In short
The episode is a political news roundup focused on the 6/2/26 election cycle and a debate about the Iran war. The hosts discuss a confrontation where Dave Rubin is portrayed as being “humiliated” on Jubilee during arguments about the Iran conflict, including claims that the war prevented Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, that U.S. actions included an economic embargo/blockade, and that energy-price predictions and Strait of Hormuz outcomes won’t match media forecasts. They also argue economic indicators worsened under Trump while criticizing Rubin’s talking points, and mock his “humiliation kink” reaction. Notable examples include Rubin’s dismissal of claims about Iran enriching beyond JCPOA limits and a prediction that gas prices will fall and the Strait will remain open.
Guests
Dave Dayen (California politics journalist/activist) and clips featuring political figures: Tom Steyer, Javier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Chad Bianco, Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and Spencer Pratt.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VODebate on Dave Rubin's Arguments
1:39 to 1:53
Discussion on Dave Rubin's views and the war in Iran.
“Independent media just played a truly massive role in this election, and we are so excited about what that means for the future of this show.”
Debate on Dave Rubin's Arguments
2:12 to 6:33
Discussion on Dave Rubin's views and the war in Iran.
“Wait, they didn't enrich past the 3.67 % agreed upon in the JCPOA.”
Predictions and Critical Analysis
6:33 to 7:47
Discussion on predictions about the Iran war and critical analysis of the media.
“Like what they're effectively reduced to is what we talked about earlier in the show this morning with Mark Levin being like, actually, I'm the same as George Washington and the colonists who want freedom.”
The Future of War and Politics
7:48 to 12:16
Exploration of future implications of the Iran war and political accountability.
“and he likely is the next leader of Iran.”
Episode Discussion
14:00 to 28:00
“And what all of it says about how we actually love, yearn, and obsess.”
California Gubernatorial Race Insights
28:00 to 32:01
Discussion on the dynamics and implications of the California gubernatorial election.
“perspective for the party, but there's no way that a Steve Hilton wins a one-on-one matchup against Becerra.”
Analysis of California House Races
36:24 to 42:00
In-depth discussion of key California house races and candidate dynamics.
“But in the last few weeks, when Pelosi endorsed, that was a signal, right?”
Local Political Dynamics in California
42:00 to 42:52
Learn about the competitive landscape of California's political races, focusing on key candidates and voter dynamics.
“And when ISA dropped out, they thought even more so.”
LA Mayoral Race Overview
45:01 to 46:18
Delve into the dynamics of the LA mayoral race, focusing on key candidates and their strategies.
“We have some of the closing ads from the major candidates here.”
Analyzing Candidate Strategies
46:18 to 47:26
Discuss the strategic choices made by candidates in the LA mayoral race and their implications.
“It's no longer a question about me or Nithya or Karen.”
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The Role of Political Endorsements
47:26 to 48:36
Understand the importance of endorsements and internal party dynamics in the LA mayoral race.
“And when the race was setting up, it looked like nobody sort of viable was going to challenge her.”
Voter Preferences and Demographics
48:36 to 50:45
Explore how voter demographics and preferences are shaping the outcomes of the LA mayoral race.
“So I feel like strategically Basically, there are a lot of Democrats thinking, OK, Bass, you know, is an incumbent.”
Candidates' Closing Messages
50:45 to 52:10
Examine the final pitches from candidates in the LA mayoral race and their appeal to voters.
“But yeah, I mean, I would in terms of his ability with national profile in terms of his ability to get attention and things like Raman has has run.”
Political Landscape and Challenges in California
52:10 to 56:01
Analyze the broader challenges facing California's political system and its candidates.
“And I know, I know, we can build that future together.”
California's Political Challenges
56:01 to 57:18
Explore the complexities and failures within California's political system.
“And that's, I think, the larger thing that we're going to see play out today.”
Wrap-Up and Transition
57:18 to 57:34
Concluding thoughts and a brief transition to the next segment.
“We were pretending that he's not, but it's okay.”
Transcript
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2:12turning now to uh dave rubin uh he really wowed us with his intellect with facts and logic the jubilee surrounded on the iran war let's take a listen well first off the disastrous war the quote-unquote disastrous war that you're talking about you're talking about a 40-day military operation that stopped an apocalyptic regime from getting a nuclear bomb so and exporting terrorism throughout the world that we're in a we're now in a uh we're now in an economic embargo of them right we've basically done a blockade of the strait of hormuz so to say it's a disastrous we've done a block we did lose hang on hang on we did we did lose 13 we did lose 13 of our soldiers and that is and killed over 200 children uh but well things happen in war right yeah yeah yeah well things do happen yeah wait wait you can laugh at that hold on hold on listen you want to talk If Donald Trump wanted to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, he could have just stuck with the Iran nuclear deal that he ripped up.
3:10Iran did not enrich past the 3.67%. Wait, they didn't enrich past the 3.67 % agreed upon in the JCPOA. They only got to 60 % after Donald Trump left that deal. I'm impressed with your talking points. You've got impressive talking points and you memorized them well. They're not correct, but I am impressed. What is one main metric that Donald Trump has made better off since he got in office? An example would be GDP, unemployment, inflation, etc. Right now, first off, the big, beautiful bill was just passed last year and it's kicking in now, right? It's kicking in now. So we are going to now see results of that.
