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A show about the perilous state of the Golden State—and what that means for you, wherever you live. California is the hothouse lab of the Left, the nation-state creating the statist policies, art, and lifestyles of the future – and generating the political dollars to make them a reality in a community near you. Hosts Will Swaim (California Policy Center) and David Bahnsen (The Bahnsen Group, Fox Business News commentator, conservative activist) beam this weekly show internationally, from mostly undisclosed pirate-radio platforms west of the Sierra Nevada. Intro. music graciously provided by Los Angeles-based Metalachi, the metal/mariachi soundtrack of the near-future. Find them at Metalachi.com. N.B. The most recent ten episodes of this podcast are available on this feed. Full archives are available at NationalReview.com.

A show about the perilous state of the Golden State—and what that means for you, wherever you live. California is the hothouse lab of the Left, the nation-state creating the statist policies, art, and lifestyles of the future – and generating the political dollars to make them a reality in a community near you. Hosts Will Swaim (California Policy Center) and David Bahnsen (The Bahnsen Group, Fox Business News commentator, conservative activist) beam this weekly show internationally, from mostly undisclosed pirate-radio platforms west of the Sierra Nevada. Intro. music graciously provided by Los Angeles-based Metalachi, the metal/mariachi soundtrack of the near-future. Find them at Metalachi.com. N.B. The most recent ten episodes of this podcast are available on this feed. Full archives are available at NationalReview.com.

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Episodes

Episode 56: Your Money Is Literally No Good Here

1/18/2019

An LA teachers strike shuts down the nation’s second-largest school district over money, state finance officials call for a cultural revolution inside corporations, and David and Will offer a California solution to the federal shutdown.

Duration:00:28:31

Episode 55: Nearly Medieval California

1/9/2019

On Monday, Gavin Newsom became California’s 40th governor, riding in on a litter carried aloft by his own inflated rhetoric about the role of a more muscular state government. David and Will discuss the hard limits on his grand proposals.

Duration:00:59:56

Episode 54: Tech, Taxes and the Los Angeles Times

12/19/2018

In 2019, California lawmakers say they’ll crush the practice of independent contractors and propose a new 30% tax surcharge on money managers. David and Will discuss whether tech-industry leaders are liberal, conservative, or neither, and the Times’ discovery of a series of extraordinary payouts to public employees -- the state’s newest millionaires.

Duration:00:43:25

Episode 53: Holiday Horror Show

12/13/2018

Radio Free California received gifts all year, including some of the most absurd/outrageous public policy offerings in the nation. Straw bans, subsidies to potential crooks, a tax on your text messages? David and Will discuss the Best & Worst California Stories of 2018.

Duration:00:59:01

Episode 52: Burning Down the State

11/29/2018

What really causes wildfires, Republican losses in California, and border clashes with immigrant caravans? And did war end the Great Depression?

Duration:00:47:56

Episode 51: We Live in the End Times (Again)

11/15/2018

Historic wildfires, a mass shooting, a Democratic supermajority in Sacramento, Governor Gavin Newsom, the rising popularity of raising taxes, our “lumpy” state economy: Does God hate California?

Duration:00:28:49

Episode 50: Apres le Governor Brown, ç’est le Deluge

11/7/2018

One the one hand, California voters rejected measures to expand rent control and crushed the U.S. senate ambitions of utopian state Senator Kevin de Leon, but boosted former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom into the governor’s mansion. David and Will unmix the message voters delivered Tuesday.

Duration:01:08:20

Episode 49: Sitting in the Dark of the Bay Area

11/2/2018

Bay Area political advertising, the Google walkout, and San Francisco’s $310,000 effort to register undocumented residents for local voting. Catch all this and more on today's Radio Free California podcast.

Duration:00:44:00

Episode 48: Dangerous Ballot Measures in America’s Most Dangerous State

10/23/2018

David and Will explore the art and science of crafting a California ballot initiative and offer their recommendations.

Duration:00:59:28

Episode 47: Arise, Ye California Workers!

10/17/2018

Will and guest Luke Thompson consider President Trump’s picks for the infamously liberal Ninth Circuit; express dismay at the tech billionaire who hopes to aid San Francisco’s homeless through higher taxes; and cheer the California civil rights activists who are (at last) fighting America's most powerful climate bureaucracy, the California Air Resources Board.

Duration:00:41:12

Episode 46: Legislating Under the Influence of Trump

10/4/2018

Diversity, net neutrality, cosmetics, union power, and technology taxes: California lawmakers spin new laws as epic battles in the Resistance.

Duration:00:43:53

Episode 45: No Longer Cesar Chávez’s Movement

9/26/2018

Can Central Valley farm workers beat back the once-powerful United Farm Workers? Will Swaim and guest Dan Gerawan discuss this on today's episode of Radio Free California.

Duration:00:24:16

Episode 44: Farm Workers To Union Leaders: ‘Gracias, But No Gracias’

9/20/2018

Five years later, Central Valley farm workers finally get their Election Day results, union-backed lawmakers erect more barriers to worker freedom, and we remember the gloomy week ten years ago when California’s housing boom went bust -- and took the world with it. Intro music by Metalachi, the LA-based mariachi/metal band.

Duration:00:51:42

Episode 43: Vee Vant Names!

9/12/2018

Siding with California state officials -- Democrats all -- the federal Ninth Circuit orders conservative charities to hand over the names of donors; housing prices are killing Californians before they’re even conceived; and California becomes the first state in the nation to end “money bail.”

Duration:00:46:55

Episode 42: We’re a One-Woman State

9/4/2018

Governor Brown looks ready to sign a bill requiring at least one woman on every company board, Republican Representative Duncan Hunter blames Mrs. Hunter for his legal troubles, the increasingly crazy bullet train, and the last-minute blizzard of bizarre bills to blunt worker freedom.

Duration:00:52:24

Episode 41: Water For All Creatures Great and Small — But Not People

8/23/2018

Why Trump was right about California wildfires, our out-of-control water policy, teacher strikes reveal unions’ real ambition, and L.A.’s million-dollar cop.

Duration:00:36:25

Episode 40: 5 Summer Stories, or How Outsiders See California

8/15/2018

Five young people from five universities (Hillsdale, LaSalle, Rhodes, Missouri, and Oregon) spent their summers working for the California Policy Center -- and learning about state-mandated cancer warnings, plastic bag bans, the power of government unions, and California's influence on national politics.

Duration:00:36:06

Episode 39: The Dark Money Behind Rent Control

8/8/2018

David and Will discuss the much-rumored Los Angeles teachers strike and explore the dark money behind a statewide ballot measure to resuscitate rent control. Special bonus track: You can’t be trusted with plastic straws or shopping bags in California, but the state is handing out free hypodermic needles.

Duration:00:53:15

Episode 38: The Worst Things on the Streets of San Francisco

8/2/2018

David and Will discuss the Silicon Valley revolt against Facebook, a ban on stuff you’ll find on the streets of San Francisco, and the damage done to students by the powerful California Teachers Association.

Duration:00:30:48

Episode 37: Class-Conscious Conservatism

7/20/2018

David and Will discuss Luke Thompson’s tour de force history of California politics and culture – and consider his prescription for a conservative comeback.

Duration:00:45:08