National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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Overview

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.]

73 Episodes

Episode 450: The Election Day That Never Ends

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2026

Episode 449: Whence Xavier Becerra?

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2026

Episode 448: Spencer Pratt is All That

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026

Episode 447: What Xavier Becerra Knew

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026

Episode 446: Life Is Like a Box of Diapers

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2026

Episode 445: Heroes and Neros

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2026

Episode 444: Rorschachian Xavier Becerra

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2026

Episode 443: SoCal’s Solipsistic Shooter

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026

Episode 442: The Wizard of Oz Wrap Party

Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026

Episode 441: Making a Federal Case of It (Emergency Episode)

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2026

Episode 440: Swalwell Hits Cesar Chavez Speed

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2026

Episode 439: Newsom’s House of Card Sharks

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2026

Episode 438: Maybe We Call This ‘Jaime Escalante Day’?

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2026

Episode 437: The Labor Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

Transcribed - Published: 23 March 2026

Episode 436: Killing Cesar Chavez

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2026

Episode 435: Newsom Presidential Campaign Ads You Won’t See

Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2026

Episode 434: Emergency Episode — SCOTUS Affirms California Parent Rights

Transcribed - Published: 9 March 2026

Episode 433: Iran Out of Gas in California

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2026

Episode 432: Education Secretary Linda McMahon KOs Newsom’s Gender-Bending Policy

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2026

Episode 431: Mission to Munich!

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2026

Episode 430: Newsom Goes Soviet-Style

Transcribed - Published: 9 February 2026

Episode 429: Gavin Newsom, the Therapeutic Candidate

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2026

Episode 428: Minnesota and the Battle of Century City

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2026

Episode 427: Tower of Babble

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2026

Episode 426: Newsom’s On-Again, Off-Again Wall Street Romance

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2026

Episode 425: The White House Is Newsom’s to Lose

Transcribed - Published: 8 January 2026

Emergency Episode: Federal Judge Schools California on Gender Policy [424]

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2025

Episode 423: The End of the Year As We Know It

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2025

Episode 422: ‘I See Trans Kids’

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2025

Episode 421: Newsom to Dems: ‘Be More Normal’

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2025

Episode 420: The Noise Behind Newsom’s Very Quiet Week

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2025

Episode 419: Low-Energy Gavin Newsom

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2025

Episode 418: Totally Consistent Lunatics

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2025

Episode 417: Laundering Lunacy

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2025

Episode 416: Prop. Fiddy (Emergency Episode!)

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025

Episode 415: Shafting Shafter

Transcribed - Published: 3 November 2025

Episode 414: Did the New York Times Just End Scott Wiener?

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2025

Episode 413: Newsom 2028!

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2025

Episode 412: Porter Potty

Transcribed - Published: 14 October 2025

Episode 411: The Kamala Kleanup Kontinues

Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2025

Episode 410: Like Phonics Rising from the Ashes

Transcribed - Published: 2 October 2025

Episode 409: The Week in California in a Single Sentence

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2025

Episode 408: Despite Kirk’s Killing, Newsom Cranks Up the Rhetoric to 11

Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2025

Episode 407: Bill-O-Rama 2025!

Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2025

Episode 406: ‘I Yell Because I Care’

Transcribed - Published: 9 September 2025

Episode 405: Nuthin’ but a G-Rated Thang

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2025

Episode 404: So They Buried An Axe-Murderer

Transcribed - Published: 25 August 2025

Episode 403: Political Theater

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2025

Episode 402: Torch the Los Angeles Olympics

Transcribed - Published: 14 August 2025

Episode 401: The Mission District Mamdani

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2025

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