This is Gavin Newsom - July 24, 2025


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751

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Summary

This week on American History Hotline, host Bob Crawford is joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars, and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry, and add way too many books to your TBR pile.


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00:01:00.000 This week, I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars, and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry, and add way too many books to your TBR pile.
00:01:09.700 Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:01:17.320 So what happened to Chappaquiddick?
00:01:19.360 Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
00:01:21.180 There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.
00:01:27.060 And left a woman behind to drown.
00:01:30.840 Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.
00:01:35.600 Every week, we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
00:01:40.520 Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:01:50.200 I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast.
00:01:55.600 You, the listener, ask the questions.
00:01:59.100 Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree?
00:02:01.420 Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
00:02:03.720 And I find the answers.
00:02:05.420 I'm so glad you asked me this question.
00:02:07.400 This is such a ridiculous story.
00:02:09.400 You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:02:17.460 What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth?
00:02:29.540 Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced.
00:02:33.620 He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you.
00:02:38.040 Listen to Shock Incarceration on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:02:57.900 This is Gavin Newsom.
00:03:00.980 And our conversation with Ryan Murphy continues.
00:03:03.400 What, you mentioned, Ted, Netflix.
00:03:08.340 I mean, so the whole streaming thing.
00:03:10.520 But now it's interesting.
00:03:11.640 You're kind of back a little bit, the sort of Disney, Hulu, FX thing.
00:03:16.420 I mean, but where's, you said Hollywood's going younger.
00:03:19.580 I mean, is that a time of life or is that a state of mind?
00:03:22.300 What do you mean younger?
00:03:23.660 It's always, isn't it been a youth?
00:03:25.660 I mean, what's your journey here since 89?
00:03:29.160 I mean, where are we in terms of, and we'll get into tax credits, competitiveness in a minute.
00:03:34.640 But I'm just curious, just what you meant by youth and younger people, what streaming means to you?
00:03:41.300 What's sort of, what's the state of play from that perspective?
00:03:44.520 Because you've seen every damn side of this.
00:03:46.460 You've been part of every side of this.
00:03:47.820 It's interesting because, you know, I've kind of been at this now since 1998 was my first show.
00:03:56.160 Popular.
00:03:57.160 Yeah.
00:03:58.300 It was a very cult show.
00:03:59.800 It ran two years.
00:04:01.360 Leslie Bibb, who was on White Lotus, was one of her first starring roles.
00:04:05.360 Interesting.
00:04:05.620 So I've been through a lot of different changes, you know, like that 2002, 2013, 14 was very like prestige, push it, as much sex and blood and gore.
00:04:22.100 And, you know, it was like the period of the white male anti-hero.
00:04:27.940 You know, if you look at it, the Sopranos, Mad Men, these were the things that were very popular.
00:04:32.600 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:32.800 And then I think there's the Obama section that sort of started 2012 that went through 2017.
00:04:39.860 And that's, I think, you know, more female programming, more progressive programming.
00:04:46.480 Glee certainly falls into that.
00:04:48.260 American Horror Story certainly falls into that.
00:04:50.440 The Normal Heart, which I did.
00:04:52.080 Yeah.
00:04:53.600 And now, and then what happened was there was the streaming wars began, you know.
00:04:58.580 Right.
00:04:59.120 That really started in 2016.
00:05:00.800 Were you anxious at the time about that?
00:05:03.480 Were you like, this is the end of the world?
00:05:04.840 No.
00:05:05.340 It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
00:05:07.320 Yeah.
00:05:07.520 Well, for you, personally.
00:05:09.040 Well, I think for everybody.
00:05:10.320 For everybody.
00:05:10.680 Because what happened was, you know, literally production doubled overnight.
00:05:15.020 And there was a lot of new, young voices that were able to get things made.
00:05:19.920 For example, you know, I did Pose during that time.
00:05:23.120 That never would have been on the air five years before then, or even now, I don't think.
00:05:27.740 Interesting.
00:05:29.880 But then what happened was COVID and the strikes.
00:05:35.340 And now it's really hard for young people to, I think, get things on the air.
00:05:42.600 It's really hard for different points of view.
00:05:44.600 I think we're in almost like a Victorian age, which is a, it's a reaction to COVID and perhaps
00:05:50.900 the two Trump presidencies where I'm finding it very interesting.
00:05:56.540 Like, like what you're saying is people don't want anything to push.
00:05:59.700 They're freaked out enough about their lives.
00:06:01.660 So also Gen Z is very pearl clutching.
00:06:06.020 They're, they're much more like sort of, they don't like a lot of things that are in their
00:06:10.200 face.
00:06:10.920 Yeah.
00:06:11.980 They don't date as much.
00:06:13.900 They don't socialize as much.
00:06:15.980 Crazy.
00:06:16.420 And they don't, you know, it's a very cautious generation.
00:06:19.480 So, but you know, the state of the business is really, really bad right now.
00:06:25.040 And I'm lucky in that I, you know, I went back with my, my great friend, Dana Walden.
00:06:32.820 And, but I really never left because I was doing all my shows, you know, that was part
00:06:36.780 of my deal.
00:06:37.340 I was lucky.
00:06:37.920 I kind of had, I got to keep my legacy shows and go try new things at Netflix.
00:06:43.240 Right.