3:44Like even the tariffs. All right, so let's do tariffs. Are you for or against tariffs? I'm against the universal tariffs. So what's the main metric that he made better off? What? What's the main metric that he made better off? GDP, unemployment, inflation? Do you have any idea? Listen. I don't think you do. Hold on. So you're arguing that things economically were better under Joe Biden. At the end of his administration, absolutely. Can you give me an example of how? Yeah, GDP growth was better off. Real median wage growth was better off. Inflation was better off at the end of his administration.
4:13Unemployment was better off at the end of his administration. We had the worst year of job growth in the past four years, just last year under Trump's administration. The inflation 3.8 % year over year since Trump got in office. We're seeing all of those economic indicators become worse off. Can you tell me anything that he's done to make it better off? You say it's broken for Democrats. It sounds like it's broken right now under Trump. Have you looked at the stock market? It's worse off in terms of growth in 2025 as compared to 2024. If you look at Jow Jones and S &P 500.
4:39I mean, this is like a humiliation kink or something. I mean, it's just unbelievable. With a pay getting owned by a guy with a paisley shirt. I love it. I love that guy's my spirit animal. Also, Rubin missed the stat that is right in front of him. Yeah. The metric that has gotten better under Trump is Trump's wealth. Yeah, that's very true. He is three times at least. He's now worth$6 billion. He was on the brink of destitution. He's now worth$6 billion. That's an incredible turnaround for Mr. Trump. Meaning like wearing a clown suit could have done a better job. I'm serious. Playing an actor could have done a better job of articulating MAGA vision of the war.
5:20What would you say, actually? The easy one would be the border. That's what you always go with. Oh, yeah, border. You go, oh, the border's closed. And in a net migration, you just memorize the numbers and be like, here's what it was under Biden. Here's what it was today. Guy would shut up. He wouldn't even say anything. He'd probably bring up ICE. He'd be like, okay, that's a separate story. But we're talking about the border. So even I could do that. Deportations of the border. Yeah, deportations is X number under Biden. And now it's under Trump. It's this, this, and this. And you don't have to support that.
5:41But that's one of the best things that he's done. Come on. Like, what are we doing here? Whenever it comes to Iran, what's amazing is he also had multiple, if you hadn't seen any of these, where he previously had done an entire mashup of how the government was gonna fall and there was gonna be democracy and the strait wasn't gonna be closed that long and everybody had a plan and all of this. And then to show up, it's just like a complete and a total humiliation. But that's the thing is this is what they are reduced to. They have nothing. All of the war's cheerleaders have gone from this is the greatest war in history, the most incredible military campaign, We are winning on the ground to now they have to be put in a position where Trump, by being so desperate for the ceasefire, has proven every single one of their military prognostications wrong, as well as their political prognostication.
6:32Regime's doing well. They're strong, actually. They still have their missile capacity. They have the drone capacity. They've established deterrence. They've closed the Strait of Hormuz. Like what they're effectively reduced to is what we talked about earlier in the show this morning with Mark Levin being like, actually, I'm the same as George Washington and the colonists who want freedom. And that's why I continue to support the war. It's so crazy. It's crazy. And maybe we can put at the end of the end of this block. We can post this amazing Rubin mashup that was circulating before this. Yes. Which was.
7:06Here, wait, hold on. Let's just throw to it. Let's throw to it. Allow me to make a prediction here in my prediction stuff. I'm not polymarket, I'm not kalshi, but I'm pretty good at predictions. And my prediction here is that everything that the media is now gonna say about Iran's gonna close the Strait of Hormuz and energy prices are gonna go crazy and all these, none of this is going to come to pass. Gas prices are coming down and will continue to come down. If the United States wants to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, which it does, and Donald Trump said we'll escort ships through if we have to, it's going to stay open.
7:37This is the leader of the Iranian opposition. He has been in exile. His name is Reza Pahlavi. We have shown you videos of him before. He's the eldest son of the former Shah of Iran, and he likely is the next leader of Iran. This is the guy that, by all accounts, when this war ends, will go in and he will be the leader. And again, it will be different. Just remember, it sounds like the Kurds are starting to enter the country with arms to help the people take out the last vestiges of the IRGC. There's a lot of good things happening. This is Iranians, and you can hear they are chanting Bibi Jun, Bibi Netanyahu.
8:15In Iran, they are chanting praise for Benjamin Netanyahu.
8:25And when you take out Khomeini, and you take out his number two, and his number three, and his number four and his number 37 and his number 42, then suddenly the next guy's going, it's a little hot in here. And then people start behaving a little bit differently. They've plotted this war, this extraordinary war that will be studied for decades, right? For decades, they will study how this incredible war took place. That's we are hitting critical infrastructure. We are damaging the regime so hopefully the people will be able to take over their countries. Now, the question is, if you're going to hit power plants and you're going to hit civilian infrastructure and things of that nature, how do you make sure it's not going to harm the people but just the regime?
9:08And when we have a department of war that is not looking for war but will perform war, then we are going to do it at the maximum level of competency. I think the way you can look at this. I haven't heard anyone else say this, but this seems to me to be the war to end all wars. A lot of people were wrong about the Iran war in a lot of different ways. Nobody was wrong in every single way with so much confidence than Dave Rubin. Here's the thing. Can we say this too? Look, it's fine to be wrong. I publicly said on camera, I didn't think that Putin would invade Ukraine. I apologize for it. I was wrong.
