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	I don't know.
	I mean, we're just sitting here.
	I I am like amazed at what's going on with uh Nutty Newsom, Gavin Newsom.
	If you want to trigger Gavin Newsom, I know not Gavin Newsom well.
	And when you meet him in person, he's very personable.
	He really is.
	I mean, there was a time where we actually got along.
	When I did the interview with him, I went out to California.
	We sat down.
	I challenged him on everything, gave him time to speak.
	And that led to the debate with my now governor.
	I was I was not living in in California at the time.
	Um Florida at the time.
	Uh, but that led to the debate with Governor Ron DeSantis, which I thought was great.
	Uh and you know, the problem, he's just gone nutty.
	And he's having this identity crisis that's going on, and he thinks it's funny, he thinks it's cute, and he is sounding more radical and more extreme by the day.
	For example, he's talking about punching uh uh lawmakers in Texas in the face, punching them in the mouth.
	Uh, by the way, for the record, as you listen to this, I am volunteering to get in the way and rather because most politicians, let's be honest about it, they can't defend themselves.
	Uh, I've been training 15 years, situational self-defense.
	I'll let him throw the first punch.
	Doesn't mean I can't block it.
	Uh I'll let him throw the first punch.
	And if he wants, if he really has this desire to punch somebody in the mouth, I'm willing to take the hit rather than some, you know, some defenseless politician.
	Not that I think Gavin's this, you know, strong brutal fighter, but he sounds like it's I'm almost embarrassed for him because he's changing on a daily basis.
	It's embarrassing.
	It's like a clown show.
	It's like, well, Gavin Newsom's gonna wake up.
	Well, what what Gavin are we going to get today?
	The Gavin that wants to interview Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk and get caught in a million lies in the Charlie Kirk interview about Latinx and and gender affirming care and and men playing women's sports.
	Uh, or do you want to be mean Gavin that's gonna go to war with Donald Trump and he's gonna mock Donald Trump and he's gonna pretend to be Donald Trump and he's gonna interview Jasmine Crockett, then he's gonna talk about punching people in the face.
	It reminds me of Joe Biden.
	I'm gonna take him to the back of the gym and beat him up.
	Meanwhile, the guy couldn't walk.
	Um, but here's uh the latest Gavin Newsom threat.
	The Republican Party's uh is it doesn't even reflect itself.
	I mean, look at look at these Republicans cowering to this guy.
	Look at your Republican governor used to claim to be a conservative.
	What a farce.
	Nothing conservative about this.
	By definition, nothing conservative about this.
	This is radical rigging of a midterm election.
	Radical rigging of an election, destroying, vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law.
	So I'm sorry, I know some people's sensibilities.
	I I respect and appreciate that, but right now, with all due respect, we're walking down a damn different path.
	We're fighting fire with fire, and we're gonna punch these sons of in the mouth.
	Fire with fire.
	We're gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.
	Oh, I'm really scared.
	The irony of all of this is if there's any fighting fire with fire, uh, and and in Texas, they could gerrymander more.
	I mean, there could be up to seven or eight seats that they would pick up.
	Here's the irony of of all of this as he talks about fighting fire with fire.
	He pretends his blatant gerrymandering scheme, you know, and is uh as a as a battle for democracy, vandalizing democracy trying to take you know the democracy argument.
	It didn't work work well for Democrats in 2024, but let's let's double down on dumb and stupid.
	Um all of this talk, forget about the base of the Democratic Party, which is now becoming marginalized.
	Look, look at the New York Times analysis of voter registration across the country.
	You know, there's a net gain of Republicans of 5%.
	That is dramatic in a four year period of time.
	You know, I'm sure moderates and I'm sure independents are listening to you know, nutty newsome here, and they're thinking, oh, they're inspired by a guy, he's gonna punch him in the mouth.
	Um, I don't think so.
	And he has something called a record that he has to run on, and you know, 30 years in the public eye, and a lot of videotape of Gavin Newsom, which is one thing when when he debated Ron DeSantis, and I've got the text to prove it, oh, his team was adamant.
	I not run any tape of Gavin saying anything.
	Uh, but that's not going to be the case if he does decide to eventually run for president.
	Uh Mark Calvern will join us later.
	He actually thinks that he is by far the leading candidate to win the nomination.
	He's not saying he'd win the general election, but to win the nomination.
	The irony of this is, you know, Gavin Newsom now is doing the very thing that he says is vandalizing democracy by getting state lawmakers.
	Now, you gotta understand it's a battle in California to boost the bid of Democrats and and their 2028 nominee, but also for the 26 uh midterm elections.
