Feb. 23, 2026
Gov. Newsom's (Cringey) Attempt to Relate: I Have Low SAT Scores
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Gavin Newsom is facing major backlash while out promoting his new book where he discusses his dyslexia. Newsom told an Atlanta audience that he was like them, and no better than them because he was a “960 SAT guy…. You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.” Several people have strong reactions to Newsom’s comments, including Nicki Minaj, who said his way of bonding with black people “is to tell them how stupid he is & he can’t read.””
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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Monday, February twenty third, and Governor Gavin Newsom apparently has just stepped in it. There is a video out there that's been seen by millions upon millions of people. The accusation is that in that video he seems to be trying to relate to black people by saying, see, look, I'm an idiot too. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tej. That was so you make that face. I mean, I think that was pretty accurate, that is to being accused of.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it made me cringe because the idea of it is awful, so terrible.
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Speaker 3: And you mentioned how many views I last saw it was up to thirty five million views.
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Speaker 2: This video has gone viral of Gavin Newsom, and yes, he says, I'm like you, you know, I'm like a nine to sixty SAT guy. He says he can't read.
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Speaker 3: It was awful.
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Speaker 1: So to give you some context here in just a second, we will let you hear it. But also we will actually let you hear I'll read it for you. The response from Nicki Minaj, of all people, she has come out swinging she's a newly minted maga. I guess we could call her, but we also who else has jumped into this. Sean Hannity is in the mid well, Actually, Sean, isn't it crazy? Sean Hannity, Gavin Newsom, NICKI Minaj Sean Hannity comes out looking best in this whole situation, as crazy as that sounds, but yeah, we're here from her. But Gavin Newsom has a response to all this, which I thought was was kind of wow. We talk about our current president roads in some of the language he often uses, Well, the guy who wants to be our next president doesn't mind throwing around some pretty harsh language at times as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he has been dropping f bombs.
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Speaker 2: You know, we saw that with Mayor Fry as well, Jacob Fry in Minneapolis when he got upset about what was happening, understandably so, but he started dropping F bombs at a press conference.
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Speaker 3: With families watching.
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Speaker 2: You know, I feel like we're, yeah, we're at this point now where we just certain folks think it's perfectly fine to fight fire with fire.
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Speaker 1: Including those who yes, want to be the next president of the United States. But we'll let you know. Event was last night in Atlanta, Georgia, State University. Gavin Newsom is on his book tours not in front of me, and it's slipping my mind. What's the name of his book.
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Speaker 2: His book is A young Man in a Hurry, young Man memoir of discovery.
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Speaker 1: All right, So he's on this book door. His latest stop was in Atlanta. He was at Georgia State University at the Theater on campus and he was being interviewed fireside chat type of thing, right road, so makes with the mayor, the black mayor of Atlanta, which should be said, and that's going to be relevant to this story, but he was I guess I want to put in right context what the question was. We don't have a verbatim, but it was kind of a long, meandering, kind of general question about a bunch of things coming up, and he threw in dyslexia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, because that is a part of his book where he talks about how as a young man he found out he was dyslexic. And it made sense because even to this day he's trying to explain he basically wasn't a great student, is what he was saying. And so he said, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. Oh and we have him saying it actually himself Orbatims. That's hilarious that I was even going to try to do it.
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Speaker 1: Here's Gavin Newsom himself in Atlanta last night, and this is the part of the video that's got everybody buzz.
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Speaker 4: It's all out there, and I just want to put it all out there. I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you, I'm no better than you.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 5: I'm a nine to sixty SAT guy and you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there. If you got nine forty, but literally a nine sixty SAT guy, I cannot you you've never seen me read a speech, because I cannot read a speech.
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Speaker 1: All right, it's woo all right through what lens are people listening and seeing that? I guess to well determine what your opinion is. Can you just brush that off? No big deal? Can you be fired up about it? I guess you legit on both sides if you want.
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Speaker 2: To be look, I understand on one side, yes, Governor Newsom was trying to be relatable. He was trying to be one of the people. You know, I'm not just this ivy league smart guy. But when you try to connect with people, and how you connect with them is tell them that you're stupid too, or that you aren't so good at reading two. I mean, if he just stopped for one second and thought about what he was saying and who he was saying it to, that's how you're relating to someone by saying I'm dumb too.
