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National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast

National Review

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

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00:49:47

Episode 409: The Week in California in a Single Sentence

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/24

Gavin Newsom appeared with Stephen Colbert to celebrate Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC programming, even as the governor works to silence California’s conservative voters in a redistricting initiative that (polling shows) is headed toward a slim victory on November 4 -- and despite Princeton University’s conclusion that the new electoral map earns Newsom an “F.” In other news, Will talks about the surprising origins of ABC’s 1950s deal to fund the construction of Disneyland in exchange for content,

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00:45:56

Episode 408: Despite Kirk’s Killing, Newsom Cranks Up...

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/18

Gavin Newsom said all the right things about Charlie Kirk, but returned immediately to form with his claims that Donald Trump has unleashed his “private police force” in a campaign of “racial terror” “targeting California.” Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Charlie Kirk - RIPCharlie Kirk’s Legacy: The Contest of Ideas‘This is Code Red’: Newsom rallies Dems in searing rebuke of TrumpLA Mayor Karen

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02:10:15

Episode 407: Bill-O-Rama 2025!

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/17

Among the hundreds of bills headed toward Gavin Newsom’s desk, Lance Christensen has a list of 10 to watch. Pacific Legal Foundation’s Caleb Trotter is fighting California laws that endanger public health. Tech leader Michael Fertik describes the journey that led him from Northern California to Texas to France and back again -- and offers a dramatic reading of a poem in praise of America. Music by Metalachi.Caleb Trotter, Pacific Legal FoundationNew lawsuit challenges California’s telehealth laws

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00:55:58

Episode 406: ‘I Yell Because I Care’

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/09

Legendary California Democrat John Burton is dead but his malignant influence lives on. The U.S. Supreme Court allows federal immigration stops to continue in California. Dems warn that “Abundance” could leave Californians with nothing to complain about. Question: Who likes Jew-basing? Answer: The California Teachers Association! Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:John Burton, political giant who

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01:38:36

Episode 405: Nuthin’ but a G-Rated Thang

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/03

Snoop Dogg talks about the challenges of growing old -- like explaining queer ideology while watching Disney movies with his grandson. Los Angeles’s former fire chief sues Mayor Bass for defamation. Gavin Newsom backpedals fast on “green” energy. Mexico’s national soccer team gets the full California experience -- robbed while training in Oakland. Bonus track! Lance Christensen tracks the California Teachers Association’s latest effort to kill education reform. Music by Metalachi.Email

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00:51:08

Episode 404: So They Buried An Axe-Murderer

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/08/25

The California Parole Board sends Erik Menendez back to prison -- but not for reasons you might think. Newsom wins on his redistricting battle (for the moment) and still finds the time to blast Bed Bath & Beyond for its refusal to reopen in California. California Democrat Representative Robert Garcia’s rising national prominence embodies the left’s confusion on energy and wealth formation. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow

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01:21:20

Episode 403: Political Theater

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/08/19

Gavin Newsom asks state lawmakers to dismantle the California constitution. Assemblyman Carl DeMaio has a plan to kill redistricting. Playboy quits California for a new home in Miami. Los Angeles can't balance its budget but it’s determined to pay the legal bills of people who came here illegally. Bonus! Marc Joffe on the failure of public transit in California -- and the near-term possibility of flying cars by 2028. Music by Metalachi.Email

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00:47:45

Episode 402: Torch the Los Angeles Olympics

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/08/14

A city that can’t manage its own affairs was always bound for trouble in hosting the 2028 Olympics, and now President Trump has given progressives the excuse they need to bail out. California’s redistricting process was never nonpartisan, now it’ll just be worse. Newsom is ready for coal, Sacramento State’s president hopes to “eliminate whiteness,” the Los Angeles Times can’t use the words “illegal immigrant,” and the fascinating secret of Pasadena-born celebrity chef Julia Child. Music by

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01:10:21

Episode 401: The Mission District Mamdani

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/08/06

San Francisco’s Saikat Chakrabarti is wealthy, naive, and running for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat on socialist vibes platform. Newsom races to the bottom in his redistricting battle with Texas Governor Greg Abbott. David applies his “Ten-Second Rule” to the fraudster behind the California secession movement. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow NotesGov. Reagan signs the Mulford Act, banning public carrying

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01:05:16

Episode 400: O’Sullivan’s Law Is Still the Law

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/07/29

In this quadricentennial episode, David and Will track the sad decline of the once-great Annenberg Foundation, Willie Brown’s surprising endorsement of Rick Caruso for governor, and approve Trump’s decision to end the political performance of park rangers at Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Kamala Harris’ ex-lover Willie Brown warns her of