	But, you know, we had state lawmakers out in California that all said they'd be against Gavin Newsome's plan, now giving in, and they're they're trying to gerrymander another five seats out of California.
	Now, the problem number one that they have is with 2008 and 2010, they have a proposition or referendum process in California, ballot initi initiatives where voters wrote state law to cut politicians out of redistricting in California, putting it in the hands of a citizen-led independent commission.
	Uh so Gavin is vandalizing democracy to use his words.
	Democrats want a new ballot proposal to rewrite the law through 2030 for voters to okay in a November 4th special election.
	The problem number two they have is all new bills are supposed to face this 30-day cooling off period uh for review before lawmakers broke.
	But you know, Nutty Newsom is just obsessed and he wants to fight fire with fire and punch people in the mouth.
	But Democrats are trying to rush through all of this, uh, which they've done.
	And if the states, you know, Democrats go ahead with the plan, voters will reject the idea, and the odds are very high that the courts will reject it.
	Polling early this month, by the way, showed that that the voters of California, now his approval rating is in the low 30s, the last that I saw, and they wanted to stick with the independent commission by a margin of two to one, so I don't think he's gonna win if if in fact the voters have a say on this.
	And anyway, nonstop TV ads to sell voters, you know, on this ridiculous uh vindictive uh power grab of his.
	I don't think it's gonna work, but that's not Gavin's real problem here.
	Um Gavin has is having some type of midlife identity crisis, and and Gavin is angry.
	I actually enjoyed the fact that after I fact-checked Gavin the other night on TV that he put out a you know, he's he's now trying to think that he's funny and sending out Trump-like tweets and going on podcasts, and there's a problem he has, and this is a very, very big problem.
	You know, after years of one-party rule, of which he's been a big part of, the state of California is in a state of shambles.
	It leads the nation, and by the way, just for the record, I lived in California five years.
	I lived in Santa Barbara.
	It is a beautiful state.
	You know, if you drive the Pacific Coast highway from Northern California to Southern California, one of the most picturesque, beautiful sights you'll ever see as you drive along the you know, Pacific Ocean.
	It's stunning.
	It's beautiful.
	And, you know, it used to be go west, young man, go to the golden state, go to California, you know, where your dreams will come true.
	Not anymore.
	It's where your nightmares begin.
	They have stunning natural resources.
	They do have very good weather, like my free state of Florida, beautiful geography, and it's become so unlivable, but it's the number one state that people are fleeing.
	You have the largest mass migration out of a state in the state of California.
	And you can blame only one Thing for this.
	This radical Democratic agenda, now led by Governor Gavin Newsom.
	He's been, let's see, mayor of San Francisco, leading into lieutenant governor, now governor.
	He's wrapping up his second term, and he wants to run for president, wants to promote wants a promotion.
	And if he thinks that, you know, for you know, trying out all these different personalities, it's like he's schizophrenic.
	One day he wants, let's have conversations with the other side.
	Let's bring in Steve Bannon.
	Let's bring in Charlie Kirk.
	That didn't work out too well.
	Now he's decided, okay, well, we're gonna, we're gonna go, we're gonna we're gonna mock Donald Trump, and we're gonna go on X, and we're gonna post things that in all caps, and we're gonna try and act like Donald Trump, and we're gonna go after Fox News hosts.
	And okay, that's not the guy I knew.
	It's actually it's nutty.
	It's weird.
	It's actually, I'm embarrassed for him, but I don't want him to stop because the material is too good.
	I mean, he went before he made those comments about punching these people in the mouth.
	He was interviewing Jasmine Crockett, maybe one of his chief competitors for the 2028 presidential election campaign.
	I don't know.
	Uh on the gerrymandering issue, he's all over the place.
	He's not being honest, he's intellectually lazy, but there is something about Gavin Newsom having gotten to know him a little bit.
	When you meet him, you'd like him.
	He's personable.
	He's definitely slick, he's smooth talking, but he has a track record, and that's his biggest problem.
	If you want to get under Gavin Newsom's skin, you know, me calling him Nutty Newsom is not going to really bother him, I don't think.
	Newskum does bother the hell out of him.
	It really does.
	I know for a fact that it does.
	I won't tell you how I know, but I know.
	If you call him Gavin Newsom, oh man, he did not like it.
	Uh anyway, oh, by the way, a reporter just asked if President Trump's going to take part in the FIFA events, and what is the answer?
	He said, I may play.
	No, he's on the FIFA, the soccer stuff.
	It's pretty funny.
