Uber like route and you can just hop on and it goes on a route and they just invented the bus. Yeah. Like they acted like this. The new. Yeah. I will say there's such dildos. They definitely destroyed the taxi industry, as we know. But by the way, when you're in San Francisco, I saw Waymo just announced they're rolling out to 10 more cities. They've been in six. But that future started in San Francisco first. Yeah. And I've got no bullshit. The other day I have a picture. I think there were six Waymos in front of me, driverless cars in traffic. I mean, it's like this is stuff's happening in real time. Have you been in one? Yes. It's a confident driver. It's a confident. I thought it would be like a granny. But the robot is confident. It's confident. And then they have the Zooks, which are not even cars. They're just like little convention things. The Zooks? By the way, the flying cars are coming, too, for the Olympics. They're going to have the first sort of quad flying cars. So that's the that's the next iteration. It's all Jetsons are here, man. Not the Flintstones. Yeah. Well, you don't like that either. Can we just go to the doctor? I guess. I went to your third story bathroom, man. That's old school. So that's maybe, you know, you were a suit kid to school. I was. I was a dork. I told you my sister said that she was very. I was trying to be like Remington. Yeah, I love Pierce Brosnan. I don't know. I love Pierce Brosnan. So I'll admit that. But did you chill at a crew of other suit guys? I wanted to be that when I was You were the only suit guy. I was the only. I was a complete loser. I mean, an absolute loser. I had a Flock of Seagull haircut. Look it up. You guys are too young. You don't know. We know what it is. We're not young. Back in the day. And it was it was bad, man. It was bad. But suit bad grades is psychotic. Yeah. No, I was. I was struggling, man. Suit bad grades is crazy. Why is that? It's just crazy. I didn't like. You're a suit bad grades. But I don't buy it. I think you're a liar. Because I think. What if it's a liar? Then I got photos. But you bat 460. You were a suit bad. Yeah, I was pretty good. Bad grades 460 makes sense. But I was a pretty good athlete back then. Now you have to be, you know, like, I mean, like eight graders could are better than I was in high school today. Dude. No, I was like basketball, baseball. And that saved me, man. Sports saved me. Got me into college. That's how you get into college. About the nine under or whatever. Okay. Yeah. You don't have to. Dude, why are you doing this? You're doing like Jewish comedy with this book. Like. I'm not doing Jewish comedy. My mother sent me to the, to a, my analyst. Oh, look at this. Look at this. Look at the, everyone. Look. Do you think. Okay. What are you showing? This is a suit guy. That was it. Yeah. There's my flock of seagulls. This is a guy who lost his virginity at 11. Okay. That's not, by the way, did not. This is the coolest guy I've ever seen in my life. Not until, not until. I would, I need him. I think I was a senior in high school. I was a senior in high school. So you become cool at that point? By the way, you see the flock of seagull haircut under the, under the hat? It's barely, it's barely a flock of seagull. Dippity do. That was it. You're making it sound like you're a gothic. They had a little thing. I'll never forget. I think it was, I can't remember her name. Tracy, whatever. She was one of the. Lord's. Dippity, you know, dippity do, dippity do, Gavin, Gavin. It was like one of those, we love, you know, some weird cheer. A girl had a cheer for you? It was like a cheer. I, one thing, I don't know. I, I tossed her out of my mind. It's like, is this like a preemptive, like defense of like things that you get hated on? Yeah. Or like, because you look like, you look like just like your dad is CEO of the money company. Right? You look incredible. I mean, he's one of the hottest guys ever. I wish the money company. And politics is ugly. Politics is ugly people, right? Oh, well, yeah, wait. You have to chill with. It's Hollywood. You have to chill with gremlins. It's Hollywood for all people. You're like, you're walking around and you're like, the talent is not. That's how it is. What are we talking about? But what I'm saying is this, is like, is like, you're saying like, no, my mother struggled. She had multiple jobs. Yeah. Yeah. Three jobs all her life. She died, you know, as I said, 20 years ago. Tell us about your dad. My dad was, he wasn't around. He disappeared when we were kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He ran for supervisor, county supervisor, state Senate, lost, said he was broke and broke in and then just took off and went to Lake Tahoe region and near Truckee, became an attorney up there and eventually became a judge. But he was, he was, he was an activist judge. So it was like social justice, racial justice, environmental justice. That's why I was out there with EDF, Environmental Defense Fund. He was on the board at the Dead concert. So he always, there was always cause oriented. You always had social justice. And that was, that was the influence he brought. And that was the influence he brought. But it was my mom's ethic, hard work and grit. But what happened and what I write about in here is my, the perception of me besides the blue suits and, you know, all that was the association with the Getty family, which is a wealthy family. Your dad was like a, like a consigliere kind of to all the sons. Yeah. And he was just, he grew up with two of the kids in high school and they used, they basically were raised by my grandfather. They used to show up at Boston or something. They called him boss back then. And they just became boss back in the day. But just became incredibly close, including, by the way, my dad was Paul Getty's godson or godfather, who's one who had his ear cut off, was kidnapped. Oh, in