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This Viral Clip of Walz and Newsom Talking About 'Masculinity' is Comedy Gold
https://pjmedia.com/ ^ | December 09, 2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 12/09/2025 8:36:36 PM PST by bitt

A podcast clip from earlier this year featuring Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom is going viral again, and for good reason: it’s pure comedy gold.

The two Democratic governors sat down for an episode of This Is Gavin Newsom back in March, and during their 50-minute conversation, they briefly shared their thoughts on masculinity. Yes, masculinity. The irony already writes itself.

Because real men sit and talk about masculinity all the time.

In the now-viral clip, Walz claimed that the critics who come after him aren’t upset about policy differences or leadership failures. No, Walz said it’s because they “feel threatened” by his brand of masculinity. “I think some of us scare them,” he told Newsom, adding, “I think I scare them a little bit. That’s why they spend so much time on me.”

He was dead serious, too.

But, I don’t think even Newsom believed him because he started laughing. And Walz had to snap back with, “No, I’m serious!”

During their conversation, Newsom set the stage by talking about “toxic masculinity” and the need to separate it from masculinity itself. It’s a familiar progressive trope—criticize “toxic” masculinity while pretending to celebrate the real thing… and then, of course, failing miserably to do that. Remember his infamous pheasant hunting trip during the 2024 presidential campaign? He was so desperate to prove he was a manly man who hunts, yet the only thing he proved was that he had no idea how to handle a shotgun. Of course, my favorite masculinity fail was when Walz played Madden 25 with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to prove how manly he was, and said that Ocasio-Cortez can “run a man pick six,” even though you don’t actually run a pick-six. Walz was supposedly a football coach once, yet he didn’t know that you

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KEYWORDS: freaksversusnormals; highspeedrail; masculinity; newsom; walz

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1 posted on 12/09/2025 8:36:36 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/09/2025 8:36:51 PM PST by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Well they do scare me. But its because they are vicious nasty monsters. Like poisonous spiders.


3 posted on 12/09/2025 8:43:48 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: bitt

and.....they’re gay!


4 posted on 12/09/2025 9:02:37 PM PST by airplaneguy
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To: bitt

If anything Waltz scares them in a drag queen/poofty fairy kind of way.


5 posted on 12/09/2025 9:13:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

Hey Timid Timmy, do you still browbeat your family?


6 posted on 12/09/2025 9:19:23 PM PST by steelwheels
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To: bitt

They’re BOTH corrupt, lying, money grubbing pussies!


7 posted on 12/09/2025 9:30:44 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: steelwheels

Is his identity a Command Sergeant Major of artillery?


8 posted on 12/09/2025 9:37:25 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: All
Reminds me of:


9 posted on 12/09/2025 9:57:41 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: bitt

And they said Kamala Harris’ husband was redefining masculinity...he can’t hold a candle to these guys.


10 posted on 12/09/2025 10:06:50 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: LegendHasIt

Such a great show. “Don’t be mad ‘Twan!”


11 posted on 12/09/2025 10:10:12 PM PST by Right Brother (Apparently, a democratically elected President is a "threat to Democracy!")
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To: bitt

50 minutes? I couldn’t take 5 minutes of either of them, but both together? Not even 5 seconds.


12 posted on 12/09/2025 10:11:58 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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