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Not Another Puff Podcast
If Democrats like Michelle Obama and Gavin Newsom aren’t going to commit to the content game, what’s the point?
The influential hosts will dispense life advice off listener questions (unsurprising) with the help of an array of celebrity guests (even less surprising), including Issa Rae, Tyler Perry, fellow podcasters Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, and probable self-help grifter Jay Shetty. This Is Gavin Newsom is his second attempt at politics via podcasting, following his Politickin’, a Smartless- aspiring gabfest he co-hosts with Marshawn Lynch and the NFL agent Doug Hendrickson that, not unlike IMO, features celebrity guests — from Lance Bass to Flavor Flav. In a bid to revive the corpse of substance-optional political decorum, which he seems to believe is a road toward building crossover appeal, Newsom kicks off the pod by hitting up Charlie Kirk, the right-wing talking head and activist, to whom the governor broke with his party by saying that allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports is “deeply unfair.” If the idea was to beef up bipartisan street cred by offering an ideological compromise to the political other — in this case, a powerful MAGA-world figure who denies the existence of climate change and argues against abortion even under cases of rape, among many other noxious topics — it’s a deeply cynical move.
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