Peter Thiel leaves Meta for MAGA. Elon Musk blasts California’s Insurance Commissioner over data-driven auto-insurance rates, then joins forces with Hollywood celebs to maintain solar subsidies for the rich. Palo Alto says it'll go all-electric with a plan that will leave residents in the dark. Can San Jose really charge residents for exercising their 2A rights? Gavin Newsom lifts the indoor mask mandate for everyone but the people least vulnerable to Covid. Jerry Brown’s “weed equity” initiative was supposed to help communities of color but didn’t. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 210: Silicon Valley of the Dolls

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.]

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Meet the clean-energy project that requires the destruction of thousands of Joshua trees. San Diego-based Rubio’s workers get pink-slipped following the state-imposed wage hike that was supposed to help them. New bill would allow undocumented college students to work on campus. University of California teaching assistants organized by UAW strike for Hamas. Bonus: Eighty-seven years ago, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to the splash of its first suicide. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 334: Unstrange Bedfellowness

State senator Susan Eggman is a progressive who says she’s had it with progressives. Gavin Newsom discovers the harsh realities of math. UC Irvine bows to pro-Hamas activists. CalPERS threatens Exxon at shareholder event, then runs and hides. Bonus tracks: Lance Christensen reports on the Assembly’s latest effort to keep parents out of schools. Oil industry expert Hank Muddmann on California’s trouble with energy. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 333: She Is the Eggman

Reparations generates more crime, and the victims are almost always black. Gavin Newsom breaks his “no new taxes” pledge while making it. Caught making a deal with pro-Hamas student radicals, Sonoma State president Mike Lee decides he’d like to spend more time with family. UC Santa Cruz “academic workers” fronting for Hamas face a remarkably resolute university administration. Left and right meet in their contempt for income-based utility bills. California Policy Center’s Lance Christensen analyzes the teachers' union’s budget battle with Gavin Newsom, and National Review art critic Brian T. Allen discusses the California arts scene, from missions to metallurgy. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 332: Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Care about Black People

Facing an historic budget crisis, campus violence, and new charges of billions lost through homelessness and unemployment fraud, Gavin Newsom leaves the country for a performance at the Vatican. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 331: Newsom Fiddles in Rome, California Burns

Attorney General Rob Bonta turns himself into a cinematic hero of indigenous people in the case of a 2020 deadly domestic dispute. Violence at UCLA was almost a certainty when state officials appeased anti-Israel protests, but the Los Angeles Times knows who’s really at fault: conservatives. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and Jane Fonda Day. Congress raises the heat on former California labor secretary Julie Su. Bonus: Lance Christensen talks with Jonathan Zachreson and Scott Davison on California’s Protect Kids ballot initiative. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 210: Silicon Valley of the Dolls

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