National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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September 24, 2020 Episode 139: Mental Exercises, Tackle Dummies, and Practicing against Air
David and Will discuss how state regulators and fretful college administrators destroyed the college football season in California. Governor Newsom’s latest executive order won’t stop wildfires but will slowly strangle the economy. Kamala Harris inflames water anxiety during a campaign cameo in Flint, Mich. Elon Musk thumps UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich.
1 hr 8 min
September 16, 2020 Episode 138: Trousers Fully Engulfed
David and Will discuss the reigning narrative that California’s wildfire catastrophe are the result of climate change. In other news: Daily Wire leaving LA, and USC’s latest defeat in the woke wars.
1 hr 8 min
September 09, 2020 Episode 137: Everybody Is an Idiot
David and Will review the politicization of human intimacy, this week starring Kamala Harris’s bedside ministry to Jacob Blake, state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize pedophilia, and the Oscars’ newest diversity initiative. Bonus: Nancy Pelosi fights for her most valued constituents (rich Californians in need of a federal tax break) and the San Bernardino gender-reveal party that literally sparked a social movement.
1 hr 1 min
September 02, 2020 Episode 136: Not to be Confused with Janet Jackson
The state’s bill-o-matic legislative session ended this week, and with it comes the end of Santa Barbara senator Hannah-Beth Jackson’s 14-year reign of error. David and Will consider Jackson's Constitution-busting legislative history, Donald Trump’s bizarre foray into the eviction-moratorium debate, and the profusion of California obituaries. Bonus: Respect for actor Chadwick Boseman. Music by Metalachi.
1 hr 14 min
August 26, 2020 Episode 135: False Promises, True Miseries
Nearly four years into operation, the California Resistance has produced schools that won’t educate, an ineffective (when not destructive) response to COVID-19, million-acre wildfires, and government-imposed blackouts as a sacrificial offering to Mother Earth. David and Will discuss the week’s developments, and take a look at the highs and lows -- and Californication -- of the Republican National Convention. Music by Metalachi.
56 min
August 19, 2020 Episode 134: The Hottest Podcast on Record
Governor Gavin Newsom looks everywhere but the mirror for an explanation of this week’s “unacceptable” blackouts. In other news, David and Will consider the sideshow over Kamala Harris’s citizenship, the role of religion in politics, the National Football League’s canonization of Stephon Clark, and why two state lawmakers think their proposals to tax California’s wealthy will save the state. Music by Metalachi.
51 min
August 12, 2020 Episode 133: Kamala Harris, Authoritarian
David and Will consider the record of Joe Biden’s VP nominee, lament the cowardice of West Coast college football, and discuss the resignation of Governor Gavin Newsom’s top doc. Music by Metalachi.
45 min
August 06, 2020 Episode 132: Teachers Unions to Rich Parents: ‘Don’t Try This at Home — or Do, but Don’t Succeed’
David and Will wonder: Are “learning pods” a hate crime? What’s the meaning of the first COVID-19 death of a California child? Is LA’s distance-learning plan for fall a “smart start” or just a repeat of last spring’s dumb failure? Is the California Bar exam racist? Bonus: Entertaining ourselves (Netflix, Hulu, and the Great Books podcast) in the plague year.
1 hr 9 min
July 29, 2020 Episode 131: The RFC Guide to 2020 Ballot Propositions
David and Will offer recommendations on the twelve ballot propositions California voters will face this November -- complete with time-saving tips for less ambitious voters. Music by Metalachi.
47 min
July 21, 2020 Episode 130: Oakland’s Dog Diaper Day Afternoon
David and Will discuss food fights over McDonald’s, Trader Joe’s, and foie gras, Governor Gavin Newsom’s cynical handling of COVID-19 data, the racist impact of teachers unions walking out of classrooms, and the return of Major League Baseball — now with pumped-in crowd noise.
46 min

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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…