00:06:43.760 So I went back to Disney Fox and then I continue my monster show.
00:06:49.780 So I kind of, I respect everybody, but you know, I'm really excited.
00:06:53.780 I took, it always takes me a while with a while with a new deal to figure out what I'm
00:06:57.700 going to do.
00:06:58.500 Right.
00:06:58.740 But I think the stuff that I have coming up is like very four quadrant, very mainstream.
00:07:03.720 Interesting.
00:07:04.120 And I'm doing what I've never done before, where I go through every minute of the show
00:07:09.160 and I'm like, how do I make this for everybody?
00:07:11.880 How do I not, you know, alienate people?
00:07:15.160 And so the pearl clutching Victorian, is this sort of the anti-woke pushback?
00:07:24.600 Is it the sort of anti-DEI you've been, you know, LGBTQ?
00:07:29.260 What, I mean, what, is it just, is it in that space that you're referring to?
00:07:32.900 No.
00:07:33.320 Is it in what space?
00:07:33.860 I just think it's cultural taste.
00:07:35.400 Like for example, without naming the show, a friend of mine does a show and it started
00:07:40.900 off and it got really great reviews and in the first, you know, they did a test of it
00:07:45.440 in the first 15 minutes of the show.
00:07:48.560 It's a PG rated comedy.
00:07:50.860 There was a very sexualized situation where you saw nothing, but it was hinted at and the
00:07:56.740 dials went and they lost 20% of the audience in 30 seconds because of a joke.
00:08:03.840 Like that never used to happen.
00:08:05.440 Never used to happen.
00:08:06.040 And I just think that it's culturally people are, I don't know, again, it's, it's, I say
00:08:13.320 that, but again, I think people want their comedies and their dramas soft, but they also
00:08:19.040 like their true, true crime shows.
00:08:21.460 Clearly.
00:08:22.000 Like they want to be able to pick, okay, this is my mood and this is my level of anxiety,
00:08:26.000 which is, there's not a lot of blending of genres, which I think used to happen more.
00:08:30.180 Interesting.
00:08:30.540 And I do think, you know, young people are not as, there's always the reaction, you know,
00:08:37.920 I came up of age right after the, you know, the Reagan years.
00:08:42.200 So that was the period of Madonna.
00:08:44.800 If you look, when I was a kid, she was so popular, I think, because she was tapping into
00:08:49.560 rebellion.
00:08:50.340 Yeah.
00:08:50.540 Yeah.
00:08:51.160 Now the rebellion is how do you rebel?
00:08:53.560 You become quieter and you're like, you're, it's, it's, it's a softer, more, more emotional,
00:09:00.840 introverted group of people.
00:09:03.300 But I do think there's also a big changing of the guard right now, you know, like there's
00:09:08.200 young voices fighting to get stuff on.
00:09:10.620 And I think it used to be 10 of them would, but now one of them will, but that one could
00:09:15.800 be, you know, a Spielberg who could completely change the game and people will follow that
00:09:21.740 person.
00:09:22.060 I can feel that I can feel a lot of young people chomping and I feel culturally things
00:09:27.520 are shifting.
00:09:28.940 You got another 20 years of this in you?
00:09:33.080 That's interesting.
00:09:34.460 You know what?
00:09:34.900 Probably.
00:09:35.420 Yeah.
00:09:36.020 I love that.
00:09:36.780 I really, I was, I wasn't talking about like, I have a farm.
00:09:40.500 Yeah.
00:09:41.720 And I've stayed in New York.
00:09:42.640 I've always seen you as a farm guy.
00:09:44.320 Well, I'm from Indiana.
00:09:45.420 So you're like, you're an Indiana guy.
00:09:46.640 I grew up in the back of a, like, I shucked corn.
00:09:50.000 Like I, I mean, we found out, I mean, you're an athlete, so that's most important.
00:09:54.580 You didn't know that, did you?
00:09:55.540 No, I mean, Mr. Choir guy.
00:09:57.520 Geez.
00:09:58.640 Yeah.
00:09:58.820 I don't know.
00:09:59.320 So I'm like, do I just, do I, do I hang it up and make a jam?
00:10:02.040 You're not going to be, you couldn't even handle that.
00:10:03.640 You couldn't hang it out on a farm all day.
00:10:05.720 Well, I love growing there.
00:10:07.260 I understand that.
00:10:08.120 But every day, seriously.
00:10:09.160 No, but you're right.
00:10:10.380 I probably can't because I like, you know, I like show business and I like, I like creation.
00:10:15.840 I, it's like, I like the making of new things and I like putting people together and I, I
00:10:20.680 love, I love my job.
00:10:22.540 Yeah.
00:10:22.980 And you know, my great idol, Norman Lear, he worked, I mean, he worked until his late
00:10:28.000 nineties, which is an amazing thing.
00:10:31.320 It was incredible.
00:10:32.120 I think he probably worked three or four hours a day, but what a three or four hours, you
00:10:36.160 know, um, but the thing about Norman that I marveled at was he was eternally curious and
00:10:42.920 young people love that he want, like, he sought me out when I had my first big hit and
00:10:49.200 I got a call from him.
00:10:50.040 Just to pick your brain, just to get to know you.
00:10:52.300 He, I got a call out of the blue.