9:46Totally wrong. A lot of my stuff, predictions or thoughts about how Trump was going to go, I was wrong. I apologize for it here on the show. That's what you have to do if you want to maintain some level of credibility. Let's see it, Dave. You know, if you're going to say publicly that things were going to be so incredible and, you know, oh, it's all going to work out so well and we have all these plans and democracy, et cetera, and then when it falls completely flat or the opposite of what you said true, you need to reassess your beliefs, man, and you need to come clean to a certain number of people.
10:14Yeah, give us something. Yeah. Matt Walsh, real quickly, started another storm with a post, put this next up. He says, pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran war assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wish casting. This whole shit show has been an enormous waste of time and resources in our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goalposts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we'll know that it's been achieved.
10:46He's been pretty right about this. From the beginning, Thomas Massey responded, I hope you get to keep your job after this post. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's like, yes, that's true. Working for Ben Shapiro. Which is fair, by the way. It's entirely fair to say that. I mean, look, yes, he said the obvious in that. The question is going to be about - He's been right from the beginning. I'll give him that. He certainly has. I'll give it to him as well. However, there needs to be an internal forcing mechanism to force those people who did make all of those prognostications to apologize, to be contrite, and to say, look, every single thing you said was wrong.
11:28We can trust you in the future if you're willing to say I was wrong. Here's why I was wrong. This is my internal thought process, this, this, and this. I still wouldn't respect it because, frankly, there was a lot of evidence at the time, but whatever. At the very least, it's a step in the right direction. This is nothing. They're still claiming. What did he say? He's like, you got your talking points memorized. Every single thing that Kidd said was just a fact. Like, it wasn't even the talking point. The talking point was about how incredible the war has gone, even though it is like, it's just, I mean, every, even the honest neocons like Bob Kagan are like the greatest strategic defeat in military history.
12:04It's over. Checkmate. It's done. And what we know is that 20 years from now, those same people will be urging us into another war somewhere. Probably the Middle East, but who knows where. No, Turkey, remember? Oh, yeah, Turkey is next. The meme is them – the meme that was circulating was them on their deathbeds saying, yes, we were right about the war with Iran, but we have got to deal with the Islamic Republic of Turkey. So, yeah, that's where we go. Okay. Let's get to David Day and he's standing by. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news now?
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15:31Yes, big, big, big chunking on it. And we have Californian Dave Dayen in the studio today. Welcome to Washington, D.C. Thank you. How's it going? Good to see you, man. Lovely weather, right? We're treating you like a Californian here. Doing all right. He's got no tie on. Very Californian. Very Californian. We can allow it for a Californian. Ties are a construct. That's true. All right. So we've got the L.A. mayor's race. We've got the California governor's race. We've got a bunch of interesting House races among Democrats. Sagan and I were just talking about how it's interesting there are virtually no Republican races, House Republican races.
16:05One, there's a member-on-member race in the Empire. Oh, because they got forced together with the redistricting. Young Kim and King Calvert, yeah. Got it. All right. So let's start with the gubernatorial race. So how is it shaking out, as you understand? Like Tom Steyer, like has he consolidated enough kind of progressive energy that. Let's put the poll up there. Yeah. I mean, I think before the weekend, the thought was, OK, Steyer is probably going to come up short and it would be a Becerra Hilton general election. Right. So that's what this fits with. Yeah. RCP average. But this is the last average of the last.
16:43But the more recent the polls are, the more they have Steyer catching Hilton. Interesting. So that puts forward the possibility of a Becerra-Steyer general election, which would be pretty interesting. OK, so let's talk then about that. So Becerra, obviously, he was what? He was HHS under Biden, kind of a California machine politician. In terms of how we know him here, it was for this viral moment where he was doing an interview and he didn't want to be interviewed. So let's take a listen and we'll get your reaction. This is the start of our interview with Javier Brasera in Highland Park. By the way, this is a profile piece.
17:25This is not a gotcha piece, right? Well, look, I think these questions are fair. It's in order to learn about you as a candidate. So long as it's about the profile. I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to begin the interview. The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things that I've done, things I want to do, and along with some tough questions. But not only tough questions. This is a man who has been in professional politics his entire life. I just want to lay out the same ground rules for this. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. This is a profile. Yeah, this is a profile. Right, okay.
17:58No tough ones. I mean, look, I don't think this stuff matters. You were just talking, you and I before, a lot of people in California, there's not as much of a political culture, you're saying, well, particularly in Los Angeles. But, I mean, it's got to have some impact, at least for, you know, among the activist base for people who are paying attention, right? It's been a really nutty race. So this is the first time in 20 years that we've entered a gubernatorial election without an establishment frontrunner candidate from the get go. OK. And, you know, we had Jerry Brown and then you had Gavin Newsom.
18:34And that's sort of been this sort of line of succession that we've had in California. When this race started, there was no everyone was waiting on Kamala Harris. Is she going to run? She ends up saying no. Eleni Kunalakis, who was the lieutenant governor and scion of a rich family, they thought maybe she would be the heir apparent. She was getting absolutely no traction in the governor poll. She moved to run for state treasurer. They tried to dragoon Alex Padilla in the race. That didn't work out. He didn't come in. So there was just this emptiness in terms of usually this is a very machine. You mentioned machine.