the ransom. Yeah, ransom. And your dad did deliver the ransom? He didn't do the direct ransom, but he was deeply part of it, which I describe in the book. And it was sort of a worldwide phenomenon back in the day. Sort of like Dolce Vitae's 70s day. One of the world's first billionaires was J. Paul Getty. Like, actually one of the first. Yeah. And he refused to provide the ransom for his grandson. It became an issue. And he eventually only did. I respect that. Well, he said, he said, I got 13 others or 20 others or however many he had. He said, now I'd be writing a check for all of them. That is crazy. You're still here. And so the guy, so what they did, they cut his ear off. They're like, we need business. And they put it in an envelope. And there was a strike in Italian. Strikes that didn't arrive in the mail for a while. And it was kind of deteriorated. And Paul, lucky, survived because they gave him a date certain that they would take his other ear and other parts of his body off. And eventually the ear arrived and there was a freckle on it that his mom recognized to verify it. And that's when they got very serious about getting him home. One thing I was wondering is your dad had a relationship with one of the children where he was kind of random. Yeah, he was. Personal wealth. Yeah, he's working for one. There's many. Like the family trust. And so he, after he was judge and retired from judge, he began in a more formal role. He was always the family guy. Did that help with alimony? Did that help your mom? No, he didn't get. In fact, I talk about how much he got paid, which was less than I get paid as governor. So he didn't, he never made any money. I mean, significant money. There's a perception that he made a ton of money. He died. My dad died with a house in the gold country. Very conservative. Sounds real. Sounds rich. Because it's just, yeah. Yeah, it sounds very rich to me. An old cabin in Dutch Flack, California with two mortgages. And his inheritance was all these books that I talk about never reading because I have pretty bad learning. Yeah, that's not my jam. That's the 960. And so anyway, I talk about that in relationship to some of the academic struggles, my reading struggles, which I don't read speeches today. I don't like, I'm a politician that doesn't. I don't like to read a speech because I can't read a speech and that may not be interesting and many of that people, maybe they'll go, oh, that's why you're so bored and bad. I get it, you know, those that hate me. Well, did it help you learn how to schmooze? Yeah, yeah, because you're more, you just, you pick up a room, you talk about whether or not people are unionized, how much they're getting paid and you know, you just, you feel a different vibe. You have no idea. I'm going to do a card check. You have no idea what I'm coming for you. Yeah. So you, I got your back now. I'm a nerd the book. What's your pension? I'm 6'3 and I'm a nerd the book. You don't have a pension. Why don't you write a book about, are you doing full-time health care for these guys? Yes, I am boys, how's the health care, give it up for the boys. Okay, that's going to help you. Maybe I won't get all the signatures. Give it up for the boys. Yeah, yeah, pay sick leave though, what do you got? Maybe, maybe you can help me by, I don't have to pay for it, we can do it through the taxes. I don't really know much about dyslexia, but whatever they, whatever they want to do in the Castro district is fine by me. When was the last time you heard Castro? Constantly. Every day? By the way, you know what you need to do, a lot of people go to the Castro street fair, you got to do the Folsom street fair. That's like the bondage was like, yeah, yeah, I'll never forget that. - Did you go to that? - I remember the first time. - You say vote for me to a gimp? - I never forget the first time I went there. I wanna say what I'm gonna say, I'm not gonna say it, 'cause I still, I'm facing even more recalls. - You saw one of the biggest penises you've ever seen in your life? - I've got what you, I can never unsee what I saw. - Really? - Yeah, I'm looking at it right now, I just, but I can't share it. - We're jumping around a bit, but the first time I became aware of you was like you were like performing gay marriages, like you were kind of the first, you kind of invented it. You kind of came up with the idea of two fellers getting married. Do you think that it made San Francisco a place for gay people like to live in? - We married 4,036 couples from 46 states, six countries, in the winter, not summer, of love, February 2004 in San Francisco, man, it was off the charts amazing. Like, next level, just spirit, pride, the stuff that, you can't legislate that. It just, it happens. People coming together, the pilots and firefighters, doctors, so extraordinary because nothing about it was that extraordinary, it's just about love, man. It was just about people expressing their love, faith and devotion and partnership. And that energy was, it inspires just a mindset of what public service can and should be. It also was against the law. - And they sent you to Alcatraz? - Yeah. - And you know what he's working on. - He's doing, well no, he's doing the $400 million Kremlin Imperial Palace there. But he's spending your tax dollars now reviewing whether to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison. - That'd be kind of cool, actually. - The Rock, dude. - Wasn't that a great movie? - It's so sick. - That was when movies were great. - So sick, where he dives in the nuclear, yeah, yeah, so sick, so sick. - That's good, isn't that neat, come on. - Great, San Francisco Flick. - Thank you, yes. - We've got to go back to The Rock. - The Rock. I want to talk to you, first of all, I really appreciate your time. And I think we've done enough of this grab-assing, and you know, let's get real. - Why don't we start an