	He doesn't even wear shorts when he plays golf.
	I'm not really sure what he's talking about.
	On December 5th.
	Uh I mean, I see the money that these soccer players, you know, the soccer we call it soccer, but I see the money that's going to be a good thing.
	All right, let's move on.
	I want to focus on this.
	Anyway, if you want to get under Gavin Newsom's skin, call him Gavin Newsom.
	That bothers him.
	You want to get under Gavin Newsom's skin, nutty newsome.
	Talk about what he how he failed the people in the Pacific Palisades.
	You know, we had firefighters showing up willing to put their lives at risk and put out the fires only to discover that there's no water.
	The state's water supply had been totally mismanaged, a reservoir empty, critical fire hydrants not operational.
	Now his answer was I'm on the phone with the president right uh now, meaning at the time, Joe Biden, he was not.
	Uh you're gonna have to ask local uh elected authorities.
	Boy, I guess the buck doesn't stop with him.
	Neighborhoods burned to the ground, according to the LA Times, 13,000 households were displaced.
	A friend of mine said, you know, as of now, only a hundred and forty-five of those thirteen thousand lost households, only 145 successfully got a permit to rebuild more than seven months later.
	You know, welcome to the bureaucracy that is in California.
	One developer, you know, said this is impossible.
	You have to deal with more than a half a dozen government agencies.
	So much for expediting that.
	But even before that, housing costs out of control.
	You know, uh California is has uh out of the ten least affordable housing markets in the world, four of them are in California.
	It's no surprise that the state has the largest homeless population in the United States uh states, uh, in terms of sheer numbers and per capita.
	You know, if you you know, look at, for example, during his debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis, remember the poop map?
	Look at the quality of life in San Francisco, people shooting up in the middle of the street and defecating all over the uh Ronda Santa showed a poop map of San Francisco is embarrassing.
	That is a massive failure.
	Income tax rates in California are the highest In the entire country.
	Sales rate in California, the highest rate in the entire country.
	Gas taxes, the highest in the entire country.
	And it just went up again in 2025.
	Corporate tax rate, the sixth highest in the country.
	People are leaving violent crime way above the national average.
	Education, they ranked next to last in spite of taxing people more than uh almost every other than more than every other state, and they're near the bottom.
	Florida, lowest taxes, number one in schools for many years in a row, number one or number two.
	Newsom, Sanctuary City State policies, you know, that has resulted in disaster.
	We saw this unfold last night.
	California accepted in the sanctuary state.
	This driver that killed three people in my state of Florida.
	Uh, they gave him a commercial driver's license.
	We're spending California's spending billions of dollars every year to pay for health care for illegals.
	It's impacting their criminal justice system, it's impacting their educational system.
	Uh it's a disaster.
	And, you know, if you're in California, the highest tax state in the country, now you're also facing a $20 billion budget deficit.
	How can you fail on that spectacular a level?
	You know, the Democratic Party is bleeding voters.
	There's a five million nearly uh five million uh uh registration shift in favor of Republicans.
	Gavin, keep going.
	Keep doing your podcast with Jasmine.
	You know, keep going out there threatening to punch people in the mouth, you know, keep talking about fighting fire with fighter fire.
	Keep keep appealing to a dwindling radical leftist base, and I'm sure that might get you the nomination.
	Good luck in a general twenty.
	You know what the problem is with this, and this is where it's getting uh it's getting almost like uncomfortable.
	If you see somebody that's like had becoming a train wreck, if you see somebody that doesn't really have their own their own moral center or compass, when you see somebody that is always trying to be somebody else, and you see now the almost daily new manifestation of Gavin Newsom, you know, it's embarrassing to watch it.
	It's kind of uh it's so cringe inducing.
	Now I'm sure that he thinks it's funny, and I have no doubt, you know, him now abandoning uh interviewing or having conversations with conservatives and bringing on the likes of Jasmine Crockett, and we'll play part of that interview later in the program today.
	I'm sure in his mind he's thinking, oh, this is great.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna interview Jasmine Crockett, and she's gonna call Republicans racist and Marxist and fascist and and talk about a Republicans and democracies in peril and and on and on and on.
	That didn't work.
	And then he's got to defend his policies.
	This is the problem he has.
	Douglas Murray captured this really well in a New York Post column, and it's that you know, if you are failing at your day job the way Gavin Newsom is failing in his day job, then you become a podcaster.