19:11It's like a machine state. They just they they anoint somebody. Finally, the consultant class around Newsom, around Brown, they move to Eric Swalwell. And then almost the day after Eric Swalwell implodes, many of those consultants say, hey, how about Javier Becerra? He was he was in the race. He was kind of languishing at four percent, five percent in the polls. And they just run to him. And so they're trying to recreate this sort of establishment, you know, eat your peas kind of philosophy. But with someone who obviously is is not a very articulate spokesman for the Democratic cause. He's got zero juice.
19:56Yeah. And so we had this weird story of you. You saw all of a sudden as Swalwell drops out this massive kind of social media campaign to say it's Becerra now. I definitely saw it. Did you? Yeah. I noticed that in real time being extremely inorganic. And it now appears that it certainly was inorganic. Yeah. It completely vanished within a week. Like, there's no such thing as an organic, like, Becerra-mentum campaign that just all of a sudden people are like, actually, never mind. So is somebody going to go to jail for this? Because people in Becerra's orbit have, like, gone to jail. Well, to be honest, I mean, Steyer's paying influencers.
20:37Yeah, we'll get them. Don't worry. There's inorganic all the way down, right? So maybe it's illegal-ish? I mean, it depends if you disclose it. I don't think there are any rules here on the Wild West. So did that really, like, did that get people to say, okay, you know what, I guess it is Becerra? I think you can't divorce it from, frankly, the identity politics at the heart of this. California has about 40 percent Latino voters. And there was kind of this this dust up that happened in March that almost prefigures this is when Swalwell's still in the race. They said, OK, there was a USC debate and they said, we're going to take the top vote.
21:20You know, people top in the polls and top in fundraising and they're going to run. and it was all the white people. And everyone who was shut out of that race was Asian, African-American, or Latino. And that race, that debate ends up getting canceled. Cancel culture. Yeah. And so when Becerra kind of gets anointed, I think there's this sense that, okay, we're better than having just a bunch of white people that are in the mix here. We've got this white Hispanic guy. We've got this other guy. Yeah, exactly. So I do think there's an identity aspect to this. Okay, that's well said. All right, let's get to our own Griffin, our producer, confronted Tom Steyer over the paid influencers.
22:09Let's get to it. I think people have a problem with billionaires because they feel like that wealth should be redistributed elsewhere, but also because people feel like billionaires are a threat to our democracy. Now, some of your opponents have accused you of paying for influencer campaigns, paying influencers to promote your campaign. Are you paying influencers? We have never paid for an endorsement. We pay people for their time. They're small business people. They can put up whatever they want. Has any of it been negative? I don't read it. I don't follow it, honestly. And it could be, and that's not the problem.
22:44We do this, and so does everybody else. It's just we do it openly, and we report everything. And so the Becerra campaign, which has been running from answering questions from people like you, who've been running not to talk to reporters, not to answer questions from Californians, is saying, oh, you know, they're trying to change the subject. The topic in California is the people of California and why it's not working for the people of California when the state as a whole is killing it. That is the question. And they're scared to talk about that. So you don't think if someone accepts money from the campaign that they would pull questions, do softball interviews?
23:23Obviously, they're going to do positive content about you. Look, they can do whatever they want, but we're not paying anyone for endorsements or outcomes. Couldn't there be a bad billionaire that comes along and floods the race with influencers that are getting money from the campaign? Isn't that a dangerous precedent? Well, let me put it this way. There have been billionaires who've run in California before, and they've always lost. There you go. That'll get used a lot. Yeah. The outcome. Yeah, he did a good job, Griffin. He held his feet to the fire. Steyer's like, well, you know, we don't pay for the endorsement.
23:53We just pay a lot of money. And then they happen to endorse us. Yeah. He's not wrong. Everybody does it. It's yeah. I mean, certainly that was kind of a ridiculous conversation. But I mean, the kernel of truth is that Becerra doesn't really hold a lot of meetings with folks. And And Steyer actually started this campaign by doing a ton of town halls. I've been to a few of them. And they are, to my knowledge, completely unscripted. In fact, I know it because I know people that ask questions. And he answers an hour and a half of questions off the top of his head. So Steyer is, you know, he has afforded the ability to try to run a retail politics in California because he has$200 million back.
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24:43He doesn't have to raise money. He doesn't have to do that. He doesn't have to do that. Exactly. Right. So, yeah. The other insidious part of this is that what he's saying there and what people understand is that he's like, no, no, I'm not telling them what to say. I'm hiring people, the unspoken part, who are already saying nice things about me to continue to say nice things about me. And what and that's the insidious part is that it then encourages countless influencers besides the ones that he has hired to just voluntarily say nice things about Steyer with a pick me. Kind of a money grab. Come pay me.
25:17Like, please pay me and I'll keep doing this. Right. So the whole thing's gross. But so let's talk about Steve Hilton for a second. So he's the Republican who's hoping. Oh, wait. Yes. Yes. Steve Hilton. So he's hoping that he's going to like crack into the top two here. He's got this Chad Bianco opponent who's trailing him. Let's roll this clip from Steve Hilton, kind of encouraging Bianco supporters to get behind him. It's a very, very tight race. Three people competing for two spots in the general election. Myself, Javier Becerra, and Tom Steyer. Tom Steyer is catching up. there is absolutely no guarantee that we're going to get a Republican in the top two.