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Speaker 3: That's tough. That's hard to explain.
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Speaker 2: And even if he didn't mean harm, it felt like it was just a part.
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Speaker 3: Of who he is.
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Speaker 1: Well, what does it say about who he's talking to? Can you imagine him and being in a particular room of elites and speaking that way. I'm just saying, hey, I'm like you, I'm a nine sixty guy. What was it about the audience he was seeing That he wasn't under the impression that there was a way they could be elevated, that they could be brighter, that they could be something more, and that he was the idiot in the room. But he even went far. You said, you were shocked by it was crazy too. He went the wrong direction, I don't mean to offend, right, And then he went low.
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Speaker 2: When he said I didn't mean to offend, I thought, oh, here he goes. He's gonna say, look, I'm sure most of you made way over nine sixty, you know, and just of assumed that the audience was smarter than him.
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Speaker 3: I thought he was going to correct what he might have caught.
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Speaker 2: That somehow he was insinuating the audience was at his level, which he was saying wasn't bright. So I thought, oh, here he goes, he's going to say, which, of course, I'm sure most of you scored far better than me. No, he actually said, didn't want any of you who made nine forty to think I was thinking I was all that.
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Speaker 3: So he actually told the audience out there, he was speaking to them who got lower than a nine sixty. That made my jaw drop.
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Speaker 1: Did you do act or SAT?
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Speaker 3: I did SAT?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not even sure what's a good SAT score.
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Speaker 3: It's changed over the years.
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Speaker 1: Okay, where back then? I don't know what range. I have no idea.
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Speaker 2: I know I got a partial scholarship because of mine.
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Speaker 1: But generally speaking in scores, when he says nine sixty, I don't know what that means. Is the top number? Two thousand is the top number. Fifteen hundred, that's what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen hundred is top. And I actually, funny enough, I I don't have it in front of you. But when I was reading the backlash and the people writing articles about this particular thing, they were saying that the average SAT score is like ten sixty eight or something right now, so it's nothing.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't that far below that. No, the average, that is what we're saying. Okay, so what was it about the audience. But a lot of people took this and this is why Sean Hannity posted this video in the first place, just saying, Wow, this guy is saying he's like you because he can't read and blah blah blah, and folks took off with it. Now, he responded, Robes, you have that in front of you. I did to Sean Hannity again, Shawn's was a very short you know you have his there Shawn's first, because this is important.
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Speaker 2: Sean Hannity wrote, at Gavin Newsom thinks a nine to sixty SAT makes him.
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Speaker 3: Like black Americans. Let that sink in.
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Speaker 1: All right, so you understood maybe what he was saying aware was going or whatever, and then Gavin Newsom went nuclear.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom respond to Sean Hannity with this, you didn't give a shit about the President of the United States of America posting an eighth video of President Obama or calling African nations shitholes, But you're going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia.
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Speaker 3: Spare me your fake fucking outrage.
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Speaker 1: Sean, what do you think about that?
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Speaker 3: That was expletive written?
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Speaker 1: He touched a nerve and it was a Did that one look like it was well thought out? It does like he was a rapid fire.
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Speaker 2: That was a rapid fire emotional response to what he perceived he was being called a racist by Sean Hannity.
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Speaker 1: Which he was not. I guess you could not not wing wing. But Sean pointed out, I don't know, Rose. You didn't have to tell me who was in the audience. To be honest with you, if he whatever audience he was speaking to, I would have asked you who who does he think of the collection of idiots.
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Speaker 2: You make such a good point because as soon as you said that, imagine he said that same speech, or he gave that same speech to a Wall Street luncheon where you've got, you know, the biggest bankers in the world all sitting there.
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Speaker 3: You think he would have said the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say. Women. Could you imagine him talking to a women's group.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Yep, hadn't thought about that either. But you also make a good point.
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Speaker 1: Insert any group you want.
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Speaker 3: It's insulting.
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Speaker 1: It is a group of seniors in high school. It's insulting. So I don't know what And then he probably wishes that he didn't say it. It was inarticulate and how he went about it. Maybe he did, yes, But he has the problem with him and these types of stories they fit somewhat of a narrative about him. Yeah, that makes sense. He's in elite. Look at the hair, look at his family, look at his background, look at this and look at people can point to. And I don't think this is the biggest deal in the world, obviously Rose, but you can see how this would come back to bite him and folks use this as some kind of exam of what they want to paint him as.
