MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-06-02

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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

**Gerard Gibert** (1:02)
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MidDays, SuperTalk Mississippi. I'm your host, Gerard Gibert, along with Rhino in the Element Wealth Studio, guiding you through the middle of your day with facts, fodder, and fine music. What's up there, Rhino?

**Rhino** (1:18)
Howdy, howdy.

**Gerard Gibert** (1:19)
We're all buckled up, ready to go. It's primary day across America, and certainly in many states, and even out there in Los Angeles. They got a hotly contested mayoral race. I'm actually feeling like ol Spencer Pratt has a chance. You see, any number two, I think, in the polls, just compared to the Democrat candidates, I think that's the last I saw. He got a chance. Man, what a breath of fresh air that would be for Angelino's. Because Karen Bass, let's just be honest, she's incompetent, she's terrible, terrible, terrible. And heck, isn't it true that at one point, she was in the discussion for president, I think, Karen Bass.
And of course, that kind of died down. But should be something with the elections today. This is the one that really caught my attention, is the California governor's race.
And here's why. We've talked multiple times on this program about the enormous sums of money being invested in political races.
There's no question about it. But, Tom Steyer, you've seen this, Rhino, $213 million of his own dough. That's what he's spending on his candidacy for governor in the golden state of California. He, of course, this is nothing, he's a billionaire, and he's very liberal. How does Bernie Sanders reconcile that? You got a liberal billionaire who pretty much aligns with Bernie Sanders' policy positions and principles. And we got a new one that he just talked about yesterday, Sanders released a new piece of legislation. But, this guy's a billionaire, I thought he said we should not have any billionaires. How does that work?
The last time, a candidate, I know you're thinking about that.

**Rhino** (3:38)
Well, no, I mean, it's real easy. You can only be a billionaire if you donate large swaths of money to their little militant activist groups.

**Gerard Gibert** (3:46)
Okay, I got you.

**Rhino** (3:47)
The only way those losers actually survive.
They don't do anything productive. They have no actionable skill set. They're literally worthless wastes of oxygen. And the only way they make a living is making everybody else's lives a living hell.

**Gerard Gibert** (4:05)
Man, ain't that the truth. So the last time, well, this has set a record. I said 2013, it's now up to 216 million. Who's counting at that point? 216 million to run for governor in California.
And in second place, with respect to money spent, I had forgotten about this, 2009-10 cycle, Meg Whitman, she the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, she dropped 144 million dollars. Now, Steyer has run for president, and he's invested a significant amount of his own money, funding his political aspirations, but he hasn't been elected yet. It kind of makes you wonder that maybe you need something other than just money to win. But I don't know, what do people think about this, this massive amount of dough being spent on these political races, to the point where, if you're not significantly wealthy, you just about can't run.
Certainly in a state like that, where you can't outpace, you can't hope to have similar funding as somebody like a Tom Steyer. Now, as we said, there's a lot more to it than just money. But man, he is absolutely dominating in terms of money being spent on a political race. It's just mind boggling. And we're just in the primaries. We hadn't gotten to the general. Spending a small fortune is Tom Steyer. But we shall see. The nation will be watching with angst and anxiety, I would say. What happens there? Talking about Bernie Sanders earlier.
Oh, jeez. Ever the Socialist is the octogenarian senator from Vermont. What does he say, Rhino?

**Rhino** (6:32)
Give me all your money.

**Gerard Gibert** (6:34)
He ain't kidding. He says that artificial intelligence is a public resource, and that Americans should own half of it.
He has a bill, which he has introduced.

**Rhino** (6:51)
The only way that works is if you completely nuke copyright, trademark, all that.

**Gerard Gibert** (6:57)
Yeah.

**Rhino** (6:58)
If you do that, then yeah, it might as well be a public resource.