Desperate to carve out a path to the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has become a podcaster. His obsession with celebrity is exactly the reason he belongs nowhere near the power his current job holds, much less the presidency.

Newsom has spent the past several years trying to do anything but his job. That includes his multistate campaign to shame Republican politicians for running their states better than he ever could, which culminated in Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) carving Newsom up on a debate stage on Fox News. It also included the other podcast Newsom launched, in which he palled around with former NFL star Marshawn Lynch and Lynch’s agent.