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Speaker 2: Oh campaign, Oh yes, And it's been interesting because Yes, a lot of people have gone off on what he said and now have pulled up pictures of him on the San Francisco Chronicle in nineteen ninety one, pictured as children of the rich and just showing his privileged upbringing and who his father did business with the gettys. Like now it's all coming up and out. And I thought it was interesting what newsom spokesperson said when asked about the backlash, like completely dismissed it and said Maga manufactured outrage, and then said Governor Newsom has told this story to many different audiences, including conservative ones.
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Speaker 3: The story about his SAT score. But the question is why did he Did he say SAT score? Did he talk about literacy? Did he talk about his he talked about his dyslexia.
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Speaker 2: But I think most people would argue that that specific choice he made to that audience has to at least be examined.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody's digging up clip. The dude talks in front of a camera twelve hours out of each day for the past decade plus, so if he's done this before in front of a crowd, I'm sure I'm surprised. Again, I hadn't seen that statement from his people, it's kind of weird.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no wow. Upon hearing that, that sounds like I would. Would you appreciate him saying, or at least his spokesperson saying that, here's his what his intention was. But we can absolutely see how that is being interpreted and our apologies.
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Speaker 1: So what do you do then? Then you give folks an opportunity to say, see, you were wrong or but there's a certain segment of the population you and I included, I think the majority. If someone would just come out and say, wow, man, I look at that back, that sounds awful. Sorry to that room. Didn't mean to have been. That's not what I was trying to say, But I understand, like it's kind of easy.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to examine how I you know, how I consider what an implication could be. And I apologize that sounds. Listening to it back, I'm cringing like I would. I would so appreciate that. But is that not allowed these days?
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Speaker 1: No F bombs are better on X And he wasn't the only one dropping some strong language on X whole Yes, newly minted Macca Nicki Minaj she had something to say about the dear goods all right, folks, I'm I'm sorry, I'm laughing because you couldn't hear me. I said, I can't see. I'm tired. I was trying to I couldn't get my eyes.
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Speaker 2: Adjusted to guess that happens when you're tired and when you're old.
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Speaker 3: I'm both.
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Speaker 1: So I feel tired. No, yes, I'm just tired. But uh, Nicki Minad, I don't need to see a read a script about this one. Look, Nicki Minaj has been very supportive of the president the past what month. She's been out there making appearances, doing events, but fully full on maga. But she has been in a words with Gavin Newsom for a while. She doesn't Oh, yes, she calls him some funny little Uh it's mean, but she says in a cute way. It's some nickname she asks for him. Anyway, she's always going after this guy. But she went after him after this video got out of that event in Atlanta, And yeah, we shouldn't be surprised by this. I guess right.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got my glasses on so I can read Nikki's post because it's better just to let you all hear exactly how she wrote it. His way of bonding with black people is to tell them how stupid he is and that he can't read. This means my first read on him was correct. He's been handed so many things and put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to know.
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Speaker 2: The craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever. He's literally slowing his speech down and talking in a sporadic cadence. He's not just telling them that they're all probably stupid and probably can't read. And then you put this in all caps. He's literally slow wing down is speech to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth. Three exclamation points, as if they're children, another three explanation points. That means he really believes they're slow. He's not just saying it. He didn't misspeak. He believes it. Do you love it? Do you just love it?
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Speaker 3: Black people?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Nikki, Nikki Nikki. Look, A lot of what she said is up for interpretation. If that's how she sees it, that's how she sees it. However, Nicki Minaj has absolutely hit on a nerve a point of history that you'll see some white politician show up at some black church in the South and all of a sudden they talking a lot. I'm what the actual get back to DC. We have seen this time and again. Sometimes it's not even just white politicians. We have been accused of this, folks. That a real thing. If you see it here in the gavenue someone or not, I don't know she did. But it's it's not that off base, is what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's sadly most likely UH an honest effort to try and relate, but it actually is, yes, quite offensive and patronizing.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine, well, you know, I was about to say something really really patronizing. And here's the last point about this whole story. Yes, the only video you see and the one that's gone viral and all the millions of hits, you see him sitting up there with the very black mayor of Atlanta. What you don't see is the audience. So Nigma Minaj says she's talking to any black crowd. This was at Georgia State University that is predominantly minority on campus overwhelmingly, but however roams. I've seen some video of the crowd and seen some video of the line.