interview? - Do you have an announcement to make? - What is that? - So why don't you go ahead. - Boxers. - What do you mean an announcement, Jesus. - What are you, come on, you promise. - What's the announcement? - It's big, it would be big for the show. - Unbelievable. - Just do it for me, dude. - Come on. - Honestly, I was nice enough to have you on. Even if you take it back-- - What's your favorite Beatles song? - Even if you say, "Psych, I'm not running for president." Just say it on the show, I'll get a clip, it'll go viral. It'll be good for me. - You're all about variety. - I was nice enough to invite you. - You are nice enough to invite me, and I've been nice enough to organize your staff. Get them the kind of healthcare and pension they deserve. - Oh yeah. - Yeah. - You were nice enough to write a book like they all do before they announce that they're running for president. - Yeah, I'm the politician of the book. - I'm surprised you had me on. - But your book is called "I'm Not Cool, Ashley." Even though you're 6'3 and like a piece of-- - 6'2, 6'2 and a half. - You're a spook. I can't even look at you. - 6'2 and a half. - I can't even look at you. California is what, the fourth largest economy at this point? - Yeah, 4.3 trillion dollars a year. - The attitude in America isn't like, oh, these big, just 'cause they're so big and strong, they look down on us. The attitude is like, poop-covered, hobo-infested hellscape, right. - Yeah, pisses me off. - The question is-- - Honestly. - Obviously, you've explained that this is like something that kind of the Murdoch sphere has pushed for 20 years. That makes total sense. But like, if you are being attacked on those grounds directly, you're meeting someone, not even attacked, let's say you meet someone in the middle of the country, right, some guy at the Iowa State Fair who's eating fried shit or whatever. Are you gonna have to eat fried shit at the Iowa State Fair? - No, it's a-- It's probably fried butter, fried, you know, I don't know. - You're literally, you had a restaurant, you had a nice restaurant, you're like, oh, I love this fried turd. - No, it's not, come on. - If someone comes up to you-- - Your roots. - And they say, you are a governor of a failed state, like, if they say to you, your shit sucks, it's your fault, you let in busloads of hobos and illegals, this is a common perception. How do you address a person directly? - Well, I mean, we can talk about the fact we went from the sixth largest economy to the fourth largest economy. We can talk about the fact we went from 49 to 58 Fortune 500 headquartered companies more than any other state in the nation. We can talk about having more scientists, engineers, more Nobel laureates, the finest system of higher education anywhere in the world. We could talk about the fact we're the center of innovation and entrepreneurialism with AI, with quantum, with robotics, with autonomy, dominating in research and development as the third largest R&D center in the world. We could talk about being the most diverse state in the most, world's most developed state, world's most diverse democracy, and we're living and advancing together across our differences. We can talk about it being a tonic for our toxic politics. We can talk about how California's energy and daring across a spectrum of issue on climate change, on social policy, on racial policies, on social justice policies are the dominant policies that have influenced more change across this country than any other state. I could begin there, and then I can get to the details of what the issue that they want me to address is and try to balance that. - Okay. - I'm a guy like in Dayton, Ohio. I don't know what any of that means. I just heard it's covered in poop and stuff, okay? - Yeah, exactly. - So why don't you just say like, bro, it's mad nice. It's California, it's mad nice. We have the beach, it's gorgeous. Like, just come visit, it's mad nice, actually. Right? That's what people say about New York. - After you're a Burning Man, come to California. It's mad nice. - It's nice. - It's nice. - It's a nice place. They have nice restaurants. They got beaches. Just tell the guy that. - You're in the desert. You like the mountains. - The mountains. - That guy's not gonna care about clean air, the Nobel Laureates. - He doesn't like all the economic vibrancy. - It's really nice. But I'm saying a regular guy who's heard for 20 years that it sucks, just be like, bro, just come through. It's nice. - Yeah, it's nice. - Come, right? - By the way, this is-- - It's actually gorgeous. - Why do I have political consultants? - Honestly, I'm a Spartan. - No, no, actually, no bullshit. Everyone who's watching this is like, their team, they're like two nothing right now. Kicked my ass. - Just say, bro, it's nice. - Yeah, I think it's got my ass kicked. - Right? - 100%. I sound like a fucking politician. Yeah, going through, let me say, just it's mad nice, man. Come to San Francisco. Come on, bro. Beautiful, man. - I mean it. I don't know if he's serious or not. - Walk with me in Venice Beach. - You think he feels me? - Santa Monica. I'm dead serious. - Thank you, bro. - No, I appreciate the vibe. And it's a California vibe, which is ironic. - Yeah, yeah. Just be like, dude, it's shit. - California dreaming, man. - There's hot girls. There's nice beaches. It's just nice. - The West Coast has the sunshine. - The weather's good. - And the girls are, you know, yeah, you know it. - Yeah, just like, have you heard the Beach Boys? - Little Beach Boys. - Yeah, yeah. - By the way, you know what? That is the vibe we need back. See, I'm dead serious. I appreciate this. You're right. You're 100%. What happens, and by the way, I write about this in the book, but that's what I, I have this defensiveness about a lot of this stuff. And that comes across, and it comes across as slick and bullshitty. And you called it out. I