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Man, what's happening, man? You got Marshawn beast mode Lynch. Doug Hendrickson. And Gavin Newsom, and you're listening to Politicking. Well, Gavin, I got to tell you something that's pretty cool. I literally had goosebumps hearing Marshawn was coming back for the game day picker.

On ESPN. And I don't know if you know, Gavin, it's become a really big deal where they go to each school before games and they bring like a celebrity guy out and it could be like Peyton Manning, it could be Morgan Wallen, it could be Kenny Chesney. Chesney. You should be saying all kinds of crazy shit. Marshawn got named the picker on Thursday. Okay? So I'm getting kind of goosebumps thinking about it because obviously 18 years ago he left Cal and now this guy comes in

of course, on the wheels up little flight, little PJ, gets picked up, goes to the set, and is a rock star at Cal. Place goes nuts. And Marshawn, that had to be a cool feeling, correct?

Oh, Doug. Yes, it was. It was so overwhelming. You're emotional, man. I got emotional, bro. I'm like, fuck, dude. Marshawn's back at Cal. The place is going bonkers. I mean, the place is going crazy. And Marshawn's rolling in on the whip on the same cart. They pay you for that? You get paid for that?

Nah. See, I might need to bring you on the team, Gaff, because you thinking like how I'm thinking shit. But Marshawn, how was the day? How was the day? I mean, the whole process was crazy as fuck because you go from being on set filming, you know what I mean, this movie, and then you wrap up at like fucking 3, 4 a.m. in the morning and then you go get on the flight at 5 in the morning. You land and then you go right to set. Like, I don't think I slept yet.

I mean, I don't think I slept, but I mean, just the atmosphere of being back up there. I mean, should I be at home all the time? So it ain't like it was nothing new. But to see all them people and like one of the things that Pat was telling me was like, they didn't think nobody was going to show up. You're not a Cal fan. Is that it? You wasn't confident? No, they just didn't think that Cal would have a turnout.

And my thing was, shit, y'all lucky the motherfuckers didn't show up and steal all y'all goddamn set. Come to Bibb City, yeah, I mean, we're going to have to show y'all what's really happening. But I think they broke into the set the night before. Like, yeah, we in this motherfucker. I said, yeah, that sounds about right. But being out there, that shit was, they really broke into the set, though.

So, Marshawn, anyways, you get there, and there's kids lined up since 1 in the morning the night before, correct? Place is nuts. Midnight. That's crazy. And then you come out, and the place goes crazy. I mean, look, I ain't going to lie. I wish I could take credit for that, but, man, Pat McAfee had their ass turned up on a whole other level. I just rode his wave at that point in time. Like, yeah, fuck it.

But he was going crazy. He really got him going, though. But they was already like 10 by the time I got there. So it was I mean, it was easy. OK, well, I mean, first of all, I'm glad that he learned a little lesson about Cal football and the energy out west. But also the cows, they're punching above their weight a little bit.

Forget the last game, but I mean, these guys are playing pretty well. You'll love this. All those guys on ESPN, they kind of rip on Berkeley and Oakland a little bit. And then at the end of the show, they said, look, I got to be honest with you. We fucking love Berkeley. This place is epic. And how could you not? You're sitting there. You got...

you know, tightwad hill up there, hippie hill. You got, you know, you got all the views of, of the, of the hills and whatnot. And it was like 85 degrees as well in October. Welcome to California. Incredible setting. And so they all be, they all became, they've never been there before in 31 years, Gavin, and they fell in love with Berkeley or berserkly. And what a cool, cool atmosphere, man. Yeah. They had a college game day, right? It was the first time they ever, they ever had it there. So yeah,

That was a blessing, too. But fuck, I'm like, damn, y'all. Y'all will wait until I'm like hella old to bring College Game Day up. Damn, you feel me? Like, oh, yeah, we'll come on to the show. Young lady like, you know, there was only one one guest that we wanted. And blah, blah, blah. That's why we made it work. But I'm like, yeah, y'all waited fucking 20 years too late. Like, no, but you're on the show. Like, yeah, but I want to be playing.

I don't know if you saw, Gavin, but Nick Saban said, hey, Marshawn, if I was your coach, I would have handed you the ball. Oh, God, did he say that? Yes, he did. Jesus. Ouch. Well, that's a shot for Coach Carroll, not for anyone else. By the way, hey, Marshawn, you want a shot in the arm? You want me to give you your numbers? You want – I've got the numbers. Is that right? Yeah.

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Are you prepared? You need a drink? You need something else? Can you handle this? No, you should have seen some kids out there with Marshawn Lynch for president. So I might have to come and run against you, bro. This guy's already running for president. I'm talking about local politics. This guy's ambitious. So the mayor of Oakland is going to be

Currently up for recall in about 22 days, right, Gavin? Is it 23, 24 days? Yeah, on election day. November 5th. November 5th, sorry. I apologize, Gavin. A little less than a month. And there was a little poll that came out that had, hey, who would you like to see as the next mayor of Oakland?