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Speaker 3: Didn't look that black it looked it looked like a mixed crowd.
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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I've seen first it was all black, then I saw predominantly black.
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Speaker 3: Then I saw mixed crowd.
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Speaker 2: So I saw video, and I did see people were putting a video of white people in line of white people in the crowd. It wasn't a all black He didn't go in and say this at an all black church or something where he knew that this was an all black crime. So that is a very important point to make that A lot of people are saying, hey, wait a minute, now, whoever he was in that crowd.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure upon reflection you think, wait, what was he actually saying about me? You know, you could see that happening. Wait a minute, I didn't catch it at the time. You could hear people laughing. Even he was. He was trying to be self deprecating, but he took down the crowd with.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, not how you do it. You can't burn down the house man, That is ages he slipped up. It's okay, you can actually laugh about this. It's not the end of the world. But again, it goes with this storyline about him elitist.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's the problem is when you're trying to fight those notions and you can't shake the fact that you are one. It's a tough it's a tough road to travel down. Many politicians have done it, they figured it out. Kennedy's could be exhibit A. But you always do say that this is true, especially when it comes to politics. People need an enemy. And so when you say something, if you step in it, if you even go however, you get one person who's going to profit off of it in terms of just attention or votes, you can sure bet it's going to be it's going to have legs.
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Speaker 1: My god, who's the guy down and I just said he said He put out the tweet Randy Fine Yes down in Florida saying that he's waiting on Democrats to call for Gavin Newsom's resignation.
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Speaker 3: That's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: This is where we are. This is where we are, all right, folks. We always appreciate you spending some time with us. This was the lighter fare of options we had to talk. We had a lot to talk about. But man, it's been heavy. All right, folks, A pretty you're listening as always, I'm t J. That's rose talk sir Bang
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Monday, February twenty third, and Governor Gavin Newsom apparently has just stepped in it. There is a video out there that's been seen by millions upon millions of people. The accusation is that in that video he seems to be trying to relate to black people by saying, see, look, I'm an idiot too. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tej. That was so you make that face. I mean, I think that was pretty accurate, that is to being accused of.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it made me cringe because the idea of it is awful, so terrible.
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Speaker 3: And you mentioned how many views I last saw it was up to thirty five million views.
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Speaker 2: This video has gone viral of Gavin Newsom, and yes, he says, I'm like you, you know, I'm like a nine to sixty SAT guy. He says he can't read.
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Speaker 3: It was awful.
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Speaker 1: So to give you some context here in just a second, we will let you hear it. But also we will actually let you hear I'll read it for you. The response from Nicki Minaj, of all people, she has come out swinging she's a newly minted maga. I guess we could call her, but we also who else has jumped into this. Sean Hannity is in the mid well, Actually, Sean, isn't it crazy? Sean Hannity, Gavin Newsom, NICKI Minaj Sean Hannity comes out looking best in this whole situation, as crazy as that sounds, but yeah, we're here from her. But Gavin Newsom has a response to all this, which I thought was was kind of wow. We talk about our current president roads in some of the language he often uses, Well, the guy who wants to be our next president doesn't mind throwing around some pretty harsh language at times as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he has been dropping f bombs.
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Speaker 2: You know, we saw that with Mayor Fry as well, Jacob Fry in Minneapolis when he got upset about what was happening, understandably so, but he started dropping F bombs at a press conference.
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Speaker 3: With families watching.
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Speaker 2: You know, I feel like we're, yeah, we're at this point now where we just certain folks think it's perfectly fine to fight fire with fire.
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Speaker 1: Including those who yes, want to be the next president of the United States. But we'll let you know. Event was last night in Atlanta, Georgia, State University. Gavin Newsom is on his book tours not in front of me, and it's slipping my mind. What's the name of his book.
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Speaker 2: His book is A young Man in a Hurry, young Man memoir of discovery.