26:03In fact, it's now looking more and more likely that we'll have two Democrats in the top two. I know that many Republicans were holding on to the hope that we might have two Republicans in the top two, myself and Chad, and then we're guaranteed change in California. But if that was ever possible, it's certainly not possible today. You just have to look at the math. This is not personal. It's not about me or Chad or our qualities or our record or anything like that. It's about the future of California. And if we don't get a Republican in the top two, we have no chance for change. So this is because of the jungle primary system.
26:41Bianco's got about 10%, as we showed a little bit earlier. If that were to combine with Hilton, then he would be the winner, or at least, you know, he'd get to the top two. Right. And, you know, there was a lot of fear from Democrats early on in this race that we would actually have two Republicans because you have pretty much eight viable Democrats at one point that were running and two viable Republicans. And you do the math. And if it was an even split among the Republicans, it would be hard for Democrats to unless they consolidate the field on their own. But when Trump endorsed Steve Hilton, that was the end of the race for the Republicans.
27:17essentially. Trump endorses Steve Hilton. Bianco falls down. And now there's no way to box out the Democrats. Got it. And at that point, it was, you know, I mean, Steve Hilton's talking about, I think it is important for other reasons that, you know, from a Republican perspective, they get in the top two. There's a billionaire tax on the ballot in November. And that's going to be bad for turnout. That's good. There are a lot of contested seats in the House in November. That's going to be bad for them if they have no standard bear at the top of the ticket. That is a very important point, is that they'll have even less incentive to come out to vote if there's not a single Republican in the top two.
27:58Absolutely. And so it is important from that perspective for the party, but there's no way that a Steve Hilton wins a one-on-one matchup against Becerra. It's like a kiss of death. So why hasn't Bianco dropped out and endorsed Hilton? What's going on? I mean, Bianco's kind of in his own world. And he's not going to. Like today's election day. Well, and the thing is, even if you dropped out now, he'd still be on the ballot. There are 61 gubernatorial candidates on the ballot. It runs over two pages of the ballot. One of the sort of hidden things here, I think, is there's going to be a lot of ballot spoilation.
28:40What does that mean? It means that people are either going to vote for nobody because they can't find their candidate among the 61 or they're on two pages. So like, oh, I'll vote for one here and I'll vote for one over here. And there's going to be undervotes and there's going to be overvotes and there's going to be a lot of ballots thrown out. Wow. The other thing that you're going to see as the numbers come in is Democrats held their ballots to a degree that was fairly unprecedented in Democrat politics. Everybody gets a ballot from the state by mail at the beginning of the cycle 30 days ago.
29:20Typically, they come back. Some come back early, some come back later. What we see, because we can track this, Democrats were not turning back their ballots because they wanted to wait to see where the polls were, who people were going towards. Because Democrats were still scared about a top two that locked out Democrats that would be Republican, Republican general election. And you can't do a write in ballot, by the way, in in under the top two system. So they were waiting to see what was going to happen. And in the last weekend, twice as many ballots as in the previous 25 days were sent in. Wow.
29:58Um, they're now, it's now tracking higher than the 2022 election, higher than the 2018 election, which was a contested, a gubernatorial primary at the top. So, um, so now we're starting to see, but however, the way the votes are going to be counted, we're going to count all those ballots that came in earlier, which were disproportionately Republican. So on, at, at, as votes, some of them before Trump's endorsement, some, no, not, not, they actually weren't. But so when the polls close tonight, Hilton's going to be the lead. Got it. But how long are we? How long is this going to take? Weeks. Ridiculous.
30:37OK, can we get it? Why? Why does this take so long? They're trying to streamline it. But well, I mean, actually, it's a very interesting thing because the Supreme Court kind of changed the game on this. It used to be that your ballot had to be postmarked. Right. By Election Day. And it would count. So some of those ballots come in five days, six days, seven days, ten days later, and you've got to count them. Now the Supreme Court ruled that actually the ballot has to show up on Election Day. And there was a lot of chatter among – in my circles, among Democrats. You actually have to send – you can't send your ballot through the mail after a week ago.
31:16Send it to the vote center. Send it to the ballot. Like go to the ballot box and then physically drop it in. So I think there's also going to be a lot of people who didn't learn that and their ballot isn't going to count. So there's like a lot of weird factors in this race. What do you think this is bullish for? If you like bullish for the last week? That's a good question. I mean, I think lower information voters who don't know where to find their guy on the ballot, who don't sort of follow directions very well and are marking multiple ballots or who don't understand. And like you could drop it in the mail and it just doesn't show up and you don't get counted.
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34:00What would you eat if you had to start over? Real simple, poor man's, poor woman's food. Black beans, chicken, rice, plantains. That's poor people's food, man. but being Nigerian, that's, come on, a go-to. On the podcast Eating While Broke, I sit down with celebrities, entrepreneurs, and creators as they revisit the meals they once relied on and the moments that shaped their journey. Named Best Food Podcast at the 2026 iHeart Podcast Awards, this show is all about real conversations on money, growth, and what it really takes to make it. It was times where me and Lex were like definitely getting into it because we're not making any money.
34:39Like, I need to start making money. Like, why are we doing this? But I don't know. I think we just always knew that we had something really good. And eventually people were going to catch on. And so we just thugged it out. The full season is available to binge right now. Listen to Eating While Broke from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I wanted to get your sense on a couple of the California house races. First of all, for people who don't know, New Jersey, Adam Hamaway versus Sue Altman. That's kind of the biggest kind of house race being watched.
