{"podcast":{"title":"The Contrarian Pod","slug":"the-contrarian-pod-7410561","podcast_index_feed_id":7410561,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/3719374/s/248202.rss","website_url":"https://www.contrariannews.org/s/the-contrarian-pod","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3719374/s/248202/33aa1ca02f99e737c50dac29fca9582c.jpg","author":"The Contrarian","episode_count":12,"summary":"Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen bring you the best of The Contrarian's unflinching journalism to defend democracy—truthful, not neutral. Listen for political and legal analysis, uncompromising interviews, and steps for actionable resistance in defense of democracy.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T10:18:52.557701+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-contrarian-pod-7410561"},"episode":{"title":"Gov. Gavin Newsom and Journalist Aaron Parnas","slug":"gov-gavin-newsom-and-journalist-aaron-parnas","published_at":"2026-05-22T21:15:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-contrarian-pod-7410561/gov-gavin-newsom-and-journalist-aaron-parnas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-contrarian-pod-7410561","url":"https://www.contrariannews.org/p/gov-gavin-newsom-and-journalist-aaron","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198891996/f7018c1e7b995ae7aff18e56bfee9229.mp3","summary":"On the Tea with April Ryan, April sat down with Gov. Gavin Newsom from California and journalist Aaron Parnas. Gov. Newsom talked about how the economy is holding up after Trump’s choice to start a war with Iran, the rise of racism in politics and why ‘anti-woke is anti-black,’ and we even asked him if he was willing to spill a little tea on his plans for 2028. Aaron Parnas, as you might know, is a great journalist on TikTok and Substack, a real reporter’s reporter for the social media age. He talked about how he juggles parenthood and staying on the pulse of breaking news during this era of a 24/7 news cycle. The Tea with April Ryan is live, every Thursday, at 5pm Eastern at ContrarianNews.org The Contrarian is owned by nobody. Your paid subscription helps us bring you the brightest voices in politics & culture and fight every day against the Trump chaos machine. Join us on Substack . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.contrariannews.org/subscribe","meta_description":"On the Tea with April Ryan, April sat down with Gov. Gavin Newsom from California and journalist Aaron Parnas. Gov. Newsom talked about how the economy is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2665,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-contrarian-pod-7410561/episodes/gov-gavin-newsom-and-journalist-aaron-parnas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-contrarian-pod-7410561/gov-gavin-newsom-and-journalist-aaron-parnas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}