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Speaker 1: All right, So he's on this book door. His latest stop was in Atlanta. He was at Georgia State University at the Theater on campus and he was being interviewed fireside chat type of thing, right road, so makes with the mayor, the black mayor of Atlanta, which should be said, and that's going to be relevant to this story, but he was I guess I want to put in right context what the question was. We don't have a verbatim, but it was kind of a long, meandering, kind of general question about a bunch of things coming up, and he threw in dyslexia.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, because that is a part of his book where he talks about how as a young man he found out he was dyslexic. And it made sense because even to this day he's trying to explain he basically wasn't a great student, is what he was saying. And so he said, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. Oh and we have him saying it actually himself Orbatims. That's hilarious that I was even going to try to do it.
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Speaker 1: Here's Gavin Newsom himself in Atlanta last night, and this is the part of the video that's got everybody buzz.
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Speaker 4: It's all out there, and I just want to put it all out there. I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you, I'm no better than you.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 5: I'm a nine to sixty SAT guy and you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there. If you got nine forty, but literally a nine sixty SAT guy, I cannot you you've never seen me read a speech, because I cannot read a speech.
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Speaker 1: All right, it's woo all right through what lens are people listening and seeing that? I guess to well determine what your opinion is. Can you just brush that off? No big deal? Can you be fired up about it? I guess you legit on both sides if you want.
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Speaker 2: To be look, I understand on one side, yes, Governor Newsom was trying to be relatable. He was trying to be one of the people. You know, I'm not just this ivy league smart guy. But when you try to connect with people, and how you connect with them is tell them that you're stupid too, or that you aren't so good at reading two. I mean, if he just stopped for one second and thought about what he was saying and who he was saying it to, that's how you're relating to someone by saying I'm dumb too.
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Speaker 3: That's tough. That's hard to explain.
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Speaker 2: And even if he didn't mean harm, it felt like it was just a part.
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Speaker 3: Of who he is.
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Speaker 1: Well, what does it say about who he's talking to? Can you imagine him and being in a particular room of elites and speaking that way. I'm just saying, hey, I'm like you, I'm a nine sixty guy. What was it about the audience he was seeing That he wasn't under the impression that there was a way they could be elevated, that they could be brighter, that they could be something more, and that he was the idiot in the room. But he even went far. You said, you were shocked by it was crazy too. He went the wrong direction, I don't mean to offend, right, And then he went low.
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Speaker 2: When he said I didn't mean to offend, I thought, oh, here he goes. He's gonna say, look, I'm sure most of you made way over nine sixty, you know, and just of assumed that the audience was smarter than him.
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Speaker 3: I thought he was going to correct what he might have caught.
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Speaker 2: That somehow he was insinuating the audience was at his level, which he was saying wasn't bright. So I thought, oh, here he goes, he's going to say, which, of course, I'm sure most of you scored far better than me. No, he actually said, didn't want any of you who made nine forty to think I was thinking I was all that.
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Speaker 3: So he actually told the audience out there, he was speaking to them who got lower than a nine sixty. That made my jaw drop.
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Speaker 1: Did you do act or SAT?
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Speaker 3: I did SAT?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not even sure what's a good SAT score.
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Speaker 3: It's changed over the years.
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Speaker 1: Okay, where back then? I don't know what range. I have no idea.
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Speaker 2: I know I got a partial scholarship because of mine.
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Speaker 1: But generally speaking in scores, when he says nine sixty, I don't know what that means. Is the top number? Two thousand is the top number. Fifteen hundred, that's what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen hundred is top. And I actually, funny enough, I I don't have it in front of you. But when I was reading the backlash and the people writing articles about this particular thing, they were saying that the average SAT score is like ten sixty eight or something right now, so it's nothing.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't that far below that. No, the average, that is what we're saying. Okay, so what was it about the audience. But a lot of people took this and this is why Sean Hannity posted this video in the first place, just saying, Wow, this guy is saying he's like you because he can't read and blah blah blah, and folks took off with it. Now, he responded, Robes, you have that in front of you. I did to Sean Hannity again, Shawn's was a very short you know you have his there Shawn's first, because this is important.
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Speaker 2: Sean Hannity wrote, at Gavin Newsom thinks a nine to sixty SAT makes him.
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Speaker 3: Like black Americans. Let that sink in.