appreciate that. - You're doing, like, the eight-mile thing where you're like, I live in a train loop. My mom, my mom wouldn't even do that. - No, but it's like, but it's actually true. - You're doing everything right now. - But it was true. It's like-- - Just be like, I'm hot. I'm hotter than the rest of the school that are in the government. - My mom deserves me to tell her truth, and so I told the truth. But look, you want the course-- - I connected a lot with the story of her passing, 'cause I was there for my mother's passing five years ago. - Well, what were you doing? - Well, I'd like you to share your story from the book first, and then-- - Yeah, that was intense, man. I mean, so you literally went through the same thing? - Well, I wasn't, like, busy. I was, like, there for three months. - Okay, so through the whole, the end. - Yeah, you were, like, the mayor. - I was an ass, you know, I was a little piece of shit son that was not paying attention to her. She calls me, leaves a voice message, and says, "If you wanna see me, "you should see me before next Thursday, "because that'll be my last day." And I'm like, that's a hell of a voice message. And called my sister, and like, what's going on? She goes, "Well, you haven't been around. "You should pay attention." Mom is doing an assisted suicide, and it was illegal back then. It was 20 years ago, and so she got a courageous doctor, and I started spending a little time with her, and sort of, you know, talk about a pattern erupt in life. Get your shit together, focus on what matters, not just yourself and what you're trying to achieve and be. And it was intense, man. I went there. Everyone spent time with my mom in the room, in the back. Everyone's in the living room in her apartment, and she just wanted to be with my sister and I as the doctor gave her the final, you know, whatever the cocktail was. Doctor leaves and says, "It's all set." Just quietly disappears. My sister on one side, I'm on the other side. We're looking through all her old photos, the sort of '70s-type photographs, and she's just, "Oh, I remember there." And then she's having a hard time breathing. My sister just panics and just takes off. She's like, "Can I?" I say, "Go." And then I didn't know what to do, and I was like, I saw I was there with her by myself in those last sort of violent breaths, and then just put my head on her stomach and was there quietly for another 10, 15 minutes just bawling and, you know, just reflecting on what a piece of shit I was, not to have been with her all this time. - What impact did that experience? - I hated her. - What did that change? - I hated her. Pissed me off. - You hated her in that moment? - I was like, don't do that. Yeah, don't, don't. Like, who allows their kids to be there to go through this? - Well, I think most, a lot of people are, dude, that way. - Yeah, I just felt that at the time. I felt, and like, 'cause I saw my sister breaking down, and like, the pain she was struggling with. Like, I was so glad she wasn't there. to experience that but no bullshit and i and i write a lot about it over the process of a five-year period it's why that memoir discovery man i'm now holding her hand that breath is my breath i want to like be modeling about it and i'm so thankful to her that she gave me that privilege and it took years to understand that did you have you consider that she wanted to be with you and your sister at that moment right yeah you know surrounded by the last thing she saw yeah man it was uh make me uh yeah yeah she said and i remember the last words she said yeah uh hey man yeah that's uh you don't get those things back and so you know when you're asshole in a hurry yeah uh you know this is like i'm growing up man and every day i'm growing up and i'm trying to be a better father i've got 10 year old tomorrow you 12 14 16 year old and better husband and so that's that's the journey i'm on man yeah i i i had the same experience i i think i told my dad i didn't want to be there and my dad said that's your choice obviously and then i and it ended up that i was there yeah it was like it was the right thing she like was it was it at home or is it and it was at home yeah it was at home yeah it was like the first three months of covid uh she had brain cancer so yeah we're all there so god bless yeah yeah she was the best she was twit she was twin i was very close with her yeah how how old was she she was the two 2020 58 or 68 68 too young too young yeah really really low my mom was i'm much older than my mom when she passed away which is by the way when you get to that age that's that's a hell of a birthday when you outlive your parents when you meet that moment where you're like jesus my mom would die at the age i am you're like yeah so you just you start to count blessings man not you know and the days you know the finality of it you know momento mori you know you can walk around with that this notion the finality of this what was the issue she was just hard on you she was exhausted from work and then she like told you your average yeah man because i was i was struggling i was bouncing out of schools and you know always faking being sick and you know i honestly like you know people have certain degrees of dyslexia i'd like literally couldn't do books i faked reading i was got into cliff notes i'd copy the cliff notes and submit a book report yeah i'm getting caught i mean it's pathetic i used to chill yeah what kind of what was that out of laziness yeah because the 1600 sat it was too easy god i just got bored um but yeah no for me it was like desperation anyway so she one night i'm just you know trying to put me to bed she's back late from you know work and i'm not going to bed i'm crying you know and she's like it's okay to be average like just and i'm like you that's really nice actually to say and you don't have i thought at the time that wasn't harsh