00:10:54.180 Yeah.
00:10:55.120 And it was from Norman Lear.
00:10:56.600 And I'm like, this is not Norman Lear.
00:10:58.160 Cause you know, I grew up watching, you know, I was six when all in the family came out, but
00:11:02.960 I grew up with that show.
00:11:04.340 Yeah.
00:11:04.700 And I was like, this is no way he's calling me.
00:11:07.200 And he, I picked up the phone.
00:11:08.380 I was like, who, who is this really?
00:11:10.120 And he goes, Hey kid, I hear you.
00:11:11.620 The new me.
00:11:13.020 I was like, wow, really?
00:11:14.600 And then I had dinner with him and he would give me great advice.
00:11:19.460 And the thing I love the most about him is he would call during disappointments.
00:11:23.420 Like he called me when the new normal was canceled.
00:11:26.780 Nice.
00:11:26.980 And he was like, every, every failure is, I think he said like something like every failure
00:11:32.360 is a new open door.
00:11:34.220 You can walk through.
00:11:35.200 Love it.
00:11:36.040 Best.
00:11:36.860 The best.
00:11:37.440 And I recently at auction, I bought one of Norman's Ed Ruscha paintings and the painting
00:11:43.780 simply says truth.
00:11:45.540 Yeah.
00:11:45.780 And so I like, I like, you know, living in des of it all.
00:11:49.720 I like talking about my points of view and things that are truthful to me.
00:11:53.820 I love that.
00:11:54.580 And I'm like, why would I stop?
00:11:55.960 I, if I can keep my health, you know.
00:11:58.640 Just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories
00:12:07.060 and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.
00:12:10.640 I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies.
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00:12:59.420 So what happened at Chappaquiddick?
00:13:04.460 Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
00:13:06.300 There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into
00:13:11.780 a pond.
00:13:12.720 And left a woman behind to drown.
00:13:15.740 There's a famous headline, I think in the New York Daily News, it's Teddy escapes, blonde
00:13:20.520 drowns.
00:13:21.240 And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you the story really became about Ted's
00:13:26.800 political future, Ted's political hopes.
00:13:29.180 Will Ted become president?
00:13:30.440 Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.
00:13:34.800 And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.
00:13:37.960 The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it.
00:13:42.020 So is there a curse?
00:13:43.300 Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
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00:14:03.460 What woman said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory.
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00:17:02.600 What is the state of play out here?
00:17:08.820 I mean, we did, we doubled, we more than doubled the film tax credit.
00:17:11.680 We needed to do that.
00:17:12.840 Seems the industry's on life support out here.
00:17:15.880 The world we invented is competing against us globally, not just other states,
00:17:20.600 which I think we fully don't, a lot of us don't fully appreciate what's happening overseas.
00:17:24.680 Yes.
00:17:25.340 In particular.
00:17:27.440 What more do we need to do?
00:17:29.040 A lot more.
00:17:29.520 I know tax credit's still not sufficient, but what's your sense of where Hollywood broadly described
00:17:37.100 or defined will be in a decade if what doesn't happen?
00:17:42.820 Well, you know, another changing of the guard to answer that question is, you know,
00:17:46.960 Hollywood used to be Hollywood.
00:17:49.940 You know, it was a dream place.
00:17:52.240 Not that it isn't now, but Hollywood, for the most part, is without exception a tech business.
00:17:57.400 And it is thus much more of a bottom line business.
00:18:02.500 There's no, there's, there's no more of that sort of you scratch, you know, you can have
00:18:06.740 two bombs, but if you give me a hit, we're good.
00:18:10.040 Like it's that that's over.
00:18:11.600 Um, so it is a tech controlled landscape.
00:18:17.380 Many good things have come of that, I think.
00:18:19.260 Um, but I'll tell you a story.
00:18:21.360 Like I, I make between six and eight things a year and I was walking through proving it's
00:18:27.300 not once a quarter, but anyway, I'll go back to that.
00:18:29.560 It's such bullshit.
00:18:30.780 But some of these I don't run.
00:18:32.160 I guess once a quarter, I can say my new things that are not established.
00:18:34.960 I'm on to you.
00:18:35.440 I'm on to you.
00:18:36.120 And I was walking some of the lots to look for stage space.
00:18:40.380 And I was astonished at how it was crickets, like 80% vacancies, people that I have grown
00:18:47.820 up with who run these lots, walking out with tears in their eyes, please come here.
00:18:52.420 I know.
00:18:52.780 And I think the problem is, you know, if you're wanting to shoot in California and there's
00:19:00.740 five other states that will give you better tax credits.
00:19:05.960 And there's only one.
00:19:07.160 So we're one and a half.
00:19:08.160 Okay, but for a while we were five.
00:19:10.320 I agree.
00:19:10.640 And I used to, you know, and I'm very lucky in that I have enough clout where I could
00:19:15.360 say, no, I'm shooting this here.
00:19:17.120 Right.
00:19:17.640 Like I will, I'm shooting this here.
00:19:19.700 Yeah.
00:19:19.920 So, you know, the thing that I've also been astonished with, that's a new feeling, like
00:19:24.120 I was directing All's Fair recently, my Kim show, and I had so many, this is right after
00:19:30.840 the fires, and I had so many crew members come up with tears in their eyes, thanking me for
00:19:35.420 staying in California, because the problem is so many people have left.