35:17The Montana race, too. Yeah, Montana. Forsteg. Forsteg has AOC's endorsement, but probably splits the progressive vote and loses. It's going to be interesting. Put up E7 here. We have a whole bunch of different races, house races. You've got San Francisco. we got shortcut chakrabarty scott weiner and connie chan yeah um quick quickly on that one um how do you see how do you see that one well i was up aoc's former chief of staff connie chan has uh is progressive but has nancy pelosi's endorsement shifts endorsement um and so people like i i went up there and actually talked all three of them uh for a piece did a few weeks ago, that was at a time when Chan was hoping that labor was going to drag her across the finish line to get into second place.
36:13She was being massively outspent. I think Chakrabarty has put 10 million in his own money and Wiener has about 4 million plus a lot of super PAC support. But in the last few weeks, when Pelosi endorsed, that was a signal, right? You guys can come in. And she's gotten, you've reported on some of the super PAC help that she's gotten. I think it's more that there's San Francisco is a city of neighborhoods. And she, you know, is big in the Richmond, a sort of more working class, somewhat more conservative, even though she's running as a progressive. and Asian-American, heavily Asian-American. It's hard to pull.
36:59So she's kind of been neck and neck with Chakrabarty for second place. Everyone believes Wiener's going to get to the runoff. I think she has actually a pretty good shot of getting in second. I think so, too. And we reported over the weekend that one of these super PACs backing her, that network, had gotten APAC money. Right. And it's created this big controversy. It's not just her race. There are actually three races in California that have gotten money from the EDW fund. Is the other one Randy Villegas? One of them is Randy Villegas, where Jasmine Baines. So this is a really interesting race because there are only three people on the ballot.
37:35So two of those three are getting in. One is the incumbent, David Valdeo. This is a swing seat, but it's a weird swing seat. It's not a swing seat. Like Bakersfield, right? Yes, it's Central Valley. It's one of the poorest seats in the entire country. It's one of the highest concentrations of Medicaid in the entire country. Valdeo famously voted, said he would not vote for Medicaid cuts and then did vote for Medicaid cuts. So he's in huge trouble in this race. And it's 73 percent Hispanic. Democrats have never run a Hispanic candidate in this race, which is crazy, right? Because they love identity politics.
38:13Right. Except here. So Villegas is one, but he's progressive populist endorsed by Bernie. And Denny Pollack's unless you're a populist. Right. Yeah. And Jasmeet Baines is Indian American. She's a conservative member of the state assembly. She's voted in. She voted against Prop 50, which is crazy. She voted against, you know, the the offset of the Texas gerrymander. But she also has voted substantively in a host of ways with corporate interests. She actually has received corporate PAC money from this from 53 of the same PACs that Valadeo has received corporate PAC money from. And so this is a support of Washington Democrats like the D triple C.
38:57DCCC came in, put her on the Red to Blue program. That incensed locals in the district who actually had been, you know, sort of the local Democratic clubs and stuff, had been on Villegas' side. So this is a real soul of the party race. I think it's one of the most interesting races on the ballot. who can win in a swing seat, but a very particular kind of swing seat. Is it a progressive populace who can grow the base and who can speak to the actual depravity that is going on in the district? Or is it the usual find a moderate, find a corporate Democrat and win? And this is a fascinating race where Jasmine Baines had said that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza.
39:40And then the DCCC and Democratic majority for Israel come in to support her. And She's like, oh, I misheard the question. I don't mean that. Did I say genocide? I forgot. It's not as if she doesn't know what a genocide is. She famously sponsored a resolution in California declaring the massacre of like 30 ,000 to 50 ,000 Sikhs in India to be a genocide. Right. Yeah. So that's a genocide. Right. Interesting. But multiples of that. Then we've got Amar Kampanajar. He probably. I did this is so this race I have some connection to because I spend part of my year in in Palm Springs and in Prop 50. They changed the district.
40:24So this was Daryl Isis district. It was based in San Diego. So in the gerrymander, they took a little sliver and went up to Palm Springs and made that part of the district, which is a Democratic vote sink. So I was there in the last week and I saw no evidence that there was an election going on. Uh, all of the candidates are from the San Diego part of the district. The Democrats, I was at multiple events where, you know, people who are Democrats, uh, are, are all over the place and a Democrat should be there to try to get votes in the last week before the election. And they, no one was there and nothing, uh, uh, was, was involved.
41:04The only person, uh, you know, it was about half dozen Democrats running the only one with any connection to Palm Springs. His only previous race was for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. So not much connection to the Democratic part of the district. And, you know, Kampanajar, it's kind of a comical story. Every two years he runs. He runs in a different way. He's the boyfriend of Sarah Jacobs. Sarah Jacobs' family, heir to the Qualcomm fortune, has put together a huge super PAC on his behalf. That's very nice. That's very sweet. They're not even married. There is a very strong possibility that the top two Republicans that we are fear that, you know, Democrats are fearing in the in the gubernatorial race, that that happens in this race.
41:50There are two Republicans running and about seven or eight Democrats. And this is one of the five seats that under Prop 50 Democrats thought they were going to pick up. And when ISA dropped out, they thought even more so. But Democrats found or Republicans found a viable alternative, a city councilor from or a county supervisor in San Diego named Jim Desmond. And he's going to be a tough out even if if a Democrat makes the top two. And then, you know, there's this dynamic where they might actually split the vote and not succeed. Number one hits, millions of records sold, awards, sold out tours.
