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In this episode, Brian and John tackle four stories colliding at once in California and Washington. First up: the Los Angeles mayor's race, where reality TV personality Spencer Pratt (married to Heidi Montag of The Hills), who lost his Palisades home in the January 2025 fires has emerged as a legitimate polling threat to incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, alongside progressive council member Nithya Raman. The brothers debate whether his populist momentum is real, whether Trump's endorsement helps or kills him, and why Brian thinks Bass is quietly praying Pratt makes the runoff.

Then the conversation shifts to Trump's political revenge machine: the primary defeats of Senator Cassidy and Representative Massie, and what it means for Republicans heading into the November midterms.

Back in California, they size up the governor's race with ballots days away, Becerra rising, Steyer spending $100 million to go nowhere, Hilton hiding his British accent in his own ads, and Chad Bianco fading fast. And they close on the proposed billionaire's wealth tax headed for the November ballot — a rare moment where Brian and John actually agree: it's a bad idea, and it probably fails.

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In this episode, Brian and John welcome back a fellow Glendale native and political data expert, Paul Mitchell of Political Data Incorporated and Redistricting Partners. Paul helped draw the maps approved by California voters under Proposition 50 in 2024 and he's here to explain what those new lines actually mean for 2026, which congressional seats are now in play, and why California's retaliatory redistricting against Texas may have been more surgical and more principled than critics want to admit.

The brothers and Paul take a nostalgic detour through Glendale's political transformation — from a predominantly white Republican stronghold with a dark history, to the diverse, urban, Democratic-leaning city it is today — tracing the arc from Congressmen Carlos Moorhead and Jim Rogan through Scott Wildman, Jack Scott, and Adam Schiff. It's a microcosm, Brian argues, for what happened to California as a whole.

Then it's back to the race everybody's watching: the governor's primary. With Swalwell's departure still fresh, Paul breaks down the math of the jungle primary, the real risk of two Republicans making the runoff, and why the Democrat who wins may simply be the one who pays their PDI bills the fastest.

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In this episode, Brian and John react to the stunning collapse of Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign and ask the question nobody in Sacramento wants to answer: how did someone with that reputation get so far, so fast? They dig into the polls, the endorsements, and the money that propped him up, and debate whether his exit reshapes the Democratic field or just reshuffles the same crowded deck.

The brothers then turn to the two leading Republicans — Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco — and what Trump's endorsement of Hilton actually means for the jungle primary. Brian thinks it may have handed Democrats a lifeline. John isn't so sure. They size up the Democratic contenders still standing: Steyer, Porter, Mahan, Becerra, and each makes their prediction for who actually makes it out of June alive.

With time running short, they race through the down-ticket constitutional offices, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, AG — before landing on the race they're both most fired up about: Insurance Commissioner. With the Palisades and Eaton fires still fresh, they lay out why the current commissioner may be the worst in state history, and why the Bradford vs. Allen matchup deserves its own episode.

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