00:19:40.220 And what has happened is they leave their families.
00:19:44.480 And I know three people on my cruise who are currently going through divorces because their
00:19:50.340 families were broken up and they had to leave for work.
00:19:52.860 And also, it's very, very difficult because you think of like, generationally, it's very
00:20:01.100 easy for people in their 20s and 30s to pick up and go to Georgia.
00:20:04.500 Of course.
00:20:04.880 But if you're in your 40s, 50s, 60s, we're losing a whole generation of talent that cannot
00:20:10.320 do that.
00:20:11.020 So they cannot go to where the work is.
00:20:13.680 So I find it heartbreaking, and I do admire and commend you for what you have done, which
00:20:19.180 is great.
00:20:20.540 But I think that the more we could do, because it's, you know, Hollywood is more than just
00:20:27.420 a state of mind.
00:20:28.200 It's a California legacy.
00:20:30.120 100%.
00:20:30.600 It really is.
00:20:31.860 And it's a worldwide legacy.
00:20:35.460 And I think you and I, before this, were talking about San Francisco.
00:20:40.220 Like two years ago, I remember having a conversation with you saying, what the hell is happening
00:20:45.940 with San Francisco?
00:20:47.120 Yeah.
00:20:47.620 But in a recent trip, it's astonishing at how things can turn around and how that's like
00:20:54.060 AI money, I think, and a lot of tech stuff.
00:20:56.400 But I have great hope, and I commend you, but I say keep fighting the good fight because
00:21:01.620 we need you.
00:21:02.640 Yeah.
00:21:02.820 This town needs you to do more.
00:21:05.180 Yeah.
00:21:05.700 And what I'm seeing is it's just not individuals, it's families that are depending upon it.
00:21:13.460 Yeah.
00:21:13.800 That's the thing that I never really put two and two together.
00:21:16.600 Like if you're a young family and dad or mom has to leave for four months, five months,
00:21:23.020 what do you do?
00:21:23.980 That's really difficult morally, spiritually.
00:21:27.560 So anything we can do to increase reasons why tech companies have a reason to say, okay,
00:21:35.580 we'll keep that show here.
00:21:36.900 That's right.
00:21:38.300 And I'm very lucky this fall.
00:21:40.720 Like I have two things shooting, and I demanded that they both shoot here.
00:21:43.720 Now you're talking.
00:21:44.740 Keeping people together and keeping my crews together.
00:21:48.700 That's a very, and I'm thinking about that more and more and more.
00:21:52.120 And because of the work that you've done, it's become easier for me.
00:21:55.340 No, good.
00:21:55.980 But there's different things about the incentives that are very hard too, like out of boundary,
00:22:01.200 like stuff like that that we should take out.
00:22:03.560 It's hard.
00:22:04.280 No.
00:22:04.740 And the lottery system is also.
00:22:06.940 Right.
00:22:07.160 Which we're fixing and we fixed.
00:22:09.120 I mean, so we went from $330 million, $750 million.
00:22:12.340 And so the key was in a challenging sort of environment, political environment, to at least
00:22:17.940 lock that in.
00:22:19.260 Now we can start to unpack how within that framework we can be more competitive and make
00:22:24.760 the adjustments.
00:22:25.560 We've made a few, but we've got more that obviously need to be done in that space.
00:22:29.640 But I mean, I really admire what you're doing.
00:22:31.360 I don't know any politician that I've met in my lifetime who's gone through so much adversity
00:22:39.660 from, I mean, everything.
00:22:40.980 Not much has happened in the last six years.
00:22:42.860 What are you talking about, Ryan?
00:22:44.080 What are you talking about?
00:22:45.040 I mean, I admire what you've done.
00:22:46.440 And I know that you, like you've also inherited many messes.
00:22:49.920 God bless you.
00:22:50.500 So I acknowledge your work and I say, keep doing it because people are so appreciative
00:22:56.100 for what you recently have done.
00:22:57.540 And I, anything else you could do, I'm here as an advocate for my company town.
00:23:01.740 But I think how you've turned things around in many areas is commendable.
00:23:07.300 You're my long-term friend and I say, keep doing it.
00:23:09.840 I appreciate it.
00:23:10.420 Keep helping us.
00:23:11.260 I appreciate it.
00:23:11.860 Before I let you go, before I let you go back to your kids or your farm.
00:23:16.700 My farm.
00:23:17.840 Okay.
00:23:18.440 Let's stress test that.
00:23:21.220 What, I mean, what, what's, what are the little scribbles on your little notepad?
00:23:24.720 That little, you know, the thing that's like, you're looking four years from now.
00:23:29.280 You're like, oh, you just wait.
00:23:31.720 I've got a project.
00:23:32.960 I've got, so I know you can't say anything, but is there like a.
00:23:35.960 Oh yeah.
00:23:36.460 I can say.
00:23:37.120 Oh yeah.
00:23:37.320 Good.
00:23:37.740 What do you got?
00:23:38.680 Bring it on then.
00:23:39.940 Well, you know, it's interesting because my life is.
00:23:45.060 I'm already work.
00:23:46.300 Like, I don't even know if I'm here in this room.
00:23:48.240 Cause I'm like working a year ahead.
00:23:50.060 Right.