	If you're failing at your day job, then rather than help the 13,000 people that deserved water when the Pacific Palisades fires happened and the water and the fire hydrants were empty and the reservoirs were empty,
	and here we are seven, eight months later, whatever it is, and there's only a hundred some odd uh permits that have been approved, and you have to go through six different government agencies, and then talk about the government, you know, buying up large portions of land for affordable housing, which is not exactly what the people that own those homes in the Pacific Palisades want, and promising people that you're going to expedite the process.
	To me, expediting the process is you present plans and it's gonna be approved within like three days.
	You know, when I when I had to do work on my place in Florida, it took like no time at all.
	You present plans, bring it to the board, the next meeting, boom, start building.
	And that's and and that's for everybody in the free state of Florida.
	But if you are failing and your taxes are through the roof, and you have the highest, you know, I go, I go through this list, and Gavin doesn't like his own list.
	Gavin really can't run on his record.
	Gavin's not paying attention to the fact that between 2020 and 2024, there's a net gain of nearly five million registered Republicans over Democrats.
	Democrats are losing millions of registered voters.
	Republicans are gaining millions of registered voters.
	And if you look at your state and you have the largest migration out of your state in spite of the most beautiful terrain and coastline in the entire country, with the exception of Florida, and you're losing people because you have the highest income tax in the country,
	the highest sales tax in the country, the highest gas taxes in the country, some of the highest corporate tax rates in the country, the sixth highest tax rate in the country.
	You know, if you have this illegal immigrant problem, and it is costing your state and your taxpayers billions and billions of dollars in Medi-Cal.
	When you look at your violent crime rate well above the national average, when you look at your quality of life.
	Gavin Newsom, I have a tape of him back in 20, you know, over 10, 12, 14 years ago.
	His plan to stop homelessness, it only got worse.
	The only thing left for this guy to do, I guess, rather than show up at work and solve problems is to go on X and try to be Donald Trump.
	I guess that's the only option if you fail at your day job.
	You know, let's let's get angry that Donald Trump is stepping up and sending in law enforcement in a defund, dismantled, no bail law state that is packed with illegal immigrants along with the illegal immigrants that came in unvetted, including known terrorists, rapists, murderers, other violent criminals, cartel members, and gang members.
	Let's get angry at Donald Trump for that.
	You know, let's be the state that during COVID that shuts down the most.
	Let's be the state that doesn't let kids have in-person learning, unless, of course, you're Gavin's kids, and you go to a private school, they had in-person learning.
	And let's close down restaurants.
	People put their blood, their toil, their hard work, their life's dream on the line.
	You can't afford to be closed, and they're going after, you know, stores that dared to open.
	Meanwhile, Gavin is showing up at the French laundry, you know, having dinner with his rich elitist friends in the middle of COVID.
	So the rules didn't apply to anybody in his life.
	You know, all the sycophants in his party, he's definitely getting the attention.
	I find it I think I'm embarrassed for the guy.
	As somebody that, you know, has gotten to know him a little bit.
	He can be personable.
	This is embarrassing.
	The record of his state is embarrassing.
	He has failed spectacularly.
	He thinks that this will get him the attention.
	Now, I don't disagree with my friend Mark Alpert, who'll be on later in the program today, who's basically saying that Gavin Newsom is probably but they have such a weak slate of candidates that he probably is the front runner in terms of getting the nomination for 2028.
	But, you know, who's he going to be up against?
	Josh Shapiro?
	Who's he going to be up against?
	Gasmine Crockett, who was on his podcast yesterday.
	He has all this time on his hands, and yet the homelessness crisis is out of control.
	They have a massive budget deficit.
	They have crime out of control.
	They have, you know, defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
	They're a sanctuary state that won't comply with the federal government.
	You want to talk about taking a sledgehammer to democracy.
	Maybe he should learn what the supremacy clause means, and that would give jurisdiction on the issue of illegal immigration, that would give it to the federal government.
	That is not the state government of California.
	And I'm only pointing this out because between Mamdani and Jasmine and AOC and the squad and Gavin and Pocahontas and Grandpa Bernie, Nutty Newsom, all of them combined, they're all losing their minds.
	But the problem is that the base that is radicalized is already there.
	They're not bringing anybody new to the table.
	Do you think anybody is watching Gavin Newsom's antics, any moderate or any independent and saying, oh, yeah, we really, we really want that these policies nationwide.
	Wait till Zoran Mamdani wins in New York, and it looks like he's going to win.
	The polls showed that he's going to win.
	And I don't think, you know, I I don't know.
	I don't know what's going to happen in New York City.
	I think there's going to be a mass exodus.
	His latest proposal he's doubled down on, and that is decriminalizing sex work and meaning prostitution.