And it had like three or four, I think, like well-known or, you know, assembly people, supervisors, you name it. Yeah, politician types. And of course, the fourth person was our partner in crime, Marshawn D. Smode Lynch.

So, Gavin, do we have the preliminary info here? Yeah, but it's even more complicated than that, Doug. There's been extensive polling. There's been focus groups. There's been analysis, favorable ratings, unfavorable ratings. What are the key issues that will drive this?

you know, the fate and future of Oakland and what are the people public, what are they looking for in a leader? And there's some good news. You can't start saying that type of shit and then making this public, brother. Brother, I'm just, I'm just sharing. I think everybody, you should be transparent. We all want to know. Don't we want to know what are the numbers? You got to put that

Put that shit away. You can't just go blasting shit like that. Oh, you're a little nervous? You don't like it? You're concerned about the unfavorability? You concerned about this? See, now you're welcome to my world, Marshawn. This is harsh. It's tough. No, I ain't worried about it being unfavored. I'm saying. All right. If I would have did what I would have did, it would have been a little different.

I listen to my counseling shit, and I've just been sitting back cooling. You feel me? After that shit at college game day, I look at it like that. I know that, I mean, considering they from Berkeley, but probably half of them people probably live in Oakland. That was at that thing. So you're at game day, and you said...

You said F. You don't want to be mayor anymore. You want to be president now. I got to go be president now. Yeah, you're just like, just skip it. You know what I mean? You're better than just local. They said it was levels to this shit. You feel me? Look, they said, Marshawn, it's an epic fail going on right now. We need you. We need you to come step in. I'm going to be like, who was that? Bernie Mac and...

Bernie Mac and Chris Rock. What's that fucking movie? Yeah, but you remember when Bernie Mac was walking through and he was slapping the shit out of everybody? That's how I would have been coming through there like, man, slapping the shit out of everybody. Get your shit together.

This is the campaign, huh? This is it? This is the kickoff? All right, where are we at right now? Where are we at? I'm not getting out of respect. Yeah, I know Marshawn can't handle it. So I'm not going to give the real numbers. I'm going to be respectful because I appreciate that I sprung this on you. And I'm privy to information that has not yet come public. That's an actual fact, by the way. These are actually internal numbers. And I'm getting a comprehensive email, but I got a text message. But I do think.

Are you ready for this? Are you ready? We're ready. Here's the challenge for you. Here's the challenge. I'm going to start here. The challenge is people want someone that are intimately familiar with how government works and operates. The deep and quote unquote deep and broad experience in city government, which surprises me, candidly. I thought people would be looking for an outsider, someone, because we've had a lot of insiders and that's what they're frustrated with.

That said, your favorability, which this matters, your just top line favorability is a lot of undecided, a lot of, I'm sorry, there are some people just, you know, they don't pay attention to, you know, culture or popular sport, you know, they don't know who the hell you are, but 43% of people

um have a favorable opinion seven percent unfavorable that's off the charts brother that's pretty good charts seven percent unfavorable that never has happened in my life wow 70 so 47 and it but check this out when then they read your bio see this is how politics works they test your bio uh they talk about they didn't even get into issues so this is just bio

You get up to 61% favorability. Your unfavorability climbs a little bit, 23%. Still off the chart. And that's just BS bio stuff. That's not even you. That's just like some composite. I was going to say, who created this bio? They just do it. They probably Googled you. Nothing. Google my bitch. Marshawn Lynch. Wikipedia. And they just read. They basically read top line stuff. But it's not even about issues.

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Easily the best ratio of anyone they tested on the positive and unfavorable. What's up? Just saying. I know you're running for president now, but if you decide to run for mayor, it's a hell of a place to start. Is that right? Yes. Candidate Lynch. Mr. Lynch now. Your Honorable Mr. Lynch. Mayor Bismo.

Hey, Gavin, this is real. I mean, Gavin, this is real. Marshawn, here's the deal. Those numbers are off the charts. Gavin, what are your numbers right now, Gavin? We don't talk about my numbers. It's impolite to talk about my age or my numbers. We don't talk about that. I got to sleep at night. You were talking about sleep, and I need to sleep at night. So, Gavin, let's put together our subcommittee, okay, and another subcommittee in terms of beast mode for mayor campaign.

