National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

French Laundry, the Getty Wedding, and now a family vacation in a Mexican resort remind us that our governor is auditorily challenged where political tone is involved. Eric Swalwell wants you vaccinated to protect his kids. Progressives threaten Feinstein over the filibuster. Dem’s federal budget includes tax breaks for government unions. Times are tough, but the California budget is swollen and we want a tax break. What’s up with Irvine-based Rivian? Warning: This episode includes a brief discussion of USC football. Music by Metalachi.

Mobs of thieves rob Bay Area stores, but California’s conservative counties are peaceful. Merrick Garland is still pushing the “terrorist parents” narrative. Liberals say Ivy Getty’s Hunger Games-style San Francisco wedding is evidence we need a wealth tax. The House that Kobe Built has a new name. David and Will weigh in on Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris weighing in on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Music by Metalachi.

Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez, author of the infamous A.B. 5, is at it again, this time with an effort to unionize fast-food workers by extraordinary means. AG Rob Bonta threatens to bring down the house. CalPERS says it’ll have to accept greater risk to fully fund generous government-union retirements. Gavin Newsom extends his emergency authority into 2022 because winter is coming. Kamala Harris whiffs her appearance in Paris. Joe Biden is prepared to do for California unions what their near-total control of the state could not. Music by Metalachi.

Governor Gavin Newsom canceled his flight to Glasgow’s climate meet-up and then appeared at the lavish San Francisco wedding of oil-heiress Ivy Getty — and then magically makes natural gas “carbon neutral.” Sean Penn finds himself in the crosshairs of the National Labor Relations Board.

San Francisco finds new and interesting ways to kill people and opportunities. Xavier Becerra takes California’s most lethal drug policies national on the Joe Biden Medicine Show. Your hosts also compare the Newsom recall with Glenn Youngkin’s big win in Virginia and consider Inglewood High School’s 106-0 football victory over Morningside. Music by Metalachi.

In this special Halloween edition of RFC, David and Will consider the materialization of Psychomagnotheric Slime throughout California politics.

Netflix execs handle/mishandle an employee walkout over the streaming service’s latest Dave Chappelle special.

Government mismanagement of California’s forests is making Americans everywhere sick.

The Southern California oil spill reveals the immediate need to drill on land. U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland pours gasoline on the fire of public debate around masks, vaccines, and racial reckoning in the nation’s public schools. L.A. will require vaccination proof for all indoor spaces. A UCLA business prof suspended for “racism” fights back. Activists target a San Jose State anthropologist for her study of Native American remains, and school administrators surrender.

Governor Newsom uses communities incinerated by wildfire to promote climate-change policies that will do little to mitigate the impact of decades of bad forest management, and then says he’ll make California a destination for abortion tourists. And we’ve got questions — like what does Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) know about running an Amazon warehouse? Does Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s gender matter? And what do Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters and Alejandro Mayorkas have in common? Bonus track: Will talks with California Policy Center data analyst Brandon Ristoff about the truth behind the California Exodus.