in hindsight but it was harsh at the moment and it was her just saying it's okay to be yourself see i didn't see it like that my parents told me it wasn't acceptable not to get straight ahead i never i had never had that explanation my parents are chinese they're they're mandarin tiger tiger parents yeah they're mandarin uh no i totally like understand it it does change completely everything you know yeah it changes your perception of kind of what the point of everything is and i feel like i i feel like you it seems as if you've gotten here gotten there now it's a very raw perspective do you feel like politicians have to like be more i don't know we like didn't know that fdr was in a wheelchair i know right yeah so can you know kennedy was just like slaying yeah you know it's like barely could have his back was moving steroids and all pumped up with all kinds of we didn't know his body was broke yeah like you know we didn't know that uh reagan was uh a senile like no i mean uh you know like uh do you think that uh that's the problem there's an aspect of public life now that you have to disclose you have to because of the i guess the concept of authenticity that like you have to kind of be more forthcoming because people respond to it more i think it's i think uh the proverbial over 10 window as they refer to it but you know it provides a little bit more latitude and grace in that respect but i think i think you can't get through this nowadays without people just like calling the like you did on my answer on on california and and i honestly i think people just want just be your be yourself man let it go yeah and that's what this book is it's me as i said scrutinizing not sanitizing yeah who i am and you may not like me even more you may not like me more because of this conversation um it is what it is man i can't control that and it's i always was trying to do that i was always trying to control things that's why i put the gel on that's why i put the suits on in high school that's why i tried to be like people i wasn't that's why i was trying to always be something and not spend time with my mom like i should have and you know and people and family and friends and so i i went so i think you know i went through this recall in california they almost took me out and i'll tell you i don't you know no one gives a but when you're on the receiving end of the humility of having a recall qualify when you literally you mogged you you you did no but honestly it was a non-presidential election year it was a special election special election you won by a landslide but enough people were like i'm gonna go to the polls i'm gonna go to the polls to be like that i want to save gavin right it was wild because the people that want to vote against you they really want to vote against you right yeah uh and you also were lucky you didn't have arnold schwarzenegger otherwise you would if you ran against conan the barbarian dude ray davis was you know you know california we're gonna you know wake up you know this stage you know these democrats you know you know they don't they're so stupid you know slow in looking at your career i see like three inflection points kind of that were just like there's that was one of them there's that is the the third i i would say that's the second inflection point you do need to give your staff a raise it's impressive you're not doing dude it's all the audience that's why they're not yeah this guy thomas is uh you said he wouldn't get some damn academy award so apparently he's good at that i'm from home depot i got them on home depot oh i thought we were at costco you talked about buying my book in bulk hey guys i'd like to thank our members for supporting us here on youtube.com you make the show possible members get access to all of our episodes early and if you join the second or third tiers you get your name in the credits of this fine program if you'd like to join the friedland family foundation do so by clicking the join button here on youtube.com or by clicking the link 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You know, we're all going to be computer chip, or what? I don't know. I just have to make this show for you guys. I don't have enough time. You don't have time? Yeah, like people call me about stuff and I'm like, really? My sister's like mad about the east way of the White House and I'm like, oh. She should be. Okay, it's Trump. He's obviously going to build some gross crap. The people contributing to it are getting special deals using tax dollars, crony capital. But there are concentration camps in the country right now. Well, that's a fact, too. Right? I don't care about a ballroom as much as that. I get that. People are getting just as mad about that. You shouldn't be as mad. We're funding a genocide. We're like, there are concentration camps in America. Well said. And like, you're from California, right? Yeah. I'm from the western part of the country. Like, I grew up around a lot of Latinos. And like, you worked in restaurant industry. Like, these are people that fundamentally just want to make more money for their families. They work their asses off. They don't explain about anything. After what your stay went through in Los Angeles with the Marines, you know, I realized I just kind of went to the office the next day. You know, life kind of continues as normal. What do you do? This resonates with me because I'm like, why is everyone going to their office? Why are people waking up to what's going on in this country? There's a fucking cage in Florida right now today. What do we do? Just because what you just said is really important and I love the way you said it. And I like sort of the outrage. The outrage that you expressed. So last June, this all started. When Donald Trump federalized 4,000 National Guard in California and sent 700 active duty Marines, not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States, America, on