National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

Anti-Semites troll Donald Trump Jr. at UCLA. Silicon Valley firm will pay employees to leave high-priced California. The U.S. Forest Service capitulates to government unions, calls for an end to 60-year-old volunteer firefighting team. Kamala Harris wins an endorsement she might want to refuse.

Silicon Valley giants say they’ll spend billions on affordable housing, Kamala Harris proposes lengthening the school day to 6 p.m., Dems insist we’ll be carbon-free by 2045, the governor says the state should take over California’s utilities, and the LA teachers union says it’s backing Bernie. None of it will make anything better — and will likely accelerate the state’s decline – but David and Will see signs of hope.

Trump Administration appointments have made the famously liberal federal circuit a lot less liberal, which is why the left has ramped up its weirdness around the latest nominee. In other news: Gavin Newsom will use regulatory authority to force weed shops to unionize; Trump beats Newsom on the battle over auto emissions standards; and the Kamala Harris presidential campaign continues to bleed staff, donors, and the support of prospective voters. Bonus track: David and Will answer a reader’s criticisms of the podcast.

In this especially scary Halloween edition, David and Will discuss Gavin Newsom’s attack on California’s highly regulated electric utilities, the coming tech-sector correction, and the meaning of the Representative Katie Hill sex scandal.

In this economy-class edition (no peanuts!), Will and David discuss Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s assist to Mayor Pete, Elizabeth Warren’s betrayal of the poor, and Kamala Harris’s effort to bring to the White House the very policies that destroyed California.

PG&E turns out the lights on 800,000 Californians. Governor Gavin Newsom celebrates Indigienous Peoples Day. Mitch McConnell slips into Newport Beach to talk banking reform with weed retailers. Already legendarily profligate, California local governments can now establish their own “public banks.” Kamala Harris promises to think about the impact of every federal policy on LGBTQIA+ communities, while Tom Steyer says a GOP victory in 2020 will lead to Armageddon.

California’s climate-change satellite; a non-ironic call by Democrats to discover the source of California’s rising gas prices; a tax hike that drove out the state’s biggest taxpayers? There’s so much self-inflicted damage in California right now that David and Will resort to lightning-round management -- 20 terrifying stories at just two minutes each. Play along!

David and Will hail Rolling Stone magazine’s coverage of the California housing crisis, critique the president’s decision to end California’s right to set its own auto emission standards, wonder at Governor Newsom’s resistance to the Resistance, and predict tough times for the state’s already troubled pension funds.

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Will and guest Jeff Barke discuss the president’s promises to solve California’s homeless crisis, sue San Francisco for Clean Water violations, end the state’s right to set its own auto emissions standards, and end underage vaping. Bonus: We play “Fake News or Real?”

Trump threatens to break Sacramento’s headlock on the auto industry and trolls California lawmakers with a vow to fix the state’s homeless crisis. San Francisco declares NRA a terror group. The teachers union and Gavin Newsom just made public schools worse. Kamala Harris comes out against plastic straws, misfires on Exxon, and admits her campaign only barely survived a cruel, cruel summer.