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43:58What would you eat if you had to start over? Real simple, poor man's, poor woman's food. Black beans, chicken, rice, plantains. Yeah. That's poor people's food, man. But being Nigerian, that's, come on, a go-to. On the podcast Eating While Broke, I sit down with celebrities, entrepreneurs, and creators as they revisit the meals they once relied on and the moments that shaped their journey. named Best Food Podcast at the 2026 iHeart Podcast Awards. This show is all about real conversations on money, growth, and what it really takes to make it. It was times where me and Lex were like definitely get into it because we're not making any money.
44:37Like I need to start making money. Like why are we doing this? But I don't know. I think we just always knew that we had something really good and eventually people were going to catch on. And so we just thugged it out. The full season is available to binge right now. Listen to Eating While Broke from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we got to go to L.A. Mayor while we still have you. All right, let's do this all quickly. We can start. We have some of the closing ads from the major candidates here. We've got Spencer Pratt, the online sensation.
45:12Let's take a listen. I want to speak to those of you who are considering voting for Nithya Raman but haven't yet. Obviously, you and I are in the same place. We all agree that Karen Bass has failed the city as mayor and we need change. What's Karen Bass not doing? And for a moment, you thought Nithya would be an alternative. But since she collapsed at the debate, I don't, I'm not sure how to respond. And she's run a very weak campaign. She's doing live streams with the hateful, radical anti-Semite Hassan Piker, who believes we deserve 9-11. You've accepted the reality that she's not going to advance past the runoff.
45:47At this point, voting for Nithya is a wasted vote. It's me versus Karen. It's change versus more of the same. More homeless drug addicts in front of your schools. More animals being tortured and killed on the streets and in her city shelters. More empty reservoirs when the wildfires hit. More potholes. More of your favorite restaurants going out of business. No new housing getting built. You can either vote for me to change all that insanity, or you can see Karen Bass visit more destruction on our city, and you can watch your social group erode as your friends move to Nashville or Miami or Austin.
46:18It's no longer a question about me or Nithya or Karen. Nithya has no path to victory now. She talks about the city being broken, but she's been in city leadership for six years and failed to do anything. She is incredibly unpopular in her own district. She's not managed to accomplish anything in city council. And she's been the chair of the Homelessness and Housing Committee for years. She's literally the one in charge of homelessness in LA. How's she doing, folks? Look around. All of us know Nithya doesn't have it in her. interesting, you know, Spencer Pratt there basically trying to pitch to the leftists who would support Nitya Raman, but also going after Hassan Piker.
46:54Not really a strategy I would go with for the DSA crowd. To try to get on the street. Yeah, no, exactly. He should be like, you know, just don't vote for her because we all hate Karen Bass. And this is a message for that. So, I mean, what do you make? You know, you live in the area, the Pratt phenomenon, which you're saying is entirely online. I'm inclined to believe you, but tell us about it. I feel it's a pretty online phenomenon. I mean, I think that Californians or Los Angelinos are definitely dissatisfied with Karen Bass. And when the race was setting up, it looked like nobody sort of viable was going to challenge her.
47:34Pratt has sort of leveraged the online stuff. And Raman was not expected to run. She actually it was a surprise run at the very last minute about, you know, an hour before the registration closed. Wow. She comes in and decides to run. And she's you know, she was the first candidate of DSA to win a city council district. She beats a sort of middle of the road guy in that district. But she is sort of broken with DSA on certain issues, particularly around housing. but other issues as well. Interesting. And she didn't get their endorsement, but I think DSA said they'd recommend her. There is actually a DSA member who is running, a woman named Rae Huang, who Raman has sort of behind the scenes been trying to push out of the race.
48:28She's asked her to get out of the race. But she's refusing to do so. Yeah, no, Huang is still in the race. So I feel like strategically Basically, there are a lot of Democrats thinking, OK, Bass, you know, is an incumbent. She's she's damaged goods, but she's probably going to get into the runoff. So I'm sitting here. My choices are either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman. So we can have the conversation of who would be better for California and Los Angeles later. And we vote for Raman there. The latest poll actually shows it almost a three way tie. Interesting. Bass at, I think, 26, Rahman at 25, and Pratt at 22.
49:12That's the last major poll I saw. It'd be funny if strategic voting ended up pushing Bass to third. Yeah, it'd be funny. With a bunch of Bass supporters end up voting for Rahman. It could happen. Are there Republican districts that creep into L.A.? Because if there's two Democrats on the mayor's ballot, that also diminishes. Los Angeles is a big, I mean, in terms of when you're thinking about it, it's not just the city itself, but actually parts of the San Fernando Valley, which are more conservative. 30 % of LA voted for Trump. Like, I feel like that's totally lost in some of this discussion.
49:45They're like, oh my gosh, 30 % support Trump. I'm like, yeah, there's Republicans in Los Angeles. It's not 100 % Democratic. Particularly, I mean, when you talk about the San Fernando Valley, it's like basically suburban. So that area, you do have pockets of Republican support. That makes sense. So if two Dems make the L.A. runoff, that's like and also two Dems in the gubernatorial. That's even more so for particularly for the last for the billionaire tax in particular. That that would be a major factor. And it could very well happen. I mean, you know, I think there's a perspective when you think about national politics that, you know, this race, I've seen it compared to the New York City mayor's race.
