Episode 77: San Francisco
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via Joan Didion's hippie-hate, to disaster movies, doom loops, and progressive prosecutors -- the history of SF-hate is a history of US politics.
Books and media cited in this episode:
Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023)
Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman (dirs.), Screaming Queens (2005)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (2013)
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (1974)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz (1990)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're here in the once great city of San Francisco. |
| 0:07.0 | We came in here and we saw people defecating on the street. |
| 0:11.0 | We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine. |
| 0:16.0 | And you look around, the city is not vibrant anymore. |
| 0:20.0 | It's really collapsed because of leftist policies. |
| 0:23.6 | And these policies have caused people to flee this area. |
| 0:26.6 | They don't prosecute criminals like they do in most parts of the country. |
| 0:30.6 | And the wreckage has really, really been sad to see. |
| 0:33.6 | And so I've seen so many businesses boarded up. |
| 0:36.6 | I've seen so much riffraff just running around. |
| 0:40.3 | And it just shows you these policies matter, leadership matters. They are doing it wrong here. |
| 0:46.3 | No wonder why we've had so many people move from San Francisco to Florida over the last few years. |
| 0:52.3 | We've got to stop this madness. |
| 0:54.7 | We need to restore sanity to this country. |
| 1:02.5 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dahl. |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm Wyriddonigan. |
| 1:05.4 | Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 1:09.9 | So, Adrian, today we are talking about our hometown. |
| 1:15.1 | That's right. |
| 1:15.5 | A little city in the western edge of the U.S. |
| 1:20.9 | that occupies a kind of big amount of psychic territory for the American right. |
| 1:27.5 | That's right. |
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