Netflix execs handle/mishandle an employee walkout over the streaming service’s latest Chappelle special. In-N-Out tells San Francisco no, its employees won’t play the role of “vaccination police.” Elon Musk says he moved Tesla HQ to Texas in part because of Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s tweet in which she swore at him. President Biden shows how little his administration understands California’s mismanagement of the nation’s largest ports. Bonus: The return of Kamala’s Korner!

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Episode 195: Profiles in (Executive) Courage

Government mismanagement of California’s forests is making Americans everywhere sick. San Francisco is killing its black residents. Gavin Newsom makes mail-in ballots permanent, hands over Manhattan Beach property he says was stolen from its black owners in 1924, signs off on ethnic studies requirements for high schoolers, bans stealthing, and says we’re ready for a state-run bank.

Episode 194: Mind If We Smoke?

The Southern California oil spill reveals the immediate need to drill on land. U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland pours gasoline on the fire of public debate around masks, vaccines, and racial reckoning in the nation’s public schools. L.A. will require vaccination proof for all indoor spaces. A UCLA business prof suspended for “racism” fights back. Activists target a San Jose State anthropologist for her study of Native American remains, and school administrators surrender.

Episode 193: Oil, Academic Toil, and FBI Trouble

Governor Newsom uses communities incinerated by wildfire to promote climate-change policies that will do little to mitigate the impact of decades of bad forest management, and then says he’ll make California a destination for abortion tourists. And we’ve got questions — like what does Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) know about running an Amazon warehouse? Does Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s gender matter? And what do Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters and Alejandro Mayorkas have in common? Bonus track: Will talks with California Policy Center data analyst Brandon Ristoff about the truth behind the California Exodus.

Episode 192: Gavin Newsom’s Theater of Pain

San Francisco mayor London Breed says she had to dance maskless in a nightclub, and blames the “fun police” for documenting the moment. How Newsom explains his recall win. L.A. County kills oil drilling (to kill working-class jobs). California liquor licenses remain a prerogative of the rich (because the poor shouldn’t drink). Newsom signs bills to end single-family zoning. Bonus: The only sitting U.S. senator to die in a duel was the California abolitionist David Broderick.

Episode 191: Defund the Fun Police!

Lessons learned — and reasons for hope — following Governor Gavin Newsom’s overwhelming win in the September 14 California recall. Bonus: A brief but heated disagreement over the firing of University of Southern California football coach Clay Helton.

Episode 190: Triumph of the Swill

California’s Democrats have weaponized the courts through the Private Attorneys General Act, the state law that allows anyone to sue anyone else on behalf of the state’s “interests” — from Prop. 65 to civil rights to employment law. Now that Texas will use the same mechanism to end abortion, Nancy Pelosi and other pro-abortion activists have suddenly discovered the Constitution. In other news: Newsom pulls ahead on the recall, bad teachers get their camera time, and a good teacher — that’d be David Bahnsen — takes over a high-school econ course.

Episode 189: PAGA Ain’t MAGA

The state’s public-health chief orders all California schools to mask students despite his own department’s evidence that COVID-19 isn’t killing kids. LA’s teachers' union boss brags that LA’s students can’t multiply but they sure know how to divide society into warring classes. Caitlyn Jenner tours the Tenderloin. Gavin Newsom has trouble with real estate. State senator Scott Wiener wants to pay addicts to get sober. Hoover Institution provides the latest research on the California Exodus. A federal investigation clears the Capitol cop who shot San Diego rioter Ashli Babbitt on January 6.

Episode 188: ‘Non-Controversial’ Controversies

When did the Los Angeles Times decide racism is tolerable when the target is a black conservative? Is Kamala Harris Joe Biden’s impeachment insurance? Why did an Alameda County judge toss Proposition 22’s carveout for Uber and Lyft? Why won’t state lawmakers proceed with oversight hearings into Gavin Newsom’s handling of wildfires and unemployment fraud? In News from the Exodus, two more companies bail on California -- but only one will end up in Texas? Why is Irvine honoring a man murdered 164 years ago? Bonus question: California Policy Center's Lance Christensen asks whether Californians are ready for a school-choice initiative in 2022.

Episode 187: ‘Larry Elder Is the Black Face of White Supremacy’?!

The connection between California’s killer wildfires and the spread of COVID. Fact-checking Gavin Newsom’s claim that middle-class Americans are better off in California than in Texas. The failed experiment in defunding police. UC Berkeley law professors say the recall is unconstitutional. Recall candidate Larry Elder says the Biden election was free and fair — and that it wasn’t. Sacramento prepares to eliminate local planning authority.

Episode 186: Where There’s Smoke, There’s COVID-19

Florida will pay Disney Corp. millions for moving jobs to Orlando. California’s green policies are a menace to the planet’s health. Biden snubs Tesla. In defense of gender-reveal parties, San Francisco mayor London Breed, and UC Berkeley. Bonus: How California weaponizes the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

Episode 185: Disney Took Us for a Ride

California voters can blame themselves for the coming breakfast panic. No, Los Angeles Times, Donald Trump did not kill California salmon. With the recall campaign tightening, Gavin Newsom calls in . . . Liz Warren!? California’s deep desire to force everyone into high-rises has a secret weapon in the Biden infrastructure bill. The secret history of Disneyland’s killer Abe Lincoln robot.

Episode 184: The Coming Bacon Apocalypse

California public officials tell us to cut electricity consumption, and then encourage the production and sale of electric vehicles — with what are likely to be disastrous results for citizens, the environment, and national security. In other news: Representative Eric Swalwell’s dalliance with sexy Chinese spies hasn’t stopped him from suing speakers at Trump’s January 6 rally for threatening democracy. Newsom’s odds of beating the September 14 recall are tightening. The problem for the woke University of California is a racist K-12 system run by teachers unions. Failing to manage wildfires, government officials are making it hard for Californians to rebuild after they’re burned out.

Episode 183: The Stewards of Sustainability

Los Angeles County Director of Public Health, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, defies science and reimposes mask mandate. Caitlyn Jenner flies to Australia to tape Big Brother with recall voting to start in weeks. Governor Gavin Newsom signs up California taxpayers for a $330 million handout to Hollywood, and film execs return the favor with campaign contributions. Disney says it’ll export 2,000 California jobs to Florida. Anaheim city officials shut down Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Trump tour. San Jose proposes a tax on registered gun owners. The Bulwark attempts to take down the Claremont Institute.

Episode 182: A Bridge Too Ferrer

Will this summer’s water shortages, electricity blackouts, wildfires, and the return of COVID-19 mask mandates fuel the campaign to recall Gavin Newsom on September 14? In other news: Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers” Taylor Greene takes on Caitlyn Jenner, attorney Michael Avenatti is headed for the federal pen, a Riverside community college prof defends Josef Stalin, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith’s comments on Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani, LA mayor Gil Garcetti is headed for India, CalPERS’ world-beating Wall Street performance, Lanhee Chen weighs a run for state Controller, and Bank of America says it wants out of the state’s lucrative unemployment business. BONUS: A conversation with Cicero Institute’s Judge Glock about a Cal Berkeley study that “proves” America is getting more segregated.

Episode 181: A Cruel Summer

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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