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Speaker 1: All right, so you understood maybe what he was saying aware was going or whatever, and then Gavin Newsom went nuclear.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom respond to Sean Hannity with this, you didn't give a shit about the President of the United States of America posting an eighth video of President Obama or calling African nations shitholes, But you're going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia.
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Speaker 3: Spare me your fake fucking outrage.
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Speaker 1: Sean, what do you think about that?
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Speaker 3: That was expletive written?
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Speaker 1: He touched a nerve and it was a Did that one look like it was well thought out? It does like he was a rapid fire.
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Speaker 2: That was a rapid fire emotional response to what he perceived he was being called a racist by Sean Hannity.
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Speaker 1: Which he was not. I guess you could not not wing wing. But Sean pointed out, I don't know, Rose. You didn't have to tell me who was in the audience. To be honest with you, if he whatever audience he was speaking to, I would have asked you who who does he think of the collection of idiots.
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Speaker 2: You make such a good point because as soon as you said that, imagine he said that same speech, or he gave that same speech to a Wall Street luncheon where you've got, you know, the biggest bankers in the world all sitting there.
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Speaker 3: You think he would have said the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say. Women. Could you imagine him talking to a women's group.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Yep, hadn't thought about that either. But you also make a good point.
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Speaker 1: Insert any group you want.
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Speaker 3: It's insulting.
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Speaker 1: It is a group of seniors in high school. It's insulting. So I don't know what And then he probably wishes that he didn't say it. It was inarticulate and how he went about it. Maybe he did, yes, But he has the problem with him and these types of stories they fit somewhat of a narrative about him. Yeah, that makes sense. He's in elite. Look at the hair, look at his family, look at his background, look at this and look at people can point to. And I don't think this is the biggest deal in the world, obviously Rose, but you can see how this would come back to bite him and folks use this as some kind of exam of what they want to paint him as.
00:10:02
Speaker 2: Oh campaign, Oh yes, And it's been interesting because Yes, a lot of people have gone off on what he said and now have pulled up pictures of him on the San Francisco Chronicle in nineteen ninety one, pictured as children of the rich and just showing his privileged upbringing and who his father did business with the gettys. Like now it's all coming up and out. And I thought it was interesting what newsom spokesperson said when asked about the backlash, like completely dismissed it and said Maga manufactured outrage, and then said Governor Newsom has told this story to many different audiences, including conservative ones.
00:10:39
Speaker 3: The story about his SAT score. But the question is why did he Did he say SAT score? Did he talk about literacy? Did he talk about his he talked about his dyslexia.
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Speaker 2: But I think most people would argue that that specific choice he made to that audience has to at least be examined.
00:10:58
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody's digging up clip. The dude talks in front of a camera twelve hours out of each day for the past decade plus, so if he's done this before in front of a crowd, I'm sure I'm surprised. Again, I hadn't seen that statement from his people, it's kind of weird.
00:11:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no wow. Upon hearing that, that sounds like I would. Would you appreciate him saying, or at least his spokesperson saying that, here's his what his intention was. But we can absolutely see how that is being interpreted and our apologies.
00:11:30
Speaker 1: So what do you do then? Then you give folks an opportunity to say, see, you were wrong or but there's a certain segment of the population you and I included, I think the majority. If someone would just come out and say, wow, man, I look at that back, that sounds awful. Sorry to that room. Didn't mean to have been. That's not what I was trying to say, But I understand, like it's kind of easy.
00:11:50
Speaker 2: I'm going to examine how I you know, how I consider what an implication could be. And I apologize that sounds. Listening to it back, I'm cringing like I would. I would so appreciate that. But is that not allowed these days?
00:12:05
Speaker 1: No F bombs are better on X And he wasn't the only one dropping some strong language on X whole Yes, newly minted Macca Nicki Minaj she had something to say about the dear goods all right, folks, I'm I'm sorry, I'm laughing because you couldn't hear me. I said, I can't see. I'm tired. I was trying to I couldn't get my eyes.
00:12:35
Speaker 2: Adjusted to guess that happens when you're tired and when you're old.
00:12:39
Speaker 3: I'm both.