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01:29:33

Episode 399: Newsom Agonistes

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/07/22

In a single week, California Governor Gavin Newsom lost federal support for the troubled California High Speed Rail project, declared an unwinnable war to redraw California’s voting map, and confronted the worst unemployment numbers in the nation. David and Will track the name “California” to a Spanish novel, published this month in 1510. Bonus! Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton describes his strategy for breaking through California’s blue wall of noise. Music by Metalachi.Email

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01:31:10

Episode 398: His Meaninglessness Is His Meaning

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Jon Fleischman (author of the So, Does It Matter? Substack) joins Will for a conversation about Gavin Newsom’s bizarre engagement with conservative podcaster Shawn Ryan -- in which guns are good, transgenderism is a lost cause, nuclear power is lifesaving, and he’s a border hawk. Bonus track: Investigative reporter Kenneth Schlapp’s update on California wildfires. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow

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01:05:59

Episode 397: The End Is Still Near

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/07/09

Birth rates are falling worldwide, but the Stanford University professor who coined the term “the population bomb” is unmoved by the data. Gavin Newsom confirms his presidential ambitions with a tour of South Carolina, but back home the governor is in retreat on environment, energy, education, and guns. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:2018 New Yorker profile of Gavin NewsomGavin Newsom Helped

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01:04:11

Episode 396: Where All the Cholos At?

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/07/02

A Southern California city official rallies local gang members to the fight against ICE, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli sues Los Angeles over its sanctuary city laws, Gavin Newsom signs off on the biggest state budget in history -- and then breaks the economy and sues Fox News for $787 million. Bonus! Remembering California’s first Fourth of July celebration. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow NotesDaniel

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01:23:57

Episode 395: The Dodgers on ICE

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/06/24

The Los Angeles Dodgers will donate $1 million to supporters of illegal immigration. The Ninth Circuit halts Attorney General Rob Bonta’s effort to limit gun purchases to one per month. California can’t kick its foreign-oil addiction. Bonus! Dr. Kurt Miceli explains Do No Harm’s lawsuit alleging that UCLA’s medical school rejects highly qualified Asian and white students in favor of less-qualified applicants. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow

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02:01:24

Episode 394: Newsom Leaps Bravely Halfway Across the...

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/06/18

Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Before Juneteenth was widely known, here’s how Black Angelenos celebrated emancipationBrian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration RaidsThe Padilla Incident and the Greater PerilGavin’s Last GaspPresident Trump Has Legal Authority to Suppress the Siege in L.A.How Trump Is Bypassing Los Angeles’s Sanctuary

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02:28:55

Episode 393: The Retreat of the California Resistance

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/06/10

Email Usdbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCA Show NoteCalifornia track and field finals: Trans athlete AB Hernandez wins 2 events, shares podiumCalifornia Backtracks on State Policies Allowing Boys to Compete in Girls’ Track ChampionshipSan Francisco Backtracks on ‘Equity’ Grading Program after BacklashYelling, finger-pointing and cursing galore as California Democrats gather near DisneylandCalifornia’s Democrats Bet on Radicalism, Not

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01:16:50

Episode 392: Remember Picacho Pass!

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/05/27

Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Note:Dr. Tony Lima: The Myth of Donor StatesSenate Votes to End California’s EV MandateAustin’s Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an EndVillaraigosa blasts Harris and Becerra for not speaking out about Biden’s declineKamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conferenceThe Next Tax Reform Glitch Is Coming to Main Street

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01:39:35

Episode 391: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Banality

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/05/20

Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:25-year-old suspect in fertility clinic bombing left behind ‘anti-pro-life’ writings, officials sayWoman connected to the Zizians fired the bullet that killed a Vermont border agent, report saysIs the California Dream a Mirage?Dave Eggers: Uncle Patrick’s secessionist breakfast GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California’s EV MandateNewsom says bailing L.A. out of budget crisis is

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01:32:40

Episode 390: Newsom’s 19th Nervous Breakdown

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/05/15

Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Guest host Will O’NeillHigh-speed rail, abortion and the will of the voters: Takeaways from Gov. Newsom's budgetWho’s the mayor of California?In unhinged rant, Gavin Newsom essentially admits he's at fault for homeless crisis in CaliforniaGov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor of Turlock spar over homeless shelter fundingLos Angeles County opposes Newsom's executive order, won't arrest and jail

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