National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

State Senator Scott Wiener’s bizarro-world campaign for more teen sex; Representative Duncan Hunter’s traveling rabbit and the GOP’s 2020 prospects; Kamala Harris and Ronald Reagan; and more.

Senator Dianne Feinstein tells Green New Deal grownups to grow up. The Green Book’s Oscar for Best Picture produces panic on the left. The state GOP gets new conservative leadership.

In the goldmine town of Sonora, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Suzanne Cruz hosts visitors in a tiny re-creation of Independence Hall -- with an emphasis on children's books about the people who've made America great.

Can we call time of death on high-speed rail? Is New York California’s Ghost of Bankruptcy Future? Would you use a Safe Injection room to shoot up? Should you care if Pacific Gas & Electric fails? Is our intro music by Metalachi? (Answer key: M, Y, HN, Y, Y, Y, Y.)

Will talks with Dr. Jeff Barke, a California physician, about the rising chorus in support of government healthcare -- and about his prescription: Liberate the free market.

The deal to end the LA teachers strike is already unraveling, presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls for an end to insurance companies, Governor Gavin Newsom declares war on Huntington Beach, a Republican assemblyman says he’s now a Democrat, and we find the one guy who won’t watch the Super Bowl.

The LA teachers strike ends with a sad flugelhorn solo, Senator Kamala Harris says she’ll run for president in 2020, and the California nursing shortage is about to get much worse -- thanks to a little-known state agency.

An LA teachers strike shuts down the nation’s second-largest school district over money, state finance officials call for a cultural revolution inside corporations, and David and Will offer a California solution to the federal shutdown.

On Monday, Gavin Newsom became California’s 40th governor, riding in on a litter carried aloft by his own inflated rhetoric about the role of a more muscular state government. David and Will discuss the hard limits on his grand proposals.

In 2019, California lawmakers say they’ll crush the practice of independent contractors and propose a new 30% tax surcharge on money managers. David and Will discuss whether tech-industry leaders are liberal, conservative, or neither, and the Times’ discovery of a series of extraordinary payouts to public employees -- the state’s newest millionaires.

Radio Free California received gifts all year, including some of the most absurd/outrageous public policy offerings in the nation. Straw bans, subsidies to potential crooks, a tax on your text messages? David and Will discuss the Best & Worst California Stories of 2018.  

What really causes wildfires, Republican losses in California, and border clashes with immigrant caravans? And did war end the Great Depression?

Historic wildfires, a mass shooting, a Democratic supermajority in Sacramento, Governor Gavin Newsom, the rising popularity of raising taxes, our “lumpy” state economy: Does God hate California?

One the one hand, California voters rejected measures to expand rent control and crushed the U.S. senate ambitions of utopian state Senator Kevin de Leon, but boosted former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom into the governor’s mansion. David and Will unmix the message voters delivered Tuesday.

Bay Area political advertising, the Google walkout, and San Francisco’s $310,000 effort to register undocumented residents for local voting. Catch all this and more on today's Radio Free California podcast.