Emily Jashinsky

Look at the record in California for Gavin Newsom.

And so there's just so many people who are tired of it.

They want something new.

It's kind of like what we've been talking about the whole show.

They're desperate.

They might be Democrats who don't like that Spencer Pratt maybe is whatever he thinks about abortion, right?

They might think it's MAGA.

Or with Steve Hilton, they might think he's MAGA, although I think he's handled those questions pretty well.

But at this point, they're willing to try something different.

And it is going to be disillusioning if Steyer, of all people, billionaire Tom Steyer, is the one who snatches it away from Steve Hilton at the last moment.

Yeah, he wants to be your daddy as governor of California, but this is the tragedy of California.

It's the state that used to be the frontier, the American frontier, where people could self-actualize and go and have an amazing middle-class life.

The beginning of L.A.

Confidential makes me so sad.

This is a very weird reference, but if you're watching the beginning of the film, there's all of these reels

of how California used to be depicted in the mid-century period.

And it makes you so sad to look at what California was, what it symbolized to the country.

And now it actually is full of a lot of people, I think, Megan, your point is correct, who are attracted to what Tom Steyer is saying, because we saw what happened during COVID in California.

There were people who wanted the governor to be their daddy, who wanted their local mayors to be their daddy.

They wanted