National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

The meaning of O. J. Simpson’s life and death. Google, USC, and UC Berkeley restore balance to the universe. Biden’s Health & Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra says he’s coming back to California to run for governor. Gavin Newsom finds a new way to make the state’s housing crisis even worse. Bonus! Will talks with California Policy Center’s Edward Ring about the siren call of “clean energy.” Music by Metalachi.

Beset by a historic state budget deficit, Governor Gavin Newsom is brushing back reports that he lied about his college baseball career in order to mask his privilege. In other news, California slides to No. 6 among the world’s economies but remains No. 1 for worst unemployment in the nation. The president of Pomona College tells student protesters that their careers at the school are finished. Bonus: Will talks with Lance Christensen about Edward Duplex, California’s first black mayor. Music by Metalachi.

Biden’s U.S. acting labor secretary Julie Su will force American taxpayers to pay off Covid losses Su caused while running California’s labor department. Buffy Wicks (D., Oakland) wants California to get into the concert business. Sacramento’s sanctuary for transgender people runs up against progressive policy. David’s modest proposal for managing the increasingly successful squatters movement. Music by Metalachi.

California’s unemployment rate is the worst in the nation, but state officials seem determined to do worse. Exploring the authoritarian impulses of “transgressive” art. A brief history of California’s integrated Winter League. Music by Metalachi.

First, he postponed release of California’s horrible financial audit until after Election Day. Now, Gavin Newsom is spending millions to “find the votes” of Democrats who might have supported Prop. 1, his imperiled state ballot initiative to end homelessness. U.S. Senate candidate Katie Porter underscores her stolen-election narrative. Bonus: Remembering the March 19 return of swallows to Capistrano. Music by Metalachi.

Voters in the City by the Bay support a pair of public-safety reforms backed by Mayor London Breed, reformers take over that city’s flagging GOP, and other primary news from California. Music by Metalachi

New evidence that California’s environmental movement is bad for Mother Nature -- and the people who live on planet Earth. Music by Metalachi.

On “Meet the Press,” Gavin Newsom promotes abortion and his red-state ad blitz but asserts that his ambition to replace Joe Biden is "a Republican canard." Trump trolls Newsom at CPAC. Four (or maybe five) March 5 races we’ll be watching. Parents and teachers win big in Temecula Valley schools case. Music by Metalachi.

Gavin Newsom plays politics badly in the face of the state’s financial crisis. State officials threaten Huntington Beach over local voter-ID measure, but are upbeat about the appointment of a noncitizen to over San Francisco elections. Will remembers California’s Chumash Revolt of February 21, 1824. Bonus: Julie Hamill talks with National Right to Work’s Mark Mix about union thuggery. Music by Metalachi.

Vice President Kamala Harris can’t decide whether questions about Joe Biden’s mental health are legitimate or politically driven. In either case, she’s ready to serve as president of the United States. Music by Metalachi.

Gavin Newsom gets tough on crime, Democratic state lawmakers abandon cash payments for reparations, and Newsom’s bid to link utility bills to income is on oxygen with vitals crashing. Bonus: We mark the birth on February 6, 1911 of California’s 33rd governor, Ronald Reagan. Music by Metalachi.