00:12:39
Speaker 1: So I feel tired. No, yes, I'm just tired. But uh, Nicki Minad, I don't need to see a read a script about this one. Look, Nicki Minaj has been very supportive of the president the past what month. She's been out there making appearances, doing events, but fully full on maga. But she has been in a words with Gavin Newsom for a while. She doesn't Oh, yes, she calls him some funny little Uh it's mean, but she says in a cute way. It's some nickname she asks for him. Anyway, she's always going after this guy. But she went after him after this video got out of that event in Atlanta, And yeah, we shouldn't be surprised by this. I guess right.
00:13:21
Speaker 2: Well, I've got my glasses on so I can read Nikki's post because it's better just to let you all hear exactly how she wrote it. His way of bonding with black people is to tell them how stupid he is and that he can't read. This means my first read on him was correct. He's been handed so many things and put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
00:13:40
Speaker 3: Do you want to know.
00:13:41
Speaker 2: The craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever. He's literally slowing his speech down and talking in a sporadic cadence. He's not just telling them that they're all probably stupid and probably can't read. And then you put this in all caps. He's literally slow wing down is speech to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth. Three exclamation points, as if they're children, another three explanation points. That means he really believes they're slow. He's not just saying it. He didn't misspeak. He believes it. Do you love it? Do you just love it?
00:14:20
Speaker 3: Black people?
00:14:22
Speaker 1: Oh? Nikki, Nikki Nikki. Look, A lot of what she said is up for interpretation. If that's how she sees it, that's how she sees it. However, Nicki Minaj has absolutely hit on a nerve a point of history that you'll see some white politician show up at some black church in the South and all of a sudden they talking a lot. I'm what the actual get back to DC. We have seen this time and again. Sometimes it's not even just white politicians. We have been accused of this, folks. That a real thing. If you see it here in the gavenue someone or not, I don't know she did. But it's it's not that off base, is what I'm saying.
00:15:09
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's sadly most likely UH an honest effort to try and relate, but it actually is, yes, quite offensive and patronizing.
00:15:20
Speaker 1: I would imagine, well, you know, I was about to say something really really patronizing. And here's the last point about this whole story. Yes, the only video you see and the one that's gone viral and all the millions of hits, you see him sitting up there with the very black mayor of Atlanta. What you don't see is the audience. So Nigma Minaj says she's talking to any black crowd. This was at Georgia State University that is predominantly minority on campus overwhelmingly, but however roams. I've seen some video of the crowd and seen some video of the line.
00:15:55
Speaker 3: Didn't look that black it looked it looked like a mixed crowd.
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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I've seen first it was all black, then I saw predominantly black.
00:16:04
Speaker 3: Then I saw mixed crowd.
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Speaker 2: So I saw video, and I did see people were putting a video of white people in line of white people in the crowd. It wasn't a all black He didn't go in and say this at an all black church or something where he knew that this was an all black crime. So that is a very important point to make that A lot of people are saying, hey, wait a minute, now, whoever he was in that crowd.
00:16:28
Speaker 3: I'm sure upon reflection you think, wait, what was he actually saying about me? You know, you could see that happening. Wait a minute, I didn't catch it at the time. You could hear people laughing. Even he was. He was trying to be self deprecating, but he took down the crowd with.
00:16:43
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, not how you do it. You can't burn down the house man, That is ages he slipped up. It's okay, you can actually laugh about this. It's not the end of the world. But again, it goes with this storyline about him elitist.
00:16:58
Speaker 2: Yes, it's the problem is when you're trying to fight those notions and you can't shake the fact that you are one. It's a tough it's a tough road to travel down. Many politicians have done it, they figured it out. Kennedy's could be exhibit A. But you always do say that this is true, especially when it comes to politics. People need an enemy. And so when you say something, if you step in it, if you even go however, you get one person who's going to profit off of it in terms of just attention or votes, you can sure bet it's going to be it's going to have legs.
00:17:29
Speaker 1: My god, who's the guy down and I just said he said He put out the tweet Randy Fine Yes down in Florida saying that he's waiting on Democrats to call for Gavin Newsom's resignation.
00:17:42
Speaker 3: That's not gonna happen.
00:17:43
Speaker 1: This is where we are. This is where we are, all right, folks. We always appreciate you spending some time with us. This was the lighter fare of options we had to talk. We had a lot to talk about. But man, it's been heavy. All right, folks, A pretty you're listening as always, I'm t J. That's rose talk sir Bang