And let's have a meeting and let's get things rolling. All right. We don't want to jump the gun just yet from what I was told. Yeah, because you're what? Because you're looking, you're now analyzing the presidential. You're running for governor in two years or what do you mean? You just you just look at your options. Yeah, I mean, I got it. I got a good internal team. You know, I want to make sure I take this offline with my internal team and make sure this is something that we really want to do. Yeah.

i know this guy that could give me up to you know some codes and that he might be able to tell me that might be able to help you with this situation but but gavin here's the deal marshawn is one of the people he truly is the people of oakland he knows that the north and the west and east and south oakland better than anybody no south there's no west well they're technically south sort of but yeah there's the north and the west alameda

Alameda, yeah. Or Gavin's favorite spot, Hagenberger. That's sort of south, isn't it? Oh, we got Hagenberger problems, man. Hey, you stay your ass off of Hagenberger. I am on Hagenberger all the time. I told you I'm dealing with the crime there. But look, Marshawn, here's the bottom line. Doug, the bottom line, Marshawn, the bottom line is

Your favorable and unfavorables put you in a position against anyone else they polled in the field, which is some of the biggest names in California politics from East Bay, meaning some well-known, I won't even mention the people they put you up against, but folks would, people would know even nationally, some former congressional folks and some folks that are household names, particularly here in Northern California. And you have higher favorable, lower unfavorable. And

Your bio alone increases the favorability and the unfavorability doesn't move that much, a little bit. But they don't even know where your positions are on issues. You have the opportunity to, that's my point. You have this clean slate. You come in, talk about, you know, a crime agenda. You could talk about, I don't know, health. I don't know what the hell your agenda is. Be protected, connected, respected. Be smart. I don't know. Doug has to figure all that out for you. That was pretty good. Could you do that again? Yeah.

You couldn't say that again, could you? Connected, respected. No, I do think there's. I see you. Yeah. Well, I remember when my first election, it says he gets it. He gets it done. He gets it. I was like that. He gets it. He gets it done. Some people get it. They never get anything done.

And then, you know, care, not cash. There was another, a lot, you gotta have a brand. I mean, the beast mode brand, you gotta, there's some alliteration there. So there's some opportunity. Anyway, good numbers. You're going to know in less than a month, if the mayor's recalled, I'm not pro recalls generally. So having been on the receiving end of them, so that's not my space. She's as good as going to judge that. You didn't, you didn't, you didn't been in that situation a few times. I'm not here to judge, but that's up to the people. Well, I,

I've been recalled. I mean, if you put some shit out like this, they're going to for sure try to

I don't know. I don't know what could be said, but you keep on talking shit like that and you put this out, the people of Oakland is going to speak. When do we want to cut our first commercial? Should we cut our first commercial next week? Are you ready to do commercials and shit, Doug? Damn. We'll get like a grassroots campaign going, but we're going to go hardcore commercials, radio commercials. That game day on ESPN would be a good commercial. That's how I'd start. Just with that energy. When Marshawn comes in, Doug, just showing this is the people speaking. Okay.

All that energy, vibrancy is different. That's how you want to launch a game. By the way, Gavin, we can show the plane coming down onto the golf course. Yes. The prodigal son comes to save the day. The prodigal son, and he's handing things out. He's giving back all those Skittles. See, he's already contributed. He comes to save the day. He's not asking for anything. He's offering something. So why y'all got to make this a joke? Why y'all can't be serious? Why y'all can't be really giving me some real motherfucking- I'm very serious. I'm the one giving you the polling data. Yes.

We got people. Stop showing proof of that. It's literally true. You know what I mean? Stop showing proof of that. We got to keep that shit under wraps. Man, look, it's a beef come fucking with you, Dab. You got people running up on me and shit ready to knock my head off and shit. Welcome to politics. You want to see your unfavorabilities go up. Stay out of politics, my friend. The difference is...

you know sometimes like i react to this because i like i don't see myself as well i never put myself in that position like oh you're a celebrity or you famous or whatever the that is i've never viewed myself as that type of individual so when you had these people that come and just come up to you and they put their hands on you i react like a civilian what are you doing

I don't know. Why am I laughing at that? I don't know. I shouldn't laugh at that. I mean, that's pretty much. Gavin, I've been telling you. People like to touch Marshawn, guys. It's weird. They like to touch him. It's weird. No one touches you, Gavin. They touch Marshawn. It's weird. Yeah, man. So, you know, but real talk, though, like that shit is big, though. Like, I mean, you know, just talking to I was talking a headache, telling them that it might be a possibility because, you know, that's one of the

I mean, still to this day, that's still, you know, I mean, the smartest person I know. I'm like, man, I got to do it. He like, well, shit, just look at how Gavin had. He like everything that you would probably want to do.

Gavin is doing. I'm like, what you mean? He like, motherfucker, he run a fucking podcast with you and he run in the fucking state. Oh, yeah. So I'm like everything that I would need to be successful in this opportunity is right here in front of me. So if I fail, then I'm going to just blame it on Gavin. Like they blame everything else. Thank you, motherfuckers. That's exactly right. They blame everything else. It ain't no pressure. No pressure. I mean,

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