war with his own country. Sent 5,000 troops. Talk about communities on edge. I've never seen that in my lifetime. No. And he also sent out this guy dressed up as if he just came off a movie set. The Folsom Street. From the 1930s. No, bro. I wish it was the Folsom Street. He said a gimp. If it was the Folsom Street, we would be in a very different place. It was right out of the 1930s. I mean, with the Himmler haircut, Greg Bovino, and his masked men, where people are disappearing, cars are being smashed, windows are smashed, people quite literally on edge, racially profiled with sanction of the United States Supreme Court in their shadow docket that allow racial profiling on the basis of skin color. Were you Congress? congregate or your accent that's happening in the United States of America today. And that's why we drew the line and I shifted. I don't know if you've seen some of my social media. It literally shifted because I was, I was like, fuck a lot. Yeah. That's why I'm counting on my cinematographer to edit all that. But like, fuck, no bullshit. I'm like, why are people more pissed off? Why aren't you more outraged? Why are you going like you? Why'd you go to work the next day? And I'm, I'm sued to your question. So we're filing lawsuits. We're trying to call this shit out. We're trying to put a mirror up to Donald Trump. That's why we ban private prisons in state of California. That's why we have most progressive laws as it relates to getting masked men saying you can't unmask these masked men saying it was fine. First law saying you can't wear a mask. You got to show your ID. You got to tell us who you're from. I mean, if some guy dressed up, it was a mask sort of comes around me. I'm going to fight back. It's a miracle. There's been more violence. And now these sons of are killing American citizens. I mean, this is a private police force, a secret police force that has taken the oath of office to Trump, not the constitution of the United States. It should outrage and infuriate everybody. And so I'm trying to exercise it legislatively, legally using my voice, trying to get more aggressive and going back at Trump. I think I've been pretty aggressive against Trump by standards, you know, comparative standards. And I think you've stared him down. And I've been punch a bully in the mouth by fire with fire. I did a little redistricting stuff, prop 50 in California. And and every day the fuckers attacking me. I mean, two days of new scum, you know, all this sort of eighth grade bully bullshit. Like what I'm seeing is like there's this guy watching YouTube in the White House. And then he saw a video about Somalis and didn't realize that they were 98 percent legal. And then now now, you know, Mexican people in Minneapolis are getting their fucking skulls bashed because of like a basically he's arbitrarily just fucking with different Democratic. States and cities. Yeah, that's what it all has in common. And by the way, and he went into Democratic cities run by African-American mayors as well. This guy's a piece of shit. You call yours. Oh, no, no, no. I mean, this is the guy that put out the Obama video just a few weeks ago. I mean, you know, and that and that didn't even get as much outrage as it deserved of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama is the birther guy. This is a guy called, you know, country should all countries. I mean, it's connect all these damn dots. These guys want to roll back, you know, the last half century on racial justice, on issues of voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, women's rights. You've seen it. I mean, anyway, so this is like for me, it's code red. People need to wake up. We can lose this country. I really believe that. I talked about rigging the election before. I wasn't bullshitting about that. He doesn't believe in fair and free elections. He's a competitive authoritarian, which means he wants elections. The veneer one, just like Putin, who got eighty seven point three percent of the vote for him. Right. Just to show says largest. And you saw it on display last night, this sort of vulgar display. You watch it. You know, the state of, you know, red state. You watch the whole thing. I watched until the end. And then I was prepping for Gavin Newsom. I can watch it. Bullshit. You read my book. You weren't. I know I finished your book, but I'm actually I'm actually not cool. I actually don't get it. You didn't watch it. You know, watch the longest State of the Union in American history. Is it a story? Was there any fun? There was no funny parts, though. Funny. Yeah. He didn't say anything. I mean, I thought a funny part. It was like Arnold Palmer's dick is big. And then they used to say the biggest. Yeah. Amazing. The shit he said all the time. It's just funny you know it is less fun it doesn't feel derivative it does feel it's it's the show is not as interesting well the truth is this right like the first term we didn't see stuff like this we heard people talking about russia and some james bond conspiracy theory crap and then we were told by the democratic party that in this last election this is the most important election ever and then joe biden made it seem like they didn't actually think it was the most important election if they sent him out on a debate stage like that like if it's the most important election ever if you're saving democracy you're not going to do that the democratic party isn't going to they're going to take the party the problem is everyone thinks there's like six people in a room smoke-filled room and we got ashtrays like this and yeah you know we're deciding who the you know that that that's the black and white movie that no that's even more depressing it's it's it's so diffused the party is many it's it's dcc's it's d by all the you know it's all the state parties it's it's all of us is the party is