00:23:50.420 Um, it was funny.
00:23:52.620 I, I, I heard an interview with Taylor Swift where she said the same thing.
00:23:56.140 I was like, oh, I really relate to this.
00:23:57.800 Like I'm already planning my releases for 2027.
00:24:03.200 27.
00:24:04.120 2027.
00:24:04.520 And we just talked about JFK Jr.
00:24:06.520 That comes out.
00:24:07.180 26.
00:24:07.480 26.
00:24:08.080 So like, I'm really sort of plotting.
00:24:10.400 Wow.
00:24:11.280 And I have two goals to be honest.
00:24:13.860 One of which is to keep as many of my shows in California as possible, which is why I'm glad
00:24:18.020 to be here today.
00:24:18.880 Well done.
00:24:19.100 And I want to do a, um, a vampire show, which I've never done.
00:24:26.580 Vampire.
00:24:27.100 So you did a little sci-fi.
00:24:28.400 Now we're going to vampires.
00:24:29.600 I mean, I've, I've had vampires in my work, like, you know, American Horror Story, Lady
00:24:33.480 Gaga famously played one.
00:24:35.020 Right.
00:24:35.540 Um, I want to do that.
00:24:38.520 And I want to do, um, a movie about faith.
00:24:43.420 I'm working on my, one of my great friends is Dee Dee Gardner who runs Plan B Brad Pitt's
00:24:48.420 company.
00:24:48.960 Yeah.
00:24:49.200 Yeah.
00:24:49.300 And she and I are working on a faith-based movie that kind of puts me in touch with my
00:24:55.080 altar boy days.
00:24:56.300 Look at that.
00:24:57.020 Which people would never think of me doing.
00:24:59.640 But I want to do, like you said, I want to do something optimistic and about perseverance
00:25:06.360 and forgiveness.
00:25:07.620 Yeah.
00:25:08.500 And so I'm working on those things.
00:25:10.760 I mean.
00:25:11.980 Vampires and, you know, religion.
00:25:13.520 Vampires and faith.
00:25:14.560 It was obviously.
00:25:15.640 Well, that's the secret of my career.
00:25:17.040 Do the opposite of what you just did.
00:25:19.800 That's always what I've done.
00:25:21.260 And if you look at my year rollout, it's, everything is the opposite of the thing that
00:25:25.580 came before it, you know.
00:25:26.700 So what happened at Chappaquiddick?
00:25:32.300 Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
00:25:34.560 There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into
00:25:39.620 a pond.
00:25:40.540 And left a woman behind to drown.
00:25:43.560 There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News.
00:25:46.380 It's Teddy escapes, blonde drowns.
00:25:49.080 And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you the story really became about Ted's
00:25:54.620 political future, Ted's political hopes.
00:25:57.000 Will Ted become president?
00:25:58.300 Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.
00:26:02.680 And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.
00:26:05.800 The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it.
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00:26:11.140 Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
00:26:15.660 Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
00:26:21.520 podcasts.
00:26:26.480 American history is full of wise people.
00:26:31.300 What women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory.
00:26:37.480 Those founding fathers were gossipy AF and they love to cut each other down.
00:26:43.340 I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions
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00:27:01.780 And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption.
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00:30:30.620 What are the big sports ones you're going to do?
00:30:37.540 You know, I just did one.
00:30:38.780 I did the Aaron Hernandez story, which is an American sports story.
00:30:42.580 Of course you did.
00:30:43.280 I forget.
00:30:43.680 You're forgetting.
00:30:44.820 Of course.
00:30:45.460 Come on.
00:30:45.860 But of course it would be Aaron Hernandez.
00:30:47.460 Of course.
00:30:49.080 Jesus.
00:30:49.480 I don't know that I'll be, like, if you ask me.
00:30:52.140 I don't know.
00:30:52.480 Are you talking big game about your sports?
00:30:54.440 I mean, I'm just trying to, you know, connect your life story.
00:30:57.460 My sports thing is my oldest child, who is 12, wants to be Tom Brady, right?
00:31:02.680 He's a big.
00:31:03.700 Of course he's 12.
00:31:04.620 Number 12.
00:31:05.440 Yeah.
00:31:05.760 He's a big footballer.
00:31:07.260 Is he?
00:31:08.280 Yeah.
00:31:08.640 You see, you got Giselle and Brady in your back of your mind.
00:31:11.340 Of course you do.
00:31:11.740 That's right.
00:31:12.160 That's what I wanted to do.
00:31:12.960 Of course you do.
00:31:13.100 I'm not surprised.
00:31:14.280 Do you know him?
00:31:15.400 I mean, yeah.
00:31:15.900 I met him a few times.
00:31:16.920 He seems really cool.
00:31:17.820 See, I mean, he's too perfect.
00:31:19.120 So I'm kind of living my sports life.
00:31:21.000 I'm starting to read his blog every week now.
00:31:23.000 He's got a new blog, Tom Brady, every Monday.
00:31:25.120 It's fantastic.
00:31:25.920 Is it like health and stuff?
00:31:26.440 Like everything he does is fantastic.
00:31:28.000 It's upsetting, actually, at a certain point.
00:31:29.440 What do you mean?
00:31:30.160 No, it's just a really well-researched and written blog he does every week, which is motivating.
