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Gavin Newsom: “We are literally. This is a real conversation [about…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

From Media Manipulator to Modern Day Stoic With Ryan Holiday

Published April 16, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:09:23

We need a monument, I think, to responsibility and our obligations to each other. Ryan, I was just talking to Senator Padilla about this. We are literally. This is a real conversation [about spending federal money to make Alcatraz a prison again]. No way. Yeah. So I'm not waiting till I'm out of office. All right. Amazing. No, I love this idea. It's. Well, this notion of responsibility, it's, it's. (1:09:23–1:09:26)

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Asserts that there is an ongoing conversation about using federal funds to make Alcatraz a prison again.

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