clinton it's a composite of obama's it's it's pelosi but it's jeffries it's schumer and so there was no there's no sort of centralization of that kind of decision making is my point well speaking of what is the party like in the light of like joe biden was doing family separations like you know like a lot of these like you know under obama like ice was dramatically expanded like i think that there has to be kind of a conversation amongst your caucus as to like what morally they stand for because it really runs the gamut there are people that are like making a lot of you know in the stock market they're wolves the inside training is gross man i mean in the revolving door for lobbyists is gross and the fact you can be there for 73 years come on there's but yeah how long was five side there 750 years uh and that was hard man i was i god i remember by the way you know it was hard i i have a story that i would share privately with you because i she was such a powerful force in my life and supporter of mine but it was hard near the end and um you know i was with her talking about some pentagon satellite issues uh related to climate and how we could early fire detection uh near the end with her and and i didn't know how bad it was until i you know was she was talking about this satellite no she was no i was talking about that but she she was talking about other things i used to go to the forest and pull my skirt it was it was it was but she you know look she's she's a legend what does it look like to be president after trump like what is like baron's going to be at his dad's funeral right he's going to be probably pretty sad state of the union but does he want to go to work as the president i don't have to work because he's made a ton of money so i think baron after his dad dies is going to assume the throne of the presidency right i think the throne is a good way to describe it how about this guy's what is what like an emperor put his picture he's got those giant posters on the sides of buildings all over dc including the department of justice that says everything you need to know just literally like right out of some fascist place can i can i give you a critique on something you said like what you already have given many critiques you said the democratic party is too fixated on uh pronouns like you're walking into their trap that's what they're saying no i think no no voter has decided like i was gonna go democrat but they changed the pronouns pronouns is like no i think it was a moment there was some i think it's not one thing it's sort of the stacking of things where there was i just i'm just telling you like like old school democrats i thought you're walking into the trap no i get that but i also think there's some trans athletes it's like we people are like i i would vote for the democrats were it not for their like they they're damaging the integrity of girls sports like come on dude you're walking on the trap i get it here's here's my advice to you if the if they're doing their thing where they're like the little mermaid is black right well that's just and they're like you've ruined by childhood yeah that's the democrats are going to say well we sell it for all the black little mermaids out there we celebrate yeah our sister queen mermaid right instead you just say the republicans like they're upset about the little mermaid being black just say um pardon me but you're a pussy and um that's a baby movie like uh you're being a baby right now no the truth is this is i like that no i like like they just act like sjw's at this point they're mad at bad bonies uh well sjw why do i not know what the social justice they they act like sjw okay sjw sjw interesting i show us how old i am it's like swa yeah they act like woke people right they're like mad about they're incensed at bad bunnies song was good man i like that who's mad at the fucking they're being they're being babies i appreciate this man you know it's just like no but by the way this was happening with crt dei esg we were constantly on the this is why i started it's why i went on fox to debate ronda santos because they were winning that messaging war they were flooding the zone we were on our heels not our toes and narrative matters and we were constantly on the defense so what you're saying is very i think i align with you on that in terms of being consistent where i have a lot of fuck up shut up but but you know but there are some be normal but be normal and i think they want us normal to everybody everybody look i don't just be like mind your own fucking business you know it's not your life you know it's good oh thank you this is good see i'm why for me no i'm like what are you gonna like but it's good though this is helpful man it's healthy look at that look at that he's looking what do you think so it's three three and on that all right i'm gonna well i'm not beating okay here's that's how you started my final final question what i did competitive framework man well i mean it's just we'll let the girls decide we'll let the ladies decide no but but you what you're saying is thank you just like look and i you know as a guy who's a godfather of a trans son a trans god son i i appreciate what you're saying man and and there are certain things where we may have modest decisions but i'm not beating you i'm not beating you i'm not beating you i'm not beating you but i but but i look i've been that has we established and it's well established in this book i've been way out on all these issues and i've been on the receiving end of of of the counter narrative and i found myself and often in the defensive posture and so i appreciate what you're saying look here's my last question what is that it's always the worst that's the one that gets politicians in trouble the last i'm not we don't have we're not going to get you in trouble i don't want to find out let's hear my boy i'm not doing