00:31:36.220 It's contemporary.
00:31:38.100 It's about health.
00:31:39.260 It's about relationships.
00:31:40.660 His relationship to what he's doing, it's fresh.
00:31:43.860 It's very thoughtful.
00:31:45.460 Yeah.
00:31:45.800 It's excellent.
00:31:46.840 It's just interesting.
00:31:48.000 Do you use his products?
00:31:49.400 I haven't.
00:31:50.020 It's interesting.
00:31:50.800 I've started to notice a few of them started to get promoted.
00:31:53.260 So with your life, this is my last question for you, as high-pressured as you are,
00:31:58.000 what is your secret for keeping it all together?
00:32:02.540 I'm going to answer that.
00:32:03.580 Do you have a morning routine?
00:32:05.680 Does Ryan repeat?
00:32:06.360 I do.
00:32:06.680 My morning routine is I get up, and I have coffee, and no one is allowed to talk to me.
00:32:11.120 Like what?
00:32:11.600 You just hear that guy?
00:32:12.340 I have an hour of quiet reading, meditation.
00:32:15.320 I'm really cranky.
00:32:16.620 And I try and do some...
00:32:18.140 But the kids know how to avoid you?
00:32:19.720 Or do you, I mean, they just avoid you?
00:32:20.920 I go to a room.
00:32:22.080 Yeah, they can't get you.
00:32:22.980 Yeah, you're locked in.
00:32:23.500 I mean, anybody can get me.
00:32:24.740 If you have kids, you know they can always find you.
00:32:26.620 Yeah, as long as they have their devices, they don't need you.
00:32:28.940 But I try and do some movement, you know?
00:32:31.560 What do you mean movement?
00:32:32.100 I try and move, I try and go on a walk, I try and get on a treadmill, I try and walk
00:32:35.640 around.
00:32:36.160 And that's part of that hour.
00:32:36.920 I've got my Apple Watch, I count my steps, I'm very conscious of that.
00:32:39.760 A cup of coffee.
00:32:40.640 What are you eating every morning?
00:32:42.240 I eat the same boring ass thing.
00:32:44.280 What do you have?
00:32:44.780 What do you have?
00:32:44.960 I'm a person of tradition.
00:32:46.340 I have a vegan protein smoothie that has eight fruits in it.
00:32:52.360 I love that.
00:32:54.100 And then I have throughout the day, four to six vegetables.
00:32:57.500 So I really work hard on that.
00:33:00.440 That's fantastic.
00:33:01.320 Yeah, like I get a gold medal, right?
00:33:03.020 Like I work hard.
00:33:03.680 No, that's legit.
00:33:04.240 But it's a practice, like you got to work at it and it's not fun.
00:33:07.640 It's not?
00:33:08.160 You don't enjoy it?
00:33:09.440 I enjoy the tradition of it.
00:33:11.640 It's fine.
00:33:12.640 It's not that weird.
00:33:13.240 It's purple, it looks like blueberries.
00:33:14.520 What do you miss?
00:33:15.240 You miss like bacon and eggs from the back of the world.
00:33:17.820 Oh yeah, pancakes.
00:33:18.820 Yeah, pancakes.
00:33:19.620 But like, what do you do?
00:33:20.540 What's your secret?
00:33:21.400 Until noon, I'm the same thing.
00:33:22.440 I do a smoothie every morning.
00:33:23.500 But you're a big exercise guy.
00:33:24.680 I'm a little bit, three, four days a week.
00:33:26.620 Yeah.
00:33:26.920 Nothing exciting.
00:33:28.620 But no, it's the fruit telling.
00:33:30.640 I'm religious about it for years and years and years.
00:33:33.160 But I love it.
00:33:34.340 Like I can't even imagine not having smoothie or just fruit until, and I say noon, whenever, 1130.
00:33:40.860 You're like a big dinner guy.
00:33:42.940 That's all I care about.
00:33:43.920 Yeah, me too.
00:33:44.360 I live for.
00:33:45.220 Me too.
00:33:45.600 I live for dinner.
00:33:46.600 And I'm in the middle of like a hideous 90-day cleanse, so.
00:33:49.920 Why are you doing that?
00:33:51.240 Because I just came back from vacation and I was like, this is gross.
00:33:54.740 Like, you know, it was too much.
00:33:55.840 Is this vacation supposed to be the?
00:33:57.000 Yeah, but I just felt it was too much.
00:33:58.560 And I'm like, I want to just spend the summer being one with the solstice and try and get
00:34:03.940 in some healthy thing, you know?
00:34:05.800 So an hour of sort of just you time.
00:34:09.600 Me time.
00:34:10.580 And that could also be reading or I stay up late, you know, like I told you.
00:34:14.780 And so I like to, I like to review what I'm getting ready to present to people because
00:34:19.140 it's like being a public, it's like being a public speaker.
00:34:21.800 You walk into a room and I have people who are taking notes and I perform the parts.
00:34:26.880 My job is to have people heading in the same direction.
00:34:29.460 And I've become better at it, I think, in the past year.
00:34:33.420 Are you a better business person than you've ever been before?
00:34:37.140 Or are you still a more creative person?
00:34:40.560 I always used to think I was a lousy business person.
00:34:43.500 But then one day one of my agents said, you know, you're really smart at business.
