On this episode we discuss who were the first humans to reach California, blast through 12,000 years of cultural development, and investigate how indigenous Californians dealt with the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Also possibly involving visitors from Polynesia.

Welcome to the show! This is a basic introduction to California, in which we ask and attempt to answer What Is A California, and then go on a brief and probably insultingly simplifying tour of the Golden State.