yellow journalism i'm hanging out with my handsome new friend what are you talking about yeah i'm angling you're going to probably win okay well you wanted what you think that jd vance is gonna he's gonna look like a fucking potato next to you what what is seriously the cooler guy wins every time i mean it is that it yes go through every election rubio's pretty cool what do you think of rubio you don't like him he's gonna be little marco little marco he is i was saw him in uh you know he's a yeah you're you're a shooting guard yeah well so what was your game it was we were you know it was a short little league it was marine county that's right yeah that's why you bet that's why i was that was why i was captain yeah the baseball field was at a farmer's market where i was eating grasshoppers yeah yeah you never try to grasshopper you never answer i'm a regular politician chipotle by the way they're struggling a little bit right now chipotle yeah which is there i read they really love the cliff i don't know what's happened it was a great restaurant i don't know what's happened to it uh okay you we saw you you know it you know survive kind of a recall election and and kind of win by a landslide which i think is like uh adds to your bona fides as like someone that's like gotten scrubbed up yeah in addition out of all uh people in state politics in california you're kind of like the last one left during from covid yeah but that generally yeah like that's a that by the way that's interesting that you say that why am i the one who's the last one who's left i don't know a lot you've been interested in a lot of things you're the inventor of gay marriage okay you're the first person to come up with the idea of gay marriage which is like come on don't be ridiculous what's the point of gay if you're gonna get married just be happy and rich you don't have to get married you don't have to what like get a dog okay okay okay i'm just kidding i'm a nightclub comedian three dogs i have a dog too dude what's what what kind yeah yeah oh actually you dude what the you try to ban whipples you're a racist i did not you're a racist there was a dog balling and two people so they're all the same they're all the same they're all the same actually it was horrible diane whipple she changed my life i don't know i rescued her she rescued me okay we've seen you do these things at various like inflection points in your career that's that make are very impressive right you also just like you look like the fucking person you do it's like if it was like on tv or something it'd be like this guy and it'd be like talking about my they're talking about more engineers more scientists you'll be yelling at the screen i'm just being normal bro be normal al qaeda has sent a comet from space somehow they've developed comet technology and the world about that bro that could happen we gotta you gotta go that's why we have space force it's a legit thing i don't know i don't mind your space i think you you talk about like bernie sanders it's medicare for all you know like yeah like what like yeah what's what is your defined political project like what yeah throughout your career and like right now like what is what is the thing you want to like you want to accomplish like politically you know i don't have in your life i don't have like a brand i don't have a tag make america great or you know the great society or you know something like medicare for all the billionaires but i you know but for me no bullshit it's just standing up for ideal striking out against injustice that defines my why in every way shape form stand up for ideal strike out against injustice i'm a sarge schreiber democrat i'm into that whole 60s the vernacular of the 60s solving for ignorance and poverty and disease and the spirit of the 60s the spirit of you know, and how the nonviolent movement in Gandhi and, you know, and Mandela, that moral authority, that whole space, that's the zeitgeist. So that's me, that's my dad, that's my mom, that's the book and that's my why. And so "Standing Off for Ideals" is what gay marriage. It was about work I'm doing right now, sort of push back and you know we can lose this country and just feeling like I have to be held to account and strike out against the injustices of the day. So if you had to define it like - I need your health to define it. Well you tell me you're better at this. I don't know. I don't know who you are. I just gave you my why but how do you translate that into human? What? So if you say like make it appeal to a voter, right? Say if you vote for me you get X. Yeah. What in a kind of concise tangible sense, talking to a regular guy. Yeah no no. I've struggled with being able to communicate. I told you what my why is and why I'm here and I mean that. And that's ingrained in every aspect of my life and it connects to that. Yeah. Yeah. Even my private life in terms of the business things I've done, stupid things like screw cap wines and selling wine at retail, just in restaurants, trying to sort of break up monopolies and try to strike out against the injustice, the rigging of the system, etc. And it's part of you know all the interviews. What's screw cap wine? What is that? I see now here we're going back. But that's in the book. You got to buy the book. Oh because it's like less classy. Yeah. Yeah I remember that. Yeah. So it's just yeah. No it's just like. But that's one of your L's in life? No. Dude you're just, you're hot dude. You're hot dude. Why did you write this book? Just just write a follow-up. Be like this is how I became the hottest biggest pimp. Dude honestly the reason Donald Trump you stood him down is because he thinks you're handsome. I mean it. I mean it. The reason you were like fuck off Trump like when you sent the troops in was like he was like I like the hair, I like the way he dresses. 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