00:34:48.440 And I was like, what?
00:34:49.860 You know, I was like, I'm just like a creative person, like a dumb artist.
00:34:53.740 But I make it a daily practice.
00:34:56.960 And if I don't make my business a daily practice, I feel bad.
00:35:02.660 I feel guilty.
00:35:04.760 You know, but I'm also like, I'm kind of insane.
00:35:07.400 I have a very, I love collecting art.
00:35:09.120 Like, I love the, I love that kind of stuff.
00:35:11.440 It's a, I love that, you know.
00:35:14.760 Aesthetic, design.
00:35:16.160 It's my favorite thing.
00:35:17.060 That's my hobby, design and art.
00:35:18.740 That's how I, like, I work on a lot of projects like that.
00:35:22.060 I think in another life I would be a landscape designer or something because I love that.
00:35:28.420 I'm very odd.
00:35:30.860 But like, it's producing.
00:35:32.300 I'm producing.
00:35:32.940 I have a vision.
00:35:33.600 I love bringing people together to fight as you do the same fight.
00:35:39.200 It's almost like being a television showrunner is almost like being a governor, you know.
00:35:45.080 It's the same thing.
00:35:46.820 It's exactly the same thing.
00:35:48.120 There's an opening about 18 months, I'm just saying.
00:35:50.820 Can you imagine me as the governor of this year?
00:35:53.300 You have a point of view.
00:35:54.700 I don't know.
00:35:55.220 This is not so bad.
00:35:57.280 What do you think?
00:35:58.500 I don't know if I could do it.
00:35:59.900 It's a good gig.
00:36:00.260 I'll, you know.
00:36:00.900 Let me ask you, what are you going to do next?
00:36:02.480 I don't know.
00:36:02.900 I just, you know, this production thing.
00:36:04.420 You looked down when you said that, by the way.
00:36:05.720 This production writing thing.
00:36:07.860 We should flip like Freaky Friday for a day.
00:36:09.940 You know, the whole thing.
00:36:10.120 I've got a lot of ideas.
00:36:12.140 Do you?
00:36:12.380 A lot of ideas.
00:36:13.240 I've been told you.
00:36:13.880 They could have pitching you.
00:36:14.740 You could run a studio.
00:36:16.400 You have the glamour to run a studio.
00:36:19.000 You could.
00:36:20.100 Jesus.
00:36:20.940 Would you ever want to?
00:36:21.780 I just need a pair of sunglasses.
00:36:23.320 What do you need down here?
00:36:24.260 What do you do?
00:36:25.220 You need a point of view.
00:36:26.760 You need a point of view.
00:36:27.760 And you also need to be able to lead.
00:36:30.700 Love that.
00:36:31.480 Yeah.
00:36:32.180 That's it.
00:36:33.200 People want to be led, man.
00:36:34.360 As you know.
00:36:35.420 You did notice I looked down.
00:36:37.120 I did.
00:36:37.420 That was impressive.
00:36:38.520 Yeah.
00:36:38.920 I am very self-conscious now.
00:36:40.540 Why can't you talk openly about your future and what you want?
00:36:44.200 Is there some day where that will happen?
00:36:45.820 No, I mean, I'm not uncomfortable.
00:36:47.420 I'm just moving around.
00:36:48.300 You're very uncomfortable right now.
00:36:49.820 I'm not fidgeting.
00:36:50.220 Look at me.
00:36:50.660 I haven't moved once.
00:36:50.980 I'm not sweating now.
00:36:53.500 Is there a day where you have given yourself to make a decision about your future without
00:36:57.740 saying what that is?
00:36:58.300 There's no date.
00:36:59.020 I mean, life evolves.
00:37:00.700 You know how it works.
00:37:02.360 It's a, you want to create, you want space.
00:37:04.580 It's not a linear.
00:37:05.400 It's a very hard time to be doing what you're doing.
00:37:07.640 Yeah.
00:37:07.880 It's different.
00:37:08.460 I mean, it's, yeah.
00:37:09.220 There's a lot of, a lot of, I mean, this has gotten serious, very serious, what's going
00:37:14.740 on in D.C.
00:37:15.960 And what's going on here.
00:37:17.060 I mean, you got 5,000 military in the U.S. city.
00:37:21.220 You know, he didn't send military overseas.
00:37:24.300 He said, I'm here in the United States.
00:37:25.340 Do you ever speak to him privately?
00:37:29.720 Yep.
00:37:30.460 Yeah.
00:37:30.660 Because I remember you two having, from what I always heard from you and from people close
00:37:35.720 to him, that you had a very nice relationship.
00:37:37.360 Yep.
00:37:37.640 90 minutes in the Oval Office a few months ago.
00:37:39.880 Yeah.
00:37:40.600 We had a really good conversation.
00:37:42.080 And then eight hours later, tweets out new scum and then federalizes the National Guard.
00:37:49.080 It's a hell of a thing.
00:37:50.260 And of course, no one worked with him more closely as a governor, a Democratic governor
00:37:53.940 than I did during COVID.
00:37:56.440 Yeah.
00:37:57.060 And it, you know, it was extraordinarily collaborative.
00:38:00.520 So it's, it's my mindset is open hand, not a closed fist.