	That's not going to go over particularly well in my view.
	But if, you know, if this is what California wants to do, you know, there's a bill in California right now.
	This will be a big deal if if Nutty Newsome actually runs for office in the state Senate that could take away parental rights.
	This is how the New York Post wrote it up.
	He said that the California State Senate is going to take one more step toward effectively ending parental rights in the Golden State.
	If the body's appropriations committee, they write, approves the Assembly Bill 495, the Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025, they write, it sets up a floor vote on a law that will allow nothing short of legal kidnapping and put gender-confused kids in unimaginable danger.
	Just stay with me on this.
	As detransitioners, this is who's writing the article here.
	It's written by a person named Chloe Cole and Luke Healy.
	We know firsthand how parents' rights can shield children from medical from a medical industry seeking to drug and butcher them.
	When Luke was a teenager seeking out cross-sex hormones and permanently disfiguring surgeries to pursue a false transition, his mother was the one who told him no.
	As a nurse and a parent who refused to consent to so-called gender-affirming care, uh, Luke's mother saved him from a lifetime of regret.
	But California's AB 495, uh, had it been in effect, Michelle's right to make that decision on her son's behalf would have meant nothing.
	Listen to this bill.
	Hear me out here.
	If you think that Tampon Tim was bad, he wanted to put feminine hygiene products in women in boys' bathrooms in grade school.
	And of course, he, you know, his running mate wanted gender-affirming care for inmates and for illegal immigrants that you should pay for, taxpayer fund that he wanted to fund college tuition for illegal immigrants.
	But anyway, this California bill, as described by the New York Post and these people that are writing in this article, you know, uh Clo Cole and Luke Healy are detransition advocates and leading subjects of the documentary series identity crisis.
	I don't know them, but I read their article and I found it very interesting.
	They claim this bill would permit any adult to claim a mentoring relationship over any child and to live with that adult and allow the adult to quote mentor to claim an inability to contact the child's actual parents.
	It goes on, it gets worse.
	A mentor can then become a child's guardian simply by signing a one-page affidavit.
	Those behind AB 495 has sold it as a way for detained and deported illegal immigrant children to create caregiving arrangements for their children, but the measure's scope is broad enough to put every child in California in massive danger.
	Now, we're going to invite Gavin Newsom on the program.
	We've reached out to his office many times for comments and see if he supports this.
	Give him equal time.
	Gender-confused children who often seek psychological affirmation and medical intervention against their parents' wishes are particularly at risk.
	If any adult can claim authority over a child and give consent for that child's medical and psychological decisions, parents can be rendered irrelevant.
	Now there's been this pursuit.
	Remember that California, Minnesota, we've talked about this before.
	Minnesota in particular.
	You know, you know, Tamfon Tim, gender affirming care without parental consent.
	We're not potted plants.
	You know, in my free state of Florida last night when we came on the air, nine Eastern.
	You know, what did we show you?
	We showed you the guy that entered from Mexico into the sanctuary state of California that got a legal commercials driver's license in California.
	It turns out he didn't know how to read English, barely understood English, and couldn't even read road signs, and he has, and he's he's out there.
	It's like giving him a you know a bazooka.
	You know, because he's he's driving an 18-wheeler, but he can't read road signs.
	So he tries to make an illegal U-turn.
	As a result, three people in Florida are dead.
	And they transported this guy, the lieutenant governor of Florida, transported this guy from California back to Florida, and hopefully this guy spends the rest of his life behind bars or I don't know.
	I'm a believer in the death penalty, but when they tested this guy's out, he he didn't understand English and he didn't know how to read road signs.
	Why would California ever give a commercial driver's license to that individual?
	Why are Californians paying for the medical care for the tens of millions of Biden Harris, Mayorcus, and Gavin Newsom, nutty news, illegal immigrants that they don't vet?
	Why are schools packed to the brim with the illegal immigrant children?
	And as is often the case, they don't speak English.
	And then all of the resources that would go to California kids then have to go and be spent on English as a second language classes.
	No wonder why California has some of the worst public schools in the entire nation.
	But Gavin's too busy with his team coming up with clever ideas to pretend to be Donald Trump on X. You know Donald Trump, and it's embarrassing.
	You know, maybe you should go back to podcasting with conservatives.
	Maybe knock some sense into him.
	I don't know.
	We'll have more on this coming up later in the program.
	I've I uh if you look, he is doing better than Kamala Harris in terms of uh leading Kamala Harris among California Democratic voters and who should run for president.
	But yet most Californians don't even want him, and they don't even want Kamala Harris as the next governor.

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