50:28Like you have an Indian American, you know, Democratic socialist going up against an ossified kind of leader who hasn't been very effective. That's not how it's playing out. If there were any Zoran of the race, it would be Spencer. However. But yeah, I mean, I would in terms of his ability with national profile in terms of his ability to get attention and things like Raman has has run. You know, she wasn't well known, particularly to the very Democratic communities on the west side. She's from Hollywood area and she's run a fairly dispirited race. Like, I haven't seen a big groundswell support.
51:09I've seen more of that groundswell in specific city council races where DSA is going up against incumbents rather than with the mayor's race itself. We have some of her last pitch. Let's take a listen. This city is a beacon of hope and opportunity for so many around the world. But today, Angelenos are losing hope. High housing costs, job loss, tens of thousands of people living on the streets, the terror of ICE, and a complete lack of preparation for emergencies. We have a mayor who has failed to leave this city. And on the other hand, a right-wing extremist powered by MAGA is channeling people's frustrations about this city into fear and anger and hatred.
51:51They're relying on your indifference. We can bring LA back to what it really is, one of the most creative, most beautiful, most hopeful places in the world, but only if we come together and fight for it. Every single vote matters on June 2nd, because this city's future is absolutely worth fighting for. And I know, I know, we can build that future together.
52:19Why would they zoom out on that crowd? It's like the smallest crowd ever. 50 people can't be wrong. It's like campaign 101, man. All right. I mean, in terms of what I'm looking at right now, odds, et cetera, it does look like it might be Pratt or Pratt Bass. But you seem to think that there's a decent enough shot of her. I think there's a decent shot that she advances. It's it's a difficult race. I mean, I think Los Angeles is going through problems that are beyond the political system. Hollywood collapsing. Yeah. This is an industry town where the industry is gone. It's basically a Rust Belt community.
52:54If you think about it in that sense. But like in an ongoing sense. Yeah. I mean, I know so many people. I came from doing TV production. I know so many people have just left or gotten into another job. Then why does your real estate market keep going up? Well, it's a different issue. I mean, there's still a sort of storehouse of wealth, but there isn't the sort of middle class wealth that came not just from Hollywood, but also from aerospace, which those factories have closed, too. I mean, that's more historical and goes back 40, 50, 60 years. But more recently, runaway production and sort of the end of peak TV has made it really difficult for Los Angeles to maintain.
53:38Homeless population is actually down in Bass's four-year term. But the Palisades fire has become this huge avatar for her. And the inability to rebuild after that has been really debilitating. I mean, it's fair. I think it's fair. It's definitely a fair. Last thing here, closing message from Karen Bash. She was doing an interview. Let's take a listen. Well, I think for the undecided voters to understand that they have a choice to make. And that choice is a reality TV villain? Really? How did that work for us on a national level? That's one choice. The other choice is a city council person who's been in city hall twice as long as I have.
54:17To me, that's one of the most important issues in our city is people feeling safe. You can't feel safe that there's an encampment there. It's not safe for the people in the encampment, and it's not safe for the people around. How do you do business? Yeah, I mean, a little Prattian rhetoric there. I don't really, I mean, I don't know what's going on with this whole thing. But look, I don't get it, David. I think there's a through line. It looks like she's going to win. I think there's a through line with Bass and Becerra, actually. And it's a certain style of political leadership that you see in California that they don't get really tested in very many races.
54:55They're kind of anointed. They're moved through the system. And, you know, not having being effective is not a hindrance to moving up through the institution. It's a classic machine problem. That's a real problem, I think, in California politics. And why I think you're seeing most Democrats, I think, just sort of underwhelmed by the choices in front of them and really despairing of what they have to deal with. Now, I would say that Steyer is actually speaking to some of the real issues in the state. He's talking about Prop 13 and how that has created this historical underfunding problem, particularly for local communities.
55:42So he's talking about changing the commercial property valuations. He's talking about health care becoming too expensive and needing to move to a single payer system. He's talking about some of the things that historically, I think, would help Democrats actually move into a better place. But yeah, I think there's a larger problem in California where, you know, not knowing anything is not a development that is going to be a problem for you in politics. And that's, I think, the larger thing that we're going to see play out today. If people talk about breaking up California just to get some extra senators, break it up because it's kind of a failed experiment.
56:26Start over. Break it up. I like it. I like it, Ryan. I like this idea. I mean, it's sad because, you know, you have the master plan of education. You have real advances in the environmental sector and renewable energy. You have the fact of non-compete agreements creating a burgeoning amount of innovation from Silicon Valley. There are the elements here for really an incredible continuing series of innovation and change and a sort of way in which California can lead the way. It's just its political system is kind of inert. Sad. Very sad, even though it is the most, in my opinion, the most beautiful state.
57:09Quite beautiful. All right. Thank you so much, David, for joining us. We appreciate your time, man. It really was great to do a deep dive into all this. We have a big audience in California, so they'll be happy that we finally spent a lot of time on it. Thanks, man. Appreciate your time. Thanks. Thank you very much, Ryan. Appreciate you, man. Dave. Yep. And you, Dave, who's still here. We were pretending that he's not, but it's okay. I've just been here the whole time. It's TV magic. They'll be Ryan and Emily on tomorrow, so they'll see you then.
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