00:38:03.160 But what he's doing now is to vandalize this country and this democracy and just, you know,
00:38:10.740 people out on the streets just going about their day and folks in masks coming up, unmarked
00:38:15.840 cars.
00:38:16.280 Yeah.
00:38:16.580 This is different.
00:38:17.700 This is different.
00:38:18.860 So, you know, when you run for governor, we can talk about some strategies that I think
00:38:23.920 may work.
00:38:24.780 You can run my campaign.
00:38:26.320 Can you imagine?
00:38:27.120 I'm going to run your campaign.
00:38:28.160 I'm going to do the creative.
00:38:29.800 And I'm going to come up, we're going to come up with a slogan.
00:38:32.340 I don't know.
00:38:33.420 But I want this.
00:38:34.120 I think this faith thing could work and it may help.
00:38:36.680 So I need this to come out for the election.
00:38:38.700 Well, I, right.
00:38:40.300 I'm shocked myself.
00:38:41.700 Vampire thing.
00:38:42.200 I may want to push back the production schedule.
00:38:44.640 We'll talk about faith.
00:38:45.680 I'm only going to.
00:38:46.380 We'll talk about reconciliation.
00:38:47.280 I'm only going to send you copies of my shows that are literally the sweetest, kindest.
00:38:53.180 I just don't, no more.
00:38:54.340 I don't need people in refrigerators, half bodies, come on, man.
00:38:58.020 You may not, but the world does.
00:39:01.000 The world wants it.
00:39:02.640 Deal with it.
00:39:04.620 All right.
00:39:05.000 Listen.
00:39:05.420 I may call you in August before this Menendez decision.
00:39:08.320 I do things like that.
00:39:09.600 It's not about the thing in the refrigerator.
00:39:12.180 It's a question of why is it in the refrigerator?
00:39:14.340 Okay.
00:39:15.680 What happened to somebody?
00:39:17.700 Yeah.
00:39:18.840 No, I get it.
00:39:19.500 It's, you know, I try.
00:39:21.460 No, this is what makes you qualify to be actually governor.
00:39:24.100 It's a human condition.
00:39:25.240 It does sound like the same job.
00:39:26.580 But sincerely, like literally, what is the motivation?
00:39:29.160 The why?
00:39:29.640 What's sort of the essence of the why?
00:39:32.300 Right.
00:39:32.580 That's important.
00:39:33.500 Politicians don't, they don't explore that enough.
00:39:35.540 Well, that brings us back to the Menendez, you know, parole.
00:39:38.560 It's the same thing.
00:39:40.980 Should I watch it before I make the decision?
00:39:43.560 No.
00:39:43.820 I don't want to.
00:39:44.780 You shouldn't.
00:39:45.340 I'm not going to.
00:39:46.340 And I admire you for your daughter not co-opting you into watching.
00:39:50.360 Did she watch it?
00:39:51.180 Yeah.
00:39:51.560 They watched it.
00:39:52.580 And it's they, because there's a few of them, not just one daughter.
00:39:55.180 I mean, they, yeah, come on.
00:39:56.840 It was, this was a cultural phenomenon.
00:39:59.280 Yes.
00:39:59.940 Took off.
00:40:00.620 I mean, they had to be in the know when they went to school.
00:40:03.600 People, the kids, other kids were talking about it.
00:40:05.380 And remarkable.
00:40:06.640 Like, I've not experienced that.
00:40:08.640 Well, I've not experienced that as a father, obviously, and not in the position I'm in where there's real accountability on it.
00:40:14.720 Yeah.
00:40:15.180 I mean, you know, on the positive side, the very idea that it would launch a conversation with your kids is not a bad thing.
00:40:23.020 No, it's great.
00:40:23.940 And I love that they're, and I also.
00:40:25.640 They have a point of view.
00:40:26.460 They have a point of view and allow me to explain how this all works.
00:40:30.760 I mean, the idea that you're talking about with the parole system, commutations, resentencing, what youth offenders under the age of 26, and special dispensation that's offered to youth offenders.
00:40:45.160 And you're talking about your 12, 13-year-old kids is a hell of a thing.
00:40:49.260 So in many ways, it was great educational.
00:40:51.680 It's been a great educational process.
00:40:53.540 Yeah.
00:40:53.860 I can see.
00:40:54.420 I hear that.
00:40:55.360 I feel that.
00:40:56.120 Yeah.
00:40:56.640 I mean, I get so many young people who write me about it.
00:40:59.060 But I guess we'll talk at the end of August.
00:41:01.880 I'm going to talk about when we launch your campaign for governor.
00:41:05.440 California.
00:41:06.040 You have to resign and then run my campaign.
00:41:08.600 I would be the worst.
00:41:10.380 I could never do that.
00:41:11.760 I'm not convinced.
00:41:12.460 I can't even run for mayor of West Hollywood.
00:41:15.080 I can't even do that.
00:41:16.400 I would be too nervous.
00:41:17.500 I mean, you've got farming background.
00:41:19.060 We've got the faith.
00:41:19.960 I mean, everything about this is kind of unrealistic.
00:41:21.180 Maybe I should pray and plant vegetables instead.
00:41:25.920 Thank you for having me.
00:41:26.880 This has been fun.
00:41:27.260 It was very fun.
00:41:27.820 Thank you.
00:41:28.480 Great to see you.
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